A Great American Novel of the Civil War.THE GRAPES OF WRATH.A Tale of North and South.BY MARY HARRIOTT NORRIS,Author ofThe Gray House of the Quarries, etc.12mo, doth, decorative, with six full-page illustrations byH. T. Carpenter.$1.50A really great American novel of the Civil War, which will appeal with equal force to-day to the Southern as well as to the Northern reader. The title is, of course, suggested by Mrs. Howe’s line,—“He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored.”The story is developed from the fortunes, amid the vicissitudes of war, of an old New Jersey family, one son of which had settled in Virginia, becoming a general in Lee’s army. There is little fighting and no cheap heroics in the book, but it gives a clearer picture and a more intimate and impressive understanding of what the great struggle really meant to Unionist and to Confederate alike than many a military history.A Romance of the Iowa Wheat Fields.THE ROAD TO RIDGEBY’S.BY FRANK BURLINGAME HARRIS.12mo, cloth, decorative.$1.50A simple but powerful story of farm life in the great West, which cannot fail to make a lasting impression on every reader. In this book Mr. Harris has done for the wheat fields what Mr. Westcott has done for rural New York and Mr. Bacheller for the North country. It is in no way imitative ofDavid HarumorEben Holden; and, unlike each of these books, it is not in the portrayal of a single quaint character that its power consists. Mr. Harris has taken for his story a typical Iowa farmer’s family and their neighbours; and, although every one of the characters is realistically portrayed, the sense of proportion is never lost sight of, and the result is a picture of real life, artistic in the highest sense, as being true to nature. It is a wholesome story, full of the real heroism of homely life, a book to make the reader better by strengthening his belief in the truth of self-sacrifice and the survival of sturdy American character.A Remarkable Study of Social Life in America.DIFFERENCESBY HERVEY WHITE.12mo, cloth, decorative, 320 pages.$1.50“It is treating the poor as a class and employing any method of handling them that I object to.... Why can’t they be treated as individuals, the same as other people? What would the rich think of my impertinence if I went about the world treating them in a peculiar manner,—as if they were not real people, at all, but only ‘the rich,’ in my knowledge? ”—Hester Carr, inDifferences.“Differenceis an extraordinary book.... The labor question is its primary concern, and the caste barrier which modern conditions have erected between the man who works and the man who merely lives. This is no new theme, yetDifferencesis new, and its place in thoughtful literature awaits it. The only argument presented by Mr. White is contained in the picture he spreads before us. It is real, and set out with bold, firm strokes, and there is no attempt to be merely artistic. Genevieve Radcliffe, the rich society girl, who goes to work charity with the poor, and John Wade, the workman, whose situation involves all the tragedy of metropolitan poverty, are human, if they be not typical. They embody the ‘differences’, and, if they do not point the way to equality, it is because American civilization is not yet ripe for them. Withal, the book is not a tract. It is worth a thousand such. Informed throughout with a tender simplicity, a sense of the beauty of common things, and a sincerity that brooks no question, it carries equal appeal to the student of economics and to the lover of human feeling.”—Philadelphia North American.“There is no end of philosophy in books about the poor and how to reach them and send rays of sunshine into their world; but few books get at the real ‘Differences’ that exist between the wealthy classes and the poor as does Mr. Hervey White....Differenceis vitally interesting, both as a story and as a moral lesson.... It is written with wholesome enthusiasm and an intelligent survey of real facts.”—Boston Herald.“The method employed by Mr. Hervey White inDifferencesis not like that of any author I have ever read in the English language. It resembles strongly the work of the best Russian novelists, it seems to me, and particularly that of Dostolevsky, and yet it is in no sense an imitation of those writers: it is apparently like them merely because the author’s motives and ways of thought and observation are like them.... I have never before read any such treatment in the English language of the life and thought of laboring people.”—Joseph Edgar Chamberlin, inBoston Transcript.A Powerful Realistic Novel of American Life.QUICKSANDByHERVEY WHITE.12mo, cloth, decorative, 328 pages.$1.50Quicksandis a strong argument against a certain condition which the author believes exists too generally in American society, and is, in effect, an appeal for the freedom of the individual in family life. It is a powerful tragedy, developing very naturally out of the effects of the interference of parents in the lives of their children, and of brothers and sisters in the affairs of each other. It becomes therefore, not only the story of an individual, but the life history of an entire family, the members of which are portrayed with astonishing vividness and realism. The hero of the book also illustrates, in his sufferings and failures, the unfortunate effects of a too narrow orthodoxy in religion, coupled with his family’s interference with his growth out of this environment. Offsetting the tragedy of the story is “Hiram,” the “hired man” of the family in its earlier New England days, in whom, particularly, the reader’s interest will centre. Patient, kindly, faithful, and uncomplaining, he is indeed the real “hero” of the tale, the only one free from the unfortunate environments of the other characters, yet forced indirectly to suffer also because of them. It is the every-day life of the every-day family that is drawn; and this fact, together with the boldness and fidelity of the drawing, gives the story its power and impressiveness.“Hervey White is the most forceful writer who has appeared in America for a long generation.”—Chicago Evening Post.“We cannot remember another book in which lives, thoughts, emotions, souls, and principles of action have been analyzed with such convincing power. Mr. Hervey White has great literary skill. He has here made his mark, and he has come to stay.... He is the American George Gissing, and as such some day he will have to be taken into account.”—Boston Herald.“It should insure Mr. White a permanent place in the critical regard of his fellow-countrymen.... Few characters as strong as that of Elizabeth Hinckley have ever been drawn by an American author, and she will remain in the mind of the most assiduous novel reader, secure of a place far above that held by most of the puny creations of the day.”—Chicago Tribune.“It is wrought of enduring qualities. Few novels are so sustained on an elevated plane of interest.”—Philadelphia Item.“It is a novel that takes hold of one, and is not the sort of book that, once begun, can be laid down without being finished.”—Indianapolis News.Two Notable Novels by Emma Rayner.VISITING THE SINA Tale of Mountain Life In Kentucky and Tennessee.12mo, cloth, with cover designed byT. W. Ball. 448 pages.