The New York herald., 1876-10-16
BOOK GOSSIP.
The Boston Publishers and Their Fall
Announcements.
NEW POEMS AND NEW NOVELS
Browning and His Forthcoming
Volume or Poems.
BosroN, Oct. "a, 1910.

storm tho booksellers begin to be busy, and announce
men,s OF new books rapidly and almost continu-
ously. Every publisher who has new book on MS
s hastens get into the market before the holiday
| time begins, and snd is the man whose binder ana
printer are datory One good book, which is still IN
the chrysas prooisheet stage OF its existence, Is
.s,udent Life at Harvard" to be published by Lock
wood. Brooks Co. The great defect in nearly all
| hooks tha. treat OF American collegiate life is
| ,endency 10 nas imitation OF English books, but
this work is absolutely free from this fault
| liz author Mr.. George II. Tripp, OF the class
| of 1867 has written OF what he knows without
irving 10 write like Charles Reaoe or Cuthbert Bede or
aeury Kingsley Thackeray, ana tho result Is SIN
cere unaffected picture Of Harvard, and not carica
,ure Of life at xford "Hazing was not abolished in
Mr. Tr.pp's tme nor, indeed, until 1872 and he tells
many pleasant little stories Of the way IN which FRESH
/ men were treated in old days Tales OF the devices
used for getting cuts Of driving horse cars Into Bos
ton and leaving them get back as best they could
of stealing from class rooms 70 tease tutors
! and thousand other pieces OF boyish mischief are
| woven iato The story, md It is embeshed with pen
portraits OF many Of the professors scarcely disguised
by slight changes in their names Filtration and Sc
rious making play their part in the book, which Is
really the best ha. has written about Ameri
can college.
| The following passage from tho hero's journal de-
scribes race as seems 10 ono OF tne men ia sne
boat
Bang, went gun from the barge, the signal for
to come into line and pulled up 10 take our
| st,on we got cheers though the boats were all
as we could aud lay on our This waiting tho
| hardest part OF all. III could only have pulled
away al once suppose Is wa was only ,or moment,
| against my chest ana | could hardly breathe. "Ro-
member boys" whispered smith don't look around
be sure aud don't miss the start two short strokes
all together, and then tho long" up li.te Fresh.
| now ths line seemed to suit him. "Are you ready 7"
rang out in clear across the water. There is
hush in the crowd, which every one can feel We
| stretch forward. ..Go!" and twenty four dash
| the water Al the sound there is u great cheering
and clappng of hands from the shore look as
Lewis back and pull and almost immediately Smith
| SAYS, ''Damn! hold her boys!" Wo were halt
length ahead The bow oar the Scientific boat lost
bis head steered foul and oulcd the Juniors and ws
had 80 back and Try fresh start This time did
not teei tho least nervous but eIJoyed INC situation
| bchna US, and then camc glimpse OF the Sopno-
mores, hUgsng tho wall for smooth water, and as we
TO turn before the Juniors "weve got cm," says
smith; don't hurry, boys; they can. DO ANYTHING
and the glare OF the sun on the water
Smith couldn't sec the stake ana shot
| behind and turn inside OF US, which they did as
neatly as could be, and then dashed OF down the
homesrs'sl The stroke Kissing ,n ms ,baa nsna oy way o.
mination TO make up the loss. II it were possible
thing the other boats draw up 10 the stake and
turn and tho distance between US grew wider, the
sunlight seemed TO wrap them In apurpe and gold
halo most dazzling Atler time | could hear the
was Irresistible. Eyes IN the boat" said Smith
coolly. 'Stcady; don't spurt until give the word
We are doing well enough" SO We pulled on. aud
again watched tho muscles on Lewis back and soon
the swash tho Juniors oars grew moro
or the raader by turning my eyes, and then
the stroke and It was plan that ncn oy men we
had como up with. thenA But we werc getting home;
| rn,sdh had uuht at n IA
clapping OF many hands and excited shouting comes
the water to Now, boys. shake them OIL; hit
| her up, Tom!' shouted smith, although Tom had
qucksned almost before the word and Tor me- soon
as heard that from the shore felt as fresh
pulled dozen strokes this tremendous pace when
there crack, aud Lewis oar snapped at the row.
lock. so lost the race though II Was twice ours
for wo we're ahead them the stake and had passed
| them the time OF the accident More than one man
will recognize the unwilling hero OF whom II Is said
'You remember last year how he was OIL on arcRular
spree tor week prayers and recitaons, and finally
church service all day. Well be put in his petition
bad IL BEEN called away 10 Newnor. to see his
MILDLY in the naval school, who was desperately sick,
aud had his certificates all straight and also ono that
he had attended service twice every sunday; every
| thing drawn up and signed by his chum Joe IS
pretty sharp old fellow, and you can't generally beat
! petition was granted the Two had n little talk. At
first Joe pumped him about the Town and
then about the school and its officers; but Parsons
who had really been there IN the summer, was well
posted and Joe was considerably nonpussed. Al last
sIss sne you nd knowing wiz we'll enough
that the boat didn't run aud that everything was
frozen as tight as drum - came oy the cars" SAID
"Ah yes, OF course; there is no boat now on which
tram" as polite as basket OF chips. ~ used 10
know tho hours, but Two forgotten" "He had
there SAID Parsons, ''for didn't have tho first idea
about the train had forgotten 10 put up on that and
they gave him SIX months.
BRowxISG's NEW
The new volume OF Brownin ng which james R. Osgood
h Co will publish in few days has excited much at
tention In England account OF its extraordinary
rhymes and the rugged qusintncses OF style in which
Is abounds but It contains much that is as good as
anything that Browning ever wrote and much that
indicates that age has not yet impaired his powera
Anybody who wishes tho difference between two
schools OF modern poetry can do SO by reading "A
Forgiveness" in this volume. I'D " Fra Giacomo" by
Robert Buchanan. The thcme OF the pieces is
IDENTICAL the treatment different she music OF
Verdi and Mozart Tho principal poem In tho book is
"Pacchiarot,o" and .How He Worked in Distemper"
pnr pa assn nslnss should wis 81 5. Ip'"s% H. Dominion
What Nature had .larred-,ho sisiterni
And since. beneath the heavens.
Things lay now At skies and sewers,
Thought b. The hep painter int. Pa chiaro,,o
Thns, wanted s reisrming mr ,ns,sio,s.
When earth held one 50 ready
A. A. h. h 10 %aa. sn si's 81 ssi .9s sa.sso s,ssS
And prove 70 demoasirat,on
What the wrong Is, what the right is,
What the ugly what the bcauiiui
What the rostive. what the dutiful
In mnnk nd proinse around him
Man, devil as now he found him.
Would presently soar up angel
At abe summons of such evaBgel
And owc-whas would man not
To the painter Pacchi arotto
Ay, look to thy laurels, 0ottoi
Tho ungratcfui souls who Pacchiarottos con-
tcmporares refuse TO be reformed, and nunt him, II
earth, 10 sepulcnrc, wbero he abides two days.
aud issuing thence changed man, clothes himself
ancw and goes to work, content TO lot tho world wag
as it wi only striving TO DO hts part It
fully and rightly. To the prior OF tho convent in
which he takes refuge no says