. Review of reviews and world's work. e exijected. His last, put intoEnglish by that peerless translator, Jeremiah Curtin,has recently been given out by lattle. Brown & Co., theenterprising and fortunate discoverers of Sienkie-wicz. On the Field of Glory will not enhance theauthors fame, will not affect it, yet his straight, swift,lucid narrative method here again captivates the present volume treats of the Mcjslem northwest-ward invasion that occurred during the second half ofthe .seventeenth century, when King John Sobieski camedown to deliver Vienna from tlie infidels, these seek
. Review of reviews and world's work. e exijected. His last, put intoEnglish by that peerless translator, Jeremiah Curtin,has recently been given out by lattle. Brown & Co., theenterprising and fortunate discoverers of Sienkie-wicz. On the Field of Glory will not enhance theauthors fame, will not affect it, yet his straight, swift,lucid narrative method here again captivates the present volume treats of the Mcjslem northwest-ward invasion that occurred during the second half ofthe .seventeenth century, when King John Sobieski camedown to deliver Vienna from tlie infidels, these seek-ing nothing more than requital for the eyes and teethknocked out by the Crusaders. Sienkiewicz makes youfeel what bloodthirsty fanaticism incited the contendinghosts, though he admires his Christian cutthroats fortheir patriotism. How often is patriotism the sameas murder ! Gansiorowski, another Pole, sings no song of thesword, but exhibits an imperial cad pursuing one of hisamours, which were as frequent as his battles and con-. HENHIK SIENKIEWICZ, THE POLISH NOVEI>IST (WEARIN(i THELIGHT HAT), AND HIS TRANSLATOR, JEREMIAH CURTIN, INTHE GARDEN OF SIENKIEWICZS WARSAW HOME. No man who is very cruel and has many people killedcan escape historical greatness. Peter and Alexis^(Putnams) both shocks through its horror and gripsthrough its f)ower ; it is an eloquent book by a ster-ling artist. LOVE STORIES. Manon and The Lady with the Camel-lias, though not written to instruct school children,stand acknowledged international classics ; MadameBovaryand Mademoiselle de Maupinhave alwaysastonished exacting readers by their literarj^ perfec-tion ; Lamartines graceful, tender Raphael and Zo-las poetically idealistic Page of Love deserve an evenwider circulation than they have reached. These, andseveral more love stories by eminent Frenchmen, havebeen reissued by L. C. Page & Co., of Boston, in una-bridged translation. Another Boston firm, Little,Brown & Co., publishes a tale of
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