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sw iei TmFP V5i rrZirw VXffS fiia Rfjr taflsnW I iav anaBannmamnwaelHSae nri 4 tAiWMHHJl aQPBanJBJBnV aEaW 3 Tfc a saawanjiaMBMMaaaannr I OMMMMMMtM1MMMMMMMM t45 HE POPULAR lntereit In Russian literature is shown by the several edition of Tolstoi jrurgenefL Dotal Gorki and others Fully at many editions of Gorki remarkable stories about tramps have been brought out In this coun try a In England and probably all these Russian masters hare more American than English readers A work that Is ere to be popular Is Anthology of Russian Literature by Leo Wiener the second volume of which deals with the writers of the nineteenth century It Is Issued in a large octavo olnme by Putnams Sons New York with fine portrait of the author of Fathers and Sons The author of this work Is asslstai professor of Slaxic language at Harvard Universitj and Is therefore fully competent to deal with his subject Ir bis sketch of Russian literature which serves as an introduction to the anthology he brings out the great changes which have been wrought In the literature of Russia in the last fifty years One of the most Important of these was the tendency toward realism which Is shown so powerfully In the early work of Tolstoi and Turgeneff Tolstoi in the second half of his life has drifted Into religious mysticism to the treat detriment of his power as a literary artist The prevailing feature of recAit Russian literature has been its cosmo solltanism and its lack of the didactic Tolstoi still preaches in all his works but th new writers like Gorki do not inflict any moral upon the public They paint their characters as they really live and let the reader draw his own moral Of the work of these author Professor Wiener says The Russian language has been molded Into an Instrument of treat perfection It melodious and capable of all shade of expression ahd all literary forms The great authors of 1U literature have become the possession of all nttlons Intellectual Russia no longer stands aloof It it an Important and valuable member of the great nations of the world From the stesdy progress in the past frequently under the most trying apposition must be prognosticated a still greater advancement in the future It has learned its lessons from the West it may yet become Us teacher Turgeneff neer departed so far from his early ideals aa Tolstoi he was al waa the great literary artist always the realist but In his later novels he wearies the foreign reader by his disquisitions on political and economic topics The new school of which Koro lenko and Gorki are the best examples are realists pure and simple Koro lenko has devoted himself mainly to the Siberian types the exiles who have freed themselves from service either by good behavior or by flight from prison camps No writer of the last twenty years surpasses him In the graphic power of his descriptions or in his capacity to make real the mental uttering of educated prisoners exiled to Siberia Gorki is KoroienKO pupa and in some ways he has surpassed his master He actually makes one take a deep Interest In common Russian tramps because he shows the tenulne human nature that lies under the rags and squalor of the vagrant This Is re literary achleement of the first class as in real life no one would take the slightest interest In such people Because he had 11 ed among them ami bad shared their few Joys and their many hardships Gorki Is able to wnd realism with ideal tratta and thus make a series of pictures that Impress one like TurgenefTs Annals of a Sportsman or Gogols Taxas Bulba Of Dostoyevskl most American readers grow wearied as he pile up such a mass of criminal analysis that the burden becomes too great for his story to bear That he has genius Is shown by the powerful Interest with which he Invests such a forlorn hero a that of his Crime and Punishment One follows with eagerness the mental sufferings of this poor criminal who feels certain that the calm Inscrutable Judge knows his sruilt and is only plsylng with him as a cat tortures a mouse before ending Its sufferings The defect of this anthologyfor the enerarreaderls the large space given to writers who can never become well knowitv to foreigners On the other feand it gives concise sketches and admirable selections from the great authors who are familiar because tneir works hsveibeen liberally translated Ilghtf ul companion But be has no aptitude for any occupation that wUl bring him a regular Income He is a poet but man cannot llys by poetry sione In fact the noblest poet in the world would starve if forced to subsist on he pay given for