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LITERARY NEWS

JttontljliJ Journal of Current literature

[NEW SERIES]
VOL. XXII

NEW YORK

PUBLICATION OFFICE, 298 BROADWAY
1901

THE LITERARY NEWS.

INDEX TO VOL. XXII. (NEW SERIES) 1901.

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PAGE |

ABANDONED Farmer, Preston 201

Abbott, L., Life and Literature of the Ancient
Hebrews 76,119

(ed.), Hints for Home Reading 25

Adams, C. C., Text-Book of Commercial Geog-

raphv 345

Adams", F. U., Kidnapped Millionaires 234

Adamsi J. (cd.), The Self-Educator in French.. 34 r
Adams, J. A., Victc

arch

Adams, J. C., Nature

William Hamilton Gibson

Adams (Maude), in L'Aiglon ...

Adams, O. F., Dictionary of America:.
Adams T. S., Financial Problems of PC

\ddison, D D., Clergy in Am. Life and Letters. 25

Acs Triplex, Stevenson no

Aflalo, F. G. (ed.), Sport in Europe 312

African Nights Entertainments, Dawson 5

Aftermath of Christmas Books 30

\gnus, O., Jan Oxber 308

-Love in Our Village 3<>8

Aiken, C. F., Dhamma of Gotama the Buddha,

and the Gospel of Jesus the Christ 28

Ainsworth's Novels 375

.in Playmates 7

of Emerson 247

_a M., Little Men 354

Isabella M., Pauline 178

Alice of Old Vincennes, Thompson i

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Dodgson.... 375
Alien, pseud. See Baker, Mrs. L. A.

All Children Love Books 338

Allen, A. V. G., Life and Letters of Phillips
- 34

Albee, Helen R., Moi
Albee T " - -
Alcot
Aldei

Allen, G., Florence
Allen, Grant, In Natur

Ailenwa.y Ulysses s! ' Grant! '. !!.!!..
Allen, Mrs. W., Love Letters of a Liar. .
Allston, Margaret (pseud.) See Farquhai
Alta Library ..........................

Alt.

>rfer

Altshefer',' j7 A.",' Wilderness Road. 215

America, Picturesque and Descriptive, Cook 68

American Authors and Their Homes, Halsey 354

American Catalogue, 1895-1900 25

Engineer in China, Parsons 73

Engineering Competition 122

American Girls, Pierce 366

American Political History to the Death of Lin-
coln, Conklin 371

Amos Judd, Mitchell 290, 363

Andrews, C. M., Historical Development of Mod-
ern Europe 57

Annual American Catalogue 119

Anthony, Geraldine, A Victim of Circumstances. 178

Anting Anting Stories, Kayme 33O

Antonia, Belden 207

Antrobus, Mrs. C. L., Quality Corner 248

Antrobus, Mrs. C. L., Wildersmoor....

Apes and Monkeys, Garner

Appleton, G., A Narragansett Peer

Appleton's Fiction 363

Appleton's Nature Books 362

Apostles of the Southeast (The), Bullen 363

Apthorp, W. F., Opera Past and Pre
Arbuthnot, G., ed., Shakespeare Serm

Archer, W., Study and Stage

Aristocrats (The)

' M^K.', 'Early Empire' Builders of" th.

,
Armstrong, M. K., Early Empire

Great West
Arnold, Augusta F., The Sea-Bea

Tide....

Arnold! EailM }., Itories of Ancient

Arrows of the Almighty, Johnson
Art Crafts for Amateurs, Miller, F

Ashton', M'., She "stands A^one?. f?

at Ebb

249

Atkins? H Y> G.' **See Kastner,' L.' E.
At wood's Picture

Ayer, Hi

BAB!

Babcocl

:K, B., Justice to the Woman 308

. Jk, C. A., Bird Day 218

Babcock, W. H., Tower of Wye 169

Babs the Impossible, MacFall, H 74

Bache, Constance, Brother Musicians 274, 305

xcheller, I. R., D'ri and 1 267, 364

icon, Mrs. Henry, Our House-Boat on the

Nile 267, 292, 340, 355

igot, R., Casting of Nets 274

lildon, H. B., Robert Louis Stevenson 150

liley, H. C., My Lady of Orange 215

liley, H. T., Painters' Gospel 109

_aker, Mrs. L. A., Another Woman's Territory. 178

Balch, E. S., Glacieres 57

~ ildwin, M., and others (eds.), Dictionary of

Philosophy and Psychology 345

Idwin, J., Discovery of the Old Northwest... 217

_ ill, E. A. R., Jerusalem 215

Paris in Its Splendor 21

Ball, J. D., Things Chinese 21

Ballantine, F. S., ed., Modern Readers Bible 48

Balzac, H de, Dramatic Works Rendered Into

English 346

Works, Pocket Edition 300

Honore de Balzac 25

Banks, L. A., Unused Rainbows 12

Bantock, M., On Many Greens 34

Barabbas, Corelli's

Barnard, Lady Anne, South Africa a Century

Bafnes,' j.V Gr'e'at'War Trek'. ! . ! .'I." .'" ." II"." 24

Barr, Mrs. Amelia E. H., The Lion's Whelp... 3.

Souls of Passage i.

Barr, R., The Victors 3

Barrett, C. -R., Short Story Writing 24, .,

Barrie, J. M., and His Book, Hammerton 33

Barry, W., The Wizard's Knot 103, 13

"iartlett, W. A., Ober Ammergau and Other

Barton, W. E., Hero in Homespun 85

Pine Knot 246

Prairie Schooner 109

Bashkirtseff, Marie, and Maupassant, G. de, Last

Confessions and Correspondence 174, 214

Bastille (The), Bingham 354

Bates, A., Talks on Writing English 308

Bates, F. G., Rhode Island and Formation '

Uni

Bates, Kath. Lee, Spanish Highw
Battell, ' j.', 'Ellen. . '. '. '. '. '. '. '. '. '. '. '. '..'.'.'.

and By-

344

B., Jean-Paul Mai

iayles, G. J., Woman and the Law

teard, C, Industrial Revolution

iecke, L., Yorke the Adventurer, and

Bedford Shakespeai _

Beecher, H. W., Comforting Thoughts." ."." ."I

Belden, J. Van Z., Antonia .............

BeiiHan, Sr John ndth'e 'A'mer.' Girl
Bell, R. S. W., Bachelordom .............

Ben Hur in Greek, Lit. Misc .............

Benham, W. G., Laws of Scientific Hand ]

Bennetti 'Eil'en'H.i 'Astrology! ! ! !

Benson, B. K., Friend with the Counters!*

Benson, E. F., Luck of the Vails .........

Lady of Lynn ..... '.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'. .'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.

Story of Alfred the Great ...........

Sir Walter Besant ....... . ............

, 308

'.III
253

INDEX.

Betsy Ross, Hotchkiss

Bible, Modern American Bible

Bickerton, A. W., Romance of the Earth

Romance of the Hea

... . -,

Biddle's (Drexel) Books

Bigelow, P., Children of the Nations

Biggs' Bar, Sutherland

Bigham, C, Year in China

Bignell, Erne, Mr. Chupes and Miss Jenny

Bingham, J. F., Christian Marriage

Binyon, L., Odes

Baby, Shinn

_ .sen, C. E. L. O., Prince v.,

Love Letters of Bismarck :

Bittinger, L. F., Germans in Colonial Times...

Blackburn, V., Bayreuth and Munich ;

Blackmar, F. W., Economics

Blanchard, Amy, Daughter of the Revolution... :

Blennerhassett. See Pidgin, C. F 334, ;

Blissert, Nellie K., From the Unsounded Sea. 21 5, :

Blok P. J., People of the Netherlands

Blue Grass and Rhododendron, Fox

Blundell, Mrs. Mary E. S., Fiander's Widow... :

Boardman! W. H.^Lovers of "the ' Woods ! '.'.'.'.'. }

Boccaccio, G., Tales from the Decameron

Boies, H. M., Science of Penology -.

Bolivian Andes, Conway I

Book for All Readers, Spoiford

Book of Sport, Patten 332, j

Books for Out-of-Doors i

of 1900 50, <

Boonc, H. B., end Brown, K., Eastover Court

Booth, W. S., comp., Notes for the Guidance of

Boothby, G.',' C'abineV Secret .' .' . .' .' .' .' .' '.'.'.'. '. '. '. '. '.'.'. i

Long Live the King 2

My Indian Queen

My Strangest Case 3

Mystery of the Clasped Hands i

Borchgrevrink, C. E., First on the Antarctic

Ben

ti-Merrill's Fi

Illustrated Books

Bower, Marian, John Thisselton

Bowker, R. R. See Fletcher, W. I.

Boyd, Hypatia, Paul Binner and His Work

Among the Deaf

Braddon, Ma. E. See Maxwell, Mrs. M. E. B.
Bradford, A. H., Age of Faith

Spiritual Lessons from the Brownings

Bradford, C., Birth a New Chance

Bradley, A. G., Fight with France

Brady, C. T., Colonial Fights and Fighters

The Quiberon Touch. ...

Under Tops'ls and Tents

Bramah, E., Wallet of Kai Lung....

Bride's Book

Bridge Whist: How to Play It, Leigh, L

Brigham, A. P., Text-Book of Geology

Brinkerhoff, R., Recollections of a Lifetime

Bronson, W. C., Hist, of American Literature

Bronte, Anne, Charlotte, and Emily, Novels

Brooke, S. A., Religion in Literature and Re-
ligion in Life

Brooks, E. S., Animals in Action

Century Book of the Am. Colonies 6,

Godson of Lafayette

Brooks, Hildegarde, Without a Warrant. 107, 147
Brooks, N., Abraham Lincoln....

Brooks, Phillips, Life of, Allen

Brother Musicians, Bache. . . .

Broughton, Rhoda, Foes in Law

Brown, Abram E., Faneuil Hall and Faneuil
Hall Market

Brown, Alex., English Politics in Ea'riy 'Vir-
ginia History

Brown, Alice, King's End

Brown, Kenneth. 5><? Boone, H. B.

Brown, W. G., Andrew Jackson

Browne, Wm. T., Jov-Bells IDS

Reply to the Man with the Hoe

Brownell, C. L., Tales from Tokio

ing, Eli;

Browning, R., Complete Works. . .
and Mrs. Eliz. B.. Beautiful Th
Brunei, G., Fun with Magic
Bryden, H. A., Anim
r,...u.. T

A., Animals of Africa .............

The Half-Hearted .........

'It

, J.',' Industrial' EvoTudo... ..........

Buckeve Baron, Paxson 326

Buell.'C. E., Industrial Liberty...!

Bullen, F. T., With Christ at' Sea 56

Bullock, S. P., Irish Past

Burdett-Coutts, W. A. B., Sick and Wounded

in South Africa j

Burgess, G., Nonsense Almanac

Burgess Nonsense Book -.

Burgess, J. W., The Civil War and the Consti- *

Burnett,' 'Mrs'. ' Frances ' H.', ' Making ' of' a' 'Mar- '
Burnh'am, S 'cia'ra 'L,' 'Miss ' p'rit'chard's' w'e'd'dmg '

Burnt. ' R.,' 'Com'p'l'ete ' Poetical ' Works .' .' .' .'

Burrell, Caro B., Gala-Day Luncheons i

Burroughs, T., A Year in the Fields 3

Burton, J. B., The Yenr One

Burton, R., Ballad of the Unsuccessful

Whittier 2

By the Waters of Sicily

Byrn, E. W., Progress of Invention in the Nine- *
teenth Century

C., Home Thoughts ... i

Cable, G. W., The Cavalier 291, 342, 3

Caine, H., The Eternal City 293 3

Caleb Wright, Habberton...

Calkins, R.. Substitutes for the Saloon. .. .219, ->
Callahan, J. M., American Relations in the

Pacific

Callow, E., Old London Ta\

, Emily S. L., Bitter Fruit

Campbell, Mrs. Helen S., Ballantyne

Canfield, H. S., A Paladin in Khaki

Canton, W., Children's Sayings

Careers of Danger and Daring, Moffett 295,

Carlile, W. W., Evolution of Modern Money

Carmichael, M., In Tuscany

Carolina Cavalier, Eggleston 132 '

Carpenter, F. G., South America f,

Carpenter, J. E. (ed.), Sailor 5

Carpenter, W. B., Religious Spi
" % M. E., Love and Honour. . .

egnier, Mme. H. and G., Le Due de

Poets. ]
Reich-

Castle, Agn<

md E., Hoi

of Rom

Secret Orchard

Catherwood, Mrs. Mary H., Laza

Cavalier (The), Cable

Cave, H. W., Golden Tips

Ceagh, F. J., Passing of the Dragon j

Century Book for Mothers, Yale and Pollak

Century Book of the Am. Colonists, Brooks.... '

Century Classics .

Ceremony (The) ("Penitcntes of San Rafael"), '

Chambers. A. B., New Century Standard 'Lett'e'r-

Chambers, R. W., Cardigan ..'.'.'.! ! !

Champney, Mrs. Elizabeth W., Romance of t'he *

Renaissance Chateaux -

Champlin's Young Folks' Cyclopaedia in Litera- *

Chapin, A. A.,' Masters' o'f 'Music ! ! ! !

'.'ha,. in, C. V., Municipal Sanitation in the U. S. 2

Chapman, F. M., Bird-Life ... j

Charles Kingsley ;

Chaucer, G., Complete Works ,

"Chimmie Fadden," Author of, Lit. Misc 2

liina and tlv- Allies, Landor i

-Books on.

Choate, J. H.^AbralJam Lincoia! ! ! !

~ mley, C. H. Sec Oufhwaite, R. L.

snic Loafer (The), Lloyd 3

rchill, W., The Crisis 2

leiella, Crockett z

umstance, Mitchell 295, 3

City Club of New York, Some Things Richard
Croker Has Said and Done 2

Civics, Holt 196, 2

Clark, C. S., ed. See Neal, E. V.

Clark, F. E., New Way Around an Old World., i

Clark, Imogen. God's Puppets i

Heresv of Parson Medlicott

Clarke, A., Effects of the Factory System i

INDEX.

Clemmens, Jane E., Luscious Strawberry 26
Clifford, Mrs. Lucy L., A Woman Alone. . .258, 275
Clinton, H. R., Wellington's Famous Battles in
the Peninsula, France and Belgium 24

Daniels, Gertrude P., The Warners 148,
Dark Hour ("Meloon Farm"), Pool
Darlingtons, Peake
Daskman, Josephine D., Fables for the Fair
Daughter of the Revolution, Blanchard

'AGE
333

346

34-
109

l %

III

363

276

1 66

152
351

Clow/F. R., Introduction to the Study of Com-

Veldt. Marnan
Daunay's Tower, Sergeant
David, the Poet and King, Hillis
Davidson, G. T., The Moderns
Davies, A., Maude Adams
Davis, A. M., Currency and Banking in the
Province of the Mass.-Bay
Davis, R. H., With Both Armies in South Af-

Coates's Books of Travel and Description 369
Fiction . 369

Coates, T. F. G., Lord Roseberry 115
Cobban J M Royal Exchange . 117

Cole, S. V., In Scipio's Gardens 58
Colombian and Venezuelan Republics, Scruggs.. 33
Colonial Fights and Fighters, Brady 374
Coltman, R.. Beleaguered in Peking 345

Dawson, A. T., African Nights Entertainments..
Dawson, W. H., German Life in Town and Coun-

Column (The), Marriott 200
Colville, W. T., Fate Mastered Destiny Ful-
filled 26
Comedie Humaine (The), Wormeley 366

ed., Our European Neighbors
Day, E., Social Life of the Hebrews
Day, Sa. J., From Mayflower to Mistletoe
Day, T. F., On Yachts and Yacht Sailing

Compleat Bachelor, Onion 168
Complete Dramatic Works of Balzac, Vermont.. 336
Comstock, G. C., A Text-Book of Astronomy... 182

Deasy, H. H. P., In Tibet and Chinese Tur-
kestan

147
330
370
i45

148
107

III

87
85
57
142

148
179

339

III

I'A

339

57
117
131

"H
104

3
25

170

364

2 7 8
365
117
309
342

i
$

Death of the Gods, Merejkowski

Confederate State? of America, Schwab 270
Confessions of a Caricaturist, Furniss 375
Conn, H. W., Method of Evolution 88

Defoe, D., Descendants of, Lit. Misc .'
Delanoy, Mrs. M. Frances H., Serious Compli-

Connor, R. See Gordon, R.
Conrad, J., and Hueffer, H. F. M., The Inher-

Dellenbaugh, F. S., North Americans of Yes-

Dennis T Realms of Gold

Considerations on Painting, La Farge, J 84
Constantinople and Its Problems, Dwight 370
Content in a Garden, Wheeler 236
Conway, Sir W. M., Bolivian Andes 228
Cook, E. T., Rights and Wrongs of Transvaal
War 345

De Roo, P., America Before Columbus
Dickens Works 67

Dickerson, Mary C., Moths and Butterflies
Dickinson C L Meaning of Good

Didier, C.', Romance of 1'Aiglon
Dillingham, Frances B., Christmas Tree Scholar.
Disciple (The), Bourget 107,
Dix, Beulah M., Making of Christopher Fer-

Cook, J., America, Picturesque and Descriptive. 86
Cook, T. A., Story of Rouen 215
Corelli, Marie, Angel's Wickedness 23
Corvo, T. B., In His Own Imaee 148
Cotes, Mrs. Sara J. D., The Crow's Nest 179
Couch, A. T. Q., The Laird's Luck and Other
Stories 342
Old Fires and Profitable Ghosts 78

Dix, g E. A., Old Bowen's Legacy 103,
Dodd, Mrs. Anna B., American Husband in Paris.
Falaise, the Town of the Conqueror
Dodge, Mary A., Gail Hamilton's Life and Let-

Coup, W. C., Sawdust and Spangles 219
Courtesy Dame, Gilchrist 8

Dog- Watches at Sea, King 106,
Dolly Dialogues, Hope
Donald's Old Room Is Yours ("When the Gates
Lift Up Their Heads")
Doris Kingsley, Rayner
Dorys, Georges (pseud.), The Private Life of
the Sultan of Turkey 324,
Douglas, Amanda M., Little Girl in Old Wash-
Question of Siience '

Courtot- Memoirs 371
Craddock, Flo. N., The Soldier's Revenge 148
Crafts, W. F., and Mrs. W. F., Protection of
Native Races Against Intoxicants and Opium. 121
Craigie, Mrs. Pearl M. T., A Birthday Book... 150
Serious Wooing 258, 309
Craik, Sir H., A Century of Scottish History.. 150
Crane, A. R., Smiles and Tears from the Klon-
dyke 85

Dowden, E., Puritan and Anglican 119,
Downer, C. A., Frederic Mistral, Poet and Lead-

Crankisms, Matthewman 266
Crawford, F. M., Works 345

Creed, Sibyl, Vicar of St. Luke's 216
Crimson Weed St John 142

Downing, H.. Nell Gwynne of Old Drury
Dovle. A. C., Green Flag
Drake, S. A., Myths and Fables of To-Day
Dream Fox Story Book, Wright

Crisis (The), Churchill 203
Crispi, Stillman ..292

Play Actors ^48

Education and the Philosophical Ideal

Love Idylls 342

Drexel-Biddle, A. J. See Biddle, A. J. Drexel-
Drevfus A Five Years of My Life

- Silver Skull 148 20'

Croly, G., Tarry Thou Till I Come 179, 241
Cromie, R., Kitty's Victoria Cross 309
Cromwell, Oliver, Morley 2
Crosby, J. S., Government 311

Same. (French). 2.14.
D'ri and I, Bacheller 267,
Drifting
Drone and a Dreamer, Lloyd 241, 271,
Drummond, H., King's Pawn

Cross, Mrs. Ada C., The Devastators 342
Cross, C. F., and Bevan, E. J., Researches on

Cross for Ruskin's Grave, Lit. Misc 61
Crossroads of Destiny Ritter 105

Dunn, B. A., Battling {,>r Atlanta
Dunne F P Mr Di o'ov's Philosophy

Crowley, Ma. C., A Daughter of New France.. 179

Durer, A., The Apocalyt e

Crowninshieid, Mrs. Mary B., Valencia's Gar-
den 216, 234
Crucifixion in "The Penitentes," Lit Misc 253
Cruper, Mrs. Julia S., His Letters 216

Dutt. W. A., Highways and Byway's in East An-
glia

Dwellers in the Hills, Post

Mrs. Clyde ..85
Culture and Restraint, Black 370
Cunningham, W., Essay on Western Civiliza-
tion in its Economic Aspects 88
Curious Career of Roderick Campbell, Mcll-
wraith .... ... 105

EARLE, Mrs. Alice M., Stage-Coach and Tavern

Eari a y yS EngiiVh' 'Printed' Books' in 'the' University
Library, Cambridge
East London Besant

;i;

120
36t
TT7

Curry, J. L. M., Civil Hist, of Government of
Conf -derate States 231

F.astover Court House, Boone and Brown
Eccentricities of Genius, Pond
Ecksf.rm, F. H., Bird Book
Wi odpeckers

Cust, i.., Anthony Van Dyck 20
DALTOK, W., Bridge Abridged ... 312

Edinburgh Shakespeare (The)
Edsun, M. C., Solaris Farm

INDEX.

Edward vii. See Private Life of.
Edward, W. A., Self -Educator in Latir

Edwards, A. H., Romance and Rome ,.

Edwards, O., Japanese Plays and Playfellows... 152

Eggleston, Edward 42

Transit of Civilization 24, 244

Eggleston, G. C., Camp Venture 179

Carolina Cavalier 132

Eleanor, Ward 42

Eliot, George, Adam Bede 148

Works 375

Elliott, Sarah B., Sam Houston

Ellis, H., The Nineteenth Century

Ellis, J. B., Garcilaso

Elshemus, L. M., Sweetbrier

Ely, R. T., Introduction to Political Ecom
Embree, C. F., Heart of Flame

Emerson, R. W., Sanborn ;

See Albee, J.

Emory, F., Maryland Manor ;

Encyclopedia of Etiquette, Holt ;

English and American Patriotism ("The Ex-
patriates"), Bell

Englishwoman's Love-Letters

Envoi (L'), Verse ("In Scipio's Gardens"),
Cole

Erskine, P., When the Gates Lift Up Their
Heads i

Eternal City, Caine 293, -

Evans, R. D., A Sailor's Log / i

FALAJSE, Dodd

Familiar Fish, McCarthy

Familiar Flowers of Field and Garden, Mathews. 3
Familiar Trees and Their Leaves, Mathews.... 3
Farquhar, Anna, Her Washington Experiences., i

Social Life in Washington 3

Farrelly, M. J., Settlement After the War in

South Afric,

Father Stafford, Hope

Fawcett, Millicent G., Life of Her Majesty,

Queen Victoria i

Fenollosa, Ma McN., Hiroshige :

Ferri, E., Socialism and Modern Science i

Field, E., How One Friar Met the Devil

Sharps and Flats

Tribune Verse ;

Fielding, H., Works

Fields, J. T., Yesterdays with Authors

Filipino Stories, Kayme ,

Fireside Sphinx (The), Repplier -.

First Men in the Moon, Wells 329, 344,

tish, D., comp., Lincoln Literature

Fisher, Kath. R. See Williams, M. E.
Fiske, John ,

Life Everlasting ;

Old Virginia and Her Neighbors

Fithian, Philip Vickers, Journals and Letters...

Fitzgerald, D. G., Quest of Coronado 2

Fitz Gerald, Edward, Lit. Misc i

Fitzgerald, J., Word and Phrase 3

5000 Facts and Fancies, Phyfe i

Five Years of My Life, Dreyfus 170, I

Flandrau, C. M., Diary of a Freshman

Fletcher, W. L, and Bowker, R. R., Annual

Literary Index i

Fletcher, W. L, The "A. L. A." Index 3

and Poole, Marg., Poole's Index to Periodi-
cal Literature , ...a

Flick, A. C., Loyalism in New York 2

Flint, Mrs. Martha B., Garden of Simples

Flynt, Josiah (pseud.), World of Graft 219, 3

Folk, E. *Moo g n ^Monster.' '. '. '. '. '. '. '. '. '. '. '. '. '. '. '. .' ,

~onia, Torrey....

-- __ j Child ("Luck of a Lowland

the Blue and Gold, Lichtensteiii ] ','. '. '.'.

Ford, P. L., Janice Meredith

Foreword to Winsome Womanhood ("Winsome

Womanhood"), Sangster

Forman, S. E., Thomas Jefferson

Forsslund, M. Louise, Story of Sarah.. i

Forsythe. Clarence, Old Songs for Young America. 3
Forty Modern Fables, Ade . . . .

Foster, M., In the Forest

Foulke, W. D., Maya ,

Fourth Generation, Besant

Fowler, Edith H., The World and Winstow 3

Fowler, Ellen T., Cupid's Garden

Love's Argument i

r), The Fra

s Let-

-.-. E. (pseud.)

M. E. S.
Francis, Sir P., (and othei

Francke,' K.',' Hist.' of' German' Litc'i

termined by Social Forces

Franklin, B:, Autobiography c
Fraser, Mrs. H., A Little Gr

Fraser, W. A., The Outcasts

French Life in Town and Country, Lynch

Fretwell, J., The Ch:

instia

iagari

, T. K., Poor People

Frothingham, Eugenia B., Turn of the Road...

Fry, R. E., Giovanni Bellini

Fuller, Anna, Katherine Day :

Fuller, H. B., The Last Refuge

i Palmistry.. ;

, _., Second Dandy Chater :

The Man Who Knew Better ;

Callus, A., Sarah Bernhardt :

Garden of Simples, Flint

Gardiner, S. R., Oliver Cromwell :

Garla.id, H., Her Mountain Lover :

R. L., Apes and Monkeys 26,

Gaspary, A., History of
Gateless Barrier, Harri;

Early Italian Lit

, Helen E., Etiquette of Correspondence..

Gerard, Dorothea, The Million .

The Supreme Crime

Gestefeld, Ursula N., The Builder and tne Plan. .
Giberne, Agnes, The Mighty Deep and What We

Gibbs? W G In' Search 'of Mademoiselle'.'. '.'.'. 179', \

Gibson, C. D., A Widow and Her Friends ;

Gilbert, Lady. See Mulholland, R

Gilbert, Mrs. Anne H., Stage Re

Mrs. Gilbert 109

Gilchrist, R. M., Courtesy Dame

Giles, H. A., History of Chinese Literature...
Giles, H. A., and others, Great Religions of th(

World

Gillespie, Mrs. Eliz., Book of Remembrance. 2 14

Gilman, B., Back to the Soil

Glimpses of the Pan-American Exposition a

iovanni Bellini, Fry
irdner, J. H., Newyorkitis

, G. R., Our Friend the Charlat
of Elizabet

Glynn, Elinor, The Visits c
God of His Fathers, London
God's Puppets, Clark

P8W

Godson of Lafayette,

Going, Maud, With the Wild Flowers from the

Pussy-Willow to the Thistledown i

Gomperz. T., Greek Thinkers i

Gooch, F\ A., ed.. Research Papers 2

Goodenough. G., Handy Man Afloat and Ashore, i

Goodwin, Maud W., Sir Christopher i

Gordon, C. W., Beyond the Marshes

The Man from Glengarry 3

Gordon, G: A. G., New Epoch for Faith

Gordon, Julien, pseud. See Cruger, Mrs. J. S.

Gore, C., ed.. Lux Mundi 3

Gorky, M., Foma Gordyeeff 257, 2

Gould, Alice B., Louis Agassiz 3

Gould, E. L., Little Men Play

Graham, H. G., Social Life of Scotland in the

Eighteenth Century

Graham, J., Great God Success ,

Graham, Mrs. J. E., Toltec Savior 105, ;

Grand, Sarah. See MacFall, Mrs. H.

Grant, A. J., French Monarchy

Gray, Maxwell (pseud.) See Tuttiett, M. G.
t Essays

Ohio Novel ("Ralph Marlow

Plays (English)

(French and German) . . .
Great People's Series

War Trek, Barnes

White Way, Paine

Greek Dn

Green, Mrs. Sarah P. McL., Floodtide

Green. W. D.. William Pitt, Earl of Chatham.. :
Flag, Doyle

:af, S., Wed by Mighty Waves

INDEX.

Greer, J., Twenty-five Minutes with Palmistry. .

Gregory, Lady, ed., Ideals in Ireland

Gregory, D. S., Crime of Christendom

Griflis, W. E., Pathfinders of the Revolution...

Grimm's Fairy Tales

Grinnell, G. B., The Punishment of the Stingy

Grinnell, M., Neighboi

343

of Eng. His

ield, Wood and

_ .............. 361

Groos" K.", Play of Man ....................... 178

Gross, C., Sources and Lite
tory ...................

Guerber, Helene A., Empresses of France ...... 177

Guide to the Trees JA) ...................... 361

Guide to the Wild Flowers (A) ............... 361

Gunter, A. C., Deacon's Second Wind ......... 303

Mr. Barnes of New York ................... 179

anSle ' " " ' '

. .

and Robbins, II., Outline of Social' Economics.
Gusman, P., Pompeii ........................

Gwynn, S., Queen's Chronicler ................

Haggard, H. R., Winter Pilgrimage....

Lysbeth

Mains, T. J., The Cruise of the "Petrel"

Half-Hearted, Buchan

Hales, A. G., Campaign Pictures of the

South Africa

Hall, A. C. A., Marriage with Relatives Pro

Tabernacle Talks 220

Hall, Helene, Song of a Heart 66

Hallam, Tulia C., Story of a European Tour 85

Hallock, G. B. F., Model Prayer 58

Hallworth, J., Arline Valere 275

Halsey, F. W., Old New York Frontier 109

Halstcad, M., Aguinaldo 274

Hamilton, Gail (pseud.) See Dodge, Mary A.

Hamilton, H., Cigarettes 150

Hammerton, J. A., J. M. Barrie and His Book. 337

Hancock, A. E., Henry Bourland 216

" "ic, Weale 84

Woman Wh,
Harper, G. M., Masters
Harper's Holiday Books

ch Lit

. Consta

Ex-Presidenl

of the
State's

Harrison, Mrs

Hills
Harrison, M. C. (comp.), New Yor

Prominent and Progressive Men ............. -.

Harrison, Mrs. Mary K., Gateless Barrier ____

("Lucas Malet"), Sir Richard Calmady ..... -
Hart, A. B. (ed.), American History Told by '

Contemporaries .......................... -.

Harte, F. B., Stories and Poems ..............

Under the Redwoods ...................... ]

, L. B., Republic of America .........

------ , ------ -. ..., .. the "Charleston" .......

Haunts of Peter Stirling ("New York in Fic-
tion"), Maurice ........................... :

Hawkins, A. H., Father Stafford .............. ;

Tristram of Blent ..................... 298,

Hawser, A. B., Starboard Lights .............. \

Hawthorne, N., Complete Writings ............ j

Scarlet Letter ............................. ]

Hayes, F. W., Gwynett of Thornhaugh ........

Hayes, Henry (pseud.) See Kirk, Mrs. E. O.
Hazelton, G. C., jr., Mistress Nell ........ 107, i

Headley, F. W., Problems of Evolution ........ i

Hector, Mrs. A. F., Missing Hero ____

Helmet of Na^ ~ ' '

r Moi

i Love

Heritage of Unrest, Overton i

Herkless, J., Francis and Dominic and the Men-
Herod, Phillips'. '. '. '.

~ and H. (pseud.) See Prichard, Mrs.

; H.

of Fictiot

Herrick, F. H., H<
Hewlett, M. H., F. :
-New Can '

/ells.

>f Wild Birds :

k Out of Tuscany

New Canterbury Tales

Richard Yea-and-Nay ,

Mr. Hewlett's Style, Lit. Misc

on, T. W., Amer. Orators and Oratory.. ;

Hill, Mabel, comp.. Liberty Documents

Willis, N. D., Influence of Christ in Modern Life.

That Sweet Enemy . .'

Three Fair Maids

Hirsch, M., Democracy Versus Socialism ;

Historic Towns of the Western States, Powell,

Historical Novel and Other Essays, Matthews.. 109

History of Criticism, Saintsbury 13

the War in the Philippines, Wilcox 108

Hobbes, John Oliver (pseud.) See Craigie, Mrs.
P. M. T.

Hobson, J. A., The Social Problem 182

Hocking, J., Lest We Forget 309

Hodder, A., Tht ..
Hodges, G., Willia:

Hokus

Thoi

Hollander, B., The Mental Function of Phil-
osophy of the Brain ;

Holland, C., Mousme :

Hollis, I. N., Frigate "Constitution"

Holls, F. W., Peace Conference at the Hague. .

Holmes, C. J., Hokusai

Holt, Emily, Encyclopedia of Etiquette ;

^--yclopaedia of Etiquette

Encyclopaedi

Holt, H., Talk

Holt's Miscellaneous 'Books

Holt's Recent Fiction

Home of Joan of Arc ("Along French By-

Home S Th'oughts S by'"C"' .'.'.'.'.'..'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'. V.iVV,

Hope, A., Dolly Dialogues

Hope, Anthony. See Hawkins, A. H.

Hope, G. H., Till the Doctor Comes and How

Hopkins, E. W., Great Epic of India

Hoppin, J. M., Great Epochs in Art Histoi
Hornung, E. W., Raffles

Horton, G., Like Another Hel

Modern Athens

The Tempting of Father Anthoi

The Tempting of Father Anthony j

Horton, R. F., Alfred Tennyson i

Hotchkiss, C. C., Betsy Ross i

Hough, P. M., Dutch Life in Town and Country. ;
Houghton, Mifflin's Holiday Books of Prose

Houghton, Mifflin & Co.'s K

Outdoor Books

House of De Mailly, Potter,
-Egremont, Seawell.

Hovey, C., Stonewall Jackson

How/ L., James Buchanan Eads

How to Write a Novel ;

-Women Should Dress for Tennis, Lit. Misc.. :
Howard. L. O., Insect Book :

Howells, W. D., Italian Jouri

Pair of Patient Lovers...

Story Book

ind others, Niagara Book.

Rowland, F. H., Chase of De Wet

Hoxie, C. De F., Civics for New York State...

Hubbard, G. H., The Why of Poverty

Hubbell, G. G., Fact and Fancy in Spiritualism,

Theosophy and Psychical Research

Hudson, W. H., Sir Walter Scott

Hughes, J. L., Dickens as an Educator

Human Nature in the Rough ("Dwellers in the

Hills"), Post

Hume, F., Traitor in London

M. A. S., The Spanish P< '

Misu

Kuril, EstelYe" M., ' ed'., "Titian'.'. .'..'.'.'.'. .'..'.'.'..
Humming-Bird of Ocean ("Life and Sport i

the Pacific Slope"), Vachell

, C. M. Sec Lay, W.

Hutton, A.. The Sw

and the Centui

Hydei'W. De W.rArt"of Optimism as taught

by Browning 26

Hyne, C, Master of Fortune 105

Prince Rupert the Buccaneer 180

- ' 373

_ ..erapeutics, Edu-

Mason 371

What Hope Is ("Babs

INDEX.

Illustrated American Stage 146

Ilott, C., Book of Asparagus 277

Improvised Santa Claus ("Recollections of a

Missionary in the Great West"), Brady 55

In and Around the Grand Canyon, James 46

Search of Mademoiselle, Gibbs 207

the House of His Friends, Savage 130, 168

Levant, Warner 355

IndustrfaT^volution^Burcher 1 ?. . m n . '.'.'.'.'.'.'.'. '. '. 371

Infidel (The), Maxwell 75

Ingraham, F. A., United States Yachting Di-
rectory 251

Inhabitants of the Philippines, Sawyer 76

International Year-Book 219

Invention of the Steamboat 87

Ireland: Historic and Picturesque, Johnston... 369

Insect Life, Comstock 363

Italian Journeys, Howell 355

. 3C>4

ckson, A. W.,'

ckson, S. M., Huldreich Zwingli

mes, G. W., In and Around the Gra

Indian Basketry

Jr.mes, H., Sacred Fount

Jar

-^Nightingale, Watanna 375

:ncyk, J., Ten Years in Cossack Slavery... 118
-ow, J., Fact and Fable in Psychology 26

: ey, Walter. See "Bec'k'e, L.

erome, J. K., The Observations of Henry 150

ewett, Sa. O., Tory Lover 262, 296, 343

ewish Encyclopaedia, Singer 238

im and His Jewel ("Lord Jim"), Conrad S3

immy ("Men of Marlowe's"), Dudeney 16

John, Alix, The Night-Hawk 309

John Charity, Vachell 327

John Thisselton, Bower 197

Winslow, Northrop 105

Johnnie Courteau, Drummond 372

Johnson, C, Along French Byways 21

Johnson, O., Arrows of the Almighty 148, 306

Lit. Misc 220

Johnson, R. M., Roman Theocracy and Re-
Public 345

Johnson, S : Boswell 375

148

, , ons of a Georgia

Loyalist 146

Jokai, M., Corsair King , .. 216

Day of Wrath 23

Manasseh ... 216

Tones, Dora M., A Soldier of the King 180

Jones, J. L., Search for an Infidel 220

Jordan, Eliz. G., Tales of the Cloister 309

Toscelyn Cheshire, Kennedy 230

Joy and Strength for the Pilgrim's Day, Tile-

ston 366

Joy-Bells, Browne 105

Joyce, J. A., Edgar A. Poe 247

Oliver Goldsmith .. ,...147

Judd, Ma. Cath., comp., Wigwam Stories 248

Juletty, McElroy 163

Junk, Lempert 368

KAI.ER, J. O., Story of Old Falmouth 249

Kastner, L. E., and Atkin, H. G., Short Hist,
of French Literature 87

Kayme, S., Anting-Anting Stories .......... 248, 330

Kearney, Belle, Slaveholder's Daughter ........ 274

Keats, Gwendoline, White Cottage ......... .. 107

Keeley, Gertrude, Alphabet of Wild Flowers... 277
Kempster, A., Way of the God

, ., .......... . ____

Kennedy, Sara B., Joscelyn Cheshire ....... 217, 230

Kester, V., Manager of the B. & A ........... 275

Ketcham, H., Abraham Lincoln ....... , . . 214

Kidnapped Millionaires, Adams ............. 234, 364

Killikelly, Sa. H., Curious Questions in History,

Kimm, S. C., The Iroquois :

King, B., and O'Key, >., Italy To-Day :

King, C, In Spite of Foes :

Norman Holt

Kin,

of Honey Island, Thompson :

> Deputy, Hinkson

Kingsland, Mrs. Burton, Etiquette

sions

Kingsley, C., Hypatia

Kingsley, C., Novels, Poems and Life..
Works, ~

, Chester ed 293

Kingsiey, F. M., Transfiguration of Miss Phi-
K .', ' Stephen ' Caiinari '. ',

Kinross, A., Philbrick Howell i

Kipling, R., Kim 1

and others, War's Brighter Side i

Kirk, Mrs. Ellen O., Our Lady Vanity 270, '

Kirkman, M. M., Romance of Gilbert Holmes...

Kittie's Victoria Cross, Cromie j

Klondyke Ballads. See Sutherland -

Knight, E. F.. Small Boat Sailing..

Knight, G., Son of Austerity :

Knight, J., Self-Educator in Chemistry ;

Knight, W.. Lord Monboddo :

Knollys, Beatrice, Gentle Art of Good Talking..
Knowles, F. L. (ed.), Golden Treasury of Amer.

Songs and Lyrics

Krausse, A., Far East '

Kuhns, L. O., German and Swiss Settlements

of Colonial Pa

LADY of Lynn, Besant ;

La Farge, J., Cor__.
Lagerlof, Selma, Fro

inting. .

, , Swedish Homestead... i

Laird and Lee's Diary and Time Saver

Vest-Pocket Time Saver i

Lampton, W. J., Yawps, and Other Things

Lanciani, R., New Tales of Old Rome 3

Land of the Wine, Biddle

Landor, A. H. S., China and the Allies i

Lane, C. H., All About Dogs

Lane, Elinor M., Mills of God i

Lang, A., Hist, of Scotland

Magic and Religion j

La Rame, Louise de, Street Dust i

Lamed, J. N., A Multitude of Counsellors j

Lassalle, F., Science and the Workingman

Lassie j

Last Confessions and Correspondence, Bashkirt-

Refuge,' 'Fuller .'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.' '.'.!!.'!!"!!'.!!!!!!

Words of Distinguished Men and Women,

YearsTof 'the 'Nineteenth' Century', Lati'mer.' ! .'
Latimer, Mrs. Eliz. W., Last Years of the Nine-
teenth Century 87, :

Laut, Agnes C., Lords of the North

Lawrence. A. L., Juell Demming -

Lawson, E., Euphrosyne and Her Golden Book, i
Lay, W., and Hussey, C. M., Narrative of the

Mutiny on the "Globe" of Nantucket

Lazarre, Catherwood 289, j

Leach, C., Mothers of the Bible

Lee, F. T., Octavia, the Octoroon i

Lee's American Automobile Annual for 1901... ]

Le Feuvre, Amy, Olive Tracy i

Le Gallienne, R., Beautiful Lie of Rome ]

Love-Letters of the King i

Leigh, L., Bridge Whist: How to Play It

Lempert, L., Junk ;

Lennox, C.. Practical Life Work of Henry

Leonard? j! 1 W. ' (ed')',' Who's Wh'o'Yn Am'e'r'ica ! .' '.

Le Queux, W., Her Majesty's Minister

Leroy-Beaulieu, P., Awakening of the East

Letters of Her Mother to *-""
Lewis, A., Richard Croker. . .

Life and How to Live It, Aldrich

Literature of the Ancient Hebrews, Abbott.

Works of Schiller (The), Thomas

Master, Watson

on the Stage, Morris 296,

Lighten, W. R., Lewis and Clark

Like Another Helei "

Lilly, W. S., Year of Life

Lincoln, Abraham, His Book

Passages from His Speeches and Letters

Minor, C. L. C

Lincoln, D. F., Sanity of Mind

Lincoln, Mary J., Peerless Cook Book...
Lindsay, M., Whirligig

INDEX.

Lippincott's Holiday Books 375

Litchfield, Mary E. ( comp., Selections from Five

English Poets 277

Literary History of America, Wendell 2

Miscellany 60, 84, 145, 220, 253

Prescriptions, Lit. Misc 61

Year-Book and Bookman's Directory 151

Little, G. O., Royal Houses of Israel and Judah. 251

Little Grey Sheep, Fraser

Men, Alcott '.

Livermore, T. L., Numbers and Losses i
Civil War ,

Lloyd, H. D., Newest England 46

Lloyd, J. U., Stringtcwn on the Pike 80

Warwick of the Knobs 326, 343

Lloyd, N., A Drone and a Dreamer. . .241, 271, 275
Locke, C. E., Freedom's Next War for Humanity. 245
Lodge, O. J., Signalling Across Space Without

L( fe

Lceb, J., Comparativ
i Con

and Comparative Psychology 26

.ondon, J., God of His Fathers 217, 238

London: Historic and Social, Francis 369

Long, J. L., Prince of Illusion 103, 149

Long Live the King, Boothby 237

Longard, Mme. Longgarde de. See Gerard, D.

Looney, Louisa P., Tennessee Sketches 310

Lords of the North, Laut 71

Lore of Cathay (The), Martin.. 370

Lorimer, N., By the Waters of Sicily 341

Lothroo's Fiction 364

Lounsbery, Alice, Southern Wild Flowers and

Trees.. 361

Love 86

Letters of the Kins?, Le Gallienne 113

Lover's Replies to An Englishwoman's Love-

Letters 217

Low, A. M., Supreme Surrender 310

Lowery, W., Spanish Settlements in Present

Limits of U. S 249

Luck of the Vails, Bensc
Ludlow, J. M^ Deboral

Lynch, H. F. B., Arr
Lynch, Hannah, Fren

305, 3i'

try..

MABIE, H. W., William Shakespeare

McCabe, J., Peter Abelard 3

McCall, S., Truth Dexter i

McCarthy, E., Familiar Fish

McCarthy, J.. Mononia 2

McClellah, General, Michie 3

McClure. A. K., To the Pacific and Mexico 2

McClure; Phillips & Co.'s Fiction 3

MacCracken, H. M., Hall of Fame i

McCrady, E., History of South Carolina in the

Revolution i

Macdonald, J. F., Paris of the Parisians

Macdonald, R., God Save the King 3

McElroy, Lucy Cleaver 2

Julrtty '. i

Macfadden, B. A., Strong Eyes 3

McFadven, J. E., Messages of the Prophetic and

Priestly Historians 3

MacFall, Mrs. H. (Sarah Grand), Babs the Im-
possible

MacGrath, H., The Puppet Crown i

Macgregor, G. H. C., When Thou Hast Shut

Thy Door

McHardy, G., Savonarola z

MclanfR. R., Highlanders' at 'Home! .'.'.'

Mcllwaine, H. C., Fate the Fiddler

McIIwraith. Jean N., Curious Career of Roder-
ick Campbell ]

Mackey, Ma. S., and Maryette, G., Pronuncia-

Mcffinley/L'ist'of Magazin^Artic'les 'on ! ! ! ! ! ! '. '. ;

Maclaren, Ian (pseud.) See Watson, J.
McLaws, L., When the Land was Young... 266, :

Maclay, E. S., History of the U. S. Navy :

McMurry, F. M. See Tarr, R. S., and Mc-

Murry, F. M.
Maeterlinck, M., Life of the Bee

Love Stories'

ce, Pepper 36

PAGE
Making of a Marchioness, Burnett 290

- Christopher Ferringham, Dix 240

Malan, A. H., Other Famous Homes of Great

Britain 358

Malet, Lucas, pseud. See Harrison, Mrs. M. K.

Man from Glengarry (The), Gordon 370

Man Who Knew Better (The), Gallon 356

Mansfield, A. N., Electromagnets 346

Man with the Hoe, Reply to, Browne 105

Manual of the Flora of Canada and the Northern

States, Britton

', Mathilc., _ -
......jnt, A. W., In

Madeline Power no

Marden, O. S., Good Manners 56

Hour of Opportunity -56

How They Succeeded 177

Mark, H. T., Individuality and the Moral Aim. 274
Markwick, W. F , and Smith, W. A., The World

and Its People 274

Marlier's Christmas Books 360

Marnan, B., A Daughter of the Veldt i!

g Colui

Marshall, B., Emma Marshall

Marshall, Nina L., Mushroom Book

Martin, W. A. P., Siege in Peking

Marvin, F. R. (comp.), Last Words of Distin-
guished Men and Women ,

Mary Mannering as Janice Meredith

Mary Queen of Scots, Houghton ,

Maryette, G. See Mackey, M. S.

Maryland Manor, Emory

Maryon, Maud, How the Garden Grew

Mason, A. E. W., Ensign Knightley

Mason, Caro. A., Lily of France

Woman of Yesterday

Mason, R. O., Hypnotism and Suggestion in
Therapeutics

Mason, W., Memories of a Mus

Masson, D., Chatterton

359

Masters, Ellen T., Book of Stitches

Masters of Fre ' ' "
Mat'hews
Goes 1

French Literature, Harper i

Mrs. Frances A., My Lady Peggy

Matthews, J. B., French Dramatists of the Nine-
teenth Century

Historical Novel and Other Essays

Notes on Speechmaking

Parts of Speech

Philosophy of the Short Storv

Matthewman, L. de V., Crankisms 266,

Maude, A., Tolstoy and His Problems

Maude Adai _

Maulde, La C'R. de7Women "of the 'Renaiss;
Maupassant, G. de. See Bashkirtseff, M.
Maurice, A. B., New York in Fiction ......

Mayo, Marg., Our Fate and the Zodiac

Maxey, E.. Some Questions of Larger Politic
Maxwell, Mrs. Mary E. B., The Infidel...

May, Edna, in The Girl from Up There

Meade, E. S., Financial Aspects of the '.
Problei

Meade, General Pennypacker

Meakin, B., Land of the Moors

Mean Comrade ("Blennerhassett"), Pidgin

Mees, A., Choirs and Choral Music

Melrose, C. T., Bridge Whist

Memories of a Musical Life, Mason

Men and Letters, Paul

Meredith, Ellis, Master-Knot of Human Fate...
-Lit. Mis.

Meredith. Geo., Reading of Life :

Lit Misc

Merejkowski, D., Death of the Gods 275, ;

Merrick, L., When Love Flies Out o' the Win-
dow 33, ,

Merrv-Go-Round, Wells ;

Merwin, H. C., Thomas Jeffer

Merwin,

, Ro;

to Fro

343

Mej._._

Meyer, Annie N., Robert Annys, Poor Priest...

Mevnell, Mrs. Alice C., John Ruskin

Michie, P. S., General McClellan 302,

Middleton, E., The Doomed Turk

Mieser, J., ed., Chess Endings from Modern
Master Play

s Umbrella

, ., .
Miles, E., Game of Squash. . ..... . . . . ..... .

Millais, T. G., The Old Fowler in Scotland
Millar, A. C., Twentieth Century Educati
Troubles .......... ........ '.

Miller, Frank E., Indian Club-Swinging

INDEX.

of the Phil-

Mills of God, Lane

Minor, C. L. C, The Real Lincoln

Miss Bouverie, Molesworth

Mr. Dooley's Opinions, Dunne

Mr. Dooley's Philosophy, Dunne

Mistress Nell, Hazelton 107,

Mitchell, J. A., Amos Judd. . . . 290,

Mitchell, S. W., Circumstance 295, 340,

Mitford, A. B. F., Attache in Peking

Modern Reader's Bible, Ballantine

Moffatt, J., Historical New Testament

Moftett, C, Careers of Danger and Daring.. 295,

Mohawk Valley (The), Reid

Mblesworth, Mrs. Mary L., Miss Bouverie

Molloy, J. F., The Queen's Comrade

si" p^a "Til ' Peace 'Wd^vTr 5 ? 6
Moody, D. L., Calvary's Cross

Moody, W'. ' V.,' 'Poems . '. '. '. '.'.'.'.'.'.'..'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.
Moore, F. F., According to Plato

Nell Gwyn Comedian

Nest of Linnets....

Moore, G., Sister Teresa 265,

Moore, J. T., A Summer Hymnal

Moore, T. S., Altdorfer

Moore, Yida F., Ethical Aspects of Lotze'<=
Metaphyf '

New Tales of Old Rome, Lanc

, .,
His Wisdom the Defender

...............

England, Lloyd ...................

Nicholson. W., il., Characters of Romance...
Nineteenth Century .......................

Noble, Annette L.,' A Crazy Angel ..........

Nonsense Almanac for 1902 (The), Burgess.

Norman Holt King

Norris, F., The Octopus

T is, Mary H., Grapes of Wrath

... ., __mplete Handbook of Ha-

and Cuba

S r otes on Some Novels of 1900

ODES of Horace i

Old Farm (The), Eickemeyer ., . . -.

Fires and Profitable Ghosts, Couch

New York Frontier, Halsey i

Oldfield, S. II., Some Records of the Later Life

of Harriett, Countess Granville i

Olerich, H., Viola Olerich.

'' Pe'kin

ir Khayyam, Rubaiyat

erdonk, J. L., History of Amer. Verse
undred ~

Onderdo:

, History o
_jks To Reac
mpleat Bachelor.

Morgesons (The), Stod
Morley, J., Oliver Croi
Morley, Marg. NY.. \Vas

, . ., sps and Their Ways'.. '.'.'. 121

Morris, C., Handy Dictionary of Biography 274

Mcrris, Clara, Life on the Stage 296, 333, 374

Opera Singers, Kobbe

Ordeal of Elizabeth (The)
Oriental Rugs, Mumford..

j, G., Tom Beauling

Morris, H. C., History of Col
Morris, M., and Congdon, L. ]

Mawr Stories

Morris, W. M., The Rt. Hon. Joseph Chambei

Original "Laurie," Lit. Misc

Osborne, D., Lion's Brood

Other Famous Homes of Great Britai

)ok of Bryn

Morrison, A., Cunning Murrell 23

Mott, L. F., Provencal Lyric 276, 337

Moulton, C. W., ed., Library of Literary Criti-
of Eng. and Am. Authors

Otis, J., With Preble at Tripoli
Our Duty to Old Books

European Neighbors, Dawsot

Ferns in Their Haunts, Clute

Friend the Charlatan, Gissi;

3S*

,
- Lady Vanity, Kirk

Mountain Playmates, Albee ,

Mowbray, T. P., A Journey to Nature 152

Mowry, W. A., Marcus Whitman and the Early

Days of Oregon 249

Muir, J., Our National Parks

MulhoHand, Rosa (Lady Gilbert), Cynthia's Bon-
net Shop 1 80

Muller, F. M., Last Essays 215

My Autobiography 97

Muller, J. ,W. (hseud.) See Hawser, A. B.
Mumford, Ethel W., Du]

Mumford, *

Munro, N.rDoom" GErtie".'. . . . ..217

Munroe, K., Under the Great Bear 57

My Friend Anne. Armstrong 360

My Lady Peggy Goes to Town, Mathews 3 53

My Master, V ivukananda 239

My New Curate, Sheehan 360

Tea-Keltle ("Diary of a Dreamer"), Smith.. 16

Myers; W.' S., Maryland Constitution, i '. i i i '. i i i i 276

NANSEN. F., ed.. Norwegian North Polar Ex-
pedition 15.

Naples: Past and Present, Norway, A. H 361

National ' ' Congress * of "Mothers',' ' Committee' 'on 5 ?

NsuglTty Little' Clock ("Stage 'Lyric's") \ 'Sm'ith ! ! 72
Navlor, J. B., Ralph Marlowe u8, 138

Sign of the Proohet 268, 343

--' ^ " ind Clark, C. S., eds., Hypnotism *"

Players' Gallerv

Out of Bounds, Horr.e

Outhwaite, R. L., and Chomley, C. H., Wisdom
>f Esa

Overton, Gwendolen, Heritage

Lit. Misc

Owen Bowen's Legacy, Dix. . .
Oxenham, J., Our Lady of T)e
Oxford University P

ibk-j

and Prayers

PACHECO, M., New Don Quixote

Pain, B., Another Englishwoman's Love-Letters .

Paine, A. B., The Van Dwellers 271,

Painters' Gospel, Bailey

Paladin in Khaki, C;<nfield

Palmer, F., Ways of the Service 107,

Palmer, F. H. E., Russian Life in Town and

Palmer, 7- M'.,' Personal' Recollections of '.'.'. 326',
Pansy, pseud. See Alden, Mrs. T. M.

. .,
of the
Neal, E. V.,

Nelie, Switer '. '. '. 37 ,

Neighbors of Field, Wood and Stream, Grinnell. 361

Nelson's Bibles and Prayers and Hymnals 362

Nesbit, E. (fsciid.) See Bland, Mrs H

Nest of Linnets (A), Moore 363

Nethersole, Olga, Olga Nethersole (pictures)... 146
Nettleton, G. H., ed., Specimens of the Short

Story.. .
New Alta

Paret, J. P., Woman's Book of Sports 164,

Paiker, G., The Right of Way

Parks, S. C., Great Trial of the Nineteenth

Century

Parmele, Mary F., A Short History of Rome

and Italy

Parr, W., Shacklett

Parsons, W. B., American Engineer in China,

Paston, G., Little Memoirs of the Eighteenth
Paston Letters . . .

Pathfinders of the^Re volution, ^Grrffis . *..'.'.'.'/.'.
Patou, L. B., Early History of Syria and Pal-
Patten, W. ' (ed.)', The' Book 'of Sport'. '. '. ! '. '. '. '. '. '.
Pattison, Mark ("Reminiscences of Oxford"),
Tuckwell..

i Library. See Alta Lib

de rrhe)::::::.

Americans, Hodden

Century Library (The)

Epoch for Faith, Gordon

Paul, H.. Men and Letters 277,

Paxson, W. A., A Buckeye Baron

Payne, W., Story of Eva

Payson, W. F., John Vytal

Peace at Last ("Good Red Earth"), Phillpotts..
Conference at the Hague, Holls

INDEX.

Peake, E. E., The Darlingtons
Pearson, H., National Life fro
of Science

Select Notes on the S. S. Lessons ..........

and Ma. A., Select Notes on the International
S. S. Less

Penelope's Irish Experiences, Wiggin 140, :

Pennell, Mrs. Eliz. R., Delights of Delicate Eat-

inypacker, T. R., General Meade

Phelps, C. E., Falstaff and Equi

Phelps, E. J., Orations and Ess_, _.

Phelps, Eliz. S., Successors of Mary the First.. 134

Philbrick Howell, Kinross 136

Philippines, Robinson 79

Phillips, C. L., Frederick Young 249

Phillips. Evelyn M., Pintoricchio 146

Phillips, S., Herod

Phillips, W. B., How Department Stores are

Carried On 116

Phillpotts, E., The Good Red Earth 180

Phipson, T. L., Researches on the Past and

Physical Culture and Self Defense, Fitzsimmons. 371

Pickaninnies, Kemble I 366

Pictures of Wild Animals, Thompson 357

Pidgin, C. F., Blennerhassett 271, 310,' 334

K$?T^ S S ^^^::::::::::::: S : 3 %

Pierce, C. C , Races of the Philippines 276

Pierson, Alice, Prairie Flower 217

Pigou, A. C., Robert Browning as a Religious

Teacher .. 34O

Philpotts, E., The Striking Hours. ... .344

Places I Have Visited. . . ! . ??6

id Politics 274

e, E. A. See Joyce, J.

mpeii ("Romance and Rome"), Edwards

Pond, J. B., Eccentricities of Genius

Popular Girl (A), Baldwin 375

Poschinger, Margaretha v., Life of the Emperor

Frederick 84

Post, M. D., Dwellers in the Hills 167

Potocka, Countess Anna, Memoirs 56

Pott Holiday Br- 1 -

Pot...
Pottei
Potl ,
Powell, L. P., ed., Hi

ter and the Clay, Peterson . . .232, 364

tery and Porcelain of the U. S., Barber,
'ell, I ~ ....._ .....

Pratt, S. G., Lincoln in Story

Presumption of Stanley Hay (The), Noweth?.*.' 360

Price, E. C., Heiress of the Forest 86

Piichard, Mrs. K. and Hesketh, Karadac, Count

of Gersay 110

Prince of Illusion, Long '103

8^.%ftt%*; Harrison 23 "

Private Life of King Edward 'vii !!:!:.';;:!!!! 65

the Sultan, Dorys 324

Progress of the Century... iei

Prowse, R. O., Voysey , . . 180

Piovencal Lyric, Mctt 337

Puppet Crown, MacGrath ... 161

Puritan and Anglican Studies in Literature,

Dowden 131 371

Pusey, Edward B. See Story of Life.

Putnam's Miscellaneous Books 372

Pythian, E. J., Hist, of Art in the British Isles. 247

$SSSb^:.^::.\ v;;^ 3 2

"Br^adls^LifSsc':: u *:. "ir."" 6 .':. 7 . 8 : If,

RAE. J.. Contemporary Socialism .. 312

Ralph, J., An American With Lord Roberts 116

ed., War's Brighter Side 194

Ralph Marlowe, Naylcr

Rambaud, A., Expansion of Russia

Rand, McNally's Handbook to the Pan-Ameri

can Exposition, etc

Randolph, C. F., Law and Policy of Annexation
Rankin, Reginald. See Subaltern's Letters.
Ravenel, Mrs. Harriott H. R., Life and Times o

William Lowndes of South Carolina

Rawlings, Gertrude B., Story of Books 270

Rawson, Mrs. S., Lady of the Regency

Raymond, Evelyn, Reels and Spindles

Raymond, G. L., Aztec God

Raymond, R. W., Peter Cooi

Rayner, Emma, Doris Kit

Visiting the Sin

Read, O. P., Ii '

Reed, Eleanor C., Battle Invisible

Reed, M., The Spinster Book. .

Reels and Spindles, Raymond

Reeves, I. L., Bamboo Tales

Reid, W. M., Mohawk Valley (The) ;

Religion in Life,
;' '('"Mrs'. ' Clyde")',

Religion in Literatui

Brooke

Remembering Happiei

Cruder

Reminiscences of Oxford, Tuckwell

Repplier, Agnes, The Fireside Sphinx

Revell's New Books

Rhys, E., Readings in Welsh History

Rich, A. B., Our Near Neighbor the Mosqi
Richard Yea-and-Nay, Hewlett

His Writings and
Friends

Right of Way', ' Parker !!!!!!!!!!!!!!.!!!!!
kijnhart, Susie C., With the Tibetans in '

and Temple

Riley, J. W., Riley's Farm-Rhymes

Ritter, J. P., Crossrords of Destiny

Riverside Biographical Series

Robbins, H. See Gunton, G.

Roberts, C. G. D., Appleton's Canadian Gi

Book.,

Roberts, C. M., Treatis

the History of Co

Robertson, M., Masters of Men

Robinson, A. G., The Philippines, the War

the People

Robinson, C. H. Nigeria, Our Last Protecto
Robinson, C. M., Improvement of Towns

Cities.

Robinson, Marg. B., Reporter at Moody's

Robinson, R. E., Sam Level's Boy

Roland de la PlatierefM J. P.* Private 'Me'r
Rolet, Mary F. N., St. Anthony '
Rolfe, W. J., Satchel "

t in Europe.

. ., rvae emors. 20
nthony in Art ........ 360

uide for the Vacation

of "Gilbert Holmes. Kirkman ................

the Renaissance Chateaux, Champney ;

Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century, Beers..

Roosevelt, T., Oliver Cromwell

The Strenuous Life

Ropes, A. and Ma. E., On Peter's Island i

Rcsalynde's Lovers, Thompson

Rose-Growing ("Love-Letters of the King"), Le '

Rotegger, P. K., Forest Sch'o

Rothei

Roj

, W., Go;

._. of Rubaiyat Collectors, Lit. Misc

ng Passion, Van Dyke 300, -

Jullkoetter, W., Legal Protection of Woman

Rupert of Hent;rau, Hope

Ruskin, J., Crown of Wild Olive

Sesame and Lilies :

Ruskin and His Friends, Meynell \

Russell, Annie, in "A Royal Family" i

Russell, C, and Lewis, H. S., The Jew in London. ;

Russell, Lady C, Swallowfield and Its Owners.. :

Russell's (R H.) Holiday Books -.

Rynd, Evelyne E.', Mrs. Green ]

S., D. W., European Settlements in the Far East.
Sachse, Helena V., How to Cook for the Sick

and Convalescent i

INDEX.

Sacred Fount, James 106
Sadlier, Agnes, Jeanne d'Arc 214

Singleton, Esther, Furniture of Our Forefathers.
Sir Christopher, Gocdwin

I'AGK
JI4
141

373

Sailor's Loe, Evans i o i
St. Anthony in Art, Rolet 360
St. John, C, Crimson Weed 118, 142

Richard Calmady, Harrison
Sister Teresa, Moore. .'
Siviter, Anna P., Nehe

St. Nicholas Book of Plays and Operettas 49

Skeat, W. W. (ed. and tr.), Fables and Folk-

Sainte-Foi, C. de, The Perfect Woman '..... 360
Saintsburv,' G., History of Criticism 120, 130
Salathiel under a New Name 241
Sanborn, F. B., Emerson 247, 305
Sanders, E. K., Fenelon, His Friends and His

Skell, Caroline A. J., Travel in the First Cen-
tury After Christ
Skinner, Henrietta D., Heart and Soul
Slade, A. F., Annie Deane
Slattery, C. L., Felix Reville Brunot
Slosson Annie T White Christopher

34'
249
344

III

-7*

III
150

i 17
-\Si

3 JI
*%

37-

Sangster, Mrs. Margaret E. M., Winsome Worn-

Smith, A. W., New Theory of Evolution of the
Principles of Economy etc

Savage, R. H., In the House of His Friends. 130, 168
King's Secret 86
Savonarola. See McHardy, G.
Savory, Isabel, Sportswoman in India 56
Sawyer, F. H., Inhabitants of the Philippines.. 76
Sawyer, Josephine C, Every Inch a King 149
Sawver, Kate H., Miss Penelope's Elopement... 275
Schauffler, A. F., The Teacher, the Child, and
the Book 373
Ways of Working 373

Smith, E. B., The Constitution and Inequality
of Rights

Smith, G. H., Logic

Smith, Helen A., The Thirteen Colonies
Smith, Hopkinson, and "Uncle Tom's Cabin,'

Smith, Vora 'A'.,' The ' Message' of' Fr'oe'bei .' .' !r! '.
Smith, W., Bible Dictionary
Social Life in Washington, Farquhar
Soldier of Virginia, Stevenson
So'merville H Jack Racer ... .

Schuyler, E., Italian Influence 146

Selected Essavs 151

Song of a Heart, Hall

Schwinn, F,, and Stevenson, W. W., Civil Gov- ^

Sonnichsen, A., Ten Months a Captive Among
Filipinos 108

Soulsby, L. H. M., Stray Thoughts on Character
South America Carpenter

Scisco, L. D., Political Nativism in New York 3
State 278

Southern Wild Flowers and Trees, Lounsberry.
Spalding, J. L., Aphorisms and Reflections
Spanish-American War Alger

Scotland Hist of Lang 36

Scott, Sir W., Waverley Novels 140
Scott's "Ivanhoe" Rejected, Lit. Misc 60
Scruggs, W. L., Colombian and Venezuelan Re-

Scudder, H. F..! Tames Russell Lowell . '.'.'. '. '. 366
Sea-Beach at Ebb-Tide. Arnold 204
Seal of Silence, Coi;der 206, 2 6
Seawell, Molly E., House of Egremont 8
Papa Bouchard 322 3 4

Speer, R. E., Situation in China
Spinster Book (The) Reed

Spofford, A. R., Book for All Readers
Squash, Miles. ..

Stadling, J., Through Siberia

Stanley, H. A., The Backwoodsman
Stannard, Mrs. Henrietta E. V., Binks Family..

v>
III

329
84

344
217

Second Century Satirist (A), Sheldon 3 t
Secret Orchard, Castle 324, 342, 3 o
Sedgwick, H. D., Father Hecker i 7.
Seeking for the Light ("Dream of My Youth"),

Stearns, F. P., Four Great Venetians
Steevens, G. W., Things Seen
Steinmann, E., Botticelli
Stephen Calinari. KinMley
Stephen, L., English Utilitarians: Jeremy Ben-
Stephens, R. N.! Captain Ravenshaw . . .
Stephenson, H. T., The Fickle Wheel

Selfe, 10 R. S E r ?Vith n Dante 1V in a paradTs e e. la !. 'A' 3 87
Sentimentalists, Pier 99
Serao, M., Land of Cockayne 249

Sergeant, Adeline, Daunay's Tower 80, 86
Flame in the Socket 310
My Lady's Diamonds 344
Serious Wooing Cr&igie 258 160

Stetson, Mrs. Ctte. P., Concerning Children....
Stevenson, B. E., Soldier of Virginia
Stevenson, R. L., Acs Triplex
Baildon

i
292

3^'Q
360
360

-43
3<.n
36o

146

3ii

340
218

3i-
28

III

311

104

Serviss, G. P., Pleasures of the Telescope .....' 219
Sesame and Lilies, Ruskin 373
Seton-Thompson, E. E. See Thompson, E. E. S
Seventeenth Century Libraries ("Transit of Civ-

Stillman, W. J., Autobiography

Stockton, F. S., Bicycie'of" Cathay! .'!!!!!!!!"!
Stoddard, Eliz., The Morgesons 311,

Seyffcrt, O.,' Diet, of Classical Antiquities, My- ^
thology, etc 218

Stodclard WO 'Lincoln at Work 3 ' *'

Shtcklett, Heermans .. 363

Shadow of a Man, Hornung 107
Shafer, L A, Cup Races 312

Stokes' Calendar and Gift Books

Shakespeare Calendar for 1902, Drexel 37:
Shakespeare, W Complete Works T, 1 1

Stone, Amelia B., Development of Painting in

Sharp, D. L., Wild Life Near Home 298, 359
Sharp. Luke (pseud.) See Barr. R.
Sharp, R. F., Architects of English Literature.. 119
Makers of Music 214

Stone, Ma. A., Development of Painting in the
Sixteenth Century
Story of Alfred the Great, Besant

Shaw, G. B., Three Plays for Puritans 306
Four Plays for Puritans 27

Nineteenth Century Science, Williams
Stowe Mrs Harriet B Stories

Love Among the Artists
She Has Sent for Me and I Go ("Helmet of
Navarre"), Runkle 211
Sheehan, P. A., My New Curate 360
Shelley's Complete Works Woodberry

Strang, L. C., Celebrated Comedies of Light
Opera in America. .

Famous Actors of the Day in America. . .339,
Prima Donnas and Soubrettes of Light Opera

Shelton. Jane de F., Salt-Box House 2;
Sherlock, C. R., Your Uncle Lew 98 149

Streamer, V., comp., Book Titles from Shake-

Shiel, M. P., Man Stealers
Shjnn, Milicent W., Biography of a Baby 26, 37

Streator, M. L., Anglo-American Alliance in
Prophecy :
Stringtown on the Pike Lloyd

Short Story Writing, Barrett 37
Shoulder Straps and Sun Bonnets, Wood 37 s
Shuey, E. L., Factory People and Their Employers 28
Sichel, W., Bolingbroke and His Times.. 177
Sign of the Prophet, Naylor . . 268
Silver, R. N., Daughter of Mystery 2-75
Silver Skull, Crockett . . 202
Singer, I., and others, eds., Jewish Encyclo-
paedia ...238, 2<i

Strong, F., and Schafer, T., Government of the
American People ."

Reiigiou" 5 Movements' for 'Soci'a'f Betterment! !
Strong, R., Where and How to Dine in Paris..
Stuart, Mrs. Ruth McE., Snow-Cap Sisters
Stttrgis, J. R., Stephen Calinari
Subaltern's (A) Letters to His Wife 178,

'fNDEX.

Substi

Succe

Summer Hymnal,

Sutcliffe, H., Mistr

PAGE

for the Saloon, Calkins ............ 262

f Mary the First, Phelps ..........

nal, Moore ......................

Sutphen,' Van ~T./ Nineteenth Hole

Sutton, W. P., Flower of the Tropics

Swan, Myra, Ballast

Sweeting, W. D., Cathedral Church of Ely

Sweven, G., Riallaro, the Archipelago of Exiles. 181

Swift, R., pseud., Nude Souls 24

Swift, J., Selections from the Prose Writings.. 120

Sword and the Centuries, Hutton 166

Sykes, Ella C., Through Persia on a Side-Sad-
dle 34i

TALES by Edgar Allan Poe 373

Tangled Flags, Gunter 15

Tappan, Eva M., England's Story 345

In the Days of William the Conqueror 340

Tapper, T., First Studies in Music Biography... 115

Tarkington, B., Monsieur Beaucaire 138

Tarr, R. S., and McMurry, F. M., Geographies,

178, 346

Tarry Thou Till I Come, Croly 241

Taylor, A. E., Problem of Conduct 182

Taylor, Mary I., Annie Scarlett 344

Tavlor's (J. F.) Gift Books 365

New Books 271

Fiction 365

Teacher, the Child and the Book, Schauffler 373

Telepathy and the Sublime Self, Mason 371

Teller (The), Westcott 363

Temple House, Stoddard 369

Ten Months a Captive Among Filipinos, Son-

nichsen 108, 109

Terhune, Mrs. Mary V. H., Hannah More 56

John Knox 56

Thackeray, W. M., Mr. Brown's Letters to a

Young Man About Town 345

Thaw, A. B., Poems 88

Thayer, J. B., John Marshall 177

Theatre (The) 137

Thomas, W. H., American Negro 89

Thompson, E. Seton-, it., Bird Portraits 152

Lives of the Hunted 357

Pictures of Wild Animals 357

Lit. Misc 254, 356

Thompson, M., Alice of Old Vincennes i

King of Honey Island 105

Milly 118

My Winter Garden 30

Sweetheart Manette 1 18

' iphy of ' 112

Bibliography

(Editorial)

(Verse) 246

Thomson, Clara L., George Eliot 340

Samuel Richardson 115, 337

Thorndike, E., Human Nature Club 120

Umfed States ...??? .'. " . . . . !! ..T. . . . . . ? 87

Historv of the Amer. People 218

Three Hundred and Sixty-five Breakfast Dishes. 341

Three Plays for Puritans, Shaw 306

Thruston, Lucy M., Mistress Brent 331

Thumbnail Series (The) ..... . ; 373

'", Outhwaite 173

Tsao, Lady, Chinese Book of Etiquett

Ti^welF'w',' Reminiscences 'of ' Oxford.'.

Turn of the Road, Frothingham

True Thomas Jefferson (The), Curtis...
Tuttiett, Marg. G., Four-Leaved Clover..
Two Men, Stoddard

UL:

, A., Landmark His

York,

Uncle Terry, Munn :

Under the Redwoods, Harte

Tops'ls and Tents, Brady

Understudies, Wilkins :

Unger, F. W., With "Bobs" and Kruger. . .341, ;
Up and Down the Sands of Gold, Devereux . . . .
United States Catalog

Vachell, H. A., john'charity. '.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'. IT'S', '.

Life and Sport on the Pacific Slope

Valdes, A. P., Fourth Estate

Valencia's Garden, Crowninshield

Van Dwellers, Paine

Vance, A. T., Real David Har

Van Dyke, H., The Ruling Pas

Van Dyke', J. 'C., The Dei
Van Meter, H. H., TrutI

rt... ;..- 346

:h About the Philippine;
. __jt, Bessie and Marie, Bagsby's Daughtei

Dwellers (The), Paine

ible, W. H., Dream of Empir.

E V. (ed.), The Complete Dra

e 18

Works of :

. of Circumstances," Lit. Misc

Victors, 'Barr. .'. 325,

Viller, F., Black Tortoise

Vincent, L. H., Corneille

French Academy

Vivekananda, Swami. My Master 214,

Vivian, H., Abyssinia

Voyage of Ithohal, Arnold

Voynich, Mrs. Ethel L. B., Jack Raymond

WAGE of Character (The), Gordon

Wagner, R., Life of, Henderson

Walker, Charlotte A., Were You Born Under a

Lucky Star?

Walker, W., The Reformation

Ward, H. D., Light of the World

Ward, Mrs. Mary A., Eleanor

Warder, G. W., Cities of the Sun

Warne, F. J.. Anthracite Coal Strike

Warner, C. D., In the Levant

'" Chester

Warwick of the Knobs, Lloyd

Washington, B. T., Up from Slavery
Washington Capital City, Wilson...
Watson, J., Life of the Master

Thvi

Tiddeman. L. E., Celia's Cor

Timrod, H., Poems

Tolstoi Literature, Lit. Misc
Toltec Savior, Gra

juest. . . .

Weale, W. H. J., Hans Memlinc

Weathers. J.. Practical Guide to Garc
Webster, S., Two Treaties of Paris a

Tornlin'i

Short History 'of American Revol ;
Torrey, B., Every Day Bird;

Tory Lover, Tewett 262, 296

Tower of Wye, Babcock 169

Townsend, Mrs. Stephen. Sec Burnett, Mrs.

F. H.

Townsend, E. W., Days Like These 217

Lit. Misc 253

Townsend, M., Asia and Europe 341

Travis, W. J., Practical Golf . . 183

Tree Day at Wellesley ("Wellesley Stories"),

Cook 213

Trees I Have Seen 182

Trench, H., Deirdre Wed ... 277

Tribulations of a Princess 214

Trine, R. W., Every Living Creature 121

Greatest Thing Ever Known 122

Trinity Bells, Barr 365

Tristram of Blent, Hawkins 298, 309

True Natural Grace ("Truth Dexter"), McCall. 113

Webster's International Diction;
Weguelin, H. W., Carnations a

Garden Exhibition .

Weird Orient, Iliowizi

Wellbv, M. S.. 'Twixt Sirdar and Menelik -

Wells," B. W., Modern German Literature i

Wells, D. D., Parlous Times i

\\Y11s, II. G., The First Men in the Moon.. 329, j

Wells, H. P., Fly-Rods and Fly-Tackle i

Wells, W. J., Souvenir of Sir Arthur Sullivan.. <

Wendell, B.. Literary Hist, of America

Were You Born Under a Lucky Star?, Walker, i

Westcott, E. N., The Teller -.

West, B. B.. Edmund Fulleston

Weaterfelt, Harben '. :

Wharton, Mrs. Edith, Crucial Instances. ... 107, i
What Need a Woman Know? ("The Farring-

W heeler,' Mrs. Candace,' Content 'in 'a Card' eii! .' '. ;
When Knighthood Was in Flower

Love Flies Out o' the Window, Merrick. .303, "

the Gates Lift Up Their Heads, Erskine..... i
Land Was Young, McLaws 266,

We Were Twenty-One

Whibley, C., Pageantry of Life

INDEX.

White, H., Quicksand 70
White, P., Grip of the Bookmaker 311
Heart of the Dancer 86
White, R. H., Life and Letters of Gilbert White
of Selborne 214

With "Bobs" and Ki tiger Unger

PAGE

Preble at Tripoli, Otis
the Wild Flowers, Going
Without a Warrant, Brooks
Woman Alone, Clifford
Woman's Book of Sports Paret

109

White S C The Westerners 311

White', S. E., Claim Jumpers 181
White Cottage, Zack 107
Whitman, W., Leaves of Grass 27
Whittier, J. G. See Burton, R.
Wicksteed, P. H., tr., Out Lady's Tumbler 26
Widow and Her Friends (A), Gibson 365

Home Library of Useful Books
Wood, A., Bibliog. of Complete Angler. .
Wood, H., Political Economy of Humane
Symphony of Life
Wood, R. C., Confederate Handbook

'.'.'.'.'.'. 26

'. '. '. '. '. '. 28

ences 140. 239
Wild Life Near Home, Sharp 298, 359
Wildman, E., Aguinaldo 34<>
Wilkins, Ma. E., Understudies 150, 229
Wilkitis, W. H., Love of an Uncrowned Queen. 177

Woodroffe, D., Tangled Trinities
Wooing of Sheila ( The), Rhvs
Woolley, E. C., Reconstruction of Georgia
Worcester, D. C., Philippine Islands and
People.! ..

311

^heir ^
. . 85

Wilkinson, Florence, The Strength of the Hills. 344
Will A S World-Crisis in China 28

Worcester, E., Book of Genesis in the L
Modern Knowledge

ght of

Willard, Josiah Flynt. See Flynt, J.
Willett, A. H., Economic Theory of Risk and

Works on Queen Victoria and Her Reign.
World Beautiful in Books (The), \\hitin
World of Graft Flynt

51
g...... 366

William Hamilton Gibson, Adams 358

Wormeley, Katharine P., The Comedie Hu

maine. 366
3-Day. 116

218

Williams, H. S., Story of Nineteenth Century
Science 73

On the Exercise of Judgment in Literat
Wratislaw T Algernon C Swinburne

Williams, J. F., Harrow 147
Williams! 'Ma. E., and Fisher, Kath. R., Elements
of the Theory and Practice of Cookery 116
Williams, Sarah, comp., Through the Year with
Birds and Poets 27
Williamson, G. C., Cities of Northern Italy 215
Willis. H. P., Historv of the Latin Monetary
Union ' 89
Willoughby, W. F., State Activities in Relation
to Labor in the United States 152
Wilson, Mrs. A. C., Irene Petrie 85
Wilson, E., Cathedrals of France 147
Wilson, T., New Dispensation at the Dawn of
the TWentieth Century 89

Wright, Mrs. Mabel O., Dream Fox Story
Wu Ting-Fang, Causes of the Unpopula
the Foreigner in China
Wyatt, E., Every One His Own Way
Wyckoff, W. A., A Day With a Tramp. . .
Wynne, C. W., Ad Astra

YACHTSMAN'S Annual Guide
Yale, L. M., and Pollak, G., Century Bo
Mothers
Year in the Fields, Burroughs
Yesterdays with Authors, Fields
Yonge, Charlotte Ma

Book. 48

344
88

ok' 'for 3
341, 359
354
44

d"-y I43

Washington the Capital City 329
Winston, G. S., Relation of the Whites to the
Negroes 312

Your Uncle Lew, Sherlock

ZACK, pseud. See Keets, G.
Zangwill, L, Mantle of Elijah

an/" 22

Winter, John Strange, psaud. See Stannard,
Mrs. H. E. V.
Wisdom of Esau, Outhwaite 17?

38o
312
3*7, 381

BOOKS FOR

ABBOT, Alice B., A Frigate's Namesake 380
Alden, Mrs. Isabella M., Mag and Margaret 183
Allen, Phoebe, Jack and Jill's Journey 122
Andersen, H. C., Fairy Tales 377
Appleton's Juveniles 377

THE YOUNG.

Clark, G. O.. Nightmare Land
Clark, Rebecca S., Lucy in Fairyland
Clover, S. T., Paul Traver's Adventures
Coates's Juveniles

Coates. E.. Four Little Indians

379

Ayers, R. F., Animal Folks 380

BALDWIN. J., The Story of Roland 383
The Storv of Siegfried 383
The Story of the Golden Age 383
Bancroft, A.", Royal Rogues 382
Barbour, R. H., Captain of the Crew 377
Baring-Gould, S., Virgin Saints and Martyrs... 89
Bass, Flo., Stories of Pioneer Life 89
Baum, L F., The Master Key 377
Beard, D. C, Jack of All Trades 58
Bell, Adelaide F., The King's Rubies 379
Ben=on Margaret. The Soul of a Cat, and Other
Stories ' 382
Blanchard. \my E., A Heroine of 1812 378
Bland, Mrs. Edith N.. Book of Dragons 28
Bland, Mrs. H., The Wouldbegoods 308
Booth, Mrs. B., Lights of Childland 382
Brine, Mary D., Mother and Baby 380
Brooks, Amy, Jolly Cat Tale 312
Brook, E. S., Animals in Action 381
Under the Allied Flags 183, 381
Brooks, N., First Across the Continent 383
Lem 383
Brown, Abbie F., Lonesomest Doll 312, 384
Brown, Helen D., Her Sixteenth Year 384
Butterworth, H., In the Days of Audubon 377

CALKINS. F. W., My Host the Enemy 382
Castlemon, H., Floating Treasure 370
Cent.urv's Juveniles 380
Channing, Blanche M., Winifred West 378
Charles. L., Fortune Hunters of the Philippines. 28
Chipman, W. P. and C. P., An Aerial Runaway,
347, 38i

Davis, Mrs. M. P E., Taconetta
Dodge, Mrs. M. M., Hsns Brinker
Douglas, M., The Cape and Its History..
in Lionland
Denslow, W. W., Mother Goose
Drvsdale, W., The Young Consul
Dunn, B. A., Battling for Atlanta
From Atlanta to the Sea

EGGLESTON, G. C., Camp Venture
Ellis, E. S., Red Eagle
Ensign, H. L., Lady Lee and Other Anim

FORESTER, F. B., For the Faith
Held to Ransom
In Fair Granada
Fox, Frances M., Farmer Brown and the
Frost, W. H., Fairies and Folk of Ireland

GILDER, Jeannette L., Autobiography of i

38o
380
-IS3, 378
29
312

380
379
al Sto-
347

378
378
378
Birds. 29
58

Girls^ Home Companion 382
Glentworth, Marguerite L., Twentieth Century
Boy * 1 2

Gould, Eliz. L., "Little Women" Play...
Griffis, W. E., In the Mikado's Service..

HALL. Ruth, The Golden Arrow
Hamilton, Gladys Dudley (pseud.) See
worth, M. L.
Hammond, T. W., On Board a Whaler..

:::::: 1%

Gient- 384

382

INDEX.

Hancock, H. I., Aguinaldo's Hostage 29
Havens, H., For the Colors 378
Headland, I. T., The Chinese Boy and Girl 382
Hemstreet, C., The Story of Manhattan 347, 383
Henty, G. A., At the Point of the Bayonet 38
To Herat and Cabul 38
With Roberts to Pretoria 38

RAY, Anna C., Teddy, Her Daughter 378
Reed, Helen L., Brenda's Summer at Rockley... 378
Remy. Jean S., Lives of the Presidents 29
Revell's Juveniles 382
Robinson, Edith, The Captain of the School 378
Roe, Mrs. Nora A. M., Two Little Street Singers. 29
Russell's Juveniles 380
Russell, W., Sea Children 380

Hopwood A The Bunkum Book 38

ST. NICHOLAS 380
St. Nicholas Index 312
Sanderson, E., Hero Patriots of the Nineteenth

Humphrey, Mabel! BrTgh't^Days' 'through ' the 3 *

Hyde, Mary C., Holly-Berry and Mistletoe.... 378
INMAN, H. E., Gobbo-Bobo 382

Saunders, Marg. M., 'Tilda Jane 312

Seawell, Mollv E., Laura Vane and Other Sto- 3 3
ries 378

JACKSON, Mrs. Gabrielle E., The Colburn Prize. 379
Jewett, J. H., Further Adventures of Foxy

Slosson, Annie T., Story-Tell Lib 29
Snyder C M Runaway Robinson 383

Joyce, P P W., Reading Book in Irish History. ... 122

KENYON, W. J., First Years in Handicraft 220
Kingsley, C, The Heroes 380

LANG, A., ed., Animal Story-Book Reader 122
La Rame L de Findelkind . 347

Stoddard, W. O., Jack Morgan 381
Stokes's Juveniles 377
Stratemeyer, E., Between Boer and Briton 29
True to Himself 29

Strong, A , Dear Days 379

Sweetser, Kate D., Ten Boys from Dickens 380
TAPPAN Eva M England's Story 384

Le Feuvre Amy Cherry 382

Leonard, Mary F., The Spectacle Man 378
Little. Brown's Books for Young People 378

In the Days of Alfred the Great 29
Old Ballads in Prose 384

Lovett, Eva, The Billy Stories 379

McELHONE, Nell K., Surprise Book 377
Mackail, J. W., Little Bible 58

Taylor, P.., Boys of Other Countries 382
Studies of Animal Nature 382

Taylor, Sophie C., The Story of a Little Poet.. 378
Taylor's Juveniles 379
Thompson, E. S., Wild Animals Play for Chil-

Tilley" 'Elizabeth ' s'.,' The 'Magic' Key '.'.'.'. '.'. 378
Tomlinson, E. T., Old Fort Schuyler 251
Townesend, S., Thoroughbred Mongrel 376
True, J. P., Morgan's Men 378

VAN BERGEN, R., A Boy of Old Japan 347

WARNE'S Juveniles 383
Wesselhoeft, Lily F., High School Days at Har-
bortown 378

Mardenf 6. S., How They Succeeded 381
Martin, Mrs. Herb., Jock's Ward 29
May, Sophie (pseud.) See Clark, R. S.
Meade, L. T., A Sister of the Red Cross 378
Munroe, K., A Son of Satsuma 383

NELSON'S Books for Young People 358

OBER, F. A., The Last of the Arawaks 378
Otis, J., With Porter in the Essex 378

"PANSY/' Mag and Margaret 381
Parker, W. G., Rival Boy Sportsmen 29
Peary, Mrs Josephine D The Snow Baby 376

Wetmore, C. P., Fighting Under the Southern
Cross 378

Penfield, E., Big Book of Horses and Goats.... 380
Pratt, S. G. (ed.), Lincoln in Story 377
Pyle, Katharine, As the Goose Flies 378

QUICK, H., In the Fairyland of America 377

Wilde's Books for Young People 378
Wilson, C. D., The Story of the Cid for Young
People 347
Wyss, J. R., and Montolieu, J. I. P. Baronne
de, Swiss Family Robinson 29

INDEX TO ADVERTISERS.

Amilon Ella P .. 156 Leo & ShennrH i c

Annual American Catalogue 190
Annual Literary Index 190
Appleton, D., & Co Ja. 2d cov., F. 2d cov.,
Mr. 2d cov., Ap. 2d cov., My. 2d cov., Je.

2d COV., Jl. 2d COV., Ag. 2d COV., S. 2d

Lippincott, J. B Co .282, 375
Little, Brown & Co 93, 127, 157, 285, 319,
349, 354, 366, 378
Lothrop Publishing Co 126, 287, 364, 381
McClure, Phillips & Co 91, Au. 3 cl cov., O.
3d cov., 374, 380
Marlier & Co., Lim 64, 360
Merriam, G. & C., Co 360
Meyer Bros. & Co 63, 156

Barnes, A. S., & Co 184, 356
Bibliographic Publications Ag. 3d cov.
Biddle, Drexel 371, 383

Boone Bibliography 350

Century Co 124, My. 3 d cov., Jl. 4 th cov.,
317, 359, 373, 380, 381
Clark, C. M., Publishing Co .92, 286, 368, 370
Clarke Robert Co 64 350

Pott, Jas., & Co." 354
Putnam's. G. P., Sons 185, 358, 372, 382
Revell, Flemine H., Co 3=17, 370, 382
Robertson AM ' 256 286

Coates, Henry T., & Co 96, 192, Jl. 3d cov.,
313, 369, 379
Crowell, T. Y., & Co 178
Dillingham, G. W., Co 63, 123, 189, 281, 351

Routledge! Geo., & Sons .' i 56
Russell, R. H 365, 366, 380
Saalfield Publishing Co 160, 288
Scribner's, Charles, Sons F. 4 th cov., Mr. 4 th

Harper Bros Mr. 3d cov., 375

4th cov., N. 4th cov., 355,
Sk F d ' k A C T 3S7> 363> 33

Home Publishing Co 32, 92, 95, 158, 221, 318
Houghton, Mifflin & Co. . Ja. 3 d cov., F. 3 d cov.,
94, 125, 159, 186, 224, Ag. 4th cov., 284,
' 3i6, 352, 354, 355, 366, 368, 372, 384
Jamieson-Higgms Co 313, 350

191, 223, S. 3d cov., 320, 351, 360, 361,

Taylor, J F & Co . . .90, 280, 314, 348) 365! 379
Warne, t redenck, & Co 360, 382
Wilde, W. A., Co 122. 373. 378

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VOL. XXII.

