The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 3, 1904, Page 7

THE SAN FRANCISCO SUND:\Y CALL. A Brief Review of Late Fiction P the novel season Iis floodgates of fiction a brief rid has a and take has been for the diately h reading ks of the » character- no’ one work h prominently the year.- It cannot be Kipl So th- a movel by has been the On’ the contrary many good things twelvemonth. but r 1 the products of the tho n riveners it can be justly doubted whether ten will be read ten years hence. Be it not understood, however, that any disparagement is Intended to be sum total- of the year's There have beer some excel- oks writter stro. = "authors; so appeared to view some H ence wells ex have book p there ten been there have the New veins and old ones The season’s distinctive but hard- futu developed 1 new manner been the best books, which admits of as as there are oximation which pon “this po! y ihe respective s g works-of fiction. Shepherd of King- een da- onors with Marion Craw- * Jack London's the Fy ved a ‘most ghout E e ‘best sellers of the \'s “Hetty Wesley,” e of the Pas- “The Long ing's “Yellow 1 well up in the lead fiction. sea has been productive least is “The’ Call "of flatte: »" been arous- political persistent as it is, and ee " hundred We elves .now— »gical con- The Pit,” Brewster's elf-made to His Son"—these haveé tak- from the Tomantic stories of ‘two or three years back. The few teles of romance ‘which have found market this' year have beeh more er Jess fallures. Despite the announce- ment of one of the-old line magazines that they would not have any “timely” articles for 1904, timeliness of - spirit seems to be the feature of the leading books of the day. nple of the political riovel i8 “The Chasm,” by Reginald Wright Keuffmann -~and Edward Chfids Carpenter. Though the marks of collaboration are often too evident— the one making up the situations and the other doing the dialogue—the joint efforts of the two authors have resulted in a very remarkable book. The tale deals with the great love of & man for his son and the curdling of this love into gall by the action of son in allying himself with the y which is opposing his father in The father is Larry O’Brien, idealized political boss ild hardly be encounter- e of book covers. For he re- ff a ballot-box when the ng seems fully ripe, and of hanor.in dealing even chinations of the party ust him from power. mprobable &8 the charac- O’Brien seems to be, the ave made him the cen- le of love and ballots. love element is too strong: tes the political thread to xtent thas the reader is really more anxious over the outcome of ien's affairs with Miss Van Drell t Of the State election. The )n ¢ one gains from “The hasm” fs that the authors had only knowledge of the inside gs of the political fnachine, and used that until it was hard- A very good exa the New York; price n & Co., H. Spearmari, the writer of ies, has produced a tale ng in parts in “The Daugh- unate.” He should have di- el into three or four short js too easy to see where the main incidents of the book are ridged over by -somewhat laborious commonplaces in order that a sem- ce of continuity may be preserved. ries in railroading. Even the an can see where all sorts of situ- ations can be evolved from blockades in the snow, mistakes of train dispatch- ers and the like. With his intimate knowledge of the workings of a great railroad system, the author has utfl- ized these dramatic possibilities to great advantage, and the climax in his latést story is as powerful as anything A FREDERICK. TREVOR AUTHOR OF *THE WEPR* COPYRIGNT which has been written this year. To gratifty the capriclous whim of a rail- road president’s daughter Spearman makes - his hero, a constructing en- gineer, order out a special to carry the lady seme sixty odd miles ‘through a Colorado .blizzard. How the power of the storm forced them to discard the lady’s car and cafry her over a ticklish piece of track in the cab of the engine ts told with true dramatic force by the author. But there are some very painful drags in the story, which detract greatly from its interest. The author allows > dilate to such an extent on single subsidia: incident that the thread of the story resumed only after an unbridged break in the narra- tive. In his technical phraseology Spear- man falls into the same error which is is so generally complained of by read- ers-of Kipling. He takes it for granted that his' reader knows all about the werking parts of an engine, the stays of a railroad bridge or the intricacies of telegraphy, and rattles off his tech- nical terms so glibly that the unini- tiated " are handicapped in their race with the auther—if they be conscien- tiouys—by the weight of a Webster's unabridged. _ (Charles Scribner’'s Sons, New York; trated; price $1 50.) Another very readable book of mod- ern’ life is “The Web,” by Frederick Trevor Hill. There are few novels writ- ten around the law which have the er to catch and hold interest, but Web” is assuredly one of these. It presents in graphic style the flerce strain of competition existing in the profession, and it has the further at- traction of revealing to .the layman = of the methods which serve to the web about the unfortunate spin itigant who has had the temerity to approach the bar-of justice for redress Mr. Hill's story deals with the mach- ations of a powerful corporation in efforts to defraud a young woman her stock in the concern. A battle rs, the maligning of a woman's air name and a near approach to trag- dre some of the features of this forceful portrayal of the drama of mod- ern day life (Doubleday, Page & Co., strtated; price $1 50.) New York, | Noll Recounts Story of Mexico HE recent reported attempt upon the life of Pr Porfirio Diaz of Mexico and the persistent ru- mors of that sagacious ruler's resignation from the place which he has 80 ably filled -have adduced specu- latiop upon what political turn wiil take place in our sister republic when the present strong hand has been re- moved from the helm, and much inter- est has attached itself of late to affairs beyond the Rio Grande as a conse- quence, Particularly timely, therefore, are the two books upon Mexican na- tional life by Arthur Howard Noll, “A Short History of Mexico” and "“From Empire to Republic.” The first of these two will be recognized as a revision of a former work by the same author, made up to date and more suitable for present-day reading; the latter is a companion book, dealing more in detail with the crucial periods of Mexico's struggle for good goverrgment. Though much the same conditions of birth and growth. surrounded the rise of the Mexican state as those associated with the turbulent lives of some of the minor states of Central and South America, the progress of Mexico toward a firmly based nationality has not been marked by so much of the opera bouffe politics and black-legged tours de force which have made the nanies of some of .the mosquito republics a byword among the family of nations. In deal- ing with the life story of the cactus republic Mr. Noll has had opportunity te trace the history of cause and effect among a people. whose every instinct has been one of striving for the ideal in things political. That our neighbors on the south achleved a good govern- ment only after long struggle and many vicissitudes is aptly shown by the au- thor to be the results of long years of domineering Spanish rule. In his first somewhat sketchy review of the whole history of Mexico Noll finds much of the romantic to narrate. The story of the Invasion of Mexico by the Aztecs, the bullding of their curi- ous cities on the shores of Lake Tez- cuco, their conflicts and final subjuga- tion at the cruel hands of the Spaniards makes good reading from the pen of the author. Of the grinding times of the Viceroys, the overthrow of the Spanish power, the reyolt of Texas and ensuing war with the United States and the short-lived empire of Maximilian Noll detalls the leading events. His smaller work on Mexican history is in brief an excellent work for the casual informa- tion of a busy man. The success of the earlier history by dent '9OB DOUBLEDAY Padk & SU) il Mr. Noll inducea him to attempt a more scholarly rewiew of the struggle for a constitutional government on the part of the people whose history he has selected as his fleld. This volume seeks to follow the growth of the Mexican idea of nationality from the time of the lifting of the Spanish yoke down to the present so-called republican form of government, which has its fountain- head in Porfirio Diaz. Few mations have experienced more political calamities before attaining unto a knowledge of principles of gov- ernment by the people than Mexico. The oppressive rule of Spain and the exactions of the inquisition so crushed the energies of the Mexicans that when they were free to govern them- selves the spirit of nationality was twisted into a hundred various chan- nels playing at cross-purposes with one another. Yet, too prolific and enter- prising to be destroyed by its own war- ring factions, - Mexico K succeeded in learning through abuse the privileges of self-government, and she is now in the heyday of her political salvation. The author devotes considerable at- tention to the kaleidoscopic changes of government during the formative pe- riod of the Mexican state in order to trace the underlying spirit of good gov- ernment and note the oross-currents of charlatanism which found their brief support from narties yet new to things pelitical. Considerable space is devoted to thée present position of the orthodox Catholic church in the southern state and the antagonistic spirit existing be- tween church and state. (A Short