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title page Of work on physics insures
it's reliability and Importance. Modes
of Motion; or Mechanical Conceptions
of Physical Phenomena" Mr. Dol
bears latest work. is intended for such
persons as have an interest in phenom-
ena of all kinds. TT makes clear how
one kind of energy is. converted into
another kind, and the condition needed
for Transforming it." A chapter on the
luminiferous ether presents the wide
difference there is between it and ORD
mary matter, in its structure. its
limits, and its modes of eXertion, in a
way that greatly enlarges ones view
Of the possibilities Of nature. 1t goes
farther, and points out the necessity
there is for assuming a source of ener-
ey behind both matter and ether in OIL
Ger to account for physical phenomena
as we witness them.
Lastly, electrical and magnetic phe-
nomena are presented as depending
upon simple mechanical conditions.
('Modes of Notion" by Prof. A. r. Dol
bear. Lee & Shepard. Boston. 70 cents. For
sale by the st. Paul Book and Stationery
company
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Woainy Of rIaZkatoOn.

"The Wooing of Malkatoon," which.
appeared in Harper's not many months
since, and "Commodus," published first
in the same magazine ten years ago,
together make one of this years hand
soonest volumes.
Gen. Lew Wallace as a poet lacks
some of the essentials for greatness.
but as story-teller, in verse or prose,
he is usually agreeable and sometimes
powerful.
The Wooing of Malkatoon" is a mar
rative poem of the spiritual making Of
Gilman, the founder of the Tribe.
The spirit of this poem is earnest and
uplifted, and it's poetry lies in the writ
er's sympathy with his subject-a sub
ject, in its detail alien to his creed
and race, but entirely germane to the
Catholic true faith The sultana
mother Gains the boyish turbulence Of
Mohammed, who in his time shall take
Constantinople and fulfill the end Of
the prophecy she quotes with
tale that she tells reverently of ten
derness and courage, high thought and
noble deed that won for Gilman the
maiden Malkatoon and made him the
chosen weapon in the hand OF Allan
against the Greeks.
"Commodus," drama in blank
verse, has greater claim to force. Ii
the narrative poem lags at times, Com
modus" has direct and rapid move
ment, and is dramatic in conception
and construction. 1t is picture not
easily forgotten of the latter days of
Rome. 1t is the reign of confusion; and
Commodus, the creature of the times
rather than the emperor Of Rome, and
Marcia, his mistress, are witnesses
testifying to that confusion. Com
| modus, brutal, beautiful, cruel, effemi-
nate, licentious, insane, is almost
courageous at times, and Marcia is,
what she is, and yet as fearless. true
and patriotic as any proud matron Of
Rome's youth.
Although Gen. Wallace's poetry is
| more conscientious than inspired, his
| serious work in this line is yet worthy
| of consideration.
C'The Wooing of Malkatoon" and Com
| modus,". by. Gen. Lew Wallace. Harper C
| Bros, New York For sale by the st. Paul
| Book and Stationery company
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and that each works on all the others
in varied ways, instead OF existing for
one end and only ore. as is so often
the case in women's novels.
Mrs. Princes book viii be accom-
panied by "Penelope's Progress by
Mrs. Kate Douglas Wiggin. and by Mr..
F. Hopkinson Smiths Caleb West"
both just completed in the Atlantic.
The former has added the words MAS
ter Diver" to its title. and is to be il
lustrated. The pages given up to these
two serial stories will be occupied by
tales by Mr.. Harry Stillwell Edwards
and Miss Harriet L. Bradley in the
next three numbers of the Atlantic.
and series Of "reminiscences by Prince
Kraptokin is announced They will be
of great interest as revelations of
character and of a revolutionists init
mate idea of himself, but one hardly
expects impartiality from such 4
source.
Mr.. Abraham Cahan's "The Imported
Bridegroom and Other Stories" to be
issued by Messrs. Houghton, Miff1in &
Co.. is it's authors second book and
like "Yeke." his first, deals entire y
with the Russian Jew of New York
Probably neither book would ever have
appeared but for the success of Mr.
