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INDEX TO VOL. XXIV. (NEW SERIES) 1903. 



PAGE 

Abbot, VV. J., Amer. Merchant Ships and Sail- 
ors 30 

Abbott, E. H., Religious Life in America 92 

Abbott, G. F., Macedonian Folklore 252 

Tale of a Tour in Macedonia : 182 

Abbott, Katli. M., Old Paths and Legends of 

New England 270. 3/6 

Abbott. L., The Other Room 156 

About, E., King of the Mountains 279 

Abruzzi, Duke of the. On the Polar Star m the 

Arctic Sea 109, 182 

Acton, Sir J. E. E. D., Cambridge Mod. Hist... 281 
Adam, Mme., Romance of My Childhood and 

Youth 26 

Adams, B., The New Empire 31 

Adams, C. F., Constitutional Ethics of Secession. 1 56 

ed.. Life in a New England Town 177, 182 

Adams, F. N., John Burt 271, 362 

Adams. Mary {pseud.) Confessions of a Wife. 2 

Adamson, W., Joseph Parker 87 

Addison, Julia D., Florestane the Troubadour.. 342 

Ade, G., In Babel 342, 370 

Modern Fables 215 

People You Know 250 

Sultan of Sulu . 220 

Adeler, Max {pseud.) See Clark, C. H. 

Ady, Mrs. H. See Cartwright, J. 

Agnus, O., Sarah luldon 200, 247 

Alden, A. E., Pilgrim Alden 214 

Alden, Mrs. I. M., Mara 215 

Alden, R. M., ed., English Verse 186 

Alderson, B., Andrew Carnegie 26, 49 

Aldrich, T. B., Ponkapog Papers 370 

A Sea Turn 4 

Allen, Anne S., Merry Hearts , 335 

Allen, G., Belgium ._ 341 

Allen J. L., Mettle of the Pasture..., 225, 307 

James Lane Allen's New Book, Lit. Misc.. 94 
Allen, J. W. See Seccombe, T. 

Altsheler, J. A.. Before the Dawn 119 

Ambulance Work and Nursing.. ;;;. ^'^^ 

America In its Rel. to Great Epochs of Hist., 

Mann -^ 59, 136 

American Diplomacy in the Orient, Foster 135 

Merchant Ships and Sailors, Abbot 3 

Railway Transportation, Johnson 33 

. Tariff Controversies, Stanwood 338 

Anacreon, Odes ^ ' ' V " ^^^ 

Andersen, T., Volcanic Studies in Many Lands. 123 
Anderson, G.. Elements of Chrysostom's Power 

as a Preacher 3i7 

Andrews, Mary R. S., Vive I'Empereur S| 

Anna of the Five Towns, Bennett 98 

Annunzio, G. d', Francesca da Rimini 00 

Anstey, F. {pseud.) See Guthrie, F. A. 

Anthony, Geraldine. Four-in-hand ....342 

Apperley, C. J., Memoirs of John Mytton, Esq. 278 

Arblay, Mme. F. B. d'. Diary and Letters 118 

Arke, Simon {pseud.), Graphology... 219 

Armstrong, E., Emperor Charles v 55 

Arndt, A., comp., Secrets of Happiness and 

Longevity 3io 

Arnold, Benedict, Real, Todd 209 

Arnold, M., Note Books 59 

Ashley, W. J., Adjustment of Wages 310 

Atherton, Mrs. Gertrude F., Mrs. Pendleton s 

Four-in-hand 250 

Splendid Idle Forties 5, 57 

Atkinson, Mushrooms 308 

Atkinson, Eleanor, Mamzelle Fifine 372 

Atkinson, W. W., Memory Culture 219 

Auchincloss, W. S., Only Key to Daniels 

Prophecies 349 

Austin, A., Flodden Field 348 

Austin, H. H., With Macdonald in Uganda 154 

Austin, Martha W., Veronica "9 

Austin, Mary, Land of Little Rain 355 

Avary, Myrta L., ed., A Virginia Girl in Civil 

War 91. 99 

Avebury, Lord. See. Lubbock, Sir J. 



PAGE 

Babcock, Mrs. B., An Uncrowned Queen 118 

Babcock, W. H., Kent Fort Manor 151 

Bacheiler, 1., Darrel of the Blessed Isles.. 172, 358 

Bacon, E. M., Hudson River S5 

Literary Pilgrimages in New Eng 88 

Badsv/orth on Bridge 373 

Bagot, R., Donna Diana 56 

The Just and the Unjust 56, 81 

Bailey, H. C, Karl of Erbach 151 

Bailey, L. H., Nature-Study Idea v . . . 187 

Bain, A., Dissertations on Leading Philosophi- 
cal Topics 282 

Baker, E. A., Descriptive Guide to Best Fiction. 123 

Baker, H., Stratf ord-on-Avon 118 

Baldry, A. L., Sir John Everett Millais 87 

Balfour, A., Golden Kingdom 215 

Balfour, A. J., Economic Notes on Insular Free 

Trade 348 

Balzac, H. de. Essays, Dramas and Repertory.. 315 
Banks, Eliz. L., Autobiog. of a Newspaper Girl. 55 
Banks, J. A., Youth of Famous Americans.... 182 

Banks, Nancy H., Round Anvil Rock 238, 312 

Barbour, A. M., At the Time Appointed 215 

Barine, A., Youth of La Grande Mademoiselle. 26 

Barlow, Jane, Founding of Fortunes 14, 28 

Barnes, Annie M., The King's Gifts 312 

Barnes, J., With the Flag in the Channel 8i 

Barr, Mrs. Amelia E. H., Black Shilling 342 

Song of a Single Note 56 

Thyra Varrick 137, 183 

Barr, R., Over the Border 368 

See also Crane, S. 

Barrie, J. M., Little White Bird 21, 28 

Barry, J. D., The Congressman's Wife.... 336, 342 

Daughter of Thespis 183 

Barry, W., Papal Monarchy 30, 47 

Bates. A., Diary of a Saint 28, 49 

Bates, W. W., American Navigation 30 

Batson, H. M., Book of the Country and Gar- 
den 283 

Bayly, Ada E., Lit. Misc 95 

Bayne, S. G., On an Irish Jaunting-Car 55 

Beethoven's "Moonlight" Sonata ("Richard 

Rosny"), Tuttiett 114 

Bell, Mrs. H., Dean of St. Patrick's 253 

The Minor Moralist 170, 183 

Bell, J., Miracle of African Missions 284 

Bell, J. J., Ethel 215 

Wee Macgreegor 183 

James Joy Bell , 138 

Bell, J. T., comp.. Civil War Stories....;...... 250 

Bell, Lilian. The Dowager Countess and the 

Amer. Girl 236,, 250 

Interference of Patricia 279 

Bell, R. S. W. See Coates, T. F. G. 

Bellairs, E. G., As It Is in the Philippines.... 59 

Bengough, Elisa A., Talk of the Town 28 

Bennet, Ida D., Flower Garden 219 

Bennett, A., Anna of the Five Towns 98, 119 

Benson, B. K., Bayard's Courier 28 

Old Squire , , 183 

Benson, E. F., Book of Months 366, 371 

Relentless City. 342, 366 

Benton, C. E., As Seen from the Ranks. $9 

Berenson. S., ed.. Basket Ball for Women 221 

Bergey, E., Why Soldiers Desert from U. S. 

Army 316 

Besant, Sir W., London in the i8th Century, 

88, 145 

No Other Way , 28 

and Mitton, G. E., Hampstead and Maryle- 
bone 89 

Betts. Lillian W., Story of an East-side Family. 183 

Bevan, E. R., House of Seleucus .,.,.... 91 

Bible, Modern Speech New Testament 349 

Biddle's (Drexel) Holiday Books 376 

Bigelow, J., Mystery of Sleep 86, 123 

Bigelow, P., German Struggle for Liberty, v. 3, 

, 348, 371 

Bigelow, Mrs. P., The Middle Course 291 

Bignell, EfRe, My Woodland Intimates 148 



IV 



INDEX. 



PAGE 

Bingham, Kath., The Philadelphians 119 

Birdsall, Kath. N., ed., How to Make Money.. 119 

Bisiker, W., Across Iceland .'. 150 

Bisland, Eliz., Candle of Understanding. . .335, 342 
Bismarck, Prince von. Personal Reminiscences 

of. Whitman 47 

Biornson at Seventy, Lit. Misc 63 

Black, A., Richard Gordon 28 

Black, H., Work 372 

Blackmore, R. D., Memorial, Lit. Misc 94 

Blackstonc, Harriet, comp.. Best Amer. Orations. 315 
Blair. Emma H., and Robertson, J. A., eds., 

Philippine Islands 154, 279 

Blanchan, Neltje, How to Attract the Birds.... 60 
Blanchard, E. F., The Workingman and the 

Church the World Needs 349 

Bland, Mrs. H., The Literary Sense 342 

Red House 5. S6 

Blomfield, L., A Naturalist's Calendar 316 

Boardman, G. D., Ethics of the Body 252 

Bohm-Bawerk, E. V., Recent Lit. on Interest. 348 
Bolles, A. S., Money, Banking, and Finance... 316 
Bonner, Geraldine, To-morrow's Tangle. .. .342, 365 

Bonney, J. T., The Mediterranean 55 

Books, Books, Books! 51 

Boone, Daniel, Th waites 17 

Boone, H. B., The Career Triumphant 312 

and Brown, K., The Redfields Succession... 183 
Booth, C, and others. Life and Labor of the 

People in London 253 

Borgia, Lucretia, Gregorovius 357 

Bostock, F. C, Training of Wild Animals. 231, 283 

Botticelli. S., Work of 214 

Bottome, Phyllis, Life the Interpreter 56 

Bourrienne. L. A. F. de. Memoirs of Napoleon 

Bonaparte 346 

Bowditch, H. I., Life and Correspondence . 87 
Bowkcr, R. R.. Of Education 183 

Of Religion 189 

ed.. State Publications, pt. 2 59 

Bradley, A. G., Highways and Byways in So. 

Wales 3" 

Brady, C. T., The Bishop 151, 183 

Doctor of Philosophy 312, 332 

The Southerners 119 

Woven with the Ship 89 

Brandes, G. M. C, Main Currents in Nine- 
teenth Century Literature 91 

Poland 183 

Breckinridge, Sophonisba, Legal Tender 188 

Bree, Mme. M., Groundwork of the Leschetizky 

Method 153 

Bridge, J. PL, Hist, of the Carnegie Steel Co. 273 

Bridgman, Laura, Howe 33* 

Broehner, J.. Danish Life in Town and Country. 215 
Bronte, Charlotte, Emily and Anne, Complete 

Works 315 

Brooke, S. A., Poetry of Rob. Browning 30 

Brooks, Geraldine, Romances of Colonial Days. 312 

Brooks, J. G.. Social Unrest 92 

Brooks, P., Helps to the Holy Communion.... 157 

Phillips Brooks as His Friends Knew Him.. 182 

Brough, J., Study of Mental Science 219 

Brown, A. J., New Era in the Philippines 374 

Brown, Alice, Judgment 342 

The Mannerings 144, 151 

Brown, Anna R., The Millionaire's Son 279 

Truth and a Woman 195,215 

Brown, E. E., Making of Our Middle Schools. 151 
Brown, K. See Boone, H. B. 

Brown, W. G.. Gentleman of the South. 2 15, 247, 275 

Brownell. C. L.- Heart of Japan 341 

Bryant, J. C, Poems, Roslyn Edition 356 

Bryce, J., Studies in Contemp. Biog 170, 182 

Buell, A. C, Sir William Johnson 251 

Bullen, F. T., A Whaleman's Wife 89 

Bullock, S. F.. The Squireen 119 

Bunyan, J.. Pilgrim's Progress 360, 364 

Burdette, R. J.. Lit. Misc 254 

Burgess, G., Reign of Queen Isyl 376 

Burgin, G. B.. Shutters of Silence 331 

Burkett, C. W.. and others. Agriculture for Be- 
ginners 283 

Burne-Jones, Sir P. See Jones. Sir P. Burne-. 
Burnett, Frances H., Chas. B. Dillingham's Pro- 
duction of The Little Princess. , 187 

Burney, Frances. See Arblay, Mme. F. B. d'. 

Burnham, Clara L., Jewel 293, 355 

Burnley. J.. Summits of Success 25? 

Burns, R., Songs of 360 

Burroughs, J.. John James Audubon 26 

Literary Values 59. 71 

Burton, R., Literary Leaders of America 346 

Bushee, F. A.* Ethnic Factors in Population of 

Boston V 220 

Butler, H. C. Story of Athens 27 



FAGi. 

Cabell. Mrs. I. C, Thoughtless Thoughts of 

Carisabel 356 

Cairns, J., Principal Cairns 214 

Callaghan, J. F., Memoirs of 214 

Cambon, J.> Essavs and Addresses 282 

Camp, W. C. ed.', Foot Ball Rules 284 

Carey, Rosa N., Highway of Fate 90 

Passage Perilous 343 

Carling, J. R., In the Shadow of the Czar.... 28 

Lit. Alisc 32 

Carlyle, J. N., Sour Music 215 

Carlyle, Mrs. Jane VV., New Letters of 249 

Carman, A. R., The Pensionnaires 343 

Carman, B., Kinship of Nature 347 

Pipes of Pan, No. 2 220 

Carnegie, Andrew, Alderson 49 

Carpenter, E. C. See Kauffmann, R. W. 

Carpenter, E. J., The Amer. Advance 188 

Carpenter, J. E., The Bible in the 19th Cent. . . 254 
Carroll, Lewis (pseud.) See Dodgson, C. L. 
Carruth, Frances W.. Fictional Rambles in and 

about Boston 30, 41 

Carryl, G. W., The Lieutenant-Governor. .. 119, 142 

Zut, and Other Parisians 343 

Carson, W. H., Tito iii 

Carter, Mary E., Millionaire Households 119 

Cartwright, Julia, Beatrice d'Este 278 

Isabella d'Este 249 

Cary, Eliz. L., William Morris 19 

Cassel, D., Manual of Jewish Hist, and Lit.... 251 

Casserley. G., Land of the Boxers 249 

Castle, Agnes and E., Incomparable Bellairs... 368 

The Star Dreamer 75, 213 

Catherwood, Mrs. Mary H. C, Lit. Misc 32 

Chamberlain, A. B., Thomas Gainsborough 278 

Chamberlain, F. C, Blow from Behind 156 

Chamberlain, J. F., How We Are Fed 249 

Chamberlin. W. J., Ordei-ed to China 340 

Chambers, E. K., Mediaeval Stage 278 

Chambers, R. W., The Maid-at-Arms 28 

Maids of Paradise , 301. 308 

Champagne, Mildred, Love Stories from Real 

Life 343 

Lit Misc 286 

Champney, Mrs. E. W., Romance of the Bour- 
bon Chateaux 341, 361 

Chaplin, H. W., Coal Mines and the Public. . . 123 

Chapman, J. W., Present-Day Evangelism 189 

Charles, Frances, Awakening of the Duchess, 

326, 369 

Siege of Youth ; 216 

Chase, W. C, Story of Stonewall Jackson 214 

Chauffeur (pseud.) See Eddy, A. J. 

Cherbuliez, V., Samuel Brohl & Co. 279 

Chesterton, G. K., and Williams, J. E. H., 

Thomas Carlyle 118 

Childe, C, New York 215 

Chisholm, G. G., Commercial Geography 348 

Chittenden, H. M., Hist, of Early Steamboat 

Navigation on the Missouri 186, 217 

Yellowstone National Park 279 

Cholmondeley. Mary, Moth and Rust 28, 40 

Christie. N., The Black Chanter 343 

Christy-Longfellow, Miles Standish 321, 353 

Cnurch. S. H., Penruddock of the White Lambs. 57 

(-hurchill, W., Keegan's Elopement 250 

Circle (The) , Thurston 74 

in the Square, Sears 374 

Clapin, S.; New Diet, of Americanisms 91 

Clark, A. H. See Spears, J. R. 

Clark. C. H., In Happy Hollow 279, 308 

Clarke, R. H., Pope Leo xiii 340 

Clemens, S. L., Complete Works 282 

Story of the Jumping Frog 371 

Cleveland, F. A., Funds and Their Uses 31 

Clouston. J. S., Adventures of M; d'HarJcot. . . . 57 

Clover, S. T., On Special Assignment 279 

Coates, T. F. G., and Bell, R. S. W., Marie 

Corelli 240, 249 

Coleman, J. M., Social Ethics 253 

Coleridge, Christabel. Charlotte Mary Yonge.. 182 

Collin. G. L., Putnam Place 120 

Collins, Percy. See McVickar. H. G. 
Collins. W. A., The Angler's Guide for South- 
ern N. J 188 

Colquhoun, Mrs. A., Two on Their Travels. . . . 102 

Colton. A. W., Tioba. ....73, 120 

Coman, Kath., Contract Labor in Hawaiian Is- 
lands 283 

Combe, W., Johnny Ouac Genus 316 

Tour of Dr. Syntax 283 

Connolly. J. B., Out of Gloucester 19, 28 

Connor, Ralph (pseud.) See Gordon, C. W. 
Conrad. J., Falk; Amy Foster; To-morrow.... 343 

-Youth 106, 120 

Conway, B. L., Question-box Answers 221 



INDEX. 



PAGE 

Conway, Sir W. M., Domain of Art 153 

Cook, E. T., Introductions to the Lib. Ed. of 
Ruskin 186 

comp., Greek and Roman Antiquities in Brit. 
Museum 153 

Cook, Mrs. E. T., Highways and Byways in 

London 55 

Cook, G. C, Roderick Taliaferro 130, 151 

Cook, J., America 363 

Cooke, G. VV., Unitarianism in America 61 

Cooke, J. E., Virginia 281 

Coriiaro, L., Art of Living Long 218 

Cotes, Mrs. S. J. D., Pool in the Desert 343 

Couch, A. T. Quiller-, Adventures of Harry 
Revel 172, 183 

Hetty Wesley 343 

Lit. Misc 254 

Craddock, Charles Egbert {pseud.) See Mur- 

free. M. N. 
Craigie, Mrs. P. M. T., Love and the Soul 

Hunters 28 

Cram, W. E. See Stone, W. 

Crandall, F. M., How to Keep Well 262 

Crane, S., and Barr, R., The O'Ruddy 368 

Crawford, F. M., Cecilia 18, 28 

Heart of Rome 329 

Man Overboard! 204, 216 

Crawford, Mary C, Romances of Old New Eng- 
land Churches 312 

Creelman, J., Eagle Blood 39, 57 

Crcighton, M., Historical Essays 30 

Creswick, P., Hastings, the Pirate 150 

Crockett, D., Life of 214 

Crofton, Mrs. C. See Milman, H. 

Croker, Mrs. B. M., Johanna 312 

Croly, H. See Desmond, H. W. 

Cromwell, O., Letters and Speeches 311 

Crosby, E., Swords and Plowshares 123 

Crowley, Mary C, Love Thrives in War.. 206, 216 
Cullum, R., Story of the Fobs River Ranch... 343 

Cumont, F., Mysteries of Mithra 317 

Curtis, Lillian J., The Laos of No. Siam 281 

Curtis, W. E., Denmark. Norway, and Sweden. 341 

To-day in Syria and Palestine 374 

True Abraham Lincoln 209, 214 

The Turk and His Lost Provinces 217 

Cust, L., Van Dyck 340 

Custance, O., Rainbows 60 

Cuyler, T. L., Recollections of a Long Life.... 20 

Dahlinger, C. W., German Revolution of 1849. 122 

Dahn, F., Felicitas 151 

Dallas, R., A Master Hand 312 

Danby, Frank {pseud.). Pigs in Clover. 208, 229, 246 

Lit. Misc.. 254 

Daniels, Gertrude P., Eshek, the Oppressor.... 90 
Danziger, A., Jewish Forerunners of Chris- 
tianity 157 

Darroch, A., Herbart and the Herbartian The- 
ory 311 

Darwin, C. W., More Letters of 133, 182 

Daskam, Josephine D., Middle-Aged Love Sto- 
ries 184 

Whom the Gods Destroyed 20, 57 

Daudet, A., The Nabob 250 

Davenport, A., By the Ramparts of Jezreel.... 152 

Davids, T. W. R., Buddhist India 251 

Davidson, A. F.. Alexandre Dumas 87 

Davis, A. M., Confiscation of John Chandler's 

Estate 222 

Davis, C. H. S., Greek and Roman Stoicism... 252 

Davis, Mrs. M. E. M., Little Chevalier 374 

Davis, R. H., Bar Sinister 327 

Captain Macklin 28 

Davitt. M., Within the Pale 269, 367 

Dawson, A. J., Hidden Manna 205 

Dawson. T. C., South American Republics 324 

Day, Margery (pseud.) See Drew, Mrs. G. E. 
Dearborn, N. See Weed, C. M. 

Defoe, D., Robinson Crusoe 250 

Deland, Marg., Dr. Lavendar's People 367 

Delitzsch, F., Babel and the Bible 221, 282 

Dellenbaugh. F. S., Romance of the Colorado 

River .' 7, 55 

Desmond, H. W., Heart of Woman 44 

arf_ Croly, H., Stately Homes in America... 357 

Despotism and Democracy 216 

Dewing. A. S., Introd. to Hist, of Modern Phi- 
losophy 283 

De Witt, D. M., Impeachment and Trial of 
Andrew Johnson 251 

Dexter. F. B., Biog. Sketches of the Graduates 
of Yale 278 

Dickens, C. Fireside Edition 360 

Oxford India Paper Edition 360 

Poems and Verses 171, 187 



PAGE 

Dickson, H., She That Hesitates 290, 343 

Dilke, Lady E. F. S., French Engravers and 

Draughtsmen of the xvmth Century 87 

Dillon, E. J., Maxim Gorky 1 18 

Dinsmore, C. A., Aids to Study of Dante 347 

Disraeli, B., Biog. of, Meynell 357 

Dixon, T., The One Woman 263 

Dixon, W. H., William Penn 150 

Dobson, H. A., Samuel Richardson 26 

Dodgson, C. L., Hunting of the Snark 366 

Doffed Coronet (A) 57 

Doherty, R. F. and H. L., On Lawn Tennis. 265, 284 
Dopp, Kath. E., Place of Industries in Elem. 

Education 311 

Dos Passos, J. R., Anglo-Saxon Century 220 

Doubleday, Mrs. N. Sec Blanchan, Neltje 
(pseud.) 

Doubts about Darwinism 347 

Douglas, Lady A. See Custance, O. 

Doyle, A. C, Adventures of Gerard 336, 343 

Dramatization Mill (The) 113 

Dresser, H. W., Man and the Divine Order. . . 349 

Drew, Mrs. Grace E., Lit. Misc 286 

Drunmiond, J., James Martineau 26, 40 

Dubnow, S. M., Jewish History 154 

Du Bois, P., Natural Way in Moral Things... 372 

Dudeney, Mrs. H., Robin Brilliant 120, 134 

Duff, Sir M. S. E. G., ed., Anthology of Vic- 
torian Poetry 155 

Duff, R. A., Spinoza's Polit. and Ethical Phi- 
losophy 283 

Dugmore, A. R., Nature and the Camera : . 27 

Dumas, Alexandre, Life of, Davidson 87 

Spurr 12 

Dunbar, P. L., In Old Plantation Days 343 

Lyrics of Love and Laughter 156 

Duncan, N., Way of the Sea 343 

Lit. Misc 254 

Dunlap, J. R., Jeffersonian Democracy 316 

Dunn, E. B., The Weather 60 

Duryea, Nina L , Among the Palms 152 

Dwight, T., Memoirs of Yale Life 214 

Dye, Mrs. E. E , The Conquest 28 

Dyer, L., Oxford As It Is 119 

Earle, Mrs. A. M., Sun-Dials and Roses of Yes- 
terday 37, 60 

Earle, Mabel, New Fortunes 374 

Eckenstein, Lina, Albrecht Durer 153 

Eddy, A. J., Ten Thousand Miles on an Auto- 
mobile 20, 56 

I'^dgar, W. C, Story of a Grain of Wheat.. 196, 219 
Edgerly, W., The Adam-Man Tongue the Uni- 
versal Language 249 

Edwards, E. H., Fire and Sword in Shensi.... 217 

Edwards, J. H., God and Music 157 

Edwards, Louise B., The Tu-Tze's Tower.. 184, 267 

Eeden, Van-, Deeps of Deliverance 78 

Eggleston, G. C, First of the Hoosiers. . . .276, 362 

Master of Warlock 77, 9 

Eldridge, F W., A Social Cockatrice 120 

Elers, G., Memoirs 298 

Eliot, C. W., More Money for the Public 

Schools 253 

EHzaljeth's Children 280 

Elliot, F., Old Court Life in France 373 

Ellis, J. B., Holland Wolves 15, 57 

Ellwanger, G. H., Pleasures of the Table 89 

Prison, R., Orchestral Instruments 27 

Ely, Helena R., A Woman's Hardy Garden.... 123 

Ely, R. T., The Coming City 92 

Studies in Evolution of Industrial Society.. 283 
Emerson, R. W., Centenary Ed. of 197. 218 

Friendship, and Self Reliance 375 

Centennial 94. I47 

[Poem], Thomas i47 

anrf Grimm, H., Correspondence 182 

Emmet, T. A., Ireland under Erig. Rule 3^8 

Epictetus, Golden Sayings of . . . ._. 282 

Erckmann, E., Brigadier Frederick, and The 

Dean's Watch 280 

Erskine, T., The Elizabethan Lyric... 347 

Eustis, Celestine. Cooking in Old Creole Days. 151 

Evans, H. R., Magic and Its Professors 284 

Everyman 156, 166 

Fahie, J. J., Galileo 311 

Fairless, M.. The Roadmender 92 

Farrar, Frederic William. Obituary Note of.... 115 

Faxon, F. W., Ephemeral Bibelots 252 

Fernald, C. B., Under the Jackstaff 344. 364 

Fernow. B. E., Economics of Forestry 60 

Ferns, Waters 295 

Fictional Rambles in and About Boston, Car- 
ruth 4 



VI 



INDEX. 



PAGE 

Fidelity to the Point of View. ("Meaning of 

Pictures"), Van Dyke 86 

Field, R., Bondage of Ballinger 374 

Fielde, Adele M., Polit. Primer of N. Y. City 

and State 220 

Fifteenth Century Prose and Verse 282 

Findlater, Mary, Rose of Joy 344 

Fink, W. W., Echoes from Erin 253 

Firth, J. B., Augustus Caesar 91, loi 

Fisher, H. A. L., Studies in Napoleonic States- 
manship 253 

Fisher, S. G., True Hist, of Amer. Reyolution. 30 

Fisherman's Friend 189 

Fisk, May I., Monologues 371 

Fiske, J., Dutch and Quaker Colonies in Amer- 
ica 370 

Essays Historical and Literary 30, 72 

New France and New England... 30, 144 

Fjske, H. S., Provincial Types in Amer. Fiction. 347 

Fite, W., Introd. Study of Ethics 316 

Flemming, George (pseud.) Lit. Misc 286 

p-letcher, VV. I.,. and Bowker, R. R., eds.. An- 
nual Literary Index 155 

Flint, Annie. Girl of Ideas .....152, 173 

Flint, R., Agnosticism 92 

Flower, E., The Spoilsmen 120 

Flynt, Josiah (pseud.) See Willard, J. F. 

Forbes, Mrs. W., Unofficial 120 

Ford, J. L. and Mary K., eds., Every Day in 

the Year 60 

Ford, P. L., Memorial Window, Lit. Misc 254 

Ford, S., A Few Remarks 251 

Horses Nine 120, 139 

Porman, J. M., Journeys End 120 

Foster, J. W., American Diplomacy in the Ori- 
ent 123.13s 

Foster, Mabel G., Heart of the Doctor 28 

Fountain, P., Great Mountains and Forests of 

So. Amer 27 

Fournier, A., Napoleon the First 356 

Fowler, Ellen T., Place and Power 313 

Fowler, H. N., Hist, of Roman Lit 219, 252 

P'ox, Frances M., Mother Nature's Little Ones. 283 
Fox, J., /r.. Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come, 

262, 313 

Francis, Mary C, Son of Destiny 90 

Frankau, Mrs. J. See Danby, Frank (pseud.) 

Fraser, J. F., The Real Siberia 1 

Fraser, W. A., Thoroughbreds 10, 28 

Freeman, J. E., If Not the Saloon What? 151 

French, Lillie H., Homes and Decoration. .87, 340 

My Old Maids' Corner. 364 

Freneau, P., Poems 156 

Freund, E., Empire and Sovereignty 220 

Froude, J. A., My Relations with Carlyle 202 

Fuller, Marg., Love Letters of 233, 249 

Furness, W. H., Home-Life of the Borneo Head- 

Hunters 39 

Gaines, E. K., Gorgo 301,358 

Gairdner, J., Lit. Misc 286 

Gallatin, A. E., Aubrey Beardsley's Drawings. 249 
Gardiner, S. R., Hist, of the Commonwealth and 

Protectorate 154; 281 

Gardner, E. A., Ancient Athens 59 

Gardner, P., Oxford at the Cross Roads 252 

Garland, H., Hesper 344, 366 

Garland^ J. A., The Private Stable 92 

Garnett, R., and Gosse, E. W., English Litera- 
ture 219, 250 

Garrison, G. P., Texas 217 

Gates, Eleanor, Biog. of a Prairie Girl .36, 57 

Gautier, T., Captain Fracassc 250 

Gerard, Dorothea, The Eternal Woman 184 

Gerrare, W., Greater Russia 156 

Ghent, W. J., Our Benevolent Feudalism 31 

Gibbs, G., Love of Monsieur 216 

Gibson, C. D., Weaker Sex 370 

Gifford, J.. Practical Forestry 147 

Gigfioli, Constance H. D., Naples in 1799 122 

Gilbert, F. N. See Mead, L. 

Gilder, R. W., Christmas Wreath 364 

Giles, H. A.. China and the Chinese 119 

Gilman, B., Ronald Carnaquay 184 

Gilson, R. R., In the Morning Glow 57 

Mother and Father 371 

Gladden, W.. Witnesses of the Light 340 

Gladstone, W. E., Life of. Morley 325, 361 

Glenn, T. A., Some Colonial Mansions 363 

Glyn, Elinor, The Damsel and the Sage 344 

Reflection;; of Ambrosine ,. . . 57 

Gogol, N. v.. Evenings in Little Russia.. 250 

Going, Maude, With the Trees 187 

Goldcr, C, Hist, of the Deaconess Movement.. 189 
Goldman, C. S., With Gen. French and the 

Cavalry in So. Africa 59 



PAGE 

Goldsmith, M., A Victim of Conscience. .. .242, 250 

Goldsmith, O., Essays 282 

Goodloe, Abbe C, Calvert of Strathore 120 

Goodspeed, E. J., Greek Papyri from the Cairo 

Museum. 252 

Gordon, C. W., Glengarry School Days 57 

Gordon, Lady Duif, Lit. Misc 63 

Gordon, G. A., Ultimate Conceptions of Faith. 349 

Gordy, J. P., Broader Elem. Education 312 

Gorgo, Gaines 301, 358 

Gorton, D. A., Ethics, Civil and Political 60 

Goschen, Viscount, Life and Times of Georg 

Joachim Goschen 118 

Goss, C. F., Loom of Life 57 

Gosse, E. W. See Garnett, R. 

Graham, John (pseud.) See Phillips, D. G. 

Graves, C. L., Sir George Grove 249 

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

Greaves, R., Brewster's Millions 168, 184 

Greeley, Horace, Life of, Linn 132 

Green," Anna K. See Rohlis,. Mrs. A. K. G. 

Green, Evelyn E., Works 280 

Greene, Mrs. S. P. M., Winslow Plain 90 

Gregorovius, F., Lucretia Borgia 357 

Grey Cloak, MacGrath 129 

Griffing, Jane R., Breakers Ahead 220 

Griffis, W. E., Young People's Hist, of Holland. iS4 

Griffith, J. P. C, Care of the Baby 186 

Grout, A. J., Mosses with Hand-Lens and Mi- 
croscope 316 

Growoll, A., Three Centuries of Eng. Book- 
trade Bibliog 219 

Guardian of Marie Antoinette, Mercy-Argenteau. 55 
Gulick, S. L., Evolution of the Japanese. .283, 374 
Gunter, A. C, Conscience of a King 216 

Spy Company , 79. 9 

Guthrie, F. A., A Bayard from Bengal 57 

Gwynnc, P., Pagan at the Shrine 23X 

Haddock, F. C, The King's Achievements 219 

Haggard, H. R., Pearl-Maiden 152 

Rural England 89 

Hale, E. E., Memories of a Hundred Years. .2, 26 

ed.. Lib. of Inspiration and Achievement... 252 

and others, Ballads of New England Hist... 368 
Halevy, L., Abbe Constantin, and- A Marriage 

for Love 280 

Halid, H., Diary of a Turk 311 

Hall, C. C, The Lords Baltimore and the Mary- 
land Palatinate 91 

Hall, Flo. H. See Howe, M 

Hall, H., Soldier of the Empire 313 

Hall, Ruth. Pine Grove House 344 

Halsey, F. W., ed., The Author Books 341 

Women Authors of Our Day in Their Homes. 155 

Hamilton, A., Few of Hamilton's Letters 118 

Hamm, Margherita A., Builders of the Republic. 26 

Famous l-'amilies of New York 26 

Hammond, J. L. Le B., Chas. James Fox 316 

Handford, T., Life and Sayings of Theo. Roose- 
velt 3" 

Haney, J. L., Bibliog. of Coleridge 252 

Hanotaux, G., Contemporary France 164, 188 

Hanscom, Beatrice, Love, Laurels and Laugh- 
ter 60 

Hansen, C. F., Om Amerika 251 

Hapgood, H.. Autobiog. of a Thief 198, 249 

Spirit of the Ghetto 27, 46 

Harben, W. N., The Substitute 152 

Harboe, P.. Son of Magnus 9 

Hardinge, E. M. (pseud.) See Going, M. 
Hardwick. A. A.. Ivory Trader in No. Kenia. . 279 

Hardy, A. S.. His Daughter First.... 174. 184 

Harkins, E. F.. Little Pilgrimages Among Men 

Who Have SVritten Famous Books... 347 

The Schemers 280 

Harper's Cook Book Encyclopaedia 89 

Harraden, Beatrice. Things Will Take a Turn.. 250 

Harris, J. C, Wally Wanderoon 270 

Harrison, C Book of the Honey Bee 316 

Harrison, Mrs. Constance C, Unwelcome Mrs. 

Hatch ; 250 

Harrison, Ellanetta. Stage of Life 184 

Harrison, T. A.. Life and Letters of Poe 187 

Harrison, Mrs. M. St. L. K. See Malet, Lucas 

(pseud.) 

Harrod. Frances, Mother Earth 90 

Hart, A. B., Actual Government 3^7 

Hart, Mabel. Sacrilege Farm 184 

Harte. F. B., Condensed Novels 28 

Trent's Trust 207 

Li f e of, Pemberton 131 

Hartmann, S.. Japanese Art. 34 

Hartshorne. Anna C, Japan and Her People.. 56 
Haskins. C. W., How to Keep Household Ac- 
counts.. 183 



INDEX, 



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PAGE 

Hassall, A.^ Mazarin 313 

Hawkins, A. H., Intrusions of Peggy 3, 28 

Hawthorne, J., Hawthorne and His Circle.. 341, 371 

Hawthorne, N., Complete Works 31 

Hayden, Eleanor G., From a Thatched Cottage. 120 
Hayes, Henry {pseud.) See Kirk, Mrs. E. O. 

Haynie, H., Paris Past and Present 27 

Hedges, S., Father Marquette 214 

Hegan, Alice C. See Rice, Mrs. A. C. H. 

Heilprin, A., Mont Pelee 76, 89 

Hemstreet, C., Literary New York 361 

Henderson, C. H., John Percyfield. ....... 152, 248 

Henniker, Flo., Contracts 184 

Henry, A. H., By Order of the Prophet 178 

Henty, George Alfred, Lit. Misc 32 

Hermit (The), Munn 302, 361 

Heuver, G. D., Teachings of Jesus Concerning 

Wealth 220 

Hichens, R. S., Felix 216 

Hickman, W. A., Sacrifice of the Shannon. .21b, 226 

Higginson, Ella, Mariella of Out- West 120 

Higginson, T. W., Henry Wadsworth Longfel- 
low _;_^ 48 

Hill, Janet McK., Practical Cooking and Serving. 89 

Hill, S. C, Three Frenchmen in Bengal 346 

HilliSj N. H., Quest of Happiness 31 

Hilprecht, H. v., ed.. Exploration in Bible 

Lands ..150, 241 

Hilty, C, Happiness . 253 

Hinkson, Mrs. K. T., Red, Red Rose 216 

Hobbes, John Oliver (pseud.) See Craigi-e, Mrs. 
P. M. T. 

Hobson, J. A., Imperialism 92 

Hocking, J., Flame of Fire 337 

Hodder,. W. R., Daughter of the Dawn 313 

Hodgkin, T., Charlemagne.. '. 118 

Hodgson, F. C, Early Hist, of Venice 154 

Holbrook, T. S. See Otto, A. F. 

Holder, C. F., Big Game Fishes of U. S 221 

Holmes, E., Triumph of Love 92 

Holmes, O. W., Elsie Vcnner 152 

Holt, Emily, Encyclop. of Household Ek:onomy, 

272, 342 

Home, G., What To See in England. 279 

Hooker, Kath., Wayfarers in Italy 27 

Hope, Anthony (pseud.) See Hawkins, A. H. 

Hope, G., Triumph of Count Ostermann. . 132, 152 

Hopkins, H. M., The Torch 365 

Hornting, E. W., Denis Dent 368 

No Hero 1 84 

Horton, G., Long Straight Road 14 

Hotchkiss, C; C, For a Maiden Brave.. 77 

Hough, E., Way to the West 365 

Houseman, L., Bethlehem '. . . 60 

Howard, C. See Arke. Simon (pseud.) 

Howe, D. W., Civil War Times '. 82, 91 

Howe, Maud, and- Hall, Flo. H., Laura Bridg- 

man 331,368 

Howe, Sarah W., Oberammergau in 1900 249 

Howells. W. D., Letters Home 328, 344 

Literature and Life. 14, 31 

Questionable Shapes 161, 216 

Huart. C, Hist, of Arabic Literature 315 

Hubbard, E., Little Journeys to Homes' of Eng. 

Authors.. ;..347. 373 

Little Journeys to Homes of Great Musicians, 

340, 373 

Hubbard, G. H., Spiritual Power at Work.... 284 
Huckel, O. See Parsifal. 

Hughes. R., Love Affairs of Great Musicians. . 340 

The Whirlwind 16 

ed.. Musical Guide 264 

Hughes, R. E., Making of Citizens.. 60 

Hulbert. A. B.. Boone's Wilderness Road 281 

Braddock's Road 154 

Portage Paths. 314 

Washington's Road 80 

Hunt. G., fames Madi-'on 118 

Hunter. Sir W. W., The India of the Queen.. 282 

Huntington, D. W., Our Feathered Game.. 254, 265 

Hutten, Baroness Von. Our Lady of the Beeches. 90 

Hutton, L., Literary Landmarks of Oxfofd.iss, 238 
Hutton, W. H., Influence of Christianity upon 

National Character 241 

ITyne, C. J. C. McTodd 344 

Thompson's Progress 250 

Iddesleigh, Earl of,- Luck o' Lassendale ...... . 57 

Iliowizi. H., Arc.hiery of Samara. 90, 152 

India, Past and Present, Lindsay 363 

Influence of Christianity upon Nation. Charac- 
ter, Hutton 241 

Innes, J. H.. New AmsterdaF.m and Its People. 80 
Isham, F. S., LTnder the Rose 65 

J. P. M. (pseud.) See Mowbray, J. P. 



FACE 

J. S. of Dale (pseud.) See Stimson, F. J. 
Jackson, Margaret D., Daughter of the Pit.. 68, 121 

Jackson, W. S., Nine Points of the Law 216 

Jacobs, J., As Others Saw Him 284 

Jacobs, W. W., Lady of the Barge 57 

James vi. and Gowrie Mystery, Lang 30 

James, G. W., Indians of the Painted Desert 

Region 289, 354 

James, H., The Ambassadors 334, 366 

'The Better Sort 121, 145 

William Wetmore Story 341 

James, W., Puerto Rican and Other Impressions. 183 
Janvier, T. A., Christmas Kalends of Provence. 27 

-Dutch Founding of New York 366 

Jefferson, Thomas, Life of, Watson. ...322, 372 

Jerome, J. K., Paul Kelver 7 

Johnson, A. S., Rent in Modern Economic The- 



ory. 



156 
Johnson, C. New England and Its Neighbors. 56 
Johnson, E. R., Amer. Railway Transportation. 338 

Johnson, F., Famous Assassinations 346 

Johnston, StV H., Uganda Protectorate 66, 89 

"Johnston, H. W., Private Life of the Romans. 154 

Jones, Alice, Bubbles We Buy 216 

Jones, J. P., In<iia's Problem. 254 

Jones, Sir P. Burne-, Lit. Misc 254 

jonson, B., Best Plays 316 

Jordan, D. S., Blood of the Nation.. 60 

and others. Animal Studies 283 

Jorrocks (pseud.) See Garland, J. A. 

Journal of Arthur Stirling. ....66, 88 

journeys End, Forman 120 

Judd, C. H., Genetic Psychology for Teachers.. 15-1 

Kastner. L. E., Hist, of French Versification.. 283 
Kauffmann, R. W,, and Carpenter, E. C, The 

Chasm ..., 372 

Keats, Gwendoline, The Roman Road 184 

Keeler, Harriet L., Our Northern Shrubs.. 187, 243 
Keen, Adelaide, convp., With a Saucepan Over 

the Sea 89 

Keller, Helen. Story of My Life 105, 150 

Kelly, A., Bears I Have Met and Others 313 

Kelly, R. T., Egypt 89 

Kempton-Wace Letters (The) .219, 237 

Kennan. G., Tragedy of Pelee '. 27 

Kenton, Edna, What Manner of Man 103, 121 

Kersting, R., comp., The White World 56 

Kildare, O., My Mamie Rose... 344 

Kincaid. Mary H.. Walda 152 

King, B., In the Garden of Charity 121, 138 

King, C, Apache Princess 344 

Daughter of the Sioux 152 

Iron Brigade 90 

King, W. J. H., Search for the Masked Taw- 

areks 313 

Kingsley, C Life and Works of 186 

Kingsley, Flo. M., The Needle's Eye 68 

Kipling, R., Five Nations 326, 348 

Kirk, Mr J. Ellen O., Good-bye, Proud World.. 344 

Klaszko, J., Rome and the Renaissance 361 

Klein, H., Thirty Years of Musical Life in 

London 370 

Knowles, F. L., ed.. Treasury of Humorous 

Poetry' 60 

Knowlson, T. S.. Art of Success 59 

Kobbe, G., Famous Actors and Actresses 354 

Signora 57 

Koner, L., Breathing for Health 218 

Krans, H. S., Irish Life in Irish Fiction 347 

Krause, Lyda F.. Honor d'Everel 344 

Krausz, S., Towards the Rising Sun 279 

Krohn, W. O., First Book in Hygiene 282 

Kropotkin. P. A., Mutual Aid 61 

Kruger, P., Memoirs 8, 26 

La Faroe, J., Great Masters 360 

Lahee, H. C. The Organ and Its Masters.... 87 

Lamb, C. and Mary, Works 315, 376 

Lamber, Juliette. See Adam, Mme. 

Landes, E. S., Complete Outline in U. S. His- 



tory. 



348 

Landor. H. S., Across Coveted Lands 35, 56 

Lane, M. A. L.. ed., Triumphs of Science 155 

Lang, A., The Disentanglers 28, 49 

James vi. and the Gowrie Mystery 30 

Lansdale, Maria H.. Vienna and the Viennese, 

56, 363 

Laughlin, J. L.. Princinles of Money 1517 

and Willis, H. P., Reciprocitv 188 

Laut, Agnes C Story of the Trapper 56, 70 

Lavignac, A.. Musical Education 182 

Lawrence. W.. Bishop Brooks 150 

Lawson. E., From the Unvarying Star.... 147, i%2 

Lawson. W. R.. Amer. Industrial Problems.... t88 

Lazare, B., Antisemitism 220 



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INDEX. 



PAGE 

Leadbeater, C. W., Man Visible iand Invisible. 253 
Lecky, W. E. H., Leaders of Public Opinion in 

Ireland.. 156 

Le Conte, Jos., Autobiography 214 

Lee, G. S., Lost Art of Reading 31, 85 

Lee, J., Constructive and Preventive Philan- 
thropy 61 

Lee, S. L., Queen Victoria 88 

Le Feuvre, Amy, Daughter of the Sea 57 

Le Gallienne, R., Old Country House 57 

Leigh, O. H. G., Voltaire Index 239, 249 

Leiand, Charles G., Obituary Note of 116 

Lemon, Don {pseud.). Book of Curious Facts, 

178, 188 

Le Notre, G., House of the Combrays 58 

Leo XIII., Pope, Encyclical Letters 274, 316 

Editorial on 244 

Life of, O'Reilly 300 

Pope Leo xiii 278 

Le Roux, H., Business and Love 150 

Leschetizky, T., Life of, Potocka 370 

Lit. Misc 286 

Lespinasse, Julie J. E. de. Letters 140, 150 

Lethaby, W. R., London Before the Conquest.. 1x9 
Letters from a Chinese Official 337, 348 

of an Actress 121 

Lewis, A. H., Black Lion Inn 184 

The Boss 367 

Peggy O'Neal 216, 234 

Lewis, R. E., Educational Conquest of the Far 

East 215 

Leyland, J., The Shakespeare Country 311 

Lieb, H., The Initiative and Referendum 283 

Liljencrantz, Ottilie A., Ward of King Canute. 216 
Lin, Frank {pseud.) See Atherton, Mrs. G. F. 

Lincoln, True Abraham, Curtis 209 

Lindsay, F., India, Past and Present 363 

Lindsay, H., Cark of Coin 3;4l4 

Lingard, J., History of England 315 

Linn, J. W., The Chameleon 121 

Linn, W. A., Horace Greeley 132, 150 

Lipscomb, A. B., ed.. Commercial Hist, of the 

Southern States 218 

Litchfield. P. A., English Cathedrals 87 

Locke, W. J., Where Love Is 344 

Lodge, H. C, Fighting Frigate 26 

London, J., Call of the Wild 258, 280 

Daughter of the Snows 90 

People of the Abyss /. 329 

Long, J. L., Madame Butterfly 359 

Sixty Jane 364 

Loiigfellow, H. W., Courtship of Miles Stan- 
dish 321,353 

Life of, Higginson 48 

Loomis, C. B., Cheerful Americans 232, 247 

Lord, A. P., Regency of Marie di Medicis 356 

Lorimer, G. C, Master of Millions 250 

Lorimer, G. H., Letters from a Self-Made Mer- 
chant to His Son 6i 

Lothrop, Mrs. H. M., Sally, Mrs. Tubbs...3o6, 345 

Lowell, P. . Solar System 219 

Lubbock, Sir J., Coins and Currency 156 

Lucas, F. A., Animals Before Man 60 

Lumholtz, C, Unknown Mexico 27, 42 

Luther, M. L., The Henchman 28 

Lyall, Sir A., Tennyson 27 

Lyall, Edna {pseud.) See Bayly, A. E. 
Lyman, O. L., Trail of the Grand Seigneur, 

141, 152, 213 
Lynch, Lawrence L. {pseud.) See Van De- 
venter. E. M. 

Lynde, F., Master of Appleby 45, 58 

McCabe, J., St. Augustine and His Age 55 

McCaleb, W. F., The Aaron Burr Conspiracy. . 186 

McCall, S., Truth Dexter 184 

McCarthy, J., British Political Portraits 156 

Hist, of Our Own Times 348 

Reign of Queen Anne 30, 50 

McCarthy, J. H., Marjorie 184 

McChesney, Dora G., Cornet Strong of Ireton's 

Horse 152 

McCulloch, H.. Written in Florence 123 

McCutcheon, G. B., The Sherrods 313 

Macdonald, D. B., Development of Muslim The- 
ology 157 

McFadyen, J. E., Old Testament Criticism and 

the Christian Church 221 

McFaul, A. D.. Ike Glidden in Maine 313 

McGillicuddy, C., How to Play Baseball 221 

MacGrath. H., The Grey Cloak 129, 184 

Mack, Connie {pseud.) See McGillicuddy, C. 

Mackaye, P., Canterbury Pilgrims 156 

Mackie, Pauline B.. Voice in the Desert....^.. 184 

MacLane, Mary, My Friend Annabel Lee 276 

Lit. Misc 255 



PAGE 

Maclean, N., Dwellers in the Mist 121 

MacManus, S., Lad of the O'Friels 152 

Red Poocher 345 

McMaster, J. B., Daniel Webster 07 

Macmillan, H., Deeper Teachings of Plant Life. 92 

McNeill, A., The Egregious English 56, 85 

Lit Misc 94 

McVickar, H. G., and Collins, P. {pseud.), A 

Parish of Two 280, 306 

Maeterlinck, M., Monna Vanna 333, 371 

Magnay, Sir W,. Count Zarka 280 

Mahan, A. T., Retrospect and Prospect 31, 38 

Malone, J. S., Sons of Vengeance 374 

Mann, W. J., America in Its Relation to Great 

Epochs of Hist 59, 136 

Manning, Marie, Judith of the Plains 366 

MS. in a Red Box (The) 268 

Marchmont, A. W., Price of Freedom 250 

Margaret {Duchess of Newcastle), Duke and 

Duchess of Newcastle 311 

Markham, F., Recollections of a Town Boy at 

Westminster 311 

Marriott, C, House on the Sands 305, 309 

Love With Honour 42, 58 

Marshall, A., New Cambridge Curriculum in 

Economics 316 

Martineau, J., National Duties, etc 221 

Life and Letters of, Drummond 40 

Marvin, W, L., Amer. Merchant Marine 30 

Mason, A. E. W., Four Feathers 13, 29 

Mason, D. G., From Grieg to Brahms 87 

Maspero, G. C. C, Egyptian Archaeolggy 119 

Matheson, G., Representative Men of the Bible. 349 
Mathews, A., Ohio and Her Western Reserve.30, 91 

Mathews, W., Conquering Success 347 

Matthcwman, L. de V., Brevities 363 

Crankisnis 363 

Mauclair, C, French Impressionists 118 

Maud, Constance E., Heroines of Poetry 59 

Maxwell, Sir H., George Romney 88 

Mayor, J., Modern Eng. Metre 348 

Mead, L., and Gilbert, F. N., Manual of For- 
ensic Quotations 219 

Meade, E. S., Trust Finance 188 

Mercy-Argenteau, F. C. Comte de. Guardian of 

Marie Antoinette 55 

Meredith, G., Lit. Misc 116 

Meredith, W. H., Real John Wesley 311 

Merejkowski, D., Tolstoy as Man and Artist.27, 106 
Merriman, H. S. {pseud.), Barlasch of the 

Guard 376 

Merwin, S., His Little World 269, 345 

Metcalf, Mrs. E. J. F., Claims of Swedenborg 

and Mary B. G. Eddy 284 

Meynell, W., Benjamin Disraeli 357 

Milecete, Helen, Career of Mrs. Osborne 345 

A Detached Pirate 216 

Miles, E. H., Racquets, Tennis and Squash.... 61 

Miller, Alice D., Modern Obstacle \ . 184 

Miller, Olive Thorne {pseud.), True Bird Sto- 
ries 187 

MilHn, G. F., Village Problem 124 

Mills, W. J., Historic Houses of New Jersey. . 89 
Milman, Helen, My Kalendar of Country De- 
lights 187 

Mitchell, S. W., Comedy of Conscience. ... 134, 153 

Little Stories 345, 364 

Mitchell, W. C. Hist, of Greenbacks 348 

Monroe, Mrs. H. E., Washington 183 

Montague, G. H., Standard Oil Co 230 

Montaigne, M. E. de. Selected Essays 315 

Montefiore. C. G., Liberal Judaism 157 

Moody, Helen W., A Child's Letters to Her 

Husband 313 

Moore, F. F., Castle Omeragh 216, 238 

Moore, G.. A Mummer's Wiife 250 

Untilled Field 169, 216 

Moore, J. T., Songs and Stories from Tennessee, 

135, 156 

Moore, N. H., Old China Book 214, 305 

Moore. T. S., Danae 283 

Moorehouse, J., Dangers of the Apostolic Age.. 284 
Moran, T. F., Theory and Practice of Eng. 

Government 1 24 

Morley, J., Life of Gladstone 325. 361 

Morley, M. W., Down North and Up Along. 148, 150 
Morris, C, ed.. Famous Orators of the World. 278 

Morris, G.. Aladdin O'Brien 36 

Morris, William, Life of, Cary 19 

Morrison, A.. The Hole in the Wall 90 

The Red Triangle 313 

Mors et Victoria 316 

Morse, E. S., Glimpses of China 17, 27 

Morse, Frances C. Furniture of Olden Time.. 26 

Morton, F. W., Marriage in Epigram 347 

Morton, Martha. Her Lord and Master ... .90, 153 



INDEX. 



PAGE 

Moss, Mary, Sequence in Hearts 324, 345 

Moulton, K. G., Moral System of Shakespeare. 241 

Mowbray, J. P., Conquering of Kate 185 

Muir, M. M. P., Story of Alchemy.... 92 

Muirhead, J. F., Lit. Misc 286 

Miiller. F. M., Life and Letters 55 

Mumford, Ethel W.^ Whiteash 280 

Munn, C. C, The Hermit 302, 361 

Munro, D. C, and Whitcomb, M., Middle Ages 

and Modern Europe 251 

Munro, J., Story of the Brit. Race 59 

Murdock, Mrs. A. G., Liang, from China 216 

Murfree, Mary N., Spectre of Power 216, 235 

Murnane, T. H., How to Play Baseball 221 

Murray, T. D., ed.. Jeanne d'Arc 55 

Murray's New English Dictionary 360 

Myers, C, Lost Wedding Ring 89 

Myers, F. W. H., Human Personality and its 

Survival of Bodily Death i57 

Nason, F. L., Blue Goose i53 

Naylor, J. B., Under Mad Anthony's Banner. . 280 

Necrology of 1902 53 

Nelson's Bibles 369 

New Century Library 369 

Newell, W. W., Legend of the Holy Grail 186 

Newell's (Peter) Hunting of the Snark 366 

Nicholls, Josephine H., Bayou Triste 29 

Nichols, F. H., Through Hidden Shensi 69 

Nicholson, M., The Main Chance 164, 216 

Nicoll, W. R., Lit. Misc 286 

Norris, F., Deal in Wheat 313. 322 

The Pit 23, 58 

Lit. Misc 255 

Responsibilities of the Novelist 347 

Frank Norris 9 

Norris, W. E., Lord Leonard the Luckless. . 121, 143 

Novelists Should Be Seers and Prophets 310 

Noyes, C, Enjoyment of Art i53 

Nuttall, T., Birds of U. S. and Canada 219 

O'Connor, J. C, comp., Esperanto 215 

Ogden, G. W., Tennessee Todd 330, 374 

Ohio and Her Western Reserve, Mathews 91 

Older, Mrs. F., The Socialist and the Prince. 121, 200 

Ollivant, A., Danny 29 

Omond, J. W. T., The Boers in Europe 220 

Oppenheim, E. P., Prince of Sinners 216, 228 

The Traitors i53 

Yellow Crayon 3^3 

Lit. Misc 254,255 

O'Reilly, B., Life of Leo xiii 278, 300 

O'Reilly, Eliza B., My Candles and Other Po- 
ems 361 

Orr. J., David Hume 215 

Ritschlianism 3^7 

Ostrogorski, M., Democracy and the Organiza- 
tion of Political Parties 92 

Otto, A." F., and Holbrook, T. S., Mythological 

Japan 37^ 

Overton. Gwendolen, Anne Carmel 194, 245 

Owen, Rye, Red-Headed Gill 13. i53 

Oxenham, J., Barbe of Grand Bayou 345 

Flowers of the Dust 121 

Oxford University Press' Bibles, Prayer-Books 

and Hymnals 360 

Standards ,and Classics 360 

Padovan, a.. Sons of Glory 123 

Palmer, F., The Vagabond 299, 313 

Paltsits, V. H., Bibliog. of Philip Freneau 187 

Pangborn, F. \V., The Silent Maid 216 

Parker, Frances, Marjie of the Lower Ranch,.. 

307. 34S 
Parker, Sir G., Donovan Pasha 29 

Quebec 27 

Parker, Jos., Life of, Adamson 87 

Parkhurst, H. E., Trees, Shrubs and Vines of 

the U. S 187 

Parsifal, Wagner 298 

in America 277 

Parson, K., On the Mountain Division 313 

Partsch, J., Central Europe 311 

Paston, G. (pseud.). Side Lights on the Geor- 
gian Period 122 

Paston Letters, Lit. Misc 286 

Paterson, A., The King's Agent 29 

Paterson, W. R., In PiccauMly 121 

Paton, F. H. L., Lomai of Lei;akel 215 

Patterson, Alice J., Spinner Family 347 

Patterson, Annie W., Schumann 278, 296 

Patterson, H., On Yacht Etiquette 284 

Patton, J. H., and Lord, J., History and Gov- 
ernment of the U. S 348 

Payne, P., Mills of Man 314 



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Pavnc, W., Mr. Salt 374 

Payson, W. F., Triumph of Life 153. 185 

Peacock, T. L., Novels. 345 

Pcake, E. E., Pride of Tellfair 90 

Pears, E., Destruction of the Greek Empire 186 

Peer, F. S., Cross Country with Horse and 

Hound.. 61 

Pelton, Mrs. M. S. C, A Tar-Heel Baron.. 112, 121 

Pembeiton, E., Bret Harte 131. 15 

Pemberton, H., Path of Evolution 123 

Pemberton, M., Gold Wolf... 121 

Penfield, F. C, Present-Day Egypt 279, 341 

Pcnnell, W. W., The Buckeye Doctor 217 

Penniman, A. B., Studies in Optimism 219 

Perkins, Clara C, French Cathedrals and 

Chateaux i3 

Perry, B., Study of Prose Fiction 31, 7+ 

Pettengill, Lillian, Toilers of the House 314 

Phillips, D. G., Golden Fleece 185 

The Master-Rogue 345. 37(> 

Phillips, S., David and Bathsheba 60 

Phillpotts, E., Golden Fetich 34*5 

The River 29 

Phinney, Mary, Adventures of an Army Nurse. 346^ 

Pier, A. S., The Triumph 217 

Pierson, A. T.. The Keswick Movement I57 

Pilgrim's Progress, Ed. de luxe 360 

Puritan Edition 36+ 

Pinero, A. W., Iris 92 

Pocock, R., Following the Frontier 345 

Poe, E. A.. Miscellaneous Essays 315 

Poole, S. Lane-r Mediaeval India Under Mo- 
hammedan Rule 78, 91 

Poole's Index to Periodical Literature i55 

Poor, H. R.. Pictorial Composition i53 

Pope, A., Complete Poetical Works 253 

Popham, Mrs. F., Housewives of Edenrise. . 17, 29 

Porter, Admiral, Life of, Soley 372 

Porter, Mrs. G. S., Song of the Cardinal 242 

Portnian, L., Station Studies 91 

Potocka. Countess, Theodore Leschestizky. .340, 370 

Lit. Misc 286 

Potter, H. C. The Citizen in Relation to the 

Industrial Situation 3i 

The East of To-Day and To-Morrom 80 

The Modern Man and His Fellow Man 221 

Potter, Marg. H., Castle of Twilight 260 

Prairie Winter (A) 1 5<> 

Pratt, Nannette M., The Body Beautiful 186 

Pratt, S. S., Work of Wall St 61 

Price, W. L.. Home Building and Furnishing.. 151 
Prichard, H. H., Through the Heart of Pata- 
gonia 28 

Prideaux, W. F., comp., Bibliog. of R. L. Stev- 
enson 327 

Protheroe, C. Life in the Mercantile Marine.. 349 

Pugh, E., The Stumbling-Block 153. 163 

Putnam. G. H., George Palmer Putnam i5 

Pyle, H., Rejected of Men 227, 250 

Story of King Arthur 37<> 

Raine, W. M., Daughter oi Raasay 43. 58 

Raleigh, W., Wordsworth 215 

Ralph, J., The Millionairess 6 

Julian Ralph 84 

Ray, Anna C, The Dominant Strain 217, 260 

Ursula's Freshman 345 

Rayner, Emma, Handicapped Among the Free.. 121 

Read, O. P., The Hardriders 280, 304 

Reed, Fanny, Reminiscences, Musical and Other. 88 

Reed, H. B., Notes from Nature's Lyre 156 

Reed, Myrtle, Shadow of Victory 297, 373 

and others. Pickaback Songs 373 

Reeve, A. J.. Practical Home Millinery 284 

Remington, F., John Ermine 58 

Reynolds, Mrs. F.. Man with the Wooden Face. 273 

Rhoades, Nina, Silver Linings 345 

Rice. Mrs. A. C. H., Lovey Mary 108, 359 

Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch 359 

Rice, C. Y., Charles di Tocca 188 

Richards, B. G.. Discourses of Keidansky 254 

Richards, Mrs. Laura E., Golden Windows.... 360 
Richardson, R. B.. Vacation Days in Greece... 341 

Richman, I. B., Rhode Island 59 

Ridge, W. P., -'Erb" 29. 58 

Riis, J., Battle with the Slum 5. 3i 

Peril and Preservation of the Home........ 215 

Riley, T. V/., His Pa's Romance 354 

Roberts, C. G. D.. Barbara Ladd 58 

Roberts. E. P.. Adventures of Capt. John Smith. 88 

Roberts, H., The Tramp's Hand-Book 187 

Roberts, W. K., Divinity and Man 221 

Robertson, Frances Forbes. See Harrod, F. 

Robertson, J. G., Hist, of German Literature.. 59 

Robertson, M. A., Sinful Peck 217 

Robinson, C. M., Modern Civic Art 214 



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INDEX. 



PAGE 

Robinson, J. H., Introd. to Hist, of Western 

Europe. 251 

Rohlfs, Mrs. A. K. G., Filigree Ball 98, 153 

Holland, R., Millet 118 

Roosevelt, T., California Addresses 317 

Maxims 315 

Roscoe, E. S., Robert Harley, Earl of Oxford. 88 

Roseboro', Viola, Joyous Heart 185 

Rosegger, P. K., The Earth and the Fullness 

Thereof 58, 72 

Rosenau, W., Jewish Ceremonial Institutions.. 157 

Rossetti, D. G., Poems 373 

Round Anvil Rock, Banks 238 

Rowland, H. C, Sea Scamps ; 345 

Rudall, H. A., Life of -Beethoven 215 

Rumboldt, Sir H.. Recollections of a Diplomatist. 88 

Rusk:n, J., Letters to M. G. and H. G 249 

Russell, W. C, The Captain's Wife 280 

Saintsbury, G. E. B., Hist, of Criticism 31 

Sally, Mrs. Tubbs, Lothrop 306 

Sandeau, L. S. J., Mile, de la Seigliere 280 

Sandys, E., Trapper "Jim". 212, 221 

Sanford, L. C, and others. Water- Fowl Family. 167 

Sangster, Mrs. M. E. M., Eleanor Lee.... 346, 374 

The Joyous Life 253 

Sarat, Chandra Das, Journey to Lhasa 119 

Sargent, C. S., Silva of North America 92 

ed.. Trees and Shrubs. 60 

Saunders, R. D., John Kenadie 374 

Savage, M. J., Can Telepathy Explain? 59 

Men and Women 28 

Savage, R. H., Golden Rapids of High Life. 114, 153 

Last Traitor of Long Island 280 

Schierbrand, W. von, Germany 56 

Schofield, A. F., Nerves in Disorder 252 

Schumann, Life of, Patterson 296 

Scidmore, Eliza R., Winter India 150 

Scollard, C, Count Falcon of the Eyrie 346 

and Rice, W., Ballads of Valor and Victory. 372 

Scott, F. J., Portraiture of Julius Caesar 278 

Scott, J. W., Jack Hardin's Rendering of the 

Arabian, Nights 314 

Scott, W. A., Monev and Banking 124 

Scott, W. E. D., Story of a Bird Lover 156 

Seaman, O., Borrowed Plumes 30 

Sears, B., Circle in the Square . 374 

Sears, L., Amer, Lit. in Colonial and National 

Periods 31 

Seawell, Molly E., Children of Destiny. ... 136, 185 

Fortunes of Fifi 259, 365 

Francezka 29 

Great Scoop . 281 

Secombe, T., and Allen, J. W., Age of Shake- 
speare 253 

Sedgwick, H. D., Essays on Great Writers.... 347 

Selmer, L., Boer War Lyrics 253 

Serao, Mathilda, Conquest of Rome 18, 29 

Severn's (A) Recollections of Ruskin, Lit. Misc. 254 
Shaftesbury, Edmund (pseud.) See Edgerly, 

W. 
Shakespeare, W., Elizabethan Shakspere 220 

Poems 283 

Moral System of, Moulton 241 

Shakespeare Beyreuth ("Marie Corelti"),Coates. 240 
Shoemaker, M. M., Great Siberian Railway. 97, 119 

Sholl, Anna M., Law. of Life.. 258, 274, 372 

Shorthouse, John Henry. Editorial on 83 

Shuman, E. L., Practical Journalism 292 

Sidnev, Mars:, (pseud.) ' See Lothrop, Mrs. 

H. M. 
Silberrad, Una L., Success of Mark Wyngate, 

S8, 82 

Silver, R. N.. Golden Dwarf 314 

Simons, A. M., Class Struggles in Amer 221 

Sinclair, S. B., Possibility of a Science of Edu- 
cation 312 

Sinclair, U.. Prince Hagen 217 

Singleton, Esther, Social New York Under the 

Georges ._^ 56 

Slosson, Mrs. A. E. T., Life's Common Way. . 185 

Smedley, Constance, An April Princess 314 

Smith. A. C, Turquoise Cup 107, 121 

Smith, Mrs. A. C, The Legatee iS3 

Smith, A. H., Rex Christus. 311 

Smith, C. S., Barbizon Days no, 118 

Smith, G., Founder of Christendom 221 

Lit. Misc ., 254 

Smith, G. B., Practical . Theology 349 

Smith, H. P., Old Testament History 349 

Smith. J. H., Arnold's March from Cambridge 

to Quebec 315 

Smith. W. H., Hist, of Indiana 31S 

Political Hist, of Slavery 198, 218 

Snvder, C, New Conceptions in Science 220 

Social Evil (The) 92 



PAGE 

Social Unrest, Brooks 92 

Socialist (The) and the Prince, Older 200 

Soley, J. R., Admiral Porter 34,1, 372 

Sommerville, M., Joliffe 284 

Sonnicfasen, A., Deep Sea Vagabonds 185 

Spalding, J. L., Socialism and Labor 61 

Sparhawk, Frances C, Honor Dalton 314 

Spears, J. R., and Clark, A. H., Hist, of the Mis- 
sissippi Valley 315 

Speer, R. E., A Young Man's Questions 284 

Spencer, H., Lit. Misc 254 

Springer, Mary E., Elizabeth Schuyler. 250 

Spurr, H. A., Alexandre Dumas 12, 27 

Spyri, Mrs. Johanna, Dorris and Her Mountain 

Home 281 

Staley, E., Jean Francois Millet 118 

Watteau and His School . 87 

Standard Oil Co., Montague.... 230 

Stannard, Mrs. H. E. V., Marty 121 

S_tanton, F. L., Up from Georgia 60 

Stanwood, E., Amer. Tariff Controversies. .338, 349 

Star Dreamer (The), Castle 75 

Starr, Ida M. H., Gardens of the Caribbees... 311 
Stedman, E. C. and T. L., Complete Pocket 

Guide to Europe 151 

Steele, R., Best Plays 316 

Stelzle, C, The Workingman and Social Prob- 
lems 188 

Stephens, R. N., Mystery of Murray Davenport. 185 

Stephenson, N., Eleanor Dayton 292, 314 

Steuart, J. A., The Samaritans 217 

Son of Gad 58 

Stevens, F. E., Black Hawk War 346 

Stevenson, B. E., The Heritage 29 

The Holladay Case 3S6 

Stevenson, R. L., Essays and Criticisms 347 

Memories and Portraits 249 

Some Letters 150 

BibliQg. of, Prideaux 327 

Stiles, H. R., Hist, of Wethersfield, Lit. Misc. 286 

Stiles, R., Four Years Under Marse Robert 314 

Stiles,. W. C, Out of Kishineff 251 

Stimson, F. J., Jethro Bacon of Sandwich.... 121 

Stinson, S. S., Whimlets 363 

Stockton, F. R., Captain's Toll Gate.. 193, 245, 372 

John Gayther's Garden .' 29 

Stoddard, C. W., Exits and Entrances. ... 123, 140 

For the Pleasure of His Company 217 

Stoddard, F. H., Life and Letters of Chas. But- 
ler 278 

Stoddard, R. H., Recollections 364 

Stoddart, J. H., Recollections of a Player 27 

Stone, W., and Cram, W. E., Amer. Animals. . 60 
Stoney, Emily A. M., Practical Points in Nurs- 
ing 252 

Strang, L. C, Players and Plays of the Last 

Quarter Century 27 

Streamer, D., Perverted Proverbs 218 

Stringer, A., Silver Poppy 275, 308 

Strong; C. A.. Why the Mind Has a Body 219 

Strong, Isobel, and Osbourne, L., Memories of 

Vailima 55 

Stuart, Mrs. Ruth McE.. Napoleon Jackson... 29 

Stuckenberg, J. H. W., Sociology 221 

Sturgc, M. C, Truth and Error of. Christian 

Science 1 24 

Sturgis, R., How to Judge Architecture 340 

Suburbanism ("The Egregious English"), Mc- 
Neill 8s 

Sullivan. T., Humorous Stories of the Ball Field. 251 

Sun-Dials and Roses of Yesterday, Earle 37 

Sweven. G., Limanora 260 

Swift, F. R.. Florida Fancies 189 

Sykes, P. M.. Ten Thousand Miles in Persia.. 141 

Symes, Mrs. , Character Reading 316' 

Symonds, E. M. See Paston, G. (pseud.) 

Takaki, M.. Hist, of Japanese Paper Currency. 284 

Tarde. G., Laws of Imitation 356 

Tarkington, P>., Cherry 366 

Two Vanrevels 29 

Taskmasters (Ihe), Turner 80 

Taylor, B., Storv of Kennett 376 

Taylor, J. R., The Overture 316 

Taylor, Mary I.. Rebellion of thp Princess 153 

Templeton, Herminie, Darby O'Gill and the Good 

People 185 

Tennyson, Lord, Glimpses of, Weld lib 

Terhune, Mrs. M. V. H., Marion Harland's 

Complete Cook Book 279 

Thacher, T. B., Christopher Columbus i';4. 3" 

Thomas, W. I., Relation pf the Medicine Man 

to the Origin of the Professional Occupations. 218 

Thompson. C. L., The Presbyterians 124 

Thompson, H. B.. Mental Traits of Sex 283 

Thompson, V., Spinners of Life 175. 185 



INDEX. 



XI 



PAGE 

Thompson, Warwick (pseud.) See Ridge, W. P. 

Thorpe, F. N., Spoils of Empire 185 

Thurston, Kath. C, The Circle 74, 91 

Thurston, Mabel N., On the Road to Arcady. . 374 

Thwaites, R. G., Daniel Boone ..17. 55 

Thwing, C. F., Liberal Education 347 

Thwing, E., The Red-Keggers 314 

Tiernan, Mrs. F. C. F., Daughter of the Sierra. 153 

Tilford, r.. Butternut Jones 372 

Tillinghast, J. A., Negro in Africa and America. 61 

Tilton, D., On Satan's Mount iii, 122 

Tioba, Colton 73 

Tirebuck, W. E., 'Twixt God and Mammon.228, 250 

Todd, C. B., Real Benedict Arnold 182, 209 

Tolstoi, Count L. N., More Tales from Tolstoi. 185 

Resurrection 185 

Tolstoy, as Man and Artist, Merejkowski 106 

Tooker, L. F., Call of the Sea 60 

Tooley, Sa. A., Royal Palaces and Their Mem- 
ories 341 

Torrey, B., Clerk of the Woods 348 

Townsend, E. W., Lees and Leaven 122 

A Summer in New York 122 

Edward W. Townsend 105 

Tracy, L., Wings of the Morning 314 

Train, G. F., My Life in Many States 24, 27 

Trask, Katrina, Christians 373 

Trent, H., Mr. Claghorn's Daughter 251 

Trent, W. P., Hist, of Amer. Literature 252 

Triana, P., Down the Orinoco in a Canoe 119 

Trowbridge, J. T., My Own Story 336, 370 

Tucker, G. F., Monroe Doctrine 281 

Turner, G. K., The Taskmasters 58, 80 

Turner, W., Hist, of Philosophy 219 

Turquoise Cup, Smith 107 

Tuttiett, Mary G., Richard Rosny 99, 114 

Twain, Mark (pseud.) See Clemens, S. L. 

Tyson, J. A., Stirrup Cup i53 

Uganda Protectorate, Johnston. 66 

Ulmann, A., Landmark Hist, of New York.... 218 

Van Deventer, E. M., The Danger Line 281 

Van Dyke, H., Blue Flower 19 

Van Dyke, J. C, Meaning of Pictures 86, 145 

Van Middeldyk, R. A., Hist, of Puerto Rico.. 154 
Van Tyne, C. H., Loyalists in Amer. Revolu- 
tion 122 

Van Vorst, Marie, Poems 253 

Van Vorst, Mrs. J. and Marie, The Woman 

Who Toils 102, 124 

Van Zile, E. S., The Duke and His Double. 243, 281 

Perkins, the Fakcer 251 

Veblen, T. B., Use of Loan Credit 221 

Vedder, H. C, The Baptists 124 

Verne, Jules, Lit. Misc 286 

Viaud, L. M. J., Iceland Fisherman 281 

Last Days of Pekin 28, 48 

Vincent, L. H., Moliere 88 

Virginia Girl in the Civil War, Avary 99 

Voltaire Index, Leigh. 239 

Voyse, C, Religion for All Mankind 157 

Waddington, Mrs. M. A. K., Letters of a Dip- 
lomat's Wife 215 

Wagner, C, The Better Way 166, 189 

Wagner, R. , Parsifal 298, 311 

Waldstein, C, Art in the 19th Cent 249 

Walford, Mrs. L. B., Stay-at-Homes 204, 281 

Walkley, A. B., Dramatic Criticism 249 

Walks in New England, Whiting. 203 

Wallace, Kathryn. See Lizabeth (pseud.) 

VVallace, Mrs. L., City of the King 365 

Wallace, W.. James Hogg 155 

Wallihan, Mr. and Mrs. A. G., Hoofs, Claws 

and Antlers of the Rocky Mts. 214 

Walpole, Horace, Letters of 360 

Waltz, Eliz. C, Pa Gladden 271, 364 

Wandell. H. B., In a Nutshell 341 

Ward. Mrs. H., Lady Rose's Daughter. ... 100, 122 

Mrs. Ward in French, Lit. Misc 32 

Mrs. Ward's Profits, Lit. Misc 116 

Ward, L, F., Pure Sociology 124 

Ward, Susan H,, George H. Hepworth 240 

Ward, Mrs. W.. The Light Behind 122 

Warner, B. E., Young Woman in Mod. Life. . 342 

Wasson, G. S;, Cao'n Simeon's Store 186 

Watanna, Onoto. Heart of Hyacinth 294, 366 

Wooing of Wistaria 29 

Waters, C. E., Ferns 295, 368 

Watson. T., Homely Virtues. . . 60 

Our Neighbors 122 

Watson. T. E., Thomas Jefferson 322, 372 

Weale, Frances C. Hubert and John Van Eyck. 34.0 

Webber. T. W.. Forests of Upper India 89 

Webster, Daniel, Letters of 55 



PAGE 

Webster, H. K., Roger Drake 29 

Webster, Jean, When Patty Went to College.. 153 

Webster, W. C., Gen. Hist, of Commerce 188 

Weedj C. M., The Flower Beautiful 182 

and Dearborn, N., Birds in Their Relations 

to Man 253 

Weinburgh, H. B., Perfect Health 218 

Weld, Agnes G., Glimpses of Tennyson 118 

Wells, Carolyn, Nonsense Anthology 60 

West, C, Cliveden 122 

Wet, C. R. de. Three Years' War 30 

Wetraore, C. H., Out of a Fleur-de-Lis 375 

Wetmore, Mrs. E. B. See Bisland, E. 

Weyman, S. J., In King's Byways 29 

The Long Night 266, 376 

Whaleman's Wife (A) Bullen 89 

Wharton, Mrs. Edith, Sanctuary 323 

Wheeler, Mrs. C. T., How to Make Rugs 61 

Principles of Home Decoration 118 

Wheeler, Marianna, Plain Hints for Busy Moth- 
ers , 282 

Whitaker, E., Gay ; 34ef 

Whitcomb, M., Hist, of Mod. Europe. 186 

See also Munro, D. C. 

White, Eliza O., Lesley Chilton , 346 

White, Mary, Miore Baskets 189 

White, S. E., Conjuror's House 108, 153 

Whiteford, R. N., Anthology of Eng. Poetry. . 252 

Whiteing, R., Yellow Van 346, 364 

Whitham, A. R., Holy Orders 189 

Whiting, C. G., Walks in New England. ... 187, 203 
Whiting, Lilian, Boston Days 28, 71 

The Life Radiant ...si 368 

Whitman, S., Personal Reminiscences of Prince 

Bismarck 46, 88 

Whiton, J. M., Miracles and Supernatural Re- 
ligion 1 284 

Whitson, J. H., Barbara .162, 186 

Wiener, L., Anthology of Russian Literature. .. . 155 

Wiggin, Kate D., Rebecca ' 306, 355 

Kate Douglas Wiggin's Popularity, Lit. Misc. 32 
Wilde, Sir J. P., Lord Penzance on the Bacon- 
Shakespeare Controversy 155 

Wilkins, Mary E.,Six Trees 69, 120 

Wind in the Rose Bush ....... 142, 152 

Willard, A. R., Land of the Latins 28 

Willard, J. F., Rise of Ruderick Clowd 168, 184 

Willcock, J., ed.. The Great Marquess.... 118 

Willey, F. ., The Laborer and the Capitalist. 284 
William i., and Bismarck, Prince v.. Corre- 
spondence 341 

William 11^ The Kaiser's Speeches. 188, 195 

Williams, C., The Captain 66, 175 

Williams, E. R., jr.. Hill Towns of Italy.. 341, 375 
Williams, H. N., Memoirs of Mad. de Monte- 
span 341 

Williams, J. E. H., Robert Louis Stevenson.... 118 

See also Chesterton, G. K. 

Williams, J. L., New York Sketches 28 

Williams, S. G., Hist, of Ancient Education... 215 
Williamson, C. N. and A. M., Lightning Con- 
ductor 29, 212 

Williamson, G. C, Frederic, Lord Leighton.... 87 

Murillo 87 

Williamson, G. M., Cat. of a Collection of Books, 

etc., bv Walt Whitman 187 

Willis, li. P. See Laughlin, J. L. 

Willson, H. B., The New America 155 

' Story of Rapid Transit 349 

Wilson, A. F., Wars of Peace.... ....186, 201 

Wilson, D. M. , Where Amer. Independence Be- 
gan 38, 59 

Wilson, H. L., Lions of the Lord 217 

Wilson, R. R.. New York. Old and New 28 

Wilson, W., Hist, of the Amer. People 30, 366 

Wilson. W. R. A., Rose of Normandy. .. .131, 186 

Winchilsea, Countess of. Poems 123 

Winter, John Strange (pseud.) See Stannard, 
Mrs. H. E. V. 

Wister, O., Philosophy 4, 217 

Wister, Sarah, Sally Wister's Journal 91 

Wolfiilin, H., Art oif the Italian Renaissance.... 373 

Woman (The) Who Toils, Van Vorst 102 

Wood, C. W.. Norwegian By-Ways 215, 249 

Wood. Marg. L., Princess of Hanover 156 

Wood. N. F... Dollars to Doctors 317 

Woodburn, J. A., Amer. Republic and Its Gov- 
ernment 124 

Polit. Parties and Party Problems in U. S., 

156, 162 

Woods, Alice, Edges 21, 30 

Woods, R. A., ed.. Americans in Process 61 

Woolsey, Mrs. K. T., Republics Versus Woman. 156 

Work of Wall St.. Pratt 61 

Wotton, Sir H., Elements of Architecture 278 

Wright, H. B., That Printer of Udell's 177, 213 



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INDEX. 



PAGE 

Wrong, G. M., The British Nation 281 

Wyatt, Edith, TTrue Love 122 

Yeats, W. B., Celtic Twilight 217 

Ideas of Good and Evil 253 

In the Seven Woods 348 

Where There Is Nothing 283 

Yechton, Barbara (pseud.) See Krause, L. F. 

Young, B. H., Battle of the Thames 218 

Young, C. A., Lessons in Astronomy 220 



PAGE 

Young, Ella F., Scientific Method in Education. 312 

Young, T. M., Amer, Cotton Industry 124 

Yoxall, J. H., Rommany Stone 30 

Zangwill, I., Blind Children 253 

Grey Wig 153 

Zangwill, L., One's Womenkind 58 

Zimraern, Helen, Sir Lawrence Alma Tadema. . 87 

Zola, E., Truth.. no, 122 

Zueblin, C, Amer. Municipal Progress 31 



BOOKS FOR THE YOUNG. 



Adams, Andy, Log of a Cowboy 221 

Alcott, Louisa M., Jo's Boys. . , 384 

Alger, H., jr., Chester Rand 379 

Anderson, R., Jack Champney 93 

Appleton's Books for Young People 380 

Baker, R. S., Boys' Bk. of Inventions. Boys' 

Second Book of Inventions 378 

Bangs. J. K., Bikey the Skicycle 93 

- Emblemland 93 

Barbour, R. H., Weatherby's Inning 380 

Barnard, C, Door in the Book 381 

Barnes, J., Giant of Three Wars 380 

Bartnett, A., Angelo, the Musician 189 

Bashford, H. H., Tommp Wideawake 189 

Baskett, J. N., Sweetbrier and Thistledown.... 93 

Baum, L. F., Enchanted Island of Yew 379 

Life and Adventures of Santa Claus 379 

Magical Monarch of Mo 379 

Master Key. 379 

New Wizard of Oz , 379 

Bill, Lilian, A Book of Girls 349 

Blaisdell, A. F., and Ball, F. fe.. Hero Stories 

from Amer. History 221 

Blanchard, Amy E., A Gentle Pioneer 383 

Two Maryland Girls 350 

Blodgett, Mabel F.. The Giant's Ruby 384 

Bobbs-Merrill's Children's Color Books 379 

Bolster, Edith R., Ethel in Fairyland 284, 380 

Brady, C. T., In the IVasp's Nest 93 

Brill, G. R., Andy and the Ignoramus 381 

Bobby Bumpkin 381 

Brine, Mary D., Funny Land Boys 384 

Brooks, Amy, Randy and Her Friends 93 

Brown, Abbie F., Curious Book of Birds 381 

Brown, Alice, The Merrylinks 378 

Burgess, G., More Goops 380 

Butterworth. H., Brother Jonathan 342, 380 

A New England Miracle 189 

\ 
Caik, N., Fairies' Circus 382 

Fairies' Menagerie 382 

Carson, W. H., Tito 124 

Caster, A., Pearl Island 221 

Century Co.'s Books for Boys and Girls 377 

Chambers, R. W., Orchard Land 382 

Champlin, J. D., Cyclo. of Literature and Art. . 380 

Childhood Classics 284 

Chipman, W. P., Daring Capture 284 

Chittenden, Charlotte E., What Two Children 

Did 350 

Church, A. J., Stories from Homer 317 

Coates' Books for Young People 379 

Connolly, J. B., Jeb Hutton 93 

Countryman, May E., Curmer Club 285 

Crissey, F., The Country Boy 380 

Crothers, S. M., Miss Muffet's Christmas Party. 381 

Daring, Hope, The Furniture People 312 

Deland. Ellen D., Three Girls of Hazelmere.. 383 

Dent, Phyllis O., In Search of Home 350 

Denton. Clara J., Twinkling Fingers and Sway- 
ing Figures 35 

Dodge, Mary M., comp., Baby Days 377 

Douglas, Amanda M., Little Girl in Old Detroit. 93 

Drinlcwater, Jennie M., Works 285 

Du Cliaillu. P. B., King Mombo 93 

Dudley, A. T., Following the Ball 377 

Eastman, C. A.. Indian Boyhood 93 

Edey, Mrs. B. O.. Six Giants and a Griffin 382 

Edgeworth. M., The Parent's Assistant 317 

Ellis, E. S.. An American King 379 

Limber Lew 379 

Flower, E., Nurse Norah's Up-to-Date Fairy 
Tales 3S0 



Foster, Edna A., Hortense 93 

Foster, W. B., With Washington at Valley 

Forge 93 

Fox, Frances M., Little Lady Marjorie 350 

Froggy Fairy Books 381 

Gilbert, Edith L. and Ariadne, The Frolicsome 

Four 302,377 

Gottschalk, O. H., In Gnome Man's Land.... 380 
Griffis, W. E., Young People's Hist, of Holland. 381 
Gross, T., The Humming Top 380 

Habberton, J., The Tiger and the Insect 93 

Harper's Provision for Young People 382 

Harris, J. C, Wally vVanderoon 378 

Hawkins, W. B., Andy Barr 285 

Headland, I. T., Our Little Chinese Cousin... 285 

Henty, G. A., Treasure of the Incas 93 

With Kitchener in the Soudan 93 

Forbes. Cora, Elizabeth's Charm String 384 

With the British Legion 93 

Hobart, G. V., Li'l Verses for Li'l Fellers 382 

Hodgson, Geraldine, Rama and the Monkeys... 189 

Holt's Treasuries for Young People 380 

Hopkins, W. J., The Sandman 350 

Home, Olive B., and Scobey, Kath. L., Stories 

of Great Artists 222 

Houghton, Mifflin's Juveniles 381 

Jackson, Gabrielle E., The Three Graces 380 

Jamison, Mrs. C. V., Thistledown 377 

Jerrold, W., ed., Reign of King Oberon 94 

Kaler, J. O., How the Twins Captured a Hes- 
sian 94 

With Rodgers on the President 383 

Kipling, R., Just So Stories 8 

Lang A., ed. Book of Romance 94 

Laugnlin, E. O.. Johnnie 379 

Lawson, Martha K., The Lord's Prayer for Chil- 
dren 285 

Lee & Shepard's Books for Young People 377 

Le Feuvre, Amy, Jill's Red Bag 350, 381 

Two Tramps 381 

Leonard, Mary F., Pleasant Street Partnership. 383 

Little, Brown's Books for Young People 384 

Long, W. J., Following the Deer 285 

School of the Woods 94 

Wood Folk at School 222 

Loomis, C. B., Partnership in Magic 285, 380 

Lothrop's New Juveniles 380 

Lucas, E. v., Anthology of Verses for Children. 380 

McClure's Children's Annual 378 

McDougall, W., Rambillicus Book 285 

McMurry, C, Pioneer Hist. Stories of the Mis- 
sissippi Valley 222 

Madden, Eva A., The Little Queen 383 

Martin, Mrs. G. M., Emmy Lou 384 

May, Sophie, Joy Bells 377 

Miller. C. J., Dogs of all Nations 285 

Monteith, j. and Caro., Some Useful Animals.. 124 

Morley, Marg. W., Insect Folk 285 

Mowry, W. A. and A. M., Amer. Heroes and 

Heroism 222 

Musson, B., Maisie and Her Dog Snip in Fairy- 
land 382 

Otis, J. (.pseud.) See Kaler, J. O. 

Packard, W., Young Ice Whalers 381 

Page, T. N., Two Prisoners 382 

Peary, Josephine D., Children of the Arctic... 380 

Peltier, Flo., A Japanese Garland 222, 380 

Phillips, Marv E., ed., Laurel Leaves for Lit- 
tle Folk. . .'. 377 



INDEX. 



Xlll 



PAGE 

Phillips, W. S., Indian Fairy lales 94 

Pierson, Clara D., Dooryard Stories 222 

Polhemus, Eliz., jane and John 384 

Revell's Juveniles ". 381 

Rhoades, Nina. Little Girl Next Door 94 

Winifred's Neighbors 277 

Rich, C. E., New Boy at Dale 124 

Robinson, Mary Y., Songs of the Trees 379 

ScANDLiN, Christiana, Hans the Eskimo 285 

Scudder, H. E., comp., The Children's Book.... 381 
Smith, Gertrude, Stories of Peter and Ellen.... 382 

Stein, Evaleen, Troubadour Tales 379 

Stevens, T., Children of the World 382 

Steward, R. M., Surprising Adventures of a 

Man m the Moon 377 

Stoddard, W. O., Ahead of the Army 285, 380 

Spy of Yorktown 380 

Stokes' Books for Young People 380 

Stratemeyer, E., Young Explorers of the Ifethmus. 222 
Sweetser, Kate D., Micky of the Alley 380 



PAGE 

Taggart, Marion A., At Aunt Anna's 380 

Tappan, Eva M., The Christ Story 381 

Thayer, W. M., From Boyhood to Manhood. . 285 

From Log Cabin to the White House 285 

Tomlinson, E. T., A Lieutenant Under Wash- 
ington 381 

With Flintlock and Fife 383 

Turner, J., Pioneers of the West 189 

Van Zile, E. S., Defending the Bank 285, 380 

Warner. Anna B., West Point Colors 381 

WellSj. Carolyn, Trotty's Trip 381 

Wcsselhoeft, Lily F., Jack the Fire Dog 384 

Wetraore, C. A., In a Brazilian Jungle 383 

White, Mary and Sara, Book of Children's Par- 
ties 377 

Whitson, J. H., With PVemont the Pathfinder.. 382 

VVilde's Juveniles 383 

Wilkinson, Flo., Kings and Queens 378 

Williams, E. L.. The Mutineers 285, 380 

Wood, C. S., Sword of Wayne 383 

Wright, Eva T., Robin Hood 384 



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Vol. XXIV. 



JANUARY, 1903. 



No. I. 




From "The Real Siberia." I). Appleton A Go-. 

THE REAL WAY TO TRAVERSE SIBERIA. 



The Real Siberia. 



In a state of society in which men are sel- 
dom taken at a higher valuation than their 
own, the merits of J. Foster Fraser's volume 
on Siberia are in danger of being underes- 
timated. It claims to be nothing more than a 
record of personal impressions. It is free 




From ** The Reai Siberia." 1). Appleton & Co. 
A COUPLE OF BURIATS. 

from the statistical and political padding 
which lends seriousness to so many books of 
real weight. From beginning to end it bears 
the Stamp of accuracy; though his journey 
was originally undertaken in the interests of 
a daily paper, The Yorkshire Post, Mr. Fraser 
has resisted the temptation to sensationalism 
rmd exaggeration which besets those who 



write for serial publication. Its connection 
with journalism gives this book a brightness; 
of style which does not, however, degenerate 
into flippancy or mere smartness. Its author 
was well equipped for his task both by his ex- 
perience as a traveller he was one of the 
three young men who a few years ago went 
'round the world on a wheel" and by-his 
skill as a descriptive writer.. The latter fliiali- 
ty shows itself at the outset, in his pictures of 
the scene at the Moscow railway station, and 
on many occasions later in observations that 
would have escaped the notice of the average 
tourist. 

Mr. Fraser set about executing his commis- 
sion in the spirit of an investigator who is 
anxious above all things to get at the facts. 
Instead of journeying by the luxurious Si- 
l^erian express, he took the ordinary daily 
train that jogs along slowly, stoppings): all 
the wayside stations, and thus giving cpn- 
stant opportunities of watching the life of. the 
moujiks, especially the emigrants. He halted 
for some days at such important towns as 
Omsk and Irkutsk, and spent more than a 
week in Vladivostok before returning via the 
forbidden land of Manchuria. 

The Siberia which Mr. Fraser found was 
a country of immense agricultural possibili- 
tiesin his judgment, destined to be ultimate- 
ly the greatest food-producing region in the 
world. It possesses vast stretches of prairie. 



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[January, 1903 



waiting for the plough, huge forests, and mag- 
nificent waterways. Then, east of Lake Baikal, 
there is a region so full of mineral wealth that 
Mr. Fraser does not hesitate to call it a sec- 
ond California. 

As yet only the merest beginning has been 
made in the exploitation of this promising 
country. The Russian is one of the worst 
farmers on the face of the earth, lacking 
energy and objecting to the use of modern 
appliances. All stimulus to enterprise must 
therefore come from outside. According to 
Mr. Fraser, the nationalities which are doing 
most to develop Siberian trade are, in order of 
merit, Germany, America, Great Britain, 
France, and Austria. (Applet on. $2 net.) 
N. F. Times Saturday Review. 



The Confessions of a Wife. 

"The Confessions of a Wife" is a wom- 
an's book woman's pathos, humor, passion, 
pain. It is not a novel, not a romance, not 
a story ; first, last and always it is a study 
of a woman who was cursed with an emo- 
tional nature. It is the study of a passionate, 
high-strung girl who was woo'd and won, 
worried and wasted by a man who was bad? 
No. Physically cruel? No, but a man just 
selfishly shallow. Dana Herwin had ardor of 
a certain type, masterfulness, devotion ; but 
ap ardor, masterfulness, devotion that was 
skin-deep honey-moon deep, if you care to 
call it that. He was selfish, stubborn, fickle, 
shallow ; he was in short, distinctly not worth 
while; but if you pity Marna for her excess 
of temperament, it would be fair perhaps also 
to bear with Dana's limitations of tempera- 
ment. He was a handsome man ! Let it go 
at that. Beauty is as bad for a man as tem- 
perament is for a woman. 

People who scoff at these "Confessions" 
characterize Marna as absurdly "difficult." 
There is no doubt in the world that her emo- 
tional constancy must have been exceedingly 
trying to a man of Dana Herwin's nature, 
but there is also no doubt that a better man 
than he could have made her radiantly and 
wholesomely happy, and been supremely 
blessed in return. She was high-strung, emo- 
tional, impetuous, but certainly she was not 
extreme of her type, and her love letters which 
so many have called "mawkish" or "hysteri- 
cal" are no more mawkish or hysterical than 
the love letters of the Brownings or Victor 
Hugo, or any other of the world's lovers. 

Marna Trent was keen, witty, clever. She 
has written some eternal, stinging, yet whole- 
some truths about life. Shall we jeer her 



because in spite of her extraordinary clever- 
ness she could cry just like an ordinary 
woman? She cried a great deal perhaps, be- 
cause life hurt her horribly, but it is not 
probable that she cried harder than does many 
a woman of her type who is unfortunate 
enough to marry her first love. First love is 
a fine madness, but sometimes pitiful, and at 
its worst pitiless for such women as Mama 
Trent. 

In "The Confessions of a Wife" you may 
read the naked story of a woman's soul. 
Whether you will like it depends on your own 
temperament. But like it or dislike it the fact 
remains that in this much disputed book is the 
wonderful story of a woman who came un- 
scathed through a woman's worst dangers, 
raised up pure affection out of ruined rapture, 
and crowned a repentant husband with such 
tender loving-kindness that the poor dullard 
thought he was a king again. Who ever may 
be the mysterious author hiding her vivid 
personality under the pseudonym of "Mary 
Adams," she is to be congratulated on the 
power that has made these "Confessions" so 
significantly worthy of discussion. (Century. 
$1.50.) Boston Literary World. 



Memories of a Hundred Years. 

A SERIES of fourteen articles which re- 
cently appeared in the Outlook magazine 
have been revised and reprinted in two vol- 
umes bearing the collective title "Memories 
of a Hundred Years," by Edward Everett 
Hale. These articles embody not only the 
author's personal reminiscences, which them- 
selves date back more than seventy years 
he is now in his eighty-first year but also a 
great deal of interesting historical data which 
have come down to him from his forefathers. 
He has at his command, he tells us, in- 
numerable diaries and correspondence that 
throw light on the ideas, the doings and the 
customs, not only of his own generation, but 
of the generations to which his parents and 
grandparents belonged. Dr. Hale's father 
loved to study history in the original docu- 
ments, and was at much pains to secure them. 
Thus it has come to pass that his son has 
inherited a mass of valuable material relat- 
ing to the history of the United States in the 
latter part of the eighteenth and the earlier 
part of the nineteenth century that it would 
prove difficult to match in any other private 
library, much of which is lacking in some 
large public collections of books and papers. 

For the recollections of a century and 
that a century so crowded with important 



January, 1903 J 



THE LITERARY NEWS. 



events as the nineteenth there is but scant 
room, even in two volumes comprising some 
six hundred pages. We must not quarrel 
with the eclectic process applied by the au- 
thor to the copious and diverse materials at 
his disposal; it is probable that no two men 
would adopt the same principles of selection. 
Dr. Hale seems to have chosen for discus- 
sion the topics in which he is personally most 
interested, and he recognizes that some of 



The Intrusions of Peggy. 

The reader of "The Intrusions of Peggy" 
might be excused if he wondered, half way 
through the book, why it did not bear another 
title. For a long time we are asked to inter- 
est ourselves almost exclusively in the per- 
sonality and affairs of Mrs. Trix Trevella, a 
beautiful young widow, in whose nature con- 
flicting qualities are constantly at work. She 
has suffered a good deal by the time the story 




From *'The Intrusions of Peggy. 



Copyright . 1901, by Anthony Hope Hawkins. (Harper & Bros.) 



'times are hard, but the heart is light, airey." 



his readers may regret the exclusion of cer- 
tain subjects. 

It will be recognized by even the most 
cursory inspector of these volumes that they 
differ essentially from much of the reminis- 
cent literature for which we are indebted to 
men of advanced years. Far from being gar- 
rulous, the author gives continual proofs of 
self-restraint and leaves us wishing that he 
would tell us more. The anecdotes have 
been, as a rule, carefully verified ; where 
they are based on hearsay the fact is noted. 
The reflections are those of an acute and 
original observer. The whole book abounds 
in evidences of the author's penetration. We 
gladly acknowledge the debt under which 
Dr. Hale has placed us, and we have no 
doubt that a multitude of readers will con- 
cur in the acknowledgment. (Macmillan. 
2 v.. net, $5.) M. W. H., in N. Y. Sun. 



opens, having passed through a not very 
cheerful girlhood, followed by some bitter 
years with a husband who was at his kindest 
only when he took himself off to another 
world. There is much good in Trix, but there 
is an unholy fondness in her for the glitter of 
fashionable life. She seeks compensation for 
her early woes in an existence altogether 
worldly. Things go wrong. She means to 
make the world her football, and, naturally, 
discovers that this is not the safest amuse- 
ment in which one can ordinarily indulge. 
Her triumphs and her troubles interest us to 
such an extent that we are ready to forgive 
Anthony Hope his title, even while it puzzles 
us, but presently Peggy Ryle appears in her 
true light, as the source of what is to be most 
charming in the story, and then we not only 
understand the title, but are most emphati- 
cally with the author in his choice of it. 



THE LITERARY NEWS. 



[January, 1903 




Courtesy of Houghton, Mifflin & Co. 
THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH. 

Peggy is adorable. She is more than that. 
If she is fair to look upon, she is also good to 
know, as one character in the book after an- 
other finds out. A little princess, presiding 
over a small circle of Bohemians in London, 
she diffuses joy with a naturalness that keeps 
even her literary and artistic chums from 
taking their own affectations seriously; she 
leavens the lump, and, for once, we make the 
acquaintance in a novel of Bohemians who are 
rot bores. Peggy's influence appears in most 
of the developments of the story, and always 
in a way to make them more interesting. She 
and her companions are constantly saying 
bright things. When they are silent, Anthony 
Hope is saying them. It is a bright book, in 
short, with an undercurrent of beguiling seri- 
ousness. (Harper. $1.50.) iV. V. Tribune. 



A Sea Turn, and Other Matters. 

There is a uniform excellence about the 
six stories gathered together in Mr. Aldrich's 
latest volume which is very comforting to the 
hardened reader of contemporary fiction. In 
the first place, each of these compositions has 
?. definite character of its own, a motive dif- 
fering altogether from that in each one of 
the others. In every case the author gives 
his work finish. Moreover, while Mr. Al- 
drich discloses so clearly the conscience and 
the skill of a literary artist, he manages to 
retain, throughout his work, an atmosphere 
of nature, of unforced comedy or tragedy. 
In this book we have fiction of the old- 
fashioned sort, mature and thorough, well 



balanced, and rich in the qualities of an indi- 
vidual mind. The touch is always light, even 
where the theme is grave, light in the sense 
that it places the author's conception before 
the reader with perfect ease and never with 
obscurity or exaggeration. The opening tale 
treats of a little incident that causes a slight 
ripple in the happiness of a young man and 
his wife. It is full of fun ; but where an or- 
dinary writer might easily have drifted into a 
vein of something like farce in the celebration 
ot this incident, Mr. Aldrich is faithful to a 
more dignified note, and amuses us with a 
certain delicacy, as' a man of exquisite talk 
might amuse us. "His Grace the Duke" pro- 
vides a kind of meditative interlude between 
this pretty tale and "Shaw's Folly," a de- 
lightfully suggestive narrative of a philan- 
thropist's difficulties. The scene of "An Un- 
told Story" brings in the exotic note for 
which Mr. Aldrich has always had a pre- 
dilection. It i barely more than a fragment, 
but within its narrow limits it is flawless. 
In "The Case of Thomas Phipps" some New 
England types are handled with capital hu- 
mor, and "The White Feather," a story of the 
Civil War, brings the volume to an end with 
a really impressive stroke of drama. Never 
has Mr. Aldrich done better work than in 
this volume. It is interesting from beginning 
to end, and it has, for all that the stories in 
it illustrate no very exalted ambition, a savor 
of distinction. (Houghton, Mifflin. $1.25.) 
xY Y. Tribune. 




Courtesy of ThAlacmillan Co. 
JACOB RIIS. 



January, 1903] 



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The Battle with the Slum. 

Here is a book that every one should read 
those who are interested in their fellow- 
men who are poorer than themselves, be- 
cause they will find in Mr. Riis's book a suc- 
cinct account of the condition of the New 
York tenement districts of to-day ; those who 
are not interested in their fellow-men, that 
their interest may be quick- 
ened. It is more than ten 
years since the publication of 
"How the Other Half Lives." 
We have taken a step forward 
since then. The people in this 
and in other great cities, whose 
duty it is to care how that other 
half lives, and to see to it that 
their lives may be made endur- 
able, are one by one awakening 
from an apathy which permitted 
corrupt city governments to 
evade the laws made for the 
protection of its poor. 

It is not for partisan purposes 
that thi%book was written. Mr. 
Riis is merely telling a story 
of a fight with the slums of 
New York which extends over 
more than a quarter of a cen- 
tury. He has pointed out when 
an advantage was gained, 
when, for instance, better build- 
ing laws were passed and en- 
forced, when old rookeries like 
the Mulberry Bend tenements 
gave place to a park, when the 
schools had to furnish play- 
grounds for its children ; and 
he has mentioned at the same 
time what the forces were which 
opposed and checked these 
needed reforms, and ih almost From"T 

all cases the opposition hap- 
pened to be Tammany. 

It is a book which is well fitted to rouse 
from their apathy those people who believe 
in a "reform" government for this city but 
nol ardently enough to go out and cast a vote 
on a rainy election morning. "The Battle 
with the Slum" is the story of a long, dis- 
heartening fight, and a fight which is not yet 
over. It needed an optimist to write the 
book in the cheerful spirit in which Mr. Riis 
has written it. It needed an optimist to fight 
the battle. It is throughout a sane story of 
n.en who have used common sense in their 
attempts to better the condition of this city, 
of men who are not busy in the task of try- 
ing to reform away human nature. At the 



same time it is more dramatic than any book 
of fiction, for it deals with the life and death 
of thousands of the dwellers in New York. 
Some years ago Mr. Riis published "A Ten 
Years' War" ; this present volume is a prac- 
tical rewriting of the former text, with a 
third more material added. (Macmillan. 
$2 net ) Literary Digest. 




le Splendid Idle Forties " Copyright, 1902, by The Macmillan Co. 

'it was only the pearls you wanted." 

The Splendid Idle Forties. 

In these stories Mrs. Atherton has for- 
saken her idealization of Alexander Hamil- 
ton, and has performed a similar feat for the 
Mexicans of California in the forties. It is 
an attractive picture that she draws of the 
idle, sumptuous life of the lords of the Pa- 
cific coast in the days before the "Gringoes" 
came. The girls are all graceful and charm- 
ing and the caballeros are dashing and hand- 
some and, with the exception of a few of the 
young ladies, one and all unite in hating the 
American invaders from the bottoms of their 
hearts. (Macmillan. $1.50.) Public Opin- 
ion. 



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[January, 1903 



The Millionairess. 

His many years of globe-trotting, and his 
long sojourn in England, with excursions to 
the continent, gave Mr. Ralph an entirely 
new and very comprehensive viewpoint when 
he returned to us and began to settle down 
again in our ways of living and doing things. 
He found much that had' been changed since 



The "smart'' set, as distinguished from our 
real best society, the frothy fringe which sur- 
rounds it and clings to it, is the main object 
of his attack. His millionairess is young and 
unsophisticated, utterly unversed in the ways 
of the world to which her wealth commits her, 
and to which she wishes to belong. We have 
also the other side of the social picture, 




-^T 

From The MUliouairess." Copyri .ht, 1902, by Lothrop Publishing Co. 

SHE SAT SWINGING HER FEET AND LOOKING DOWN ON MR. STONE. 



his departure, and much that, in the light of 
his cosmopolitan experience, was not alto- 
gether in the right direction of development. 
Much of Mr. Ralph's observations, his 
sense of change that has not been altogether 
progress, his judgment of social tendencies, 
in the larger sense as well as in the narrower 
one which applies the adjective to a certain 
class of our people, is embodied in this story 
of present-day life in New York and its 
fashionable country seats ; indeed, the tale is 
based upon the observations, and serves as 
their vehicle. In this sense it is a "purpose" 
novel, though its mission does not rest heav- 
ily upon its plot. 



notably a sketch of that true Bohemian circle 
which is found here as in every great Euro- 
pean city, composed of cultured men of 
achievement and women who are their peers 
as well as mates a sketch touched freely 
with the aspiring fantasy of the recollection 
of many such groups in other countries, but 
at bottom strictly local, and recognizable in 
a measure by all who know. 

Perhaps Mr. Ralph has endeavored to 
crowd too much into the record of one epi- 
sode in his heroine's life. Still, after the 
book is closed, one hardly realizes this ; it cer- 
tainly proves no drawback in the reading. 
(Lothrop. $1.50.) A^. y. Mail and Express. 



January, 1903] 



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/ 



Paul Kelver. 

It has long been known that Mr. Jerome, 
having won popularity as a humorist, aspires 
to the fame of a serious novelist. This book 
promises to bring him, at least in some meas- 
ure, the fulfilment of his desire, for it is un- 
questionably readable, undoubtedly a serious 
novel of everyday life, leavened with humor, 
and apparently the beginning of a promising 
new departure in his career. And, in the 
course of time he, too, may come to aspire to 
a knighthood and a seat in Parliament. 

This story of Paul Kelver's childhood and 
early manhood is, we are given to under- 
stand, to a certain extent autobiographical ; 
but where the biography ends and fiction be- 
gins it is impossible to decide, nor is it ma- 
terial to do so. Paul, be it confessed, is but 
an average young man, quite willing to yield 
the centre of the stage to others in the tell- 
ing of his story; there are several characters 
coming into and dropping out of the record of 
his early years that, for all the transitoriness 
of their appearance, make one wish to know 
more of them, a wish Paul himself hardl> 
inspires on the turning of the 
closing page, even though his 
manhood's career is then but just 
beginning. In short, while there 
are neither high flights nor deep 
soundings in these pages, there is 
entertainment in each and every 
one of them, and pathos, too. The 
book is soundly planned, its frame- 
work is well put together, the lines 
of the building are free from mon- 
otony, and if, in the end, it proves 
to be neither a temple of the Muses 
nor the palace of a conqueror, but, 
instead, an unpretentious dwelling 
house, the reader will not grum- 
ble, for he is comfortable there in 
the company of his host and his 
companions ; he realizes that ^hey 
succeed in entertaining him thor- 
oughly. 

The book is good enough to 
stand on its own merits, and on 
them it may be recommended for 
the tranquil entertainment it af- 
fords, the soundness of its studies 
of human nature. It is not a great 
book, but a satisfactory one, and 
one indicating that Mr. Jerome's 
new departure is likely to bear 
sound fruit. (Dodd, Mead & Co. 
$1.50.) .v. Y. Mail and Express. 



The Romance of the Colorado River, 

With natural features which ought to make 
it one of the wonders of the world, it is 
strange how little is known about the Colo- 
rado River, even in this country, whose in- 
habitants should take a particular interest in 
it. A giant torrent, which for more than 1000 
miles of its course runs at the bottom of a 
stupendous canon, is no mean curiosity. Dis- 
covered by Alargon in 1540, it defied for cen- 
turies a full exploration, and even to-day in 
some of its parts is a source of mystery and 
speculation. Its romance as well as its his- 
tory have now been written by Frederick S. 
Dellenbaugh. Mr. Dellenbaugh was a mem- 
ber of the United States Colorado River Ex- 
pedition of 1871-2, which for the first time 
gave to the world a detailed account of the 
unknown river. The volume is illustrated by 
photographs taken on the expedition, by new 
maps, and by drawings inade by the author 
and by others (Putnam. $3.50 net.) N. Y. 
Times Saturday Review. 




Romance of the,Culor.ido River." Copyright, 190i, by G. P. Putnam's Sons. 
A CANYON OF THE COLORADO. 



THE LITER ARY NEWS. 



[January, 1903 



Memoirs of Paul Kruger. 

Mr. Kruger has "sat" to himself and his 
intrinsic value appears, perhaps, for the first 
time to an assembled company of English 
Gentiles. 

"Oom Paul" is an epithet showing that Mr. 
Kruger was at least the uncle of his electors. 
He represented (approximately) the Boer 
ideal of a Chosen Person appointed to govern 
a Chosen People. Born an Afrikander more 
than ten years before the Great Trek (viz., in 
1825), he learned the dreadful sweetness of 
property held in insecurity, and of civilization 
on the borders of a wilderness where a man 
might chance to be skinned alive. Cowherd, 
hunter, warrior, statesman, a burly Ulysses 
conferring alone with angry Kaffir cannibals- 
in their mountain caves, crossing the ocean to 
parley with the wisest and soapiest of English- 
men and Europeans, this Boer, disdainful of 
pocket-handkerchiefs, with the long, broad 
nose and fringed chin and the thumbless left 
hand, was more than Admirable Crichton to 
his fellow republicans. Twice he married into 
a family (the du Plessis) "closely connected 
with that to which Cardinal Richelieu be- 
longed," but the vigilant republican in him 
never basked slumbrously in the secular past, 
however gilded. His past was an Old Testa- 
ment one ; all of him that was not Boer was 
Dopper or "Canting Church." He was a 
patriot in the deep inner meaning of the word. 
The foreigner was to him as the Amorite to 
the Israelite. As a patriot he was marvel- 
lously patient and single-minded. The rev- 
erence for law which made him as a young 
man submit to be thrashed after a rhinoceros 
hunt because he had agreed to be thrashed if 
he was reckless, grew in him. 

We do not think that fifty years hence 
these words of the exile at Utrecht will be 
read by Englishmen without emotion. At that 
date there will only be remembered the pathos 
of a pastoral state ruined by apoplectic pa- 
triotism and Jacobean Christianity. At that 
date Kruger will be remembered not as the 
vilifier of Rhodes and the traducer of Mr. 
Chamberlain, not as the cruel stepfather of 
the Uitlanders, but as the patriot who at the 
age of three score and ten, in his fourth 
Presidentship, worked from eight to twelve 
of the morning, from two to four or five of 
the afternoon, and who rose twice in the 
night, to encourage and advise a doomed army 
too weak to hold what it had captured, or to 
carry by assault a foe enfeebled by privations. 

The pathos of his own position needs no 
enforcement. His wife died while he was a 
fugitive among pleasant opportunists. Huz- 



zas in lieu of bread are in the end a more 
painful substitute than stones. Huzzas the 
Continent have given him in millions. He 
has also the bitterness of knowing that he has 
both made and unmade the Republic that 
trusted him as the Jews their prophets. (Cen- 
tury. $3.50 net.) Academy and Literature. 



Just So Stories for Little Children. 

"Just So Stories for Little Children" is 
nothing less than a little masterpiece of its 
kind. If is as much of a work of genius, in 
its way, as "The Man Who Was," or any 
other of the author's more ambitious per- 
formances. To begin with, Mr. Kipling starts 
with an idea calculated to fascinate a child at 
once. How did the things happen that are 
presented to the wondering gaze of little boys 
and girls when they look out upon the nat- 
ural world ? How did the whale get his big 
throat, the camel his monstrous hump, the 
rhinoceros his wrinkled skin, the elephant his 
trunk? Mr. Kipling makes the best of all 
appeals to childhood when he appeals to its 
instinct of " 'satiable curtiosity," and he pro- 
ceeds to satisfy it after a fashion incompara- 
ble for freshness and charm. Invention runs 
riot in this book, but it is controlled by con- 
summate art. The child who refuses to be- 
lieve the things he reads in it is no true child, 
but a sad little changeling for whom it is use- 
less to try to do anything. 

The style of the book is as quaint as are 
its incidents. Where another writer, talking 
about the beginning of thmgs, would mention 
the "first" elephant or the "original" turtle, 
Mr. Kipling talks about the "High and Far 
Oflf Times" in which "the Eldest Magician 
was getting things ready," and tells how he 
gave all the animals permission to come out 
and play. 

Not content with reciting his wonderful 
narratives in this entrancing manner, Mr. 
Kipling" adds inimitable verses to them, and 
illustrates them with drawings of his own, 
that, if not technically perfect, have some 
artistic quality, and, what is more to the point, 
possess an originality and a quaintness which 
should take the nursery by storm. Each pic- 
ture, too, is faced by a description which is by 
itself a triumph. Never was there a book for 
children to surpass this. It takes its place 
beside Lewis Carroll's "Alice," with Ten- 
niel's illustrations, as a classic which genera- 
tion after generation of children will prize as 
a source of flawless joy. (Doubleday, Page. 
$1.20 net.) A^. Y. Tribune. 



January, 1903 



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Frank Norris. 

