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Show II COLONIAL SKETCHES. I The' Apprenticeship of Washington ana Other Sketches of Significant Colonial Personages. By Goorgo HodgOF. Pub- Hshod by Moffat. Ymxl and Company. 0 Now York. R "Tho' Apprenticeship of Washiuc- 0 ton" deals chiefly with his survound- B inS in early life', his activities as a I vounff man, and especially tho training fj he received in border wariare, up to a nnd inclndincr tho defeat of Braddock. The next sketch is ''Tho Hancinc of H Mary Dyer," which sets forth in a H dreadfully realistic and shocking way H the unyielding barbarity of tho Eostou U Puritans. The trouble arose with a I AI"rs. Hutchinson, who was accustomed I to brine certain cultured ladies of Bos- I ton around her. to hear her road the I sermon of the preceding Sunday and I comment upon it with some freedom. This freespokonuess of hers aroused the I ire of the clbrsy, and her assemblage, I tho first woman's club in the country, 1 was summarily dissolved and forbidden i to meet again. Mrs. Hutchinson and I her friends were found to be guilty of J " 'eighty-five erroneous opinions and I nine unwholesome expressions." She 1 wa's brought before thG authorities in 1 fhe meeting-house in 163S, and at tho I conclusion was formallv cast out and I banished from the colony. As she was I passing out of the house, Mary Dyer I took her hand and went, out with her. I The whole relationship, with manv I friends, then went to Rhode Islapd, 1 where thev lived in peace, becoming M Quakers. Whan the persecution against 9 the Quakers began in 1656. their fel- low-worshipers in Bhodo Island took a I lively interest in their affairs, and Mary Dyer went to Boston to see those I of her faith who were in prison. She I was thrown into prison herself, and a warned. to get ont of the country or H she would be hanged. She csme back. II howover, was again put in .iail and m formally tried and sentenced to be H hanged. However, the intercessions of 1 her son got her off that time, althongh she was on the top of the 'adder and i about to be swung off before her re- I prieve was made known; and sbo was I warned to stay awav from Boston. She I went back again, however, was caught. J and this time was hanged indeed, a Through it all she exhibited tho utmost I fortitude and faith, and her devotion 1 was the end of the death penalty for 8 dissent. The king intervened to stop I the hangings, but there were a good U many whippings and banishings after Jl that. I "The Adventures of Captain Myles . I Standish" comprise tho third chapter I of the book, a well-told story and very I attractive, as it always is. I The fourth chapter. "The Education 1 of John .Harvard." tells of his founding found-ing of the great university which bears his name; an important and significant i chapter in American history. The fifth chapter, and the last, is "The Forefathers of Jamestown," re- I citing the efforts and failures of the first settlements at fhe water's edge, and the success which met those who went farther inland and were backed by the London company. It is a reminiscent book of early N tiroes in America of verv high value. Hi and the incidents condensed into its pages are of deep significance in the oarlv history of this country. A NEW GAINESBOROUGH. Araminta. By -1. C. Knnlth. Published by Moffnt, Yard :ind Company. Xew York. Tho central character of this storyJs a countess of Crowkorno, a lady of 75. but of extreme vigor, volubility, and acidity of tongue. She has for the chief whetstone of her wits a Lord Cheriton, who is rather keen himself, and tho two enjoy each othir with their tongues very much. To the countess conies her meco, Ara.ro.iuta, daughter of her sister Polly, who had married the Rev. Aloysius Perry, a poor rector of a country parish poino hours distant from London. Tho countess establishes herself her-self in social state, and with an expenditure ex-penditure which she can easily afford irpm her great wealth, in a convenient London quarter, Araminta announces horsolf by name and says that at homo thev call her "Goose, she is such a Sil-lay." She is entirely frank, .outspoken, .out-spoken, and free of manner, qood-heartcd, qood-heartcd, and