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Another romance from the same house
is ''The Little Green Door," by Mary E.
Stone sBassett. It is a story OF the time
OF Louis XIII. "A Daughter of the
South, by George Cary Egg1eston, from
the same publishers, is said to match
Dorothy South In the grip it takes on
the reader. &c. : -. ..
"A Handbook of%United States Political
History" as the title of a reference book,
has a labor-saving sound that will doubt
less make friends for the book. 1t is by
Malcolm Townsend. h@ !
The boy who is OF the self-help sort
will find means Of pushing himself toward
success by a book from. the pen of Orison
SWEET Marden, editor. of Success. It
bears the title 1.-The Making Of a Man.
ben Pepper" comes from the Lothrop,
Lee and Shepard company as an addition
to the Pepper" books, and there are
other juveniles, too numerous to mention
by Pauline Darlington sBouye, Ethel Wood,
Dan Monroe, Marion Harland, A. r. Dud-
ley with a Phillips Exeter story, A. Neely
Hall, William G. sprsgue, Edward STRAIT
meyer, Mary E. @. Brush, Emma Lee Ben
edict Edna A.. Foster, Louise e. Catlin.
Nina Rhodes, Amy Brooks Amanda M
Douglas and others; almost all of whom
are known to Juvenile readers. rs:~ q .,+s~
Finally, SO far as, we have space to men
ton the company's new books, there is
"The Only True Mother Goose, an exact
reprint Of; the original Boston, edition,
with an Introduction 'by Edward Everett
Hale ~. - -..-.e.{ =. = ..--' ,
sHYLock MISPLACED. -"F Father"
said boy of -, "can you tell me who
Shylock wasp IN, "a, .'s..
| .What!'' exclaimed the father in an
aggrieved tone, have sent you to Sun
day school for the past six or seven years
only to have you ask me who Shylock
was? Shame on you. boy! Get your Bible
and find out at once!"-September LIP
pincotts. T.. .-i gz7
NOVEL MEANT AS A WARMING TO
THE INNOcENT.-John Merritte Driver,
Chicago pastor, has written a novel
which he intends shall serve as warning
to innocent girls exposed to the wiles of
| unscrupulous men, also as an admonitio1.
| to parents to guard their children with
| greater care. The book bears the title,
| Purple Peaks Remote, with "A Romance
| of Italy and America" as a subtitle. The
| meaning Of the name, so far as it has any
! meaning, seems to- lie in the word 're-
| mote,' for there is a certain remoteness
between the Italian portion of the story
and the American. It IS the American end
| of the story that points the strongest
moral, for the centers Of interest there is
in girl who is semitic Chicago to study
music and becomes the victim of vii
| famous music instructor. The story is
melodramatic, perfervid and pronounced
ly clerical in style. Itslacks much in, unity
Of plot and its characters, with one or two
exceptions are rather misty. Altogether
1t seems hardly the kind Of a book to ac-
complish, with the best results, the pur-
| pose for which it was intended.
j. Laird & Lee, Chicago. go
GENEALOGY OF THE BREWSTER
FAMILY IN COURSE OF PREPARA-
| TION.-Miss Emma C. Brewster Jones of
/ Norwood, a suburb of Cincinnati, Ohio,
has almost completed a genealogy Of the
family of William Brewster, the ruling
elder Of the Pilgrim church, who came to
! this country in the Mayflower in 1920.
Two large volumes of the genealogy are
already ready for the press and two more
are to follow. Members of the Brewster
family interested in the work should
communicate with Miss Jones at her
home Miss Jones is a daughter Of the
| late John GOOdin Jones of Cincinnati, and
a granddaughter of the late Lot Edward
Brewster, a pioneer of Cincinnati. She is
/. a charter member of the Society of May
| flower Descendants and a life member of
| the Cape Cod Pilgrim Memorial associa-
| tion.
METRIcAL TRANSLATION OF THE
ELEGlES OF TlBULLUS.-Theodor c.
Williams has done into graceful English
The Elegies of TibuHus, Latin poet of
| whom little is known The translation
reveals to US that Tibullus makes mon
strous charge against woman. He says
war happens because beautiful women
want emeralds, Indian slaves and glim-
mering silk from Cos = II
Neaera and her kind would eat acorns, as
| Of old, we could burn the navies1t and build
cities without walls. ~ Something Of the
same thought is put in this which shows
| the quality of Tibullus' verse and OF Mr..
/ Williams tran8lation: & .
When bowls of beechwood held the frugal feast,
/ No citadel was 5seen nQr moated wall;
The shepherd chief led home his motley flock
And slumbered free from care. Would 1 had
/ lived
In that good, golden times nor e'er had known
| A mob in arms arrayed, nor felt my heart
Throb to the ,trumpet's call. Now to the wars
| must away, where haply some chance foe
Bears now the blade my naked side shall feel IS
Richard g. Badger, Boston, $1.25.
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