The times., 1898-02-27

cray. The reason may be sought by psy-
biologists.
! Harper's for March contains this char
| acteristic sentence by George du Maurier:
| Sam Weller. if you recollect was fond
| of 'pOotiness and virtue / so agree with
| him. / adore them both. especially in
women and children. / only wish that the
virtue was as easy TO draw as the pooti-
| ness" And in the course of the article
| the artist takes occa sion to explain that
| the original du Maurier girl is the So
| called Venus iii Milo. the goddess of the
| Louvre.
| The American Academy of Political and
Social Science in Philadelphia will pub
| lish monograph by Burghardt Du Bois
entitled The Study of the Negro Prob
lem" Mr.. Du Bois is professor of social
science at Atlanta University
The Scribners have in press a book call
ed THE Unquiet Sex by Helen Waiter
son Moody. wife Of Winfield s. Moody.
editor of 1.-The Book Buyer The book
comprises several papers published in
Scribner's Magazine.
The esteemed poet laureate of England
will issue a volume called Songs of
England being the various productions
of his laureatehood now scattered
through his works in way inconvenient
TO find
Henry Holt & Co. will soon publish a
book called ''Tourgeneff and His French
Circle It consists of letters written by
the great Russian novelist TO his dis
unguished friends in France.
One of the features of the Century for
Ia will bl.a.a
Dutch. called Elm Nix-Nutz' "a Good
For-Nothing), by John Luther Long |
This curious people has not hitherto been |
considered by the novelist with the ey- |
ception of the writer of knights of the
Golden Circle" and one or two others. |
but there is plenty of material in the |
American Vaterland, and it is not very |
hard to come by
London Is to have a three-pennv week
ly journal. with the unique title of ..The |
Eagle and the Serpent" devoted to the |
philosophy of NietZsche, Emerson. Thor
eau. Goethe and Spencer 1t is published
by William Reeves.
An irascible Celt takes issue with
writer in Literature. who made the re- |
mark that the Gaelic and Cymric blood |
was incapable of producing anything |
good in literature The protestor makes |
the declaration that Literature being |
owned by the London Times is biased |
against the Celt, and declares that |
was of Welsh descent, ac-
cording to recent Investigations Mac
auley, Burke, Sheridan Goldsmith Hall |
Caine, Conan Doyle, Capt. Mahan, the
two McCarthys, and Moore are also cited |
to prove that there Is something In Celtic Ia
blood. after all. Most certainly there is: II
and If the writer in Literature said there
was not, he is mistaken; but the very
mixed list which this correspondent hud
lies together to PROVE his point impress
one with the idea that he is one Celt III 4
whom there is not much sense of humor-j
He proceeds to make the further lively
statement that there is nobody of any
account In modern English literature, |
With the exception of Kiplns, who is not |
If Celtic blood. tHe might as well go and
lunt up Mr.. kipling'S genealogy: he |
night find the wizard of India also a
Celt.) And he closes his argument with |
he remark that if Mr.. Pepys. of whom |
he London Times appeared to be so |
proud, were now alive he would be report
ng for the New York World or the Po-
ice Gazette. And, after that, there seems !
o be nothing more to say.
Routledge's Yearbook of 1897" which
las just made its appearance is a con-
Use and handy resume of the events of
asst year, and of value as a reference
'ook. especially a. reference book of af- | .
airs in England.
''Vashti." by John Brayshaw Kaye is
would-be poem in seven books the OBJ /
ect of which is to vindicate this unfor- '
unate queen from the ISLANDERS which
ave been piled upon her by the historian
( Scripture and several generations of '
reachers. AS a vindication, it is quite
ood. but as a poem, in spite of studied l.
istoric fidelity and good deal of ex-
remedy Instructive information. sedu-
)usly introduced-as a poem, 1t is not
luch 1t is issued by G. P. Putnam's | ,
ons. T
minor Tactics by Charles Albert |
mylee, captain of the Twelfth Infantry c
New York. is a short treatise on in S
lntry tactics, designed to supplement
le very limited information which Amer F
ans possess in regard to military af- I
lirs. 1t is published by D. Appleton
Co.