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incidents in life that they do not UNDER
stand. Where worldly success is the
preachers theme. the examples are often
udicro,s. Dr. Mathews, for instance, be-
eves in doing literary work before break
fast he gives instances Of writer's who rose
early. but carefully omits the fully as long
list Of those who have preferred to write
after midnight He alhIdes SO often to
Goethe that he might have mentioned at
least Faust. whom the moonlight found so
often AT midnight toiling over books and
papers The worst fault we find in all
these eulogies of strenuousness is the false
view they give of success IL it enough
for man to carry out the plan he has
mapped ont to be successful? Shouldn't
didac ic book raise the question whether
the thing was worth doing. too? And
what dismal failures most, Of these sue
cesses OF the books are.
The mass OF information about hou Sc
decoration that Lille Hamilton French
has difilsed for some time past in maya
zine articles will be found collected in
Homes and Their Decorations" Oodd,
Mead 4 Co.. a handsome, we'll illustrated
volume. Those who have no taste will
find described there the things they should
admire; ambitious young women beginning
to keep house will find in it many useful
hints for making their flats or suburban
cottages look like artistic stage scenes.
The title may strike people who have known
what home is as a misnomer; very few OF
the elaborate pieces OF furniture and brio
A-brac illustrated would we care to see in
our living room. II is home OF dress
suits and hardwood floors the author de-
scribes, not one Of dressing gown and old
slippers.
An interesting lecture describing a win
ter cruise, with many Photographic views,
that was delivered last May before the New
York Yacht Cl,fs by former Vioe-Commo-
dore Arson Phelps Stokes is publishe d
in short pamphlet. Illustrated with some
very good photographs, entitled 'Cruis-
ing in the Caribbean with Camera Oodd
Mead q co.,. Mr.. Stokes's cruise was
supplementary to one earlier described by
him 1t took him with the Sea Fox from
Porto Rico down the outer Antilles to Trini-
dad and back again. and then to the larger
islands Santo Domingo, Jamaica and Cuba
Appended is full illustrated description
OF Mr.. Stokess curious patented invention
Of a globular naval battery.
A book that has been much read and that
must always be an authority. Bourrienne's
Memoirs Of Napoleon Bonaparte.' is pub
lished In single volume by the Fred
erick A. Stokes Company. The type.
though small. is legible and clear. and the
form is very convenient. The editor is
Edgar Sanderson. NJ. A.
The strange mixture Of description.
history and fiction with which Mrs. Eliza
beth W. Champney accompanies pictures
that are not startlingly novel Is continued
In another volume called Romance of
the Bourbon Chateau1" &c. P. Putnam's
Sons.) The fiction part in this case necee
sarily arouses painful comparisons with
Alexandra Dumas the elder. The volume
Is pretty and Is eminently suitable for
gift, as it seems intended above all for an
ornament for the centre table.
A chatty account OF Egypt published
some years ago by Mr.. Frederic Court
land Penfield, who was once United States
Consul General at Cairo, Is published in
q revised edition by the Century Com
| pany under the title present Day Egypt.
| 1t Is brought up to date, the chapter on
the Assouan dam and irrigation being
| practically new.
Men have to earn their living In queer
ways, and from the strange occupations
OF people living in New York city Mr.
| Cleveland Moffett was enabled to make a
number OF entertaining magazine articles
These are collected under the title Careers
OF Danger and Daring" CThe Century Com
pany). He describes the life of steeple climb
ers, divers. balloonsts, bridge builders. wild
beast tanners and those who handle dyna-
mite as well "a those to the danger Of whose
callings familiarity has made us almost
blind, firemen, pilots and locomotive en-
gineers 1t 10 an exciting book.
! Mr.. Richard Harding Davis's dog ro-
nance, The Bar Sinister is published by
itself in an attractive illustrated volume
| Charles Scribner's Sons) Recognizing
the lack of verisimilitude in the dog facts
the author prefIes note in which he
( vouches for their accuracy
1t seems that Captain Joshua Slocum q
solitary trip around the world has been
| thought suitable book for school children.
Apart from the adventures it may teach
them geography. So the valiant skipper
has abridged and adapted his narrative,
and under the title Around the World
in the Sloop Spray It Is published in a
neat volume by Charles Scribner's Sons.
Two rather entertaining little volumes
OF anecdote and history relating to tea and
coffee a. drinks have been complied by
Arthur Gray and published by the Baker
nrh ,tntp bnv, lty
100 pages One is 1.-THE Little Tea Book, y
the other "Over the Black Coffee"
Another volume, the eleventh, OF the
excellent technical annual "The Mineral
Industry" edited by DR.. Joseph Struthers
(The Engineering and Mining Journal.
il now ready. 1t contains the usual wealth
of statistics about all minerals in COM
mer-ial use, accounts OF the latest proc
esses used in procuring them; records Of
prices and other valuable information, all
brought up to date. which in this case
means the end of the year 1902.
Musical biographies, written in that mood
OF exaltation inspired in many women by
instrumental performers, are often enter
tanning in way not intended by the biog-
rauhers. Tn"Theodore Lcshetizky, by the
Co,ntesse Angelo Pot ocka Crhe Century Com
pany), the enthusiasm spreads to the teacher
Of musical wonders. There Is plenty OF
musical gossip, with the feminine disreE gard
for essential facts that goes with it, but the
life OF Padorewskis teacher by a countess
sister law Is sure TO have plenty Of read
ers. We are glad to learn that the teacher 3
name is really Leszetycki, and that the
simpler form used is intended to enable