History of Mexico, A. C. Mec- ‘Clurg & Co., Chicago; price 75 cents.) (From Empire to Republic, by the same publisher; price $1 40.) NE very cheering thought can be adduced from the holiday book American Art - and Donatello O trade, and that is that standard works upon the fine arts have had a more ready acceptance than ever be- fore. Should this prove to be not a passing fancy, but the beginnings of a sincere regard for art. outside of the charmed circle of the ultra esthetic and an indication that in the “land of dol- lars” there is to be a solid appreciation of that which lifts the thoughts of men ier planes, surely we have just cause for self-congratulation. As hap- py earnest of this seeming advance in the esthetic appreciation of Americans witness the wide popularity of “Ameri- can Sculpture,” by the eminent Ameri- can sculptor, Lorado Taft, and Lord Balearres' “Donatello.” The.one a crit- iclsm of the great master of the Re- naissance and the other a history of the upbullding of a distinctly American school of plastic art, the two works may be considered as handbooks upon two widely different but equally distinctivi art epochs. ¢ Lorado Taft undertakes to trace from its beginning the advance of the sculp- tor’s art in this country, showing the varlous influences tending to mold its course and the personal stamp left upon it by those whose work has been con- gldered representative. Though unstint- ing In his criticism of some of the slip- shod productions of earlier and even more recent sculptors, Mr. Taft sounds a very hopeful note of prophecy for the future of American sculpture. He is certain that we now possess an art which attains to the dignity of a na- tional expression and which can take its place along with the Italian and French as a distinct school. Reviewing in detail the works of Hou- don, Cerrachi and Willlam Rush, the first native born American sculptor, Taft passes on to give Hiram Powers of the “Greek Slave" fame a careful study. This man, who, of all the for- mer American sculptors, dared brave the wrath of the blue stockings and produce a nude figure, holds the place of father of trye plastic art in Ameri according tot“.fi. ) The Centennial the author marks as being the one great impetus which was glven to American sculpture, Since that time, through the earnest strivings of such as Saint Gaudens, French, Mac- Monnies and that vigorous pioneer into new fields, Barnard, much has been achieved. So aptly has Taft com- bined the elements of criticism and narrative in his work that the artistic proportions remain in nice balance. Over a hundred excellent half-tones il- lustrate the text in a very adequate manner. Lord Balcarres’ appreciation of the sculpture of Donatello, the great Flor- entine, is more of an artist's book than a work for general reading. Himself an expert critic and art antiquarian, the author has devoted his work to a complete survey of all the compositions credited to Donatello, corroborating or taking exception to established opinion on these mooted points and furnishing minute criticism upon all of the classic pleces of statuary. So intertwined are the historics of all the great truth painters and truth carvers of the Ren- aissance that Lord Balearres has, per- force, dwelt upon the work and influ- ence of Michael Angelo and Leonardo da Vincl: ‘ever interesting reading to those with an eye to the beautiful and an appreciation of transcending genius. Donatello’s limitations in comparison to Michael Angelo the author very free- 1y admits. He says: “Donatello was pledged to no system and his only canon, if such existed, was the canon of observation matured by technical ability. We have no reason to suppose that Donatello claimed to be a deep thinker. He did not spend his time, like Michael Angelo, in devising theories to explain ‘the realms of art. He was without analytical pedantry, and, like his character, his work was nalve and.direct.” (“American Sculpture,” The Maec- millan Company, New York: illgg- trated; price, $6. “Donatello,” import- ed by Charles Scribner's Sons, New York; fllustrated; price, $2.) Zionist Order and Its Plans VERY important centribution to contemporary thought Is “the publieation of “Zionism and Anti-Semitism,” two' essays by Max Nordau and Gustav Gotthell, the eminent Jewish philosophical writers. This little volume is the latest word up- on the supremely interesting movement ynow in progress looking to a rehabilita- tion of the ancient Jewish state in Pal- estine, and the position which the Hebralc race now holds in the countries of Europe. It comes from men who are acknowledged as being two of the most profound thinkers of their race., The growing atrocities In the realms of the Czar, which are making the position of the Jew in all Europe more and more untenable, lend to these two ys an added interast of timeliness. Nordau