The record-union., 1895-11-30
RECORD-UNI0N BOOK TABLE.
The Holiday Magazines-A California
Poets Book.
Songs From the Golden Gate-Mrs.
Champney's Novel-Another of
the Elsie Series.

Songs from the Golden Gate" ssby
Ina Coolbrith, with illustrations by
William Keith; cloth, 81 80. Boston and
New York. Houghton, Mifflin Il Co. A
pretty volume with several beautiful
landscapes by Keith reproduced In half
tone. 1t is scarcely necessary TO intro
duce the book to Californians. who are so
familiar with the work of Ina Coolbrith,
the California poet. The collection en-
braces something over one hundred OF
her poems, the best work OF her genius,
and the sweetest songs OF her fancy.
Very appropriately the volume IS opened
with her California" the Irst lines OF
which run:
Was it the sigh and shiver OF the leaves?
Was il the mur1nur of he meadow brook,
That in and out the reeds ana water weeds
Slipped siIverly, and on their tremulous keys
Uttered her many melodies? Or voice
OF the tar sea, red with the sunset gold,
That sang within her shining shores, and sang
Within the gate. that in the sunset shone
A gate OF ire against the outer world?
For, ever as | turned the magic page
OF that Old song the DID, blind singer sang
Unto the world When it and song were
young
The ripple ofthe reeds. or odorous,
Soft sigh of leaves or voice OF the far sea-
a mystical, low murmur, tremulous
Upon the wind, came in with the musk of
The salt breath Of the waves, and far. faint
smell
OF laurel up the slopes OF Tamalpias.
This song of content and submission is
full OF hopefulness and help:
1 cannot count my life loss
With ali lis length of evil days.
l hold them only as the droSs
About its gold. whose worth outweighs;
For eacn and all l give Him praise
For. drawing nearer to the brink
That leadeth down TO final rest
see with clearer eyes, | think,
And much that veXed me and oppressed
Have learned was right and just and best
So. though may but dimly guess
Its far intent, THIS gift OF his
honor; nor would / know the less
One sorrow or III pain or bliss
Have other than il was and is.
witch Winnie at Versailles" By
Elizabeth w. Champney. illustrated,
Large limo, cloth, 81 90. 1t was a happy
moment ami one that has borne the fruits
of large success when Mrs. Champney
conceived the idea of creating q sweet,
wholesome girl, whose Intelligence and
interest in art, welded to lofty moral
purpose, should pave her way wherever
she went, and brighten the lives OF those
with whom she came in contact, always
growing In strength of character as she
mounted on steps of her dead self to
higher things, and developing the innate
beauty OF her nature as she perfected her
in the various scenes which she visited.
Mrs. Champney has had in mind the needs
OF the Kings Daughters, evidently, who
represent vast company OF readers in
the United States, and her faithful work
has steadily met with an increasing re-
spouse from this large circle and from
those of that age and condition. In this,
the sixth volume of the witch Winnie'
series. the author has taken her heroine
to the Continent in the pursuit OF her art
studies, SO that the interest in her char
acters is renewed and strengthened by
their transportation to new held. Many
OF the illustrations have been reproduced
from photographs OF famous paintings in
the art galleries Of Versailles, anu as the
treatment OF the present volume has
afforded large scope for illustrative
work, greater number of illustrations
have been introduced than in the previ-
Gus volumes. This, together with the
fact that Mrs. Chalnpney makes her stor-
les more interesting as she grows warm
over her work, should add greatly to her
popularity, and find larger access for her
books In the libraries OF all yonng peo-
pie. Dodd. Mead Il Co., New York.
The Christmas Ladies' Home Journal
by far surpasses, both in literary and ar
tistic excellence. any previous issue. Ex-
President Harrison gives the Introduce
DRY paper of the series he is preparing
upon This Country of Ours"; Mrs.
Mary Anderson de Navarro, who most
Interestingly tells of My First Appear
auce on the Stage" and Mary E. Wiki
ms. who gives the first OF IN eig borhood
Types" papers. Rudyard Kipling's laV,