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E first impression one gecelves resding the opening chapters m of %ient,” by Anthony that if book is to please ecause of skillful ccause of interesi- on account of ac- abie people. The main with one excep kind whose dis- rrelieved by the uiar virtue. B: ing of values to- be or nove be of e of - view o regard the hewo would create £ Mir. Hope had not t to make Tristram ity conduct of ded not by the or- finished of prosaic beings, but which may appear at a Given this latitude of the change in Tristram onorable man to an t be admut- ausibie, even if it does impression ers he introduces is scarcely con- be hero & ation of this may reator of character no trace of genius. ced of genius wi the real consistency inconsistencies of consistency must er which does not on bordering on T child of Lady Tris- in her own right. I ram, then an untitled andoiph Edge. A few ge the two sep- ph went to Russla. the death of Sir his_wife im- Fitzhubert. 3 Citz- scovered that Sir Randolph die until after the marriage wife and her sec- h died in Rus- endar is still in his calendar are se used by the rest ‘This confusion of into account in the po ph's death sent from = toe? 2 result he was supposed by his wif have died twelve days befors did. ct that the second marriage was rmed one day before Sir s death was not discovered u: to securs the legitimacy o of Captain Fitzhubert; but this from all but 2 few per- tzhubert dies and his eeds 10 the title of Harry Tris- 3 old when his » him that he will have and estates. It the deception the novel. Feel- corcealed nat fortune, simply 2t he has no legal right He deter nes to succeed iders his rightful inherit- 2l years nothing ocecurs rry Tristram or to make that the jruth about his riage 1s known to any one s7e it to his disadvantage. t he finds that his secret is mzn who threatens to expose ers worse for Harry his 4 dainly bookic! of quolations: riendship arlists, singers - - - - of 2l the wisc and teader of th: carth who have ever had ckplattitnd o - o 50c Elder and Shepar 233 DOST STREET. La--——l_- mother dles and he is left with the im- pending necessity of establishing his claim to her estate by the aid of false docu- ments. Not that the prospect of doing this disturbs him in the least, if he can but Go it successfully. The erratic dispo- sition which Harry Tristram has Inherited apparently includes a large amount of moral obliquity, or rather, of moral ob- tuseness, for he seems at no time troubled by qualms of conscience because he has retained possession of property to which he has no legal claim. The real heir to the estate of Blent is & cousin of Lady Tristram, a beautiful girl named Cecily Galnsborough. Harry Tristram meets her while she is on a visit to his home and falls in love with her. Following a momentary impuise, Harry tells his cousin that she is really Lady Tristram. He leaves Cecily in possession of Blent, and then goes to London to seek his fortume. From then on the course of the story flows smoothly, following the average way of a novel, to the restora- tion of Harry Tristram to his former title and stram blossoms out into a most young man who seems to be tmpervious to temptation. Indeed, from a yeuth who gives no hint of the posses- slon of qualities usually considered neces- tive, Tristram suddenly changes and be- ccmes all that the most punctilious read- er could demand. When the reader takes m he wears a bright halo cast light of his shining virtues, To have such a change take place within tha limits of one ovel, especially when s length no hint of the proba- b a change is given, is a new oviding for a story an unex- pected turn which shall baffie the expec- even the experienced novel Another character, too, who plays an tmportant part in the book, undergoes ilar change of character, though in She begins by promising L n of the story, and ends its good fairy. Certainly Mr. prepared more than one the reader of ‘“Tristram Yet merely of the of novel remains but one interest. The people e exception of Cecily gh, are either bizarre or com- either case they fail to ex- insures more a brief remembrance It is surprising that Mr. Hope can writc b will stir the emotions memory, and then can and live produce which, save for some few flashes of wit, ney rise in theme treatmment above the commonplace, and appeai neithe: It may as a talent for telling an absor Story of adventure, to do what onl: picture of ordi e which Is true to life, and yet over