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lington. Enigmatical as Cromwell has appeared in the mists of a revolutionary period in which liberal principles could prevail only through despotic measures, he is undeniably the one British ruler whose fame increases as the liberty and intelligence of the people grow. (G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York.)

Without doubt the men and women of the future will have a far greater degree of love for the State in which they live and pride in its character and history; they certainly will have more knowledge than the men and women of the present, because of the compact, concise, and intelligent treatment of the histories of the individual States now published for use in the schools. Stories of the Old Bay State, by Elbridge S. Brooks (American Book Company, New York), is an extremely happy example of what these books should be. The men and women who helped to make the State are prominent enough to fix in the mind the human element which makes history. The deeds of heroism , and self-sacrifice for the individual, the community, the State, which this history records must give an ideal of citizenship to the boy of to-day.

From Cromwell to Wellington: Twelve Soldiers, edited by Spenser Wilkinson, with an introduction by Field-Marshal Lord Roberts of Kandahar, V.C., K.P., G.C.B., G.C.S.I., G.C.I.E., is not so formal and formidable a volume as the titles on the title-page might suggest. It is, indeed, a book by soldiers, about soldiers, and pre-eminently for soldiers, but it is written for civilians as well, and it is well written. However, in such chapters as those upon Cromwell and Clive the civilian reader will feel the absence of all reference to the careers of these men as statesmen, where their statesmanship did not show itself in the management of their campaigns. The chapter upon Cromwell commemorates the three hundredth anniversary of that hero's birth, in a spirit far more generous and fitting than that which seems to have pervaded the greater part of what calls itself English society, during the past fortnight. The editor closes his chapter upon the leader of the "russetcoated captains" who knew what they fought for, and loved what they knew, with this quotation from Thurloe: "A larger soul, I think, hath seldom dwelt in a house

of clay than his was." The volume, as a whole, is the military history of the making of Greater Britain, and as such will have a peculiar interest to American expansionists. (The J. B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia.)

POETRY AND THE DRAMA

Mr. Maurice Hewlett's pastoral Pan and the Young Shepherd is even more distinctively and richly imaginative than his "Forest Lovers." "Forest Lovers." It is a bit of bold fantasy, veined with passion, lightened by the humors of rusticity. It will puzzle some readers, and will seem to some to pass the line of modern taste in dealing with the love of man and woman. But it has in it poetry and dramatic energy, and its burden is the power of love, truth, and constancy. (John Lane, New York.)

The memorial edition of the Poems of Henry Timrod comes at an opportune time, and is, in a way, an act of reparation for the neglect of a poet who fell upon unfortunate times. The storm of the Civil War overwhelmed the voice of Timrod, as it drowned so many other gentle and spiritual voices in its vast tumult, but the singing gift which Timrod had in quality so fine was not destined to be neglected. The work of his brief life is now accessible to all lovers of American poetry, and his reputation is certain to rest hereafter upon a broader base; for, while his range was not great, his art was quite perfect within that range. He had the lyric gift in its purest and most melodious form, and he has written songs which are likely to last long; they breathe a music which is born in the soul—a music at once tender, sincere, and appealing.

Some of his best songs were inspired by his ardent love of his own State, and his devotion to the cause which it espoused a generation ago. He will remain in our literature the poet of the Lost Cause. The volume is simply and tastefully made, and bears the imprint of Messrs. Houghton, Mifflin & Co. (Boston).

The same publishers have laid the students and lovers of Milton under obligation by adding to their admirable onevolume Cambridge edition The Complete Poctical Works of John Milton, containing the text of the edition of 1645, that of 1667 for "Paradise Lost," that of 1671 for "Paradise Regained" and "Samson

Agonistes." Prose translations of the Latin poems are presented. The introductions and head-notes contain much of the information which is usually packed away in notes, and the frontispiece reproduces the Onslow portrait of the poet. The volume contains the entire body of Milton's verse, printed from clear type in double columns, and is completely furnished with the carefully prepared introductions, notes, appendix, illustrations, and index which have given the Cambridge edition such importance among students and have made it so valuable.