JANUARY, 1901.

No. i.

Copvri e ht,1900, by
Harper & Brothora.

IN ITS SHADE.

St. Peter's Umbrella.

KALMAN MIKSRATH, a fellow countryman
01 Maurus Jokai, is known in Europe as the
writer of certain dainty and humorous short
stories, idylls of Magyar folk life, which,
however, have never been translated into
English. It is one of his longer works that
is here presented to the reader, a romance
with a decided flavor of comedy, quaintly
woven out of the legends and superstitions
which so abound in those out-of-the-way
Slovak villages. The most important part in
the story is played by a ragged red um-
brella to which the villagers ascribe mirac-
ulous powers, and which leads the hero a
merry dance in quest of the fortune he be-
lieves it will bring him as, indeed, it does,
though the fortune consists not in gold and
silver, but in the pretty girl who becomes
his wife. The translator has done his work
well ; he has managed to preserve the idio-
matic flavor of the original, and that is al-
ways an achievement. Altogether, though it

is a slight thing, "St. Peter's Umbrella" is
an amusing glimpse into the lives of those
far-off Magyar peasants, a curious people, so
contented among their barren mountains, so
childlike and credulous, and yet in some
ways oddly wise and sly. Translated from
the Hungarian by B. W. Worswick. (Har-
per. $1.50.) Commercial Advertiser.

Alice of Old Vincennes.

WHAT graceful diction, vivid description
and impassioned sentiment in conjunction
with rich historical and imaginative mate-
rials can do for a novel has been done in
"Alice of Old Vincennes," by Maurice
Thompson. It is a historical novel of the
Northwestern Territory of America a hun-
dred and twenty years ago. The scene is laid
at Vincennes, on the banks of the Wabash.
A beautiful, plucky heroine with a charming
if also tantalizing mysterv about her birth, a
picturesque priest who is also an accom-
plished man of the world, a successful trader

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[January, 1901

with the Indians, a few Indians and several
British soldiers of contrasting types, are the
leading actors in the narrative, and the ac-
count of their doings is wildly exciting and
very instructive as a picture of the times.
Mr. Thompson finds good in even the most
villanous old Indians. He pictures them in
all their repulsiveness, and then makes the
beauty of their natural traits challenge the
reader's admiration. There are few women
characters in the book, and those few are
well presented; but when the author wishes
to reveal human motives he does it best in his
men characters. One charm of the novel is
in the gems of thought and of description scat-
tered all along the narrative, while the dic-
tion is always distinguished for its graceful
appropriateness. (Bowen-Merrill Co. $1.50.)
The Beacon.

Oliver Cromwell.

MR. MORLEY simply designated his life of
Oliver Cromwell as a sketch. Many critics
have seen in it more than a biography, in
fact, a history, being a faithful picture of the
conditions of the Cromwellian period, the
causes which led up to the Protectorate and
the influences which it transmitted to future
generations in Great Britain. It is said that
Mr. Morley wrote his life of Cromwell for
the purpose of finding relaxation from his
task of putting together the monumental
Gladstone biography. He had long been
known as one of the most cultured members
of the House of Commons, and as editor of
The Fortnightly Review he proved himself
a man of many and varied achievements not
only in politics, but in the more serious de-
partments of history and biography. He had

already written "Edmund Burke," "Rous-
seau," and "Voltaire," which not only placed
him in the front rank of English biographers,
but caused him to be regarded on the Con-
tinent as a conscientious student of French
history. It is said to have been the success
of these books which moved the editor of
The Century to request Mr. Morley to under-
take the life of Cromwell several years ago.
After its first announcement in August, 1899,
it was awaited with considerable expectation
until its appearance in the following Novem-
ber as a serial in the magazine. (Century
Co. $3.50.) AT. Y. Times Saturday Review.

er Cromwell," by John Morley. Copyright, 1900,
by The Century Co.

SIR HARRY VANE.

The Literary History of America.

A FEw'weeks ago we discussed, in the light
of Mr. Stedman's "American Anthology," the
single century of literary activity that has
produced practically all of the poetry that
we cherish as our American national posses-
sion. It is to the larger subject of our en-
tire literature, now that three full centuries
of its course have been rounded, that atten-
tion is directed by the present discussion, for
which occasion has been furnished by the ap-
pearance of Professor Barrett Wendell's
"Literary History of America." The plan of
the series of literary histories for which this
work has been written, and of which it is
much the most important volume thus far
published, calls for far more than a collection
of biographies, bibliographical annals, and
critical commentaries. It calls, indeed, for a
history no less faithful to the service of Clio
than the histories whose titles are modified
by no qualifying adjective; but it calls at the
same time for a shifting of the point of view
that will bring literature, rather than politics
or strategics, into the foreground. Such a
treatment of English history has been at-
tempted by the distinguished French scholar,
M. Jusserand; such a treatment of American
history is now given us by Professor Wen-
dell. .It is only when discussed from this
standpoint that American literature is given
its full significance, for its absolute aesthetic
value could well be greater than that which
it has for the interpretation of the national
development, or for the appeal which it makes
to the national consciousness.

"The literary history of America," says the
author, 'is the story, under new conditions,
of those ideals which a common language has
compelled America, almost unawares, to
share with England."

We have never seen a better statement than
is now given us by Professor Wendell of the
indissoluble unity of English and American lit-

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erary expression. . . . It is in this spirit
that Professor Wendell has dealt with the
three completed centuries of American litera-
ture, not minimizing the individual peculiari-
ties of writers or the special characteristics of
groups, nor failing to recognize Americanism
as a trait where it really exists, but keeping
ever in mind the correlations of English and

analysis of our literary past. It remains to
add that he has produced incomparably the
best history of American literature thus far
written by anybody, a history that is search-
ing in its method and profound in its judg-
ments, on the one hand, and, on the other,
singularly attractive in the manner of its
presentation. .(Scribner. $3.) The Dial.

American history, and the fundamental unity
of the two peoples as expressed in their in-
stitutions, their laws, their social and ethical
outlook. . . .

This line of thought may be pursued down
into the history of our literature during a
considerable part of the century just ending,
and it was not until we had a great national
experience of our own that we produced a
body of literature not closely associated with
the earlier types of literature in our ancestral
home. Up to the mid-century period when
our literature first allied itself with a burning
national issue, and became more distinctly
American than it ever could have been be-
fore, there continued to be reversions to man-
ners and forms of expression that were long
outworn in England. Space forbids us to
continue the subject any farther, but enough
has been said to show how fruitful a formula
has been applied by Professor Wendell to the

Fuller's "The Last Refuge."

AT times in the vast mass of literary pro-
duction there appears a notable effort, one
possessing the qualities of long life, pro-
found reflection, and intense art. Such a
work is this of Mr. Fuller. So elusive is the
beauty, so delicate the modeling, so infinite-
ly sweet, subdued, and tender tjhe shading
and conception, that the flavor escapes us and
we can do no more than describe the book in
inadequate generalities. "The Last Refuge,"
is that ideal which every human heart builds
for itself and strives to attain "a wood be-
yond the world." "the isles of the blest,"
Shelley's "ivory palace in the midst of the
crystal sea." The tale of the search and the
searchers brings before us the various types
and molds of thought cast by bitter sorrow
and anguished longing after the unattainable.

As a work of art and weighed solely for
its felicity, grace, and import, the book stands

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[January, 1901

in 4 Co.

THE "CONSTITUTION."

almost alone, a glittering dust of golden
speech and a " riot of sweet sounds." Greece,
Rome, Italy, atmosphere and soul, are re-
incarnated and placed pulsing before the eyes.
The spirit is that of some old tapestry with
forms to match, a page from a new "Arabian
Nights," a scene from a tragedy, sweet and
quaint, or, if you will, a Watteau thing, with
depth of soul unknown to Watteau. All this
is blended with a wizard's skill and woven in
cloth of gold. The book will probably have
no general popularity, but it can disappoint
none and will give joy to many. (Houghton,
Mifflin & Co. $1.50.) Public Opinion.

The Half-Hearted.

To say that Mr. John Buchan's novel,
"The Half-Hearted," is a "psychological
study," would be to arouse in the breasts
of many novel readers a dark, but unfounded
suspicion; to describe it as a splendid story
of adventure would be paying tribute to but
a part of its sterling merit, for it is a book
far above the average, out of the common in
conception, and very well written. English-
men have been warning each other for some
time against possible dangers at home and
abroad, and this novel, whether that danger
be imaginary or not, will probably be taken
into consideraton as one of the ablest ef-
forts in this direction, whatever be the need
of its cry. But it will hold the attention of
readers on this side of the Atlantic as well,
for, apart from its purpose, it tells an ex-
cellent story, well bred in its early chapters,

with the stamp of the true breeding of the
English upper classes, remarkable for its
descriptions of the Scotch country, while in
its closing episode it tells as vivid a tale of
intrigue and adventure as we have seen in
many a day, closing with a critical episode
in the history of England in India a bit of
prophesy and phantasy that is based so firmly
upon present-day political possibilities that
it may well be accepted as true.

The hero of this story is the "half-hearted"
man of the title. Over-educated, the last of
a long line, with a face "keen, kindly, hu-
rnorous, cultured, with strong lines ending
weakly, over-bred, fine and finical," he
lacks self-confidence, initiative, independent
strength. He will do his duty when led to
it, but is unable to see it, to seek it. Thus he
loses the seat in Parliament for which he
stands, and the girl he loves ; thus he is
overmatched in the struggle with th^ crafty
Russian agent in the hill country on the
northern frontier of India, whither he has
gone to serve his people in an unofficial ca-
pacity, to be honored if he succeeds, denied
if he fails. He has visited the region in the
days of his youth, for the sake of sport, has
even written a book about it. And this is
deemed sufficient qualification for his more
serious mission, for England has no secret
service men in the guise of scientific explor-
ers as Russia has.

Mr. Buchan touches upon many things that
are dealt with time and again in contem-
porary English novels an aristocracy still
holding in its hands the reins of government,
but no longer able to serve it as it has done
in the past; a different class of men social
parvenus, men of uncouth manners, mere
clever, self-seeking adventurers or true pa-
triots, pushing to the front to take froTi them
the burdens and the honors of the mighty
empire's high places we have met them be-
fore in many stories, but this author pre-
sents still another view of the revolution that
has been going on for many years, the view
of an intelligent spectator, who looks below
the surface, and traces general movements
to the individual units that produce them,
and the mental, and even physical, causes
underlying them. Therefore, his characters
are less individuals than types. They will be
remembered less for themselves, than for
what they represent, a nation that, notwith-
standing recent humiliations, still is the
greatest empire of the modern world, with
the strength within it unimpared, notwith-
standing vacillation and passive drift of pol-
icy, to rise at the critical moment and assert

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its supremacy, as it does in the "half-hearted"
gentleman of this story, whom Mr. Buchan
presents as the type of its old-time well-
born leaders. (Houghton, Mifflin & Co.
$1.50.) Mail and Express.

African Nights Entertainments.
. FOR the present the scene in which Mr. A.
J. Dawson places his short stories, "African
Nights Entertainments," namely Morocco
and the West Coast of Africa, has the merit
of being fairly novel. That merit it will not
have long, we fear, for no fewer than three
long romances have come to our notice with-
in a fortnight whose authors have picked
out the Morocco of the past or of the present
as a place where their fancy might roam in
safety, with no check of accurate knowledge
on the part of their readers.. Mr. Dawson,
however, has seen a good deal of the country
along the coast and of the queer jetsam from
Europe that drifts to it. His stories about
them and the Moorish people with whom
they come in contact are therefore entertain-
ing, though not always pleasant, and usually
forcible. To be sure he drops into incon-
gruous English once in a while and the ex-
cellent models he follows are hardly con-
cealed. The Moorish judgment carried out
by Prince Djalmak on a very bad Jew in
London recalls to mind at once the doings of
Prince Florizel, and in the very title,
"Out Past the City Gates," suggests
Mr. Kipling. It is only the Kipling
of the "Gadsbys" and the loves that
step over the bounds of race, how-
ever, of whom any trace will be
found. If the reader begins one of
Mr. Dawson's stories he will, never-
theless, pass over these flaws and
read to the end. It was unavoid-
able, perhaps, in a part of the world
where civilization has merely a foot-
hold that there should be entangle-
ments between persons of different
color.

Miscegation plays a great part in
the story Mr. Dawson tells of the
treatment of Oscar Brierly. That
impressionable young man of high
moral purpose on reaching Lagos,
whither his commercial house had
sent him, undertook to console a
young English woman who had mar-
ried a black man in Liverpool. The
latter had been admitted to the bar
in England and was the leading
lawyer in Lagos, but brutal and jeal-
ous. Brierly's friends to avert blood-

shed filled the young man up with drink
and sent him off to a friendly chief in
the back country, but the chief had a
pretty daughter whom the impressionable
youth fell in love with, and just as. a
scheme to get him transferred was going
to be carried out he married the black
princess and was sent to Old Calabar, where
the few whites will have nothing to do with
him and where he is likely to stay forever.
Another young Englishman who went to the
Oil rivers was more lucky. He fell in love
with an Accra princess and asked her to
marry him. But she loved him and when
she saw that he understood the mistake he
had made she sold herself to a Moorish
trader and was taken far away. There are
plenty of stories about Moors, in and out of
Morocco, as well as of the Europeans who
live in their land, in Mr. Dawson's book,
stories both savage and sentimental, and they
are all well worth reading. This adds a
specially excellent one to the long list of
books that have made the East almost as
familiar as our own land to those who have
read faithfully the many works of history
and fiction published during the past few
years. It has become true that almost every-
thing can be learned from faithful fiction
reading. (Dodd, Mead & Co. $1.50.) N.
Y. Sun.

Published Dy H
A PASSION AND ITS DIFFICULTIES.

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[January, 1901

The Century Book of the American Colonies.

UNCLE TOM DUNLAP and his peripatetic
party of nephews and nieces, intent on ab-
sorbing American history on the various
spots where it had its birth, have become a
veritable institution, and young folks with
a taste for serious reading would probably re-
gard 1900 as "an off year" if it failed to
bring forth a new book in this popular se-
ries. "The Century Book of the American
Colonies, "by Elbridge S. Brooks, is the fourth
and one of the most interesting of the
author's volumes in which the pill of histori-
cal fact is sugared with the story of a holi-
day pilgrimage personally conducted by a
sprightly and well-equipped instructor. A
wide field is covered in the present work,
the trips, talks, and pictorial illustrations
ranging from New Orleans and Florida to
New York and the New England coast as
far north as the State of Maine, and dealing
with the physical hardships, military strug-
gles, religious persecutions and political revo-
lutions that marked the settlement and
growth on American soil of communities of
Spaniards, Britons, Frenchmen, Hollanders,
etc., with the ultimate triumph of English
institutions. Mr. Brooks deserves well of
Young America. (Century Co. Decorative
cover design by T. Guernsey Moore. 9^4 x
7J4 inches. $1.50.)

Foes in Law.

"FOES IN LAW" shows that its author can
be herself again on occasions, at least more
than at one time seemed probable. This
stjory is almost a relapse into the early man-
ner that, in the late sixties or the early seven--
ties, kept a large number of novel-reader*
amused and interested. The use or abuse
of the present tense, so vapid in other writers,
was somehow redeemed by Miss Broughton's
handling. It suited her brisk description and
action. The new story has more than a mere
remnant of the vivacity and sprightliness be-
longing to the old days. The characters are
all natural and unstrained, or but little ex-
aggerated. The sisters-in-law, Mrs. and Miss
Trent, are a well-contrasted pair of "mutual
scourges." Miss Trent has to bear the very
sudden invasion of her brother's and her own
home by his relatives in law. She is young,
but with a vein of primness, and if the part
she plays is ungrateful, it is not altogether
inexcusable while human nature is what it is.
The members of the family in law are loud
and numerous, "trying" invaders and in-
mates, especially from the point of view of
the invaded. But they are rather fascinating
to read about, and their happy-go-lucky at-
titude towards life is piquant. The dialogue
is pointed, and the people are drawn with
originality. (Macmillan. $1.50). Athenaeum.

From "The Century Book of the American Colonies."

SITE OF WATCH-HOUSE, PLYMOUTH.

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From Fiske's " Old Virginia

POCAHONTAS.

Mountain Playmates.

FOR the first eleven chapters this book ap-
pears to belong to the large and increasing
class of literature prompted solely by what
an English writer has recently called "the
cult of the county." It is to chronicle
two townspeople's doings upon an abandoned
farm in the White Mountain region, and is
told with the gusto that goes with a first
time, a novel experiment, and a self-con-
scious abandonment to unconventional life.
Everything is in the nature of a surprise
the primitive methods of the rural shop-
keepers, the bald and dreary aspect of New
Hampshire farmhouses, the dangers of a
wasps' nest, the pleasures of blueberrying,
the resemblance of bird notes to human lan-
guage, the whole Summer pageant seen with
unaccustomed eyes. A certain loquacity and
tendency to moralize mar the style of the
writer, whose frank egoism is not offensive,
but who lacks the simple and inexhaustible
passion for the kind earth and the beauty
thereof by which such nature lovers as Will-
iam Morris was, have been inspired. There
are hints throughout, however, which show
kinship with Morris on the side of his most

remarkable quality his joy, that is, in work-
ing with his hands. The author not only
luxuriates in planning but in creating her
home. She hesitates neither to take the job
of shingling the house out of the hands of the
workmen, nor to burn over the grass lands,
nor to do genuine woodsman's work in the
forest. She cornes near realizing the Morris
ideal, in fact, of the workman who takes the
same pleasure in his handiwork, however
humble, that an artist takes in his art. And
the twelfth chapter proves her title to fel-
lowship with the great Kelmscott Company.
It is called "The Enchanted Rug," which
rug turns out to be the native "hooked" rug
of New England transformed by the taste
and somewhat hastily acquired skill of the au-
thor into a handsomely designed and col-
ored carpeting, "hooked" by the villagers,
and attracting the attention of art loving ur-
banites.

After a number of summers in their chosen
region, the "Playmates," as they dubbed
themselves, decided to try a winter in the
counttry. The value of the author's report
concerning its charm may possibly be affected
by her warmth of heart, or even more by her

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[January, 1901

warmth of blood, but her personal impres-
sion prompts her to "boom" her little corner
of New Hampshire with all the ardor of a
Western pioneer. "I believe the time will
come," she says, "when invalids will seek this
region because of its equable, moderate tem-
perature. I know nothing equal to it elsewhere,
for, though there are other places that are
milder, this advantage 'is offset by an excess of
rain and cloudy weather. Those places which
have, perhaps, as many clear days, suffer
either extreme cold or drought. This cli-
mate combines the blandness of New York
City with the clear, invigorating weather of
the Northwest." "I presume," she wisely
adds, "this condition does not exist through-
out the State, as our situation is peculiarly
favorable, in that the mountains and foothills
of Maine on the east shelter us from the
dreaded coast storms, and the Sandwich and
White Mountain ranges on the north and west
cut off the inland storms and cold waves that
are bred in the lake region and Canada, so
that in our vicinity we have only our own
weather to contend with."

It will probably be many a year before
New Hampshire has a historian at once so
gifted and so devoted as old Hampshire had
in the great Gilbert White, but when he
comes he will have no difficulty in finding
an intervale that will amply repay his study,
and may be made a blossom like the rose upon
the pages of a natural history. In the mean-
time such forerunners as Mrs. Albee are
making the public acquainted with the ad-
vantages of the rugged little State as a place
in which to lead "an idyllic life in isolated
retirement, where there is light and space
enough for the soul to expand." (Houghton,
M. $1.50.) N. Y. Times Saturday Review.

The Courtesy Dame.

LORD BOSTERN, doomed by inherited dis-
ease to early death, opens up the story of R.
Murray Gilchrist's "The Courtesy Dame" by
running away with the ill-used stepdaughter
of a publican. Anne Witchett, a yellow-
haired, blue-eyed beauty of the Peak Coun-
try, a hoiden of sixteen, with the Derbyshire
dialect strong on her lips and the spirit of
rebellion strong in her heart, had just roused
herself to the pitch of fleeing from her cruel
stepfather when Lord Bostern is brought by
accident on the stage of her little tragedy.
He saves the situation for she was prepar-
ing to be off with an unromantic butter-
huckster by carrying her away in his car-
riage, and she passes straight into his life
and into the recesses of this story. It is a

good story; there is a swing in it, and a cer-
tain artistic touch in the manner of telling
it, part of which manner has come from the
reading and assimilation of excellent living
masters of fiction. Anne Witchett is the
"courtesy dame" a pretty title in itself,
which seems to suit the pretty Derbyshire
hoiden, who in three years becomes a be-
witching siren under the chivalrous care of
the moribund lord. The sting of the title
scarcely applies to her the women go on
saying that it does, but the men look in her
eyes and know better. She is charmingly
drawn, and so is poor Lord Bostern. There
is a whole love story between the two, deli-
cately handled and very pathetic in partsu
It is not the only love story in this book, and
we have not so much as entered on the plot,
which is perhaps a little too elaborate to sort
with the natural human play of the narrative.
(Dodd, Mead & Co. $1.50.) Athenaeum.

The Fourth Generation.

SIR WALTER BESANT returns in his latest
novel to a theme with which he has already
made his readers familiar, the effect of
heredity on the lives of "the third and fourth
generations." But Sir Walter treats his sub-
ject a little more hopefully than it has been
treated by the author of "Ghosts," and many
another morbid romancer and dramatist of
the day. He quotes for us "a very fine pas-
sage" from "one of the finest writers pos-
sible," Ezekiel to wit, on the subject of chil-
dren's teeth being set on edge: "As I live,
saith the Lord God, ye shall not use this
proverb any more. Behold, all souls are
mine: as the soul of the father, so also the
soul of the son is mine. The soul that sin-
neth, it shall die. But if a man be just, he
shall surely live." These words give cour-
age to the hero of "The Fourth Generation"
when he finds himself caught in the toils of a
grim family history. The central figure of
the story is very striking, a white-bearded
English squire of ninety-five, six feet four
in height, who was smitten seventy years
ago by a torpedo-stroke of calamity from
which he never recovered. He neglected his
children, his place went to rack and ruin, he
refused to speak, but his agents nursed his
property until he was worth over a million,
so that three generations of descendants
were constantly working sums in simple in-
terest which they called compound to dis-
cover how much the old man would cut up
for. One of them was a Board School
teacher, but she also worked out many thou-
sands of sums at the bidding of a greedy

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relative, ignorant of the fact (we do not
suggest that Sir Walter is ignorant of it)
that algebra provides a means of approximat-
ing to the value of the accumulations in about
five minutes. The hero
was a proper and an in-
nocent young man, who
had been brought up in
ignorance of the family
skeletons; but suddenly
in the course of a few
days, with all the dra-
matic artificiality of the
Book of Job, whole cup-
boardfuls of skeletons
were let loose on him
"poor relations, family
scandals, and humilia-
tions and all" until
nothing by the prophet
Ezekiel and the compan-
ionship of a nice young
woman could have saved
him from despair. The
plot is elaborated in Sir
Walter Besant's accus-
tomed and attractive
way. It is full of inci-
dent and characteriza-
tion; there is much that
would not have been
likely to happen in ac-
tual life; but it all holds
the attention, and the
reader will follow the
various turns of tte
story with keen interest
to the end. (Stokes.
$1.50.) The Athenaeum.

In the Name of a Woman.

ARTHUR W. MARCH-
MONT has established his
position with the reading
world by the spirited
stories entitled "By
Right of Sword" and SHE FI:

"A Dash for a Throne," and his new ro-
mance "In the Name of a Woman" falls short
of his former successes in no iota of fire,
plot and smooth English. Roumania is the
scene and intrigues and counter intrigues be-
tween the ruler of that suffering land and
the secret servants of the Russian tyrants
make a story that is bewildering in its wealth
of incident and full of the romance of rest-
less lovers.

The hero finds himself in Roumania, en-
trusted with an English political mission to

counteract the bold political schemes of Rus-
sia. He meets two women who both make
him do much thinking and feeling. Battle,
murder and sudden death fill the pages that

TWO SHOTS IN RAPID SUCCESSION.

tell of the unquiet hours of the sovereign
that sits temporarily upon the Minor Throne
of an Austrian dependency, but the end is a
cheerful picture of a sunny English home
conquered after the hero has done many
brave deeds in the name of a woman.

"All is warmth, peace, love and rest
in my English life now; and as I glance at
my dear ones, I thank Heaven with fervent
gratitude that they are not destined to aspire
to the dangerous splendor and evanescent
glory of a Minor Throne." f Stokes, $1.50.)

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[January, 1901

a ^*Co. C Pyri * ht
STOPPING AT A PUMP THAT STOOD THERE.

The Gateless Barrier.

ONE of the most effective ghost stories
that have ever been written is "The Gateless
Barrier," by Lucas Malet. The author in
real life Mrs. St. Leger Harrison, daughter
of Charles Kingsley in this novel shows that
she has inherited a rich measure of her fath-
er's talent for portraying the aspirations of
the human soul tor a large, complete life.
The hero is an irreproachable young Eng-
lishman, Lawrence, who though seemingly
possessed of everything heart can wish
wealth, talent, and a wife whom he con-
siders perfect in her place is conscious that
the best in him has never been given out to
the world. He feels that he has not written
the best that he can, has perhaps not even
given the best love of which he is capable.
He is called to the deathbed of his uncle
in England, and while in the uncle's home,
soon to become his own, he meets and falls
in love with the ghost of the house. This
mere clew by no means reveals the clever,
original plot. That involves the question
of the re-embodiment of souls on earth after
death. One of the most impressive scenes
in the story is that showing the hero as he
watches a procession of forms sweep by him,
picturing the myriad bodies in which his
soul has previously lived. The heroine's
great love made her reject the life for which
she was destined and return to her old

haunts in search of her lost love. Him she
finds in Lawrence the reader must turn to
the book itself in order to enjoy the story.
Its originality, its delicate turns of thought
and exquisite portrayal of real, complete
love, the love that loves "with all the pas-
sions of the unstable flesh, as well as the
pure and immutable passion of the soul,"
can be comprehended only by reading the
book itself. The plot, sublime and strong as
it is, is as nothing without the author's in-
imitable clothing upon of description, char-
acter portrayal and majestic leading up to
the superb climax. The book stirs the soul
with highest longings. It thrills the blood
with the true ghost atmosphere. If the
reader wants an entirely new, powerful com-
bination of sensations, he will find it by perus-
ing this book. (Dodd, Mead & Co. $1.50.)
The Beacon.

Battling for Atlanta.

THE third volume . in The Young Ken-
tuckians Series is "Battling for Atlanta."
The former volumes, "General Nelson's
Scout" and "On General Thomas? Staff,"
Inter-Ocean readers have thoroughly en-
joyed. The first tale of the series introduces
the reader to the discordant conditions in
Kentucky in 1860 and '61. The second car-
ries the young hero to Corinth, Stone River,
Chickamauga, Lookout Mountain and Mis-
sionary Ridge, while this, the third/, gives
details of the brilliant campaign in which the
Union forces under General Sherman en-
countered the Confederate forces, command-
ed at first by General Joseph E. Johnston,
and later by General Hood. At the time
Fred Shackelford, a mere youth in "General
Nelson's Scout," and only a little older "On
General Thomas' Staff," is now a young man
of 21, and, fitly enough, an affair of the
heart, in which a charming daughter of the
Confederacy is the party of the second part,
cuts a considerable figure in the present vol-
ume. Clean, wholesome, hopeful, glorify-
ing the victories of the boys in blue, yet ap-
preciating the courage of their foes, this new
volume is sure of a welcome from young and
old.

The plan of the author is to set forth the
historical facts with accuracy as a frame-
work for each story, and then in addition
make the wonderful incidents, accidents, and
escapes so true to the actual life at the time
as to seem real. Every old veteran in either
army knows that the best romance was never
more thrilling and exciting than the stories

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of real happenings told about the camp fires
during those perilous days. The movements
of the armies, the maneuvering, the skir-
mishing, are all pictured with rare fidelity.
The old veteran will enjoy it as much as will
the younger members of his household, for it
will recall memories that will live with him
to the longest day of his life. The hero's
daring nights through Georgia, pursued by
bloodhounds, and the horrors of Anderson-
ville are not overdrawn, for even more tragic
events were every week being enacted, and
were discussed in common talk, as the men
smoked their briar woods about camp fires,
or rested in their tents. The gray-haired
veterans could not select more charming re-
minders of the days gone by for the home-
reading circle than this book and the others
of the series. In addition to the spirited,
well-told text, the book is more than usually
handsomely illustrated. Every picture tells
its story, and tells it artistically and point-
edly. The volume is written in no vindici-
tive and hateful mood to the brave men of
the Confederacy, and those once enemies,
now friends, will enjoy its stirring chapters.
(McClurg. $1.25.) Chicago Inter-Ocean.

South America.

FRANK G. CARPENTER, the author of this
book, is the widely travelled journalist whose
letters from many lands are familiar to every
newspaper reader. On his South American
trip, the results of which are here set forth,
Mr. Carpenter travelled 25,000 miles, start-
ing from Panama, going down the Pacific
coast, returning by the Atlantic Ocean, and
ending his journey in Venezuela. The chap-
ters are freshly written descriptions of scraps
of the journalist's observations. There is
not a page in the book that is not thoroughly
readable, informing, and interesting, but no
one subject receives more than the most
hasty reference. This, we know, is all that
the author could give within the scope of
his book, but it seems a pity that his sltore
of information could not be utilized so that
we should know all there is to know about
some one subject.

Of the Indians of various localities, Mr.
Carpenter has taken particular note. Of the
Indians of Ecuador he has a good deal to say,
and one interesting piece of information is
that relating to the Jivaros tribe, whose prin-
cipal industry is the ingenious curing of
human heads, the bones being removed, and
the skin shrunk to about one-fourth of the
normal size without destroying the general

appearance of the living original. The Arau-
canian Indians, once the possessors of Chile,
have a chapter to themselves, and they de-
serve it, because of the peculiarity of their
customs, among which their treatment of the
dead is most singular. When a member of a
family dies, the body is not hurriedly buried
in the ground where the departed would be-
come lonesome. It is kept about the house,
the family talking to it as though it were
alive, but gradually paying less and less at-
tention to it until it is thought that the dead
has been "weaned," so to say, from his ma-
terial surroundings, and the body is then
buried. In the three unusually interesting
chapters on the "tail end" of our hemisphere
there are two more interesting bits of infor-
mation regarding aborigines. The Alacalufs
of Smyth's channel, we are td(ld, have no
chiefs or tribal relations of any kind what-
ever, the only organization being by families.
This is an extremely rare condition of things,
and we hope that Mr. Carpenter is sure of his
facts. In these same chapters a number of
the most revered traditions of the school
geographies are destroyed. Tierra del Fue-
go is not a land of snow and ice, but a well-
wooded country with plenty of grass for its
sheep and cattle, and a climate like that of
northern Europe. Moreover, the Onas In-
dians, the Patagonian giants of the geogra-
phies, are men of ordinary size, averaging
only about six feet.

Besides his running descriptions of the peo-
ple, manners, customs, Mr. Carpenter usually
throws in a few paragraphs of industrial in-
formation. (Saalfield. $3.) Public Opinion.

From Herford's " Overheard in a Garden."
THE TULIP AND THE ROSE.

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[January, 1901

and Arlette's son William as his heir. The
author relates in a vivid manner the story of
William's boyhood, his capture of Falaise, his
campaigns against the rebels in his domain,
and finally his conquest of England, by which
he changed his name from William the Bas-
tard to William the Conqueror. The rest of
the book deals with the history of the great
fair, the chateau of Falaise and the Falaise
of to-day. The fair was established by Rob-
ert in the eleventh century, and is still held.
The chateau of Falaise, first mentioned in
the ninth century, has passed through many
changes. The dramatic events which took
place in it and the famous people who lived
in it make it a fascinating goal for the' trav-
eller. As for the Falaise of to-day, it con-
tains some modern streets, one named after
Victor Hugo; several squares, and the two
charming churches Sainte Trinite and Saint
Gervais. There are also several new cha-
teaus and other signs of modern times. Mrs.
Dodd's pleasant little book contains several
illustrations from photographs. (Little,
Brown & Co. $2.) N. Y. Tribune.

From " Brethren of the Coant." Copyright, 1900, by Charles Scribner's Sons.
HIS COURAGE DID NOT FAIL.

Falaise, the Town of the Conqueror.

MRS. DODD tells us, first of all, of a ride
across the Caen plains in a charabanc. We
get glimpses of the roadside; reflections on
the disappearance of classical poses and other
charming things among milkmaids; a glance
at several Beaux Arts students from Illinois,
who go chattering by on their bicycles; oc-
casional breaths of air. flashes of color, and
suddenly the chateau of Falaise. This part
of the book is written in a sprightly and pic-
turesque manner. Movement and musing are
jumbled together in an irrelevant and some-
what incongruous way; but this is a natural
part of Mrs. Dodd's vivacity of style. She
indulges in rather violent contrasts at times,
and has no scruple about intruding modern
figures into mediaeval scenes, or about dove-
tailing poetry with prose, as, for example,
"Only the stars and a few trembling gas jets
below them were lighting the town."

Once in Falaise Mrs. Dodd settles down to
tell the "story of Arlette." Arlette had "a
girlish, graceful figure," and "eyes lucent
with goodness" that met the eyes of Robert,
Count d'Hiemes. Robert became Duke of
Normandy and at his death proclaimed his

Richard Yea-and-Nay.

IT was reserved for Maurice Hewlett, with
his miracle-working pen, to make one living,
breathing man of the two shadowy images
of Richard the Lion-Hearted that have long
flitted before the popular fancy; the Richard
of legend and romance, the troubadour, the
j ouster, the spotless crusading knight, and the
Richard of history, the treacherous son, the
faithless husband, the worthless king, who
uttered but one English word in all his life,
and that a curse ; who spent but six months in
his English kingdom, and those to ravage it
with fire and sword. "Of him, therefore,
torn by two natures, cast in two molds, sport
of two fates; the hymned and reviled, the
loved and loathed, spendthrift and miser,
king and beggar, bond and free, god and
man ; of King Richard Yea-and-Nay, so made,
so called, and by that unmade, I thus prepare
my account." With these words Mr. Hew-
lett begins his remarkable romance, which,
after all, is less romance than medieval real-
ism. For he throws no glamour over the
savagery of men and their evil deeds in
those dark days ; even the crusader's holy ar-
mor cannot hide his black heart. The story
of the dual nature and the dual life of Rich-
ard is told in two parts: The Book of Yea
and The Book of Nay. The first records his
doings in France prior to his crusade, his
quarrels with his father, with the Count of
Toulouse and Philip, King of France; his

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repudiation of Philip's sister, Alois; his fa-
ther's death, his own coronation, and his be-
trothal to Berengere of Navarre. In the
second we follow his crusade, his dealings
with Philip, with Tancred of Sicily, with
Saladin. with Conrad of Montferrat, his pil-
grimage on foot to Vienna, his imprisonment
and ransom, his second coronation, and his
five years' war with Philip. Through it all
runs the story of his love for Jehane, the
"rose of Picardy." Mr. Hewlett has grouped
with wonderful skill the incidents whose value
is chiefly historical, and dwelt upon those
that are vital to the dramatic unfolding of the
story. If he has taken some liberties in
shifting elates, as he has, notjably that of the
repudiation of Alois, it has been only be-
cause art demanded the sacrifice. And if the
exquisite idyl of the love for Jehane is not
history, it is the very best of Hewlett; and,
withal, he has given us a picture of the period
as true as those wrought into tapestry by the
fair ladies whose lords were off crusading.
It is a liberal education to read Mr. Hew-
lett's books. He has all the erudition and
classic English of Walter Pater and with it a
fire, poetry and "humaness" all his own.
(Macmillan. $1.50.) Public Opinion.

Life of Dwight L. Moody.'

MR. W. R. MOODY'S biography of his fa-
mous father "The Life of Dwight L. Moody"
(Fleming H. Revell Company) is much bet-
ter than the preliminary announcements of it
might have led one to expect.

The book, indeed, is in excellent taste
throughout and is agreeably written. It should

prove a monument to the memory of one of
the most extraordinary men of our times.

Born in the little village of Northfield,
Mass., and orphaned at an early age by the
death of his father, Dwight L. Moody had to
face the struggle of life with few advantages
of education. When a mere boy he went out
to Chicago, and there, like Aladdin of oldl, he
came face to face with a Fisherman. But it
was no evil genius of fiction whom he thus
confronted. It was the Great Fisher of Men.

According to their various moods, their
various outlooks upon the world, their vari-
ous estimates of the modern Aladdin, men
gave different names to this lamp. Some
called it faith, some earnestness, some busi-
ness acumen, others plain folk who use
plain words just mere horse sense. But
whatever men thought of the lamp, they all
agreed that it shone with exceeding bright-
ness in the dark places that needed it most.

They noted another fact that seemed to
kin it with Aladdin's lamp of yore. Wher-
ever its possessor grower into a fisher of
men himself went, through the Western
States, Great Britain, or back again in this
country, some visible memorial sprang up in
his wake. Young Men's Christian Associa-
tions were housed, and oftentimes splendidly
housed. Churches, halls and other buildings
rose at his bidding. He went back to the lit-
tle village in which he had been born and
straightway he transformed it into something
that it is hardly exaggeration to describe as
an earthly paradise. He made the desert
to blossom as the rose.

But Mr. Moody's life is too familiar in its
outlines to need recapitulation in a mere re-
view. (Revell. $2.50.) N. Y. Herald.

THE LITERARY NEWS.

[January, 1901

Another Work on Jefferson.

So much has been said and written on the
life, character, work and political career of
Thomas Jefferson that it might appear a
labor of supererogation in these days to add
anything to the sum total of human knowl-
edge on the matter. Yet there appears to be
a certain fascination about the subject which
lures investigators to attempt to bring out
new views of his character or new phases of
the influence he exerted in the creation of
this nation, and the impression he stamped
upon our national existence. An additional
work of this kind has just made its appear-
ance. It is from the pen of S. E. Forman,
Ph. D., and is entitled "The Life and Writ-
ings of Thomas Jefferson." It is his treat-
ment of the latter portion of his subject that
will be of chief importance, as his work
places within easy reach of all everything
of importance that the great statesman has
written on every subject that he has pub-
licly discussed.

Up to the present these writings and theo-
ries have been scattered through many
costly volumes, many of which are to be
found only in private possessions or in public
libraries in large cities, but are inaccessible
to the great body of the people. Even if ac-
cessible it would be only at great pains, and
after much labor the average reader could
find what he wanted. The chief merit of the
work under review is that it arranges con-
cisely and systematically everything of value
which Jefferson has written, and presents it
in such form that anyone may instantly and
without trouble place his finger upon it. The
author of the work has at great pains gone
through the voluminous correspondence and
the numerous state papers of Jefferson, and
wherever a significant passage has been
found it has been classified and placed in this
volume. The subjects have been alphabet-
ically arranged, so that any particular pas-
sage that may be desired can be found in a
moment. On this account the work must
prove of great value to the student, the
statesman, the historian or anyone who may
have occasion to refer to Jefferson's opinions
and teachings.

Accompanying this arrangement of Jeffer-
son's writings is a brief biographical sketch
of the author of the Declaration of Independ-
ence. In this sketch the author has at-
tempted to avoid controversy of any kind.
His aim has been to state the facts in a fair,
unprejudiced manner, and in this he has
succeeded admirably. He passes under rapid
review the school and college days of the

subject of his sketch, presents him as a
farmer and lawyer, and then, at consider-
able length, dwells upon his career as a poli-
tician and a statesman, concluding with a
summary of his career after he had retired
from the arena of active life. The whole
work will be found one of great interest and
much value. (The Bowen-Merrill Company.
$1.50.) Chicago Evening Post.

A Book for All Readers.

WE are afraid Mr. Ainsworth R. Spofford's
book will not reach "all readers," but it
would be well for them if it did, for in it is
the wisdom of a long experience devoted to
the history of books, their collection, housing,
care, use, and distribution.

Mr. Spofford was for many years the Li-
brarian of Congress. If the "changes and
chances of this mortal life" have in a meas-
ure shelved him, he is by no means a "back
number," so long as he can bring forth such
fruits of advice and instruction as this vol-
ume displays.

First of all, it is a book for all book lov-
ers; second, for all book collectors; third,
for all who handle books either to sell, lend,
or safeguard them. It is largely profes-
sional, and somewhat technical, but its style
is easy and always clear; it is full of infor-
mation, and every intelligent person will
find it interesting, instructive, and helpful
in a great many ways.

It begins with those first principles the
choice of books. It discloses the art of
buying books, it shows how to shelve and
inscribe them; it guards against their ene-
mies and pests; it fixes the rank of the
pamphlet and the periodical ; it expounds
the fine art of reading and the accompany-
ing gift of remembering what we read; it
has a number of chapters on libraries, both
historical and practical, chapters of great
importance considering the rapidity with
which the public library is spreading over
the country. And then in this connection
it goes into the details of library structure
and arrangement, classification, cataloguing,
and administration, with sound and sensible
remarks adequate to set up a library and
keep it going on a generous and judicious
basis. The chapters on rare books and on
bibliographies are full of valuable facts and
figures, and an index brings the whole within
the easy reference of the reader. In these
days when libraries spring up as the fabled
gourd the book is needed. (Putnam. $2.)
Boston Literary World.

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Tangled Flags.

MR. GUNTER'S new novel has made its
appearance after being twice postponed, to
increase its first edition, something that rarely
happens, but when it does, indicates that the
title has excited interest in the public mind.

We are inclined to the opinion that the
book will be even more successful than its
name, though seldom has a more appropriate
title been given to a novel ; in its vivid pages
the banners of the civilized world twist them-
selves about each other in the mighty tangle
of military achievement and emulation.

Added tio its other properties the book has
a strong commercial moral, showing as it
does the danger of selling to barbarous na-
tions the modern arms and munitions of
war, there is such a blissful uncertainty upon
whom the uncivilized may direct their deadly
fire.

The death of the great Yankee manufac-
turer of machine guns is almost humorous,
tihough intensely pathetic as he exclaims:
"Plugged by my own bullet," and then look-
ing at the tremendous slaughter of his mar-
vellous weapon pays a tribute to his own in-
vention by sighing, "Ain't my thirty calibre
a hummer to slay" as he falls under its
fire.

But the American mechanic is not the only
striking personage who lives in Mr. Gunter's
novel, for the author's situations are too
vivid to be regarded save as life itself. The
peculiar nobility, oriental in its way, how-
ever, that is embodied in the character of
Osuri Katsuma, the Japanese captain who
has been educated at West Point, will in its
military pathos rival that of the "Knight
without fear and without reproach," and his
deeds of valor stand forth as strongly as any
of Dumas' heroes, even more so, for the French
novelist's gentlemen of the sword were su-
preme egotists, while the champion of Dai-
Nippon is as unsejfishly modest as he is
gloriously undaunted. The characters of the
oriental adventurer and his sister who con-
ceals opium smuggling under missionary as-
pirations are uniquely and strikingly original.
Imogene's death at the hands of the super-
stitious Nihonese boy who thinks she has deal-
ings with the Kami will perhaps be thought
deserved, though she had one woman's vir-
tue, tihe one that all women have, she loved.
But we will venture to say that when the
woman raises the tangled flags of all nations
that drape the body of the Japanese and cries-,

"You all claim him; but he died for me and
he is mine even his glory !" there will be
few readers' eyes not dimmed with tears.

The action of the book has a romantic, al-
most poetic setting; for weird yet fairy-like
beauty note "The Feast of Belshazzar," given
at the Kiosk on the White Lotus Lake, with
the entry of the sweating Coolie runner
bringing news of the battle which can be
heard rumbling and thumping seven miles
away.

As for comedy, read the attack of the poly-
glot child who curses in four different lan-
guages, the suitor who dares to kiss his "Hebe
mutter" and you will laugh till your sides
are sore.

Altogether "Tangled- Flags" is a book well
worthy to begin the literature of the new
century. (The Home Publishing Company.
$1.25 ; pap., 50 c )

Familiar Fish.

EVERYBODY knows that fishing is a fasci-
nating sport to the initiated, but with such a
book at hand as "Familiar Fish," by Eugene
McCarthy, even those who previously have not
known the joys of the angler's art may speedi-
ly enter with zest into the pastime of going
a-fishing. The full title of the book describes
the text exactly. It is : "Familiar Fish, Their
Habits and Capture, a Practical Book on
Fresh Water Game Fish." The short lesson
in advance on the subject ought to be read
by every user of a fish hook the country over.
It is practical, shrewd, attractive, and con-
tains a warning that ought to be heeded in
all fishing haunts. The author very briefly
puts the would-be fisherman in the way of
learning quickly and pleasantly the "how,"
the "when," and the "where" of fishing. He
refers to the game laws, and other matters of
equal importance to anglers. He says : "Study
the art a little and practice it much," and his
whole book is written with this advice in
view, giving only the most pertinent directions
and descriptions, but including in them all
essential directions for tackle and other out-
fit, time of going and general behavior. The
object of the book is to get men near nature
and the chapters are planned to give a man
intelligent interest in all that concerns fish,
their habits and their haunts. It is beauti-
fully illustrated and contains a pointed intro-
duction by Dr. David Starr Jordan, president
of Leland Stanford Junior University. (Ap-
pleton. $1.50.) The Beacon.

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[January, 1901

Headings from Nero JJooks.

Jimmy.

I NEVER knew a man with such a marvellous
ear. If he went to a comic opera he would
come straight home and play all the lyrics
without a false note. He played Chopin by
ear; he used to sit for hours extemporizing
the most weird, fantastic, tantalizing music.
He ought to have ' made his fortune. In-
stead of that, he went into consumption and
died for want of proper food.

Now and again some one sent him a pos-
tal order. He never said who. He was a
bit of a mystery. They were only small or-
ders under a pound, as if they had been
scraped by some woman out of the house-
keeping money, or her dress allowance. But
I never knew. The last one he had was for
fifteen shillings. He was on his last legs.
The steward of the inn, who was most for-
bearingbecause it was Jimmy had sent a
deprecating note in to say that he must dis-
train if something, ever so little, was not
paid on account of the year's rent. Mrs.
Morey had left him at last. Even his top
hat was rough. Yet what do you think he
did? Went out and bought a bath sponge
for fifteen and six, promising to leave the
sixpence next time he was passing.

I met him on the stairs and he displayed
the sponge proudly.

"Only fifteen and six ! Dirt cheap, isn't
it? It would be unpardonable extravagance
to let a chance like that slip, wouldn't it?
And I wanted a bath sponge ; the one I've got
isn't nearly big enough. Come up to my
place. We'll put it in water. Just you
watch how it swells !"

You may say bluntly that he was a fool.
Of course he was. But it is the fools and
the failures who v/in our hearts.

We went up to his rooms. He put the
sponge to swell and sat down to the piano
and forgot all about it. I should like to
hear Jimmy play music-hall songs again;
nothing was ever so charming. He knew
them all. He used to sing the refrains in a
thin, shrill voice, accompanying in his own
wonderful way. Everything he touched be-
came classic. i(Holt. $1.25.) From Dude-
ney's "Men of Marlowe's."

A Boston Salon.

SAINT BERMUDA'S promised gathering of
exalted spirits surpassed even his own per-
sonality in unique entertainment. Many of
Frances Thurlston's coterie were present, but
the predominating element was representative
of the Cambridge Conferences and the Theo-
sophical cult. At one side of the room stood
a young man whom at first I mistook for a
mulatto. He was surrounded by women, up-
on whom he cast rather weary glances out of
large, innocent, bovine eyes. He spoke sel-
dom; whether from lack of words or oppor-
tunity, one could not say at a glance.

"You have not met Swami !" exclaimed
Saint Bermuda. "His is a grand soul. He
is teaching us, in the words of my friend,
Hamilton Mabie, that 'Culture's distinctive

characteristic is not extent, but quality of
knowledge; not range, but vitality of knowl-
edge; not scope of activity, but depth of
life. Swami is a grand soul !"

"But who is Swami? And why do the
women swarm so?" I persisted.

"Boston bees about a Hindoo flower, suck-
ing spiritual honey," interposed Bradley.

"A Hindoo priest, you mean?"

"Exactly; or idol, I should say, to look
at the worshipping women," he replied with
serious disdain.

"How can they act so over any man?"
sniffed Frances.

"Ah! he is a grand soul, Miss Thurlston,"
replied Saint Bermuda. "Are you not in-
spired in his presence, as his followers are.
in the words of our great poet, Lowell, to

" 'Be noble! and the nobleness that lies'
In other men, sleeping, but never dead,
Will rise in majesty to meet thine own'?"

"I can't say that I am," replied Frances,
with scorn. "He looks bored as the baby
lion at the Zoo used to when the women
patted him and tried to kiss him."

"That is but Swami's bodily fatigue," ex-
claimed a feminine Theosophist standing
with us. "His eternal ego, his spiritual es-
sence, grasps and holds the higher life ever
before our more backward being. Nirvana
stands as a mountain-top before his gaze.
His spirit rises slowly toward that eminence
under transitory forms and "

"As my friend John Fiske says," inter-
rupted Saint Bermuda, "when God revealed
himself to his ancient prophet he came not
in the earthquake nor the tempest, but in a
voice that was still and small ; so that divine
spark, the soul, as it takes up its abode in
this realm of fleeting phenomena, choosesi "
(L. C. Page & Co. $1.25.) From Allston's
"Her Boston Experiences."

My Tea-Kettle.

THERE is inborn in most of us a tendency
to invest inanimate objects with a person-
ality and character of their own, and love
or hate them accordingly. As for myself,
the class of goods that have most power to
stir my emotions are the metal objects that
are to be found in an ironmonger's shop.

It is three years now since I bought a ket-
tle for anything but purposes of the strictest
use. For 1 had a narrow escape of becom-
ing a monomaniac on the subject, and deemed
it prudent to suppress my kettle-buying pro-
pensities. I was recovering from a serious
illness when, in the early days of my conva-
lescence, a friend brought me a present of a
kettle. "I know you like kettles," she said,
"and when I saw this this morning in a
shop window I could not resist going in and
buying it for you ;" and she produced from
a piece of brown paper the most bewitching
kettle I had ever seen. It was small and
round and shapely, and very delicately enam-
elled in white, with a fine blue line. But
there was something about its expression that
inspired love at first sight, and I promptly
fell in love with it. I held out trembling
hands -for it, like a child who sees within

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reach a coveted toy; and for the next hour
it sat beside me on the bed, dozing cosily in
a little nest of the bedclothes, while I han-
dled and fondled it, took the lid off, and put
it on again, and every now and then picked
it up to look at it from a different point of
view. I had it filled with water and put on
the fire to boil for tea, and lay watching it
from my bed as it reposed on the embers,
thinking how charming it looked. When the
silence of the room was broken by its begin-
ning to sing in a cooing, purring sort of voice,
I was so moved that tears started to my
eyes, and when it began jubilantly to bubble,
I laughed from sympathy. Tea was made
with it, and it seemed to me that no tea had
ever tasted like it before. It had a subtle
flavor that was perfectly unique.

From the day it entered my room I posi-
tively adored that kettle. Whether it cast
a spell over me, or whether it arose from a
disordered state of my imagination, I do not
know. But nobody I have ever come across,
either in or out of a sick room, could 3hed
such a feeling of warm cosiness and comfort
as that diminutive kettle when it sat cooing
on the hob. I lay and watched it all day
long. I counted the hours till I could ask
nurse to fill it with water and set it to boil.
I listened with suspended breath for its first
little purr. If it was allowed to boil over
without being lifted off at once I felt nearly
frantic. I was in a fever of impatience, as
soon as the tea was made, till it had been
sent off to the kitchen to be cleaned, fearing
that the black might sink in, if it was left
too long; in an agony of suspense till it came
back again, and perfectly miserable if it
stayed away five minutes longer than usual.
I used to comfort myself with the thought
that I should clean it myself when I was
well enough twice, three times, all day long
if necessary, so that it need never leave my
side. I grew more wrapped up in it every
day. (Putnam. $1.50.) From Dew-Smith's
"Diary of a Dreamer."

English and American Patriotism.

"WHAT comes next?" asked Rose, looking
at the programme that she had tacked to the
wall in the companionway. "Oh, 'God Save
the Queen/ You must go and sing with the
English while I round up the stray Ameri-
cans on deck and have them in their places
ior 'The Star-Spangled Banner.' There are
a hundred and ninety-three of us and only
sixteen of you, so go and sing your best."

The band struck up "God Save the Queen,"
and the English people all over the audience
by twos and threes rose to their feet and
sang valiantly. Even scattered as they were
they made a goodly volume of sound, and
every word could be heard distinctly.

"That was fine !" cried Rose to Sir Arthur,
as she passed him a moment later. "I never
heard the words to your hymn before. We
always sing 'America' to it here."

There was a moment of hesitation when
the opening bars of "The Star- Spangled Ban-
ner" rang out. One or two Americans
sitarted to rise, and Shirley Hollenden
shouted :

"Everybody will please rise and sing 'The
Star-Spangled Banner.' "

That was all that was necessary. In a mo-
ment some two hundred Americans were on
their feet, and in a mighty burst of song the
first line rang out :

"Oh, say can you see by the dawn's early light
What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last
gleaming?"

On the third line the singers palpably
weakened. Men looked nervously at their
wives, and mothers whispered to their chil-
dren, "What's the next line?"

On the fifth line there were only about
twenty people singing the words. The
others were singing "tum-ti-tum" and "la-
la-la." The band played louder in order to
cover up the singers' deficiency.

On the seventh and eighth lines everybody
remembered and sang at the top of their
voices :

The Americans saw defeat staring them in
the face, and would have been glad to sit
down at the end of the first stanza, but the
band, without waiting for the orders, struck
up the second, and only two voices re-
sponded a beautiful tenor, Townsend's, and
Rose's girlish soprano. Some of the others
attempted to hum with them, but soon left
off, and the two sang alone.' Rose's cheeks
were burning, but she sang steadily, and
Townsend seconded her bravely, although it
was a trying ordeal.

At the end of the second, most of the
Americans drifted out of the doors nearest
them.

"Is that enough?" whispered Townsend.

"No," she answered sharply, "I am going
to sing it all the way through!"

And she did, with Townsend's help. The
English watched her with admiration, but
when she finished there were not over half
a dozen Americans left standing to support
her. The others had either sat down or
gone on deck.

As she finished singing she turned and
faced the half-empty room with blazing eyes.
The English and foreigners had remained
through courtesy and applauded generously.
But the girl's whole face quivered with shame
and anger.

She walked down the aisle with her head
held high. Townsend followed her, long-
ing to say something to comfort her, but not
daring. As she passed up the companion-
way she glanced at the programme she had
tacked up there and it read :

" 'God Save the Queen,' sung by the
English.

"And God help

"'The Star-Spangled Banner,' sung by the
Americans."

Some one had written in those three words.
(Harper & Bros. $1.50.) From Bell's "The
Expatriates."

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[January, 1901

1> ffidectft iWontfilj iEUfatefa of Current lUfcrature.
EDITED BY A. ff. LEYPOLDT.

JANUARY, 1901.

NOTES ON SOME NOVELS OF 1900.

IT seems the course of wisdom to say first
of all, that the notes here gathered upon a
few of the novels of tihe last year are pre-
sented as frankly a personal selection. To
those who have that ambition, is left the task
of ruling upon "the best" novels of 1900 for
in truth, that is a ruling that Time alone can
make, and his decisions can seldom be pre-
judged. "The best books" is a phrase beloved
and familiar, but what it really means, within
certain canons, is "the books that are the best
to me." Did any one ever read any one of
the perennial lists of the "ten best books for
grandparents," or the "twenty-five best books
for girls from sixteen to sixty years of age,"
without immediately disagreeing and making,
mentally cr on paper, a substitute list? One
doubts it ; and so, while the conviction remains
that the books now placed in the front rank
are among the best books and the most strik-
ing books of the year just closed, we dis-
claim any counsel of perfection and are will-
ing that Ephraim should be joined to his idols,
if he does not care for ours.

Of the novels of the year past, in general,
a word may be said. So far as statistics are
concerned, the total number of novels pub-
lished during the 'year is recorded for the
United States as 1278, but of these only about
600 are new books, the remainder being new
editions or reprints in cheap series. Indeed
the total number of new novels seems to have
been somewhat less than the figures of the year
preceding, though the year was notable as a
year of great activity in bookselling, and of
heavy "runs" upon special books. What has
been especially apparent in reviewing the
field of fiction as a whole has been the ab-
sence of any dominating type and the very
wide variety of conception, subject and treat-
ment represented. On the whole, it certainly
seems that the average of achievement is a
good one, that the standards set are high,
and that there is a sincerity and enthusiasm
of spirit that is most hopeful. What one
misses most is the element of humor. There
is satire in plenty, especially satire of a
diluted, literary, sort of quality; but sincere,
spontaneous humor, that sets proportions
right and rubs off the veneer of self-con-

sciousness, is a rare thing nowadays. The
English books show, on the whole, a riper art
and a broader knowledge of life than do those
of American writers, with one or two excep-
tions; but there is a freshness and vitality
about some of the new American novels that
is entirely delightful. In the American nov-
els also the tendency is marked to break away
from conventional modes and strike out in-
dependently into the freehold of fiction a
good and encouraging sign, provided that
with independence there can also be developed
a riper and more perfect art of expression.

There are two books that stand out in the
front rank of the novels of 1900 Joseph Con-
rad's "Lord Jim," and Maurice Hewlett's
"Richard Yea and Nay."

"Lord Jim" is a study of a man's soul, re-
markable for its force and insight. The set-
ting is the Far East, with its mingling of
ideals and barbarism, trade and adventure.
There is one central figure, that of the man
whose defect of character wrecks his life.
He is young, with ambitions and ideals, and
with his fate to command. But there is the
fatal flaw, the one black speck at the heart
that cannot be eradicated, and when the time
of test conies there is ignominious failure,
never to be retrieved or forgotten. The story
is told in an odd involved fashion a story
within a story and sometimes again within
another story; it is weakened by too much
style, and by a prolonged playing about minor
points; but as a whole it rises triumphant
ever hindrances as a "human document" of
great subtlety and power.

Indeed most of the striking English books
of the year possess this character of "human
documents." That is what we have in Hew-
lett's romance of Richard Cceur de Lion, to
whom he applies the old Troubadour nick-
name of "Richard Yea and Nay." There is
no one who brings to the historical novel the
equipment and temperament that Mr. Hew-
lett brings to it, or can make of it the brilliant,
throbbing reality that it becomes under his
touch. He shows us men and women of a
ruder age, when faith was a passion, and wills
were uncontrolled, and self-consciousness an
undeveloped art. Mr. Hewlett's Richard is
a fierce figure, crafty and bold, keen of wit,
relentless, variable; and with him is matched
the figure of the Countess Jehane, whose love
carries self-devotion into self-abasement], who
is at once his inspiration, his guardian, and
his ruin. In its facts, the romance is an his-
torical chronicle of remarkable accuracy, but
that value is slight beside the spirit and th^

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power that give to these shadowy figures of
the old tapestries the flame of life and pur-
pose.

Intensity of feeling, but of a different sort,
breathes from the little volume of "An Eng-
lishwoman's Love-Letters." These are full
of delicacy and a most touching pathos; but
they seem almost too poignantly intimate for
all the world to gossip over. This book, next to
its revelation of tenderness is marked by that
air of refinement, of familiarity with the
flower of social life, of art, and literature,
that we find in "The Etchingham Letters" and
in many of Mrs. Humphry Ward's books.

"A human document," again, is what Bar-
rie has given in his last novel "Tommy and
Grlzel," a book that mingles strength and
weakness, brilliancy and trivial sentimentality,
in exasperating confusion. In "Sentimental
Tommy" there was the foundation of this
study of the artistic temperament, that Mr.
Barrie now develops with what becomes
almost a passion of contempt and pitying
anger. Tommy is a "temperament," not a
character; what we call the temperament of
the artist, colored by the emotion of the 'mo-
ment, investing each impulse and each defect
with a rosy glow of self-deception, but yet
(and here the tragedy) too keen not to pierce
through that self-deception and know the
shallows of his own soul. One cannot but
feel deeply the truth and insight of the con-
ception, and gasp now and then as in some
subtle scene the veil is torn from one's own
inner self for there are few of us that have
not a touch of Tommy in our hearts but the
book is marred by an excessive sentimental-
ity and an exaggeration of tone that becomes
tiresome; while the end is a savage breaking
loose of satire and scathing irony, that turns
the whole structure to ruthless grotesque.

Temperament once more is the keynote of
Mrs. Ward's novel "Eleanor." In its main
lines it is a story of a woman's love, turned
into fierce jealousy, and conquered by no-
bility of soul. With this, there is a study of
another woman, younger, simpler, and of
stronger fibre ; and the setting is Italy, painted
with softness of tint that is nevertheless clear
and satisfying. There is a man of course,
but he counts for very little, and is not firm-
ly drawn. The interest of the story centers
in its study of two women, both good and
striving to be better, and one racked by bodily
weakness and torn by bitter passions.

In the first rank of the American novels of

. the year there must be place, need one say,

for Mary Johnston's charming romance "To

Have and To Hold." We may smile, if we
will, at the stormy ways through which the
path of true love winds in these vivid pages;
but there is a fine buoyancy, a free poetic
spirit, about the book that must soften and
delight the most dyspeptic critic. Never was
a fair heroine so beset with troubles, and cer-
tainly never did a devoted lover earn so hard-
ly his right to carry out the promise of the
title. But she is always fair and stately^ and
he is never daunted; and if there be a gen-
erous portion of melodrama to the story,
it is nevertheless brilliant, fresh and vigorous,
with a real touch of power, and a youthful
and gracious charm.

These same pleasant qualities stand out in
another capital story Booth Tarkington's
"Gentleman from Indiana," one of the best
American novels of the day. It is keen and
clever, intensely interesting, with a ready play
of humor. The story of the young fellow
stranded in the forlorn Hoosier town, build-
ing from his little country newspaper a step-
ping-stone to success and political power, has
been proved fact in most of the States of the
Union ; the dramatic scenes of the White Cap
plottings are grimly possible enough; and
though one must draw the line at the amaz-
ing feats of feminine journalism performed
by the heroine, still one may smile in toler-
ance of them and be thankful for freshness
and youthful spirit of it all.

It is impossible to linger over other books
that one would gladly note. There are many
that have originality, force, or charm, and each
reader may choose them for himself. Among
them are Mrs. F. A. Steel's novel of life in
India, "The Hosts of the Lord," full of the
color and spirit of the native world, and
marked by dramatic power; Tolstoi's "Res-
urrection," in its authorized English transla-
tion; Eden Philpott's "Sons of the Morning,"
lighted by abundant humor, and excellent in
character drawing; Judge Robert Grant's
"Unleavened Bread," which possesses perma-
nent qualities of analysis and observation,
containing a representative of a familiar type
the "new" woman; Henry Harland's bril-
liant romance "The Cardinal's Snuff -B ox" ;
Zangwill's political novel "The Mantle of Eli-
jah"; Stockton's "Bicycle of Cathay"; and
Ellen Glasgow's excellent story of Southern
life, "The Voice of the People."

Few corners of the world are left untouched
by the novelist of to-day, and there are few
phases of life and thought and experience
that do not find their record in the fiction of
the year gone by. H. E. H.

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[January, 1901

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under retainer of an American syndicate to
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origin. His father-in-law was satisfied, but
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the wife to give her husband a standing in
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SWIFT, B., [pseud, for W. R. Paterson.]
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HISTORY.

BARRETT, C. RAYMOND. Short story writing:
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MARTIN, W. ALEX. PARSONS, D.D. The siege
in Peking: China against the world; by an
eyewitness. Revell. il. 12, $i.
A vivid description of the siege of Peking
and the siege of the legation during the re-
cent Chinese "boxers" troubles. The story
is told in eight chapters entitled: The eight
banners of the allies and the eight of the
Manchus; The emperor and the reform
party ; The Empress Dowager and her clique ;
The boxers and their allies; Siege of the le-
gations in Peking; Additional incidents of
the siege; Rescue and retribution; Recon-
struction. Dr. Martin has been a resident of
China for fifty years, first as a Presbyterian
missionary, and more recently as president of
the Imperial College at Peking.

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RAMBAUD, ALFRED. Expansion of Russia:
problems of the East and problems of the
far East. International Monthly. 12, $i.
Alfred Rambaud, who writes this essay,
wrote a "History of Russia," which was
crowned by the French Academy. This es-
say tells of the growth of Russia, her con-
quests and aims, giving the reader a com-
prehensive and authoritative view of Russia.

ABBOTT/ LYMAN, D.D., ed. Hints for home
reading; a series of papers on books and
their use. by C. Dudley Warner, Hamilton
Wright Mabie, E. Everett Hale, and oth-
ers; ed. with introd. by Lymari Abbott, to
which is added a Book buyer's guide. Also
a Book record. C. L. Bowman. 16, flex,
cl., $1.25.

A series of papers on books and their use
by Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright
Mabie, Edward Everett Hale, Lyman Abbott,
Joseph Cook, Fred B. Perkins, M. F. Sweet-
ser and others. The guide is a selection of
3000 books carefully chosen by experts from
the A. L. A. Model library, from the Warner
library of the world's best literature, etc.
The book record is blank in which may be
recorded the data, comments, etc., of one's
favorite books.

ADDISON, DAN. DULANY. The clergy in
American life and letters. Macmillan. 12,
(National studies in American letters ser.,
no. i.) 12, $1.25.

The object is to present the literary work
of the American clergy in its twofold aspect
as the expression of religious life and na-
tional thought. This is done through sketch-
es of some of our typical clergymen as
Dwight, Channing, Parker. Bushnell, Beecher,
and Phillips Brooks, and chapters on "the
clergy in American life," "early writers and
historians," "poetry and romance," and "de-
nominational literature."
AMERICAN catalogue, 1895-1900. Autor-and-
title alphabet. In 2 pts. Office of the Pub-
lishers' Weekly, folio (for complete work.)
sheets, $10; hf. mor., $12.50.
ASHLEY, W. JAMES. Surveys historic and
economic. Longmans, Green & Co. 12,
$3-

Forty-five essays and reviews.
BALZAC, HONORE DE. Honore de Balzac;
completely translated. Ed. definitive. 53
v. G. Barrie & Son. subs. .(Apply to
publishers for price.)

BROWNING, ROB. Complete works, 'in 12 v.,
v. 10-12 ; ed. by Charlotte Porter and Helen
A. Clarke. Arno ed. T. Y. Crowell &
Co. 12, subs., per set, $30; levant, per set,
$60.

BROWNING. ROB. and Mrs. ELIZ. BARRETT.
Beautiful thoughts from Robert and Eliza-
beth Browning; arr. by Marg. Shipp. Ja.
Pott & Co. 16, 75 c.

CHAUCER, GEOFFREY. Complete works; in-
trod. by T. R. Lounsbury. T. Y. Crowell
& Co. il. por. facsimiles, 8, per set, $4.
The text printed is that which Professor
Skeat has approved. The introduction, which
is a full and complete relation of all that is

known of Chaucer's life, and an elaborate
exposition of the influence of his literary
work, as well as a study of his style and lan-
guage, is from the pen of one of the most
distinguished Chaucer students in modern
times. Has a full and carefully edited glos-
sary of such words as are obsolete or are
used in an archaic sense.

DRAKE, S. ADAMS. Myths and fables of to-
day; il. by Frank T. "Merrill. Lee & Shep-
ard. 12, $1.50.

Traces to their origin many of the sayings
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DRESSER. HORATIO WILLIS. Education and
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ENGLISHWOMAN'S (an) love-letters. Dou-
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FIELD, EUGENE. Sharps and flats collated by
Slason Thompson. Scribner. 2 v., 12,
$2.50.

Some of Mr. Field's best work in prose
and poetry was contributed to the Chicago
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daily column which he filled with wise and
witty thought under the heading at first of
"Sharps and Flats," and later "Current Gos-
sip." These two volumes are culled from
these and are both poems and prose articles.
GREAT essays by Montaigne, Sidney, Milton,
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English history from the earliest times to
about 1485. Longmans, Green & Co. 8,
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TUCKWELL, Rev. W. Reminiscences of Ox-
ford. Cassell. il. 12, $2.50.
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UNITED STATES catalog: books in print, 1899;
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[January, 1901

This work is the result of two independent
compilations, and is sold in one or two vol-
umes. The members of the "Cumulative In-
dex" staff under Marion E. Potter are the
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of the state University of Indiana, Bloom-
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part of "Title index," the one supplementing
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f 755 pages gives in one alphabet, under au-
thor, or title where the book is anonymous,,
the books in print of over 450 well-known
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1500 occasional publishers and printers, mak-
ing approximately one hundred and fifty thou-
sand entries. In the author or title entry,
price, edition and publisher are given there
are also brief series entries and ample refer-
ences. A directory of publishers covers fif-
teen pages, and there is a classified index to
the advertising pages included in the volume.

WHIBLEY, C. The pageantry of life. Harper.

8, $1.50.

A volume of essays by an English writer.
The subjects covered are, "Young Weston,"
"A marshal of France," "Theagenes," "The
real Pepys,'' "Saint-Simon," "A friend of
kings," ""The caliph of Fonthill," "Barbey
D'Aurevilly," and "Disraeli the Younger."

WICKSTEED, PHILIP H., tr. Our lady's tum-
bler: a twelfth century legend done out of
old French into English. T. B. Mosher.
8, in Japan vellum wrapped, net, $i.

WOOD, ARNOLD. A bibliography of "The
complete angler" of Izaak Walton and
Charles Cotton ; being a chronologically ar-
ranged list of the several editions and re-
prints, from the first edition MDCLIII un-
til the year MCM ; il. by 86 photo-engraved
reproductions of title-pages. Scribner.
facsim. por. 4, $20; vellum, $40. (i2ff
copies.)

WORSFOID, W. BASIL. On the exercise of
judgment in literature. Macmillan. il.
16, (Temple cyclopaedic primers.) net, 40 c.

MENTAL AND (MORAL PHILOSOPHY.

BRADFORD, AMORY HOWE, D.D. Spiritual les-
sons from the Brownings. T. Y. Crowell
& Co. 12, (What is worth while ser.)
leatherette, 35 c.

Aims to emphasize two or three of the
many spiritual lessons which the Brownings
have taught the world. The special poems
the author uses in illustration are Robert
Browning's "Cleon" and Mrs. Browning's
"Aurora Leigh.""

COLVILLE, W. T. Fate mastered destiny ful-
filled. T. Y. Crowell & Co. 12, (What is
worth while ser.) leatherette, 35 c.
A helpful little book on self-development

and the unfolding of one's interior forces.

HYDE, W. DE WITT. The art of optimism

as taught by Robert Browning. T. Y.

Crowell & Co. 12, (What is worth while

ser.) leatherette. 35 c.

Optimism is here denned as "the art of
looking at the world in such a way as to bring

out the good and throw the evil into the back-
ground.''' He illustrates both pessimism and
optimism by quotations from the poets the
latter especially from Browning and Tenny-
son.

JASTROW, Jos. Fact and fable in psychology.

Houghton, Mifflin & Co. 8, $2.

Prof. Jastrow is President of the American
Psychological Association. This volume of
essays reflects both the professional and the
popular interest in the study of the operations
and manifestations of the human mind. The
titles are : The modern occult ; The prob-
lems of psychical research ; The logic of men-
tal telegraphy; The psychology of deception;
The psychology of spiritualism ; Hypnotism
and its antecedents; Natural history of anal-
ogy; The mind's eye; Mental prepossession
and inertia; A study of involuntary Tnove-
ments; The dreams of the blind.

LOEB, JACQUES, M.D. Comparative physiology

of the brain and comparative psychology.

Putnam, il. 8, :(Science ser.; ed. by J.

McKeen Cattell and F. E. Beddard.) $1.75.

It is the purpose of this book, says the au-
thor, to serve as a short introduction to the
comparative physiology of the brain and cen-
tral nervous system. Acting upon the con-
viction that the laws of life-phenomena can
only be established by including all classes of
the animal kingdom, and by the study and
comparison of vertebrates and invertebrates,
Dr. Loeb introduces some interesting scien-
tific experiments.

ROOSEVELT, THEO. The strenuous life : essays
and addresses. Century Co. 12, $1.50.
First of the essays and addresses is the one
that gives its name to the book. It is fol-
lowed by "Expansion and peace," "Latitude
and longitude among reformers," and "Fel-
low-feeling as a political factor." Other ti-
tles are "Military preparedness," "Grant,"
"Admiral Dewey," "Civic helpfulness," "The
eighth and ninth commandments in politics,"
"Character and success," "The neat and the
good." "Promise and performance," and "The
American boy."

SHINN, MILICENT WASHBURN. The biogra-
phy of a baby. Houghton, Mifflin & Co.
12, $1.50.

Carefully observed facts handled in a
scientific spirit about the first year of a nor-
mal girl baby's life.

NATURE AND SCIENCE.

CLEMMENS, JANE E. The luscious strawber-
ry. [Pub. by the author,] Jane E. Clem-
mens. 16, pap., 25 c.

A collection of recipes for making a variety
of things out of strawberries; there are reci-
pes for creams, jellies, jams, wines, preserves,
cakes, puddings, etc.

ESSAYS in astronomy by Ball, Harkness,
Herschel, Huggins, Laplace, Mitchel, Proc-
tor, Schiaparelli, and others ; with a criti-
cal introd. by E. S. Holden. Aldine ed.
Appleton. por. pi. facsim. 8, (World's
great books.) subs., $i.
GARNER, R. L. Apes and monkeys, their life

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and language; introd. by E. Everett Hale.

Ginn. il. por. 12, $2.

"This volume is the natural product of
many years devoted by the author to study-
ing the speech and habits of monkeys. That
naturally led him up to the study of the great
apes. The matter is chiefly a record of the
tabulated facts gleaned from his special field
of research. The aim in view is to convey
to the casual reader a more correct idea than
now prevails concerning the physical, mental,
and social habits of apes and monkeys and to
prepare him for a wider appreciation of ani-
mals in general." Preface.

LANE, C. H. All about dogs: a book for
doggy people ; il. by R. H. Moore. J. Lane.
8, $2.50.

The book is divided into four parts : Dogs
used in sport; Dogs used in work; Perform-
ing and toy breeds ; and Something about for-
eign dogs. These are followed by chapters
on the humors and vagaries of the show
rings ; anecdotes about dogs ; and a few
words about general management, etc., of
dogs. The author is a breeder, exhibiter, and
judge of dogs. Illustrated with 87 pictures
of the most celebrated champions of our time,
drawn from life.

POETRY AND DRAMA.

BROWNING, E. BARRETT. Sonnets from the
Portuguese; with a preface by Edmund
Gosse. T. B. Mosher. 16, (Vest pocket
ser., no. 2) pap., net, 25 c. ; net, 40 c. ;
flex, leath., net, 75 c. ; Japan vellum ed., net,
$i.

OMAR KHAYYAM. Rubaiyat; tr. by E. Fitz-
gerald; with a commentary by H. M. Bat-
son and a biographical introd. by E. D.
Ross. Putnam. 12, hf. leath., $1.50.
The purpose of this edition is to help if
possible those who on their first introduction
to Omar Khayyam find it difficult to under-
stand Fitzgerald's rendering.

SHAW, G. BERNARD. Four plays for Puri-
tans. H. S. Stone & Co. 12, $1.50.

WHITMAN, WALT. Leaves of grass; includ-
ing a facsimile autobiography, variorum
readings of the poems, and a department of
gathered leaves. D. McKay. por. 8,
$1.25.

This new edition of "Leaves of grass" pre-
sents many new features. Mr. D. McKay,
Mr. Whitman's friend and publisher, is the
editor. The early editions of the work are
now almost entirely out of the market. Per-
haps no author was more given to change
than Walt Whitman. Many of his poems or
parts of poems have been either altered or
discarded for a time to appear in a new form
in later editions; and not a few have disap-
peared entirely. The accepted readings are
given in this edition in the text, the various
changes appearing in footnotes. Under
"Gathered leaves" are collected such poems as
have been dropped by the way, some of
which appeared in only one and others in sev-
eral past editions.

WILLIAMS, SARAH, comp. Through the year
with birds and poets ; with introd. by

Bradford Torrey ; il. by Walter M. Hardy.

Lee & Shepard. 12, $2.

A collection of poems and parts of poems
relating to the bird life of our country; the
selections are entirely from the writings of
American and Canadian authors. They are
grouped in twelve divisions, corresponding to
the months of the year, the selections relat-
ing to each bird being placed in the month
with which the bird is usually associated.
Each division has an illustrated title-page
showing some of the birds appropriate to the
time of year indicated. There are also twelve
full-page pictures of our best known birds.
Bound in white, with gold lettering.

BLACKMAR, FRANK WILSON. Economics.

Crane & Co. 12, $i.

A complete outline on economics ; discuss-
ing political economics, production, distribu-
tion, consumption, exchange, trusts, labor or-
ganizations, socialism, etc.

FARRELLY, M. J. The settlement after the
war in South Africa. Macmillan. 8, $1.50.

HARTMAN, L. B., D.D. The Republic of
America, its civil policy as outlined by the
prophets, its politico-religious mission in
the world's civilization and its need of the
soldier. 2d ed. Abbey Press, por. 12,
50 c.
The author depicts the martial side of

American life with militant power and shows

that good soldiers are indispensable factors

of aggressive civilization.

KRAUSSE, ALEXIS. The far East; its history

and its question. Dutton. maps, 8, $6.

A popular account of the relations between

China and Great Britain, Russia, France, and

Germany, with only the details concerning

the Chinese themselves that are necessary to

make clear the circumstances which led up

to the existing crisis in the far East.

LEROY BEAULIEU, PIERRE. The awakening of
the East ; Siberia, Japan, China ; with pref-
ace by H. Norman. McClure, Phillips &
Co. 12, $1.50.

The author deals with the Far Eastern
question under three chief aspects : the ap-
proaching completion of a Russian contin-
uous line of railway from Europe to the
China Sea, the frontier of Korea and the
gates of Peking; the startling entry of Japan
into the comity of peoples as a great naval,
military and civilizing power; and the course
of events which has led to the occupation of
the Chinese capital by the allied forces of
eight nations. He also considers that behind
the third there looms the appalling spectre
of a European war.

MEADE, Dr. E. SHERWOOD. Financial aspects
of the trust problem. Amer. Acad. of Po-
litical and Social Science. 8, pap., 50 c.

MORRIS, H. C. History of colonization from
the earliest times to the present day. Mac-
millan. 2 v., 8, $4.

REINSCH, PAUL S. Cultured factors in the
Chinese crisis. Amer. Acad. of Political
and Social Science. 8, pap., 15 c.

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SHUEY, EDWIN L. Factory people and their
employers: how their relations are made
pleasant ' and profitable. Lentilhon & Co.
il. 18, net, 75 c.

SPEER, ROB. E. The situation in China: a
record of cause and effect. Revell. 12,
pap., net, 10 c.

STRONG, JOSIAH. Expansion under the new
world-conditions. Baker & Taylor Co.
map, 12, $i.

The author of "Our country" and "The
new era" favors expansion, but dwells es-
pecially upon the great responsibilities in-
curred by England and the United States in
their attempts to civilize the world, while
opening markets for home produce and manu-
factures. He speaks forcibly upon the crime
of selling liquor to conquered nations in the
tropics. He foresees that England and the
United States will stand together for true
Christian civilization.

WILL, ALLEN S. World-crisis in China: a
short account of the outbreak of the war
with the "Boxers" and ensuing foreign
complications, including also a sketch of
events leading up to the distracted situa-
tion in the Chinese Empire in the closing
year of the century. J. Murphy Co. 12,
$i.

The subjects of the eleven chapters are:
Causes of the crisis of 1900; Story of the
crisis in detail ; Interests of the United States
in China; The Chinese- Japanese war; The
railway as a conqueror in Asia; Four nota-
ble characters in China: The Empress Dowa-
ger, the Emperor, Li Hung Chang, and Kank
Yu Wei ; The era of foreign interference ;
History of China at a glance; The great
Taeping rebellion ; Chinese civilization and re-
ligion; How China is governed.
WOOD, ROB. CROOKE. Confederate hand-
book; a compilation of important data and
interesting and valuable matter relating to
the war between the states, 1861-1865.
Graham Press, pi. pors. 8, pap., 25 c.

THEOLOGY, RELIGION AN D SPECU LATION.

AIKEN, C. FRANCIS. The Dhamma of Gota-
ma the Buddha and the Gospel of Jesus the
Christ: a critical inquiry into the alleged
relations of Buddhism with primitive Chris-
tianity. Marlier & Co. 12, $1.50.
This work is partly the outcome of a series
of lectures on Buddhism delivered by Prof.
Aiken in the Catholic University of America,
Washington, D. C. It has been written to
meet a want keenly felt in the field of Chris-
tian apologetics. "The specious attempts," the
author says, "to lay the gospels under obli-
gation to Buddhist teaching have shaken the
faith of not a few Christians. The need of
a thorough refutation is imperative."

BRADFORD, AMORY HOWE. The age of faith.

Houghton, Mifflin & Co. 12, $1.50.

A practical interpretation of "the Father-
hood of God and the Brotherhood of Man."
The author is an optimist, and contends that
the present age is one of faith rather than
doubt. Most interesting are the chapters on

"The basis of optimism," "Brotherhood,"
"Punishment or discipline," "The immortal
life," and "The teacher for all ages."
HILLIS, NEWELL DWIGHT. Influence of
Christ in modern life; being a study of the
new problems of the church in American
society. Macmillan. 12, $1.50.

LITTLE, W. J. KNOX, (Canon.) Holy matri-
mony. Longmans, Green & Co. 12, (Ox-
ford library of practical theology; ed. by
Rev. W. C. E. Newbolt and Rev. Darwell
Stone.) $1.50.

The object of the Oxford Library is to
supply some carefully considered teaching on
matters of religion to devout laymen. The
present volume has chapters on the impor-
tance of marriage; the religious aspect of t the
family; the morality of the old world; the
moral reform of Christianity; the various as-
pects of marriage; the essential characteris-
tics of Christian marriage; the question of
marriage with near of kin; the moral obli-
gations of marriage; the consequent duties
of marriage, etc.

ROBINSON, MARGARET BLAKE. A reporter at
Moody's. The Bible Institute Colportage
Assoc. por. il. 12, 50 c. ; pap., 35 c.
An account of some of the work done at

the Bible Institute in Chicago.

STRONG, JOSIAH. Religious movements for
social betterment. Baker & Taylor Co.
12, 50 c.

An essay prepared as a special contribution
to the United States Exhibit of Social Econo-
my at the Paris Exposition, where it was
awarded a gold medal. The writer says of it,
"It is hoped that pointing out the secret of
success of the most notable religious move-
ments of the present generation will serve
to indicate the causes of failure on the part
of so many churches to reach the multitude
with saving influence.

SPORTS AND AMUSEMENTS.

MILLER, FRANK E. Indian club-swinging,
one, two, and three club juggling. Saal-
field Pub. Co. por. 12, $i.
The object is, first, to introduce a simple
nomenclature for club-swinging and club jug-
gling; second, to present the work in such a
way that it can be given on the gymnasium
floor; third, to provide exercises for those
that care to practice advanced club-swinging
and juggling.

Socks for tl)c looting.

BLAND, Mrs. HERBERT, ["E. Nesbit," pseud.]
The book of dragons; il. by H. R. Millar:
decorations by H. Granville Fell. Harper.
12, $1.50.
Eight fairy tales; illustrated in colors.

CHARLES, L. Fortune hunters of the Philip-
pines ; or, the treasure of the Burning
mountain. Mershon Co. il. 12, (Boy's
own ser.) 50 c.
Relates the adventures of three wide-awake

American lads who became possessed of an

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ancient Spanish document pertaining to a
treasure of diamonds said to be secreted near
the crater of one of the burning mountains
of our new possessions. The three lads
journey from San Francisco to Manila, and
from Luzon to another island and far into
the interior, meeting many strange people and
surprising adventures.

DUNN, BYRON A. Battling for Atlanta. A.

C. McClurg & Co. il. map, 12, (Young

Kentuckians ser.) $1.25.

This, the third of the Young Kentuckians
Series, deals with the great campaign under
General Sherman that resulted in the capture
of Atlanta, the gate city of the South. The
same boys that appeared in the previous vol-
umes are again the characters, but several
years older. For this reason the volume is
not so juvenile in character as the preceding
ones.
Fox. FRANCES MARG. Farmer Brown and the

birds; il. by Etheldred B. Barry. L. C.

Page & Co. 12, (Cosy corner ser.) 50 c.

Because Farmer Brown kills a harmless lit-
tle Jenny Wren, the birds bring his case be-
fore a judge and jury of birds to decide what
shall be done with him. In the course of the
trial the birds' side is well set forth. It is
shown that if it were not for their constant
war upon insects, life on a farm would scarce-
ly be endurable, nor would is be possible to
grow fruit and other eatables in abundance.
The King bird, the eagle, decides to banish
the birds from the farmer's domain leaving
him to the mercy of the bugs and insects.
HANCOCK, H. IRVING. Aguinaldo's hostage;

or, Dick Carson's captivity among the Fili-
pinos. Lee & Shepard. il. 12, $1.25.

Mr. Hancock was war correspondent for
Frank Leslie's Weekly; he has made use of
his experience in the Philippine Islands in
writing this story. The young hero is saved
from death by Aguinaldo, and is used as an
attendant by a Filipino surgeon. The war in
the islands is told as only an eye witness
could tell it.
MANSERGH, JRSSIE, [Mrs. G. De Home Vai-

zey.] Sisters three. Cassell. 12, $1.25.

A simple story of the joys and sorrows of
three English girls, living in the country with
their father, a gifted but somewhat absent-
minded writer of stories. Visits to London,
violin lessons, and love experiences are in-
cluded in the narrative.
MARTIN, Mrs. HERBERT. Jock's ward. R.

F. Fenno & Co. 12, $i.

Jock was a London "gutter snipe" who had
been kindly treated by a shoemaker belonging
to a sect that believed wholly in prayer to
cure disease. His only son died of pneu-
monia, he was accused of manslaughter and
imprisoned. He comes out dazed, having
lost faith in everything. Jock takes him into
the country, works and slaves for him and he
is known as "Jock's ward." Pure religion
and church systems are contrasted.

PARKER, W. GORDON. Rival boy sportsmen;
or, the Mink Lake regatta; il. by the au-

thor. Lee & Shepard. il. 12, (Deer

lodge ser.) $1.25.

In this story Grant Burton, hero of the
previous volume, returns to school vastly im-
proved by his experiences. Through his lead-
ership another club of enthusiastic young
sportsmen is formed, not hostile to the first,
described in previous volumes, but in friend-
ly rivalry, in pursuance of which they engage
in a series of contests, including a hunting
match, a fishing match, boat race, etc.

REMY, JEAN S. Lives of the presidents ; told
in words of one syllable. A. L. Burt. il.
4, (Burt's one syllable ser. for little folks.)
50 c.

ROE, NORA A. M., [Mrs. Alfred S. Roe.]
Two little street singers; il. by Bertha G.
Davidson. Lee & Shepard. 12, $i.
The little singers are "Rita" and "Jimmy,"
who pass for the children of "Tonio," with
whom they travel, and for whom they earn
many pennies by singing and dancing with
their tambourines. There is a mystery in
their lives which is straightened out.

SLOSSON, ANNIE TRUMBULL. Story-Tell Lib.

Scribner. 16, 50 c.

"Story-Tell Lib" was the nickname the vil-
lagers gave to a little lame girl, who had a
wonderful gift of story-telling. The author
tells how she met her, and gives some of the
little stories, fables, parables, or allegories
which she heard "Story-Tell Lib" relate.

STRATEMEYER, E. Between Boer and Briton;

or, two boys' adventures in South Africa;

il. by A. B. Shute. Lee & Shepard. 12,

$1.25.

Primarily relate the adventures of two
boys, one an American and the other Eng-
lish, before and during the first eight months
of the war between Great Britain and the
two South African republics. The tale fol-
lows the movements of both sides in and
around Ladysmith, at Kimberley, in the vi-
cinity of Mafeking, and during the victorious
march of Lord Roberts on Pretoria.

STRATEMEYER, E. True to himself; or, Roger

Strong's struggle for place; il. by A. B.

Shute. Lee & Shepard. 12, (Ship and

shore ser., no. 3.) $i.

The story of a typical American country
lad and his sister who by an unhappy com-
bination of events are thrown upon their
own resources. Their father is in prison un-
justly accused of forgery, but Roger in time
finds the real criminal.

TAPPAN, EVA MARCH. In the days of Alfred
the Great; il. by J. W. Kennedy. Lee &
Shepard. 12, $i.

A life of Alfred the Great, told in story-
form for young people. While simply writ-
ten, it claims to be historically accurate.

WYSS, J. RUDOLF, and MONTOLIEU, J. I. P.
Baronne DE. Swiss family Robinson ; re-
told in words of one syllable, by J. C. G.
A. L. Burt. il. 4, (Burt's one syllable ser.
for little folks.) 50 c.

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[January, 1901

of OTIjrielmas Sook0.

Fleming H. Revell's Books on China.
The eyes of all the world are on China. A.
great reshaping of the whole political earth
hangs upon Chinn. Books on China are the
books of the hour, and all young men should
be encouraged to read them. 'The Revells
have China's Only Hope, an appeal to her
greatst Viceroy (50.0.); The Chinaman As
We See Kim. by Ira M. Condit ($1.50) ; The
Situation in China, by Robert E. Speer (10.) ;
Chinese Characteristics and Village Life in
China, two remarkable books by Dr. Arthur
N. Smith, and a very important new book
by Dr. W. T. Martin, telling all the horrors
of T he Siege in Pekin, and the great ques-
tions that China has put to all the civilized
world ($1.50).

