The record-union., 1895-11-23
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Compton, with frontispiece in color and
full-page Illustrations and decorative
color design by w. G. Greenough. Cloth.
limo, 81 %. Dodd, Mead & Co., New
York. Here now is a collection of ideal
fairy tales, a book of stories that not
even graybeards need feel themselves
above. 1t does not go abroad for tim
Der; it takes the folklore Of the Amer
lean aborigines as foundation, and thus
is built a beautiful, fanciful structure,
within the several rooms of which
the child or the gravest of adults may
find rest and most novel entertainment.
Indeed, it was time and past that such
a collection as this drawn from the ira
d!tlons of our Indians, and if it has
been a neglected field the delightful
surprise of the treasure trove which the
author of ''Snowbird and the Water
Tiger" has discovered for us is all the
greater. For the tales which Iagoo, the
story-teller of the Indians, has written
down for the little palefaces we have a
heart welcome. If India has its jungle
book, We can now boast of our Amerl-
can Indian book, with its wonders OF
bird and beast and savage, which are
as refreshing and marvellous in their
revelations of natural simplicity and
SupernaturaliSm as any contributions
to the folklore of primitive peoples
pure imagination; the author has
delved into the Government records of
early American Indian life and has con-
suited the reports of several authori-
ties for the material upon which these
fairy tales are founded. Mr.. Green
Cughs pencil has contributed picto-
rally to the value of the work, and his
illustrations throw large suggestion
and fertile fancy into the tales which
CIV v1CrIxr tn
the imagination.
washington in Lincoln'S Time" is a
fat and compact octave volume by
Noah Brooks. Mr.. Brooks whose name
as author and correspondent is ma
tionaI went out to Washington City in
1862 as correspondent for the Sacra-
mento Union, and he from that time
forward became one of the ableSt crit
les and historians of the time of the
war He remained in Washington until
after the close of the war and saw the
beginning of the stormy Presidential ca :
reer of Andrew Johnson. His volume
now before us is written in that lucid,
strong, direct and graceful style for
which Brooks was known when at his
best There is nothing fulSOme in his
praise of men, nothing of bitterness in
his criticism of them. He wrote as he
saw and felt and believed. There is a
great deal that is anecdotal in the
book great deal more that is deScrip-
tive and critical of persons, and only a
little that deals with issues. But Brooks
did not fail to present the politics and
politicians of LincOln's time in Wash
iagton as they were. He was faithful
to the last degree, and as far as we can
judge his pages are just. The volume
will take an important place among
American sketch books, but it is not to
he classed among the historical. 1t IS
valuable in one way that no other
sketch book is that has fallen under our
notice, namely, it is from the pen of a
man who was admitted by President
Lincoln to intimacy, who moved freely
about the White House, visited with the
family as a trusted friend, and who ac-
companied Mr.. Lincoln to various
points and especially on his famous
trip to HoOker's army in the field. The
volume is from the press of the Centurp
Company, New York.
The Christmas number of Harper's
Magazine contains the first chapters of
a lew novel entitled 'Briseis," by Will
lam Black to be published serially in
six parts The illustrations are by ". I.
Smedley. "On SnOw-Shoes to the Bar
rem Grounds" by Caspar w. Whitney,
is an attractive feature. This article is
embellished by twenty-five illustra-
tons from sketches by A. Fl. II. Hem
ing and from photographs by Mr.. Whit
ney and drawings by Frederic Reming-
ton, w. H Drake and Otto II. Bacher.
"The Paris of South America by
Richard Harding Davis, is a descrip-
ton of Caracas. "a Previous Engage
mert'' is the title of a farce by w. d.
Eowells Howard Pyle contributes "By
Land and Sea" four sketches with
twelve illustrations, including a 'front.'
ispiece in color There are five short
stories: "Huldah the Prophecies" a
humorous tale of New England char
acter, by Kate Douglas Wiggin, with
Illustrations by W. T.. Smedley; THE
Last Sonnet of PrinZivalle de Gem
bino," a study of medieval Florence, by
Thomas Wharton, with Illustrations by
J. r. Weguelin; "An Interview with
Miss Marlenspuyk," q story of every
day New York, by Brander Matthews,
with illustrations by w. T. Smedley;
ard The Shoemaker of Fougeres, a
sketch of provincial French life, by
I atherine S. Macquoid. Other articles,
both valuable and entertaining, di-
vide the honOrs with the foregoing.
The number is bound in a special cover
of ornamental design in colors.
"a Sherburne Romance" by Amanda
M. Douglas, author of THE Sherburne
Series 12mo., cloth, 81 30. Oodd,
Mead &. Co, New York; We fancy
sometimes that the most delightful of
literary pursuits must be writing for
children. if one is gifted with the pecul-
lar capacity to accomplish that fine art.
1t must be delightful, refreshing, all
satisfying to get into communion, even
in fancy, with the inner lives of little
children Miss Douglas is one Of those
fortunate writer's for young people
whose intimate sympathy with and I'M
derstanding of their little world always
win for them a loyal affection and ad-
miration, and she must find compensa-
ton in that. When she wrote the first
story of The Sherburne Series" she
had no idea of making a series, we are
told, but one after another these books
have been drawn from her by her juve-
nile correspondents until they have
reached the present number. A curious
circumstance connected with the letters
which her previous book elected, is that
several of them pleaded that Lyndell
Sherburne, the heroine. should have a
love story and live happy ever after"
That is what the author has now done,
and LyndelPS romance is sure to give
great pleasure and satisfaction to her
numerous admirers. That Miss Doug
las has fallen in with the idea so gra-
ciously speaks volumes for her sympa-
thetic interest in youth and her pleasure
in mingling with it, if even only through
the mediumship of her pages.
"Cormorant Crag," by George Man
vile Fem. illustrated. Large limo.
- 90 Dodd. Mead e Company. New
York. George ManVille Fem is one of
the few writer's for boys who can tell
a wholesome tale of adventure by in
PRODUCING simple natural wonders and
bringing about some act of daring and
courage in which his boy heroes are in
volved without morbidly exciting the
imagination and eXaggerating natural
effects. He divides this field with
Henty, and both writer's are without a
peer; perhaps Max Pemberton has come
nearer to them than any other writer of
hnuS, stories "COrrnOrant Crag', is q