count the book as among the author's best. of persons represented. The other tales and graphical features of real excellence. [Henry T. Coates & Co. $1.25.] Chilhowee Boys at College. Sarah E. Morrison is doing good work in "writing up" the " Chilhowee boys. This third in the series takes several families-some of them already familiar in this record of frontier life. After the struggles incident to settling in the wilderness, and the vicissitudes of war, several of the boys are fitted for a Tennessee college, to which they journey on horseback. The discipline, the hardships, the devices by which they make their way are varied by the introduction of new acquaintances, college episodes, and visits at holiday time at the old home. It is an excellent and interesting story. tions are by Frank T. Merrill. [T. Y. Crowell & Co. $1.50.] The Three Homes. This sketches are for the most part of a lower sixth volume has the lives of Thomson, Watts, A. Philips, West, Collins, Dyer, Shenstone, Young, Mallet, Akenside, Gray, and Lyttelton, and portraits of Dr. Johnson, Thomson, Collins, Young, and Gray. That of Dr. Johnson, from a painting in the possession of Mrs. Kay and Miss Drummond, is unlike any other of Johnson we have ever seen, and reminds one a little of Goldsmith. These books are not cheap, but they have the finest external characteristics. [Imported by Charles Scribner's Sons. $2.50.] The Temple Shakespeare. More than one new edition, however, of the genial and companionable Captain Marryat is on the market this season, for here before us, in addition to the volumes bearing the joint imprint of Dent & Co. of London, and Little, Brown & Co. of Boston, the latest of which are reviewed above, are fair copies of The King's Own and The Phantom Ship in crown 8vos of about four hundred pages, handsomely printed and bound, in rather small type, but on excellent paper, with rough edges, with introducWith the appearance of Venus and Adonis, The illustrations by David Hannay, and with some forty The Rape of Lucrece, and The Sonnets, three full-page illustrations in the first by F. H. more issues in the diminutive but exquisite Townsend, in the second by H. R. Millar. Temple Edition of Shakespeare, prepared by These are outline drawings, delicately and Dr. Gollancz, comes the announcement of the tastefully done, with the effect of etchings, and publishers that they are ready to take orders they add to the attractions of refined and in for the complete set in boxes, in two styles of every way pleasing volumes. We do not ex-binding, according to the length of the buyer's pect ever to see again the like of an edition purse, which in neither case will be ravaged of Poor Jack, which is inseparably associated deeply, as the cost of the some forty volumes with the recollections of our boyhood's read in the cheaper binding is but $20.00 and in the ing days: a tall octavo of English make, with dearer only $30.00. These are dear little books, super-excellent paper and engravings, a per- with almost every appeal which can be made to fect luxury of a boy's book; and we wonder the touch or to the eye, and so intelligently, now whatever became of it! But such books though simply, edited that they make a strong as these do well enough for the fortunate appeal to the intelligence. The text is that of readers of the present generation. [The Mac- the Globe Edition, with the numbered lines, millan Co. $1.50.] fitting it to the Variorum Edition, for instance, as also to Bartlett's Concordance. Two of these volumes can be easily carried in an ordinary pocket side by side, so that a pocket Shakespeare is no longer out of the question. [The Macmillan Co. Each, 45c.] This is a re-print of a book by Dean Farrar, first published more than twenty years ago, and is the only one, the author says, to which he did not attach his name. It is the story of three boy friends, in different homes, and growing up under the influence of different fathers; quite as well adapted to fathers as sons; and if it shows what lack of obedience may do on the one hand, it also shows even more impressively the evil resulting where the parent is arbitrary, high-tempered, and unreasonable. Dean Farrar was not mistaken in his conclusion that it has elements of vitality, and that it conveys lessons helpful in the formation of character. [E. P. Dutton & Co. $1.50.] A Boy and the Christ. Mark Twain. The latest volume in the new edition of Mark Twain's writings contains the remarkable and side-splitting, if not heart-rending, adventures of Tom Sawyer Abroad, included with which ous The Temple Classics. A Boy and the Christ is a sketchy record of a possible experience, by Frank C. Haddock, who are "Tom Sawyer, Detective," "The Stolen is in the habit of preaching once a year a Christ- White Elephant," "Some Rambling Notes of Marvels of typographical beauty and cheapmas sermon in the form of a story. The Boy is an Idle Excursion," "The Facts Concerning ness, in form and style more for the library or traced from the time when he stood at his moth- the Recent Carnival of Crime in Connecticut," the parlor, are the editions of Wordsworth's er's knee and learned about Jesus, on through a "Punch, Brothers, Punch," and a dozen other Prelude and Southey's Nelson, with but few period of doubt and questionings and falling