his best verses Evidently he cannot dohackwork orthenewspa pers or magazines He is a failure in any avocationthat calls for system or regularity or business skill In this extremity he Is driven to attempt acting but again his temperament Interferes and he throws up his play books in dlr gust While he Is on the erge of starvation his society friends send him gifts and flowers and Invitations to sw ell dinners Finally In despair the hero turns to the Roman Church and finds temporary shelter and the peace that passeth all understanding In a monastery At least the end of one of the parts of the book leaves him In cloistered repose but the final chapter sees him one of a merrj yachting part in the south seas The old charm of the Islands appeals to him and he goes ashore secret leaving th i acht to proceed without him The book Is charming in spots but it Is remarkably uneven and the women are lnariably poor The love scenes do not ring true in fact all the sentimental part is overdone and does not appeal to the reader while one has always the feeling that the author does not reveal the whole truth The chief charm of Rousseaus Confessions and of the Childhood Boyhood and Youth or Tolstoi is the absolute sin cerity that speaks through their pages But in this book which seems largely autobiographic the impression is strong that much Is not revealed and consequently the part that is laid bare does not strike one as true The men are all good from Foxlalr the adventurer to Falsam the emotional actor who wreaks his excess of sentiment on his friends when the stage does not give outlet enough for his surcharged nature Faisams secret marriage and the extraordinary revelation of It made by his widow at the Bohemian Club funeral Impress one aa real transcripts from life The book Is extraordinarily uneen in workmanship it lacks cohesion It is vague formless disappointing Iiyauvord it Is only relieved from dullness by the authors strong personality and his vivid style It will not add to Mr Stoddards reputation for It contains nothing which one would care to read a second time GEORGE HAMLIN FITCH The Balance is contained in tha reply of an old woman to Richard East whose bundle of faggots he has offered to carry Nay I know your breed With the same hand you would carry the strangers sticks you would rob your hearts friend of his wife Thoughty is a story of two boys New York Charles Scrlbners Sons price Qt More Money for Public Schools In three addresses delivered in October last President Eliot of Harvard University at that time president of the American Educational Association made pleas for more money for the public schools Each of these addresses fitted Into one another and the triad have now been given to the public In printed form with the title of More Money for the Public Schools In the first he set forth the failures and shortcomings of American education in the second the gains made in education and In the third the needs of American public scnoois From each of the three groupings of facts his argument is MM same More money should be used for the public schools for their greater effectiveness for their continued progress and for the meeting of necessities In the course of these addresses President Eliot considers labor strikes his statements on this subject having called forth severe criticism from the advocates of labor nnlon teachers pensions womens colleges etc On this subject the distinguished president of Harvard says Womens colleges have already demonstrated that the capacity of women to profit by the best educational methods In the most difficult subjects Is quite equal to that of men so far as the acquisition goes They have also demonstrated that jounsr women af fair physique may pursue a full college course not only without Impairing their health and strength but with simultaneous gain Inf bodily vigor Grave doubts exist and will exist for at least another generation concerning the effects of the higher education of women on marriage child bearing and family life and these effects will of course be the final tests of the utility of the higher education of women New Tork Doubleday Page Co price II net The Itonan Road Anything that Charles Warren Stoddard writes Is sure Jlpbe readable be causethlsJBtyle is individual and colored by peculiar temperament as attractive aa It Is unusual But his latestfeook TorthJeasure of HJs Company which is ssued by A Robertson of this city will not usurp the place pt South Sea Idyls orHa waliao pfe lathe affections of his admirersT fetoddardVfialls this story An Affair of the Misty City and he tellsvthe story three times In a