opens his monograph on Zionism with a characterization of the various attitudes of the modern Jew toward the religion of anclent Israel. Though he.pleads at the outset that his writing 1s to be dispassionate, Nordau waxes exceedingly wroth’ with the tenets of Reformed Judalsm and with “ the unbelleving Jew. The Messianic be- liever whose mystic conception of a re- stored Jerusalem can have no part in the eminently practical scheme for a Jewish state, Nordau dismisses with a word. “Zionism,” says Nordau, “is the ef- fect of two impulses which came from without—first, the principle of nation- ality, which for half a century ruled thought and feeling in Burcpe and gov- erned the politics of the world; second- RIT 1y, Anti-Semitism, trom which the Jews of all countries have more or less to suffer.” These then are the two impelling forces which are working toward a re- united Judea. That the spirit of hard common sense instead of reilgious mys- ticism moves the Zionists in their labors Nordau shows to be true by detailing the progress of the Zionist Congresses, which have been held In Europe from time tq time sinc2 1897. Nordau admits that the Zionists have a work before them which has scarcely had an equal in the history of the world, but he is sanguine of ulti- mate success. In his essay on “Anti-Semitism,” Dr. Gottheil has endeavored to give dispas- sionately the causes for the persecution of his race In Burope. He explains the innate characteristics of the Hebrew, which make him clannish and hence despised by his Gentile neighbors. He frankly confesses to some of the Jewish weaknesses which tend to bring perse- cution upon his own head. But the es- sayist concludes his argument by a re- view of the Jews' steriing traits, which enable them to bear the burden which has been theirs since the shadow tell over Calvary HillL (Scott-Thaw Company, New York.) The Magazines of Coming Year ARPER’'S promises for the new yéar a variety and quality of con# tributions and contributors which it will be hard to outdo. First of the serials of the year to come is “Sir Mortimer,” by Miss Mary Johnston, begun in the November num- ber. Those to follow are new novels by Mrs. Humphry Ward and Sir GI- bert Parker. At least eight short stories dre promised for each number. Mark Twain, W. D. Howells, Robert W. Chambers and Thomas A. Janvier will write exclugively for Harper's, and sgme of the contributors of fiction are Maurice Hewlett, Edith Wharton, Booth Tarkington, Octave Thanet, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Margaret Deland, Willlam N. Harben, Mary R. Shipman Andrews, Elizabeth 8. P. Ward, Sara Jeanette Duncan, Alice Brown, Stewart E. White, John K. Bangs and Ruth McEnery Stuart. The Century says much when |t promises its readers for 1904 a wealth of regding and pictures that surpass its own record of the year just finish- ing. A somewhat daring excursion in literature, and that conceived in a se- rious spirit, will be Dr. 8. Welr Mitch- ell's “The Youth of Washington,” in which Dr. Mitchell represents Wash- ington, in his old age at Mount Vernon, as writing an autoblography for his own eye alone. Other serial fiction will include Jack London's new novel, “The Sea Wolf,” and “Four Roads to Para- dise,” by Mrs. Maud W. Goodwin, while among the writers of shorter stories will be David Gray, Gouver- neur Morris, Albert B. Paine, J. J. Bell (author of “Wee MacGreegor), E. L. Sabin and Roy Rolfe Giison. Edith ‘Wharton will contribute a series of articles on “Itallan Villas and Their Gardens,” which will be {llustrated largely in color by Maxfield Parrish, and Ernest Thompson Seton will write about “Fable and Woodmyth” and {l- lustrate the article himself. Scribner's Magazine never allows Its fiction to crowd out more serious mat+ ter, and at the head of its list of con- tributions for 1904 stands “The War of 1812, in which Captain A. T. Mahan adds much of value to the history of that struggle. The articles are illus- trated by Henry Reuterdahl and Carl- ton T. Chapman. Frank A. Vanderlip, once Assistant Secretary of the Treas- ury, writes of “European Political Problems of Interest to America,” and Professor Walter Wyckoff about “The Paris Workingman,” upon the strength of knowledge acquired by living his subject. In the way 2 FRANKE W SPEAKMAN ‘THE DAUGHTER OF A AU THOR. OF A~ TIAGNATE © husband was Minister to England (1848-50); “A Young Girl's View of Court Life,” being letters of the two daughters of Edward Everett, Minister to England from 1841 to 1845, and “Family Letters of Thomas Jefferson,” from originals now in the possession of Dr. Francis E. Shine, Mr. Jefferson's great-great-grandson. The letters deal with Mr. Jefferson’s views on education and are annotated by Wilson Miles Cary of Baltimore. . Without neglecting the lighter fea- tures, McClure’s Magazine has set itself to furnish needed