The sun., 1903-04-18

his good fortune he deserved. for no was
honest and brave. A very vigorous and
entertaining story.
Poetry by Paul Laurence Dunbar.
Lyrics OF Love and Laughter Dodd' .
Mead 4 Coz Is the title Of the latest volume
Of Mr.. Dunbar's verse. There are verses
In negro dialect and some in the vernacular' .
In about equal proportion, and it Is but nat
ural that the most attractive are those
cast In the form that this writer has before
employed with such conspicuous succe So.
There Is something genuinely distinctive
In the lit and melody OF such lines as those >
for instance, in sThe Colored Band:
Wen de colo'd BAN comes ms'chin' down Dc sfrees
You hn hyeah de ladies all erroun' repeat:
-Aint dey handsome! Amt dey grant
Amt c.y splendldt Goodness. lani
wy dcy's pu'fe rom dey fo'heads to dey feetf-
An sioh s,eppin' 10 de music down Dc hne'
Taint de music by itself dat meks II one;
HITS de waikin'. step by step.
An de keepin' time wid Hep.
Dat IL mex Q common dltty SCUM divine
oh. de white ban play hits mudo. an hits mighty
good TO hyeah.
An. /, .ometi mes leaves q ,loklin' in yo' feet;
But de heat goes Into business
Fu' to help erlong de eah.
Wen dc colo ed ban goes msrchn' down dc street
Novels.
No RafIes this time, no criminal IN re-
spectable British society from Mr.. Z. w.
Horning. In mo Hero (Charles Scrib-
cr's Sons) he has taken an amusing idea
that Cherbuliez used In lie Roi Apepi ;
that Of q middle-aged man who must draw
a siren away from a callow youth. and mas
made a very diverting story OF It. Three
of his characters are very well touched
Of: wa are not 90 sure Of his woman with
a past, and that past seems little strong
for even a charitable man TO pass over.
But the story is not intended to be taken
seriously, and is not likely to get any one
into trouble by setting up bad example.
1t is delightful reading.
History again, with the st. Louis fair
in prospect. In "A Rose OF Normandy
Oittle, Brown 4 Co.., Mr.. William H. A.
Wilson introduces US to Lasalle and the
Chevalier Tonu and the discovery OF the
Mississippi There u sword play and
Indian lighting and, Of course, love. but
there Is also unjust vilifying Of Colbert,
which Ia inexcusable even In . historical
romance.
There Is . good deal Of power In rather
strange story, Until Seventy Times Seven.
that comes to US from Thomas WHITAKER.
II deals With adultery, and tells OF man
who takes back his wife In spite OF her
sin, though it is known to the whole COM
munity In which they live. Though the
story is intended to defend an argument
and at times, therefore. halts for discussion,
the struep giles. internal and external. OF the
two are described truthfully and with much
insight into character. and no point IN the
question Is shirked. The book, naturally,
is strongly religious In tone and language.
Mr.. Olin L. Lyman has undertaken to
cast the glamour OF romance over Sacketts
Harbor in THE Trail Of the Grand Seign-
eur. New Amsterdam Book Company.
He has much to say Of the War OF 1872 az It
was fought on the Lakes, and Of Indians
and border life. II is not at all bad story
of the old-time sort that Mr.. Beadle pro-
vided US with. The colored pictures are
fearfully and wonderfully made.
Even Count Tolstoy must submit TO the
tndiopity OF players edition @Resur-
reotion' having been turned into q
n,av. Messrs. Dodd, Mead 4 Co. have
seen At to publish new edition OF
the novel illustrated with scenes from
the play.' The Illustrations, as usual.
have an artificiality that belongs neither
TO pictures nor even to the play as seen by
the audience. Apart from the vulganty
of these stage scenes, is 1t conceivable that
anv one who can appreciate the story can
hear 20 have q New York actress intruded
ON a literary work OF art?
We have had more than we want OF the
virt,ous Aaron Burr. He 10 served up
ag.in in THE Stirrup Cup 'novelette'
nv ]. Aubrey Tyson (Appletons). He is
nrepared in the Bowery melodrama style
~ historical fiction, with jersey geographical
6xings. 1t 10 the story OF his loves with
Mme' Provost that Is told this time. In the
old. time Nev York Ledger style.
Other Dooks.
Contemporaneously with the Easter we'd
ding. appears MRS. Rorer's New Cook Book:
A Manual of Housekeeping, by Sarah Tyson
Rorer (Arnold and Company, Philadel-
pbia). On it will be builded many culinary
experiments in youthful households. and
IL will furnish many opportunities for the
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