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Show 1 lifh MhoriBookg I A CBITIOAI. RESEARCH. The Ethics of Jesus. Being- the Wllllun Beldflti Noble Lectures for 1900. By TIenry Churfrhlll King, D. D. LL. D. Th Macmlllan Company, Publishers, Nw York. Tha lectures presented herein, while recognizing the most advanced expositions exposi-tions of the critical schoolc. yet hold fast to the. conservative and spiritual side of the lifo and mission of Jesus. The method o approach to the subject sub-ject involves a detailed aurvej' of all the passages in the teachings of Jesus that can oe regarded as clearly etbi-'car. etbi-'car. and while the author has sought .to. keop constantly in mind the ethical aspect of the teaching as the one problem prob-lem of tho book, it is not forgotten that, "the teaching is so completely permeated with the roligious spirit, that it is im-. possible whoHV to ignore tho religious 'ana still do npstice to tho ethical teaching. The author, therefore, kcops I constantly associated, in his text, both the ethical and the religious side; in fact, this is absolutely necessary xn . the .nature of the case, for the two are ' constantly intermingled in the- gospels and in all of tbe authorities that -rye have as to the mission of Jesus and in his teachings and his example. Tho author au-thor adheres to the proposition that the origins, of the gospels were a document called "Q" and Mark, with tho possibility possi-bility that Mark may be chiefly. founded found-ed npon "Q," or is at least contemporaneous contempo-raneous with tho writing of "Q." iji rived chiefly from theso two earlier B documents, and to take up with respect gf .to each those things that appear most (L significant and important to the com- wf pilers' of Matthew and Luke respective- 21 ,Jy. 'The document "Q"" is "a compila- jl tion of sayings originally written in jf Aramaic, and belongs to tho apostolic Bf epoch.. This is shown by its form and ft contents, nor says the author,! can I m discern any reason for a contrary opin- li ion." Ilin soarch, therefore, is to get Si from "Q" and from -Mark, as well as If from the redactions of those by jtti Matthew and Mark, those passages iftlntSi which were the real utterances of.Jcsus THjlfS atv e narrave3 that give what ho i'lram) BS' aD( iere 13 abundant schol- Hwtts arship in the book, and a competent judgment to discern what is important, what in the root and origin of the 3i!$Bh Trhole matter, and what is a subsequent mCfc layer. The author has done his work jttS) extremely well, and while old-fashioned yDm ideas might be somewhat disturbed by Bffdf 9 "Stings and conclusions of the w. m i author, there is no real cause for tin gra-ap casineES. much less distress, for the SBKTfiH fundamentals are not only kept intact, SB'i?fi are ins,3ted upon with such earnest. HtsM I?ss aD zeal that the eooA purpose of HJgajS :the author cannot "be mistaken. It is a WmWi searching "book, but the searching is gfgniS for good and. for piety, and not in any IKSH "ay destructive. HBS THE TUDOR SHAKE SPE ABE . HH MwnifAdVAut Nth,ns- EdHed by w! liam W. Lawrence. Ph. D Asso- mSm Pr,?tcsrot English In Columbia mm puoLffl: NeYI0rsmman' C0Tnpany- mm ,, This ; is the fifteenth volume of the mmi tine edition of Shakespeare- w"hich this mm famous house is laying before the pub- mmt r if,put f?rtt " the same ex- mmt collent style as .the volumes that -have mmi gone before, and as in them, the text mtm Vsed.js th.e Ieilson Text convritrhted mm ti ; ' hl-r6 18 a fuI1 description of the text, mmy " a discussion of the composition of the mm Play, of tho sources of the plot, of its mm dramatic structure - and characteriza- Wgm "on, and of its 'stage history. Tho text mm Js very clearly printed on fine book HH WkZH Swf aFVen Va'WB of Notes MmM an Vw, of Textual Variants. An abun. mm dant glossary completes the volume. It mm is one of a series of a very desirable mm edition of Shakespearo. A ROMANCE OF MTJSIO. Traumerei. By X.eona Balrymnle Tl- W Yorlt Company, New H ' Th'i'5 is a. story that -will "delight the mm lovers of music. It .is told witfi CTeat IbMjj ana with a technical eve to music, and especially to tho work of