$1.50The struggle between the heroine’s love and her determination to visit the sin upon the son of the supposed murderer of her father forms the basis of the story. All of the characters are vividly drawn, and the action of the story is wonderfully dramatic and lifelike. The period is about 1875.“A powerful, well-sustained story, the interest in which does not flag from the first chapter to the last.”—Philadelphia North American.“Unusually powerful. The dramatic plot is intricate, but not obscure.”—The Congregationalist.“A graphic and readable piece of fiction, which will stand with the best of its time concerning humble American characters.”—Providence Journal.“Far ahead of most of these latter-day Southern novels.”—Southern Star.“The people in the story are persistently real.”—Christian Advocate.FREE TO SERVEA Tale of Colonial New York.12mo, cloth, with a cover designed byMaxfield Parrish. 434 pages.$1.50“One of the very best stories of the Colonial period yet written,”—Philadelphia Bulletin.“We have here a thorough-going romance of American life in the first days of the eighteenth century. It is a story written for the story’s sake, and right well written, too. Indians, Dutch, Frenchmen, Puritans, all play a part. The scenes are vivid, the incidents novel and many.”—The Independent.“The writing is cleverly done, and the old-fashioned atmosphere of old Knickerbocker days is reproduced with such a touch of verity as to seem an actual chronicle recorded by one who lived in those days.”—Saturday Evening Post, Philadelphia.“The supreme test of a long book is the reading of it, and when one reaches the end ofFree to Serve, he acknowledges freely that it is the best book that he has taken up for a long time,”—Boston Herald.An Irish Love Story of 1848.MONONIA.BY JUSTIN McCARTHY, M.P.,Author ofA History of Our Own Times,Dear Lady Disdain, etc. 12mo, green cloth and gold.$1.50Mr. McCarthy has written several successful novels; but none, perhaps, will have greater interest for his American readers than this volume, in which he writes reminiscently of the Ireland of his youth and the stirring events which marked that period. It is pre-eminently an old-fashioned novel, befitting the times which it describes, and written with the delicate touch of sentiment characteristic of Mr. McCarthy’s fiction. The book takes its name from the heroine, a charming type of the gentle-born Irish-woman. In the development of the romance, the attempts for Ireland’s freedom, and the dire failures that culminated at Ballingary, are told in a manner which give an intimate insight into the history of theYoung Irelandmovement. If the book cannot be considered autobiographical, the reader will not forget that the author was contemporary with the events described, and will have little difficulty in perceiving that many of the principal characters are strongly suggestive of the Irish leaders of that day, which gives the book scarcely less value than an avowed autobiography.“Mononia is drawn with all Mr. McCarthy’s ancient skill.”London Outlook.“Beautiful in every sense is this ‘Mononia.’ It is a work that we could expect from no other author, for it is largely reminiscent. So, besides its attractiveness as a romance, the book is attractive as an informal historical document. Read in either of these lights, it will be found delightful.”—Boston Journal.“Altogether a good story.... Mononia is full of beauty, tenderness, and that sweet and wholesome common sense which is so refreshing when found in a woman.”—The Pilot(Boston).“The description of the affection of Mononia and Philip is a piece of literary splendor.”—Boston Courier.“For those who would reject its historical and autobiographic phase, there remains the old-fashioned love romance, full of fine Irish spirit, which is always refreshing.”—Mail and Express.TUSKEGEE: ITS STORY & ITS WORKByMAX BENNETT THRASHERWith an Introduction byBOOKER T. WASHINGTON 12mo, cloth, decorative, 248 pages, 50 Illustrations,$1.00THE TUSKEGEE NORMAL AND INDUSTRIAL INSTITUTE, at Tuskegee, Alabama, is one of the most uniquely interesting institutions in America. Begun, twenty years ago, in two abandoned, tumble-down houses, with thirty untaught Negro men and women for its first students, it has become one of the famous schools of the country, with more than a thousand students each year. Students and teachers are all of the Negro race. The Principal of the school, Mr. Booker T. Washington, is the best-known man of his race in the world to-day.In “Tuskegee: Its Story and its Work,” the story of the school is told in a very interesting way. He has shown how Mr. Washington’s early life was a preparation for his work. He has given a history of the Institute from its foundation, explained the practical methods by which it gives industrial training, and then he has gone on to show some of the results which the institution has accomplished. The human element is carried through the whole so thoroughly that one reads the book for entertainment as well as for instruction.COMMENTS.“All who are interested in the proper solution of the problem in the South should feel deeply grateful to Mr. Thrasher for the task which he has undertaken and performed so well.”—Booker T. Washington.“Should be carefully and thoughtfully read by every friend of the colored race in the North as well as in the South,”—New York Times.“The book is of the utmost value to all those who desire and hope for the development of the Negro race in America.”—Louisville Courier-Journal.“Almost every question one could raise in regard to the school and its work, from Who was Booker Washington? to What do people whose opinion is worth having think of Tuskegee? is answered in this book.”—New Bedford Standard.For sale at all Bookstores, or sent, postpaid, on receipt of price, by the publishers,Small Maynard & Company, Boston.ColophonAvailabilityThis eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online atwww.gutenberg.org.This eBook is produced by Jeroen Hellingman and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team atwww.pgdp.net.Review from the New York Times, published July 13, 1901:Filipino Stories.The anting anting is both talisman and fetich: it is the Filipino version of good medicine, and it combines in its poor little self attached to precious stones, to witches’ charms, and to the gifts of the Grecian gods. Mr. Sargent Kayme’s “Anting-Anting” stories describe certain of its works and acts, and give the native Filipino of unmixed blood a place in American fiction. He is about as agreeable as the North American Indian, and represents as many shades of savagery as lie between the Iroquois and the Thlinkit. but he is new, and his wickedness is of a new flavor; his honor, such as it is, is of a new color; his ambition is of another quality, and such enlightenment as he has received from the white man differs in every way from that received by the Eastern Indians from the French and the English. Mr. Kayme tells eleven stories of him, and tells them cleverly, with no attempt to imitate Mr. Kipling, but suiting his style to his subject, and his small volume is excellent reading. The American element introduced is sometimes military, sometimes scientific, but the Filipino has the chief place, and much may be expected from him. The curious in these matters will desire to compare him with Mr. Wildman’s Malays of the peninsula rather than with the tribes of the Indian Empire, but it should be remembered that the United States hold him in trust, and unless they wish to feel once more the bitter self-reproach with which they regard their treatment of the Indian they must learn to understand him.Anting-Anting Stories. By Sargent Kayme. Pp. vi.