The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1902-11-15
THE new PUBLICATIONS.
SOME OF THE LATEST BOOKS
OF THE SEASON.

The Story of Athens, by Howard Crosby
RutIeE-Amsrican Literature, by Lee
rsnzo seara-SsIect Tran stations from
Old English Poetry, by Prof. Cook and
G. B. Tinker OF Yaie-KtpIlng's just
So stories-George GiIbert's New Book
Around the Pan, by Thomas FIem-
fng-EIorence Warden's New Book
Many other Interesting Books.
An important work on an important
subject, valuable to the student or the
general reader, is the new work, THE
Story of Athens" by Howard Crosby
Butler, A NJ, lecturer on Architecture
at Princeton University, and published
by the Century Company. New York.
The volume is the result of long and
careful study of the subject and is
highly satisfactory work. It is in brief
record of the life and art of the City
OF the Violet Crown read in its ruins
and the lives of great Athenians. 1t is.
not critical review of the history of
classic city, but rather "a simple
sketch of the life and art of Athens
from its earliest beginnings" Mr.. But
Ter has endeavored to present view of
the aneients themselves rather than to
60 into the question Of disputed facts
and fgures,-dry details that are rele-
gated to the historian and the archae-
ologist.
Against background of historical
incidents dealing with war, commerce
and politics, sketched in outline, the
author has silhouetted in chronological
order the figures of the men and wo-
men to whom Athens owes most. Of
course their deeds and their works can
not be adequately reviewed in the mar
row compass of a single volume, but
..the art which is the only monument of
that life now visible in Athens" is dwelt
upon at greater length. The striking
feature Of this comprehensive and we'll
balanced work is it's absolute freedom
from pedantry and antiQuarianism.
AS In imagination one pieces out the
crumbled parts of an old temple, rear
ing up again, for the moment, the glo-
~ Of a past age, so the author with his
#virile pen has scattered the dust of an
tiquity and revitalized the heroes and
the deeds that have made Athens inn
mortal.
The illustrations for this book are pc
culiarly satisfying, and in their selec-
tion is displayed Mr., Buffers fine APP
preciation of Greek art.
Price, $40 net postage eighteen
cents). The Century Company, New
York. For sale by the Pease-Lewis
60.
American Literature in it's Colonial
and National Periods by Lorenzo
Sears, i. TIT. D., professor of American
literature in Brown university, author
of Principles and Methods of Literary
Criticism, etc. In this volume of four
hundred and eighty pages Professor
Sears traces the growth of our Itera-
ture from the first letters and diaries
at jamestown and Plymouth, through
the periods Of annals, early histories,
controversial. polemic and political
writings, In the colonial era, to the be-
ginnings of hospitality towards trans
atlantic authors by the new nation,
with an inevitable imitation of them at
first, and subsequent attempt at in
dependence in letters as in politics, fol-
lowed by an eventual compromise, is
suing in a self Prospecting assertion OF
a cosmopolitan spirit, and ending in an
unproyincial but genuinely national lit
3erature. These stages of progress are
Illustrated by examples of writings
(which also serve to indicate the per-
sonality of writers and the tendencies
of their times. The author has aimed
at such presentation of the dry phas-
ses Of the subject as to tide readers in
terest over to the epochs which have
attractions Of their own.
Professor Sears has made a careful
study, and is thoroughly in accord with
the best American literature. He has
written his work in a spirit of gene
rous appreciation Of American authors.
He says ''our literature is the product
lpf our race and soil, and is something
8of which in any age we need not be
ashamed" limo. Cloth, gilt top, $3.50
net Published by Little, Brown &
Company, Boston. Of this book the
New York Commercial Advertiser
says: ut is a peculiarly interesting
volume for the student of our litera-
4ure.,' Professor Sears is to be praised
for the aid given to the student in
this his latest work" For sale by all
booksellers.
Select TRANSACTIONS From Old Eng
fish Poetry edited with PREDATORY
notes and indexes, by Albert S. Cook,
professor of the English language and
literature in Yale university, and
Chauncey B. Tinker, Foote fellow In
English of Yale university; 12mo.
Cloth. 1876 pages. List price, $1.00;
mailing price, S1.05; CHM & Co.. Bos-
ton. Teachers of general courses in
English literature and of elementary
courses in old English have expert
enced considerable difficulty in pre-
senting to their classes good speci-
mems of our earliest literature in ade-
quate translations, and hence instruc-
tion covering that period has often
been unsatisfactory. Many transla-
lions are scattered in periodicals, or
contained in costly volumes, or embed
sl1ed in unnecessary or inaccurate de-
scriptive matter; others, which are ac-
cessihle, give no proper conception Of
the quality of their originals. The
present volume is a selection from the