The Portland daily press., 1899-12-07

Engjishf" are thess: "for these things
sre the inheritsgs OF him who truly
masters all the glorious resources OF our
mother tongue, so rich, Sd manly, so
harmonious. 50 strong, 50 majestic.
New my opinion lie that this Is intended
to call out Mrs. Charlotte Perkins Stet'
son, or soms other advanced woman, who
would ask Professor Peck, why, IL Epg-
fish Is our mother tongue, should he not
say II is wonisnly rather than manly
Then again ought he {, spell marvel
Gus " with two ''rsr'
In the second essay, the subject OF VIII ca
Is Ihe Progress Of Fonetik Rsfawrm, it
10 delightful to Zee cruel attempts to
ruin English a. she Is writtsn," put
down, and II only every rouy could realize
that the phonetic spelling IL not only abb
suru and ridiculous, but distinctly
vulgar, then there would be an end OF IL.
However, here again, on q minor point.
I MT 81 differ from Mr.. Psok, for be In
sists that the word which he writes
'paeds gosy" shall be spelled with an n.
Never having seen It other than psds-
sosy, Of necessity referred to several
dictionnrie,, both Eneish and Amsr can,
and only one gave the word 'paedagogy"
with the note, at 10 Obsolete"
OF other papers in this very attractive
and interesting volume are Tbs Little
touches; Names; Fifty Pooks; Stephen
Maarnie; Honore de Balzac; Jhe Human
side of 1enDys n; A Mad Pf ilnfophfr;
Robert ]. InsersoI; A Great National
Newspaper, and Unols Toms Catin In
Liverpool.
Professor Peck has the tort Of talent
which is adaptable to . hundred user,
aud like tie trunk Of an elephant can
He IDEAS we'll and forcibly with big
problem SO well. indeed. that one IA
rather moved to wonder when one finds
him toying gaily with trities light as air.
Tie Harpsrs publish Mr.. II. b. Mar
riot watson's clever romance The Pm
cess Xenia in took form. 1t is Beautiful
Iy found End leautifpIly illustrated by
Il. DE 1huis rup. ard IN, Is glad TO se'
IL In u permanent form, for 1t is one Ct
the most striking and unusual novels Of
the year. Thsrs is a trsm endous plot
indeed 1t Is all plot from the bsginnins
to the bitter end where the zero. ycunS
man whose foibls Is cmniscit noe, al d
who has tried to be ruler OF nation'
and maker Of ,vereiRns, siRnally falls IN
all his plots. go that at last nothing is
LETT him but love, ard the Priroms
Xsnia. lie plays with dynast'e, anu
ruin comes of It. 1he story 10 as Inn rob
able as 1t Is tntert' iDing.-but ts
subtly end aoutely mansGei that Tor the
moment 1t all s'sms as real to us as did
the doipgs tn.shs long ago days wher
We read Of the coed Hsroun Alraschid
portland; Loring, Short az Earmon.)
Another novel from the Hsrpsrs IL dr.
tiuotly clever. but rather disagrseabiy 81.
and this Is he'd Pottags, by Mary Chol-
mondely, the author OF The Danvers
Jewels. 1t Is ons OF these books which
is too good to be so bad or too bad to t6
so gocd-as TO style, i mean. At on:
moment 1t seems 50 fostet, ard there il
st ca IA straininR after fantastic aud SIN
GUAR effects, that one gets out Of pc
thence with !. NIL; and again the authoi
strikes a ven which Is rich and racy rnc
keen, and one beg her Iar6cn for doubt.
ing her ability, and for ssyi Ing N om' n
before what siipshod whiting. Al
storiss go this one will doubtless te pop
u Jar for 1t Ia entertaining and readable;
but we wish Miss Cholmoneely had not
told us that her fascinating her,in e
looked like watsr wsg tale. whatever
that bird may be, nor that the other
charmer Raobel had ''dcq-like eyes I"
One would prefer to keep the animals
out Of 1t And 1t must have bean the
horses and not "Hsstsr's brougham'
that were ''pacina up and down." Port
land; Loring, Short q Harmon.)
III, l.. b. W.