Domitia.

It is a far cry from the scenes of Mr. S. Baring-Gould's usual stories, based on legends and illustrating customs of rural England in the olden time, to Rome and the era of Nero and his immediate successors. Yet he is quite at home amidst these unaccustomed surroundings. It would need a classic scholar to point out any discrepancies, although the average reader will wonder if a noble Roman woman

sides being absorbingly interesting. [Harper & really vital in the progress of the nation will be Lorient, Ham, and the Conciergerie. He was Brothers. $1.25.] remembered and approved by the statesmanship an outlaw for more than half of his life. There of the future," says his biographer. It is to be were incidents at Strasburg, and later at Bouremembered that Mr. Garland is not writing a logne, which brought upon him the mock and military history of the war, for he deals with jeer of Europe. He carried a bâton as a special Sherman and other generals only as Grant constable in Park Lane on Chartists Day. Then, planned their campaigns to enforce unity of by a sudden turn of fortune, he became President action. We might wish, however, that we had of the French Republic. The coup d'état made been told more of Grant in his home, for there him emperor of the French, and thenceforth for is scarcely an allusion to him in connection with some fifteen years he was perhaps the most conhis grown-up children. As a literary composi- sidered man in Europe. It was said that on tion the Life has its defects, for its repetitions being asked whether he should not find it diffiare many, its use of adjectives somewhat too cult to rule the French nation, he replied “Oh, frequent. But in spite of these minor defects, to no! Nothing is more easy. Il leur faut une have so presented the life of the great warrior of guerre tous les quatres ans." The volume is as peace on its march to victory over self, over fascinating as a novel, having, indeed, for its enemies, over his country, that as one reads he central figure a man whose checkered life was is warm with sympathy, is a great feat for any itself a romance, ending in tragedy. The biogwriter to have accomplished, and we owe grati- raphy is illustrated by several excellent portraits tude to Hamlin Garland for having done more and is well printed on thick paper. It will be than any other biographer, more even than a valuable addition to any library. [Dodd, Grant himself, to help us to understand the Mead & Co. $3.50.] commander-in-chief. [Doubleday & McClure Co. $2.50.]

was wont to talk like the superficial, ambitious Longa Duilia, unworthy wife of a good and great man, and mother of so high-minded a daughter as Domitia. The story is vital throughout, as are all by this author, and of unflagging interest, with a high purpose, and taken alto gether is better sustained and better worth reading than most of its class. [Frederick A. Stokes Company. $1.50.]

BIOGRAPHY.

Mrs. Delany.

JUVENILES.

'Twixt You and Me.

For a volume that looks so ponderous and uninteresting, The Autobiography and Correspondence of Mrs. Delany, revised from Lady The juvenile stories by which Grace Le Baron Llanover's edition by Sarah Chauncey Woolsey, is best known are superior to this, which is will be found exceedingly entertaining. Her intended for the "lads and lasses of today." It is sentimental and vague. The young girl friends are not clearly defined, and their history lacks connecting links. The island of Nantucket is the scene of some portion, and the sailor stories give variety. The illustrations are by Ellen B. Thompson, decorations by Katharine Pyle. [Little, Brown & Co. $1.50.]

ended far into the reign of the third George.
Like that of Dr. Pepys, her life was of little im-
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acquaintance included nearly all the distin-
guished people of her time, and with that facility
in the use of the pen peculiar to her age, she
wrote much that is worthy of preservation.
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The Life of Napoleon Third.

An Obstinate Maid.

