The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-03-11

| clSln 10 De MADE II, perhaps, lnaL too
many Of the water colors arc mere pictures
that need titles to identify the scene. The
text is modest and pleasant, but does not
pretend TO tell anything new 1t il a
pretty book that will serve as "a pleasant
reminder TO those who have seen Florence.
The chief attraotion Of Mr.. Charles Viii
bley's Literary Portraits" N. p, Dutton 4
Coz il that they are OF persons who are
not wholly hackneyed in English criticism
The largest essay il on Rabelais. the others
are on Confines. Monta igne. Burton Of the
Anatomy Philemon Holland the trans
lator. the library Of DumWond of Haw
thornten and Casanova Tnere is nothing
hypercriucal about the author he seems
ready to believe what he finds in print
and describes his subjects as though he were
the first dscoverer His merits are those
OF the bibliophle, for his literary discrimi-
nation Is not over Keen but his essays will
give the general reader very fair idea OF
/ the authors he tells OF.
We hope there are enough lovers OF
Dickens left to welcome the late Mr. Fred
eric G. ktton's The Dickens Country
adam and Charles Black Macmillans).
! The of Charles Dickens's death thirty
/ five years ago left sense of personal
bereavem in the United States that
! could almost be compared TO the feeling at
| the loss Of Abraham Lincoln. Not to be
| thoroughly familiar with all the characters
IN his books argued lack Of education. and
| Calverly would have found host Of can
didates for his Pickwick examination
| paper generation has arisen. however,
that knows him not and is as ignorant
OF sam Weller a. 1t is OF Jeanne Deans Mr.
h, :, l. -
wrote a number Of books on Dickens In
this one he traces his authors career from
! house Ia house with all the zeal OF an anti
quarry. providing pictures of all the places
IN which Dickens lived from his birth 10 his
death. and Of few other buildings which
can be identified with houses described
in his novels. 1t was inevitable that such
book should become sort Of topograph-
lea biography of Dickens
Praise of the days gone by to the detri-
ment OF the present state Of things is the
characteristic OF the essays in Gen Rush
g. HaH kins's -Corlaer's Hook in 1870"
H. w Bouton, New York; II is very
pleasant picture that the veteran draws
OF New York that has disappeared when
the people were Americans unmixed with
the later flood of Irish. Germans. Italians
and Russian Jews and before the fever for
getting rich quick at any price had set in
The other satirical essays are on The Wag-
merriam Cult and on Our Manners
The calendar, in spite Of the weather
gives timeliness to Another Hardy Garden
Book by Helena Rutnerfu-d Ely Mac
millansl. Happy possessors of gardens.
If they be merely suburban front lots. are
doubtless busy with plans for their proper
cultivation and to these this book gives
specific information as TO what they arc
to do in the matter Of vegetables fruic.
trees and, above all, flowers. The advice
Is general and does not supplant that Of
iered by gardening manuals
Another sign Of the approach of vacation
Time is the appearance OF new Baedekers.
First in Importance. perhaps, for Ameri-
cans vino arc going 10 Europe is the Lon
don and It's Environs' karl Baedeker.
Charles Scribner's sons now in it's four
teenth edition. The London" has re-
ceived an almost annual revision. and in this
edition the Information is brought down
70 October. 1906 A traveller might as
well be without compass as without the
latest Bachelor
Three more excellent reprints come 10 us
In the Caxton series George Newnes: Charles
Scribner's sons, With it's large readable
type its thin paper that enables mass OF
matter TO be enclosed in its limp leather
covers. and its handy pocket form They
are all standard, established editions PLAYS
and Poems Of Ben Jonson.' contains sevcn
plays ard selection 81 the poems; Dr.
Andrew Kipp!s's The Life and Voyages Of
Captain James Cook though not so inter
esting as Cooks own story. is perhaps more
intelhgible 10 the general reader. and is
contemporary account. while Thomas Ros-
GOES translation OF the Autobiography Of
Benvenuto Cellin' Ia probably the form in
which that extraordinary narrative is best
known in English.
A good deal Of general information about
Russia and Russian customs is put in the
shape Of boys story in Russia. the Land
OF the White Car, by Z. c. Phillips Gas
sell 4 Coz. II is interesting to note that
the Evenings at Home form of instruc-
tion is not extinct In this little volume
the story is merely n thread onTwhich the
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