The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-01-20
LITERARY NOTES.

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| Houghton. Mifflin & Co. have just is
sued as No. 146 OF their well-known Riv-
/ erside Literature series one OF Longfel-
! lows New England tragedies-"Giles Corey
of the Salem Farms" This edition has
| been equipped with an appendix contain
ing hints and directions for the represen-
| tation of the play on the stage, as prepar-
ed and followed out by the Old South His
| torical Society which has recently present.
ed this play in Boston. The editor of the
! Riverside literature series, Mr.. Horace E.
! Scudder has written for the book an in
PRODUCTION telling OF the circumstances OF
| the writing of the tragedy and of the Sa-
lem witchcraft delusiou.
Love, or the Soul Hunters is the IT,
tie OF the next novel that will come from
| the pen of John Oliver Hobbies. Funk &
| Wagna1ls Company, New York, will be the
! American publishers.
The December, 1900, issue of Houghton,
Mifilin G. Co.'S Riverside Art Series is de-
voted to Murillo, and the author. Miss
Estelle NJ. Hurll, has expended the same
! care on the preparation OF this book as
she has shown in the earlier volumes of
| the series.
| Miss Hurll has made simple interpre-
tation OF fifteen of Murillos famous and
most characteristic pictures and of the
Althorp portrait Of the artist. Among
them may be mentioned THE Immacu-
late Conception" Boy at the Window
THE Alteration of the Shepherds The
Madonna and Child. 1.-The Dice Players"
1.-The Education of the Virgin" Jesus
and John" C''The Children of the sheirD
1.-THE Holy Family THE Fruit Vend-
ers," THE Vision of st. Anthony and
est. Elizabeth of Hungary ('The Leper')
To render the book more useful to old
er students there is an introduction con-
| tanning interesting matter relating to
Murillo's character as an artist: On
Books Of Reference; an Historical Direc-
tory of the Pictures mentioned in this
book, and giving the history and size of
the picture, telling where it may be seen;
Outline Table of the Principal Events in
Murillo's Life; and Contemporary Paint
ers-Spanish, Flemish, Dutch. French,
and Italian. There is also Pronounc-
ing Vocabulary of Proper Names men
toned in the text.
Harper 6 Bros. have issued 1.-The Golf
er's Calendar which consists of twelve
pictures by~A B. Frost, with verses by
Van Tassel Sutphen. The pictures,
which illustrate a phase of golf for each
month of the year, are enclosed in an ar
tistic envelope, and are suitable for franz
ing They are especially appropriate for
decorating golf clubhouses.
The Macmillan Company will publish
immedia tely a work on Practical Electro
Chemistry" by Dertram Bolunt, F. l. c.,
+. C. s., Associate Institute of Civil En-
gineers. The authors intention is 10 give
an account of those electro chemical
nrOraSGpg ha oil
likely to be, turned TO Industrial use The
relation between the output OF a given
process and the energy necessary for that
output has been dealt with some what
fully, and in like manner the practical
advantages to be gained by the use of
electro-chemical methods in certain cases
have been indicated.
An interesting book on the position of
colored people in the United States Is
The American Negro: What He Was,
What He Is, and What He May Become. q"
by William Hannibal Thomas, which the
Macmillan Company will publish. Mr.
Thomas is now a lawyer of Everett. Mass
He served with distinction in the civil
war. and afterward was member of the
South Carolina Legislature during the re-
construction period. Trained in theology
and law, he became a successful practi-
toner in the South Carolina courts, and
afterward established himself in Massa
chusetts. 1t is asserted that no such
complete and detailed information exists
elsewhere than in this new book about the
American negro, his physical and mental
qualifications and capacities. his vices and
crimes, his religious beliefs, his possibili-
ties as an economic and political factor in
American life.
The story of Mrs. Clyde. which D. APP
1T. - ~ ~ 4uI to-
ed on certain facts in the career of dis
tinguished woman who was equally we'll
known in Boston, in New York, in Phila-
delphia and on the Continent.
Harper G Bros. will have ready in Feb
ruary THE Land of Cockayne," by Ma
tide Serao.
W. II. Lowdermilk & Co. have in press
''The Songs of Alcaeus," one of the great
lyric poets of Greece. who was born at
Mitylene about $50 B. C. The volume will
contain an exhaustive life and criticism
of Alcaeus, who, by the way, was closely
associated with Sappho both at home and
in exile: then follow the longer fragments,
each accompanied the opposite page
by an original translation in verse: these
are followed by shorter fragments exact
prose TRANSACTIONS, numerous notes. and
I a photography by James S. Easby-Smith.
Emile ZoIa's new novel, Labor" will
begin in 'Harper's Weekly for January
26.
Monday Sermons a little book by
Paul NJ. Paine contains several bright
and original essays. This is a part of one
and good example of the general style:
Dr. Van Dyke said a good word the other day.
that should be governed by his admirations
: fbarf han by Ms IN me hat
the world is worth while to one and that one
is at home in the world largely in proportion to
the degree In which he acts on this advice, or
in the language Of the schools, keeping himself in
sympathy with his environment.
There is not in life for continual indig-
nation against the things every good man ought
! TO hate, and besides ii makes one dyspeptic
| Meannesses, shams cowArdices, uglincsses litter
4 and obstruct the road, and though there is no
/ reason why We should hate these things in our
] selves and fail hate them in Others it is
( mighty poor policy 10 denounce and despiss I'M
{ I'll have no breath for praise and congratula-
/ ton.
/ That Is why habitua reiormers so often get wan
/ and wriutled and have dark circles around their
| eyes, and lose their sense OF hurnor. They have
{ hehed vice and ignorance and denounced them,
/ in season and out, and haven't left themselves
any time 10 go a-iishing. Familiar with the face
| OF their pet adherence they have first endured,
| then crusaded and then become awful bores.
The only way to do, il one Is to be chronic
reformer is to take up some particular abuse
or crime sort of hobby, and be careful how
We ride it, meanwhile persistently regarding the
rest Of the UNI eGse as fairly clean, well lighted
and convenient.
THE Temptation of Friar GonsoI" a
| chara cteristicallyf rolicsomS iale by Eu-
gene Field, has been reprinted in a small
volume, illustrated with portraits OF the
author and accompanied by two or three
| facsimiles of letters and notes written
| about the book and also by a facsimile