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Rome and. in a certain sense, the
verse of Johanna Ambrosius, the Ger
man peasant poet whom The Critic"
was the first to make known to the
American public. Poems by Thomas
Bailey Aldrich, Helen Gray Cone, Edith
Nj. Thomas and others have been print
ed; and Mr.. Zangwill has richly given
of his Wit and wisdom in his papers on
Men, Women and Books" and many
other papers, essays, notes and COM
mentarieS appear
Stephen Cranes Maggie: a Girl of
the Streets" upholds the reputation he
won by the Red Badge" says THE
Book Buyer" if one may say so of a
book written before what is called his
masterpiece The book which made
Mr.. Crane famous was not a sustained
narrative, but a sequence of eXtraordi-
nary tableaux. The same lack of any
structural quality is apparent in Mag
gie," but there is the same vehemence,
the same selection of forcible and pic
turesque words, the same binding
glare of primary colors flashing out
into a paorama of illumination.
Maggie" suffers in some degree from
the fact that nothing but scenes of
slaughter and death can properly be
painted with such broad strokes of
brilliant color. Also while it was
amazing that Mr.. Crane could have inn
agined the scenes of battle and made
them seem so inevitably faithful, there
is nothing amazing in g writer's knowl-
edge of the details of slum life in New
York
THE New Money is a pamphlet Of
the Irving Library John B. Alden, New
York, publisher). 1t is an essay ON a
scheme for getting on without coin, on
the basis of a form of credit backed by
Government bonds, but not through the
agency of national banks. 1t is claimed
for it that the plan will bring Govern
ment bonds to a basis of per cent
that is, make 4 per cents. worth a pre-
MUM of 100 per cent. Make money
plenty, and profitable to loan and easy
to borrow on safe security at 3 to 4
per cent. Take the money question"
out of politics, where, in fact, it has no
more right to be than the wheat ques-
ton" or "dry-goods question" Send
silver to its natural place-into spoons
and ice pitchers. Make the race of
gold bugs" extinct in this country-no
more victims left to prey upon
''The Making of Cannon Projectiles" is
the title of an article by Franklin Mat
thews in 'Harper's Round Table" for
August 4th. To the same number Julia
Conover contributes a story entitled
How Braddy's Brother Carried the
News"--a bright tale of college life,
dealing with an intercollegiate baseball
game. There is an excellent outdoor
entertainment by Emma J. Gray, EMIT
led 1.-The Picnic" and also a strong
story by Paul Hull, entitled Held Cap
tive by Savages." The two serial stories,
"a Virginia Cavalier" by Mollie Elliot
Seawell, and Crossing the Xuacax-
ella," by Captain Charles A. Curtis. sus-
tain the interest; and with the regular
departments on Bicycling, Inter
scholastic Sport Stamps, Photography,
the many short stories, humor, poetry,
ETC., it is very good number.
Messrs. Harper & Brothers have in
press Literary Landmarks of Venice
by Laurence Hutton. This volume
says the author, 'is written for the for
eigners, for the men of letters, for the
lovers of art It is the result of many
weeks of patient but pleasant study of
Venice itself. Everything here set down
has been verified by personal observa-
ton, and is based upon the reading of
scores of works of travel and biogra-
ply. 1t is the Venice I know in the
real life of the present and in the lit