The times., 1898-09-04

& Co
The housewives will welcome a book
which appears among the Century Com
panyS announcements for the coming
season. 1t is Home Economics" by Ma
ria Parloa.
Every critic of sensitive nature VIII
take an extra dose of quinine before at
tacking a book which is liable to descend
upon us in the near future from the press
of the Messrs. Hutchinson. The name OF
it is 1.-The Modern Marriage Market.
and it is the Joint work of Marie Coreill.
Susan, Countess of Malmesbury, Lady
Jeune, and Flora Anne Steel. If they had
only invited Nine. Sarah Grand to as
sist in the production of the thing II
would have been quite perfect.
The literary critic of the st. Louis |
Globe-Democrat remarks:
The tendency OF fiction writers Is TO the crel- !
tion of types which, when we'll drawn are speed |
lily accepted as faithful representation OF /
whole class As ever saw stage Vlllaih |
who could perpetrate his vlainy without knees
bent at an angle which suggests anchyoss OF TIE
joints: equally unheaId OF is the thrifty artist
The story tellers have made a type OF artist,
painting the pattern impecunious, shlitless
individual, careless Of money when he gets H.
working by fits and starts, erratie, eccentric, al
most as irresponsible a child, ana thls cha'-
acter is accepted as portrait.
The Globe-Democrat man has Drought
out a truth which has long waited for
expression. The typical individual is
simply the embodiment of certain traits
of character. Usually. in the represen-
tation, these traits are exaggerated as
they almost never are in the real lndi-
vidual. Most artists, and for that mat
ter, most literary men, have in them a
spice of the Bohemian, because the crea-
tive instinct is a freakish thing, anu re-
fuses 10 be put in harness, but rrespon-
sibility, thriftlessness and eccentricity
are by no means characteristic of a class,
any more than the Southerner always
| shoots his enemy on sight, or the New
| Englander always says, wal. naow,
| wanto know
| Mr.. David Mutt has just brought out
| new edition of Don Quixoto, which Is
! said To be exquisite The Saturday Re-
| view comments on it in these words:
These types of the Constables, these stately
| pages this tribute Of careful and loving British
| scholarship, applied TO the text OF the master
| piece OF Cervantes-all these in their quiet way,
| should combine to soothe the wounded SpahlsH
! pride. Fer, whatever wal and conquest may 40
thus to the end OF the world will civilization and
the intellect OF Europe bow TO Spain wlth glits OF
| frankncense and myTrh, breathing the Immortal
names Of Cervantes and Calderon, OF Lope de
/ Vega and Quevedo.
D. C. Heath & Co will publish book
| by Dr. Frederick Starr, professor OF an
thropology in the University OF Chicago,
upon American Indians" 1t is said
that the chapters are charmingly written,
and discuss the Indians houses, dress,
| childhood stories, hunting and war,
| canoes and fishing, fire making, sign lam
! guage, writing with pictures, wampum,
| the medicine man, dances, funerals and
| graves, the Mound Builders, the Algon-
| kins. the Six Nations the Pawnee, the
Sioux, George Catlin and his pictures, the
! sun dance. the Pueblos, the snake dance,
| cliff dwellings of the southwest, totem
posts, etc.
.In the Cage" a new novel by Henry
| James, deals with the life of telegraph
operator. 1t is said to be "a delightful,
| fantastic comedy
Yone Noguchi, the young japanese who
has published several dainty bits of Eng
Hsh verse gives most naive reasons for
liking better TO write in English than in
japanese. He says:
feel to write English. Whenever l should ask
myself why DO like the English (never more d.
try TO ask. there might be some reasons Ike
these: English is the language grasping both
sides of expression That is to say, there is a
small vocabulary, suitable to express me thirg
| of loveliness and inner sense OF melancholy, and
| also at the same time there is big word preaci'-
| ing great beauty and submity-the big-scaied
vocabulary for expression OF Heaven and He'll.
| Our Japanese language being small full OF
small prettiness almost everything Is not big.
} cannot command success for big thoughts and
| fances. There's in the japanese literature
like Dante or Milton, but We have some like
some of the modern French poets. The japanese
poems-rather japanese poetical inspirations-are
inspired from sadness or tears
r. F.. Fenno Co. are to publish
: .'The Real Bismarck there is that title
again,-early in September. 1t is trans
lated from the French of Jules Hoche by
Mrs. Charles r. Rogers. Now, why
should any Frenchman think that he,
above ali others, knew the real Bis
nlarck?
Alice Morse Earle has written a new
book on the early history OF this country
| called Home Life in Colonial Days,
e which bids fair to be the most interest
ing work she has done yet. 1t is TO be
e published by the Macmillans.
A new Ane1o-Indian novel by George
Dick. entitled Fitch and His Fortunes
will be published by Mr.. Elliot Stocl
S very shortly The scene is laid in Cen
n trail India. and the narrative center:
round a notable fraud committed by
native of good position, which is detect
ed by an English resident barrister.
IL 1.-THE Grenadier: A Story of the EN-
o pire" by James Eugene Farmer, is an
o nounced by Dodd Mead & Co. Th
n scenes are laid in France, Spain, an
l. Austria, in the time of the First Ma
y poleon The story follows the adventure
/ of young conscript, who enters tn
r, French army at the age of eighteen an
l. plays a part in the great events of tn
J. | campaign against Austria, in 1909, whic
/ closed with the battle of Wagram; and
!. the campaigns which followed until til
j. fall of the Empire.
According to the New York Times, tw
eminent authorities ON Hindu matters
: Sir William Jones and M. Langles, are {
n the opinion that Buddha was negrt
n and they are bringing forth many argJ
J., ments in support of their position. Tn
!, will certainly be a new idea to America
"a readers, but nothing will be easier tha
"a for them to examine the statues
Buddha in the museum and see. Thes
statues give the Hindu conception
Buddha with reasonable correctness.
a Rider Haggard is at work upon a bl
=. collie volume, to be entitled "a Farmer
. Year: Being his Commonplace Book fl
= 1885," It deals with country life in IL
English county of Norfolk, and gives
daily record of experiences on a 360-acl
farm.