The record-union., 1896-04-05

should give his days and nights to
the study Of Mark Rutherford. Here
is one among us who, to use his own
words, speaks the veritable reality. He
has the power denied to so many of
at once clutching the heart. You feel
as you go on that you are reading with
exposed nerves; and you lay down the
book thrilled and shaken. never to be
be again quite what you were at it's
beginning"
Robert Louis Stevenson's poems have
been gathered together for the first
time in q single volume, and will be
issued Immediately by the Scribners
under the title Of Poems and Ballads /"
The volume will comprise all the poems
contained in "a Child's Garden of
Verses" Ballads" and "Underwoods, y
and In addition over forty pieces of
verse written since the publication of
those volumes.
The fourth volume of Mr.. Roose-
velt's winning of the West" will be
published in April from the Putnams'
press. This volume deals with the
Northwest and Louisiana, and brings
the narrative down to 1909. The vol
umes are sold separately. each being
complete in itself.
Spalding's Baseball Guide" for 1896
is at hand from the American Sports
Publishing Company, New York. 1t
.surpasses every issue of the National
League Guide yet published. 1t is the
largest book of the kind yet issued
and is more copiously and handsomely
illustrated than before. Besides the
new playing rules it is unsurpassed in
it's list of baseball statistics, of records
and Of most interesting and instructive
chapters on the points of the game in
it's respective departments of pitching
batting, fielding and base running. A
new feature is the large amount of
space given to the statistics of the
minor leagues of the country, and the
valuable college records of the past
year. with those of Yale and Harvard
for twenty years past, are worthy of
not. The pitching records are espec-
tally complete and full In fact the
book is the baseball manual of the
year. One OF its most attractive
features is the forty pages of half
tone illustrations of all the National
League and the leading minor league
and college teams of the country and
also of number of old-time ball play
ers.
Love Affairs of a Worldly Man" is
new novel by Maibelle Justice, press
CT F. Tennyson Neely, New York There
is delightful introduction by Colonel
Richard Harding Savage, who gives
the novel the cordial Endorsement and
frank approval of trained critic and
accomplished writer of fiction. The
story is drama in real life, and pre-
Sented in most attractive form. The
book has frontispiece, a fine half
tone portrait of the author, a very
beautiful woman.
From William Doxey, publisher. San
Francisco, we have a compact PAM
phlet entitled, "Some Representative
Peests of the Nineteenth Century" 1t
is the syllabus of University Extension
Lectures" by Melville B. Anderson.
Professor of English Literature at
stanford University. 1t is really a
guide to study reading and compari
son Of modern poets, with notes and
photographic references and directions
for study exercises
DR.. Donald, successor to the rector
ship of Trinity Church, Boston. which
Phllhps Brooks resigned when elected
BISHOP, has written a book on "The Ex-
pansion of Religion which has
breadth and catholicity worthy of
Bishop Brooks himself 1t aims to
show that religion is infinitely larger
than ecclesiasticism, and is connected
more or less closely with all the social
and industrial movements of our time
which tend to promote a larger life.
Houghton, Miff1in & Co. will publish it.
Mrs. Olive Thorne Millers animal
books for young folks are sure of an in
terested and enthusiastic audience. Her
new volume, -Four r-Handed Folk" soon
to be published by Houghton, Miff1in &
Co., is devoted to various pets-the kim
kajou. lemur, marmoset, living balls"
the ocelot and several kinds of monkeys.
Mrs. Miller is on speaking terms, or bet
ter, with all of these
Hamilton Wright Mabie has just COM
pleted the new book upon which he has
been engaged for some time to be called
Essays on Nature and Culture" in
which the author endeavors to trace
those analogies between the methods
of human life which seem to give us
suggestions for the best conduct of life
A companion volume, to be entitled
Essays on Books and Culture based
on his articles that have appeared in
1.-The Bookman," will be published in
the autumn.
F. Tennyson Neely, New York and
Chicago, has issued a neat edition of
letters, extracts from lectures and say
ings and writings Of Bill Nye under the
title, bill Nye's Sparks" 1t is book
of Isl pages and contains some of the
best Of Nye's sayings and shorter writ
ings.
For the "Record-Union."
EASTER MORN.
Awake o earth. and yeSture bright MT ont