tho violin vio-lin and of vaolin construction, a great violin bomg constructed in the narration narra-tion of the story. But the main romance ro-mance is woven around a Stradivarius violin, and for the hero we have a lively, adventurous young American, and a. music-loving, beautiful Italian girl is the heroine. The Bcene of tho story is laid in Italy, in a little hill light, but the treatment throughout is ?JtV8ti5nand fl,ne- Tho novel is one that will apneal, in fact, to all classes, most mU5IC loV6ra wil1 on.ioy it the I. . . GOOD EHOBT STORIES. A Local bolorlst. By Annie Trumbull nor a Sons, jvcw York. This stop- opens with a sceno at a Enf ?astiatlonV. hero -the narrator tells in dialect of her deBire to write a story. She goes there to see a noted writer, but does not have much chance to explain her desires, though at the ast she is told to throw in plenty of local color. It is.a pleasant story, very well told. Other short stories in the book are "A Xaturo Curo": Djg. satisfied Soul,' and "A Prophetic Ro-mancer." Ro-mancer." The author hag pleased tho pnblic heretofore with "Pishin' Jim-1 my' and 'Story-Tell Lib." both achioving wide popularity. The pres-"5vrk pres-"5vrk 13 BUre to take even better than they. II IN OBOMWELL'S TIME. TDlSht&Vt. Biade, BJ BcuIah Marie l Olx. With Frontlsp ece by Georcf Somnv1'511 ,hy "enry Holt aifd I company, Iscw York. I n Tlli8 a a romance of the days of th.ri1 an&Lthl wjir? in England at that tituo. The horo is a young Ger-I Ger-I man who serves with Cromwell, who is I quiet, apparently rather boyish, but I ?&Itt I?1 -cxaft,nC his soldierly du- I Rt "?,ra neroic and sacrificing. There I is a little tomboy Royalist heiress, who 's made the heroine of the book, and I 7h0 ? ct? tV,.s Gcrman lad and becomes I Jevotcd to him. Her people, however, I have other views, and so ncarlv buc- I ?oRd in rarrving thorn out tbit the I interruption of their plnns seems' almost I miraculous., and nothing but tho quiet I determination and deadly skill of the I younjr man prevents the upsetting of I the tw-o lives. It is a fine storv, told I with both power and skill. I ADVENTUROUS LOVE. I t,jyor?of,II?Por- ?" Edltl1 Mncvane. Hh lllutratlonn 1 Frank Snano .Publlalied by Utile, Brown, and Com- I pany. Boston. I This is a story where a young French girl is the active character and heroine. hero-ine. She is sent to England from France lo her uunt, the Duchess of Porthaten, because her beautv interfered inter-fered with the matrimonial pros'pects of ix unattractive cousins. The girl runs away from her English home and comos to America, whero she is seiiwd upon by a rich American woman, whose ob-ject ob-ject is to make advantago out of the horoine'a social connections. The girl is persuaded to accept as Tier husband the sou of tho American woman, Mrs. Cobb, beforo alio has even seen him; bnt before tho matter has gono too fur. the real American horo appears, ana complications set in at once, but the inevitable outcome of them is bound to favor tho lovers, as it does. It is, in fact, a very charming love story, right woll told. PRE SIDEENT BUTLER'S FINEST. Why Should "Wo Clianpo Our Form of Government? Studies in Practical Politics. By NIchola-s Murray Butler. President of Columbia University. Published by Chaiica Scrlbner'a Sons, New York. President Butler has taken much pains to apply the principles of the basic foundations upon which our Gov-eminent Gov-eminent rests to the newer ideas that are .brought forward and urged with such vohemence aud such disregard for long-settled principles. The presentations, presenta-tions, arguments, and conclusions found in this book are on substantially the samo basis as thoso that President But ler advanced in his very strong speech in presiding over tho New York btato Convention which elected delegates last month to the Chicago National convention. "Why Should Wo Change Our Form of Governmentl" And then he proceeds to discuss the topics "Business and Politics": "Politics and Business": "Tho Call to Citizenship"; "Alexander "Alexan-der Hamilton:" and "The Rovolt of the Unfit." This latter chapter is especially es-pecially keen, and is a crushing reply to a lot of the