Ulysses S. Grant, His Life and Character. After reading Grant's own memoirs with their succinct statements of the military operations of others as well as of his own, this Life, with its glowing paragraphs, its wealth of adjectives, its impassioned admiration of the man, and its pre-life began before the death of Queen Anne and sentation of his inward self, is like the sudden illumination of a dark background. The events of his life and his characteristics stand before the reader as if in a moving biograph. Hamlin Garland is well fitted to write such a volume, for his experience in life has led him to seek for causes and analyze results, and when he sets himself to write, the vigor and tension of his mind pass into his words. In 524 pages he It is not often that a better book for girls brings before us the man Grant in the plenitude comes to hand- or so good a book as this of his strength and also in his weakness, as we The author of a biography must possess a one, translated from the twenty-first edition of see him in the continuous, progressive effort spirit of impartiality greater than is ordinarily the German of Emma von Rhoden, by Mary E. whose supreme purpose was relentless war that found in men, if he can conceal from his readers Ireland. The maid is Ilse Markleman, an only there might be peace. Mr. Garland never fore- his own personal sympathies and antipathies. child, who is a romping, out-of-door girl, indecasts the future and Grant grows before us. This spirit animates Archibald Forbes to a pendent of the gentle courtesies of life, and The marvelous part of the book is that in which marked degree. He writes warmly, but justly, excessively indulged by her father until the wise we begin to realize the slowly dawning recogni- of the incidents of Louis Napoleon's early life, new stepmother makes him see that something tion of Grant's command, his far-reaching activ- and when he reaches the later periods, where he must be done. Ilse is sent, against her will, to ities, his enormous concentration, and at last we was himself a witness of much that he describes, an excellent school, where she rebels against understand his inflexible purpose as did Lincoln his pity for the failing, falling emperor takes rules until brought to see herself as she is by and Sherman. His motives for action are laid from his pen all elements of contempt or bitter- the judicious methods of her teachers. The bare, and yet when the acts themselves are de-ness. Of much that Mr. Forbes describes in ideas of the author about school management scribed, the words are swift, compact, and strong. the Franco-Prussian war he was an eye-witness and the development of an undisciplined girl In the same way do we feel his straightforward, himself, yet he has modestly succeeded in effac-under right treatment are admirable. The story simple-minded purpose throughout his adminis- ing his own personality from his brilliant narra- is very suggestive and helpful, besides being of trations and even his defeats, until the end came tive. The volume is exceedingly interesting and unusual interest. The illustrations, by Ida which brought back to him a nation's homage. will be a permanent addition to the Napoleonic Waugh, are quite attractive. [George W. JaThe Ward business episode, with its slanders literature. Under the writer's carefully chosen cobs & Co. $1.25.] and its poverty, is not slighted, nor are Grant's language we can perceive his great admiration weaknesses in trusting too much, in not earlier for the Kaiser and the Iron Chancellor, and his removing inefficient subordinates, in being over- contempt for the hasty, ill-considered methods duly attracted by wealth as giving what he of the French people. His analysis of Louis lacked; even his one miserable lack of self- Napoleon's character is orderly, well sustained, control is honestly mentioned. Though Grant's and illuminating. The emperor's kindness of painful experiences as Secretary of War, his heart is harmonized with his boldness of intrigue; saving of the Union, and his relations with his courage is shown to have been consistent Johnson are treated with the same candor which with his wavering and hesitating conduct under distinguishes the earlier part of the book, Mr. sudden pressure. "The vicissitudes which Garland does not dwell long enough upon the Louis Napoleon experienced almost from the eight presidential years in days "of cupidity and cradle to the grave were probably unexampled. corruption." Grant's "faults and limitations He was a fugitive before he could speak articuwere obvious,... but in the main the great lately. In the interval between his twentieth features of his public policy and all the measures and fortieth years he was a prisoner in Strasburg,

Margaret Montfort.

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Three Freshmen.

