Life — March 13, 1902 — page 6: what you’re looking at

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CLEAN, crisp story of Chi told by James Weber Linn in The Second Generation, Mr. Linn has unde- niably caught the local likeness, and his book make entertaining bit of light reading. (The Macmillan Company. $1.50.) avery Lovers of realism will doubtless enjoy Ballet Dancer, by Matilde Serao. ‘The picture is certainly li and conscien- tiously accurate in detail, but so, after all, e oil painting of (Harper and Broth- The title of Perey White's novel, The Grip of the Bookmaker, suggests a more trashy brand of story than the book contains. The efforts of an ex-bookie to establish himself in the outskirts of London society forms the theme of the tale, which, on the whole, is a good time-killer. (IR. F. Fenno and Company. $1.50.) Mrs. B. M. Croker publishes a love story of Anglo-Indian life, which she calls Angel, a Sketch in Indian Ink. Rather it is a good, old-fashioned chromo like “The Duchess” (Dodd, Mead and Com- The Wooing of Sheila, by Grace Rhys, is an Irish pastoral written in a pleasant style. A simple love ste 1 to neither prob- lems nor polities, it runs to its foreordained usion and leaves in the mouth an ble, if somewhat transitive, flavor. (Henry Holt and Company.) Is It an ACH person present at the coro- nation,” say London advices, ‘will be allowed sixteen inches of space.”” This hits the Great American Ab- domen, The thrust is unwitting, we hope ; it is none the less poignant, even though unwitting. We submit that it calls for diplomatic correspondence, not to speak as yet of a naval demon- stration. To allow each person at the corona- tion only sixteen inches of space is to exclude our real aristocracy, that is to = LANE. We wish to notice two good books for less advanced lovers of fiction. One is ‘Thomas West Hammond's well-written ac- count of his youthful and definitive ex peri- before the mast. It is called On Board a Whaler, (G. P, Putnam's Sons. $1.35.) As to the other, which of us would not, at the proper time, have welcomed additional details of the character of Mary’s little lamb, ora personal explavation from Miss Moffet’s er? Mother Goose's Menagerie, by Carolyn Wells, gives this and much more in extremely clever verse. (Noyes, Platt and Company, Boston. $1.50.) J.B. Kerfoot. OTHER BOOKS RECEIVED. Russian Political Institutions. By Maxime Kovalevsky, A bistorical analysts of the forma- uon and evolution of the Rasstan Government of marked value to the student, (The University of Chicago Press.) Forest Trees and Forest Scenery. By G. Fred erick Schwartz, An tnqutry conducted from the standpoint of aesthetic values. (The Grafton Press.) Graded Physical Exercises, By Bertha Loutse Colburn. (B.S. Werner Pabilshing Company ) The College Student and His Problems. By James Hulme Canfletd. (The Macmt!!an Compans.) Ulysses,a Drama. Ry Stephen Phillips, (The Macmitian Company, $1.25.) 1 Glimpse of Old Mexico. By James H, Wil. kins. (The Whitaker and Ray Company, San Franctsco.) The Mulligans. By Edward Martigan. Being the mixed ale adventarcs of various residents of Mulligan Alley and strongly Teminiscent of Harri- gan and Hart, (G, W. Dillingham Company.$1.59.) sJuelt Demming. Thy Albert Lathrop Lawrence, (A. C. McClarg and Compayy, Chicago. $1.8.) Affront ? say, those of us who can afford to eat ex- actly what they like andas much of it as theycan hold. It means that the Ameri- cans present will be from the less sub- stantial, the less representative of our civilization in its highest reaches, The British have a genius for misun- derstanding us. Secretly, we are about as proud of our distinctive abdomen as of the Monroe Doctrine, the bank clear- ings at Kansas City, or the University of Chicago. We feel that'plenty of floor space is always justly due us. Our aristocracy should hold digni- PHYSIOTOPOLOGICAL. MAP OP LOWER MANHATTAN DURING THE DUTCH GOVERNMENT. 1650. OREATER NEW YORK AT THE PRESENT TIME. comicbooks.com