Church review . poetry and whether they areforgotten or not. as time goes by. theywih have hit a strong and lasting im-pression. It is inevitable that theyshould do so. for such inspirations as \t Last. \ Creed for To-Day. andFor So He Giveth His Beloved, arein t lor 1:0th. 1, Tlu book is illustrated with tase andar istic skill by Miss M Watson M. S. Bradford, Special. By Archi-bald Clavering Gunter. 289 pages,[j mo. New York: The HomePublishing Co. Price .so cents. This is a mechanically improved andvery attractive edition of a book firstpublished in [891. Eli Perkins hasbeen for a great many
Church review . poetry and whether they areforgotten or not. as time goes by. theywih have hit a strong and lasting im-pression. It is inevitable that theyshould do so. for such inspirations as \t Last. \ Creed for To-Day. andFor So He Giveth His Beloved, arein t lor 1:0th. 1, Tlu book is illustrated with tase andar istic skill by Miss M Watson M. S. Bradford, Special. By Archi-bald Clavering Gunter. 289 pages,[j mo. New York: The HomePublishing Co. Price .so cents. This is a mechanically improved andvery attractive edition of a book firstpublished in [891. Eli Perkins hasbeen for a great many years theAmerican authority on the real wit andhum r of tin- country. He has main-tained his position with a dignityhardly to be expected m a professionalhumorist. In the thirty years which gave himthe material for this book the authormet practically all the well-knownhumorists and public men of the time. Ihe gems of American high-classhumor are incorpi rated in a gracefulautobiographical narrative, a form that. From Iro Christo. ABBE FENELON American Tract Societv Publishers. This is the latest novel by the authorof the one-time popular Mr. Barnesof New York. The plot is a verycomplicated one. the principal charac-ters constantly finding themselves innew and strange dilemmas from whichthey arc all cleverly and satisfactorilyextricated. The story is very light,though of really fascinating interest. Eli Perkins: Thirty Years of Wit. ByMelville D. Landon. 305 pages, 12mo. Akron, Ohio: The Werner $ makes the anecdotes far more effectiveand pleasing than they would be werethey inserted disconnectedly. Whatgreat changes occur in a few years isvividly impressed by the fact that thetext, written as before mentioned in1891 refers to General Ben Butler,Robert G. Ingersoll. George W. Cur-tis, Jay Gould, Oliver Wendell Holmesand Engene Field as still living. Cer-tainly they are living in memory andlong will live, if only for the richnessof their humor—the gems of whicharc
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