The times., 1899-05-07

said TO be as thrilling as border romance,
and besides being of value as a vivid ac-
count OF actual happenings, is Of interest
as being the only history OF body of
troops who were in many ways the proto-
types of the ROW famous Rough Riders.
In fact, Governor Roosevelt, who is a
warm friend of the author, is said to have
encouraged Mr.. Jennings TO write the
book.
Frederick Palmer, the author of the rec
emily published book. I'm the Klondyke,"
has gone TO the Philippines as correspond
ent for New York paper. This is by no
means Mr.. Palmer's first experience as
war correspondent, as his bo2k on the war
in Greece will bear witness. Mr.. Pa mer's
book on the klondyke presents the best
picture yet given of the gold fields of the
frozen North, and comes as 4 distinct re-
lief to the food of books about the torrid
zone which the acquisition of tropical ter
ritory has forced upon the market.
In the May number of the Critic will
begin the publication of a series Of papers
on Thackeray's contributions to Punch"
Although there has been volume of
Thackeray's contributions TO that periodi-
cal already printed it does not include any
of the letterpress or illustrations that have
been selected and edited for the Critic"
by Mr.. Frederick s. Dickson, the we'll
known Thackerayan.
The perpetual interest attaching to the
French Revolution, and to the great figures
of that turbulent period. is evidenced by
the immediate success of Mr.. Belloc's
Life of Danton." Mr.. Belloc who was
sometime scholar of Balliol College. OK
ford, has produced an historical biography
of extraordinary value. Competent critics
who have reviewed the book have recog-
nized its scholarly and authoritative tone,
and have devoted much attention to it. Mr..
NJ. W. Hazeltine. in the course of four
column review in the New York SUM-
pronounced it "a book which no student of
the French Revolution can afford to neg
lect."
Mrs. Voynich is writing a new novel,
treating of Polish life of today.
Max Beerbohm is completing a novel
which will probably be entitled "Zuleika
Hobson."
A book which is sure to attract more
than usual attention is ''On the Edge of
the Empire" series of stories of life in
British India. The work was at first an
nounced as anonymous, but later the au-
Edgar Jepson and Captain D. Beames.
The curious frequency with which the
modern novel and drama have, as the CEN
tral figure, types of mind so abnormal as
to be closely allied to true insanity, is the
subject of an interesting psychological
study by Cesare Lombroso in Appletons'
Popular Science Monthly for May.
An elaborately illustrated biography of
Oliver Cromwell similar in scope to the
lives of Mary Stuart. Queen Elizabeth,
Queen Victoria and Charles /, already is
sued, is in preparation. Samuel Rawson
Gardiner has been selected as the man best
qualified to write the work, which will in
clude much new material.
"The Peace Cross" just published. is
an addition to theological literature. which
embodies in small book form the histori-
cally interesting ceremonies incident to
the unveiling of the Peace Cross last Oc-
tober, on the proposed site of the Protes
tant Episcopal Cathedral on St. Adams
Hill.
The entire programme of the services of
the day is given with official accuracy, and
the little work is made further attractive
by the addresses in full of the Bishop of
Washington and other ecclesiastical digni-
taries OF the Episcopal convention, then
just closed: the remarks of the President
Of the United States, and q realistic de-
scription of the proceedings written after
ward by Thomas Nelson Page.
Another interesting chapter is made up
of extracts from the sermon preached by
Rev. Smith Pyne, D. D., at the consecra-
tion of old st. Adams Church in 1855, and
there Is also a sketch of Bishop Clagett,
the first Episcopal bishop to be consecrated
in the Western Hemisphere, whose re-
mains, with those of his wife, will be re-
inferred some future day in the new cathe-
dral crypt.
The pamphlet is both valuable as an
official record Of the impressive ceremonies
of which it treats and artistic as a souve-
mir for those of the Episcopal faith who
were or were not present at the unveil-
ing.
The daintily- printed pages are illumi-
mated with red letterings in old English
text and the book throughout is illustrat-
ed with Photographic views of the cross
itself, and the scenes Of the day, together
with a picture OF the marble slab taken
from Bishop Clagetts tomb. Or. d. Rus
sell: New York;
History Of the World" by Edgar Sam
derson, sometime scholar of Clare College,
Cambridge and author of History of the
British Empire" "The British Empire in
the Nineteenth Century "Outlines OF the
Worlds History" etc, contains in one
volume a concise and comprehensive his
tory of the whole world from the earliest
historical period. While furnishing both
interesting and instructive information
for the general reader, the vast number
of facts contained in this work and the
compactness OF its arrangement secure
for it a prominent place among the best
reference books OF the day for students.
1t begins with the Egyptians at date
which is not known, but somewhere be-
tween the years 5700 and 2440 B. c.. and
gives a brief outline of the history of all
nations from that remote age to the pres
ent time. comprising even our recent war
with Spain.
Mr.. Charles Henry Meltzer's English
version of Gerhart Hauptmann's poetic
| masterpiece, die Versunkene Glocke,"
| CThe Sunken BelD is announced for pub
| lication about May 2S, which will give the
public a chance to become acquainted
with the lines before THE Sunken Bell"
is presented by Mr.. E. H. Sothern next
season.
Recent lists of the best-selling books
| include Red Rock among the first three.
| If the demand for the novel continues, as
| 1t promises to- Red Rock will soon pass
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