The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-05-13

true. vet with 200 pages at ms oouinul'lu
MIR Walker could have provided lnioriha-
ton that would have been helpiul TO Tess
erudts lovers Of Beethoven.
An interesting little guide book for the
rather neglected Alps Of the urisohs Coino'
10 ia from the Orell Fossil Institute ID
Zurich. 'B1ndner Oberland illustrated
by DR.. Chr, Tarnuzzer. The llustIatloIS
are copious and very good Inc LeAt -
Ineligible, but In the Translation py ~ anu
Mrs. sp6ndly Blakiston, Il often bIeahs
into the delightful English OF the duloe
Book for the Rhine and the Portuguese
Phrase Book. ..,. ...,,o-
Letters may be useful for youth strug-
Cling with English composition, ana FtoI'
Albert 6. Cook and Mr. Allen X. benhALh
Of Yale University may know on "has
PRINCIPLES they selected Specimen Letters
(Ginn A Company, The fact that per
sons Of note for two hundred years past
have written familiar letters hardly needea
demonstration, while for practlcal Pur-
poses THE Complete Letter Writer must
still be more useful to those who have not
intelligence enough TO express their own
ideas. But is IL worth while TO waste time
on the art Of letter writing in these days oil
hurry and typewriteBi
The two first essays in Mr.. Frank r.
stearns's Cambridge Sketches ~. b.
Mpplncott 4 Co.. are promising lhey
describe Harvard worthless in the sixties
and that most lovable Of men, Francs
James Child. The rest OF the articles
which make up the volume, however cover
ground that has been threshed over 10 eA-
haustion, the Boston set OF literary men,
and the abolitionists. The author mas
nothing to add that Is new to his account
Of the former, and we fear that interest
In the latter has waned.
A beautiful specimen OF book making
az well as thoroughly scientific essay
in a very attractive field OF botanical re-
search Is Mr.. Cakes Ames's Studies IN
the Family orchidace@' CHoughton'
hIifiIn 4 Coz, Of which Fascicle l. Is before
us. It Is issued from the Ames Botanical
Laboratory at North Easton. Mass. Inc
plants are described in Latin and In Eng
lish, and the numerous illustrations by
Blanche Ames are admirably done
A volume on 'The Life Insurance Com
pany.s by Mr.. William Alexander, has
been added to the Business Series, pub
hshed by the Appletons. The volume is
didactio above all, and the author makes
every effort, and with considerable success
to explain clearly the ground principles
Of insurance This involves the use OF
ReneraHties where the reader perhaps,
would prefer specific instances and statis-
tics. The authors connection with
great insurance company unavoidably pre-
vents a proper historical account OF in
surance or the story Of the achievement
and failure Of individual companies. II
IA interesting, in view Of very recent events,
10 find that there Is uncertainty as to the
character OF the surplus and the manner
IN which it should be distributed even in
mutual companies.
Among various interesting papers that
appear in No. II Of the Publications Of
the American Jewish Historical Society
we note an important calendar OF leading
cases relating TO the Jews in America,
covering hundred years. Other articles
describe the Jews IN South Carolina, in
Boston and in Mobile, the lnquisition In
Peru, Jewish heretics in the Philippines
and Judah P. Benjamin.
The translation OF Leopold Won Ranke's
History Of the Reformation in Germany
by Sarah Austin Is republished In single
volume by George Routledge 4 Sons (E.
P. Dutton & CO... Mrs, Austin did not
translate the whole work 50 that this volume
ends practically with the fall OF the Ana
baptists in Minister. II comprises, how
ever, all that has been translated into Eng
lIsh Of the most authoritative German
work in the period, and it is great CON-
venience TO have this In one volume.
Part II. Of Mr.. James Watson's authori-
tauve work on mans @hrstest first
friend,' sThe Dog Book Doubleday.
Page & Coz, deals almost entirely with
the English setter. There is a thorough
exposition Of the origin of Laveracks and
Llewellyns among other topics, and a
ohapter on the training Of the field dog.
The illustrations are many and attractive
some from photographs and others from
old pictures,
food Personalities. Their Advantages
and Proper Use by r. C. Eccles, NJ. d.,
Phar. D., and Z. W. Duckwall %. Van
Nostrand Coz The authors hold that the
harm arising from saljcylic and boric
acids and other agents " unduly exag-
gerated, and endeavor TO Offset theoretio
objections by the results Of experience.
A curiously German bit OF investigation
has been carried out very thoroughly by
DIR. Edward Ziegler Davis in Transitions
OF German Poetry in American Magazines
i7u-isiO' (Amerioana Germanica Press,
Pbiladelphia). The date Of the first trans
lation is 1888, though poems referring 70
Germany 60 much further back. There is
A list Of translations from German prose
also. It is painful 10 think Of the amount
OF rummaging through old files that this
work has involved. We wish we could
have higher opinion Of the chat the author
has winnowed out. The driest bones Of a
dead past might have been left at rest
Once more a useful ard long established
reference book comes TO us, 'Kelly's Direc-
tory Of Merchants, Manufacturers and
Shippers Of the World, 1906 kelly Pub
fishing Company, New York and London).
II IL a double list Of names, by countries
and by trades. To the list for each country
Is prefred a concise and valuable sum-
mary Of information regarding that land.
There are indexes and tables Of industrial
terms in French and German, and also a
summary Of the laws in each land that re-
late 20 commercial travellers.
That enthusiastic Latinist who calls HIM
self Aroadius Avelanus has brought out