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TO CHRISTINA Rossetti,
Great as a Poet, greater as a Woman,
Died Dec. 29, 1894.

I marvel not that God has called away
Thy peerless soul to where His saints abide;
Rather I praise Him that He bade thee stay
On earth so long- to be a heavenward guide.

Mr. Bell is the author of the interesting mem

One helpful gift the gods forgot,
Due to the man of lion mood:
A woman's soul to match with his
In high resolve and hardihood.

And there are many others which are well worth
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Folly's Bells.

This legend from the German, done into verse by Anne Gardiner Hale, is of the haughty Rich berta, Lady of Stavoren, who sends forth a fleet to bring her the greatest treasure in the world; and when it comes back laden with wheat, com

feel in glancing over his chapters that they are
meant to have anything more than the conven-
ience or amusement of the moment. He dumps
his light fancies on the public very much as if
flinging them into a waste basket, and the public
is as unresponsive as the basket. The titles of
these papers suggest their texture: Making up
One's Mind," "The Employment of Love Phil-
Minding of Other People's Business," etc., etc.
tres," "
Looking before One Leaps,” “On the
There is nothing original and nothing serious
in them; they are the froth thrown up in the
ebullitions of a lively mind, and while they can

oir of Christina Rossetti which appeared earlier mands in her wrath that the precious food shall harm no one, it is equally true that they neither in the year and has passed into a third edition. be cast into the sea, though the starving poor

[Little, Brown & Co. $1.00.]

In Palestine.

of her own land clamor for it. The wheat raises
a bar across the harbor, the waves inundate the
city, and Richberta dies of hunger in her tower.

The book is illustrated by the author's sister,
Lillian Hale. [The Peter Paul Book Co. $1.00.]

ESSAYS.

Essays on Dante.

teach nor benefit. [Dodd, Mead & Co. 50c.]

Worldly Ways and Byways.

Very different are the papers collected into

this volume by Eliot Gregory. Originally ap pearing, many of them at least, in the New York Evening Post over the signature of "An Idler," their subjects in a general way resemble those of Mr. Jerome. But the touch is dissimilar, and in essay writing touch is everything. Mr. Jerome is diffuse and sketchy, his lightness editor of this volume, calls its author "the ac upon. In Mr. Gregory one recognizes the man Philip R. Wickstead, M.A., the translator and is heavy, his breeding not always to be relied knowledged master of the most prominent Dante of the world, educated and trained to that high scholars in Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Eng-point when he dares to be simple and unaffected. Witte's relation to Dante is a curious one. The history of Karl He has somewhat of the artist's perception to1818 he was a law student, traveling in Italy, which gives him understanding and sympathy, gether with a natural perception of character and among a number of Italian books purchased and his lightest sentence reveals the literary by him were two expensive editions of Dante. quality. After saying this we need not add that There he was advised, by a Florentine lady who his book will repay reading. We wish every was directing his studies, not to read him. "We"idler" could turn his attention to equally Beth-Italians," she told him, "sometimes persuade good account. [Charles Scribner's Sons. $1.50.]

"The poetry of a poem is as intangible as the tone of a picture: it is the singing quality in it,' said George Curtis, years ago, in a review of Rose Terry's verses. The sentence has lived in our memory as expressive of something which we all feel without exactly understanding. To turn from a conscientious verse maker to a true singer like Richard Watson Gilder is like passing from discord, or rather from drone, to music. Mr. Gilder is not one of our greatest poets, but not a line that he has written is devoid of the poetic quality, that mysterious something which makes the difference wide as the sea — between prose and poetry. The poems in the present little volume are not all inspired by the Orient; they owe their being to different countries and to different phases of feeling, but the quality in them all is well exampled by one of the

lehem poems.

NOEL.

Star-dust and vaporous light,-
The mist of worlds unborn,-
A shuddering in the awful night
Of winds that bring the morn.

Now comes the dawn; the circling earth;
Creatures that fly and crawl;
And Man, that last, imperial birth;
And Christ, the flower of all.

Mr. Gilder has a great deal of grace, a good deal
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and mellowed his style, but all these would
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formless, fairy gift, which no man can analyze
and no man understand. [The Century Co.
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From Sunset Ridge.

