The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-11-26
OTHER BOOKS RECEIVED.

"oy Life on the Prairie" by Ham
III Garland. Illustrated by E. w
Ce'iilns' The Macmillan Co.. New
YORK and London. Cloth, $3.50 This
DOCK Is vivid presentation of life on
'"e farms twenty years ago. The
: iSof takes pains to state that BOY
~ on the Prairie" is not an auto
D'os aPhy. Though he admits that his
VJ"u ne was substantially the same as
ma OF Lincoln Stewart, who he saws is
u9eu 10 connect the chapters into a
3t?Iy' Hamlin Garland is an artist AT
i ms sort OF narrative, His Imagination
lias not been left out of the work The
80, 10y IS WING, the pictures of life are
roaSS Ieal, ahF While they are not all
iosedte, there is in a healthy farna,,e
BOY both splendid, joyful evnariannas
ana considerable hardship and rnonoto-
~, ouch a real, honest expression of
past experiences ought to counteract
me MORBID silly nonsense upon which
- founded the sentiment of *'the man
with the hoe" Stupidity and dnIlnase
are not characteristic of the men with
Llloes-hot In this country Few men
nave nave made mark who did not begin
~ scratching mother earth with a hoe
b - nv
The Thanksgiving number of Tho Cot
! urday Evening Post, in its stories
poems pictures and general articles
VII De the most attractive number Of
the magazine yet issued.
IN this number Robert w. Chambers
| mas seasonable out-of-door story en-
Titled The Hunter" the romance Of a
poachers pretty daughter. Other fea-
lures are: Edwin Markham's latest
poem, The Lyric Seer; An Electrical
transaction, tale of the Transvaal
var ny robert Barr; AT Dawn" by
9c.dae Iaiahet, and The Minister s
Henhouse," droll story by c. B. Loo
mis-. -
John Brown" By Joseph Edgar
CHAMBERLAIN. The Beacon Biograph-
les Edited by NJ. A. Dew. Howe
Cloth, IS cents. Published by Small
Maynard & Co, Boston.
Inc story of this dramatic life is told
with much skill The author realized
the dlti1culty of his undertaking, TO
present picture Of the man." he
writes, separating him as much as
possible from the controversies and ha-
treds which commonly rise up at the
mention OF his name, and to tell the
story or his life plainly, without inuuir-
| ing INTO the effect Of his work or any
iurther estimate and comparison, would
De quite enough to attempt in a bio
graphy of John Brown of Ossawatonoie
as brief as this one must be. Brown s
sacrlnce has been classed sometimes
with that of Jesus of Nazareth; he has
otten been called murderer, brigand and
traitor he, has been written about
much and well, and for the most mart
fiercely. It would seem that the time
mas come for Calmer account of him,
given With no beat or bitterness Both
sizes OF the controversy with which he
concerned himself so actively should
nave learned much in forty years"
Yet the story of Brown is so strong
ly simple, so utterly governed by an
ideal, so glowing and tragical, that any
one who follows it closely is likely to
md himself kindling before he is aware
of it,
At the end of the story, when the
curtain fell upon the gallows scene, he
writes: This was not the end of John
Brown, as all the world knows. His
name and his strange, direct, simple in
huence We're soon imbedded in the his
tory ana song, of his country. =
More than four years afterward, when
the civil war had been fought and it's
results declared, a Union general, in
Wise's presence, mentioned the name
Of John Brown. Whereupon the Vir-
ginian quickly said: John Brown?
John Brown was great man, sir. John
Brown was great mani"
THE Little Browns" by Mabel E. Wot-
ton. London: Blackie & Son, limited
Glasgow and Dublin Imported by
Charles Scribners Sons. Cloth; 81.
The little Browns are a delightful set
of youngsters whom the upbringing of
an inert mother and faddist father has
rendered more than usually individual
and self-reliant. During their parents
absence they extend hospitality to
stranger under the belief that he is
their unknown and long expected I'M
Gle from Australia. Two of the little
girls make the discovery that the sup
posed uncle is really burglar who is
in league with the new man-servant,
and by their courage and childish re-
source outwit him. THE Little Browns"
is the work of so true child-lover that
one recalls the criticism of The Times
on Miss Wottons last child's book-the
best thing of the kind which has APP
peared for thirty years.
The Territorial Acquisitions of the
United States" An historical review
by Edward Bicknell. Published by
Small, Maynard & Co. Boards, so
cents.
Because all the world is discussing
the results of the war ofs1898, this his
torical review, which recites in detail
all the presidents established by the
United States since the beginning of it's
government, should aid very greatly the
comprehension of the sub
ject 1t is evidently the authors inten-
tlon to avoid partisanship or contro
versy. He has told the whole truth in
simple, graphic language, concerning
every event that has occurred, which
has any relation to .the gradual growth
of small, scattered group of states
into the magnificent domain which is
now the United States of America, and
he has left the reader to his own con-
illusions as to the propriety and wis
dom of extending the national control
to lands beyond the sea. W.
'Northland Lyrics" by William
Carman Roberts, Theodore Roberts
and Elizabeth Roberts Macdonald. Sc
lected and arranged with prologue
by Charles G. d. Roberts with an
epilogue by Bliss Carman. Cloth, $l.3O.
Published by Small, Maynard & Co.,
Boston.
"Doce Cuentos Escogidos." Edited for
class, use with explanatory notes and
vocabulary, by c. Fontaine, B.
LID, director of French and
Spanish instruction in the high
Published by William R. Jenkins,
Do