rubbish that is talked by impulsive and. imperfectly instructed instruct-ed people. The work is a thoughtful one throughout, one that deserves, and doubtless will command, very rrcat and respectful consideration from tho thinking think-ing public AFTER THE "HARUM" ORDER. Hiram Blair. By Drew Tufts. With Four Illustrations by IT. S. DeLay. Published by A. C. McClurg & Co., Chicago. Chi-cago. This is an Indiana story, having for its hero Hiram Blair," a horse-trader, horse-trader, big, raw-boned, powerful, a natural nat-ural born horse dealer. He is illiterate illiter-ate and uncouth in a waj', but he has plenty of shrewd wit, and is the dom-I dom-I mating figure of the story. Besides being a general horse dealer, he iB also an astute, adroit politician, loving the game for its own sake, and not more scrupulous than others in his methods. He has a good vein of genuine humor, which leads him to utter a number or sentiments very much like those attributed at-tributed to David Harum. Thus ho eays. "Ef St. Paul vmz to come back on airth anJ offer me a hoss, saying it wuz a six-year-old. the fust thing I'd do would be to look at its teeth." Other Oth-er sayings like this are abundant in the bpok, and, in fact, it mipht fairly be called a followup of David Harum. There is a very fine love storr running through the book, in which Hiram has his part, and does very much to forward. for-ward. Tho storv is native of the soil, well-written, and enjoyable. A SOIENTXETO NOVEL. The Second Deluge. By Garrett P. Ser- Published by McBride, Nast & Company, Com-pany, Jew York. This is a book of the Jules Verne and Horbert G. Wells order, imagining cosmic disturbances, and undertaking to show how the Noachian deluge oc-currdl oc-currdl ,Tho tlieory ia that the earth at that time passed through a watery nebula, which caused the flood. The theory of this hook is that the earth is now approaching another watery nebula, ne-bula, which will drown it out moro ef- tv rm. tha? ,GVCn in the M deluge days. The whole matter is worked out m a pjeudo scientific way, which pass- fs3 f0"fthr,WfcienCB lnvcstigation. It is a thriller," sure cnourrh- A WELLS "DETEOTER." AWlthnTnf,J7' Carolyn Wells, wit i Illustrations n Color by Gavle Hoaklns. Published by J. B, Llppln-cott Llppln-cott Company. Philadelphia, P fo?H,r-0lyiJ WclIs' tbe author f this fle r7TV'5rid oorS. Bh entered the field of detective fiction. She has given to the public heretofore two good The Gold Bag" and "The Clue." Iu ShrtSiPw'iBhe crfate-3 an American 35fwi, ;?olme8 who is the infallible Blouth that always gets to the bottom JJ yistery and unravels the tan-glee tan-glee i which ar0 B0 baffling to others, In Fleming Stone, this author has created cre-ated a chcaracter that is fully as striking strik-ing as the original prototype, and ono whose acutencEs and success the American Ameri-can readers thoroughly eni'oy AMERICA TO FRENCHMEN. The Spirit of America. By Henry Va.n "In this book, tho author gives tho .first seven of a series of talks that he made in the winter of 1908 and 1009 on tho Hyde Foundation ut tho Uni-2 Uni-2 Ay of ?ans- ad repeated in part at other universities of Franco. Thev n00)!iCC9 lU S?clis,h' and afterward translated into French, and published. The author explains that the chapters were prepared as lectures to be givon -ilench alienee, and in accordance with the generous design of the founder of the chair, the design to bo wrought out was to promoto an intelligent sympathy between Franco and the United States. It is cortain that the lectures nr6 well adapted to create this sympathy. Tho American achieve-I achieve-I ments in various Hues, and the American Ameri-can spinty, aro prosented in a manner I to attract the attention of the French public, and thus favorably to influence iTcnch opinion on American affairs. iso one i9 better fitted to present the American case in this manner than Professor Van Dyke, and ho has done it in tho most forcible aud agreeable manner possible. MORRIS MASTERPIE CE S. flJhchrtr.Utlior ljottor fUl3 tho field of tho short htorv master than any other American author of tllc present da?-Ho da?