The record-union., 1897-11-22

Charles, her beloved. One day sit
ting at the fatal point an old scientist,
Zimmerman, who was in hot dispute
with colleague as to the movement
Of the glacier, came up to her watch
spot, and threw over a leaden bullet,
inscribed in way to be identified and
and muttered that it would not be re-
covered under a given number of years.
but would be found in time at the foot
of the glacier. This startled the wild
oW, and broke the news that had been
so seduously concealed from her. The
body of her husband could not be re-
covered, SO she went home to mourn
all her life long. Two years later the
aged scientist in atonement for his
revelation, unwittingly made, sent her
word that he had completed his cal
culations to confound his scientific op-
ponent, and found the glacier would
give up it's dead in forty-two years, the
movement of the ice by that time
bringing the base of the mass to the
mouth of the chasm where it would
break off and melt in the warmer at
moSphere, as it was constantly doing.
so the widow went to the spot at the
appointed time, a wrinkled, bent, white
headed old woman and waited. In time
the clear ice appeared, and there locked
in its crystal embrace was her Charles.
his blue eyes open, a smile on his lips.
his yellow hair streaming, his cheeks
even flushed, looking at her out of his
transparent prison house. Not the
Charles who had in memory lived with
her the two and forty years of wait
ing, but the youth of her youth. So
soon after a double grave was made
ty-two, and the white-haired wife of
sixty. This cold outline, of course
gives no idea of the charm of the tell
ing by the author, as it is with the
other short tales, original, graceful, or
nate and dramatic.
THE Sonnets'' of Jose-Maria de Here
dia, done into English by Edward Robe
son Taylor, is the title of an elegant vol
ume from the press of William Doxey.
San Francisco. In typographical style,
binding and form, the book is quaint
and beautiful. 1t sells at 50 80. is on
heavy linen paper in large full-face
type. and with untrimmed edges and
broad margins. Les Trophees' (The
Trophies) is a volume of poetry made
up of the 11S sonnets translated in Mr..
Taylor's book, and four other poems.
But the sonnets make up the greater
part of work styled by Mr.. Taylor lin
matter of art Incompatible and unique. -
and by Edmund Gosse, the critic, tech
nical perfection" as their central char
acteristic. Heredia was born a Cuban.
educated a F,renchman He iS a direct
descendant Of the Heredia who came
to America with the second Admiral
Diego Columbus, who founded Carriage
ma in the Indies. He is now in middle
life, is member of the French Acade-
my, and is recognized as one of the
great poet artists of Europe. In all
of his sonnets, says his translator, he
has adhered rigidly to that form with
out which no sonnet can be said to be
good literary art. I'm every one of them
you will find in the octet two Quartrains,
and in the sextet two tercetS and each
will be found perfect in itself, with
each contributing in due proportion to
determinate artistic unity" So far
as we have read these classic lines Mr..
Taylor has translated, we confess to be-
ing greatly impressed by their stately
beauty and their graceful and courtly
bearing. The translator has gracious
ly aided the reading by notes explana-
tory and critical.
Dodd, Mead & Co. CNew York; have
sent out another of the charming Elsie
books This time the volume is enti-
tied Elsie at Home" 1t is by Martha