Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-01-17

Hilaire Belloc has studied a great period
IN French history in his "Robespierre, .
Tillie 10 the marginalia of the stage ]. H.
Stoddart has written from one standpoint
IN ms "Recollections of Player" and
Henry Austin Clapp from the opposite
PU ra II 81 T.; view in his "Reminiscences of
John Russell Young and George S. Bout,
well, the one dead and the other still
active and living, have contributed their
quota to the recollections of the men who
nave spent the best years of their life
In public service.
In the realm of history, Woodrow Will
sons History. of the American People
his STORY of the Mormons." William A.
Linn adds not a little new material to an
already unanimously discussed subject
irving = Rchman's History of Rhode
Island has come as the first lengthy
work or an ardent historical student, and
IN The Fighting Frigate," Henry Cabot
Lodge has brought together number of
ms, ms interesting historical papers. Two
posthumous works by John Fiske, New
france and New England and ESSAYS
historical and Literary will take their
allotted place among that writer's com
plete works, although they add little to
the store of historical and philanthropical
knowledge which he had already given to
Inc public. Many volumes have naturally
concerned themselves with the South
by A. Conan Doyle, Michael Dayitt, Paul
Kruger and General DeWet
OF poetry there has been no end
throughout the length and breadth of the
year. Through winter, spring summer.
autumn and into winter again, it has
come in amending stream from the four
corners of the globe. The covers which
contain 1t have been of all hues its pages
have been of every size, it's Typography
has been good, bad and Indifferent but
the poetry itself with here and there a
rare exception has been absolutely I'M
worthy of notice. The exceptions we do
not need to mention, the rest is silence.
Many notable books have come from the
press which cannot be classed in any of
tne above categories. Several publishers
have offered reprints in a form which do
nonor TO the great authors whose works
are thus brought again to contemporary
nouce ana other volumes noteworthy for
contents ana appearance have graced the
literary year. Poe has come forth in two
new editions, and Whitman, Hawthorne.
Lowell, Bret Harte Montaigne. Cha
teaubriand and Lockhart's Life of Scott
nave been well presented Shakespeare
has formed the theme of more than a
dozen volumes, but it is to be regretted
that at least half of them have dwelt up
on the apparently interminable Baconian
question. Two new general cyclopedias,
the International and Appleton's have
begun issue, the Jewish Cyclopedia has
reached Its second and third volumes, as
has also the new Chambers Cyclopedia
of English Literature. In his Anthology
of Russian Literature, the first volume Of
which appeared midway in the year. Pro-
ieSSoT Leo wiener OIL harvard is follow
ing an almost untrodden path; to philo-
sophlcal science, Professor William James
has offered remarkable contribution in
his Varieties of Religious Experience
and Benjamin Kidd in his Western Civ
ilization' has pursued his studies still
further in the line of political evolution
In THE Battle with the Sum-" Jacob A.
Riis continues his account of progress in
ameliorating the seamy side of New
York life. Books dealing with the arts OF
painting and sculpture with architecture,
gardens, animal life, nature in general
with furniture and old customs, have
come at regular intervals throughout the
entire year, and to the typographical de-
scription and political analysis of coun-
tries European and Asiatic several well
equipped writer's have given a great deal
of care and attention. Among these may
be noted A. r. Colquhoun's 1.-The Mastery
of the Pacific" Henry Normans "All the
Russias," w. S. Lily's India and its
Problems A. H. Savage Landor's
Across Coveted Lands" F. II. Nichols
Through Hidden Shensi,' and George
Frederick Wrights "Asiatic Russia"
The foregoing summary by no means in
cludes all the books of the year worth
mentioning, but it may serve to indicate
| into what diverse. directions the literary
men of the present day have turned their
lattention.-Roston Transcript