Evening star., 1898-09-03

| imagination, and at times becomes distinct
| ly amusing. That 1t is uniformly enter
| tanning is, perhaps, in measure due to the
| wonderment likely to seize the average
reader who may be puzzled to know just
what the author is driving at. This ten
| dency to surrender to the temptations of
| symbolism may mar Mr.. Grahame's style
nom some points of view, but even at
| his obscurest he is dainty and choice in his
| Use of symbols. These eighteen Pagan
| Papers" range widely, but in the main
| fleet the observations of liberty-loving,
nature-oving, tobacco-loving, book-loving
| saunterer, the kind of fellow who makes
| desirable companion. whether in the flesh
| or in the pages of a neatly prepared little
book such as that in hand
VoNDELs LuCIFER. Translated from the Dutch
| by Leonard Charles Van Noppen. Illustrated
by John Aarts. New York: Continental Pub
| fishing Company.
Justus van den Vondel is regarded now as
| in the foremos. rank of Hollands poets.
| though his works unfamiliar save to
those who have made special study of
| continental literature of the seventeenth
| century. The chef literary interest thus
| far aroused by his works has been the re-
| semhlance between his "Lucifer.' his great
est work. and Mitons poems. Striking par
allels have been discovered by comparative
| students, and already several volumes have
| appeared to analyze the resembiancss be-
| tween Lucifer' on the one side and Para
| disc Lost and Paradise Regained' on the
other Yet this great Dutch poem has not
Until now been translated into English. The
present volume is therefore notable in that
| It discloses hitherto Unfamiliar yet profit
a bic field for literary study. Accompanying
the translation are notes on Vonders life
! ana times. an Interpretation of the poem,
references to the Milton parallels, list of
the Vondel volumes now in print portrait
| OF the poet, an introduction by Prof. VIM
H Carpenter, professor of Garmanic philes-
Ophy at Columbia University hx-
kaln. professor of Dutch literature at the
University of Utrecht
THE YANKEE NAVY By Tom Mason. ulus-
tTated. New York; Life Publishing Company
1t seemed somewhat incoHgruous whom,
a Few weeks ago. an apparently serious
history of the American navy began to ap-
pear serially in the pages of Life, which
are ordinarily devoted to the comics and
are seldom graced with sober reflections.
But as the weeks went by it was plain that
Life was serving. to Its readers in attract
I've style one of the timeliest stories which
could have been produced, and the hand
some illustrations mainly taken from con-
temporary prints. added materially to the
value of the matter The book-form publi-
cation is further evidence of the serious iG-
tent of the publication. The history is re-
plete with anecdotes illustrative of the
American naval spirit, and the style is re-
freshingly unlike that of the average his
torian. One palrable blunder mars the
pages. however. The date of the Maine
disaster is given as March 16, instead OF
February is.
GkEES NsM York By Spencer TTash ns
Washington: woodward & Lothrop.
New York has recently undergone a re-
Vival of interest in local antiquities. and
one of the resultant features of the move
ment has been a series of researches into
the beginnings of some of the landmarks
and geographical traditions In consa-
quence. a series of interesting and val
liable papers has appeared, among them
the present, which treats of one OF New
Yerks most noted localities Old pictures
and new embellish the pages and lend an
added interest to a well-Written narrative.
MIR. EAGLES .. S: A; seen in Buggy Ride
OF 400 Miles from Illinois to Boston. BY
John Livingston Wright ard Mrs Abbie Scates
Ames. Hartford, Conn: Truman ]. Spencer.
Mr.. Wright and his mother actually ac-
complished the novel undertaking of driv-
ing across 1,400 miles of the United States.
| and. In consequence. came in contact with
many phases of life which are usually uu-
revealed to the average traveller Their
nara tive is interesting, not only because It
springs from this unusual method of tour
lrg, but because 1t is naturally told. Kit
the horse, forms quite as prominent per-
sonage in the story as do the human tour
lists
THE COMMERCIAL YEAR BOOK; d Statistical
Annual relating to the Commerce industries
Agriculture, Banking Currencies, Investments
Railroads. Shipping, lbs urance, Army and
Navy. Population, etc, of the United States
and Foreign Countri.s-1s9S Edited by Walter
A. Dodsworth, Ph. B. Volume III. New York:
The Journal of Commerce and Commercial Bull
letin.
TALES OF THE TRAIL; Short Stories of Western
Life Life By Col Henry Inman; Late Assist M
Santa Fe Trail salt Like Trail" Topeka
Kan: Crane & Company.
REGISTER OF OFFICERS AND MEMBERS OF
THE SOCIETY OF COLONIAL WARS; 1897
1898. Constitution of the General Society;
Published by Authority of the General Assem-
bly,, New York.
THE HETERODOX MARRIAGE OF A NEW wO-
MAN. BY Mary Ives Todd. author of Deborah,
etc. New York: Robert Lewis Weed COM
pany.
SAVINGS BANKS AND SAFE SECURITIES. Com
piled by John Grant Dater. New York: Pub
lished by the Compiler
FoRTt Ma; Story of wan Street. By James
Blanchard Clews. New York: ]. s. Ogivie
Publ shng Company.
NEW YORK NOCTURNES: and Other Poems |
By Charles G. D. Roberts. Boston: Lamson
Wolfe & Company.
GUIDE TO TRUE RELIGION. By Rev P. Woods
Baltimore: John Murphy & Company.