The herald., 1897-12-05
THE EXPLOITS OF MYLES STANDISH.

By Henry Johnson (Muirhead Robert
son), author of From Scrooby to Ply
mouth Rock" etc. Illustrated. D. APP
pleton & Co.
Here is an ample volume of near 800 pages
that tells us more than any other single
volume has told us of the remarkable SOL
der who led the most famous expeditions
undertaken by the Pilgrims in their long
Indian contests--a famous soldier long be-
fore he had thought In taking part in the
tremendous events that clustered around
the settlement of the new world.
AS one reads this narrative one concludes
that the world. as we'll as Priscilla Null
Inns. has put the right estimate upon the
Puritan fighter. He had considerable
worldly wisdom; he had the blind religious
faith of Cromwell: but he was a soldier
rather than maker of opinion or leader
in another way. He was hard man, this
chunky fighter. hardly more than five feet
tall and as one authority has it, "He
thought the true way TO cvilize the Pu-
rtans' foes was to plant cannon in the
belfry of the little church and flash con-
viction right into the heart of the heather"
One of the most interesting CHAPTERS of
the volume is the one that tells the old
familiar story Of Thomas Morton and his
fellow carousers at Merry Mount. that
''rocst for unclean birds" as blunt old
Joshua Endicott called II. It does not an
pear certain in what year Captain Stand
ish was born, the old parish register and
churchyard being equally obscure, but the
chronicle tells that he returned to Eng
land from "the plantation of New Ply
mouth, and died there in the wear 1886.
and was hcnorably buried at Duxburv
This volume does not purport to be q com
plete biography, but # is an Interesting
contribution to our knowledge of the great
Puritan conquest of New England.
GONDOLA DAYS. A book on Venice and
its attractions, by F. Hopkinson Smith.
author of Tom Grogan," Colonel Car
ter OF Cartersville," etc. With illustra-
tions by the author. 12mo.; 81. so Hough-
ton, Mifflin & Co.
This is a charming volume because If is
about city alive with sunlight and color
and music, and written by an artist-for
Mr.. Smith. above all else. is an artist. Our
author says that no pen car picture the
WIDE sweep of piazza in Venice the aban-
don of gardens, the charm of her canal and
street life. the happy Incidence of her peo-
pie and the faded sumptuousness of her
homes, and yet he goes on to do ii with
the hand Of master. And his advice to
his coun'rymen at the close of q modest
but peculiarly eloquent preface Is to make
Venice a Mecca. for "to know her thor
onghly is to know all the beauty and ro-
nance of five centuries"
Ihese fine sketches and the tasteful films
trations make up one of the very choicest
volumes of the season. book 1t is a pleas
ure as well as duty to praise
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THE GOLDEN NORTH: BEING A FIvI1.
ACCOUNT OF THE FAR NORTH
WEST TERRITORY, THE KI,ON
Dixie DISTRICT. AND THE WHOT n
NORTHLAND NORTH OF THE FIF
T1-FlFTH PARALLEL. Written and
compiled by G. r. Tuttle who has
crossed the continent three times above
the siXtieth parallel and made n Iife-
study or the sub-arctic belt: author of
canadian North Land" Rand Nc
Nally &c Co.
llere Is a very valuable volume. showing
irSt' all the routes to the gold fields. and