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scvsn short storles Ivy Mr Raiph n
Palms will hs found IN The Praying Skipper
aRd other stprtss' Crhs outing Publishing
Company, They have all appeared in the
ua ~ ktnes and are n0tiosahle TOR 60, viRoR
and outdoor feeling. some, and the hess.
np ~ tho so. aonpe OF the campaign In
China; one IL strongly Of Yale, with q speech
by Zig Bill.
An Intimate study ~ tho English small
boys psychology will be found In Matt
land Major and Minor. by Charles Turley
~. p. Dutton and Company, In most
books about school life tho sports end
doinRs NJ the school are made much Of;
here we have analysis of q boys feelings
toward his friends and his teachers, an
effort 20 understand tho workings OF q
tvolye-year-old mind by az adult, There
IL far too much about school j~eslousies
and teachers misunder standings. The hook
lie painstAking and rather dull.
An amusing skit on feminine learning
10y Mrs. Florence Morse Kingsley lie re-
published by itself as aThe Intellectual
Miss Lamb" (The Century Company. 1t
Ia q srife overdone. but the tone Is kept up
till a conclusion has TO be reachet. The
book has the excuse OF the infant In Mid
shipman Easy" II ia a very little one.
Menagerie tales 20 the numbe. of ten
make up side Show Stories by Francis
Metcalfe The Outing Publishing Com
pany). They are told glibly and do not
suffer from too much refinement. 1t would
have been better perhaps II some of them
were not made TO read like advertisements
OF a Coney Island exhibition.
MIR. Sidney Mccall story, Truth Dexter
little, Brown and Company. has had.
We arc todd, a very large sale. In conse-
quence the publishers have brought out a
rev edition with Illustrations by Alice
Barber STEPHENS and a charming vignette
by Jessie Wilcox Smith.
Another batch Of short stories from the
Harper magazines has been collected by Mr..
w. D. Howells and Mr.. H. NJ. Alden. The ten
included in Under the Sunset CHARGERS
are all OF the Far West. and are interesting.
though the comparison with Bret Herte.
which MIR Howells invites ma pretty precious
Introduction, none Of them can stand. II
the magazines are to be cleared from.
why not 60 haqk to the old H"rpeT's Of the
Fitz Hugh Ludlow and Fitz James O'Brien
daysp The stories would be novel to modern
readers, and would give ideas to other
writer's.
Mark Twain adds anothe volume Of
selected funny stories to his Library Of
Humor." and for some doubtless humorous
reason calls II "The Primrose Way Thirty
even writer's are represented. including,
besides the editor, Eli Perkins, j. X. Bangs.
Simeon Ford, Mrs, Daskam Bacon and
Mickey Finn. 4 large page portrait OF
Mr.. Rangs as a frontispieoe illumines the
volume.
The one novel written. by Oscar Wilde,
"The Picture of Dorian Gray Is repub-
llshed by Brentano's in a new edition CON
tanning additional chapters, appearing. for
the first time in an American edition. it
recalls a period In tbs authors life which
his admirers would like to forget.