. Review of reviews and world's work. Schleyscommand, to Chilean waters during the revolution of1892, followed by several years of cruising prior to theoutbreak of the Spanish-American War, in 1898. Ad-miral Schleys account of his part in that war, natch ofwhich has been a matter of bitter controversy in ournavy, is dignified and modest. It can hardly give of-fense. Throughout the narrative, the use of the firstperson is studiously avoided. In form, as well as in sub-stance, Admiral Schleys book meets the familiar test ofautobiography. It is what a biography ought to lie. Dr. S. Weir Mitchells
. Review of reviews and world's work. Schleyscommand, to Chilean waters during the revolution of1892, followed by several years of cruising prior to theoutbreak of the Spanish-American War, in 1898. Ad-miral Schleys account of his part in that war, natch ofwhich has been a matter of bitter controversy in ournavy, is dignified and modest. It can hardly give of-fense. Throughout the narrative, the use of the firstperson is studiously avoided. In form, as well as in sub-stance, Admiral Schleys book meets the familiar test ofautobiography. It is what a biography ought to lie. Dr. S. Weir Mitchells cleveWashington (Cen-tury), is an attempt tocast in the mold of anautobiography the im-portant facts in theearly life and times ofthe Father of Ins Coun-try. Only one who hadmade a minute studyof Washingtons liter-ary style would he able to point out inconsis-tencies in t he excellent i m i t at i o n that has given who have neverbeen profoundly im-pressed by the tew lit s. wkik MITCHELL, rer book, The Youth of. erary effusions that have come down to us bearing thestamp of Washingtons personality will discover int liese memoirs not a little evidence of a genuine skillin the art of putting things. The fact that such skill,while it might have been Washingtons, is really , should not be disconcerting. Never beforewas the story of Washingtons youth so cleverly told ;never before has the narrative conformed so unswerv-ingly to historic truth. The late Augustus (. Buell had been a lifelong stu-dent of the career of Andrew Jackson. The history ofthat worthy, completed by Mr. Buell only a few weeksbefore his death, last summer, has been brought out iutwo handsome volumes by the Scribners. This workoffers a convincing refutation of the long-accepted no-tion that Jackson was a mere accident in Americanpolitics. Mr. Buell shows conclusively that by the timeJackson had reached the age of forty,—more than ascore of years before he attained the Presidency,
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