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“The stories are certainly lively and readable in a high degree, and the book is sure to meet with popular success.”

*“Is immensely entertaining in an irresponsible sort of way.”

Tremain, Henry Edwin.Last hours of Sheridan’s cavalry.*$1.50. Bonnell.

“A reprint of war memoranda by a late brevet brigadier-general, major, aide-de-camp in the United States volunteers, originally published in sundry journals, and now reprinted in response to frequent requests, with an additional chapter compiled from official records and an appendix containing further interesting matter. The illustrations are a portrait of Sheridan, a map of the Appomattox campaign, and a picture of the holding up of Lee’s supply train.”—Critic.

“A sprightly and vivid account of the operations which brought that war to a close. An unusually valuable compilation of contemporary notes. Sheridan’s work in weaving the final toils around the fated Confederacy is here graphically narrated.”

“Valuable as a historical record, the volume has also the merit of a personal story charmingly and unaffectedly told that will make it of interest not only to the participants in the campaign, but to those thousands of others who like to read the stories of battles fought and victories won. So complete, so personal, and so interesting.”

Trench, Rt. Rev. Richard Chenevix.English, past and present.*75c. Dutton.

“This is a new edition of Archbishop Trench’s well-known book published many years ago. Emendations and corrections are supplied by Dr. A. Smythe Palmer, though surprisingly few of these have been found necessary.”—Outlook.

“The editor has very seldom laid himself open to criticism, and has performed a task which cannot have been light with care, tact, and skill.”

“Dr. Palmer ... has done his work carefully without insulting his author’s memory.”

Trent, William P.Brief history of American literature.*$1.40. Appleton.

A thorogoing text book containing a condensed account of the development of American literature, rather than a series of essays on leading American authors. The study is presented with marginal topics, and has at the end of each chapter a bibliography which has been based upon the equipments of the average school library, and which also contains helps for further study.

“A manual both sound and stimulating.” Charles Sears Baldwin.

“It is marked by some errors of perspective and emphasis, by a certain indiscriminateness and at the same time a curious timidity of judgment, and also by a peculiar dryness; but it shows also a rather unusual first-hand knowledge of the facts and an equally unusual orderliness and lucidity in disposing of them.”

“The author has restricted himself to the limitations of immature pupils, and has tactfully written on the level of their comprehension.”

Trent, William Peterfield.Greatness in literature, and other papers.**$1.20. Crowell.

Eight papers which are designed especially for “those interested in the problems that confront the critic and the teacher of literature,” but which will not fail to claim a larger audience by reason of their timeliness, and their sane, wholesome, and thoroly delightful treatment. The first paper takes up the question of, Greatness in literature; the second gives, A word for the smaller authors and for popular judgment; then follow, The aims and methods of literary study; Criticism and faith; Literature and science; Teaching literature; Some remarks on modern book-burning; and The love of poetry.

*“Though Professor Trent is a very clear and fluent writer, there is a certain lack of savor, of closeness of grain, in his style.”

Trent, William Peterfield.Southern writers.**$1.10. Macmillan.

Altho the Intention Has Been That of Furnishing Supplementary Reading for Students, Professor Trent Has Prepared an Instructive Book for General Use. the Literature of Representative Writers Of the South Has Been Divided Into Three Periods: 1607-1789, the Literature of the Colonies and the Revolution, Including Records Taken Fromdiaries of colonial gentlemen; 1790-1865, the literature of the Old South, including speeches by distinguished southern statesmen; and 1866-1905, the literature of the New South, reflecting the spirit of the literary renaissance.

“Is altogether an admirable piece of editorial workmanship.”

Reviewed by Herbert W. Horwill.

“On the whole a praiseworthy effort, and in the main a successful effort, to redeem the South from the charge of actual literary sterility.”

“The book is open to the criticism that it tends to foster the provincial illusion that the larger the number of names the greater the repute of the locality. For reference it is valuable, and appears to be well done.”

“May be confidently recommended to all students of American literature, North or South.”

