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and all wnolesome reading, NIT. CIai1
 has relented and given us Captair Bluitt. In this book, moreover, MT
 Clark besides being in his most enter. | taining vein touches the deeper chords
 of pathos while dealing with the com
 edy of life Captain Bluitt who gives the book it's title is fine type of g
 bluff, hearty, retired navigator com
 fortably fixed financially with a devoted
 unmarried sister and lots of knowledge
 of the wide, wide world. He has g
 nephew and this nephew has a love af-
 fair which enters deeply into the story l The book is one of the most interesting and most welcomed romances of the
 season in all respects. It is published
 by Henry T. Coates & Co.,, Philadelphia, and for sale by all booksellers. Cap l tain Bluitt" has been welcomed en-
 Enthusiastically by the reviewers. The | North American says that Captain Bluitt has all the old charm it is bright, sponeaneous, full of action, and genuinely entertaining. The New York Herald says: Much of the old exuber-
 ance is here, indeed, but there is an uuQSN Nclllt Ol pDtlIy OA peillOo, GNell of tragedy, which increases its artistic value The Philadelphia Telegraph finds portions of it "a delicions" and "a re-
 hinder of ones own halcyon days" and
 many other reviews are equally com | mandatory.
 Henry Holt & Co.,, New York, have just issued Shoulder Straps and Sun Bonnets," by Edith Elmer Wood, the wife of Lieutenant Commander Albert N. Wood, U. s. A., and the daughter of the late Commander Horace Elmer, U.
 $. N. Five of these stories Gncluding
 The Real Raleigh Kent" tale of the
 Philippines to-day) deal with naval life
 which the author knows thoroughly
 The other stories, those of civilians
 have appeared in leading magazines. All are exceedingly bright and enter
 taining. Touching indeed is the story
 Waiting Orders" in which the author
 is at her best It is both pathetic and dramatic. It is the story of a brave naval officer grown old in the service who deprived of his ship through some political rumpus and whose life and hopes are wrapped up in the service, simply breaks his heart in his weary years of waiting for orders--orders that came at last but too late as he had died the day before their arrival All of the stories of the navy are strikingly inter- esting and all show the touch of It. erary artist who skilfully touches the chords of human nature. As writer for the magazines she has been very successful in delighting many thou sands of readers and this collection of stories will doubtless be widely called for Price s1.50; for sale at Judd's.
 Unanimous praise greeted the pubi- cation of Professor H. A. Beers's His tory of English Romantlcism in the Eighteenth Century three years ago by Messrs. Henry Holt X Go. It was re- printed several times here and also ap- peared in an English edition, Messrs. Holt have now just published the au- thor's History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century, with chap ters on the movements in Germany and France It is Professor Beers opinion that romantic literature in the nineteenth century was "at least twen- ty times as great as that of the eigh- teenth, both in bulk and in value.
 The New York Evening Post in an- nouncing Professor Beers new volume Professor H. A. Beers A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century is sequel to the authors studies in the history of the movement in the eighteen cen tury, and exhibits the sanity of 1udg- ment and amenity of style of the earlier volume. Henry Holt & Co. publish the work in dignined form. Professor Beers treats not only of romanticism In the stricter sense, but also of the allied social movement. Thus the socialism of William Morris seems as romantic as the personal revolt of Byron. Writes Professor Beers:
 When in 1883 the poet of The Earthly Paradise joined the democratic federal ton, and subsequently, the social league, and was arrested and fined one shilling and costs for addressing open-air meet ngs, obstrueting public highways, and policemen, amusement was mingled with dsapproval What does this dreamer of dreams and charming