The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-10-24


OF Hunts works
Amateurs rush in where experts fear to
tread Mr., W. d. Ellwanger's tastes have
turned for q while from versiflcation to
rugs. and In THE Oriental Rug" (Dodd,
Mead 4 Coz he undertakes to tell what
he has learned about them. For practical
Use accuracy OF statement is even more
necessary than attractive presentation.
The book h adorned with good colored
pictures OF rugs In the possession Of Mr.
Ellwanger and his relatives
The popularity attained by Mrs. Alice
Hogan Rice's Mrs. Wigs OF the Cabbage
Patch and -Lovey Mary" justifies their
presentation In q new and gorgeous edition
by the Century Company. Most Of the
colored pictures which are held to be need
fll adjuncts Of up-to-date novels are pain
full daubs, but Mrs. Florence Scovel Shinn
has succeeded in really illustrating these
books with pictures that are works OF art
and are better on account Of the color.
Tho handsome new edition Of Louisa M.
Alcotts works published by Little, Brown
4 Co. now includes .Jos Boys Miss
Ahrens. the illustrator. has not hit the
old fashioned style OF figure and costume
that Mrs. Stephens WAS so successful with
in the Little Wonen" illustrations; some
droases are modern enough to have scan
dalized poor Miss Aoott, but 1t would be
difficult not to improve on the original
drawings that Miss May Aloott provided.
OF all the queer literary products We
have received Of late "Tittlebat Titmouse'
Ftmk 4 Wagnals Compan " is the queerest.
1t presents that universal genius and book
emitting syndicate, Cyrus Townsend Brady.
in q new form. that Of condenser He has
cut out the parts Of Samuel Warren's ten
Thousand . Year that he did not like
and added two pages Of his own. This had
the qualified approval Of the late DR.. E.
Walpole Warren, the novelist's son, who
evidently could not help himself. His
letter IL prefixed: Il have no objection
to your doing as you have done, and am
glad Of the hattering suggestion that the
work u sufficiently popular to deserve such
treatment. So far % am concerned, Go
on and prosper The publication Of
old books under new names opens up
question Of ethics into which we will not
enter. On the back Of the cover and In
an enclosed circular the authorship is
ascribed to .Warren and Brady.
One Of the most enjoyable and justly
successful stories Of the last few years, Mr.
Henry Harland's 1TheC CARDINAL Snuff box, I"
10 published In Q new illustrated edition
by John Lane. Tho pictures are by Mr..
G. G. WilmAhurst. Tho head and tail pieces
are charming and appropriate; the larger
pictures are pretty good as illustrations 60
| nowadays. Some OF tho female faces are
a. dainty and aristocratio as Du Maurier's.
while others are Of the Gibson girl type,
but pretty. We can't help regretting the
intrusion Of the type, however.
The unusual opportunities which Mrs.
Anna Bowman Dodd enjoyed Of seeing the
Sultan and the hidden places In his abodes
while at Constantinople might lead the
reader Of In the Palaces Of the Sultan '
Dodd, Mead Coz to expect unusual
| information about these matters. In that
the reader will be disappointed. There are
many fine pictures from photographs;
there u some description Of places seen,
mostly of those that many other travellers
may SEQ too; there La = great deal about
the author and her own personal impress
sions Of persons and politics and other
matters, and there In q thick coating OF
syrup that covers the persons whom the
author met, from Gen. Porter and the
! Sultan to the attaches and dragomans.
Her readiness to believe all that was told
| her IL equalled only by the indiscr eetness Of
her questions. The manner in which the
harem is dealt with IL anna zing, both for
what IL said and for what was apparently
not understood. The .audation Of Abdul
Hamid Ia moro than Oriental. and will be
hard to match from any Western source.
Beautifully printed by an English press,
| Ralph Waldo Emerson's The Conduct OF
Life comes to us in a handsome volume
from the Scott-Thaw Company. 1t is a
pleasure to sec large type and wide margins
! properly employed
A convenient and unpretentious little
| book, AN Easy Guide TO the Consultations
With a Star Atlas" by James Gall, is pub
lished in a new, enlarged edition by g. P
| Putnam's Sons. 1t IL precisely what its
title says. . description Of the stars in heaven
90 clear that a child can identify them.
Two more volumes OF famous editions OF
the early part Of the ninet zenith century
both with colored prints by Thomas Pow
lAndson, are published by Messrs. Apple
ton. One is THE Dance OF Life by the
author OF -Dr Syntax. written in the san e
queer doggerel verse, the other is Gold
smiths -The Vicar Of Wakefield the illus
trations for which are decidedly quaint
A scrapbook for playgoers has been pre-
pared by Dodd, Mead 4 Co.. with the title
plays ! Have Seem There are blank
spaces for the title, author, theatre, date
cast, remarks Of various kinds and blank
pages for clippings. Each play has eight
pages at it's command and the book has
space for twenty-eight plays at that rate
There are pages, too, for an index, so that
playgoers are left with no excuse for lack
OF method In their amusements.
This years events in the cotton market
land unusual interest to the statistics that
appear in tho thirtieth annual edition OF
Cotton Movements and Fluctuations
lsss-loO3,' published by Latham. Alex.
andsr 4 Co.
THE Financial Red Book Of America
The Financial Directory Association)
processes to give list Of 5000 persons in
the United States. each having $500 .0OC
or more at his or her command. 1t is ar
ranged according TO States and cities. and
gives addresses and other details abou,
these persons.
| From the Brooklyn Eagle press we re-
| ceiye in one volume two stories for boys