lived among the woodsmen of the northern pineries, and he knows well their ways and their striking characteristics. "Rough in speech and manner," he says in his preface, "equally ready for a fight or a frolic, reckless even to lawlessness, they are, nevertheless, as a rule, hearty, whole-souled fellows, loyal in their friendships, and possessed of brave and generous impulses.' Mr. Pearson makes no effort to idealize their characters. His poems describe them as they are, living the rough life of the woods, hard and coarse at times, but always picturesque and interesting. Some readers may be startled by what seems at first sight an occasional irreverent handling of sacred things, as, for example, in the description of the fight that followed a skeptic's slur on religion, when one of the "crew" set out to defend the faith his mother "lived and died in," by pounding the skeptic into a swift conversion. As Mr. Pearson describes the finish of the "argument ":

'But at last Jack got him under,

An' he slugged him onct or twict,
An' Bob straightway acknowledged
The divinity of Christ;

But Jack kep' reasonin' with him,
Till the poor cuss gin a yell,
An' allowed he'd been mistaken
In his views concernin' hell.'

The reader will soon see, however, that there is no irreverence on Mr. Peason's part, and his expression is always apt and genuinely humorous. As a series of vivid pictures of "life among the pines" alone, the book is worthy of general attention. The last half of the volume is made up of poems "In Various Moods," many of which are distinguished by much tenderness and depth of feeling, while others are in lighter vein. The best poem in the book, perhaps, is " Uncle Jack," which describes an old New England village character in a most effective and pathetic way. "A Morning Shower" is a dainty word picture. "Life" is worth quoting in full, partly as showing the author's life philosophy:

LIFE.

"Dining and sleeping; Laughing and weeping, Sighing for some new toy; Loving and hating, Wooing and mating, Chasing the phantom, Joy.

"Losing and winning, Praying and sinning, Seeking a higher life:

Hope and repining. Shadow and shining. Care, and worry, and strife.

"Hoarding and wasting, Loitering, hasting, Missing the golden mark,

Praising and flouting, Trusting and doubting Taking a leap in the dark."

Mr. Pearson's aptness of phrase is a noticeable feature of his work, as, for instance, when he

THE BOOK OF THE FAIR. An historical and descriptive presentation of the world's science, art, and industry, as viewed through the Columbian Exposition at Chicago in 1893. By Hubert Howe Bancroft. Parts 1. and II. Each, 40 pp. Paper, $1.co each. Chicago and San Francisco: The Bancroft Company. 1893.

Superb" and "sumptuous" are the two descriptive adjectives that occur to any one who sees the Bancroft "Book of the Fair," just as "stupendous" and "wonderful" are the two adjectives that first come to mind in connection with the great Columbian Exposition. Just as the Chicago fair has surpassed all previous international exhibitions, so this description and illustration of it surpasses anything of the kind that has been previously undertaken. The work complete will consist of twenty-five parts, of forty pages each, making in all a work of 1,000 imperial folio pages, 12x16 inches in size, elegantly printed on polished plate paper weighing 165 pounds to the ream. The finished series will contain more than 2,000 of the finest illustrations, many of them full-page plates covering 102 square inches of surface. The text is written by Hubert Howe Bancroft, the historian, and that portion of it included in the first two parts is direct, comprehensive, concise, instructive, and interesting. The work begins with a chapter on "Fairs of the Past,' followed by a brief sketch of Chicago as one of the wonders of the Columbian Exposition. Next comes "The Evolution of the Exposition," with accounts of site, plan, artificers, and organization. Then will follow descriptions of grounds and surroundings, buildings, interior and exterior, exhibits and exhibitors, features of the fair, artistic and industrial, in short, the whole great Columbian Exposition fittingly portrayed in text and illustrations for present and for future interest. The first two numbers in every way fulfil the promise of the projectors of the enterprise, and it is evident that the work as a whole will be unique, and one in all respects to be most heartily commended.

W. H. H.

PICTURESQUE HAMPDEN. Charles F. Warner, editor; Clifton Johnson, art manager. Part I.- East. With 1,500 illustrations. 161 pp. Cloth, $2.00. Northampton, Mass.: Picturesque Publishing Company. 1892. PICTURESQUE HAMPDEN. Part II.-West. With 1,500 illustrations. 160 pp. Cloth, $2 00. Northampton, Mass.: Picturesque Publishing Company. 1892.

