the charm of the book is its frank personal note, unburdened by archæology, history or ethnology. The traveller's book of half a century ago.

Further

India

Hugh

This addition to the "Story of Exploration" is on one of the forgotten parts of the world. The Indo-Asian peninsular is less known to the ordinary educated man than Clifford any part of the globe of equal importance, size and population. Try, for an instant to call up its outline, and place its countries, instantly you realize that your shape is vague and that you cannot tell at which place the Me-Kong River belongs. Mr. Clifford, after very briefly running over early history, too briefly, for he does not give enough for background, summarizes French, and English exploration of the region. The whole volume goes practically to the work done in the last forty years, true of no other part of Asia, save a part of its central plateau. The illustrations are poor, the treatment somewhat vague, no one thread is preserved. You must read it all to get any, but nowhere else will you find what you have here.

Paolo Veronese

Bell

The real strength of this sketch of Veronese lies in the process photographs of his work. These, on a large page cover the whole Mrs. Arthur range of his extraordinary and dramatic brush. As with all English reproductions in the half-tone, the pages are inky, and but badly printed. The screen is too fine for paper and ink. The sketch of his life occupies but a few pages. The best of his work accepts ordinary attributions without challenge. It is of more importance to study even a badly processed photograph of the painter's work than to read reams written about him by others, and the accuracy of the photograph, even when badly printed, more than makes up for the more agreeable interpretation of a wood cut, usual in the past.

George Morland

G. C. Williamson

George Morland has had a new and instant recrudescence, due to his colored prints. These, for long, were rejected of all and could have been bought for a shilling or two. They suddenly became the vogue, and still gain absurd prices. He came of a race of artists, and bridges the period between (1763-1804) the early engraving of England, influenced by German methods, and the later Italian school, developed under the teaching of Bartolozzi. Morland is the story-telling English artist. Mr. Williamson has followed in this volume the same method as Mr. Whitman in his work on Cousins. He has brought together a sketch which has somewhat of new material though for the rest he employs familiar sources, including the young woman "upwards of six feet in height' with whom Morland was in love, who figures in every sketch of Morland, however short. The real value of this work turns first and chiefly upon its catalogue of engravings, and examples of minute, close and careful examination of statistics and of publication. In giving the present status of Morland's paintings, there is an almost total omission of American owners. The book is a large quarto. It is written without any special gift of exposition, but adds an accessible life to the six already written to-day, comparatively inaccessible. mezzotints with a soft accuracy, beautiful The callotype reproduction handles the

to behold.

Clara Erskine Clement

Mrs. Clement, to many art books, has added one which breaks into a new field. You can count on your fingers Women in the Fine Arts all the women who painted before 1800, and did anything worth getting into a gallery. It takes a book to hold those who have painted in the last fifty years, well enough, a round dozen to match the work of men, except the very foremost. A technical dictionary was much needed, and Mrs. Clement, while she is forced to a reticence as to the ages of these artists, gives information as to their works which will instantly

make this a familiar book of reference. Unlike her other books, which followed a trodden field, this has been compiled from her own circulars of inquiry.

Golden Treasury of American Songs and Lyric

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This collection remains as good as it was seven years ago. Nothing has been written since that anyone would dream of adding. This is a "portrait edition," much F.L. Knowles bedizened on the cover through use of a forced conceit. The portraits of the women are all much younger than they are now, which is usual. Even a man's photographs do not grow old as fast as he, and a woman's never pass a certain year, if her literary offspring are her chief care. The volume, as a selection is less one of lyric than of sentiment, but it is nearly as good as the barren field can yield.

The Old Masters

Sarah Tytler"

Miss Henrietta Keddie, who writes as "Sarah Tytler," has issued many small novels and taught "young ladies" all her life, ending now as head of a finishing school. Out of this experience, she published in 1870 a book now republished without change, "The Old Masters and Their Pictures." It is just the sort of book which grows out of the effort to meet the needs of the young woman who wishes to "know something about art," and does not want to take too much trouble. From Giotto the current runs without a break to Kneller. Something is said about the man, much is said about his pictures. There are half-tone illustrations. She notes that the Venetian women had the "weak and false vanity of dyeing their black hair a pale

yellow." Even in Greuze she sees the occasional flutter of passion, of many painters among the most reserved. There is much of comparative description. There is some frank admiration of men like Carracci. For girls between fifteen and eighteen, in families who do not want them to know too much and are desirous of avoiding their knowing too little, this book will play the useful part of a teacher guide. It is written in a dialect known only to those who lecture on Art. Where they get it no one knows, but the secret does not perish with them. It remains with all who write on a subject which they have "got up."

The Knyght

La Tour Landry

When William Caxton, in 1484, printed an English translation of the letters of Geoffroy, De La Tour Lanof the Tower dry to his daughter, he issued the first printed work on feminine Education in England. It is a rare, but not a very rare Caxton. The Lennox Library has a copy. Of the 105 works which Caxton published, it is of medium frequency. It is not like the "Propositio of King Arthur," of which there are only two in existence, nor like the "Golden Legend," of which there are 31, or of the "Polychromicon" with 30. The rarest of the Caxtons is, of course, the "Recuyell," his first issue. "The Book of the Tower" appears now in an admirable reprint, with notes and type not too small and close to the original spelling, with page and binding attractive. It gives on the whole the best picture available of English feminine life, education and ideals, at the beginning of the Renaissance, including "How a Woman Ought to Obeye Her Husband in Alle Thyngs Honest," and also "How Loue Wyle Be Kept Warme."