Fleming H. Revell's Successful Books.
Newell Dwight Ilillis' great successes are
Great Books as Life-Teachers, in its I4th
thousand ($1.50) ; The Investment of /HYM-
ence, in its isth thousand ($1.25) ; and A
Man's Value to Society, in its 25th thousand
($j.25). The 20th thousand speaks for the
appreciation in which Hugh Black's Friend-
ship is held, a gilf-book always appreciated
and a fine specimen of bookmaking in its
various styles of dress, ranging from cloth
to full Persian morocco ($1.25; $2.50). Ver-
beck of Japans a Citizen of No Country, by
William Elliot Griffis, tells the story of the
missionary life-work of Guido Fridolin Ver-
beck, one of the greatest of the makers of
New Japan ($1.50) : Catherine Booth of the
Saltation Army, by W. T. Stead, would be
appreciated by all who can appreciate the
work of this "devoted woman ($1.25); and
the" Revells have two year-books, alwoys one
of the most popular gifts, in The D. L.
Mocdy Year-Book ($i), and in Practical
Portions for the Prayer-Life, arranged by
the Rev. Charles A. Cook ($1.25).

My Winter Garden. Mr. Thompson
spends his winters on the shores of the Gulf
of Mexico, and revels in the balmy climate
that enables him to pass most of his time
out of doors. An intelligent observer of
birds and bees and trees and flowers, he
writes enthusiastically of the fauna and flora
of this earthly paradise. An archer of long
standing, and an experienced raconteur, he
draws the long bow with a skill that endears
him to the lover of good stories, if not to the
feathered folk of Bay St. Louis or the neigh-
borhood of Tampa. And as a diligent and
discriminating reader of the best books in the
literature of Greece and Rome and France
and England and America, he cultivates in
his Winter Garden not merely the plants that
perish, but the flowers of thought that flour-
ish perennially. A glimpse of the author's
Winter Garden is given in a colored frontis-
piece. (Century Co. $1.50.)

Fiction Published by Charles Scribner's
Sons. In the front rank stands J. M. Bar-
rie's brilliant novel, Tommy and Grizel, in
which the career of "Sentimental Tommy"

is carried through manhood, and the phases
of the "artistic temperament" are depicted
with insight, pathos and humor. A stirring
historica 1 romance is The House of Egre-
'mont, by Molly Eliot Seawell, telling of the
exiled Stuarts and their loyal followers; un-
der the title Afield and A\oat Frank Stock-
ton has gathered eleven tales of "love and
water," full of his quaint humor and pseudo
graVity; E. W. Hornung has written in
Peccavi a striking story of sin and expia-
tion ; and in Old Fires and Profitable Ghosts,
by Quiller Couch, are shown again the dra-
matic force and local color that won so high
a place for "Q's" romances and Cornish
tales. Present day American life is the
theme of John Fox's new novel, Crtitenden,
which carries its hero through the recent
Spanish war; and a similar subject has been
chosen by Alexander Black for his new
novel, The Girl and the Guardsman, in which
service in the Philippines is worked effec-
tively into the plot. Mr. Black's book has
many full-page illustrations and decorative
designs. For those who appreciate subtle
analyses and the hidden tragedies and dra-
mas of the emotions there is Paul Bpurget's
last volume, Domestic Dramas, which has
been translated by William Marchant. (ea.,
$1.50.)

/. B. Lippincott Company's Successful Fic-
tion. Very clever novels were published last
year by the Lippincotts. Marr'd in Making,
by Baroness von Hutton, author of Miss Car-
michael's Conscience, is remarkable in that
Beth, the woman so daringly depicted in its
pages, is perfectly frank and merciless to
herself, and the hidden springs of a nature
fascinating arid bizarre are laid bare before
the reader ($1.25). In Boy, her latest work,
"Marie Corelli is at her best," says the N. Y.
Times Saturday Review. "As a study of the
effects of good influences in overcoming the
tendencies of heredity it is thoughtful and
will add to the solidity of the author's repu-
tation ($1.50). Ray's Daughter is a story of
Manila by Captain Charles King, which the
Boston Gazette pronounces "second to none
he has written." The heroine goes as Red
Cross nur=e to the Philippines, where she is
wooed by a gallant American officer ($1.25).
John Stranger Winter's A Self-Made Coun-
tess is as vivacious and wholesome as Bootle's
Baby ($1.25). Herbert C. Macllvaine's Fate
the Fiddler is laid in the great island con-
tinent of Australia, and is said to be special-
ly a man's book ($1.50) ; Madame Bohemia,
by Francis Neilson is the story of an ex-
prima-donna in New York artistic society in
the fifties ($1.50) ; The Sign of the Seven
Sins' by William Le Gwens, has its scene in
the gambling circles of Monte Carlo ($1.25) ;
The Red Men of the Dusk, by John "Fenni-
more, is a romance of the days of Cromwell
($1.50) ; That Mainwaring Affair, by A.
Mavnard Barbour, deals with a murder, mis-
taken identity and sharp detective work
($1.50) ; and Rue With a Difference is one
of Rosa Nonchette Carey's pretty domestic
stories ($1.25). All these novels are artis-
tically illustrated.

January, 1901]

THE LITERARY NEWS.

for lannarg.

Articles marked with asterisk are illustrated.

Atlantic: The reconstruction period: the
reconstruction of the southern states, Wood-
row Wilson. The time-spirit of the twen-
tieth century, Elizabeth Bisland. The Em-
press Dowager, R. Van Bergen. Penelope's
Irish experiences, III., Kate Douglas Wiggin.
The growth of public expenditures, Charles
A. Conant. A letter from England, R. Brim-
ley Johnson. A gap in education, H. D.
Sedgwick, jr. The difficult minute, R. E.
Young. A glimpse of Pittsburg, William
Lucien Scaife. The brute, William Vaughn
Moody. The tory lover, X-XIL, Sarah Orne
Jewett. In the last days of the confederacy,
Sarah Matthews Handy. The Esmeralda
herders, Elia W. Peattie. 'Rowland Robin-
son, Julia C. R. Dorr. The child in the li-
brary, Edith Lanigan. Sky-children, Jeffer-
son Fletcher. The final quest, Alice Brown.
Fiction, new and old : Mrs. Ward's later
novels. Tommy and Grizel, The Haworth
Bronte, Stockton's novels and stories. Two
lives of Cromwell, Rollo Ogden. The Con-
tributors' club : Cant in criticism, a back num-
ber, sine qua non, dilemma of the modern
poet.

Catholic World: Leo xnfs message to the
twentieth century. The encyclical letter of
Leo xiii., Rev. A. P. Dole, C.S.P. Saint
Paul the Apostle and our modern life, Rev.
Joseph McSorley, C.S.P. Sweetheart Ab-
bey,* Agnes C. Storer. The tides, William
Seton, LL.D. The buried casket, Ethel Nast.
The two ways,* (poem.) Dogma and dog-
matism, E. F. G. The story of Whittier's
Countess,* Mary E. Desmond. Christ, the
true civilizer, K. F. Mullaney. A winter
night, (poem), James Buckham. The Cath-
olic Women's Association,* Louise Girod.
Sorrow's epiphany, (poem), Mary Blake
Morse. The mother of John, Minnie Sars-
field Gilmore. A New Year,* (poem),
Charles Hanson Towne.

Century Magazine: A comedy of con-
science,* S. Weir Mitchell. Storm song of
the Norsemen,* Mildred T. McNeal. The
United States Patent Office,* E. V. Smalley.
Aftermath, Hildegarde Hawthorne. The
helmet of Navarre vn.,* Bertha Runkle. The
orient, Richard Hovey. Running the canons
of the Rio Grande,* Robert T. Hill. Ham-
let's castle,* Jacob A. Riis. How darest
thou wait?, John Vance Cheney. The man
who went with the place,* Margaret L.
Knapp. The wolf, John H. Boner. Shadow
and sunlight in East London,* Sir Walter
Besant. The march of progress,* Charles W.
Chesnutt. "Under the sun," Charles Ros-
well Bacon. Examples of American por-
traiture, IV., a family group, painted by
George De Forest Brush. Stephen Phillips,*
Edmund Gosse.> What the government
costs, Carroll D. Wright. Her mountain
lover, III.,* Hamlin Garland. Besieged in
Pekin,* Cecile E. Payen. Some Americans
abroad, L, Charles Battell Loomis.

Contemporary Rev^e^v (December) : Chi-
nese foreign policy, John Ross. Russia's for-
eign policy, by a Russian Publicist. Max

Mueller, Andrew Lang. Exploration of
Crete, D. G. Hogarth. The philosophy of a
saint, H. W. Massingham. Mr. John Mor-
ley's Cromwell, Samuel Gardiner. The cru-
cifixion and the war in The Creation, W. W.
Peyton. Social future of England, William
Clarke. Missionaries and governments,
Louise C. Brown. A philosophy of sport, H.
Graves. The outlook in Austria: a dream,
S. Schidrowitz. Genesis and outlook of re-
ligion, Goldwin Smith.

Fortnightly Reviezv (December) : A cab-
inet of commonplace, Calchas. The cyclist
soldier, H: G. Wells. The future of the lib-
eral party, Lord Rosebery's chance, J. A.
R. Marriott. The German Emperor, Lud-
wig Klausner-Dawoc. Society's duty to the
tramp, William Harbutt Dawson. The
housing question and the L. C. C., Charles
Sheridan Jones. The Scottish University
crisis, William Wallace. Maeterlinck's lat-
est drama, Count S. C. de Soissons. A plea
for peace: an Anglo-Russian alliance, J. W.
Gambier. Imperial federation: the condition
of progress, Edward Salmon. From an
eighteenth century escritoire, Ethel M. M.
McKenna. The autumn's books, Stephen
Gwynn. The sportsman's library: some
books of 1900, F. G. Aflalo. < St. Gervasse of
Plessy, Maurice Hewlett. Correspondence :
i, Disillusioned daughters, Miss Beale; 2, The
London school board, J. R. Diggle. The
wedding guest, J. M. Barrie.

Forum: The Liberal party in England, by
an English Liberal. Panama and Nicaragua
canals compared, Arthur P. Davis. The Dis-
trict of Columbia in its centennial year,
Henry B. F. Macfarland. New problems of
immigration, Prescott F. Hall. The new
Congressional apportionment, Henry Gan-
nett. Fall of Pekin, Rev. Gilbert Reid. Is
the college graduate impracticable?, Robert
Ellis Jones. Smokeless cannon powder: re-
cent discoveries, Hudson Maxim. A new in-
dustry brought by an insect, L. O. Howard.
Purpose of civil service reform, Henry Loo-
mis Nelson. Max Miiller and his work, A.
V. Williams Jackson. A century of Ameri-
can poetry, Oscar Lovell Triggs.

Harper's Magazine: Colonies and nation,*
Part L, Woodrow Wilson. The right of
way (a novel), Part I.,* Gilbert Parker.
My Japan,* Poultney Bigelow. The last
lynching in Cimarron* (a story), Cyrus
Townsend Brady. Cherry, a romance, Part
I.,* Booth Tarkington. Etchings (poem),
William Hamilton Hayne. A mixed pro-
posal,* W. W. Jacobs. Psyche winged
.(poem), Charlotte Elizabeth Wells. Dr.
Gowdy and the squash* l(story), Henry B.
Fuller. Solitude (poem), Mary Robinson.
The old Cabildo of New Orleans, Grace King.
Little friend coyote, an Indian folk-tale,*
G. B. Grinnell. The window of Dun-Angus*
(story), Alice L. Milligan. The black bear*
(poem), Francis Sterne Palmer. A wilder-
ness lullaby* (poem), Helen W. Ludlow.
Love-letters,* Part III., conclusion, Victor
Hugo.

Lippincott: When blades are out and
love's afield (complete novel), Cyrus Town-
send Brady. Poverty (poem), Clinton Scol-
lard. Washington : a predestined capital,

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[January, 1901

Anne Hollingsworth Wharton. The personal
equation, James Gardner Sanderson. Devo-
tion (poem), Hildegarde Hawthorne. The
transient stars (a quatrain), Dora Read
Goodale. Talks with Chinese women, Part
I.: Ah Quai, Lily Howard. Winter dawn
(poem), Albert Bigelow Paine. The day of
the president's message (story), Edwin L.
Sabin. Odd clubs, Lucy Monroe. The trou-
ble at Beaulieu, A. E. W. Mason. How the
horse travelled, Elliott Flower. Sarah Bern-
hardt in her 'teens, Albert Schinz. Books of
the month. Walnuts and wine.

Nineteenth Century (December) : The
strategical value of the channel islands, Wil-
liam Laird Clowes. "Balfourian ameliora-
tion" in Ireland, Right Hon. Horace Plun-
kett. Thomas Henry Huxley, Leslie Stephen.
Recent science, Prince Kropotkin. The
role of women in society: I., In eighteenth-
century France; II., in nineteenth-century
England, Hon. Lady Ponsonby. The defec-
tive addition to our company law, Judge Em-
den. A visit to the Boer prisoners at St.
Helena, Mrs. John Richard Green. The
poet's end, Frederick Wedmore. Present-
day progress in India, Protap Chunder Mo-

zoomdar. "The sources of Islam," Sir Wil-
liam Muir, K.C.S.T. Negligence in recruit-
ing, Capt. P. G. Elgood. The return of the
exile: a retrospect, Sir Charles Roe. The
newspapers, Sir Wemyss Reid. The usages
of war in South Africa, John MacDonald,
C.B. Are we really a nation of amateurs?,
Right Hon. Sir Herbert Maxwell, Bart.,
M.P. Lord Rosebery on the dangers to
British trade, Henry Birchenough.

Scribner't: Modern Athens,* George Hor-
ton. A day together, Mary Tappan Wright.
A prayer of old age (poem), Robert
Bridges. No sinecure more adventures of
the amateur cracksman,* E. W. Hornung.
Resurgam (poem), Grace Ellery Channing.
Winchelsea, Rye, and "Denis Duval,"*
Henry James. Russia of to-day : III., The
Caucasus,* Henry Norman, M.P. A com-
parison of the armies in China,* Thomas F.
Millard. Auguste Rodin,* W. C. Brownell.
The fight against advertising disfigure-
ment, Arthur Reed Kimball. The plague
ship a story of the China coast, Stephen
Bonsai. The stars (sonnet), Marguerite
Merington. The point of view. The field of
art.*

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ordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of the
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has written an important book on "The Co-
lombian and Venezuelan Republics," with
notes on other parts of Central and South
America. This has been brought out with
three colored maps and ten full-page illus-
trations.

The author, in his official capacity, had ex-
ceptional opportunities for studying these
countries and their people. He describes
their climatic conditions ; and many of the
places which have been considered unhealthy
by those who are ignorant of the facts he
finds the reverse. His experience of twenty-
five years has led him to know exactly those
localities which are to be avoided by stran-
gers. The magnificent mountain scenery of
the Magdalena Valley and the gorgeous trop-

ical scenery and luxuriant vegetable life are
described at length. The great difficulties of
transportation are dwelt upon ; and he points
out the need of better conditions, which
would lead to the development of the magnifi-
cent resources of the countries.

The volume contains chapters on the Agri-
cultural Products of Venezuela, on the Guay-
ana Boundary Question, the Isthmus of
Panama, and Panama Canal projects, the
Rights and Duties of Foreign Residents in
South America, the Monroe Doctrine, the
Venezuelan Arbitration Award of 1899, etc.
The book should be invaluable to a person-
intending to travel or settle in South or Cen-
tral America, for it contains much practical
advice upon the best methods of dealing with
the native population and the best parts of
the country in which to settle. (Little, Brown
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[February, 1901

that of his brother.

Hi from " Life of Phillips Brooks

PHILLIPS BROOKS AND HIS MOTHER
FROM FAMILY GROUP IN 1862.

Life of Bishop Brooks.

THIS is a great life of a great American or unmake any ecclesiastical point. He has
citizen. Not in vain has the public waited tried faithfully and succeeded admirably in
seven years for this biography, whose ma- the task of presenting the large-souled, pure-
terials were partly in hand for the work lived, strong, saintly human man who lived
which was to have been done by Rev. Arthur and loved, and conquered, and died at the
Brooks before his death, so soon following age of fifty-seven, after having preached with

superb oratory for more than thirty years a
simple, practical every-day religion of the
spirit to the men and women of his time.

When Phillips Brooks was ordained bishop
in Boston, fifteen months before he died,
Bishop Potter preached the ordination ser-
mon. Six words that he said, not recorded
in this book in the appreciative mention made
of his "eloquent and felicitous words to the
bishop-elect," were like the voice of the peo-
ple. They were certainly unusual words, and
doubtless unpremeditated. Bishop Potter had
made his speech, and had recalled their
youthful days together at the Virginia sem-
irary where as young men both had prepared
for the ministry. Then he looked at Phillips

Brooks, who had risen in his plaCC in a front

pew before the vast audience as the address
grew personal, and stood looking at his old

** in the P uI P Jt of Trinitv Church > that
had lo "S b <*" hl * own. And Bishop Potter

Reproduction by The Beacon from LM. of Phillip, Brooks."

PHILLIPS BROOKS AT THE AGE OF FORTY.

One vital and helpful quality that was
characteristic of Phillips Brooks is plain in
this full-length living portrait of the man as
"he was his lively and abounding humor, his
perennial power to see and enjoy the sane
and saving fun that accompanies this serious
business of living. He had a Shakesperean
.joy in nonsense, and, although he seldom
talked it out fully, except to children who
Tcnow its value, there are constant glints and
glimpses of it in his letters to all his friends.
.A great many of these are given in the 1600
pages of these two bulky volumes

They bring the reader very near to their
subject, especially in his letters to close, life-
long friends.

The "Life" is a book greatly like its sub-
ject, greater than sects or creeds or doc-
trines. Prof. Allen has not sought to make

Reproduction by The Beacon from " Life of Phillipi Brooki."
PHILLIPS BROOKS AT THE AGE OF TWENTY-TWO.

February, 1901]

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"I love you through and through."
An eloquent preacher, a great orator; these
would probably be the words wherein those
who have not yet read Prof. Allen's "Life"
would speak of Phillips Brooks. But the ef-
fect of the book upon the understanding is
very much the effect of that week of Monday
talks in lower. New York multiplied a mil-
lion-fold. He appealed
to men, because in his
own strong, pure per-
sonality he assured
them of his absolute
personal knowledge of
the thing every human
spirit hungers f o r
certainty of communion
with the source of spir-
it, with the Father of
souls.

Phillips Brooks knew
the modern world, and
was in touch with its
science, literature, art,
philosophy, its luxury
and its progress. He
knew the thoughts and
ambitions of his time;
he knew, too, with an
intense and unimpeach-
able sincerity in his
power to impart it, that
these are all but part of
the great organic body
whose health is life, is
eternal spirit. His con-
viction was as absolute
that "the way and the
truth and. the life" are
to be found in the per-
sonal power of Christ.
He did not believe that
abstract truth alone
moves the higher orders

and which must come in a measure from the
manner of life depicted rather than the men
who adorned and vitalized that life, which
in its last analysis was scholarship pure and
simple, scholarship and nothing else. Mr.
Tuckwell's reminiscences date back to the
thirties, the earliest, we suspect, being rather
second-hand traditions than first-hand bona-

Tuckwell's " Reminiscences of Oxford." Cassell & Co., Limited

A VIEW FROM TRINITY COLLEGE, OXFORD.

of minds. That he declared to be "the con- fide, personal recollections a period when
ceit of culture." "Yes, it is the personal Oxford differed in many ways from the Ox-
power that is mighty in the world." (Dutton. ford of to-day ; and which is chiefly interest-
ing now as the seed-sown soil of studies
which, tentative then, have since become
sciences, and which are its noblest outcome,
one of the chapters describing "Prescientific
Science" and another "Scientific Science."

One of the most remarkable, if not, indeed,
in connection with several books of which he the most remarkable, of all the characters
is the author, a collection of personal recol- who figure in Dr. Tuckwell's "Reminiscences"

$7.50.) Mail and Express.

Reminiscences of Oxford.

WE have in "Reminiscences of Oxford,"
by the Rev W. Tuckwell, whose name is
new to us, though it figures on his title-page

lections which possess a greater charm than
the intellectual importance of the names

as Mark Pattison, his analysis of whom is
masterpiece of intellectual portraiture.

about which they cluster seems to warrant, (Cassell. $2 50.) Mail and Express.

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[February, 1901

The Riverside Biographical Series.

THE special attention now given to American
history makes it very desirable that students
should be able to supplement the study of
histories like Mr. Fiske's with a better ac-
quaintance with the men and women who
have made history. In a democratic republic
the growth of the nation' can be traced in many
important respects in the lives of the leaders
of the people, in the state, in the army or navy,
in the church, in letters, science, invention,
art, industry, exploration, pioneering, or in any
of the diverse fields of human activity. The
Riverside Biographical Series has been planned
to supply this need. Each biography will be
written bya person peculiarly qualified to write
it with full knowledge, discrimination, and
literary skill. It is proposed to issue monthly,
during the school year, compact, readable, bio-
graphic studies of one hundred pages, or
thereabout, and it is hoped that ultimately
this series will form a Biographical History
of the United States.

During the school year of 1900-1901 the
subjects of these volumes will be Benjamin
Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson,
James B. Eads, Peter Cooper, William Penn,
Lewis and Clarke, Ulysses S. Grant. The

From Riverside Biographical Series. Copyright, 1900, b;

PETER COOPER.

volumes will contain a hundred pages or
more, will be i6mo in size, and will appear in
two editions one for school use, and one
with photogravure portrait and in library
style for the general public.

The volumes already issued are "Andrew
Jackson," by William Garrott Brown : "James
B. Eads," by Louis How; and "Benjamin
Franklin," by Paul Elmer More. The next
to come are "Peter Cooper" and "William
Penn." The series has already secured pop-
ular favor and its merits are far beyond the
comprehension of the populace. The idea is
excellent and the books carry it out well.
(Houghton, Mifflin & Co. ea., 75 c.)

History of Scotland.

IT is perhaps not unusual for a man of let-
ters to be tempted from his accustomed do-
main into historical writing. Like Carlyle,
Macaulay, and many others, Mr. Andrew
Lang has shown his versatility in a new light
by bringing out a volume of serious history.
The first volume of his "History of Scotland"
has not the excuse of passionate inspiration
which explained Carlyle's account of the
French Revolution ; neither is it, nor is it
intended to be, the masterpiece of literary
history which Macaulay's labor-
ious effort resulted in. The
raison d etre can only be found in
Mr. Lang's love for his home peo-
ple, and his interest in their ro-
mantic past. The volume is nev-
ertheless history in its best sense,
written with all the sympathy of
an enthusiast, with all the thor-
oughness of a scholar, and with
the truthful impartiality of the his-
torian. Indeed, while the book
bears evidence of careful investi-
gation into ancient documents and
manuscripts, the reader's most
lasting impression is of Mr. Lang's
desire to be absolutely fair and
just in his conclusions. Of course
there are many times when the
historian's careful examination
shatters some ideal of Scottish ro-
mance, yet with apparent unwill-
ingness and regret. The truth will
out, however, as when the author
finds himself compelled to state
the barbarities of Wallace, or the
many treacheries of Robert Bruce
in his earlier days. The book is
uy no means easy reading. This
does not arise from any mustiness

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of ideas or of facts, but rather be-
cause of the multiplicity of details
incorporated into the history. Yet
as one reads on and becomes ac-
customed to the method pursued,
this difficulty gradually disappears.
In spite of the detailed method of
statement, there has been created
for the Scottish people, and for
each period, an atmosphere in
which men and events are seen
with true and clear vision. This
is the best feature of the book, and
one attempted by most historians
only in the form of separate and
didactic statement. Here it is not
stated at all, but it is woven, with
fine technique, into the web of
storj. Details soon pass from the
Tiemory; but a knowledge of the
temper and characteristics of the
Scottish people will remain to all
readers of this history. Volume I
covers the period from the Roman
occupation to the murder of Car-
dinal Beaton. (Dodd, Mead &
Co. v. i. $3.50.) The Dial.

Short Story Writing.

A PRACTICAL treatise on the art
of the short story, designed to pre-
sent concretely the rules of that art. It is a
working manual, not a collection of untried
theories ; it is based upon deductions made by
the author in the course of some years as a
student, writer and critic of short stories, and
it tells how to write a story that will meet the
requirements of contemporary editors. Mr.
Barrett traces the development of the short
story idea from the moment of its conception
in the author's brain, through its various
stages of elaboration and growth, till it is a
complete and perfect story, ready for edi-
torial judgment. After defining the short
story and analyzing its general nature, he
presents a practical working classification.
He then discusses the necessity and treat-
ment of the plot, the influence of the title on
the success of the story, and the use and
abuse of facts in fiction. The proper han-
dling of the characters, as regards descrip-
tion, action and conversation, is carefully ex-
plained. The several methods of telling the
story are stated and considered at length,
and the treatment of the beginning, the story
proper, the climax and the conclusion receives
especial attention.

Though primarily didactic, the book is writ-

WILLIAM PENN.

ten in an entertaining style, and will prove of
interest to every student of general literature.
(Baker & Taylor. $r.)

The Biography of a Baby.

Miss MILICENT SHINN has already proved
her remarkable gifts for observing children
and describing their development. This book
makes an original and important contribution
to child-study. It records carefully but in
popular style her observations on her niece
during the first year of the baby's life. She
studied the development of sensation and
consciousness, of emotion and intelligence,
of sight and hearing and talking, of volun-
tary motion and much besides. Miss Shinn
is so strong in psychological research that
her previous writings in regard to children
have been widely quoted by some of the fore-
most writers on Psychology. This equip-
ment lends tc Miss Shinn's present book a
positive scientific value, while her popular
treatment makes it interesting to the general
reader who has a proper regard and inquisi-
tiveness concerning babies. It cannot fail to
repay study in multitudes of households.
(Houghton. Mifflin & Co. $1.50.)

THE LITERARY NEWS.

[February, 1901

House of Egremort. woods solemnly dark, the river making its

IN another, moment his eyes were free, way musica'ly through copses and thickets,
and he found himself alone upon a hillside, an-d then resting silently in broad black pools,
and on the gro.und by him a small portman- Before him on the crest of a gentle hill was a
teau containing clothes and a considerable group of rustling elms, that he knew lay be-
sum of money. As he would not accept of tween him and the view of the mansion.

Dashing through the trees
he came in full sight of his
home, lying in the plateau
below. The house was
lighted up, although it was
late, and he could see ser-
vants and many persons
moving about. Evidently
some festivity was in prog-
ress. The rows of^ great
windows blazed brilliantly,
and the faint echo of mu-
sic and the beating of the
feet of the dancers was
borne on the wandering
wind of night. Roger
Egremont stood and
watched it, with a face pale
with imprisonment, and
pale with u n s p e a kable
wrath and anguish. The
dazzling moon showed him
that the oak avenue was
gone, every tree cut down,
and he struck his hands to-
gether in an agony of rage
at what he considered rob-
bery and mutilation of
what was his. They
thought, no doubt, that he
would go, like a beaten
hound, and ask his half-
brother for a dole of
money and a roof to shel-
ter him. Such indeed had
been the King's hope,
knowing very well that it
would be as much as Hugo
Egremont's life was worth,
in the state of feeling of
the country, to refuse a
share of all he had with
Roger. But Roger was of
the temper which will have all or nothing.
He would make no terms with those who had
robbed him.

After an hour or two of anguish he became
calm. One of the things which he had found
out, as the result of his newly-acquired
knowledge of books, was that he had more
control over himself, more philosophy in

HERE ARE PEN, INK, AND PAPER.

his liberty any other way, King William had
simply flung him out of prison.

Roger recognized his surroundings at once.
He was at Egremont. The night was ra-
diant with moon and stars, and before him
was a great rich, beautiful moonlit land-
scape, the line of distant hills rising cloud-
like upon the faint horizon, the masses of

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MAJOR J. B. POND.

short. He kr.ew, sad as was his own case,
that there had been worse. He recalled them
to his mind, and fortified himself with them.

He awaked with the break of day. If the
sight of Egrernont by moonlight had pierced
his soul with its beauty, it seemed to him
even more beautiful in the still, pale loveli-
ness of the early dawn. A faint rosy light
lay over the green fields and stately woods.
The larks and thrushes Egremont had ever
been celebrated for its birds made them-
selves heard in sweet, soft chirpings before
bursting into full-throated song. The deer,
red and dun, came forth from the dells and
thickets in the park, and tossing their delicate
heads sniffed the freshness of the morning.

Roger Egremont noted all these things with
a heart near tc breaking. They had been his,
and they were his enemy's and that enemy
was the halt-brother he had befriended.
(Scribner. $1.50.) From Seawell's "The
House of Egremont."

The Eccentricities of Genius.

EVERY consideration bids one characterize
this as a remarkable book. It has a thousand
charms, one might say, and a thousand points
of interest. It is full of striking gems of
thought, rare descriptions of men and places;
biographical bits that delight one by their va-
riety, and the distinction of those alluded to.
From a literary view it is as interesting as
Disraeli's fame us "Curiosities of Literature."

Major Pond has had intimate relations with
nearly all the orators, statesmen, travellers.,
soldiers, authors, and clergymen of our time.
He has known them, talked with them, man-
aged their tours as platform speakers, and in
his capacity as friend, associate, and manager
of so many unique and notable personages,,
has been enabled to make of himself a verit-
able Boswell in manifold, recording the words
and acts of scores of great ones in all walks.
of life.

This book abounds in personal sketches of

40 THE LITERARY NEWS. [February, 1901

famous men and women, and the sketches are Mr. Dooley's Philosophy.

so picturesque in expression, so vivid in por- AFTER reading this third volume of Mr.

trayal, and so interesting as a whole, that one Dooley's comments on men, manners, and

finds it hard to believe that one mind could events, we feel tempted to put him at the

retain intact without confusion so vast a col- head of the humorists of all time. No exact

lection of personal impressions, each as dif- parallel to his peculiar quality occurs to us.

ferentiated from the other as the characters of As caustic as Swift, as merrily trenchant as

the men and women .written of were them- Montaigne, as drolly unexpected as Mark

selves diverse and different. As a collection Twain, as unsparing as Thomas Nast, he has

of memoirs alone, this volume is delightful powers all his own, insight like a revealing

because so many men are written about whose flash, humor as brilliant and pervasive as sun-

names are household words to us ; such names, shine, observation as relentless as

A variety of subjects are touched in thi

guished sons who have made American plat- a sentence which contains a terrible truth,

forms eloquent with fluent and pleasing speech as many popular idols from Kossuth down

during the past generation, but there are dis- could testify.

tinguished daughters, too. Among these we The papers on "The Education of the

note Susan Anthony, Charlotte Cushman, Young" and on the "President's Message"

Anna Dic'k : nson, Miss Livermore, and a mini- are so delightful that we should like to quote

ber of other ladies equal in talent and fame. them bodily did space permit. But some-

In some respects this remarkable book thing must be left for the buyers of the book,

reaches the plane of a history. It does this in- and we forbear. .(Russell. $1.50.) Boston

asmuch as it recounts details of localities and Litcrar\ U'orld.
many graphic events that transpired in them.

When you identify world-celebrities with noted . L'ENYOl.

places you create a connecting link between Th^^S^rt'kiUed some ' ere t he niTht wind blew
history and biography, and the annals of his- Some lingered and gained but ill repute;
toric localities and this sort of writing is of the Only one came to the perfect fruit.
utmost worth, as well as the utmost interest. A hundred see ds from the branches fell;

The hundred or more illustrations in this How many were lost I cannot tell;
volume are mostly published for the first time, S me throve for a while and were fair to see;
and they add singular interest to the text.

The whole book is of a class which Amer- I fl "g to the air some son s s of mine:

, 1-1 And little I cared for the ninety and nine;

leans love to cherish as presenting a store- r thought of the one that might descend

house of facts respecting personages grown And flourish, perchance, in the heart of a friend.

dear to the American household. (Billing- (Putnam. $1.25.) From Cole's "In Scipio's

ham. $3.50.) Philadelphia Item. Gardens and Other Poems."

February, 1901]

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ANNA HELD.

Our Players' Gallery.

MESSRS. MEYER BROTHERS & Co. ha
tainly every reason to feel confident
that they have started a magazine
that before long will count among
its subscribers every "matinee girl"
of the land. The intense pleasure
it will give them to know that every
other month will bring them up-
wards of forty portraits of the men
and women they have seen upon the
boards, together with information,
anecdotes, and gossip about them, as
well as criticism and knowledge re-
garding their special talents for the
roles in which they will be pictured.

The first number lies before us.
It is meant especially to show the
fine quality of the reproductions of
photographs, and is published with-
out text. The second number has
been enlarged with interesting read-
ing matter, and we are promised
that the third number will devote a
full page to each artist, reproducing
the photographs in the best charac-
ters and furnishing a complete bi-
ography. Sixteen pages will be
given each month. A year's collec-
tion of such photographs will make

an actors' album of great value not
only for the half-hysterical admir-
ing girls, but for all students of
drama.

Among the actors already pictured
are Julia Marlowe, beautiful as Bar-
bara Frietchie, Mrs. Gilbert, Joe
Jefferson, Mary Mannering in six
characters, Ada Rehan, Olga Neth-
ersole, Mme. Modjeska, Maude
Adams as "Juliet" and as "L'Aig-
lon" and as "The Little Minister;"
Ellen" Terry, Sir Henry Irving, and
the two favorites we have chosen for
reproduction.

It may be confidently asserted that
this magazine needs only time to
make its successful entry into every
home of culture. It is the hand-
somest, most practical, most relia-
ble and most up-to-date gallery of
leading actors and actresses. In
these days when theatre has almost
crowded out dancing and all other
amusements a magazine of this kind
needs only to be properly brought
to the right people to be a pro-
nounced and lasting success. The '

price is only nominal 25c. a number. (Meyer

Bros. & Co.)

,r Players' Gallery." Copyiight,

EDNA MAY.

THE LITERARY NEWS.

[February, 1901

Courtesy of D. Appleton A Co.

Edward Eggleston.

CLERGYMAN, novelist, and educational writ-
er, Mr. Edward Eggleston will be longest
remembered as an American historian. He
has already rendered great service to the
student of our national life and its develop-
ment; he promises to do still more, for he is
in the fulness of his majority, in the best
period of man's intellectual power he is
sixty-three. Born on December 10, 1837, at
Vevay, Ind., Mr. Eggleston entered the min-
istry in 1857, travelling circuit in the south-
eastern part of his native State, and later in
Minnesota, his experiences of nearly a de-
cade in this calling resulting at a later date in
his novel, "The Circuit Rider." Mr. Eggles-
ton was a journalist during the years 1866-
1872, being connected in diverse editorial ca-
pacities with several papers, among them the
Independent of this city. In 1874-79 he was
pastor of the Church of Christian Endeavor
in Brooklyn, when he retired from the min-
istry to devote himself entirely to literature.
His first novel, "The Hoosier Schoolmaster,"
had already appeared in 1871, "The End of
the World" in the following year, "The Mys-
tery of Metropolisville" in 1873, and "The
Circuit Rider" in 1874. "The Faith Doctor"
appeared in 1891. With his school "History
of the United States and Its People," his
"Household History," and "First Book of
American History," Mr. Eggleston entered
upon the field in which his real services to
his countrymen were to be rendered.

A few years ago appeared "The Beginners
of a Nation," the first volume of his projected
"History of Life in the United States," which
promises to become one of the world's great
historical works. The study of events is
currently considered "history," but below
these events lie their causes, the life of a
people in its origin, development and growth.
It is this deeper, less tangible, because all

pervading, history that Mr. Eggleston has
chosen for his field. The second volume of
his study was published last -year. It deals
with "The Transit of Civilization from Eng-
land to America in the Seventeenth Century."
Mr. Eggleston gives life to the past. Eru-
dite, he is never dry ; forced, after the lapse
of two centuries, to reconstitute from meagre
fragments one connected whole, he never con-
founds testimony with evidence, nor allows his
imagination to obscure his logic. He is a
scientific historian with an artistic method
entertaining, informing, interesting, and re-
liable. His "History of Life in the United
States " is destined to become one of the
standard works of our historical literature.
(Appleton. $1.50.) Mail and Express.

Eleanor.

I HASTEN to record my own impression,
after reading the skilfully reserved and ex-
tremely beautiful winding up of "Eleanor"
that no discerning reader can be disappointed
therewith, and that the new romance is,
upon the whole, altogether the finest thing
that Mrs. Ward has done.

Yet "Eleanor" will be a surprise, in some
ways, to those who have not followed atten-
tively, in its author's later work, the gradual
alteration of her method and the new devel-
opment of her distinguished talent. It will
hardly, I suppose, be disputed that, at a time
when there are multitudes of women at work

Courtesy of Harper &

THEODORE BURT SAYRE, AUTHOR OF "THE SON
OF CARLEYCROFT."

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in the literary mills, turning off,
with reasonable success, many
kinds of skilled labor which used
to be supposed impossible for any
woman, Mrs. Ward's place in the
honor list is among the very few
double-firsts of her sex: with
Charlotte Bronte, certainly, and
George Sand, and Matilde Serao;
and only a little lower than Emily
Bronte and Mrs. Browning and
George Eliot.

In "Eleanor" one is tempted, in
the glow of one's first enthusiasm
over the delicate and restrained
yet infinitely moving conclusion of
the story, to say that there is no
flaw whatever. The loveliest feat-
ture of it, as a psychological
study, is the noble reaction of the
two women upon one another. Let
us do justice, after all, to the un-
easy age in which we live; whose
fads do fret, whose manners dis-
please, whose hitherto unheard-of
claims and innovations often fair-
ly appal us. Women are less
petty, upon the whole, than they
were let us say in the days of
Miss Austen. Never before our
time would the invigorating truth
have been instantly and wUely
recognized of the great scenes be-
tween Dinah and Hetty in "Adam
Bede," between Dorothea and
Rosamund in "Middlemarch," be-
tween Eleanor and Lucy in the
last chapters in Mrs. Ward's new
story.

Mrs. Ward introduces us to one peculiarly
fine type of Italian womanhood in the Con-
tessa Guerrini. She is a minor character, in-
deed, and comes rather late into the story,
but, as not infrequently happens, the figure on
the second plane seems drawn with a firmer
and more expert hand than even those fore-
most ones on which a more anxious industry
has been bestowed. A brave, wise woman is
the old countess a woman of the oldest
race and the youngest sympathies.

The scene of "Eleanor" all passes in rural
Italy: first, among the storied hills to the
south of Rome ; later, in the sylvan tract that
is dominated by the isolated Arx of Orvieto,
and the rarely explored nooks and valleys of
that minor mountain range which culminates
in the visiona-y peak of Monte Amiata.

But Mrs. Ward has done more and better
than faithfully to reproduce upon her English

LUCY FOSTER.

canvas the finest stage setting ever yet pro-
vided for every possible act in the human,
drama. Her eloquent dedication of the book
to the country shows that hers is no mere
sentimental infatuation, but a tried and sa-
cred love; and the same exceptional .experi-
ence which enabled her to handle with so-
masterly a freedom, in "Helbeck of Bannis-
dale," the sore problem presented by the clash
of hoary faith with modern thought assists
her to understand and analyze, as few out-
siders have done, the desperate and still un-
decided struggle between the old church and
the new state in Italy. Here all her learning
tells, and tells as learning should ; not loudly,
vauntingly, imperiously, but with the still
small voice that wins to a wider comprehen-
sion and a more sincere and searching chanty.
(Harper. $1.50.) Extract from Atlantic
Monthly.

THE LITERARY NEWS.

[February, 1901

Yesterdays With Authors.

ALTHOUGH a pleasing writer of prose and
verse, it is less as a maker of literature than
as a student, friend and promoter of it that
James T. Fields is remembered. At the early
age of twenty-one Mr. Fields became a part-
ner in the publishing house of Allen & Tick-
nor, which then changed its name to Ticknor

From " In the Hands of the Rl Coats." Copyright, 1900, b;
THE CHASE.

& Fields, an imprint which appeared upon the
first works of some of the choicest spirits
among American authors.

In the course of his various visits to Eu-
rope, the first of which he made in 1847, Mr.
Fields formed the acquaintance of the vener-
able poet Rogers, Wordsworth, Wilson, Lan-
der, Tennyson, Mrs. Jameson, John Kenyon,
Barry Cornwall, Miss Mitford, Leigh Hunt,
Dickens, Thackeray, Charles Reade, the
Brownings, De Quincey, Wilkie Collins, and
George Eliot. With many of these he formed
intimate friendships, and. at Oxford, he was

the guest of Charles Reade, who was the
bursar of Magdalen College at the time. Mr.
Fields thus stood in a three-fold relation to
literature, for the greater part of his life was
devoted to a pursuit that advanced the ma-
terial interests of authors ; he was their
steadfast friend; and, moreover, he was one
of them himself. Of all his author-friends
Mr. Fields possessed precious re-
membrances.

In 1873 he published his "Yes-
terdays with Authors," of which
the first holiday edition was pre-
pared in 1880, when twenty-two
editions had already bee ex-
hausted. The book in which Mr.
Fields wrote in such informal and
genial manner of the many emi-
nent authors he had known per-
sonally was received with un-
sua! favor in England, and for
twenty-eight years has continued
among the most charming works
of literary reminiscence. The pa-
per on Wordsworth has contin-
ued to date the model of a clear
and forcible sketch of a man of
genius.

The book is too well known,
too dear to so many of us to need
one word of description. It is
gooc 1 to know that the new edi-
tion brought out during the holi-
days met with satisfying recep-
tion. It is also interesting to note
that this book is still published by
Houghton, Mifflin & Co., the di-
rect descendants of the old Tick-
nor & Fields firm. If ever in
doubt what to give a friend who
truly loves books, try one of the
holiday issues of James T. Fields'
"Yesterdays with Author s."
(Houghton, Mifflin & Co. $3.50.)

The Peace Conference at The Hague.

THE Hague Conference has completely
passed out of sight amid the clash of arms
of the past fifteen months, and even at the
time it was sitting there were few persons
who thought that it was anything more than
a Utopian dream. That this notion prevailed
was largely due to the attitude maintained
by some members of the Conference towards
the Press. Journalists were not admitted, and
as the diplomatists were unsympathetic and
in some cases even hostile to the journalists
at The Hague, the newspapers withdrew their

February, IQOI]

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Courtesy of Charles Scribner's Sons.
PROFESSOR BARRETT WENDELL.

representatives, and little notice was taken
of the Conference. The author of this book,
Mr. Frederick W. Holls, was one of the
American members of the Conference, and it
is his conviction that at The Hague a great
and glorious result was accomplished not
only in the humanizing of warfare and the
codification of the laws of war, but, above
all, in the establishment of a permanent In-
ternational Court of Arbitration. The offi-
cial records of the Conference have not yet
been published in the English language, and
Mr. Holls' aim has been to tell what took
place with sufficient fulness for the student
of international law without making the book
too technical for the general reader. Par-
ticular attention has been paid to the action
of the British and American Governments
and their representatives at the Conference.
The work of the various committees is given
very fully, and by the help of the Table of
Contents and of the Index any point can be
referred to at once. "The book is invaluable
to students of international law and publicists
generally. (Macmillan. $3.) The Academy.

Herod.

IF there were any doubters whether Mr.
Phillips could repeat the success of "Paolo and
Francesca," their doubts must have been al-
layed by the production of "Herod," on which
row follows publication. Yet repetition, the
thing to be most feared, there is none.
"Herod" is in some respects not so good, in
some respects better, or at least more strik-
ing; but it is in every respect different. In
the former play four persons claimed and
held an interest; in "Herod" there is only
one. There is Herod who lives, breathes,
and burns till the final frost benumbs him;

there are other personages, none of whom
matter. Owing to the scope of the play and
it is marvellous to consider how much Mr.
Phillips has packed into three acts Herod
was bound to dominate, to be the only per-
sonality who mattered except Mariamne. She
is never so real as in the last act. A great
actress might put a body and soul into the
part, but it would be her achievement, not
that of Mr. Phillips. One felt that on see-
ing the part played ; one is sure of it on read-
ing the book. The truth is that Mr. Phillips
has not really thought about Mariamne; he
had the story to go on; he has conjectured
more or less what happened ; he takes a
guess now and then at Mariamne's feelings ;
but he has thought all the time of Herod,
Herod, nothing but Herod. And the result
is, as we have said, a drama of one person;
but it is no small achievement to have re-
created one of the world's great men. Herod
is as real as Faustus, as Shylock. as An-
tony. . . .

What I have tried to do is to interpret
what seemed least obvious and most admir-
able in the conception of the finest part in .
this noble piece of dramatic poetry, the like
of which has most certainly not been given
since the days of Shakespeare and his fel-
lows. (Lane. $1.50.) The Contemporary
Review.

CYRUS TOWNSEND BRADY.

THE LITERARY NEWS.

[February, 1901

Newest England.

IT is an interesting account of the reforms,
innovations and experiments recently made
in New Zealand which is offered us in the book
called "Newest England" by Henry Demarest
Lloyd. The author went to New Zealand, he
tells us, to see what had been accomplished by
certain political methods in the country where-
in those methods have had a trial. Unques-
tionably New Zealand may be looked upon as
the "experiment station" of advanced legisla-
tion. Reforms that elsewhere are only talked
about this far away insular commonwealth has
actually attempted. It must, indeed, be rec-
ognized that, of everything done in this re-
mote corner of Australasia, the germs were
stored in the older parts of the world. In
the whole list of New Zealand reforms there
is nothing bizarre, nothing that has not been
outlined in the evolution progressing even
in monarchical countries, but it was the good
fortune of the New Zealanders that they
could make the history sighed for elsewhere,
without making the revolutions for fear of
which men do nothing but sigh. Not that the
Newest England is depicted as a Utopia. That
New Zealand is no paradise is evident from

From "Idle Idyls."

the fact that honest, industrious people could
leach the age of 65, after having lived twenty-
five years in the archipelago, and yet need an
old age pension. The other day, when the
author of this book* was visiting the country,
he found the press and the people anxiously
discussing a decrease of the birth rate, a de-
crease manifestly due to an enonomic pressure
which makes people afraid to have children.
Then again, it was but a few years ago that the
reports of the Colonial Secretary of Labor
were very gloomy revelations ; at that time the
streets of the larger towns were swarming at
night with young men and women unable to
obtain employment. There is, too, a sheep
ring, and there is a coal ring, in New Zealand,
and there are indications of a timber ring, and
of a combination against the sheep formers
among the great meat-freezing exporters.
There is not one of the new institutions deal-
ing with land, labor, taxation, finance and
government industry which is not acknowl-
edged by our author to be lame somewhere,
but he submits that, for experimenting, it
may be said that, though lame, it still moves,
and moves faster in New Zealand than else-
where. It is not pretended by the inhabitants
of Newest England that they have reached
any final "social solution." All they claim is
that they have tried to find solutions, and
they believe themselves entitled to report prog-
ress. In fine, Mr. Lloyd, while not describ-
ing the New Zealanders as the most civilized,
the most happy and the most prosperous
people in the world, thinks that they may
fairly be termed the least uncivilized, the least
unhappy and the least disinherited. The au-
thor's "Country Without Strikes" may also
be read with profit. (Doubleday, Page &
Co. $1.50.) AT. Y. Sun.

In and Around the Grand Canyon.

AMERICAN interests in the Grand Canyon
has greatly increased in the last few years,
and the wonders of this sublime spectacle
are now visited by great numbers of people.
The present work, by George Wharton James,
is not an ordinary book of hasty travel and
hurried description, but the growth of ten
years' visits by the author, during which he
has explored the many wild and picturesque
trails of the Canyon, and has been tireless
in his work of gathering together all the lo-
cal history concerning these regions. He has
followed carefully all possible traces of the
early explorers, and relates, often in their
own fresh, vivid words, the records of their

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thrilling adventures and hairbreadth escapes
adventures so wild that they rival those we
read in the most sensational fiction. These
dramatic and stirring narratives are, how-
ever, stern facts, taken from government
records, and are absorbing in interest. The
author himself has met with many perilous
experiences, and tells them well. He finds
the scenery magnificent beyond description,
the Indians and their
legends and customs pic-
turesque, and the life of
a traveller and explorer
fascinating in spite of its
hardships. The illustra-
tion s are reproduced
from photographs taken
on the spot. (Little,
Brown Co. $3.)

Apes and Monkeys.

WHATEVER Mr. R. L.
Garner has to say about
ours kinsfolk, the Quad-
rumana, is reasonably
certain to be of interest.
"Apes and Monkeys,
Their Life and Lan-
guage," is his most im-
portant popular account
of his recent work in
searching out the psy-
chology of the brute
creation nearest us in
development, p h y s i c al
and intellectual. It con-
tains a brief narrative
of his stay in the wilds
of Africa during his at-
tempts to catch the
speech and observe the
manners of the manlike
apes in the open forests.
The account of the words
and vocal articulations
used by these animals
for the conveyance of
ideas is, it may be pre-
sumed, to be followed by a less popular and
more scientifically exact work on the subject.
It is to be noted with regret that Mr. Garner
appears to be so unfamiliar with the study
of phonetics that he has gone to the pains of
inventing a system of notation for the sounds
used by his brute companions, when Mr.
Alexander Graham Bell's "visible speech"
would have answered every purpose better.
Mr. Garner says of one of his chimpanzees

.(page 116) that he "succeeded in teaching
him one word of human speech," a statement
not borne ouc by his fuller account of the
experiment (pp. 135 et seq.) Dr. Edward
Everett Hale provides an interesting intro-
duction for the book, which is handsomely
designed and illustrated. With this book "The
Curse of Intellect," by Lady Cecil, would be
interesting. (Ginn & Co. $2.) The Dial.

The Romance of Gilbert Holmes.

MARSHALL MUNROE KIRKMAN has written
a bright romance of early Illinois of the Mis-
sissippi River as it was two-thirds of a cen-
tury ago. Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson
Davis figure in his pages.

The historical characters are among the
strongest and most convincing in the book.
Black Hawk appears on the scenes in the
early chapters in a heroic role, and Mr. Kirk-

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[February, 1901

man further champions the cause of the
abused Sac chief elsewhere in the story.

Mr. Kirkman locates the birthplace of his
hero "on the borders of a rolling prairie in
the great State of Illinois, near the spot
where the Big and Little Sandy mingle their
shallow waters to form the wandering Mau-
vaise Terre." The scene of action soon
shifts to the Mississippi River, where the
author has sought to reproduce the famous
and now vanished life of the great steam-
boat era. His descriptive powers are good

FRANK SCHELL BALLENTINE.

and what he lacks in dramatic terseness is
compensated for by his graphic powers and
by the skilful use of a sunny romantic at-
mosphere. (World Railway Pub. Co. $1.50.)

Modern Readers Bible.

THESE two clearly printed and prettily
bound volumes are a first instalment of a
new edition of the New Testament "in mod-
ern form and phrase." The first volume
gives the Gospel of St. Mark; the second
contains St. Matthew, together with the Epis-
tles of St. Peter, St. Jude and St. James,
which Mr. Ballentine considers to belong to
the same period. The third volume is to
contain the Gospel according to St. Luke and
the Acts of the Apostles ; the fourth and fifth
will give the Epistles of St. Paul, including
the Epistle to the Hebrews; and in the sixth
volume the Gospel, the Epistles and the

Revelation of St. John will be published to-
gether. In the' opinion of the editor and
translator, "this grouping gives us a histor-
ical view of the New Testament, and an ap-
preciation of its several parts, and the group
as a whole, which we cannot otherwise get
The historical perspective is good, and the
result of such a reading highly satisfactory."
Mr. Ballentine's translation is both pleas-
ing and edifying. It is another illustration
of the fact that any faithful and reverent
translation, on whatever particular plan it
may be made, is a publication of the. Word
of God and must tend to edification. In ad-
dition to the translation, Mr. Ballentine gives
an appendix of copious notes, some of which
are really admirable. (Whittaker. ea., 56 c. ;
$i.) 7Yi<? Church Standard, Philadelphia.

The Dream Fox Story Book.

UNLIKE Mrs. Wright's other books, the
"Dream Fox" is not a nature story, but the
wonderful adventures of a boy nick-named
Billy Button, who, after sticking "tongue
pins" into his mother and going to bed in
disgrace, spent the time between New Year's
eve and the next morning in the company of
a Dream Fox and a Night Mare. The ac-
tion of the book is vigorous, rapid and full
of humor, the Ash-Barrel Cat and the Bar-
ber's Parrot undoubtedly ranking with the
March Hare and the Mock-Turtle. The il-
lustrations are closely in touch with their
subjects and are in Mr. Herford's best vein,
wliile the origin of the game of the day as
told in the chapter entitled "Golf the Mad"
will interest older people.

A slight idea of the contents of the book
may be gained from the headings of the
twelve chapters : How Billy Button met
Peter Piper The Dream Fox Appears The
Sad Elopement of Wool Bridget The Ash-
Barrel Cat How Billy-Cat Did the Donts
The Barber's Parrot What Became of the
Old Year On the Road to the Castle of
Time The Power House How Billy Press-
ed the Button Golf the Mad Things that
Are Not What They Seem. The cover, pre-
senting the Dream Fox outlined against the
moon and riding on the Night Mare, is
printed in colors from the fantastic and strik-
ing design of Berkley Smith. The book is il-
lustrated with 80 drawings by Oliver Her-
ford, which, combined with the text of the
clever author of "Tommy Anne and the
Three Hearts," "Citizen Bird," etc., furnishes
a children's book of rare delight. (Macmillan.
net. $1.50.)

February, 1901]

THE LITERARY NEWS.

An Englishwoman's Love Letters.

"AN Englishwoman's Love Letters," just
published by Messrs. Doubleday, Page & Co.,
has attracted wide attention in England, as
published love letters are bound to do. They
are said to be genuine, but there is some
doubt as to this, one paper going so far as
to suggest that they are the work of the au-
thor of "Elizabeth and Her German Garden."
They are certainly clever enough to have been
written by "Elizabeth," and almost too clever
to be real love letters, notwithstanding the
passion that breathes through their lines.
The letters are addressed to a young Eng-
lishman to whom the writer was engaged to
be married. He seems to have been quite
an ordinary person, who preferred rabbit
shooting to more intellectual amusement and
who found no pleasure in reading any books
except romances of Dumas. It is no un-
usual thing for a brilliant woman to idealize
an ordinary man. The writer of these let-
ters put her lover upon a pedestal, a position
that he couli not occupy gracefully. Her
love and brilliancy seem to have overpowered
him, and he left her without a word of ex-
planation. Here is an extract from one of
her letters, which shows their quality:

"I will die, because in no other way can I
express how much I love you. I am pos-
sessed by all the despairing words about lost
happiness that the poets have written. They
go through me like ghosts : I am haunted by
them: but they are bloodless things. It
seems when I listen to all the other desolate
voices that have ever cried, that I alone have
blood in me. Nobody ever loved as I love
since the world began."

This is literature, and it is love. (Double-
day, Page & Co. $1.50.)

A Bicycle of Cathay.

A THOROUGHLY original mind is so rare
that it is not remarkable that Frank R. Stock-
ton has come to hold so unique a place in
the literature of our time. However trivial
the particular theme that he may happen to
choose, it can always be said that he treats
it in a way peculiarly his own, and one rarely
needs to read more than a few sentences be-
fore coming upon a purely Stocktonian turn
of thought, which reveals the authorship quite
as surely as the signature does. In his way
he is quite as individual as Mark Twain, and
his humor is as distinctively American. While
it is likely that in the time to come Mr. Stock-
ton will be best known by his short stories,

it is also true that his whimsical manner is
admirably adapted to a longer work of an
easy-going, fluent sort, in which a great deal
of space is given to the droll narrative of
trifles strung together by the slenderest of
threads. It may be that the thread is too
tenuous to last well, and that the longer tales
will be the first to succumb to the ravages of
time, but meanwhile let us be duly thankful
that we have them.

"A Bicycle of Cathay," which appeared as
a serial in Harper's, is a thoroughly typical
piece of work, from the punning conceit of
the title-page to the end. In one sense in-
credibly little happens. A country school
teacher goes on a bicycle tour, meets three
attractive young women one after the other,
and returns after all to the pretty doctor's
daughter who had thoughtfully given him,
the quinine pills for his journey. Few writ-
ers would have the hardihood to construct
a novel on so slight a frame. But Mr,
Stockton fills up the narrative with such an
easy flow of incident and such a variety of
absurd situations that the reader is insen-
sibly beguiled from page to page. The story
is told in the first person, and it needed a
delicate touch to make the handsome school
teacher tell without offence how these four
pretty young women surrendered to his
charms at first sight. What with sudden
showers, bicyclists with sprained ankles, wan-
dering trained bears and other such small in-
cidents as. may befall a bicyclist in a common-
place country like Cathay, where only the
young women are dangerous, the reader's
time is filled most pleasantly. (Harper.
$1.50.) Mail and Express.

St. Nicholas Book of Plays and Operettas.

THIS is a collection of plays in prose and
verse some of them, as the title indicates,
accompanied by music which have appeared
from time to time in the pages of St. Nicholas
during the entire life of that young folks'"
magazine. It includes such favorites as-
"The Ballad of Mary Jane," a shadow-play,
by Henry Baldwin, which can be performed
in any parlor, and which in the present vol-
ume is illustrated with silhouettes; Dr. Ed-
ward Eggleston's "House of Santa Claus,"
a Christmas fairy-show; and Elbridge S.
Brooks's "The Land of Nod," an operetta.
A veritable treasure-house of amusement for
long winter evenings. The book is hand-
somely printed, and has a tinted title-page
and an attractive colored cover by T. B
Hapgood. (Century Co. $l.)

THE LITERARY NEWS.

{February, 1901

literati} 3tem

> Eclectic iWontf)l| ItefaCefo of Current fUteraturr.
EDITED BY A. H. LEYPOLDT.

FEBRUARY, 1901.
THE BOOKS OF 1900

WHILE every magazine and newspaper in
every country is giving its readers statistics
regarding the book production of the year that
ended a century the thoughts come and stay:
Which of the books born in 1900 will be alive
in the year 2000? Which show the elements
even of the life of an ordinary generation?
What has been added to the literature of the
world that will elevate, inspire and comfort
our children and children's children?

Book-life is as mysterious and uncertain as
human life !

We give below a table of statistics compar-
ing the book production of last year and the
year 1899. A special feature of 1900 was the
new lease of life taken in new garments of
the books that really have lived for many gen-
erations. The good novels, the well-loved
poets, the many "books that are books" which
the publishers have had edited by experts and
made ready for the shelves of the steadily in-
creasing libraries, outnumbered the new books
in their special classes a great lesson to
those who read the signs of the times !

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Law ' .

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6,6

662

Juveniles

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...

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431

Theology and Religion
Political and Social Science

::;:-:

Biography, Correspondence

288

225

Poetry and Drama
Literature and Collected Works
Physical and Mathematical Science. .
Description, Geography, Travel
Medicine and Hygiene
Fine Arts ; 11. Gift Books
Useful Arts

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304
T 7 6
190

'94

102

187

1 6, ,

143

208

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-'4

Philosophy
Domestic and Rural

Humor and Satire

43
20

Totals

4749

449

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Within the last few years it has been proven
that the first popularity of a book has abso-
lutely nothing to do with its final place in lit-
erature. The psychology of the reading craze
that has made all the world wonder as novel
after novel found its 100,000 readers and some

two, three and four times that number is
worthy of study. An American writer has
recently sought the aid of scientific phraseolo-
gy to explain the mystery. He says : "Such
phenomena indicate an interruption of the ac-
tion of the higher brain centres and, in conse-
quence, an undue activity of the lower brain
centres;" and he thinks that a diffused hyp-
notic suggestion is at the bottom of the big
sales enjoyed by many novels of the past few
years.

Under these conditions it is cheering to find
the publishers depending upon healthy brains
enough to make it profitable to bring out the
literature which has established its claim to
permanence.

Humor was almost entirely absent from
the books of 1900. Bangs, Stockton, and
"Mr. Dooley" gave us some studies of human
nature with this rare element of life, but as
a rule all was serious, although not as hope-
less and pessimistic as in some of the years
gone by.

The year brought several fine biographies
of men who have left the world wiser, bright-
er and better; and books on art, music, and
drama appeared which will prove of perma-
nent benefit to those who study diligently as
well as to those who only enjoy. Musicians
and actors and actresses received special at-
tention.

Thirty-five books dealt specially with wom-
an, her place in the world, her rights and
duties, her chances in business, her privileges
at home, her means of making herself beau-
tiful physically and mentally, and her great
opportunity to right many wrongs in the
opening century.

Fifty-three volumes were published on
South Africa, the Boers and President Kru-
ger, and twenty-five treated of China, many of
them taking their origin in the new political
problems that make all information about
these countries of vital importance.

The literature of science, especially of ap-
plied science, received very important addi-
tions, and all the various inventions con-
nected with electricity may be studied with
profit in the books of 1900.

Next month we shall give a list of one hun-
dred books chosen from the 4500 new books
of last year, which may be of use to those
who wish to buy books worth keeping as well
as reading. Libraries are excellent make-
shifts to many, but they can never take the
place of a well -stocked book-case which has
been filled slowly and steadily with regard to
individual interests and tastes, and better than
all at some personal sacrifice.

February, 1901]

THE LITERARY NEWS.

WORKS ON QUEEN VICTORIA AND
HER REIGN.

THE death of Queen Victoria will no doubt
bring out a large number of new books, and
the re-issue of old ones, dealing with her life
and reign. Notwithstanding the apparent nu-
merous proofs to the contrary, the Queen
was averse to having pictures and photo-
graphs made of herself granting the priv-
ilege to painters and photographers very rare-
ly and at long intervals. Also but few liter-
ary works concerning her personality were
made public with her permission. Notable
among these, as it was also the first, was the
volume entitled "Leaves from the Journal of
Our Life in the Highlands, 1848-1861," de-
scribing the Queen's visit to Scotland with
the Prince Consort, just before the death of
the latter. The work, which was edited by
A. Helps, was published in this country by
Harper & Brothers.

The most intimate life of the Queen ever
published was that which appeared "by royal
authority," at the time of the Diamond Jubilee
in 1897. This was prepared at Windsor by
the Queen's librarian, Richard R. Holmes,
and published in this country by the Century
Company. It is declared that the Queen her-
self read the proofs of this book. Unfortu-
nately for the would-be purchaser but few
copies now remain unsold of the very limited
edition.

All the publishers having books about Queen
Victoria will bring them to the front once
more, and many new volumes will also prob-
ably be put on the market. The number of
books treating of the Victorian era is very
large, as these books cover the political and
literary history of England during sixty-four
years. We give below the books published
in America that deal specially with the per-
sonality of Queen Victoria as entered in the
American Catalogue and Publishers' Weekly
Record to date:

Arnold, E. Victoria, Queen and Empress:
the sixty years. (Poem.) 1897. 50 c.
Longmans.

Austin, Alfred. Victoria. [Jubilee ode ]
25 c. Macmillan.

Chegwidden, T. C. Victoria Britannia; or.
celebrate the reign: plan for celebrating
the reign of Queen Victoria by the inau-
guration of political changes in the British
constitution. 1879. 75 c. Barnes.

Choral songs in honor of Queen Victoria.
Macmillan.

Craik, Mrs. D. M. Fifty golden years: in-
cidents in the life of Queen Victoria 1887
$2.50. Tuck.

Dalgleish, W. S. Life of Queen Victoria.

$i. Nelson.

Doran, J. Lives of the Queens of England

of the -house of Hanover. 1890. 2 v.

$2.50. McKay.

Fawcett, M. G. Life of Her Majesty, Queen

Victoria. 1895. $1.25.

Roberts ; Little, Brown & Co.

Graham, P. A. Victorian Era. 1897. $L

Longmans.

Greenaway, Kate. Queen Victoria's jubilee
garland. 1887. 50 c. Routledge.

Greville, Charles C. F. Same. Pt. 2, Jour-
nal of the reign of Queen Victoria, 1837-
1852. 1885. 2 v. $4. Appleton.

Same. Pt. 3, Journal of the reign of Queen
Victoria, 1852-1860. 1887. $2. Appleton.

Greville, Charles C. F. Greville memoirs:
journal of the reigns of King George iv.,
King William iv., and Queen Victoria. 8
v. ea., $2. Longmans.

Hall, A. D. Victoria, Queen and Empress.
10 c. Street.

Henry, Mrs. S. M. I. Victoria. 60 c.

Methodist Bk. Concern.

Hodge, Mrs. K. Fifty years a queen. (Jubi-
lee ed.) 1887. $i. Belford, Clark & Co.

Holmes, R. R. Queen Victoria. Subscrip-
tion, pap., $15. Century Co.

Humphrey, Mrs. F. A. Queen Victoria at
home. 1885. 50 c. Lothrop.

Kirton, John W. True royalty : life of Queen
Victoria. 1888. $i. Ward, Lock & Co.

Lippincott, Mrs. S. J. Queen Victoria: her
girlhood and womanhood. 1883. $1.50;
$2. J. R. Anderson & Allen.

Low, F. H. Queen Victoria's Dolls. $5.
M. Ward.

Marsh, C. and O'R. L. E. Our sovereign
lady. 1887. 50 c. Randolph.

Morris, C. Queen Victoria: her sixty years'
reign and Diamond Jubilee, subs., $1.50:
$2. W. W. Wilson.

Private life of the Queen, by a member of
the Royal Household. $1.50. Appleton.

Smith, George B. Life of Queen Victoria.
(Jubilee ed.) 1887. $3. (People's ed.)
1887. $i. Routledge.

Tooley, Mrs. Sa. A. Personal life of Queen
Victoria. 1897. $2. Dodd, Mead & Co.

Tullock, W. W. Story of the life of Queen
Victoria. 1887. $1.25. Armstrong.

Valentine, Mrs. Laura Jewry. Life of Vic-
toria, our Queen and Empress; for chil-
dren. 1897. bds., 50 c. Warne.

Victoria, Queen. Leaves from the journal of

our life in the Highlands, 1848-1861. $1.75.

Harper.

Victoria. Queen. More leaves from the jour-
nal of a life in the Highlands, 1862-1882.
1884. $4. Scribner.

-^Same. 25 c. ; 15 c. Harper.

Ward, Thomas H. Reign of Queen Victoria.
1887. 2 v. ea., $4. Cassell.

Williamson, D. Same. Large-pap, ed. net,
$18. Macmillan.

Williamson, D. Queen Victoria: a souvenir
of the record reign. 1897. leath., 50 c.
Ward, Lock & Co.

Wilson, R. Life and times of Victoria. 2 v.
ea., $3. Cassell.

THE LITERARY NEWS.

[February, 1901

Headings from Nero Cooks.

Remembering Happier Things.

THEIR eyes met and read for a moment all
the awe of destiny. They strolled along in si-
lence, with only the solemnity of the sea be-
tween them.

"It is difficult to say," he finally murmured,
"just how fatal remembrance may be. What
to one is an obstacle, to another is a stepping
stone. You and I are different only in this, you
leap impedimenta, I painfully climb over them."

She was ready-witted enough now to an-
swer him in his own strain. She was also
somewhat moved.

"Ah, leaping may make one breathless
enough and tear one up sadly inwardly and
outwardly. You have, at any rate, succeeded,
while, to-day, I feel as if I had failed."

"I fervently hope," he said, "it is but a
mood, for you were not born to be frustrated."

"And you are happy?"

He hesitated.

"What is happiness?"

"Oh, gratified ambitions," she said prompt-
ly; "they alone give it. The affections tor-
ment."

"To me happiness seems a scope for the
highest uses of our activity for the develop-
ment of our best aptitudes and talents. I
found this, I suppose, when I embraced the
military career, and therefore I am happy."

"Then you agree with me that love "

"Is torture? Yes, the selfish side of it.
The wanting those we love to love us back
again; to live the life we plan for them, not
theirs; to minister to our pride, caprice and
comfort. The love which knows no price,
asks no reward, looks for no gratitude that
alone has dignity, that alone has value."

It was hard for her to soar, she had so
clipped her wings ; but the rudiments, it seems,
are in us all -hers pushed for a moment to
the light.

"I think I understand you," she said quite
softly. "That would be patriotism, philan-
thropy, religion ; things that are noble and do
not debase; things that for an instant uplift
us out of ourselves, out of our squalor, to
the stars."

He looked at her astonished. "When you
left me, Gabriella, I had time to think of all
these things long and bitterly. I knew I had
but tried to cripple you, never to help you;
I was all to my own aims and hopes. I was
so young! I thought women were meant to
further these. Dunham! What folly! I
ought to have guessed you were made for the
world. What an egotist, what a fool I was !"

"No, never that, and always generous."
She began to feel somewhat exhausted, as
people of the plain are wont to feel on moun-
tain heights. She brought him back to lower
latitudes.

"Here's my carriage. It is late. I will not
ask you to come to me to-night; I will first
call upon your wife and daughters. I may
do so, n'est ce pas?" she said simply.

"They will be charmed and honored." He
lifted his hat.

The footman sprang to the box, the horses
pranced to the coachman's teasing whip.
Mrs. Clyde waved her parasol.

"Yet once she had leaned to his kiss,
And once he had known her tears."

(Appleton. $1.50.) From Julien Gordon's
".Mrs. Clyde."

Mark Pattison.

PURITANISM, Anglicanism, Catholicism had
successively widened his religious concep-
tions, each in turn falling from him like a
worn-out garment, till he became Pantheist
on the positive side, negatively Agnostic.
Religion he esteemed as a good servant but
a bad master; the idea of Deity, he told one
of his querists, was "defecated to a pure
transparency." Faith he defined as "belief in
the unproved;" and what he could not prove
that he would not believe. This discrepancy
between esoteric conviction and professional
status troubled him not at all. He acknowl-
edged to Thorold Rogers, who had v aban-
doned the Anglican ministry, his own* disbe-
lief in what those who hold them call the
fundamental verities of Christianity; but said
that as a young man he had adopted in good
faith the doctrines of the English Church,
had shaped his life to meet its demands, was
too old now to make a change injurious to
himself. It left him cynical. He declined to
acknowledge the obligation of self-sacrifice;
pronounced Montaigne's dictum, that to aban-
don self-enjoyment in order to serve others
is unnatural and wrong, "a refreshing pas-
sage;" quoted with approval Goethe's para-
dox, "I know not myself, and God forbid I
ever should." In his sister Dora's heroism,
which, in spite of Miss Londsale's book, all
England honored, he saw only self-glorifica-
tion and misdirected energy. He lectured
once at Birmingham while she was combating
smallpox at Walsall ; she came over to greet
him, not having seen him for years. "What,
Dora !" was his only salutation, "still cutting
off little Tommy's fingers and little Jemmy's
toes?" It left him pessimist. As student of
history and politics he had seen one after
another millennium prevented by the thwart-
ing spirit which, saevo laeta negotio, loves
unweariedly to spite humanity; Hellenic civ-
ilization in one century, "New Learning" in
another, political reform in his younger days,
social emancipation in his maturity. He re-
fused to believe in the progressive happiness
of mankind, and laughed to scorn the amia-
ble Tennysonian commonplace that good will
be the final end of ill. It left him, happily,
as it found him, a devotee of knowledge.
He was as nearly omni-erudite as man can be
in omni-parient days : one who knew him well
said of him that you may dig into any por-
tion of his mind with certainty of turning
up a nugget. In the book-lined gallery which
opened out of his drawing-room he would
sit or stand, in the short morning coat which
he affected as a dinner dress, the centre of
a group of guests, picked men from many
walks of thought, scientist, esthetic, literary:
as each proffered his own patented topic Pat-
tison would take it up and handle it with
swift, clear, exhaustive analysis, ending al-
ways with an apologetic, "But, you know, it's
not my subject." (Cassell. $2.50.) Frnm
Tuck-well's "Reminiscences of Oxford."

February, 1901]

THE LITERARY NEWS.

Jim and His Jewel.

ROMANCE had singled Jim for its own and
that was the true part of the story, which
otherwise was all wrong. He did not hide
his Jewel. In fact, he was extremely proud
of it.

"It comes to me now that I had, on the
whole, seen very little of her. What I re-
member best is the even, olive pallor of her
complexion and the intensely blue-black
gleams of her hair, flowing abundantly from
under a small crimson cap she wore far back
on her shapely head. Her movements were free,
assured, and she blushed a dusky red. While
Jim and I were talking, she would come and
go with rapid glances at us, leaving on her
passage an impression of grace and charm and
a distinct suggestion of watchfulness. Her
manner presented a curious combination of
shyness and audacity. Every pretty smile was
succeeded swiftly by a look of silent, repressed
anxiety, as if put to flight by the recollection
of some abiding danger. At times she would
sit down with us and, with her soft cheek
dimpled by the knuckles of her little hand,
she would listen to our talk ; her big clear eyes
would remain fastened on our lips, as though
each pronounced word had a visible shape.
Her mother had taught her to read and write ;
she had learned a good bit of English from

Jim, and she spoke it most amusingly, with
is own clipping, boyish intonation. Her
tenderness hovered over him like a flutter of
wings. She lived so completely in his con-
templation that she had acquired something of
his outward aspect, something that recalled
him in her movements, in the way she
stretched her arm, turned her head, directed
her glances. Her vigilant affection had an
intensity that made it almost perceptible to
the senses; it seemed actually to exist in the
ambient matter of space, to envelop him like
a peculiar fragrance, to dwell in the sunshine
like a tremulous, subdued, and impassioned
note. I suppose you think that I, too, am ro-
mantic, but it is a mistake. I am relating to
you the sober impressions of a bit of youth,
of a strange uneasy romance that had come in
my way. I observed with interest the work
of his well good fortune. He was jealously
loved; but why she should be jealous, and of
what, I could not tell. The land, the people,
the forests were her accomplices, guarding
him with vigilant accord, with an air of se-
clusion, of mystery, of invincible possession.
There was no appeal, as it were; he was
imprisoned within the very freedom of his
power, and she, though ready to make a foot-
stool of her head for his feet, guarded her
conquest inflexibly as though he were hard
to keep. The very Tamb' Itam, marching on
our journeys upon the heels of his white lord,
with his head thrown back, truculent and be-
weaponed like a janissary, with kris, chopper,
and lance (besides carrying Jim's gin) ; even
Tamb' Itam allowed himself to put on the airs
of uncompromising guardianship, like a surly,
devoted jailer ready to lay down his life
for his captive. On the evenings when we sat
up late his silent, indistinct form would pass
and repass under the verandah, with noise-
less footsteps, or lifting my head I would un-

expectedly make him out standing rigidly erect
in the shadow. As a general rule he would
vanish after a time, without a sound; but
when we rose he would spring up close to us
as if from the ground, ready for any orders
Jim might wish to give. The girl, too, I be-
lieve, never went to sleep till we had sepa-
rated for the night. More than once I saw
her and Jim through the window of my room
come out together quietly and lean on the
rough balustrade two white forms very
close, his arm about her waist, her head on his
shoulder. Their soft murmurs reached me,
penetrating, tender, with a calm, sad note in
the stillness of the night, like a self-commun-
ion of one being carried on in two tones.
Later on, tossing on my bed under the mos-
quito-net, I was sure to hear slight creakings,
faint breathing, a throat cleared cautiously
and I would know that Tamb' Itam was still
on the prowl. (Doubleday, Page & Co. $1.50.)
From Conrad's "Lord Jim."

What Need a Woman Know?

IT wo'uld be futile to attempt to relate the
history of Elisabeth Farringdon without tell-
ing in some measure what her school-days
did for her; and it would be equally futile to
endeavor to convey to the uninitiated any
idea of what that particular school meant
and still means to all its daughters.

When Elisabeth had left her girlhood far
behind her, the mere mention of the name.
Fox How, never failed to send thrills all
through her, as God Save the Queen, and
Home, Sweet Home have a knack of doing:
and for any one .to have ever been a pupil
at Fox How, was always a sure and certain
passport to Elisabeth's interest and friendli-
ness. The school was an old, square, white
house, standing in a walled garden ; and those
walls enclosed all the multifarious interests
and pleasures and loves and rivalries and
heart-searchings and soul-awakenings which
go to make up the feminine life from twelve
to eighteen, and which are very much the
same in their essence, if not in their form,
as those which go to make up the feminine
life from eighteen to eighty. In addition to
these, the walls enclosed two lawns and an
archery-ground, a field and a pond overgrown
with water-lilies, a high mound covered with
grass and trees, and a kitchen-garden filled
with all manner of herbs and pleasant fruits
in short, it was a wonderful and extensive
garden, such as one sees now and then in
some old-fashioned suburb, but which people
have neither the time nor the space to lay out
nowadays. It also contained a long, straight
walk, running its whole length and shaded by
impenetrable greenery, where Elisabeth used
to walk up and down, pretending that she
was a nun; and some delightful swings and
see-saws, much patronized by the said Elisa-
beth, which gave her a similar physical thrill
to that produced in later years by the mention
of her old school.

The gracious personality which ruled over
Fox How in the days of Elisabeth had mas-
tered the rarely acquired fact that the word
educate is derived from educo, to draw out,
and not (as is generally supposed) from addo,
to give to; so the pupils there were trained

THE LITERARY NEWS.

[February, 1901

to train themselves, and learned how to
learn a far better equipment tor life and
its lessons than any ready-made cloak of
superficial knowledge, which covers all in-
dividualities and fits none. There was no
cramming or forcing at Fox How; the ob-
ject of the school was not to teach girls how
to be scholars, but rather how to be them-
selves that is to say, the best selves which
they were capable of 'becoming. High char-
acter rather than high scholarship was the
end of education there ; and good breeding
counted for more than correct knowledge.
Not that learning was neglected, for Elisa-
beth and her school-fellows worked at their
books for eight good hours every day; but
it did not form the first item on the pro-
gramme of life.

And who can deny that the system of Fox
How was the correct system of education, at
any rate, as far as girls are concerned? Un-
less a woman has to earn her living by teach-
ing, what does it matter to her how much hy-
drogen there is in a drop of rain-water, or in
what year Hannibal crossed the Alps? But
it will matter to her infinitely, for' the re-
mainder of her mortal existence, whether she
is one of those graceful, sympathetic beings,
whose pathway is paved by the love of man
and the friendship of woman ; or one of that
much-to-be-blamed, if somewhat-to-be-pitied,
sisterhood, who are unloved because they are
unlovely, and unlovely because they are un-
loved. (Appleton. $1.50.) From Fowler's
"The Farringdons."

A Haunt of Ancient Peace.

SUNNINGWELL, as the Mores knew it, was
known to few. But Sunningwell Minster
was known to all antiquarians and architects.
The old brown church, dedicated to St. Au-
gustine, stood under the Castle Hill amongst
and above the old brown houses of the town,
occupying a broad, level space some three
hundred yards long, into which the "rustic
cackle of the bourg" never intruded. Sun-
ningwell Close was, like many other English
closes, a place of ancient greensward, lime-
trees, and old houses, some venerable, some
respectable, and all peaceful ; afternoon quiet,
solemn bells, clerks and clerical birds, so like
each other that you would not have been
surprised to see a minor canon fly up into a
gargoyle's mouth with a straw in his beak,
or a grey-headed jackdaw put on a surpljce
and hood, and walk behind the verger with
the silver mace ; and the very starlings seemed
to have been hatched in the same nests as
the chorister boys who shot at them with
their catapults.

The population of the Close was of the
type usual in closes. A courteous and digni-
fied dean, who had been a college tutor at
Oxford, and had a reputation of having been
a fine scholar, and being at present a some-
what difficult person to deal with. Canons and
canons' wives, well connected and well bene-
ficed ; minor canons who looked forward to
chapter livings, and those whom Mr. More
called "the inferior clergy," chapter officials
and humbler dependents, who discharged le-
vitical offices in and out of the Minster; for
all of whom the Minster was a centre of in-

terest, a magnet to retain them in this par-
ticular spot, and a supply of daily occasion.
The details might be petty and obscure, but
Sunningwell Close was an epitome of greater
things, and in a limited compass the tradition
of a sober-suited religion, and the use and
wont and historic dignity of the Church of
England, was there. Go to Rome and Seville,
and for all the gorgeous vestments and pro-
cessions, you will find nothing more dignified
and sedately religious than the English ca-
thedral, with its daily services and its quiet
precincts, hallowed as it is moreover by the
pure and peaceful traditions of English do-
mestic life. We may wish that more of the
ancient grandeur of ritual had been spared
by the Reformers, and that much had been
preserved which Geneva and Frankfort could
not endure. We should have been better off
now if the brotherhoods of Glastonbury,
Reading, and St. Albans had been reformed,
not abolished. Philip More always spoke of
the suppression of the monasteries as "the
stupidest thing in English history. The mon-
astic system," he said, "with its good and its
evil, is gone, and we cannot restore it if we
would ; but the English Cathedral and Cathe-
dral Close, like the English Constitution, has
weathered the storms of the sixteenth and
seventeenth centuries, and still remains, a
'soft green isle' in the waste of years."
(Button. $1.50.) From Cornish's "Sun-
ningwell."

Foreword to Winsome Womanhood.

"O Lord and Master of us all,
Whate'er our name or sign,
We own Thy sway, we hear Thy call,
We test our lives by Thine."

THIS little book has been written for
women, with a wish and hope that it may

Krove suggestive and helpful to the girl in
er teens, who faces so many problems, and
stands before an unknown future, to the older
woman bearing the responsibilities of middle
life, and to her whose outlook is toward the
setting sun. God is so good to us all in these
days of large movement and increasing priv-
ilege, that more than ever before we owe
to Him a debt of grateful love.

Our whole-hearted devotion is not too
much to offer him. It is our highest honor
that we may work for God in this world of
His, and that every day may be a stepping-
stone toward heaven!

I have called the book "Winsome Woman-
hood" because it is my firm belief that we are
strongest as we are gentlest, that the "loving
are the daring," and that the ideal Christian
woman should be especially serene, tender,
and full of charm. In the Twentieth Cen-
tury, with Martha, she may be enterprising,
busy, and efficient, but with Mary also, she
shall find time at the Master's feet.

Never has there been a greater occasion for
the Christian woman to take a firm stand for
the principles which she has avowed. Never
in our modern days has society so insidously
opposed the claims of simple Christianity. The
opportunity not only invites ; it is urgent and
imperative, and women cannot evade it. May
all who read these pages accept the Lord
Jesus as their Master and Friend. (Revell.
$1.25.) From Songster's "Winsome Woman-
hood."

February, 1901]

THE LITERARY NEWS.

A PEDIGREE.

A TALE of the Gibson Man I'll tell,

And how he met his fate.

Now the Gibson Man was a Howling Swell

And he always dressed exceedingly well;

And his height was six feet eight.

One day he met a Beardsley girl,

Who set his manly heart awhirl,

She was dressed in a splash,

With a splotch for a sash,

And her hair in a snaky curl.

They met by chance in a motley crowd,

The Gibson Man politely bowed.

The Beardsley smiled in queer designs,

And writhed herself in eccentric lines.

And when she began

To swirl her fan

She captured the heart of the Gibson Man.

Well, he made the Beardsley girl his wife,

And they both lived happily all their life,

And their dear little children are perfect jewels,

They're seen in pictures of Peter Newell's.

An Improvised Santa Claus.

ONE Christmas day I left my family at one
o'clock in the morning. Christmas saluta-
tions were exchanged at that very sleepy hour,
and 1 took the fast express to a certain sta-
tion whence I could drive up country to a
little church on a farm in which there had
never been a Christmas service. It was a
bitter cold morning, deep snow on the ground,
and a furious north wind raging. The cli-
mate is variable indeed out West.

I hired a good sleigh and two horses, and
drove to my destination. The church was a
little old brick building right out on the
prairie. There was a smouldering fire in a
miserable, worn-out stove which hardly raised
the temperature of the room a degree, al-
though it filled the place with smoke. The
wind had free entrance through the ill-fitting
window and door-frames, and a little pile of
snow formed on the altar during the service.

After service I went to dinner at the near-
est farm-house. Such a Christmas dinner it
was ! There was no turkey, and they did not
even have a chicken. The menu was corn-
bread, ham, and potatoes, and few potatoes at
that. There were two children in the family,
a girl of six and a boy of five. My wife had
put up a lunch for me fearing that I might
not be able to get anything to eat in which
there was a small mince-pie turnover; and
the children had slipped a small box of candy
in my bag as a Christmas gift. I produced
the turnover, which by common consent was
divided between the astonished children.
Such a glistening of eyes and smacking of
small lips you never saw !

"We didn't have any Christmas this year,"
said the small maiden. "Last year mother
made us some potatoe men" (i. e., little ani-
mal and semi-human figures made out of
potatoes and matches, with buttons for eyes ;
they go into many stockings among the very
poor out West.)

"But this year," interrupted the boy, "po-
tatoes are so scarce that we couldn't have
'em. Mother says that next year perhaps we
will have some real Christmas."

They were so brave about it that my heart
went out to them. Children and no Christ-
mas gifts! Only the chill, bare room, the
wretched, meagre meal. Finally something
occurred to me. After dinner I excused my-
self and hurried back to the church. There

were two baskets there which were used for
the collection old, but rather pretty. I se-
lected the best one. Fortunately I had in my
grip a neat little "housewife" which con-
tained a pair of scissors, a huge thimble, nee-
dles, thread, a tiny little pin-cushion, an em-
ery bag, buttons, etc. I emptied the con-
tents into the collection basket, and gar-
nished the dull little affair with the bright
ribbon ties ripped off the housewife, and went
back to the house.

To the boy I gave my penknife, which hap-
pened 'to be nearly new, and to the girl the
church basket with_ the sewing-things for a
work-basket. The joy of these children was
one of the finest things I have ever witnessed.
The face of the little girl was positively filled
with awe as she lifted from the basket, one
by one, the pretty and useful articles the
housewife had supplied, and when I added
the small box of candy that my children had
provided me, they looked at me with feel-
ings of reverence, almost as a visible incar-
nation of Santa Claus. They were the cheap-
est and most effective Christmas presents it
was ever my pleasure to bestow. I hope to
be forgiven for putting the church furniture
to such a secular use. (Scribner. $1.25.)
From Brady's "Recollections of a Mission-
ary in the Great West."

The Home of Joan of Arc.

JUST beyond the church is the Joan of Arc
cottage, an ugly building which has no charm
in itself or in its surroundings. It looks
more like a big shed than anything else, for
the roof all slants one way from a very high
wall at the front to a very low one at the
back. The inside is kept as a museum, and it
has all a museum's blankness and stiffness,
with no suggestion of its ever having been
occupied as a home. The old garden at the
rear, with its narrow paths and little plots of
flowers and vegetables, happily has a real
touch of humility. You can fancy it is not
unlike what it was in Joan's day, and the mind
easily calls up the scene in those twilight
hours of long ago when the simple shepherd
maiden stood in this selfsame garden and
heard mingled with the ringing of the bells
from the near church those mysterious voices
speaking to her.

Three-fourths of a mile to the south of
Domremy, on a hill slope overlooking the
broad levels of the valley, stands a basilica
with a slender golden spire, marking the spot
where tradition says Joan first received the
command from her voices to join the army
and deliver France from its enemies. In the
near view the building has a pomp and pre-
tension not at all in keeping with its rural
surroundings nor with the simple character
of the peasant girl it glorifies. I only saw
it once when it seemed to me truly beautiful
and impressive. Conditions favored. It
was late in the afternoon, and the lower part
of the basilica was shadowed by the steep
western hill, while the golden spire, touched
by the rays of the evening sun, became a wand
of flame against the sky. (Macmillan.
$2.25.) From Johnson's "Along French
Byways."

THE LITERARY NEWS.

[February, 1901

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She died at the age of ninety-one in Paris,
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TERHUNE, Mrs. MARY VIRGINIA HAWES,
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MITFORD, ALGERNON BERTRAM FREEMAN The
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The story of a little girl born in Des
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him, but the old man is unmindful of the
rancor, and he pursues the even tenor of his
way with the trusting heart of a child.

DILLINGHAM, FRANCES BENT. A Christmas
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GORDON, C. W., ["Ralph Connor," pseud]
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MARCHMONT, ARTHUR W. In the name of a
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MUNROE, KIRK. Under the Great Bear; il. by
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nephews and nieces, visit the first settlements
of the colonies, along the coast to New York

and through the New England States to the
State of Maine. The history connected with
these places is interestingly related, and the
early struggles, physical hardships, religious
persecutions of the settlers fully dealt with.

DELLENBAUGH, F. S. North Americans of
yesterday: a comparative study of North-
American Indian life, customs, and pro-
ducts on the theory of the ethnic unity of
the race. Putnam. 8, net, $4.
The basis of this volume is eight lectures
given before the Lowell Institute in Boston
in 1894. The author went among the West-
ern tribes of Indians with the second Colora-
do expedition with John Wesley Powell,
founder of the Bureau of American Ethnolo-
gy. He treats the Indians as a by-gone race.
The author desires to rouse students to collect
material that is now obtainable, but which
will shortly be gone forever and to arouse
a deeper public interest in the gathering of
this material. His dissertations on the ma-
terial already collected form an important
feature of his book.

LIVERMORE, T. L. Numbers and losses in the
Civil War in America, 1861-65. Hough-
ton, Mifflin & Co. 8, net, $i.

NASH, VAUGHAN. The great famine and its
causes: photographs by the author. Long-
mans, Green & Co. map, 12, $2.
Letters originally published in Manchester

Guardian.

ROBINSON, ALBERT GARDNER. The Philippines,
the war and the people: a record of per-
sonal observations and experiences. Mc-
Clure, Phillips & Co. 8, $2.
An historical summary of the Philippines,
with a consideration of social and industrial
conditions and a study of native character.
The most of the material was originally con-
tributed to the New York Evening Post in
the form of letters, by a staff correspondent.
The time covered is from 1899-1900.

