The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-10-22

uraI history group and is of high value
to the students. 1t is designed, the
author says, for the use of older rather
than younger pupils, in or out of
school, 1t should prove helpful for
supplementary reading in the upper
f@mmar grades, or in connection with
the high school course in zoology.
Mrs Leicester's School by Charles
Mary Lamb. Illustrated by Winifred
Green. l. NJ. Dent & Co, London. The
Macmillan Co., &C Fifth avenue, New
York.
This is the most unique and pleasing
volume of the kind produced this sea-
son. Odd in shape, style and illustra-
ton, this book itself is charming
story of a young girls life for the
youth. The page pictures are in colOrs,
charmingly antique and conventional
in design. The type is bold, large
plea face. The cover has three little
maids in blue demurely intent on their
books.
The Holy Family: A Christian Med
itation. By Amory H. Bradford. With
poems by Mrs. Browning, Geo. Mac
donald and Karl j. P. Spitta. Two
photo-illustrations from Murillo's
Holy Family painting. RED rule
margin. Cloth, decorative. so cents.
Rev. Amory H. Bradford, D. L., the
well-known pastor of the First Coz
gregational church in Montclalr, n, D.,
is a great reader and an interchangeable
traveller in every vacation time Europe,
and especially England, being familiar
ground to him, while the Northwest,
California, Alaska, Hawaii, Japan, have
been intelligently visited.
A year or two since DR.. Bradford
published "A Christmas Meditation On
the Sistine Madonna at Dresden, which
was widely appreciated; and this year
he brings out through the same pub
lishers-Fords, Howard & Hubert, New
York-a somewhat similar Christmas
book on The Holy Family Of Murlllo,
in the, National Gallery of London.
D. C. Heath G. Co., publishers, .Bos-
ton, are just about to issue Exercises
in Spanish Composition" by Dr. j. D.
NJ Ford of Harvard university. This
little text will prove to be very eX-
cellent thing for first and second year
college classes. 1t consists in part of
practical, continuous exercises with a
vocabulary, and in part of exercises.
based upon Alarcon's lei Captain We
memo"
Richard Whiteing, the author of that
popular book, mo. 5 John Street" is
writing a series of papers on interest
ing phases of modern life in Paris
which will be printed in the Century
Magazine during the coming exposition
year, with great number of pictures
by Andre Castaigne, who will be thor
oughly at home in this field Mr.,
Whiteing's knowledge of Paris life an
tedates the exposition of 1861.
Bob and Kit. BY the author of Miss
Tooseys Mission" Belle" Tip Cat"
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fishers, Boston) This new volume by
the author of Miss Toosey's Mission"
is mainly a picture of life in a little
Sussex village, where a kindly vicar
brings up his family of five children
with the aid of a sturdy housekeeper.
We enter into the outings and home
life of this pleasant family very much
as Rob did from the neighbOring town;
and we are shown the arrival of Stuart
Sinclair a stranger that very nearly
wrecked the fortunes of the family, as
well as nearly won Kits love. Kit was
faithful, it may be said, hoWeVer-at
least, so far as the heart went-to the
ungainly Rob, although he left her to
her troubles and went away, having
suddenly become eager to try his fort
une in America for her sake.
The Boys of Marmiton Prairie, By
| Gertrude Smith, illustrated by Bertha
| c. Day. (Little, Brown & Co., pub
fishers, Boston.
Each of the the three boys that give
| the name to this story, 1.-The Boys Of
| Marmiton Prairie" has a number of
| adventures GO Mercer went off on
a distant excursion for pecan nuts, was
nearly swept away by a freshet, and
then came upon al-delightful stranger,
a young college man, Who took him to
! the na00n Of wonderful Indian
Luke" White, the second boy, and
| least amiable of the lot, showed brave
ry before a, steer, and thus gained
| confidence in himself Patty Ian
| ders, however, is really the hero of the
story. His love for beautiful white
| horse, called Napoleon or Napo, his adj
ventures and struggles to keep this
| friend near him in spite of sickness
horse thieves, and doubt about owner
ship, and the quieter but not less well
come incidents Of his home life make
up an interesting book.
The story is a good one to put into
| the hands Of boys, because the author
never forgets the latent manliness of
| her young heroes. Patty, the boy, is
destined to become a great man, and in
| certain acts the reader is given a
| stimulating hint Of this.
| Poems by Keats and Shelley. Illus
| trated by Edmund H. Garrett. Pub
| lished by Little, Brown & Co. This
exquisite edition has a white cloth
cover decorated with chaste gilt de-
signs. 1t includes the following poems:
La Belle Dame Sans Merci, Isabella
| the Eve of st. Agnes, Lamia, The
| Cloud, To skylark, Ode to the West
Wind, The Sensitive Plant, The Witch
of Atlas.
invisible Links by Selma Lager
lof. Translated from the Swedish by
Pauline Bancroft Flach.
Published by Little, Brown & Co., 254
Washington street, Boston. Cloth,
$3.50.
1t is thought that 'Invisible Links, -
Miss Lagerlof's new volume of stories,
will be found as remarkable as her
other books, THE Story of Costa Ber-
ling" and 'The Miracles of Antichrist.' .
The power and charm of Miss Lager
lofts individuality are shown anew in
the collection. The stories are full of
vigorous incidents, often blended with
play of fantasy equal to Hawthorne S ;
and they do not fail to carry the inter
est of the reader to a fitting climax.
They will appeal to lovers of literature
by the choiceness of their wording, by
the simple directness of style, the deli
cacy of pathos and humor, and the
sympathetic human quality that per-
| vades even the exquisite descriptions
of nature Miss Lagerlof views her
scenes and incidents through the mind
of some one present on the scene, and
this point of view, subtly impressed
upon her descriptions, gives value and
interest even to the slightest details.
The translation is by Mrs Pauline Ban
croft Flach, whose former translations
from Miss Lagerlof have met with so
much favor in American and England.
"Coutes de la Vie Rustique,' arranged
with explanatory notes in English by
George Costeginer. Published by w