The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-01-08

NSSbiSdlloIS Oh the writer. After Qenn-
ing the district under consideration, it
stretches from Eliot and Kneeland
! streets. to the Brookline streets, from
fremont and Ferdinand streets to Fox
Point channel, to the South bay
| sketches of its history and population
are given. 1t is a district where Irish
Roman Catholic predominant, with a
constantly increasing Jewish popula-
tion. There is no such overcrowding
as there is in lower New York; poverty
has no such painful and revolving as
lectS as are to be seen in East London:
drunkenness is of a less sodden and
brutalizing character than in the cor
responding quarters of many American
cities; immortality is at least not obtru-
stve and defiant; and, amid a cosmo-
politan population, representing nearly
every grade of working class existence,
the labor problem is at about its aver
age degree of difficulty"
Public health, work and wages. the
roots of political power, criminal ten
tencies, amusements, the church and
the people, strongholds of education and
social recovery are each made the sub
ject of a chapter. The trend of the
book is on the whole optimistic, and it
seems to be the conclusion of the au-
thors that the south end has enteredup-
on stage of social recovery. There are
seven maps in the book
The Maude Adams edition of THE
Little Minister" is sumptuous puEh-
cation, containing 80 full-page pictures
of Miss Adams and her company in the
principal scenes in the story. 1t is
sumptuous in white vellum, elaborate
ly stamped in gold, and has 400 pages.
Each copy comes sealed and enclosed
in box. 1t is published by r. H. Rus
sell of New York, and is one of the
most attractive gift books of the year.
The Little Minister Souvenir" pub
lishred by the same house, contains IA
drawings by c. A. Gilbert.
While student at Yale in 1866,
Chauncey M. Depew wrote a love story
for the Yale Literary Magazine. The
tale appears in full in The Depew Story
Book, by Will NJ. Clemens, which has
just appeared from the press of f. Ten
nyson Nicely, New York and London.
The convenience of having in one vol
ume all the requirements in English for
careful study" for the years 1900-1902
as prescribed by the joint conference
OF colleges and secondary schools ON
requirements in English for admission
to colleges has probably occurred TO
many teacher before now, but it has
remained for Houghton, MifI1in & Co..
Will contain Macaulay's Essay on Mil
tom the first three books of Paradise
Lost; L'Allegro, II Penseroso, and other
poems; Macbeth Macaulay's Life and
Writings of Addison: and Burkes
"On Cancellation with the Colonies"
There are 666 pages. The same essays
and poems are also published in the
Riverside Literature Series, both in
paper and in linen.
Art and it's relation to life is the sub
Ject of series of essays by Edward
Carpenter, which is soon to be pub
lished under the title of Angels
Wings" All the leading branches of
art, including literature and music, are
treated, and special reference is made
to the changes through which art Is
passing by reason of the growth of
democratic ideas. The argument is sus-
tanned by the reproduction of many
plates from famous paintings and
sculptures. Mr.. Carpenter Is the all
thor of From Adams Peak to Ele-
phanta," Civilization, it's Cause and
Cure" and other books.
'.Shaksperean literature, as far as it
is known to me, still lacks a book that
shall supply within a brief COMPASS
an exhaustive and well-arranged state
ment of the facts of Shakspere's career
achievement and reputation that shall
reduce conjecture to the smallest di-
mansions consistent with conference
and shall give verifiable references to
all the original sources of information"
So writes Mr.. Sidney Lee in the nre
face to his Life of William Shakespeare. "
recently published by the Macmillan
Company. Continuing, Mr.. Lee ex-
presses the modest hope that he might
NIL this gap, and it will be the candid
conclusion of most readers that he has
filled it. This new biography is an ex-
pansion of the authors artitIc in the
Dictionary of National Biography"
Chapters are devoted to SHAKESPEARE BIZ
ography and his posthumous reputa-
ton, and the appendix contains i'm
portant addenda on the sources of hi
ographical knowledge, the Bacon
Shakspere controversy, the Earl of
Southampton and the sonnets. The
newly discovered 'Droeshout" paint
ing of Shakspere, which is now in the
Shakspere memorial gallery in STRAIT
ford Avon, has been selected for
the frontispiece. The five entirely au-
thentic autographs of Shakspere's
signature are given in ac-simile.
There are several portraits, and Shak
spere's coat of arms and motto, copied
from the trickings in the margin of
the draft grants of arms in the Her
L.
Lees Shakspere is destined to take its
place as an authority of the first
rank.
The War Revenue Law of 1898 Ex-
planned is the title of a book that will
appeal TO business men. professional
men, and everybody who has to do with
the pesky regulations designed by con-
gress to raise money for freeing Cuba
and conquering Porto Rico, Guam and
the Philippines. 1t is COMPLIED bv
John M. Gould and Edward H Slavery.
whose experience especially fits them
for the work. There is an abundance
of notes, besides frequent citations of
court decisions to assist the reader in
understanding the meaning and appli-
cation of the law. There is a good in
deX, and the scheme of the work is well
adapted to the use of the busy man
who wants to know" and wants his
answer quickly. The book is publish
ed by Little, Brown G. Co.
"The Control of the Tropics
book written by Mr.. Benjamin Kidd,
author of Social Evolution" has been
frequently quoted since expansion or
Imperialism became a live issue in the
United States. Now that the issue seems
to have been virtually settled, Mr..
Kids observations and arguments are
none the less interesting, and certainly
they are instructive. He is expansion
list TO the core. He sees no other logical
policy for the Anglo-Saxon race. wheth-
er in America or in England. We must
expand or 'bust'--that is Mr.. Kids
creed. 1t is not good for us to remain
where we are or were a century or
even a quarter century, ago.
1t is especially with reference to the
tropics. however, that Mr.. Kidd writes,
and he proceeds to argue the necessity,