peculiarpeculiar wayv The designs by Marshall Douglass are yery atrfklngiespeclaHjr that for the title page The misty aelers thinly velljhe Identity Franciscans mnand nona who were wrtl known social and bo hemlah chrcfek ofttjlrty yf arsago TheDOOkTls really a atudyf singular temperament andcf tletraits to which a brilliant youccf ellowls fcut because his friends will do nothing raeU xcal to kid him to make a living Pd the ero is welcomed every whtrJ wroroaiu i tt Womet especially found blzna dr American Industrial Problems American Industrial Problems by Lawson Is the work of an Eng lishman undertaken with the object of reassuring Europeans and especially his own countrymen against the dan gers of Yankee inroads The author does not attempt to deny the magnitude of the resources of the United States but he Is always on the alert to discover some proviso that may accentuate the facts of American industrial and commercial supremacy The book may be summarized in one Sentence taken from Its many pages Brilliant as the American outlook appears It is not entirely cloudless The olume Is very thorough In its treatment of Its subject The plan of the work has been carefully prepared It makes at first a preliminary surve of the field with a statement of American resources and energies and their limitations Following this come chapters on the physical personal corporate national and International factors of the problem and the typical industries of this country with discussion of soil and climate the workman the organiser and the financier the banks trusts and railways Congress the tariff exports and Imports and Americas best markets and farming mining manufacturing shipbuilding and Iron and steel Interest In Mr Lawsons book is not In the statements it contains of the resources and the growth of the United States for with these the American reader has been fed almost to surfeit It lies In the discoveries which the author claims to have made In the Joints of Goliaths armor and the hopes and wishes of the writer which he is frequently tempted to accept as facta A sentence selected here and there from the book will perhaps furnish a clew to the authors frame of mind For example As the struggle proceeds the edge of American keenness may wear off and some of it may be transferred to our own side It is not Impossible that American progress may be hampered by sheer excess of strength and vitality I Among a free people extremes provoke escn oiner ana mere will be many domestic conflicts to settle before the Americans are really ready to enter on their cosmopolitan campaign It la absolutely amsslng that men with such genius for business as many Amerl care exhibit should appear to be blind to the highest test of financial solldlt ImmaculateImmaculate credit There Is the specter of Socialism For years to come American Industry will be subject to sudden changes and sharp transitions Thej the American industrialists sre engaged In a course of gigantic adventure which may end In brilliant successes or in disastrous fiascoes These appear feeble conclusions to a work which has undoubtedly invoked much ltbor research and thought on the part of Its author They preclude the neceasity of entering Into anything like detail Into his laboriously prepared premises New York Mc Clure Phillips Co ECCENTRIC ARTIST Oj I llllllllHm il MM 1 1 1 1 II I II fr I JjgJSS Sllgi WUlSuM SBBBBBBBBBBBBBSak 2 i If JsaTasBwir jyir JsKfffS fir iit TisWit bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbi jJTJSzZIS1a Bn a tmrSSKCT JVfTW IbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbS WSKyN tCT 5 7 i I HBa3rsf wt BBRlsBBBppiBBKJMf i 1 Jl mESsIbbbbbbbbbbbbIbbbbbbbbbbbb 1 SBsVXm bbbbbbbbVbbV a BBbbbbbbbbSIbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbV VII KmF mmMBPsAZFy i JTCvVflBBBBBMaSJBBBFBBBBFyyt5fir2Sv KcirTntiX SBBBBBBIRyjtfNBSEateplK XiTnTI vrr Courtesy of he Century Company IHllllIilllllMWWM MWf 0 i NE OF THE men who has contributed materially to the public amuse ment during the last three or four years Is Peter New ell a draftsman of eccentric and fantastic children and also a maker of very humorous verse Last year the Century Coinpany issued Topsy and Turvey a book of verse in which all the pictures are capable of two meanings one when looked at right aIde up and another when viewed upside down Mr Newell also made Illustrations for Alice in Wonderland but these were not so happy Mr Newell waa born In Illinois forty years ago and became widely known through his contributions to the Harper periodicals He has also illustrated a number of books Including Mark Twains Innocents Abroad and