It a glamour which glorifies it into a universal experi- ence tzl mankind. (McClure, Ph lips & Co., New York. Price $159). The Westerners. A stirring romance of Western life has been w n by Stewart Edward White, Wwhose story of a tenderfoot in the West, “The Claim Jumpers,” many will remem- ber with pleasure, The principal character in “The West- erners,” who happens to be the vil too, is 2 halfbr Machail 1 fand. When Lafand is a young man he suffers what he considers a wrong at the hands of some white me the affront in silence ar apathy, but it rankles in years and leads hi T life in revenged upon the men he hates. throws in his way a little girl, the daughter of one of the men. This child is the daughter of a scientist, Prof. Welch, who went West in order to study the geological formation of the Black Hills. Weich had taken with s wite d child, although it was at a time when a was the scene of many an In- The professor and his wife soon find graves in the West, and little Prue Welcn falls into the hands of Lafand, who brings her up under ths name of Molly Lafand. The scheme of vengeance which Lafand forms includes the ruin of this girl. He brings her up among lawless people, aiming to have her grow into a coarse, disreputable woman, ‘When she become the type of woman he wishes her to be, he means to tell her of her parentage and make her under- stand all that she has lost. But Lafand has not counted-Upon the instincts which E£encrations of virtuous Puritans have be- queathed to Molly. In spite of degrading surroundings Molly remalns uncorrupted, She renders the plans of Lafand futile by sceking refuge in the love of 4 man who proves himself to be worthy of her esteem and capable of leading her back to sympathy with a life which is hers thright. 2 d lives to see 21l of his schemes such ; *han enge result in the prosperity of whom he pursues for man long end he finds In a violent the ble termination to his crueity and wickedness, In the description of the death of the f-breed at the hands of ed Indians whom he has wronged fore Mr. White shows a power augurs well for the quality of his future work. Indeed, the entire novei reveals a real ty to create a clear picture of the Northwest when It was the scene of n last displey of savage force directed against another greater force ich on the surface scarcely less barbar than jts “Uhe Westerners” 1s well worth read- ing if one takes interest In the wild life of the ploneers whose efforts at winning 1 ble lunds of the West have re- gulted fn the ‘present prosperity of the civilized communities which have taken their place. (McClure, Phillips & Co., New York., Price §150.) Tales From Sl{;l‘:espenre. “*Lamb's ¥ from Shalesneare’ has become a clas eaid Dr. Furnivall in hiz irtroduction to the first volume of this edi Th undoubtedly the case, that ali the libraries of both » would not be com- and old y Tamb wrote the that they should be an y of Shakespear most consclen- les with the oduetion to er and sister vere and painstaking in thelr arduous un- king, how serious indeed d from what Charles can be says in the Vhat thess tales have been to you in childhood, that and much more it {8 my wizh that the true plavs of Shakespeare 1 of all sw hts and actio ruity, gemerosity, hu- exvipies teachiug thess res of this edl, us and additions that have been written by Dr. Furnivall, one of the greatest living authorities on Shakespeare. To each of the stories he has written a special introduction. To make the work more complete Dr. Furni- vall has added six stories which the Lambs have not written. These tales st of two comedies and four trag- , viz.: “Love's Labor's Lost,”” “The v Wives of Windsor,” *“Jullus Caesar,” “Troilus and Cressida,” “An- tony and Cleopatra,” and *“Coriolanus.” He Las also described the playhouses in Shakespeare's time and likewise given a good deal of other valuable information. THE SUNDAY CALL. et about independently. In addition it affords to the student valuable drill in modern idiomatic French. The conversa- tions, which deal with the sights of the city and the necessary orders in hotes, restaurants, stores, etc., were in each case written on the spot of the scens de- scribed, and are true to the life and fea- tures of modern Paris. The book is sup- plled with a French-English vocabulary and contains a sketch map of the city, as well as numerous {illustrations of its principal objects of interest. (Price 50 cents.) Rover Boys. “Rover Boys on the Great Lakes, by Arthur