Brilliant achievement and measureless 
possibility were cut short by the recent sud- 
den death of Frank Norris. Although but 
thirty-two years old, Norris stood at the 
head of the group of young American writers 
who have found in present day national con- 



amid the surging agricultural struggle de- 
picted in "The Octopus." During 1896-97, 
while he was editor of the San Francisco 
Wave, he wrote his first novel, "McTeague," 
followed quickly by "Moran of the Lady 
Letty." Later foreign travel and the Cuban War 
contributed their formative influences, added 




Courtesy of Doubleiiay, Pr.ge & Co. 
FRANK NORRIS. 



ditions, political, industrial and social, a limit- 
less field for the exercise of their powers. 
Norris was essentially American in his out- 
look upon life, but his was the prophet's 
eye that could see to what end the gigantic 
forces of our industrial and financial life are 
tending. 

The circumstances of his life gave ample 
preparation for his future work, since he 
was born in Chicago and lived there during 
his first fifteen impressionable years ; then 
was taken to California, where he grew up 



to by his experience as "reader" in a Nev/ 
York publishing house. Meanwhile he had 
written "Blix" and "A Man's Woman;" but 
not until the publication of "The Octopus," 
in 1901, did Norris fully find himself. This 
novel was the first of a trilogy conceived 
on broad, Zolaesque Imes, designed to portray 
the story of the wheat from its sowing in 
California to its distribution in the Chicago 
wheat markets and its final consumption in 
Europe. Despite many inequalities of style and 
some false notes in characterization. "The 



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Octopus" is a powerful picture of life in the Thoroughbreds. 

California wheat farms held fast in the tyranny W. A. Fraser, the author of "Mooswa," 

of the railroad companies. "The Pit," the sec- "The Outcasts," etc., has now given us a 

ond volume of the trilogy, is promised by book entitled "Thoroughbreds," which will. 



Messrs. Doubleday, Page & Co. at an early 
date, and will carry the story of the wheat 
into the Chicago wheat pit. 

It was Norris's plan, cut short by death, to 
follow the progress of wheat distribution by 
taking passage in a wheat shio bound for 
the Mediterranean, so that he might in due 



no doubt, be read by every one interested in 
the turf world as well as those who are likely 
to be entertained by a clever sporting story 
with a love theme running throu.gh it. 

Mr. Eraser's work brings his readers home 
t3 New York and to the scenes that are 
familiar to race goers. He has not gone to 



time study at first hand the teeming life of foreign lands for his subjects, but gathered 



various Continental cities largely dependent 
upon American grain for daily bread ; but 
of the final volume of this Epic of Wheat, 
alas ! there are left onlv the barest outline 
notes found among the author's papers. How 
great "The Wolf" would have been had its 
author lived must remam a haunting, unan- 
swerable con lecture. 




From "Thoroughbieds." 



Copyright, 1902, by McClure, Phillips & Co 



HE SEIZED THE BLACK HORSE BY THE CREST JUST AS HE WAS 
OVERPOWERING THE GIRL. 



ihem around the home tracks in such a way 
that one almost fancies he is sitting on the 
grand stand at Brighton or Morris Park on 
a beautiful summer afternoon, boiling over 
with the horse racing fever, and on intimate 
terms with all the characters that the author 
portrays. 

It does not require a severe stretch of the 
imagination to connect the hero and heroine, 
the honest and the villainous trainer and the 
latter's employer, the plunger, the faithful 
rubber and others, with present-day persons 
who are more or less connected with the 
local turf. Heretofore 
racing stories of this char- 
acter have been located in 
foreign climes and under 
conditions that are not 
familiar to the average 
American. Hence "Thor- 
oughbreds" is more like a 
heart-to-heart talk with 
folks we know and persons 
we have heard of. 

As a descriptive writer 
Mr. Fraser does exceed- 
ingly well. He is true to 
life in all particulars ap- 
pertaining to the rules of 
racing, and his technical 
and "slangy" terms should 
suit the most exacting 
critic. 

There is a queer con- 
glomerate of human na- 
ture to be found in the 
world of the race course, 
but Mr. Fraser succeeds 
in making the best ele- 
ment stand clearly out, 
and endues even the less 
reputable side with some 
heroic qualities. Per- 
haps he makes racing too 
attractive. .( McClure, 
Phillips. $1.50.) A^. Y. 
Evening Telegram. 



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The Little White Bird. 

In "The Little White Bird" Mr. 
Barrie is at his best imaginative, ten- 
der, whimsical, full of the wisdom of 
childhood. The story can hardly be 
outlined; its charm rests in the tell- 
ing, and no one but Mr. Barrie could 
have told it. It is at once the romance 
of earliest childhood and of maturest 
experience, and after so many novels 
in which the fruit of the tree of life 
is eaten in haste and defiance, with 
a wearisome retelling of the old story 
of disillusion, cynicism, or sorrowful 
home-coming to health and clear sight, 
the adventures of David in Kensing- 
ton Gardens read like a chapter from 
(he history of an unfallen race. The 
story has the purity of a mountain 
rivulet, the simple faith of the pure in 
heart. Those who think nothing real 
unless it is touched with evil, and nothing 
true to the life unless the stamp of some 
disease of the spirit is on it, will do well 
to leave this lovely and profoundly true 
fairy tale unread. It is not for the ennuye, 
the blase, the disillusioned ; it is for those 
who have remained children at heart. To 
these it will seem not wholly faultless, but 
singularly delicate, humorous, winning, af- 
fecting a reverent and tender story of the 
immortal childhood which never perishes, but 
is renewed with the incoming of every child 
and in the work of every man of genius who 
sees deep enough to pierce the confusions of 
lii:e. Lovers of the real Barrie will wel- 
come this book. (Scribner. $1.50.) The 
Outlook. 





From "Edges." 



Copyright, 1902, by Bowen-Merrlil C6. 
ELEANOR. 



Courtesy of Charles Scribner's Sons. 
JAMES M. BARRIE. 



Edges. 

This is the work of a stylist. The style is 
surprisingly brilliant for that of a new writer, 
and if there were really anything at all in the 
story told, we should hail the book as a re- 
markable first performance. As a matter of 
fact, nothing at all happens, though you keep 
expecting that something will. A very uncon- 
ventional maid who paints and has lived in 
the Latin Quarter invades the hermitage of 
a Young-Man-Sick-of-the-World, who also 
paints and has also lived in the Quarter. She 
is Trilby without Trilby's questionable past, 
and what they say to each other and what 
she says to him in long letters from Europe, 
mostly about life and art, form the book. Of 
course, they are in love all through and find 
it out without any trouble. The tale is as free 



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From "The Life and Writings of Alexandre Dumas."' Copyright. 1902, by F. A, Stokes & Co. 

DUMAS IN 1828, FROM A DRAWING BY DEVERIA. 



from complications as Bunthorne's "A magnet 
hung in a hardware shop." But the dialogue 
is keen-edged and keeps you entertained until 
you come to the long letters from the heroine 
with her preternaturally acute and wise ob- 
servations about painters and things. 

The author's pencil is as clever as her pen. 
(Bowen-Merrill. $1.50.) Literary Digest. 



The Life and Writings of Alexandre Dumas. 

Painstaking, sympathetic and well balanced 
is this life of Dumas. The work is obviously 
that of an intelligent admirer. It is free from 
the faults of over-eulogy and over-estima- 
tion. Mr. Spurr has succeeded in writing a 
life which will interest not only the general 
reader "the man in the public library" but 
will prove a valuable book of reference for 
scholars. 

The subdivisions of the book are : Dumas, 
his life and character, his writings, and his 
genius. Each division is brightened with 



anecdotes illustrating Dumas' contradictory 
qualities. The impressions he produced upon 
different men, differ as the estimates may, 
are readily seen to be such as a many-sided 
nature like Dumas' might produce. In France 
great emphasis has always been laid, and 
justly, upon Dumas the dramatist, a fact 
which will impress the general reader who 
knows him best as a novelist. Mr. Spurr 
touches adequately but without diffuseness 
upon the various dramas and novels, and 
the sources from which they were drawn. 
The charges of plagiarism are investigated 
and light thrown upon the question of col- 
laboration. 

In estimating the genius of Dumas, Mr. 
Spurr has presented the opinions of eminent 
critics and writers, under the captions, "A 
Defense" and "A Counter-claim," two ex- 
tremely interesting chapters, which bring out 
a quantity of personal and impersonal opin- 
ions, and anecdotes apropos of individual 
books. (Stokes. $2 net.) Brooklyn Times. 



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The Four Feathers. 

This is the best story that Mr. Mason has 
written. The root idea, which had been used 
before by the author in a short tale, was ex- 
cellent from a psychological as well as from 
a narrative point of view, and quite worth 
elaborating into a novel. Mr. Mason consid- 
ered the case of a youth, son of a retired gen- 
eral, destined for the army and accustomed 
from childhood to hear of battles, deeds of 
daring, and also instances of cowardice. 
Harry Faversham, lonely, introspective, has 
a secret fear which haunts him night and 
day. It is that in a crisis he may show him- 
self to be the coward that he believes himself 
to be. In the early chapters he certainly be- 
trays that he is a coward in the making, but 
in thought only, not in act. The result of 
shrinking from the opportunity of testing 
himself is that he receives three white feath- 
ers from three men, 
young officers, who had 
been his friends. A 
fourth is added by the 
girl, a charmingly cjrawn 
character, to whom he 
was affianced. How 
Harry Faversham proves 
himself to be a brave 
man, when the necessity 
for action clears away 
the fear produced by in- 
trospection, is the story 
that Mr. Mason has to 
tell. It is told with 
point and vigor, particu- 
larly in the Sudan chap- 
ters, the scene of Faver- 
s h a m's heroic feats, 
whereby he retrieves his 
honor. Ihe home chap- 
ters are well done, but 
we could have wished 
that the Sudan parts of 
the narrative had been 
longer, fhe description of 
the terrible existence of 
the unfortunate captives 
in the House of Stone 
at Omdurman is all the 
more real because it is 
told in a straightfor- 
ward way, without any 
attempt at fine writing or 
rhetoric. A good story, 
well planned, well 
wrought, and very read- 
able. (Macmillan. $1.50.) 
Academy and Literature. 



French Cathedrals and Chateaux. 

In the two handsome volumes entitled 
"French Cathedrals and Chateaux" Clara 
Crawford Perkins combines a simple account 
of the development of architectural styles in 
France with a guide to the great monuments 
of French architecture. About a third of the 
first volume is occupied with a general treat- 
ment of the growth of the Gothic style, in- 
cluding chapters on glass staining, the art 
of tracery, and the sculpture employed as ac- 
cessory decoration, and with historical out- 
lines and tables. These last are intended for 
use in connection with the numerous refer- 
ences to names and events in the chapters 
that follow. Descriptions of some of the 
great French cathedrals, with attention to 
their historical associations as well as to the 
artistic qualities of each, make up the re- 
mainder of volume i. Volume 11. begins with 




From " French Cathedrals and Chateaux." Copyright, 1902, by Knight & Milkt. 

WING OF FRANCIS I., BLOIS. 



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an explanatory chapter on Renaissance archi- 
tecture, and, since that type found its best 
expression in secular and domestic buildings, 
goes on to describe some of the more notable 
palaces and chateaux. Sixty-two half-tone 
engravings add clearness and attractiveness 
to the descriptive portions of the text. The 
plan of the work will commend itself to ama- 
teur students of architecture, who know how 
few manuals of architecture there are, at 
once simple, comprehensive, and trust- 
worthy; while travellers, dissatisfied with 
mere unrelated legends and isolated descrip- 
tions, will be glad to find so good a book for 
study and so pleasant a companion for their 
sight-seeing and their personal observations 
of the many interesting things described in 
Miss Perkins's expository chapters. (Knight 
& Millet. 2 v., $4 ntt)The Dial. 



Literature and Life. 

William Dean Howells is representative 
of his time; he is entirely in the spirit of it. 
It is true that of late years every one sees 
that the spirit of the time, so far as letters 
is concerned, is changing ; but however that 
may be, the- last third of the century will his- 
torically be the time of the influence of real- 
ism in fiction and the drama, a movement in 
which Mr. Howells was our chief leader. 
And however technical principles of realism 
may have changed or may be changing, there 
can be little doubt that the increased serious- 
ness which it brought, the more pervading 
consciousness of the necessary close relation 
between literature and life, the feeling that 
Jiterature should in some measure and with 
varying means interpret life, this, the neces- 
sary feeling of the realist, will not pass away 
as readily as the formulas of local color and 
states of soul. And in that respect Mr. 
Howells is a great representative figure. 

We may therefore look at his last collection 
of essays and studies with singular interest. 
It is not to be regarded as a suitor for favor ; 
it must be looked upon rather as the record 
of a fact. We may like it or not, according 
to our taste; doubtless there is little of the 
future in it, more of the past ; but we natur- 
ally find in it a claim on the attention of 
every one who likes to feel that he under- 
stands the movements and tendencies in the 
cU'ture of his day. 

The different papers that make up the book 
were probably not written with especial ref- 
erence to' each other. They did, on the other 
hand, have always the inspiration of a com- 
mon feeling, and this feeling is so character- 



istic of Mr. Howells that it makes the book 
more notable (as well as more charming) 
than it would be without. But all of them 
are interesting in themselves, and would be, 
even if we did not know that they were by 
the dean, as we may call him, of American 
letters. (Harper. $2.25 net.) Edward E. 
Hale, Jr., in The Dial. 



The Long Straight Road. 

The lover of realism in fiction may read 
this story without fear of disappointment. Mr. 
Horton grasps the average life of to-day, as 
it may be observed among "salesladies" and 
clerks of fairly good salaries in our. large 
cities, and in depicting the love-making, mar- 
riage, and subsequent ambitions of a couple 
of the above type and incidentally the do- 
mestic relations of other couples in the flat 
where they settle he really manipulates a 
fairly good panorama of commonplace life. 
Humor, irony, and pathos mingle in the 
career of the honest, ignorant, soft-hearted 
fellow who idealizes the cloak-room model 
because of her penchant for "culture," and 
then follows with bewildered admiration her 
career as a clubwoman after she becomes his 
wife. The advancement, triumphs, and down- 
fall of a cheap woman are depicted closely to 
the life. (Rowen-Merriil. %\.so.) The Out- 
look. 

The Founding of Fortunes. 

There is no falling off in Miss Barlow's 
masterly delineations of Irish peasant life. 
They still display the sympathy, the humor, 
and especially the intimate knowledge which 
make her work even more acceptable to Irish 
than to English readers. Who but a native 
of Ireland, for example, can fully appreciate 
the bewildered disappointment of the self- 
made millionaire when he finds that his 
"sound Protestant principles" are considered 
rather vulgar in English aristocratic society, 
and realizes his mistake in "not making his 
debut as the last of an ancient Irish Catholic 
line" ? The said millionaire, Timothy Cal- 
vin, whose "fortune" is appropriately "found- 
ed" by a peculiarly heartless theft, is, like 
Dickens's diabolical characters, too consistent 
a villain to be altogether natural. The popu- 
lar revival preacher also, who touts for pa- 
tients for his brother's private asylum with 
apparent indifference as to whether they are 
really insane, seems to belong to a past era of 
fiction. Hanmer, on the other hand, the 
dreamy, self-centred student, who suddenly 
feels himself called to the difficult post of aru 



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Irish reforming landlord, and finds his happi- 
ness there, is entirely modern, though he 
rather lacks vitality. We are allowed to hope 
much from his exertions on behalf of the 
peasantry, and we gladly welcome such a 
gleam of light. Hopefulness is a rare state 
of feeling in connection 
with Irish problems, and 
It has been conspicuously 
absent from some of 
Miss Barlow's earlier 
work. (Dodd, Mead. 
$1.50.) The Athenceutii. 



less effectiveness of one comrade to another 
as they sit around the campfire after the fray. 
We like Mr. Ellis's style ; it suits its pur- 
pose. 

The book, as is proper in its class, has 
not a very coherent story to tell, but rather 



The Holland Wolves. 

The time of the "Beg- 
gars" of Holland gives 
fine opportunity for ro- 
mance ; but, though 
these have been more 
than once taken excel- 
lent advantage of, there 
still remain possibilities 
in the time. Mr. Ellis 
has seen at least some 
of these possibilities, and 
has treated them in a 
manner rather different 
from that which is of 
convention. Even in his 
methods he does not 
give us the romance 
with which we are so 
familiar of late years ; 
he has a rich, if some-* 
what peculiar, vein of 
humor, and he delves in 
this more frequently and 
satisfactorily than we are 
accustomed to find done 
by our writers of ro- 
mance. He gives to his 
story an occasional rol- 
licking air, which is 
very welcome, coming as 
a whiff from the past, 
and of itself giving an 
atmosphere which is 
generally sought after l)y means of archaic 
speech hopelessly out of joint. Then, when 
it comes to matter of adventure, Mr. Ellis 
possesses a dash which is in favorable 
contrast to the seriousness with which 
some of our favorite romancists treat their 
incidents; he does not narrate as if the 
incident, or, indeed, the story were of the 
least historical importance, but he tells us 
what happened, and he does it with the care- 




From "The Holland Wolves." Copyright, 1902, by A. C. McClurg & Co. 

DO NOT THROW THY LIFE AWAY FOR THE PLEASURE OF A SHREWD 

WORD." 



the usual chain of incidents. There is some 
rather good character drawing, especially in 
the cases of Belle-Isle, the hero, and Wilhel- 
mina, his destined wife. The author has well 
chosen his theme in the uprising of Holland 
against Spanish oppression, and he treats it 
in a much more than conventionally satisfac- 
tory manner. The book marks a decided 
advance in the work of its author. (McClurg. 
$1.50.) Baltimore Sun. 



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' Richaril Gordon.'' Copyrijtht, 1902, by Lothrop Publishing Co. 

''A WOMAN FRIEND OF MINE HAS SPOKEN OF YOU.''' 



The Whirlwind. 

Here is a novel that is truly American. 
Merely to say that it is the story of a man 
who rises by his own exertions from the log 
cabin to a position high in the trust of his 
country, is to give no notion at all of its ra- 
ciness, its humor, its homely and yet in- 
spiring qualities. One fancies that Rupert 
Hughes had Abraham Lincoln in mind when 
he created John Mead, his hero; not that 
there is any lack of originality in "The 
Whirlwind," but John's ways and speech, his 
quizzical wit, his power over men, his tender- 
ness, even the splendid ugliness of his face 
and his lanky body, all of them recall the per- 
sonality and the attributes of "the first 
American." "The Whirlwind" is a book that 
every one should read. Its fault is that it is 



too long, and yet if it were shortened, con- 
densed, you feel that its charm would be lost. 
There is little, for instance, .that one could 
spare in the story of John's childhood. The 
small, lean, ragged, bright-eyed boy, his 
father the "village drunkard," his mother a 
washerwoman but withal a woman whose 
grand courage and love and devotion wrap 
her son round with sunshine, notwithstand- 
ing the bleakness of their lives; this boy, 
with his ignorance and his longing to know, 
is so human and likable. He grows up, 
making a lawyer of himself in spite of diffi- 
culties, and then comes the Civil War, and 
he enlists. The Civil War has figured in 
many novels, but in none of them, it seems to 
us, have its scenes been pictured more truly, 
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the great struggle, than in "The Whirlwind." 
There is no brilliant writing; sometimes it is 
discursive and rambling; but it is the real 
thing. When the war is over, and John 
comes back to the log cabin and the little 
town, they send him to Congress. Here he 
has a brilliant career, but here, too, comes the 
sad part of the story. There is a woman 
who crosses his path three or four times in 
his life, and well, with her he sows the 
wind, whose harvest is the whirlwind. Yet 
even in his sins his great heart remains such 
that one loves him, and forgives him as 
Lucy forgives him at the last. (Lothrop. 
$1.50.) A'". Y. Commercial Advertiser. 



Daniel Boone. 

That the romantic and the realistic have 
long since joined hands in America, has been 
shown by abundant evidence; and new proof 
is furnished by R. G. Thwaites, in his recent 
biography of the great hunter of Kentucky, 
Daniel Boone, issued as one of the series of 
"Life Histories." This remarkable career is 
here traced graphically from beginning to 
end. The restlessness of the habitual woods- 
man made Boone continuously a pioneer, and 
four several times he abandoned a settled 
neighborhood for a new and farther advanced 
position on the very frontier of civilization ; 
for he always found the settlements "too 
crowded," and he ever required, as he once 
declared, "more elbow-room," even when mak- 
ing his last remove, at the age of sixty-five. 
Mr. Thwaites's portraiture of the forest hunts- 
man, Indian warrior, frontier settler, border 
surveyor, military commander, and Western 
statesman, gives a vivid idea of the charac- 
teristics of this pioneer in many States. While 
Boone was never a great man nor a brilliant 
leader, and was always unsuccessful in his 
personal speculations, yet he was an excellent 
and a picturesque example of those sturdy 
yeomen whose work it was to develop the 
greatness of the Mississippi valley. His con- 
tributions to that work, and the elements of 
rugged strength which made him successful 
as a pioneer and have endeared his memory 
to the strenuous youth of every generation 
since his own, are made clearly manifest in 
this volume. The "short and simple annals" 
of the advance-guard of our Western settle- 
ments are here seen to be of the stuff from 
which romance is woven, and to be, indeed, 
essentially and intrinsically romantic. Yet it 
was once lamented that there was so little of 
the romantic in America. (Appleton. $1 net.) 
The Dial. 



Glimpses of China and Chinese Homes. 

Professor Morse's equipment for the prep- 
aration of a new book on China consists in 
the training of a naturalist, the experience of 
a teacher, the taste of an architect, the skill 
of an artist, a residence of nearly four years 
in Japan as an instructor in the University 
of Tokio, a visit to the Celestial Empire cov- 
ering many days and many thousand miles, 
and a pen-and-ink sketch book cleverly used. 
The volume which results, though small, is 
distinctly a record of things in China to be 
seen. 

Of history, of politics, of present problems 
and burning questions, of diplomacy, treaties, 
potentates and powers, of great topographical 
expanses and great international questions 
there is absolutely nothing in the book; it re- 
lates to pots, kettles and pans; to street 
gcenes and domestic interiors; to corner cup- 
boardsj and back-door yards, to the people, 
their shops, homes, utensils, dress, customs, 
manners, furniture, crafts and amusements, 
their monosyllabic volubility, their incessant 
and unintelligible chatter, their prevailing 
good nature and occasional outbursts of ma- 
lignity, their immovable conservatisms, their 
prejudices against and their courtesies to the 
foreigner, their dirty kitchens and repulsive 
food and vilest of vile odors, their ingenu- 
ities and arts and sciences. Here the crowded 
native city of 'Shanghai is for a moment 
spread out to view, there the narrow, intri- 
cate and interminable streets of Canton, and 
again the shoreless reaches and winding chan- 
nels of the great Yangtse; but for the most 
part the sihelves of a museum of curiosities 
as it were. 

And through it all the sketcher is as busy 
as the writer. The pages are dotted with the 
author's pen-and-ink drawings, rude, unpre- 
tentious, but faithful and telling, of objects 
that excite his curiosity, please his taste, pro- 
voke his amusement, or win his admiration. 
Few books on China have admitted one so 
closely into the everyday life of the common 
people. (Little, Brown. $1.50 net.) Boston 
Literary World. 



The Housewives of Edenrise. 

Mrs. Popham's name is new to us, but 
whether "The Housewives of Edenrise" is, or 
is not, a first book, it deserves praise and wel- 
come. As may be gathered from the title, the 
story is of a domestic nature and meddles not 
with the high passions. Edenrise is a suburb 
forty-five minutes from London, its houses 
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its housewives pleasantly interested in one an- 
other's affairs. The book chronicles many of 
their sayings and a few of their doings, and in 
particular the influence upon them, in various 
ways, of a lady-immigrant with a dubious 
past. The thing is achieved with perfect nat- 
uralness and simplicity; there is no trace of a 
desire to inflate the importance of the theme, 
or to read into it qualities which it does not 
obviously possess. It is a suburban and rather 
trivial tale, and Mrs. Popham faces this fact 
with an unaffected sangfroid which, in the 
end, and throughout, makes for artistic right- 
eousness. The narrative is skilful, the writing 
in quite admirable taste, the sentiment never 
degenerates into sentimentality; and every- 
where a wise and witty individuality is dis- 
closed. Besides being effectively homogen- 
eous in complete scenes, the book is full of 
good things. "One has to tell so many un- 
truths in order to convey a really truthful 
impression." "Well, no, I should not call her 
good-tempered. But then no really capable 
person is." "There are no poor in Edenrise, 
or at any rate none who are church-goers." 
And so on we could make dozens of quota- 
tions. We have read "The Housewives of 
Edenrise" with relish, and we shall look for- 
ward to its successor. (Appleton. $1.50.) 
The Academy and Literature. 



The Conquest of Rome. 

Just at the present time, when so many 
readers are taking down their favorite vol- 
umes of Zola from the shelves and living 
over again the sensations first inspired by the 
virility and the bigness of "Nana" and 
"L'Assommoir" and "La Debacle," the trans- 
lation of another story by the Italian realist, 
Matilde Serao, has a special timeliness. It 
is not too much to say that of all Zola's im- 
itators none has come so near to catching the 
true spirit of his method as this brilliant 
Neapolitan woman, who is by training a 
journalist and at heart more than half a poet. 

The central idea of "La Conquista di 
Roma" is the effect of Rome upon a fiery 
young lawyer from the south, a newly elected 
member of the Chamber of Deputies, who 
comes to the capital full of visions of con- 
quest and of fame. In his obscure native 
town he has had no scope to show what lies 
in him. The latent energy of all his brilliant 
schemes has been pent up to a point of al- 
most explosive violence. Politics and statis- 
tics and social reform have madte up his life. 
Women have never entered in, even as an 
interlude. But from the moment that his 



train glides across the Campagna and into 
the Eternal City his enthusiasm falls the 
vfistness of it, the chill indifference seems to 
pierce to his very bones, and he "feels cold 
in his heart." From the outset the city be- 
gins its conquest, and the chief attack is 
made where he thought himself least vul- 
nerable. The subtle sense of the omnipres- 
ence of women, mysterious, alluring, insist- 
ent, forces itself upon him. And between the 
disappointment, the disillusion of all his 
grand schemes for taking the chamber by 
storm, and the sense of utter nostalgia which 
comes from isolation in a big city, he falls a 
ready victim and is drawn into a vortex of 
passion which results in utter shipwreck. It 
is a notable book, and one which claims an 
increased admiration with a second reading. 
(Harper. $1.50.) .V. Y. Com. Advertiser. 



Cecilia. 

A NEW novel from the pen of Mr. Craw- 
ford comes as a welcome change. He cer- 
tainly conceives a definite history and delin- 
eates definite characters. He both thinks and 
writes, while all too many of our purveyors 
of current fiction seem to consider thinking 
and writing two of the things least essential 
in the preparation of a story. In "Cecilia" 
Mr. Crawford takes us once more into the 
Roman society which he knows so well, and 
which he has again and again deftly delin- 
eated. Here once more he uses in a fresh 
and effective fashion facts or fictions from the 
debatable borderland between the provinces of 
ascertained science and occult lore. The 
heroine is in some mysterious way a reincar- 
nation of the last of the Vestal Virgins, and 
is capable of throwing herself into a kind of 
hypnotic trance, in which she lives over 
again some of the thrilling moments which 
preceded the close of her sacred office. 
Stranger still, the man whom she sees in the 
trance is also reincarnated in modern Rome, 
and sees in dreams that which she witnesses 
when hypnotized. When the two meet for the 
first time in the flesh it is to be conscious that 
they have long known each other in spirit, 
and from this is subtly woven an entrancing 
tale of the beauty and tragedy of love. Un- 
like some of the fiction writers who venture 
into the mysteries of the occult, Mr. Craw- 
ford never lets us lose touch with the actual, 
so that we are impressed by the story as we 
are by the records of the Salpetriere. "Ce- 
cilia" is in every way worthy of its author's 
reputation. (Macmillan. $1.50.) The Athe- 
ncEum. 



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The Blue Flower. 

In accepting for his symbol the famous 
"blue flower" of Novalis, Dr. Van Dyke car- 
ries his readers back to the atmosphere of 
"Heinrich von Ofterdingen," and frankly 
claims to embody in his nine stories here 
gathered together the inspiration that led 
Heinrich in his search for the flower. These 
stories, like those of Novalis, are allegories 
and represent the thirst of many men of many 
minds after happiness, teaching spiritual les- 
sons by a time-honored method. Thus in the 
tale of "The Mill," Martimor is sent by Sir 
Lancelot to find and name the blue flower 
painted in the corner of his shield, but when 
he proves worthy of the noble order of knight- 
hood and is given his free will and choice of 
castles where he will abide, finds his satis- 
faction in the maid of the mill, whose humble 
dwelling becomes his castle. In the story of 
"The Other Wise Man" the search for hap- 
piness is a continued history of self-abnega- 
tion based upon the text, "Inasmuch as thou 
hast done it unto one of the least of these." 
All the stories have one charm inseparable 
from Dr. Van Dyke's work, a singularly in- 
timate and passionate acquaintance with na- 
ture revealed not merely through specialized 
description, but through the turning of the 
author's mind toward forests and fields for his 
vocabulary. Those who know the fringed 
gentian in its haunts will recognize, for ex- 
ample, in the opening passage of "Sky Rock," 
together with the ingenious metaphor of the 
trained moralist, the sensitiveness of the ob- 
server for whom the nature miracle never 
loses its splendor. (Scribner. $1.50.) N. Y. 
Times Sat. Revieiv. 



William Morris: Poet, Craftsman, Socialist. 

If it were only for the illustrations, which 
give an idea of what he actually did in sev- 
eral of the arts of design. Miss Gary's sin- 
gle volume would give a better picture of 
William Morris than the two of Mr. Mac- 
kail's official biography, but the written pic- 
ture also gains in clearness what it loses in 
detail. We see the whole man and the con- 
nection between the several and various parts 
of him, and find, as the thread running 
through everything, from his poetry to his 
Socialism, the curious sham-mediaeval ism 
which led him to concoct an almost unintelli- 
gible vocabulary for his later writings, and 
to design a Gothic type when he wanted to 
make printing easy to read as well as beauti- 
ful to look at. He always mistook his emo- 
tions for reasoning, and his emotions were 
stirred only by what was old. He "wanted to 



make John Bull over again into John Calf," as 
Charles Reade said, and his ultra-conserva- 
tism led him into Socialism, because the mod- 
ern world was so intolerable to him that he 
was willing to destroy it altogether rather 
than acquiesce in it as it stood. A few years' 
experience convinced him that he had really 
nothing in common with the agitators among 
whom he found himself, and he drifted back 
into amiable dilettantism and the futile ef- 
fort at reviving the art of the past instead 
of improving that of the present. He made 
the effort pay, as far as he was personally con- 
cerned, but we cannot think he will have any 
great influence on the future as regards either 
the conditions of artistic production or the 
style of art produced, though he undoubtedly 
contributed greatly to the revival of interest 
in the minor arts. (Putnam. $3.50 net.) 
The Nation. 

Out of Gloucester. 

The craft that have been known for years 
to a comparatively small circle of nautical 
experts in this country as the finest com- 
mercial vessels in the world "the Gloucester 
fishermen" have now found a chronicler in 
James B. Connolly, who will give them a 
wider fame, and the hardy New England 
sailors who man them have been lifted by his 
gifted pen to the rank of twentieth century 
Vikings. The stories of the fishing fleet com- 
prising the volume "Out of Gloucester" reveal 
in a striking way the three qualities which 
a short time ago drew attention to Mr. Con- 
nolly when the first of his tales were published 
an attractive literary style, combined with 
an extraordinary knowledge of the technicali- 
ties of seamanship and a thorough understand- 
ing of the Down East methods of thought and 
expression. Mr. Connolly, as somebody has 
said, "has the Yankee patois down fine." 

Whether the characters and the vessels 
described by Mr. Connolly ever really existed 
or not, they are certain to take a permanent 
place in maritime lore. Billie Simms and 
the Echo o' the Morn, Tommy Ohlsen and 
the Nannie O., the Crow's Nest, and other 
men and things described by Mr. Connolly 
will hereafter be inquired about by the sum- 
mer visitors to Gloucester. "Out of Glouces- 
ter," likewise, has the unusual merit of be- 
ing illustrated by an artist who understands 
practical seamanship. Like the text, the pic- 
tures will stand critical examination for the 
blunders usually to be found in literary and 
artistic productions which deal with yachts 
and sailing vessels. (Scribner. $1.50.) 
A*". Y. Times Sat. Review. 



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Two Thousand Miles on an Automobile. 

Oke would be pleasantly deceived who, 
simply glancing at the title of the volume, 
"Two Thousand Miles on an Automobile," 
fancied the book was entirely devoted to 
motors. "Chauffeur" has a double merit. 
He gives all possible infomiation as to the 
machine, and puts this in a most understand- 
able way, but at the same time, the author is 
something of a philosopher, even an essayist, 
and discusses such topics as arise not rela- 
tive to places entirely, but to the distinguished 
men who have lived along the many roads he 
travels over. There are reminiscences of Em- 
erson, Thoreau, and Hawthorne, which are 
delightfully told. 

As the machine drives ahead, historic New 
England homesteads are passed, and in the 
best way incidents of the Revolution are re- 
called. As a story teller simply, "Chauffeur" 
just foots the measure. There are rencontres 
on the roadside, little happenings, which are 
as minor comedies, and lightly treated. At 
the same time the good manner, the quiet 
stoicism of the man in the machine under 
difficulties are happy traits. 

Utilitarian, practical, is the handsome vol- 
ume, and precisely adapted to the amateur 
chauffeur or may we call him stoker? No 
one can presume to the noble title of chauf- 
feur who has not run his course of a thous- 
and miles, and "without expert assistance." 
Ihe long-distance excursion made by the 
author was over 2600 miles and the machine 
used, an ordinary single-cylinder American 
machine, gasoline being the source of power. 
(Lippincott. net, $2.) N. Y. Times Sat. Rev. 



Whom the Gods Destroyed. 

Miss Daskam is a young woman who "ar- 
rived" with a breezy rush by crisp stories 
dealing with boys and girls. They were very 
much "up-to-date." In fact, the old style 
of writing in large letters and monosyllables, 
with a heavy veneer of "Moral," where the 
minds and hearts of the "little ones" were 
to be engaged (and improved) has been al- 
most curtly laid aside. The "big ones" enjoy 
the best juvenile literature of to-day quite 
as much as the small fry who have left the 
nursery not far behind. This is the modern 
note, and Miss Daskam strikes it with bril- 
liant audacity. 

In this collection of eight short stories, 
there is considerable variety in the motif. 
Perhaps the author herself may not have 
remarked that, with one exception, they end 
in the death of the principal actor! The 
one exception is where a fine clubman loses 



his lady fair through an act of devotion, 
bizarre on its material side, but noble in its 
purpose. So Miss Daskam may be regarded 
as immune against the "happy ending." In 
fact, her sophistication is such that weakness 
of the hero is a feature. 

The stories are very entertaining reading. 
Miss Daskam has her own pungency and 
"rides straight." Gripping a thought or fancy 
boldly, and giving it a neat, quick twirl be- 
fore the reader's vision, is an agreeable lite- 
rary method, especially the vogue now. A 
slight post-graduate experience of New York 
after a full course at a woman's college is apt 
to ripen quickly into this literary manner. 
(Scribner. $1.50.) Literary Digest. 



Recollections of a Long Life. 

No straightforward account of a life de- 
voted to noble ends can fail of being note- 
worthy and helpful. Dr. Cuyler's recollec- 
tions of a life that has been both long and 
broad are as uplifting as they are interesting. 

Aurora, N. Y., was his birthplace, Prince- 
Ion gave him his education, both academic 
and theological, and Brooklyn has been the 
chief field of his pastoral labors. But no 
parochial boundaries or sectarian dividing 
lines limit his influence and repute as preacher 
and writer. Extensive travel and intercourse 
with many men liave broadened and en- 
riched his life, so that what he now offers us, 
in his modest little volume of reminiscences 
of an octogenarian, is the more valuable be- 
cause of the still greater wealth it suggests 
as held in reserve. 

What most impresses us in Dr. Cuyler is the 
admirable union of conservatism and progres- 
siveness. Distrustful of the "new theology" 
and the "higher criticism," he yet braves the 
displeasure of the Brooklyn Presbytery by 
inviting a Quakeress to deliver a religious 
address from his pulpit and that, be it added, 
was thirty years ago. A letter written to 
him by the late President Harrison shows our 
author to be as staunch an anti-imperialist 
as his correspondent. In matters literary, 
he says a wise word in praise of our past and 
in deprecation of that lessening devotion to 
ilie idea! that marks an era of exuberant ma- 
terial prosperity. 

In 1890, after forty-four years in the min- 
istry, and at the close of a thirty-year pas- 
torate at the Lafayette Avenue Presbyterian 
Church of Brooklyn, Dr. Cuyler resigned his 
charge. He had built up the church to a 
membership of two thousand three hundred 
and thirty the third largest in the United 
States. (Baker &T. $1.50 net. )T/8^Z?ta/. 



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t fiterani "Mm. 

i> iSdniic iWontf)Ij Itefaiein of Current fLltnature. 
EDITED BV A. H. LEYPOLDT. 

JANUARY, 1903. 



WHAT MAKES A BOOK SELL? 

What makes a book sell? Is it merit? Is 
it publishers' advertising? Is it personal rec- 
ommendation among readers? Does it de- 
pend upon any one condition or any combina- 
tion of conditions that may be studied out by 
experience or figured on with any reliable re- 
sult by any theorist or any publisher's reader 
or any bookseller? 

We have made a list of the twenty-five 
books which, according to The Bookman, 
have been the best-sellers of the year. Two 
or three published just at the turn of the 
year of 1901 are included, because they did 
not take their place among the sellers until 
1902 and will always be identified with that 
year. All the sellers were novels. But this 
is not only a list of the best-selling novels, 
but of the best-selling books. It is encourag- 
ing to note that many of these stories that 
pleased the general public are of decided 
merit. It is also to be noted that the pub- 
lishers did not force them into notice by ad- 
vertisement to nearly the extent to which they 
resorted to this method in former years. 
Imitation is the keynote of the day, and 
probably many of the sellers became popular 
because what some praised must be known 
by all. We shall never know which of the 
books of the year that did not prove great 
sellers were specially recommended by the 
publishers' readers and brought out with 
hope and faith by the publishers, and which 
of those that proved great sellers surprised 
their publishers beyond all the readers that 
together made their popularity. 

The question remains unanswered : "What 
makes a book sell ?" 

It may be interesting to our readers to take 
a glance at a sitting at the books that have 
been most read for a year, and as we feel sure 
there are among our constituency many who 
have not read all the "best-sellers" of 1902, we 
have tried to place in bird's-eye view before 
them the salient points of the stories which 
have been so widely read at home and abroad. 

THE BEST-SELLING BOOKS OF 1902. 
Adams, Mary, [pseud.\ Confessions of a 

wife. $1.50. Century Co. 

The diary and letters of a highly emotional 
nature which by real trouble acquires repose. 
The husband has a reason for the desertion 
that almost crazes her. A physician teaches 



many good lessons. A well-known writer 
probably hides behmd the pseudonym, never- 
theless the book is not nearly as good as its 
material made possible. 
Atherton, Mrs. Gertrude. The conqueror. 

$1.50. Macmillan. 

The story of Alexander Hamilton, whom 
the author thinks "the most endearing and ex- 
traordinary of all our public men." Mrs, 
Atherton is always an artistic novelist. She 
has selected her facts with care and the book 
is instructive. Her study of Aaron Burr has 
several original phases. 
Connor, Ralph, [pseud, for Charles William 

Gordon.] Man from Glengarry. $1.50. 

Revell. 

Canada is the scene. Lumbermen the ac- 
tors. The book is workmanlike ; it has a sure 
and self-confident touch. It does not in the 
least belong to literature, but one is glad to 
see a popular novel with some shapeliness and 
craftsmanship to its credit. The Academy. 
Corelli, Marie. Temporal power. $1.50. 

Dodd, M. 

The author gives good measure of her own 
peculiar best in this story. A king at the 
height of his power turns socialist and wan- 
ders disguised among his people. In a social- 
istic meeting he draws the lot to kill the king. 
The plot is brilliant and the tale is told with 
gorgeousness of manner and abundance of 
movement. Mail and Express. 
Davis, R: H. Captain Macklin. $1.50. 

Scribner. 

Captain Macklin is dismissed from West 
Point for being out of bounds without per- 
mission. Bitterly humiliated he resolves to 
vtin a name for himself as a soldier of for- 
tune. A petty revolution in Honduras offers 
him the opportunity. South America in its 
revolutionary aspect is familiar ground to Mr. ^ 
Davis, and he paints with vivid strokes a pic- 
ture that is almost theatrical in its contrasts 
of light and shade, of comedy and dramatic 
intensity. 
Davis, Richard Harding. Ranson's folly. 

$1.50. Scribner. 

Five short stories. The author's stories are 
always clean, honest and manly. This collec- 
tion has variety of theme and treatment and 
the quality of the unexpected. Brooklyn 
Times. 
Dixon. Thomas, jr. The leopard's spots. 

$1.50. Doubleday, P. 

In many respects the bitterest book which 
has come from the presses in years. A treat- 
ment of the negro question from the South- 
ern point of view. North Carolina furnishes 
the scene of events, and the author guaran- 
tees the historical accuracy of his material 
bases. As a preacher Mr. Dixon often 
lacked discretion and good taste, and the same 
characteristics are his as a novelist. 
Douglas, George, [pseud, for G. B. Brown.] 

House with the green shutters. $1.50. 

McClure, Phillips. 

A powerful and vivid presentation of the 
life of the lower middle classes in the little 
Scotch town of Barbie. The characters of the 
piece are drawn in all their nakedness and 
with all their envy, hatred, malice and un- 
charitableness. There is no trace of a love 



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story. There is some slow Scotch humor, 
but the story is intensely tragic. The book is 
one of great power. The writer's death is a 
distinct loss to literature. 
Doyle, A. Conan. Hound of the Baskervilles. 

$1.25. McClure, Phillips. 

Based on an old English West country leg- 
end. One of the Squires of Baskerville in a 
drunken frolic sold himself to the evil one. 
Afterwards an immense and hideous hound 
haunted the moors at night. In the present 
story this legend cloaks a crime which is once 
more ferreted out by Sherlock Holmes of 
famous memory. 

Harland, Henry. The Lady Paramount. 

$1.50. Lane. 

The story is true comedy. It is Italian, 
not Anglo-Saxon, art, exotic, but perfect of its 
kind a book that gives endless delight, a 
trifle to cherish, a moment's dainty food for 
the cultured fancy. A tale that deserves to be 
by the side of "The Cardinal's Snuff-Box" and 
to share its popularity. Mail and Express. 

Hegan, Alice C. Mrs. Wiggs of the cabbage 
patch. $1. Century Co. 

Also published at turn of the year and very 
popular throughout 1902. The Wiggs family, 
consisting of Widow Wiggs, two boys and 
three girls, are hopelessly poor and hopefully 
optimistic under every combination of trial. 
These amiable, energetic people teach a fine 
lesson in an irresistibly humorous way. 
Hough, Emerson. Mississippi bubble. $1.50. 

Bowen-M. 
A tale^ of the financier John Law, of Lauris- 
ton. Sco'tland. He was the J. Pierpont Mor- 
gan of his day, immediately after the death of 
Louis XIV. He was the first great green- 
backer. Gives a fine description of the French 
possessions in America and the desperate con- 
dition of the French treasury. 

Johnston, Mary. Audrey. $1.50. 

Houghton, M. & Co. 

Virginia in the eighteenth century now oc- 
cupies the writer of "Prisoners of Hope" and 
"To Have and to Hold." Audrey is an or- 
phan, a dreamy child of nature. She is a 
rival for the hero's love with the famous 
beauty Evelyn Byrd, of historic fame. The 
ending is wholly consistent but "the pity o't." 
McCarthy, Justin Huntly. If I were king. 

$1.50. Russell. 

The love of Francis Villon, poet, and Kath- 
erine Vancelles, kinswoman of Louis xi., is 
the episode on which the novel is founded. 
The author combines his qualities as accurate 
historian and his practical hand as novelist 
to great advantage. 
McCutcheon, George B. Castle Craneycrow. 

$1.50- Stone. 

By author of "Graustark." Europe is the 
scene, chiefly Italy. A rich, handsome Amer- 
ican does much original detective work to 
prove that a fascinating Italian nobleman, en- 
gaged to a playmate of his youth, is a criminal. 
Major. Charles. Dorothy Vernon of Had- 

don Hall. $1.50. Macniillan. 

The author has added literary polish to his 
great popular talent displayed in "When 
Knighthood Was in Flower." Dorothy Ver- 
non is an Elizabethan maid, a living, loving, 
lovable girl. Her elopement with John Man- 



ners is the historic incident. Details of his- 
tory are sacrificed by this born story-teller. 
Did not Scott likewise? 
Parker, Gilbert. Donovan Pasha and some 

people of Egypt. $1.50. Appleton. 

Parker's fame will always rest on his Cana- 
dian short stories, but these stories of Eng- 
lishmen in Egypt have also vivid style and in- 
herent local color. Dicky Donovan is a buoy- 
ant little fellow of gentle blood, who is brave, 
daring, a bit sentimental and gifted with a 
taking sense of humor. 
Parker, Gilbert. Right of way. $1.50. Harper. 

Novel of French Canada. Was very popu- 
lar during the first part of 1902, though really 
published October, 1901. 
Rives, Hallie E. Hearts courageous. $1.50. 

Bowen-M. 

Historical study of Philadelphia in the days 
of the Revolution. The early summer of 1776 
is the time. Benjamin Franklin and young 
Thomas Jefferson are seen discussing the 
first draft of the Declaration of Independence. 
The sweet heroine is of Virginia. 
Smith. Francis Hopkinson. Fortunes of Oli- 
ver Horn. $1.50. Scribner. 

The Old South and the period just preced- 
ing the outbreak of the Civil War are the set- 
tings. The scene shifts to New York City 
and New England. It is rumored that in 
young Oliver Horn studying in a New York 
art school Hopkinson Smith gives glimpses of 
the days when the artist-author was learning 
the most perfected of his many arts and 
sciences. 
Sousa, J. P. The fifth string. $1.25. Bowen-M. 

No doubt Sousa's great popularity as a con- 
ductor of orchestra led to the first sales of 
his novel, but his story is good and well told. 
It tells of the love story of a celebrated vio- 
linist and a New York society woman. 

Story of Mary MacLane, by herself. $1.50. 

Stone. 

This story has been withdrawn, owing to 
severe criticism. It reads like a burlesque of 
Marie Bashkirtseff. As a study in psychol- 
ogy it was recently mentioned to a class in 
pedagogy by one of the professors, so perhaps 
it has more merit than strikes the general 
reader. The writer pretends to be a Western 
girl, and she deals with matters not best fitted 
for public discussion. 
Tarkington, Booth. The two Vanrevels. 

$1.50. McClure, Phillips. 

Ohio in the forties is the background. The 
Mexican War is introduced. The heroine 
confuses her father's mortal enemy, Vanrevel, 
with his intimate friend, and on this mis- 
taken identity the story pivots. The book is 
full of leisure for love and laughter and song 
in the days of the Old Northwest, when life 
was full of adventure and color. 
Wister, Owen. The Virginian. $1.50. 

Macmillan. 

" 'The Virginian' is one of those rare and 
valuable books which, without sacrificing the 
charm of fiction, preserve important facts. It 
is an epitome of life on the plains as it was 
lived among ranch owners and their cow- 
boys in the Wyoming of the 70's and 8o's. . . . 
It is interesting from beginning to end." 
N'. Y. Tribune. 



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UeaMngs from Neto Books. 

THE MASTER PASSION. 

"And now the last one." 

"It's from Liverpool, and Liverpool, you 
must understand, is the great buyer of wheat. 
It's a tremendously influential place." 

He began once more to consult the key 
book, one finger following the successive code 
words of the despatch. 

Laura, watching him, saw his eyes sudden- 
ly contract. 

"By George," he muttered, all at once, "by- 
George, what's this?" 

"What is it?" she demanded. "Is it im- 
portant ?" 

But all-absorbed, Jadwin neither heard nor 
responded. Three times he verified the same 
word. 

"Oh, please tell me," she begged. 

Jadwin shook his head impatiently and held 
up a warning hand. 

"Wait, wait," he said. "Wait a minute." 

Word for word he wrote out the translation 
of the cablegram, and then studied it intently. 

"That's it," he said, at last. Then he got 
to his feet. "I guess I've had enough break- 
fast," he declared. He looked at his watch, 
touched the call bell, and when the maid ap- 
peared said : 

"Tell Jarvis to bring the buggy around right 
away." 

"But, dear, what is it?" repeated Laura. 
"You said you would tell me. You see," she 
cried, "It's just as I said. You've forgotten 
my very existence. When it's a question of 
wheat I count for nothing. And just now, 
when y6u read the despatch to yourself, you 
were all different ; such a look came to your 
face, so cruelly eager, and triumphant and 
keen " 

"You'd be eager too," he exclaimed, "if 
you understood. Look; read it for yourself." 

He thrust the cable into her hands. Over 
each code word he had written the translation, 
and his wife read: 

"Large firms here short and in embarrassing 
position, owing to curtailment in Argentine 
shipments. Can negotiate for five million 
wheat if price satisfactory." 

"Well?" she asked. 

"Well, don't you see what that means ? It's 
the 'European demand' at last. They must 
have wheat, and I've got it to give 'em wheat 
that I bought, oh, at seventy cents, some of 
it, and they'll pay the market that is, eighty 
cents, for it. Oh, they'll pay more. They'll 
pay eighty-two if I want 'em to. France is 
after the stuff, too. Remember that cable 
from Paris I just read. They'd bid against 
each other. Why, if I pull this off, if this 
goes through and by George," he went on, 
speaking as much to himself as to her, new 
phases of the affair presenting themselves to 
him at every moment, "by George, I don't 
have to throw this wheat into the Pit and 
break down the price and Gretry has under- 
standings with the railroads, through the ele- 
vator gang, so we get big rebates. Why, this 
wheat is worth eighty-two cents to them and 
then there's this 'curtailment in Argentine 
shipments.' That's the first word we've had 



about small crops there. Holy Moses, if the 
Argentine crop is off, wheat will knock the 
roof clean off the Board of Trade." The maid 
reappeared in the doorway. "The buggy?" 
queried Jadwin. "All right. I'm off, Laura, 
and until it's over keep quiet about all this, 
you know. Ask me to read you some more 
cables some day. It brings good luck." 

He gathered up his despatches and the mail 
and was gone. Laura, left alone, sat look- 
ing out of the window a long moment. She 
heard the front door close, and then the 
sound of the horses' hoofs on the asphalt by 
the carriage porch. They died down, ceased, 
and all at once a great silence seemed to set- 
tle over the house. 

Laura sat thinking. At last she rose. 

"It is the first time," she said to herself, 
"that Curtis ever forgot to kiss me good-by." 
(Doubleday. Page. $1.50.) From Frank 
Morris's "The Pit." 



"OLDFIELD." 
[Dedicated to Mrs. Nancy Huston Banks.] 

The touch of dainty etching and the smile 

That shines through life as glints the sun through 
clouds, 
The fragrance faint of flowers by the stile, 

The glamour that the misty hills enshrouds. 
A sob of sorrow like a far-off sea 

That beats on desolate reefs and yet the light 
That beacons hope of rescue; then the free 

Pure laughter-peal and humor's whimsic flight. 
Fair colors spun in words, and, musical, 

We hear the songsters of the aureole Spring, 
We see and feel the Old Times over all; 

And tenderly "her hands unto us bring 

One pure sweet spirit like a Thanksgiving; 
And, crowning light and shade, we hold in thrall 

The beauty of Love's worshipping! 

/. ^. H. U. in the Louisville Courier-Journal. 



A GLIMPSE OF LONDON SOCIETY. 

Next year, when in London, I was invited 
to a grand reception given by Abbott Law- 
rence, 138 Piccadilly, who was then United 
States minister at the court of ' St, James's. 
That day I dined with Lord Bishop Spencer, 
of Jamaica, whom I had met in Saratoga, and 
took Lady Harvey in. This was my accep- 
tance of the invitation he had extended to 
me in Saratoga. The bishop asked if I was 
going to the reception of the American minis- 
ter that night, and, on my saying that I was, 
asked me to accept a place in his carriage. 
This I very gladly did, as I had by this time 
learned a great deal about the value of state 
and ceremony in English life. The sequence 
will show how this worldly wisdom served 
me. 

At the dinner, however, I had had a very 
narrow escape. It was the "closest call," as 
we say in the West, that my temperance Meth- 
odist principles ever had. I was asked, as a 
great mark of distinction, to taste the pet 
wine of the bishop. The bishop himself acted 
as chief tempter of my old New England 
principles. He handed me a glass, saying: 
"Mr. Train, this is the wine we call the 'cock- 
roach flavor.' I want you to drink some of 
it with us," and he glanced around his table, 
at which were seated many titled Englishmen 
and women. 

What was I to do? Should I, caught in so 



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dire aa emergency, drown my principles in the 
cup that cheers and inebriates? Was all my 
Methodism and New England temperance to 
go down in shipwreck? The exigency nerved 
me for the task, and I found a courage suffi- 
cient to carry me through. I had never tasted 
a drop of wine, and I was not going to begin 
now. I glanced about the room, and slowly 
raised the glass to my lips. I did not taste 
the wine, but the other guests thought I did. 
"We all know," I said, "that the wine at your 
lordship's table is the best." This passed 
without challenge, and, in the ripple of ap- 
plause, my omission to drink the wine was 
not observed. 

Later in the evening I went with the bishop 
to the American minister's reception, and soon 
saw how well it was that I was in his lord- 
ship's carriage. Had I been in a hired cab, 
I should have fared badly. I should have had 
to wait in the long line of these vehicles, 
while flunkeys called out, in stentorian tones 
as if to advertise all London of the fact that 
you \yere in a hired concern, "Mr. Train's 
cab !" and other flunkeys, down the line, would 
take up the cry, "Mr. Train's cab !" until 
one would sink in a fever of chagrin. But as 
I came in the bishop's carriage, I heard re- 
spectful voices announce, "Lord Spencer and 
Mr. Train." 

I observed several ladies bending over an el- 
derly gentleman, and soon another lady asked 
me if I had seen the duke. As there were 
two Or three dukes present, I asked which one. 
She looked very much surprised, as if there 
could be more than one duke in the world. 
"Why, the Duke of Wellington!" she ex- 
claimed. 

I now took occasion to get a good look at 
the venerable old man. It was the first time, 
and proved to be the only time, I ever saw 
him. He would not have impressed me, I 
think, had it not been for the light of history 
which seemed, after I once knew it was he, to 
illuminate his face and frame. It was the last 
year of his enjoyment of great renown. He 
died shortly afterward. (Appleton. $1.25 net.) 
From Train's "My Life in Many States and 
Foreign Lands." 



TWILIGHT SONG. 

Through the shine, through the rain 

We have shared the day's load; 
To the old march again 

We have tramped the long road; 
We have laughed, we have cried, 

And we've tossed the King's crown; 
We have fought, we have died, 

And we've trod the day down. 
So it's lift the old song 

Ere the night flies again. 
Where the road leads along 

Through the shine, through the rain. 

Through the shine, through the rain, 

We have wrought the day's quest; 
To the old march again 

We have earned the day's rest; 
We have laughed, we have cried. 

And we've heard the King's groans; 
We have fought, we have died, 

And we've burned the King's bones, 
And we lift the old song 

p;re the night flies again, 
Where the road leads along 

Through the shine, through the rain. 

(Houghton, Mifflin. $i net.) From Edwin 
A. Robinson's "Captain Craig." 



ittago^ines for Jannarg. 

Atlantic: Number 4 Park street, B. P. His 
daughter first, Arthur S. Hardy. The waif, 
Agnes Lee. My own story, i., J. T. Trow- 
bridge. Love's miracles, W. M. Payne. The 
war against disease, C. E. A. Winslow. 
Charles Dickens as a man of letters, Alice 
Meynell. Mammy, Julia R. Tutwiler. The 
future of orchestral music, W. J. Henderson. 
The latest novels of Howells and James, 
Harriet W. Preston. Contributions of the 
west to American democracy, Fred. J. Turner. 
A land of little rain, Mary Austin. Trav- 
elers' tales, Agnes Repplier. Nox Dormienda, 
Joslyn Gray. In via Merulana, Samuel V. 
Cole. The plateau of fatigue, Kate M. Rabb. 
A memory of old gentlemen, Sharlot M. 
Hall. England in 1902, R. Brimley Johnson. 

Century: Paris pawnshops, Cleveland, Mof- 
fett. On reading the "Inferno," Anna Mc- 
Clure Sholl. From Cairo to Khartoum, Will- 
iam G. Erving. By the way. Christian Gauss. 
The prologue of the American Revolution, 
II.. Arnold's Battle with the Wilderness, Jus- 
tin H. Smith. The wife of Chino, Frank 
Norris. Qualities of Warner's humor, Jo- 
seph H. Twichell. The President and the 
trusts, Albert Shaw. Coralie, Francis S. 
Palmer. Sixty Jane, John Luther Long. 
My old maid's corner, i.. Some very partic- 
ular old maids. Lillie H. French. A Rus- 
sian climax, Robert H. Schauffler. Lovey 
Mary, Alice Caldwell Hegan. Loneliness, 
Hildegarde Hawthorne. Looking into the 
Caribbean craters, George C. Curtis. The 
Poe-Chivers papers, George E. Woodberry. 
The tears of Harlequin, Theodosia Garrison. 
When the consul came to Peking, i., Abi- 
gail H. Fitch. Soul to body. Clinton Scol- 
lard. The yellow van, in., Richard White- 
ing. The great business combinations of to- 
day, III., The so-called sugar trust, Frank- 
lin Clarkin. 

Critic: Mr. Blogg on Maxim Gorky. Mr. 
Howells's Rechauffe, J. P. Mowbray. Letters 
and reminiscences from last century. What 
M. de Nolhac has done at Versailles. 
"Everyman," a morality play, Elisabeth L. 
Gary. Bjornstjerne Bjornson, John N. Latir- 
vik. Literary landmarks of New York, 
Charles Hemstreet. The decay of the novel, 
Benjamin Swift. The "previousness" of pe- 
riodicals, Annie Nathan Meyer. Chateau- 
briand, A. I. du P. Coleman. A batch of 
American novels : i., "Aladdin O'Brien," Cor- 
nelia A. Pratt; 11., "Lord Alingham, bank- 
rupt," Isabel Moore; iii., "Captain Macklin," 
Norman Gask; iv., "The henchman," M. H. 
Vorse. "The darling of the gods." Ballade 
of Francois Villon, John D. Swain. Books 
of belles-lettres, A. I. du P. C. : i., "An In- 
troduction to the Scientific Study of English 
Poetry"; 11., "The Buried Temple"; in., 
"Fashions in Literature." 

Harper's: Arctic whaling of to-day, James 
B. Connolly. Chinese and western civiliza- 
tion, Wu Ting-Fang. The poem, Mildred I. 
McNeal. A chronicle of convictions, Oliver 
H. Dunbar. In Ethan Allen's country, Ju- 
lian Ralph. As you sailed, Roy R. Gilson. 
The man who is to come, Benjamin Kidd. 
Tike, Salem Johnson. Plants of crystal, Al- 



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bert Mann. Whom the gods love, May Har- 
ris. In the Tuscan Maremma, Vernon Lee. 
At the turn of the tide, Leslie Covert. Lady 
Rose's daughter. Part ix., Mrs. Humphry 
Ward. London's oldest art club, Arthur 
Lawrence. Benedict Arnold naval patriot, 
John R. Spears. The mocking of the gods, 
Amelia Rives. Becquerel rays, Joseph J. 
Thomson. The quarrel, Grace L. Collin. 
The coinage of words, George Lyman Kit- 
tredge. The morning call, George Hibbard. 
Dust and the soul, Harriet Prescott Spofiford. 
The doing of Galinter, Marie Van Vorst. 
The chantey-man, H. Phelps Whitmarsh. 

Lipiyincott's: The new Heloise, Mrs. Schuy- 
ler Crowninshield. English wives and Amer- 
ican housekeeping, M. E. Leicester Addis. 
The man with the shoulders, Albert P. Ter- 
hune. The resurrection of Edith, Edgar 
Fawcett. A Bull Mountain pastoral, H. Gio- 
vannoli. Judith in Mackford's entry, Grace 
Rhys. At night, Fullerton L. Waldo. The 
resurrection of P. L G., W. A. Eraser. The 
old, old songs, William A. Jones. The crisis, 
Lulu W. Mitchell. A bivouac de luxe, E. 
Boltwood. The decision, Ina B. Roberts. 
The full cup, Ruth Hall. A fair fee, Bernice 
C. Caughey. Franklin in Germany, J. G. 
Rosengarten. The lineman, William H. Hill- 
yer. A stolen day, Harriet C. Penman. At 
the Inn of Out-of-Doors, Charlotte Pendleton. 

McClure's: The shame of Minneapolis, Lin- 
coln Steffens. The impertinence of Charles 
Edward, H. G. Rhodes. The oil war of 1872, 
Ida M. Tarbell. I stand between Lady Mac- 
beth and matrimony, Clara Morris. Across 
the state, George K. Turner. Optimism, H. 
W. Bynner. Heaven, Josephine D. Daskam. 
The flying death, Samuel H. Adams. A 
pilgrim from Abyssinia, Stephen Bonsai. 
The lords of song, Wilfred Wilson Gibson. 
English men of letters, George W. Smalley. " 
A boy's point of view, Florence Wilkinson. 
A fair upsetter of customs, Charles Fleming 
Embree. Dr. Lorenz, straightener of chil- 
dren, John Swain. The breath of life, Edith 
Wyatt. The right to work, Ray L. Baker. 

North American: Christian science, 11., 
Mark Twain. Our lawless police, W. J. Gay- 
nor. Agrarian reform in Italy, the Duke of 
Litta-Visconti-Arese. The universities and 
commercial education. Prof. W. J. Ashley 
Is the British aristocracy on the wane?, Sir 
George Arthur, Bt. Shall we reduce the iron 
and steel tariff?, Archer Brown. Greater 
Germany in South America, Stephen Bonsai. 
Lord Curzon's services to India, Anglo- 
Indian. Why the army canteen should be re- 
stored. Major L. L. Seaman. The monarchs 
of the triple alliance, Sydney Brooks. Pietro 
Mascagni : an inquiry, Lawrence Oilman. 
The right of the child, Ida H. Harper. 
President Diaz of Mexico, Charles Johnston. 

Outing: Sledging over the polar pack. Com- 
mander Robert E. Peary. The city of the 
pelicans, Herbert K. Job. The ponies of the 
new forest, E. T. Sheaf. Man-trailing with 
human bloodhounds, George H. Hutchins. 
The last wolverine, Stanley Waterloo. Toy 
spaniels, Lillian C. Moeran. Mollie B.. La 
Verne A. Barber. The life informal in Cali- 
fornia, Juliet W. Tompkins. How to take big 
game fish, Charles F. Holder. Coasting a 



neglected winter glory, James L. Steele. 
Hunting the big game of western Alaska, 11., 
Bear stalking on the Alaska Peninsula, James 
H. Kidder. A wager on the Wistassining, 
Arthur E. McFarlane. Following wild fowl 
ia a shanty-boat, Emil Hendrick. The voy- 
age of the Aquidneck and its varied adven- 
tures in South American waters, Capt. J. 
Slocum. Anybody's game squash and how 
to play it, Eustace Miles. Emergencies of the 
road how the automobilist should meet them, 
J. Dunbar Wright.-r-Close formations and 
low tackling lessening individual football 
brilliancy, Harry Beecher. Middle western 
football, F. H. Yost. Accuracy of the Amer- 
ican revolver, W. E. Carlin. The gig-horse 
type of the national show, F. M. Ware. How 
and where to fish in Florida, Wm. C. Harris. 
Revietv of Reviews: The progress of the 
world. Record of current events. Thomas 
Nast, Ernest Knaufft. Thomas Brackett 
Reed, Henry B. F. Macfarland. Venezuela 
and the powers, A. Maurice Low. Herbert 
W. Bowen : an international figure of the 
month. Friedrich Alfred Krupp the Essen 
philanthropist, Elisabeth Weber Garden. The 
Krupps and their steel works at Essen, R. H. 
Knorr. The rural free delivery service. Day 
Allen Willey. The American ox and his pas- 
ture, E. Benjamin Andrews. The advance in 
beef prices, Fred C. Croxton. The treasury 
and the money market, Charles A. Conant. 
The British education bill, W. T. Stead. 
Leading articles of the month. 

Scribner's: The old route to Orleans the 
Mississippi, Willis Gibson. With my pic- 
tures, Benjamin Paul Blood. Giuseppe's 
Christmas, Mary H. Peixotto. English court 
and society in the eighties letters of the 
French ambassadress, Mary King Wadding- 
ton. A clash of sentimientalists, Alice Duer 
Miller. The best gun in the valley. Nelson 
Lloyd. The sailor's song, Josephine Dodge 
Daskam. The story of a great-grandfather, 
George Hibbard. Christmas shopping, draw- 
ings by Henry Hutt. Western blood, Juliet 
Wilbor Tompkins. The little shepherd of 
Kingdom Come, Chapters i.-iii., John Fox, 
Jr. The Library of Congress and the blind, 
Margarita Spalding Gerry. A death in the 
desert, Willa Sibert Gather. The point of 
view. The field of art. 

World's Work : The march of events : an 
illustrated editorial interpretation. The indi- 
vidual responsibility for panics and depres- 
sions. Friedrich Alfred Krupp. Modern 
methods of saving ships, Morgan Robertson. 
The biography of an office building. Arthur 
Goodrich. The battleship of the future, 
Lewis Nixon. A town made idle by a trust, 
Franklin Matthews. Conducting a Russian 
newspaper. Wolf von Schierbrand. Our in- 
dustrial invasion of Canada, Robert H. Mont- 
gomery. Those who lose in the game of life, 
Alfred Hodder. The proportion of city and 
country population, Frederic Austin Ogg. 
The man that failed, Thomas R. Dawley, Jr. 
A day in the regular army, Hamilton M. 
Higday. American manufactures, Edward D. 
Jones. Americanism for British trade-unions, 
Alfred Mosley, C.M.G. What the British 
Unionists saw, M. G. Cunniff. Views of 
readers on recent books. 



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0urt)eg of Current Citerature^ 

Order through your bookseller. ' ' There is no worthier or surer pledge of the intelligencf 
and the purity of any community than their general purchase of books ; nor is there any one who does 
more to further the attainment and possession of these qualities than a good bookseller." Prof. DunN. 



ART, MUSIC. DRAMA. 

DuGMORE, A. Radcliffe. Nature and the 
camera : how to photograph Hve birds and 
their nests, animals, wild and tame, rep- 
tiles, insects, fish and other aquatic forms; 
flowers, trees and fungi. Doubleday, P. 
sq. 8, $1.35 net. 

Mr. Dugmore was the leader and is an ex- 
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live birds, animals, fish, flowers, etc. His 
very beautiful and intimate pictures of natural 
life have brought him so many requests for 
information from beginners and fellow-work- 
ers that he has set down in this work a full 
and detailed account of his methods. Every 
step is explained so simply as to be easily 
comprehended by the beginner. 
Elson, Arthur. Orchestral instruments and 
their use ; giving a description of each in- 
strument now employed by civilized na- 
tions, a brief account of its history, an idea 
of the technical and acoustic principles il- 
lustrated by its performance and an explan- 
ation of its value and functions in the mod- 
ern orchestra. L. C. Page. 12, (Music 
lovers' ser.) $1.60 net. 

Leh^ann, Lilli. How to sing, [Meine ge- 
sangskunst;] tr. by Richard Aldrich. Mac- 
millan. il. 12, $1.50 net. 
An accurate and readable translation. An 
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which Lehmann learned to sing. Numerous 
pictures illustrate the physiological side of 
singing. The hygienic hints alone make the 
book indispensable to any singer. Full of in- 
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Sembrich. Niemann, Betz, Wachtel, etc. 
Mme. Lehmann is an expert in the Italian 
florid song as well as a world-renowned in- 
terpreter of Wagner. 

Morse, Frances Clary. Furniture of the 
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net. 

Written by a well-known collector of many 
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Strang, Lewis Clinton. Players and plays 
of the last quarter century: an historical 
summary of causes and a critical review of 
conditions as existing in the American 
theatre at the close of the nineteenth cen- 
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Page. 12, (Stage lovers' series.) $3.20 net. 

^BIOGRAPHY, CORRESPONDENCE. ETC. 

Adam, Mme. Edmond, [Juliette Lamber.] 
The romance of my childhood and youth. 
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Noticed in December issue. 

Alderson, Barnard. Andrew Carnegie, the 



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.Noticed in next issue. 
Barine, Arvede. La Grande Mademoiselle, 
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Hale, Edward Everett. Memories of a hun- 
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Kruger, Paul. The memoirs of Paul Kru- 
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shall; Oliver Ellsworth; Daniel Webster his 
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The treatment is more historical than bio- 
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MerejkowskIj Dmitri. Tolstoi as man and 

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among the Tarascos of Michoacan. Scrib- 
ner. 2 V. il. por. 4, maps, per set, $12 net. 
An elaborate work, profusely illustrated. 
One of the most important to the literature 
of exploration and discovery on this continent 
made in many years. The five years of re- 
search in Northwestern Mexico was made un- 
der the auspices and support of the American 
Museum of Natural History and the Ameri- 
can Geographical Society, together with many 
public-spirited citizens. Dr. Lumholtz's ob- 
ject was the study of the few races of prim- 
itive man yet unmodified by their civilized 
neighbors. 

Morse, Edward S. Glimpses of China and 
Chinese homes ; il. from sketches in the au- 
thor's journal. Little, B. 12, $1.50 net. 

Parker, Sir Gilbert. Quebec ; the place and 
the people. Macmillan. 2 v., il. 8, $4. 



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Prichard, H. Hesketh. Through the heart 
of Patagonia ; il. from drawings in col. and 
black and white by J. Guille Millais and 
from photographs. Appleton. 8, $5.50 net. 

ViAUD, Louis Marie Julien, ["Pierre Loti," 
pseud.] The last days of Pekin ; from the 
French by Myrta L. Jones. Little, B. il, 
12, $1.75 net. 

Whiting, Lilian. Boston days: The city of 
beautiful ideals; Concord, and its iamous 
authors ; The golden age of genius ; Dawn 
of the twentieth century. Little, B. il. 
12, $1.50 net. 

WiLLARD, AsHTON RoLLiNs. The land of the 
Latins. Longmans, G. por. 12, $1.40 net. 
Descriptions, chiefly of Rome. 

Williams, Jesse Lynch. New York sketch- 
es. Scribner. il. 4, $2 net. 

Wilson, Rufus Rockwell. New York, old 
and new : its story, streets and landmarks ; 
il. from prints and photographs and with 
decorations by E. Stratton Holloway. Lip- 
pincott. 2 v., 12, buckram, $3.50 net. 

DOMESTIC AND SOCIAL. 

Savage, Rev. Minot Judson. Men and wo- 
men. Amer. Unitarian Assoc. 12, 80 c. 
net. 

Dr. Savage discusses the respective parts 
that men and women play in the organization 
of society, their individual responsibilities and 
duties, their relations to each other and ,to 
their children, involving also the further ques- 
tions of divorce and of women's growing in- 
dependence. 

FICTION. 

Barlow, Jane. The founding of fortunes. 

Dodd, M. 12, $1.50. 

The scene of the story is laid mainly on the 
west coast of Ireland. One of the fortunes 
founded is that of Timothy Vittie, a young 
peasant, who having dishonestly obtained a 
sum of money subsequently amassed great 
wealth as a merchant. 

Barrie, Ja. Matthew. The little white bird ; 

or, adventures in Kensington Gardens. 

Scribner. 12, $1.50. 

A tender, fanciful, poetic story, full of hu- 
mor and pathos. 

Bates, Arlo. The diary of a saint. Hough- 
ton, M. 12, $1.50. 
Told by the heroine, Ruth Privet. The 

leading thought is that saintship is a matter 

of conduct rather than theory. Written in the 

author's best mood. 

Bengough, Elisa Armstrong. The talk of 
the town : a neighborhood novel. Apple- 
ton. 12, (Novelettes de luxe.) $1.25. 
Portrays the life of the well-to-do working 

classes in a thriving American manufacturing 

town. Their life, loves and tragedies are 

faithfully drawn. 

Benson, B. K. Bayard's courier : a story of 
love and adventure in the cavalry cam- 
paigns. Macmillan. il. 12, $1.50. 
Adventure, mystery, incident in war and in 
love, are blended with the events of the early 
sixties. The action of the story keeps pace 
with the movements of the cavalry of Vir- 



ginia during the Civil War in the United 
States. 

Besant, Sir Walter. No other way. Dodd, 

M. il. 12, $1.50. 

Deals with the custom of imprisoning for 
debt which prevailed in England until shown 
up by Dickens in "Little Dorrit." 
Black, Alex. Richard Gordon ; il. by Ernest 

Fuhr. Lothrop. 12, $1.50. 

The scenes of this novel are laid chiefly in 
upper New York society. 
Carling, John R. In the shadow of the czar. 

Little, B. il. 12, $1.50. 

Chambers, Rob. W. The maid-at-arms : a 

novel ; il. by Howard Chandler Christy. 

Harper. 12, $1.50. 

The scene is northern New York in Revo- 
lutionary times. 
Cholmondeley, Mary. Moth and rust, and 

other stories. Dodd, M. 12, $1.50. 
Connolly, Ja. B. Out of Gloucester. Scrib- 
ner. 12, $1.50. 

Stories of Gloucester fishermen. 
Craigie, Mrs. Pearl Maria Teresa, ["John 

Oliver Hobbes," pseud.} Love and the soul 

hunters. Funk & W. 12, $1.50. 
Crawford, Francis Marion. Cecilia : a story 

of modern Rome. Macmillan. 12, $1.50. 
Davis, Richard Harding. Captain Macklin: 

his memoirs; il. by Walter Appleton Clark. 

Scribner. 12, $1.50. 
Dye, Mrs. Eva Emery. The conquest: the 

true story of Lewis and Clark. McClurg. 

il. 12, $1.50. 

The expedition of Lewis and Clark of 1804 
is the backbone of Mrs. Dye's novel. The 
narrative, however, begins with the active life 
of George Rogers Clark, the explorer's elder 
brother, during the war with the Indians pro- 
voked by Lord Dunmore in 1774, follows him 
through the fighting with the British and their 
savage allies in the Revolutionary War along 
the western frontier, and does not end until 
William Clark's death in September, 1838. 

Foster, Mabel G. The heart of the doctor: 
a story of the Italian quarter. Houghton, 
M. 12, $1.50. 
The North End of Boston is the scene 

where the doctor ministers to the Italians and 

meets a strange reward. An unusually well 

told story. 

Eraser, William A. Thoroughbreds. [2d 
ed.] McClure, P. 12, $1.50. 
Noticed elsewhere in this issue. 

Harte, Francis Bret. Condensed novels. 

2d ser. ; new burlesques. Houghton, M. 

12, $1.25. 

Burlesques of Anthony Hope, Hall Caine, 
Edward Westcott, Kipling, Stevenson, and 
Conan Doyle. 
Hawkins, Anthony Hope, ["Anthony 

Hope," pseud.] The intrusions of Peggy: 

a novel. Harper, il. 12, $1.50. 

Lang, Andrew. The disentanglers. Long- 
mans, il. 8, $1.50. 

Luther, Mark Lee. The henchman. Mac- 
millan. 12, $1.50. 
A story of New York State politics. "There 



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are people," says The Literary Digest, "to 
whom 'politics' of whatever complexion na- 
tional, state, municipal, or ward spells nau- 
sea, as there are others whom it always fasci- 
nates. Either class will find Mr. Luther's emi- 
nently live study of Calvin Ross Shelby a stir- 
ring novel, well written and alive from start to 
finish. Shelby is 'The henchman' the poli- 
tician who stands by the 'party[ and 'th 
Boss.' The novel is admirably written. The 
curt virility, dramatic presentation of events, 
keen knowledge of character and of the in- 
side workings of the 'machine,' and the mas- 
ter 'machinists' are all a writer should have 
to be equipped with for the making of a live 
political story." 
Mason, Alfred E. Woodley. The four 

feathers. Macmillan. 12, $1.50. 

The scenic setting is the Soudan War. 

NiCHOLLS, Josephine Hamilton. Bayou 
Triste : a story of Louisiana. A. S. Barnes. 
12, $1.50. 

A story of Southern plantation life since 
the Civil War, dealing with the fortunes of 
the young master of the broken-down old 
home and of his humor-loving sister. 

OllivanTj Alfred. Danny. Doubleday, P. 

12, $1.50. 

By the author of "Bob, son of Battle." Al- 
though in a different vein from that story, the 
dog is still the central character; the main 
figures are the grim old Laird, the last of the 
"Stark Heriots," his fascinating child-wife, 
and "Danny," the dog, the idol of the mis- 
tress as well as of the retainers. 

Parker, Gilbert. Donovan Pasha and some 

people of Egypt. Appletcn. il. 12, $1.50. 

Fifteen dramatic stories of Egyptian life 
and character. 
Paterson, Arthur. The king's agent. Ap- 

pleton. 12, $1.50. 

A historical novel of the reign of William 
and Mary in England, having to do with the 
plots and counterplots of the Duke of Marl- 
borough and his wife. 

Phillpotts, Eden. The river: a novel; with 
frontispiece. Stokes. 12, $1.50. 

Popham, Florence. The housewives of 
Edenrise. Appleton. 12, $1.50. 
Noticed elsewhere in this issue. 

Ridge, W. Pett, ["Warwick Thompson," 
pseud.] "Erb." Appleton. 12, (Apple- 
ton's town and country lib., no. 317.) $1 ; 
pap., 50 c. 
The romance of a London labor-leader. 

Sea WELL, Molly Elliot. Francezka; il. by 

Harrison Fisher. Bowen-Merrill. 12, 

$1.50. 

A tale of France in the days of Louis xv. 
The main events of the romance centre about 
the adventures of the Count de Saxe. The 
actress Adrienne Lecouvreur is introduced. 
Serao, Matilde. The conquest of Rome. 

Harper. 12, $1.50. 

A strong story of real life in modern Rome, 
telling of the conquest made by Rome over a 
brilliant young statesman who goes there 
from the provinces, believing he can conquer 
all difficulties. 



Stevenson, Burton Egbert. The heritage: 
a story of defeat and victory. Houghton, 
M. 12, $1.50. 

The scene is laid in Ohio a few years after 
the Revolution, and the hero takes part in St. 
Clair's ill-starred expedition against the In- 
dians. He is taken prisoner and held captive 
for three years, but escapes and afterwards 
joins General Wayne in the victorious attack 
at Fallen Timbers. On returning wounded 
from his success on the frontier, the hero 
finds another success awaiting him which is 
all the better because it is unexpected. 

Stockton, Frank R. John Gayther's garden 

and the stories told therein. Scribner. il. 

12, $1.50. 

Eleven short stories full of the quaint 
whimsicality and droll conceits which gave 
all his work such a distinct individuality. 
John Gayther is supposed to be a gardener 
who has a genius for story-telling. 
Stuart, Mrs. Ruth McEnery. Napoleon 

Jackson, the gentleman of the plush rocker ; 

il. by E. Potthast. Century. 12, $1. 

If ever there was a man, black or white, 
who deserved to spend his time in lolling 
around it was the husband of Rose Ann, the 
washerwoman of Palmetto Bayou. The two 
are models of connubial felicity. 'Poleon was 
born lazy, and his hard-working wife glories 
in his idleness. If neighbors find fault with 
the sloth, Rose Ann at once defends him. 
Ensconced in his red plush armchair 'Poleon 
is the negro dolce far niente. The Chicago 
Record-Herald says: "The story bears the 
marks of genuine art and is pervaded with a 
rare spirit of kindly humor." 
Tarkington, Booth. The two Vanrevels; il. 

by H. Hutt. McClure, P. 12, $1.50. 

Noticed in December issue. 

Watanna, Onoto. The wooing of Wistaria. 
Harper. 12, $1.50. 

Webster, Henry Kitchell. Roger Drake, 

captain of industry. Macmillan. il 12, 

$1.50. 

The formation of a copper mining trust is 
the basis of this story. The hero, Roger 
Drake, tells his own romance, which carries 
him through his struggles and adventures in a 
Western mining town. The plot moves be- 
tween New York social life and the scene of 
the story's action at the mines. 
Weyman, Stanley J. In king's byways. 

Longmans, il. 12, $1.50. 

Twelve stories of varying length introduc- 
ing historical personages and events of French 
history. The N. Y. Tribune says: "His his- 
torical portraits are always sketched with 
equal restraint and precision. Mr. Weyman 
likes to give faithful studies in an older civil- 
ization, but he never forgets that the first and 
last duty of a romancer is to tell a good 
story." 

Williamson, C. N. and A. M., eds. The 
lightning conductor: the strange adven- 
tures of a motor-car. Holt. 12, $1.50. 
The adventures of a bright American girl, 
who, with her maiden aunt, starts to tour 
France on a "cranky" machine. A cultivated 
Englishman comes to their rescue when their 
auto has broken down, and, allowing himself 



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to be considered a chauffeur, is engaged as 
their chauffeur and courier, and becomes 
"The lightning conductor." 
Woods, Alice. Edges: [a story;] il. by the 

author. Bowen-Merrill. pi. 16, bds., $1.50. 

Noticed elsewhere in this issue. 

YoxALL, Ja. Henry. The Rommany stone. 

Longmans. 12, $1.50. 

A novel of gypsy life in England, related 
largely in the first person by the gypsy lover. 

HISTORY. 

Abbot, Willis J. American merchant ships 
and sailors; il. by Ray Brown. Dodd, M. 
8, $2 net. 

In this description of the merchant marine 
of the United States Mr. Abbot considers, the 
American ship from its earliest beginnings to 
the present day ; the romantic voyages of the 
great clipper ships ; the huge proportions of 
the shipping on the Great Lakes and its prob- 
able future ; the vanishing river steamboat 
and its past ; the whaling industry, former 
great importance and present decline ; the 
Newfoundland fisheries and the international 
problems they have raised; the slave trade, 
from its beginnings in colonial days to its 
final suppression ; the Polar tragedy, why the 
Pole is sought, and some of the most noted 
expeditions and explorations; pirates and buc- 
caneers, etc. 

Barry, William, D.D. The Papal monarchy, 
from St. Gregory the Great to Boniface 
VIII., (590-1303.) Putnam, il. pors. maps, 
12, (Stories of the nations, no. 65.) $1.35 
net; hf. leath., $1.60 net. 
Bates, William W. American navigation : 
the political history of its rise and ruin and 
the proper means for its encouragement. 
Houghton, M. por. 8, $3.50 net. 
Fisher, Sydney G. The true history of the 
American Revolution. Lippincott. il, 8, 
$2 net. 
Fiske, John. New France and New Eng- 
land. Houghton, M. maps, 12, $1.65 net. 
This final volume forms the only remaining 
link needed to complete the chain of histories 
of this country, from the Discovery of Amer- 
ica to the Adoption of the Constitution, upon 
which Dr. Fiske had for so many years been 
engaged. It deals with the rise and fall of 
New France and the development of the New 
England colonies as influenced by the pro- 
longed struggle with that troublesome and 
dangerous neighbor. 

Lang, Andrew. James vi. and the Gowrie 
mystery. Longmans, il. 8, $5. 
The probability is that in 1600 the brothers 
Gowrie, Lords of Ruthven, attempted to kid- 
nap the king. This is known in Scotch his- 
tory as the "Gowrie mystery." 

"The book is a model of careful research. 
Every possible indication which might throw 
some light on the subject is carefully followed 
up. Treated by a less skilful writer than is 
Mr. Andrew Lang, this episode of Scotch his- 
tory might have been uninterestingly ren- 
dered. But the author, though keeping strict- 
ly within judicial limits, knows how to im- 
bue his story with the proper coloring." N. 
Y. Times Saturday Review. 



McCarthy, Justin. The reign of Queen 
Anne. Harper. 2 v., 8, $4 net. 
Noticed in December issue. 
Marvin, Winthrop L. The American mer- 
chant marine : its history and romance from 
1620 to 1902. Scribner. 8, net, $2. 
"It is the declared purpose of this volume 
to present both the romance and the history 
of the American merchant marine. . . . The 
work is the outcome of twenty years of such 
study as the student gives to the theme that 
lies nearest to his heart of study supple- 
mented by constant observation of the sea, 
its ships, and the ebb and flow of commerce." 
Introduction. 

Mathews, Alfred. Ohio and her western 
reserve. Appleton. il. 12, (Expansion of 
the republic, v. 2.) $1.25 net. 
Wet, Christiaan Rudolf de. Three years' 
war; frontispiece by J. S. Sargent. Scrib- 
ner. por. plans, map, 8, $2.50 net. 
The plain, blunt, unvarnished story of the 
late war in Africa by the Commander-in- 
Chief and the hero of the Boer forces. 
Wilson, Thomas Woodrow. A history of the 
American people ; illustrated with portraits, 
maps, plans, facsimiles, rare prints, con- 
temporary views, etc. Harper. 5 v., 8, 
buckram, $17.50 net. (for complete work.) 
Contenis: v. i, The swarming of the Eng- 
lish, v. 2, Colonies and nation, v. 3, The found- 
ing of the government, v. 4, Critical changes 
and civil war. v. 5, Reunion and nationaliza- 
tion. Noticed in December issue. 

HUMOR AND SATIRE. 

Seaman, Owen. Borrowed plumes. Holt. 
16, $1.25. 

LITERARY MISCELLANY, COLLECTED WORKS, 
ETC. 

Brooke, Stopford A. The poetry of Robert 
Browning. Crowell. por. 12, $1.50 net. 
Valuable especially for its exhaustive analy- 
sis of^ separate poems. 

Carruth, Frances Weston. Fictional ram- 
bles in and about Boston. McClure, P. 
8, $2 net. 

Interesting rambles in and around Boston, 
in which are identified various houses, build- 
ings, public squares, etc., mentioned by writ- 
ers of fiction. Pictures of places are given 
taken from photographs, and quotations from 
novels where mentioned. 
Creighton, Mandell, {Bp.) Historical es- 
says and reviews; ed. bv Louise Creighton. 
Longmans. 12, $2. 

Contents: Essays entitled: Dante; ^neas 
Sylvius; A schoolmaster of the Renaissance; 
A man of culture ; A learned lady of the i6th 
century; John Wiclif; The Italian bishops of 
Worcester ; The Northumbrian border ; The 
Fenland ; The Harvard commemoration ; The 
imperial coronation at Moscow. The reviews 
are of Symonds' "Renaissance in Italy," 
"Life and Times of Niccolo Machiavelli," 
"Caterina Sponza" and "State Papers of the 
Reign of Henry viil'^ 

Fiske, John. Essays historical and literary. 
In 2 v. V. I, Scenes and characters in 
American history; v. 2, In favourite fields. 
Macmillan. 8, $4 net. 



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Hawthorne^ Nathaniel. Complete works. 
Wayside ed. Houghton, M. 13 v., 16, ea., 
$1 ; or per set, $13. 
HowELLS, William Dean. Literature and 
life: studies. Harper, il. 8, $2.25 net. 
Noticed elsewhere in this issue. 
Lee, Gerald Stanley. The lost art of read- 
ing. Putnam. 8, $1.75 net. 
"Most of these essays have appeared in The 
Critic. Mr. Lee is a writer of great courage 
who ventures to say what m.ost people are a 
little alarmed even to think. It is possible he 
carries the gospel of dissidence too far, taking 
the contrary side simply for the sake of the 
argument, or for the sake of originality, and 
the over-literal might find not a little in his 
pages at which to take ofifence. But his es- 
says are not merely entertaining, but show 
more freshness and individuality of thought 
than most books of the day, and should have 
a good influence, especially upon our prim and 
conscientious people who are concerned for 
the trifles of life, the trivial facts, the small 
culture, the worthless display of miscellaneous 
information, and neglect the more essential 
things like thinking and feeling and enjoying 
the sensation of life. The style of the essays 
is as idiosyncratic as the author. It is often 
vigorous, but never graceful, and the over- 
use of the dash makes it at times spasmodic. 
But at least it never fails to express the au- 
thor's meaning." Springfield Republican. 
Saintsbury, George Edward Bateman. His- 
tory of criticism and literary taste in Eu- 
rope from the earliest texts to the present 
day. In 3 v. v. 2, From the Renaissance to 
the decline of eighteenth century ortho- 
doxy. Dodd, M. 8, $3.50 special net. 
Sears, Lorenzo. American literature in the 
colonial and national periods. Little, B. 
12, $1.50 net. 
Perry, Bliss. A study of prose fiction. 
Houghton, M. 12, $1.25 net. 
A discussion of the outlines of the art of 
fiction, by the editor of the Atlantic, follow- 
ing "more or less closely notes prepared sev- 
eral years ago for a course of lectures on 
prose fiction at Princeton." From the Pre- 
face. 

MENTAL AND MORAL PHILOSOPHY. 

HiLLis, Newell Dwight. The quest of hap- 
piness : a study of victory over life's trou- 
bles. Macmillan. 12, $1.50 net. 
A study of victory over life's troubles by 

the pastor of Plymouth Church, Brooklyn, 

N. Y. 

POLITICAL AND SOCIAL. 

Adams, Brooks. The new empire. Macmil- 
lan. 12, $1.50 net. 

"The attitude of Mr. Adams in this book is 
one to be highly praised. In questioning ex- 
isting conditions he seeks to point out the 
policy the United States must pursue if it is 
to be first among nations. In calling attention 
to what he regards as a weakness in modern 
educational methods, he pleads for the broad- 
est and most catholic reforms. He has done 
a high service in reminding us of the eco- 
nomic life of the great nations and peoples of 
the past, for the industrial development of re- 
cent years has blinded us to former experi- 
ence and given occasion to a spirit that is 



based upon interest and extreme selfishness. 
If the book lauds war as a means it presents 
it only as an instrument of last resort. As a 
whole it is a most stimulating book, and de- 
serves to be studied. The maps were special- 
ly prepared for the book." Worthington C. 
Ford, in N. Y. Times Saturday Review. 

Cleveland, Frederick A. Funds and their 
uses : a book describing the inethods, instru- 
ments and institutions employed in modern 
financial transactions. Appleton. il. 12, 
(Appleton's business ser.) $1.25 net. 

Ghent, W. J. Our benevolent feudalism. 
12, $1.25 net. 

Contents: Utopias and other forecasts; 
Combination and coalescence ; Our magnets ; 
Our farmers and wage-earners ; Our makers 
of law ; Our interpreters of law ; Our mould- 
ers of opinion ; General social changes ; 
Transition and fulfilment. 
Mahan, Alfred Thayer. Retrospect and 
prospect : studies in international relations, 
naval and political. Little, B. 12, $1.60 
net. 

Contents: 1, Retrospect and prospect; 2, 
Conditions determining the naval expansion 
of the United States; 3, Effect of the South 
African War on the prestige of the British 
Empire; 4, Motives of imperial federation; 
5, Considerations on the disposition of (Eu- 
ropean) navies ; 6, The Persian Gulf and in- 
ternational relations ; 7, The military rule of 
obedience ; 8, Admiral Sampson. 
Potter, Henry Codman, {Bp.) The citizen 
in his relation to the industrial situation: 
Yale lectures. Scribner. 12, (Yale lec- 
tures on the responsibilities of citizenship.) 
$1 net. 
Riis, Jacob A. The battle with the slum. 
Macmillan. por. 8, $2 net. 
Mr. Riis has taken his book published some 
years ago under the title of "A ten years' 
war" and completely rewritten it, adding 
practically a third more material than the 
original volume contained, besides entirely 
rewriting the text. He has brought the sub- 
ject up to date. It is a complement and, as it 
were, a following volume to "How the other 
half lives." That was the pioneer work show- 
ing the conditions. This shows the battle 
which has been waged with these conditions, 
the improvement that has been effected, and 
the means which were used and which are 
still being used. 

Zueblin, Chas. American municipal pro- 
gress; chapters in municipal sociology. 
Macmillan. 12, (Citizen's lib.) $1.25 net. 
"This book is almost encyclopedic in its 
wealth of illustration as to what American 
municipalities have done during the past few 
years towards the solution of problems con- 
nected with transportation, public works, san- 
itation, public schools, public libraries and 
buildings, parks and boulevards and public 
recreation. Naturally Professor Zueblin's 
book is taken up almost exclusively with what 
American cities have done rather than with 
the question of how they have done it. Pro- 
fessor Zueblin has given us an excellent book, 
which ought greatly to encourage those who 
are struggling to obtain the ideal city." F. J. 
Goodnow, in Political Science Quarterly. 



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fciterars iniscellonp. 



John R. Carling. It now appears that 
J(ihn R, Carling, the author of "The Shadow 
of-'the Czar," is a veteran schoolmaster in 
England. His romance has been warmly 
commended by the press in England and in 
this country. 

Mrs. Humphry Ward in French. Mrs. 
Humphry Ward's latest novel, "Lady Rose's 
Daughter," is to be published in a French 
translation in Paris with the title "La Fille de 
Lady Rose." It will appear first as a serial 
in the Revue des Deux Mondes. 

Kate Douglas Wiggin's Popularity. It 
is reported by Houghton, Mifflin & Co. that 
in the sixteen years since the publication of 
Kate Douglas Wiggin's "The Birds' Christ- 
mas Carol" the sale has amounted to almost 
300,000 copies. Of these, 25,000 have been 
taken during the last twelve months. 

"The Strenuous Life" in French. A 
French translation of President Roosevelt's 
"Strenuous Life," bearing the title "La Vie 
Intense," has attracted much interest in Paris. 
The translation is by Princesse Ferdinand de 
Lucinge-Faucigny and M. Jean Izoulet, who 
declare that their work has the authorization 
of Mr. Roosevelt. 

Charles Wagner's New Book. "The Bet- 
ter Way" will be the title under which Charles 
Wagner's new book will be published by Mc- 
Clure, Phillips & Co. early in the spring. It 
does not follow the French title, "L'Ami." 
Wagner is the nastor of the Lutheran Church 
in Paris, whose doctrines of simplicity and 
sanity in modes of living have so impressed 
that capital. His "The Simple Life" is now 
in its sixth edition. This is the volume which 
President Roosevelt has mentioned in several 
of his public speeches. 

George Alfred Henty, correspondent and 
author, died November 16, on board his yacht 
at Weymouth. He was born at Trumpington, 
Cambridgeshire, England, December 8, 1832. 
Leaving Cambridge he went to the Crimea in 
the purveyor's department. Later as a news- 
paper correspondent he witnessed many cam- 
paigns in various countries. He also made a 
tour of the United States and Canada, visiting 
particularly the mining regions. He accom- 
panied King Edward, then Prince of Wales, 
on his tour of India. He witnessed the Italo- 
Austrian War ; was with Garibaldi in his cam- 
paigns in the Tyrol; at the opening of the 
Suez Canal ; with the Abyssinian expedition 
to Magdala and the Ashanti expedition to 
Coomassie, He went through the Franco- 
German War, the Communal Siege of Paris, 
and was out in the Carlist Insurrection. Mr. 
Henty was editor of a boy's paper, the Union 
Jack. He wrote upwards of seventy books 
for boys, nearly all of them of a historical 
character. 

Mrs. Mary Hartwell Catherwood, au- 
thor of "Lazarre," etc., died at her home, 
4852 Washington Avenue, Chicago, Decem- 
ber 26. Mrs. Catherwood was born at Lau- 
ray. Licking County, Ohio, December 16, 1847. 



Her parents died when she was terv years oldj 
and she was placed in the Granville (0.) 
Female College, from which she was gradu- 
ated in 1868. She removed to Danville, III., 
where she obtained a position as a school 
teacher. While in Danville sh0 became in- 
terested in French history, out of the study of 
which grew many of her novels. In 1887 she 
was married to James Steel Catherwood, who, 
with a daughter, survives her. She wrote 
the following: "Craque-o'-Doom," "Old Cara- 
van Days," "The Secret of Roseladies," "The 
Romance of Dollard," "The Bells of Ste. 
Anne," "The Story of Tonty," "The Lady of 
Fort St. John, "Old Kaskaskia," "The White 
Islander," "The Chase of St. Castin, and 
Other Tales," "The Spirit of an Illinois Town 
and the Little Renault," "The Days of 
Jeanne d'Arc," "Bony and Ban," "Mackinac 
and Lake Stories," "Spanish Peggy," and 
"Lazarre." 



iTreatjest IN^etos. 

Little, Brown & Co. have in preparation a 
special issue of their National edition of the 
complete works of Daniel Webster, in eigh- 
teen volumes, to be brought out this year. 

Frederick A. Stokes Company will pub- 
lish during the last week in February a new 
story by Agnes and Egerton Castle, entitled 
"The Star Dreamer." It is a story of Eng- 
lish life at the period when George iii. lay 
dying, and when Bath was in its heyday. Its 
vein is that of the author's "The Light of 
Scarthey" and "Young April," rather than of 
"The Secret Orchard." 

McClure, Phillips & Co. will publish next 
month a novel of life in a small English vil- 
lage, in Staffordshire, entitled "Anna of the 
Five Towns," by Arnold Bennett; also, "The 
Chameleon," by James Weber Linn, who uses 
as his theme that trait in human nature which 
leads some men and women to seek always 
the lime light, to endeavor always to be the 
protagonist, even at the expense of truth. 
They also announce a book of short stories 
by Joseph Conrad, entitled "Youth." 

D. Appleton & Co.'s new offerings include 
Chauncey C. Hotchkiss's stirring romance of 
Revolutionary times, "For a Maiden Brave." 
Though having nothing to do with battle and 
bloodshed, the story hinges on the secret 
method of collecting funds for the patriot 
army by parolled prisoners of war. "A Vir- 
ginia Girl in the Civil War" is a true narra- 
tive, stranger than fiction, of the experiences 
of a Confederate officer's wife who followed 
her husband into camp and through many 
exciting periods of the war. Other announce- 
ments include Sereno S. Pratt's "The Work 
of Wall Street," a succinct and practical 
presentation of a many-sided question ; "Rac- 
quets, Tennis and Squash," by Eustace H. 
Miles, an English and American sportsman, 
who knows whereof he speaks ; and "The 
Journal of Arthur Stirling," describing the 
trials and disappointments of a man of cul- 
ture who tries to adopt literature as a profes- 
sion. 



The Literary News 

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and f^temif^ faM afvaf t^t tttnoui (otimre*. 



Vol. XXIV. 



FEBRUARY, 1903. 



No. 2. 




From ' Through the Heart of Patagonia.'' 



D. Appleton i Co. 



CHILDREN OF THE TOLDOS. 



Through the Heart Patagonia. 



In these days of travel and exploration, 
when the earth has been getting smaller and 
smaller as mechanical invention has anni- 
hilated distance and the spread of knowledge 
dissipated ignorance, it might seem surpris- 
ing that a country of gigantic proportions 
should exist almost at our very doors whose 
interior has been practically a sealed book 
to the world and whose physical characteris- 
tics have been almost unknown. Yet such 
is the case with Patagonia, which stretches 
from about parallel 40 degrees to the Straits 
of Magellan and embraces 300,000 square 
miles. This enormous country, as is now 
shown by the book "Through the Heart of 
Patagonia," by H. Hesketh Prichard, has a 
great variety of climates, flat pampas with 
hardly a visible undulation, snow-covered, 
inaccessible mountain peaks, unnamed lakes 
where the flamingo sports and others where 
glaciers are always to be found. Mr. Prich- 
ard and his party of explorers travelled over 



10,000 miles through this unknown country, 
and the information brought back has not only 
cleared up many mysteries about its inte- 
rior, but has added materially to scientific 
knowledge. He found hitherto unknown ani- 
mals, which have now been given a name and 
classified by British authorities; discovered 
strange plants which previously had no place 
in botany, defined the limits of big rivers 
whose outlets only had been known, and 
found lakes of large proportions whose exis- 
tence had not been suspected. 

Mr. Prichard wandered for months over 
extensive pampas inhabited by countless herds 
of guanaco, on whose western rim the Cor- 
dilleras stood against the sky, their loftier 
gorges choked with glaciers, their hollows 
holding great steel-blue lakes, and about their 
bastions were thousands of square miles of 
shaggy forests cf which but the mere edges 
have yet been explored. He found the de- 
scendants of Welshmen who had fled to Pata- 



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{February, 1903 



gonia to preserve their native language, now 
purely Spanish except in name, but much 
improved physically above their ancestors 
through the outdoor life and fine climatic 
conditions of the country. (Appleton. $5.50 
net.) A'^. Y. Times Sat. Rev. 



The Pit. 

One day, his publishers tell us, Norris came 
to a member of the firm almost trembling 
with enthusiasm. 

"I've got a great idea," he said, and he told 
his plan of "The Epic of the Wheat," perhaps 
the largest constructive task any American 
novelist has ever given himself. 

The first novel was to deal with the war 
between the wheat grower and the railroad 
trust, the second would be the fictitious nar- 
rative of a "deal" in the Chicago wheat pit, 
while the third would probably have for 
its pivotal episode the relieving of a famine 
in an Old World community. In other words, 
the three novels, each complete and distinct 
in itself, were to be connected together in 
their relation to, first, the production ; sec- 
ond, the distribution, and third, the con- 
sumption of American wheat. When com- 
plete, they would form the story of a crop of 
wheat from the time of its sowing as seed 
in California to the time of its consumption 
as bread in a village of Western Europe. 

Both "The Octopus" and "The Pit" show 
distinct traces of Zolaesque influence. This 
does not mean that Norris followed Zola 
into the cloacal mysteries. He made no 
studies in morbid moral pathology. He did 
not gloat over the seamy side of human na- 
ture. But he looked at men and their mo- 
tives, as exhibited in the clear light of day, 
with the calm and serene gaze of the social 
philosopher. He possessed the X-ray of 
genius. He could detect the secret springs 
of human action. He could make them visi- 
ble to the multitude. In "The Octopus," 
however, he had been more the disciple. In 
"The Pit" he is more the prophet of a new 
dispensation. In the first he had become, in an 
inoffensive sense, the American Zola. In 
"The Pit" he becomes more distinctively the 
founder of a new school, which may prelude 
a French Norris. 

In "The Octopus," as in most of Zola's 
novels, there are a crowd of characters, each 
sharply individualized, but confusing and dis- 
tracting at a first perusal. In "The Pit" the 
characters who count may be numbered on 
your fingers, and dominating them all are the 
hero and the heroine, Curtis Jadwin, capi- 



talist and speculator, who brings about the 
corner that constitutes the crisis, and Laura 
Dearborn, the woman whom he loves and 
marries, and who is whirled, an innocent vic- 
tim, into the maelstrom of his own creation. 
To this comedy and the tragedy, the ro- 
mance and the melodrama of these two cen- 
tral figures all the others are artistically sub- 
ordinated. 

They are a vividly imagined couple. Laura, 
because through her feminine complexity she 
was the more difficult of the two to manage, 
is perhaps the greater triumph. Her co- 
quettish heartlessness before she discovered 
that she had a heart, her self-surrender when 
she found herself immutably in love with 
the man whom she had married without the 
consciousness of love, are alike admirably 
presented. Yet she is not a faultless monster. 
When baflled in the endeavor to win from 
her husband the external evidence of the pas- 
sion he really feels, but which is subordmated 
and for the moment almost overwhelmed by 
his greater passion for speculation, she turns 
in despair to the lover who has not only the 
inner feeling, but the outer semblance, and 
she is only saved from moral wreck by the 
financial wreck that overtakes her husband. 
Her victory is based upon her husband's 
defeat. 

The whole story moves swiftly and in- 
evitably to the final catastrophe through a 
series of intensely dramatic scenes. Laura's 
sensations at the opera and in her desolated 
home are as acutely described as the sensa- 
tions of her husband in the whirl and toss 
of the wheat exchange. (Doubleday, Page. 
$1.50.) A^. Y. Herald. 



Three Years' War. 

Gen. De Wet's story of the Boer-British 
struggle of 1899-1902, is told with a grave 
simplicity, lighted up by touches of humor, 
and is devoid of the passionate declamation 
which might not unnaturally be looked for in 
the account of a war fought with such sacri- 
fices, at such odds, and with so many grounds 
for bitter criticism of his adversaries. He 
does devote a few pages to the sufferings of 
the Boer women, both upon their devastated 
farms and in the concentration camps, but 
while his feelings are deep, his expressions 
are restrained, and more in sorrow than in 
anger. 

As an addition to the mass of facts al- 
ready at our command with regard to the 
motives and conduct of the war, the narra- 
tive is not important, for the ground has 



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been thoroughly traversed before; its field 
of description is confined to the active war- 
fare which began in October, 1899, and 
there is no discussion of the previous South 
African affairs which led up to the out- 
break of hostilities. The weight of the story 



Across Coveted Lands. 

Henry Savage Landor has again produced 
a volume describing adventures encountered 
and strange discoveries made in a practically 
unknown land, and for thrilling incident and 
vivid description rivals, if it does not surpass, 




From Across Coveted Lands.' 



Charles Scribner's Sons. 



KERMAN AND ZERIS, THE TWO KITTENS WHO ACCOMPANIED 
AUTHOR ON HIS WANDERINGS. 



is derived chiefly from the character and 
achievements of the author, who, at an early 
period of the military operations, was ad- 
vanced from the ranks, as a private, to the 
leadership of the army, when his fertility of 
resource and unwearied energy showed him 
to possess extraordinary fitness for his work. 
From his inside view. Gen. DeWet con- 
firms all that has been elsewhere told of the 
contemptuous audacity with which these farm- 
ers habitually assailed forces many times their 
numbers. (Scribner. $2.50 net.) The Na- 
tion. 



the work with which he startled the world 
four years ago on his return from Thibet. 
This book deals with the semi-civilized peo- 
ples of Persia, whose principal cities are in- 
accessible except by camel train, and whose 
far-stretching deserts, infested with robber 
bands and beset with natural dangers, are 
almost as trackless and uncharted as the 
ocean. Mr. Landor provided himself with 
the best official English and German maps, 
but found not only dry grooves marked as 
important rivers and towns and cities put 
down in places where they had no existence^ 



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but he also discovered mountains in places 
where the maps showed deserts and oases 
situated hundreds of miles from where they 
were placed. 

Mr. Landor says he crossed an "electric 
desert," where the air and soil were highly 
charged with the magnetic fluid, and all he 
had to do to light his pipe was to snap his 
fingers over it; declares he found another 
desert where the normal temperature at day 
was 150 degrees Fahrenheit, and where icicles 
formed on his face at night; was twice at- 
tacked by bands of robbers, rescued people 




Courtesy of The Century Co. 
GOUVERNEUR MORRIS. 

lost in the desert, got lost himself with his 
entire caravan, found fossil remains of gigan- 
tic turtles on the tops of mountains, discov- 
ered a large town not down on any map 
whose inhabitants did not know its name, and 
finally came to a half-buried city the ruins of 
which were eighty-six miles long. 

In the larger cities Mr. Landor was treated 
with consideration, and he was received by 
the Shah. The palace of the latter at Tehe- 
ran he describes as truly barbaric, containing 
beautiful old mosaics alongside cheap chromo 
advertisement of soap, exquisite rugs and 
cheap oilcloth, statues presented by crowned 
heads alongside, penny-in-the-slot machines 
and phonographs, old armor and thirty-cent 
clocks. (Scribner. 2 v. $7.50 net.) N. Y. 
Times Sat. Rev. 



Aladdin O'Brien. 

GouvERNEUR MoRRis has gone back to the 
opening of the Civil War for the scene of 
his latest romance, "Aladdin O'Brie -," but 
his book is removed as far as possible from 
the many tales which have lately been built 
upon that much-abused theme, and its title, 
with its odd suggestion of East and West, 
is quite in harmony with the quaint fancies 
and delicate humor that are so adroitly 
mingled with strong and pathetic situations. 
Anything more human, lovable, and capti- 
vating than the rollicking Aladdin whom Mr. 
Morris has made his hero it has not been our 
fortune for a long time to come across in 
fiction, and it adds to that good luck that 
he has not expended all his energy and skill 
on the creation of the one character, leaving 
the rest more or less to the imagination of 
his readers, but has given them a goodly 
company of living, breathing men and women, 
whom to know is a thorough pleasure a 
thing hard to say concerning the doubtful 
society into which many writers conduct us 
under the notion that they are accomplishing 
something novel and spicy. Moreover, Mr. 
Morris has a delightful and easy style that 
is distinctively his own and prophetic of 
good things yet to come from this promising 
young writer. 

It is on the familiar plot of two men in 
love with the same girl that Mr. Morris has 
based his story, but there is nothing trite in 
the way he has worked it out from the well- 
nigh tragic casting away of two babies upon 
a desert island in Portland harbor down to the 
good old-fashioned ending in which as many 
people as possible are made "happy ever after." 

It is unnecessary to reveal the vicissitudes 
through which Margaret and her two lovers 
passed before things straightened out to a 
right conclusion, for that would be to spoil 
the author's artistic telling of it. Love stor- 
ies are apt to be more or less sad in war 
time, and this is no exception. Self-sacrifice 
and simple, unquestioning heroism play their 
part, and even tragedy is not lacking at the 
end ; but. for all that, the prevailing spirit 
in "Aladdin O'Brien" is that of the happy-go- 
lucky hero himself, and it was his mission in 
life to add to the sum of human happiness. 
(Century. $1.25.) A^". Y. Times Sat. Rev. 



The Biography of a Prairie Girl. 
That the author has "dipped her pen in 
herself" in writing this book, seems a fact 
not to be questioned,- so faithful is the draw- 
ing, so true the coloring. 



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From the "Coming of the stork" to the de- 
parture of the Little Girl for that long- 
dreamed-of Mecca, College, every page is full 
of interest. To the "problem" hunter, the 
student of the "higher hysterics," the book 
will prove a disappointment. It is the clean, 
direct, pathetic story of the life of a little 
girl on a Dakota prairie. 

The Little Girl was not a "model child." 
She did have a propensity for "scrapes" of 
divers kinds, and accepted her punishments 
therefor unflinchingly. At four and a half 
years of age she begins a career of usefulness 
by being tied to a pinto pony, to "round up" 
the herds. Poor baby ! One hardly gets 
through that episode, and many other chap- 
ters, with dry eyes. Later we find her assist- 
ing in the planting, in breaking horses doing, 
in short, a boy's work on the farm, until, at 
sixteen, she is emancipated by the efforts of 
the "biggest brother." 

Portions of the book are dramatic ; and 
while a certain homely tragicalness predomi- 
nates, there are touches of comedy, even of 
farce ; as witness the undoing of the school- 
master, and the Professor's discovery of 
archaeological inscriptions." These 
bring vmrestrained laughter. 

From title page to end the at- 
tention of most readers will not 
flag, and one is not the less inter- 
ested for knowing that through 
warp and woof of this simple 
biography, so finely intermeshed 
that the glitter is scarcely visi- 
ble, runs a golden thread of ro- 
mance. (Century. $1.50.) Bost. 
Literary World. 



Mr^. Earle passes from sun-dials to roses and 
back again with a unity of sentiment that makes 
the phrase in the sub-title of "Garden De- 
lights" wholly appropriate. The earlier two- 
thirds of the book is given over to sun-dials, 
and examples of this time-honored method of 
telling the time of day have been gathered from 
Italy, Greece, France, Germany, and even 
dis-tant Mexico and Japan ; but with hardly 
more than a single example from each of 
these countries. England and Scotland supply 
an element which, under Mrs. Earle's treat- 
ment, is not felt as foreign. These examples, 
delineated in both letter-press and illustra- 
tion, are numerous and inclusive (the dial 
vvithout the gnomon on Massachusetts Hall 
in Cambridge being the only instance of any 
i;ote that seems to be omitted), and the whole 
constitutes a veritable encyclopaedia on the 
subject within the limits of civilization. 
Roses are discussed in something less 
of the discursive and more of the histori- 
cal manner, but with the same play of 
delightful and thoroughly assimilated im- 
agination. (Macmillan. $2.50 net.) The 
Dial. 



Sun-dials and Roses of Yesterday. 

Not limiting her field to our 
rather modern American "antiqui- 
ties" at all, Mrs. Alice Morse 
Earle has still kept pretty well 
within the geographical limits of 
the island of Great Britain and of 
the thirteen original States of the 
Union for the charming materials 
that, culled and sorted, go to make 
up her "Sun-dials and Roses of 
Yesterday : Garden Delights which 
are Here Displayed in very Truth 
and are Moreover Regarded as 
Emblems," The quaintness of a 
day far more remote than the 
mere passing of time can hint per- 
vades the pleasant narrative, giv- 
ing it a notable literary quality. 




" Sun-ilials and Roses of Yesterdiiy, 



Copyright, 1902, by The Macmillan Lo. 



A SUN-DIAL. 



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{February, 1903 



Where American Independence Began. 

American independence can hardly be said 
tD have found its rise in any one place, since 
it was born in the hearts and minds of those 
irdomitable first colonists who escaped from 
England and Holland, daring to brave the 
unknown, undaunted by hardships, in order 
that they might have no interference with 
their "just liberties." As Mr. Wilson points 
out, the authors, inventors, discoverers of in- 
dependence were the first emigrants. How- 
ever, certain towns, notably those of the New 
England colonies, became preminently ident- 
ified with the struggle for national independ- 
ence that culminated in the "Boston Tea- 
party" and the Revolutionary War. Such a 
place was Braintree, a few miles fi'om Bos- 
ton, and more particularly that part of it now 
known as Quincy. 

Quincy's earliest history was not in accord 
with Puritanical standards. Here Thomas 
Morton and his wild followers made a haven 
for themselves in the wilderness, and by their 
ungodly reveliings and adventurings brought 
down upon themselves fierce castigation at the 
hands of Captain Miles Standish and Gover- 
nor Endicott. But a few years later grants 
of land in this region were given tc William 
Coddington. Edmund Quincy, Henry Adams 
and others, all from Boston, and thus th? 
town of Braintree came into existence. That 
it proved fertile ground for the growth of 
patriots future events were to prove. 

It is with the story of Braintree and 
Quincy in their connection with the history 



of several families, particularly the Adamses 
and the Quincys, that Mr. Wilson's "Where 
American Independence Began" has to do. 
1 1 to him the colonials were made up of 
"men, women and Adamses," ceriainly none 
of the numerous descendants of Lord ap 
Adam can find fault. Aside from its geneal- 
ogical import, the author's accurate knowl- 
edge of American history, his intimate ac- 
quaintance with local surroundings and his 
inexhaustible fund of anecdote, go to make 
ui, a work of more than passing interest. 
(Houghton, Mifflin. $2 net.) 



