The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-12-06

the unsatisned cravings of high. IDEAL
istic intelligence, pervades the volume
CSteps OF Various Quilis.0 But this mel
| Gnchoiy ia lit up with a CLEAN here and
tnere OF vague. underlined faith and trust
IN things as they are. in the power behind
good and evil. in the ultimate issue Of all.
| The poems ere intense but sober, often
| prompted by spiritual pain. but withal
calm and serene. 1t is true that their tone
seems sometimes overmorbid. but that this
tone is the echo OF real feeling and is no
mere affection
The lion and he lamb will lie down to-
| gether in the pages Of the Century Maya
zine for 1904. fc- there Mr.. Ernest Thomp-
son Seton will write a series Of FABLES
| and Woodland Myths" Following this
announcement comes another saying that
Mr.. John Burroughs will, contribute a Sc
| ries of articles to the same magazine on
Current Misconceptions in Natural His
tory" With lively recollection of Mr..
BURROUGHS iconoclasdc article in the At
lantic Monthly / am anticipating a SEN
sation. Perhaps Mr. Ernest Thompson
Seton is also:-The Critic.
That Edward Everett Hale puts forth
new volume is now of Importance to
many. We the People," IS its title.
THE Yellow Crayon" and "Barbe of
the Grande Crayon"-na,nes full Of
mystery snd romance. Is 1t necessary to
remark that the author Of the first is T..
Phillips oppenheim and OF the second
John ONenham?
The Christmas numbers of the maya
zines, English an6 American, as a whole
snow. we think, shade Of improvement
over last years IN the art of illustrating
and OF "mal-e-up." Most interesting is
comparison of a few OF the London pub
ications-The Graphic, the Illustrated
London News, the illustrated Sporting and
Dramatic News and Pears Annual with
American periodicals Of the same nature.
peculiar fact is apparent The English
are Misunderstanding fact-to rioting in
colors. more SO than the Americans. Our
magazines incline toward "tone,' and in
tnat are superior. But a strength and
an appreciation CT detail enter into the
English illustrating to which we, in fair
ness must take off our mats Inc adj
vances on both sides Of the Atlantic have
been chiefly in color reproduction.
In the December Review OF Reviews are
outlined Some Things Boy of Seventeen
Should Have Had an Opportunity to
Read" II. L. Elmendorf OF the Buffalo
Public Library supplied the article Among
his suggestions are: Robert Louis Steyen-
son s essay on Gentlemen: collection
OF songs and simple poetry by various au-
thors, 1.-THE Land of Song" edited by |
Katherine Shute: the traditional nursery |
rhymes, collection edited by Charles
Welsh. "a Book of Nursery Rhymes:
Hawthorne's .'Wonderbook." .'Tanglewood |
Tales or Charles Kingsleys 1.-THE He
roes. or Greek Fairy Tales; Morse Sto- |
ries Retold,'' by Hamilton Mabie; Sir
Thomas Mallory. "Morte d'Arthur." and
Tennyson's "Idylls Of the King; Sydney
Lanier. 1.-THE Boys King Arthur; THE
Bible for Children" arranged by Mrs. 10
seph B. Glider; Robinson Crusoe," "GuI-
lIver's Travels Swiss Family Robinson"
and .'The Pilgrims Progress: Conan
Doyle's white Company" SCOTS 'Tvan-
hoe" and "Quentin Durward."
W. T. Stead contributes an article N
'Morley's Gladstone" to the Review of Re-
views. 1t is OF decided literary conse-
quence The following illustrates Mr..
Stead's style when he gets into the gist of
his subject:
las might have been expected, It e in
The third volume, in tho story of Mr..
Iladstone's heroic effort to carry home
rule, that Mr.. Morley is at his best. At
his best because In these chapters more
han In any other, he let's himself 20.
You have Morley stripped to the bur;
he restrained, austere precision disap-
,ears. We have no longer q philosophic