Ruth Chittenden from New England, Frances Townsend from Chicago, and Nathalie Page from the South are the devoted Smith College girls of whose doings Jessie Anderson Chase writes in this little story of freshman life. She makes it very bright and sparkling with the harmless adventures, witty sayings, impromptu verses, dainty "spreads," class episodes, mishaps, and mistakes which enter so fully into schoolgirl life, all the time bringing out into high light the traits and personality of the three, their associates, and the teachers. It is an enjoyable book, and will find favor with the girl readers for whom it is intended. [A. C. McClurg & Co. $1.00.]

friends in new guise, and any little child is sure
to be charmed with them. [R. H. Russell.]

closely to the subject in hand. It is interesting in these days of treaty-making with Spain to read Professor Baldwin's statement that the Little Mr. Van Vere of China. Czar of Russia and our President are the two This is a story by Harriet A. Cheever of ships most absolute rulers on earth. The paper on and sailors and a little stowaway who found not "The Monroe Doctrine in 1898" will need to only the countries he had dreamed about, but be rewritten if the proposed treaty with Spain is some people who were better than any dreams. ratified! "Permanent Courts of International The narrative itself and the oriental pictures Arbitration suggests a more cheerful outlook combine to make a very attractive juvenile. for our country among the nations. [Little, [Estes & Lauriat. $1.25.] Brown & Co. $2.00.]

HISTORY.

The Rise and Growth of American
Politics.

Mr. Henry Jones Ford's readable book on The Rise and Growth of American Politics is a popular setting-forth of views familiar to the readers of Von Holst, Bryce, Woodrow Wilson, Thy Friend Dorothy. and others who have seen American politics as Amy E. Blanchard, who has written several they are, and not through the spectacles of domestic stories for girls, departs from her usual theorists. The democratic transformation of way and gives one with an historic background our politics in the first third of the century and and a sketchy exposition of a religious sect. the immense importance of party organization Not that these are at all obtrusive, however. are two matters on which Mr. Ford lays peculiar Dorothy is a winsome English girl, whose wid- stress. He appears to be somewhat more sensiowed mother becomes a Quaker, and seeing ble of the merits and advantages of the party things by an "inward light," goes to the new system than of its shortcomings and corruptions, colony in Pennsylvania. As a matter of course but he does not go to an extreme in this direcWilliam Penn appears on the scene, and life in│tion. [The Macmillan Co. $1.50.] the neighborhood of friendly Indians is de scribed. There is a pretty love story; a fine Cousin Jasper from England, the lost Cousin Joseph, and the noble Silas Price, are well-drawn characters. The right lover weds the maiden; the environment, circumstances, and historical facts are carefully treated, and the outcome is just as it should be. The dainty pictures are by Ida Waugh. [George W. Jacobs & Co. $1.25.]

Africa, Its Partition and Its Future. The small volume entitled Africa, Its Parti tion and Its Future, contains a baker's dozen of essays first contributed to The Independent of New York by H. M. Stanley, J. Scott Keltie, W. T. Stead, F. Bley, and nine others. The contributors to this symposium were well selected to present the actual standing of the various European nations in Africa today and their chief ambitions. The fact seems apparent that only England and Holland have profited by a This story, by Edith Robinson, gives a little colonial policy in any degree proportionate to episode in the life of Sir Henry Vane, "whilst their expenditures. This is a book to be com boy governor" of the Massachusetts colony.mended to those who would learn in a few hours' The "rebel" is Mistress Frances Wray, and reading the main facts which have so transshe is chiefly concerned, by the innocent means formed the map of Africa in our generation. of a veil, in disturbing the equanimity of the [Dodd, Mead & Co. $1.25.] grave and reverend authorities in Boston. Serious results follow, bearing on the fortunes of

there;

A Little Puritan Rebel.

Manila or Monroe Doctrine? Manila or Monroe Doctrine? inquires Mr. John Chetwood in a pamphlet of some fifty pages, and he replies that "the Monroe Doctrine is worth five hundred Manilas." His vigorous handling of this phase of the annexation question is a valuable contribution to the rational discussion of the revolutionary departure from our worthy past which so many today thoughtlessly advocate. [Robert Lewis Weed Co. 10c.]

A Short History of the War with Spain.
Mr. Marion Wilcox has written a Short

History of the War with Spain which will serve
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reports are all in and patriotic feeling has been
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South America.