sketches long and short in this literary artist's notes, but with every device and quality to away from his early faith, until, through one inimitable manner. No matter with how seri- please the lover of fine books, paper of suof those simple agencies which confound and a countenance one may open this book perior quality, rough edges, gilt tops, rubriconquer the learned and mighty, the man and and begin to read, and with what determina-cated titles, photogravure frontispieces, simple the Christ meet, as they must meet when the tion not to relax a muscle, he will hardly get but artistic bindings, and the indescribable air soul is made "teachable by the Spirit of Truth." through a single page without relaxing both of elegance which pervades so many books of It is written with a devout and consecrated pur- his resolutions and his muscles in spite of English manufacture. These are pioneers of a pose, and cannot fail of influence for good. The himself, and give way in a paroxysm of laugh- series of "Temple Classics," to be edited also drawings, by Mary Conkey Haddock (presum-ter. This book is better than medicine for by Dr. Gollancz, whose Shakespeare above ably the author's wife), are of exquisite delicacy. noted is now complete, and who therefore can [Eaton & Mains. 6oc.] turn his attention to other English masterpieces. The volumes are a trifle larger, but belong in the same choice category as the "Temple Shakespeare," and will make a most desirable library. And only 50 cents the volume! [The Macmillan Co.] NEW EDITIONS. Captain Marryat. some complaints, and far easier to take. [Har- Gibbon's Decline and Fall. Snarley- Yow; or, the Dog Fiend; The Phantom Ship; Olla Podrida, The Pirate and The Three Cutters; and Poor Jack are volumes VIII, IX, X, and XI, respectively, of the sumptuous Anglo-American edition, with etched illustrations, of Captain Marryat's works, of which we have heretofore noticed some earlier issues. Of those just named The Three Cutters and Poor Jack are entitled to be ranked in the author's first-class work, for their vivacious Dr. Johnson's Lives of the Poets. and well-sustained interest; Snarley-Yow is Volume VI of Mr. Arthur Waugh's new edione of the Captain's few historical novels, tion of Dr. Johnson's Lives of the Poets comand is both ingenious and engaging, but dis- pletes the work, and a pleasing set of books figured by something of the coarseness and the six make, with their rubricated title-pages, brutality characteristic of the time and class their process portraits, and their several typo Lippincott's novelette has the title of "Under the Pacific" and is a stirring story of hunting for lost treasure beneath the waves. Of the more solid contents in the latter part of the magazine, "South Florida Since the Freeze" is a brightly written account of the vicissitudes of orange culture in the alligator State, and wisely points out the need for a widening of industry on the ground that it is never well, not even in Florida, to put all one's eggs into one basket. There is also an encouraging discussion of the subject of irrigation in its relation to the territories of the West. Scribner's Magazine expects to outstrip in 1897 all its previous record, now just ten years old. Among the details of announcements which whet the reader's appetite are such as these: "London as Seen by Charles Dana Gibson," with abundant illustrations from the Queen down; "Soldiers of Fortune," by that one of their number, Mr. Richard Harding Davis; a series of articles on "The Conduct of Great Businesses," in which will be included the department store, the hotel, the bank, the factory, and we presume the railway, the telephone exchange, and the telegraph monopoly; and might be included some such great church as Grace or St. George's, New York, which has its business side no less than its religious. Women and their clubs and their reforms are coming in for generous notice, and undergraduate life in American colleges, and the labor question in the cross lights of fiction; and the world's great novels will furnish the subjects for the frontispieces. Mr. A. B. Frost will illustrate outdoor life. And so on. The Atlantic is trying to find and to bring forward a group of the best equipped young students of literature, who will with perfect frankness and boldness take up from the point of view of the present our older writers, and say just how their literature impresses them, and how much of it gives inspiration to the present generation. The world has gone for thirty or forty years practically accepting the estimate of our greatest literary men made by their contemporaries. It has seemed to the Atlantic worth while to find whether this estimate now needs revision. The views of literature and of life that these young critics hold are turning out to be exceedingly suggestive. They give an interesting measure of the distance that we have traveled in some respects in our intellectual out look during the last thirty years. The first of these papers is the study of Emerson, by Mr. John Jay Chapman, to which we have already alluded, and which is to be continued in the February Atlantic. NEWS AND NOTES. —Mrs. Julia C. R. Dorr is spending a few weeks at Lake Maitland, Fla., where she has gone for rest and recuperation. Having been quite ill in the