M. Winfield, s a complete story in {itself, but forms the fifth volume of the Rover Boys Series for Young Ameri- cans. When Mr, Winfleld first started this series with “The Rover Boys at School,” he had no idea of extending the line beyond two or three volumes. But the second book, ‘“The Rover Boys on the ean,” immediately called for a third, ‘The Rover Boys in the Jungle,” and this finished, many boys wanted to know what ‘would happen next, and so he gave them “The Rover Boys Out West.” Still they ‘were not satisfied; hence the volume now in_hand. { 8o far the boys have followed the doings of Dick, Tom and Sam at Putnam Hall with many larks and sports; then out upon the broad Atlantic in a daring chase ‘which came pretty close to ending in sad disaster; next into the interior of Africa on a quest of grave importance, and lastly — ROFESSOR GEORGE L. RAYMOND, the poet, and author of the ‘Orator’s Manual” and Painting, Sculpture and Architecture as Representative Arts,” and other works on esthetics, published by G. P. Putnam’s Sons, is said to be so much of nn expert in the meanings of the postures and movements of the body th at it amounts to a species of mind-reading. When he first wrnt to Princeton to teach oratory, the compulsory speaking before the whole college was unpopular, and ths epeakers, who controlled their own crders of exercises, attempted to make a farce of them, once by hiring a negro band to furnish music, once by issuing mock schedules, and once by all addresing in fancy cos- tumes. He discovered and preven‘ed each of ‘the schemes through ob serving the movements of those who came to him to rehearse. It is said that it was not infrequent for him to interrupt a student when reading or speaking a supposedly original compesition or oration by saying “This was not intended to be an exercise in penmanship. A few days ago, as a result of joining in the divertisements of an evening at a sea- shore resort, he received a serious invitation to He replied that if they wished he them upon art, which was altogether the which he knew through which to make the occult before a city art and science club. would be happy to lecture to best agency of seem visible. lecture on the occult - The fllustrating of the book was placed in the hands of Harold Copping, who de- voted something like two years to th completion of this work. The.two volu contain twenty-two full-page gravures and 142 black and white {llustra- tions. The printing of the letterpress is of the finest, the paper used of the best and the photogravures, one and all, per- fect specimens. These tales are published in two volumes of three different style: first, as an edition de luxe fn white leather limited to 20 numbered coples at $20; second, the same in white buckram at §25; third, in fine paper at $750. (Pub- lished by Raphael Tuck & Sons, New York.) “Pierrot and His Cat.” “The Tale of Pierrot and His Cat,” by Florence Evans, is a charming falry story for children. The little people, who are the leading characters, are ordinary mortals of the earth; but when they get inio trouble, uplike ordinary mortals they have kind fairy friends to help them out of thelr difficulties in such a way that the recital of difficulties and happy endings marks a very injeresting little romance. The book is illustrated by the most de- lightful facsimiles of water-color sketches by Mrs. Albertine Randall Wheelan of San Francisco. These 1lllustrations by thémselves give an outline of the story of little Plerrot, which bears a resemblance to that of his well-known namesake. For- tunately for the gratification of youthful readers, the story of the Plerrot who owned the cat has a happier ending than that of the other. Plerrot, for this little modern one, falls out of love with Sofia, the representative of Columbine, and in love with some one who brings his story to 2 happy ending. The fairy tale, In con- nection with the illustrations, makes an unusually attractive book for a child who llkes storles and pictures. (Dodge Pub- lishing Company, New York. Price §1 %5.) “The Wage of Character.” “The Wage of Character’” is the latest novel by Juilen Gordan. It is on a par with her other books, which is to say that it 153 an example of the “trashy’” novel. It is not that Mrs. Cruger, or Jullen Gor- dan, as she pleases to call herself, of- fends particularly by the crowding of one sensational or improbable incldent against another; for her storles in outline follow closely enough the experiences of