Omaha daily bee., 1900-01-25
NEW BOOKS and MAGAZINES
Two Volumes Added to Haworth Edition of
Charlotte Bronte's Works.
COLLEGE ,sTORlES OF PENNSYLVANIA
Heroism of Nathan Hale Represented
in n New Play for the stage
-Lntcst Works of Va
rious Kinds.

Two volumes have. been added TO the
Haworth edition of the life and works OF the
Sisters Bronte Shirley" and "Villette.
Shirley was published in the autumn Of
lS49, two years after the appearance OF Jane
Eyre No book was ever written under
more pathetic, more torturing conditions. 1t
was begun very soon after the publication
Of Jane Eyre" amid the first
rushing of the blast of fame; it
was continued all through those
miserable and humiliating months Of lS4S,
when the presence OF Branwell at the par
sonage was a perpetual shadow of his sis
ters' lives, when they never knew what a
day might bring forth and would lie trem-
bling and wakeful at night, listening for
sounds from their fathers room where
Branwell slept-Branwell who had often
threatened them in the delirium OF an
opium eater and a drunkard that either HE
father or he would be dead by the morning.
During the year which followed the pub
LEGATION of shirley" Charlotte Bronte
seems to have been content 10 rest from
literary labor-save for the touching and re-
markable preface that she contributed in the
autumn of the year to the reprint of
"Wuthering Heights" and Agnes Grey
which had been happily rescued from MI.
4NtNDl III WIZ saAN - -"'' .A'N- $4,000
We hear nothing of any new projects. After
the great success Of Jane Eyre" and
shirley" indeed, she turned back TO think
of the imprinted manuscript Of The Pro-
fessor," and to plans OF how work already
done might be turned to account, now that
the public knew her and the way was
smoothed. Towards the end of 1850, or in
the first days OF 1851, she wrote a fresh pre-
face TO 9TH Professor" and suggested IN
her publishers that they should at last ven-
ture upon its publication. They did not ap-
p~arently refuse; but they advised her against
THE project; and as Mr.. Nichols says in a
note which he added to his wife's preface
on the publication OF THE Professor after
her death, she then made use OF the ma
terials in a subsequent work, "Villette.'
There is an interesting. and for the NEST
part, unpublished letter TO Mr., George
Smith still in existence, which throws light
upon this disappointment Of hers-a disap-
polntment which TO us is pure gain, since II
produced "yillette.'
As was pointed ont on the publication OF
the hrst volume, his new edition of the
works OF the Sisters Bronte is most COM
mendable in every respect and the admirers
OF the writings of the talented sisters will
welcome II. II leaves nothing to be de-
slItu. i1dllSl eNA~Ao' A'''Nr -"
Richard Henry Savage has written a new
novel bearing the title Of Captain Lanioa.'
Mr.. Savage. like Rembrandt, understands tn.
mutual helpfulness OF high lights and dee
shadows in giving strength to a picture
With mastery skill he has so related thos
TO ono another in Captain Landon' as I
bring out in most striking effect all tn
essential attributes of an ideal soldier a
embodied In his hero. The story takes in.
its scope an American army feud that wa
transferred TO Rome. There ii was Tough
out with such powerful accessories as wer
found in the personnel OF the America
consular service, the diplomatic corps, IN
American colony in general and several i'm
portant native Romans of both good an
evil character, The winding up OF the stor
Is dramatic in the highes, d~egree-shoSin
the wrenged man, defiant and aggressive
clearing up every shadow that was up
his reputation, winning his bride who ha
never really doubted him, shifting hi
enemies hip and thigh and Witnessing N
utter social and hnsucial overthrow OF hi
arch enemy. Rawdon Clark. Rand. NJ
Naly a Co. Chicago. Price, Sls5.
The Plays of Edwin Boob which is 1
once a miniature theatrical library and