The Washington herald., 1907-09-22

VIE Nlit tut it Aiit patent. lutlt Cout0
be 10 real virtue. Virtue lies in the
struggle, not in calm, submissive acqui-
] essence.
count life just stuff
To Try thy souls strength on educe the man.
/ Everything in life can be made service
/ able 10 the man strong in unseldshness.
/ the man Of faith and ideals Perhaps the
/ limiuess extent OF his optimism is shown
/ best 10y his similitudeS. He loves 10 take
a proverb which reveals the unconscious
/ pessimism of humanity. like NO rose
without its thorn" and twist it into a
source OF comfort In the speech of the
/ Pope in The Ring and the Book "a
speech that in some respects indicates
| the high-water mark Of nineteenth-Cen-
fury poetry-we find this passage which
/ x is safe to say no one but Browning
would have written;
50 a thorn
/ Cones TO the aid Of and completes the rose-
Courage 20 wit 40 wonau's gift priests.
Browning is not a sedative he is a tonic
/ OF all the great tbought-lcaders Of the
century none is more thrilling. more
stimulating. and more encouraging in the
/ call 10 manhood.
Among the thirty-One new books an
nounced by a. c. McCIurg & Co. for au-
tumn publication are four novels These
include Randall Parrish's Beth Nor
veil. Mrs Katharine Tynans For
Maisie" Charles B. Hudsons The Grim
son Conquest" a romance of PizarrOs
conquest of Peru, and Edith Huntington
Masons THE Real Agatha" The same
house will also bring out With Words
worth in England" an account Of jour
ueyings through the poets haunts Of
Anna BcnneSOu MCMdhan, Literary
Rambles in France" Miss N. Betham-
awards study Of the debt owed by
French letters TO her various provinces.
and biography OF Thomas Gainsbor-
ough by William >. Bolton.
Lady Tenant, the wife Of Sir Edward
Tenant, who is a noted collector and
owns one of the finest private galleries
in Europe has written book for ci.sl-
dren which viii be published under the
title of THE Children and the Pictures.
The book, which was written originally
by Lady Tenant for her own children.
tells each historical event connected with
the paintings and weaves them all into a
Z %
introduces old customs and manners with
vivid reality. Sir Edward has Tor the
first time given the publishers permission
to photograph his paintings, and they are
reproduced I'm color TO Illustrate the book
Masuii Miyakawaya. the author Of
Life OF Japan" is a naturaIized Ameri-
can who is said 10 have the distinction
of being the only lawyer Of japanese
birth in the United States. Educated
both in Japan and here. he has been en-
ployed as the Official interpreter for the
/ japanese army, and Is IN close touch
with the imperial government. The key
note Of the book is the very complete his
tory Of the relation of Japan 10 the
United States. Mr. Miyakawaya ac-
knowledges the great debt Japan owes
( this country and the American influence
on the national character OF :he Jap
anese.
Mr.. owen WisteT appears this year not
as a novelist, but as a -biogAapher Some
/ time ago Mr.. Wister wrote little life Of
! Gen. Grant. which proved very success
ful. IN his forthcoming book The
Seven Ages OF Washington" he has at
tempted TO do something Of the same
1 kind. only in a larger book The sub
/ jeCt is one which has engaged his at
tention for many years Last winter,
when he received the degree Of doctor
Of laws from the University Of Pennsyl-
vania. he delivered an address on Wash
ington, showing the comprehensive esti-
mate he has made OF Washington's life.
/ book promises 10 be unusual in the
amount of rich material condensed into
/ a compact and interesting story of the
/ first President.
! II used TO be considered high praise
to say that book was read wherever
the English language is spoken" but
now, the books of popular American
and English authors are widely trans
/ lated into foreign tongues. The work Of
Mark Twain William Dean Howeus.
T Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman. Robert
/ Hichens. Gertrude AthertOn. Katherine
/ Cecil ThurstOn. and others, is familiar
I to France, Germany. Italy, and other
countries. The story Of the Other
( Wise Man" by Henry Van Dyke. has
/ been translated even into such unusual
languages as the Armenian and Turk
/ ish. and "Ben-Hur" has been put into
/ even a greater multitude of tongues.
In The Road to Happiness" by Mrs.
Van Koert Schuyler. the author has a
most practical little talk on How 20
Read the Bible and Enjoy It" Il IS
an admirable guide to young men and
women.
/ Mr.. Arthur c. Benson. who is contrib
uting TO Putnam's the series Of essays
under the general GitIe Of at Large. "
will make "Humor" the subject Of the
4 October essay, He has this to say. I
/ do not think that humOr has ever en-
/ joyed its due repute in the ethical scale.
| The possession Of it saves man from
tpriggishness; and the possession Of faith,
hope, and charity does not"
The recent death Of Miss Mary Eliza
beth Coleridge. a greatniece of the poet.
reminds US Of the curious manner In
which good book will practically dis
appear for no other reason than that
l each years tremendous food necessarily
hides what has gone before. It takes a
work of positive genius 10 survive the
/ pressure Of the hundreds Of volumes al
ways coming from the press. Miss Cole
ridge was not a woman Of genius, but
+ she wrote in 1.-THE King with Two
Faces" a novel published ten years ago.
an unCommonly interesting piece of his
torical fiction. We have heard nothing
of it for a long time but we hope il
VIII not be forgotten.
The salient work of a biographical ma
/ ture TO be published in England this
! fall Is. of course. the Life and Letters
! OF Queen Victoria" Many other vol
umes are promised in the same field.
There is TO be a life Of the late Lord