The herald., 1893-02-05

Curtis IN hl5 Doyhood. youth and mid
die age. The short stories Of the mum
Der include characteristic southern
sketch entitled Woman's Exchange in
Simpkinsville. by Ruth McEnery Stu
art, illustrated by @. s. Reinhart; Lide,
by Robert @. V. Myers, the author oi
Fin de Steele, and Tio Juan, a story OF
Mexican ranch life on the Texas border,
by Maurice Kingsley, with three etrik-
ing illustrations by Frederic Remington.
The number closes with well written
Editors Study, which deals largely
with features of the Columbian expoHi-
ton, and Literary Notes by Lawrence
Hutton.
All the above books for sale by the Stoll &
Ihayer Co., l39 south Spring street.
Book Chat.
The Scribners have new volume by
Col. G. B. Malleson, @. s. l., entitled
The Refounding of the German Empire.
This new volume on the Events OF Our
Own Time deals with the period of Ger
man history beginning with the French
revolution of 1S48 and ending with the
Franco-Prussian war, which brought to
aconsummation the policy looking to the
refounding of the German empire. 1t
necessarily treats OF the political as well
as the military history, all of which is
thrown into clear relief.
The ID. Lothrop company have a new
and enlarged edition of W. Sloane Ken
nedy's Lie OF John Greenleaf Whittier,
which WAS an accurate and attractive
summary of the poets life; with an an
azysis of his genius and writings and
numerous selections. The biography
abouuds in valuable and interesting
data not heretofore published.
Houghton, Miffin & Co. have just
published William r. Thayer's book,
The Dawn of italian Independence;
Italy from the congress of Vienna, 1914,
to the fall of Venice, 1919, in two vol
umes. This work is peculiarly well
come as covering an important period in
Italian history which has hitherto been
inadequately treated. The great inter-
eat of the subject, the full knowledge,
vigor and literary skill shown, and the
fresh power and capacity for large ma
tional development in the Italy of today
lend special value and attraction to Mr..
Thayer's work.
Macmillan & Co. will issue in Febru-
ary Mr.. F. Marion Crawford's new novel
entitled Children of the King, tale of
Southern Italy. They will also add in
February to their uniform edition of his
works new edition, revised and cor.
rected, of A Roman Singer.
These works should find ready sale.
as Mr.. Crawford has many admirers; he
is the most versatile of modern nov
elists. He has great adaptability and
subtleness of mind, and whether deal
ing with life in modern Rome, or at the
court of Darius at Shushan, in the wilds
OF India, or in the fashionable quarter
Of New York, in the Black Forest or in
the lonely parish of rural England, he is
equally facile and sure of his ground; a
master of narrative style, ae throws
subtle charm over ell he touches.
Of the 372 dramatic companies regis
tered at the New York Mirror office.
only about 40 are performing serious
plays, while the rest are devoted to
larces, musical extraxaganzas, song and
dance comediettas, light comedies. and
of French and German
plays. The same proportion will apply
to books.
Mr.. Rudvard Kipling's writing has
been interrupted for the moment by the
birth of daughter at the little house
N which he is spending the winter, at
Brattleboro, VT, pending the erection
If his own $10,000-home in the same
neighborhood.
roS%'fif aaffits9p ..Gp5 seaeya9a-&Nvohffis
from the pen of Beatrice Whitby, en-
titled In the Suntime of Her Youth.
The title is a quotation from Mrs.
Browning, and the author is quite
popular writer.
Epicureans should rejoice in the care
iully selected receipts found in new
volume entitled In Foreign Kitchens,
by Helen Campbell. 1t treats of the
English, French, German, Italian and
northern kitchens and cookery. 1t tells
If many of their individual peculiarities
and dishes.
We are only beginners in the school
If book critics and magazine reviewers,
md therefore will not attempt to criti-
Else such noted educators as the literary
reviewer of The Argonaut. But we will
ask his authority for the following arti-
lie, which appeared in the Issue of
January so, 1893:
"Mr. Blackmore's new story, which is
sometimes called The Pearly Gross and
sometimes Perly Gross is really entitled
Perlycross. His Tess of the D'Urber-
villes has produced deep impression
N Russia, and a translation be-
Der of Rueekaia Mysl (Russian
rhought.) Lists of the unfamiliar
words in dialect, agriculture, and local
that occur in the novel
have been sent to Mr.. Blackmore for
as the work has progressed.
The translation is by Mile. Vera Spass-
KY, collaborating with the editor of the
review" We always supposed since
reading Tess of the D'Urbervilles that
we had been highly entertained by, and
owed debt of gratitude to the author,
Thomas Hardy. But it may be possible
that Thomas Hardy translated into
Russian dialect means Mr.. Blackmore.
Anyhow, we desire information on the
subject.