The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-01-15

wv mibIS Chmo up ouu ~ "oSo bHS"S
dimly through the clouds. old Gabe Young kept
right on praying. He was q ino speaker. He
seems to have had o gift Of language that might
have made tho fortune Of q modern pugilist.
The night fell, the river still ran. and the moon
remained In hiding. but still he kept right on.
Gabo had been prayin' about the iovin', sorrowin'
mother Of one Of these young men. n directly he
rung in the old familiar Now I lay me-" n then
them two Jest wiited.
Thus oil ended happily. There was no fight,
and tho young men from tho East outgrew their
foolishness. settled down and became good ciu'
Gems, and helped to mako Kansas City what she
10 to-day.
Only as to ono point In this volume do we feel
constrained to utter a gentle protest. This
stanza occurs In q poem entitled "Dross Pa
rade":
Bob the chapeaux;
Brave waves the gay ensign,
Drums sound tattoos.
Surely there 10 good work waiting to DO done
In Kansas City. No.. by NJ. Lo Prot. dc Sunni
chraBt and his Bostonian maidens and young
men. A community whose poets speak of their
chdpeaup as " o~hapoos' is clearly In need Of en-
liRhtenment by those cultured amateurs who
have succeeded In adapting the language OF
Moliere to what an esteemed contemporary has
well described as that quaint Bostonian accent
not at all displcasinR to French ears"
A model publication of Its kind is Mr.. Clement
K. Shorter's" Victorian Literature. Sixty Years
of Books and Bookmen." Dodd. Mead & Co..
The author has aimed to DO biographical rather
than critical, and has endeavored to furnish for
the student, in handy form and in the guise Of
consecutive narrative, rs large q number Of
facts about English books and writers as could
DO concentrated In 30 small q volume. He Ii
never dogmatic and he avoids all that
trivial detail and petty personal gossip
with which the public 10 80 industriously
supplied by the ever-increasing army of
the "Cholly Knickorbockers" Of Literature.
So admirably has he classified the writer's OF his
own country rs to make us regret that he did
not carry out his original intention of devoting
a chapter to sixty years Of American literature.
The 200 pages of tho book are divided into four
chapters, in which are grouped, respectively.
the poets, novelists, historians, and critics. Its
| tersenoss, sustained interest, and we'll consid-
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English literature written by stopford Brooke.
In mentioning the much.abused LILO of
Carlyle" Mr.. Shorter gives this interesting OK
tract from an unpublished letter to Froude.
from Sir Fritz James Stephen, his co-executor:
For about fifteen years I was the intimate friend
and constant companion Of both you and Mr.. Carlyle;
and never in my life did / see any one man SO devoted
to any other as you were to him during the whole of
that period OF time. The most afrectionate son could not
have acted better to the most venerated father. You
cared for him. soothed him. protected him a. o guide
might protect q weak old man down o steep and pain.
full path. The admiration you habitually expressed
for him. both morally and intellectually, was unquali.
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him down to this day. Itis to me wholly incredible
that anything but q severe regard for truth, learnt
to a great extent from his ~teaohing. could ever
have led you to embody in your portrait of him a
delineation Of the faults ana weaknesses which
mixed with his great qualities. . . . In order to
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really was. you. well knowing what you were about.
stepped into q pillory In which you were charged
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guilty Of no other fault than that of practic!ng Mr..
Carlyles great doctrine that men ought to tell the
truth.
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Kipling Jungle Books"
Messrs. Macmillans send us q charming little
VOIume, Inc Lyrical IOemB OF JOnn heuto,
edited by Mr.. Ernest Rhys, with a short intro
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the poet. The edition is Issued by Messrs. J. NJ.
Dent & Co. Of the Aldine house in their excel
lent and artistic style.
"a Notebook In Northern Spain" (Putnams)
10 the title of a handsome and well-illustrated
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Mr.. Alfred b. Shepperson sends us q copy of
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the crops, receipts. exports, stocks. homo and
foreign consumption, visible supply. prices. and
acreage of cotton. with the reports Of condition
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Dictionary of Quotations tClassicaD."
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Daniel North of Wyoming Valley" S. r.
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Progress and Poverty" Henry George. New
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