The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-03-31

Glow Found Livingstone and tina the
ernlorer could not spell. When she talks OF
herself and her family she is entertaining
but the incidents are usually very slight
Kindness impelled M. Jules Clareee
to write a preface to Nine. Mathilde ShaW'e'
sulustree ct nconnus' (C~harpen0er,
Paris, a book that hardly 1ustihes the
writing. The authors chief characteristic
seems to be indiscretion. A large part OF
the book is given up to the ens1
between her father and mother. The
former was an Orientalist and the fr1eno
OF Renan and Claude Rernard. She seems
TO have been a pet OF Alexander Dumas
when a child, and even when she grew up,
and tells some stories about him that are
rather astonishing in print. She tells an
amazing Villemessant anecdote. too. Her
book ia, however, a personal narrative,
more interesting to the author, we fear,
than to the public.
Sketches of many men at Washington
whose names are familiar to the public
will be found in Party Leaders OF the
Time by Charles Willis Thompson "a.
W. Dfling CHAM Company. Senators, Repre-
eentatives, Cabinet officers and a few others
are described briefly in a lively way. The
articles are by no means biographies, they
are rather chats about men enlivened by
anecdotes.
Another pretty medieval legend is
made known to a wider public. To Mr..
Charles William Kennedy's interest in
Anglo.Saxon is due the double translation
of THE Legend Of st. Juliana' CThe Univer-
sity Library. Princeton, MD First comes
the version from the Latin OF the 'Acta
. ..l kAnn tho fro pa1o tinn 80
C~ynewuIf's poem. Apart from it's literary
importance the legend is interesting in
itself, and the translator has rendered ex-
o~ellently In English the quaintness n
simplicity Of his originals.
Two thin volumes, Handsomely printed,
hold THE Poems Of Oscar Wilde Of. NJ.
Buckles and Company Whatever his
e~xtravagancee or Alterations there Is no
doubt that this was q genuine poet, and one
that must be counted with in English nine
tenth century letters. All the verso be
left will be found here In worthy shape.
Divers scientific facts about the sea are
exclaimed, sometimes in over picturesque
I. neraRe, by Mr.. John C. Van Dyke in
THE Opal Sea" Charles Scribner's sons.)
Though the author tries to paint word
pictures he sticks TO plain narrative enough
to make most Of the essays enjoyable.
No doubt the Dalmatian sea is very beautiful,
but we fancy that II Mr.. Van Dyke had been
on the watch, he would have found justif-
cation for bis opal" sea once in a while
even in these waters.
A biography of John Witherspoon' in
the various phases Of his activity, as a
Scottish Presbyterian minister, as President
of Princeton College and ae signer OF the
Declaration of Independence, hae been
written by Mr.. David Walker Woods, Jr.
CFleming h. Revell Company. It is a
| conscientious piece Of work in which the
religious side Of the man lie kept we'll in
view. II is perhaps a trife dry but such
a career cannot be made uninteresting.
A delicate subject is handled with great
| kill by the Rev. Andrew Hartmann in
4The Crux Of Pastoral Medicine" OR.
Pustet d Co., New York;. It is addressed
chiefly to the medical profession, we infer,
and puts before them clearly the Catholic
doctrine az to putting an end to life before
birth. It is murder in every case, and is
not iustifed even when necessary to ave
the mothers life. The book bears the
imprtmdtur Of Archbishop Farley.
Are cannot wither our old friend Prof.
Good win Of the Moods and lenses
Though Harvard has made him emeritus
he keeps on at work and Publishes at the
Cambridge, England, University Press
Maomillans) 'Denosthenes against Midas
With abundant notes, and with a mass OF
historical and legal information In the
appendices that few other Greek scholars