Life — May 28, 1896 — page 20: what you’re looking at

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: 440 *LIFE: LIFE’S TIPS TO SUMMER READERS. mere rediscovery of a good thing that has been known to be good for generations. New poetry keeps the reader's crit- ical sense alert and helps to educate it. Would any reader like to test the correctness of his percep- tions on new verses? Here are a dozen aspirants for his rally adapted to the various idiosyncrasies of his taste. Mere is Professor Clinton Scollard’s “Hills of Song,” good verses that have found their inspira- tions in the far East, in Italy, and at home ; here is Bliss Car- man’s “ Behind the Arras,” not a year old yet, but old enough to be known and liked; here is a slim volume from William son in which the attentive reader will detect the qualities that made its author suddenly famous two years ago in Eng- Samuel Minturn Peck’s '‘ Rhymes and Roses," his fourth volume of verse, with a cheerful burden of lyrics of nature, and love songs and vers de sociefé ; here is a volume of “Odes ” by Charles L poet, who aims very high, and certainly attention, all worthy of it, and s onard Moore of Philadelphia, a serious justifies his aspira- tions by his work ; here are Madison Cawein’s “ Undertones, and Zitella The Road To C and Alice Meynell’s * Poems,”’ and * Lyrics of Love and Nature” by Mary Berri Chapman, and, different from the rest, A. S. Martin's volume * On Parody,” which cannot, to be sure, be commended as poetry, but which serves as a guod foil for the rest. A Doric Reed,” and Alice Brown's Robert Louis Stevenson’s Unfinished Romance, WEIR OF HERMISTON. 12mo, attractively bound, $1.50. STEVENSC ESTIMATE OF THE STORY AS QUOTED IN MRS. STRONG'S DIARY “The story unfolds itself before me to the least detail. There is nothing left in doubt. I never felt so before in anything I ever wrote. It will be my best work. I feel mysclf so sure in every word.” “Surely no son of Scotland has died, leaving with his last breath a worthier tribute to the land he loved ”"—Sivxey CoLvin. POEMS AND BALLADS. portrait. t2mo, $1.50. Lovers of Mr. Stevenson's w Ry Rosert Louis STEVENSON. With iden of Verses," ** Ra n since a a the publication Messrs, Charles: Seribner’s Sons having publication of THE VAILIMA LETTERS, ¢: EMIGRANT, $7.25: THE EBB TIDE, $7 publishers in this country of all of Mr, Stevenion's A LADY OF QUALITY. By Frances Hovcsox BURNETT. 12m0, $1.50 I. Zaxcwitt, én the Critic: “Mt sppears tome the most interesting and remark- able thing Mrs) Burnett has done. It will add a new field to her already ample province. CINDERELLA, Davis. * Stories in all respects remarkal fresh, strong, vivid and picturesque. THE IVORY SERIES. Fiction by popular authors, in dainty, uniform stvle—specially suitable for Summer reading. | The Serie now includes: AMOS JUDD, by J. A. Mircnett; IA, by IRRALIE’S BUSHRANGER, by E. W. Horsuxc;’ A MASTER SPIRIT, by Harriet Prescorr SporrorD, and other volumes. Each 16mo, 7§ cents. CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS, ntiy acquired the rights to the rou, $2.25: THE AMATEUR 2: MACAIRE, $7.00, are now the orks. and Other Stories. Uarpinc 12mo0, $1.00. By Ricnarp ‘The life they depict is real. They are —Beston Courter. 153-157 Fifth Avenue, NEW YORK, | English language is known, Come, readers, our poets have done their work. ; Now it is your turn, Don'tbe afraid. These are not formidable books ; they are little and slim and sightly ; if you get one of them in your hand you can't help reading it, and if you do read it and it doesn’t do you good, the odds are that it will be your fault. ALETTER TO A GIBSON GIRL. BY ‘‘DROCH.” OU are about to start on your accustomed summer cam- paign, my dear Jean, and you write me the usual letter for some “hints about good reading for spare balf- hours.” I begin to expect this re- quest as regularly as the appear- ance of the tulip-bed in Madison Square. You have an impression that, though you devote yourself entirely to social pleasure in the winter, you really “ improve your mind” a little in the summer. This is one of the pretty delusions that make you interesting, and none of the books that I shall recommend will help destroy it. You know, down in your heart, that what you read in summer is simply for amusement. When you have had a disastrous flirtation AT A POPULAR PRICE. 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