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Show icollcctioj 01 f ,lis country. Tt krf!lt wV of storv of personal teJfcr?ntions, aim import on t fWftnndffSvir of tlio Hohr.lion ffBMurinp tnt ouuravmp of editor or ?0Lreoln .3 inv son ices, uc . .pws be. !rMclICr; "ml Li o)n. of r,(.'k-I- yKsX emancipation, of Lincoln a L tt rives the inner history ot Sml ?a;Satch to Minister Adams W3 t0 M.S ? o tho Southern fefS vessc.. with fae SH?05';? banter is Leonard iJB?" nd of his practice. H S banter, by Lawrence .tToffein'Sislnpacityof Em, chapter. 1V Hch MftCul-Srol MftCul-Srol ler of the Treasury in W arv of the Treasury in W .;B description of the : SrolnSelas debates and oi ?ffc5ter?Cn,avles Carleton S SS!lit .d war correspond-ofU correspond-ofU aTwinlns first, nomination v r-risit to Bichmond in IS On. Cent" chanter. T, nroln and j 3" is told by Titian J. Cot-' Cot-' As5tant Attorney-Ocn-S&, Assistant Secretary and iB of the Interior under Lin-a Lin-a Sin chapter eicht of "Lincoln iSportnnt chap! er is the ninth. Si T. Julian, wh eh tells or im 5, and the Proclamation of ifS SKitlcr tells, in chapter rUi 5c of Lincoln's problems.-' a l-Jm analysis, .as well ns a pleaf- Pbth inter of reminiscences from lus mi I contact and conversations thn ISS'Dana tells, in chanter elev- S "rv important story or Lincoln Jw? e 'War Department, qivine i- a7i .of the profound sapadty of the am it, of his inflexible will m dome SZ if duty, of his sincerity towards bull ? his nianncr 01" reccivin po Pf.1 ef "twelve, bv General U. S. in J tells two Lincoln stories. ' ter thirteen, by E. W. Andrews. rr on Lincoln's hindnesf ot heart, JiV; anecdotes in illustration. VAi' ;Fcnton, ConcTessman. Governor " r York, and United States fn- fals, in chapter fourteen, with i.-IW Ations of President Lincoln to rail? ori and New Yorl: politicians. :4rji Jer fifteen, by Frederick Dnu.tr- . m negro oratbr. cives the story ia ieoln and the Colored Troops." itrji imin Pcrley Poore. in chapter tttli ; (rives a fine picture of the rela- :n letween Lincoln nud the news- F( eorrcspondents. - (banter seventeen, Donn Piatt ,e(jj f Lincoln the' man, "a hujre skel- irtm i clothes," ibpter eighteen. Henrv Ward ci .Ten?orR his tribute to Lincoln 's ticji- Nty in fervid fashion, , pier seventeen, bv George S. ' !, (U, Governor of Massacliusotts. :- k Oonfrrcss. nd Secretary of t.F HfiEurj' under Grant, forecasts ny a'a placo in history, puttine liim v 2 ' ashinKton, " the greatest cg Whitman, tho poet, contributes Jj twenty, under the title. "Dear el tfcracy," a characteristic and &t " I personal sketch. 3 uU ? chanter, tvrentv-one. by j G-Iupersoll, deals with Lincoln. tVji rtntlest Memory of Our World. " il)T" of Lincoln not ns a typo, but lie Vf. wo man without ancestor or suc- jni - is the most eloquent of nil. "frork as a whole is one of the lBd Cmd and vivid interft. The o( m ion P,icires to the niin as no C&1 ayattvo could do, the personalitv , $& fob, his nianncr of meeting men. s&r " P. solving problems, and of ,tSsj- fith all sorts and all fashions, p ivual, stirring, book. COMPLICATIONS. By WUIam Dona Orcult. Ffit PnWIslicd by Harper & forUJ ow York. arr8,0ri' of wedded misapprc-j.Ien misapprc-j.Ien nntl Jolln Arinstroug. oiS fir. Auerioans. go to Ttaly at r of 5 ? lVtt wedding tonr and to give ieHn LrC(S l? pcrfcct himself in afJ 'K,0ns,lor nn ar CIir,1'" eW- "flf w " t1bc,n ono lne7- Thnvor, Si Sf ft. f 1Iclcn s husband. Iner. Sh lCOmo v,cr' -companionable. iSf ntlr Ssross?d in, Ulcir work, and 'VS er h,tec,f cfl out, is conscious Sf d I. fan,3 r"'.f3 IncK to her- 1 W Idr P-n,er ;ilh ,,cr than with TnnL'10, 11,0 husband is a B seni? "wcliPiil humanity or al od'hr mhiandso,."c' 'H1,UC dream- itiJ ; in tho BC Incx work ,0" fflV1 to tSSm?, I,.1llbrar'. and thev Sfl b tllPi?rp"L'hly dcvocd to each "aK;i;f - a si rS?M- 1 of sipW ii ,' 5ns senses, omplet J?? R tbat, upun S V 