natural acting as a bird. She is cstromoly fond of good things to eat, and her aunt takes to her in a. way. But it is Lord Cheriton who real-Iv real-Iv brings her out, devoting much attention, atten-tion, and putting his excellent taste to use in appreciating her great beauty, as uho is tho living image of tho duchess of Dorset, the original of the great Gainesborongh picture. Thoro appears one Goorgo Botterton, a duke, who is a close chum of the old countess, j but an utterly debased charactor. and a Philistine much like herself. Cheriton employs a young painter, Jim Lascelles, to p3int him a copy of the great Gaines- borough picture, which is in the countess's coun-tess's drawing room, and it turns out that Araminta and Jim have known each other from childhood and have been great chums, but have not mot for some years. Ho paints Araminta, instead in-stead "of copying the famous picture, and so creates "a new Gainesborough." Tho entanglements onsuing, tho rage of tho old countess, her sly match-making, her venomous plots, and her little schemes, form spicy reading. But all works out satisfactorily and the countess coun-tess is left alive with her spiteful tongue to wago warfare against tho world, and particularly against the clerg'. It is a right interesting and entertaining story, written in tho best of style. A LINCOLN EPIC. Our Benny. By Mao E. Waller. Published Pub-lished by Little, Brown, and Company, . Boston. This is a story in poetry, founded upon a historical episode, and dedicated dedi-cated to "Tho People of Illinois and Kentucky, in Memory of Abraham Lincoln. Tho time is March to April, 1865, and tho place a village in Vermont. Ver-mont. The characters are Grauthor, Hannah his daughter. Benny her son, Agatha her niece, the Parson, the Dominie, and the Miller. The divisious of the poem are five, viz.: "The Coming Com-ing of the Letters," "Salus Patriae," "Hannah and Agatha." "Lincoln." and "Peace." The work is a worthv one for this centennial 3-enr of tho great President. Tho verso is oasy and flowing, the measure appropriate, and the poem can easily be called good, patriotic, onliveniug literature. First published in tho spring of 100-1, this fine story is now out of the press for tho twenty-second time. TWO CONSPIRATORS. The Block Cross. By Olive M. Bvlgss. Frontispiece by Slglsmond do Ivanow-akl. Ivanow-akl. Published hy Moffat, Yard and Company, Now York. This is a story of Russia, beginning with a scene of tho Grand Duke Stopan on his way to tho theater. Vclasco. tho great musician, was a favorite of the audience, and was received; with acclaim, During the performance ho received a written note, signed by Kaya, "Will you help me life or death tonight?" He decided to help, although he had no I idea who Kaya was, or what it was about. After the attempt, the two being be-ing implicated therein, and doing their work under tho oath "In the uarao of the Black Cross, I swear," the grand duke was apparently killed. Then the troubje was for Velasco and Kaya to hide themselves and get out of the country. coun-try. They wero united in what was called a nihilistic marriage, that is to say, a tia which allowed them to travel togothor as though husband and wife. They traveled as gypsies, undergoing many perils and hair-breadth escapes, and "Anally get to the German frontier and passed over. Then Koya repudiated repu-diated the marriage, putting "Velasco in mind of his low birth and her high 1 blood, and refused to receive him as her husband. She disappeared and for a long timo Velasco could got no word of her. Finally, after Kaya had taken , many lessons and won groat favor from her music master in a German city, she gets an opportunity to take tho place of Brunhiide in tho great opera, tho leading lady having been suddenly attacked at-tacked with sickness. In tho mcantirao Kaya has been brooding ovor her recollections recol-lections of Velasco, and comes to love him very much, but fears to unite with him because of the blood that is on her hands for tho murder of tho grand duke. However, for a long timo she refuses re-fuses to take tho placo tho Kapellmeister Kapellmeis-ter has offered her, but finally ho prevails pre-vails and she appears. Matters como