NEW BOOKS AND NEW EDITIONS VOL Biography JOHN BROWN THE HERO. Personal Reminiscences. By J. W. Winkley, author of "First Lessons in the New Thought." With introduction by Frank B. Sanborn. Illustrated. 126 pp. 12mo. James H. West Co., Boston. With an introduction by Frank B. Sanborn, these personal reminiscences of John Brown cover the period from an August morning in 1856 "A Call for Aid," through many scenes and sieges, with chapters on hazardous journeys, and battles, to the famous battle of Osawatomie. A reproduction of a bust of John Brown is the frontispiece, and one or two illustrations are scattered through the volume. MORMON MENACE, THE. Confessions of John Doyle Lee. Introduction by Alfred Henry Lewis. Illustrated. 368 pp. 12mo. Home Protection Publishing Co., New York. John Doyle Lee was executed on Mountain Meadows, Washington County, Utah Territory, March 23, 1877, for his share in the massacre under Mormon orders. This republishes his account of his life and his connection with Mormonism. It is preceded by an introduction by Alfred Henry Lewis in which the danger of Mormonism is described at length. This account was originally published in 1877. Many of its statements have been attacked, but of their accuracy there seems to be no serious doubt. OPERA SINGERS. By Gustav Kobbe. Illustrated. Quarto. Oliver Ditson Co. Clearly printed on heavy pages, with small processed reproductions let into the pages and an occasional full page photograph, giving the career and various successes of the famous singers, Nordica, Calve, Emma Eames, Melba, Sembrich, Mlle. Ternina, Mme. SchumannHeink and Enrico Caruso, Jean and Edouard De Reszke. The volume closes with an admirable collection of 16 pages of processed photographs, large and small, of famous men and women in the operatic world and a final chapter on opera singers off duty. History CONQUEST OF THE SOUTHWEST, THE. By Cyrus Townsend Brady. The Expansion of the Republic Series. D. Appleton & Co. This is one of the Expansion of the Republic Series and is an exhaustive review from the preliminary discussion as to Texas and its Independency to the Mexican War and its consequences. The volume contains 12 illustrations of battles and portraits, and various maps and plans. Of considerable importance as a book of accurate reference, it has the author's usual lively manner. PECULIAR PEOPLE, A. The Doukhobors. By Aylmer Maude, author of "Tolstoy and His Problems," etc. Illustrated. 328 pp. Indexed. 8vo. Funk & Wagnalls Co. Mr. Aylmer Maude has written with sympathetic enthusiasm upon Tolstoy. This led him into contact with Russian affairs. He made the arrangements for the migration of this singular sect of Russians to Canada. In this work he reviews the entire subject, describing their history in Russia, entering at length into the steps by which they were removed to Canada, the strange obsessions which seized them there, and their development of a communal system of property. The book is least satisfactory in dealing with the various delusions which sprang up among this community, which are narrated on second-hand evidence without original investigation. LETTERS OF WILLIAM STUBBS, BISHOP OF OXFORD. 1825-1901. Edited by William Holden Indexed. Hutton. With portrait. 415 pp. 8vo. Archibald Constable & Co., London. The historian, William Stubbs (1825-1901) left few materials for a biography of a life passed almost exclusively in historical studies and ecclesiastical administration. In this volume William Holden Hutton, his pupil, now Fellow of St. John's, Oxford, and lecturer in ecclesiastical history, known as the author of many papers which continued the Bishop's work and methods, has gathered the letters of Bishop Stubbs and those written to him, with brief accounts of his life, in youth, as country parson, professor, canon and bishop. A bibliography completes the volume. It has a full index. His familiar letters give not only an account of Stubbs's life, but a continuous and illuminating picture of the development of historical research in England by the group of men who laid the foundation of modern English history. Essays 192 BUSY LIFE, THE. By Charles Wagner. pp. 12mo. J. S. Ogilvie Publishing Co. A discussion of the duty of man in the activities, the energies and the relations of life, whose principles are expressed in the close of its first chapter on the purpose of life: "Do that which you ought to do, that which the higher interests of yourself and others require that you should do; then be tranquil and trust yourself to Him who knows why the planets revolve in their orbits. The fundamental creed is to believe in life; the supreme heresy is the want of hope and confidence." MODERN LEGIONARY, A. By John Patrick Le Poer. 311 pp. 12mo. E. P. Dutton & Co. The "foreign Legion" is part of the Colonial Army of France, consisting of men of foreign birth who enlist in the French army. Its discipline is severe, its service hard and its punishment frightful. This narrative told in the first person, purporting to be an autobiography, tells the experience of an English school boy of 16 who volunteered in it, serving in Tonking, and against the Black Flags and North Africa. There is a little rill of a love story running through it of the sort to be expected in the foreign legion, with constant adventure. The scenes are carefully studied and the semblance of personal narrative well maintained. Verse APRIL DAYS. By Luella Clark. 178 pp. I 2m0. Richard G. Badger. Inspired by much in the Hymn Book and in Sunday school songs, these poems repeat familiar themes in familiar words: "Lord of life, Thy tender care AS THOUGHT IS LED. Sonnets and Lyrics. By Alicia K. Van Buren. 48 pp. 12mo. Richard G. Badger. Poems on familiar themes of this order; CONTRASTED SONGS. By Marion Longfellow. With frontispiece. 