Retrospect and Prospect. 

In their main features seven of the eight 
essays in this volume are in direct sequence 
to those of the author's previous volumes, 
"The Interest of America in Sea Power" and 
"The Problem of Asia." All have previously 
been published in magazines. The introduc- 
tory essay forms a link between the present 
essays and their predecessors. 

As a whole, the studies are marked by ac- 
curacy of statement, logic, balance and grasp. 
Ir his care for absolute precision in expres- 
sion, Capt. Mahan is occasionally wordy, a 
fault not as irritating, however, as if it grew 
OUT 01 an mtention not so altogether afmir 
able. vVithout exception, the studies are m- 
tere sting and thought provoking. They ar" 
ithe work of a mind rich in th'KJr^ and expe- 
rience and careful in deduction. (Little, 
Brown. $1.60 net.) Brooklvn Times. 




From " Where American Independence Began. ' Copyright, 1902, by David Munro Wilson (Houghton, Mifflin & Co.) 

LATER QUINCY MANSION, SKETCH BY MISS QUINCY, l822. 



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Eagle Blood. 

James Creelman's stirring novel, "Eagle 
Blood," is written in the spirit of one of the 
ffcthers, with unshaken faith in American 
democracy, with downright conviction that 
American citizens are the freest, completest 
and most progressive of mankind. The re- 
cent so-called "Amierican invasion" of the 
old world to him completes the subjugation 
of the unregenerate begun by the crusaders. 

A young Englishman, a descendant of God- 
frey of Bouillon, who has been completely 
ruined by the forced sale of his South Lon- 
don boot and shoe works to an American 
trust, casts about for means of supporting 
himself, captured by the idea of being, after 
a lapse of ages, the one man of his family' 
tt: work, not to live on the fruits of deeds 
dene in a heroic past. Believing America 
to be the one place where work is honored for 
itself, and opportunity is plentiful, he goes 
to New York. It was a choice to him of trad- 
ing on his title for a wealthy American wife 
or dropping his title of Viscount Delaunay, 
prospective Earl of Castlehurst, and becom- 
ing a plain man of business, with nothing but 
Its work to carry him along. He chose the 
latter, and took the name of Hugh Dorsey. 

Though a social introduction he becomes 
acquainted with Mr. Remington, the great- 
est trust magnate in America, and also with 
Mr. Irkins, head of the Mail, a great news- 
paper. Thus he is put into communication 
with the greatest modern forces, the news- 
paper and the trust, and through him we get 
Mr. Creelman's explanation of these new 
monsters in the light of American ideals. 

The tremendous enthusiasm characteristic 
c^ Mr. Creelman's newspaper work colors his 
novel and converts it into a splendid paean 
o: praise for Americanism. His American- 
ir<m is big enough to include every modern 
economic aspect. Trusts are to him only a 
broader and more glorious expression of 
dominant Americanism. The victories of the 
counting-room are as mighty spiritually, as 
those of the study. 

"Eagle Blood" constrains attention from 
beginning to end. One likes its vigorous 
Pttitisanship, its boundless enthusiasm, its ex- 
traordinary optimism, even though he cannot 
share its belief that maniacs for material 
power make worthy ideals, American citizens. 

One country could not possibly contain Mr. 
Creelman's broad spirit. His scenes range 
from London to the Philippines, a spirited 
account of fighting in that far-countree be- 
ing a part of the novel. (Lothrop. $1.50.) 
Chicago Record-Herald. 




* The Home-Life of the Borneo Head-Hunters.* 
1902, by J. B. Lippincott Co. 



A NATIVE. 



Copyright, 



The Home-Life of the Borneo Head-Hunters. 

A RARE charm characterizes Dr. Furness's 
account of some forest tribes in North Bor- 
neo. It is not a traveller's story of his wan- 
derings among a strange people, nor a scien- 
tific student's record of observed facts, but a 
skilful combination of both story and record. 
His object is simply to describe the native, 
his appearance, home, occupations, amuse- 
ments, and, so far as he could learn them, the 
motives for his actions. So we watch, with 
him, from the veranda of the common house, 
the life-current as it flows from morn till 
night. We take part in expeditions, both for 
making war and for peace, and join in the 
elaborate ceremonials and feastings at the 
naming of a boy. Seated before the fire at 
evening we listen to the rude music and song 
and watch the dance, or hear some chief tell 
of his education as a head-hunter and explaij) 
and defend his superstitions. Here, too, we 
are told the meaning of the tattoo-marks on 
the body, the feathers on the shield, the carv- 
ings on the house-posts, the flight of birds, 
and other omens essential to the success of 
a tribe's undertakings. Nearly every im- 
portant event in the native's life, including 
sickness, death, and burial, but not marriage, 
is more or less fully treated. Incidents per- 



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sonal to the author are introduced, and, 
though always subsidiary to the main theme, 
greatly heighten the lifelikeness of the scenes 
pictured. But what contributes most to the 
charm of the narrative, possibly, is the genu- 
ine attachment of the author for this forest- 
folk. The Kayans and Kenyahs, who seemed 
at first to be merely uncouth savages, came to 
be regarded at the end of a twelvemonth's 
residence among them as "kind-hearted, de- 
voted friends." Naturally, the attachment was 
mutual ; and to the resultant vmrestrained, 
free intercourse between host and guest we 
owe some of the most interesting and impor- 
tant passages of the book. We should not 
omit to mention, however, that the reader's 
enjoyment is enhanced by the author's literary 
skill and quiet humor, a direct inheritance. 
(Lippincott. $7.50 net.) A''. Y. Eve. Post. 



Moth and Rust. 

We have sometimes approached Miss Chol- 
mondeley's work with a certain uneasiness, 
the fear that our own idea of the author's 
staying power might prove to be exaggerated. 
"Moth and Rust" disposes of that fear. The 
three stories which the volume contains cer- 
tainly fall . in no way short of the author's 
best previous work ; in some respects they 
reach a higher level. Emotionally, the tone 
is largely Miss Cholmondeley's old tone we 
could not have wished to see that altered 
but in two of the stories at any rate it seems 
to have gathered both depth and restraint. 
In construction each story is excellent. We 
are not sure that "Moth and Rust" is not 
overburdened with plot, but that is not be- 
cause the plot is not well designed; it is be- 



cause we find it a little too mechanical for a 
story whose basic interest is soundly human. 

Of the two shorter stories in the volume, 
"Geoffrey's Wife" is the stronger in treat- 
ment and idea; indeed, we have not read for 
some time anything quite so terrible in its 
realism. And it is a perfectly legitimate 
realism ; the episode might have happened 
to any man and woman in such circumstances. 
We do not say to ourselves this is a clever 
piece of invention. We can see the surge of 
the crowd, the growing terror, the hideous 
climax. The simplicity of the means em- 
ployed, the sureness of the handling, show 
real art. (Dodd. $1.50.) Academy and 
Literature. 



The Life and Letters of James Martineau. 

Probably no collection of sermons has im- 
parted more of spiritual uplift to a wide cir- 
cle of readers than the two volumes of Dr. 
Martineau's "Endeavors after a Christian 
Life." Their entire freedom from doctrinal 
discussion, and their moving appeal to our 
common religious nature and aspirations, 
render them fit reading for all. Their poetic 
beauty of diction makes each chapter a "lyric 
utterance," which was the author's ideal of 
what a sermon should be. Like Channing 
and like Theodore Parker, with whom he 
is naturally associated as one of the three 
leaders of liberal religious thought in the 
nineteenth century, Martineau was a vehe- 
ment protestant against everything that savors 
of arbitrary authority in religion. 

We have long had on our bookshelves 
ample biographies of Channing and Parker. 
To them is now added a full and painstak- 




From "fictional Kauibles in and about Boston' ' Copyright, 1903, by McClure, Phillips & C. 

JOHNSTON MEMORIAL GATE AND HARVARD HALL. 



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From " fictional Ram Dies in and about Boston " Copyrijrht, 1902, by McOlure, Phillips & Co. 

THE LIBRARY. 



in^- life of Martineau, who, it is curious to 
recall, was born five years before Parker and 
only twenty-five after Channing. Both Dr. 
Drummond and Professor Upton, had long 
been associated with Martineau as officers of 
Manchester College, and no men better fitted 
for the preparation of his biography could 
have been found. The "Life and Letters" 
occupy the first volume and half of the sec- 
ond; the "Survey of his Philosophical Work" 
is crowded into the remaining half-volume. 

It was in his work as professor of mental 
and moral philosophy that he first drew the 
attention of the learned world to his depth 
and power of thought. Though public recog- 
nition of his extraordinary abilities came late 
in life, it came at last in full measure. 
America honored herself by being the first 
to bestow on him an honorary degree. 
(Dodd, Mead. 2 v. $8 net.) P^rcy F. 
Bicknell, in The Dial. 



Fictional Rambles in and about Boston. 

Frances Weston Carruth has displayed 
a rare amount of research and patience in the 
compilation of her "Fictional Rambles in and 
about Boston," for she has followed nearly 
every character of modern fiction whose paths 
lead along the road to Boston, even in cases 
v/here the hero or heroine in question simply 
strolled across the Common or rested be- 
neath the shadow of the Shaw monument. 

To Bostonians this book should be a source 
of interest and civic pride. There is men- 
tioned for him who would locate exactly his 
characters in fiction every detail of interest 
relating to Boston and Bostonians. 

The chief charm of Miss Carruth's book 
lies, by far, in those few selections from old 



fjivorites Dr. Holmes, Hawthorne, Henry 
James, Mr. Howells which recall, not so 
much any particular Boston spots, but which 
refresh, with bits of quotations, one's failing 
memory of stories read long ago, and in these 
busy days of new books almost forgotten. 




From " Fictional Rambles in ami about Boston," 
Copyright, 1902, by McClure, Phillips & Co. 

THE HOME OF PAUL REVERE. 

But it is the old part of Boston that is 
most replete with fictional legend and lore; 
about the wharves cluster many of Cooper's 
plots, and since 1720 there has been standing 
on Long Wharf the Salt House, of literary 
interest as being the place where Hawthorne 
wrote "The Scarlet Letter." 

Of modern fictitious characters, Miss Car- 
ruth has allowed few to escape. Besides her 
imaginary men and women, however, she has 
traced to their haunts a number of our favor- 
ito authors, and throughout its pages the 
book is dotted with illustrations of the places 
v^hich are mentioned. (McClure, Phillips. 
%2 net.) .V. Y. Times Sat. Rev. 



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Unknown Mexico. 

In the first place, we will call the attention 
of our readers to the first limiting word in the 
title of the book. It may seem strange that 
there should remain in these days any portion 
of Mexico that could deserve the name of 
"unknown" ; yet it is so, and the word ap- 
plies to Mexicans themselves almost as much 
as to Americans of the North. There are 
parts of Mexico where a white face is almost 
unknown, where the descendants of the tribes 
found by Cortez and his conquistadores live 
in almost aboriginal simplicity ; and it is of 
some of these parts, inhabited by the Tara- 
humares and Huichols, that Mr. Lumholtz 
sets himself to tell us. Thus the book is 
almost entirely a description of primitive peo- 
ples, and accounts of such peoples are always 
interesting, providing that those accounts are 
written by one who has the necessary knowl- 
edge and scholarship to perceive and present 
the salient points of the older and perhaps 
lesser civilizations. These qualities are pos- 
sessed to the full by Mr. Lumholtz. He is a 
most skilful and learned ethnologist, and he 
possesses the literary touch which enables 
him to make the best of the knowledge which 
he has gathered in his travels and studies. 

The book before us is the outcome of five 
years not all consecutive, but between 1890 
and 1898 of field research among the natives 
of Northwestern Mexico. The material was 




collected, as we are told in the preface to the 
hook, with a view to shedding light upon the 
relations between the ancient culture of the 
Valley of Mexico and the Pueblo Indians in 
the southwest of the United States; to give 
an insight into the ethnical status of the Mexi- 
can Indians now and at the time of the con- 
quest ; and to illuminate certain phases in the 
development of the human race. All that he 
tells us is of the utmost interest, almost alike 
to the antiquarian, the ethnologist and the 
general reader of scholarly tastes. The ac- 
counts of the primitive peoples among whom 
Mr. Lumholtz spent so much time are full 
of suggestion as well as of fact. We learn 
of the sports, the amusements, the customs, 
the home life, the creeds, the superstitions, 
the folklore, the most intimate and the most 
customary conditions of existence among these 
peoples, the remnants of races that stretch 
back in unbroken history of semi-civilization 
to times before our own civilization was 
dreamed of. It would be indeed difficult to 
exaggerate the importance of the work from 
an ethnological, antiquarian or human stand- 
point, while, considered merely as a work of 
travel, it is of an interest and indeed fasci- 
nation unsurpassed by any similar work of 
which we have knowledge as among late pub- 
lications. (Scribner. 2 v. $12 net.) Balti- 
more Stin. 



From '* Unknown Mexico. V Copyright, 1902, by Charles Scribner's Sons. 
THE DANCER. 



Love With Honour. 

This is a very hopeful second work by the 
author of that puffed and overlauded book 
"The Column." One has real pleasure in say- 
ing that the present volume marks a distinct 
advance in the author's mastery of his craft. 
"Love with Honour" is more than cleverish. 
It shows a certain amount of true insight into 
human nature; its lucidity proves a suc- 
cessful endeavor to overcome and lay 'aside 
mannerisms in favor of studiously fashioned 
plain prose. The measure of success which 
his first book brought to Mr. Marriott has 
also left its mark upon the present work, in 
the shape of a distinct respect for the con- 
ventions and a desire to interest the average 
mind. Particularly is this so in the con- 
clusion of the story. But there is nothiiig 
banal about it; only well, there are justi- 
fiable concessions. We think the author will 
understand and admit that, as we are sure he 
well may without confusion. There are no 
lay figures, there is no sentimental padding, 
and much of the dialogue is fresh and natural, 
as well as merely clever. And there are 
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plain man and woman of the world, for whom, 
when all is said, novels ^re, or should be, 
intended. There is a country woman in this 
book named Mrs. Winscombe, and she has a 
brother called Joseph Ainger. Both are well- 



A Daughter of Raasay. 

In "A Daughter of Raasay" another Col- 
orado writer has made his debut as a nove- 
list. In brilliant dialogue, dramatic plot, and 
a very pretty style, there is much to com- 



conceived and ably drawn characters. Her mend in the book. Perhaps the most charm- 




From "A Daujjhter of K 



Copyright, 190-2, by Frederick A. Stokes C 



passion is the rearing of children work- 
^0'j?e children : his Che is a cabinet-maker) 
the study of beautiful colors. Both are of 
the class referred to by dwellers in country 
houses as "cottagers." There are such peo- 
ple among the English peasantry, and ex- 
tremely interesting the student of character 
finds them. But they are exceedingly rare, 
and that is a fact for Mr. Marriott to 
bear in mind. (Lane. $r.5o.) The Athc- 
nccum. 



ing quality in the tale is its zest. The wine 
of life bubbles in the veins of its character* 
They stand out from the page very much 
alive, and to anybody who likes a story that 
gees with a swift, jaunty swing, this may be 
recommended. 

"A Daughter of Raasay" is a Scotch ro- 
mr nee of the Stuart cause and of the young 
chevalier's attempt to win back the throne 
which his fathers had lost. The hero of the 
story, one Kenneth Montagu, is a charming 



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From "The Heart of \V 



"my god, to die thus !" 



Copyiight, ISOi, by J. F. Taylor Co 



young fellow whose pinfeathers are scarce 
yet grown. He goes to London and plays the 
role of the prodigal son. A certain winsome 
scnmp named Volney, half villain and half 
hero, rooks him of his estate and leaves him 
penniless. Driven desperate, young Montagu 
joins the Jacobites, who are about to throw 
away the scabbard again for the lost cause. 
L: the meantime the boy has succeeded in 
rescuing from Volney's clutches a beautiful 
and charming Highland lassie called Aileen 
MacLeod. Adventure succeeds adventure in 
swift succession. There is much brilliant 
dialogue and clever repartee. The love story 
ic especially interesting, for Aileen is a girl 
pulsing with life, with all a woman's win- 
someness and pride and power of loving. 
The boyish hero, too, is very much alive with 
human virtues and frailties, withal a good 
fighter and an honest gentleman. 

Volney, too, has in him the stuff that 
touches the likabilities. He is a debonair 
scamp, every inch of him. He is veneered 
with the flippancy which the fine gentlemen 
of the period affected, but at bottom he is of 
the stuff of which heroes are made. Alto- 
gether there has been no more stirring novel 
of the historic type than "A Daughter of 
Raasay'' since Weyman started the swords 
going with his "A Gentleman of France." 
(Stokes. $1.50.) Colorado Springs Gazette. 



The Heart of Woman. 

"The Heart of Woman," by Harry 
W. Desmond, is a story laid in New York in 
the early days of the Revolution and pat- 
terned after the ubiquitous historical novel 
V) the extent of containing some real names 
and of being told in the first person by a 
rather prosy person called Alexander Adams, 
who, in this case, is not the hero himself, but 
his fidus Achates. 

New York City was in the possession of 
the British Army, but it is a very peaceful 
and rural picture that is presented by Mr. 
Desmond when two gallant rebels go riding 
along the pleasant country lanes which in 
1776 traversed Manhattan Island, to pay a 
viit to Miss Catrina Rutherford at the 
Heathcote mansion in Greenwich Village, the 
present environs of Fourteenth Street, then 
the summer resort of the Colonial grandees. 
There is a warship in the bay, but nothing 
more warlike than a pleasant interview took 
place on it in this story and even what prom- 
ised to be a pretty quarrel between rebels and 
Tories in a Broadway taproom ends with lit- 
tle damage done except to tempers. At one 
pcmt in the story there is a flight through the 
forest from Albany to the fort at Crown 
Point, and at another the hero is confined on 
one of the prison ships in New York harbor, 
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harrowing details are greatly neglected by 
the author, thus showing that he is entirely 
dtvoid of the sensational instincts that form 
thfi sine qua non of success in the opinion of 
many writers of up-to-date historical novels. 

Mr. Desmond's plot hinges on his hero's 
indecision in affairs of the heart and his fail- 
ure to find out which of two admirable wom- 
en he really loves until he is irrevocably mar- 
ried to the wrong one. It is 
a somewhat trying test of de- 
votion for a wife to be told 
point-blank that her husband 
loves another, and yet loves 
herself as he loved her at first, 
and wishes her to help him to 
remain loyal, but that is the 
situation which is imposed upon 
poor Helen Tennant, and out 
of which she comes with flying 
colors. Catrina is not far be- 
hind her in stoutness of heart. 
Whether Mr. Desmond's theory 
as to "the heart of woman" 
would work out satisfactorily 
in real life is a question a 
rather doubtful question, con- 
sidering the fact that all 
women are inclined to be more 
or less human and unreason- 
able where their affections are 
concerned. It would be hardly 
safe for any man to follow 
Mr. Ralph Tennant's example 
in unqualified candor as to his 
feelings. (J. F. Taylor. $1.50.) 
N. Y. Times Sat. Rev. 



Had the author, in company with Mr. Alt- 
sheler of "My Captive" fame, Mr. Sears of 
"None but the Brave ," and countless others, 
met together in their club and made a wager 
as to which should write a piece of American 
Revolutionary romance that should be at once 
the least historical and the least novel, they 
could hardly have produced a more striking 
result than is found in this year's output of 



The Master of Appleby. 

Mr. Francis Lynde's new 
historical fiction, "The Master 
of Appleby," is described as "a 
novel tale concerning itself in 
part with the great struggle in 
the two Carolinas, but chiefly 
with the adventures therein of 
two gentlemen who loved one 
and the same lady." The defi- 
nition may stand. Had it been 
called the adventures of two or 
three or a dozen industrious 
gentlemen who love the same 
literary field it would not have been wide of 
the mark. Mr. Lynde and his "Master," the 
latter in pictures by T. de Thulstrup, have 
a familiar aspect, for all the crimson cover, 
that makes this volume a thing apart and a 
joy for local color. 




From " The Master of Appleby.' 



Copyright, 1902, by Bowen-Merrill Co. 



BUT NOW I WAS FRONTING DEATH AND COULD BE 
AS FIRM AS SHE. 



novel history. Our new friends, Capt. Ireton 
and Richard Jennifer, are fighting the same 
old battles. Their duels in every second 
chapter ring with the body blows of hard 
words and the clash of cast metal type. 
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stewardship of the Appleby Hundred was 
distinctly on the robber baron order, is at 
least a real heroine. 

"The Master of Appleby" is a vigorous nar- 
rative. For those who read much, by reason 
of insomnia or railroad travel, it will afford 
the accustomed relief of a pastime. It is 
handsomely and legibly printed. Its back- 
ground of Colonial war is never permitted to 
impede the story. (Bowen-Merrill. $1.50.) 
N. Y. Eve. Sun. 



Personal Reminiscences of Prince Bismarck. 

We confess to a certain astonishment at 
finding Mr. Whitman's book about Bismarck 
simply admirable one of the most interest- 
ing documents of our time. It is gossip, but 
it is gossip of the best description ; and al- 
though Mr. Whitman never, we think, knew 
Bismarck until after his fall, his view of him 
differs in no respect from that of the writer 
of the present notice, who never saw the 
prince after he ceased to be German Chancel- 
lor. There is not a trace of that change 
which the pamphleteers and journalists of the 
empire, and in some degree of tlTe whole 
world, tried to fasten upon Bismarck after 
his decline from power. The picture is a 
pleasant one, revealing all the striking family 
affection and courtesy to friends and the far- 
off' historic judgment of men and things with 
which we were familiar, but revealing them 
with a dignity and simplicity which will 
charm not only Prince Bismarck's friends, 
but also all throughout the world who value 
the greatness of its great men. 

The conversations are consistent with each 
other, and they form, therefore, a perfect 
whole. To take an example from a trifle, 
in one of the early interviews Bismarck com- 
plains that he has had bad nights for many 
years, that all through his tenure of the 
Chancellorship the slightest worries assumed 
vast proportions at night, when he would lie 
awake for hours, and would get up and make 
notes, finding, however, invariably in the 
morning that these notes were useless. In 
one of the latest conversations he returns 
to the same subject, and, being told by an 
Englishman present what any such English- 
man was sure to tell him, namely, that Glad- 
stone never had a sleepless night, the prince 
replied that he did not envy our statesman, 
as the fact did not reflect credit upon his 
heart, Another visitor said that at all events 
Gladstone possessed principles. At this Bis- 
marck laughed, and said that when you want 
to have your own way it is very convenient 



to have principles which can be made to fit 
in with and to justify your conduct. He had 
always been content to feel that his own con- 
duct must be in accordance with what his 
instincts told him was his duty, and had he 
attempted to regulate his action by any other 
principle he would have been a prey to 
sophistry. 

Some of the conversations date from the 
end of Prince Bismarck's life, and he dis- 
cussed with Mr. Whitman the Emperor's 
telegram to President Kruger and the Jame- 
son raid. He thought that our Government 
was open to the charge of complicity, or, at 
least, of being afraid of the originator of the 
raid in other words, Mr. Rhodes. Of the 
raid itself he said that, while desperate cour- 
age might have done much to redeem such 
an odious crime, he was amazed at those who 
had entered upon it deliberately being content 
to surrender at the first brush. (Appleton. 
$1 net.) The Athenaeum. 



The Spirit of the Ghetto. 

Commenting on Hutchins Hapgood's new 
book, "The Spirit of the Ghetto," Zangwill 
writes : 

"The book will be a revelation to the Chris- 
tian, and even to the modern Jew, neither of 
whom understands how complete and charac- 
teristic a life pulsates in the Ghetto, how 
it tingles with every kind of activity intel- 
lectual, political and dramatic. The mere bi- 
ographic and historical sketches with which 
the book teems make it a unique storehouse 
of original information nowhere else acces- 
sible, but the book is more than this. It is 
a criticism of life, and moreover a criticism 
tending to sweetness and light. For it is 
the work of no prejudiced Jew but of an out- 
sider of culture, able to interpret what he 
sees, to understand its ratios and finally to 
divine the deep antique springs of idealism 
that transfuse the Ghetto with a poetry that 
the American life often loses. The Ghetto 
must pass indeed into the larger life, and 
Jewish life disappear except in name unless 
revitalized by Zionism but the moment of 
transition is profoundly interesting, and this 
moment Mr. Hapgood has caught with all its 
strong lights and shadows. The book de- 
strves the success due to novelty and truth, 
vonveyed with charm." 

Aside from its literary value the book is 
of unusual interest pictorially since Jacob 
Epstein has, in numerous drawings, exactly 
reproduced the distinctive types and scenes 
of the Ghetto. (Funk & Wagnalls. $1.35 net.) 



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The Papal Monarchy. 

That Dr. Barry should have been chosen 
tJ do the "Catholic Europe"' chapter in Lord 
Acton's "Cambridge Modern History" is a 
testimony to his fitness for the part assigned 
him in the Story of the Nations Series that 
could hardly be improved, but the book that he 
has written does, nevertheless, improve upon 
it. Written by a Roman Catholic dignitary and 
scholar, it is done with as much frankness 
and fairness as it could have been by any 



ner in which the papal monarchy came to be 
established. In his introductory chapters Dr. 
Barry clearly indicates the steps by which 
the Roman Bishops reached their peculiar 
dominance. We are permitted to believe that 
there would never have been any papal mon- 
archy if the Roman Empire had not deserted 
Rome for Constantinople as its imperial seat. 
Yet what made for the papal monarchy was 
not so much that the Popes were left very 
much to themselves in Italy as that they 




From " The Papal Monarchy." 

THE PAPAL PALACE AND BR OKEN BRIDGE OF AVIGNON. 



G. P. Putnam's Sons. 



Protestant. Dr. Barry enjoys the advantage 
of being a trained and effective man of let- 
ters, and consequently he brings to the pres- 
entation of his story no merely clerical for- 
mality, but the freedom of a vigorous and 
lively pen. He is not only master of his ma- 
terial, but his book is exceedingly well writ- 
ten. His object is to inquire how the Ponti- 
I'ex Maximus, heir of old Rome, and now its 
Chistian Bishop, dealt with the peoples who 
invaded the Western Empire, and how they 
dealt with him. The limits of his treatment 
are considerably extended beyond the prom- 
ise of the title-page, (590-1303,) there being 
two introductory chapters of great interest 
and importance, leading up to the time of 
Gregory the Great and making plain the man- 



made splendid use of their opportunity in the 
teeth of the barbaric hordes. If Dr. Barry 
does simple justice to the Popes who scan- 
cl&lized their office, he does no less to such 
Popes as Leo the Great and Gregory the 
G:eat. We are well assured that it was not 
by any luck or accident that the papal mon- 
archy was established, but in virtue of the 
service rendered by the Popes to Italy and 
Evrope in a time of sorest need. 

The book as a whole is a great story ad- 
mirably told; and it is a consoling one, for, 
though we have not yet attained, neither are 
already perfect, the world is getting on. The 
former times were not better than these. "E 
pur si muove !" (Putnam. $1.35 net.) 
John W. Chadwick, in N. Y. Times Sat. Rep. 



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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. 

After years of waiting, the "Men of Let- 
ters" series at last has a life of Longfellow, 
a life which might very appropriately have 
stood at its beginning, since Longfellow was 
certainly the most widely famous of the first 
distinguished group of American writers, and 
the most exclusively a man of letters. The 
author. Colonel T. W. Higginson, cites in 
his preface three sources of new material 
upon which he has drawn. The manuscript 
correspondence of Mary Potter Longfellow, 
the poet's first wife, covers the years of his 
early married life and his first trip to Europe. 
Again, the manuscript volumes of "Harvard 
College Papers" have furnished matter bear- 
ing upon Longfellow's relations with the 
Harvard authorities during his professor- 
ship. Finally, a few extracts from some of 
his earlier writings, not hitherto brought 
together, are thrown in as early evidence of 
"his life-long desire to employ American ma- 
terial and to help the creation of a native 
literature." 

Colonel Higginson fails to establish his 
claim for a special "Americanism" in the 
quality of Longfellow's work, and no one need 
regret the failure. A bumptious determina- 
tion to be different is no more desirable than 
the disposition to be a servile follower, and 
Longfellow fell into neither of these pitfalls. 
He threw his soul no more heartily into his 
American themes than into "The Golden 



Legend." for instance, and discreet Americans 
will not be sorry that he chose the latter 
theme at a time when his mind was actually 
balancing between that and a drama on Cot- 
ton Mather. 

On the whole, Colonel Higginson's new ma- 
terial is hardly so important a feature of his 
book as he seems to suppose. The fact that 
he has written it will be a better passport to 
the favor of most readers, for we never fail 
to get something richly worthy of our at- 
tention when one of the fast disappearing 
inner circle of the older New England writ- 
ers consents to talk of any of the others. 
(Houghton, Mifflin, $1.10 net.) The Critic. 



The Last Days of Pekin. 

Pierre Loti does not bother himself about 
pclitical or military affairs in China, naval 
officer though he is ; it is as a man of letters 
arul an artist that he views this invasion of 
the Orient by the occidental barbarians. He 
has given an unrivalled picture of the city as 
h^ found it after its capture, under the heel 
ni^ the invader, dust and destruction every- 
where, the temples polluted and the palaces 
sacked. Intensely proud of the behavior of 
the French troops as he saw them, with now 
and then an oblique glance at those of other 
nationalities unnamed, generously sympa- 
thetic with the Chinese, in their helplessness 
and terror, and deeply moved by the great 
age and dim grandeur of the palaces and 




From "The Last Days of Pekin." 



Copyright, 1902, by Little, Brown & Co. 



MARBLE BRIDGE OVER MOAT BEFORE SOUTHERN GATE OF THE FORBIDDEN CITY. 



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shrines which he visited, he has given a faith- 
f.il and impressive record of what he saw and 
felt during his stay in Pekin. In the short 
space of time which he had at his disposal 
for his operations he has arrived at an un- 
derstanding of the Chinese national character 
that is unique and probably substantially cor- 
rect. At any rate, he has given his readers 
an intelligible account of his own feelings. 
(Little, Brown. $1.75 net.) Public Opinion. 



The Diary of a Saint. 

"The Diary of a Saint"' is a wonderfully 
clever piece of fiction, and strong in its con- 
trasts. If it had been transplanted, char- 
acter and scenes, to some village in France 
or Spain, the change, we fancy, would have 
been better understandable than to have 
Tuskamuck so near at home. 

In Ruth Privet the author has newly drawn 
a perfect saint, though she is a young woman 
of free opinion as to creeds. She is well-to- 
do, highly educated, and is respected. She 
adores the memories of her dead father and 
mother. Ruth's maternal instinct, derived 
from her mother, is intensified. Her phil- 
osophy of life she gets from her father. All 
through the story the sage precepts of that 
departed father are repeated, and many of 
them are worthy of quotation. Ruth holds 
in dislike the hard tenets of religion in vogue 
in Tuskamuck, and the belief in general and 
universal damnation. 

Mr. Arlo Bates presents many personages 
in "The Diary of a Saint." There are aristo- 
crats in the village, and their ways and man- 
ners are described. Then, too, in or near 
Tuskamuck there are those who are of the 
mud, not the honest mud of a rain swept 
road, but the vile muck of the pigsty, an^ 
the author lays much stress on this unfor- 
tunate lowest layer of impurity. Sometimes 
you wonder how Ruth could have loved such 
a cad as George Weston, or such a headstrong, 
impetuous man as was Tom Webbe, and how 
rapidly her affections could pass from one to 
the other. Was it pity that went hand in 
hand with her love? 

The best compliment we can pay Mr. Arlo 
Bates is to insist that his "The Diary of a 
Saint" will stand a double reading. In his 
own way, a peculiar way, the author teaches 
charity, mercy, and love, and it makes no 
matter whence these man and woman saving 
traits are derived. (Houghton, Mifflin. 
$1.50.) N. Y. Times Sat. Revietv. 



Andrew Carnegie, the Man and His Work. 

Andrew Carnegie fills so large a space in 
the public eye that anything and everything 
concerning him takes on wide interest. Much 
that is written is apochryphal ; so a life that is 
honest and authoritative, without being direct- 
ly inspired by Mr. Carnegie, will meet a genu- 
ine need. Such a work is Barnard Alderson's 
"Andrew Carnegie," which is a character 
sketch of his life. In this Mr. Alderson has 
had the assistance of the men who have known 
Mr. Carnegie best, and who, reailizing that 
this work vvas to be one in which the public 
would have the fullest confidence, have given 
it many novel bits of news. 

No work of fiction, telling of the rise to 
fortune of its young hero, could be half as 
interesting as this sketch of Mr. Carnegie's 
career. It tells of his youthful days in Scot- 
land ; his first place in America as a bobbin 
boy at one dollar and twenty cents a week; 
how he rnastered telegraphy and became the 
secretary to Thomas A. Scott, and all the 
stepping stones to the career that was to be- 
come the model for the youth of the world. 

This life does not deal simply with Mr. 
Carnegie as an amasser of wealth. His at- 
titude toward labor is shown; his gospel of 
wealth is studied and made clear by his own 
life; his benefactions are touched upon, but 
without any taint of flaunting; his views on 
political matters receive consideration, and 
there is a pleasant tribute to his skill as a 
writer. 

Altogether the book is one which will have 
a strong and helpful effect. It will not be 
possible for every boy to reach the wealth 
and position that Mr. Carnegie has won, but 
it will show that there is always betterment 
in store for the one who is honest and faith- 
ful ; who does not count the hours he works ; 
who makes it his business so to master the 
details of his profession that he is indispensa- 
ble in it; who is pure in thought and deed. 
(Doubleday, Page. $1.40 net). Cleveland 
Leader. 



The Disentanglers. 

Mr. Lang has only himself to blame if, in 
a good many quarters, he is regarded less as 
the brilliant man of letters that he unques- 
tionably is than as a kind of phenomenon, a 
source from which almost anything is to be 
expected. When he is not publishing some 
study in anthropology he is translating Greek 
poetry; when he is not clearing up an his- 



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torical mystery he is editing a book of fairy 
tales. When he is not producing an essay, 
or a book review, or a group of paragraphs 
on any and every subject under the sun, he 
is collaborating with Mr. Haggard or Mr. 
Mason on a novel, or he is inventing a series 
of short tales, all his own, like that which 
he gives us in "The Disentanglers." What- 
ever this versatile author does is sure to be 
interesting, and his latest book is no excep- 
tion to the rule. "The Disentanglers" is 
original in conception and prodigiously clever 
in treatment. The "great idea" of the two 
impoverished young Englishmen to whom we 
are introduced in the first chapter is to or- 
ganize a system of disengaging or disen- 
tangling those youths and maidens who con- 
template marriages against which family op- 
position is sure to be brought. This, at all 
events, is the point from which they start, 
but the clients answering the judicious ad- 
vertisement in which they announce their 
campaign of diplomacy involve them in all 
manner of adventures. Mr. Lang is fertile 
in the contriving of unconventional situa- 
tions. Sometimes he goes in for pure com- 
edy, as in the tale of the much-engaged heir- 
ess and her three curates. Sometimes he is 
inimitably satirical, and sometimes tragic. 
Sometimes he makes brilliant use of such 
modern properties as wireless telegraphy and 
the submarine boat. Always his character- 
istic humor is playing like summer lightning 
around the events of his stories, always his 
touch is light and skilful. Mr. Lang, with 
all his infinite variety, has never, we suppose, 
even dreamed of rivalling the "boomster" in 
modern fiction. But if this amusing book, as 
amusing in substance as it is accomplished in 
style, does not win a wider popularity than 
anything of Mr. Lang's has hitherto enjoyed, 
we shall be very much surprised. (Long- 
mans. $1.50.) A''. Y. Tribune. 



The Reign of Queen Anne. 

"An age illustrious in war, in politics, in 
literature, and in art." So Mr. Justin Mc- 
Carthy describes the period of English history 
covered by these two volumes. It is in deal- 
ing with such a momentous and variegated 
epoch as that of Queen Anne's reign that Mr. 
McCarthy's methods and qualifications as a 
historian gain their best opportunities. His 
calm outlook, his ethical standpoint, his pic- 
turesque, descriptive style, his penchant and 
capacity for limning, in a few deft sentences, 
the outstanding personages in his story, his 
keen perception of the significance of the 



undercurrents and backwaters of national 
life, and his unquestionable genius in weaving 
into a flowing and coherent narrative the 
confusing movements of thought and action 
have free play in this interesting period. 
The place of Queen Anne's reign in the story 
of the development of the English nation is 
conceded by all intelligent men and women. 
It was a period of internal and external strug- 
gle, of national regeneration. As Mr. Mc- 
Carthy says, it was an age which became a 
turning-point not only in the history of Eng- 
land but in the history of Europe. 

For his sketch of the great European strug- 
gle which marks Queen Anne's reign Mr. 
McCarthy prepares his readers by a sweep- 
ing survey of the social, political, and mon- 
archical condition of Europe on the eve of the 
great war. No part of this history is more 
carefully and brilliantly written than these 
preliminary chapters, which place the reader 
in the true perspective and amid the very 
atmosphere of the times. The story of the 
struggles on the Continental battlefields is in- 
terwoven into the narrative of the political 
and social movements at home a plan ad- 
mittedly essential as the vicissitudes of the 
war abroad affected so directly the course of 
political events at home. 

In his closing resume of the reign, Mr. 
McCarthy declares that the age of Queen 
Anne began a distinctly new chapter in the 
history of England's political and social life, 
and he insists that the name Queen Anne 
though her influence was "passive and in- 
considerable" will pass into history with 
those of Queen Elizabeth and Queen Vic- 
toria. (Harper. 2 v. $4 net.) Literary 
World. 



The Red House. 

Mrs. Bland's new novel, "The Red House," 
is bright with the sunshine of a happy tem- 
perament, moved by the contemplation of a 
young man and his wife imagined as settling 
themselves in a new home and experiencing, 
in alternate strata, so to say, the joys of sen- 
timent and the woes of practical housekeep- 
ing. The hero and his Chloe wake up in 
their modest establishment to learn that an 
obliging uncle has left them the house which 
gives this book its title, and 100 a year 
with which to make themselves comfortable 
in its old-fashioned rooms. What they enjoy 
and what they suffer when they take posses- 
sion Mrs. Bland pictures in vivid fashion, 
lending to her narrative vivacity and humor. 
(Harper. $1.50.) A''. F. Tribune. 



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51 



t Itteartj "Mm. 

i fftUtttt iBttontfjlj IKcbifln of ffiurrtnt HCttraturr. 
EDITED Jjy A. H. LEYPOLDT. 



FEBRUARY, 1903. 



BOOKS, BOOKS, BOOKS ! 
According to the official organ of the book- 
trade 5485 new books appeared in the United 
States during the current year and 2348 books 
already known to the world were brought 
out in new editions, many of them with val- 
ue ble editor's material vouched for by some 
of the best-known scholars of their special 
fields. We take the following table from the 
Fublishers' Weekly of January 31, in which 
also appears a description of the most im- 
portant books included imder every heading: 



Classes. 



Fiction 

Law 

Theolog-y and Religion 

Education 

Literature and Collected Works 

Juvenile 

Poetry and Drama 

Biography, Correspondence 

Physical and Mathematical Science. . 

Description, Geography, Travel 

History 

Medicine, Hygiene 

Political and Social Science 

Fine Arts : 11. Gift Books 

Useful Arts 

Philosophy 

Works of Reference 

Domestic and Rural 

Sports and Amusements 

Humor and Satire 

Totals 



1901. 



V O 



914 
480 
476 

529 
297 

434 
274 
340 
250 

202 
264 
186 
244 

1 60 
96 
30 

57 
64 
42 

5496 
2645 



8141 



^5 



1320 

60 

57 

31 

423 

161 

174 



2645 



DO f-S 



475 
599 
431 
208 
420 
250 
367 
293 
272 
247 
207 
239 
173 
109 

74 
96 
86 
SI 
50 

5485 
2348 



7833 



959 
165 
40 
148 
335 
94 
149 
18 
63 
31 
54 
92 
32 
44 
56 
29 
15 



2348 



Who can hope to put such vast array 
in any kind of perspective in the limits of 
a few columns ? It is safe to state that noth- 
ing stands out beyond all else as a great orig- 
ii-al production of 1902. But it is becoming 
more and more difficult to reach "the top," 
en which there is always room. General edu- 
cation, technique in style, facts that must pass 
muster no matter how ably stated, life, in- 
terest, cleverness, these are taken for granted 
in every writer. The standard of the average 
has been so raised that it becomes more and 
n-iore rare to find the culture, scholarship 
and practiced technique of the literary ar- 
ti:an inspired by creative genius, that un- 
ki.own something that since the beginning 



has said: "Let there be light"! It must also 
be remembered that our great newspapers 
and magazines absorb more and more the 
ki owledge, the time and the special talents 
oi our most practiced writers. And the year 
just ended, with its closing of the great war 
i'l South Africa, the coronation of a king 
who rules over 11,137,213 square miles and 
o\er 396,105,693 fellow-men, eruptions of 
volcanoes on two continents, unparalleled in 
history, a coal strike that brought home to 
an entire nation the dangers of "poverty or 
riches," and political conditions making a re- 
vision of the Constitution of the United 
States a "burning question," furnished ma- 
terial for much brilliant editorial work. 

The publishers all report a most prosper- 
ous year, and one and all call it "a fiction 
year." Last month we gave the "great sellers" 
in this department. The personal element, 
of course, has entered largely into the selec- 
tion of the twenty-five novels now pointed 
out as worthy of a reading. It is gratifying 
to note how many of the heroines of these 
books have that "soothing, unspeakable charm 
of gentle womanhood! which supersedes all 
acquisitions, all accomplishments." Our best- 
known novelists did nothing distinctive. 
Henry James carried his peculiarities to a 
point where he became almost unintelligibk, 
and Howells and Crawford can only be cred- 
ited with succes d' estime. 

In choosing the twenty-five books of gen- 
eral literature the point of view has been the 
interest of the subject to American readers 
?nd the valuable information the list covers. 
Biographical literature was good, and it is of 
interest to find Thomas Higginson's "Life of 
Whittier" taking a place in the English Men 
of Letters Series. The year brought seven 
new editions of Shakespeare and thirteen 
be oks about Shakespeare, and many able ar- 
ticles in magazines regarding Mrs. Gallup's 
amazing "Bi-literal Cipher of Sir Francis 
Bacon." There were four editions of Poe, 
of which the Virginia edition and the Book- 
lovers' Arnheim edition are decided additions 
for collectors on Edgar Allan Poe. A Milton 
Concordance appeared in England which will 
naturally soon reach us. This is a literary 
undertaking of great moment. Some excel- 
lent literary essays were published, and in 
this line may be mentioned the most original 
book that fell into our hands. "The Lost 
Art of Reading," by Gerald Stanley Lee," 
shows individuality and the "personal equa- 
tion" so sadly lacking in much of the most 
meritorious work. 



THE LITERARY NEWS. 



{February, 1903 



TWENTY-FIVE NOVELS OF MERIT. 

Atherton, Gertrude. The conqueror. $1.50. 

Macrnillan. 
A "dramatized biography" re-creating a liv- 
ing man and living times. Alexander Ham- 
ilton, as man and great leader in the shaping 
of the United States, is brought before the 
reader with the technical skill of the author. 

Banks, Nancy H. Oldfield. $1.50. Macrnillan. 
A triumph almost as great in its way as 
"Cranford." A little town in Kentucky fifty 
years ago is the scene. Two maiden sisters 
are additions to the beautiful portraits of fic- 
tion. This story appeals to the truly literary. 

Bates. Arlo. The diary of a saint. $1.50. 

Houghton, M. 
The "saint" is the daughter of an Ameri- 
can judge, who has absorbed from earliest in- 
fancy a reverence for all that is good and 
holy, splendid common sense, and a large- 
minded view of life. With it all she is a lov- 
able, helpful woman. The telling of her 
thoughts shows great literary skill. 

Barrie, James M. The little white bird. 

$1.50. Scribner. 

Adventures in Kensington Gardens. It is 
Maurice Hewlett's favorite story of 1902. 

Craigie, Mrs. Pearl M. T., ["John Oliver 
Hobbes."] Love and the soul hunters. D. 
$1.50. Funk & W agnails. 

The hero is Prince Paul of Urseville Bey- 
lestein, a scion of exiled royalty who spends 
most of his time in "psychological experi- 
m.ents," with every pretty girl he meets. At 
last he hunts a soul whose purity captures his 
own. Mrs. Craigie sometimes touches a 
deeper note than those of the hour. Contem- 
porary Review. 

Dudeney, Mrs. H. Spindle and plough. 

$1.50. Dodd. 

Contrasts the soul-life of a sensitive wom- 
anly girl with the novel-fed romanticism and 
the coarse man-hunting of her pretty, help- 
less baby mother. 

Friedman, I. K. By bread alone. $1.50. 

McClure, P. 
A book of ideals, all unsatisfied and many 
even unexpressed. Hero leaves the ministry 
and works among laborers, preaching by his 
daily life "liberty, fraternity, equality" to 
those who "stone the prophets." 

Glasgow, Ellen. The battleground. $1.50. 

Doubleday, P. 
The scene is Virginia before and during the 
Civil War. The characters are masterly. 
The war half is vivid. The writer writes of 
what she knows, and writes as a literary ar- 
tist always. 

Godfrey, Elizabeth. The winding road. 

$1.50. Holt. 

Thomas Hardy might have written this 
book. A man and a maiden, broken loose 
from, all conventionalities, follow the wind- 
ing road. The end is vague, sad, sketchy, 
wholly artistic. 

Higgins, Elizabeth. Out of the West. 12, 
$1.50. Harper. 

A novel of the Nebraska prairies, telling 



of the strain between farmers and railroads. 
This is a very notable first book. The style 
haii unmistakable literary excellence. 

Huneker, James. Melomaniacs. $1.50. 

Scribner. 
Improvisations by a lover and critic of mu- 
sic, who knows the masters and knows pro- 
fessing musicians, and withers them with 
witty ridicule. Wholly original and written 
ia language that is a delight. 

Jerome, Jerome K. Paul Kelver. $1.50. 

Dodd, M. 

First long novel. Has been compared to 
David Copperfield. The Pall Mall Gazette 
says : "The book is really great. It must ad- 
mit Jerome to the ranks of the great English 
novelists." 
Kipling, Rudyard. Just so stories. $1.50. 

Doubleday, P. 

Must not be lost, although ostensibly for 
children. 

Mason, A. E. W. Four feathers. $1.50. 

Macrnillan. 
Psychology and narrative are well com- 
bined in this study of a hero who feared to 
prove a coward. The descriptions of Sudan 
and of war are very strong. 

Merriman, H : Seton, [pseud, for Hugh S. 

Scott.] The vultures. $1.50. Harper. 

The author belongs to the school of fiction, 
of which F. Marion Crawford is the leader. 
"The Vultures" shows him at his best. Po- 
land is the scene, with the inhabitants of that 
unhappy land once more endeavoring to throw 
off the foreign yoke. The "vultures" are 
diplomatists sent by foreign powers to watch 
on the spot for the approaching crisis. 
Morrison, Arth. The hole in the wall. $1.50. 

McClure, P. 

The author's st^ry of the bad old pictur- 
esque days of the highway when it was a ter- 
ror to the police themselves is studiously 
workmanlike and artistic, and The Athenceum 
thinks its solid merits should add to the au- 
thor's reputation. It is Miss Braddon's favor- 
its book of the year. 
Phillpotts, Eden. The river. $1.50. Stokes. 

This author's stories are genuinely dra- 
matic and have their really big moments. 
Dartmoor and the river Dart are his inspira- 
tion. His whole book is spacious, whole- 
some and artistically simple. 

Stimson, F. J. Jethro Bacon and The weak- 
er sex. $1. Scribner. 
Two studits of the strength of New Eng- 
land character. It is remarkable that so rich 
an effect should be compassed by means of 
so few strokes. Atlantic Monthly, Nov. 8. 

Stuart, Ruth McEnery. Napoleon Jackson: 
the gentleman of the plush rocker. $1.25. 

Century. 
The author's skill as delineator of negro 
character was never more sure than in this 
sketch of the "gentleman" unable to work, be- 
cause he was "marked for rest." 

St John, Christopher. The crimson weed. 

$1.50. Holt. 

The central idea of the novel is the de- 
struction of a fine intelligence by a fixed idea. 



February J 1903] 



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53 



As- literature it is a thing to enjoy. The au- 
thor knows the world and knows books, and 
writes English, terse, dramatic, expressive. 
Rests upon an Italian legend of revenge. Too 
good for popularity. 

Thruston, Lucy M. A girl of Virginia. 

$1.50. Little, B. 

A picture of modern girlhood at its best 
that goes straight to the heart and stays there. 

Van Dyke, Henry J. The blue flower. $1.50. 

Scribner. 
A series of graceful homilies in garb of fic- 
tion. Mr. Van Dyke is the most eloquent of 
living American writers. H. W. Boynton in 
The Atlantic Monthly. 

Wharton, Mrs. Edith. The valley of deci- 
sion. 2 V. $2. Scribner. 
Individual and original in high degree. A 
study of the complexity of life in Italy at the 
close of the eighteenth century. A study of 
character on a large scale and a picture of 
manners based on adequate knowledge. 

Wilson, Harry Lee. The spenders. $1.50. 

Lothrop. 
The theme is the difference in mental and 
moral standards between the men who went 
West to carve out a fortune in mines or cattle 
o: railroads and their grandsons of to-day, so 
heavily handicapped by the money amassed 
under such difficulties. "Uncle Peter" is a 
cieation. 

Wright, Mary T. Aliens. $1.50 net. 

Scribner. 

A bit of the psychology of early married 

life from the woman's side. Incidentally 

brings home the real troubles of the South. 

The characters are living human creatures. 

BOOKS CONTAINING NEW FACTS. 

Acton, Sir John Emerich E. Dalberg. The 
Cambridge modern history ; planned by 
Lord Acton; ed. by A. W. Ward, G. W. 
Prothero, Stanley Leathes. In 12 v. v. i, 
The Renaissance. 8, $3.75 net. Macmillan. 

Brooke. Stopford A. Poetry of Robert 
Browning. $1.50 net. Crowcll. 

Cary, Elisabeth Luther. William Morris, 
poet, craftsman, socialist. Putnam, por. 
8, $3.50 net. Putnam. 

Drummond, James. Life and letters of James 
Martineau and a survey of his philosophical 
work, by C. B. Upton. 2 v. $8 net. 

Dodd, M. 

Federn, Karl. Dante and his time. $2 net. 

McClure, P. 

Gcrdy, J. P. Political history of the United 

States. 4 V. ea., $1.75. Holt. 

Helmolt, Hans F. (and others), eds. History 
of the world. In 8 v. ea., $6. Dodd, M. 

Hensman, H. Cecil Rhodes. $5 net. Harper. 

Hosmer, J. K. Hist, of the Louisiana pur- 
chase. $1.20 net. Appleton. 

Jewish encyclopaedia; edited by I. Singer and 
others. 3 v. now ready, per v., $7. 

Funk & Wagnalls. 



Earned, J. N., ed. Literature of American 
history : bibliographical guide. $6-$9 net. 

Houghton, M. 

Linn, Alex. Story of the Mormons. $4. 

Macmillan. 

Lounsberry, Thomas R. Shakespeare and 
Voltaire. $2 net. Scribner. 

Maclay, Edgar S. Hist, of U. S. navy; re- 
vised and vol. 3 made to cover Spanish- 
American war. 3 V. ea., $3 net. Appleton. 

Murray, T. D., ed. Jeanne d'Arc, Maid of 
Orleans, deliverer of France: being the 
story of her life, her achievements and her 
death, as attested on oath and set forth in 
the original documents. $5 net. 

McClure, P. 

New international encyclopaedia ; edited by D. 
C. Oilman, Harry T. Peck and F. M. Colby. 
17 V. V. 1-3 now ready, subs. Dodd,M. 

Radot, R. V. Life of Pasteur. 2 v. $7.50. 

McClure, P. 

Kidd. Benjamin. Principles of western civili- 
zation. $2 net. Macmillan. 

Newell, F. H. Irrigation in the United States. 

$2 net. Crowell. 

Oman, C. W. C. Hist, of the Peninsular war. 

V. I. $4.75. Oxford Univ. Press. 

Snow, Alpheus H. Administration of de- 
pendencies. $3.50 net. Putnam. 

Stead, W: T. Americanization of the world; 
or, the trend of the twentieth century. $1. 
Horace Markley. 
Stephen, Leslie. George Eliot. 75 c. 

Macmillan. 

Train, Geo. Francis. My life in many states 

and in foreign lands. $1.25 net. Appleton. 

Wilson, Woodrow. History of the American 

people ; il. with portraits, rare prints, etc. 

5 V. $17.50 net; morocco, $30 (for complete 

work). Harper. 

NECROLOGY OF 1902. 

Adams, Prof, Charles Kendall. Born Derby, 
Vt., January 24, 1835. Died Redlands, Cal., 
July 26, 1902. 
President of University of Wisconsin. 

Professor of history and author of many 

works on historical and educational subjects. 

"Christopher Columbus: his life and work," 

was highly appreciated. 

Ay res, Alfred, pseud. See Osmun, T. E. 

Bailey, Philip James. Born Nottingham, 
April 22. 1816. Died Nottingham, Septem- 
ber 6. 1902. 
Chiefly known to fame as the author of 

"Festus." 

Brooks, Elbridge Streeter. Born Lowell, 
Mass., April 14, 1846. Died January 7, 
T902. ' 
See Literary News, 1902, page 48. 

Brown. George Douglas. Born in the West 
of Scotland in 1869. Died in London, 
August 28, 1902. 

Under pseudonym of George Douglas he 
wrote that very remarkable book, "The House 
With the Green Shutters," a story of Scot- 
tish life written in a most realistic vein. He 
is a great loss to original literature. 



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[hebruary, 1903 



Brtler, W. Allen. Born Albany, N. Y., 
February 20, 1825. Died Yonkers, N. Y., 
September 9, 1902. 

For long the greatest living authority on 
maritime law. In his youth wrote a poem on 
"Nothing to Wear," that was very popular. 

Catherwood, Mrs. Mary Hartwell. Born 
Luray, O., December 16, 1847. Died Chi- 
cago, December 26, 1902. 
A novelist of great literary finish. 

De Vere, Aubrey Thomas. Born January 
10, 1814. Died January 21, 1902. 
One of the best known of English minor 

poets. 

Durand. Mme. Alice Celeste, ["Henri Gre- 
ville"]. Born Paris, October 12, 1842. 
Died Paris, May 26, 1902. 
Best-known books : "Dosia," "Gabrielle," 
"Marhoff," "Sylvia's Betrothed," and "Prin- 
cess Ronbine." 

Eggleston, Dr. Edward. Born Vevay, In- 
diana, 1836. Died September 3, 1902, at 
Lake George, N. Y. 

Began life as Methodist preacher. Au- 
thor of "Hoosier Schoolmaster." Became 
historian of ability and was writing a series 
on American history, of which the first vol- 
ume. "Beginners of a Nation," met with au- 
thoritative approval. 

English, Dr. Thomas Dunn. Born Phila- 
delphia, June 20, 1819. Died, Newark, N. 
J., April I. 1902. 
Best known as author of "Ben Bolt," to 

which attention was once more called by Du 

Maurier's "Trilby." 

Ford, Paul Leicester. Born Brooklyn, N. Y., 

1865. Died May 9, 1902. 

Acknowledged authority on American his- 
tory. Author of "The Honorable Peter Stirl- 
ing" and "Janice Meredith." 

Godkin, Edwin Lawrence. Born in Moyne 
County. Wicklow, Ireland. Died Bingham, 
Sowth Devonshire, England, May 20, 1902. 
Editor Emeritus on N. Y. Evening Post 
and Nation. "Problems of Modern Democ- 
racy," and "Unforeseen Tendencies in De- 
mocracy," were collections of articles fur- 
nished to magazines. 

Harte, Francis Bret. Born Albany. N. Y., 
August 25. 1839. Died Camberley, Eng- 
land, May 6, 1902. 
See Literary News, June, 1902, page 176. 

Hector, Mrs. Annie French. [Mrs. Alexan- 
der, pseud.] Born Dublin, Ireland, 1825. 
Died London, July 10, 1902. 
Novelist. See Literary News, August, 

1902, page 243. 

Henty, Geo. Alfred. Born Trumpington, 
Cambridge, Eng., December 8, 1832. Died 
on yacht in Egret Harbor, Weymouth, 
Eng., November 16, 1902. 
Historical books for boys. Wrote upwards 

of seventy. 

Hepworth, Dr. George Hughes. Born Bos- 
ton, February 4, 1833. Died New York, 
June 7, 1902. 
First Unitarian, then Presbyterian preacher. 



Author of "Hiram Golf's Religion," "The 
Life Beyond." For years wrote a sermon for 
the New York Sunday Herald which at- 
tracted wide attention. 

King, Clarence. Born Newport, R. I., Janu- 
ary 6, 1842. Died Arizona, December 24, 
aged 59. 
Geologist and mining engineer. Wrote on 

geology for scientific papers. Published 

"Mountaineering in the Sierra Nevada," in 

1872 through James R. Osgood. 

Kraflft-Ebing, Richard. Born Mannheim, 
August 14, 1840. Died Gratz-Styria, De- 
cember 30, 1902. 
Psycho pathology. 
Norris, Frank. Born Chicago, 111., 1870. 
Died San Francisco, October 25, 1902. 
Novelist. See notice Literary News, Janu- 
ary, 1903, page 9. 

Osmun, Thomas Embley. [Alfred Ayres, 
pseud.] Born Montrose, O., February 26, 
1828. Died New York City, October 26, 
1902. t 

Orthoepy, elocution, dramatic criticism. 

Parker, Rev. Joseph. Born Hexham-on- 
Tyne. April 9, 1830. Died Hampstead, 
London, November 28, 1902. 
Noted preacher and writer on religion. 

Rawlinson. Rev. Geo. Born Chaddington, 
Eng., November 23, 1812. Died London, 
October 6, 1902. 
Celebrated writer of religious history. 

Scudder, Horace Elisha. Born Boston, Oc- 
tober 16, 1838. Died Cambridge, Mass., 
January 11, 1902. 
See February issue 1902, page 39. 

Stanton, Mrs. Eliz. Cady. Born Johnstown, 
N. Y., November 12, 1815. Died New 
York City, October 27, 1902. 
A leader in the movement for woman's 

suffrage. 

Stockton, Frank Richard. Born Philadel- 
phia, April 5, 1834. Died suddenly, Wash- 
ington, D. C., April 20. 1902. 
See Literary News, May issue, page 143. 

Stoddard. Mrs. Elizabeth Drew Barston. 
Born Mattapoisett, Mass., May 6, 1823. 
Died August i, 1902 in New York City. 
Wife of the poet and critic Richard Henry 

Stoddard and herself a poet and novelist of 

merit. During the Civil War she wrote "The 
' Morgesons," "Two Men," and "Temple 

House." All are studies of New England 

life and character. 

Talmage, T. De Witt. Born in Bound 
Brook, N. J.. January 7, 1832. Died in 
Washington, D. C, April 12, 1902. 
Celebrated Brooklyn preacher, Many vol- 
umes of sermons and collected essays on 

ethics, 

Virchow, Prof. Rudolph. Born in Prussia, 
October, 1821. Died Berlin, September 5, 
World renowned pathologist. 

Zola, Emile. Born Paris, April 2, 1840. 
Died Paris, September 29, 1902. 
See notice Literary News, November, 

1902, page 338. 



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0urt)eB of Current CUerature. 

E^ Order through your bookseller. " There is no worthier or surer pledge of the intelligenci 
and the purity of any community than their general purchase of books ; nor is there any one who does 
more to further the attainment and possession of these qualities than a good bookseller." Prof. Dunn. 



BIOGRAPHY, CORRESPONDENCE, ETC. 

Akm STRONG, Edward. The Emperor Charles 
V. Macmillan. 2 v., 8, $7 net. 
"Was undertaken as a contribution to the 
Foreign Statesmen series, but author found it 
impossible to come within space allowed. Pre- 
supposes considerable knowledge of European 
history but," says the N. Y. Tribune, "omits 
nothing essential to a clear apprehension of 
Charles v. as a man." A work of portraiture 
and the first of its kind offered in English 
since Robertson's "History." Its importance 
will at once be perceived. 
Banks, Eliz. L. Autobiography of a news- 
paper girl. Dodd, M. il. 12, $1.20 net. 
"The future historian of nineteenth-century 
journalism will obtain more light from the 
story of Miss Banks's career than from many 
more pretentious volumes, especially through 
the contrasts it presents between the pursuit 
of this profession in London and New York. 
It is worth noting that, according to Mr. 
Stead, the American publishers of this auto- 
biography have insisted on the omission of a 
chapter in which Miss Banks criticised a cer- 
tain American lady philanthropist." The Na- 
tion. 

McCabe, Jos. St. Augustine and his age. 
Putnam, por. 8, bds., $2 net. 
An attempt to interpret the life of one of 
the most famous saints of the Christian church 
by the light of psychology rather than by that 
of theology. "I have tried," says the author, 
"to exhibit the development of Augustine as 
an orderly mental and moral growth and pre- 
sent it in harmonious relation to the many 
other interesting figures and groups on the 
broad canvas of his age." The Migne edition 
of St. Augustine's works has been used chief- 
ly. The author's ecclesiastic and scholastic 
training and vigor of reasoning have already 
been shown in "Peter Abelard," pronounced 
"virile and dramatic" by The Nation. Bib- 
liography of works consulted (4 pages). 
Mercy - Argenteau, Florimond Claude 
(Comte) DE. The guardian of Marie An- 
toinette: letters from the Comte de Mercy- 
Argenteau, Austrian ambassador to the 
Court of Versailles, to Marie Therese, Em- 
press of Austria, 1770-1780; [tr.] by Lillian 
C. Smythe. Dodd, M. 2 v., pors. facsim- 
iles, 8, $6.50 net. 

An important work, undertaken with the 
permission and assistance of the present Com- 
tesse d'Argenteau (Princess Montglyon), the 
representative of the Argenteau sovereign 
family, having as a nucleus the secret corre- 
spondence of the Comte de Mercy-Argenteau, 
who was deputed by the Empress to be the 
guardian of Marie Antoinette, as well as hold- 
ing the post of Minister-Plenipotentiary from 
Vienna to the Court of France. These letters 
form a continuous account of the daily life of 
the Dauphine, afterward Queen of France, 
from 1770 to 1780 till the death of the Em- 



press and give minute descriptions of Court 
life, customs, dress, etc., for the private in- 
formation of the Empress, but touch upon 
social rather than political events. The col- 
lection also includes many letters from Marie 
Antoinette to her mother, and from Maria 
Theresa. The book is illustrated with repro- 
ductions of the portraits of Maria Theresa, 
Louis xvi., Marie Antoinette, the Emperor 
Joseph, and others, 

MuLLER, Friedrich Max. Life and letters of 
the Right Honorable Friedrich Max Mul- 
ler ; ed. by his wife. Longmans. 2 v., pors. 
il. 8, $6 net. 
Murray, T. Douglas, ed. Jeanne d'Arc, 
Maid of Orleans, deliverer of France : being 
the story of her life, her achievements, and 
her death, as attested on oath and set forth 
in the original documents. McClure, P. il. 
por. maps, 8, $5 net. 

Translations from the verbatim reports of 
the ecclesiastical proceedings in the trial of 
Jeanne d'Arc. These documents have only 
recently come to light. 

Strong, Isobel, and Osbourne, Lloyd. Mem- 
ories of Vailima; il. from photographs. 
Scribner. 12, $1.20 net ; $5 net. 
Contents: Verses written in 1872, by Rob. 
L: Stevenson; Vailima table-talk, by Isobel 
Strong; Mr. Stevenson's home life at Vailima, 
by Lloyd Osbourne ; Polo, a story by Isobel 
Strong; Samoan songs, by Isobel Strong. 
Thwaites, Reuben Gold. Daniel Boone, 
Appleton. por. 12, (Appleton's ser. of his- 
toric lives.) $1 net. 
Webster, Daniel. The letters of Daniel 
Webster; from documents owned principal- 
ly by the New Hampshire Historical So- 
ciety; ed. by C. H. Van Tyne. McClure, P. 
8, $5 net. 
Noticed in next issue. 

DESCRIPTION, GEOGRAPHY, TRAVEL, ETC. 

Bacon, Edgar Mayhew. The Hudson River ; 
from ocean to source : historical, legendary, 
picturesque; 100 il., with sectional map of 
the Hudson River. Putnam, il. 8, $4.50 
net. 
Bayne, Samuel Gamble. On an Irish jaunt- 
ing-car through Donegal and Connemara. 
Harper, il, 8, $1.25 net. 
An amusing and interesting journey taken 
by the author and his friends from New York 
to Londonderry and thence through the beau- 
tiful Irish country on a jaunting car. Richly 
illustrated from photographs. 
Bonney, J, T, The Mediterranean ; its sto- 
ried cities and venerable ruins. Pott. il. 
map, 8, $3; 54 mor., $6. 
Cook, Mrs. E. T. Highways and byways in 
London ; il. by Hugh Thomson and F. L. 
Griggs. Macmillan. 12, (Highways and 
byways ser.) $2, 
Dellenbaugh, Frederick S, The romance of 



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the Colorado River : the story of its discov- 
ery in 1540, with an account of the later ex- 
plorations, and with special reference to the 
voyages of Powell through the line of the 
Great Canyons. Putnam, il. 8, $3.50 net. 
Noticed in January issue. 

Eddy, Arthur Jekome, ["Chaufifeur," pseud.] 
Two thousand miles on an automobile: be- 
ing a desultory narrative of a trip through 
New England, New York, Canada, and the 
West, by "Chauffeur"; il. by Frank Ver- 
beck. Lippincott. il. 8, buckram, $2 net. 

Hartshorne, Anna C. Japan and her people. 
Coates. 2 v., il. maps, 8, $4 net; % mor., 
$8 net: ed. de luxe, 150 copies, $10 net. 
Noticed in December issue. 

Johnson, Clifton. New England and its 
neighbors; written and il. by Clifton John- 
son. Macmillan. 12, $2 net. 

Kersting, Rudolf, comp. The white world: 
life and adventures within the Arctic cir- 
cle ; portrayed by famous living explorers ; 
collected and arr. for the Arctic Club by 
Rudolf Kersting. Lewis, Scribner. il. 8, 
$2 net. 
Twenty-two famous living explorers here 

give their personal experiences, describing 

what interested them most in the Far North. 

The names of Admiral Schley, Major David 

L. Brainard, Dr. F. A. Cook, and others as 

well known appear among the writers. 

Landor, Henry Savage. Across coveted 
lands; il. from photographs by the author. 
Scribner. 2 v., 8, $7.50 net. 
Noticed elsewhere in this issue. 

Lansdale, Maria Horner. Vienna and the 
Viennese. Coates. il. map, 8, $2.40 net; 
levant, $5.60 net. 
Noticed in December issue. 

Laut, Agnes Christina. The story of the 
trapper; il. by Arthur Heming, and others. 
Appleton. il. 12'', (Story of West ser.) 
$1.25 net. 
To be noticed in next issue. 

McNeill, Angus. The egregious English. 

Putnam. 12, $1.25 net. 

A reply to Mr. T. W. H. Crosland's "The 
unspeakable Scot." Behind the author's al- 
most transparent pseudonym may lurk a 
clever, humorous and wholly good-natured 
Englishman or American. He shows up the 
weaknesses of the English sportsman, man-of- 
business, man-about-town ; and of the English 
army, navy, churches, poets, fiction, drink, 
food, education, recreation, etc. The chapter 
on Chiffon, the English wife of the hour, 
proves that the women folk of the egregious 
English are much like all other wives, possi- 
bly excepting the wife of "the unspeakable 
Scot." 

Schiererand, Wolf v. Germany; the wield- 
ing of a world power. Doubleday, P. 8, 
$2.40 net. 

During his long career as a newspaper cor- 
respondent on the Continent Mr. von Schier- 
brand had quite unusual opportunities to be- 
come familiar with the inner workings of the 
German government and with the personali- 
ties of the men who control the empire. He 
describes intimately and fully the rulers, aris- 
tocracy, society, politics, commerce, manufac- 



tures, finances, art, music and literature of 
modern Germany. 

Singleton, Esther. Social New York un- 
der the Georges, 1714-1776: houses, streets 
and country homes ; with chapters on fash- 
ions, furniture, china, plate and manners. 
Appleton. il. 8, $5 net. 
Noticed in December issue. 

FICTION. 

Andrews, Mary Raymond Shipman. Vive 

I'Empereur; il. by F. C. Yolin. Scribner. 

12, $1. 

A spirited little romance based on the half- 
forgotten legend that Napoleon Bonaparte's 
only child was not a son, the Duke of Reich- 
stadt, but a girl, for whom was secretly sub- 
stituted three days after her birth the baby 
son of the Irish officer. Colonel Fitzgerald. 
The action of this story, timed in Ireland in 
1832 when the Duke of Reichstadt was dying 
in Vienna centres around Talleyrand's plot 
to proclaim this girl as Bonaparte's heir. 
Atherton, Mrs. Gertrude Franklin, ["Frank 

Lin," pseud.] The splendid idle forties: 

stories of old California; il. by Harrison 

Fisher. Macmillan. 12, $1.50. 

This is a revised and enlarged edition of the 
volume which was issued some years ago un- 
der the title "Before the Gringo came." 
Bagot, Richard. Donna Diana. Longmans. 

12, $1.50. 

A love story of modern Rome. "One in- 
creasing purpose runs through the four novels 
Mr. Bagot has written to show the workings 
of the machinery of Roman Catholicism. The 
training of Italian girls of wealth and posi- 
tion for convent life is the theme of his latest 
story. It is illustrated in the life of the beau- 
tiful Donna Diana, who is about to take the 
veil when a young English Catholic interferes 
and eventually unravels the web of fraud and 
deceit that has been woven about her. While 
Mr. Bagot is frankly a novelist with a mis- 
sion, he must not be classed with those who 
write tracts in story form. He knows how to 
construct a story and how to make his char- 
acters live, as well as how to make religion a 
vital force in fiction." Public Opinion. 
Bagot, Richard. The just and the unjust: [a 

novel.] Lane. 12, $1.50. 

To be noticed in next issue. 

Barr, Amelia Edith. A song of a single 

note : a love story. Dodd, M. il. 12, $1.50. 

A love story, which follows the famous 
"Bow of orange ribbon," and precedes "The 
maid of Maiden Lane." The locality of the 
three stories is also the same, namely. New 
York City, in this case, during the British oc- 
cupation. The story, however, does not con- 
cern itself directly with the war. 
Bland, Mrs. Herbert, ["E. Nesbit," pseud.] 

The red house : a novel ; il. by A. I. Keller. 

Harper. 12, $1.50. 

Noticed elsewhere in this issue. 
BoTTOME, Phyllis. Life the interpreter. 

Longmans. 12, $1.50. 

A modern story of social conditions, show- 
ing the author's familiarity with settlement 
work and problems. The characters, many of 
them society people, centre round a club for 
'factory hands" in the Ea.=t End of London. 



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Church, Sam. Harden. Penruddock of the 

White Lambs: a tale of Holland, England 

and America ; with frontispiece by Frank T. 

Merrill. Stokes. 12, $1.50. 

A romance by the author of "John Marma- 
duke." The hero is Colonel Penruddock, a 
Royalist, formerly Colonel of the "White 
Lambs," the Duke of Newcastle's famous 
regiment which Cromwell cut to pieces at 
Marston Moor. 
Clouston, J. Storer. The adventures of M. 

d'Haricot; il. by Albert Levering. Harper. 

12, $1.50. 

A book of rollicking fun a kind of new 
"Innocents abroad," with a Frenchman trying 
to be -an Englishman as its gentle hero. M. 
d'Haricot's readiness for adventure, and his 
susceptibility to feminine charms, involve him 
in many entertaining situations. 

"Mr.'Clouston is not afraid to let himself 
go in fun making. He is, indeed, frankly far- 
cical from cover to cover. Yet if we have en- 
joyed his book it has been not simply because 
of the drollery in it, but because, in his way, 
the hero is a likable and even a lovable per- 
son. The author shows much delicacy of 
method in his portraiture of his quaint for- 
eigner." A'". Y. Tribune. 
Creelman, Ja. Esgle blood; il. by Rose Cecil 

O'Neill. Lothrop. 12, $1.50. 

Noticed elsewhere in this issue. 

Daskam, Josephine Dodge. Whom the gods 
destroyed. Scribner. 12, $1.50. 
Short stories, namely: Whom the gods de- 
stroyed ; A wind flower ; When Pippa passed ; 
The backsliding of Harriet Blake; A Bayard 
of Broadway; A little brother of the books; 
The maid of the mill ; The twilight guests. 

Doffed (A) coronet : a true story, by the 

author of "The martyrdom of an empress." 

Harper. 8, $2.25 net. 

The opening scenes are laid in Egypt dur- 
ing the period following the Arabi Pasha re- 
bellion, when Cairo was a hotbed of interna- 
tional intrigue and of diplomatic strife, and in 
this the author and her husband play an active 
and interesting part. The volume is full of 
descriptions of an Egypt completely unknown 
to the general public, and includes peeps into 
the princely harems of Cairo, and a faithful 
portrayal of the intimate side of the Kliedival 
Court. 
Ellis, J. BreckenridgE. The Holland v.'olves; 

il. by Troy and Margaret Kinney. Mc- 

Clurg. 8, $1.50. 

A historical novel of the Spanish invasion 
of the Netherlands. 
Gates, Eleanor. The biography of a prairie 

girl. Century. 12, $1.50. 

Noticed elsewhere in this issue. 
Gilson, Roy Rolfe. In the morning glow : 

short stories. Harper. 12, $1.25. 

Stories of home life, illustrating the rela- 
tions of the children, with father, mother, 
grandfather, and so on. 
Glyn, Elinor. The reflections of Ambrosine : 

a novel. Harper. 12, $1.50. 

A love story, by the author of "The visits 
of Elizabeth." 
Gordon, Chas. William, ["Ralph Connor," 

pseud.] Glengarry school days: a story of 



early days in Glengarry. .Revell. il. 12, 

$1.25- 

Sketches held together by a thread of story 
of "Glengarry" woods' life. Here are por- 
trayed the old-fashioned backwoods school- 
master and his lively pupils, interv/oven with 
incidents of simple out-of-door existence. 

Goss, Chas. F. The loom of life. Bowen-M. 

12, $1.50. 

Contrasts the Hellenic idea of vengeance 
with the Christian principle of forgiveness. 
Dr. Goss' heroine is a wronged woman. Helen 
Braithwaite stands for pagan justice meted out 
for all women who suif er betrayal. Dr. Goss, 
whom the success of "The redemption of Da - 
vid Corson" might well have tempted to pro- 
lific production, has allowed nearly three years 
to elapse before making his second venture. 

Guthrie, Frederick Anstev, ["F. Anstey," 
pseud.] A Bayard from Bengal ; ij. by Ber- 
nard Partridge. Appleton. il. 12, $1.25. 
"We enjoyed it when it was published se- 
rially in Punch, but we have enjoyed it a 
great deal more in its present form." -iV. Y. 
Tribune. 

Iddesleigh, Earl of. Luck o' Lassendale. 
Lane. 12, $1.50. 

"The Ear! of Iddesleigh has voiced a pro- 
test against gambling and other forms of 
speculative monej'-making. To prove his point 
he has led Sir Francis Lassendale, the eldest 
of three brothers, and heir to a goodly fortune, 
through a number of wild experiences m min- 
ing speculation and the turf. At first phe- 
nomenal luck pursues Sir Francis and he 
makes thousands of pounds with more ease 
than less favored men make shillings but 
soon the tables turn and the unfortunate 
young man finally dies a poor but heroic 
death." A''. F. Times Saturday Review. 

Jacobs, William Wymark. The lady of the 

barge. Dodd, M. 12, $1.50. 

A dozen short stories : The lady of the 
barge ; The monkey's paw ; Bill's paper chase ; 
The well ; Cupboard love ; In the library ; Cap- 
lain Rogers ; A tiger's skin ; A mixed pro- 
posal ; An adulteration act; A golden venture; 
Three at table. 
KoBBE, GusTAV. Sigiiora : a child of the opera 

house. R. H. Russell, il. por. 12, $1.50. 

The story of a little girl baby left at the 
side door of the opera house and found by the 
stage manager. She is named "Signora" and 
grows up to be a great singer. Illustrated 
with photographs of real scenes and people. 
Le Feuvre. Amy. A daughter of the sea. 

Crowell. il. 12, $1.50. 

Una Carteret was a strong, vigorous young 
woman who had grown up alone among fisher 
folk on a rock-bound coast of England. Her 
guardian had been away from her for years, 
and she had been allowed to have her own 
way in everything. The guardian returning 
suddenly marries her to a man whom she 
scarcely knows. This act and its consequences 
make the story in which there is a strong re- 
ligious element. 
Le Gallienne, Richard. An old country 

house; il. bv Eliz. Shippen Green. Harper. 

8, $2.40 net. 

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in an old house.. How their dream came true 
is told in chapters headed: An old country 
house; Our tree-top library; The joys of gar- 
dens; Perdita's lovers; Perdita's simple cup- 
board; Of a violet in an old book; Perdita's 
Christmas. Handsomely printed, and head 
and tail pieces, etc. 
Le Notre, G. The House of the Combrays ; 

from the French by Mrs. Joseph B. Gilder. 

Dodd, M. 12, $1.50. 

"This purports to be the true story of the 
Royalist intrigue of the Chouans at the early 
part of the nineteenth century. A long pref- 
ace is supplied by the dramatist Victorien 
Sardou, in which he gives dates, documentary 
evidence, and circumstance of discovery as 
vouchers for the historic truth of the strange 
series of- events here narrated of Mme. de 
Combray, her daughter, Mme. Acquet, and 
other actors in this forlorn hope of reinstat- 
ing the Royalists during Napoleon's reign as 
first consul. Mme. de Combray is the same 
woman invested with fictitious saintly char- 
acter whom Balzac has immortalized as 
Mme. de la Chauterie. No fiction could be 
more dramatically interesting, stirring, or un- 
like what we are wont to commmonly regard 
as truth to life than is this record of heroic 
devotion to party, intrigue, hardship, and 
brutality in high places. The spirit of the 
times exhales from the pages." The Outlook. 

Lynde, Francis. The Master of Appleby: 
a novel tale concerning itself in part with 
the great struggle in the two Carolinas ; but 
chiefly with the adventures therein of two' 
gentlemen who loved one and the same 
lady: il.'by T. de Thulstrup. Bowen-M. 
12, $1.50. 

Noticed elsewhere in this issue. 
Marriott, Chas. Love with honour. Lane. 
12, $1.50. 

Noticed elsewhere in this issue. 
Norris, Frank. The pit : a story of Chicago. 
Doubleday, P. por. 12, (Epic of the wheat 
ser.) bds., $1.50. 

Noticed elsewhere in this issue. 
Raine, William MacLeod. A daughter of 
Raasay : a tale of the '45 ; il. by Stuart 
Travis. Stokes. 12, $1.50. 
Noticed elsewhere in this issue. 
Remington, Frederic. John Ermine of the 
Yellowstone ; il. from pamtings and draw- 
ings done by the author. Macmillan. 12, 
$1.50. 

"A series of graphic, well-drawn sketches, 
showing the growth, physical and mental, of 
a white boy, whom fate has thrown as a baby 
into the hands of Indians, to rear to an In- 
dian's life, as one of their own sons. John 
Ermine has to an uncommon degree the 
Anglo-Saxon instinct of domination. From 
childhood he has been a born leader, exacting 
obedience from all his small and dark-skinned 
playmates. With a different education he 
might have been a prince of finance, or a 
world-famous inventor, or the gallant hero 
of some battlefield. As it is, education comes 
too late, and when a thoughtless eastern girl, 
visiting the remote army post where Ermine 
is> stationed, amuses herself with the hand- 
some scout for an idle hour, and then be- 



trays him, the recent veneer of civilization 
drops away, savagery comes to the surface, 
and he meets the fate of many another wild 
creature of the mountains when it is brought 
to bay." N. Y. Commercial Advertiser. 
Ridge, W. Pett, ["Warwick Thompson," 
pseud.] "Erb." Appleton. 12, (Apple- 
ton's town and country lib., no. 317.) $1; 
pap., 50 c. 

Herbert Barnes, known among his familiars 
as "Erb," is a young London workman, a 
"parcels carman earning 23s. 6d. a week." 
He is a born agitator, with the faculty for 
organization, eloquence, courage and a saving 
sense of humor. The N. Y. Sun says : "Echoes 
of Dickens are not uncommon in the works 
of Mr. Pett Ridge, but all these low life char- 
acters are the real thing." Gives a true pic- 
ture of the workingman's world. 
Roberts, Chas. G. D. Barbara Ladd; il. by 
Frank Ver Beck. L. C. Page. 8, bds., 
$1.50. 

"A story of the Revolution and the days 
that ushered it in. 'Barbara Ladd,' in short, 
is a delightful work of fiction, vivid in its 
character drawing, clear in its setting forth of 
human motives, and inspiriting in its devo- 
tion to the loyalties, the failings, the great- 
nesses and the littlenesses that all flesh is heir 
to. Mr. Roberts is to be congratulated heart- 
ily upon his success in the writing of 'Bar- 
bara Ladd.' " Boston Weekly Transcript. 
Rosegger, Petri K. The earth and the full- 
ness thereof : a romance of modern Styria ; 
authorized tr. by Francis E. Skinner. Put- 
nam. 12, $1.50. 
To be noticed in next issue. 
Silberrad, Una L. The success of Mark 
Wyngate. Doubleday, P. 12, $1.50. 
Noticed elsewhere in this issue. 
Steuart, John A. A son of Gad : an Anglo- 
American story of to-day. Appleton. 12, 
$1.50. 

A story of dramatic intensity concernmg 
two families one old, aristocratic and de- 
cayed ; the other new and enormously rich ; 
and on one side at least there is bitter en- 
mity. The characters are partly British and 
partly American, and the development inci- 
dentally illustrates the process of American- 
izing England and Anglicizing America, now 
going on. 

Turner, George Kibbie. The taskmasters. 
McClure, P. 12, (First novel ser.) $1.25. 
To be noticed in next issue. 
Zangwill, Louis. One's womenkind : a 
novel. A. S. Barnes. 12, $1.50. 
"A novel which traces the influences of 
'one's womenkind' upon one's life, and also 
portrays that bond between women which 
excludes even father and husband, which has 
its own interests and ambitions, and has a 
code of loyalty even though there be internal 
dissensions. By 'one's womenkind' Mr. 
Zangwill means all women who enter into a 
man's life, not merely the woman, or women, 
he loves. The idea of this book has the great 
merit of being new ; there is here a presenta- 
tion of a phase of life familiar to us all, yet 
rarely dealt with in fiction. Mr. Zangwill, in 
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the life of his chief character one of altruism 
throughout. He tells an interesting story 
well, and suggests its meaning clearly enough 
to set his reader thinking." Mail and Ex- 
press. 

HISTORY. 

Bellairs, Edgar G. As it is in the Philip- 
pines. Lewis, Scribner. il, 12, $1.50. 
As the title indicates, this book is a picture 
of conditions that exist in the Philippines at 
the present moment. It contains chapters on 
the status of the civil and military govern- 
ment, estimates of members of the commis- 
sion and a vivid account of the difficulties 
between the civil government and the local 
press. Author was correspondent of the As- 
sociated Press in the Philippines. 
Benton, C. E. As seen from the ranks: a 
boy in the Civil War. Putnam. 12, $1.25 
net. 

A private soldier's account of what he saw 
of the Civil War, as a member of 150th New 
York State Volunteers. 

Gardner, Ernest Arthur. Ancient Athens. 

Macmillan. 8, hf. leath., $5 net. 

A companion to Man's "Pompeii." Covers 
from earliest times down to official introduc- 
tion of Christianity. Deals mainly with the 
topography of the city and Acropolis, the ex- 
tant remains of ancient buildings and the 
sculpture that decorated them. 
Goldman, Charles Sydney. With General 

French and the cavalry in South Africa. 

Macmillan. il. 12, $5 net. 

Mann, William Justin. America in its re- 
lation to the great epochs of history. Lit- 
tle, Brown. 12, $1 net. 
"One of the most valuable additions to 
American history which has appeared for 
some years. His reasons for considering 
American history in connection with the great 
epochs of the world's history are several. 
'First, it makes clearer the meaning of our 
own history; second, it brings us a widening 
of the mental horizon; third, it is a cosmo- 
political instead of a narrow or provincial 
point of view ; fourth, it gives us as individ- 
uals a central point for our reading and 
thought.' His suggestions for reading and 
reference compose a list which will greatly 
assist any one wishing to read history for 
learning as well as pleasure. This is Mr. 
Mann's first book." Public Opinion. 
Munro, John. The story of the British race. 
Appleton. maps, 16, (Library of useful 
stories.) 35 c. net. 
RiCHMAN, Irving Berdine. Rhode Island, 
its making and its meaning: a survey of 
the annals of the commonwealth from its 
settlement to the death of Roger Williams, 
1636-1683 ; with an introd. by Ja. Bryce. 
Putnam. 8", $4.50 net. 
Mr. Richman's work is much more than 
the history, in part, of one of the American 
commonwealths. It is, in fact, a critical sur- 
vey of events holding the stage in a particu- 
lar commonwealth, but of world-wide signifi- 
cance ; events fraught with the two leading 
principles of modern civilization freedom of 
conscience in religion and the rights of man 
in politics. For this reason the book becomes 
important in the field of general history. It 



reveals, step by step, the way in which democ- 
racy, in the modern sense, b came established. 
Wilson, Dan. Munro. Where American 
independence began: Quincy, its famous 
group of patriots, their deeds, homes and 
descendants. Houghton, Mifflin, il. pors. 
12, $2 net. 

LITERARY MISCELLANY, COLLECTED WORKS, 
ETC. 

Arnold, Matthew. Matthew Arnold's note 
books ; with a preface by Hon. Mrs. Wode- 
house. Macmillan. por. 12, $1 net. 

BowKER, Richard Rogers, ed. State publica- 
tions: a provisional list of the official pub- 
lications of the several states of the United 
States; from their organization; comp. un- 
der the editorial direction of R. R. Bowker. 
In 3 pts. pt. 2, North central states- New 
York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, In- 
diana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin. Of- 
fice of The Publishers' Weekly, sq. 8, 
pap., $1.50; complete set, 3 pts., $5. 

Burroughs, John. Literary values, and 

other papers. Houghton, M. sq. 16, $1.10 

net. 

Contents: Literary values; Analogy true 
and false; Style and the man; Criticism and 
the man; Recent phases of literary criticism; 
"Thou shalt not preach" ; Democracy and lit- 
erature ; Poetry and eloquence ; Gilbert White 
again; Lucid literature; Another word on 
Emerson; Thoreau's wildness; Nature in lit- 
erature ; On the re-reading of books ; The 
spell of the past ; The secret of happiness. 

"We have not recently had a collection of 
diverse essays more delightful or more preg- 
nant with suggestion than this by Mr. Bur- 
roughs." The Nation. 
Maud, Constance Elizabeth. Heroines of 

poetry; il. by H. Ospovat. Lane. 12, 

$1.50. 

Contents: Maid of the Swan-skin (W: 
Morris) ; The fair maid of Astolat (Mal- 
lory) ; Savitri the faithful wife (Edwin Ar- 
nold) ; The peasant maid (Longfellow) ; 
The little duchess (Browning) ; A hero's 
mother (Matthew Arnold and Firdausi) ; The 
good sister (C. Rossetti) ; The serpent wom- 
an (Keats) ; Minnehaha, Laughing- Water 
(Longfellow) ; The learned princess (Tenny- 
son). Prose versions of the stories of the 
heroines of the above poems. 
Robertson John G. A history of German 

literature. Putnam. 8. $3.50 net. 

A complete summary of the evolution of 
German literature from the earliest times to 
the close of the 20th century. Author is lec- 
turer in the University of Strasburg. 

MENTAL AND MORAL PHILOSOPHY. 

Knowlson, T. Sharper. The art of success. 
Warne. 12, $1. 

A supplementary volume to the author's 
"The art of thinking," intended as a guide to 
action, as his former Volume was a guide to 
thought. 

Savage, Minot Judson. Can telepathy ex- 
plain?: results of psychical research. Put- 
nam. 12, $1 net. 

Dr. Savage discusses problems that have 
vexed intelligent minds probably to a greater 
extent than anv others, saving those of the 
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well-authenticated instances of apparently 
spiritualistic revelation or communication. His 
discussion is frank and fearless. 
Watson, Rev. John, flan Maclaren," 

pseud.] The homely virtues. Dodd, M. 

16, $1 net. 

"Straightness," "thoroughness," "thrift," 
etc., are "Homely virtues," and Dr. Watson 
has treated these and similar practical sub- 
jects in an eminently pointed and practical 
way. Each article deals in a popular way 
with a single virtue. 

NATURE AND SCIENCE. 

Blanchan, Neltje, [pseud, for Mrs. Nellie 
B. Doubleday.] How to attract the birds, 
and other talks about bird neighbors. 
Doubleday, P. il. 8, $1.35 net. 
Dunn, Elias Bound, ["Farmer Dunn," 
pseud.] The weather and practical methods 
of forecasting it. Dodd, M. por. 12, $1.60 
net. 

"Farmer" Dunn, known throughout the 
country as New York's local forecaster, has 
embodied in this volume the results of many 
years* obsiervations and experiments. He 
avoids all mathematics and scientific and tech- 
nical terms and presents the subject in the 
simplest and most popular form. 

Earle, Mrs. Alice Morse. Sundials and 
roses of yesterday: garden delights which 
are here displayed in very truth and are 
moreover regarded as emblems. Macmillan. 
il. 12, $2.50 net. 
Noticed elsewhere in this issue. 
Fernow. Bernard E. Economics of forestry: 
a reference book for students ot political 
economy and professional and lay students 
of forestry. Crowell. 12, (Library of eco- 
nomics and politics.) $1.50 net. 
Forest and forestry are treated from the 
standpoint of political economy. The main 
difference between the present volume and 
other existing books may be found in the fact 
that not only the things which directly inter- 
est the economist have been discussed, but 
also a more or less comprehensive disposition 
of the technical details of the forester's art is 
given. Dr. Fernow has long been recognized 
as an authority and expert in scientific fores- 
try. Bibliography (17 p.). 
Lucas, Frederick A. Animals before man in 
North America ; their lives and times. Ap- 
pleton. il. 12, $1.25 net. 
Sargent, Charles Sprague, ed. Trees and 
shrubs. V. i, pt. i. Houghton, ]\L pi., 4, 
$S net. 
Stone, Witmer, and Cram, W^illiam Everett. 
American animals : a popular guide to the 
mammals of North America north of Mex- 
ico, with intimate biographies of the more 
familiar species: [130 pictures from life.] 
Doubleday, P. il. 4, $3 net. 
In preparing the present volume the aim has 
been to produce a work sufficiently free from 
technicalities to appeal to the general reader 
and at the same time to include such scientific 
information relative to our North American 
mammals as would be desired by one begin- 
ning their study. The key at the end of the 
volume will be fcund of service in identifying 
unfamiliar mammals. Bibliography (3 p.). 



POETRY AND DRAMA. 

i^NNUNZio, Gabriele D'. Francesca Da Ri 
mini ; tr. by Arthur Symons. Stokes, il 
12, $1 net. 

A play, by the author of "The triumph o 

death." First acted at Rome by Eleonon 

Duse and her company, on December 9, igoi 

Custance. Olive, (Lady Alfred Douglas.' 

Rainbows: [poems.] Lane. 16, bds.. $1,25 

Ford, Ja. L. and Mary K., cds. Every daj 

in the vear : a poetical epitome of th< 

world's history; ed. by Ja. L. and Marv K 

Ford. Dodd, M. 8, $1.60 net. 

A collection of about eight hundred poems 

commemorative of the most striking events ir 

history and of the men and women who hav 

left an imprint on their day and generation 

These poems are arranged in the order of th< 

calendar, the central idea of the book beinj 

that every day in the year is an anniversary o 

sufficient historic value to have been cele 

brated in fitting verse. 

Hanscom, Beatrice. Love, laurels and laugh 

ter; with a frontispiece by W. J. Hurlbut 

Stokes, il. 12, $1.20 net. 

Seventy or more graceful poems that hav( 

appeared in the Century, Life, Puck, and othei 

American periodicals. 

Housman, Laurence. Bethlehem : a nativ 
ity play: performed with music by Jos 
Moorat under the stage direction of E 
Gordon Craig, December, 1902. Macmillan 
12'', $1.25 net. 

Knowles, Frederick Lawrence, cd. A treas 
ury of humorous poetry : being a compila- 
tion of witt.v, facetious, and satirical vers< 
selected from Ihe writings of British anc 
American poets. Estes. pi. por. 12, $i.2c 
net. 

Phillips, Stephen. David and Bathsheba 
Macmillan. 16, $1.25 net. 

Stanton. Frank Lebby. Up from Georgia 
Appleton. 16, $1.20 net. 
New poems and songs by the author o- 

"Songs of the soil." 

Tooker, L. Frank. The call of the sea, anc 
other poems. Century. 12, $1.20 net. 

Wells, Carolyn. A nonsense anthology 
collected by Carolyn Wells. Scribner. 12 
$1.25 net. 
A collection of nonsense verses, by "Lewis 

Carroll," J. W. Riley, W. S. Gilbert. C. E 

Carryl, Punch, Gelett Burgess, Bret Harte 

Thackeray, E. Lear, F. C. Burnand, and manj 

others. 

POLITICAL AND SOCIAL. 

Gorton, David Allyn, M.D. Ethics, civil 
and political. Putnam, por. 12, $1.50 net 
To be noticed later. 
Hughes, R. E. The making of citizens : 3 
study in comparative education. Scribner 
12, (Contemporary science ser.) $1.50. 
Jordan, David Starr. The blood of the na- 
tion : a study of the decay of races through 
the survival of the unfit. Amer. Unitarian 
Assoc. 16, 40 c. net. 

By the President of Leland Stanford Jr, 
University. The author discusses the prob- 
lem of heredity, the tendencies which make 
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tors of race development, as influenced by the 
pursuits of peace and the occupations of war, 
and the causes and consequences of the sur- 
vival of the unfit. 

Kropotkin, p. a. Mutual aid: a factor of 
evolution. McClure, P. 8, $2.50 net. 
Prince Kropotkin thinks it has been taken 
toe much for granted that evolution of the 
race takes place only by the weakest going to 
the wall and by the stronger surviving, and 
that any means of preventing this natural 
process will lead to the degeneration of the 
race. He shows that among animals, sav- 
ages, barbarians, and modern races there is 
another side to the question, suggested by 
Darwin. He explains by many examples the 
large extent to which mutual aid replaces 
competition. 

Lee. Jos. Constructive and preventive phi- 
lanthropy; with an introd. by Jacob A. 
Riis. Macmillan. 12, (American philan- 
thropy of the nineteenth century.) $1 net. 
LoRiMER, George Horace. Letters from a 
self-made merchant 'to his son: being let- 
ters written by John Graham, head of the 
House of Graham & Co., pork packers in 
Chicago, familiarly known on 'Change as 
old Gorgon Graham, to his son, Pierre- 
pont, facetiously known to his intimates as 
Piggy. Small, M. il. 12, $1.50. 
Excellent advice on business questions of 
the day. 

Pratt, Sereno S. The work of Wall street. 
Appleton. il. 12, (Appleton's business sen, 
no. 2.) $1.25. 

"An admirable book that should find many 
readers. It is a detailed account of every- 
thing that is done in the money market, with 
lucid explanations of terms, and things and 
transactions that are talked of by everybody, 
but which it would puzzle most people to de- 
fine. After a brief but satisfactory account 
of the development of business in Wall Street^ 
and an explanation of what the stock market* 
and stock companies are. Mr. Pratt takes up 
in turn each form of business and shows what 
it is and how it is transacted and why it is 
done in the way it is. He is a practical man 
of long experience, and the information he 
imparts is nothing if not practical. It is a 
helpful book and should diminish the number 
of people who talk of things they wot not of." 
N. Y. Sun. 

Spalding, John Lancaster. Socialism and 
labor and other arguments, social, political, 
and patriotic. McClurg. 16, 80 c. net. 
Contents: Socialism and labor; The basis 
of popular government; Are we in danger of 
revolution?; Charity and justice; Woman and 
the Christian religion ; Emotion and truth ; 
Education and patriotism ; Assassination and 
anarchy ; Church and country ; Labor and 
capital ; Work and leisure ; The mystery of 
pain : An orator and lover of justice [John 
Peter Altgeld] ; St. Bede. 
TiLLiNGHAST, Jos. Alex. The negro in Af- 
rica and America. Published for the Amer- 
ican Economic Assoc, by Macmillan. 8, 
(Publications of the American Economic 
Assoc, 3d ser., v. 3, no. 2.) $1.50 ; pap., $1.25. 
A study aiming to show that many charac- 



teristics of the American negro are part of 
his inheritance from Africa, and were bred 
into the race there through long generations, 
and that many faults often attributed to the 
debasing effects of American slavery are 
faults which he shared with his African an- 
cestors and contemporaries. The writer is a 
Southern white man, the son of a once slave- 
holder. Bibliography (3 p.). 
Woods, Rob. A., ed. Americans in process: 
a settlement study, by residents and asso- 
ciates of the South End House, North and 
West Ends, Boston. Houghton, M. 12'", 
$1.50 net. 

A study by a group of experienced settle- 
ment workers, men and women, of the round 
of life in the North and West Ends, the two 
principal immigrant districts of Boston. These 
districts, until about fifteen years ago, were 
inhabitated chiefly by an Irish population. 
Since that time there has been a large influx 
of Jews and Italians. Twenty-five different 
nationalities are here represented, including a 
considerable number of negroes. The book 
shows the general relation existing between 
these districts and other parts of the city. 

SPORTS AND AMUSEMENTS. 

Miles, Eustace Hamilton. Racquets, ten- 
nis, and squash ; il. with photographs and 
diagrams. Appleton. 12, $1.60 net. 
Author is amateur racquet champion of the 
world at singles and of England at doubles, 
amateur tennis champion of the world, holder 
of the gold prize, and amateur squash tennis 
champion of America (1900). 
Peer, Frank Sherman. Cross country with 
horse and hound ; il. by J. Crawford Wood. 
Scribner. 4, $3 net. 

Claims to be the first book published in 
America on the subject of cross-country rid- 
ing to hounds. The author is a member of a 
prominent New York State Hunt and a cross- 
country rider of unusual experience, who has 
enjoyed riding to hounds in England and 
France, as well as Canada; bringing to his 
task an unusual experience, also, in breeding, 
rearing, and schooling hunters, together with 
extensive observations of packs of hounds at 
home and abroad. Full of life-like illustra- 
tions. 

THEOLOGY, RELIGION AND SPECULATION. 

Cooke, Geo. Willis. Unitarianism in Amer- 
ica: a history of its origin and develop- 
ment. American Unitarian Assoc, por. 8. 
$2 net. 

A history of Unitarianism in the United 
States, how it has organized itself and what 
it has accomplished. It supplements the 
works of Rev. George E. Ellis, Rev. Joseph 
Henry Allen, Rev. William Channing Gar- 
nett and Rev. John White Chadwick, and 
treats of the practical side of Unitarianism 
its organizations, charities, philanthropies and 
reforms. The author has kept in mind those 
not educated as Unitarians and has aimed to 
state concretely what Unitarianism is. He 
retired from the active ministry in 1899. 

USEFUL ARTS. 

Wheeler, Candace Thurber. How to make 
rugs. Doubleday P. il. 12, $1 net. 



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iHaga^ines for i^ebrnars. 

Atlantic: Sensational journalism and the 
law, George W. Alger. Academic freedom 
in theory and in practice, i., Arthur Twining 
Hadley. Harbors, John B. Tabb. My own 
story, II., J. T. Trowbridge. Chapters of 
Boston history : Episodes of Boston com- 
merce, M. A. DeWolfe Howe. A sea lyric, 
William Hamilton Hayne. His daughter 
first, VI. -IX., Arthur Sherburne Hardj'. The 
lapidary, William Samuel Johnson. Lafca- 
dio Hearn, Paul Elmer More. In the ab- 
sence of monsieur, Guy Wetmore Carryl. 
With the pre-dynastic kings at Abydos, H. 

D. Rawnsley. Thorkild Viborg, Elia W. 
Peattie. The basket maker, Mary Austin. 
The literary pilgrimage, Rollin Lynde Hartt. 
Absalom's wreath, Elizabeth Taylor. 
Libin, a new interpreter of East Side life, 
Charles Rice. Books new and old : Litera- 
ture and life, H. W. Boynton. Real forces 
in literature, Edward Fuller. Early Persian 
literature, A. V. Williams Jackson. Co- 
operative historical writing: The Cambridge 
modern history, Ephraim Emerton. 

Century: The aurora borealis, Frank W. 
Stokes. The overshadowing senate, Henry 
L. Nelson. When the consul came to Pe- 
king, II., Abigail H. Fitch. The prologue of 
the American Revolution, iii., Arnold's Bat- 
tle with the wilderness, Justin H. Smith. 
Durance, Frank P. Smart. The Poe-Chivers 
papers, ii.. The first authentic account of one 
of Poe's most interesting friendships, George 

E. Woodberry. The sixth day, Edith de 
Blois Laskey. Khartum to Cairo in an Adi- 
rondack canoe, William G. Erving. The 
poppy-witch, Edith M. Thomas. The rose- 
tree, Alice Reid. Knights to the rescue, 
Elizabeth C. Waltz. The seer, Arthur 
Stringer. The maiden with the valentine, 
Catherine Y. Glen. My old maid's corner, ii., 
A. winter night, Lillie H. French. The yel- 
low van, IV., Richard Whiteing. Alice Free- 
man Palmer, R. W. G. Lovey Mary, ni., 
Alice C. Hegan. Her freedom, Virginia F. 
Boyle. Stranger than fiction, Laurence Hut- 
ton. The baby from Ruggles's Dip, Kate W. 
Hamilton. The literary loss of the Bible, 
Rollo Ogden. Bauer Siebert's find: a collec- 
tor's adventure, W. Lewis Eraser. 

Contemporary (January) : James Marti- 
neau, A. M. Fairbairn. The new education in 
China, Timothy Richard. Kings and queens, 
Mdlle. Helene Vacaresco. The Encyclopae- 
dia Biblica and the Gospels, Prof. Jan- 
naris. National health, Sir Frederick Mau- 
rice. The coming struggle between Slav and 
Teuton, Quidam. The Brussels Sugar Con- 
vention, Thos. Lough. Robert Browning, 
Philip H. Wicksteed. Our relations with 
Germany, Patriae Quis Exul. Tchaikovsky 
and Tolstoi, Rosa Newmarch. Alteram par- 
tem, British Officer. Foreign affairs. Dr. E. 
J. Dillon. Some recent books, "A Reader." 

Critic: Julia Marlowe, C. B. The lounger. 
The current drama caricatured. Carlo de 
Fornaro. A rose in winter, Robert Love- 
man. Letters to a literary aspirant, pt. i. 



College professors who are men of letters (i. 
Harvard), Frank W. Noxon. Mr. Laurence 
Housman's "Bethlehem," Christopher St. 
John. In spite of the censor, Laurence 
Housman. Literary landmarks of New 
York, vii., Charles Hemstreet. "The Decay 
of the novel" answered. Scenery versus hu- 
man nature, Carolyn Shipman. Real con- 
versations, William Archer. Mary Hartwell 
Catherwood, W. E. Simonds. Woodrow 
Wilson's "History of the American People," 
George L. Beer. 

Harper's: Buondelmonte, Maurice Hew- 
lett. The Dutch founding of New York, pt. 
I., Thomas A. Janvier. Arrears, Ada Barrick 
Baker. The caravan, Mary Tracy Earle. 
True gods and false in art, Jean Leon 
Gerome. The motherhood of Beechy Daw, 
Philip Verrill Mighels. A study of a "de- 
creed" town, Richard T. Ely. The trellis, 
Margaret Cameron. The cost, Charlotte 
Becker. The mer-mother; The pine lady: 
poems by Richard Le Gallienne. Rights of 
man, George Madden. Martin. The literary 
age of Boston, George Edward Woodberry. 
A summer in a sandolo, Mary H. Peixotto. 
The last gift, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman. 
Impatience, Mildred Howells. The edge of 
an empire, Edwin Lester Arnold. The little 
cruise of the "Violetta," Arthur Colton. 
Lady Rose's daughter, pt. x., Mrs. Humphry 
Ward. Mollusks, Henry Jerome Stockard. 
Dj:rwinism in the light of modern criticism, 
Thomas Hunt Morgan. The hundred and 
oneth, Annie Hamilton Donnell. Twilight, 
John Vance Cheney. 

Lippincott's: A man of his word, Alice 
Duer Miller. Clouds, Rose N. Yager. An 
unwritten chapter of "Les Miserables," Paul 
Chenay. Moonlight in the desert, Clinton 
Scollard. The scythe in the oak-tree, Beulah 
Marie Dix. A West African trading station 
.in the Niger Delta, J. W. Davies. Now all 
the twigs and grasses. Bliss Carman. Crea- 
tion, Cally Ryland. The capture of the Can- 
ton, W. A. Eraser. Saint Valentine: his 
tomb, Clinton Scollard. A game of chess, 
Clinton Dangerfield. Brother Johnsing's 
'sperience, Ella Middleton Tybout. Without 
the temple, Elsa Barker. Wave-motors, 
John E. Bennett. Deceivers ever, R. E. 
Vernede. The philosopher, Carrie Blake 
Morgan. The demure wife of Ned Barrett, 
Elliott Flower. Abraham Lincoln, Mary 
Livingston Burdick. Sorrow, Ida Whipple 
Benham. Chronicling small beer. Dr. 
Charles C. Abbott Taste, Ruth Hall. A 
race through the night, Edgar Jepson. An- 
dante, Robert Haven Schaufiler. Halcyon 
weather, Clinton Scollard. Till a' the seas 
gang dry, Mary and Rosalie Dawson. On a 
dying insect, John Hall Ingham. Walnuts 
and wine. 

McClure's: A century of painting in Amer- 
ica, Will H. Low. ^Jimps, Florence Wilkin- 
son. The surgery of light : A word about the 
man, Jacob A. Riis ; Dr. Finsen and the story 
of his achievement, Cleveland Moffett; The 
Finsen .system in England, Alfred Harms- 
worth ; The Finsen system in America, Dr. 
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i.-iv.^ Arthur Stanwoqd Pier. As a tale that 
is told, Mary C. Huntington. "An unholy al- 
liance," chapter iv., Ida M. Tarbell. Snow 
white and rose red, Edith Wyatt. The last 
years of arctic work, Robert E. Peary. 
Pride, Winifred Webb. The flying death, 
p:. II., Samuel H. Adams. 

Nineteenth Century (January) : The clergy 
and the education act, D. C. Lathbury. 
The Nonconformists and the education act. 
Rev. Dr. J. Guinness Rogers. The Ripon 
episode, Walter R. Cassels. Sir Oliver 
Lodge and our public schools, Arthur C. 
Benson and Frank Fletcher. Is society 
worse that it was?, Lady Gwendolen Rams- 
den. Labels, C. B. Wheeler. English and. 
Russian politics in the East, Ali Haydar Mid- 
hat. The Abyssinian question and its his- 
tory, Geo. F. H. Berkeley. The financial fu- 
ture, J. W Cross. The growth of the Local 
Government Board, Sir Michael Foster. 
Another view of Jane Austen's novels, Annie 
Gladstone. The price of food in our next 
great war, Capt. Stewart L. Murray. The 
story of the fourth party, iii., Harold E. 
Gorst. Last month. Sir Wemyss Reid. The 
search-light, Mrs. W. K. Clifford. 

North American: The political opportunity 
of the south, Thomas F. Ryan. Christian 
science, iii.^ Mark Twain. Origin and im- 
port of the Monroe doctrine, W. L. Scruggs. 
The art of the dramatist, Brander Mat- 
thews. Why the army canteen should not be 
restored, Mrs. Lillian M. N. Stevens. Mace- 
donia's struggle for liberty, Charles John- 
ston. The industrial crisis in the Philip- 
pines, Brewster Cameron. The monarchs of 
the triple alliance, iii., The king of Italy, 
Sydney Brooks. Out of the shadow, Louis 
Morgan Sill. Phillips Brooks: an estima- 
tion. The Rev. Dr. Washington Gladden. A 
government of laws, not of men, W. J. Gay- 
nor. As to lawlessness of the police : a re- 
ply, Howard S. Gans. The ambassadors, 11., 
Henry James. 

Scrihner's: Picturesque Milan, Edith Whar- 
ton. Running to harbor, James B. Connolly. 
Censor, George Buchanan Fife. To James 
Whitcomb Riley, Gardener, Henry van Dyke. 
The presidential office, James Ford Rhodes. 
A morning song. Marguerite Merington. 
The Isle of Pines, John Finley. Song for 
music, John Ellerton Lodge. Scrapper Hal- 
pin. Marcus Kavanagh. English court and 
society, 1883-1900 (second paper), Mary King 
Waddington. The imperfect pilgrim, Arthur 
Colton. Weatherby's mother, Juliet Wilbor 
Tompkins. Till we meet again, Caroline 
Duer. The little shepherd of kingdom come. 
Chapters iv.-viii., John Fox, Jr. Phcebus 
Apollo, Guy Wetmore Carryl. Under his 
eye. Eleanor Stuart. 

World's Work: The march of events: An 
illustrated editorial interpretation. The 
United States steel corporation's profit- 
sharing plan, Arthur Goodrich. The new 
navy at work, Lieut. Commander Albert 
Gleaves.-^The present status of the profes- 
sionsthe law, Harry D. Nims. The rapid 
growth of public libraries. Helen E. Haines. 
An era of thrift in the middle west, Charles 



M. Harger. Trolley lines in a railroad sys- 
tem, Sylvester Baxter. Growing Cuban to- 
bacco in the United States, Marion Wilcox. 
Herbert Spencer, George lies. What we 
can learn from German business methods, 
Louis J. Magee. The work of a Japanese 
craftsman, Herbert G. Pouting. The pre- 
vention of physical breakdown, Floyd M. 
Crandall. An example of exact and deli- 
cate workmanship, Philip P. Frost. "The pit 
a story of Chicago," Owen Wister. Views 
of readings on recent books. 



Citerars iHisceUanp. 

Lady Duff (jORDOn's "Letters from Egypt," 
published by McClure, Phillips & Co., is the 
outcome of a very pathetic career. The au- 
thor was a famous beauty of European so- 
ciety in the middle of the last century. She 
was stricken with a slow but fatal disease, 
and she was sent to South Africa and then to 
Egypt as the only way of prolonging her life. 
From the wildest regions of the Dark Con- 
tinent she wrote these letters to her family. 
Her last days were spent among the Arabs, 
who were very fond of her, and of whom she 
has left in her book a remarkable record. 

Are Modern Books Worthless? A con- 
troversy between Sir Edward Clarke and Mr. 
Edmund Gosse has been raging in the English 
press and echoes of it have reached this side 
of the Atlantic. Sir Edward stated in a pub- 
lic address that of all the books published in 
the past ten years, not one with the possible 
exception of "Tess of the d'Urbervilles" 
could compare with any one of a list named 
by him published between 1850 and i860. Mr. 
Gosse's reply was the broad one that the 
statement was not only not true, but that Sir 
Edward had no business to invade the domain 
of letters and criticism even if his statement 
were true. 

Charles Marriott, the gifted author of 
''The Column" and of "Love with Honour," 
is an Englishman whose natural taste for let- 
ters has asserted itself in spite of circum- 
stances. Born at Bristol in 1869, his family 
was originally a Flemish one, and it may 
have been from his ancestors or from the as- 
sociations of his boyhood's haunts that he im- 
bibed a taste for things nautical. Indeed, but 
for defective eyesight a naval career had been 
decided for him. On leaving school, how- 
ever, he received two years' training in a 
London art school, after which he followed 
the calling of a photographer in various parts 
of England. In view of this fact his new 
novel gains interest, inasmuch as the hero is 
himself a young photographer, whose various 
successes reap for him a very- enviable posi- 
tion in the world. Mr, Marriott is now mar- 
ried and lives with his family (consisting of 
two little girls) in a cottage by the sea in 
the beautiful country of Cornwall, England. 

BjORNSON at Seventy. Despite his great 
years Bjornson is a man active in body and 
mind, taking a keen interest in public affairs, 
where his voice is still heard, and his contri- 
butions to the press of Norway have in no 
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The estate on which he lives, called Aules- 
tad, is one of the largest farms in Gudbrands- 
dalen and is managed by one of his sons, and 
the income from that alone would be suffi- 
cient to afford the poet a comfortable living. 
Here he lives the whole year round, with the 
exception of occasional visits to Christiania 
and Copenhagen during the winter. One al- 
most expects as one comes up to his house 
that lies on the side of the hill, with its pros- 
pects over the surrounding country, to meet 
Arne or Thorbjorn. Over there, on the other 
side of the valley, where lies a well-kept 
farm, with its green fields and sombre pine 
woods behind it, one looks for Synnove Sol-, 
bakken to step forth into the sunshine. And 
as I told the old poet this, he smiled and 
said, "Yes, it is very much like the scenes of 
my early tales, and living here makes me feel 
young again," which his elastic step and erect 
frame bear out. John Nilsen Laurvik, in The 
Critic. 

Clara Louise Burnham, whose Christian 
Science novel, "The Right Princess," is caus- 
iner so much discussion, belongs to a remark- 
able family. Her father was the late George 
F. Root, the most popular song-writer Amer- 
ica has produced. Her mother also has un- 
usual musical gifts. Mrs. Burnham is the 
eldest daughter, and was born in Newton, 
Mass., but lived for several years in North 
Reading, until, when she was nine years old, 
the family removed to Chicago, which has 
been her home since. She made music a 
subject of serious study, intending to make a 
speciality of it. She married when quite 
young, and soon after her brother urged her 
to try writing stories. She laughed at the 
icea, but her brother persisted; and on: day, 
finding her in a room with paper and pencil, 
he playfully locked the door, telling her she 
could not come out until she had written a 
story. It was largely to be rid of his impor- 
tunity that she began to write, but her work 
soon became more interesting than anything 
she had ever attempted. The decision of the 
reviewers to whom she submitted her first 
stories was unfavorable, but that did not de- 
ter her from trying again. A poem sent to 
Wide Awake was her first accepted work, 
v/hile "No Gentlemen" was her first novel. 
In personal appearance Mrs. Burnham is tall 
and slight, with light hair and blue eyes, She 



is merry, sparkling, and vivacious, and is 
likely, in a social group, to be a central fig- 
ure, for she entertains a circle delightfully 
v.'ith well-told anecdotes and brilliant wit. 
Her interests are varied, her manner win- 
nmg, and her quick sympathies make her a 
charming companion. 

ifresbeet News. 