This collection of her poems, by Mrs. Julia Ward Howe, bears a significant and pathetic

title.

It is the sunset ridge of eighty years on which she stands to issue this volume, which embodies the thought and experiences of her younger days. Many old friends will be recognized in it, from the "Battle Hymn of the Re public” and “Weave No More Silks, ye Lyons Looms," to "Hamlet at the Boston and "A Leaf from the Bryant Chaplet," but there are a

land, and America."

In

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ourselves that we understand his extraordinary
Maids, Wives, and Bachelors.
poem, but we do not. If a foreigner sets about
it we can scarcely repress a smile." Witte was Under the interesting title of Maids, Wives,
daunted by this remark, but, encouraged by and Bachelors, Mrs. Amelia E. Barr has col-
other friends, began his Dante studies then and lected a series of essays on such subjects as
there. Five years later we hear of him expound-"The American Girl," "Women on Horse-
ing the Divine Comedy to a class in Breslau, and back," "Worried to Death," and "The Crown
the following year appeared his essay "On the
Art of Misunderstanding Dante," which at once
gave him reputation as a student and commen-
tator. The essays collected by Mr. Wickstead
in this volume deal with different phases of
Dante's work and life. Beginning with a criti-
cal analysis of the great poem, Dr. Witte pro-
ceeds to analyze other analysts, and their con-
struction of the subtle meanings of the allegory.
There is a paper on the correspondence of Dante,
another on his relations with the Conti Guidi,
another on Gemma Donati, the wife whom he
held in such slight remembrance, others on the
three Cantichi, on his burial place at Ravenna,
on "Convivio or Convito," and the "Ottimo
Comento," and a final chapter on "Dante and
United Italy," which is one of the most interest-
ing in the book. The essays have been most
carefully revised, in comparison with the original

few less familiar to us at least; this, for instance, references, by the editors, and will be read with Music and Manners in the Classical Period.

a part of the poem called

THE ROUGH SKETCH.

A great grieved heart, an iron will,
As fearless blood as ever ran;
A form elate with nervous strength
And fibrous vigor-all a man.

A gallant rein, a restless spur,
The hand to wield a biting scourge;
Small patience for the tasks of time,
Unmeasured power to speed and urge.

He rides the errand of the hour,
But sends no herald on his ways;
The world would thank the service done,
He cannot stay for gold or praise.

interest by all students of Dante literature.
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Second Thoughts of an Idle Fellow.
Books, like poets, should be born, not made;
that is, a reason for their being should exist, a
necessity on the part of the author to tell some-
thing that he feels or knows, or a necessity on
the part of the public to learn what he has to
tell. The raison d'etre is painfully lacking in
this work of Jerome K. Jerome. We do not

The essays collected into this volume by Henry Edward Krehbiel deal with famous names. They begin with three papers on Gray, who was a careful student of music and left behind him a collection of manuscript music copied into small volumes, with notes and annotations. Much of this music he heard during the years that he spent in Italy with Walpole, while his traveling companion was "eating iced fruits in a domino to the sound of a guitar." It was the palmy days of Italian opera, but few

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of the composers and few of the works which he
eulogizes are known to the musical world of our
time. Even Baldassare Galuppi survives rather
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interesting, and so is the concluding chapter on
Goethe and Liszt. [Charles Scribner's Sons.
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SCIENCE.

Italy and the Italians.

The movement for the "evangelization of Italy" accounts for the Rev. Dr. George B. Taylor's book on Italy and the Italians. Partly history, partly travel, and partly description, and flavored throughout with the tastes of a Christian minister who desires more than any thing else the conversion of Italy to the Baptist point of view, this book with its clear type and frequent illustrations presents several features of interest to like-minded readers, conveys much what one may see and hear in the country today. information, and gives pleasing accounts of [American Baptist Publication Society. $2.00.]

result had not been so bad; as it is, it could not
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history, we suggest that he ponder this fact of
history: That no great reform was ever inaug-
urated or advanced by indiscriminating invective.
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MISCELLANY.

