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- ) el S ol E. G. Lathrop. SEPSERSERT. SFN- SR | ALLACE IRWIN has surpassed If in his latest book of , “The Rubaiyat of Omar am Junior.” I think old Omar could have rden seat down through and studied the “Junior” it just as fully be enjoyed by the people of is just that kind of a produc- rely aside from the laughable mor of the present verses there is really & lot of good philosophy-of the practical sort to be gathered from the lines. There heve been imitations of the Ru- balvat time without number—Mr. Wal- lace Irwin's work, however, is not an imitation, but to the contrary it is quite , that will be placed upon -morrow, is very attractively ppropriately bound and the filustra- tions are in that quaint style that mark the efforts of Gelett Burgess. Mr. Irwin brings out his verses with all the pompous seriousness of a clever humorist. He writes an introduction to the poems nerrating in learned style the story of the discovery of the manuseript ©of Omear Khayyam Jr., and giving a critl- clem of the verses themselves. Consid- ering the introduction and the wotes which have been added to clear away the fog of abstruse passages it is hard to tell which is the better humor, the verses or their explanation—fortunately we are wel- come to beth, for one would not be com- plete without the other. Omar Jr. is & folly dog, whose phil- osophy of life comes to him through the bluish mist of tobscco smoke as he sits back in his easy chair and courts the Goddess Nicotine. Read & lttle of the introduction and meet the young Omar through his his- torian “Omar Khayyam died in of the eleventh century, having sold his with the proceeds of hed taverns throughout Omar v, but the early part t h lived t a fanatical and literall he ave wished e the Volcanic Singer was seated in the shade of a banyan tree fresh cigars and abandoned stumps sur— roundin, like the littie hills that elimb t! he nodded and fell ep. puffing lustily at a panatella, sweet and black. Now the poet’s beard was long and his sleep deep, and as the weed grew shorter with each ecstatic puff the little brand of fire drew closer &nd closer to the beautiful hairy mantle thet fell from the poet’s chin. That day the island was wrapped in a light gauze of blue mist, an exotic smoke that was a biessing to the nostrils. It suffused the whole island from end to end and re- minded th bheppy Inhebitants of the cigars of Nirvana, grown in some Planta- tion of the Blessed. When the smoke hadspessed and our heads were cleared of the narcotic fumes we hastened to the £pot where our good master had loved to eit; but there naught remained but a great heap of white ashes sitting among the pipes and cigurs that had inspired his son, Thus he died as he lived, an an- smoker."” Irwin's verses have all the zip and perfect spontaneity, and the time and thought to examine them you will see that they were written with the greatest care and painstaki v reading is generally bard writix quite interesting in this connection pare the work of Omar Jr. with of Omer the old. Mr. Irwin takes the original verse and gives a twist here one day Mr $° to them of yet if you take end a twist there, keeping the meter, sometimes a or two, sometimes the sense for a while, and then, presto! a new stanza _is ed out that pleases the and—you read on to the is & verse from Omar: »af of bread beneath the bough, A fissk ine, & book of verse—and thou Besi ging in the wilderness— And w ess is paradise enow. Now comes Omar, Jr. with the follow- Chinese gong, and thou m off the key— wilderness enow! “Love Sonnets of a Hood- at was published some time ago, made & greai hit both here and in the East, but requires no prophet to fore- ity of Omar Khayyam Jr. Irwin’s Chambers’ Cyclopaedia of English Literature. sreatest practical value and the general reader as lopaedia of Eng- w edition of which 1ed under the able editor- atrick, LL.D. As § it is in every way *4 and biograph sh tongue from A work of tk the with specimens slume 1 has just been earliest ss of W. & R. Limited, London and Edin- the J. B. Lippincott Company, Price $5. rticles in the volume are ht and are from the own writers as Stop- A. Brooke. Alfred William Pollard, Ipk of the Wasall I'] Dumbly he saw the rosy-tinted Bliss Wher Zamperina kissed her maiden Kiss, Her Innocence betraying in the Cry, “Oh, how can you respect me after This? " Virginia for the Pipe’s sweet Charity, Havana for Cigars to solace ime) And Turkey for the transient Cigarette = earned of my Geography. $ o \3 3 COPYRIGHTED, 1902, BY ELDER AND SHEPARD Original design by Grlett Zurgess of quatrains selecled from Wallate Frinin's *“ Omar Khayyam, Fr.” Published by Elder and Shepard, San Francisco Some clamour much for Ki Others deep sup, ‘And mumble into Maunderings, M i Kissing, Another Time, all dalfiant and -slow, To those deluscious Lips 1 bended low, And at'the Second Kiss she only said, but I, scori the How. A Microbe lingers in a Kiss, you say? Yes, but he nm'in a ;;lensznc VVny. Rather than in the Cup and Telcphone Bettes to catch him Kissing and be gay, at