The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-05-29


1889.
A book on Anglo-Saxon institutions,
which can be specially recommended, Is
''Domesday Book and Beyond: Three Es-
says in the Early History of England,
by Frederic William Maitland.
observations of a Ranchwoman in
New Mexico by Edith NJ. Nicholl, is a
pleasantly told narrative, which will be
acceptable to our patrons.
Probably the best Life of Charles Stew
art Parnell' is that in two volumes by
r. Barry O'Brien.
T. P. O'Connor. a well-known authority
on the subject has written 1.-THE Home
Rule Movement, With a Sketch of Irish
Parties From 1913.
An entertaining and instructive work Is
Russian Hosts and English Guests in
Central Africa" by J. T. Woolrych Pc
roWne
On the results of careful and long-con-
tinued archaeological researches is based
the information given in Religion and
Conscience in Ancient Egypt" by w. M.
Flinders Petrie.
One of the most important of the small
wars in South Africa was that with the
Matabeles in 1896. The book that treats
most fully of this difficulty is 1.-The Mata-
belle Campaign" by Colonel R. S. S. Ba-
den-Powell, who was chief of staff of the
invading force.
The last book written by the late Sir
Rose Lambert Price, well known as a
prominent British officer and writer, was
"a Summer in the Rockies This Will be
OF special interest to people in our part
of the world.
The "Historico- Geograp hical Account of
Palestine in the time of Christ" by d. j.
F. Rohr. will, with other works, be con-
suited by those interested in Biblical re-
search.
Probably no other person was so well
posted on what the people of the United
States desire to know of our sister re-
public as was the late minister from Mex
leo, Matias Romero. He did much to pro-
mote closer relations between the two ma
tons, and now that he is dead we are
fortunate to possess his final legacy to
the two countries, Mexico and the Uni
ted States: a Study of Subjects Affecting
Their Commercial and Social Relations.
Made With a View to Their Promotion"
More philosophical and comprehensive
than any other work on the civil war in
the United States is 1.-The Story of the
Civil War" by John Goldman Ropes, of
which two volumes have so far appeared
and which is to be completed in four vol
umes II does not abound in incident as
much as some other books, but it is at
tractively written, and while it will not
be the final treatise, it is the best we
have to date.
One subject which seems to afford an in
exhaustble field for the student of his
tory and which will probably never be
fully and clearly understood, IS that of
the feudal system. An important contri-
button, and one that will be highly APP
preciated is "Feudal England; Historical
Studies of Eleventh and Twelfth Cen
turies" by John H. Round.
Karl Schmeisser and Karl Vogelsang
have compiled a very desirable account of
the Gold Fields of Australasia" which
has been translated into English by Pro-
fessor Henry Louis. 1t will be in much
demand from our mining men and 9TH
erS
A scholarly and condensed volume is
History of Modern Europe by Ferdi-
nand Schwill.
Mrs Maxwell SCOTS Making of Abb
botsford and Incidents of Scottish His
tory is a book that will be extensively
consulted by the many admirers of the
| great wizard of the north.
John r. Seeley's Growth of British
| Policy is a work that will be of interest
| to the statesman, the student anu to the
| general reader.
Just at present popular interest in the
| absorbing Eastern question and in the lit
| tie kingdom of Greece seems to be oh,
| secured by other topics But as long as tbs
| DUN MAN CpllllfutS 10 occupy HIS famous
| capital on the Bosphorus the subject car
| never be dead one. A valuable account
| of the recent history and present condi,
| ton of the somewhat degenerate descend
| ants of Leonidas and Epaminondes is
| Greece in the Ninteenth Century; a Rec.
| ord of Hellenic Emancipation and Pro
| gress 1S21-1S2T." bv Lewis Sergeant
| So thoroughly done was Napier's Pc
! ninsula War that any subsequent his
I 4nT h. hut 10
| or a commentary on the classic AleXan
| der Innes Stands war in the Peninsula
| 1S06-1Sl4," is a digest, and a very excellen
| one.
A new field of sociological and historical
| research in our days now concerns itsel
| with a scientific investigation of the con
| ditiOns of life in the great cities. A re
| cent book in this line is Life in Yves
| London; a Study and a Contrast" by Ar
| thur Sherwell. 1t is a late contribution t
the Social Questions of lie Day" Sc
| ries.
A book that is attractive from its inter
esting style and from both its gossipy an
| historical character is the Household O
the Lafayettes," by Edith Siche1.
| The most complete and satisfactory lif
of the great Napoleon TO this time is tina
written by Professor William NJ. Sloan
and published year or so ago in the Cen
fury Magazine. The chapters that appear
ed in that periodical have been gathere
by the library and bound in a convenien
sized volume.