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A FOOLS Year. BY E. H. Cooper. New
York: D. Appleton & Co., No. Il Filth
avenue.
This is novel OF the racing, betting roys-
tering element of London society, in which
dukes and eminencies of various kinds hgure,
and the conspicuous characters are Lord st.
Ives, Godfrey Stewart, his heir, poor, but
who makes an occasional haul OF ducats at
the races: Lord st. Ives daughter, Lady
Helen Merivale, wife of Dudley Merivale, son
of Lord Merivale, and Cyrus Hopper, an
American multimilionaire, with a costly ra-
cling stable and lavishly spending his surplus
funds This latter gentleman is caught fixing
a jockey and brides Stewart to keep silence
by giving him check for a million pounds
pounds, not dollars, mind you--a transaction
which proves very troublesome to Stewart, to
whom the temptation was very strong. There
Is a glimpse given Of fashionable London So
eiety, not very reassuring as to its morality.
JOY In Service. Forgetting and Pressing
Onward Until the Day Dawn. By George T.
Purves, D. D., LII. D. New York: The
American Tract Society, 100 Nassau street.
This volume contains two discourses by the
late DR.. Purves a distinguished Presbyterian
preacher Of New York, succeeding DR.. John
Hall as pastor of the Fifth Avenue Prespy-
terrain church. and previously noted profes-
SCR in the Princeton Theological seminary.
These discourses breathe the true spirit OF
the service Of self-sacrifice which is the lo1e-
lest ideal In life, which We can have, as Dr.
Purves shows. He held that all our pains,
SORROWS and dsappointments are intended to
make us patient and stronger for the truer
and higher service Of God. The gloomy days
must merge into the nobler life PRESIDENT
Patton of Princeton university pays tribute
TO DR.. Purves in this book, not only as
great specialist in biblical exegesis, but as a
man who was religious without austerity;
companionable without being worldly, and
one who touched human life at a great many
points.
Helen Parker. BY Charles Homer Steele.
Chicago: The Henneberry company.
This is story Of misery and crime, through
drunkenness; Of fierce struggling with temp
tation: Of tutelage to righteous living by ad-
yersity; Of success through steadfast adher-
ence to the right The opening chapters por-
tray the curse Of liquor upon the workingmen
who yield to the lurid influences of the sa-
loon. There is very vivid picture OF home
desolated by the neighborhood saloon, the
husband killed in drunken brawl. the wife
and child left helpless. There is another
picture Of a fashionable home whose master
is debauched lawyer who resorts to forgery
to keep up the establishment for his eXtrava-
CANT wife, and is arrested, tried, convicted
and sent to the penitentiary for several years.
Helen Parker is his daughter, who at q
mature age quits her mother, who had mar
ried again. and works to support herself. The
author very interestingly details the lives
Of this girl and of the son of the workman
who was killed in the saloon, showing the
strength and success which came from per-
sistent doing of duty and the power of the
Christian religion to repair shattered souls
and lives.
Loves Itinerary. By J. c. Snath, author
of Mistress Dorothy Marwin,' etc. New
York: D. Appleton & Co. Price, 81.
This is tale of folly; the story of rake's
progress to responsibility out Of the depths
of profiigacy. 1t is story to laugh over with
all its enormities. AS diversion from stupid
humdrum, it is to be commended. Lord
Tiverton, having run through his fortune,
killed man in duel and having arrived at
the end Of his resources, beleaguere0 by cred
itors, INDUCES in last debauch and, his
valet having fed, he proceeds to commit
suicide, but, he places the pistol to his
head, he hears the voice of his lady love,
Lady Cynthia Carew, at the door, begging
admttance. He drops the pistol, which ex-
plodes harmlessly: lets the lady in and finds
she has fed from her ancestral halls to be
saved" by Tiverton, whom she loves, from
a compulsory marriage with a man she de-
tests. Tiverton accepts the charge, but the
police assal the door just as the two are
completing their arrangements and she hides
herself, agreeing to meet him at a, designated
place, while Tiverton escapes by the window
to the roof just the police break down the
door and rush in. The lovers, after much
storm and stress, meet and the book is taken
up with their serio comic adventures, which
keep the reader in a rsible mood to the clos
ing scene which is very pretty climax in
deed.
Corregio. By Estelle NJ. Hurll. Boston:
Houghton, Miflin & Co. Minneapolis: n.
Mccarthy. Price, Is cents net; postpaid
SO cents.
This new volume in the Riverside Art series
Is as pleasing as the others. Miss Estelle
Hurll has a very delightful way Of talking
of the great masters and in this volume we
have fifteen examples in photos OF Correglo S
work. which, with Miss Hurlls text, make a
volume Of extraordinary attrachveness.' Here
are '.The Holy Night in the Dresden gal
lery; st Catherine Reading in the Hanp-
ton Court gallery, London; "The. Marriage
OF ST. Catherine" in the Louvre, Paris /;
DIANA" in the convent of st. Paolo, Parma );
est John the Evangelist in the Church of
Giovanni Evangelista, Parma; st. John and
ST. Augustine (same church,; 'St. Matthew
and St. Jerome" (same church,; THE Rest
on the Return from Egypt In the Parma
gallery; 'Ecce Homo in the National gal
lery, London; Apostles and Geni,'' in the
Parma cathedral; est John the Baptist,
(same cathedraD;' "Christ Appearing to Mary
Magdaine" in the Prado gallery, Madrid;
The Madonna of st. Jerome Parma gall
lery; Cupid Sharpening His Arrows" Bor-
ghese gallery, Rome. Corregio was master
in imparting expression to the faces of his
subjects, as seen in the "St. Catherine" and
"Holy Night" and 1.-The Madonna of st.
Jerome" Miss Hurll rightly says that he
could not work out all the possibilities of his
genius because he was limited to the we'll
worn cycle of ecclesiastical themes, into
which, however, he infused a new spirit.
Corregio's real name was Antonio Allegri,
and he was born in Corregio the latter name
adhering to him. Some of the best of his
mural painting is found in the Cathedral OF
of Parma.
The Strength Of the Weak. BY Chaun-
cey G.. Hotchkiss, author Of Betsy Ross, u
etc. New York: D. Appleton & Co.
Mr.. Hotchkiss has shown himself fine de-
lineator Of colonial. and revolutionary period
life and character in his other books In
1.-The Strength Of the Weak is detailed with
really thrilling effect, the fierce and per-
sistent struggle of an English youth who
had inherited Canadian seigneury from his
father, who had been murdered perfdiousy
in Quebec. and lived in the fine estate al
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