Frank Stocktons Great Stone of Sardls His forte Is the drawing of amusing faces andho fun In these faces Is largely due to the peculiar eyes that the artist draws In this strenuous age a man who is the cause of Innocent amusement Is worthy of note memory of the many good things running through Elisabeths Children New York John Lane price 1 60 I Threejgtojlejuare contained lathalit tle volume to which Its author Zack has given the title of The Roman Road from the nsmeof the first of the tales In itjhe property of Groot Hall has descended to Roland rather than to Wantage Oxoothe favorite nephew of Sir Thebphtlus Af terRoJand has taken possession of theestateand has pro Lceeded toderlve fromit every shilling that it can be mace to give upbe Is in Lfonnedby hl3 roother thaths is flle gltimaieanaiftat wantage Is therefore the truejielr otbe proot family Then there Is a struggle between the mother and her son sofarss there can be a struggle on the part of a woman who is ever ready Jo satisfy her conscience with comprpnuses uojana iramuytaamtts City Is plainly San Francisco Pan i uyw anaDeingksucn has Clitheroe Is as plainly theBUthbrvhro B0 Aesltaney in making the most of his aelf while a nwnberlpfrplherchaf dishonesty while Mrs Groot essays fae at Ran auiacwenu ueciancr sne IS a good woman until death overtakes her and she confesses her ault aince Its avowal canbavepo unpleasant after consequences for her Wantage succeeds to the property but Rolands species of straightforwardness wins for him 4he declared of Tjesn Mpricehs mwku Aiuuiwio oiece wno unexpectedly turns out to be a wealthy The key td the second story called Grand Canyon of Colorado A new tourist edition Is Issued of George Wharton James well known work In and Around the Grand Canyon of the Colorado River In Arizona This volume represents the results of ten years visits to what Is now recognized as the greatest natural wonder of the western part of this continent Much of the book was written in a curious camp overlooking the deepest gorge along the great river and it Is not surprising that some spirit of the surroundings crept into the authors style and set apart this book from all other volumes on the subject Dr James gives a detailed description of the famous places In the Grand canyon with their history and bright accounts of his own adventures He quotes liberally from all the authors who have described these wonders and he lllus strates he scenery from his own photographs with thirty full page plates and seventy pictures In the text The book Is fittingly dedicated to Major Powell the first to prove that It was possible to pass from end to end of the Grand cahyon Boston Little Brown Co price 2 SO The Gap In the Oarden There Is a wealng of tho weird Into the warp of the ordinary surroundings of The Gap In the Garden by Vanda Wathcn Bartlett which gives the novel a peculiar fascination Dwelling at the Chace are two orphan girls Julian and Biddy Mlldmay Tho sisters are devotedly attached to each other The elder beautiful of face but the victim of a fractured hip and the younger healthy of bod and temperament are joint owners of the property The estate had been thus left to them to become the sole owiv ershlp of the one who remained unmarried but in the event of the marriage of both It was to pass to a Cousin Everett Mlldmay Living with the girls Is their Aunt Elizabeth sister of their father be tween whom bickerings are continuous The Interest In the tale turns on Julian the Invalid who often seeks Intellectual comfort In the companionship of Theodore Kelvin a sickly bachelor and bookworm dwelling In a bungalow situated on a rock which Jutted into the wild sex To Lncle Theo as she calls him though no relative Julian is accustomed to make frequent visits by means of her pony chaise Just previous to one of these calls her nerves had been rasped comment made on her dead mother by Aunt Elisabeth It Is under these conditions that Kelln claims her as 1 daughter rot of the flesh but of the spirit for he has Iosd her mother only in a spiritual wa Through the long months he tells Julian he formed her with his ill Speaking of this past to himself he said The woman whom I love Is weak and frail too feeble to be otherwise than light 8he shall give her beauty to her unborn child but no faintest shsdow of her temperament My son shall be strong of character and strong of intellect stanch true and honest and pure minded He shall rise superior to the snare of passion that has proed the undoing of so many of his mother race His shall be a soul fit to receive my teaching I will give him all of the gained knowledge