LIT

ARBUTHNOT, G., ed. Shakespeare sermons
preached in the Collegiate Church of Strat-
ford-on-Avon, [1893-1900.] Longmans,
Green & Co. il. 12, $i.
It has been a custom for several years past
of the Rev. George Arbuthnot, Vicar of the
Collegiate Church, Stratford-on-Avon, to in-
vite eminent preachers to address from the
Shakespeare pulpit the audiences that assem-
ble in commemoration of the birth of Shake-
speare. These addresses are called "Shake -
peare sermons."

BRONSON, WALTER COCHRANE. A history of
American literature ; designed primarily for
use in schools and colleges. Heath. 16,
80 c.

FISH, DAN., comp. Lincoln literature : a bib-
liographical account of books and pamphlets
relating to Abraham Lincoln. Published
by the Board Minneapolis Public Library.
8, pap., $3.25.

BALCH, EDWIN SWIFT. Glacieres; or, freez-
ing caverns. Allen, Lane & Scott, il. pi.
diagrams, 8, $5.
Bibliography (3 p.).

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BENHAM, W. G. Laws of scientific hand
reading: pTactical treatise on the art com-
monly called palmistry; il. from life. Put-
nam. S, net, $5.

The author is a successful business man
who has quietly and carefully studied palmis-
try as he might study economics or theology.
By studying thousands of hands and tracing
careers of their owners he has finally formu-
lated as a science the exact laws of nature as
written on human hands. He deprecates
using the art of palmistry as a pastime, but
thinks it should be studied carefully to teach
people to know themselves and choose voca-
tions in accordance with their natural gifts.

BRYDEN, H. A. Animals of Africa. Dutton.
il. 12, (Lib. for young naturalists.) $2.

MARYON, MAUD. How the garden grew; il.

by Gordon Browne. Longmans, Green &

Co. 12, $1.50.

Supposed to be the impressions and experi-
ences of a young woman who spent the four
seasons in an attempt to restore a desolated
English flower garden. Some practical hints
are contained.

jBooks for tl)c JDonng.

BURNS, ROB. Complete poetical works; with

biographical introd., notes and glossary.

T. Y. Crowell & Co. 2 v., il. por. 8, per

set, $4.

The present two-volume edition consists of
a text carefully compared with all the most
reliable editions, and is claimed to be the com-
pletest ever published, as it contains several
poems recently discovered. A carefully writ-
ten biographical sketch is based on authentic
records, and places the poet's life and charac-
ter before the reader in a kindly light. There
is a full index to the poems and also an
index to the first lines. Also a full and ex-
cellent glossary.

BURTON, R. Ballad of the unsuccessful.

Small, Maynard & Co. unp. sq. 12, pap.,

35 c.
COLE, S. VALENTINE. In Scipio's gardens and

other poems. Putnam. 12, $1.25.

PHILLIPS, STEPHEN. Herod : a tragedy. J.
Lane. 12, $1.50.

HALLOCK, GERARD B. FLEET, D.D. The model
prayer. T. Y. Crowell & Co. 12, (What
is worth while ser.) leatherette, 35 c.
Dr. Hallock discourses on the "Lord's
prayer," but calls attention especially to the
fact that Christ did not say, "Use this form
of prayer," but rather "After this manner
pray."

BEARD, DAN. CARTER. The jack of all trades;

"or, new ideas for American boys. Scrib-

ner. il. 12, $2.

Under "Fair weather ideas" and "Rainy
day ideas," the author of "The American
boys' handy book" offers another work, to
help occupy boys' leisure time, and not only
amuse them but instruct them, and give them
facility with their hands and in handling
tools. The first part has chapters on : Tree-
top club houses ; Hunting without a gun ;
The back-yard zoo; A back-yard fish-pond;
Pigeon lofts and bantam coops ; How to make
a back-yard .aviary ; A boy's back-yard work-
shop, etc. Part second describes a home-
made circus ; How to prepare and give " a
boy's chalk-talk; A circus in the attic; How
to make a panorama show, etc.

GILDER, JEANNETTE LEONARD. The autobiog-
raphy of a tomboy; pictures by Florence
Scovel Shinn. Doubleday, Page & Co.
12, buckram, $1.25.

The story of a bright, high spirited adven-
turous girl, from the time she is a small
"mite" of four, until the end of her school
days. It is told in the first person, and is
probably a personal leaf out of the life of
one of the editors of The Critic.
MACKAIL, J. W. The little Bible : being the
story of God's chosen people before the
coming of our Lord Jesus Christ upon
earth; written anew for children. Double-
day & McClure Co., [for sale by Double-
day, Page & Co.] 12, $i.
A new edition of the author's "Biblia in-
nocentium" containing the Old Testament
stories rewritten for young people yet without
making the text at all colloquial or depart-
ing more than necessary from the original.

FROST, W. H. Fairies and folk of Ireland;
il. by Sydney Richmond Burleigh. Scrib-
ner. il. 12, $1.50.

A re-telling for young and old of the myths
and legends of Irish folk-lore, after the man-
ner of his "Wagner story book," "The knights
of the round table.

SHAKESPEARE, W. Beginner's Shakespeare:
No. i, Comedy of the tempest; abridged
and ed. by Sarah Willard Hiestand; il. af-
ter drawings by F. A. M. Retzsch. Heath,
por. 12, (Heath's home and school clas-
sics, no. I.) 25 c. ; pap., 15 c.
This volume of Shakespeare is the first of
the works of the dramatist to be edited for
young people by Sarah Willard Hiestand; it
is also the initial number of Heath's "Home
and school classics," which embraces "Story

MACGREGOR, G. HOGARTH CARNABY. When

thou hast shut thy door; or, the quiet hour.

T. Y. Crowell & Co. 12, (What is worth

while ser.) leatherette, 35 c.

How to spend the time, which the writer
thinks every Christian ought to devote each
day to meditation and communion with God.

HUMOR AND SATIRE.

BURGESS, GELETT. Nonsense almanac, 1901.
F. A. Stokes Co. unp. 8, pap., 50 c.

school classics for children," and "Young
readers classics." The "Home and school
classics" contains already a number of books
chosen from the world's classics; it will be
added to in the future regularly. As a rule
the books will be printed entire; where ex-
purgation may be required it will be done
with as little change or omission as possible.
Each book contains or will contain a brief
account of its author, and of the noteworthy
facts in connection with the work itself. See
other titles in series under Young, Mulock,
Goldsmith, Hamerton, Browne.

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for

Articles marked with asterisk are illustrated.

Atlantic: The conditions of the recon-
struction problem, Hilary A. Herbert. The
new industrial revolution, Brooks Adams.
The last phase of Napoleon, Goldwin Smith.
A plea for New York, J. K. Paulding.
The Tory lover, xm.-xvi., Sarah Orne Jew-
ett. The essence of American humor, Charles
Johnston. Confessions of a minister's wife.

Mr. Smedley's guest, E. S. Chamberlayne.
Outlook, John Hall Ingham. Penelope's
Irish experiences, iv., Kate Douglas Wiggin.

Making the crowd beautiful, Gerald Stan-
ley Lee. The eleventh hour, Basil King.
The great preacher (Allen's Life and Letters
of Phillips Brooks). A century of American
diplomacy, S. M. Macvane. Two books
about Italy, Harriet Waters Preston. Rem-
iniscences of Huxley, John Fiske. On a sol-
dier fallen in the Philippines, William
Vaughn Moody.

Catholic World: Sweeter than all (poem),
Caroline D. Swan. The Catholic church and
the future, Hon. Judge Cortright. The story
of a rivalry, Roscelyn Bayard Lee. The first
snow (poem), Aloysius Coll. The port of
coffins,* E. C Vansittart. The forbidding of
the marriage, Edward F. Garesche. A song
of the sea (poem),* Julian E. Johnstone.
The church as she is, and as we present her,
W. F. P. Stockley The painter of Heaven,*
Mary F. Nixon-Roulet. French Canadian life
and literature, Thomas O'Hagan, M.A.,
Ph.D. Timeliness of St. Paul's teaching,
Rev. Ward Hunt Johnson, C.S.P. From a
Greek island,* Clare Sorel Strong. Dr.
Shields' Defense of revelation, Rev. James J.
Fox, D.D. The unification of the Ursulines.

Century: Humor and pathos of the sav-
ings bank,* Richard Boughton. At third
hand : a psychological inquiry, William Dean
Howells. Some Americans abroad, n., "The
man from Ochre Point, New Jersey,"*
Charles Battell Loomis. The people at the
top of the world, a tour through Siberia in
search of Andree, I., Jonas Stadling. The
helmet of Navarre, vn. (begun in August),*
Bertha Runkle. The helping hand in East
London, by the author of "All sorts and con-
ditions of men," etc.,* Sir Walter Besant.
A council of six,* Henry Holcomb Bennett.

The steel industry of America,* Robert H.
Thurston. "I ha.ve been blind so long," Lulu
W. Mitchell. The Lannigan system with
girls, by the author of "The cat and tfie
cherub," etc.,* Chester Bailey Fernald. A
remarkable American: Dr. William Pepper,*
Francis Newton Thorpe. The steer with the
marked hoof,* Walter H. Armsby. The play
devil,* Earle Ashley Walcott. Examples of
American portraiture, rv., portrait of the
Honorable Alanson W. Beard,* painted by
Frederick P. Vinton. The women: a mon-
ologue by the author of "Sonny," etc.,* Ruth
McEnery Stuart. An old world wooing, the
prize story in The Century's third competi-
tion for college graduates, Adeline M. Jen-
ney, B.A. Her mountain lover, iv. (begun

in November),* Hamlin Garland. An Eng-
lish passion play, Rebecca Harding Davis.
Nikko, Lilla Cabot Perry. Is sentiment de-
clining?, by the author of "Women of the
French salons," Amelia Gere Mason. Top-
ics of the time: An old story with a new
moral A humorist to the rescue Enlarge-
ment of the White House. Open letters:
Cole's old English masters; Sir Edwin Land-
seer (John C. Van Dyke).

Contemporary Review (January) : The
Chinese wolf and the European lamb, E. J.
Dillon. Mr. Phillips' "Herod," Stephen
Gwynn. The war office, Togatus. England
and Russia, J. Novicow. Farmers' villages,
D. C. Pedder. The suffering God, a study
in St. Paul, Emma Marie Caillard. Dublin
University and the Irish Catholics, John H.
Pigot. Shamanism, J. Stadling. Cycles and
motors in 1000, Joseph Pennell. Women on
education authorities, Laura E. Ridding.
Concerning French and English, Augustus
Breal. The Scottish church and the Scottish
people, A. M. Fairbairn.

Fortnightly Review (January) : Ireland
and Irish land once more, T. W. Russell.
Will England last the century?, Calchas.
Lord Rosebery and the Liberal Imperialists.
The painters of Seville, Arthur Symons.
Maurice Hewlett, Frederick Harrison. The
dawn of a reign, Giovanni Dalla-Vecchia.
Sir Arthur Sullivan, Vernon Blackburn; J.
Comyns Carr. An open letter to the Right
Hon. the Secretary of State of the Home De-
partment, Hon. Stephen Coldridge. A for-
gotten prophet, W. S. Lilly. The "Fort-
nightly" a retrospect. Lord Rosebery's
"Napoleon," Judge O'Connor Morris. The
concert in China, Diplomaticus. The Trans-
vaal question from the Mussulman point of
view, Ismail Kemal Bey. Technical educa-
tion for girls, Honnor Morten. "Herod" at
Her Majesty's Theatre, Senex. Correspond-
ence. The housing question and the L. C. C.,
David S. Waterlow. China and reconstruc-
tion : November, 1900, Robert Hart.

Forum: Rehabilitation of the Democratic
party, an ex-Democrat. Nationalization of
the State Guards, Gen. T. M. Anderson.
The spellbinders, Hon. William D. Foulke.
Four legs and two legs, Major Henry A.
Greene. Lessons of the election, Willis John
Abbot. The anti-scalping bill, Hugh T.
Mathers. The negro and education, Kelly
Miller. Laws and usages of war at sea, Capt.
C. H. Stockton, U. S. N. Sheep and the
Forest Reserves, Charles S. Newhall. The
status of Porto Ricans in our polity, Stephen
Pfeil. The Monroe doctrine and the Hay-
Pauncefote treaty, James G. Whiteley.
Should woman's education differ from man's ?,
Charles F. Thwing. American trade-unions
and compulsory arbitration, Walter Mac-
arthur. The dark in literature, Prof. Richard
Burton.

Harper's: Colonies and nation, Part 11.,*
Woodrow Wilson. Before night, The Hon.
Eleanor Norton. Captain Rogers: a story,*
W. W. Jacobs. Two friends (poem), John
Vance Cheney. The right of way: a novel,
Part n. (conclusion),* Booth Tarkington.

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[February, 1901

The girl who was the ring : Indian folk tale,*
George Bird Grinnell. Making progress: a
story,* Grace King. Questions of usage in
words, Brander Mathews.' Natchez's pass :
a story,* Frederick Remington. Victor Hugo,
artist, Part n.,* Paul Meurice. Love-letters,
Prince Bismarck. The recovery: a story,
Edith Wharton.

Nineteenth Century . and After (January) :
Midnight, December 3ist, 1900, Stephen Phil-
lips. A new century and an old riddle, Hon.
Mrs. Chapman. England's peasantry then
and now, Rev. Dr. Jessopp. The admiralty
and submarine boats, Edmund Robertson.
On Spion Kop, L. Oppenheim. Scientific use
of hospitals, Sir Michael Foster. The role
of women in society, n., Hon. Lady Pon-
sonby. "The sources of Islam," Moulvie
Raffiudden Akmad. Hooliganism, John Tre-
varthen. A day of purification, Henry Jeph-
son. The Nicaragua canal question, Robert
Bromley. Varying ideals of human beauty,
Hon. John Collier. Current politics: (i) a
Liberal view, Sir Wemyss Reid, (2) a Con-
servative view, Sidney Low. The Catholic
doctrine of indulgences, The Bishop of New-
port. Note on the Papal indulgence at Ober-
ammergau, The Editor. Lord Roberts on
army reform.

North American: To the person sitting in
darkness, Mark Twain. Musings upon cur-
rent topics, Benjamin Harrison, formerly
President of the United States. John Mar-
shall, statesman, H. C. Lodge, United States
Senator from Massachusetts. What England
ought to do, A Continental Observer. Amer-
ican troops in the light of the Pekin expedi-
tion, Captain Crozier, U. S. A. Legal safe-
guards of sanity, Allan McLane Hamilton,
M.D. Causes of the conservatism of England,
Augustine Birrell. Practical efficiency of the
banking law, J. B. Forgan, president of the
First National Bank, Chicago. Plight of the
Democratic party, Perry Belmont. The south
and the negro ; Marion L. Dawson. "Substi-
tutes for ship subsidies :" a reply, A. R.
Smith. The great religions of the world,
vi., Sikhism. and the Sikhs, Sir Lepel Griffin,
K.C.S.I. Mark Twain: an inquiry, W. D.
Howells. Victoria and her reign, Lady Jeune.

Scribner's: Russia of to-day, iv., Central
Asia,* Henry Norman. The angel at the
grave, Edith Wharton. The reward (poem),
Marie van Vorst. The stage reminiscences
of Mrs. Gilbert,* Anne Hartley Gilbert
The Greek galley (poem), George Cabot
Lodge. Punishment and revenge in China,
Thomas F. Millard. Modern Athens, second
paper,* George Horton. The place of aban-
doned gods, Arthur Colton. A jubilee pres-
ent more adventures of the amateur cracks-
man,* E. W. Hornung. Coming rain
(poem), Joseph Russell Taylor. The sons
of sleep (poem), Josephine Dodge Daskham.
Carcassonne,* Ernest C. Peixotto. Albi,*
Ernest C. Peixotto. The sence of nonsens'e,
Carolyn Wells The point of view : The de-
cline of hatred. Why commercialism? The
unconscious aesthetic education. The field of
art : architectural practice, mutuality, not in-
dividuality.

Citerarg Miscellany.

.SCOTT'S "IVANHOE" REJECTED. The best lit-
erary joke of the season in England is a
batch of alleged opinions of the readers of
certain London publishers to which a type-
written copy of "Ivanhoe" was sent for ex-
amination under a title which is now so tak-
ing with manufacturers of historical fiction,
"When John Was England's King."

COLLIS P. HUNTINGTON WAS "RESPONSI-
BILITY." The death of Collis P. Huntington,
says the N. Y. Sun, makes it proper to say
now that he was the "Responsibility" who
offered through the Sun a year ago the prizes
of $700 in what was widely known at the
time as "The Man Without the Hoe" com-
petition. That Mr. Huntingdon's prizes did
not elicit any poetical production adequate to
his own ideal was to be expected. The in-
cident, however, is not the less hdnorable to
his memory.

HOPKINSON SMITH AND "UNCLE TOM'S
CABIN." Mr. F. Hopkinson Smith, in an ad-
dress recently delivered at Newton, Mass.,
the last home of Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe,
made the following statement concerning her
greatest work : " 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' is the
most vicious book that ever appeared. It
compares with Kennan's first book on Russia.
I could go into the prisons of the north to-
day and write a similar book. The book pre-
cipitated the war and made the North believe
nothing but the worst of the South. We are
not an inhuman people; we are all alike, we
are Americans. It was an outrage to raise
the North against the South. The book was
an appalling, awful and criminal mistake."

LITERARY PRESCRIPTIONS. For action read
Homer and Scott.

For conciseness read Bacon and Pope.

For sublimity of conception read Milton.

For vivacity read Stevenson and Kipling.

For imagination read Shakespeare and Job.

For common sense read Benjamin Franklin.

For simplicity read Burns, Whittier and
Bunyan.

For smoothness read Addison and Haw-
thorne.

For interest in common things read Jane
Austen.

For humor read Chaucer, Cervantes, Rabe-
lais and Mark Twain.

For choice of individual words read Keats,
Tennyson and Emerson.

For the study of human nature read Shake-
speare and George Eliot.

For loving and patient observation of na-
ture read Thoreau, Burroughs and Walton.

GEORGE MEREDITH. "Mr. George Meredith,"
says M. A. P., "is perhaps the handsomest
man in England. Even judged from the way
he dresses, he has great artistic instincts, his
coat being silver gray, in harmony with his
beard and hair and in perfect sympathy with
his rose-toned complexion, which is so fresh
as to be almost like a child's. He lives in one
of the most beautiful spots in the whole of
England Box Hill, Dorking. At the present

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moment he is writing verse and not prose.
He is a brilliant talker and is one of the few
great men who talk as well as they write.
From his looks you would judge him to be a
pessimist, but from his conversation you are
quite sure that he is the reverse. Life to him
is an ever present joy; he loves every mo-
ment of it. Once he was asked if he were
not bored with being so much alone. He
quickly answered 'Bored ! Never ! Why
should I be bored if I have the intelligence to
think?'"

THE ORIGINAL LAURIE. The original of
Miss Alcott's character of "Laurie," in "Little
Women," says the N. Y. Times Saturday Re-
view, has always been thought to be Ladislas,
a Polish boy. Now, however, the truth, al-
w.-ys suspected, comes out, that the Polish
boy was only a very small part of "Laurie."
The real "Laurie" turns out to be an Amer-
ican boy who lived in Concord, was Miss Al-
cott's playmate, and then moved out to Kan-
sas. To this boy in his Western home Miss
Alcott wrote regularly some of the most de-
lightful letters that ever came from her pen,
and in one of her last she acknowledges to
him that he is the original "Laurie." All of
these letters will now be published for the
first time in the Ladies' Home Journal, which
' has secured them. They will be edited by
"Laurie" himself, who is Mr. Alfred Whit-
man, now a successful and prominent lawyer
in Kansas. The letters are said to give just
that insight into Miss Alcott's loving charac-
ter for which her admirers have so long
waited.

A CROSS FOR RUSKIN'S GRAVE. The work
of carving the cross which is to be placed
over Ruskin's grave at Coniston has begun.
The cross is a free adaptation of the Ruth-
well Cross, says The Athenaeum, a fine early
English model, and it is of hard, greenstone
from the Tilberthwaite quarries. The cross
is nine feet tall, and the only words inscribed
on it will be Ruskin's name and the dates
1819-1900. The qualities and achievements of
Ruskin will be indicated entirely by pictures,
and we fear that this method is being over-
done. It would take nearly half a column of
our space to enumerate the carvings and their
meanings. One side alone is to bear the bur-
den of all this: "The west side, looking to-
wards the mountains, represents his ethical
and social teaching. At the bottom is the
parable of the workmen receiving each his
penny from the Master 'Unto this 'Last.'
Then a design of 'Sesame and Lilies,' and,
in the middle, Tors Clavigera,' the Angel of
Fate holding the club key, and nail, which
every reader of his works will easily recog-
nize. Over that is the 'Crown of Wild Olive/
and at the top 'St. George and the Dragon.' "
All that to recognize easily !

"QUINCY ADAMS SAWYER/' Apparently the
custom, so conspicuous in New York, of
decorating a shop window with interesting
relics of a popular book has been transmitted
to Boston, says the N. Y. Times Saturday
Review, for we hear that the window of the
Old Corner Bookstore, at School and Wash-

ington Streets, has thus been made attractive
to readers of "Quincy Adams Sawyer," by
Charles Felton Pidgin. The artist's water-
color sketches of some of the principal char-
acters and incidents of the book are shown
there and are attracting much attention. One
sketch shows Silas Putnam mounted on the
ridgepole of his barn, in his night clothes, on
a cold night, blowing his trumpet for Ga-
briel's call in anticipation of the end of the
world. Another shows Quincy and Alice Pet-
tingill singing a love song. There is Oba-
diah Strout, the village singing master, in
his extraordinary rig when he led the chorus
in singing his "immortal" composition, "Hark
and Hear the Eagle Scream." The best of
the collection is that showing Zekiel Petten-
gill and Huldy Mason sitting before the fire-
place in loving embrace, with their backs to
the observer, with the faces of the old folks
looking in the door reflected in the mirror
over the mantelpiece. There is also a pretty
country picture of Hiram Maxwell and
Mandy Skinner drawing water at the old-
fashioned well. The C. M. Clark Publishing
Company finds from the reports of some of
the leading booksellers that though their first
publication, "Quincy Adams Sawyer," has
been out only since November 5, in some
stores their novel was first and in some sec-
ond in the list of best-selling books in Decem-
ber. The great popularity of the book is
shown by the fact that, after disposing of the
first edition of 5000 and the second edition
of 10,000, the publishers are now selling the
third edition, the extraordinary demand for
which necessitated an issue of 50,000 copies.

RUBAIYAT OF RUBAIYAT COLLECTORS.
AND as the Cock crew, One who stood before
The Threshold of mine House, beat hard the Door,

Cried, "Open! Lover of Old Books, I bring
Your aching Shelves one rare Edition more!"
Whether at Mosher's or at Roycrofton,
Whether the Type in Black or Ruby run,

Squeezed from the oozing Presses Drop by Drop,
The printed Leaves keep falling, one by one.

Some Book of Verse that no Collectors know
Save only Me! With it afar I'd go

And hide it, singing, in the Wilderness,
Return, and mount the Tavern-Roof, and crow!

Some for the Glories of this World must sigh,
And some for Riches tell the strenuous Lie;
Oh, let the Cook, the Cash, the Credit go,
A Miser of rare Volumes let me die!

Myself when young did eagerly frequent
The Stalls antique, and many Shekels spent;
Now Tier on Tier de Luxe Editions rise,
And I upon the Quest am still intent.

Once I remember stopping to address
A Printer sweating o'er his noisy Press,

"What print you?" With his half illiterate Tongue

And when the Author of the Final Book

Shall write the Lines whereon no Man may look,

That single copy of the Wiser Word
I'll steal from Heaven by any Hook or Crook!

JOHN ALBERT MACY in N. Y. Times Saturday

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[February, 1901

freshest Nero s.

CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS make the always-
welcome announcement that Henry James has
a new story ready. It is entitled "The Sa-
cred Fount," and presents a clever series of
character studies of a group of English men
and women who meet for a few days at an
English country house. A striking picture of
contemporary English social life is given.
Two new volumes are ready in the Music
Lovers' Library, "The Opera Past and Pres-
ent," by W. F. Apthorp; and "Choirs and
Choral Music," by Arthur Mees.

FORDS, HOWARD & HULBERT are the pub-
lishers of "Nature's Miracles," by Elisha
Gray, the noted electrician, whose sudden
death has just shocked the scientific world.
The work is in three volumes : Vol. i., Earth,
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VOL. XXII.

MARCH, 1901.

No. 3.

From " Private L'fe of King

OSBORNE HOUSE, ISLE OF WIGHT.

The Private Life of

THIS sketch of the intimate life of Eng-
land's new sovereign is presented with much
sympathy and with great discretion. It
brings the reader into close relationship with
the man, showing him where he has touched
the public heart, recounting at close range
his life at Sandringham, in the country, at
Marlborough House, as a student, observer,
and churchman ; as a husband and father, as
the arbiter of fashion and the patron of the
race track. From this volume, which is said
to be written by "a member of the royal
household/' we make a few extracts which
cannot fail to have wide interest at this time :

"It is difficult to say whether the Prince
is at his best among the people or in society.
Those of the humbler classes who have come
in contact with his Royal Highness are in-
variably brought to regard him with the
deepest affection and respect. They feel,
when they are talking to him, that they are
laying their troubles before a man who is
absolutely sympathetic and genuinely anx-
ious to alleviate them. It has been the
Prince's lot to receive many scores of depu-

King Edward VII.

tations of wor'kingmen, and he will show
their representatives as much courtesy as he
would an assembly of crowned heads. He
makes it a rule to enter fully into the subjects
of such addresses, and frequently by his in-
fluence will achieve for a little band of work-
ers the end that they themselves are unable
to bring about. When this is impossible, he
will assure them in the kindest way that their
wishes have his fullest sympathy, and that
he will see them again at any time. More
than once the excellent advice that he has
given the working classes has proved of in-
finite use and advantage to them.

"When his position and the exigencies of
his life are taken into consideration it cannot
be said that the Prince is extravagant with
his clothes, and perhaps it is the fact that he
possesses the largest wardrobe in the world
of uniforms and state robes that induces him
to restrict himself in the matter of what may
be called mufti. But what is wise economy
in a Prince might be considered undue ex-
travagance in a subject. It must be remem-
bered that, as a matter of course, the Prince's

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[March, 1901

wardrobe includes every variety of attire for
ordinary and for special use, so that suits for
wear in town, or adapted for smart and quiet
race meetings, are in abundance. His valets
have charge of all shades and makes of
tweeds, checks, shooting, fishing, and riding
equipment and Norfolk suits, which the
Prince's example has made so popular for
country use There also are clothes used
only for travelling, light, cool suits for wear
at foreign watering places the Prince visits
annually, besides fine furs and overcoats of
every pattern and texture.

"His sympathy for others has always been
singularly acute. When an accident occurred
to a sailor on the Serapis he was as deeply
grieved as if it had injured one of his own
relatives, and failed to shake off the shock he
had sustained for several days. While visit-
ing Holland in his yacht he went over from
Flushing to Middleburg and made some pur-
chases at a bric-a-brac shop. When the old
Jew who kept the shop came on board with
the goods it was apparent that he had discov-
ered who his new customer was. He was
dressed in his best clothes, and seemed loath
to part with his goods except to the pur-
chaser. The Prince very soon saw what the
man wanted, and good-naturedly extending
his hand greeted the old fellow with, 'I am
the Prince of Wales.'" Appleton. $3.)
From N. Y. Times Saturday Review.

The Song of a Heart.

"THE SONG OF A HEART/' by Helene Hall
(Mrs. Gen. H. V. Boynton), is a journal
in which entries are made only each Christ-
mas, running from 1852 to 1896. It is a
domestic study, dealing ostensibly with mar-
ried love, but really serving as an excuse
to pronounce judgment on many matters of
ethics and science that are evidently a little
above the writer's grasp. Her conclusions
are not infrequently accurate in these matters ;
but there is the evident leap by which she
reaches them.

There is much admirable and apparently
earnest piety in the journal; but it does not
seem to ring true after reading the incident
on page 47, where the thought of the suffer-
ings in Libby prison for which sufferings she
admits knowledge that he was not to blame
prevents the writer from relieving the loneli-
ness of the "rebel prisoner" by a few kind
wcrds, as she had been impelled to do. This
gives a theoretical aspect to all the profes-
sions of Christianity contained in the rest of
the book, and produces a sense of incon-
gruity not to say of unconscious hypocrisy.

The affectation of the title is rather un-
fair to the book, which, whatever its faults,
is natural in style and method. There may
be pleasure and even profit to be found in a
perusal of "The Song of a Heart." (R.
Clarke Co. $1.25.) N. Y. Sun.

From ' Private Life

DUKE OF YORK'S COTTAGE, SANDRINGHAM.

March, 1901]

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A Garden of Simples.

IN the old days, Mrs.
Martha Bockee Flint re-
minds us, it used to be the
custom to administer tea
made from the burrs of
the Virginia stickseed for
otherwise incorr i g i b 1 e
cases of forgetfulness.
Her whole book serves
the same purpose, for no
one can fail to retain such
impressions as he gains
from even glancing at the
old-fashioned binding and
paper label of "A Garden
of Simples." It is such a
book as Jeffery taught us
to love, filled with all the
delicate spirituality which
Nature wears when seen
with loving eyes, and im-
bued throughout with the
charm of an elder day.
The interests are often
confessedly literary, as in
the chapters on "A Posy
from Spenser," or the
"Flowers of Chaucer's
Poems." From that they
wander to delicately ma-
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honey, most poetic of hu-
man aliments, or "The
Secrets of a Salad," no light topic to those
who know. The history of America is not to
be neglected in so eclectic a work, as little
essays on "Liberty Tea" and "Indian Plant
Names" attest. We can hardly imagine a
pleasanter gift to a charming woman, nor a
more charming woman than she to whom such
a book makes its full appeal. (Scribner.
$1.50.) The Dial.

The Works of Dickens.

MODERN novelists may continue to flood the
bookshops with volumes piled high which sell
by the thousands in an effort to prove that a
living dog is as good as a dead lion, but in
vain. Like Tennyson's brook, , they appear
and disappear, but the real masters of fiction
go steadily on forever. Of these no greater
author was more beloved or more popular
than Charles Dickens. No one will deny that
he has done more to make his fellow men
happy and amiable, sympathetic and warmer
hearted than any other writer of his era.
Perhaps he was not quite so literary, so in-
tellectual as some of his contemporaries, but

id Present." Copyright, 1901, by Charles Scribner' s Sons.

VERDI.

he aimed rather for the heart than the head,
and when it comes to a question between love
and scholarship or love and cleverness, we
all know where the palm rightfully belongs.
Hence Dickens's works are to be found every-
where, from the cottage in which a volume
or two of his and the Bible constitute the li-
brary, to the institutions containing thousands
and thousands of tomes. Almost as much as
Shakespeare he runs the gamut of human na-
ture. The present edition, whose text is that
of the last one revised by the author, has but
one fault. The paper is too thick for volumes
necessarily so large anyway, and the books
therefore are a trifle unwieldy. Aside from
this they are perfect, containing all the orig-
inal, illustrations by Browne, Cruikshank, Sey-
mour and a host of other artists. The pur-
pose of the publishers to supply a definitive
edition of Dickens's works at a moderate price
cannot be too highly commended. Each book
is sold separately or the set can be purchased
by subscription. Eight volumes have already
been issued and the others are to follow at
the rate of two a month. (Scribner. ea.,
$1.50.) The Beacon.

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[March, 1901

America, Picturesque and Descriptive.

EVERYTHING that helps to give, in a com-
pact and popular form, a comprehensive
knowledge of this great country ought to be
welcomed as a valuable addition to current
literature. This is precisely what Mr. Joel
Cook has done for us in three most interest-
ing and readable volumes. The work depicts
in detail the natural beauties of the United
States, at the same time setting forth in the
light of thorough knowledge the historical as-
sociations connected therewith. Seventy-five
full-page photogravures of the most striking
scenery and of the most celebrated places of
the country illustrate the work, which is pre-
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of art. The first volume describes the early
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adjacent territory, diverging westward, by
way of Chicago, and ending at Yellowstone
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city of New York, embracing the environ-
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Sound, and covers also what is peculiarly
striking in New York State itself, the bleak
Berkshire Hills, Lake Champlain, Niagara,
the St. Lawrence River, and the quaint and
ever-interesting region of lower Canada with
its French-speaking inhabitants. In the third
volume may be found a most timely and at-

tractive description of Alaska, limitless in re-
source and possibilities. The critical Myron
W. Hazelton ("M. W. H.," of The Sun) has
thought the book .worthy of a four-column
notice, but to truly appreciate its beauties it
n:ust be seen. This is a book to send to some
friend in Europe. .(Coates. $7-5; $15.)

The Weird Orient.

IN introducing to the general public a
v/riter who has heretofore been known chiefly
among the people of his own race, his pub-
lishers may perhaps be permitted to say a
word. Rabbi Iliowizi is a Hebrew of pure
lineage, the son of a zealous member of the
Chassidim, a Kabbalistic sect numbering over
half a million members in Russia, Roumania
and Gallicia, but rarely met with in this coun-
tiy. He passed his infancy and boyhood in
the Russian provinces of Minsk and Moghileff,
and in Roumania, growing to manhood and
receiving his education at Frankfort-on-the-
Main, Berlin and Breslau, where he qualified
himself for a theological career. After six
years of study in Germany, he spent some four .
years more perfecting his training in modern
languages and in Arabic and Hebrew in Lon-
don and Paris, under the auspices of the
Anglo-Jewish Association and the Alliance
Israelite Universelle, as a preparation to take
charge of one of the outlying mission stations
maintained by these affiliated societies in the
Orient, where they support some fifty schools
for the benefit of their oppressed co-religion-

March, 1901]

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ists. After a prolonged service in Morocco, Recollections of a Lifetime,

ergaged in the educational work of the two "RECOLLECTIONS OF A LIFETIME" is from
societies, Mr. Iliowizi lived for a year at rhe pen of General Brinkerhoff, an American
Gibraltar, and then came to America to de- citizen whose name is not familiar in Europe,
vote himself to the ministry of the Jewish He states in the preface that, as Grant, Sheri-
Church, and is now the spiritual head of a dan, Sherman, Elaine, and others of his con-
temporaries have penned their recollections,
he is impelled to follow suit, and he thinks

large congregation of his own people.

Mr. Iliowizi has hitherto contributed prin-
cipally to the literature of his race, being that, if his example be followed, a valuable
known among Jews by several works,
most widely, perhaps, by a volume of
stories of Russian life, under the ti-
tle of "In the Pale," recently pub-
lished by the Jewish Publication So-
ciety of America for its subscribers.
In the series of Eastern tales, com-
prising the present book, which ap-
peals to a larger audience, he has the
special advantage, not only of a
lengthened residence among Eastern
peoples, but that he is himself of an
Oriental race, of a heredity highly
tinctured by the tenets of one of its
most mystical sects, and personally ...
is of a strongly Semitic type of mind, :
tempered by the maturing of his pow-
ers in the clear atmosphere of the
New World intellectual life. He has,
therefore or ought to have excep-
tional facilities for interpreting to the
West the mind and heart of the East.

The mystery of the great desolate
desert stretches, with their overpow-
ering solemnity of deadly silence, has
from time immemorial exercised a
most powerful influence upon the
imagination of those who frequent
them; and their optical illusions are
often so curious and so startling as
to afford easy explanation of the leg-
ends of hidden and phantom cities,
such as are told here and elsewhere,
and indeed of much else beside. Sto-
ries similar to "Sheddad's Palace of
Irem," and that of the vanishing city
of the Peri in "The Croesus of Ye-
men," are frequently met with.

The gloominess of the mountain re-
gions, especially that of the Sinaitic Peninsula, service will be rendered to succeeding gen-
has also had a profound influence in giving erations. Posterity would not lose much if
color to the legendary lore of the middle books such as this were printed for private
Orient; and this combination of desert and circulation only. Yet General Brinkerhoff's
mountain influences perhaps largely account life is full enough of incident to justify the
for what is distinctively peculiar in the mys- insertion of a brief narrative in a dictionary
ticism of the East, and for much that will be of biography. He has good reason, however,
found in this book. In the great rush of to be proud of his family, which is of Hugue-
books at the close of the year this volume did not extraction. Ten generations have been
not come into its own. (Coates. $1.50.) born on American soil, and of those who have

'THERE SPRANG, LIKE IRIS FROM THE CLOUDS,

A SMILING HEBE/'

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[March, 1901

descended from the Brinkerhoff who landed
on Manhattan Island in 1638, numbering
nearly two thousand, not one is known to
have been convicted of a criminal offence,
while it is rare for one who has attained mid-
dle life to have failed in becoming the mem-
ber of a Christian church. General Brinker-
hoff has been a schoolmaster, a lawyer, the
editor of a newspaper, a soldier, a banker,
and, finally, a philanthropist. He devoted
himself to prison reform in the last stage of
his career, and his labors in the cause which
has had Howard as its brightest ornament
appear to have been alike self-sacrificing and
successful. His life has been pleasant, un-
clouded at home, and congenial in business.
Writing in his seventy-second year, he ex-
presses his satisfaction at having married at
twenty-four a wife of eighteen, and at hav-
ing lived to see his children "grow to full ma-
turity" without giving him an hour of un-
easiness. He has been an active member of
the Board of State Charities of Ohio, the

members of it receiving no salaries, and hav-
ing no motive for the rightful discharge of
their duties, ."except the love of God and hu-
manity, and our duty to the State." He says
that, though best known as "a prison man,"
he is sure that the best work he has attempted
"has been for the defective and dependent
classes, and especially for homeless children."
We have learned from the perusal of this
book, despite its defects, to respect and ad-
mire the author. (Robert Clarke Co. $2.)
Athenaeum.

TOMB OF VIRGIL.

Quicksand.

As a literary craftsman Hervey White be-
trays marked ability, also an intimacy with
the weakness of the human heart which is, to
say the least, unsual. It is evidently intended
to be a novel with a purpose ; many readers
will dub it a problem novel. It presents an
unmerciful study of the life-history of a
whole family of the farming class of New
England presumably of a date somewhat re-
mote from the present brought
up in commonplace environment
and stultified by a pitiful relig-
ious outlook. The mother domi-
nates the whole family, husband
included. In order to hide the
result of an erring, ignorant
young daughter's act, and baffle
her neighbors, the woman sacri-
fices the rest of her family and
crushes their natural affections ;
and, while dragooning them into
her own conceptions of religion,
lives a lie which maims them all
and ends in ruin. In picturing
the blind self-will of the mother,
the interrelations of the whole
family, and the reactions upon
one another of the unnaturally
repressed lives, the author works
out a psychological study as
powerful as it is repellent. The
situations are handled without
gloves. A story of unquestioned
power, it is not a pleasant one
to read. The hero at first seems
weak and sometimes uninterest-
ing, but a careful reading shows
the very fine psychological and
literary work the writer has put
into the delineation of his com
plex character. He is the vie
tim of a most interesting hered
ity and a false position. (Small
Maynard & Co. $1.50.) The
Outlook.

March, 1901]

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The New Alta Library.

No little time and care lias been given lo
the selection of the library, which now num-
bers 256 volumes of popular anil standard
books, with a view to gathering a tepresenta-
tive collection of best books by the world's
great authors.

The publishers' purpose has been to make a
series of books, not only excellent from a
literary point of view, but so well constructed
mechanically than even the fastidious book-
lover will not object to possessing them.
They are shapely and generous I2mos, uni-
form in size, of clear, readable type, and care-
fully printed on handsome paper, especially
made for the series. In binding, every detail
has been looked after. The sheets are care-
frlly folded, and the sewing is done in such
a substantial manner that the books will read-
ily open without breaking in the back. Of
the 255 titles, 106 are not to be found in any
other publisher's line of I2tnos, and 95 titles
have been added to the line this year. A sim-
ple, but effective cover design, with distinct
title lettering, has been chosen, and the series
will be bound in ribbed cloth flat back, with
head bands and burnished gilt tops. Each
book wrapped in a printed paper jacket.
(Henry T. Coates & Co. ea., 75 c.)

Lords of the North.

THE author of "Lords of the North" is a
well-known journalist both in this country
and abroad. Ill health interrupted a univer-
sity course and sent the author riding across
the plains. Writing was taken up as a diver-
sion. From this it became a life's work.
Since then editorials and special work have
appeared in the leading magazines, newspapers
and other periodicals of this country and Eng-
land. A masterly series of war articles in
the London Illustrated News was followed
by special articles on the "Fisheries and Life
in Newfoundland and Labrador" for the
Westminster Review. In this country the au-
thor has ranked among the foremost writers
and special correspondents for the N. Y.
Evening Post, the Sun, the Review of Re-
views, the New York Herald,, and many
other papers. Miss Laut was the first woman
to invade the camps of the Rocky Mountains
and British Columbia. It was here that she
wrote her descriptions of mining life in the
wilds of the West. Not only was she the first
woman in many of these distant points, but
was the first correspondent for any paper.
In speaking of her life among the miners she

Courtesy of J. F. Tayl<
MISS LAUT.

says, "It was here I first came in contact with
n:an in the rough, and learned to appreciate
the chivalry and courtesy of a class receiving
small credit for such traits, and this, though
I was entirely alone, without one instance of
disrespect or annoyance." When her articles
fiist appeared many of the mining journals
did not know that a woman was writing
them, and in speaking of them in terms of
highest praise they wondered why other East-
ern writers did not leave off their ridiculous,
artificial descriptions and picture mining life
as it really was, like the man whose articles
were appearing in the Free Press, Evening
Post, etc. These articles were followed by
the reports of the International Commission
written for the N. Y. Evening Post, the
Montreal Herald and the Review of Reviews.
"Lords of the North," says the Brooklyn
Daily Eagle, is not only a strong novel,
\\orthy to take high place among the literary
offerings of the year, and to claim one of the
highest places among those recent works of
fiction which have been written around his-
torical events, but its strength is thrown into
relief by the charming delicacy of sentiment
and of expression which shows upon every
page. The philosophy of the book is clothed
in imagery which is as convincing as it is
chaste. The dialogue is vividly natural; the
principal characters introduced by the author
are satisfyingly real. .(Taylor. $1.50.)

THE LITERARY NEWS.

[March, 1901

From " Stage Lyrics." Copyright, 1900, by R. H. Russell.

'WON'T YOU ELOPE WITH ME?"

THE NAUGHTY LITTLE CLOCK.
THERE once was a frivolous and giddy little clock,

A little French clock rather gay,
Very trim and very neat, but a creature of deceit

When you wished to know the time of day;
Fts goings-on would shock the old hall clock,

Till it held up its hands aghast.

I'm sure, to tell the truth, it went wrong in early
youth,

Had a natural inclination to be fast.

"Tic-toe! tic-toe!" said the silly little clock,

"O life in this house is slow,
So cold and grim, very dull and prim

So she sighed all day for a life more gay,

She longed for a shady past,
This naughty little, haughty little clock tic-toe

That had an inclination to be fast.

"I'm quite wound up," declared the giddy little clock,

"I'm weary of the mantel-shelf;
For years I've had to chime to give other folks a time,

Now I'd like to have a time myself.
I would even run away with a terrible roue,

If he'd show me the town's great sights."
So she took up with the lamp, an incorrigible scamp,

Who always smoked and went out nights.

"Tic-toe! tic-toe!" said the foolish little clock;

"Oh, won't you elope with me?
I'm yours from to-day if you'll take me away

Where something of life I'll see."
So they ne'er came back, and the bric-a-brac

Had scandal enough at last,
In gossiping about the little clock tic-toe

With inherited ambition to be fast.

"I will hide my face," said the foolish little clock,

"My case is a scandal quite,
For that shady lamp stays out all night;

His conduct is dreadfully light.
It gives me wheels in my head," said she.

(Though 'twas slang that she did not like;)
"He calls me a slow old thing; he won't answer when
I ring;

No wonder that I'm going to strike."

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"Tic-toe! tic-toe!" said the lonely little clock,

"I wish I had not left home.
I'd rather be straight than up to date,

And I never again will roam."
So now she's there on the mantel-shelf,

A lady who has a past.
No reputable bric-a-brac will speak to her,

That little clock that used to be so fast.

(Russell. $1.50.) From "Stage Lyrics."

An American Engineer in China.

The Story of Nineteenth Century Science.
THE effect on the mind of Mr. Williams's
"Story of Nineteenth Century Science" is
one of incomparable charm. We find logical
arrangement and scientific sequence in the
chapters where he describes in popular and
readable form the advance in the world of
science from astronomy to psychology, from
Herschel's mighty flights into the infinity of
space down to the latest attempts of man to

"AN AMERICAN ENGINEER IN CHINA/' by obey the command, "Know thyself," the last
William Barclay Parsons, has attracted con- jmost difficult task of the ages. When we
sideruble attention in Europe on the part of say that this is a popular work, it must not

those interested
commercial devel-
opment. Mr. Par-
sons has shown
p o s s i bilities o f
American ent e r-
prise in the Orient,
and doubtless Eu-
ropean economists
are learning some
lessons for their
own countrymen.
A wel 1 - k n o w n
French savant has
applied for the
right of transla-
tion and publica-
tion in France of
Mr. Parsons' book.
When Willia m
Barclay Pa r s o n s
was in China a
few months ago
making investiga-
tions for the Amer-
ican railway syndicate, he made the acquaint- space. There are nearly four-score portraits of

FOUR MEMBERS OF THE TSUNG-LI YAMEN AND MR. CON-
GER IN THE COURTYARD OF THE YAMEN.
From left to right they are: Hsu Yung-i, Wang Wen-

be assumed that it
is lacking in the
accuracy of schol-
arship. It has that
quality definitely ;
it is also simple,
direct, not burden-
ed by- technicali-
ties, which are not
readily "u n d e r-
standed of the peo-
ple," and are
therefore avoided
in this enthralling
story. It is told
so that all may
read, may enjoy,
may feel the stir
and thrill of cos-
mic forces, may
almost smell "star-
dust" as the earth
sweeps up millions
of tons of it in its
journey through

ance of many of the leading officials who have famous scientific men in this book, in addi-
recently come to public notice through the tion to many other illustrations a mastodon

Boxers' uprising. On one occasion Mr. Par-
sons had the remarkable opportunity to take
a photograph of the members of the foreign
office, together with Minister Conger, and
since the publication of his book in which the
picture appears the following interesting facts
regarding these officials have come to light :

Hsu Yungi was beheaded by order of the
Empress during the siege of Pekin.

and a waterspout, a refractor and the skele-
ton of the ancestral four-toed horse are
acutely interesting pictures when Mr. Will-
iams explains them.

The story opens brilliantly with the Roent-
gen ray, and tells how Humphrey Davy and
Thomas Wedgewood got to the brink of the
same discovery in 1801. The author then
plunges at once into a swift review of each

Wang Wen-shao died from exposure during main department of science in the closing days

the flight of the Imperial party.

Chao Shu-chiao is one of the officials whom
Minister Conger thinks should be beheaded.

Yu Keng has recently been appointed Chi-
nese Minister to France and is now in Paris.
Everything that can add to accurate knowl-
edge of China must be eagerly welcomed.
(McClure, Phillips & Co. $1.50.)

of the eighteenth century, and of the chief
scientific legacies of that century to its suc-
cessor. The review of the studies of the
nervous system and physiological psychology
by Gall, Desmoulins, Bell, Helmholtz, Fech-
ner, Wundt, Braid and Charcot is a special
feature of the book. (Harper. $1.50.)
Mail and Express.

THE LITERARY NEWS.

[March, 1901

I Suppose You Know What Hope Is?

"You must be a singularly apt pupil," he
observed.

"Miss Minton wouldn't say so," she re-
joined. "But don't you try to teach me
things. I don't want to learn. I know al-
ready that two and two make four, but I
don't feel any the better for it."

"What do you mean by better?"

"Can't say," said Babs.

"You can't express it," he suggested.

She nodded.

"The kind of thing my governess teaches
me no, not the things, not the facts them-
selves, but what she wants me to think about
the facts that's it, or as near as I can come
to it all that kind of teaching seems to put
out something else that I have in me which
is much more enthralling, much better worth
cultivating, than my mind. There's more
pleasure in it, too, and more power. When
I hear of Henry vui. and his wives, it only
makes me think horrid thoughts ; but when
some one says something like like

" 'For, while the tired waves, vainly breaking,

Seem here no painful inch to gain,
Far back, through creeks and inlets making,

"I feel oh!" She hugged herself. "You
don't see much in that, perhaps ; but there is.
There is infinity in it. When it comes into
my mind, I glow and am glad. I expand.
There is pleasure in every inch of me; and
it is as if I filled out and grew bigger, so
that there might be more inches of me to be
resolved into bliss. And why? Not for the
words themselves, certainly, but for what
they contain."

"How do you mean, Babs?"

"What there is in them, you know," she
answered.

"But what is there in them?"

"Why, man, there is hope in them, isn't
there? I suppose you know what hope is?"
.she inquired, ironically.

"It is something different in each case," he
answered. "How do you define it?"

"As a foretaste, for one thing," she an-
swered. "It is our first glimmering of good
things in store for us; it is pleasant expecta-
tion. No one can be quite wretched who has
something to look forward to. But it doesn't
last long, does it? I wish it did hope, I
mean. It soon becomes certainty, because of
that something else, you know, in one's self
in myself, which, when I greatly desire
anything, gives me an assurance makes me
know whether I shall get it or not. But
sometimes it keeps me in suspense," she
qualified, "because I cannot command it."

"What is it like, Babs that 'something
else'?"

"It has to do with tokens, signs, wonders,
premonitions, and such like foolishness, as
people call it. And there is, besides, the
voice the voice that speaks to me here,"
she clasped her hands on her chest "here,
in myself, directing me."

They took a turn in silence.

"Babs," said Cadenhouse, at last, impres-
sively "Babs, do you know that those whom
that voice addresses are called to be of the
elect?"

"I know nothing," said Babs. "But those
are the things that I want to know. I want
to know about this pleasure, and this power
this something in me. Is it to be culti-
vated? Can I get at it to control it?"

"Of a surety."

"How?"

"By self-denial, by teaching, by training,
by leading the life. But you are too young,
Babs," he broke off. "By-and-by, when you
are older, you shall hear more of these
things."

"But if I lead the life, will all that cease
to be vague and elusive?"

"All that, I promise you, will become as
clear as the piece of knowledge you scoffed
at just now the fact that two and two make
four. But I must leave you; it is getting
late."

"No, no," she pleaded. "Do stay do tell
me more."

She clasped her hands round his arm in
her eagerness to detain him, and raised her
angelic face to his.

Cadenhouse hastily disengaged his arm and
fled. (Harper. $1.50.) From Sarah Grand's
"Babs the Impossible."

March, 1901]

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Eastover Court House.

THE series of twelve American novels to
be published during 1901 by the Harpers be-
gins well with "Eastover Court House."
Henry Burnham Boone and Kenneth Brown,

The Infidel.

THE character of the heroine is one of the
most satisfactory that Miss Braddon has con-
ceived in a long series of works which have
shown an increasing tendency to substitute

the collaborators in this book, have sought to more or less of psychology for the incidental

sketch conditions as they are in a Virginian
neighborhood generally faithful to the tradi-
tions of "befo* the wah," but having some re-
lations with the movement of American life
outside the county. They are realistic to a
certain degree. But romance pervades the
book, and there is incident enough to satisfy
even the novel reader who asks first of all for
excitement in his fiction. The impoverished
estates so familiar in
novels of Southern life
are described, and they
are inhabited by types
such as have also been
encountered before the
unbusinesslike and chiv-
alrous gentleman, and the
dark, quick-tempered, not
altogether adm i r a b 1 e
hero who threatens to go
to the dogs, but proves
in time that he is really
worthy of the nicest girl
round about. There is
the handsome wife, ill-
mated and a great trou-
bler of hearts, generally.
She almost elopes, but
thinks better of it and
in due course reaps her
reward. A handsome
Englishman with a title
in prospect has some-
thing to do with her for-
tune before the reader
gets through with them.
These things are all
rather conventional prop-
erties, to be sure, yet
Messrs. Boone and
Brown have communi-
cated some freshness to
them, and their work
gives pleasure. Let us
hope that their followers
in this series will keep
up to their standard.
The twelve should be a
fine addition to stories of
American con d i t i o n s
that must be quickly de-
scribed in their constant
change. (Harper. $1.50.)
N. Y. Tribune.

sensation of her earliest successes. Antonia
is the daughter of a disfrocked parson and
of an Italian peasant. From the latter she
derives grand physical beauty, and a certain
bluff honesty which is her safeguard no less
in the squalid days when she acts as collab-
orator to her father, Grub Street hack in
the time of the second George, than when by
her romantic marriage to Lord Kilrush who,

"YOU GIVE ME NOTHING BUT NATURE, AND I'M HUM

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[March, 1901

having attempted to seduce her into a less
regular relation, atones by marrying her on
his deathbed she is suddenly launched on
the great world' of London. A disturbing
element arises in the person of her husband's
first cousin, who has abandoned a career in
the army in order to support John Wesley in
his crusade of those days. This young man
tries the staunchness of Antonia on two
sides. He falls in love with her, and al-
though he has married a "converted" daugh-
ter of the people, there is something in her
heart which nearly plays her false; and hav-
ing enlisted her in aid of his missionary work,
he endeavors also to enroll her in the ranks
of Evangelical Christians. The eighteenth-
century coloring is adroitly handled, and the
many actors in the scene well differentiated.
Some descriptive passages, like the scene
where the Limerick mob crowds round the
midnight funeral of Lord Kilrush, and the
contrast between the "grand tour" in An-
tonia's days and now, are in Miss Braddon's
best manner. (Harper. $1.50.) The Athe-
neaum.

The New Epoch for Faith.

"THE NEW EPOCH FOR FAITH" is the latest
work of Rev. Dr. George Angier Gordon,
one of the most noted American preachers,
and minister of the Old South Church of
Boston. The volume is an outgrowth of the
author's lectures in 1900, in the Lowell In-
stitute of Boston an endowed lectureship
which has brought forth some of the most
notable expressions of progressive religious
thought of this country. The chapters cover :
Things Assumed; The Advent of Human-
ity; The New Appreciation of Humanity;
The Discipline of Doubt; The Return of
Faith; The New Help from History; Things
Expected.

The central purpose of the book is to inter-
pret for Christian faith the chief significance
of the nineteenth century. This significance
the author finds already indicated in a remark
of the late Prof. C. C. Everett, to the effect
that the reformation of the last third of the
nineteenth century has been greater than that
of Luther's time, because it has been a tran-
sition from the letter of religious dogma to
the spirit of Christian principle. It is clear,
broadly liberal and progressive, and is marked
throughout by the same vigor and hopeful-
ness that mark all of Dr. Gordon's works.
{Houghton, Mifflin & Co. $1.50.)

The Life and Literature of the Ancient
Hebrews

BY Dr. Lyman Abbott is based on lectures
delivered in Plymouth Congregational Church,
Brooklyn, and in the Lowell Institute course,
Boston. The author is well known as a cham-
pion of progress in religious thought, and he
herein places before the lay student and gen-
eral reader the results of the higher critical
study of the Old Testament.

The old Bible is regarded as a library of
sixty-six books, and is studied independ-
ently of questions of inspiration. A scientific
and literary examination is made of the his-
tory, poetry, drama, fiction, folk-lore, phil-
osophy, theology, and ethical culture of the
ancient Hebrew people as disclosed in the
several books of their scriptures ; and from
this study results an undogmatic but highly
spiritual and deeply vital interpretation of
Old Testament truth and teaching. The
book subserves distinctly the needs of deep
and well founded spiritual life, and exempli-
fies the increased value which critical study
gives to the truths of Hebrew sacred litera-
ture. (Houghton, Mifflin & Co. $2.)

The Inhabitants of the Philippines.
THIS book is a description of the inhab-
itants of the Philippines and a great deal
more. One hundred and eighty-eight pages
are given to a detailed account of the appear-
ance, dress, religion, customs and the habitat
of the various tribes and races of the islands.
Suggestions as to the utilization and develop-
ment of the agricultural and industrial re-
sources are also added. To these 188 sub-
stantive pages 200 prefatory ones have been
added, covering the history of the islands,
their political organization under the Span-
iards and their grave mishandling by the
United State Government and army. The
reader gets the impression how correctly we
cannot say that Mr. Sawyer had long been
collecting materials for and writing a scien-
tific monograph on the inhabitants of the
Philippines, and then was moved to prefix
an opportune enlargement of the original
work. His fourteen years of residence in
Luzon with full command of the Spanish lan-
guage and the close contact with all classes
of people involved in the practice of his pro-
fession of a civil engineer peculiarly qualify
him for his task. The spirit of the book is
displayed in the first sentence of its preface :
''The writer feels that no English book does
justice to the natives of the Philippines, and

March, 1901]

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this conviction has impelled him to publish
his own more favorable estimate of them."

Throughout the book the author takes issue
with John Foreman and Professor Worces-
ter, and the reader is at a loss to know how
to "decide when doctors disagree," for cer-
tainly by the extent and intimate character of
his knowledge Mr. Sawyer puts himself in
the same class with the authorities whom he
finds unduly censorious.

Reviewing as it does the whole field, po-
litical, industrial and ethnological, this is per-
haps the most instructive and interesting sin-
gle book on the Philippines. (Scribner.
$4.) Baltimore Sun.

houses, churches, and other buildings. On
some of the walls we found pictures that had
been painted there before the destruction of
the city, and they were still bright and beau-
tiful. The calamity must have happened
about noon, since the excavation found whole
families, in a petrified state, sitting at the
table. Many others were found on the
streets, and some just outside the gates of
the city. Dogs, carriage wheels, bread, and
many other things were found in the same
petrified condition. The city was covered to
the depth of about twenty feet. A portion of
the covering was. formed by subsequent erup-
tions, but the first catastrophe buried the city

From " Romance and Rome.

-right, 1900, by The Abbey Press.

"IF WHAT YOU TELL ME IS LOVE, THEN I DO NOT LOVE."

Pompeii.

As Pompeii was a Greek colony at the
time of its destruction, I had expected to find
relics of some beautiful buildings, but in that
I was disappointed, as the architecture re-
sembled the Italian style. The front room
of the first story of nearly all the houses,
even of many private mansions, was used as
a shop, and the residence part was entered
from the street by a narrow hall, which led
back to a court about twelve feet square, in
the centre of which was a large basin to catch
the rain. Connected with the court were
small bedrooms, used by the servants, while
the family slept upstairs.

While the frames, as well as part of the
walls of the buildings, had been crushed, we
could readily distinguish the hotels, bath

entirely from view, and it was consigned to
oblivion during the Middle Ages. In 1748 a
peasant, in sinking a well, found painted
chambers and other objects of interest, which
gave the first hint of Pompeii's location. The
most remarkable specimens of Roman art
were the metal stamps used by the tradesmen
to mark goods, and to impress letters on wax
for the purpose of teaching the children to
read. Of course, there was nothing in that,
but it seems that a people so highly civilized
and familiar with the art of printing to the
extent of forming names ought to have
thought of applying it to the purpose of
spreading knowledge over the world which
would have made impossible the darkness of
the Middle Ages. (The Abbey Press. $i.)
From Edward's "Romance of Rome."

THE LITERARY NEWS.

[March, 1901

Quincy Adams Sawyer.

CHARLES FELTON PIDGIN'S story of New
England home life is. fast nearing the 100,000
figure, and its sale seems to increase in a
steady ratio. The book was inspired, as the
author has confided to us, by Lowell's poem,
"The Courtin'," and it has been "respectfully
dedicated to the memory of the late Hon.
James Russell Lowell.!'

The story is laid in a representative little
New England town in the vicinity of Boston,
and the many characters introduced in its
586 pages are such as lived and moved and
had their being in such little New England
towns about two decades ago.

The author has succeeded better with his
women characters than with the men.

The hero is a young lawyer who has been
a spoiled darling of fortune, the son of a rich
father and a doting mother. He has brains
and ambition, but he is tempted to give his
time and strength to profitless amusement,
and suddenly loses health and freshness and
is thought to need change. He goes to the
little rural town of Eastborough and imme-

diately falls among people that stir his better
nature, wake up his manhood and make him
desire to be all his birth and circumstances
have fitted him to become. A lovely blind
girl proves his best help and inspiration.

She shows talent for writing, and under the
pseudonym of "Bruce Douglas" writes a
story that touches many lives.

Her father, an old resident named Pettin-
gill, is the philosopher of the little town, and
his various theories of life, though sometimes
startling, make his hearers think and spur
them on to move onward from the grind and
commonplace of average village existence.

The book has mystery and surprise enough
to keep the interest ready for the coming
page. The author's great purpose is to show
the true dignity and the great privileges and
capacities of American manhood.

It is good to think that a book so wholly
devoted to bringing out the best of people
should be proving such a great business suc-
cess as well.

The illustrations are interesting and orig-
inal, but they are photogravure, so we recom-
mend them in their book form,
for reproductions are very unsat-
isfactory. We give a portrait of
the author and congratulate him
heartily on the success of his
American story. Every book that
serves to put on record a phase
of life so fast passing away is to
be heartily welcomed to its place
among distinctly American books.
(Clark Pub. Co. $1.50.)

CHARLES FELTON PIDGIN.

Old Fires and Profitable Ghosts.

"OLD FIRES AND PROFITABLE
GHOSTS" consists of stories of
''revenants; persons who, either
in spirit or in body, revisit old
scenes, return upon old shelves or
old emotions, or relate a message
from a world beyond perception."
Mr. Quiller-Couch here, as ever,
'S the master of an exquisite art.
Rarely absent from his work, we
think it more persuasively present
when his revenants are bodily than
when they are spiritistic. In spite
of his ghosts being introduced as
"profitable," we find them on the
whole less so than the "Old Fires"
and, moreover, less imaginative.
Every-day material, as this accom-
plished writer treats it, is weird

March, 1901]

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enough and poetic enough with-
out his summoning the super-
natural to its intensifying. We
are not sure that there does not
lurk a subtler thrill in the fig-
ure of the Prophet Elisha in
his old age coming painfully
over the rough mountain path
to the Plain of Jezreel and
meeting again the Shunammite
woman, than in the ghostly
night ride of the living man
and his dead friend into the
place of departed spirits. "The
Penance of John Emmet,"
though told with more clumsy
involution than is the wont of
"Q.," is a story that strikes
home as true to the point of
inevitability. "The Lady of the
Red Admirals" is a charming
example of the author's lighter |
touch at its best. "The Singu- ^
lar Adventure of a Small Free- |
Trader" is another. In one of \
the sketches the Wandering I
Jew appears in Cornish setting, t
wearing the new form with the
old fascination. But whichever ^
story makes the closest appeal fl
to the reader, he will hardly fl
fail to find somewhere the pow- '\
er, poetry, and dramatic in- I
stinct without morbidness of jKromoppi
which a book by this writer
always holds the promise.
Few, if any of our writers do better work
than Quiller-Couch. He has accurate knowl-
edge of his subject, strength, virility, pathos,
imagination and all that goes to make orig-
inal writing, and with it all he has the per-
fect technique that satisfies and rests his read-
ers. (Scribner. $1.50.) The Nation.

The Philippines.

MR. ROBINSON'S letters from the Philip-
pines to the New York Evening Post are
here published in book form. The revision
of the letters has been very slight, and they
thus retain the impressions of time and place
and immediate view point. The author freely
admits that the book is in its general tenor
a pro-Filipino argument, but he also asserts,
and his text bears him out, that he has tried
to state the facts as he found them. The
reader thus has a basis for the formation of
his own opinions, which may or may not be
the same as Mr. Robinson's. It is to be re-

membered, however, that the correspondent
acting, we have no doubt, merely under in-
structions to tell the truth, was in the employ
of a newspaper that is violently opposed to
the American policy in the Philippines, and
that this may have colored his conclusions,
if not his selections of the facts. He men-
tions in one place that a reader of Bryce's
"American Commonwealth" might be able to
select passages from that book which would
go to prove that the United States was com-
posed of a very inferior people under an in-
ferior government. We are not sure that he
has not failed to see and recite some facts
which are unfavorable to the Filipinos. Other
correspondents of newspapers of another pol-
icy have had the same opportunities for ob-
servation as Mr. Robinson had and have told
a very different story. We are certain of one
thing, and that is that Mr. Robinson had made
an effort to state only the truth as it was im-
pressed upon him. (McClure, Phillips & Co.
$2.) Public Opinion.

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[March, 1901

The Turn of the Road.

"THE TURN OF THE ROAD/' by Eugenia
Brooks Frothingham, is the story of the am-
bition and love of an American girl of a
fine type. Beautiful in person and gifted with
a voice as beautiful as herself, she puts aside
the love of the unusually chivalrous and de-
voted man who is the hero of the story to
pursue an ambitious musical career abroad.
Her lover's devotion' does not relax until a
great personal misfortune overtakes him,
which, in his opinion, precludes him from
again asking her to accept him as her hus-
band, and forbids the quest which had for
some time taken him yearly to Paris.

Meanwhile the girl completes her studies,
and in several musical capitals of the Conti-
nent wins great appreciation. But she fails
to gain the hearts of her hearers, for her soul
is unawakened, and her .singing, though bril-
liant and artistic, is intellectualy cold and
without warmth of heart.

"Successful," only in the conventional
sense of the word, she returns home for her
American debut, and here, for the first time,
learns of her lover's misfortune and the rea-
son of his renunciation. In a revulsion of
feeling that carries the story into an impas-
sioned dignity, her most womanly instinct is
awakened; and at last she confers not only
happiness upon her lover, but discovers for
herself the true secret of life, and, with the
coming of love, wins a tremendous success in
her art.

The story is bright, is written with vivac-
ity, is touching in its emotional interest, and
i? strong and high in the quality of its pas-
sion. (Houghton, Mifflin & Co. $1.50.)

Stringtown on the Pike.

"S'fRINGTOWN ON THE PlKE" is a Story of

Northern Kentucky, the author having spent
his boyhood in that Section. It was not
written for publication, but to record for an-
other generation the life, vicissitudes, char-
acters and superstitions of a Kentucky town
in the time of the Civil War. But at the
earnest solicitation of the publishers (who
heard of its existence) the author consented
to its publication. The story ran serially in
The Bookman, and its effect was so deep and
so instant that before the date of publication
in book form 10,000 copies had been sold, a
remarkable record for an author almost un-
known.

Within seven weeks from the date of pub-
lication seven editions have been needed to

supply the demand. The story is marked
throughout by a freshness, a vigor, and a fire
that are not often found in contemporary fic-
tion.

It is essentially a dramatic story, and sit-
uation follows situation with a swiftness that
keeps the reader keyed up from the time that
he first meets "Sammy" in Bloody Hollow
until he takes leave of the heroine at the gate
of the Kentucky Convent in Nazareth. A fine
vein of mysticism permeates the book, and
in its portrayal of those types of character
that help to make up so many Western and
Southern towns the parson, the colonel, the
slave, the soldier, the negro the book is
quite alone in its class.

Faith in American literature should be
strengthened by the appearance of this novel,
and by its immediate success! (Dodd, Mead
& Co. $1.50.)

Daunay's Tower.

THOUGH based on a rather improbable
foundation, Miss Adeline Sergeant's new
novel, which, be it said at once, shows no
falling off in regard to vigor and imagination,
deserves to be welcomed as a piece of fiction
above the average merit. One dark and
stormy night Jane Arnold received, while
standing at the entrance to John Daunay's
queer dwelling-place in Cumberland, from
Dr. Lechmere's hands, a new-born baby, and
with it all necessary instructions. For no
less than eighteen years the father made no
sign of affection for or interest in his child,
though he paid all charges regularly and ap-
pointed Lechmere to examine the little An-
nabel at frequent intervals. Great was the
consternation when John Daunay appeared
upon the scene, and bluntly demanded of his
daughter that she should express her willing-
ness to marry her cousin, Jocelyn Daunay.
This, while, as it were, blindfolded, the girl
refused to do. As a matter of fact, there
was in her heart an affection for Dr. Lech-
mere, whose forty-seven years sat lightly
upon him, which might easily have changed
into an ardent love if it had been in the
slightest degree encouraged. Poor Lechmere,
though he secretly worshipped Annabel, had
a black mark against him, and therefore
shrank from indulging his heart at the ex-
pense of honor. How Annabel reached to
happiness at last, after treading thorny paths,
it is not for us to tell. "Daunay's Tower"
will not disappoint Adeline Sergeant's ad-
mirers, who are legion. (Buckles. $1.25.)
London Literary World.

March, 1901]

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jje lltminj $

& ffdectfc $Zlontf)Is Itebtein of Current literature,
EDITED BY A. H. LEYPOLDT.

MARCH, 1901.

ONE HUNDRED BOOKS TO READ.

*"I WISH I had something to read," "I never
know what to take when I see a lot of books,"
"Do give me the names of some good new
books." How often we hear the average
reader express this longing and uncertainty.

Book lists seem at best such an absurdity.
The people who look to them for guidance sel-
dom can appreciate the really important books,
and to make a list of books not of real merit
seems waste of time and space. Of course a
selection of 100 books from the 5000 of a year
must at least be arbitrary and largely tinged
with the personal equation.

Every reader has special tastes and inter-
ests aside from general literature. Whether
the leaning be for nature, education, fine arts,
religion, theatre, poetry, political economy,
etc.. it is easy to find the books in any special
line by applying to a library or bookseller.

This list is intended for those who desire
to get a fair idea of the better books of 1900
in general literature. Every book in the list
is worth reading; many are worth buying
and keeping. Whether they will live, the
next ten years will decide.

FICTION.

Allen, Grant. Hilda Wade. $1.50. Putnam.
Allen, Ja; Lane. Reign of law. $1.50.

Macmillan.

Bacheller. Eben Holden. $1.50. Lothrop.
Barrie. Tommy and Grizel. $1.50. Scribner.
Barry. Arden Massiter. $1.50. Century.
Benton. Geber. $1.50. Stokes.

Bower. John Thisselton. $1.50. Holt.

Braddon. The infidel. $1.50. Harper.

Connor, Ralph. Black Rock and Sky pilot.
ea., $1.25. Revell.

Corelli. The master Christian. $1.50.

Dodd, M.

Crawford. In the palace of the king. $1.50.
Macmillan.
Dake. A strange discovery. $1.25.

H. I. Kimball.
Fuller. The last refuge. $1.50.

Houghton, M.
Garland. The eagle's heart. $1.50.

Appleton.

Goss. Redemption of Frederick .Corson. $1.50.
Bowen-Merrill.
Grant, Robert. Unleavened bread. $1.50.

Scribner.

Harland, Henry. The cardinal's snuff-box.
$1.50. Lane.

Harland, Marion. Dr. Dale. $1.50.

Dodd, M.

Hewlett. Richard Yea and Nay. $1.50.

Macmillan.

Hope, Anthony. Quisante. $1.50. Stokes.
Johnston. To have and to hold. $1.50.

Houghton, M.
Lloyd. Stringtown on the Pike. $1.50.

Dodd, M.

Merriman. Isle of Unrest. $1.50. Dodd, M.
Mitchell. Dr. North. $1.50. Century.

Munn. Uncle Terr}'. $1.50. Lee & S.

"Ouida." Waters of Edera. $1.50. Fenno.
Phillpotts. Sons of the morning. $1.50.

Putnam.
Pidgin. Quincy Adams Sawyer. $1.50.

Clark Pub.

Potter. Uncanonized. $1.50. McClurg.

Raine. Garthowen. $i. Appleton.

Steel. Hosts of the Lord. $1.50.

Macmillan.
Tarkington. Monsieur Beaucaire. $1.25.

McClure, P.
Thompson. Alice of old Vincennes. $1.50.

Bowen-Merrill.
Twombly. Kelea, the surf-rider. $1.50.

Fords. H. & H.

Ward. Eleanor. $1.50. Harper.

White. Hervey. Quicksand. $1.50.

Small, M.

MISCELLANEOUS LITERATURE.

Allen, A. V. G. Life and letters of Phillips

Brooks. 2 v. $7.50. Dutton.

Bennett. Monitor and the navy under steam.

$1.50. Houghton. M.

Bowker. Arts of life. $1.25.

Houghton, M.
Bryce. Hudson Bay Company. $4.

Scribner.

Buell. Paul Jones. 2 v. $3. Scribner.

Burroughs. Light of day. $1.50.

Houghton. M.

Byrn. Progress of invention in the igth cen-
tury. $3; $4. Munn.
Cannon. Clearing houses. $2.50. Aopleton.
Carpenter. South America. $3. Saalfield.
Cerfberr. Compendium to Balzac's Comedie
htimaine. $1.50. Gebbie.
Chad wick. Theodore Parker. $2.

Houghton, M.

Cook. F: A. Through the first Antarctic
night. $5. Doubleday, P.

Cook, Joel. America. 3 v. $7.50; $15.
Corbett. Successors to Drake. $6.

Longmans.
Cornford. R. L. Stevenson. $1.25.

Dodd. M.

Crawford. Rulers of the South. 2 v. $6.
Macmillan.

De Roo. Hist, of America before Columbus
2 v. $6. Lippincott.

Edwards. Shaksper not Shakespeare. $2.

R. Clarke.
Eggleston. Transit of civilization. $1.50.

Appleton.

Flammarion. The unknown. $2. Harper.
George, H:, jr. Life of Henry George. $1.50.
Doubleday, P.
Giddings. Democracy and empire. $2.50.

Macmillan.
Godwin. Sonnets of Shakespeare. $1.50.

Putnam.

Henderson. Side-lights on English history.
$5- Holt.

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[March, 1901

Holcombe. Real Chinese question. $1.50.

Dodd, M.

Howells. Literary friends and acquaintance.
$2.50. Harper.

Huneker. Chopin. $2. Scribner.

Huxley, L. Life and letters of Thomas Hux-
ley. 2 v. $5. Appleton.
Jackson. James Martineau. $3. Little, B.
lies. Flame, electricity and the camera. $2.
Doubleday, P.
Lang. History of Scotland, v. i. $3.50.

Dodd, M.
Le Gallienne. Rudyard Kipling. $1.25.

Lane.

Lidgey, Charles A. Wagner. $1.25. Button.
Mabie. Shakespeare. $6 (now reduced.)

Macmillan.
Macdonnell. Sanskrit literature. $1.50.

Appleton.

McMaster. People of the U. S. v. 5. $2.50.
Appleton.
Mahan. The problem of Asia. $2.

Little, B.
Maxwell. Life of Wellington. 2 v. $11.

Little, B.

Meynell. John Ruskin. $1.25. Dodd, M.
Moorehead. Prehistoric implements. $3.

R. Clarke.
Morley, John. Oliver Cromwel]. $3.50.

Century.

"Ouida." Critical studies. $2. Cassell.

Parsons. An American engineer in China.
$1.50. McClure, P.

Philippi. Ascent of Mt. St. Elias (Alaska.)
$12.50. Stokes.

Pierson. Forward movements of the last half
century. $1.50. Funk & W.

Reinsch. World politics at end of iQth cen-
tury. $1.25. Macmillan.
Robinson. The Philippines. $2.

McClure, P.

Rosebery, Lord. Napoleon, the last phase.
$3- ' Harper.

Scruggs. Colombian and Venezuelan repub-
lics. $2.50. Little. B.
Shaler. The individual. $1.50. Appleton.
Slocum. Sailing alone around the world. $2.
Century.
Spahr. America's working people. $1.25.

Longmans.
Spears. American slave trade. $2.50.

Scribner.

Spielmann. John Ruskin. 2. Lippincott.
Stedman. American anthology. $3-$io.

Houghton, M.

Strong. Expansion under new world condi-
tions. $i; 50 c. Baker & T.
Tolstoi. Slavery of our times. $1.25.

Dodd, M.
Waliszewski. Russian literature. $1.50.

Appleton.

Wells. Theory and practice of taxation. $2.
Appleton.

Wendell. Literary history of America. $3.
Scribner.

Whiteing. Paris of to-day. $5. Century.
Whitney, Mrs. The integrity of Christian
science. $i. Houghton, M.

Wilkinson. War and science. $3.50.

Dodd, M.

Williams. Story of iQth century science.

$2.50. Harper.

Workman. In the ice world of Himalaya.

$4. Cassell.

for iflarcl).

irked with asterisk are illustrated.

Atlantic: Democracy and efficiency, Wood-
row Wilson. Mr. McKinley as President,
Henry B. F. Macfarland. Penelope's Irish
experiences, v., Kate Douglas Wiggin. John
Marshall, James Bradley Thayer. A letter
from Germany, William C. Dreher. The
flutes of the god, Edith M. Thomas. The
Freedmen's bureau, W. E. Burghardt Du
Bois. On the road to Crowninshield, Dora
Loomis Hastings. The Tory lover, xvn.-
xxi., Sarah Orne Jewett. Love the conqueror
came to me, Robert Underwood Johnson.
Animals in literature, George S. Hellman.
Mademoiselle Angele, Roy Rolfe Gilson.
The cities of the world, William Prescott
Foster. British confederation, J. W. Root.
Three centuries of American literature, Will-
iam Morton Payne. Recent verse: Mrs.
Fields's Orpheus. Mrs. Dorr's Afterglow.
Mifflin's The fields of dawn and later sonnets.
Moody's The masque of jjudgment. Miss
Peabody's Fortune and men's eyes. Phillips's
Herod. How to write a novel for the masses.
Charles Battell Loomis. Give the country
the facts. The Contributor's club : A broken
idol. When I was a boy. Parkman's tenaci-
ty. A rainy Sunday in Rome. Victoria
(1819-1901.)

Catholic World: Religious communities and
their critics. "Hail, Rabbi" (poem), Rev.
William P. Cantwell. Music as a civilizing
agency, Carina Campbell Eaglesfield. At the
bier of the crucified,* Anna Sprague McDon-
ald. Hugo's praise of love, Rev. Joseph
McSorley. By Calvary (poem), Michael
Earle. A modern martyrdom, Sara F. Hop-
kins. The heart of Brittany,* Rev. James M.
Gillis. A study in Hagiology, Rev. James M.
Gillis. Mary to Christ on the cross (poem),
Nora Rylman. Some interesting facts about
the Catacombs,* Rev. Monsignor Campbell.
Good Friday (poem). The true landing-

S'ace of Columbus,* F. MacBennett. Thomas
enry Huxley, Rev. James J. Fox.

The Century: To Austin Dobspn, F. B. F.
Shopping in New York,* Lillie Hamilton
French. To a book-worm, John H. Finley.
Surabhi, Flora Annie Steel. Impressions
of Japan, Rt. Rev. Henry C. Potter. "Toiler,
canst thou dream?" (poem). Lulu W. Mit-
chell. Fee,* Elizabeth Stuart Phelps. Down
the Rhine. Worms to Coblenz,* Augustine
Birrell. The helmet of Navarre,* vm., Ber-
tha Runkle. Some Americans abroad, the
expatriation of Jonathan Taintor,* Charles
Battell Loomis. The mining of iron,* Wai-
don Fawcett. Personal recollections of Jo-
hannes Brahms,* George Henschel. Her
mountain lover, v., Hamlin Garland. The
last hunt of Dorax,* Olive Huck. The peo-
ple at the top of the world: a tour through
Siberia in search of Andree,* n., Jonas Stad-
ling. Snow-birds, John Burroughs. Daniel
Webster: Webster as a leader of the Opposi-
tion,* John Bach McMaster. The flight of
the Empress Dowager, Luella Miner. D'ri
and I,* i., Irving Bacheller. Topics of the
time: Fighting and free speech. An oppor-

March, 1901]

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tunity for good citizenship. Superstition,
science, and religion at the beginning of the
twentieth century.

Contemporary Review: The Queen, Mrs.
Emily Crawford. Lord Wolsely as com-
mander-in-chief, Nemo. The influence of
Europe on Asia, Meredith Townsend. Sci-
ence in agriculture, Sir Edmund Verney.
Russia and the open door, A Russian Publi-
cist. Christianity and public life, D. S.
Cairns. Berlioz, Ernest Newman. Mr. Les-
lie Stephen's "English Utilitarians," Will-
iam Graham. National military reform, Col.
F. N. Maude. Co-operators, the state, and

. . , ,

the housing question, Gilbert Slater. The
novels of Mr. Re

, .

Rene Bazin, Edmund Gosse.

Fortnightly Review (February) : Railway
reform in Great Britain, Rudyard Kipling.
South African politics, dramatis personae,
Geoffrey C. Noel. "The golden bough," An-
drew Lang. Great armies and their cost,
Major Arthur Griffiths. Ireland in 1901.
China and non-China, Sir Robert Hart
Military cycling after Mr. H. G. Wells, Lt-
Col. Eustace Balfour. Coventry Patmore,
Virginia M. Crawford. War office reform:
i, Army reform from a battalion point of
view, Lt.-Col. R. A. L. Pennington; 2, The
uses and limitations of an army league, Col.
J. G. B. Stopford. The crux in South Africa.
Calchas. "Death" a sonnet. Colonial prob -
lems: i, Some West Indian grievances, Sir
Augustus Adderley; 2, The Newfoundland
question, is a present settlement with France
desirable?, Beckles Willson.

Forum: British rule in the Dominion of
Canada, Sir John G. Bourinot. What of the
Democratic party?, Hon. Charles Denby.
The growing powers of the president, Henry
Litchfield West. Labor conditions in Swit-
zerland, Walter B. Scaife. The superinten-
dent from the primary teacher's point of view,
Alice Irwin Thompson. "Tabloid journal-
ism" : its causes and effects, A. Maurice Low.
Homicide and the Italians, Napoleone Cola-
janni. The hopes and fears of Russia, Felix
Volkhovsky. The Boer war : a study in com-
parative prediction, Herbert E. Horwill.
The nations in competition at the close of the
century, Jacob Schoenhof. The Machiavelli
of Chinese diplomacy, Robert E, Lewis.
Career of King Edward vn., J. Castell Hop-
kins.

Harper's: Seville,* Arthur Symons. The
soft-hearted Sioux* (story), Zitkala-Sa.
The portion of labor :* a novel, Pt. i., Mary
E. Wilkins. The hills o' Skye (fioem), Will-
iam McLennan. Colonies and nations,* Pt.
in., Woodrow Wilson. Thicker than water*
(story), Melville Chater. The records of the
snow. The street of Beauport (poems),
Francis Sterne Palmer. Colonel Starbottle
for the plaintiff (story), Bret Harte. The
John Day Fossil beds,* John C. Merriam.
The trust issue at Stonetop* (story), Lynn
Roby Meekins. Voice of the mountain
(poem), John Vance Cheney. In the Box
Csnon of the Gila* (story), Cyrus Townsend

Brady. The poet (poem), Lulu W. Mitchell.
The right of way,* Pt. in., Gilbert Parker.
The moving finger* (story), Edith Whar-
ton. Nature of life after death, James H.
Hyslop. Song of a Buddhist lover (poem),
Charlotte Elizabeth Wells. Editor's Easy
Chair: Mine. Bernhardt's "Hamlet."

Nineteenth Century and After (February) :
An epitaph. Victoria the Good : a sonnet, Sir
Theodore Martin. Last month. The Queen,
Sir Wemyss Reid. My ways and days in Eu-
rope and India, His Highness the Maharajah
Gaekwar of Baroda, G.C.S.T. The economic
outlook in the Transvaal, Arthur B. Mark-
ham, M.P. Clearing Natal, L. Oppenheim.
Sham versus real home defence, Col. Lons-
dale Hale. Our absurd system of punishing
crime, Robert Anderson. A plea for the soul
of the Irish people, George Moore. The
Roman Catholic doctrine of indulgence, Her-
bert Paul. "Pi-Pa-Ki, or San-Pou-Tsong,"
Prof. Hutcheson Macaulay Posnett. The
highest grade board schools, Sir Joshua
Fitch. What were the Cherubim? Rev. Dr.
A. Smythe Palmer. Official obstruction of
electric progress, J. A. Fleming. "The
sources of Islam" (a letter to the editor),
Rev. W. St. Clair-Tisdall. The question of
the native races in South Africa, John Mac-
donnell.

North American Review: The Pope's civil
princedom, the Most Rev. John Ireland.
Musings upon current topics, n., Benjamin
Harrison. Matilde Serao, Henry James.
Business situation and prospects in the United
States, Charles R. Flint. Protestant foreign
missions : a retrospect, the Rev. Judson Smith,
D.D. The independence of Cuba, Frank D.
Pfvey. The King of England, Sir Charles
W. Dilke, Bt, M. P. Some perils of the pos-
tal service, i., Henry A. Castle. Recent dis-
coveries in Greece and the Mycenaean age,
Charles Waldstein. Municipal ownership of
natural monopolies, Richarl T. Ely. The
great religions of the world, vn. Positivism:
its position, aims and ideals, Frederic Harri-
son. 'The recent dramatic season, W. D
Howells.

Scribner's: Along the east coast of Af-
rica,* Richard Harding Davis. The fate of
Faustina more adventures of the amateur
cracksman,* E. W. Hornung. A battle and
a quarrel, Frederick Palmer. Among the im-
migrants,* Arthur Henry. The stage remin-
iscences of Mrs. Gilbert, n.,* Anne Hartley
Gilbert. Russia of to-day, v., M. de Witte
and the new economic regime,* Henry Nor-
man. Our two uncles,* Sydney Herman
Preston. The transformation of the map
(1825-1900), with comparative maps from ma-
terial furnished by the author, Joseph Sohn.
The English language in America, Brander
Matthews. Gretchen (poem). The settle-
ment in China, Thomas F. Millard. The point
of view : Machinery and the real culture The
"artistic" writers Specialization and the
growth of talent. The field of art: French
architectural decoration*: The Sevres manu-
factory at the Paris Exposition, Alexander
Sandier.

THE LITERARY NEWS.

[March, 1901

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BOURINOT, Sir J. G. Canada under British
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DAY, Rev. E. Social life of the Hebrews.

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Divided into two parts: The time of the
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Yahweh ; The patriarchal stories .of Genesis ;
Primitive covenants among Semitic people.
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the American Revolution, the emancipation
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Spanish-American war."
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WALKER, WILLISTON. The Reformation.
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GASPARY, ADOLF. History of early Italian
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HUGHES, JA. LAUGHLIN. Dickens as an edu-
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KASTNER, L. E. and ATKINS, H. G. Short
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MABIE, HAMILTON WRIGHT. William Shake-
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MATTHEWS, JAMES BRANDER. Notes on

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SELFE, ROSE E. With Dante in Paradise;

readings from the "Paradise." Cassell.

il. 12, 75 c.

An attempt to present in a simple form
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MENTAL AND MORAL PHILOSOPHY.

DICKINSON, G. LOWES. The meaning of
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$1.25.

LINCOLN, DANIEL F. Sanity of mind and of
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SOULSBY, LUCY H. M. Stray thoughts on
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BICKERTON, A. W. The romance of the
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BRIGHAM, ALBERT PERRY. Text-book of geol-
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BYRN, E. W. Progress of invention in the
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CONN, HERBERT W. The method of evolu-
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ECKSTORM, FANNIE HARDY. The bird book.

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GREER, JULIAN. Twenty-five minutes with
palmistry. Abbey Press, il. 12, 25 c.
A simple outline, that any one can under-
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GOULD, ELIZABETH LINCOLN. The "Little
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Louisa May Alcott's story "Little men" ;
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Brown & Co. pi. 12, bds., 50 c.

THAW. ALEX. BLAIR. Poems. J. Lane. 12,
$1.50.

WYNNE, C. WHITWORTH. Ad astra : a poem.
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BUELL, C. E. Industrial liberty; our duty to
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York Frontier." Copyright, 1901, by C

AN INDIAN FORT IN CENTRAL NEW YORK.

Max Mailer's

READERS of "Auld Lang Syne" will await
eagerly "My Autobiography: a Fragment,"
by Max Miiller, which the Scribners will soon
publish. The book was left in somewhat
fragmentary condition on the death of the
author, and now appears under the editorial
supervision of his son. This story of a
scholar's life is carried from Muller's ear-
liest childhood to 1848, the height of the
Tractarian movement. It is a leisurely book,
abounding in incidental comment and in an-
ecdotal interest. Four portraits of the author,
at different ages, besides those of his father
and mother, are successfully reproduced in
photogravure. Characteristic of the more
serious side of the book is Muller's judgment
on the Tractarians, most of whom he knew
well. The whole movement seemed to him
too secret, too mystical, and too much given
over to trivial questions of ritual. In the

Autobiography.

midst of the commotion he saw little of what
he called religion.

My practical religion (he writes) was what
I had learnt from my mother; that remain-
ed unshaken in all storms, and in its ex-
treme simplicity and childishness answered
all the purposes for which religion is meant.
Then followed, in the Universities of Leip-
sic and Berlin, the purely historical and sci-
entific treatment of religion, which, while it
explained many things and destroyed many
things, never interfered with my early ideas
of right and wrong, never disturbed my life
with God and in God, and seemed to satisfy
all my religious wants. I never was fright-
ened or shaken by the critical writings of
Strauss or Ewald, of Renan or Colenso. If
what they said had an honest ring, I was de-
lighted, for I felt quite certain that they
could never deprive me of the little I really

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[April, 1901

wanted. . . . Suppose it was proved to me
that Christ could never have given leave to
the unclean spirits to enter into the swine,
what was that to me? Let Colenso and
Bishop Wilberforce, let Huxley and Glad-
stone fight about such matters; their turbu-
lent waves could never reach me in my safe
harbor. I had little to carry, no learned
impedimenta to safeguard my faith. If a
man possess this one pearl of great price he
may save himself and his treasure, but neither
the tinselled vestments of a Cardinal nor the
triple tiara that covers the head of the Church
will serve as life-belts in the gales of doubt and
controversy. (Scribner. $2.) Evening Post.

A Soldier of Virginia.

