The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-03-20

script away in pigeon-hole. II he is quite
sure that he will never change his views
back again, and. that he wishes it never to
be published. he had better destroy it now,
for when he dies, unless he is more fortu-
nate than most authors, all his pigeon-holes
will be ransacked, and the manuscripts found
therein given to the world
Greek. Ira gedy in the Light Of Vase
Paintings by J. H. Huddflston, is the title
of book to be published by the Macmillan
company carly this spring.
This work deals with the traces of tragedy
IN vase paintings, and the Twenty-Five illus
trations are meant to present all the pictures
that. with high degree of probability, owe
their origin to one or other OF the extant
plays Aeschylus or Euripides.
The first Of Senator George F.. Hoar's arti-
cles on 1.-THE Life Of Boy Sixty Years Ago."
is published in the Youths Companion OF
March 10. Contrasting these good old times
with these, he says: Much that makes up,
not only the luxury but the comfort Of life,
has first come in within the memory Of per-
sons now living. The household life Of my
childhood was not much better in those re-
spects than that of well-to-do Roman or
Greek. 1t had not improved a great deal for
1000 years. There were no house warming
furnaces, and stoves were almost unknown"
Messrs. Houghton, Miflin C Co. announce
for early publication Cheerful Yesterdays"
by Thomas Wentworth Higgins; "At the Syn
Of the Silver Crescent" by Helen Choate
Prince; 1.-THE Pilgrims in Their Three
Homes" by William Elliot Grifis.
Mr. R. H. Russell, who removes his pub
fishing house on March 18th to more COM
modous and convenient quarters in The Ban
croft building Nos. 8, and West TWEEN
ty-ninth street, announces most attractive
list Of spring publications, among which are:
1.-Two Prisoners" by Thomas Nelson Page,
with frontispiece in photogravure, by E. W.
Kenible; "The Nightingale by Hans CHRIS
tan Andersen, with charming illustrations
by NJ. j. Newill; Poems by Robert Burns
Wilson. with illustrations from nature, by
C. Grant La Fargo; 1.-The Pinero- Birthday
Book with quotations for each day in the
year from the plays Of Arthur Pinero;
"Shapes and Shadows book of poems by
Madison Cawein; IAN Awful Alphabet" with
curious illustrations by Oliver P. Tunk;
'How the Buffalo Lost His Crown" by John
H. Beacon. Illustrated by Charles Russell;
Thanksgiving After Communion" COM
piled by layman, and especially designed
for an Easter gift; ''Venice of Today" a
large beautifully illustrated volume by T.
Hopkinson Smith; Alabama" Mr.. Augustus
Thomas most popular drama.
Living Plants and Their Properties" is
the title Of a new and interesting book which
consists Of collection Of essays by Joseph
Charles Arthur. Sc. D.. Of Perdue university,
and Daniel Trembly McDougal Phi. D., as
sistant professor Of botony in the University
Of Minnesota.
Among the subjects Of which 1t treats are:
"The Special Senses Of Plants.'' Develop
ment of Irrtability.'' wild Lettuce as Weed
and Compass Plant" "Mimose," Universal
ity Of Consciousness and Pain How Cold
Effects Plants" 1.-TWO Opposing Factors of
Increase" "Chlorophyl and Growth;
Leaves in Summer, Autumn and Winter"
''The Significance of Color" 1.-The Right to
Live" distinction Between Plants and
Animals" 1t also contains a valuable In
dex to plant names.
There are 234 pages and suggestive illus
trations, including a handsome frontispiece
representing the wild lettuce. 1t is neatly
bound in gray cloth.