“This volume has a distinct educational quality for the average Northern reader. He will find it in many things of permanent value and much that will delight and inspirit him.”

Trent, W. P., and Henneman, J. B., jt. eds. SeeThackeray, W: M.Works.

Trevathen, Charles E.American thoroughbred.**$2. Macmillan.

“This is the latest volume in the ‘American sportsman’s library.’ ... The author has supplied the book with pictures of some of the best known racers and other ‘thoroughbred’ horses. He opens it with a chapter entitled ‘Whence the American thoroughbred?’”—N. Y. Times.

“An important contribution to our knowledge of the ancestry of the American race horse.”

“Interesting and useful, though ... marred by typographical errors in the names of both horses and owners that ought not to mar such volumes.” Charles Tracy Bronson.

Trevelyan, George Macaulay.England under the Stuarts.*$3. Putnam.

This fifth volume of a series of six, covering the history of England from earliest times down to 1875, is the first to be issued. It is written by the grand-nephew of Lord Macaulay, whose influence is noticeable thruout the work. The first two chapters give an account of England at the time of the accession of James I. “He develops at the outset the thesis on which his entire monograph rests—that the significance of the Stuart epoch lies in the fact that whereas the continental people of Europe attained nationality only through military despotism, the English people under the Stuarts solved the same problem unconsciously through a free constitution, manifesting and vindicating itself in the face of monarchial despotism.... His personal portraits are marked by fairness and breadth of view, this being notably the case with the pictures of the first James, the second Charles, Cecil, Laud, Strafford, and Pym. The first Charles and Cromwell are limned less distinctly, being thrust, as it were, into the background of the tremendous upheavals of their day.” (Outlook). “The general purpose of the book is to bring the social and religious aspects into connection with the political.” (Bookm.)

“He has given us not so much a history, in the ordinary sense of the word, as a sustained, and luminous commentary upon history, high-toned and impartial; and the general excellence of its purely literary qualities is, so to speak, picked out by not infrequent passages of real and picturesque eloquence. It is a fine example of selection and condensation.”

“Mr. Trevelyan’s volume is a piece of special pleading throughout.” Edward Puller.

“By blending fact and analysis, creates a picture impressive in its outline and suggestive in its language and ideas.” E. D. Adams.

“His style is decidedly rhetorical, quick with sincerity and atmosphere and of a noteworthy picturesqueness. His scholarship is undoubted, wide and careful reading being coupled with a discriminative use of authorities.”

*“Is one of the best pieces of historical writing that has appeared in recent years.”

“This book brings sound scholarship, sensitiveness of temperament, and breadth of outlook to bear upon an historical theme of perennial importance.”

“The book ... is evidently an attempt to combine what may be called the Green and the Traill methods. The early part of his volume might be termed an abstract of Gardiner, while the latter is merely a summary of Macaulay with improvements. This strict restriction to the political history in the latter part of the book is especially unfortunate. Altogether, Mr. Trevelyan’s treatment of Cromwell is scarcely illuminating, either on the military or the religious side. Allowing for his plan, is carried out with a skill and ability worthy of his family tradition, but the plan, I must still contend, is a faulty one.” Joseph Jacobs.

“Succeeds in interpreting the period ... in terms at once attractive and convincing. His style is that of the picturesque school, his treatment that of the philosophic, a combination calculated to produce excellent results. This must be accounted a work of high merit, embodying the results of the latest research and developed along sound lines.”

Trevelyan, Sir George Otto.American revolution. 3v. ea.*$2. Longmans.

A new edition in three volumes of a work which originally appeared in two parts. It is issued now with a new preface, a portrait of the author, and some revision and rearrangement. “The special features of this history are the fullness with which it brings out English sentiment before and during the Revolutionary period, and the clearness with which it presents the Revolutionary struggle as a part of the great fight for Liberalism in England.” (Outlook.)

“It is certain that, as far as the revision goes, the author has left uncorrected several mistakes of which he had been duly apprised, in all three volumes.”

