The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1898-12-18

.,n>->-vsoN. Ills HOMES. Ills
FRIENDS AND HIS WOl'h.. Iy
Elisabeth T. Cary. G. W. Putnam $
eore New York. London. For sale by
the George NJ. West Company.
This is the season az which the enter
,,iee off the leading publishers shows IT.
soif I'm all manner Of literary variations
eo tn sneak. upon old and popular SUD-
cots This volume is "a late Illustration
~ that enterprise Relying upon lhe
general interest i'm all that concerns lne
iste English laureate. # has. VIZ" the
,~.onnaniruont OF fine illustration pre-
nored this volume whose contents are
equally interesting and valuable. Al tnat
concerns "the homes" of men like Tenny-
som IS interesting 70 the th0uehiiai.
There are indeed. here. sermons DO
stones" and when the task OF presenting
these 10 the public is undertaken by q
hand which is at once reverent cultured
and Gifted tho educational value Of the
work is not easily estimated. Such q
hand is Elisabeth Cary's and her book
has merit far above the standard OF the
.,.ro holiday souvenir book. 10 is very
clear TO ali who read with intelligence
that she has given many hours OF care
ful study TO the work of speaking truly
as well as cloverly and entertdlmnHly'
and her accurate grace in wearing to-
gcther her material is most admifaoie
alfred Tennys0n," says she. Delohss
~ the class OF poets who strike their
roots deep into their native soil. not
virgil on the banks of the Mlncio, or
Wordsworth among the English Lakes
v5as more content with the scene az his
door and the Lincolnshire Wolds are In
terestine TO us as readers OF Iennyson
less FOR their curious geologic formation
and varied history Of Roman and DaHish
OCCUPATION. than for the place gwen TO
tbeir streams and trees and village gar
dens I'm the poems now read throughout
the English-speaNng world 10 TINS
section. then. she dcvotes her ffst chaP-
ter-one fun of interest and containing
a family sketch Of the Tennysons' and
chiefly. Of course. Of the youth OF tna'
Great singer whose clear notes VIII i've
9orevcr I'm the chapters devoted 90 Ton
nvgon's most vital and significant friend
ehips that devoted 10 Hallam is pdrucu-
larlv beautiful. and I'm II the author mas
well shown how the death OF the latter.
rreuorialized III one of the great poems
of Tcnnvsons series. was a profound grief
which had a very perceptibl- effect up"l
ne noet's life. To Farringford and other
of the houses associated with Tennyson's
name Miss Cary IN turn carries her pub
lie. who aIe indebted 10 her Tor Volume
which is not only beautiful from the me-
chanical standpoint but valuable from
the literary point of view.
III
WHAT 4 CARPENTER DID WITH HIS
BIBLE. An address by John Franklin
Gcnung. Professor Of Rhetoric In Am
herst College r. Y. Crowell & Co, New
York and Boston
Professor Genung pictures the training
that the Galilean apprentice must have
had tin at the age OF thirty he came
under the revival influence OF John the
Baptist and laid inside his tools for
more influential calling. Vie shows how
when he came 20 preach, he made uee
OF the treasures that existed In the
books OF the Old Testament, and he
agrees that we. and especially we VINO
ara engaged In mechanical vacations,