The exchange in identity of two men who are doubles forms the basis of a strong novel by Katharine Cecil Thurston. One man is married, a member of Parliament, but opium blights his career. The identity of the two men is so exact that the world, including the wife, knows naught of the exchange. The false double wins position and the woman's love, which prompts him to confess to her alone at the death of the original. The moral problem is not solved.

THE SEA-WOLF.

A readable tale of the sea, with a serious purpose, is this novel of brute strength by Jack London. In it is worked out the theory that a man of refined tastes, strong moral instincts and a religious nature, will, if placed in an environment where nature's first law of self-preservation is paramount, develop a character equal to the emergency. Mr. London creates a new character in fiction in Wolf

Larsen, who recognizes no law, moral or otherwise, except that, of brute force. THEOPHANO.

Frederic Harrison's new romance of Byzantium in the tenth century is built upon facts brought to light through studious research. It is melodramatic in force and spirit, as befits a novel of barbaric times, and vivid with the author's mastery of language.

THE GOLDEN BOWL.

The latest novel by Henry James, written with his unmatchable perfection of style. Two volumes and nearly 800 pages enfold the tale of a Roman prince who marries an American heiress. He is unfaithful and she, to her surprise, discovers that she is not only forgiving but tolerant. The subtle study of her change of view and of her husband's character is done with the James mi

nuteness.

WHOSOEVER SHALL OFFEND.

With a plot based upon the condemnation of the Biblical text beginning "Whosoever shall offend one of these little ones," F. Marion Crawford has written another of his delightful novels of Italian life.

DOUBLE HARNESS.

The author of "The Prisoner of Zenda" and similar tales, Anthony Hope, has written in "Double Harness" a novel different from his former books. It is a study of character and of incompatibility in marriage, in which several couples are involved, and is characterized by Mr. Hope's fine style.

A CAPTAIN IN THE RANKS.

This latest of four deeply appreciated novels of the South by George Cary Eggleston, author of "Evelyn Byrd," opens just after the surrender at Appomattox and relates the struggles of a Virginian as he seeks to establish himself in the West.

Andre Castaigne is not the first good illustrator, or even artist, to essay novel writing. Not alone as a first literary work is "Fata Morgana" of interest, but it possesses striking qualities of merit. RECOLLECTIONS AND LETTERS OF GENERAL ROBERT E. LEE.

Letters from the great military leader of the South, addressed to members of his family, are printed in this volume, with a thread of narrative by his son, Captain Robert E. Lee. They are interesting as lights upon the simple, dignified, sympathetic and charitable character of the man as husband, father and Southern gentleman. There are few

glimpses of Lee as a soldier.

THE ART OF FRIENDSHIP.

A volume of essays by Bliss Carman

on various topics, chief being literary criticism.

THE QUEEN'S PROGRESS.

among them

These sketches of life and personages in England during the reign of Elizabeth, by Felix E. Schelling, are full of the glamour which romance has thrown around the Elizabethan age and its lead

JAPAN, AN INTERPRETATION.

This last work of Lafcadio Hearn, is a study of the people and institutions of Japan, by an occidental than whom there was or is none better qualified to perform the task. It is permeated by the deep sympathy Hearn had for his adopted land.

ITALIAN VILLAS AND THEIR GARDENS.

Edith Wharton has thrown a psychological atmosphere around her fine descriptions of the old villas of Venice, Rome, Siena and Genoa. The volume is beautifully illustrated in color by Maxfield Parrish.

THE BOOK OF CLEVER BEASTS.

Myrtle Reed, author of "Lavender and Old Lace" and "The Master's Violin," has shown much versatility in producing an amusing take-off on the popular nature books of Thompson-Seton, Roberts and other writers. The highly intelligent and somewhat exaggerated animals of her creation perform marvelous acts. THE AMATEUR SPIRIT.

A volume of essays by Bliss Perry, editor of the "Atlantic Monthly." For those who like discursive literature it will be stimulating. The theme in most of the essays is the amateurism which pervades much of modern literature. MUSIC AND OTHER POEMS.

Herein are collected the odes and sonnets of Rev. Dr. Henry Van Dyke, the popular author of "Fisherman's Luck" and "The Blue Flower."

LYRICS OF JOY.

Frank Dempster Sherman's poems collected in this volume, include some of the best verse of the past year.

THE MOUNTAINS.

Readers of "The Silent Places" and "The Forest" will be pleased with Stewart Edward White's description of life on the mountain trail. It is based on the author's personal experience and contains much practical advice and many wholesome suggestions for those who would follow in his footsteps.

The Masquerader*

D

OUBLES" as an idea upon which to hang a tale, originated a long distance back. On the revolting picture of the morphia fiend the dust of years has gathered. Mrs. Thurston has contrived, however, to make use of both with a freshness as striking as the impression it makes is ephemeral.

When Mrs. Thurston wrote "The Circle" she accomplished something original; in "The Masquerader" she owns herself defeated in originality, but she attempts to compensate for the defeat by a skilful handling that, to the public at least, will

*THE MASQUERADER. By Katherine Cecil Thurston, author of "The Circle." Illustrated. Harper & Bros.

make ample compensation. She has read her probable audience well, and has yielded to tiny tricks of sensation that give the color in just the right places to make a successful appeal.

Given John Chilcote, M. P., and John Loder, nobody, the first a morphia slave, the second a cynic at odds with Fate; given a likeness between the two that makes discrimination practically impossible, and you have the characters for a good, lively tale. Add to this the fact that one is a bachelor, the other married, and the situation has still more interesting features. John Loder becomes Chilcote, M. P., distinguishes himself in politics and falls in love with the real Chilcote's wife; Chilcote meanwhile sets King Morphia upon a throne and wallows in the mud at his foot-stool.