“[The revisions] have been performed in a truly careful and judicious manner. “As our recent notice called attention to some uncorrected errors, it is only fair to say that many others in part I. have been expelled.””

Trevelyan, Lady, ed. SeeMacaulay, Lord.Works.

Trevelyan, R. C.Birth of Parsifal.*$1.20. Longmans.

“This may be described as a lyrical-dramatic fragment ... the theme of which is drawnfrom those Graal romances which furnished Wagner’s great music-drama.... The writer’s task is to make us feel the dread and impressiveness of a curse denounced by ... the Graal and its vague ... priestly knighthood; and to move us by the sorrows and interior struggles of the dim figures affected by that curse.”—Acad.

“Mr. Trevelyan has poetic feeling and a measure of accomplishment. But his resources are not equal to the ambitious demands of poetic passion and imagination which he makes upon them.”

“Of more than ordinary merit. It is to Mr. Trevelyan’s credit that there are no purple patches.”

“Mr. Trevelyan has used, to his own loss, the dramatic form for a poem that is never dramatic. The poem as a whole will disappoint those who know Mr. Trevelyan’s earlier work.”

*“If it does not rise to any great heights, at least is free from the faults of much of the blank verse put forth at the present time.”

Treves, Sir Frederick.Other side of the lantern: an account of a commonplace tour around the world. $5. Cassell.

The other side of the lantern, as seen by the king’s physician, is not bright. His story is tinged by the sadness of the scenes he saw by sick beds and in hospitals, but what he saw, he saw clearly and describes with color, charm and reality. He tells of Gibraltar, Crete, Port Said, India, Burma, China and Japan, and gives a few words to America, which he visited on his way home.

“Written throughout with an animation obviously unforced.” J. B. G.

“The point of view is that of a cultivated man of the world who is able to set his impressions down in excellent English, and the result is thoroughly readable.” Wallace Rice.

“The book is both trivial and ordinary, pictures and all. Those who like the commonplace may enjoy this book.”

“A book written in terse and epigrammatic style, as full of cleverness as anything written by Kipling, and intensely interesting. But there is nothing deeper in the book than first impressions. It is the best book of travel that has been written for years.” T. H. H.

“He has at times a very pretty knack of description.”

“... So vivid are the pictures which the traveller draws for us, so penetrating his criticism of life and manners. It is the chapters on Japan that we find the most interesting part of a highly interesting book. We have to thank Sir Frederick Treves for a quite admirable volume of travel.”

Trident and the net: a novel, by the author of The martyrdom of an empress.*$1.50. Harper.

“The book is simply the life-story of a Breton nobleman, of violent passions and astounding inability to avoid the paths of obvious folly. It begins by depicting his unregulated childhood in Brittany, describes his later career as a deserter from the French navy, a wanderer over many seas and lands, and a victim of a vulgar ‘liaison,’ and ends in a squalid lodging-house in New York, where he lies desperately ill of pneumonia.”—Dial.

“We close it with a sense of exasperation at the recklessness of its composition and its wasteful use of what might have been the material of an admirable work.” Wm. M. Payne.

Trollope, Anthony.Autobiography.$1.25. Dodd.

“A new edition of a very interesting book by one of the most industrious and in many ways one of the most successful novelists of the past generation, printed and bound in a style uniform with the excellent edition of Trollope’s novels issued by the same publishers.”—Outlook.

Trollope, Henry M.Life of Molière. Dutton.

Mr. Trollope “has collected his information from unimpeachable sources, he has translated this material into English, combining with it lengthy criticisms upon the plays; and the result is a very bulky volume.... As the book possesses a moderately good index, it forms a useful compendium, a summary of the information at present existing concerning Molière and his immediate entourage.”—Acad.

*“It is not a biography to which a reader will turn again and again for the mere pleasure of reading it; it is almost impossible to read it for long because of its weight, the dull, uninteresting appearance of the page, and more fatal objection still, the heavy, horizontal style in which it is written. The volume would have gained vastly had it been ruthlessly cut down to half its present size.”

