Life — November 22, 1900 — page 6: what you’re looking at

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* LIFE « NV RS. HUMPHRY WARD'S Eleanor seems to be the ' most important story of the year. Its rival will be Tommy and Grizel, but that is distasteful to many readers, while no one of discrimination can fail to appreciate the power and manifold merit of Elernor, It is a first-rate story, full of idess about such important things as politics, religion and human character. It is sound in spirit, in- teresting, hopeful and altogether worth while. (Harper and Brothers.) The Papacy in the XIXth Century, vy Friedrich Nippold, is an able and scathing arraignment of the politics and political ethics of the Vatican since the restoration of Pius VIL. It is, however, more in the nature of an address for the prosecution than ef a history, and in no wise fulfills Macaulay's hope that a future chronicler, as temperate as Ranke, might trace the progress of the Catholic revival of the nineteenth century. (G. P. Putnam’s Sons.) That W. A. Fraser has an intimate knowledge of the inhabitants of the Can: an forests is shown in his book, Moosica aud Others of the Boundary, He has, however, fol- lowed so unswervingly the trail blazed by Kipling’s Jungle Jiok as to place any claim to originality of conception out of the question. (Charles Scribner's Sons.) If you read The ddiot at Home when you are in a fit mood for such writing, you will probably find it amusing. A at deal depends upon the reader's spirits when he akes it, and something upon his taste in literature. Many readers will like it, but even they ought not to take itallata gulp. (Harper and Brothers.) An American Anthology, which has been for years the work of Edmund Clarence Stedman, containsa vast amount of poetry by American write: No doubt, if Mr. Stedman had consulted his own taste, he would have eliminated much that the book now contains, but his aim was compre- hensive. Nothing important has been omitted, which is the main thing in an anthology. (Houghton, Mifflin and Company.) Like our childhood’s friend with the curl, stories of animals, when they are good, are very good, but when they are bad —! Mr. Morgan Sheperd’s Obsercations of Jay (a Dog) and Other Stories is decidedly bad. (D. P. Elder and Morgan Sheperd.) Into The Lost Continent Mr, Cutliffe Hyne has put some information, and much pleasing and ingenious surmise, about what went on in the earth in prehistoric times. He locates his tale in the Atlantis, which he peoples with advanced and highly interesting humans, and with masto- dons, and other marvelous beasts whom we know by their fossil remains. He has made a stirring tale. (Harper and Brothers.) One would think that the occupation of Philadelphia by the British under Howe and the subsequent New Jersey campaign ending in the battle of Monmouth had been suf- ficiently exploited in historical romance during the past year, Under the circumstances, Mr. J. A. Altsheler’s Jn Hostile Red seems like “painting the lily.’ (Doubleday, Page and Company.) Once again Henry B. Fuller offers to guide his readers along the less-frequented paths of Italy, telling them a parable as they go. The Last Refuge is a social allegory in his most subtly-satirical vein, ridiculing the endless search for happiness among external things by those who have never thought to create it within themselves. (Houghton, Mifflin and Company.) In a little volume called Church Folks, Dr. John Watson (“Tan Maclaren’) discusses with broad-minded sympathy and genial humor the mutual relations of pastor and flock. We earnestly recommend to all church-meimbers and most clergymen the perusal of the book. (Doubleday, Page and Company.) Lucid and Enlightening. Pp? JLIN Percy, what is the difference between a “sanitarium "’ and a ‘sanatorium ”*? “Well—one is a health-resort ;—and—and—so other.”” is the Merdoy : WELL, 1 WONDER WHAT'S DANGEROUS ABOUT THIS PLACE. comicbooks.com