though Gorgona at the Portal knocks nd charms the squamiest Serpent in her Locks 2w I wear tobacchanalian Wreaths of Smoke And there are more Perfectos'in the Box: Lee, Edmund Gosse, Sidney Andrew Samuel R. Gardiner, A. H. Bullen, aintsbury, etc. There is no doubt that English literature has accomplished more than the sword or the machine, and, covering as it does a f over 1400 years, it is no k to familiarize ourselves with flowe of still, considering {ts mportance it i study that is g of the deepe tention. As time advances tae need for a guide and help becomes more and more neces- sary ch a one was devised and suc- essfully carried into effect when Dr. Robert Chambers compiled a “Cyclopae- dia of English Literatu it: the first of kind in Britain. The plan for this wa laid In 1841, and Dr. Chambers was sisted by his friend Dr. Robert Carruth- ers of Inverness. The work appeared in two volumes in 1844 and was brought down to date and reprinted in 1858. It was revised and extended under the charge of Dr. Carruthers in 1876; and a fourth re- issue, pgain incorporating new matter, took place a dozen years later. But a keener interest in the older literature and a fuller knowledge of it, new facts, new theories and new light on a thousand peints, the increasing supply of new ma- terials for selection, the continued activ- ity of accepted authors, the rise of new and brilllant stars, and all that is im- plied in the unabated continuity of the literary life of the nation, have rendered necessary a much more thoroughgoing revision and reconstruction, This new edition is Intended to supply this want. It is now sixty years since Dr. Chambers began work on the first, and many things have happened in the world of letters. In the present edition, of which this volume is the first to appear, it is announced that the essential plan will be retained, but In 2 more broadened and perfected way. Of course in a work of this kind it can- not be nor is it the intention to give a perfect knowledge of the author under discussion. This encyclopedia is, as it were, a finger post to peint out the av- crage achievement of the man, to give his weak points as well as his good, and also to direct a line of reading”that will form an acquaintance with the least pos- sible waste of time or energy. Judging from the character of the first volume, if the two that are to follow keep to the standard made by their predecessor, the set will prove an invaluable one. The selections are all of the very best, and be- sides illustrating the work of the writer under consideration are in general worth meny readings for themselves; so these books should really constitute a library. To quote from the preface of Mr. Pat- rick will give us an idea more directly concerning this first volume just issued: “In this first volume old English Ilit- erature as a whole and all the writers who used to be called Anglo-Saxon— Caedmon, Baeda, Aelfred and the rest— are dealt with by Dr. Stopford Brooke. Mr. A. W. Pollard has charged himself with Middle English and almost all the writers down to Reformation times— Layamon, the Ormulum, the Chronicles and Romances, Piers Plowman, Chaucer and his successors, Wyelif, Mallory and the Morwe d’Arthur, the Miracle-Plays, Heyweod, all, yatt and Surrey. There are essays from the pen of Mr. Gosse on the Elizabethan Sonnet-Cycles; as also on Sir Philip Sidney the poet, Spenser, Webster, Ford and Shirley. Mr. Goesse has also revised, as amended and retained from the old edition, the articles on Ben Jonson, Donne, Wither, Carew, Herrick, Lovelace, Suckling, Crashaw, Vaughan, D’Avenant and Cowley. Shakes- peare is by Mr. Sidney Lee. To Dr. Sam- uel Rawson Gardiner we owe the discus- sion on the Puritan movement. Mr. A. H. Bullen has described for us the Res- toration literature, and has revised Beau- mont and Fletcher, Middleton, Marston and Massinger. Professor Saintsbury’s contribution to the first volume is on Professor Hume Brown has James 1. Knox and Buchanan; > Neflson on Huchown, and Dr. T. 8. Law on the Scots Wyclifite Testa- ment and Archbishop Hamiston's Cate- chism.” The Blazed Trail. Below we give an excerpt from Stewart Edward White’s latest story, “The Blazed Trail.” 1In it is described the bumsting of a log jam and it is a fine example of the forceful writing in which Mr. White shows himself such an adept. This novel, published by McClure, Phillips & Co., New York, is one of the rqmarkable books of the year. It gives a splendid picture of frontier life: the struggles of the pioneer woodsman in the forest ‘wildernesses. Aside from the attraction in the general character of the work there is the added interest of a single strong theme In the adventures of Harry Thorpe. Young Thorpe suffers from a visitation of the sins of the father upon the son. He has been driven from civilization to a life in the wilderness to seek seclusion where the fact of his father’s crime of embezzlement has not reached. It is the usual story of perseverance finally crowned with suc- cess; but so well told that it comes to the reader as a field refreshingly mew. Here