The sun., 1897-11-20
boat fiiea With citizens and their women folk

shrieka ned the fir and reused all within sight to
running and shouting Poor, gasping. choking, dead
~ raced heals bobbed up a moment on the rivers
surface and went under struggling.
"Hep helpl" shouted the running peopla. And In
tne mast OF 1t out sprang from among the trees ana
bushes the great white body OF man. who dashed
INTO the stream and swan like dolphin.
III nc had been clothed the drowning creatures
would nave had somewhat to drag upon. II he had
NOT ocen as strong as giant and cool enough to con
troll them, the poor strangng foo's would have so
hampereu him In their frenzy that they might have
draGRed him under water with them Hut there was
power In him and freedom from Rll sense OF peru
which dominated them all.
Keep your senses aud you safe" he shouted,
swimming and pushing the overturned boat within
reach OF the men, who struggled together.
HIS voice rang like clarion and held In 1t such en-
courSgement that tho poor little bride, who came up
gasping near him at that moment, almost took him
| Tor god ss he shot TO her rescue.
your hand on my shoulder; be brave. my girl-ue
brave" ho cried out with such so,d cheer as would
have put heart In any woman and aided her to gather
| her poor frigh't wits and obey him Ike child
while even In the midst of her terror her little red
| hands chung to him, she mark half unconsciouly
the beauty and vieor of hn-hs strong. white neck,
like column the great corded muscles Of his whto
arms as he Glove the water through
He bore her to thr shore aud e her safe there, and
plunged In again. crying to her over his shoulder: -
| will biny back tho others!" And she stool dripping.
| gazing after him, sabilng and wrlngng her hands,
| but nlle / with wild admiration and amaze.
| lie Shouted orders to the sobered men to hold
steady to tho whorry, and dived to bring back ono
woman after another to firm land.
| We wish tho author had told us how many
women w ere thus saved, and whether. by the timo
| she reached the bank, the last one was not vol.
| nigh watorogRcd. But 1t Is but minor mat
ter after ALL and no author is under the necessity
of explaining everything. Readers who like he
| roes thoroughly heroic and villains OF the good
| old deep and douhlo.dyed pattern, will be
fully satisfied with his Grace OF Osmonde and
| Sir John Oxon. The number of mock
marriage ceremonies in which this bad man
figured the bridegroom was phenomenal, and
his extraordinary energy in the pursuit OF help
less and contiGing female rustics must have left
him with but littlo spare time even for his
meals. For such man as this tho punishment
| inflicted by Clorinda seems quite inadequate.
| We cannot hcIp thinking that she should have
devised for him what the Mikado described as
"somcthin1 lingerinr-with boiling oil in it."
Mcssrs. Small, Mnynord & Co. OF Boston,
Mass publish new edition OF Leaves OF
Grass" including Sands at Seventy &C ood
Bye My Fancy" "Old Ago Echoes. and "A
| Backward Glance Ger Travelled Roads The
edition is well printed and on good paper and 10
based on that of S9l.a2, which Walt Whitman
himself recommended rs the best for future
printing. Here is passage from tho " Back
ward Glance Ger Travelled Roads" worth re-
calling: "'Lcaves of Grass indeed II can
not too often reiteratcl has mainly been
the outcropping of my own emotional
and other personal nature--an attempt,
from first to last to put Person. human
being tmysolf. in the latter half Of tho nine.
teenth century, in Amerlcal freely. fully. and
truly on record. l could not find any similar
personal record in current literature that salts
fed me. But it is not on Leaves of Grass
distinctly as literature, or n specimen thereof,
that feel to dwell or advance claims. No one
will get at my verses who insists upon viewing
them literary performance or attempt at
such performance. or as aiming mainly toward
art or estheticism." A good portrait of Whit
man. taken in 800, faces the title page.
"A Shippers Wooing Froderick A. Stokes,
has a good deal of that broad, unctuous humor
with which IA former book by Mr.. W. w. Jacobs
MANY Cargoes, literally bubbled over. With
simple materials Mr. JacoSs manages to get
good effects, and his unsophistichted sailor
men involve themselves in complications
that always productive of wholesome.
hearty laughter. In quite another vein is The
Brown Mans Servant" in the Same volume n
powerful story Of robbery, murder and revenge.
in which the horrible denouement is grim and
ghastly as that of some tale by Poe. 1t, too. is
simply told. and yet the final picture of shv.
ering wretch locked in n dark chamber with
a venomous snake is startlinEly realistic.
what Dress Makes OF Us" tE. p. Dutton &
Coz is the title of brightly written little
volume in which Miss Dorothy Quigley points
out the elements OF comicalty and cercature in
ilchosen clothes. and gives a number of hints
to men and women to how many OF these gro
tesuue effects may be avoided. The text Is
interspersed with number Of clever thumb
nail sketches by Miss Annie Blakelee
We have also received:
"The Battle OF Harlem Heights. 1875. With
Review of the Events of tho Campaign"
Henry p. Johnston. A. NJ. Macmillans-For the
Columbia University Press.
THE War of the Theatres" Josiah H. Penni.
man. Qualifications of the University OF Penn.
sylvanin. Series in Philology, Literature, and
Archaeology. Vol. w.. No. 3. CHM & Coz
! THE Fourth Napoleon" Charles Benham.
III. g. Stone)
! "Liberty's Martyr" A poem in eight cantos
, by Thomas Boundy. Uermyn Press Printing
Office, Jermyn, Pal
Tales of the Real Gypsy Paul Roster
: doubleday & McCure.)
"Doriel." r. d. Blackmore Dodd Mead & Co
"In the Permanent Way" Mrs. Flora Annie
D Steel, author of "On the Face of the Waters.
(Macmillans)
1 Bound 10 Win Series. The Missing Tir
= Box" Arthur NJ. Winfield.
= "Young Auctioneers. Edward Stratemeyer
| wv. l.. Allison Company)
D "Thc Strolling Piper of Brittany" John w
} Harding. IT, 7. Noely.)
4 "Out of the Silence" Verses by John Vance
: Cheney. copeland & Day.
a "A Night in Acadic." Kate Chopin. (Wae
l & Willams.l
cinderella" and other stories. Richard
= Harding Davis. tScribnersD
The Dagger and the Cross Joseph Hatton
r tFenno)
"All About tho Emerald Ring" Charles
Francis Carty. dillingham;
4 1.-THE Wonder Worker of PGdun." Charles
i Warren Stoddard. tThe Avo Maria. Notr,
Dame. Ind.)
i 1.-THE Book of Dreams and Ghosts" New edi
s tion. Andrew Lang. UIongmans,)
= 1.-THE Exploits of Mycs Standish." Henr,
8 Johnson. tAppletons)