The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1904-09-17

pathcs by that process. He has tale OF
little ,hick with a wooden leg that will
appeal to every one. 1t Is good work, and
the pictures are good too.
Sor ie of the Stevenson fotsam and jet
san has been gathered into very prettily
gotten up little volume, 1.-THE Story OF
Lie and Other Tales by Robert Louis
Stevenson Herbert B. Turner d Co,
BOSTON,. There arc two other tales, THE
Misadventures OF John Nicholson and
-The Body-Snatcher. None Of these pieces
would add to the authors reputation, and
If he had had any say about the matter he
would probably have preferred to leave
them in oblivion Still there Ia the modern
craving for completeness to reckon with,
and many persons will probably be glad
to add this volume to their Stevenson col
lection. A good portrait is used for the
frontispiece.
The proceedings and addresses at the
meeting held in commemoration Of Jenny
June" the founder of Sorosis. are printed
with portraits and facsimies in volume
entitled Memories Of Jane Cunningham
Croly" C. p Putnam's Sons). A bio
graphical sketch of Mrs. Croly by her brother
is prefixed, and number OF articles ana
letters by her, as well az tributes and letters
bv her friends, appended. 1t might have
been in better taste to bring out more
strikinRly Mrs Croly's services as pioneer
in newspaper work for women than az the
head of what is now only one among many
women's societies, but the memorial Will
prove acceptable, no doubt, to many women
as we'll as to Mrs Croly's personal friends.
Anew volume, the sixth, Of the American
Jewish Year Book" is issued under the
editorship of Cyrus Adler and Henrietta
Sold by the Jewish Publication Society OF
America. Philadelphia. This Is for the year
Of the world 6ee5, which being interpreted
means from Sept. 10. 1904, to Sept. 20, 1906.
Among various articles OF interest 1t con-
tains will be found a series OF biographical
sketches of many Jews who have made
their way in the learned professions In
America, and a short discussion OF the
passport question as applied to Russia.
Steadily the great undertaking Of publish
ing the translation of the documents re-
latine to the Philippines is being kept up
by the Arthur H. Clark Company OF Cleve-
land. We have received Vol XVI. Oh
sThe Philippine Islands, 14es-1ses, edited
nv Emma Helen Blair and James Alexander
Robertson. This includes papers covering
the wears 1909 to 1919 inclusive. In an
appendix we have useful piece OF editorial
work, a very complete list Of all the Gov
ernors OF the Islands from Miguel Lopez de
| Iepazpi in 1865 to Diego de los Rios, wh0
made the fir al surrender Of Spanish author
| ;tv to the United States In December, 1888
Mark T,,ain's ant-vivisection story,
"A Dogs Tale." is published by ITSELF oy
the Harpers in a very thin volume with
four illustrations in color by w. g. Smed-
lev. Why the artist should have selected
the portraits OF well known political men
for the bystanders in his frontispiece we
cannot make out. The story is very pain
full. and may be accepted as an argument
by persons who will shut their eyes to
what modern science is really trying to do
with experiments on animals.
Prof. John Franklin Genung Of Amherst
! College iniects himself into the Book OF
Ecclesiastes" with Words Of Koheleth
Son Of David, King in Jerusalem (Hough-
! ton, Mifiin Il Coz. To his new transla-
ton he prefxes an Introductory study OF
over 200 pages; the text itself, in large type,
takes up part of 100 pages, the greater por-
ton of which. three-quarters TO nine-tenthS
OF each, ia taken up by Prof. Genung
own running commentary. We should say
that the inspiration and poetrysof Eccle-
siastes can still be best derived from the
King James version OF the Scriptures, and
that a proper understanding OF the book
will be greatly aided by letting alone Prof.
| Genungs introduction and, above all, his
commentary
Miss Aurelia Henry OF Yale University
gives us a thoroughly scholarly piece OF
work in "The De Monarchia OF Dante
Alighieri" Houghton, Mihiin Coz. This
is a translation of the treatise. with a short
introduction and compact but instructive
notes, and will be a great help to those who
can only read Dante in English translation.
We regret that the author has not provided
the Latin text OF the original. The mono
graph would then have been complete in
itself and real American edition OF
Dante's tract
An excellent treatise on Earthquakes
in the Light of the New Seismology,' by
Major Clarence Edward Dutton, u. S. A.,
has been added to the Science Series,
published by John Murray in London and
G. p. Putnam's Sons. 1t gives an account
OF the modern theories about earthquakes
and their causes. OF the many ingenious
instruments devised for measuring and
detecting connections OF the earth's sur
face and OF the deductions drawn from the
observations, but also contrives to relate
what happened in the more notable earth
ouakes that have occurred. The scientific
part Of the treatise is put 40 clearlyothat
ANYBODY can understand it.
he late John ske's essay on Flow the
United States Became Nation is re-
published by CHM Co., with illustrations
and many portraits, wo suspect as a school
book or for AUXILIARY reading For that
purpose it is we'll adapted.
In Little Royalties" by Isabel McDougall
(Fleming H. Revell Coz, we find some
of the more commonplace stories OF
roval children related, such as those-of the
Princes in the Tower and the Empress
Maud and the Dauphin, Louis XV4I, and