The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-05-09
he will form some idea Of how this country
came to be what it Ia
Other Books.

One thing that was firmly impressed on
the American mind by the war with Spain
and with China was the gallantry and
usefulness of the marines. Whatever dis
cussion there may be as to the value of
the services Of the various troops, Guam,
tanamo and Tentsin and Pekin stand out
clear and unforgettable. 1t is fitting,
therefore. that Major Richard S. Columns
History of the United States Marine
Corps" O.. r. Hamersly Company should
appear in new edition. In a way it is
new book, for more than half Of it consists
Of new material added to the account pub
lished thirty years ago. That is only
natural, for the gallantry Of the marines in
two later wars had to be recounted, as
we'll as other notable exploits on land and
on sea-for instance. their behavior in the
catastrophe at Apia. 1t is inexcusable,
however, on the part of the publisher to
give no indication that the book is a new
edition of an old book that has been brought
up to date.
1t is an excellent idea to reprint Prof
Edward Arber's valuable collection of old
English tracts and other pieces, which he
published under the title An English Gar
ner," and which has been long out of print
The new edition is in twelve volumes and
unpublished in this country by E. P. Dutton
& Co. The first two volumes, now before
US, contain the extremely interesting rela-
tions OF Voyages and Travels during the
sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and
have been edited by Mr.. c. Raymond Beazley.
The papers have been rearranged. the
text revised and additions have been made
to Prof. Arber's selection. Mr.. Beazley
provides historical introduction to each
volume. 1t is pity that the editors should
have thought fit to modernize the spelling
The price Of these volumes s extremely
low.
Volume TX. of the New International
Encyclopaedia edited by Profs. Daniel
Colt Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck and
Frank Moore Colby (Dodd, Mead 4 Coz,
is out. 1t extends from Hall" in Tyrol
to Infant Phenomenon" our old friend
the progeny of Vincent Crummles, ESQ.
The volume seems to have more than the
usual proportion of useless pictures. In
the elaborate article on -Heraldry," while
the plain cuts are explanatory. the colored
pictures are on far too small a scale and
suggest invidious comparisons with the ad-
mirable work in the German encyclopedias
The maps in this volume, too. are unusually
provoking in their inadequacy. We see
no indication Of making good the defici-
ences in the table Of pronunciation. These
are flaws that we hope to see remedied
in future edition of what is assuredly
the most convenient and. so far as use can
determine. the most accurate Of American
encyclopedias.
Paul Leicester Ford's Janice Meredith"
sucoumbs to the common fate of stories
that have been dramatized and appears
in Players Edition" with many unpleas-
ant illustrations from scenes from the
play (Dodd, Mead 4 Coz. We should
imagine that publishers and public alike
would see how inartistic such pictures
are and how they disturb the enjoyment
of even a mediocre story; but there must
be some call for them or else they would
not be published
There is reaction. 1t seems, from the
desire to read Greek at sight with no gram
NAUTICAL training, and teachers are trying
to lure youth back to the grammar. Prof
Louis Bevier, Jr., Of Rutgers College. has
prepared Brief Greek Syntax" in about
100 small pages (American Book Company,
making a very attractive little volume.
1t Is in marked contrast to the 'Goodwin's
Moods and lenses that managed to kill
our interest in Greek a generation or more
ago.
If youth will only read all the supple
mentary" reading that is pro vided for 1t by
kind publishers it will easily put its elders
to shame. No fault can be found with a
little book called The Spanish in the South
west" by Rosa " Winterburn american
Book Company 1t tells in simple language
romantic part of American history which
is condensed in the school histories into
few dry paragraphs, the story OF the early
Spanish explorers, which they may read
later in Prescott, and the story Of the real
pioneers of California.
Rules for the construction of verse have
never seemed to us Of as much utility as are
examples. That seems to be the idea also
OF Prof. Raymond Macdonald Allen In his
English Verse Henry Holt & Coz. To
very few rules he joins an abundance of
specimens that seem to be we'll chosen,
and which should If possible clear the
way for the poet that is not born, but made
Two more volumes Of the attractive,
thin paper, large-type, Empowered pocket
editions published by George Newnes
have come to lis from the importers, Charles
Scribners Sons. They are novels that
were famous in their day, Sir Edward
Bulwer-Lytton's Might and Morning.
and Charles Levers "The Confessions Of
Harry Lorrequer." It is useless to com.
pare either book with the modern output
Of fiction; fifty years ago novel readers
demanded good English and talent from