The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1904-10-22
Other Books.

too close examination IL MI. lnoHihs cney
.paris and its Story" 81. NJ. Dent Co.;
Macmillans) In a stately small quarto
with wide margins and attractive type
Mr. Okcy tells pleasantly and carefully
enough the story Of the "City OF Light.
He dweIls too much on general history,
perhaps. and is a trihe magniloquent at
times but his part Of the work ia not badly
done. though it is far inferior to his Venice
There are fifty colored pictures and fifty more
in black and white OF from photographs,
as IN the other volume Of the set, and these
are distinctly disappointing. As pictures
Mr.. O. r. NJ. Wards water colors are in
significant; he is careless about perspective
and proportions and seems anxious to
turn out pretty chrome, regardless OF the
truth. As illustrations they are abso-
mtelv bad; many are so vague that the
place they are supposed to represent can
hardly be identified, even after the title
tells what Mr.. Ward intended the picture
Tor: others are so sketchy and vague that
those who have seen the place will notice
the artists errors rather than any resem-
blancp: and Paris, unfortunately for Mr..
Ward, is the town that has attracted more
eyes than any other. Miss Kimballs
pen and ink drawings are much better;
but here too, the effort at sketchiness,
initiated probably from Mr.. Pennell, spols
them as illustrations. The photographs are
limited to French artists and show astonish-
ing gaps, and a selection by names rather
than by important works. We fancy
tina the chief trouble is that Paris is too
big and too variegated to he forced into
the frame that Mr.. Okey devised for Venice
1t is pretty book specifically however
as most of the Dent books nre.
T. Usefulness and entertainment are COM
fined in Mr.. Fl. Pomeroy Brewster's Saints
and Festivals of the Christian Church"
Frederick A. Stokes Company. tt ia really
a calendar of the year, the account OF each
saint being given under the day that is his
TOAST day, but an index at the end makes
it easy to find any festival that may be
looked for Incidentally, information about
other holidays, about church usah res,
about the calendar and like subjects is
supplied, and the reader will be able to
settle at once many perplexing questions
that arise frequently
Nothing in the new Irish revival is more
thoroughly Irish than the stories told by
Mrs. Anna MacManus, who wrote under the
name of -Ethna Carbery.' up to her UNI
timely death a year or two ago. 1t is owing
to the intrinsic merit Of her work, as well
as to her husbands care for her memory,
that her stories are now republished in two
thin volumes by the Funk & Wagnalls Co.
In THE Passionate Hearts" we have six
short love stories Of her own, irish in scene
and feeling, bile I'm the Celtic Past tells
again a1tis of the old legends. Every
Jrishman will wish to read these books,
A. L. leo
will find in them an excellent introduce
ton to Irish literature and tradition.
In "Denizens Of the Deep" (Fleming H.
Revell Company Mr. Frank 7. Bullen puts
into his own peculiar sea language the
natural history OF the fish and birds that are
found on the ocean. He belongs to the
sentimental school OF natural history, with
a certain pietistic twist that ia individual,
and his method OF popularizing the dry
facts OF science is to intrude his own per-
sonality into the operations Of nature.
The vividness impaired by the Il saw it
method must make up in young people for
the natural doubts Of a nautical mans
veracty that their elders may feel when
they reflect on the sum Of the experiences Of
Mr.. Bullen and reckon up the number Of
pronouns OF the first person that he uses.
The book Is a great improvement on some
Of Mr.. Bullen's late productions inasmuch
as it is hard to put moralization into the
mouths Of fishes. big or little. The pictures
are very good, but 80 sensational that they
would discredit the truth OF even a mis-
snnary's story.
The volumes OF Early Western Travels,
l74s-is46" edited by Dr. Reuben Gold
Thwaites (The Arthur H. Clark Company.
CIeveland), press hard on one another. In
volume viii. we have two extremely inter
estng accounts of rather eccentric travel
lers. Voyages. Travels and Discoveries Of
lilly Buttricl, Jr., and "A Pedestrious Tour
Of 1000 miles through the Western
States and Territories during the Winter and
Spring of 1Sl9," by Estwick Evans. The
former narrative covers the years from
1872 to 1919 Both narratives are given
in full. so that the reader has Ruttrick' 8
strange experiences at sea, and Evan 8
quaint moral reflections as well as the i'm
portant testimony they give "a to the
conditions and the topography OF the West
they saw.
The variety Of Mrs Alec Tweedie's infor-
nation is as remarkable as her readiness
10 write We doubt if there is any subject
epJul winch COulu nOb out a WI
ume al few hours notice. In Behind
the Footlights" (Dodd, Mead 4 Coz we
have the frothiest sort of gossip and gush
about various wel-known actors-the most
ephemeral kind Of woman's journal writing
1t is written in the spightliest Of tones
and ornamented with portraits and auto
graphs Of British actors.
More than 800 pages Of anecdotes, stories
and Jokes about doctors have been collecte d,
We infer by DR.. Porter Davies, in "The
Doctors Leisure Hour" a volume Of THE
Doctors Recreation Series" whose general
editor is Mr.. Charles Wells Moulton tThe
haalfaid Publishing Coz. Most OF these
pieces are iocular, and many make fun Of
the profession. The venerable antiquity Of
many Of the tests is counterbalanced by
The juvenile freshness OF others. II In not
bad anthology Of its kind, but IL will be
enloyed moro by those who are ready to
hngh at d. ctors, we imagine, than by the sc
VINO are tho butts Of the jokes.
Major E, G. Dennison. ID. S. o.. aNSouth
African who commanded body Of scouts
III The recent war, has written his personal
experiences in A Fight to the Finish
2 uohsmans, Green 4 Coz, and interesting