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

ing a tribute to her art and her loyal |
devotion to her distinguished brother.
The biography is full of interesting an
ecdotes He had a dramatic life in boy |
hood in college, as chaplain in the war,
as clergyman, and finally as a success
full author.
The Favor of Princes" BY Mark Lee |
Luther. Published by the Macmillan /
Company London and New York
1.-THE Favor of Princes" is the title
of a novel by Mark Lee Luther which /
will be published by the Macmillan |
Company in November 1t is a tale of .
old and new France in the time of Louis .
XIV. The plot hinges on the action of |
the king who tries to deprive the hero
of his wife whose attractions have fas-
cinated him. Nine. de POmpadour, the /
Due de Choiseul, Rousseau, and many .
of the famous and notorious nersonages /
of The time play part i'll the action .
of the story.
"The other Fellow" BY f. Hopkin-
son Smith. Houghton. Miflin & Co. .
For sale by the Sanford Sawtelle Co.
Clever, as a matter of course, these
eleven short stories from Mr. Smith S /
pen are, but in two or three instances /
they rise above mere cleNerness into /
the realm of the tender and noble. This
is especially true of the two stories of /
southern life-one before the war. The
other after-and of THE man with the
empty sleeve" in which the nations
dealings in Cuba are supported The
scene is laid in the smoking room of
an ocean steamer, where an English |
man maligns the motives of our gov
eminent in helping in Cuba, and an old !
Americaps with an empty sleeve forces |
him to apologize to the room. To make |
he e,e-t che
rior young Bostonian by the name of |
P. Wooverman Shad Todd, Esq, and [
an American doctor with a passion for /
new microbes, Wagner and the rights
of the workingman. To hint at the /
point of the story, would be to spoil I
it for the reader who comes to it now
for the first time. 1t has manly ring
that somehow strikes one as a sur
prise, coming from the somewhat Ian
guild and altogether elegant gentleman I
who sometimes favors Worcester with |
a lecture.
But quite the finest story judged as
a work of art, is "A Kentucky Cinder- /
ella in which an old colored nanny !
tells the love story of a neglected, /
snubbed little white girl. the pensioner
of poor uncle and a spiteful aunt |
Aside from the pathos of the tale, it |
shows in the common love of the young
girl and the slaves of the house,
phase of southern slavery which north |
erners have never fairly understood or
| acknowledged. According to the Law
is post-bellum story of white tyr
amy over the black.
| "A Waterlogged Town is a quizzcal
| study of the raw, western American in
| Venice; Between showers in bort" is
a delicate pen picture of the old Dutch
town on the Mouse. In several stories,
| the author girds at the crudeness of
| American c0aiaI 10
he is less amiable and more like him
self
The publishers have done the public
a service in collecting in permanent
| form these stories from the pages of
the magazines in which they first ap-
| peared.
THE Diary of Rev. Ebenezer Parkman
| of Westboro, Mass" by Harriette NJ.
| Forbes. Published by the Westboro
Historical Society. For sale by Put
nam, Davis & Co. Cloth, $3.50
The value of this book is indicated
to those familiar with county history
by it's title. The diary covers the
months of February, March, April, Oc-
tober and November, 1877 November
and December of ITS, and the years of
| 1873 and 1880.
The historical society, in the preface,
says: I'm giving a part of Mr.. Park
mans journal to the public, the West
boro Historical Society feel that they
are making a valuable contribution to
local New England history 1t
is not only vivid picture of
| their own town during the last
| century, but a type of all New
England townsville petty cares and
economies, the small jealouses and
quarrels, and back of it all and broader
| than all, the earnest, honest God-fear-
| inc 1iUas of fbOSp fot
tions before us. The Illustrations of
| the old houses are most valuable and
| interesting.
A few items may be mentioned: On
June 29, 1873 he got the newspapers
containing the account of Gen. Lin
coins victory over the British in South
Carolina. ITO God be glory" he
writes. Thomas Spy comes again to
the shop for a number of the neigh
bors," he writes in July. Evidently
Editor Thomas was deemed as import
ant as his paper. The author began
to subscribe for The Spy in December, !
1873. In March, 1880, he writes, how
ever: 81 agree with Brock to pay half
the price of Thursdays Worcester pa
per" The wonderful variety of the
pastors work and thoughts is shown
by every page of the book.
The editor says that it is probable
that he kept journal during the whole
period of his long passionate in West |
boro. Much of it has been lost-that
for many years burned-a few volumes
are in the library of the Antiquarian |
Society in Worcester; one, at least in !
that of the Massachusetts Historical
Society of Boston. This volume which
the Westboro Historical Society is en-
abled to print through the kindness of /
Mrs. Edward Tuckerman of Amherst, is
owned by her. 1t is all in one book |
sewed together probably long after Rev. |
Ebenezer's death. Mr.. Parkman was
born in 1903. In 1928 he began to
preach. Next year he was chosen min |
lister at Westboro. Sixteen children
were borne by his two wives.
There is an odd contrast in the en-
tries in this journal, just after mar
riage, at the beginning, and entries dur
ing the revolution. just at the close of /
his useful life. The Westboro Society |
has done a service to literature and
history in publishing this volume.
"A Dividend to Labor A study of en-
ployers' welfare institutions" BY
Nicholas Paine Gilman. Published by (
Houghton, Miff1in & Co., Boston and |
New York Sold by Sanford Sawtelle |
CO., Worcester. Cloth; $3.50
The authog has been deemed an au-
thority of Importance in political econ |
omy since the publication of his book
on profit sharing about ten years ago.
The author presents a most remarka-
BILE record of the relations between the |
employer and employed. The book is
not devoted to ths formal profit-sharing i
concerns, but rather to the firms and
corporations that award bonuses or in |
formal dividends. 1t is hardly possible |
briefly to summarize the work. 1t is |
of substantial value as a book of ref
erence and useful to all political writer's
and thinkers.