The herald., 1898-08-07
BOOKS AND THEIR MAKERS

often met with, even among people of the
classes brought into this plot.
The novels of the Appletons, both in cloth
and paper binding make up very notable
list of books, and are worthy of being read
and then loaned to ones friends, for they
are wholesome.
THE LOVE THAT WINS. BY Mary An
gela Dickens, author of Gross Cur
rents, etc. Rand. McNally & Co.
This is No. 2SS of the Globe Library series
of stories Bi-weekly, at 81 per year. A
very excellent series in paper covers.
THE CHASE OF AN HEIRESS. By Chris
tian Reid G. P. Putnam's Sons. Pa
per, so cents.
Good wine needs no bush. They who
have read others of this authors books,
especially THE Man of the Family" in
this Hudson Library list will take this
story on trust, and then praise 1t for its
excellence-a story of the tropical West
Indies.
THE RAINBOW OF GOLD. By Joseph
Altsheler, author of The Break of
Day" etc. Continental Publishing Co.
In this rather gaudily gotten up volume
we have an account of some young ad
venturers who make the California trip
in the old days. Their whole series of ad
ventures will be found told in the florid
style that belongs to young blood and hope
full natures. The volume will not stand
a very critical literary test, but people
who love to read of the old buffalo hunts
and Indian fights can afford not to be too
exacting in the matter of literary style.
g O o
We have received from Mr.. Nathan Has
kell Dole of Boston a charming booklet, be-
ing a privately printed edition of Fitzger-
AIDS paraphrase of the 102 quatrains Of
Omar, or Urmar, the tentmaker, which is
designed as breviary for those who make
sort of cult of the Rubaiyat. 1t is the
authorized Fitzgerald text, rendered also
into Latin by Herbert Wilson Greene, fel-
low of Magdalen college, oxford. 1t is the
first and only blingual edition, so far as
we knoW-the Latin text being on the page
opposi:e the English and printed with reu
ink. OF this unique edition $50 copies nave
been printed on English handmade paper
and 80 copies on Japan paper.
The covers of the volume are flexible, anc
in all wavs it is exquisite. Mr.. Dole has our
especial thanks for this remembrance.
TALES OF THE EMMANENT LOVE. or
THE STEPS OF A SOUL FROM SUN
LIGHT TO TRUTH By Hope Hay
wood MARY NJ. B. Yates) Los Angeles
Printing House.
This plain and unpretentious volume con-
! tains many very carefully and consclen-
| tiously wrought-out poems. all of high
| purpose Many of the poems were origin
| ally published in the Rura. Press OF Cali
| fornia and the San Diegan. They extend
over period of nearly twenty years. and
the author says in her preface, were writ
ten out of the fullness of heart striving
| to keep alive the cherished ideals of be
! lieving and happy girlhood.' A deep re-
| l!gous spirit is breathed throughout the
poems, as the one quoted below will show
which is given also as a fair example of tht
authors earnest style:
Now and After
Work and wait-watch for Gods dawn;
! Surely, surely, comes the white morn:
| Bright and cleaning. Heavens COLDER
streak
/ Gllds the earth for the mother meek.
| When the red sun all thy days has dyed.
With the spent strength and crimson tide
OF Life's great work that taught thee
/ Love-
| Thy soul wilt have found new Life above
Perchance when there thou mayst better
live,
Mayst better love and truer help give;
Surely the Power that places us here
| Can answer there the hearts best praper
And make this life as the MONDAY clear.
A Change in Literary Taste
Mr.. Howels has made recent statement
to the effect that New York is a mart where
literature is on plane with dry goods anG