The herald., 1896-11-29
ANNOUNCEMENT.

ENCOURAGEMENT.
I must not think of thee; and, tired yet
strong,
shun the thought that turks in all de-
light
The, thought of ,thee-and in the blue
Heavens height
And in the sweetest passage of song.
Oh, jystb eyond the fairest thoughts that
This breast the thought of thee waits
But in it must n never Vt r never come in sight;
i must stop short Of thee the whole day
long.
But when sleep comes to close each diff
cult day.
When night gives pause to the long watch
And ali my bonds I needs must loose apart,
With the first dream that comes with the
first sleeD
run, [ rum | am gathered tothy heart.
The second is also entitled Renounce
ment, and appears in Miss Lizette Wood
worth Rees' new book of verse, as fol-
lows:
thought
Make myself clear of you or any mark
OF our wrecked dawn and the uprising lark:
Am stern and strong, and do the thing I
ought.
Yet ever are there moments with you
fraught;
near you ike some SldU SOullu J the udrk-
You wait like bloom outside my branches
stark;
I dare not heed; else were my fight un-
fought.
But when the Glamour and the heat are
done,
Sleep opens for me every setting sun.
The bitter lies behind. the sweet before.
We that are twain by day at night are one,
A dream can bring me TO your arms once
more
1t is not easy to say which is the finer
IN STORY LAND. By Elizabeth Har-
rison. The Sigma Publishing Co.,
Chicago.
Miss Harrison is at the head of the
Chicago kindergarten college and a re-
cognized lead 81 in the great work of ed
ucation in this special field. She has
given three other volumes to the pub
lic-A Study OF Child Nature. The Wis.,
. ion Of Dante and Christmastide.
The present volume contains a dozen
tales especially adapted to the educat-
ing of the young mind in wholesome ro-
nance, and three Stories of Heroes, rath-
er more ambitious in style. The book
will be found stimulating ard helpful
in all ways. 1t is to be put into all the
book stores here. We learn that Mrs
Harrison is to spend the winter season
in the neighborhood of Los Angeles, for
the benefit of her health.
A MATTER OF TEMPERAMENT A
Novel. BY E. Irenaeus Stevenson.
Paper. SO cents; cloth, ST. New
York: American Publishers Cor
pora ton.
This novel suggeA; the relation of the
musical temperament to morals. A
moral tragedy is enacted, and love, mu-
sic and the stage are each involved.
The epoch is the middle of the present
century, time marked by the influence
and success Of Meyerbeer and by the
deep impression made by the master on
the composers of the school of Germany.
Meyerbeer himself is encountered in the
first part of the novel. The story is
sustained with interest to the end.
In forceful manner the author illus
trates the instability of the artistic tenn
peramant. BY induction the book em-
phasizes music's moral force and spir-
itual excellence.
Mr.. Stevenson at first called his book
Janus. the name of the Latin deity hav-
ing two similar faces looking in oppo-
site directions. but has changed it to
A Matter of Temperament.
A SECOND CENTURY OF CHAR
Houghton, Mimin & 'I, Co.. % Boston. toi.'
What was said in these columns about
the first of these two books is Just as
true of this one. One hundred more of
BILE they are here given, with the key that
helps to verify the answers. Mr.. Bel
lamy has dore in these two volumes a
great service to the households of the
land, since nothing more curious and
diVeNing than these literary kinks could
be devised.
DRED.-A Tale of the Great Dismal
Swamp.-Two volumes. BY Harriet
Beecher Stowe. HOughton, Mfflin
& Co. Chicago
STORIES, SKETCHES AND STUDIES.
Same as above. One volume
These are three more volumes OF the
Riverside Edition of Mrs. Stoves works,
to comprise sixteen in all. OF Dred
which never was a sensation in the sense
that Uncle Toms Cabin was, it is fair to
say it is more artistic How many read
ers will now turn back to these two Won
derful creations, it is hard to say but
the "old guard will stand by them as
they deserve. Neither our political nor
our literary history will be complete
without these volumes
The second volume of Dred also in
cludes those charming papers written
during Mrs. Stoves long sojourn in
Florida-many of the later years of her
life-and published under the title of
palmetto Leaves How her heart
must have become softened towards the
south in these later times, when she was
living in her little martin box, under
a huge oak tree. making home for fam
lily and friends by throwing out cham
Der here and there, like twigs out of
the old oak.
OF the stories, Sketches and Studies
we can only say that they are of the
same excellence as the Household Pa
pers" heretofore noticed. These were
in large part Anown to the public
through the Harpers, who brought them
out under the title of THE Mayflower."
and most of the balance first saw the
light in the Atlantic Monthly, to which
Mrs. Stowe was always contributor
We hope the reading public will appre-
ciate this fine edition, which so fifty en-
shrines these great gifts to our litera"
ture.
AUTHORS AND FRIENDS, by Annie
Fields. Houghton, Miff1in G. Co.
That the reader may know the full
scope of Mrs Fields book we give here
with the contents:
Longfellow, 1S07-1SS2.
Glimpses of Emerson, Oliver Wen
dell Holmes; personal recollections and
unpub ished letters.
Days with Mrs Stowe Celia Thaxter,
whittier; notes of his life, etc.
Tennyson; Lady Tennyson
The widow of James T. Fields, the old
Boston publisher. who had wider
knowledge of books and authors than