The Modern Man and Maid.
The Modern Man and Maid is a wise booklet,
but in no way remarkable save as so much com-

ratic writer, Madame Sarah Grand.
mon sense has proceeded from the famous, er-
She is
hopeful about the modern bicycle girl, who,
however, lacks grace of manner, and she avers
that the military man is more chivalric than
the English university graduate. Her advice
to man and maid about how to be married

is eminently sane, for love, friendship, etc., not
passion, should be the basis of marriage. [T
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Earth Sculpture: The Origin of Land Forms. Prof. James Geikie contributes a volume which should be read by all students of the "new geography"- the study of hills and valleys, plains and coast lines, as the result of erosive Woods and Dales of Derbyshire. process on the surface of the earth. His is not Surely the title is captivating; and the author, What Shall Our Boys Do for a Living? a study of geographical evolution after the the Rev. Dr. James S. Stone, is to be envied for fashion of the American geographers, but a his opportunities for rambling through one of ume by Charles F. Wingate. Trades and proThe title well expresses the range of this volclassified statement of those land forms that are the most interesting shires of old England. He fessions are rapidly reviewed, and the average characteristic results of erosion on the various took his pleasure leisurely, and the record, sim- and exceptional earnings in each are noted. It geological structures, and of how the denuding ilar to the manner of his former books, is made is the rarely large income which pitiably misagents, rain, wind, frost, and ocean, accomplish up of his own opinions and sentiments, with leads our boys; because a few can earn much their work of sculpturing the continents. Espe appreciative descriptions of scenery, old country it does not follow that most will. Though the cially interesting and authoritative are the chap-inns, towers, churches, and everything which facts herein given are free from exaggeration, ters on "Glacial Action." The illustrative ex- makes that region attractive, together with inci-marvels in receipts lead the average capacity to amples under each heading are numerous and dents of local history and legendary lore. A overestimate itself. Mr. Wingate has wisely re well selected, and it is to be regretted that the portrait of the author fronts the title-page, and frained from giving good advice, which will make pictorial and diagrammatic illustrations are not there are several fine illustrations from photo-his pithy statements all the better remembered. more abundant; those used are effective and graphs. [George W. Jacobs & Co. $1.00.] helpful and frequently original, though sometimes a little crude. Those familiar with the Great Ice Age will know the author's delightfully simple and picturesque style, and while technical terms are unavoidable in places, their meaning is clearly set forth in the glossary which accompanies the work. The book is intended for readers "not skilled in geology," and such readers will find it far more interesting than the usual dry text-books of that science. [G. P. Putnam's Sons. $2.00.]

TRAVEL.

A Corner of Spain.

This clever little book of travel by Miriam Cole Harris is more than a guide book, and it does not owe its existence to the late war with

Spain. In it are recorded the vivid impressions of a wide-awake, sympathetic woman, who not

Vacation Days in Hawaii and Japan. This is the title of a handsomely illustrated volume, containing the record of travels in these two countries, by Mr. Charles M. Taylor, Jr. The record is in the present tense throughout, and so destitute of any literary claim upon the attention of the public that one naturally ranks it among books best left unwritten or at least unpublished. Mr. Taylor should have had some person of literary ability supplement his excellent photographs by a much briefer narrative based on his diary. [George W. Jacobs & Co. $2.00.]

RELIGIOUS BOOKS.

By the Still Waters.

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Miller on the Twenty-third Psalm, which ap-
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peared first last year. This new edition has

Twenty years of study have gone into the making of this book, and the hundreds of Americans whose names are well known for integrity. No whose earnings and opinions are stated are those allusion is made to the razzle-dazzle of illegiti mate success, so that the volume is valuable as a guide to conduct, and interesting in the lines of honest personalities. [Doubleday & McClure Co. $1.00.]

Forest and Stream Books.

