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Reviews of OLD BOSTON DAYS AND WAYS. By Mary Caroline Crawford, guthor of “Romantic Days in Old Boston,” ete. Illustrated. Boston: Little, Brown & Co. DELIGHTFUL book as even the table of contents sus- gests. And within the chapter the suggestion turns into secure conviction. Among these titles are such beguiling ones ds “When Es S ,” “When Faneuil Hall Was a P “A Painter of Fair Wor an of the Town Meeting,” eenth Century Aeronaut’ a doze yre of equal invitation lure. Just to let that = titles make good, that they are empty flourishes of surface ap- 1, here is the opening sentence of “Old Boston Days and Ways”: “An interesting vy might be written on | the scapegoats of history, and in such | a work a prominent place should be given to Thomas Hutchinson, lieuten- ant governor of Massachusetts in 1760 and throughout the most trying pe- riod—from the polnt of view of a Xing's man—in the whole history of } the colonies.” And from this the au- thor goes on to describe the acts of Hutchinson, “sworn servant of the own,” “not a bad man,” but an hon- man doing his duty as he saw it. 1 from this animated and commu- nicable beginning the author moves in equal spirit and effect through these pages, that picture the all- around life of Boston from the be- ginning of the Revolution to the time When Boston town became the city of Eoston. People step out here in a lifelikeness that the average history denies them. Places take on fresh meanings in their new light upon th or that early day in our reach for in- dependence. The social life of the time is as vivid and distinct as are the doings of the present day in the collective life. The place of art and | music in the colonial city is set clear- | 1y out here. Indeed, the whole is a | spirited and admirably organized bit of intimate sightseeing through a da and in a place that but for such work as this would gradually dim out of mind completely under the many sup tions of the suc- ceeding n eminently worth- while survey of that which Am cans do not wish to forget and can- not afford to lose. PORTRAITS; rnest not Real and Boyd. Doran Co. “Appreciations of divers singul characteristics of ce nd letters is, in part, by Ernest Portraits.” Despite al tang of this title, Mr. Boyd ali o rn himself nporary writers and with aspects of literature. These to the United State not entirely. In a voice of tured foofery the writer first erature in certain such comprehensive A Literary Enthusiast,” Mid-Western Portrait,” “A Liter- Lady” and others, all a part of his “Imaginary constructio good-natured amusement appea to be the mood in which Mr. Boyd pro- jects himself here, with no apparent de e to be either caustically clever on the one hand or heavily instructive on the othe Pleasant reading, with no very great stir to the mind under its direction There are interesting “real” portraits here—Dr er, Cabell, Sinc r Lew Hergesheimer, Men: ken and some more—more pointed, as & matter of course, than the "imag- inary"” stuff, more definite aud con- crete, more appealing to the author himself and therefore more impres- sive to the writer. Here Is a word. or two drawn frem hix.pestrait of Mene~ ken, a p on who unfailingly draws attention—"a bulky Rabelaisian fig- full of laughter and Kkindly ormously energetic and in pursuit of intellectual I could see nothing of chean monster who is the Mencken of popular legend.” And here Mencken himself talking to Mr. Boy “My aim is to combat by ridicule and invective American piety and stupldity and tin-pot meral- ity; progressives, professional moral- \ists, patriots, Methodists, osteopaths,” =0 on and so on. “I have advo- cated a single tax"—Mencken still talking—"of a dollar a day on bache- dors, on the ground that it is worth #hat to be free’—not so bad, and clearly better than much that he says in addition. An interesting and plea ant book of fair reading for some un- exacting hour. TALES OF A WES1 EER. By C. E. Ru »ston: Houghton Imaginary. New York | -| tain current belong though good gathers up groups under mings as RN MOUN ‘Al\-; Illustrated. Mifflin Co. | The most of us are plain routinists, | docile at least under the day-by-day | round of making a living. There are, | however, some rebels among us, those | who ye for adventure—faring the | sea ring the caverned under. | wor! nting biz game in remote | regions, 1bing to the summits of | great