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XXIX BOSTON 22 JANUARY 1898 No. 2 THE BETH BOOK.* MADAME SARAH GRAdmit the most is a remarkable degree of analysis and ga derstanding in the book; so it means a good deal to say that the young man has done his best to give a vivid picture of one side of college life. The pity is that the vivid picture does not add much glorification to his Alma Mater. ardent admirers must admit that this story is a lamentable failure in almost every respect. It takes nearly three hundred and fifty pages to carry Beth along from the 19 hour of her birth to the end of her school 19 days; and after all the minute history of 19 her acts, sayings, thoughts, oddities, adventures, and plans, with the constant presentation of the fact that she is a rare genius -after all this and more, the reader has reason to expect a wonderful outcome, a fine flowering of such a bud of promise, a career unsurpassable in brilliance and 20 21 21 21 22 22 22 23 23 23 23 Ber. 23 Men, Women, and Manners in Colonial Times. BOOKS FOR BOYS: The Signal Boys of '75. Otis 23 26 So the book fails utterly in its apparently conveying her impressions to those who 26 26 autobiographic purpose and in the exposi- have not shared her privilege of visiting a terrible child, of kin to the famous irre- 27 27 27 27 RICH MAN'S HARVARD.t T is certainly not a particularly pleasing picture of college life that Mr. Flandrau has given us in Harvard Episodes. One 28 does not have to read far beyond the first 28 story to realize why some members of the 28 Harvard Faculty are dreading the injurious 28 influence of this gaily bound, clever little volume. 28 28 29 Mr. Flandrau does not pretend to call 29 his book the whole story - his chosen title 29 clears him entirely from that-but the 29 trouble is that once beyond the balancing knowledge of college limits the book will, 29 to all intents and purposes, stand for the whole story. President Eliot would do well 29 29 29 29 the beautiful and interesting tropical island, while those who have seen its luxuriant vegetation, its gentle little people, and its wonderful ruins, will be carried back by her words and live over again the halcyon days of their sojourn in this earthly paradise. Miss Scidmore is accurate in her statements and foregoes whatever pleasure there may be in telling marvelous tales. She confesses to the natural desire to see the great venomous snakes and cruel wild animals with which some writers have peopled all these regions, but she as frankly confesses her disappointment. Describing a journey by rail across a section of the country which was at the coast level, the terra ingrata's succession of jungle and swamp, with the dull, heavy, depressing heat before experienced in Batavia, she says: Hour after hour the train followed a raised embankment across an endless swamp, the briling the tracks, and a dense forest wall, tangled liantly flowered lantana-hedges still accompany. and matted together with ratans and other creepers, shutting off the view on either side. The malaria and deadly fever germs that haunt this region were almost visible, so dense was the air. While this section of the railway was building, even the native workmen were carried back each day to sleep in camps in safer neigh 30 perhaps not to make any general distribu-borhoods. No white man could work, nor re30 tion of it on his Western trips. main there directing work, and Chinese, who are germ, bacillus, microbe, and miasma-proof in every climate, superintended work between the flying visits of European engineers. As we coursed along past these miles of rankest vegetation not a waft of perfume reached us, nor did any mass of color delight the eye- -a green monotony of uninteresting vegetation.... No splendidly striped tigers licked their chops and snarled in the jungle's shade; no rhinoceros snorted at the iron horse; and not a serpent The Beth Book. By Sarah Grand. D. Appleton & raised a hissing head or looped itself from tree26 Co. $1.50. 30 Rich men, popular men, club men, snob bish men, drinking men, may call the book 23 triumphantly their Harvard, but it is not by any manner of means every man's Harvard, and it is just here that a rather regrettable impression is going to be made an im top to treetop in proper tropical fashion. . . neo, Sumatra, and the other islands that are so All travel, though, is only such disillusionment and disappointment, and he who would believe and enjoy blood-curdling things should stay by his own fireside. The disillusioned traveler has but to choose, on his return, whether he will truthfully dispel others' fondest illusions or, joining the nameless club of so many returned travelers, continue to clothe the more distant parts of the world with the glamour of imagination. The author's enthusiastic descriptions of the wonderful and numerous views of beautiful temples ornamented with fine statuary in the center of the island are well illustrated by pictures, while a map enables the reader to localize the various places mentioned. These temples were almost unknown for the earlier period of the occupation of the island by the Dutch, who desired no inspection by outsiders of their administration of the rich country whose inhabitants they were oppressing that a constant flow of gulden might reach their home treasury. But during the temporary government of Java by the English (from 1811 to 1816) Sir Stamford Raffles instituted the work of rescuing these curious archæological treasures from the destruction caused by the luxuriant growth of tree roots, neglect, and the alternate rainy and dry seasons. Prominent and important as has been the luxuriates quite as do all the theobromas and ness came, and its publication did not take thies and notabilities; accordingly we find here the figures not only of the "Wizard of the North," but of Christopher North, Lockhart, and scores of others, to name whom is to open up vistas of most entertaining per sonal narrative. All roads lead sooner or later to London, We could quote with pleasure the auThe author sketches the history of the thor's description of tea gardens and what if not to Rome, and London became the she relates of coffee culture; what she headquarters of the Blackwoods' business; Dutch methods of government, and clearly, though concisely, points out the causes of heard of hunting, her visits to the native but essentially the staple and atmosphere of the changes which time and the introduc-markets and the manufacturers of the sa- this work are Scotch, and the work is none tion, even there, of the spirit of liberty have rongs worn by European and Asiatic women the worse for that. wrought. She introduces the reader to the alike; but we leave these and other charmlife of the wealthy residents, whose palatial ing bits to the reader of the book. mansions in the midst of tropical gardens on the higher elevations have a delicious California climate: THERE THE BLACKWOOD ANNALS.* HERE is attached, or rather we ought All agree that, of all exiled cultivators in the to say prefixed, to this imposing work far parts of the world, the Java planter is most the tender, pathetic interest of the fact that to be envied, leading, as he does, the ideal trop. Mrs. Oliphant regarded it as likely to be ical life, the one best worth living, in a land where over great areas it is always luxurious, her crowning literary undertaking, and that dreamy afternoon, and in the beautiful hill coun- so it proved. Indeed, she was able to give try is always the fresh, breezy, dewy, summer it only a partial revision before her last illforenoon of rarest June. The climate of the hills is all that Sybarite could wish for a perpetual 70° by day, with light covering required *Annals of a Publishing House. William Blackwood at night-the warm sun of the tropics temper- and His Sons. Their Magazine and Friends. By Mrs. ing the fresh mountain air to an eternal mild- Oliphant. Two vols. Imported by Charles Scribner's ness, in which the human animal thrives and Sons. $10.50. 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