The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-05-12

~ TIN famous hahe on the orra am Of the
first performance. for that. as much ~ I'
merits. made ths play noteworthy. Ths
author takes Victor Hugo's local color III
too seriously In ths notes. lie combined q
lot Of humbug with his genius. and had M
scruplea In using words he did not under.
stand IL he thought they sounded we'll.
The lectures On Plant Breeding Mao.
millansD by Prof. L. II. bailey. now In a
third edition, make entertaining reading
Interest has been aroused In the subject nv
Mr.. Burbank's experments. Here We are
told incidentally and withou. exagKeratlon
what the value Of those experiments Ia
and are told besides Of the lesa startling
hut more permanent performances of other
men. II IL tho whole theory of plant breed.
ing. however, that Ia dealt with In this
volume.
II tariff In always with us and a new
edition Of its provisions such as Ii pub
lished by r. r. Downing and Company,
New York. in Customs Tariff ACT Of 1897"
Is welcome. Besides the act of 1897 re-
vised TO january I, 1908. and the Customs
Administrative act. the volume contains
the various reciprocity treaties, the Pure
Food act, useful tables of coins and
weights and practical directions. Its chief
value, however, IL in the long table Of articles
that come under the tariff, with the duty
and the law establishing it in zach case.
An effort to explain bridge in the
simplest way Is made by Mr.. Fisher Ames in a
little volume called "The Game of Bridge"
ulttle, Brown and Company. So far AZ a
game Of cards can be described in words he
seems to be successful. The laws of bridge
are appended.
A book OF somewhat uneven merit is a
Dictionary Of Quotations. German" by
Lillian Dalbiac (Swan Sonnenschein and
Company; Macmillans). Here we have
quantity rather than quality. In a oolleo.
ton Of quotations some degree Of Familiarity
or OF frequent usage is supposed; yet here
We find many extracts that have little point
and little interest. They are probably
X from German compilations. This &C.
counts, we imagine, for the fact that some
extracts are quoted In full, while others,
often more important, are cut down to a
few words, shorn Of their context. The
acknowledgment TO Buchman's "Gefugelte
VORTEX a work compiled for a different
purpose, may account for this. The author
has added a good deal OF Heine, for which
she Is TO be thanked; 1t Ia a pity that she did
not care more for his humor, which is GER.
tainly much quoted. With all these faults
the collection is fuller than any we have
met In English, and the quotations are all
translated. There are two indexes, one OF
authors and one Of subjects; there il mono
OF words or Of lines, and how diGicult it Ia
to find an indistinct quotation without one
those who have tried know.
The splendid edition Of "The Works OF
Maurice Hewlett published by the Mao
millans, ia nearly complete. Volume TX,
which is just out, contains the pastoral
play Pan and the Young Shepherd
and the next volume will be the last.
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Historical.
In writing "The Victorian Chanoellors'
little. Brown and Company Mr.. j. B,
Atlay unavoidably invites a oompa rison
with Lord Campbell, whose Lives Of the
Lord Chanoellors" he seems to continue,
all the more that In his first volume, now
before us, he covers the same ground.
He tells here OF Lyndhurst, Brougham IN,
Cottenham and Truro, writing very fully OF
the first two. He seems much more in
terested in the political than in the legal
side OF the careers he describes and to ca 70
more to correct the wrong impressions
made by Campbell than TO tell his own story
conseoutively. We get therefore an assert
mont of isolated facts rather than a clear
view OF the man. In the shorter biographies
the author IL more successful. II he holds
to his plan OF completing the work in another
volume the remaining biographies must
be short, especially IL he takes space to
express his dislike OF Lord Campbell.
A o Of unusual value, though with no
literary pretensions, Ia Mr.. Peroival G.
loves sFfve Years a Dragon, 40 to 81, "
CThe Franklin Hudson Publishing Company,
Kansas City, Mo- The author enlisted
"a a private and served his time IA a cavalry.
man on the western plains, with h~eadQuar.
ters at Fort ~Leavenworth, rising TO be frs,
sergeant when he was discharged. He
next servedflv years In the quartermaster's
department at the same base. Those were
the years Of buffaloes and Indians, and al
transportation by mule and OF teams fron
the Missouri River west. These brief note.
describe wildly the border warfare, the lfs
in the ranks and even more strikingly the
pioneer difficulties In striking through the
wilderness. The rushing Of the equipment
train to Utah 10 a epic OF transportation
There is material here for a dozen Wilc
West romances and q lot OF information fol
those who care TO learn the realities Of war
Equally realistic, though much sighter III
construction and, perhaps, in value, is 9
little volume by Capt. M. B. Stewart, .Tht
Nth Foot in War Hudson Press, Kansa,
City, 1t relates the happenings In a regular
regiment from the outbreak Of the Spanish
war to the return to Montauk, With q
little trouble, no doubt, the particular
regiment might be identified, As a picture
Of what really happened IL is very interest
ing, and 1t may be that the author has som
cause for his feeling that the regular is not
fully appreciated. His dedication ia COM
bative; Here's to the Regular, who gets
no glory in the war; don't give a damn.
Grins and shuts his mouth, like a clam; just
wants to live and die for Uncle Sam"
In "Jacksonian Democracy" by Prof.
William Macdonald of Brown University,
we have Volume Nv, Of the American
Nation history published by the Harpers.
The volume holds together better than some
others, because the eight years Of jackson
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