is the selection from it mentloned above: “Down the bed of the stream from the upper bend rushed a solid wall of water several feet high. It flung itself forward with the headlong impetus of a cascade. Even in the short interval between the visitor's exclamation and Carpenter's rapid gesture, it had loomed -in sight, twisted a dozen trees from the river bank and foamed into the entrance of the gorge. An instant later it collided with the tafl of the jam. “Even in the railroad rush of those few moments several things happened. Thorpe leaped for a rope. The crew working on top of the jam ducked instinctively to right and left and began to scramble to- ward safety. The men below, at first be- wildered and not comprehending, finally understood, and ran toward the face of the jam with the Intention of clambering up it. There would be no escape in the narrow canyon below, the walls of which rose sheer. “Then the flood hit square. It was the impact of irresistible power. A great sheet of water rose like surf from the tail of the jam; a mighty cataract poured down over its surface, lifting the free logs; from either wing timbers crunched, split, rose suddenly into wracked promi- nence, twisted beyond the semblance of themselves. Here and there single logs were even projected bodily upward, as an apple seed is shot from between the thumb and forefinger. Then the jam moved. “Seotty Parsons, Jack Hyland, Red Jacket and the forty or fifty top men had reached the shore. By the wriggling ac- tivity which is a riverman’'s alone, they succceded in pulling themselves beyond the snap of death’s jaw. It was a narrow thing for most of them and a miracie for some. “Jimmy Powers, Archie Harrls, Long Pine Jim, Big Nolan and Mike Maloney, the brother of Bryan, were in the worst case. They were, as has been said, en- gaged in ‘flattening’ part of the jam about eight or ten rods below the face of it. When they finally understood that the affalr was one of escape, they ran toward the jam, hoping to climb out. Then the crash came. They heard the roar of the waters, the wrecking of the timbers, they saw the logs bulge outward in anticipa- tion of the break. Immediately they turned and fled, they knew not where. “All but Jimmy Powers. He stopped shert in his tracks and threw his battercd cld felt hat defiantly full into the face of the destruction hanging over him. Then, his Lright hair blowing in the wind of Ceath, he turned to the spectators stand- ing heipless and paralyzed, forty feet above him. v “It was an instant's impression—the ar- rested motion seen in a flash of lightning —uand yet to the onlookers it had some- how the value of time. For perceptible duration it seemed to them they starefl ai the contrast between the raging hell above and the yet peaceable river bed below. They were destined to remember that picture the rest of their natural lives in such detail that each ome of them could almost have reproduced-it photo- phically by simply closing his eyes. Yet afterward, when they attempted ‘to recall definitely the impression, they knew it could have lasted but a fraction of a second, for the reason that, clear and dis- tmet in each man’s mind, the images of the fleeing men retained definite atti- tudes. It was the instantaneous photog- raphy of events. “‘So long, bo; they heard Jimmy Powers' voice. Then the rope Thorpe had thrown fell across a caldron of tortured waters and of tossing logs.” Margaret Bowlby. ““Margaret Bowlby,” by Edgar L. Vin- cent, might well be named *“The Politi- clan,” for while it is a story of love it is also a story of politics. The hero, Robert Kemp, is a young mine superintendent, who has grown up from poverty. He is eager to improve the condition of his men, and, seeking a nomination for the lower house of the Legislature, is beaten in caucus by his employer,. Captain Bowlby, the owner of the mine. Captain Bowlby has a daughter, Margaret, who is in love with Kemp, and, out of sympathy with him for his defeat, secures Robert’s nomi- nation for the Senate. In the Senate Rob- ert succeeds in defeating the machine, and leads a fight against it for the election of United States Senator. It is a long, hard struggle. The machine men get hold of Captein Bowlby and cajole him into supporting the machine candidate. Money is brought into use, and a trap is laid for Robert’s undoing; but his side finally whis. Robert is rewarded by Margaret's lgve, a partnership with the captain and an election as Governor of the State. The major part of the story is laid in the State capital and among politicians. The author is at home there, having had extensive experience as a member of the New York State Legislature. The plot is well-defined and sustained to the end. It has many dramatic situations. The inner’ workings of the “machine” are eclearly depicted. (Published by the Lothrop Pub- lishing Co., Boston. Price $1 50.) Captain Jinks. Ernest Crosby fis the author of a bit of satire presented in novel form under \P the title of “Captain Jinks, Hero.” Mr. Crosby takes the subject of waras a tar- get for his shafts, and devotes himself