D. Appleton & Co. have ready a most im- 
portant work in the light it throws upon a 
great man's life and thoughts in Sidney 
Whitman's "Personal Reminiscences of Prince 
Bismarck." Mr. Whitman's acquaintance 
with the Iron Chancellor was mostly covered 
by the years after his retirement from public 
life, a period that has given rist to great mis- 
understanding of the real character of the 
statesman. The Appletons also publish "For 
a Maiden Brave," a story of Colonial and 
Revolutionary life, by Chauncey C. Hotch- 
kiss ; "A Whaleman's Wife," by Frank T. 
Bullen ; "The Journal of Arthur Sterling," a 
human document of absorbing interest ; and 
"A Virginia Girl in the Civil War," an au- 
thentic account of the experiences of a Con- 
federate major's wife. The useful Artistic 
Crafts Series is also increased by a new vol- 
ume on "Silverware and Jewelry," by H. 
Wilson. 

Little, Brown & Co. have in preparation 
a most attractive series of novels. There is 
"The Siege of Youth," by that promising 
young writer, Frances Charles, whose "In 
the Country God Forgot" was last year re- 
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story. Then Anna Chapin Ray, so long a 
favorite with young people, in "The Domi- 
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sion that a woman can reform a man after 
marriage. "Barbara, a Woman of the 
West," by John H. Whitson, is a novel of 
typical Western life ; and "A Detached Pi- 
rate," by Helen Milicete, is a story of so- 
ciety's world, laid in London, Halifax, and 
New York. This house also has ready two 
excellent works for horsemen, "First Hand 
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No. 3. 




From " Under the Rose." Copyright, 1903, by Bobbs-Merrill Co. 

"take it/' she laughed, "and SEND IT TO THE DUKE !" 



Under the Rose. 



The first part of Mr. Isham's new story is 
placed at the temporary court of Francis i. of 
France; the second part follows the path of 
two fugitives from that court. The whole 
story hangs upon the identity of the Duke of 
Friedwald's jester, sent to Francis's court to 
forward the duke's suit for the hand of Prin- 
cess Louise, cousin of the king. Another 
member of the court, a woman, also masquer- 
ades in motley for a time, and between them 



they make a tangled plot. On the whole the 
story is a pretty one ; its staging is effective, 
there is enough tragedy to give relief to the 
brighter incident, and jester and jestatrix are 
at last made happy though at sore expense 
to the feelings of the betrayed Princess 
Louise. But what can a poor novelist do 
when he has two heroines and only one hero 
to divide between them ? (BobJ>8<^(ecr1^j7 



$1 .50. ) Public Opinion. 









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The Uganda Protectorate. 

"The Recreations of a Special Commis- 
sioner" would be an appropriate sub-title 
for these remarkable volumes, for it was in 
this capacity that the author went to Uganda 
in 1899 to reorganize the administrative af- 
fairs of the Protectorate. This work took 
twenty months, durmg which he travelled ex- 
tensively in the different provinces, finding 
his relaxation when his official duties were 
over, in collecting information about the land 
and its inhabitants, and in photographing and 
painting. The fruit of these leisure-hour oc- 
cupations is a monumental work on one of 
the most interesting countries in the world. 
Within an area about equal to that of Mon- 
tana there are to be found alpine, temperate, 
and tropical regions, with their vegetation, 
and life. In it are the highest mountain and 
the largest lake in Africa, waterless deserts, 
vast marshes, snowfields, and glaciers, and 
land unsurpassed in fertility. From the win- 
dows of a Uganda Railway car the traveller 
can see, as the train crosses certain tracts, 
'"rhinoceroses, sometimes even elephants, ze- 
bras, gnus, hartebeests, gazelles, reedbuck, 
waterbuck, oribi, and ostriches," while the 
human race is represented by every type, from 
the forest pygmy, hardly to be distinguished 
from the ape, up to Apolo, prime minister 
and historian of his people. 

Sir Harry Johnston does not attempt to 
put the results of his investigations into a 
popular literary form, and they hardly admit 
of such treatment. But his work is not a 
mere dry repertory of scientific facts. Per- 
sonal touches, incidents of his travels, con- 
stantly enliven the account of the physical 
features of the land, its fauna and flora, and 
its inhabitants. His artist nature makes him 
keenly alive to the wonderful beauty of a 
"country where bird, butterfly, and flower 
even earthworms unite to display under 
brilliant sunshine all the primary colors and 
many of their most exquisite blendings." In 
the enjoyment of this beauty he successfully 
endeavors to enable his readers to share, not 
only by his glowing descriptions of lake, for- 
est, and mountain scenery, but also by repro- 
ducing many of his paintings in color, and a 
great number of his photographs. His land- 
scapes are somewhat harsh, but his bird and 
animal drawings are of great and unusual 
merit. The photographs illustrate nearly 
every important statement in the text admit- 
ting of a material representation. It would 
be difficult, indeed, to find another work of 
this kind where illustrations of such a high 



order have been so judiciously chosen and so 
generously used. (Dodd, Mead. 2 v. $12.50 
net.) The Nation. 



The Journal of Arthur Stirling. 

If this journal is authentic, as it has every 
appearance of being, it is the most remarkable 
example of literary egotism, morbidity, and 
despair that American literature has yet been 
enriched with. This young man outdoes Poe 
in his blackest moments of merciless self- 
dissection, yet without ever losing his su- 
preme self-confidence in himself and in the 
divine character of his mission. So high 
does this confidence mount that at one time 
he compares the opinion of a publisher's 
reader upon his manuscript to a review of the 
Book of Revelation by Bill Nye. The jour- 
nal, which this volume contains, was written 
while he was in New York City trying to 
sell a drama in blank verse, "The Captive." 
While it was being considered, and rejected, 
by the different publishers to whom he of- 
fered it in turn, he was living in direst pov- 
erty, picking up a livelihood in any way that 
he could find. So convinced was he that 
the world owed him a living in exchange 
for his tragedy that he refused to try his hand 
at anything else and finally put an end to 
the tragedy of his own life by drowning him- 
self in the North River when his courage had 
broken down under the rebuffs, many of them 
kindly, from the publishers to whom he had 
carried his manuscript. 

With all its gloom and misanthropy, the 
journal is not without its expressions of high 
purpose, although warped and swollen by his 
boundless egotism. In one place he says. 
after denouncing the world for its selfishness 
and lust and wickedness : "I am but a voice 
crying in the wilderness, and these things 
must run their course. But in the mean- 
time there is one thing that I can do, and 
the doing of that has become a passion 
I can keep my own life pure; I can see that 
there is one man amid all its madness who 
is untouched by any stain of it." (Appleton. 
$1.25 ner.) Public Opinion. 



The Captain. 

When it was announced that the author of 
"J. Devlin Boss," who could delve down into 
the heart of an unscrupulous, illiterate dis- 
trict leader and bring forth much pure gold, 
was writing a historical novel ; when it was 
blazoned forth that Mr. Churchill Williams 
had joined the ranks of our Winston Church- 
ills and George Cary Egglestons and Hallie 



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Erminie Riveses, and was weaving a story 
of war and carnage around the central figure 
of General Grant, we must confess to having 
experienced something of a shock. We even 
delayed opening the volume when it came, 
and thereby deprived ourselves of a very 



southern prisons. And, accordingly, in the 
simple love story which runs through the 
pages as a side issue, he finds his tragic note 
mainly in the moral struggles of hearts divid- 
ed against themselves by the issues of the 
war. But the figure which rightly dwarfs all 




From "The Captain." Copyright, 1903, by Lothrop Publishing Co. 

'their men do the fighting^ but the women have their part. 



genuine pleasure for some eight and forty 
hours. Frankly, "The Captain" is not in the 
same category with the average historical 
romance. Mr. Williams has been wise in one 
respect. He^ has realized that the period of 
the Civil War had in itself sufficient tragedy 
without an accumulation of harrowing details; 
that the average man who served his country 
loyally throughout the four years of strug- 
gle, suffered enough even if he escaped 
wounds and hospitals and the horrors of 



others is that of the simple, dogged, indomit- 
able man whom throughout the book he has 
chosen to call "The Captain." If the name 
of Grant occurs a single time within these 
pages, we have failed to find it; but the per- 
sonality of the man, his courage and loyalty 
and sterling worth, dominate the book, and 
are interpreted with a dignity, a discretion 
and sympathetic understanding that deserve 
a high measure of praise. Mr. Williams will 
probably find in the future that his true field 



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[March, 1903 



lies in the realm of the Jimmie Devlins, in 
the mysterious by-paths of boodlers and lob- 
byists, the unsavory back-alleys of ward poli- 
tics. " The Captain " is a brilliant digres- 
sion, a step aside from his beaten path ; yet 
we have for it only words of cordial praise, 
for it is its own best justification. (Lothrop. 
$1.50.) A'^. Y. Commercial Advertiser. 




Courtesy of Houghton, Mifflin & Co. 
MARGARET DOYLE JACKSON. 

A Daughter of the Pit. 

Coal and the coal miner have largely en- 
grossed the attention of the American peo- 
ple during the last half-year and the many- 
sided questions involved have become of 
personal import to each one of us. Thanks 
to the press and the published reports of the 
Commission, we have grown tolerably famil- 
iar with the conditions now prevailing in our 
F.astern coal mines and their attendant re- 
sults, and, therefore, for the sake of com- 
parison, if not, alas, for that of contrast, any 
book on coal mining in England must be of 
especial interest. There are, however, more 
than general reasons for commending Mrs. 
Margaret Dojde Jackson's excellent first 
novel, "A Daughter of the Pit," since the 
book evinces unusual merit both in descrip- 
tion and characterization. It is a story of a 
Lancashire coal miner's daughter who, de- 



spite adverse and benumbing conditions, de- 
terminedly made the most of herself. The pov- 
erty and sordidness of life in a mining town 
with the overshadowing gloom of existence 
passed in the underground world have been 
brought out with dramatic realism, making 
the sympathy and charm of the heroine's 
character appear all the stronger by contrast. 
One has the feeling that the author knows 
by actual, personal experience whereof she 
writes a conviction borne out by facts 
since Mrs. Jackson grew up among the scenes 
she describes and her story has been inspired 
by the memory of colliery life in Manchester. 
That succeeding years and changing scenes 
have not dulled her first impressions, "A 
Daughter of the Pit" convincingly shows. 
(Houghton, Mifflin. $1.50.) 



r- The Needle's Eye. 

The difficulties attendant on the philan- 
thropic endeavors of the rich have been made 
the subject of not a few recent novels, and 
have been very diversely treated. Mrs. Kings- 
ley takes her theme seriously and is evidently 
very much in earnest, but she seldom allows 
the morality of her book to interfere with its 
interest, and "The Needle's Eye" is decidedly 
readable. It deals with American life under 
a variety of aspects in the country, the vil- 
lage, and the city and contains much good 
material, marred at times by faults of exe- 
cution. There is the lack of artistic restraint 
s J common in American fiction ; there is a 
tendency to sentimentalism, and, closely con- 
nected with it, an inclination to produce 
striking effects by rather theatrical means. 
Yet. in spite of these drawbacks, there is a 
kind of vitality in the book, and some few 
passages strike a note of sincere emotion. 
The chapters dealing with country life seem 




Courtesy of Funk & Wagnalis Co. 
FLORENCE M. KINGSLEY. 



March, 1903] 



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69 



to US much the most successful ; there are 
many pretty touches of scenery, and some of 
tne rustic characters are drawn with a good 
deal of humor. (Funk & Wagnalls. $1.50.) 
The Athenaum. 



Six Trees 

In "Six Trees" Mary K. Wilkins Freeman 
reverts to her earlier and probably most suc- 
cessful manner, of which "A New England 
Nun" and "A Humble Romance" are in- 

miitable examples. Again the setting of these 

Through Hiddea Shensi. simple, every-day scenes is a New England 

It is a frequent statement in the mouths village and the characters are the narrow- 
01 the wise that the literature of travel is minded, soul-starved, commonplace men and 
almost completed that is to say, travel in women who become, however, under the au- 
the sense in which the word was used in the thor's art, types of that puritanical spirit so 
middle of the century when Bayard Taylor rapidly disappearing even in Massachusetts, 
delighted his country with mere descrip- 
tions of scenes and people strange to 
them. So far as pioneer work in travel 
'is concerned, or mere accounts of ex- 
periences under strange conditions, the 
world, except the Polar regions and 
Tibet, is supposed to be pretty well cov- 
ered ; and yet here is Mr. Nichols re- 
vealing to us the fact that concerning 
a region in China, a land which has been 
known ever since the new empire in 
Egypt, the land which was described by 
Herodotus and Marco Polo, which Vas- 
co da Gama was seeking when he cir- 
cumnavigated Africa, which Columbus 
was seeking when he discovered Ameri- 
ca, is probably almost as dark to the 
average American reader as it was to 
the Venetians of the thirteenth century, 
who called Marco Polo "Marco Mil- 
Hone," because he said the great Khan 
was rich. 

Undoubtedly the average reader has 
learned from the newspapers that it was 
to Shensi that the Empress-Dowager 
and the incidental Emperor fled after 
the foreign troops had stormed Peking. 
But what sort of a spot Shensi might 
be was rather hard to ascertain, inas- 
much as but half a dozen white men 
have ever seen its capital. Mr. Nichols 
has touched lightly upon it, very much 
as Bayard Taylor touched lightly upon 
the lands he visited. He. has given us a 
narrative of his journey intermixed with de- 
scriptions of peoples and of scenery and bits 
of philosophizing about the people, in the 
fine old style of travelers. He went to Sian, 
the capital of Shensi, for the purpose of see- 
ing that the Chinese did not misappropriate 
a fund which was raised by The Christian 
Herald for the benefit of famine sufferers in 
Shensi. He entered the country with a feel- 
ijig of superiority toward the inhabitants and 
apparently has emerged with a feeling of hu- 
mility. (Scribner. $3.50 net.) Lit. Digest. 













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Copyright, 1903, by ILrper & Bros. 



I VE GOT SOME NICE GRIDDLE CAKES FOR SUPPER 
AND A CUSTARD PIE."' 

The six stories here gathered under the ti- 
tle "Six Trees," each having as its separate 
heading the name of some tree, present un- 
connected episodes of New England village 
life, wherein natural surroundings have had a 
subtle influence upon both character and ac- 
tion. Indeed, after reading these "pictures 
in little" one is in doubt which is the more 
important factor, the silent elm or birch or 
poplar, or the human figure, the product of 
circumstances and inheritance. (Harper. 
$1.25.) 



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[March, 1903 



The Story of the Trapper. 

The story that a boy when told, after he 
had first read "Robinson Crusoe," that it was 
not true, burst into tears, could not repeat 
itself in regard to the present story. The 
internal harmony forms a kind of internal 
and circumstantial evidence which will not let 
readers believe it false in any important point. 
The writer conceals her sex not only by 
initials on the title-page, but thrioughout, 
while she has reason to be proud of it. 
Countless particulars, each adding its little 
utmost of glowworm light to the perfection 
and charm of her pictures, would have 
escaped masculine eyes and pens. Her ex- 
perience of fifteen years in the broadest trap- 
perdom on the globe brought her into touch 
with those who rule and who serve there 
from lowest to highest. The revelation thus 
unveiled to her at once was so fascinating 
that she sought it again and again, with "a 
gypsy yearning for the wilds." Her book is 
i new proof that lookers-on at a game may 
see more than the players themselves, and 
will tell its story better. 

About one-third of the volume consists in 
a sketch of the American fur field in the 
trans-Mississippi extending at first up to the 
sources of that river, and thereafter broaden- 
iijg from ocean to ocean, and boundlessly 
north. The riemaining two-thirds of the vol- 
ume affords a more detailed account than we 
know where to seek elsewhere of life and 



labor in trapperdom. The trapper, isolated 
like Robinson Crusoe, has a far more scanty 
kit of tools. How he exists and achieves suc- 
cess in perpetual snow, cold, and want of all 
things, is a mystery which piqued the curios- 
ity of Miss Laut. The results of her pluck- 
ing out the heart of it will be welcome news 
not only to inquisitive children, but to the 
most thoroughgoing votaries of outing among 
us. (Appleton. $1.25 net.) The Nation. 



The King's Agent. 

We have read with pleasure Mr. Peter- 
son's well-written and exciting story, built 
up round the fascinating personality of John 
Churchill, first Duke of Marlborough. The 
author has been at pains to make himself 
well acquainted with that great man and 
his times, and if he has fallen under the 
Spell of his hero, who certainly appears in a 
most favorable light, we do not blame him. 
The king's agent is William's confidential 
adviser and spy, a cold-blooded plotter, a 
noted duellist, a libertine, and a villain, and 
yet with a human side which excites our 
sympathy. In skilfully drawn contrast is 
hi;; rival for the hand of a charming girl, 
a simple, impetuous young soldier. The plot 
centres round their struggle for her hand, in 
which Marlborough and the great "Mrs. 
Freeman," the young lady's self-constituted 
guardians, play a large part. The plotting 
is deep and cunning, as befits those days of 




From The Story of the Trapper." Copyright, 1902, Ly V. Api leton & Co. 

TRADERS RUNNING A MACKINAW OR KEEL-BOAT DOWN THE RAPIDS OF SLAVE RIVER WITHOUT 

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unrest and uncertainty, 
but works out easily and 
naturally. Included are 
by-pictures of William 
himself, "a little brown- 
faced man with keen eyes 
and a huge nose, dressed 
in a claret-colored suit 
that did not fit him"; of 
the Princess Anne and 
her stupid but good-na- 
tured husband ; and of a 
Lord Tottenham, a typi- 
cal nobleman of the pe- 
riod, which show no lit- 
tle care and penetration 
on the author's part. The 
interest is well sustained 
till the last page, and 
we recommend this as 
a thoroughly interesting 
specimen of the histori- 
cal type of romance. 
(Appleton. %x.5o.) The 
Athenceum. 



From ** BosUn Days." 



Literary Values and 
Other Papers. 

This book is the work 
of one who has read 
widely in literature as well as in nature ; 
has weighed his reading in a discerning way, 
and tells what he thinks about it. He may 
think of many things as others have done be- 
fore him, but it is his own thought, and new 
as the sunlight is new every morning. In 
the title essay there is probably nothing that 
has not been at some time, in some form, said 
before, but never has it been said with more 
cogency, less verbiage, more accuracy, less 
pretense. Mr. Burroughs sees clearly what he 
says, and he says no more. Because he sees 
quite clearly his language is simple provok- 
ingly simple. It has its exact weight, and 
goes in small bulk. 

Mr. Burroughs in this book gives no lengih- 
ened treatment to any one writer, except his 
predecessors, Gilbert White and Thoreau, 
and "another word on Emerson" ; but he sets 
out an astonishing collection of authors, like 
gems on a tray, weighing, examining, bring- 
}rg them into the light and finding hidden 
haws and excellences, comparnig one with 
another, and each with all. In this way we 
see the same writer in many lights, which, 
taken together, give a very full view of him. 
(Houghton, Mifflin. $1.10 net.) AT. Y. Times 
Sat. Review. 




Copyright, 1902, by Little, Brown & Co. 
WINIFRED HOWELLS. 

Boston Days. 

Miss Whiting's latest volume is an en- 
thusiastic but not wholly unfounded glorifica- 
tion of Boston, its ideals, history, type of 
character, men of letters, traditions, women, 
atmosphere. She describes it as the city of 
beautiful ideals; and her chapters, taken by 
themselves, would justify that characteriza- 
tion of Boston. They are full of luminous 
examples of high character, high thinking, 
and fine acting. She has made a kind of 
golden rosary of the great men and women of 
Boston. The country, which owes much to 
them, not only for what they said and the 
way in which they said it, but for what they 
were and the way in which they lived, will 
not be disposed to subtract from the sum 
tctalof their merits and their achievements. 
The record would have been more convinc- 
ing to persons of a worldly mind if it had 
been less enthusiastic. But Miss Whiting is 
a lover of beautiful things, a believer in tbprn 
and a recorder of them ; and in this book, as 
in "The World Beautiful," her emphasis rests 
on the things which are honest and pure and 
of good report. She has collected a great deal 
of information; and while her book is not an 
original contribution to the history of Bos- 



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[March, 1903 



ton, it is an interpretation of that story on 
its highest levels of achievement. (Little, 
Brown. $1.50 ntt.)The Outlook. 



The Earth and the Fullness Thereof. 

Born of a peasant family, illiterate until 
maturity, writing laboriously books for him- 
seli by the light of pine knots, then a coun- 
tiy schoolmaster, and at last a successful 
riovelist, Rosegger is peculiarly qualified to 
write of the life of the very poor and iso- 
Ir.ted people of the Styrian mountains. We 
have no life within the borders of the United 
Slates that is of a comparable sort, so that 
the story has that added interest of foreign- 
ncss and strangeness which Mr. Howells 
gc cd-humoredly deprecates. 

In Rosegger's story the narrator, a mer- 
curial fellow on the staflf of a Vienna paper, 
undertakes, on a large wager made during a 
drinking bout, to live for a full year as a farm 
hand among the peasants of Styria. At first 
his clothes, his manner and his white hands 
cause him to be viewed with suspicion, but 
at last he succeeds in finding work in the 
home of a lonely family on a mountain top, 
where the hand of misfortune has been heav- 
ily felt. One son has been drafted into the 
?irmy, another has been wounded by a game- 
keeper while poaching, no farm hands are to 
be had, and the burden of the work falls 
heavily upon the head of the household, who 
suffers from the asthma, and his pretty 
dr.ughter, over whom the young journalist 
gushes with truly German sentimentality. The 
\jl ok is in large part taken up with the chron- 
icle of the small events of farm life, which 
look anything but small to those who depend 
upon them for life and such small share of 
comfort as may be possible under the condi- 
tions. 

As the whole narrative is put in the form 
o' letters to an intimate friend, the second 
prrson singular is an inevitable consequence, 
and a heavy load for the translator to carry. 
In the case, however, of a novelist so frankly 
quaint and naive as Rosegger, this is a mat- 
ter of the smallest possible importance the 
stcry is not wanting in incident, and there is 
a curious love story, in which the farm hand 
from the city, the girl at the farm, and the 
master of the little school at the foot of the 
mountain play triangular parts. But of any- 
thing so complicated as a plot the story is 
quite innocent ; its interest lies in its picture 
o: one of the out-of-the way places of the 
world. (Putnam. $1.50.) Springfield Re- 
publican. 



Essays, Historical and Literary. 

We have here a very notable addition to 
our stock of John Fiske's writings, the more 
precious because the brain and hand that 
conceived and fashioned all this beautiful and 
noble work are stilled in death. It may be 
that touched with this thought our eyes see 
clearer than before; it is certain that we ap- 
pear to have had nothing more delightful 
from this busy writer's pen, or, if anything, 
only certain of his historical volumes and 
parts of others. But it is difficult to com- 
pare these volumes with his other volumes 
of a miscellaneous character, they are so 
much less miscellaneous, the interest is so 
dcminantly historical. Of the nineteen chap- 
ters only four reflect his scientific studies, 
two of these in reminiscences of Tyndall and 
Huxley, one in "Herbert Spencer's Service 
to Religion," and one called "Evolution and 
the Present Age." The qualities that made 
Fiske so useful and so pleasant to his genera- 
tion have here ample illustration; his un- 
rivaled talent for exposition, his persuasive- 
ness, his unfailing geniality, his lively wit, the 
accent of his personal tastes, his satisfaction 
in his intellectual possessions, and his delight 
in making others see them with his eyes. 

In things spiritual, as in things material, he 
get with diligence that he might freely spend. 
He was a great master of the art of expres- 
sion. A sure instinct generally guided him 
to the essential facts, and his presentation of 
them was without any frippery of irrelevant 
details. 

Seven of the nine articles in the first of 
tliese attractive volumes have a continuous 
character ; the other two stand apart from 
these and from each other. A brief preface 
tells us that the entire succession was to 
have been "embodied in a greater work, a 
History of the American People." Fiske was 
by instinct prone to "the great man theory 
of history," by education attracted to the op- 
posing theory. His historical method blended 
the opposing theories in proportions that 
v;ere generally well balanced. He was a 
philosophical historian, never content with 
picturesque details, but always looking before 
and after, eager for those "seeds and weak 
beginnings" of significant events in which 
these "lie intreasured.' He was equally the 
philosophical biographer, and in these volumes 
he sets each one of his figures in a large 
frame of historical relationship, treating the 
man as representative of important tendencies. 
(Macmillan. 2 v. $4 net.) Dr. /. W. Chad- 
wick, in N. Y. Sat. Times Rev. 



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Tioba, and Other Tales. 

During the past three or four years the 
work of Arthur WilHs Colton has become 
increasingly familiar to magazine and novel 
readers who have justly valued the vivid 



lish Literature at Yale, Mr. Colton has pub- 
lifhed three books, "Bennie Ben Cree," "The 
Delectable Mountains," and "The Debatable 
Land," aside from some exceedingly clever 
stories in The Atlantic, Century and else- 




From " Tloba, and Other Tales." Copyrifrht, 1903, by Henry Holt & Co. 

THE SHERIFF AND CANADA CENTER SQUEEZING THEMSELVES THROUGH THE GATE. 



descriptive power, true sympathy and un- 
failing sense of humor which are the charac- 
teristics of this young American author. 

Tracing back his history one finds, as in 
5-0 many other cases, that the college maga- 
zine proved a fostering agency for Mr. Col- 
ton's talents whereby the Yale "Lit" is the 
rirher to-day. Since college years and his 
post-graduate training as instructor in Eng- 



where. His new book, "Tioba, and Other 
Tales," is a collection of short stories touch- 
ing upon both tragedy and comedy after the 
manner of human experience, depicting some 
little known aspects of mountain life and 
again striking a note of deep pathos. But 
pervading all is the saving touch of humor 
which can be found in almost all of life's inci- 
dents. (Holt.) 



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Courtesy of Dodd, Mead & Co, 
KATHERINE C. THURSTON. 

The Circle. 

This book has at least one quality of a 
strong novel ; its central idea may be sum- 
med up in few words : the struggle of a 
woman's soul between lofty ambition on the 
one hand, and gratitude and filial duty on 
the other. Yet stated thus briefly, it gives 
no idea of the vitality of the book itself. 
From the opening page," it fairly tingles with 
life and action and pent-up energy. From 
the moment when Anna, the daughter of the 
old Russian Jew, Solny, who kept a curio 
shop in one of the tangled byways of Lon- 
/)on, stepped from her door one night and 
held a mob at bay, while she saved the life 
of a hunted fugitive, the narrative grips the 
reader's attention. The man she rescues is 
a German, cowardly by nature, yet faithful 
to Anna with the dumb fidelity of a dog from 
the moment of the rescue. He was the bearer 



of a packet of valuable jewels, and they were 
stolen from him all but one, and this one 
Anna takes to the woman to whom they were 
addressed, for the man dares not go. This 
woman and Anna recognize in each other 
kindred spirits. Anna's vaulting ambition, 
her unquenchable thirst to see life and to 
know life, even if life means suffering, the 
other woman can read in her face. She also 
reads the promise of great talent and she 
offers her a chance, the chance of becoming 
an actress. It is really ambition and thirst 
for fame that drove Anna forth one night, 
creeping like a thief from her father's house. 
The old father's reason succumbs to the 
shock, and the dog-like German lover lives 
on, humbly trying to take her place and sup- 
ply the wants of the stricken man. Anna 
achieves her ambition and for years forgets 
that she ever had a humble home in an old 
cuiiosity shop. But the time comes when 
she learns what love means and also learns 
how conduct like hers appears when seen 
through her lover's eyes. And with this 
knowledge comes the crucial test, the climax 
of the story. Faults this book certainly has, 
but it possesses what many a better book 
lacks the power to interest. (Dodd, Mead. 
$1.50.) A''. Y. Commercial Advertiser. 



A Study of Prose Fiction. 

Bliss Perry is one of the few American 
essayists who have complete mastery of the 
handmaidens of style ; and, like the French, 
with the service of these he can take a large 
and complicated subject and make it easily 
and charmingly intelligible. One half of the 
genius for good writing consists in knowing 
what not to say, and in this book Mr. Perry 
vindicates his title to its possession. The 
knowing reader is constantly aware of the 
inapt detail which he has put into the basket 
of reserve. As a consequence, he has written 
rv book in which the essentials stand out like 
the columns and alto-reliefs of a Greek tem- 
ple. 

The author, in the course of his treatment, 
discusses the relations of prose fiction to the 
kindred arts, the essential elements of con- 
struction, the plot, the setting, the characters, 
the personality of creative artists, and the 
short story as the popularly prevailing form 
The volume is designed to be a text-book for 
college classes, and it comes at a time when 
there is a great need for such a thing, and no 
adequate work in the field. It is a manual at 
all times suggestive and inspiring. (Hough- 
ton, Mifflin & Co. $1.25 net.) The Outlook. 



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The Star Dreamer. 

That disappointment and disillusronment 
were answerable for strange twists in mind 
and action in the last days of George iii.'s 
reign as well as in those of our supposedly 
advanced twentieth century is strikingly ex- 
hibited in Agnes and Egerton Castle's new 
novel, "The Star Dreamer." Here are shown 
the results of betrayal by friend, sister and 
love in the Lord of Bindon, who was changed 
from a pleasure-seeking, happy man into a 
star-gazing recluse, shunning human inter- 
course and striving to forget; while his 
old uncle, Simon Rickart, the wearied man 
of the world, buried himself in his laboratory, 
absorbed in experiments in chemistry and 
alcherny. These two ill-assorted companions 
and the beastiful, noble natured widowed 
daughter of Simon Rickart are the principal 
actors in this somewhat unusual story with its 
strange blending of weirdness and melancholy. 



For ten years the two men had followed 
each his own bent, while the castle went to 
rack and ruin, and the servants fared sump- 
tuously and their masters were neglected. 
But the return of Ellinor Marvel, Rickart's 
di.ughter, brought a new and healthy in- 
fluence into this abnormal existence, result- 
ing not only in restored household order 
and comfortable fare (and could a stronger 
weapon have been wielded to affect the spiri- 
tual man?), but also in the softening effect 
of a woman's presence upon the life and 
heart of a misanthrope. Herein lies the power 
of the story, for Mr. and Mrs. Castle have 
depicted with unerring touch the gradual 
humanizing of Sir David, first through friend- 
ship, changing later into intense love. 

There is enough plot based on the under- 
handed efforts of the lord's desperate sister 
to oust the heroine from her brother's home, 
to give action to "The Star Dreamer;" yet 




From '*The Star Dreamer. 



Copyright, 1903, by F. A. Stokes Co. 



AN ANCIENT GATEWAY, LOOKING AS THOUGH IT WERE CLOSED FOREVER 
THE BARS, THE VVILD^ IMPRISONED GARDEN. 



AND, THROUGH 



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on the whole the interest centres in the play of 
mind upon mind, of soul upon soul, keeping 
always, however, a true and sweet tone. The 
book is a decided advance in many ways upon 
tlic authors' previous work. (Stokes. $1.50.) 



that presaged the second disastrous eruption 
with the eyes of an observer and not of a 
dreamer, or on the next day viewing the 
writhing victims of that eruption, requires 
no symbolism at the hands of sculptor, or 




From ''Mout Pelee aud the Tragedy of Martinique." CopyriKlit, 190i, by J. B. Lippincott Co. 

ALONG THE ROXELANE SAINT PIERRE. 



Mont Pelee and the Tragedy of Martinique. 

Science is not compelled to resort to al- 
legory in perpetuating the memory of its 
heroes and their achievements. Professor 
Hcilprin, standing on the edge of the smoking 
crater of Pelee, gazing on the phenomena 



painter who may endeavor to immortalize 
the scenes. The facts were dramatic enough, 
just as they were, to satisfy any artist. 

Professor Heilprin, President of the Geo- 
graphical Society of Philadelphia, was the 
first scientist to visit Martinique after the first 



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eruption of Mount Pelee, on the 8th of May. 
and the only one to observe directly the sub- 
sequent eruption of August 30, which com- 
pleted the destruction of Morne Rouge. The 
latter disaster occurred during his second 
visit to the island, and gave him the fullest 
opportunity of verifying the conjectures, 
formed during his first visit, of the nature 
of the cataclysm. 

It is doubtful whether the scientist or the 
artist will more appreciate this book in the 
years to come. It is certain, however, that 
no other description of the awful event will 
ever supersede it in the estimation of either 
class of readers. (Lippmcott. $3 net.) 
Literary Digest. 



For a Maiden Brave. 

Mr. Hotchkiss has written another novel 
of revolutionary times, and again he has suc- 
ceeded in making an interesting story. Of 
course, one has learned to expect a certain 
amount of artificiality in the historical novel, 
but Mr. Hotchkiss, by his simple and sincere 
manner of writing, has contrived to impart 
tc his narrative something of the atmosphere 
of reality. His hero, John Chester, is a re- 
freshingly obscure young gentleman, who 
does not move to the blare of trumpets, and, 
in fact, sees little of military operations. We 
are, therefore, spared another description of 
General Washington and his cocked hat. 
There is, nevertheless, no lack of exciting 
incident in "For a Maiden Brave," and it is 
romantic also, as the title indicates. Ches- 
ter, a young student at Yale, incapacitated by 
an injury from entering the regular army, 
imdertakes to guide an expedition through 
British territory to a spot on Long Island 
near his own home, the object being to take 
prisoner a certain Tory gentleman. Once at 
home Chester finds himself in a hotbed of 
peril and intrigue, the arch-plotters being his 
rascally cousin and the latter's inamorata, 
and the intended victims Chester himself and 
his rich uncle, whose heir he is. The fifth 
character of consequence is a beautiful and 
patriotic girl who is secretly serving the cause 
of the Revolutionists, and with her Chester 
promptly falls in love. It is a story of ad- 
venture with a historical setting, improbable, 
a all such books are, in the sense that no 
man in real life could pass through a tithe 
of such dangers and difficulties unscathed ; 
but naturally told, and free from the bombast 
that mars so many of the books of this class. 
(Appleton. $1.50.) A''. Y. Commercial Ad- 
vertiser. 




Krom "The Master of Warlock." Copyright, 1903, by 
Lothrop Publishing Co. 

AGATHA RONALD. 

The Master of Warlock. 

Mr. Eggleston is not content with the tril- 
ogy so much aflfected in late years by novel- 
ists. He has planned a "series" of stories 
of the South, this being his third, and its 
predecessors, "A Carolina Cavalier" and 
'"Dorothy South," both of them successes of 
their season in the region with which they 
dtal. "The Master of Warlock" is a tale of 
the early days of Civil War, seen from the 
Southern standpoint, but without prejudice 
or rancor. 

It is not the limitations of the author, but 
those of the genre, which prescribe the em- 
ployment, time and time again, of the same 
material. Whether it be in seventeenth-cen- 
tury France or nineteenth-century Virginia, 
war and human nature vary not in their inter- 
action in novels. Mr. Eggleston is original 
in this, however, that he does not employ 
again the well-worn device of the Union of- 
ficer and the little rebel, or vice versa ; his 
hero and his heroine are both Virginians, 
both loyal to and zealous for the cause. The 
quarrel that divides them at first is an inherit- 
ed one. a family feud begun several genera- 
tif ns before over an insignificant question of 
the boundaries of adjoining estates, and kept 
piously alive by later masters of the two 
houses and all their relatives, as an heirloom 



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From " Medifeval India under Mohammedan Rule." Copyright, 1903, by G. P. Putnam's Sons 
DARUGA PERSHAD's HOUSE, FATHPUR-SIKRI. 

worthy of Chinese ancestor worship. It will 
be readily surmised from this that the Master 
of Warlock falls in love with the future 
mistress of the Oaks, his hereditary foe, and 
that she returns the affection. Also, that 
there are misunderstandings between them, 
which only the perils of war can dissipate. 
Then Agatha becomes the ministering angel 
of Scott's lines, and wins her lover from the 
shadow of the valley of death. It is Mr. 
Iiggleston's use of historical material, rather 
than his imagined romance, that makes his 
story worth readmg. The absence of im- 
probability, of the exaggeration of which 
story-tellers interested in their heroines are 
so apt to be guilty, is proof of the reliability 
of this side of the story he tells. (Lothrop. 
$1.50.) N. Y. Mail and Express. 



Lane-Poole divides the his- 
tory of the mediaeval age of 
India are very much alike 
in that each begins glori- 
ously under some particu- 
larly able warrior, like 
Mahmud of Ghazni, who es- 
tablished the first empire, 
or Babar, the first of the 
Moguls, and ends because 
successors able to maintain 
the empire were not forth- 
coming. 

The history of the epoch 
we have outlined is ex- 
tremely interesting, not- 
withstanding its sameness 
in the respect we have men- 
tioned and a certain mon- 
otony which arises from the 
fact that the history of the 
middle age of India is al- 
most exclusively a history 
of incessant warfare, either 
on a large or small scale. There appears to 
be no history of the people in the sense that 
there is a history of the people of the Euro- 
pean middle age. In India the people did 
not "count" ; even to-day they have no his- 
tory because they have never changed. But 
in the life, character, and achievements of 
their rulers from Mahmud, the first of the 
Ghaznawids, to Bahadur, the last of the 
Moguls, "the imagination finds," as the au- 
thor puts it, "aiiiple scope for the realization 
of strangely vivid and dramatic situations." 
(Putnam. $1.35 net.) Public Opinion. 



Mediaeval India under Mohammedan Rule. 

Professor Lane-Poole's history covers 
the period from 712 to 1764. The title of the 
book can not be taken literally for as a 
matter of fact India as a whole never came 
under the rule of its Mohammedan invaders. 
At various times they overran all the northern 
part of the country, but at no time did any 
one of them wield definite power over more 
than half of India. The author dismisses the 
invasions of the Arabs, who were the fore- 
runners of the Turks, as being of slight im- 
portance, because no permanent conquest was 
accomplished. 

The three periods into which Professor 



The Deeps of Deliverance. 

Another writer has arisen to take his 
place among that school of stern realists of 
which Ibsen, Sudermann, and Hauptmann are 
among the masters. In his "Deeps of De- 
liverance" Herr van Eeden has presented a 
temperamental study of an extraordinarily 
searching order. Having invested his heroine 
with diverse and conflicting characteristics 
he stands back, as it were, and following and 
chronicling her every thought and action, has 
arrayed as logical evidence against her, her 
own illogical deeds. Nothing in the character 
of Hedwig de Fontayne has escaped him. 
Hers was a highly sensitive nature, deeply 
sensible to spiritual things, yet tied to earth 
by a strong vein of human weakness and 
animal passions. Young, beautiful, fond of 
the good things of life, and left early without 
the guidance of a mother's watchful care, the 



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child was allowed to grow up lacking the 
spiritual fostering she needed so much and 
utterly devoid of the power or the strength 
to resist where resistance is most needed. 
Morbid she undoubtedly was to a most un- 
wholesome degree. Suicide and death had 
a gruesome fascination for her, and yet life 
called loudly to her from every side, luxury 
held out its arms to her, and vice, in the 
guise of pleasure, beckoned alluringly on. 
Possessing strongly the artistic temperament 
without the usual outlets, for she was an 
artist in nothing save the art of dress, her 
v.hole life, from the time of her earliest 
childhood, even before she was herself con- 
scious of it, was deadly dull. It was the life 
that the ordinarily wealthy, middle-class Hol- 
land family lead, but it 
warped her soul, hedged 
her in as a wall on all 
sides, and chained her to 
the rocks. 

The book is far more 
than a melancholy story 
of a woman's downfall 
and ultimate redemption. 
It is a deep moral study. 
Joob the cripple's bitter 
philosophy, which, never- 
theless, is full of a splen- 
did resignation ; Sister 
Paula's divine comfort, 
which still possesses so 
much humanity, and, 
above all, the stern, im- 
placable fate of Hedwig, 
the odd whirlwind of 
emotions which forms 
her life these are things 
which will make the 
reader pause and think. 
As a pretty story of love 
and happiness it can 
never be recommended, 
but as a strong, bold pic- 
ture of human frailty it 
cannot be too highly 
praised. Such analytical 
studies of characters, 
warped by circumstances 
and temperament, have 
their undoubted use if 
only to throw into bold 
relief other sane and rea- 
s o n a b 1 y happy lives. 
.(Putnam. $1.20 net.) 
A^. Y. Times Saturday 
Review. 



The Spy Company. 

Archib.m.d Clavering Gunter has spun a 
tale of stirring incident and ingenious plot in 
"The Spy Company," with Texas in the days 
of the Mexican War as the scene. The her- 
oine is a Texan girl who has been delicately 
reared in New York, but who returns to her 
f.jther's ranch at the outbreak of the war. 
Maturally she is plunged at once into a swirl 
of danger and excitement that would be ter- 
rifying to most girls, but through which this 
beautiful daughter of the Lone Star State 
passes undaunted. Events crowd upon each 
other, revolving around the history of this 
girl and her lover, Captain Sharpe Hampton, 
f. Texan patriot and cool-headed fighter, and 
finally culminating in the defense of a con- 




Froiu "Thf Spy Coiiiiiany, 



Copyright, 190'2, by A. C. Gunter. (Home Pub. Co.) 
A KNIGHT OF THE PRAIRIE. 



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vent wall by the Spy Company, composed of 
disappointed, desperate men, who are secretly 
pledged to court all dangers, indifferent to 
death. 

Mr. Gunter has turned the actual events 
cf that period of American history to good 
use, and withal has produced a novel in which 
there is not one dull moment. (Home Pub. 
Co. $1.50.) 

New Amsterdam and its People. 

The various contributors to the volumi- 
nous literature concerning the history of the 
city of New York have treated the subject 
id very various ways and from widely differ- 
ent points of view. John Fiske, with bril- 
liant generalizations and philosophic infer- 
ences, regards it as an integral part of the 
country's colonial history; Mrs. Lamb enter- 
tains us with sprightly and gossiping rela- 
tions of families and their changes ; in the 
Goede Vrouw of Manhattan Mrs. Van Rens- 
selaer paints the inner life and domestic vir- 
tues of the Dutch matrons. 

The present author, J. H. Innes, conducts 
his account in a quite novel way, from the 
first beginning of separate streets and build- 
ings through their connection with the suc- 
cession of persons who have occupied them, 
illustrating these by noted characters, with 
personal sketches. This method, though frag- 
mentary, brings out detached points of lively 
interest. The period within which the author 
chooses to confine his researches that be- 
tween the discovery of the islands and the 
final surrender of its dominion to the English 
in 1674 does not preclude scope for much in- 
teresting variety of treatment. True, the 
public events recorded are of narrow range 
and slight importance. The building of forts, 
palisades, a church, and public warehouses, 
the purchase of the island from the Indians, 
wars with the savages and the intruding 
Swedes, the creation of the class of patroons, 
and the establishment of the Boweries, and 
city charters, comprise the public events mark- 
ing that space of time. But the great world 
across the sea seethed with a ferment that 
reacted upon this insignificant nook of earth. 

Through the mingling of alien races, busy 
in divers pursuits, the town of New Amster- 
dam, at the time of its final surrender to the 
English in 1674, had, under the guidance of 
Dutch polity and thrift, grown to be a truly 
cosmopolitan community, quite justifying the 
author's description of it as a people not 
greatly different in its nature, however nar- 
rower in range, from the population which 



throngs the streets of Manhattan in this year 
of grace 1902. (Scribner. $2.50 net.) The 
Nation. 

The Taskmasteis. 

"The Taskmasters/' by George K. Turner, 
deals with the political conditions of a New 
England manufacturing town in the eighties, 
and sets forth plain truths as to the so-called 
independence of the voter whose bread de- 
pends on the millowner. To John Mayhew 
the relation interpreted itself as that of "the 
lord and his retainers, feudalism returned 
the hard industrial feudalism of New Eng- 
land." The Grimdale brewery, as it figured 
in Grimdale politics, is forcibly arraigned as 
"mother of sin and foolishness" owning the 
"poor, silly, mortgaged saloon-keepers," who 
are "bound round and round, owned body 
and soul now and hereafter." The eternal 
controversy between employer and employed 
furnishes the motive for the tragic episode of 
the story, as indeed for the story itself, 
which is not all tragic. Both sides capital's 
and labor's have a hearing. In a word, 
this book is a thoughtful, eager, even impas- 
sioned statement of both sides of that puzzle 
whose only solving lies in "work and experi- 
ment." "The world to-day makes but one de- 
mand on every man, no matter who he is 
fairness and work." The pulse of the ma- 
chme in New England mill-town politics is 
recorded with the fidelity of a watchful spe- 
cialist not, however, in bravado, but in the 
spirit of a helper, appalled at existing condi- 
tions political, aching at conditions social, 
hopeful for growth, sharply aware of boss- 
ism, but not without faith in the independence 
existing as a mustard-seed in the body politic. 
While the moral is the thing, the story is quite 
readable enough to convey the tonic. (Mc- 
Clure, Phillips. %i.2S.)The Nation. 



The East of To-Day and To-Morrow. 

The half dozen papers reproduced in this 
volume have appeared in various periodicals 
in the last year or two. They form one of the 
results of an extended journey made by 
Bishop Potter in the Orient, presenting the 
reflections of a keen mind that sees below 
the surface of things in the East. The au- 
thor had some exceptional facilities for ob- 
servation and for conversation with men of 
light and leading in the countries he visited. 

He takes us first to China and discourses 
on "Chinese Traits and Western Blunders." 
The key to the Chinese character he finds in 
the curious combination of indirection, in- 



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sensibility and selfishness that it contains. 
The Chinese do not want to understand us 
or be understood by us; because, first, of 
their enormous contempt for the outside bar- 
barian, and, secondly, of their imperturbable 
contentment with their own life and land 
and all that belongs to them. The imper- 
turbability has been rudely assaulted of late 
years, and, though many reactions are likely 
to mark its progress, a great change is in- 
evitable. Bishop Potter speaks for the rights 
of China and against "putting down a vener- 
able and historic civilization." 

One of his most interesting papers, however 
much its conclusions may be debated, is that 
on "The Problem of the Philippines," which 
was much discussed at the time of its first 
publication. The things that have happened 
since then have not been in the direction of 
his somewhat pessimistic views and expec- 
tations ; but he has many sound things to say. 

The significant thing in Japan to him was 
the fact that whatever the new empire arising 
there has done it has done well. Japan is 
pre-eminently a country to be taken seriously ; 
and yet, as our traveller points out, foreigners 
in the country and out of it, and many writers, 
too, often think it necessary to take every- 
thing there as a huge opera bouflfe. He views 
the invasion of Occidental ways of thought 
and of "American modernisms" in general 
without the apprehension that is generally 
expressed. It is natural, he says, that in their 
first efforts to appropriate these Western 
forces the people should take over much that 
is accidental rather than essential. This will 
right itself is already doing so. (Century. 
$1 net.) A^". Y. Tribune. 



The Just and the Unjust. 

In "The Just and the Unjust," Mr. Bagot 
has written a book quite unlike "Casting of 
Nets" and "A Roman Mystery." This story 
is not one of religious controversy, and doc- 
trine plays little or no part in it. Before one 
has read a dozen pages one can see that the 
author has struck at the heart of things, and 
he at once gains the reader's attention, which 
he successfully holds to the end. 

Some years before the story opens Lord 
Heversham, then Hugh Lester, met a woman 
who called herself Marjory Hungerford, but 
who was known to the literary world as 
"Cecil White." She was in the ripe maturity 
of her womanhood and responded to every 
whim and desire of his esthetic nature. For 
ten years they lived much together. And now 



the hour for them to part had come. Hugh's 
brother had died, and he had succeeded to 
the title. His brother had gained his prom- 
ise that he would marry in order that the 
title should not die with him. Hugh, man- 
like, thought that he could marry and con- 
tmue his relations with Marjory. But this 
was not possible with her. So she sent him 
from her, quietly and without any of the 
scenes which usually accompany such a break. 

The story itself deals with events in the 
life of Lord Heversham after he has mar- 
ried Muriel Goring, a young and beautiful 
woman who loves him from the beginning, 
and who patiently awaits the time when he 
will return her love. His heart is with Mar- 
jory, however, and his mind is ever reverting 
tc the empty cottage at Highgate, the key 
of which is in his possession. But Mr. Bagot 
does not dwell much upon this feature of the 
situation. He has his story to tell and his 
picture of English society to paint. The usual 
house parties are described and the usual 
smart dialogue is indulged in. 

No one need fear to read "The Just and 
the Unjust" because it touches upon the for- 
bidden subject, for it is absolutely moral in 
its tone. It is written with restraint and with 
a firm masculine touch. Furthermore the 
general reader will be relieved to know that 
Lord Heversham in time learns to care for 
his wife. (Lane. $1.50.) A^. Y. Com. Ad- 
vertiser. 

With the Flag in the Channel. 

Something more than poetic justice is done 
to the memory of a gallant adventurer in 
Mr. James Barnes's true sea story, "With 
the Flag in the Channel." Its hero is Capt. 
Gustavus Conyngham. Its eighteen short 
chapters make lively history of the mosquito 
fleet that worried British commerce in home 
waters during the Revolutionary war. But 
among the sea pictures by Carlton T. Chap- 
man there is one, just at the conclusion, that 
the hero himself would have travelled around 
the world to see. It is a copy of the docu- 
ment signed by John Hancock, President of 
the Continental Congress, which was needed 
to prove Conyngham an officer of the regu- 
lar service, and no pirate. And this man 
saw more of prisons than of prize-money, 
all for the lack of that bit of parchment. 

Mr. Barnes, who unearthed it in the cata- 
logue of a Paris autograph seller recently, 
says of this discovery: 

"It was only the price asked for John 
Hancock's signature 10 francs. But what 



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was the joy and surprise of its present pos- 
sessor, upon opening his new purchase, to 
find that it was nothing more nor less than 
the missing commission of the "Surprise !" 
Where it had been, what has been its his- 
tory since it was delivered at Versailles, 
how it came at last into the possession of a 
little print shop, no one can tell, but that it 
had much to do with the foregoing story any 
one can see. It lies before the author as he 
writes, and is reproduced in these pages for 
the first time, that the court of public print 
may decide the question. 

"The man who flew the flag in the Chan- 
nel went broken hearted to his grave, and 
now, out of the past, too late comes the au- 
thentic proof of his cause and asseverations." 

So truth is not only as strange as fiction, 
but sometimes, in the long run, it ends as 
happily. (Appleton. 80 c. net.) N. Y. Eve- 
ning Sun. 

The Success f Mark Wyngate. 

Miss Silberrad has studied life, and she 
presents her view of it without enthusiasm 
and without pessimism. She has a quick 
sympathy, she is very much alive to the ka- 
leidoscope of present-day affairs, but her own 
personality never intrudes. The reader sees 
her a silent, recording figure, chin resting 
on hand, studying motives rather than moods, 
intentions rather than acts. And in the raor 
mentary surprises of temperament in the 
development of her characters she never 
loses sight of the fundamental truth on which 
this study of the interaction of Mark upon 
Judith, and Judith upon Mark, is based. 
This : that while a man of iron will and 
single purpose may find his work all suffi- 
cient, a woman rarely finds the work suffi- 
cient in itself, however eager she may be in 
its pursuit. She must pay the penalty of her 
sex, and find in the personality of the man 
the strongest motive power of her endurance: 
the work itself comes second. It is a pity 
that this should be so, and there are, of 
course, exceptions; but Judith was not one 
of the exceptions. Finely, with sure strokes. 
Miss Silberrad draws this passionate, deep- 
souled, perfectly sincere woman, in whom 
the savage slumbers, but never sleeps. Mark 
is a chemist, she is a chemist. Mark is a man 
of science and nothing else, Judith is a chem- 
ist and a woman. That is the trouble. The 
theme is worked out with skill and verisimili- 
tude except as regards the catastrophe. In 
fiction such a catastrophe is accepted as "in- 
evitable" : in life, no ! That is the only part 



of the book where we think Miss Silberrad 
has turned away from the actual, and de- 
scribed the possible, which also happens to 
be the conventional. 

But the presentment of these two chemists, 
man and woman in partnership, working to- 
gether with hands as well as brains to dis- 
cover a certain opalescent dye, is not all the 
story. Behind and around these two strong, 
serious figures hover a collection of equally 
well observed characters compact of petti- 
ness and vulgarity. (Doubleday, Page. 
$1.50.) The Academy and Literature. 



Civil War Times. 

When President Lincoln's proclamation was 
issued calling for six regiments of three 
months' men Daniel Wait Howe was among 
the first to volunteer, and, arriving at Indian- 
apolis, he became a soldier of the Seventh 
Indiana Volunteers. The chapter entitled 
"Three Months' Picnic" is an amusing one, 
and shows what was soldiering at the beg^in- 
ning of the conflict and how little was known 
or even suspected of what was to come. After 
hi three months' service Mr. Howe returned 
to his home, but when there was a second ap- 
peal to arms he at once re-enlisted and re- 
mained in service until severely wounded at 
Kenesaw Mountain in 1864, when he was 
honorably discharged. In his three years' 
service he never had a furlough, never had 
been absent from duty, and never in hospital 
until wounded. It was in the West that Mr. 
Howe spent the most of his service. He took 
part in the heavy action of Stone's River, the 
Chattanooga campaign, and the battle of 
Chickamauga. He witnessed as a combatant 
the fighting around Atlanta until he was 
wounded. 

The author discusses at length many of the 
troubles of the time when Secretaries of War 
were at variance with their Generals, and 
when, too. Generals rather fought with one 
another, than with the enemy. Mr. Howe 
has no liking for Halleck nor for Stanton. 
To him Thomas "was the true hero of the 
war. The volume is a singularly interesting 
one and full of personal experiences. It gives 
the exact comprehension of what was the 
soldier's life. 

At the conclusion of the volume are given 
statistics of the war, the number of men 
engaged, and the fearful bills of mortality. 
The work is a valuable one, showing much 
care in its preparation. (Bobbs-Merrill. $2 
net.) N. Y. Times Sat. Review. 



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tie f iterarii 3fjm5. 

9p (StUttit iKont{)I| StbUh) of Curtrnt ILCtnatuir. 
EDITED BV A. H. LEYPOLDT. 

MARCH, 1903. 

JOHN HENRY SHORTHOUSE. 

The cable brings us word as we go to 
press of the death of the author of "John 
Inglesant,'' a book which enjoyed a phenom- 
enal sale in the early eighties, and has held 
its own for upwards of twenty years among 
standard English novels, occupying an unchal- 
lenged place among the books that are litera- 
ture. 

In 1881 this book appeared anonymously, 
but was soon traced to a chemical manufac- 
turer of Birmingham, England. It fell into 
the hands of William E. Gladstone, who 
recognized its genuine power at once. While 
he was reading it he was photographed, as 
the story goes, with " John Inglesant " under 
his arm, offering an unintended advertisement 
of the book throughout England. 

We here repeat the notice given in the 
Literary News at the time, for it offers a 
detailed description of the peculiar merits of 
the book : 

" * John Inglesant : a romance,' by J. H. 
Shorthouse, is one of the notable books of the 
day. It is the story of an Englishman of 
birth and ability who was educated by a 
Jesuit as an agent of the Society of Jesus 
without detaching him from the communion 
of the Church of England. XJie vicissitudes, 
manners and men of the age of Charles i. 
are graphically described, with incidents of 
the highest dramatic interest. The difficult 
task of making Inglesant perform the more 
than dubious work laid upon him, and yet 
keep the confidence and respect of the reader, 
is discharged with the very highest skill. In 
all his duplicity Inglesant is so true to the 
ideal of obedience which has been impressed 
upon his very soul that he seems to be mak- 
ing an almost heroic sacrifice of himself. 
The fact that he holds himself bound to sur- 
render all things to an idea of obedience, not 
as something due to the Society of Jesus, but 
as a wholly ideal quality, saves him from con- 
tempt. After the death of the king, Inglesant 
goes to Italy, and too much cannot be said 
of the splendor and fulness with which the 
rich and profligate Italian life of the time is 
portrayed. It is unquestionably one of the 
finest historical studies in our language. The 
work is enriched for the thoughtful reader 
by a very able and subtle presentation of the 
Platonism, quietism and other forms of 



mysticism prevalent in the seventeenth cen- 
tury. The interior workings of Romanism 
and the methods of the Jesuits are very fully 
and effectively brought out, and the work is, 
in short, a powerful picture of the more in- 
tense and subtle aspects of life at one of the 
most interesting periods of modern history. 
The story is told throughout in a certain 
grave, rich style which affects the mind with 
a pervading sense of harmony. The work 
has attracted wide attention in England, and 
betrays the touch of a man of genuine power." 

The culture and erudition displayed in 
this unheralded "great" novel seemed specially 
remarkable in a descendant of generations of 
manufacturers. His father was specially 
known as a manufacturer of sulphuric acid; 
his mother was the daughter of a glass manu- 
facturer. He himself married the daughter 
of an accountant. He was educated at pri- 
vate schools, and books were always his rec- 
reation. His book led most of his readers 
to conclude that he was a dreamy and learned 
recluse. It is said that Shorthouse had an 
impediment in his speech, to which incon- 
venience he probably owed his literary achieve- 
m.ents. All through life it prevented him 
from expressing in words his ideas on any 
subject that strongly interested him. He 
talked easily on business matters, but for the 
expression of deeper thought his only medium 
was the pen. 

In spite of its greafr literary merit this 
book was refused by several important firms 
before it finally came to the Macmillans. It 
is said that Mr. James Payn was among those 
who rejected it. Afterwards it was reprinted 
in almost every shape, and enjoyed one of the 
m.ost remarkable runs of popularity on record, 
long before the days of vast sales and un- 
tiring advertising. All Mr. Shorthouse's 
books have merit, and some true humor, but 
they have all been overshadowed by this 
world-renowned book which has been trans- 
lated into many tongues. 

The author was born in 1834, and was in 
his sixty-ninth year. 



Blanche, Lady Falaise, 1891. $1. Macmillan. 
Countess Eve, 1888. $1. Macmillan. 

Same, pap., 25 c. ' Harper! 

John Inglesant, 1881. $3.50; $1; pap., 50 c. 

Macmillan. 
Little schoolmaster Mark, 1883. $1 ; 75 c. ; 

pap., 50 c. Macmillan. 

Preface on the Royal Supremacy to the Rev. 

Arthur Galton's The message and position 

of the Church of England. 
Sir Percival, 1886. $1 ; pap., 50 c. Macmillan. 
Teacher of the violin, and other tales, 1888. 

pap., 50 c. Macmillan, 

Wordsworth, F. D. Maurice, George Herbert. 



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Julian Ralph. 

Julian Ralph, whose sudden death oc- 
curred in New York on January 20, was first 
and always a journalist, for despite the many 
volumes standing to his credit, he will be best 
remembered as "Our special correspondent 
on the field," in all the recent wars, as the 
alert observer of passing events, and as the 
indefatigable traveller in familiar and unfa- 
miliar places. Born in New York City in 
1853, he received his early education in the 
public schools. At 13 years of age, his am- 
bition could no longer be restrained and he 
was allowed to enter the printing office of the 
Red Bank (N. J.) Standard as printers' 
"devil." Within two years, however, he was 
doing reportorial work and a little later he 
started the Red Bank Leader, which had a 
meteoric existence of six weeks. Then came 
an appointment of the seventeen -year-old lad 
as managing editor of the Webster (Mass.) 
Times, and, a year later, an opening as 
reporter in the Nezv York Graphic. His 
work on the famous Beecher trial attracted 
much attention, and led to an engagement 
on the Sun, which was to last for twenty 
years. Since then he has been London corre- 
spondent for a year or so of the New York 
Journal, but his more important work has 
been done as field correspondent in the 
Turko-Grecian War, in the South African 
War and in a series of articles for American 
magazines. His health, impaired by the hard- 
ships of the South African campaign, has 
never regained its vigor, and a complication 
of diseases presaged a fatal though not a 
sudden termination. 

We have thought best to give descriptive 

notices of the work of Julian Ralph which 

has appeared in book form, without offering 

any personal opinions upon its comparative 

value. 

BOOKS BY JULIAN RALPH. 

A prince of Georgia, and other tales. 12, 
1899. $1.25. Harper. 

Seven short stories : A prince of Georgia ; 
When the clouds fell down ; A dandy at his 
best ; The sad fate of a new woman ; Mrs. 
Ruppert's Christmas ; My borrowed torpedo- 
boat ; and Bruce's mighty weakness. 

Alone in China, and other stories ; il. by C. 

D. Weldon. 12, 1896. Harper. 

The introduction gives a fine picture of the 
author's travels, with which the war between 
China and Japan greatly interfered. Then 
follow a succession of romances, vividly de- 
scribing Chinese conditions. 

An American with Lord Roberts, 1901. 12, 
$1.50. Stokes. 

These records of the South African War 



supplement the author's "Toward Pretoria," 
and include material not to be found else- 
where. 

An angel in a web; il. by W. T. Smedley. 

12, $1.25. 1899. Harper. 

A story with supernatural implication deal- 
ing with the fortunes of an old American 
family in one of the ancient manorial estates 
on the Hudson River. 

Chicago and the World's Fair. 8, $3. 1892. 

Harper. 
Written in October, 1902, and proved most 
valuable to those visiting the fair in 1903. 

Dixie: Southern scenes and sketches. 12, 
$2.50. 1896. Harper. 

The author left St. Louis and travelled to 
New Orleans, where he saw Mardi Gras, 
thence to the Bayou region, to Florida and 
Mississippi, the industrial region of Alabama, 
Tennessee and Georgia, the Carolinas, West 
Virginia and Washington. Contributions to 
Harper's Magazine and Harper's Weekly. 

On Canada's frontier : sketches of history, 
sport and adventure, and of the Indians, 
missionaries, fur-traders, and newer set- 
tlers of Western Canada. 8, $2.50. 1892. 

Harper. 
Published chiefly in Harper's Magazine. 

Our Great West : a study of the present con- 
ditions and future possibilities of the new 
commonwealths and capitals of the United 
States. 8, $2.50. 1893. Harper. 

Articles contributed to Harper's Magazine 

and Harper's Weekly. A work of permanent 

standard value. 

People we pass : stories of life among the 
masses of New York City. $1.25. Harper. 
Eight short stories : The lineman's wed- 
dmg ; The mother song ; Love in vhe big bar- 
racks ; A day of the Pinochle Club; Cor- 
delia's night of romance ; Dutch Kitty's white 
slippers ; Peter Burke and his pupil ; Low 
Dutch and high. 

The millionairess; il. by C. F. Underwood. 

12. 1902. Lothrop. 

Deals' with New York society men and 
women. The Beaux Art Club formed on 
original lines is a feature of the story. Many 
scenes take place on the Hudson in a fine old 
mansion. 

Toward Pretoria: a record of the war be- 
tween Briton and Boer to the relief of 
Kimberley ; with a summary of subsequent 
events to the hoisting of the British flag at 
Bloemfontaine : with historical forward, 
appendices and maps. 12, $1.50. 1900. 

Stokes. 

War's brighter side : the story of The Friend 
newspaper; edited by the correspondents 
with Lord Roberts' forces. March-April, 
1900. 12, $1.50. Appleton. 

Represents what was best worth preserving 
in the unique journal, edited by Julian Ralph, 
Rudyard Kipling, A. Conan Doyle, Lord 
Stanley and other world-renowned corre- 
spondents stationed at Bloemfontaine, wait- 
ing to march on Pretoria. 



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Bcadinss from Nem i3ooks. 

A BOOK, A PORTABLE MIRACLE. 

It is the first importance of a true book that 
a man can select his neighbours with it, can 
overcome space, riches, poverty, and time 
w^ith it, and the grave, and break bread v^^ith 
the dead. A book is a portable miracle. It 
makes a man's native place all over for him, 
for a dollar and a quarter ; and many a man 
in this somewhat hard and despairing world 
has been furnished with a new heaven and a 
new earth for twenty-five cents. Out of a 
public library he has felt reached down to 
him the grasp of heroes. Hurrying home in 
the night, perhaps, with his tiny life hid un- 
der stars, but with a Book under his arm, he 
has felt a Greeting against his breast and held 
it tight. "Who art thou, my lad?" is said; 
"who art thou ?" And the saying was not for- 
gotten. If it is true that the spirits of the 
mighty dead are abroad in the night they are 
turning the leaves of books. 

There are other inspiring things in the 
world, but there is nothing else that carries 
itself among the sons of men like the book. 
With such divine plenteousness seeds of the 
worlds in it it goes about flocking on the 
souls of men. There is something so broad- 
cast, so universal about the way of a book 
with a man: boundless, subtle, ceaseless, irre- 
sistible, following him and loving him, renew- 
ing him, delighting in him and hoping for 
him like a god. It is as the way of Nature 
herself with a man. One cannot always feel 
it, but somehow, when I am really living a 
real day, I feel as if some Great Book were 
around me were always around me. I feel 
myself all-enfolded, penetrated, surrounded 
with it the vast, gentle force of it sky and 
earth of it. It is as if I saw it, sometimes, 
building new boundaries for me, out there 
softly, gently, on the edges of the night for 
me and for all human life. 

Other inspiring things seem to be less 
steadfast for us. They cannot always free 
themselves and then come and free us. Mu- 
sic cannot be depended upon. It sings some- 
times for and sometimes against us. Some- 
times, also, music is still absolutely still, all 
the way down from the stars to the grass. 
At best it is for some people and for others 
not, and is addicted to places. It is a part 
of the air part of the climate in Germany, 
but there is but one country in the world 
made for listening in where any one, every 
one listens, the way one breathes. The great 
pictures inspire, on the whole, but few people 
most of them with tickets. Cathedrals can- 
not be unmoored, have never been seen by 
the majority of men at all, except in dreams 
and photographs. Most mountains (for all 
practical purposes) are private property. The 
sea (a look at the middle of it) is controlled 
by two or three syndicates. The sky the 
.last stronghold of freedom is rented out for 
the most part, where most men live in cities ; 
and in New York and London the people 
who can afford it pay taxes for air, and grass 
IS a dollar a blade. Being born is the only 
really free thing and dying. Next to these 
in any just estmiate of the comparatively 
free raw material that goes to the making of 



a human life comes the printed book. (Put- 
nam. $1.75 net.) From Gerald Stanley Lee's 
"The Lost Art of Reading." 



SUBURBANISM. 

Miles and miles of these villas exist in 
every metropolitan suburb worth the name; 
and though the rents and sizes of them may 
vary, they are all built to one architectural 
formula, and all pinchbeck, ostentatious, and 
unlovely. No person of judgment, nobody 
possessed of a ray of the philosophic spirit, 
can gaze upon them without concluding at 
once that the English do not know how to 
live. Take a street of these villas, big or lit- 
tle, and what do you find? You note, first, 
that nearly every house, be it occupied by 
clerk, Jew financier, or professional man, has 
got a highfalutin name of its own. The 
County Council or local authority has already 
bestowed upon it a number. But this is not 
enough for your suburbanist, who must needs 
appropriate for his house a name which will 
look swagger on his letter-paper. Hence, No. 
2, Sandringham Road, Tooting, is not No. 
2 Sandringham Road, Tooting, at all ; but 
The Laurels, if you please. No. 4 not to be 
outdone is Holmwood; No. 6 is Hazledene; 
No. 8, The Pines ; No. 10, Sutherland House ; 
and so forth. Then, again, if you walk down 
a street and keep your eye on the front win- 
dows of this thoroughfare of mansions, you 
will note that every one of those windows 
has cheap lace curtains to it, and that im- 
mediately behind the centre of the window 
there is a little table, upon which loving hands 
have placed a green high-art vase, containing 
a plant of sorts. And right back in the dim- 
ness of the parlor there is a sideboard with 
a high mirrored back. 

If you made the acquaintance with half a 
dozen of the occupiers of these houses, and 
were invited into the half dozen front rooms, 
you would find in each, in addition to the side- 
board before mentioned a piano of question- 
able manufacture, a brass music-stool with a 
red velvet cushion, an overmantel with mir- 
rored panels a "saddle-bag suite," consisting 
of lady's and gent's and six ordinary chairs 
and a couch ; a centre-table with a velvet- 
pile cloth upon it, a bamboo bookcase con- 
taining a Corelli and a Hall Caine or so, 
together with some sixpenny Dickenses picked 
up at drapers' bargain-sales. Nuttall's Dic- 
tionary^ Mrs. Beeton's House Book, a Bible, 
a Prayer Book, some hymn-books, a work- 
basketful of socks waiting to be darned, and 
a little pile of music, chiefly pirated. At 
night, when Spriggs comes home to The 
Laurels, he has an apology for late dinner, 
gets into his slippers, and retires with Mrs. 
Spriggs, and perhaps his elder daughter, into 
that parlor. There he reads a halfpenny news- 
paper till there is nothing left in it to read; 
then he talks to Mrs. Spriggs about that beast 
So-and-so, his employer ; and Mrs. Spriggs 
tells him not to grumble so much, and asks 
the elder daughter why she doesn't play a 
chune to 'liven us up a bit. "Yes," says 
Spriggs, "what is the good of having a piano, 
and me buying you music every Saturday, if 
you never play?" Whereupon the elder daugh- 
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suckle and the Bee, and Everybody's Loved 
by Some One; and Spriggs beats time with 
his foot till he grows weary, and thinks we 
had better have supper and get off to bed. 
(Putnam. $1.25 net.) From Angus Mc- 
Neill's "The Egregious English." 



EARLY SNOWDROPS. 
No snow had fallen all the winter thro', 
The trees were budding in the early year 
Beguiled by sunshine that was almost Spring. 

The thrushes built their nests before the time, 
And twittered cheerily the whole day long; 
Buds grew to leaves, as if to shelter them. 

February's skies had April's tender grace. 
When lo! the fields were white, as if with snow. 
And all the woods and gardens and hedgerows. 

Single, in clusters, opened flower and bud. 

The snowdrops bloomed; the world was white with 

them. 
Half hidden in a snowstorm of snowdrops. 

(Doubleday, Page. $1 net.) From "Hand in 
Hand: Verses by a Mother and Daughter." 



SLEEP IS NO RESPECTER OF PERSONS. 

The first and most impressive fact of uni- 
versal experience that we note as an incident 
of sleep is our sudden and complete dissocia- 
tion from the world in which we live; the 
interruption of all conscious relations with 
matters which engross our attention during 
our waking hours. No matter how much we 
are absorbed by private or public affairs, no 
matter how vast the worldly interests that 
seem to be depending upon every waking 
hour, with what cares we are perplexed, what 
aspirations we indulge, they can postpone but 
a few hours at most the visit of this inexora- 
ble master, while they cannot diminish in the 
slightest degree the lawful measure of his 
exactions. Sleep, like death, knocks at the 
doors of kings' palaces as well as poor men's 
cottages. It is no respecter of persons, and 
while it is levying its tribute we are uncon- 
scious of everything we have done in the past 
and of all we are planning to do in the future. 

Here we have one of the universal con- 
ditions of sleep which is coincident and in 
harmony with one of the supreme behests of a 
Christian life : utter deliverance from the 
domination of the phenomenal world ; an en- 
tire emancipation, for these few sleeping 
hours, from the cares and ambitions of the 
life into which we were born, and to the in- 
dulgence of which we are inclined by nature 
to surrender the service of all our vital ener- 
gies. If it be a good thing to live above the 
world, to regard our phenomenal life as transi- 
tory, as designed merely or mainly to educate 
us for a more elevated existence, to serve us 
as a means, not an end, then we have in sleep, 
appairently, an ally and coadjutor at least to 
the extent of periodically delivering us from 
a servile dependence upon what ought to be 
a good slave, but is always a bad master. We 
here recognize an incontestable analogy at 
least between the phenomena of sleep and 
the providential process by which the re- 
generation of the human soul is to be begim, 



and by which only such regeneration can 
bt successfully prosecuted. The very exis- 
ence of such an analogy is a fact of im- 
measurable interest and importance, for such 
analogies in the scheme of divine government 
are not accidental ; are ^lot without a purpose 
proportioned to the dignity of their august 
origin. (Harper. $1.50.) From Bigelow's 
"The Mystery of Sleep." 



FIDELITY TO THE POINT OF VIEW. 

And now we are confronted with the fact 
that if there are many men of many minds 
in this world of ours there are also many 
men with many eyes. No two pairs of eyes 
see alike. Are we to infer then that any one 
pair of eyes or any one race or its school of 
painters sees truth and all the others see only 
error? Is truth on one side of the Alps and 
falsehood on the other? Titian in Italy made 
a different report of nature from Rembrandt 
in Holland which told the truth? Does 
truth abide exclusively in the Orient or the 
Occident? A landscape in Japan by Ho- 
kousai, how very different from a Seine 
landscape by Daubigny ! But is either of 
them false? And after all does not something 
of truth I do not say the whole of it con- 
sist in the fidelity with which the point of 
view is maintained? We must cultivate lib- 
erality in this matter. For Creation ordained 
that there should be a Babel of eyes, all see- 
ing differently, and consequently there must 
be a standard of truth peculiar to each in- 
dividual. 

Does "truth to nature" then mean to each 
man what his eyes tell him and to each 
painter what the sincerity of his make-up 
enables him to record? Yes, certainly; but, 
mind you, it may be a very limited truth, not 
necessarily an absolute truth, not a world- 
embracing truth applicable to all classes and 
conditions of men. The child with his chalk- 
lined horse may be maintaining his childish 
point of view with the utmost fidelity, but it 
is apparent from his drawing that he does 
not fully comprehend his subject, does not see 
the object in its entirety. The horses by 
Spinello Aretino, shown in his Campo Santo 
pictures at Pisa, are not very different from 
the child's conception. They contain more 
truths without by any means being exhaus- 
tive. They are still crude, but true enough 
as regards the maintenance of the point of 
view. The fine horses of Benozzo Gozzoli, 
in the Riccardi palace fresco, are an improve- 
ment upon those of Spinello without being 
complete, and the Gattemalata horse of Dona- 
tello, the Colleoni of Verrocchio, may make 
us enthusiastic about the special truth of their 
pushing power, and again not make a full re- 
port of the horse. Perhaps when we reach 
the height of realism and come to a horse as 
seen by Gerome or Rosa Bonheur we are not 
so pleased with it as with Benozzo's squai' 
framed beast; but that may be for a cause 
which we shall discuss hereafter. The com- 
pleteness of the truth, the* fulness of the re- 
port, may not be denied, however wearisome 
it may be as art. (Scribner. $1.25 net.) 
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ART, MUSIC, DRAMA. 

Baldy, a. L. Sir John Everett Millais. Mac- 
millan. il. 16, (Bell's miniature ser. of 
painters.) 50 c. 

DiLKE, Lady Emilia Frances Strong. French 
engravers and draughtsmen of the xviiith 
century. Macmillan. il. 8, $10. 

French^ Lillie Hamilton. Homes and their 
decoration; il. by Katharine C. Budd. 
Dodd, Mead. 8, $3.50 net. 

Lahee, Henry C. The organ and its mas- 
ters : a short account of the most celebrated 
organists of former days as well as some of 
the more prominent organ virtuosi of the 
present time; with a brief sketch of the 
development of organ construction, organ 
music and organ playing. L. C. Page. por. 
12, $1.60 net. 

Litchfield, Rev. P. A. The English cathe- 
drals. Lippincott. il. 12, $2 net; limp 
leath., $2.50 net. 

Mason, Dan. Gregory. From Grieg to 
Brahms; studies of some modern com- 
posers and their art. Outlook Co. il. 12, 
$1.50 net. 
Eight essays and biographical studies, 

liamely: The appreciation of music; Eduard 

Grieg; Antonin Dvorak; Camille Saint- 

Saens; Cesar Franck; Peter Ilyitch Tschai- 

kowsky; Johannes Brahms; The meaning of 

music. 

Staley, Edgcumbe. Watteau and his school. 

Macmillan. il. 12, (Handbook of the great 

masters in painting and sculpture.) $i.75 

net. 
Van Dyke, J : C : The meaning of pictures : 

six lectures given for Columbia University 

at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Scrib- 

ner. il. 12, $1 net. 

To be noticed in next issue. 

Williamson, George C. Frederic Lord 
Leighton. Macmillan. il. 16, (Bell's min- 
iature ser. of painters.) leath., $1. 

Williamson, George C. Murillo. Macmil- 
lan. il. 16, (Bell's miniature ser. of paint- 
ers.) 50 c. 

Zimmern, Helen. Sir Lawrence Alma Ta- 
dema, R.A. Macmillan. il. 16, (Bell's 
miniature ser. of painters.) leath., $1. 

BIOGRAPHY, CORRESPONDENCE, ETC. 

Adamson, W:, D.D. The life of Joseph Par- 
ker, pastor of City Temple, London. Re- 
vel!, il. por. 8, $1.75 net. 
This biography is not the product of a few 
months' hasty work. The author gives us the 
fruit of many years of preparation, in a care- 
ful, mature and authoritative work. In writ- 
ing the life of Joseph Parker, Dr. Adamson 
has lifted the veil from much more than a 
series of facts and deeds. Long and intimate 
personal intercourse and friendship have qual- 
ified him in a peculiar degree to put in the 
forefront the forces in Dr. Parker's unique 



character, wherein lay the secret of his influ- 
ence, power and success. The elements of ro- 
mance and humor, together with anecdote and 
illustration which give a biography a vivid 
human interest are skilfully interwoven with 
the narrative. While fully accomplishing his 
primary object, Dr. Adamson has made his 
book illuminating and informing on the relig- 
ious history of England during the period he 
covers. 

BowDiTCH, Henry Ingersoll, M.D. Life and 
correspondence of Henry Ingersoll Bow- 
ditch; by his son, Vincent Y. Bowditch. 
Houghton, Mifflin. 2 v., il. 8, $5 net. 
"Dr. Bowditch's father, Nathaniel, gained 
national fame as a mathematician ; he himself, 
as a physician, by his promotion of 'preven- 
tive medicine,' particularly in combating con- 
sumption. For this he was made chairman 
of the State Board of Health in Massachu- 
setts when instituted in 1869, and a member 
of the National Board of Health when insti- 
tuted in 1879. He deserves remembrance for 
his early advocacy of his unpopular proposi- 
tion to open the medical profession to 
v/omen. It was in the early time of the anti- 
slavery movement that his chivalrous charac- 
ter was most conspicuously exhibited from 
the day when the mob of respectable Bos- 
tonians endeavored to lynch Garrison, in 1835. 
Thenceforth he staked his social standing, his 
professional prospects, in courageous struggle 
for the right of free protest against slavery 
and for the emancipation of the enslaved. Dr. 
Eowditch was a man of religious spirit, sen- 
sitive conscience, positive character, and ge- 
nial disposition, a faithful exponent of 'ap- 
plied Christianity.' His son has in this me- 
morial of his life performed a patriotic ser- 
vice as well as a filial duty." The Outlook. 

Davidson, Arth. F. Alexandre Dumas 
(pere) : his life and works. Lippincott. il. 
8, $3.75 net. 

"Though Dumas has more readers in Eng- 
lish than any other French novelist, he has 
not before had an adequate English biog- 
raphy. And his personality, if not in all ways 
admirable, is in many ways so extraordinary 
and so splendid that it associates itself natur- 
ally with his brilliant work; his biography 
partakes of the quality of his own romance. 
The man and his work are hardly separable, 
and Mr. Davidson has not treated .them apart. 
He tells us the personal story of the man 
with judicial precision, yet with abundant ap- 
preciation of the wealth of picturesque anec- 
dote that surrounds it, and he gives us with it 
a comprehensive survey of Dumas' vast 
range of literary work that in breadth of 
view and justness of critical appreciation has 
had no precedent in English. Indeed, we re- 
call no single work in French, though there 
is a library relating to Dumas, that covers 
the whole ground at once so completely and 
i.o soundly, and though, as has been said, it 
makes a big volume, it is written in a manner 



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so clear and bright, with so much move- 
ment and color, as its subject demands, that 
ic gives the impression of great condensation. 
Finally, there is a bibliography, whose mere 
extent gives some impression of the mar- 
vellous fecundity of this prodigious genius, 
and an excellent index completes a most in- 
teresting, instructive and useful book." 
Philadelphia Public Ledger: 
Journal (The) of Arthur Stirling ("The 

valley of the shadow") ; rev. and con- 
densed; with an introd. sketch. Appleton. 

12, $1.25 net. 

Noticed elsewhere in this issue. 
Lee, Sidney Lazarus. Queen Victoria : a 

biography. Macmillan. il. 8, $3. 

"Mr. Sidney Lee's important 'Life of Queen 
Victoria' bears traces, to some extent, of its 
origin. As an expansion of his notice in the 
third supplementary volume of the 'Dictionary 
ot National Biography,' its merits consist 
rather in accuracy and exhaustiveness of in- 
formation than in grace of presentment. The 
study ought not, however, to be undervalued 
on that account. Pending the production of 
the authoritative biography written by royal 
command, we cannot conceive, indeed, that a 
more satisfactory account of the Queen's un- 
selfish labors can possibly be produced. An 
admirable monograph." London Athenceum. 
Maxwell, Sir Herbert. George Romney. 

Scribner. il. por. 8, (Makers of British 

art.) $1.25 net. 
Reed, Fanny. Reminiscences, musical and 

other. Knight & Millet, por. 8, $1.50. 

"These reminiscences of a singer whose ex- 
periences have carried her 'beyond the pro- 
saic existence of many New England girls,' 
and 'into the delightful salons of the Old 
World,' embody sketches of such figures as 
Liszt, Massenet, Coquelin, Paderewski and 
Deschanel, of men and women who stand 
prominently in the view of the world and 
whom it has been the author's privilege to 
number among her friends. Of her purpose 
in writing these brief and pleasant sketches 
?he says : 'It is with no sense of personal 
vanity but only with heartfelt gratitude that 
I now revert to- the valuable friendships that 
came into my life with these whose lives, as 
I knew them, I have endeavored to portray 
in the following pages, not with a critic's 
analysis, but with cordial and reverent sym- 
pathy.' " A^. F. Tribune. 

Roberts, E. P. The adventures of Captain 
. John Smith, Captain of Two hundred and 
fifty horse and sometime President of Vir- 
ginia. Longmans, il. maps, 12, $1.50. 
Compiled chiefly from Captain Smith's own 
writings and those cf his contemporaries. The 
book reads like a history, but it is an authen- 
tic narrative. 

RoscoE, E. S. Robert Harley, Earl of Ox- 
ford, Prime Minister, 1710-1714: a study of 
politics and letters in the age of Anne. 
Putnam, il. pors. 8, $2.50 net. 
RuMBOLDT, Sir Horace. Recollections of a 
diplomatist. Longmans. 2 v., 8, $10. 
Born 1829. Attache at Turin, 1849; at 
Paris and Frankfurt, 1852 ; at Stuttgardt and 
Vienna, 1858 ; Secretary of Legation in China, 



1859; Athens, 1862; Embassy at St. Peters- 
burgh, 1868-71; at Constantinople, 1871-72; 
Minister in C^hili, 1872-78; Switzerland, 1878- 
79; Envoy Extraordinary to Argentina, 
1879-81; to Sweden and Norway, 1881-84; to 
Greece, 1884-88; Netherlands, 1888-96; Am- 
bassador to Emperor of Austria, 1896-1900. 
His book touches all the world questions of 
the last fifty years. 

Vincent, Leon H. Moliere. Houghton, 

Mifflin. 16, 85 c. net. 

"If there is nothing particularly new in the 
present volume,- it is, nevertheless, a very 
happy sifting and condensation of the nu- 
merous works on the famous Frenchman, and 
gives an excellent idea of all that Moliere had 
to contend with in the establishing of the 
playhouse as a looking glass, in which the 
famous literati of Paris could see themselves 
ridiculed. The author points out just what 
this famous man did for the people of France, 
in spite of the ban of the church, under 
which all his later work was produced. Mr. 
Vincent gives, in very compact form, a very 
vivid picture of the brilliant playwright, to 
which he has added a biographical note. Here 
he divides the books and essays dealing with 
Moliere into three groups, viz., the brief no- 
tices in the standard manuals in French lit- 
erature, the biographies and critical essays, 
and, last of all, the direct sources of informa- 
tion concerning the dramatist." Philadelphia 
Public Ledger. 

Whitman, Sidney. Personal reminiscences 
of Prince Bismarck. Appleton. il. por. 
8, $1.60 net. 

Mr. Whitman first gained attention as an 
authority on German affairs by a book he 
wrote in 1888, entitled "Imperial Germany." 
Mr. Whitman made the acquaintance of 
Bismarck shortly after he retired from office, 
and claims that he is now the only English- 
man living who was in any sense intimate 
with the great Chancellor. During the last 
seven years of Bismarck's life Mr. Whitman 
visited him no less than ten times. He ar- 
rived at Bismarck's home for the last visit 
a few hours after Bismarck had breathed 
his last Outside the family not more than 
a dozen persons saw the dead statesman, 
and of these Whitman was one. As a result 
of this intimacy with Bismarck and his family 
this volume contains matter which is ex- 
chisive and of historical interest. 

ESORIPTION, GEOSRAPHY, TRAVEL, ETC. 

Bacon, Edwin Munroe. Literary pilgrim- 
ages in New England to the homes of 
famous makers of American literature and 
among their haunts and the scenes of their 
writings. Silver, Burdett. il. por. map, 
8, $2. 
Besant, Sir Walter. London in the eigh- 
teenth century. Macmillan. il. 4, $7.50 
net. 

"Knowledge of London at once so par- 
ticular and so wide as was Sir Walter's is, 
we need hardly say, a rarity; and even if he 
has left his great work somewhat incom- 
plete, it will remain (if we may judge from 
this volume) a monument to his industry, 
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go down, according to his great desire, to 
future generations. The qualifications which 
Sir Walter brought to his task were, in the 
first place, an uncommon enthusiasm, next 
a keen eye for the picturesque, a wide sym- 
pathy, a facile pen not too academic, a love 
of broad human eflforts, and more than thirty 
years' study of his subject. He was not a 
Londoner by birth, but the real London- 
lover is rarely so. His idea was that every 
part of London streets should be tramped 
and every house noted so ardent was his 
appreciation of the greatest of all cities. His 
library in London, collected over many years, 
supplied him with all the information which 
an alert mind and a ready wit needed. The 
man was soaked in the lore of London, and 
was hardly aware of the sources of his in- 
formation. He acknowledges his indebted- 
ness to the obscure and tedious novel of the 
eighteenth century rather than to Smollett 
or Fielding. . . . This valuable book is 
calculated to interest all kinds of readers." 
The AthencBum. 

Besant, Sir Walter, and Mitton, G. E. 
Hampstead and Marylebone. Macmillan. 
16, (Fascination of London ser. ; ed. by 
Sir Walter Besant.) 90c. 
Haggard, Henry Rider. Rural England : 
being an account of agricultural and social 
researches carried out in the years 1901 
and 1902. Longmans. 2 v., il. maps, 8, 

$15- 

Mr. Haggard's object in undertaking thb 
?.: researches recorded in these volumes was 
to place on record, as far as his opportuni- 
ties allowed, the state of modern agriculture 
in England in the same manner as had pre- 
viously been done by Arthur Young in the 
eighteenth century, and several other writers 
since, the last being Sir James Caird. 
Heilprin, Angelo. Mont Pelee and the trag- 
edy of Martinique : a study of the great 
catastrophes of 1902 ; with observations and 
experiences in the field ; ill. with photo- 
graphs largely taken by the author. Lip- 
pincott. Maps, 8, $3 net. 

Noticed elsewhere in this issue. 
Hulbert, Archer Butler. Washington's 
Road. (Nemacolin's path;) the first chap- 
ter of the old French war. Arthur H. 
Clark Co. il. maps, diagram, plans, D. 
(Historic highways of America, v. 3.) 
$2.50 net. 

The most historic highway of America runs 
from Cumberland, Maryland, on the Poto- 
mac, across the Alleghanies to Pittsburgh on 
the Ohio. It can be traversed by the Cumber- 
land Road, by Braddock's Road and by 
Washington's Road, built in 1754 over the 
famous Indian trail known during the first 
half of the eighteenth century as Nemacolin's 
Path. Portions of this volume have appeared 
in the Interior, The Ohio State Archaeologi- 
cal and Historical Quarterly and in a mono- 
graph, "Colonel Washington," issued by 
Western Reserve University. 
Johnston, Sir Harry. The Uganda Pro- 
tectorate : an attempt to give sorhe descrip- 
tion of the physical geography, botany, 
zoology, anthropology, languages, and his- 



tory of the territories under British protec- 
tion in East Central Africa. Dodd, M. 
2 v., il. maps, 4, $12.50 net. 
Noticed elsewhere in this issue. 

Kelly, R. Talbot. Egypt; painted and de- 
scribed by R. T. Kelly. Macmillan. 8, 
$6 net. 

Mills, W. Jay. Historic houses of New 
Jersey. Lippincott. il. 8, $5 net. 

Webber, Thomas W. Forests of upper India 
and their inhabitants. Longmans. 8, $5. 
Recollections of years spent mostly in the 
forests of upper India, principally in the 
Himalayas and Northwest and (Central Prov- 
inces, where the author was at one time 
Forest Surveyor and Deputy Conservator of 
Forests. He records incidents which eluci- 
date the conditions of life in the forests 
and treats of the wild animals and men met 
with and their habits, and the trees and 
plants that grow naturally there. 

DOMESTIC AND SOCIAL. 

Ellwanger, George H. The pleasures of the 
table : an account of gastronomy from an- 
cient days to present times ; with a history 
of its literature, schools, and most dis- 
tinguished artists; with some special reci- 
pes and views concerning the aesthetics of 
dinners and dinner-giving. Doubleday, P. 
il. 8, $2.50 net. 

Harper's cook book encyclopaedia; arranged 
like a dictionary and compiled under the 
direction of the editor of Harper's Basar; 
with contributions by famous authorities 
on cooking, including Maria Blay, Chris- 
tine Herrick, Marion Harland, [and 
others.] Harper, il. 8, washable limp 
cl., $1.50 net. 

Hill, Janet McKenzie. Practical cooking 
and serving: a complete manual of how 
to select, prepare and serve food. Double- 
day, P. il. 8, bds., $2 net. 

Keen, Adelaide, comp. With a saucepan 
over the sea : quaint and delicious recipes 
from the kitchens of foreign countries. 
Little, B. il. 12, $1.50 net. 

Myers, Cortland, D.D. The lost wedding 
ring. Funk & W. 12, 75 c. net. 
Nine helpful talks, discussing the entire 

subject of marriage. 

Ronald, Mary. Luncheons : a cook's pic- 
ture book : a supplement to the "Century 
cook book" ; il. with over two hundred 
photographs. Century. 8, $1.40 net. 

FICTION. 

Brady, Cyrus Townsend. Woven with the 
ship : a novel of 1865, together with cer- 
tain other veracious tales of various sorts; 
il. by H. C. Christy [and others.] Lippin- 
cott. 12, $1.50. 
Bullen, Frank T. A whaleman's wife. 
Appleton. il. 12, $1.50. 
^'Spouting whales, blubber, reeking decks, 
brutality, mutiny and shipwreck ^these are 
the colors," says the N. Y. Commercial Ad- 
vertiser, "from which Mr. Bullen paints a 
rather flaring picture in his latest sea story. 
There is no doubt that he knows his sub- 
ject and can describe whale hunting in the 



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southern seas with a unique vividness, but 
after the second or third whale has been 
captured, when for the third time the pon- 
derous head has been severed and safely 
moored astern, the great blanket sheets of 
blubber stripped off and swung on board, the 
spermaceti ladled out, and the carcass set 
adrift for the sharks to feast on, the ordi- 
nary landsman is fully satiated." A disap- 
pointed lover from Vermont becomes a whale 
fisherman. 

Carey^ Rosa Nouciiette. The highway of 
fate: [a novel.] Lippincott. 12, $1.50. 
Written with all the old charm. 
Daniels, Gertrude Potter. Eshek, the op- 
pressor; il. by G. C. Widney. Madison 
Book Co. il. 12, $1.50. 
Deals with the evils of trusts. 
Eggleston, George Gary. The master of 
Warlock: a Virginia war story; il. by C. 
D. Williams. Lothrop. 12, $1.50. 
Noticed elsewhere in this issue. 
Francis, Mary C. A son of destiny; the 
story of Andrew Jackson : [a novel.] 
Federal Book. il. 12, $1.50. 
Andrew Jackson is the hero of this rather 
verbose story. 

Greene, Mrs. Sa. P. M. Winslow Plain. 
Harper. D. $1.50. 

"Mrs. Greene gives an animated picture of 
a New England village half a century ago. 
The quaint characters, the narrowness of 
view, the effects of the austere theology of 
the period, the simple daily life, with its in- 
termingling of the humorous and serious, 
are depicted with skill and strength. The 
story, which has a rather better defined plot 
than the author usually provides her readers, 
purports to be told by Timothy Bruce, who, 
grown to manhood, harks back in memory 
to the scenes of his youthful pranks and af- 
fections, and to the happenings which im- 
pressed his childish mind so deeply as to be 
indelible. The comprehension of child na- 
ture, especially that of a boy, is remarkable. 
Mrs. Greene has a certain likable quality, 
that eludes definition, but is irresistible in 
its appeal to sentiment and love of human- 
ity." Brooklyn Times. 

GuNTER, Archibald Clavering. The Spy 
Company: a story of the Mexican war. 
Home pub. il. 12, $1.50; pap. 50 c. 
Noticed elsewhere in this issue. 
Harboe, Paul. The son of Magnus. J. F. 
Taylor, il. 12, $1.50. 

A tale of the Norway fjords and of men 
and women who are swayed by love or hate, 
by revenge or loyalty. Magnus Haug. the 
lover of Bergliot Truling, kills her foster 
brother and is forced to escape to sea. How 
Bergliot's son, born later, revenges his 
mother's wrong and learns to know hils 
father make up the interest of the story. 
Harrod, Frances, [Frances Forbes Robert- 
son.] Mother earth : a sentimental com- 
edy. J. F. Taylor, por. 12, $1.50. 
The head of an old but impoverished Eng- 
lish family is persuaded to better his for- 
tunes by becoming engaged to a rich Ameri- 
can girl. Later her fortune is lost and she 



offers to release the man from what she 
thinks is a galling contract ; but his accept- 
ance of freedom is speedily followed by a 
fuller realization of his own unsuspected feel- 
ings. 

HuTTEN, Bettina V., (Barottess.) Our Lady 
of the Beeches. Houghton, M. 12, $1.25. 

Iliowizi, Henry. The archiery of Samara: 
a Russian nove|. Coates. 12, (Griffin 
ser.) $1. 

King, Charles. The iron brigade: a story 
of the Army of the Potomac; il. by R. F. 
Zogbaum. Dillingham. 12, $1.50. 

London, Jack. Daughter of the snows. Lip- 
pincott. D. $1.50. 

"The story is an excellent record of a 
life so strange and novel that even our pic- 
turesque earlier West could furnish no paral- 
lel for it, and it is for that reason, rather 
than on account of its author's fiction, that 
its claim to attention will be heeded. Still, 
Mr. London's imagined characters are far 
from uninteresting. The 'Daughter of the 
snows,' the only child of an arctic trader, 
who made his fortune there long before the 
country was discovered, is the familiar child 
of the plains in a new development. She 
does not ride and shoot, she has no love 
for the plains, but, instead, she knows how to 
follow the frozen trail, how to camp in those 
latitudes, she has learned how to handle a 
canoe, and how to talk with the natives. 
She has had three years' schooling in the 
States, but the freedom of the child of frozen 
Nature remains hers. To it she has merely 
added some unconventional views." Mail 
and Express. 

Morrison, Arthur. The Hole in the Wall. 

McClure, P. 12, $1.50. 

"The Hole in the Wall" is the name of a 
public house in Wapping, frequented by 
sailors, longshoremen, and the loafers of 
Ratclifife Highway. A stolen pocket-book 
containing 800 in bank-notes is intrusted by 
a thief of the locality to his pal to sell to the 
landlord of the "The Hole in the Wall." 
This episode sets in motion a plot full of 
cramatic surprises and exciting incidents. It 
is Miss Braddon's favorite book of all pub- 
lished in 1902. 
Morton, Martha. Her lord and master: 

[a novel ;] il. by H. C. Christy and E. Mac- 

Namara. Drexel Biddle. 12, $1.50. 

Peake, Elmore Elliott. The pride of Tell- 
fair. Harper. 12, $1.50. 
In a framework of love, law, politics and 
gossip of a country town of northern Illi- 
nois, we have the story of a successful young 
western lawyer, who is as original in his love 
making as in his business methods. Tell- 
fair is not very far from Chicago, and is a 
thriving, typical western town. With a good 
share of culture, it includes many odd speci- 
mens of unpolished human nature. The char- 
acter sketching is admirable, and evidently 
from life. Morris Davenport, the hero, is 
by no means a perfect type, but holds the 
reader's interest and liking. The two hero- 
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PoRTMAN, Lionel. Station studies: being 
the jottings of an African official. Long- 
mans. 12, $1.50 net. 
Stories and sketches based on experiences 

in England's African colonies. 

Thurston, Katherine Cecil. The circle; il. 
by Reginald B. Birch. Dodd, M. 12, 
$1.50. 
Noticed elsewhere in this issue. 

Williams, Churchill. The Captain ; il. by- 
Arthur L Keller. Lothrop. il. 12, $1.50. 
Noticed elsewhere in this issue. 

HISTORY. 

AvARY, Myrta Lockett, ed. A Virginia 
girl in the Civil War: being the authentic 
experiences of a Confederate major's wife 
who followed her husband into camp at the 
outbreak of the war, dined and supped with 
Gen. J. E. B. Stuart, ran the blockade to 
Baltimore, and was in Richmond when it 
was evacuated ; collected and ed. by Myrta 
Lockett Avary. Appleton. 12, $1.25 net. 
To be noticed in next issue. 
Bevan_, Edwyn Rob. The House of Seleu- 
cus. Longmans. 2 v., pors. map. 8, $12. 
Treats of a phase of Greek civilization of 
immense importance, and yet singularly neg- 
lected the Greco-Macedonian rule in the 
East after Alexander the Great. Deals with 
the dynasty which played the principal part in 
the Greek East that founded by the Mace- 
donian Seleucus. There is no modern book, 
even in German, which makes a special study 
of the history of the Seleucid kingdom. 

Firth, J. B. Augustus Caesar and the organi- 
zation of the Empire of Rome. Putnam, 
il. por. map, D. (Heroes of the nations 
sen, no. 36.) $1.35 net; hf. leath., $1.60 
net. 

This volume may be considered to some 
extent as a sequel to the earlier volume on 
Julius Caesar in this series which was written 
by W. Warde Fowler. It also inevitably 
overlaps to a certain degree the volume on 
Cicero by J. L. Strachan-Davidson. Mr. 
Firth has aimed to give a clear account of 
what Augustus achieved in the establishment 
of the Roman Empire, and at the same time 
to reveal the man, in so far as he reveals 
himself by his actions. 

Hall, Clayton Colman. The Lords Balti- 
more and the Maryland palatinate ; six 
lectures on Maryland colonial history de- 
livered before the Johns Hopkins Uni- 
versity in the year 1902. Murphy, por. 
map, 12, $1.25 net. 
Howe, Dan. W. Civil War times. Indian- 
apolis, Bobbs-Merrill Co. 12, $2 net. 
Noticed elsewhere in this issue. 
Mathews, Alfred. Ohio and her western 
reserve. Appleton. il. 12, (Expansion 
of the republic, v. 2.) $1.25 net. 
Mr. Mathews brings to the making of this 
Iii'slory knowledge, sympathy and an analy- 
tical mind. He has treated his subject most 
comprehensively ; indeed, so fully has he cov- 
ered the so-called "Connecticut movement" 
that it is no exaggeration to say that his 
book is by far the best that has yet appeared 
relating to the movement. Mr. Mathews 



fully recognizes the influence of the differ- 
entiated strains of blood which contributed 
so powerfully to the development of Ohio. 
He justifies the specialized treatment of Con- 
necticut, not alone upon the score of chrono- 
logical propriety, but because of the initia- 
tive of Colonial expansion which it afforded. 
A thrilling part of the record of Connecti- 
cut's great pioneering movement is the story 
of Wyoming, its Indian wars and massacres, 
a story which is inseparably connected with 
the history of Pennsylvania. This Wyoming 
story is told with dramatic directness. Ohio's 
honorable and impressive record in politics, 
war, literature, science and journalism is re- 
viewed, with brief comment upon individual 
Ohioans, who have added lustre to the nar 
tive State, and through her to their coun- 
try. Many portraits and maps are included 
in the volume. Brooklyn Times. 
PooLE, Stanley Lane. Mediaeval India un- 
der Mohammedan rule. 712-1764. Put- 
nam, il. 12, (Story of the nations, no. 
66.) $1.35 net; hf. leath., $1.60 net. 
Noticed elsewhere in this issue. 
Wister, Sarah. Sally Wister's journal : a 
true narrative : being a Quaker maiden's ac- 
count of her experiences with officers of 
the continental army, 1777-1778; ed. by 
Albert Cook Myers, with reproductions of 
portraits, manuscripts, relics and views. 
Ferris & Leach. il. (partly col.) por. 
facsim., 12, $2. 

LITERARY MISCELLANY, COLLECTED WORKS 
ETC 

Annalist, (pseud.) Musings without meth- 
od: a record of 1900-01. McClure, P. 
12, $2 net. 

A running commentary upon the happen- 
ings of the world during 1900 and 1901. 
Books, politics, in fact almost everything is 
touched upon. 

Brandes, Georg Morris Cohn. Main cur- 
rents in nineteenth century literature. In 
6 v. v. 3, The reaction in France, (1874.) 
Macmillan. 8. cl., $2.75 net. 
Clapin, Sylva. a new dictionary of Ameri- 
canisms : being a glossary of words sup- 
posed to be peculiar to the United States 
and the Dominion of Canada. L. Weiss 
& Co. 8, hf. leath., $5. 
The words and phrases which are here 
collected under the general term American- 
isms may be fairly classed under four heads. 
First, genuine English words obsolete or 
provincial in England and universally used 
in the United States. Second, English words 
conveying in the United States a different 
meaning from that attached to them in Eng- 
land. Third, words introduced from other 
languages than the English, French, Dutch, 
Spanish, Indian, etc. Fourth, Americanisms 
proper, i.e., words coined in the country, 
either representing some new idea or peculiar 
product. Particular attention has been paid 
to the fauna and flora and to the words de- 
rived from foreign languages, especially the 
French and Spanish. Preface. 
Fairless, Michael. The roadmender: [es- 
says.] Dutton. 16, $1.25. 
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scurity and bear a humble name, and come 
to us as silently as the morning light royal 
books withal, like a King cradled in a man- 
ger. And when they come they are of the 
nature of a revelation ; they take possession 
of us and resist criticism books that go 
some way toward solving the riddle of exis- 
tence. This book is one of those. It is writ- 
ten from the soul. It is for companionship, 
not a passing acquaintance. It invests the 
common pursuits of life with an uncommon 
interest and meaning, and finds almost a 
faith by which to live and to look beyond 
life in the impulses and teachings of nature. 
This little book, moreover, is from a van- 
ished hand. Its author was, we believe, an 
Oxford graduate who took to an open-air 
life on the advice of the doctors, did actual- 
ly break stones on the roadside, and died of 
consumption. The work has been attributed 
to a woman, but that woman, also dead now, 
was probably the author's widow. 
Social evil (The) ; with special reference to 
conditions existing in the City of New 
York : a report prepared under the direc- 
tion of the Committee of Fifteen. Putnam. 
12, (Questions of the day, no. 99.) $1. 
In the fall of 1900 a meeting of citizens 
was held in the Chamber of Commerce in 
New York City to discuss the spread' of 
immorality in certain districts. The Com,- 
mittee of Fifteen, composed of best known 
citizens, was appointed to investigate and 
publish results of ouch investigation. This 
is the report. Special attention is given to 
the Raines law hotel. . 

NATURC AND SCIENCE. 

Macmillan^ Hugh, D.D. The deeper teach- 
ings of plant life. Whittaker. 12, $1.20 
net. 

Not a botanical treatise, describing in 
technical language the scientific aspects of 
the various plants that come under review, 
but simply a collection of popular studies 
showing the many points of beauty and in- 
terest about some of the commonest of our 
trees and wild flowers. . 

MuiR, M. M. Pattison. The story of 
alchemy and the beginnings of chemistry. 
Appleton. il. 24, (Library of useful sto- 
ries.) 35 c. net. 

Traces the development of alchemy and 
gives a brief history of the beginning of 
chemistry. Also endeavors to show by con- 
trast that alchemy is based on emotional 
deductions and chemistry is founded on 
scientific fact. 

Sargent, Chas. Sprague. The silva of 
North America ; il. with 120 plates en- 
graved in Paris from drawings made by 
C. E. Faxon. In 14 v. vs. 13 and 14. 
Houghton, M. 8, per v., $25 net. 
This work originally announced as com- 
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the last of which contains an index to the 
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index volume will be furnished without 
charge and v. 13 for $25. The work is sold 
only in complete sets, and the price for the 
fourteen volumes will henceforth be $350 
net. 



POETRY AND DRAMA. 

Holmes, Edmond. The triumph of love. 
Lane. sq. 12, $1.25 net. 

PiNERO, Arth. Wing. Iris : a drama in five 
acts. Russell, il. 16, $1. 

POLITICAL AND SOCIAL. 

Brooks, John Graham. The social unrest: 
studies in labor and social movements. 
Macmillan. 8, $1.50 net. 
The author, the well-known lecturer on 
economics, was born in New Hampshire in 
1846 ; graduated from Hartford Divinity 
School, studied three years in German uni- 
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and Expert in U. S. Department of Labor at 
Washington, making report of 1893 upon 
Workingmen's Insurance in Germany. He 
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omics do not put their most personal opin- 
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them and voices many thoughts received 
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Both sides of all questions relating to capi- 
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ally timely are his statements concerning 
every coal-strike that has thus far taken 
place. 
Ely, Richard Theodore. The coming city. 

Crowell. 12, 60 c. net. 
HoBSON, J. A. Imperialism: a study. Pott. 

8, $2.75 net. 
OsTROGORSKi, M. Democracy and the organ- 
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Bryce. Macmillan. 2 v., 8, $6 net. 

SPORTS AND AMUSEMENTS 

Garland, Ja. Albert, ["Jorrocks," pseud.] 
The private stable : its establishment, man- 
agement and appointments. New ed. ; with 
additional chapters on hunters and hunt- 
ing by Harry W. Smith; exhibiting, by 
Francis M. Ware ; hints on driving, sup- 
plemented with notes on tandem and four- 
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riding and driving for women, by Miss 
Belle Beach ; observations on riding, by 
T. C. P. Little, B. il. 8, $5 net. 

THEOLOGY. RELIGION AND SPECULATION. 

Abbott, Ernest Hamlin. Religious life in 
America : a record of personal observation. 
Outlook Co. 8, $1 net. 
In the year 1901, at the request of The Out- 
look, the writer undertook a journey through 
parts of tne United States for the purpose of 
making and recording in a series of articles 
observations of religious life in America. 
This book is the record of that journey. The 
articles are entitled : The workingman and 
the church; The church and the workingman; 
A Virginia country rector ; Religious tenden- 
cies of the negro New tendencies in the old 
south ; New Orleans ; The edge of the south- 
west ; Kansas ; The eastern west ; The revolt 
against convention ; The leaven and the lump ; 
New sects and old; Colorado; Satis superque. 

Flint, Rob. Agnosticism. Scribner. 8, 

$2 net. 

Contents: The nature of agnosticism; Er- 
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agnosticism ; Agnosticism of Hume and Kant ; 
Complete or absolute agnosticism; On miti- 
gated and partial agnosticism and their forms ; 
Partial or limited agnosticism as to ultimate 
objects of knowledge; Agnosticism as to God; 
Agnosticism as to religious belief; Agnostic- 
ism as to knowledge of God. 

The term "Agnostic" is said to be only- 
thirty years old, and was first suggested by 
Prof. Huxley in its true meaning of a special 
mental attitude towards the unknown. The 
author is professor in the University of Edin- 
burgh. 

jBooks for tl)e ^oung. 

Anderson_, Rob. Jack Champney: a story for 

boys. il. 8, $1 net. 

The story of a boy's life, first in college, 
later as a volunteer in the Spanish-American 
War in Cuba. 
Bangs, John Kendrick. Bikey the skicycle, 

and other tales of Jimmieboy ; il. by P. 

Newell. Riggs Publishing Co. 12, $1.50. 

Jimmieboy's father had bought him a bi- 
cycle, and this fact was at the bottom of many 
of the adventures that follow. "Bikey" is a 
little bicycle miss that teaches him to ride 
through the air to Saturn, where they stop 
at the Tyred Inn, take a turn in the hospital, 
etc. Other stories are "The miss of the tele- 
phone," "Caught in Toy Town." "The magic 
sled," "The stupid little apple tree," etc. 
They are all told in an extremely humorous 
way, with many puns, play upon words and 
so on. 
Bangs, John Kendrick. Emblemland ; il. by 

C. Raymond Macauley. Russell, il. 12, 

$1.60 net. 
Baskett, Ja. Newton. Sweetbrier and This- 
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Wilde. 12, $1.50. 

In a setting of western farm life we find 
again Shan McBride, the hero of "At You- 
AU's House." Grown to middle age, he and 
Mrs. McBride receive as their guest, a young 
girl, who has broken down from over study. 

Brady, Cyrus Townsend. In the Wasp's 
nest : the story of a sea waif in the war of 
1812 : il. by Rufus F. Zogbaum. Scribner. 
12, $1.50 net. 

The Wasp was one of the historical fighting 
ships of the war of 1812 ; the author follows 
her career very close to the facts. A little 
waif found on a French ship taken by the 
Wasp becomes the hero of the story. The 
boy finally finds his father, who is an Ameri- 
can, and rises to be an officer in our navy. 

Brooks, Amy. Randy and her friends; il. by 
the author. Lee & S. 12, (The Randy 
books.) 80 c. net. 

Connolly, Ja. B. Jeb Hutton : a story of a 
Georgia boy; il. by M. J. Burns. Scribner. 
12, $1.20 net. 
A tale of adventure and character-testing 

episodes along the Savannah River. 

Douglas, Amanda Minnie. A little girl in 
old Detroit. Dodd, M. 12', ("Little girl" 
sen) $1.20 net. 
A historical story for girls, timed in the last 



years of the i8th century when Detroit, a 
flourishing fur-trading station, was eagerly 
contended for by French and Indians, Eng- 
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scenes is the total destruction of Detroit by ' 
fire. 

Du Chaillu, Paul Belloni. King Mombo ; 
il. by Victor Perard. Scribner. 8, $1.50 
net. 

Further adventures in the great African 
forests, with the wild men and savage tribes, 
or in hunting the wild beasts. 
Eastman, Chas. A. Indian boyhood; il. by 
E. L. Blumenschein. McClure, P. 8, buck- 
ram, $1.60 net. 

A record of the author's boyish impressions 
and experiences up to the age of fifteen years. 
Dr. Eastman is a full-blooded Sioux Indian, 
the whole of whose younger days was passed 
on the plains of the northwest in the tribal 
life of his family. Later he left savagery for 
civilization, but he never lost his love for the 
old ways of life. E. L. Blumenschem, the il- 
lustrator, was sent to Dakota in the summer 
of 1901 to study and sketch from life Indian 
scenes and customs. 

Foster, Edna A. Hortense a difficult child ; 
il. by Mary Ayer. Lee & S. 12, 80 c. net. 
The interesting experience of the training 
of an impulsive little girl by a well-meaning 
young lady relative who attempts to bring her 
up according to set rules for well-regulated 
children. 

Foster, W. Bert. With Washington at Val- 
ley Forge; il. by F. A. Carter. Penn Pub. 
Co. 12, 90 c. net. 

The young hero is an enthusiastic patriot. 
Much of the interest centres in the hard- 
ships the American army endured at Valley 
Forge. 

Habberton, J. The tiger and the insect. 
R. H. Russell. 12, $1.20 net. 
The two small heroines of this new work, 
by the author of "Helen's babies." are nick- 
named the "Tiger and the Insect." They and 
their doings are quaintly humorous. 
Henty, George Alfred. The treasure of the 
Incas : a tale of adventure in Peru ; il. by 
Wal Paget. Scribner. 12, $1.20 net. 
The lost treasure of the Incas is historical. 
Legend has it that a greater part of it was car- 
ried to Peru. In an effort to win the girl of 
his heart the hero penetrates into the wilds 
of the lands of the Incas, and attempts to clear 
up the mystery of the lost treasure-ship. 
Henty, George Alfred. With Kitchener in 
the Soudan : a story of Atbara and Omdur- 
man ; il. bv W. Rainey. Scribner. maps, 
12, $1.20 net. 

A story for boys, which not only gives the 
facts and paints the true atmosphere of Kit- 
chener's famous Soudan campaign, but gives 
the history of the Gordon tragedy which pre- 
ceded it by so many years and of which it 
was the outcome. 

Henty, George Alfred. With the British le- 
gion : a story of the Carlist wars ; il. by 
Walter Paget. Scribner. 12, $1.20 net. 
An English boy of sixteen Arthur Hallet 
enlists in the famous "British Legion," which 
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the campaign to repress the Carlist uprising 
of 1836. He shows great bravery under fire, 
and distinguishes himself in many ways. 
Jerrold, Walter, ed. The reign of King 
Oberon ; il. by C. Robinson ; with colored 
frontispiece and decorated end papers. 
Macmillan. 12, (True annals of fairyland.) 
$2. 
Kaler, Ja. Otis, ["James Otis," pseud.] How 
the twins captured a Hessian : a story of 
Long Island in 1776. Crowell. 12, (Gol- 
den hour ser.) 50 c. net. 
Lang, Andrew, ed. The book of romance; 
il. by H. J. Ford. Longmans. 12, $1.60 
net. 

Romances from the Arthurian literature, 
and the stories of Robin Hood and other bold 
outlaws. 

Long, William J. School of the woods: 
some life studies of animal instincts and 
animal training; il. by C. Copeland. Ginn. 
8, $1.50 net. 