After long waiting, Edward Fitzgerald's translation of the Rubáiyát of Omar Khay yám appears in the Golden Treasury Series, with the imprint of the Macmillan Company (New York), with the introduction, notes, the first edition of the translation, variations between the second, third, and fourth editions, stanzas which appear in the second edition only, and a comparative table of stanzas in the four editions.

Mr. Arthur Vincent has edited the Poems of Thomas Carew for the Muses Library. A recent English reviewer has characterized Carew as "cut out of a corner of Donne, but, unfortunately, it is the wrong corner;" for while Donne had his higher inspirations, and was lifted at times above his weaknesses, Carew's work is vitiated by the passion for artificial conceits, the love of paradox, and the license of taste which were the vices of his time. It must be immediately added, however, that this accomplished court poet was a most delicate and finished workman; like his contemporary Waller, a genuine, conscientious artist. He made a lasting contribution to our lyric poetry. Mr. Vincent has given Carew's text the benefit of all necessary introduction and annotation. (Charles Scribner's Sons, New York.)

HISTORY

Mr. Charles Morris's Our Island Em pire (a title which many readers will hardly consider justified by present conditions) aims to present in comprehensive but moderately compact form the essential facts about Cuba, Porto Rico, Hawaii, and the Philippines their geography, commerce, natural and industrial products, peoples, races, and peculiarities. Mr. Morris avoids a dry-as-dust method, pays

liberal attention to the picturesque and odd, has an excellent sense of proportion, and, in short, has made his book readable as well as valuable for reference. (The J. B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia.)

From Mr. Kipling and Mrs. Steele we have of late years found out something of what a marvelous store of romance-material exists in the Indian Empire, and most richly in the hill country on its frontiers. On the Edge of Empire, by Edgar Jepson and Captain D. Eames, widely enlarges our knowledge in this field. Here are some threescore or so of brief sketchesstories only in the slightest way-dealing with Sikhs, Pathans, Waziris, Afridis, and the other fierce races who fight with the British or against them. Largely the sketches are of native soldiers, but in one way and another they include an immense amount of information about tribal and race matters, superstitions, jealousies, feuds, wild customs, and other strange things to be found on the outskirts of civilization. The narrative and dramatic interest is strong. (Charles Scrlbner's Sons, New York.)

Another book upon the Spanish war, History Up to Date, by William A.Wohnston, has the merit of conciseness in a narrative that includes all the main facts down to the Treaty of Paris, together with a brief retrospect of the causes of the war. Of criticism upon our conduct of operations there is none. We notice that the recess-for-breakfast fable has been uncritically admitted into the story of the battle of Manila Bay. (A. S. Barnes & Co., New York.)

Another volume in the popular and instructive series, "The Story of the Nations," is Austria, by Sidney Whitman, with the collaboration of J. R. McIlraith (illustrated). The subject, however, is not the incoherent nationalities that for the present are held together as the AustroHungarian Empire by the commanding and beloved personality of Francis Joseph, but Austria Proper, the ancestral domains of the imperial house of Hapsburg, predominantly German in race, character, and civilization. Mr. Whitman accordingly relates the history of Austria as connected with its reigning family. It is a singular fact which he notes, “that no consecutive history of Austria such as this is exists in any language." In an earlier work, “The

Realm of the Habsburgs" (sic), he has treated Austria from the political student's point of view. In the present work the needs of the general reader are well met by a succinct and simple narrative. (G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York.)

In The Story of Our War with Spain Mr. Elbridge S. Brooks has succeeded in his endeavor to give "a bird's-eye view of the war from the insistent causes to the final triumphal close." The story is told simply and without much detail, but in an interesting and comprehensive manner. The book is well illustrated with photographs and drawings by Mr. Chase Emerson. It is particularly adapted for young readers. (The Lothrop Publishing Company, Boston.)

RELIGION AND PHILOSOPHY

The Rev. W. R. Huntington's The Church Idea: An Essay towards Unity, has passed into the fourth edition, and deserves the wide reading and careful attention which it is securing from Christians of all shades of belief and ecclesiastical connection. Whether the reader agrees or not with Dr. Huntington's views, he cannot fail to be made more deeply conscious, after reading this book, of the waste of every kind involved in sectarianism; nor can he fail to get a fresh impression of the depth and reality of the instinct which is steadily making towards unity. (Charles Scribner's Sons, New York.)