–235. Boston: Messrs. Small, Maynard & Co. $1.50.Also reviewed by Alexander F. Chamberlain in theThe Journal of American Folklore, Vol. 14, No. 54 (Jul.–Sep., 1901), p. 215.Sargent Kayme is a pseudonym.EncodingThe tilde has been restored in those Spanish words that use it.Revision History2008-02-14 Started.CorrectionsThe following corrections have been applied to the text:LocationSourceCorrectionPage 9SenorSeñorPage 9SenorSeñorPage 10SenorSeñorPage 15SenorSeñorPage 15SenorSeñorPage 43SenorSeñorPage 44SenorSeñorPage 61,:Page 69IsItPage 70is’ntisn’tPage 77senoraseñoraPage 78daguerrotypedaguerreotypePage 79SenoraSeñoraPage 80senoraseñoraPage 84SenorSeñorPage 84[Not in source]“Page 85SenorSeñorPage 85SenorSeñorPage 85SenorSeñorPage 86SenorSeñorPage 86SenorSeñorPage 88[Not in source]“Page 88[Not in source]”Page 89SenorSeñorPage 90SenorSeñorPage 90SenorSeñorPage 90AmerianAmericanPage 106SenorSeñorPage 110SenorSeñorPage 117senoritaseñoritaPage 124SenorSeñorPage 126SenorSeñorPage 152OgdensburgOgdensburghPage 161[Not in source].Page 168[Not in source]“Page 185cuardrilleroscuadrillerosPage 189SenorSeñorPage 190SenorSeñorPage 204SenorSeñorPage 204SenorSeñorPage 205SenorSeñorPage 205‘“Page 205’”
A Great American Novel of the Civil War.THE GRAPES OF WRATH.A Tale of North and South.BY MARY HARRIOTT NORRIS,Author ofThe Gray House of the Quarries, etc.12mo, doth, decorative, with six full-page illustrations byH. T. Carpenter.$1.50A really great American novel of the Civil War, which will appeal with equal force to-day to the Southern as well as to the Northern reader. The title is, of course, suggested by Mrs. Howe’s line,—“He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored.”The story is developed from the fortunes, amid the vicissitudes of war, of an old New Jersey family, one son of which had settled in Virginia, becoming a general in Lee’s army. There is little fighting and no cheap heroics in the book, but it gives a clearer picture and a more intimate and impressive understanding of what the great struggle really meant to Unionist and to Confederate alike than many a military history.A Romance of the Iowa Wheat Fields.THE ROAD TO RIDGEBY’S.BY FRANK BURLINGAME HARRIS.12mo, cloth, decorative.$1.50A simple but powerful story of farm life in the great West, which cannot fail to make a lasting impression on every reader. In this book Mr. Harris has done for the wheat fields what Mr. Westcott has done for rural New York and Mr. Bacheller for the North country. It is in no way imitative ofDavid HarumorEben Holden; and, unlike each of these books, it is not in the portrayal of a single quaint character that its power consists. Mr. Harris has taken for his story a typical Iowa farmer’s family and their neighbours; and, although every one of the characters is realistically portrayed, the sense of proportion is never lost sight of, and the result is a picture of real life, artistic in the highest sense, as being true to nature. It is a wholesome story, full of the real heroism of homely life, a book to make the reader better by strengthening his belief in the truth of self-sacrifice and the survival of sturdy American character.A Remarkable Study of Social Life in America.DIFFERENCESBY HERVEY WHITE.12mo, cloth, decorative, 320 pages.$1.50“It is treating the poor as a class and employing any method of handling them that I object to.... Why can’t they be treated as individuals, the same as other people? What would the rich think of my impertinence if I went about the world treating them in a peculiar manner,—as if they were not real people, at all, but only ‘the rich,’ in my knowledge? ”—Hester Carr, inDifferences.“Differenceis an extraordinary book.... The labor question is its primary concern, and the caste barrier which modern conditions have erected between the man who works and the man who merely lives. This is no new theme, yetDifferencesis new, and its place in thoughtful literature awaits it. The only argument presented by Mr. White is contained in the picture he spreads before us. It is real, and set out with bold, firm strokes, and there is no attempt to be merely artistic. Genevieve Radcliffe, the rich society girl, who goes to work charity with the poor, and John Wade, the workman, whose situation involves all the tragedy of metropolitan poverty, are human, if they be not typical. They embody the ‘differences’, and, if they do not point the way to equality, it is because American civilization is not yet ripe for them. Withal, the book is not a tract. It is worth a thousand such. Informed throughout with a tender simplicity, a sense of the beauty of common things, and a sincerity that brooks no question, it carries equal appeal to the student of economics and to the lover of human feeling.”—Philadelphia North American.“There is no end of philosophy in books about the poor and how to reach them and send rays of sunshine into their world; but few books get at the real ‘Differences’ that exist between the wealthy classes and the poor as does Mr. Hervey White....Differenceis vitally interesting, both as a story and as a moral lesson.... It is written with wholesome enthusiasm and an intelligent survey of real facts.”—Boston Herald.“The method employed by Mr. Hervey White inDifferencesis not like that of any author I have ever read in the English language. It resembles strongly the work of the best Russian novelists, it seems to me, and particularly that of Dostolevsky, and yet it is in no sense an imitation of those writers: it is apparently like them merely because the author’s motives and ways of thought and observation are like them.... I have never before read any such treatment in the English language of the life and thought of laboring people.”—Joseph Edgar Chamberlin, inBoston Transcript.A Powerful Realistic Novel of American Life.QUICKSANDByHERVEY WHITE.12mo, cloth, decorative, 328 pages.$1.50Quicksandis a strong argument against a certain condition which the author believes exists too generally in American society, and is, in effect, an appeal for the freedom of the individual in family life. It is a powerful tragedy, developing very naturally out of the effects of the interference of parents in the lives of their children, and of brothers and sisters in the affairs of each other. It becomes therefore, not only the story of an individual, but the life history of an entire family, the members of which are portrayed with astonishing vividness and realism. The hero of the book also illustrates, in his sufferings and failures, the unfortunate effects of a too narrow orthodoxy in religion, coupled with his family’s interference with his growth out of this environment. Offsetting the tragedy of the story is “Hiram,” the “hired man” of the family in its earlier New England days, in whom, particularly, the reader’s interest will centre. Patient, kindly, faithful, and uncomplaining, he is indeed the real “hero” of the tale, the only one free from the unfortunate environments of the other characters, yet forced indirectly to suffer also because of them. It is the every-day life of the every-day family that is drawn; and this fact, together with the boldness and fidelity of the drawing, gives the story its power and impressiveness.