Mr. Hezekiah Butterworth is an accomplished book maker for the people, and his South Amer ica, 'an illustrated history of the struggle for liberty in the Andean Republics and Cuba," is very well done on its lines, except that Cuba is dispatched very briefly. The story of Tupac Ameru, Miranda, Bolivar, and San Martin is

told with animation, and the citizen-like William

Wheelwright and Henry Meiggs are not forgot
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A Constitutional History of the America
People.

Mr. Francis Newton Thorpe's Constitutional History of the American People, 1776-1850, is the England and the Hundred Years' War. most ambitious work in the field of American Sir Henry. Some of the characters are well The neat and valuable little series of "Oxford history that has been published for some time. drawn, and there are skillful touches here and Manuals of English History" is now complete It is founded on first-hand study of the docubut as a story the book does not amount through the issue of the third volume in chron-ments in the case, these being mainly the charter to a great deal, and surely is rather beyond theological order, England and the Hundred Years' constitutions, reports of debates in constitutional comprehension of children. [L. C. Page & Co. conventions, and correspondence of our earlier 50c.] and later statesmen. Mr. Thorpe fails to mention even the names of such of his predecessors as George Ticknor Curtis, H. von Holst, James Bryce, and Prof. J. W. Burgess, to whom he is, none the less, indebted for many of the views

King Longbeard.

King Longbeard; or, Annals of the Golden Dreamland, by Barrington MacGregor, is a fas cinating fairy book, of particularly black, clear type and striking illustrations. Apart from its notable effectiveness, it is most original, and charming in conception and style, and will be a distinct addition to this year's fairy lore. [John Lane. $1.50.]

War (1327-1485 A.D.), by C. W. C. Oman, the
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Modern Political Institutions.

Prof. Simeon E. Baldwin of Yale University expressed. At first his style fatigues by a cer names in his introduction a dozen political institutions which he believes will be especially associated hereafter with this closing century. Of the "best and most familiar " of these, such as religious liberty and the rule of the majority, he says little. He treats fully such topics as free More Mother Goose. dom of incorporation, the decadence of the More Mother Goose: Little Bo-Peep Continued, legal fiction, examination of the accused in is one of the attractive children's books of the criminal proceedings, salaries of members of the season. The pictures by Chester Loomis and legislature, and international arbitration, with the verses by R. K. Munkittrick are just the strong grasp of a legal and philosophical "Mother-Goosey" enough to seem like old mind that shuns flower of rhetoric and holds

|tain jerkiness and self-assertion, but it improves as he goes on, and one concludes the reading of the two volumes (their typographical form is admirable) with a distinct sense of indebtedness to the author for a lucid and picturesque narrative of the democratizing of our eighteenth century institutions, until they reached the shape which prevailed just before the War of the Rebellion. Mr. Thorpe follows the general development in his first volume and then devotes the second mainly to a more detailed study of the constitutions of Louisiana, Michigan, Kentucky, and

California, which bring him down to 1850. Occasionally Mr. Thorpe's speed seems to lead him into inaccuracy; he does injustice to Massachusetts and Connecticut, for instance, when he speaks of Webster and education (p. 17), and one would like to know what congressional districts today have over 300,000 population each (p. 30). On the other hand, the chapters on "The First Migration West" and "A People Without a Country," i. e., the negroes, are particularly good. It is difficult to see how our constitutional history can henceforth be called dry reading. Mr. Thorpe's work is marked by equal industry and vivacity. [Harper & Brothers. $5.00.]

The Establishment of Spanish Rule in of the Atlantic, and in Scotland alone more

America.

Dr. Bernard Moses, author of Democracy and Social Growth in America, combines the power of calm judgment with that of lucid expression to an unusual degree. He analyzes and then he combines, as is evidenced by his treatment of his present subject. In 262 pages he relates the historical processes of Spanish rule, and in fifty sums up the characteristics and consequences of "Spain's economic policy in America; " for the same policy which led to her expulsion of the Moors influenced her in her treatment of the

American Indian. Dr. Moses attaches much

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