The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-10-26
Calvin, Iwisse and Edwards on the
Universal Salvation Of Infants
The Right Princess The
November Magazines.
BOOKS AND y i AUTHORS.
Francis Burton Harrison Running for
Congress-Miss Julia Magruder's
Horse Show Story-"The Travel
Fever'-A Ne~ Dooley Book.
The Decentralization of
Dorothy Vernon Of
Haddon Hail."
COMMENT AND GOSSIP
COMMENT AND GOSSIP
The Raison d'Etre Of Literary Department
On Southern Education and Book Read
ing-Lewis and Clark in Fiction-The
Authors ldeal-southern Home.
AGooa Newspaper Yam.
Vessn With the Ships, Novel of 1865.
Together With Otncr Tales. BY cyrus
townsend Brady. Illustrated Pub

Together With Otncr Tales BY cyrus
townsend Brady Illustrated Pub
1tshed by J. 3. Lippincott Company.
Philadelphia s1.5O.
This Is Or. Brady's newest and best
Dok. It shows lds work In different
oAds. and there is spakle and charm
Individual TO each part of it. Those who
we're interested in TOR the Freedom Of
khe Sea- and 1.-The Grip OF Honor" will
end the same salt water flavor in the
bowel. Woven With the Ship. and a
eelicate love story besides. with climax
krhose tragic intensity is unsurpassed.
This is So story without any sea, a
war story without any war in it-nothlng
8 but three men, a woman and Inc SNIP
Those who remember best When Blades
bre Out and Loves Af1eld," novel of
Revolutionary days. by DR.. Brady. which
has had a large sale, Will find much to
their taste in the dashing Story
of Oklahoma For those who have bean
btirred by the thrilling Border Fights
and Fighters there is just the right
sort OF reading in with Great Guns
and Small
DR.. Brady himself says that Tho
Final Propositions comes nearer to sat
,sfying him than anything he ever wrote.
1ie never did a more dramatic or aston
lshing piece OF work.
Those TO whom the humor OF Under
Topsls and Tents and the 'Missionaly
"reminiscences" have appealed, will find
much ut which to laugh in The extraya-
ganzas.' The Amazing Yarn of the
Bo's'ns Mate is as funny as The Story
Of the Nancy Bell" and it is founded on
facts, besides-at least there was such a
prize, hougln Just what happened to it no
one Knows.
This novel is one of the best ex-
hmples of the American illustrators art
seen for a long time. Howard Chandler
Anlisty contributes two characteristic
illustrations. and there are also drawings
by PallShurst, Leyendccker. Glackens
and Crawford.
Come With nc Unto Babylon, Story of
the Fall of NircNeh. BY Josiah
NJ Ward Illustrated. Published by
srrcdclicl1 A. Stokes Company, New
York. Sl.51.
Mr. Ward has taken his readers back to
and Egyptians met over the carcass OF
the time OF Nebucha dnezzar and tho last
days of NineNeh. He gives us not a
glimpse. but a picture Of the lives of
the Babylonians. whose name has come
TO be a synonym for luxury and wanton-
ness.
Those were heroic days really. when
guilty, the Babylonans. Modes. Lydians
and Egyptians met over thetcarcass of
Assyria and engaged in that fierce strug-
gle for the mastery of the world
Around the vanishing Nineveh have
clustered some Very interesting Greek
legends which passed current Ia until
,nodern exploration relgated them to the
limbo of history with the fables of
Semiramis and OF Cyrus midnight entry
into Babylon. Not even the exact date
of this unparalleled collapse OF a ma
ton is accurately known. The exact man
ner Of the capture OF the city is equally
obscure. and the Creek tradition merely
confuses. The author has accepted the
date COS B. c.. for the obliteration OF the
Assyr,ian Empire. and the Book Of Ma
hum as a descriptive founda ton. and |
part of the Greek myth as adventitious
pigment
In tho matter OF proper names he has
found convenient to curtail the poly
syllable Assyrian and Babylonian titles,
and also to use the commonly accepted
forms. Nebuchadnezzar. for instance,
would hardly be recognized under his
Babylonian name Of Nabu- Kudur- utsur. |
With Assurbanipal. however. the correct
reading was preferred to the biblical As