The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1900-11-06
NEW BOOKS OF REAL VALUE.

Is given up to poems of the resurrection
and paradise. The appearance OF the vol
ume In its dress of white. blue. and gold
Is daintily attractive, and IL will be well
coined as "A gift and especially priced IS
a token or sympathy. published by Lee
* shepard Price sl.5o)
MYTHS AND FABLES OF TO-DAY. by
Samuel Adams Drake:
In this very interesting book Colonel
Drake shows how our daily lives are
filled with sayings and doings that have
their origin i'm superstition. although we
may not realize It, These origins ho
traces In scholarly and entertaining
manner. giving many illustrations OF the
power of superstition I'm common life.
and drawing largely from history. The
book covering as IL does The Folk Lore OF
Childhood, Weather Lore-signs of all
sorts, Charms To Good Luck, Charms
against Disease Fate i'm Jewels, Love and
Marriage, EVIL Omens. Haunted Houses,
Persons and Places. .Presentiments, Tho
Divining Rod, Fortune Telling, Astrology,
Palmistry, etc, can scarcely fail TO at
tract each one along the line OF some pet
hobby. Even the most violent skeptics,
too, Will admit that Colonel Drake has
most ample reason for making book on
this subject, and that he has made q
most readable one. The illustrations by
Frank Il. Merrill help to render this as
pretty a book as IL is good one. PuP-
lished by Lee a. Shepard Price sl.o0.)
DIR. Tomlinson began an ideal series In
the way of standard books for boys when
he wrote Camping on the ST. Law
renee" last year. In THE House Boat on
the st. Lawrence, or Following Fronte-
nae" (price Sc ,50, he has now placed the
four friends and royal good fellows.
Bob" Ben" Jock" and Bert" in
house boat on the same noble river, and
given them Frontenac instead OF Cartier
as the discoverer who affords them in
spiration. DIR. Tomlinson's purpose has
been TO record such experiences as par
ty of four college friends might have had
(and. indeed, did have) in a summer spent
upon the beautiful and historic st. Law
renee. DIR. Tomlinson believes that young
people are naturally interested In the his
torical records of their own land. Acting
upon such belief he has endeavored 10
interest his readers in some of She event
full deeds of one of the leaders of men
in the new world In its earlier days.
Another book, like those of Mr.. Strate-
meyers calculated to instruct the young
reader in the big events OF the end OF the
century. is called "Aguinaldo's Hostage,
or Dick Carson's Captivity Among the
by II. Irving Hancock. price
.25) Mr.. Hancock. well known
gifted writer for Frank Leslie's Week
ly'' and other publications. has made use
of his experiences I'm the Philippine ISL
ands 10 write "a most entertaining story
Of the war with the Filipinos. viewed
mainly from their own lines. thus diff
fering from any other book that has been
written. Dick Carson is brought into
captivity by villain as a penalty for his
uprightness. lie Is saved from death by
Aguinaldo for possible use as a hostage.
and made useful az an attendant by a
Filipino surgeon. The fortune of the
Filipino armies Is told as no one could
tell II who had not been there, and the
eventual escape of Dick Carson forms a
thrilling story that conveys much gen.
eral information along with the intense
interest IL arouses
Little. Brown & Co have printed in an
exquisite booklet two bits from the writ
ngs OF Henry Sienkiewicz. THE Judg-
nent of Peter and Paul on Olympus" and
BE Thou Blessed" each poem I'm
PROSE" translated from the Polish by
Mr. Curtin. In the former allesory the
TWO disciples visit Olympus and pass
Judgment on the ancient gods, sparing
,ut two of them TO the Christian world.
Apollo. representing Song and the god
less of Joy. The booklet Is illustrated
md printed I'm purple ink. the pages with
borders. CPrice 20 cents.)