| Show Poems by Matthew Mattho Arnold with nn an Introduction by A C Benson Denson thus lIlus b by Henry is III 1 a volume which will be of Interest to every lover of Arnold verse vorse The rhe artist h has been more successful la Iii dealing with these poems than In his recent pictures of sonnets BOnnets and while he has failed tn In several instanceS there are enough sketches ot of merit to make mak the book noteworthY In the head and tall pieces he has put rare beauty and much suggestion and In certain mar martial tint figures he has JUlI expressed the war mood In fine style Itle ex cx temples les of at this latter trait Are the plc 1110 tures which accompany nt at nome and and Balder Halder Dead In n a literary way the Ihl volume Is attractIve because of the reo re reprinting printing of the tho early pieces Alaric ot at nomo flome and Cromwell which are not usually included In editions ot of Arnold Arnolds works iloth contaIn lao fino bus bUI the Is such that Arnold would not reprint them Here are two stanzas In the Alaric that ha have havethe the familiar ring Yes es there thero he stood upon that silent allent hilt hili And there beneath his hll feet teet hi his con can conQuest Quest lay lar Unlike that ocean city gazing ulnar stilt Smilingly forth upon her ber sunny hll ba Dut oer her might and hUm hUmbled humbled bled pride u as widowed doVed Venice oer her Adrian Ild tIde I S S S S C S S S hi hIs wandering heart hearl was tar far aWAY Lost In dim memories of hit hll early home And hi his young oung dreams of conquest how today Beheld him toaster of Imperial Rome Crowning his wildest hopes hope I hi his eyes As AI they looked sternly on no now victories Arthur S Benson the Author Df cit 1 furnishes an excellent Intro sketch kelch of Arnolds life UCe with some saine appreciative words Vorda on the tho great merits meril of his verge ene The book boole II beau printed J Ti Cope stirring story ot o oThe The Master n Beggars which Rp appeared three or four years eara aro go hu has been rl cc d In series aeries or of LIppincott LIppincottS S Select lect Novels Novel It Is a 11 tale talco of the Netherlands In the time when the ruth ruthIe ruthless Ie less Duke Ala AlY ruled the land for bc paiD for the tho present work the purpose of which Is 13 to make the thu render reader well weil RO no with the man as well as the tho poet To lo thin end nil the autobiographic passages In hIs hili works are aro extracted and arranged In order prose and poetry with the more mom explicit presentations or of Ida Ideas of true the tho poem of at atCo Co Cornus mUll and SAmson with notes and forewords Pro Corson had bad made n a life lon long studY ot of Mil 1111 Milton I Iton ton and no one Is better able than himself to guide the tho student to an In Intelligent Intelligent understanding or of the poet the tho patriot and the tho lover loer of liberty b by Esteile M is 11 isone one of a 1 series ot of volumes by the same Author to be Issued In The Riverside er Art rt Series Serle each volume belh devoted to tho study ot of the paintings of some famous painter Allin M in the tho ClUe case of Rem Rembrandt brandt treated In the volume under no Uce each Issue In the tho necks cenes I Is to con contain thin tain s eral representative pictures picture b by the ll of sufficient story Inte Interest lt to 10 attract renders render of genuine artistic merit representatIve ot of various phases of the tho painters work and reproduced so far Ill as from the The rho text tells what each picture Is II Its story why It I ii who ho painted It what kind of man he was with other mAUCh suggested b by th lie picture In Inthis this volume sixteen of plc pic tu Clr era elven alven Sunday Mt Afternoons for tor th the ChIl dron b by E Soule Is II MI called a mother book and la is Intended l III as an anaid aid to spIritually minded mothes In findIng An answer to the question flow noll can I make mahe Sunday afternoons pI pleasant and for lor my dren Yet et In theIr hP hearth that loving reverence for Or the day dllY that I long to 10 sea tA them The IdeAS em hoOted d In the tho book were CN worked out In detail 11 with one little girl Irl of at tour four years old And so leave hb proved At least leut practIcal Mrs Soul sees no reason why children or of but three o years tOU of an age could not put nut Into practice om orne of the themore more mol simple methods method IL If wl wisely lf directed and anti and the more marc advanced methods Till naturally natural corns come II as the year tara ate are added In A or Old Clyde collects t five studies of the older European n literature which were ori i nail prepared as academic studies then adapted and w used 1 a as l lectures be before before fore J popular finally reo re rut east Into their form The rIle ob object obJect wits Vita to add II to of that literature II by detailed Illustrations ot of its condition nt at J periods l betten th the sixth and sixteenth cn The or of the t rs Jt JI In reversed the Iho Ihorst first dealing with lIh Dr John Donna a 4 gentleman of at Ring Tamea day dBr the second a m love story Is II tale or of Orl the th the or of th the miraculous voyage of St nr the tho fourth an of an and the last Is I tho tory of the oldest poem and when tile the of the tho Lea Ren covers and hurled the Span lard There Thera ts lii it love lovo story of hut It Is mainlY a tle of ad Venture and r tI D 13 Co l l hla The to t a Mother on the ot of Froebel b by Sum Suaan lIow Is n a new volume In the International The Tho object of thu book Is to explain till the philosophy of In language ad red not to the teacher inertly but to the tho general ImbUe To do this author It necessary to take uv up the most Import Important Important ant doctrines ono one after another all as tM they Vere In th Mutter und Koss and show their In the dIfferent systems of thought that prevail some of theta thel being In bar hir nony with Froe el while In other cases there is III profound disagreement The rhe Theauthor Author says the tho tudy ot of thu tho Mother Play taught her through blen had she he known them when most needed she might have avoided many errors errora and boan bo n spared much sorrow orrow Her hope Is that her own bOk may help others othera to avoid her mIstakes In his hili Introduction to the Pr Prose e and Poetical Works Work ot of John Milton Hiram Corson n saya th thre re are no au authors authors thors In the literature more distinctly revealed In their than John Sohn Milton life Ills personality IA felt In Ills his every production poet and prose prole anti felt almost nil ftc muel tu the earliest Itle lit III the tho latest period ur of his author authorship ship And no epithet more ap to his than the I epithet august lIe Ho Is ono one of the tho most educating ot of authors author In tue highest s sense of the that Is edu eating In the direction of sanctified d character The I prime rim ulue attach attaching ing to the tho prose works of Milton at atthe the pr present nt da day Irot Craon vr n rays Is theIr fervent expression of true tree free choina freedom which Involves 1 a adeep deep dep lymp sympathy thY with truth a freedom which Is InduCed by a willIng and In Its final result I It neo ence to ones higher nature The prose works are therefore freely Creely drawn upon |
