Omaha daily bee., 1888-06-06
BOOK REVIEWS.


"FIFTY YEARS OF ENGLISH SoNe," edited by
Henry +. Randolph, New York: Anson d.
Randolph & Co.
Notwithstanding the fact that the past
few years have been remarkably fruit
full of song garlands" and "treasuries,"
Mr.. Randolph's collection will be q
welcome addition to all libraries. He
has sensibly limited his field to the
Victorian period, and has collected
within the covers of his three volumes
the creme de la creme of English
poetry of that period. 1t cannot be said
that there is any crying demand for an
additional collection of English poetry,
yet for those who desire it Fifty Years
of English Song" contains in a COM
pact form, and typograph ically fault
less, not brief specimens of the style of
the various authors, but the very purest
gems of the modern masters of English
verse.
"THE STORY OF THE GoTHs," by Henry
Bradley, New York, G. p Putnam's Sons.
For the first time an English author
has presented in a readable shape the
fragmentary records of a people and an
age so intensely interesting to the
Briton and his descendants. The author
has contented himself with the simple
narrative, in graceful and unaffected
English, of the historical facts in the
life of the Gothic race from the earliest
times down to the end of the Gothic
dominion in Spain. The work is the
eighteenth in the publishers excellent
series, 1.-The Story of the Nations" and
fills an ancient gap in the chain of his
torical literature. The series is hand
somely bound in 12-mo. form, beauti-
fully printed on heavy white paper, and
copiously illustrated. Covering, as it
does, a wide range OF subjects, and at
the reasonable price ISL. so per volume),
it is one of the most salable of modern
publications, and will be especially ap-
preciated by readers of moderate means.
DIssoLvING VIEWS IN THE HISTORY OF JUDA-
ISM by Rabbi Solomon SCHNEIDER, Boston,
Lee & Shepard.
The dissolving views consist of a
series Of lectures delivered in the tenn
pie Adath Israel, Boston, by man dis
tinguished for his erudition. In each
Jewish history is selected and caused to
stand forth from his contemporary age.
The series opens with 'Moses and his
time" and concludes with "The present
hour" The lectures have been pre-
pared with much care and each epoch
and parsonage is ushered before the
reader with skill in language easily
grasped and understood. This presen-
tation of facts, from the Jewish stand
point in a style at once elegant and
forceful cannot fail to be welcome to the
student of every creed.
judaism ON THE SOCIAL QUESTION" by
Rabbi III. Berkowitz, New York, John B.
Alden.
In these days of the very fercest of
the so-called conflict of capisal and labor
the view of the question from a Jewish
standpoint cannot fail to be of interest.
The author in the course of his thirteen
discourses passes in review the various
solutions of the subject know under the
names of socialism, nihilism, anarchy
and their attendant train and finds that
they are obstructive in their method,
utterly subversive not only of the social
but the moral order" OF the varons
remedies proposed the author makes ou
selection, but concludes with the para
mount truth: THAT the masses should
be educated up to recognition of the
real evils and be made to see the true
methods by which alone any reform can
succeed" +" The little volume contains
a vast amount of information, historical
and otherwise and is especially inter-
esting as coming from n source which
may reasonably be presumed to be i'm
partial.
CHIPs FROM A TEACHERS WoRKsuoP by L.
r. Klemm, Phi. d., Boston, Lee & Shep-
ard.
American book stores are pretty we'll
supplied with alleged expositions of the
theory and art of teaching and is not
to be supposed that the appearance of a
new one will create very appreciable
sensation. 1t is in educational as in
other matters u comparatively easy
matter to PROFOUND atheory. The young
American teacher however, Is not in
need of "A theory so much as few prac-
tical suggestions and hints not so much
concerning what to do as how to do it.
The writer who will practically solve
the problem of 1.-THE lazy boy" 1.-The
weak speller," "the bad boy in arith-
metic," and the like is the writer who
will find door to the heart OF the
American teacher. These are the
problems DR.. Klemm attempts to solve.
The work makes no pretence to rhet-
orical excellence but is simply the
practical suggestions Of an experienced
and successful teacher in the solution
of the difficulties encountered by every
teacher. In this respect the volume Is
one of the most valuable which has yet
appeared.
SUMNER ASSEMBLY DAYS, or what was seen,
heard and felt at the Nebraska Chautau-
qsa by Anna II Hahn, Boston, Congrega-
tional Sunday school and publishing So
ciety.
The local interest attaching to this
work will commend it to Nebraska