The personal experience of a man of God, realizing the things of the Spirit and the life in Christ, is reflected in the pages of Our Daily Homily, by the Rev. F. B. Meyer, of London. A set of five small volumes is thus entitled, each page of which offers for use in private devotion or family worship a brief meditation upon a passage of Holy Scripture. Even the ceremonial and sanitary regulations of Levit icus are made to yield spiritual lessons. Though the allegorizing vein is sometimes overworked, these homilies are in general to be reckoned among the best things from their author's prolific pen. (The F. H. Revell Company, New York.)

NOVELS AND TALES

A response, and also a stimulant, to the new interest that now invests Malaysia is given by our Consul-General at Hong

Kong, Mr. Rounsevelle Wildman, in his Tales of the Malayan Coast, from Penang to the Philippines (illustrated by Harry Sandham). In these short stories a facile pen tells of war and love, of travel and hunting, of commerce and piracy, of Oriental barbarism and the splendid English civilization installed beside it. Mr. Wildman's nine years of residence and varied experience in Malaysia are here turned to practical account in his portraiture of the character of the strange race, a branch of which we have taken up as "the white man's burden.' (The Lothrop Publishing Company, Boston.)

The Ladder of Fortune, by Frances Courtenay Baylor, is a study of a phase of social life in America. If there is any phase of life that can make an American blush for his nationality, it is the phase presented here. A boy who runs away from an orphan asylum established in the Far West determines in his first conscious days to be rich. He knows nothing of any world but that of speculation, where his genius makes him a leader. A shrewd, handsome woman comes as a milliner to the mushroom town in which this man has his "orfus." She marries him for his money. Their life begins in the vulgar surroundings of the local hotel, where she finds her only society. A woman of refinement traveling with her husband opens the wife's eyes to a world beyond that she has known. She, too, becomes ambitious; she determines to be a social leader. Husband and wife succeed in achieving their desires. The woman finds pleasure, for she has no heart. The man finds only bitterness and defeat in all that makes life worth living. As a study of one phase of life in a new country, "The Ladder of Fortune" is a disagreeably truthful piece of work. The one ray of light in it is the little love story of "Polly" and the artist. (Houghton, Mifflin & Co., Boston.)

Mr. J. Christian Bay has translated from various Danish writers a collection of popular stories and fairy tales, under the title of Danish Fairy and Folk Tales. These stories, like all others of their class, being drawn substantially from the great Indo-European storehouse, present few novelties of invention, but, in their form and spirit, interpret and illustrate the Danish habit of thought, by bringing into clear relief popular faiths, ideals, and

aspirations. (Harper & Brothers, New which they prefer as a home; they are York.)

MISCELLANEOUS

The publication of Volume XIII. of the works of Thackeray, containing the Bal lads and Miscellanies, completes the Biographical Edition-in many respects the most important edition of Thackeray which has ever been published, containing as it does the introductions by Mrs. Ritchie, and the illustrations of Thackeray, Cruikshank, and John Leech. The value of the edition is further increased by the republication in this volume of the Life of Thackeray by his son-in-law, Leslie Stephen, which first appeared in "The Dictionary of National Biography." The edition will be made a subject of more extended comment at an early date. (Harper & Brothers, New York.)

Whatever element of cruelty there may be in descriptions of the hunt must be forgiven Hamblen Sears for the charming atmosphere in "Henry's Ducks," in Fur and Feather Tales. His exquisite description of a drive through a Cape Cod woods, a sunrise on the pond, his appreciation of the intelligence of the duck, awakens not only interest but delight, and one forgets and forgives the guns, the powder, and the dead ducks on the pond in the morning light, the deceit of "Henry" and the author. "Henry" is a character, and Mr. Sears shows himself more than a landscape artist in his delineation of this New England type. This quality shows itself also in the description of "William" in "William's Moose." The description of the hunts in France and in Norway, while vivid, and filled with what the artists call atmosphere, lacks the qualities of love and sympathy which make the other two tales in the book delightful and stirring to the blood of the sportsman. (Harper & Brothers, New York.)