“Hervey White is the most forceful writer who has appeared in America for a long generation.”—Chicago Evening Post.“We cannot remember another book in which lives, thoughts, emotions, souls, and principles of action have been analyzed with such convincing power. Mr. Hervey White has great literary skill. He has here made his mark, and he has come to stay.... He is the American George Gissing, and as such some day he will have to be taken into account.”—Boston Herald.“It should insure Mr. White a permanent place in the critical regard of his fellow-countrymen.... Few characters as strong as that of Elizabeth Hinckley have ever been drawn by an American author, and she will remain in the mind of the most assiduous novel reader, secure of a place far above that held by most of the puny creations of the day.”—Chicago Tribune.“It is wrought of enduring qualities. Few novels are so sustained on an elevated plane of interest.”—Philadelphia Item.“It is a novel that takes hold of one, and is not the sort of book that, once begun, can be laid down without being finished.”—Indianapolis News.Two Notable Novels by Emma Rayner.VISITING THE SINA Tale of Mountain Life In Kentucky and Tennessee.12mo, cloth, with cover designed byT. W. Ball. 448 pages.$1.50The struggle between the heroine’s love and her determination to visit the sin upon the son of the supposed murderer of her father forms the basis of the story. All of the characters are vividly drawn, and the action of the story is wonderfully dramatic and lifelike. The period is about 1875.“A powerful, well-sustained story, the interest in which does not flag from the first chapter to the last.”—Philadelphia North American.“Unusually powerful. The dramatic plot is intricate, but not obscure.”—The Congregationalist.“A graphic and readable piece of fiction, which will stand with the best of its time concerning humble American characters.”—Providence Journal.“Far ahead of most of these latter-day Southern novels.”—Southern Star.“The people in the story are persistently real.”—Christian Advocate.FREE TO SERVEA Tale of Colonial New York.12mo, cloth, with a cover designed byMaxfield Parrish. 434 pages.$1.50“One of the very best stories of the Colonial period yet written,”—Philadelphia Bulletin.“We have here a thorough-going romance of American life in the first days of the eighteenth century. It is a story written for the story’s sake, and right well written, too. Indians, Dutch, Frenchmen, Puritans, all play a part. The scenes are vivid, the incidents novel and many.”—The Independent.“The writing is cleverly done, and the old-fashioned atmosphere of old Knickerbocker days is reproduced with such a touch of verity as to seem an actual chronicle recorded by one who lived in those days.”—Saturday Evening Post, Philadelphia.“The supreme test of a long book is the reading of it, and when one reaches the end ofFree to Serve, he acknowledges freely that it is the best book that he has taken up for a long time,”—Boston Herald.An Irish Love Story of 1848.MONONIA.BY JUSTIN McCARTHY, M.P.,Author ofA History of Our Own Times,Dear Lady Disdain, etc. 12mo, green cloth and gold.$1.50Mr. McCarthy has written several successful novels; but none, perhaps, will have greater interest for his American readers than this volume, in which he writes reminiscently of the Ireland of his youth and the stirring events which marked that period. It is pre-eminently an old-fashioned novel, befitting the times which it describes, and written with the delicate touch of sentiment characteristic of Mr. McCarthy’s fiction. The book takes its name from the heroine, a charming type of the gentle-born Irish-woman. In the development of the romance, the attempts for Ireland’s freedom, and the dire failures that culminated at Ballingary, are told in a manner which give an intimate insight into the history of theYoung Irelandmovement. If the book cannot be considered autobiographical, the reader will not forget that the author was contemporary with the events described, and will have little difficulty in perceiving that many of the principal characters are strongly suggestive of the Irish leaders of that day, which gives the book scarcely less value than an avowed autobiography.“Mononia is drawn with all Mr. McCarthy’s ancient skill.”London Outlook.“Beautiful in every sense is this ‘Mononia.’ It is a work that we could expect from no other author, for it is largely reminiscent. So, besides its attractiveness as a romance, the book is attractive as an informal historical document. Read in either of these lights, it will be found delightful.”—Boston Journal.“Altogether a good story.... Mononia is full of beauty, tenderness, and that sweet and wholesome common sense which is so refreshing when found in a woman.”—The Pilot(Boston).“The description of the affection of Mononia and Philip is a piece of literary splendor.”—Boston Courier.“For those who would reject its historical and autobiographic phase, there remains the old-fashioned love romance, full of fine Irish spirit, which is always refreshing.”—Mail and Express.TUSKEGEE: ITS STORY & ITS WORKByMAX BENNETT THRASHERWith an Introduction byBOOKER T. WASHINGTON 12mo, cloth, decorative, 248 pages, 50 Illustrations,$1.00THE TUSKEGEE NORMAL AND INDUSTRIAL INSTITUTE, at Tuskegee, Alabama, is one of the most uniquely interesting institutions in America. Begun, twenty years ago, in two abandoned, tumble-down houses, with thirty untaught Negro men and women for its first students, it has become one of the famous schools of the country, with more than a thousand students each year. Students and teachers are all of the Negro race. The Principal of the school, Mr. Booker T. Washington, is the best-known man of his race in the world to-day.In “Tuskegee: Its Story and its Work,” the story of the school is told in a very interesting way. He has shown how Mr. Washington’s early life was a preparation for his work. He has given a history of the Institute from its foundation, explained the practical methods by which it gives industrial training, and then he has gone on to show some of the results which the institution has accomplished. The human element is carried through the whole so thoroughly that one reads the book for entertainment as well as for instruction.COMMENTS.“All who are interested in the proper solution of the problem in the South should feel deeply grateful to Mr. Thrasher for the task which he has undertaken and performed so well.”—Booker T. Washington.“Should be carefully and thoughtfully read by every friend of the colored race in the North as well as in the South,”—New York Times.“The book is of the utmost value to all those who desire and hope for the development of the Negro race in America.”—Louisville Courier-Journal.“Almost every question one could raise in regard to the school and its work, from Who was Booker Washington? to What do people whose opinion is worth having think of Tuskegee? is answered in this book.”