The record-union., 1896-04-26

his arm and strove to lead him to sofa.
You must sit down, Sergeant" she
said
mo, ma'am, MOI" he protested,
Strengthening himself with a violent
effort. Nov may / hear what it is they
say against my boy? I want every
word Don't be afraid, ma'am, I can
bear it,
The sensation of Fred's disappear
ance is lost by most of the troops in
the greater sensation of a sudden dis
covery that they are surrounded by
savages and in the most imminent
danger.
After a thrilling experience of border
warfare, Fred's case again becomes
the uppermost topic. Some new evil
dence appears, the deSerter returns, a
court-martial is ordered, and there is a
thrilling unraveling Of the tangled
threads of innocence and guilt. A rev.
citation of gambling soldiers, forged
orders, and the terrible perils through
which the boy passed in the effort to do
his duty, with a heroic vindication of
his own honor, the discontinue and
merited punishment of his traducers,
complete one of the most readable of
Captain Kings army stories.
A book as important for the histori-
cal student as it is interesting for the
general reader is 1.-THE Courtships of
Queen Elizabeth" by Martin A. S.
Hume, the editor of the Calendar of
Spanish State Papers in the Public
Record Office. Mr. Hume says in his
preface that he has often been struck
by the failure of historians of the time
to account adequately for what seems
merely preverse fickleness on the part
OF perhaps the greatest sovereign that
ever occupied the English throne: and
that he has undertaken in this book to
snow how strong modern England
was rendered possible by the fixity of
purpose and consummate statecraft
that underlay the apparent levity and
capr1clousness of the Queens actions.
''Kokoro or Hints and Echoes of ia
panese Inner Life" is by Lafcadio
Hearn. 1t is from the press of Hough-
ton, Miff1in & Co., Boston and New
York. This is the second volume from
the facile pen and close observation OF
this charming writer. In the first we
We're indicted into some of the under
phases of japanese life which would be
inscrutable except for some such work
as guide to the understanding and the
comprehension. The volume gave us a
very rapid but a very satisfying view of
Japan up to practically the present
year; the present volume is of a very
ClHerenr character 1t goes into the
inner part, for, as Hearn tells US, Ko-
koro signifies ''the heart of things" and
the title therefore indicates that we
have laid before us the inner life of the
japanese, or, as the author puts it, "the
word Kokoro signifies also mind, in the
emotional sense; spirit; courage; re-
solve; sentiment; affection; and inner
meaning-just as we say in English,
the heart of things No author whose
works are listed in cur memory, and
we have had more than a keen taste for
all such as have treated of the Brown
Men," has got so close to the Japanese
inner life as has Mr. Hearn. He must
have had not only peculiar opportunities
but have given more than ordinary pa
thence and study to Japanese character,
so that his essays and stories are more
than the impressions of an observer;
they are the judgments of an analyst
and student of emotions and passions.
There are fifteen of these analytical
chapters; they mingle anecdote and es
say and study in manner to fasten the
attention and quicken the curiosity. So
that whoever begins the volume may
be safely counted upon to finish it, and
tC take into his thought and intellect
also the suggestion and the informa ton
ir the appendix, which treats of Three
Popular Ballads" The concluding
chapter of this charming book is en-
titled "Kimikoi," and is as romantic
a story and as full of poetic beauty as a
fairy story, but it is all very human, q
tale of self-sacrifice on the altar of ones
love.
G. p. Putnam'S Sons have in press for
early publication the book of the Hast
ings Chess Tournament" which will be
issued simultaneously in London and in
New York. The volume will contain the
full official record Of the go games
played by the twenty-five competitors
at this international congress, these
games being fully and carefully ammo
tated by distinguished body of ex-
perts, including in their number the
eight prize winners. The various games
have been distributed among the an
notators in such a way as to secure the
greatest variety of opinion possible on
the various openings and on the differ
ent styles of play. In addition to the re-
port of the games, the volume will in
clude reprint of the rules under which
the tournament was conducted; bio
graphical sketches of the twenty-five
players, accompanied by full-page por-
traits and autographs of each, with
notes in regard to the various minor
tournaments and the problem solving
competition. The report of the games
will be accompanied by 200 diagrams of
situations. This Hastings tourna-
ment is accepted by chess players as
having been the most representative
and successful meeting of it's kind ever
held.
A recent valuable contribution ia
financial literature is "The Multiple
Money Standard" by Professor J. Allen
Smith, published by the American Acad-
envy of Political and Social Science
Philadelphia. In this monograph Pro-
fessor Smith first discusses the relation
of money to industrial society, the two
conceptions of a standard of value and
the instability of gold as a commodity
He then shows the advantages and dis
advantages of a composite gold and sill
yer standard, and advocates the adop-
ton of multiple money standard.
According to this plan considerable
number OF leading commodities, such as
wheat, gold, iron, cotton, silver, etc, are
selected and combined together in the
ratio of their Importance. These then