The herald., 1898-10-30

very good child' but not pretty, and was
also at disadvantage because she was SC
shy. The story starts out when she was
only ten years old, and somehow it seems
to be a story about young people all the
way through, the same people. and jus
as young ones, began their acquaint-
ance when they played "Copenhagen OF
went to their first dancing school together
The actors scarcely get to be real men and
women of the great world. but that does
not take away the point and lesson of the
story, which will abide with the reader
The book has also considerable humor
though not equal to "A Browning Court
ship in this regard.
THE CHARMING SALLY. PRIVATEER
SCHOONER OF NEW YORK; A
TALE OF 1865. BY James Otis, author
of "Boys of 1745." etc. Houghton, Milf
fin & Co. -
The Charming Sally was trim schooner
that could at once be a tishmerman or the
most daring and successful privateer that
ever slipped out of New York. The hero
of the story is Oliver Bennett, who had
shipped on the Charming Sally and won
the hearts of the captain and crew first by
his victory over Jabez Towle in a famous
shooting match, and later grew in conse-
quence in many ways. 1t is great hit as
a story for boys, and will be accounted one
of the best selling books of the year. 1t
requires peculiar talent to produce genu-
inc matter for young people. and this au-
thor has demonstrated that he possesses
1t. The volume is happily illustrated
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PRISONERS OF HOPE. A Novel. By
Mary Johnston. With a frontispiece IL
lustration. $3.50 Houghton, Mifflin &
Co.
Here is an old-fashioned story whose
n laid in Virginia in the Ia for
half of the seventeenth century, in the
days of Governor Berkeley. No better pic
ture of colonial Virginia has been given for
many day than is here portrayed Many
scenes tell of the feuds of the Cavaliers and
Roundheads, and the plottings and strife
among the negroes, the scattered Indians
and the convicts sent over from England
and put to service making sad and terri
able background to the outward life, of
gaiety and wealth on every hand. 1t is
strong story. well sustained and abound
ing in incident and accident. The most
striking character in the book is one God
frey Landless, a Puritan, wrongly con-
victed of crime In England who became the
servant of Col. Nerney of Verney manor,
who used to lounge upon his porch, "hs
body in one chair his legs in another and
a silver tankard of sack standing upon a
third, while thin blue clouds curled up from
his long pipe, and obscured his ruddy coun-
tenance."
The old life and the old customs pictured
In these pages will make the volume well
come everywhere, for none of us forget the
Cavalier any more than we forget the
Roundhead, although the latter has made
more stir in the real business of mankind
But it is the love story, fierce. but curious
ly pathetic and sad, that runs through the
volume, that will most attract the general
reader of novels. There is little in the way
Of historical accuracy in the book but the
spirit and the manner of the times are
faithfully reproduced, and this is the best
sort of history for the story-teller to rely
on.
We may add that this large and very
handsome volume. and also a remarkable
first book, which this must be, so far as
We are aware.
THE EARTH AND THE SKY. BY Ed
ward S. Holden. Appeton's Home
Reading Books. d. Appleton & Co.
This book is the first of a series of three
volumes treating of the leading phases of
astronomical knowledge, and designed for
use a reading book in the school as well
as in the home. 1t is written in simple
conversational style, to show first that the
earth is not fiat, but that it is a immense
globe, and next its situation in space. The
sun and moon are next treated, and finally
the stars in their courses. The young child
is shown how he can learn things for him
self, and nothing is presented too difficult
for him TO comprehend.
O O O
THE EARTH AND SKY: a PRIMER OF
ASTRONOMY FOR YOUNG READ
ERS. by Edward S. Holden. D. Apple
ton q Co.
This valuable little volume is one Of the
famous "Appleton's Home Reading Books"
series, and is just what its title indicates
1t is written as conversation with young
lad, very simple, but very satisfying. The
book is well illustrated.
FOUR FOOTED AMERICANS AND
THEIR KIN. BY Mabel Osaood
Wright. Edited by Frank NJ Chap
man. Illustrated by Ernest Seton
Thompson. The Macmillan company.
Nothing better than this book has ever
been put into the hands of the Young SILL
dent of natural history 1t is a magnificent
volume, most lavishly illustrated With in
dex and curious Ladder for Climbing
the Family Tree of the North American
Mammals under which is given a faith
full list of the families and species of all
our four-footed creatures. The author has
given us here her very best book out of
many, all of which are good. The draw
ings are excellent and lmost without num-
ber, so rich is the volume in illustra ton
IL is not Il nara, SClent1f1c book, but is the
golden mean of style and treatment and
ought TO be in all the households of the
land where people young or old who love
nature and all her works, can enjoy it, The
book cannot be too highly commended
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POLITICAL WORKS OF ALFRED. LORD
TENNNSON. Cambridge edition. uni
form with the Cambridge Longfellow
Whittier. Lowell Holmes Browning
and Burns. With biographical sketch
and notes by William j. Rolfe. indexes
to titles and first lines. portrait and
an engraved title page with a vignette
Large crown Svo, 500 Houghton, Milf
fin * Co.
The distinctive features of this edition
are accuracy of text, ample equipment of
notes, numbering of the lines. thin opaoue
paper, making a convenient volume. and
type of good size.
Besides the perfect index of titles thera
Is one of first lines, which is a great helm.