—New Bedford Standard.For sale at all Bookstores, or sent, postpaid, on receipt of price, by the publishers,Small Maynard & Company, Boston.ColophonAvailabilityThis eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online atwww.gutenberg.org.This eBook is produced by Jeroen Hellingman and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team atwww.pgdp.net.Review from the New York Times, published July 13, 1901:Filipino Stories.The anting anting is both talisman and fetich: it is the Filipino version of good medicine, and it combines in its poor little self attached to precious stones, to witches’ charms, and to the gifts of the Grecian gods. Mr. Sargent Kayme’s “Anting-Anting” stories describe certain of its works and acts, and give the native Filipino of unmixed blood a place in American fiction. He is about as agreeable as the North American Indian, and represents as many shades of savagery as lie between the Iroquois and the Thlinkit. but he is new, and his wickedness is of a new flavor; his honor, such as it is, is of a new color; his ambition is of another quality, and such enlightenment as he has received from the white man differs in every way from that received by the Eastern Indians from the French and the English. Mr. Kayme tells eleven stories of him, and tells them cleverly, with no attempt to imitate Mr. Kipling, but suiting his style to his subject, and his small volume is excellent reading. The American element introduced is sometimes military, sometimes scientific, but the Filipino has the chief place, and much may be expected from him. The curious in these matters will desire to compare him with Mr. Wildman’s Malays of the peninsula rather than with the tribes of the Indian Empire, but it should be remembered that the United States hold him in trust, and unless they wish to feel once more the bitter self-reproach with which they regard their treatment of the Indian they must learn to understand him.Anting-Anting Stories. By Sargent Kayme. Pp. vi.–235. Boston: Messrs. Small, Maynard & Co. $1.50.Also reviewed by Alexander F. Chamberlain in theThe Journal of American Folklore, Vol. 14, No. 54 (Jul.–Sep., 1901), p. 215.Sargent Kayme is a pseudonym.EncodingThe tilde has been restored in those Spanish words that use it.Revision History2008-02-14 Started.CorrectionsThe following corrections have been applied to the text:LocationSourceCorrectionPage 9SenorSeñorPage 9SenorSeñorPage 10SenorSeñorPage 15SenorSeñorPage 15SenorSeñorPage 43SenorSeñorPage 44SenorSeñorPage 61,:Page 69IsItPage 70is’ntisn’tPage 77senoraseñoraPage 78daguerrotypedaguerreotypePage 79SenoraSeñoraPage 80senoraseñoraPage 84SenorSeñorPage 84[Not in source]“Page 85SenorSeñorPage 85SenorSeñorPage 85SenorSeñorPage 86SenorSeñorPage 86SenorSeñorPage 88[Not in source]“Page 88[Not in source]”Page 89SenorSeñorPage 90SenorSeñorPage 90SenorSeñorPage 90AmerianAmericanPage 106SenorSeñorPage 110SenorSeñorPage 117senoritaseñoritaPage 124SenorSeñorPage 126SenorSeñorPage 152OgdensburgOgdensburghPage 161[Not in source].Page 168[Not in source]“Page 185cuardrilleroscuadrillerosPage 189SenorSeñorPage 190SenorSeñorPage 204SenorSeñorPage 204SenorSeñorPage 205SenorSeñorPage 205‘“Page 205’”
A Great American Novel of the Civil War.
THE GRAPES OF WRATH.
A Tale of North and South.
BY MARY HARRIOTT NORRIS,
Author ofThe Gray House of the Quarries, etc.
12mo, doth, decorative, with six full-page illustrations byH. T. Carpenter.$1.50
A really great American novel of the Civil War, which will appeal with equal force to-day to the Southern as well as to the Northern reader. The title is, of course, suggested by Mrs. Howe’s line,—
“He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored.”
“He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored.”
The story is developed from the fortunes, amid the vicissitudes of war, of an old New Jersey family, one son of which had settled in Virginia, becoming a general in Lee’s army. There is little fighting and no cheap heroics in the book, but it gives a clearer picture and a more intimate and impressive understanding of what the great struggle really meant to Unionist and to Confederate alike than many a military history.
A Romance of the Iowa Wheat Fields.
THE ROAD TO RIDGEBY’S.
BY FRANK BURLINGAME HARRIS.
12mo, cloth, decorative.$1.50
A simple but powerful story of farm life in the great West, which cannot fail to make a lasting impression on every reader. In this book Mr. Harris has done for the wheat fields what Mr. Westcott has done for rural New York and Mr. Bacheller for the North country. It is in no way imitative ofDavid HarumorEben Holden; and, unlike each of these books, it is not in the portrayal of a single quaint character that its power consists. Mr. Harris has taken for his story a typical Iowa farmer’s family and their neighbours; and, although every one of the characters is realistically portrayed, the sense of proportion is never lost sight of, and the result is a picture of real life, artistic in the highest sense, as being true to nature. It is a wholesome story, full of the real heroism of homely life, a book to make the reader better by strengthening his belief in the truth of self-sacrifice and the survival of sturdy American character.
A Remarkable Study of Social Life in America.
DIFFERENCES
BY HERVEY WHITE.
12mo, cloth, decorative, 320 pages.$1.50
“It is treating the poor as a class and employing any method of handling them that I object to.... Why can’t they be treated as individuals, the same as other people? What would the rich think of my impertinence if I went about the world treating them in a peculiar manner,—as if they were not real people, at all, but only ‘the rich,’ in my knowledge? ”—Hester Carr, inDifferences.
“Differenceis an extraordinary book.... The labor question is its primary concern, and the caste barrier which modern conditions have erected between the man who works and the man who merely lives. This is no new theme, yetDifferencesis new, and its place in thoughtful literature awaits it. The only argument presented by Mr. White is contained in the picture he spreads before us. It is real, and set out with bold, firm strokes, and there is no attempt to be merely artistic. Genevieve Radcliffe, the rich society girl, who goes to work charity with the poor, and John Wade, the workman, whose situation involves all the tragedy of metropolitan poverty, are human, if they be not typical. They embody the ‘differences’, and, if they do not point the way to equality, it is because American civilization is not yet ripe for them. Withal, the book is not a tract. It is worth a thousand such. Informed throughout with a tender simplicity, a sense of the beauty of common things, and a sincerity that brooks no question, it carries equal appeal to the student of economics and to the lover of human feeling.”—Philadelphia North American.“There is no end of philosophy in books about the poor and how to reach them and send rays of sunshine into their world; but few books get at the real ‘Differences’ that exist between the wealthy classes and the poor as does Mr. Hervey White....Differenceis vitally interesting, both as a story and as a moral lesson.... It is written with wholesome enthusiasm and an intelligent survey of real facts.”—Boston Herald.“The method employed by Mr. Hervey White inDifferencesis not like that of any author I have ever read in the English language. It resembles strongly the work of the best Russian novelists, it seems to me, and particularly that of Dostolevsky, and yet it is in no sense an imitation of those writers: it is apparently like them merely because the author’s motives and ways of thought and observation are like them.... I have never before read any such treatment in the English language of the life and thought of laboring people.”—Joseph Edgar Chamberlin, inBoston Transcript.