"Mr. Long has made a delightful book. In 
point of attractiveness to children it stands 
with Kipling's 'Jungle Book' and Thompson 
Seton's 'Wild Animals I Have Known.' It 
has, however, a more strongly marked ethical 
note than these. Mr. Long is convinced by 
years of observation that instinct counts in the 
animal world for much less than it has been 
credited with; that success or failure in the 
struggle for existence depends in the animal 
as in the human world rather on the kind of 
training received from the mother. Among 
the lower creatures 'obedience is life; that is 
the first great lesson.' It is for this that Mr. 
Long has entitled his book 'The School of 
the Woods.' The summer wilderness is the 
school-house where 'the wilderness mothers, 
from partridge to panther,' are strict disci- 
plinarians. Mr. Long's observations of the 
animals' struggle for life and the deaths that 
befall them lead to conclusions much more 
favorable to belief in a divine benevolence 
presiding over all than is the common picture 
of 'Nature red in tooth and claw with ravine.' 
The illustrations by Mr. Copeland are both 
abundant and admirable." The Outlook. 
Phillips, Walter Shelley. Indian fairy 
tales ; folklore legends myths ; totem tales 
as told by the Indians; gathered in the 
Pacific northwest by W. S. Phillips ; with 
a glossary of words, customs, and history 
of the Indians; il. by the author. Star 
Publishing Co. 8, $1.50. 
These thirty-one stories are the result of 
careful study and research among various 
tribes of Indians of the northwestern Pacific 
Coast. The Indian peculiarity of narration 
is kept as nearly as possible, consistent with 
an understandable translation from the na- 
tive tongue into English. The stories con- 
stitute the embodiment of the Indian mytho- 
religious beliefs. The author told the sto- 
ries to his two little ones, who found them 
most interesting. 

Rhoades, Nina. The little girl next door; 
il. by Bertha G. Davidson. Lee & S. 12, 
80 c. net. 

The story of a genuine friendship between 
an impulsive little girl in a fine New York 
home, and a little blind girl in an apartment 
next door. 



CitcrorB Misceiian^. 



Mrs. Harrison (Lucas Malet) has begun 
work on a new novel, which is to bear the 
appetizing title of "The Paradise of Dominic 
Iglesias." 

James Lane Allen's New Book. It is of 
some interest to learn that Mr. James Lane 
Allen is progressing with the longest and 
most important novel that he has yet written, 
and that it will be ready for publication late 
iti the spring. 

"Angus McNeill,'' whose nationality and 
identity have been questioned, is said to come 
of a hunting family and lives near Evesham, 
in Worcestershire. He is said to be a 
sportsman himself, and to have been for a 
number of years a resident of England. 

Blackmore Memorial. The subscriptions 
towards the Blackmore Memorial in Exeter 
Cathedral now amount to something over a 
thousand pounds, and the list has been closed. 
The monument to be erected is of the classi- 
cal order, and embodies a striking portrait of 
the author, well expressing his genial quali- 
ties. The inscription is to contain the facts 
of his being educated at Blundell's School and 
Exeter College, Oxford, and will end with a 
quotation from Mr. Munby's sonnet and from 
Mr. Blackmore's own work. 

A Collector's Prayer. This prayer is ex- 
tant, and may be read at the Bodleian, where 
Thomas Hearne was assistant librarian. 
London Chronicle. 

"O, most gracious and merciful Lord God 
(writes this devoutest of Oldbucks), wonder- 
ful in Thy providence, I return humble thanks 
to Thee for the care Thou hast always taken 
of me. I continually meet with most signal 
instances of this. Thy providence, and one act 
of yesterday when I unexpectedly met with 
three old Manuscripts, for which in a particu- 
lar manner I return my thanks, beseeching 
Thee to continue the same protection to me, a 
poor, helpless sinner, and that for Jesus Christ 
His sake." 

The Emerson Centennial. Arrange- 
ments are now fully made by the Free Re- 
ligious Association, of which Emerson was 
one of the founders and vice-presidents, to 
commemorate the centennial of his birth on 
May 25 next by a joint celebration at Boston 
and Concord. On the birthday itself there is 
to be a celebration at Concord, with ad- 
dresses by Senator Hoar, Colonel Higginson, 
Charles Eliot Norton and others; and on the 
preceding evening, Sunday, there will be a 
memorial observance in Symphony Hall, Bos- 
ton, under the auspices of a large citizens' 
committee, with an address by President 
Eliot, a poem by George E. Woodberry, and 
choral music. 

The Association has still larger plans, 
shaped in response to a general demand all 
over the country for a broad consideration 
in this centennial year of Emerson's life and 
influence. It is arranging for an Emerson 
Memorial School or Conference, for three 
weeks in July, beginning Monday, July 13. 
The morning sessions of the school will be 
held in Concord and the evening sessions in 
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in which the various aspects of Emerson s 
great work and influence will be treated by 
the ablest scholars and thinkers who can be 
associated for the purpose. Special Sunday 
services, with sermons or addresses by emi- 
nent lovers of Emerson, will also be arranged 
both in Boston and Concord. 

Miss Agnes C. Laut, author of "The Story 
of the Trapper," recently published by D. 
Appleton & Co., is a most interesting young 
woman, and has won her place in literature 
through sheer pluck and ability. At present 
she resides in Ottawa, Canada, but is a native 
of Winnipeg. While in her junior year at the 
Manitoba University Miss Laut's health 
failed, and to this fact is primarily due her 
entrance into the literary field. With a hope 
that it would lead to some beneficial results, 
if not to actual recovery, she was sent to 
spend the summer in the mountains, among 
the Rockies and Selkirks. There, in the 
bright fresh life of the mountaineer. Miss 
Laut rode gradually back to life and health. 
CW 1X0 an Indian reservation, in her rides 
&h^ g.:;thered much of the material used in her 
first novel, "Lords of the North." Encour- 
aged by the success which met her first ef- 
forts. Miss Laut was attracted to the journal- 
istic field, and for two and a half years was 
connected with the Winnipeg Free Press, 
leaving there to go to New York, where she 
was engaged to do special correspondence for 
some of the larger papers. Her work since 
then has been largely sketch work and ar- 
ticles descriptive of Canadian scenery and 
travel. Her winters have been mostly spent 
in New York, while the summers have seen 
ker engaged outdoors gaining material for her 
articles. Eight weeks were spent in cruising 
along the cost northward from St. Johns in a 
government mail-boat. Last summer, in com- 
pany with two other women, and taking with 
them fourteen packhorses with provisions, a 
boy and guides, Miss Laut spent some months 
in the glacier regions of the Selkirks, many 
miles from the railway. 

Edna Lyall, the English novelist, died on 
the 9th inst., at Eastbourne, Eng. Edna Lyall, 
whose real name was Ada Ellen Bayly, was 
born at Brighton about i860. Her father and 
grandfather had both been barristers. She 
early made up her mind to write stories. 
Her first published novel, "Won by Waiting," 
appeared in 1879, when she was less than 
eighteen years old, and was intended for girls. 
It failed to attract attention, and it was not 
until 1882, when "Donovan" appeared, in the 
regulation three volume novel form, that the 
name which the author had formed by trans- 
posing her real ones, became at all known. 
In 1884 she published "We Two," which es- 
tablished her popularity with a certain circle 
of readers, which was maintained by her sub- 
sequent novels. The names of these are "In 
the Golden Days," "Their Happiest Christ- 
mas," "Knight Errant," "Autobiography of 
rx Slander," "A Hardy Norseman," "Derrick 
Vaughan, Novdist, "To Right the Wrong," 
"Doreen, the Story of a Singer," "How the 
Children Raised the Wind," "Autobiography 
of a Truth," "Wayfaring Men," "Hope the 



Hermit," "In Spite of All," and "The Hin- 
derers," the last issued last year. Summing 
up her work The Athenceum says: "Without 
any claim to literary distinction, she was free 
from the excesses and the pretentiousness 
which characterize much of the feminine writ- 
ing of the day. She respected grammar ; she 
liad a good idea of narrative, and a sound 
sense which restrained at once her output and 
her style. Consciously didactic in her stories 
of social life, she was broad enough generally 
to see more than one side of a question, even 
when that question was religion. Her life 
was well spent in the teaching and philan- 
thropic effort of a quiet kind which supple- 
mented her writing. All who knew Miss 
Bayly appreciated her uprightness and mod- 
esty, and the work which taxed too heavily a ' 
fragile body." 

John Lane's most important new publica- 
tion is Zola's "Truth," the third of the trilogy 
of novels of which "Labor" and "Fruitful- 
ness" were the first two. The plot is virtually 
a resetting of the Dreyfus case, illustrating 
the keen antagonism of the Jesuits and secu- 
lar parties in modern France. 

Charles Scribner's Sons have just issued 
"The Turquoise Cup," a volume composed of 
two stories, "The Turquoise Cup" and "The 
Desert," by Arthur Cosslett Smith; also, 
"Calvert of Strathore," a novel of the French 
Revolution seen through American eyes, by 
Carter Goodloe; and "The Better Sort," be- 
ing a collection of short stories by Henry 
James. 

The Bobbs-Merrill Co. will issue immedi- 
ately "The Filigree Ball," by Anna Katherine 
Green, the ever-popular author of "The 
Leavenworth Case." No one will put the 
story down till finished. There are constant 
accessions to the main mystery, so that the 
most practiced reader of detective stories can- 
not possibly imagine the conclusion. It is 
illustrated by C. M. Relyea. 

Rand, McNally & Co. have just published 
a collection of Irieh stories, by Elizabeth 
O'Reilly Neville, called after its central fig- 
ure, "Father Tom of Connemara." This be- 
loved priest of the Galway fisher folk is a 
type of the faithful, fatherly Irish priest, keen 
to perceive the humor as well as the pathos 
of his happy-go-lucky parishioners. The 
book abounds with rollicking fun. 

Doubled AY, Page & Co. have just brought 
cut a book under exceptionally fortunate cir- 
cumstances, since it was heralded by a letter 
published in the daily press from President 
Roosevelt, both commending the work and 
enlarging upon modern tendencies. The 
book appears under the title "The Woman 
Who Toils," is written by Mrs. John Van 
Vorst and Marie Van Vorst, and gives the 
actual experiences of these ladies as factory 
girls. 

G. P. Putnam's Sons have just brought 
out that much-talked-of biography, "The Life 



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and Times of George Joachim Goschen," by 
Viscount Goschen; also, "The Great Siberian 
Railway froni St. Petersburg to Pekin," by 
Michael Myers Shoemaker, author of "Isl- 
ands of the Southern Sea" and "Palaces and 
Prisons of Mary Queen of Scots." The Put- 
nams have secured the American rights to 
Lord William Nevill's book on his experi- 
ences of prison life, which they will bring 
out within the fortnight under the title of 
"Penal Servitude, by W. B. N." Aside from 
the humor, pathos, and dismal romance of the 
book, the American publishers believe that it 
contains much valuable information for spe- 
cialists in criminology. 

LoTHROP Publishing Co. have just ready a 
Christian Science novel, "The Life Within," 
by an anonymous writer, which will no doubt 
mterest believers quite as much as the general 
public, because of its dramatic value and 
vivid pictures of the wonders of the new 
faith. They will also publish "Cliveden," 
Kenyon West's historical romance of Chew 
House, Germantown, in the Revolutionary 
days, and Frederick W. Eldridge's satiric 
novel of society life, "A Social Cockatrice," 
an arraignment of fashion and folly in pluto- 
cratic circles, with a heroine whose striking 
personality and brilliant, though heartless, ad- 
ventures in chmbing into the most exclusive 
circles, make good reading. They also have 
in preparation Charles Warren Stoddard's 
took of essays, entitled "Exits and En- 
trances," containing a dozen and a half mem- 
ories and sketches by the famous author of 
the "South Sf^a Idyls." 

Frederick A. Stokes Co. have just pub- 
lished Agnes and Egerton Castle's new story, 
"The Star Dreamer," which is described as 
the most romantic novel that has yet come 
from the pens of these authors ; "Letters of 
an Actress," which cover the career of a suc- 
cessful actress of our time, who went on the 
stage as a child, but who chooses to remain 
incognito for the present ; "The Fern Collec- 
tor's Guide," by Willard Nelson Clute, which 
will enable the novice to learn without much 
ciflficulty the name of any species of fern, or 
to find all species in his locality; also, "The 
Book of Old China," by Mrs. N. Hudson 
Moore, well known through her contributions 
on the subject in Leslie's sltyA in the Delinea- 
tor. "The Magnetic North," promised to the 
many admirebiS of "The Open Question" for 
recent publication, has been postponed by 
the Stokes Company, as Miss Elizabeth Rob- 
ins has been unable to complete the story as 
soon as she expected. . 

McClure, PHiLLiPS & Co. have brought 
cut a number of interesting books, most of 
them fiction. The most important in the list 
are "Lees and Leaven," a clever novel of the 
cosmopolitan and panoramic life of New 
York, by Edward W. Townsend, author of 
"Chimmie Fadden ;" "The Chameleon," a 
story of a man's experiments with his emo- 
tions and the unhappiness they bring, by 
James Weber Linn, author of "The Second 
Generation;" "The Squireen," a strong novel 
of temperament, the scene of which is laid in 
North Ireland, by Shan F. Bullock, author of 
"Irish Pastorals." Two books on their list 



bear the stamp of a London success 
"Youth," by Joseph Conrad, author of "Lord 
Jim ;" and "Anna of the Five Towns," by Ar- 
nold Bennett, author of "The Great Babylon 
Hotel." "Youth" contains three stories of 
adventure on sea and land, and critics have 
said that to have written "Youth" places Con- 
rad in rank with the best short story writers 
of any language. "Anna of the Five Towns" 
tells the story of a sincere girl's life and her 
pathetic struggle for the right to be happy, 
amid the cant and hypocrisy of a non-con- 
formist community m Staffordshire, England. 

A. S. Barnes & Co. have in preparation a 
work on "The Real Benedict Arnold," by 
Charles Burr Todd. While emphasizing Ar. 
nold's services to the Colonies, Mr. Todd 
does not condone Arnold's treason. He shows 
that it was the influence of the traitor's wife 
and his fear of losing her should her own 
treasonable correspondence with the British 
officers be discovered which induced Arnold 
to betray his country, and not the gross in- 
justice of Congress nor the calumnies of pa- 
per generals the motives generally ascribed. 
Two novels that promise more than ordi- 
nary interest are soon to appear "The Stum- 
bling Block," by Edwin Pugh, with illustra- 
tions by R. M. Crosby, and "Life's Common 
Way," by Annie Eliot Trumbull, a novel of 
present-day New England. For distracted 
mothers as well as settlement workers in 
kitchen gardens there is "The Child House- 
keeper," by Elizabeth Colson and Anna G. 
Chittenden, with introduction by Jacob A. 
Riis. It is the xDUtcome of actual experience 
in teaching small girls to do intelligent work 
in their homes, using the materials and uten- 
.cils there provided. Classes may be thus 
taught, and work which is ordinarily classed 
as drudgery will become interesting and pleas- 
urable to the young people. 

D. Appleton & Co. will shortly issue "The 
History of Puerto Rico," by R. A. Van Mid- 
deldyk, librarian of the Free Public Library 
of San Juan. This will be the first English 
record of Spanish rule in the island and, hav- 
ing been compiled from all data obtainable 
in the island, will present in a connected nar- 
rative a trustworthy account of the social and 
institutional life of the island during four 
hundred years. A notable biography also on 
press is that of "Horace Greeley," by Will- 
iam A. Linn, author of "The Story of the 
Mormons." Strange as it may seem, this is 
the first comprehensive life of Greeley since 
Parton's book, published just before the 
Civil War. "Millionaire Households and 
Their Domestic Economy, with Hints upon 
Fine Living," is an altogether unusual book, 
by Mary E. Carter, describing how the es- 
tablishments of American millionaires are 
managed from kitchen to topmost story ; how 
preparations are made for balls, etc. The 
Appletons' most important fiction announce- 
ment is "Richard Rosny," by Maxwell Gray, 
author of that successful novel, "The Silence 
of Dean Maitland." It is a stpry of a mar- 
ried life of misunderstanding almost culmi- 
nating, though not quite, in a domestic trag- 
edy, and is worked out with the author's 
proved skill in secrecy of motive. 



The Literary News 

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Vol. XXIV. 



APRIL, 1903. 



No. 4. 




From "The Great Sibeiian R 



Copyright, 1903, by C. P. Futnan.'s Sons. 



PORT ARTHUR. 



The Great Sib 

It was in 1891 that the first steps were 
taken, under an Imperial rescript from the 
CVar, in the construction of the great railway 
line that now stretches from ocean to ocean 
across the vast dominions of Russia. From 
St. Petersburg and the wild desolation of Si- 
beria, down through the Tartar provinces and 
the Mongolian regions into the Orient, the 
traveller may to-day make continuous, swift 
and indeed luxurious journey. It is this 
journey that is now described by that veteran 
globe trotter, Michael Myers Shoemaker, who 
brings to his narration a fund of experience 
and observation in far distant corners of the 
world. Mr. Shoemaker's journey began at 
Moscow on April 24, 1902, and ended at 
Port Arthur, just across the gulf from Pekin, 
on May 13, having carried him in less than 
three weeks "from the frozen Gulf of Finland 
to the laughing blue waters of the Gulf of 
Liao-tung or the Yellow Sea." Interesting 
as is this panorama of "The Great Siberian 
Railway" on account of the varied scenes and 
the sharp contrasts in nature and in man that 
il presents, it is still more impressive in its 
revelation of the vast potentialities now stir- 



erian Railway. 

ring in the immense realm of Russia a realm 
tliat must become one of the great world- 
forces of the future. Mr. Shoemaker's nar- 
rative is simple, direct, and graphic. He has 
a keen eye for the picturesque, and a strong 
practical habit of thought that emphasizes the 
commercial and national possibilities of Rus- 
sia's industrial development. From the bril- 
liant cosmopolitan life of St. Petersburg and 
Moscow he carries us through Western Si- 
beria and the great steppes, with their tragic 
penal settlements, across Eastern Siberia and 
the Trans-Baikal with its mixed population of 
Russians and Mongols, into the semi-Oriental 
barbarism of Manchuria. Port Arthur marks 
the end of the railway journey, but from there 
the traveller passes by steamer to touch at 
Korea, "the land of the morning calm," and 
to close his pilgrimage in Pekin, where the 
fierce fires of the Boxer riots and the later 
war, are, so Mr. Shoemaker believes, still 
sniouldering for future devastation. The vol- 
ume is supplied with excellent illustrations 
from photographs, an outline map, and,,ar^^-^ f iy!t^ 

fu] index, and is a distinct contributiOT^on,thc 

\niViicUhr 



subject. (Putnam. $2 net.) 



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Courtesy of Bobbs-Merrill Co. 
ANNA KATHERINE GREEN (mRS. ROHLFS). 

The Filigree Ball. 

Detective stories, well-written detective 
stories, have a strange fascination for the 
great majority of novel readers. Anna Kath- 
erine Green is past master in the art of stir- 
nr;g curiosity, suspicion, theories, doubts, new 
reasonings, etc., that point first to one then 
to another and still another character as the 
culprit in the special crime she treats in each 
story. 

"The filigree ball" was a trinket attached 
to a little chain, which for two centuries had 
been an heirloom in an old Washington fami- 
ly. The information hidden in this little or- 
nament leads to the solution of mystery sur- 
rounding a suspected case of murder and a 
si-spected case of suicide, both committed 
within a few weeks in the library of an un- 
used mansion in Washington, also an heir- 
Icom in the same family that so highly prizes 
"the filigree ball." 

A young detective, on his metal to show his 
talent and untiring work to his superior 
officers, and full of jealousy and dislike of a 
fellow detective, tells the story, with all the 
elaboration of detail which always keeps the 
author's readers in such breathless suspense. 
Faint finger marks in dust on book-covers, 
little filings of gold dust, peculiarly tied bows 
of ribbon, surprised expressions on faces, the 
unaccountable actions of a dog, the change of 
position of a picture and the thousand and 
one little trifles of speech and action of those 
suspected from time to time are all studied by 
this indefatigable detective, who occasionally 
gets a sweet little girl to help him in a spe- 



cially delicate manoeuvre. The publishers have 
certainly a book sure to sell in this last comer 
in the ranks of their phenomenally popular 
bcoks. There is nothing harrowing about the 
story, but it is intensely exciting, and through 
it all runs a peculiar tale of love and its pro- 
verbial lack of smoothness. (Bobbs-Merrill. 
$1.50.) 



Aana of the Five Towns. 

The book in question is Mr. Arnold Ben- 
nett's "Anna of the'Five Towns." Mr. Ben- 
nett I do not know, except as the author of 
the "Great Babylon Hotel." a book which was 
published last winter, and achieved a certain 
degree of popularity. It was good of its kind. 
It began with broad farce, which was amus- 
ing, and then developed into a Russian Nihilist 
story of the usual sort. "Anna of the Five 
Towns" is a totally different sort of thing. It 
is a study of life in a small Nonconformist 
town, and it is not in the least humorous, 
neither does it contain any adventure worth 
mention. It is a study after the manner of 
?Jola, but without those peculiarities which 
make Zola's books sometimes tedious and 
often unfitted for general reading. The plot 
is a simple one, but it contains a surprise that 
breaks on the reader in almost the last para- 
graph. The characters are wonderfully true 
to life, and are painted with the hand of a 
master. 

I have read every novel of importance that 
has been published in England for the last 




Courtesy of McClure, Phillips & Co. 
PAULINE BRADFORD MACKIE. 



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ten years, and, of its kind, "Anna of the Five 
Towns" is certainly the best piece of work 
since "Esther Waters." Mr. Bennett is an 
artist. One thing may be safely prophesied. 
"Anna of the Five Towns" will he promptly 
recognized by those critics whose opinion is 
vvorth something as the most thoroughly ar- 
tistic story of the year. Whether the public 
will care for it, rerpains to be seen. I am 
inclined to think they will. 
Work so good as that which 
Mr. Bennett has here done can 
hardly fail of its reward. Be- 
sides the book does not err on 
the side of length. It does not 
tire one to read it through at 
a single sitting. 

Still, if the public does not 
see the merit of Mr. Bennett's 
performance, he will at least 
have the satisfaction of know- 
ing that he has done work of 
which any man might well be 
proud. We shall hear more of 
him as time goes on. He has 
found his proper path, and he 
has only to follow it with the 
same care which he has shown 
in "Anna of the Five Towns." 
(McClure, Phillips. $1.50.) 
\W. L. Aid en in N. Y. Times 
;Sat. Review. 



A Virginia Girl in the Civil War. 

This is one of the most interesting of 
books upon the Civil War period. It is a 
simple story of the experience of a woman 
during war times and its very simplicity is 
its charm. The author has given us just 
the plainest sort of a tale, but if she had 
striven to embellish it she would have spoiled 
its effect. As the work now stands it is en- 



Maxwell Gray's New Novel. 

"Richard Rosny/' the new 
novel by Maxwell Gray, the 
i well-known English author of 
J "The Silence of Dean Mait- 
[land" and "The House of Hid- 
[den Treasures!" is the story of 
a man whose character changes 

after an incident in his life. 

The author does not give the 

true cause of this until the end 

of the story, although her rea- 
son is sufficient at the time this 
.happens. The novel closes 
Iwith the wrecking of the hero's 
idomestic happiness by the dis- 
|loyalty of his best friend and the disappointed 

iflfections of his wife. The scene of the book 
Ks laid in the North of England, near the sea. 
|:The characters are of gentle birth, though 
the author introduces as a contrast the ten- 
antry of Cumberland. The author shows her 

:sual knowledge of human nature and her 
compassionate love for all mankind. She al- 
W'ays writes a wholesome story. 




From "Richard Rosny." 

"l MEANT WHAT I SAID/ 



Copyrij;ht, 1903, by D. Applelou i Co^ 
ADDED KATHLEEN. 



titled to high praise. It is worthy, too, of 
a permanent place in the library of the stu- 
dent of history, as well as in the collection 
of the reader to whom entertainment comes 
before information. 

Our author says in her preface : "This his- 
tory was told over the tea cups. One winter 
in the South I had for my neighbor a gentle, 
little brown-haired lady, who spent many 



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evenings at my fireside, as I at hers, where 
v/ith bits of needlework we gossiped away 
as women will." Those who read this book 
arc admitted to the sacred councils of close 
friends. "A Virginia Girl in the Civil War" 
shows us simply, sincerely and unconsciously 
what life meant to an American woman dur- 
ing the vital and formative period of Ameri- 
can history. That this American woman was 
also a Virginian, with all a Virginian's love 
for Virginia and loyalty for the South, gives 
to her record of those days that are still "the 
very fiber of us" a fidelity rarely found in 
studies of local color. Meanwhile her grate- 
ful affection for the Union soldiers, officers 
and men, who served and shielded her, should 
lift this story to a place beyond the pale of 
sectional prejudice. 
We cordially agree with our author and 



are of the opinion that the story of the Vir- 
gmia girl will be read without a trace of sec- 
tional feeling other than the pride that we 
of the South naturally have in our true- 
hearted women, of which the heroine in the 
present volume is a type. Northern readers 
will join us in our appreciation, for no more 
typical American has ever been pictured by 
an author. (Appleton, $1.25 net.) Balti- 
more Sun. 




f> ttiH , '^U 



?rom Lady Rose s Uaaghter.' ' Copyright, 1903, by Harper & Bros 

"her hands clasped in front of her." 



Lady Rose's Daughter. 

A great outcry has been raised over the 
very small discovery that Mrs. Humphry 
Ward did not invent the "situation" out of 
which she developed her new novel, but took 
it ready made from what, in the confession 
that has been extorted very easily from 
her, she calls "that treasure house of human 
psychology, the world of 
French memoirs." Per- 
haps it would have been 
as well, or even a little 
better, if she had briefly 
noted the fact on her ti- 
tle-page or in a preface, 
but to have done so 
would have been to de- 
prive some of her critics 
of a precious opportuni- 
ty to display the extent 
of their erudition, while 
it would have added 
nothing whatever or at 
least nothing relevant 
either to the interest or 
to the value of the novel 
as a novel. 

And "Lady Rose's 
Daughter" is certainly a 
book that captures the at- 
tention at once and holds 
it a far from unwilling 
prisoner, as chapter after 
chapter reveals a curious 
and significant phase of 
what, if not English high 
life, is a most convincing 
semblance of it. These 
are living people to 
whom we are introduced, 
and we come to know 
and understand them 
much better than our 
next door neighbors and 
daily associates. This is 
true to almost as great a 
degree of the minor as of 



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the major personages of Sir Wilfrid in 
the role of chorus and universal confi- 
dant, as of the tyrannous and tempered 
Lady Henry; of the statesmen looming 
dimly in the background, as of Julie's two 
lovers, the too practical Warkworth and 
the too virtuous Delafield of the birdlike 
Duchess, as of Julie herself, infinitely com- 
plex, and yet consistent, comprehensible, 
and human. They are all individuals and 
all individualized. But it is literature 
the real thing and big; art, with the doing 
hidden by the done, as it ought to be; the 
creative imagination at work on observed 
^actualities. . . . Living, few will dare to 
[call Mrs. Ward's genius great and unques- 
.tionable, but for her talent terms of ex- 
aggeration would be hard to find. Hers, 
^certainly, are the comprehending view and 
[,the large, if not the grand, style. She has 
(.made Julie Le Breton as substantial as, 
[and much more knowable than, the women 
lof real life. As in real life, too, one gets 
[acquainted with her little by little. The 
^presentation of her physical aspect and 
tcustomary moods is only the beginning, 
\ior on a hundred pages are revealed dis- 
'tinctive traits, one by one and they all 
harmonize, all consist, in an actual imper- 
fection which is itself artistic perfection, 
or something very like. The presentation 
of Warkworth is less elaborate, but not 
less successful. Carefully balanced on the 
line between dislike and contempt, he 
never crosses from the one into the other, 
and when he dies a man'3 death in his 
country's service one has no feeling that 
fate has been too kind to him. 

The book is a study in heredity, as its 
title indicates, and it has both strength and 
brilliancy. Its emergence from the dusky lim- 
bo of serial publication is a literary event of a 
magnitude not immediately to be appreciated, 
perhaps, for Mrs. Ward has outgrown her 
first public, and its members will be as slow 
to forgive her desertion of them as will those 
of the new public from which she now seeks 
recognition to pardon her failure to seek them 
out in the beginning of her career. (Harper. 
$1.50; 2 v., $3; $5.) Times Sat. Review. 




Augustus Caesar. 

Mr. Firth^s volume bridges a strange 
cliasm in Roman history, there being, curious 
as it may seem, no other adequate biography 
of Augustus Caesar in English, although his 
life has, of course, been written times with- 
out number in connection with the history of 
tiic founding of the Roman empire. This his- 



From "Augustus Caesar." Copyright, 1903, by G. P. Putnam's Sons. 
IN THE BRACCIO NUOVO^ VATICAN LIBRARY, ROME. 

tory, however, has greater interest in the 
form of a life of Augustus than it has in 
niore impersonal form. There is not a dull 
page in the whole book, from the early poli- 
tics of the young Octavius's triumphs over 
hi less able rivals, through his incessant war- 
fare to maintain his power at home and 
abroad, and on to the end of a life which 
also marked the end of the republic and the 
erection of the empire. "But for the em- 
pire and the system inaugurated by Augustus, 
there is every probability that the Roman civ- 
ilization would have been as thoroughly wiped 
out in Gaul and Spain as it was in Northern 
Africa, and as the civilization of Greece was 
blotted out in Asia Minor and Syria. . . . 
Augustus started the Roman world on a new 
career. He made it realize its utility for the 
first time." (Putnam. $i.3S net.) Public 
Opinion. 



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[April, 1903 



The Woman Who Toils. 

This book, or at least Mrs. Van Vorst's 
part of it, does not need to be bolstered up by 
President Roosevelt's prefatory letter. Mrs. 
Van Vorst has studied the lot of working- 
women in the same way that Mr. Wyckoff 
studied that of unskilled workingmen, and 
though her narrative is not so dramatic as his. 
nor so original, it is fuller of keen observation 
and wholesome feeling. She appreciates, as 
Mr. Wyckoff apparently did not, that her 
position as a wage-worker, able at any time 
to leave her tasks, was not that of the ordin- 
ary workingwoman, who must stick at them 
or starve. Furthermore, she has more gen- 
uine democracy in that she finds herself one 
with the women she works among, sees their 
point of view and shares it. In this there is 
r.othing whatever that is forced, and in what 
she says both of her fellow-employees and of 
her employers there is nothing that indicates 
the effort to establish a theory or support a 
prejudice. What she vrites about the pay of 
women being less than that of men wage- 
earners is extremely valuable in measuring 
both the extent of the difference and the 
causes of it. The women workers she found 
were of three classes : those who had to be 
breadwinners to which class all the men be- 
longed those who expected in part to support 
themselves, and those who merely worked to 
provide themselves with luxuries. While many 
of the brightest workers belonged to the lat- 
ter class their irregularity in coming to their 





Frcm "The Woman Who Toils." Copyright, 1903, by Doubleday, 

Page <k Co. 

MRS. JOHN VAN VORST AS "ESTHER KELLY '' 
Wearing the costume of the pickle factory. 

work and their readiness to leave it were in a 
degree responsible for the sweeping generali- 
zations about the unreliability of women work- 
ers. Mrs. Van Vorst thinks that if the women 
of the third class would devote themselves to 
iiidustrial art hand-weaving, wood-carving, 
and the like their competition would no long- 
er be so severely felt. The remedy of course 
is not a far-reaching one, but the book is 
not one of remedies, it is one of experiences 
and observations, and is thoroughly good. 
(Doubleday, Page. $1.50 net.) The Outlook. 



iTum "The Woanan vVho Toils." Copyright, 1903, by Doubleday, 

Page A Co. 

MISS MARIE VAN VORST AS "bELL BALLARD ' 
At work in a shoe factory. 



Two on Their Travels. 

The motive of this author in describing her 
wedding journey is "to add a tiny bit of mirth 
and enjoyment from my own superabundant 
store to that of less favored folk." With 
such an aim, and in the full tide of that new 
happiness which invests even familiar scenes 
with an unwonted charm, she would have 
been successful if she had not left her native 
shores ; but when it is "the golden window of 
the East" which she opens to her "shut-in" 
readers, their enjoyment is assured. She 
has other qualifications for her task, how- 
ever, than that of an unselfish motive. Pos- 
sessing both literary and artistic skill in an 
unusual degree, her bright, vivacious word- 
pictures are accompanied by numtious 
sketches, some of which in color are exceed- 
ingly attractive. Naturally she leaves the 
discussion of the serious topics which a jour- 
ney in the East inevitably suggests, to her 



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husband, the well-known traveller and au- 
thor, Archibald Colquhoun, and dwells upon 
the trivial, every-day sights which, after all, 
constitute the chief enjoyment of a visit to 
foreign lands. Digressions, grave and gay, 
are numerous, but even when they take the 
form of severe criticism, as of American 
manners, an underlying mirthfulness is al- 
ways evident. Altogether, "Two on Their 
Travels" has that indefinable charm which 
the companionship of an entertaining woman 
who has seen much of the world always gives. 
After a somewhat startlingly familiar in- 



What Manner of Man. 

It is quite probable that a good many peo- 
ple will not share our liking for this book, but 
it is one which is sure to provoke discus- 
sion. Out of the novels produced during the 
past quarter century, it would be difficult to 
pick out two others more dissimilar than 
'"L'Qiuvre," by Zola, and William Black's 
"Princess of Thule," and it is quite likely that 
Edna Kenton never read a line of either of 
them. Yet take the central idea from each of 
these books, intertwine them, and you have 
Ihe plot of "What Manner of Man." 




Copyright, 1903, by A. S. Barnes & Co. 



MOUNTAIN ROAD AND PADUY-FIELDS. 



troduction of herself and "Andrew" to her 
readers, her narrative takes them from Sin- 
gapore to Java, "the garden of the East," 
and from thence to Borneo, the Philippines, 
"the land of sunsets," and Japan, "the play- 
ground." 

The homeward journey was by the Sibe- 
rian Railway, and if Mrs. Colquhoun is to 
be trusted, eastern Siberia is not prosperous. 
The people live the lives of brute beasls, 
have no education, no amusement, save per- 
haps to listen to a crazy accordion or musi- 
cal box, and but one change of clothes in 
t^e year. (Barnes. $2.^0 net.) The Nation. 



Kirk Thayer is the artist, a man already 
well on his way toward fame. He is painting 
a highly ambitious picture, a "Supreme Mar- 
tyrdom" of a Christian maiden before Nero. 
He has hunted long and vainly for a model, 
one that would combine the faultless figure 
with the innocent and sensitive face demanded 
by the subject. He remembers that far in the 
north, on one of his island voyages, he had 
met a girl with a perfect, supple figure, won- 
drous, red-gold hair, and the look of startled 
iiiiiocence that he needs. He seeks this girl 
out, woos and marries her in cold blood, as 
the quickest means of getting his model. A' id 



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the tragedy of it is that the girl beUeves in 
hjni and worships him silently. Even when 
called upon to aid him in his work upon the 
gieat picture her faith is unshaken and she 
overcomes her repugnance, and gradually, as 
the work progresses, the look upon her face 
v/hich had delighted his artistic instinct, and 
v/hich was essential to his subject the look of 
outraged delicacy fades into tranqiiil confi- 
dence. By the time that he has finished the 
figure, and is ready to begin upon the head, 
the crowning task of the painting, she has be- 
come useless to him. He shows her brutally his 
one purpose in wooing and winning her; and 
then, while she stands there, upon the model's 
pktform, dazed by his brutal frankness, shud- 
dering with horror and with shame, he paints 
her paints as he never painted before, in maa 
haste to catch on his canvas the agonized look 
in her eyes, before it fades into merciful un- 
consciousness. Altogether it is a daring story, 
written with an unconventionality and a sin- 
cerity that compel attention. It does not need 
a trained critical faculty to recognize that the 
book is something more than clever. (Bobbs- 
Merrill. $1.50.) A'. Y. Com. Advertiser. 



A Popular Writer. 

Edward W. Townsend, author of "'Chim- 
mie Fadden," is one of the most devoted por- 
trayers of New York in fiction, and the an- 
nouncement of two new stories by him, both 
laid in the metropolis, will probably arouse 
further interest in the man himself. The 
books referred to are "Lees and Leaven" 
(McClure, Phillips & Co.) and a volume in 
lighter vein, "A Summer in New York" 
(Henry Holt & Co.). 




Courtesy of Henry Holt & Co. 
EDWARD W. TOWNSEND. 



Mr. lownsend is a clean-shaven man of 
forty-eight, who was born in Cleveland in 
1855. He came to New York and engaged in 
newspaper work, remaining comparatively un- 
known, till all of a sudden in his fortieth 
year the publication of his "Chimmie Fadden" 
stories gave him a reputation as a humorous 
writer on American life that perhaps has 

oOnly been equalled since in the vogue of "Mr. 

vDooley" and George Ade. The humor and 
humanity of Bowery "Chimmie" won him a 
universal welcome, and his argot became as 
popular here as the cockneyisms of Chevalier 
in London. "Chimmie" was the central fig- 
ure in "Chimmie Fadden, Major Max and 
Other Stories" (1895), and in "Chimmie 
Fadden Explains, Major Max Expounds" 
(1895), as well as in a play that met with 
considerable success. Then his creator laid 
him on the shelf for six years or more. When 
he re-emerged in Harper's Weekly in the 
"Chimmie Fadden and Mr. Paul" papers it 
was obvious that the author had added sev- 
eral cubits to his Uature, along with an in- 
crease of genial informal philosophy. This 
third "Chimmie" appeared in book form in 
1902. During Mr. Fadden's long retirement 
Ml. Townsend produced "A Daughter of the 
Tenements" (1895), "Near a Whole City 
Full" (1897), "The Yellow Kid in McFad- 
den's Flats" (1897) and "Days Like These" 
(1901). 

Mr. Townsend has written other plays be- 
sides "Chimmie Fadden," including "The 
Marquess of Michigan" (in which Sam Ber- 
nard made his stellar debut), "A Daughter 
of the Tenements," "The Sergeant," etc. 
Though he loves and knows his New York so 
well, he is at present living in Upper Mont- 
clair, N. J. He is an able reader of his own 
works and is frequently called upon to use 
his talents in this direction. He has but re- 
cently read successfully from advanced sheets 
of "A Summer in New York" before the 
Boston University Club and the Harvard 
Union. In response to a request for auto- 
biographical confessions he replied in a se- 
rious vein : "Perhaps, then, it may be of in- 
terest though why Heaven alone can know ! 
that while I write fiction to live, I live to 
pursue historical sources and inspirations of 
the Federal Constitution. It is my only intel- 
lectual enthusiasm, and if something is not 
done to restrain me I'm as like as not, some 
day, to write something on the subject. . . . 
I have but little erred and strayed from the 
v;ays of commonplaceness, and yet there is no 
good in me, autobiographically." 



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From "Story of My Life." Copyriijht, 1903, by Doubleday, Paje & Co. 

HELEN KELLER .AND MISS SULLIVAN. 



Autobiography 

One of the important books of the week is 
"The Story of My Life" by Helen Keller. 
Much of the material used in the book has 
been brought out serially, but, nevertheless, 
(he publication in book form is worthy of 
note. Helen Keller has never ceased to in- 
terest scientists and psychologists since her 
remarkable case first became known, and her 
newly acquired power of speech is only an- 
other evidence of the wonderful development 
she has made. Those who have read her 
story will recognize something more than the 
story of a blind deaf mute. It has a rare lit- 
erary value, aside from all this. Only the 
other day she made a speech before the Mas- 
sachusetts Legislature, which gave another 
view of her versatility. She made an appeal 
for legislation for the blind, and the appeal 
had that quality of value which did not de- 
pend alone on her own sightlessness. When 
one stops to think that this girl cannot see 
anything in the world and cannot hear a sin- 



of Helen Keller. 

gle sound, the wonder over her remarkable in- 
tellectuality is most profound. 

At the present time Miss Keller is an ac- 
tive student in Radcliffe College. She spends 
seven or eight hours every day reading and 
studying hard and .now that the strain of her 
first college work is over, she is in lirst-rate 
health and spirits. Her powers of enjoyment 
arc most marvellous, and her eagerness for 
study is the cause of worry on the part of her 
friends. Her autobiography was brought 
about through the co-operation of her teacher, 
Miss Sullivan, and Mr. John Macey, one of 
the editors of The Youth's Companion. Mr. 
Macey is the authority for the statement that 
the story is exactly as Miss Keller prepared 
and approved it. It is to be hoped that the 
book will have a large sale, both because of 
the value of the book and because of the ben- 
efit which Miss Keller would receive through 
a handsome return in royalties. (Doubleday, 
Page & Co. $1.50.) Brooklyn Times. 



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Tolstoy, as Man and as Artist. 

It is very difficult for us to get a just 
opinion of the great men of other nations. 
This is especially true when the great man is 
obscured behind a difficult language, so that 
his countrymen's estimates of him are inac- 
cessible to most readers. When such an esti- 
mate is translated, it is likely to be a shock 
to our preconceived ideas. This is certainly 
the effect of the recently translated book of 
Dmitri Merejkowski on his distinguished 
countryman, Tolstey. This writer paints Tol- 
stoy in the light, not of a great Christian re- 
former who has given up the things of the 
world to return to a sirnpler and purer mode 
of life (the light in which the American read- 
ing public has been wont to consider him), 
bin as a great pagan who somehow has gotten 
tangled up with Christian ideals which are 
quite foreign to his nature and in direct op- 
position to his acts. According to Merejkow- 
ski, Tolstoy's attempt to renounce his worldly 
goods has been only a pathetic failure; his 
attempt to lead an austere life has resulted in 
a life of austere but perfect luxury. Whether 
the reader is or is not convinced in the end, 
this Russian critic makes out a very telling 
case against the latter-day apostle. To 
strengthen his most vital arguments, he uses 
tl.e testimony of Tolstoy's devoted brother-in- 
law, Bers, and that of other intimate and 
sympathetic family friends. Nowhere does he 
convey the idea that Tolstoy is consciously 
a fraud, but simply that he has utterly failed 
ill living the life he aimed to live, and has 
.;, merely shirked where he pretended to re- 
nounce. 

Merejkowski's opinion of Tolstoy as a wri- 
ter is no less interesting and individual. He 
gives him, of course, a place among the high- 
est in the Russian literary Olympus. But he 
admires him, not as a psychologist, but as a 
writer who more than any one else has under- 
stood the physical life of the people. He is 
the "great seer of the body," and he describes 
the bodies of his personages, not their souls. 
The later portion of the book is devoted to 
contrasting the subtle, curious, and tortured 
art of Dostoyevski with the obvious and physi- 
cal work of Tolstoy. The works of these two 
men complete each other, Merejkowski thinks; 
by their very difference they Interpret each 
other. 

The author has managed to make his book 
of criticism as dramatic as a romance. He 
has set into vivid relief two of the most in- 
teresting figures in Russian literature. (Put- 
rum. $1.50.) Literary Digest. 



Youth. 

The art of Mr. Conrad is exquisite and 
very subtle. He uses the tools of his craft 
v.'ith the fine, thoughtful delicacy of a mediae- 
val clockmaker. With regard to his mastery 
of the conte opinions are divided, and many 
Clitics will probably continue to hold that his 
short stories are not short stories at all, but 
Tc'ther concentrated novels. And the conten- 
tiOH is not unreasonable. In more ways than 
one Mr. Conrad is something of a law unto 
himself, and creates his own forms, as he cer- 
tamly has created his own methods. 

A critical writer has said that all fiction may 
roughly be divided into two classes : that deal- 
ing with movement and adventure, and the 
other dealing with characterization, the analy- 
sis of the human mind. In the present, as m 
every one of his previous books, Mr. Conrad 
has stepped outside these boundaries, and 
made his own class of work as he has made 
h;s own methods. All his stories have move- 
ment and incident, most of them have adven- 
ture, and the motive in all has apparently 
been the careful analysis, the philosophic pre- 
sentation, of phases of human character. But 
he has another gift of which he himself may 
be less conscious, by means of which his 
other more incisive and purely intellectual 
message is translated for the proper under- 
standing of simpler minds and plainer men. 
Ihat gift is the power of conveying atmos- 
phere, and in the exercise of this talent Mr. 
Conrad has few equals among our living writ- 
ers of fiction. The title of the present volume 
is perhaps a little misleading, but its sub-title 
er^plains : "Youth : a Narrative, and Two other 
Stories." "Youth" is a wonderful narrative, 
an epic in little of the life of those who use 
the sea. It might very well have been called 
b> any other name, since the mental attitude 
of its hero, of youthful zest and youthful ap- 
preciation of the dramatic and adventurous 
in life, is incidental to the story, and the most 
carefully drawn character is that of an old 
man, the skipper. There is not a wasted word 
in it, and it forms a valuable record, as well 
as a beautiful and vivid picture. "The Heart 
of Darkness" is a big and thoughtful concep- 
tion, the most important part of the book, as 
"The End of the Tether" is the most fas- 
cinating. The first deals with life on the 
Congo and the Belgian ivory-hunt; the sec- 
ond is the story of a fine old merchant-service 
captain who finds himself rapidly becoming 
blind, and who, for the sake of the daughter 
who relies upon him for support, retains 
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Malays (where keen eyesight is perhaps a 
skipper's most essential qualification) long 
after he has ceased to be capable. A more 
deeply moving story it would be hard to find, 
vivid, full of movement, even of stirring inci- 
dent, yet piercingly analytic. (McClure, 
Phillips. $1.50.) The Athencciun. 



v;hich is one of the glories of the treasury of 
St. Mark's. The Earl goes to the Cardinal to 
see if he can buy the cup. That being im- 
possible, he resolves to steal it, whereupon the 
Cardinal interests himself in the transaction, 
ill a way and with results that are altogether 
delightful. It is a pretty story, told with art. 




from " The Tuniuoise Cup." Copyright, 1903, by Charles fccibLui s Sous. 

THE CARDINAL .\RCHB1SH0P S.\T ON HIS SHADED BALCONY. 



The Turquoise Cup. 

Mr. Smith's two stories are both charming. 
"The Turquoise Cup" is the tale of an English 
Earl, an Irish heiress and an Italian Cardinal ; 
flif scene is laid in Venice, and llie episode in 
which the author finds his account has in it the 
lightness of comedy. Lady Nora declares to 
the Earl that if he is to marry her he must 
first place in her hands the turquoise cup 



Its companion. "The Desert," is even more 
beguiling in a totally diflferent manner ; in fact, 
the serious note that is struck in this com- 
position gives, perhaps, a better measure of 
the author's powers. We enjoy the first stoj> 
for its vivacious plot, for its daintiness and 
its atmosphere. The second we enjoy chiefly 
for the human nature in it. (Scribner. 
$1.25.) A^. Y. Tribune. 



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Conjuror's House. 

Another world is opened wide to us in 
Stewart Edward White's new romance a 
world of limitless forests and arctic rivers, 
f 1 long and terrifying winters and short and 
brilliant summers, a world peopled by In- 
aians and half-breeds, with a handful of 
white men from whom the isolation and utter 
loneliness of existence in the far North have 
shorn away the veneer of conventionality and 
srug respectability, laying bare the elemental 
passions of love and hate, quickly aroused 
and fiercely maintained. 

As a story "Conjuror's House" is simple 
in motive, but it pulsates with life, is sincere 
in purpose and vivid in description. It tells 
how Ned Trent, Free Trader of the forest, is 
brought a prisoner to the hillpost settlement 
of Conjuror's House, where Galen Albret, the 
Hudson Bay Company's factor, holds su- 




preme command, controlling the voyageurs 
and holding the Indians in subjection while 
exchanging their pelts for the flour, ammuni- 
tion and other necessaries of frontier life. 
Twice before has Ned Trent been intercepted 
by Albret's men and warned against hunting 
and trading in the company's territory; but 
besides being an intrepid and experienced 
Moodman, he is also actuated by the wish to 
avenge his father's secret death at the hands 
hi a company's servant, and, moreover, knows 
that the charter of the company for exclusive 
trading has expired, and that Albret has ar- 
bitrarily maintained the right through the 
ignorance of the traders, therefore, he has 
disregarded the threats and, as the result, is 
now captured and brought before Albret for 
sentence. All this is preliminarj^ to the real 
narrative, the action of which occupies only 
forty-eight hours. This is time enough, how- 
ever, for Albret's daughter, a 
child of the wilderness, yet by 
reason of her father's position, 
a veritable queen of this forest 
kingdom, to fall under the 
compelling charm of the cap- 
tured voyageur. Mr. White's 
skill has never been more evi- 
dent than in his portrayal of 
the conflicting emotions in the 
hearts of this man and girl, 
each confronted by circum- 
stances of most desperate char- 
acter; while the vindictive hate 
of the old father, defied first 
by Trent, and then by his 
daughter, is depicted with 
surest touch. 

This book is indeed an idyll 
of "the free forest," pervaded 
by the freshness of beauty and 
nature untouched by man. 
(McClure, Phillips. $1.25.) 



Froai " Conjuror ^ 1 1 m., ' ' opyright, 1903, by Mi Clure, Phillips & Co. 

VIRGINIA GASPED AT THE CHANGE IN HIM. 



Lovey Mary. 

Every one who made the ac- 
quaintance of that genial, home- 
ly philosopher, Mrs. Wiggs, 
will rejoice in the opportunity 
to continue the acquaintance 
which this second little story 
provides. Lovey Mary is an 
orphan, whose thirteen years 
of childhood have been spent 
in the loveless atmosphere of 
an orphan asylum. The little 
creature is starved for sympa- 
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vent for her own pent- 
up affections in a baby ' 
boy, who is given into 
her care. Tommy's moth- 
er is a young, frivolous, 
wayward girl, once an in- 
mate of the asylum. 

Lovey Mary's devotion 
to the baby rouses all the 
dormant emotions of her 
child's heart. Just as the 
two have become happy 
in each other the young 
mother, moved by some 
ephemeral touch of be- 
lated sentiment, comes 
after Tommy. Lovey 
Mary runs away with 
him, and finds her way 
to the hospitable "Cab- 
bage Patch." 

Mrs. Wiggs, with char- 
acteristic optimism and 
largeness of spirit, is a 
true friend to the strange- 
ly assorted couple of 
children, and the story 
of Lovey Mary's blos- 
soming under the whole- 
some influence of Mrs. 
Wiggs' sunny approba- 
tion is marked by many 
touches of homely hu- 
mor and pathos. 

The philosophy of the 
book is of the honest, 
helpful kind, without 
mawkishness. Its mes- 

sitge is human, its underlying lesson sweet and 
strong, emphasizing, as it does, the wide- 
reaching influence of well-bestowed approval. 
(Century. $1.) Brooklyn Times. 




On the Polar Star in the Arctic Sea. 

His Royal Highness Louis of Savoy, 
Lieutenant of the Royal Navy, aged twenty- 
six, born in Turin, so the name of the Duke 
of the Abruzzi stands in the Duke's journal, 
at the head of the list of the party of twenty 
men who sailed with the Stella Polare into 
the Arctic Sea, leaving Archangel and civili- 
zation on July 12, 1899. Capt. Cagni of the 
Italian Royal Navy, second in command of 
the expedition, reached, (April 21, 1900.) with 
sledges drawn by dogs, north latitude 86 de- 
grees 34 minutes, and so broke the record for 
north pole seekers. Capt. Cagni had left the 
Duke in winter quarters beside the abandoned 
ship at Teplitz Bay, Prince Rudolph Island, 



The Traitors.'" Copyright, 1903, by Dodd, Mead & Co. 

MARIE SHOT THE MAN TUROUGH THE HEART. 

on March ii, and returned to him there on 
June 19, having covered 6oi miles in ninety- 
five days. 

It is the story of this expedition that the 
Duke of the Abruzzi tells in his journal 
Cf'pt. Cagni's part being related in the form 
of a report to the Prince. Both the Prince 
and the Captain have a very straightforward 
aiid graphic method of telling in detail what 
happened, and elaborate tables are provided 
to show exactly the equipment of the expedi- 
tion in clothing, food, fuel, and scientific ap- 
pliances, not forgetting remarks on the ulti- 
mate usefulness of each article which will 
serve as a guide to future arctic explorers. 
At the outset the Duke gives a brief summary 
of previous attempts to reach the pole, and 
speaks e-pecially of the help and advice given 
him by Nansen, whom he visited just pre- 
vious to his departure. (Dodd, Mead. 2 v. 
$12.50 net.) N. Y. Times Sat. Review. 



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From " Barbizon Davs.'' 



Copyright, 1903. by A, Wcssels Co. 

millet's birthplace at GRUCHY. 



Truth. 

Zola's last novel, "Truth" (Verite), in Mr. 
Vizetelly's translation, runs to 587 closely- 
printed pages. It is the third of the quartet. 
"1 he Four Gospels " The fourth, "Justice," 
vas to have been begun on the very day that 
M. Zola was found asphyxiated in his bed- 
room. "Truth" was suggested by the Dreyfus 
case. It is a story written in heat, and has a 
directness and compactness rare in what Mr. 
Vizetelly calls his "dear master's writings." 
1 he Dreyfus of the story, however, is not an 
officer of the army, but a Jewish communal 
schoolmaster, and his false accusers and per- 
secutors are not "the general staff," but the 
priests who hate Simon alike because he 
is Jew and because he is secular school- 
master, in opposition to the clerical schools. 
Simon's little nephew, Zephirin, an orphan, 
who lives with him, is found murdered 
in his bedroom, with an aggravating cir- 
cumstance of unmentionable horror a circum- 
stance which makes the book unsuitable for 
reading by young people. Simon is accused 
and arrested, but Marc Froment, his friend 
and brother schoolmaster, takes up his cause, 
sides are taken, and soon the Simon case be- 
comes the battle-ground of the priests and the 
Slate educationists, who are fighting fiercely 
for the possession of the children. All the 
fcrces of the Roman Catholic Church are 
brought into play to secure the conviction of 
Simon, and the Church is successful. Simon 
suffers long years in prison till a "new fact" 



is discovered which turns the tables on the 
accusers. The story is really a flaming indict- 
ment of the Romarf Catholic Church in France 
and all its deeds. There is a dash of the 
social gospel of M. Zola's later years. The 
characterization is strong, and the book alto- 
gether is evidence that the author's powers 
were at their height during its composition. 
(Lane. $1.50.) Literary World. 



Barbizon Days. 

Mr. Charles Sprague Smith knows at first 
hand the country which he so charmingly 
describes in his book, a country which was 
the background of the work of Millet, Corot, 
Rousseau, and Barye. Millet and Rousseau 
can hardly be understood without some famil- 
iarity with the Forest of Fontainebleau, and 
although Corot drew his most characteristic 
h.r.'dscapes elsewhere, his life was so intimate- 
ly associated with the Forest and with the 
artists who painted it that he will always be 
classed as one of the Barbizon men. This 
volume contains, in effect, four biographies or 
studies of artists, their genius and their work, 
with constant reference to the Barbizon back- 
ground. Mr. Smith writes in this volume, not 
for the technical student of art, but for the 
love of good painting, and especially for the 
great class who have come to find in the work 
of Millet, Corot, and Rousseau some of the 
most charming and satisfying examples of 
modern landscape. The volume is written in 
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picturesqueness and. in a very appreciative 
mtod; it is full of the atmosphere of Barbizon, 
and it is very interestingly and intelligently 
iliiistrated. (Wcssels. $2 net.) The Out- 
look. 



Tito. 

This new story by William Henry Carson, 
the author of "Hester Blair," begins in Italy, 
moves on to the New World, returns again to 
the Old, to reach its climax in New York. 
The vengefulness of the Italian race, aroused 
sometimes by motives too obscure to be 
grasped by the mind of northern peoples, lies 
at the bottom of it all. A young American, a 
man of wealth, marries an Italian peasant 
girl, against the wish of her aunt. His fath- 
er's business calls him to Paris, and on his 
return he finds his wife dying. Their son, so 
theold woman tells him, has died at birth, but 

in reality she has hidden the 

child, that she may teach it 
to hate its father, and, in good 
time, to become its murderer. 

The young man returns to 

America, enters his father's 

banking house, and takes up 

the broken thread of his life. 

A quarrel between the two 

the mesalliance had been 

an early source of discord 

sends the younger man away 

from the parental roof into 

the ranks of the submerged. 

where weeks of hard labor 

alternate with days of drunk- 
enness, when the few dollars 

of his own income are re- 
ceived. 

Tito, his son, is brought 

up with but one idea, that of 

killing the father, who, ac- 
cording to the old woman, 

had wronged his mother and 

deserted him. In dvie course 

he, too, departs for New 

York on his murderous mis- 
sion and is lost in the mass 

of his fellow - countrymen. 

The two meet, but do not 

know each other, affection, 

not hatred, growing up in the 

unsuspecting heart of the 

young Italian. 

Here the exposition of the 

plot of the story must stop; 

its further unfolding the au- 
thor alone should tell. His 



],lot ranges from Fifth Avenue to the slums, 
where thieves herd together; friends of the 
man's earlier days drift across his life from 
time to time charity workers, a judge who 
recognizes him while he is giving evidence 
in court, etc. Mr. Blair having taken fullest 
advantage of the wide scope which New 
York life from top to bottom affords the 
novelist. The story is not written in a min- 
ittely realistic manner ; it hides no sociologi- 
cal aim or end. The tale itself is the thing 
with the author, and it never departs from 
plausibility. (C. M. Clark Pub. Co. $1.50.) 
--A''. Y. Mail and Express. 



On Satan's Mount. 

DwiGHT Tilton's evident intention is to 
show through the medium of his novel that 
the love of power in the individual American 
threatens American moral life, American in- 




Copyright, 1903,_by C. M. CUrk Pub. Co. 



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stitutions, and the life of the Republic. The 
American loves money, but as a means to an 
end, and that end is power ; lust of power dis- 
torts his character, until in one and the same 
man are seen the tender husband and father, 
the philanthropist helping churches and build- 
ing palaces for children of the poor, and the 
monopolist who in the routine of business 
crushes men, women and children to death, 
as a matter of course and without compunc- 
tion. Through his ambition to become the 
world's financial dictator, Mr. Tilton's capi- 
talist is finally caught in a net which makes 
him a traitor to his own country. His cham- 
pion of labor, affected with the germ of the 
national infirmity, stands at last, dizzy, on 
"Satan's Mount," is President of the United 
States for a few days, and dictatorship is 
within his grasp. Wall Street and Washing- 
ton are the theatres of action, and in the 
characters many will think they recognize 
composite pictures of prominent men. The 
story is fanciful, but not without power and 
not without a lesson. (C. M. Clark Pub. Co. 
$1.50.) 7/?^ Outlook. 



A Tar- Heel Baron. 

Among the mountains and "moonshiners" 
ot North Carolina Mabelle Shippie Clarke 
Pelton has found the setting for a love story 
as refreshing in its charm and sentiment as it 
is unusual for its keen observation and clever 
character portrayal. The theme is the familiar 



oi:e of the distinguished foreigner beginning 
life anew in a new country, under the bur- 
dens of poverty and misunderstanding. The 
"Tar-Heel Baron" is a baron indeed, a most 
winning and courteous figure, whose experi- 
ences as householder of a shabby little moun- 
tain "shack" give opportunity for quaint con- 
trasts with the rough and kindly people of the 
North Carolina country about him. The plot 
though simple in its thread, has strong dra- 
matic and even tragic elements, and the en- 
trapment of the kindly baron as a "moon- 
shiner" by an unscrupulous revenue officer is 
the first step in a series of clear cut and ab- 
sorbing incidents. It is a love story from 
the beginning and the fair, bright personality 
of Sydney Carroll, in whose winning her Ger- 
man lover finds the new aim and purpose of 
his life, is a figure not soon to be forgotten. 
All the characters are well differentiated the 
kindly, drawling doctor, his placid wife, the 
gay city visitors and the vital figures of the 
mountain men and women ; while it is evident, 
in the description of the village "gander pull- 
ing," the rustic "poke party," the midnight 
'possum hunt and the varied scenes of moun- 
tain life, that the writer has drawn on a store 
of personal knowledge and vivid understand- 
ing of the real actors in this little corner of 
the world. Mrs. Pelton has given a story of 
American life, slight in its outline, but touched 
with sincere feeling, with humor and real 
ini^ight. (Lippincott. $1.50.) 




From " A Tar-Heel Bron. Copyright, 1903, by J. B. Lippincott Co. 

A FENCE AT THE TOP OF A SHARP ASCENT. 



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CtiF liteari} Mtm. 

p iStltciic iKontljIj Ittbufa of Current ILtttraturt. 
EDITED BY A. H. LEYPOLDT. 

APRIL, 1903. 

THE DRAMATIZATION MILL. 

Is it a question of a supply unequal to the 
demand? Or is it because in a generation 
v/hen even the dust of the streets is trans- 
formed into a commodity of commercial value, 
so rich a literary asset as a plot already 
worked out, characters fully portrayed and 
scenes exactly described, cannot be allowed 
to serve only in a novel, but must also be re- 
shaped into a dramatized version for stage 
presentation? 

Far be it from one to even hint that original 
play writing may be a vanishing art. Never- 
theless, the dramatization mill grinds unceas- 
ingly on, certainly not "slowly," though one 
must confess the output is often "exceeding 
small." 

While there has been a phenomenal increase 
in the number of dramatized novels presented 
on the American and English stage during 
the past five years, still it is not wholly an 
end-of-the-century growth. Longer ago than 
the memory of the oldest veteran "first 
riighter" there were Monte Cristos and Peg 
Wofifingtons, consumptive Camilles and dash- 
ing Mousquetaires, with long seasons of "Un- 
cle Tom's Cabin" and "Oliver Twist." Even 
in this latter day these old successes hold out 
tempting promises for aspiring actors who 
have the temerity to revive them. Some of 
these old plays, being of abiding value, de- 
serve to live, but as much cannot be said of 
many of our recent dramatizations. 

With pages hardly dry from the press a 
much advertised novel is turned over to one 
of the new craft of dramatizers, with directions 
to shape it into a play that will please the 
jaded taste of the modern theatre-goer. 
Therefore, there must be no more sadness 
than is necessary to make the ending satis- 
factorily happy by c6ntrast ; the plot of the 
story need only be adhered to when convenient 
and any extraneous events or characters may 
be introduced that will give the required 
comedy element, but, above all else, the cur- 
tain must be rung down on a blissfully happy 
denouement after the manner of the old fairy 
story where the prince marries the princess 
and they live happily ever after. And the 
result? An essentially undramatic drama de- 
pending upon stage setting and acting to give 
^.t interest, with the idea of the story so dis- 



torted and perverted as to be utterly spoiled. 
To prove that this is a just estimate of many 
recent dramatizations we have only to point 
to such plays as "Audrey," "The Gadfly," 
"Monsieur Beaucaire," "The Christian," and 
"The Eternal City." 

Probably the most successful and certainly 
the most artistic piece of dramatized fiction 
of the past five years was "The Little Min- 
ister," yet even here the underlying motive, 
the portrayal of Gavin Dishart's religious 
conflict, largely gave way to the love ele- 
ment. Certain authors' work seems to lend 
itself so naturally to dramatization that little 
or no re-casting is necessary to prepare it for 
stage presentation; as, for instance, the novels 
of Anthony Hope and Richard Harding 
Davis; but the far greater majority have to 
pass through the fire of adaptation that leaves 
only. a semblance of the original fabric. 

It is doubtless futile, however, to expect 
while theatres are springing up like toadstools 
in the night and novels are being read al- 
most faster than they can be written, that man- 
agers and actors can afford to disregard the 
dramatic possibilities of the last popular novel. 
Only let him who has followed in the pages 
of a book the fortunes of a group of charac- 
ters moving on to a consistent and harmon- 
ious end, beware lest in the dramatized form 
of the story his keen satisfaction be rudely 
shattered. 

The appended list, although by no means 
exhaustive, may serve as an interesting com- 
mentary on the modern process by which 
brain-made novels are turned into machine- 
made plays. E. A. 

DRAMATIZED NOVELS OF RECENT YEARS. 

Audrey. Johnston, Mary. 

Ben Hur. Wallace, Lew. 

Beside the bonnie brier bush. Maclaren, Ian. 

Cavalier (The). Cable, G: W. 

Children of the Ghetto. Zangwill, Israel. 

Christian (The). Caine, Hall. 

Colonel Carter of Cartersville. Smith, F. 

Hopkinson. 
Crisis (The). Churchill, Winston. 
David Harum. Westcott, D: N. 
Deemster (The) ("Ben-my-Chree"). Caine, 

Hall. 
Eleanor. Ward, Mrs. Humphry. 
Eternal city. Caine, Hall. 
First violin. Fothergill, Jessie. 
Gadfly (The). Voynich. Mrs. E. L. B. 
Gentleman of France. Weyman, S. J. 
Helmet of Navarre. Runkle, Bertha. 
If I were king. McCarthy, Justin. 
In the palace of the king. Crawford, F. M. 
Janice Meredith. Ford, Paul L. 
Joan of the sword hand. Crockett, S : R. 
Lady of quality. Burnett, Mrs. F. H. 
Light that failed. Kipling, R. 



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Little Lord Fauntleroy. Burnett, Mrs. F. H. 

Little minister. Barrie, J. M. 

Manxman (The). Caine, Hall. 

Miranda of the balcony. Mason, A. E. W. 

Monsieur Beaucaire. Tarkington, Booth. 

Notre Dame de Paris. ("Esmeralda.") Hugo, 
V: 

Phroso. Hope, Anthony. 

Pickwick papers. ("Mr. Pickwick.") Dick- 
ens, C : 

Pride of Jennico. Castle, Egerton and Agnes. 

Prisoner of Zenda. Hope, Anthony. 

Quo vadis. Sienkiewicz, Henryk. 

Resurrection (The). Tolstoy, Count Leo. 

Richard Carvel. Churchill, Winston. 

Rupert of Hentzau. Hope, Anthony. 

Sapho. Daudet, A. 

Sara Crewe. ("The little princess.") Bur- 
net, Mrs. F. H. 

Sherlock Holmes. Doyle, A. C. 

Soldiers of fortune. Davis, R: H. 

vSword of the king. Macdonald, R. 

Tale of two cities. .("All for her.") Dick- 
ens, C : 

Tale of two cities. ("The only way.") Dick- 
ens, C: 

Tess of the D'Urbervilles. Hardy, T: 

Trilby. Du Maurier, G : 

Under two flags. Ouida. 

Vanity fair. ("Becky Sharp.") Thackeray, 
W: M. 

When knighthood was in flower. Major, C: 

Heabingo from New Books. 

IN THE HANDS OF THE MADRID MOB. 

The wintry sun was gleaming over the 
streets of Madrid as Ruthven Woode drove 
to the station the next morning to receive the 
returning family party. 

Ignorant of the language, he could not di- 
vuie the meaning of the mob-like aspect of the 
wild throng. 

Suddenly a chorus ' of discordant voices 
arose. 

"Fuera los Americanos! Muerte a los Amer- 
icanos!" and then, the frightened coachman 
whipped up his horses. He understood the 
insults ! 

Followed by a jeering crowd, the horses 
sprang away while Evelyn Selden, in a sud- 
den terror, clung to her escort. 

"What has happened?" she faltered. 

"Some riot !" grimly answered Woode, 
powerless now, armed only with an umbrella. 

The streets were alive with people, and 
the terrified coachman quickly turned into a 
side street. 

Ignorant of the locality, Woode supported 
the half-fainting girl until, after five min- 
ute3, the crowd ahead of them closed in with 
threatening gestures. The streets were alive 
with a dense mob. 

In the distance Woode could see a police 
station, where a few soldiers were now lazily 
turning out ! 

The whole city was in an uproar. 

And now stones, sticks and missiles filled 
the air. 

The shouts redoubled, and Woode bravely 
covered the terrified woman with his body. 

Bruised and bleeding, he saw in the dis- 



tance the shield of the LTnited States Lega- 
tion and its still waving flag. 

An immense crowd was gathered in front 
of it and a company of troops were being 
drawn up before it. 

With a last efifort Woode pointed to the 
Legation and motioned the brave driver ta 
dash on ! 

Lashing his horses to the run, the frantic 
man swung his whip right and left ! The 
cries redoubled, and grimy hands were thrust 
out to drag the occupants from the carriage. 

Woode, striking right and left, at last re- 
ceived a blow from a paving stone which 
felled him. 

As he sank senseless at the feet of the de- 
fenceless woman, pistol in hand, a man leaped 
to the side of Evelyn Selden, his eyes blazing 
with rage ! The crowd fell oflf as he fired 
two shots, point blank, into their midst. 

And then, a dozen Spanish officers, sword 
in hand, surrounded the vehicle. One of the 
horses had fallen, and the coachman had been 
trampled by the mob. (Home Pub. Co. $1.) 
From Richard Henry Savage's "The Golden 
Rapids of High Life." 

BEETHOVEN'S "MOONLIGHT" SONATA. 

So Kitty went dutifully to the piano and 
played her favorite bits in her best manner, 
and gradually became so inspired and em- 
boldened by the magnetism of her sympa- 
thetic audience and the stir of youth and 
hope in her heart, that she dared a difficult 
deed, a Sonata she never ventured upon ex- 
cept when alone. Richard lounged all his great 
length in a chair facing her, his hands clasped 
behind his head, his eyes full of dream, his 
spirits calmed yet moved, rapt away to a realm 
of entranced delight. Moonlight slept upon the 
vast calm of a windless ocean, a faerie sea, 
in the opening Adagio, and a soft melody, 
sad and sweet and full of inextinguishable 
longing, glided over the still waves. Far 
away, from time to time, the boom of break- 
ers plunging on rocky shores was heard, and 
the distant thunder of seas pent up and 
struggling in dark and deep caverns gave a 
hmt of storm. But the tender melody glided 
on over the unruffled sea in the moonbeams 
and died far away upon the quiet deep. Then 
came a fairy dance of joyous waves, tumbling 
and tossing in the moonlight, with the occa- 
sional deep thunder of baffled desire and the 
play of light and whisper of waking winds ; 
again the light, bright tripping of the fairy 
dimce came in a tender close. This finished, 
Kitty paused and looked into Richard's 
charmed face and dream-filled eyes, when a 
fire thrilled her gentle pulses and flushed her 
cheeks ; she turned the page and attacked the 
Presto Agitato with sudden ardor. Her light 
fingers flew, as true as swift ; her eyes glit- 
tered, a spirit not her own was in her hands, 
a strange, unknown spirit of fire and passion 
and agony and rapture and yearning un- 
utterable, and she played as never before or 
after, truly and unerringly to the splendid 
close. 

Great breakers rose up out of the heart of 
the deep and rolled and thundered and 
plunged tumultuously in the silver moon- 
beams, in exultation and hope and despair. 



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The tossing manes of wild sea-horses flashed 
snow-white above dark ridges, the rioting 
steeds leaped and plunged with dull and hol- 
low and long-drawn roar upon rock and reef 
and iron shore; innumerable voices shouted 
and sang in exultant chorus and threatened 
in hoarse thunder, and muttered and moaned 
in vain, unquenchable desire. Great storm 
blasts drew deep furrows along the dark and 
heaving waste ; mad winds tore mighty seas 
out of the roaring ridges, caught them up and 
dashed them down, one upon another, in 
quivering rage; they took up little ships 
hiden with half a thousand souls, like walnut 
shells, and crushed them to atoms and warred 
wildly together and fled far away in rumbling 
fury and were still. Moonbeams shone 
calmly over all the tumult, they silvered the 
tumbling wave-crests and danced in golden 
luster upon the quieting waters ; the vast sea 
stretched out a million arms in vain longing, 
and leaped up in hope and sank back in tu- 
mult and pain; then the moonlight trembled 
in a long, golden path upon its heaving breast 
and it thundered itself into peace, with many 
a dying murmur and echoing roar. (Apple- 
ton. $1.50.) From Maxwell Gray's "Rich- 
ard Rosny." 

bituarB JQ'oUs. 

Frederic William Farrar^ Dean of Can- 
terbury. Since the death of Dean Stanley, 
no preacher of the English church has occu- 
pied so popular a place as Dean Farrar. 
All his life he was energetic, enthusiastic and 
eloquent, and possessed of a kindness of heart 
and a love of his fellow-men (especially of 
the younger fellow-men) that endeared him 
to all who were privileged to come into per- 
sonal contact with him. Dean Farrar was 
bom in Bombay, where his father was then 
chaplain of the port, in 1821. He first studied 
in King William's College, in the Isle of Man, 
and then successively at King's College, Lon- 
don, the University of London, and Trinity 
College, Cambridge. At the age of twenty- 
six he was ordained a priest. Dean Farrar 
was a born teacher, and his work as master 
at Harrow and head master of Marlborough 
College gave him distinction throughout the 
world. He had the great gift of stimulating 
intellectual exertion and literary tastes in the 
boys under his care. He knew boy nature well, 
as is evidenced in his very popular books : 
"Eric," "Philip Home," and "St. Winifred's." 
All through his life Dean Farrar wrote on 
philological and theological subjects. His 
"Life of Christ" and "Life of St. Paul" were 
widely read and translated into several 
tongues. In 1885 Dean Farrar came to Amer- 
ica and made an extended lecturing tour, dur- 
ing which he preached in some of the most 
noted churches of the United States. 
WRITINGS OF DEAN FARRAR. 
Allegories. $2. Longmans. 

Bible, its meaning. $2. Longmans. 

Book of Daniel. (Expositor's Bible.) $1.50. 

Armstrong. 
Cathedrals of England. (Newbolt, and oth- 
ers.) $5; $10.. Whittaker. 
Darkness and dawn. $2. Longmans. 



Early days of Christianity. $1 ; $1.50. Burt. 
Ephphatha. $1.25. Macmillan. 

Eric, or, little by little. $1.50. Dutton. 

Same. $2. Macmillan. 
Eternal hope. (Sermons.) $1. Dutton. 

Same. $1.25. Macmillan. 
Every day Christian life. $1.25. Whittaker. 
Fall of man. $1.25. Macmillan. 
Free thought. $1.50. Appleton., 
Gathering clouds. $2. Longmans. 
Great books. $1.25. Crowell. 
Greek grammar rules. 45 c. Longmans.. 
Heaven in earthlv homes. 25 c. Crowell. 
Herods (The). $1. Whittaker.. 
History of interpretation. (Bampton lec- 
tures, 1885.) $3.50. Dutton. 

In the days of thy youth. $1.25. Macmillan. 
Julian Home. (College ser.) $1.25. Dutton. 

Same. $2. Macmillan. 
Just for to-day. (Great ideals.) $1; 35 c. 

Dodge. 

Same. (Loving service.) 35 c. ; 10 c. Pott. 
Kings, First and Second. (Expositor's Bi- 
ble.) 2 v. ea., $1.50. Armstrong. 

Language and languages. $2. Longmans. 

Life and work of St. Paul. $2 ; $3. Dutton. 
Life of Christ. 50 c.-$5. Burt; Caldwell; 
Cassell; Coates; Crowell; Funk; Hurst; 
Macmillan; Revell; Whittaker. 
Life of Christ in art. $3.50. Macmillan. 

Life of lives. $2.50. Dodd, M. 

Life of St. Paul. $4. Cassell. 

Same. (Standard.) 50 c. Funk. 

Lives of the Fathers. 2 v. $5. Macmillan. 
Lord's prayer. $1.50. Whittaker. 

Men I have known. $1.75. Crowell. 

Mercy and judgment. $1.25. Macmillan. 

Same. $1.50. Dutton. 

Messages of the Books. (New Testament.). 

$3-50. Dutton. 

Minor prophets. .(Men of the Bible.) 75 c. 

Revell. 
Path of duty. (What is worth while.) 35 c. 

Crowell. 
St. Winifred's. $1.25. Dutton. 

Same. $2. Macmillan. 

Saintly workers. $1. Macmillan. 

Seekers after God. 50 c.-$i. 

Burt; Crowell; Macmillan; McVey. 
Sermons. (Contemporary pulpit lib.) $1. 

Whittaker. 
Sermons and addresses del. in America. $2. 

Dutton. 
Silence and voices of God. $1. Macmillan. 
Sin and its conquerors. 50 c. Revell. 

Solomon. (Men of the Bible.) 75 c. Revell. 
Story of Christ. 50 c. De Wolfe. 

Texts explained. $1.50. Dodd. M. 

Three homes. $1.50. Dutton. 

Treasure thoughts from. (Porter, Rose, ed.) 

75 c. Lothrop. 

True religion. $1. Whittaker. 

Truths to live by. $1.25. Whittaker. 

Voice from Sinai. $1.50. Whittaker. 

Westminster Abbey. $1. Wessels. 

Same. 50 c. Whittaker. 

Wider hope. (Tulloch, and others.) $1.25. 

Dutton. 
With the poets. 25 c. ; $1.25. Funk & W. 

Witness of hist, to Christ. $1.25. Macmillan. 
Year-book. 75 c. ; $1.25. Dutton. 



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Charles G. Leland Dies in Florence. 
On March 20 there died in Florence a writer 
best known as the author of the "Hans Breit- 
mann Ballads," which published in the early 
sixties in Philadelphia were phenomenally 
popular and imitated far and wide. Charles 
Grodfrey Leland was born in Philadelphia in 
1824, and from his tenth year devoted himself 
Ko literature. He was by profession a lawyer, 
-and made a reputation besides as campaigner, 
^traveller and writer on many subjects. He 
was an authority on folk-lore. In his early 
.years he had a German nurse who was a stu- 
'dent of magic and from her he first acquired 
the interests which later made him a delver 
in recondite knowledge of many kinds. He 
"went through Princeton College and then 
travelled extensively in Europe, where he 
learned the German he so successfully trav- 
estied in the Hans Breitmann books, of which 
there were five volumes, originally published 
by the Petersons. In his travels he made a 
special study of gypsies. His tastes were 
tnost varied, and every subject he studied with 
"enthusiasm and thoroughness. He was one 
of the first to advocate industrial education in 
the public schools, and several of his books 
deal with phases of that subject. Mr. Leland 
was never strong, and as European climate 
and conditions agreed better with him than 
American surroundings he spent almost all of 
the last thirty years abroad. Many of the 
best known literary people were among his 
intimate friends. 

WRITINGS OF CHARLES G. LELAND. 
Abraham Lincoln and abolition of American 
slavery. 75 c. Caldwell. 

Algonquin legends of New England. $2. 

Houghton, M. 
Aradia; or, the gospel of the witches. $1.40. 

Scribner. 
Art in public schools. 25 c. Am. Academy. 
Designing and drawing for beginners. 25 c. 

Photo-Beacon. 
Dictionary of slang (with Banere.) 2 v. $25. 

Scribner. 
Drawing and designing. 65 c. Rand, McNally. 
Dyes, stains, inks, lacquers, etc. 25 c. 

Photo-Beacon. 
Egyptian sketch book. $1.75. 
Elemental metal work. $1.50. Macmillan. 

Cougework and indented woodwork. 25 c. 

Photo-Beacon. 
tSypsies. $2. Houghton, M. 

Gypsy sorcery. $4. Scribner. 

Hans Breitmann in Germany. $1.25. 

Lippincott. 
Hans Breitmann's ballads. $1.50. McKay. 
"Have you a strong will? $1.50. Lane. 

Leather work. $1.50. Macmillan. 

Xegends of the birds. $2. Holt. 

Legends of Florence. 2 ser. ea., $1.75. 

Macmillan. 
Legends of Virgil. $1.75. Macmillan. 

Xeland's itinerary. Macmillan. 

Memoirs. $2. Appleton. 

Mending and repairing. $1.50. Dodd. 

Practical education, net, $1.25. Macmillan. 
"Result of art in schools. 25 c. Am. Academy. 
'Slang, jargon and cant. 2 v. $4. Macmillan. 
Songs of the sea, etc. $2. Macmillan. 

Wood carving. $1.75. Scribner, 



Citerarg iHisccIlflttp. 



THRIFT. 

If you had given me the kiss I craved 

At our last parting, placed your hand in mine, 

Or even for one moment laid your head 

To rest upon the heart that ached for you, 

I should have faced my fate with stouter soul, 

And walked with firmer feet to meet my doom. 

It was not much I asked! Not much for you, 

So rich in all I lacked, to give or grant. 

And I, poor, desolate, and most forlorn, 

Should for such grace have blessed you all my days. 

Now, neither kiss, nor tender clasping hand, 
Nor e'en the gift of your whole self could save 
This wand'rer, shipwrecked on the sea of life. 
Who. passing by your door, says only this 
"You are no richer, dear, for that day's thrift, 
While I am made the poorer for all time." 
(Doubleday, Page.) From "Verses by a Mother and 
Daughter." 

RuDYARD Kipling's New Estate. Bate- 
mans, Mr. Kipling's new estate in England, 
is four miles from any railway station and 
the author may look with some confidence for 
freedom from excursionists. "The house," 
The London Express says, "is a perfect ex- 
ample of the Jacobean period, and dates from 
1634. It is built of stone, and contains some 
beautiful carving, including massive oak stair- 
cases. It stands in beautiful gardens, and at- 
tached to it are some acres of rich farm land. 
The estate and the house have cost the poet 
several thousand pounds. The nearest village 
Burwash is a mile away, while the country 
round is as pretty as can be found in Sussex 
or in the neighboring county of Kent. The 
only distraction, unless Mr. Kipling continues 
his village gun club movement, will be trout 
fishing." 

No More Novels from George Meredith. 
"Mr. George Meredith will," says the 
Philadelphia Times, "write no more novels. 
He is now an old man, who has worked very 
hard and is surely entitled to rest. All the 
same, the assurance that we shall never again 
have the joy of sitting down to cut the pages 
of a new Meredith novel is saddening. Mr. 
Meredith is by no means in ill health, and did 
he so desire he is as capable of writing an- 
other 'Lord Ormont' as he ever was, but he 
feels that he has done his life's work and 
leaves the field free to other men." 

Mrs. Humphry Ward's Profits. The 
amount of money Mrs. Ward received from 
Harper's Magazine for the serial rights of 
"Lady Rose's Daughter" is an interesting sub- 
ject of current comment. Miss Jeannette L. 
Gilder, an experienced literary agent, surr 
mises that, as the book rights of the novel 
also went to the Harpers, in accordance with 
an inflexible rule of the house, Mrs. Ward 
could have received no less than $25,000 for 
the serial rights. Adding to this her royalties 
on the sales of the book, which, she says, 
promise to be enormous, it is Estimated that 
Mrs. Ward will reap a tidy profit of over 
$150,000 on "Lady Rose's Daughter." No 
living author has ever received as much. Miss 
Gilder asserts that "there is no doubt that 
Mrs. Humphry Ward is the best paid of living 
novelists." The Harpers, following their cus- 
tom, are reticent as to the figures in the case. 



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Jresbest Neve. 



G. & C. Merriam & Co. have a book al- 
ways useful in their "Unabridged Webster's 
Dictionary." There is no better investment 
for any family. 

A. Wessels Company have a cheerful story 
of love and vi^ar entitled "Flowers of the 
Dust," a story of the Franco-Prussian War, 
by John Oxenham ; a second edition of W. R. 
H. Trowbridge's "Eglee," a story of the 
French Revolution ; "The Game of Life," a 
volume of fables, by Bolton Hall; and Grant 
Allen's world famous historical guides to the 
celebrated continental cities of Europe. 

G. P. Putnam's Sons^ bearing in mind that 
the season of travel is upon those lucky ones 
not tied to desk or other drudgery, call spe- 
cial attention to their delightful series en- 
titled Our European Neighbors. Frank, viva- 
cious, entertaining and discerning accounts 
cire given by people specially fatted of the life 
of town and country in Denmark, France, 
Germany, Russia, Holland, Switzerland, 
Spain and Italy, and several other volumes 
are in preparation. The books are neatly 
gotten up and fully illustrated. No better 
little parting gift could be given to a friend 
who tells you which country he is speeding 
for. 

The Home Publishing Company have an- 
other book sure to be popular in "The Golden 
Rapids of High Life," by Richard Henry 
Savage. We give an extract from it else- 
where which shows the verve with which it is 
written. This house goes steadily on making 
a fortune out of Archibald Clavering Gunter'-. 
novels, which are read and reread, because 
they are amusing, entertaining and instruc- 
tive. It was indeed fortunate for Mr. Gunter 
that he found it difficult to find a publisher 
for "Mr. Potter of Texas" and "Mr. Barnes 
of New York." He knew they would sell and 
he published them himself, and has made a 
success of many others since then. 

McClure, Phillips & Co. have some ex- 
cellent books, and really expect there are 
some people who really read something be- 
sides novels. Charles Wagner, the author of 
"The Simple Life," has written "The Better 
Way," indicating how the doctrines of "The 
Simple Life" may be applied to our every- 
day existence; "Life and Destiny" contains 
the most telling thoughts selected from Felix 
Adler's spoken and written discourses; E. J. 
Dillon has followed Maxim Gorky's career 
and writes with authority upon Russian 
manners and customs ; and "Charles di 
Tocca," by Cale Young Rice, is a notable ad- 
dition to American dramatic verse. 

Lemcke & Buechner, 812 Broadway. New 
York, have just brought out in the Mono- 
graphs on Artists series a volume on "Leon- 
ardo da Vinci," by Adolf Rosenberg, trans- 
lated by J. Lohse. The volume contains 128 
illustrations and, like its predecessors, is 
handsomely printed. The author has followed 
closely the general scheme of the series, name- 
ly, while endeavoring to maintain a scientific 



thoroughness of treatment also to avoid over- 
elaboration of detail which would make the- 
work unintelligible if not distasteful to the- 
general reader ; hence the series has interest 
for the professional artist as well as value for 
the layman, a combination that is rarely found 
combined in popular treatises on art. 

Houghton, Mifflin & Co. have just ready 
"The Mannerings," a new story of country 
life, by Miss Alice Brown, author of "Mar- 
garet Warrener," etc., the plot of which in- 
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purpose is to set forth the nature and the 
meaning of a work of art ; the second and 
concluding volume of "Correspondence of the 
Colonial Government of Rhode Island, 1723- 
1775." edited by Gertrude S. Kimball ; also, 
revised editions of "Charles Eliot, Landscape 
Architect," and of Professor James M. Hop- 
pin's "Great Epochs in Art History." 

Little, Brown & Company generously pro- 
vide fiction for the rapidly approaching idle 
season. "A Rose of Normandy," by William 
R. Wilson, is a romance of France and Can- 
ada in the reign of Louis xiv. ; in "A Domi- 
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perament to reform him ; a misunderstanding,, 
a divorce and a reconciliation furnish the 
theme for Helen Milecete's clever society 
novel entitled "A Detached Pirate;" "Bar- 
bara, a Woman of the West," by John H. 
Whitson, is a distinctively American novel ; 
and "Love Thrives in War," by Mary Cath- 
erine Crowley, is a pretty romance of th 
stirring days of 1812. A. F. Wilson has an 
absorbing industrial novel in "The Wars of 
Peace ;" and it is indeed good news that there 
is to be a popular edition of "Truth Dexter," 
one of the very best novels of the past two 
years. 

D. Appleton & Co. have among their new- 
est biographical books "More Letters of 
Charles Darwin," edited by Francis Darwin, 
uniform with "The Life and Letters of Hux- 
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William A. Linn, formerly managing editor 
of the Evening Post; and "A Virginia Girl 
in the Civil War," edited by Myrta Lockett 
Avary. Maxwell Gray's "Richard Rosny" 
had three printings before publication and 
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added to the Expansion of the Republic Se- 
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Wall Street" and "Trust Finance." Among 
the latest fiction are "The Stirrup Cup," by 
J. Aubrey Tyson ; "For a Maiden Brave," 
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man's Wife," by F. T. Bullen. 



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ART, MUSIC, DRAMA. 

Baldry^ Alfred Lys. Sir John Everett Mil- 
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ser. of painters.) 50 c. ; flex, leath., $1. 

-Mauclair, Camille. French impression- 
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75 c. net; leath., $1 net. 

Holland, Romain. Millet. Button, il. 16, 
(Popular lib. of art.) 75 c. ; leath., $1 net. 

Smith, C. Sprague. Barbizon days: Millet- 
Corot-Rousseau-Barye. Wessels. il. 8, $2 
net. 
Noticed elsewhere in this issue. 

Staley, Edgcumbe. Jean Frangois Millet. 
Macmillan. il. 16, (Bell's miniature ser. 
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Wheeler, Mrs. Candace Thurber. Princi- 
ples of home decoration ; with practical ex- 
amples. Boubleday, Page. 8, $1.80 net. 
A study of beauty in house interiors, based 
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of successful application. The chapters dis- 
cuss : The bases of good decoration ; Color ; 
Walls; Ceilings; Floors and floor coverings; 
Braperies ; Furniture ; Bining rooms ; Libra- 
ries ; Bedrooms; Halls. 

BIOGRAPHY, CORRESPONDENCE, ETC. 

Arblay, Madame Frances Burney B'. Bi- 
ary and letters. Windsor ed. ; ed. by Sarah 
Chauncey Woolsey. Little, B. & Co. 2 v., 
pors. 8, $6 net. 

Babcock, Mrs. Bernie. An uncrowned 
queen : the story of Frances E. Willard. 
Revell. por. 12, 75 c. net. 

Chesterton, G. K., and Williams, J. E. Hod- 
der. Thomas Carlyle. Pott. il. por. sq. 
8, (Bookman biographies, no. 2.) 75 c. 

Dillon, E. J. Maxim Gorky, his life and 
writings. McClure, Phillips, il. 12, bds., 
$1.50 net. , 

Goschen, Viscount. The life and times of 
Georg Joachim Goschen, publisher and 
printer of Leipzig, 1752-1828; by his grand- 
son. Putnam. 2 v., il. 8, $12 net. 
Goschen was a man of striking originality 
and great intellectual powers, who rose from 
the position of a destitute orphan boy to the 
summit of fame as a publisher and printer 
and the friend and counsellor of far-famed 
writers. Extracts are given from his corre- 
spondence with Goethe, Schiller, Klopstock, 
Wieland, Korner, and many other leading 
authors and men of letters of the time. His 
own life was full of romance, covering one 
of the most exciting periods in German his- 
tory. 

-Hamilton, Alex. A few of Hamilton's let- 
ters, including his description of the great 



West Indian hurricane of 1772; ed. by 

Gertrude Atherton. Macmillan. il. 12, 

$1.50 net. 

"Mrs. Atherton seems to have been moved 
to put this volume together by criticisms of 
her story 'The Conqueror,' on the ground of 
too great partiality for Hamilton, one of its 
leading characters. One may not share all 
of Mrs. Atherton's ardor of admiration for 
Hamilton and yet read the letters she pre- 
sents with growing esteem for her hero. 
They are judiciously chosen with the object 
she had in mind." Com. Advertiser. 

Hodgkin, Thos. Charlemagne, (Charles the 
Great;) with notes by H. Ketcham. Per- 
kins Book Co. incl. geneal. tab. por. 12, 
(Heroes of history.) $1. 

Hunt, Gaill.\rd. The life of James Madi- 
son. Boubleday, Page. por. 8, $2.50 net. 

Weld, Agnes Grace. Glimpses of Tennyson 

and some of his relations and friends ; 

with an appendix by Bertram Tennyson. 

Scribner. por. 16, $1.50 net. 

"Miss Weld, the niece of Lady Tennyson 
and the ward of the poet, has in this modest 
little volume set down in good taste and with 
loyal affection various reminiscences of her 
guardian and his friends. Her views are 
naturally admiring ones without exception, 
and it is, in truth, a very good, sincere and 
kingly Tennyson whom she presents to our 
liking. Of the poet's brothers, Horatio Ten- 
nyson and Charles Tennyson Turner, Miss 
Weld has many engaging memories for two 
gentler souls never lived. Kindness to all 
the world even to the little wild birds that 
the author of 'Letty's Globe' fed all the year 
round in his beloved garden was the simple 
rule of their lives. As for Miss Weld her- 
self, it is not uninteresting to Americans to 
remember that she is a lineal descendant of 
that Thomas Welde who was the first minis- 
ter of Roxbury in New England the earnest 
man whose pious soul was so disturbed by 
the troublesome heresies of Mistress Anne 
Hutchinson." A''. Y. Tribune. 

Willcock, John, ed. The great marquess: 
life and times of Archibald, 8th Earl and 
first and only Marquess of Argyll, (1607- 
1661;) thirty-four letters written by the 
Marquess of Argyll and his father, wife 
and daughter, which have never been pub- 
lished before. Scribner. 8, $2.50 net. 

Williams, John E. Hodder. Robert Louis 
Stevenson. Pott. por. sq. 8, (Bookman 
biographies, no. i.) 75 c. 

ESRIPTION, aEOSRAPHY, TRAVEL, ETC. 

Baker, Harold. Stratford on Avon; il. from 
photographs by the author. Macmillan. il. 
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Dyer, Louis. Oxford as it is : being a guide 
to rules of collegiate residence and univer- 
sity requirements for degrees; prepared 
for students in the United States of North 
America and in British colonies. Macmil- 
lan. 12, pap., 20 c. net. 

Giles, Herbert Allen. China and the Chi- 
nese. Macmillan. 12, $1.50 net. 

Lethaby, W. R. London before the con- 
quest. Macmillan. il. 12, $2.50 net. 

Maspero, Gaston Camille C. Egyptian ar- 
chaeology. Putnam. 12, $2.25 net. 

Sarat, Chandra Das. A journey to Lhasa 
and Central Thibet ; ed. by W. W. Rock- 
hill. Dutton. 8, $3.50 net. 
To be noticed later. 

Shoemaker, Michael Myers. The great Si- 
berian railway from St. Petersburg to 
Pekin. Putnam, il. 12, $2 net. 
Noticed elsewhere in this issue. 

Triana, Perez. Down the Orinoco in a 
canoe ; with an introd. by R. B. Cunning- 
hame Graham. Crowell. 12, $1.25. 
The author, son of an ex-President of Co- 
lombia, describes a hazardous journey on 
mule-back from the Andine Plateau of Bo- 
gota to the upper watershed of the Orinoco 
River, and from thence by canoe from one 
river to another, striking the Orinoco above 
its rapids and following it to the sea. The 
book describes landscapes of primeval forest 
and plain, habits and customs of savage 
tribes, and deals with a region seldom vis- 
ited by civilized man. 

DOMESTIC AND SOCIAL. 

BiRDSALL, Katharine Newbold, ed. How to 
make money : eighty novel and practical 
suggestions for untrained women's work, 
based on actual experience. Doubleday, 
Page. 12, $1 net. 
All the ideas embraced in these articles are 

drawn from actual experience. 

Carter, Mary Elizabeth. Millionaire house- 
holds and their domestic economy; with 
hints upon fine living. Appleton. 12, 
$1.40 net. 

"For those who like gossip of 'the great 
world,' 'Millionaire Households' will be a 
treat, for it describes how the 'butcher, the 
baker, and the candle-stick-maker' receive 
their orders from Astors, Goulds, Vander- 
bilts, and other famous families in the mil- 
lionaire class ; how parlors and bedrooms are 
taken care of; how preparations are made for 
balls, receptions, etc.; and how, in general, 
the domestic affairs, as regards the direction 
of servants, are administered. The author 
was for some time superintending house- 
keeper of one of the largest establishments 
in New York City. The publication of such 
sort of stuff in book form is a comment on 
the relationship of gossip, newspaper and lit- 
erature, and might cause the cynic to smile 
if he wanted to, while he meditated on the 
probable large sale of the book." Boston 
Literary World. 



FICTION. 

Altsheler, Jos. Alex. Before the dawn: a 
story of the fall of Richmond. Doubleday, 
Page. 12, $1.50. 
A story of the Civil War. 

Austin, Martha W. Veronica. Doubleday, 
Page. 12, $1.50. 
A love story with scene laid in Louisiana. 

Bennett, Arnold. Anna of the five towns: 
a novel. McCIure, Phillips. 12, $1.50. 

Bingham, Katharine. The Philadelphians, 
as seen by a New York woman ; il. by 
Alice Barber Stephens and G. Gibbs. L. 
C. Page. 16, (Page's commonwealth ser., 
no. 7-) $i.25. 

"Good-natured satire is always amusing 
reading, and the exposition of the foibles and 
frailties of our fellowmen and women is to 
most of us a sure delight. Taking these 
commonplaces for granted, we can promise 
every one, whether he knows Philadelphia or 
not, a thoroughly 'good time' in the reading 
of 'The Philadelphians.' The book is sat- 
urated with 'local color' (this expression has 
come to be almost in ill repute; but the thing 
it stands for, when well done, always en- 
hances the interest of book or story), indeed 
'local color' may almost be said to be the 
reason of this book though the character 
studies are capital, aside from their 'Phila- 
delphianess.' Story there is little, but the 
people are so alive that their everyday lives 
and liveliness carry one on without a thought 
Oi wanting more plot." Boston Literary 
World. 

Bkady, Cyrus Townsend. The Southerners : 
a story of the Civil War ; il. by G. Wright ; 
with vignettes, by L. D. Arata, Scribner. 
12, $1.50. 
Scene is laid off the coast of Alabama. 

Bullock, Shan F. The squireen. McClure, 

Phillips. 12, $1.50. 

"It is a study which deals entirely with the 
grey and rather sordid background of life in 
Ulster, at a point where Protestant careful- 
ness wedges itself into Catholic shiftlessness. 
Gorteen, the small, fruitful, and Protestant, 
produces more than Bilboa, Armoy and Drum- 
hill, which are big and bare and Catholic ; it 
produces Martin Hynes, Scotch-English- 
Irish, who at thirty-five is good looking, has 
a long curled moustache and ambition to pose 
as country gentleman at Hillside, while the 
ledger tells an unflattering tale. There is one 
scene in the story that is unforgettable in its 
realistic sordidness, the scene in which Mar- 
tin, who must have money, bargains with 
Jane's relatives round the table, while Jane 
herself listens at the keyhole. Mr. Bullock's 
background of Ulster is excellent." London 
Academy. 

Carryl, Guy Wetmore. The Lieutenant- 
Governor. Houghton, Mifflin & Co. 12, 
$1.50. 

A novel which has for its basis the present- 
day labor troubles, for its scene of action the 
coal regions during a strike period which re- 
quired the presence of the militia, and for its 
hero the Lieutenant-Governor, an impulsive 



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American, who, upon the assassination of 
the Governor of the imaginary state of Al- 
leghenia, assumes control of the State and by 
his force and wisdom restores order without 
bloodshed. 

Castle, Agnes and Egerton. The star 
dreamer: a romance. Stokes. 12, $1.50. 
A romantic love-story of the period when 

George iii. lay dying when Bath was in its 

heyday. Noticed in March issue. 

Collin, Grace Lathrop. Putnam Place. 

Harper. 12, $1.50. 

Some thirteen sketches make up this vol- 
ume, which may be read separately or as a 
continuous story. They all relate to the 
dwellers of "Putnam Place," a neighborhood 
where the people are intimately acquainted 
and mix little with other circles. The events 
are of every day occurrence, but are very 
cleverly written and most amusing. 

CoLTON, Arthur. Tioba, and other tales ; 

with a frontispiece by A. B. Frost. Holt. 

12, $1.25. 

Eleven short stories by the author of the 
"Delectable mountains" and "Delectable 
land," entitled : Tioba ; A man for a' that ; 
The green grasshopper ; The enemies ; A 
night's lodging; On Edom Hill; Sons of R. 
Rand; Conlon ; St. -Catherine's; The spiral 
stone ; The Musidora sonnet. 

Conrad, Jos. Youth, and two other stories. 

McClure, Phillips. 12, $1.50. 

Three tales of adventure on sea and- land 
entitled "Youth, a narrative," "Heart of dark- 
ness," "The end of the tether." 

DuDENEY, Mrs. H. Robin Brilliant. Dodd, 
M. & Co. 12, $1.50. 
To be noticed in next issue. 

Eldridge, F. W. a social cockatrice. Lo- 
throp. 12, $1.50. 

Flower, Elliott. The spoilsmen. Page. il. 

12, $1.50. 

A story of municipal politics, depicting con- 
ditions common to practically all large cities, 
although the scene is located in Chicago. 
The political methods employed are in most 
instances taken from the actual experiences 
of men who have served the public in some 
capacity or other, and the stories told of 
some of the characters are literallv true. The 
love interest centres around a girl of high 
ideals who inspires a wealthy young man to 
enter the local campaign. 

Forbes, Mrs. Walter, [Mrs. Evelina Louisa 
Michell Farwell Forbes.] Unofficial: two- 
days' drama. Appleton. 12, (Appleton's 
town and country lib., no. 318.) $1; pap., 
50 c. 

The scene is chiefly Paris. An innocent 
young English girl is trapped into marrying 
a gambler, who aims to use her as a decoy 
in his unprincipled schemes. She is the cen- 
tre of a dramatic episode, which is most skil- 
fully depicted, and in which her good name 
might possibly suffer. How she is rescued 
and protected by an English Duchess is the 
story. 



Ford, Sewell. Horses nine : stories of har- 
ness and saddle. Scribner. 12, $1.25. 
These tales portray, with rare sympathy, 
pathos, and humor, episodes in the careers 
of thoroughbreds of different stock saddle 
horses, carriage horses, draught horses, fire- 
truck horses, circus horses, and horses of 
other breeds., 

Forman, Justus Miles. Journeys end : a ro- 
mance of to-day; il. by Karl J. Anderson. 
Doubleday, Page. 8, $1.50 net. 
"This book belongs to that tantalizing class 
of stories which end with a riddle. It leads 
the unsuspecting reader pleasantly along, lull- 
ing his suspicions, awakening his interest in 
the welfare of the amiable young man and 
the two attractive young women who form 
the nucleus of the tale; and then, all of a 
sudden, it stops short, leaving everything in 
the air, so to speak our curiosity unsatis- 
fied, the problem unsolved. But it does all 
this so adroitly, so amiably and with such 
apparent confidence in our enduring good will 
that the author must needs be forgiven. What 
shall his choice be? 'Journeys end with lov- 
ers meeting,' but where, in his case, is the 
end? Is it on this side of the Atlantic 
where a vista of triumphs has opened before 
him, where his inborn creative faculty will 
have free scope, where a woman who is the 
popular idol of the hour has eyes for him 
alone? Or is it on the other side, where the 
j'oung English girl still awaits him, where the 
unforgotten charm of English scenes and the 
un forgotten fragrance of English blossoms 
call to him across the waters? Hastily he 
seizes a pen and writes, pouring out his soul 
to one of these two women. Then he seals 
and addresses it, and puts on the stamp; but 
even while he slips the letter into the box 
he holds it in such a way that the curious 
reader cannot discover whether the stamp it 
bears is for foreign or domestic postage." 
A''. Y. Commercial Advertiser. 

Freeman, Mrs. Mary Eleanor Wilkins. 
Six trees : short stories. Harper, il. 12, 
$1.25. 
Noticed in March issue. 

Goodloe, Abbe Carter. Calvert of Strath- 
ore; frontispiece from a drawing by How- 
ard Chandler Christy. Scribner. 12, 
$1.50. 
To be noticed in next issue. 

Hayden, Eleanor G. From a thatched cot- 
tage. Crowell. 12, $1.50. 
A simple story of English middle-class life, 
telling of two neighboring families and a pow- 
erful, sombre shadow which hung over them. 
This tragedy occurs in the early pages of the 
book, but its influence hidden and terrible 
is skilfully traced out to the third generation. 
Against the secret cloud shines out the loves 
of the boy and girl, the innocent victims of 
the curse. 

Higginson, Ella. Mariella of out-west. 
Macmillan. 12, $1.50. 

IsHAM, Fred. S. Under the rose ; il. by How- 
ard Chandler Christy. Bobbs-Merrill. 12, 
$1.50. 



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Jackson, Margaret Doyle. A daughter of 
the pit. Houghton, Mifflin. 12, $1.50. 
Noticed in March issue. 

James, Henry. The better sort. Scribner. 

12, $1.50. 

Eleven short stories and sketches, namely: 
Broken wings; The Beldonald Holbein; The 
two faces; The tone of time; The special 
type; Mrs. Medium; Flickerbridge ; The 
story in it; The beast in the jungle; The 
birthplace; The papers. 

Kenton, Edna. What manner of man. 
Bobbs-Merrill. 12, $1.50. 
Noticed elsewhere in this issue. 

King, Basil. In the garden of Charity. 

Harper. 12, $1.50. 

An idyllic love story of the Nova Scotian 
coast. Charity Pennland is a beautiful char- 
acter illustrating the text "Charity never fail- 
eth." Her love and that of another woman 
for a worthless man is the story. It intro- 
duces many quaint characters new in fiction, 
graphically described. The story is quite dif- 
ferent from Basil King's other story "Let not 
man put asunder." 

Letters of an actress. Stokes. 12, $1.50. 
To be noticed in next issue. 

Linn, Ja. WebEr. The chameleon. McClure, 

Philfips. 12, $1.50. 

"Hitherto Mr. Linn has been known only 
as the author of 'The second generation,' 
a book which fixed itself on the reader's 
memory chiefly for the startling way in which 
Providence intervened to produce a succes- 
sion of extraordinary coincidences. It may 
be said, quite frankly that 'The chameleon' is 
a notable forward step. It does. not strain 
our credulity, at least so far as outward events 
go; it is distinctly readable, and it contains 
one character that is a real addition to the 
portrait gallery of American fiction the pic- 
kle-maker, Murdoch. Quite aside from Brad- 
ford, the hero, and his marital troubles, the 
book is worth reading for the sake of Brad- 
ford's uncle, the pickle-maker : 'He is ignor- 
ant, blatant, as rich as Croesus. He had 
originally all the virtues ; he hasn't added a 
single grace. He makes pickles ; he confers 
favors on poor young men with the air of a 
king and the tact of an Afghan chief, and his 
name is Murdoch.' " Commercial Advertiser. 

Maclean, Norman. Dwellers in the mist. 

Revell. 12, $1.25. 

The people of the islands of the Hebrides 
are the characters in these ten stories. 

Norris, W. E. Lord Leonard the luckless. 
Holt. 12, $1.50. 
To be noticed in next issue. 

Older, Mrs. Fremont. The socialist and the 

prince ; frontispiece by Harrison Fisher. 

Funk & W. 12, $1.50. 

A novel of California life. The scenes and 

action are in the days of the anti-Chinese labor 

agitation. Paul Stryne, leader of the work- 

ingmen, and Ruspoli. an Italian prince, are 

rivals for the hand of Theodosia Peyton, the 

daughter of a millionaire. Swayed now by 

the courtly grace and subtle class sympathy 



ft 



of the prince, now by the masterful will and 
altruistic purpose of the socialist, the im- 
pressionable girl, in a mood which overpowers 
her for the time, betroths herself first to one 
and then to the other. 

Oxenham, John. Flowers of the dust. Wes- 

sels. 12, $1.50. 

The principal scenes of this novel are laid 
in and about Paris during the period of 1866- 
71 ; many of the incidents of the Franco- 
Prussian War are interwoven with the details 
of a romantic story. 

Paterson, William Romaine, ["Benjamin 
Swift," pseu/i.] In Piccadilly. Putnam. 
12, $1 net. 
To be noticed in next issue. 

Pelton, Mabelle Shippie Clarke. A tar- 
heel baron; il. by E. Stratton HoUoway. 
Lippincott. 12, $1.50. 
Noticed elsewhere in this issue. 

Pemberton, Max. The gold wolf; il. by 
Maurice Greiffenhagen. Dodd, M. I2^ 
$1.50. 

Dudley Hatton. at thirty-five, was the fifth 
richest man in the world, with a beautiful 
but unsympathetic wife. After an interview 
with a famous specialist on brain troubles 
Hatton faces the alternative of immediate 
withdrawal from all financial schemes or a 
madhouse at the end of six months. His 
wife is found dead under suspicious circum- 
stances, which are utilized by his enemies ta 
hound him on to his destruction. His strug- 
gle for life is rich in interest and excitement. 

Rayner, Emma. Handicapped among the 

free. Dodd, M. 12, $1.50. 

A story of love and patience and victory in 
defeat. It aims to prove that there is such a 
thing as the black man's burden the burden 
of other men's prejudices and the disabilities 
caused by long years of degradation. That 
this burden presses most heavily upon the 
more highly developed of the race the author 
has tried to show, in this story, which gives 
a simple picture of Southern life as it is to- 
day. 

Rice, Mrs. Alice Caldwell Hegan. Lovey 
Mary. Century, il. 12, $1. 
Noticed elsewhere in this issue. 

Smith, Arthur Cosslett. The turquoise cup- 
and the desert. Scribner. il. 12, $1.25. 
Noticed elsewhere in this issue. 

Stannard, Mrs. Henrietta Eliza Vaughan, 
["John Strange Winter," pseud.} Martyr 
a novel. Lippincott. 12, $1.25. 
An unsensational story of London middle- 
class life. Marty Benyon is the daughter of a 
woman who supports her family by selling^ 
second-hand clothes. Marty has been thor- 
oughly well educated, and attracts a mar* 
above her socially. He determines to rnarry 
her even after knowing her mother's business. 
Their married life is not all fair sailing. 

Stimson, F. Jessup, ["J. S. of Dale," pseud.] 
Jethro Bacon of Sandwich. [Also] The 
weaker sex. Scribner. 12, $1. 
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new work from F. J. Stimson or 'J- S. of 
Dale,' as he sometimes signs himself. During 
the periods intervening between the announce- 
ment of new publications by this writer we 
half lose patience with him for his apparent 
tardiness, but when at last the new book ap- 
pears we are forced to acknowledge that it 
was well worth the waiting for. 'Jethro Ba- 
con, of Sandwich,' and 'The weaker sex' 
we have met before in the pages of Scribner's 
Magazine and the Atlantic Monthly, but theirs 
is an acquaintance that one is always rejoiced 
to renew. 'Jethro Bacon' will be ranked by 
those whose critical judgment is sound as the 
strongest short story of 1902, while 'The 
weaker sex' is far above the average short 
story of the day. It is a story of slum life 
and slum-workers, but, unlike most present- 
day novelists, Mr. Stimson does not go to the 
slum to dissect vice and analyze mire for the 
delectation of the morbid reader ; instead, he 
tears from the characters their vices, their 
filthiness, their apparent inhumanity, that he 
may reveal to the reader their soul. It has 
been a long time since we have read a short 
story that was marked with an equal amount 
of virility, impressiveness and dramatic inter- 
est as 'Jethro Bacon' and 'The weaker sex.' 
And after we had finished them for the 
second time and laid the book aside we felt 
the return of that regret that Mr. Stimson, 
who writes so well, should write so very \\i- 
X\&." 'Baltimore Sun. 

TiLTON, DwiGHT. On Satan's mount; il. by 
C. H. Stephens. C. M. Clark. 12, $1.50. 
Noticed elsewhere in this issue. 

Town SEND, Edward Waterman. Lees and 
leaven : a New York story of to-day. Mc- 
Clure, Phillips. 12, $1.50. 
"Mr. Townsend's story may or may not 
Tiave been written with an eye to the possibili- 
ty of dramatization. That it was will inevita- 
bly suggest itself to the reader. It has all the 
accessories of a Fourteenth Street theatre 
drama ; beginning with a fraud perpetrated at 
the expense of the brilliant young journalist 
known as 'the White River Advocate man,' 
and ending in the confusion of the evil doers 
and a triple marriage of the more deserving 
characters. Not a few of the characters are, 
we believe, drawn from life ; if they are not, 
then there are striking resemblances between 
certain men in the New York newspaper 
world and the creatures of Mr. Townsend's 
imagination. On the whole the book makes 
decidedly interesting reading, despite some 
obvious improbabilities in plot and exaggera- 
tion of types, mainly because the author is so 
good a story teller that he can make a tale, 
the ending of which is obvious to the reader 
of the first chapter, seem to be something al- 
together new." Public Opinion. 

TowNSEND, E. W. A summer in New York : 
a love story told in letters. Holt. 12, 
$1.25. 

A cheerful, breezy story of a number of the 
"smart set" who try staying in town for 
the summer, for variety's sake. Their many 
drives to quaint places and picturesque expe- 
ditions are full of interest. The hero is a 



The light behind. 



>oung artist, and the heroine the daughter of 
a genial Ironville millionaire. 

Ward, Mrs. Mary Augusta, [Mrs. T. Hum- 
phry Ward.] Lady Rose's daughter; il. by 
Howard Chandler Christy. Harper. 12, 
$1.50; 2 V. ed., $3; Autograph ed., 2 v., $5. 
Noticed elsewhere in this issue. 

Ward, Mrs. Wilfrid. 
Lane. 12, $1.50. 
Novel of London life. 

Watson, Rev. J., ["Ian Maclaren," pseud.] 
Our neighbors. Dodd, M. 12, $1.50. 
A collection of stories in which Scotchmen, 
Englishmen, and Americans display unmis- 
takable characteristics. 

West, Kenyon. Cliveden. Lothrop. 12, 

$1.50. 

A historical romance. The action centres in 
the famous Chew House, in Germantown, 
during the Revolutionary war, at the times 
when the battles of Brandywine and German- 
town were being fought and the British Gen- 
eral Howe was threatening the native forces. 
Both sides of the struggle are represented, 
the American patriots and the British red- 
coats ; and a charming love story is developed, 
in which the principals are a well-born Amer- 
ican beauty and a British officer with a noble 
character. 

Wyatt, Edith. True love : a comedy of the 
affections. McClure, Phillips. 12, $1.50. 
A keen satire upon modern life, especially 

as it is lived to-day in Chicago. 

Zola, Emile. Truth, [Verite;] tr, by Ernest 
A. Vizetelly. Lane. 12, $1.50. 
Noticed elsewhere in this issue. 

HISTORY. 

Dahlinger, Chas. W. The German revolu- 
tion of 1849: being an account of the final 
struggle, in Baden, for the maintenance of 
Germany's first national representative gov- 
ernment. Putnam. 8, $1.35 net. 
"This sketch," the author says, "is intended 
only to picture the death-struggle of the move- 
ment which took place in Baden, and forms 
an incident in the history of Germany scarce- 
ly less fascinating than the oft-told tale of the 
great revolution in France, of which it was 
a mild imitation." Bibliography (4 p.). 

GiGHOLi, Constance H. D. Naples in 1799: 
an account of the Revolution of 1799 and 
of the rise and fall of the Parthenopean 
Republic. Dutton. 8, $7 net. 

Paston, George, [pseud, for E. M. Symonds.] 
Side lights on the Georgian period. Dut- 
ton. 8, $3 net. 