rapidly to a climax, Kaya achieves a wondorful triumph, the Grand Duke Stepan is among tho audience applauding applaud-ing Kaya as lustily as any ono, and tho wnolo entanglomen comes to a happy conclusion. It is a story with a great deal of dramatic force and a fertile imagination, im-agination, and is very alluring to read. A GOSSIPY STOjRY. The Prc-shus Child. By Bcllo Travors McCahan. Cochrane Publishing Co., New York. This is a story of somo pretensions and of fair ability. Louiso is tho "Preshus" child, brought up by her Aunt Barbara, a very kind hearted woman, whoso neglectful and careless husband has a heart of gold, but at times he was very trying. The usual family differences, complications, and entanglements, are set forth in fair stvle, and the inevitable wedding, which is the end of tho usual novel, is worked up to in much the usual way. Tho characterizations aro very good, Aunt Barbara is a jewel, tho other pcr-sonagos pcr-sonagos iu tho book fill their offices and conduct their affnirs vor3' much as in actual life, and thoro 'is duo respect, re-spect, recognition, devotion, and love, shown 4 correspondingly all through. Tho st.oiy has a pleasant ending, it is told in a colloquial st3-lo thai is pleasing, pleas-ing, and the reador with abundant, leisure is sure to be entertained by the reading of it. LINCOLN BIRTIEDAY BOOK. Lincoln's Birthday: a Comprehensive View of Lincoln aa Given In tho Most Noteworthy Essays. Orations, and Pooms. In Fiction and In Lincoln's Own Writing. .Edited by Robert Haven Schaufl'Ior. Published by Moffat, Yard and Company, New York. A verv great number of extracts extolling ex-tolling Lincoln, proclaiming his characteristics, char-acteristics, detailing anecdotes about him, reciting his oflorta at education, tho privations of his earl- life, his groat triumphs, and his final martyrdom, martyr-dom, are c-mbracod in this book. Thoro is a prefaco which deals with "tho astounding number of books that have been written on Abraham Lincojn." Thore is an introduction insisting on tho importance and inspirational value to youth of Lincoln's birthday as a National holiday. Tho book really begins be-gins with Lincoln's Autobiography written by his own hand at tho request of J. W. Fell of Springfield, Illinois, December 20. 1359. which ho sent to Mr. Fell with a note sa3'iug: "Herewith "Here-with is a little sketch, as you requested. request-ed. Thore is not much of it, for the reason, I suppo.se. that thero is not much of me," Up to that time, perhaps, per-haps, thero had uot been much to write of him, and the three pages covered by the autobiography certainly do not develop anything spectacular. This, however, leaves out, very uniustly, the real services ho had rendered in forming form-ing the Republican party and his spectacular spec-tacular debate w'th Douglas. The book is divided into t6n parts. "A Birdseye View of Lincoln." "Early Life," "Maturity." "In tho White House," "Death of Lincoln," "Tributes." "Tho Whole Man." "Lincoln's Placo in History," "Lincoln "Lin-coln Yarns and Savinrs." and "Lincoln's "Lin-coln's Speeches and Writings." Under each heading there is a number of quotations, extracts, spocches, essays, I and appropriate matter. There is a poem bv Bayard Taylor, "The Gettysburg Gettys-burg Odo," and a very largo number of tributes to Lincoln in prose and poetry. Tboso who herein pay tributo to the charactor and services of Lincoln are very eminent persons, including Bavnrd Tavlor. Henry Ward Bcechor, diaries Sumner. Theodore Roosevelt. William Cullen Bryant. Oliver Wendell Holmes. John Greehleaf Whittier. Rob ert G. Ingersoll. Walt whitman, .lames Russell Lowell, Harriet Beccher Stowe, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and many others being ombraced in this compilation. compila-tion. It is a great Lincoln book, good to havo 3nd to keep. RALEIGH'S DARK HISTORY. Sir Walter Raleigh. Bv "Frederick A. Ober. Illustrated. Puhllshcd by Harper Har-per & Brothers. New York. This is a volume in tho "Heroes of American nistory" series, preceding ones having been "Columbus tho Discoverer Dis-coverer "and "Fordinand de Soto." No historical character is better adapted to 6tand as a hero of romance than is