The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-12-15
NEW BOOKS.

Continued from Tenth Pace.

,oerelv horn there. There ara plenty OF ex-
.ellent writer's, however, who lived and
,,ota in the South and about the South to
deuopstrate the part il took in the develop
mont Of American literature. If that demon
.,r3,ion we're necessary at this day. Much
n Mr.. Holidays careful research, p~articu-
i,rlv about the Colonial and Revolutionary
writer's and about the elusive minor lights.
adds 10 our sum Of knowledge.
An interesting and important essay
An a bypath Of English literature has been
vrt,ten by Or. Watson Nicholson Of Yale
University In The Struggle for a Free Stage
IN London" Houghton, Miflin n Com
nanv). With great minuteness tho author
AL the story of the London theatres from
ne granting Of the monopoly by Charles II.
81 the act Of lS43 that deprived Drury
lane and Covent Garden OF their exclusive
rrivjleges. This involves tho whole history
~ the stage for nearly 200 years, from a
particular point Of view, to be sure, but
one that gives many glimpses OF famous
actors and of society and explains many
dramatic p%uzzIes. II is the fruit of studies
IN materials that were unusually dreary
snd difficult of access. and will be especially
useful 10 students OF the eighteenth century.
Five ESSAYS on women OF various sorts
wv AryAde Barine make up -Princesses
and Court Ladies' C. p. Putnam's Sons).
OF these the more interesting are the wan
derinn Queen, Christina OF Sweden, and
Frederick the Greats sister. the Margra-
vine of Bayreuth. About Marie Mancini,
Nsz.rn's niece, a good deal has been pub
Hshed in English OF late, and the Duchesse
du Maine has her high place in the Regency
literature. The authorship OF the essays
will attract readers to whom the subjects
NAV not seem wholly novel.
Filial piety rather mars the Rev. John
White ~Cbadwick's "Cap'n Chadwick" as
a description of a True American Type
American Unitarian Association. That
the subject Of his memoir fully merited the
designation is clear from the slight glimpses
the reader gets of his activity, but the space
given to family history should nave been
devoted 10 a much fuller description OF the
life Of the fisherman, the shoemaker and
the citizen Of Marblehead.
\ eulogy Of a young Jewish artist, Eph-
rain Nose Lilien. and an appreciation Of
his works make up Mr.. NJ. S. L~evussove's
The New Art of an Ancient People" CB. w.
Huehsch. New York;. So far as we can
Judge from the illustrations Mr.. Lilien's
art consists in blending rather curiously
the art Of William Blake with that Of Aubrey
Beardsley.
Appropriations Of four eminent Ameri-
cans, Benjamin Franklin, George Washing
Ton, Charming and Emerson, by President
Charles W. Eliot of Harvard University
are included in -Four American Leaders"
american Unitarian Association. They
~ IL --IL-.
lions where others spoke and Intentionally
only touch on certain partial phases. TIT
sentiments are admirable and of course
well expressed, but perhaps would not
have been thought to need preservation if
they had not been utteredIby. President Eliot.
An amusing miscellany has been put
together in two volumes by Mr.. Tom Mason
with the title The Humor OF Love- (Moffat,
Yard and Company. Humor rather than
love was in the compiler's mind, 40 that
his field Of selection was very wide. The
selection OF authors is rather ~haphazard
and there are some pretty queer bedfellows,
Artemus Ward and T~hackeray, Maria
Edgeworth and Josiah Aliens Wife, James
Russell Lowell and Hans Breitmann, but Mr..
Mason and Anon. are there to smooth
matters. One volume is prose, the other
&. verse. 1t has not been hard to find humor
enough to ill them.
Another anthology OF a special theme
Ia The Nature Lovers Treasury" edited
nv Carrie Thompson Lowell Dana Estes
and Company. Boston,. Classified under
rarious aspects Of nature are suitable
selections in verse and in prose. Among
recent authors represented are W. B. Yeats
snd Theodore Roosevelt. We miss the
pame of the Rev. Henry van Dyke.
Much excellent advice and a great deal
.of information that will be interesting 10
PEOPLE who are not in business is TO be
found in The Making OF a Merchant,
by Harlow y. Higinbotham. There is
something fascinating in the directions given
by a man who has succeeded to those who
wish 70 be successful. Yet, however prac-
tlcal the directions. we fear that the quail
ties needed cannot be derived from books.
Information about everything relating to
. house IS supplied by The Complete
Home. edited by Clara E.. Laughlin ZAP
. pletons' The chapters regarding the
structural part, including plumbing. are
written by Oliver R. williamson; those
concerning furnishings, from linen and
glassware 10 books and hired help, by
Sarah Cory Rippev- Young couples will
doubtless derive many useful hints from
the booL