*“It is with honest regret that a reviewer is forced to record his opinion that this biography of Mr. Trollope’s is not worthy of its theme, and that the biographer has been unable to rise to the height of his subject. So far as the mere compilation of the facts is concerned, it is possible to praise the book, although not without many reservations in matters of detail. But he has not succeeded in casting any new light on the facts, and he has failed totally to evoke the noble figure of Molière himself and to make us realize the real achievements of the greatest of comic dramatists.” Brander Matthews.

Troubetzkoy, Amelie (Rives) Chanler, princess.Selene.**$1.20. Harper.

A dramatic poem in blank verse which gives a version of the story of Endymion and the moon goddess.

“There seems, to us, in the choice of theme and in its treatment, a true revival of essential poesy, opulent, free, unclouded by psychological problem or symbol-compelling obscurity.” Edith M. Thomas.

“Through the major part of the long piece the princess has written admirable blank verse.”

“There is no demand upon intense sympathies, the story is well and swiftly told, and the poetry fulfills at least two-thirds of Milton’s requirement.”

“The story is told with the real poet’s rapture in rhythm and in delicately tinted phrase. Its cadences are true and songful, its imagery fresh in conception and vista-opening.”

Trow, Charles Edward.Old shipmasters of Salem,**$2.50. Putnam.

“A plain story, well told, of the old merchant-captains who used to sail square-rigged vessels out of the Massachusetts port to the East Indies, a hundred years or so ago; and of later voyages,down to the decline and extinction of that once-flourishing industry.... The text is freely illustrated. The portraits of some of these marine worthies are of more than passing interest. That of Capt. Joseph Peabody (1757-1844), for instance.... There are several pictures of ships.”—Nation.

“Seems to know little of its connexion with English or American history.”

“A book containing much curious and interesting matter ... served up with a generous pictorial accompaniment.”

“As a whole this rambling volume has little to attract and nothing to hold the general reader.”

“The field of narration is not extensive, and the subject is treated with all the fulness it deserves. The writer commands an excellent style.”

“The author seems to have made a faithful study of the documentary materials, and the result is a book of no little historical and biographical value.”

Trumbull, Charles Gallaudet.Pilgrimage to Jerusalem; Pilgrim’s ed. $2.50. S. S. Times co.

An account is here given of the “cruise of the delegates to the World’s Sunday-school convention held in Jerusalem and of the travels of the members of the party elsewhere.” (Outlook.)

“Long and over-detailed.”

Tschudi, Clara.Maria Sophia, queen of Naples; tr. from the Norwegian by Ethel Harriet Hearn. $2.50. Dutton.

Miss Tschudi now adds a new name to her galaxy of queens. In the present biography, the author misses the fine perspective possible in the case of her “Marie Antoinette,” and “Queen Elizabeth.” Yet she has given a dramatic and sympathetic account with sufficient accuracy to make it acceptable of the woman whom Daudet immortalized after a distinctive fashion in his “Kings in exile.” While on the one hand it seems an indignity to one living to have a panorama of the details of private life thrust before her, the book is of atoning interest as a study of the events leading to the downfall of the Italian Bourbons.

“Is rather too slight in substance to make a book of.”

“The book is entertaining and has less of cloying sweetness than most women’s books of its brand.”

“Told about it in not too picturesque phrase, and in sometimes slovenly style—but this may be due to the translator rather than to the author.”

Tuckwell, Rev. William.Reminiscences of a radical parson. $2. Cassell.

“All unconsciously the Radical parson reveals to us in this book a very charming and thoroughly human personality. A college don, a schoolmaster, and then, in later years, the incumbent of a college living, Mr. Tuckwell first attracted public attention by his unconventional methods of working his parish.... He was getting on in years before he delivered his first political speech, though ... he had delivered nearly a thousand orations before he decided to retire.... There are many political reminiscences of Gladstone, and indeed of many other famous men.”—Acad.

