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LITERATURE.

sACHARIssA. Some Accounts Of Dorothy Sid,
ney, Countess of sunderland: Her Family and and
ner's sons New YORK.
The ,yrcs written by Waller in praise
of Sacharissa are not more than twenty
In number, but they sufiiced to give him
an enviable reputation and place high
in the estimation OF his contemporaries,
Milton. Herrick and Dryden. Sacharissa
is not a creature of the poets fancy, but
"a charming maiden, whom he had
courted unsuccessfuily. This maiden
was Dorothy Sidney. the eldest daughter
of Robert, second Earl of Leicester, and
the pages of this book are devoted to her
history. Sacharissa is typical of all that
WAS excellent in the seventeenth century
womanhood, and more than that, as the
reader of the took will find, has an in
teresting personality.
UNCLE REMUs AND HIS FRIENDS. Old Plan
Snsa1es ssishes Of Ssgro cRSrseter by 5oe c6ander
ana New York.
pleasing OF Mr.. Harris books. and takes
it's place with the Others among the stand
ard juvenile publications. In Uncle
Remus' vernacular, so truly transcribed
by Mr.. Harris, there is much worthy OF
study. Indeed, Mr.. Harris says that If
the Intentions of the student or English
run toward pathological investigation he
will ask il this negro dialect is what it
purports to he, or whether IL Is not
simply the language of the white people
of three hundred years ago, twisted and
modified TO fit the lingual peculiarities
of the negro Uncle Remus bids good-by
TO MS in this book, and we are TO expect
no more stories from the good old darkey.
oUABBrN, by Francis II. Underwood. Lee &
Shepard, Boston.
DIR. Francis II. Underwood has written
the story of "A small town called Quabbin,
which SO fairly aud realistically portrays
the growth aud Development under
puritanism of typical New England
village that he has already been the
recipient of conRratuatory letters OF the
warmest praise from the president Ct
the Massachusetts Historical Society aud
other dignitaries OF the first rank The
study is thrown into the form of pleas
ant story, though there are no outside
characters who fall in love. The story is
the story of the town; ana IS simply told
in mellow, straightforward language.
First comes description of the village
street sixty or more years ago, its atmos-
pbere and It's occupants, the first minis
ter. .kpatieut Emily" Aunt Keziah," !"
''the Quiltin" and all the rest of it.
Kip,ing has been telling how he pub
| lished his first volume of verses. The
| lines had been printed in paper i'm India
| vim which he was connected, and some
of them, he says, were sung about the
campares. Lacking other facilities he
used the newspaper Office to publish the
| little volume himself, which he speaks Of
"a "a sort of book. lean, oblong
| docket. wire-stitched, To initiate ID. o.
Government envelope, printed on one side
only, bound in brown paper and secured
with red tape
The Society of American Authors IS
not meeting with all the enthusiastic CO.
| onpration that its promoters might de-
| sire. The monthly meetings give an ad-
| n,irable chance for some Boston lady ID
| nour tea for the assembled company Of
most highly entertaining personalities, -
| but that is about all that we Iuay sup
nose they will accomplish.
Oscar Wide is witty, there can be nc
doubt, Ills latest Is reported in connec.
ZION with mis- declination OF n nomination
to the Sayile Club. when he said hc
| "feared he would be poor little lion in
big den OF Daniels
lanes whitcomb Riley said recently
I'm san Francisco: "Commonplaces are
the most beautiful things in the world
after all and that is whore | have at
tnined most OF M success"
The London Spectator speaks of that
supreme young hnmbug, Marie Bash
| - an