Van Tyne, Claude Halsted. Loyalists in 
the Am. Revolution : a history of the politi- 
cal struggle between the Whigs and Tories. 
Macmillan. 12, $2 net. 
"Dr. Van Tyne estimates the total cost to 
the British government of establishing the 
loyalists in Canada and Nova Scotia at not 
less than $30,000,000. The story of their 
wanderings in -exile, their sufferings and hard- 
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the British government make a pathetic chap- 
ter of American history and one which Dr. 
Van Tyne has told in a scholarly and sympa- 
thetic manner." A^. Y. Commercial Adver- 
tiser. 

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Baker, Ernest A. A descriptive guide to the 
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Padovan, Adolfo. The sons of glory : studies 

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by the Duchess Litta Visconti Arese. Funk 

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The sons of glory here described are Dante, 
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Stoddard, C. Warren. Exits and entrances: 

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Andersen, Tempest. Volcanic studies in 
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BiGELOW, J. The mystery of sleep. 2d ed., 
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A collection of poems and word pictures 
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Hand in hand: verses by A mother and 
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McCuLLOCH, Hugh. Written in Florence : the 
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Roderick Taliaferro. 

As a historical romance "Roderick Talia- 
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series of episodes in recent history that still 
retains much freshness and vividness. It is 
a story of Mexico, and Mexican history, 
especially that of the last half century, has 
not as yet been worked to death by the novel- 
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since the history of this Spanish-American 
country, from the time of its discovery by 
Cortez to the election of President Diaz, 
abounds in thrilling adventure and romantic 
situations. 

Not the least interesting period has been 
chosen by George Cram Cook as the scene of 
"Roderick Taliaferro," the time of the French 
occupation when Maximilian and his wife 
Carlotta were sent over seas by the European 
powers to proclaim themselves Emperor and 
Empress of Mexico. 

The hero whose name gives title to the book 
is the last surviving member of a branch of a 
good old Southern family, who have sacrificed 
everything to the Confederate cause. And, by 
the way, any one south of the Mason and 
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nounced Tulliver. Roderick himself has 
served in the Confederate army, but, heartsick 




with loss of family and estates, and embittered 
by defeat, he lacks the courage to take up life 
under the new conditions, and therefore de- 
termines to try his fortune in Mexico, where 
there will be fighting in plenty, with possible 
chances of advancement. It is well for him 
that he is endowed with indomitable courage, 
resourceful wit, a glib command of French, 
and consuming love of adventure, for from the 
time he sets foot in the City of Mexico he be- 
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would tax the powers of a weakling. Of 
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"there was only a rush of hoofs ; a surge 

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Red-Headed Gill. 

The theme of a marriage for convenience 
between a man and woman who do not love 
each other in the beginning, but who grow, 
almost against their own wills, to love, has 
been used again and again by novelists. Mr. 
Rye Owen, however, has managed to invest 
''t with fresh interest in this book of his, part- 
ly by reason of the wholesome country back- 
ground it is a story of farm and manor life 
in Cornwall and partly because of the curi- 
ous vein of Hindoo mysticism he has intro- 
duced. The heroine, Barbara, is a cousin of 
the House of Trehanna, and she marries the 
present" squire, to whom she is indifferent, be- 
cause she loves Trehanna, and she hopes that 
with the money she brings as dowry the old 
place may be restored to its ancient splendor, 
from which it is sadly fallen. Now Barbara 
owns a piece of silk, brought from India, 
whose scent has the curious property un- 
known to her of awaking in its wearer dor- 
mant brain cells, even inherited memories of 
lives lived in the wearer's family generations 
bf:fore. Barbara has always had a strange in- 
terest in a certain ancestress. Dame Gillian 
Trehanna, whose picture hangs on the walls of 
the old house, and when she wears the Indian 
silk after her marriage it has the effect of re- 
incarnating Dame Gillian's soul in Barbara's 
body, as it were, so that for a time she lives 
two lives. Dame Gillian's and her own. This 
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A Rose of Normandy. 

It is small wonder 
that, despite its critics, 
the historical novel 
holds its own, when it 
deals with scenes as va- 
ried and absorbing as 
those presented in "A 
Rose of Normandy." 
For the setting of his 
romance William R. A. 
Wilson has gone to 
France and New 
France in the days of 
Louis Fourteenth and 
has given, in effect, the 
picturesque story of 
Henri de Tonty, the 
"chevalier of the iron 
hand," the dauntless as- 
sociate of La Salle, and 
the brave defender of 
France's domains in the 
New World. It is in 
a Paris garret, facing 
the world as a soldier 
of fortune, that we first 
meet de Tonty, and are 
witness of the strange 
adventure that binds to 
his service the quick- 
witted unf ortunate 
whom he has aided to 
escape the gallows. As 
members of the little 
band of the Sieur de 
La Salle the two set 
out with their leader l_ 
on the perilous mission 
to New France, but not 
before de Tonty has 

lost his heart to Renee d'Outrelaise, his "Rose 
of Normandy," and made an undying foe of 
her base pursuer the Comte de Miron. Mr. 
Wilson has not strayed far from historic truth 
in the working out of his story. It is in ac- 
cordance with the facts that his little group of 
characters are brought together again in Que- 
bec, whither Renee has been sent to escape the 
dangerous attentions of His Most Christian 
Majesty, and where de Miron, disgraced and 
banished as an enemy of Frontenac, has be- 
come the renegade chief, Le Loup, of the 
fierce Iroquois. Mr. Wilson has given us 
a romance of the true romantic spirit, 
full of perils, of plots and counterplots, and 
picturing with vivid strokes one of the most 
absorbing episodes in the history of New 
France. (Little, Brown & Co. $1.50.) 







From "A Rose of Normandy " 



Copyright, 1903,_by Little, Brown & Co. 



I HAVE A BETTER TOAST. 

Life of Bret Harte. 

Bret Harte's title to fame is that he was 
the pioneer of the short story. He was not 
the originator by any means our own Leigh 
Hunt realized the potentiality of the short 
story, and Bret Harte's compatriot, Washing- 
ton Irving, wrote two or three short stories 
of fadeless beauty long before Bret Harte 
popularized it. But Bret Harte "pioneered" 
the short story into prominence and populari- 
ty. It was his supreme achievement. "The 
Luck of Roaring Camp" which, by the way,^ 
was nearly lost to the world through the^ 
prudery of a young lady proofreader and a- 
narrow-minded printer gave a vogue to the- 
novel-in-brief, and emulators sprang up im 
thousands. Bret Harte was versatile andl 
achieved other triumphs as poet, parodists. 



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[May, 1903 



novelist, but to the end of his day he was 
first and foremost a short story writer, the 
recognized master of a branch of fiction which 
many attempt but in which few succeed. Mr. 
Fdgar Pemberton was a close personal friend 
of Bret Harte's, and in this biography his 
obviously genuine hero worship leads him to 
claim too much for his subject. His perspec- 
tive is warped by his own enthusiasm, and 
from these pages Bret Harte leaps out as a 
genius of undying splendor. Time's cruel test 
alone will prove the final critic on this score. 
For the rest we recognize in Mr. Pemberton's 
biography a painstaking endeavor to give us 
a faithful and intimate piece of portraiture of 
a fascinating and many-sided personality, and 
ja briskly-narrated sketch of a career crowded 
with adventurous experiences. The story of 
Bret Harte's life, as unfolded in this biogra- 
phy, is not less interesting than any of the 
delightful stories which he himself spun. 

Mr. Pemberton follows Bret Harte through 
the vicissitudes of his many-sided career, and 
subtly reveals the winsome characteristics of 
the man. The book has the completeness of a 
carefully-planned biography based on ample 
material. It is readable throughout. (Dodd, 
M. & Co. $3.50 net.) London Literary 
World. 



Life of Horace Greeley. 

"Horace Greeley's life grows more rather 
than less interesting with the lapse of time,** 
says Public Opinion. "Or so it has seemed to 
us in reading William A. Linn's book, a fact 
which, we realize, is due hardly less to the 
skill of the biographer than to the essential 
interest of his subject. Particularly interest- 
ing are the chapters which detail the founding 
of the Tribune, the situation in the New York 
newspaper world of that day, and the manner 
in which Greeley met this situation. Greeley's 
political life and the part he played during the 
war is more familiar as well as less pleasant 
reading. Mr. Linn's admiration is tempered 
throughout by insight and good judgment. He 
calls attention, for example, to an element in 
the success of the Tribune which is commonly 
ignored or made light of. This success, Mr. 
Linn plainly says, was due to a considerable 
extent to Greeley's 'isms'; they brought the 
paper readers whose numbers were out of all 
proportion to the merit of the 'isms,' and 
once gained they were held by Greeley's bet- 
ter qualities as an editor." 

"What renders this book peculiarly attrac- 
tive is its candor," says M. W. Hazeltine of 



the New York Sun. "The author is j ust, even 
sympathetic; but, with the exception of one 
or two incidents connected with Greeley's final 
retirement from the Tribune, he holds back 
nothing and extenuates nothing. He tells the 
truth regarding Greeley's attitude toward se- 
cession at the epoch just preceding the out- 
break of the Civil War, and regarding his 
attitude of unfriendliness toward Lincoln, not 
only during the Presidential campaign of 1864, 
but up to the very night of Lincoln's assas- 
sination. Most of Greeley's biographers have 
shown an inclination to pass over these things, 
which, in truth, were characteristic of a man 
whose editorial career was almost as distinct- 
ly marked by weakness as by strength, and 
whose lack of foresight often played havoc 
with his judgment. There is this, also, to be 
said for Greeley's mistakes, that almost al- 
ways they were retracted and regretted." 
(Appleton. net, $1.) 



The Triumph of Count Ostermann. 

Heinrich Johann Friedrich Ostermann, 
the German who entered the service of Peter 
the Great, rose to be Foreign' Minister, and 
became to all intents and purposes a Russian, 
even assuming a Russian name, is depicted in 
this book as a refined idealist, willing to sacri- 
fice himself on all occasions for the good of 
his adopted country. He marries a Russian 
Princess, who, when she discovers his low 
origin and foreign birth just after the wed- 
ding, becomes disgusted with the man the 
Czar had instructed her to marry and loses 
no opportunity to humiliate him. Eventually 
she learns to give him a certain grudging re- 
spect, but she only discovers that this respect 
has developed into love when her husband has 
been ruined and sentenced to banishment to 
Siberia as the result of an intrigue in which 
she herself was engaged without knowing to 
what it would lead. The book closes with 
Ostermann and his wife about to set out for 
Siberia together. 

"The Triumph of Count Ostermann" is well 
written and interesting, and the author has 
taken no more liberties with history than is 
usual in "historical" novels. An excellent 
picture is given of the savage Russia of 
the early eighteenth century, and the reader 
gets a good impression of Peter the Great 
brutal, overbearing, gluttonous, but at the 
same time a true patriot and an indefatigable 
worker for the enlightenment of "Holy Rus- 
sia." (Holt. $1.50.) AT, Y. Times Saturday 
Review. 



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More Letters of Charles Darwin. 

We may congratulate ourselves that Dar- 
Avin's correspondents treasured and kept his 
letters, for the volumes before us contain ma- 
terial as interesting and as valuable as that 
found in Mr. F. Darwin's life of his father 
published in 1887. 

As the object of these volumes is not bio- 
graphical, the editors have very wisely ar- 
ranged the letters under various heads evo- 



Darwin's favor. But it is needless for us to 
multiply quotations, as these letters will be 
widely read. How Darwin's friends felt for 
him, even when they doubted the validity of 
his views, may be judged from a letter to him 
from Adam Sedgwick : 

"I only speak honest truth when I say I was 
overflowing with joy when I saw you, and saw 
you in the midst of a dear family party, and 
solaced at every turn by the loving care of a 




From Van MidcUedyk's " History o Puerto Rico." Copyright, 190a, by D. Appkton & to. 

FORT SAN GERONIMO, AT SANTURCE, NEAR SAN JUAN. 



lution, geographical distribution, geology, bot- 
any, vivisection, and miscellaneous. The 
correspondence adds to our wonder at the 
wide range of knowledge and of interest pos- 
sessed by the writer but of that enough was 
said on a previous occasion. One particular 
advantage that wc hope to find from the pres- 
ent publication is that the perusal of these 
letters will induce younger naturalists to make 
a study of what Darwin himself wrote, rather 
than the views of later writers about him. 
"Darwiniana" of all sorts are persistently 
read; the original is far too rarely studied. 
At any rate, the disciple of Darwin has here 
further opportunities of studying the working 
and understanding the meaning of the mas- 
ter's mind. 

In these, as in the previously published let- 
ters, the reader will frequently have cause to 
admire the character of Darwin. 

Darwin's wish that borings should be made 
in Pacific atolls has been fulfilled, and the 
editors think that the verdict is entirely in 



dear wife and daughters. How different from 
my position that of a very old man, living in 
cheerless solitude. May God help and cheer 
you all with the comfort of hopeful hearts 
you and your wife, and your sons and daugh- 
ters." 

The editors tell us that they have not dis- 
covered "to what prize" a letter to Sir W. 
Bowman refers; they may take it that it is 
the "Actonian Prize" in the gift of the Royal 
Institution, of which Sir William was in 1878 
the honorary secretary. In the next edition 
the late Prof. Westwood should be spoken of 
.as the "Hope Professor of Zoology," not "En- 
tomology." 

The volumes are adorned by fourteen pho- 
tographs, which are of great interest; and in 
many cases short biographical notices of Dar- 
win's correspondents add to the interest and 
value of the book. Its best praise is that it is 
worthy to stand by the three biographical vol- 
umes which we already owe to Mr. F. Darwin. 
(Appleton. 2 v., net, $5.) The Athenceum. 



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[May, 1903 




From "A Comedy of Conscience." Copyright, 1903, by 
The Century Co. 

"leave my house." 

Robin Brilliant. 

A woman's dual nature, a man's facile affec- 
tions, the shadow of a bygone tragedy, form 
the plot of Mrs. Dudeney's strong story, a 
plot wrought with much power, the secret well 
kept until the decisive moment, and the far- 
reaching influences that mould choice and fate 
admirably conceived. True, one becomes im- 
patient of the lack of saving common sense 
which could so easily have rescued the situa- 
tion from its ultimate pathos ; and one longs 
for just such wise counsel as was given in 
"Silas Lapham" to avert a renunciation that 
really sacrificed two for one. But this is the 
way of novels, ?nd Mrs. Dudeney justifies 
Robin's sacrifice of herself and her lover by 
the young girl's terror of a second ghastly 
tragedy such as had blighted her own parents- 
love and lives. 

Robin is in all her aspects a charming 
creature, loyal, fearless, high bred her roots 
deep in the soil and the race that gave her 
birth, unflinching when difficult duty calls her, 
and withal, having a certain element of hard- 
ness which is the defect of her qualities. Her 
rival's helpless, clinging, absorbing nature 
throws Robin's contrasting temperament into 
high relief. 

The story is relieved from sombreness by 
much humor. Mrs. Dudeney's villagers are 
delightfully racy, and are as real as if we 
had known them all our lives. When we have 
satisfied or dissatisfied ourselves as to the 



romance, we return again and again to loiter 
in Lamzed's shop, to join the kindly gossip 
there, and to make purchases that will win 
for us Mrs. Lamzed's haughty "I thank you." 
Or else we visit Mrs. Margary and listen to 
her superstitions, quite resolving to try her 
pins-in-a-bottle charm against certain people 
we wot of, who need no April pullet's feath- 
ers to prove them witches. Or we sit in Mrs. 
Wass's darkened chamber, our hearts outside 
with the faithful Willyam Blackaby. The 
circle of the lesser gentry who revolve about 
Great Faune are equally well done; and the 
mid- Victorian grandmother is as dainty a bit 
of painting as one is like to meet for many a 
long day. Despite the reader's revolt against 
the needless marring of young lives and his 
rather impatient longing to be permitted a lit- 
tle happiness in his fiction, he will find "Robin 
Brilliant" full of compensations for its denoue- 
ment in its delicate humor, its lightness of 
touch, the absolute livingness of every human 
being upon its pages, and not least in the rare 
literary quality of its workmanship. (Dodd, 
Mead & Co. $1.50.) A''. Y. Times Saturday 
Review. 



A Comedy of Conscience. 

It is a "fetching" situation about which Dr. 
S. Weir Mitchell has woven the delightful 
little tale fittingly named "A Comedy of Con- 
science." A fair and gentle spinster, living 
in other-worldly seclusion, is robbed of her 
purse in a crowded trolley car, and on her dis- 
covery of the theft, after returning home, dis- 
covers also that the thief has left in her little 
handbag a valuable diamond ring. Here, then, 
is the quandary, as it translates itself to her 
feminine conscience, and is set down in her 
httle diary: 

"This stone is worth $800! 

To whom does it belong? 

Was it that man's? 

Did he steal it? That is not my business. 
Yes, it is. 

The ring is not mine. 

I have it. I did not steal it. 

It was not given to me. The man robbed 
himself. He will never come for it. 

What shall I do with it? Oh, dear!" 

The last question is the one which Dr. 
Mitchell undertakes to answer, with delicate 
art and an undercurrent of humor. How Miss 
Serena's conscience was finally set at rest, and 
what came of the little comedy which to its 
chief actor was not a comedy at all the read- 
er will discover in the .course of an hour or 
so of quiet enjoyment. (Century. $1.) 



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135 



American Diplomacy in the Orient. 

This painstaking and dignified account of 
our diplomatic history of a hundred years with 
Asiatic countries and with the Pacific Islands 
has peculiar weight from the fact that its au- 
thor has enjoyed a more varied diplomatic 
career than that of any other recent American 
statesman. He has been Minister to Mexico, 
to Russia, to Spain; he has acted as a pleni- 
potentiary to negotiate reciprocity treaties 
with Germany, Spain, the British West Indies, 
San Domingo, and other countries; in suc- 
cession to James G. Blaine he was Secretary 
of State; he visited China and Japan, having 
been invited by the Emperor of China to 
assist in the peace negotiations following the 
Chino-Japanese war; he was Special Ambas- 
sador to Great Britain and Russia for settle- 
nent of the Behring Sea seal question, and 
finally was appointed a member of the Anglo- 
American Joint High Commission for the 
settlement of Canadian questions, in which 
capacity he is still acting. His present volume 
appropriately follows his "Century of Amer- 
ican Diplomacy," which com- 
prised a general review of the 
foreign relations of the United 
States from 1776 to 1876. Since 
the latter date great events 
have happened in Asia and in 
the Pacific. The Hawaiian Isl- 
ands have been annexed, and 
one of the Samoan; an Ameri- 
<:an administration of the Phil- 
ippine Islands has been begim, 
and the political relations be- 
tween the United States and 
China have become much more 
intimate. The protection of our 
enlarged interests and the dis- 
charging of new political du- 
ties have come upon us during 
one and the same period. It 
is, therefore, with keen inter- 
est that the observer of events 
takes up this admirably told 
history of American diplomacy 
in the Orient, reads it with 
care, and judges for himself 
whether, after our record of a 
hundred years of honorable in- 
tercourse, this record is to be 
a safe guide for our future con- 
duct. With the great majority 
of readers, we believe, there 
can be but one answer. 
(Houghton, Mifflin. $3 net.) 
The Outlook. 



TO THE SPIRIT OF MAY. 

And now she stands upon enthroning hills 
And tosses wreaths of roses o'er the world, 
With banner'd bloom about her head unfurl'd 

And at her feet the music loving rills 

While winter's lingering stirrup-cup with frothy 
clouds she fills. 

The blue sky hangs above her like a veil, 

And, dropping low, fringed with divinest lace^ 
It adds a softened shyness to that face, 
Which, like a maid in love, now pink, now pale, 
Needs but one look from earth to blush and tell its 
love-blown tale. 

One slipper'd foot, flushed as the blossoming trees, 
Is thrust, half-naked, in the bloom and spray 
Of orchards, where throughout the dreamy day 
The sunshine glints the wings of weaving bees, 
And all her children, music mad, do touch their 
thousand keys. 

And baby vines, awakening, have wound 

And twined a bracelet bloom about her arms. 
While 'round her waist, 'neath nestling charms, 
A russet belt, with beaded berries bound 
The sun-maid's belt, dropped at her bath, which 
lover earth had found. 

And Music dreams and pines and sighs 
Within her eyes. And Poesy is there, 
Prophetic-faced, with sun-red, Sappho hair. 
And Hope above, star-vestal'd vigil keeps 
And throws a ray of ripeness o'er that face where 
unborn Harvest sleeps. 



(Coates.) From Moore's 
from Tennessee.'' 



'Songs and Stories 




From "Songs and Stories from Tennessee." 
"dIS am JAKE, 



Copyright, 1903, by Henry T. Coates dt Co. 
LITTLE JAKE." 



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[May, 1903 




From McCall's "Truth Dexter.' 



Copyright, 1902, by Little, Broivn & Co. 

TRUTH DEXTER. 



America and the Great Epochs of History. 

This volume is interesting and instructive 
reeding. The hours glide swiftly as we ponder 
it, and we rise from it at last with additions 
to our mental store. W. J. Mann has read 
widely, he has just appreciations, his style is 
cltar and vivid; and through these qualifica- 
tions he makes an impression which we are 
tlankful to receive. The book, if not unique, 
is somewhat out of the ordinary. A descrip- 
tion of it is essential to the presentation of 
any view of it. The title is correctly given, 
"America in its Relation to the Great Epochs 
of History." But what are the epochs? He 
gives them date from certain events in our 
own history, 1492, 1620, 1788, 1850. The first 
date, of course, is that of the discovery of 
America; but that was within the epoch 
known as the Italian Renaissance, the features 
of which are graphically brought before us. 
The second date, that of the settlement of 
America, is in the epoch of the Protestant 
Reformation, of which he tells with vivid pen. 
Ihe third date, that of the formation of our 
Federal Constitution, he finds in an epoch of 
Revolution in Europe; and he paints it well. 
The fourth date, that of Nullification, of 
which the issue was our Civil War, was in an 
epoch of Political Reconstruction. Such is 
the outline of the book, and the reader will 



see that it opens tracts of study which only 
a dull pen could make uninteresting. This 
synchronizing of events is very desirable. 
However poor the use we make of it, we are 
richer and broader for it. While, however, at 
the lower range of mere knowledge we may 
prize it, at the higher range in which we draw 
fpom it contributions to our thought, it is be- 
yond price; and we must enter our critical 
judgment of the author as having come short 
right here. He connects events in time. We 
should like to see more of their relation one 
to another. We do not say that the author 
altogether fails here, but we wish his success 
were greater. W^e are well satisfied with him 
aS litterateur, but we could wish him some- 
thing more of a philosopher. (Little, Brown 
& Co, net, $1.) Christian Register. 



Children of Destiny. 

Molly Elliot Sea well does not confine her 
talent to one branch of fiction, but wanders 
as her moods lead her, from the "Sprightly 
Romance of Marsac" to "Francezka," and 
thence to these "Children of Destiny," whose 
fate was spun and cut short in Virginia in the 
first quarter of the nineteenth century. 

The, author does not redraw the old picture 
of a landed gentry hyper-cultured, hyper-aris- 



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137 



tocratic, a kind of country in which eighteenth- 
century romance, powder and patches and 
courting and duehng and gaming survived 
long after they had passed away in England. 
Her people are more understandable, less arti- 
ficial. The primitiveness, the monotony of 
their planters' existence is brought out as 
uxuch as the immutable exclusiveness of their 
social relations. A bit provincial they were, 
somewhat crude notwithstanding their elabor- 
ate manners, "county people" rather than a 
smart set. 

The book is conservative in its simple but 
v.'ell-sustained and all-suffering plot. It were 
inaccurate to call it old-fashioned, yet, un- 
doubtedly, the story harks back to an older 
school of story-telling whose charms are not 
yet forgotten ; in a loose way it may be classed 
with the books of Maxwell Gray, for instance, 
uith the novels that are primarily intended to 
entertain, while at the same time touching 
with a certain hand the deeper feeling of hu- 
manity. 

"Children of Destiny" is remarkably well 
written, and its literary merit aids the plot in 
luring the reader from page to page until the 
end is reached. Its characters are well dif- 
ferentiated, its incidents picturesque, and lo- 
cality and atmosphere are suggested with all 
the charm that must have been theirs. (Bobbs- 
Merrill Co. $1.50.) Mail and Express. 



Thyra Varrick. 

Mrs. Amelia E. Barry's latest love story is 
set in Scotland in the days of "the '45," that 
vain attempt to raise the Jacobite cause again 
to supremacy. In Thyra Varrick she has 
drawn one of those heroines, so dear to her 
heart, far removed from the fast-and-loose 
playing hoydens of the average historical 
novel, simple, courageous, and sincere. Thyra 
in her Scottish home is an influence for peact 
and beauty that nevertheless brings unrest 
and strife into the life of those about her. 
The main thread of her story is a familiar 
one that of the young adventurer sent on 
his mission to kindle the embers of Jacobite 
revolt, losing sight of his mission and its 
demands in the entanglement of unexpected 
romance, and playing with a fire that is not 
easily quenched. Thyra's response to his sud- 
den, dangerous suit, its discovery, and the 
trials and humiliation that follow make a 
story as absorbing as it is wholesome and 
sincere. In the end, it is made clear that the 
affection which is noted in home and can 
trace years of quiet growth, is the safer and 
the surer one, and Thyra's brief and stormy 
romance is forgotten in the peaceful happi- 
ness that comes to her at last. Mrs. Barr is 
at her best in the scenes of Scottish life that 
she has chosen for her present book. (J. F. 
Taylor Co. $1.50.) 




From Mrs. Barr's "Thyra Varruk." 

THE ASHES 



Copyright, 1903, by J. f. Taylor Co. 
STILL LYING THERE. 



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[May, 1903 




JAMES JOY BELL, 
Author of " Wee Mac)?reeg;or." Copyrljfht. 1903, by Harper & Bros. 

James Joy Bell. 

Mr. J. J. Bell, the author of "Wee Mac- 
greegor," was born in Glasgow, Scotland, 
about thirty years ago. He is the son of the 
senior partner of a well-known firm of tobacco 
manufacturers in England. His early educa- 
tion was received in the schools of Glasgow 
and at Glasgow University, where Mr. Bell 
first essayed literary work, contributing verse 
to different publications and later becoming 
editor of the Glasgozv University Magazine. 
Since 1898, when he was the assistant editor 
of The Scots Pictorial, he has published a 
number of volumes as well, contributing regu- 
larly to the columns of the larger Glasgow and 
London papers. Among his publications are 
chiefly books for children and a small book of 
verse entitled "Songs of the Hour." All these 
volumes reveal the child life, which imparts 
to "Wee Macgreegor" Mr. Bell's latest vol- 
ume the exquisite charm and sincerity which 
marks it throughout. Recently, Mr. Bell has 
abandoned all his editorial work in order to 
fill the demand for his stories, which the Lon-. 
don and Scottish publications seem so anxious 
to use. "Wee Macgreegor" has been not only 
Mr. Bell's most successful book, but has 
attained a vogue far in excess of any other 
publication in England. It was first taken up 
in Glasgow, but quickly travelled to London, 
which city it has taken by storm, despite its 
Scottish accent. In this country "Wee Mac- 
greegor" is being published by the Harpers. 



la the Garden of Charity. 

There is always something repulsive in the 
love of a noble woman for a thoroughly bad 
and worthless man. If, under these circum- 
stances, constancy is not actually a vice, it is, 
at least, a curiously deformed and distorted 
virtue. The reader of Mr. King's admirable 
.'tory has to forgive his heroine an almost 
monstrous excess of just this abnormal con- 
stancy before he proceeds to reverence the 
self-renunciation, the rare greatness of soul 
with which she meets and rises above the most 
tragic lot that can befall a woman. 

The story is worked out with much skill 
and sympathy. We go into the very valley of 
the shadow with Charity, we feel her anguish, 
we wrestle with her temptations, we fairly 
hold our breath lest she should falter and fail, 
and we read of the ultimate victory of self- 
renouncing love through a mist of which we 
are not ashamed. The character of Charity's 
r:val, the fiercely undisciplined child of for- 
eign races and of wilderness rearing, is finely 
contrasted with the poise, the dominating re- 
ligious conscience of Charity herself, whom 
her own name daily and hourly reminds of 
that which is "the greatest thing in all the 
world," and inspires to live up to it. , 

The simple Nova Scotian folk form an in- 
teresting background to the figures of the two 
women. All are carefully and adequately 
drawn, Mrs. Music peculiarly racy, with a 
suggestion of some of George Eliot's wisely 
gentle villagers. 




From ' Wee Macgreegor." Copyright, 1903, by Harper 4 Bros. 

THE BOY HIMSELF. 



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139 



Simple, strong, and dramatic, written with 
sincerity and charm, "In the Garden of Chari- 
ty'' is a distinct contribution to literature and 
will make a wide appeal to lovers of both the 
human and the heroic. (Harper. $1.50.) 
N. Y. Times Sat. Reviezv. 



ings and coloring won him his name, and se- 
cured him a position in a travelling circus. 
How "Calico" eventually became a "featured" 
factor in "The Grandest Aggregation" is well 
worth reading. 
There is a wild rush and sweep in the de- 




Fruui "lluiata -Nine. Copyright, 1903, by Charles Scribner'a Sons. 

MR. DAVE KEPT HIS SEAT IN THE SADDLE. 



Horses Nine. 

Lovers of horses will find t^is collection of 
nine stories about horses especially pleasant 
reading. There is no straining of the proba- 
bilities, and the little vein of pathos which 
enters now and then is of the legitimate kind, 
vhich tottches the feelings without harrowing 
them. 

"Skipper," the biography of a "blue rib- 
boner," is the tale of a horse of the mounted 
police squad. "Calico, who travelled with a 
round top," retails the fame and honor that 
fell to the lot of a horse whose bizarre mark- 



scription of "Black Eagle's" desperate fight 
for the leadership of the band of free plains 
rangers; "Barnacles" justified mutiny, "Blue 
Blazes" unfortunate experiences, "Chieftain's" 
understanding with his driver, the stories of 
"Old Silver," the fire engine horse, "Bonfire," 
and "Pasha," the son of Selim, are spirited 
and enjoyable. Most of the stories reveal 
human characteristics with no less sympathy 
than those of the horses. There are many 
fine books about horses. This is one of the 
very best. (Scribner. $1.25.) Brooklyn 
Times. 



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[May, 190, 




Little Ffeopf^ 



Fiom '-Down North and Up Along." Copyright, 1903, by Doubleday, Page & Co. 
LITTLE PEOPLE OF THE NIGHT. 



Letters of Mademoiselle de Lespinasse. 

The admirable translation of "The. Letters 
of Mile, de Lespinasse," by Miss Katharine 
Prescott Wormeley, has hitherto been acces- 
sible only in the Versailles Historical Series, 
her rich collection of French memoirs. It is 
now reprinted by Hardy, Pratt & Co., of Bos- 
ton, in popular form, on thinner paper, but 
with no omissions. Here we have, as in the 
more luxurious edition, the introductory essay 
by Sainte-Beuve, and the notes by D'Alembert, 
Marmontel, de Guibert and others. The let- 
ters from Frederick the Great and Voltaire 
are also included. The book has at the present 
m.oment a special interest, affording to read- 
ers unfamiliar with the French language an 
opportunity to study for themselves the par- 
allel between the life history of Mile, de Les- 
pinasse and the story told by Mrs. Ward in 
"Lady Rose's Daughter," which has been 
pointed out in the Tribune; but it should be 
widely read for the sake of its heroine. Mile, 
de Lespinasse was very far from deserving the 
criticism snappishly passed upon her by Hor- 
ace Walpole, whose friendship for Madame 
du Deffand, indeed, blinded him to the merits 
ot her rival. There have not been wanting 
more recent commentators to level sneers at 
her character, but the evidence provided by her 




letters and by those who knew her well i 
sufficient to show that if she was not by an 
means a saint, she was not, on the other banc 
evil. Weak and unfortunate, she is a patheti 
and a charming figure in the French history o 
the eighteenth century, a woman of characte 
and distinction. (Hardy, Pratt & Co. nel 
$1.25.) iV. Y. Tribune. 



From "The Black Lion Inn." Copyright, 1902, by 
R. H. Russell. 

A REMINGTON HEAD. 



Exits and Entrances. 

Here is a collection of essays, reminiscen 
and fanciful, that touch upon many phases o 
life. From the author of "South Sea Idyls' 
one could expect charming bits of word paint 
ing concerning those islands of the Pacifii 
where reality fades into half-imagined fairy 
land; but a far wider range of personal ex 
perience is shown in Charles Warren Stod 
dard's "Exits and Entrances." It contain: 
delightful chapters on Stevenson, ,whom Mr 
Stoddard knew at the time of his first visi 
to California, when poverty and ill-healtl 
were pressing close, and. again, when he wa; 
preparing for the cruise among the Soutl 
Sea islands from which he was never to re- 
turn. Amusing glimpses are given of Marl- 
Twain as a lecturer in foggy London ; wit! 
personal recollections of George Eliot anc 
George Henry Lewes, of Charles Kingslej 
while canon of Westminster, of Bret Hart 
and of Joaquin Miller. 

The author's poetic fancy finds fuller ex- 
pression, however, in the sketches of travel 
in Egypt and Arabia, in Italy and Hawaii; 
while one of the most delightful chapters 
describes a night spent in Anne Hathaway's 
cottage at Shottery. 

The book as a whole represents the ran- 
dom memories and odds and ends of literarj 
eft'orts culled from a life rich in associations 
and experience, added to which is a pleasing 
facility of expression. (Lothrop. $1.25 net.) 



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Ten Thousand Miles in Persia. 

One of the most trustworthy and useful 
accounts of Iran which has been published 
in our day will be found in the volume of 
nearly five hunderd pages entitled "Ten 
Thousand Miles in Persia," by Major Percy 
Molesworth Eykes. This narrative is the 
outcome of eight years of travel and study 
in Persia, during the course of which period 
the adjacent countries, India, Asiatic Russia 
and Turkey, were visited more than once. 
The author asserts without fear of contradic- 
tion that in the present generation no Euro- 
pean has seen more of Eastern and Southern 
Persia than himself, while his official position 
as British Consul in Kerman and Persian 
Beluchistan gave him exceptional opportuni- 
ties of meeting the better classes of natives, 
and thereby of obtaining accurate information. 
Major Sykes has taken a deep interest in the 
geography and history of a little-known re- 
gion, and has made a special study of the 
journeys of Alexander the Great and Marco 
Polo. Commercial questions, including the 
opening up of trade routes, are also dealt 
with at length. It has not been the author's 
intention to supersede, but rather to supple- 
ment. Lord Curzon's book on Persia, and, 
therefore, he has touched but lightly on the 
provinces and cities described in that work. 

In a chapter on "Life at Kerman" Major 
Sykes tells us that in no part of the world 
could he have been treated with more con- 
sideration. In his opinion the abuse heaped 
or Persians by travellers who have never 
even learned their language is altogether 
unmerited. (Scribner. net, $6.) A''. Y. Sun. 



At the Temple of Love. 

A SWEET face drifted in my dreams. Clear 
eyes gazed into mine and the warm sun 
flamed ; where they were not, the shadows 
lengthened. Her words, like sweet bells, at- 
tuned my world to melody; the way of her 
slender feet led into paths of peace, into 
groves of a holy calm wherein nothing gross 
could enter; into the majestic cathedral of a 
realized ideal, with its vast roof, that reached 
to the feet of God; its throbbing organ, its 
silent worshippers. There had entered into 
my life the light that never was on land or 
sea for any unhappy fool who has spurned 
the cup and put love from him. I loved 
Renee. 

I lay still a few moments, staring solemnly 
out of the sun-brightened window. The sud- 
den realization brought to me nothing of the 
foolish exultation and high fever of which 
we read so much and disprove so thoroughly. 



Rather I felt overwhelmed by a strange and 
solemn thing, something I could not analyze 
as yet. It was as if I had stood at the portal 
of a temple hitherto unseen, quaking upon 
the threshold. Within were alternate bursts 
of divine harmonies and the fall of sweet 
silences. Without there led up to this portal 
a path that wound over sunny slopes and by 




Courtesy of New Amsterdam Book Co. 
CLIN L. LYMAN. 

green pastures from its beginning; through 
shadowy woodlands, crossed by little streams 
that gurgled carelessly; a path wherein the 
pilgrim strays, carefree and heartfree, till he 
comes to the temple. 

And so I had come to the end of the path, 
which I had traversed alone, and stood hesi- 
tant at the door of the temple. My eyes were 
dim for the days that had been, for I knew 
that once within the portal there would be 
a difference. Even on the threshold a sense 
of a thousand austerities bore in upon my 
spirit; a vague feeling that approached de- 
pression; the gray mist that such a crisis 
brings. For the boy comes whistling up the 
path to the door of the temple, but when he 
passes in he is a man. And when one has 
become a man the boyhood that was seems 
doubly sweet. (New Amsterdam Book Co. 
%i.5o.) From Lyman's "At the Trail of the 
Grand Seigneur." 



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The Wind in the Rose Bush. 

Downright creepy, genuine old-fashioned 
ghost stories are these half dozen stories, 
which reveal Miss Wilkins in an entirely new 
field. They are well told ; although lacking in 
subtlety and grtiesomeness, they have the fas- 
cination of the uncanny. The majority of the 
spirits seem to revisit the scenes of their earth- 



lend themselves very kindly to caricature 
the purely fantastic. The choice of illustrato 
foi- this particular volume could hardly hav 
been more unfortunate. 

The cover design is entirely in keeping witl 
the spirit of the story, which gives the titl 
to the book. (Doubleday, Page & Co. $1.50.] 
Brooklyn Times. 




From "The Wind in the Rosebush," Copyright, 1903, by Doubleday, Page & Co. 

"all but luella shone white in the moonlight." 



Iv dwelling places out of a kind of perversity. 
The stories introduce many quaint characters, 
drawn with the author's customary skill. 
"Luella Miller" is the strongest story of the 
collection. 

Mr. Newell's illustrations are especially ugly, 
and utterly fail to convey even the faintest 
idea of the supernatural. His peculiar gifts 



The Lieutenant Governor. 

The name of Guy Wetmore Carry! has 
been familiar for half a dozen years to th( 
readers of the magazines. Until recently ii 
has appeared at the bottom or at the top o\ 
some bit of verse always graceful, and mor< 
often than not something more. In the twelv( 
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Paris and in the Smart Set for January a 
pclitical story called "The Lieutenant Gover- 
nor." It is this story somewhat amplified 
V hich is now published in book form. 

John Hamilton Barclay is a young man with 
high ideals of patriotism, chiefly concentrated 
upon an imaginary Commonwealth called Al- 
kghenia, another star contributed by the au- 
thor to the present union of States. On the 
wave of a reform movement, to which for its 
own purposes the Labor Party lends aid, 
Barclay is elected Lieutenant Governor of 
Alleghenia, the head of the ticket being one 
Elijah Abbott, a suave gentleman, the tool of 
the labor leader Michael McGrath, the last 
represented as a blackguardly if forceful per- 
sonage. The young Lieutenant Governor is 
discovered chafing under his own powerless- 
ness for good as the subordinate of such a 
Governor. 

Naturally the pivot of the story is the strike 
which the agitator McGrath incites among the 
employes of the mill owner, Peter Rath- 
bawne, a just man and kind, but not made of 
yielding stuiif. Burnings and violence follow 
upon the refusal of Rathbawne to take orders 
from the union and the failure of Governor 
Abbott to use either the police or the militia 
against the disorderly strikers. A larger in- 
terest is lent by the figure of Spencer Caven- 
dish, a sort of Sydney Carton with a modern 
twist. Like the hero of "A Tale of Two 
Cities," Cavendish is the victim at once of 
drink and of a hopeless passion for a beauti- 
ful and serious heroine, the betrothed of a 
more respectable and presumably a worthier 
rival. And, like the immortal Carton, it is 
Cavendish, and Cavendish drunk, at that, who 
at the cost of his own life cuts the snarl of 
the tangled fate of Alleghenia and its high- 
souled Lieutenant Governor. (Houghton, Mif- 
flin. $1.50.) N. Y. Times Sat. Review. 



Lord Leonard the Luckless. 

We had thought that the one novelist who 
carried on the tradition of the mild old-fash- 
iored novel of manners was Mr. W. E. Nor- 




From Townsend's 



'A Summer in New York." 
Henry Holt h Co. 

PLAYING BALL. 



Copyright, 1903, by 



ris. His newest novel, however, while it 
meets with our high approval, yet dispels our 
illusions. For about half its pages it pursues 
the familiar, urbane, Norrisian course; but 
suddenly we are caught in the web of a mod- 
ern and entirely un-Norrisian drama. The 
faithless wife and the familiar friend are main 
threads; the cross threads are the son of the 
familiar friend, and the daughter of the faith- 
less wife. The young people meet and love 
each other. The situation is obvious. But a cal- 
culation of dates, which by old three-volume 
novel readers would have been accounted to a 
writer as not nice-mindedness, proves that the 
young couple are quite unrelated by blood, and 
therefore free to marry. The foregoing is 
only written to show how far Mr. Norris has 
marched with the times. The real value of 
the book is the minute and faultless study of 
Lord Leonard, the man powerless to express 
himself, thrown, back upon himself, reserved, 
driven to say and do the unlucky thing, and, 
therefore, fated always to be misunderstood, 
feared, and deeply wronged. The other fig- 
ures are more or less commonplace types ; but 
v/e do not remember to have met before in 
Mr. Norris's work a study in psychology so 
true and so profound as this of Lord Leonard, 
and the fact causes the book called by his 
name to be the most important novel that his 
creator has yet written. (Holt. $1.50.) Lit- 
erary World. 




From Townsend's "A Summer in New Yorlt." Copyright, 1903, by Henry Holt & Co. 
SKY SCRAPERS OF NEW YORK. 



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[May, 1903 



New France and New England. 

Had the author lived to give the develop- 
ing and shaping manipulation to these lectures, 
including a finished sequence of narrative, 
they would form the closing link to complete 
his history of early America. Those who are 
familiar with John Fiske's other historical 
works will feel some regret that his publish- 
ers have chosen to put these lectures forth 
without further assistance from some mind, 
say of the calibre of Mr. Lodge or Professor 
Peabody, in an attempt to fill them out. Any 
regret of this kind, however, will be tempered 
with gratitude that so much valuable material 
has been outlined by Mr. Fiske himself. A 
reasonably constructive reader finds little dif- 
ficulty in making the connections for the most 
part, while the flow of incident and epigram 
and the observational style make this as it 
stands a very interesting record. 

The story of France in America is replete 
with romance, not surpassed in the tragedy, 
pathos, and marvel it contains by any other 
human annals. The figures of Pontgrave and 
Champlain, of Frontenac, Joliet, and La Salle, 
and many lesser adventurers, flit through 
these pages the men who discovered and 
explored the great Gulf and River St. Law- 
rence, founded Quebec and Montreal, discov- 
ered the Niagara cataract, and explored the 
great lakes, finally pushing to the headwaters 
of the Mississippi and tracing that vast cur- 
rent to its mouth. It all makes up a history 
extending over a period of two hundred and 
fifty years, and includes adventures so wild, 
enterprises so daring, and tragedies so fear- 
ful that the historian who wuld portray it 
in a small volume must perforce draw with 
broad lines. There is a brief glimpse or two of 
the Acadian settlements and unsettlements, 
half a chapter upon the French enterprises on 
the Kennebec River, with an account of 
"Father" Bale and his Norridgwock Indians, 
and three closing chapters sketching the great 
French and Indian war, ending with the fall 
of Quebec. 

Into the midst of this history, through 
what intention does not appear, are inserted 
two considerably irrelevant lectures upon the 
Salem Witchcraft and that remarkable revival 
promoted by the elder Edwards and White- 
field known as the "Great Awakening." 
Though of the nature of interruptions, these 
are by no means the least interesting chap- 
ters of the book. As for the "Great Awaken- 
ing," the author regarded it as a much-needed 
antidote to the well-nigh universal irreligion. 
(Houghton, M. net, $1.65.) Literary Digest. 



The Manneriogs. 

The list of Miss Brown's volumes grows 
steadily, and with each new book of hers her 
title to serious consideration as a writer of 
contemporary American fiction grows stronger. 
We still like her best, and admire her most, 
as one of the little band of writers of short 
stories of New England life, as the author of 
"Meadow Grass," which, it is not too much to 
say, will live as long as Miss Jewett's books 
or Mary Wilkins's. On the other hand, as a 
novelist she has shown constant and rapid 
growth: from "King's End" to "Margaret 
Warrener," and from that novel, published 
two years ago, to "The Mannerings," the ad- 
vance to be recorded is markedly long and 
straight. 

Miss Brown's latest novel is in all its details 
p notable piece of work, even though the im- 
pression of the whole is not so deep as it 
n.ight have been. This judgment, however, 
appears too severe, once written, for the sub- 
ject chosen, the characters employed to illus- 
trate it, militate against a profound general 
impression. A novel of New England life, 
the book bears the burden of New England 
repression ; its view of the bond of matrimony 
is one of averages, of the material ties that 
make it insoluble even where the higher rela- 
tion between man and woman has become all 
but intolerable. 

It is not until well toward the middle of the 
book that Miss Brown develops the strength 
of her plot, which thenceforth moves rapidly, 
developing constantly, logically, a striking il- 
lustration of the many considerations that go 
to make marriage binding, beside the power 
of love, or, at least, affection. 

The workmanship of this book is notably 
good. Its plan, and the development of that 
plan, the consistency of its psychology, its un- 
wavering fidelity to its New England milieu, 
the atmosphere of true New England culture 
all these are worthy of all praise. Each and 
every character has its own individuality, 
which is respected and followed in every situa- 
tion, in every mood. There is no false, above 
all, no alien, note in "The Mannerings." A 
study of the world-wide love and marriage 
problem, it remains true to the New England 
soil and its children, with which it deals. 

"The Mannerings" will add to the reputa- 
tion of its author; and, above all else, it will 
strengthen interest in her career, give added 
importance to the announcement of her com- 
ing book, which, let it be hoped, will not fail 
in making its appearance at the proper time. 
^Houghton, M. $1.50.) Mail and Express. 



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The Better Sort. 

In his new volume of short stories Mr. 
James is at his best and at his worst. He has 
found his subjects where he has found them 
before, in the backwaters of life, where very 
queer people interest themselves, if we are to 
believe him, in the morbid analysis of very 
queer and generally contemptible emotions. 
Now and then he strikes a note that is worth 
virhile. One of his eleven stories, "The Beast 
in the Jungle," is admirable in conception and 
masterly in technique, a little triumph of the 
sort which Mr. James occasionally achieves, as 
though to show that he is not, after all, per- 
manently restricted to the petty motives on 
v/hich he too often wreaks himself. "The 
Beast in the Jungle" is absorbingly interesting 
in substance, human all through, and its theme 
is one in the exploitation of which the author's 
peculiar method positively shines. 

It shines effectively enough, though far less 
brilliantly, in several of the other stories, es- 
pecially "The Birthplace," in which the possi- 
ble sensations of a possible custodian of a 
great literary shrine are exhibited with de- 
lightful freshness, in "The Tone of Time" and 
in "The Beldonald Holbein." (Scribner. 
$1.50.) AT. Y. Tribune. 



The Meaning of Pictures. 

There is a somewhat worn-out phrase about 
"filling a long-felt want," but it may be used 
again in referring to this book "The Meaning 
of Pictures," since Professor Van Dyke has 
certainly accomplished it and accomplished it 
well. We should have thought it rather a 
hopeless task to convey in the limit of some 
150 pages of a modest volume any intelligent 
idea of the meaning of pictures, but that is 
just what the author has done, and there cer- 
tainly must be a considerable number of peo- 
ple in this country who will turn to the 
book with a feeling of lively satisfaction. Of 
course, there is no guarantee that goes with 
the writing whereby the reader is to issue 
forth a thorough art critic ; but we maintain 
a thorough and intelligent reading will, even 
to the least informed, open up possibilities for 
appreciation, put the brain in better receptive 
condition and generally start a healthy inves- 
tigation in the matter of art. 

There is a large and growing class of men 
and women in this country who, for one rea- 
son or another, have been denied opportuni- 
ties in youth to learn something of pictures, 
)ut who, having prospered of late, find both 
the time and the financial possibility of be- 
coming more intimate with art. They would 



welcome the opportunity to learn and they 
must be approached in an elemental way, too, 
for they have little preliminary art experience 
upon which to build. But they have a lot of 
what the world calls "horse sense," and once 
a thing is put properly, they have no difficulty 
in grasping the situation. Here comes, then, 
this book, and Prof. Van Dyke drives home 
his arguments every time, speaking a language 
all can understand, talking with experience 
and natural taste for such things, and to them 
as well as to the general reader we heartily, 
unhesitatingly recommend the work. (Scrib- 
ner. $1.25 net.) AT. Y. Com. Advertiser. 



London in the Eighteenth Century. 

In a prefatory note to Sir Walter Besant's 
posthumous work on "London in the Eigh- 
teenth Century," his widow tells us that it was 
hi ambition to be the historian of London in 
the nineteenth century, just as Stow had been 
i.i the sixteenth. His previous books on the 
subject have already met with wide recogni- 
tion, and his projected "Survey of London" 
a record of the City "as it was from century 
to century, and as it is at present" is being 
steadily carried to completion. For this great 
work he had secured the co-operation of many 
experts, retaining for his own pen the writing 
of the general history of London, which he 
had practically completed before his death. 
"It represents the continuous labor of over 
five years and the active research of half a 
lifetime. It was the work by which he him- 
self most desired to be remembered by pos- 
terity." The present volume contains only 
that portion of the history which relates to 
the eighteenth century; but, though merely a 
part of the whole, it is practically complete in 
itself. Sir Walter's own preface summarizes 
the subjects and general aim of the work. It 
was not his purpose to write a continuous nar- 
rative of events, but rather to give a "social 
picture," with a detailed account of the con- 
ditions of life o'otaining in London through- 
cut the century. 

I can but indicate the scope of this de- 
lightful book. Its author has ransacked every 
possible source of information, descending 
even to the "twopenny box," where, "in the 
limbo of lost satires, forgotten poems, and 
novels whose authors are not known to pro- 
fessors of literature," he has found many al- 
lusions and statements illustrating the details 
of social life. Turn where you will in his 
pages, you get some interesting glimpse which 
opens .up the past and illumines the present. 
(Macmillan. $7.50 net.) Contemporary Re- 
view. 



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ftp lSt\tttis iOKant^Ij l^tbuSu of Current Uttrtaturr. 
EDITED BV A. H. LEYPOLDT. 



MAY, 1903. 

THE ENCOURAGEMENT OF SERI- 
OUS READING. 

At their recent meeting at Atlantic City, 
the Hbrarians from New York, New Jersey, 
anil- Pennsylvania discussed the several means 
for. the encouragement of serious reading, as 
university extension, women's clubs, reading 
circles, and the public library system. Best 
of all the means to this desirable end is a pri- 
vate library, the women's club of the home, 
the reading circle of the family. A book 
bought is always better than a book borrowed 
particularly if it is a book for all time and 
not for a time. The brain into which the 
books of the public library are fed at the rate 
of two or three or more a week becomes a 
mental sluice-way which does not even hold 
back the nuggets of pure gold, if such there 
be in the deluge of print. A book bought and 
read and remembered is worth ten times a 
book borrowed and read and forgotten, and if 
ihe allurements of the subscription book agent, 
or the club offer with its seductive coupon, or 
the other devices for giving you twice your 
money's worth of what you do not want are 
resisted and the personal taste or trend is 
properly heeded, the money spent for a book 
is often the best investment that can be made. 

Over the bookshelves of every library, pri- 
vate or public, should be written in letters of 
gold that wise saying of Ruskin : "Do you 
know if you read this you cannot read that?" 
The selective faculty should first of all be ex- 
ercised in serious reading, and this is best put 
to the test when one selects books for perma- 
nent use, as one makes and keeps friends. 
How much this is disregarded by the cosmo- 
polite of to-day, who will read everything in 
general and nothing in particular, is suffi- 
ciently in evidence as one watches the pur- 
veyor of Sunday literature stagger under his 
five-cent burdens, or notes the number of 
precious hours of "the average reader" spent 
in poring over the seductive supplements, the 
wash of material in the Sunday sheets. The 
"newspaper habit," carried to this extreme, is 
perhaps the best means of rfucouragement of 
serious reading yet invented by the arch enemy 
of mankind, whose latest patent is certainly 



for the chromatic Sunday sheet of the yellow 
journal. Not but that Sunday papers contain 
much good reading, as in greater degree do 
the magazines, ten-cent or otherwise, which 
to-day the bookseller and newsdealer keeps in 
great profusion on his counters. The maga- 
zines, indeed, offer a wonderful deal for the 
money, in literature and in art, and one cannot 
question that the magazine reader gets full 
value for his investment. Yet even the best 
magazines which oftentimes make possible the 
best books, first published serially in their at 
tractive pages, do not take the place of the 
books themselves in which literature has a 
unity and a continuity not possible in the dis- 
junctive disassociation of twelve monthly 
parts. 

Happily there are still serious readers, not- 
withstanding all the allurements and distrac- 
tion^ which beset life and discourage reading, 
The bookstore can never cease to have its 
useful function in the community, no matter 
how many public libraries there may be, and 
the home library, which the bookseller feeds, 
pays better interest to the individual than the 
public library repays to the taxpayer. I1 
would be interesting if the census figure: 
should report the total number of books ir 
individual libraries, as against the total ir 
public libraries and it will be an unhappj 
day when the total of books belonging to th 
people in particular proves less than the seem- 
ingly greater totals belonging to the public 
in general. Of course a well equipped private 
library of to-day is not quite what it used tc 
be the range of knowledge has so increasec 
that there seems little room for the "long 
sets" that used to adorn home shelves ; never- 
theless, it is not impossible to have a fairl} 
selected private library within reasonable com- 
pass, starting as of old from the Bible anc 
Shakespeare, having the foundation of a gooc 
dictionary, a good encyclopaedia, a good atlas 
including a good guide to English and othei 
literature, and a fair selection of English anc 
other classics ; and finally offering a birdsey< 
view of modern knowledge in the convenien 
epitomes of science and other knowledge; 
which throng the booksellers' shelves and as! 
admittance to the home library, as well as 
the representative fiction which "yesterday, to 
day, and forever" is worth reading, and read- 
ing more than once. Reader, make reading ar 
art that is delight as well as study, and lay < 
foundation for serious reading by making ; 
home library one of the foundations of th< 
home. * * * 



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THE EMERSON CENTENNIAL. 

The hundredth anniversary of the birthday 
of Ralph Waldo Emerson falls on May 24. 
The year is to be marked by a celebration of 
the day in Boston and plans are to be per- 
fected to raise a suitable monument to Emer- 
son within Harvard University grounds. 
Plans and a program are also nearly per- 
fected for the Emerson Memorial School 
which is to be held in Boston and Concord in 
July. It will open on Monday, July 13, and 
will continue three weeks. There are to be 
thirty lectures, covering the various aspects 
of Emerson's life and work. Among the 
speakers will be President Schurman of Cor- 
nell University, Rev. John W. Chadwick, 
Kuno Francke, Rev. R. Heber Newton, Joel 
Benton, and Mrs. Julia Ward Howe. All the 
details of this school may be learned from 
David Greene Haskins, Jr., 5 Tremont Street, 
Boston, Mass. 

The magazines of the month (May) de- 
vote much space to the Emerson Centennial. 
The Critic brings articles by Moncure D. 
Conway, Julia Ward Howe, F. B. Sanborn, 
Gerald S. Lee, Benjamin de Casseres, and 
Edith M. Brown. George A. Gordon writes 
in Atlantic of "Emerson's Influence as a Re- 
ligious Teacher ;" The Century has a portrait 
engraved by Timothy Cole and a few sugges- 
tive words on "Our Inheritance in Emerson" 
in Topics of the Time department ; Thomas 
W. Higginson who knew Emerson well con- 
tributes an article on the "Centenary of Em- 
erson" to Success; Benjamin de Casseres 
writes of "Emerson the Individualist" in The 
Bookman; and Harper's Magazine has a 
notable article by Hamilton W. Mabie. 

Houghton, Mififlin & Co. will publish on 
]May 24 the first volumes of a new and com- 
plete Centenary edition of "Emerson's Writ- 
ings," edited by his son, Edward Waldo Em- 
erson, to be completed in twelve volumes. 



EMERSON. 
Kingdoms there are outside the civic state, 
Whose orb of power, whose boundaries, are not 

known, 
But only this who fine allegiance own, 
By that allegiance are, themselves, made great. 
One such fair realm to thee is consecrate, 
Thou of the vatic glance and orphic tone, 
Whose cleaving thought the way of man hath shown. 
With Freedom as a portion of his Fate! 
Emancipator of the timorous heart 
Bringing to balance hopes as large as fears, 
Chastener of spirits too precipitate 
O crowned and gone! wherever now thou art. 
Receive (long due) this tribute of young years, 
And lend an influence, when the light grows late. 
Edith M. Thomas, in The Critic. 



Bgabingg from Netp J3ookg 

FOREST PROTECTION. 

Let us hope for the time when our people 
will be educated to the point where they will 
care for their own forests as well as, if not 
better than the State can ever do it, and with 
such willingness that coercion would be both 
unnecessary and pernicious. The more civ- 
ilized people become the more they work for 
the good of the community and of posterity. 
Some day men may have the same interest 
in the landscape in general that they have in 
ornamenting their own homes. At any rate 
a very large proportion of our forests are des- 
tined to remain in private hands. The gov- 
ernment will be doing a very great deal, and 
infinitely more than it does at present, when 
it properly protects a man's person and prop- 
erty from the carelessness and maliciousness 
of others, when it taxes property in a fair 
manner, when it owns and controls those for- 
ests necessary for protective purposes, and 
when it gives to its people all the information, 
gratis, they may desire in reference to the 
management of their lands. (Appleton. net, 
$1.20.) From Gifford's "Practical Forestry." 



WHY ART THOU A MINISTER? 

JosiAH SiDEBOTTOM gavc Xht "charge" to the 
young pastor before the actual ceremony of 
ordination, and the Vv'ords, the tones, the very 
gestures, stayed in Stephen's mind forever. 
The ministry was an awful vocation, the mod- 
erator said ; a vocation into which no man 
should dare seek an entrance, if with legiti- 
mate reason he could dare remain outside. It 
was a vocation in which there were, perhaps, 
more startling failures than in any other. Its 
demands were greater, and the failure tb meet 
those demands was the more pitiful and ir- 
redeemable. . . . Ambition had no sphere in 
it for operation, save the rare ambition to 
serve. He who stood aloof, the mere spec- 
tator, had no conception of what it meant; 
and the tragedy of the minister himself lay 
always in an inadequate perception of the 
things to which he was called. Unless men 
had a literally consuming passion for mankind,, 
unless they were prepared to follow in the ac- 
tual steps of Jesus and of Paul, unless they 
were willing to be misunderstood, willing to 
spend nights in sleepless agony and lonely 
wrestling, to face with courage scornful rejec- 
tions of the good they would do, and exultation 
over the bad they must do then the ministry 
would be to them a bottomless pit of torment. 
That there were hundreds of men in pulpits 
who knew nothing of these things, men to 
whom the words "sacrifice" and "service" 
were only useful homiktic terms, he knew 
right well ; but they were not to be congrat- 
ulated, not to be imitated. If the hour of their 
doom had not yet struck, it was because God 
was long-sufifering, and infinite in patience.. 
. . . There were four planes in the ministry,., 
he continued, after a pause : the Evangelist,, 
the Pastor, the Teacher, the Prophet. It was: 
rarely given to a man to be great in all four,, 
but to each "called" man true greatness; 
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a minister on any plane was a wonderful 
thing, a sublime and awful thing, with its 
pain and its loneliness, its rapture and its 
unique blessedness. But the ministry could 
only be an absolute joy to the man who was 
ready, if need call, even to walk companion- 
less through the world, doing the will of God 
and finding therein his sufficient delight. . . . 
(Macmillan. $1.50.) From Lawson's "From 
the Unvarying Star." 

A MAY NIGHT. 

But on beyond is a nook of revelations to 
which I would lead you. It is a place that I 
have fairly haunted since our April-day stroll. 
Its trees, its hedges, its low underbrush tan- 
gle, its shade, its security, and its nearness to 
the little pools where feathered bathers con- 
gregateall these qualifications serve to make 
it the most desirable of halting-places. The 
little junco couple appear rarely at the table 
d'hote nowadays, but I come upon them fre- 
quently in this forest-corner. They are no 
doubt influenced by the shyness of nesting- 
time, and in this shelter they probably find 
many of the conditions to which they are ac- 
customed in summer sites of northern lands. 
A pair of white-crowned sparrows have re- 
mained with us, but all their friendly little 
fellows, as well as their genial white-throated 
cousins, have left for the north. It was when 
this month was very young that I last heard 
the white-throat's sweet plaintive whistle. It 
seemed to say, farewell till the snows, till the 
snows, till the snozvs. 

This little bird's note always conjures up 
for me a strange, sweet picture. I see a great 
stretch of rolling prairie upon which the 
shades of evening are gently falling. A clear 
little stream ripples and dances over a pebbly 
bed, and toward this stream, cropping the 
long dewy grass as she goes, a tired horse 
slowly makes her way. She is riderless and 
free from harness trammels. She may wan- 
der far over the grassy stretches during the 
cool night hours, but her quick ear will catch 
her beloved master's first call, and back she 
will hasten at his bidding, no matter how far 
she may have strayed. 

The master lies on the ground over yonder, 
wrapped in his protecting blanket, for the 
heavy dews are falling and he has no shelter. 
His hat is drawn down over his brow, but 
from under the soft rim he gazes up into the 
sky from which the last of the sunset lights 
are fading. Never has it seemed so vast to 
him as now, and, though he knows no fear, a 
great sense of loneliness takes possession of 
him. An overpowering consciousness of re- 
moteness, of vastness, and aloneness. Here 
he was to have found shelter and human com- 
panionship, but through some misunderstand- 
ing his comrades have failed him. Like him- 
self, they are searchers for treasure hidden in 
the earth's heart, and they are perhaps not 
many miles away, but a night search for them 
would be perilous and fruitless. The traveller 
must wait for the day. (Baker & Taylor Co. 
net, $1.) From Bignell's "My Woodland In- 
timates." 



DRESSING DOWN THE FISH. 

Hours before we were awake the fisher- 
men had pulled out to sea, and there in the 
darkness had drawn in the cods, the skates, 
and the dogfish. We watched the boats come 
in, bobbing over the water and all making for 
the same point, the shore where we stood. 
When a boat neared the strand it was headed 
at right angles to the breakers and driven 
hard ashore. As it grated on the pebbles the 
men jumped overboard; one of them threw 
one of the enormous oars under the bow for a 
roller, and all hands laying hold upon either 
side of the boat with shouting and laughter 
drew it. load and all, up on the pebbly beach 
beyond the high tide. 

The heavy boats were laid side by side so 
close together as almost to touch. It was 
quite exciting and very picturesque, for the 
men were clad in tarpaulins and their speech 
was Gaelic. As soon as a boat was landed, all 
gathered about to examine and comment upon 
its contents; then the tables were set up and 
the work of "dressing down" began. 

The tables were the color of the fish-huts, 
the flakes, and the sombre bank; they had 
criss-cross legs nailed to , either end, and 
looked soggy on top, where the juices of 
innumerable fish had been spilled upon 
them. 

The cod were mostly small the morning we 
saw them. We had not thought well of the 
personal appearance of the cod heretofore, but 
many of these were of a brilliant metallic 
brown played over by shades of red and 
green. 

Besides the cod there were quantities of 
dogfish, more dogfish than cod indeed; and 
every beat had at least one, and some of them 
several enormous skates. Their semi-lunar 
mouths were placed underneath the front pf 
the kite-shaped body and were horribly paved 
with blunt and rounded teeth that fastened 
unyielding upon anything that came within 
reach. 

In each boat was store of squid for bait. 
There are no queerer creatures than these, 
soft, long, and cylindrical, reddish yellow in 
color, with long tentacles growing out from 
the head end. The head end is spotted and 
speckled with bright colors, and up and down 
run lines of changing and iridescent hues, as 
though the blood in their transparent bodies 
were made of the essence of rainbows. Their 
conduct is as queer as their appearance, for 
when they are first pulled out of the water 
they squirt ink upon their captors, and that 
they are pulled out at all is entirely their own 
fault, for the fisherman but drops overboard a 
cylindrical piece of lead painted red with a 
row of hooks bent backward around the lower 
end. This object the squid embraces, wrap- 
ping his inner tentacles about it and so im- 
paling himself. The instrument is not baited 
in any way, and for a squid to behave as he 
does toward it seems too absurd even for a 
squid. 

As soon as the tables were set up, the work 
of "dressing down" began in earnest. (Dodd, 
Mead & Co. $1.) From "Down North and 
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iTreshest Netos. 



Bobbs-Merrill Company have another book 
bound for success in "The Grey Cloak," by 
Harold MacGrath, author of "The Puppet 
Crown."' The book is noticed in this issue. 
Frederick Isham's "Under the Rose" contin- 
ues to make its way to delighted readers. 

J. F. Taylor & Company have just brought 
out a new love story by Mrs. Amelia E. Barr, 
entitled "Thyra Varrick." The scene of the 
story is laid in Scotland in the time of Prince 
"Charlie." The book has a dozen spirited il- 
lustrations drawn by Lee Woodward Zeigler. 
It is noticed elsewhere in this issue. 

Houghton^ Mifflin & Co. have several 
novels that promise to be good spring sellers. 
Among them are the third edition of Alice 
Brown's "The Mannerings ;" and the second 
edition of Guy Wetmore Caryl's "The Lieu- 
tenant Governor;" of C. Hanford Hender- 
son's "John Percyfield;" of Alice Prescott 
Smith's "The Legatee;" and of Margaret 
Doyle Jackson's "A Daughter of the Pit." 

The Home Publishing Company have now 
ready a new novel by Archibald Clavering 
Gunter, entitled "The Conscience of a King," 
which is handsomely illustrated by Archie 
Gunn. Mr. Gunter again makes use of 
French history which he succeeded in mak- 
ing so very interesting in "The King's Stock- 
broker" and "A Princess of Paris." Eulalie 
de Bricourt is the heroine of this novel, 
which it goes without saying will be as pop- 
ular as all of Mr. Gunter's bright and excit- 
ing tales. , 

Harper & Brothers are selling Mrs, 
Humphry Ward's "Lady Rose's Daughter" 
much faster than they can print it. From 
England and from every town in the United 
States the notices come, showing many vary- 
ing criticisms of details, but one and all pro- 
nouncing it the most literary piece of work 
Mrs. Ward has done. The book is being 
translated and will appear as a serial in the 
Revue Des Deux Mondes early in the au- 
tumn. This house is also fortunate in having 
acquired James Jay Bell's "Wee Macgreegor," 
a Scotch story already in its 100,000th in 
England. A sketch of the author appears 
elsewhere in this issue. 

New Amsterdam Book Co. have in "The 
Trail of the Grand Seigneur" one of the most 
powerful novels recently published. Olin L. 
Lyman centres his fine story about Sacketts 
Harbor on Lake Ontario and Kingston in 
Canada, where some very stirring events oc- 
curred in the early part of the century. 
French refugees had dreamed of building a 
new Paris in that romantic region, and the 
story tells of their hopes and fears, troubles 
and joys in a style to fascinate the most ex- 
acting novel reader. They have also a "His- 
tory of William Penn," by W. Hepworth 
Dixon; "The Wild Northland," by Gen. Sir 
William Francis Butler; and "Life and Voy- 
ages of Americus Vespucius," by C, Edwards 
Lester. 

Henry Holt & Co. have made promising 
contributions to the output of summer fiction. 
"The Triumph of Count Ostermann," by 



Graham Hope; "Red-Headed Gill," by Rye 
Owen ; and "Lord Leonard the Luckless," by 
W. E. Norris, are noticed elsewhere in this 
issue. The N. Y. Tribune says there is se- 
rious thought as well as good art in Arthur 
Colton's "Tioba," a collection of short sto- 
ries. Thomas Hardy has pronounced Mar- 
garet L. Wood's drama, "The Princess of 
Hanover," "the book I have read with the 
most interest and pleasure in the year;" and 
the ever critical Nation gives a long and ap- 
proving notice to the fifth impression of Mr. 
and Mrs. Williamson's "Lightning Conduc- 
tor," that delightful automobile romance. 

Little, Brown & Co. have just ready 
"Barbara, a Woman of the West," by John H. 
Whitson, a distinctively American novel, deal- 
ing with life in the West, illustrated by Chase 
Emerson; "A Rose of Normandy," by Will- 
iam R. A. Wilson, an entertaining romance of 
France and Canada in the reign of Louis xiv., 
of which Sieur de la Salle and his faithful 
lieutenant, Henri de Tonti, are the leading 
characters, illustrated by Ch. Grunwald; a 
new edition, in one volume, of Nuttall's 
Birds," revised and annotated by Montagu 
Chamberlain; also, a new tourist's edition of 
"In and Around the Grand Canyon of the 
Colorado River of Arizona," by George 
Wharton James. Although Sidney McCall's 
"Truth Dexter" was published two years ago 
and has ceased to appear in the list of six 
best-selling novels, the first edition of the 
new cloth bound popular edition, containing 
a frontispiece by Jessie Willcox Smith, which 
is shown elsewhere in this issue. 

D. Apleton & Co. have just ready, in two 
handsome volumes, "More Letters of Charles 
Darwin : a record of his work in a series of 
hitherto unpublished letters," edited by Fran- 
cis Darwin. The volume contains almost ex- 
clusively the letters of Darwin, himself. Many 
of them were addressed to Asa Gray and 
ether American scientific men. Fourteen por- 
traits of Darwin and his friends accompany 
the text. They will also publish about the 
end of May a novel by Frank R. Stock- 
ton which was written by the author during 
the year preceding his death, and entitled 
"The Captain's Tollgate." It is a love story, 
and has for its scene that part of West Vir- 
ginia in which Mr. Stockton made his home 
during the last years of his life. Mr. Stock- 
ton had this novel written at the time when 
he took up "Kate Bonnet," but decided to de- 
fer publication until "Kate Bonnet" had been 
issued in serial form and had afterward run 
its course as a bound volume. It will be re- 
m.embered that Mr. Stockton died only a few 
weeks after "Kate Bonnet" appeared. He 
had, however, so far completed the work on 
"The Captain's Tollgate" as to make it ready 
for submission to his publishers. The book 
will contain a memoir of Mr. Stockton, writ- 
ten by Mrs. Stockton. It will also have a 
frontispiece portrait of the author and some 
views of Mr. Stockton's home in West Vir- 
ginia. Claymont is a stately mansion of a 
former generation intimately associated with 
the Washington family, Mr. Stockton's farm 
having been at one time the property of 
George Washington. 



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Sun) eg of Current CUeraturc. 

Order through your bookseller, "There is no worthier or surer pledge of the intelligence 
itnd the purity of any community than their general purchase of books ; nor is there any one who does 
m0re to further the attainment and possession of these qualities than a good bookseller." Prof. Dunn. 



BIOGRAPHY, CORRESPONDENCE, ETC. 

Creswick^ Paul. Hastings, the pirate. Dut- 
ton. il. 12, $1.50. 

Dixon, W. Hepworth. A history of WiUiam 
Penn, founder of Pennsylvania. New Am- 
sterdam Book Co. 16, (Commonwealth 
lib.) $1 net. 
Keller, Helen. The story of my life, by 
Helen Keller; with her letters, (1887-1901,) 
and a supplementary account of her educa- 
tion ; including passages from the reports 
and letters of her teacher, Anne Mansfield 
Sullivan, by J. Albert Macy. Doubleday. 
pors. 12, $1.50 net. 
Noticed in last issue. 
Lawrence, W., D.D. Phillips Brooks: a 
study. Houghton, M. & Co. 12, 50 c. net. 
This little volume brings out the great 
preacher's more permanent contributions to 
the religious thought and life of the time. It 
is a sketch of his theological position, of his 
attitude towards the intellectual and spiritual 
movements of the nineteenth century, of the 
leading features of his own thought, and of 
his relations to the church. It was delivered 
as an address from the pulpit of Phillips 
Brooks in Trinity Church, Boston, January 
23. 1903, at a commemorative service, on the 
tenth anniversary of his death. 
Lespinasse, Mile. Julie Eleonore de. Letters 
of Mile, de Lespinasse ; with notes on her 
life and character by D'Alembert, Marmon- 
tel, De Guibert, etc., and an introd. by C. A. 
Sainte-Beuve ; tr. by Katharine Prescott 
Wormeley. [4th ed.] Hardy, Pratt & Co. 
12, $1.25 net. 

Linn, W. Alex. Horace Greeley, founder 
and editor of the New York Tribune. Ap- 
pleton. 12, (Appleton's hist, lives ser.) 
$r net. 

Noticed elsewhere in this issue. 
Pemberton, T. Edgar. Life of Bret Harte. 
Dodd, M. & Co. il. 8. $3.50 net. 
Noticed elsewhere in this issue. 
Putnam, G. Haven. A memoir of George 
Palmer Putnam ; together with a record of 
the publishing house founded by him. Put- 
nam. 2 v., 8, [privately printed.] 
Stevenson, Rob. Louis. Some letters, by 
Robert Louis Stevenson ; with introd. by 
Horace Townsend. Ingalls, Kimball, por. 
and facs., 12, bds. 

Five letters addressed to A. Trevor Hall, 
fashionable portrait painter and member of 
the Royal Society of British Artists. The 
first letter is undated, but was probably writ- 
ten soon after Stevenson's return from Amer- 
ica with his newly-wedded wife ; the fifth 
letter is dated April 23, 1884. 

DESORIPTION, QEOttRAPHY, TRAVEL, ETC. 

BisiKER, W. Across Iceland; with an ap- 
pendix by A. W. Hill on the plants col- 



lected. Longmans, G. & Co. il. maps, 8, 

$4. 

These notes, besides describing a journey 
made during the summer of 1900 across Cen- 
tral Iceland from the northeast to the south- 
west, give an account of further travels by 
land in the west, and by sea along the coast 
and into the fjords of the northwest, north 
and east coasts. Appendix i, On the plants 
collected; 2, List of the plants. Index of 
places. 

Gerrare, Wirt. Greater Russia: the Conti- 
nental empire of the old world. Macmillan. 
il. folding map, 8, $3 net. 
Descriptive of the present condition and 
prospects of the Russians and of foreign set- 
tlers in European Russia and Northern Asia. 
Treats of recent changes and the causes that 
have produced them, of the commercial and 
industrial development of the empire, of the 
progress made in exploiting its natural re- 
sources, of the men who are growing wealthy 
there and the means they employ, and inciden- 
tally of the best openings for foreign enter- 
prise and investment in Russia and Siberia. 
The fullest accounts are given of the Russian 
colonies in Siberia, particularly in the far 
eastern provinces, and of the Russian settle- 
ments in Mangolia and Manchuria. Intended 
to convey an adequate idea of Russia's ad- 
vance. 

HiLPRECHT, Hermann Vollrat, ed. Explora- 
tions in Bible lands during the 19th century 
by H. V. Hilprecht ; with the co-operation 
of Dr. Benziger, Dr. Hommell. Dr. Jensen 
and Dr. Steindorff. A. J. Holman & Co. 
il. fold, maps, 8, $3 net. 
Le Rou.x, Hugues. Business and love. Dodd, 
M. & Co. 12, $1.20 net. 
A record of the author's impressions and 
observations during his recent lecture tour in 
this country. He describes many of the peo- 
ple he met in various parts of the United 
States and sets forth entertainingly the differ- 
ence between the French and the American 
point of view with regard to the conduct of 
business and of love, pointing out the dangers, 
as he sees them, in our customs and views. 

MoRLEY, Margaret Warner. Down north 
and up along. New ed. Dodd, M. & Co. 
il. map, 12, $1. 
Noticed elsewhere in this issue. 

Prairie winter (A), by An Illinois girl. 

Outlook Co. 12, $1 net. 

A description of a western winter in its 
outdoor aspects. Written in the form of a 
diary, beginning September 15 and ending 
May 17. 
SciDMORE, Eliza Ruhamah. Winter India. 

Century Co. il. 8, $2 net. 

Contents: On India's coral strand; Trich- 
inopoli and Tanjore; With Chidambram's 
Brahmans ; For the honor and glory of Shiva ; 



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Madras and the seven pagodas ; Madras and 
Calcutta; Calcutta in Christmas week; The 
greatest thing in the world ; The sacred bo- 
tree ; The greatest sight in the world ; Ben- 
ares ; Lucknow ; Agra ; Akbar, the greatest 
Mogul of them all ; Delhi ; Old Delhi ; Lahore : 
The end of the Indian empire; Through 
Khvber Pass with the caravans, etc. 

Stedman, Edmund Clarence and T. L. The 
complete pocket-guide to Europe. [New 
ed. for 1903.] W. R. Jenkins. 24, leath., 

$1.25. 

DOMESTIC AND SOCIAL. 

EusTis, Celestine. Cooking in old Creole 
days. (La cuisine creole a I'usage des petits 
menages;) with an introd. by S. Weir 
Mitchell. Russell. 12, bds., $1.50. 

Freeman, Ja. E. If not the saloon what ? : 
the point of view and the point of contact. 
Baker & Taylor Co. 12, 50 c. net. 
Dr. Freeman is emphatically in favor of 
substitutes for the saloon which shall furnish 
men the opportunities for pleasure, but not 
foi sin, which are to be found in saloons. 
In his book. Dr. Freeman describes the great 
Hollywood Inn of Yonkers. of which he is the 
head. This workingman's club has been a 
great success, and. Dr. Freeman believes, em- 
bodies the solution of the temperance ques- 
tion. 

Price, W. L. Home building and furnish- 
ing : being a combined new ed. of "Model 
houses for little money," by W. L. Price ; 
and "Inside of 100 homes," by W. M. John- 
son. Doubleday, P. & Co. 12, $1 net. 
Under this title are offered in one volume, 
two little books hitherto published separately, 
viz.. "Model houses for little money," by W. 
L. Price and "Inside of 100 homes," by W. M. 
Jchnson. Combined they form a very sugges- 
tive study of homemaking, inside and out, for 
those who are limited in expenditure. 

EDUCATION, LANGUAGE, ETC. 

Brown, Elmer Ellsworth. The making of 
our middle schools : an account of the de- 
velopment of secondary education in the 
United States. Longmans. 8, $3. 
Presents a comprehensive account of the 
development of secondary education in the 
United States, from the earliest beginnings 
to the present time. The book touches upon 
a wide range of topics : The European pro- 
totypes of American schools, the rise of 
school systems under civil control, important 
single foundations, the history of studies, 
great teachers and their methods of instruc- 
tion, the later church schools, the new high 
schools of New York City, and many current 
problems. Bibliography (38 p.) Full index. 

Carnegie Institution of Washington. Year 
book, no. I, 1902. Carnegie Institution. 8. 
$1.25; pap., $1. 

An account of the work done and some of 
the numerous projects considered by the Car- 
negie Institution during the year 1902. The 
Institution is based upon a gift from Mr. 
Carnegie of ten million dollars to be used in 
the promotion of original research in science, 
literature, and art. The volume contains a 



full history of the gift, the incorporation of 

the Institution, names of trustees, by-laws, 

etc. 

JuDD, C. Hubbard. Genetic psychology for 

teachers. Appleton. 12, (Intern, ed. sen, 

no. S5-^ $1.20 net. 

The author says : "It is hoped that this book 
will serve in some measure to acquaint those 
for whom it is prepared with the spirit and 
results of the scientific study of mental de- 
velopment." Contents: Teacher-study, its 
scope and aims ; How experiences are con- 
solidated into interpretations of meaning; 
The origin of some of our educational ideals ; 
The new ideals of development; Individuality, 
adaptation, and expression; The teacher's 
writing habit ; Racial and individual develop- 
ment in writing; The process of reading; The 
idea of number ; Some limitations of our na- 
ture. 

FICTION. 

Babcock, W. H. Kent Fort Manor : a novel. 

Coates, il. 12, (Griffin ser.) $1. 

The time is that of the Civil War; several 
of the characters are descendants of the Wil- 
lirim Claiborne who figured in a former novel 
of the author. The scene is laid in the Chesa- 
peake Bay. 
Bailey, H. C. Karl of Erbach : a tale of 

Lichtenstein and Solgau. Longmans. 12^ 

$1.50. 

A novel by the author of "My lady of 
Orange" ; it deals with events in two German 
principalities during the latter part of the 
Thirty Years' War, Vicomte de Turenne, 
F'ather Joseph, and other leading personages 
of the time, are important and active charac- 
ters in the story. 
Brady, Cyrus Townsend. The bishop ; being 

some account of his strange adventures on 

the plains. Harper. 12, $1.50. 

Stories of a militant lovable bishop, whose 
work among the rough-and-ready men of 
Western camps, forts and villages results in 
his sharing in many incidents of frontier life 
comedy, tragedy, always drama. 
Brown, Alice. The Mannerings. Houghton, 

M. & Co. 12, $1.50. 

The story passes in or near a charming 
country house, remote from towns, though the 
commercial interests of a great city are in the 
background of the picture. The descriptions 
of this free, unconventional country life have 
much beauty and variety while the characters 
are attractive and vigorously drawn. The plot 
involves a double love story. 
Cook, G. Cr-\m. Roderick Taliaferro : a 

story of Maximilian's Empire ; il. by Sey- 
mour M. Stone. Macmillan. 12, $1.50. 

Noticed elsewhere in this issue. 

Dahn, Felix. Felicitas : a romance; from the 
German by Mary J. Safford. McClurg. 
12, $1.50. 

The second of three novels by Felix Dahn, 
which form a group devoted to the early wars 
between the Romans and Teutons. The first 
was called "A captive of the Roman Eagles." 
This is a dainty little idyl of the period of 
German conquest in Rome. The third work 
of the series will follow,. 



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Davenport^ Arnold. By the ramparts of 
Jezreel. Longmans. 12, $1.50. 
A romantic novel, founded upon the bibli- 
cal narrative of the events leading to the 
death of Jezebel and the accession of Jehu 
to the throne of Israel. Jehu, the prophet 
Elisha, and a supposed daughter of Elijah 
are leading characters. The siege and de- 
struction of the city of Jezreel are exciting 
episodes in the story. 

DuRYEA, Nina Larre. Among the palms. J. 

F. Taylor & Co. il. 12, $1.25. 

Six stories, with the scenes laid at Palm 
Beach, St. Augustine, Tampa, and other South- 
ern points. 

Flint, Annie. A girl of ideas. Scribner. 

12, $1.50. 

A novel which details the business career of 
a girl whose imagination is her only capital. 
Publisher after publisher rejects Elinor Day's 
njanuscripts. Her money runs low. Refusing 
to accept defeat, she opens an office for the 
selling of ideas to establish writers, her 
scheme meeting with instant success. Out of 
her position many complex situations de- 
velop. 

Freeman, Mrs. Mary Eleanor Wilkins. 
The wind in the rose-bush, and other sto- 
ries of the supernatural ; il. by P. Newell. 
Doubleday, P. il. 12, $1.50. 
Noticed elsewhere in this issue. 

Haggard, H. Rider. Pearl-maiden: a tale of 

the fall of Jerusalem. Longmans, il. 12, 

$1.50. 
Harben, Will N. The substitute. Harper. 

12, $1.50. 

A story that deals with the fortunes of 
George Buckley, an inhabitant of Northern 
Georgia. Although of humble birth, he has a 
natively fine character. He is adopted by an 
old man who desires to atone for a past sin 
by so educating and training George that he 
may become his moral substitute in the eyes 
of Providence. Hence the name. Finally, in- 
terest centres in a,.love affair that has a note- 
worthy effect on the young man's character, 
and the end is a happy one. 
Henderson, C. Hanford. John Percyfield. 

Houghton, M. & Co. 12, $1.50. 

To be noticed later. 
Holmes, Oliver Wendell. Elsie Venner: a 

romance of destiny. Houghton, M. & Co. 

8, (Cambridge classics.) $1. 
Hope, Graham. The triumph of Count Os- 

termann. Holt. 12, $1.50. 

The love story of Peter the Great's German 
prime minister. In the opening chapter a 
vivid picture is given of the simi-barbarous 
people that the great Czar was to mold into 
one of the leading nations of the earth. 
Peter, dissolute and violent, but glorified by 
his will and noble purpose, is strongly drawn. 
Along with Ostermann's experiences with his 
patrician wife is sketched his brave struggle 
to continue Peter's work in spite of the weak- 
er rulers that followed. 
Iliowizi, H. The archierey of Samara: a 

semi-historic romance of Russian life. 

Coates. il. 12, (Griffin ser.) $1. 

Introduces interesting phases of Russian 



life, by one born in the Russian province of 
which he writes. The "Archierey" who is the 
central figure of the story, is a high dignitary 
of the church of Russia. 

Kincaid, Mary Holland. Walda: a novel. 

Harper. 12, $1.50. 

A love story placed in a religious com- 
munity where love and marriage are tacitly 
discouraged. Into this community comes 
Stephen, a man of the world. He falls in love 
with Walda Kellar, who has been singled out 
as the coming prophetess of the community. 
AH Walda's education and training have op- 
posed her to love and marriage, and so when 
Stephen declares himself she finds she must 
s<^ruggle between love and her religious belief. 

King, C. A daughter of the Sioux : a tale of 
the Indian frontier; il. by F. Remington 
and Edwin Willard Deming. Hobart Co. 
il. 12, $1.50. 

An educated, highly accomplished Indian 
girl, who comes on a visit to a western army 
post, as the niece of an army officer's wife, is 
the centre of both mystery and crime. Her 
Indian origin is unsuspected, and while aiming 
to fascinate the men who surround her, she 
is working secretly for her own people, the 
Sioux Indians. Chief of her victims is a brave 
young officer, whose career is almost ruined 
by her unscrupulousness. An Indian cam- 
paign, plenty of romance and adventure, all 
add to the interest of the story. 

Lawson, Elsworth. From the unvarying 

star. Macmillan. 12, $1.50. 

The scene of the novel is laid in York- 
shire. Stephen Austin, the hero, is a young 
m.inister, of noble life and aspirations, who is 
slandered by an evil-minded deacon, who sees 
him leaving a house of ill-repute. The min- 
ister has been seeking his sister, who has 
committed a grave social fault. To protect 
her, he lets his good name go undefended. 
Through it all, he is loved by a good woman, 
who never loses her faith in him. 

Lyman, Olin L. The trail of the grand seig- 
neur; with col. il. from paintings by J. 
Steeple Davis and Clare Angell. New Am- 
sterdam. 12. $1.50. 
Sacketts Harbor, N. Y., is the scene of 

many of the chapters of this romantic novel. 

The chief characters are a French emigree and 

his daughter. 

McChesney, Dora Greenwell. Cornet Strong 
of Ireton's Horse : an episode of the Iron- 
sides ; il. by Maurice Greiffenhagen. Lane. 
12, $1.50. 

Opens in New England, and carries the 
reader through the troublous times of the Roy- 
alist and Commonwealth struggles of the 17th 
century. There is a fresh love story. 

MacManus, Seumas A lad of the O'Friels. 

McClure, P. 12, $1.50. 

A story of Donegal ways and customs ; full 
of the spirit of Irish life. The main character 
is a dreaming and poetic boy who takes joy in 
all the stories and superstitions of his people, 
and his experience and life are thus made to 
reflect all the essential qualities of the life of 
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Mitchell, Silas Weir, M.D. A comedy of 
conscience. Century Co. 16, $1. 
Noticed elsewhere in this issue. 

Morton, Martha. Her lord and master; il. 
by Howard Chandler Christy and Esther 
MacNamara. Biddle. 12, $1.50. 
An international romance. First produced 

ar. a play in New York, during the spring of 

1902. 

Nason, P'rank Lewis. The blue goose. Mc- 

Clure, P. 12, $1.50. 

The life of the miner, with its hours of wild 
living above ground, the dominating influence 
of the greed for gold, and the reckless gamb- 
ling spirit that is its very basis offers grateful 
material to the teller of stories. Mr. Nasoii 
has taken full advantage of the opportunity 
and of his intimate knowledge. He has writ- 
ten a tale of cunning and villainy thwarted by 
dogged honesty, in which a mine superinten- 
dent is in conflict with his thieving and vicious 
employees. 

Oppenheim, E. Phillips. The traitors. Dodd, 

M. il. 12, $1.50. 

A story of love and adventure. The action 
t?.kes place in Theos, an imaginary country, 
There is a revolution, the recall of an exiled 
king, a war with Turkey, and various politi- 
cal intrigues of a dramatic nature. Two of 
the important characters are Americans. 
Owen, Rye. Head-Headed Gill. Holt. 12,. 

$1.50. 

The story takes place in England. Red- 
Headed Gil! is a splendid young country gen- 
tlewoman of Cornwall. Under a weird East 
Indian influence she is forced to live over 
again the part of life of a beauty of the days 
of Queen Bess the famous Gill Red-Head. 
Payson, W. Farquhar. The triumph of 

life: a novel. Harper. 12, $1.50. 

A story of modern American life. It tells 
of the struggles of a young writer, Enoch 
Lloyd, with what jeenis to be financial suc- 
cess at the price of moral failure. There are 
two women in the case, the two opposing in- 
fluences. One is Celeste Moreau, the worldly 
daughter of a French hotelkeeper in New 
York ; the other is Marion Lee, daughter of 
Lloyd's publisher. His struggle between these 
two influences the one demoralizing, the 
other ennobling is worked out through many 
intricacies of plot and a series of dramatic 
situations. 
Pugh, Edwin. The stumbling-block; il. by 

R. M. Crosby. Barnes. 12, $1.50. 

Noticed in next issue. 
Rohlfs, Mrs. Anna Katherine Green. The 

Filigree ball : being a full and true account 

of the solution of the mystery concerning 

the Jeffrey-Moore affair; il. by C. M. Rel- 

yea. Bobbs-M. 12, $1.50. 

Noticed in last issue. 
Savage, R. H. The golden rapids of high 

life: a novel. Home. 12, $1.25; pap., 50c. 

Intrigue, adventure, love and war follow 
each other in quick succession, in this novel 
of high life in America and Europe. 
Smith, Mrs. Alice Prescott. The legatee. 

Houghton, M. & Co. 12, $1.50. 

The hero, a southerner, inherits a lumber 



mill in a Wisconsin town, and with it the leg- 
acy of his uncle's relations to the townspeople, 
which were not always friendly. He finds 
himself involved in various antagonisms : 
with the northern sentiment of the people a 
lingering effect of the war ; with his working- 
men ; and with a group of socialistic and tem- 
perance fanatics. There is a strike during 
which an attempt is made upon the hero's 
life. The climax is a great forest fire. 
Taylor, Mary Imi.ay. The rebellion of the 

Princess. McClure, P. 12, $1.50. 

A novel. The scene is laid in Moscow at 
the time of the election of Peter the Great, 
when the intrigues of rival parties overturned 
the existing government, and the meeting of 
the National Guard made the city the scene 
of a hideous riot. It resembles in some points 
Miss Taylors first story, "On the red stair- 
case," especially in the date, the principal 
scenes and the fact that the hero is a French 
nobleman. 

Tiernan, Mrs. Frances C. Fisher, ["Chris- 
tian Reid," pseud.] A daughter of the 
Sierra. Herder. 8, $1.25. 

Tuttiett, Maria Gleed, ["Maxwell Gray," 

pseud.] Richard Rosny. Appleton. il. 12, 
$1.50. 

Noticed in last issue. 

Tyson, J. Aubrey. The stirrup cup. Apple- 
ton. 12, (Novelettes de luxe ser.) $1.25. 
A love story of the year 1777, with its 
scenes in Pennsylvania and New York. Many 
historical characters are introduced, such as 
General Washington, Aaron Burr, and Major 
Andre. 

Webster, Jean. When Patty went to col- 
lege; il. by C. D. Williams. Century Co. 
12, $1.50. 

The humorous experiences of a college girl, 
who had a penchant for getting into scrapes. 
White, Stewart E. Conjuror's house: a ro- 
mance of the free forest. McClure, P. il. 
12, $1.25. 

Noticed in last issue. 
Zangwill, Israel. The grey wig: stories 
and novelties. Macmillan. 12, $1.50. 

FINE ARTS. 

Bree, Mme. Malwine. The groundwork of 
the Leschetizky method; issued with his 
approval by his assistant, Malwine Bree, 
with forty-seven illustrative cuts of Les- 
chetizky's hand; tr. from the German by 
Dr. Th. Baker. G. Schirmer. il. 4, $2. 

Conway, Sir W. Martin, The domain of 
art. Button. 12, $2.50 net. 

Cook, E. T., comp. A popular handbook to 
the Greek and Roman antiquities in the 
British Museum. Macmillan. 12, leath., 
$3.25 net. 

EcKENSTEiN, LiNA. Albrecht Durer. But- 
ton. 18, $3.50 net. 

NoYES, Carleton. The enjoyment of art. 
Houghton, M. & Co. 8, $1 net. 

Poor,_ H. R. Pictorial composition and the 
critical judgment of pictures: a handbook 
for students and lovers of art. Baker & T. 
8, $1.50 net. 
Addressed to three types of art workers : 



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the student of painting, the amateur photog- 
rapher, and the professional artist. The book 
makes a plain statement of the principles of 
composition and illustrates them by reproduc- 
tion of standard works of art. 



Austin, Herbert H. With Macdona^d in 
Uganda : a narrative account of the Uganda 
mutiny and Macdcnald expedition in the 
Uganda Protectorate and the territories to 
the north. Longmans, il. maps, por. 8, 
$6. 

Major Austin accompanied Macdonald to 
Uganda. His work is intended to remove 
many erroneous impressions that exist re- 
garding the actual outbreak of hostilities with 
the Sudanese mutineers. 

Blair^ Emma Helen, and Robertson, Ja. 
Alex., eds. The Philippine Islands, 1493- 
1803 ; tr. from the original ed. and annot. 
by Emma Helen Blair and Ja. Alex. Rob- 
ertson ; with historical introd. and- addi- 
tional notes by E. Gaylord Bourne. In 55 
V. V. I, 1493-1529. A. H. Clark, il. maps, 
por. 8% $4 net. 

Explorations by early navigators, descrip- 
tions of the islands and their peoples, their 
history, and records of the Catholic missions, 
as related in contemporaneous books and 
manuscripts, showing the political, economic, 
commercial, and religious conditions of those 
islands from their earliest relations with Eu- 
ropean nations to the beginning of the nine- 
teenth century. Translated from the rare 
originals (Spanish, French. Italian, Latin, 
etc.), many of which are now published for 
the first time ; edited and annotated by Emma 
Helen Blair. A.M.. of the State Historical 
Society of Wisconsin, assistant editor of "The 
Jesuit relations and allied documents," and 
James Alexander Robertson, Ph.B. 

DuBNOw, S. M. Jewish history : an essay in 
the philosophy of historv. Jewish Pub. 
12, $1. 
The author of this essay occupies a high 

position in Russian-Jewish literature as an 

historian and an acute critic. 

Gardiner, S. Rawson. History of the Com- 
monwealth and Protectorate, 1649-1656. In 
4 V. v. I. 1649- 1650. New ed. Longmans, 
maps, 12, $2. 

The three volumes forming the first edition 
of Mr. Gardiner's book were published in 
1894, 1897, and 1901 respectively. Only the 
first of these, which reached a third edition in 
1901, had the advantage of revision and cor- 
rection by the author himself. However, Mr. 
Gardiner appended to the third volume two 
Images of "Corrigenda" for v. 2, and also in- 
serted in his preface to v. 2 some additional 
information which had come too late to be 
employed in the text of his narrative. These 
corrections and additions are now incorpo- 
rated in their proper place, either in the text 
or the notes. 

Griffis, W. Elliot. Young people's history 
of Holland. Houghton. M. & Co. il. por. 
12, $1.50 net. 

How a very little country overcame great 
obstacles and' became so influential in the 



world is told by Dr. Griffis as young people 
would have it, with numerous anecdotes, but 
without too many dates and details. He fol- 
lows the Dutch from the beginning when they 
first won their land from the ocean, and tells 
how they beautified it, defended it, and finally 
made it the home of wealth, culture, art, and 
comfort. 
Hodgson, F. C. The early history of Venice ; 

from the foundation to the conquest of 

Constantinople. Dutton. il. 8, $3. 
Hulbert, Archer Butler. Braddock's road 

and Three relative papers. A. H. Clark. 

il. 12, (Historic highways of America, v. 

4.) $2.50 net. 

This volume carries on the story of the Old 
French War from Washington's capitulation 
at Fort Necessity through the famous cam- 
paign of Braddock in 1755. The hewing of 
Braddock's Road from the Potomac to the 
Monongahela was the first great step of ma- 
terial progress made in the West. The story 
of the campaign as retold from this stand- 
point is of appealing interest ; but of greater 
interest is the story of the half-century suc- 
ceeding, in which Braddock's Road was th-e 
only highway into the upper Ohio valley the 
most important thoroughfare into the West. 

Johnston, Harold Whetstone. The private 
life of the Romans. Scott, F. 12, (Lake 
classical ser.) $1.50. 

Intended for college students and readers 
generally. The topics discussed have to do 
with the everyday life of the Roman people, 
such as the family, the Roman name, mar- 
riage and the position of women, children and 
education, slaves, clients, amusements, travel 
and correspondence, funeral ceremonies and 
burial customs, etc. 

Thacher, J. Boyd. Christopher Columbus : 
his life, his work, his remains, as revealed 
by original printed c'ud manuscript records ; 
with an Essay on Peter Martyr of Ang- 
hera and Bartolome de las Casas, the first 
historians of America. In 3 v. v. i. Put- 
nam. 4. set, $9 net; Collector's ed., 6 v.. 
per set. $90. 

Space is first devoted to a consideration of 
the lives and labors of Peter Martyr of Ang- 
hera and Bartolome de las Casas, the first 
historians of America. Following is an in- 
troduction which is a critical inquiry into the 
character of Columbus. This embraces pts. 
I and 2. Pt. 3, entitled "The man," is a biog- 
raphy of Columbus up to the time of his go- 
ing to Portugal. Pt. 4, "The purpose," shows 
the influences and adoption of the project. 
Pt. 5, "The event," describes the discovery 
from the admiral's journal. This is the con- 
tents of V. I. The work is rich in original 
documents never before translated, and in 
facsimiles of ancient books and reprints. 

Van Middeldyk, R. A. The history of Puerto 
Rico from the Spanish discovery to the 
American occupation ; ed. by Martin G. 
Brumbaugh. Appleton. il. 12, (Expan- 
sion of the Republic ser.) $1.25 net. 
"The author has endeavored to portray sa- 
lient characteristics of the life on the island, 
to describe the various acts of the reigning 
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rule, and to figure the general historical and 
geographical conditions in a manner that en- 
ables the reader to form a fairly accurate 
judgment of the past and present state of 
Puerto Rico." Preface. Mr. Van Middeldyk 
is the librarian of the Free Public Library of 
San Juan, an institution created under Amer- 
ican civil control. He has had access to all 
data obtainable in the island. Bibliography 
(2 p.). 
WiLLSON, Beckles. The new America: a 

study of the imperial republic. Dutton. 

8, $2.50 net. 

LITERARY MISCELLANY, COLLECTED WORKS, 
ETC. 

Duff, Sir Mount Stuart E. Grant, ed. An 
anthology of Victorian poetry. Dutton. 
8, $2.50 net. 

English (The) catalogue of books for 1902; 
giving in one alphabet, under author and 
subject, the size, price, month of publica- 
tion and publisher of books issued in the 
United Kingdom and of the principal books 
issued in the United States : being a con- 
tinuation of the "London" and "British" 
catalogues. 66th year of issue. Pub. 
Weekly. 8, $1.50. 

Fletcher, W. L, and Bowker, R. Rodgers. 
The annual literary index, 1902; 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-operation 
of members of the American Library Asso- 
ciation and of The Library Journal stafif. 
Pub. Weekly. 8, $3.50 net. 
Contents: (i) The index to periodical lit- 
erature for the year 1902, making the sixth 
annual supplement to "Poole's Index to Pe- 
riodical Literature," 1892-1896; (2) An index 
to essays and book-chapters in composite 
books of 1902, making the second annual sup- 
plement to the new edition of Fletcher's "A 
L. A. Index to General Literature." published 
in 1902; (3) An author-index, both to period- 
ical articles and to book-chapters; (4) A list 
of bibliographies issued in 1902; (5) A ne- 
crology of authors for 1902, extremely useful 
to cataloguers ; (6) An index of dates of 
events in 1902, furnishing a useful guide to 
the daily press. 

Halsey, Francis Whiting, ed. Women au- 
thors of our day in their homes : personal 
descriptions and interviews,; ed., with ad- 
ditions, by Francis Whiting Halsey. Pott. 
12, $1.25 net. 

The women authors interviewed were 
"Marion Harland," Bertha Runkle, Agnes 
Repplier, Margaret Deland, "Lucas Malet," 
Mrs. Burnett, Kate Douglas Wiggin, Mary 
Johnston, "John Oliver Hobbes," Amelia E. 
Barr, Mrs. Moulton, Mrs. Humphry Ward, 
Mrs. Sherwood, Margaret Sangster, Jean- 
nette L. Gilder, and many others 27 in all. 
There is an introductory paper on "The pe- 
cuniary rewards of our older authors," by F. 
Stanford. 

Hutton, Laurence. Literary landmarks of 
Oxford; [il. by Herbert Railton.] Scrib- 
ner. 12, $1.20 net. 
An account of a six weeks' vacation lately 



spent in Oxford. Takes the various rooms 
of Oxford Colleges, crowded with literary 
associations, and tells all that is of interest 
regarding their past occupants. He has so 
grouped them in sections following the alpha- 
betical order of the colleges that the Oxford 
visitor may make his pilgrimage with the ut- 
most convenience. 

Poole's index to periodical literature, [v. 5;] 
fourth supplement from January i, 1897, to 
January i, 1902, by W. I. Fletcher and 
Mary Poole, with the co-operation of the 
American Library Association. Houghton, 
M. & Co. 4, $10 net; slip., $12 net; hf. 
mor., $14 net. 

"This fourth five-year supplement closes a 
period of twenty years since the publication in 
1882 of the main volume. In that volume 
and the four supplements 427 different pe- 
riodicals have been indexed, with a total of 
10,881 volumes. The five volumes contain 
3677 pages, with references to about 520,000 
articles. The present supplement includes 170 
different periodicals out of the 427 which 
have been indexed from first to last. The 
rest have ceased to be. The chronological 
conspectus prefixed to each volume furnishes 
interesting and suggestive details." Preface. 
This useful and valuable work, it may be sug- 
gested to the few unacquainted with it, is an 
index to subjects arid not to writers except 
when writers are treated as subjects. 

Wallace, W. James Hogg and his poetry. 

Knickerbocker Press. 12, pap., 25 c. 
Wiener, Leo. Anthology of Russian litera- 
ture from the earliest period to the present 
time. In 2 pts. pt 2, The nineteenth cen- 
tury. Putnam. 8, $3 net. 
Over fifty Russian authors are represented 
by extracts in prose and poetry from their 
works. There is an opening article embrac- 
ing 'A sketch of Russian literature in the nine- 
teenth century." 

Wilde, Sir Ja. Plaisted, [Baron Penzance.] 
Lord Penzance on the Bacon- Shakespeare 
controversy: a judicial summing up; ed. by , 
M. H. Kinnear, with a biographical note by 
F. A. Idderwick. W. B. Clarke Co. 8, 
$2 net. 

Lord Penzance does not add any new facts 
to the Bacon-Shakespeare controversy. He 
simply recapitulates briefly and plainly all the 
arguments and facts already given to the 
public. He has made a thorough study of the 
authorship of the Shakespeare plays and con- 
siders the inquiry whether Bacon was the 
author of all or any of the works hitherto 
attributed to Shakespeare, "altogether un- 
profitable until the jury of the intelligent and 
educated world are satisfied that Shakespeare 
was not." 

NATURE AND SCIENCE. 

Lane, M. A. L., ed. Triumphs of science. 

Ginn. il. 12, (Youth's companion ser.) 

30 c. 

Presents in a brief and entertaining form 
information about some of the scientific tri- 
umphs of the age. Contents: The story of the 
Atlantic cable, by Cyrus W. Feld; A modern 
observatory, by E. S. Holden ; Astronomical 
photography, by C. A. Young; The lighting 



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of our coast, by L. L. Sibley ; Modern great 

guns, by J. B. Briggs ; Submarine boats, by 

J. D. Jerrold Kelley; How war ships are 

built, by Hilary A. Herbert; The Boston 

subway ; The St. Chir tunnel ; Artesian wells, 

etc. 

Scott, W. Earl Dodge. The story of a bird 

lover. Outlook, il. 8, $1.50 net. 

The autobiography of William Earl Dodge 
Scott, one of the foremost experts in Amer- 
ica as regards the life and habits of birds. 
The story of his life as he gives it tells how 
he grew to be a bird lover, and offers infor- 
mation regarding the lives of birds, gathered 
in travels all over the United States. Bib- 
liography of articles and books referred to 

U p.). 

POETRY AND DRAMA. 

Adams, C. Francis. Constitutional ethics of 
secession, and War is hell : two speeches. 
Houghton, M. & Co. 8, pap., 25 c. net. 

Chamberlain, Fred C. The blow from be- 
hind; or, some features of the anti-impe- 
rialistic movement attending the war with 
Spain ; with a consideration of our Philip- 
pine policy from its inception to the present 
time, and the international and domestic 
law affecting the same. Lee & S. 12, $1 
net. 

Dunbar, Paul Laurence. Lyrics of love and 
laughter. Dodd, M. il. 16, $1 net. 
A companion volume to "Lyrics of lowly 

life" and "Lyrics of the hearthside." Contains 

a larger proportio.n of dialect poems than 

either of these two volumes. 

Everyman : a moral play. Fox, D. 8, bds., 
$1. 
To be noticed in next issue. 

Freneau, Philip. The poems of Philip Fre- 
neau, poet of the American Revolution ; 
ed. for the Princeton Historical Assoc, by 
Fred Lewis Pattec. In 3 v. v. i. Prince- 
ton Univ. Lib. 8, $3 net. 
To be noticed later. 

Johnson, Alvin Saunders. Rent in modern 
economic theory: an essay in distribution. 
Macmillan. 8. (Publications of the Amer- 
ican Economic Assoc, 3d ser., v. 3, no. 4.) 
pap., 75 c 
Laughlin, J. Laurence. The principles of 
money. Scribner. 8, $3 net. 
The first volume of a series which aims to 
cover the main fie'.d of money. The main 
topics of this work are : The functions of 
money ; Coinage ; The standard question ; 
Credit ; Deposit currency ; Tables of prices ; 
History and literature of the quantity theory 
of money ; A critical examination of the quan- 
tity theory; The true theory of prices; Prices 
and the international movement of specie ; 
Amount of money needed by a country ; 
Gresham's law ; Origin and history of legal 
tender in Great Britain and the United 
States ; Economic effects of legal-tender 
enactments; Laws of token money. 

Lecky, W. E. Hartfole. Leaders of public 
opinion in Ireland. Longmans. 2 v. 12, 
$4 net. 
A revised, enlarged and largely rewritten 



edition of a work long out of print. It was 
first published anonymously in 1861. The 
"leaders" are Henry Flood, Henry Grattan, 
and Daniel O'Connell. 

Lubbock, Sir J., [now Lord Avebury.] A 
short history of coins and currency. Dut- 
ton. il. 16, 60 c net. 
McCarthy, Justin. British political por- 
traits. Outlook Co. 8, $1.50 net. 
Pen portraits of thirteen prominent Eng- 
lishmein, namely: Arthur James Balfour; 
Lord Salisbury; Lord Rosebery ; Joseph Cham- 
berlain ; Henry Labouchere ; John Morley ; 
Lord Aberdeen ; John Burns ; Sir Michael 
Hicks-Beach; John E. Redmond; Sir Will- 
iam Harcourt ; James Bryce, and Sir Henry 
Campbell-Bannerman. 

Mackaye, Percy. The Canterbury pilgrims: 
a comedy. Macmillan. 12, $1.25. 
A comedy in verse with Chaucer as the 
central figure. The principal characters are 
based on the "Canterbury tales." Dedicated 
tc E. H. Sothern, who will produce the play 
this spring. 

Moore, J. Trotwood. Songs and stories from 
Tennessee ; il. by Howard Weeden and Rob. 
Dickey. [New issue.] Coates. il. 12", 
$1.25. 

Noticed elsewhere in this issue. 
Reed, Howard Beck. Notes from nature's 
lyre. Putnam. 12. $1.50 net. 
A book of poems interpreting nature and 
inviting all to such a joyous observation and 
study of natural objects and phenomena as 
will result in greater appreciation of the 
beauties of this world. 

Wood, Margaret L. The princess of Han- 
over: a play. Holt 12, $1.50 net. 
Woodburn, Ja. Albert. Political parties and 
party problems in the United States : a 
sketch of x-\merican party history and of the 
development and operations of party ma- 
chinery ; with a consideration of certain 
party problems in their relations to political 
morality. Putnam. 8, $2 net. 
"The book is a study of parties in Amer- 
ica of party history, party machinery, party 
morality, party problems. Party has always 
been the agency by which America has been 
governed, and therefore party politics is pre- 
eminently a subject that demands the con- 
stant attention of intelligent and patriotic cit- 
izens. The book is published in the hope that 
it may aid in .promoting, in school and home, 
the study of American politics." Preface. 

WooLSEY, Mrs. Kate Trimble. Republics 

versus woman ; contrasting the treatment 

accorded to woman in aristocracies with 

that meted out to her in democracies. 

Grafton Press. 12, $1.25 net. 

An argument based on facts showing that 

woman has more honors bestowed upon her, 

more privileges, better treatment accorded 

her in every way under monarchies than in 

republics. 

THEOLOGY. RELIGION AND SPECULATION. 

Abbott, Lyman. The other room. Outlook 

Co. 8, bds., $1 ret. 

Contents: The other room; In darkness; 
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that slept; God shall give it a body; How 
shall we think of the dead ? ; The practice of 
immortality ; Picture-teaching. 
Brooks, Phillips, Bp. Helps to the Holy 

Communion: from the writings of Phillip^s 

Brooks; comp. by Caroline S. Derby. 32, 

50 c. net. 
Danziger, Adolph. Jewish forerunners of 

Christianity. Button. 12, $1.50 net. 

Edwards, J. Harrington. God and music. 

Baker & T. 12. $1.25. 

A study of the relations between God and 
music. There is a growing interest in the 
study of theology in its relation to music and 
music in the possibilities of its adaptation to 
religious life and work. Dr. Edwards has 
treated this sabje:t in a scholarly manner, 
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Author is professor in Hartford Theological 
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MoNTEFiORE, Claude G. Liberal Judaism : an 
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To be noticed later. 
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Lectures, delivered by Prof. Rosenau, be- 
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^ Detached Pirate 

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'^^' Siege of Youth 

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A ROSE OF NORMANDY 

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daughter of Montezuma. 
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An absorbing industrial 
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Author of "EIea.i\or," " R.obert Elsmere," etc. 



Readers have rarely been led with such 
interest along the course of any novel. 

William Dean Howells. 



The creator of "Lady Rose's Daughter" 
has given her a personality which tempts 
and tantalizes. Brooklyn Eagle. 

Mrs. Ward has played with edged tools, 
and to the beholder's delight, and there 
has been nobody hurt. . S. Martin. 

We touch regions and attain altitudes 
which it is not given to the ordinary novel- 
ist even to approach. London Times. 

She is not moral enough for the majori- 
ty, but for those who are blessed with a 
clearer view of what matters her character 
will prove a deep and never-failing well 
of delight. Philadelphia Item. 



Julie Le Breton is a very glorious human 
creature, tingling with vitality, actuality, 
and individuality. Chicago Evening Post. 

No woman whose moral standards were 
primarialy conventional could have under- 
stood the temperament of Julie Le Breton. 
Hamilton IV. Mabie. 



Love is not here the sentimental emotion 
of the ordinary novel or play, but the power 
that purges the weaknesses and vivifies the 
dormant nobilities of men and women. 

The Academv, London. 



The temperament of Julie Le Breton, 
who had such a contradictory carriage, 
animation, artfulness, and the intense fas- 
cination of something over-brilliant, over- 
living a charm that both repelled and at- 
tracted.- Louisville Courier-Journal. 



The most appealing 
type of heroine ever 
presented in fiction. 

If. M. Alden. 



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JUNE, 1903. 



No. 6. 




From "Questionable Shapes." Copyright, 1903, by Harper & Brothers. 

"i'm. afraid i^m responsible for that." 
Mr. Howells and Ghosts. 



Boston has been busied with psychical re- 
search for some years, and Prof. William 
James has had a good deal to say about Mrs. 
Piper, so that it is not surprising after all to 
find Mr. W. D. Howells toying with the su- 
pernatural in his latest book "Questionable 
Shapes." Realists need not be startled Mr. 
Howells is true to his colors and only takes 
his ghosts up with the tongs to hold them ofif 
as far as possible. His interest lies in the 
tfffect the ghost stories have on the bystand- 
ers, not in the ghosts themselves, in fact he 
tells only one ghost story, and that, one that 
may be explained away, in the three tales that 
make up the book. 



The first, "His Apparition," is written m 
the style of the late Frank Stockton, though 
with little of Mr. Stockton's humor. It is a 
study, we should say, in the etiquette of 
visions, suggesting how and when and where 
he who sees an apparition should tell or 
should abstain from telling about it. Mr. 
Howells takes occasion, by the way, to draw 
a caustic picture of one of his very earnest 
young women. The second story, "The An- 
gel of the Lord," we can only take as a 
parody on Mr. Henry James. The talk drags 
along as inconsequentially and irrelevantly 
as Mr. James's at his worst. In the last tale 
in the book, "Though One Rose from the 



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From " Barbara : a Woman of the West." Copyright, 1903, by Little, Brown A Co. 

'"tIS the old, old story, BARBARA \" 

Dead," Mr. Howells has a really fine story, 
and we wish he had let it run away with him 
as he repeatedly seems tempted to do. His 
irritating psychologist keeps interfering, how- 
ever, and explaining away, and a good ghost 
story is well nigh spoiled in consequence. 
(Harper. %i.so.)N. Y. Sun. 



To the lonely home a. be- 
lated traveller named Bex- 
ar comes, and begs a night's 
shelter. He is a prospector, 
poor, but full of hope, in 
his various claims, and 
chockfuU of stories, which 
read like fairy tales. He 
is taken seriously ill and is 
faithfully nursed by Bar- 
bara and her husband. In 
payment of their hospitali- 
ty, Bexar makes them a 
present of a claim. The 
husband, a writer by pro- 
fession, and a visionary, 
leaves the wife and sets 
out to establish the claim 
and make a fortune. At 
first letters come, then they 
cease. He drops out of 
life completely. Barbara 
goes to Cripple Creek to 
trace him. She is baffled 
at every turn. In her 
search for the husband, 
which extends over several 
years, she becomes succes- 
sively editor on a news- 
paper, governess and clerk 
in a real estate office. 

