The times., 1898-09-11

a narrative of life among the white peo-
pie of a. small country town in Ohio. He
handles his material. however, with his
usual deftness and accuracy. and the
book is interesting in many ways. Some
changes have been made in 1t since its
appearance in the magazine.
1.-The Children of the Future" by Miss
Nora Archibald Smith, is one of those
books which in, short essays embody the
principles of kindergarten methods. Miss
Smith has collaborated with Mrs. Kate
Douglis Wiggin- These papers are from
the Outlook and Table Talk.
"On the Housing of Books by the late
William Ewart Gladstone, is an impor-
tant contribution to the list of books
about books. NJ. +. Mansfield & Co. have
just ready reprint of this famous essay.
1t is printed on antique decke edge pa
per from new type and bound in appro-
pirate paper boards with a Japan paper
portrait of the author from photograph
taken in the year of his death.
One of the forthcoming publications of
r. F. Fenno & Co. is The Fall of San
tiago,' by Thomas j. Vivian, author of
with Dewey at Manila" The latter was
one of the most vivid and picturesque ac-
counts of the great battle at Manila. and
the present work Is a comprehensive ac-
count of the campaign in Cuba, written
in the same incisiye and delightful way
The Stokes Company promise a volume
of "reminiscences of Henry Ward Beecher
by Mr.. #. j. Ellinwood. Mr.. Eliinwood
took stenographic reports of many OF
Beechers sermons. and was long asso-
ciated with the great orator.
A new book to be published by G. p
Putnams Sons is THE Life of George
Borrow by W. j. Knapp, professor of
Roman literature in the University of
Chicago The edition is uniform with the
standard editions of "Lavengro" and The
Bible in Spain.''
Father and Son." by Arthur Paterson,
author of For Freedoms Sake" will be
published in England by Messrs. Harper
& Bros, after having appeared serially
in the London Times. The Athenaeum. in
an extensive review, says, among many
other complimentary things. Father
and Son. Is an exceptionally pathetic
story, written with much delicacy and
reserve of power, on lines which are so
unhackneyed as TO give it something OF
the charm of originality.
BOOK News says. 1le war Splrll
already dominates the English maga-
zines 40 less than our own. Some
one with a taste for statistics has
taken the trouble to count the war pa
pers published in periodicals issued over
there as well as here, within three
months. and he makes out a grand to-
tai for the two countries of 215 articles.
OF that number q related to Cuba, Is to
the Philippines. &c TO navies is TO big
SrrfpS to nd tn ctr
BY.
A book TO be issued in the near future
by C. p. Putnam's Sons is ALFRED Ten
nyson; His Homes His Friends and His
Work, by Elizabeth Luther Cary. 1t will
contain many fine Illustrations in photo
grayure.
r. F. Fenno & Co. announce new book
by Maurus Jokai entitled The Golden
Age of Pennsylvania
The Macmillans will publish in the near
future another book on colonial times,
by Alice Morse Earle, entitled Home Life
in Colonial Days"
Miss Margaret Benson, daughter of the
late Archbishop of Canterbury, is an
Egyptologist of much energy and some
note. With another lady she has been
engaged in excavations at Karnak, and
has written a book describing their dis
coveries and giving an account of the
daily life of excavators in Egypt.
THE House of Hidden Treasure" Max
Well Gray's Forthcoming novel, is regard
ed by the author as her most important
and significant work since 1.-The Silence
of Dean Maitland" This book will be is
sUed Immediately by d. Appleton & Co.
When you go to the Bull Inn at Roches-
ter, England they show you the very
rooms in which the Pickwickians slept on
that memorable night when the clothes
were stolen.a They point out Mr.. Pick
wick's room, and Tupman's and Wrinkles
So much for Dickens accuracy of de-
scription and acquaintance with the inns
of his native land.
An unusually interesting book among
those announced by G. p. Putnam's Sons
is Historic Towns of New England"
edited by Lyman p Powell The towns
described are Portland, Rutland, Salem,
Boston, Cambridge Concord, Plymouth
Cape Cod Towns, Dearfield. Newport,
Providence. Hartford, and New Haven,
and among the writer's represented are T.
w. Higginson, Edward Everett Hale, F.
Susan Coolidge.
D. Appleton & Co will publish
this month David Harum,' a novel of
American life by the late Edward Moves
Westcott. The scene is laid in central
New York, but the characters are TO some
extent typically American The look was
finished while the author lay upon his
deathbed but no trace of his sufferings
appears in the work.
Mr. Leslie Stephens rounds off one
of his Arnold paragraphs, in his 'Stud-
les of a Biographer," with the reflection:
And l often wished that I, too, had
little sweetness and light that l might
be able to say such nasty things of my
enemies Many other Philistines will
sympathize with Mr.. Stephens in this
satirical desire.
In the free library at Todnorden. Eng
land, there is a unique collection of
works on tobacco, consisting of 14i books
and pamphlets. The dates of these books
range from 1880 to the present day.
German work bears the date of 1892
Sixteen books were printed in the seven
teenth century, one of these being King
James "A Counter-Blaste to Tobacco"
A book with a title which sounds rath-
er fascinating is Catering for Two" by
Alice M. James. The young housekeeper
usually finds that the recipes given in
ordinary housekeeper's friends call for
much larger quantities of material than
is needed in n family of two and in MANY