The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1898-02-20
New Volume of Verse and " Truth
and Poetry"
OTHER BOOKS WORTH P[RUS.NG
"The Ideal Life" BY Henry Drum
mond. With Musical Sketches by
Nicoli and Ian MacIaren--Notcs
and Comment.

run; international Book Company. Chi
cago. 20 cents.
For sale by George ". West
| There is plenty Of truth IN this volume.
but. so far as we have been able to dis
cover, no poetry. Perhaps or penetra-
| ton Is az fault, but we must confess our
| inability 20 see anything but d9ggerei In
the following. which We quote as an IL
| lustraton Of the authors style. The
! poem IS euutled THE DOwn-trodden
! Flower
! "Piteous struggle, lost little flower.
Here and alone 10y the hard-trodden
path;
WY ant thou not in a pleasant bower
Rejoicing ln dew drops and sunny bath?
"On by the heavy foot thou art bruised.
stepped upon and trampled down;
/ n growth and beauty sadly reduced
Nourished little by The hardened
ground.
Lord. IS the fragrance OF the down-trod-
trOGden flower
TO thee more dear than - others
so bright
That grow and blossom in pleasant bow
crs2
With plenty OF care and tender delight?
/ 'Or. why DIS III. 'IllltA 70 NlttN ANiitftif
! And driven by fierce relentless foes,
| iii life and growth Is seemingly stunted.
Grooming forever ln de~thilke thFoosl
! III ceterae. 81 ceterea.
In our opinion the author OF this vol
] umc "a an individual OF sound morals and
! altogether correct sentiments. but Do is
| not a poet and wisdom In his case lies
! In not dropping into verse after the
| manner OF the ubiquitous newspaper poet
! AN INTRODUCTION TO AMERICAN
! LITERATURE. Ey Henry 6. Pam
coast. Henry Holt & Company New
] York.
FOR sale by George ". West
The plan and purpose Of this book can
! bt stated iu a few words - Is intend
/ ed as "a companion book 10 the authors
/ "mtrOduction 20 Er glish Literature and
/ so far as the nature Of the subject per-
| mitted. 10 has been prepared according
/ 10 the same general scheme. As the au-
thor truly says. "thc FIRST thing required
/ of "a book of this character Is that IL
/ shall really bring The reader into vital
/ relation with the best works I'm the litera-
! ture OF which 20 treats. that it shall inc
/ duce him 10 read or re-read them with
| both delight and understanding This
/ he has sought 90 accomplish by treating
the more eminent authors at comparative
| length: by making their personality as
I real and living as possible, by ADDING
some critical discussion Of thor chiei
works. and by furnishing study-lists COM
| tanning suggestions for reading and DID
/ biographical references. Realizing that a
/ large part Of the deepest life OF America
/ Is recorded 10 SIS literature and insepa-
| rable from II, be has accordingly tried 10
| present national literary history To us
/ true relation To- the history OF our people
! and 20 make two points especially clear
/ nrst. that our literature IS. in It's origin,
"a branch OF thu OF England. and thar
/ its relation TO the mother literature and
/ nts gradual divergence from 10 must DE
/ constantly kept in view se"ond. that our
! literature. springng up originally In sep
\ arate English colonies is in IT'S beginning
! a literature Of sections. and that us his
/ tory is the history Of a gradual approx
nation towards a national unity Of char
/ acter In our opinion The book iA boin
] interesting and valuable. II SHOWS
/ throughout careful research ana an ad-
| mirable mastery Of facts. together with
! a logical and just use of them. and
/ clear and direct literary style that max
II both. We have been especially struck
/ with the broad fair true view which
| the author takes a. his field and the JUST
/ ness of his statements. His volume has
/ the additional attraction OF excellent IT.
/ lustration-fuu page pictures OF benla
| min Franklin Washington Irving. James
/ Fenim0re. Cooper. Edgar Allan Poe VIII
| liam Cullen Bryant. Ralph Waldo Emer-
son. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow' Ma
/ thanieI Hawthorne James Russell Low
! an. oliver Wendell Holmes. John Green
leaf whittier. John Lathrop Motley and
| Francis Plrkman I'm his concluding
/ chapter. Mr. Pancoast marshalls those
/ writer's who have contributed most brill
| Iiantly 20 what he styles the Ntera-
/ ture OF the new South notably George
/ ~. Gable Charles Eehert Craddock
| Thomas Nelson Page. Joel Chandler Har-
| rs. Ruth McEnery Stuart Irwin Russell
! Grace King. Richard Malcolm Johnston
and James Lane Allen.
III.
THE confession OF STEPHEN
WHAPsHARE By Emma Brooke o.
! = Putnam's Sons. New York. London,
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! THE EYE or ISTAR. BY william lie
Oneux. with Illustrations. wv Alfred
Pearse. Frederick A. Stokes Company
New York.
| For sale by George VI. West.
| FOR NY LADY'S DESK. a wihne-desk
! book for every day. BY Rose Porter
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| For sale by GEORGE NJ West.
| "
( TIE IDEAL LIFE. BvHenry Drummond-
| With memorial sketches by Ian Mac
laren and w. Robertson Nicon. Dodd
Mead e Company. New York.
| Tor sale bv GEORGE W. West
: Not often. for 50 small a price az that
| at which this book IS sold Is so much en-
iovment procured. Either Of the me
mortal sketches alone is well worth the
price n the volume which. beside them.
| consists Of Is hitherto unpublished adj
| dresses by the eminent Scottish preach
or ano writer. whose books appear TO
| nave Tor tho great public the same mag
netic charm as. according 10 those who
knew the man, his personahty haa tef
! those brought near him. Ian Maciaren
| memorial IS a real gem or tha1 pure Eng
Ush indebted" and deiicatelv vital quality
| Witch makes all that he writes so sought
after and 50 notent- re tolls me story
OF the first time he saw "his friend "a
| how OF thirteen. "Wha. impressed me
! that pleasant evening In the davs OF
/ long ago 7 can now Identify says he
| ct was the lads distincton-an inherent
quality Of appearance and manner OF
| character and sonl which marked him
and made him solitary. What happened
with one strange lad that evening hefell
| all kinds OF peOnle who met Drummond
| In later years They were al once ar
rested Interested. fascinated by the very
sight Of the man. and could not take
! their ewes of him Iron n
platform ~ evangelists or sitting among
| divinity sfudcnts in 2 dingy classroom