particularly to the recent Spanish-Ameri- can difficulty. The author makes some very telling hits in more than one in- stance, and his book has already awaken- ed considerable discussion. He rides over the staff of a military system roughshod, to say nothing of sending some well-aimed shafts after political corruption and methods crooked and dishonest. There is no particular effort on the part of Mr. Crosby to confine himself to the ethics of literary style; but he hammers away right royally and with good effect, which is probably all that he hopes for. Sam Jinks is.the hero of the story. From earliest childhood his dreams are to be- come a soldier, and when he finally gets into “East Point” there is good chance for the author to give the old question of hazing a warm greeting. Later, Jinks goes to war with his friend, a cor- Do you do This to- Every Gi you Know?® sses, some for Few, sheir Thirsting to-renew, ch for the Wiy Again she -Butat = Unto that figwery Cup' I bent once miore ;= the. Third Xiss all she asked or wist Was, “Is This aJl you Come'to See me For?" Havana’s Witch-fog murks my Horoscope Until my dream-enamoured Senses grope Towards the Light, where in her opal' Shrine Smiles Hopcfulness, the great Reward of Hope| no seeming to abhor, respondent of “The Lyre,” and becomes at once the “boom child” of that paper— on all occasions his name Is well to the head of the columns of that megaphone sheet. Finally Jinks returns home with all his boom popularity gone and is left to die in an insane asylum, going over his past glories with a collection of leaden soldiers. Dan Beard has done the illustrations in a very creditable and characteristic manner. The book-is pub- lished by Funk & Wagnalls Company, New York. Price $150. The Coronation. A most timely book has just come to us frcm the press of. D. Appleton & Co., New York—“The Pageant and Ceremony of the Coronatfon of Their Majesties King Edward the Seventh and Queen Alexandra® The volume will be found equally valuable to those who are fortu- nate enough to see the coronation and to those who must content themselves with ‘written accounts, for it forms a complete compendium of the coronation rites and ceremcnies and state pageant. The author has had unusual® facilities for making it authoritative, so it will prove quite valuable as a handy work of refer- ence. The colored illustrations will be fcund especially useful in giving the proper idea of the regalia. The book consists of three parts: Part 1-The accession and proclamation, etc., of the King, including various impor- tent matters incident to the first year of his Majesty's reign. Part 2—The grand event of the coronation itself. Part 3— The rite and ceremony in St. Peter's Ab- bey Church of Westminster. The author, Charles Eyre ' Pascoe, pregdicts that the old form as practiced in 1838 will be fol- lowed as nearly as possible. This is add- ed in a fourth part or appendix to the velume, in which is given “The Form and Order of the Service and Ceremonies Ob- served in the Coronations in the Abbey Church of St. Peter, Westminster.” The price of the book is $1 40. The Gate of the Kiss. “The Gate of the Kiss,” by John W. Harding, is a Biblical story dealing with one of the most eventful passages in the history of Judah—the war between Heze- kiah, the King, and Sennacherib, the ter- rible ruler of Babylon. The prophet Isaiah is one of the conspicuous figures. But ths hero 1s a younger man, a poet and soldier of noble lineage, Naphtali, a favorite at court and a friend of the King, altogether a fine type of Jewish manhood. Sennacherib is envious of Judah's wealth and power and is plotting against Hezekiah, using as tools the reactionary idol worshipers, still strong in Jerusa- lem. Naphtali is enamored of one of the Assyrian conspirators, Miraone, a mar- velously beautiful woman, who has been proscribed in Jerusalem for playing the art of Ashtaroth at an idolatrous orgy. She adroitly blinds the Jewish noble to her real character, and he is surprised while making love to her at a.rendezvous by one of his comrades, Talmon, a mili- tary officer, to, whom Miraone’s real na- ture and purpose have been revealed by Vashti, one of her servants. This maiden has fallen in love with Naphtali and tries to save him from impending disaster. Talmon is killed in the struggle which en- sues, and Miraone is saved from captiv- ity. Naphtali is blind to the truth and bears her to his house as his wife. There she has every advantage to continue the plotting against Judah, and in a great battle the Assyrian hosts defeat the King and Sennacherib encompasses Jerusalem. Meanwhile Naphtali has been deathly il of a fever, and recovering learns from Vashti, the servant, who loves him, the true character of his wife. Miraone es- capes to Babylon, becoming the favorite of the King there. Naphtali swears vengeance, and proceeds with the de- — voted Vashti to Babylon, where he kills Miraone in the presence of the King. The faithful Vashti, whose unrequited love for her lord is the most beautiful ele- ment in the story, saves him and herself from the tortures