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22 THE SUNDAY CALL. A Review of the Most Striking Books of the Week. Rallroad,” worked up some plots, senti- mental or sensational, and staged the whole with railroad properties. The real, natural, actual life of the railroad is nc in his book. His heroism is not the hero- ism the rallroad man is called on to show; his sentiment is not railroad senti- ment; his work is not vital or genuine Mr. Hamblen’s “We Win" is of a differ- ent type. It is an honest narrative of a healthy, natural young boy, who has pluck and good nature and perseveran What the Workers in the Literary World Are Doing BY PROFESSOR H. B. LATHROP OF STANFCRD UNIVERSITY. 2 the ready wit of Ippolita, who “The Via Della Gatta was cobbled, shab- that height and Mr. Hewlett's art is both L : i thieves and destroyed with a by-white, secret, bilnd; it echoed silence, imitative aud conscious, But for charm, i e bl iy by e s her fair hand all the judges was a place for Elippering crones, for fur- grace, finish, gayety, the joy of living, enulnely treated than in Mr: t police of the realm, and how tive cats and the smell of garlic and these tales could not be surpassed. (The et e M iake !‘vri':\l;‘hfh!h; glqmnfidm;in:\}x‘xé cgslrcoal '\rer, ",«r\‘guun a lmlld Macmillan Company, New York. $150.) Not the mediumbiniwhich it 1ve - r m and her, their dog a T4 nce, softer than any amp — - there i3 is thi T The sce one Of Saint Androglo slone on could shed, was = a tall, “shrouded As ls usual at this season. a large proo Hooh pleiaras CAo | e e e ¥ rock in the lake—are they n{“‘l mt woman's figure. Thqg saw the round of portion of the books recently published the country plcnie, the love-making, the 1 his own veraclous chronicle of her cloaked head, they saw the white are in whole or in part “Eflm‘ from high-flown Bpeeches, are as vivid as pho- ? = harmingly gay StTéam of her underrobe run from a peak magazines One of thess Anthony tographs. Indeed, the book is open to the Timoteo™ 13 & charmingly gay at her bosom in a broadening path to her Hope's “The King's Mirror,” wh(chjtlnl charge of utter commonplaceness in sub- s e L N- fest. They Baw the pure gray moon of In effect by the change from _gerial to stance, tone and sentiment. A certain < New Yor Jher face, guessed by the dark rings whers book form. Pretty nearly everybody has good-tempered sincerity makes it pleas- ant. L Captain Brady's “Tales of the Tele- graph” belongs to a di t class. The 8 author has really un 1t he undertook to do. Here 1ation 8TOW out of the natural circumstances ¢ s & telegrapher's occupation. ) one but - e a telegrapher could have been placed as fl : his characters a telegra- her would ha: joked ike them. t tele- = 2 grap!m ma deathbe ‘most rer : Pl e Busse s not so . e o awElias ore or puzzle tr r 5 ;" o little storfe 2 1, with "a Captain ail, % of finish and e reader can fea marred by a too ol tres employed when it matic effect. T trast to set off h their peculiarities and sentim to the chara author. Thus t seem rude in in feeling. If Ca delicacy and distir force of imagination serve the name art. (“We Win,” by Herbert #Storfes of the Rallroad,” b “Tales of the Telegraj by J n his work w . Br : he Doubleday & McClure Company v Fork.) That Professor Saintsbury, who has read everything and is writing'about it as fast as he can should thew Arnold Is but net Arnold must be to him a fascinat osite. Arnold was in a way a e was a bellever in equality wi ing democratic; in & church wi ma, in criticlsm without a philos criticism; his personality, as writings, is urbane; hi 2 melody, precision of word, if not s powert philosophic exactness. of thoug! 3 A weakness Is in the direction of st lambently and with too little heat bury burns with a smoky fl convinced aristocrat, dogmatis sician; he has faith in an orde hy of style. When he exhibits [t usually in a perverse way. His in spite of his declamations on me at times to be paralleled for whir amorphousness only by authors thre turfes old. Yet ! of temper betwe and the subjec he cannot only ex: nobly, admire’ that late of Arnold’s wor in individ judg bury’s criticism e he 1 charged with the deadliest of critical the failure to warm to great work book, however. Is not a safe intrc to Matthew Arnold It is te s and sided. If you works heart, you will T what Professor Saintsbury him; but if you do n