The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-01-15
BOOKS AND THEIR MAKERS

| by our navy. it is certain of a wide
| popularity. The volume contains 500
pages and 200 Illustrations drawn es-
pecially for 1t. Drown & Co., Boston)
Mr.. Albert Gardner Robinson, who
has just gone to Cuba in the service of
the New York Evening Post, has writ
ten a book which the Scribners will
shortly publish, entitled 1.-The Porto
Rico of today; pages from a correspon-
dents note book" In his capacity as
newspaper correspondent Mr.. Robin
son travelled over the length and
breadth of Porto Rico, studying the
people and their manners and customs
the trade conditions, the agricultural
and commercial situation, the means of
transportation and communication. and
other problems which await solution.
There never was a time when the
history of his own country was Sc
absorbing to the American. and to
meet the supply, the publishers are vie
ing with each other in their output of
historic works. To judge by the char
aeter of many of the new publications,
there is nothing which the reading
pupllc SO much desires to peruse as
b"NNs or history This fact viii ac-
count in part for the preponderance of
history IN The Spys reviews this week.
Charles Scribners Sons have pub
nshed no more important work in re-
cent years than Henry Cabot Lodge S
me Story of the Revolution" which,
after winning an admiring public
among the readers of current litera-
ture, is now reprinted in two superb
volumes, with nearly 200 illustrations
! DIV Howard Pyle. F. C. Yohn. Walter
Appleton Clark, T. de Thulstrup and
others. The work is a model of its
klna. Senator Lodge has brought to his
task the ability to think originally
along political lines, and to deal at first
hand and sympathetically with the
problems which confronted the states.
men ana the economists of revolution
! airy days. He is a thinker not less
than a chronicler. He is an interpreter
not less than a narrator "a
ABOVE all, he knows how to make
history interesting. His descriptions
are clear and stirring, his narrative is
Always lucid, and even the politica
anu tecnnlcal business of congressional
committees he prevents from ever he.
coming utterly dispiriting and tedious
Inc revolution is presented in it's en-.
tlty, not IN series of historical or hi.
oSraphlcal sketches, but as a continu-
Gus, progressive whole, thereby gain.
ing IN dignity and impressiveness. This
IS undoubtedly Senator Lodges mag.
mum opus thus far. With Such a work
as TINS, new interest and value are i'm.
I pa Ecu 10 a story which should be
/ lean.
On the first page of "Historic Pill
grlmages in New England" the author
Eawln M. Bacon tells how his college
friends son, a western lad. with a love
OF American history and a Daughter OF
lne revolution for a sister, desired to
make an acquaintance at first hand
with the important landmarks of orr
national history. Upon my word" he
exclaimed, 1T is all so interesting,
can't make UP my mind where to be-
GIN"
Suppose" Mr.. Bacon replies. "you
lay out program, including a dozer
trips, covering in ALL say, fortnight
fouf nrst pilgrimage might we'll be
maze I INTO the Old Colony, beginning
at Prov1ncetown, at the tip of Cane
COD, and thence tracing the footprints
PilRrims through Plymouth
Kingston, Duxbury and Marshfeld
Ihen you might strike for Cape Cod
i e-.e lUAoW the Puritans back through
Salem and its neighborhood to Charles
town and Boston. At the same time
you will cover the landmarks of the
| provincial and revolutionary periods
and various other historic sites recall.
Ing the stories of great men, as wen as
| OIL great events in our history You
might treat the revolutionary period. as
Tar as practicable, chronologically. Be.
ginning here in Boston with monu-
ments marking the preceding contro-
| versies, you can trace the several out
breaks from the earliest to the Licking
/ ron n frf1a nd PsrI,4 DIT
ish rout, the conflict at Breeds hill. the
siege of Boston, the evacuation. AS an
| admirable finish to the series vou
might take Cambridge.
And this was the route they did fol
low, and the following of it forms The
material of this delightful book, which
is one of the most interesting Of the
season, both from the nature Of It'll
| subject matter, and the fresh, clear
sympathetic style of it's author. It il
amply Illustrated. Mr. Bacon was for.
merly editor of the Boston Advertiser
1t is pleasure to recommend Historic
Pilgrimages in New England" (Silver
Burdett & Co, Boston)
Some Marked Passages and Other
Stories" is by Miss Jeanne G. Penning-
ton, already favorably known to a large
circle by her Don't Worry Nuggets
1t is q book of short stories which
has for it's undercurrent the influence
upon different people exerted by
marked passages in books. In the
| opening scene, the superintendent, ma
iron, and some of the doctors of a hos.
pital, among whom seems to exist a
| comradic sociability, discuss the ques-
ton, apropos of a package of books
some of which are so marked just re-
| ceived for the use OF patients. One
asserts that the man or woman who
| marks q book is aitbAr q sentimental.