THE RED-SHIRTS. Herbert E. Hamblen. Street & Smith. Ill., 12mo, $1.50. This latest work by Herbert E. Hamblen, well known to all novel readers, is a romance of the old Volunteer Fire Department of one of our large cities. OUT OF THE WEST. Elizabeth Higgins. Harper & Bros. 12mo, $1.50. A story of the life and career of a young American in the West, by a new writer. THE STRONGEST MASTER. Helen Choate Prince. Houghton, Mifflin & Co. 12mo, $1.50. A story that suggests in its intensity the problem novel. The hero is a young Harvard man of good family who begins life under a cloud, having been expelled from college. RICHARD HUME. T. B. Warnock. R. F. Fenno & Co. 12m0, $1.00. BAYARD'S COURIER. B. K. Benson. Macmillan Co. 12mo, $1.50. Another of Mr. Benson's tales of the Civil War, having to do especially with adventures in the cavalry campaigns. THE BLUE BADGE OF COURAGE. H. H. Hadley, Saalfield Pub. Co. Ill., 12mo, $1.25. A temperance tract of considerable interest. THE INVINCIBLES. Edgar Earl Christopher. Saalfield Pub. Co. Ill., 12mo, $1.50. A melodramatic novel. TOLD BY THE DEATH'S HEAD. Maurus Jokai. THE BANNER OF BLUE. S. R. Crockett. Mc- THE GARDEN OF LIES. Justus Miles Forman. TOM MOORE. Theodore Burt Sayre. F. A. Stokes Co. Ill., 12mo, $1.50. An unhistorical romance, founded on certain happenings in the life of Ireland's greatest poet. A practical handbook on rug weaving, with chapters devoted to Patterns, Dyeing, Rag Carpets, etc. LOVE SONNETS OF AN OFFICE BOY. S. E. Kiser. Forbes & Co. Ill., small 4to, 50 cents net. Sonnets in slang after the manner of the Hoodlum sonnets of Wallace Irwin. THE REAL DIARY OF A REAL BOY. Henry A. Shute. Everett Press. 18mo. An amusing personal document printed by the author after a lapse of many years, though evidently not intended for publication. NATURE AND THE CAMERA. A. Radclyffe Dugmore. Doubleday, Page & Co. Ill., 4to, $1.25 net. An account of the writer's methods of photographing birds and animals in their native haunts. ON AN IRISH JAUNTING-CAR. Samuel G. Bayne. Harpers. Ill., 4to, $1.25 net. The account of an amusing and interesting journey through Donegal and Connemara on a jaunting-car. ROGER WOLCOTT. William Lawrence. Houghton, Mifflin & Co. Ill., 16mo, $1.00 net. A life of the late Governor of Massachusetts by Bishop Lawrence, in which the official side of Roger Wolcott's life is subordinate to the human side. THE PAPAL MONARCHY. William Barry, D.D. G. P. Putnam's Sons. Ill., 12mo, $1.35 net. A popular history of the Papal Monarchy from St. Gregory the Great to Boniface VIII. (590 to 1303), the new volume in the series of Stories of the Nations." ANIMALS BEFORE MAN IN NORTH AMERICA. Frederic A. Lucas. D. Appleton & Co. Ill., 16mo, $1.25 net. A popular record of facts concerning prehistoric animal life in North America, based upon the revelations of advanced scientific inquiry. THE LITERARY QUERIST EDITED BY ROSSITER JOHNSON [TO CONTRIBUTORS:-Queries must be brief, must relate to literature or authors, and must be of some general interest. Answers are solicited, and must be prefaced with the numbers of the questions referred to. Queries and answers, written on one side only of the paper, should be sent to the Editor of THE LAMP, Charles Scribner's Sons, 153-157 Fifth Avenue, New York.] We do not remember seeing the book, but any intelligent clerk in a good book store should be able to find it for you. We doubt its value, however, since in any case it can be only the judgment of some one person as to the merit of the poems, and it is not likely that any two readers or critics would agree as to all the twenty-five. If you wish for such a book that will really satisfy you, use your own taste. Make the selection yourself, and copy the poems into a neat blank book. There is no such thing as an authoritative selection. 715.