Los Angeles herald., 1907-11-17

work must have small scope, 1t may De
mentioned that the book is a large one
of 43G pages. It is, however, some
thing more than dictionary. as II eN-
plains and defines not single worus
alone. but entire phrases. AS an Illus
] tration, how many know the meahlhs
| of -, A. j. or The book eNplalhs
that these initials. in financial lingo
mean January April, July and Octopel ;
interest or dividends payable quarterly
beginning with January. If you are
Interested in this money making traue
which keeps man so busy that ne
| finds time to speak and write his moth-
or tongue only In an abbreviated ana
| to the uninitiated unintelligibie 1orlil'
the book will prove of service
Money and Investments. By Mont
gomery Rollins. Boston: Dana Estes
& Co.
George Edward woodberry has writ
ten in Great Writers" brief biogra-
phies and appreciations of the literary
labors and characters of Shakespeare,
Milton. Virgil, Montaigne, Scott and
Cervantes. There is, however. nothing
of the stereotyped biography in the pa
pers, which treat of the subjects life
only as 1t affected his work. Mr.. Wood
berry evidences an intimate knowledge
of his subject and handles it in mas
terly fashion. The book will be read
with much interest by men and women
who are themselves admirers of the
authors OF whom Mr.. Woodberry
writes. D.
= Great Writers. BY George Edward
Woodberry. New York; The Mcclure
company.
1ae
of America" Nellie Urner Wellington
has prepared book which gives brief
ly the history and describes the sali-
ent architectural features of number
of church edifices throughout the
country but particularly In the east,
where the writer obviously is more
at home. The book is introduced briefly
by the Rev. DR.. Edward Everett Hale.
1t is a we'll arranged volume and is
illustrated with full page photograv-
ures of the church buildings mentioned
in the text. The western churches in
cluded are the San Carlos Boromeo at
Monterey, Cal; the San Xavier del Bac,
at Tucson Ariz.; the San Jose de Quad
alupe, at San Jose, Cal. the San Miguel,
at Santa Fe, N. NJ, and the Mormon
temple, at Salt Lake. OF the others by
far the majority are situated in New
York or in the New England states
Historic Churches of America. BY
Nellie Urner Wallington. New York:
Duffield & Co.
Norman Bridge, NJ. D., is the author
of a collection of essays on hygienic
topics published this month by Duffield
& Co. under the title of House Health
and Other Papers" Some few of these
papers were written by the author for
public deliverance. One is a bacca-
laureate address delivered before the
graduating students of a prominent
medical college. Perhaps the sub titles
OF the several papers will serve to give
a comprehensive idea of the scope of
the work. They are: "House Talk"
Human Talk" "The Blind Side of the
Average Parent" Some Commence
ment IDEALS" "a Domestic Clearing
House "The True Gospel of Sleep"
Some Unconceded Rights of Parents
and Children" and "The Trained Nurse
and the Larger Life" It would be a
mistake to regard this hook as a work
suitable only for professional digestion.
1t is much broader than that Written
so that 1T may appeal to the lay mind
1t contains many valuable hints, the
needing of which must prove of great
benefit. 1t is well worth reading and
doubly well worth study.
House Health. BY Norman Bridge,
M. D. New York: Duffield & Co.
Anna Benneson McMahan has written.
under the title of "Shakespeare's Christ
mas Gift to Queen Bess" what purports
to be an account of the first presentation
of "The Midsummer Nights Dream in
its finally revised version. This presen-
tation was made before the court some
two years after the play was first given
to the public and only after it had been
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1896. The account is brief. opening with
a meeting in the Mermaid to which
comes Shakespeare to read before his
friends the revised manuscript of his
play. Says the author:
"A responsive audience truly Roars of
laughter greet the rollcking humor of
the clowns and their rude burlesque of
things theatrical But the longest and
loudest is the applause over the new
touches-those portions that have been
written in to please the court and the
queen. To remodel play written for a
marriage celebration so that 1t shall
seem to praise the virginity of the queen
were surely no light task, but it has been
accomplished"
Then follows description of the pre-
sentation itself. on Christmas night, in
the palace banqueting hall, where a tenn
porary stage was erected for the use OF
tine players.
Shakespeare's Christmas Gift to Queen
Bess. BY Anna Benneson McMahan. Chi
cago: A. c. McClurg & Co.
In Love Affairs of Literary Men, Myrtle
Reed attempts to give us a series of in
innate portraits of Jonathan Swift, AL
exander Pope, Samuel Johnson, Laurence
Sterne, William Oowper, Thomas Carlyle.
Edgar Allan Poe. Percy Bysshe Shelley
and John Keats in their sentimental re-
lations with the women who in some
cases, became their wives and in others
did not The records are compiled. in
part, from letters, few of which display
any marked literary genius. The names
bracketed together are Swift and Esther
Johnson, better known as "SteIla," and
who died of a broken heart; Pope and
Martha Blount who treated him un-
kindly, and to whom, upon ais death he
left the greater part of his estate; Sam
uel Johnson and Esther Thrale; Laurence
and Lydia Sterne, though the wife was
by no means the sole recipient of her hus-
bands amorous favors: Cowper and Mary
Unwin; Carlyle and Jane Welsh. after
ward his wife, and with whom he levd
quarrelsome life. marked by domestic
turmoil though it is said that each loved
the other exceedingly; Poe and Sarah
Ill