Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-03-14
WORCESTER DAILY SPY, MONDAY. MARCH a. 1898

! the Bible" is to be issued this month. 1t
| is the most extensive reference book of
the kind ever published, and the absence
of anything covering the same grounq
which embodies the results Of modern
work, makes it particularly noteworthy
| Charles Scribner's Sons are the publish
/ ers in the United States and Canada,
the English publishers being I. d L.
| Clark of Edinburg. This great repository
of biblical learning is to be in four I'M
perial octave volumes of about 300 pages
each with maps and illustrations. 1t is
edited by DR.. James Hastings, NJ A.,
D. D., editor of the Exposltory Times,
with the assistance of John A. Selbie,
NJ. A., and all the proofs have been read
and revised by Prof A. q. Davidson,
Canon Driver, and Prof. H. B. Swete.
~%
"Greek Tragedy in the Light of Vase
Paintings" by ]. H. Huddllston, is the
title of book to be published by the
Macmillan Company early this spring.
This work deals with the traces of trag-
edy in vase paintings, and the twenty
nine illustrations are meant to present
all the pictures that with high degree
of probability, owe their origin to one
or other of the extant plays of Aischy-
los or Euripides.
THE PERIODICALS
The December production in Sanders
Theatre, Cambridge, by students of
Harvard and Radcliffe Of Racine's
"Athalie" in French, was a notable af-
fair. An adequate description of this,
with picture of one of the most strik-
ing of the stage scenes, appears in the
Harvard Graduates Magazine for
March. In this issue is a good likeness
Of hn LOT AHaV. ,a11 oil -I1C
killed at Springfield. There is as usual
much matter of special interest to Har-
yard graduates.
Donahoe's Magazine for March re-
produces at the request Of many sub
scribers, a collection of fine photographs
of the lamented battleship Maine, it's
officers and its crew. They are of
unique interest at the present time.
They appeared originally in an article
in Donahoe's by Chaplain Chadwick of
the Maine, entitled "a Parish Afioat"
Notable illustrated articles of this
March number are "The home life of a
'98 leader, Lord Edward Fitzgerald" by
Katharine lyman Hinkson; and wash
ington society women in Lent" by Vir-
ginia Tatnall Peacock.
In the Annals of the American Acad-
emy of Political and Social Science for
March, Professor Sigel of the Univer-
sity of Warsaw, defends Russia against
the charge Of opposing the progress of
civilization. He states the position of
Russia towards western institutions
from the conservative Russian stand
point, and gives us what we seldom
find and with a Russian point of view,
The April Century is to contain a
number Of articles on Pennsylvania
coal mining, one Of them by Jay Ham
bidge, the artist, who contributes "An
artists impressions Of the colliery re-
gion." The illustrations include views in
Lattimer, where the recent strikes oc-
Cured.
A finely illustrated article on the great
contemporary French painter, Dagnan-
Bouveret, is the leading feature of Arts
in America for February.
Harper's Magazine for April will con-
tain an illustrated article on "The clos
ing scene at Appomattox," describing
the famous meeting between Grant and
Lee, by General George A. Forsyth. u.
S. A., member of Sheridan's staff on
intimate terms with his chief; also an
account by Sidney Whitman, F. r, G..
s., author Of Imperial Germany" of
the commercial rivalry existing between
England and Germany.
Among the historical pictures to ap-
pear in the April scribner, Illustrating
the STORY of the revolution" will be
Howard Pyle's Retreat Through the
Jerseys" showing Washington and his
troops in what Frederick the Great
called ''rhe greatest campaign of the
century," Yohn's Battle of Princeton"
showing the moment when Washington
rallied his retreating troops; 1.-The sur
prise at Trenton" by Walter Appleton
Clark; and 'fThe crossing of the Della
ware" by G. A. Shipley The originals
OF these paintings are attracting great
attention wherever they are exhibited
throughout the country.
The first of Senator George f. Hoars
articles on "The life of boy sixty
years ago." is published in the Youths
Companion of March 10th Contrasting
those 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 persons
now living. The household life Of my
childhood was not much better in those
respects than that of well-to-do
Roman or Greek. 1t had not improved
"a great deal for two thousand years
There were no house warming furnaces,
the stoves were almost unknown. There
were no double windows, and the houses
were warmed by open fires. There were
no matches. There were no water pipes
in the houses and no provision was
made for discharging sewage. There
were no railroads, telephones or tele-
graphs. Letter postage to New York
from Boston was twenty-five cents.
None of the modern agricultural ma
chinery then existed, not even good mo-
dern plows. Crops We're planted by
hand and cultivated with the hoe and
spade. Vegetables were dug with the
hoe, and grain and hay cut with the
sickle or scythe. There were no ice
houses. The use Of ice for keeping pro-
visions or cooling water was un-
known"