The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-07-01

mems are given OF the work Of both COM
posers, words and music.
The mysteries OF the feminine toilet are
laid bare in THE Fountain of Youth" by
| Grace Peckham Murray, NJ. D. Frederick A.
Stokes Company. They were first revealed
in fashion magazine, and we assume
that the directions given are such as women
will follow. When it comes to the dis
cussion of wrinkles, Of the care Of mouth,
teeth, eyes. nose, hands and feet. respect
full males will look away in spite of the
pictures OF attractive young women used
to illustrate the processes.
Apparently the American branch of the
Oxford University Press has undertaken
to popularize the works Of the Right Hon.
James Bryce, d. c. L., by issuing them
in a cheap edition. Though set up in
America. az we fancy for college text books,
in the Marriage and Divorce" and the
Constitutions" we cannot help missing the
handsome typography Of the Clarendon
Press. The two volumes are excerpts
from the Studies in History and Juris-
prudence, and each is provided with new
preface by the author.
With volume XVI. Of the Early Western
Travels l74s-ls48" (The Arthur H. Clark
Comrane Cleveland). which DR.. Reuben
Gold Thwaites edits. the Account OF an
Expedition From Pittsburgh to the Rocky
Mountains under Major S. H Long written
by Edwin James, is completed, this maxi
ing the third volume. laundering though
the expedition was, the results from the
historical point we're important, and James's
narrative is very interesting.
Settlers and spaniels are described in
Part III. of Mr.. james Watson's excellent
and beautifully illustrated work The Dog
Book" Doubleday, Page d Coz. Both
kinds Of dog appeal strongly to the atfec-
tons and the pictures are very attra ctive.
1t is rather amusing to find the author
tripping in his own French while correcting
the French Of his predecessors; but that
does not affect his dog lore.
series of admirable photographs, OF
unequal interest will be found in an album
called The Book Of the United States
Navy The A. B. Benesch Co., New York;.
There are large pictures OF all the battle
ships, cruisers, monitors and smaller
vessels, with several of the destroyers and
torpedo boats. portraits Of the Admirals,
of many Captains and commanders Of
lower rank, and a great many groups on
shipboard. The last are needlessly nu-
merous and rouse the suspicion that some
of the pictures were taken for the gratif-
cation of the crews OF particular ships
There are many. however. Of permanent
interest and importance. 1t would have
been well to have omitted the vessels under
construction, as those pictures cast need
less doubt on the others, which are genu-
inc and good photographs.
Book reviews must have an interest in
themselves as we'll as literary merit to de-
serve perpetuation in book form. Neither
quality is conspicuous in the short articles
that Mr. H W. Nevinson has collected under
the title Books and Personalities" (John
Lane, The Bodley Head). The author pretixes
two longer essays on Heine and on Goethe.
Why Englishmen will NEEDLE with Heine
it is difficult to comprehend. They either
misunderstood him wholly or else are I'M
able to express in English what he ia. Mr..
Nevinson properly enough protests against
Matthew Arnolds Philistine view OF the Ger
man poet, but he is guilty Of worse outrage
on Heine than Arnold dreamt of in the
renderings he gives Of the poems.
A bright little book for children. con-
tanning pair of amusing little imps though
with hardly any story, and suffering from
being a link in series, Ia Marian W. Wild
mans Theodore and Theodore" u. c. Page
g. Coz. 1t is written with some Of the def
erence that Ia due to children.