The herald., 1895-07-01
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EDITED BY EN0cn KNIGHT

Ibsen have enjoyed about equal honors,
put the latter has done much less in treat
ing OF social and political problems. Hav-
Ing moved about much, residing for a
season in nearly all of the Euro penn GEN.
tiers Of literary thought, BJornson's range
OF observation has made HIM famous
essayist. in which line OF recent writing
he is best known to the public. We pre-
dict for this book equal popularity with
In Gods Way, the story next preceding 1t.
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DIR. GRAY's QUEST. By FRANCIS H. UNDER
WOOD LII. d. Lee & Shepard. Boston.
A new book from nthis author, who is
so well known in the great world of liter
allure, is indeed something to be thank.
full for. This strong story is another
token of Mr.. Underwood's versatility. II
is as true to the mark as Quabbin. the
early story of the little Puritan town in
New England, and as grave and correct
in expression and purpose as The Build
ers Of American Literature. Little Ca
naan. Mass, is the scene OF the story,
town of many shops and mills, and the
time OF it was fifty years ago, when the
Millerite religious craze was upon the
people. 1t is a wholesome ana thorough
ly engrossing book and will find wide
reading.
JIMMY BOY. By SOPHIE MAY. A companion
TO Wee Lucy. in the teries entitled Little
Prudy's. Children. Illustrated. Lee &
Shepard, Boston.
Although some years had elapsed since
the author wrote the last of the Prudy
stories. the advent OF Wee Lucy last sea l.
son, as the initial volume of new Sc
ries for the little ones, showed conclu-
sievly that Sophie May had not lost her
cunning" and every child will be glad
to make and continue the acquaintance
with I.iffIa PruAy' q rhildrQn-
Jimmy Boy was considered, and really
was, q manly boy; but, like many others
of us, hs found some difficulty in living
up to his reputation.
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THE STORY OF PATRIOTS DAY. LEXING-
TON AND CONCORD BY GEORGE ] VAR
NEY. illustrated. Lee & Shepard, Boston.
Mr.. Varney has compressed into this
valuable little handbook an amount of
valuable historical information concern
ing the early days of American independ.
ence which it would be difficult to find
in another printed volume of its size.
He describes in the beginning the con-
dition Of. things in Massachusetts, just
previous to the breaking out of the war
Of the revolution. and then. starting with
the 18th of April. 1875, he relates with
great particularly the events of that
night and the succeeding day in Boston
and at Lexington and Concord, the ride
OF Revere and Dawes. the massacre at
Lexington and the fight at Concord
bridge. Mr.. Varney Is u faithful worker
in this field and has given the public a
valuable little book.
The Grasshoppers, from the same pub
fishers as the above. by Mrs. Andrew
Dean Mrs. Sedgwick) author of Isaac
Eller's Money, Mrs. French Brassey. etc..
is a story rich in material and fairly
handled. The illustrations of the text
are uncommonly good and add greatly
will, We feel sure, be counted above the
ordinary in matter and manner. FOR
sale by Stol d. Thayer.
Here is the last shrek of the whist
crank:
My heavens" he cried, ard they
crouched beneath the lash OF his tongue,
when the Angel Gabriel comes down
from above to wake such senseless clay
at the blast OF his heavenly horn will
turn over in your grave and feebIy whim-
per, Dear me, what's the trump And
he flung huimself out of the house.
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Quite a new departure in the way of
commencement exercises was wit q essed
the other day at Galesuburg, ILL.,, where
the students of the graduating class of
Knox college. one of the strongest and
wealthiest institutions of the west, gave
Shakespeare's play. AS You Like 1t, for a
class day performance. The same depar-
ture was enacted at Tufts college, Somer-
vile. Mass, the other day. 1t was moth.
ing less than the production of the old
play, Ralph Roster Doister, by the head
master of Elton school and played by the
boys of that old institution in 1851. In
the production of Tufts the surround
ings of the old school were followed as
closely as possible.
Again we are reminded that there is
nothing new. "a common cant term"
writes Mr.. N. H. Dole, for going on a
spree Is painting the town red. Has
the El'zabethan parallel never been
pointed out? Prince Hal with Poins in
the Boars Head Tavern says: They
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Apropos OF the we'll settled fact that all
the great, painstaking stories come from
abroad. and that our novelists produce
merchandise first and foremost of all
work, the New Orleans Picayune has the
following:
In this country, and in all civilized
countries, there is multitude of clever
writer's, quite up in the technique of their
art and well provided with recipes for
getting up literary cookies at the shortest
notice. Tney know their trade: but they
have no inspiration. tor the muse likes
earnestness and will not smile upon a
sutton who has learned his counting out
of a manual of etiquette. They are in
dustrious to fault The trouble is that
they do not take time to live and grow.
We have seen that 1t is possible to make a
profession of literature, and few writer's
have even found it profitable to do So.
Moreover, the art of composition does not
come by nature. like Dogberry's reading
and writing. But we do not much care
to read anything that has been made
with the pecuniary reward all along in
sight.
OF Mrs. Graham's Stories of the Foot
hills the Critic writes in terms of the
warmest praise, and amongst other things
says:
Every trivial turn and every common
event has its opening toward the beauti
full, and there is a strange dumb wistful-
ness from the hearts of homely things
that pervades the book-as if they were
seeking to be loved; as if they had al
ways been lovable, had always been
striving to speak and never been heard.
This is the kind Of writing that fills the
world with new voices--and it fills every
ones world. for idealsm is beautiful Just
in proportion as it is difficult; and the
mind that can surround the weary facts
vistas into something more, has brought
to pass not only the most remarkable. but
the most available miracle OF human
thought.
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