man- kind, but the tone of her books as it shows itself in dialogue and In deserip- tions of cvents offends many a canon of good taste. Those who have read with pleasure Mrs, Cruger’'s other books will 1ind enjoyment of the same sort in her last novel. Others who do not appreclate lterature of the sort to which “His Let- 1 * and others of Mrs. Cruger's novels belong, must look el ‘Wage of Character’ (D. Appleton & Co., $1%5.) for entertainment, New York. Price French Book. “Bacon’s Une Semaine a Parls,” by EA- win ¥, Bacon, Ph.B., has been published, with maps and {llustrations, by the Amér- ifcan Book Company, New York, This se tles of helpful conversations will make the visitor to Paris acquainted both with the physical features of the city and with the information and phrases necessary to ewhere than to ““The - out into the mountainous regions of the wold West, to locate a mining claim be- longing to Anderson River In the present tale the scene s shifted to the great lakes. The three boys go on a pleasure tour and while on Lake irie fall in with an old enemy. who con- cocts a scheme for kidnaping Dick, who had fallen overboard from his yacht in a storm. This scheme Jeads to many ad- ventures, the outcome of which will be followed by all boys with keen interest. (Published by the Mershon Company, New York. Price $125.) The Shrine of Silence. Dr. Henry Frank has hit upon an at- tractive title for his “book of medi- tations.” It is a book full of the spirit of natural reverence in a serles of medi- tations that are entirely free from.dog- matie expressions. They seck to obliter- ate the line of demarcation between sci- ence and religion and present the com- mon ground on which both must abide. The author concedes that “mind hath its eagle flights and spirit hath its ocean depths.’, With the great Master of Gal- flee-he says: “Seek and ye shall find; ask and ye shall recelve: knock and it shall be opened unto you.” These meditations are uttered solely In recognition of the fact that truth is the same yesterday, to-day and forever; that her forces pervade the universe, awaiting only eyes that see, ears that hear and minds that shall comprehend. Dr. Frank says that they are intended for the Chris- tian who loves Jesus, for the Jew who has outgrown medieval rabbinismn and for the free-thinker , who has drifted far from the ancient moorings of faith but yearns for some port in which he may find comfort and constant repose. To those who are up-to-date enough to be interested in cosmic vibrations his chap- ter on that subject will be interesting. ““Thought is a wave of mental energy. “All vibrations are thoughts. “Would we become one with the uni. verse we must think the thoughts that sustain the universe, “Harmony, order, equilibrium, rest— these are the universal, sustalning prin- ciples. “If we love we live. “This is Nature's law, on which rests the ethical order of all worlds.” The author shows a touch of poetry in his meditations on love. “Love s a morning zephyr whispering among the rose leaves. “Love is the breath of Spring melting the fey heart of Winter. "Love is a sunburst through & murky cloud, ‘‘Love is the music of the brook pjaying among the reeds. “Love s light, “Love is power, “Love {8 peace, “Love is life, “Love is God.” a o (Published by the Abbey Press, New York. Price $1 50.) New Arithmetic. “Dubbs’ New Practical Arithmetic,” by Eugene L, Dubbs, has just been published by the American Book Company, New York, The aim of this book is threefold ~~first, to cultivate habits of accuracy and GEORGE F. GRA EREWITH s an jllustration from “‘Minette,” a historical novel by the veteran publisher George F. Cram. This is Mr. Cram’s first at- tempt in fiction and judging from the ex- cellence of his present production it seems unfortunate that he has not entered the ‘world of literary romance before. “Minette” is a vivid story of the lat- ter part of the eleventh century when so many thousands of enthuslastic Crusaders went to their death in the Holy Land. For the stirring and tragic tale that he has” to tell, Mr. Cram could not have chosen a finer setting. He weaves his romance and history together in splendid style, The story begins in France at the time when religious fervor was at its height and the flower of the kingdom was flock- ing to the standards of the knights of the cross. Minette, the young daughter of the Count of Touraine, has been betrothed, by the mutual agreement of the parents, to Guibert de Barreaux. It has been one