The New York herald., 1878-11-11

MACLEOD or DARE. |"


In this. his latest novel Harper Brothers.) Mr..
Black gives great deal of that breezy atmosphere
We found enjoyable when we travelled with him
through England in phaeton Macleod of Dare is
young Scotchmsu who leaves his castle walls to sec
the world. He begins in London-not bad place for
beginning-where he is peted by society in general
and by Miss Gertrude White actress. in particu-
lar She is heartless and cruel and makes furious
love to him. The lads head is turned and he wor-
ships her as = man of his Wild rugged nature would
worship such woman. She plays with him for
while and then drives him away so that
she may marry one of her own kind Maceods brain
reels. The men of his when they love, cannot
unlove easily. He leaves Miss White for while. half
stunned by the blow and shows little sign of life un
til he hears that she is about to marry; then he con-
ceives the wild plan of carrying her of. He sails down
to London and anchors his yacht in the Thames On
false representation he gets her aboard spreads sail
to the breeze and heads for the north. OF he
is mad; sane would do anything theatri-
cal. Within sight of Castle Dare he sends his men
ashore and stays aboard the yacht with his destroyer
storm comes up and they die together. This end
ing is unlike Mr. Black but is in keeping with the
character Of the last of the Macleods There is,
haps. little too much rhapsodizing in the last chap
ers but altogether the story is good one. and well
depicts the hoey and faithful traits in the Scotch
character
WHAT BOSTON PUBLISHERS ARE DoING-PREPA-
RATIoNs FOR THE HoLIDAYs-THE COOKING
QuEsTIoN-ART IN LITERATURE-BooKs OF
ALL SORTS.
Boston, Nov. 9, 1878.
The Christmas book trade, which always begins i'm
medatey after election, will start off this week with
Mrs. Whitney's "Just How Key to the Cook
Books" volume which all the young women of
Boston are expected to read except those who are
sleeping their souls in decorative art The struggle
between the school of writer's and of society
who believe in making home comfortable, and those
who are in favor Of making it beautiful is to be very
lively this winter, if one may judge from the eager
ness with which those belonging to set flock to
the cooking school, while the others go to the Museum
of Fine Arts and take lessons in modern embroidery
and in carving in wood and modelling in plaster.
Mrs. Whitney. of course appeals to the former set;
but she says in her preface that she does not mady
propose to add to the number of recipe books.
whose name is Legion but she does mean
to make little grammar of cuisine; to
take up the very B of it's etymology; to give
its parts Of speech; to show the elementary princ-
pies of its syntax. I'm recipe that mixed
by" she says has the ystcrions element Of knack
Judgment .gumption' been allowed, resolved and
measured with the least attempt at precision yet it
should be than, instead Of ingredient,
weight or proportion" Mrs. Whitney thinks that
there in cookery. in all things. three definite
stages of dongs and they the stages Of the chill
dren's play rhyme:--
One to make ready,
Two to prepare,
Three to go slambang,
And you are there.
IF you can make ready and prepare" she says,
"you may go slambang with the most delicious con-
Adence The closing pages entitled. Last
Words and begin with this Characteristic sentence:
"It is certain that a woman cannot want the last
word simply because nobody seems to know well
as a woman that there be last word. Other
people suppose that there is such thing fnality
a woman perceives that there is always to be
said done any side of any thing For that very
reason she is always struggling with last word
The book is really very good. and. as far be
judged from examination, entirely practicable.
An carly number Of Wide A,oakc, Ella Farrnans
magazine, is to contain sketch Of LADY Bettys
Cooking Glass, the History Of an English Cooking
School, by Lucy Cell White; and, by way Of bending
the twg both ways and lnclining the tree Of young
Bostons intellect in different directions. it will also
have some papers "Our American Artists" written
by G. w. Benjamin, and illustrated by portraits and
by sketches drawn by artists from their pictures
Little Miss Mischief and Her Happy Thoughts"
translated by Ella Farman, and Little Miss Muslin
Aoke last year, will be published by d. Lothrop
& Co., and also "Sidney Martins Christmas" by
'Pansy" (Mrs. Alden)
HoucHroN. osGooD co.
Next Saturday Houghton, Osgood h Co. will bring
out and slightly enlarged edition of Clara
Erskine Clements Painters. Sculptors, Architects
Engravcrs and Their Works" the long promised
college Book" the four volumes of Ballads" in the
British Poets and FRA Angelica in the Artists Biog
raphies. Holmes "schoolboy." which comes next
week. is to be the holiday book of the season. and is
to be illustrated by J. Appleton Brown, Merrill waud,
Sheppard and Hitchcock.
SHEPARD.
Lee l. Shepard have in press few books besides
those announced early in the season. and among them
are THE Land Of Burns" a small quarto by Wal
lace Bruce: young Folks OPERA by Elizabeth Par
sons Goodrich; like Partington." by b. p. shillaber;
Meg" by Mrs. zadcl Barnes Gustafson; spiritual
Manifestations" by Charles Beecher; Daisies" by
William Brunton; Elements Of Design" by Dr..
William Reinmer. and Midnight Marches Through
Persia by Henry Ballantyne Little Pitchers"
by Sophie May is nearly ready for publicator 1t is
a very Jolly little history Of funny pair of twins
who were in mischief all the time Jointly and sew
orally.
KrSpERGARTES
Mother Play" by Friedrich Froebel translated by
Fanny r. Dwight ana Josephine JAWS ~ thin folio,
containing Froebes songs. with their music and &c
companying pictures, and is invaluable to mothers
who believe in Froebel's methods.
The pictures. which full page illustrations show
the positions of the hands by which mothers ex.
pected teach and also tell the story contained in the
songs. The explanations are very full and clear and
rather amusing to person who docs not believe in
them account of their extreme simplicity and the
laid upon small things The American preface,
written by Miss +. P. Peabody, is solemn document
laying great stress the beauties of the kindergarten
system.
IKE PARrINGToN's' RoMAScE.
'.Ike Partngton." Mr.. Shillabers book, is n sex.
decimo volume of 225 pages. containing the history
year in Ike's life at Clam Corner whittier his aunt
retired with him. partly for the benet Of his health
and partly because he was too popular-so
popular that he credited with all
the mischief dome hY nther hoxs- There ara MANY