“Mr. Tuckwell’s latest volume is full of entertainment.”

“The combination of scholarly polish, graceful wit, and hard common sense in the author of this veracious and on the whole convincing narrative, is very pleasing.” Percy F. Bicknell.

“Mr. Tuckwell writes with a vigor and a directness, and a positive candor, and an intensity of conviction that make interesting reading.”

“With himself the preacher is exceedingly well contented.”

Tuker, M. A. R., and Malleson, Hope.Rome: painted by Alberta Pisa.*$6. Macmillan.

Seventy fine pieces of color-work by Alberta Pisa serve to illustrate the twelve chapters upon Rome, her buildings, catacombs, people, religion and the Roman question before 1870 and since that year.

“It is good to meet with an artist who will see Rome for himself and paint her as he sees her, even though there be some little discrepancy between text and illustrations. Even so, this book is one of the best in all this fine series.”

*“Altogether, it is a book to be read, for breadth of view and depth of sympathy. There is but little complaint to make on the score of inaccuracies.”

“The text is almost as fascinating as the illustrations.”

“The illustrations are offered as the chief reason for the book’s existence; and they are certainly fascinating. But the text is no less valuable, and is its own excuse for being.”

“In the main they have the readable quality, and offer a good many acceptable views of the customs, traditions, and daily life of the people of Rome.”

Turbayne, A. A.Alphabets and numerals designed and drawn by A. A. Turbayne.*$2. Van Nostrand.

Twenty-seven full-page plates which give “severe readable types” of letters and numbers. They have been designed “for the designer or craftsman to copy, alter, and arrange in their handicraft after their own fancy,” and they are based upon old Roman, Gothic, and Italic forms.

“One of the best books for practical purposes that we have had before us for a long time.”

“A splendid and inspiring vade mecum for the artistic ‘letterer,’ whether engaged in designing posters, advertisements, or elaborate lettered signs.”

Turner, Harry Winthrop, and Hobart, Henry Metcalf.Insulation of electric machines. $4.50. Macmillan.

This book is “the result of twenty years of practical work.... Among the topics discussed are some properties of insulating materials, the insulation on ‘magnet wires’ employed in armature and field windings, mica and mica compounds, drying insulations, taping machines andtapes and bands, transformer insulation, impregnated cloths and fabrics, oil for insulating, &c. There are a bibliography and an index, a large number of diagrams, plans ... tables and footnotes. The book appears in the ‘Specialists’ series.”—N. Y. Times.

“It will be welcomed by the electrical engineer as a most valuable addition to his library.” Ernest Wilson.

Turner, Henry Gyles.History of the colony of Victoria from its discovery to its absorption into the commonwealth of Australia. $7. Longmans.

“The history begins with an unsuccessful attempt to found a convict settlement at Fort Philip, and carries the story of Victoria down to the end of the nineteenth century.... The municipal history and the astonishing growth of Melbourne ... are particularly well told. The same may be said of the chapters dealing with the discoveries of gold and with the political and social turmoil which the discovery of gold entailed; also of those describing the methods of parceling out government lands, ... the causes of the panic and the financial disasters of 1890-1893, and ... the long-drawn-out agitation which finally led to the establishment of the Australian commonwealth. There is an admirable index.”—Am. Hist. R.

“Mr. Turner’s work is obviously that of an old settler—a labor of love on which many years have been spent. Regarded as such, his history of Victoria is well done, and far above the average of colonial histories written from this standpoint. It is written in a good clear style, and generally carries the marks of much industry and care. While few but specialists will be likely to read Mr. Turner’s two volumes from beginning to end, they contain much that is of value and usefulness to more general students, and especially to students who are interested in the various new phases of democratic government as it has been developed in Victoria.” Edward Porritt.

“Mr. Turner is more at home in dealing with politicians than with the natural features of the country, so that, while the early history can be perhaps read with more profit elsewhere, the political story from 1850 downwards is told with great trenchancy and knowledge.” H. E. E.

