The times., 1899-12-19
NEW PUBLICATIONS

OF the sea. as les title Indicates. and IS by
Herbert Elliott Hamblen. author of GOA
Many Seas. The story OF Yankee boz.
and other maritime tales. The story begins
with the day when gbe hero. Peter Sletsoa.
ran away 10 sea under the impressioa tha-
he wanted 20 be a pirate 10 is needless
% say that his ard0r was coasiderab y
dampeued before be had gone far toward
realizing his ambition. He did rot 60 back
home, however, or there would have bstu
no story 10 tell. and the remainder OF the
book is q record OF his adventures i1 two
oceans and more than one COutiLeer The
scene is laid chiefly iu South Amer ca and
the yarn includes the story OF hgnt
for hidden treasure. a volcanic eruption.
ana several other interesting Incidents
(New York: Charles Sclihaers Sons.
Sl.50.)
The Fun and Fighting OF the Rough
Riders, By Tom Hall. is dedicated 20 the
memory OF Captains Capron sud O'Neiu
Of that famous regiment IL is evident
from a glance az the very first page thsl
the writer is full Of the enthusiasm which
every member of the First United States
Volunteer Cavalry felt for the regiment
and its leaders, but. as he says. be does
not infiiet any military hysteria upon the
reader in this little volume
AS most people know, Lieutenant Hal
first became known 70 the public as q
writer OF humorous short stories aud light
verse, and very clever some OF his poems
were. When he enlisted in the Rough
Riders be determined TO write. if possible
a story OF the regiment from his own poinl
OF view, believing that the organization of
this body Of hghtiRg men marked a SIT
Of epoch In military operations He BE-
lieves that the Rough Rider has become
Il .F-r- 90.
our Army VIII be made up largely 0t TINS
type. because It IS a lighting machine
which no European power can duplicate.
he therefore thinks that il IS important
that all possible records should be Wata ot
the organization and career OF the original
regiment The style Of Lieutenant Halls
book may be illustrated by a paragl aph or
TWO taken al random from chapter on
camping IN Cuba.
To eat a mango with comfort one requires
caplcious bib, tour napkins, two nHger bowls,
bath towel, bath tub plenty ID Warer, and
months supply oi soap. tle also requires yH-
services OF "a physician and possibly tlose el
trained nurse and aa undertaken. Be-
fore going tO cuba we had been s1'euuly warned
that every soldier should take a hlmmocS with
him on the campaign. Perhaps be should. He
should also have taken a summer h1tai As none
OF these things was supplied none but fsw lt
the officers had hammcCks- ihIs OH Flsoi vas
the only camp where we seriously tried t1 Use
them lHeF were swung IN the tlulIEe iToul
posts sunk in the soil No matter hoW deeply
the posts were sunk OF h0w securely braced and
held with gus ropes they constantly gave iu
the inlsny, Tlln-slaAed soil We would fe,ifa AZ
night, swinging peTil8usly i've feet from the
ground and awake in The morning reclining On
the soil. Dr. Church probably be-
cause he was a medical officer and, therefore. bst-
ter able 20 care Tor himself than anyone else.
was assigned a spot for bis shelter tsn- which
happened q be Just below the level Cd the
mainder ot the camp When the first storm came
all the other tents had been surrounded 9v drain
age diJches. He had been busy looking after his
IeilJN-uau. and, as is quite usual In this world
oi wickedncss his feil0W-man bad not been llos-
ing after him. As the deiuge descended. Church
craWled into his little tent, suiiugiF declining
the shelter et my own, where number were
congregatcd- He Thought he would smoke q
cigarette and read 4 letter during the Storm lg
not sO ordained. First bis cent began la leak,
which IS the natural prer0gatiye 1f a shelter
tent. Ih6u the soil under him became saturated.
Then family 0f taTautuIIs which had been l1.l-
ing a birthday reception under his bedding
crawled out and looked as.auce 40 him. Then
be looked lsEance at tlcu-
The end of it all was that the doctor.
threatened By tidal wave. got out and dug
a ditch that drained the whole camp. Hav-
ing been taken III a few DAYS before the
surrender Of Santiago. Lieutenant Hail was
sent hcme on the Seneca. and the things
he has to say about that horror ship are
fOrcibe and devoid OF the lightUsss which
charactzrizes much Of the other work In the
book. Taken altogether. this little work is
interesting and well written, though in no
sense technical and not az all complete
history of the regiment 1t is rather 3
happy supplement 70 more elaborate records
of the brief career Of this unique Organiza-
ton. (Nsw York. Frederick a. Stokes Com
pany)
Christ in Art by Joseph Lewis French.
is one Of the most attractive volumes in
recent Art Lovers Series" Of illustrated
books. The material at hand is particular
Iy rich and has been handled with great
skill; and the illustrations are beth care
fully selected and skinfully made All the
principal medieval aud modern artists are
represented. some OF course, by more thaa
one picture. In the list Of illustrations
may be found TitiaR's tRedeemer.' Rap
haeI's TRANSPORTATION" Renis Ecce
Homo and HOfmann's Christ in GeJhse-
name" while there are also works By
GhirlandajC. Paul Veronese, AIRY Scheter.
Holman Hunt, Fra Angelica Gabriel Max.
Mantegna, and a dozen others. The book is
not large. but so far as its size allows. it IS
certainly comprehensive. The author has
confined himself mainly 70 pictures OF
Christ alone, leaving the AadOuuas TO re-
ceive attention in another volume Of the
series. Necessarily also, the illustrator
has often taken merely a head OF single
figure from some large painting The size
OF the pages pFecludes the reproduction
of many CT the larger pictures in which the
figure of Christ appears while these are
too important 10 be ignored A compromise
has therefore been made by reproducing
merely the head. or as in the case or
Munkacsy's Christ Before PLATE, the
single figure. Boston: l. c. Page ( Co
S2.OO.J
In Luther Strong. Thomas ]. Vlvia~,
author OF with Dewey az Manila. x
some other books about the late war. has
taken a departure into the line OF fiction
Ii cannot be said that he IS as successful
in this as he was in historical narrative.
for his work in the latter field was remark
ably breezy and good IL not very pro-
found. This present romance has good
poIuts- il has a plot and there is some
cool character-dTaw wing In IL; but that is
all. (New York: r r. Feuno < Co. S1.25-}
The latest volume of the series Of tiny
Beacon Biographies Is the life OF Fred
erick Douglass, by Charles W. Chestnut
Mr. Chesnutt has lately made name for
himself as a writer Of short stories. and he
is quite as successful in tEe more serious
work OF biography There have been other
biographfas OF Douglass OF which the one
written by himself is undoubtedly the most
widely known, but this is a brief. concise,
compre eheEsive. and sympathetic work
which is well worth the very short time
REQUIRED for its perusal The author has.
while not departing from the natural
course OF his work, made reflections here
and there upon the position Of the negro
in this country, which add something 90
the value Of the book as q whole It would
hardly bs possible to tell the story Of the