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n-------~-----.-..---.-- English Politics in Early Virginia History by Alexander Brown, D. c. L.. is an interesting study, from old private and company letters and documents. of the origins of American government as influenced by English court politics. MT. Brown is a careful and philosopl1t- cal scholar who has published several important volumes on early American history, and his new book is of inter- est to the general reader as well as of importance to the historical student. It will be published this spring by Messrs. Houghton, Mif1iin & Go.
 The Life and Times of William Lowndes, by Marriott H. Ravenel, gives not only a portrait of gentleman of a very fine strain, but also pie ture of society in South Carolina three generations ago. The volume is the work of the subjects granddaughter and bears the impress of a well-train- ed cultivated mind. MT. Lowndes life was given to the public service, and, though short, was useful and distin- guished, affording ample material for an interesting biography, as set forth in the present volume. Houghton, Mif- fin & Go.
 The humorous side of Shakespeare and the wide extent of his legal knowl- edge are shown by the Hon, Charles E. Phelps, chief justice of the supreme court of Maryland in "Fastaff and court of Maryland, in "Falstaff and Equity" which is announced for publi- cation soon by Messrs. Houghton, Mifflin & Co. The author has interpret ed many of the great poets sayings in a way to show that he was both sub tie humorist and man well acquainted with the law, and he has done this in a way to please Shakespearean students by his wealth of curious learning and his excellent exposition and argument. The book will contain an appreciative instruction by Henry Austin Clapp. the eminent lecturer on Shakespeare, who Is also a lawyer.
 With the issue of March thirtieth The Home Journal, of New York, which has been for ffty-five years widely known society and literary weekly in America,
  Country" which sgnalizes a perfectly natural evolution, and brings it into harmony with the broader purposes of its present owners. The form of The Home Journal was changed year ago from its familiar quarto to the present more convenient shape, and during the year it has become handsomely illus trated periodical, adhering to the old broad traditions of the paper, and yet fully the modified condi- tions of the present day. Some months ago a new corporation was organized, under the style of The Stuyvesant com Dany, the name being chosen in honor )f the first governor of New Amster- lam. This company has become the owner both of The Home Journal and Life, whose notable success IS an exponent of the social side of Brooklyn is universally recognized. The ,ctive men in charge of both papers are I. A. Mckay, president of The Stuy- 5esant company, and Frederick M Munroe, the treasurer.
 A unique story which Little, Brown & %. will publish early in April is "The Master Knot of Human Fate" by FL Is Meredith. Two cultured modern people, a man and woman, while ,assing through a mountain park in Colorado, are caught by flood, which the surrounding ~untry md leaves these two the only human Deines in the world. Their thoughts nd experiences form the texture of the tory. Added to this novel plot is a cry original ending, which involves a | fiddle even more important from the uestion involved than that of "The l 4ady of the Tiger?" "The Master Knot of Human Fate" " Ellis Meredith, takes it's title from he familiar quatrain of Omar Khay- ! am:
 Up from Earth's Centre through the
 Seventh Gate
 rose, and on the Throne of Saturn
 sate,
 And many Knot unraveld by the Road
 'ut not the Master Knot of Human
 Fate" Another quatrain suggesting the heme of the volume is the following: An Love. could you and I with Him
 conspire
 Q grasp this sorry Scheme of Things
 entre
 Would we not shatter 1t to bits-and
 then
 it nearer to the Hearts De-
 sire'
 Mrs. Helen Campbells novel, Bal f-l I;-l.o h title, Brown & Co, Although the book !