The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-10-03
BUTTE PUBLIC LIBRARY
Literature. Poetry and Literary
Periodicals.
SOME RECENT ADDITIONS
An Excellent Study OF Shakespeare by
DR.. George Brsndss-Bliss Carman's
BY the Aurelian Wall"
George William Curtis.

II is rarely that we find a careful study
of the great English dramatist by a lead
sng writer of a foreign language. and
more rarely stil that the book is writ
fen by an author whose language is 80
similar. and yet the literature of that
language so little influencing or Influenced
by the English language. as Is the case
with hat OF DIR. George Brandes. The lit
tie kingdom of has been rich
n intellectual men. but few of its au-
fhors have been translated into English.
DIR. Brandes. however. is one OF these
few. His Eminent Authors OF the Nine
teenth Century has long been an ac-
knowledged authority. not only In his
own country. but In ours. His "Impres-
sions OF Russia Is a booK OF much more
tina ordinary value. But probably the
most valuable OF his books TO US is Will
liam Shakespeare; a Critical Study" This
Is an able and scholarly work. of special
interest as being almost the only thor
oughly comprehensive study OF the man
as well as his writings. from the pen OF
an exceptionally distinguished foreigner.
Victor Hugo's admirable william Shake
epeare" Is more a treatise on the dramatic
literature of all times than on the subject
of the book. The excellent critical pro-
auctions OF Elze. Gervinus. Ulrici and 9TH
er European scholars are devoted mainly
40 the calculation of the plays.
''Odysseus. the Hero of Ithaca by
Mary f. Burt and Zenaide A. Ragozin. Is
peculiar in that IL is an English sdap-
cation OF a book used as a text book for
instruction IN mythology in the schools
Of modern Athens. On this account. In adj
dition 10 the high literary standing both
of Miss Burt and Nine Ragozin, II should
have special interest.
In a former paper we ventured the opin-
al.
contemporary poetry Is not because j.
does not exist or because there IL so little
of II. but because there Is such a quantity
of really excellent verse continually pro-
duced that there is not time for the ordi-
nary reader to keep up with the supply or
90 discriminate j~udiciously. However hat
may be. we think one who appreciateAa
good article will suffer a loss II he neg
lects to peruse the volumes Of Bliss Car
man. Last year he issued Ballads Of
Lost Haven a book fairly breathing TIE
aroma Of the brine. This year his book
by the Aurelisn Wall. and Other Ele-
gies," though in an altogether different
vein. is none the less p~oeticsl. and "a
equally satisfactory. The book contains
Is graceful elegies. written under the in
SEPARATION OF an Italian sky and classic
surroundings. and concentrating many
personsges OF note. Among the subjects
of the elegies are Keats and Shelley. Rich
ard Lovelace. Raphael. Henry George.
Phillips Brooks and Robert Louis Steven
son.
The Addison of American literature.
with more than Addison's grace of ex-
preston and even more than Addison's
richness Of thought. was George William
Curtis. His best and most enduring work
was contained In the various numbers OF
Harper's Magazine in the department
known as the Editors Easy Chair. A few
of the best of the essays which appeared
there have been selected and issued with
the title AIRS Recte ivend This col
lection Is specially TO be commended to
girls and boys who are fitting for col
1ege.
The most extensive history Of English
literature which has so far been underta-
ken was that called English Writers"
by Henry Morley. and was interrupted In
the middle Of the 18th volume by the
death Of the author. The uncompleted 18th
volume has since been finished by Prof.
w. Hall Griffin. In these volumes the
work is brought down TO the death of
Shakespeare.
A bulky and scholarly work is r. W.
Prayers Literary History Of India"
Two readable and compact addresses de-
lfyered at commencement occasion at
Bovdoln college are Henry wadsworth
IongfeIlow," by Daniel r. Goodwin. and
Nathaniel Hawthorne" by Joseph W.
eymonds.
J. N. Lzrned's Talks About Books" Is
n short lecture delivered TO the pupils OF
the Buffalo High school. II IL readable
and suggestive. fits only fault being that
Nr. Larned seems to think that the pupils