The sun., 1909-01-23
Other Books.

All Catholics will be glad to read the
\ volume OF 6fty-flve short sermons by
| Cardinal Gibbons, "Discourses and Ser
mons for Every Sunday and the Principal
Festivals in the Year John Murphy
Company, Baltimore). Protestants will
derive as much benefit from them. for
they contain little Of dogma and a great
deal OF religion that all good men believe.
An interesting historical and ethno-
graphical review Of dolls will be found in
Laura b. STAIRS The Doll Book (The
Outing Publishing Company. The scien-
tifc side must not be tax en- too seriously
for though tho author has read industri-
ously she is far too willing to accept any
thing that has bccn written about dolls
without sitting the authorities. She
writes entertainingly and her mass Of
curious doh lore is interesting She
Describes her own collection and also
explains how dolls may be built at home.
There are many illustrations. some in
color.
The editorials on food with which NJ.
Edward = Wilson anlivened tho OHIO
StdIe icurrGi have boon collected in q
htt,e volume called The Poetry of Eat
ing n j He.- Printing Company.
Columbus. Ohio, Thev are cheerful
pieces praising honey dishes in a manner
that testifes to good digestion The au-
thor's taste is good and orthodox He
hetrays a sentimental strcak, how ever.
that arousea suspicion: he grows poetic
over Sorthdown sheop grazing, toT in
starce, but his Pastoral turns TO rdp-
tircs on how tho Ssrc shsep will tas,.
as NUT; ton Mr. Wilson's viows on raw
oysters are sound.
HOPE springs up at once on reading
F1orcnce kendrick .Iohnsons title. Il age
Meals for Little Money The Peou,e's
University Extension Society. New IorSI.
1t sinks rapidly, however on reading the
hills of fare One fault ia samene} }s,
but though the author asserts dogmat-
ically that her food will satisfy a family
OF five at cost Of 81 cents day
it is difficult to make out how n man who
must work can get on with the amount
Of meat she allows him. Prices should
he given for all tho articles used in the
recipes. As examples Of the shifts to
which women viii subject themselves
TO make themselves believe that they are
eating the bills Of fare may do; as samples
Of large meals for n family. whether
for little or much money, they are hardly
attractive.
To the New Medieval Library" pub
lished by Chatto and Windus Duffield
and Company has been added another
volume OF the Franciscan mysticism
which has found favor among Protestants
Of late, THE Book Of Divine Consolation
Of the Blessed Angela of Eoligno, trans
lated by Mary G. Steegman. The present
translation il from the first Italian ver-
sion, Of 1880. of the Latin book written by
Fra Arnaldo. Like the other volumes
Of the series 1t is bound in stamped leather
with clasps.
The text in the old Spelling Shake
speare' (Chatto and Windus; Duffield
and Company Of "Alls Well That Ends
Well is edited by the late ". G. Boswell
Stone from the First Folio Of 1929. The
introduction is by Prof. F. w. Clarke.
who seems TO accept the hypothesis that
the play may be Loves Labour Won,'
and therefore written before 1893.
An excellent revision OF classic in it's
line, Mr.. r. +. Fosters Fosters Com
plete Hoyle,7 is issued In new revised and
enlarged edition FREDERICK A. Stokes
Company. Mr. Fosters authority in
card games is a guarantee for the accu-
racy OF the rules. BY this time -Hoyle'
has become so enlarged and transmogri-
fed that the original author would fiud
it difioult to recognize his offspring
Mr.. Fosters classification Of card games
is an admirable idea. Is it not time,
however. to drop from sHoyle' the short
and unsatisfactory articles on billiards,
chess and such games and restrict It
wholly to cards?
A volume Of Pictured Puzzles and
Word Plays has been compiled by A.
Cyril Pearson George Routledge and
Sons; T.. p. Dutton and Company. The
puzzles are Of all kinds, arithmetical,
geometrie, pictorial. anagrarns. charadee
missing words and 80 on. The editor
evidently regards them seriously and
most OF them will rack the most ingenious
brains. The solutions. which take up
about half the volume, will be found
indispensable.
Our esteemed contemporary the At
Ionts is doing good work in making the
Greeks who live among us acquainted
with the history Of the United States.
The astoria ton Enomenop Politeion
ties Amerikes." by Solon I. Blastos and
Nikol IN a kort "a Tha fIonfis New yCrkN |