The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-09-24

An esteemed veteran ~ tho MaSsac hu.
seits bar. MIR Georg. A Torrey. has
written brief volume ~ "reminiscences.
a Lawyers RecnlleCtion-. which LATHE.
Brown and company publish. Mr. Turr-y's
memories ar. 81 fitChburg as u little
country town. uf Harvard College ia m"
DAYS h.for. Eliot and 81 III. Worcester
bar and bsnCh HI. reader will regret
thar h. has not Owed deeper into his
memory and told NOR" II the idyllic days
before the war pc will regret too that h"
has stopped short IN his entertaining
account 81 noted lawyers 81 m. past ana
amusing stories 81 law cases and 81
judge Tn" sample h" gives 81 what ha
can tell calls FOR much more Of the sam"
sort from Mr. Ty-rry
Tn" centenary - Mexican indppendenra
has brought with It a biography - the
man who first began IN" revolt against
spanish rule from which Il is dated
Miguel Hidalgo. II the parish priest -
Dolores had not got into trouble With IN.
lnquisliIpn. who's" records have been
preserved. Dr. Arthur Howard Noil and
NJ 4 Philip NcNihon would hay" found
scan'y material for their little volume
The Life and Times It Miguel Hidalgo
Co~'illa- a Z. MCtlurg and Company
Chicago. This l. \ clear account II the
first -truggl" for Independence. beginning
with Hldalg0.s manifesto. the -gritn do
Dolores and ending a few months latcr
with his defeat and execution His
memory i r"verei throughout spanish
America. Mexico has named state after
him. III" story IL continued - the 80
tahli-hm"nt ~ Independence. the empire
~ lturhida and briefly ~ the present day
The authors "ulogiyr President Diaz.
A biography II LOUISE chandler
Mnulton. Poet and Friend has heen
written by Mise Lillian Whiting with a
rest raint that IL not often found in her
writings Little. Brown and Company
Mrs. Mouhon has won an eSiimable
place among the minor poets 81 America
I'm Boston she had IA little salon 81 her
own and belonged 10 all the literary
ClIhs Sh" wrote literary crit iClAns for
the newspapers and earned the grail
uIde - young writers by her practice
u always praising what IN" could find
- praise. The story of her life IL IN
way a rccord - IN" literary activity %
Bu~t IN during half century
The heart Il the commonwealth Ger
'AinIv deserves 70 have IT, history told
and IT, roll II noted men should lnspir,,
any -critr In The Story Of Nurcester-
u.ittle Brown and Company Mr. Thomas
, OFlynn has collected the material
Tor a history but contents himself with
a bald statement - facts For the period
- the settlement and the early DAYS
h.. docs arrange them into a connect -
story Tho rest II his book j. practi-
cally an annotated catalogue e build
Ins-. institutions. monuments and men
There are many llhlstra'io ns and the
fruu'i-plece II portrait II Isaiah
Thomas
Patriotism gets the t~t'er ~ ethno-
graphic accuracy IN the title Hero
Myths and Legends Il the British Race
by VI / Ebhutt Thomas y. trowelI
and Company. Nv British the author
means any On" now inhabulng Great
Britain and ireland. and ths legends ac-
curdlngly ara "f very mixed origin. They
are fortunately taken mostly from the
oldest sources and the less common are
told very fully. The author draws IN
Baowulf and ,ynewulf the Mabinogion
and he ,hanson de- Roland, HavolocA
The Dane Howard the Halt. Iuchulaln
and Mr. lea'~'- Countess Jath!aen
Gamelyn. Gawaln. King Horn. Robin
Hood Herrward the Wake and others
help ont These are all good -toriar.
hoy are well told. we'll printed and illus
tratcd and make an excellent story book
The author- i,iea Il gaf herring from hem
an ideal II the Bri' i-h hero seems rather
fancifu when tho conglomeration Il
that make up the modern
Briron j. array"d ~ thc-.' legend-
IT,. Stories - the Men"huna- 70 selected
by Mr. Thomas O. Thrum from larger
hook ~ his on Hawaiian folklore. makes
a pretty httla gift book a. &. McC burg
and Company. Its value IL slight, how
ever. Tor IA" stories ar" only thr"" 10
and very short ~ that the reader