The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1901-01-25
MORRIS COUNTY CHRONICLE: FRIDAY JANUARY Is, 1901
LITERARY TOPICS.
State Librarians Report = Books
Worth Heading.

Special arrangements are made in
many libraries to supply the firemen
at their various quarters with books
from the public library so that they
may have the chance to read in their
spare moments. Why isn't this an
excellent idea for Morristown libra
ries?
Mollie Elliott Seawell's "The House
of Egremont, is seventeenth CEN
fury story, with love affair and a
generally romantic stage setting.
"This is the mission of the poet and
romancer-to sponge out of existence
for a time the stiff, refractory, and un-
lovely realities and give in their place
a scene of ideal nobility and charm. y
Alice of OldVincennes.
Readers whose appreciation made
"Ihe Love Letters of a Musician, p"
by Myrtle Reed, success, will be in
terested to know that another book
containing "Later Love Letters of
a Musician has just been issued.
1t consists of number of love letters
supposed to have been written by a
musician each of which is founded on
a musical motif, given in advance on
fly leaf This idea of music pro-
duced in words and infinitely varied
is novel and very cleverly carried out.
The tone of the letters is optimistic
and the touch distinctly feminine.
His Brothers. Keeper, by Rev.
Charles M. Sheldon. The story tells
in a most interesting fashion of the
trials and troubles of a young man,
honestly disposed to do the right thing
with his wealth, and also of the
hardships and burdens that are borne
by the laborers who work for small
pittance each day The story there
fore treats the great question of CAPT
tai and labor both from the view
point of the millionaire and of the
man who works for his daily bread.
1t is filled with interesting situations
and is from beginning to end an en-
tertaining tale.
To the lovers of animals no more
attractive or interesting book than
Ernest Seton Thompson "Wild Ami
mails I Have Known can be recon-
mended. 1t is profusely illustrated,
and is both entertaining and instruc-
tive.
Edmund Clarence Stedman says of
"Eben Holden" by Irving Bachelor !:
sit is a forest-scented, fresh-aired,
bracing and wholly American story
of county and town life. If.
in the far future, our successors wish
to know what was the real life and
atmosphere in which the country folk
that saved this nation grew, loved,
Lol
mu-t go back to such true and zestful
AMI poetic tales of fiction as Snow
Found and 'Eben Holden. "
The ten books which sold best in
New York City in the week ending
Saturday, January12, were as follows:
l. The Cardinals Rose.
Q. In the Palace of the King.
8. Heart of the Ancient Wood.
A. Alice of Old Vincennes.
5. An Englishwoman' S LoveLetters.
6 Philip Winwood.
7. Eben Holden.
s. Richard Yea and Nay.
8. The Lane That Has No Turning.
10. L'Aiglon.
"What is your husbands favorite
fiction?' asked the inquisitive preson.
II can hardly say at moment S
notice" said the patient wife, "whe-
Their he prefers the sick friend story
or the detained at the Office on bust
ness narrative. THE indianapolis
Press.
Those who heard Prof Eugene @.
Fosters instructive and entertaining
lecture on Liquid Air" last Friday
evening may be interested to know
the names of some books on the sub
ject. Prof. Foster said he could rec
ommend Liquid Air" by Prof. I.
O'Connor Sloane, of Columbia Uni
versity, as one of value to all readers,
scientific treatise on the subject,
Liquification of Cases." by Hardin
would be found useful. These books
are not at present in the library but
will probably soon be added. Two
very good articles on Liquid Air"
may be found in the Forum for the
months of August and October, 1899.
Give me that book whose power is such
That forget the north winds touch.
Give me that book that brings to me
Forgetfulness of what be.
Give me that book that takes my life
In seeming far from all its strife.
Give me that book wherin each page
Destroys my sense of creeping age.
John Kendrick Bangs.
The annual report of State Librarian
Henry @. Buchanan shows that on
Nov. LIST, 1900, there were 2, 440 books
belonging to travelling libraries, 527
having been contributed by clubs con-
nected with the New Jersey Fedora
tion of Womens Clubs, ana by officers,
directors and committees of the Fe-
deration and seventeen by a New York
firm. The libraries are now in use in
all of the counties excepting Camden.
Hudson, Middlesex, Ocean and Union.
Sussex has three, at Branchville,
Lafayette and Hamburg; Warren four,
at Blairstown, Belvidere, Washington
and Asbury; Morris, one, at Port
Dram. The prevailing taste of readers
run ON fiction. The greatest popu-
larity of the libraries was at Shiloh,
Branchville, Blairstown, Pennsgrove.
Bridgeport, Pemberton, Hamburg,
Belvidere and Washington, where all
of the books i'll the libraries have
been read, and the circulation has been
large.