-Will you kindly tell me what are the best books that have been written on the subject of woman? C. F. Probably there are more than we ever have heard of; but we will mention the best that we know about. Margaret Fuller's "Woman in the Nineteenth Century” was considered a brilliant essay in its day, and it is not yet out of print. Quite as able, and more easily readable, is Gail Hamilton's volume entitled "Woman's Worth and Worthlessness." Mrs. Johnson's "Woman and the Republic" is a discursive essay on woman suffrage in all its aspects and connections. These three books are all American. Among the latest and best of those published in Europe is "The Emancipation of Women,” by Adèle Crepaz, written originally in German, of which an English translation has appeared in London. Among older books is "The History of Woman, and Her Connexion with Religion, Civilization, and Domestic Manners, from the Earliest Period," by S. W. Fullom, published in London. Miss Kavanagh's "Woman in France During the Eighteenth Century" is interesting, and has been republished in this country. Georgiana Hill's "Woman in English Life, from Mediæval to Modern Times," is the result of a vast deal of historical research, and is full of interesting facts. 716.-I should be glad if you or any reader would answer these questions for me: (1) Have any of the books of Levin Schuck 718. I have a few queries that come up occasionally in reading or conversation, and would like to submit them to you or your readers. (1) Who said, and of whom did he say it, "He has written more absurdities than any other author of our century"? (2) Is it true that the letter "i" has not always been written and printed with a dot over it? (3) Who was the Great Cham of Literature? (4) Where can I find the poem of which this is one verse: It wheels on the rough pavements of London. was said that his most-admired poem," Creation," was submitted to the members of a literary club, who altered and amended it to such an extent as to leave little of the original. (2) The letter "i" was written without a dot before the eleventh century, but we think it never was printed so. (3) That was one of the names given to Dr. Samuel Johnson-by Smollett, it is said. (4) This is from a poem entitled Rebuke," by Ina Coolbrith, the California poet. It may be found in her volume, published by Houghton, Mifflin & Co. 719. I have seen a book entitled "How to Judge of a Picture," and one entitled "How to Listen to Music," and one entitled "How and What to Read," and I have heard of one (but have not seen it) entitled How not to be Cheated in a Horse-trade." But what I want is a disinterested book entitled "How to Judge of a Cyclopædia." I have grown tired of taking the recommendations of eminent men, for I have discovered that many of them are themselves no judges of the works they praise in glowing words, Can you or any reader help me? J. V. T. We doubt that anybody can help you, but perhaps we can tell you how to help yourself. Take no one's recommendation. Examine the work with reference to your own needs and the scope of such a work. If you take no interest in astronomy, do not find fault with it because some one tells you its astronomical articles are not as full as they should be. If you are interested in biography, do not complain because the article on Walter Scott is not as long as Lockhart's life of him. Test it by subjects you understand and statistics to which you have access. Above all, pay no attention to a critic who criticises with a tape-measure, calling attention to the fact that such a subject has so many lines or pages, and such another only so many. For it is often the case that a very important story may be told in comparatively few words, while one not so important requires more. ANSWERS 713.—(1) The Funk & Wagnalls Co. publish, at a moderate price, a photographed fac-simile of the first folio of Shakespeare. (2) There is a good concordance of Shelley's poems, and an Index to Scott that is practically a concordance. There is also an index to Hawthorne which is better than a concordance. J. T. Some New Books to be issued during the Spring of 1903 by the New Amsterdam Book Company, 156 Fifth Avenue, New York Joe Miller's Complete Jest Book Being a Complete Collection of the Wittiest Sayings, the Most Brilliant Jests and the Subtlest Repartee of the Men who have Made History. With an Introduction and an Index by Andrew G. Dickinson, Jr. Two volumes, with two photogravures, cloth, gilt top, $1.25 net per volume. A Book of Curious Facts of General Interest Relating to Almost Everything Under the Sun Compiled by Don Lemon. Edited by Henry Williams. With a Complete Index. 