Two of the most interesting and attractive books relating to New England ever published

are "Picturesque Hampshire," first issued in 1890, and "Picturesque Franklin," which followed it in 1891. Each is devoted to a county in Western Massachusetts, and each is made a perennial delight to every lover of New England by more than 1,000 artistic half-tone pictures for all practical purposes as good as photographs of New England scenery and country life. The deserved success of these two books has led to the publication of two more volumes, both devoted to Hampden county. Part I. describes and depicts Springfield and vicinity, and Part II. Holyoke and vicinity. Each part has 1,500 hali-tone pictures, so that each volume is in reality a New England picture-book, of the most interesting and attractive kind. It is impossible to praise too warmly the quality of the artistic work. Every picture is a gem.

Photographs taken by an artist who understands not only how to make good negatives, but how to pose his subjects naturally and how to pick out picturesque bits for illustration, are admirably reproduced, and the result is a series of pictures of New England in everyday home dress, such as has never been published anywhere before. To any one who has ever lived in New England these books will be a never failing source of pleasure. Those who live in other parts of the country can find in books no better means of introduction to everyday New England life than in the four volumes now included in this series. Two similar books devoted to Picturesque Berkshire" are now in preparation.

LAR.

W. H. H.

CIVILIZATION'S INFERNO; OR, STUDIES IN THE SOCIAL CELBy B. O. Flower. Boston: 237 PP. Paper, 50 cents. Arena Publishing Co. 1893. Mr. Flower is thoroughly in earnest in pointing out the appalling conditions of life among the poor in large cities, and in urging measures of relief. "Civilization's Inferno describes vividly the evil things that exist in modern city life, and cannot fail to arouse thoughtful men and women to action, by making them realize how much want, wretchedness, and degradation there is existing at their very doors.

W. H. H. BULLS AND BLUNDERS. Edited by Marshall Brown, 304 pp. Cloth, $1.00. Chicago: S. C. Griggs & Co. 1893.

"The object of this volume," says Mr. Brown in his preface, "is to amuse and to instruct." The book may accomplish the first purpose; hardly the second. It is a collection of anecdotes, varying in length from a line to a page, that might have graced a Joe Miller joke book, and it may serve now as a ready reference book to some worn after-dinner speaker, or uninventive conversationalist. One may find amusement by opening the book at random and reading for a few minutes; but surely nobody could read the volume through. As to instruction:

there is no semblance of arrangement in the book; the long index is valueless to the student; and the editor commits unpardonable errors in his English. Moreover, he quotes many utterances as blunders that undoubtedly were spoken with full consciousness of their absurdity, with the cheerful purpose of raising a laugh. It is only fair to add that the book has been well made by the publishers, and in its attractive form may be not only an ornament to a library table, but a means of joyous recreation to callers who have to wait a few minutes for their host to appear. F. R. B.

ENGLAND AND ITS RULERS. A concise compendium of the history of England and its people. By H. Pomeroy Brewster and George H. Humphrey. 313 pp. Cloth, $1.50. Chicago: S. C. Griggs & Co. 1892.

"England and Its Rulers" is a chronicle, rather than a history. Facts, and names, and dates are given in suitable arrangement, and the book accordingly forms an excellent outline of the history of England, useful for reference or as the basis of more extended study. Advantages would have been gained by printing the list of noted persons in each reign and of cabinet officers in smaller type, in half measure, and an outline map of the British islands should have been printed as a frontispiece. In other respects the book is strongly and well made, like all of S. C. Griggs & Co.'s publications. A chronological table of events, a table showing the succession to the crown after Queen Victoria, and a list of English universities and their colleges are useful features, while an excellent index makes all the information of the book accessible.

W. H. H.

BON-MOTS OF SYDNEY SMITH AND R. BRINSLEY Sheridan. Edited by Walter Jerrold; with grotesques by Aubrey Beardsley. 192 pp. Cloth, 75 cents. London: J. M. Dent & Co. 1893. Received from Macmillan & Co.

