. Review of reviews and world's work. a camera hunter,from the Magdalen Islands, in the Gulf of St. Law-rence, to the Florida Keys and the Dry Tortugas, arequite as entertaining as most hunters stories. POETRY AND MUSIC. A little collection of poems with much promise is the Gedichte, by Georg Sylvester Viereck, a young Ger-man-American boywho is now in a NewYork college, but whohas done some real po-etic work. There isan introduction, or,rather, an apprecia-tion, to the collectionby Mr. Ludwig Lewi-sohn. As Mr. Lewi-sohn points out, Vie-reck has originality,power, and imagina-tion. Two new iss
. Review of reviews and world's work. a camera hunter,from the Magdalen Islands, in the Gulf of St. Law-rence, to the Florida Keys and the Dry Tortugas, arequite as entertaining as most hunters stories. POETRY AND MUSIC. A little collection of poems with much promise is the Gedichte, by Georg Sylvester Viereck, a young Ger-man-American boywho is now in a NewYork college, but whohas done some real po-etic work. There isan introduction, or,rather, an apprecia-tion, to the collectionby Mr. Ludwig Lewi-sohn. As Mr. Lewi-sohn points out, Vie-reck has originality,power, and imagina-tion. Two new issues ofthe Musicians Li-brary (Ditson) areSelections from theMusical Dramas ofRichard Wagnerand Twenty-fourNegro Melodies. Theselections from Wagner have been arranged by OttoSinger, and cover every opera from Rienzi to Parsi-fal, making a total of twenty-five numbers. There isan introduction by Richard Aldrich, and the frontis-piece is a portrait of the composer reproduced from thelast photograph ever taken of him. The negro melodies. GEOKGE SYLVESTER VIEKECK. are transcribed for the piano by S. ai-e twenty-four transcriptions of folk-melodies,both African and American, as themes for com-positions in the style of fantasias. Mr. Coleridge-Taylorhas preserved the distinctive traits of these melodies,but has given them form and structure. There is a briefbiographical introduction by Booker T. Washington. BOOKS OF REFERENCE. Tlie current issue of that most useful volume, TheStatesinans Year-Book, is the forty-second annualpublication (Macmillan). Dr. J. Scott Keltie, the edi-tor, has improved this annual from year to year, andthe issue for 1905 is tlie best yet. Some of the improve-ments especially valuable are those in the way of sub-division and detailed information. For example, theCommonwealth of Australia is now treated is aiso a recasting and revision of Anglo-Frenchrelations, with particular reference to the conventionof 1904
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