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10 PAKIS. ITS MODERN LIFE DESCRIBED AND PICTrRKD. PARIS OF TO-PAY. By Richard Whitetnr. With Pictures by Andre Castalßue. Octavo, pp. 2«- The Century Company. The Exhibition prompted the publication of the charters of this book In "The Century"; but its appearance between covers as the Ex hibition closes is significant that its scope 1* much wider than the immediate occasion of lt» being. The Exhibition cuts no figure In it. Th« book Is a study «nd a criticism of the salient qualities of modern Paris, its people and Us life. It is the real Paris that Is described, by one who clearly knows it well, and as it is; and bo the description departs widely from conventional lines. The book is trenchant, yet sympathetic. The author Is not without affection for the capi tal, and if he discusses it sometimes with the superior air of the Anglo-Saxon who sees throujrh much of the Gallic quality at once; If he is indulgent, sometimes humorous, some time* gently sarcastic, as a neighbor who has long Fince found out its foibles, his attitude Is y*t kindly and appreciative, and what he says Is really illuminating. Mr. Whit ting's theory of the French people is that, while imagining themselves ever youth ful, the most modern of the moderns, they are really the most aged race in Europe, with all that that implies. "It flashes on you without preoccupation," be Bays, "and without warning. in modern Paris as well as In the remote prov inces. The wrinkles show In the majestic de lays of their bureaucracy, in a thousand me dlaevalicms of their ways of thought." The idea possessed by Paris that it is the newest of the new is merely its fun In many of the anti quated Paris workshops, that elsewhere would be considered only less objectionable than a Kaffir kraal; in the smooth running Govern ment machine, its clerks with their dossiers. the connecting links of all the little systems, monarchical or republican; in the Middle Age method of criminal procedure; in the close cor poration of the bar. a survival of pre-Revolu tlonary' France; in the "red mass," during the prepress of v.hlch it perms to the beholder as if nothing much had happened for centuries, Mr. Whit, ing continually finds the wrinkle. "You cannot have l>*«en a power and a polity as far back as Charlemagne for nothing." Whether in the i^rord of concrete facts or the analysis of a condition, the author seldom fails to see below the surface. He has little com punction in piercing many cherished legends. Dancing in the public balls, for instance, is now a professional matter. Montmartre by night Is something to be Feen. only to make sure that it Is not worth seeing. The artistic and literary cafes there were never anything but shows, their proprietors never anything but showmen, the Bohemian* for the decorative part of the scheme being hired for the occasion. Th. legends of the MAataaaitre poets, an even poorer lot in spirit than they are In purse, are all moonshine The real poets are steady, as a mere condition of Succt-Ff. one swallow in the shape of Verlaine does not make a summer. Mr. Whlteing leaves up the boulevards, till the source or distributing centre of all the flitting fancies of France. You come in the daytime for the sensation of the day. and you get it. The midday breakfast at the restaurant is still an institution that ha» net its superior. Its hours are times of truce; it helps life to advance pleasantly in its most serious affairs, and "blessed are the breakfasters —while they breakfast." At night you join the huge thror.g that has come out to see itself— that is the spectacle, and no matter how often you have seen it, you are sure of your reward. The chapter on Artistic Paris is one of Mr. WhSi»lnr*B most readable efforts. His descrip tion of the Academy, its meaning and it* results would have charmed Daudet. "Its great aim is the production of th« normal man of letters, the equipoised personality of wisdom, wit, gravity, gayety. the harmony of sometimes conflicting opposites which old fashioned people look for in the perfect writer." He has not too much of anything, but just exactly enough — "a sort of Grandlson of the desk." "That illustrious body, es It is ever represented in French critical liter ature by some great pedagogic figure. Is con- Ptantly rapping the whole class of successful writ. over the knuckles, and ordering them to leave off making a noise." Th. bock Is a handsome one, worthy of its puhject. Mr. Andre Castaigne has supplied many drawings, abounding in character and rpirit. delicately executed and beautifully re produced. THREE HOLIDAY BOOKS. I LITERATURE IN HANDSOME FORM. THE PmAUU OF DAVID. Including Sixteen Full Page Illustrations and Numerous Decorations In th« Text Depleting the Life of David as Phepherd. Poet. Warrior, and King. By I^ouis Uncart. Together with an Introductory Stu<iv by Newell Duipht HIM*. Octavo. pp 28« Fleming H. Itevell Company. . WOMEN OF THE BIBLE. By Eminent Divines Illustrated. Octavo, pp. ISS. Harper & Bros. HEROINES OF THE BIBLE IN ART. By Clara Kr^kine Clement. Octavo, pp. 361. Boston- L C. Page & Co. The typical holiday book is before all things a luxurious affair. It is often gay. but. as we have had of late years to remark, mere frivolity In this field is not all-important, Bocks of seri ous value are coining to be more and more the rule, and we are especially glad to note that at Christmas time works peculiarly fitted to the graver side of the season are not neglected. We are sure that there will be a large and apprecia tive public for the three volumes enumerated above. The <-ditlon of the Psalms of David. Illustrat.d by Mr. Rhead. is a very satisfying production. The page is broad, permitting the we of a fairly large type, which leaves a clear imprint on the deiical !y tinted paper. The borders are really decorative; th. y are skilfully designed and are w« 11 drawn. The initial letters are most aitlstic. Hut the special feature of the edition Is to be found in Mr. Rhead's drawings. They are realistic in conception, but show mv « ntlve power, ar.d in some cases especially they illustrate the text with striking originality and vividness. Mr. Khead's style is forcible. Hi 8 drawings are a li:t!e lacking perhaps in atm phere, but through excellence of composition and through vigorous characterization the artist manages to lie, on the whole, very persuasive. The book is handsomely got up, with a wine red cover, richly stamped in gold. Th<» book called "Women of the Bible," to Which a number cf clergymen have contributed, is distinguished by a catholicity' of tone not al ways encountered in devotional literature. it Is a decidedly interesting work. Dr. Chadwlck. for example, writes of Eve with captivating breadth of view, quoting not only the Bible bui floesettl. and telling v* many interesting things, M that charms to annul the malign Influence of LOftth. Eve's predecessor, are purchasable in the East London of the present day. He adds that •• The new woman/ of whom we hear so much will perhaps incline to regard Ulith favorably! seeing that the reason commonly assigned for her inability to live happily with Adam is that she claimed equality with him on the ground that they were both made at one cast. Lilith ar.d Adam quarrelled on this score, and Che. using a charm a fallen angel had Imparted to ber. took to herself wing* with all the golden r!chr» of her hair, and flew away." Returning to Eve herself and the fact that her significance ha# l*-en associated with a single circumstance <;f bet career, her temptation and her fall. Dr. CT.adtvirk obperves that it Is "only by freely aUatrorlsiac Uia &mvit story la <aaae«ia that the traditional theological construction can be made cut of Its material." FlKhop Potter writes with the most appealing rharm and commonsense about Mary and Martha. He has never been able to approach, in his heart, he says, any interpretation of the two women "which undertook to strike the bal ance of their virtues and their frailnesses." He says of Martha that she '•uifcoubtedly deserved the rebuke ehe grot," but he adds. "Surely no one will withhold from her that tender sympathy th».t we ought to give every day of our lives to hard worked and overburdened women all about us." thus bringing his little sketch in portrait ure In close relation to the instructive purpose which is. in fact, never lost sight of by any of the writers who have helped to make this book. Dr. Abbott, Dr. Van Dyke. Bishop Hurst. Cardi nal Gibbons. Rabbi Gotthell and others who are represented give u« fact* and give us vivid pictures of the women with whom they deal; but in each chapter there is also a lesson, none the less effective because it la not emphasised too ptrongly. but springs naturally from the writer's analysis of a character. The illustra tions are Interesting, though they are not uni formly impressive in their purely artistic ele ments. Miss Clement's book also retells the stories of •MSasa of th. Bible, but her scheme is enlarged to include accounts of the famous paintings in which they figure. Many of these paintings are reproduced in excellent halftones. They are well chosen. In the main, and the author's text dis closes tact as well as a happy faculty for the popularizing of artistic information. JAMES LANE ALLEN. SOME ATTOBIOGRAPHICAL FRAOMKNTS. A KENTUCKY CARDINAL AND AFTERMATH. By lames Lane Allen. New Edition. Revised. V.'Hh N>w Preface and Three Hundred Illus trations by Hugh Thomson. Octavo, pp. xxxii. 276 The Macmillan Company. There are some interesting autnMosraphlcal no!fs In the preface which Mr. Allen has pre pared for the new edition of one of hi t>< okp. "A Kentucky Cardinal," and its aeqveL 'Aftermath " He tf]lf= up about the Kentucky farm to »vhlch be was taken as a child. "There 1 continued to Hv» . " he says, "until I was twenty-two yean of age. without ever having bf en outside th^ Stat* of Kentucky or having seen more than onco or twice any bat th* 1 nearest village" From a window in th<' farm house he received the first impressions of the physical world that to. k shape and moaninp in his mind, and he pays: "Whatsoever unim portant habits of observation 1 possess were, there formed, directed and acquired; and if I have ever written anything concerning nature arhjeh shows the slightest knowledge or feel ing, if in far later yean 1 have ever lingered over a page, vainly trying to put the reality of ex ternal things as they seem to us and the re ality of the emotions they arouse In us, the origin of it all goes back to that time and place." Not one of Mr. Allan's books aion<\ but all of them have profited by those early ex periences. He describes his father, riding back ward and forward across the fields sowing hemp. It is plain that the memory of that horseman counted when he came to write "The Reign of Law." He continues: What I have now come to and am trying to fray is that everything 1 was sent tc do. from the beginning to the end of all my small labors on tho farm, brought Indispensable knowledge, kept me close to the earth, caused ny to know more of the Infinite life out of doors. I dropped corn, covered It. thinned it (an abominable business, however, arerttag the boy's body as though he were a pair of sugar tongs). Some times I shucked it in autumn, threw the fodder over to th. stock in wlm-r, to. k the corn to the mill in the spring— and took my share of the bread at all seasons. He was never overworked, but we gather that there was little of the life of the farm in which he did not take an active part, and that. beaMea, he found pleasures out of doors which were no Ipss instructive than his labors. Through work and errand and pleasure." he observes, I was ever learning." One would imagine as much from a great deal of his writ ing, but never more swiftly than from a reading of "A Kentucky Cardlnl." which is a thor oughly (harming composition, full of vitality and with an original flavor that is very taking. The nf-w edition is lllustrat- d by a. man whose drawings never fall to yield delight, Mr. Hugh Thomson. The work of that prolific artist has hitherto s<pir.ed so r]o H -]y identified with Eng lish subjects that we would hardly expect t find American material adequately used in his hands. As a matter of fact, his drawings are moet felicitously adapted to Mr. Allen's text. They are good bits of draughtsmanship, and they are really illustrations in the beat sense of the word. The book Is luxuriously printed and has a most decorative, refined cover in red and gold. WORD PAIXTIXGS. FAMOUS WRITERS ON GREAT EXAMPLES OF NATURES HANDIWORK. WONDERS OF NATURE. As Seen and Described by Famous Writers. Kdlted and Translated by Esther Singleton. With Numerous Illustra tions. Octavo, pp. nil, 366. Dodd, Mead & Co. It is pleasant to learn from Miss Singleton's preface that her previous books, collecting de scriptions of masterpieces in painting and archi tecture, with photographic reproductions of those masterpieces, have met with success. They have deserved it. and they find a legitimate and most desirable companion in the volume now before us. She has not drawn very much upon the professional traveller of scientific pro clivities. The effect produced by a wonder of nature upon a writ, of Imagination it has been her special object to illustrate. Her examples range from Dumas to Kipling, from Sir Walter Scott to the late G. W. Steevens. Niagara, Fin gal's Cave, the Desert of Sahara. Mt. Vesuvius, the Yellowstone and the Dead Sea are among the themes she has chosen. Every one of the great scenes dealt with in this book, we may add, has been most judiciously selected. Miss Singleton has a knack of picking out the sub jects in which the average reader la most likely to be Interested. The literary accompaniment, too. reflects sound judgment on the part of the editor, and since the photographic illustrations are good in thc-mselves and well reproduced the publication is altogether to be commended ' We may choose from the text this fragment of Pierre LotTs chapter on the Dead S. a. Upon the sinister strand where we arrive death reveals itself, truly sovereign and im posing. First, like a line of defence which it v necessary to surmount, comes a belt of drift wood, branches and trees stripped of all bark" almost petiilied in the chemical bath and whitened like bones, one would call them an ac cumulation of great vertebra;. Then there arc some rounded pebbles, as on the shore of every eea; but not a single shell, not a piece of sea weed, not even a little greenish slime, nothing organic, even of the lower order; and nowhere dee has this ever been seen, a sea whose bed is as sterile as a crucible of alchemy; this is some thing abnormal and disconcerting. Some dead fish lie here and there, hardened like wood mummified in the naphtha and salts; fish of the Jordan which the current brought here and which »he accursed waters suffocated Instantly And before us this scene flees between Its banks of desert mountains to the troubled "hori zon, with an appearance of never ending its whitish, oily waters bear blots of bitumen spread In large Iridescent rings. Moreover they burn. If you drink them, like a corrosive liquor- If you enter them up to your knees you have difficulty In walking, they are so heavy you cannot dive in them nor even swim In the or dinary position, but you can float upon th* sur face like a cork buoy. Once the Emperor Titus, ax « n exp»rlmetit had several slaves bound together with iron chains and out In, and they Oil not drown. STEW-YORK DAILY TRIBUNE. SATURDAY. DECEMBER 1. 1900. Uooks anti iJnblicatlons. Houghton, Mifflin & Co.'s New and Jloliday Books Penelope's Experiences. $4.00 I. England; 11. Scotland. By KATE DOUGLAS WIGGIX. Holiday Edition. Two most delightful volumes, -with 108 Illustrations by Charles E. Brock. Old Virginia and Her Neighbours . . $8.00 By JOHN FISKE. Illustrated Edition. Containing Maps. Facsimiles. Contempo rary Views, Prints, and other Historic Material. Two handsome octavo volumes. A Little Tour in France $3.00 A charming book of travel sketches by HENRY JAMES. Holiday Edition. With about 70 Illustrations by Joseph Pennell. Yesterdays With Authors 53.50 By JAMES T. FIELDS. Holiday Edition. With 28 Fhoto.sravures. mostly Portraits and Facsimiles. A handsome Holiday Book, containing Keminlscences, Anecdotes, t, and Letters of Thackeray, Hawthorne, Dickens, Wordsworth, Miss Mltford, and Barry Cornwall. An American Anthology 1787-1900. By EDMUND CLARENCE BTEDMAN. With a frontispiece of eight famous American poets. Large crown Svo, gilt top. $3.00; cloth, full gilt, $3.."» i»: half calf, gilt top, $">.<><•; tree calf or levant, $6.">(). A superb book in which American poets are represented by their best poems, with brief biographical sketches, and a very valuable Introduction. Counsel Upon the Reading of Books . $1.50 Lectures by Prof. H. MOUSE STEPHENS, Miss AGNES BEPPLIER, President HADLEY, Prof. BBAXDEB MATTHEWS, Prof. BLISS PERRY, and Mr. HAM ILTON W. MABIE. With an introduction by HENRI VAN DYKE. D. D. The Book of Saints and Friendly Beasts. . $1.25 By ABBIE FAKWELL BROWN. Stories of 18 Saints, with their good animal friends— the lion, -wolf, gulls, cows, etc. Finely illustrated. Squirrels and Other Fur Bearers $1.00 By JOHN BURROUGHS. The fox. rabbit, raccoon, etc. With IS Colored plates and a fox's head frontispiece, from life. A Century of American Diplomacy • . $3.50 Being a Brief Review of the Foreign Relations of the United States. 1770-1576. By JOHN W. FOSTER, ex-Secretary of State of the United States. The Mississippi Valley in the Civil War $2.00 By JOHN FISKE. A book of great historical value and charmingly written. Russia and the Russians $1.50 By EDMUND NOBLE, author of "The Russian Revolt." Tells concisely and comprehensively the story of Russia and the Russian people. Theodore Parker $2.00 By Rev. JOHN WHITE CHADWICK. With two Portraits. An admirable story of a great life. Sold by all Booksellers. Scut, postpaid, by HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN & CO., Boston; II East 17th Street, New York. AN ILLTSTRATOIfS INCONGRUOUS AC COMPANIMENT TO THE QUATRAINS. THE RUBAITAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM. the As tronomer Poet of Persia. Rendered into Eng lish Verse by Edward Fitzgerald. With Draw ing* by Florence LuaCborsj Octavo, i>ji 119. Duty's, at the Sign of the I.ark. THR RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM. Com prising Metrical Translations by Edward Fitz gerald and B. H. Wlofield, and the Prose Ver t-ion of Justin Huntly McCarthy. With an Ap pendix Showing I"' Variation! hi the First Three Kditions of FitZßfrald's Rendering. Edited with an Introduction by Jessie ii it t tenhouse. Octavo, pp. xl. 211. Boston: Little. Brown & Co. The new edition of Omar, published "at the Sign of the Lark." has the typographical at tractiveness which would be expected of a book coming from Mr. Doxey's hands. Paper and presswork are artistic, and the editorial ma chinery provided is satisfactory. Of Miss Lund borg's drawings, however, it is difficult to speak with approval. They are of the school of the late Aubrey Beardsley. but show nothing of the technical brilliancy which distinguished that curious figure In English art. Here and there !¦ a page not badly decorated, no far as the mere disposition of line is concerned, but Miss Lundborg shows very little sympathy with the text. There Is nothing of Omar In her work. She strives in .vain to strike the note which has made the quatrains in Fltigerald's version Immortal. Indeed, these Imaginings of hers Jar upon the reader, the spirit of them Is so to tally different from that of the poet. with the beat will In the world to find merit in work >ver which the artist has, we Mippo*te. labored Vlth lv\t and enthusiasm, we must confess oar ; _ MAGAZINE THIS is the most beautiful number of The Century ever X issued,— in fact it probably will be pronounced the most beautiful number of any magazine. The color print ing is exquisite,— Frank Vincent Dv Mond has illustrated Milton's Ode on the Nativity, and it is printed in six colors and four tints ; each page is a work of art. There are complete stories by Henry James, L. B. Wal ford (author of "The Baby's Grandmother"), Carolyn Wells ("Ghosts who Became Famous— a Christmas Fantasy"), Charles Dudley Warner, Edwin Asa Dix (the author of " Deacon Bradbury"), Charles Battell Loomis (" While the Automobile Ran Down"),— most of them illustrated; the first of a delightful series of articles, " Down the Rhine," by Augustine Birrell, M. P., for which the great illustrator Castaigne is making a series of pictures which will be a veritable panorama of the Rhine. Li Hung-chang's pri vate secretary, Mr. W. N. Pet hick, contributes an article on the siege of Peking, and there are many other notable contributions. The points of the Christmas Century are BEAUTY AND INTEREST Or and after the issue of this December (Christmas) Century, we will send the August, September, October and November numbers (containing fir3t four rnrp instalments of that very popular novel, " The Helmet of Navarre ") fIsC. Ed f ree of charge to any persons who will subscribe to The Century for one year, beginning with the December number. Remit $4.00, the yearly subscription price, and get sixteen numbers for the price op twelve. Remit by check, draft, money-order or express-order. THE CENTURY CO., Union Square, New York. ft W.C. OMAR. Books anD publications. inability to Bee any reason why sh.' should have meddled with Omar at all Her publisher has given us ¦ beautiful piece el i.ookmaking. but our pleasure in it i.s almost spoiled by the in trusion of the Utastratkma .Miss Rlttenhonee'a Omar is a i-i.asant vol ume, brtaciasj tosether aa it does the versions of Fitzgerald. McCarthy and WlafleM. Tn.- nrst of these mi the on!) one we really want, but th. others are not with .ut int. -rest for the rnadei who takes a minute mteresl in the Feraian poet The blbUotrraphy ;¦: the bach .f the book is especially welcome. The preaswerh is hand some, and the blndrng is richly decorated. It is, on the whole a worthy addition to the ions pro t.ssion of otnar volumes due to the creation of an Omar cult. A WISE SHAKESPEARIAN. MR. ISRAEL, GOLI.ANCZ AND HIS EDITION OF THE POET. "The Larger Temple Shakespeare." published by the Macmlllan Company, is at last completed with the publication of the eleventh and twelfth volumes. The first of these contains "Othello." "Antony and Cleopatra" and "Pericles." The second includes "Annals of the Life of Shake speare'" — an admirable designation for pages that do not protend to anything but fragmentary biographical form— with "Venus anil Adonis," "The Rape of Lucrece," and other poems, and the Sonnets. 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But It is nothing less than delightful to find him In his biographical sketch adhere to a concise statement of the few facts that are generally accessible. He has sifted the data, weighing It with independent Judg ment, but he hazards no audacious guesses. Here one may find simply the documents ar ranged wtdl skill. After all. what more doe* one want? The treatment of the Sonnets Is equally engaging. The editor here again gives facts when he can. but, passing to the knotty prob lem of the identity of the person to whom the Sonnets may have been addressed, he contents himself with summarising Impartially the hy potheses of the scholars. He leaves the reader free to approach the Sonnets with an open mind in this edition, in fact, one la not tantalised with lavltatloaa to swerve Irom ihm onbr rUshi at. Books arib Publications. tltude. That attitude means that the Sonn«t* should be read first, last ana all the time tot the poetry that Is in them. He who Is " m eschews speculations. He takes simply the sub lime beauty that the poet offers, and la con tent. New editions of Shakespeare are *»uinf constantly from the press, but we know » 0!> * more satisfactory than this one. so well 1 " 8 * so well Illustrated and printed, and offer*! st so reasonable a price. .1 FRIDAY SCPERSTITIOS. From Notes and Queries. Of the . many Friday superstitions, one. at least. is widespread. A Friday flit: Never sit! Is often quoted when people move to another th7J."iT o , n .*, *"*<***• ana many folk would *••* think if v» doing a flit" on a Friday, not even » moonlight with the object of "doing" the la»* "** «'* are many hinges which many *> * wHI not undertake to do on a Friday which- JjJ «*- race at uuiua tbty situ da. seem curt ott* j