The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-04-16

distinct individuality and shows life
that is quite different from that which
has recently been described at other col
/ leges, notably Harvard and Princeton
There is a good deal of the real flavor
of the place, and with it Some things
that seem little queer to men of the
older generation, but that are probably
,answerable to real experience in these
days. 1t possesses a good deal of the
character of local life that is worth re-
cording, and although it must interest
those who have shared the life more
than others, it ought to be readable to
any young fellow, and wholesome for
him.
The Yale News remarks: THE
strength OF Boys and Men is largely in
it's thoughtful representation of the de-
velopment of boyhood into manhood. 1t
is to most other books Of this sort as the
kaleidoscope is to the kaleidoscope
The New York Mail and Express says:
THE author presents in this book pic
ture of the college influences under
which at Yale a boy may grow to the
stature of a man. This is the first Yale
book in the series of College Stories,
which now embraces Across the Cam
pus by Caroline M. Fuller, and Smith
College Stories, by Josephine Dodge
Daskam published last Saturday, $l.50),
for Smith college; College Girls, by
Able Carter Goodhoe, for Wellesley;
Cornell Stores by James Gardner San
derson, and Princeton Stories and The
Adventures Of a Freshman (also at
Yale), by Jesse Lynch Williams"
The Book Buyer for April Charles
Scribner's Sons) has among it's many
portraits Of men of note in the literary
field an excellent one Of Mr.. Holbrook,
taken from an amateur photograph.
The Book Buyer says of Mr.. Holbrook
personally: Richard Holbrook, whose
book of sketches of life at Yale, called
Boys and Men, is noticed on another
page, is a tutor in the Romance Lam
guages in Yale. He is thirty years of
age and a New Engiander. He was ed
ucated at Andover and at Yale, gradu-
ating in 93. The three following years
We're passed in Germany, Italy and
France, and since 1896 he has held his
present post
The magazine says in it's review of the
book: "Mr. Eolbrook's main aim-t that
of showing how under varied influences
boys develop into men at the university
has certainly been attained. In addi-
ton to this the book is rich in well de- !
fined types and in sketches Of the social
and athletic life at the venerable insti-
tuition of learning in New Haven. The |
author should be congratulated on so
excellent start in story writing"
'The Judges Cave, a Romance of the |
New Haven Colony in the Days of the |
Regicides," by Margaret Sidney, the |
gifted author of THE Five Little Pep |
pers" and other books which are widely |
known to the reading public; one vol,
l2mo; $3.50; Lothrop Publishing COM |
pany Boston.
No better background for historical |
could be found than the dra
matte story of the hunted Judges of |
King Charles the First. Margaret Sid
ney was brought up. In New Haven, |
stepped in it's history, it's traditions and
is legends, and as familiar with its To-
,al color as she is with that of historic
Did Concord, her present home
Making a careful and exhaustive |
study Of the facts and fiction that CEN
er about the home of refuge to which
ioffe and Whalley, the fugitive judges
,ame in America, Margaret Sidney has
woven about the record of their wander
ngs and escapes romance of much
power In all historical essentials the
story is reliable and accurate; the In
reduction of Marcia, the heroine, and
he characters that form part of her
life is conscientiously attempted and
lefty done, and the insight which the
story gives into the life and manners Of
he New Haven colony is as admirable
Is it is delightful.
1.-THE Judges Cave" was long d land
mark and relic Of colonial days, and the
interest that centered in it has never
ound better expression or more salts
actory treatment than in TINS story
he work of a tried hand in q tempting
leld The book can be recommended
IS not only dramatic in telling and alb
orbing in interest but as truthfully
'ortraying a phase of our colonial his
Dry of peculiar interest to all.