The herald., 1895-11-03
IN DEFIANCE OF THE KING, by
Chauncey o. lHotchkiss; D. Appleton
& Co., New York; for sale here by

& Co., New York; for sale here by
the Stoll e. Thayer Co.
This sis No. 17S OF Town and Country
library series, which has been SO often re-
of the revolutionary war seems, or rather
sounds, little out of date, and yet the
theme is fresh and welcome when brought
home in the way it is done here. A
student at Harvard college tells the. story
of the time whom the cry rang all along
THE Regulars are out" The scene of
the story opens at Montgomery-the old
name for what is now West Cam bridge
and 1t is a rafting recital OF events thence
forth. Full of adventure and historically
correct enough to be Renaissance of
actual events, the story is amateurish but
interesting and will be largely read.
THE KINGS sTRATAGEM, and Other
Stories, by Stanley J. Weyman; Plat.
Bruce & Co., New YORK; for sale
here by Stoll & Thayer.
Six short stories. all making about 200
pages, are comprised in this dainty vol
ume-decided one of the handsomest lit
tie books OF the year. There is fresh
ness and snap to these stories peculiarly
their own, rs one can easily guess who
has followed this author through his
moro elaborate works. The King s
Stratagem is more like the large novels
in plot and Style, but all of them sparkle
with the wealth of material always at
the command Of this brilliant story teller.
How new publishers manage to get h old
of these manuscripts will excite not
little curiosity.
A DASH TO The POLE, by Herbert D.
Ward; Lowell, Coryell & Co., New
York.
Professor Ward has done some excel
he married Eliza beth Stuart Phelps and
collaborated with her, but nothing SO
daringsas this irecital which tells of the
dash to the North Pole made by the bold
crew of the Aeropole, which took flight
from Chicago just before the Worlds fair
and arrived within ninety miles of the
pole inside OF twenty.four hours. The
machinery got tired at tnat point and
two Of the party proceeded on foot. found
the pole and frozen explorer there be-
fore them, with a British flag in his
hald. After consultation they conclud-
ed to raise the Stars and, STRIPES above
tie other flag, which they did. The
come away and died on the spot. The
survivor. after incredible hardships, vas
rescued by the seropole, whose machin-
cry had been started again after proper
rest, and the party were headed for Chi
cago again, where they arrived the next
day. The reason why the account of tie
trip was not published at the time APP
pears to have been because the parties be-
came aware that they would probably be
confined by their friends in an asylum.
One of the party. however. at last con-
sented to tell the story to Mr.. Ward. who
has Just pat it into book form. Th G
highest rate of speed attained by the all
ship WAS 275 miles an hour.
1t seems a great pity that the Aeropole
was not saved, but as the party got out
OF her to take skiff near the shore o.
Lake Michigan, the navigator carelessly
touched something that started the ma
| chlnery and she went up again
and was lost. 1t was caIcualted that hel
stored power would keep her up five
mouths anyway; she is presumed at las,
| to have plunged into the sea.
| BESIDE THE BONNIE BRIER BUSH,
by San McLaren; Dodd, Mead e. Co.
New York for sale by Stoll & Tnayer.
This touchinxly tender story finds nc
abatement of interest among readtrs-a
book we have before fully spoken Of. A
new story by the same author is now
being published in The Booxman. the
nsw literary magazine by Dodd, Mead &
Co., aud which has lived and thrived
J through the critical period, the new story