The times., 1899-12-10

Hes passed Heavens River now, an soon
He'u clll across It's foam:
You RUWe. YOU damn OF nigger. loose
Your boat. an come on Bome!'
And the pictures which accompany these
! two very different poems are thoroughly
/ characteristic and appropriate New York.
Doubleday & Mcclure Company. SD
other illustrated Books.
The Brushwood Boy" is out in an
/ illustrated edition all by itself and il
/ cannot fail to BE- great disappointment to
] all its friends. This half-mystical little
romance is one of the very best things in
/ its way that the author ever wrote and
I viii be a perennial source of delight TO
/ lovers of his work. Ii occupies a peculiar
! place-it is in a class by itself; and every
/ reader has vivid pictures in his mind of
/ the City of Sleep, of AnnieaniOuise. of the
! Lily Lock, and of Miriam and George.
I It devoved upon Mr. Orson Lowell the
| artist who undertook to illustrate this
1 holiday edition. to realize, at least in
/ some measure, these conceptions, and
candor compels the admission that he has
( not come within a great many miles of
/ doing anything Of the kind He has made
! a few sketchy little pictures, one or two
! IN red and black, for no apparent reason,
/ some marginal drawings which are too
/ small to be distinct, and one or two more
ambitious full-page portraits, after the
/ Gibson manner There is no distinct idea
/ in any Of them, much less the proper idea
! Aside from the general unsatisfactori-
I ness. one may pitch upon one or two
! definite pieces OF eviI-doing. There is. to-
ward the end of the book q picture OF
| Major Cottar fishing. He is made to look
! like a fourteen year old boy. a few pases
| later we have a picture OF Miriam, sup
! posedly at the point of her advent, in tEe
/ flesh, into the story. Now, there are only
/ three places in which Miriam, a young
| lady, comes into the tale at all. One is
! when she is singing The City of Sleep
! i'm the dark: one is on the occasion Of her
| ride with George, and the third-tle one
which this picture is supposed 10 illus
rate-is when she first meets George,
/ quite early in the morning. He TecOg-
| nzes her by the abundant black hair,
| growing in q widows peak, turned back
from the forehead, with that peculiar ripple
| over the right ear" and grey eyes set
| little close together The girl in the pic
ture has eyes rather wide apart, and she
! wears atop of her head al immense black
hat loaded with plumes, which would ef-
| fectually conceal any widows peak that
did not come within an inch OF her eye
! brows Moreover, this is in a country
house before breakfast and the young lady
/ IS supposed to be staying there on visit.
She wears a somewhat e!aborat2 calling
costume Of what appears to be ak k,
! with much white about the front. The text
| expressly states that she was dressed in
| black mourning, be il understood II
looks as If the artist had not paid the au
thor the very Slight compliment OF rea ing
the story which he is supposed to illustrate.
| New York Doubleday & Mcclure Com
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A new edition Of that very charming
-ftt ON,
many years ago by Charles and Mary Lamb
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of the sort colloquiaily known as lime
ricks, for example:
a .::e- Who too.ed the flute
Tried to teach two young tooters 10 toot,
Sad .Hr 1870 20 Tie ulior.
'Ls Ii harder TO Joct, or
To tutor two tgoteTs 10 tootf
This would be good exercise in elocu-
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There is a great deal of human nature
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