ZangwilPs I'm the Ghetto" but the
Russian Jew is so unlike the English
Jew that the two authors seem to write
of entirely different races.
Another new Jewish author is to be
put forward by Messrs. Copeland &
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LITERATURE OF TODAY

States. 1t was the event that made
all the rest possible. Without it the
attempts, at jamestown and Plymouth
could hardly have had more success
than the attempt at Roanoke Island.
An infant colony is like an army at the
end of long line of communications:
it perishes if the line is cut" The
romance of Shakespeare's England is
transformed in the new world, but no
whit lessened, and Prof. Fiske has an
instinct for it that takes nothing from
the verify of his history and adds vast
ly to it's vitality. 1t is gratifying to
find historian who is also poet
enough to grant that truth may be
stranger than fiction. Capt. John
Smiths account of his adventures is
accepted as it stands, because nothing
but the apparent improbability of
the story is forthcoming against II.
1.-The accumulation of romantic aG-
ventures in the career of a single in
dividual may sometimes lend an air OF
exaggeration to the story; yet in the
genius for getting into scrapas and COM
ing out of them sound and whole, the
differences between people are quite
as great as the differences in stature
and complexion" He sums up John
Smith most happily as having a.
genius for adventure" He certainly
lived in an age and a country in which
to develop it to the full.
The colonial history covered by Prof
Fiske in "Old Virginia and Her Neigh
bors" could with difficulty be made
ANYTHING but interesting; in his hands
if is fascinating from the first spark
ling chapter to the last.
cold Virginia and Her Neighbors, by
Prof John Fiske. In two volumes, S4o1.
Hcughton, Mifi!n & Co.. Boston.)
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Col. Higginson, in his Cheerful Yes
terdays, to be issued next week by
~Houghton, Miffiin & Co., tells many
things of the boys and young men of
his time, ard while by no means in
clined to admit that there was any
lack of good work and hard work at
Harvard in the former half of the CEN
tury, he speaks in the most uncom-
promising terms of&the Improvement
in good manners. In.those days drunk
enness was expected at college dinners.
even at a Phi Beta Kappa annual"
today it is not tolerated among under
graduates, much less among digni-
taries. Perhaps the much abused fur
mace and steam-heating apparatus may
have been as powerful agents in this
reform as all the machinery of the
total abstainers. A student does not
now need to drink to keep warm in
winter.
The most interesting chapter is "The
Period Of the Newness," in which the
set generally known as "transcendent-
alist" is described. The subject has
| been fairly. well canvassed by other
| writer's, but Col Higginson's descrip-
|. ton of George William Curtis his
| brother Burrill and the other Brook
Farmers, in chintZ blouses, belted at
| the waist, and small visorless caps
with tassels is new. Be it remember
| ed. to the honor Of the late Charles A
| Dana, that he never assumed this cos
| tune, but dressed like young farm
| er. Among the almost countless pic
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tory, and the Ohio river. was so i'm
portant a factor in the development
of the West that a trip along it's
course suggested itself as the most
natural way of obtaining atmosphere
and detail, and the most natural meth
cd of going was that of the pioneer
himself-a skiff and nightly camp in
primitive fashion. Mr.. Thwaites fol-
lows the course of civilization along
the banks Of this important stream.
"a worthy company have here per-
formed their parts" he says. "Savages
of the mound-build.ng age, rearing
upon these banks curious earthworks
for archaeologists Of the nineteenth
century to puzzle over; Iroquois war
parties. silently swooping upon sleep
ing villages of the Shawanese, ard in
noisy glee returning to the New York
lakes, laden with spoils and captives:
La Sale. prince of French explorers
and coureurs du bois, standing at the
Falls of the Ohio, ard seeking to
fathom the geographical mysteries of
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An important part of a work hardly
TO be overestimated in its Importance
and interest is Prof. John Fiske's "Old
Virginia and Her Neighbours" To-
wards this complete survey of Amer
ica's young history Prof. Fiske has
already contributed '"The Discovery of
America and THE Beginnings of
New England" between which works
the two present volumes belong, and
he promises THE Dutch and Quaker
Colonies" and yet another work that
is needed 10 make connections with
1.-THE American Revolution" and this
will resume the story of New England
at the accession of William and Mary.