heart, do not depend _upon Saintsbury. o Books Recelved “In the Poe Circle,” by Joel Benton. Mansfield & Wessels, N rk. Price $1 50. poke ) ce sounded i himself that ne other have a deal to Local Habi by Walter I Sawyer. Small, ard & Co., Bos s without - = ’ race ‘A Married Mar by Frances ymar ‘ 3 e e Mathews f(ashxl McNally & Co., Chi- il cago. Price, $1 % . e cor the Sake of the Duchesse” by § i sl Walkey. Frederick A. Stokes Co., New York. “Well, After A fort Moore. _Dodd, Me: York. Price, $1 50. “Bugles and Bells,””* by 140 Ellis street, San Franc “Prince_ Timoteo, by David Skaats Foster. F. Tennyson Neely, New York “Two Chums,’ by Minerva Thorpe, Laird & Lee, Chicago. ” by F. Frank d & Co., N ‘ - “A Drama in Sunshine,” by Horace ‘ Annesley Vachell. _The Macmillan Co., : New York. Price, $150. “Harold’s Quests — a Nature-Study ‘ Reader,’’ by John W. Troeg D. Apple- New York. Price 60 cents Heritage,” by J. Bloundelle- ton & Co. ‘A Bitte an logked for the last 1 that he loved 8o wel Burton. D. Appleton & Co., New York. it he lo Price, $1. played LjoL YR I ine tnec “Mammon & Co.” by B._F. Benson. : a' been master D. Appleton & Co., New York. Price, \ 150 ¢ j hen the “The Hygiene of Transmissible Dis- 3 :. eases,” by A. C. Abbott, M. D. W. B. 5 54 Saunders, Philladelphia. Price, 2 3 . “The Vovage of the Pulo Way,’ by whose Me and you,” he sald, ““have a deal to zettle. Look to Garlton Dawe, K. F. Fenno & Co.,'New F C Al yerzulf, for either you kills me or | kills you. ““Through the Turt Bmo.ke,x Seumas 3 3 " " w - MacManus. Doubleday cClure Co., } (From “On Trial,” by "Zack.”) Nev«'\'ork‘. T e = ¥ ! place fate. The wind which blew infec- and Hamblen's ‘“We Win.” Since the _‘‘Westminster DEY, DY Dekn Far- p : tlous cheer through the earller books has novel was invented, nearly every corner rar. Mansfleld & Wessels, New York. ! fallen and died. of the human spirit has been explored for _ “The Etchingham Letters” by Bir A The trouble is that the story has no Subjects, and nearly every type of human F. Pollock & Ella Fuller Maitland. Dodd, 3 cri If the King could only have been nature studied and tormented in the Mead & Co., New York. i : Worthily killed or mightily triumphant in manufacture of heroes. After historical On Trial/” by “Zaci: C. Boribner's 4 a clean fight the reader would have been 10 , class novels, problem e J content; but it was not worth while mak- have '“occupation ' novels. g Tawmmb B 3 s ing such a fine fellow of him only to tie Naturally it is the bolder occupation, e eaey McClure Com- g him hand and foot, and, in the end, to those which afford scope for heroism, New York, Pr'lv:;l $1 60, leave him face to face with the Insoluble that have first been chosen for treatment. he Ralstons,” by F. Marion Craw- > problem of @ weary, disillusioned life. The soldler and the sailor have, of course, ford. The Macmilian 'Company, New S ) other hanc ook is pai ¢ long been stock figure Yet, even in the York. ce, $1. 7 . O e e B e ok s PUnfully ea novels and the war novels the stories _“Cattle Rapch to College” by Russell b e impulses is developed with Wwere external. TI dealt with the Double doubleday & MeClure Com- i > There i3 a trifiing line iy “Ham- humors and the romance of their sub- pany, New York. Price, Sl E »t"” which has a meiancholy reverbera- Jects, but not with the real life of the tudies in Literature: Burns, Scott, : tion, and which might have a sSoldier and the Here is Kipling's Byron, edited by Seymour Eaton 5 matto for this novel—‘The is at originality—he tried not to s(:my l)_'m)ll{x]e-fl}a\' & sf\lct lure Company, New h is princely ises.” Do v 3 from without, but to create from within. York. Price, L 2 i T e e S end 1o ram(SURROSS Hiis method fs often tediously technical, _“Mickey Finn Idylls” by Ernest Jar- his art rough, but his conception is a high rold. Doubleday & McClure Company, Poor fellow! he must learn to be a King; St e > and will be a fruitful one. For the pres- New York. Price, $1 2. drawn e e e e o a2, Ty ent his {nfluence upon most who have ta- talky & Co” by Rudyard Kipling. e top The Maurice Hewlett's “Little Novels of her eyes should be, watched with quicker already formed an opinfon about the new cornerstones, as his exalted position re- ken suggestions from him has been fn Doubleday & McClure Company, New s injurious. He encourages a York. Price, $1 50. ld man Jtaly” are novels