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

lhaI OIL Alexander Hamilton.
THE White Beaver" by Harry
Castleman. Published by Henry 7.
Coates 81 Co.. Philadelphia.
This is a winter story that will appeal
to the robust youth as most of the
works of Mr.. Castleman do. The lum-
Der business figures in the plot. The
story is alive with adventures and
achievements. 1t would not do for the
book man to tell all the story here. He
couldn't do it justice, and the boys will
prefer that he should not.
THE Night Has a Thousand Eyes"
| and other poems by f. w. Bourdillon.
| Published by Little, Brown & Co,
! Boston.
An exquisite little book Of poems
with just a dozen illustrations comes to
us with this familiar verse at the
| front;
THE night has a thousand eyes,
And the day but one,
| Yet the light of the bright world dies
With the dying sun.
The mind has a thousand eyes
And the heart but one,
Yet the light of whole life dies
| When love is done
We pick one more treasure from the
middle of the book:
do the dead think of the living,
/ In the blue heaven overhead,
All repenting, all forgtving,
AS the living Of the dead?
| Yes; but while we weep surveying
Pathways long and lonely feet
| They in heaven smile, softly saying:
'Tis tomorrow and we meet"
The Boys and Girls of Brantham. By
Evelyn Raymond. With illustrations
by Etheldred B. Barry. Cloth extra,
| $1.50. Published by Little, Brown &
| Co., 254 Washington street, Boston,
! This straightforward, well-roumded
story by Evelyn Raymond, gives en- ac-
| count Of the happenings in military
| academy, to which it has been proposed
| to admit girls. How over half Of the
boys protested and got themselves ex-
! PEELED; their repentance and heroic
struggle to regain their standing; how
| the girls gradually overcame bcyist
: prejudiees, and in a time of sickness
| proved themselves good housekaepers
| how the loss of a one hundred dollar
| bill threw unjust suspicion on thu
meanest boy in the school and one Of
! the noblest girls; how Jealousy arost
| between the classes as to which SHOULD
have the girls to their class dinner. ana
/ how, finally, Ottilie Field turned boyisi
energies to a grand act of charity
| these ard other incidents are told with
considerable humor. The experiment OF
| admitting girls to the institution is
| proven i success; for the boys were not
the less manly for being gentle ard con-
| siderate, nor the girls less womanly for
having wider opportunities.
Bringing Up the Boys. BY Kate Up
son Clark. Published by Thomas Y.
Crowel & Co., New York and Boston
Here is a neat little book of thirteen
| chapters, telling parents something
| that may not, but most likely will sug-
gest to them some thoughts that Will
| make theil sons better and happier
| There is a cheerful tone to the whole
book. She believes in taking boys SER
iously. She says that manners depend
| on conditions and example. One Of the
| most earnest chapters is to aid parents
in preventing youth from acquiring the
habit of smoking. The thought at the
bottom of her study is that a boy who
is taught rightly and strongly at home
may be trusted anywhere with conf
dence. THE great lesson of seif-gov-
eminent, of compelling inclination TO
yield to principle, should be taught 10
child by the ordinary discipline of
home life" she says, before he Is five
years old
Kings Minor" pictures the life of a
prince and king under conditions mod
ern, and yet shared by representatives
of royalty almost throughout history
The aspirations of the prince, the in
trigues surrounding him, the cravings
for love, the cares Of state, the inter
action of royalty and the people, are
some of the motives developed, with
the inevitable accomplishments of in
nd n1tNT will Vxr1at IL.
Hope caught and has held the popular
attention, and wherein he proves his
mastery of suspended interest and dra-
matte effect. There is the same heroic
smack that delighted and stirred the
English-reading world in THE Pris-
oner of Zenda" and there is the same
essential nobility of character hut with
added sweetness and pathos. THE
], ng's Mirror" is told by the king in
the first person. 1t is the most human
piece of work that has yet come from
Mr.. Hopes pen: it is a romance that
will not only absorb the attention of
readers, but impress them with a new
admiration for the authors powers.
(Appleton & Coz
Miss Ruth Hall has many young adj
mirers who will welcome her new story
of THE Boys of Scrooby." 1t has a
historical foundation and is laid about
equally in Europe and the American
colonies of the 18th century. There are
three boys" who go through more
stirring experiences than seem possible
to crowd into a few years, One of them
goes with the seDaratists from Scrooby
to Holland; sails in the Sea-Venture to
jamestown, witnesses the marriage of
Rolfe and Pocanontas, fights against
the Indians with Sir Walter Raleigh,
and becomes a landed proprietor in Vir-
ginia. Another fights in the Palestine's
army and the remaining brother is en-
ployed by Hugo Grotius and assists in
his historic escape from Lowestein.
Other great personages stalk through
the pages, Much of the action takes
place in the Plymouth and Virginia
colonies, and the story leaves a REALISTIC
sense behind it OF the hardships en-
dured by the first settlers in America.
(Houghton, Mifilin & Co. For sale by
Putnam, Davis & Coz
Last summer Everett r. Tomlinson
and his two boys made bicycle tour
of "Old Monmouth" in New Jersey,
visiting all the scenes made famous by
that county's stout resistance to George
III of England, so that his new story,
"A Jersey Boy in the Revolution, .
might be correct in point of geography
and local color. Last year saw the
publication through the same house
(Houghton, Mifflin & Coz of 1.-THE boys
of Old Monmouth" a story of Washing
toms campaign in New Jersey in 177S