The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-05-01

"A Selected and Classified List
who Some of the Writers Are
StocktOr,'s New Novel - "QuO
Vndis" ut Last DcthrOned--Ir-
Wings Sunny Side Enlarged, but
the Old Edifice Not Altered Out
sidc-Neyv Sketch of franklin
Rock for $500.
NEW YORK. April 29-After books
on navies and naval war interest
now is fast directing itself from what
may be called current books. to books
on Spain and Cuba. OF course nobody
needs to be reminded of the standard
books-thoSa which Prescott, Irving
Borrow and Ticknor write. All read
ers who know anything of Spain know
those boolls-their tal5s and their con-
tents ard, perhaps, not a little Of their
corteEts by heart. But there are other
books now worthy to be read and now
getting read. Readers of The G | o b e
may be glad therefore of a little assist
ance in making up lists from which to
Niio'SS " lt1tt ltlGy care " ISdu HeE
would be surprised and confused alike
We're so long a list as it is possible to
make provided for them. 1 will, there
fore. place a reasonable limit to the
list. In the class which pertains to
history and descriptive travel, the fol-
lowing may be recommended:
Hay. J. Castilian Days Sla5
Huntington. archer NJ. Notebook in North
ilf.gf 4
JaccSci A. f. On the Trail of Don Quix-
ote. Illustrated by Verge. $3.50.
Lathrop. c. P. Spanish vistas. $3.50.
teenth Century. $3.50,
Lea, X. c. Chapters from the Religious
History Of Spain Connected with the In
Lane-Pcole, S Story of the Moors in Spain.
M.5o. Story of the Nations Series.
Field SI6 DR.. Il NJ. Old Spain and New Spain.
Field, Kate. Ten Days in Spain. Illustrat-
Froude j.. A, Spanish Story of the Ar
mada end Other Essays. $1.50
Hale, Edward Everett ard Susan. Story of
Spain. Illustrated. $50. Story of the
Nations Series.
Champney, E. W. Three vassar Girls
coPpee. Henry. Conquest of Spain by the
.Arab-Moors vols. 50.
MoUiton, Louise Chandler. Lazy Tours in
:, SEain and Elsewhere. $1.5O.
Amicis. :. de; Spain: 81. Spain and the
SpaniaTdS. , vols. S..
il Spain. A sketch :Il'- S ST. government
Burk2. I; R. History of Spain to the Death
Of Ferdinand vols, maps. S1950
TAYLOR Il c. Chatfeld. Land of the Cas-
tanet. $l.25.
A word may be added as to the au-
thors of some of these books. Mr.
Hay is the present ambassador to
Englard. Mr.. Curry was formerly our
minister to Spain. Mr.. Huntingdon is
the son OF Coils P. Huntington, the
railway magnate. Mr.. Lathrop is Che
sor-ir-law ard biographer of Haw-
thCrrc. who recently died. Mr.. Lea is
an authority on THE Inquisition," who
ranks first, not only in this country,
but in England. Mr.. Froude's book
is Of absorbing interest. and one Of the
last books he wrote. Amicis has writ
ten the most attractive description of
Spain row eXtant.
Among works of fiction, these may be
named:
Janyler Thomas A. Stories of Old and
Vsldes. Don A. P. The Grandee. Paper.
Paper Co cents cents Cloth $ 81 IS Maximna
PAPER. 60 cents; cloth. s1.25. Scum. s1.25.
Sister St. sulpice. S1.25.
Valera, Den Juan. Commander Mendoza.
PAPER. 80 cents; cloth. 81. Don Braul,o.
rer. 50 cents; cloth. ST. Pepita Ximenez.
Paper, 80 cents: cicth, 81.
GalGcS, B5nito Perez Dona Perfecta 81.
Gloria , YES sl75. Leon Roch vols.
$40. NaTiGnela 81
Burn t., Frances Hodgson.. Pretty Sister of
jose. 9.
Books on Cuba are to be had in sur
pIisirel; large numbers, and the most
of them are recent The instruction has
called forth many of them. But others
are Independent of recent political and
martial events. Here are the better
ores chosen from a longer list:
Rowan, \: s., and Ramsay, NJ. NJ The
tori'al Account Mf9s. 81 g.
Steele, ]; w; Cuban Sketches. $50.
BaH,u, NJ N. Due South; or, Cuba Past
Blaomaell, J. II. A Cuban Expedition
Bonssl, 5. Jr. Cubas Real Condition To-
Dana. Ric1ard H. Jr. To Cuba and Back;
\ Vacation Voyage. $1.25.
Davis, r II Cuba in Wartime. Illus
Flint, Grover. Matching With Gomez, Four
sLont5s With the Cuban Army. Illus
HqIlis,e2d. N.-scatory of Cuba. Por. Map,
Cabrera, ,Rsimg9ndO: Cuba and the cubans.
Rec. G. B. Facts and Fakes About Cuba.
Irving's sunnyside, his home for
many years. near Tarrytown,. has been
enlarged. But there has been no van
dallsm in the work. Indeed, the visitor
to this literary shrine viii scarcely
realize that any change at all has oc-
CURED, until he has entered the old
edifice and gone through its rooms TO
emerge upon those which have been
added.
Several weeks ago, while making a
1os tfiy oil ha nd I 4
aside from the main highway to de-
scend the road that runs down to the
river, ard there renew the impress
SiOns Of Sunnyside first formed more
than twenty years ago. The quaint
Dutch gabled edifice stood before me
in all its outlines, just as 1 remembered
it-sky line, porch, windows, climbing
ivy tfrom Melrose originally taken, ]
believe) and beautiful lawn. 1t was
only when I was returning and stop
ped for last look that I caught q
glimpse ever and beyond the rising
ground CT the lawn, OF an extensive
brick ard stone structure running
northward from Irying's original build
ing. 1t turned out that an addition
had been made of proportions really
larger than the old house itself. Here
are rooms 90 by 16 feet, 33 by 81 feet
50 by rs feet, and % by %, and above
them are seven new bedrooms-a spa.
cious mansion in themselves. Sunny.
side is a newer and grander place thar
before. and yet pictures cf it, taken a:
they Will be from the same old en-.
trance drive, will show the Sunnysidt
of old, and nothing more. 1t is a grand
nephew of the author who has made
this noble addition. A private Letter
asks me not to tell what all this worl
mas cost. But L may say it is larg;
enough to have built half a score O
ordinary summer cottages. And it /,