“Their sustained interest depends on the fact that he is in truth no mere chronicler of passing events, but a reflective historian. It is plainly and frankly critical.”

Turner, Herbert Hall.Astronomical discovery.*$3. Longmans.

Six papers comprising the matter originally given in a series of lectures at the University of Chicago. Their object is “to illustrate by the study of a few examples, chosen almost at random, the variety in character of astronomical discoveries.” The subjects treated are: “Uranus and Eros,” “The discovery of Neptune,” “Bradley’s discoveries of the aberration of light and of the mutation of the earth’s axis,” “Accidental discoveries,” “Schwabe and the sun spot period,” and “The variation of latitude.”

“The book is readable and interesting; and also accurate and trustworthy, as much ‘readable’ popular science is not. Judged according to its scope and purpose, there is little fault to be found with the book.” C. A. Y.

“There is ample internal evidence, not only that the lectures were carefully prepared, but also of judicious selection. The second chapter or lecture is probably the least satisfactory in the book.” W. E. P.

“Even to a non-scientific reader, and to the amateur of astronomy the book should prove absorbing.”

“Apart from such bearing as it may have on the philosophy of discovery Professor Turner’s book gives excellent accounts of several interesting chapters of astronomic history.”

“Lucid and interesting.”

Tweedie, Ethel B. (Harley) (Mrs. Alec. Tweedie).Sunny Sicily.*$5. Macmillan.

An Englishwoman’s observations of Sicily, “its rustics and its ruins,” as they now are. Descriptions of real Sicilian eating-houses, market places, lotteries, the Mafia, the superstitions of the evil eye, Sicilian theatres, etc. There is also a brief Sicilian history and an accountof various visits to places of interest. The volume is illustrated with photographs and a map.

“Mrs. Tweedie is certainly flippant, with a recklessly slipshod style, many inaccurate statements, and spelling that is peculiar either to her or to her printer. Is valuable as a sort of ‘chatty’ Baedeker, being not only readable, but full of practical hints for the travellers who may be attracted by it to this wonderful island.”

“Provides in a very informal and personal way both information and entertainment.”

“Though by no means so erudite, the present volume, in actual information as to present conditions, is worthy of a place alongside that standard work, Mr. Paton’s ‘Picturesque Sicily.’”

“She has the delightful, but uncommon, quality of an entertaining style wedded to a real knowledge of how to tell a story.”

“A brighter and more lively book of travel we have seldom read.”

Twigg, Lizzie.Songs and poems. 60c. Longmans.

“Miss Twigg’s ... muse belongs frankly to Ireland. The hills, the sea, the bogs, the sunset and the dawn, she celebrates in verse that is sincere and frequently moving. She ... sings only the earthly charms of the green island. The sky and the soil breathe beatitudes for her, and she beholds the flowers and cliffs and fields through an atmosphere of golden sentiment.”—N. Y. Times.

“It takes a well-nigh perfect ear for music to write such verse as this. We may well be glad that it is so spontaneous and unaffected, so free from bookishness and imitative endeavors.” Wm. M. Payne.

Tybout, Ella Middleton. Wife of the secretary of state.†$1.50. Lippincott.

A story of cosmopolitan Washington of no particular time or administration which weaves mystery into a strange mixture of love, intrigue and credulity. The wife of the secretary of state plays with fire thru her traitorous delivery of valuable state papers into the hands of a Russian diplomat. How she manages to come thru apparently unharmed, and how the count relinquishes his villainy in a very un-Russian like manner are strangely at variance with the expected outcome that might require retributive punishment. The khedive’s opals owned by the secretary’s wife flash a sympathetic accompaniment to her heart moods all thru.

*“It is a story replete with adventure and excitement.”

*“The conversation is lifelike and the characters are distinctly individualized. An entertaining novel burdened by no especial problem.”

Tynan, Katharine.SeeHinkson, Mrs. Katharine Tynan.

