The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-05-23
Other Books.

Other Books.
John Chandler of Worcester, an ancestor
OF George Bancroft. the historian, was
one OF the Massachusetts, oyalists who
sacrificed all for their King. He left Bos-
ton with the British and was nicknamed
in England the Honest Refugee" Mr..
Andrew Mcfarland Davis has found In the
! court records and In the British archives
mass Of antiquarian Information about
Chandler and the disposal of his property
! which Ia published In handsome volume
| by Houghton. Mfflin 4 Co.. under the title
The Confscation Of John Chandler's Es-
tate A third Of the book is given up to
an account Of Chandler and his property
! and the procedure: the rest consists OF
| original documents from various sources
Another antiquarian volume Of interest
| Is Mr. William Fletcher Boogher's Clean
ings Of Virginia History. Washington
D. c. 1t Ia miscellany OF a pretty het-
! erogeneous kind. About half the volume
| Is given up to papers relating to Virginia.
| contingent In the Revolutionary Army. the
! other half contains scraps Of geneaolgies.
| family histories, death and marriage
records from church registers. and so forth
Apparently "A Broader Elementary Eu
! cation" by Prof. }. p. Gordy, Phi. D., IL. D.
| blinds Il Noble), is controversial in char
acter. Tho professor. like any one else
! has the right to express his views on educa-
ton in print. and even in the shape OF a
pedagogical manual. II he chooses. The
division into short sections. with every
chapter provided with review and "sug-
gestive" questions, seems to imply that the
| book Is intended to serve as a textbook
| for children or teachers. We should mag
inc that in work Of that sort matter of
! controversy has no place.
The interesting and important series OF
monographs on Historic Highways OF
America, published by the Arthur H. Clark
Company of Cleveland. has reached the
fifth volume. This, like several OF the pre-
| vious volumes. has been prepared by MIR,
Archer Butler Hubert and deals with the
road cut across Pennsylvania to Pittsburg
soon after Braddock's defeat and called
Forbes's road, the Pennsylvania State road
or -The Old Glade road the name the
author gives it in his title. Excellent maps
accompany 1t.
In the days OF Dickens idolatry his devo-
tees never thought Of him as poet. There
was surely no occasion for Mr. F. g. kitton
to collect and edit The Poems and Verses
Of Charles Dickens" Even with double
| and treble leading and copious introductions
it is difficult to expand them into volume.
| and most of the verses could have been
left with greater literary piety in the obliv-
ion in which they rested
The woud-be humorist who calls himself
Col. d. Streamer has perpetrated another
volume Of rhymes which he calls Per
| verted Proverbs" (R. H. RusselD. They
are printed with every other page blank,
and these blank pages are the most en-
joyable.
Two volumes OF miscellanies have been
added to j. NJ Dent d Co.'S edition OF
.The Prose Works of William Makepeace
Thackeray," illustrated by c. E. Brock.
| Print and shape are unexceptionable, but
it is queer to read sCox's Diary" without
Cruikshank's plates or Novels by Eminent
Hands without Thackeray's own draw
ings. From the works that take up the
greater space in each the volumes are en-
titled .The Book Of Snobs' and From
Cornhill to Cairo" (Macmillans)
An interesting series OF biographies OF
Jewish worthless begins with 'Maimonides,
by David Yellin and Israel Abrahams (The
Jewish Publication Society Of America).
II carried out on the lines Of this first volume
the series will be of Importance. as it will
recount great periods of Western history from
the Jewish stand point. The great Jewish
PHILOSOPHER and teacher was contemporary
Of Salaclin and Richard l., and the Jewish
side of the most romantic crusade times Is
well worth reading.
Mr. Owen Wister's amusing Harvard
story Philosophy A." is republished in
little volume by itself (Macmillans) Not
withstanding its college setting it carries
out a poetic idea and inculcates lesson
that will attract and amuse the general
public.
Some time aes a new edition Of the Rev.
George Croly's -Salathiel" was published
with a new title and charact eristic in
PRODUCTION by Gen. Lew Wallace, To this
the Rev. Isaac X. Funk. d. D., LII. D., who
has since been in communication with
the spirit Of Henry Ward Beecher, prefixed
a religious essay This Is now printed
separate ely as .The Next Step in Evolution.
Funk l. wagnalls Coz
A second volume completes the limited
edition of the Correspondence of John
Sedgwick, Major-General," printed by the
De Winnie Press for Carl and Ellen Battelle
SfopCkei, IL IL u Ucduluu VI ioi W q
heroic figure Of the civil war The Grafton
delivered by George William Curtis at the
dedication OF Gen. Sedgwick's monument
at West Point is included and there is
a summary of sedgwick's military services
A series Of revival sermons delivered by
the Rev. Louis Albert Banks. d. d., in his
most sensational and Objectionable style Is
published under the title 'On the Trail Of
Noses by the Funk d Wagnalls Co.
Prof. Frank Sargent Hoffman. Pm. D.,
Of Union College in Psychology and Com
mon Life" "a. P. Putnam's Sons) has con-
densed into a moderate-sized volume the
Investigations Of modern "psyohioal re-
Search The book will be welcome to
people who want to know something about
these matters when they come up In con-
variation. We hardly know WHISTLER the
attempt to popularize such questions il
to he commended or not. Nobody can
form a just idea Of the Blavatsky or Piper
investigations from such a summary, and
IL .{yor IN VARY doubtful mat.