in the old Italian sense awe the slow movement of her arms, lift- novel, and most people are disappointed quires. Has he some wish to do his coun- many wal J o ” Ehort Ammorouy tales. Hpccacels himaels eA/tHBIE Gwn to whiat sheihalnitis fenarts It Shmel think it o oAl A THe b hiisy ¥ty guoA? Tiak hilmiohokesitsithe| scing. briital O O O L e O e s would not ha been ashamed to own the running undercurrent of the two sob- ‘‘The King's Mirror” is not llke Anthony must not be a partisan. Would he have confirm the delusion tha ateri- cGrath. - . ; s i r, New York. Price, $1 25 some of them. The scenes are lald in bing drabs muttered in ome voice their Hope's earlier novels; and the public sel- a friend? Let him beware; the King &l of a story Is a story. In the ideal tale pany, New York e : Ttaly in the ffteenth century and the remembered adoration. ~Such pictures dom takes kindiy to a great ghange In must have no favorites, Does he loves of o ZEuLaiony dNeTererian antioniwill Michael Rolf, Ef.‘f&u’l’)fi?@ - by Mary ianguage bas antiquity just shine on nearly every page. It is seldom the nature of an author's work. If vou Let him remember that Princes wed not De colored through and through by the L. —Pendered UCubIGORY, < of sufficient to “fous melody indeed that a writer conveys the impres- our mouth made up for a cherry for love, but for reasons of state. Little occupation chosen, but the work wil . New York. Price, #1% slon of womanly beauty and ch-rm with t strawberry in the world will not by little the man becomes a King. It {s never lose the sense of normal human life ern Mercenary,: by B. and Hes. deli- so much vividness as Mr. Hewlett. right. | The geography of “The to the credit of Anthony Hope that his and the true dignity of art. The circum- I - d in and swung to land; finds habited by a population separated from the world juake tk 3 5 s S o 1o S 2 stances of the tale will be those of the New York. Price $1 2. & ving physical im- The tales are swift, decisive, full of fas t -"\.-1‘1):(:'isn;xp:;:‘kv):‘:mwu;l i s i‘fl]"“‘il"fy"m"‘ D. Appleton B e, the lumber camp, the telograph Corners of Ancient Empire: . warmth and color; in the main g fdt vom does notstiIyesintit s e RERL SR ooy company; the human nature will be uni- Shoemaker. G. P. Putnam's his pa ? 3 nof ; where they strike a note of seriousness King is human nature displaying itself in w York s noble a gentleman as his Parts of three hooks of raflroad storles, n the ¢ ““His rusty clo: or of tragedy, more interesting for their hrethren—Hape's other heroes. He has a : pr 4 : those circumstances Kiplingiana,” published by Mansfleld his ¢ e brilliant_I'fe and_energy than for their wise head, a stondy heart, a strong hand; NCW Published by the Doubleday & Mc- "yp'tne three books, the names of which & Wessels, New York. Price, $1 % ing of nis neck angle of power of moving the heart. In fact, they but instead of gallantly achieving the Clure Company, have also appeared In are mentioned, each author has had a _ ‘“Stories of the Rallroad” by J. A. and _how he slew seven sword—cocked up > like a wren’'s lack but passion to be great. No fmpossible he sees with smiling but bitter Magazines: Brady's “Tales of the Tele- gifferent view of the problem of the rail- Hill. Doublec & McClure Company, the tower, and how he was taill—spoke the conspirat tative works of consclous art can attain hopelessness the triumph of common- graph,” Hill's “Stories of the Rallroad” road story. Mr. Hill, in “Stories of the New York. Pri e $1 50. 1 From Page Twenty-One X a region to some of us ever telling of the Boer and his relentiess hatred toward the s ¥ ¢ nmuuui«-r]. “1 b the last fort of the from Pretor 1 heard the fam Transvaal, and just “in memoriam” the xomi ‘r‘n; b . r s 1 il Boers fired upon us, three shc two of were busy Ttls plilho & filch soung which struck the wagon in which I was ed strange t of place; but such was throwing up earthworks cover of darkness, crept up to within surely,” and so they proved to be. we sighted the Boers in strong position on A fight at the Red House kraal early Iy and later 1 dug one out of the lat- the mater t a ed cdiff That after- striking distance of the house, when we Our men at the river signaled to us to Zwaart kopje. The artillery advanced at in February added to our list of dead and tice support, not six inches from my hea et noon ncers with