The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1898-10-09

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a slngularly consumptive and querulous
looking woman, if the portrait of her
in the October Bookman does her jus
tice. she has thin mean lips, a pinched
face, narrow shoulders and bony hands,
and seems to have the same habit of
collapsing in the middle when she sits
as the author of "The Christian" Miss
Keats is a Devonshire girl" of about
4 thirty years of age, who was "discov-
cred" by Mr.. Blackwood. A number
Of her stories have appeared in Black
woods Magazine.
In order to avoid the ambiguity in
volved in the word edition." Messrs.
Houghton. Mif1iin & Company have de-
| cided to restrict their use Of the word
to the first issue of a book and to any
subsequent issue which contains re-
! vision Of the work or an addition of
new material. For the successive
| printings of a book, which are usually
called editions, they propose to adopt
the word impression" In so doing
| they are following the practice recent
ly adopted by several English and
American publishers.
Messrs. 7. Y. Crowen & Co. have
added four more volumes to their
What Is Worth While series, which
previously contained some of the fin
est short addresses and. essays Of an
ethical nature that have been written
They are Luxury and Sacrifice, by Rev
Charles F. Dole; The Study of English
Literature, by Prof. w. II. Hudson of
Leland Stanford Jr., University; The
Best Life, by Pres. c. e. Thwing Of
| Western Reserve University, and What
a CARPENTER Did with His Bible, by
Prof. John F. Genung of Amherst Col
| lege. These little books, which come in
| dainty bindings, are full of common
| sense and sympathetic helptulness. and
cannot but appeal to a large class of
people who are puzzled by the great
questions which life-modern life-es-
pecially, presents, and who wish to do
what is right Published by T. Y.
Crowell & Co., New YORK and Boston,
The Atlantic Monthly for October
contains much valuable matter of a
serious and Notwithstanding char
acter. Carl Schurz contributes the
opening article, in which, under the til
tie of THE Anglo American Friend
ship, he discusses how the friendly
relations which now exist between the
United States and the mother country
can be made to endure, and to WELD
concerned and to mankind ct large.
This line of thought is continued by
A. v. Dicey who maintains in the fol-
lowing article that the two nations
have essentially the same ideals, that,
therefore, the friendship existing be-
tween them is genuine, and that the
way to maintain permanent
alliance between the two is to
put an end to every existing grievance
and to carry through an arbitration
treaty 1.-THE Development Of Our For
eign Policy" by Horace N. Fisher in,
sists that the United States must and
should assume control of the Philip
pines. An article on Bismarck as a
nation type" in which Kuno Francke
writes of the great German profoundly,
If not so brilliantly as w. r. Thayer
in the September Atlantic. concludes
what may be called the ne tional arti-
cles of the current issue. A second in
stallment of the Carlyle letters, the
second section of Kropotkin's enter,
tanning Autobiography and con.
tinuance Of Simon Newconb's "Rem.
iniscences of an Astronomer" contain
interesting matter. Mark H Liddell
writes of "Botching SHAKESPEARE:
Bradford Torrey contributes a charac>
teristic sketch of Birds, flowers and
people; Walter Bagehot, furnishes the
subject matter for an appreciative ar
ticle by woodrow Wilson, Irving Bah
bitt talks interestingly OF George Sand
Alfred de Musset and Flaubert anent
The Correspondence of George Sand"
and there is the usual cmount of fc-
ton, and poem by Elizabeth Wilder.
In the September ISSUE of the Globe.
which has just come to hand, the edi-
tor and proprietor, William Henry
Thorne, presents his readers with his
customary quarterly collection Of hot
stufr There is variety and ability in
the contents of the magazine, to which
as usual, Mr.. Thorne is himself a large
contributor, but most OF the articles
are so intensely controversial in sub
Ject ana treatment as to afford slight
enjoyment to the general reader. Mr..
Thorne enjoys a fight about as thor.
oughly as any man living, and is never
SO happy as when he has a large-sized
row on his hands. If his review were
TO take a motto, nothing could be more
appropriate than Sir Lucius O'Trigger's
joyous chuckle, "Tis a very nretty
quarrel as it stands" But skin
wound in the little finger of his on
ponent, or the mere pleasure of fac.
ing him, suficed for the genial Irish
man, while nothing short Of the mil
ultimate complete humiliation will do
for Mr. Thorne. 1t is fortunate for
American letters that all our writer's
90 not feel it necessary to lay such vio-
lent hands upon the things and per-
sons they do not like; few would have
the stamina for it. Even Mr.. Thorne
although an Englishman, finds the de-
capitation of his enemies, when con-
Quoted on the continuous performance
n TTsif
to sell out. We hope he will His exit
from the editorial chair would be ac-
companied by fall in the price of
Iopasco sauce and picked peppers.
In common with many of the current
magazines, the North American Re-
view for October reflects in a number
of articles the new idea and experiences
which have come to the nation through
the war with Spain. Under the title
The United States and the Far East.
Mayo w. Hazeltine discusses the cues
ton, What Shall Be Done About the
Philippines?" and Hon. Mark B. Dun
nell, formerly deputy consul general
of the United States at Shanghai, con-
siders Our Policy in China" Admiral
P. Fl. Colcomb of the Royal Navy
writes on THE United States Navy
Under the New Conditions; Rear Adj
Hlfal L. a. BeafdSlee, U. S.
N, contributes a paper on DIFF
fieulties in Assimilating Hawaii:
Maj. Gen. j. G. Breckenridge
U. S. A., stigmatizes the treatment of
the volunteers in the late war, under
the caption Our National Folly and
It's Victims and G. Z. Walsh talks
about Gable Cutting in War" There
are other valuable articles on THE
Movement For Municipal Reform" by
Clinton r. Woodruff; Manual Train
ing and the Poor" by Elliott Flower:
Boys Club" by Winifred Buck, who
writes out an experience of eight
years in the Sums Of New York; Or
ganized Self Help and State Aid in
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