The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-07-30

come across a book vital enough to
break rules for. / should like to con-
graduate author, publisher and every
one concerned"
The enthusiastic Englishwoman was
evidently under the impression that the
author of Hugh Gwyeth" is a man.
Miss Beulah Marie Dix is probably too
proud of her sex to be gratified at the
mistake, but to receive such hearty
transatlantic praise for her first story
must be very encouraging. AS rule,
English appreciation does not thaw out
quite so rapidly as this.
In recent review of Prof. Henry s.
Nash's Ethics and Relaxation, Bish-
op John H. Vincent says of it,
This is a great book. 1t is poem
in prose, a study in English-felicitous
and forcible, a study in history and So
ciology, in the subjective spiritual life
and in ecclesiastical fundamentals. The
author is rare rhetorician and guides
one through gardens of beauty, but
they are gardens among the mountains.
One is in danger of marring the mar
gins of the pages by marking brilliant,
strong and epigrammatic passages for
re-reading. There is a tendency to
repetition, but it is in such varied
forms and is always so fresh that it
word of the six lectures should be read
by thoughtful men of the day, minis
tiers and laymen, believers and skep-
tics"
Readers of the August number of
The Critic may notice the absence OF
Mr.. Dicksons paper on "Thackeray $
contributions to Punch. 1t has been
held over to make room for "A repent
ance," drama IN one act by John Oh
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given complete in this number. Besides
this, there is an article on Charlotte
Bronte and her two friends, Miss Tay-
Tor and Miss Nussey, by Marion Har-
land, who has recently visited the
scenes in which the drama of Charlotte
Bonte's life was acted, and who has
had special advantages for writing the
story. The article is illustrated with
portrait of Miss Nussey by Miss Taylor
and portrait of BranwelD Bronte by
the same hand. There is also, FAM
lily group drawn by Branwel Bronte,
which does not show evidences of the
artistic talent he and his family
seemed to think that he possessed. An
other picture shows the house in which
Charlotte Bronte was born.
There is, also, in this number an APP
probation of the late Augustin Daily
by A. l. DUPONT Coleman, who adj
mired Mr.. DAILY the man as much as
Mr.. Daily the manager. This article is
illustrated with a new portrait of Mr..
Daily and view of the interior of his
private office at Days Theatre, show
ing the beautiful Empire furniture
which he bequeathed to Miss Ada Re
han in his will. A notable contribution
to this number of The Critic is a poem
called THE song of the Nebraska cat
tie country"
The frontispiece of The Critic is re-
production of Falguiere's Balzac. In
THE lounger'' there are portraits of
Carlyle, Winston Churchill, Mrs. Ella
Higginson, Seumas MacManus, and
Mrs. Kate Chopin The Polish rider,
by Rembrandt, supposed to be the only
equestrian portrait he ever painted, is
given in this number.
Every red-haired girl in the country
Is reading Stanley WatePlooS 1.-THE
launching of a man." recently issued
by Rand, McNally & Co., Chicago.
Rand, McNally & Co., Chicago, have
in press and will issue shortly two
volume edition de luxe of THE Last
Days of Pompeii," by Bulwer Lytton.
This edition will be handsomely Illus
trated with fifty-eight monogravures
reproduced from original photographs.
The books will be 8vo in size and will
be bound in three styles.
An eight-volume set of Kipling's
works will be issued about the LIST of
September by Rand, McNally & Co.,
Chicago, under the following titles:
"Barrack room ballads, departmental
ditties, and other verse, Soldiers