autumn, she is, in consequence, forbidden to write at present. Mrs. Dorr's two volumes of English travel sketches, The Flower of England's Face and A Cathedral Pilgrimage, which were brought out last year by The Macmillan Co., have been well received both in this country and in England. -In the last issue of Collier's Weekly for the year just past Mr. Edgar Fawcett tells a delicately humorous story of "The Widow and the Major,” in addition to his regular installment of "Men, Manners, and Moods." Mr. Fawcett's time is at present greatly taken up in writing for this periodical in company with Messrs. Edgar Saltus, Julian Hawthorne, and Mayor W. Hazeltine. Indeed, Collier's Weekly appears to be about made up of articles by these four authors-and an interesting "makeup" it is— each of them contributing five thousand words every week on various topics. A novel of Mr. Fawcett's will soon be issued by Mr. Collier in his Once a Week Library. Its name is Life's Fitful Fever. Another novel, shorter, will be brought out by the J. B. Lippincott Co., entitled A Romance of Old New York. This is an amplified version of Mr. Fawcett's Herald $2,000 prize story of last winter. - Of the narrative poem, Skenandoa, by Clinton Scollard, with dedicatory verses to Edward North, LL.D., L.H.D., a limited edition of which was printed last year at the University Press, Cambridge, only a few copies remain. -Those who have been entertained by the pleasant stories that have appeared in late numbers of the Outlook and the Youths' Companion under the signature of Alix Thorn will be interested in knowing that they are the work of Miss Alice Frost of Meriden, Ct. 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The same house announce Geography of est cash rate. the Middle Ages, by C. Raymond Beazley. Mr. Stockton's story which he has written Liabilities, for Harper's Magazine will probably begin, Assets, serially, next June. The author himself says: "It is a forecast of some wonderful things which may be expected about the middle of the twen tieth century." This sounds delightfully Stocktonian, and it is safe to anticipate a treat. When completed in the magazine, the novel will be published in book form by Harper & Brothers, and by Osgood, McIlvaine & Co. of London. The author of Rudder Grange is certainly broadening his lines. He has recently finished the first detective story he has ever written. It is a short serial. Mr. Stockton expects to spend the winter among the hills of New Jersey, and he will soon begin the preparation of a book of short stories, to be issued early in the spring. 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By GEORGE TICKNOR CURTIS. 2 vols. 8vo, Cloth, Uncut Edges and Gilt Tops, $3.00 each. Books, we know, are a substantial world, both pure and good BOSTON 6 FEBURARY 1897 Vol. XXVIII No. 3 Whole No. 577 "MR. BARRIE'S NOBLEST BOOK." Margaret Ogilvy. THIRD By Her Son, James M. Barrie. With Portrait. 12mo, $1.25. THE LONDON ACADEMY In reviewing the English notices of the book, says: "The Speaker has a sympathetic review of the book in which Mr. Barrie has enshrined the memory of his mother. Anticipating the reference to Wordsworth's 'slave prying and botanizing upon a mother's grave,' the writer says of Mr. Barrie : 'He has written in obedience to an impulse deep-rooted in our nature to use the art whose servant he is to heap honor upon the woman whose son he was.' It is marvelous how, 'without the painful parade of a biographer,' he has made the image of his mother to 'pass rapidly before us-laughing, weeping, anxious, happy, full of household cares and hopes beyond the grave.' But delicate as it all appears, 'it is really cut deep and graven hard; as lusty a piece of work as the art of Greek gold-workers of old.' "In the columns of the National Observer a 'Literary Looker-on' appears to be interested principally in those parts of the work which give some account of the author's early essays in literature. Within its pages,' says the Morning Post, 'we find the character of a delightful woman very fully exhibited'; in his lifelong devotion to whom Mr. Barrie enjoys 'a distinction more rare and more valuable than any which his great popularity as a novelist can offer.' 'Nowhere in literature,' says the Literary World, 'can we recall such a narrative of the purest -New York Independent. affection known on earth.' "A precious bit of biography."-Hartford Courant. "The Scotsman says: "The panegyric glances off the mother and dwells upon the son. A Frenchman might have written such a work without causing much surprise or reproach. . . . It is alien and offensive to Scottish human nature.' "A tender, loving, reverent So that we are glad to learn from the Daily News that it is 'a fine, unique picture memoir."-Boston Herald. .. of Scotch family life and character.'' SENTIMENTAL TOMMY. The Story of His Boyhood. By James M. Barrie. FOURTH "A work of fiction that is as original as it is fascinating. Here, indeed, is life itself and all the accompaniments thereof."JOEL CHANDLER HARRIS. "Those who know a piece of life when they find it, and who care for the ultimate charm of a bit of pure literature, will read and reread Mr. Barrie's masterpiece."-HAMILTON W. MABIE. CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS, 153-157 Fifth Ave., New York. |