The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-02-10
LITERARY NOTES.

THE Garden of Commuters Wife, Is
n record by the gardener of her '''''rv
life indoors and out. 1t is eve. IS
with both humor and sentiment, being a
young couples experience of the life that
if wisely lived is the best of all. The
writer is the daughter of New England
country physician who possessed an ania-
BILE form of book madness IN addition to
other lovable traits of character and pro-
fessional qualities. Through her father
habit of haunting book sales she meets u
young Englishman, whom she mariies.
with whom she goes abroad Tor year OF
travel. They supposedly settle down 10
live the English cUu1tTy life in ram
bling stone house in Somerset with
tangled old garden centring around
strange sundial and with Martha Corkie,
a severe family servant, for houSekeepeF'
The desire of the husband for a more dc-
tive life. the necessity for the practice OF
his profession, together WITH the father
longing for his only child, take the coupe
back to America, at the end OF two years.
TO discover life anew but in the old nome,
taking with them Martha Corkle and the
sundial The Macmillan Company will
publish the book eaIiy in he spring.
Brentanos have nearly ready work Of
value to those interested in the subjects of
psychology and astrology, entitled Our
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complete and elaborate book on this sub
ject yet published
A new ok-with a queer title Is
Drunkenness and the Weather" by Ed
win G. Dexter. The object is the demon
stration1 by empirical methods of certain
fixed relations between definite weather
conditions and the prevalence of drunken
ness in the city of New York; in other
words, the influence of the weather as
factor in the cosmical environment upon
the prevalence of intoxication.
Little Brown & Co.'S list includes the
Life of Queen Victoria by Millicent
Garrett Fawcett. The biography contains
two portraits. one taken in 1885, and the
other about 1895. No passage is more pa
thetic than the description OF the last ILL
ness of the Prince Consort:
At first she $50 thankful the illness was
not fever" Then it became clear that it was
fever, typhoid fever, with its accompanying
haustion and wandering Of mind She ter
ribly alarmed but still chung desperately to every
favorable symptom. She tried to gather what
the doctors really thought, less by what they said
than by how they looked. When they looked
grave and sad. u went to my room and felt
if my heart must break" When the doctors
spoke frankly to her of the which the fever
must run before any improvement could be looked
for, my heart was ready to burst; but | cheer
ed up, remembering how many people have fever
Good Alice very courageous and
tried TO comfort me-" In the earlier days of the
princes illness he took pleasure in being read
to and in hearing music and the little baby
daughter, Beatrice, brought in TO say her
new French verses. and he held her little hand
in his. The Queen recalls with touching min
uteness his tenderness and earessing affection con-
stantly manifested toward herself. .'Liebes Frau
chen" "gutes Weibchen'' dear little wife, good
little wife, he would call her. stroking her face
with his wasted hand. On December II the
Queens diary records that she supported him
while he took his beef-tea. "And he laid his dear
hand this beautiful face. more beautiful than
ever is grown thin my shoulder and re-
manned a little while. saying, 1T is very COM
Portable so, dear child which made me very
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