of those formal engagements customary at that time, when the wishes of the principals were held entirely subservient to the decision of older heads. Guibert is selfishly anxious for the match because he pes through the riches of Minette to retrieve his own lost fortune. There is not the slightest spark of congenlality between the two and it only needs the appearance of the dashing and altogother admirable Lacey de Hauteville on the scene to save Minette from a loveless wedding.. With Minette and Lacey it is a matter of perfect af- fection and worship at first sight. Guibert is not williag to let his prize slip so easily, however, and picks a quars rel with the young knight, only to bs himself defeated and to have the mortifi- cation of knowirg that his life has been spared by his more generous rival. For Lacey, after disarming Guibert, falls to give the fatal thrust, and sheathes his sword that it may be érawn agaln clean for the Christian cause, and not red with the biood of a countryman slaln on the dueling fieid. This is the beginning of the feud be- tween Lacey and Guibert, a struggle that Is carried from Franc: to the very walls of Jerusalem ftzelf, and lasts until th final climax and tragedy at the end of the book. Gulbert, smarting under his defeat, both at arms and in the affair of hia heart, vows to have the life of Lacey by fair means or foul. The better to further his bage ends he jolns the Crusaders and ects as a spy for the I'urks. The scene then suddenly shifts to for- elgn shores—bzitle, carnage and wild alarms. Minette goes with her father to Join the Crusadere and in finally captured by the Turks under the direction of Gui- bert. She s caved from him by the power of Azzadin, a chlef, wio falls fo love with her. Mr. Cram paints the glowing picture of the Crusaders’ trials and battles ~ with powerful strokes, but through it all brings out the complicated intricacies of his re- mance with vivid distinctness. It is on'y in the closing chapter chat the last thread is drawn and his story made complete. One other woman figrres in the book— Loulse, a character aimost as noble and interesting as that of Minette. Le Bon, Tancred and L'Enfans also play most im- portant parts and are splendid types of the courageous Crusalers, who dared their all for the sake of the cross. Here is an excerpt, the slaying of the Suifan's glant bowmen that illustrates weil Mr. Cram's virlle style: For two days the battle raged. The num- bers were unequal, but the Crusaders were un- able to employ their full strength. Each di- vision fought as best it could, and each re- gardiess of the other. On the afternoon of the Mecond day the battle raged flercoly. Le Bon was with his company of knights close to Raymond, who dealing strong blows was trying to reach Killdge-Arsian, It a de- cisive moment. Defore the swords of Bohe- mond and Tancred the stoutest Turks went down—horsc and rider altke trampled upon and crushed by the surging mass of knights who guarding himeelf with his shield. gathered about those bold chiefs. The wea- pons of Lacey and L'Enfans rang and quiversd as side by sids in the thickest of the fight they forced the stubborn, surging foe backward luto the crowded mass beyond. An arrow struck Lacey's side, and glanced from his stesl corse- let; another cut the top of his helmet. Two more shivered against the shisld of L'Entans, and then they came in clouds. The space about them had been suddenly cleared of Moslem horsemen and in. thelr front was a mionstrous Turk who, towering above all the others, was leading a thousand archers, from whose bows clouds of swift stinging messen- gers of death were fiying, his own surest and leadly of all. It was Ab Hassan, the 's bowman. “Dromme de I'atr! *‘yon glant seems a very catapult. Let us see how he will fight at closer rangs,”” and In an instant both knights dashed forward, each They seem fiying to gertain death, but vietory lay In the boldness of the desd. A moment only of dead- ly peri! and they had cleared the Intervening space, folloWed by a mcore of intrep!d souls. The foremost of the archers went down befors the shock. Horses trampled alike the dead and dying. Around Ab Hassan the angry tide roared, and still the arrows of the mighty bow- man sang sharply through the air, now ring- ing against the strong armor and now enter- ing the exposed bodies of more luckless Cru- saders. A blow from Lacey's sword knocked the bow from his hands. Another from L’Enfans’ left a long line of red upon his