The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-04-21

A New England Experiment.
THE RESCUE OF An OLD PLACE. By
XA.y GASOLINE RoBBINs. Houghton'
Mn. Robbins volume was called out in
al probability by the success snonanaad or Mass
Farm" Not but that 1t has a we'll
founded right to existence on its own
terms. Though IL describes an almost
identical experinent it does so after
widely different method. The charm OF
Miss Sanboru's book is its personal navor.
The things she relates are interesting be-
cause xhe tells them and tells her readers
4 GOOD deal about herself in doing SO.
1.-THE Rescue OF an Old Place J." Is inter
eutinr because of the rescue. It's author
keeps in the background, and nothing
more Of her is evident at the end than at
the beginning, except the fact that she
loves nature as Thoreau and Burroughs
and DIR. Abbott have loved it.and that she
has studied nature and Is prepared TO give
the results Of her Investigations.
Her experiments on the old place are
invested with quiet charm. There Is
nothing about her planting OF willows
and pines, the nurture OF her baby forest,
with the chastisements inflicted on per-
verse and unruly young trers; her strug-
Qles with web worms, the clearing up OF
the delightful tangle In an. ancient gar
den, the inevitable struggles with that
ioys of the pool beside the old gray fence,
overhung with yarrow and golden rod and
cardinal flowers; the diggings and delv-
inRs of tho spring, the cool shade of the
summer, the apple harvesting OF the au-
tumn and the cold rains or WINTER to
in the minds OF those choice spirits who
care for the things of the outdoor world.
To them the book will be welcome, and
they will take into their hearts OF hearts
the young pines, the oaks and the white
birchcs so hopefully planted, so ungrudg-
ingly tended. SO 10th at first and SO eager
I'm the end 10 lend their help TO make the
old place q glory and pride.
what do you do TO make trees grow"
WIS asked of an Englishman who was
coaxing along a rebellious butternut to
some show Of vigor.
"Oh ~ said he, 81 just talks to ,'em and
tells 'em to grow and they grows"
The talking to trees is often the most
profitable as IL is the pleasantest species
Of elocution.
An Eccentric Book.
THE PILGRIMS. PURITANS, AND ROGER
WILLIAMS, INDICATED, AND HIS
SENTENCE or BANIsHMENT. OUGHT
TO BE REyoKED. ,sl,5d by THE REV; WIN Il n,
The title of Mr.. woodruff's book is so
eccentric, punctuation, grammatical con-
struction and all, AS to whet the appetite
Tor the introduction, which begins
TO POSTERITY.
Ho EVERY OSE--ALL PEoPLE-AND NATIONS.
Providence Charity - -Reason-Probability
--Pcssibiity--and things Written-compose
mcnt must be consulted, considered, allowed,
and adoptcd-in all our inductions, opinions,
conclusions, Constitutions and Actions. Preju-
IN this: and this only-be the royal Highway
20 the Just appreciation of the motives. meas
Sires and fruit bearing Of all noble endeavor
Let Postcrity therein abound.
Under such scrutiny as this-Posterity will
md the Puritans, Pilgrims, and Roger VIII
nams, vindicated.
Now, aside from the fact that Mr.. Mer-
riman has rather difficult task to Vim
dicatev the Puritans, Pilgrim and Roger
williams too. since they were not always
quite harmonious, such style as his with
commas and dashes at regular intervals
like cornhills and delirious capitalization,
is enough to frignten off any reader.
Why does an all-wise Providence permit
such cranks to get at the pens and ink
which should be securely locked away
from them ?
Yet the book is not quite so badly writ
ten as the preface. and the patient reader
may derive some Information as well as
merriment from it, The trouble Is that
20 few readers are patient nowadays.
A Series of Sermons.
ETHICAL CHRISTIANITY. By. THE REV.
HU6H PRICE HUGHES, NJ. A, New York.
e. r. Dutton a. Co.
Those who made the platform acquaint-
ance of the Rev. Hugh Price Hughes on
the occasion OF his recent visit TO Provi-
dence will not doubt that his sermons
here reprinted are something more than
fruit OF the barrel. They are indeed,
sound practical talks upon the inmost
and most sacred concerns of mankind by
one who, though familiar with the sight Of
every form of human misery in the slums
for years. still holds optimistically to the
view that humanity's course is upward
ana not down, and that creation is not "A
failure. Mr.. Hughes doesn't believe in
making of Christianity bogey, and be
takes no stock in the cheap materialism
Of the period. He breaches the stirring
doctrine OF Christian work, and his ser
mons. based on practical knowledge OF
the needs OF the day, are as timely as a
newspaper.
what Became Of Them.
FIVE LITTLE PEPPERS GROWN UP. By
MARGAREr SIDNEY. Boston. ID. Lothrop
Company.
Everybody who has digested the ad-
vance OF the five little Peppers when they
were little will want to know what has
happened to them now that they are all
grown up but one, and will be glad to
KNOW tnht one Is In business ana one
teaching music and
But. after all. this is but dry narration,
much like catalogue, and to carry IL fur
ther would be unjust to the talented au.
thor o. an extremely healthy and pure
line of Juvenile books. Anyone who inn
agines that big Peppers are any less in
teresting than little ones has happy dis
uiusionizing process before him when he
reads.
Other New Books.
On Of the 'cutest ideas yet discovered is
that Of al enterprising firm of paper deal
ers who have republshed Hawthorne's
~Scarlet Letter" on various weights of its
mill paper as an ADVERTISEMENT or course
the book Is splendidly printed. 1t is ap-
parently not for sale by Vernon Bros. *
CO., Of Duane street, New York, who take
this clever means Of advertising their
wares
Mrs. Alice Morse Earle, the author of
the successful book, Sabbath In Puritan
New England" has completed a work on
china collecting in America, which will
be published at an early date by the
6cribners
DIR. Charles A. Briggs Is Just issuing
from the press of the Scribners new
book entitled "The Bible, the Church aud
the Reason" in which he aims TO set