The sun., 1903-10-18
Brief Notices.

Who but awaits His hour to shoot still hane
A cloudy culver over Pare ma Lee.
Brief Notices.
Prof. Henry A. Beers is not an old enoapA
man to be reminiscent, but changes at Yale
have been SO great in the last dozen year,
that fairly young graduate who can talk
OF the Chapel street fence and the old brick
row must seem like an antediluvian to the
latest Yale fedglings. 1t is the old COLLEGE
and the life that reached back to the days
before the war that Prof. Beers describes
Of plancus now published in new edition,
with additions. by Henry Holt and Company,
bits OF "reminiscences, stories, verses, as de-
lightful in their way as anything Dr. Holmes
wrote OF Harvard.
No book about Stratford and Shake
speare can be uninteresting to Americans.
and though Mr.. w. Salt Brassington u
exuberant, not to say gushing, in his style.
he talks in "Shakespeares Homeland"
u. M. Dent 4 Co.; E. P. Dutton 4 Coz
pleasantly enough about places and mat
ters connected with Shakespeare He
wanders far enough to tell of Warwick
and kenilwortn, so that the book. which
is well got up and prettily illustrated,
can serve as sort OF guide to all who visit
Stratford and it's vicinity
In calling his book THE Alphabet of
Rhetoric tAppletons), Mr.. Rossiter john
son rather misleads his readers. The
alphabetical arrangement is certainly there,
but much Of the matter consists Of ex-
pressions Of opinion about the use Of words
and OF phrases which have nothing to do
with rhetoric. Though many of these
opinions are sound, Mr.. johnson often
allows his individual tastes to prevail.
and condemns expressions which are
perfectly proper and sometimes better
than those he would substitute. He seems
to admire the dogmatic eccentricities of
Mr.. Alfred Ayres. and this detracts from
the value Of his book.
Though, save in one case, the selection is
not particularly judicious. the collection of
short French stories published by &. p.
Putnam's Sons, in six little volumes bound
In limp leather, under the title Little Frer On
Masterpieces" edited by Alexander Jessip.
will be found better worth reading than nine
tenths of the fiction published nowadays.
The translator is Mr.. George Burnham Ives.
He might have been less literal with 70
harm to his authors or his English; the All
thors selected are Prosper Merimte, Gus
tave Flaubert, Theophile Gautier, Balzac.
Daudet and Guy de Maupassant; there are
introductions by various hands, but we fail
to see where MIR. Jessup swork comes in.
The Balzac volume has not reached us; the
Daudet volume is fairly adequate, for II con-
tains the greater part Of the -Lettres de
Mon Moulin" with additions from the
.Contes du Lundi." The Merimee selections
include Carmen" and 40 may be consid-
cred fairly representative, but what can
We say for the haphazard pickings from
the others7 The taste OF choosing Gautier's
-The Golden Fleece is questionable, for
as the tale is e1purgated the point Of the
story disappears, and why drag in Gautiers
vulgarizer, Prof. Frederic Cesar de sunni
chrast? Maupassant' "Boule de Suif' is
translated "Talow Ball" And bowdlerised.
The process Of cutting up writer's
works so as to make OF them a consecutive
narrative in a single volume. which has
already been applied to Francis ParEman,
is employed now, perhaps, with more excuse
on DR.. James Schouler, the historian, whose
six volumes have been drawn upon 10 form
Eighty Years of Union" (Dodd, Mead 4
Coz. One volume is less deterrent TO tmo
readers than six, and this one may do, per-
haps, the good work of popularizing DR.
c,Lo,,,.r,s Iaroer history which is far ess
s.I ~, ~. ,.n.raI rub,ic than il should
reao oy .he no'"' pu'o AZ, l:. - o,,-
be. AS II Is, IL presents .he history VI wa.
country to the end OF the OWL war VI
much more worthy manner than school
b;stories oS the same size
ihe'oiN' ~, Wv - ,i.;, -, .Th, .orsls
a ne" suosc' ,p' 'on e'',,.o'' VI sa,Ir
and Stories OF Ivan lnrgeh'en' n'WH
translated from the Russian by l'al"I
+ Happood, has been prepared by harIcs
ca.;,ror,s Sons md tho frst rour yohlnns
T, ;,,aI,,l, .No,,,r ..
are before us lucy h''u'ie r.Nn