The most popular of living Ameri-
can historians Prof. Fiske is univer-
sally granted to be, and his position
is based en- surer foundation than
most popular literary regulations. Be
sides his encyclopedia knowledge of
American history, his critical juog-
ment, competent grasp, bigness of view
and fascinating style, the author of
cold Virginia and Her Neighbors" has
a historic imagination that makes his
treatment of any subject have the vi
tai force of a great drama 1t is not
enough that a historian shall investi-
gate facts to the last detail and pre-
sent the result with scholarly precision
this will do for a society of learned
men. perhaps-the world at large eX-
poets the miracle of the dry bones to
be repeated and to have a dead time
and dead people live again. Prof.
Fiske is narrator and dramatist, and
history from him is as fascinating
as it is ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS his deserved,
and by no means cheap, popularity.
The present volumes have a fortu-
nate subject, and big one. The early
history of Virginia is the early history
of England's plantations" in Amer
lea, fer Raleighs Virginia spread Itself
from Florida to Cana@,I, and its early
history is that of Englands hardy and
successful attempt to thrust herself
between Spain and France.
Prof. Fiske connects the present
work with his ~'Discovery of Amer
lea" by vivid sketch of the sea kings,
the mighty men who helped to make
EliZabeth's reign the virile period of
EEglands history.
Then the story of Virginia, starting
Richard Hakuyt, is pursued until the
year 1853, when the youthful George
Washington sets forth upon his expe-
dition TO warn the approaching
Frenchmen from any further en-
croachnents upon English soil. That
movement marks the arrival Of a new
era, when a book like the present
which is not a local history nor a
bundle of local histories-can no longer
follow the career of Virginia, nor of
the Southern colonies, except as a part
and parcel of the career of the Amer
lean people"
Prof. Fiske makes freshly evident the
spirit of EliZabeth's England that gave
life to the American colonies If we
were in danger of forgetting the
brightness of our birthday, the august
hess of our christening and the great
ness OF our sponsors, the first glowing
chapters would remind us. The absc-
lutte dependence of the new colonies
being on the events at home he puts
with singing insistence: The defsa
Of the Invincible Armada WIS thu cpor
ing event in the history of the Ul.itr,.
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made when ne read them. "That is
true statement" said he, "for my say
ings are my own; whereas my acts are
done through the advice Of my minis
ters."
Zola's new book called paris" is
no sooner out than the announcement
Is made that the entire first edition
has been exhausted through advance
orders before the day of publication.
that this book, along with others by
lola, has been subjected to boycott
by patriotic Frenchmen. Contrary to
the usual manner Of the crowd, they
refuse to buy the book of a man who Is
foremost in the public mind. Patriot
ism comes first, with them. To ignore
Zola's book has become a duty with
those who regard the honor Of France.
Paris" is the third book in a trilogy
Rome" the second. Nearly 900
copies of 4TLonrdes" have been sold
in France alone, and more than 100000
of Rome" Only four of Zolas works
have done as Ewell or better-"LAs-
sommoir. wifi $4,000; La Terre,"
with 123.000I Mana" with 12S,OOO, and
La Debacle.'ha with 10000. In the
supremacys:oft La Debacle" we see
what patriotism did for lola when
~ Ate~PfShSJN W otoiiu oii lhc oiue VI
patriotism for, LA Debacle," as the
reader may be reminded, is a story of
the war between France and Prussia.
Our own COUNTRY, at this moment,
is giving evidence of the aid which
patriotic feeling can do for the sale
of books. There is All unprecedented
demand for books on the navy of the
United States. john r. Spears four
volumes. published few months ago,
giving a history of the navy from the
beginning, made during the Revo,u-
ton. when John Paul Jones won our
first victory on the sea. down to recent
times. has been much called for. 9th
er books, primarily occupied with pic
lures of modern battleships, are also
in great demand, and large sales are
reported for James Barnes Naval
Actions of the War of 1872"
Robert Barr. has done more than one
considerable thing since he settled in
London and began to write books. Born
ard reared in Canada this vigorous
man of letters has produced several
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moralist. Here lies his fatas error, and
here the utterly unpardonaDle offense
he commits. His admirers tell us to
regard not his morality, but his art.