"A SOLDIER OF VIRGINIA : A TALE OF COL-
ONEL WASHINGTON AND BRADDOCK'S DEFEAT/'
by Burton Egbert Stevenson, is a story of
the struggle between French and English for

possession of the Ohio Valley. It is strong
in style, and its events have the force of ac-
tuality. It presents Washington at the begin-
ning of his career, and pictures Braddock
and his disastrous campaign against Fort Du
Quesne, besides telling a winsome love story.

The narrative introduces the reader to so-
cial and military life in Virginia of the period
just antecedent to the Revolution. Washing-
ton is the hero's best friend, and they are as-
sociated in the unfortunate Fort Necessity
expedition against Fort Du Quesne. They
later take part in Braddock's campaign ; and
the absurdly conducted advance across the
mountains into the Ohio valley and the crush-
ing defeat administered, with victory almost
in hand, are vividly described.

Franklin is seen playing a characteristic
part at a critical juncture in the story, and
Dinwiddie traverses the stage a very real
figure. A slave insurrection is dramatically
treated, and the defense of a plantation
against a French and Indian attack, in which
Washington comes to the rescue, and the hero
wins the lady who had before seemed lost to
him, indicates the perils of border life in
Virginia not many years before the Revolu-
tion. The picture of Virginia society, as it
then existed, is a true one, and the accounts
of Braddock and Washington make them
wholly life-like figures. (Houghton, Mifflin
& Co. $1.50.)

I DO NOT LOVE HIM, TOM."

Your Uncle Lew.

WITH an eye to the remote chance that
some reader of the present story knows of a
little book printed in paper covers in 1885
under the title of "The Autobiography of an
Old Sport," the author seizes upon the liberty
of a foreword to declare the fact that the
anonymousness of that simple effort covers
his handiwork. The preparation of that char-
acter sketch was his contribution to a friendly
undertaking having for its object the deliv-
erance of the old man who was the hero of
the narrative from the veritable pangs of
want. Inasmuch as the publication, sold
from the overcoat pocket of "the old sport/'
served to lift the last months of his life out
of the shadows into the sun, and finally to
lay what was mortal of him under a modest
stone, its original and worthiest design was
happily fulfilled. Its drolleries, its oddities,
its anecdotal tidbits transcripts from the
everyday speech of a Yorick in the flesh
were bound to be marked for possible em-
ployment in a work of fiction, and for that
use at an opportunte future were they re-

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served. Now, after fifteen
years' seasoning, such part
of the narrative as seemed
available for more pre-
sumptuous exploitation has
been put between these cov-
ers, excised, modified, and
elaborated to the present
purposes. If of the two or
three hundred copies orig-
inally circulated there be
now a stray example, its
owner will be able better to
note where truth ends and
fiction begins in this story;
for aside from resort to
"The Autobiography of an
Old Sport," there is a grain
of truth herein as for ex-
ample, the essential facts re-
garding the origin and dis-
covery of the Cardiff Giant.
The author believes, in fact,
that in no other form is to
be found the true history of
that most audacious of hum-
bugs. Keen delight has been
taken in her unmasking it.
The giant, it must not be
forgotten, was an American. '
Its ill-fame is a blot on our
national honor. There may
be those among our critics
who still contend that it
is a symbol of our national spirit. To con-
found such as these it has been attempted
in the following pages to set forth a man of
flesh and blood, as rough hewn as the Cardiff
Giant, but a man, worthy to be called "nat-
ural born" that happy, though little used,
description of the native American to be
found only in the fifth section of Article II.
of the federal Constitution wherein are de-
fined the qualifications of those citizens who
are eligible to hold the office of President of
the United States. .

The author is aware that to have written
a story of Central New York is to have
awakened the ghost of "David Harum" a
kindly apparition in this instance, however,
for the author has but to listen with his
memory to hear the tone of Edward Noyes
Westcott and the gentle words with which
he encouraged him. By the quaint veracities
of "The Autobiography of an Old Sport" Mr.
Westcott was quickly struck. (Stokes.
$1.50.) Preface to Sherlock's "Your Uncle
Lew."

'ALL ELSE TOOK SECOND PLAC:

The Sentimentalists.

THE name "Sentimentalist" is applied by
Arthur Stanwood Pier to his hero and hero-
ine ; he conceives of the first as "a sensualist
restrained by morality and therefore a senti-
mentalist;" of the heroine as "a sentimental-
ist feminine, a sweeter, legs selfish being than
the masculine equivalent." The hero, how-
ever, as the author admits, "like many an-
other sentimentalist, never so truly touched
the sublime as when gorging himself on
humble-pie." The book will be a success,
not only in spite of its binding, but also in
spite of hero and heroine rather than be-
cause of them. The reader will not care so
much about their sentimentalism as he will
for the capital descriptions of athletic life
here and there, as, for instance, Vernon's
joy in swimming; the sympathetic pictures
of Lake Champlain and Maine coast scenery;
above all, the felicitous delineation of minor
characters, mostly taken from Boston socie-
ty; indeed, it is not hard to trace in them
the peculiarities of certain well-known social

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leaders in that place. While these minor
characters seem more successfully drawn than
are the major the author's strokes appar-
ently truer and more telling all the char-
acters might have been still more clearly set
forth, and the plot a little more cohesively
dramatic. It is rather gratuitous, neverthe-
less, to pick flaws in so generally excellent
a story one which admirably fits the capital
plan of the publishers in giving each month
to the public a distinct portrayal of a cer-
tain phase of American life. (Harper.
$1.50.) The Outlook.

Courtesy of R. H. Russell.
SARAH BERNHARDT AS I/AIGLON.

Betsy Ross.

MR, HOTCHKISS deals with much more than
the American flag in "Betsy Ross," wherein
he introduces us to the maker of that flag,
receiving her commission to set to work upon
it and playing in her way the part of a de-
voted patriot. A "Prelude" to the novel ex-
hibits the marooning of a band of pirates by
five of their comrades, and in the first chap-
ter a survivor of the terrible experience en-
ters Philadelphia to cause all manner of woe.
There is a duel, there is a murder, there ore

misunderstandings galore, and somehow
Betsy Ross, who is portrayed as the daughter
of a reformed rascal, of course innocent of
her father's past, finds her fate linked to all
these sinister happenings. The plot is deftly
put together. The flag episode counts, but
it is not brought too pervasively into the book.
The fiendish pirate who is such a source of
misery occupies the stage more than once,
and while General Washington is naturally
among the characters he is not allowed to
take up too much of the reader's attention.
Betsy's love affair successfully disputes for
our interest with her making of the flag, and
her history, as Mr. Hotchkiss cleverly tells
it, is packed with varied and exciting interest.
(Appleton. $i; pap., 50 c.) N. Y. Tribune.

War's Brighter Side.

"WAR'S BRIGHTER SIDE/' by Rudyard Kip-
ling, A. Conan Doyle, Lord Stanley, Julian
Ralph, H. A. Gwynne, Percival Landon, and
others is invested with a unique interest, both
by the singularly attractive quality of the
contents, which include the stories, poems,
and sketches of some of the most popular
modern authors, and also by the peculiar con-
ditions under which these stories were written.

When the British army was at Bloemfon-
tein, preparing for the march to Pretoria,
Lord Roberts took advantage of the presence
of the most brilliant group of writers ever
brought together by journalistic require-
ments, and requested them to make a news-
paper for the army. The result was some-
thing which deserves to be called unique.
The four editors Kipling, Ralph, Gwynne
and Landon selected Mr. Ralph to act a c
editor of this book, which contains the best
of the stories and poems contributed to The
Friend, and also presents a picture of the
novel conditions under which the paper was
prepared. The humorous and exasperating
features of newspaper editing and publica-
tion in the field are vividly sketched by Mr.
Ralph, who has improved to the full the de-
lightful opportunities afforded by the strange
experiences of this rare board of editors.
The illustrations include portraits of the edi-
tors in the field and at work in their im-
provised sanctum, one of Kipling's proofs
as it was returned to the Dutch compositor
with vigorously uncomplimentary notes by
the author, and many other full-page pic-
tures. A book so rich on the literary side,
and so picturesque and extraordinary in the
circumstances of its origin, comes with a
relish of its own which will be keenly ap-
preciated. (Appleton. $1.50.)

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A Sailor's Log.

HERE is the most picturesque book of the
sea which we have had of recent years. Ad-
miral Evans, who is known to every Ameri-
can, has been in active sea service almost
throughout a long and stirring career which
has included two wars, a near approach to
war in Chile, an exciting campaign against
piratical sealers in Alaskan waters, and ad-
ventures and strange experiences in every
quarter of the globe. His earlier years afford
a charming picture of Virginian life before
the war, from which the reader passes to
thrilling incidents of Indian fighting and
buffalo hunting on the plains, while the boy
was on his way to Utah to qualify for an
appointment at Annapolis. The approach of
war, the varied phases of service, the bloody
and dramatic assaults upon Fort Fisher, and
the picture sketched incidentally of the gal-
lant young officer undaunted by wounds, offer
chapters of most vivid interest. In the pages
which follow the reader passes from hunt-
ing trips in China, adventures with cobras
in Singapore, or war clouds in Japan, to
tales of ghosts in the Mediterranean and land
cruises in Liberia and southern Africa. An
inner view is given of the acute Chilian dif-
ficulties which so nearly led to war, and an-

other fresh chapter of history is told in the
graphic accounts of the clever strategy and
ceaseless vigilance which demoralized the
pirates of the north on the sealing grounds.
The reader is introduced to the inception of
the new navy, to the development of the ord-
nance department and work of the Light-
house Board, and to other phases of profes-
sional work which are sketched in language
singularly eloquent, simple, and graphic. At
the opening of the Kiel Canal Admiral Evans
saw much of the German emperor, and per-
sonal recollections of the Kaiser fill many
most entertaining pages. A poem by Kip-
ling, and a fresh sketch of intimate experi-
ences in the Spanish War, are among the
many brilliant features of this remarkable
book. "A Sailor's Log" depicts the old navy
under sail and the transition to the navy un-
der steam, and the modern battleship. As a
midshipman Admiral Evans learned to go
aloft and furl sails ; as a captain he has com-
manded the cruiser New York and the bat-
tleships Indiana and Iowa. His book sug-
gests the extent and value of a naval officer's
work. It is a book of historical importance,
and it is a peculiarly intimate, vivid, and per-
sonal story of a most varied and picturesque
career. (Appleton. $1.50.)

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[April, 1901

EL MORE ELLIOT PEAKE.

The Darlingtons.

IN Mr. Elmore Elliott Peake's successful
novel, "The Darlingtons," the location of
the scene was not made known. Mr. Peake
had been employed in the railway office of
one of the smaller lines in the South, and it
is but natural that his knowledge of railroad
life appears in this story. Not long ago Mr.
Peake received the following letter, which
seems to throw some light on the location of
the scene :

"I have recently read your book, 'The Dar-
lingtons,' with a great deal of interest. I
found not a dull paragraph in it, although I
did skip one. It was about the scenery, and
I co.uld not wait to see it for going after Miss
Carol.

"But I do not write to express my apprecia-
tions, many though they are, which is per-
haps the best reason for not doing so.

"In the first sentence of the opening chap-
ter of your book, you speak of the 'High
Point, Randleman, Ashboro, and Southern
Railway.' These names are familiar to me.
On the Southern Railway in Central North
Carolina is the town of High Point. From
here a branch road extends to Ashboro, and
between the towns is the village of Randle-
man. This led me to suspect at first that the
scene of your story must be laid in this part
of the country, but I became more convinced
of it as I read, because the life portrayed in
your book is really a perfect picture of life
in a little North Carolina town. Whether
you intended it or not, you are the first to
portray this life, I think. The scant current
literature concern' .g this State deals mostly
with extreme types of mountaineers, ne-
groes, etc. not a bad sort, maybe, but not
the best. Is it a foundation of fact for your
plot?" (McClure, Phillips & Co. $1.50.)

Courtesy of McClure, Phillips & Co.
WILLIAM BARCLAY PARSONS.

The Author of An Engineer in China.

WILLIAM BARCLAY PARSONS, whose picture
is shown herewith, is better known as an
engineer than as an author. Mr. Parsons,
however, has a happy faculty of being able
to tell in attractive language about what he
sees, and his experiences have enabled him to
see much. Two years ago Mr. Parsons led
a party of American engineers into the in-
terior of China to survey a route for a possi-
ble American railway in that country. How
he succeeded is. already a matter of history.
He made his way through the closed province
of Hunan, being practically the first white
man to accomplish this, and mapped out a
route of nine hundred miles of railway. Mr.
Parsons took notes throughout his journey
and also made several hundred photographs.
The notes he has elaborated into an attractive
volume called "An American Englineer in
China" and the best of his photographs have
been used to illustrate the book. McClure,
Phillips & Company are his publishers. $1.50.

The Century Company's New Books.

THE month of April will give us many
new publications that have mostly gained a
host of readers during their progressive
course in the Century Magazine. "Her
Mountain Lover/' by Hamlin Garland, is a
story of picturesque contrasts, and its hero
suggests a masculine counterpart of "Daisy
Miller." A young Colorado ranchman is
sent to London to place an interest in a
Western mine; his unconventional manners
make friends for him in England, and his
affections become somewhat "entangled."
Great charm is given to the story by the
breezy character and humorous speech of the
hero. The story ends in the mountains of
Colorado, where "Jim" wins the love of a

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charming American girl and returns to the
"high country" for which his soul longed
during his exile in England. ($1.50.)

"The Wizard's Knot," by William Barry,
author of "Arden Massiter," is a graphic
picture of life in Ireland. The author is a
well-known Catholic priest and theologian, u
graduate of the English College in Rome,
long professor of theology at Birmingham

Crafts," "The Factory Girl," "The House-
less," "The Submerged," etc. It is a book
which is not only an important contribu-
tion to sociology, but which has an interest
of its own altogether apart from its value
as a study. In subtle penetration and' de-
lineation of motives it suggests Dickens's
"Uncommercial Traveller." The book is very
beautifully illustrated with character studies

theological college, a lecturer, traveller, stu- bv Phil May and L. Raven-Hill, and views by
dent and thinker. His books have won the Joseph Pennell. ($3-50.)
regard of thoughtful people. In "The Wiz- "The Helmet of Navarre." This is the
ard's Knot" the strong literary force that story, by Miss Bertha Runkle, which has
characterizes all of Dr. Barry's writings is a been appearing serially in The Century Maga-
distinctive feature. The knot is a tangled sine and has attracted wider attention and
one, and the book teems with incident and been more highly praised than any of its
adventure. ($1.50.) predecessors. As the first book of a young

"Owen Bowen's Legacy," by Edwin Asa writer, it is certainly remarkable. The Critic
Dix, author of "Deacon Bradbury" has been calls it "a remarkable performance, not only
read by many thousands of people during for a young writer, but for a writer of any
the past year, and a new book by the same age." It is a narrative of intense and sus-
author will at once command attention, espe- tained interest. The scene is laid in Paris
cially as some of the characters in "Deacon during the investment of the city by Henry
Bradbury" have been introduced in the pres- of Navarre, and the story occupies but four
ent book and the scene of the ,
story is laid in the same New
England village. An old re-
cluse, dying, leaves his little es-
tate of $5000 to be disposed of
by three trustees to the most
worthy person in the town, a
year later. The one who seems
the least worthy in the begin-
ning is unanimously awarded
the gift in the end. The story
is exceedingly full of humor
and strong character studies.
($1.50.)

"The Prince of Illusion," by
John Luther Long, is the tale
of a little blind boy whose il-
lusion is his belief that he is a
prince. How the mother keeps
him always unconscious of his
squalid surroundings is the
story. There are several others
in the book, including "Dolee,"
"The Dream Woman," "Ein
Nix-Nutz," etc. The author's
previous book, "Madame But-
terfly," has not only been suc-
cessful, but has been made the
subject of a popular play
will soon be made into an
operetta. ($1.25.)

"East London," by Walter
Besant, is a book of extraor-
dinary interest, describing life

among the toilers, with Chap- From The Helmet of Navarre " Copyright, 1899. The Century Co.

ters on "The City of Many " WE CLIMBED OUT INTO A SILK-MERCER'S SHOP."|

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days of the week preceding Henry's entry
to give his formal adherence to the Catholic
Church. The author's remarkable fertility of
invention crowds the story full of plot and
subplot natural to the violent times, to the
clash of faiths, and to the rivalry for the
hand of a court beauty known as the "Rose of
Lorraine." It is a fresh, engaging and well-
sustained addition to romantic fiction. The
book contains twelve pictures by the famous
illustrator, Andre Castaigne. $1.50.)

The Green Flag and Other Stories.

McCujRE, PHILLIPS & Co. have issued a
unique circular, with a poster of similar de-
sign, which directs attention to a stirring
tale called "The Croxley Master," included
in A. Conan Doyle's latest collection of
short stories which bear the name, "The
Green Flag and Other Stories of War and
Sport." The design is a reproduction of an
old print engraved by I. Grozer, after a
drawing by C. R. Ryley, which shows Daniel
Mendoza, champion of England, and Rich-
ard Humphreys in their boxing match at
Doncaster, on September 29, 1790, in which
the champion won a decisive victory.

The quaint artistic crudity of this old
print takes its subject out of the realm of
the disreputable present of prize fighting
and suggests, as a vulgarly realistic photo-
graph of two modern bruisers could not do,
the more heroic side of pugilism. This is
as it should be, for "The Croxley Master"
is not a story of two "pugs," but tells how
a young medical student who had been a
famous amateur athlete took the only way
open to him to earn sufficient money for the
completion of his education. His employer,
a physician; his friends everybody, had re-
fused to aid him financially; therefore, as

THE CROXLEY MASTER.

a last resort he agreed to meet an ex-pro-
fessional, the Master of Croxley, in a glove
contest for a hundred pounds the amount
he needed to take his degree. The story of
this battle is without doubt the most dra-
matic tale of its kind ever written. (Mc-
Clure, Phillips & Co. $1.50.)

King's End.

How many years nay, how many decades
of years have elapsed since the United
States has produced a love story preaching
nothing, proving nothing, illustrating no pe-
riod of history? It is so much easier to
mingle one's theories with the thread of one's
fiction; to draw one thread of destiny slightly,
to leave another slack, that one's sociological
ideas may be better exemplified by the vil-
lain's evil fate or by the heroine's happiness !
It is so difficult to forget the mighty current
of world interests and to note only the fate
of two insignificant splinters in the ship of
^tate, and it is so consoling to thrust slyly at
President, Congress or Governor of whom
one disapproves ! But here is Miss Alice
Brown's "King's End," as plainly and simply
a love story as "The Courtin' " itself ; in fact,
were not the title pre-empted, Miss Brown
might very well have adopted it, for her hero
is as "clean grit and human natur" " as
"Zekle" himself, and her heroine is the Huldy
of to-day, better instructed, wider in vision,
but the same Huldy, coy, provoking, evasive
until betrothed, she begins, as her lover dryly
tells her, to think his thoughts and make a
little god of him. Both of the pair are wooed
by others, and dispose of the wooers in ways
entirely original, the man displaying sufficient
diplomacy for an Ambassador in evading the
young person who has marked him for her
own. The other characters, all more or less
.quaint, are strictly subordinate to the prin-
cipals, but any one who chooses to make the
comparison will find each one perfectly dis-
tinguished from the village characters in Miss
Brown's former books. The straggling little
country village of King's End is the home of
as many and as varied personalities as a lesser
artist would find in a far broader field ; and
idyllic though the tale may be, it does not lack
the touch of human passion. Miss Brown has
not studied her country folk from the ground
of superiority where dwells Miss Wilkins, but
on equal terms as fellow-beings. Therefore,
she has seen their best, and any reader capa-
ble of taking a similar attitude will find it
very good. (Houghton, Mifflin & Co. $1.50.)
Times Saturday Review.

April, 1901]

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of Honey Island."

(G. W. Dill

A SUSPICtOUS SAIL.

G. W. Dillingham Co.'s New Books. The Curious Career of Roderick Campbell.

MAURICE THOMPSON'S "The King of Honey "THE CURIOUS CAREER OF RODERICK CAMP-
Island" has been brought out since the death BELL/' by Jean N. Mcllwraith, is an historical
of this lamented writer and is having a large novel and a novel of adventure, and it is also
sale, having already reached the 35th thou- a character study. It is clear in style, rapid
sand ($1.50). "Norman Holt," a story of in movement, genuine in historical interest,
the Army of the Cumberland, is one of Gen- and full of good-natured humor,
eral Charles King's historic fiction which The story opens in Scotland in 1745, where
tells the story of the Army of the Cumber- a humorous Highland piper and his hot-
land during the gigantic contest between the headed nephew take up arms for the Pre-
great armies in the Civil War ($1.25). "Were tender the latter of the two for love of an
You Born Under a Lucky Star?" by Char- ardent little Jacobite far above him in sta-
Ictte Abell Walker, is another of those books
that pry into the future that always are so

tion. Prince Charlie is here seen at his best
very winning figure; but after the defeat

eagerly welcomed by that large class that is of Culloden the scene shifts to America,
willing, though often doubting, to hear all where the old man leads a trading life among
the coming years have in store for them of the Canadian Indians which charms by its
business and matrimonial possibilities ($1.50). novelty and freedom, while the younger be-
"The Toltec Savior," by Mrs. John Ells- comes an officer in the French army strug-
worth Graham, is a novel descriptive of the gling with the English for possession of
lost arts and treasures of ancient Mexico "New France." Here, too, comes the little
(1.50) ; William Trevelyan Browne has in
"Joy-Bells" a collection of charming and
cheerful poems ($1.50) ; and in his "A Reply
to the Man with the Hoe" a bright optimistic

r of the life of the laborer (50 c.). Cut-

Jacobite lady under circumstances of
lantic interest; and here she is found by her

lover and wooed in a manner becoming a

chivalrous love story.

Legardeur de St. Pierre, a noted Western

cliffe Hyne's "A Master of Fortune gives the explorer of the time, and Bougainville, then
further and even more thrilling adventures aide-de-camp to Montcalm, but destined to
of "Captain Kettle" ($1.50) ; "The Cross- become the greatest navigator of his day, are
roads of Destiny," by John P. Ritter, is a seen m excellent living portraits. On Mont-
story of the chivalry of the fifteenth century calm, the defeated hero of Quebec, informing
($1.25); and a book dealing with everyday side-lights are thrown; and Washington,
life among farmers and introducing a char- then a major of colonial militia, is seen briefly
acter worthy to rank with David Harum and ^ut vividly at Fort-le-Boeuf on his embassy of
Eben Holden is "John Winslow," by Henry warning to the French occupants of the Ohio
D. Northrop ($1.50). valley. (Houschton, Mifflin & Co. $1.50.)

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[April, 1901

Dog- Watches at Sea.

"DOG-WATCHES AT SEA/' by Stanton H.
King, is the plain tale of twelve years before
the mast. The author, now superintendent of
the Sailors' Haven, Charlestown, Mass., left
home at twelve years of age, and for twelve
years thereafter "went down to the sea in
ships." Six of these years were spent in the
merchant marine and six years in the naval

relieved now and then by voyages in sunny
latitudes and visits to interesting ports, and
the comradeship of shipmates. Throughout
the book there is a strain of humor and of
sailor's cheerfulness ; and there are fo'c's'le
tales, brief anecdotes, and descriptive bit&
about strange sights in strange ports, told
in a terse, homely style, that, with vivid im-
pressions of navigation and seamanship, give
the book a strong flavor of
"the old salt sea." (Hough-
ton, Mifflin & Co. $1.50.)

The Sacred Fount.
"IF to prevent nine out of
ten readers from understand-
ing what in the world he is
driving at be the sign of
greatness in a writer, then
Mr. James is the greatest
novelist of this or any other
age. There was a time when
Mr. Henry James was not as
enamoured of literary fogs as
to-day he appears to be. It
causes in us no sense of
shame to confess that by the
time we had examined the
first hundred pages in "The
Sacred Fount" we were not
at all ure whether we were
in full possession of our
senses. Matters did not grow
less perplexing as we trav-
elled laboriously to the end
of this bewildering book,
which we begin to think is an
elaborate joke played upon
the reading public by a nove-
list anxious to see what is the
extent of his worshippers'
credulity. At any rate, it is
quite certain that the ram-
pant vagueness of "The Sa-
cred Fount" is an offence
against art. Nevertheless, we
fully expect to hear it praised
for clarity, since the illogical
service of the United States. The author's idolater (with whom the blackest black is the
story of these years is not a "romance of the whitest white) is still at large. It would puz-
sea," but a realistic account of life in fo'c's'les zle the most ingenious to describe the story of
and on berth-decks. It is narrative in form, "The Sacred Fount." There is no plot. Some
describing in the frankest way the actual life ladies and gentlemen go to stay at a house in
at sea and on shore of searnen and blue- the country, where they sit themselves down
jackets, their work and play (the one apt to to a debauch of garrulity, though without
be as rough as the other), their sufferings justifying their behavior in the slightest de-
from hardships of wind and weather, and the gree. If the admirers of Mr. James fail to
all too frequent inhumanities of the officers, detect spots upon what we may call his latest

is Career of Roderick Campbell." Copyright, 1901, by Houghton, M
STOPPING HERE AND THERE TO FISH.

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sun, they will, indeed, be interesting material
for the psychologist. We have no need to
praise the manner in which Mr. James covers
his pages with fine English, or to describe
how cleverly he uses his familiar instruments.
But we refuse to spare breath in protesting
against his plague of obscurity. Because we
shrink from believing that Mr. Henry James
is, as it were, hag-ridden, and, therefore,
powerless, we prefer to think the idol is amus-
ing itself at the expense of the idolaters.
But how the idolaters will wince at this the-
ory! (Scribner. $1.50.) London Literary
World.

Scribner's Newest Fiction. GEORGE c. HAZELTON.

REVERSING the usual process, George Hazel- varied and peculiar power in "The White

toil, Jr., has used for his story "Mistress Nell" Cottage," and among the stories of action

the same material out of which he has already that teach fact will appear Frederick Palmer's

constructed the very suc-
cessful play of the same
name. The story of "Mis-
tress Nell Gwyn" and the
"Merry Monarch" is told
with such spirit and such wit
as hold the attention from
the outset. Mrs. Edith Whar-
ton has again written enough
stories to fill a volume called
"Crucial Instances," which
have all the wonderful vi-
tality of "The Greater In-
clination;" "God's Puppets,"
by Imogen Clark, gives a
vivid picture of New York
City in the middle of the
eighteenth century, which
forms an effective setting for the interesting
human drama presented.
Zack has given another example of her

ALBERT SONNICHSEN.

Courtesy of Charles Scribr
HARRISON ROBERTSON.

"The Ways of the Service,"
illustrated by Howard
Chandler Christy, romances
of military life in the Phil-
ippines, bringing into jux-
taposition our regular army
men and women on the one
side and the natives and in-
surgents on the other. The
American army women es-
pecially are portrayed with
uncommon skill in this vol-
ume of stories. The author,
is the well-known war cor-
respondent. A dramatic
story of love and jealousy,
the scene of which mani-
festation of unchanging hu-
man nature is Louisville, Kentucky, is by
Harrison Robertson, author o "Red Blood
and Blue." The characters are strongly
drawn types, the action is brisk, the situa-
tions are full of intense emotional interest.

Paul Bourget's "The Disciple" tells the
story of the demoralization involved in the
philosophy of utter skepticism; "Arthur Col-
ton's "The Delectable Mountains" is a series
of charming tales of the Connecticut hills;
E. W. Hornung's "The Shadow of a Man"
dramatically and effectively makes use of
mystery; and mystery also is the foundation
of Hildegarde Brooks's "Without a War-
rant." Indeed the array of new fiction bear-
ing the Scribner imprint reveals almost every
phase of the gentle art of novel-writing, run-
ning the gamut from the subtle analysis and
intangible suggestion of "The Sacred Fount"
to the simple love story "understanded of the
people." (Scribner. ea., $1.50.)

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[April, 1901

General Meade.

"GENERAL MEADE/' by Isaac R. Penny-
packer, is a new volume in the Great Com-
manders Series. This discriminating, com-
pact, and interesting study of the victor of
Gettysburg forms one of the most important
volumes in this successful series of military
biographies. The career which the author
traces is one of singular consequence, includ-
ing as it did the experiences of the Mexican
War, and service as brigade commander in
1861, the vicissitudes of the Peninsular cam-
paign, and the arduous responsibilities of
division commander at Antietam, corps com-
mander at Fredericksburg, and the command
of the Army of the Potomac at Gettysburg
and afterward. The basis of this biography
has been found in the official records of the
Union and Confederate armies. A forcible
argument is presented to show that General
Meade was underrated by the commander-in-
chief, and that he was entitled to the promo-
tion given to another. The aid of the Get-
tysburg National Park Commission and of
Colonels Nicholson and Cope has resulted
in securing many maps, measurements, and
other information relative to the, battlefield
of Gettysburg. In the account of this tre-
mendous conflict, as in other portions of his
succinct and instructive volume, the author's
clear, discriminating, and forcible treatment
enhance the interest of the great themes
pictured in this important book. (Appleton.
$1-50.)

Among the Filipinos.
"TEN MONTHS A CAPTIVE AMONG FILI-
PINOS" is a narrative of adventure and ob-
servation during the imprisonment of the au-
thor, Albert Sonnichsen, by the insurgents of
Luzon. Mr. Sonnichsen was captured with-
in the Filipino lines in January, 1899, and he
was a wandering captive for nearly a year
from that date, traversing six of the western
provinces of Luzon, and covering about three
hundred miles. In November, 1899, Mr. Son-
nichsen, who had been joined by the party
of prisoners captured with Lieutenant Gil-
more, made an attempt to escape and actually
reached Vigan, where, after further impris-
onment, he was rescued when the Oregon
took that place. The narrative is interest-
ing in itself, and its intrinsic merits are of
course enhanced by the author's observations
of native life and character. Mr. Sonnich-
sen and his fellow captives were treated
humanely and, sometimes, generously; the
author has no complaint whatever to make

on this score, and he concludes his story with
the statement that "those who really have
come in sufficiently close contact with the
Filipinos to know them, and are enabled to
judge them without prejudice, can not but
admit that they are as entitled to be called
civilized as other nations, and even more so
than some whose representatives we receive
at our capital and accord the same honors
as those of the most polished nations." The
form of this statement might be seriously
objected to, but it shows clearly that a
year's close acquaintance with the natives of
Luzon have led the author to form a much
more favorable opinion of them than is com-
monly held by those who judge merely from
the opinions of others. (Scribner. $2.)
Public Opinion.

A History of the Philippine War.

COMING at a time when criticism of the
Administration's consistent and firm policy
in the Philippines is at its height, "Har-
per's History of the War in the Philippines"
is of more than ordinary interest. Bearing
in mind the large share of the burden which
our volunteer troops have borne in the ac-
tions of the campaign, the publishers have
included in its rosters of volunteer regiments
.(officers and men) that have served in its
battles. The volume not only contains the
accounts of every action, written by such
trained war correspondents as Frank Millet,
William Dinwiddie and John F. Bass, but
in addition embodies in each case the com-
manding officer's account of such action.
In this way Admiral Dewey, Gen. Merritt,
Gen. Greene, Gen. Otis, and Gen. Lawton
may all be considered contributors to it, and
the book becomes in some sort an official
publication. As a preface to the minute ac-
count of events which have taken place in
the islands since the beginning of our war
with Spain, the volume embodies a history of
the islands from their discovery by Magellan
up to that time.

As a specimen of modern bookmaking,
this book is no less notable than as a contri-
bution to history. It contains twenty-six full-
page illustrations in colors and more than
one thousand pictures in black and white
from photographs and sketches by Harper &
Brothers' special artists in the field. There
are also many official maps, War Department
charts, reproductions of Filipino proclama- -
tions, old documents, etc. The volume is
bound in khaki cloth and lettered in silver
and blue. (Harper. $10.) Mail and Express.

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W. A. Wilde Company's New Books.

A ROUND half dozen of good stories and
u-eful books in art and Bible study are among
the W. A. Wilde Company's recent contribu-
tions to the literary supply of the day. The
stories all deal with scenes of American life,
historical and modern, and include Amy
Blanchard's charming tale, "A Daughter of
the Revolution;" "The Godson of Lafayette,"

Scribner's Miscellaneous Books.

A BOOK to enjoy and think about is "Ten
Years a Captive Among the Filipinos," by
Albert Sonnichsen, a narrative of adventure
and observation during imprisonment on the
Island of Luzon, during part of which he
served as schoolmaster to native children.
Three intensely personal books are Max
Miiller's "My Autobiography;" Cyrus Town-

aurie Vane.' Copyright, 1901, by W. A. Wilde Company.

"HE DUG HIS HEELS INTO THE HORSE'S SIDE/'

by E. S. Brooks; "With Preble at Tripoli,"
by James Otis; "The Prairie Schooner," a
story of the Black Hawk Indian war, by W.
E. Barton; "The Pathfinders of the Revolu-
tion," by W. E. Griffis ; "Reels and Spindles,"
dealing with life in a mill town, by Evelyn
Raymond ; and "Laurie Vane," a stirring story,
full of dramatic incident. There is also the
ever useful volume of "Peloubet's Select
Notes," commenting on the International
Sunday-school lessons; and "The Painters'
Gospel," by Henry Turner Bailey.

send Brady's "Under Tops'ls and Tents;"
and "Mrs. Gilbert's Reminiscences." All the
books will be fully noticed in subsequent is-
sues. An absorbing history is "The Old New
York Frontier," by Francis W. Halsey, de-
scribing the Susquehanna frontier of New
York in the i;th and i8th centuries in the
brilliant style of the editor of the Times Sat-
urday Review. Two studies in literature are
"Masters of French Literature," by George
M. Harper, of Princeton University; and
"The Historical Novel and other Essays," by

THE LITERARY NEWS.

[April, 1901

Brander Matthews. Robert Louis Steven-
son's "Aes Triplex," that little gem from his
"Virginibus Puerisque/' is issued separately,
uniform with his "Christmas Sermon," which
won such favor last fall. It makes a very
pretty Easter booklet.

French Life in Town and Country.

Miss LYNCH is an Irishwoman. She was
educated in a French convent, has long been
a resident of France, and is thus enabled to
write with intimate knowledge on "French
Life in Town and Country." Her book is
particularly notable. It is the first of a series
describing the home and social life of various
European peoples a series long needed and
sure to receive a warm welcome. Miss
Lynch's style is frank, vivacious, entertaining,
captivating, just the kind of a book which is
not at all statistical, political, or controver-
sial. The excitement just now concerning
the Nationalist-Royalist revolutionists gives
point to Miss Lynch's comment on the odious
character of this element in French politics :
"I have seen in the eyes of my Nationalist
friends, devout Catholics and Conservatives,
... a gleam of joy when one night the late
roars of the newspaper boys led us to fear
that the President had been murdered." " 'On
a assassine Emile!' they shouted, leaping to
their feet and flinging down their cards."
The author's comments on French country
life and manners are more instructive than
her comments on life in the capital, but any
one who has dipped beneath the surface of
social life in Paris will note with satisfaction
her testimony to one truth namely, that our
happiest and most lasting impression lies,
not in the rich, but in the poor and populous
quarters. Miss Lynch also emphasizes the
pleasantest feature of Paris that people of
small means can live there both decently and
economically. A special excellence of her
book, reminding us of Mr. Whiteing's, lies in
her continual contrast of the English and the
French, and she thus sums up her praises:
"The English are admirable; the French are
lovable." .(Putnam, net, $1.20.) The Outlook.

The Heritage of Unrest.

"THE HERITAGE OF UNREST" is a strong
story of army frontier life in the seventies.
As indicated by its title, the chief interest
of the story lies in its working out of a prob-
lem of heredity. In truth, upon hero as well
as upon heroine has fallen a "heritage of un-
rest," but the development of the results of
two strange psychic inheritances proved 'too
much for the author, and she rather abandons
Cairness; he might almost as well have had
an ordinary ancestry. Felipa, the child of a
white man and an Apache squaw, a girl bear-
ing slight physical trace of her Indian des-
cent, reared in ignorance of it, educated, in-
telligent, beautiful, holds the centre of the
stage from first to last, and in her the author
illustrates the power of heredity, the mother's
savage race calling, calling with compelling
voice through every barrier of civilized blood
and environment. Felipa is a strong crea-
tion, with her Apache under-soul, her sub-
conscious thirst for cruelty, her indifference
in the presence of suffering, her wild mo-
ments of atavism, and, at the same time, her
unflinching truth and courage, her absolute
loyalty, her capacity for sacrifice. She is not
lovable, but she commands an almost unwill-
ing admiration. The author, mindful of the
law of "Like unto like," has ended the ro-
mance in the happiest way. Death was kind,
kinder than life.

The question that remains is, How true is
this portrayal? The case of Heredity vs.
Environment is long in settling, and has al-
ways fascinated poets and novelists.

In regard to this insufficiently investigated
subject of heredity, we can but feel that we
are not yet ready for the question, and are
hence incompetent to decide whether our au-
thor is right in ascribing such potentiality to
Felipa's Apache strain. Be that as it may,
she is a character of much originality and
force, and is well supported by the fine figure
of Landor and by the others of less impor-
tance, but of distant vitality, that move upon
the stormy stage. (Macmillan. $1.50.)
Times Saturday Review.

" Her Mountain Lover

April, 1901]

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* edectCc Monthly Sefatefo of Current literature.

EDITED BY A. H. LEYPOLDT.

APRIL, 1901.

MAURICE THOMPSON.

A MAN of many and varied talents was
Maurice Thompson, whose death on Feb-
ruary 15 is so truly regretted, especially by
those who learned to look for his fascinating
books and writings long before "Alice of Old

tion as chief engineer on a railroad in In-
diana, and later practised law at Crawfords-
ville. In 1878 he was elected to the State
Legislature, and in 1888 he was a delegate to
the National Democratic Convention at St.
Louis. From 1885 to 1889 he was State
Geologist of Indiana.

In 1867 he explored Lake Okeechobee, Fla..
making a list of its birds, animals, and
plants, and, afterwards, he made ornitholog-
ical explorations of the Okefinokee swamp,
the Terre aux Bceufs, the islands of southern
Louisiana, and the hill countries of Ala-

Courtesy ot Bowen-Men

MAURICE

Vincennes" had made his name known from
ocean to ocean. Mr. Thompson was an au-
thority in natural science, Greek poetry and
old French. He had studied law and was a
builder of railroads. He was also a soldier
and had often faced death upon battle-fields.
Above all he was a poet and a most lovable
man.

Maurice Thompson was born in Fairfield,
Md., in 1844, and was educated in Georgia
as a civil engineer, receiving special training
in Greek, Latin and French. During the re-
bellion he served in the Confederate army.
When peace was restored he secured 1 a posi-

THOMPSON.

bama, Mississippi, and Georgia, accumulat-
ing a vast amount of valuable scientific in-
formation.

While he had entered the war ardent in
the cause of the South, it was not long until
Thompson realized that he was fighting for
a cause that must eventually lose. Some
time since in a public address he remarked:
"During the last year of the struggle the
feeling was growing within me that we were
battling against the nineteenth century, and
that even if we should whip the North we
could not drive back the whole phalanx of
progress."

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[April, 1901

In one of his well-known poems he ex-
presses the same idea even more strongly, as
follows :

I am a Southerner;
I love the South; I dared for her
To fight from Lookout to the sea,
With her proud banner over me;
But from my lips thanksgivings broke,
As God in battle thunder spoke,
And that Black Idol, breeding drought
And dearth of human sympathy
Throughout the sweet and sensuous South,
Was, with its chains and human yoke,
Blown hellward from the cannon's mouth,
While Freedom cheered behind the smoke.

When the war was over the Thompsons
were practically ruined, being left "land
poor," their once valuable plantations being
rendered worthless by the altered social con-
ditions. Mr. Thompson often related that
his desire for study was in nowise abated by
his financial inability to purchase the needed
books. He determined to have them, and he
won them by his skill as a hunter. He
roamed the woods, and by the sale of game
secured the money to purchase quite a num-
ber of the books which to-day hold the most
honored position in his library.

Mr. Thompson began writing for publica-
tion in 1873. He had written before this, but
he considered the publication of his poem,
"At the Window," in the Atlantic Monthly,
as his beginning. The "Witchery of Arch-
ery" was written in 1877, and his first novel,
"A Tallahassee Girl," in 1881.

In his recent book, "The Hoosiers," Mer-
edith Nicholson writes lovingly of Maurice
Thompson. For instance, Mr. Nicholson
writes : "There is a greal deal of the Indiana
landscape to be found in Mr. Thompson's
poems, though he often looks southward to
the north Georgia hills and to Florida. Ser-
vile descriptions he does not give, but against
backgrounds traced with great delicacy and
beauty, he throws suddenly, and for a mo-
ment only, some fleeting spirit of the wood-
land. There is in his language 'the continual
slight novelty' which is indispensable in poe-
try that is to haunt and taunt the memory.
. . . It is a pleasure to find a poet to
whom America is so satisfactory as a field
that he dares to set up the mockingbird
against the nightingale."

Mr. Thompson's family relations were ex-
ceptionally happy. He married his wife,
Alice Lee, the daughter of an Indiana rail-
road man, when she was a very young girl,
and she has always given him great assist-
ance in his work.

"Alice of Old Vincennes" has sold almost
its first quarter of a million copies. It is
now to be dramatized by E. E. Rice, and the
novel and play should insure a comfortable
living for his family.

The trend of Mr. Thompson's thoughts is
expressed in the few lines he wrote shortly
before his death :

So, when I fall like some old tree,
And subtle change makes mold of me,
There let earth show a fertile line
Where perfect wild flowers leap and shine.

BIBLIOGRAPHY OF MAURICE THOMPSON.
Hoosier Mosaics, i6mo, cloth, $1.25, E. J.

Hale & Son.
Witchery of Archery, square I2mo, illus.,

1878, $1.50, C. S. S. New ed., with chap-
ter English Archery, 1879, $1.50, C. S. S.
Tallahassee Girl, cloth, i6mo, 1882, $i, Os-

good. (Now H., M. & Co., $1.50.) Also

paper ed., 1887, Ticknor.
His Second Campaign, cloth, i6mo, 1883, $i,

Osgood.
Songs of Fair Weather, vellum, I2tno, 1883,

Osgood. New ed., poems, I2mo, cloth, H.,

M. & Co., 1892, $1.50.
At Love's Extreme, cloth, $i ; paper, 50 c.,

1885, Cassell. Issued in 1894 in paper by

Neely. New ed. as Milly, cloth, 1901,

I2mo, $1.50, New Amsterdam Co.
Red Head Family, The Woodpecker, i6mo,

pp. 21, 1885, N. Y., Alden.
Banker of Bankersville, cloth, I2tno, 1886,

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Ethics of Literary Art, being Carew Lec-
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1893.
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THE LITERACY NEWS.

from New Books.

True Natural Grace.

TRUTH witnessed her first theatrical per-
formance in Van's Company, and her first
orchestral concert under Mrs. Adams's gra-
cious patronage. Beethoven's Fifth Sym-
phony, though she could not understand its
construction, not even from the analysis of
the learned programmist, came to her as a
revealed world of ethereal quicksilver, which
promised infinite revelations to come. But
at Duse's unspeakable restraint of passion in
the ever-new study of Camille, she felt that
her heart was broken forever. The effort
she made to keep from weeping aloud almost
exhausted her. On her way home in the car-
riage, she could not speak to Van, but held
his left hand in a grasp that numbed it. She
did not dare to bid him good-night at the door
of her chamber, but in the morning told him
gravely that she felt her one chance of gaining
immortality was to become a tragic actress.

In accordance with this desire, Mrs. Adams
took her one morning to the parlors of a Mrs.
Sibyl Janes, who was then conducting a series
of classes in Boston. Perhaps the most vivid
impression of all Truth's career up to this
point was made by her hour's conversation
with this remarkable woman. Born in some
little Western town, hardly yet thirty years
old, with brown hair caught up like that of
a Greek goddess, short of stature, with step
springing as a deer's bound, her thought
struck out with the clear keen blast of prac-
tical absoluteness. It swept clean away both
low-lying theosophic miasmas, and the glitter-
ing cirrus flock of philosophic categories, and
talked God-sense out of the familiar ultimate
blue.

With a graceful apology to Mrs. Adams,
she led Truth to an inner room. "So you
want to become an actress?" she said smil-
ing. "It is my business to tell people how.
Determine to express harmoniously every
faculty of your being! That is the secret,
and whether you practice it on the boards or
in a drawing-room, you will find it your best
watchword. Walk down fearlessly into the
footlights of people's eyes! Birds always
sing in tune, and their wings are graceful
with the curves of least resistance. A draw-
ing-room is the chief of all dramatic stages.
Each character can exhibit its whole self at
the moment of entrance. Stop jerking! And
breathe slowly and calmly, as if you were
taking the whole world into your lungs !
When you have got it there you can float.
Don't stop to think what you are going to
say! Don't coop up your thoughts in your
dressing-room ; throw yourself out with them,
and let them fly freely! Words will grow
on them like feathers then you can skim
any wave without touching it. Now. walk
across the floor with me! There! No!
don't you see? You hitch at the waist, as if
you wanted to go two ways at once! Plan-
ets don't wobble ; they oscillate ! Now, come
right across to me as if you were a planet !
Gli-i-de ! No ; again ! Focus on me ! Think
only that you would rather shake my hand
than do anything else in the world ! Sup-
pose me to be your dearest friend, .who has
suddenly appeared ! Your grandmother, yes !

Come, now ! Straight as a bee to a flower !
There you are! You're an actress already !
Don't you see, the only use of living is to
fill each moment with your singleness of soul ?
(Little, Brown & Co. $1.50.) From Mc-
C all's "Truth Dexter."

Rose-Growing.

ROSES ! He found himself humming : "1
shall never again be friends with roses," and
then, having to speak the truth, forgotten it
for many days, he opened his manuscript vol-
ume and wrote therein to this effect :

It has followed t .

Where is the face that once lit,

Like a flower, at the Nightingale's song?
Gone with the Rose and the Nightingale,

Gone with the song."

But though he was rather pleased with
these lines, he realized that their sincerity, so
to say, was retrospective. He no longer felt
like that. Indeed, the world was once more
becoming a garden. If the roses were scarcely
budding as yet, he realized that they were
still alive. The winter had not killed them,
after all. And if the roses came back, the
nightingales must follow, But what of
"The face that once lit,
Like a flower, at the Nightingale's song?"

Well, who knows! Perhaps he had been
mistaken in thinking that the world held only
one beautiful face.

At the same time Wasteneys well knew
that it was to no face rfhat he was to owe his
emancipation, if that emancipation was ever
to come about. His imperious possession
was to be .cast out by no rival possession'.
He knew that in any strife of faces there
would never for him, as long as he lived, be
any face that would seem more lovely than
the face of Muriel. He could not, would not,
rob that face of its beauty; he was deter-
mined only to rob it of its power over his
life. This he had willed, vaguely and broken-
ly indeed; but, however feebly we will, if we
will really, good or bad powers of the air
hasten to help us and we have seen how
Wasteneys was being helped. He was being
helped by the reawakening in himself of di-
vine forgotten instincts, instincts that for-
bade him any longer to treat his life merely
as his own ; to use, or waste, or give away, as-
he pleased. Larger laws of his nature were
reasserting themselves, to which even Muriel
must bow. Like some statesman who dare
not wreck his country for a mistress's smile,
so Wastenays slowly realized once more his
duties! to his own soul.

He was a man, he was an artist, he was
perhaps an eternal spirit, liable to render
an account of his stewardship before the
throne of some mysterious lord of life, who
having given all, had surely a right to de-
mand something in return.

One owed it even as a courtesy to the Di-
vine Unknown to make some little of this
beautiful gift of life. Yes! Life was beau-
tifulbeautiful, in spite of all.. Of course,
it was beautiful ! It was the merest priggish-
ness of pessimism to deny it. (Little. Brown
& Co. $1.50.) From Le Gallienne's "Love-
Letters of the King."

114

THE LITERARY NEWS.

[April, 1901

Jttagc^ines for Qlpril.

Articles marked with asterisk are illustrated.

Atlantic: Politics and the public schools,
G. W. Anderson. The anthracite coal crisis,
Talcott Williams. The weaker sex, F. J.
Stimson. The Reconstruction Period: Re-
construction in South Carolina, Daniel H.
Chamberlain. Penelope's Irish experience-;.
vi., Kate Douglas Wiggin. The State of
Washington, W. D. Lyman. Dante's quest
of liberty, Charles A. Dinsmore. The pass-
ing of mother's portrait, Roswell Field. The
trailing arbutus, John Burroughs. The re-
naissance of the tragic stage, Martha Anstice
Harris. The Tory lover, xxij.-xxv., Sarah
Orne Jewett. The fountains and streams of
the Yosemite National Park, John Muir.
Two schools, Henry Van Dyke. The house-
hold of a Russian prince, Mary Louise Dun-
bar. An unfinished portrait, Jennette Lee.
The next step in municipal reform, Edwin
Burritt Smith. Fire of apple-wood, M. A.
De Wolfe Howe. April lyrics. The con-
tributors' club ; Women and politics ; The
fallow field ; Mrs. Fiske's acting.

Catholic World: An Easter idyll* (poem),
Alice F. Schmall. The report of the Taft
Philippine Commission, Rev. John T. Creagh.
J.C.D. The Brook farm movement viewed
through the perspective of half a century,*
Anna M. Mitchell. For Easter day (poem),
Charles Hanson Town. "Their eyes were
held," Eugenie Uhlrich. The pathological
and therapeutic value of music, Carina C.
Eaglesfield. The city of the kings,* M. Mac-
Mahon. The human side of a saint, Father
Cuthbert, O.S.F.C. Poverty's child* .(poem),
Albert Reynaud. Bishop Baraga, the apostle
of the Chippewas,* Rev. W. Elliott, C.S.P.

Century: Dolce,* John Luther Long.
Down the Rhine, in.. Koblenz to Rotter-
dam,* Augustine Birrell. The helmet of Na-
varre,* ix. (Begun in August), Bertha Run-
kle. The crack in the headboard,* Edwin
Asa Dix. The transportation of iron.* Wai-
don Fawcett ; The " run,* Hr nry Milford
Steele. The rose of life, Charles G. D. Rob-
erts. The great heresy trial of the Rev.
Epaphroditus Plummer,* Caroline Abbot
Stanley. The coming of the Phoebe-Bird,
John Burroughs. ^Fashions in literature,
Charles Dudley Warner. Old manor-house
gardens,* Rose Standish Nichols. An opti-
mist, Lulu W. Mitchell. "Fair Ines," Eva
Wilder Brodhead. A story of Bleecker street.*
Jacob A. Riis. A woman's experiences dur-
ing the siege of Vicksbttrg, Lida Lord Reed.
D'ri and 1 I, n. (Begun in March), Irving
Bacheller. Malaria and certain mosquitos,*
L. O. Howard. Personal reminiscences of
Queen Victoria.

The Forum: Preliminary report of the
Isthmian canal commission, Aldace F. Walk-
er. The English poor-law, Thomas Burke.
The radical movement in the Democratic
party, Hon. William C. Mains. Why not
three hundred million oeople ?, O. P. Austin.
Notes on Italian politics, H. Remsen White-
house. Our neglected and prospective inland
waterways, Alexander Hume Ford. The

Hague Peace Conference, Edward Everett
Hale. Prohibition in Kansas, ex-Senator W.

A. Peffer. Limitations of monopoly, Edward
Sherwood Meade. The case for the South,
Josiah William Bailey. The grunge, Kenyon
L. Butterfield. The search after novelty in
literature, Albert Schinz.

Harper's: The sepulchre in the garden,*
John Finley. The portion of labor : a novel,
Part n., Mary E. Wilkins. Inspiration
(poem), Hildegarde Hawthorne. Serpent-
worshippers of India,* Walter H. Tribe.
The point at issue* (story), William Farqu-
har Payson. The Australian squatter,* H. C.
Mac Ilvaine. Colonies and nation,* Part iv.,
Woodrow Wilson. The medicine grizzly
bear :* an Indian folk-tale, George Bird Grin-
nell. The right of way* (novel), Part iv..
Gilbert Parker. Shadows on the grass
(poem), Elizabeth W. King. Extracts from
Adam's diary, translated from the original
manuscript, Mark Twain. Optim (poem),
Virginia Frazer Boyle. There shall be no
misunderstanding* (story), Hildegarde Haw-
thorne. The Chohan bride* (story), A. Sar-
ath Kumar Ghosh. The rise of Berlin, Sid-
ney Whitman.

Lippincott's: Mysterious Miss Dacres, Mrs.
Schuyler Crowninshield. Persephone, Flor-
ence Earle Coates. Our village improvement
society, Eben E. Rextord. A hazing inter-
regnum, Cyrus Townsend Brady. The pipers
of the pools, Charles G. D. Roberts. Bees in
Royal Bonnets, F. L. Oswald, M.D. The en-
terprise of Flora, Francis Gribble. A cherry-
bud in a foreign hand, Adachi Kinnosuke.
The last sonata, Clinton Dangerfield. The
bluebird, Madison Cawein.

Nineteenth Century and After (March) .
The civil list, Edmund Robertson. Church
reform : why not begin with the parish '.
Lord Bishop of Hereford. South African
Hospitals Commission, Frederick Treves.
Sham versus real home defence, A. Conau
Dcyle. The admiralty versus the navy, H.
W. Wilson. The drama in the English prov-
inces, Henry Arthur Jones. Imperial civil
service: a suggestion from Australia, Edward
E. Morris. Verdi, Edward Greig. The Brit-
ish workman and his competitors, William
Woodward. Strata in the Roman forum,
Giacomo Boni. Some American impressions
of Europe, Philip Alexander Bruce. Mon-
archy in the nineteenth century. Sidney Low.

Scribner's: Southern mountaineer,* John
Fox, jr. A day with a tramp,* Walter A.
Wyckoff. Mrs. Gilbert's Stage reminis-
cences.* Skipper, the story of a blue ribbon
horse,* Sewell Ford. The amateur cracks-
man,* E. W. Hornung. A chase over night
between two Gloucester fishing schooners, J.

B. Connelly. The Union and Billy Bell, Rob-
ert Alston Stevenson. Nausicaa. a story of
Connecticut village life, Arthur Colton. The
marvels of science : a story of dialogue be-
tween young lady and a phonograph,* George
A. Hibbard. Two centres of Moorish art,*
Edwin Lord Weeks. Cardes, the old French
town,* E. C. Peixotto. The story of a painted
ceiling, Will H. Low. Poems by Marguerite
Merington. Charles Henry Webb, H. A Pow-
ell, and John Cadmus.

April, 1901]

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ART, MUSIC, DRAMA.

CHAPIN, ANNA ALICE. Masters of music,

their lives and works. Dodd, Mead & Co.

por. 12, $1.50.

Sketches of the following composers: Pal-
estrina, Scarlatti, Handel, Bach, Marcello.
Pergolese, Gluck. Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven,
Weber, Meyerbeer, Rosini, Schubert, Berlioz,
Chopin, Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Schumann,
Liszt, Wagner.
MATTHEWS, JA. BRANDER. French dramatists

of the igth century. 3d ed., brought down

to the end of the century. Scribner. 12,

net, $1.25.

The present edition is now enlarged by a
final chapter considering the condition of the
French drama at the end of the nineteenth
century.
MEES, ARTHUR. Choirs and choral music.

Scribner. por. 12, (Music lovers' lib.)

net, $1.25.

A book for the amateur. Contents: Among
the Hebrews and Greeks ; In the early Chris-
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the Reformation ; The mystery, Bach ; The
oratoria, Handel ; Other choral forms ; Ama-
teur choral culture in Germany and England;
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MILLAIS, J. GUILLE. The old fowler in Scot-
land; with a frontispiece in photogravure
after a drawing by Sir J. E. Millais, and
.'!. from the author's drawings and from
photographs. Longmans, Green & Co. 4,
bds., $12.

TAPPER, T. First studies in music biography.
Theodore Presser. il. por. sq. 16, $i 50.

BIOGRAPHY, CORRESPONDENCE, ETC.

COATES, T. F. G. Lord Rosebery; his life
and speeches. Dutton. 2 v. il. por. 12,
per set, $10.

GREEN, WALFORD DAVIS. William Pitt, Earl
of Chatham, and the growth and division
of the British Empire, 1708-1778. Putnam,
il. por. map, 12, (Heroes of the nations,

no. 32.) $1.50; hf. mor.. $1.75.

Contents: Entrance into politics .(!78-

(^ontents: entrance into politics .(,1700-
1737) ; Walpole, Carteret and Pelham .(1738-
1754) ; Pitt attains power d754-i757) ; Pitt's
war ministry (1757-1761) ; The peace of
Paris and the Stamp Act (1761-1765) ; Re-
peal of the Stamp Act (1766) ; The Chatham
ministry (1766-1769) ; The opposition to pre-
rogative (1770-1772) ; The attempt to save
the empire (1772-1778); Chatham's person-
ality and historical position. Index.

HORTON, ROB. F. Alfred Tennyson : a saintly

life. Dutton. 12, $2.
KNIGHT, W. Lord Monboddo and some of

his contemporaries. Dutton. 8, $5.

MARSHALL, BEATRICE. Emma Marshall : a
biographical sketch. Dutton. 12, $2.

THOMPSON, CLARA LINKLATER. Samuel Rich-
ardson : a biographical and critical study.
M. F. Mansfield & Co., [imported.] il.
por. 12, net, $2.25.

WASHINGTON, BOOKER TALIAFERRO. Up from
slavery: an autobiography. Doubleday,
Page & Co. por. 12, $1.50.
This volume is the outgrowth of a series
of articles dealing with the incidents in Mr.
Washington's life, which were published con-
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from the days when he vas a little slave un-
til the present, when he fills the principal's
chair at Tuskegee, an educational institution
founded by himself, for the betterment of his
own people.

BARTLETT, W. A., D.D. Ober Ammergau and
other places. G. C. Prince & Son. il. 12,
75 c.

Sketches of European travel entitled:
Three great services in London; Windsor
Castle and Gray's elegy; On the Rhine and
a Sunday in Germany ; The mountains of
God ; Ober Ammergau ; Nine days in Paris.

BURDETT-COUTTS, W. ASHMEAD-BARTLETT.

Sick and wounded in South Africa; what
I saw and said of them and of the army
medical system. Cassell. 12, pap., $1.25.
"The object of this book, which is pub-
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Hospitals Commission, is to place on record
in a complete form the case I have brought
forward against the medical arrangements in
the South African war, which led to the ap-
pointment of the Commission. It therefore
contains everything I have said or written on
the subject in public." Preface.

CLARK, FRANCIS E., D.D. A new way around
an old world; il. from photographs. Har-
per, por. 12, $1.50.

Describes the last six weeks of a long
journey undertaken in the interests of the
Young People's Society of Christian En-
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Dr. Clark and his family was the first Ameri-
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through Europe and over the Trans-Siberian
Railway. He gives a vivid picture of this
great railway and the country through which
it passes ; the book is illustrated from photo-
graphs.

Durr, W. A. Highways and byways in East
Anglia; il. by Jos. Pennell. Macmillan.
8, (Highways and byways ser.) $2.

LYNCH, HANNAH. French life in town and
country. Putnam, il. 12, (Our European
neighbours ser., no. i, ed. by W. Harbutt
Dawson.) net, $1.20.

The first volume of a series of books de-
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dence in the countries described enables them
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PERCIVAL OLIVE. Mexico City: an idler's
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$1.25.
Contents: First impressions; In the streets

of the city; The Alameda and Chapultepec;

Tc the floating gardens of) Tenochtitlan ;

Early mass and the flower market ; At a

Mexican country-house ; A street ramble ;

Personal and reminiscent.

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RALPH, JULIAN. An American with Lord

Roberts. F. A. Stokes Co. 12, $1.50.

Records of the South African war.

ROBINSON, C. H. Nigeria, our last protec-
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12, $2.

The author is Canon Missioner of Ripon
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ROLFE, W. JA. Satchel guide for the vaca-
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SONNICHSEN, ALBERT. Ten months a captive
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It was as quartermaster of the Zealandia,
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VACHELL, HORACE ANNESLEY. Life and sport
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il. 12, $1.50.

WORSFOLD, W. BASIL. Egypt yesterday and
to-day. M. F. Mansfield & Co. map, nar.
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WILLIAMS. MARY E.. and FISHER, KATH-
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Fifteen short stories of the southern Pacific,
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Wallis Mills. Lippincott. 12, $1.50.

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with the Boers in South Africa. A secret so-
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conspires to humiliate England. Its instru-
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narrative is a series of wild plots and adven-
tures.

BROWN, ALICE. King's End. Houghton,
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CARK, M. E. Love and honour. Putnam.

12, $1.50.

A story that carries the reader from the
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Germany.

COBBAN, J. MACLAREN. A royal exchange.
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while Prince of Wales gives excellent advice
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makes "the royal exchange" of the little
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DOUGLAS, AMANDA MINNIE. A question of
silence. Dodd, Mead & Co. 12, $1.50.
A story of hereditary insanity. A doctor
believes his wife has succumbed to the family
doom because she has constantly heard of it.
His theory is that a firm will or silence on the
subject would preserve many from the heredi-
tary disease. To verify this theory he sub-
stitutes an adopted child for his own and
brings up his own as a child of adoption.
The scene is some eastern American city not
specially designated.

DRUMMOND, HAMILTON. A king's pawn.

Doubleday, Page & Co. 12, $1.50.

Henry of Navarre is the central figure of
this picturesque romance ; it is founded on a
journey taken by the king, with two gentle-
men of his court and a squire into Spain
during the time of her differences with
France. _ In spite of the fact that the party
travels incognito, it manages to fall into all
manner of dangerous and seemingly fatal pre-
dicaments a vendetta with which a Spanish
woman pursues one of the king's companions
forming one of the leading motives.

EDSON, MILAN CHAPPEL. Solaris farm: a
story of the twentieth century. Published
by the author, Milan C. Edson. por. 12.
$1.25; pap., 60 c.

While the author discusses many leading
questions of the day, the purpose of his novel
is to advocate co-operation: firstly as a solu-
tion of the difficulties of the agricultural popu-
lation, and secondly as the best thing for
humanity in all avenues of business. So-
laris Farm is a co-operative farm of about
five thousand acres, whereon about two hun-

dred and fifty families settle and work out
the many problems which the author desires
to discuss.
EDWARDS, ALMUS HUGH. Romance and

Rome (historical). Abbey Press, por. il.

12, 50 c.

A love story with American characters,
having its scene in Rome", many of the fa-
mous sights of Rome are described.
FORSSLUND. M. LOUISE, [M. Louise Foster.]

The story of Sarah. Brentano's. 16,

$1.50.

The scene is a bewitching inlet of the
Great South Bay on the Long Island Coast.
It was settled by the, Dutch and the old
habits of the settlers still influence the in-
habitants. Sarah is a woman of fine charac-
ter connected with the members of the life-
saving station. The work of the life savers
plays an important part in the story.

FRASER, Mrs. MARY CRAWFORD, [Mrs. Hugh
Eraser.] A little grey sheep : a novel. Lip-
pincott. 12, $1.50.

FEOTHINGHAM, EUGENIA BROOKS. The turn of
the road. Houghton, Mifflin & Co. 12,
$1.50.

GLYNN, ELINOR. The visits of Elizabeth. J.

Lane. il. 12, $1.50.

HAWTHORNE, NATHANIEL. The scarlet let-
ter. Dodd, Mead & Co. il. 8, (Book-
man's classics.) $1.50.

HINKSON, Mrs. KATHARINE TYNAN. A
daughter of the fields. A. C. McClurg &
Co. 12, $1.50.

An Irish story. A hard-working farmer's
wife after guarding her husband who drinks
until his death, herself undertakes the man-
agement of the fields. Her daughter has been
sent to a convent in France and her mother's
dream is to have her a fine lady without
knowledge of her mother's life. But the
daughter returns, learns from a faithful old
servant of her mother's sacrifice and insists
upon relieving her of her outdoor work. The
young lord of the manor is drawn to the
daughter of the fields.

HORNUNG, ERNEST W. The shadow of a man.

Scribner. 12, $1.25.

A story of the Australian bush. Moya
Bethune, "'the belle of Toorak," is about to
m?rry a Mr. Rigden, and is spending a few
days at his sheep farm, chaperoned by her
brother, when a series of misunderstandings
occurs, which threaten to be fatal to their
future happiness. The unravelling of the
mystery carries the reader through many
scenes of bush life, full of local color.

HUME, FERGUS W. A traitor in London.

F. M. Buckles & Co. 12, $1.25.

The Boer war is the leading motive of a
modern novel. Among the characters are an
Englishman, who is a traitor to his country,
and sells government secrets to a Boer spy
who lives in London ; and an attractive young
girl who marries an English captain who is
called at once to South Africa. The mys-
tery of the story is a murder, one person
after another being suspected of having com-
mitted it.

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HUMPHREY, ZEPHINE. The calling of the
apostle. Bonnell, Silver & Co. 12, 75 c.
Stories entitled: The calling of the apos-
tle; A race of aristocrats; The pleasures ol
tragedy; The ills this flesh is heir to; The
happy farmer; The spirit of democracy; The
voice of the muse.

JASIENCYK, JULIAN. Ten years in Cossack
slavery ; or, Black Russia ; tr. by Mary de
Mankowski. Abbey Press, por. 12, $1.25.

KING, C. In spite of foes; or, ten years'
trial. Lippincott. 12, $1.25.

KING, K. DOUGLAS. Ursula. J. Lane. $1.50.
By the author of "The scripture reader of
St. Mark's." A story which has its scene
chiefly in Russia. Two English boys and an
English girl, who are orphans, go to live in
Russia, with an aunt who has married a
Russian Prince. There is love and intrigue
of quite a dramatic quality woven into the
narrative, which ends with several marriages.

LA RAMEE, LOUISE DE, ["Ouida," pseud.}
Street dust and other stories. Macmil-
lan. 8, $1.50.

LEE, J. F. Octavia, the octoroon. Abbey
Press. 12, 50 c.
A story of the south before the war.

LE FEUVRE, AMY. Olive Tracey. Dodd,
Mead & Co. 12, $1.50.

LILLY, W. S. A year of life. J. Lane. 12,

$1.50.
MclLWRAiTH, JEAN N. Curious career of

Roderick Campbell. Houghton, Mifflin &

Co. il. 12. $1.50.

MARCHMONT, ARTHUR W. Madeline Power:

[a novel.] Lippincott, [imported.] 12,

$1.25.
NAYLOR, JA. BALL. Ralph Marlowe: a novel

Saalfield Pub. Co. 12, $1.50.

The hero, a practicing physician in a flour-
ishing Ohio town, goes to the little town of
Babylon, Ohio, to become assistant to a doc-
tor and dispensing chemist. The reason for
this is the mystery of the plot. Ralph Mar-
lowe makes himself a power in the com-
munity. He is opposed to drink and gamb-
ling and very independent in politics and so-
cial duties. An oil-boom comes to ]

and many other changes follow.

> Babylon

OVERTON, GWENDOLEN. The heritage of un-
rest. Macmillan. 12, $1.50.
General Crook is among the characters.

The time is in the late 7o's and 1883.

PAYSON, W. FARQUHAR. John Vytal : a tale
of the lost colony. Harper, il. 12, (Sto-
ries of modern American life, no. 3.) net,
$1.20.

The "lost colony" was the first settlement
of English people in 1587 on the little pen-
insular of Roanoke, Virginia. Sir Christo-
pher Marlowe, the Elizabethan poet, Sir Wal-
ter Raleigh and other historical characters
are introduced. John Vytal becomes tem-
porary governor of the colony and plays an
important part in subduing the Indians and
the Spanish aggressors. The first of the
Harper novels to be published at net prices.

PIER, ARTHUR STANWOOD. The sentimental-
ists: a novel. Harper. 12, (Stories of
modern American life, no. 2.) $1.50.
Vernon Kent, a college-bred man who has
gone into business in a half-hearted way, be-
comes ambitious and decides to help his moth-
er, sister and brother take their place in
society. His mother is the character of the
book. Her plans and machinations for her
children's social and financial success show
genius and a total lack of conscience. She
leaves her Missouri home and the family go
to Boston, where their brief career shows up
the modern methods of keeping up with your
richer neighbors.

ROSEGGER, PETRI KETTENFEIER. The forest
schoolmaster; authorized tr., by Frances
E. Skinner. Putnam. 12, $1.50.
The first English version of this popular
Austrian novelist's Die schriften des wald-
schulmeisters. It is the story of an isolated
forest community civilized and regenerated
by the life of one man. An autobiographical
sketch opens the volume.

ST. JOHN, CHRISTOPHER. The crimson weed.
H. Holt & Co. 12, $1.50.

SLOSSON, ANNIE TRUMBULL. White Chris-
topher. Ja. Pott & Co. il. 12, 50 c.
A characteristic New England story, by
the author of "Fishin' Jimmy;" some of the
persons mentioned in the latter story appear
in this. Christopher was born, lived and died
in the Franconia Valley, among the hills of
New Hampshire.

THOMPSON, MAURICE. The King of Honey
Island. G. W. Dillingham Co. il. 12,
$1.50.
Published in 1892 by Robert Bonner's Sons.

Also in paper by Hurst.

THOMPSON, MAURICE. Milly: At love's ex-
tremes : a romance of the Southland. New
Amsterdam Book Co. il. 12, $1.50.

THOMPSON, MAURICE. Sweetheart Manette.
Lippincott. il. 12, $1.25.

VACHELL, HORACE ANNESLEY. John Charity.

Dodd, Mead & Co. 12, $1.50.
WARD, HERBERT DICKINSON. The light of

the world. Houghton, Mifflin & Co. il.

8, $i.
WELLS, D. DWIGHT. Parlous times: a novel

of modern diplomacy. J. F. Taylor & Co.

12, $1.50.

BRADLEY, A. G. The fight with France for
North America. Dutton. 8, $5.

GRAHAM, H. GREY. Social life of Scotland

in the eighteenth century. Macmillan. 8,

$4.
HALES, A. G. Campaign pictures of the war

in South Africa, 1899-1900 : letters from ihe

front. Cassell. por. 12, $1.50.

These letters are grouped under the head-
ings: With the Australians; Among the
Boers; With General Rundle; Character
sketches in camp. Special chapters relate to
President Steyn ; Louis Botha; White flag
treachery ; The battle of Magersfontein ;

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Scouts and scouting; 'Hunting and hunted; ADAMS, OSCAR FAY. Dictionary of American

authors. 4th rev. enl. ed. Hough ton, Mif-
flin & Co. 12, $3.50.

This fourh edition contains over 1500 more
names than the first edition, and over 1000
more names than the third.
AHARP, R. FARQUHARSON. Architects of Eng-
lish literature : biographical sketches of
great writers from Shakespeare to Tenny-
son. Button. 12, $2.

ANNUAL AMERICAN CATALOGUE, 1900: being
the full titles, with descriptive notes, of all
books recorded in The Publishers' Weekly,
1900, with author, title, subject and series
index, publishers annual lists and directory
of publishers. Office of The Publishers'
Weekly. 8, hf. leath., $3.50.
In addition to the usual features of the
catalogue the following articles and statisti-
cal tables are included: Book production in
1900 in the United States; Report of the
Register of Copyrights for 1899-1900; The
best-selling books in 1898-1900; Book pro-
duction in England; and Book production in
France.

ARCHER, W. Study and stage : a year-book
of criticism. M. F. Mansfield & Co. 12.
net, $1.50.

Short articles on books and the drama
contributed by Mr. Archer to the London
papers.

DOWDEN. E. Puritan and Anglican: studies
in literature. H. Holt & Co. 12, net, $2.
Contents: Puritanism and English litera-
ture; Sir Thomas Browne; Richard Hooker;
Anglo-Catholic poets, Herbert, Vaughan;
Milton Civil liberty; Milton, 2 Ecclesias-
tical and theological liberty, poems ; An Angli-
can and a Puritan eirenicon, Jeremy Taylor,
Baxter ; John Bunyan ; Samuel Butler ;
Transition to the eighteenth century.

HAWTHORNE, NATHANIEL. Complete writings ;
with a general introd. by Hawthorne's
daughter, Mrs. Rose Hawthorne Lathrop;
and introductory to the several volumes,
incl. bibliography, by Horace E. Scudder.
Autograph ed. In 22 v., v. 1-14. Hough-
ton, Mifflin & Co. ea., il. 8, buckram,
subs., per v., $5; y levant, per v., $9.
[Ed. limited to 500 copies.]
Contents: v. 1-2, Twice-told tales, 2 v. ;
v. 3, Snow image, and other twice-told tales ;
v. 4-5, Mosses from an old manse, 2 v. ; v. 6,
The scarlet letter; v. 7, The house of the
seven gables ; v. 8, The Blithedale romance ;
v. 9-10, The marble faun, 2 v. ; v. n, Our old
home; v. 12, Grandfather's chair, biographical
stories; v. 13, A wonder book and Tangle-
wood tales; v. 14, The Dolliver romance;
Septimius Felton ; The ancestral footstep.

KINGSLEY. C. Novels, poems and life. Ches-
ter ed. ; with introductions by Maurice
Kingsley. J. F. Taylor & Co. 14 v. il.
12, per set, $20; l /2 crushed mor., per set,
$41 ; or, per v., $1.50.

MATTHEWS, JA. BRANDER. The historical nov-
el and other essays. Scribner. 12, net,
$1-25.
Contents: The historical novel; Romance

Scouts and scouting; Hunting and hunted;
With the Basutos; Magersfontein avenged;
The conduct of the war.

KUHNS, L. OSCAR. The German and Swiss
settlements of colonial Pennsylvania: a
study of the so-called Pennsylvania Dutch.
H. Holt & Co. 12, $1.50.
Contents: The historic background; The
settling of the German counties of Pennsyl-
vania; Over land and sea; Manners and cus-
toms of the Pensylvania-German farmer in
the eighteenth century; Language, literature,
and education; The religious life: In peace
and in war; Appendix Pennsylvania-Ger-
man family names. Bibliography (10 p.).

McCRADY, E. History of South Carolina in
the Revolution, 1775-1780. Macmillan.
8, net, $3.50.

MAHAN, ALFRED THAYER. The war in South
Africa; il. by Remington, Thulstrup and
others. Russell. 8, $5.

MATHEWS, SHAILER. The French Revolution :
a sketch. Longmans, Green & Co. por.
12, $1.25.

Contents: Pt. i, France at the outbreak of
the Revolution. Pt. 2, The beginnings of the
Revolution. Pt. 3, The attempt at consti-
tutional monarchy. Pt. 4, The republic.
Chronological summary.

PERRY, F. Saint Louis (Louis ix. of France),

the most Christian king. Putnam, il. por.

12, (Heroes of the nations, no. 31.) $1.50;

hf. mor., $1.75.

Contents: The kingdom of France before
the accession of 'Louis ix. ; The minority and
the struggle against the magnates, 1226-1231 ;
The period of peace, 1231-1241 ; The English
war, 1241-1243 ; Preliminaries of the Crusade,
1243-1248; The crusade in Egypt, 1248-
1250; The sojourn in Palestine, 1250-1254;
Foreign policy, 1254-1270; Internal affairs,
1254-1270; Second crusade and death of
Louis, 1270.

HUMOR AND SATIRE.

MOORE, FRANK FRANKFORT. According to
Plato. Dodd, Mead & Co. 12, $1.50.
A satire on London life, London letters,

and London love.

ABBOTT, LYMAN, D.D. Life and literature of
the ancient Hebrews. Houghton, Mifflin
& Co. 12, $2.

Contents: The Bible as literature; Hebrew
history; Prehistoric traditions rewritten; The
book of the covenant; The Deuteronomic
code; The canon law; Hebrew fiction; Some
Hebrew stories retold ; The Hebrew hymnal ;
A Hebrew ethical school ; Preachers of right-
eousness ; Preachers of redemption ; The mes-
sage of Israel. Dr. Abbott's object is to
trace in the Bible the origin and development
of the religious, political, and literary life of
the ancient Hebrews, on the assumption that
this life was a gradual development analo-
gous to that of other nations.

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against romanticism ; New trials for old fav-
orites ; The study of fiction ; Alphonse Dau-
det; On a novel of Thackeray's; H. C. Bun-
ner; Literature as a profession; The relation
of the drama to literature; The conventions
of the drama ; A critic of the acted drama
William Archer ; The art and mystery of
collaboration.

MAURICE. ARTHUR BARTLETT. New York in
fiction. Dodd, Mead & Co. il. 12, net.
$1.35-

Papers pointing out scenes and houses in
New York City used by* American novelists
in recent novels, profusely illustrated by pic-
tures taken from photographs of the original
places. The writer divides his work into
three parts : Old and proletarian New York ;
About Washington Square ; The new city and
suburban New York.

SAINTSBURY, G. E. BATEMAN. History of
criticism and literary taste in Europe from
the earliest texts to the present day. In 3
v. v. i, Classical and mediaeval criticism.
Dodd, Mead & Co. 8, $3.50.
Contents: Bk. i, "Greek criticism," chap-
ter i, introductory. 2, Greek criticism be-
fore Aristotle. 3, Aristotle. 4, Greek crit-
icism after Aristotle, scholastic and miscel-
laneous. 5, Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Plu-
tarch, Lucian, Longinus. 6, Byzantine crit-
icism. Book 2, "Latin criticism," chapter i.
Before Quintilian Cicero, Horace, Seneca
the elder, Varro. 2, Contemporaries of Quin-
tilian. 3, Quintilian. 4, Later writers. Bk.
3. "Mediaeval criticism." i, Before Dante.
2, Dante. 3, The Fourteenth and Fifteenth
centuries.

SWIFT, JONATHAN. Selections from the prose
writings of Jonathan Swift; ed., with notes
and an introd., by F. C. Prescott. H. Holt
& Co. 16. (English readings.) net, 60 c.

MENTAL AND MORAL PHILOSOPHY.

GOMPERZ, THEODOR. Greek thinkers: a his-
tory of ancient philosophy. Authorized ed.
In 3 v. v. i ; tr. by Laurie Magnus.
Scribner. 8, net, $4.

Contents: Book i, "The beginnings," is di-
vided into chapters entitled : Old Ionian na-
ture philosophers; Orphic systems of cos-
mogony ; Pythagoras and his disciples ; The
development of the Pythagorean doctrine ;
Orphic and Pythagorean doctrines of the
soul. Book 2, "From metaphysics to posi-
tive science," has for its subjects: Xenioph-
anes, Parmenides, The disciple of Parmenides,
Anaxagoras, Empedocles, and The historians.
Book 3, "The age of enlightenment," is di-
vided into eight chapters : The physicians ;
The atomists ; The eclectic philosophers of
nature; The beginnings of mental and moral
science ; The sophists ; Protagoras of Abdera ;
Gorgias of Leontini ; The advance of histori-
cal science.

MASON, RUFUS OSGOOD, M.D. Hypnotism
and suggestion in therapeutics, education
and reform. H. Holt & Co. 12, buck-
ram, $1.50.

Certain phases of hypnotism only are pre-
sented in the chapters which compose the
book. Contents: The subjective element in

the newer therapeutics; The relation of hyp-
notism to the subconscious mind; Cases in
general practice treated by hypnotism and
iuggestior: ; Educational uses of hypnotism ;
Forms of suggestion useful in the treatment
of inebriety; Six miscellaneous cases trebled
by hypnotism without suggestion ; Concei n-
ing "Rapport;" The ethics of hypnotism.

THORNDIKE, E. The Human Nature Club:
an introduction to the study of mental life.
Longmans, Green & Co. 12, $1.25.
Aims to introduce the reader to the scien-
tific study of human nature and intelligence.
Intended ro be useful to young students in
normal ami high schools beginning the study
of psychology. The form is that of fiction-
some people forming themselves into the Hu-
man Natutv, Club to discuss the cause of our
every day thoughts and actions. The dis-
cussions ar. comprised under : What the
brain does ; Things we do without learning ;
Our senses ; The influence of past experi-
ence; Attention; Memory; Trains of thought ;
Our emotiom, etc.

TRINE, RALPH WALDO. Character-building
by thought power. New ed.] T. Y. Crow-
ell & Co. nar. 16, (Life booklets.) 35 c.

NATURE AND SCIENCE.

ECKSTORM, Mrs. FANNIE HARDY. The wood-
peckers. Houghton, Mifflin & Co. 12, $i.
Mrs. Eckstorm has taken a single group
of birds a family of marked individuality,
the several species of which are for the most
part easily observed and identified, a family
which is represented in all parts of our coun-
try and she has given an accurate and or-
derly account of this family, treating some-
what exhaustively of five of the commonest
species, and less fully of the others. There
are also chapters on the habits of wood-
peckers in general and on their structural pe-
culiarities. Their four tools bill, foot, tail,
and tongue are accorded special attention.

HEADLEY, F. W. Problems of evolution. T.
Y. Crowell & Co. 8, $3.
A popular exposition and solution of some
of the most difficult problems that puzzle Dar-
winians. Mr. Headley first makes a careful
resume of Darwin's theory of "Natural selec-
tion" and the survival of the fittest, and out-
lines the arguments that evolution has taken
place; he states and contrasts the theories of
Lamarck and Weismann, his aim being to
prove the pre-Darwinian argument fallacious ;
the second part of the book is devoted to the
problems of human evolution.
MARSHALL, NINA L. The mushroom book :
a popular guide to the identification and
study of our commoner fungi, with special
emphasis on the edible varieties. Double-
day, Page & Co. il. in col. 8, net, $3.
A practical and popular work on the com-
moner species of fungi, enabling the unscien-
tific reader to identify the edible and poison-
ous varieties, and forming a sort of first
book for their study. The author is a teach-
er in botany; she has had the assistance also
of several well-known authorities ; a list of
books consulted covers two pages. The many
beautiful illustrations in color and in' black

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and white are reproductions of photographs
from nature made by Mr. J. A. Anderson
and colored by Miss H. C. Anderson.

MORLEY, MARGARET WARNER. Wasps and
their ways. Dodd, Mead & Co. il. 12,
$1.50.

A study of wasps for the general reader,
historically and scientifically accurate. It
considers the habits, the structure and the
history of wasps, and particularly their rela-
tions to man. With few exceptions, the illus-
trations are made from personal observations
of the author, and almost all the microscopic
illustrations are made from her own micro-
scope.

TRINE, RALPH WALDO. Every living creature ;
or, heart training through the animal
world. [New ed.] T. Y. Crowell & Co.
nar. 16, (Life booklets.) 35 c.

WEATHERS, J. A practical guide to gar-
den plants. Longmans, Green & Co. 8,
net, $7.50.

Contains descriptions of the hardiest and
most beautiful annuals and biennials, hardy
herbaceous and bulbous perennials, hardy
water and bog plants, flowering and orna-
mental trees and shrubs, conifers, hardy
ferns, hardy bamboos and other ornamental
grasses ; also, the best kinds of fruits and
vegetables that may be grown in the open
air in the British Islands with full and prac-
tical instructions as to culture and propaga-
tion.

WEGUELIN, H. W. Carnations and picotees
for garden exhibition, with a chapter con-
cerning pinks. M. F. Mansfield & Co.,
[imported.] il. por. 12, net, $1.50.
Contents: Origin and progress of the gar-
den carnation; The carnation as a garden
flower; The carnation in town gardens; Va-
rious groups of the carnation ; Picotees ;
Some carnations worth growing; Carnations
in the midlands; The carnation in Ireland
and Scotland; Exhibiting and dressing;
Propagation; Soil, potting and planting;
Monthly operations; Pests and diseases.

FOWLER, ELLEN THORNEYCROFT. Love's argu-
ment and other poems. Dodd, Mead &
Co. por. 8, $1.50.

BEARD, C. The industrial revolution ; with
preface by F. York Powell. Macmillan.
12, pap.. 40 c.

CALLAHAN, JA. MORTON. American relations
in the Pacific and the far East, 1784-1900.
Johns Hopkins Press. 8, (Johns Hopkins
Univ. studies in historical and political
science, igth ser., nos. 1-3.) pap., $i.
These chapters on the origin and evolution
of American enterprise and policy in the Pa-
cific and the far East are the outgrowth of a
course of lectures delivered by the author in
1899-1900, before graduate students in the de-
partment of history and politics of the Johns
Hopkins University. Contents: Pioneers in
trade and discovery; Occupation of Madison
Island in the war of 1812; Early American

interests in the Pacific Coast; Early relations
of whalers and traders with the natives;
United States Exploring Expedition, 1839-43 ;
Colonial establishments ; Unlocking the gates
of the Orient Japan, China, Corea; Ameri-
canization of Hawaii, etc.

CRAFTS, WILBUR FISK and Mrs. W. F. [and
others.] Protection of native races against
intoxicants and opium. Revell. il. 12,
75 c. ; pap , 35 c.

GEORGE, H. Our land and land policy : speech-
es, lectures, and miscellaneous writings.
Doubleday, Page & Co. map, 12, $2.50.
Selections from the miscellaneous written
and spoken utterances of Henry George not
otherwise appearing in book form. The se-
lection aims to embrace only such speeches,
lectures, sermons, essays, and other writings
as illustrate Mr. George's special literary gifts
and set forth in many of its phases his phil-
osophy of the natural order. The titular es-
say "Our land and land policy," contains the
original idea of the author's "Progress and
poverty."

NINETEENTH CENTURY (The) : a review of
progress during the past one hundred years
in the chief departments of human activity.
Putnam. 8, $2.

Comprises thirty-seven chapters, each deal-
ing with a different department of human ac-
tivity, written by authorities on the subject.
The writers include such well-known names
as Leslie Stephen, Andrew Lang, Edmund
Gosse, Arthur T. Hadley, Julia Ward Howe,
Andrew Carnegie, and others. The chapters
are grouped under eight main heads, as fol-
lows : Law and government, History, So-
ciology, Literature and the fine arts, Educa-
tion and science, Applied science, Transpor-
tation, The science of war.

SPORTS AND AMUSEMENTS.

MELROSE, C. J. Bridge whist; its whys and
wherefores : a progressive and clear method
of explanation and illustration of the game
and how to play it successfully. Scribner,
[imported.] il. 12, $1.40.

BANKS, Louis ALBERT, D.D. Unused rain-
bows; prayer meeting topics. Revell. 12,

BEECHER, R?v. H. WARD. Comforting
thoughts ; arr. by Irene H. Ovington ; in-
trod. by Newell Dwight Hillis. [New enl.
ed.] Fords, Howard & Hulbert. por. 16,
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The Ways of the Service.

WHILE the claim that Mr. Frederick Palm- even war, in the little dramas in which Mr.

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upon what he has given us in the volume in tality, particularly among the Filipinos,

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complex, never very searchingly presented, his greatest achievement, it would seem, is

Mr. Richard Harding Davis has perhaps in first having realized the picturesque and

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room proprieties; one never is permitted to it. in speaking of Mr. Palmer's work:

lose the feeling that he is still "in our set" ; "You cannot keep an army or navy offi-

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cer's wife away from his station. General
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only laughed at him, and told him that their
husbands only were under his orders. One
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"Scores of women are making homes for
their husbands in remote garrison towns
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India. Many of them have been under fire ;
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in dead or wounded after the engagement
which they had watched in helpless anxiety.
When officers could not go home to get mar-
ried their sweethearts have come to them
and thereby hangs more than one tragedy."

It is in such conditions and among the bi-
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Professor Edward Dowden. erature" .(1872) contains several fine critical

PROFESSOR EDWARD DOWDEN, the author of essays, and in "Transcripts and Studies"

"Puritan and Anglican Studies in Literature," (1888) the paper on Victorian literature is

which has just been published, was born at one of the most illuminative studies of a pe-

Cork, May 3, 1843. He was educated by pri- riod written by a contemporary critic. His

vate tutors, and at Dublin University. There "Life of Shelley" (1886), though rather

Courtesy of Henry Holt & Co.
PROFESSOR EDWARD DOWDEN.

he was appointed Professor of English Lit-
erature in 1867. He was Clark Lecturer in
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From "A Carolina Cavalier.

THE INTERVIEW WITH TIGER E

A Carolina Cavalier.

"PATRIOTISM, and an unflinching sense of
honor love and heroic devotion these alone
are my themes," says George Gary Eggles-
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of Revolutionary days. And these qualities
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ground of plots and counterplots, political
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British troops. It opens with the return
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the patriot army. His love story, and that
of his twin sister Jacqueline, runs a troubled

course, amid war's
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The Author of The Hel-
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Miss BERTHA RUNKLE
is the youngest of the
American authors whose
pens have made them fa-
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she wrote "The Helmet of Navarre" she
was little more than twenty years of age,
yet the manuscript of her romance was read
with enthusiasm by the editors of The Cen-
tury, and has attracted wider and more favor-
able attention than any other story that has
ever appeared serially in that magazine.
Many applications have been made for the
author's portrait, but no one has succeeded
in overcoming her aversion to its public use ;
and details of her biography are almost equal-
ly difficult to obtain. As a matter of fact,
there is little to record. Miss Runkle is the
only child of Mrs. L. G. Runkle, a well-
known New York journalist. She is a na-
tive of New Jersey; never went to kinder-
garten as a child, nor to college as a young

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1ILL.

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woman; has travelled little, and has never
been to France a fact which, she herself
suggests, may account for her laying there
the scene of her romance. "The Helmet of
Navarre" is a maiden effort at fiction writ-
ing; but a striking poem, "The Song of the
Sons of Esau," appeared over her name in
Charles Dudley Warner's "Library of Amer-
ican Literature" some years ago, and is in-
cluded in Mr. Stedman's "American Anthol-
ogy," and once or twice in "The Helmet"
she shows her skill in the forms of verse-
writing popular in France in the sixteenth
century. To St. Nicholas for December, 1900,
Miss Runkle contributed a short story, "The
Sorcery of Hal the Wheelwright," the scene
of which is laid in the England of Henry v.
As she is in no haste to take advantage of
the popularity of her romance, it may be sev-
eral years before a new work from her pen is
published.