12mo, cloth, bound in a similar style to "Four Hundred Laughs," Hasty Pudding Poems," etc., 75c. The Chatelaine of Vergi A Famous 13th Century Romance, done into English, by Alice Kemp-Welch. With an Introduction by Prof. L. Brandin. Illustrated with a reproduction of an extremely quaint contemporary ivory casket, giving the story in four scenes. Fcp. 8vo, cloth, net 75c.; limp leather, $1.50 net. Sir Cleges, Sir Libeaus Desconus Two Old English Metrical Romances rendered into Prose by Jessie L. Weston. With Designs and Frontispiece by Caroline M. Watts. Miniscule 4to, cloth, gilt top, net 750. Limp Leather, $1.50 net. (Series Arthurian Romances.) The Courtship of Ferb An old Irish Romance transcribed in the twelfth century into the Book of Leinster; translated in English prose and verse by A. H. Leahy, late Fellow of Pembroke College, Cambridge. With preface, notes, and literal translations. Square 18mo. Illustrations and decorations by Caroline Watts. Cloth, 75c. net. Limp leather, $1.50 net. New Volumes in the Commonwealth Library A Journal of Voyages and Travels in the Interior of North America, Between the 47th and 58th Degrees of N. Lat., Extending from Montreal Nearly to the Pacific, a distance of about 5,000 miles, Including an Account of the Principal Occurrences During a Residence of 19 Years in Different Parts of the Country By Daniel Williams Harmon, a Partner in the Northwest Company. With photogravure portrait and map. Post 8vo, cloth, gilt top, $1.00 net. An unabridged reprint of the scarce 1829 Andover Edition of this famous book of travel. In his book the author includes a concise description of the face of the country, its inhabitants (the Indians), their manners, customs, laws, religion, etc., and considerable specimens of the two languages most extensively spoken; together with an account of the principal animals to be found in the forests and prairies of this ex tensive region. The Wild Northland Being the Story of a Winter Journey With Dog Across Northern North America. By Gen. Sir William Francis Butler, K.C.B., author of "The Great Lone Land," "Life of General Gordon," etc. With a Route Map. Post Svo, cloth, gilt top, $1.00 net. By common accord Gen. Butler's account of his lonely ride and tramp through the ice-bound regions of the north has been placed high among the many misterly books of travel. The reader follows Butler and his dog Cerf-vola with sympathetic int erest from first to last. The vivid descriptions of the strange, unknown country on the border of the "Barren Lands," his graphic story of the Indians who lived there, are unsurpassed, if not unsurpassable. It is therefore included in the Commonwealth Library. The Life and Voyages of Americus Vespucius With Illustrations Concerning the Navigator and the Discov ery of the New World. By C. Edwards Lester, U. S. Consul to Genoa, 1845: assisted by Andrew Foster. With photogravure portrait. Post 8vo, cloth, gilt top, $1.00 net. The strange history of the navigator and astronomer who gave his name to this country. The story of his voyages and discoveries is not known to the average reader. For instance, how many people know that Vespucius was the discoverer of the great territory now known as the Republic of Brazil His fate was but little better than Columbus's, and the story of his career reads like a romance. Please mention THE LAMP in writing to advertisers. The de Wet Book was everywhere hailed, on publication, The N. Y. Tribune "For REAL, REDBLOODED interest, commend us to THREE YEARS' WAR, written by CHRISTIAAN RUDOLF DE WET... it is the frank outpouring of the mind of the man whom we may call THE NOBLEST ROMAN OF THEM ALL." In a column editorial, to GRANT'S MEM- The Associated Press in a London cablegram declares : "It is perhaps the MOST REMARKABLE BOOK by the MOST REMARKABLE LEADER that any recent war has produced." Though published late in the Christmas rush, THREE YEARS' WAR By CHRISTIAAN RUDOLF de WET With frontispiece portrait by Sargent, plans, maps, etc. $2.50 net (postage 28 cents) Unknown Mexico ARecord of five years' Exploration among the tribes of the western Sierra Madre; in the Tierra Caliente of Gepic and Jalisco, and among the Carrascos of Michoacan By KARL LUMHOLTZ, M.A. Member of the Royal Society of Science of Norway, In two elaborate volumes of 1100 pages, illustrated with 530 photographs taken by Dr. Lumholtz, together with 15 plates lithographed in full color, and three maps. |