The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-07-17

been at an earlier time. The latest vol
ume to be issued is "Retrospects and
Prospects; Descriptive and Historical Es-
| says"
very considerable addition to the his
tory of journalism is the Memoirs of
the Life and Correspondence of HeIS :
Reeve" by John Laughton Knox:
Many are the readers who have OBJ
tanned entertainment and instruction from
the altogether admirable Beacon Lights
of History" The latest of the series de-
voted to Nineteenth Century Writers"
was left incomplete. Chapters on Ros-
seau, Sir Walter Scott Lord Byron, Gar
lyle and Macaulay were finished WIN
DR.. Lords earthly work was stopped.
But the publishers filled ou the volume
by publishing sketch of the author and
the last volume of the set has an appro-
plate close.
The History of Bohemian Literature"
by Francis Count LutzOW, is a compre-
hensive account of the writer's of the his
torical, not the literary, Bohemia.
Mrs. Alice Meynell has written a volume
of essays with the title 1.-The Spirit of
Place and Other Essays" which has re-
ceived exceptional approval from the
critics.
We have several readers with whom
the literary work of Agnes Repplier is
that we have lately received Books and
Men" Essays in Ideness" and "In the
Dozy Hours, and Other Papers"
William Michael Rossetti has compiled
an attractive volume called "Ruskin. Ros-
setti, Raphaelitism: Papers, 1854 to
1882"
No more competent biographer has writ
ten of Shelley than DIR. Henry S. Salt
His Percy Bysshe Shelley. Poet and Pho
a Rioprap hipal Stl1y - is Si1fe IN he
a standard.
Versatile he is and cratic he may be
bu: the career of Count Tolstoi will be of
perennial interest. The latest study of the
original Russian author is How Count
Leo N. Tolstoy Lives and Works." by p.
A. SergyeenkO.
Robert Louis Stevensons Edinburgh
Days. by f. Blantyre Simpson, is a read
able book and will be most highly APP
preciated by those readers who have not
yet found out that Mr. Stevensons fame
is of a purely ephemeral character.
F. j. Smell in the Fourteenth Century"
the latest issue of the Literature of the
World Series" had an important theme,
which he has handled well so far as the
presentation of material is concerned. but
has not risen to the opportunities af-
forded for philosophical generalization.
among My Books; Papers on Literary
Subjects Reprinted From Literature" is
edited by II. d. Trail, but it consists of
many essays by various authors and is
a good book, from which one may gather
an idea of the style of several authors of
note to-day.
Pages and Pictures From Forgotten
Chiidren's Books" edited by Andrew
Tuer, is an interesting and instructive
work. But it will be interesting mainly
to adults and instructive to students of
literature. The books for children pro-
duced to-day are so much superior,
whether we consider their literary or their
artistic merits, that our young people may
well ignore the books of the past.
A valuable study for literateur and mu-
sician is "A Run Through the Nibeung's
Ring" by Philip Leslie Agnew.
1t is interesting to note how apprecia-
tloR for Matthew Arnold has grown in
the few years since he has gone from
among the living. 1t is also curious that
it is his reputation as a poet that has
grown. whereas the high regard in which
he was held as an essayist has, if any
thing, diminished. His present standing
In English literature is discussed in
Matthew Arnold and the Spirit of the
Age" a symposium by Greenough White
and others ~ ' ..'h-
1.-THE History of Yiddish Literature in
the Nineteenth Century by Leo Wiener,
is the most complete record of the sub
ject that has yet-been compiled. -.
Ordinarily we believe that the way to
study literature is 10 go to the books
themselves and to be ones own guide.
But we have work to speak of here that
we would like to see digested by everyone
who cares to become a literary expert.
The "Principles of Criticism; An Intro
ducton to the Study of Literature" by
W. Basil Worsfold is a book deserving of
very careful investigation