myself extended In open order, keeping under ride to the farm I had just left, as the a trot and noisily announced our presence. was noted for the gallant stand made bY The scrappy affairs of 1 e L were e horses cover of the brush. Later on we rus 30ers were rapic ing in numbers, My compzanion “and myself found our- the volunteers under a most galling fire. Arijuba have been given an “ and four the house, met with no resistance, only a and iy th were singing ives about 800 yards from the kopje ab- The Boers crept up and captured an am- which is simply ludicrous. far : others d to few Boers being there. These we sent S s down and solutely unprotected and we dismounted bulance which a native driver had fool- well up f i as Tom th pal actors in the Wo yber back to camp under escort, while ten of arried, as in the Zulu and, lying down, fired whenever we saw into the firing lne. They |ikes and we because th ils the British ndure. ion more A river and us were instructed to patrol toward the he road was Hedilberg road. We extended about a it, but quarter of a mile apart, and I, going the other through an orchard, which lay on my arbine, an effective a head. It seemed a miracle that we nxious to get a gun and al- ship’ had been too much of a per a thousand vards and caped, as the ground all around was led, but the carbineers rode gcramble for _‘“advance honors manipulated by one hand. The pitted’ with the shots fired at us, but in among them and drove them back. Un- hour more of firing before the advan volunteers had rifles. We reached & A ) dually our men worked into the firing til the gun could be changed in position, o : R ‘e i ide of the pass we found a large Boer line, emerged to find none of my com- the farmhouse and threw ourselves from Iine in a most Sracerul orescent, Many of iwhen It Spoke. for itselt. “We lost abont mqold have won Laings Neck; a day's farm where seventy horses Lad been col- panions in sight. I crossed a river close our horses. One fellow on & white horse the volunteers and regulars fell, but the 40 horses and 30 men killed and wounded, thne 450 men of Majuba Hill from retit: lected, of course only for ‘“farming at hand and making my way out of the W secially active, and my carbine was men closed in. “Fix bayonets” was sound- the colonel and myself being among the pefore 2000 Boers. Ingogo was a purposes.” We surrounded the band, had brush found myself in a field adjacent to loaded and ready to hand, so I gave him ed, and we redcoats went forward on the latter. elght hours’ fight of 200 to 3000. them well in toward the foothills be- several houses, where a Boer and a lot its ¢ 750 yards, thus firing the double quick in the face of a heavy fire. This was the last big fight. On the one faat of the few companies eng forc the asscmbled Boers collcoted sense of Kaflirs were at work, 1 saw that the first & hot inthe Pretoria slege. Up went a white flag from the Boer po- hundred and third day of the investment gas much to do with the prophesi em Boer was unarmed so Irode up to him My »toria_on the dead run. It was and asked him if there were any Boers mans ad collection for our first day out in that vicinity. Boer of church He started and admitted, “Yaas, a Boer Martial law was now proclaimed—and patrol was on the hill this morning yon- found untenable. All citizens der,” pointing to a hilltop about half a e military camp, where, under mile dis .~ Without another word I s. in stables, outhouses and in the rode in the direction he pointed to w . 2109 of us formed homes. Rations my comrades, who I had conclude gnds now got into action and we sition and we ceased firing. The colonel a mounted ged to ch ey X to_a possible future Jugh as their numbers were of the Seventeenth Lancers, bearing a the news of Laings Neck and the still sad- gration of the United § ily being added to it was useless white flag, to the kopje and request the der news of peace. It was to us a peace 0 attempt to hold them at bay. So, still officer in command to come and see him. that passed all comprehension. We could ng, and carrying our wounded with us, Trotting our horses across the drift, we scarcely believe that our blood had been £k "Yl"'li; back rrr‘» ih;e‘ (‘o\‘(}\r 101’ the brfi]*{l l{({«lie nzlht up toward the face of the hill. spilt so utterly in vain. at the river. The Boer firlng was hot, When about seventy yards off the honor- seven