Church review . ystem Abolished, The Better Finan-cial System, Capital Punishment,Matrimony Restored to the EdenicStandard. The author writes smoothly and insimply language. His treatment ofhis themes is sincere, honest and care-ful. One Hundred Quartrains from theRubiayat of Omar Khayyam. ByElizabeth Alden Curtis. 72 pages, 16mo. Gouverneur, N. Y. The Brothersof the Book. Price $ is a pleasure to praise Miss Cur-tis paraphrase of the Rubaiyat, not by any means merely because she is aresident of Hartford but because shehas decided poetic ability. She hasproven this before in little bits
Church review . ystem Abolished, The Better Finan-cial System, Capital Punishment,Matrimony Restored to the EdenicStandard. The author writes smoothly and insimply language. His treatment ofhis themes is sincere, honest and care-ful. One Hundred Quartrains from theRubiayat of Omar Khayyam. ByElizabeth Alden Curtis. 72 pages, 16mo. Gouverneur, N. Y. The Brothersof the Book. Price $ is a pleasure to praise Miss Cur-tis paraphrase of the Rubaiyat, not by any means merely because she is aresident of Hartford but because shehas decided poetic ability. She hasproven this before in little bits ofverse that have appeared in variousmagazines. They have shown origi-nality and beauty of thought and havebeen daintily but forcefully expressedalways. These characteristics mark thisadaptation. There is perhaps fully asmuch of Miss Curtis as of Omar in it,but lovers of the Persian poet will en-joy the sympathetic re-arrangementand appreciate the novel felicity ofexpression. There is one quatrain which, though. DABCHICKS NEST. From Our Rarer British Breeding Cassell & Co., Litd. not quite so smooth as Fitzgeraldsrendering, is given more force andmeaning by Miss Curtis. It follows: A shuttlecock is man, who lightly goes,Or stays, at Destinys capricious blows;But He who tossed thee on Fates battledore,He made thee—and He knows, He knows,, HE edition of this book was limitedto six hundred and the publishers in-form us that only a very few copies areleft Our Rarer British Breeding Birds:Their Nests, Eggs and SummerHaunts. By Richard Kearton, F. New York: Cassell & Co. Price$ Like the book, Wild Life at Home,which was noticed some months agoin this department, this book is writtenby Richard Kearton, and illustratedwith about seventy excellent photo- graphs taken from nature, by hisbrocher, Cherry Kearton. The brothers traveled over ten thous-and miles while preparing this have taken their materials from(ifferent parts of England, Sco
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