The Forest and Stream Publishing Company issue two capital books for older boys and men of sporting taste in the Manual of the Canvas Canoe, by F. R. Webb ("the Commodore"), and Hitting vs. Missing ($1.00), by S. T. Hammond (Shadow). The former gives full directions, with diagrams and specifications, for the building of a canvas canoe, and in the preface it

To the details of building Mr. Webb adds some

is stated that all the plans and methods are

based on actual experience in successful tests.

only sees, but thinks over what she sees, and eleven full-page illustrations inspired by oriental very practical suggestions for camp equipment

and for cruising, including some very appetizing

scenery, and these with its delicately drawn
cover include it in the list of presentation book-recipes for camp cooking. Mr. Hammond is
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to explain to others the devices and forms of
practice whereby he attained his own success,
particularly in grouse shooting.

The Book of the Master.
The Book of the Master, by W. Marsham
Adams, will prove of interest to the student of
Egyptology, though it hardly satisfies the curi
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who has a very happy, breezy manner of telling
us all about it. She went from Gibraltar to
Malaga, thence to Seville, and visited all sorts
of out-of-the-way nooks and corners among the
Malaga mountains. Old fortresses, old con-
vents, and old customs interest her, and "Span-
ish Limitations" amuse her. What she has to
tell us is of itself interesting, for her travels in
Spain were not confined to the larger cities; she
had rare opportunities of seeing the Spaniards in
all their conservatism in the tiny, remote villages.
A cargo of clothes-lines, she thinks, would be a
Renascent Christianity, by "a clergyman," is
good missionary offering for us to send to south- a rambling diatribe on modern religion, typo-
ern Spain, as the clothes hang from the windows graphically disfigured by abundant italics. Had
or are stretched on the ground, regardless of the the author tempered his zeal with judgment, the

A Laboratory Manual of Chemistry, by Drs. Arthur E. Austin and Isador H. Coriat, leads, in point of simplicity and selection, any textbook of the kind heretofore published. It is interleaved throughout. [Lamson, Wolffe & Co. $1.25.]

We cannot too highly commend either the

style, the spirit, or the subject matter of Coulson Kernahan's little allegory, The Child, the Wise Man, and the Devil. [Dodd, Mead & Co. 50c.]

THE WASTE BASKET.

Reading for Mediterranean Days.

THIS

Port Said, Dec. 4, 1898.

THE JANUARY MAGAZINES.
In Appleton's Popular Science Monthly ap-
pears the "Law of the Diffusion of Taxes,"
the first of the valuable series of papers on
"Principles of Taxation," by the late David A.
Wells, whose publication was interrupted by the
illness and death of the author, and which are
now to be concluded in two or three articles,
the manuscript for which was found practically
complete among Mr. Wells's papers. Among
other articles is one by James Collier, on the
industrial evolution of mankind, and Professor
Jastrow contributes a discussion of some curious
optical illusions.

NEWS AND NOTES.

-Messrs. Houghton, Mifflin & Co. announce for immediate publication a book containing in one volume all the Requirements in English for "Careful Study" for the years 1900-1902, as prescribed by the Joint Conference of Colleges and Secondary Schools on Requirements in English for Admission to Colleges. The volume will contain Macaulay's Essay on Milton; Milton's Paradise Lost, Books I-III; Milton's L'Allegro, Il Penseroso, and other poems; Shakespeare's Macbeth; Macaulay's Life and Writings of Addison; Burke's On Conciliation with the Colonies. The publishers hope that the convenience of having in one volume all the English requirements "for careful study" for three years will make the book attractive to those who have in charge the preparation of students for college, and to others interested in secondary education.