But say, away with art which paints
for men mad women degraded life be-
fore which the manners Of beasts in
fields and forests seem radiant with I'M
clouded honor and benefcent with
happiness. After reading one Of
D'Annunzio's books the commonest OBJ
jects in life assume unfamiliar charm
and beauty; the green fields and the
blue Sky surround us as soothing bene-
dictions. Herein is found the sole ad-
vantage of reading this author. When
we put away his books, common life
becomes sweeter: even carl1ing care
loses some Of It's weary weight.
Prediction Is made that the histor-
ical novel will soon go out of fashion
again. 1t has had great vogue these
five or ten years. Unquestionably it is
now at flood tide, with Hugh Wynne,"
1.-THE Choir Invisible" and Quo Vadis"
leading all other books in reports from
many centers. The novel of introspec-
ton has Jared badly before this on
slaught made by books in which some
thing has constantly happened. But
l do not think the fruits Of the victory
will be given up very soon. We shall
find the sway Of the historical novel
Anthony Hopes new work, "Simon
Dale" is trictly an historical novel. 1t
deals with the period of Charles II.
Nell Gwynne is a central figure in its
pages. Hopes hand is here a sure
one He knows his period. and why
should he no know it? No years in
English history are more easily to be
understood than are the years that fol-
lowed Gen. Monks master act in
bringing to the English throne the dis
possessed house of Stuart-that age in
which Poor Nelly shone. in which
Louise de Keroualle plotted and ruled
in all her unblushing regal shame; in
which Charles made merry; Pepys
wrote his chronicle and Rochester COM
posed his famous lines on the bed
chamber door Of the Merry Monarch.
Here lies Cur sovereign lord the king.
Whose word man relies on;
who never said foolish thing.
And never Gid a wise one
These lines are familiar. Far less
familiar is the witty remark the king
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Day. in the person of Mr.. Maurice Ros-
enfield, who. until about year ago.
was VI known even among his own
race, and toiled for one of the sweat
ers not yet discouraged by law or by
consumers leagues. He writes in Yid-
dish, and a translation by Prof. Wien,
er, CT Harvard, will be printed on al
ternate pages Of the book, for even
boston IS not expected to know Yid-
dish "a - - -
The same firm brings out this week
a limited edition of Santa Yerba," by
Mr.. William L. Shoemaker, a small
book of poems praising tobacco in
many forms, cigar, plug and fine cut
and snuff. every shape except the
cigarette
The announcement of a centennial
edltlon of Mrs. Laura A. Richards
captain January" comes at the for
tunate moment for South Boston.
which chooses to regard itself as badly
treated in Miss Agnes Beake Poor's
Boston. Neighbours" Mrs Richards.
/ like all the. daughters of Mrs. Julia
| Ward Howe, was born in South Bos-
| ton, and the insulted suburb points to
her as evidence that it has risen above
| barbarism." In one of Miss Poors sto-
! ries. "a Little Fool" the heroine. living
in one es the suburbs where the
wealthy mobiles dwell" undertakes a
| journey to South Boston in much the
| same spirit as a Belgravian might at
| tempt to penetrate to White Chapel,
| and South Boston is not pleased.
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Sunset.

It is but a di .uted interest that Sun
set" story by Beatrice Whitby,
arouses in the busy reader. One gets
so accustomed to this style of fiction
and the field presents such d sameness
that writer must possess something
more than the usual literary ability to
call one to attention. The heroine Fran
ces Blake, after taking her own rather
naughty way in her independent girl
hood, finds that the man whom she
had then sliGhted has outgrown his
love, and. althcush later years arouses
love in her, it meets with no return.
