The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-10-15


gregation of the Peculiar People, with
the expulsion of lone, is strained
and unconvincing, and so is tones
sentence of death and her marriage,
which recalls 1.-THE Open Question"
family. In short this story does not
grow under the eyes of the reader but
is laboriously if ingeniously, manufac-
tured before him, page by page. (Dodd,
Mead e. Coz
In "A Modern Mercenary," e. and
Hesketh Prickard, the mother and son
who have won some reputation for
readable stories under the pen names
of "E. and II. Heron" have written u
bright, dashing romance of THE
Prisoner of Zenda" type. 1t is laid in
the state Of Maasau, a small, imagin-
airy kingdom whose political atmo-
sphere is surcharged with the intrigues
of it's more powerful neighbors. Plots
and counterplots are woven about a
very attractive love story, in which the
hero's sense of honor comes for time
into direct conflict with his chances Of
happiness. doubleday & Mcclure Co.
For sale by Putnam, Davis & Coz
Mr.. John Fiske's standing as a his
torian is so well established that words
of praise for his new work in two vol
umes on THE Dutch and Quaker Col
onies in America" which has just been
brought out by Houghton, MitEin &
Co. (for sale by Putnam, Davis & Coz,
seems almost superfluous. In it he takes
UP his account where 1.-THE Beginnings
of New England" left off, carrying tie
history of New England to the over
throw Of James II, and carrying that
of the southern and middle colonies into
the reigns of the first two Georges. AS
an interpreter of historical causes and
consequences. Mr.. Fi6ke is fitted to be
the guide, philosopher and friend Of all
who care for the study of our national
history, while as master of a delight
full graceful, lucid, convincing style, he
appeals to every reader of cultivated
tastes. Prof. Fiske says in his preface
that his next book will deal with the
rise and fall of New France, and the
development of the English colonies as
influenced by the prolonged struggle
with that troublesome and dangerous
neighbor, that it will come down TO
1865, the year that witnessed the stamp
act and Pontiac's war, and that it will
be ready in about two years. (Iough-
ton, Mifflin & Co. For sale by Putnam,
Davis & Coz
When William T. Stead was touring
Europe last year, interviewing big-wigs
on the subjects of the czar's peace re-
script and American expansion, one %
his victims was l. S. Block, a retired
banker of Warsaw, who has devoted
eight years to the special study OF the
future of war. NJ, Bloch is the author
of an immense book, entitled 1.-THE Flu
ture of War;" and 1t is the sixth vol
ume of this, in which he summarizes
the conclusions at which he had arrived
in the earlier part of the work, that is
now published by the Doubleday & Nc
Clure company, under the title "The
Future of War in Its Technical, Eco
nomic Political Relations. Is War Now
Impossible?" Mr.. Stead prefaces ii With
a brief account of M. Bloch and a free
rendering of the conversations he had
had with the author, reprinted from Mr.,
Steads book, 1.-THE United States Of
Europe. M. Bloch contends II all
seriousness that War-great war in the
usual acceptation of the word-has a.
ready, by the natural and normal de-
velopment of the art or science OF war
fare, become physical impossiblity.
This position he maintains with an
overwhelming phalanx of statistics and
arguments, and with over 100 diagrams.
plans and maps. This book, like all
others of Doubleday & Mcclure Co.'S
publications, will be sent postpaid tc
any address on approval. (For sale by
Putnam, Davis & Coz
1.-THE Hero of Manila: Dewey on the
Mississippi and the Pacific" is the title
of new historical story for boys by
Rossiter Johnson. Admiral Dewey Is
represented in the early pages as a lit
tie lad at home in Montpelier. licking
the DULLES of the school and arguing
with his father. Rollo and Uncle
George seem to live again. Later the
dialogue method Is changed to narra-
Il l. 81 l..
duced in the account of Degey's
achievements in the civil and Spanish
American wars. The story is a capital
one to put into the hands of a boy. and
is, 1t is needless to remark, most time
ly. There are ninteen pictures ard dia-
grams. (Young Heroes Of Our Navy
series. Appleton & Coz
American Lands and Letters. Leath-
er Stocking to Poe's Raven" BY Don
aid G. Mitchell. Illustrated. Octave. pp.
xXiv:412 Charles Scribner's Sons.
Cloth, $3.50.
This volume begins with the era of
the rough old Andrew Jackson; il
closes with the day of Poe. The book
is almost exhaustive. The Illustrations
alone give it a peculiar value to liter
airy persons. We are led to quote a BIT
about Bancroft, who belongs to Wor-
cester. Among those at Harvard in
the first quarter of the century whom
the quick eye and ear of the scholarly
Everett detected as youngsters of prom
Use, was certain George Bancroft, the
clever son Of a Worcester Conerega-
tional minister, who had studied close
ly and showed a wakeful ambition at
Exeter academy; graduating before he
had completed his 18th year, he was
not slow to accept the advices and
moneys Of those Harvard friends who
counseled further study abroad. For
two or three years thereafter, he
ranged through central Europe, euuip-
ping himself as a linguist and Crap
ping almost fiercely with all opportu-
mites that offered for either scholas-
tic or social advancement. =
Poems were summering in his thought
which found outcome QS23) in a thin
volume dedicated to the president Of
Harvard university" The Ronno Hill
school is described in detail, its sue
cesses and failure.
There is in the book a fine, personal
flavor, gained chiefly by the intimacy OF
the author with the men and themes
he is treating.
among the American classics.
Jess" Bits of wayslde Gospel" by
Jenkin Lloyd Jones. Published by Mac
milan & Co, New York and London.
Cloth
The author is clergyman, and we'll
known as the editor of Chicago Unity.
The book is made up of. sketches; the
English is excellent; the thought good.
The influence Of the book deserves at
tention. Jess" is saddle horse, and
out of that horses service its master
extracts the kind of sermons and gem
ial philosophy in which an exquisite
sympathy between the horse and it's
rider, the charm Of the landscape. and
a broadening Of the religious spirit of
man are blended.
Christian Science and Other Super