of my Ufa toll His feet shall attain to heights of wisdom and of seershlp where mine have failed to climb The son this woman bears beneath her heart shall be mine solel his face had lost Its habitual serenity his eyes were shining with excitement his utterance was fierce and mine it was onjy only you were a girl and woman steps back from the very threshold of true knowledge to bow the head to sex and so called love It Is under these strange conditions that in the story Julian affronts love and ends her life in tragedy the victim of the stranee lealous hate of the old house keeper of Kelvin who has perished in a storm out Into wnicn rate naa iea ni unaccustomed steps New Tork John Lace price Jl 50 Control of Heredity Redfield of Chicago beljeves that a man may cause his children to be born with greater or less intelligence as he chooses He admits tbst the proposition may seem a bold one but In hl Control of Heredity he seeks to prove It to be true Of the two sorts of heredity the structural and the dynamical he directs attention to the latter which relates to the force powwr or energy of an organ without regard to its size or form Three great facts of the dynamical side of the question are stated to be first that heredity la the product of two factors one Of whfch is the length of tune elapsing betw een gen erations and tha other la the degree of activity which characterues tne individuals of successive generations second that each Individual during his life undergoes certain physical and mental changes and that those conditions which characterize parents st different agea are transmitted to the offspring which are produced at those ages and third that the average length of life tends to approximate twlcs the average ge at wnica reproduction takes place The author Illustrates this fact by the dictum that as long as parents maintain their health and vigor the older they are at the time of reproduction the greater is the average life of their offspring Holding this theory Mr Redfield Is an opponent of early marriages He contends that the children of unduly youthful parents are lacking In physical stamina and mental power and takes position against the marriage of men at less than JSand of women at less than a years bt age a wo in juiuk mra i ius touiroi OI Elisabeths Children Elizabeths Children are of the family Their is no mistaking their relationship to the heroine of the Vis its and the writer of Her Mothers Letters That the childrens mother should have married a Frenchman makes them only the more amusing In the Implshnets of ihelr Franco English lingo as set down by their bacheloV COUSln Huh rtlmtr tn htm lA have been confided to be anglicized tienaua Armana and Andre alternately captivate and exasperate their English relative by their manners their Innocent prattle their shrewd observa lions and their monkeyshlnes ThetrsJ is tne ootent influence in a love affair which might have never reached its climax but for their intervention But In the meantime sentiment has little play and scarce a chapter passes bat that the reader Is convulsed with laughter which cannot be restrained Clever ness and brightness are In every line and If there Is extravagance in the church scene that constitutes the dev nouement it Is quickly forgotten In the HmdiV Is to increase the average age1 of reproduction by discouraging early marriages and teaching older Individuals that their best children are produced com parstlveiy late in life the stcond is to encourage the child In physical and mental activity if an thing the physical being given tne advance of the mental because by Its nature the mental development Is slower than the physical and Is dependent upon it for the length of time It Is continued The author of this book supports hiH theories by the examples of many men prominent In hlstor The volume Is Illustrated Philadelphia The Monarch Book Company That Printer of I dells Iii That Printer of Udell Harold Bell right has written a story with a distinct religious motive which Is out of the conventional It Is a story of the Middle West in which the chief role is played by Itichard Falkner the child of a drunken father and a good mother whom he has lost in his boyhood He Is not a ratlve of the town In which the action takes place but arrives In it a tramp printer who has hen soiled contact with rough humanNfe Refused work though starving by the religious and the respectable he is taken In and aided by George Udell the owner cf a Job printing office ana an intldei Into Falkner life comes pretty Amy doodrlch the daughter of the rich and phartjalcal Adam Goodrich nearly ruined