The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-09-15

coercion OF Venezuela and concluding with
Secretary Roots note to the committee OF
the congress Of last March. The whole
matter will 60 before the tribunal at The
Hague.
A charming little book has been put
together by Mrs. Edith Nichon Ellison in "A
Child's Recollections OF Tennyson' E. p.
button a Coz. The author is Q daughter
Of the late Dean Bradley OF Westminster.
the close friend OF the poet. 1t may
seem strange how little she does remem-
Der Of Tennyson himself, but the authors
honesty ia what gives quality to her little
book. She only tells what she actually
| remembers. There are charming descrip-
tons OF English country life and Of the
Tennyson boys, who were her playmates,
ard glimpees Of that delightful gentleman,
her father. The Tennyson memories are
slight and not very important, but they are
very pleasant pictures.
The subjects OF Mr.. Michael Monaghan's
| literary ESSAYS Benigna Vena" CThe Alban
| Publishing Company, New York; are attrac-
tive inc his treatment is sympathetic. 1t
IL pretty daring to attempt to initiate
Heine as he does in his first article, and
he probably is more ware than others
Of how badly he has failed. The life OF
| Heine, which follows, il much better, and
40 are the accounts OF Father Prout and
Guy de Maupassant. The other pieces give
evidence Of Mr.. Monaghan's good taste
in reading.
II Robert Louis Stevenson must be de-
graded TO the level Of school text books
the operation could not be performed with
less offence than it has been by Prof. Will
IAN Lyon Phelps in his edition OF the
-Essays" Charles Scribner's sons. The
pieces selected are such as Gdmit Of serious
study, while they leave the better part OF
Stevenson free to unencumbered enjoy
ment. The notes may seem superabundant
TO those u~nacquainted with the Grass igno-
rance Of college students on all matters that
are not required for admission but they
are clear and not childish. The introduce
ton is a model Of sensible brevity.
A new edition Of Mrs. Mary Foote Hem
derson's The Aristocracy Of Health" Ia
published by the Harpers. The author dis
approves Of tobacco, she objects to alco-
hol, she does not see the necessity Of eating
meat and thinks highly 81 a nut diet. All
these are matters Of Polemical interest and
on all she il eloquent.
Macaulay's New Zealander is no longer
a fanciful picture and the chances Of his
viewing the ruins Of st. Paul's are not so
remote as the historian dreamed. A COM
pact little Geography OF New Zealand by
J. K. Macdonald Gordon and Gotch, Well
ington and Christchurch, N. ~ comes to
us with the compliments Of the Tourist
and Health Resorts Department OF the
New Zealand Government While ad-
miring this antipodean enterprise and
admitting that we rave derived much in
formation from the volume, We must con-
fess 10 plying the unfortunate New Zealand
schoolboy who has to commit to memory
facts put in such st~ereotyped and uninter-
estinR form. We should like to suggest
TO the. New Zealand Government a depart
ment Of intelligent and wideawake teach
ing.
That well known Russian feminist Nine
Arvede Barine has written a Life OF Alfred
de Musset," which Mr.. Charles Conner
Hayden has lone into English Edwin G
Hill Company. 1t was to be expected
that in a life written by a woman the I'M
pleasant George Sand episode should bC
threshed out again. From the literary
point OF view 1t made very little difference
with De Musset's work though IL did Improve
George Sands style, and IL Ia made to OBJ
scure facts in a very annoying way. We
cannot agree with the authors statement
that only heads that are turning gray
' retain power TO understand" de Musset
France has run through many queer literary