Sir Walter Raleigh. Mr. Ober makes the best possiblo use of the romantic features fea-tures of his historj. and. treats those episodes most worthil3T. Tho narrative of Raleigh's life is made complete, and the story is told with historic accuracy, and with a vividness that is altogether captivating. Tho story as told herein ma3r be roliod upon confidently as truth, sinco "every effort has been made to sift truth from legend in telling tho story of this heroic figure in the earb' histor3' of America." The gross brutality bru-tality and hypocritical cruelty of King James in his treatment of Sir Walter Raleigh is one of the most outrageous stories over told of an3' king's dealings with any man in the history of the human hu-man race. Sir Walter Raleigh was condemned con-demned for treason without having had a fair trial, and the napging of tho sergeant ser-geant at law at his trial was one of the most harsh and inexcusable bits of procedure over known in any court. And tlron after the trial and condemna-! condemna-! tion Raloigh was apparently rostorcd to j favor, was given commissions and on-1 on-1 trusted with high command b3' the king, j only to bo brought to the block at last J eighteen years after that conviction. I The treatment of Raleigh by King i James was enough in itsolf to have ended his reign. It was ho rather than his son or than Raloigh who deserved to be beheaded. It is a mournful story, but it is all very well told in this compact com-pact and well printed book. GUIDE TO MINE INVESTMENTS. ' The Mine Investors Guide. An Elcmont-! Elcmont-! ary Treatise cn Mining:, Containing ; Information which every Mining: En- glneor should have. Thoroughly II-I II-I lustrated. By Floyd Davis, E. M., ! Ph. D., Consulting Mining Engineer 1 and Metallurgist, Dcs Moines, Iowa, Published bv tho Western Correspondence Corre-spondence School of Mining Engineering, Engineer-ing, Dea Moines. Iowa, This book is fairly up in the tochni-:il tochni-:il school idea of mining, but seems to lack somewhat in tho practical phaso. However, it will doubtless servo a good purpose among students and bo a val-; val-; uabio auxiliar3' to tho text books usunl-i usunl-i ly employed. Its theoretical computations computa-tions 0 fthe valuation of mines aro interesting in-teresting if not valuable, its instructions instruc-tions for the examination of properties will do for a starter, its illustrations lu text and picture aro fairl' made, although al-though tho one on pago 112 illustrating a "gash vein" might do for an- curving curv-ing voiu, as well as for a gasli vein. If tho intent is to conve3' the idea that a gash vein is a vein curved, somothiug furthor should be said on the subject 13 wa3' of correction. The book, however, covers an important field, and has sufficient suf-ficient elemental instruction to bo of service. The main idea aftor all in guiding mining investors is to inculcate incul-cate upon them the same business pro-cautions pro-cautions that the3' would adopt in othor forms of investment. A NEW-RICH IN QUEBEC. The Bridge Builder?. By Anna Chapln Ray. Published by Little, Brown, mid Company, Boston. Tho now-rich girl, with her objectionable ob-jectionable parents! who have mado their monc3' suddenly in mines, in cattle, cat-tle, in oil, or in stocks, has been made rather convonrioual 1)3' much uso in novels. Tho new-rich girl n usually placed in one of tho Atlantic cities, those who wish to draw strong contrasts con-trasts placing her in Boston. t Often sho is placed in London, or Paris, and occasionally in Berlin or Rome. This novel, for the first time, places hor in Quebec, nud gives hor., as atfoudants I nud courtiers, Dornuicc. a young Wmori-can Wmori-can author, and Asquith, a Queboc engineer, en-gineer, unofficially connected with the .building of the famous Queboc bridge which could not hold up its own weight. The fall of this great structure is inter-, inter-, woveu in the plot, and thero are a '1 number .of other complications in the story besides those or tho bridge. It I ! is to the author '5 credit that sho has made the American win, bnt rather hard on tho Canadian civil engineer, who really was not responsible for the fall of that bridge The story, however, how-ever, is