The outward appearance of this little book is most attractive; for binding, paper, type, and presswork are all admirable, and there are excellent etched portraits of the two wits whose bright sayings are recorded. As is generally the case in such works, the editor does not shine in comparison with his subjects, and not a few of his anecdotes seem hardly worth recording. In fact, the thought inevitably comes to the reader that Smith's and Sheridan's reputations as wits must have been based largely on the heaviness of their contemporaries, in other words, that they were witty largely by comparison, for certainly there are hundreds of newspaper writers in the United States to-day who are writing every day as keen and pungent witticisms as any in this book, without having even a feeble hope of fame. Still, Mr. Jerrold's collection is worth reading and worth owning. Mr. Beardsley's "grotesques" are cleverly drawn, but they might as well be published anywhere else, for they do not illustrate. Other

JOHN APPLEGATE, SURGEON. By Mary Harriott Norris, 334 pp. Paper, 50 cents. St. Paul: The Price-McGill Company. 1893.

"John Applegate, Surgeon," is a story written. with a purpose; it is interesting in spite of that, though many readers, doubtless, will recoil from the gruesome scenes in which some of the chapters are laid. The purpose underlying the story is twofold: to expose what the author believes to be evils in the public hospital system; and to reprimand medical practitioners of the highest order for worshipping science too ardently. Applegate is a renowned surgeon, to whom a successful operation is the greatest source of joy. He would sacrifice the fee of a multi-millionaire for the opportunity to cut up a new and dangerous case. He would operate upon a moribund patient, and thus, perhaps, shorten life, rather than let pass the chance of adding some item to medical lore. He is a man apparently without heart, who, nevertheless, pursues a persistent courtship with a girl who as persistently refuses him because his love does not meet her ideal of what love should be. The story is somewhat disjointed; it suffers, as a story, from the desire of the author to express her convictions; it does seem as if a little less sick room and death chamber would not have lessened the seriousness of the purpose; but the diction is good, and the characters are clearly drawn. "John Applegate "' will not entertain the reader, but it will hold him, and, in some instances, perhaps, arouse him, too.

F. R. B.

MADAME SAPHIRA: A FIFTH AVENUE STORY. By Edgar Saltus. 251 pp. Paper, 50 cents. New York and Chicago: F. Tennyson Neely. 1893.

Mr. Saltus, as was to be expected, deals in "Madame Saphira" in the miserable business of conjugal infidelity. His work is well done in most respects, and several of the chapters in the book are powerful, but the everlasting cynicism jars the heart, and the use of unknown words provokes the intellect. What, for instance, does Mr. Saltus mean by "vatic "? It occurs twice in "Madame Saphira," and not once in Webster's International, latest edition. With all his pessimism, Mr. Saltus is an interesting writer, and his books are welcome, but how much more warm would the greeting be if only he wrote in English.

F. R. B.

TANIS, THE SANG-DIGGER. By Amélie Rives. 187 pp. Cloth, $1.50. New York: Town Topics Publishing Company. 1893.

"Tanis" is a wild girl of the Virginia mountains, whose first appearance before the reader is in a single loose garment that half conceals

THE MYSTERIES OF THE COURT OF NAPOLEON III. By Gilbert Augustin Thierry. 319 pp. Paper. 50 cents. Chicago: Laird & Lee. 1892.

It is well to read "The Mysteries of the Court of Napoleon III.," if for no other reason than to get a glimpse of that loyalty to the empire that still lingers in the French republic. Thierry longs for the old days, even while he admits, and unhesitatingly exposes, their evils. In his preface he says: "I have served that empire; I have respected it, thinking it glorious; I have lamented its fall." This loyalty of feeling colors the whole story, and gives to the narrative an original and piquant interest. The story itself is powerful, and, fortunately, the unnamed translators have done their work well. The emperor himself is a prominent feature in the intrigues that are developed in the narration, and students of modern French history will recognize easily many real characters, thinly disguised by fictitious names. The book, even in paper covers, is handsomely put up, and includes several illustrations of unusual merit. F. R. B.

MISS STUART'S LEGACY. By Mrs. F. A. Steel. 460 pp. Cloth, $1.00. New York and London: Macmillan & Co. 1893.

Mrs. Steel, following the tendency of contemporary English writers, has laid the scene of her story in India. The discovery of this fact in the first line of the first chapter is disappointing to the American reader. We have had so much of India, and it seems after all such a far away, unreal land, that we dread to travel again with hero and heroine through the rainy season, and the blinding dust, and the torrid atmosphere, and the crowded bazaar, and, most tiresome of all, the unpronounceable words that will surely adorn the pages, sometimes in italics, often in unblushing Roman; but let no one be frightened at the prospect of these terrors in "Miss Stuart's Legacy." All the color of the Indian romance is there, including a host of strange words; but the story is constructed with remarkable skill, it is not "talky," although a profoundly philosophical conception of love and life is expounded in it, and it is well written. Here and there are pages which, it seems, the author must have written in a hurry, probably excited by the tragic interest of the events she was depicting; but they do not mar the general excellence of the book. It is a book to linger over and read again, a book

that is refreshing to the jaded novel reader; the best novel, in this reader's opinion, since "The Little Minister."

