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brook, to contemplate the blue sky above me, through the smoke of my cigar and the tops of the beech trees. and to he looked at and petted by you, and for a long, long while to be quite idle" This volume of letters will be found very de- hghtful reading, not only by ardent ad- mirers of the great statesman, but be- yond a doubt by the reading public at large.
 The following verses called "The Three Voices,' recur most appropriately to the mind after reading the love-letters of Bismarck:
 When the fire sinks flame by flame,
 And the shadows dear grow long Shall turn. for praise or blame
 To the brazen-throated throng? When the last poor deed is done.
 Shall I look, o Good and True,
 To the old friends. one by one.
 The silverthroated few? Nay. all that I strove to do
 However it end. was done For you, and the love of you,
 The authenticated one."
 
 William L. Alden the London cor D. spondent of the New York Times, isH a writer upon literary topics with a m i'd of his own, and an opinion upon subjevts which he is never afraid to express He very often has a somewhat quaint p& Int of view, but he is evidently alway5 so candid and earnest in it that you resSect his position if you cannot agree Hith him. One of the oldest things that lMr Alden has said in a long time is in reEard to the recent indications which point to- n of i,,ta ;, works. There have been number of i letters recently in the various weeklies which professed warm admiration for Bulwer: and MT. Alden remarks: }"One might as we'll try to revive the late Mir G. P. R. James or to make Erse the language of parliament. To revive Jan in terest in novels made of cotton velvet trimmed with artificial flowers is a3 hope less task"
 Among new books for travellers we have William Harbett Dawsons German Life in Town and Country The volume is in- tended to be helpful to those interested In the people of the country as well as in it's towers and galleries A very delight ful companion volume Is French Life in Town and Country" by Hannah Lynch Miss Lynch writes of the country which she evidently loves. in bright and lively style which makes her volume very de- lightful indeed. "The Romance of the feuual CnateauX,s by Elizabeth w. Champney is book which will be pe- culiarly acceptable to Americans She revives the legends which cluster about the chateaux and castles of the middle ages and writes of them with rare mar rative charms. The story of nation takes on a new light when thus studied in connection with the architecture of these fortified homes.
 Numberless readers rememberl with genuine pleasure a book by F. Frankfort Moore entitled ''The Jessamy Bride" It had wide popularity but not so extended as it deserved. The author has just pub lished another book called According to Plato" It Is a novel and is a reanarka- ble satire on London life. London letters and London love. To say that the new book Is written in the authors besN style Is to assure readers that the work Is epi- grammatic, interesting and diverting, which are desirable qualities ini ones summer fiction.
 Admirers of the late Maurice Tthomp- son are now turning with pleasure to the authors earlier work. and many will be glad to learn that one of his best stories "A Tallahassee Girl", is now obtAinable in a cheaper form than hitherto. 1t has been placed in the Riverside paper }series of novels and stories
 "A journey to Nature,'' just published. is the story of a man who Thoreah-like cuts himself off from town life to live near to nature But unlike ThoreAn this author, J. P. Mowbray knows the city
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