St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-11-18
BOOKS AND AUTHORS.

duSScrmuC. Jays dtlu gives 10 lH0
little ones glimpse
| ers. into the fairyland
| made so entertaining
| by Grimm and Anderson. This does not
| happen very often, for publishers are
keen as to what the market demands,
and there is great impression abroad
that boys and girls desire to read of
real" boys and girls and not the myth
ical Jack the Giant Killer. Mayhapi
| this is so, but where is the child of
healthy mind who moved him away
from 1.-The Last of the Huggermug-
| gers" or .'Kobboltozo," its sequel UIeei
IL Shepard, Boston)? Nothing but fairy
tales, it is true, told by writer who
must have loved the olden times, or
else he could not have written sol
brightly. In the list of treasure-bookS
cherished by most children these two!
bright volumes can well be placed.
~
| Dreamthorp. Thank somebody of
| anybody, that all or
the publishers in creation are not
leagued together to flood the world with
trash. Ouidas have their day, Zolasj
must succumb some time or other, butt
the good books live on forever. and
there are independent publishers who
will prefer them until all that
they represent shall hold the whip
hand. The republication, by Lee &
| Shepard. Boston, and Charles Dilling-
ham, New York, OF old English stand
ards of the character of DreamthOrp,
by Alexander Smith. opens world full
| Ofliterary riches to the American reader.
Our Donald Mitchell and Alexander
Smith belong to the same chool, which
| patterned after the other masters but
| Hl,n r,rn f,f
| be spared. There is much in Dream
thorp that brings to mind passages in
Dream Life. How much this smacks
| of Mitchell:
'My village is, | think, special
favorite of summers. Every window
sill in it she touches with color and
| fragrance: everywhere she wakenS
| the drowsy murmur of the hives: every
place she scents with apple blossom"
| So throughout the entire volume,
| which covers many good things, the
hand of Mitchell is felt just as probably
| Our English cousins, turning over the
pages of Dream Life, feel that they
are near to Alexander Smith.
In the same series of books appears
Dick, Steele'S, The Lover and Selee-
tons from other writings of his. This
| revival of English classics is as pleasur-
Chase replacing "a Tin Soldier" or
''She Stops to Conquer" moving the
populace where mountebankS now en-
terrain.
Blue Jackets Congress in the ag-
No. gregation of its stupid
of 20. ity having decreed that
weSlail have only half
| q navy, whereas it would be better to
have one entire or none at all, 1t is just
as well for the children of these stupid
tiles and the heirs and heiresses of
worthy burghers that books as enter
tanning as the Blue Jackets OF '76 Dodd,
Mead u Company, New York;, appear.
They thus have an opportunity of know
ing that we did nave a navy once upon
Il time, When men were nearer men and
less trade marks than now. The book
is publisher in true nautical fashion
and form. full of the breath of the sea
and the storm of battle.
Dante's The latest transla-
ton of Divina Come
Divine dia of Dante is that of
John Augustine Wis
Comedy. stach. The author in
the prolegOmena To
first volume notes an innovation upon
the methods used by past translatolsi
He says:
sin attempting a rhymed translation
into English of Dante'S Divina Come
dia the author has been governed by
the conviction that only thus can one
hope to approximate reproduction Of
the effect created by the original; thar
the form is so inseparabe from the soul
| OF the work as to compel the translator
tn nj ri he
effort to represent it,
Houghton, Miflin Il Co., Boston.
The Home-. Marian Harland is
interchangeable i'm her
Maker literary work and more
persistent still in the
| following of her miSsi0n-the elevation
| of the home. Her latest venture is the
monthly magazine The Home Maker
| (New York;. The publication is just
what its name implies and the worst
criticism that can be passed upon it is
| that tits too good to live. Glass magazines
| of the standard of this have rarely sue
| Gee led. The good is in a hopeless min
! GRITTY. financially and otherwise. What
| is, is.
Authors and Current Literature
| says of prominent
Their lights: Burdette will
| preach from the creed
Doings. of the Baptist church.
| Mona Card is an
English farmer {ess) as we'll as liter
ary somebody. Mrs. Humphrey Warde
prefers foreign ideas and French ex-
| preston to English ones. Mast will
publish book of memoirs. A tragedy
-Commodus-by Lew Wallace, will
appear in Harper's sometime in 1889.
| Surgeons Forthcoming work will be
entitled The Cheque Book of Faith.
| Having annihiIated the West, Charles
! Dudley Warner will next write of Can
| ada. King Kalakaua has written book
| entitled the Myths and MATS of the
Hawaiian Islands. Whittier's smbi-
| ton, when young, it is said, was to be-
come a politician.
Christmas Ii, SumptuOusneSS of
Typography and all
| Books. else that makes book
| If adirect appeal to the
| artistic sense. the Forthcoming Christ
| mas numbers promise to surpass
| those of previous years. Seemingly.
| all that the cunning of artist and
| printer could devise. has been lavished
| upon the Christmas book of 1888. Nota-
| Die among TIE volumes is d. EduiiIc
/ Sumpter's All Around the Year,-a
calendar embodied in the form of a
happy coHceit. Still finer in delicacy
of work is Dina Maria Mulock's A
Christmas Carol, illustrated by Miss
Sumpter. Bound with blue satin,
edged in gilt, the creamv cardboard
overlaid with the most dainty sketches
illustrating the birth of the NaZarene,
the book seizes upon the mimi with an
| overwhelming fascination. In the same
series is A Psalm for New Years
Eve, by Mis- Mulock. equally as fine as
the above. IL
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