-Ho has a vivacious wit and de ightfui sentiment Hc also ha3 the sly no fantastic humor which prccisolv titl into the stories, and thaPt enliven his narratives. HiB Btom'shin? skill in this form of writing inakoV b"? I stories the brightest and most amusing Pketchos m tiction of American literary life today. There are twelve storici in this hook, as follows: "Tt"- "tJ Business Women"; "Tho 'Trim". "SapDhira''; "Tho' Bride's dSSI ,:Holf)n,i "nnd?"; ''The Claws S the licer"; "Growing Up"; "The Battle of Aiken"; "An Idyl of Pclham Baj Park"; "Back Thero in tho Grass and "Asabri," and a fine poem, "To Elsio,'' introduces tho fjerios of talcs. The subjects range from adventures on desert islands to golf gamea at Aiken, South Carolina, and from love storie! in tho Adirondacks to tragedy in the South Seas. No other short stories are ao good, lively, and ontortaining as thoso written by Gouverneur Morris. OLD INDIAN MYTHS. Myths and Legends of California and the Old SouthwcBt. Compiled and Edited by Katharlnn Berry Judson. Illustrated. Illus-trated. Published by A. C. 3IcClurg & Co., Chicago. This author has taken much pains to get at tho viewpoint of the Indiana of Southern California and of the Southwest country generally. Sho has mado it a matter of personal study, and has taken in the whole range of the region from southern Arizona to northern north-ern California. The myths of the Indian In-dian tribes are Bhown to be connected, in large numbers of cases they aro the same, sometimes with modifications and sometimes practically in agreemont. Theso mythg relate to tho animals and to the vegctabl growths. Tho Corn Maidens, the Seed People, and, in fact, the myths of the productive, fruitful agencies of nature, are chiefly of the Zuni or Moqui origin, whilo tho myths rolating to the animals, as tho foxes, coyotes, and bears, are from tho more uurLuoiij' iiriucs, una are pioua.niy related re-lated to the totem systems of Alaska. The work in this vol'umo is very faithfully faith-fully done, and the author deserves credit for the fine presentations that sho has made, MORE SOLDIER POEMS. Rhymes of the Firing L,lne. By Damon Runyon. Published by Desmond Fltz-Gorald, Fltz-Gorald, Inc., New York. This is a series of poems somewhat of tho order of the Kipling "Barrack Room Ballads." There is plenty of vim and go in them, and there is a good deal of dialect well out. Although, as we say, the poems aro apparently inspired in-spired by the Kipling productions, they are fully up to the mark, and they have no inferior place to take as compared com-pared with Kipling's. Thero is all the dash and go in thorn that one expects to find in Boldier poems, and this poet is also master of hig craft, and shows a sympathy and feeling especially adapted to his theme. The poems are divided under subjects, "Rhymes of the Firing Line," "Gentlemen of Jeopard." and "Diamond Ditties." A fair example of the poet's style and mastery is in the final poem of the book. "Requiem," as follows: Shuffle by and graze on him, as he lays In ffracloua sleep; Rest for him who's gone away, where the best and worst shall go. Sorrow not; the eyes aro dim; sweet In-deed In-deed the sleep of him Borrow not. for God Is good let the drums beat very low. Somewhere out ahead Is light; somewhere some-where In the sea thorc's land; Pass him by In deepest silence; let him sleep. Still and cold he seems7 Not bo: In his heart there Is a glow; Sorrow not, for God is gentle do not weep. Sines a lark at song of grace for him; Borrow not, his dreams are quiet dreams of love. Sorrow not; he smiles again; warm his smiling lips again; Warm his heart for God is gracious with His love. A LINCOLN ADAPTATION. The Counsel Assigned. By irary Rav-rwi Rav-rwi ShIpnan Andrews. Published by Charles Scrlbner's Sons, New York. , This is a retelling of an old story yu ere a young man, accused of murder, is defended by an eloquent and great counselor who had theretofore boon un-known un-known in thoso parts, and was unknown to tho nudge and tho bar. In this case, this unknown counselor is Abraham Licoln. The story is told as from the judge who presidod at tho trial, and the whole is very finely presented. A "HOME FOLKS" STORY. A Knight in Denim. By Ramsey