Show I I BOOKS I Life Lire and Letters of by b Elizabeth III In two 10 vol volume 01 ume urne With portraits pori ra It II views It and fai ta similes Since bl III untimely death In 1 the thc fame tome of If I Hearn an III anone a aone one of the masters of English pro e In his hi generation has haa bc been n constant constantly growing both In 1 this country countr and ant In England lii Life and Letters now Issued In two volumes will be one of tin till most mol notable publications of ct It the time 1 ea wn IOn Heams life was wu interesting int and romantic In the extreme Horn Brn of Greek and Irish parentage in the till Ionian with rUh an nn added strain of ot gyp y blood he h was all till his hIli lite ilfe H wanderer He lie lived lI d at nt various times limn with a wealthy wealth aunt In Walt Wales In III the atmosphere of a Roman Catholic eel col college lege in extreme poverty oil ca the Ka East EastSide t Side of New Ne York In Bohemian lItera ry 1 I circles In und and New fA ew Or OrI I In many nan parts of the American tropics and lintl finally during durin the th fourteen eAr before hie his death in Japan as us II a 1 citizen of that country Throughout Ul these the wanderings he constantly en In enJoyed enjoyed Joyed jod the friendship of M J seine me of the most Interacting personage of If his time Ume and was always a II student of or in i 1 and opinions opinion II as a well as tin HII artist growing In irs his hili mastery of ot letters Ills 1111 authorized biographer well Known as a athe the tho author of several unusual t books of travel anti and enjoyed friendship tr r nearly n arl thirty year tr and had the of see eee ing him in many of lie liM different nt en tn She Sill has lias told the tim story of ot hU his hl life lite with lh great sympathy and skill anti and has presented pre most picturesquely all Its It I romantic color tolor so o rare tar in III this workaday age alf The bulk buIlt of tile the book boo however con COil consists sista of learns Hearns letters to 10 a great vane varie variety ty I of correspondents a II period of yeats lIt arn YH as al one ole of the be but best t of his hili age IGe In variety II riel eloquence and wit In short bort bortIn hortIn In all the qualities which give re to a let letter ter that Indefinable something wr P call letters hate with the possible exceptions of or no peer In recent re tnt years while the eon con continually In changing bark back background we ground of the letters and the lb treat great multitude of subjects which Hearns mind mimi gle gie 11 them thema thema a R b od whirls which few tor collections of letters have 1110 ever eer shown lI n The volumes olum alsi 1 contain some orne fragments of lf an all Ruthlo autobiography raphy which had hl t teen been begun bv by b H HMm foam rn before his hili death and which ery ff for fortunately fortunately brings the story lor of hl hi his Inner life lito down to 10 the th point at which the correspondence begin The volumes are Illustrated with Ith portraits f of or Hearn his hi family fatall ant and friends with smith lIh pictures of If his hi home and haunts In iii Japan Jarn with nith facsimiles of his hll peculiar aol and an beautiful ful manuscript manu and with lIh reproductions of some ome of the vivacious p pen n and Ink sketches with nith Ith which he was I wont to tl embellish his familiar correspondence torre Brooks Brook Readers Reader by bJ D P H I superintendent u of or school tic Boa Bos Boston ton Ion American nook Book company Nr New NII York Cincinnati and Chicago hr lu eight books adapted a to 10 the th corresponding school grades These TheM new nel readers form fonn a It good rood all round butil al series suitable fur ue ui In any cho I and will appeal to teachers because of their very ery r easy M oat gradation both In thought and anti In ex ix Although a willS wide II of reading 1 matter flatter Is II provided provide J good em embodying embodying m bodying child has hit been ceo tc n of fundamental importance Lessons of ot a Ii similar nature are ar 1 together And topics relating to subjects recur somewhat reg ug regularly regularly By U II the UM u us of these book books the hUd child will wilt lie hI taught to read In such a II man manner manlIer ncr ner an ass will spiral in Im hi his atut Pon at al the same me time lIe he will aili ill be bf made mad MI ac with lh the l c of many man famous lie lip will till gain aln H Il knowledge of ot many subjects subject and anti Re ac Require acquire C quire pure and attractIve Ideals of life and conduct and he ht will also alo be taught a love Iv of country and given JllEn glimpses Into Inlo tIp IMP tk life of other lands leitis lan lanIn In mechanical appearance ih books ook are ari as as III the Ih they ran can n be made mad Kwh 1 volume contains a It large number lInb r of or choice cholee which with lit the exception of ot a few reproductions nf M fa famous r mom paintings have lx been en made es loS especially in lot I fit th III selections These readers are Ab In an book hook In which Hi lisa five lve highest book nr art expanded for the t h nap uie of or schools that I ha t Irl ef a book bouk for tor or each toRch year ear |