Life — December 3, 1903 — page 6: what you’re looking at

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<THE HE LATEST BOOK ry ZS /\ r J the subject of E The Lelentless City. The differentiation methods of the invaders and the invaded is ex Versations are masterp Hently done, and, If the est where it appears flippant, and most shallow as usual, Mr. Benson's book is real where t seriousness, this is the common weakness of the rist. (Harper and Brothers. $1.50.) James H. Bridg doubtless acti once “literary adviser” to Mr, Carnegie, has, as literary mouthpiece f other powers, published The Inside Histe ¢ Steel Company. He has done his px lable skill, and the reader forms inion, with the satisfying delusion that it is due to ns and not to th Unfortu- the effect of this well-considered dignity of history is ed by the execrable taste of the publishers, who have dressed sting manuscript in the slopp} (The Book 1 of mod gth appear in The Pool in the Desert, a . ‘They are well rounded and of unusual interest, and, in addition, two marked qualities give them a piquant flavor of individ Just strong enough to be to: best sted as a fem human moods. t with cou the desired oj wn deducti thor’s suggestion. pictures and cheap tinsel of yellow sensationalism. ver's Press. ion, perhaps y James in his more They deal with army life in’ British India from the woman's standpoint, (D. Appleton and Company. $1.50.) My Oven Story, the autobiography of J who, for fifty years, has be with American letter: nd American men of letters, is ni $2 a volume of considerable interest. In a way, it parallels Mr. Howells's Literary Friends and Acquaintance, but, while the author's memories of literary Boston since 1848 g side lights thrown upon facts, the book lacks t unconscious infusion of the personal equation which m Howells's reminiscences, (Houghton, Mifflin and ( hn Townsend Trowbridge, sociated, as writer and editor, Aunt Jimmy's Will, by Mabel Osgood Wright, tells the story of a little girl, a Sunday-school-scholarl despised teapot, whi headstone in the fin comer, 1 © the young and too obyious for the old, the book is perhaps intended for what the re call “youths.” (The Macmillan Company, $1.2 ing too ¢ An Bottsford Comstock’s Ways of the Siz- Footed is a little ch exists between y which is the real basis of entific. (Ginn and Comp the writer and her subjects—a sym all nature study not pu ¥, Boston.) ne time has come to choose the children’s Christmas books how the painters and the poets and the presses must 1 Perhaps W. W. Denslow's stunning illustrat Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum (The Bobbs $1.50), make it the prize winner in the season's show, but there are enough and to spareto make all the little pleasure. We print a partial list of them. And ve worked ! ons in The New eves go snippy-sn JB. CHRISTMAS BOOKS FOR CHILDREN. The Star Fairies. A new collection by Mrs. Carter Harrison, the author of Prince Silver Wings. (A. C. McClurg and Company, Chicago.) The Enchanted Island of Yew. By L, Fravk Baum. (The Bobbs- Merrill Company, Indianapolis.) Maisie and Her Dog Snipin Fatry Land. and Brothers. $1.30.) The Book of Chitdren's Parties, tury Company.) The Songs of the Trees. Vy Mary Y. Robinson pompany, Indianapolis.) Baby Daya, For very litte folks. The Magical Monarch of Mo. Company, Indianapolis.) The Colttwogg's Circus, Company. $1.50.) A Book of Cheerfut Cats. By J.G. Francis, (The Century Company.) Old Nursery Rhymes Dug Up at the Pyramids, By Stantey L. Adamson, (iL M, Caldwell Company, $1.50.) Troubadour Tales. By Evaleen Stein, Indianapolts.) More Fire-Minute Stories, Company, Boston. $1.00.) Wonderfolk in Wonderland Company, Boston, $1.20.) Games and Songs of American Children. Newell, (Uarper and Brothers, Siz Giants and a Griffin. By Bennet Musson. (Llarper By Mary and Sara White. (The Cen- (The Bobbs. Merrill (The Century Company.) By L, Frank Baum. (The Bobus-Merrill By Florence K. Upton. (Longmans, Green and (Tue Bobbs-Merrill Company, By Laura E. Richards, (Dana Estes and By Edith Guerrier, (Small, Magnard and Collected by William W. New Edition, $1.50.) By Birdsall Otls Edey. (R. 1. Russell, $1.25.) PORTRAIT G MR, SHAKESPEARE BANGS. comicbooks.com