The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-12-21

This is emphatically true of his Italian
Journeys, in which he gives his impress
sions of Venice, Naples, Genoa, Ferrara,
Rome, Pisa, Como, and other cities. He
is guide, interpreter and chronicler in
one; and the cities stand out. in his mar
rative in a fresh geographical and his
toric light under the touch of a style
that lends to them an imaginative grace.
For his holiday edition Mr.. Howells
has carefully revised his work and writ
ten a new preface The special holiday
features of the book, aside from it's ar
tistic Typography and attractive binding,
are the designs made for it by Joseph
Pennell. These consist of forty-eight
full page pictures, and about twenty
text illustrations, all made by Mr.. PEN
nell during a visit to the various cities
described by Mr.. Howells. Among the
full-page pictures are views of the Cas-
tie at Ferrarar, the great fountain at
Bologna, the harbor Of Naples, the tun-
mel of the grotto at Posilippo, the road
to Pompeii from Castellamare, TIE Brin-
dist Gate and the Street of Tombs at
Pompeii. the Gate Of Capri, ami Monte
Casino. Houghton, Miffin and co.,
In THE Making of a Marchioness''
Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett tells
briefly how we'll born young woman,
forced by her poverty to act as conn
panion,' finally marries a marquis.
Though it is a well rounded little mar
rative, clothes are so frequently inn
portant that the story will appe IL chiefly
to femme readers. (Frederck Stokes
company, New York;
Onoto Watanna infuses the witching
charm of Japan into delicate little ro-
nance, entitled "A Japanese Nightin-
gale" published by Harper & Bro. Misty
decorations by Genjiro Veto increase the
Oriental illusion. 1t is an alluring holi-
day book.
Beginning with Marguerite de Rober-
val in her new book on Wards and Ma.
irons of New France" Miss Mary Sifton
Pepper narrates the history Of New
France through the lives of notable
women. The reader Is carried through
interesting biographies of mothers,
wives, teachers. missionaries, and social
leaders from the early pioneering to the
fall of Quebec-the latter ascribed to the
corrupting influences of Madame de
Peau. Many illustrations add to the
books attractiveness. Uittle, Brown
& Coz
Miss Sophia NJ. Macehose provides in
THE Last Days of the French Monar-
chy" chronicle of the events preced-
ing the French revolution an easy and
lucid approach to the profounder works
on the subject. References to authors
ties, together with bibliogra ply, make
the book of especial value. macmillan,
New York;
Hall Gaines Eternal City" recently
published by the Appletons is enjoying
a much desired POPULARITY. This is one
of the strongest pieces of fiction it has
been the privilege of the present age
to enjoy.
The Lions Whelp," by Amelia e.
Barr, one of Dodd, Mead & company's
recent publications. is a romance of the
middle of the seventeenth century, in
which Oliver Cromwell, The Lions
Whelp." is brought into close touch
with the reader.
Lillian Whiting touches the marriage
question of the hour with no uncertain
note when in The World Beautiful in
Books" she says:
Now. if marriage We're matter Of
gain or loss in the outward world OF af-
fairs, this might be set down as fine
bit of self-sacrifice and delicate gener-
osity. But marriage is a sacrament, or
it is nothing. and it is only a sacrament
when mutual love. that asks nothing
that TINS world could either give or take
away, consecrates ii and makes it holy.
AS mere legal contract it is no more
sacred than any other legal contract,
and the marriage devoid of that mutual
trust and tenderness and spiritual re-
Spouse that would enable the two to take
up their life together on a barren island
in mid-ocean and call it all joy; that is
wholly independent of the things of this
world because it is of the divine realm
and exists in another atmosphere than
that of trade or traffic or soclrty-the
not based on this feeling Is
not a sacrament. nor can church or