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B00KS---AUTH0RS.
The First Issue of the New
"Polychrome Bible"
stoddard's Lectures on Constantinople,
Jerusalem and egypt-A Volume on
American Literature Other Books
The Magazines.


American Literature Books
The Magazines.
The first part of the long-awaited
"Polychrome Bible" has been published,
AS IS well known, it has been the inten-
ton of the editors of this book, directed
by Prof. Paul Haupt of Johns Hopkins
University, who is assisted by Dr. Hor-
ace Howard Furness of Philadelphia, to
give new translation based on thor
oughly revised Hebrew text and rem
dered into modern literary English.
Also, ito give the reader, in visible
form, the results of modern criticism as
to the different sources from which some
of the Old Testament books have been
made UP, the text is printed on vari-
ously colored backgrounds exhibiting
the composite structure of the book
The translation of this first part-part
seven in the regular sequence of the
biblical books-is by Rev. DIR. G. F.
Moore of Andover 1t is the book of
Judges; and its illustrations and anno-
tations, which are very elaborate and
careful, will give some idea of what may
be expected in the succeeding parts of
a great work. In addition to the textual
notes appear an historical and critical
introduction, and Introductory remarks
explaining the colors used, the foot
notes, marginal figures, spelling, abbrev-
iations and the like. The illustrations
given are largely of places.
This new "Polychrome Bible" which
is to be published in twenty separate
parts from time to time, will undoubt-
edly represent the ripest results of the
best contemporary international schol-
arship. Nevertheless it will be work
for the people at large as well as for
the scholars. It's many great features
will attract to it wide attention. 1t may
be thought by some that the English
lstyle of today detracts somewhat from
the literary charm inherent in the
lShaksperian English of the King James
translation, with which most readers of
the Bible are chiefly familiar; but, judg-
ing from the present translation of
Judges the text of the new work will
more than make up in clearness and
smoothness what it lacks in picturesque
ness of expression. Its English is more
literary in character than that of the
| revised version
Translators of succeeding parts will
be President Harper of Chicago, Profs.
Toy of Harvard and Curtis of Yale and
others in America; Drs. Cheyne, Driver,
Martineau, etc, in England; and Drs.
Wellhausen, Kautzsch, Stade, Siegfried
and others on the continent of Europe.
Published by Dodd Mead & Co, Of
New York
THE STODDARD LECTURES.
Constantinople, Jerusalem, Egypt
What visions of the present Orient, of
! biblical times, of the civilization and
achievements Of the ancient people of
the Nile valley do not these words con-
jure up in the mind of every one? Those
who have never trodden the soil of
Stamboul, of the Holy Land, of Cairo,
and Karnak will be no less interested
in John L. Stoddard's new book dealing
with these intensely interesting places
than those who have done SO or are
about to do so. This book is the second
volume in the brilliant and genial trav-
eler's series embracing all his famous
lectures. Naturally it is fully as read
able as the initial one on Norway,
Athens and Venice; for all of Mr. Stod-
dard's lectures are so good and varied
and deal with such totally different
people and scenes that comparisons of
them are invidious.
The wealth of illustrations is some
thing amazing; and when it is recollect-
ed that these Illustrations are nearly all
reproductions of photographs taken with
the greatest care by Mr. Stoddard on the
spot, their great value becomes at once
apparent.
4 In the lecture on Constantinople we
read about and see depicted all the lead
ling sights of the great Mohammedan
1 capital; we learn how the Turk lives,
what are his virtues and what his vices,
together with those of the other nation
! alities; and with historical references
! of great interest, some contemporary
errors about the Turks are corrected.
Jerusalems sights and history, world
wide in their renoWn and significance,
are next dealt with; and this lecture
closes with q panegyric on the Jew
which has perhaps never been surpassed
for it's eloquence. 1t gives that race, so
wonderfully wealthy in great names, its
Just due, and deserves to be read by all.
With a splendid account of the pic
turesque people and buildings of Cairo,
/ of the astounding relics of antiquity
along the Nile, one of the most wonder
full of all rivers, the book closes.
| 1t is safe to say that no more useful
accounts of travel in three of the most
notable portions of the earth have ever
been presented for popular perusal; and
certainly these places have never been
so splendidly illustrated within the COM
pass of single volume of moderate size.
The next volume in the series will in
clude two illustrated lectures on Japan
| and one on China.
Published by Belford, Middlebrook d
Co, and sold by Balch Brothers, Boston.
AMERICAN LITERATURE.
A very worthy consideration of Amer
lean literature from colonial times to
the present day is found in Katharine
Lice Bates American Literature" Only
the names which stand for something,
the leading names in our different
schools of literary thought, are dealt
with, quite as much from the sociologt-
cal as from the purely critical stand
point. The book. in fact, is especial
iy designed to show how essentially
American literature has been an out
growth of American life" Its national
character is brought to the fore as much
as the thought Of its original depend
ence on the literature of England will
allow.
There are six chapters. each chapter
l'tal1ing into consideration distinct
groups of leading writers. They deal,
i in order, with the colonial period. the
revolutionary period; national era,
general aspects; national era, po-
etry; national era, prose thought;
national era, prose fiction. The
numerous portraits of authors, all
of them excellent and repro
dlced largely from the best sources, in
clude Emerson. John Smith, Cotton
Mather, Edwards, Franklin, Hamilton,
jefferson, Irving, Mrs. Stowe, Lincoln,
Rrvant. Longfellow, Whittier, Poe,
Iainer, Whitman, Holmes, Lowell,
Parknan, Webster, Thoreau, Cooper,
Hayythorne and James, The author is
an instructor in wellesley College.
1t is an excellent book with which to