The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-11-17
LITERARY NOTES.

The second edition of Edward Fitz-
gerald's version of the "Rubaiyat of
eral quatrains omitted from the other
editions, is brought out by Messrs.
Houghton, Miff1in & Co. in a special
limited de Luxe edition, edited with
notes and an introduction by William
Augustus Brown.
In IA Ten Years War" Jacob A Riis,
who has already told a good deal of
How the Other Half Lives" narrates
with pathos, humor and grim satisfac-
ton the fight made for decent living in
the tenement. The book, whose chap
ters have been appearing as a series
of articles in the Atlantic Monthly, will
be published by Messrs. Houghton, Milf
fin & Co., in November.
The life of Charles Francis Adams,
minister to England during the civil
war, has been written by his son,
Charles Francis Adams, for the Ameri-
can Statesmen Series, and will appear
in November
"a Man: His Mark" is the unique til
tie of a new volume by w. c. Morrow,
author of THE Ape, the Idiot, and
Other People," and Bohemian Paris of
Today" all from the Lippincott Press.
Mr.. Morrow builds his absorbing tale
around the lives of two persons-a man
and woman-imprisoned during the
winter by the SHOWS in a hut in the
mountains of California. The situation
is one Of difficulty and Mr.. Morrow S
art nowhere displays it's power and deli
cacy to better advantage than in this,
his latest and best work of fiction.
1t is a noticeable fact that, though
ordinary war stories wane in circula-
ton, those of Joseph A. Altsheler are
in steady demand. His latest book is
THE Last Rebel" dealing with the ex-
periences of a northerner who I'M
advisedly wandered into the Southern
Alleghenies, long after the late I'M
pleasantness and was captured by a
chivalrous monomaniac, who still held
his post for the confederacy. The vol
ume is among the most welcome of the
Lippincott autumn publications.
Another T. Jenkins Hams diverting
tales of the sea is announced for imme-
date publication by the Lippincotts
THE Wreck of the Conemaugh' is the
title of the forthcoming volume, which
is a complete novel.
Another of Frank R. Stockton's books
for boys comes to us in the shape of
1.-THE Young Master of Hyson Hail."
from the Lippincott Press. The scene
is laid in Pennsylvania, along the Della
ware river, some few years ago, and is
full OF the adventure and excitement
which boys love, and which Mr.. Stock
ton so well knows how to furnish. The
story is complete in itelf, and entirely
independent of any other work but the
many thousands of readers of Captain
Chap will be glad to recognize again
Chap and his companions as the he
roes of this newly published volume.
Seumas Mac Marus' Through thu
Turf Smoke, and his many recent
magazine con ribJtiors, Rave estab-
lished his reputation here as a delipea-
tor of Irish peasant wit and folklore.
In Chimney Corner is devoted M
tirely those talks of giants, witches,
kings and vin3lb!a Jacks" which are
so Celtic in Oh lFacter and in quick in
vention, Miss Pamela Colman Smith
has drawn for the book a series of col
ored illustrations altogeth er unusual in
their imaginative and decora i've
strength a preface called Our eclk-
tales" is quick with tenderness and
Celtic magic, but it is evident that the
authors acquaintance with Irish boys
and girls is ii,n'ted to those who stay
at home in Iraland Altogether. there
ia something fan5astic about the vol
ume that dis.iug u;shes it from any
other to be found al the book sellers.
Doubleday & Mcclure Company. For
sale by Putnam Davis & Coz
While it must be conceded that F.
Marion Crawford has in 1.-THE Raj
stons" written a novel of real dramatic
power, yet it cannot be said that it is
an altogether agreeable book, or that
it marks any advance over the made
to-order products which have appeared
with such rapidity from Mr.. Craw-
ford's fecund pen. The plot has to do
with secret marriage, which never
succeeds in justifying itself to the
reader; severed love affairs, the de-
struction of family peace by the greed
of money, and quarrel between a
father and his daughter, which Is dis
tinctly disagreeable to read about. Re-
ligion figures indirectly in the plot. the
father of the heroine being Protestant.
while the mother is a Roman Catho-
lie. The heroine, Katharine Ralston.
is lovely girl, whom a conventional
sense of the obligations of children toI
parents will not allow to accept the
wrong that her parents would do her.
AS usual with Mr.. Crawford, there are
delicately impassioned love scenes, but,
as is also usual with Mr.. Crawford,
there is constant sacrifice of reality to
the demands Of melodramatic effect.
The novel has been brought out in
ono-volume edition by the Macmillan
Company.
Mabel Osgood Wright's new book
"Wabeno the tragedian," is a fit sequel
to Tommy Anne and the Three
Hearts and worthy successor of
"Four-footed Americans and Their
Kim" "Birdcraft" and Citizen Bird. "
those volumes of nature and childhood
with which Mrs. Wright has delighted
so many. many little folk. OF course
Tommy Anne is the heroine, but Wad-
dies, the middle-aged dog who invari-
ably addresses Tommy Anne as
Missy" is surely the hero, although
Tommy, Tommy-Anne's four ear-old
brother, Is second best hero. The moon
is one Of the dramatis personae, and SO