"The Helmet of Navarre" is
a story of France when Protes-
tants and Catholics were en-
gaged in their most desperate
struggle for supremacy, but the
clashing of the creeds is merely
an incident in the telling of a
tale of love and adventure. The
hero, the Comte de Mar, is a
young nobleman whose father,
the Due de St. Quentin, sides
with the Huguenot Henry of
Navarre, who at the time holds
Paris in siege ;"-' the heroine.
Mile, de Montluc, "The Rose of
Lorraine," is of the house of
Mayenne, the head of the Cath-
olic League; and the tale is
told in the first person by Felix
Broux, a page in attendance on
the lover. The action of the
play is confined to four days of
the week preceding the Sunday
on which Henry in. declares
his adhesion to Catholicism.

Ever since this story began
in The Century it has been
eagerly looked for month by
month. Advance orders are
phenomenally large, and the
first edition has reached the
enormous figure of 100,000
copies. Miss Runkle has kept
both imagination and history
well in hand. Miss Runkle's
text is brilliantly illustrated by
the Franco- American artist,
Andre Castaigne. (Century
Co. $1.50.)

Under the Redwoods.

Is there a better story-teller than Bret
Harte? He has told many scores of incom-
parable tales, and here are nine more, breezy,
genial, strong, full of the vast and venture-
some West. The heroes are of the world-
wandering, dare-devil sort, hiding under
rough exteriors very tender hearts, and ready
on occasion to turn instantly from gambling
and brawling to do some helpful deed with
knightly gentleness . Sailors, argonauts,
globe-trotters, Indians, vagabonds and China-
men figure engagingly in his tales. Fre-
quently also enters a delightful girl, who il-
luminates the story with exquisite charm.
Mr. Harte adds to the nine stories a chapter
of genuine and picturesque autobiography,
entitled "Bohemian Days in San Francisco,"
which lends a peculiar and personal interest
to this book. Everything of Bret Harte's has
a ring of its own. (Houghton, M. & Co. $1.25.)

From '-The H.

e." Copyright, 1901, by The Century Co.

LORENTINES IN THE HOTEL DE MAYENNE.

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The Successors of Mary the First. tertain, although there is a good deal of se-

IT is always an event when a new volume nousness in this tale of difficulties with do-
comes from the pen of the writer who first niestics and cookery. The production of her

won fame as the author of "The Gates Ajar/
We note that her married name of Ward is
no longer added on her title-pages by Mrs.

JOHN VYTAL.

Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, and this is well, for
Mrs. Ward is a name associated in the pop-
ular mind only with the English writer whose
popularity is of more recent growth than that
of the New England woman who now again
holds her public with her father's instead of
her husband's name.

Her new book was written chiefly to en-

religio-social love story, "A Singular Life,"
and of her strong and beautiful book with a
poor title, "The Story of Jesus Christ,"
proved to be a good deal of a strain upon
the strength and energies of one whose life
has been, in the main, a good deal of a con-
test with ill health. "The Successors of Mary
the First" was evidently written as a relax-
ation, and that is what one gets in reading it.
Miss Phelps would not be herself, however,
without painting a little moral to adorn her
tale, and the moral of this one seems to be
that the only solution of the domestic prob-
lem in the average American household is the
employment of "lady help," more or less edu-
cated women with a talent for homemaking.
The record of the year-long trials of a high
school principal's family, between the de-
parture of an old-fashioned loyal servant,
who had lived in the house for thirteen years,
and the arrival of the new style domestic
angel, who brought order out of chaos, makes
the story. There is a lively sense of the com-
edy as well as the tragedy of domestic diffi-
culties, and a prevalent type of parent-ruling
American woman-child is clearly depicted in
Hazel Hollis, daughter of the family who
employ, one after another, the amusing, the
incapable, the absurd "Successors of Mary,"
who file through the book is if in a bad
dream or in the average suburban or coun-
try household in this country. (Houghton,
Mifflin & Co. $1.50.) Mail and Express.

The Humming-Bird of Ocean.

As the tarpon is to the fish that swim in
Atlantic waters, so is the tuna to the finny
tribes of the Pacific. Conceive, if you can
for imagination staggers behind reality a
gigantic mackerel from five to seven feet in
length, and weighing from one to three hun-
dred pounds, a marvel of strength, speed,
symmetry, and color, which bears about the
same relation to the coarse and monstrous
black bass that the royal Bengal tiger does to
the hippopotamus, or Phcebus Apollo to
Daniel Lambert !

My introduction to this prince of the Pa-
cific was on this wise. My brother and I
were trolling for yellow-tail off the Island of
Santa Catalina. The sun had just risen
above the low fog-batiks that obscured the
mainland, and was dispersing with gentle au-
thority the children of the mist that loitered
upon the face of the waters. Around us, in

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palest placidity, was the ocean vast, vague,
and mysterious; abeam, snug in the embrace
of bare brown hills, slumbered the tiny town
of Avalon. We could see plainly the red fa-
cade of the big hotel, the gleaming canvas
of a thousand tents, and, dotting the surface
of the bay, long rows of pleasure boats, gay
with white, green, yellow, and blue paint,
whose reflected colors danced and sparkled
with joyous significance; for these tender
lints, resolved into song, murmured a rondo
cf recreation and rest a measure enchant-

A Landmark History of New York.

AMONG the new books is "A Landmark His-
tory of New York," by Albert Ulmann, who
has treated the city's story from a novel
point of view. Instead of following the cus-
tomary plan of dealing with facts and allud-
ing incidentally to historic sites, the author
has described a series of excursions to old
landmarks and woven the history about them.
The erection of tablets within recent years
in many parts of the city has helped ma-
terially to identify important sites, and to

From "A Landmark History of New York." Copyright, 1901, by D. Appleton 4 Co.

VIEW OF ST. PAUL'S CHURCH AND THE BROADWAY STAGES, 1831. FROM A LITHOGRAPH PRINT
IN VALENTINE'S MANUAL FOR 1861.

ing to the ears of work-a-day Californians,
whose holidays are so few and far between.

Suddenly, out of the summer sea, a flying-
fish the humrning-bird of ocean flashed
athwart our bows; and then, not a dozen
yards distant, the waters parted, and a huge
tuna, in its resplendent livery of blue and
silver, swooped with indescribable strength
and rapidity upon its quarry, catching it,
mirabile dictu! in mid-air.

"Yes," said our boatman, his white teeth in
curious contrast to his lean, bronzed face
"yes, messieurs, that is a tuna, a two-hundred-
pounder, at least!" (Dodd, Mead & Co.
$1.50.) From Vachell's "Life and Sport on
the Pacific Slope."

give a definite sense of realism to the story
of the past. To make a tour of these me-
morials in their proper order and relate the
interesting events connected therewith is the
plan of the book. Copies of old prints and
rare maps, and many plates made from re-
cent photographs, help to emphasize the land-
mark feature of the work. A special effort
has been made to render the story interesting
and attractive to the young. The careful re-
production of inscriptions, the exact location
of historic sites, an explanation of the origin
of street names, and a comprehensive bib-
liography and list of references, must prove
of value to the teacher and student. (Apple-
ton. $1.50.)

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[May, 1901

Philbrick Howell.

"PHILBRICK HOWELL/' by Albert Kinross,
whose sparkling story, "An Opera and Lady
Grasmere," was recently issued, may be de-
scribed as both earlier and later in date than
either of the last two volumes that Mr. Kin-
ross has published in the United States. The
book was begun in 1894, put aside for the
three months during which the author wrote
his "Fearsome Island" ; then taken up afresh
to be again laid aside during the five months
occupied by "An Opera and Lady Grasmere."
"Philbrick Howell" had already absorbed
three full working years when Mr. Kinross
was offered the associate editorship of the
London Outlook, a post which he reliquished
early last year, mainly to follow up the suc-
cess achieved by some of his fiction. His
American publishers in particular encouraged
him to take this step. On regaining his free-
dom his first thought was for "Philbrick

ished and ready for publication. Mr. Kin-
ross regards "Philbrick Howell" as his one
representative contribution to modern fic-
tion. (Stokes. $1.25.)

The Wizard's Knot.

THE charm of Dr. Barry's writing has
never been more marked than in his present
excursion into the region of Irish romance.
Such a figure as the hedge schoolmaster,
Cathel O'Dwyer with his Greek scraps and
old Irish apophthegms, his references to
Deirdre (Naesi was surely her lover, not her
brother, Dr. Barry) and the children of Lir,
his appeals to the wisdom of Cormac Mac-
Art in daily matters, his power as a herbalist
and adept in all spells and geasan makes
an admirable representative of the traditional
lore which underlies so much superficial ig-
norance in the Celtic-speaking people; while
such scenes as that of the May Day incanta-

Howell," and setting to work with a "fresh tion, which involves the hapless actors in the
eye" and a hand quickened by two years of tragedy at the castle in the mystic Wizard's
journalism, in four months the book was fin- Knot, give a setting to the action of the story

altogether harmonic u s
and effective. Never
surely, since Deirdre
and Naois, was there so
hapless a pair of lovers
as Sir Philip and his no-
ble-hearted peasant girl,
never more cruel bonds
to fate than his since
the days of the Atridse ;
and the Christian sanc-
tion of their union on
Philip's deathbed is a
stately but inconsequent
addition of something
quite modern in con-
trast to the naturalism
of most of this Celtic
romance. There are
many fine descriptive
passages one of the
most lurid being the pic-
ture, not overdrawn, of
the terrible days of the
famine which shadow
the close of the story.
Books follow each oth-
er so rapidly that such
good ones even as Bar-
ry's "Arden Massiter"
and "The Two Stand-
ards" get no time to
come into their own.

" The Silver Skull." CopyngBt, 1901, by F. A. Stokes Co.

(Century Co. $1.50.)
"CERTAINLY i WILL OBEY YOU/ SAID i, 'YOU ARE THE CHIEF/" Athenaeum.

May, 1901]

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From " The Theatre." Copyright, 1901, by Meyer Bros.

MISS BERTHA GALLAND.

The Theatre.

"THE THEATRE" is the title of a new and
handsome publication devoted to the stage
which has just made its appearance. It will
be issued monthly, and each number will con-
tain many portraits of the actors and actresses
of the hour and pictures and scenes from all
the principal plays. Its publishers purpose
making it the most complete and elaborate
chronicle of the stage ever seen in this country.

The current number has a beautiful cover,
bearing a portrait of Miss Bertha Galland.
who will star next season under Daniel Froh-
man, printed in six colors and containing
forty fine portraits and many scenes from the
plays, etc. In the number also are many auto-
graph endorsements of "The Theatre" from
such prominent artists as Richard Mansfield.
Julia Marlowe, Jean and Edouard de Reszke,
E. H. Sothern, M. Coquelin and Mme. Mod-
jeska; also from Charles and Daniel Frohman
and Maurice Grau. "The Theatre" is edited
by Arthur Hornblow. The first number gives
promise that it will fill an important place
among the favorite reading of theatre-goers.
.(Meyer Bros. $2.50 per year.)

vited with her to a country house, Mrs. Her-
apath, "Beechey" to her friends, lends Nancy
Russell things out of her own wardrobe.

That is one of the most naively uncon-
scious touches in the story, which is a dan-
gerously readable one, luring the reader on
into a contemplation of many impossible and
possible situations between married, unmar-
ried, would-be married, and ought-to-be-
married people. Mrs. Herapath has a naugh-
ty husband, whom she leaves, and a beautiful
girl cousin, Nina, for whom she helps on a
match with Claude Cobhouse, the one man
she herself was "born to love." Nina had
been very much in love with Sir George
Marston, the blackest sheep in the book, a
disreputable sponge and general blackleg,
and on his return from abroad there is an
Adelphi domestic tragedy going on between
meals, as Nancy Russell puts it.

Everybody here likes best somebody he or
she should really not be devoted to, and
Beechey is the only one of all who sees the
world as it is, loves unselfishly and purely,
and does her best to straighten things out.

Mrs. Hugh Fraser is a sister of Marion
Crawford and shares the family ability to
tell a story wherein the characters seem des-
perately alive and human in the reading,
even if they do not get themselves definite-
ly well remembered. (Lippincott. $1.25.)
Mail and Express.

A Little Grey Sheep.

MRS. BEATRICE MAXWELL HERAPATH, a
London playwright, is the "little grey sheep"
according to appearances, although she is a
white lamb on the altar of love's sacrifice in
reality. Four very black social sheep of the
English upper classes revolve about her, and
she revolves about them, dropping her writ-
ing at any time to spend weeks or months
looking after their interests in their country
houses, while the rent for her London flat
goes on just the same. When her play suc-
ceeds, and the actors who made it go are in-

From -'When BUdes Are Out." Copyright, 1900, by J. B. Lippincott Co.
"l MARRY YOU BECAUSE I LOVE YOU."

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[May, 1901

Monsieur Beaucaire's Success.

THE success, of "Monsieur Beaucaire,"
Booth Xarkington's last book, was assured as
soon as it was published, and it will not be a
surprise to those who have read the book to
learn that it is now in its forty-first thou-
sand. The publishers are confident that it
will pass the one hundred thousandth mark.
In some ways the success of this little book
is remarkable, and yet the publishers state
that no one has offered any objection to the
volume, though objection was to be expected
because the story was not as long as the or-
dinary novel. As has already been announced,
Mr. Tarkington has dramatized the book and
Richard Mansfield will give the stage pres-
entation of it early next fall. For some time
Mr. Tarkington objected to the publication
of the book in England, perhaps because he
felt that the book reflected somewhat on
English society of the time. His objections,
if he had any, however, have been overcome,
because the English edition is now on the
market, and the book is making considerable
stir in reading circles in London. (McClure,
Phillips & Co. $1.25.)

Like Another Helen.

THE Cretan insurrection of three years ago
is a bit of very modern history, but in depths
of pathos, tragedy, and picturesqueness few
of the subjects or periods long exploited in
the historical novel can equal the terrible
drama played out in that distant isle. It is
to this drama that George Horton introduces
us in his novel "Like Another Helen" one
of the most vivid and haunting romances of
the year. There is no scene in the book that
might not have been drawn from the per-
sonal observation of some eye-witness of that
bloody tragedy of Turkish oppression, yet
the story opens a new field in fiction, and
carries the reader from simple romance to
tragic suffering and finally to peace. It deals
mainly with the experiences of two young
fellows who go to Crete to join the patriot
cause one, John Curtis, an American, who
plans to write a book on the Cretan subject;
the other, Lieut. Peter Lindbohm, "of the
Swedish or any other army," who has es-
poused the Cretan cause with enthusiasm.
By the hazard of war their lot is cast in
with that of the dwellers in a little Cretan
village, simple-minded Christian folk, full of
kindness and hospitality. It is here that the
beautiful maiden Panayotes, "like another
Helen, fires another Troy," and through her
beauty draws down upon her home and kins-

men the fearful doom of the Turk. We fol-
low her fate, as through scenes of terror and
suffering she is borne to the harem of her
captor, while the two companions in arms,
dazed and almost despairing, set forth at
last to rescue her with the energy of love and
youth. How they fared and to which was
granted the reward of constancy and faith
the reader must discover and in the process
he will learn that "true romance" is of no
period, but abides yesterday, to-day, and to-
morrow for those who can discern it. (Bowen-
Merrill Co. $1.50.)

The Great Ohio Novel.

AMONG the popular fiction writers of the
day may be particularly noted Dr. James Ball
Naylor, who is surely and steadily forging to
the front. He is a diligent worker, and has,
in his quiet way, for some years been giving
to the public choice bits of prose and verse,
but it is through his recent novel, "Ralph
Marlowe," that he has been brought prom-
inently before the American readers. Just
one month ago "Ralph Marlowe," an en-
trancing tale of Ohio village life, was placed
on the market, and during that short time it
has won for its author a place in the foremost
ranks of fiction literature, now being the
third best selling book in New York City.
Since March 1st 15,000 copies have been sold.

The best reviewers are comparing it, and
not disparagingly, with "David Harum,"
"Eben Holden," and other works of this
class. "Ralph Marlowe" is as pleasing as
"David Harum," and has the sweetness and
richness of "Eben Holden." "But 'Ralph
Marlowe' while in some respects inferior to
'David Harum,' is in other important feat-
ures far superior to it. 'Ralph Marlowe' has
a greater variety of interesting characters, a
much better plot, and excels in its dramatic
situations." "A novel which has many of the
charms of 'David Harum,' and which in its
wit and drollery of character portraiture is in
places superior." "Dr. Barwood (a promin-
ent character of 'Ralph Marlowe') in mental
and moral make-up is no whit the inferior of
Westcott's 'David Harum.'" But whatever
may be said of the book as a whole, Dr. Nay-
lor undoubtedly is without a rival in his
vivid, realistic pen-pictures of village charac-
ters, and has givn us a true picture of life
in the Buckeye State rural districts. The
great central field of rustic Ohio the region
where presidents and other statesmen are
turned out without an effort is practically
monopolized in fiction by Dr. Naylor's in-

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imitable "Ralph Marlowe." In fact, the plot
of this story is laid but a few miles south of
the Canton home of President McKinley, and
appropriately enough the excitement, buzz
and suspense of a great campaign figures con-
spicuously in the novel.

Dr. Naylor has always lived in the Ohio
State, in the beautiful Muskingum Valley, and

Dr. Naylor has certainly done. His book is
replete from cover to cover with true char-
acter drawings, and Jep Tucker, the talkative
and unquenchable yarn-spinner, hostler to old
Doc Barwood, will, all by himself, afford you
a full week's amusement. His bright witti-
cisms run through the entire book and relieve
what might have been a sombre tale. The

Courtesy of the Saall
DR. JAMES :

has given us some very happy thoughts in
verse descriptive of his home valley's loveli-
ness and picturesqueness. The following
even seems to have a touch of the famous
Riley in it:

"Over yander where the willers,

Lop the'r branches in the pool,

An' the waves 're gently lappin'

Sort o' lazy-like an' cool "

Living as he has among the simple country
folk, he has with wonderful accuracy caught
their ambitions, their hopes and their fears,
and given them to us in "Ralph Marlowe" as
none other could. To know the monotonous
village life, the little excitements, trials and
sorrows, which sometimes grow to tragedies,
one must live in the midst of them and this

ielJ Publishing Company.

ALL NAYLOR.

"subdued husband" will certainly extend to
poor Jep his heartiest sympathy when he
hears him say: "I'm gittin' thinner a katy-
did nothin' left but the runnin' gears. Didn't
have nothin' fer breakfast; warmed it over
fer dinner, and had what was left fer supper."
But the book is not all froth, but has, as
Margaret E. Sangster says, "Much good work
in it." In the hero, Ralph Marlowe, we have
a strong picture of ambitious, upright, Amer-
ican manhood, and it will be a dull reader
who does not find "Ralph Marlowe" interest-
ing intensely interesting at times. The man
who regrets spending money for this book
surely must be, to quote from "Ralph Mar-
lowe" "Closer than a number eight foot in
a number six shoe." (Saalfield Pub Co.
$r-50.)

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[May, 1901

Penelope's Irish Experiences.

"An* there," sez I to meself, "we're goin' \

here

But

we git there

ere we'll be

w I'll know.

THESE lines by Jane Barlow, Mrs. Wiggin's
"first Irish friend," to whom she dedicates
her latest book, indicate more potently than a
long dissertation the spirit in which Penelope.
the married, and her friends, Francesca, the
engaged, and Salemina, the last one to be
"settled," go about sightseeing on Erin's
green and inconsequent isle. Having in-
vaded Ireland with a joyous lack of definite
plans of travel, they are not put to any of the
trials which fall to the lot of voyagers, who
-expect everything to be on time and in apple-
pie order in that land of the other sort of
thing.

The reader is, first of all, made to believe
that it is entirely true that the three women
who chanced to be together in England one
summer, and in Scotland the next, should
travel together in Ireland the third, without

HO any intention whatever to
I write an itinerary of the
a British Isles, or to be sub-
1 jects of a series like the
Rollo books. It is easy to
be at least temporarily con-
vinced and to fall under the
spell of the "I," Mrs. Wig-
gin's leading lady in these
amusing dramas of travel.
Every one who has laughed
over the adventures of hei
three travellers elsewhere in
the United Kingdom will
laugh again at and with
them over all that befell in
"Penelope's Irish Experi-
ences."

A stranded Yankee girl,
out to see the world, with
little sense and less money
or health, was thrown upon
the . kindly mercies of the
three, who employed her as
a lady's maid, and spent a
good deal of their time in
waiting upon Benella, "a
name like a flavoring ex-
tract." She was but one of
the manifold trials and
amusements that beset them
as they wandered over Ire-
land, all of which are set
down with Mrs. Wiggin's
own light-hearted grace and
wit, together with a good deal of succinct,
portable information about Ireland, and a
number of very tellable and laughable anec-
dotes about the beguiling inhabitants of Blar-
ney land. .(Houghton, MifHin & Co. $1.25.)
Evening Telegram.

Uncle Terry.

AMONG novels that have won their way
solely by virtue of their quality one of the
most notable is "Uncle Terry," which, pub-
lished six months or more ago, practically
unheralded, has gone steadily from one edi-
tion into another on the strength of its fresh-
ness of touch and its store of quaint phil-
osophy. Charles Clark Munn evidently
knows his New England, and this is as vivid
a presentation of Yankee scenes and Yankee
character as we have seen in many a day.

"Uncle Terry," the quaint and kindly
keeper of "The Cape" lighthouse, is the cen-
tral figure of the tale the philosopher and
confidant who shares in the joys and troubles

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of the four young people whose love stories
make the main current of the plot. One
among them, indeed, is his special charge
a waif rescued from a wrecked ship and the
unravelling of the fair Etilka's history is an
element of dramatic interest. Nearly all the
scenes are laid along the Maine coast, on
the rocky islet where "Uncle Terry" kept
guard, or in the little village of Sandgate.
nestling under the shadow of the GreCn
Mountains, and the whole book is full of the
spirit of out-of-doors and of wholesome
youth. The lifelikeness of its scenes and
characters will be recognized by thousand-;
who are familiar with the shores of Maine,
while the double love-story, with its well-
conceived plot and skilful development, will
appeal to all who ac-
knowledge the spell of

romance. The women

characters of the book

from Uncle Terry's wife

Aunt Lissy.to dear Telly

are specially fine. A

great relief from the

problem novel. (Lee &

Shepard. $1.50.)

Sir Christopher.

MARYLAND seems to
have become a favorite
field for romancers. We
have had "A Maryland
Manor," "The Tower of
Wye," and now "Sir
Christopher" comes in ad-
vance sheets from Bos-
ton. The author is al-
ready known to us by her
"Colonial Cavalier" and
"The Head of a Hun-
dred." Readers of the
later book will find in
"Sir Christopher" the
sons and daughters of the
settlers of 1622. The
scene of the present story
is in part laid upon the
James River, but the real
action takes place in
Maryland and its events
centre about St. Mary's,
once the capital of the
Palatinate. But now on
the bluff where the
town stood is naught
but "a church, a school,

a huddle of gravestones and an obelisk raised
to the memory of Leonard Calvert." The
time of the tale is that when King and Par-
liament, Protestantism and Catholicism, were
in the death grapple in England. In Mary-
land at each other's throats stood Catholic
and Protestant, Cavalier ' and Roundhead,
Marylander and Virginian. The story makes
much of the turbulence of the times. The
plot, though slight, is well sustained; the
movement of the story is rapid and the in-
terest continuous. The tale is first and last
a love story, and the author's conceptions of
the differing varieties of the gentle passion
furnish a psychical study of no mean value.
The story is well worth reading. (Little,
Brown & Co. $1.50.) Baltimore Sun.

From Sir Christopher."

THE LADY BETTY.

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The Disciple.

HERE is that excellent rarity in books a
story which one may read who runs at his
pages, a volume full of volumes for him who
mixes thought with his reading. M. Bour-
get dedicates his book to "my young country-
man," whoever he be, in France, and throws
from his preface the admonishment of Dumas
that "God, nature, work, marriage, love, chil-
dren . . . must live, or you will die." Then
he sets in his story a trap for the materialist
philosopher and psychologist who believes
only what he sees; who absorbed in self and
analysis, takes care that he sees not too much ;
who coldly considers of the experiences in-
stituted by nature that "some are useful to
society and are called virtues, others are
injurious and are called crimes." "He would
be less dangerous if he were a scoundrel,"
said the Judge of Adrien Sixte, who enlarges
on this positivism, in "The Disciple." And
the Judge added, "He might easily cut off
his disciple's head with his paradoxes." Now,
Sixte is a famous philosopher, as M. Bourget
has him, and the disciple is Robert Greslon,
aged from twenty to twenty-two, who devel-
ops from analysis to scoundrelism and wor-
ries the good Adrien by seeming to drag that
sage's mind and tenets with him. Obeying
the mandate to "multiply psychologic ex-
periences," he begins experiments upon the
open mind of a young girl in the family with
which he lives as a tutor. It is easy to guess
what happens how his journal of observation
becomes a diary of love.

The story is wonderfully told, and so
clearly that it has not suffered in transla-
tion from the French. The analysis of hu-
man thought, motives and emotions is mar-
vellous. (Scribner. $1.50.) N. Y. World.

The Crimson Weed.

"REVENGE is a kind of wild justice which
the more man's nature runs to, the more ought
law to weed it out" so said Lord Bacon, and
revenge is "the crimson weed" whose wild
havoc in the soul is depicted in this vigorous
and original story. Christopher St. John is
a new name on the publishers' lists, but if
this is indeed a first essay in the field of fic-
tion it sets an enviable standard for its au-
thor. There are truly permanent elements
in this striking work lifelike characters, a
grim logic of events, and sincere human pas-
sion. The theme is a sombre one that of a
woman basely deceived and abandoned, gath-
ering together all her energies to live the res-
idue of her life with dignity and self-abnega-
tion. It is in the heart of her son that the
"crimson weed" brings forth its tares, when
grown to man's estate, he learns for the first
time the secret of his birth and of his moth-
er's bitter suffering, and recognizes the au-
thor of her griefs in the rich and famous
Royal Academician, a man of family, and of
standing in London's social and literary
world. There is a breath of Southern passion
and melancholy over the tale, and the early
scenes, in the old Italian villa where Maria
Rabucco's ordeal of betrayal and suffering is
fulfilled, are full of dramatic power and gen-
uine feeling. The latter part of the book
passes mainly in London, where the fierce
conflict of passions that rages in the soul of
the wronged son is portrayed with force and
pathos, while at last the pending tragedy is
softened, and in part averted, by the influ-
ence of the mother's love and devotion.
The book is full of fine passages and poetic
fervor, and it is a welcome addition to the
fiction of the year. (Holt. $1.50.)

London." Copyright, 1901, by The Century Co.

HOUSE IN STOKE NEWINGTON IN WHICH EDGAR
ALLAN POE LIVED.

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Ctltctfc flaonttjli f&rfnffo of Current lUttrature.
EDITED BY A. H. LEYPOLDT.

MAY, IQOI.

CHARLOTTE MARY YONGE, 1823-1901.

WITH the passing of the Victorian era
there has come also to a close a life that was,
perhaps, not second to that of the Queen her-
self, in its influence upon English woman-
hood. The death of Charlotte Mary Yonge, on
March 17, at 'her life-long home in the quiet
little English village of Otterbourne, was an
event of no special signifi-
cance in literary circles, or
even to the majority of
modern readers. But Miss
Yonge was a moulding
force in the life of at least
two generations of her
countrywomen, while her
name in the literature of
her time may well stand
with those of Mrs. Oli-
phant and Anthony Trol-
lope. All her work and
her literary activity during
her long life was prodig-
ious was inspired by high
ideals and a noble purpose,
yet it was never dully di-
dactic, nor did her un-
swerving conviction that
there was but one chosen

path thrOUgh the WOrld From Harper's Weeklj

ever narrow into the
grooves of petty bigotry.

Miss Yonge's own life was passed in the
midst of those peaceful English home scenes
of simple pleasures and "good works" that
live again in so many of her books. The
only daughter of a country gentleman and
magistrate, William Crawley Yonge, her an-
cestry reached back for many generations in
Hampshire. She was born on August n,
1823, at "Elderfield," the home where all her
busy life was spent. But two miles distant
was Hursley Vicarage, so closely associated
with John Keble, the author of "The Chris-
tian Year." Mr. Keble's appointment to
Hursley was made when Charlotte Yonge
was twelve or thirteen years old. She came
at once under his instruction and influence,
looking up to him during thirty years of
friendship with a reverential affection and
respect; and she says, "I am sure that no

one else, save my own father, had so much
to do with my whole cast of mind."

It was to the friendly critics at Hursley
that in 1845 was submitted the manuscript of
Miss Yonge's first published tale, "Abbey-
church"; and thereafter for twelve or fifteen
years all her literary work was talked over
with Mr. and Mrs. Keble, and her manu-
scripts submitted to their revision and sug-
gestion. With Charlotte Yonge writing was
an inborn taste; the lack of child compan-
ions set her imagination to weaving tales of
large families of children, and even in her
early '"teens" all spare moments were devoted
to scribbling stories, "with some ambition to
see them in print." Her
first book, "Abbey-church ;
or, Self-Control and Self-
Conceit," was published
when she was twenty-one
years old, and it was fol-
lowed by several other tales
for young people imbued
with what was then the
High Church teaching of
the Church of England,
and by two volumes of
tales from English history
for children. But it was
not until 1853 that, as she
says, "authorship became a
vocation, though never less
of a delight, and, I hope I
may say, a conscience."
This recognition of her vo-
cation came with the pub-
lication of her novel, "The
Heir of Redclyffe," which
attained instant popular
success, and made its author's name a
household word. Though surpassed in some
respects by many of her later novels, this
has remained Miss Yonge's most famous
book, and it has long ranked with "John
Halifax, Gentleman," as the best representa-
tive of its type. For forty-seven years after
its publication there came from that busy
pen an unceasing stream of tales and novels
of English life, of historical incident, or of
Biblical character; serious biographical, his-
torical and miscellaneous writings; and man-
uals of church teaching or devotional com-
pilations so frequent and various that a full
record has, we believe, never been attempted.
For thirty years of this period Miss Yonge
held the editorship of The Monthly Packet,
an English church magazine for girls, in
whose pages many of her best stories first

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[May, 1901

appeared. This charge she resigned in 1898,
and the magazine itself has now been dis-
continued.

The amount of literary work that Miss
Yonge accomplished is amazing. Taking only
her better known books, the tale is hardly
less than one hundred and fifty; and it is
probable that a more careful record would
show at least two hundred. Following "The
Heir of Redclyffe" came some of her best
loved stories of English life among them
"Heartsease," "The Daisy Chain," with its
sequel, "The Trial," "The Young Step-
mother," "The Clever Woman of the Fam-
ily," the "Beechcroft" books, "Magnum Bo-
num," and "The Pillars of the House," in
many of which the same characters appeared
and an actuality of scene and action was
maintained akin to Trollope's creation of the
county of Barset. With these were mingled
the historical tales, in which some of her
very best work was done : "The Dove in the
Eagle's Nest," most charming and perfect of
its kind; "The Chaplet of Pearls," with its
sequel, "Stray Pearls"; "The Caged Lion,"
"The Little Duke," "The Lances of Lyn-
wood," "The Danvers Papers," "Unknown to
History," "A Reputed Changeling," and
others, presenting varied periods and inci-
dents, mainly in English history, with a vi-
tality, a carefulness in coloring and detail,
and a breadth of view that are often lacking
in far more pretentious work. There were
novels of still a different tenor, paraphrasing
with ingenuity and charm some old mytho-
logical theme, among which the best was
probably "Love and Life," a touching little
romance, clothing in eighteenth century garb
the story of Cupid and Psyche; while "My
Young Alcides" was a clever rendering in
modern form of the Herculean legend, and in
"A Modern Telemachus" the adventures of
the son of Ulysses gave the suggestions for
plot and character development. Among her
more serious work a first place has been
given to the careful and most interesting
"History of Christian Names and Their De-
rivation," published in 1863, which is still a
standard in its field; her histories for young
people, the series of "Cameos from English
History," the "Book of Golden Deeds," and
"Book of Worthies," all earned an enduring
popularity; and in biography she published
the valuable "Life of John Coleridge Patte-
son, Missionary Bishop of the Melanesian
Islands," and several other volumes of re-
ligious biography. This is but a passing
glance at some of the fruits of that indus-

trious life. In addition there were constant
and varied contributions to The Monthly
Packet, the admirable series of "Scripture
Readings for Schools and Families," religious
manuals, and a special series of tales for
younger children, not so widely known as
they deserve to be, to which she had added
one volume a year for the past fifteen years.

With Miss Yonge "conscience," as she
says, was indeed the keynote of her work.
She kept herself absolutely apart from mod-
ern publicity, publishing her books for over
twenty years anonymously, or only as "by
the author of 'The Heir of Reflclyffe' " ; and
she found simple happiness in her lifelong
home, amid the daily routine of her work,
her religion and her charities, with cherished
friends, many of them her own "goslings" of
the early Monthly Packet days, and with her
love of nature and natural history as a per-
ennial recreation. The money earned through
her writing, Miss Yonge regarded as com-
mitted to her, in trust, for helping other peo-
ple and for church work. The profits of "The
Heir of Redclyffe," 2000, she devoted to the
fitting up of a missionary ship, The Southern
Cross, for Bishop Selwyn, of Melanesia. In
the same way from the returns of "The Daisy
Chain," she gave a like sum toward the es-
tablishment of a missionary college for Bishop
Selwyn in Auckland; and throughout her life
her aid was ready and certain in the cause
of the Church of England, in whose service
the Archbishop of Canterbury once said she
was veritably "an old admiral of the blue."

Upon the qualities and characteristics of
Miss Yonge's books it is impossible to linger,
as we should like to do. Let us admit at
once that the spirit of the time has changed,
and that much that she wrote has lost its ap-
peal to the reader of to-day. Her large fam-
ilies of earnest, spiritually-minded young peo-
ple, striving for high ideals and the mastery
of self, take us back to the days when the
worst crime for a maiden was "unmaidenli-
ness," when the giving of alms and blankets
and puddings and catechisms had not been
superseded by "settlements" and "slum
work," when young ladies painted in water
colors and made "decalcomanie," and when,
as Margaret says in "The Daisy Chain," "We
all know that men have more power than
women." But over and despite their at-
mosphere of past conventions and particu
larities there rise a triumphant vitality,
a purity and a moral beauty that will
long endure. Miss Yonge's characters
throughout are lifelike. Over-perfect some

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of them may be, but never artificial, and she
has drawn with unerring touch a host of in-
dividualities, all differentiated, and all alive
and absolutely real and consistent in charac-
ter-development. It is not possible to esti-
mate how strong and helpful was the influ-
ence Miss Yonge's books exerted over
English girlhood, but it left its definite im-
press upon the social life of that day. Nor
was her influence felt only by the gentle
"goslings" of the Monthly Packet or the dis-
ciples of the Tractarian movement. Burne-
Jones and William Morris are examples of
the strong and brilliant spirits that felt its
force. In Mackail's life of Morris we are
told of a book "which exercised an extra-
ordinary fascination over the whole group,
and in which much of the spiritual history
of those years may be found prefigured 'The
Heir of Redclyffe.' In this book, more than
any other, may be traced the religious ideals
and social enthusiasms which were stirring
in the years between the decline of Tracta-

rianism and the Crimean war. The young
hero of the novel, with his overstrained con-
scientiousness, his chivalrous courtesy, his in-
tense earnestness, his eagerness for all such
social reforms as might be effected from above
downwards, his highstrung notions of love,
friendship, and honor, his premature gravity,
his almost deliquescent piety, was adopted by
them as a pattern for actual life, and more
strongly perhaps by Morris than by the rest,
from his own greater wealth and more aris-
tocratic temper. Yet Canon Dixon, in men-
tioning this book as the first which seemed to
him greatly to influence Morris, pronounces
it, after nearly half a century's reflection
and experience, as 'unquestionably one of the
finest books in the world.' "

At such a verdict one must hesitate. Miss
Yonge's books will never take a high place
in "the literature of the world"; but if spir-
itual beauty, moral earnestness and high
ideals count for anything, her name has won
a lasting place in the honor roll of English
writers. H. E. H.

DESCENDANTS OF DANIEL DEFOE. The last
direct male descendant of Daniel Defoe, the
author of "Robinson Crusoe," has just died
in England, says the N. Y. Tribune. He was
in his eighty-second year and was receiving
outdoor relief from the workhouse.

STANDARD vs. MODERN NOVELS. While the
economics of the novel are engaging the at-
tention of some observers, others are asking
whether the novel, as a literary form, is in a
healthy state. The Outlook has addressed
several questions in this sense to publishers.
To the question, "What canon or standard,
if any, do the publishers of to-day look to in
selecting fiction for issue to the public?" Mr.
Murray replies as follows :

"No work of fiction can really be judged
until it has been out, say, six or eight years.

"No book written to suit a passing fashion,
and colored with the tint of some ism or psy-
chological 'question of the day' (as a cook
colors jellies and cakes), is ever likely to have
permanent value.

"If any one wishes to test the books of to-
day, let him or her keep up a close acquaint-
ance with, e. g., 'Robinson Crusoe,' the
'Waverley Novels,' Dickens, Thackeray, and
George Eliot. It is extraordinary how much
modern work crumbles under this test."

"BEN HUR" IN GREEK. General Lew Wal-
lace's story, "Ben Hur," which has probably
passed through more editions, says Current
Literature, than any other novel of its time,
may soon be published in Greek. General Wal-
lace recently received a request from a Greek
gentleman of Constantinople for his permission
to make the translation. The would-be trans-
lator's letter to General Wallace is not with-
out interest. "Some time ago," he says, "a
friend of mine gave me a German book, advis-
ing me to read it with attention. I never

read novels, so I intended to give it back
without having opened it. But then one day
being unoccupied I took it carelessly and be-
gan to read it, and it impressed me so much
that I read it again and again, and did not
fail to translate parts of it to my father and
brothers. I looked for a Greek translation
of it, but there is none. From that time the
idea has possessed me to translate 'Ben Hur'
into Greek, and for this it is my duty to ask
your Excellency's permission. I am sure all
Greeks will enjoy it as I enjoyed it."

MR. HEWLETT'S STYLE. Much has been
written about Mr. Hewlett's style, says the
Times Saturday Review. Here is Frederic
Harrison's view: "Mr. Hewlett's style js at
any rate his own; it is part of his very skin
and bone, as completely a part of his nature as
were the styles of Carlyle or Macaulay. There
is no trace of trick or imitation about it. It
is a style of singular terseness, of bold im-
agery, of keen stroke. It admits phrases ar-
tificial, harsh, obscure; if you please forced
metaphors, obsolete and newrcoined words,
not a few. I cannot deny that this consti-
tutes mannerism ; and as I have said, I loathe
mannerism as I do the reek of stale tobacco.
But that mannerism which is a real part of
the man's brain, bred from a laconic temper,
a native turn for imagery, and a personal
savor in the toothsome ohrase this we have
to take as we find it, even as we take the epi-
grams of Tacitus, the euphuism of Sir
Thomas Browne, or the tropes and nicknames
of Carlyle. I do not pretend that Maurice
Hewlett has earned the right of these great
masters of language to force upon us his lin-
guistic fancies; but I find, even in many of
them which I frankly regret, a scholarship, a
wealth of diction, and a picturesque person-
ality, which I am forced to admit are exten-
uating circumstances, even at the bar of an
average jury with conventional canons of
English prose."

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DURER, ALBERT, (il.) The Apocalypse; six-
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GILBERT, Mrs. ANNE HARTLEY, [Mrs. G. H.
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HAPGOOD, NORMAN. The stage in America,
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NETHERSOLE, OLGA. Olga Nethersole; a col-
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Gilbert, M. Strauss and F. Halsey. R. H.
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PHILLIPPS, EVELYN MARCH. Pintoricchio.
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RUSSELL, ANNIE. Annie Russell in "A royal
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SCHUYLER, EUGENE. Italian influences: [es-
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STONE, MARY AMELIA. Development of
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FAWCETT, MILLICENT GARRETT. Life of Her

Majesty, Queen Victoria. New ed. ; introd.

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Woman and the home ; Pleasures and pas-

times; The Berliner; Political life; Local

government ; The newspaper and its readers.

DEASY, H. H. P. In Tibet and Chinese Tur-

kestan : being the record of three years'

exploration. Longmans, Green & Co. il.

por. map, 8, net, $5.

MEAKIN, BUDGETT. The land of the Moors:
a comprehensive description. Macmillan.
il. map, 8, $5.

WILSON, EPIPHANIUS. Cathedrals of France;
popular studies of the most interesting
French cathedrals. The Churchman Co.
il. 4, $3-

EDUCATION, LANGUAGE, ETC.

SMITH, NORA ARCHIBALD. The message of
Froebel and other essays. Milton Bradley
Co. 12, 50 c.

Contents: The message of Froebel; The
spirit of reverence ; Training the imagination ;
The unsocial child; The children's guild of
play; The guild of the brave poor things;
The social inclosure of childhood ; Dame Na-
ture's play-school ; Shooting folly as it flies ;
The personality of the kindergarten training
teacher; Our nursery tales, to-day and yes-
terday.

WILLIAMS, J. FISCHER. Harrow. Macmil-
lan. 12, (Handbooks to the great public
schools.) $1.50.

FICTION

ALLEN, Mrs. W. The love letters of a liar.
Ess Ess Publishing Co. 24, im. leath.,
50 c.

ARISTOCRATS (The) : being impressions of the
Lady Helen Pole during her sojourn in the
Great North Woods, as spontaneously re-
corded in her letters to her friend in North
Britain, the Countess of Edge and Ross.
J. Lane. 12, $1.50.

Lady Helen Pole accompanies her brother
Bertie and an elder sister to the Adiron-
dacks; the brother is in search of health and
passes a summer there. They are children
of an English Duke and are "The aristocrats"
of the story which is told in letters. Lady
Helen's impressions of the people she meets
and of the country generally are amusing;
her many love experiences add to the narra-
tive ; also her unorthodox opinions on many
social subjects.

BARR, Mrs. AMELIA EDITH HUDDLESTON.
Souls of passage ; il. by Emlen McConnell.
Dodd, Mead & Co. 12, $1.50.
A story of reincarnation.
BARRY, W. The wizard's knot. Century

Co. 12, $1.50.

BRADY, CYRUS TOWNSEND. Under tops'ls and
tents. Scribner. il. 12, $1.50.
Narrates the author's experiences in the
army and navy, and also gives several stories
based upon historical incidents of heroism and
danger. These experiences cover a wide
range of life, from the skylarking of the ca-
dets at Annapolis to some heart-rending
scenes in the war with Spain. By the author
of "For love of country," and other romances.

BROOKS, HILDEGARD. Without a warrant.

Scribner. 12, $1.50.

A novel of the present with its scene in the
south. The story is told bv the heroine, Kate
Harlowe, whose adventures in the hands of
the mysterious shooting party take the reader
through many scenes of high comedy.
CAMPBELL, Mrs. HELEN STUART. Ballantyne :

a novel. Little, Brown & Co. 12, $1.50.

Although the events in which the hero
Ballantyne figures occur partly in England,

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the story is distinctively American. The her-
oine is an American girl who goes to Lon-
don because she is disappointed with her own
country and thinks it fails to come up to
ideal standards. Its hero, Ballantyne, though
American by inheritance, has been brought
up in an English home by a mother whose
one wish is that he shall never visit America.
iiut to Ballantyne America has been an ideal,
and to him it stands for everything which is
free and high.

CORVO, T. BARON. In his own image. J.
Lane. 12, $1.50.

An English artist living near Rome has
these stories related to him by his young
Italian attendant named Toto. They are
oftener amusing than serious, being about
monks and their weaknesses and supersti-
tions, Italian legends, and many phases of
life and thought of the Italian peasantry. Six
of the tales appeared in The Yellow Book of
1895-96.

CRADDOCK, FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE. The sol-
dier's revenge ; or, Roland and Wilfred.
Abbey Press. 12, $i.
A novel describing cadet life at West
Point at the beginning of the Civil War.

CROCKETT, S. RUTHERFORD. The silver skull :
a romance ; il. by G. Grenville Manton.
F. A. Stokes Co. il. 12, $1.50.

DANIELS, GERTRUDE POTTER. The Warners :
an American story of to-day. Jamieson-
Higgins Co. 12, $1.25 ; pap., 50 c.

DELANOY, Mrs. M. FRANCES HANFORD. Se-
rious complications ; il. by Marion Hanford

Eddy: [a story.] Abbey Press, por. 12,

$1.
Dix, EDWIN ASA. Old Bowen's legacy: a

novel. Century Co. 12, $1.50.

By the author of "Deacon Bradbury." A
study of New England character and condi-
tions, the scene being laid in the same ficti-
tious village as "Deacon Bradbury" Felton,
Vermont, some of the same characters re-
appearing.
ELIOT, GEORGE, [pseud, for Mrs. ]. W. Cross.]

Adam Bede. J. Lane. 16, 50 c. ; leath.,

75 c.
ELIOT, GEORGE, \fiseud. for Mrs. J. W. Cross.]

[Works.] Personal ed. v. i, Adam Bede;

biographical introd. by Esther Wood.

Doubleday, Page & Co. il. por. 8, $1.50.

Mrs. Wood has written for each volume of
this new edition of George Eliot's works an
introduction, showing how the story came to
be written, placing the originals of the char-
acters and describing the country and people
among whom the author lived and who had
so much influence on her work. The many
illustrations show dozens of striking pictures
made famous by the writer's pen. There are
also two quite new and hitherto unpublished
portraits of George Eliot and Robert Evans.
ELLIS, J. BRECKENRIDGE.. Garcilaso. A. C.

McClurg & Co. 12, $1.25.

Spanish life and character are the themes
of this romance of the close of the fifteenth
century. The earlier scenes are laid in the
"city of silk," before the beleaguered walls
of Granada, and later the hero escapes the

Inquisition by joining the Columbus expedi-
tion. In Garcilaso the author has presented
a portrait of the Spanish hidalero, ignorantly
religious, haughtily courteous, arrogantly
brave. By the author of "The dread and fear
of kings."
EMBREE, C. FLEMING. A heart of flame; il.

bv Dan. Smith. Bowen-Merrill Co. 12,

$1.50.

"The story of a master passion," the author
also calls this romance. A story of great
wrongs and of supreme love. The scene is
Mexico.
ENGLISHWOMAN'S (An) love-letters. M. F.

Mansfield & Co. 16. vellum, net, $i.
FRIEDMAN, I. KAHN. Poor people: a novel.

Houghton, Mifflin & Co. 16, .(Riverside

pap. ser.) pap., 50 c.

GALLON, TOM. The second Dandy Chater.

Dodd, Mead & Co. 12, $1.50.

A story of adventure, intrigues, and un-
expected denouements. The second Dandy
Chater was known as Philip Crowdy (though
that was not his name), and the real Dandy
Chater had been foully murdered at almost
the identical moment that Philip made his
appearance in the vicinity of Chater's home in
pursuit of him. The remarkable feature in
the case was that the two men's faces were
alike in every particular, down to the small-
est detail. Philip, therefore, determined to
assume the identity of the murdered man.
GARLAND, HAMLIN. Her mountain lover.

Century Co. il. 12, $1.50.
HAGGARD, H. RIDER. Lysbeth : a tale of the

Dutch. Longmans, Green & Co. il. 12,

$1.50.

The scene of this novel is chiefly in the
city of Leyden; the time 544. It is the story
of the trials, adventures, and victories of a
burgher family of the generation of Philip 11.
and William the Silent.

HAZELTON, G. C, jr. Mistress Nell : a merry

tale of a merry time (twixt fact and fancy).

Scribner. por. 12, $1.50.

This story of Charles n.'s reign and Nell
Gwynn is an enlargement of the author's own
play of the same name, produced by Henrietta
Crosman.
HORTON, G. Like another Helen ; il. by C. M.

Relyea. Bowen-Merrill Co. 12, $1.50.
HOTCHKISS, CHAUNCEY C. Betsey Ross: a

romance of the flag. Appleton. 12, $1.50.

JOHNSON, OWEN. Arrows of the Almighty.

Macmillan. 12, $1.50.
JOHNSON, STANLEY EDWARDS. The temper

cure: [a story.] Abbey Press. 12, 50 c.

KNIGHT, G. A son of austerity; frontispiece
by Harrison Fisher. Bowen-Merrill Co.
12, $1.50.

A simple story of English life.
LAGERLOF, SELMA. From a Swedish home-
stead; tr. by Jessie Brochner. McClure,
Phillips & Co. 12, $1.50.
Short stories entitled : The story of a coun-
try house; Queen at Kungahalla; Old Ag-
nete; The fisherman's ring; Santa Caterina
of Siena ; Our Lord and St. Peter ; The flight
into Egypt; The Empress's money-chest;

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The peace of God; A story from Halstanas;
The inscription on the grave; The brothers.
LONG, J. LUTHER. The Prince of Illusion.

Century Co. 12, $1.50.

A collection of short stories. The one which
gives its name to the book is the tale of a
little blind boy who for a long while believes
himself to be a prince. His mother's de-
vices to keep him unconscious of his squalid
surroundings make a laree part of the story.
The other stories are "Dolce," "Ein Nix-
Nutz," "The Honorable Christmas," "Gift of
Yoshida Aramidzu," "Dizzy Dave," "The
house trade," "Jane an' me," and "The dream

MACGRATH, HAROLD. The puppet crown; il.

by R. Martine Reay. Bowen-Merrill Co.

12, $1.50.

The scene of this romance is laid among
the picturesque unrealities of a little border
kingdom found on no map. Leopold, a poet
and philosopher, is, by the consent of Aus-
tria, the king. His brother, Duke of a nearby
Duchy, crafty, ambitious, unscrupulous, plots
for possession of the crown, the result being
a series of clever intrigues and dashing ad-
Ventures. There is a charming young Prin-
cess loved by an honorable, manly young fel-
low, who largely influences the plot.

MEYER, ANNIE NATHAN. Robert Annys,
poor priest : a tale of the great uprising.
Macmillan. 12, $1.50.

MEREDITH, ELLIS. The master-knot of hu-
man fate. Little, Brown & Co. 12, $1.25.
A man and woman through an unexpected
convulsion of nature, are sunnosed to be the
only living human beings left alive on this
continent. They find themselves in a beau-
tiful park surrounded by the sea. There is
a house, some live stock, fruit, vegetables
growing-, etc. The place is supposed to be
the Crystal Park, near Manitou, Colorado.
A problem confronts this deserted pair, which
is the point of the story. It is worked out
with much poetry and interest.

MOORE, FRANK FRANKFORT. Nell Gwyn
comedian : [a novel.] Brentano's. pors.
12, $1.50.

MUMFORD, ETHEL WATTS. Dupes. Putnam.

12, $1.25.

The "dupes" are New York society people
who fall under the spell of a quasi-theosoph-
ical mystic.

NORRIS, FRANK. The octopus : a story of Cal-
ifornia. Doubleday, Page & Co. 12, $1.50.
OSBORNE, DUFFIELD. The lion's brood; il. by
Walter Satterlee. Doubleday, Page & Co.
12 $1.50.

The dramatic incidents attending the fam-
ous Italian campaign of Hannibal are woven
into this story of love and romance. "The
lion's brood," it will be remembered, was the
sons of the old Carthagenian leader, Hamil-
car, and as children they were sworn enemies
of Rome. Hannibal took his oath on the al-
tar at the age of nine, and became leader of
the Carthagenian armies at twenty-eight,
afterward to be the greatest general of all
time.

PAIN, BARRY. Another Englishwoman's love-
letters. Putnam. 12, $i.
An amusing parody on "An Englishwoman's
love-letters" as well as a clever satire on
certain modern methods of promoting pub-
lishing booms.

PALMER, F. The ways of the service; il. by

Howard Chandler Christy. Scribner. il.

D. $1.50.

Contents: Ballard; The romance of private
Saunders; As man to man; A battle and a
quarrel ; Against his own people ; Marrying
out of the army ; The taming of the captain ;
Mrs. Gerlison's own story.
PAYNE, WILL. The story of Eva: a novel.

Houghton, Mifflin & Co. 12, $1.50.
POST, MELVILLE DAVISSON. Dwellers in the

hills. Putnam. 12, $i ; pap., 50 c.

The scene of this story is laid amidst the
hills of West Virginia. Many of the inci-
dents are based upon actual experience on
the cattle ranges of the south.

ROPES, ARTHUR and MARY E. On Peter's
Island. Scribner. 12, $1.50.
A Russian story. It is incidentally an
animated picture of the varied life in St.
Petersburg during the '8os, and the charac-
ters that figure in it, notably two Americans
and a Polish adventurer, are typical and bold-
ly drawn. The main interest is the thread of
love and adventure that follows the narrative
through exciting scenes of political conspir-
acy and social intrigue.

SAWYER, JOSEPHINE CAROLINE. Every inch a
king; the romance of Henry of Mon-
mouth, sometime Prince of Wales. Dodd,
Mead & Co. 12, $1.50.
The hero of this novel is Henry v. of Eng-
land while Prince of Wales; the aim in writ-
ing it has been to prove that his character has
been greatly misjudged. The romance is
founded entirely upon fact.
SCOTT, Sir WALTER. Waverley novels. This-
tle ed. Harper, il. 12, subs., $24; hf.
leath., $48.

SHERLOCK, C. REGINALD. Your Uncle Lew:
a natural born American: a novel; with a
frontispiece by B. West Clinedinst. F. A.
Stokes Co. 12, $1.50.

SWAN, MYRA. Ballast: a novel. Longmans,
Green & Co. 12, $1.50.
English in scene and character. The story
of a young girl who sacrifices her life's hap-
piness in an attempt to rescue a sister from
intemperance.

VALDES, A. PALACIO. The fourth estate; au-
thorized tr. from the original; by Rachel
Challice. Brentano's. 12, $1.50.
The town of Sarrio on the Spanish coast
is the background to a love story that has an
unexpected interruption. The amusing say-
ings and doings of the notables of Sarrio
and the rivalries of two newspapers with the
eccentricities of their editors lighten the sad
scenes of the love story, the whole forming
a vivid picture of middle class Spanish life
of to-day.

WHARTON, EDITH. Crucial instances. Scrib-
ner. 12, bds., $1.50.
Seven short stories: The Duchess at

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prayer; The angel at the grave; The recov- ULMANN, ALBERT. A landmark history of

ery; "Copy," a dialogue; The Rembrandt; New York; also the origin of street names

The moving finger; The confessional. and a bibliography. Appleton. 12, $1.50.

w sr^r H a E r p^i ,n r r ies: M^S s $ stfra^!

HISTORY. HUMOR AND SATIRE.

BROWN, ALEX. English politics in early Vir- JEROME, JEROME KLAPKA. The observations

ginia historv. Houghton, Mifflin & Co. of Henry. Dodd, Mead & Co. il. 12,

12, $2. $1.25.

A careful study of the sources of the Amer- McHuGH HUGH. John Henry. G. W. Dil-

ican government, and especially of the con- ii ng ham Co. il. nar. 16, buckram, 75 c.

ditions under which the colonies established Amusing monologues by John Henry at the

political institutions. Included is a close theatre }n a street car, on butting-in, 'in lit-

study of the relations of English policies and erature on wou ld-be actors, and his reflec-

politics to the colonies. By the author of tions while pa i y i ng poo l and progressive

"The genesis of the United States, etc. euchre

CRAIK, Sir H. A century of Scottish his- PARKS, S. C. The great trial of the nine-

tory; from the days before the 45 to those teenth century. Hudson-Kimberly Pub.

within living memory. Scribner, [im- Q, i 2 t $i.

ported.] 2 v., 8, $7-5O. The author reports a dream trial of Presi-

ELLIS, HAVELOCK. The nineteenth century: dent McKinley for making the Philippine

an Utopian retrospect. Small, Maynard & war; the supposed speeches of each member

Co. 12 $1.25. of the jury that tried the case, in vindication

KIMM, SILAS CONRAD. The Iroquois: a his- of the verdict, which had been bitterly as-

tory of the Six Nations of New York, sailed are given. The jury were Anstides,

[Published for the author, S. C. Kimm,] Alfred the Great Cmcmnatus Henrv Clay,.

by Press of Pierre W. Danforth. por. 12, General Grant Jefferson Lincoln, Lafayette,

pap 50 c Washington, Madison, Tolstoi, and Bishop

Brings together material gathered here and Simpson.

there, often from sources not available to the HYGIENIC AND SANITARY.

general reader, relative to the powerful con- HAMILTON, HAROLD. Cigarettes: a fair and

federacy of the Six Nations of Indians, which unbiased statement concerning this grow-

controlled for many years the polity of all j n g evil by a reformed victim ; il. by G.

the tribes living in the limits of what is now Rodgers. Helman-Taylor Co. il. unp. 8,

the North Central States of our country. In- pap ; 25 c.

formation is given about their origin, their A protest against the use of cigarettes,

name and location, government, home life, Printed in red ink, with marginal illustra-

legends, worship, relations with other tribes. t j ons j n black ink.

etc. ITERARV MISCELLANY COLLECTED WORKS

MIDDLETON, EDMUND. The doomed Turk, the ETC.
end of the "Eastern question:" a series of BAILDON, H. BELLYSE. Robert Louis Steven-
ten essays reviewing the historical evi- S on: a life study in criticism. A. Wessels
dences in parallel with the prophecies, fore- Co. pors. 12, $1.75.

telling the fortunes of Esau (The Turk) A series of articles on Stevenson, by a life-
and Jacob (The British), showing that long friend, entitled: His literary achieve-
the "birthright" and the "Eastern ques- me nt; Childhood and youth; Student, advo-
tion" are identical. Abbey Press. por. ca t e , and author; Love, marriage, and after;
12, 50 c. Formative influences : Early travels and es-
SMITH, HELEN AINSLIE. The thirteen col- says: Critical essays; The teller of tales;
onies. In 2 pts. pt. I, Virginia, Massa- Bright verse and grim fable; Stevenson and
chusetts New Hampshire and New York. Scott; Essays and romances; The little peo-
pt. 2, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, pie ; Work at Vailima ; Stevenson as a letter-
Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Rhode Island, writer; Conclusions. Bibliography (4 p.).
North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia. Index.

Putnam. 2 v., 12, (Story of the nations CRAIGIE, Mrs. PEARL MARIA TERESA. ["John

ser., nos. 60 and 61.) ea., $1.50; hf. mor., Oliver Hobbes." pseud.] A birthday book

$1.75. from the writings of John Oliver Hobbes;

The story of each of the thirteen American selected and arr. by Zoe Proctor. J. Lane,

colonies from its first settlement to the Decla- 12, $1.50.

ration of Independence. Written for the Selections from "The tales of John Oliver

general reader rather than for the special Hobbes," "The gods, some mortals, and Lord

student. Wickenham," "The herb moon," The school

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of saints," "The ambassador," "Robert
Orange," and other works of the author.
EARLY English printed books in the Univer-
sity Library, Cambridge, 1475-1640. v. i,
Caxton to F. Kingston. Macmillan. 8,
(Cambridge Univ. Press ser.) net, $5.

GREGORY, Lady, ed. Ideals in Ireland. M. F.

Mansfield & Co. 12, net, $1.50.

The editor's object in collecting these ar-
ticles is to show "to those who look beyond
politics and houses, in what direction thought
is moving in Ireland." Contents: National-
ity and imperialism, by A. E. ; The battle of
two civilizations, by D. P. Moran ; Literature
and the Irish language, by George Moore;
What Ireland is asking for, by Douglas
Hyde: The great enchantment, by Standish
O'Grady; The literary movement in Ireland,
by W. B. Yeats.

LITERARY year-book and Bookman's direct-
ory, 1901 ; ed. by Herbert Morrah. Francis
P. Harper. 12, $1.25.
Pt. i contains calendars; a history of the
year's work, 1900 ; papers entitled Agreements,
by C. Weekes; The author's pension fund,
by Anthony Hope Hawkins ; A note on R.
D. Blackmore, by Eden Phillpotts ; The book
sales of 1900, by Frank Rinder ; Copyright, by
Warwick H. Draper; A note on the drama;
Obituary, by M. R. Hoste ; On the making
of books, bv C. T. Jacobi. Pt. 2 gives lists
of artists, authors, press cutting agents, book-
printers, bookbinders, booksellers, literary
clubs, etc.

MOULTON, C. WELLS, ed. Library of literary
criticism of English and American authors.
In 8 v. v. i, 680-1638. Moulton Publish-
ing Co. 4, $5; hf. mor., $6.50.
Beginning with the Beowulf 680, nearly two
hundred writers and their works are quoted
and described through extracts from the
works of contemporary and modern critics,
the volume ending with Sir Robert Ayton,
1570-1638. The complete work will comprise
eight volumes, and will include the names
of all English and American authors. Each
author is treated chronologically in most
cases beginning with contemporary criticism
and ending with some living authority. Thus
under the head of Geoffrey Chaucer, the first
articles are by Deschamps and Gower, writ-
ten in the twelfth century, and the concluding
criticisms are by Lounsbury, Courthope, Pol-
lard, Corson, Saintsbury, and Skeat. Each
volume will contain an alphabetical table of
contents, and in the last volume -copious in-
dexes will follow the regular text.

PHELPS, C. E. Falstaff and equity: an inter-
oretation. Houghton Mifflin & Co. 12,
$1-50.

A book about the humor and legal knowl-
edge of Shakespeare. It is based upon the
interpretation of Falstaffs remark, "There is
no equity stirring," which the author takes
as an example of Shakespeare's more subtle
humor, and interprets it with minute knowl-
edge of the Shakesperean criticism and legal
acumen. He shows how Shakespeare became
familiar with law, particularly with equity;
his book will have a special interest for law-
yers who are students of Shakespeare, on ac-

count of its wealth of curious learning and
its excellent legal method of exposition and
argument. The writer is judge of the Su-
preme Court of Baltimore and author of
"Judicial equity," etc.

PROGRESS (The) of the century; by Alfred
Russell Wallace, W. Ramsay, W. Matthew
Flinders Petrie and others. Harper. 8,
$2.50.

Papers on: Evolution, by Alfred Russell
Wallace ; Chemistry, by William Ramsay ;
Archaeology, by W. M. Flinders Petrie ; As-
tronomy, by Sir Jos. Norman Lockyer; Phil-
osophy, by Edward Caird; Medicine, by W.
Osier ; Surgery, by W. W. Keen ; Electricity,
by Elihu Thomson ; Physics, by T. C. Men-
denhall; War, by Sir C. Dilke; Naval ships,
by Alfred T. Mahan; Literature, by Andrew
Lang; Engineering, by Thomas C. Clarke;
Religion, by Cardinal Gibbons, A. V. G. Al-
len, Richard J. H. Gottheil, and Goldwin
Smith.

SCHUYLER, EUGENE. Selected essays; with a
memoir by Evelyn S. Schaeffer. Scribner.
por. 8, net, $2.50.

STEEVENS, G. WARRINGTON. Things seen :
impressions of men, cities, and books; se-
lected and ed. by G. S. Street; with a me-
moir by W. E. Henley. Bowen-Merrill Co.
12, $i"so.

Contents: The new humanitarianism ; From
the new Gibbon; What happened in Thes-
saly; The monotype; Mr. Balfour's philoso-
phy; Little Eyolf; Zola; The new Tennyson;
Words for music ; The futile Don ; At twen-
ty-four; A fable of journalists; The Dreyfus
case; The jubilee; The feast of St. Wagner;
In search of a famine; "During her majesty's

S'easure"; In the country of the storm; The
erby; The Cesarewitch.

VINCENT, LEON H. Corneille. Houghton,
Mifflin & Co. nar. 12, (Brief studies in
French society and letters in the xvn. cen-
tury, no. 3.) $i.

The third volume of Mr. Vincent's series
of essays on French society and letters in
the seventeenth century. Deals with the pic-
turesque days when the drama was Cardinal
Richelieu's chief relaxation and Corneille was
easily first of the dramatists of his time.
Gives an interesting appreciation of his genius
and successes. Bibliographical note .(6 p.).
VINCENT, LEON H. The French Academy.
Houghton, Mifflin & Co. nar. 12, (Brief
studies in French society and letters in the
xvii. century, no. 2.) $i.
A brilliant period in French literature is the
subject; gives sketches of Chapelain Vinge-
las, Claude Favre, Baudoin, L'Estoile, Pel-
lisson, and other founders of the French
Academy. Bibliographical note (6 p.).
WELLS, B. WILLIS. Modern German litera-
ture. 2d ed., rev. and enl. Little, Brown
& Co. 12, $1.50.

First published in 1895. The last chapter
of the former edition has been discarded
altogether. Two chapters are substituted for
it one dealing with the literature from the
rise of the young German school to the
French war, another with the first generation
of Imperial Germany.

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BENNETT, ELLEN H. Astrology: science of
knowledge and reason : a treatise on the
heavenly bodies in an easy and compre-
hensive form. [New ed.] Published by
the author. Ellen H. Bennett, por. 12, $3.
"After many years' experience," the author
says, "I have found the laws of astrology
unfailing, and in editing this work my chief
object has been to render it useful to the stu-
dent of astrology, and so by forwarding the
science, to promote the general interests of
humanity." Some of the headings to the
forty chapters are: An historical review;
Origin of the days of the week; Chronology,
or the art of measuring- time; Cosmogony,
or creation of the world ; Destiny : Eleusin-
ian mysteries ; The heavens ; The planets and
their significations; Astrology and medicine,
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JUNE, 1901.

No. 6.

The Puppet Crown.

IN the flood of new historical romances, to It strongly suggests Anthony Hope's "The
write a story that stands out conspicuously Prisoner of Zenda" in the kidnapping of cer-
above the others is to possess talent of an tain important characters and in the portrait-
unusual kind, and such talent belongs to urc of the youthful hero who is an American.
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cism and in the comic

him to rule because he is an idealist and a
[reamer, and, they know, will finally allow
opera quality of the little Continental king- the kingdom to fall into their hands as a pro-
dom that is the scene of its remarkable plot, tectorate.

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"The Puppet Crown" shows no traces of
the hand of a beginner in fiction. The style
is terse, strong and clear, the narrative is well
sustained, and the dialogue would do no dis-
credit to Anthony Hope, the master in this
branch of the story-teller's art. The charac-
ters are mostly real people. The only one who
impresses the reader as not exactly true to
life is Fitzgerald, who could scarcely have
spent years in the British army in India and
come out of it with so little experience of
women and their ways. All the incidental
description is strictly subservient to the story,
but it is finely done. And the last two chap-
ters which describe the scene in front of the
throne when the Duchess' ambition is balked,
and that other scene of Maurice's death, are
worthy of any living writer of romance. As
a whole, "The Puppet Crown" is the kind of
bcok which takes all one's adjectives to tell
about.

Mr. Frank Baum, the author of "Father
Goose," who was born in Syracuse, Mr. Mac-
Grath's native city, says : Mr. MacGrath is
a fine fellow ; young, tall, slender, loving all
good things a cup, a pipe and a loyal friend.
He has no literary affectations, no purple im-
pressions, and does not seriously believe that
he is making permanent contributions to the
world's best literature. 'The Puppet Crown'
will make him famous." (Bowen-Merrill
Co. $1.50.) San Francisco Chronicle.

East London.

REGARDED as a whole, the condition of the
varied populations of East London is, while
no doubt melancholy enough, less hopeless

and less degraded than jaundiced misan-
thropes like Carlyle would have us believe.
That the majority of the inhabitants of East
London are industrious, reputable, worthy of
respect, is clearly proven by his second chap-
ter, "The City of Many Crafts."

What the East London of to-day is Sir
Walter Besant depicts in his straightforward
way in his chapters on "The Factory Girl."
"The Key of the Street," "The Houseless,"
"The Submerged," "The Helping Hand" and
"The Alien," in the last of which he considers
its Hebraic population, warming with his sub-
ject into a passage of pure literature:

"For my own part, I like sometimes to sit
in the synagogue on the Sabbath and listen
to the service which I do not understand.
For it seems to explain the people their in-
tense pride, their tenacity, their separation
from the rest of the world. Their service
I may be mistaken strikes upon my ears as
one long, grand hymn of praise and gladness.
The hymns they sing, the weird, strange mel-
odies of the hymns, are those, they allege,
sung when Israel went out of Egypt; they
are those which they sang when in the Red
Sea the waters stood up like a wall on either
side to let them through; they are those
which were sung when Pharaoh's host lay
drowning and the walls of water closed to-
gether. The service, the reading, the hymns,
the responses they are all an assertion that
the choice of the Lord hath fallen upon these
petople; the Lord their God hath chosen
them. Let no one speak of Jews until he has
listened to their service. By their worship
the mind of a people may be discovered."
(Century Co. $3.50.) Mail and Express.

From "East London." Copyright, 1901, by The Century Co.

TOYNBEE HALL AND ST. JUDE's CHURCH.

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Juletty.

remained for a woman, Lucy Cleaver Mc-

KENTUCKY has furnished a varied and fer- Elroy, to present for the first time in fiction

tile field for the contemporary novelist. The the life of the "Pennyrile," that fragrant

localities have been drawn on by a few men stretch of Kentucky in the western and south -

who have become known to fame as the in- ern sections of the State.

terpreters of the peculiar life of each. James From a bed of pain this book comes with

Lane Allen has presented all the glowing no trace of the suffering of its author. In-

THE FOX HUNT.

color and the beauty of the bluegrass; John
Fox, jr., has given us the fine types and the
hardy manhood of the mountains, and Har-
rison Robertson, in his latest book, has de-
picted the city life.

But Allen, Fox and Robertson have not
embraced the whole State; they have not tra-
versed in their books all the ground. It has

deed, far from having any trace of anguish,
it is a fresh, virile, colorful story, teeming
with life and alive with action. Readers of
the Courier- Journal will need no introduc-
tion to Mrs. McElroy. Some years ago a se-
ries of articles by her on the knob country
caused wide and favorable comment. With
this, her first book, she takes her place as a

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[June, 1901

Kentucky novelist, and to be a genuine Ken-
tucky novelist in these days means something
more than a passing writer of stories.

There is something peculiarly suggestive of
Southern life in the title of Mrs. McElroy's
book. "Juletty" has a twang of the old days,
of that long-gone regime which counted
women as its fairest adornment. "Juletty" is
truly a. story of old Kentucky, with a great
deal of the color and the flavor of the soil.
The author knows her country, she knows her
people, and when she writes it is with the
fullest understanding.

It is a stirring narrative, and one to be fol-
lowed with keen interest to the close. The
story is essentially one of action. The author
wisely puts into her book the moonshiner, al-
ways a picturesque character, a bold, hard,
brave, misunderstood creature, with the heart
of a lion, but with the warfare of the savage.
But he gives a book strength and vigor even
if he does not lend it grace.

A striking incident of this book is the race
of a pair of horseback riders with an L. & N.
train in Warren county. Of course the horse-
men win, but it furnished an incident of
thrilling action and excitement.

Much of the action is in Warren county,
which has never before achieved the dignity
of a place in fiction.

There must be a word about Juletty her-
self. She is a Kentucky girl, pure and simple,
fragrant as a wild rose, the sort to delight man
.(Crowell. $1.50.) Louisville Courier- Journal.

Woman's Book of Sports.

VOLUMES have been written on each of the
sports briefly treated in this little book, and
Mr. Paret is far from putting it forward as
anything but a collection of lessons for begin-
ners, made as simple, as direct and as ele-
mentary as possible. He has discerned in the
great library of sporting treatises a lack of
guidance specially adapted for women, which
he has attempted to supply. "Women's faults
are not always men's faults," he observes tru-
ly, and he has aimed to give his instruction
from this point of view. Within the limits he
has set for himself it would have been im-
possible to impart more than a few of the
necessary elementary hints for beginners on
the variety of subjects treated. It must be
said that while Mr. Paret has not gone deeply
into the requirements of the sports he dis-
cusses, he has succeeded in giving much use-
fr.1 advice, and has written in a suggestive
and attractive manner that makes his book of
real value. Giving little, he has made almost
everything he does give significant. He
treats of golf, lawn tennis, catboat sailing,
swimming, bicycling, basketball and physical
exercise and development in general. He has
also added a chapter on "men's sports from a
woman's viewpoint," for the poor woman who
has not the courage to confess her ignorance
on the field or whose escort has not the pa-
tience to explain.

Mr. Paret is careful to inculcate moder-
ation in all things, especially in the more ac-

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165

GENERAL CHARLES KING.

tive sports, such as lawn tennis. While this
is one of the best forms of physical exerciss,
"no woman ought to play tennis much until
she is thoroughly satisfied that her heart is
in no way affected." Nor can tournament
play be much recommended for women, since
a long match in hot weather is often a severe
strain. So, too, in bicycling, is moderation a
necessity, as are properly adjusted saddle and
handlebars, and in every sport a loose, free
costume, though it is only with a certain hope-
lessness that Mr. Paret discountenances the
use of corsets. Basketball is one of the most '
valuable games for young women, being al-
most the only one of the team games played
by men that is available for them. The ele-
ment of team play in it is one of the most
profitable things for young college women to
learn, though one of the most difficult; and
it is sad to learn that experienced teachers
of the game have found that the spirit of
mutual assistance, of "sticking together," is
one of the qualities most notably lacking in
the sex.

The hints contained in the chapters on
sailing will be found particularly useful to
women. Quite a little essay is also given
upon fairness and generosity among women.
(Appleton. $1.50.) N. Y. Tribune.

Norman Holt.

A WAR story by a man who knows war as it
is and who has a knack of rightly telling
what he knows. This present is a tale of the
old Army of the Cumberland. It is a tale,
too, of Kentucky and of a home life that was
split and shattered when civil war came upon
the nation. Norman Holt goes for the Union.
His father and brother Henry enlist under the
Confederate banner. His sweetheart is a
Cincinnati girl, and a rival suitor for her
hand, who is also of the Ohio city, becomes
the arch plotter of the narrative. Outranking
Norman in the army by special favoritism,
he is able to back jealousy with authority
etud hring poor Holt into desperate straits.
In the end, however, it is he who loses every-
thing but the honor he never had. General
King's battle passages are stirring. His love
incidents are as gallantly told. There is a
description of a midnight ride when Norman
is detailed to lead a squadron of men to at-
tack his father's property that is thrillingly
told. There are also hospital scenes that are
very real to those who can remember all the
details described. Such books are very good
for a younger generation than the one that
lived through the Civil War. (G. W. Dil-
Imgham. $1.25.) Baltimore Sun.

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by Char!

HENRY SAVAGE LANDOR,
Author of " China and the Allies.''

The Sword and the Centuries.

CAPTAIN HUTTON, well known to lovers of
fencing and the blank weapon as the author
ot "Cold Steel," "Old Sword-Play," etc., fur-
nishes in this book a popular description of
the various swords used in civilized Europe
during the last five centuries, and of single
combats which have been fought with them.
The work is not an attempt at the history of
duels with their changing weapons, from the
days of chivalry to the present time, nor is it
an essay on the development of the sword
and its manipulation. It simply traces the
gradual changes of the sword and its acces-
sories, and at the same time gives examples
of its actual use at different periods, without
technicalities of any kind. Thus, in the Mid-
dle Ages, the lance, the axe, and the sword
were used for attack, the shield and armor
for the defence. Then came the two-handed
sword, the rapier and cloak, with the auxil-
iary dagger; the small sword, and, in this
century, the dagger. There are, furthermore,
side-glances at prize-fighting and the obsolete
British sports of cudgeling, backswording and
single stick.

The tales of combat are as inviting as their
titles: "How the Lord of Ternant and the
Spanish Esquire Galiot de Belthasin Fought
on Foot and Horseback for Knightly
Honour"; "How the Admirable Crichton
Fought with a Brave at Single Rapier and
Slew Him, and How Afterward He Was
Slain with Unfair Advantage," etc. (Scrib-
ner. $4.) Mail and Express.

With Both Armies in South Africa.

No volume of Richard Harding Davis has
excited so much discussion and such bitter
criticism as his description of the struggle
for liberty now being waged in South Africa.
In the language of the immortal Lincoln,
"men do not like to be told the truth when it
conflicts with their purposes" ; and there are
a good many persons or rather a few noisy
persons in this country engaged in question-
able ventures themselves who will tell you
that Mr. Davis was snubbed by the English
authorities in South Africa, that he is an hys-
terical sentimentalist, that he distorts facts to
make fiction; in brief, that his representation
of the condition of affairs in the Transvaal is
untrue.

Now the truth is that Mr. Davis had every-
thing to lose and nothing to gain when he
shifted his sympathies from Briton to Boer.
While he had that compassion for the under
dog which a sense of fair play in this partic-
ular quarrel makes imperative, he had many
more reasons for shutting his eyes to the in-
justice of the English cause and extolling its
plausibility.

Mr. Davis would never have espoused the
cause of the Afrikanders with such enthu-
siasm had his heart not been profoundly
stirred by the purity of their motives and the
immense sacrifices they are willing to make
for their principles.

The book is written with all the charm and
originality of expression of which Mr. Davis
is capable, and here for the first time in his
capacity as an author he employs the weapon
of sarcasm with deadly effect We knew
that he could write delightful love stories and
travel sketches, that he had a keen sense of
the dramatic and picturesque in everyday life,
that he saw possibilities of the ideal hidden
beneath the commonplace, and that his style
was as forceful and clean as his ethics. But
we did not suspect him of a latent talent for
sarcasm as keen as it is true.

Beginning his observations with Buller's
famous column, Mr. Davis describes proceed-
ings from the siege and relief of Ladysmith
until after the fall of Pretoria with a fairness
which should put his British critics to shame.
Denouncing our own quarrel in the Philip-
pines as wrong, Mr. Davis is equally severe
in his condemnation of the spirit which makes
a man like Kipling call the shooting of the
Afrikanders "pig-sticking." More than any
of his charming stories this passionate ap-
peal for "the principle for which our fore-
fathers fought" entitles the young American
to the laurel leaf. (Scribner. $1.50.) The
Beacon.

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167

W. J. Stillman's Autobiography. -

WE have had a great deal of biographical
and autobiographical literature during the last
few years, but nobody has given us a more
entertaining book than Mr. William James
Stillman, whose "Autobiography of a Journal-
ist" is published in two volumes. The author
is well known to his countrymen as probably
the highest living authority on the recent his-
tory of Crete, of Continental Greece and of
the Slavonic populations in the Balkan penin-
sula, and it is doubtful whether any other
American or Englishman has so intimate a
knowledge of Italian politics, a knowledge
which Mr. Stillman has had exceptional op-
portunities for acquiring, having been for
many years the correspondent of the London
Times at Rome. He is a man of many ac-
complishments and wide sympathies. He be-
gan life as an artist, and it was only when his
eyesight partially failed that he took to jour-
nalism. If not himself a scientist and phil-
osopher, he has been a close and cherished
friend of philosophers and scientists, such as
Emerson, Jeffries Wyman, Agassiz, Gray and
Owen. He has been a revolutionist in his
day, and his vocation has made him acquainted
with many statesmen in many countries. Of
poets and men of letters he has personally
known almost all that have shed lustre on the
last half century, with the exception of Tenny-
son and Matthew Arnold. He is a man of

keen impressions and original ideas, which
he expresses with frankness and without pre-
occupation as to the effect of his candor upon
himself. For portraiture he has a striking
gift with the pen as well as with the brush,
and the result is that a gallery of portraits of
more or less distinguished men and women
may be found in his interesting pages. It is
only by reproducing some of. these that we
could give an inkling of the book's attractive-
ness. (Houghton, Mifflin & Co. 2 v., $6.)
The N. Y. Sun.

Human Nature in the Rough.

"DWELLERS IN THE HILLS/' by Melville
Davisson Post, is a vivid, stirring picture of
life in the Virginia cattle country. It has a
virility and freshness about it that are to be
expected of life in the hills. '

It is a story made up of bone and brawn,
of courage and action. To its rugged strength
a rich beauty has been given by touches of
delicate fancy that tint it throughout with
love and tender romance as the glow of sun-
stt tints the rugged hills.

An especial charm of the book lies in the
close familiarity with animal life into which
the reader is introduced. Horses are char-
acterized as deftly and in almost as great de-
tail as are the human figures. Horses they
are, too, worth knowing about thorough-

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[June, 1901

breds that are loved and cared for as tenderly
as are children.

There are many scenes in which the reader
finds indefinable charm. The plot is simple.
The glories of the hills and the zestful life
among them make the book. It is one that
will be read to the end with ever-increasing
interest and then put within convenient reach
to be read again. (Putnam. $1.50.)

In the House of His Friends.

ONE of the most thrilling episodes of Amer-
ican political and military history has waited
forty years for the pen of the novelist !

In this most startling story the veil is lifted
at last which clouded the White House and
War Department in the dark days of '61.

Presidents, great senators, mighty com-
manders, splendid women have passed away,
and this exciting event has never been fitly
described an occurrence as tragic as the mu-
tiny of the U. S. brig Somcrs, and an out-
rage of far-reaching results !

On October 22, 1861, at Ball's Bluff, thirty-
three miles from Washington, a splendid
Union force was mysteriously defeated, the
fragments driven back into Maryland, and
fifteen hundred men were needlessly butchered
or captured.

The inner life of the White House, the last

days of Winfield Scott, deep intrigues of sen-
ators and army commanders, and the terrible
mental struggle with which Lee gave up his
United States rank all these startling scenes
are here depicted from sources not to be
reached by the general public.

The daring schemes of friend and foes, the
betrayal of a gallant soldier "in the house of
his friends," his later persecutions, his ro-
mantic career abroad, and all the inner se-
crets of the causeless defeat of the first "Bull
Run" are woven herein into a weird romance
which for depth and pathos cannot be sur-
passed in the annals of our land. A book to
fix the breathless attention of every reader.
(Home Publishing Co. $1.25.)

The Compleat Bachelor.

THIS delightful series of papers describing
the social experiences of Rollo Butterfield,
bachelor, first saw the light in Harper's Ba-
zar. They are collected and presented the
whole fifteen of them in a delightful, dainty-
covered volume, a work of art, really, to
which no bachelor can justly be entitled.
But, then, we who are in the secret know
that Rollo's reformed ; that he ceased to be
a tease to his sister Caroline; that he finally
merged from his world of epigram, of feigned
emotion for happily married woman friends,
of Mrs. Chatterton and Mrs. Carmichael and
the rest merged from these into a little ro-
mance of his own and there finished his pa-
pers. There won't be a better summer hook
out this season than this volume of Oliver
Onions's witticisms and sentimentalities and
repartee. This might as well be said at once
and for all. (Stokes. $1.25.) Baltimore Sun.

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The Tower of Wye.

these two are some seventy damsels, who

IN these days when the production of the journeyed that they might be wives to the

historical novel is unlimited by numbers or
quality, it is a distinct triumph to instill orig-
inality into a book of this class and to avoid
conventional treatment and atmosphere. Mr.
Eabcock's book is in many ways original ;

planters. With this very erratic freight it is
small wonder that there are many mishaps
and that the expedition almost comes to woe.
The author has, however, made excellent use
of his material and has clothed the whole ad-

OUT OF THE CORE

the story is not one in which the smell of
powder and the sight of gore predominate.
That is, these latter properties are not so
insistent as to obscure all other details; the
merit and delight of the book exist not in
the study of belligerents, but in the acute
and faithful picture of life in early colonial
days, and of the limitations and conditions
of the settler's existence. The story has to
do with the fortunes of two young men, sent
out by a London firm to the colony on Kent
Island in Chesapeake Bay. Accompanying

venture in a charming, innocent humor. The
style of the book is excellent, and there is no
inconsiderable amount of true dramatic sit-
uation which flames forth at unexpected mo-
ments. The atmosphere of the time is a vital
p.irt of the story, and this is so handled that
it. becomes almost a reality, the author suc-
ceeding at moments in relieving us of present
impressions and taking us back to the time
when Virginia Dare roamed the waters and
forests and when nature was vast to the col-
onist. (Coates. $1.50.) Public Opinion.

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[June, 1901

- The Luck of the Vails.
LONDON life, with which Mr. Benson has
so often dealt, is to a certain extent pictured
in "The Luck of the Vails." But in the gen-
eral plan of the book, in most of its incidents
and altogether in its atmosphere he has set
himself to the task of giving the reader sen-
sations of a romantic and even thrilling order.
The "Luck" is a wonderful specimen of the
goldsmith's craft, in the possession of the
Vails for hundreds of years. The modern
young representative of the house rejoices in
the "Luck" until he learns the significance at-
tached to it by a superstitious reading of the
legend it bears. The motive is as old as the
hills. The reader knows at once that Lord
Harry has troubles ahead of him. But he
trusts the novelist to see that joy 'is not alto-
gether missed, and yields himself to the en-
jcyment of an exciting narrative of crime,
mystery and other highly diverting elements
of fiction. The tale is very well told. One
grows a little weary of the obtuseness shown
by the central figure, but then one remembers
that when a mystery is afoot in a modern
novel convention permits the hero to remain
oblivious to matters obvious to every one
else. There can be, indeed, no quarrel with
Mr. Benson for simply doing over again what
countless novelists have done before him on
the plane of clever sensationalism. The fact
remains that he is clever. The story is a dis-
tinct advance on "Dodo," but retains the snap
and brightness of that favorite novel while
showing distinct advance in method. (Ap-
pleton. $1.50.) AT. Y. Tribune.

Dreyfus's Own Story.

THAT the man who gave his name to the
most celebrated affair of the past decade
should know less of that affair than the news-
boy who cried it in the streets, that he should
spend five years of his life in absolute ignor-
ance of all that concerned him most vitally,
in ignorance of the demands the outraged
justice of two continents made on his behalf,
i:> the most impressive thing revealed in the
book before us. The story is remarkable for
what it discloses of the man himself; one
must look elsewhere for expert opinion on
the far-reaching and involved affair. He
finds here the story of the man in the dark,
who on his return to France in 1899 knew
no more than on the day he was sent into
exile.

Alfred Dreyfus's "Five Years of My Life:
1^94-99" is made up of his own simple,
straightforward narrative, as convincing as it
is unpretentious, of the letters that passed be-
tween himself and his wife, and of the diary
he kept for her while on Devil's Island. He
makes no direct appeal for sympathy, but it is
impossible to read the story of his sufferings
unmoved. He has apparently nerved himself
to write calmly of his crowning humiliation,
the public degradation of January 5, 1895.
He says: "I underwent the horrible torture
without weakness." At the close of this day
of torture he writes to his wife: "I have
made the greatest sacrifice that can be made
by an honest man." There seems to be no
bitterness in heart for the people who reviled
him. He adds: "In their place I could not

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171

ELIZABETH EVANS, THE ORIGINAL OF DINAH MORRISS.

have restrained my contempt for an officer
branded a traitor to his country."

The story of the prisoner's life on Devil's
Island, as preserved in his diary, is a heart-
breaking record of endless days and sleepless
nights, of the struggle to live and to keep
alive the desire for life. The following is a
characteristic entry :

Dreyfus does not attempt to report the ses-
sions of the Rennes court martial. He simply
sa3's: "In spite of the plainest evidence,
against all justice and equity, I was con-
demned. And the verdict was announced
with extenuating circumstances." Dreyfus
signed his demand for revision on September
9, 1899. A pardon was offered him on condi-
tion that he withdraw his demand for revision,
which he eventually accepted. "The gov-
ernment of the republic gives me back
my liberty. It is nothing to me without
honor. ... I want all France to know by
final judgment that I am innocent." The
story throws but little or no light on the com-
plicated plot of the "affaire Dreyfus," but it
is a splendid monument to his courage, man-
liness and honor. (McClure, Phillips & Co.)
Public Opinion.

Masters of Men.

MR. MORGAN ROBERTSON'S book is very re-
freshing. Briefly the story is of a boy, strong,,
generous, honest, good-natured in the main,,
but quick to take fire, withal primitive, who
under a misapprehension is expellled from
school, and then goes to sea. For a consid-
erable period afterward life is but one long
misapprehension for Dick Halpin his na-
ture, entirely run to strength, lacked the in-
sight and subtlety which a lesser man, or one
with education would have possessed, and this
it: connection with an odd twist given to cir-
cumstances by Providence complicated things
badly for Dick. Finally he is "shanghaied"
with his superior officer, whom he disliked
utterly another mistake and the two men
have an exciting but not altdgether pleasing
time. However it had the effect of broaden-
ing and sending Dick to fame and the girl he
loved, eventually. It is a strong story, strong-
ly written, possessing not a little of the
breadth, openness and force of the sea, and in
no part does jt weaken. In a word it has all
the fine vigor and healthfulness that a tale of
tie sea and manhood ought to have. (Double-
day, Page & Co. $1.50.) The Day's Work.