6'6torv. an! In rPtcll0fl fcainros to normal ii'b0lh f' bnck p'ne- C 5 story "nt ;b,c "ud happiness. It ?ls out n? i e !lud iu the and irrrunn ' k Vonnl respon- unl. i5 the 0T"S bll,tv- Tho wife, I : r, story she is strong enough of physique ! to boar up and come our, triumphant. ! U is a most iuttrcst,tug story, told with j a vigor ihnt carries the reader along I as on 'a rushing stream. A BTJMFTIOUS ICONOCLAST. The Fashionable Adventures of Joshua CrniR. A Novel. I?v David Gruham Phillips. Puhllshcd by D. Appleton and Company. New York. j This is a novpl of a great deal -of i force and insight. Joshua Craig, a ' superb barbarian from the West, is I found in a position in the Attorney j General V office in Washington by ap-j ap-j poiiitment. His energy, liis disregard ; of convention, his unscrupulous direct-: direct-: ness, his keen intellect and knowledge of men, his ruthless kicking of every obstruction out. of his way. and bearing . down nicu and women in the. further- I mice of his purpose all this is strongly i i and well told. There is with Craig a j sort of ehuni as unlike him as possi-s possi-s bly could be. Gram Arkwright. a wealthv society "dude," as we might sav, blaso. and fully up to every society so-ciety dodge, function, and observance. Of the same social mastery as himself is a friend of Arkwright's, Miss Margaret Mar-garet Scveronco, a girl who has. passed , several seasons with distinguished success, suc-cess, but who is not a favorite among tho marking men. She seems so aloof, so high, so unapproachable, that it j would seem an insulting intrusion on their part to suggest any such thing as ; marriage to her. Margaret, liowover, ; lives upon the bounty of her grandmother, grand-mother, an arbitrary old aristocrat, who j finally tells the girl she has to get married mar-ried within a certain time or her nl- I lowance will be stopped. And so Mar-rnret Mar-rnret finds her choice practically limited lim-ited to Arkwright or to Craig, whom , she has met and deenly impressed, llow ever, Craig fights shy, but finally succumbs suc-cumbs and takes her in hand in his masterful way, without regard to her remonstrance and without regard to anything- at all, but his own impulse. Then he draws back, admits that he is no match for her, that, he is uncouth, un-couth, and would be entirely out of place in the circle in which she .lias moved. A delicious scene is given where Craig interviews the girl's grandmother, grand-mother, who had determined to warn him off and tell him that ho must not think of her granddaughter any more. Craig takes the wind out of the old ladv's sails, however, by telling he flatly that he does not want to marry her granddaughter, but that the granddaughter grand-daughter wants to marry him. So that tho old lady is silenced, because it she warns him away it would appear to be exactly what he wants and what the granddaughter docs -not want. In the same way. while in his uncertain moods. Craig tries to get Arkwright and Margaret to marrv. As soon as he thinks about it, however, he revolts at the idea and determines to possess the girl himself, always claiming that she is in love with him. Tn this mood he follows her to New York, takes her by storm, drags her off to a parson install in-stall ter nnd in the most ostentatiously vulgar way. having at tho parson's door nn altercation and almost a fist fight with the hack driver. And so after the marriage, when they go to spend their honeymoon in tho Adirondack's, Adiron-dack's, Margaret, full of admonition from her grandmother and in pursuance pursu-ance of her own plans, undertakes to "tame her savage," the process having results quite different from what she expected. And Craig, with a penetrating penetrat-ing clear-sightedness that is absolutely disconcerting, a quality which he has displayed all through, takes her by storm, carries her off. and pursues his own plan