The sun., 1909-02-27
has been perpetrated to celebrate his
Other Books.

| Other Books.
| There Ia novelty as we'll as adventure
in Mr.. Charles II. Sternberg's -The Life
Of Fossil Hunter Henry Holt and Com
pany). To most people it will be news
that there is such a profession as hunt
ing for fossils and that men make living
by it. That was not the case when Mr.,
Sternberg began. He has plenty TO tell
Of experiences on the plains, OF adven-
lures with Indians and OF even more
daring feats in scaling cliffs or ventur-
ing into deserts. He has been among
the most successful Of American explor-
ers and If he lad emphasized little
more the remarkable discoveries he has
made he would have aided the lay reader
who is unaware of what is contained in
museums or enbalmed in Government
reports, New visions OF adventure are
opened up by the book, which is full Of
interesting illustrations.
The point Of Mr.. Oscar Fay Adams's
a Motley Jest" (Sherman. French and
Company, Boston, seems TO be to mystify
the render The shorter piece. a sixth act
TO The Merchant OF Venice is clear
enough; it is an expansion OF what Shy
lock- probably said and thought when his
sentence was carried out, and though
Mr.. Adams does not venture TO step be-
yond Shak e3peare in the conception OF
the character. his verse is dexterously
initiative, enough 80 to crafty Mr. Ber-
nard Shaw. The longer effort. a Shake
spearian Fantasy. is a su ccession OF clever
psrodies on many Shakespearian charac-
ters. particularly successful in the prose
passages. which might be interpolated
in the original text almost without fear
of immediate detection, but the meaning
OF IL we have not been able TO fathom.
1t may be intended simply "a an example
Of Mr.. Adams's skill
The lectures on Naval Warfare deliv-
ercd at Hamburg by vice-Admiral Baron
Curt Won Maltzahn OF the German Navy
have been translated into English by Mr.
John Combe Miller Uongmans, Green and
Company. They were intended to ex-
plain the necessity for naval armaments
and 10 arouse German patriotic interest
in the navy, and they owe much TO Capt
Mahan's books The first lecture deals
in compact form with the growth Of navies
and tho Influence of sea power to the peace
Of Utrecht The second reviews the wars
Of Napoleon l., the third the American
civil war, and the last present conditions.
The matter is rather condensed at times.
but the lectures are extremely instructive
and interesting.
A selection from Victor Hugo. "Poemes
Choisis: lS22-is8j" has been made for
the charmingly printed and bound edition
OF French authors published by J. N
Dent and Company &C. p. Putnam's Sons)
and for it NJ. L. Aguettant has written a
preface. Some Of Hugo's best known !
poems are here: the others. taken from !
the enormous mass Of verse he wrote in |
those earlier years, show his quality as
well as anything else that might have
been pick ed out NJ Aguettant is over
in his estimate The unde- !
niahle genius in Victor Hugo was accom- .
panied 10y a lot OF ingenious humbug. !
which was more marked in his later /
years, but which manifested itself even
earlier; for instance. in the employment I
Of high sounding words regardless OF /
their meaning. as he did in -Notre Dame .
de Paris" and in "Ruy Bias, not to speak .
Of the bTunders in -L'Homme qui rit.
Il is not so easy to find a good selection
OF his poems and this pretty volume will .
be welcome.
In writing THE Changing Values OF 1
English Speech blinds. Noble and /
Fldrsdge. New York; DR., Ralcy Hustled /
Bell seems 20 have had a very youthful |
and uniformed set OF readers in view. !
He provides very elementary information |
-, hn
ocular tone he takes at times arouses
some doubt as to the accuracy OF his
u statements, The manne: in which he
'aIls foul OF Prof Lounsbury. Prof. Skeat
md Prof Francis A. March may be
musing. but will hardly impress those
who have some knowledge OF what those
scholars stand for in the study Of English.
The impression that We take our
pleasures sadly is conveyed by Athletic
3ames in the Education OF Women" by
Gertrude Dudley and Frances f., kellor
Henry Holt and Company. IL opens
With an exposition OF the desirability
II such games on high moral and socio-
osical grounds, then gives elaborate
directions as to how they shall be or
and supervised in schools and
,ther associations. winding up with ex-
,lanations of the few games girls can
,lay. The pedagogical point of view pre-
dominates: the value. physical and moral.
u the exercises is demonstrated. Nowhere
Ioes il appear that girls might like to
,Iay the games for fun, free from direc-
ion, and to some it may seem that undue
tress is put on competition.
The negro problem in South Africa I
las naturally been a source OF great
rouble to Dutch and TO British and is
ikely to be for a long time yet. The
imple expedient OF determination has ,
lot worked owing TO the obduracy Of
he blacks and the need the white man
as for labor. A South African Natives
,ommittee- OF Englishmen has been
tudying the matter for many years;
nov publishes q supplementary report q
o one issued seven years ago in The
outh African Natives" ~. p. Dutton and
ompany). This report Is hopeful; 1t S
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