The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-05-22
BOOK TOPICS IN TITLES Of VAR
Famous Books Which Other Wars Saw
Produced===Their Sale Sometimes
Very Large
THE HOUR AND THE BOOK

THE HOUR AND THE BOOK
Works of Genius That Date From
Nnpoleon's Time and Our Own
Reyelution-BoOk on the Hicy-
Gle Now Read-SOme of the Rest
In hundred That Have Appeared
The New Edition of Byron
Mary ChawOrth's Portrait
ThacI1eray's Daughter Edits
Thaci<eray's Writings-Ncw Edi-
ton of Dickens.
Correspondence The St. Paul Globe.
NEW YORK, May 20.-It is not alone
war topics that now interest readers of
books Nor are these alone likely to
interest them as the war goes forward.
Sir Walter Besant has just reminded
Englishmen that in the history of their
own country it was times of war than
saw produced some of the most famous
books in English literature, whereas
marked by the most commonplace and
unimportant productions. And he is
certainly speaking with many facts on
his side when he refers to the era of
Napoleon's wars. From that period
date the poems and some of the early
prose writings of Scott. To it belong
many of Colerdge's poems, many of
WOrdsworth's and some of Byron's.
Surely they are among the greatest
names English literature has gathered
TO her roll Of honor in the present CEN
fury. Nor do their names exhaust the
possible list. Lander, Lamb and Southey.
TO go no further afield, belong to that
period. England's earlier conflict, that
was epoch making in another sense
the war with her colonies in the At
lantic seaboard-could tell a similar
story. 1t was in the period Of Wash
ingtons sOldiership, and the French
Revolution, that Burns was writing his
immortal songs, Boswell collecting ma
terial for his immortal biography and
Gtbbon writing his immortal story Of
a great nations decline and fall.
France herself, from the outbreak Of
the Revolution until the battle of
'Waterloo-a period of twenty-siX years
and years of almost constant warfare
saw produced some of the best remem-
bered works in modern French liter
ature
The advent of fine spring weather.
and We have had fine weather in this
latitude within the present week.-Mrs.
directed attention, not only to books
J o ~
in the list which 1 sent The Glob e
few weeks ago. but to that smaller
CLASS which relates only to the bicycle.
1t is remarkable how large a list of
books on this subject has grown up
within few years. One of the earliest
Of them all is a book still read, though
not many years old, which will long
remain monumental sort of tribute
to the favofites of this pastime. 1t
was called Ten Thousand Miles On a.
Bicycle" it's author, a man still living
in this city, who chose to write under
the name of Karl Kron. Those thou
sands of miles were covered, not on the
modern safety wheel but ON the old
nigh wheel (which one now almost new
er meets even on thoroughfares that
are crowded with wheelmen Since that
book was published probably a full
hundred books relating In one way or
another to the wheel, have appeared
In the selected list given below l have
aimed to Indicate those which have
seemed to me to have most interest
and value, on the one hand practical
sense and on the other the sense of
affording entertainment. Among work
which relate to the practical side of
wheeling these may be named:
Cycling for Health and Pleasure By In
IA
Dodd. Mead & Coz 81.
Wheel Within Wheel: How 1 Learned to
Ride a Bicycle By Frances E. Willard
Bicycling for Ladies'. By Maria E. Ward
Cycling; On the Badminton Library) BY
the Earl OF Albemarle and G. Lacy
Hitler; Plates and Illustrations by the
Moore; Longmansl $3.50.
Road Rights and Liabilities Of Wheelmen
by q; 3. Clementson. Chicago. Callag,
Pleasure s Cycling. BY H. Clyde. Iittle,
Bicycles and Tricycles. An elementary
Treatise on Their Design and Construc
ton. BY Archibald Sharp. illustrated.
Athletic Sports. Bicycling articles by Philip
G. Hubert Jr.. Marguerite Merington and
J: West Roosevelt. 12mo. (Scribners.)
For beginners, probably the best OF
these books is Mr.. Porters. 1t is thor
oughly practical, direct and helpful
Mr. Porter knows what the beginne,
ought to know, and he understands
how to tell it clearly and briefly. Once
q rider has mastered his wheel, books
of this class cease more and more tt
interest him. He may have CURIOSITY
to read what they contain, but they
offer him few suggestions that he vii
value. He has now reached the point
where touring books have more at
traction. In this class some very goo6
books are to be had. and here are tn,
best with which 1 am acquainted:
Around the World a Bicycle. By TIL; mas
Stevens. Introduction by 4. w. Higgin-
sen. Il uS,rations. $251.
Across Asia on a Bicycle. By James G.
Allen Jr:, and William L. Sachtleben. Il
Illustrated. The Century Co. $3.50.
Why Net Cycle Abroad What bicycle trip
in Europe costs, how to take it. how to
enjoy it, with a narrative of persona
tours, Illustrations. and maps. By Clar-
ence Stetscn. American News Co. 80
cents.