wide cheek, and returning, plerced his shoulder. Selzing an ax, the glant stood glaring: then the huge weapon, whirling about his head with frightful force, seemed a circle of fire enclos- ing the scarred and blood-stained face of a demon—an infernalgpicture whase passion the changing scenes of years could not efface from the memory of those who.lived through the exclaimed L'Enfans; M TURNS AUTRCR. Illustration From Minette. months that followed. Now, out from the line of knights that are ralloping forward a chieftain moves Swiftly. Straight as the bowman’s arrows he sits upon his fiying steed, and holding his long lance firmly In his right hand he clears the space, Fiding upon the mad glant as in a tournament. A hundred volces shout the name of Godfrey: and in another Instant out of the shock that followed the noble chief recofled, and still firm- Iy seated upon his horse gazed upon the dead body of the Suitan’s bowman. The chance of battle, the fats of armies, the life of nations, all hang on seeming trifies. Killdge-Arslan could not stay the wild disorder of the Turkish army, as the hitherto invinel warrior fell upon the trembiing sands, and & fore the victorious Crusaders tha hated foe fled over the plain: mor did they stop tll hid- den away among the stunted pines and rocky cliffs of the mountain miles away. And now, call it & mirage or an illusion, religious ecstasy or mental vision, an imagined appear- ance of the unreal, a fantasy, call It what you will, thers were among those pijus souls, so who, looking Int the heavens, saw an army celestial knights, with crosses and banners, move athwart the sky and fade away in fleecy clouds. (Published by John W. Tliff & Co., Chi- cago. Price 1 50.) — o+ & rapidity in arithmetical computation; see- ond, to develop the reasoning powers; and third, to make the puplls familar with the ordinary commercial applications of arith- metic. To secure this end, special at- tention has been given to clearness of ex- planation, conciscness of statement and thoroughness of drill. Each subject is introduced by carefully worded defini- tions, fgllowed by a statement of the prin- ciples fnvolved in the process to be de- veloped. After the study of the written =clution of a model example, the rule is briefly stated, and the problems bearing on the subject are then presented. These, by thelr practical character and great number and varlety, furnish the drill necessary to produce a ready skill in deai- ing with numbers. The matter through- out is carefully graded, reviews are fre- quent and a long list of miscellaneous dii- ficult problems is appended. (Price &) cents.) Teddy—Her Daughter. No books for children published since Miss Alcott’s books have won highac praise than tie two bright and whole- some books by Anna Chapin Ray, mn which Teddy and her sister Phebe are the principal characters. The new book, “Teddy: Her Daughter, 'in which the lives and doings of the McAllisters are con tinued, is likely to be received with as great favor as !ts predocessors. It is nat ural and human. Teddy's daughter, B ty, Is_the center of the story, and the wholeamily life at.the seashore is most attractively portrayed. Teddy (Theodora) as a mother is a winning, sweet woman, with high and pure id»>als for her lovab'e daughter, (Published by Little, Brown & Co., Boston. Price §120.) ' Aguinaldo. “Aguinaldo, a Narrative of Filipino Ambitions,” by Edwin Wildman. has just been published by the Lothrop Publishing Company, Boston. Americans without regard to party or principles are Interest- ed in the personality of the little ‘brown man of the Philippines who, calling to his aid the unformed forces of Orfental am- bitiop, held for a time in his hand the destinies and hepes of the Filipino peo- ple. Mr. Wildman as Vice Consul at Hongkong (under his brother, the late Rounsevelle Wildman, the United States Consul General), and also as speclal cor- respondent in the Philippines, has known the true story of Aguinaldo from the start, Personal acquaintance and contact S SO Y SR Ea Impressions Calendar 1902. Beautiivl, Practical, Good When th: Year Is Done. $i Postpald Anywhers. ~ow Elder and Shepard, 238 DOST STREET. - that the Temple edition of the * gave him opportunity to study this unique figure of the Tagalog chieftain; his sketch of Agulnaldo is reliable and it is, at the same time, a picturesque pre- zentation of a notable figure in the his- tory of American expansion. Mr. Wild- man’s beok is one of the most concise a