a most entertaining one, nud is written in captivating stvlo. The author is to bo congratulated on her success in presenting to tho public a strong, woll-constructod stor3', conceived con-ceived on as now a lino as it is possible to think of constructing a story relating re-lating to modern people in modern environments. en-vironments. The story is distinctly good to road, and is certain to prove a conspicuous success. IN EARLY LOUISIANA. Aline of the Grand Woods: a Story of Louisiana. By Nov 1 1 G. Henshaw. The Outing Publishing Company, New York. This is n story of tho "Cajuus," which is the perverted colloquialism for Acadian?. Tho chief character, in the siory is Aline, whoso father dies and leaves her to bo brought up hy his trusted overseer, Telesse, in his placo remote in tho forests of an carl3 day in Louisiana. Tho father, Mr. .Law-Tcnee, .Law-Tcnee, has been disinherited on account of mariying contrary to tho paternal wishes, and Aline grows up in ignorance of her patrician blood and the great inheritance in-heritance that is hers by right. Thero is a Monsieur Landry, who is storekeeper storekeep-er and postmaster, loquacious, inquisitive, inquisi-tive, but good-hearted and serviceable to his friend?. Pore Martain is the spiritual adviser and father confessor to tho people at Landry, and has much to do with tho forming of tho charactor of Aline, as well as being the beloved pastor in morals and doctrines to the people of the parish. There is a scapegrace, scape-grace, Numa LeBlnnc, who makes hot love to Aline, but his wildness and taste for liquor put him out of the running. Tho favored ono is Care' Gordon, a rich rice planter who from a boy con- I stituled himsolf the defender and protector pro-tector of Aline, and finally marries her, ! her great prospects in Hfo not being found out until after the wedding. Monsieur Mon-sieur Varain is tho grandfather of Aline. He comes in at the last as the good fairy, and makes raparation for the privation which tho girl has suffered suf-fered through tho disinheritance of hor fathor. It is a bright, pleasing story, one of the finest characterizations of life in early da3's in Louisiana that has been issued for a long timo. IN OLD EVTL DAYS. Mad Barbara. By Warwick Deeping. With a Frontispiece bv Christopher Clark. R. I. Published by Harper & Brothers, Now York. This is a story of the vile old days of King Charles LL of Encland. A worthy knight, Sir Lionel Purcell, is nnwiiirtHM 1 ii 1 in lulled in his library by an unknown assassin. His daughter, Barbara Pur-coll, Pur-coll, devotes her life to tho discovery of the slnyor 'of her father. She finds him in Lord Stophon Gore, who. sinco tho death of Sir Lionel.- has become tho lover of his widow, Anno Purcell. Barbara's mother. The girl loathes Stephen Gore, and rovolte nt his interference in-terference with her affairs and his rcsolvo to drag her into society at ' which she feels revulsion. In one of tho functions where a mad lord eu-denvors eu-denvors to kiss Barbara, Captain John Gore, son of Stophon, resents-tho assault, as-sault, upon Barbara, and lights a duel almost under her eyes in' hor behalf. Barbara, on ascertaining to her satisfaction- that Stephen Gore, her mother's lover, is the assassin of hor father, shoots at him with intent to kill. Thcroiipou Stephen, in collusion with her mother, makes bclievo that Barbara is mad. and shuts her up in a romoto country fastness. Captain John Goro pndcrtakes to (iud-ber, and endures great peril and hardship in order to save her. It is a vivid stor', well told, and fairly illustrative of tfie villainous deeds that were so much perpetrated per-petrated during that unhappy time in old England. The diligent reader is sure to be satisfied with the novel, for it abounds in action and is strongly written. LITERARY NOTES. Elinor Glyn has cabled to hor publishers, pub-lishers, Messre. Duffleld & Company, that she expects to have hor now book, "Elizabeth "Eliza-beth vfslts America." reedy for publication publica-tion on May 15th. This Is still another postponement of Mrs. Glyn's eagerly awaited novel, which was expected to be ready for Issue on April 1st. the anniversary anniver-sary of the foundation of the