“Differenceis an extraordinary book.... The labor question is its primary concern, and the caste barrier which modern conditions have erected between the man who works and the man who merely lives. This is no new theme, yetDifferencesis new, and its place in thoughtful literature awaits it. The only argument presented by Mr. White is contained in the picture he spreads before us. It is real, and set out with bold, firm strokes, and there is no attempt to be merely artistic. Genevieve Radcliffe, the rich society girl, who goes to work charity with the poor, and John Wade, the workman, whose situation involves all the tragedy of metropolitan poverty, are human, if they be not typical. They embody the ‘differences’, and, if they do not point the way to equality, it is because American civilization is not yet ripe for them. Withal, the book is not a tract. It is worth a thousand such. Informed throughout with a tender simplicity, a sense of the beauty of common things, and a sincerity that brooks no question, it carries equal appeal to the student of economics and to the lover of human feeling.”—Philadelphia North American.
“There is no end of philosophy in books about the poor and how to reach them and send rays of sunshine into their world; but few books get at the real ‘Differences’ that exist between the wealthy classes and the poor as does Mr. Hervey White....Differenceis vitally interesting, both as a story and as a moral lesson.... It is written with wholesome enthusiasm and an intelligent survey of real facts.”—Boston Herald.
“The method employed by Mr. Hervey White inDifferencesis not like that of any author I have ever read in the English language. It resembles strongly the work of the best Russian novelists, it seems to me, and particularly that of Dostolevsky, and yet it is in no sense an imitation of those writers: it is apparently like them merely because the author’s motives and ways of thought and observation are like them.... I have never before read any such treatment in the English language of the life and thought of laboring people.”—Joseph Edgar Chamberlin, inBoston Transcript.
A Powerful Realistic Novel of American Life.
QUICKSAND
ByHERVEY WHITE.
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Quicksandis a strong argument against a certain condition which the author believes exists too generally in American society, and is, in effect, an appeal for the freedom of the individual in family life. It is a powerful tragedy, developing very naturally out of the effects of the interference of parents in the lives of their children, and of brothers and sisters in the affairs of each other. It becomes therefore, not only the story of an individual, but the life history of an entire family, the members of which are portrayed with astonishing vividness and realism. The hero of the book also illustrates, in his sufferings and failures, the unfortunate effects of a too narrow orthodoxy in religion, coupled with his family’s interference with his growth out of this environment. Offsetting the tragedy of the story is “Hiram,” the “hired man” of the family in its earlier New England days, in whom, particularly, the reader’s interest will centre. Patient, kindly, faithful, and uncomplaining, he is indeed the real “hero” of the tale, the only one free from the unfortunate environments of the other characters, yet forced indirectly to suffer also because of them. It is the every-day life of the every-day family that is drawn; and this fact, together with the boldness and fidelity of the drawing, gives the story its power and impressiveness.
“Hervey White is the most forceful writer who has appeared in America for a long generation.”—Chicago Evening Post.“We cannot remember another book in which lives, thoughts, emotions, souls, and principles of action have been analyzed with such convincing power. Mr. Hervey White has great literary skill. He has here made his mark, and he has come to stay.... He is the American George Gissing, and as such some day he will have to be taken into account.”—Boston Herald.“It should insure Mr. White a permanent place in the critical regard of his fellow-countrymen.... Few characters as strong as that of Elizabeth Hinckley have ever been drawn by an American author, and she will remain in the mind of the most assiduous novel reader, secure of a place far above that held by most of the puny creations of the day.”—Chicago Tribune.“It is wrought of enduring qualities. Few novels are so sustained on an elevated plane of interest.”—Philadelphia Item.“It is a novel that takes hold of one, and is not the sort of book that, once begun, can be laid down without being finished.”—Indianapolis News.
“Hervey White is the most forceful writer who has appeared in America for a long generation.”—Chicago Evening Post.
“We cannot remember another book in which lives, thoughts, emotions, souls, and principles of action have been analyzed with such convincing power. Mr. Hervey White has great literary skill. He has here made his mark, and he has come to stay.... He is the American George Gissing, and as such some day he will have to be taken into account.”—Boston Herald.
“It should insure Mr. White a permanent place in the critical regard of his fellow-countrymen.... Few characters as strong as that of Elizabeth Hinckley have ever been drawn by an American author, and she will remain in the mind of the most assiduous novel reader, secure of a place far above that held by most of the puny creations of the day.”—Chicago Tribune.
“It is wrought of enduring qualities. Few novels are so sustained on an elevated plane of interest.”—Philadelphia Item.
“It is a novel that takes hold of one, and is not the sort of book that, once begun, can be laid down without being finished.”—Indianapolis News.
Two Notable Novels by Emma Rayner.
VISITING THE SIN
A Tale of Mountain Life In Kentucky and Tennessee.
12mo, cloth, with cover designed byT. W. Ball. 448 pages.$1.50
The struggle between the heroine’s love and her determination to visit the sin upon the son of the supposed murderer of her father forms the basis of the story. All of the characters are vividly drawn, and the action of the story is wonderfully dramatic and lifelike. The period is about 1875.
“A powerful, well-sustained story, the interest in which does not flag from the first chapter to the last.”—Philadelphia North American.“Unusually powerful. The dramatic plot is intricate, but not obscure.”—The Congregationalist.“A graphic and readable piece of fiction, which will stand with the best of its time concerning humble American characters.”—Providence Journal.“Far ahead of most of these latter-day Southern novels.”—Southern Star.“The people in the story are persistently real.”—Christian Advocate.
“A powerful, well-sustained story, the interest in which does not flag from the first chapter to the last.”—Philadelphia North American.
“Unusually powerful. The dramatic plot is intricate, but not obscure.”—The Congregationalist.
“A graphic and readable piece of fiction, which will stand with the best of its time concerning humble American characters.”—Providence Journal.
