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Work and Days" by Hamilton
Wright Mabie. Todd, Mead and Com
pany, 372 Fifth avenue, New York city,
publishers. Cloth, $1.OO. This volume
of essays on a great variety of sub
jects is well worth reading 1t is
book that one can take up at any time
and find interesting and instructive.
There is not an essay in it that one
would care to miss. One of the best
of them is entitled THE Discipline
of Success" There are many others
which are worthy of special mention.
Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hail."
by Charles Major. Illustrated by How
ard Chandler Christy. The Macmillan
Co., 6 Fifth avenue, New York city.
limo. $3.50. Charles Major is perhaps
the most popular teller of love stories
among living novelists. In Dorothy
Vernon, as in his earlier novel, when
Knighthood Was in Flower" time and
distance lose their significance under
his spell. He has the rare and happy
faculty which brings home to the heart
the spirit of gallant times and the i'm
perious call of youths springtime. Mr..
Major has discovered what potent i'm
plements are language and style in
the creation of romance, and he has
mastered their use. All praise to him
for this it cannot fail, moreover, to
add to his popularity, thus earning for
his willingness to labor and improve
two rewards, one material, the other
artistic. The romance is the chief con-
Germ with this author; it is the very
root as well as the flower of his gift.
This is a historical tale, so far as pc
concerned. Indeed, even his hero and
his heroine and the romance itself
are based upon historic fact. But we
are, after all, ever in the land of low
ers, the best of realms in which to
dwell in romantic fiction. Dorothy
Vernon is an Elizabethan maid, but
there is in her suggestion of wilful
young womanhood as it reveals itself
through the ages, a touch of the eter-
nal feminine in her defiance of au-
thority for the sake of the man she
loves. The elopement of Dorothy YER
non with John Manners is an historic
episode; Haddon Hall belongs to this
day to their descendants, the Duke of
Rutland. Queen Elizabeth visited the
castle; the state chamber, where she
rested overnight, is still shown to Wis
itors in it's original state. Mary Stuart,
too, enters the story. to rouse the jeal-
OuSy u OOi OtHys III Tic iONNA
of the accuracy of history in fiction
may rest contented with the story;
but he will probably care little for that
once he has been caught by the spirit
and freshness of the romance.
"At the Back of Beyond" by Jane
Barlow. Dodd, Mead and Company.
S72 Fifth avenue, New York city. Cloth.
$3.50 This charming story will doubt
less be one of the favorites for sum-
mer reading. 1t is replete with define
atoms of Irish life and manners, in
terwoven with vivid descriptions of To-
calities and scenes in her native land,
which cannot fail to strike the reader
as some of the very best work Miss
Barlow has done The book treats OF
the haps and mishaps which befell
certain jewellers in Bogland. inimitably
narrated, and not lacking in either
tragedy or romance.
None But the Brave" with illustra-
lions in color, by Hamilton Sears.
Dodd. Mead and Company publishers.
372 Fifth avenue, New York city.
Cloth. $3.50. Those who read this story
win agree that IL is a remarka BILE one.
II deals with the American Revolution
and is melodramdtic in the extreme
II is a charming story OF love turning
upon the attempt TO capture Benedict
Arnold after he has betrayed his eoun-