Into her life comes a 
masterful, successful busi- 
ness man, a bachelor, who, 
knowing nothing of her 
history, loves her and 
wishes to marry her. She 
refuses him and confides 
to him the reason for her 
refusal . Search is made 
for the husband; no trace 
is found, and she finally marries Bream. Bar- 
bara develops all that is best and noblest in 
Bream. After a period of great happiness, 
an Enoch Arden situation is developed. 

Original in invention, cumulative in interest 
and generously provided with situations, the 
novel is well worth reading. (Little, Brown 
& Co. $1.50.) Brooklyn Times. 



Barbara : a Woman of the West. 

All the scenes of this story are laid in the 
West. Barbara is a type of American wom- 
an, with a perfect womanliness and an attrac- 
tive femininity, who, when confronted by the 
necessity of earning a livelihood, develops re- 
sourcefulness and courage. Barbara and her 
husband, Roger Temberly, are living on a 
Government grant of land in the far West. 



American Political Parties. 

We have reviewed at length the "History 
of Political Parties in the United States," by 
Prof. J. P. Gordy, and Mr. Ostrogorski's 
book on "Democracy and the Organization of 
Political Parties." The latest book on the 
same subject is entitled "Political Parties and 
Party Problems in the United States," by 



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Prof. J. A. Woodburn, author of "The Amer- 
ican Republic and Its Government," This, as 
itj title indicates, is a sketch of American 
party history and of the development and 
operations of party machinery, together with 
a consideration of certain party problems in 
their relations to political morality. The 
volume is published in the hope that it may 
aid in promoting, in school and home, the 
study of American politics. The author is 
one of those who hold that history is past 
politics, and that politics is present history. 
Starting from this premise, he must needs 
maintain that to study politics in any serious 
way is but to make a large use of history. 
With this assumption in mind, he has devoted 
nearly half of the volume to an outline of the 
evolution and operation of American parties 
under the Constitution. It is in the latter 
half of the book that the close and vital rela- 
tion of politics to ethics and 
the direct dependence of na- 
tional character on politi- 
cal conduct are considered. 
(Putnam, net, $2.) AT. Y. 
Sun. 



nating between stormy caresses and cruel 
abuse of her child, until at length she, too, 
dies and little Bria, inheritor of her parents' 
ill-regulated natures, is adopted by the kind- 
hearted old bookseller, and at last is allowed 
an opportunity to develop whatever good 
qualities she may possess amid happy and 
kmdly surroundings. She is given a good 
education, and, later, upon Owen's death, finds- 
herself in possession of enough money to en- 
able her to study art and music, and to wander- 
around the Continent. Mr. Pugh depicts with- 
remarkable power the warring elements of the 
girl's character her deep love of nature and 
artistic susceptibility, her passionate yet selfish 
love, her coquetry and lack of principle in life,, 
and withal her compelling charm in manner 
and person. Of course she falls in love and, 
as one might expect, with quite a common- 
place, worthy young man whom, however, she 



The Stumbling Block. 

Temperament and fate 
oftentimes are synonymous 
words. Some lives seem 
foredoomed to failure, pow- 
erless against the working 
out of their own tempera- 
ments upon themselves and 
others. Such an one is Bria 
Ormathwaite, whose life is 
the theme of "The Stumb- 
ling Block," by Edwin Pugh. 

Her father was a glass- 
blower from Wales, who 
had come up to London to 
try his fortune, Tjringing his 
young wife, a pretty, help- 
less servant lass ; and in 
London Bria is born in the 
house of old Owen Owen, a 
bookseller, who out of pity 
had given shelter to the 
young couple. After the 
death of Bria's father the 
child and her mother con- 
tinue to live in Owen's 
house, a miserable hand to 
mouth existence, for the 
mother grows shiftless and 
evil-tempered in her pover- 
ty and hopelessness, alter- 




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idealizes, and alternately torments and delights 
by her demanding and jealous love. There is 
no peace nor contentment in her highly 
'wrought nature; life to her is a series of 
emotional climaxes. Finally, made half mad 
by jealousy of her dearest friend, she lets her 
-drown without making an effort to save her, 
and then marries her lover, hoping thus to 
quiet a remorseful conscience. What is the 
result? Given such a character and such cir- 
cumstances, could happiness to either the man 
or the woman be expected ? 

Aside from Bria and her lover there are 
three other exceptionally interesting charac- 
ters. The conversation which fills a large part 
of the book is refreshing in its wit and clever- 
ness; indeed, it seems almost too clever to be 
natural ; but this is a fault rarely found in 
current novels, and for which one should be 
very thankful. The story as a whole, despite 
its sadness, presents an absorbing study of a 
wayward girl, hungry for love yet driven on 
by her own temperament to make herself and 
those she loves unhappy. (Barnes. $1.50.) 



Hanotaux's Contemporary France. 

It is with satisfaction, on taking up one of 
the most important contributions to history, 
to find the work so sympathetically and ex- 
actly translated as is M. Hanotaux's "Contem- 
porary France." Such a translation fits the 
American reader to appreciate the work in all 
of its excellence. The work itself might be 
called a continuation of Henri Martin's "His- 
tory of France;" the more enthusiastic of M. 
Hanotaux's friends would have us believe that 
this continuation will one day rank with the 
histories of Guizot, Tocquevilk, and Thiers. 
Be that as it may, the first of the four vol- 
umes of "Contemporary France" challenges 
our attention from start to finish because in 
it we recognize not only the work of the care- 
ful, trained scholar, but also that of the first- 
hand observer. Here is not only accuracy of 
outline, but vividness of color. M. Hanotaux's 
history opens with a brilliant summary of the 
causes and events of the Franco-Prussian war. 
He was sixteen years old at the time. He 
found Paris dejected after the war, and this 
led in his mind to certain questions : What 
had been the causes of French greatness in the 
past? What were the causes of French de- 
feat now? What would be the moving forces 
in a French resurrection? These three ques- 
tions come before us like the motifs of a 
\\ agner opera as we turn page after page and 
pass through scene after scene of the history 
which comprises an account of the Prussians 
in Paris, of the Government at Versailles, of 



the Commune and its suppression, of army 
reconstruction, of the delimitation of the new 
frontier, of the Thiers government, and of the 
struggle of political parties during the Grevy 
administration. Through all this maze M. 
Hanotaux guides us with a very personal 
hand; on every page he gives us recollections 
of the great men whom he himself has known 
Gambetta, Jules Ferry, Challemel-Lacour, 
Spuller, and others. For few have had M. 
Hanotaux's opportunity for knowing the most 
distinguished French statesmen and publicists. 
Though still a comparatively young man 
he is not yet fifty he has behind him a politi- 
cal career which older men might look back 
upon with complacency; to us Americans he 
is chiefly known as the Minister of Foreign 
Affairs during that troubled period for France 
covered by the Grseco-Turkish war and the 
Spanish-American war. The reader of this 
volume will await with keen interest the 
publication of the others. Together, the four 
should form a monument of contemporary 
history indispensable to the library of the 
student either of recent history or present 
politics. (Putnam. 4 v. v. i, net, $3.75.) 
Outlook. 

The Main Chance. 

Here is a piece of fiction which is not only 
well done, but eminently worth the doing. It 
is just a straightforward, honest picture of 
the life of to-day, in a wide-awake, progres- 
sive western city. It leaves with the reader 
a pleasant impression of a type of people and 
a phase of life well worth a closer acquain- 
tance a cordial, genuine people, an energetic, 
profitable life, full of broad opportunities and 
stimulating rewards. The author obviously 
likes the west, at least that part of it where 
the story is laid and where civilization and 
the freedom of the ranch still elbow each other 
rather closely where the daughters of the 
leading citizens are the product of eastern 
colleges and the bank cashiers are unpleasant- 
ly mixed up with gangs of kidnappers and 
outlaws. This is a book from which we per- 
sonally derived an honest enjoyment, and yet 
that enjoyment was so largely due to the 
writer's method rather than to the substance 
of the story that little purpose would be served 
by a mere outline of the plot. The bare facts 
of the plot do not distinguish it from a dozen 
others of its class that have appeared within 
recent months. But what is well worth dwell- 
ing upon is the straightforward, invigorating 
style of the narrative, the incisive pen strokes 
of the descriptions of men and women, the 
nice regard for the little details of life that 
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well as a good judge of character. There is 
nothing of the conventional hero or heroine 
about Saxton or Evelyn. He is just an hon- 



the conventional hero and heroine ever can be. 
The life of to-day and the people of to-day 
are what the modern novel reader is demand- 




From " The Main Chance." 



Copyright, 1903, by Bobbs-Merrill Co. 



SHE WROTE THE SIGNATURE. 



est-hearted, energetic young fellow, with rath- 
er more than average ability; she is a well- 
educated, healthy, clean-minded young girl, 
pleasant to look upon and to talk to; and 
both in books and in real life such people are 
much more acceptable as acquaintances than 



ing more and more. And it is pleasant to add 
the name of Meredith Nicholson to the, list 
as one more novelist who shows promise of 
an ability to do good work in this field. 
(Bobbs-Merrill Co. $1.50.) iV. Y. Commer- 
cial Advertiser. 



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From "ETervnian." Copyright, 1903, bv 
fox, Duffield & Co. 

EVERYMAN. 

Everyman : a Morality Play. 

At a timely moment there reaches us a new 
edition of the Latin version of that Dutch 
morality, "Elckerlijck," which, under the Eng- 
lish name of "Everyman," has lately been at- 
tracting no small audiences of the elect in sev- 
eral American cities. This is the version 
called "Homulus" by its author, who was ap- 
parently Christian Stercke (alias Ischyrius), 
first published in 1536. Between then and 
1548 it passed through at least eight impres- 
sions, and is now re-edited by Alphonse 
Roersch (Ghent: Librairie Neerlandaise), 
who a few years ago discovered in the ar- 
chives of Maestrict about all that is knov^Ti 
of "meester Christaen," the struggling peda- 
gcgue-in-chief of that unappreciative town. 
In his introduction, Roersch gives a bibliogra- 
phy of "Homulus," the variant readings of 
five editions, and a few pages of notes on the 
language and style of the version. There are 
also several reproductions of woodcuts with 
which the first edition was adorned. The lit- 
tle book, a pamphlet of some hundred and odd 



pages, will be welcomed by many students at 
our universities whose interest in the various 
forms of this morality has recently been stimu- 
lated by the remarkably successful perform- 
ances of "Everyman" to which we have re- 
ferred. We may add that the new firm of 
Fox, Duffield & Co., in this city, make their 
first bow to the bookish public in a hand- 
some reprint of the "Everyman" now being 
produced. The form is appropriately reminis- 
cent of the Elizabethan quartos: the cream- 
toned paper, old-faced type, and gray board 
covers, all most tasteful. The text is reprinted 
from Hazlitt-Dodsley, and the illustrations 
are selected from John Skot's edition of 1529. 
Here it is the best of the old moralities, easy 
to read and fair to look upon. The inter- 
esting old woodcuts are reproduced from the 
first illustrated mediaeval edition of the play. 
(Fox, Duffield & Co. $1.) 7/?^ Nation. 



The Better Way. 

There is much reassuring and interesting 
philosophy in "The Better Way," translated 
from Charles Wagner's "L'Ami" by Mary 
Louise Hendee. There are many captions, End 
some of the essays are very brief indeed. 



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There is a wise and consoling counsellor 
called "The Friend." Here is one of the 
things he says : "Do not condemn yourself to 
bitter recollections. Why so honor the offence 
as to write it on the tablets of your memory? 
Is your heart so large that you can afford to 
give so much place to resentment? What a 
pity that the little man saves from the wreck 
of forgetfulness should consist first of all in 
the wrongs which have been done him ! There 
are deeds that arp unpardonable; people who 
merit neither excuse, nor good will, nor for- 
bearance. Is this sufficient reason for remem- 



swer him thus : 'By what right do I do this ? 
By the right of the blade of grass to become 
a troch under the rays of morning; by the 
right of the brook to murmur, of oaks to roar 
in the tempest, of the pebble to fall, and of the 
wing to soar upward.' If this does not con- 
tent him, send him to ask the breeze for its 
papers, the hurricane for its passport." 

There are essays on socialism and atheism 
among others. A book that should be wel- 
comed and that will well repay the reader. 
It stirs thought with every word. (McClure, 
Phillips & Co. $1.) AT. Y. Sim. 




From "The Water-Fowl Family." 



Copyright, \mi, by 'Ihe .Mat 



A PERFECT DAY FOR SPORT. 



bering them forever? Let the injury fall to 
the ground and do not stoop to recover it. 
Stoop rather to pick the flower, however 
humble, that smiles up at you here in this 
valley." 

There is a word about the critics, which in- 
cludes encouragement for the aspirant. We 
read : "The critic asks : 'By what right do you 
do this?' How shall I answer him?" To this 
"The Friend" replies : "Do not distress your- 
self on his account. The critic is the policeman 
of thought, and could we get along without 
the police? I grant you that his hand is 
heavy, and his usual weapon a club. To his 
mind every free lance is a vagabond. But 
do not trouble yourself about the critic. 
If you find it convenient, answer him; but 
don't imagine that he will listen to you. An- 



The Water- Fowl Family. 
Not the least of Caspar Whitney's ser- 
vices in the cause of good sport of every 
description is his editing of the "American 
Sportsman's Library," a well conceived pro- 
ject, which is being admirably executed. The 
latest volume, the fifth In order, is " The 
Water-Fowl Family," by L. C. Sanford, L. B. 
Bishop and T. S. Van Dyke. The major part 
of the book is by Mr. Sanford, who writes in 
a brisk and always entertaining manner, as 
though it were a great pleasure to him. It is 
observable, indeed, that sportsmen, naturalists 
and nature lovers in general more than other 
people do what they have to do con amore, 
and their companionship, through books or 
otherwise, is correspondingly enjoyable. Mr. 
Sanford devotes four chapters to duck shoot- 



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ing, seven to shore-bird ar4 one each to rail- 
bird shooting, goose shoot' ng and the swans. 
His observations stretch territorially over 
pretty much the whole of North America, and 
in addition the water fowl of the Pacific coast 
are treated separately in three chapters by Mr. 
Van Dyke. The book will be found invalu- 
able for exact reference. Most ample de- 
scriptions, with measurements, are given of 
the adult male and adult female of each 
species, and the birds' habitat is fixed and 
bounded with the greatest possible accuracy. 
These formal preliminary descriptions are fol- 
lowed by a few pages on the birds' habits, etc., 
with helpful suggestions to the sportsman, 
usually of Mr. Sanford's own experience. 
The whole book is full of the breath of out of 
doors. (Macmillan. net, $2.) Commercial 
A dvertiser. 

Rise of Ruderick Clowd. 

The biography of a thief a failure if re- 
garded as a novel, but a faithful description 
of criminal life as seen from within. It is the 
earlier chapters, describing the parentage and 
childhood of the thief, that are most at fault. 
The Irish girl, whose illegitimate child Ru- 
derick is, seems quite unnatural, and her old 
Irish neighbors, to whom she insists upon 
returning after her disgrace, are not only un- 
Irish but altogether unreal. When one of the 
old neighbors remarks that she will speak to 
the mother but "won't look at the young un," 
and another knowingly observes that it is the 




illegitimate babies that "pull through," and 
the child goes without any name whatever, 
first or last, until it is old enough to be in 
school, though not sent there because of dis- 
dain for unprofitable book-learning, the read- 
er is tempted to lay aside the book, with the 
conviction that the author knows nothing 
about life among the poor, and lacks the dra- 
matic imagination to deal with human nature 
in unfamiliar surroundings. When, however, 
Ruderick Clowd is at last given a name 
different from that of either mother or father 
and enters upon his criminal career, the 
beck is full of scenes evidently taken from 
real life, and full of observations showing 
that the author's long familiarity with tramp 
lite has also given him an insight into the 
psychology of the criminal classes an insight 
all the deeper because curiously sympathetic. 
(Dodd, M. %i. so.) Outlook. 



From "Down North and Up Along." Copyright, 1903, by 

Dodd, Mead & Co. 



EARLY MORNING ON THE COAST. 



Brewster's Millions. 

Brewster's dilemma grew out of an old 
family quarrel. When his father and mother 
married there had been bitter opposition from 
their respective relatives, and the two mon- 
eyed members of the families Brewster's 
paternal grandfather and maternal uncle 
never forgave them. He lost his parents 
early, and grew up, a poor boy, with big pos- 
sibilities. He was barely twenty-five when his 
grandfather died, leaving him a round million. 
He had not fairly readjusted himself to the 
new conditions, when the uncle also died, 
leaving seven millions, but under some curi- 
ous conditions and restrirtions. This uncle 
had hated the grandfather too cordially to 
reconcile himself to the idea of Brewster's 
ever benefiting by the latter's money. Ac- 
cordingly he had willed that Brewster should 
have just a year in which to make himself 
penniless. The problem confronting the 
j'oung heir was to <yet rid of $1,000,000, with- 
out giving it away, or gambling it away, or 
dissipating it in wild speculation. If at the 
end of the year he could show that he had 
spent it to the last penny, without unreason- 
able extravagance, the seven millions should 
be his ; otherwise, they would go to hospitals. 
The means that Brewster took to comply 
with the conditions of this eccentric will form 
a story which is certainly unique ; and the fact 
that the conditions forbade . his taking his 
friends into the secret opens up the way to 
all sorts of curious misapprehensions which 
help to make a fantastic tale doubly entertain- 
irg. (Stone. $1.50.) N Y. Commercial 
Advertiser. 



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The Untilled Field. 

There could be no greater 
contrast than between the 
batch of stories in Mr. George 
Moore's "The Untilled Field" 
and his long novels, "Esther 
Waters," "Evelyn Innes," 
"Sister Teresa" and, above 
all, "A Mummer's Wife." 
These Irish tales, which are 
told with insight and sym- 
pathy, are far ahead of his 
other work. 

Mr. Moore has been a 
rather fantastic promoter of 
what is called "the Irish 
Renascence." Some years ago 
he shook the dust of London 
cff his feet and went to live 
in Dublin. Not content with 
repudiating the English and 
all their works, he adopted 
some, strange opinions, and 
gave them forth pugilistically. 
They were queer, coming 
from a man who had written 
very sanely on Balzac, Tur- 
genef and the drama. One of 
Mr. Moore's discoveries was 
that young Mr. W. B. Yeats 
and Shakespeare were the 
only writers in the English 
language who had ever writ- 
ten a sucessful play in blank 
verse. 

But we must forgive and 
forget Mr. Moore's eccentric- 
ities. For the fact remains 
that his sojourn in Ireland 
has mellowed and improved his art. He has 
come under new influences. There is realism 
in these stories. But it is a more human 
realism than that of the novels, and there 
are gleams of humor here and there. 

In "Home Sickness," which is in many 
respects the best thing in the book, Mr. Moore 
shows that he has never been in this city. It 
begins this way: 

"He told the doctor he was due in the bar- 
room at 8 o'clock in the morning; the bar- 
room was in a slum in the Bowery, and he 
had only been able to keep himself in health 
by getting up at 5 o'clock and going for long 
walks in the Central Park." 

A New York barkeeper who went to busi- 
ness at that hour, and worked in a "slum," 
would be a phenomenon indeed. This is un- 
pardonable in a professional realist. The 




From "At the Time Appointed." 



Copyright, 1903, by J. B. Lippincott Company. 



AS DARRELL DISMOUNTED, SHE CAME SWIFTLY TOWARDS HIM, 
EXTENDING HER HAND. 



description of the man's return to Ireland, 
his new impressions, his love affair, his deser- 
tion of the girl when the longing for New 
York came over him, is excellent. When 
James came back here he married, had chil- 
dren, prospered and grew old. But the woman 
he had left far away remained with him as a 
memory that grew gradually stronger. 

"There is an unchanging, silent life within 
every man that none knows but himself, and 
his unchanging, silent life v/as his memory of 
Margaret Dirken. The barroom was forgot- 
ten, and all that concerned it, and the things 
he saw most clearly were the green hillside, 
and the bog lake and the rushes about it, and 
the greater lake in the distance, and behind 
it the blue lines of wandering hills." George 
Moore is always strong and original. (Lip- 
pincott. $1.50.) N. Y. Evening Sun. 



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Studies in Contemporary Biography. 

This is one of Mr. Bryce's best books 
which is saying a great deal. Most of the 
sketches had already appeared in print (many 
of them in the Nation) ; but these have been, 
as the author explains in his preface, enlarged 
and revised, some indeed "virtually rewrit- 
ten." The result is that the collection has all 
the freshness of a new book. Many of the 
studies relate to men who passed from the 
scene twenty years ago. Of the six which 
deal with politicians, those on Gladstone and 
Disraeli are the most important, but all are 
worth reading, even that on Anthony Trol- 
lope (a well-worn subject), in which Mr. Bryce 
makes an excursus into the literature of fic- 
tion which may fairly be called, notwithstand- 
ing his great literary gifts, alien to his talents. 

It is in political portraiture that he is at 
his best, and above all in the portraiture of 
House of Commons men. In this atmosphere 
he has lived and moved for many years, his- 
tory and government are the subjects to which 
he has devoted his life, and consequently, 
when he analyzes the career of the two states- 
men we have mentioned, of Robert Low, or of 
Parnell, it is with the hand not merely of a 
skilful writer, but of a master. But we have 
hardly reached this conclusion when we are 
forced to recall that his sketch of Mr. Godkin, 
not only not a House of Commons man, but 
a journalist, and an American journalist at 
that, is almost equally good. In fact, in the 
end, perhaps what strikes us most is the even 
merit and occasional striking excellence of 
whatever Mr. Bryce undertakes to do. 

For biography he has peculiar talents, es- 
pecially of style. In this respect he main- 
tains the best traditions of English writing. 
He is lucid, simple, unaffected, and never 
weak. On the other hand, he has no secret 
or mystery to reveal, he writes no jargon of 
his own, he is no lover of novelties; and he 
has a profound belief in reason and right al- 
together, one might think, not at all in the 
ffshion. Yet the reader, if he be of the same 
turn of mind, may be consoled by the reflec- 
tion that as an author Mr. Bryce long since 
attained a hold upon the public which prom- 
ises to be permanent. 

If Mr, Bryce has a fault, it leans to virtue's 
side. We should describe it as over impar- 
tiality, too great a desire to be fair and just. 
It is absurd, perhaps, to quarrel with a trait 
V, hich is at the same time what makes the au- 
thor what he is; but the reader, with his in- 
herited simian propensities, sometimes misses 
a little malice. (Macmillan. net, $3.) The 
Nation. 



The Minor Moralist. 

One of the strongest impressions left upon 
us by Mrs. Hugh Bell's collection of essays 
is that it is very hard work being a mother. 
Not that the authoress in any way exagger- 
ates the difficulties under which the mother 
labors, especially in regard to her daughter; 
she is as full of sympathy as she is of wise 
advice. And, after all, it is no good shirking 
the fact that such difficulties exist. Mrs. 
Bell, moreover, insists that when there is a 
lack of harmony in this relation it is generally 
the fault of the mother. Why? Because she 
has "been twice as long in the world as her 
children, and is, therefore, in full possession 
ot a' ripened judgment and experience at a 
time when those who follow her have not yet 
acquired much of either." It is only of late 
years that parents have begun to realize that 
the overwhelming obligation between parent 
and children does not lie with the latter. The 
old-fashioned views that our children could 
never sufficiently repay us for being the au- 
thors of their existence is giving place to a 
sense of the immense responsibility under 
vi^hich the parents are placed towards each 
child they bring into the world. There is a 
good deal to be said for the "new parent- 
hood." So, at any rate, Mrs, Bell would have 
us believe. It is the mother's duty one of 
her never-ending roll to foresee stumbling- 
blocks and to know how to avoid them. If 
there be such a feeling as "natural" affection, 
it certainly exists in her breast, though it is 
more doubtful whether it is instinct in her 
child's. "Two average women, properly 
equipped with an average share, and no more, 
of abnegation, of self-control, of tact, of kind- 
ness, of sympathy, are bound, if thrown to- 
gether, constantly to find difficulties in the 
path. This is probably why the stepmother 
of fiction is always presented in a lurid light. 
It is taken for granted by the experience of 
ages that it is impossible for an older and a 
younger woman to live together in harmony, 
unless helped by having the tie of so-called 
'natural' affection between them; that is, the 
tie of instinctive, unreasoning sympathy, that 
often, although not invariably, exists between 
blood relations. But that link is not nearly 
so strong as it is conventionally supposed to 
be. and the real mother, too blindly depending 
upon it, may find that it gives way suddenly 
at the critical moment." The mother seems to 
find it impossible to realize that her child is a 
woman like herself, with equal rights to her 
own opinions, and a perfectly legitimate desire 
to control her own actions. (Longmans, net, 
$1.60.) Books of To-day and To-morrow. 



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Charles Dickens as a Verse Maker. 

That Charles Dickens possessed the feel- 
ing and the imagination of a poet, even of a 
great poet, was frequently evidenced in his 
prose. The description of the storm in 
"David Copperfield" and certain passages in 
his "Tale of Two Cities" have a grandiose 
and epic character. But as Dickens approach- 



times clever and oftener weren't. Mr. F. G. 
Kitton, an enthusiastic admirer of the great 
romancer, has done rather a good turn for the 
special student (though not, it is to be feared, 
for his author) by collecting together what he 
calls "The Poems and Verses of Charles 
Dickens" (with the accent doubtless on "ver- 
ses"), in a handsome volume just issued by 




From "The Love ot Monsieur." 



Copyright, 1903, by H.irper & Brothers. 



MONSIEUR. 



ed the poetic form he lost the poetic touch. 
The funeral of Little Nell, for example, and 
the rhapsody over Niagara Falls bits of so- 
cflled prose at which our grandmothers mar- 
velled greatly when they found they could be 
broken up into blank verse are simply de- 
testable. 

When he burst frankly and openly into 
verse, he at least avoided the vices of his 
"poetical prose," but he produced nothing 
better than rhymed lines, which were some- 



the Harpers. With this book before you, you 
can take the full measure of Dickens as a 
rhymster. 

The volume begins with the songs, choruses 
and concerted pieces from "The Village Co- 
quettes," a comic opera which Dickens pro- 
duced in 1836, "in a fit of damnable good 
nature," he explained later, "and I have been 
most sincerely repentant ever since." Only a 
year before his death, when Frederick Locker- 
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copy of "The Village Coquettes/' he burst out, 
"No ! and if I knew it was in my house, and 
if I could get rid of it in no other way, I would 
burn the wing of the house where it was !" 
It is doubtful if the "songs and choruses and 
concerted pieces" would make a very brilliant 
fire. 

The "Pickwick Papers" yield up four songs. 
Cf these, the well known "Ivy Green," a 
wholesome bit of robustious commonplace, 
aud the really comic ballad "Bold Turpin 
Vunce on Hounslow Heath" are the only 
things in all the book whose intrinsic merit 
would preserve them from oblivion. Four 
lines in the latter have passed into the fam- 
iliar quotation stage : 

The coachman, he, not likin' the job. 

Set off at a full gal-lop. 
But Dick put a couple of balls in his nob, 
And perwailed on him to stop. 
The latter used to be cited as the best 
specimen of the figure of speech known as 
melosis, or understatement, as against hyper- 
bole, or overstatement, in the English lan- 
guage, until Bret Harte furnished a better one 
in his "Society Upon the Stanislaus" : 

Then Abner Dean of Angel's raised a point of order 
when 

A chunk of old red sandstone took him in the ab- 
domen, 

And he smiled a kind of sickly smile and curled up 
on the floor, 

And the subsequent proceedings interested him no 
more. 

(Harper, net, $2.) A^. Y. Herald. 



Darrel of the Blessed Isles. 

The best part of Mr. Bacheller's new story, 
it seems to us, is to be found neither in the 




plot (which is somewhat mechanically mys- 
terious) nor in the character who gives the 
book its title an old clock-tinker who was a 
great criminal once, but now does good by 
stealth, is Santa Claus to a whole countryside^ 
goes to jail to save a young friend, talks in a 
queer mixture of Irish brogue and stilted and 
sentimental thee-and-thou diction, and quotes 
tags of Shakespeare incessantly. Mr. Bachel- 
ler seems to feel the need, since the great and 
deserved success of his character Eben, of 
putting a quaint old man in every book; 
frankly, the present old gentleman to some 
readers will border closely on a bore. About 
this, however, opinions may differ, but all 
readers will delight in the really spontaneous 
love of the woods, in the glimpses of outdoor 
life, and in the genuine, wholesome human 
nature seen, for instance, in the manly young 
school-teacher, who is a character well worth 
having. In short, the book has enough of 
flavor and of racy rustic life, enough of sound 
admiration for energy, honesty, and simplicity, 
to give genuine enjoyment and win wide ap- 
proval. (Lothrop. $1.50.) The Outlook. 



From "Darrel of the Blessed Isles." Copyright, 1903, by 

Lothrop Pub. Co. 

DARREL, THE CLOCKMAKER. 



Adventures of Harry Revel. 

Never has A. T. Quiller-Couch produced 
a livelier or a more engaging romance than 
this one, which has for its hero a foundling 
with an infinite capacity for falling from one 
adventure into another. There is an exciting 
occurrence in every chapter, we had almost 
said on every page. Yet it is a testimony to 
the fine quality of "Q.'s" art that he interests 
us all along in something more than mere 
incident. What is this something? It is a 
little difficult to say. To define it as "atmos- 
phere" were simply enough, and certainly the 
thmg is there, the atmosphere of Plymouth 
and the coast at the time when Napoleon was 
brooding over the potentialities of his Boul- 
ogne flotilla, and in every English town or 
hamlet along the water's edge Redcoats 
passed and repassed, and a vague uneasiness 
was in the air. But it is not atmosphere alone 
that constitutes the charm of this book. Is it 
cfiaracterization ? It might very easily be 
this, for as each figure in the story makes its 
appearance it brings with it individuality and 
a note of actual humanity, sinister, pathetic, 
heroic or quaint. But possibly the secret of 
this beguiling tale is, after all, the simplest 
one to state, namely, "Q.'s" enchanting way 
of telling it. 

He seems to have been in happy mood in 
writing "The Adventures of Harry Revel." 
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173 



though- the author could not 
fail to put the right word in 
the right place if he tried, 
and as though he were so in- 
terested in his work that he 
simply bubbled over with the 
pleasure of it. Obviously a 
book written in this vein must 
mean pleasure for the reader. 
It is varied pleasure, too. 

... If we delight in one 
of "Q.'s" characters more 
than in any other, the object 
of our affectionate admira- 
tion is Miss Plinlimmon, for 
whose dignity, by the way, 
the author should have shown 
a more constant solicitude. 
Early in the book he calls her 
Amelia, but by and by we are 
told that her name is Agatha. 
But this does not matter. 
Called by any name Miss 
Plinlimmon would still be 
adorable. She is the sweetest 
and kindest of spinsters, and 
she has a way of dropping 
into poetry that ought to 
make her immortal among 
the oddities of fiction. Here 
is her version of Wolfe's last 
words before Quebec : 

"They run!" "but who? The 
Frenchmen!" Such 
Was the report conveyed to the 
dying hero. 
"Thank Heaven!" he cried, "I 
thought as much." 
In Canada the glass is often 
below zero. 



(Scribner. 
Tribune. 



$1.50.) AT. Y. 




From Julia Marlowe Edition of "The Cavalier." Copyright, 1903, by Charles Scribner's Sons. 



A Girl of Ideas. 

Whoever Annie Flint may be, she has writ- 
ten a noteworthy book in her first attempt, 
"A Girl of Ideas." The story is that of a 
young college girl, who starts life after the 
completion of a college course, with the pur- 
pose in view of becoming a great writer. Her 
first book is rejected by all of the publishers, 
but, in spite of this discouraging fact, she is 
inspired to open an ofifice from which she may 
dispense ideas for other writers. According 
to the tale, the heroine is most successful in 
this course. Although she has been unsuc- 
cessful as a writer herself, she tells dozens of 
ambitious writers what sort of articles and 
stories to write and they all succeed. Im- 
possible as the conditions which Miss Flint 
assumes seem to those familiar with the busi- 
ness of publishing, she has, nevertheless, built 



JULIA MARLOWE AS CHARLOTTE. 

up an interesting romance. A famous author 
who has written himself, but whose work is 
still in great demand, goes to the office of the 
girl of ideas to "write her up." He goes away 
converted and with an idea for a story which 
he uses in a tale which proves to be his most 
successful. It happens that the girl of ideas 
has already sold the same plot to a newspaper 
editor out in Arizona, and the famous author 
is attacked on all sides for plagiarism. In 
her efforts to save the good name of the fam- 
ous author, the girl of ideas falls in love with 
him, a feeling which the author has already 
entertained for the girl, and the story, nat- 
urally, ends happily. 

Miss Flint, like her heroine, must have a 
capital of imagination which would be val- 
uable to any publishing house. (Scribner. 
$1.50.) Brooklyn Times. 



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His Daughter First. 

It has been many years since anything has 
come from the pen of Mr. Arthur Sherburne 
Hardy, author of those delightful stories, 
"Passe Rose" and "But Yet a Woman.'' The 
many readers who learned to admire him 



though fascinating, intricacies of style that 
distinguish the author of "Daisy Miller." And 
if Mr. Hardy's book is essentially a story of 
gentlefolk written by a gentleman, it is also a 
story of very human characters, drawn by a 
man whose refinement costs him no strength 




From "The Log of a Cowboy," by Andy Adams. Copyright, 1908, by Houghton, Mifflin k Co. 

THE STAMPEDE. 



through these novels hail with immense pleas- 
ure the advent of a new story, "His Daughter 
First," which Mr. Hardy has found time to 
write in the midst of his diplomatic duties as 
our minister to Persia, and, more recently, 
minister to Spain. "His Daughter First" is 
a keen, fairly balanced character study of a 
half-dozen New Yorkers, and a delightfully 
readable story withal. In Mr. Hardy's qyiet, 
high-bred, . and sensitive attitude toward life 
and people one is reminded of Mr. Henry 
James, even if there are none of the baffling. 



or truth. Jack Temple, the clean-cut, success- 
ful aristocrat of Wall Street; his daughter, 
full of eternally feminine inconsistencies; the 
gentlewoman that Temple loves; Heald, the 
promoter, and Mrs. Fraser, the abrupt and 
self-sufficient cosmopolitan dowager, are live 
and interesting people created by no inconsid- 
erable artist in fiction. And what a relief, in 
this year of adventure stories, to get one's 
dramatic sensations in the quiet, certain at- 
mosphere of Mr. Hardy's genius ! (Houghton, 
M. & Co. $1.50.) Amer. Review of Reviews. 



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175 



The Captain. 

This novel requires a second reading be- 
fore its meaning, the significance of the sober, 
unobtrusive colors and lines of its portraiture 
can be fully appreciated. It is worth reading 
a second time, for its picture of the Captain 
who became the great General, who, having 
done his immortal work, said out of the full- 
ness of his silent habit, "Let us have peace," 
is strong as he was, quiet as he was, convinc- 
ing as he. "The big bow-wow" manner might 
have served Mr. Williams's purpose better so 
far as immediate popularity is concerned. His 
stern repression, his adherence to a realism 
that is strikingly true is evidence of the 
soundness of his artistic perception of the re- 
lation between subject and manner. 

"The Captain," which is to be followed in 
due course by "The General," deals with the 
early years of Ulysses S. Grant's manhood, 
when, having left the army, he struggled in 
vain for a foothold whence to start life anew, 
the dark days in which a far from brilliant 
future apparently already lay behind him, in 
which men believed, most of them, that, if his 
opportunity had ever come he had failed to 
grasp it, and that he would never succeed. 

Mr. Williams's characterization of the silent 
man is consistent from first to last; he traces 
the qualities that made him great in his very 
failures, most of all the dogged persistence 
that, later on, made him docile to "fight it out 
on this line, if it takes all summer." Nor is 
there exaggeration in this view of Grant's 
character. The author leaves ample room for 
him to grow in with his responsibilities and 
opportunities; he does not draw for his read- 
ers a misjudged genius conscious of his gifts 
and warily waiting for his chance, rather a 
strong, self-contained, much tried and sorely 
harassed man, who gave to a few who knew 
him an impression of enormous strength, but 
who may have wondered himself in the days 
of the crisis at the endless stores of his re- 
serve powers, which answered unhesitatingly 
to every demand made upon them. 

It is all so quietly done, so deftly and un- 
obtrusively, that one wonders a little at the 
end of the book how this impression of giant 
power at rest has been conveyed. There is 
little direct analysis; Grant is revealed in the 
vicissitudes of his life before the war, and in 
his reticent intercourse with his imagined 
neighbors ; it is all atmosphere, the atmosphere 
of character, most potent and most elusive of 
all, the atmosphere which gives leaders their 
hold upon multitudes that have never seen 
them, and which causes them to be trusted 



sometimes without understanding. It is in 
the creation of this atmosphere within the 
covers of a book that lies the merit of Mr. 
Williams's work; it is this that suggests a 
second reading. 

The imagined figures in the story serve their 
purpose well. They are all Southerners, most 
of them with the Southerner's opinion of 
abolition and secession ; they represent the his- 
toric background of growing anxiety, hatred 
and dissent, of woman ranged against the 
man she loves, of all the passions unchained 
by civil war. Mr. Williams . leaves his hero 
after the fall of Vicksburg on the road to 
immortality. (Lothrop. $1.50.) Mail and 
Express. 

Spinners of Life. 

A DECIDEDLY clcver novel is this first am- 
bitious literary venture of that brilliant short- 
story maker, Vance Thompson. The state- 
ment by his publishers that nothing of its 
kind has yet appeared in the form of fiction 
is, however, just aside the fact. 

Nevertheless, the work of our author is 
decidedly original in treatment, and through 
al! the chapters but the last two we may 
designate the novel as a virile one of intense 
and sustained interest. But our author finds 
himself in somewhat the same position as did 
the creator of "J. Devlin Boss," in which 
story the characters refused to quit the stage 
and their removal was unduly hurried and 




J. AUBREY TYSON 
Author of "The Stirrup Cup." D. Appleton & Co. 



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[June, 1903 



their obsequies conducted in an unseemly 
manner. So in the case of "Spinners of Life," 
t^-ough in aggravated circumstance. Our au- 
thor seems to have a special grudge against 
his hero, and if the statement that the book 
was written as a personal attack upon the man 
to whom the name of Gaffney was given we 
would not be surprised. Yet we own that 
v/hen the story ran as a serial in the Criterion 
the matter was not brought up ; therefore, we 
piesume our suspicion is incorrect, although 
the mere fact that a story in such a limited 
circulation as the Criterion attracts little at- 
tention is a matter of little moment. Be that 
as it may, we find the major part of "Spin- 
ners of Life" worth strong praise. The char- 
acters are well conceived and well drawn. 
Particularly do we commend Gafifney. In 
this character our author is at his best. His 
understanding of the type of men he portrays 
is remarkable. He builds a character that is 
singularly true to type, but does his utmost 
throughout the story to belittle and degrade 
his own work. Gafifney is the character of 
the novel, but his father dead according to 
Dr. Ross by Gaflfney's will is worthy of 
remembrance, despite a touch of the conven- 
tional. But conventionality finds surplusage 
in the character of the same Dr. Ross an 
officious, narrow and selfish pedant; Mary, 
the weak and foolish heroine, and the genteel 
old man, as playbooks have it, Keethwaite. 
The shifty lawyer Carter is well drawn and 
the various walking gentlemen are interesting, 
but after all the book is of Gafifney, and as 
far as it is concerned with him it is a success. 
The descriptions and narrative are excellent. 
We cannot avoid saying that so far Vance 
Thompson's success lies with men and their 
doings, with things that are strong and fierce, 
with movements that are irresistible. Suc- 
cess, however, stands near our author, and he 
is steadily nearing the outheld wreath. (Lip- 
pincott. $1.50.) Baltimore Sun. 



People of the Whirlpool. 

The Commuter's Wife has advanced in life, 
not very far, to be sure, but still she is the 
mother of twin boys, whom she does not put 
forward too much, after the manner of well- 
bred people, and her outward circumstances 
have changed. The garden is still hers, but 
that, too, figures only incidentally in this 
book, which is a narrative rather than a 
novel, a study of certain phases of contem- 
porary life, with reflections thereon by one 
who is "comfortably poor." 



The "People of the Whirlpool," the rich 
New Yorkers, have invaded the home of the 
Commuter's Wife, and spoiled its simplicity 
and charm. They have built them palaces, 
which they call cottages, and brought with 
them automobiles and equipages, footmen, 
butlers and chefs, all the splendors of modern 
luxury, which, having so many residences, has 
no home. The Commuter's Wife is honestly 
sorry for the rich, who know not how to live 
and cannot be happy, whose children are mis- 
erable under constant restraint, whose daugh- 
ters are sold in marriage, regardless of their 
feelings and desires. Our rich men and 
women are in a sad plight, according to this 
observer, who certainly knows contentment 
with her own station in life. 

But if the People of the Whirlpool come 
to the Commuter's Wife to irritate her yet 
make her more fully aware of her own happi- 
ness, she, in her turn, visits their haunts, the 
fashionable restaurants, the theatres, and 
what not. She is open-minded enough to see 
their attractiveness, and even points it out to 
a very dear old friend of her mother, a daugh- 
ter of the Knickerbockers, whose ancestral 
home lies in Greenwich Village, which is so 
fast disappearing. Miss Lavinia Dorman 
holds that her society, the simpler society of 
an earlier day, died when New Year's calls 
went out of fashion. She remembers vividly 
the receptions at the Historical Society, and 
is frightened when she visits those of the 
companions of her youth who have been 
drawn into the vortex, who have become fash- 
ionable and cultivate "good form." 

The Commuter's Wife, Miss Lavinia, and a 
Knickerbocker survival of the opposite sex 
furnish the running comment upon the lives 
and doings of our new aristocracy, with back- 
ward glances at the old, and side glances at 
the beauty and comforts of present-day sim- 
ple living. Their cruises about New York are 
amusing, the occurrences in the now fashiona- 
ble settlement furnish ample variety and 
color, and, for good measure, there are two 
love affairs, both of them ending happily. 
There is enough of the twins to make them 
interesting, and to give a touch of very pret- 
ty sentiment to the whole. 

This is a thoughtful book, yet not too seri- 
ous. Perhaps our rich are not quite so unfor- 
tunate as the Commuter's Wife believes them 
to be; but, on the other hand, it is well to be 
told how happy those can be who make a sci- 
ence and an art of living in "comfortable 
poverty." (Macmillan. $1.50.) Mail and 
Express. 



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Until Seventy Times Seven. 

A STORY full of noble thoughts and world- 
wide sympathy is told in "Seventy Times 
Seven." The scene is laid in the pretty little 
town of Cloverfield where the people are very 
human and full of selfishness and love of 
ease. The pastor of this flock is a whole- 
souled man who tries to live as an active fol- 
lower of the Christ he professes to serve. 
The foes that assail him are truly "foes of 
his own household" and one of the great tests 
of his Christ-like forbearance and forgiveness 
comes to him through the wife who some 
years before had left him to follow the pro- 
fession of an actress. 

Just when the pastor has felt the first rays 
of comfort steal into his weary life, and has 
met a girl capable of feeling and working 
with him towards the highest aspirations of 
his nature, this wife returns bringing a small 
baby girl. He finds her almost lifeless and 
takes her to his home. Against all expecta- 
tion she recovers. 

The story then pictures the life of the pas- 
tor among his flock and how little by little 
the wife is influenced by his noble self-sacri- 
fice. The moral is that no sin is too great 
to be condoned, that there is no end to tht* 
p?tient endeavor to help, reform and cheer 
the most hopeless sinner. 

The character sketching is good and the 
little book is calculated to make us all feel 
how far short we have fallen of the high 
standard required in "Seventy Times Seven." 
(Whittaker. net, $1.) 



That Printer of Udell's. 

The distinction between Christianity ana 
churches would seem to be the key-note of 
this well ' told story of a printer who came 
into a thriving western village as a tramp and 
finally revolutionized the town and made it 
a place in which it was good to be. Like 
many others he had the name of infidel at- 
tached to him in the minds of ordinary church 
goers, because his seat in church was gener- 
ally empty. He could not feel that the pro- 
fessing Christians of the town were making 
their lives conform with Christ's teachings 
and he kept aloof, often judging a Christian 
as harshly as the Christian judged an infidel. 
Little by little the whole-souled people of the 
town were attracted to each other in their 
effort to do something for the yoimg folks, 
young men especially. That printer of Udell's 
showed splendid common sense and the pas- 
tor of one of the churches and some dear old 
Christian men helped him untiringly to help 
others. 



The printer's heart turns to the daughter 
of a straight-laced old deacon whose father 
is cruel in his mistaken sense of Christian 
duty. The love-story is not smooth, but all 
comes out well at last. 

The author, Harold Bell Wright, is a Kan- 
sas man who knows the scenes and people he 
writes of. 

The book pleads for truth and kind judg- 
ment of others. It is bright and wholesome. 
(Book Supply Co. $1.50.) 



Life in a New England Town. 

Records of the past are always interesting, 
particularly when they do not deal with his- 
tory or matters of public importance. Through 
the courtesy of the Adams family a diary kept 
by John Quincy Adams while he was study- 
ing law in the office of Theophilus Parsons 
at Newburyport is published as "Life in a 
New England Town, 1787-1788." A photo- 
gravure of the diarist is the frontispiece and 
elaborate notes are provided by a Radcliffe 
graduate. That the Old Man Eloquent was a 
good deal of a prig in his youth, particularly 
in the days immediately after graduating from 
college, goes without saying. The cold- 
bloodedness of the Adams family has stood in 
its way from his day to this in spite of the 
eminent services rendered to the country. 
There is little expansiveness to be found in 
this young man's jottings, plenty about his 
relatives and other persons of importance, 
but he does give an interesting picture of New 
England life at the beginning of the Republic. 
One extract may describe the future Presi- 
dent, though it is only fair to remember that 
he was a very young man. 

"Mr. Porter and lady are there upon a visit 
from Rye; with a child about six weeks old, 
which, forsooth, immediately after dinner must 
be produced, and was hauled about from one 
to another; and very shrewd discoveries were 
made of its resemblance to all the family by 
turns, whereas in fact it did resemble nothing 
but chaos. How much is the merciful Author 
of nature to be adored for implanting in the 
heart of man a passion stronger than the 
power of reason, which aflfords delight to the 
parent at the sight of his offspring even at a 
time when to every other person it must be 
disgusting. Yet it appears to me that parents 
would do wisely in keeping their children out 
of sight, at least until they are a year old, 
for I cannot see what satisfaction, either sem 
sual or intellectual, can be derived from see- 
ing a misshapen, bawling, slobbering infant, 
unless to persons particularly interested." 



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[June, 1903 



Could the present Mr. Charles Francis 
Adams have described this better or with less 
sacrifice to conventions? (Little, B. & Co. 
net, %2.)~N. Y. Sun. 



By Order of the Prophet. 

Alfred H. Henry says in the preface to 
*'By Order of the Prophet" that the tale is not 
an attack upon Mormonism. He doubtless 
meant this statement in a purely Pickwickian 
sense, for if any reader of his work ends its 
perusal with anything in his heart but loath- 
ing for Mormonism and all that it stands for 
that reader must have a mind as perverted as 
most of us are wont to believe were the minds 
oi some of the Mormon leaders who were 
responsible for the Mountain Meadow massa- 
cre. 

Whether Mr. Henry meant that his state- 
ment should be taken seriously or not, he has 
succeeded in telling a good story, and that is 
praise enough for any writer. The opening 
scene in "By Order of the Prophet" is in 
England, where Eaton Brand, a Latter Day 
Saint, is proselyting on behalf of his faith. 
Brand is a handsome fellow, and possessed 
of much personal magnetism. He is mobbed 
by the Englishmen whom he is attempting to 
convert. 

Carissa Graham, a cultured English girl, is 
attracted by Brand's personality and preach- 
ing. It takes only the mobbing of the Mormon 
to win her completely. It is hard to judge at 
this stage of the story whether Eaton Brand 
is the more knave or fool. He tells Carissa 
that there is absolutely no truth in the poly- 
gamy stories that have been told about the 
Mormons. She loves him and believes in him, 
and off to America they go after a marriage 
ceremony performed in London. Arrived at 
Salt Lake City Carissa's eyes are opened and 
one of the strongest chapters that Mr. Henry 
has written is that in which the husband 
makes the disclosure of the practice of poly- 
gamy among the Mormons. He tells her, 
however, that as far as he is concerned he 
shall have but one wife. 

Brigham Young is depicted in revolting 
colors. He orders Brand to marry a second 
v/ife, a woman who has been a servant in the 
Brand household. Brand is obedient because 
he is a firm believer. Mr. Henry makes the 
most of the dramatic possibilities in the scene 
when Brand tells Carissa that he is to take 
ur.to himself another wife. 

There is a happy issue out of the black pit 
for the heroine of this story of Salt Lake. It 



comes after trials that fall little short of 
being crushing, but it comes and that is what 
the reader wants. There are four or five 
characters in "By drder of the Prophet" that 
are ma.sterfully drawn. The book is more 
than a story. It is a study. The narrative is 
stirring. The scene is laid prior to the Civil 
War, and the author expresses his belief that 
the sons and daughters of the Mormons of 
that generation "are rising to a better under- 
standing, and, it may be, to a purer faith." 
(Re veil. $1.50.) Chicago Record-Herald. 



A Book of Curious Facts. 

Curious facts are indeed to be found in 
the handbook compiled by Don Lemon and 
edited by Henry Williams. After one has 
searched between its covers he comes forth 
with a heterogeneous knowledge of the most 
assorted subjects. There is a curious fact 
relating to the death of George Washington. 
It occurred the last hour of the day of the 
last day of the week of the last month of 
the year of the last year of the eighteenth 
century. This regrettable incident is sand- 
wiched quite merrily between a statistical re- 
port of the ocean's wealth in herring and a 
revival of that pleasant jest touching the ex- 
istence of a lawyer's sign reading "U. 
Catchem and I Cheatham." Again on page 
145, many of our historical idols are shat- 
tered, while on the page opposite one learns 
all the superstitions regarding numbers. A 
simple remedy to remove cinders from the 
eye is offered along with countless other items 
of interest, all intended to instruct more or 
less the eager reader. There is, indeed, a 
beautiful catholicity about the selection of 
subjects which renders the book doubly in- 
teresting. One can learn almost anything 
necessary or valuable to the scholar, from 
curious superstitions regarding babies to ab- 
solutely certain signs of death. Armed with 
a copy of Don Lemon's very interesting col- 
lection of items and an up-to-date dream book, 
one ought to be able to trace the significance 
01 everything from the dream in which he 
thought he was Emperor of Russia to the 
paring of his nails on Sunday, which latter, 
hy the way, means something very wicked, 
indeed. This is an excellent book to put in 
one's trunk and take to the hotel. Upon a 
rainy evening its heterogeneous facts will 
start many a conversation. Who is more wel- 
come than the guest that has a new idea at a 
summer hotel? (New Amsterdam. 75 c.) 
A''. Y. Saturday Times Review. 



J tine, 1903] 



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179 



CcUctlt Movftt)li SebifSn of Current fLittraturt, 
EDITED BY A. H. LEYPOLDT. 

JUNE, 1903. 

THE BOOKS OF THE HOUR. 

There is a fashion in books as there is in 
clothes, and there is a large class of readers 
(by courtesy) almost as much afraid to be 
seen with a book of last season as to be seen 
it) a garment that might betray to a perfectly 
unknown fellow-being that it had been in the 
wearer's possession since last summer. 

The books are turned out from the pub- 
lishers* factories as they are from the shirt 
waist factories, skirt factories and neckwear 
factories. They are advertised as the dry- 
goods are advertised and are immediately 
asked for at the libraries and book stores, 
when they have been brought to public atten- 
tion as the "latest success'" just as all "latest 
successes" are demanded in every other line. 

When the average reader speaks of books 
it means novels. Fiction is the mental food 
on which the average minds are built up, and 
from fiction, and the newest fiction, alone al- 
most all information as to history, geography, 
politics, the sciences religion even, is gath- 
ered by the "reading public." 

Fiction in itself is not to be despised, but 
fiction written to order to give a view of Na- 
poleon's career, the Franco-Prussian War, the 
Spanish-American War, Christian science, 
labor problems, and all the questions of the 
hour, and then supplied without price by pub- 
lic libraries and read merely to pass time, does 
not add much to solid information, balanced 
judgment, strength of character, or potent 
individuality. 

Some cynics run down all fiction, forget- 
ting that all the greatest literature of the 
world really comes under the head of fiction. 
What did Homer, Dante and Shakespeare 
stand for but fiction.^ What did Thackeray, 
George Eliot, Hawthorne and Thomas Hardy 
write but fiction ! But they wrote what can- 
not be understood or appreciated without a 
foundation of solid information and applied 
thought. 

The fiction of the hour throughout the 
world is not of this high standard. It makes 
no demand on intellect or feeling. Its tech- 
nique is good ; its form is almost perfect ; but 
upon how little that is lasting is the clever 
workmanship put forth? 



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Bailey (F. M.), Handbook of birds of the western 

United States, net, $3.50 Houghton, M 

Bailey (L. H.), The nature-study idea, net, $1. 

Doubleday, P 
Bennett (I. M.), The flower garden, net, $2. 

McClure. P 
Bignell (E.), My woodland intimates, net, $1. 

Baker & T 
Blanchan (Neltje), How to attract the birds, net, 

$1.35 Doubleday. P 

Bolton (G.), A book of beasts and birds, net, $1.50. 

Scribner 
Cecil {Mrs. E.), Children's gardens, $i.75.Macwi7/on 
Chapman (F. M.), Bird life, new ed., net, $2. 

Appleton 
Comstock (J. H.), Insect life, new ed., net, $1.75. 

Appleton 
Cook (E. T.), Trees and shrubs for English gardens, 

*iet, $3.75 Scribner 

Dugmore (A. R.), Nature and the camera, net, $1.35. 

Doubleday, P- 
Eliot (I. M.), and Soule (C. G.), Caterpillars and 

their moths, net, $2 Century 

Elliott (J. W.), A plea for hardy plants, net, $1.60. 

Doubleday, P 
Ely (H. R.), A woman's hardy garden, net, $1.75. 

Macmillan 
Femow (B. E.), Economics of forestry, net, $1.50. 

Crowell 

Going (M.), With the trees, net, $1 Baker & T 

Henshall (Ja. A.), Bass, pike, perch and others, 

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Holder (C. F.), The big game fishes of the U. S., 

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Huntington (D. W.), Our feathered game, net^ $2. 

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food and game fishes, $4 Doubleday. P 

Heeler (H. L.), Our native trees, net, $2. .Scribner 

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Mathews (F. S.), Familiar flowers of field and gar- 
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Houghton, M 
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Nuttall (T.), Nuttall's birds, new rev. ed., by M. 

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Parkhurst (H. E.), How to name the birds, net, $1. 

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Trees, shrubs and vines of the United States, net, 
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Porter (Gene S.), The song of the cardinal, $1.50. 

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Eoberts (C. G. D.), The kindred of the wild, new 
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Sogers (J. E.), Among green trees, $3. . . .Mumford 

Roth (Filibert), First book of forestry, 75 c Ginn 

Sandys (E.), and Van Dyke (T. S.), Upland game 

birds, $2 Macmillan 

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Sargent (C. S.), Trees and shrubs, v. i, pt. 2, net, 

$5 Houghton, M 

Scott (W. E. D.), Story of a bird lover, net, $1.50. 

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Adams (A.), Log of a cowboy, i^z. so. Houghton, M 
Ade (G.). People you know, ^$1. . .Russell (Harper) 

Agnus (O.). Sarah Tuldon, t$i-50 Little, B 

Aitken (J. R.). The sins of a saint, -f^t. so. Appleton 

Aldrich (T. B.), A sea turn (short stories), t$i.2S- 

Houghton, M 

Altsheler (J. A.), Before the dawn, t$i-5o- 

Doubleday, P 

^ My captive, $1.25 Appleton 

Austin (M. W.). Veronica, ^%i.so. .. .Doubleday, P 

Bacheller (I.), Darrell of the Blessed Isles, t$i-So. 

Lothrop 
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Barbour (A. M.), At the time appointed, +$1.50. 

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Barr (Mrs. A. E. H.)f A song of a single note, 

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Hughes (R.), The whirlwind, t$i.5o Lothrop 

Hutten (Bettina v.). Our Lady of the Beeches, 

t$i.25 Houghton, M 

Isham (F. S.), Under the rose, "t^i.so.Bobbs-Merrill 

Jacob (V.), The sheep-stealers, t$i.20 Putnam 

Jordan (E. G.), Tales of destiny, t$i.5o Harper 

Keats (G), The Roman road, $1.25 Scribner 

Eempton-Wace letters, t$i.5o Macmillan 

Kinkaid (M. H.), Walda, t$i.5o Harper 

Lewis (A. H.), Black Lion Inn, $1.50 Harper 

Llljencrantz (O. A.), Ward of King Canute. t$i-5o. 

McClurg 
London (J.). A daughter of the snows, t$i.5o. 

Lippincott 
HacGrath (H.). The grey cloak, t$i.5o. 

Bobbs-Merrill 
Mackie (P. B.), The voice in the desert, t$i.5o. 

McClure, P 
HacManus (S.), A lad of the O'Friels, t$i-5o. 

McClure, P 

Miller (A. D.), The modern obstacle, i^i. so. Scribner 

Mitchell (S. W.), A comedy of conscience, t$i. 

Century 

Moore (F. F.), Castle Omeragh, t$i.So Appleton 

Moore (G.), The untilled field, t$i.5o Lippincott 

A mummer's wife. t$i.5o Brentano's 

Morrison (A.), The hole in the wall, t$i.50. 

McClure. P 

Mowbray (J. P.), The conquering of Kate, t$i.50- 

Doubleday, P 

Murfree (M. N.), A spectre of power, t$i.5o- 

Houghton, M 

Ifason (F. L.). The blue goose, 1i$i. so. .McClure, P 

NichoUs (J. H.), Bayou Triste, t$i-5o Barnes 

Nicholson (M.), The main chance, t$i.5o. 

Bobbs-Merrill 

Norris (Frank), The pit, t$i.5o Doubleday, P 

Korris (W. E.), The credit of the county, t$i; paP-. 
tso c Appleton 

Lord Leonard the luckless, t$i.So Holt 

Faterson (A.). The king's agent, t$i.So Appleton 

Payson (W. F.), The triumph of life, ii%i. so. Harper 
Pemberton (Max), The gold wolf, -i^i. so. .Dodd, M 

The house under the sea, t$i.5o Appleton 

People of the whirlpool, t$i.so Macmillan 

Phelps (E. S.), Avery, t$i Houghton, M 

Phillips (D. G.), Golden fleece, ^%i. so. . .McClure, P 
Phillpotts (Eden), The river, t$i.5o Stokes 



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Fopham (F.), Tiie housewives of Edenrise, t$i.So. 

Appleton 
Powell (Frances), The house on the Hudson, t$i-5o. 

Scribner 
Prince {Mrs. H. C), The strongest master, t$i.So. 

Houghton, M 

Fugh (E.). The stumbling-block, t$i-So Barnes 

Pyle (Howard), Rejected of men. ^%i. so. .. .Harper 
Baine (Allen), pseud., A Welsh witch, f$i; pap., 

tso c Appleton 

Eice {Mrs. A. C. H.), Lovey Mary, t$i Century 

Boberts (C. G. D.), Barbara Ladd, t$i.So Page 

Eohlfs {Mrs. A. K. G.), The filigree ball, t$i.5o. 

Bobhs-Merrill 
Boseboro' (V.), The joyous heart, t$iSo. 

McClure. P 

Scott (H. S.), The vultures, t$i.5o Harper 

Scott (J. W.), Jack Hardin's Arabian nights, net, 

$1 Turner & Co 

Seawell (M. E.). Children of destiny, t$i-5o. 

Bobbs-Merrill 

Francezka, t$i.50 Bobbs-Merrill 

Smith (F. H.), Fortunes of Oliver Home, t$i.5o. 

Scribner 

The under dog, t$i.5o Scribner 

Steuart (J. A.), A son of God, t$i.So Appleton 

The Samaritans, t$i.so Revell 

Stockton (F. R.), The captain's toll-gate, t$i.So. 

Appleton 

John Gayther's garden (stories), ^%i.so. .Scribner 
Tarkington (Booth), The two Vanrevels, t$i.so. 

McClure, P 
Taylor (M. I.), The rebellion of the Princess, t$i.5o. 

McClure, P 
Thompson (V.), Spinners of life, ^%i.so. .Lippincott 
Thorpe (F. N.), Spoils of empire, ^%i. so. .Little, B 
Thruston (L. M.), A girl of Virginia, t$i.So. 

Little, B 

Thurston (K. C.), The circle, t$i.5o Dodd, M 

Townsend (E. W.), Lees and leaven, t$i.5o. 

McClure, P 

A summer in New York, 1$i.2s Holt 

Truscott (L. P.), The poet and Penelope, net, $1. 

_ ... . . Putnam 

Tuttiett (M. G.). ("Maxwell Gray"), Richard Ros- 

ny, t$i.5o Appleton 

Tyson (J. A.), The stirrup cup. t$i.25 Appleton 

Van Hillern (W.), On the cross Biddle 

Ward {Mrs. M. A.), Lady Rose's daughter, t$i.5o. 

Harper 

Ward {Mrs. \V.). The light behind, t$i.So Lane 

Wasson (G. S.), Cap'n Simeon's store, t$i.5o. 

Houghton, M 

Wells (H. G.), The sea lady, t$i.S0 Appleton 

Weyman (S. J.), In king's byways, t$i-5o. 

Longmans, G 
Wharton {Mrs. E.), The valley of decision, new i v. 

ed., t$i.5o Scribner 

White (S. E.), Conjuror's house, ^%i.2S. McClure, P 

Whitson (J. H.). Barbara, t$i.so Little, B 

Wilkins (M. E.), Six trees (short stories), t$i-2S. 

Harper 

The wind in the rose-bush (short stories), t$i.So. 

Doubleday, P 

Williams (F. C), The captain, t$i-So Lothrop 

Williamson (C. N. and A. M.), The lightning con- 
ductor, 1$i.50 Holt 

Wilson (H. L.), The spenders, t$i.SO Lothrop 

Wilson (W. R. A.), A rose of Normandy, t$iSo. 

Little, B 
Wister (O.), The Virginian, 1$i.so Macmillan 

Philosophy 4, ts c Macmillan 

Wright (H. B.), That printer of Udell's, $1.50. 

Book Supply Co 
Toxall (Ja. H.), The Rommany stone, t$i.So. 

Longmans. G 
Zack {pseud.). The Roman road (stories), t$i-5o. 

Scribner 
Zangwill (Isaac), One's womenkind, ^%i.so. .Barnes 
Zangwill (Israel), The grey wig (stories), t$i.5o. 

Macmillan 



Appletons' Summer Reading. 

Maxwell Gray's novel "Richard Rosny" 
presents a psychological study of a sudden 
change in the character of the hero, who from 
a frank, happy young naval officer in the Eng- 
lish service, became a grave, reticent, brooding 
business man. All Maxwell Gray's stories 
are fascinating from start to finish. The cli- 
max is almost always a surprise to the most 
practiced novel reader. 

"Castle Omeragh," by F. Frankfort Moore, 
is a story of Ireland in the days of Cromwell, 
and of the ruthless warfare and barbarity by 
which the Protector subdued the island. Al- 
tl'.ough the red hand of war is everywhere felt 
throughout the pages, the tension is lightened 
by the play of Irish humor and an interesting 
love story. This author has become expert 
in writing fascinating and instructive histori- 
cal novels. 

"The Sins of a Saint," by J. R. Aitken, tell 
of England in the long ago before the Con- 
quest. Midnight flights and thrilling escapes 
over the wild country to the sea are vividly 
portrayed and the early pastoral scenes are 
in most refreshing contrast to the gloom that 
finally settles over the ill-fated king and queen. 

Most interest settles in the announcement 
that Frank Stockton's last work "The Cap- 
tain's Toll-Gate" is to be ready after long 
waiting. The story is said to be as Frank 
Stockton wrote stories at his best. With 
thoughts divided between tears and smiles 
readers will take up the memoir included in 
the volume, the work of Mrs. Stockton. A 
good bibliography of Stockton's writings is 
also included. What memories the titles of 
Mr. Stockton's books must stir ! Who has 
ever forgotten the first reading of "Rudder 
Grange," of Mrs. Leeks and Mrs. Aleshine, 
or the endless discussions among "all sorts 
and conditions of men" about "The Lady or 
the Tiger" ? Truly Frank R. Stockton 
brightened many hours for many people ! 

There have been four editions in three 
months of Myrta Lockett Avary's "A Vir- 
ginia Girl in the Civil War," a true story 
which reads like invention, and there is a 
graceful story of the youthful Aaron Burr 
in J. Aubrey Tyson's "The Stirrup Cup," got- 
ten up in the beautiful style of the Novelettes 
de luxe. 

A book to take to the country is "Million- 
aire Households," by Mary Elizabeth Carter. 
All the world loves a rich person and this 
tells about many of those who can have and 
do without consulting anything but their own 
caprice. 



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0urt)tB of Current Citcrature. 

ijg Order through your bookseller. "There is no worthier or surer pledge of the intelligence 
mnd the purity of any community than their general purchase of books ; nor is there any one who does 
more to further the attainment and possession of these qualities than a good bookseller." Prof. Dunn. 



ART, MUSIC, DRAMA. 

Lavignac, Albert. Musical education; from 
the French by Esther Singleton. Appleton. 
8, (Appleton's musical ser.) $2 net. 
Author is professor of harmony at the Paris 
Conservatoire. His book is an inquiry into 
"the best means to pursue a musical education 
under its most healthful conditions a matter 
which is far more difficult than is generally be- 
lieved." The advice offered, which will be 
invaluable to parents, amateur and profes- 
sional musicians, teachers, and students, is 
"the fruit of forty years' experience in teach- 
ing nearly every degree of talent and every 
condition of life." The real object of the 
work, to quote from M. Lavignac again, is to 
set forth "the best manner to pursue any study 
in order to reach the end that one desires to 
attain." 

Weed, Clarence Moores. The flower beau- 
tiful. Houghton, M. & Co. 8, $2.50 net. 
This is probably the first book on the sub- 
ject of the decorative use of flowers, and with 
its abundant illustration it awakens a fresh 
interest in the use and arrangement of flowers 
for beautifying interiors. The author has 
treated the subject seriously as a branch of 
art, and applies the principles of art to govern 
its practice. He points out the importance of 
harmony in color and form, not only between 
the flowers used, but the flowers and their re- 
ceptacles and surroundings. 

BIOGRAPHY, CORRESPONDENCE, ETC. 

Adams, C. Francis, ed. Life in a New Eng- 
land town, 1787, 1788: diary of J. Quincy 
Adams while a student in the office of 
Theophilus Parsons at Newburyport. Lit- 
tle, B. & Co. 8, $2 net. 

Banks, L. Albert. Youth of famous Ameri- 
cans. Jennings & Pye. 16, 50 c. net. 
Sketches dealing only with the youth of 
thirty distinguished Americans. Among them 
are Washington, Franklin, J. Quincy Adams, 
Jefferson, Patrick Henry, Webster, Clay, An- 
drew Jackson, Pocahontas, Audubon, Irving, 
Morse, Hiram Powers, Lincoln, and Grant. 

Brooks, Phillips. Phillips Brooks as his 
friends knew him. Pilgrim Press. 12, 75 c 
net. 

Articles from the Congregationalist, depict- 
ing Phillips Brooks' leading traits and quali- 
ties. Contents: Leading ideas by the Rev. 
Leighton Parks ; As a man of the spirit, by 
Rev. G. A. Gordon ; As a poet, by L O. Ran- 
kin ; As a traveller, by Rev. W. N. McVickar ; 
Family ties, by Rev. J. Colton Brooks; In- 
imitable traits, by Rev. F. B. Allen ; Influence 
at Harvard, by Prof. F. G. Peabody; Among 
his younger brethren in the ministry, by the 
Rev. W. Lawrence; As a religious teacher, by 
Rev. W. Gladden. 



Bryce, Ja. Studies in contemporary biog- 
raphy. Macmillan. 8, $3 net. 
Twenty analytical studies of eminent Eng- 
lishmen Disraeli, Gladstone, Dean Stanley, 
Anthony Trollope, J. R. Green, Parnell, Car- 
dinal Manning, Freeman, E. L. Godkin, and 
others. All of them, except Lord Beacons- 
field, were personally and most of them inti- 
mately known to the writer. 
Noticed elsewhere in this issue. 

Coleridge, Christabel. Charlotte Mary 
Yonge: her life and letters. Macmillan. 
$4.25 net. 
To be noticed later. 

Darwin, C. Rob. More letters of Charles 
Darwin : a record of his work in a series of 
hitherto unpublished letters; ed. by Francis 
Darwin. Appleton. 2 v., 8, $5 net. 
Noticed in May issue. 

Emerson, Ralph Waldo, and Grimm, Her- 
man. Correspondence between Ralph Wal- 
do Emerson and Herman Grimm ; ed. b> 
F. W. Holls. Houghton, M. & Co. 16, 
$1 net. 

Some of the most characteristic and sig- 
nificant letters Emerson ever wrote were writ- 
ten by him in the course of his protracted cor- 
respondence with Grimm, the great German 
art critic. These have been edited, with an 
introduction by Frederick W. Holls, and are 
now first published. The letters from Grimm 
are printed both in German and in English. 
Four of Emerson's letters are addressed to 
Countess Gisela von Arnim, whom Grimm 
afterwards married. 

Todd, C. Burr. The real Benedict Arnold. 
Barnes. 12, $1.20 net. 
Noticed elsewhere in this issue. 

OCStRIPTION, EORAPHY, TRAVEL, ETC. 

Abbott, G. F. The tale of a tour in Mace- 
donia. Longmans. 8, $5 net. 
The tour described was undertaken by Mr. 
G. F. Abbott, of Emmanuel College, Cam- 
bridge, under the auspices of that university, 
with a view to the collection of materials for 
a work on Macedonian folk-lore, to be issued 
shortly. The present volume contains the 
author's impressions of the country, and pres- 
ents a vivid picture of the social and political 
conditions prevailing therein at the time of 
the tour. 

Abruzzi, {Duke of the,) [Luigi Amedeo of 
Savoy.] On the Polar Star in the Arctic 
sea, by His Royal Highness, Luigi Amedeo 
of Savoy, Duke of the Abruzzi ; with the 
statements of Commander U. Cagni upon 
the sledge expedition to 86 34' north and 
of Dr. A. Cavalli Molinelli upon his return 
to the Bay of Teplitz ; tr. by W. Le Queux. 
Dodd, M. & Co. 2 v., $12.50 net. 
The object of the expedition of the Polar 
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some coast-line, and then to travel on sledges 
towards the Pole from the place where the 
winter had been passed. The Pole was not 
reached, but the sledge expedition, led by Com- 
mander Cagni, pushed on to a latitude which 
no man had previously attained, and proved 
that with determination and sturdy men, and 
a number of well-selected dogs, the frozen 
Arctic Ocean can actually be crossed to the 
highest latitude. These two very handsome 
volumes, profusely illustrated from photo- 
graphs, give an account of the whole expedi- 
tion by the explorers themselves. The expe- 
dition started in 1899 on a four years' cruise. 

Blair, Emma Helen, and Robertson, Ja. 
Alex., eds. The Philippine Islands, 1493- 
1803; tr. from the originals, ed. and annot. 
by Emma Helen Blair and Ja. Alex. Rob- 
ertson ; with historical introd. and addi- 
tional notes by E. Gaylord Bourne. In 55 
V. Arthur H. Clarke Co. 8, $4 net. 
To be noticed later. 

Brandes, G. Poland: a study of the land, 
people, and literature. Macmillan. 8, $3 
net. 

James, W. Puerto Rican and other impres- 
sions. Putnam. 8, $1.50 net. 

Monroe, Mrs. Harriet Earhart. Washing- 
ton, its sights and insights. Funk & W. Co. 
12, $1 net. 
Noticed elsewhere in this issue. 

DOMESTIC AND SOCIAL. 

Bell, Mrs. Hugh. The minor moralist : some 
essays on the art of every-day conduct. 
Longmans. 12, $1.60 net. 
Contents: A plea for the minor moralist; 
On the better teaching of manners ; On some 
difficulties incidental to middle age; Concern- 
ing the relation between mothers and daugh- 
ters; "Si jeunesse voulait" ; On the merits 
and demerits of thrift and of certain proverbs 
regarding it ; The lot of the servant. 
Haskins, C. Waldo. How to keep household 
accounts : a manual of family finance. Har- 
per. 16, $1 net. 

A handbook of family finance. Its object 
is to save housekeepers time, money, and wor- 
ry, by showing them the practical, easy way 
of keeping simple accounts. It requires no 
previous knowledge of bookkeeping. Its style 
is conversational and clear, and readily un- 
derstood. Arranged with tables, etc., it makes 
a perfectly clear exposition of the best possi- 
ble way of keeping family accounts. 

EDUCATION, LANGUAGE, ETC. 

Bowker, R. Rogers. Of education; with ap- 
pended addresses on "The scholar" and 
"The college of to-day." Houghton, M. & 
Co. 12, (Arts of life.) 75 c. 
Besides the chapter from Mr. Bowker's 
"The arts of life "Of education" are in- 
cluded two recent papers from his pen, "The 
scholar" and "The college of to-day," which 
bear directly upon the question of the relation 
between the university and the college. 

FICTION. 

Bacheller, Irving. Darrell of the Blessed 
Isles ; il. by Arthur I. Keller. Lothrop Pub. 
Co. 12, $1.50. 
Noticed elsewhere in this issue. 



Barr, Mrs. Amelia Edith HuddlEstone. 

Thyra Varrick : a love story; il. by Lee 

Woodward Ziegler. J. F. Taylor. 12, 

$1.50. 

Noticed in May issue. 
Barry, J. Daniel. A daughter of Thespis : a 

novel. Page. 12, $1.50. 

A realistic story of the American stage ; the 
heroine is the leading lady of a stock com- 
pany; her joys and triumphs, her love affairs 
and disappointments are told by one thorough- 
ly familiar with stage life. 
Bell, J. J. Wee Macgreegor. Harper. 16, 

$1. 

The humorous and realistic story of a little 
Scottish boy, Wee Macgreegor, of his father, 
who slyly pets and spoils him, and of his 
mother, who adores and disciplines him. 
Benson, Blackwood K. Old Squire: the ro- 
mance of a black Virginian. Macmillan. 

12, $1.50. 

A story of the Civil War as seen from the 
Confederate side. "Old Squire" is an old 
negro slave, loyally devoted to his master, 
who is in the Confederate cavalry; his quick 
wit in helping his master and his faithfulness 
to the very end are finely drawn. There is 
another typical negro character, "Barney," 
who guides the Union column to victory in 
1864; he is offered as a foil to "Old Squire." 
The author says the subject of his book is 
"not to defend slavery but to do justice to 
slaves." 
Betts, Lillian W. The story of an east-side 

family. Dodd, M. & Co. 12, $1.50. 

A story in which is traced the evolution of 
a typical east-side family of New York, be- 
ginning with a "marriage of convenience." 
From very meagre beginnings, the young 
couple through industry, thrift and good man- 
agement go step by step up the social ladder, 
until the husband becomes the foreman of the 
factory in which he works and the wife a 
leader and an acknowledged power in the 
neighborhood. 
BooNE, H. Burnham, and Brown, Kenneth. 

The Redfields succession. Harper, 12, 

$1.50. 

The scenes of this story are laid chiefly in 
Virginia, and give an accurate and entertain- 
ing account of Virginia country life. The 
principal characters are a Southern girl and 
an impecunious New Yorker, who is a fine 
fellow at bottom and descendant of an old 
Virginia family. There is an exciting con- 
test over the will made by his uncle, who 
owned the handsome estate of Redfields, and 
there are many turns in the plot before the 
final denouement. 
Brady, Cyrus Townsend. The bishop, being 

some account of his strange adventures on 

the plains. Harper. 12, $1.50. 

Stories of a militant, lovable bishop, whose 
work among the rough-and-ready men of 
Western camps, forts and villages results in 
his sharing in many incidents of frontier life 
comedy, tragedy, always drama. 
Couch, Arthur T. Quiller, ["Q," pseud.] 

Adventures of Harry Revel. Scribner. 12, 

$1.50. 

Noticed elsewhere in this issue. 



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Daskam, Josephine Dodge. Middle-aged 
love stories. Scribner. 12, $1.25. 
Contents: In the valley of the shadow ; A 

philanthropist; A reversion to type; A hope 

deferred; The courting of Lady Jane; Julia 

the apostate; Mrs. Dud's sister. 

Edwards, Louise Betts. The Tu-Tze's tow- 
er. Coates. 12, $1. 
To be noticed later. 
Flint, Josiah, {pseud.] The rise of Ruder- 
ick Clowd. Dodd, M. & Co. 12, $1.50. 
"Mr. Flint's studies in criminology have 
been of the kind which exclude sentimental- 
ity. In this life story of Ruderick Clowd one 
sees the incalculably important part that en- 
vironment plays in the life of the individual. 
Clowd came into the world with the brand of 
illegitimacy upon him. Brought up in the 
streets, educated in a reform school, he in- 
evitably was graduated into the ranks of the 
criminal. How he became a notorious 
'crook/ his ups and downs of fortune, his 
loves, his final determination to 'quit the 
road,' are pictured with a vividness that 
makes the story read like a transcript from 
life." Brooklyn Daily Times. 

Gerard, Dorothea, [nozv Mnte. Longard de 
Longarde.] The eternal woman. Bren- 
tano's. 12, $1.50. 

"The detailed adventures of a young girl 
who, from being circus waif, becomes a sec- 
ond Becky Sharp, but finally deserts Becky's 
ideals and falls in love with the man she 
sought to ensnare. When the thing she de- 
sired to gain is almost within her grasp her 
conscience, startled into life by her love, tor- 
tures her with doubts of the honesty of obey- 
ing the dictates of her heart. The situation 
possesses many interesting possibilities." 
Public Opinion. 

Gilman, Bradley. Ronald Carnaquay, a com- 
mercial clergyman. Macmillan. 12, $1.50. 
A novel, which aims to "hold the mirror up 
to nature" as manifested in certain phases of 
the church life of our time. The author de- 
picts, with both humor and pathos, a pastor's 
relations with his congregation, his trustees, 
and some of the women of his flock. One of 
the chief interests of the story lies in the 
development of the character of the rector who 
has been a commercial traveller, and who goes 
into the church for what he can get out of it. 
The woman in the story is a widow, young 
and not without charm, and it is her influ- 
ence on the commercial rector around which 
the story plays. 

Greaves, R. Brewster's millions. Stone. 12, 

$1.50. 

Montgomery Brewster, a young New 
Yorker, is left seven millions by an uncle he 
has never seen, on condition that he is abso- 
lutely penniless a year from the uncle's death. 
As Brewster has just inherited a million from 
his grandfather, the year is devoted to spend- 
ing the million in hand that he may acquire 
his uncle's wealth. The story is an account 
of his wild dissipations in his effort to become 
penniless. 
Hardy, Arthur Sherburne. His daughter 

first. Houghton, M. & Co. 12, $1.50. 

Noticed elsewhere in this issue. 



Harrison, Ellanetta. The stage of life : a 

Kentucky story. Rob. Clarke. 12, $1.50. 
Hart, Mabel. Sacrilege farm. Appleton. 

12, (Appleton's town and country lib.) $1; 

pap., 50 c. 
Henniker, Florence. Contrasts: [a novel.] 

Lane. 12, $1.50. 
Hornung, Ernest W. No hero. Scribner. 

16, $1.25. 

An Eton boy, adored by his widowed moth- 
er, takes a vacation in Switzerland, and falls 
in love with a beautiful woman older than 
himself, who is thought to be an adventuress. 
A friend of his mother, an invalid soldier, 
just home from South Africa, undertakes to 
disillusionize the boy. It is this friend who 
tells the story, the result proving him "no 
hero" as he believes. 
Keats, Gwendoline, ["Zack," pseud.] The 

Roman road. Scribner. 12, $1.50. 

Three stories, two being novelettes in 
length: "The Roman road," a story of an 
English manor-house and its inmates, in a 
vein entirely new for this author; "The bal- 
ance," which touches life at many points and 
in unusual ways ; and "Thoughty," a story 
of the youth of two boys. 
Lewis, Alfred H. The Black Lion Inn; il. 

by F. Remington. Harper. 12, $1.50. 

A group of snow-bound men in an old tav- 
ern called "The Black Lion Inn," tells the 
stories collected under this title. They are 
stories of the American frontier, and are both 
dramatic and amusing. By the author of the 
"Wolfville" stories. 

McCall, Sidney, Truth Dexter. New popu- 
lar ed. Little, B. & Co. 12, 75 c. 

McCarthy, Justin Huntly. Marjorie. Har- 
per. 12, $1.50. 

"Mainly about a voyage that began in a 
simple-hearted seaman's desire to found a 
Utopia beyond the sea and ended in battle, 
murder, and sudden death. The manner of 
telling it takes away some of the gory effects 
that might otherwise mar the narrative, and 
the general impression is not unpleasant. It 
is frankly a novel of adventure, but it is 
no more unreal and far more carefully writ- 
ten than such stories usually are." Public 
Opinion. 

MacGrath, Harold. The grey cloak; il. by 
T. Mitchell Pierce. Bobbs-Merrill. 12, 
$1.50. 
Noticed in May issue. 

Mackie, Pauline Bradford, [Mrs. Herbert 

Muller Hopkins.] The voice in the desert, 

McClure, P. & Co. 12, $1.50. 

A story of subtle attractions and repulsions 
between men and women ; of deep tempera- 
ment conflicts, accentuated and made dramatic 
by the tense atmosphere of the Arizona desert. 
The action of the story passes in a little Span- 
ish mission town, where the hero, Lispenard, 
is settled as an Episcopal clergjmian, with his 
wife Adele, and their two children. The in- 
fluence of the spirit of the desert is a leading 
factor in the story. 

Miller, Alice Duer. The modern obstacle 
Scribner. 12, $1.50. 

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to a marriage purely of love. An ingenious 
story is evolved, showing how the hero and 
heroine may be happy in spite of this obstacle. 

Mowbray, J. P., ["'J. P. M.." pseud.] The con- 
quering of Kate. Doubleday, P. 12, $1.50. 
The scene is laid in the secluded farming 
region of southern Pennsylvania some thirty 
years ago and the story is chiefly concerned 
with the fortunes of the spirited and beautiful 
young lady whose name gives the book a title. 
She and her sister and a Virginia aunt are 
left, by the death of her father, in financial 
straits and with a huge unremunerative estate. 
Their family pride revolts at the changes and 
improvements suggested by the common sense 
of their guardian. It is he who brings young 
John Burt from the north as overseer, in the 
hope of saving the situation by business man- 
agement. The resulting love story (or double 
love story) is full of charm. 

Paysox, W. Farquhar. The triumph of life. 

Harper. 12, $1.50. 

A story of modern American life. It tells 
of the struggles of a young writer, Enoch 
Lloyd, with what seems to be financial suc- 
cess at the price of moral failure. There are 
two women in the case, the two opposing in- 
fluences. One is Celeste Moreau, the worldly 
daughter of a French hotelkeeper in New^ 
York; the other is Marion Lee, daughter of 
Lloyd's publisher. His struggle between these 
two influences the one demoralizing, the oth- 
er ennobling is worked out through many in- 
tricacies of plot and a series of dramatic sit- 
uations. 

Phillips, D. Graham. Golden fleece: the 
American adventures of a fortune hunting 
earl; il. by Harrison Fisher. McClure, P. 
& Co. 12, $1.50. 

"The story of two English noblemen who 
seek wealthy brides in the United States. One 
of the men is successful in his quest, and by 
his success saves the other man from making 
a 'sacrifice' of himself. The smart sets of New 
York, Boston, Washington, and Chicago are 
unmercifully satirized, but if report be true, not 
unjustly. The conduct of the marriage mart 
in uppertendom is an interesting theme, and 
one about which humbler citizens would like 
to be informed." Public Opinion. 

Roseboro', Viola. The joyous heart. Mc- 
Clure, P. & Co. 12, bds., $1.50. 
A study of a woman, who is pagan almost, 
yet warmly human and lovable. The story of 
her short life is the story of a joy in living 
that no sorrow could subdue, that remained 
triumphant to the end. The scene of the 
novel is in the south, during the war and after. 

Seawell, Molly Elliot. Children of destinv ; 
il. by A. B. Wenzell. Bobbs-Merrill. 12, 
$1.50. 
Noticed in May issue. 

Slosson, Mrs. Annie Eliot Trumbull. Life's 
common way. Barnes. 12, $1.50. 
A story of the modern woman as she is 
developed in American, or more especially, 
New England society. It deals with the vary- 
ing effects upon character of our daily Ameri- 
can life, the fortunes of a king of finance and 
the complex currents beneath the surface of 



what appears to be a purely conventional 
progress along "life's common way." 

SoNNiCH'sEN, Albert. Deep sea vagabonds; 
by Albert Sonnichsen, able seaman. Mc- 
Clure, P. & Co. 12, $1.50. 
The adventures of two young men who 

shipped before the mast, on the Pacific Coast. 

By the author of "Ten months a captive 

among the Filipinos." The story begins in 
3, and resids like veritable adventures. 



Stephens, Rob. Neilson. The mystery of 
^Murray Davenport: a stofy of New York 
at the present day; il. by H. C. Edwards. 
Page. 12, $1.50. 

Playwright and book illustrator is Murray 
Davenport, a man of varied gifts, but one who 
has been most unfortunate in his contact with 
real life. His sudden determination to .right 
himself in a grievous wrong, irrespective of 
the legal side of the question, and his change 
of identity are the story. The mystery is well 
managed, a love story and scenes from New 
York life belonging to the narrative. 

Templeton, Herminie. Darby O'Gill and the 
good people. McClure, P. & Co. 12, $1.50. 
Sets forth an account of the adventures of a 
daring Tipperary man named Darby O'Gill 
among the fairies of Sleive-na-Mon: Quaint 
and humorous sketches woven about Irish su- 
perstitions and folk-lore. 

Thompson, Vance. Spinners of life; il. by 
E. M. Ashe and Rollin Kirby. Lippincott. 
12, $1.50. 

Thorpe, Francis Newton. The spoils of em- 
pire: a romance of the old world and the 
new; il. by Frank B. Masters. Little, B. 
& Co. 12, $1.50. 
Noticed elsewhere in this issue. 

Tolstoi, Count Lyoff Nikolaievich. More 
tales from Tolstoi ; from the Russian ; with 
an enlarged biography of the author by R. 
Nisbet Bain. Brentano's. 12, $1.50. 
After the biography are ten tales entitled : 

The snowstorm ; The captive in the Caucasus ; 

Hatred is sweet, but God is strong ; Elias ; 

The two brothers and the gold^ The children 

wiser than the elders; The death of Ivan 

Il'ich; The penitent sinner; Three death's; 

The story of Ivan the fool. 

Tolstoi, Count Lyoff Nikolaievich. Res- 
urrection; tr. by Mrs. Louise Maud. Play- 
ers' ed. ; il. from the play. Dodd, M. & Co. 
12, $1.50 net. 

"The occasion for this new edition of Tol- 
stoi's greatest work is the opportunity to in- 
clude a number of illustrations from scenes in 
the play founded upon the novel. Whatever 
one may think of the play, there is no denying 
the fact that its scenes make very effective 
pictures. We long ago passed upon the book 
itself; it has strength of the rare sort that only 
goes with such faith and sincerity as Tolstoi 
possesses, but it is marred by dullness and ex- 
aggeration." Public Opinion. 

Trumbull, Annie Eliot. Life's common way. 

Barnes. 12, $1.50. 

A story of the modern woman as she is de- 
veloped in American, or more especially. New 
England society. It deals with the varying 



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effects upon character of our daily American 
life, the fortunes of a king of finance and the 
complex currents beneath the surface of what 
appears to be a purely conventional progress 
along "life's common way." 
Wasson, G. S. Cap'n Simeon's store. Hough- 
ton, M. & Co. 12, $1.50. 
The title, "Cap'n Simeon's store," is taken 
from the favorite haunt of the ancient sea- 
captains, who sit around "Cap'n Simeon's" 
hospitable fire and spin out yarns of life and 
death on the great deep, and of witchcraft and 
other strange happenings on shore. "Cap'n 
Simeon's store" is "down Gloucester way." 

Whitson, J. H. Barbara : a woman of the 

west; il. by Chase Emerson. Little, B. & 

Co. 12, $1.50. 

Noticed elsewhere in this issue. 
Williamson, C, and Norris, A. M. The 

lightning conductor ; the strange adventures 

of a motor-cor. 4th ed., rev. and enl. Holt. 

12, $1.50. 
Wilson, A. F. The wars of peace ; il. by H. 

C. Ireland. Little. B. & Co. 12, $1.50. 

A novel in which the leading subject is 
trusts and their consequences. Albion Hardy, 
a successful and immensely ambitious finan- 
cier, organizes an industrial combination 
which causes much suffering and disaster, 
and eventually alienates his only son, who, 
declining to enter the "Trust" withdraws his 
capital from his father's business, and buys a 
small mill and attempts to manage it accord- 
ing to his own ideas. The destruction of his 
mill and his rescue is one of the dramatic in- 
cidents. There is abundant love interest. 

Wilson, W. R. A. A rose of Normandy ; il. 
by Ch. Grunwald. Little, B. & Co. 12, 
$1.50. 
Noticed in May issue. 

Wright, Harold Bell. That printer of 
Udell's : a story of the middle west ; il. by 
J : Clitheroe Gilbert. The Book Supply Co. 
12, $1.50. 

The opening scene is laid in the Moonshin- 
er's district of Arkansas. From there the 
story soon carries the reader into the more 
familiar localities of the middle west, and 
later on returns for a time to the life of the 
mountaineer in the Ozarks. 

HISTORY. 

Chittenden, Hiram Martin. History of 
early steamboat navigation on the Missouri 
river : life and adventures of Joseph La 
Barge, pioneer, navigator and Indian trader. 
Francis P. Harper. 2 v., 8, (American ex- 
plorers ser., no. 4.) $6 net. 
To be noticed later. 

McCaleb, Walter Flavius. The Aaron Burr 
conspiracy: a history largely from original 
and hitherto unused sources. Dodd, M. & 
Co. 8, $2.50 net. 

Pears, Edwin. The destruction of the Greek 
Empire and the story of the capture of 
Constantinople by the Turks. Longmans. 

8. $7. . . . . 

In order to make his story intelligible and 
to explain its significance the author has given 
a summary of the history of the empire be- 



tween the Latin conquest in 1204 and the cap- 
ture of the city in 1453, and has traced the 
progress during the same period of the race 
which succeeded in destroying the empire and 
in replacing the Greeks as the possessors of 
new Rome. 

Whitcomb, Merrick. A history of modern 
Europe. Appleton. 12, (Twentieth cen- 
tury text-books.) $1.10. 

HYGIENIC AND SANITARY. 

Griffith, J. P. Crozer, M.D. Care of the 
baby : a manual for mothers and nurses. 
3d ed., rev. Saunders. 12, $1.50 net. 

Pratt, Nannette Magruder. The body beau- 
tiful ; common-sense ideas on health and 
beauty without medicine. Baker & T. 12, 
$1.25 net. 

Contents: The meaning of physical culture; 
Foods digestible and indigestible; The com- 
plaint of a stomach ; The kidneys ; Constipa- 
tion; Fasting; About meat; Health bath; 
Sleeping, tight lacing, and a word to fleshy 
and thin people ; Outdoor exercises ; Care of 
the teeth, hair, hands, and feet; How to cure 
a cold without medicine, etc. ; Specific rules 
for reducing flesh ; How to put on flesh ; For 
the complexion ; Perspiration of hands and 
feet ; A punch-bowl episode ; Exercise ; . 
Health meals for one week; A few health 
rules in a nutshell ; Recipes. 
Untrained nurse (The), by a graduate of 
Bellevue Hospital, New York City. Angel 
Guardian Press. 12, 75 c. 
"The untrained nurse" has been written 
with a great desire to help those who are un- 
able to hire a trained nurse. It is simply and 
plainly written and goes into every detail of 
nursing. 

LITERARY MISCELLANY, COLLECTED WORKS, 
ETC. 

Alden, Raymond Macdonald, ed. English 
verse ; specimens illustrating its principles 
and history. Holt. 16, (English read- 
ings.) buckram, $1.25 net. 
"The aim of this book is to give the ma- 
terials for the inductive study of English 
verse. Its origin was in certain university 
courses, for which it proved to be necessary 
often for use in a single hour's work to 
gather almost numberless books, some of 
which must ordinarily be inaccessible except 
in the vicinity of large libraries. I have tried 
to extract from these books the materials nec- 
essary for the study of English verse-forms, 
adding notes designed to make the specimens 
intelligible and useful." Preface. 

CooK^ E. T. Introductions to the Library edi- 
tion of the works of John Ruskin, Intro- 
duction to V. I. Longmans. 8, 25 c. net. 

Corbin, J. New portrait of Shakespeare. 
Lane. 12", '$1.25 net. 

KiNGSLEY, C. Life and works of Charles 
Kingsley. Ed. de luxe. In 19 v. Macmil- 
lan. 8, ea., $3 net. 

Newell, W. Wells. The legend of the Holy 
Grail ; and the Perceval of Crestien of 
Troyes : papers reprinted from the Journal 
of American Folk-Lore. Houghton, M. & 
Co. 8, $1 ; bds., $1.25. 
In this treatise are brought together, with 



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consecutive paging, articles contained in num- 
bers of the Journal of American Folk-Lore 
between the years 1897 and 1902. An account 
is given of all mediaeval forms of the story, 
with a view of exhibiting their relations and 
origin. In notes, the critical literature of the 
subject is brought down to date. The writer 
gives his own view of the sources and signifi- 
cance of the legend. 

Paltsits, Victor Hugo. Bibliography of the 
separate and collected works of Philip Fre- 
neau, together with an account of his news- 
papers. Dodd, M. & Co. 16, pap., $750. 
Harrison, Ja. A. Life and letters of Edgar 
Allan Poe. Crowtll. 2 v., 12, $2.50 net; 
hf. cf.. $5 net. 

Prof. Harrison, of the University of Vir- 
ginia, the author of the present biography, is 
the editor of the Virginia edition of Poe's 
works. The biography fills the first of the 
two volumes of the present work, the second 
volume is a collection of Poe's letters and of 
letters written him by his friends and liter- 
ary contemporaries, including Dickens, Irv- 
ing, Longfellow, Lowell, Greeley and others. 
The two volumes supplement each other. 
They give a new picture of the author's habits 
and works. They represent original research 
and the accumulation of important material 
from widely scattered or generally inaccessi- 
ble places. Bibliography (25 p.) 

Williamson, G. M. Catalogue of a collec- 
tion of books, letters and manuscripts writ- 
ten by Walt Whitman ; in the library of G. 
M. Williamson ; printed by Frank E. Hop- 
kins at the Marion Press. Jamaica. For 
sale by Dodd, M. & Co. Hand-made pap. 
ed., $10. 

NATURE AND SCIENCE. 

Bailey, Liberty Hyde. The nature-study 
idea : being an interpretation of the new 
school movement to put the child in sym- 
pathy with nature. Doubleday, P. & Co. 
8, $1 net. 
Going, Maude, ["E. M. Hardinge," pseud.] 
With the trees ; il. from photographs by 
Edmund H. Lincoln and C. B. Going. 
Baker & T. 12, $1 net. 
Contents: A few preliminaries; When the 
sap stirs; In the sweet o' the year; Keeping 
tryst with spring; The life of the leaves; The 
work of the leaves ; In the water-side woods ; 
Ir- the high woods ; The water-side woods 
again ; In a hillside pasture ; The cone-bearers 
and their kin ; Late-blooming trees ; The king 
of the trees ; Trees of streets, parks, and gar- 
dens ; The mellowing year; Seed time and 
sowing. 

Keeler. Harriet L. Our northern shrubs 
and how to identify them: a handbook for 
the nature-lover; with 305 pis. from photo- 
graphs and 35 ils. from drawings. Scrib- 
ner. 12, $2 net. 

The shrubs described are those which find 
their most congenial home in the region ex- 
tending from the Atlantic Ocean to the Mis- 
sissippi River, and from Canada to the north- 
ern boundaries of our southern states. The 
arrangement is by families, each member of 
which is analyzed scientifically and described 
popularly so that its characteristics are made 



easily intelligible to the amateur nature-lover. 
Planned upon the same lines as Miss Keeler's 
"Native trees.'' 

Miller, Mrs. Harriet Mann, ["Olive 
Thorne Miller," pseud.] True bird stories 
from my note-books ; il. by L. Agassiz 
Fuertes. Houghton, M. & Co. 12, $1 net. 
Thirty-two bird stories based on the writ- 
er's own observation. 

Milman, Helen, [Mrs. Caldwell Crofton.] 

My kalendar of country delights ; il. by 

Donald Maxwell. Lane. 12, $1.25 net. 

Thoughts and facts about nature for each 

day in the year. \ page is given to each 

day, the remarks about the birds and flowers 

being interspersed with many old poems and 

some new ones. 

Parkhurst, Howard Elmore. Trees, shrubs 
and vines of the United States ; their char- 
acteristic landscape features fully described 
for identification by the non-botanical read- 
er ; with an account of the principal foreign 
hardy trees, shrubs and vines cultivated in 
our country and found in Central Park, 
New York City. Scribner. 12, $1.50 net. 
"Designed for the uninstructed nature- 
lover, who wishes help in learning the multi- 
tudinous forms of landscape growth all 
around him without the labor of preliminary 
training in botanical science." The catalogue 
presented of the trees, etc., of Central Park 
is based upon accurate official lists recently 
completed and not yet published, by the Park 
Department, the correctness of which has been 
largely verified by the writer's own observa- 
tions during the past two years. 

Roberts, Harry. The tramp's hand-book; il. 

by W. Pascoe. Lane. 16, (The country 
' handbooks.) $i net. 

The first volume of a series to be known 
as "The country handbooks." Intended for 
all who love outdoor life. Chapters on : A 
defence of vagabondage; The art of walking; 
The ass as comrade ; Caravans and carts ; 
The tramp's furniture ; Tents ; Concerning 
food; The roadside fire; Roadside cookery; 
Wild food ; Mushrooms and truffles, etc. List 
of books (2 p.) Short vocabulary of Ro- 
many and travellers' cant. Index. 

Whiting, C. Goodrich. Walks in New Eng- 
land; il. from photographs. Lane. 12, 
$1.50 net. 

Notes on nature made during walks 
throughout the year in different parts of New 
England. Profusely illustrated from photo- 
graphs made at the points described. 

POETRY AND DRAMA. 

Burnett, Frances Hodgson. Charles B. Dil- 
lingham's production of The little Princess. 
Harper. 10 c. 

A pretty souvenir of the production of "The 
little Princess," a play based upon Mrs. Bur- 
nett's story of "Sara Crewe." Illustrated with 
scenes from the play and portraits of Millie 
James. 

Dickens, C. The poems and verses of 
Charles Dickens; collected and ed., with 
bibliographical notes, by F. G. Kitton. Har- 
per, 8, $2 net. 
The first scholarly bringing together ot 



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Charles Dickens's verses. The work includes 
the poems from his novels ; lyrics and pro- 
logues from his own plays and from plays of 
Westland Marston; songs, choruses, and con- 
certed pieces from "The Village Coquettes," 
a comic opera, 1836; other verses from The 
Examiner of 1841, from "The Keepsake of 
1844," from The Daily News of 1846, and 
from other publications. 

Rice, Cale Young. Charles di Tocca: a 
tragedy. McClure, P. 12, $1 net. 
A poetic drama in four acts by a young 
Kentucky poet. The scene of the play is the 
island of Leucadia in the fifteenth century, and 
the characters are citizens of Venice, then at 
the highest ascendency of its maritime power. 
The influence of Sappho, whose sad death oc- 
curred on the island, is one of the leading 
themes in the development of the tragedy. 

POLITICAL AND SOCIAL. 

Breckinridge, Sophonisba. Legal tender : 
a study in English and American monetary 
history. Univ. of Chicago Press. 8, (Uni- 
versity of Chicago Press, decennial publi- 
cations, 2d ser., V. 7.) $2 net. 
To this time no lawyer, nor any economist, 
has ever searched out the origin and develop- 
ment of legal tender in English institutional 
history. This important task has been car- 
ried out in a most painstaking and accurate 
way by Miss Breckinridge. She finds the ori- 
gin of the power in the prerogative of the 
crown, and traces its subsequent history in 
Great Britain, in the American Colonies, the 
Confederation, the Constitutional Convention 
of 1789, and in the United States to the pres- 
ent time in regard to (i) metallic money, 
(2) government paper, (3) notes of state 
banks, and (4) notes of banks established by 
the federal government. 

Carpenter, Edmund J. The American ad- 
vance: a study in territorial expansion. 
Lane. 8, $2.50 net. 

A history of the various land acquisitions 
of the United States, beginning with the 
Louisiana purchase; chapters follow on the 
cession of the Floridas ; The annexation of 
Texas; The Mexican cession; Oregon; The 
Gadsden purchase; Alaska; Hawaii; Cuba; 
Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines. 

Hanotaux, Gabriel. Contemporary France; 
tr. by J. C. Tarver. In 4 v. v. I, (1870- 
1873.) Putnam. 8, $3.75 net. 
Noticed elsewhere in this issue. 

Laughlin, Ja. Laurence, and Willis, H. 

Parker. Reciprocity. Baker & T. 8, $2 

net. 

Contents: Origin and nature of the reci- 
procity idea ; Reciprocity with Canada ; Reci- 
procity with Hawaii, 1876-1900; Reciprocity 
and the tariff controversy in the United 
States, 1890-1900; Reciprocity and the sugar 
situation ; Reciprocity and the McKinley Act ; 
Operation of the McKinley Act; The aban- 
donment of reciprocity; The Dingley Act; 
The Kasson treaties ; The struggle for reci- 
procity with Cuba; The present and future of 
reciprocity. Bibliography (32 p.) Appendix 
contains existing reciprocity treatises and sta- 
tistics. 



Lawson, W. R. American industrial prob- 
lems. McClure. P. 12, $1.50 net. 
What an Englishman believes to be the 
truth about the situation in America. These 
explanations of our troubles, and forecasts of 
solution, given without prejudice from the 
viewpoint of an outsider, are very illuminat- 
ing. 

Lemon, Don, (pseud.,) comp. A book of cu- 
rious facts of general interest relating to 
almost everything under the sun ; ed. by H. 
Williams. New Amsterdam Bk. Co. 12, 
75 c. 

This collection of curious facts is easily 
consulted through a careful index of 14 pages. 
Meade, E. Sherwood. Trust finance: a study 
of the genesis, organization, and manage- 
ment of industrial combinations. Appleton. 
12, $1.25 net. 

Contents: Regime of competition ; The 
regulation of competition^from the pool to 
the holding company ; The function of the 
promoter in modern industry ; The promotion 
of the, trust ; The sale of the stock ; The ac- 
cumulation of samples out of profits ; The re- 
serve policy of the industrial trusts ; The 
genesis of the United States Steel Corporation ; 
The provision of new capital ; The conditions 
of bond issue; The funding policy of the 
trusts ; The bonds of manufacturing com- 
panies as investments; The capitalization of 
the trusts, etc. 

Stelzle, C. The workingman and social 
problems, ' Revell. 12, 75 c. net. 
Some of the topics treated are : The work- 
ingman in embryo ; The workingman and his 
environment ; The workingman and the sa- 
loon ; The workingman and his leader ; The 
workingman and shop ethics ; The working- 
man and social reform ; The workingman and 
the church ; The workingman's church ; 
Preaching to workingmen. 

Webster, W. Clarence. A general history of 

commerce, Ginn, 12, $1,40. 

"In writing this book I have had constantly 
in mind the needs of the student, I have 
tried, therefore, to tell the story of commerce 
in a systematic manner, in order that the 
reader may get clear-cut and accurate pic- 
tures of the commercial growth an4 decay of 
separate nations, and an understanding of the 
forces, industrial, racial, and climatic, which 
have contributed to the steady expansion of 
the world's trade," Preface. 

William ii,, {Emperor.) The Kaiser's 
speeches forming a character portrait of 
Emperor William il ; tr, and ed,, with an- 
notations, by Wolf von Schierbrand, based 
upon a compilation made by A. Oscar 
Klaussmann. Harper. 8, $2.50 .net. 
To be noticed later. 

SPORTS AND AMUSEMENTS. 

Collins, W, A. The angler's guide and fish- 
erman's companion for Southern New Jer- 
sey : a convenient reference book, W. A. 
Collins, 16, pap., 25 c. 
Contains a list of the best angling resorts, 
and directions how to reach them ; the sea 
fish and game fish to be found thereat and 
how and when to take them, together with 
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Fisherman's friend : guide to fishing places 

around New York. Knowlton & Muller. 

24, pap., 10 c. 

Contains tide tables for 1903, directory of 
railroads, salt water and fresh water fishing 
points ; hints to anglers ; game and fish laws 
of New York and New Jersey. 
Swift, F. R. Florida fancies ; with drawings 

by Albert E. Smith. Putnam. 12, $1.25 

net. 

A pleasantly written record of the mid- 
winter holiday jaunts in Florida of a busy 
Northerner. The book does not describe ho- 
tel life or the pleasures of the beach, but tells 
of fishing and hunting expeditions far away 
from beaten tracks. 

THEOLOGY, RELIGION AND SPECULATION. 

BowKER, R. Rogers. Of religion. Houghton, 
M. & Co. 12, (Arts of life.) 50 c. 
A chapter from Mr. Bowker's "The arts of 
life." 

Chapman, J. Wilbur. Present-day evangel- 
ism. Baker & T. 12, 60 c. net. 
A presentation of the present-day evangel- 
ism. The book is at the same time a discus- 
sion of the old methods of evangelistic work, 
which have been used with such signal suc- 
cess for years. In a word it is a handbook 
on the basis of which the work in an individ- 
ual church, or in a community, may be suc- 
cessfully organized. 

Colder, Rev. C. History of the deaconess 
movement in the Christian church. Jen- 
nings & P. 12, $1.75. 

Gives a general view of the deaconess 
movement without denominational bias. Opens 
with chapters on: The female diaconate in 
apostolic times and until the Reformation; 
The renewal of the female diaconate in mod- 
ern times; The institutions at Kaisersworth ; 
The development of the deaconess work in the 
state church of Germany, etc. 
Wagner, C. The better way, [L'ami;] from 
the French by Mary Louise Hendee. Mc- 
Clure, P. & Co. 12, $1 net. 
"The message of this French pastor, Charles 
Wagner, is sane, sound and uplifting. Spirit- 
ual, without mysticism, ' intellectual, without 
pedantry, he deals rationally and sympathet- 
ically wjth practical events and the complica- 
tions of modern life. His words are earnest, 
direct, optimistic, with an optimism born of 
experience,, and exhale a firm faith in' God, 
and a love of humanity in the truest sense. 
Here is no message to induce contemplation, 
but a strong, sure stimulus to well-directed, 
active, unremitting efifort for the cultivation 
of the best and highest aspirations of the 
heart. And this not by a system of mere 
ethics, but upon the basis of a sturdy faith in 
God. In the original the title of the book is 
L'Ami.' The Friend, and the conversations 
between this unknown companion, this other 
self, are the medium through which the au- 
thor expresses himself. The translation has 
been made with sympathy and perception." 
Brooklyn Daily Times. 

Whitham, Rev. A. R. Holy orders. Long- 
mans. 12, (Oxford lib. of practical the- 
ology.) $1.40 net. 
"The author trusts that this book will be 



found to contain nothing new, modern, or 
original. It has been his first aim to state as 
simply and definitely as possible the teaching 
of Holy Scripture on this great subject. And 
in the efifort both to discover and to apply that 
teaching he has endeavored to follow the 
guidance of the Universal Church. This is 
the standard to which the Church of England 
has ever appealed." Preface. 

USEFUL ARTS. 

White, Mary. More baskets and how to 
make them ; il. from photographs and draw- 
ings by the author. Doubleday, P. & Co. 
12, $1 net. 

The success of Miss White's first volume, 
"How to make baskets," has led to this com- 
panion work, which treats of more advanced 
basket-making. Shapes and weaves of greater 
beauty and intricacy are described, with new 
appliances, unusual materials, the making of 
mats and chair seats, and numberless other 
matters, about many of which the readers of 
the initial volume have written for informa- 
tion. 



Books for the ^onng. 



Bartxett, Harriet. Angelo, the musician. 

Wieners. 12, $1.25. 

San Francisco is the scene of the tale. The 
little hero begins life as a newsboy. His 
eager attention to a street musician attracts 
the notice of a rich merchant, who gives 
him a violin and the opportunity to obtain 
a musical education. An interesting love 
story rounds out the narrative. 

Bashford, H. H. Tommy Wideawake. Lane. 

16, $1 net. 

The story of a young English boy, the son 
of an army oflRcer. In the absence of his 
father, who is a widov/er, he spends his school 
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succession. They are all bachelors, with little 
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world." Preface. 

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[June, 1903 



ifreebeBt News. 



Harper & Brothers are bringing out an- 
other edition of Henry Mills Alden's remark- 
able philosophical work, "God in His World," 
which has been one of the most widely-read 
books of serious import produced in Arner- 
ica. Few of its readers, however, associate 
the author with the editor of Harper's Maga- 
zine, although they are one and the same. 
Mr. Alden has edited Harpefs for about 
thirty-four years. It is only during the past 
three years that he has actually written for 
the magazine, but his "Study," with its schol- 
arly dissertations on various topics of imme- 
diate interest, has become a necessary ad- 
junct to Harper's. 

Henry Holt & Co. have just published the 
third volume, covering the period May, 1763, 
to July, 1778, of the "Biographical Sketches 
of the' Graduates of Yale College, with an- 
nals of the college history," by Franklin Bow- 
ditch Dexter. They will publish shortly a 
new book by Charles Battell Loomis, author 
of "The Four Masted Catboat," and also well 
known as a humorous reader. The volume 
will be entitled "Cheerful Americans," and 
will include his stories of "Americans 
Abroad," that were so popular in the Century, 
and a number of other tales, including "A 
Man of Putty." "The Men Who Swapped 
Languages," "When the Automobile Ran 
Down," and "Veritable Quidors." with twen- 
ty-five illustrations by Florence Scovel Shinn, 



Fanny Y. Corey, F. L. Fithian and F. R. 
Gruger. 

Drexel Biddle has brought out Alfred 
Henry Lewis's long-promised story, "Peggy 
O'Neal," with illustrations in color by Henry 
Hutt. Peggy O'Neal was known by Wash- 
ingtonians in Andrew Jackson's day as the 
wife of Secretary Eaton, of the President's 
cabinet. The story deals with the war against 
her, carried on by the women of Washington, 
who for the reason that Peggy O'Neal was 
younger, handsomer and more vivacious than 
they, decided that their own social supremacy 
depended on combatting the young woman. 
They based their warfare on the fact that her 
father had been a tavern-keeper, and that the 
gay Peggy was altogether too frivolous of 
character. 

D. Appleton & Co. have just ready "The 
Captain's Toil-Gate," a posthumous novel by 
Frank R. Stockton, the scene of which is laid 
partly in Washington, but mainly in that part 
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William Dallam Armes ; also, "The Story of 
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from the earliest times, by William C. Edgar, 
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in their Great Commanders Series, will posi- 
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eagerly awaited for several years. 



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Vol. XXIV. 



JULY, 1903. 



No. 7. 




From " The Captains Toll-Gate " Copyiight, 1903, by D. Appleton & Co. 

A CORNER OF MR. STOCKTON'S STUDY. 
Table at which his later books were written. 



The Captain's Toll-Gate. 



The late Frank R. Stockton was active in 
the exercise of his pen very nearly to the day 
of his death. The posthumous novel by him 
which has just been published he left in ab- 
solutely complete form, and Mrs. Stockton 
assures us, in the memorial sketch which she 
has prefixed to the volume, that "no other 
hand has been allowed to add to or to take 
from it.'' "It is a characteristically demure 
piece of writing," says the N. Y. Tribune, 
"very placid in its tone, though at one stage 
of the story we see the heroine leaning over 
a prostrate man with a smoking pistol in her 
hand. This heroine is pursued by more than 
one suitor, a fact, however, which does not 
receive all the support that it should from the 
young lady's own traits. Why in the world 
any one should be particularly anxious to mar- 
ry Miss Olive Asher it is impossible for us to 
perceive. She 's a colorless young person. 
But in her circle there are several figures of 
the sort beloved by Mr. Stockton, people 



crotchety or unconsciously droll, and while 
there is nothing of serious value in this book, 
nothing either of characterization or romance 
which dwells in the memory, it is pleasant 
enough to spend an hour in the atmosphere 
of Mr. Stockton's mild humor, as one may 
do in these pages. Mrs. Stockton writes of 
her husband with great tenderness in the 
memorial sketch mentioned above, and give? 
us an engaging little vignette of a very com- 
panionable personality. The bibliography at 
the back of the book is also welcome." 

"Mrs. Stockton's sketch of her husband is 
much too short," says the N. Y. Sun. "It 
gives us a glimpse of a lovable and delightfrl 
personality and shows the author at work just 
as his readers must have imagined him. 
Swinging in a hammock under the fir trees, 
or, when winter came, in an easy chair before 
a big log fire, he dreamed his fancies and dic- 
tated them, bit by bit, as they came, to his 
secretary." (Appleton. $1.50.) 



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[July, 1903 




From " Anne Carmel." Copyriifht, 1903, by The Macmillan Co. 

HARNETT MEETS ANNE FOR THE FIRST TIME. 



Anne Carmel. 

Miss Gwendolen Overton has just brought 
out a strong novel under the title of "Anne 
Carmel." This book was at first announced 
as "The Birthright," but it was afterwards 
determined to change the name to that of the 
heroine. In the strength of her character, 
also in the muscular qualities of her lithe, 
vigorous, active body, Anne recalls the hero- 
ine of Miss Overton's former novel, "The 
Heritage of Unrest." Anne was the descen- 
vr.nt of women who had not hampered their 
men with their tender fears, to whom the 
memory of a man dead in fight or adventure 
was dearer than the possession of one loving 
ease and safety for their own sakes. She 
was of those whose mere word or smile will 
attract more devotion than will great acts of 
service and self-sacrifice rendered by another. 
Hers was a strong, dominant soul, intensely 
human, intensely alive, endowed with thrice 
the brain and the heart to love with that are 
given to the average woman. She is a splen- 
did creation and an original. 