circumstances and who Is rescued from a htfuse of shame in a distant city by Falkner who has become a ChrMian with the aid of a devoted band of Salvation Arm workers There are many strong situations and some delicate ones In That Printer of dcll euch as are not encountered In the ordinary religious novel but Talkner Is not a namby pamby and the author Is not afraid to enter a house of worship to denounce the falsit which sometimes takes refuge within the church or to escort his readers to the glided temple of vice in order to Illustrate the dangers to which young womanhood Is exposed But if Mr Wright does not hesitate to expose the hpocris of tho Pharisee and throw the mantle of charity over the Magdalen he Is strongly affirmative In his admiration of those whose religion Is Christlike ard in female lurlt In fine the book is a curious compound of the secularly dramatic and the sentimental pietlstlc and with strength of conception and energy of action the author betras the natvete of the adolescent and the fanaticism of some of the minor sects Chicago The Book Supply Company price fl o0 unctorlness in school worlo Tee present volume however Is not of worth solely from the child education point of view but carries Into the minds of adults the reason for a closer study of nature as relates to the flora and fauna In our Immediate vicinity The chapter on The New Hunting appeals especially to him who calls himself a sportsman and shows that a gun or a rod is not a necessity for the full enjoyment of life In the woods and along the streams The book closes with practical answers to suppositious queries tha twill be of benefit to teachers who sre not sure of their own ideas on the subject New York DouWeday Page A Co price jxj if A Girl of Ideas I A light veh runs all through iA Girl of Ideas by Annie Flint The book Is shallow but amuslns Elinor Day a young tlady Just from college Is confronted with the return of tha manuscript of her book with little money and consequently net the time to make a new trial and live In the meanwhile She is however a glxl of ideas and with the help of a friend de termines to Mil Ideas to writers short or subjects She organizes a bureau for this purpose and once opened It brings her Into contact with persons of many callings and affords the author opportunities tor satire wnicn ha by no means neglects Early in the course of her professional duties Elinor Say Is brought in contact with Edward Kenneth Brighton a writer or some reputation who has however worked himself out for tha time The pair exchange Ideas and the new arrangement seems to work well but by an error the same Idea furnished by Elinor Bay to Brighton is sold to the editor of the Arizona Bot Fly and complications en sue that are decidedly1 unpleasant for Brighton who Is accused of plagiarism His position Is so delicate that he cannot effectively reply to the charge but Elinors womans wit comes to the rescue the situation is saved and the pair eschar ge vows of love Of the mental caliber ex hibited in the production of A Girl of Ideas It Is enough to say that an atrocious pun on tho name of Day and the French word Ideea serves as a sign for the heroine office New York Charles Scrlbner Sons price XI 50 advsUo of rWutar I Ssenproper to JS hoped that the reading of JJ teduVe many women now unused to exes else to adopt her suggestIon Ofthe specialists who eratottati tothbi book Dr Anthony Burke writes of 21 cai Training atHome Watson Savage of Gymnasium Work Dr John Bapst Blake of MCrossvQruntry WalkhiEd wyn Sandys of Swimming Parmley Piret flf TLawn TeanJaEllen Bernard Thompson of Basketball and Sophia aundrum of Bowling The IllustraUona are eclally goodNew York The Mactnlllan Company price 50 net Two eara on the nton Lieutenant Cantwell report of the operations of the United States revenue steamer NunlvnV vi LRverl VaUon Aasa from ISM to 1901 rauea irom Government Printing Office in Washington It makes a volumsof pjM illustrated with large number of very interesting repro pVi h10tosraph Lieutenant vf WAL w1eU1kown to old readers of the Chronicle as he has contributed many valuable articles on UV work la the Arctic In this report the Lieutenant who was assigned to the command of the lukon patrol boat Nunlvak relates his experiences In enforcing law and order on the great Alaskan river Two winters were spent In the Arctic one at Ball river and tha other at Fort Shoemaker The story of relief work along the river t0d and tne incident reSled show the excellent results of the Government plan to extend aid and succor to prospectors and Indians The accounts ot tne two long winters mint