beleague is were but they did not attempt to rush us. In able Boers opened a volley uj e n bea ompany his orderly, one was reported by our ring a flag of truce fa]) of the British empire ne idettes. He brought qisaster the advance of the asked me to ac Serious war in the Transvaal, I will never be, but persistent intrigue have a limitation, and patience_must 1 n lapse into indifference. No gre: enemy to both B ; as war proclaimed scat- ; - us, and, tered over the Northern Transvaal not rom the outer world, were issued by Government orders in somewhere arou On the othe le. the rear of the riv vas a_kopj v 3 e e 3 fi an the *“f : ¥ Governme ders 8¢ arour £ side. ar of the river was a kopje of bowl- wheeling around, we retired with our flag o Seeps Severaltwere . than the “fric last mall reached us. equal share to all, and all who could were half way up to the hill, I found two of ders, to which wo gradually worked. The of truce under a hailstorm of rifie bulloie gne Surrendered. Several were under fire Jrmer rejoice In_his § day and night for over three months, : arms, the stronger women our men, who had crossed the efs closed i, but as they did not now Our troops immediately opened fire and & and Men, women. and chiliren endured over the “Saxon monarch 1) 1 higher up, and told them the news, but see us their shots were less effective, and little later we carried th < series of Be- IS that President and burgher de Foot and motnted volunteer corps were all being' quiet. we decided to dismount the unequa' fight kept on, the Boers get- BOers prisoncrs, blw up the Wagmme am xk::;gfh{p:wfi%'éfl ana Tocknow. and whije that the treatment of the Kafl th Boers, but forced to ¢ man and his two being incl d to go througi & river B an Iris allow of long more, and were at last set aside uncon- > one of the forts reported a light in a “Here are the Boers!” he cried, but I At the engagement at 1 o'clock on the ever, without addl Aldrad; Mlear that reasonable redress alone_can fecantion was necessary. We ' dug house some digtance beyond our lines, It thought they were our men until turning morning of Jahuary § Diet Marias,a young tles.” Daily (1d we vainie ensbor cagual- wib,the month of eptember, after slx Liva a peaceful solution to the South trenches and converted the old church was supposed to be a secret meeting of around 1 saw some others coming over loyal Boer, and myself went ahead as the welcome roar of Colley's guns, and survivors of the siege of Pretoria reached -ifican problem. It is better to deal snto a haven for the women and children. the Boers and word was sent to the car- the hllltor. scouts. our situation became hourly more hazard- the Natal cmmmasg and halted for the With diplomats than strive with soldiers. It was Bunday, but gll thag day Kafire bineors, some twenty of whom, under Mountl? T cried, “here are the Bogrs, Riding forwardsebout s mile and & half, ous. night underneath the shadow of Majuba, FREDERICK W. DEVELIN. with “true 1 formed and I was attached to the Pre- and walt for the others, as we had been ting the worst of it until the firing was collecting their wou g0 must_be accorded to the Outlander of T v, managed to secrete toria Carbineers. Much work was to bs seven hours In the saddle and were over heard in oamp and the carbinears came own wounded and def\'gegrg‘lgl‘lf e into 'ggrhlggeluorzfe’m’(a&? Eole et f,'l'rle‘a}l? Such conclusions insult both m of her dress the dispatches done and all were expected to assist. six miles distant from camp. out at the galiop, giving us the support we camp. On our way back with our Euns A molety of consideration be doled. out to and men, and the servility of na for Gov rn]«:‘rgrlyiunynl-ltl. R Cg;\:é'e n;eéonfiyms'lldl Irish rgqcrgl d;;- Asf!;‘e wera resting alm}i1 chatting nne‘of n‘oed:‘d.dflir:nluull the Boers retired, and stuck 1n a mud spruit the Boers opened the “lovalists,” who lost much, suffereq tons can “‘;’"C'IC')"H!‘NT tiie dridepencence w ed. ’ n camp. n the y nds saw several horsemen coming thus ended st i ' S s P 2 S ntelligent appreciati 0. at we had in our midst many night of December 21 a flash mignal from roivard na from the river. s o Qe it e Ay | e e ome ) ShioGuills, but. the ivolunteers ol M 5 o {dent e sould fire from the rear. Every at the historical Six-mile spruit. advancing, the Boers' retired, not, how- the rights of the Outlander makes it