mountains, from which to look | out upon the wonders of the world and the glory thereof. This is the story of a mountain climber. No, he d not climb the Alps, but the home | mountains of Washiagton agd Oregon instead, peaks so near at hand that we of like desire may find the strenu- ous pursuit well within reach. - Read- ing hiere, you will easily come to the opinion that these mountains and this | man offer every possible experience in this particular kind of adventure and | recreation. Mount Adamsyis the prime | ola New Books figure in this story of the mountains, engaging more than half of the space glven to all of the ather peaks—Haod, Shasta, Glacier Peak, Rainler and Stuart. Here are many descriptions of rare and beautiful scenes. Here are accounts of the'actual ascent of this peak or that one. A ploneer at this business in our own West, Mr. Rusk gives not only the practical method attending the work, but, like the artist that he is, he unfolds as well marvelous panoramas of th outposts of the western skies. A tonle book, filled with thrills and clear airs and broad views and a deal of mus- le-stretching work. LVANIA BEAUTIFUL. lace Nutting, author of “The Beautiful Series” etc. ramingham: Old America Co. The Eastern ‘counties of Pennsyl- vania provide the motive for this book, composed chiefly of most ats tractive pictures of a truly beauti- ful section of the United States. A slender sketch, descriptive and his- torical, gives adequate support to material whose prime appeal Is to the eye itself. A moving picture, this, of distinct charm and interest. Something like three hundred view contribute to this general panorama of stern Pennsylvania. Speclal stress has been laid here upon il- lustrations of the older life of this locality, the life that is rapidly pass- ing into forgetfulness, from which it must speedily be rescued. This older life is a lesacy, no part of which should be lost to Amerclans. One looks upon this book, with its companions of the “States Beautiful Series,” as one of the highly patriotic and Dbeneficlal publications of the day. Not only are these books beau- tiful and thereby designed to stimu- ate pride in our own land, but they are the reservoirs as well of some of our truly precious possessions— old outlook upon the new life around, old custom transplanted to fresh soil, daily ways of life and certain forms tailized exactly In their original pattern and content. All of this, or the most of it, could hardly come into our hands but for Some such means as has been provided by way of these highly interesting and useful and beautiful books. BEGGARS OF LIFE. By Jim Tully. New York: Albert and Charles Boni. 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By Joseph Husband, au- thor of “High Hurdles," etc. Bos- ton: Houghton Mifflin Co. A tale that takes you back into romantic and stirring times. Into those days a dozen years over a cen- tury ago, when England was fighting the United States, when Napoleon, at the top notch of his career, had driven the whole of Europe into & self-defensive combination against him and France.. From so great a turmoil of general warfare Joseph Husband picks out the Island of Santo Domingo as the scene of this adventure. Upon the seas in those days privateers were as thick and as watchfully waiting as sharks off |- the Moluccas, and one of these glves at the outset 4 neat and clever yum to the Yankee brig Lucy, whose cap- tain, John Bush, is the hero of this adventure. A Philadelphia Quaker, turned sea captain, John Bush gives a hundred per cent account of himself here as the promoter of stirring da: and as the champion of a fair lady in distress. Treachery and about every other sort of villainy peculiar to that period and place wait upan John Bush in his efforts to rescue the lovely lady and to carry on as well something of the real business of his errand to this insecure and menacing spot. Hardly a page here without a hazard all its own, one growing plausibly out of the general situation and growing out, as well, from the special animosities growing up around the active person’ of John Bush. A first-rate entertainment of this particular brand is Joseph Hus- band’s “Citadel.” THE CHRONICLES OF A PRINCE. By Marguerite and George McAnnally. New. York: Duffield & Co. Pure romance, this, though it rushes ahead in the very colors of urgent and hard-pressing fact. 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