ature of Italy, a field as wide and rich as the who has an article on "British Army ManouLombardian plain. All of Mr. Crawford's well-vers," illustrated by photographs, and Major nigh incomparable tales of Italy should be added Edward Stuart Wortley, commander of the to the list. Swift steamers have now brought Arab Irregular Force, who has a paper, "With Egypt within some sixty hours of Naples, and the Sidar." to visit Egypt without having read in advance Harper's seems particularly rich in "leading something of its river and its civilization, is to features." Their "Silver Wedding Journey miss one of the great opportunities of foreign is the first part of a new novel by Mr. HowHIS is the season of the year which takes travel. On the whole, there is no better all-round ells. The serial story, "The Span of Life," many Americans to the Mediterranean introduction to the subject than Miss Edwards's increases in interest and excitement; Ruth Mcand its lands, and well it may; for apart from all | Thousand Miles Up the Nile; but one should | Enery Stuart and Mary Wilkins have their share considerations of climate and temperature, the have also a good scientific handbook, like Mari- of the fiction, S. A. Staunton, U. S. N., writes countries which border on this vast inland sea, ette-Bey's The Monuments of Upper Egypt, of "The Naval Campaign of 1898 in the West with their cities and their peoples, and their translated by Alphonse Mariette; while if one Indies; Prof. Albert Bushnell Hart and Capt. associations of history and biography, art, wants entertainment, he may find it in the ro- T. C. S. Speedy are among the other contributors. poetry, and romance, possess a well-nigh inex-mances of Kingsley and Ebers; if sketches of haustible fascination for all travelers who carry observation and experience, in the books of their brains with them and care for improvement Curtis, Warner, Fullerton, and Steevens; and as well as pleasure. Rome is, of course, the if amusement, in some portions of Mark Twain's center, and the reading about Rome is as inter- Innocents Abroad. minable as are the attractions of the city itself. But as the latest is sometimes the best, we shall mention first of all Mr. Crawford's new Rome, and next to it Hare's Walks in Rome, then Boissier's Rome and Pompeii, a fascinating historical study. Lanciani's works on the antiquities of the Eternal City are of the greatest value to the student, and for fiction one may turn to Bulwer and Trollope, Eckstein and Hawthorne, Manzoni and Ruffini. For a larger view of Italy in general there is the "Story of the Nations" series, Mr. Howells's Italian Journeys, Elliot's Diary of an Idle Woman in Italy, Dr. Freeman's Studies and Travel in Italy, and last, but by no means least, the late Symonds's Italian Sketches, two series, among the best works of their kind. Mrs. Jameson's Memoirs of the Early Italian Painters is indispensable for all with The opening article in the Atlantic Monthly whom art is a specialty, as is Mr. Symonds's is a comparison by President Eliot of Harvard History of the Renaissance for all interested in University of the "Destructive and Constructhe philosophy of history. From any one of tive Energies of Our Government," which conthese points the reader can branch out in any tains careful statistics and many interesting direction almost to any length he pleases. At Venice the Makers of Venice, and at Florence the Makers of Florence, both by Mrs. Oliphant, will not escape the attention they both richly deserve. At Venice, too, Mr. Howells's Venetian Life, and at Florence George Eliot's Romola every one will want to and every one should read. Venice and Florence too are places of places for a good deal of Ruskin, and Mr. Hare has thrown about both of these sister cities of Italian history and romance much of the charm with which he has invested Rome, as he has also about certain of the Cities of Southern Italy in another work under that title. Boissier's Horace and Vergil, like his Rome and Pompeii, is a work of the first order, and anything by this French scholar, whose stores of learning equal his gifts of the imagination, will repay careful perusal. At Venice one may read with varying diversion, pleasure, or —Mr. T. Fisher Unwin of London announces profit, as the case may be, Miss Braddon's The the publication of another edition of George Venetians; at Florence, Ouida's In a Winter | Herbert's Priest to the Temple, edited by the City; at Naples, Bulwer's Last Days of PomRev. H. C. Beeching. In a long introduction peii; at Sorrento, Mrs. Stowe's Agnes of Sor- Scribner's Magazine begins the new year most the title of the work is explained as “The rento; at Amalfi, Mr. Crawford's Adam John- attractively with a list of contributors that in- (ideal) Church Clergyman." The same pubstone's Son; and at Palermo, the same author's cludes Colonel Roosevelt, with his first install-lisher announces also Modern England before Corleone. Then there is Melville's The Gladi- ment of his history of the Rough Riders, Mr. ators, which takes one into the ancient amphi- Richard Harding Davis with a short story, Mr. theaters, and Leland's Legends of Florence, and George W. Cable with the first part of a new Farrar's Darkness and Dawn, which if it is not story, "The Entomologist," and Mr. Robert fiction must be fact, and Ware's Rome and the Grant. Another series of Stevenson's letters is Early Christians. 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