Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1897-10-17
RHEUMATISM


what she saw with a convincing vivid
ness of detail. The spirit in which she
has approached her task is shown by the
following from her preface: This book Is
the outcome of many months or patient
study and collection of material In Ameri-
ca, the revisal and rejection of much OF
this i'm Paris, of journeys over the Maid 5
country. and her path from Domremy
to Rouen, In voitures on foot, In carts,
Of a character study of the fifteenth CEN
fury. and. at the risk of moving smile.
] will confess it as the result OF divine
hint"
| COLLEGE TRAINING FOR WOMEN.
BY Kate Holiday Ciaghorn, Pm. D.,
Yale. New York and Boston: Thomas
Y. Crowell g. Co. Cloth and gilt Pages
go.
DR.. Claghorn does not argue the ques-
tion whether women should have college
| training or not. She knows that she ana
many others have enjoyed it, and that
the privilege will not only be continued
10 her sex. but greatly extended, not
alone by institutions for women. but
universities that are now "hemming and
! having" about the admission Of females
viii have to open wide their doors to
| them.
In nine chapters she we'll discusses both
| lege Can DO, The Preparation. Choosing
College, Life at College. The Graduate
| Student, Alumnae Associations. The Col
| lege-Trained Mother. The College Woman
| as a Social influence, and College Train
! ing for the Wage-Earner THE College
| Trained Mother is a sweet essay The
| extent of the Alumnae Association was
| pleasing news TO us. It commenced with
a membership of only slxty-siy from
eight colleges-Oberlin. Vassar, Cornell.
| Michigan, Wisconsin, Boston, Smith and
Wellesley. Now it has a membership
above 1900. and represents fifteen different
| colleges and universities. and they have
done systematic, practical. and useful
work. 1t is not necessary TO settle the
question as to the intellectual equality
Of the sexes Numbers of women have
demonstrated their equality at least. But
IL the inferority OF woman were adj
mitted. the conclusion would be inevita-
bic that she was, n fortiori, entitled to
every opportunity and every advantage.
in order to give her the chance to make
up for that inferiority.
STUDENTS SERIES OF ENGLISH
CLASSICS. Macbeth. Edited, with
Introduction and Notes, by James NJ.
Garnett. NJ. ~, LII. D.. Leach. She
well * Sanborn, Boston, New York, and
Chicago. 1897.
This is an elegant and complete edition
Of Shakespeare's master drama. in which
he equalled. If not excelled, the great
Aeschylus himself The editor was for
some years professor of English in the
University of Virginia, and is now con-
nected with the Woman's College in Bal
timore He has a hereditary claim to
teaching. His grandfather. for whom
he has been named, was a noted educa-
tor, and wrote good traclate on the sub
ject which he so we'll exemplified. He
conducted at his residence, in Essex coun-
ty, Va, a boarding and day seminary
for girls, in which were trained the re-
fined daughters of Tidewater Virginia,
besides others who were drawn to him
from distance by his reputation Our
editor has avaled himself of the studies
Of preceding editors and critics, and of
contemporary Shakespeare societies. He |
has separated the textual notes from the |
explanatory, because the former may not |
be needed for younger pupils and to make |
his work as complete as possible. there |
is even an appendix. in which the inter-
polations in Macbeth and Middeton's sup |
posed share in them are considered. DIR. |
Garrett dedicates his work TO his Shakes |
peare class in the Woman's College OF |
Baltimore, Nd, and this shall introduce |
the following notice Of
THE WRECK OF THE CIRCUS. BY |
James Otis, author of "How Tommy |
Saved the Barn." "a Short Cruise"
&c. New York, 46 east Fourteenth !
street: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co. Bos-
ton, 100 Purchase street. Pages 81.
Frontispiece. Cloth. Price, 90 cents
The author has told his story in a very
entertaining style, and ii will bold any
childs attention. The hero is a boy
fti in al A ~
comes to the place. and naturally he
wants to go to Il, but he is left In charge
of his baby brother with the Injunction
not to leave home. He determines, after
much reasoning with his conscience, TO
take the baby TO the circus, and on ar
irving there, meets a companion, who tells
him of a job by which ne can earn a
ticket TO the show. He leaves his little
brother I'm charge Of girl friend. and on
returning finds the baby lost There
comes up a hurricane which overthrows
the tents and causes great disaster. The
hero takes a long time TO find the baby,
and the description OF his emotions on
finding him are very true to nature. The
boys character and his repentance are
finely portrayed, and the story teaches
a splendid lesson on the sin OF disobedi-
ence.
BY Apollo Belvedere.
Illustrated by c. ID. Weldon. Published
by the author. University Press: John
Wilson &c Son. For sale by NJ. RUSSELL
bookseller, New York city. Pages, Isl.
Price, $1.25.
The authors theory is that viii" is
omnipotent for transformation regenera-
tion the conquering Of hereditary ten
denotes, and everything else, and she-we
take the author TO be woman-essays 10
illustrate her theory in the apotheosis, SO
to speak, of a waf. This waif, a girl.
who, owing to heredity and environment,
Is about as unpromising a specimen as
could be found, becomes by the exercise
Of will little less than divine in mind,
heart, and person. The style of the book
Is rhapsodical 10 the last degree. The
author may have a clear idea of what her
most transcendental flights mean, and
may know whether she is Christian or
1 Buddhist, or both, with something elss
thrown in, but the average reader Will
never be able TO satisfy himself on these
points. The best that can be said OF the
book is that X is harmless. for what Is
in 1t is laughable. !
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Book BY Nathaniel Hawthorne. 26i >
Pages, with Colored Frontispiece and z
Eight Full-Page Illustrations by w. I
ST. John Harper. 16mo. 70 cents Chill
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