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the H6eQ VI fresh ana interesting TSdQ-
ing matter for younger pupils.
BOOK NOTICES.
Robert Grier Cooke. S07 Fifth avenue,
New York CITY will publish during Octo-
Der limited edition of Three Mosques .
by Ben Jonson: The Masque of Oberon. y
The Masque of Blackness,' . "The Masque
of Beauty" Few poets have ranked so
high as Ben Jonson in splendor of fancy,
fertility of invention and flow of elo
quence, and as the friend of Shakespeare
and Bacon he will long hold a place in
the trlumVlrate who made the Eliza bethan
period a generation of literary giants. The
choice of these three Mosques presents
those which are most representative of
the poets rich imagination. 1.-The Masque
OF Oberon," as Swinburne has said, is
unsurpassed if not unequaled by any
other. work of its author for brightness
ric movement and happy simplicity of
expression" and the two accompanying
Mosques call for the same encomiums.
The pope's temporal sway is now lin
time of Columbus his power was con-
siderable. In his new History of the
United States for High Schools Mr..
Larned says that in 1893 an application
was made to the pope for sovereignty
over the countries which Columbus had
discovered, and over further discoveries
in the Western ocean. As result Alex
ander VI, who was then pope, issued
edicts, veSting in the Spanish crown
sovereignty over countries then or there
after found In the Western ocean, which
were not occupied already by Christian
powers. Pa pal authority in those days,
writes Mr.. Larned, was hard to dispute"
This book is published by Houghton, Milf
fin & Co.
Masterpieces of Latin Literature"
compa Mon volume to Masterpieces of
Greek Literature, published a year ago,
has just been brought out by Houghton,
Mlffiin q Co. It's selections are from the
10 ~ love nr16
poets of the most famous and typical
work of Latin authors. The editor, Cor
don j. Laing, of the University of Chi
cago. has contributed general intro
duction and individual biographical and
historical sketches.
Laura S. Richards the well known au-
thor. has written book of fables for old
and young, entitled The Golden Win
dows," which Little, Brown & Co. will
publish this autumn. The book will be
handsomely embellished as BELTS the
stories, of which one critic says: They
suggest Tolstoi at his best" In addi-
Mrs. Richards talented daughter, Julia
Ward Richards, has provided an appro-
pirate cover design and decorations for
the book
Mr. Alfred Henry. Lewis, whose init
mate knowledge of inner political life in
New York qualities him peculiarly for
revelations of the mysteries of politics,
has written novel entitled The Boss
WHICH Ids IOG us subtitle HOW lie came
TO Rule New York. This story, which
offers obvious opportunities for disclos-
ures of the dramatic and unexpected, and
for answers to the practical questions
1.-The Boss will be published this au-.
tumn by A. S. Barnes & Co.
A recent reviewer of "Anne Carmel
asserts that the authors name, Gwendo-
ten ten ~ toni is The d 4ih
States army, is quiet dweller in Los
Angeles Cal. and those. who desire to
know the facts and dates of her life will
uous travelling in the Macmillan com
pany's September Monthly List, which cam
be obtained from any bookseller or from
the publishers for the asking. Anne
large edition. Miss Overton's next book
will be one for boys and girls-''The Cap
tains Daughter which Is just finishing
its run in one of the magazines.
That eminent literary authority, the
London Spectator says of Orme Agnus'
latest novel: THE story of Sarah Tul-
dom is a great achievement. We have
spoken with respect, even with admira
casions; his latest book deserves still
higher praise. In vigor, in subtle study
of character. in wholesomeness of tone,
it stands high in its class, the fiction of
moral life.
AS Golden Fleece is a sort of interna-
tional story, it is only natural that it
should find a market in England It is
now now running serially in one of the Eng
ilsh magazines. and will appear in book
form this fall. The English critics find
the fortune hunting British earl, seek
ing an heireSS in America who is the
central figure of the novel, a "life-like
and amusing character managed without
carlcature, to quote one of the chief re-
views David Graham Phillips, the au-
thor thor of Golden Fleece is at present in
Rogue; Being the Confessions of a
Croesus, will come out this fall.
Edward w. Townsend, the author of
Lees and Leaven.' who has distinguished
having three books published in one sea
son is an interchangeable writer. and a
glutton for hard work. st learned to
work when | was a newspaper man." he
says, land the habit sticks to me. The
most strenuous days of my life were
those | spent in San Francisco. 1 was in
the full tide of journalism, without shad-
oW OF q doubt, and was making a few
eddies of literature the side. There
was period when, as l look back on it
now, I must have lived chiefly on coffee
and hard work, for besides all my news
paper and other writing, / was a director
and chairman of the house committee
of the Bohemian club president of the
Press club, and some how managed to
put In an hours physical work to bal
ance all this brain exertion. in the gym
naslum of the Olympic club, where a
good-natured young bank clerk, named
James Corbett, was my boxing instruc-
tor"
But Mr.. Townsend now lives most of
the year in the peaceful suburb of Mont
clair, n. j., where, from his den he can
look out across the Jersey meadows and
see the tall sky line of New York, the
fiction. His novel of New York TO-DAY.
Lees and LeaVen,' is being nrenared