by entreating a kiss as her last favor from Naphtali, when, with a vial of poison concealed in her lips, she releases both from the terrible ordeal (Published by the Lothrop Publishing Company, Boston. Price $1 50.) Literary Notes. B. Connolly, the son of a New skipper, who went to the Greek and won a first prize, will have an- other of graphic sea sketches in the June Scribner’s, this one describing a trip “On a Baltic Sea Sloop.” Mr. Connolly has now pictured the three great groups of ishermen—Gloucester, North Sea and Baltie. ‘“‘The Brook Book™ is making its timely appearance from the press of Doubleday, Page & Co. with many beautiful illustra- tions. In it Mary Regers Miller under- takes to give a first acquaintance with all sorts of wild life and things that exist or center their life In and about the streams of forest and meadow. The nar- rative begins with May and follows the changing year with the never ending va- riety and fascination of real out-door life. “Motors and Motor Driving,” in the ‘Badminton Series of Sports and Pas- times,” which Little, Brown & Co. have just published in this country, is a 450- page book written by Alfred C. Harms- worth, with contributions by other emi- nent Englishnren. The book describes fully the various kinds of automobiles, is finely illustrated and contains a glossary of terms. Thomas Bailey Aldrich will contribute to the June Century “A Note oa ‘L’Aiglon,” " calling attention to a curious resemblance between the Wagram battle- field scene in Rostand’s play and a pass- age in Victor Hugo's deseription of Wa- terloo in “Les Miserables.” Mr. Aldrich also relates his own impressions on the latter field, illustrating the spell of the historic event there enacted. Dodd, Mead & Co. will publish, early in the fall, & new romance by Marie Corelli, the manuscript of which is nearly com- pleted. The story is said to be a singularly powerful and striking one, dealing with a subject which has never before been treated in fiction and intimately touching on certain topics which have been for some time uppermost in the minds of mauny people. The title i at present with- held. We have before us numbers two and three of *“‘Les Arts,” for March and April. They will both be found valuable to those interested in the treasures that the gal- leries hold and in the works of the old masters and the later lights as well. “Les Arts” is published in France, but the American edition is provided with Eng- lish text for the benefit of those who are not familiar with the foreign tongue. Messrs. Manzi, Joyant & Co. are to be complimented upon the exceilence of their publication. Price, 50 cents per number. The May number of the Patriotic Re- view cannot fail to please all members of the various patriotic organizations—as it gives reports of the annual meetings of most of them—notably those of the S. A. R, D. R. and M. O. F. W. It also con- tains a suitable Memorial day artiele on “Our Homored Dead” and sketches of General Stark and Jefferson Davis. The half-tones are exceptionally fine, one be- ing a very recemt portrait of Mary A. Livermore. M. H. Brazier & Co., pub- lishers, Trinity Court, Boston, Mass. There could hardly be a better man to write about the coming coronation of King Edward than the Duke of Argyll, whose article on the subject appears in the Youth's Companion for May 15. & ing tn his own right at the he . Scottish aristoeracy, brother £ King Edward through marriage v Princess Loulse, familiar by years in the Governor Generalship ada with the American point of view not only has a firm grasp of facts, sees their significance to the J public. The late Frank R. Stockton, rep g to iticized . . “Kate Bonnet,’ id “You are mistake supposing that Captain Steve Bonnet of Barb: fictitious character. The story, in history, is even more out of y and surprising than I have mad Ny book. His daughter s a yo of my own creation, but Bonne real character. ‘The pirate Blackbeard was also a real personage, and many of his acts were far too wild and fantastical to be embodied in flction. His seizure of Bonnet's vessel 18 described in the annals of the times where his subsequent connection with Blackbeard, as I have related it, may be found. The battle in the Cape Fear River between the three grounded vessels is da- scribed in the historical records of South Carolina. “ ‘Kate Bonnet' was not intended as ar historical novel nor as a burlesque upon one, but some of its main characters and incidents belong to the history of the piratical days of the early part of the eighteenth century.” The Smart Set for June opens with a novelette by Gertrude Lynch, entitled ““The Fighting Chance.” This story is as interesting as it is valuable. It presents a vivid picture of a phase in the life of an honest statesman, and the theme Ia treated with great skill by an author ‘whose personal experiences enable her to write luminously of department life ‘Washington. The love intereat in the story is fascinating, while the plot is ab- solutely distinctive, as original as it is satisfying. 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