in ki northern land are infii the chapters on mines and mining and those on the natives their hablta and customs language etc will be found a mass of material that la of Interest and TIU5 Nations are numerous and far clearer than most of the photographic work done In the Far North The book reflects great credit on Lieutenant Cantwell who has made a department rsport more readable than the usual record of a traveler The Xatnre Study Idea Professor Liberty Bailey has Just issued a new and Interesting volume on nature study which he entitles The Na title might be The Natural Study Idea for In It he shows the absurdity of trying to Interest children in nature by taking them along sdenUficjjatha Professor Bailey believes In putting the child Into sympathy with nature and Wa environment to the end that his life may be stronger and more resourceful The un damenta idea expressed la a revolt from mere science teaching and from all per Marjorle Justin Huntly McCarthys second ro mance Marjoric is a tale of the sea in the das when men wore cocked hats and knee breeches Pirates embark upon an English ship connected with a Utopian colony scheme among the Islands of the southern seas Although their plans to seiza xne vessel and make a pirate ship of her fall owing to suspicions being aroused they take advantage of her running aground to massacre the colonists and then attack the portion of the crew wnich has remained faithful Thev are aoout to succeed in their designs when the appearance of a Dutch frigate causes the overthrow of their designs and Marioria niece of the captain Is saved by ber lover irora the grasp of the chief of the brigands The story Is rather on popular lines than really meritorious It Is Illustrated in colors New York II Russell price 50 The Canterbury Pilgrims The Canterbury Pilgrims by Percy Macks is comedy It goes almost without salng that It Is Inspired by Chaucers Canterbury Tales Most of the characters are drawn from It but there are others strangers to It such aa Itichard II wycliffe the Marchioness of Kent and John of Gaunt However the action turna around the persons of Chaucer the wife of Bath and the Prioress the others of whatever rank being subordinate In his addenda the author admits certain anachronisms In his text but there are others which have escaped his attention as the placing in the mouths of persona of the fourteenth century such words as waltz minuet and Papist Mr Mackaya has shown much erudition and not a little wit in the working out of his comedy Still It may be doubted If the subject Is one that will attract many readers New York The Macmlllan Company price 1 25 Pictorial Composition A useful handbook for students and lovers of art Is that produced by IL Poore ANA and entitled Pictorial Composition and the Critical Judgment of Pictures The volume Is addressed to the student of painting the amateur photographer and the professional artist Special attention has been given to the subject of balance although others such as composition observation light and shadow and color harmony and tone are accorded due space As the problems to the maker of pictures by photography are the same as those of the painter and the especial ambition of the formers art Is to be painterlike separation of their treatment has been deemed unnecessary by the author In the text The volume is amply and well illustrated New York The Baker Taylor Company price 11 50 net Points tn nralna A book of great value to doctors and nurses Is Practical Points In Nursing by Emily A Stoney with set enty nlne ergravlngs lo the text and eight colored and half tone plates The author gives full directions for feeding the sick recipes for inv alld foods and drinks weights ard measures a dose list and a glossary of medical terms and nursing treatment This is a third edttior which has teen revised and brought up to date Necessarily the chapters on Infectious diseases and the treatment of poisonings hate been almost entirely rewritten Tha directions are ver clear and the cuts serve to make plain many difficult operations Philadelphia Saunders Co price 73 net i The Bed Book The first number of The Red Book a new ten cent short story magazine contains over a dozen tales by several well known American novelists among whom are Morgan RobertAn A Frazer General Charles King and Cy Warman These stories are bright and entertaining out none or mem has any literary qual it The publishers have follow ed the example of the Metropolitan in printing half tones of photographs of attractive women In various poses Doubtless this venture will prove a success but we cannot see the use of adding