103 pp. 12mo. Richard G. Badger. Poems of patriotism and travel with some of consolation and many of religious sentiment, as: "Nearer my rest with each succeeding day That bears me still mine own allotted task! Nearer my rest! The clouds roll swift away And naught remains, O Lord, for me to ask." CORPORAL DAY. By Charles Henry St. John. 48 pp. 12mo. Richard G. Badger. A rhymed narrative of a volunteer in the Civil War. DAWN OF FREEDOM, THE, OR, THE LAST DAYS OF CHIVALRY AND OTHER POEMS. By Charles Henry St. John. 156 pp. 12mo. Richard G. Badger. The opening poem is a mediaeval story. The rest is for the most part occasional and descriptive verse and verse of sentiment, as: "Too late to plant the tender seed; "Too late to gather fruit again. The orchard trees are bare; Too late to search the autumn fields; The gleaners have been there! "Too late to rear a temple now, "Time naught denies; The earth, besieged by winter long, From all her hills and hidden nestling vales. From his vast source, and all the streams HEART LINES. By Frank A. Van Denburg. 45 pp. 12mo. Richard G. Badger. Sincere sentiments expressed in verse of this character: "This life is a dreary desert Filled with heat and dust and sand, And often would we be in the dirt If not upheld by His mighty hand." LOVE SONNETS TO ERMINGARDE. By Edward O. Jackson. 60 pp. 12mo. Richard G. Badger. A sequence of sonnets on love greatly aided by the circumstances that a sonnet can be only fourteen lines long. The first quatrain in one is: PALACE OF THE HEART AND OTHER POEMS OF LOVE, THE. By Pattie Williams Gee. 59 pp. 12mo. Richard G. Badger. A fervid poem of North Carolina. There is much of sharply personal verse, as: "Love me, love, and tell me so; Love me, love, and tell me so Ere my heart stop beating; All the birds are mating- For my heart is breaking." PATH O' DREAMS, THE. By T. S. Jones, Jr. 47 pp. 12mo. Richard G. Badger. is: Poems of bitter memory, of which the worst T' tech th' 'musin' little kid, For when he smiles, y' see, He looks jes' like his mother did An' that's enough for me." SKY PANORAMA, A. By Emma C. Dulaney. 29 pp. 12mo. Richard G. Badger. Poetic extravaganza and doggerel rhyme upon the earth. Domestic poems of homely occurrences and expressing the simpler senti ments: "Only a delicate flower Lovely in form and hue.--Sweet in its tender help To feelings loving and true." SONGS FOR MOMENTS OF HOPE. By Clara E. "I wandered through life's fair garden Travel BRIGHT DAYS IN SUNNY LANDS. By A. Van Doren Honeyman, author of "Bright Days in Merrie England," etc. Illustrated. 422 pp. Indexed. 12mo. Honeyman & Co., Plainfield, N. J. A book of personal travel, following the track of the author's "Bright Days in Merrie England," which tells with the direct simplicity of a newcomer the ordinary experiences of travel in the Eastern Mediterranean, Spain, Italy, parts of Germany, Havana and Mexico. There are photographs, a frank narrative of the ordinary haps of travel, and a naive pleasure in a first impression. UNTRODDEN PEAKS AND UNFREQUENTED ValLEYS. By Amelia B. Edwards, author of “A Thousand Miles Up the Nile," etc. Third edition. Illustrated. 389 pp. 8vo. E. P. Dutton & Co. In 1873 Miss Amelia B. Edwards published as the first of her books of travel, an account of what has since been known as the "Dolonite Country," a mountainous region in Southeastern Austria, part of the Tyrol, at the time she wrote almost unknown. It has since become a familiar ground of much travel. Her volume, which has passed through two editions, appears now after thirty years in a third edition. While the old plates are much worn and have been superseded in all more modern books of travel by photographs, this early work remains one of the most interesting accounts of a region attractive to the geologist and preserving still the charm of the more secluded regions of Europe. Religion BIBLE IN MODERN LIGHT, THE. A course of lectures before the Bible Department of the Woman's Club. Omaha. By John Wesley Conley, D. D. 239 pp. 16mo. The Griffith & Rowland Press. These lectures were delivered before the Woman's Club of Omaha, Nebraska, 1902-1903. during a winter in which consecutive Bible study was carried on in meetings held once a fortnight from November to May. The lectures, which dealt with the right attitude of mind towards the Bible, its character, its position, manuscripts and translations, monuments and documents, and the relations of the Bible to modern science, art, ethics, woman and the schools, are accompanied by references works for consecutive reading. to CHRIST CHILD AND THE THREE AGES of Man, THE. By William Boyd Carpenter. With frontispiece. 18mo. E. P. Dutton & Co. This little volume, by the Bishop of Ripon. contains a prologue, following which is "The Christ Child and the Three Ages of Man." in the form of a legend. The epilogue is cast in the form of a poem. HOME IDEALS. By Wayland Hoyt, author of "For Sun or Shade." etc. 115 PP. 12mo. Griffith & Rowland Press. Discourses by a well-known Baptist clergyman of Philadelphia upon family relations, beginning with courtship, taking up the duties of the husband, wife, brother, sister and the possibility of living the large life in the small place. ON HOLY GROUND. Bible stories with pictures of Bible Lands. By William L. Worcester. 488 pp. Indexed. 8vo. J. B. Lippincott Co. Narratives from the Old and New Testament are arranged here in consecutive order. In coarse print, a brief explanation is given of the conditions, the environment and the circumstance of the parts of the Scriptures selected. This is succeeded by the narrative itself from the Bible in the revised version. Interspersed in the text are illustrations from photographs illuminating the narrative, generally of places, sometimes of Eastern manners always of interest, though small, and often reduced to a point which renders them rather diagrams than pictures. Maps are also interspersed. There is a constant reference to their use in historical sequence. On Christ's Parables, and other teachings, comment and explanation are offered. The volume, while large and somewhat heavy for child reading, is an admirable attempt to retell the Scripture stories and yet retain the use of the elevated diction of the Bible. |