The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-09-24
A Batch Of New Books From Harry
Gregory's Bookstore.

| lHE cTAHK-MUSRo LETTERS, py "A. Co.
nan Doyle, illustrated. ID. Appleton
| d Co., New York. Cloth, fl.50.
BUNCH GRASS STORIES, by Mrs. Lindon
| Bates, j. p. Lippincott Company,
Philadelphia. Cloth, Sl.25.
The WATTER's MoU', by Bran Stoker.
=. Appleton d Co., New York. Cloth,
The DRAGON OF wANTLEY, HIS TALE, by
| Owen wister, illustrations by John
| Stewardson. j. r. Lippincott Com
pany, Philadelphia. Paper, 60 cents.
| Edition de luxe, sl.50.
JosIAH's ALARM AND ABEL PERRY's FU-
NERAL, by Josiah Aliens wife, Illus
tratsd. j. p. Lippincott Company,
Philadelphia. Cloth.
| THE TEMPLE SHAKESPEARE, recent addi-
| tions."King HenryvIII," F" I" Hamlet. "
| The MACMILLAN d 20, Dickens reprints,
..'Great Expectations and lizard
Times Price, S1.0O.
APPLEToN's TowN AND COUNTRY LIBRA
RY. Price, 90 cents. Recent issues,
"Out or Due season." by Adeline Ser
geant. "Not Counting the Cost, -
by Tasma. "ID Old New Enigand,"
by Hezekiah Butterworth.
MAcMILLAN's NovELIsTs' LIBRARY. Price
30 cents. Recent issues, "Grania."
by Hon. Emily Lawless. Mr.. Isaacs, f"
by II. Marion Crawford.
IL sometimes strikes US that folks may
be getting little tired OF DIR. Conan
his style apo method 10 occasionally irritat-
ing, and that the effort that we can see
behind the results the type furnishes,
wearies the reader as very likely ii does
the doctor himself. But in picking up
q book with the name of the creator OF
Sherlock Holmes on 1t, one can but feel
as one does on buying ticket at the
box OF well rated theater. Even though
the show inside may not prove to be any
thing very "blood curdling," yet the re-
puts Of the house is such that we do not
have to look at the play bills TO be as
pretty well satisfied with the entertain
ment.
So, "The Munro Letters, - clearly
and handsomely printed, ruggedly
bound, passing we'll as to wash illustra-
tIonsth0sgh, ss ,~ we bsU never did care for
reading. Not as a matter OF course. per-
haps, but naturally enough, the pi incip,e
characters are medicos OF superficial &C.
centricities. Culiingworth, the central
figure Of interest is OF marked indiyidu-
slity," but the markings are deep only
on the authors authority, and he may
easily be allowed TO pass from the MEM
ory. The Doyle trick of impressing a
character by reason OF its quaintness is
not likely TO be again SO successful as
proved with our lasting friend Holmes.
Sill, Stark-Munro's writings interest us
quite enough in Cullingwortn 10 follow
him with some curiosity, and the book
reads easily and agreeably.
Mrs. Bates "Bunch Grass Stories"
are about the most enjoyable little yarns
that We have read this summer. That
may be in part, because the writer of
these lines is himself familiar with the
"Bunch Grass Country the great rich
region OF the Pacific northwest today pre-
senting queer com bination OF squatter
life and booming cities. We are glad
that the field OF storytelling of this new
country, which presents aspects differing
as greatly from those of the nearer West,
Immediately beyond the Mississippi. as
the latter does from the East, or the
South, has been entered. Mrs. Bates
has acquired the atmosphere" OF the
are wholesome, inspiriting, and wholly
new.
"The Waters Mou" is an intense little
love story on background OF the wild
coast OF Aberdeenshire, and the exploits
; Of a smuggling population. y y the
interesting, and we like its flavor.
1t has been many years, we regret TO
say, since we really believed In good
fairies and bad witches. But no Icono-
clast destroyed them for US. They became
lost to faith by natural and easy pro-
cess OF mental development that made
no hurt ard left no pang. And, from
all the chSShood lore, we have always
been able to cling with some assurance |
to the dragon. No mental evolution |
was quite able TO eliminate the dragon. |
We loved the dragon and always felt that |
IL might possibly have been. even though |
fairies and witches could never have been. |
1t has remained for the Dragon of Want
ley' TO dissipate this lasting and most |
fascinating creation OF fairy story. The
second edition of this, to US, well nigh |
profane work, is now on the market and
diah hal of i'm v,iI 1eh he
over oorrespondingly wider territory.
The fancy that conceived the "Dragon OF |
is admirable, the writing of il
makes delicious reading, but we protest
that it is no part of humor to thus play
fast and loose with our cherished dragon
dainty little book containing two
new sketches by Josiah Aliens wife fur
nishes q spare hours good rea ing with
pictures rather better than the JOSIAH
Allen stories have usually had the advan-
tage OF. The two stories are "Josiah's
Alarm and "Abel Perry's Funeral, >,
Nothing OF the kind is so valuable, so
and compaetly put up, as
the Temple Shakespeare, the recent ad-
ditions to which give us "Hamlet" and
- Henry Will A similar word OF praise
may be said for the Macmillan reprints OF
Dickens, OF which volume containing
- Great Expectations and "Hard Timesh
Is at hand with the usual interesting i'm
PRODUCTION by Charles Dickens, Jr, and
plates from the original illustrations
Appieton's new issues OF the Town and
Country series comprise particularly read
able books by the author of that pleasant
novel, the Mistress OF Questn ("Out OF
Due Season"), "Not Counting the COST
which Is long drawn out and volume
made up OF Hezekiah Dutterworth's we'll
iold stories t"In Old New EnglandnD
Iha, Is, OF course, good reading and il
mighty handy to have around the house.
The new series OF periodical publica-
ions at popular price from current good
literature, "Macniilan's NcvelistsT LII
Drary" gives us "Granian aud 'Mr.
lsascs," particularly we'll printed ON
heavy paper and stoutly bound IN paper.
Iieroines on the stage,
by Charles T.. l. wingate. T.. Y.
Crowell A Co, New York and Bos.
ton. One vol. 35b pp, SO Illustra-
tions, index; i2mo, cloth, e.
Mr. Charles u. l. Ningate, managing
'ditor of the Boston Journal IL ss reli-
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