The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-09-04

oouplet written on the picture
i've n~ouccd-moro'n likely so have you-thst things
don't happen when you tcaAi 'om to.
Mrs, Ella Wheeler Wilcox is shown In . series
OF passionate poses, In one Of which, as she do
livers tho limo:
Come. cuddie your head on my shoulder, dear,
she Ia made to attempt the difficult and unsat-
l~sf,ctory feat OF cuddling her own head upon
her own sh~ouldor-surely a woful instance of
wasted energy and misdirected effort. Nor
must we forget a full.length portrait OF Mr..
Hamlin Garland, who leans in a Shakespearean
attitude against a shelf on which are ranged
several objects that may be either bottles OF
medicine or small volumes OF Chicago fiction.
Realism is writ largo all over this picture.
II. ON the glare In the authors eve
to the grim and uncompromlsingly bagRy
cut of his trousers everything denotes
the man who takes life and himself exceeding
seriously. There 10 this deep and deadly scri.
BUSINESS In every line of his figure In those
smaller sketches that show him In the act OF
telling the solemn story Of an aged Western
farmer who arose In tho dead silence Of tho
night, went out into tho pale. cold. glittering
moonliRht-and painted the side OF his barn.
Just as many things In the Rougon Macquart
series may be made moro clear to the mar who
studies q recently published portrait OF NJ. lola,
clad in knickerbockcrs and a.riding on his bicycle.
90, too, we can better understand some Of tho
peculiarities OF Mr.. Hamlin Garlands work,
now that we have seon these pictures.
In Barbara Blomberg" tAppletons) Mrs.
Mary ]. Stafford has prepared Il careful and
scholarly English version Of tho latest of Georg
Ebers's historical romances. The Emperor
Charles ". lies sick at Ratishon, and Barbara,
a beautiful, buxom, and golden-haired frHulein,
Is prescribed for the royal patient as a kind Of
govt specific, lives happily in splendor for o
brief space, Ia discarded and, after giving birth
to q son, marrios a faithful and much forgiving
lover and finally dies in the odor Of s~anctity.
The book is written with true Teutonic erudi-
ton and profundity. and gives a gorgeous pic
ture Of life as 1t may have been in medieval
Germany and the Netherlands In the days OF the
Protestant and Catholic struggles after Luther's
death. In its wealth Of detail and its dignity
and stateliness OF movement, 1t 10 n masterpiece,
but Of tho genre ennuveur. And life is short
and these two volumes are vory, very long.
"Realism and Romance and Other Essays"
(R. W. Hunterl, by tho late Henry Macarthur.
is a volume published by q number of friends Of
the author, q brillian: young Edinburgh
student, who died last year at the ago OF "a.
The book is made up OF a series OF essays on
Thomas Hardy and Stevenson, the writings Of
Edmund Burke, Matthew Arnold. Swinburne,
James Russell Lowell, tho life and writings Of
Erasmus, and q poem written on the death OF
Robert Louis Stevenson. Tho wisdom Of bring.
ing forward a volume Of this kind Is always
doubtful. Many OF these essays are Of q high
degree Of exccllcncc-as the first work of a col
lege boy-not written for publication. and were
printed without editing. But surely, IL 1t was
worth while to print them at all. and in the case
OF one or two OF them we think 1t was, 1t should
also have been worth while to eliminate a num-
Der of needless repetitions. and 30 put the col
lection into as perfect a shape as possible.
We have received problems OF Nature-Re.
searches and Discoveries OF Gustav Jaeger, NJ.
D." (Brentano's,, a volume Of selections from the
published writings OF tho eminent German
scientist, hygienic reformer. and pioneer OF
Darwinism. edited and translated by DR.. Henry
G. Schlichter. The volume 10 divided into three
parts: Part l.. Geological; Part H., Anthropo
logical; Part Ill, Varia.
The Partisan for September contains an inter.
esting illustrated article on Dresden from IL
Monde Modernc. and the usual amount Of fc
ton. SC.
We have also received:
The Elements OF Chemistry" Rufus P. VIII
liams. tGinn s. Coz
"Then and Not TIL Then" Clara Nevadr
Mcleod. Robert Lewis Weed co.,
Tho Story Of Japan" r. Van Bergen
american Book Col
"Gelta. or the Gear and tho Cantatrlce.'
Nadage Dore. Hurst s. Coz
"True to Themselves" Alexander NJ. Skene
N. D.. LII. d. If. Tennyson Neely.)
The Shakespearean Guide to Stratford.on
Avon" H. Snowden Ward and Catharine Wect
Ward.