of life, with utter disregard of her remonstrances and of her little, plans that she was making for'him. It is a strong, well told story. And although al-though tho scenes between Craig and Margaret remind one -irresistibly of sim ilar scenes between Shakespeare's Pe-truchio Pe-truchio and Katherine, thcro is a modernity mod-ernity about it that absolutely dissipates dissi-pates all idea of plagiarism. It j'b 3 great story, brilliantly told. A STORY OF MERCY. Lincoln and the Slceplnp Sentinel: the. . True Storv. ' Told by L. E. Chitten- dc-n. With Portralrs. Published by Harper Brothers. New York. This is an edition do luxe of an old storv current many years ago. and now I much embellished. Tt is the storv of I William Scott, of Company K, Third J Vermont Volunteers, who was caught sleeping at his post, and -whom General "Baldv" Smith wanted to have shot, according to the regulations. But np- peal was made to President Lincoln, and the young fellow was pardoned, only to be killed later on in the ro- treat of tho army from the peninsula, i i There is an introduction giving a sketch of Lincoln's life, and then the story ot , "The Sleeping Sentinel." the appeal J to Lincoln, the heart-to-heart talk which Lincoln gave to the 3'oung fel- i low, and tho sad sequel of it all in I the death of the young man and tho I tolling of that death to Lincoln. There are several portraits of Lincoln I in the book, the frontispieco bciug a : portrait in color from the painting by ! Howard Pylc. Then thcro is "Lincoln in 1857,"' clean shaven aud rugged. "Lincoln and His Son Thomas, known as 'Tad.' " a very familiar portrait I with Lincoln wearing a beard. Then there is "Lincoln From the Statue bv Augustus Sf. Gaudens. at Lincolu Park. Chicago." in which again he is bearded. Finally. "Lincoln iu 3SG5," from a photograph by Pice, again a bearded face. All are good pictures, however, and the book . is a valuable souvenir of the year. HELPFUL TO HUMANITY. Open House. Pv Juliet WUbor Tompkins, The Baker & Taylor Company, Publishers, Pub-lishers, New York. This story, by tho author of "Dr. Ellen." is along the same lines in n way, being the devoted effort of a well-loved docior. " In this story, how-over, how-over, the doctor is a fine gentleman, middle aged, Dr. Casper Diman. This doctor is at once a specialist, a humanitarian, hu-manitarian, and a good Samaritan. His house is the refuge of the crippled nnd afllieted. in mind ns well as in body. ITis sister, Myrtle, is the housekeeper, house-keeper, and nho is helped by various of the derelicts that the doctor has gathered gath-ered to his home. Among these derelicts dere-licts is a young botanist. Ernest Cunningham, Cun-ningham, and Ann Hlossom, who figures fig-ures to n considerable extent m the story, is Myrtle's loving helper. Tho heroine, however, is Cassandra Joyce, the daughter of a millionaire who failed and died suddenly. Cassandra comqs. after somo loathfomo experiences in living off her relatives, ns the doctor r, assistant, to write up tho "cases, ' attend at-tend the telephone, and do odd ,ibs about the office. She is so utterly untrained, un-trained, howevor. that she absolutely neglects her work and tries the doctor's doc-tor's patience very sorely. Finally be has a sharp talk with her, and oxplmns to her that she is hired to do certain work, and unless she does it sho is not earning her money and cheating him. This gives her a setback, but there is nothing else for her to do, and tw she stays. After a while she becomes more interested in the work of tlfe j household, and in tho doctor, more than she cares to confess oven to herself, i And the is exceedingly joyous at what- ever attention iho doctor"gives to her. ; Various incidents mnkc her believe fhat the doctor is in love with Ann Blossom aud Ann with him. Howevor. the young botanist comes in later as a foil for this. Thorc comes to sec Cassandra