concern of Duffleld z Company. The Pilgrim Mothers Moth-ers and others are said to be awaiting with considerable curiosity the publication publica-tion of Mrs. Glyn's remarks on America and its Institutions. On February 12th. Messrs. Little, Brown I & Company added their contribution to the Lincoln celebration In tho form of a stirring narrative poem by Mary E. Waller, author of ''The Wood Carver of 'Lympus,' " entitled "Our Benny." The poem Is founded on historical fact, and dedicated to the people of Illinois and Kentucky In memory of Abraham Lincoln. Lin-coln. Tho action takes place in a llttlo Vermont vlllago In tho early spring of 1S65: and tho story Is a movlntr tribute to the great and noble nature of Lincoln, Lin-coln, the man and President. In Itself tho poem shov.vd unusual literary lit-erary merit, and Is ono of the finest works issued to commemorate the memory of this beloved President H. G. Wells, whose new novel, "Tono-Bungay," "Tono-Bungay," has Just been Issued In this country by Duffleld & Company, tells of cn old fisherman who was out rowing In his boat one day, when a motor canoe sprung a leak near him. and Immediately sank. To tho Indignation of the canoe's occupants, tho old innn paid no hS$r them, but rowed calmly on his serenely puffing at hlK clay ujAi JrC wrecked cunooists managed to fewft?5 him, and. oa they clambered Into hte$rt. one sputtered angrily: 'Confounrf-'Ml why didn't you lend us a hand? rJwfS you see we wore Kinking?" The old ESW1 m.-in took tho pipe out of hla monff Htared in astonishment, 'B 'If I didn't think yo was ono o' ihem'r fangted submarine.." "The Bridge Builders." by' Annn4'V iVn rL'lj;' J,1nK ,Wit" Polished by Brown St Company on February 13th ft,'?,!: for the lint timo tho building and1 'A113! of the huiro canUlDvor brflffifefl" Quebec, an undertaking of abnorbln M tcrest In Itself, will figure, m an 3 taut factor In romance. Miss iW-ii tho enslnpcrs In charge 0 "ho Stf t on a pretty compliment In thA foHowa': ,0V "CW Uk' Whlch "To those mnster bulldeTs who courage unshaken by disaster in iwJT .m bridge, are alrpadyyiookln?Xahrf!i" all active part In fashioning thoroSjsip Thero aro to be 176 epistles in thV5'. "me which Is soon to be 1 "sum iM? tho title of "The Love Letta of Th !! Cnrlyle and Jane Wolsh." CjcWflW1 nephow, Mr. Alexander Carlyle cd3jfll ulcs an Introduction wherein ho d?' t that the correspondence "should const18! Tc even the most prejudiced and unfrl1?-. that Thomas Carlyte and Jane ' xL-wore xL-wore essentially genorouo. Belf-sacru! (I and noble.' Tho pooms of the ncTli which are not of great Importance-3? (Ut be published In an appendix. An- abridged version, by th? Carlyle's "Life of Frederick the SO has Just appeared In England. ItLtf5 an introduction, portraits, and a miU H " -1 Jl m1 Prof. Frank P. Graves has clunz el tl to his title In his '.'History .of EdueS 4. published last week. From the da3 tT hlftory down to the fall of th M fe power In the vTest. he has traced thgdli' velopment of the Ideals and aims Ze V have dominated and shaped the educi tt of the human race. In the growl "j 1 individualism, he finds the key to' i entire process. Progress In tho fid of education means Increasing apef tion of the value of the' Vndlvlduaj, Zl Increasing success In developing hUi 5 ent faculties. The Spartan was' tS v ' as a soldier for the defense and arm w , dlzoment of the State; tho AthonUv & 1 a man. Tho measure of the gulf bti5y these two Ideals Is the meaaur, t& Athens's advance along the road of-j'-n em education. ? In modern times, however, ltisJ'r within comparatively recent years iW education has been regarded as a!sd feJ to be studied as other sciences are i Jia led. In the few years in which lb Lj7 gators havo been wrestling with, .- problems of the new-born science, r has been accomplished, but confi itf5 still exists. In clearing hazy and'-' ilc curate notions of past ideals and" In M lectlng into brief compass all thai ult know of the ancients' theories, Profi 'rr Graves's "History of Education" wl of the greatest service to all studen in, education and to the general reade woll, who wishes to familiarize hit u 1 with tho real life and thoughts of m . tlqulty. M7C ' " 'Jvi |