Ben- Swished b' Charles ScHbrTer's bona, ISew York. The scene of this story is a Nebraska farming community, and tho hero, Bill Harbaugh, i3 "one of that vast body ot soldiery which wonderfully meltod back into civil lifo at the end of tbe great war." Ho came to the vallcv and became tho oddest of its odd people. peo-ple. He played the part of man-of-all-work, and a knight of denim to his lady, the Mistress of Throstlowood farm, all boing told with sympathy, pathos, and with abundance of humor. The knight of this story i8 compared to a. rustic philosopher, and justly so. it is a fine story throughout, excellently excellent-ly conceived, and skillfully written. MYSTERY AND TRAGEDY. The Chink In tho Armour. By Mrs. Bel-fc Bel-fc Lowndes. Published by Charles Scrlbner's Sons, New York. 1,a"ob The author of this work is well i inetw v by fornlT0.r novels, especially her "Studies in Wives." and "Jano o"- from The Spectator tho toxt, "But thero is one chink in the chain armour of civilized communities. Society is conducted on the assumption that mur-n mur-n not bo cdmmitted." As with .. I j rrs- Lowndes's novels, there is much dramatic intensity, abundant action, ac-tion, and a good deal of adveuturo and reckless courage The characters pre-seated pre-seated .arc a, Beautiful English widow, a Russian princess, a French nobleman who is a professional gambler, and a mysterious old couple, all meeting at a gay little French watering place, and becoming entangled in a series of tragic tra-gic and mysterious events. This is the sort of complication whore tho author shows at her best, and thiB work is, in cur judgment, tho best of her productions. It is certainly one of abundant entertainment an dintcrest, and the reader who begins it will be loth to lay it down until he comes to the end. A SCHOOL CLASSIC. Fathers of Men. By 13. v. Komntif Published by Charles Scrlbner's Sont New York. ' Mr. Hornung, tho author of thin story, is known a one who, in his writings, exhibits an unusual apprehension appre-hension of boy nature, and thiB story iullv bears put his high repute in this InlntJ1 a 5tor,v of Enish board, ing-school life, and comes nearer to "Tom Brown's Schooldays" than any rcceut book. It is a story as much for men and women as for boys. It draws with vividness and truth pictures of school life, and tells the incidents in such ways as to get tbo most out of them and to best entertain the reader. The strength of tho characters depicted ?! i?8 i ,n ,othcr respects oomparablo to that classic, and also a book of raro quality, brought fully up to dato and of the beBt and most BuggoBtive character. char-acter. A ROMANCE OF FINANCE. Tr?,:VIa,nspn,5; ?y Cliarlea Affnew araclean. With IUustrationa by Edmund Ed-mund Frederick. Published by .Little, Brown, and Company, Boston. .This is a story which starts out with difficulties and calls for audacity, and this audacity finds its mean3 and its scope. Tho 6tory hinees upon a pigan-tic pigan-tic strucclo between opposing financial interests in New York, which fight to obtain possession of n Northwostorn railroad systom. A younc newspaper man. Ashmore, appears at the opening of the story in tho Lone Islnnd home of Jessup Craven, leader of ono side to tho fiebfc, but who is at the point of death. Ashmoro is persuaded to im-Dorsonato im-Dorsonato Craven's boh who iB missing, and thus represent him and make possible pos-sible tho continuance of tho Craven fluence and the use of tho Craven money in the conflict that is on hand. The opposition, however, kidnaps him; but hc makes a fight and escapes, and is. .later on. the main agency through which the Farnum crowd Is cleaned out on one of tho biggest days of Wall street. There is a sudden and unexpected unex-pected development also with regard to Ashmore. and altogether the story is one of originality and freshness, arid is uncommonly well told. DOWN IN A SUBMARINE. The Sunken Submarine. By CaptaJn Danrlt. with Frontispiece bv JLyle T Hammond. Published -by LJttfe, Brown" and Company, Boston. This is a 6tory of an imprisonment in a submerged submarine for six days, with, only one living companion. It is something of the order of the eclo-hratod