172 THE LITERARY NEWS. [June, 1901

Religion in Literature and Religion in Life. m ost vivid, though succinct, picture of the

THIS is a very thin book, only fifty-nine effect which the evolution theory had on poe-

pages, and two of these hardly filled. Small trv and reii & ion and then of the reaction

measure, one would think, and console him- which brou S ht forward the work of Rossetti

self that the price is small. But do not under- and Morris and Swinburne. He ends with a

value the little volume, for it is the best piece cry for a noble "ligion that will come

of bookmaking among the brochures of the thro g h the Brotherhood of Man when made

year. Despite its small size and price, it is a rell g lous b y bein g based, on the Fatherhood

book of perfect presswork (Merrymount of God The second lecture is the comple-

Press). It is a book of beautiful binding and ment of the first ' and shows what we must

withal it is a book worth reading. Of it is do to round out a P erfect life in goodness,

sa i,j : love and beauty. Both of the lectures are

Dr. Stopford Brooke whose "Primer of certainl y among the notable and most inspir-

Literature" has become a handbook for thou- in ^ utterances of the day. (Crowell. 60 c.)

sands of eager students, delivered in 1899 two Ba " tm r * Sun -
lectures in the three chief university cities of

Scotland; they attracted wide attention and The King's Deputy,
have been revised by the lecturer for publica- J N the great mass of roma ntic literature
tion in book form. He first defines what he that is being turned out it is really quite re-
means by "literature," showing that the sub- freshing to find a novel in which there is
ject should be noble, the matter weighty with nothing glaringly improbable and in which
thought and feeling, the manner graceful, the hero does not have hairbreadth adven-
temperate and beautiful, and the form so har- tures at every step. This story is that of a
moniously composed as to give the reader youn g Irish gentleman, Theobald Dillon by
pleasure. Imagination he calls the life of lit- n?me , from Galway, coming up to Dublin to
erature. This life, the force of which is al- take service under the viceroy. He has the
ways young, passing like a spirit into men, misfortune to fall in love with a fair revolu-
pleasing and kindling them, bearing witness tionist, which fact not only tends to place
to truth and beauty, continues age after age, him under the suspicion of both parties, but
like a living voice, inspiring and exalting, con- causes him to incur the enmity of a rascally
soling and blessing. He believes that at the cousin of his, whose affections have been set
head of literature stands poetry, and there- up on the same lady. He is sorely tried be-
fore, since the subject is almost infinitely tween his duty to the Royalist party and his
bread, he confines himself to the poetry of desire to shield his lady love, Beatrix Yelver-
the past eighty years. By religion he means ton, from the consequences of her participa-
that set of ideas or that one idea which a tion in the revolutionary plot. Through a
gieat writer, speaking as the mouthpiece of Ivcky chain of circumstances he is finally en-
thousands of men, puts forward as the high- a bled to thwart the diabolic designs of his
est aim of life, as the expression of that cousin, who has not only attempted to dis-
which he desires to worship in thought and grace and ruin him in the eyes of the viceroy,
with passion, to which he desires to conform but has even tried to take his life. When the
his own life, which he urges on others, and plot against the government is discovered and
for the promotion of which he and all who the conspirators arrested he obtains, through
think and feel with him bind themselves to- the good offices of the vicereine, whose friend-
gether into one body. He shows how this ship and gratitude he has won, a pardon for
bioad and all-embracing religion caused the lady of his choice, and is himself raised to
Burns to revolt from the "terrible religion of the rank of baronet. As may be seen from
Calvinism," how Wordsworth adopted the the foregoing, the material of which the story
ideas of liberty, ^quality and fraternity, how is composed is not of any extraordinary orig-
Byron stood for truth and honesty against inality, but its charm lies in the interesting
lies in society, state and church, how Shelley and convincing picture of political and social
revealed the masterhood of love, how Keats life in Ireland during the Duke of Rutland's
showed men the beauty of idealism, how regime, and in the successful use by the au-
Erowning and Tennyson preached the relig- thor of the quaint style of narrative, thor-
ion of love and the eternity of love, how Ar- oughly in keeping with the age to which the
nold and Clough and (in prose )Carlyle ex- story is supposed to belong. (McClurg.
amplified the religion of duty. He gives a $1.25.) Commercial Advertiser.

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A Thunder-Storm in Australia.

ABOUT four o'clock black thunder-clouds
massed themselves to the north and began an
onward march in force. In an hour's time
they had wholly overspread the sky, and then
the battle of the elements began. From east
to west a flash of lightning zig-zagged its way
and a distant peal of thunder sounded a deep
warning. Toland and Joe ran up to the cot-
tage to escape the deluge that seemed to be
at hand, and joined Ruth and Mabel on the
verandah. Nearer and nearer drew the ar-
tillery of the storm, while in the darkening
sky black clouds rolled over one another in
charging squadrons. Then a splash of rain
fell, and the drops were red like blood from
the dust overhead that had been whirled up
five hundred miles away. In a few seconds
it ceased and there was a dead silence. Then
right across the north darted a swift gleam
of flame, followed by a thunderclap that made
the little party shrink. Flash followed upon
flash, peal upon peal; the forked lightning
ran here and there, slashing the black pall
with sword-strokes of fire ; the skies resolved
themselves into one wild turmoil ; below, the
wind howled with increasing fury.

"Hurrah ! here it comes !" shouted Toland,
above the roar of the storm, as a torrent of
rain descended.

Ruth framed a silent prayer of thankfulness.
Mab and Joe rushed inside to fasten the
banging doors and windows.

For about ten minutes the rain pelted down
and then suddenly ceased, while at the same
time the wind dropped.

"Hang it !" said Toland, "I hope that's not
all we're going to have."

Explorations." Copyright, 1901, b
ALL OF A FLUTTER.

D. Appleton & Co.

"Our Bird Friends/'

BLACKBIRD "WETTING ITS WHISTLE" AFTER A SONG.

"Oh, it can't be," replied Ruth. "Why, look
at the sky!" Almost as she spoke a puff of
wind blew off her hat.

"The wind has changed,", he said as he
picked it up. "We were sheltered before. If
it goes round to the south it will be over."

Husband and wife anxiously watched the
progress of the storm. Every moment it
seemed as if a deluge must fall, and at the
same time they feared to see the clouds driven
back from the south, the quarter from which
rain never came. The wind for a while
veered towards all quarters, and at last it
seemed to make up its mind and blew steadily
from the south. It increased in fury till it
whistled and howled through the tree-tops
and round the cottage. The advance of the
rain-clouds from the north was checked, and
then turned into a rout. At first they were
driven^back in mass, but, when the fierceness
of the onslaught increased, they were dis-
persed in all directions and hurried from the
sky in thunder-growling
fragments. Blue sky ap-
peared here and there and
everywhere, and in an hour
not a rain-cloud was to be
seen. Then the south
wind, having done its work,
sank to a cool and pleas
ant breeze.

"By Jove! that's hard
luck," said Toland, in bit-
ter disappointment, as all
hope of rain and salvation
from loss disappeared.
Ruth felt inclined to cry
and took his arm affec-

tionately.

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[June, 1901

"It may rain before long, dear; one never
can tell."

"This sort of thing is the sure sign of a
big drought. It's all up with the crops now,"
replied Toland, gloomily. (Cassell & Co.
$1.25.) From "The Wisdom of Esau."

Last Confessions of Marie Bashkirtseff.

As it was through my instrumentality, says
Miss Gilder in the New York Journal, that
Marie Bashkirtseff was introduced to the
American public, it is not, perhaps, unnatural
that I should be asked to write a few words
of introduction to this volume of her "Con-
fessions."

There have been other women who have
written as intimately of themselves as Marie
Bashkirtseff, notably Sonya Kovalevsky, but
none whose journals have been read to the
same extent or who have made the same im-
pression. It is not only for her frankness
that Marie Bashkirtseff's name has become
a household word, but for the circumstances
that surrounded her life. In her short story
romance and pathos were equally blended.
The story of her precocity, her talents, her
early death, caught the public attention and
touched the public heart.

The first English edition of the journal of
this young artist was published in 1889. I
asked Mrs. Serrano to make the translation,
and, with some difficulty, induced Cassell &

Co. to publish it. The head of the American
house to whom I took the translator's manu-
script was very doubtful of the book's suc-
cess, but I was confident of it, and he yielded
to my persuasion.

When the sales ran up to a quarter of a
million copies within a few months there was
one prophet who was not without honor in
her own country. The newspapers, the re-
views, the magazines, all discussed the book
at length. No writer considered himself too
great a man to discuss this remarkable Rus-
sian girl. Gladstone took pages of the Nine-
teenth Century in which to praise the journal,
while writers in the Century Magazine and
the Atlantic hailed the journal as something
unique in literature.

In this new volume of Marie Bashkirtseff's
"Confessions" there is no falling off in in-
terest. The entries in this journal have all
of her characteristics.

Perhaps the most striking pages of this vol-
ume are those devoted to the letters that
passed between Marie and Guy de Maupas-
sant. She had never seen the novelist, nor
had he ever seen her. She only knew him by
is books ; a knowledge, one would think, that
scarcely invited the confidence of a young girl.

This young girl, however, was exceptional.
The very fact that Guy de Maupassant was
just what he was excited her interest, an in-
terest altogether intellectual. She wanted to
write to him and to receive his letters, just as
a naturalist wants to catch a new and strange
insect in his net. She felt a scientific kind of
interest in this new specimen. Her first let-
ter to him was short, but it must have piqued
his curiosity. "I only know," she wrote,
"that you are young and that you are unmar-
riedtwo essential points. But I warn you
that I am charming; this sweet thought will
encourage you to reply." Maupassant's reply
showed that he wanted to know more of his
fair correspondent. She will tell him nothing.
So he tries to "force her hand" by making
believe that he thinks her a man or a plain
old woman. She only humors the guess and
plays with him.

"You may," he writes, "be a young woman
of literary society, and hard and dry as a
mattress." Again, "Are you worldly or sen-
timental? or simply romantic? or again,
merely a woman who is bored and wants dis-
traction?" She only chaffs him in her reply.
What Maupassant says about himself is in-
teresting, and undoubtedly true:

"I take everything with indifference, and I
pass two-thirds of my tirn.e in profound bore-
dom. I occupy the third third in writing lines

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175

that I sell as dear as possible, distressing my-
self at being obliged to play this abominable
part which has given me the honor of being
distinguished morally by you."

All this must have been very entertaining to
Marie. But what is more, it gave her the ex-
citement which she craved, and without which
she was unhappy. Of course, she was abnor-
mal. Neither mind nor body was in a natural
condition. She could not have lived. You
ieel that with her first letters. Girls such as
she was never become old women. If she
had not written about herself and indited
epistles to people whom she had never seen
she would probably have been a victim to
morphine. Such a nature as hers was bound
to be the slave of habit. She had the pen
habit she had to write to relieve herself in
her journal, to strangers, it mattered little, so
that she could talk about herself, her appear-
ance, her emotions, love which she never felt,
anything so that she was in the glare of the
limelight.

Her death was pathetic, but her life was
pathos itself. (Stokes. $1.50.)

Life of the Bee.

ONE of the most curious of books that have
appeared in many months is "The Life of
the Bee," by Maurice Maeterlinck, issued re-
cently. From one point of view it is a nature
book a conscientious and intimate study of
bee life, showing not only diligent reading,
but close personal observation. It is all this,
but it is also a great deal more. Maeterlinck
is one of those rarely gifted minds who can-
not treat even of commonplace things without
striking out some new flash of light from
them; while with a subject like that of the
bee, with all the interest of its complex so-
cial life, the nnfathomed questions of what
these little creatures know and think and feel,
the delicate hair line of division between rea-
son and instinct, Maeterlinck has a theme
from which he has developed a sort of prose
poem full of dreamy yet subtle philosophy of
life and life's mysteries. The manner in
which he makes the bee a symbol and a les-
son is well illustrated in the following pas-
sage :

"The bees know not whether they will eat
the honey they harvest, as we know not who
it is shall reap the profit of the cerebral sub-
stance we shall have formed, or of the intelli-
gent fluid that issues therefrom and spreads
over the universe, perishing when our life
ceases or persisting after our death. As they
go from flower to flower collecting more
honey than themselves and their offsprings

can need, let us go from reality to reality
seeking food for the incomprehensible flame,
and thus, certain of having fulfilled our or-
ganic duty, preparing ourselves for whatever
may befall. ... A time will come when
all things will turn so naturally to good in a
spirit that has given itself to the loyal desire
of this simple human duty that the very sus-
picion of the possible aimlessness of its ex-
hausting effort will only render the duty
clearer, will only add more purity, power, dis-
interestedness and freedom to the ardor
wherewith it still seeks." (Dodd, Mead &
Co. $1.50.) Commercial Advertiser.

Home Thoughts.

THE publication of this volume was sug-
gested by the many requests that the essays
which (under the above title) have attracted
so much favorable notice in the New York
Evening Post, of whose Saturday supplement
they have been a leading feature, should be
reprinted in a form which might give them
permanence. The sympathetic chord which
they have struck has vibrated warmly because
of the simple sincerity with which they have
dealt with all the elemental conditions which
make for happiness in a true home. The in-
terdependent relations of husband and wife,
parent and child, and the broad field of do-
mestic government, give the chief themes.

They seem to have met a want, and to
have achieved a success of affection among
those who were anxious to raise the standard
of family life to its highest plane. They are
eminently the product of thinking and living.
Experience, not theory, is their basis. The
book is a distinct cry to pause and consider
what the threatened destruction of home-life
may mean to the nation. (A. S. Barnes &
Co. $1.50.)

THE SERENADE.
HIDE, happy damask, from the stars,

What sleep enfolds behind your veil,
But open to the iairy cars

On which the dreams of midnight sail;
And let the zephyrs rise and fall

About her in the curtained gloom,
And then return to tell me all

The silken secrets of the room.

Ah, dearest! may the elves that sway

Where they have dozed and dreamed all 'day

In hearts of blue forget-me-nots.
And one perhaps shall whisper thus;

Awake! and light the darkness, Sweet!
While thou art reveling with us,
He watches in the lonely street.
(B. F. Johnson Publishing Co. $1.50.)
From "The Poems of Henry Timrod."

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[June, 1901

Fraser(W. A.), Mooswa,

* eclettic iWontfjIi IStfaUfo of Current lUttratu
EDITED BY A. H. LEYPOLDT.

JUNE, 1901.

BOOKS FOR OUT-OF-DOORS.

"A BOOK of verses underneath the bough,"
was needed to make the earthly paradise of
the old Tentmaker. And for all those who
look forward to summer days near to Nature's
heart, books are a necessary vacation equip-
ment. Not "verses" especially, though there
is always a place for the cherished volume of
poetry or the beloved romance ; but books
for out-of-doors, that shall invest the common
living and growing things of grove and
meadow and sea beach with charm and inter-
est and that open to us the pages of Nature's
great Wonderbook. Books, too, that shall
aid us to make the best of the too-short days,
so full of strength and beauty for mind and
body, it we but know how to use them, and
equip iis for the exercise of those out-door
arts and crafts that are an unfailing novelty
and delight. There is a goodly array from
which to choose, so goodly, indeed, that
choice is difficult, and the gleanings in the
field, here presented, may aid in selection.
Let the books chosen fit the "personal equa-
tion" of their user, let them touch upon some
old hobby, or create some new one; but let
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che broad fields of nature knowledge and
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HURLL, ESTELLE MAY, ed. Titian: a collec-
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BIO

ALLEN, WALTER. Ulysses S. Grant. Hough-
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DREYFUS, ALFRED. Five years of ' my life,
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The story of Captain Dreyfus of the French
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Rennes, and after a second conviction, par-
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EVANS, ROBLEY D. A sailor's log: recollec-
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GUERBER, HELENE ADELINE. Empresses of
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MACLACHLAN, T. BANKS. David Livingstone.
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RAVENAL, Mrs. HARRIOTT HORRY RUTLEDGE.
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WILKINS, W. H. Love of an uncrowned
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BIGHAM, CLIVE. A year in China, 1899-1900.
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LAIRD & LEE'S vest-pocket time-saver: souve-
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Buffalo.

STADLING, JONAS. Through Siberia; ed. by
F. H. H. Guillemaed, M.D. Button, [im-
ported.] il. 8, $6.

SUBALTERN'S (A) letters to his wife. Long-
mans, Green & Co. 12, $1.25.
Letters from South Africa. They describe
the Boers and Boer life with special detail.
The chapters are entitled: Children of the
veldt ; Arcades ambo ; How Remington took
Brandfont ; Dumb colleagues ; Army reorgani-
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Ours and others; A buck-hunt; Farming;
The family party ; The towns ; Boot and sad-
dle.

TARR, RALPH STOCKMAN, and McMuRRY,
FRANK M. Tarr and McMurry's geogra-
phies. 3d bk., Europe and other continents;
with review of North America. Macmil-
lan. il. maps, 12, net, 75 c.

GROOS, KARL. The play of man; tr., with the

author's co-operation, by Eliz. L. Baldwin;

with a preface by J. Mark Baldwin. Ap-

pleton. 12, net, $1.50.

Prof. Groos's aim is to present the anthro-
pological aspects of the same subjects treated
of in his psychological investigation of ani-
mal play, published in 1896. Prof. _ Groos.
who agrees with the followers of Weismann,
develops the great importance of the child's
play as tending to strengthen his inheritance
in the acquisition of adaptations to his en-
vironment. The influence of play on char-
acter, and its relation to education, are sug-
gestively indicated. The playful manifesta-
tions affecting the child himself and those
affecting his relations to others have been
carefully classified, and the reader is led from
the simpler exercises of the sensory apparatus
through a variety of divisions to inner imita-
tions and social play. The biological, aesthetic,
ethical, and pedagogical standpoints receive
much attention from the investigator.

MACKEY, MARY STEWART and MARYETTE
GOODWIN. Pronunciation of 10,000 proper
names, giving famous geographical and bi-
ographical names, names for books, works
of art, characters in fiction, foreign titles,
etc. Dodd, Mead, & Co. 16, $i.

BURRELL, CAROLINE BENEDICT. Gala-day
luncheons: a little book of suggestions.
Dodd, Mead & Co. 12, net, $1.20.
Practical suggestions prepared for the young
housekeeper, who wishes to invite a few
friends to luncheon, and who cannot think of
anything in particular that she wishes to give
her guests, or how her table shall be decor-
ated. Beginning with Thanksgiving, menus
and table decorations are given for special
occasions of various kinds throughout the
year.

CANTON, W., ed. Children's sayings; ed.,
with a digression on small people. Dodd,
Mead & Co. 16, $i.

A collection of anecdotes based on chil-
dren's sayings; they are vouched for as true.

CHAMBERS, ALFRED B. The new century
standard letter-writer: business, family
, .and social correspondence, love-letters, eti-
cpiette, synonyms, legal forms, etc. Laird
-& Lee. col. il. 12, 75 c. ; bds., 50 c.
' intents: l, How to properly construct a
letter; 2, Business correspondence in all its
branches; 3, Family missives for every oc-
casion (57 models) ; 4, Bright, sensible, dig-
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and courteous social notes, condolence, con-
gratulations, acceptances, regrets, etc. (118
models) ; 6, How to address the President,
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invitations, and when to use them; 8, Stan-
dard rules of etiquette; 9, Legal forms in
frequent request ; 10, Leading synonyms, rules
of punctuation, use of capitals, etc.; 11, Pos-
tal regulations at home and abroad.

ALDEN, Mrs. ISABELLA MACDONALD, ["Pansy,"
pseud.] Pauline. Lothrop Pub. Co. 12,
$1.50.

The story is woven around a series of com-
plications which, arising in misinformation or
rather in insufficient information, lead to the
flight of a high-spirited young wife from her
husband, and to all the distress and difficul-
ties of baffled search, struggle with experi-
ence, and the sad regrets and self-accusations
of sundered lives.

ANTHONY, GERALDINE. A victim of circum-
stances: a novel. Harper. 12, (Harper's
Am. novel ser., no. 4.) $1.50.
A novel of New York society.

BABCOCK, W. H. The Tower of Wye: a ro-
mance; il. by G. Gibbs. H. T. Coates &
Co. 12, $1.50.

A story of early Maryland Colonial life.
Richard Smith and Ratcliffe Warren are sent
out from London by the firm of Cloberry &
Company to Secretary Claiborne's new colony
on Kent Island, in Chesapeake Bay, meeting
with many adventures.

BAKER, Mrs. L. A., ["Alien," pseud.] An-
other woman's territory. T. Y. Crowell &
Co. 12, $1.50.

Whether it is any worse to take the goods
of others, than to take the ideas of another,
is the subject of this novel. A man of talent
but not of genius is given a manuscript to
read, by another man, whom the conviction
of crime has made dead to the world. The
first man publishes the book as his own; it
brings him fame and money. Two women
are concerned in the story, which is chiefly a
character study. Scene laid in Australia,

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BOARDMAN, W. H. The lovers of the woods.

McClure, Phillips & Co. il. 12, $1.50.

Sketches of life in the Adirondacks; filled
with glimpses of nature and the common
sense talk of the philosophic guides.
BOOTHBY, Guv. The mystery of the clasped

hands: a novel. Appleton. 12, (Apple-
ton's town and country lib., no. 298.) $i ;

pap., 50 c.

Two artists are the leading characters a
beautiful Italian girl, who earns her living
as a model, one of the heroines. A brutal
murder, and the tracing it home to the mur-
derer, the chief incident. A clever detective
follows the slight clue of a half fumed cigar-
ette from London through the continent and
back to England, saving the life of an inno-
cent man.
BURNHAM, CLARA LOUISE. Miss Pritchard's

wedding trip: a novel. Houghton, Mif-

flin & Co. 12, $1.50.

The heroine is a New England spinster
disappointed in an early love and requited in
an original fashion. The man she loves dies
and intrusts to her his daughter, who so much
resembles her father that the European trip
on which Miss Pritchard accompanies the girl
assumes for her the semblance of the wed-
ding journey she had long since planned to
take with the girl's father. It is a pleasant
fancy happily carried out.
COLTON, ARTHUR. The delectable mountains.

Scribner. 12, bds., $1.50.

A series of tales of the Connecticut hills.
Contents: The place of abandoned gods; The
leather hermit; Black pond clearing; Joppa;
The elder's seat; The romance of the insti-
tute ; Nausicaa ; Sanderson of Black Mead-
ows ; Two roads that meet in Salem ; A visi-
ble judgment; The emigrant east; Tobin's
monument.
COTES, Mrs. SARA JEANNETTE DUNCAN. The

crow's-nest. Dodd, Mead & Co. 12, $1.25.

A story of a summer spent in India. The
locality is a mountain top of the Himalayas,
known as Simla, the summer headquarters of
the government of India.

CROLY, G. Tarry thou till I come; or, Sala-
thiel, the wandering Jew ; introductory let-
ter by Lew Wallace ; il. by T. de Thulstrup.
Thulstrup il. ed. Funk & Wagnalls Co.
12, net, $1.40.

This story was first published in 1827, and
was issued at different times under different
titles, as "Salathiel, a story of the past, the
present, and the future" and "Salathiel, the
immortal, or, the wandering Jew." The novel
covers the time from the crucifixion to the
triumph of Titus over Jerusalem with his
Roman army, thirty-seven years later.

CROWLEY, MARY CATHERINE. A daughter of
new France ; with some account of the gal-
lant Sieur Cadillac and his colony on the
Detroit; il. by Clyde O. De Land. Little,
Brown & Co. 12, $i.eo.
A portion of the novel has Quebec In the
time of Count Frontenac for its scene, but
the greater part of it deals with the early days
of the French settlement of Detroit. The so-
ciety of the city of Champlain at the end of

the seventeenth and the beginning of the
eighteenth centuries is sketched, while the
brilliant Gascon chevalier who laid the found-
ations of our American city of Detroit, with
his company of sturdy voyageurs, coureurs
de bois, sons of proud seigneurs, and the
women who loved them and shared their for-
tunes, is graphically pictured.

DODD, Mrs. ANNA BOWMAN. The American

husband in Paris. Little, Brown & Co. il.

12, $i.

An amusing story in dialogue by the author
of "Three Normandy inns." The subject is
the first visit to Paris of a New York business
man.
EGGLESTON, G. CARY. Camp Venture : a story

of the Virginia mountains; il. by W. A.

McCullough. Lothrop Pub. Co. 12, $1.50.

A party of boys, wood-chopping in the
"high mountains" of southwestern Virginia,
have exciting experiences with moonshiners,
natives, revenue officers, and others.

FOWLER, ELLEN THORNEYCROFT. Sirius : a vol-
ume of fiction. Uniform ed. Appleton.
12, $1.50.

Twenty-one stories of English life entitled:
Sirius ; The shepherd guide ; Diavola ; An ar-
tistic Nemesis ; The history of Delia ; A min-
iature Moloch; The ring of Elyn; Madame;
Miss Latimer's lover ; The witch's spell ; The
story of Marina; Her heart's desire; Poor
Lady Leigh ; Lady Marion's curse ; Frank
Wekeney's bill, etc.

GIBBS, G. In search of mademoiselle. H. T.

Coates & Co. il. 12, $1.50.

A novel founded on the struggle between
the French and Spanish for possession of
Florida; Laudonniere, Ribault, and Menendez
figure with other real characters in a story
which tells also of an Englishman's love for
Diane de la Notte, a Huguenot of noble fam-
ily who was an exile.

GOODWIN, Mrs. MAUD WILDER. Sir Christo-
pher: a romance of Maryland Manor in
1644; il. by Howard Pyle and other artists.
Little, Brown & Co. 12, $1.50.
The events occur in Maryland and Virginia.
Several of the characters of "The head of a
hundred" reappear in the story. There is a
strong historical background giving a faithful
and vivid picture of the Colonial days at a
period when Catholics and Puritans were bit-
ter foes in the New World as well as in the
Old.

GUNTER, ARCHIBALD CLAVERING. Mr. Barnes
of New York. Home Publishing Co. 12,
pap., 25 c.

HAINS, THORNTON JENKINS. The cruise of
the Petrel: a story of 1812. McClure, Phil-
lips & Co. 12, $1.25.
The Petrel was a privateer of 1812; the

story relates to the experience of a lad who

shipped on her and sailed around Cape Horn

and in the southern Pacific.

HARTE, FRANCIS BRET. Under the redwoods.

Houghton, Mifflin & Co. 12, $1.25.

A collection of the author's most recent
short stories. Contents: Jimmy's big brother
from California; The youngest Miss Piper;
A widow of the Santa Ana Valley ; The mer-

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maid of Lighthouse Point ; Under the eaves ;
How Reuben Allen "saw life" in San Fran-
cisco ; Three vagabonds of Trinidad ; A vision
of the fountain; A romance of the line; Bo-
hemian days in San Francisco.
HINKSON, Mrs. KATHARINE TYNAN, [Mrs. H.
A. Hinkson.] Three fair maids; or, the
Burkes of Derrympre; il. by G. D. Ham-
mond. Scribner, [imoorted.] 8, $1.50.
HYNE, C. J. CUTCLIFFE WRIGHT. Prince Ru-
pert the buccaneer; his adventures set to
paper by Mary Laughan, a maid who,
through affection, followed him to the West
Indies and the Spanish Main, acting as his
secretary, he deeming her a male, though
timid; which account is now put into more
modern English. F. A. Stokes Co. il. 12,
$1.50.

JONES, DORA M. A soldier of the King: be-
ing some passages in the life of Mr. John
Gifford. Cassell. 12, $1.25.
The sub-title reads "Sometime major in the
service of His Majesty King Charles i., and
afterwards minister of a congregation of
Christ's people at Bedford," John Gifford, the
subject of this novel, is portrayed in the "Pil-
grim's Progress" as "Evangelist." This is
the first time he appears as the hero of a
novel. He was a wild cavalier before he be-
came a preacher, the adventures of his earlier,
unregenerate days forming the subject of "A
soldier of the king." The scene is laid chiefly
in Maidstone, in the seventeenth century.

KEATS, GWENDOLINE, ["Zack," pseud.] The
white cottage. Scribner. 12, $1.50.
By the author of "On trial." The charac-
ters of this realistic story of love are the peo-
ple of a rugged seashore country.

KINROSS, ALBERT. Philbrick Howell : a novel.

F. A. Stokes Co. 12, $1.50.

A novel of English society life; the hero is
an author and is strongly influenced by two
women he loves. By the author of "An opera
and Lady Grasmere."
LE QUEUX, W. Her majesty's minister.

Dodd, Mead & Co. 12, $1.50.

The novel opens in the Embassy of the
British Legation at Paris, where the dastardly
betrayal of a state secret, supposedly known
only to the British Ambassador and one of
his secretaries, has placed the English diplo-
matists in a most unenviable position. Lord
Barmouth declares the trickery to be the
work of a certain woman, and the complica-
tions which thereupon ensue are full of in-
terest.
MCELROY, LUCY CLEAVER. Juletty : a story of

old Kentucky. T. Y. Crowell & Co. il.

12, $1.50.

Has its scene in what is called the "Penny-
rile" district of Kentucky. It is a magical
region, full of caves and ponds, and the peo-
ple are genuine sons of the soil. "Juletty" is
a beautiful girl who has managed to achieve
an education considerably above those of her
own class.
MARNAN, BASIL. A daughter of the veldt. H.

Holt & Co. 12, $1.50.

The story opens in Cape Colony, South
Africa, in 1874. In this yeir, made noted by

a Basuto massacre, occurs the incident which
influences the whole narrative. Twenty years
are passed over after this, the story being
taken up in 1894. The aim is to illustrate
Boer social life. This is done through an ex-
tremely ignorant family sunk in the very
depths of immorality. One young girl,
brought into the family by accident, is the
one redeeming feature of their story.
MULHOLLAND, ROSA, [Lady Gilbert.] Cyn-
thia's bonnet shop. Scribner, [imported.]
8, $1.50.

OUTHWAITE, R. L., and CHOMLEY, C. H. The
wisdom of Esau. Cassell. 12, $1.25.
The hero is John Toland, a resolute but
honorable man, who goes to settle in the re-
mote parts of Victoria, and comes into sharp
conflict with corrupt officials evading the land
law. Besides these are love episodes, a ter-
rible bush fire and vivid descriptions of Aus-
tralian life and scenery.

OXENHAM, J. Our Lady of deliverance. H.
Holt & Co. 12, $1.50.
The novel, which is dedicated to Captain
Alfred Dreyfus, tells a story similar to his.
The hero is a French officer, who has been
tried for treason. His deliverer is his beau-
tiful sister, who is aided by a rich Scotchman
who falls in love with her portrait at the
Salon and then seeks her acquaintance.
PETERSON, MAUD HOWARD. The potter and
the clay: a romance of to-day; il. by Char-
lotte Harding. Lothrop Pub. Co. il. 12,

A young American girl from a frontier fort
finds herself in England with the two British
lads whom she had known in childhood, now
grown to manhood, as officers in the British
army and suitors for her hand. The con-
trasting natures of these two men, the char-
acteristics and motives of the girl, are re-
markably drawn; and the way in which love
acts and reacts makes the story, indeed, as it
has been called, a romance of conscience.

PHF.LPS, ELIZ. STUART, [now Mrs. Herbert D.

Ward.] The successors of Mary the first.

Houghton, Mifflin & Co. il. 12, $1.50.

An amusing satire on the servant problem.
The experience of a family with a number
of servants of various nationalities, degrees
of illiteracy, and shades of incompetence. The
resulting perplexities and tribulations of the
mistress, her wrestlings with the intelligence
offices (which she found to be densely unin-
telligent) and the various societies for im-
proving servants and protecting mistresses,
call out some of the author's most delicious
satire and cleverest irony.
PHILLPOTTS, EDEN. The good red earth.

Doubleday, Page & Co. 12, $1.50.

The scene of this novel is the west of Eng-
land. "Sibella," in whom the love interest
of the tale centres, is a charmingly 'natural
figure, but the main-spring of the book is
"Alpheus Newt," the unctuous ex-pedlar, lay-
preacher, and hypocrite, with his Pecksniffian
virtue and his irresistible flow of words.
PROWSE, R. ORTON. Voysey. Macmillan.

12, $1.50.

Voysey is the son of a celebrated London

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physician who died leaving Voysey and his
sister, a student at Cambridge, very well pro-
vided for. Rich, educated, clever, humorous,
and experienced. Voysey yields to the spell
of a most commonplace married woman. The
story is a very serious psychological study of
two essentially different natures most unac-
countably attracted. At the close, the woman
is free but the question remains unsolved.

ROBERTSON, MORGAN. Masters of men: a ro-
mance of the new navy. Doubleday, Page
& Co. 12, $1.50.

The story of Richard Halpin, able seaman,
his superior officer, Lieutenant Breen, and the
tangled skein of their love affairs. The storv
offers a true picture of an American seaman's
life to-day.

STANNARD, Mrs. HENRIETTA ELIZA VAUGHAN,
["John Strange Winter," pseud.] The ca-
reer of a beauty : a novel. Lippincott. 12,
$1.25.
A love story, with an English setting.

SWEVEN, GODFREY. Riallaro, the archipelago
of exiles. Putnam. 12, $1.50.

VENABLE, W. H. A dream of empire; or,
the House of Blennerhassett. Dodd, Mead
& Co. 12, $1.50.

The story opens in the island home of the
Blennerhassetts in the spring of 1805. The
scene then shifts to Pittsburg, and the reader
follows Aaron Burr on his trip down the
Ohio River, in the course of which he seeks
out Herman Blennerhassett, and by appealing
to his self-love and ambition enlists him in
his political enterprise of founding an empire
in the southwest, which was to include Mexico
and part of the United States. The sad re-
sults of this scheme to all involved in it,
with a love-story, complete the story.

WHITE, STEWART E. The claim jumpers: a
romance. Appleton. 12, (Appleton's
town and country lib., no. 297.) $i ; pap.,
50 c.

WIGGIN, Mrs. KATE DOUGLAS, [now Mrs. G.
Christopher Riggs.] Penelope's Irish ex-
periences. Houghton, Mifflin & Co. 16,
$1.25.

The experiences in Ireland of Penelope,
Francesca, and Salemina the same fun-lov-
ing trio of unconventional travellers who
made such amusing excursions through Eng-
land and Scotland. The three friends visit
picturesque localities and out-of-the-way
places, every turn of the road making its
contribution to their joyous progress.
WYATT, EDITH. Every one his own way.
McClure, Phillips & Co. 12, $1.50.
Short stories of plain people entitled : Two
citizens ; Limitations ; A failure ; Still waters ;
The chatter-box ; The fox and the stork ; Jack
Sprat ; A matter of taste ; A compulsory hero ;
The parent's assistant; The joy of life; Beau-
ty and the beast; Trade winds; The peacock's
tail ; A question of service ; Many men of
many minds; Queen for a day; A paradox,
etc.

HISTORY.

HALSEY, FRANCIS WHITING. The Old New
York frontier : its wars with Indians and

Tories, its missionary schools, pioneers,
and land titles, 1614-1800. Scribner. il.
maps, pors. 8, net, $2.50.
This history is divided into eight parts : I,
Indians and fur traders ; 2, Missionaries and
the French war, 1650-1769; 3, Land titles and
pioneers, 1679-1774; 4, The border wars be-
gun, 1776-1777; 5, Overthrow of the frontier,
1777-1778; 6, The Sullivan expedition, 1779;
7, Last years of the war, 1780-1783; 8, The
restoration of the frontier, 1782-1800. Bib-
liography (10 p.).

HUME, MARTIN ANDREW SHARP. The Span-
ish people: their origin, growth, and influ-
ence; with index and bibliography. Ap-
pleton. 12, (Great peoples sen, no. i; ed.
by Yorke Powell.) $1.50.
The aim of this new series is to give in a
succession of volumes a view of the process
by which the leading peoples of the world
have become great and earned their title to
greatness ; to describe the share each has con-
tributed to the common stock of what, for a
better term, we call civilization. In tracing
the evolution of a highly composite people
from its various racial units, the author points
out that Spain was the battle ground upon
which was decided the form into which mod-
ern civilization should be moulded whether
Aryan or Semite, Christian or Moslem. The
country became the preserver and transmitter
of many survivals of vanished ancient sys-
tems, and the culture of Spain was, in a sense,
an epitome of various rival systems which in
historic times have divided the world.
PASTON, G. Little memoirs of the eighteenth
century. Dutton, [imported.] il. 8, $4.

ETC.

DENNIS, J. Realms of gold : a student's book
of English literature. M. F. Mansfield &
Co. 16, $1.25.

The author says that his definite purpose
has been "to create in youthful readers a love
of good literature; with this aim in view he
discusses in a series of talks : The use of a
library; Our poetical literature (1340-1400) ;
Literary characteristics of the eighteenth cen-
tury; The uses of poetry; Sir Walter Scott
and his claim on youthful readers; Alfred
Tennyson as a poet ; The novelist as a genius,
and many other questions of literary interest.
FLETCHER, W. I., and BOWKER, R. ROGERS.
The annual literary index, 1900; including
periodicals, American and English; essays,
book chapters, etc. ; with author-index, bib-
liographies, necrology, and index to dates
of principal events; ed., with the co-opera-
tion of members of the American Library
Association, and of The Library Journal
staff. Office of The Publishers' Weekly.
4, net, $3.50.

PHELPS, E. J. Orations and essays of Ed-
ward John Phelps, diplomat and states-
man; ed. by J. G. McCullough, with a me-
moir by J. W. Stewart. Harper, por. 8,
net, $3.50.

The subjects of the orations and addresses
are : The Bennington Centennial ; Chief Jus-
tice Marshall; United States Supreme Court
and the sovereignty of the people; Law as

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a profession; The relation of law to justice;
Law of the land ; International relations ;
Farewell to England; Samuel Prentiss; Isaac
F. Redfield; The Monroe doctrine; Equitable
estoppel. The essays relate to: The Consti-
tution of the United States; The choice of
presidential electors; Bryce's American com-
monwealth ; The Behring Sea controversy ;
The age of words. Mr. Phelps was United
States Minister to Great Britain.

MENTAL AND MORAL PHILOSOPHY.

SMITH, G. H. Logic; or, the analytic of ex-
plicit reasoning. Putnam. 12, net, $1.25.

TAYLOR, ALFRED E. The problem of conduct :
a study in the phenomenology of ethics.
Macmillan. 8, net, $3.25.

NATURE AND SCIENCE.

ALLEN, GRANT. In nature's workshop; il. by
F. Enock. M. F. Mansfield & Co. 12,
net, $1.50.

Essays upon animated nature under the
titles : Sextons and scavengers ; False pre-
tenses ; Plants that go to sleep ; Masquerades
and disguises ; Some strange nurseries ; Ani-
mal and vegetable hedgehogs; The day of
the canker-worm; Armour-plated animals.

ARNOLD, AUGUSTA FOOTE. The sea-beach at
ebb-tide: a guide to the study of the sea-
weeds and the lower animal life found be-
tween tide-marks. Century Co. 8, net,
$2.40.

A guide for the amateur collector and stu-
dent of the organisms, both animal and veg-
etable, which are found upon North American
beaches. Many invertebrates and some of the
more notable varieties of seaweeds are de-
scribed, and each individual is given its prop-
er place in the latest classification. The book
is not technical and yet is scientific enough
to furnish a good foundation for wider tech-
nical knowledge. The author gives careful
directions with regard to collecting telling
what to look for and where to find it, what
methods and tools to use in securing speci-
mens, and how to preserve them.

CHAPMAN, FRANK MICHLER. Bird-life: a
guide to the study of our common birds.
Popular ed. in colors. Appleton. col. il.
8, net, $2.

COMSTOCK, G. GARY. A text-book of astron-
omy. Appleton. il. 12, (Twentieth cen-
tury text-books; ed. by A. F. Nightingale.)
$1-30.

". . . Not a compendium of astronomy or
an outline course of popular reading in that
science. It has been prepared as a text-book,
and the author has purposely omitted from it
much matter interesting as well as important
to a complete view of the science, and has
endeavored to concentrate attention upon
those parts of the subject that possess special
educational value." Preface. Bibliography of
popular literature upon astronomy (i p.).

MAYO, MARG. Our fate and the zodiac: an
astrological autograph book. Brentano's.
12, $1.25.

The writer has collected an astonishing
amount of detail regarding the characteristics,
tastes, and tendencies of those born under the

different signs, together with many interest-
ing comparisons and citations of famous
names whose destinies were so controlled.
Blank spaces at the end of each division on
which autographs may be collected.
MAETERLINCK, MAURICE. The life of the bee ;
tr. by Alfred Sutro. Dodd, Mead & Co.
12, net, $1.40.

Deals with the life of the bee, treated in
Maeterlinck's own peculiar vein. The book
is by no means technical ; passages of the
highest lyrical beauty abound, . while reflec-
tions, analogies and poetical digressions are
not wanting.

TORREY, BRADFORD. Every day birds ; element-
ary studies ; 12 il. in color after Audubpn
and 2 from photographs. Houghton, Mif-
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Brief biographies of familiar birds shrieks
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TREES I have seen. Dodd, Mead & Co. 16,
50 c.

POETRY AND DRAMA.

MEREDITH, G. A reading of life, with other

poems. Scribner. 12, $1.50.

With a number of short poems are frag-
ments of the Iliad in English hexameter
verse.
MOODY. W. VAUGHN. Poems. Houghton,

Mifflin & Co. 12, $1.25.

Several poems of this collection, including
"An ode in time of hesitation." "The brute,"
and "On a soldier fallen in the Philippines,"
have appeared in the Atlantic Monthly;
"Gloucester moors" and "Faded pictures" in
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under a different title in the Chap-Book.

POLITICAL AND SOCIAL.

BIGELOW, POULTNEY. The children of the na-
tions : a study of colonization and its prob-
lems. McChire, Phillips & Co. 8, net, $2.
"This brief work is an attempt to explain
the influence which the mother country ex-
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exert upon the mother country for good or
evil. It is largely the result of personal ob-
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HOBSON, J. A. The social problem: life and
work. Ja. Pott & Co. 8, net, $2.
"Designed to be an informal introduction
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who are interested in work of social reform,
and wish to reach satisfactory intelligible
principles for their guidance in such work."
HOLT, H. Talks on civics. Macmillan. 12,

net, $1.25.

ROBINSON, C. MULFORD. Improvement of
towns and cities: or, the practical basis of
civic aesthetics. Putnam. 12", net $1.25.
Not only discusses the subjects of improve-
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future effort by showing the progress attain-
able because somewhere attained.
SCHWINN, E., and STEVENSON, W. W. Civil
government; describing the various forms
of government, local, state and national,
and discussing the government of the
United States from an historical stand-
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freshest News.

LEE'S American automobile annual for 1901 :
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16, leath., $i.

History of the automobile; of the internal
combustion system; steam power vehicles;
electric storage battery and other forms of
motive power ; compressed air ; liquid air.
TRAVIS, WALTER J. Practical golf; il. from
photographs. Harper, por. 8, net, $2.
Mr. Travis is not only a player, but a stu-
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ciples for himself, and has set them down in
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the various strokes are taken up and analyzed,
the text being supplemented by a series of in-
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WELLS, H. PARKHURST. Fly-rods and fly-
tackle: suggestions as to their manufacture
and use. Rev. enl. ed. Harper, il. 12",
net, $1.75.

BOARDMAN, G. DANA, D.D. The church

(ecclesia). Scribner. 8, $1.50.

A complemental volume to the author's
"The kingdom." A collection of essays on ,
the church as a primitive society, as a modern
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scriptures cited and index of authors quoted.

Books for tl)c Doting.

ALDEN, Mrs. ISABELLA MACDONALD, ["Pansy,"
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Mag Jessup is the small ''hired girl" in Mrs.
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changed.

BROOKS, ELBRIDGE STREETER. Under the allied
flags : a boy's adventures in the internation-
al war against the Boxers and China; il. by
W. F. Stecher. Lothrop Pub. Co. 12,
$1.25.

Ned Pevear, with whom readers of "With
Lawton and Roberts" are familiar, is the hero
of this latest volume of the Young defender
series. It is a story of modern adventure in
China at the time of the Boxers' uprising;
the hero precedes or follows the allied flags
of the international forces as they fight their
way from Taku and Tien-Tsin to Pekin.

THE BOWEN-MERRILL COMPANY have added
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in Harold MacGrath's "The Puppet Crown,'
the book "that takes all one's adjectives to
tell about."

THE MUTUAL BOOK COMPANY, Boston, have
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MACMILLAN Co. are fortunate in the recep-
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the first edition of "The Crisis" was made
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orders will consume the entire stock.

HENRY T. COATES & Co. have a very suc-
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HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN & Co. have printed the
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Irish Experiences." Bradford Torrey's
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FREDERICK A. STOKES COMPANY have just
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G. W. DILLINGI-IAM COMPANY announce for
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tertaining romance of the days of Beau Brum-
mel, by Louis Evans Shipman ; and a remark-
able historical study of the struggle for Cath-
olic supremacy in the last years of Queen
Elizabeth, by Martin A. S. Hume, who has
given to this work the striking title "Treason
and Plot."

CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS have published an
epoch-making book in Henry Savage Lan-
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two octavo volumes, with a total of 136 chap-
ters and 8/b pages. There are nearly 300
illustrations, selected to assist, rather than
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Chinese prints, reproduced in the full color-
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things, a variety of tortures which the Boxers
were preparing for captured foreigners. The
cover design, drawn by Mr. Landor, is strik-
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gives a comprehensive view of one of the
most complex political situations of modern
times.

HARPER & BROTHERS have just published
"Days Like These," by Edward W. Town-
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York life, centering upon the inheritance of a
fortune by a poor young girl and her launch-
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CASSELL & Co., Ltd., announce that the sec-
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No. 7.

From Landor's "China and the Allies." Copyright, 1901, by Charles Scribner's Sons.

JAPANESE ARTILLERY SHELLING THE EAST GATE OF PEKIN (ONE GUN BEING FIRED).

China and

THE grandson of Walter Savage Landor
has already shown the ability of the stock
from which he springs. As the most inde-
fatigable of travellers, he has paid with his
own person the penalties of his adventurous
spirit. If he did not reach Lhasa it is not
because he was afraid to face the danger.
Maimed, tortured and crippled, it was almo.it
by a miracle that he was not killed. In "China
and the Allies" Mr. Landor presents a thor-
ough review of the recent military operations
in China, and gives an account of the events
preceding them. Present at the capture of
Tien-Tsin, Mr. Landor was the first Euro-
pean not bearing arms who entered the For-
bidden X^ity. With his wonderful linguistic
capabilities he was enabled to obtain informa-
tion at first hand. The author gives a com-
prehensive idea of the origin of the troubles.
He shows the true nature uf the Boxer move-
ment, and gives precise translations of the
Boxer circulars and posters. The movements
of the allies are carefully followed, and their
acts are criticised. Looting is discussed, and
the love of greed is descanted. Sometimes
Mr. Landor does not mince his words, and

the Allies.

when he thinks that there is fault to be found
he does not hesitate to write about it. The
victim of the rage of Buddhism, Mr. Landor
tells how the priests fan the people into fury.
The much-vexed question of missionary in-
fluence for good or evil is argued. The au-
thor believes that, contrarv to the recently ex-
pressed opinion, the Americans, whether as
missionaries or soldiers or traders, are a*
much hated by the Chinese as are those of
European origin. Absorbed as was the gen-
eral public with the Pekin troubles, it does-
not know of the defence made by Bishop
Fabier, of the Pao-tang Cathedral. "China
and the Allies" is to be deemed as both com-
prehensive and authoritative. In an illustra-
tive sense the work done is thorough. An
artist himself, Mr. Landor has selected his
photographic views, and there are many orig-
inal drawings by the author. Sad and dis-
tressing are some full-page Chinese prints,
reproduced from the originals, showing th'i
various forms of torture devised by the
Chinese for the punishment of foreigners.
(Scribner. 2 v., $7.50.) Saturday Timts
Review.

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A Subaltern's Letters to His Wife.

IN the fast-growing literature of the South
African war, "A Subaltern's Letters to His
Wife" deserves to take a very high place.
Vivid and picturesque, it comes with a cer-
tain freshness upon a jaded public. It is not
sentimental ; it does not profess to give us
the full story of the war, nor does it even go
ii'to military operations with any great detail.
It is rather a collection of short and very
striking essays upon such points as the nature
of the Boer, the appearance of his country,
army reorganization, the British soldier, and
the work of the Colonials. Its writer, from
internal evidence, clearly served in Riming-
ton's Guides, and is an Etonian. Yet he has
managed to shed most of the ordinary Brit-
ish prejudices. He gives us the views of an
educated, unbiassed Englishman, and what he
hac- to say deserves study, not only because
of its great intrinsic interest, but also be-
cause of its bearing upon the vast problem of
aimy reform. Of our army he is an unspar-
ing, perhaps sometimes a too severe critic.
"Under our present system of training,'' he
writes, "regular troops are made inferior to
irregulars."

On the most interesting problem of war,
i\v. psychological effect of danger upon the
individual, the ^'subaltern" has much that is
of deep interest to say. His view is not the
ordinary view. The more knowledge men
gun of war the less they like it. "Two or
three men who had been wounded were unan-
imous in declaring that the first real demand
oi! their courage was made on going into ac-

tion for the first time after their wound, but
this feeling soon passed off. The burnt child
dreads the fire, but the child who has never
been burnt displays extraordinary courage in
its treatment of kettles and fireirons." The
popular pictures of men panting for the fray
apply only to recruits and new levies. The
rnan who knows what battle is does not pant
for it. No one should miss this book. The
"subaltern" is enthusiastic for his irregulars,
and has high praise for the C. I. V. and vol-
unteers. His scorn and bitterness are re-
served, and rightly reserved, for the Little
England politicians at home. (Longmans,
Green & Co. $1.25.) Books of To-day and
To-morrow.

War's Brighter Side.

AT Bloemfontein, on the I5th of March
last year, Julian Ralph and three other for-
eign correspondents were invited to a private
interview with Lord Stanley, the British cen-
sor of the press. "Gentlemen," said Lord
Stanley, after the door had been closed and
locked, "Lord Roberts wants to have a dailj
newspaper published for the entertainment and
information of the army while we are here
You four men are asked to undertake the
work. Will you do it?" Such a question, so
asked, could have, of course, but one answer;
the four correspondents united in the.rnswer.
and the newspaper called The Friend was the
result. As one of its editors, Mr. Julian
Ralph, well known to American readers of
the Harper publications, gives an account of
it in this volume, the best part of the account

From Lander's " Oilni and the Allies." Copyright, 1901, by Charles Scribner'. Son*.

PHOTOGRAPH TAKEN BY THE AUTHOR WHILE RIDING BESIDE RUSSIAN GENERAL REVIEWING
ALLIED TROOPS.

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JULIAN

being the bulk of the book which is matter
extracted from the columns of the papei itself.
Practically the whole best part of the paper
is thus laid before the reader in these 470
pages, including contributions from Mr. Kip-
ling, Dr. A. Conan Doyle, and others, with
facsimiles of their manuscripts and corrected
proofs, and one reduced facsimile of a whole
page of the paper itself, and with a few illus-
trations and other features which impart his-
toric life-likeness to the work. Nothing could
so admit the reader to an inside view of wa~
experiences in South. Africa as a publication
like The Friend. Its pages were full of the
daily life of camp and field and hospital, and
it is like a visit to the headquarters of the
staff, to the trenches, and to the bedside of
the wounded and dying, to turn the pages of
this reprint. If war has a "brighter side" it
shows itself certainly in the pleasantries, th-=;
generosities, the civilities, the passing smuse-
ments and recreations, the exhibitions of
courage, unselfishness, and sacrifice, and of
the humanities in general, which find their
chronicle in this form. (Appleton. $1.50.)
Boston Literary World.

RALPH.

With the Wild Flowers.

"WITH THE WILD FLOWERS FROM THE PUSSY
WILLOW TO THE THISTLEDOWN" is exactly what
its author wishes it to be a charming "rur.l
chronicle of our floral friends and foes, de-
scribing them under their familiar English
names." The volume in hand is a revision
of the first edition of Maud Going's work,
issued seven years ago. She has brought her
studies down to date in the matter of plant
discoveries,' has added some new facts and in -
creased the usefulness of the profuse line en-
gravings by the insertion of several beautiful '
half-tones. The author has preserved, as far '
as possible, the story style of treating her sub-
ject, passing the technical manner along with
the technical names. A bit of a quotation
from the chapter "Unbidden Guests" conveys
an idea of Miss Going's way of telling her
stories :

"A series of receptions, or rather one con-
tinuous reception, is held in my flower gar-
den all summer long. The flowers are the
hostesses, and they have put on glorious ap-
parel in honor of their guests. They send
out perfumes as cards of invitation, and these

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[July, 1901

are carried hither and thither by the breezes.
When the guests arrive they are entertained
with a feast of nectar. The invited guests are
moths, butterflies, humming birds, beetles,
wasps, and, chief, though last, the busy bees.
A few flies are also favored with invitations.
The hospitalities of the flowers are only too
highly appreciated, and they are sponged upon
by a host of undesired guests. Ants, and in-
deed all crawlers, are neither wanted nor wel-
comed. It seems that poor people who have
to walk are regarded with some contumely,
even in the vegetable woiid.''

Whether he be a youth studying the flowers
or a book lover sated with humanity and
turning back to nature comfortably in his li-
brary easy chair the reader of this book 's
pretty sure to be pleased with its quaint hu-
mor and its fine sympathy. (Baker & Taylor
Co. $2.) Chicago Inter-Ocean.

LADY'S -SLIPPER.

Talks on Civics.

THE reviewer is disgusted with the ma-
jority of the many books that have recently
been devoted to "Civics" or "Civil Govern-
ment." With few exceptions books upon this
subject are mere compilations and are of in-
difftrent merit. They present a mass of ill-
digested facts and contain little, if any, orig-
inal thought. Their sale has not resulted on
merit, but through the efforts of their pub-
lishers they have been foisted upon the publ ; c
through the ignorance or dishonesty of pur-
chasing officers. The book before us is dis-
tinctly apart from the class of text-books
mentioned. We find in Mr Holt's "Civics" a
radical departure from the usual text-book
upon political subjects. This departure is
caused chiefly by the use of the Socratic
method of presentation, by the inclusion of
material hitherto not treated in books of this
sort, and by the constant ani
successful effort of the author
to influence the student. ,
Whatever the faults of the
question-and-answer form of
presentation, it has one ad-
vantage that is undeniable- -
it holds attention. From a
modern pedagogical stand-
point the selection of the So-
cratic form is, however, open
to serious criticism.

The work is divided into
three parts, respectively en-
titled "Functions and Influ-
ence of Government," "The
Promotion of Convenience,"'
and "Taxation." Before
Part I. the author has wisely
included a preliminary sur-
vey of the subject in which he
succinctly and yet with suf-
ficient detail discusses the
functions and influence of
government, geographical di-
visions of government anJ
the departments of govern-
ment. From this synopsis of
the contents of this volume it
may be gathered that the book
is radically different in scope
from any volume published
upon "Civil Government" or
"Politics." It is so much
more. It might well have
been called "Citizenship," for
within its covers the book
contains the sum oi the rules

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that make for successful accomplishment of
the duties that confront men in their rela-
tions with each other and with the govern-
ment. All persons will not agree with Mr.
Holt in his views of the functions of gov-
ernment, of currency and of taxation, but
whether conceding or not, readers will admit
the clearness and force with which the author
has presented his views i'pon many disputed
propositions. The work will prove of inter-
est to all students of governmental functions,
and it will be of equal interest to those desir-
ing to study the application of the usual laws
that govern human activities. "Civics" is a
decided addition to our literature upon the
subject. (Macmillan. i:et, $1.25.) N. Y.
Times Review.

John Thisselton.

THERE is something edifying, as we all
know, in the spectacle of a strong man strug-
gling with adversity. John Thisselton, the
hero of Miss Bower's novel, is a very strong
man, and the blows of fate that fall upon his
head are heavy indeed. First, his father
brings an intolerable stepmother into the
house. Then this house, which has been in
possession of the Thisseltons for generations,
is placed by fell circumstances just out of the
reach of the man who wishes to live in it, the
strong John aforesaid. And, as though this
were not enough, the father who has done
so much to injure him dies and leaves him a
letter which shows him that he ought never
to marry. This news gains an exquisitely bit-
ter edge through the fact that if John leaves
no heir the house will naturally go to the
hated son of the hated stepmother. Here is a
tangle with a vengeance. But Miss Bower
manages it with a deftness that is the more
admirable inasmuch as the plot seems loosely
put together and it is really very difficult to
see how she is going to work out her prob-
lem. She works it out in a way to keep the
interest alive from the first page to the last,
though the treatment which she gives to two
of the characters at the climax is not alto-
gether convincing. The main point, how-
ever, is the fate of John Thisselton, and that
is handled with so competent a touch that the
slight error in judgment to which we have
referred is easily overlooked. This is the
book which in England bears the title of "The
Puppet Show." The American title is a bet-
ter one and it is worth remembering, for the
book has merit. It raises pleasant anticipa-
tions of Miss Bower's next publication.
(Holt. $1.50.) AT. Y. Tribune.

.'a Sons.
CHESTNUT-SIDED WARBLER FAMILY.

A Daughter of the Veldt.

"A DAUGHTER OF THE VFLDT/' by Basil Mar-
nan. The scene of this story is laid in South
Africa; time of introduction, 1874 that is lo
say, before the war. Had the book been pub-
lished before the war it is more than prob-
able that there would not have been so much
general ignorance touchii.g the country and
the people; for the land and its inhabitants
are portrayed with a realism which is as pow-
erful as it is occasionally cruel.

The story proper is cleverly sandwiched 'n
between a prologue and an epilogue. The
former alone contains more startlingly strong
situations than are made to serve for many a
long novel. The hero is a clergyman of a
type not rarely met with in fiction and in real
life a professional clergyman whose life Is
little, if any, influenced by the doctrines which
he preaches to others. He is attentive to and
is loved by an unsophisticated, although a
shrewd, country girl. He yields to her
charms, while promising himself that he will
forsake her. At first it is not his intention
to do the girl any more g'ievous wrong than
the casting away of her love as soon as it is
convenient; but by the pressure of circum-
stances which he was too weak to resist, and
which the girl did not care to resist, he be-

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came the father of her cirld. Basely and in
cold blood he left the mother and child to
their fate. The child is the daughter of the
veldt. The story deals wuh her life, wherein
is woven much of the lives of other actors in
the drama. The sickening, licentious life of
the half-breeds and others of South Africa is
painted in appalling colors. There is a power
and directness in the language which augurs
well for future work. (Henry Holt & Co.

$1.50.)

The Game of Squash.

THE game of squash. reckons its players by
thousands. All the larger English schools
and universities and many private houses
have their squash courts. The game is of the
greatest value. It trains the beginner in
many of the essential elements, not only for
this game but also for racquets. It gives him
a superior wrist development, trains his eye,
'caches the angles of the court, and gives him
good judgment. This book is essentially
practical. It shows the advantages of the
gc.me for all classes, including ladies, boys
and business men as well as athletes.

Eustace Miles has also shown in this boo'<
how squash courts can be built, of what size
they should be, and how much they will cost.
He suggests how several people can subscribe
together and form clubs and build squash
courts; and how for the building of such
courts they can utilize walls, rooms and open
spaces which would otherwise be useless. He
has tried to show how the game can be
learned; the right position of the ftet and

body are given for all strokes ; a number of
exercises are suggested which are both help-
ful in themselves and almost indispensable
for learning the game. These exercises re-
quire little or no apparatus and can be prac-
ticed at odd moments.

This book points out how squash is a nat-
ural preparation for tennis, racquets, lawn
tennis and hand-fives, and how it can thus
remove much of the drudgery of laying solid
foundations for these games. The value of
handicaps is insisted upon for the purpose of
bringing players together, however unequal
they may be, in order that each may play his
best game and at the same time improve it
wherever it is weakest. Certain new handi-
caps are suggested.

Squash is a game of skill and endurance,
and not mere exercise, and has been taken up
enthusiastically by many of the busiest men
in New York and elsewhere. It is destined
to be one of the games of the future for
America, especially for such times of the year
when athletic sports in the open air are im-
possible. (J. F. Taylor Co. $1.50.)

When the Gates Lift Up Their Heads.

No novel relating to the South since the
war has been told more naturally or forcefully
than "When the Gates Life Up Their Heads,"
by Payne Erskine, who seems to have an in-
timate knowledge of both the white people
and the negroes in what is called the Black
Belt in the United States. The scene of this
tale is laid in a small mountain town in North

Hl/r or String Netting

ie of Squash." Copyright, 1901, by J. F. Taylor Co.

PLAN OF SQUASH GROUNDS.

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199

Carolina, in the seventies, and the life in this come of a condition of things that resulted
place, with its blending of the old and new, from a national sin, the consequences of which

were not entirely wiped out by the emancipa-
tion proclamation of Abraham Lincoln.

its reminiscences of slavery, the poverty of its
old families, and the changes that have been

brought about by Northern settlers and visi- Whether the race problem will ever be set-
tors is portrayed with undoubted truthful- tied after the fashion suggested in this book

A Daughter of New France.' 1 Copyright, 1901, by Little

HE HURLED IT AT THE FOPPISH LIEUTENANT.

ness, and with an artistic distribution of light
and shade. The characters introduced, both
white and black, are skilfully drawn and con-
trasted, and the dialogue is bright and strik-

is a question, but a difficult subject is treated
in the story with a delicacy and restraint that
is admirable. This book is one that deserves
attention from thoughtful people, as well is

ingly adapted to the individualities of those from those who enjoy a really well told story.

who speak it. The incidents are often
tensely dramatic, and are the necessary out-

(Little, Brown & Co. $i!so.) Boston Even-

ug Gazette.

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[July, 1901

Royal Academy Pictures.

"ROYAL ACADEMY PICTURES" has, since the
date of its first issue, occupied a unique posi-
tion on account of the superb reproductions
which it contains, and the representative char-
acter of the works selected. It is thus re-i-

dered an authoritative, comprehensi
worthy record of the Royal Acade

and

MUSIC IN THE PIXES.
By G. H. Boughton, R.A.

this year's issue will fully sustain the reputa-
tion of preceding editions. By the courtesy
of members of the Royal Academy, Messrs.
Cassell & Company are enabled to produce a
work celebrated throughout the world as the
only worthy representation of the exhibition
at Burlington House, and remarkable as con-
taining reproductions of notable Academy pic
tures which appear in no other publication.
Every care is taken with the reproduction of
the pictures to obtain the most artistic effect,
and the style in which they are brought out,
printed on fine art paper, will fully satisfy the
taste of the most exacting. Moreover, the pic-

tures are reproduced on a scale sufficiently
large to enable purchasers to form an excel-
lent idea of the originals.

The bound volume for 1901 is now read/.
It contains 200 pictures g]4 x 12%, including
five Rembrandt photogravure plates of repre-
sentative pictures. The Scotsman says : "To
those who cannot go to London to see for
themselves, 'Royal Academy Pictures' gives
an excellent idea of the design and execution
of the leading works of art of the year, while
to those who have seen the Academy it forms
an admirable souvenir of their visit." (Cas-
sell & Co. $3.)

The Column.

IK this striking novel Mr. Marriott has
set a high standard for his future work. "The
Column" is a peculiar story in that it is an
unusual story, unlike any recent publication
we can call to mind. There is a charm of
mystery about the tale the natural and su-
pernatural blended, and that so skilfully that
the workmanship is never in evidence ; in fact,
in the blending of the real with the fanciful
this story is pleasantly reminiscential of the
work of Hawthorne. In the portrayal of the
few characters all too few when more might
as well have been drawn that play their parts
in the story, our author has given to each life
individuality and soul. Even the Column (a
marble monolith, transported by Hastings
from Greece to his England home, which
gives to the book its title), though it stands
the silent spectator of the events that make up
the story, seems itself to have life and mys-
tery. One expects it to speak, sooner or later
to break the silence it has kept for centuries,
for it is most certainly one of the characters
in Air. Marriott's book. To Daphne and her
father it is a real, live thing too real in its
influences over their lives to be disregarded.
To justly classify this story is difficult. It
might have been called a love story, but it
lacks the essential love. It is too delicate
a piece of work to be called a romance. Per-
haps as a picture of life life as seen when
human, emphatically human, beings lay aside
their masks so that the observer can look
into their very souls the book can best be
understood and consequently most appre-
ciated. Daphne, by birth the daughter of an
atheist, by temperament and habits the child
of nature, is a decidedly unique character.
She is not a woman, neither js she an old
enough girl to assume the responsibilities
required of a wife. Yet it is while Daphne
is just such a girl (the word is scarcely ade-
quate) that she, partly through her father's

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mild persuasion and her own ignorance of the
true meaning of wifehood, but primarily be-
cause of the coincidence of her meeting with
Waring at the foot of the Column, consents
to become his wife. Waring is a reformer;
the can't-see-the-beam-in-his-own-eye sort.
He has been actively engaged in London try-
ing to uplift the "unfortunate" ; at the same
time he has been actively engaged in a flir-
tation with another fellow's wife a woman
who came frequently to the mission to help
in the "uplifting." But for Daphne he gives
up the woman in town, and settles down to
life in the country, where he intends to allow
his soul to grow. But here it is that he
makes a miscalculation. In town his married
woman friend would have developed him
the evil in him, if not the good while the
country girl, his wife, tries simply to avoid
him. She sees her error. She realizes that
this man could not really have been intended
for her except all marriages be predestined
unhappiness. At this state of their relations,
business calls him to London. Of course he
meets his former friend again, and they find
that they are but little changed because of the
separation. At the same time Daphne's for-
mer chum, now a promising sculptor, returns
home. Here is a situation that promises ex-
citement. The reader half expects a com-
promise on the part of Daphne. But then,
suddenly, the author lets fall the curtain
(Lane. $1.50 ) Baltimore Sun.

From "Mrs. Qflbert'i EUmlntacem a." dps-right, 190 ',
JAMES LEWIS.

MRS. GILBERT.

The Abandoned Farmer.

UNPRETENTIOUS, lively and racy is the piece
of humor with which Mr. Preston has fol-
lowed up the success of his still fondly re-
membered "Green Pigs. ' The "Abandoned
Farmer" is a most engaging person, He is
the truly American husband and father,
boundlessly indulgent and a little ashamed
of it; satirically but affectionately cognizant
of the feminine inconsistencies of his wife; a
laughing philosopher with a kind heart. Add
an American wife with the painfully acute
and troublesome conscience generally attrib-
uted to her in our current fiction, and a small
American child to whose will, health, com-
fort and whims everything is made to benl
by his devoted parents and we have the chief
characters in this amusing book. They rent
a place in the country, and it is on the con-
tact of the city man with country neighbors
and country customs that comic passages turn.
The brilliant idea of making a farm pay bv
saving up the money that might be spent on
it is the contribution of the hero's wife, and
he acts upon it to the great advantage of the
family. The keeping of chickens, the pur-
chase of a cow, the hiring of a "useful man''
all provide material for mirth, and the author
lets no chances escape him. It is the pleas-
antest book of the kind we have seen for
many a day. (Scribner. $1.25.) N. Y.
Tribune.

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[July, 1901

The House of de Mailly.

IT is certainly an interesting and remark-
able literary coincidence that the two best and
most popular historical novels of the year
should have been written by young women
barely out of their teens, aad that both stories
should deal with picturesque phases and events
of P"rench history.

There the analogy ceases, however, for MHS
Runkl-e's story, "The Helmet of Navarre," is
a bold, swashbuckling tale of adventure, with
the clash of swords on every page, while Miss
Margaret Horton Potter's novel, "The House
of de Mailly," is a love idyl a field flower
that springs up and buds and blossoms in the
most brilliant and corrupt court of Europe.

Miss Potter lays the scr.ne of her story in
the time of Louis xv. Mary Anne de Maillv,
newly created Duchess de Chateauroux, more
than queen in superb beauty and insolence,
reigns as the King's favorite and in "the little
apartments" holds her court of the dissolute
men and women who make up the high society
of that time.

The story is an interesting one, well told,
and with a distinct flavor of the time and
scenes it portrays. The stage is always
crowded with figures, flashing in brave attire
and scintillating wit and epigrams; there are

plots and counterplots, and you breathe ; n
the spirit of the feverish gayety, the arti-
ficiality, the unrest and the intrigue of a court
where each hand was scheming for its own ad-
vancement and power. (Harper. $1.50.)
N. Y. Journal.

The Silver Skull.

AMONG the romances of the day there arc
none more picturesque and stirring thar "The
Silver Skull," by S. R. Crockett. In its wealth
of incident it is continuously absorbJrg, an<t
the characters are strictly in harmony witli
their romantic surroundings. The author in
his youth spent a great deal of his time in
Italy, and is therefore familiar with the lo-
calities which he pictures so admirably, aM
it was his fortune to meet with the sons of
the men who had fought the government
forces, and Gaetano Vardarelli, who is with
his brothers so convincingly reproduced in
this story. It is founded principally on ma-
terial gathered by Mrs. E. M. Church, wife
of the present Canon Church of Wells, Eng-
land, whose uncle, Colonel Richard Church,
destroyed the power in Apulia of Gro, the
degenerate Priest with the Red Eyes, who
was the moving and organizing power of the
secret order, the Decisi, whose emblem WAS

SURROUNDED BY A GROUP OF PICKANINNIES.

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203

the Silver Skull. The mother of the Var-
darelli is a highly dramatic figure in a group
of characters that are singularly wfll de-
fined, not forgetting the English Genernl
Church. Don Giro seems to be a little too
melodramatic to be entirely natural, but he is,
nevertheless, not easily forgotten in the gallery
of remarkable portraits that is presented n
the romance. The love story that ihrows a
ray of light amid the surrounding gloom is
prettily and delicately told, and is a welcome
relief to the more sombre but never uninter-
esting passages. The tale is well worth read-
ing. It is thrilling and full of action. The
volume also contains a short tale with the
somewhat startling title, "Maria Perrona,
Murderess and Saint." (Stokes. $1.50.)
Boston Evening Gazette.

The Crisis.

FOR over a year the expectation of the
novel-reading public has I'ten aroused by the
repeated announcement concerning Winston
Churchill's "Crisis." All have looked forward
to its publication as the literary event of the
month in which it shoul 1 appear. The book
is now out, and the question suggests itself,
Has Mr. Churchill redeemed the promise of
"Richard Carvel?" Taking the book as a
whole, we should say that he has more than
done so. The "Crisis" is the better work of
the two, better because its movement is
swifter, its incidents are k-ss disconnected, its
detail is better managed, and withal its liter-
ary workmanship is superior to the former
production. The "Crisis" deals with St. Louis
society at the outbreak of the Civil War, but
life in St. Louis, vivid as are its pictures, stir-
ring as are its scenes, forms but a background
to the real characters of the work. The book
is in itself a glorification of Lincoln and Sher-
man, and, in the words of the author, "this
book is written of a time when feeling ran
high. It has been necessary to put strong
speech into the mouths of the characters. The
breach that threatened our country's exist-
ence is healed now. There is no side but
Abraham Lincoln's side, and this side, with
all reverence and patriotism, the author ha>
tried to take." Despite the fact, however,
that the book is extremely partisan, that it is
Union in sentiment and expression, that it is
written in the firmest spirit of justification of
all that the North desire.l and accomplished,
yet it is in no wise unfair to the South or it?
people. It is in the treatment of the two sec-
tions that the reviewer confesses himself In
doubt. He is unable to indorse the genuine-
ness of Mr. Churchill's professions of appre-

WINSTON CHURCHILL.

ciation of the adherents of the Lost Cause.
But this has little effect upon the story; if it
is not right, it seems right. The hero of the
"Crisis," Stephen Brice, is of Puritan stock.
He comes to St. Louis at a time when that
city is in a state of turmoil from the con-
tentions of factions. He enters the office -jf
an attorney of the most advanced Union type
Judge Whipple. The heroine, Jenny Car-
vel, a descendant of Richard Carvel, "hate 3
Yankees." She is loved by the hero, and b/
her cousin, Clarence Col fax, as well as by the
villain of the story, a New Englander name!
Eliphalet Hopper, and many others. The love
element in the "Crisis" ?s strong and well
worked out, but it, as well as everything els^
in the book, is subordinated to. the purpose of
the story, which is the glorification of th?
Union leaders. Every ad'/enture between the
outbreak of the war and its final close re-
dounds to the credit not only of a Union man,
but of Union principles, and the climax of the
story is the triumph of Stephen in winning
Jenny Carvel from his rival Clarence
whom he saves from death as a spy by inter-
cession with Lincoln, and even this climax ."s
nAde to turn to the advantage of the Presi-
dent. To those curious to know what the
"Crisis" means the book itself must answer;
all that we will say is, it has a triple signifi
cance. (Macmillan. $1.30 ) Baltimore Sun.

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{July, 1901

The Sea Beach at Ebb-Tide.

"THE SEA BEACH AT EBB-TIDE/' by Augusta
Foote Arnold, might have for a subtitle
"How to Know the Seashore." It describes
the animals and plants of the beach. It is a
guide for the amateur collector and student
of shore life in all its forms, giving just the
information which he needs in order to ideu-

PECTEN OPERCULARIS, SHOWING THE OCELLI, OR
EYES, ON THE TWO EDGES OF THE MANTLE.

tify the specimens which he gathers and to
form some idea of their characteristics and
habits. It is not technical and yet is scientific
enough to furnish a good foundation for
wider technical knowledge; and it is popular
without being superficial or trivial. The field
which it covers the beach at ebb-tide is an
exceedingly interesting one interesting to
every one who- visits the shore yet it has
never before been described in this practical
and popular way.

The author gives careful directions with
regard to collecting telling what to look for
and where to find it; what methods and tools
to use in securing specimens ; and how to pre-
serve them when they are found. This an i

CASSIOPEIA FRONDOSA.

much more in the way of practical informa-
tion and suggestion is contained in a very
readable and interesting introduction. The
body of the work is divided into two sec-
tions. In the first are described the seawee'ds
which are found upon Atlantic and Pacific
beaches; and in the second an elaborate ac-
count is given of a very large number of the

curious animal forms which inhabit the rocks,
sands, and shallow waters within reach ->f
the collector's hand or net. Both parts ar-
profusely illustrated with engravings and
half-tone reproductions of specimens six
hundred in all.

"Among the volumes," says The Commer-
cial Advertiser, "which are simply and frank-
ly nature studies, and which are being issu?i
in praiseworthy abundance this season, ? s
'The Sea Beach at Ebb-Tide,' by Augusta
Foote Arnold, which has every appearance of
being a valuable as well ss readable book of
reference. To those who are fortunate enough
to take an interest in the sea-mosses, the star-
fish and other lower forms of life which are
to be found any summer Jay between the tide-
marks upon our seashores, there is an inex-
haustible source of plea;:i;re on a stretch of
ocean beach undreamed of by many who
weary of the endless monotony of sand and
sea. The present volume is well adapted for
stimulating an interest in this branch of nat-
ural science, and the author's classification of
the different seaweeds and mosses according
to their color gives a simple and practical
means for ready identification which should
be appreciated by the novice. The generous
profusion of illustrations, embracing over si<c
hundred different specimens, adds much to the
worth of a book which deserves to become as
customary a sight at the seaside resorts as the
familiar red cover of a Baedeker in foreign
art galleries or along the Rhine." (Century
Co. net, $2.40.)

Our Ferns in Their Haunts.

WILLARD NELSON CLUTE, the author of the
valuable and fascinating volume entitled "Our
Ferns in Their Haunts," is editor of the
Fern Bulletin, of which eight volumes have
already been issued, containing almost all the
important information on ferns that has found
its way into American periodicals.

In this book he has paid especial attention
to the haunts, habits, uses, folk-lore, struc-
ture, growth, abundance, distribution and va-
rieties of the ferns, covering a greater range
and including more species than are mentioned
in any other similar work. Every common or
English name is given, together with the
scientific names of both the old and "new"
nomenclatures, with a discussion of the origin
and application of these names. It contains
the only illustrated key to the families ever
printed, and by the aid of this even a child
can identify any species. It is written in un-
technical language, though strictly in accord
with the best scientific opinion. The illus-

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trator is William W. Stilson, and he has sup-
plied more than two hundred beautiful illus-
trations in color, in wash and in pen and ink,
and these have been engraved with the utmost
care. Mr. Stilson has drawn nearly all of his
illustrations directly from the living plants,
and he and the author have made special ex-
cursions to the haunts of the rarer species of
our ferns.

Few families of plants are at once so en

Houghton, Mifflin & Co.'s Outdoor Books.

AMONG summer books must be included,
beyond question, those which relate to nature
and to birds, comprehensively, outdoor books ;
and among these are none which are in
every way better worth reading than those
written by Thoreau. For many a year now
his books have been read ty increasing num-
bers of those who are instructed and delighted
by his views of nature and by the original

Veining delicate and

fibres tender;
Waving when the wind crept

low;
Rushes tall, and moss, and g:

Playful sunbeams darted in a

Drops of dew stole in by night and crowned it.
M. B. BRANCH.

thusiastically admired and so little known a-3
the fern family, which is strange, as ferns are
probably easier to identify than flowering
plants when one knows how, and the knowing
how may be acquired with less labor. Thus
far the student who has desired to go deeper
into the subject has been obliged to seek his
knowledge in many books and periodicals. A
volume which would bring these scattered
facts together in convenient form has been
greatly needed. Nothing more tempting ha?
yet been offered fern lovers than the pretty
book that is a guide to all the native species
of the United States. Nothing will be so use-
ful to yourself and make you so interesting to
all fern lovers near you as a copy of this book
among the things you pack for the summer,
and it will be a new delight each day. (Stokes,
net, $2.15.)

01, by F. A. Stokes Co.

quality of his thought both on nature and o.i
human life.

Of quite similar attraction are the books
by John Burroughs, whkh deal with nature
and with men, especially with the poets, but
have a more decided tendency to the observa-
tion and treatment of birds. In their special
department of writing, the books of Mr. Bur-
roughs may well be accounted classic. The
fine observation and the f-ympathetic descrip-
tion can hardly fail to charm appreciative
readers for many and many a year.

Still more devoted to toe world of birds is
Bradford Torrey; and the careful observa-
tion and the patient persistency in detecting
the fine qualities of his birds, together with
the literary skill with which he writes of
them, give to his books a very delightful char-
acter. His latest book, just published, on

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"Everyday Birds," is of special interest to be- the plot, and also perhaps because wo may be
ginners in bird-study and contains twelve col- slightly nerve-worn at the apparent stress laid
ored pictures reproduced from Audubon. ($i.) upon a latent taint of vulgarity. The best
Especial attention may be invited to Mrs. scenes are those wherein the existence of the
Miller's "A Second Book of Birds," just pub- women workers in a great Chicago publishing
iished, devoted to scores of bird families, and, house is described; and this part of the book
from its simple treatmenr, of special interest is a true and sincere work of art. E\a is a
to children and to adults whose bird education well-meaning Nebraska girl with a fine phys-
is defective. It is finely illustrated, and many ique and limited ideas. The story of her de-
full-page pictures drawn by Louis Agassiz velopment seems to us almost as well done as
Fuertes and printed in colors are uncommonly that of Selma in Judge Grant's "Unleavened
life-like one can almost see the birds in their Bread." Eva chooses to live her own life in
happy movements and hear them sing. ($i.) her own way, regardless of either ecclesiasti-
Expert judges commend Miss Merriam's cal or legal marriage sanction. Our principal
"Birds of Village and Field" as one of the disappointment, however, is that she should
best and most helpful of bird-books. Its de- have fallen in love as she did. The plot
scriptions are very clear and it has more than would have been at once more artistic and
300 illustrations. Her other books are among more moral if it had not "ended happily."
the most attractive for students and lovers of (Houghton, M. & Co. $1.50.) The Outlook.

birds. ($i.) .

A new book full of interest, though devoted The Seal of Silence,
to a single bird family, is Mrs. Eckstorm's A PATHETIC interest is attached to this book,
"The Woodpeckers," which tells all about this the first and last by the author, who died IP
group of birds in a remarkably fresh and en- February, only twenty-five years old. "The
gaging style, and pictures them as well. ($ij Seal of Silence" proves, indeed, that the pub-
Readers of the Atlantic Monthly, says the lie has in him sustained a loss already deepiy
Mail and Express, will recall with pleasure felt by those who knew him, as the few words
three articles on "Content in a Garden," writ- of preface by his friend A. F. indicate; for it
ten last year by Mrs. Caridace Wheeler, who is a book which shows more than promise: it
mingled gardening and literature in a delight- shows a knowledge of life and a genuine sense
ful fashion. Her garden was, or is, in the of comedy remarkable in one so young. The
Catskills. She writes wkh poetic delight of best feature about the book is the large-
the grouping of flowers and the massing of minded tolerance with which the characters
bloom and color, and with a kindly, half- are treated; the author's power of humorous
humorous interest in interpreting the possible apreciation allowed him to look even at hi*
moods and dispositions of flowers. This phi! - villains from an internal standpoint, as it were,
osophy of gardening adds a new zest to the and not to make their actions appear unmeaa-
familiar interest in bulbs rnd buds, slips an'l ingly outrageous from an inability to express
cuttings, beds and paths. Mrs. Wheeler has their point of view. Every one of the char-
added one or two chapters to those printed acters lives, and is not a mere machine for
in The Atlantic, and her daughter, Mrs. working off action necessary for the plot
Keith, has drawn several charming designs. The weakest part of the book is the construe-
The book is daintily printed, (net, $1.25.) tion of the plot. To the expert novel-reader

the denoument is evident from the beginning;
but that is just one of those points which

Story of Eva. could easily have been curd by experience h?

WILL PAYNE, who we are informed is a novel-writing. What could hardly be im-

woman writer, has done a real service to lit- proved are such scenes as those which show

erature and to society in publishing th s very the gradual infatuation of the susceptible

noteworthy novel. "The Story of Eva" h Bobby, his meetings with his Oxford friends,

the realistic unfolding of ;i chapter of life, a and, above all, the delightful explanation be-

story told with a clear insight into character, tween him and Winifred; or the part of Mr.

with directi.-ess, incisiveness, and vivacity. Robjohns as an inquisitive deus ex machine;

Our interest is challenged trom start to fin- or, to turn to more serious matters, the char-

ish. We must add, however, that the in- acter of Rutherford and the strength of Win-

terest is greater in the first than in the last ifred's love. The book amply justifies A. F. s

chapters, because a number of unnecessarily feeling and unpretentious tribute of sorrow 10

sentimental and theatrical incidents occur to his friend. (Appleton. $i ; pap., 50 c.)

wards the close which mar the naturalness of The Athenaeum.

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207

. In Search of Mademoiselle.

AFTER drawing pictures for the books of
many other men, Mr. Gibbs has written a
novel to which to draw his own pictures. It
is a novel of adventure. But it is founded
on events of that period in history when the
French and the Spanish strove for the mas-
tery of Florida, and the soil of the peninsula
drank much blood of white man and red man
as well. Sydney Killigrew, a young and giant
Englishman, gets into the trouble on the
French side through various fortunes of the
sea. It is so that he first meets Mademoiselle
who is Diane La Notte, and who is thereafter
in many perils, including those of Indian cap-
tivity. It falls to the lot of Master Sydney
to be at her rescue to plan and accomplish
that, indeed and in telling you how he does
this, and how he fares in battle, in storm and
in love, as Mr. Gibbs lets him tell, he spins a
yarn of mighty interest. Mr. Gibbs knows
his wrestling as well as his pencils. A de-
scription of a bout on deck at midnight be-
tween young Killigrew and another giant.
Don Diego de Bacan, is an especially thrill-
ing bit in a book entirely of stirring quality.
(Coates. $1.50.) N. Y. World.

Abraham Lincoln : His Book.

HEBREW fashion, one must turn to the end
for the beginning of the little volume enti-
tled "Abraham Lincoln: His Book." In this
latter portion Mr. J. McCan Davis eluci-
dates the origin and use of what goes before,
which proves to be a scrap-book made up
by Lincoln from newspaper reports of his
speeches, chosen with a view to showing
how far he went in advocating freedom for
the black man. The right to the fruits of
his own labor was firmly insisted upon, but
neither social nor political equality was de-
manded for him or even favored. These
clippings are reproduced in facsimile along
with Lincoln's own hand explaining the
source of each all for the benefit of Capt.
J. N. 'Brown, who was running for the Il-
linois House in 1858, and was handicapped
by his known friendship for Lincoln and the
Democratic misrepresentation of the latter's
views on negro equality. What we have,
then, is a close copy, even to the rubbed
cover, of Capt. Brown's pocket companion
in the campaign which went against him.
Mr. Lincoln, it need not be said, appears in
this series of extracts both candid and con-
sistent, but far below the humane height
reached in his second inaugural. One from
his debate at Charleston with Douglas on

September 18, 1858, stands last and lowest, as
he would deny the negro the right either
to vote, to hold office, to sit on a jury, or to
intermarry with white people, and would
have him always kept in the inferior posi-
tion designated by nature. In a striking
passage from the Chicago address of July
10, 1858, which parallels the "perfectionism"
of Garrison, Lincoln holds up the Declara-
tion, with its assertion of human equality,
as the ideal to be pursued ; but in the accom-
panying note to Capt. Brown he halts at at-
tainment, while insisting that Congress has
a free hand in the Territories, where, politi-
cally speaking, "a state of nature does ex-
ist. In them, Congress lays the foundation
of society." He would, with Henry Clay,
keep the declaration of equality "in view as
a great fundamental principle," but only to
the extent of refusing to incorporate slavery
in a new commonwealth. Whoever will
study this collection will prize the volume not
merely as a curiosity of manufacture, but as
an aid to reflection on a national doctrine,
to which only lip-service is still rendered.
(McClure, Phillips & Co. $i.) The Nation.

Antonia

WITH ready confidence the author refers
us to the historians of the period for proof of
the possibility of this story of days when the
Dutch West Indies Company held sway from
the sea to the source of the Hudson River.
That point shall be undisputed. In "Antonia,"
whatever be the possibilities or probabilities
involved, we have a charming love story, told
with absolute simplicity. There are Indians
always in the background and sometimes
right in front. Not too savage savages, al-
ways ready to listen to a beguiling word from
the smooth tongue of Johannes van Blerckom,
who is very evidently one of the handiest
young Dutchmen to be found in New Amster-
dam or old Albany the latter, Rensselaers-
wyck by history and this fiction. Antonia and
Johannes come to the new world together,
she, unknown to him, a wife coming to join
her aged husband. Because he, in his unsus-
picion, says a word of lo\e to her on board,
she brands him "coward," and they speak no
more till there is the emergency of an Indian
uprising five years later. It is quick judg-
ment. But there is Spanish blood in Antonia,
and, besides, things come right in the enl,
after she has been a widow. It is agreeable
not to meet a problem in all this book. More-
over, the binding is a gem in design and color-
ings. (L. C. Page & Co. $1.50.) #.. Y.
World.

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[July,

Ctje ICttmmj

* Cdtctft iWontfjIi ISUfaiffo of Current ILitnature.

EDITED BY A. H. LEYPOLDT.

JULY, IQOI.

SIR WALTER BESANT.

SIR WALTER BESANT'S tireless industry and
painstaking stopped just short of the genius
that the whole world must acknowledge, but
although he has left no one work that will

later Tennyson, Carlyle, Ruskin, Maurice,
and Kingsley, and learned true, proportioned
views of man and his world which he after-
wards worked into novels that have enter-
tained thinking people and given them help-
ful and hopeful views of life.

Mathematics and theology became Besant's
favorite studies, and his devotion to the most
positive and most theoretical of all learning
characterized the man, and kept him always
imaginative and thoroughly well-informed on
every subject he handled. Destined for tho

SIR WALTER BESANT.

stand out through the ages as a great con-
tribution to English literature, he has left
a greater amount of work of a higher aver-
age of true merit than perhaps any one writer
of his generation. Walter Besant was born
in Portsmouth in 1838. He did not strug-
gle with poverty. His father was a well-to-
do merchant who desired his sons to have
professions and sent all three of them to the
best schools and to Cambridge University.
From earliest youth Besant was surrounded
with good books and he read Shakespeare,
Milton, Pope, John Bunyan and Addison, and

church, he had qualms of conscience on many
points, and after taking high honors in mathe-
matics at Cambridge, he began his career as
Senior Professor of Mathematics to the Royal
College in the Island of Mauritius. After
seven years he returned to England and de-
cided to remain there and devote himself to
letters.

After years of unremittent work he pro-
duced his first book in 1868, "Studies in Early
French Po.etry," a subject he had studied ex-
haustively in Mauritius, and he had the good
fortune to have his first book accepted by the

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Macmillans. During this time Besant was
secretary of the Palestine Exploration Fund,
and did hard and telling work in this office.
In 1871 Besant entered into a literary partner-
ship with James Rice, which lasted until
Rice's death in 1882, and together they wrote
the books by which Besant's name is known
to the largest circle of readers.

Besant was the writer of the firm, while
Rice conceived the plots and arranged for the
publication of the books after they were com-
pleted.

No writer since Dickens has written novels
that have so aimed at bettering the condition
of the poor, and Besant also did telling work
as champion of authors, and became first
chairman of the Society of Authors, by which
a niuch better understanding has been brought
about between authors and publishers. Re
cently Besant has chiefly written on the Brit-
ish Empire and on London. His last pub-
lished book on "East London" appeared in
the spring. Walter Besant became Sir Walter
in 1895 at tne time of the Queen's Jubilee, an
lionor conferred in appreciation for his lit-
erary work and his constant efforts for the
improvement of the people, to which the
"People's Palace" is a more lasting monu-
ment. In 1893 Besant visited the United
States, arid his feeling towards America was
always of the warmest. A historical novel
entitled "The Lady of Lynn" will be issued
by Dodd, Mead & Company in the fall, and
D. Appleton & Co. are about to bring out
"The Story of King Alfred." It is said that
Sir Walter had written practically all he pro-
posed doing for "The Survey of London,"
which will be brought out by others. Death
claimed this popular and well loved author
on June 9, after a very short illness.

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The Nineteenth Century: British pessim-
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{leadings from Nito Uooks.

SHE HAS SENT FOR ME, AND / GO.

"AYE, you begin to see it now," he cries ve-
hemently. "You see why I have stuck to
Paris these three years, why I could not fol-
low my father into exile. It was more than
a handful of pistoles caused the breach with
Monsieur; more than a quarrel over Gervais
de Grammont. That was the spark kindled
the powder, but the train was laid."

"Then you, monsieur, were a Leaguer?"

''Nay, I was not !" he cried. "To my credit,
or my shame, as you choose, I was not.
I was neither one nor the other, neither fish
nor rlesh. My father thought me a Leaguer,
but I was not. I was not disloyal, in deed
at least, to the house that bore me. Monsieur
reviled me for a skulker, a faineant ; nom de
diable, he might have remembered his own
three years of idleness !"

