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VOL. XX.

THIS important new book by Lilian Whiting is not only a personal biography of the noble and interesting woman whose life it portrays, but Lilian Whiting has also endeavored to invest the narrative with the local atmosphere of the cities and periods in which Miss Field was an active and vital factor. The poetic and imagina. tive life in Italy, when,

as a young girl, she was a favorite and enchanting figure in the

choice circle that gathered about the

Brownings; her first so journ in Rome, when Charlotte Cushman and Harriet Hosmer welcomed her; the brilliancy of London seasons when she was steeped in their social charm; her visits to Paris, Germany, Switzerland, and Spain; the idyllic summers in Newport; the Golden Age in Boston life when Lowell and Longfellow, Emerson and the Alcotts, Wendell Phillips and the great Agassiz gathered at Mrs. Whipple's "evenings"; the breadth and fulness of her life as a lecturer, with a description of the days of the lyceum, freighted with allusion and incident, and gal

From "Kate Field: A Record."

vanizing into vitality again the enthusiasm that followed Mrs. Livermore, and Phillips, Curtis, Beecher, and Anna Dickinson; the pathos of her mother's death at sea, as they were sailing for Europe; the piquancy

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Art; her distinguished work, in ear

ly life, as the dramatic critic of Ristori and Fechter; her later experiences in the nation's capital, editing her own review, and mingling in the rich and varied social life; and the touching close of her career in her sudden death in Hawaii in

the midst of important research and study-all these the author has endeavored to depict with the special atmosphere of the moment in the vary. ing periods. The volume is rich in letters from many of the most famous people of this century. One or two of Browning's rival his poetry in enigmatic expression. Mrs. Browning's are full of her characteristic tenderness and beauty of spirit. Miss Field's experiences in the great

West were an important feature in her life, and she came into close touch with the greatest variety of people. She visited the Yellowstone and the Yosemite; penetrated into Alaska, where she delivered the first lecture ever given in that country, and she was enamored with the Muir Glacier, with San Rafael, and with Coronado. The revelations of Kate Field's inner life will be a surprise to many, for seldom is there combined so intensely introspective a nature with such unceasing activities and interest in affairs. Through the entire panorama of Miss Field's eventful life the author has endeavored to preserve the couleur de localité, and to present her like a picture in its appropriate frame. (Little, Brown & Co. $2.)

sentient expression of the handwork of manthe sailing-ship," is well-known. He seems at his best in what he terms his "prattle " and his anecdotes and jokes about the details of shipbuilding. His facts are all accurate and his imagination makes all his material fascinating. Read what he writes of the ships of Columbus

"The ships of Columbus are the most interesting vessels that were ever built, that were ever afloat, that were ever read of in ancient or modern literature. All the significance of the great discovery, and the mighty issues of prosperity and spreading civilization, which we in this age are privileged to behold, are in them. The life, too, of Columbus is the most affecting piece of biography in the world; and his ship, which we think of him as standing, austerely the ship in which he first made sail, the ship in silent, bending a falcon gaze over the bow at the reddening desolate sea of the west-that ship fits his story as his shadow fitted his figure. There were many larger ships afloat than the. craft in which Columbus made sail. The greathearted seaman was glad to take the best he could get. The Andalusian shipowners had resisted a royal decree that they should provide three vessels ready for sea within ten days: they viewed the proposed expedition as the scheme of a lunatic dreamer. Columbus found

THE SHIP OF COLUMBUS.

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it very difficult to collect crews. It was pre-eminently the age of marine superstitions. The sailor exorcised the demon of the waterspout by holding up anything in the shape of a and mumbling an Bald-headed, jollyfaced old men, with shining black eyes, and knees terminating in a tail of about the length and size of a hammer-headed shark's, swam alongside, grinned up at the astounded mariner, and sank from his sight. Lamps kindled by the hand of spirits burnt in the rigging at night, and the superstitious seamen on bended knees listened to the faint sweet music of heaven, though it might be no more than the melodies of the shrouds wrought into a celestial choiring by the mysterious presence of the corposant (globular light at the helm).

"Those who wish to know

how ignorant and superstitious the seamen of the Middle Ages were should read the collections of Hakluyt, of Purchas (whose pagination runs into thousands), of Churchill (whose six volumes embody the relations of a number of Jesuits), and Harrisse. A model of Columbus's ship was at the World's Fair, and so all the world has seen her.

Whether that reproduction was in all ways accurate, matters little. I have seen a picture of her, and she certainly looks uncommonly like the ship that Columbus sailed in."

Fifty illustrations showing ships from Noah's Ark to the United States cruiser Columbia form a really valuable collection. (Stokes. $2.)

The Lion and the Unicorn.

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IF all the world were filled with such courteous, charming, and perennially youthful people-such handsome, well-bred men and such pretty, well-groomed women-as Mr. Davis delights to portray, what a delightful thing life would be, to be sure! As to the enduring quality of Richard Harding Davis's works, opinions may differ, but there is a clean-cut vigor and a wholesome optimism about them which assures them a cordial welcome. We shall doubtless have a good deal more to say about his new volume of stories at a later date; for the present we merely avail ourselves of the opportunity to emphasize especially two of the tales which it contains: Board the Fever Ship," which is a powerful bit of war-time realism, and "The Lion and the Unicorn," which gives its name to the collection; a pleasant little love-story which has already attracted considerable attention in the pages of Scribner's Magazine, and tells the adventures of a young American playwright in London, showing that in his case the course of true love ran far less smoothly than the course of his professional success. Taken as a whole, the book affords good evidence, if evidence were needed, that Mr. Davis can find better employment for his time in depicting the social life of Anglo-Saxons than in creating imaginary kingdoms, à la Anthony Hope, even though they be peopled by such attractive rascals as 'The King's Jackal." (Scribner. $1.25.)-N. Y. Commercial Advertiser.

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Tramping With Tramps.

A PERSONAL friend of Josiah Flynt, whose "Tramping With Tramps" is just issued from the press of the Century Company, has given the New York Commercial Advertiser the following interesting facts concerning the author: "Mr. Flynt has been a complete tramp in many countries. He has tramped in Russia, in Germany, in England, and in the United States. His name among the American tramps is 'Cigarette,' and at those times his other character and interests are not suspected by the vagabonds. In the intervals between his tramps he moves in the world of the best intelligence and social rank. Though he has

been in jails, ridden on the trucks of fast expresses, spent nights on freight trains, begged from door to door, such a life would never be suspected by the man who meets him in the ordinary course of polite society.

"When Josiah Flynt is met in the garb of respectability the first impression he is apt to make is of a sociologist, or a criminologist. His talk is suggestive of vivid interest in the psychology of criminals. Many years ago, when almost a boy, he delivered a series of lectures on the characteristics of tramps before the Young Men's Christian Association of Berlin. Since then he has written many magazine articles and has studied low life in most of the big cities of Europe and the United States.