The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-03-30
BOOKS AND AUTHORS.

sIreland's Story should be one Of the
popular books Of the day especially in
Greater New York, where the contingent
from Erin is 30 large, for beginning with
the fine old legends it traces the history
OF the Irish nation throughout its pict-
uresque course down TO the present day.
The work Of St. Patrick is given partly
In the words Of his own confession, and
other saints and scholars receive special
attention. But the greatest interest will
centre upon the discussion Of the recent
Irish problems - Irish Disestablishment
Land Purchase Home Rule, &c. and in the
chapters on the Irish in America, the Irish
on the Continent, and the Irish Literary
Revival,
Mrs Sakvile f. Jackson in Mother
and Daughter" makes some very ioonoclastio
protests against the old customs considered
indispensable to the rearing Of young chill!
dren, and levels a special objection against
the indiscriminate reading Of Mother
Goose" to the little ones. Don't tell the
terrifying CORY taos in Mother Goose,
she says, where giants do impossible
things and utterly idiotic rhymes in afro
cious English tell how the farmers wife
cut on their tails with a carving knife"
but il Mother Goose must he read 20 chill
dron forever and day. she beEs the mother
TO stick to odd King Cole was a merry old
soul" or some Of the other tales with a
happy ending, and not send sensitive chill
dren TO bed growing because the little
mouses had lost their tails or the poor dog
had 20 go hungry because cupboard was
bare There are few pleasures left in
life for the modern baby, with patent foods
and rockerless cradles and general sanitary
fuss and bother, and if he is not to be al
lowed TO forget his trials in the soothing
melodies OF Mother Goose il must seem
to him scarcely worth while 70 be born
at all.
George Gissing il very little known in
this country, but by the Ioniau Sea, the
newly imported book by means Of which
he is 20 be introduced TO the American
public, ia considered by English critics to
be his best work.
Joseph Conrad, author Of 'Nostromo,
a Tale Of the Seaboard," after knocking
about the earth for twenty years in nearly
all the travelled sea ways Of the world,
has come 70 anchor at last at Pent Farm,
in Kent, not far from the English Channel.
His home Is a quaint cottage with a slanting
roof, adorned wi tn a kan-to very much
out Of plumb. The cottage sets well
back from the roadway in an old fashioned
garden surrounded by an irregular stone
wall. and has an outlook over wide stretches
Of country landscape.
A new book by Booth Harrington The
Beautiful Lady. will appear in the Mcclure
Phillips spring list. 1t is q short novelette,
containing a whimsical tale Of young i'm
petuousi love, the scene OF which ia laid In
Parts, Venice and Rome. In daintiness
and graceful charm the story suggests
Mr. Tarkngton's ever popular Monsieur
Beauoaire
Mr.. Homer Ssint-Gaudens gives his views
In the April Critic concerning the Venus
at the National Art Club. Tho chocolate
stained statue belonging 20 Mr.. Frederic
Linton, at most Mr. Saint-Gaudens thinks,
can be no more than a second Roman copy
OF an unknown Greek original by Praxitees.
-Four sculptors Of the highest reputation
are quoted as saying that, though beautiful,
the work has no claim to!be thought original.
Prof Mnnsterberg in his speech before
the Cosmopolitan Club at Detroit brought
the Declaration Of independence and its
relation to American ideals Of to-day into
rather sudden prominence. The professor
was quoted and misQuoted until he was
accused OF declaring tho national docu-
ment mass Of glittering generaliues,
and Of implying that the President Of the
United States held the same opinion. As
matter Of fact, the lecturer gave a brief
summary Of his book, The Americans,
as he was asked 10 do, in which he stands
on record as pronouncing tho Declaration
OF Independence "a corollary Of that sys-
TEN Of moral ideals which IA indissolubly
combined with the American character
and az for what the President thinks about
II, Prof Mdnsterberg confines himself TO
stating that never in his speeches or his
writings has he cited it, However. in the
avalanche Of kilograms which followed
the speech from friends and enemies Of
the Declaration Of Independence and o:
President Roosevelt, there were s2i worth
marked collect
ORC Bates, the author Of A Madcsp
Cruise has succeeded, like his father,