The herald., 1898-11-27

And so they landed and set to work, and tn
world has praised and honored them, ant
will always know them. No library and nj
family should fail to try to own this book.
SUCCESS AeA1NsT oDDs: OR HOW
A BOY MADE HIS WAY. BY Viii
liam o. Stoddard, author of "The Rec
Patriot" etc Illustrated by B. West
Clinednst. d. Appleton company.
Not richer treasure for boys will b'
opened the coming holidays in the way ol
a book than this latest volume of Mr.. Stod
dard's, whom it were unnecessary if not
out of place to attempt to place in juvenile
literature. Crowded Out O Croield" viii
be remembered by all its readers. and so
f.v that matter, will all the rest of this
authors now famous stories. This volume
deals with the sea, and it is full of sparkle
HER MEMORY. BY Maarten Martens au
thor # Gods Fool, '"Joost Avehngh,'
The Gveater Glory" etc. Cloth. Dec
grated cover. l2mo. Pages, 1923. Price,
$50. New, York. ID. Appleton & Co.
This book is not up to the supposed stand
ard of Mr. Martens. 1t has no avowed or
implied purpose. It illustrates nothing in
particular and must therefore be judged on
general lines of deserving. Anthony Stol-
lard was an EnglishmaN, young and pos
st stssed Of fortune. His wife dying after
ten years left him his little Margaret, whom
he was to watch and make TO grow up to be
good. A strange and unaccorntable spell
came over him on the instant 9t his wife S
death; and, without waiting even for the
burial, he took the wondering, start,sd child
and left the house, merely asking his brother
to make all proper arrangements. AS ehey
sped away towards London the strange
thought of both seemed to be expressed by
the child: If she had loved lis She would
newell have gone" Among strangers he took
little Margie he hope,essly, childishly
morbid, and she with no one to interpret
the language of crushed little life. He
net gay people, he even visited Monte Carlo
and he painted in Florence-painted rare
picture-The Angel OF Human Love.
And now his brother died and Anthony
succeeded TO the baronetcy, and at length
to be under secretary, to which place and
its work he came without incident or emo
ton, except that, his house being invaded
by Lady Mary Hunt, whose husband had
died Just the briefest time before, he pro
posed to her in the most inartistic and
bungling way, and on the spot was accepted,
there being little to talk over sincethey had
been once engaged but concluded that they
couldn't get along together" as she often
expressed it. And when poor little Mar
garet was told of it, her head sank on her
hands and she cried out: "Oh, Father in
God! My God!-make
ME good" which is the only really striking
passage in the volume. 1t is very even
throughout, reminding one of Dutch land
scape.
A charming Thanksgiving story by Clara
Louise Burnham and the last of the series OF
"Unsent Letters" by Rita, are features OF
the Thanksgiving issue of The American
Queen.
Little, Brown Co. will issue this fall
"Selanka, and Other Stories,' by Henryk
"EXotics and Retrospectives,"
by Lafcadio Hearn; new edition OF Francis
Parkmans works; and Memoirs of Al
phonse Daudet, by Leon Daudet.
Mr.. Cy Warman's "The Story of the Rail
road" the new volume in the STORY OF the
West" series; Mr.. Max Pemberton's new
romance, The Phantom Army" and Miss
Fowler's novel, Concerning Isabel Car
naby," which has been so successful in Eng
land, will be published before the end of the
month by d. Appleton and Company.
The Doubleday & Mcclure company will
soon have ready remarkable volume, the
title of which is "Browere's Life Masks of
Great Americans" and the text will be writ
ten by that excellent authority Mr.. Charles
Henry Hart To Mr.. Hart is due the dis
covery of the existence OF these extraordi
nary life masks. 1t seems as if Browere
alone possessed the secret of giving per-
feet fac simile of man when he was alive;
hence these casts are not death masks, but
life masks.
The young Swedish novelist, Selma Lag
erlof, translation of whose brilliant vol
ume of provincial tales, entitled ''The Story
of Costa Berling,' is announced this fall
by Little, Brown & Co., is native of Warm
land, county which is represented in the
literature of her fatherland by more than
one illustrious name, including the two
greatest Swedish writers of the first half
of this century-the poet Esaias Tegner and
the historian Erik Gustaf Geijer.
The Welsh People; Their Origin, Ian.
guage and History" is the title of book to
be published at an early date by the Mac
milan company. The very interesting mat
ter contained in the report of the royal
commission on land in Wales and Mon
mouthshire has been edited with additions,
notes and appendices by John Rhys, prin-
cipal OF Jesus college and professor of Gel
tic in the University of Oxford, and David
Brynmor Jones, O. c., NJ. p.
1t would be impossible to present any in
elusive survey of the signs and evidences
of the intellectual activity of the central
and far west, and it would be an imperti.
nence to set these few typical facts in order,
il certain provincialism in some of the
older sections of the country did not call
for enlightenment. That provincialism has
its roots in an ignorance which is easily ex-
planned by the great distances which sep
arate commercial and social centers from
one another, and constitute serious OBJ
stacle to community of feeling and unity of
action in this country. This ignorance is,
shared by many cultivated
people who ought to be quick to recognize
and sympathze with "a spiritual movement
of the very highest Importance. That such
a movement is the most significant fact in
the contemporary history of the west is the
conviction of many who have had the op-
portunity of becoming acquainted with their
own country. The material progress of the
section is reported with the utmost detail
and in the most famboyant style; but its
real progress revealed in its int el ectual