Ular, Alexander.Russia from within.**$1.75. Holt.

After announcing in his preface that his book will come as a shock to some very sincere friends of Russia and that the facts he reveals are authentic altho they “do not make pretty reading” the author proceeds to give “a series of brilliant pictures, written manifestly from the standpoint of the revolutionist and lashing furiously the heads of the Russian state.” (Pub. Opin.)

“Though not without its faults, it has the conspicuous merits of being clearly and forcefully written and of leaving a series of definite impressions on the mind of the reader.”

“The book is not without value for him who can sift the facts from the fiction and the denunciation; but it is altogether untrustworthy, and cannot but mislead the untrained reader.” Charles H. Cooper.

“The historical portion is full of inaccuracies. Having warned our readers that Dr. Ular’s statements require confirmation, we must admit that his book is interesting and suggestive, that his knowledge is considerable, that his view of M. Witte’s regime appears to us to be very just, and that the remarkable story of the elaborate ‘oligarchic’ intrigue which eventually led to the war in the Far East certainly contains an element of truth.”

“People who like to read strong statements couched in language which is plain to the verge of violence at times, and never courteous, will thoroughly enjoy Mr. Ular’s arraignment of everybody and everything in Russia—save, possibly, the revolutionists.”

“The rashness of language which makes the book particularly readable serves, of course, to discredit it as a serious study—but it is infinitely suggestive.”

“It is certain Mr. Ular’s readers—if he has any—will not take him sufficiently seriously to experience any shocks but those of contempt.”

“Much of his work is of value, but we confess that his account of the characters of the Emperor and his Court does not convince us. It is so full of a lurid sensationalism that it fails of its purpose.”

Underhill, Evelyn.Gray world. $1.50. Century.

An imaginative story which dwells experimentally upon the transition from life to death, and upon reincarnation. A little slum-child dies in a hospital, carrying a vague consciousness of his earthly existence to the Gray world of spirits. The awful terrors of the new realm crowd in around him until his soul cries for release. So he goes back to the world as the son of a London tradesman—bewildered, as once more a new consciousness dawns, in the process of unifying his former existence, his world of spirits, and the present life. The book follows the development of this being thru the struggle to conquer the Gray world and its depression. The book is unusual, with language and scheme wholly in keeping with the vague, and the unreal which envelop it.

“Her book, then, is not only readable, but gives rise to that intelligent form of gratitude which has been defined as a lively sense of favors to come.”

“A book of unusual imaginative quality, but too morbid to win a general popularity. The volume is a very curious and unique psychological study, along the borderline of madness.”

“It is intensely serious, no doubt, but it is also animated and even enlivened by touches of a highly effective humor.” W. M. Payne.

Reviewed by H. I. Brock.

“A weird and fantastic story. The best thing in the book is the pathos of the description of the unrestful ghosts.”

“The earthly side of the book is as original as the spiritual, though far less attractive.”

Underwood, Earl.Representing John Marshall & co.†$1. Dillingham.

A genial, slangy, and withal good-hearted drummer “spills” his inmost thoughts into the white pages of this book. He jauntily tells of many happenings so peculiar that as the news of each of them reaches Mame, his queen, she promptly breaks off her engagement. Each chapter chronicles a spicy adventure, a break, a reconciliation, but in the end Mame seems thoroughly convinced that her drummer is a hero.

“It is amusing in its way if taken in small doses.”

United States. Library of Congress.Catalog of the Gardiner Greene Hubbard collection of engravings; presented to the Library of Congress by Mrs. Gardiner Greene Hubbard. Lib. of Congress.

“The plan of the compilation was very generous, and included the catalogue proper of engravers, and index of engravers under a chronological scheme, by centuries, an index of artists, a portrait index, and a list of authorities.... The collection was presented to the nation in 1898 by Mrs. Hubbard, and in default of a national art gallery the Library of Congress was the most fitting place of deposit.... The editor of the volume is Arthur Jeffrey Parsons, who is in charge of the collection.”—Nation.

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