“Far ahead of most of these latter-day Southern novels.”—Southern Star.
“The people in the story are persistently real.”—Christian Advocate.
FREE TO SERVE
A Tale of Colonial New York.
12mo, cloth, with a cover designed byMaxfield Parrish. 434 pages.$1.50
“One of the very best stories of the Colonial period yet written,”—Philadelphia Bulletin.“We have here a thorough-going romance of American life in the first days of the eighteenth century. It is a story written for the story’s sake, and right well written, too. Indians, Dutch, Frenchmen, Puritans, all play a part. The scenes are vivid, the incidents novel and many.”—The Independent.“The writing is cleverly done, and the old-fashioned atmosphere of old Knickerbocker days is reproduced with such a touch of verity as to seem an actual chronicle recorded by one who lived in those days.”—Saturday Evening Post, Philadelphia.“The supreme test of a long book is the reading of it, and when one reaches the end ofFree to Serve, he acknowledges freely that it is the best book that he has taken up for a long time,”—Boston Herald.
“One of the very best stories of the Colonial period yet written,”—Philadelphia Bulletin.
“We have here a thorough-going romance of American life in the first days of the eighteenth century. It is a story written for the story’s sake, and right well written, too. Indians, Dutch, Frenchmen, Puritans, all play a part. The scenes are vivid, the incidents novel and many.”—The Independent.
“The writing is cleverly done, and the old-fashioned atmosphere of old Knickerbocker days is reproduced with such a touch of verity as to seem an actual chronicle recorded by one who lived in those days.”—Saturday Evening Post, Philadelphia.
“The supreme test of a long book is the reading of it, and when one reaches the end ofFree to Serve, he acknowledges freely that it is the best book that he has taken up for a long time,”—Boston Herald.
An Irish Love Story of 1848.
MONONIA.
BY JUSTIN McCARTHY, M.P.,
Author ofA History of Our Own Times,Dear Lady Disdain, etc. 12mo, green cloth and gold.$1.50
Mr. McCarthy has written several successful novels; but none, perhaps, will have greater interest for his American readers than this volume, in which he writes reminiscently of the Ireland of his youth and the stirring events which marked that period. It is pre-eminently an old-fashioned novel, befitting the times which it describes, and written with the delicate touch of sentiment characteristic of Mr. McCarthy’s fiction. The book takes its name from the heroine, a charming type of the gentle-born Irish-woman. In the development of the romance, the attempts for Ireland’s freedom, and the dire failures that culminated at Ballingary, are told in a manner which give an intimate insight into the history of theYoung Irelandmovement. If the book cannot be considered autobiographical, the reader will not forget that the author was contemporary with the events described, and will have little difficulty in perceiving that many of the principal characters are strongly suggestive of the Irish leaders of that day, which gives the book scarcely less value than an avowed autobiography.
“Mononia is drawn with all Mr. McCarthy’s ancient skill.”London Outlook.“Beautiful in every sense is this ‘Mononia.’ It is a work that we could expect from no other author, for it is largely reminiscent. So, besides its attractiveness as a romance, the book is attractive as an informal historical document. Read in either of these lights, it will be found delightful.”—Boston Journal.“Altogether a good story.... Mononia is full of beauty, tenderness, and that sweet and wholesome common sense which is so refreshing when found in a woman.”—The Pilot(Boston).“The description of the affection of Mononia and Philip is a piece of literary splendor.”—Boston Courier.“For those who would reject its historical and autobiographic phase, there remains the old-fashioned love romance, full of fine Irish spirit, which is always refreshing.”—Mail and Express.
“Mononia is drawn with all Mr. McCarthy’s ancient skill.”London Outlook.
“Beautiful in every sense is this ‘Mononia.’ It is a work that we could expect from no other author, for it is largely reminiscent. So, besides its attractiveness as a romance, the book is attractive as an informal historical document. Read in either of these lights, it will be found delightful.”—Boston Journal.
“Altogether a good story.... Mononia is full of beauty, tenderness, and that sweet and wholesome common sense which is so refreshing when found in a woman.”—The Pilot(Boston).
“The description of the affection of Mononia and Philip is a piece of literary splendor.”—Boston Courier.
“For those who would reject its historical and autobiographic phase, there remains the old-fashioned love romance, full of fine Irish spirit, which is always refreshing.”—Mail and Express.
TUSKEGEE: ITS STORY & ITS WORK
ByMAX BENNETT THRASHER
With an Introduction byBOOKER T. WASHINGTON 12mo, cloth, decorative, 248 pages, 50 Illustrations,$1.00
THE TUSKEGEE NORMAL AND INDUSTRIAL INSTITUTE, at Tuskegee, Alabama, is one of the most uniquely interesting institutions in America. Begun, twenty years ago, in two abandoned, tumble-down houses, with thirty untaught Negro men and women for its first students, it has become one of the famous schools of the country, with more than a thousand students each year. Students and teachers are all of the Negro race. The Principal of the school, Mr. Booker T. Washington, is the best-known man of his race in the world to-day.
In “Tuskegee: Its Story and its Work,” the story of the school is told in a very interesting way. He has shown how Mr. Washington’s early life was a preparation for his work. He has given a history of the Institute from its foundation, explained the practical methods by which it gives industrial training, and then he has gone on to show some of the results which the institution has accomplished. The human element is carried through the whole so thoroughly that one reads the book for entertainment as well as for instruction.
COMMENTS.“All who are interested in the proper solution of the problem in the South should feel deeply grateful to Mr. Thrasher for the task which he has undertaken and performed so well.”—Booker T. Washington.“Should be carefully and thoughtfully read by every friend of the colored race in the North as well as in the South,”—New York Times.“The book is of the utmost value to all those who desire and hope for the development of the Negro race in America.”—Louisville Courier-Journal.“Almost every question one could raise in regard to the school and its work, from Who was Booker Washington? to What do people whose opinion is worth having think of Tuskegee? is answered in this book.”—New Bedford Standard.
COMMENTS.
“All who are interested in the proper solution of the problem in the South should feel deeply grateful to Mr. Thrasher for the task which he has undertaken and performed so well.”—Booker T. Washington.
“Should be carefully and thoughtfully read by every friend of the colored race in the North as well as in the South,”—New York Times.
“The book is of the utmost value to all those who desire and hope for the development of the Negro race in America.”—Louisville Courier-Journal.
