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T is quite evident that the first man who wrote a book had something to say to his fellows. It is equally evident that the second man who wrote a book may have been similarly inspired, or may have merely obeyed his simian instincts, From which premises we deduce the following simple classifica tion of writers : Those who have something to say and the skill to say it well. Those who have nothing to say and the skill to hide the faet. Those who have the matter but not the manner. Those who are mere sufferers from cacoethes scribendé — the writers’ itch. Summer is at hand, and many read- ers will soon be longing for many books. To thes offers a few suggestions drawn from the publications of the past twelve months, and believes that, each in its own way, the following volumes give their authors some claim to be classed. in the first of these four divisions, > many, Lire once more NOVELS, The Ambassadors, By Henry James, (Har- per and Brothers.) Carmel, By Gwendolen Overton, (The Macmillan Company.) The Call of the Wild, Macmillan Company.) Colonel Carter's Christmas. Anne By Jack London, uw By F. Hop- kinson Smith. ( s Scribner's ) Daphne; An Autumn Pastoral. By Mrs. Margaret Sherwood. (Houghton, Mifflin and Company.) The Deliverance, By Ellen (Doubleday, Page and Company.) The Grey Cloak, By Harold MacGrath, (The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Indianapolis.) Hetty Wesley. By A, T. Quiller-Couch, (The Macmillan Company.) His Little Wortd, (A. 5. Barnes and Com- Glasgow, By Samuel Merwin, -LIFE- LIFE’S GUIDE TO SUMMER READING. Luckless. By W.E. Norris. (Henry Holt and Company.) Lux Crucis, By Samuel M. Gardenhire. (Harper and Brothers.) The Maids of Paradise, Ry Robert W. ambers. (Harper and Brothers.) The Masterfolk, By Haldane (Harper and Brothers.) My Friend Prospero, By Henry Harland, (McClure, Phillips and Company.) The Pagan at the Shrine. By Paul Gwynne. (The Macmillan Company.) The Pensionaives, By Mbert R, Carman, (H, B, Turner and Company, Boston.) Petronilia Heroven, By Una 1., Silberad, (Doubleday, Page and Company.) Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, Wiggin, (Houghton, Mifflin and mpany.) The Relentless City. By E. F. (Harper and Brothers.) A Sequence in Hearts, By Mary Moss, (The J. B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia.) The Song of the Cardinal, By Gene Strat- ton-Porter. (The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Indianapolis.) Vistett, By the Baroness von (Houghton, Mifflin and Company.) The Yeilow Van, By Richard Whiteing. (The Century Company.) MacFall. By Kate Renson. Hutten, SHORT STORIES, LIGHT READING An April Princess, By Constance ley. (Dodd, Mead and Company.) The Autobiography of a Beggar, By 1, K. man, (Small, Maynard and Company.) Cap'n Simeon's Store. By George S. Was- son, (Houghton, Mifflin and Company.) Dr, Lavendar’s People, By Margaret De- land, (Harper and Brothers.) Gallops 2, By David Gray. Company.) Idy's of the Gass, By Martha Wolfenstein, (The Macmillan Company.) McTodd. By C, J. Cutcliffe-Hyne, Macmillan Company.) The Poot in the Desert, By Mrs, Everard Cotes, (D. Appleton and Company.) Questionable Shapes, By William Dean Howells. (Harper and Brothers.) AND FUN, Smed- (The Century (The 537 Tea-Table Tatk, By Jerome K. Jerome. (Doda, Mead and Company.) Under the Fackstaff, By Chester B, Fer- (The Century Company.) Parisians, By Guy Wet- (Houghton, Mifflin and Com- nald, Zut and Other mote Carryl pany.) Hoo OF REFERENCE, AND CRITICISM, SAYS, HIOGRAPHY Agriculture for Beginners, By Charles W. Burkett, Frank L., Stevens and Daniel H. Hill, (Ginn and Company.) Birds in Their Relation to Man, By Clare ence M, Weed and Ned Dearborn, (The J. B. Lippincott Compan: delphia.) The Cave of a House. By T. M, Clark. (The Macmillan Company.) Essays on Great Writers, By Dwight Sedgwick, Jr. and Company.) The Gentle Reader, By Dr, Samuel M. Crothers, (Houghton, Mifflin and Company.) Greek Sculpture; Its Spirit and Its Prine Yes. By Edmund von Mach, (Ginn and Company.) Overtones ; A Book of Temperaments, By James Huneker, (Charles Scribner's Sons.) Recollections and Impressions of James McNeil Whistler, By Arthur Jerome Eddy. (The J. B. Lippincott’ Company, Mhila- delphia.) Robert Browning, By G. (The Macmillan Company.) Rome and the Renaissance, By Claceko, (G. P, Putnam’s Sons.) The Social Unrest. By John Graham Brooks. (The Macmillan Company.) William Ellery Channing. By Joho H. Chadwick, (Houghton, Mifflin and Com- pany.) 7.BK. Henry (Houghton, Mifflia Chesterton, Julian Modern. IMPLE SIMON was riding on a Broadway car. “You must let me have your fare," said the conductor, ‘or get off.” “T'm glad to know,” said mple Simon, as he prepared to alight, ‘that there’s some way of pany.) The Law of Life. By Apna McClure Sholl, (D. Appleton and Com- pany.) Life's Common Way, By Annie Eliot Trum- bull, (A, S. Barnes and Company Long Wilt, By Flor- ence Converse, (Hough- ton, Mifflin and Com- pany.) Lord Leonard, the stopping the car, LUEJOWLS: Where is the manager to-day ? Prorrs: Ob, he has taken a telescope and gone down to a bathing beach to find out a leading lady for our new ‘al comedy. comicbooks.com