information on burn- Ing questions of the hour, or, more ex- actly-speaking, on what is back of and underlies these questions. So Miss Ida M. Tarbell will proceed with Part 2 of the “History of the Standard Ofl Com- pany,” and cap her contributions to the epic of oil with a character sketch of John D. Rockefeller as protggonist. Lincoln Steffens will write on “The Misgovernment of States” and on “The Enemles of the Republic”; Ray S. Baker will be a frequent contributor on the labor question and its ramifications, Involving and complicating as they do all other questions, and Thomas N. Page will deal with the negro question. Jacob A. Rlis will write about Miss Jane Addams and settlement work. For the new year the publishers promise serials by Henry Harland, Booth Tark- ington, George B. McCutcheon, Irving Bacheller and Stewart E. White. The Atlantic Monthly presents for 1904 a programme of a variety and ex- cellence of which its name is the suf- ficient guarantee. Among the most In- teresting of the features anrounced s a_ series of contributions drawn from “hitherto unpublished privata journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson, edited by his son,” and a posthumous paper on Em- erson, by Henry James Sr. Another important grouvp of articles will con- sist of “trenchant inquiries” into the right and wrong of present business methcas, the first “rom the pen of John Craham Brooks, entitled “Is Commer- clalism in Disgrace?” Phases of mod- ern advertising will be discussed by ex- perts, two of the papers being “The Psychology of Advertising,” by Profes- sor W. D. Scott, and “Abuses of Public Advertising,” by Charles Mulford Rob- inson. Historical studies from scholars who have had access to fresh sources ¢f nformation will include two papers by Andrew D. White on Fra Paolo Sarpi, the controversialist, and two by Frederick J. Turner on “Dipilomatic In- trigues for the Mississippi Valiey.” The Critic for 1904 promises in addi- tion to the review features the con- tinuation of “The Jessica Letters,” be- gun in October, and entangling much truth with some fiction. The names of the joint authors are withheld. Lionel Strachy will contribute three papers on the “Social History of England as Il- lustrated by Punch,” and Mrs. Rich- mond Ritchie will write at frequent in- tervals “‘Blackstick Papers,” reminis- cences of the friends of her father, Willlam Makepeace Thackeray. F. B. Sanborn will write of his recollections of men and events, and Charles H. Cof- fin will furnish a series of profusely illustrated papers on American paint- ers. Another feature of the 1904 Critle will be a series dealing with “American Citles in Fiction,” the papers already arranged for covering Chicago, New Orleans and Washington, with articles of a slightly different character on “Literary Philadeiphia™ and “Literary Louisville.” With the January number will be added a new department mod- eled somewhat on the “Contributors’ Club” of The Atlantic. All articles will be signed. Outing, once designed purely as a magazine for sportsmen, has now adopted as its province what its editors name “the human side of outdoor life.” Its programme for the new year |Is planned with this idea as guide. Begun in"the November issue and continued in 1904 is “The Silent Places; or the Trail ot Jingoss,” by Stewart E. White. With the January number comes the first of a series of articles on “The Human Side of Exploration,” by Robert Dunn, who has just returned from an exped!- tion to Mount McKinley. In early numbers of the new year also Edwin Sandys will write of adventures in the wilds of Athabasca, Assinibola and Al- berta, and Herbert K. Job about “The Swamp Rookerles of Florida.” Accom- panying Mr. Job's articles will be re- productions of remarkable photographs of storks, ibises, great white herons and the like strange fowl. Yet other articles upon exploration In Labrador may be expected if Leonidas Hubbard Jr. returns from the explorations which he is conducting in that region. Outing, besides these features, will continue to publish its stories of child and family lite, its outdoor fiction and its depart- ments for the devotees of rod and gun. The Outlook places at the head of its offerings to the public for thé year to come the series of articles on “Theodore Roosevelt, the Citizen,” by Jacob A. Riils, begun in the November issue of 1903. Stewart E. White will write a similar series, “The Mountain.” “An Irishman’s Story” will be chapters from the autoblography of Justin McCarthy. Ernest H. Abbott will write a serfes of articles on “The American Negro,” with industrial, educational and religious as- pects of the race problem. Dr. Edward B. Hale will contribute {llustrated pa- pers of reminiscence entitled “Persons and Places.” - Elizabeth McCracken, after spectal study undertakem with this work in view, will write on “The ‘Women of America,” and Joseph R. Buchanan, “the man who has led more strikes than any other man in the coun- try,” will present three articles under the caption, “The Story of a Labor Agi- tator.” Further, Willlapp D. Hulbert writes of “The Life of a Lumber Jack.” Hamilton Wright Mable of “The Coun- try of Chateaux”—Touraine, and the Very Rev. Charles W. Stubbs, dean of Ely, *“The Life of a Cathedral.” Articles on music will be written by Daniel Gregory Mason and on the “Art of Landscape Gardening” by Samuel Par- sons Jr. Stray Bits About Authors’ Doings HATEVER effect the Wall in New York the hcok business in the West seems to be in very - good condition, judging from the reports of many publishers. A. 8. Barnes & Co. report that Samuel Mer- win’s “His Little World” is among the best sellers In Chicago, and that large orders have come from the West for Stoddard’s “Recollections.” “In Merry Measure,” the book of so= ctety and humorous verse by Thomas L. Masson, will shortly be put out by Life Publishing Company in a de luxe edition similar to its companion vol- umes, “Taken From Life” and “Rhymes and Roundelays.” There is no more unique figure in modern literature than Marie Corelll, but of her personality the world knows lttle. The task of portraying the wo- man as she Is, of giving one a glimpse behind the scenes of her life, has been undertaken in a work recently pub- lished by George W. Jacobs & Co. of Philadelphia, entftled “Marie Corelll, the Writer and the Woman,” composed by T. F. G. Coates and R. S. Warren, Bell. Miss Corelli, it appears, sets “Ardath” above everything else she has written, and her blographers catalogus it as “one of the author’s finest efforts to further the course of true religion.” Lord Tennyson, they say, read it and wrote her a letter of commendation, and the great Gladstone, after perusing it, called upon her, and afterward claimed her as a friend. “Richard Dallas,”. whose detective story, “A Master Hand,” has been win- ning not a little praise, now stands re- vealed as Henry Winslow Willlams, & prominent Baltimore lawyer. This ac- counts for the fact that the legal points made in the book have an accuracy that is lacking In most fiction. The law is traditionally uncongenial to lit- erature, but fictlon turns so frequently on legal matters that a novelist might do much worse than to get a working knowledge of the law simply as a preparation for his own profession, while the recent examples of Mr. Wil- llams and Frederick Trever HIill, au- thor of “The Minority” and “The Web,” show that a busy lawyer can turn his daily experience to good ac- count. Judge Robert Grant is another example of the lawyer-novelist, but. he has been inclined to keep his law and his literature separate. Many novels that have a really suc= cessful sale the first year after pub- lication are out of print and generally forgotten In the secend year. And om the other hand there are, too, success- ful novels for which the demanéd for copies increases from year to year, as the publishers, Doubleday, Page & Co., say is thé case with the late Frank Norris’ story of the struggle of the wheat-growers and the rallroads, “The Octopus,” which precéded the publica~ tion of “The Pit.” NewBooks Received “TWO CENTURIES OF COSTUMNE IN AMERIGA,” Alice Morse Earle; The Macmillan Company, New York, {llustrated; price, 35. “THE COURTSHIP OF MILES STANDISH,” {llustrated by Howard Chandler Christy; Bobbs-Merrill Come pany, Indianapolis; price, 33. “PETRONILLA HEROVEN;" N. &L Silberrad; Doubleday, Page & Co., New York; price, $1 50. “THE WEB,” Frederick Trever Hill; Doubleday, Page & Co., New York; il« lustrated; price, $1 50. “THE DAUGHTER OF A MAG- NATE,” Frank H. Spearman; Charlgs Scribner’s Sons, New York; Ulustrated; price $1 50. “POCCALITO,” Fugenia Kellogs The Unknown Publisher, San Frane cisco. “THE SPIRIT OF JAPAN,” Ernest Adolphus Sturge; published by Pres- byterian Japanese Missions of the Coast; illustrated. “THE ODES OF ANACREON,” translated by Moore, with designg by Gerodet de Roussy; G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York. “FANCIES,” Henry A. Wise Wood; W. J. Ritchie, New York; price, $1 25 “LIBERTY AND LABOR,” Willlam Rader; The New Book Store, San Fran- cisco. “NATURAL NUMBER PRIMER,” David Gibbs; American Book Company, New York. “FIELD AND LABORATORY EX- ERCISES IN PHYSICAL GEOGRA- PHY, James F. Chamberlain; Ameri- can Book Company, New York. “KING LEAR,” edited by W. J. TRolfe; American Book Company, New York. “COLOMBA,” edited by H. P. Wili- jamson; American Book Company, New York. “A GREEK PRIMER." Clarence ‘W. Gleason; American Book Company, New York. “BUNTE GESCHICHTEN,” Erna M. Stoltze; American Book Company, New York. “EL NINO DE LA BOLA,"” Rudelph Schwill; American Book Company, New York. “DONA PERFECTA GALDOS,” Bd- win Seelye Lewis; American Book Company, New York.