No book of its class published recently surpasses in interest and beauty A Guide to the Wild Flowers, by Alice Lounsberry, illustrated by Mrs. Ellis Rowan. The reader or student who uses this book will agree with Dr. N. L. Britton, who contributes the introduction, that "our thanks are due Miss Lounsberry and Mrs. Rowan for having contributed a work which cannot fail to advance nature study in quite the way it should be advanced." The plants are classified according to the soil

surrounded by their friends, the environment they choose. The family idea of plant life is beautifully presented, and cannot fail to arouse a sentiment of love, a desire to protect the members of a family who so naturally choose to live in their own groups. There are sixty-four colored plates and one hundred drawings; some of the color work is exquisite. (The F. A. Stokes Company, New York.)

A new book by Mr. W. O. Stoddard is always welcomed by boys and girls. In The Despatch Boat of the Whistle he has woven many of the incidents of the campaign in and about Cuba into a capital story. A hustling newspaper reporter, a fiery Cuban patriot, and the fair daughter of a Cuban officer are the principal characters. All of the incidents are taken from actual occurrences, and the book is instructive as well as interesting. (The Lothrop Company, Boston.)

The author of " Through the Storm,” Avetis Nazarbek, has well called his book Pictures of Life in Armenia. He presents the miseries of that unhappy land so vividly as to make the reader hear the moans, the cries of agony, of the victims of torture and abuse by the Turkish officials. The "preparatory note," by F. York Powell, of Oxford, is a concise history of the Armenians, and the growth of the political party who are the revolutionists aiming to gain the freedom of Armenia from Turkish misrule. The author is the editor of the "Huntchak," the official organ of the revolutionists. He states in his introduction that his book is based on actual facts, names only being suppressed. The book is translated from the French by Mrs. L. M. Elton. (Longmans, Green & Co., New York.)

The United States of Europe on the Eve of the Parliament of Peace, by W. T. Stead, is, as the author says, a collection of instantaneous photographs of conditions in every part of Europe taken during visits occupying nearly three months of the present year. The photographer has perhaps the keenest eye for significant situations of any one of his class in Europe, and he had the credentials that enabled him to go where the significant situations were to be seen. The chapter upon the work of Robert College and the American missionary in the Orient seems to us

to have more than a temporary value. It certainly is adapted to rekindle enthusiasm, not only for missions, but for the greatness of the international rôle which America has performed in the Orient. (Doubleday & McClure Company, New York.)

The large literature relating to Eng lish Cathedrals receives a fresh addition in a volume from the hand of Francis Bond, with a hundred and eighty illustrations from photographs, the author's intention being, as he tells us frankly, to make the study of English cathedrals more interesting, by treating them chronologically; that is to say, giving the history of each cathedral from the beginning to the present time. This affords an opportunity of describing the original architecture, the various modifications or additions which have been made, and of associating the cathedrals with interesting men or with significant events. The value of such a treatment will be recognized at once by all who have attempted to make a study of the cathedrals. This volume is of convenient size and is thoroughly illustrated. (The J. B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia.)

Modern methods of teaching and learning are admirably exemplified in Nature Study for Grammar Grades, by Mr. Wilbur S. Jackson, of the Chicago Normal School. To guide and facilitate the observation and experiment by which alone the study of nature is seriously rather than skimmingly carried on, this manual for teachers and pupils below the highschool grade contains some forty chapters of suggestions and directions, queries and problems, covering a large part of the field of science. Like a bill of fare, it is for selective use. Many who have outlived school days can use it to advantage. (The Macmillan Company, New York.)

Through Boyhood to Manhood: A Plea for Ideals, by Ennis Richmond, deals with the moral problems of English schoolboys and schools. To a large extent these are the problems of boarding-schools for boys in this country. The subject which receives the amplest treatment is purity. Mr. Richmond understands boys, at least British boys, and his earnest and judicious handling of his topics possesses interest alike for parents and teachers. (Longmans, Green & Co., New York.)

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