The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-03-26

and graduation bring together One OF
the prettiest tells how a green, young
girl came to visit the fashionable fam
lily of professor in the academy. A
young cadet captain saw her painful
position and set himself to work to give
| her the good time her sweetness and
freshness deserved. So he got lot OF
the fellows to help him out and be-
tween them they made her the belle of
the ball and the most sought-after girl
In the place, to her own establishment
and the chagrln of the arrogant, snob-
bish people she was visiting. OF course
| one OF tho young men could not do bet
ter than to fall IN love with her, and
the story closes in the glitter OF the
diamond engagement ring. The next
prettiest story, so 1t seems to the pres
ent reviewer, is THE subjugation OF
Miss Blaine in which the capture of a
misanthropic old maid by an irresist-
| ible little boy with a penchant for
| caterpillars is related charmingly. In
spite of q sameness of manner and an
occasional failure to be natural, these
| stories are bright, well told and anus
| ing.
! Richard ID. Blackmore, the beloved
author OF Lorna Doone and other nov
els, is slowly succumbing to an incur
able disease from which he has been
suffering for more than a year. He
lives with two nieces at his model farm
near London, and Is a lonely figure
with few intimate friends, having out
| lived his early literary associates. for
he is now seventy-four years old.
= Benz. r. Tucker of New York will
publish, on March %, THE Ballad of
Reading Gaol," by c. 3. s. Oscar
WILDE. 1t is q poem of more than GOO
lines, dedicated to the memory of a
I
hanged in the gaol during Wilde's inn
prisonment there, and depicts the ter
rible sensations of the author and his
fellow prisoners before and after the
execution. G. g. 3. was the poets pris-
; on and number.
The Dominion Company of Chicago
: announce for early publication the
| Full official history of the war witt
/ Spain," by Murat Halstead.
The following are the leading names
upon the list of votes for ten charte
/ members of an American Academy il
literature: W. ID. Howells, 20: Mari
/ Twain, 10; John Fiske, IS; Thoma
Bailey Aldrich, IS; S. Weir Mitchell, Il
: Charles Dudley Warner, II; Frank R
Stockton, s; Bret Harte, Z; John Bur
roughs, 7; Henry James, 6; George w
Whitcomb Riley, s; Margaret Deland
4; Miss Wilkins, 4: Edmund Clarenc,
/ Stedman, A; Lew Wallace, A. Henry
Van Dyke, 3; Richard Henry stoddard
3; Richard Harding Davis, 3.
| Cassell & Co., and 9 West 1871
street New York, are about to reissu,
their National Library. number o.
} ries and the best of the older volumes
will be reprinted from entirely new
plates,
Admiral Sampson has written for the
April Century an illustrated article
fully describing the work OF THE At.
lantic fleet in the Spanish war" and
drawing it's lessons. The more impor-
tant features of this paper are plan
setting forth the character of the block
ade of Santiago harbor; maps showing
the relative positions from day to day
of Cevera, Schley and Sampson; and a
series of bird s-eye plans Of the en-
gagement Of July 8, showing the posi-
tons of the vessels at different stages
of the fight.
William r. Jenkins, New York, an
nounces for publication in September
The American Cicerone, a guide to the
Paris Exposition of 1900. 1t will be com
piled under the direction Of Nicomte de
| Keratry, and it is proposed to arrange
the text so that a person, no matter
where he starts, may at once be guild
| ed, without the assistance Of any one
| ton. and he will at the same time be
made familiar with the hotels, res
taurants public walks, theatres stores
| monuments and all places of interest.
The general idea of arrangement Is
quite new and the foreigner who has
never visited Paris before will be in
structed how TO live there as does the
| Partisan.
The announcement is made that John
| Kendrick Bangs is to be editor of Lit
erature, the weekly journal Of criti-
cism published by Harper & Brothers
The publication has been under his
| editorial management since 1t assumed
it's new form at the beginning of the
year, but the fact Is first made public
in the current issue.
CHM & Co. have recently added sew
eral carefully edited volumes with in
Productions and notes designed parti-
cularly for students TO their series Of
standard English Classics. Miss Mary
f. Litchfield has brought together the
"Sir Roger de Coverley Papers from
the Spectator and prefaced them with
brief essays descriptive of the public
to which the Spectator appealed, the
characteristics Of Queen Anne litera-
ture, the Spectator in its relation 10
English life and English literature, and
other phases Of the subject. The sew
enth book Of Homer's odyssey" has
been edited for the use of schools by
Charles w. Balm, professor of ancient
Languages in South Carolina College.
Points of grammar, save such as diff
fer from Attic usage, have been spar
ingly noticed, while full information
has been aimed at upon all matters
touching archaeology, mythology and
literature. "Prinz Friedrich Won HON.
burg" by Heinrich con Kleist, has been
prepared for the school room by John
S. Nollen, professor Of modern Ian
euages in Iowa College, who considers
that by its historical position, its in
trinsic excellence and It's peculiar Mt
ness for use as a class text, it properly
comes first in the study OF German
drama since the death Of Schiller. A
life Of Kleist. with critical account
of his place in German literature. the
story Of the play, it's dramatic and
metrical characteristics. add richness
to the volume.
Legouve and Labiches one-act COM
edy, La Cigale chez les Fourmis," has
been edited with notes and q vocabulary
by r. j. Farrar, instructor in the Wash.
ington and Lee University, and pub
lished by the American Book Company
The same Arm has published an Intro