The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-11-03

 All its kindIiness awhile
 Lingering upon his smile. Fair companions, what can be Truer friend to you and me? Love his troth may soon dissever,- Wine gives all, asd gives forever.
 The toasts touch all the chords from wisdom to frivolity-poetry and senti- ment to nonsense and satire, while many are even bit wicked. Indeed, the talented Ambrose Bierce is so dar-# ing in this respect that we hardly risk to quote his wonderfully clever contri- button. But to end it all is truly so- Der drinking song by Will Irwin, of which we quote only three stanzas:
 A GRACE AFTER DRINK.
 Oh, hear us, kindly Bacchus,
 Lord of good reyelrH
 Whose bright elixir teacheth men
 What the immortals be-
 Grant, then, that we, thy servants,
 Shall drink in soberness,
 And hold thy godly gift too dear
 For barb'rous gross excess!
 And aye from every flagon
 The maiden draught be thine
 A toast to merry Baeehus
 Lord giver of the vine!
 A conspicuously attractive work and one which will appeal to all lovers of the beautiful is Book Two of Cyr's Graded Art Readers, just published by Ginn and Company, Boston. The author, who has been unusually sue cessful in writing books for use in ele- mentary grades, has designed the pres ent volume to help children to appreci- ate what is beautiful in famous paint ings, To aid in the accomplishment of this end the publishers have spared neither pains nor expense to make the illustrations unexcelled among two color half tones. We call special at tention to the excellence of these pro i;duetions as well as to the high grade of , the subject matter.
 To write a simple story based on the masterpiece Of some famous painter that will ring true to the young reader, and at the same time avoid belittling the painting and the artist, is obvious Fly a delicate and difficult task. Miss Cyr is one of the very few children's authors capable of accomplishing this work with unquestioned skill and good taste At any rate, Book One of her Graded Art Readers QSnown as Cyr's Advanced First Reader'') is the only noteworthy and successful attempt at this kind of composition.
 1 Tn text, in illustrations, and in its aim to help children appreciate what is beautiful in famous paintings, this sec ond book, of the series is a continuation of the work begun in the first volume. ! As in the earlier book reproductions of masterpieces form the basis of the text, which consists Of simple stories closely allied to the pictures. The pu- pil is thus led to interpret the meaning of each painting and to appreciate the truth, beauty and spiritual meaning which the artist has put into his work. Book Two, like it's predecessor, is pri- marily a reading book. In every par- ticular the most careful attention has been given to the definite requirements of young pupils.
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 Classic Myths in Art" by Julia De Wolf Addison; illustrated; published by L. c. Page and Company. Boston. For sale by Judd,
 This is an altogether delightful ac- count of the ancient Greek myths, and la description of many of the world-fa- nous works of art Illustrating them,
 The subject matter itself is intensely interesting, and under Mrs. Addison's $ skilful treatment, the old legends gain new beauty and charm, while the il- lustrations are fully up to the standard established by the previous books in the series.
 The author has made il, a rule not to use such statues or pictures as are available to every one in familiar casts or prints; but rather she has selected for presentation sor:le of the less we'll known works of art, even though they be not so famous as the antique.
 The Art of Pitt Palace" was by this same author.
 Little Citizens is charming book LUI #IllGs puDllCs ECsiS It the very clever stories of Jewish chill dren of the tenements that Myra Kel- ly has been telling in a magazine for a year past. It is a book that will have a hearty welcome on it's merits. Of Little Citizens the New York Sun says: Bright and amusing and occa- sionally pathetic, as they are, the sto- ries show extraordinary quickness in catching the English jargon of the for eign born Jews and keenness and sym pathy in penetrating at their real na- ture under the unpleasant and perplex- ing surface. The stories gain by being read together.
 Though in appearance 1t is a child's book and in parts is extremely funny, and will be read by the public general ly for that reason, we believe that Miss Kelly's book is in reality race study, that will have to be consulted by those who mean to do serious work, whether charitable or educational or sanitary, among the Jews of the East Side. It ought to bring home, too, the difficult ties in the way of the public school teacher who has to handle the hetero- geneous mob of children on the one hand, and to face the wooden regulaA tions of the school board on the other.
 Pieturesqueness fun, bright talk, all indigenous to New York, will be found here and a srlinnnsp i1tn tba req li+ias