Evening journal., 1904-02-23
THE LITERARY WORLD

THE LITERARY WORLD
N seribner's. for February, appears an
other Of Miss Elizabeth Hale Gilman
.sei,phtfni articles. Home Sketches" is
she t,tle. and 1t is a very ntting success
<or 10 her kitchen sketches" which APP
pearcd in scribner's some months ago.
and which attracted considerable atten-
ton for It's novelty Of subjects and
treatment. Miss Gilman. who is Mil
ford elri has shown in a striking man
ner, that interesting things do happen in
Kitchens. and that there are romancos
happening in the home every day.
Tier early recognition in the literary
neid. however. suggests that the kitchen.
though made ever SO attractive by her
transforming touch, will soon become TO-
her only a delightful memory. For those
Who can bron steaks. must broii steaks
while those who can DO things with a pen
must follow that Jealous mistress. an of
Us can cook somcway. II it becomes nccos-
sary. but Few can weave romnnccs around
pots ana kettles. The idea Is refreshing
Ordinarily those in Miss cilman's at-
sHc-phcre who aspire 20 literature, write
OF counts ana swaggcrng advcuturers
1heir articles are reiectcd-;hey know
nor why Miss Gilman finds sermons in
pans books ia the homely things Of The
lctchcn and interest IN everything.
A volume that should prove of interest
at the present time Is Cruising IN the Care
ibboan with a Camera" by Arson Phelps
Stokes. formerly vicc-commodorc OF The
New York Yacht Club. podd, Mead &
Co) This little book VIII he valuable not
only 70 those contemplating a visit 20 tile
ANcsl indies. but because il is = weli-writ-
ten sketch Of a recent cruise IN those
waters in the yacht Sea Fox, ard contains
much Information and many Interesting
facts concerning the islands. This cruise
Is supplementary 70 an earlier one, which
Yves described IN volume entitled "cruls-
ms IN the West Indies"
Tho Chautauqnan'y February "Reaiins
Journey in the Borderlands OF the United
s,atesr Is through Central America. II is
by Lieutenant J. w. G.. Walker, u S. NJ
who Is thoroughly acquainted with the
conditions in The little republics on the
lsthnms The February inatalmcnt Of the
'Raclai Composition Of the American
People" hy John r. Commons. doQls with
Industry as it Is affected by immigration,
and shows how employers have fought lac
Dor unions by induced immigration"
''Thc Admirable Tinker is the title OF
the book hy Edgar Jcpson thnt Mcclure
Phillips viii bring out about the middle
OF this month ''Thc Admirable Tinker is
l..i a.
Huckchcrry Finn and Tom Sawyer. His
adventures. Of which he has many are
oi the most fantastic nature. and very
mucn up TO date. To aid him IN his cs-
capadfs he makes use OF anything that
happens az hand from an automobile to a
nyins machine. Ho 4a- most sonuemanly
liitle youngstor the son Of noblemen
Of reduced fortunes and tendency to-
wards gaming Tinker aims to restore the
family fortunes, which be succeeds ad-
mlrably In doing.
sanaeaus Mile do Ia seieliere Edited
by Elizabeth NJ. White Erasmus Han
High School Brooklyn ~ r. Cloth l2mo
lN pages Price. 40 cents. American Book
Company New York Cincinnati and chi
cago.
The scene OF Nile dc Ia scigllere IS
laid n tho province OF Poitou 10 1877
soon after the Restoration had recalled %
France the mobiles who had He'd from thg
country al the beginning OF the Reign OF
Terror Their long absence, Of a quarter
OF o century had rendered them unable
20 appreciate the changes which resulted
from The Revolution. In the portrayal OF
the Inevitable ciashing Of aristocrau,
sentiments and mudcrn ideas, which FOL.
lowed the return Of these emlercs to thcii
native land. sandeau IS unfvuled llls
pleasing refined style, and freedom
from sensational scenes make the play
particularly we'll fitted for class reading
Mcclure for March adds still further
TO its well established reputation as "A
torch- bearer In the magazine world. II
is stil going before. lighting the way.
In this number the light is shed on
several Of the nations dark places
greatly 10 the interest OF the public.
There is a mine Of fiction from which
there Is 20 be extracted riches for all
Anthony Hope IN his strongest roman
tic style, solves The Riddle OF Countess
Runa. Rex +. Beach has a skilfully
humorous article from the Far West
on The Colonel and the Horse Thief
Myra Kelley dips into the race problem
OF New York's polyglot East Side IL
IA fetchingly oomical tale OF when
Mans Widowed, and later. save IN,
mark. when he's married. Mary stew.
art Cutting INDUCES IN sweetly senti
mental domesticity IN The Terminal
while jeanette Cooper consumes 4
Candid Violet The heroism OF th'
commonplace IS described by W II
Boardman in A Kind Of Hero who for
gets self for duty.
Syms' Easy First French Reader. b!
J.. c. Syms. author OF First. Seconl
and Third Years in French" Dewitt
Clinton Hieh School New York city
Cloth 12mD. 1876 pages Price so cents
American Book Company, New York
Cincinnati and Chicago.
This reader contains stories fror
such weil-knovn writer's as I'euillcl
I-aboulaye and Felix Gns, so con
denscd and altered as 20 reader thor
suitable Tor elementary reading. bu
still retaining tho characteristic char
OF the original narratives. The tex
progresses from the very simple 10 "a
more difficult by a regular gradatioi
Corresponding 10 the French text al
English exercises to be translated int
French. These serve as n test OF th
pupifs knowledge, and also as a dri
in grammar.