The herald., 1897-02-14

Art thou rich. yet In thy mind perplexedi
o punishment!
DoSt thou laugh to see how FOOLS are
veXed?
To add to golden numbers, golden num-
bers?
o sweet content 0 sweet content!
Canst drink the waters of the crisped
spring?
o sweet content!
Swimmest thou in wealth yet sinketh in
thine tears?
. punishment!
Then he that patiently wants burden
bears,
No burden bears but is a king. a king!
o sweet content! o sweet content!
THE STORY OF EXTINCT CIVIL
ZATIONS, by Robert e. Anderson.
d. Appleton &c Co.
Here is compact little volume of 200
pages, with maps, ard remarkably
full index, which tells in six chap
ters the main facts about all the old
civilizations The topics treated are:
Origin and Races of Mankind; Chaldea
and Babylonia Ancient Egypt; Hit
tites, Phoenecians and Hebrews; the
Arabs and Ancient Persia. 1t is one OF
the neatest little volumes ever put be-
fore the public The treatment of these
important subjects, though brief, is full
enough for practical purposes.
ON MANY SEAS. by Frederick Ben
ton Williams. The Macmillan COM
pany.
Here we have a genuine hook about
the sea-many seas. 1t is the faithful
chronicle of the life ana exploits of a
Yankee sailor who has sailed the seas
of the whole world over. Perhaps not
since Dana's Two Years Before the Mast
has so simple and truthful an account
,pf sailor life been given. We have had
many sea stories, but here is expert
once, the experience of a man who went
from cabin boy to captain. and in an
experience of a quarter of a century
saw all that could be seen of sea life.
The author is known to be Mr.. Her.
bert E. Hamblen. now an engineer in
New York. working at his business in
overalls and calico shirt. The name of
Williams was agreed upon between him
self and his friend, who helped him
somewhat with the manuscript, but who
Gays that the most he did was to cut
down the matter and make the volume
of smaller bulk.
Hamblen was born in the little coun-
try town of Lowell, Me. and spent his
early boyhood on a rocky little farm.
When very young he found himself in
the care of stepmother under whose
influen ee,' he says, Il soon became an
accomplished liar, and was well 'whaled'
for 1t by my truth-lovinN father when
ever he found it out. When the father
was compelled to leave the gravely hill
to seek work in New York, in order to
make a living, the boy was taken along
too, and soon after began his sea life.
This volume is most natural and
manly recital of stirring events and
will have wide reading.
NEPHELE. BY Francis William Bour-
dillon. New Amsterdam Book COM
pany.
This is beautifully printed volume
ard dainty in all ways. Much curiosity
will be awakened at the announcement
of novel by Bourdilon, who is remem-
bered as the author of several brilliant
little poems that have been much quoted
like
THE night has a thousand eyes
And the day but one etc.
The,story is founded on some strange
happenings that have never yet been
explained upon rational grounds-if they
ever did happen. Endymion Gerard was
an Oxford student, with an uncommon
talent for music. On a certain day he
found himself improvising at the organ,
under the inspiration of very beautiful
girl whom he saw in spirit only. And
when he was sketching, later. he found
which sketch his college mate declared
to be a portrait of his betrothed. Ne
phele Delisle. Later on, Miss Delisle and
Gerard met and she was, indeed, the
woman of his minds creation. At times
he could not recall the wonderful music
of his strange dreams, but at last he
wrote out the score. Miss Delisle played
i. upon the violin, to his accompaniment.
In public, too, they played it, and not
nnl wi mi boo rI nf affapt h11t a 70
end of the score improvised several meas
ures which had been in Gerard's mind,
but which he never succeeded in writing
out. At the conclusion both went off in
a swoon and fever followed. When
Nephele married, Gerard tried to forget
it all, but his life seemed to have practi-
cally ended with the wonderful events
here narrated, so that he never held
himself wholly in control again. When
Nephele died. which happened not long
afterwards, he knew it on the instant,
and saw her in fancy. She, too, in her
last moments, saw him and remembered,
and propped up in bed, called for her vio
lin and played again that wonderful
score.
This strange sketch illustrates nothing
that Is definable in philosophy or ex
perience; it has a curious fascination.
What place shall be assigned to Bourdel-
to say yet. We must wait
MASKED IN MYSTERY. by ST. George
Rathborne, author of DR.. Jack. +.
Tennyson Neeley, New York.
This is another of this authors sto-
ries of wild adventure and mystery,
second in interest to none of the rest,
not even Her Rescue from the Turks
1t is romantic adventure under Egyp-
tian skies but since the world nowadays
Is very, very small, the characters rep
resent many regions and races. Not the
least noteworthy actor in the drama is
Jones of Kalamazoo
ARRESTED, by Esme Stuart. author
of A Woman of Forty, etc. No. 209.
Town and Country Library. 12mo.
Cloth, 81; paper, so cents.
This Is No 209 of the ever excellent
Town and Country Library series, and
a most entertaining and gracefully writ
ten story. The standard Is kept very
high in this series of romances, and not
one in the long list has been dull or of
doubtful character.
THE AMERICAN ITALY, by J.W.
Hanson, A. M, ID. w. b. Con-
key company, Chicago.
The author of this rich new volume
on Southern California is widely known
in the east as preacher and writer.
He came here few years ago for a
short stay and "in skeptica1 mind" a 8
he says, but little by little became inter-
ested in the region He collected pho
tographs, kept newspaper clippings, Wis
tied spot after spot as he heard of places
and things worth seeing, until at last
he found himself pOssessed of vnntortoi