"Monsieur held put for his religion "

"Mademoiselle is my religion," he cried,
and then laughed, not merrily.

"Pardieu ! for all my pains I have not won
her. I have skulked and evaded and tempor-
ized for nothing. I would not join the
League and break my father's heart; would
not stand out against it and lose Lorance. I
have been trying these three years to please
both the goat and the cabbage with the usual
ending. I have pleased nobody. I am out of
Mayenne's books ; he made me overtures and
I refused him. I am out of my father's books :
he thinks me a traitor and parricide. And I
am out of mademoiselle's : she despises me for
a laggard. Had I gone in with Mayenne I
had won her. Had I gone in with Monsieur
I was sure of a command in King Henry's
army. But I, wanting both, get neither. Be-
tween two stools I fall miserably to the
ground. I am but a dawdler, a do-nothing,
the butt and laughing-stock of all brave men."

"But I am done with shilly-shally!" he
added, catching his breath. "For once I shall
do something. Mile, de Montluc has given
me a last chance. She has sent for me, and I
go. If I fall dead on her threshold, I at least
die looking at her." (Century Co.) From
Bertha Runkle's "The Helmet of Navarre."

SEEKING FOR THE LIGHT.

UPON this dog-day morning, we walked the
early hours shrouded in mist. Once the
clouds suddenly opened and the head of Lafay-
ette looked out from a background of blue;
then the shifting mists concealed it. This
ecstatic vision accorded well with the tenor of
our thoughts and words as we followed a
veiled path through meadows, seeking for the
light as plants for the sun.

"Is there not a ground swell of the sea, an
undulating movement of a myriad leagues of
surface, as distinguished from the dash of in-
dividual waves? So," I said, "there is a
ground tone of the human soul, the will, the
purpose, which we distinguish from single
impulses or acts. I desire most of all that in
its pulsation the ground tone of my life may
be in unison with God."

"Is it not life at its ideal when we are on
th same plane with Him?"

"It is so that we may rise above ourselves,
and receive new life from the Life Infinite."

"I will daily compare myself with Him, and
gauge my daily relations to the Ideal char-
acter which He has revealed, in place of
measuring myself with the frail and the
finite."

"Do you then belittle the Infinite, and com-
pare yourself with a finite God?"

"How can we know the Infinite except
through the limitations He has Himself set in
revealing Himself in nature, and in man, and
in human history, and in the Bible story? As
to his moral attributes, is not Jesus Christ the
only God we know, and the only standard to
measure by? In him I can accurately meas-
ure the Infinite by an Infinite standard, as to
moral life."

"Do dry dogmatic formulas, relating to the
scientific idea of God, offer to struggling hu-
manity the intense and irresistible attraction
of a divine life dwelling among us?"

"If the finite soul hungers after the Infinite
it i? because it is made so."

We slept that night and the night following
upon the top of the mountain. Is there but
one mountain in the range ?

It was a night of snow and frost. But the
first evening and first morning gave us match-
less cloud views, the vapor hanging like a
gigantic fleece over all the hillsides. The
afternoon sun shone down through rifts into
the green valleys below. Could we ever weary
of beauty in the making? (Lothrop Pub. Co.
$i.) Frowt "The Dream of My Youth."

A ROBIN T 'S song filled the silence, and breath
of autumn crept in opal hazes among the
gray tree-trunks. Then there came rolling c.
wheels, and the chocolate and yellow chariot
of Sir Archer Baskerville passed the orchard
gate. Mrs. Gilbert did not turn, nor had the
occupants of the carriage seen her in the dusk,
but a footman upon the box observed Mary
Gilbert, bid the coachman stop, and dismount-
ing, explained to his master that she whom
he sought was hard by among the fruit-trees.
Well pleased to learn the fact, Sir Archer
alighted, bid his coachman drive to the end
of the lane, entered the orchard and ap-
nroached the woman standing there. He un-
covered his head as he reached her side.

"Mary Gilbert," he said, "I have come to
know whether it may be peace between us at
the last, or whether it is too late?"

He half offered his hand, and she took it
and held it for a moment.

"Man ! man !" she answered, "do you need
to ask me? Do women like me make war on
those that loved them ? I have prayed for this
through many years."

"It is peace. You forgive me? No need to
ask that either. May the Lord God be as gen-
erous to me as you have been, for my record
is evil. But I will atone as I can. The past
is past, and past praying for. The future
they shall be man and wife if they keep in
that mind. I only ask for time."

"And I have said to them that you were very
wise to ask it. I upheld you with all. my might.

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[July, 1901

Both will face life stronger and wiser for that
waiting."

"But should I pass away before the time,
may I ask you to carry out my wishes?" he
said.

"'Tis done," she answered. "The boy and
girl stand with faces to their duty. They de-
sire to justify themselves in your eyes and
in the sight of all, and show what manner
of man and woman they be."

"And you have forgiven my wickedness ?"

"These forty years."

He bowed again.

"Your sad and penitent friend henceforth,"
he said."

Once more she extended her hand to him,
and he took it between his own and bent
sligntly over it. Then he walked slowly
away, and the orchard gate fell too noisily be-
hind him. His carriage drove up to him, and
he entered it and was gone.

To the woman mists hiding memory arose
and diminished, as clouds ascend and vanish
above some snmmer river at dawn ; and clear
beneath them shone forth no picture of this
man under his burden of threescore years
and ten, but the passionate youth he had
been, and the frantic figure of him as last he
swept away from her, near half a century ago.

Now there had come peace between them,
and from her soul arose a high song of thank-
fulness for ancient prayers answered at last.
(Doubleday. Page & Co. $1.50.) From
Phillpotts' "The Good Red Earth."

YOUNG PEOPLE OF TO-DA V.

"I'M glad that my chatter amuses you, Mr.
Weatherly."

"It does so to a very great extent. I have
always felt a sincere interest in young people ;
and as I have never had a child of my own,
I delight to surround myself with young per-
sons not of my own household. My quarrel
with the young people of to-day of to-day is
that they are not young enough."

"Dp you think that we are too advanced?"

Quite so, quite so. Nowadays young
women are always bothering their pretty
heads about abstruse social problems or the
higher mathematics; but when I was young
they had more important things to think of
such as their latest sfeethearts and their new-
est bonnets."

"But we still have bonnets and sweethearts,
as well as social problems and higher math-
ematics," I argued. "We may love Rome
more than we used to do, but not Caesar
less."

"Perhaps so, perhaps so, my dear. You
doubtless still go in for bonnets and sweet-
hearts, but what bonnets ! and what sweet-
hearts ! compared with those the girls had
in my young days."

"Do you think them so very inferior?"

"Inferior beyond expression ! Of course I
cannot see these things for myself; but my
Rachel reads to me descriptions of the same
now and again in some modern book or news
paper, and they make me feel positively un-
well."

I laughed.

"When I was young, continued Mr.
Weatherly, "a bonnet was well, a bonnet;

and I can assure you that it placed an almost
insurmountable barrier betwixt oneself and
the young woman concealed in the depths
of it."

"Like Truth at the bottom of a well."

"Precisely. To-day, as far as I can gather,
an impossible butterfly makes a nest of lace
under the shadow of an artificial rose; and
there is your bonnet !"

"It seems like a falling off, I confess," I
said. "And what about the sweethearts?"

"There, my dear Ethel, the decadence is
even more lamentable. In my time a young
man fell in love with a young woman, and
never rested till he had made a suitable home
for her. Now a young man makes at his
leisure a suitable home; and then, when he
is middle-aged, furnishes it with the woman
of his acquaintance who bores him the least."

"What an awful description!"

"But," he continued, "to make up for not
feeling love, modern people talk about it;
just as they indulge in senseless conversa-
tion about medical science to make up for
their lack of health and strength. We have
more love stories than we used to have, but
less love; just as we have more dentists than
we used to have, but fewer teeth." (Appie-
ton. $1.50.) From Fowler's "Cupid's Gar-

THE CEREMONY.

,-espers, on the Friday Heaven's

choice of him who should become the Christ
was to be made, the whole of San Rafael, in-
cluding Dolores, was gathered in high time
at the church door; and even after Father
Maria de Jesus had passed in through the
yielding crowd, they lingered, while he might
robe, wondering how the choice was to be
indicated.

"I believe he is going to be transfigured,"
declared Oestocris.

Already she had declared that several
times, each time looking pointedly at her son
Paez with an expression in her eyes as if she
already saw his face shine as the sun and his
raiment white as the light.

"No," objected Cristoke unsympathetically,
"there won't be any transfifuration to-day.
If there is any, it will come later, after the
fast has commenced. I don't feel as if any-
thing of that kind was going to happen to-
day."

"But who do you think it will be, Cris-
toke?" asked one dark, gaping youth.

"Who do you think it will be?" asked Pan-
chita at the ame time.

They all spoke subduedly, as people who
were about to be put to a test.

"I trust that Our La ly of Continual Bless-
ing will grant my prayers. I have said five
hundred rosaries to her. And I am old
enough to die," answered Cristoke solemnly.

"But why should he die?" asked Dolores
of the woman next her. "What do you do to
the one that is chosen?"

She had not heard the sermon; and down
in the vallev only rumors of the cross-bearers'
festival had reached her. But as she asked
they began to push into the church, and she
had no answer.

Cristoke's was the one white head among

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the many dark, shiny polls of the men on the
right. Underneath his seat on the back nech
(where he saw everyone, and everyone
would have to turn to see him), his yellow
dog lay on the dirt floor. When there was
a pause he could be heard, now beating with
his tail on the ground, now rhythmically
snoring.

The congregation sang the responses in
Latin. Only one or two could be read, but
the priest had taught them by heart. They
were so well practiced in the beautiful mo-
notony of plain chant that their strong voices,
blending harmoniously, holding well the long
notes, rose and fell in unison. The litanies
in Spanish everyone knew. This afternoon
they said one after another of them, until
there was no one who didn't feel so heartily
the appeals to San Rafael, to all the saints,
to Our Lady of Santa Fe, and Our Lady of
Perpetual Succor, to the Blessed Spirit, and
to Christ Himself, that his feelings were not
shining out from his black eyes, at the last
note, when Father Maria de Jesus turned
with dignity towards the altar. Kneeling on
the stey he reached out his arms and rested
his hands on the altar's edge as he prayed.
The Penitentes were all on their knees ; every
eye was fixed on the white-robed figure.
When they saw, after some space of silence,
a sight movement of his cope, they made the
sign of the cross. Then most of them took
ther rosares; and the women sinking back
on ther heels, leaned against the benches.
Everyone said his beads, while the Father in
his clear, deep voice intoned the prayers.
.(Bowen-Merrill. $1.50.) From How's "The
Penitentes of San Rafael."

TREE DAY AT WELLESLEY.

TREE Day dawned clear, as Tree Day al-
ways dawns. But alas for Wellesley tradi-
tions ! No sooner had the freshmen marched
sweetly and proudly forth, in all the gaudy
splendor of a mardigras procession, than sud-
den twilight fell upon hills and hollows, and
the splashing rain scattered some twelve hun-
dred women in a mad rush for the nearest
shelter. A motley collection of scampering
figures it was faculty, alumnae, and students,
figures in academic cap and gown racing with
long-stepping Japanese maidens who a mo-
ment before had been mincing along with
fluttering fans. Mardigras jesters ran with
trustees, and jeering soohomores in fantastic
garb chased the crestfallen freshman aids and
orators, whose faces were as pathetic as their
damp muslin, into the shelter of the thronged
College Hall corridors. When it was too late
for the fun to be continued, the sun shone
again, and Charlotte, still happy in her be-
draggled gaudiness, wandered off toward
Stone Hall and the border of the lake. She
bailed out a boat that was locked to the little
pier, and seated herself in the far end to
think and wonder. Her mind was full of the
pageant she had seen, and for a brief mo-
ment, been a part of. The late sun shining
warmly on dripping leaves and meadow grass
quickened her thought of how it would have
looked finally that winding procession along
the smooth campus, of black-gowned seniors,

and Japanese juniors, and farcical sophomores
caricaturing the departments of the college,
and, last of all, that long, handsome line of
freshmen, in their rich and sparkling cos-
tumes of every imaginable design. She drew
forth a block of paper and a ten-cent fountain
pen that she had hastily borrowed at college,
and wrote to Charlie just how she thought
it would have been. It seemed unkind, be-
sides spoiling the story, to tell him that there
had never been any such procession, so she
wrote on enthusiastically, at the bewildering
beauty of a real Wellesley Tree Day. The
dances were the very nicest part of it, she
said, and the freshman dances were the pret-
tiest of all. They did it out of doors on the
green grass at the foot of the hill, and there
was a figure where one girl had to dance
alone before all the people. She danced for-
ward and backward, and she turned round
and round slowly in her long yellow skirts,
and everybody clapped and cheered, and the
girl, she got so hot, and dizzy, and flurried,
with all the people watching, but she was
happier than she had ever been before in her
life. And could he guess who that pretty
dancing girl was? Because if he couldn't,
she was not any more than his loving little
Cherry. (Richard G. Badger & Co. $1.50.)
From Cook's "Wellesley Stories."

FOR A CHRISTMAS CHILD.

TREMBLING again, but this time with fear
as well as anger, the lone woman caught at
her treasures, and drew them into her own
room swiftly. Kneeling down, she dragged
forth some newspapers stuffed inside the left
boot, with -heart thumping hard and shaking
fingers. Then she opened the parcel upon the
lid of an old trunk.

Surely yes ! There was a roll that felt
heavy and hard.

A mist swam before Sarah's eyes as she
opened it, counted the separate small piles,
each wrapped in paper ten of them. But
were there twenty shining gold pieces in each?
Yes, yes, yes no ! One sovereign was miss-
ing. She counted once more, feverishly. It
was there: all were right.

And the gloves? They had felt right; so
she had been less anxious. Still the miser
hastily reassured herself. A banknote for a
hundred pounds rolled small and inside each
finger ten in all. Beneath the bonnet lining
eight more were secreted.

All were safe ! Every sovereign, each note !

Ah h! A terrible pang shot through poor
Sarah as she crouched over the fire; cold
drops came on her brow.

"Surely," she thought faintly, "this must be
the beginning of the end." The pain passed
for the time; but the thought stayed.

"Little dear! and he is giving his sixpence,
his all, to some other child to-morrow," she
reflected, "whilst here is my talent in a nap-
kin hidden all these many years, useless."

And Sarah Crosby sat and thought and
thought.

At last a great resolve came into the
woman's mind. (F. M. Buckles & Co.)
From "The Luck of a Lowland Laddie."

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Contents: The superannuated man, by C.
Lamb; Rip Van Winkle, by Washington Irv-
ing; The great stone face, by Nathaniel Haw-
thorne ; The purloined letter, by Edgar Allan
Poe ; Phil Fogarty, by W. Makepeace Thack-
eray; Dr. Manette's manuscript, by Charles
Dickens ; The outcasts of poker flat, by Fran-
cis Bret Harte; Robert Louis Stevenson, by
Markheim.

SEYFFERT, OSCAR. Dictionary of classical an-
tiquities, mythology, religion, literature and
art; rev. and ed., with additions, by H.
Nettleship and J. E. Sandys. New [6th]
cheaper ed. Macmillan. il. 8, net, $2.25.

MOORE, VIDA F. The ethical aspects of
Lotze's metaphysics. Macmillan. 8, (Cor-
nell studies in philosophy, no. 4.) pap., net,
75 c.

WOOD, H. The symphony of life: a series of
constructive sketches and interpretations.
Lee & Shepard. 12, $1.25.
Contents: From the pre-Adamic to the hu-
man ; In the bush ; The human body as a tem-
ple; Christ was asleep; The oneness of life
and being ; Evolutionary reconciliation ; Near-
er to Nature's heart ; What is the meaning of
evil?; What is the higher law?; Selfishness
and nervousness; What is disease?, etc.

NATURE AND SCIENCE.

BABCOCK, C. AMANZO. Bird day; how to pre-
pare for it. Silver, Burdett & Co. 12, 50 c.
Contents: History of the movement for
"Bird day"; The value of birds; The de-
struction of birds; Plan of study; Further
suggestions ; Directions for written work ;
Programs for bird day ; The poets and the
birds; Objects and results of Bird day; Some
representative birds.

BIGNELL, EFFIE. Mr. Chupes and Miss Jenny :
the life story of two robins. Baker & Tay-
lor Co. il. 12, $i.

An account of the life in capitivity of two
birds.

DICKERSON, MARY C. Moths and butterflies ;
with 200 photographs from life by the au-
thor. Ginn. 8, $2.50.
The author is head of the department of
biology and nature study in the Rhode Island
Normal School, Providence, R. I. The book
is entirely untechnical in its treatment of the
subject. It will identify by means of photo-
graphs from life forty common forms ia
caterpillar, chrysalis, or cocoon, and adult
stages. It makes clear the external structure
adapting the creature to its life; it describes
and illustrates the changes in form from
caterpillar to chrysalis, from chrysalis to but-
terfly.

GOING, MAUD, [E. M. Hardinge," pseud.]
With the wild flowers from pussy-willow
to thistle-down: a rural chronicle of our
flower friends and foes, describing them
under their familiar English names. Rev.
ed. Baker & Taylor Co. 12, $i.

HERRICK, FRANCIS HOBART. The home life of
wild birds: a new method of the study and
photography of birds ; 141 il. from nature
by the author. Putnam, sq. 4, net, $2.50.
To describe and illustrate a new means of

studying animal behavior, and to record what

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has been learned by its aid concerning the
lives of some of our common birds is the
main purpose of this volume. It is a popular
study of birds in action, and is chiefly con-
cerned with the homes or nests and their oc-
cupants.

HOWARD, L. O. Mosquitoes ; how they live,
how they carry disease, how they are clas-
sified, how they may be destroyed. Mc-
Clure, Phillips & Co. il.'i2, net, $1.50.
This book tells what is known about mos-
quitoes from the biological point of view,
from the medical point of view, and from
the practical side. An especial effort has been
made to show, in a straightforward way, to
physicians how the different kinds of mos-
quitoes can be distinguished and to indicate
the characteristic habits and breeding-places
of those forms which spread malaria and yel-
low fever. Directions are given for collecting
mosquitoes, and for rearing in their early
stages, and the remedial measures that should
be adopted in mosquito-ridden neighborhoods.

SERVISS, GARRETT PUTMAN. Pleasures of the
telescope: an illustrated guide for amateur
astronomers and a popular description of
the chief wonders of the heavens for gen-
eral readers. Appleton. il. 8, $1.50.

BROWNE, W. TREVELYAN. Joy bells: [poems.]
G. W. Dillingham Co. por. 12, $1.50.

GREAT plays (French and German) by Cor-
neille, Moliere, Racine, Lessing, Schiller,
and Hugo; with biographical notes, and a
critical introduction by B. Matthews. [Al-
dine ed.] Appleton. por. facsim. 8, (The
world's great books.) subs., $3.

POLITICAL AND SOCIAL.

ADAMS, T. S. The financial problems of
Porto Rico. Amer. Acad. Pol. Science.
8, (Publications of the society, no. 303.)
pap., 15 c.

CALKINS, RAYMOND. Substitutes for the sa-
loon: an investigation made for the Com-
mittee of Fifty under the direction of Fran-
cis G. Peabody. Elgin R. L. Gould, and W.
M. Sloane. Hougnton, Mifflin. 12, net,
$1.30.

Based on fa.cts gathered by special inves-
tigators in fifteen of the larger American cit-
ies. Points out the causes of the hold of the
saloons on the community, and discusses the
number of them, their attractions, their fur-
nishing food and warmth as we.ll as drink,
and the difficulty of displacing them. Shows
the progress made by substitutes for the sa-
loon lunch-rooms, coffee-houses, social clubs,
athletic clubs, settlements, reading-rooms,
gymnasiums, etc.

CARLTLE. W. WARRAND. Evolution of mod-
em money. Macmillan. 8, net. $2.50.

FLYNT, JOSIAH, [pseud, for Josialr Flynt Wil-
lard.] The world of graft. McClure,
Phillips & Co. 12, $1.25.

HILL. MABEL, comp. Liberty documents ;
with contemporary exposition and critical
comments drawn from various writers ; se-

lected and prepared by Mabel Hill ; ed.,
with introd., by Albert Bushnell Hart.
Longmans, Green & Co. 8, $2.

HOWLAND, F. HOPPIN. The chase of Det Wet
and other later phases of the Boer war as
seen by an American correspondent. Pres-
ton & Rounds Co. 8, $1.50.
Contents: From the Solent to Table Bay;
Cape Town in 1900; The censor at Bloem-
fontein ; Seeking the elusive front ; The front
at last ; The vast land of the Boers ; Fitting:
out for the front ; The relief of Vryburg ; In-
vading the Transvaal ; Outwitting De Wet at
Potchefstroom ; Seeking Lord Methuen ; The
chase of De Wet begins; De Wet at bay 0:1
the Vaal. Writer was war correspondent for
the London Daily Mail and the Providence-
Journal.

INTERNATIONAL year-book (The) : a compen-
dium of the world's progress during the
year 1900; editor, Frank Moore Colby;
consulting editor, Harry Thurston Peck.
Dodd, Mead & Co. 8, $3-$5.
Alphabetically arranged in encyclopaedic
form; articles are given on every subject
in home and international politics that hav~
engaged the public's attention during the past
year such as the events in China and South
Africa, the Presidential campaign, sociology,
economics, etc. Articles on Music, Litera-
ture English and American science both
pure and applied medicine, on prominent per-
sons who died, etc. A series of articles
sketching briefly the progress of the century
in various departments of art. science ani
literature, with tables and statistics, supple-
ment the main alphabet.

LANDOR, A. PI. SAVAGE. China and the allies.
Scribner. 2 v., il. 8, net, $7.50.

MEXICO: a geographical sketch; with special
reference to economic conditions and pros
pects of future development; comp. by Bu-
reau of the Amer. Republics. Government
Print. Office. 8, pap., n. p.
Contains a geographical and historical
sketch; Ethnology and archaeology of Mex-
ico, by Prof. O. T. Mason ; Government and
constitutional organization army and navy;
Political division ; The states ; Agriculture ;
Stock raising; Mines and mining; Industries-
and manufactures ; Commerce ; Financial or-
ganization Public debt ; Mints, currency,
banks and banking; Rairoads; Telegraph an-.t
telephone lines ; Religion ; Cost of living, etc.
Bibliography (6 p.) and cartography (18 p.).

SPORTS AND AMUSEMENTS.

COUP, W. C. Sawdust and spangles: stories,
and secrets of the circus. Stone. 12, $1.50.

PARET, J. PARMLY. The woman's book of
sports: a practical guide to physical de-
velopment and outdoor recreation; il. from
photographs by the author. Appleton. 12,
net, $i.

Contents: Introduction; A rudimentary les-
son in golf ; Lawn-tennis for beginners ; How
to sail a catboat ; The useful art of swim-
ming; The use and abuse of bicycling; Bas-
ketball for young women; Physical exercise

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[July, igor

and development; Men's sports from a wom-
an's viewpoint Football, Baseball, Yacht-
racing, Rowing, Athletics.

THEOLOGY, RELIGION AND SPECULATION.

DRESSER, HORATIO WILLIS. The Christ ideal :
a study of the spiritual teachings of Jesus.
Putnam, nar. 16, net, 75 c.
Contents: The spiritual method; The king-
dom of God ; The kingdom of man ; The fall
of man; The new birth; Christ and nature;
The ethics of Jesus ; The denunciations ; The
Christ life.

HALL, G. F. Tabernacle talks; intrpd. re-
marks from the pen of Jessie Williams.
Laird & Lee. por. 12, (Library of choice
fiction, no. 27.) pap., 50 c.

JACK, JA. W. Daybreak in Livingstonia : the
story of the Livingstonia mission, British
Central Africa; rev., with an introd., by
Rob. Laws, D.D. Revell. map, il. 12,
net, $1.50.

JONES, JENKIN LLOYD. A search for an in-
fidel : bits of wayside gospel. 2d ser. Mac-
millan. 12, $1.50.

PETERS, MADISON CLINTON. D.D. Birds of
the Bible. Baker & Taylor. 12, net, 50 c.
50 c.

Eight sermons on the eagle, the dove, the
swallow, the peacock, and other birds men-
tioned in the Bible.

WORCESTER, ELWOOD, D.D. The Book of Gen-
esis in the light of modern knowledge.
McClure, Phillips & Co. i il. 12, $3.
Lectures delivered by the Rector of St.
Stephen's Church, Phila., on Sunday after-
noons during the winter of 1898-1899. Con-
tents: A general introduction; Critical sur-
vey; Composition of Genesis and character
of its narratives; What is the Book of Gen-
esis ? ; The eternal problem ; The creation
story ; The chaos monster in the Old Testa-
ment; Adam and Eve; Eden in the mythol-
ogy of the nations ; Cain and Abel ; Two sto-
ries of the deluge, etc.

USEFUL ARTS.

JAMES, G. WHARTON. Indian basketry. H.

Malkan. il. 8, $2.

A popular treatise, describing the baskets
and basket-makers of the great American
southwest, the Pacific coast and Alaska.
Chapters on : Basketry, the mother of pot-
tery ; Basketry in Indian legend ; Basketry
in Indian ceremonial ; Basket-making people ;
Materials and colors used in Indian basketry;
Weaves or stitches, forms and designs ; Sym-
bolism of Indian basketry, etc. Bibliography
of Indian basketry (2 p.) Profusely illus-
trated.

Cooks for tlje foung.

KENYON, WALTER J. First years in handi-
craft. Baker & Taylor Co. sq. ;8, $i.
A handbook of handicraft rather than
"sloyd," or manual training; intended to
show children how to make useful things
with the ruler, pencil, and scissors, either at
home or at school.

iterarn

OWEN JOHNSON. The author of the novel
"Arrows of the Almighty," which is pub-
lished by the Macmillan Company, according
to the Evening Telegram is the grandson of
Judge Nimrod Johnson, who was at one time
a law partner of Governor Morton, the war
Governor of Indiana. His is an old Indiana
family, a member of which, Henry N. John-
son, represented Indiana in Congress not so
long ago. This is Mr. Owen Johnson's first
appearance as a writer. He was chairman of
the Yale Literary Magazine, and was in the
class of 1900.

JEREMIAH CURTIN, TRANSLATOR OF "Quo
VADIS." It seems that "Quo Vadis" has a se-
quel which is now being put into English by
Mr. Jeremiah Curtin. It will first make its
appearance in this country in serial form,
probably covering a year or more. Concern-
ing the translator, it may be added that he
has just returned from a trip around the
world, and is now staying in Chicago. He is
also at work on a volume descriptive of his
travels, and on another pertaining to the
"Buriats" of Russia. This people is said to
be the only real primitive Mongolian tribe in
existence.

How WOMEN SHOULD DRESS FOR TENNIS.
J. Parmly Paret in "The Woman's Book of
Sports," published by the Appletons, tells
women how to dress for tennis, as follows :

"As to dress for women in tennis, a short
skirt is absolutely necessary in order to ru.i
about the court with any freedom. One or
two of the best American players wear
starched skirts of white duck, quite short,
and they keep out of the way of the legs bet-
ter than anything else an important point to
be considered in any game where running
about and auick turns give the skirts a ten-
dency to wind around the knees in a way that
makes it impossible always to start quickly.
A loose waist, preferably a shirt waist, is
also necessary to give freedom in the use of
the arms, and it is much wiser to play with-
out corsets, if possible, although it must be
admitted that few women do so."

Miss GWENDOLEN OVERTON. The following
particulars regarding Miss Gwendolen Over-
ton, the author of "The Heritage of Unrest,"
one of the best novels of the present season,
are taken from the San Francisco Argonaut:

"Miss Overton is an American, and is from
a long line of ancestors of that nationality.
She was born at a United States military
post on the plains, is about twenty-five years
of age, and has spent much time among the
people and in the environment she has used
as a background for her story. She speaks
French and Spanish, has lived abroad, and
was educated principally in Paris. She was
considered one of the finest horsewomen in
the army. Her first story was printed in the
Evening Star, of Washington, D. C., abot.t
1800 (apparently at the age of fourteen).
Since then she has been a frequent contrib-
utor of short stories to the Argonaut and
many Eastern magazines. Miss Overton re-
sides in Los Angeles."

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Jfre0ll*8t NetDS. William W. Stilson. The book is written in
untechnical language, though strictly in ac-
cord with the best scientific opinion. The au-

Miss EUGENIA BROOKS FROTHINGHAM s thor is the f oun d e r and first president of the

novel, The Turn of the Road, which was only American society for the study of ferns,

published in February last, has reached the The book con tains eight full-page plates in

tenth thousand, and the demand for it seems co lors.

D. APPLETON & Co. will shortly issue "The

THE HOME PUBLISHING COMPANY have just Beleaguered Forest," a novel by Ella W.

ready "In the House of His Friends, a new p eat tie ; "The Seal of Silence," by Arthur R.

novel by Richard Henry Savage dealing with Conder, who. like the author of "David

the dark days of 1861, when the events re- Harum," died before the publication of his

corded in this story clouded the White House first book) which is pronounced a great siic-

and the War Department. A book to be read cess in E ng i an d. "The Story of Books," by

with "Henry Bourland and The Crises. Gertrude B. Rawlings, will be the new yol-

HENRY T COATES & Co. have just ready "A H me . , n th f s f J es , w ^ch has so richly justified

Summer Hymnal," a romance of Tennessee, * s ' tltle ,^P^on s Library of Useful Stones

bv John Trotwood Moore, author of "Ole A dmiral E 7 ans s A Sa ' Ior s L 8 has had

Mistis" : and "Crankisms," by Lisle de Vaux lts slxth P nntin g-

Matthewman, biting, cynical satire comple- CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS have publish?.!
mented by delightfully witty drawings by "American Leaders and Heroes." a prelim-
Clare Victor Dwiggins, of which we hope to inary text-book in United States history, by
show one or two in our next issue. Wilbur F. Gordy; "The Confederate States
J F. TAYLOR & Co. have just issued "A of Anierica, 1861-1865 : a Financial and Indus-
Drone and a Dreamer," an American love ^lal ,pl 8t 7 u f u - S t J^ S ? G n?
ctnrv hv Mpicnn T InvH tho aiithnr of "Thp War," by John Christopher Schwab; "The
ChSnic'Loale? '' ^^vefof Pennsylvania Great Epic of India," by Edward Washbum
and "The Van Dwellers," by Albert Bigelow ^ opkl "' ; and , _ R esearch ,^ rs , * rol th , e
Paine, the author of "The Bread Line," a Kent Chemical Laboratory, edited by Frank
humorous account of a simple honest family A stin Gooch > the , la f ** b ^? the fir ^
injheir strenuous .quest for a home in New ^ ^^ ^^^S^^^.

The second edition of Sydney Herman Pres-

FREDERICK A. STOKES COMPANY have now ton's "The Abandoned Farmer" is already on
ready "Our Ferns in Their Haunts," a guide the market; and Edith Wharton's "Crucial
to all the native species, by Willard Nelson Instances" is coming into its sure and lasting
Clute, with more than 200 illustrations by success.

JUST PUBLISHED:

IN THE HOUSE OF HIS FRIENDS

A Novel by COL. RICHARD HENRY SAVAGE,

Author of "My Official Wife," Etc.

ONE of the most thrilling episodes of American political and military history has waited
forty years for the pen of the novelist !

In this most startling story the veil is lifted, at last, which clouded the White House and
War Department in the dark days of Sixty-one.

Presidents, great senators, mighty commanders, splendid women have passed away, and
this exciting event has never been fitly described an occurrence as tragic as the mutiny on the
U. S. brig " Sommers," and an outrage of far-reaching results !

On October twenty-second, Sixty-one, at Ball's Bluff, thirty-three miles from Washington,
a splendid Union force was mysteriously defeated, the fragments driven back into Maryland,
and fifteen hundred men were needlessly butchered or captured.

The inner life of the White House, the last days of Winfield Scott, deep intrigues of
senators and army commanders, and the terrible mental struggle with which Lee gave up his
United States rank all these startling scenes are here depicted from sources not to be reached
by the general public.

The daring schemes of friend and foe, the betrayal of a gallant soldier " in the house of
his friends," his later persecutions, his romantic career abroad, and all the inner secrets of the
causeless defeat of the first " Bull Run," are woven herein into a weird romance which for
depth and pathos cannot be surpassed in the annals of our land. A book to fix the breathless
attention of every reader.

Cloth, $1.25; Paper, SO Cents.

At all Booksellers or Sent, Prepaid, on Receipt of Price, by

THE HOME PUBLISHING COMPANY, 3 East 14th St., New York City.

THE LITERARY NEWS.

[July, 1901

Books for Summer Travellers.

D. APPLETON & COMPANY, New York.
APPLETONS' GUIDE BOOKS.

Appletons' General Guide to the United
States and Canada. Edition of 1901. Wilh nu-

wft'n^uck^lzfs'o. ' i ParTT^sepaVately, "EW^ ENGLAND
AND MIDDLE SPATES AND CANADA; cloth, 75 cents.
Part II., SOUTHERN AND WESTERN STATES; cloth, 75

Apple-tons' Gnlde-Book to Alaska. By Miss
E. R. Scidmore. New edition, including an Account
of the Klondike. With maps and illustrations. i2mo,

xiblecl
A Landmark History of New York. By

Albert Ulmann. With many illustrations. i2mo, cloth,

Appletons' Dictionary of [Greater] New
York and Vicinity With maps of New York
and vicinity. Square 12010, paper, 25 cents net.

Puerto Rico and Its Resources. A book fo

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ining full

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counts of Natural Features and Resources, Products,
People, Opportunities for Business, etc. By Frederick
A. Ober, author of "Camps in the Caribbees," "Cru-
soe's Island," etc. With maps and illustrations, i2tno,
cloth,*i. 50.

A. 3. BARNES & CO., New York.

Switzerland, Annals of. By Julia M. Colton.

Illustrated. i 2 mo, cloth, $1.25.
The Rhine, Legends of. By H. A. Guerber.

Illustrated. i2mo, cloth, gilt top, $1.50 net.
A Cap Cod Week. By Annie Eliot Trumbull.

i2tno, cloth, fi.oo.

BRENTANO'S, New York.

OTy Ocean Trip. By E. J. Cadigan. Illustrated
with signals and flags printed in colors, and with blank

A work appealing especially to tourists and travellers,
arranged lor the record to be kept of an Ocean Voyage.
In addition there are many items of interest, such as a
complete code of signals, series of games for shipboard,
entertainments, pages for the autographs of fellow
passengers.

POCKET DICTIONARIES. Printed at the press
of Bernhard Tauchnitz of Leipzig, Germany, from the
plates of the famous Tauchnitz series, and bound spe-
cially for Brentano's. Each, cloth, fi.oo.

Dictionary of the English and German
Languages. By J. E. Wessely.

Dictionary of the English and French
Languages. By J. E. Wessely.

Dictionary of the English and Italian
Languages. By J. E. Wessely.

Dictionary of the English and Spanish

THE CENTURY CO., New York.

Joseph Pennell. 500 pages, cloth, $2.50; leather, $3.
The White Islander. By Mary Hartwell Cather-

wood. A romance of Mackinac (for travellers on the

Great Lakes). Illustrated. $1.25.
The Golden Book of Venice. A novel by Mrs.

Lawrence Turnbull. Hamilton Mabie says: " I know

no book so full of the atmosphere of Venice." $1.50.
The Sea Beach t

told.

book might have for its sub-tL._

Seashore," for it describes the animals and plants of
the beach and is a guide to the amateur collector and
student of shore life. It is just the book that is needed
for a summer outing at the seaside. Price, $2.40, net,
plus 20 cents for postage.

FRANCIS P. HARPER, 14 West 22d St., N. Y.
Prof. Daniel Giraud-Elliot's Popular Bird Books.

North American Shore Birds. 74 fine plate?.
Game Birds of N. A. 46 fine plates.

Wild Fowl of United States and Cauadw.

63 fine plates.

HOUQHTON, MIFFLIN & CO., Boston.

Thaxter

Illustrated. $1.25.

The Isles of Shoals (Historical). By J. S. Jenness.
Maps and illustrations. $1.50.

ua). By Helen
Cape Cod. By H. D. Thoreau. $1.50.

QEORQE W. JACOBS & CO., Philadelphia.

Vacation Days in Hawaii and Japan. By

Charles M. Taylor, Jr.

British Isles Through an Opera-Glass. By

Charles M. Taylor, Jr.

Odd Bits of Travel with Brush and Cam-
era. By Charles M. Taylor, Jr. Describes little so-
journs in England, France, Holland and Germany.

WILLIAM R. JENKINS, New York.

LEMCKE & BUECHNER, New York.
Baedeker's Guide*. German and French.
Monographs on Artists.

McCLURE, PHILLIPS & CO.. New York.

lance by Booth Tark-

April's Sowing. A love story by Gertrude Hall.
Specially decorated. $1.50.

The Archbishop and the Lady. A novel of
social life by Mrs. Schuyler Crowninshield. $1.50.

From a Swedish Homestead. Stories by Selm
Lagerlof. $1.50.

of city life by Edith Wyatt. $1.50.

The God of His Fathers. Stories of the Klon-
dyke and the Northwest by Jack London. $1.50.

Love. A collection of love stories. 50 cents.

M. F. MANSFIELD & CO., New York.

Newfoundland the Tenth Island. By Beccles

Wilson. 8vo, cloth, with maps, $1.50 net,
Cycling In Ihe Alps. By C. L. Freeston. i2mo,

cloth, with 18 illustrations, $ 7.50 net.
Dining in Paris. By Rowland Strong. 12010,

cloth, $1.25.
Art in the British Isles. By J. E. Pythian

Illustrated. i6mo, cloth, $1.00.

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BOOKS FOR SUMMER TRA VELLERS. Continued.

JOHN P. MORTON & CO., Louisville, Ky.

CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS, New York.

Sole Agents for the United Mates.
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and Sicily, $1.80; London and Its Environs, $i 80 ;
Norway, Sweden, and Denmark, $3.00; Palestine and
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Portugal, $4.80; Switzerland, $2. 40; Travellers' Manual

Italian, 90 cents ;' Conversation Dictionary, in English,
French, German, and Italian, 90 cents.

REur ray's European Guide- Books. Full lists
on application.

Loo mi* (Lafayette CM. The Index Guide to
Travel and Art Study In Europe. A com-
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formation. With plans and catalogues of the chief art
galleries, tables of routes, maps, and 160 illustrations.

SILVER, BURDETT & COMPANY, N.w Y.rk, Boston,
Chicago.

Blue Shirt and Khaki. By Capt. James F. J.

Archibald. Profusely illustrated. Cloth, 269 pp., $1.50.
A valuable, engaging comparison of the traits, dis-

resulting from the author's experiences in the army
camps of Cuba and the West, and in the British and
' Boer camps of South Africa.

SILVER. BURDETT & COMPANY.-C.ntinued.
The Duke of Stockbrldge. By Edward Bellamy,
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" Dainty as a wild rose, fragrant as a violet. It is un-
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either in several respects." Brooklyn Eagle.

Historic Pilgrimages In New England. A

vivid story of old New England, told on the very spots
where the Colonial drama was enacted. By Edwin M.
Bacon. 476 pp. Illustrated. $1.50.

E. STEIQER & CO., New York.
Baedeker's and Other Guide-Books, in

German. The largest assortment of Books for the
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FREDERICK WARNE 4 CO., New York.

The Romance of Wild Flowers. By Edward

Step, F.L.S., with 200 illustrations and 32 full-page

plates in monotint, reproduced from photographs of

flowers taken in their actual haunts. Written for the

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No. 8.

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JOHN

THE work 'of the brilliant man whose life
was cut short on Thursday, July 4, says The
Nation, is doubtless best described as that of
a purveyor of knowledge to the commonalty.
John Fiske's mind was powerful, but not
originating. He knew what true learning
was, and where it was; and it was his de-
light and highest function to go into the work-
shops of the great laborers in philosophy and
in history, and come out to tell the world
what they were doing. He was essentially a
lecturer.

said Lowell of himself, ruefully. But lectur-
ing may be made so much of a fine art that
i- may almost be said to be itself creative.
It was so in Fiske's hands. For mastery of
his subject without dulness, for lucidity and
charm and fresh enthusiasm, we probably
have never had his like at least, in the ab-
struser philosophical and historical subjects
which it was his joy to expound and illu-
minate.

FISKE.

His chosen and successful role was thus
that of a popularizer of useful knowledge.
His early writings in elucidation of Herbert
Spencer, for example, probably had ten read-
ers in this country where the original works
of the evolutionary philosopher had one. The
reason was that Fiske had the gift of exposi-
tion, and was able, by his style, as no man
ever accused Spencer of being, to make phil-
osophy as musical as is Apollo's lute. If
Huxley was, as he boasted, the "bull-dog" of
Darwin, Fiske was the mocking-bird of Spen-
cer. And to him, above all lecturers and in-
terpreters, may rightly be -applied Coleridge's
famous distinction between "popularize" and
"plebificate." John Fiske was no smatterer.
If it is true that other men labored an i he en-
tered into their labors, it was by no royal
road. He went to the sources as well as they;
he was able to check off their work, and so to
escape the danger of their leading him around
by the nose. His own industry was enormous,
his reading of a tremendous sweep, his pas-
sion for 'investigation like a living fountain

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[August, 1901

within him, and his curiosity ever unsated.
So it was the real thing he gave out to the
public genuine scholarship, first-han.-i infor-
mation, and not the mere echo of his author-
ities.

His fruitful labors in American history will
be his best bid for remembrance. The fashion
of philosophy changeth, and his wrirngs on
speculative evolution are already left behind.
Yet it was the evolutionary principle applied
tu history which, with his unflagging inquiry
and ransacking of the sources, made Fiske's
books on our own history the fresh and ef-
fective contributions they are. He looked
everywhere for historical continuity, for or-
derly development, for inheritance of political
institutions as well as of blood, and lor their
natural variation under a changed environ-
ment. We presume that no other man did so
much to correct the old popular notions about
the philosophy of the American Revolution.
To Fiske, as to the clearest-headed English
writers, as to Lecky, Sir George Trevelyan,
and John Morley, the Revolution of the
American colonies was simply an episode in
the historic English struggle for liberty. No
doubt it was the conception of evolution,
firmly fixed in Fiske's mind by the studies of
his young manhood, which enabled h : m after-
wards to throw such illumination upon the
beginnings of our national life.

For such a work as he wrought, two con-
ditions are necessary. First, you mu^t have a
kind of incurable boyishness in your great
popularizer. He must take a simple- delight
in his own discoveries and acquisitions. He
must be as na'if as a child in bringing forward
his treasures for the public to inspect. With
this must go an unfailing spring of activity, a
hunger for work, and a kind of glad irrespon-
sibility for everything except the peculiar
labors he delights in. This was confessedly
Fiske's temperament; and to supplement it
there existed just what he needed, and with-
out which his career would have been im-
possible namely, his predestined audience.
He had, in other words, a vast and growing
reading and listening public, imperfectly in-
structed, but eager to learn. It was aware,
in a vague way, that new thoughts were astir
in the world, that science had made vast
strides, and that history was being rewritten ;
but it had no man, till John Fiske came along,
to act as a trusty intermediary between sound
learning and popular misapprehension. It
was, therefore, a beautiful instance of adap-
tation to environment which John Fiske pre-
sented. He knew the best that was thought
and written ; he had a pre-eminent faculty for

setting forth what he knew ; and more and
more thousands of people looked up to him to
be fed. Unquestionably he reached and in-
fluenced greater numbers than could have been
touched by his personality if he had chosen to
be a regularly attached professor in the uni-
versity. His forte was, as we have said, lec-
turing. After hearing him you would not
say, as Lowell said was your impression after
hearing Emerson lecture, that "something
beautiful had passed that way"; but you would
say that such an expository gift, such lucidity
combined with such learning, marked their
possessor out as a prince of his art.

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Dutch and Quaker colonies in America.
2 v. $4. Houghton.

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Mississippi Valley in the Civil War. $2.

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Schurz, C:, Russell. W. E., and others.
Presidents of the United States, 1789-1894.
$3.50; $6. Appleton.
John Fiske's untimely death will not delay

the appearance of an important work to which
his last few years were devoted his "His-
tory of the Two Americas" as his contribu-
tion to the History of All Nations under the
editorship of Prof. Wright, of Harvard. Mr.

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227

Fiske had finished the proof-reading of his Last Years of the Nineteenth Century.

first two volumes, "The Colonization of the THE writing of contemporaneous history is

New World" and "The Independence of the confessedly a task of great delicacy and diffi-

New World," while the third volume. "The culty. At the best it can hardly be more than

Modern Development of the New World." a collection of material, the arrangement of

was left in a complete state, excepting the in- which in proper proportion and perspective

dex. The twenty-four volumes of the series and the treatment of which in any true ju-

EMPRESS OF RUSSIA.

of which it forms a part will appear next
autumn.

Professor Fiske had accepted the invitation
of a committee of Englishmen to deliver an
address at the King Alfred millenary at Win-
chester this summer, and had arranged to sail
for England early this month.

The Atlantic Monthly for August contains
an excellent estimate of John Fiske. probably
written by the editor. Bliss Perry ; The North
American has an article by Mrs. Van Rens-
selaer on Mr. Fiske's Dutch and Quaker
colonies in America ; The Critic's contribu-
tion is by George L. Beer; John Graham
has written on Fiske for The Review of
Reviews, and Edward Cary for The Book
Buyer.

dicial sense must be defe'rred. Mrs. Latimer
is not dismayed, however, by the embarrass-
ments of the undertaking, and in her "Last
Years of the Nineteenth Century" has added
another volume to a useful series. She has
concisely sketched the leading movements in
the world's history during the last twenty-five
years, grouping them in six parts, namely:
France, Russia and Turkey, England, Africa,
Italy and Austro-Hungary. and Spain. Rap-
idly, and with a commendable degree of ac-
curacy and fairness, she has reviewed the
great events around these pivotal points, and
her chapters will be found useful for reference
apart from their mere interest as reading
matter. There is a good index. (McClurg.
$2.) Boston Literary World.

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The Bolivian Andes.

IN this volume Sir Martin Con way has
added to his already world-wide fame as a
mountain climber. His observations and ad-
ventures make interesting reading, partly be-
cause his style is pleasant and easy, partly
because he describes a part of the world that
is little known. Unless, however, the reader
happens to be an enthusiast on the subject of
mountain climbing a sport in itself the in-
formation here given regarding the general
nature of the countries traversed and their
people will be the matter of greatest interest.
About the harshest thing Sir Martin has to
say of the people is that they take too many
holidays, while of their country he cannot
say too much in praise so far as its resources
are concerned. The mines, forest, and com-
munications of Bolivia are mainly undevel-
oped, and the author found 'that "it was the
desire of men of all parties to attract foreign,
and particularly English and United States,
capital to open up the great wealth of the
country." Gold, silver, copper, tin, antimony,
and the other metals exist in profusion. The
india-rubber forests beyond Sorata are de-
-scribed at length because the author believes
that it is "as a portal to a great gold region,
not improbably as rich and important as the
Rand, that Sorata is destined to attain world
renown sooner or later." And the explorer
heaid no complaints of unfair treatment of
investors by the government.

The activity of the Germans in South
America is an old story. Sir Martin adds
another chapter to it. At La Paz and in its

neighborhood he found only three Americans
and Englishmen, the foreign colony was com-
posed almost entirely of Germans engaged in
retail trade. But at Aruro, on his way to the
coast, there were forty Englishmen managing
mines or machinery. "Speaking generally,
this was characteristic of South America:
where work was to be done involving the
management of men in any numbers, or of
machinery, there was generally an English-
speaking person in control ; whereas, where
it was a question of selling cheap goods to
suit the local trade and requirements, such
trade was in the hands of the Germans. Ger-
many has learned what England has not
learned, the profitableness of exploring her
shop-keepers."

Illustrations from photographs add to the
value and attractiveness of the volume. (Har-
per. $3.) Public Opinion.

Westerfelt.

THE sixth issue of Harper's twelve Ameri-
can novels for 1901 is Will N. Harben's
"Westerfelt." This novel is saturated with
the spirit of contemporary life in rural
Georgia, in what the author has called "the
Cohutta section." The story opens with im-
mediate interest, the supposed heroine dying
in the second chapter by her own hand, and
the real heroine appearing later. The hero,
John Westerfelt, whose thoughtless fickleness
has been the cause of the tragedy, is stricken
with remorse. He leaves the village and goes
to Cartwright. In a hand-to-hand fight with
a Georgia moonshiner, Toot Wambush

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which is described with thrilling realistic ef-
fect Westerfelt is injured and carried into
the ''hotel," where he is kindly cared for by
the proprietress, Mrs. Floyd, and her daugh-
ter Harriot. Harriet has received some atten-
tion from Toot Wambush, the moonshiner,
and Westerfelt, who is of a superior family,
fights against his infatuation for Harriet be-
cause he believes her capable of loving such a
desperado as Wambush. The Whitecaps ap-
pear m the story, and Westerfelt is saved
from them by the spirit and fidelity of Harriet,
who conceals from him the fact that she loves
him. There are misunderstandings and lov-
ers' meetings, and a fine account of a Georgia
revival, with many realistic scenes native to
these neighborhoods. There is no negro dia-
lect. The story is handled throughout with un-
usua! strength and finesse. .(Harper. $i 50.)

Understudies.

Miss WILKINS, whose curt, bright observa-
tion and snappy idiomatic expression have
never impressed us so favorably in her labored
novels as in her sketchy stories, is at her
best, we think, in the dozen curious little sto-
ries which she has grouped together here as
SD many delineations of the lives and hearts
of the animate and inanimate people of na-
turecats, monkeys, squirrels, parrots among
the former, and mountain laurels, peonies and
morning-glories among the latter, and to
which she has imparted enough of humanity
in the abstract, or enough of certain types
of men and women in the concrete, as to
justify her in presenting them to us as their

Understudies. These stories belong in a
measure to the fabulous narrations which,
originating at an early period among the peo-
ples of the far East, have reached us as the
productions of Pilpay, -lEsop, and others, but
with such differences that they may now.be
said to be their distant, if not their poor rela-
tions. They do not impress us as represent-
ing the healthiest and best aspects of human
beings their impulsive actions, their good na-
ture, as one may say, but their darker quali-
ties, their meanness and their malignity, and
the verisimilitude is not a pleasant one, for
through all the cleverness of these studies we
feel, or fancy we feel, an indefinable bitter-
ness, a sense of contemptuous scorn, a de-
pressing, painful cynicism. We may not
wholly disown, but we certainly dislike our, or
shall we say Miss Wilkins's "Understudies."*
(Harper. $1.50.) Mail and Express.

Talks on Civics.

THE aim of this book is certainly com-
mendable, and the author is well qualified for
the work that he has undertaken. He is thor-
oughly informed, he is a clear thinker, and
he writes in a plain and forcible style. It is
an ambitious design to declare the whole
duty of the citizen but it is carried out with
as much success as could reasonably be an-
ticipated ; perhaps with more success than any
similar attempt has attained. Whatever short-
comings may be observed are to be attributed
more to the vast scope of the undertaking,
and to the controversial nature of many of
the subjects treated, than to any deficiency in

ight, 1901, by Harper & Brothers.

PALM AVENUE, PANAMA.

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[August, 1901

the author's equipment. He has a well-de-
fined body of political principles, derived from
his own reflection on the doctrines of the
soundest of teachers, and he applies them
consistently and conscientiously. He deserves
to be honored as a patriot ; for no better ser-
vice can be rendered to the country than to
teach its citizens how its institutions have
been developed. No country, Mr. Holt ob-
serves, has been cursed so much as ours by
political quackery especially the quackery
which proposes immediate cures by legisla-
tion for the abiding ills resulting from hu-
man weakness and ignorance. All our ben-
eficent institutions have been evolved through
the long and painful struggles which have
produced character and morality, yet there is
scarcely one, from a stable currency c!own to
the very right of accumulating property, that
has lately escaped a strong attempt to over-
throw it, and to substitute some invention
bearing a new name, but really a form of
some protean error as old as history. Against
these perennial fallacies Mr. Holt girds him-
self like a man, and exposes them valiantly.

Mr. Holt professes to use the Socratic
method only in a modified form; but his
method differs materially from that of Plato.
That accomplished cross-examiner was in the
habit of leading his pupils on until they con-
futed themselves and thus discovered their
errors. Mr. Holt's pupil is omniscient ; the
teacher has only to broach a subject in order
to let on a gush of knowledge, Mr. Holt de-
fends his method with so much modesty as to
make us quite willing to concede that it has
certain advantages. In fact, we have found
his book much more readable than its form
led us to expect.

Possibly there would have been a gain in
omitting the summary of the law of real and
personal property, contracts, etc., and giving
more space to the defence of doctrines which
are widely controverted. Neverthek-s>. Mr.
Holt is not to be regarded as attempting to
make every man his own lawyer, and his pres-
entation of the law is lucid and interesting.
We can heartily recommend his book to young
and old as containing a social philosophy of
the best kind ; animated with the spirit of be-
nevolence as well as justice, free from cant
and from fallacy, and practical because based
on experience. Even those who do not accept
all its conclusions will be benefited by ob-
serving how they are reached. To put such
a book in the hands of an intelligent boy will
do much to make him a good citizen. We
may add that, in spite of its polemics, the

tone of the book is highly optimistic. (Mac-
millari. $1.25.) .V. V. Evening Post.

Joscelyn Cheshire.

Do you tire of historical romances? All
that is good in human nature, love of coun-
try and of our kind rises to greet this beau-
tiful love-tale of the Revolutionary era in
North Carolina. It might have happened
in some other good borough of the Colonial
South with social ties binding its people to
Old England and furnishing the favorite
situation of Loyalist and Rebel at most un-
civil war and in desperate love with each
other. Here the Tory girl does not find her
heart fully tor five long years. For such .1
dreary spell Richard Clavering, Continental
scout and spy, knows hairbreadth escapes
and confinement in pestilential ships and
wounds and the deeper agony of hopes dis-
appointed by "my lady Disdain." What
matters it if these Grahams, Camerons,
Strudwicks. Ruffins, and, above Joscelyn
Cheshire herself, met in no such grouping
in those brave days of old; if indeed,
scarcely one, if any individual, owning those
historic naiiKs. was then in the aristocratic
ourse the external facts
y struggle are correctly
it is a good stroke of the author,
herself of North Carolina stock, to <hrow on
her canvas some of the interesting traits
that have marked these accomplished families
m later days. The intellectual energy, the
taMe. the distinction of person and character
that belong to the line of the present Bishop
of North Carolina, are reflected backward
upon Joscelyn Cheshire.

>;>me incidents are strongly done the spy's
intrusion into Howe's headquarters and his
assumption of the British aide-de-camp's role
'.imlcr cover of night and the stolen cloak;
the horrors of the prison hulks of Wallabout
Has. off Staten Island; the Cornwallis-Tarie-
ton march through Middle Carolina ; the dem-
onstration of the Loyalist element.

But the golden thread that connects it all
and holds our interest in a book whose open-
ing seems to be only conventional and cor-
rect is the fine art. the touch of grace, in
dealing with the great passion in man and
woman. The willful sweet girl and her hero
are full of life. The author, Sara B. Kennedy,
has the subtle gift that analyzes and depicts
the mood, the despair, the triumph of love held
long at bay. We commend the book as whole-
some and vivid and true in feeling. (Double-
day, Page & Co. $1.50.) Baltimore Sun.

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231

A Princess of the Hills.

the beautiful heroine of Mrs. Burton Harri-

DEEP buried in. the magazines of some forty son's "A Princess of the Hills," and to add
years ago are scores and hundreds of heroes to her perplexity she has two other suitors

besides the English peer who loves her truly,
and the Italian soldier whose apparent indif-
ference leads her to accept her American
Cophetua, scorning a middle-aged Italian

who protested that they would marry -their
own true love with the primrose face, and
that the Marquise de Carabas might, to put it
briefly, suit herself with another young man.

le Hills." . Copyright, 1901, by Lothro

"THERE'S FIORE NOW."

They were lovely and pleasant in their lives,
those youths, and in their death they are not
divided from the primrose-faced young per-
son, who would make no figure whatsoever at
golf or tennis, and illuminate no box at the
horse show, but neither they nor s-he ever
dreamed of a beggar maiden who, given her
choice, would hesitate between King Cophe-
tua and another beggar. Yet thus hesitates

suitor. The reason of this somewhat extrava-
gant outpouring of homage at her shrine is a
quite extraordinary loveliness, and some nat-
ural cleverness, combined with an endowment
of hard Italian common sense, enabling her to
judge all the men justly, with no prejudice as
to youth or nationality. Her final choice is an
astonishment to the reader, and to her lovers,
and probably to herself, but it is the result of

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[siugust, 1901

this same common sense, although she names readers and labelled with real names must be

it love.

The scene of the story is a mountain vil-
lage but slightly affected by the locust swarm
of tourists, and the course of the narration is
broken by tales of village life vivaciously re-
counted by a peasant woman of the best type,
pious, clean, and frugal, and full of that lively

a relaxation and a delight, and the effects are
pleasantly perceptible in the narrative and de-
scriptive passages of the book. If the con-
versations are no better than those in her
American novels, it is because perfection can-
not be improved. (Loth ( rop. $1.50.) Times
Saturday Review.

From " The Second Book

curiosity as to incidents and men which finds
life supremely interesting and brings happi-
ness even in misfortune. It need hardly be
said that she and all the minor characters are
as carefully drawn as the principals, ior Mrs.
Harrison is no novke in art. That this is her
best book is to be ascribed to the freedom of
touch and treatment resulting from release
from all obligation to consider what may be
read into the story by critics or by persons
fancying themselves reflected in it. To leave
modern New York behind and to take a flight
among folk who will not be recognized by

The Potter and the Clay.

"THE POTTER AND THE CLAY/' by Maud
Howard Peterson, is the vividly told tale of
an American girl loved by two British sol-
diers. One prizes her above his honor, while
the other's attitude toward her is love with
honor. It is a problem novel, yet, a rovel all
action. The heroine must choose between
two heroes one strong enough to risk his
love for his duty, the other strong enough
to risk his duty for his love.

The title of the book is from a verse in the
"Rubaiyat," and the testing of the interwovi

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233

lives of the three leading characters gives the
framework of a strong and beautiful story.
The scenes of the story are laid in an Ameri-
can coast fort, in London and Scotland, in an
English post in India and a stricken cholera
camp among the hills. Romance and de-
scription vie with masterly character-sketching
to make the story absorbing. (Lothrop. $1.50.)

Lucy Cleaver McElroy.

MRS. MCELROY, author of "Juletty,'' fell
from her horse ten years ago and has not for
one minute since been free from pain, the fall
resulting in a spinal trouble that is incurable.
For two years she lay on a bed of priin, and
for two more sat in a wheel chair, an-1 though
at times she is now able to walk, much of her
time is spent in one or the other. When told
by her father and brother (the latter also a
brilliant young physician) that she would
never again be well, but might live to old age
so nearly helpless, she asked to be left alone.
Then in the solitude of her own room she
fought the battle of horror and came off vic-
tor; her husband and his sister, who attend
her constantly, assert they have never heard
her groan nor murmur at her fate.

She is the light and life of her household,
and a stranger would never suspect her suf-
fering. Her laugh is merry and frequent, her
busy mind plans all pleasures and duties for
her family, directs housekeeping, sewing, and
ali a mother's affairs. She has written for
newspapers and magazines for sevenil years.
When asked how she could do it when she
already had enough of work and more than

Courtesy of The Lothrop Pub. Co.
MAUD HOWARD PETERSON.

Courtesy of T. Y. Crowell & Co.

enough of pain she answered : "I must help ;
I must do my part for the children ; this will
help a trifle toward educating them.'

It is this woman, whose daily life is to all
beholders a lesson in patience, endurance, and
true unselfishness, and to her family a ben-
ediction, who has., written "Juletty." Written
it lying on her ojpGh ; when the nervous fin-
gers refused to'iVofd pen or pencil, and she
picked out with one hand the long pages on a
typewriter. While she has much of sympathy
with the New Woman, and has done some of
her work through necessity, in her heart she
is an old-fashioned, home-keeping, home-
loving person. In person she is petite ; has
large blue eyes (the most expressive in the
world), and a wealth of golden brown hair.

"Juletty" is Mrs. McElroy's first book, and
was first offered to Messrs. Thomas Y.
Crowell & Company, and was immediately ac-
cepted. Recognizing the merits of the story
and impressed by the picturesque setting, the
publishers employed Mr. W. E. Mears, a
young artist of unusual ability, to make a
series of drawings to illustrate the book. As
a preliminary, Mr. Mears thoroughly explored
Lebanon and the surrounding country. His
sympathetic and spirited pictures admirably
supplement the author's brilliant work.

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A Summer Hymnal.

THIS is a pretty little idyl of southern life,
by the author of "Ole Mistis." It ii a love
story in part, a sort of etherealized love
story in which all every-day details are lost
sight of in a cloud of poetic reflections about
the birds and trees and flowers. There is a
poem at the beginning of every chapter, and
the characters are continually dropping into
prose poetry in their conversations and medi-
tations with the greatest facility. It is rather
too sentimental, at times even tiresome, but
still it is genuinely attractive in its fresh and
true appreciation of all that is beautiful in
out-of-door life, and particularly in the love
of animals that shows in every line almost.
As for the slender thread of plot it hinges
upon Ned Ballington's love for a charming
and penniless girl, Thesis, who, on her part,
feels herself forced, in order to save her uncle
from bankruptcy, to marry another man,
whom she hates. Ned, in desperation, en-
gages himself to her cousin, Bernice, and
then on the eve of the wedding deliberately
gets himself injured in a driving accident be-
cause he cannot face marriage with any one
but Thesis. Bernice releases him, and in the
end he gets well, Thesis is saved from her
unwelcome wooer and it all ends properly.
The story closes with a dramatic chapter in
which Ned drives his beautiful racing filly,
Marjorie, to Nashville on a dark night, forty
miles in two hours, to rescue Thesis from her
forced marriage. It is very thrilling, but one
wonders why Ned didn't go quietly down to
the station and take the train for Nashville,
as another of Thesis's friends did, instead of
half killing his cherished mare in that heroic
but unnecessary ride. (Coates. $1.25.)
Commercial Advertiser.

Author of the Kidnapped Millionaires.

FREDERICK UPHAM ADAMS, author of the
newspaper Wall Street story, "The Kid-
napped Millionaires," was born in Boston,
December 10, 1859. From his father he re-
ceived a thorough mechanical education, and
in 1880 became a designer of machinery in
Chicago. He improved and perfected many
of the mechanical devices now accepted as
standards. A threatened loss of eve-sight
compelled him to abandon his profession, and
in 1883 Mr. Adams accepted a position on the
Chicago Neivs. He became a student of labor
and social problems, and for a number of
years was in charge of the labor department
of the Chicago Tribune. He participated in
the stirring events incident to the Anarchist

outbreak of 1886, and in the series of great
strikes which marked this period. The
routine of an active newspaper life did not
suppress the natural inventive genius of Mr.
Adams. In 1885 he invented the electric light
tower, which at one time promised to be-
come the accepted method of lighting cities.
He sold these patents and subsequently in-
vented the single-arm electric lamp-post,
which is the standard in most American cities.
ID 1892 Mr. Adams was placed in charge of
the literary and press work of the western
branch of the Democratic National Commit-
tee, and displayed such tact and executive
ability that he was appointed chief of the
Literary and Press Bureau in the campaign
of 1896. In the following year he founded the
New Time, a magazine of social reform, and
continued as its editor until it was consoli-
dated with the Arena. Prior to this Mr.
Adams wrote "President John Smith,' which
was first published as a serial in the Chicago
Times and later in book form. This book at-
tained a circulation of 125,000, and is a for-
cible and thoughtful contribution to the liter-
ature of constructive political economy. As a
writer Mr. Adams possesses the rare advan-
tage of combining a thorough knowledge of
scientific and technical matters with a pleas-
ing literary style, and the gift of imagination.
Mr. Adams' writings disclose a fine vein of
humor, and at times a discreet use of those
dangerous weapons, sarcasm and satire. As
an inventor Mr. Adams bids fair to take a
front rank. In the spring of 1900 he con-
structed a passenger train of seven cars built
to avoid atmosphere resistance. This train
was tested between Philadelphia and Wash-
ington, and broke all the world's records, at-
taining the startling sustained speed of 103
miles an hour. The train was an experimental
one, and plans are now in progress for the
perfection and adoption of Mr. Adams's plans.
(Lothrop Pub. Co. $1.50.) Baltimore Sun.

Valencia's Garden.

THE story which Mrs. Crowninshield tells
ir "Valencia's Garden" is simple enough in its
main outline, being merely that of a young
English girl, who, left unprovided for by the
death of her father, emerges from the convent
in which she was residing to be married to
an elderly French Count, to whom her welfare
and person had been confided, and what came
of this marriage from the temperament of
the girl-wife, frank, fresh, natural, impulsive,
and every way charming, and that of her
aged bridegroom, who cherished an uncon-

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235

MRS. SCHUYLER CROWNINSHIELD.

scious sentimental passion for an artificial
and malicious widow of his own age, and the
drowsy, inactive, incurable temperaments of
two or three members of his family, a brother,
a sister, and so on, who share his household,
his habits, and his careless indifference to his
young wife, the whole forming a menagerie
of inherited conventionalities, prejudices, ab-
surdities, whimsicalities, and good breeding,
the like of which could exist nowhere but
in the provincial parts of France and among
its old noblesse and the best bourgeoisie.

The personal story of Valencia is a lovely
one, she is so girlish in her feelings and so
womanly in her conduct, but not on the whole
so curiously and so irritatingly interesting as
the personality of the staid, proper, kindly,
gracious, exasperating French men and
women who surround her and mould her life,
but not her character and her destiny. Stu-
dents of national manners will find much to
admire and remember in "Valencia's Gar-
den." (McClure, Phillips & Co. $1.50.)
Mail and Express.

an old log cabin on her father's place at South
Haven, Mich., whence most of her work
dated, was totally destroyed. Here were writ-
ten "The Rose Jar," "A Shylock of the Sand-
hills," and other stories ; and here went up in
flame two nearly completed novels, "The Be-
leagured Forest" and "The Maker of Gods,"
several score of stories, twenty lectures, and
hundreds of beginnings, character sketches,
scraps of conversation, and the like, written
out and pigeon-holed for future use. The
work of years, to say nothing of furniture,
pet curios, books, and the quaint little cabin
in its beautiful grove by the lake, vanished.
Out of these ashes Mrs. Peattie has resur-
rected "The Beleaguered Forest."

It is the story of a young girl of artistic
nature and many gifts who became erratic,
emotional and dissatisfied owing to total lack
of guidance and control. In the midst of a
summer camping expedition with people all
outside the pale of commonplace the girl
k-arns that her money is gone. She dreads re-
turning to an uncongenial stepmother, wishes
to escape an unloved lover, and accepts with-
out hesitation the offer of the owner of large
forests in the North to become his wife.

Her life in the forest where she is the only
woman, her husband's fatal secret, her wor-
ship of the trees, her development of musical

The Beleaguered Forest.

ORIGINALITY, imagination and womanliness
have been sadly missing in the fiction of the
year, and the new story by Mrs. Elia Wil-
kinson Peattie, in which all these most allur-
ing qualities of romance are so conspicuous,
comes at a time to be received with rejoicing.
The author of "The Judge" and "The" Moun-
tain Woman" had already given promise of
satisfying literary work to come, but she has
more than fulfilled such promise in "The Be-
leaguered Forest," a story of the vast pine
woods of Northern Michigan.

Two years ago Mrs. Peattie had the mis-
fortune of losing by fire the accumulated
treasures of her literary life. "Wildwood,"

Courtesy of D. Apj'leton & f'o.
MRS. ELIA W. PEATTIE.

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[August, 1901

genius and great love of domestic duties make
a story that leaves a deep poetic impression.

Mrs. Peattie was born in Kalamazoo while
her father was fighting for the North in the
Civil War. She was raised in Michigan and
Chicago, and was married early to a news-
paper man. A wide experience in travelling
all over our dominions has given invaluable
help in securing literary proportion, contrast,
and accent. For several years she has been a
successful contributor to Western papers and
to the leading American magazines. All this
work has brought a goodly reputation as a
capable and vigorous writer on Western life.
(Appleton. $1.50.)

The Seal of Silence.

THIS is one of those stories whose clever-
ness you do not half appreciate until you try
to summarize them. A summary, even an elab-
orate one, sounds simply preposterous, while
in the story itself the half dozen eccentric
characters who hold the centre of the stage are
drawn so graphically and so well that their
strange and erratic performances are accepted
as at least plausible. Curly and Rutherford
are cousins and enemies, for Curly has done
his cousin one of the greatest favors and
greatest injuries that one man can do an-
other: he saved him from death at the hands
of African savages, and he robbed him of the
woman he loved, having wooed her, married
her and three years later buried her among
the veldts and kopjes of the Transvaal. It
was not until after the widower returned to
England, to forget his grief, and incidentally
to take out patents for a new preparation of
dynamite, that the cousin learns that Curly
had all this time had another wife living in
England, and that the little South African
bride, now dead and buried, had no rightful
claim to her title. Rutherford follows on
the next steamer and hastens to his cousin's
home, but is outstripped, by a few seconds,
by a lad devoted to Curly, who runs to warn
him. and dies of heart failure while gasping
forth his warning. Imagine the scene which
follows: The dismal, stormy night; the two
cousins meeting in the old-fashioned country
kitchen ; Curly's bag of dynamite on the
kitchen table between them and the body of
the dead lad lying unnoticed under a cloth in
one corner. The quarrel rages between them,
until Rutherford, goaded past endurance by
his cousin's mocking manner, fires at him
point-blank, sees the body collapse on the
floor, flees from the house with the brand of

a murderer upon him, and a few minutes
later is startled by a deafening roar as Curly's
newly invented dynamite explodes, effectually
removing all evidence of his crime, and im-
prints upon him "the seal of silence." As all
this summarizes only the opening pages of the
story, it is apparent that there is a goodly al-
lotment of melodramatic situations in store
for the reader who likes that sort of thing.
The book is raised above mediocrity by a
fund of whimsical humor which makes one
feel that the late author, Arthur R. Conder,
who did not live to see his story in print,
must have been a man who could prove him-
self upon occasion a very pleasant companion.
(Appleton. $i ; Pjap., 50 c.) Commercial Ad-
vertiser.

Content in a Garden.

MRS. CANDACE WHEELER'S volume "Content
in a Garden" is an exquisite creation. It is
rare that a book is endowed with such com-
plete and satisfying charm. An artist by na-
ture and culture has set hand and thought to
its production, and the result is an original
and finished bit of work. We might call it a
symphony in green, were the term not too
pretentious for an effect so simple and unaf-
fected. The entire book, except the paper and
the print, is dressed in shades of chlorophyll,
the substance which gives color to the stem
and the leaf of the plant. The cover, the leaf
edges, the drawings, the marginal lines, are
all in these soft, harmonious tints. Another
pleasing feature is the novel arrangement of
the text, which, confined to the inner portion
of the page, leaves broad free spaces at the
sides and bottom. These give room for Dora
Wheeler Keith's decorations, consisting of
graceful sprays of flowers taken from speci-
mens in the author's garden. The text itself
is the overflow of a woman's delight in the
manifold beauty pervading the floral king-
dom. It is interesting and stimulating, im-
pressing on the reader the happiness to be had
in the possession of a garden, in the thought
and the labor devoted to it, and in the pos-
sibilities of sesthetic development that arise
from an intelligent study of the subject. To
Mrs. Wheeler a garden is a genuine art work,
after the manner of a painting, and in the
massing and grading of colors should be as
carefully and correctly studied. There is
much valuable suggestion in her statements,
and this, with their attractive setting, renders
her book a veritable treasure. (Houghton,
Mifflin & Co. $1.25.) The Dial.

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237

Long Live the King.

MR. BOOTHBY abandons for the moment the
astounding Dr. Nikola, who is at any rate his
own invention, and turns in "Long Live the

nonia ; how he is going to be plunged into
despair and ultimately set upon a throne with
a radiantly beautiful queen by his side. It
may be said in defence of Mr. Boothby, how

King!" to the romantic theme on which ever, that he has taken greater pains with this

countless novelists have been playing more or
less satisfactory variations ever since Steven-
son and Anthony Hope showed them its
\alue. This time it is the Kingdom of Pan-
nonia that gets itself planned out in no man's
land in order that a princeling may not only
be shown engaged in all manner of adven-
tures, but may be given a local habitation and
a name. It is not the most amusing reading
in the world. We know in advance just what
is going to happen to Prince Paul of Pan-

story than with some of his more original
productions. The narrative is well put to-
gether and the style is less aggressively slip-
shod. He is, of course, still fertile in the
contrivance of exciting situations. The book
is full of incident. If the reader will forget
"Prince Otto" and "The Prisoner of Zenda"
he may manage to spend a tolerable hour
with "Long Live the King!" Comparisons
are never profitable. (H. S. Stone & Co.
$1.25.) AT. Y. Tribune.

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[August, 1901

The Jewish Encyclopedia.

THE first volume of "The Jewish Encyclo-
pedia" there are to be twelve in all has just
reached us from the press of the Funk &
Wagnalls Company. The history of the mak-
ing of any book is interesting; that of as im-
portant a publication as this is particularly so.

Monumental is the only word to apply to
an undertaking of this character, which has
already occupied the attention of more than
four hundred European and American schol-
ars for three years, and they are now but at
the beginning of their task.

Briefly, the work is designed to be a com-
plete history of the Jews and Judaism. The
history, biography, sociology, literature, the-
ology, philosophy all, in a word, that has
gone to the making of this unique people, is
to be presented authoritatively and completely.

From the pamphlet which accompanies this
first volume we learn that Dr. Isidore Singer
is the originator of the undertaking. Before
crossing the Atlantic and seeking in America
a chance to develop the crowning idea of his
life the publication of a Jewish encyclopedia
he endeavored to interest his co-religionists
abroad in this project. In Berlin a few Ger-
man scholars, whose studies prompted them
to sympathize with the undertaking, were
called together as the result of Dr. Singer's
prior communications with F. A. Brockhaus,
a publisher of Leipsic. Dr. Singer, at that
time a resident of Paris, crossed the frontier,
and, going to Berlin, presented his plans and
received unqualified encouragement and sup-
port from the eminent scholars present. But
a publisher had to be found, and to assure the
success of the undertaking he must be able
and willing to risk at least two million marks.
Brockhaus asked guaranties, but those no one
was prepared to give. So Dr. Singer, return-
ing to France, sought anew for a publisher
sufficiently enterprising to embark in the vast
undertaking. Beyond securing the good-will
of a number of prominent French scholars of
various creeds nothing definite was accom-
plished; and the intense anti-Semitic feeling
that was then revealing itself in connection
with the Dreyfus case rendered his further
search in France a hopeless one. Acting on
the advice of the venerable Zadoc Kahn, the
chief rabbi of France, Dr. Singer, ceasing the
publication of La Vraie Parole, a journal is-
sued by him in opposition to Drumont's La
Libre Parole, turned his eyes westward, hop-
ing to find in the United States the realization
of his hopes.

Arriving in New York, Dr. Singer imme-
diately set out on the task of finding a pub-

lisher, although hampered by the verv slight
knowledge he possessed of the English lan-
guage. Repulsed here, rejected there, his
hopes were well-nigh shattered, when a street
car advertisement of the Standard Dictionary
suggested the possibility that its publishers
might look with favor on his project. On
them he called, and after various interviews
the Executive Committee of the Funk & Wag-
nalls Company agreed to embark on what may
be justly considered a magnum opus.

So much for the history of the work. That
it will be carried to triumphant conclusion
this first volume affords an ample guarantee.
(Fung & Wagnalls Company. 12 v., v. i. $7.)

The God of His Fathers
THE friends of Scruff Mackenzie and of
Malemute Kid will welcome "The God of His
Fathers." Probably all writers of the short
story laid in distant lands fervently wish that
Kipling had not, as was said of Shakespeare,
"had the idea first." It is inevitable that the
"Plain Tales" should unconsciously exist in
our minds as a bed of Procrustes on which to
measure all similar attempts ; and this is ob-
viously unfair. Jack London has, however,
unusually little to fear from the comparison.
His eleven stories in this volume are vivid,
concise, and dramatic. If they are sometimes
coarse, generally disagreeable, and always cyn-
ical and reckless, this is nothing peculiar to
him. The only missionary brought on the
scene is unlike Father Roubeau, in "The Son
of the Wolf" a coward and a renegade; but
is not the poor missionary always fair game?
The unsophisticated reader may wince at the
calmness with which the institution of "North-
land wives" is treated, but at least it is no
worse than a "Burmese marriage." Jack Lon-
don has one great advantage over his Anglo-
Indian prototype : in describing his favorite
Yukon country he deals with a state of things
less known to the civilized world. If Kipling
has made us feel the horrors of heat, this
writer fully impresses upon us the cruelty of
cold. Whether the stories are humorous,
blood-curdling, or pathetic and it may be
noted that the best in the book, "Grit of
Women," belongs to the third class they have
a wild, elemental savagery which is positively
thrilling. A certain amount of tall talk, es-
pecially "spread-eagleism," might profitably be
omitted, and the tone of the whole will jar
on many readers. But if any one wants to be
interested, amused, and thoroughly stirred, he
cannot do better than read this volume. .(Mc-
Clure, Phillips & Co. $1.50.) The Nation.

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From the Unsounded Sea.

HERE is a new writer whose remarkable
imaginative quality comes as a refreshing con-
trast to purely realistic fiction. The power of
her strange fantastic tale is undeniable. The
mystery of the sea, suggested at the opening,
is carried through a series of weird scenes,
and finds an explanation in part in a thrilling
climax. The author will achieve iht success
due to the creation of an original, intense, and
moving romance of the sea.

Miss Blissett is the only daughter of a mil-
itary officer. As quite a child she told long
stories to her toys, making them act out the
parts in the tales; but later on, when she
could write, developed a decided talent for
versification. She commenced her literary ca-
reer by contributing short stories to ihe Eng-
lish magazines, and her first effort in book
form, "The Wisdom of the Simple," was pub-
lished in London in 1896, and was well re-
ceived. This work was followed in 1898 by
"The Concert Director." In 1899 a third
novel from her pen, entitled "Brass," ap-
peared.

"From the Unsounded Sea" will be pub-
lished simultaneously in America and Eng-
land. Miss Blissett's short stories have ap-
peared from time to time in Blackwood,
Temple Bar, and most of the leading English
monthlies, and her work generally has at-
tracted much favorable attention. (Appleton.
$i; pap., 50 c.)

Penelope's Irish Experiences.

OF course with Penelope falling a victim
to the tiny god in the first volume, and Fran-
cesca in the second, all intelligent readers
knew there had to be a third book for Sal-
emina, and so "Penelope's Irish Experiences"
comes rather as an expected and foregone
conclusion than a very great surprise. In
this volume Mrs. Wiggin again exercises her
delicate play of fancy, and her happy, jovial
conviviality which embraces in its pleasant
intimacy all who read the book, and carries
them buoyantly along with her three travellers.
Still it may be that, being the third in a
series, the freshness of Mrs. Wiggin's style
has become too familiar to us to be greeted
with the old glad surprise upon reading it,
or, again, it may be that Penelope and Fran-
cesca, having their hearts in "The States"
and up among the waving heather, are not
quite themselve^ and see things from a dif-
ferent point of view perhaps with less keen-
ness of perception, rather looking with wist-
ful eyes across the blue waters to America and
Scotland. However, the book contains much

of the delicate atmosphere of Ireland, and
there are pretty bits of fancy that sparkle in
its pages like dewdrops. Then, too, there
is the derelict, otherwise Miss Benella Dusen-
berry, an absolutely new character whose New
England peculiarities shine brilliantly against
a background made for them by the careless
shiftlessness of the Irish peasantry.

That this is the last volume we are sure,
for is not Salemina married now? The book
is prettily bound, all in green so suggestive
of the Spring as well as of the Emerald Isle
with the ''three-leafed shamrock" dotting
its face, and the lettering in gold for all
the world like sunshine on the grass. (Hough-
ton* Mifflin & Co. $1.25.) Saturday Times
Review.

My Master.

THOUGH there are some critics who claim
to have seen selfish and acquisitive charlatan-
ism underneath Vivekananda's yellow turban,
yet any one at all interested in Oriental phil-
osophy must read his last book, "My Master,"
with a sense of its merit as a vivid biograph-
ical sketch. The "Master," Ramakrishna
(1833-1886), is considered by thousands of
Hindus to have been the latest incarnation of
God.

The story of his life as a boy in the Brah-
min temple, of his religious ecstasy and re-
nunciation, and of his influence on all the dif-
fering Hindu sects is an exposition of the
religion which is "realization."

Some of Vivekananda's characterizations of
India are striking. For instance : "There (in
India) lives the only race in the world which,
in the whole history of humanity, never went
beyond their frontiers to -conquer ;my one,
who never coveted that which belonged to
any one else, and whose only fault was that
their lands were so fertile and their wits so
keen that they accumulated wealth by the hard
labor of their hands, and so tempted other na-
tions to come and despoil them."

"Asia produces giants in spirituality just as
the Occident produces giants in politics."

"To the Oriental, the Occidental is a
dreamer, playing with dolls of five minutes,
and he laughs to think that grown-up men
and women should make so much of a hand-
ful of matter which they \\ill have to leave
sooner or later."

The latter half of the book is a reprint of
Mazoomdar's impressions of this wonderful
Hindu. Though a Christian, Ma/:oomdar
calls Ramakrishna his teacher, and bears out
Vivekananda's testimony of his greatness.
(Baker & Taylor Co. 50 c.) Chicago Tri-
bune.

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The Great War Trek. Mr. Barnes's general impression of the

THIS little book is the more or less desul- Boor character is not an unfavorable one.

tory account logbook, Mr. Barnes himself and he .holds a belief that is very popular in

calls it of the adventures of an American England namely, that the Boers have only

war correspondent in South Africa. It does to know more of English rule to appreciate

not pretend to military or historical impor- its blessings. (Appleton. $1.50.) A". Y.

tance, but the author's personal opinions and Times Saturday Review.
impressions are modestly stated and have

the interest of an unbiassed point of view. A The Making of Christopher Ferringham.
minority, but a large minority, he says, of the THE American Colonial period ha-, proved
Boer farmers of the older generation can unexpectedly rich in the material for roman-
neither read nor write; "they live by the tie fiction. Its annals are dull and uninterest-
Word of God, and are ruled by the precepts Ujg omy to the un discerning eye, and we have
of Judea ; they think like men of the Refor- had of late numerous illustrations of the fact
mation; they act under these influences like that it needs but a touch of the j magination
the people of long past centuries. A plague to ]j gnt up the history of our national begin-
of locusts is a visitation of the wrath of the nings and to awa ken our deepest interest in
Almighty. Should they perish as a nation, the Hfe of those early days. The latest novel
it is God's will !" They believe beyond ques- to dea i with this period is one of the best that
tion that the triumph of the British means . have yet been produced. It is entitled "The
the confiscation of their houses and lands, and Making of Christopher Ferringham/' and is
the loss of their personal liberty. In captivity t he work of Miss Beulah Marie Dix. The
they sing in their tents psalms with a strange colony of Massachusetts Bay is the scene of
cadence that shifts from the major to the this story, and the time is that just preceding
minor key, plaintive songs with primitive the Restoration. Christopher is a young cav-
music sung by their ancestors and handed a lier, possessed alike of the vices and the
down through centuries. One family the au- generous qualities of his class, sent to Massa-
thor describes as fairly illustrative of the diusetts after the defeat of his cause, and .
quasi-civil aspect of the war : placed under the tutelage of his uncle, a Puri-
"Like all Boer families, it is large no man tan magistrate. His conduct is a stumbling-
can afford a small family in South Africa block and an offence to the godly townsfolk
and it is spread out with relations nnd con- o f Meadowcreek, and he seems, indeed, to be
nections everywhere. The old man well about as graceless a scamp as is often found
over eighty determined to remain neutral; anywhere. There is a young woman, how-
he owned ten thousand acres in the colony, ever, in his uncle's family whose sympathies
and as much more in the Free State. . . . turn toward him in spite of herself, and it is
Boer neutrality consists in not being found his love for her that gradually transforms his
with a gun. Three of old Scoltz's sons were character and redeems him from his reckless
fighting with the Free State forces, but their mode of life. As the title informs us, the
farms were entirely over the border; another story is of Christopher's "making," by dint
son, named Jeppe, I knew very well. He of his love and of the disciplinary environ-
lived with his family inside our camp lines ment against which he vainly chafes. After
at Modder, and both he and his wife, the a long series of escapades and exciting ad-
daughter of a Boer Field Cornet, were very ventures, he grows up to be a man in the
decent people. Jeppe owned 8000 morgen best sense of the word, and is happily united
(16,000 acres). He had stayed to look after to the young woman who has been his good
it, and professed the utmost loyalty inci- angel. The author's study of the Puritan life
dentally he made money selling milk and and character is both painstaking and just,
produce to the soldiers. He has also a big She does not spare its unlovely aspects, but
claim against the Crown for damages the she recognizes at the same time its strength,
camp was mostly on his land. But his ser- and even the humanity that remains at its
vam; told my servant Peterson that it was heart, in spite of its stern repression of most
his horse that fetched the dynamite that blew of the natural instincts. Miss Dix has given
up Modder River bridge. I suppose Jeppe was us a deeply interesting book, rich in incident
disconsolate at the destruction of so much and full-blooded in sympathy. It has about
British property. The commandants used to equal value as a work of fiction and as a his-
mect at his house, which must have annoyed torical study of what is perhaps the most fas-
him greatly, some of them being near rela- cinating phase of our colonial experience,
tives." '(Macmillan. $1.50.) The Dial.

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A Drone and a Dreamer. and it is dedicated "to my wife." (A. M.
A HEALTHY, happy book is again offered by Robertson. $1.50.)
Nelson Lloyd, author of "The Chronic Loaf-
er," in his new story, "A Drone and a Salathiel Under a New Name.
Dreamer." It is the tale of a happy summer IT may truly be said of "Tarry Thou Till I
spent on a farm, where one of the chief occu- Come; or, Salathiel, the Wandering Jew,"
pations was tracing the relationship of a that it is one of the greatest historical novels
widely-related family. Another chronic loaf- that was ever written. When we compare this
er, "with an income so small as to just satisfy work with the productions of the majority of
all my real needs, and so large as to remove the novelists of the present day we can only
all necessity for work and to kill ambition," wish that they would study the lesson that
is sitting in his annual quandary balancing Croly mastered. The story of the "Wander-
the advantages of various ways of killing the ing Jew" is an old one, and has appeared in
summer, when his friend invites him to a many forms since in the thirteenth centur>-
Pennsylvania farm that has become his by in- Matthew, of Paris, first gave it to the world,
heritance. Another man joins them, and the but in no form that the tale has appeared has.
trio are the "leading gentlemen" in the drama it been so stirring, so passionately powerful as
that results. The leading lady is the daugh- in the romance of Croly. The novel was first
ter of a physician, who during summer spends published in 1827, and was at once acclaime i
more time in fishing than in doctoring. The by critics as a masterpiece. Several editions
greater part of the other characters are mar- were published, but gradually the public lost
ried and intermarried Marcys, who are de- sight of the work, and for half a century it
scribed with true humor. The old bachelor has been known to comparatively few read-
who has been coaxed to the farm becomes the ers. It may be said to be unknown to the
dens ex machina of the little plot. present generation. The new edition has beer*

As a study of characters the book is a prepared with great care. The numerous

great success, and it is specially suited for typographical errors that had crept into the

reading aloud, a kind of book much needed various early editions have been corrected, il-

on rainy summer days. A large first edi- luminating illustrations have been prepared by

tion was sold before publication, and a second Thulstrup, and the publishers have given the

is now ready. (J. F. Taylor & Co. $1.50.) book a dress worthy of the novel. In the in-

' troduction and appendix are to be found mat-

For the Blue and Gold. ter re i at i ve to the second coming of Christ,

HERE we have another of those fascinating an underlying motif of the book, also a series

college stories beloved by every healthy mind of letters from over thirty Jewish scholars,

of either sex. It is a tale of life at the Uni- giving their opinions as to Jesus of Nazareth,

versity of California, full of adventure and The story covers a period from the cruci-

spirit. The student in whom the interest spe- fixion to the fall of Jerusalem, a period

cially centres is John Rawson, "twenty-three which, in the annals of history, stands out

years of age and past, who stands six feet with great dramatic force. Salathiel, the hero,

two and a half in his stockings and tips the i s doomed to wander till the second coming

scales close to one hundred and eighty-five O f Christ. In a moment of blind fury e aids

pounds." His father's family had come to Cal- in bringing the Master to the cross, and Christ

ifornia from the East during the gold boom, utters against him the words of condemna-

but the father had lived to become poor, and tion, "Tarry Thou Till I Come," which

John's services were needed to help support doomed him to immortality on earth for the

the family until he had reached the mature Wandering Jew still wanders. It is this

age of twenty-three. Then his great longing ceaseless wanderer who tells the story of

for study found a way, and his father put these years, reviewing the successive ami

nothing in it. ever-deepening phases of his life at this time.

The virtues and vices of college students The work abounds with strong situations.

are shown, and sometimes a little note of crit- The reader will now and then be reminded

icism slips into the well-told tale. College o f some o f t he more striking passages in

sports of every kind are described in detail, two or t h re e of the popular religious novels

and many of the circumstances that make or published in the past decade. But, as it is

mar character. no t given even to great genius to remember

The publishers have made a pretty book. f orwa rd the reader may readily detect the

The author's name is Joy Lichtenstein. It is P ] a gj ar ism. (Fung & Wagnalls. net, $1.40.)

doubtless a record of personal reminiscences, Baltimore Sun

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