The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-11-24

trum, Sink or Swim and ~Spartacus to
the Gladiator" as we'll as Mr.. Bryan's
Gross Of Gold speech, and there are some
pieces We had not seen since we left our
school readers in the days before the war.
Good stuff now, AZ it was then. The book
is disfigured by reformed spelling.
There have been many books written on
and around Sir Joshua Reynolds OF late, and
we wish we could say that Mr.. Fitzgerald
Molloy in the two volumes called "Sir Joshua
and His Circle" (Dodd, Mead and Company
had added anything Of importance to what
has been published. Those acquainted with
Mr.. Molloy's garrulous, rambling books will
not expect anything serious from him, and
in thisw work he rather outdoes himself. The
whole end of the eighteenth century, with
its output of gossip and title tattle is at his
disposal, N Reynolds appears merely az a
central point from which the author wan
ders at his pleasure. 1t is all entertaining
enough prattle, but lacks originality, and
has little excuse for existence. IL is ilhls-
trated.
The Rev. George Tyrell was expelled rom
the Jesuit order last winter on account of
the publication by some indiscreet person
of extracts from a letter he had written on
the relation of religion to modern science.
He now publishes in "A Much Abused Let
ter" Oongmans, Green and Company all
the documents in the case. They will prove
interesting reading to Catholics, and also
to those interested in the attitude of the
Catholic Church toward modern thought.
A fragment from Maurice Maeterlinck's
The Life of the Bee" IL published in a holi-
day edition with the title The Swarm" in
Mr.. Theodore Sutro's translation by Dodd.
Mead and Company. There are green
decorative designs that run through the
text, and a colored fr~ontispiece.
n excerpts from Italian poems in
ottdrd rimd included by Prof. j. ID. NJ.
Ford and Mary A. Ford in The Romances Of
Chivalry in Italian Verso Henry Holt
and Company will be welcomed by teachers
of Italian in colleges. They supply a suffi-
Gent amount OF an unavoidable form of
poetry for the purposes Of instruction and
do away with the need Of complete editions
Of Ariosto and of Tasso. Besides the OK
tracts from the Orlando Furioso- and the
~Gerusalemme Liberata, the authors have
drawn On Pulci, Boiardo and Berni and two
earlier Orlando poems. They have also
provided an introduction and sensible
notes. The buyer should be warned, how
ever. that this is an Italian text book and
not a treatise on the romances Of chivalry.
In Red Rubber" IT. Fisher Unwin) Mr..
E. d. Morel sums up his indictment Of the
Congo administration. His statements
must be taken with great caution. For
years he has been preaching a crusade
against the Belgians with the plain object Of
making England step in and seize the COM
mercisl and political supremacy on the
Congo. Great wrongs have undoubtedly
been done to the natives, but whether thoee
wrongs would be any different II any other
European Power had been in control NAV
well be doubted, while the record Of Great
Rritain toward savsgee in the past would
roint to a policy Of determination. or. If
that could not be accomplished, TO the svs-
TENS Of oppression used in India and in
Ireland.
IL Is not Wilhelm II. that is meant by
"The Hector of Germanie," by Wentworth
Smith. that Mr.. Lewis Warren Payne, Jr.,
has edited (the University Of Pennsylvania:
The John c.. Winston Company, Phila-
delphiaD, but some mythicn Count Pala-
tine, whose history was all jumbled up
by the author The play was produced on
the occasion Of the marriage of King
James's daughter Elizabeth to the Pals
grave Frederick, who became the winter
King" OF Bohemia. II seems to nave been
happily forgotten ever since till IL was
resurrected % make a doctors dissertation.
The editor has expended much erudition