eclo-hratod Japanese report of the officer who was thus submerged, but in tho story the two in the submarine aro moro fortunate. Tho hero of this engrossing en-grossing story ia wrecked in the 600-ton 600-ton French submarine "Dragon-Fly" off the African coast in thirty fathoms of water, and for six days he and tho torpedo quartermaster a sturdy Breton, struggled in vain to find some way or escape. After hope appears to he merged in despair, and the two bravo men are physically exhausted and resigned re-signed and lethargic as to their fate, deliverance comes. A young woman figures in this, and tho story is made at once a combination of a Jove story and a scientific exposition of the pos-sibilities pos-sibilities of lifo under tho conditions named, IN VIRGINIA MOUNTAINS. Tho Under Trail. By Anna Alice Chapln. With Illustrations by Martin Justice. Published by Utile, Brown, and Company, Com-pany, Boston. . The Under Trail, as described heroin, hero-in, means a Bort of hidden trail known and used only by tho most adventurous or the community of th- Virginia mountains, in which the scone of the btory is placed. It is a Bort of hidden crosscut under the ridgo, and the secret se-cret of its existence is jealously guarded guard-ed by tbo few who know it. Tho char-acters char-acters of the story are the fashionnblo land owners who aro seoking relaxation and health, a young orofossional nurse, tho mountain family which is the ovil influence and furnishes tho characters for the evil work of tho story, and tho roadmakera on tbo mountain. Juliet Gray is a fine creation the impetuous kitty Turloy is disturbing, vicious and ugly for a time: the cultivated man of leisure. Craig Evarts. is rather a posefc and Derry Blalco, the elemental man of power and magnetism, is tho real hero of the story, and who gets his way at the last, in spite of all interruptions or forecasts. The Btory is one of elenien-ta elenien-ta impulses, and is so well told tbat it is goQ1 to road. AN OLD FRONTIER ROMANCE. MviLfFcDo?aIdv a Ta,e of the Old !wUt, By. Banaall Parrlsh. With Four lustrations by Ernest L Blum- e&nc5.!,nchai,o!3hed by a- c- Mr. Parrisb, th0 author of this story, has given tho public heretofore to its great acceptance. "Keith of the Border," Bor-der," "My Lady of the South," and othor good stories. This ono takes us back to tho old period of the Indian wars in Kansas in 1S6S. The horoine fatX If Ea3n 6ch001 to ioia fi? !nl L t-amJltai7.1',03fc in Kansas, and gets into the nudst of an attack' j?ta .c,oacn by Indians. Lator on, she is abducted and lost in a tor-nble tor-nble Bnow storm for two days: but ShnS th bravo Sergeant Hamlin nrf J?en,?"r 011 hftn" lO BUVO and protect. It 13 a genuine, stirring romance ro-mance of a frontier which has long passed away but which was very vivid and vory real in its time. UTERARY NOTES. The authors of "White A ri -" u rhhi.C0,nn5c?ted ,,8trct Boston in 19HP This is described exactly as t nit:l jjS? an"dd afSaSSSo "fe Ss to have made a decided Impression on ut least one Insurance official, it em3 I that tho manager of a.JsjBJ'6? Insurance company iJKS: of I book. Immediately ."JiaDkW?1 W I States agent and said nt fSmt. eapl how much the companj - Tt of thu burned section. In S7mtJ rn tho exact boundaries J Jj5i"r ... United States ugent SJ&5H2 J J the authors, the somx JmCS t cldent comltii,- to their yMjffiff The Ccnturj- Co. H fjjB2M.2f Issue W. Morgan Shustrf jjKt Strangling of Persia-" "MV Tear based upon British , tfBS papers, supplemented DJT '.emT1 "f't kept by tho former dmuy, Persia during the entw V ..Bjoj stay In the coimtry iKrtn I "Punch,"' exomlnlnf MEffl Davis's latest collection J8. Man Who Could WMbtjg pressed with tho wtW SMmH on and vltalirs dpJmTr11 touched. "The "rtASsBfe course, lies in the f T lie SMBStl of tho auUior's Mvffi,yt and friendly, 1fmWti you by the button fifflit I was looking for. ne V-Uli. topping story to tdl A you right.' And U -S nave heard -of 4LV fore, tlio quiBi. CB JgWt- Hgg' tells It makes ou P I even' now and then ( , mf yourself In tho rnli9 c:t;1Mglju; i Galleghcr' was siicn mTm.J Derelict.' and bo. ia Wg ift, la "The ConsuK WJBiA no more to be- iaZmVi!ffii- |