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F. R. B. "BUFFALO BILL," from Prairie to Palace. An authentic history of the wild West. By John M. Burke. 275 pp. Cloth, $1.00. Chicago: Rand, McNally, & Co. 1893. Although "Buffalo Bill" during recent years has been prominent chiefly as a sort of circus proprietor, showing off Indians all around the world, he deserves a better biographer than Mr. Burke, for in his life on the frontier he was a type of an interesting class of men who are disappearing now, their services being rendered more and more unnecessary by the advance of civilization. Mr. Burke knows his subject well, but his literary ability is not equal to his task, and he has made a book of the sort that will sell at the tent door of the Wild West" show, rather than one that fitly describes the interesting personality and the exciting career of his hero. "Buffalo Bill" got his sobriquet from his marked success in killing buffaloes to supply fresh meat to the construction parties on the Kansas Pacific railway. He lived from boyhood on the plains, passing through every experience of Western life, as herder, hunter, pony-express rider, stage-driver, wagon-master, army scout, and Indian fighter-the living prototype of the fictitious dime novel hero. As a biography Mr. Burke's book does not do its subject justice. Its 100 illustrations are by far the best part of it. A genuine "life" of "Buffalo Bill," giving his experiences without exaggeration, describing the exciting times through which he lived, and written with literary skill, would be both a really important addition to literature and unquestionably profitable to its publisher.

W. H. H.

SEVENTY YEARS ON THE FRONTier. Alexander Majors' Memoirs. Edited by Colonel Prentiss Ingraham. 325 pp. Paper, 50 cents. Chicago: Rand, McNally, & Co. 1893. When Mr. Majors' father took him as a fouryear-old boy to Missouri in 1818, St. Louis was nothing but a trading-post, and it was believed that there never would be any white settlements between the western borders of Missouri and the Sierra Nevada mountains Mr. Majors' reminiscences cover the period from then down to the present time. His book is plainly written, but as a record of actual experience and observation of life on the frontier it possesses value and interest, and it is evidently written without exaggeration, so that it is true to the life. A number of excellent half-tone illustrations are included in the book.

W. H. H.

UNDER SUMMER SKIES. By Clinton Scollard. 290 pp. Cloth, $1.00. New York: Charles L. Webster & Co. 1892. Each new traveller looks upon foreign countries from a different point of view. and so alone can one book of travel differ from another. Mr. Scollard's point of view is that of a poet, and he gives us broadly-sketched outlines of interesting scenes without going very deeply into anything, or trying to do more than give a picture here and there. Most of the book is devoted to oriental countries, and to the return through Italy and Switzerland. The final chapters describe Bermuda life. There are some well-drawn illustrations by Margaret Landers Randolph, but the reader is left to fit titles to them himself, as best he may.

W. H. H.

FOUR CENTUries After; OR, How I DISCOVERED Europe. By Ben Holt. 341 pp. Cloth. New York: Brentano's. 1893.

"Four Centuries After" differs from most books of European travel in that the author designedly makes his own personality quite as prominent as the people and the places that he visits, and tries all the time to be as humorous as he can. Some of the humor is entertaining, and some is not, but, on the whole, the book is an amusing one—and more or less instructive, too. It is handsomely printed and tastefully bound.

W. H. H.

THE PHILOSOPHERS' CAMP (Emerson, Agassiz, and Lowell in the Adirondacks). W. J. Stillman. Century (35 c.) for August.

ALPHONSE DAUDET AT HOME. With illustrations. Marie Adelaide Belloc. Idler (25 c.) for August.

MY FIRST BOOK. With illustrations. I. Zangwill. Idler (25 c) for August.

HENRY DRUMMOND. With portrait. Howard A. Bridgman. New England Magazine (25 c.) for August.

THE SUPERMUNDANE IN FICTION. W. H. Babcock. Lippincott's (25 c.) for August.

FRANCES CAMPBELL SPARHAWK. Weekly Journalist ( 10 c. ) for August 3.

With portrait. Boston

THE NEWS EDITOR EUROPEAN IDEAS OF NEWS. Julius Chambers. Boston Weekly Journalist ( 10 c. ) for August 10.

B. O. FLOWER (editor of the Arena). With portrait. Boston Weekly Journalist ( 10 c. ) for August 24.

GENERAL LEW WALLACE. With portrait. Harper's Weekly for August 19.

EDGAR SALTUS. Portrait. Frank Leslie's Illustrated Weekly (10 c.) for August 24.

MRS. EDITH SESSIONS TUPPER. With portrait. Frank Leslie's Illustrated Weekly ( 10 c.) for August 31.

RUDYARD KIPLING. Portrait. Frank Leslie's Illustrated Weekly (10 c.) for August 31.

THE PUBLISHING BUSINESS AS A FIELD FOR COLLEGE MEN. Justin Harvey Smith. Reprinted from Dartmouth Literary Monthly in Publishers' Weekly for September 9.

RELIGIOUS BELIEFS OF AUTHORS. John Habberton. Ladies' Home Journal ( 10 c.) for September.

THE LETTERS OF JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL. Charles Eliot Norton. Harper's Monthly ( 35 c.) for September.

THE BRAIN OF WOMEN. Professor Ludwig Buchner. Reprinted from New Review in Eclectic (45 c. ) for September. HENRIK IBSEN AS A LANDSCAPE PAINTER. With illustrations. George Holst. Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly for September.

CAPTAIN CHARLES MCILVAINE ("Tobe Hodge"). Portrait. Harpers Bazar for September 23.

THE NEW YORK HERALD AND ITS NEW HOME. With illustrations. James Creelman. Harper's Weekly (10 c.) for September 2.

REMINISCENCES OF WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY. Francis St. John Thackeray. Reprinted from Temple Bar in Littell's Living Age (18 c. ) for September 2.

RICHARD HARDING DAVIS. With portrait. Chicago Graphic (10 c. ) for September 2.

EUGENE FIELD. With portrait. Chicago Graphic ( 10 c. ) for September 16.

OPIE READ. September 30. JOHN BRISBEN WALKER (editor of the Cosmopolitan). With portrait. New York Journalist ( 10 c.) for September 9.

With portrait. Chicago Graphic (10 c.) for

FORMULAS OF REJECTION USED BY MAGAZINES. New York Journalist (10 c.) for September 9.

OUR GRAPHIC HUMORISTS. Linley Sanbourne. With illustrations. M. H. Spielmann. Magazine of Art (35 c.) for September.

NEWS AND NOTES.

The Journalist, New York, began its eighteenth volume with the number for September 16. The paper is indispensable to any one who desires to keep informed regarding newspaper work and newspaper workers.

Miss Harriet Monroe, who wrote the World's Fair ode, has brought suit for $25,000 damages against the New York World, which printed it in advance of its delivery, without authority, and also printed an alleged likeness and biography of Miss Monroe, each of which she considers ground for action. She alleges that, after the copy had been stolen, her agent warned the World against using it, and received this reply: "We will take our chances on it. Explain to her that the World could not miss an opportunity to give the public such a grand poem.", Miss Monroe claims that by the premature publication she lost her copyright and various other advantages.

The Century Company has bought wellnigh the complete literary "out-put" of Mark Twain during his year of residence abroad, and both the Century and St. Nicholas will have serial stories by this popular humorist among the attractions of the new year.

In Scribner's for October, under the title, "The Man of Letters as a Man of Business," Mr. Howells discusses with perfect frankness the whole relation of literature to business, especially the relations of the writer with the editor and the publisher.

Stone & Kimball (Cambridge and Chicago) announce “The Holy Cross," Eugene Field's new book of "Profitable Tales "; "Prairie Songs," Hamlin Garland's first book of verse; and a new edition of Hamlin Garland's "Main Travelled Roads," for which Mr. Howells is writing an introduction.

The business of the Cassell Publishing Company, New York, which was wrecked recently, has been reorganized. A company entitled the Cassell Publishing Company has been formed under the laws of New Jersey with a capital of $250,000, the trustees being W. F. Mercheron, E. A. Archer, and S. F. Walker.

A new novel by Miss Mary Wilkins will begin to appear in January in Harper's Weekly.