New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-10-07
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS.

A mother writes from Atlantic City: i" have
been reader OF your SATURDAY REVIEW for
years and rejoice as the time is due for each
issue. Lately have been greatly interested In
your list OF reading for girls Of eighteen. May
ask II you or some OF your readers would not
supply a list for q girl Of seven?-on containing
instructive books on history nature. and science
SIMPLY told. but entertaining, and easy to under
stand l know there are such books published
Tor children. but i have had difficulty In finding
them. as the book stores OF city carry small
stocks and. though they will OF course get any
among the books and look. I should be delighted
II you would prove my lady from Philadelphia.
and assist"
The following books all easily found at
any good book shop, may be recommended
as OF interest 20 children. as well as in
structlve: MY Garden Pets" by Mary
Treat; Wild Animals Have Known" by
Ernest Seton Thompson; THE American
Girls Handy Book" by Lima and Adella b.
Beard; THE Butterfly Hunters in the Car
ibbees," by Dr. Eugene MurrayAaron;
1.-THE Age of Electricity: From Amber Soul
to Telephone" by Parke Benjamin; The
Merry Adventures of Robin Hood" by How
ard Pyle; Chldrens Stories Of the Great
Scientists" Childrens Stories of American
History" and "Chidren's Stories of Amer
lean Progress" by Henrietta Christian
Wright.
A. Olson Minneapolis, MINI: 81 am looking
for book which gives TRANSACTIONS Of Greek
verse"
A good anthology which gives a survey
OF Greek poetry is Prof W. II. Appleton's
Greek Poets in English Verse" Boston:
Houghton, Mifiln & Co. 1893. $50.
l.. symons. Harlem New York City: " What
became OF Henry James's novel. The Old
What did Henry James's father writer"
The Old Things was published in book
form in 1897 as THE Spells OF Poynton."
Henry James. Sr., QS1l-lSS2) published
number OF books on theological and
metaphysical subjects, among which are
THE Secret Of Swedenborg." 1869. and
Society the Redeemed Form of Man"
1889. His " Literary Remains" edited by
another of his sons, Prof William James
Of Harvard, appeared In 1884.
Mrs. r. s. Bangs. Albany. ". Y: " Please tell
me something about Parsons. the Dante trans
lator."
Thomas William Parsons was born in
Boston Aug 1S 1919, and was educated at
the Boston Latin<School. After a course of
private study. he went to Europe in 1896.
He studied Italian In Italy. and there made
a version of the first ten cantos of Dantes
" Inferno" which was published in Bostov
on his return. in 1913 He became a sue
cessful dentist In Boston. and then removed
10 England, where ne practlced MS pro-
fession and engaged in literary pursuits He
lived in Boston after 1872, and died in
Scituate, Mass, Sept 3, 1892. He appears
in Longfelows Tales of a Waysde Inn "
as the poet His Dante appeared in 1893.
with an Introductory essay by Prof. Nor
ton and a sketch of the translator by Miss
Quincy. An edition Of his Poems " also
appeared the same year.
"R 4. w" New York City: am obliged
you for printing. some time ago. in answer to
my request Aldrich's Fredericksburg Kindly
print that poem Of his with this line, For those
who love. the world is wide and also tel!
where the Rivermouth is that appears in The
story Of Bad Boy "
Rivermouth s Aldrich's birthplace.
He also describes IL In " An Old Town by
the Sea" which is a study in the history Of
Portsmouth. y. H. with personal recollec-
tions. Boston, HoughtOn, Miffln K Co,
1893. 81 The poem asked for is as fol-
lows:
RECONTRE.
TOilng across the Mer de Glace,
thought Of longed for thee
What miles between US stretched. alasi
What miles of land and sea.
Ny foe. undreamed OF, at my side
stood suddenly like Fate;
For those who love. the world is wide.
Vuf not for those who hate