The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1902-12-11
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SOME OF THE LATEST BOOKS
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Boston Days, by Lillian whiting-Pierre
Lofts Last Days at PskIn-Andrt,v
Carnegie, a Character Sketch Of ats
Life-COnnOT's GIengaFry School Days
-EgertOn Young's Ny Dogs in the
Northland-Mrs. SiOsson's Aunt Abby
The IngoIdsby Lcgends-The March
ofthe white Guard-Books for Juven-
lies, Etc.
Boston Days" by Lillian Whiting, is
just issued by Little, Brown & Co, Bos-
ton, and is one OF the leading attrac-
tiUns among the new publications OF
the season. IL appea4s 10 al loEers
OF the nigh types Vi books and is Of
permanent value. Inc ,,utuUr Is one OF
the best known ana most successful o.
the Boston writer's CT to-day. Her
World Beautiful series, kate
Field" "A STUDY of MRS. Browning,
and other books nave gwen her VIDE
circle OF readers. Boston Days is
delightful presentation OF pen pictures
OF the men and women, living and dead,
of the nineteenth century who made
Boston famous as an intellectual CEN
ter, and Is a brief resume OF the
work of the more noteworthy OF the au-
thOrs who in the dawn Oh the tWentl-
eth century heip to MAINTAIN the fame
OF the clry as d fountain OF progress
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thor groups her work under four gem
eral classifications: The City or
Beautiful ideals" which describes the
intellectual life of the Boston OF the
middle third OF the nineteenth century;
Concord and Its Famous Authors -
Concord being to ali intenrs and pur-
poses a part of Boston; The Golden
Age OF Genius" which covers the age
OF Emerson, of LongtelloW, OF Lowell,
OF Hawthorne and others OF that Ia
NOUS company, and lastly, The Dawn
OF the Twentieth Century," in winch
the reader is presented TO the Boston
of to-day. The book is illustrated with
portraits, pictures or some notable
houses ana public institutions, and espe-
cially with Iac-simlles OF certain letters,
poems and the like. Among the latter
are LongfelloWs Rainy Day and
Holmes "Chambered Nautilus The
author disavoWs any purpose OF writ
ing q. history OF literature or any specl-
fic biographical record; what she does
aim to accomplish is to give retiec-
ton OF the life OF the city as it was in
fiuenced by the men who gave 1t intel
lectual distinction and prominence. 1t
hi
based on education, public service and
the Importance of the ministry-on Gull
fure philosophic thought, literary ART
and the ethics of spirit IS
studied in these pages. Inc Garner
wears of the nineteenth century saw
the coming of a group of remarkable
men and women who left a very deep
impression on American lite. Most OF
them have Joined the innumerabie
caravan These and others contrlbut-
ed to make Boston the ethical and in
tellectual metropolis that it was sixty
or seventy years ago. Boston Days"
must be read to be appreciated. 1t Is
full of animated descriptions of noted
men of Boston of the days Of which the
author treats and of their homes and
their fads and their social life and pre-
sents charming anecdotes of these no
tables who helped make American his
tory and American literature. The au-
. thor writes felicitously and understand
ingly. She is keen observer and gets
at the true intellectual inwardness and
fibre of things. Boston Days is
handsomely printed and bound. Price
S1.5O net; for sale by all booksellers.
Very interesting is Pierre Lofts 1.-THE
Last Days of Pekin," the translation OF
Myrta L. Jones, Boston, which comes
from the press of Little, Brown & Co.
Boston. The world of admirers of the
French sentimentalist and stylist who
cannot read Lofts letters in Figaro will
welcome these impressions of a sensi-
tive temperament occupied with the
scenes of the Chinese debacle. His
book In the French has gone into thir-
ty-four editions. Lott while pennine
these letters was in service as aide OF
the staff Of Admiral Potter during the
international rebellion. Missions or
land took him into the Chinese interior
which he pictures in aspects OF peace
and war He appears as the champion
of French soldiers in the allied forces
severely criticised by American ant
English correspondents, Of the book
the, Boston Advertiser remarks: Writ
ten hastily in hours snatched from
duty, the letters are impressionistic
They carry however, the vivid impress
sions of vigorous mind, stimulated tt
its highest receptive capacity. We fee
in them the tension of those weeks
when forces of civilization faced
gloomy old China in a campaign
fraught with uncertainty unusually
harassing Running comments on Chi
rese and the country show the vita
grasp of quick observer.
Picturing the arrival of the Redoubt
able. his Ship in the Yellow sea, where
the allied fleet lay in waiting, he pre-
sents an impressive naval ceremonial
AT Ning-Hia, where Cossacks, Au
strians, Germans, English and littl
Japs, with Bersoglieri from Naples, IL
colonial caps, landed on the beach TO
peaceful capture, he sketches incident
in armed occupation, which seemed Xix
q celebration of peace.
Then comes a voyage up the Pei He
a pestilentiaI river, whose waters Dor
all sorts of impurities, with bodies o
men and women, by way Of Tien-Tsin
a fevered babel, and Tong-ChoW, thu