counts of American campaigns in the Philippines from the day when Dewey's guns thundered in Manila Bay to Fun- ston’s dramatic capture of Aguinaldo and the close of the rebeilfon. The book is coplously filustrated with maps, portralits and photographs, including Filipino stamps and relies not before shown to the public. (Price $120.) — Literary Notes. Aspecial holiday edition of “The Crisls” is being prepared by the Macmillan Com- pany. The frontisplece will consist of a new portrait of the author never before published, and reproduced. in photo- gravure. - J. 8. Ogiivie, Publishing Company of New York announce for immediate pub- licatfon “The Story of Mme. Du Barry,” translated from the French by George Morehead. Mrs. Leslie Carter is an- nounced to star in the play “Mme. Du Barry,” which fact will doubtless create a demand for the book. Harper & Brothers published on No- vember 8§ the following new books: “The Portion of Labor,” by Mary E. Wilkins; “The Ballet Dancer,” by Matilde Serao, the Italian novelist, author of “The Land of Cockayne”: “In Great Waters" Thomas A. Janvier's new book of storles, and “Vietorla R. I, Her Life and Em- pire,” by his Grace the Duke of Argyll. F. M. Buckles & Co., the New York publishers, will publish #hortly in con- Junction with John Lang. the English publisher, a new novel by Fergus Hume, author of “Mystery of a Hansom Cab." Those who have read the advance sheets say that Mr. Hume has not deterlorated as a good detective story teller. This last story from his pen is called “The Mil- lionaire Mystery,” and deals with the curious and sudden disappearance of a millionaire, The Christmas number of the Delin- eator is about the first of the special Christinas issues. The cover is an artis- tic production showing = beautlfully gowned woman standing gracefully in a brilliantly lighted salon. Two charming love “stories, one by Cyrus Townsend Brady, plenty of advice regarding Christ- mas gifts, Umely pointers on cookery, winter-time care of plants, all the fash. fons of the day interpreted into simple language, can be found in the Christmas number of the Delineator. Marcel Prevost’s latest novel, translated from the French by Ellen Marriage, the well-known Balzac translator, will shortly make its American appearance in author- ized edition from the press of Thomas Y, Crowell & Co. The story Is entitled “Frederiqu and is considered his strongest and most unexceptional work. The author’s profound analysis of char- acter and tense handling of narrative are here seen at their best, The appearance of the book should arouse widespread in- terest. In view of the several editions of Bal- zac’s works which are now appearing, his readers will be interested In the news 'omedie Humaine” has just been published by the Macmillan Company In forty volumes. .Jt aprears under the editorship of Geor, Saintsbury. The first volume contain® a general introduction and classification of the novels, while each book has its special prefatory essay, The sets are bound both in cloth and limp leather and each vol- ume has an etched frontisplece. The bind- ing Is dainty, In uniform style with other Temple editions. The paper ds a little larger than the Temple classics, and from & mechanical point of view the edition is an ajtogether pleasant ome to handle and to see. The same remarks apply very largely to the Temple edition of the Bronte novels, which is co e n twelve volumes, each with photogravure frontisplece, with drawings by J. Grieg. The page is a little smaller than the Ba sac set. This set is also published in cloth and leather binding. with uncut edges. Little, Brown & Co. have also published this fall a ne® library edition of “Park- man's Life,”” a new and enlarged edition of Drake's “New England Legends,” a new edition of Hamerton’s “French Paint- ers and Paintings” and a new edition of the celebrated historical romance entitled “Cinq Mars.” They have always made a specfalty of standard sets and h Just added to their already long list a new series of Charles Lever's novels of foreign life, eleven volumes, completing the new library edition of Lever's works; the Va- lols edition of the romances of Alexandre Dumes in forty volumes, uniform with the Centenary Balzac, and a new poecket edition of the “Comedic Humaine” by, Balzac in thirty volume: —_— Books Received. THE SHRINE OF SILENCE-By Henry Frank. The Abbey Press, New York. $1350. DOCTOR JOSEPHINE — By Willis Barnes. 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