au importunate suitor, a man vulgarly rich, cxcessivelv boastful i and self-complncent. Cassandra's po- i sition is .so irksome that, having do- I cided to leave, she agrees to marrv this suitor, whose name is Burnett. She does not loll Dr. Diman about it, but Burnett goes to see her and sho agrees that the next, afternoon sho will go away with him aud be married; the great luxury and high life that he offers of-fers to her serving to smooth over tho disliko she feels for the man and tho repulsion that she experiences iu his presence. There is among I he doctor's patients an old Frenchmnn. who was the chefof Cassandra's father in tho father's palmy days. but. whose daughter daugh-ter having taken the wrong path, becomes be-comes demented and is tolerated in the household, although ho is a great trial. This old chef sees Burnett when he comes to visit Cassandra, and tries his best to warn her against the man. whom he charges with having been the ruin of his daughter. Cassandra, however, refuses to listen, and tho old man takes a da" off and artistically carves the tires of Burnett's automobile automo-bile so that when speed is got up they burst and Burnett is wounded to death. And that is the old man's revenge. In the end Cassandra confessus to herself the truth, and Dr. Diman conies into great happiness. H is a very pleasant 8tor3", told iu a charming ninnnor, and no one can fail to find good entertainment entertain-ment in reading it. LITERARY NOTES. "Reminiscences of Abraham IJncoln." one of the two forthcoming books about Abraham Lincoln which the Harpers have already published. will contain recollections rec-ollections by such men as Ulysses S. Grant, Henry Ward B'techor, Walt Whitman, Whit-man, Charles A. Dana, Jtobert G. Inper-soll. Inper-soll. nnd other men whoso Identity with tho nation has been close nnd diverse. The late Allen Thomdlke nice collected the material while editor of the North American Review, and the matter, pre-ll.xed pre-ll.xed by bis own valuable Introductory chapter, has been revised and edited for the new volume. Lincoln's personality Is made tho keystone, and the composite portrait will trace an extraordinary variety va-riety and consensus of Impression. For tho man who would be a Catholic In Rome, an Anpllcnn In London, and a Lutheran In Berlin, Ills Eminence Cardinal Car-dinal Gibbons has but little use. IIo recalls to him the traveler on a. train from the South during the Civil war. As was usual, tho political creeds of tho travelers were the subject of earnest Inquiry. In-quiry. This traveler was aroused from sleep to answer the usual question. "Where am IV" he asked. "In Pennsylvania," Pennsyl-vania," wns tho reply. He promptlv declared de-clared his loyalty to the Union. Cardinal Cardi-nal Glbbons's admiration for men with backbone has Inspired his "True Mnn-hood." Mnn-hood." a brochure to be published Feb- runry C by A. C. McClur;? & Co., Chi- M caqo. The book Is an expansion of a ;) Vl college commencement address and in Its 'r M concrete treatment, compact style and 'H w !(-) application It compares most favor- Ij' ubly with other hooks of IIKi intent. ' IK ,H "Tho Spell," William Dana Orcutfs ' ' forthcoming novel, is laid in Italy, and ' the title Is a symbol of tho extraordinary " , JH Influence that the Old World, with Its , f. dreams of old scholarship. Us noble vis- Cti JH Ions and "dusty beauty," exerts upon ' 'al the career of the hero, a young scholar H and society member of Boston, Not even a honeymoon can obscure, this Intellectual passion nor does It prevent companion- 'i i 1 ship with u woman, not his wife, whose . (. Intellect Hashes back to his. It will be f i , remembered that Mr. Orcutt hay taken , a distinguished part in humanistic re- 1 1 search In Italy. He Is a member of tho ' ' Society Dnntesca Itallana of Florence, I - IH I and. like the hero of "Thr Spell." Is a " I Harvard man. |