The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-01-28
NEW BOOKS
CONTINUED ION serertA paee.

De COnnemorHed IN worthy eOluOn
His critical essays cover the whole field o
English literature though perhaps he fel
more at home with the eighteenth century
and the Hours in a Library. a repository
OF sane intelligence and fully dgested in
! formation, form better Introduction tC
the study of English than the greater num-
! Der Of literary histories. The Hours in q
I Library are now published by g. p. Put
mans in handsome new four volume
edition with a splendid page that is a de
! light TO the eve
The recent outbreak Of religious revivals
in various places gives timeliness to DR.
Frank Grenvle Beardsey's A History OF
American Revivals" american Tract So
ciety). Beginning with Jonathan Edwards
and the Great Awakening" it comes down
TO the great revival Of 1857 and to Moody
and Sankey. Unfortunately. II is written
from the religious standpoint. so that the
description OF picturesque Incidents falls
into the background, while laymen may
not take such optimistic views OF the re-
suits as the author does
modest account OF travels in Europe,
accompanied by excellent Photographic
views that are not wholly stereotyped, will
A. Cotton the Franklin Printing and En-
craving Company Toledo Ohio) The places
visited by the author are interesting. some
OF them rather out OF the beaten path.
and we should like TO know why she went
to them. The descriptions are absolutely
impersonal, however, and rather ddactc
and informing As the information il
easily obtainable. its value in tho present
form must be chiefly among rural com
munities in the Middle West The omis-
sion Of accents and other typogra phical
marks from foreign words and occasional
lapses in the spelling, while they undoubt-
eddy facilitate the task of reading aloud in
such places, may render names unrecog-
nizable elsewhere.
Mr. Charles milford Robinson's eloquent
plea for improvement in municipal taste.
Modern Civic Art. or the City Made
Beautiful. appears in second edition
with illustrations &c. p Putnam's sons.
The book is an aesthetic treat; in type and
page it is beautiful, while the pictures are
admiral BILE They are all examples Of
the good things done in many places. Per-
haps samples OF municipal horrors would
also have helped the authors argument but
FOR those we have only TO look around
very pretty little volume has been
made OF slight "reminiscences of Walt
Whitmans that has never been published.
with the title Lafayette in Brooklyn
George D. Smith, New York; Whit
mans story fills only four pages. but ia
charming. The book is filed ont with an
Introduction by John Burroughs, with
some fine portraits and facsimile Of hand
writing and with few notes It is a fine
bit of typography and is printed in limited
edition. Whitman collectors will want It,
Personal "reminiscences Of John Brown
the Hero, have been written by DR.. j ".
Winkley, who knew him in the Kansas days
and are published by the James II West
Company Boston. The venerable Frank
B. Sanborn introduces the author The
interest in these recollectons would be
greater II they had been written at the
time or II they had not taken the form of
a story Of the Kansas troubles. The Brown
part is pretty slight, but the picture of
frontier warfare il vivid.
A monograph on Daniel Webster. the
Ell FOUNDER OF the Constitution" has been
written by Mr.. Everett Pepperrel Wheeler
&c. p. Putnam's Sons) showing what
Webster's position was on many constitu-
tional and legal questions. The trans
lation Of the terms OF Websters dav into
modern political catchwords ia a little
odd. but perfectly fair. The quotation
is given, and the reader may draw his own
inference from it, which sometimes NAV
not be precisely that dra wn by Mr. Wheeler
The careful analysis OF Webster's work
calls for the readers gratitude. and par
ticularly that Of the important law cases
in which he was engaged.
A British cad who is sometimes anus
ing and often devoid OF veracty. wrote !
Memorable Days in America. bv Will
liam vaux. Of which the first part forms |
Volume Xi. Of Early Western Travels |
l74s-lsi6" edited by DR.. Reuben Gold /
Thwates tthe Arthur II Clark Company. /
He shows the usual British blindness TO the
hings about him. has no conjunction
n reviling people who have treated him
we'll particularly those in the Illinois
but he was in the United States
n 1919 and did see some things and so WIS
worth reprntinR. The inclusion of his
book is due TO the desire TO have both
'ides in important questions represented
n this collection