The herald., 1897-07-11

of Howe's virtues, notably brave deed
when,
'Once, over purple mountains.
Died away the Grecian sun,
And the far Cyllenian ranges
Paled and darkened, one by one
Fell the Turk. a bolt of thunder
Cleaving all the quiet sky,
And against the sharp steel lightnings
Stood the Suliote but to die"
A PRINCESS OF ALASKA BY Rich
ard Henry Savage. Rand, McNally
& company, Chicago paper cover
25 cents.
Mr.. Savage's stories may not be in the
highest literary form, but he is capable
Of making them very lively reading. This
is romance of old Alaska, the Alaska
of Russia and hard, adventurous life.
THE PHILANDERERS BY A. e. W.
Mason, author of THE Courtship of
Morrice Buckler. The Macmillan
| company.
Much was expected from the author
of THE Courtship of Morrice Buckler''
and in the main the promise of that fa-
nous first venture has been kept in this
volume. 1t ie not so startling in plot
! as the other nor so stirring in adven-
ture, but in some ways a more consist
ent and finished production. 1t tells the
story of Stephen Drake, manly young
Englishman who was always devoted to
truth and simple duty, brave and
guileless man. From the hanging of
| hn Ie, 8 i
or up to-his parliamentary fight,
Drake was courageous and just. 1t was
weak in him to love Clarice LIE Mesu-
rier, and not see her terrible faults, but
such weakness most men have And.
after all, transparent sincerity in ones
life is the highest quality and the great
est necessity of the age. The ending is
somewhat unsatisfactory and little OBJ
scure, but it is a well-balanced story
and rather finely wrought out.
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A ROSE OF YESTERDAY-By ]. Mar
ion Crawford. Macmillan Company.
And still the wonder grows that Mr..
crawford can turn out books so fast
And the wonder is greater still that they
do not suffer in quality. 1t must be
frankly confessed that the honest fear
: of most people concerning Crawford's S
probable decadence, is not we'll grounded
at least not soon to be realized
We have to declare that "A Rose of
Yesterday" in our Judgment, is one of
the very best of Mr.. Crawford's many
novels. In many ways it is a striking
work. Nothing more real and touching
has latterly been produced The story
n r Hor e e. ;e
thetic Her husbands sins and madness.
the poor half-witted sons final rebellion
against the brutal fathers cruelty, and
the disclosure of the struggle that might
account for the dreadful happenings to
both, all together make up one of the
most remarkable situations that we car.
recall in modern fiction. Nothing worth
ier of woman could be written than the
devotion of Helen to her husband
through all her terrible trials till his
death in the madhouse closed the trag-
edy. 1t is sermon on the sacredness
of marriage as it is taught in all noble
lives. Nor threatenings nor batteries
could disturb her quiet resigned pur-
pose. You are rose" said the colonel
Yes, buta rose of yesterday"
We cordially commend this volume to
everybody who loves clean and whole
some fiction.
Mr.. W. A. Shaw's "The History of
Currency" the third edition of which
was recently published by Messrs. G..
P. Putnam's Sons, has been translated
into French.
The Century company will have ready
in the autumn patriotic itinerary "The
Century Book of the American Revolu
ton" by Elbridge S. Brooks.
Macmillan company has in prepara-
tion Dictionary of Architecture, to
be published in three large octave vol
umes, under the direction of Russell
Sturgis, author of European Archi-
tectrue: A Historical Study"
The Caxton club of Chicago will soon
produce an edition of Derby's "Phoe-
nixiana," edited by Mr.. John Vance
Cheney
Mrs. Coventry Patmore is now pre-
pairing a memoir of her late husband
with the assistance of Mr. Basil Champ
neys and Mr.. Frederick Greenwood.
Mountain Climbing" and Athletic
Sports" are two volumes of the Out Of
Door Library" published by Messrs.
Charles Scribner's Sons. Each volume
consists of group of papers originally
published in Scribner's Magazine
An exhaustive life of Wagner by Mr..
Houston Stuart Chamberlain is an
nounced by the B. Lippincott compa-
n.y.. The same firm also issue a work
on picturesque Burma, Past and Pres
ent" Both of these books will be beau
tifully illustrated in photogravure
idle Hours in Library" a volume
Of essays by Prof. w. H. Hudson of
Stanford university, will be published
shortly by Mr.. William Doxey. Mr..
Doxey has also in press a Guide tn
San Francisco and the Health and Pleas
ure Resorts of California; and a
work on "The Missions of California; .
by Miss Laura Bride Powers
The protectionist reaction through
which We are now passing has apparent
ly prompted the Henry Clay Publishing
company to start into being on a capital
of the plates Of the Rev. Cal.
win Colton's Life, Correspond
ence and Speeches of Clay" in
three, one and two volumes respective.
ly. These have been reprinted and
bound uniformly, and en.bcllished witt
numerous portraits of Clay himeslf ant
other public characters, his contempo.
raries.
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