. The Argonaut. tish poetry from 1557to the end of the Victorian epoch. TheBook of Elizabethan Verse, issued in 1906,was the first to be published in the seriesof which the present volume in chronologicalorder is the third. The second is to be TheBook of Restoration Verse, and the con-cluding volume will be The Book of Vic-torian Verse. The care in preparation and the handsomeappearance of this series should make itpopular. Sardonics, by Harris Merton Lyon. Pub-lished by the Metropolitan Syndicate,Inc., New York. We were disposed to cavil at the title, butit is justified by the contents. Sixte
. The Argonaut. tish poetry from 1557to the end of the Victorian epoch. TheBook of Elizabethan Verse, issued in 1906,was the first to be published in the seriesof which the present volume in chronologicalorder is the third. The second is to be TheBook of Restoration Verse, and the con-cluding volume will be The Book of Vic-torian Verse. The care in preparation and the handsomeappearance of this series should make itpopular. Sardonics, by Harris Merton Lyon. Pub-lished by the Metropolitan Syndicate,Inc., New York. We were disposed to cavil at the title, butit is justified by the contents. Sixteen shortsketches are devoted to the hopeless thingsof existence, the morbid and the patheticfacets that must belong somewhere to the dia-mond of life, though we can not understandalways the why and the wherefore. The authortakes as his motto the question of Job, Cannot my taste discern perverse things ? Itcertainly can, but clever as these stories are,there seems to be no reason why they shouldhave been The Life of Abraham Lincoln, for Boys andGirls, by Charles W. Moores. Pub-lished by the Houghton Mifflin Company,Boston; 60 cents. While this book is intended for the youngit is in no way childish. It sketches the lifeof Lincoln from birth to death with specialemphasis on the lighter and more human char-acteristics, but it is invariably dignified andlofty in tone. It would indeed be hard tofind anything of its kind more enticinglyreadable. New tenth edition of On the Heights, byBerthold Auerbach, has been issued by HenryHolt & Co., New York. This should be asufficient recommendation of a story thatgives a vivid and intimate picture of Germanlife in court and cottage about the middleof the last century. The price is $ A place should be found among the Lin-coln literature of the day for A Man ofDestiny, by Ernest L. Staples. It is a poemin blank verse of much dignity and musicalcharm. It tells the whole life of Lincoln andthere is hardly a page withou
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