“Almost every question one could raise in regard to the school and its work, from Who was Booker Washington? to What do people whose opinion is worth having think of Tuskegee? is answered in this book.”—New Bedford Standard.
For sale at all Bookstores, or sent, postpaid, on receipt of price, by the publishers,
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ColophonAvailabilityThis eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online atwww.gutenberg.org.This eBook is produced by Jeroen Hellingman and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team atwww.pgdp.net.Review from the New York Times, published July 13, 1901:Filipino Stories.The anting anting is both talisman and fetich: it is the Filipino version of good medicine, and it combines in its poor little self attached to precious stones, to witches’ charms, and to the gifts of the Grecian gods. Mr. Sargent Kayme’s “Anting-Anting” stories describe certain of its works and acts, and give the native Filipino of unmixed blood a place in American fiction. He is about as agreeable as the North American Indian, and represents as many shades of savagery as lie between the Iroquois and the Thlinkit. but he is new, and his wickedness is of a new flavor; his honor, such as it is, is of a new color; his ambition is of another quality, and such enlightenment as he has received from the white man differs in every way from that received by the Eastern Indians from the French and the English. Mr. Kayme tells eleven stories of him, and tells them cleverly, with no attempt to imitate Mr. Kipling, but suiting his style to his subject, and his small volume is excellent reading. The American element introduced is sometimes military, sometimes scientific, but the Filipino has the chief place, and much may be expected from him. The curious in these matters will desire to compare him with Mr. Wildman’s Malays of the peninsula rather than with the tribes of the Indian Empire, but it should be remembered that the United States hold him in trust, and unless they wish to feel once more the bitter self-reproach with which they regard their treatment of the Indian they must learn to understand him.Anting-Anting Stories. By Sargent Kayme. Pp. vi.–235. Boston: Messrs. Small, Maynard & Co. $1.50.Also reviewed by Alexander F. Chamberlain in theThe Journal of American Folklore, Vol. 14, No. 54 (Jul.–Sep., 1901), p. 215.Sargent Kayme is a pseudonym.EncodingThe tilde has been restored in those Spanish words that use it.Revision History2008-02-14 Started.CorrectionsThe following corrections have been applied to the text:LocationSourceCorrectionPage 9SenorSeñorPage 9SenorSeñorPage 10SenorSeñorPage 15SenorSeñorPage 15SenorSeñorPage 43SenorSeñorPage 44SenorSeñorPage 61,:Page 69IsItPage 70is’ntisn’tPage 77senoraseñoraPage 78daguerrotypedaguerreotypePage 79SenoraSeñoraPage 80senoraseñoraPage 84SenorSeñorPage 84[Not in source]“Page 85SenorSeñorPage 85SenorSeñorPage 85SenorSeñorPage 86SenorSeñorPage 86SenorSeñorPage 88[Not in source]“Page 88[Not in source]”Page 89SenorSeñorPage 90SenorSeñorPage 90SenorSeñorPage 90AmerianAmericanPage 106SenorSeñorPage 110SenorSeñorPage 117senoritaseñoritaPage 124SenorSeñorPage 126SenorSeñorPage 152OgdensburgOgdensburghPage 161[Not in source].Page 168[Not in source]“Page 185cuardrilleroscuadrillerosPage 189SenorSeñorPage 190SenorSeñorPage 204SenorSeñorPage 204SenorSeñorPage 205SenorSeñorPage 205‘“Page 205’”
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Review from the New York Times, published July 13, 1901:
Filipino Stories.The anting anting is both talisman and fetich: it is the Filipino version of good medicine, and it combines in its poor little self attached to precious stones, to witches’ charms, and to the gifts of the Grecian gods. Mr. Sargent Kayme’s “Anting-Anting” stories describe certain of its works and acts, and give the native Filipino of unmixed blood a place in American fiction. He is about as agreeable as the North American Indian, and represents as many shades of savagery as lie between the Iroquois and the Thlinkit. but he is new, and his wickedness is of a new flavor; his honor, such as it is, is of a new color; his ambition is of another quality, and such enlightenment as he has received from the white man differs in every way from that received by the Eastern Indians from the French and the English. Mr. Kayme tells eleven stories of him, and tells them cleverly, with no attempt to imitate Mr. Kipling, but suiting his style to his subject, and his small volume is excellent reading. The American element introduced is sometimes military, sometimes scientific, but the Filipino has the chief place, and much may be expected from him. The curious in these matters will desire to compare him with Mr. Wildman’s Malays of the peninsula rather than with the tribes of the Indian Empire, but it should be remembered that the United States hold him in trust, and unless they wish to feel once more the bitter self-reproach with which they regard their treatment of the Indian they must learn to understand him.Anting-Anting Stories. By Sargent Kayme. Pp. vi.–235. Boston: Messrs. Small, Maynard & Co. $1.50.
Filipino Stories.
The anting anting is both talisman and fetich: it is the Filipino version of good medicine, and it combines in its poor little self attached to precious stones, to witches’ charms, and to the gifts of the Grecian gods. Mr. Sargent Kayme’s “Anting-Anting” stories describe certain of its works and acts, and give the native Filipino of unmixed blood a place in American fiction. He is about as agreeable as the North American Indian, and represents as many shades of savagery as lie between the Iroquois and the Thlinkit. but he is new, and his wickedness is of a new flavor; his honor, such as it is, is of a new color; his ambition is of another quality, and such enlightenment as he has received from the white man differs in every way from that received by the Eastern Indians from the French and the English. Mr. Kayme tells eleven stories of him, and tells them cleverly, with no attempt to imitate Mr. Kipling, but suiting his style to his subject, and his small volume is excellent reading. The American element introduced is sometimes military, sometimes scientific, but the Filipino has the chief place, and much may be expected from him. The curious in these matters will desire to compare him with Mr. Wildman’s Malays of the peninsula rather than with the tribes of the Indian Empire, but it should be remembered that the United States hold him in trust, and unless they wish to feel once more the bitter self-reproach with which they regard their treatment of the Indian they must learn to understand him.
Anting-Anting Stories. By Sargent Kayme. Pp. vi.–235. Boston: Messrs. Small, Maynard & Co. $1.50.
Also reviewed by Alexander F. Chamberlain in theThe Journal of American Folklore, Vol. 14, No. 54 (Jul.–Sep., 1901), p. 215.
Sargent Kayme is a pseudonym.
The tilde has been restored in those Spanish words that use it.
The following corrections have been applied to the text: