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L1TERARY NEWS
a^lXC)
CRITICISM
A Group of lllustrated Holiday
Books.
"COLONIAL."
THas OGntsONIAL HOMKS OF PHILA
DEI,PH1A AND ITS NEIOHBOR
HOOD By Harold Uonaldson bberloln
and Horace Mi.ther IJjplncott. Wlth
72 lllusmitions. Royal Mro, pp. 365
.Philadtiphia: .1. it. I.ipplncott Company.
This is the kinrf of b?>ok which is the
more shr*.\vr]!v BBade for the holiday.s
ln that it ls also made to be preaerved
long afterward. The authors speak of
the i)l fortune whlch haa overtaken
more than one of tho homes of our
fon fathers. DouMless some of the
houaes whl.h stiil stand in PhlladtM
GLBN FBBN, ON THIJ WIMAHICKOM OBKBK, BU1LT IN 1741
(From a photograph ln "The Colonial Homea of Phlladelphla."^
phla and its or.virr ns and are here
Urttatrated wlll '?'? loaf ''isar
pear. [I :- | ??>' Iti lft
rlch photograi manalonB
admirai'ie in thenaselvea'and full of
iaaocli Uoj U?< ptctataa are
doubiy walcotBa becauea <?f the stories
that go with them. This book la OOB
cerned not ah.n. with btrtCJU and mor
tar but with old eoctal tjrpaa nnd waya.
One pauaea tba more Interestedly be- ;
fore Waln House, for example, when
one haa heard sonv thing about gay
Master Nicholas of that ilk. one of the j
dan.Ii.s aml wits of tlie eighteenth
century. Il waa Nicholas Waln who
aa lirst BOajaecttag and then eonvieting ,
his next door nelajhber of stealing his
fuel sent a cartload of W aod to the of
fen-'(r. Unaware that ?ho truth wns
known. tht* worthy asked with fury for,
nn explanation. ' Friend." qUOtb Nich?
olas. "i araa afraid thee would BOii
thyseif fal!ing off my
The booh bi full "f anecdotee like
this, brief human toucbex which brlng
back tho aranatb aad cbama of o
of historic honifs. Wt hear of long
obnolete ootneatk irbya Wa it?rn of i
Bifhteentb cenlwy sufferings from poor
servants. Those born in the country
are InaotOBt aml extravagant. The
imported Dutch are to the last degree
Igaotraol and awkward. Tiie negroes
are 6tupid and sulky and stink damna
bly." Thua a plaintlve Engllshman,
newh arrlved in this country about a
hundred and flfty years ago. And ha
aad no hope ?f fatttag tetter servico
from his old home. "If you brlng over
a good one ba is spoiit ln a month."
It is history of B modest but useful
nort that Ifr. Bl eriaJa and Mr. Llppin
cott havei errlttea, ntid in their illus
trations they make a serviceable cou
trlbution to the annals of American
ert. These photographs Bhow us tho
rdmpllctty and dlgnity of the work done
by our eorlier er/CBltactfl and bullder^
They labored fc>r a soclety that did not
take Ita culture too serlously, but had,
nevertheless, any rjuantity of good
taate. The lllu.strations are well prlnt
ad and the book ls ln every way hand
eomely made.
POE. WITH PICTURES.
THE BMSLUo, AND OTHER POEMS.
Bv Edgnr Allan Poe Wlth lllustratlons.
Bv Edmund Dulac, 4to, no paginatlon.
Gtorge H. Doran Company.
There waa a time when It seemed as
lf the gift book had had its day. That
was because the pictures in lt ha<1
grown hopelesaly conventlonal and
were printed merely aa pictures,
?whether they had any real reaacn for
belng or not. Then tbe gift book
"oame back" on the aurer foundation
of a aeriouB artlsttc purpoae. Mr. Dulac
1M.8 counted heavily ln the new move?
ment and he bo counts agaln. A vol?
ume like tbia is really a kind of ex
hlbltton in llttle, a gallery in whlch
we behold a man of talent wreaking
himself with enthusiaam and skill upon
a theme that has genulnely atlrred
hlm. The improved use of eolor in
thepresa whlch has attracted ao much
attentton ln the last few yearn, enables
an llluBtrator to appeal to ub in a book
practically aa ln a collectlon of hla
crtginal drawlngs. And Mr. Dulacs
appeal Ib strong. HIb picturesqueness
ls not ot the theatre. but of the true
poette world. of whlch hla imagination
makea hlm free. He has been v.ry
fortunate wlth Poe. In his flgures.
taken one by one, he shows that ho
can reallze the haunting images of hla
author, and he weaves them into im
presalve deaigns. Especially do we ap
preclate this draftsman'R feeling for
background, for the envelope of mya
tery which Pae gave t<> all hla mo
tlve?. The Holemn monumental land
icap* which he has pulnted for "Cia
lune" gocs to the very heart of that
poem. Of course, Poe recelves ln this
lnr-tam-'- thl tnbutf- cf t.eautlful typog
raphy, :'n'l beoadee givlng full value to
Mr. Du'ac'B drawlngs in full page re
produc tions, the publiabera have sup
plled charmlng end papers and a good
cover. This ls one of the flrst and one
of the best of the hollday books.
CHAUCER M0DERNI2ED.
TH1 rOMPI,ETE POET1CAL WORKg
OF QEOFFRKY niAlTEH Now lirst
1 put into modorn EngUsh by Joseph B.
p. Tl tlock and Percy MacKaye. B
lustratlons by Warwick Oobie. Boyai
8vo, pp. xli. m. The Macmlllan Com?
pany.
The oltvious comment upon this work
is antlclputed hy Profesaor Tatlork
| and Mr. MacKaye ln thcdr preface.
; To know Chaucer one must know hlm
i through his origlnal text. But this,
j a? every Chaucerlan wlll admlt. ia not
I an easy task. Even the most devoted
! studc-nt flnds that it takes tlme to
' dleaolve the ralat apokea of bo thia
> preface aa lying between the reader
and a sympathetio eomOTOhOBalOB of
' the poet. The present veraion dOOB
' away wlth the mist. Something alaa,
' of courso. is lost. the Bubtle glamour,
the ineffable. intlescrThable dowy
s^eetness that dripped from DBfl
Chaucer'B pen. On the other hand, lt
would take a sufficiently crass pedant
to wave the work asldo as affnrding
no lnltlatlon Into the poet's mystory.
His substance Ib thero if not the last
goiden gkam of hla magic. Theedltors.
they say, "have Btriven alwayB to
pataphrace as little and to be aa falth
ful to the- original BO thoy could," and
wo flnd ourselvea yielding in the right
ajpUit to the lure of their narratlve.
"Whllom there dwolt at Oxford a rlch
churl, of his craft a carpaator, who
tOOat 100010 to board." Thus beginneth
the Mlller his Tale, and as we go on
we fall eoolly into his Btride, con
fesslng that it is pleaaantly smooth and
swift. The cc mpletenese of this ver
sii.n of the i>o4:tieal works ls another
i Of its merlta. and to glve the general
reader all the ald BO needB a brief
Mographlcal sketch is added, w 1th a
compact and adequate gloasary. Mr.
j f.f.ble's capital illustrathms are printed
in c.ilors. and whlle tiiey giv* a festal
, air to the volume the latter is one
i more of those hollday publicatlons
1 which have a permanent character.
MACREADrS DIARY
j Life of an Actor in the Nine
teenth Oentury.
THE MAP.IESOF WILLIAM CHARLES
MA'-HEAI>Y. 1S.13-1Kj1. Edlted by Wlll
lam Tovnhee. Illustrated. ln two vol
nmos. Pp. 512-543. G. P. Putnam's Bons.
As we turn the pages of ihese bulky
? volumes the wonder grows that
Macready Uved to complet^ them. that
vitallty could endure through such
waste of iierve Btrength and mental en?
ergy. A more torm?ntod and tormont
; Ing creature than this famous actor
^surely never trod this earth. Tlili,
; sklnned and morbld to an < xtraordlnary
fltHTBO. he waa contlnually imagining
slights, lnsults nnd inJurleB. He had
? an almnst uncontrollal.le temper, and
i though there waa hardly a day on
whlch he did not doptore that fact he
continued to give rein to his demon. It
Ib recorded that he loved his art, but
the aHsociatlons of the stage and green
i room he too heartily cksplsed. His <on
I tempt naturally reacted upon his own
i nature, and in hle recurrlng rages he
deecended into a fexoclous abuslvenes.'i
i whlch left hlm wlth "acarcely a lrlend
ln the profesBion." And then, poor fel
; h .v, he waa afterward moved to a self
jcaatlgatlon equally overpowerlng! The
remorseful entrles in his dlary are so
frequent and bo despairlng that tiiey
flnally pall upon the readpr. The halr
Bhirt of the penitent was rarely oflf the
artor's back, the scourge out of hiB
hand. When, exasperated beyond
hearing by the behavlor of his man?
ager, the "reptile" Bunn, he struck the
man, hlB peace waa for a long tlme
effectually destroyed. "No enemy ran
cenaure me more har&hL.\ no friend
lament more deeply my forgetfulness
of all I ought to hare thought upon,"
he writes in hla diary. He waa ready
to flght a duel wlth Bunn had the
aggrie^ed "reptile" called him out. but
that canny personagi; contertted him?
self wlth a sult nt law and Buhstantial
damages?there was more emnfort in
CUQ than ln a pintol sh??t.
The shortcomlngs of the actors play?
lng with hlm had their natural effect ln
roUBlng that nlways ready temper of
Macreody'8. S'ejre of those found ln
provinclal thfe.a?..s We cannot blnme
him for rating. What can ba done by a
etar when thrfo people on the atage
know scarcc anything of their purts
and a fonrth is Incapable of glvlrig two
cons4-cutlvp lines of tiiree artH? Even on
the Lotidon stage there waa an ln
f.aming carelessnoss among tha plajr
ers. Macready had no eense of hiimor
to ape.nk of, but lie tells w.th some re
allzatlon of a Joke at hls expenso the
story of a performanee of "vVernrr": "1
was lnconvenlenced and rather an
(noyed by Ulrlc looklng upon tba
! ground, or anywhere but in my faoc, as
J he fhould have done. My dispicasure,
! however, vnnirhed on seeinK fhe tenr*
j fast trlckling down hls check. Bfl I. tOT
! giving his Inaccuracy on the seore of
j hl* eenalblllty, I contlnued the scer.e
j wlth augmented energy and feeling.
'? and left It wlth a very favorahle im
! presalon of Ihe young man'. Juclgment
| nnd warrn-heartedne-cs. In the course
; of the play he accostcd me, bagSlBB '">'
I pardon tor hls apparcnt lna.ttei.t-Oa t"
j me. and explainlng tho cau;e, viz.. that
' he had palnted hls facc so high cn tba
. rheek that the. rc.lor BB*. gol into his
: ey?s and kept them running during the
whole act. What an unfort iimte Jis
I closure!" As troublesomo to ilni'n uiy
; aa the drav/backs of the sta?;e were the
i crltlclsma of the pres_. lle was a man
[of forty, emlnently auccessful and pop?
ular when he began thln dtaiy, but he
[had not leaurneB BBd did not lenrn to
endure criticlsm wlth .m.thlng lik>
aquaalmtty. Bvery cen ire of bl
ing. however slight, araa lo him llke
vltriol BBOB a rnw WOUBd. V? t bla
vnnity wns BOt D by
rc-j>eatc"i QutflOO to tl ?? < I ? I thal
tain BOI'lUHUBUtJOB Of lr had bOOB lm
perfoct Ho was aa todi ato?
dent, nnd epparentt. aa at preeuiued
upon lnn kaowtodce '<>f l.i- f;.-. OClta
rolea to ceasc t.Mnking abOttl aad im
provlng them.
One of tln- b-nst credltablo tl.tr.
tho history nf New Torfe waa 'he Astor
I Place rlot ln Nuvetnber, 1?4*, wh.-n a
rowdy bboB attmefced tl ? th* th
| vcherHn Mac ready BM -la-.i: | BOd
i-.-ouid r.ot hnprobobly ba*. a killed tha
i aetor if it had raarhod blm. There is
nOthlng to nhow that BBwtfl Ir-". -rt ??-t
lfacraadjr'i Aatortcan rivai. wns guiit
I les* of iti'iiitiK tha r nt ..' .1 be :? I
ls atlll bclievocl Tho eondact of
| ropt i rslbah_ai7 to the affhtr wa_i flto
graceful In BillTlllg th* pabll
the Englishi'irii. Thai b had BO Ju?t
I cBnso fof eaaaldeiiBB '?' hM
[ < ti* iny the latte ? tht
Engiish ootor'a Brsl rhdl ? tl coun*
I ti y h" bad aoen and pi ali 11 i
i then a buy of tve eat) W b<
? canic tO Loadoo, ??'? ''?'?? I
him cordlally, and BTgad hl* fliend,
I john Poreter, to deal llberal ind
| klndly by the Amarlcan ln bla ? rltiCBl
notloaa rotatot i fan d to h
to aa to hls opllUonB, BBd ptlbll
crltlclsni OB PoirOBt'l "Otbello" whlch
laaaied to Macraad*; "lll-natured and
rOSHlO IfAB&INO, aUTHOB OP "WHEN I WAH A OHILD.N
(From a photoaraph.)
not Just." and he eondldly told ForotOI
bo Tba tnceaaed Fonreal attrlboted
the- censur? to tbe lagenulty of Mi -
eready, and In an ECdlnburgh theetn
afterward biBBOd one of M
perftarmancea -a dbKoortea) abomlna*
bie in tha eyea >i brotba t actora
we read the Btory ot ttMBM .1 .11
it is rvidiiit lhal thi Bfffreeelon, iik<
ih-.- liiirning hate, waa on tha alda ol
jTXmaot. Macready had an explt
but QUlckly aubflldlno temper; h< bad
not vBiinii. aid aloioBl rovontfafub
The most attractiva phaara ol ata*
creeflr'a Ufo and charaotar, ia vlvible
ln theea dlerlee, *xra Ihoae aeeoj lated
with his home. nia deep love for hla
wife and ? hlldTon aron from thora an
e<iuai n-sp-ns-, and they \s.r-- genu
Inaly bai py i : ? Hla oM-faocv
loned bralnlni Of hla yountetora araa
perbapa not alwajra arlaa bal it
most ronsclemioiis nnd tender. IHs
fr'endsh'ps arlth bla fellow Vlctortena
dlhtlngulshed^i litoraturo nnd Lhe artl
are not olwafa as pleaoanl to contcm
,,i ,io. R< eraa ofteai dletruatfnl of j
th.-ir falthfulneeB and prona lo
dark vBma if theli proeeduraa rn re- '
g-ard 10 hlm. Evr-n the bt-Ioved F-i
wae BOt BlffOjra BBfa from hl.-4Vu.spi-,
Clona WB an. n-minded that onl>
c-y-nri.- Dtckene, wtioiallacraa*^?*
Bnd reilmlr-d wlth his **?-? h*a!jtJ?_
,?,?,?.,, a.,OVe tb* ban of tho BCtor a
morbld fancy. Thoaa volume* are full
, f glimpeee of his fatnous contempora
riea Borno of the moat interes Ing
SSaae. Aaal wlth IU*arl ???"_*?*?
w ?, i:.:d,.ul,tc,lly gave Macready rr,an>
nion'.ents over the dlacusBlon and
,. iiction of bttt "Strafford. The
aetor lamented the poets lack of Ht
_??. "laaraaaa-: readers are lament
^.^m'ed.tion Of thi* dlary was
pnbltehed in 1875, and portion* of lt
were then omitted. These have been
pMtorad ln this edltlon. Some- of them.
, _ h. llevc. concern the harmless senM
mental -xmwdy played by Mwag
and * chnnning young ^tress v-ho
lona aarr-rad him. it wa? as ainy *??
H WBB harmleBB. and mlght better havo
!, ea left h*rgottaa._
JAPANESE^ VIEWS
An Artist's Apprentioeship in
the School of Life.
WIU.N I W>8 A OHILD. By To.hlo
Markino. Illustrated _2mo.. pn atl, TSl.
I.gfton: The Houghten Miihln Company.
.Mr. Markino* earlier booktj, "A JaP
aaaao Arti_t ln London" and "My
,.d John IlulleHses," maldens and
i Biahroaa both, ..ave BUflkdaat proof of
: hl . ,,l,i lt] wlth ihe pen ns well a* wlth
' | ? ;i il nnd i rti^h. Kon of the East, he
\ has oomathlBff to say to us Occidentals.
that is worth listening to, and he -ays
! ii wlth both unfalllng respect for the
I truth as ta BOOB lt aryd for our feel
I Iftg-r. If ho is th-in, he ls also courteoua.
1 B Ihldo
Thla 'hird book of hls carrles hl*
j bl< Braphy ftroaa the day of his blrth,
loOOfto thllty-odd year.-. ago, tO hls BT*
rlval, Vta thls contlnetit, ln Englaiid
., :,,M m oa I Bftl r h bltter and
peralatenl ..miggie for ofnorffonra He
WB! thi roaafflBt Ohttd Of a fl._mur._l.
who latar lost hls money and left the
youngbter to make hls way ln the
world alone. Purposely or uncon
Bclou.ly, Mr. Markino con*tantly *hows
us resemolarce* between We?tern and
BBBtarB Bh'Wrltrrt below the vaat out
WBTd dlvergcncea Hl* firat l*sson ln
lushldo waa, "When one I* born a
aamtiral be must not say liungry.'even
when ta Btarvao la death.' Thi* l* not
ar leinnte from the teachtngs and
ai indarda of oar o*wb bopbaadi it re
! mlnda one also of the story of the Spar
I tan boy aad tha fox. The relatlon* be
tween UttM TOOfelO and hl* elder
brothar aad akrtar were partoct: "Sure
ly." he sa>-, "lhat gave aome sweet
:,-. m my family. ann we were
tha Bporlmen for tbo children in our
; \ III.i?" '?
ln lh*- present day of much eoafBBOd
tooloB af BaattafB odacatloaal, in a
gaaeratloa that has beea aaprtvai of
| tbo BallghtO that momunzlng Of thB
' cBaaetoa yielda ln laier y*ar* In tho
j fr.rm of wiade.ra nupremely well e_
, praaaal; in thla age, whlch quote* not.
aad ahuns allusion. lt l* well to ll?t?n
to this Japanese gentloman on the
! BUbjeet of the- Jnpano** and (,'hlnes*
' phllosophers, of Confucluu and Mencius
and oltirr HasU rn sagea.
Thoaa baoaa *(.> wrlttaa po_t.c_Jiy and
li, ,,,. . t eupbonlea, ao tlwy w?rc,
i. .. ,MV to reelta Indeed, i petMB not
thoroughly ;:iid*'rst._nd reverul parta, but
now 1 can r?-metiiL-er almost every
,. ,,i : tln tl] and tbe <>ider l grow.
? i ? l I'.Kln to undcrstand.
Mr. Markino waa not *o unfamlllar
Iwlth "ur coiu-.'pMon of MrtfO as are th*
miij'rltv af hM 'ountrymen. stnee, fort
. !y. hls I arents marrlag* had
bOOB ?? lo? ?? BM Oh ns well as an ad
raataCaOOO fi_mll> arrangement ac
cordlnB to Japaaaao view*. BM ad*
mliatlOB of our r? inantlc *entlinent
iir?d bv his readlng of our poets,
bat Whea ta 'ame among us he won
derad why thay and the noveiists did
nol wrlte moro abaal BBOBay( *u\o* that
appoara ta be the aoorea of more mis
oa I happtoasa wlth us tban the
ic nder paaatoa. "Starloa which have no_
lmoney naMar are rery falao BraphMa.*'
lt la, however. ln it* vlew* on i.'hrl*tl
BBlty tbal the book M mo?t InteroHtlng
Ita aa (,|ir MaaMflcatlon of faith with
conduct puzzled the young Japanese.
lalljl when he found thut, among
th. inis.si.iiiarlcH at least, the conduct
was baaod on expeetancy Of eurpasslng
rewarda Ln the life herenfter. ttmo
t onal reliaion *1 l*i not appeal to hlm
when b revtveJ "was broliOB out in the
Church." Ha alao rataola "to us once
more bow olooaty the Orlentals watch
the eondnct pf I'hrl.stian mlsBlonarles,
aml bow niudi tlnre ls in It that, from
thelr vlewpoint, can only lead to doubt,
BOaplctoa and Bvea contempt.
As to the Uilile, '"/enesls and Exodus
rOfl*xmb4o the Ja[.aneso "Kojlkl." The
Utarature of the country has its own
renrton of the Judgment of Molomon.
Eceieaiaatee ls "very like our phllos
Dphy, and from the Ilterature point of
view i; i>- ni aroat to our own way." Aa
tn Ihe B00b of Huth:
'?'?'' H l c.mnot express my feellngs wlth \
nc poor Rngllah. I f.-lt as lf some strlngs I
eame <,ut from tba boob and tW-.l up my
and heart together. and pulled them)
toward tho pa^'e. Kven m>w her awi-et
neae and loyalty to her mother-ln-Uw la
one "i tha ?rr,at revelations to my ethlcal
mlnd. By tho way, J&pan hua had many |
wonderfttl l.lslorles of the loyal wlvea, i
rl an tbe latter performed buahldy heautl
f II , aml Indeed P.uth wna a real buahldo.
too
Mr. Markmo remcml>er9 wlthout blt
terness hlB huinlllatlng; experlencea on
our Paclfic Coaat. Aa we began hy
aaylng. he ls worth readlng That hla
numeroufi drawings in halftone and
outline are worth looking at BOOi
hardly ba addcd.
a -
JUVENILIA
New Holiday Books for Boys
and Girls.
TALE3 OF COLLEGE AND SCHOOL.
Of course, college and school storle*
must deal, flrst of all, wlth sportfl and
athletics. There haa been much seri
ous dlflcussicn of the OBdaj importance
tiiat i? glven them in our eduoatlonal
Ir.stltutlona, but, so far as thia sort of
flction ia concerned, they serve, ln tho
hnnds of capable and consofetulous
wrlters for the young, to instll iti their
readerts the principles of good and falr
sporiamansl.ip, not u bad equipmont for
later life, lndeed. Ralph D. Paine ls
one of the wrlters whosc books oaa
can B?fely place in a healthy boy's
handB; Ralph Henry Barbour la an?
other. From Mr. Palne we bara this
year "Campua Days" (Scrlbner), a tale
of Yale, 6otind in prindple, good, ?r?-n
tlemanly sport, and omnalBf bl its In
troductlon of a boy phenoir.enon, of the
kind of which are bare heard so mncfa
of lnte, the son aml hothouso product
of a psychologlst, whom the COOapna
undertakea to turn into a tmrmal
human belng hy lntioducing him to
youth'a Joyn of livlng. The *tory ends
at Henley, with tho stn>g?'!r ol tha V'lle
crew for the <;raml Challenge Cup.
Mr. Rarbonr is on de^k with two new
stori.-s ..f echool life, "( rofton Chnma"
CThe Cantary Cotnpany), in oblch ath
letka bara thelr allotted part, 'out
whlch baa also a d.-llghtfully irtiir.ute
Btsnoaphera lt the boardlnf lu.u?.- for
pupils kept by Mrs. Hazard aml ln-r
daughter assi.-ted by her BOB, ffho ls
also -uie of the bovs of Crcft<">n Aca.l
emy. __? Another preparut. ry srhn.-,]
Ib the scene of Mr. Harbcur's other
Btory, "Chango Hl-wls" (Appleton).
Its hero ls a oourtry boy frorn Ma'.no,
who ls turned Late the st.-.r klolu-r of
the school's football team.
"Bucklng the Llne" nnd "The Cr."
taln of the Nine," both by Wllllain ,
Hryliger (Appleton). proclalm their j
chlef Intcrest snfTiciently ta thotf titles. '
Mr. Heyllger makea an important feat- !
urc of what. by analogy wlth slmilar
pructlcca ln later afolka of iif... mlght
be called "athletics pnlltirs"?tho
rlvnlry to "make" a team OT a <r ?
that doe<4 not stop at unfair in?nii(.. <">f
course. the boya in his storlei who thus
demean them.-elves are approprlatelv ,
defeated In their plotrlr.gs, and ooma to
see the Hght of etliics In a fleld whose
v??:?>? foundation reflta on falr DMthOde
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A New Novel
'SSSE.i3fc882&& *r?? Aot!wr ?' '1HE 1>Eil|rKT Tbbutb
MARY"
RAYMOND
SHIPMAN
Andrews
Lofty in theme, strong in plot,
ideal in *ett:ng, marked by a ltterary
quality fu above the avrage, The
IfaVXfWlakaa ita place ar^ong the
worka of fiction thax will liw loogCf
than an hour, a tlay, or a aoBBoa.
~P$tttbMrrh Id-uJer
and fair play.-Arthur DufTey, the
undefeatcd champion sprinter, once
more dl-Wi upon hl.s own e*per_eooe in
??For Old Dobi heeter" (Lotbrop, Lee &
Bhepard), "Doncheatar" beh-fi Qf eowetm,
Worceates Academy. Mr. Daffey laya
otreaa trpoa the claaa IlvinB thal atl -
WILLIAM CHABLE8 MAOBBADT.
(Fvoaa a portralt In -"Tbe Dtarlao of wm
? ihark i Maoready/j
He lnslsts upon th?
?onad body na the hahttat of the
baaltby, alert mlnd. - The regiet
tabla elemeal of unfair rtratry aad <-f
...... i- naftatad upon .- i-n more
forclMy ia another football atory, H.".w
ley Wllllama'a "Qaartarbaoh RacB_eaa*~
(Appleton>.-An American boy at
aa Bnallah poblte ashool haa hee.. the
onbja I Of tWO capital storles by Frank
B, channon. wlw now'add.- i" tb
thlrd. ??Hoalojr'a iaaaerteaa i
(Little, Brown). Tiie huntim.' I I
football. ruwing. a COUntry hou^e
B kidnapping and a daOBrveaJty uni I
lar American i>oy form raiftl Of tha
8tory. ?-HiBh stanuards of BOBOC Bl
echool UfOj bb4 BOt only iu B '?'
are tha |fO*f?lt>B r'f ftTOITOB L Blallt ''I
'*C1aaorooin aad Campua" (Lothroca, i.ee
& Shepard). The author polntts a
moral wltnout making hla ta!e
"preachy" or "goody-gocdy." Quita
tlie reverse.
BOYS IN CAWP.
Elmer EtaaaVOl OrOfor'fl "C'mping la
the North Woodjf (HarpOTO) wlll be
found to be a moot engaging narratlve
of winter camplng and Bport ln Maine.
Tlie author takes two boya there who
are ?ntlro'y ignorant of the ways of
the woodsman and the profe8sional
hunler. and thus creates for himself
tho opportunity, whl^h he Improvee to
the utmoat, of describing ln detall all
tho faacinatlng lore thut tella so rauch,
to tho experienced guMe, Huntere
may go Into tho Great Wocds autuma
ufter autumn without brlnglng down a
deer, or even seeing a moos'*. Not so
theee. toro hoys. Here ere partrldga
and muskrat and lynx, beaver, otter,
t.ying siiuirrel3, deer, muose ur.d b-.-ar,
flshing through thw ice, trapplng, the
mo?rt romantlc of lumber cabina, and,
for good measure runnlng over, a for
est flre, and whatever else tho he.irt
may desire. ln tho wil.l'-rncs*. A good
ftory, end s;oi>d pporr ns well. Mr.
Cregor knows whereof he writea. ???
Adventure, not Bport, forms the sub
Btance of "Camping on the Great
Rlver" bv RnymonU B, IppOTB I Har
pers>. Life <m the IfJaaJaalppI La i ot
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