Anne and her brother Jean, her senior by 



twelve years, lived with their mother in the 
Canadian village of St. Hilaire. All the ele- 
m.ents that went to the making of Canada 
were in the blood of the young Cure and his 
sister, from French nobleman to coureur de 
bois. Strong in her love as in every other 
quality and equipment of a nature instinct 
with bounding vitality, Anne remains true in 
thought to Harnett, the Englishman who 
comes to the region on a hunting trip, as long 
as there is room to believe that he is enough 
of a man to be true to. Besides these three 
the characters in the story include Madame 
Carmel and the various men and women of 
a Canadian habitant village. 

Aside from the strength of the story itself, 
the terse vigor of the telling, the capital 
glimpses of Canadian scenery and Canadian 
village life, and the keen and clever portrayals 
of character, the book derives no little inter- 
est from its incidental philosophy. Miss Over- 
ton tells a story that reminds one of Gilbert 
Parker's "The Right of Way" in its vigor, its 
setting, and its power, though the tales them- 
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when the story is finished there is something 
left the meat in it, the thought behind it, the 
ideas about the meaning of Hfe which the au- 
thor from time to time strikes off. 

The thing that makes this book unfailingly 
enjoyable is the brains in it. The reader is 
rot simply following a good story; he has 
constantly the feeling of being in contact with 
an author who is a woman of force, of a 
strong and attractive personality, of brains, 
cf heart, and of knowledge of the world. 
There is positive refreshment in meeting such 
strong, vigorous, alert natures as those por- 
trayed in this book and in "The Heritage of 
Unrest," and in looking at life for a time 
through the fresh eyes of men and women not 
spoiled by too much civilization. Mr. Arthur 
I. Keller has made six illustrations for the 
book, and the publishers have given it an 
attractive dress. (Macmillan. $1.50.) 



The Kaiser's Speeches. 

Wolf von Schierbrand has translated and 
compiled this volume of "Kaiser Wilhelm's" 
speeches, which throw a great light oh the 
character of the Emperor of Germany. A 
perusal of this 332-page volume enables one to 
see with what delicacy and tact William 11. 
has sometimes conducted some of his most 
strained diplomatic relations, particularly with 
France. It is true that Emperor William is a 
man of complex nature, and impulsive to a 
degree of recklessness. He usually acts under 
the emotion of the time being, and his speech- 
es at such periods are apt to do more harm 
than good. It is when he is acting from some 
preconceived decision that he exhibits the 
signs of a cautious diplomat. When suddenly 
arousied to passionate feeling, as when the 
Boxer rebellion broke out in China, he is in- 
clined to speak not wisely but too well. At 
the beginning of his reign the Kaiser an- 
nounced : "I am resolved to keep peace wilh 
everyone so far as in me lies. Our army is 
to secure us peace, and if peace should be 
broken, despite all, our army will, I trust, be 
strong enough to compel the establishment of 
peace." In giving us an opportunity to read 
the collected speeches of William 11. the com- 
piler has provided an accompanying history of 
.every circumstance and occasion attending the 
events which called forth from the Kaiser the 
verbal expressions. The volume is entertain- 
ing as well as informing, and in no other way 
could one gain a better impression of the 
views of Germany's present ruler and his 
governmental policy. (Harper, net, $2.50.) 
Boston Literary World. 



Truth and a Woman. 

Another evolutionist figures m Miss 
Brown's "Truth and a Woman" but he falls 
in love in the good old way, without theoriz- 
ing or power to control his emotions. He is 
an atheist of ihe aggressive, dogmatic kind; 
the object of his affections is a devout member 
of the Episcopal Church. She is a young: 
v;oman of culture, of brilliant attainments; 
her lover, famous though he be, is not alto- 
gether a gentleman. She believes that she 
can retain her faith vhilc loving him ; he 
holds that she must be one with him in his- 
"Weltanschauung," He begins to teach her^ 
but, brilliant woman of the world though she- 
be, admired for her wit and intellect, she 
cannot understand the admirably clear prose 
of Herbert Spencer ; even Huxley is beyond 
her. Moreover, these clear-cut intellects leave 
her emotional cravings unsatisfied ; she clings 
ail the closer to her faith, which makes no 
demands upon her reasoning power. This 
story is important because it explains so lucid- 
ly the power which religion has over women, 
the happiness it gives them which science 
cannot supply. The novel, rather short, clear- 
\y written, is by far the most significant work 
yet done by its author, whose popularity is 
far from equal to the merits oJ her later books. 
(H. S. Stone & Co. $1.25.) A^. Y. Mail and 
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[July, 1903 




From " The Story of a Grain of Wheat." Copyright, 1903, by D. Appleton & Co. 

AN AMERICAN PRIMARY WHEAT MARKET. 



The Story of a Grain of Wheat. 

Is wheat king? With due respect to all the 
royalties you can't eat cotton. You cannot get 
over this statment of Mr. William C. Edgar : 
"Food for the stomach takes precedence in 
the long list of man's demands upon the 
world, and bread has been the cry of the 
needy since history's beginning." We may 
divide periods by expressions derived from 
the milling of wheat and may call the feudal 
times the "Black Bread" era. The demand 
for wheat brought about the science of agri- 




From "The Story of a Grain of Wheat." 
D. Appleton & Co, 



Copyright, 1903, by 
MILL STONES GRINDING. 



culture and the preparation of it as flour 
called into play the mechanical arts. 

Who is going to tell us when man first grew 
wheat? The clever and industrious M. de 
Candolle came to a standstill when he tried 
to trace back wheat to its place of origin. 
The Assyrians certainly grew wheat, and the 
best proof is that Franz Unger found a grain 
of it in a brick taken from the pyramid of 
Dashur. As straw was used in brickmaking 
some 6,000 years ago, how the wheat found 
its way into the brick is readily explained. 

"It is estimated," writes the author of "The 
Story of a Grain of Wheat," "that under or- 
dinary conditions it will require about two 
square feet of land to produce enough wheat 
for one loaf of bread." Some half a century 
ago, when the proportion of the land to the 
harvest and the bread was presented, there 
was an alarm sounded. There were wise- 
acres who declared that, since population was 
increasing, the time must come when there 
would be more mouths to fill than there were 
acres of ground on which wheat could be 
grown. Mr. Edgar writes : 

"A careful examination of the facts do not 
warrant any such conclusions. There is no 
more danger of a wheat famine than there is 
of a grass famine, to which family wheat be- 
longs. Extensive wheat fields in the Canadian 
Northwest are now coming into cultivation 
and producing wheat in quantity and quality 
far beyond the most sanguine of anticipations, 



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197 



from a source which only a few years ago was 
considered unproductive. Large tracts of 
land in the United States suitable for wheat 
growing are still uncultivated." 

What part has America taken in the feeding 
of the world? 

"The chapter, still open and continuing, 
tells of the march of the pioneer from East to 
West, always accompanied by a larger expanse 
of wheatfields ; of a new nation reaching out 
to feed an older world ; of vast systems of 
railway and steamship transportation created 
ii; response to an increasing demand for bread 
abroad, and a steadily growing production of 
wheat at home ; of crops unparalleled in the 
world's history for magnitude and quality; of 
enormous fields cultivated by machinery; of 
marvellous ingenuiiy ; of gigantic mills elabor- 
ated by scientific processes, grinding day and 
night with rank on rank of steel rolls, making 
an ideal bread, healthful, clean, and strength 
producing, the food of the twentieth century, 
the climax of the white-bread -era." 

The United States hold^, then, up to to-day, 
the position of being the "purveyor in chief of 
the world's breadbasket." It is modern trans- 
portation which keeps any part of the world 
from being hungry. The whole year round a 
wheat crop is either growing, maturing, or 
being harvested. It is the Anglo-Saxon who 
is not only ready to pay his money for bread, 
but knows best where to grow the wheat. It 
is not selfish to entertain the hope that since 
we hold the key of the chest we will always 
be able. to keep it. Mr. Edgar's volume with 
its most interesting matter ought to have many 
readers. There are certainly in this world 
more breadeaters than lotus-eaters. (Apple- 
ton, net, $1.) A^. Y. Times Saturday Revieiv. 



Centenary Edition of Emerson. 

7'wo years after the death of Emerson 
eleven volumes of his works were published 
by Houghton. Miffiin & Company in the 
Riverside Edition, and in 1895 a twelfth 
volume was added. The works were carefully 
and efBciently edited by the author's friend, 
James Elliot Cabot, so that, doubtless, the 
Riverside Edition would have been the final 
one had it been annotated. It was the de- 
sii ability of having a full annotation of Emer- 
son's writings that led Houghton, Mifflin & 
Company to undertake the Centenary Edi- 
tion, three volumes of which "Nature" and 
"Essays : Two Series'' are now at hand. The 
task would have fallen to Mr. Cabot had he 
been able to undertake it. It was by his ad- 
vice and wish that Edward W. Emerson, son 



of the philosopher, assumed the duty. Mr. 
Emerson does not speak of himself as an 
editor, but his office is really of that nature. 
He has written an introductory biographical 
sketch and has made copious notes "side- 
lights" he terms them "on the man, his sur- 
roundings, his work and method . . . gath- 




From " The Flower Beautiful." Copyright, 19 3, by Houghton, Mifflin & Co. 
A STUDY. 

ered from the journals (of Emerson), the 
correspondence, reminiscences and works writ- 
ten about him." These notes have been placed 
at the end of each volume. They furnish an 
abundant warrant for the edition ; supplied in 
satisfactory quantity, conceived with unfailing 
judgment, and with the fine and tactful appre- 



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ciation that was to have been expected they 
give completeness to the works of Emerson 
by affording the needed interpretation. In 
many cases also they humanize passages in 
the essays and lectures that were before cold 
and oracular. 

It is hard to resist further quotation, and 
it is impossible to speak of the editor's work 
without enthusiasm. The books themselves 
paper, printing, binding and all are, it is 
needless to say, everything that could be de- 
sired. (Houghton, M. & Co. In 12 v. v. i, 
2, ea., $1.75-) ^- Y- Commercial Advertiser. 

Autobiography of a Thief. 

One is a little skeptical as a rule about these 
"genuine human-document" stories, but there 
seems no reason to doubt that "The Auto- 
biography of a Thief" is the real thing. 

On the contrary, the book reads like the 
truth, and the "editor," Hutchins Hapgood, 
and the publishers vouch for it. Still, it is 
likely that the story is not a literal state- 
ment of fact in all cases. There is apparently 
some exaggeration, doubtless unintentional, 
in places, and one suspects that there is a 
mistake in one or two dates. But on the 
whole the thief has probably told his story 
very frankly and truthfully. 

The man who tells the story is "Light- 
Fmgered Jim." Mr. Hapgood met this pick- 
pocket and burglar just after his release from 
a third term in the penitentiary. The ex- 
convict was anxious to publish in the news- 
papers an expose of conditions obtaining in 
two of the New York State penal institu- 
tions, partly out of revenge, and partly be- 
cause he considered the penitentiary a crime 
against humanity. The man had lead a typical 
thief's life, but he was of more than ordi- 
nary natural intelligence, and he had edu- 
cated himself by means of the prison libraries. 
He had also a gift of vigorous expression. 
Mr. Hutchins became interested in the man, 
and the ex-convict finally consented to tell his 
story for publication. 

It will be noticed that this book strikingly 
corroborates the revelations that Josiah Flynt 
has been making in his books. Though the 
story treats of the conditions of several years 
ago in New York, there is little doubt that it 
practically is a true picture of to-day. Here 
i? another argument for the work of the uni- 
versity settlement and Jacob A. Riis. 

Mr. Hapgood says at the end of this un- 
usual and exceedingly interesting book : 

"As he told his story to me I saw every- 
where the mark of the natural rogue, of the 



man grown with a roguish boy's brain. The 
humor of much of his tale seemed to me 
strong. I was never able to look upon him as 
a deliberate malefactor. He constantly im- 
pressed me as gentle and imaginative, impres- 
sionable, and easily influenced, but not nat- 
urally vicious or vindictive. If I am right, his 
reform is nothing more or less than the com- 
ing to years of sober maturity. He is now 35 
years old and, as he himself puts it, 'Some 
men acquire wisdom at 21, others at 35, and 
some never.' " 

"The Autobiography of a Thief" is pub- 
lished by the new publishing house which re- 
cently began its career with an excellent edi- 
tion of "Everyman." If all its books are as 
interesting as these, the success of the new 
house is assured. (Fox, Duflfield & Co. net, 
$1.25.) Brooklyn Eagle. 



Political History of Slavery. 

Although he did not live to write the last 
chapter, Mr. Smith's study of the slavery prob- 
lem in the United States is in every respect the 
most thorough and reliable that has yet ap- 
peared. A sufficient time has elapsed since the 
struggle closed to allow the bitter passions 
that were aroused both north and south during 
that time of stress to subside and make room 
fci the calm and judicious consideration of 
the facts in the case. Furthermore, although 
his attitude is that of the dispassionate his- 
torian, Mr. Smith had first-hand knowledge 
of. many of the events of which he writes and 
personal acquaintance with many of the actors 
in the great drama. His book has the addi- 
tional advantage of being written from the 
point of view of an inhabitant of the middle 
west of Ohio, a State where no small part of 
the struggle just preceding the war was fought 
out. As Mr. Reid says of the book in his in- 
troduction : "It is a manifest effort to be fair 
to all, but to be fair first to the public men 
and communities of the middle west who were 
thought to have been known sometimes at 
the east less well than they deserved." 

Great care has been taken to follow the de- 
bates in congress and the campaign speeches 
as far as those would throw any light upon the 
position of men and the alignment of parties. 
The Unionists of Ohio naturally receive a 
large credit for their share in the preservation 
of the government, sometimes to the exclusion 
of other men who did their appointed work 
and bore their share of the burden. But one 
could scarcely have the heart to quarrel with 
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that produced such men as Giddings and 
Brough and Corwin and Garfield. 

Our keenest interest at the present time is 
likely to be centred upon those chapters deal- 
ing with the days of reconstruction and es- 
pecially with the passage of the thirteenth, 
fourteenth, and fifteenth amendments. Mr. 
Smith makes it clear that the purpose of the 
Republicans in bestowing the right of suffrage 
upon the negro so soon after his emancipa- 
tion was to place in his hands what they con- 
sidered to be the only efficient weapon for his 



Fur Traders of Columbia River. 

Volume III. of the Knickerbocker Litera- 
ture Series, edited by Frank Lincoln Olmsted 
with the purpose of presenting in convenient 
form for student and literature classes the 
substance of the works of certain noteworthy 
American authors, is "The Fur Traders of the 
Columbia River and the Rocky Mountains," 
as described by Washington Irving in his ac- 
count of "Astoria" and the record of the 
"Adventures of Captain Bonneville." Irving 
drew the materials for these two stories, the 




From " Fur Traders of Columbia River." 



Copyright, 1903, by G. P. Putnam's Sons. 



ASTOkIA IN 181 I. 
Based on a print in Gray's ' H'.story of Oregon." 



own defence and the instrument of his uplift- 
ing. 

The last chapter. The Failure of Recon- 
struction, is written by Mr. John J. Halsey, 
professor of political science at Lake Forest 
College. Of this, important as it is, little can 
be said. It is a subject that has not yet be- 
come a part of our national history. The 
struggle of which Mr. Smith wrote is closed 
for good and all, and there is a certain fitness 
in the fact that his share in the present work 
closed with the settling of the problem of 
slavery. The failure of reconstruction is a 
matter that must still be dealt with and not 
written about in a calm, unbiassed chronicle. 
(Putnam. 2 v. net, $4.50.) Public Opinion. 



editor reminds us, from a wide acquaintance 
with the prime movers in the great under- 
takings he described and from much personal 
and private information that is no longer 
available. Consequently his narrative depict- 
ing the facts and the romances of trapper life 
and relating the efforts of organized fur trad- 
ing in the far west "present, in their particu- 
lar field, the most interesting account yet pro- 
duced of those interesting phases of pioneer 
life." A full calendar of important dates 
(1670-1867) prefaces the text and there is an 
index at the end. There are nine illustrations 
from drawings by F. S. Church, from photo- 
graphs and engravings. (G. P. Putnam's 
Sons. 90 c.) A''. Y. Commercial Advertiser. 



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Italian is as interesting a type as the Ameri- 
can, yet the reader's sympathy, from first to 
last, is with Streyn. With all the odds against 
him, he puts up such a splendid fight, and to 
the end he never acknowledges or seems to 
know when he is defeated. There is a freshness 
about the style of this book, an originality 
about the plot, a virility in the character draw- 
i'-'g, that prompt one to give Mrs. Fremont 
Older a cordial welcome as a writer of prom- 
ise, whose future work it will be interesting 
to watch. (Funk & Wagnalls. $1.50.) iV. 
y. Com. Advertiser. 



FRANCES CHARLES. 

Author of "The Siege of Youth." Courtesy of Little, Brown & Co. 

The Socialist and the Prince. 

The nucleus of the plot of this story by a 
new California writer is embodied in the title 
the dilemma of a woman, who hesitates be- 
tween a nameless, homeless Socialist on the 
one hand and an Italian prince on the other. 
What the title fails to give even a hint of is 
the strength with which the characters of 
these three principal actors are portrayed. 
They are vital, living human beings, drawn 
v.ith such, bold, telling strokes that they .seem 
to stand AOUt in clear relief from the printed 
page. It is comparatively easy to conceive of 
a Socialist like Streyn, arriving from nowhere 
and appearing in San Francisco at the very 
hour when the people were ripe for revolt and 
atiarchy. It is easy to tell us that this 
stranger, from his opening words, held his 
audience spell-bound ; that day by day new 
converts by the thousand flocked to hear him ; 
tbat as the movement grew the consternation 
of the conservative citizens, the capitalists and 
railroad magnates grew in proportion ; that 
finally one night, when every public hall and 
av:dience room in the city was closed to him, 
he marched his legions of workingmen and 
n:alcontents up the slope of "Nob Hill," the 
exclusive realm of wealthy homes, and ad- 
dressed them from the front piazza of Col. 
Peyton, the leading magnate of the city. 

And yet, in the hour of his first great tri- 
urrph, the hour when for the first time he 
feels his power over the multitude of men 
v;ho trust him, he is vanquished, discomfited, 
routed, by a woman's soft voice the voice of 
a young girl, Col. Peyton's daughter, who, 
stepping out upon the veranda where he is a 
trespasser, ironically invites him in to have 
c( fi^ee with her father and the other capitalists 
gcthered around the dinner table. This is the 
beginning of Theodosia's acquaintance with 
Streyn, and of the rivalry between the latter 
and Prince Ruspoli. In his own way the 



Sarah Tuldon. 

A NOVELIST who takes for his background 
rural Wessex in the forties provokes an in- 
evitable comparison. In "Sarah Tuldon" we 
are introduced to the typical peasant family 
of Mr. Thomas Hardy: The heroine is the 
beautiful daughter of an ill-paid and drunken 
laborer handicapped by a querulous, incapable 
wife and countless younger children. All the 
elements of the D'Urberville menage confront 
one at the outset. The scene is a country vil- 
lage near Dorchester ^better known to fiction 
and to fame as "Casterbridge" ; the dissolute 
young squire, who is an essential in every 
novel of country life since the "Vicar of 
Wakefield," bears the name of Alec, like his 
D'Urberville prototype, one is prepared for a 
thoroughgoing plagiarism. But though, Mr. 
Agnus has taken no pains to invent new 
dramatis personce for the stage-setting of Mr. 
Hardy, the development of the story is en- 
tirely original. Sally Tuldon, with all the 
external make-up of Tess, is a clever vixen 
who outwits even the squire, and her story 
goes to prove that a strong-minded woman 
who has her own way is a blessing, though 
often a blessing in disguise, to a whole vil- 
lage, not to say a countryside. The book is a 
complete and amusing apology for a shrew, 
and the taming in the sequel is left to the 
hand of time and is none too thorough. Sally 
Tuldon is all that Tess might have been had 
she owned a strong will. After reforming 
her family by dint of talking them down, she 
rrtarries without his consent a well-to-do 
farmer, and reorganizes him and his. We are 
far from the philosophy and the tragic atmos- 
phere of one of the original Wessex master- 
pieces; but there is much humor and force in 
"Sarah Tuldon." and, while the dialogue of 
the laborers of Wessex is not so memorable 
as that of Mr. Hardy, it is probably somewhat 
nearer to the early Victorian reality. (Little, 
B. & Co. $1.50.) r/je Nation. 



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Wars of Peace. 

Struggles between capital and labor, but 
mainly between a would-be monopoly and in- 
dependent industrial concerns, which it suc- 
ceeds in crushing, are "The Wars of Peace" 
with which A. F. Wilson deals in his novel 
bearing this title. The author's apparent ob- 
ject is to demonstrate that there can be noth- 
ing good in "trusts," and this demonstration, 
if it fails to convince, at least takes the form 
of a very satisfying and interestingly devel- 
oped romance. 

Albion Harding, a wealthy New England 
mill owner, of high ideals, whose tastes in- 
cl'ne to literature and music, becomes the head 
of a combination which he organizes with the 
avowed intention of directing in strict accord- 
ance with the principles of private and busi- 
ness honor. His only son, Theodore, has dif- 
ferent ideas about the morality of monopolies. 
He declines to have anything to do with his 
father's enterprise, undertaken in spite of his 
opposition, withdraws his capital from his 



father's business, and acquires a mill on his 
own account, with the result that relations be- 
tween the two men gradually become strained 
to the breaking point. 

Albion Harding has an unshakable belief 
in the infallibility of his own judgment. He 
strives with all his soul, as president of his 
"missionary monopoly," as he styles it, to 
administer its affairs so that its methods and 
profits shall be strictly legitimate ; but his 
theories do not work out in practice, and he 
finds himself compelled to let Roger Burnham, 
a man entirely without scruple, do things which 
he himself would not personally think of re- 
sorting to through stress of circumstances. 

One by one this masterful, confident finan- 
cier sees his plans miscarry, his theories re- 
futed, and. old and ill, he is brought to a 
bitter realization of the fact that his whole 
course in domestic and business life has been 
a mistaken one. The trust does not prosper. 
(LittJe, B. & Co. $1.50.) iV. Y. Times Sat. 
Review. 




From " With the Tiejs.' 



Copyright, 1903, by Baker & Taylor Co. 



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My Relations With Carlyle. 

Two months ago, in reviewing the "New 
Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Car- 
lyle," we laid stress upon the failure of that 
book even with the aid of Sir James Crich- 
ton-Browne's bitter introduction, and Mr. 
Alexander Carlyle's similarly ill-tempered 
notes to shake the authority of Froude on 
anything relating to the famous household in 
Cheyne Row. As we then pointed out, the 
editors of the book seemed to have forgotten 
that Froude was a gentleman. How thor- 
oughly he deserved that title ought to be 
made clear, even to Sir James Crichton- 
Browne and Mr. Alexander Carlyle, by the 
pamphlet entitled "My Relations with Car- 
lyle" which their revival of the old contro- 



versy has goaded his executors to publish. 
Only a high minded gentleman, honorable to 
the core, could have endured the obloquy 
which Froude brought upon himself by his 
truth telling about Carlyle, without oflfering 
to the public the facts which his heirs have 
ar last been obliged to print. All those who 
cherish Froude's good name must rejoice that 
he set these facts on paper. "I have written 
this," he says of his statement, "that those 
who care for me may have something to rely 
upon if my honor and good faith are assailed 
after I am gone." With it they put an end to 
a debate, which long since became a scandal, 
foi in it they placed before the world what 
must be accepted as the last word on the sub- 
ject. (Scribner. net, 75c.) A''. F. Tribune. 




From " Our Northern Shnibs." Copyright, 1903, by Charles Scribner's Sons. 

NEW JERSEY TEA, Ceanoihus americanus. 

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THE SAUNTERER. 



Walks in New England. 

A SELECTION from the nature sketches and 
pcems by Charles Goodrich Whiting, which 
have from time to time appeared in The Re- 
publican, is published by John Lane in a hand- 
some illustrated volume, entitled "Walks in 
New England.'" As "nature editorials" the 
prose pieces have been read with much friend- 
ly interest, evinced by many letters of query, 
comment and suggestion. Readers not a few 
hove spoken of their practice of cutting out 
and preserving these articles for the informa- 
tion they give in regard to wild life near 
home. These and others will be glad to have 
the same material, sifted, arranged, revised, 
and embellished with all the beauty of the 
printer's art. There are readers who recog- 
nize literature only when it is printed in large 
type and bound in a book, and there is some- 
thing to be said in their defense, for hand- 
some type certainly does wonders in bringing 
out the qualities of prose. Yet it needed not 
a publication in book form to show in these 
sketches the essential quality of true litera- 
ture, the writer's zest and joy m his work. 
Nor are the sketches the worse for having 



been written to meet the exigencies of jour- 
nalism, for the writer on nature in this re- 
spect enjoys an advantage over most pro- 
ducers of literature, in that his work does not 
need the deliberate manipulation, the tentative 
gropings of many forms of literary art. Like 
impressionistic paintings of outdoor life, they 
are all the better for representing a single 
mood, for laying stress upon freshness and 
in;mediateness of view, rather than upon cal- 
culated artifices of composition. 

On their journalistic side, then, these papers 
hi've the merit of being a faithful record of 
nature's doings for the day and the season, 
and inhabitants of this region will find pleas- 
antly called to mind many a notable spring or 
Indian summer, many a drouth or rain-fall or 
windstorm which has lodged even in the mem- 
ories of those who take little note of such 
thmgs. But although the book is arranged 
S':- as to conduct the reader from the first 
burgeonings of spring through the changes of 
the seasons, it is no dry-as-dust almanac of 
the weather a choky kind of fodder which 
has been too abundantly supplied in recent 
years by commonplace people to meet the in- 



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satiable demand for nature and garden litera- 
ture. Only the more poetical and significant 
aspects of nature have been seized upon, the 
days and the seasons that inspire, that com- 
pel comment, that live long in memory after 
their sun has set. And v^'hile there is much 
careful noting of particularities, of the ap- 
pearance of flowers, of the aspect of woods in 
various seasons, of the songs of birds, these 
details are only made the point of departure 
for discourse on nature and man and the 
Infinite. (Lane, net, $1.50.) Springfield Re- 
publican. 

Stay-at Homes. 

Mrs. Walford, it may be said without fear 
of contradiction, now stands at the head of 
that dwindling company of minor English 
novelists whose right to a modest place in 
the annals of English literature. is incontesta- 
ble, because to a thorough knowledge of the 
subject with which they almost invariably deal 
English upper class and upper middle-class 
life they add a sound technique, because 
their work is, in its own minor way, sound 
art. The leadership has passed from hand to 
hand during the thirty years that have elapsed 
since Mrs. Walford first put pen to paper. 
Miss Yonge and Mrs. Oliphant belonged to 
an earlier generation, and need not be con- 
sidered here, but Mrs. Walford, William Nor- 
ris, the "Duchess" and John Strange Win- 
ter may be mentioned here as among those 
who, having made a first success, retained 
their popularity. Mrs. Alexander must be 
placed on a somewhat lower plane, nor can 
much attention be given here to those whose 
popularity began and ended with a sing-le 
book. 

Mrs. Walford and Mr. Norris. belong to- 
gether, apart from the "Duchess" and John 
Strange Winter, whose work, with all its mer- 
its, was more obviously written to attract the 
multitude. For true and pleasing pictures of 
the cultured upper-middle class, for stories 
pure and simple without ulterior social aims, 
"tendencies" or "problems." the authors of 
"The Matchmaker" and "A Bachelor's Blun- 
der" are to be commended, their work is al- 
ways so pleasant, optimistic, wholesome, clean, 
and, above all, so well bred, as becomes books 
dealing with their chosen subject. 

Mrs. Walford is not always at her best : it 
is not every year that she succeeds in pro- 
ducing so charming a bit of fancy as "Leddy 
Marget," and it is possible that the impatient 
reader may find the opening pages of "Stay- 
at-Homes" somewhat tame. But let her per- 



severe, and she (Mrs. Walford is decidedly a 
women's novelist) will be rewarded by a 
clever plot, and some people worth knowing, 
people well born and people "smart," but with 
no "birth" to speak of, people narrow with 
the narrowness of a stagnant county "Stay- 
at-Homes" and people broad-minded with 
the experience of social life in London and 
on the Continent. The heroine is a girl of 
fine character, yet very human withal in her 
loyalty and inexperienced bewilderment; the 
adventuress is a dainty bit of femininity, a 
brave little social struggler, a mixture of good 
and not very black evil, a real product of 
present-day cosmopolitanism, which allows 
money to buy so many things, in an old-fash- 
ioned county circle as well as in London, in 
Homburg and on the Riviera. Average well- 
bred people, these, with prejudices that are 
but exaggerations of sound old principles and 
social ways of doing and seeing, happy people, 
too, with everything to make them contented. 
Sunshine prevails in their lives, and it colors 
the mood of the reader who follows their ad- 
ventures in "Stay-at-Homes." (Longmans. 
$1.50.) Mail and Express. 



Man Overboard ! 

In several of his novels, beginning even 
with "Mr. Isaacs," Mr. Crawford has be- 
trayed a latent fondness for the mystical and 
the esoteric. But this weird little story, "Man 
Overboard !" is the first out-and-out ghost 
story that has yet come from his pen. It is 
a story of two sailors, twin brothers, so ex- 
actly the counterpart of each other that their 
best friends could not distinguish them. Cer- 
tainly the mate who tells the story could not, 
excepting that Jack was a shade more cheer- 
ful than Jim. One of them, it may have been 
Jack, could whistle "Nancy Lee" ; one of them, 
who, as it turned out afterwards, was Jack, 
had a sweetheart at home. One of them was 
swept overboard on a stormy night Jim, 
everybody supposed him to be, and the sur- 
viving twin confirmed it. But whether it was 
Jim or not who was swept overboard, he did 
not stay there. Not a night passed but what 
the man at the wheel heard the tune of "Nancy 
Lee," Jack's tune, solftly whistled behind him ; 
not a meal was eaten in the forecastle but 
what, where twelve men had sat down, thir- 
teen empty plates, thirteen soiled knives and 
forks, were taken up; not a day passed but 
what Jack "or .was it Jim?" threw over- 
board his brother's pipe, only to find it later, 
a little more moldy and water-logged, but with 
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And gradually a panic spread in that ship ; 
the comforting suspicion that some one was 
playing a series of practical jokes gradually 
gave place to uncontrollable terror. The 
whole occurrence is depicted with admirable 
vagueness, nothing direct or definite, even the 
identity of the chief actors being left uncer- 
tain, wnth the refrain, "or was it Jim?" re- 
curring after every mention of Jack, with the 
persistence of a Wagnerian leitmotiv. Grad- 
ually the secret of the mystery and the con- 



iTiysterious east, with all the fascination that 
comes from mystery and danger. Mr. Daw- 
son has the knack of making us actually see 
and hear and smell the life of the far-oflf 
Moorish villages that he describes. He in- 
troduces us to a rare assortment of strange 
and alien lives, but the central figure of them 
all is an outcast, a sort of human mongrel 
that, like as sometimes happens with mon- 
grels, shows here and there the traces of high 
breeding. By birth he is partly Moor, partly 




The Bird Book 



ht 1903, by John Lane. 



ncction that it had with Jack's sweetheart at 
home "or was she Jim's 't" becomes appar- 
ent, and the story ends with a touch of creepy 
horror, well calculated to make the reader 
glance apprehensively over bis shoulder, even 
in broad daylight. The book contains a bi- 
ography of the author. (Macmillan. 50 c.) 
N. Y. Commercial Advertiser. 



Hidden Manna. 

"African Nights' Entertainment" was 
not by any means the first volume to come 
from Mr. Dawson's pen, but it was the first 
cf such a quality as to grip the attention of 
that class of readers whose opinion really 
counts, in a way to insure a cordial recep- 
tion for anything that he does in the future. 
His latest book, "Hidden Manna," possesses 
much of the same special flavor that distin- 
guished the "African Nights" a flavor 6f the 



Spanish Jew ; by education, an Englishman 
and a Christian ; by profession, he has been 
successively a clergyman, a missionary in the 
London slums, an actor, a theatrical agent, 
and finally, after sinking gradually through 
one stratum after another of the social mire, 
he vanishes one dark night in the murky 
v/aters of the Thames, whence he emerges no 
longer a white man, but a Moor, a holy Mo- 
hammedan beggar, content to sit in meek 
silence at the gate of a remote town in Mo- 
rocco. ... A stampede of maddened camels 
and a daring rescue by the beggar result in 
the latter's appointment as companion and in- 
structor to the shareefs son and heir, and 
brings him in daily contact with the English 
bride whose memory pierces through the clev- 
erest disguise and repeated layers of desert 
sunburn. The situation is one that promises 
tragedy, and is worked out with direct power. 
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7rom "The Siege of Youth." Copyright, 1903. by Little, Brown & Co. 

LUDWIGA REMAINEDiAT THE PIANO. 



Love Thrives in War. 

"Love Thrives in War" is the brave title 
of Miss Mary Catherine Crowley's romance 
of the frontier in 1812. It is dedicated to 
"all gallant lovers who have gone to war for 
love of country, and all loyal sweethearts 
who, with as true a courage, have buckled on 
the swords of soldier heroes." Great days 
were those. The days of Old Tippecanoe and 
Tecumseh and the ever-glorious Perry. And 
they are all three in the story. Here we have 
the hero of Lake Erie, fresh from victory, 
'noble in bearing as was ever knight of old, 
splendid of physique and with the head and 
face of the Greek Apollo." And brave Te- 
cumseh "so kingly, imperious and noble in 
appearance that he might have been taken for 
the manitou of the woods." He was a man 
of feeling, as here presented to us. When 
Laurente Macintosh, radiant and white as a 
liiy, beautiful as a summer's day and be- 
trothed to young Pierre Labadie, was carried 



cif by the half-breed Blue Jacket, Tecumseh 
irtervened. 

"The Springing Panther does not make war 
0:1 squaws," he said grimls^. "Blue Jacket, 
the woman does not seem to love you ; why 
do you pursue htfr?" 

"Because I wish to break her spirit. Should 
;i milk-fa(?ed woman be permitted to laugh at 
me ?" 

Tecumseh eyed hirr for some seconds in 
silence. "James La Salle," he said, at length, 
"if j'ou want to have part with your mother's 
people, take for your bride a daughter of the 
forest. If you would remain among the pale- 
faces, woo some demoiselle with whom you 
hcve found more favor than in the eyes of 
this girl. I have forb'dden my warriors to 
carry off the white squaws. Tecumseh must 
be obeyed, M'sieur Blue Jacket." 

And when the brave young Pierre Labadie 
vas taken prisoner did Tecumseh stand be- 
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British surgeon to him and he showed himself 
a man of knowledge in affairs of the heart. 

"Ugh," muttered the great Shawanoe, "The 
v'liite squaw loves this French Long Knife? 
The white squaw love a good warrior. She 
shall bind his wounds if she will. The wine 
o* her love shall give him strength, for it is 
v/ell to save the life of a brave man." 

And did the fair Miss Macintosh save her 
hero's life? And did they have a military 
wedding and walk together between a double 
line of officers, with a rattle of steel and a 
hundred strong arms forming an archway 
with a hundred sabres? And did they live to 
a ripe old age in the old Labadie homestead 
on the."Cote-du-Nord," where their children's 
children gathered about them before the fire 
in the great chimney, pleading for stories of 
Tecumseh, Tippecanoe and Perry? If these 
questions fail to interest the reader he had 
best take care, and ask himself whether the 
fault is not that he is growing old. (Little, 
Brown & Co. $1.50.) A'". F. Sun. 



Trent's Trust. 

The seven stories contained in this post- 
humous volume by Bret Harte reveal the au- 
thor's natural gifts and matured art at their 
best. There is no hint of an overworked 
jjenre, no straining after effect, and the even 
excellence of the collection is notable. The 
story which gives the volume its title is long 
enough to come within the. category of nov- 
elettes. The scenes shift from California to 
England. The characters are picturesquely 
contrasted. The plot, while ingenious, is built 
upon rather conventional lines for Mr. Harte, 
i)Ut is well constructed and engrossing. 

"Mr. Macglowrie's Widow," both in set- 
ting and dramatis pcrsonce, is characteristi- 
cally Western. 

Col. Starbottle and that beguiling and in- 
corrigible scamp. Jack Hamlin, reappear, to 
the reader's delight. The picture of hand- 
some Jack Hamlin, convalescing, in a quiet. 
God-fearing community where his reputa- 
tion has preceded him winning the respect 




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Copyright, 1903, by Houghton, Mifflin & Co. 



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of all by his singing of hymns, and finally 
initiating all hands into the delights of an 
irnocuous game of poker, is deliciously hu- 
iriOrous. 

One experiences a pang of genuine regret 
that this volume represents the last work of 
so characteristically an American writer. 
(Houghton, M. & Co. $1.25.) Baltimore 
Sun. 



Pigs in Clover. 

There are two ways of pessimism in art ; 
one traces the cruelty of circumstance, the 
other of humanity. From this passionate 
novel, which we have seen miscalled "smart," 
we cull a sentence that shows Frank Danby's 
way of pessimism. "The bright elusive wo- 
manhood which had bewitched Karl, Louis 
saw shy and wild, and he wanted it, as men 
always want to bring down wild things." It 
is then a woman whom we see piloted into 
tragedy in reading these pages ; and, in fact, 
they reveal two women whom Charon could 
hardly have conducted to shores gloomier 
than those they reached. One is a politician's 
neglected daughter, whose Quixotic gener- 
osity entraps her into a foul marriage whence 
she emerges a creature who "always did what 
she was told." The other is an author famous 



for a novel of South Africa, and she is the 
bright elusive lady in our quotation. The 
man whom she thought might inspire a chap- 
ter wheedles her into adultery, snubs her pen 
into silence, finally lays his mean and faithless 
spirit there before her, yet never calls to the 
loving animal in her nature without shaking 
her with a frenzy of obedience. For he is 
essentially Bel-Ami, a creature with genius in 
his flesh like the debauched journalist who 
prowls through De Maupassant's immortal 
pigstye. There is no escape from his evil al- 
lurements save by death or flight. 

Imagine these women moving in the highest 
circles about the time of the Jameson Raid. 
Imagine finance in hundreds of thousands, and 
controlling them a great soft-hearted Jew 
who bawls that when the Jew is honored as 
a Jew he will shout in his synagogue "I be- 
lieve in Christ; thank the great God I can 
say it now." There is indeed plenty of bustle 
and chatter and "actuality" to persuade us 
that Joan and Aline are women of an unre- 
mote yesterday. The vulgar references to 
Gladstone are to be regretted, and it must 
be confessed that the identification of fictitious 
persons with public events is managed rather 
unadroitly. The strength and intensity of 
the novel, however, are beyond dispute. 
(Lippincott. $1.50.) London Academy. 




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The Real Benedict Arnold. 

Mr. Todd is not convincing in this defense 
of Arnold, or rather apology for him. He 
does succeed, however, in arousing our sym- 
pathy for the man during his struggles against 
the prejudice and injustice of envious enemies 
v/ho hindered or discredited him, robbing him 
of honors really his due when he was fighting 
bravely, planning wisely, and working ener- 
getically for his country. His decadence and 
treachery Mr. Todd attributes to "the fasci- 
nations, the persuasions long continued, the 
intrigues with the British, of a wife madly 
loved, and which, if discovered, he knew 
would tear her from his arms." It cannot be 
said that he proves his premise, yet his con- 
clusion seems reasonable. The attitude of 
Congress towards Arnold, its recurrent har- 
assings and condemnations, prepared the way 
for the Tory wife's influence. Yet Washing- 
ton trusted Arnold and befriended him that 
ought surely to have been ample offset 10 any 
coldness or injustice on the part of Congress. 
Mr. Todd's defense or apology is not suffi- 
cient. He does not succeed in whitewashing 
Arnold. (A. S. Barnes & Co. net, $1.20.) 
The Outlook. 

The True Abraham Lincoln. 

The title of this book suggests revelations 
which have been withheld in previous books 
about Lincoln, but there is nothing of the sort 
found here. This is the same Abraham Lin- 
coln whom we all know so well, and about 
whom we can never get enough to read. To 
the extent that it savors of pretence the title 
is unhappy, but having discharged the un- 
pleasant part of criticism we may welcome 
and praise the volume. The author is a rev- 
erent, patient, industrious and discriminating 
gleaner. His pages abound in word pictures 
of Lincoln done by other and often very au- 
thoritative hands. 

From Ben Butler's Book is taken the pic- 
ture of the tall Lincoln, with tall hat and long 
tailed coat, riding down the whole six miles 
of Butler's lines, within easy rifle shot of the 
rebels all alert on account of the cheering in 
the Union lines. Lincoln, beside the dumpy 
Butler, made a most conspicuous mark, and 
refused to allow any one to interpose between 
himself and the enemy, to whom he paid no 
attention, devoting his energies to worrying 
Butler with engineering problems. Joseph H. 
Choate describes Lincoln as he appeared at 
Cooper Union on his first coming to New 
York, and from some unknown writer is 



quoted a most minute and excellent descrip- 
tion of Lincoln making a speech the position 
of his hands, the set of his clothes, his expres- 
sion, the tone of his voice, etc. Thaddeus 
Stevens, John B. Alley, Senator Connors, of 
California, Leonard Swett, Mr. Herndon 
(Lincoln's law partner). Justice Weldon, of 
the United States Court of Claims ; Chauncey 
M. Depew, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ben Per- 
ley Poore, Joseph Medill, Mr. S. B. Wash- 
burn, Amos Tuck, of New Hampshire; 
Charles A. Dana, George W. Julian, Judge 
Usher and John A. Kasson, of Iowa, are a 
few of the scores of witnesses whom Mr. 
Curtis puts on the stand to tell from personal 
knowledge the most interesting things they 
can think of concerning Lincoln; while from 
D. R. Locke (Petroleum V. Nasby), whose 
writings gave the War President many a 
hearty laugh, is quoted an opinion of Lin- 
coln's wit which is worthy of attention. It 
i.- as follows : 

"Those who accuse Lincoln of frivolity 
never knew him. I never saw a more 
thoughtful face; I never saw a more digni- 
fied face ; I never saw so sad a face. He had 
humor of which he was totally unconscious, 
but it was not frivolity. He said wonderfully 
witty things, but never from a desire to be 
witty. His wit was entirely illustrative. He 
used it because, and only because, at times he 
cculd say more in this way and better illus- 
trate the idea with which he was pregnant." 

The book follows Lincoln very closely from 
his earliest youth, shows him to us as a great 
orator, as a prairie politician, as a skilful com- 
mander of armies, as the most tactful of dip- 
lomats, as a sympathetic friend of all the 
afiiicted and the man who patiently bore the 
sorrows of a nation. The last chapter deals 
with Lincoln's philosophy, morals and re- 
ligion. He was a very superstitious man, we 
are informed, and some of his dreams, to 
which he attached significance, are presented. 
John G. Nicolay and John Hay, who knew 
Lincoln very well, say he was a man of the 
deepest religious convictions but without 
creed. His idea of morals in connection with 
the profession of a lawyer is given, in his own 
words, as follows: 

". . . Discourage litigation. Persuade your 
neighbors to compromise whenever you can. 
Point out to them how the nominal winner is 
often a real loser in fees, expenses and waste 
of time. As a peacemaker the lawyer has a 
superior opportunity of being a good man. 
Never stir up litigation." (Lippincott. $2.) 
N. Y. Tribune. 



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CcUttCt iMontf)Ii Srfaifto of Currfitt fLIterattiK. 
EDITED BY A. H. LEYPOLDT. 



JULY, 1903. 

OF GARDENS AND GARDENERS 

FEMININE. 

"I LOVE my garden," begins the German 
Elizabeth, who, as everybody now knows, is, 
properly speaking, no German at all thus 
summing in frank and briefly affectionate 
statement the whole pith and substance of two 
of the most rarely intimate and delightfully 
unaffected volumes which have successively 
appeared from one pen within the last half- 
dozen years. "What a happy woman I am," 
she continues a few pages further en, "living 
ni a garden, with booKs, babies, birds, and 
flowers, and plenty of leisure to enjoy them!" 
Her pleasure is like sunshine, natural and 
purely health}', ?.nd quite naturally she writes 
of it, as one might note the flash of dew 
among morning roses or the blueness of a 
June sky. 

With her flower-borders she cultivates her 
fancies, in an almost equal measure of riot- 
ous abundance. She is joyous, an enthusiast, 
yet strangely enough with no faintest hint of 
desire after propagandism. She loves her 
garden which is all sufficient; and the ever 
strenuous gleaner of stray wisps of knowl- 
edge should seek elsewhere than in her pages 
for a harvest. Elizabeth has but little in- 
formation to impart. Either the charming 
lady has sagely decided that whatever erudi- 
tion she maj' suppose herself to possess upon 
the subject is best kept safely locked within 
her own breast, or, an equally possible and 
no less pleasing hypothesis, she is really but 
little better versed in the obscure science of 
floriculture than the average innocence of her 
sex would lead one to expect. Indeed she 
confesses to the reading of dry extracts direct 
from gardening books to her dumbly resent- 
ful gardener while he delved a course I am 
sure no properly self-sufficient cultivator 
would stoop to pursue till the unfortunate 
man fell raving mad and had to be shut away 
in an asylum. Sometimes her flowers grew 
and sometimes they did not in which latter 
event, however, no horridly realistic remarks 
about aphides, bore-worms, red spiders, or 
the like, are allowed to mar the poetry of her 
page. With a few ingenuous allusions relative 
to weather, a subject we can all understand 
and wherewith we all sympathize, her fail- 



ures are grac2fully dismissed in the happy 
confidence of better luck another season; nor 
can I recollect in either of the books a single 
instance of advice or admonition given. 

Yes; I am afraid it is undeniably true that 
Elizabeth is most abjectly unscientifically old- 
fashioned, nor does she care a rosehip whether 
she convert the world to her hobby or no. 
With her books, hep babies, her birds, and 
her flowers, not to mention the Man of 
Wrath, she is happy. She writes simply be- 
cause she cannot help herself, guiltless of any 
thought of converts one is sure yet converts 
she has gained and not a few. Who would 
not wish for a garden like Elizabeth's? 

Says Mrs. Jenks-Smith tc the Commuter's 
Wife: "Why, child, nature and all that stuff 
that you and the doctor always thought so 
much about and spent so much time over has 
come right in since you've been away. . . . 
Now you'll be right in it and not thought so 
queer as once." Which hi-ppy consummation 
she attributes to "a princess or a duchess or 
somebody" who has made such things "the 
rage" and again we are sure that the Com- 
muter's Wife did not care. 

Her "Boke of the Garden," belonging as 
the dedication informs us to nobody but the 
Commuter, is certainly more practical than 
Elizabeth's, yet no less distinctively feminine. 
The freely discursive diary form is still pre- 
served and thaugh one may gather much use- 
ful information concerning the proper hous- 
ing of bedding plants during a winter, the 
successful cultivation of tea roses, and the 
like, an index would none the less be found 
anomalous, remarks about Lark (a favorite 
Gordon setter) occurring quite as frequently 
throughout the pages as any more specially 
learned allusions to larkspur. There is phil- 
osophy in a purely personal vein, and humor 
in plenty, the four walls of a garden being 
found quite inadequate to confine this lady's 
really broadly intelligent human interests. 
One is introduced to a few delightful people 
and a number of others no less delightfully 
ridiculous. 

Though a distinct advance upon Elizabeth 
so far as really helpful horticultural hints are 
concerned there is no attempt at classification. 
One may seek for snowdrops with the Com- 
muter's Wife and find them too, but not by 
the aid of chapter headings nor any similar 
technicality, and it is only when one enters 
A Woman's Hardy Garden with Mrs. Ely for 
guide that one finally discovers what a charm- 
ing success the feminine pen really can achieve 
in the form of a gardening manual. 

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have begun no differently and follow on, 
ever more eager and interested, to the laying 
out of a garden, the planting' of a small plot, 
the starting of a seed bed, through a long 
succession of hardy and perennial delights, 
till we reach the final culmmation of glory 
in roses, lilies, spring-flowering bulbs, and 
shrubs. 

All about us is order and simplicity, as 
should be the case in every well conducted 
garden, yet guiltless of any hint of stiffness 
or constraint, and with that exquisite per- 
meating consciousness of a certain intimate 
spiritual relation between the plants and their 
cultivator which only women seem ever to 
attain, although Shelley, being a poet, could 
grasp and sing of it in his loveliest of verses, 
The Sensitive Plant. As instance of this one 
reads, "that setting out plants in the garden 
like prayers requires kneeling." And again 
"Every owner of a garden has certain favor- 
ites; it really cannot be helped, although the 
knowledge that it is so makes it seem as un- 
fair as for a mother to have a favorite child." 
Or, "I always think of my sins when I weed. 
They grow apace in the same way, and are 
harder still to get rid of. It seems a pity 
sometimes not to nurture a pet one just as 
it does to destroy a beautiful plant of "Wild 
Mustard or of Queen Anne's Lace." Also, 
though in quite a different vein, what merely 
masculine mind in advising sunbonnets would 
ever think of assuring attentive readers, that 
"the pink ones are not so bad !" 

Mrs. Ely it is true has progressed far 
beyond the fascinating if somewhat illusive 
Elizabeth, j'et it is only in an even more re- 
cent publication entitled "'The Flower Garden, 
A Handbook of Practical Garden Lore," by 
Ida D. Bennett, with its full and very valua- 
ble lists, its excellent index, its purely imper- 
sonal tone, and truly praiseworthy accuracy 
and minuteness of detail, that one comes at 
last to feel that the wholly practical woman's 
gardening book has been attained in a volume 
which but for the witness of the title-page 
and the tell-tale illustrations might just as 
well, thoilgh certainly no hit better, have been 
written by a man. With not one little word 
of introduction to give us any clue how she 
gained her gardening facts, Miss Bennett at 
once gives the garden a location and arrange- 
ment that make us feel she knows, and we 
gladly put ourselves under her direction. But 
when we have learned and worked, we are 
again ready to sit down to rest and enjoy 
with Elizabeth or with "The Commuter's 
Wife." A. C. H. 



ISeabings from Neto l3ook6. 

THE LIGHTNING CONDUCTOR COMES TO 
GRIEF. 

We began to fly down hill. Our lamps 
seemed to have shut the night down closely 
all around us. We didn't see much except 
the road with the light flying along it; but 
suddenly, circling round a curve, there ap- 
peared dark within the brilliant circle of 
our Bleriot a great, unlighted waggon lub- 
bering up the hill we were descending, and 
on the wrong side of the road. 

We were close on to it, and oh. Dad, that 
was a bad moment! It was made up of 
lightning-quick impressions and feelings, no 
reasoning at all. Jimmy was frantically blow- 
ing the horn, though it was too late to be of 
much good. I had a vision of a startled 
Jack-in-the-box man appearing from the bot- 
tom of the waggon to snatch wildly at the 
reins ; the next instant our car waltzed 
round just as it had in Marseilles, twisted off 
the road, and, with a loud shriek from Aunt 
Mary, who had clutched me by the arm, we 
all pitched headlong into darkness. 

It felt as if we were falling for ever so 
long, just as it does in a dream before you 
wake up with a great start; but I suppose it 
really wasn't more than a second. The next 
ihing I knew, I was on my hands and knees: 
among some stones; and evidently I'm vainer 
than I fancied, for among other thoughts- 
coming one on top of the other, I was glad 
my face wasn't hurt. I've always imagined 
that it must be terrible for a girl to come to 
herself after an accident and find she had no 
face. 

I scrambled to my feet and began calling to 
the others. I think I called Brown first, be- 
cause, you see, he is so quick in emergencies, 
and he would be ready to look after the 
others. But he didn't speak, and the most 
awful cold, sick feeling settled down on my 
heart. "Oh, Brown, Brown!" I heard my- 
self crying, just as you hear yourself in a 
nightmare, and it hardly seemed more real 
than that. Into the midst of my calling Aunt 
Mary's voice mingled, and I was thankful, 
for it didn't sound as if she were much hurt. 

Our lamps had gone out, and it was almost 
pitch dark now, for clouds covered the moon. 
But there came a glimmer, which kept grow- 
ing brighter; and looking up I saw a man 
standing with a lantern held over his head, 
peering down a steep bank with a look of 
horror. The same glimmer showed me some- 
thing else Brown's face on the ground, white 
as a stone, his eyes wide open with an un- 
seeing stare. I ran to him, and found that I 
was pushing Aimt Mary back, as she was try- 
ing to get up from somewhere close at hand. 
She caught at me, and wouldn't let me go by, 
"Oh dear, oh dear!" she was sobbing, and I 
begged her to tell me if she were hurt. 

"No, thank Heaven! I fell on Brown," 
she said, "and that saved me." 

I could have boxed her ears. One would 
have thought, to hear her, that he was a sort 
of fire-escape. I snatched my dress out of 
her hands, and knelt down beside poor Brown, 
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for I saw now that I ought never to have 
let Jimmy Payne drive the car. By this time 
the man with the lantern (it was the carter 
who had made the trouble for us) had slid 
down the steep bank, and come straight to 
where I was kneeling. "Ah, mademoiselle, il 
est mort!" he exclaimed. How I did hate 
him! I screamed out, "He isn't, he isn't!" 
but it was only to make myself believe it 
wasn't true, and I couldn't help crying big hot 
tears that splashed right down into Brown's 
eyes. And I suppose it was their being so 
hot that woke him up, for he did wake up. 
and looked straight at me, dazed at first, then 
sensibly such a queer effect, the intelligence 
and brightness taking the place of that fright- 
ened stare. The first thing he said was, "Are 
you hurt?" And I said "No;" and then I 
discovered that I was holding his hand as 
fast as ever I could only think, holding your 
chauffeur's hand ! but such a brave, faithful 
chauffeur, never thinking of his own face, as 
I had of mine, but of me. (Holt. $1.50.) 
From Williamson's "The Lightning Conduc- 
tor." 



THE MAGIC OF THE CANOE. 

For a while Jim thought it would be no 
hard thing just to drift that way forever. 
The magic of the canoe, which is the only 
craft possessed of such magic, had got hold 
of him, and he was drifting through shadowy 
space to Lotus-Land. Some way, he felt the 
canoe was a live thing and like the wondrous 
craft of Hiawatha, and in this he was partly 
right. The old canoer understands this ap- 
parent mystery. Not the daintiest skiff ever 
built can rival a canoe, especially for a night 
prowl. Then the craft changes to a live, alert, 
highly sensitive creature which seems warily 
to nose out its chosen path, of its own voli- 
tion shunning snag and floating log. Its si- 
lent, stealing advance insensibly carries the 
mind back to the old days when first the 
swart savage pilfered the robe from the good 
birch tree and fashioned it to suit his need. 
This was a cedar canoe, yet it was a canoe, 
which means it had the trace of wildness 
which unmistakably distinguishes it from a 
mere boat. The trouble with a boat is one 
cannot help feeling and seeing the power ap- 
plied. Forever in front of one is the advanc- 
ing and receding face of the rower, perhaps 
red and sweaty, but in any event suggestive 
of tread-mills and things unpleasant. Every 
stroke, too, is distinctively felt and sugges- 
tive of toil, and no sensitive soul can thor- 
oughly enjoy lounging while feeling the 
monotonous tugging of a comrade hard at 
work. 

The canoe has none of this. You may lie 
at ease peering forward, or half-dreaming, 
and, with a skilful paddler, never realize that 
work is being done astern. There is neither 
jerk nor perceptible effort connected with the 
loafing-stroke. The craft seems to steal along 
by some action of its own, and if there be any 
dream in a man, this sort of thing surely will 
bring it into prominence. Jim half under- 
stood this before they had progressed very 
far, and lazily he yielded to the influence of 



scene and hour. As he drifted between dark- 
ly mysterious tree-walls, he caught an occa- 
sional glimpse of a low moon peering across 
misty fields. The leaves close by hung mo- 
tionless, sleeping as though wearied by all- 
day dancing. The day-musicians had packed 
their instruments and slipped away ; the night 
orchestra was tuning up. The water spread, 
silent, oil-like, into black, uncertain shadows ; 
the trees upon one bank stood like silhouettes, 
while opposite foliage brightened with count- 
less silvery flashes. (Macmillan. net, $1.50.) 
From Sandy's "Trapper Jim." 



LAYING THE GHOSTS OF THE PAST. 

"Ghosts ghosts !" said David under his 
breath. 

With quick hands she unbarred a shutter 
and, her impetuous strength making little of 
rusty resistance, flung open the casement be- 
fore he had had time to divine her intention. 
He halted on his way to help her, arrested by 
the gush of blinding light and the blast of 
wild wind, that seemed to leap at his throat. 

"Oh," she exclaimed, standing in the full 
ray and breathing in so it seemed to him 
both the elements. "Oh, the warm light, the 
sweet air !" 

A line of Shakespeare awoke in some cor- 
npr of his memory : "A thing of fire and air." 
. . . How vividly it seemed to fit her 
then! 

Without, the changeful day had turned to 
wind and sun. She stood in the very shaft 
of the light, in the flood of the breeze; he 
stood watching her from within, in the gloom 
and the stagnation. Her black gown fluttered 
and turned flame at the edges ; alternately 
clung to, and waved away from her straight 
limbs, now revealing, now throwing into 
shadow the curves of a foot that, in its san- 
dal, pressed the ground as lithely as ever a 
Diana's arrested on the spring. The fresh 
airs engulfed themselves under her kerchief 
into her white bosom. It was as if he could 
watch them playing around her throat, even 
as if he could see them fluttering and flatter- 
ing her hair. . . . Her hair! The sun's 
sparkles had got into it! Now it rose, nim- 
bus-like ; now it danced, a spray of fire, back 
from her forehead; now again, under the fly- 
ing touches, it fell back and rippled like a 
cornfield in the breeze. 

This radiant creature ! The more Sir David 
looked, the further apart he felt his -fate from 
hers. She seemed to belong all to the dancing 
wind and the glad sunlight. From such an 
one as he, from his melancholy, his gloom, 
his fading life, she seemed as much cut off 
as ever the unattainable stars from his won- 
dering night watch. 

Thus they stood for the space of a minute. 
Then Ellinor turned. Light and freshness 
now filled the great room. The keen breath 
of the woods gaily drove into corners and 
chased away the mouldy vapours, the vague, 
shut-up breath of the old brocades, of the 
crumbling potpourris, of the sandal-wood and 
Indian rose; even as the light of Heaven 
drove the shadows back under the cabinets 
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gold moulding and the fleur-de-lis on the 
white walls, the delicate wreaths and tracery 
on the irellised ceilings. 

"See, cousin David, the ghosts are gone !" 

But the man had withdrawn to the shadow. 
There was now no answering light in his eye. 
He had now no phrase, tardy in coming, yet 
quick in the sympathy of her thought, such 
as had before delighted her. What had come 
to him? She gave a little laugh; the vigour, 
the freedom from without had got so keenly 
into her veins that she was as though intoxi- 
cated. 

"I vow," she cried, "you are like a ghost 
yourself! Why, you look like a dim knight 
from the tapestry yonder in the hall wander- 
ing . . ." 

She broke off. The words were barely out 
of her mouth before she had read upon his 
countenance that they had struck some chord 
v/nich it should have been all her care to leave 
silent. It was not so much that his pale face 
had grown paler or his deep eye more brood- 
ing, it was more as if something that had 
been for a while restored to life had once 
more settled into death, as if an open door 
had been closed upon her. 

"A ghost, indeed," he said at last, after a 
silence, during which she thought the sun- 
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ghost among ghosts!" (Stokes. $1.50.) 
Frotn Castle's "The Star Dreamer." 



THE PURSUIT OF THE SPY. 

On reaching the bank the hunted rider 
whirled, heading down stream. "He's mak- 
ing for a ford," muttered Godfrey. Ere long 
he had reached a spot where rippling rapids, 
on which the moonbeams glittered, revealed 
shallow water for the river's width. He 
urged his tired horse toward it, but the ani- 
mal recoiled. The rider tried again and the 
steed reared, all but unseating him. 

With a curse that came faintly to our ears, 
the stranger drove in his spurs and was off 
again, along a rough wood road that began 
at that spot, winding through the forest, fol- 
lowing down the south bank of the river. On 
we went after him, having gained materially 
while he had lost time at the ford, following 
hot along the indifferent course. The moon 
was too bright for him to escape us. We 
gained more rapidly now, for his horse was 
almost spent. For two miles more we chased 
him, finally getting to within a stone's throw 
of him. John drew his pistol. "It is for the 
horse," he explained. "The woods are thicker 
ahead. We must take no chances of losing 
him." 

"Stop or I fire !" he called. There was no 
answer save a renewed application by the man 
ahead of his spurs, with savage energy, while 
he jerked his horse's head toward the thick- 
ening woods that hemmed the river's edge. 

The horse swung broadside and the light 
was excellent. Godfrey, who was a magnifi- 
cent marksman, quickly levelled his pistol and 
fired, without decreasing speed. The poor, 
stricken brute stumbled and fell, lying kick- 
ing and plunging in the rough roadway. His 
rider pitched into the underbrush. 

Hastily galloping to the spot, we flung our- 



selves from our blown horses. John plunged 
into the woods. I stopped only long enough 
ti put a ball through the head of the flounder- 
ing horse, ending its agony, and followed him. 
I found John staring perplexedly toward 
an adjacent clump of underbrush. "I saw 
him a moment ago, right there," he said, 
pointing, as I ran up. "And can you tell me 
where the devil he is now?" (New Amster- 
dam Book Co. $1.50.) From Lyman's "The 
Trail of the Grand Seigneur." 



UNCLE BOBBIE'S LIFE. 

"You see it's just this way," continued 
Uncle Bobbie, settling himself more comfort- 
ably in his chair ; "I had a whole lot of 
brothers and sisters at home, back in Ohio; 
an' they was all members of the church but 
me. To-be-sure, I went to Sunday School 
and meetin' with the rest I jing ! I had to ! 
Huh! My old dad would just naturally a 
took th' hide off me if I hadn't. Yes sir-e, 
you bet I went to church. But all the same 
I didn't want to. An' they sorter foundered 
me on religi'n, I reckon, Jim and Bill and 
Tom and Dave. They'd all take their girls 
and go home with them after meetin', an' 
I'd have to put out the team and feed the 
stock all alone ; an' Sunday evenin' every one 
of 'em would be off to singin' and I'd have 
to milk and feed again. An' then after 
meetin' of course the boys had to take their 
girls home, and other fellows would come 
home with our girls, and I'd have to put up 
the team and take care of the boys' horses 
that come sparkin'. An' somehow I didn't 
take to Christianity. To-be-sure, 'twas a 
good thing fer the stock I didn't." 

He carefully knocked the ashes from his 
cigar and continued: "To-be-sure, I know 
now that wasn't no excuse, but it looked that 
way then. After a while the boys married 
off and I staid to home and took care of the old 
folks ; and purty soon the girls they got mar- 
ried too; and then pa and ma got too old to 
go out, and I couldn't leave 'em much, and 
so I didn't get to meetin' very often. Things 
went on that way a spell 'til Bill got to 
thinkin' he'd better come and live on the 
home farm and look after things, as I didn't 
have no woman; to-be-sure, it did need a 
good bit of tendiri'. Six hundred acres all in 
fine shape and well stocked so I told pa that 
I'd come west and let 'em run things at home. 
I got a job punchin' steers out here in James 
County, and they're all back there yet. The 
old follfs died a little bit after I came west, 
and Bill well Bill, he keeps the home place 
'cause he took care of 'em ye know well, I 
homesteaded a hundred and sixty, and after 
a spell, the Santa Fe road come through and 
I got to buyin' grain and hogs, and tradin' in 
castor-oil beans and managed to get hold of 
some land here when the town was small. 
To-be-sure, I ain't rich yet, though I've got 
enough to keep me I reckon. I handle a little 
real estate, get some rent from my buildin's, 
and loan a little money now and then. But 
you bet I've worked for every cent I've got, 
and I didn't fool none of it away either, 'cept 
what went up in smoke." (Book-Supply Co. 
$1.50.) From "That Printer of Udell's." 



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Botticelli, Sandro. The work of Botticelli ; 
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bewitchment and her wondrous song, and 
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last through voyage from St. Louis to Fort 
Benton. He typified in his own career the 
meteoric rise and fall of that peculiar busi- 
ness. He grew up with it, prospered with it, 
and was ruined with and by it. He saw and 
shared the wonderful metamorphosis that 
came over the Missouri Valley in the space 
of four score years, and his reminiscences are 
a succession of living pictures taken all along 
the line. 

Curtis, W. Eleroy. The Turk and his lost 
provinces : Greece, Bulgaria, Servia, Bosnia. 
Reveli. 8, $2 net. 

Davids, T. W. Rhys. Buddhist India. Put- 
nam, il. 12, (Story of the nations ser.) 
$1.35 net; hf. leath., $1.60 net. 

Edwards, E. H. Fire and sword in Shensi : 
the story of the martyrdom of foreigners 
and Chinese Christians ; introd. note by 
Alex. Maclaren. Reveli. il. 12, $1.50 net. 

Garrison, G. P. Texas : a contest of civiliza- 
tions. Houghton, M. & Co. 12, (Ameri- 
can commonwealths.) $1.10 net. 
The story of Texas involves chapters of the 
political history of Spain, France, England 
and Mexico. In the volume is told, first : 
How Texas emerged into history as the ter- 
ritory where Spanish expansion and French 
overlapped, and how Spain prevailed ; sec- 
ond : How the Anglo-Americans succeeded in 
securing it from Mexico; third: How its re- 
sources and education have developed it. Pro- 
fessor Garrison is of the University of Texas. 



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Lipscomb^ Alex. Bagby, ed. The commercial 
history of the southern states covering the 
post-bellum period; ed. by A. B. Lipscomb 
under the direction of the Louisville Com- 
mercial Club. [v. I.] J. P. Morton & Co. 
8, $5. 

Smith, W. H. A political history of slavery : 
being an account of the slavery controversy 
from the earliest agitations in the eigh- 
teenth century to the close of the Recon- 
struction period in America. Putnam 2 v., 
8, $4.50 net. ' 

"This work differs from most histories 
treating of the same period in confining its 
narration largely to a specific purpose. The 
author undertakes to cover the whole time 
from the first signs in America of active hos- 
tility to slavery down to the reconstruction of 
the United States constitution as an anti- 
slavery instrument. But he does not under- 
take an adequate account of the origin and 
spirit of slavery in this country nor of the 
growth of the anti-slavery agitation at the 
north, nor of secession, nor of the Civil War 
and what came after. He traverses this pe- 
riod from first to last with the one primary 
purpose of telling the political history of slav- 
ery." Introduction. 

Thomas, W. L The relation of the medicine- 
man to the origin of the professional occu- 
pations. Univ. of Chic. Press. 4, (Uni- 
versity of Chicago decennial publications.) 
pap., 25 c. net. 

An examination of Mr. Spencer's theory 
that the learned and artistic occupations orig- 
inated in the attentions and services rendered 
by medicine-men to the spirits of dead rulers, 
and that the medicine-man was in a favorable 
position to develop knowledge and art be- 
cause of the leisure he enjoyed in consequence 
of having his economic needs supplied by 
others. 

Ulmann, Albert. A landmark history of 
New York; also the origin of street nanies 
and a bibliography. New ed., with an in- 
troduction containing an account of the es- 
tablishment in 1653 of a popular form of 
government in New Amsterdam. Appleton. 
il. maps, 12, $1.25 net. 

Young, Bennett H. The battle of the 
Thames in which Kentuckians defeated the 
British, French and Indians, October 5, 
1813; with a list of the officers and privates 
who won the victory. J. P. Morton, il. f, 
(Filson Club pubs.) pap., $3. 
An account of the battle of the Thames and 
the events which led up to it. The heroes of 
the battle are represented by very finely ex- 
ecuted half-tone portraits. 

HYGIENIC AND SANITARY. 

Ambulance work and nursing: a handbook 
on first aid to the injured; with a section 
on nursing, etc. W. T. Keener, il. sq. 8, 
$3.50 net. 

The object of "ambulance work" is to place 
everybody and anybody in a position, as every 
intelligent being should be, to render assist- 
ance not merely of a sentimental, generous 
kind, but real, technical, legitimate help that 
must always be of inestimable value, pending 



the summoning and arrival of a properly 
qualified medical man. Chapters on: Outlines 
of anatomy ; The blood ; Haemorrhage ; 
Wounds ; Bandaging ; Fractures and splint- 
ing ; Burns ; Scalds, etc. ; Fire ; Poisoning, etc. 

CoRNARO, LuiGi. The art of living long: a 
new and improved English version of the 
treatise of the celebrated Venetian centen- 
arian, Louis Cornaro, with essays by Jo- 
seph Addispn, Lord Bacon and Sir William 
Temple. W. F. Butler. 8, $1.50; princess 
binding, $1. 

Cornaro was a Venetian born in 1464, who 
lived to a few years over one hundred. At 
forty he was believed by his physicians to be 
in a condition of helpless invalidism; out of 
this he came by his own efforts, and lived to 
a great old age of perfect health. The three 
essays comprised in this work were written 
by him at the age of eighty-six, at ninety-one 
and at ninety-five. "Temperance in all 
things" is the text of each. To eat little, to 
drink no intoxicating liquors, exercise and 
cold water are his chief remedies against old 
age and disease. Several fine portraits adorn 
the work. 

KoNER, Leo. Breathing for health; with spe- 
cific exercises for the cure of consumption ; 
also general breathing gymnastics for the 
weak, the well and the nervous. Alliance 
Pub. Co. 12, pap., IS c. 

Weinburgh, Harry Bennett. Perfect health : 
an exhaustive treatise on natural laws that 
make and maintain perfect health and per- 
fect human development. P. Eckler. il 
por. 12, $1 ; pap., 50 c. 
Tells in detail how the writer grew to be a 
perfect specimen of physical manhood, after 
m.any years of ill health. In addition to the 
illustrations of the exercises and the explan- 
ations are chapters on: The human body; 
The strong man ; Drugs ; Narcotics ; Women ; 
Diet ; Over-eating constipation ; No break- 
fast; Mastication; Breathing; Bathing; Over- 
dressing; Sleep; Walking; Running; Rope 
skipping, etc. 

HUMOR AND SATIRE 

SoMERViLLE, E. CE. Somcrville. Longmans. 

il. 12, $1.50. 

The titles of these amusing sketches are: 
The tinker's dog; Fanny Fitz's gamble; The 
Connemara mare; A grand filly; A nine- 
teenth-century miracle; High tea at Mc- 
Keon's; The bagman's pony; An Irish prob- 
lem ; The Dane's breechin' ; "Matchbox" ; "As 
I was going to Bandon Fair." 

Streamer, D. Perverted proverbs : a manual 
of immorals for the many. Russell, [Har- 
per.] 16, $1. 

A book of amusing parodies of time-hon- 
ored proverbs in verse. By the author of 
"Ruthless rhymes for heartless homes" and 
"The baby's Baedeker." 

LITERARY MISCELLANY, C9LLECTES WRKS, 
ETC 

Emerson, Ralph Waldo. Complete works; 
with a biographical introd. and notes by E. 
Waldo Emerson and a general index. Cen- 
tenary ed. In 12 V. vs. i. 2, 3. Hough- 
ton, M. & Co. 12, per v., $1.75. 



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Fowler, Harold N. A history of Roman lit- 
erature. Appleton. il. 12, (Twentieth cen- 
tury text-books.) $1.40. 
Intended primarily for use as a text-book 
in schools and colleges. More dates and de- 
tails about the lives of authors are given than 
are important in themselves, because dates are 
convenient aids to memory, whik biographical 
details help to endow authors with something 
of concrete personality. Extracts from Latin 
authors are given, with few exceptions, in 
English translations. 

Garnett, R., and Gosse, Edmund W. Eng- 
lish literature an illustrated record. In 4 v. 
V. I, From the beginning of the age of 
Henry vin., by R. Garnett; v. 3, From the 
age of Milton to the age of Johnson, by Ed- 
mund Gosse. Macmillan. 8, ea., $6 net. 

Growoll, Adolf. Three centuries of English 
booktrade bibliography : an essay on the 
beginnings of booktrade bibliography since 
the introduction of printing and in England 
since 1595, by A. Growoll. Also, A list of 
the catalogues, etc., published for the Eng- 
lish booktrade from 1595-1902, by Wilber- 
force Fames. Published for the Dibdin 
Club by M. L. Greenhalgh. pors. facsim- 
iles, 8, hf. leath., $5 net. 
To prepare an introduction to his "Book- 
trade bibliography in the United States in the 
xixth century published in 1898 the author 
first began collecting the material out of which 
this book grew. It became too much for its 
purpose, and was made a separate book. 
Through his connections with publishers, li- 
brarians, bibliographers and collectors in 
America and Europe much very rare material 
was consulted, and the very scarce facsimiles 
and portraits were put at his disposal. The 
chapter on "The beginnings of book-trade 
bibliography" in every country is a distinct 
contribution to the subject. The annotations 
to the bibliography compiled by Mr. Wilber- 
force are full of rare information. During 
the years the book was making several val- 
uable books on related subjects appeared, all 
of which have been carefully consulted. 

M., A. C. The reflections of a lonely man. 

McClurg. 16", $1 net. 

Chapters on: The vantage ground of lone- 
liness ; Books, doctors, idealism, language and 
government ; The search for satisfaction ; The 
release from pain. 

Maeterlinck, Maurice. Thoughts from 
Maeterlinck; chosen and arranged by E. S. 
S. Dodd, M. & Co. 12, $1.20 net. 
A collection of some of the most striking 
passages from the works of this popular 
writer, topically arranged. Some of the sub- 
jects are: The inner life; Happiness; Justice; 
Silence ; Beauty ; Love ; Women ; The past ; 
The future; Literature; Drama, etc. 

Mead, Leon, and Gilbert, F. Newell. Man- 
ual of forensic quotations ; introd. by J. W. 
Griggs. J. F. Taylor. 12, $1.50 net; hf. 
mor., $3 net. 

Seria ludo, by A dilettante, Longmans. 8, 
$2. 
Poems, prose sketches aphorisms, etc. 



MENTAL AND MORAL SCI ENCE. 

Arke, Simon, [pseud, for Clifford Howard.] 
Graphology ; or, how to read character from 
handwriting. American Inst, of Graphol- 
ogy. 8, pap., $1. 

Atkinson, W. Walker. Memory culture; 
the science of observing, remembering and 
recalling. New Thought Pub. Co. 12, $1. 

Brough, J. The study of mental science : 
popular lectures on the uses and character- 
istics of logic and psychology. Longmans. 
12, $1. 

Contents: Mental science as auxiliary to 
other studies ; The independent value of logic ; 
The independent value of psychology ; The 
sources and plan of logic; Method in psy- 
chology. 

Haddock, Frank Channing. The king's 
achievements ; or, power for success 
through culture of vibrant magnetism. T. 
P. Nichols. 8, (The king's lib. of direct 
personal culture.) $10. 

Penniman, Alford Brown. Studies in op- 
timism; or, subjects suggested by the hu- 
manism and hope of the times. Freeman 
Pub. Co. 12, $1. 

Strong, C. A. Why the mind has a body. 
Macmillan. 8, $2.50 net. 

Turner, W. History of philosophy. Ginn. 

8, $2.50. 

"The purpose of the writer in compiling this 
text-book has been so to set forth the succes- 
sion of schools and systems of philosophy as 
to accord to scholasticism a presientation in 
some degree adequate to its importance in the 
history of speculative thought." Preface. 

NATURE AND SCIENCE 

Bennet, Ida D. The flower garden : a hand- 
book of practical garden lore. McClure, P. 
& Co. il. 8, $2 net. 

Contents: Hht. location and arrangement of 
the garden ; Soils ; Fertilizers ; The hotbed, 
cold-frame and sand-box ; Purchasing of 
seeds; Starting seeds in flats; Transplanting 
and repotting; House-plants from seeds; 
Outside window-boxes ; Various animals from 
seed ; Vines ; Ornamental foliage plants from 
seeds ; Bulbous and tuberous-rooted plants ; 
Aquatics ; The care of the summer rose-bed ; 
The hardy lily-bed; The care of house-plants 
in winter etc. 

Edgar, W. C. The story of a grain of wheat. 
Appleton. il. 12, $1 net. 

Kempton-Wace letters (The). Macmillan. 

12, $1.50. 

Lowell, Percival. The solar system: six 
lectures delivered at the Massachusetts In- 
stitute of Technology in December. Hough- 
ton, M. & Co. il. 12, $1.25 net. 
Contents: Our solar system; Mercury; 
Mars ; Saturn and its system ; Jupiter and his 
comets ; Cosmogony. Tables of orbital ele- 
ment and bodily elements. 

Nuttall, T. a popular handbook of the 
birds of the United States and Canada, by 
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by Montague Chamberlain, with additions, 
and one hundred and ten illustrations in 
color. Little, B. & Co. il. 8, $3. 

Snyder, Carl. New conceptions in science ; 
with a foreword on the relations of science 
and progress. Harper, il. 8, $2 net. 
A clear and concise exposition of the new- 
est conceptions of science in various fields. 
Written for the layman rather than the tech- 
nical expert. Chapters on: The world be- 
yond our senses; The finite universe; What 
this world is made of; Progress towards an 
explanation of electricity; The search for 
primal matter; The rise of synthetic chemis- 
try and its founder; Bordering the mysteries 
of life and mind; The newest ideas as to 
what is life ; How the brain thinks ; The way 
the human body fights disease; The spirit- 
rappers, the telepaths, and the galvanom- 
eters; Wireless telegraphy; America's inferior 
position in the scientific world. 

Young. C. A. Lessons in astronomy, includ- 
ing uranography; a brief introd. course 
without mathematics. Rev. ed. Ginn. il. 
12, hf. leath., $1.25. 

POETRY AND OMAMA. 

Ade, G. The Sultan of Sulu : an original 
satire in two acts. Russell, [Harper.] il. 
12, pap., 50 c. 

The libretto of a comic opera. Sulu or 
Jolo is the largest of the southerly islands 
in the Philippine group. The chief ruler of 
the island is made the central figure of a suc- 
cession of funny incidents. 

Carman, Bliss. Pipes of Pan, No. 2; from 
"The green book of the bards." L. C. 
Page & Co. nar. 12, $1 net. 

Shakespeare, W. The Elizabethan Shak- 
spere ; a new ed. of Shakespere's works, 
with critical text in Elizabethan English 
and brief notes illustrative of Elizabethan 
life, thought and idiom, by Mark Harvey 
Liddell. v. i, Tragedie of Macbeth. Dou- 
bleday, P. & Co. 4, bds., $12.50. 

POLITICAL AND SOCIAL. 

BusHEE, F. A. Ethnic factors in the popula- 
tion of Boston. Macmillan. 8, (Pubs, of 
Amer. Econ. Assoc.) pap., $1. 
This study of racial nhenomena is divided 
into chapters on : Causes of immigration ; 
Characteristics of immigrants ; Standard of 
living ; Vitality ; Occupations ; Poverty ; 
Crime ; Naturalization ; Inter-marriage ; Con- 
clusion. Statistical tables. Index. 

Dos Passos, J. R. The Anglo-Saxon century 
and the unification of the English-speaking 
people. Putnam. 8, $2.25 net. 
Mr. Dos Passos advocates the union of all 
English-speaking people. He believes, he says 
in his introduction, that the only real obstacle 
to a possible entente between the Anglo- 
Saxon race may rise from the situation in 
Canada, and he urges that she incorporate 
herself with the American Republic. In order 
to prevent an armed conflict, possible in the 
event of any differences arising between the 
allied race, he suggests the establishment of 
an International Supreme Court, with "ftiU 



jurisdiction to finally determine all disputes 
which may hereafter arise between us." 

Fielde, Adele M. a political primer of New 
York City and state ; the city under the 
revised Charter of 1902. [Beverley Harri- 
son.] 16, 75 c. 

Freund, Ernst. Empire and sovereignty. 

Univ. of Chic. Press. 4, (Univ. of Chic. 

Press decennial pubs.) pap., 50 c. net. 

A study of the constitution of the supreme 
power in political systems which are not per- 
fectly consolidated. The types examined are : 
the federal state, the autonomous, colony or 
dependency, and the protectorate, three forms 
of political connection characteristic of em- 
pires. The object of the essay is to show that 
in each of these three systems the supreme 
power is either legally or constitutionally lim- 
ited, and that absence of sovereignty does not 
necessarily constitute a defect in imperial or- 
ganization. 

Griffing, Jane R. Breakers ahead; or, 
whither are we drifting? J. S. Ogilvie. 
12, pap., 25 c. 

A severe arraignment of society and our 
government; points out the evils of trusts, 
great accumulations of wealth, the extrava- 
gance of our women, the starvation wages 
paid to workers, etc. 

Heuver, Gerald D. The teachings of Jesus 
concerning wealth. Revell. 12, 75 c. net. 

International year book : a compendium of 
the world's progress during the year 1902; 
eds. Frank Moore Colby, Harry Thurston 
Peck, E. Lathrop Engle. Dodd, M. & Co. 
A, $3; $3.50; leath. or hf. rus., $4; hf. mor., 
$5. 

"In the preparation of the International 
Year Book constant effort has been made not 
only to state fact accurately and reflect com- 
ment fairly, but, what is more difficult, to set 
forth both fact and comment in their true 
perspective. The present volume, covering 
the year 1902, shows, without sacrifice, the 
editors believe, a greater degree of compres- 
sion than its predecessors ; in concise and log- 
ical treatment an advance has been made that 
renders the book especially useful." Preface. 

L.\zARE, Bernard. Antisemitism, its history 
and causes ; from the French. Int. Lib. 
Pub. Co. 12, $2. 

Chapters on: General causes of antisemit- 
ism ; Anti-Judaism in antiquity ; Anti-Juda- 
ism in Christian antiquity from the founda- 
tion of the church of Constantine ; Antisem- 
itism from Constantine to the eighth century ; 
Anti-Judaism from the eighth century to the 
Reformation ; From the Reformation till the 
French Revolution ; Anti-Judaic literature and 
the prejudices; Modern legal anti-Judaism; 
Modern antisemitism and its literature ; The 
race; Nationalism and antisemitism; The rev- 
olutionary spirit in Judaism ; The Jew as a 
factor in the transformation of society; The 
fate of antisemitism. 

Omond, G. W. Thomson. The Boers in Eu- 
rope: a sidelight on history; with index. 
Macmillan. 12, $1.25. 



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Potter, H. Codman, (Bp.) The modern man 

and his fellow man: being the William L. 

Bull lectures for 1902. G. W. Jacobs & Co. 

12, $1. 

Four lectures : The situation ; The working 
man; The capitalist; The consumer. 

Simons, A. M. Class struggles in America. 
Kerr. 12, pap., 10 c. 

Stuckenberg, J. H. Wilbur. Sociology: the 
science of human society. Putnam. 2 v., 
8, $4.50 net. 

The author some years ago published the 
"Introduction to the study of sociology." This 
work opens with chapters on "Definition and 
scope of sociology" and "Relations of socio- 
logy to the special social sciences." After- 
wards the work is divided into three divisions, 
namely, "The nature of society," "Social evo- 
lution," "Sociological ethics." 

Veblen, Thorstein B. The use of loan 

credit in modern business. Univ. of Chic. 

Press. 4, (Univ. of Chicago decennial 

pubs.) pap., 25 c. net. 

The paper advances a theory to the effect 
that, under modern conditions, the aggregate 
loan credit of the business community neces- 
sarily exceeds what would be called a "nor- 
mal" or conservative amount; that this "un- 
due" credit extension swells the capitalized 
value of industrial property by approximately 
its full amount, at the same time that it does 
not increase the industrial equipment, or the 
efficiency of industry taken as a whole. 

SPORTS AND AMUSEMENTS. 

Berenson, Senda, ed. Basket ball for women. 
Am. Sports Pub. Co. il. 16, (Spalding's 
athletic lib.) pap., 10 c. 

Holder, C. F. Big game fishes of the United 
States. Macmillan. il. 8, $2 net. 

McGiLLicuDDY, Cornelius, ["Connie Mack," 
pseud.] How to play baseball. Drexel 
Biddle. 12, pap., 25 c. 

MuRNANE, Timothy H. How to play base- 
ball. Am. Sports Pub. Co. il. 16, (Spald- 
ing's athletic lib.) pap., 10 c. 

Sandys, Edwyn. Trapper "Jim." Macmil- 
lan. il. 12, $1.50 net. 
Stories of hunting, fishing, etc. 

THEOLOGY. RELIGION AND SPECULATION. 

CoNWAY, Rev. Bertrand L. The question- 
box answers ; replies to questions received 
on missions to non-Catholics. Cath. Book 
Exch. 12, $1 ; pap., 15 c. 
The question-box is one of the interesting 
features in the Paulist Fathers missions to 
non-Catholics. At the door of the church a 
box is placed, and into it non-Catholics are 
cordially invited to deposit their difficulties 
and objections. This book answers in a brief 
and popular manner the rnost important ques- 
tions actually received by the author during 
the past five years of missionary activity in 
all parts of the United States from Boston 
to Denver. 

Delitzsch, Friedrich. Babel and the Bible: 
two lectures delivered before the members 



of the Deutsche Orient-Gesellschaft in the 
presence of the German emperor ; ed., with 
an introd., by C. H. W. Johns. Putnam. 
12, (Crown theological lib.) $1.50. 
The subject is the relations between the 
Bible and the recent results of cuneiform 
research. 

McFadyen, J. Edgar. Old Testament criti- 
cism and the Christian church. Scribner. 
8, $1.50 net. 

"It is to aid the man who honestly desires 
a dispassionate presentation of what Old Tes- 
tament criticism is and does, of how it works 
and what its meanings are upon vital elements 
in the Christian faith, that this volume has 
been written. ... In order that the situation 
might be as fairly presented as possible, I 
have thought it advisable, in many cases, to 
let both the critics and their opponents speak 
for themselves." Preface. 

Martineau, Ja. National duties, and other 
sermons and addresses. Longmans. 12, 
$2 net. 

The sermons contained in this volume are a 
small selection from the manuscripts left to 
his children by Mr. Martineau, and were writ- 
ten for the most part during the earlier period 
of his ministry in Liverpool; but were after- 
wards delivered (in their present revised 
form) during the term of his London minis- 
try at Little Portland Street Chapel. 

Roberts, W. K. Divinity and man. Rev. ed. 

Putnam. 12, $1.75 net. 

An interpretation of spiritual law in its re- 
lation to mundane phenomena and to the rul- 
ing incentives and moral duties of man; with 
an allegory dealing with cosmic evolution and 
certain religious problems. 

Smith, Goldwin. The founder of Christen- 
dom. Am. Unit. Assoc. 16, 50 c. net. 

(Books for tt)e fSonng. 

Adams, Andy. The log of a cowboy: a nar- 
rative of the old trail days ; il. by E. Boyd 
Smith. Houghton, M. & Co. 12", $1.50. 
A story of the far west with its cowboys, 
gold diggers, Indians, and thieves. The au- 
thor lived for twenty years on the plains, 
much of the work being drawn from his own 
experiences as a cowboy. 

Blaisdell, Albert Franklin, and Ball, 
Francis K. Hero stories from American 
history ; for elementary schools. Ginn. 12, 
50 c. 

May be used either as a supplementary 
reading book on American history for the fifth 
and sixth grades in elementary schools, or for 
collateral reading in- connection with a formal 
text-book of a somewhat higher grade. Con- 
sists of episodes taken from our first fifty 
years of our national life. 

Caster, Andrew. Pearl Island; il. by Flor- 
ence Scovel Shinn. Harper. 12", $1.25 net. 
Two boys are wrecked on an island in the 
Indian Ocean. There they have experiences 
which tax their resources to the utmost ad- 
ventures with Malay pirates, and with sharks, 
serpents, and tigers. They find treasures of 



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pearls on their island, and they have one ex- 
citing adventure after another. The story is 
rich in accounts of the strange vegetable and 
animal life of the place. 

Davis^ Andrew McFarland. The confisca- 
tion of John Chandler's estate. Houghton, 
M. & Co. 8, $3 net. 

A letter written in 1828 has been discov- 
ered that recounts the misfortunes which be- 
fell Colonel John Chandler, of Worcester, in 
1774 because of his loyalty to the king. The 
author has covered the incidents referred to 
at that time, and has also included transcripts 
from several old documents that form the 
basis of the laws and processes followed by 
the patriots in Revolutionary times. 

HoRNE, Olive Browne^ and Scobey, Kath- 

RiNE Lois. Stories of great artists. Amer. 

Book Co. 12, (Eclectic school readings.) 

40 c. 

Sketches of the lives and works of Raphael, 
Michael Angelo, Rembrandt, Reynolds, Corot, 
Landseer, Millet, and others ; written for chil- 
dren, illustrated from the artist's works. 

Long, W. J. Wood folk at school. Ginn. 

il. 12, (Wood folk ser.) 

Sketches of wild animals teaching their 
young. 

McMuRRY C. Pioneer history stories of the 
Mississippi Valley; for fourth and fifth 
grades. Macmillan. 12, 50 c. net. 

MowRY, W. A. and Arthur May. American 

heroes and heroism. Silver, B. & Co. il. 

12, (America's great men and their deeds.) 

60 c. 

Tales of the bravery of soldiers and sailors, 
of firemen and policemen, are here, and also 
descriptions of the self-denial and patient 
endurance of pioneer settlers and explorers, 
missionaries and reformers, and of men and 
women unknown to fame, who have shown 
rare courage in their quiet lives. 

Peltier, Florence. A Japanese garland ; il. 

by Genjiro Yeto. Lothrop. 12, 75 c. net. 

A book for young people. It tells of a Jap- 
anese lad adopted by an American, who has 
a number of American boys and girls as 
friends, to whom he tells a series of folk-lore 
tales associated with the flowers of Japan. 

PiERSON, Clara Dillingham. Dooryard sto- 
ries; il. by F. C. Gordon. Button. 12, 
$1.20 net. 

Stratemeyer, E. Young explorers of the 
Isthmus ; or, American boys in Central 
America; il. by A. B. Shute. Lee & S. 
12, (Pan-American sen, no. 3.) $1 net. 
The scene is Central America. The story 
retains the same well-known characters, the 
five boys, who with their professor and guide 
land at Greytown, Nicaraugua. They jour- 
ney from this point up to Lake Nicaragua, 
visit the old town of Granada and journey 
down the lake coast to Rivas, and then into 
Costa Rica. At Limon they take steamer 
across the Mosquito Gulf to Colon (Aspin- 
wall), and investigate the successfully com- 
peting canal route in the territory of Colom- 
bia. They finish their journey by a trip across 
the Isthmus, to Panama. 



ifrtshest Nens. 



It is reported, on the authority of one 
who claims to know, that the "Kempton-Wace 
Let1?ers," recently published by the Macmillan 
Company, are the joint work of Jack London 
and Annie Stransky. 

Henry Holt & Co. haA'^e one of ihe most 
charming books of the season in their auto- 
mobile love storj' "The Lightning Conductor," 
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that Manager J. J. Rosenthal of New York 
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D. Appleton & Co. have in Stockton's last 
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remember the phase of American life with 
which they deal and some can still remember 
the brilliant woman who for years had great 
influence in the emancipation of woman in 
its truest and noblest sense. The book will 
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God and Mammon," by William Edwards 
Tirebuck, which contains a memoir of the 
author by Hall Caine; and "The Unwelcome 
Mrs. Hatch," by Mrs. Burton Harrison, who 
has now made an extended novel of her very 
successful play of the same name. 



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SEARCHING FOR THE BIG PIKE. 



The Mettle of 

The central thought of Mr. Allen's latest 
book is taken from the speech of King 
Henry i. to his soldiers before Harfleur, when 
he charged his yeomen to "show us here the 
mettle of your pasture ; let us swear that you 
are worth your breeding." The theme is the 
old one of human error and tragic expiation. 
Rowan Meredith, as a prelude to the confes- 
sion of his love for Isabel Conyers, confesses 
to a sin which he has committed involving 
another woman. The girl, disillusionized, her 
pride outraged, and her trust in her lover's 
unsullied honor swept away, drives him from 
her, and charges her grandmother, a worldly 
old leopardess of a woman, that all intimacy 
with Meredith and his family must cease. In 
the absence of Isabel from the town rumors 



the Pasture. 

spread abroad even worse tales than the truth 
about her lover. Hearing them, the girl re- 
turns and attempts to stem the tide of dislike 
for Meredith, but only creates fresh compli- 
cations. Once more she endeavors to forget 
him in long wanderings in Europe, but in the 
end her love conquers and she comes back 
again to marry him. 

The events are not much in themselves; 
the story moves slowly and at times almost 
tediously, with many wanderings aside into 
bypaths of morals and philosophy. But the 
aim of the author is adhered to closely 
throughout to show that the great personal 
tragedy of the world is in failing to be true 
to one's self. It is best expressed in the 
words of the old judge, the former guardian 



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of young Meredith, whose life had been 
ruined years before by the lies of Isabel's 
crafty old grandmother : "We lie in business, 
and we lie in religion, and we lie to women. 
Perhaps if a man stopped. lying to a woman, 
by and by he might begin to stop lying for 
money, and at last stop lying with his 
Maker." 

As an analyst of the emotions, Mr. Allen 
has few equals among American novelists, 
and here he is seen at his best in this field. 
All extraneous feelings and events are pushed 
aside and the reader is admitted into a lab- 
oratory of human love and suffering. It is 
almost as though the author were an experi- 
menter who had isolated a single human pas- 
sion and were observing its action free from 
all contradictory elements. It is only at the 
end that the impression comes that he has 
failed in the working out of his formula. The 
marriage of Isabel and Rowan is a departure 
from the high standard that she had set for 
herself and for him, and the death of Rov/an 
is unnecessary and dangerously near pathos. 
Of course, it is a generally accepted fact that 
death is more or less inevitable, and not to 
be foreseen even by a novelist, but when the 



funeral of the hero is forcibly lugged in on 
the last page the conviction is likely to arise 
that the author was seeking for an impres- 
sive ending rather than a logical one. The 
brightness and gaiety of the young girls and 
young men is shown against a dark back- 
ground of potential tragedy, and the calm 
and sweetness of old age is the fruit of 
suffering bravely borne and of reward that 
comes too late. As the sincere, careful work 
of a man of experience, both in his art and in 
the more difficult art of living, the book 
stands head and shoulders above the mass of 
novels that the last half year has seen offered 
to the public. (Macmillan. $1.50.) Public 
Opinion. 

Sacrifice of "The Shannon." 

To story-readers bored with drawing-rooms, 
shrinking from medicine bottles, heavy-laden 
with problem, whom man delights not nor 
woman either, we offer the advice to read 
"The Sacrifice of the Shannon." Here may 
be imbibed the pure, strong air of Nova Sco- 
tia and the wholesomeness of perils overcome 
without gloom. Here are outdoor living, out- 
door thinking, and outdoor feeling. The 




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three or four principal characters are drawn 
with such robust tenderness that indulgence 
is willingly given to the perfunctoriness of 
certain lesser persons. The phrase describ- 
ing "Caribou" (otherwise Pictou) as a little 
town "all beauty and repose and climate," in- 
dicates the tone and style of the book in its 
softer phases. This is what is said in con- 
nection with the heroine: "But remember, I 
mean real frankness and real unconvention- 
ality, not the poses. Women of all ages who 
pose as frank or unconventional, or both, are 
as common as barnacles on the bottom of a 
ship when she's been three years out of dock." 
From this infer the writer's powers of obser- 
vation. As to his humorous side, many quo- 
tations might be made from Donald Mc- 
Donald, the bland man of iron and dialect. 
But, for the icefields and the noble labors of 
the mighty ice-crushers, the book itself must 
be read. There is enough of love, adventure, 
scenerj', and machinery in the little volume 
to enthral the entire family circle, and so 
judiciously bestowed that it would not be sur- 
prising indeed if fathers and sons were found 
tolerant of the romance, and if mothers and 
daughters should not skip the perils of the 
stokehold. (Stokes. $1.50.) T/^e Nation. 



Rejected of Men. 

"I SUPPOSE if a light comedian were called 
upon to express his views," wrote Mr. How- 
ard Pyle to a friend recently, "it would hardly 
be expected of him to give a dissertation 
upon the tragic aspects of life." When Mark 
Twain desired a serious hearing for his study 
cf Jeanne d'Arc, he was impelled to seek it 
for the same reason anonymously. And so 
v/ith Mr. Pyle ; apart from his work as an ar- 
tist and illustrator, he has been so long identi- 
fied in literature as a writer of children's 
books that it takes an eflfort to adjust him to 
the new view he presents as the serious and 
earnest student and religious thinker in his 
modern story of the Christ, "Rejected of 
Men." However this novel may be regarded 
?.s a thesis of Christian thought and convic- 
tion to-day, it must be admitted that, as a 
believer, Mr. Pyle has handled his theme rev- 
erently and with a devout spirit. In his 
Proem, he states that his story "is intended 
as a phase of that divine history already told 
to the world, but now told from another 
standpoint, and translated from the ancient 
Hebrew habits of life into American, so that 
the reader may more readily understand the 
circumstances that directed our actions. If 




Courtesy of Harper & Brothers. 
HOWARD PYLE. 

he has been told aright, he may see why it 
was that we crucified the Truth." The 
leading characters of the Jewish drama 
are fitted to modern parts that bear a sin- 
gular resemblance to the originals, yet they 
impress by their very familiarity to the 
type, while they shock our imagination by 
their historical divergence. It is with diffi- 
culty that even the most imaginative mind 
can wrest itself from the hold of tradition 
and reach out to so radical a dramatic per- 
spective, but so far as it can be done Mr. 
Pyle has succeeded in approximating a mod- 
ern reproduction of the coming of the Mes- 
siah. 

"Rejected of Men" was begun about eight 
years ago. The author's idea may be clearly 
seen in his original title, which was "Semper 
Idem." During these years, he says, "I have 
v/ritten it and rewritten it, and reshaped it, 
and corrected it, and amended it, until now 
it has hardly anything of its original form. 
It seems to be a very short story," concludes 
Mr. Pyle, "for eight years of intermittent 
work, but I can say that it was written very 
earnestly and with great sincerity of convic- 
tion, and however the world may take it, I 
have yet the satisfaction of knowing that I 
have said my say with every sentiment of rev- 
erence and very strong belief in that which I 
was trying to say." (Harper. $1.50.) 
Harper's Weekly. 



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Courtesy ot Little, Brown & Co. 

E. PHILLIPS OPPENHEIM, 

Author of "A Prince of Sinners." 



"'Twixt God and Mammon." 

D. Appleton & Co. have brought out a 
posthumous by WiUiam Edward Tirebuck, 
who died three years ago, at the age of 45 
Hall Caine, who was the dead author's life- 
long friend, writes an introduction. 

It appears that Tirebuck aspired to be the 
novelist of Wales, in the same way that Scott 
was the novelist of Scotland, but death cul 
short his ambition. 

"It is no part of my function to criticise," 
says Mr. Caine, "but I may be allowed to say 
that, if the central motive is a little too famil- 
iar and outworn, the pastoral scenes in the 
farmhouse in Wales are, according to my 
judgment, among the most exquisite pictures 
of rural life to be found in the whole range 
of modern fiction." He also says : "He lacked 
invention, he was deficient in power of con- 
struction, and he had no real gift of selection, 
but he had insight and sympathy, and hu- 
mor and pathos, and the power of exact ob- 
servation, and these are weapons that hang 
high in the armory of the greatest authors." 

The theme of this novel is the familiar one 
of a young clergyman's proving untrue to his 
ideals. He starts out in life as an ascetic, an 
advanced type of ritualist, and vaguely re- 
solved to lead a celibate life. But he falls in 
love with a Welsh girl, and, when she has 
resolved to forego her love for the sake of 
his high calling, he wins her back to him and 
then proves untrue to his love as well as to 
his religious ideals under the temptation of 
"Mammon." Eventually the girl dies after a 
lingering illness, and he, fully awakened to 
the hypocrisy of his life toward God and man, 
poisons the chalice and dies in the presence 
of the congregation after celebrating a mass 
in which he had hoped to see a miracle 
wrought for his especial benefit. 

A note states that this novel did not have 



the benefit of the author's revision, and that 
it was his intention to alter the scheme of 
the story so far as to cause the heroine to re- 
cover. (Appleton. $1.50.) Chicago Inter- 
Ocean. 



A Prince of Sinners. 

Mr. E. Phillips Oppenheim, who gave us 
"The Traitors" a few weeks ago, now gives 
us "A Prince of Sinners." On the whole, we 
prefer the weaver of adventurous romance in 
an imaginary Balkan kingdom to the topical 
novelist of modern London. "A Prince of 
Sinners" gives us dubious philanthropy of the 
social settlement type and bad economics in a 
defence of the miserable sophistries of pro- 
tectionism. The hero is a young man who es- 
pouses both these causes, and who at the 
same time carries on two love affairs so skil- 
fully that we are kept guessing until the very 
end. The prince of sinners is the father of 
the youth, who had deserted wife and child 
many years before, and caused a fictitious re- 
port of his death to be spread abroad. When 
he reappears in England, it is as the wealthy 




From "A Prince of Sinners.'* Copyright, 1903, by Little 

Brown h Co. 



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229 



Earl of Arranmore (he having succeeded un- 
expectedly to the title and estates), and in his 
endeavor to be helpful to the career of his 
son (who does not recognize him for a time) 
the relationship is discovered. Even then the 
son will not accept his newly-found father, 
but persists in the attempt to carve out his 



The Authoress of "The Kaffir and His 
Keeper." 

There had been cross motives running in 
Louis's subtle handsome head, when he had 
asked for the invitation, when he had entered 
the dining-room. But Joan herself blotted 
otit her farm tbat evening with Louis no less 




troin "The One Woman " Copyright, IflOa, by Doi.bleday, I'a-e & Co. 

"tore it from his arms and threw it on the floor.'"' 

[To be noticed in next issue. "^ 



own career under his assumed name. It is a 
case of pride against pride, but in the end the 
older man makes a great concession, and the 
younger man gives in. The lesser social types 
depicted are presented with an easy skill that 
betokens familiarity with several phases of 
modern English life. Barring the inherent 
improbability of its scheme, the story is a 
readable one. (Little, B. $1.50.) 7/?^ Dial. 



than she had done with Karl; there was not 
a doubt about that. Her charm surprised 
him out of his scheming. He was not too 
absorbed, however, to notice Van Biene's 
expression, and his vanity was all alert. That 
Jean was what she was, excited it further. 
Karl, steady old Karl, rough old Karl, had 
had a fancy for her too, he remembered, and 
he laughed to himself at the thought that 



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{August, 1903 




Courtesy of J. B. Lipplncott co. 

"frank danby/' 

Author of "'Pigs in Clover." 

Karl should rival him here. The woman 
was made for him, he felt that immediately; 
he tried to convey it too. He knew many 
tricks and subtleties to awaken light thoughts 
in light women. Joan's innocence, ignorance, 
instinctive purity, missed them all. Quickly, 
very quickly, he saw, he realized that, if suc- 
cess was to follow him, he must, as he 
worded it to himself, begin at the beginning; 
it was a new language he must teach her. 
He had not hoped for all he saw. 

He had expected to find the celebrated au- 
thoress a mere writing-machine, an ink- 
stained, bony thing, not even young. In 
reality, she was as delicate as a Cosway 
miniature, with an eighteenth century piquan- 
cy in her grace. Joan wore green that even- 
mg, a soft dress, with some white stuflf, still 
transparent, draping the shoulders. But the 
shoulders themselves were whiter than the 
stuff that draped them, a wonderful creamy 
white. On the left side Louis saw there was 
a dimple, they had not got as far as the 
entrees before he knew it was there for him. 
Her arms v/ere round, like a baby's arms, and 
again there were dimples in the elbows, and 
slender wrists, and small hands with taper- 
ing fingers, and Louis's heart, though it was 
as wizened as Van Biene's figure, beat fast. 

"Is it true that you only care for pen and 
ink, that j'ou want to write, and not to live?" 
Louis Althaus talked ever in questions. 



"It seems the same thing to me," Joan an- 
swered simply. But that was at the begin- 
ning of the dinner, for very soon the mystery 
of Louis touched her senses. "I have never 
cared for anything or anybody I know so 
much as I have cared for the things and the 
people I have imagined." 

"I am sorry you have cared for the people 
you have imagined." 

The delicate colour stole into her cheeks. 

"Imagined I cared," she interpolated and 
smiled, but nervously. Was he familiar, im- 
pertinent? She hardly knew; at any rate, 
when she had time to analyze her feelings, 
she thought she would find she had material 
for a new chapter. (Lippincott.) From 
Danby's "Pigs in Clover." 



Standard Oil Company. 

A COMPACT and well-written defense of the 
Standard Oil Company. The author justifies 
railroads in the policy of discriminating be- 
tween different places, different industries, 
and different individuals, and finds littk that 
is morally abhorrent in the contracts between 
the railroads and the oil combination which 
so stirred national indignation when their ex- 
istence was disclosed. Nevertheless, he is 
too much of a scientist to attempt to deny 
any of the salient facts in the history of his 
client, and his account of these facts forms 
1 valuable supplement and in the main a 
confirmation of the narratives of Hudson, 
Lloyd, and Miss Tarbell. The latter half of 
the volume, giving the history of the Stand- 
ard Oil Company since 1879, is particularly 
instructive. In discussing present freight 
rates the author most frankly sets forth the 
advantages procured by the combination de- 
spite the inter-State commerce law, and even 
presents the argument which justified the 
inter-State Commerce Commission in order- 
ing the railroads to ship oil in barrels at the 
same rate as in tank-cars. The saving to the 
railroad from the use of tank-cars, he admits, 
is not entirely clear, for while the railroad 
does not have to take charge of the loading 
and unloading, it must ship the tank-cars 
back empty, while cars loaded with barrels 
can be returned loaded with other freight. 
P'or the use of its tank-cars the Standard Oil 
Company receives from the railroads seventy- 
five cents a hundred miles. The commission's 
order that the roads should not charge for the 
weight of the barrel, but ship oil at the same 
net rate whether in barrels or tank-cars, ap- 
pears to have been only disregarded by the 
roads. (Harper, net, $1.) The Outlook. 



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Training of Wild Animals. 

Animal lovers will find this account of the 
training of wild animals of more than com- 
mon interest. Frank C. Bostock tells very 
pleasantly and with detail of his thirty-years' 
experience with lions and tigers, elephants 
and other wild creatures. The qualities es- 
sential are unlimited patience, courage and 
endurance. The popular impression that 
cruelty is employed in this kind of training is 
dispelled by Mr. Bostock. He declares that 
such a method would defeat the end desired, 
and that other commonly accepted idea that 
animals so trained are drugged, to make them 
less ferocious, is also refuted on the very 
practical score that drugging would affect the 
commercial value of the animals, if for no 
other reason. 

Much interesting information concerning 
the habits and characteristics of jungle folk 
is given, and there are recitals of exciting 
episodes. The book contains thirty-two half- 
tone illustrations. The book was edited by 
Ellen Velvin, F. Z. S., who spent several 



weeks living in one of Mr. Bostock's animal 
exhibits. She had free access to the exhibit 
at all times, and bears witness to the invaria- 
ble kindness and consideration shown the 
animals. (Century. net, $1.) Brooklyn 
Times. 



The Pagan at the Shrine. 

The English novelist who selects a Span- 
ish background for the scenic investiture of 
his work is not. as a rule, distinguished by 
his knowledge of Spanish life. He is gener- 
ally content to give us the conventional stage 
properties, the stock situations, and the 
hackneyed turns of phrase, that stand for 
Spain in the book-fed imaginations of most 
readers, and trusts to the spirit of romance .to 
do the rest. Not so Mr. Paul Gwynne, the 
author of "The Pagan at the Shrine." One 
may almost complain of him that he knows 
Spain too well, for his book is so freighted' 
with folk-lore and local custom, and the sort 
of detail that means inti ate acquaintance 
with the homely life of the people, that the 




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story itself suffers from the richness of its 
setting. The extraneous matter which thus 
loads it down is so extraordinarily interesting 
that we are loth to indulge in even so slight 
an adverse criticism as is above implied, but 
the fact remains that the plot is now and then 
a bit difficult to follow. In its main outline 
the story is simple enough. A young Jesuit 
brother commits a mortal sin, and keeps it 
a secret. All the rest of his life is one long 
expiation, but the consequences of the sin re- 
turn to plague him, and bring the matter to 
tragic issue in the end. His natural son is 
slain through a horrible misunderstanding, 
and the unhappy father falls dead in the' very 
hour of his long-delayed public confession. 
This sounds a little sensational, but the au- 
thor has good control of himself and his ma- 
terial, and his story never goes beyond the 
probable. Incidentally much information is 
given of life in Spain at the time of the Car- 
lists. This novel is one of the most remarkable 
of the season, for it is one of the rare books 
that, in the guise of fiction, are genuine reve- 
lations of human life under exceptionally in- 
teresting conditions. (Macmillan. $1.50.) 
William Morton Payne, in The Dial. 



Cheerful Americans. 

Mr. Loomis's special brand of humor goes 
well with an indolent mood, a hammock and a 
palmleaf fan. Given these conditions, on a 
really hot summer day, and it is impossible to 
read enough of him at one time to have him 
pall upon you. Taken in small doses, his opera- 
bouffe portrayals of American types, cheerful 
and otherwise, are distinctly enjoyable. Most 
of us have met them, or their next of kin, in 
real life, especially "The Man from Ochre 
Point," who became so engrossed in a news- 
paper from home that he forgot to see any of 
the sights at Fontainebleau. but spent the 
whole afternoon at the railway station, or the 
homesick man in "There's Only One Noo 
York." who spent every moment of his stay 
in London wondering how any one can have 
a good time anywhere except in America, and 
thinking "how much better we do it all in 
Noo York." The volume is abundantly illus- 
trated, and the artists have admirably caught 
the spirit of the author's humor. And since 
Mr. Loomis goes somewhat out of his way 
in his brief preface to call down the blessings 
of heaven upon his reveiwers, it is only fair 
that the latter should make an effort to meet 




From "The Triumph." 



Copyright. 1903. by McClure, Phillips & Co. 



"did you mean THAT?^ 



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^>l7*^t*v. 



From ' Cheerful Americans." Copyright, 1903, by Henry Holt & Co. 

"l don't speak FRENCH." 



him in an indulgent mood, even if his achieve- 
ments are of rather uneven merit. (Henry 
Holt & Co. $1.50.) Commercial Advertiser. 



Love Letters of Margaret Fuller. 

It is hardly to be expected that any pub- 
lisher should abstain from adding the allur- 
ing name of Love Letters to what their dis- 
creeter editor describes only and more ac- 
curately as "letters inspired by a very fervent 
friendship." The person to whom they were 
written is no longer living; he omitted in 
editing them, by his own statement (p. 5), 
such passages or entire letters as he saw fit; 
and he caused them to be privately printed in 
Europe and sent out to this country, several 
years ago, with an unsuccessful effort after 
publication. They are now finally reprinted, 
and in a judicious form and manner, with an 
excellent preface by Mrs. Julia Ward Howe, 
and some good supplements or mitigating in- 
fluences, as one might say, in brief contem- 
porary essays by Emerson, Greeley, and 
Congdon. 

The existence of these letters was known 
in a general way to the various preceding 
biographers of Margaret Fuller Ossoli ; but 



they were set aside as having little real value 
either as to certain authenticity or personal 
interest. There also existed the tradition 
that there was in the background some dis- 
eased influence, not now clearly traceable, 
and exerted not over Miss Fuller, but over 
Mrs. Horace Greeley, then the victim of ner- 
vous disorders not easily to be disentangled. 
She was watched over with the most careful 
interest by Margaret Fuller, and we have 
glimpses of the invalid's condition in this 
respect only in a few letters here and there 
(pp. 103, 126, 128, etc.). What farther light 
might be thrown on the matter if the German 
friend had seen fit to publish all the letters 
we can now only conjecture, and it is for- 
tunately not worth conjecturing. As to Mar- 
garet Fuller's own relation with Mr. James 
Gotendorff (nee Nathan) we only discover 
that her expressions of personal interest 
ranged at the time from the apparent ardor 
of the German "Liebster" (p. 87) to the more 
guarded and more habitual "chosen sister" 
(pp. 108, 130, 145). As for the gentleman 
himself, his sentimentalism outlived its ob- 
ject,and here closes its expression with such a 
flight as this : "The mutually much-longed-for 
meeting is yet to be somewhere ! somehow !" 



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'IVirgy O'Neal." .Copyright, 103, by Dr.x.l liichll.- & 

"she lifted up her face to mine." 



This was written apparently in 1873 (P- 6). 
How much this was reciprocated meanwhile 
by the lady herself may be judged by her dis- 
missal of him, a quarter of a century earlier, 
in 1846, after receiving his last letter in Edin- 
burgh ; the record being still visible, in her 
handwriting, in her MS. diary preserved in 
the Cambridge Public Library, to this effect, 
under date of Sept. 6 : "I understand more 
and more the character of the tribes. I shall 
write a sketch of it and turn the whole 
to account m a literary way, since the affec- 
tions and ideal hopes are so unproductive" 
(p. 187). It is pretty certain that this diary 
was never seen by Mr. Nathan ; but if it had 
been, he might have been confirmed in the 
purpose of "turning the whole to account in 
a literary way" in his own behalf, through 
this volume. Interest is at any rate given 
to the reprint by the revived study of the 
"Transcendental" period in this Emersonian 
year. (Appleton. net, $1.35.) A''. Y. Even- 
ing Post. 



Peggy O'Neal. 

It is a far cry from Mr. Lewis' tales of 
cowboys and frontier life to this historical 
novel of social intrigue and politics in Wash- 
ington, under the presidency of General Jack- 
son. "Old Hickory" is presented not as the 
outspoken, brusque politician, but as the chiv- 
alrous defender of Peggy O'Neal, against 
whom the women of Washington waged such 
a spiteful campaign. "Peggy" is presented 
as a handsome, wilful creature, of alternating 
moods, a whirlwind of emotions, and a pretty 
temper. Once in a fit of rage she bites the 
arm of the man she loves. She is quick in 
retort, a courageous fighter of her feminine 
foes. The author emphasizes the feline at- 
tributes of his heroine, "her l