The morning call., 1892-12-18
RECENT PUBLICATIONS

IN GOLD AND SILvER.--''Let me take
| you by the hand aud lead you into delight
ful byways." George II. Ellwanger Ia
his little pocket volume I'm Gold aud Sill
YER doesn't exactly say that, but he does
| It, There are four essays in the volume,
1.-The Golden Rug off Herman shah, /"
"Warders OF the Woods, ga Shadow u pom
the Pool. The Silver Fox of Hunts Ho-
low. OF the four, all Of which are teemiug
| With wealth OF thought and poetic imagery,
| the FIRST is no doubt the most dainty in its
| texture, as ii is the richest in the elabora-
ton oil its setting. 1t is pulsing with the
dangerous, voiuptuous warmth OF the
| Orient, ana in the authors pursuit and pur-
| chase OF this priceless rug lie has written a
! book Of travel In Persia and the East,
where fancy runs riot in the richesse of his
| surroundings. The book betrays a breadth
OF erudition and expansive thought coupled
| with quick perception OF natural beauty
| and unusual elegance of diction. The sec
| ond and third essays are incidents of an
! angling expedition where
By the side Of yonder grizzled tree.
That wTcathed It's old fantastic roots so high,
HIS liSSOme length afShing aid see.
Angling upon the stream that murmured by.
| And the last, a winters hunt of silver
foX. AS the author is poetic in his prose
so do his verses show daintiness and odd
lily oil style peculiarly his own. as in the
passage where he writes of the echoes of
the valley v0icing the elegy of the dead fox:
Mourn. Spring. thou darling OF the year,
Thou Summer, while each corny spear
Shoots up its head.
Thy gay. green 1owery tresses sh ear
For him that's dead.
INew.York: d. Appleton & Co. Forsale
by the Bancroft Company; cloth, 81; edi-
ton de luxe, s.
My HORSE; My LovE-Is the somewhat
absurd title of a little book on the horse, by
Dinah Sharpe. The writer gives in the
form OF a series Of conversations with a GER
tain Polish Count, who is also a veterinary
surgeon, some thirty chapters OF horse lore
oil a very surprising nature. Some of it Is
Interesting and will be new TO most people
who have made q study Of this noble ami
NAL The Count knows no horse but the
Arab, TO which type he attributes all that
is good in everything equine from thorough
bred to Suffolk-Pun The amount OF in
formation regarding the horse which he
pours into the ears OF his lady heaTer would
astonish the most thorough-going horseman
alive. Those who have long desired to ac-
count for the curious callosities on the inner
SIDE OF horses fore legs will be interested to
knew the Counts explanation of them. He
tells us that they are natures viniagrette
Tor the horse; that when the animal is ex-
hausted from great effort weary or faint,
ne puts down his nose, smells of these cal
iosities and is revived. OF the American
horse tie writer says the broncho is the
national type. and the product OF our eli
mate. when we can control our elm nate"
she declares. 1--WE may be able to develop
hxed types, but until then IL must be our
excuae that something different from what
We often expect appears" Among other
astonishing features of the work is a portrait
Oh an animal described as ''the famous trot-
Ting stallion. Sunol." bluuder which forms
a fair criterion of much that appears in tie
book. New York: Orange Judd Com
pany.l
JACK AND JLL.-The second edition of
w. E. Browns rendition of Jack and
JilP' has just been issued for the holiday
season, the delicate sentiment of the verse
being fifty framed in an elegant binding of
blue and gold and white, and interspersed
with numerous illustrations. The first
edition was issued for the benefit of the
Tree library and reading-room for boys,
founded by Mr.. Brown at CA Silver street,
and met with instant success and large
sale. This second edition is for the same
good cause and no doubt Will have a SINH
lar welcome. The author, from the very
love OF his work for the boys, has
woven and intertwined all through the
warp and wool of this bomely little
episode such delicious thread of love and
tenderness and poetry that one Is led to
wonder II Mother Goose has after all only
shown the material in all her old child tales,
from which may be woven almost innumer-
able poetic fabrics like 10 this. The orig
mai little verse has been magnifed into
romance 40 deliciously sweet that it ap-
peals 10 the heart. and so picturesquely
beautiful that one looks upon II as "a new
flower springing into life IN the broad gar
den Of the affections. Glad young lovers
are these. with the light Of pure affection
shining In their eyes and SO oblivjous to all