The Savannah morning news., 1901-09-23
BOOK NOTICES.

"reminiscences of a Mississippian in
Peace and War" by Frank A. Mont
gomery: vo, xvii. 324 pages. With
portraits, handsomely printed and
bound in cloth extra. The Robert
Charles Company, publishers, 81 to 80
East Fourth street, Cincinnati, o.
Cloth, $500. A nextract from the au-
thor's preface gives a very compre-
hensive idea of the book. The book
is a very interesting one, we'll written
and full of incidents. The extract from
the preface is as follows: 1T has
been my fortune to have lived for
seventy years in my native state.
Mississippi and until within the last
few months to have led an active life
from boyhood to my present age, never
without some occupation which was
congenial to me. But time which has
brought me age has also brought me
leisure, and / have awaited myself of
it to write my recollections of so much
of the war between the states in which
my own immediate cavalry command
however, 1 have not confined myself
to this, but have allowed my memory
to carry me back to the days when l
was a young man, and to speak of
Mississippi life as it then was. So also
/ have dwelt upon the reconstruction
era in the state and brought my mem
oirs down to the present time, with
however, only a passing reference to
the civil offices l have held. So far as
the war is concerned | have felt it al
most a duty, 1t certainly has been a
pleasure, to recall the incidents of that
stirring time and to rescue from OBJ
IsxytAv, fa.. 4 M a
deeds of some Mississippi soldiers and
commands, to whom history in the
state has done but scant justice. If
/ have succeeded in this, if 1 have con-
tributed in ever so slight degree, to
the history of the state or of the war,
l will be amply repaid for the work l
have DONE"
"A Nest of Linnets." BY F. Frank
fort Moore, author of 1.-THE Jessamy
Bride" "A Gray Eye or &c." etc. IL
Illustrated. limo. Cloth, $3.50. This
charming romance is in the vein the
author developed so happily in The
Jessamy Bride" and it is in many re-
spects a more mature and important
work. The story Is exceedingly happy
in it's delicate reproduction of eigh-
scenes are placed before the reader
with a daintiness and grace admirably
befitting the finer aspects of the poriod.
The incidents and adventures of the
romance-for there are stirring advent
ures-are witnessed, shared in, or Cos
siped about by brilliant figures of the
time, as Sheridan, Walpole, and Sell
wyn: while the ponderous presence of
DR.. Johnson makes itself felt here and
there, and Goldsmith appears as a
more modest member of the company.
The quality and character of fas-
chatting time have been aptly realized
by the author. His work promises to
mark a new and conspicuous success.
1.-THE Pirate Frog and other Tales, "
verses by w. A Frisbie pictures by
Bart, author of the Bandit Mouse,
Literary, and Color Drawing, by Fred
r. Bartholomew. Rand, McNally &
Co, New York, publishers. 1t would
be hard to find anything in the way OF
a book so interesting to children as this
volume. BY this is is not mean that IL
has no interest for adults. 1t has. 1t
will interest anyone. The pictures are
particularly fine, and the verses good.
It is a volume which can be recon-
mended with a clear conscience.
THE Right of Way" by Gilbert Par
ker. author of the Scots of the
Mighty" etc. Illustrated by A. G..
Keller. Harper G. Brothers publishers,
Franklin Square, New York city. For
sale at the book store of the Misses
Common. Bull street. near Broughton.
This is Gilbert Parker's masterpiece. 1t
is indeed a virile and fascinating book,
In it's unusual love story, its character
portrayal and it's spiritual import. The
central figure, Charley Steele, Is pow
erfulIy drawn. He is a young lawyer,
brilliant, gifted, beset with the vice of
intemperance, and nsympathetically
married His fate is eventually so
strange that he is as one dead, yet he
Iives-liyes to further development
which surprises and uplifts the reader.
II is a book that will be widely read.
"Shakespearean Notes and New
Readings" by John Phin. Industrial
Publication Company, IS Thomas
street. New York. Price. rs cents.
The writer OF these notes seems to
have worked out several new readings
and important interpretations which
must commend themselves to all
thoughtful Shakespearean students.
These new readings and interpreted
lions are not mere far-fetched conjec-
tures. When pointed out they are so
obvious that every intelligent reader
must accept them and the wonder is
that they have not been recognized be-
fore.