Sunset" brings to her peace in the
love of a man in every way superior
to the one that had left her, and SO
the story ends. The author has
pleasant style and parts of the book
are enough above the average in feel
ing and force to make the reader regret
that as much cannot be said of the
whole.
c'Sunset," by Beatrice Whitby. Appleton's
Town and Country Library, paper 80 cents.
For sale by the st. Paul Book and Sta
tionery company
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HAS n GENUINE PLOT

but really using his pretended Catho-
licity as a lever to pry open the doors
of society. and the second villain is
priest; that the good young man is
an American might be of no great
. consequence. but that all the other
pleasing characters are French, of
favorite types. the marquis of long de-
scent, the clever landlady. the daring,
but not wicked young woman of good
blood. would capture all hearts. Still
there is one chapter which might not
please, and it is the very one which
Americans will like best, the chapter
in which the young American tells the
French heroine that he prefers the
French peasant woman with her
charming manners to women of the
same class in the United States, but
that French ladies do not for one mo-
ment compare with American ladies.
But, as the book is to be published i'll
Boston, its Jewish villain will neither
harm nor benefit it, for the Jew has no
enemies in the city of the Puritans.
That which gives the book its real dis
tincticn is that it has a genuine plot,
that all the characters are complex,
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ST. PAUL, MINI.

lures of Cambridge dignitaries and of
undergraduates the most striking is
that of William Henry Huribert. the
hero of Kingsley's 1.-TWO Years Ago."
of Winthrop's Cecil Dreeme" and Of
Col. Higginson's own ''Malbone;" the
author of France and the Republic"
and ireland Under Coercion" and at,
various times editor of more than one.
New York paper 1.-THE utter indiffer-
ence with which the announcement of
his death was received was a tragic
comment upon a wasted life" says Col.
Higginson. Perhaps the strangest
thing in his life was an episode very
near it's close when he was confront,
ed in an English court with a long
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Correspondence TIE st. Paul Globe.
NEW YORK, March 10.-A topic still
rising to the surface is yellow journal
ism in literature. The marvel grows
that the public will read and applaud
in a bound book, the same sort Of
-license that it condemns in a news
3paper. Preachers are silent about the
Dne form of license, but while in their
ffenunciations of the other. Urques-
fiorabiy bad book can do more harm
than bad newspaper. The influence
Us more silent, more insidious; the read
Ter Of the book is more alone; and the
ApoSon makes - way with far less re-
Sistence. Last week l pointed out that
in this fact lay the seeds of a coming
reaction against "Quo Vadis.' Because
the fiction Sienkiewicz gives is histori-
cal. because authorities on the period
2ave commended it as accurate. The
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OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES

book has thus far escaped general CEN
sure. Its truthfulness to fact has been
accepted as sufficient reason for tolera-
ton of the hideousness of the picture
that is painted But is not this true
also of the worst articles that get into
the newspapers? Are they not often
accurate to the point of responsiveness?
Stories Of slum life, of debachery, of
blacklist crime, are narrated with care
full fidelity to the actual occurrences.
They are the worse for the public in
exact measure as they are most ac-
curate
SienkieWicz is not our sole offender;
nor is he our greatest. Moreover he is
rot the only writer who has chosen
home for the scene of the frightful de-
pravity he depicts. But SienkiewicZ
deals with the Rome of Nero; our other
erst genius in literature deals with the
Rome of our own day. 1 refer here to
the Italian writer named D'Annunzio,
who has been sailing rather high in the
literary heaven now these three to five
years. His topics are ever the same
human crime, human wretchedness,
wretched lives, desolate homes. as the
outcome of unbridled lust, ignoble pas
sion. We may fancy in middle life that
we have heard of. or have observed
about all that the earth contains Of
human depravity and self-imposed
misery, but in the pages of D'Annunzio
are sounded depths of sin, depths of
want and anguish. such as throughout
life we have dreamed not of.
Had D'Annunzio any laudable pur-
pose to serve. his books might find a
reason for their existence. But they
point no way to better lives; theq teach
nothing that will be attentively learn
ed. He holds up awful examples; but
he does not hold them up as a serious