The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-02-02
NEW books.

A WINTER IN CALIFORNIA By Mrs Mary H.
Wills. Published by her husband, Morgan r
Wills. Of the Norrist0wn (PAl Journal
This Is . neat little work. model Of typo
graphical execution, and treats Of trip from
the writer's PennsyIvapia home 70 Southern Cal
ifornia and winter Of residence, Sightseeing
and iunketing in that section; the whole treated
in IN easy, chatty, unaffected manner, by one
who evidently has Q quick and sympathetic eye
for both beauty and business. and who, although
confeeSedly fascinated, Ii careful to moderate
her ccstacies and confne herself to facts. And
and scenic effects, and of material accomplish
ment and possibilities, there runs through her
delightful little book . vein Of shrewd observa-
ton of human nature In her CT afacterizations
of those whom she met No more readable book
on Califor mia has been published.
the NEW ELDoRApo. A summer journey to
Alaska Mafurrin ~ Ballou. Houghton,
Mifiin 4 Co., Boston
This Is . strongly written, graphic account Of
the authors trip from Sc. Paul. MIMI, via the
Yellowstone park. the Geysers, Helena. the
Puget sound country and Victoria to Alaska,
and from beginning TO end bears the charmed
reader along through region Of wonders, mag
nifcent scenery and boundlees natural advan-
tagea His sketchss Of Seattle and other cities
Of the Sound. and Of the surrounding country,
give evidences Of close observations aud . com
prehensive Judgment Hie description Of the
topography. scenery, Inhabitants natural curl
csitics and general characteristics of Alaska are
exhaustive, highly interesting and instructive
wonderful OF wonderlands Is apprehended by
70 w who have not read this work.
wyspHAx Towns. poem. BY T. B. Aldrich.
Houehton, Mifiiin & Co., Boston.
This poem Is an ampliacstion of q brief sketch
published In the earlier works OF this author
BY close study OF the period in which his plot
Is laid. and OF the literature of that PERIOD he
has so completely identified himself with the
Elisabethan style that this work may aptiy be
styled an Elizabethan poem from Z Victorian
pen. The airy freshness with which the story is
told serves 10 relieve ii of Its tragic gloom. In
this description Of the ioopholed ruin OF the old
tower, for instance. the picturesque melody
does much toward dispeiling the gloom:
Looming forlornly-a gigantic harp,
whereon the invisible fingers of the wind
It's ntful and mysterious dirges play"
The entire work 10 fhickly beaded with gems
of peesy. from which 1t would appear invidious
10 attempt selections, but few random selec-
TONS are submitted:
There Is no little thing
In nature: in . raindrops compass lie
A planets elcments.'
"Herc on that smooth and sunny Geld. her cheek
The hostile hHes of Lancaster and York
Did meet, and, blending, make a heavenly
truce"
STRANGE that man should let maids slim
foot
Stamp on his happiness and quench it quite"
"Tsnksrd in hand and pratfling OF old DAYS,
white-mustached epitome OF wars
then ell was still
70 Sill the soul OF silence seemed to grieve
The loss OF that sweet laughter
when once more the girls laugh made rich the
night,
And melted, ana the silence grieved anew.
At worst man dies but
20 far As known. One may not master death.
But lie shouid he one's laekey -
aud all in vain
The moths on indolent white damask wings
Al door and easement rallied.
These. Il Is believed, will serve TO inform the
lovers Of poetry that the book 10 well worth
reading
AsnLASpo. FACTS AID FAScIEs. Robert Brown
Ing. Hoaghtoa. Mifiin 4 Co. Boston
This Is . collection of the latest poems of the
popular favorite recently deceased, including
The Lady and the Psiater." the four BAD
Dressns, Sammam Bonam." "Rephan,w ssDe-
velopment'-in ali thirty OF his admired pro-
ductsons