to the cumber of cheap magazines when there are so many good standard books that can be oougnt ror a song unicago The Red Book Corporation North American build log Onr Northern Shraba A very beautiful book is Our Northern Shrubs and How to Identify Them by Harriet Keeler with 205 plates from photographs and thirty five Illustrations from drawings Though written for the region between the Atlantic and the Mis sissippi river most of the shrubs de scribed may be found in this State with little variation The book la written In readable style but there are enough technical details added to satisfy the botanist The Illustrations are very beautiful New York Charles BcTlbners Sons price 2 net Athletics for Women A book that ought to find many readers is Athletics and Outdoor Sports for Women edited with an Introduction br Lucille Eaton Hill director ot physical training Jn WeUesley College with over M0 illustrations To various txrrt beenasslgned the many special deoart VYBUCr au ports tnat are treated In this volume but the editor in her Introduction brings out very stronglr the increasing number of women whore sort to gymnastic exercises and other forms of athletics to keep In good phicai trim If the present Interest fn si CnL5ii YUi on before wni umr at nu colleges and schools where women are admitted may expect separate athiti ou women MIss Hill dwells on the enormous Short 5otes ef rv Books tn th tiv la an elaborate manual for mothers and nurses by Crozer Grtfatlv The book takes up the cars of thsmotnar oeiore wm of the babr the growth of the child Its clothes aad rood sleep cl0 n2 training and Its treatment In beab fad alcknessl The yolume Is fully niustrated TTtJin airaimBl and clearly that any mother ahould get many valuable kmts from It Phlladelphlar Saunders tt Co price new The Spanish In the Southwest Is tha title of a book for school reading by Boaa Wlnterbum It tells of Indian life tn California before the white man came then off the Spanish explorers who ranged along the coast In their efforts to find a new route to India and then of the Franciscans who founded the mlaeion The final chanters are devoted to Spanish California which was ended by the bear flag episode that opened the way for the American conquest The little book Is well Illustrated Newark America Book Company Literary Votes On May 20th the Macmlllan Ceopanyr wlll publish a volume of short stories entitled In the Guardianship of God by Flora Annie Steel the author of On the Face of the Waters Miss Louise Forsslnnd will spend a vacation In California where she will remain for a year She Is at work upon a new novel In which the scene will be laid In the places oa Long Island that she choeo for The Ship of Dreams Why the Mind Ha a Body the title of a book by Professor A Strong of Columbia University which will be issued I by the Macmlllane Hie book show the mind to be the primary tning ana tne ooay to be derivative hence the title The Scrlbners have ready a new volume of The Worlds Epoch Makers entitled David Hume and IDs Influence tn Philosophy and Theology It is by James Orr A professor of apologetics and systematic theology In the United Free Church College Glasgow James Pott Co announce several new volumes tn their Bookman Biographies Charles Dickens and Leo Tolstoi will be published in a few weeks to bo followed later in the year with volumes on Robert Browning Alfred Lord Tennyson Jane Austen and William Makepeace Thackeray Before the end of May the Macmlllan Company will publish In this country volumes one and two of An Illustrated History of English Literature upon which Dr Richard Oarnett and Edmund Gosse have been at work for many years Four substantial quarto volumes will make un thlawork Owen Wlsters story of two Harvard undergraduates who resort to Herculean cramming for their final examination called after the designation of their course in the university catalogue Philosophy rour has been selected as the Initial volume of the Macmlllan series of little novels by favorite authors It appeared serially two years ago The theme which Jack London has taken for his latest book The Call of the Wild Is the reversion to the tvne md nr Lof his ancestors of a splendid St Bernard 1 2 Abauctel Tom his home In Southern auiorma uuca nnas himself drawing sledges with other dogs for travelers and goldseekers In the Klondike his good blood survives and rises superior to the brutal hardship of his work The Bookman will run beginning with 5yrtnumberTa ertal or pen of George Barr McCutcheon The story Is called The Sherrods and in it the author 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