TillO hUN, SIWNAV. FKBltUAKi , 1U 11. A Notable Autobiography in Letters

American family hi its'bet matic English which never leaves you in flights from the street. Do you under- hreudth of her wanderings. Ufe in Chi- THE socially, morally and intel- any doubt a to the author's Meaning? So stand? It is all built round a well in the cago, ns lived about Hip time of' the do cover, Miss lectually, had many representatives in fully they the incidents of middle, which lights the entry and dining World's Fair, is pictured with force and 's life that they make up a room. People ring at the door at the top fidelity iu this missive to her sister, in tin first half of the nine- fairly complete autobiography without of the stairs, just like a street door. I Lucretia : New KnglniHlcrs teenth cratury. Many the need of any editorial annotations or have only been out of it once, that was to "As Ihc-- e people here are rolling in now in their seventies who recall the additions except such as are furnished iu go to church Sunday, for ladies don't walk wealth on lioth sides, it is a luxurious, households they knew iu their youth must the preface and introduction. out in Alexandria." handsome house, with rugs, pictures, ser- At American missionary slaves to be able to lemember men and women ol A Useful Introduction. Assouan, the vants ad lib,, a turbulent family, "happens to be a Scotchman named the elephone, which is going incessantly that day who. in character, education, The introduction, by Edward E. Hale, nogg." Here a Mr. TiCsJcv. descrilied as some of them are a little deaf, so the key general knowledge of the affairs of the gives the informing and sym- reader an "death on hieroglyphics and cartouches," Is high on which all conversation is world :il home and abroad and active in- pathetic comprehension the attractive of was of much "service to the party. pitched. Tt's odd, hut though this luxe is terest therein, would eomiiare favorably personality which found such varied ex- "Thanks to him," says Susan, "we all as different as possible from the simple with anytiody they buve known since. pression iu these letters. To those now know Rameses IT. like a familiar friend, Dr. Dudley home, there's the very same They did not possess as many books living she was best known as the mistress and the sign of life is as readily recog- flavor of Chicaijo unrest, noise, racket, then as vie have now, but the liooks which of the delightful home at Matunuck i'l nized and as common here as S. .1. 1S0O hurry, hustle, no repose, no paiticular cen- they did have were good on"s. and enthusiastic trav- the summer and as an X. on the ISniiis of Vfc,t ISoxbury." This tre, outside people pouring in, the family they read them with observable, profit. in winter; in society eller the but the of cabalistic sign should be S. T. 1800 X., pouring out, evcryliody late to meals, the Besides, less reading was not inconsistent '70s she was in the a brilliant which was the well known emblem blown father hurryiiifj' on the food, carriage with more thought. woman oT best the world in the sense of into the glass bottles of Drake's Planta- at the door, some rushing for earn The Adamses at Quincy, the Hazards of always that term, with a spirit of sympathy that tion Bitters at the time when Susan Hale and missing them, ISoWt taking snap I'eaeedale, IShode Island and the Choat-- s made always regard her young people as wrote. Being interpreted, it was sup- photograph?, the dog bursting in and of Salem were illustrative types of .such one of themselves. posed to signify "sure thing in ten years breaking an expensive plaque, nobody families a we have in mind. Another Mr. Hale, in view of her varied charac- from 3800," meaning that the proprietor grumbling at anything, all very sunny ami such family were the New England Hales, is teristics, admits that it hard to say would attain opulence beyond the dreams happy, very well bred, polite to me, our to which the late IScv. Edward Kveictt what was the Susan, but on the just real of avarice by tin; year 1S70. depart tiro a mere circumstance Hale belonged. The appearanee of a mo-i- t whole he concludes that "the real such is life in Chicago! I can't think the volume of Letters, by his sister, Su-n- n Susan" was Susan by herself at Matumicl: Philosophy; of( Friendship. stand it more than 100 years, if Hale, has prompted these reriertioiis; an.l call racecin in the moderated autumn, which we In a letter to !V same MNs Bursley, on so much. Meanwhile, it's amusing to tiie book deserves notice not only on ac- Indian summer. "Then she would swim her return from the Nile trip, Suan Hale watch." count of the interestim: personality of iu the pond in fit early morning, break says that iT they both get toothless and Furthermore, it is delightful to read the author but also on account of what fast on the piazza, write her letters till vshaky twenty years hence they will retire about iu the letters of a bright and clever she has to tell us. mail time, stroll about the hill with the from the world together and fight it out woman like Susan Hale. The collection of current cat, Gercniino, or some other, talk Letters as Literature. in the N. W. comer of Vermont or some letters in this volume descives a place in with Louisa or Mr. Franklin or Mr. '.such place. Then follows this character- not alike every distinctively American home libraiy. Gladstone and Disraeli weie George, sit in the south window or on the istic passage: many things, but they agreed iu their in piazza and dam stockings over a sort of "Dear, I shall quarrel with one thing IiKTTKHS OK SUSAN HALE. Edited hj hiring for epistolary literature. Roth I". small gourd, read Thk Sin, make a fire you said but then you'll never stick to it Cahoi.ini: Atkinson. Marshall .time were nsulcis and admirers of the letters CoiujiaDV. $:;.ro. in the evening and read a novel, out of that it's better not to get attached to Madame de Sevignc. of which she had torn the illustrations, and people in places, and so save disappoint- It is related of Gladstone that during go to bed at about S, humming the most ments and separation-!- . Don't you know Buccaneer Farmer" his last strenuously contested electioa, "The successful morning song of the week." you've got to love somebody and if campaign iu Midlothian, as he was king jou BINDLOSS has written This, of course, is a picture leloTging shut your heart out from other people HAISOLD rapidly driven from place to place in his to the second half of her life; she died in you'll take to loving yourself7 Look novel, The Utterance r carriage the Grand Old Man sought re- 1010, at the age of 77. It should be ex- at ; a melancholy illustration of Farmer, iu which he quits the Canadian laxation from the cares and excitement of plained that she was very fond of cats not caring for others. No, no, love all wheatlands and his Scottish borders and election by reading the letters of the the and, indeed, had invented a cat language, the people you can. The .sufferings from His great rival gives us a picture of English farm life, famous Frenchwoman. in which to talk with them. Her "morn- love are not to lie eompaied to the acute sorrow with a touch of adventure iu the Carib- was once confined to his lcd by an ing songs," which she used to sing to of loneliness." and his wife was likewise) back- attack of gout herself, were also original. Susan Hale's fondness for swimming bean. The adventure stuff has for by illness in another part of wings Central so crippled has been raenlioued in the sketch of her ground, foreground and a she was unable to get to hir. The Amateur American The. Ituccaneer the house that Naturalist. life at Matunuck. On the trip to the Holy revolution. although they were tin- is the best Mr. Biudloss ha) sick room. Thus, Tho first letters in the present volume Ijand she had a swim in the Dead Sea, to Farmer yam had to communi- offered us. is something. der the Fame roof, they were written in Boston and Brookline, which she applies the adjectives "rap- ever This saying with in writing. Disraeli cate one another 1S48 to 18fi7. Some of these, and many turous" and "delicious." It was necessary Consider it said. of his wife's Askew, hero the story, was so much pleased by one others, were illustrated by pen and ink or to take rare, however, to keep the water Kit the of and him under these circum- his Askew, only couple missives sent to pencil sketches, after the manner of out of your month and eyes; the taste was father, Peter are a in he wrot-- j : "You lowbrow even though Kit's stances that his answer Thackeray. In a letter describing her like "ISochelle powder, potash, salt, mus- of farmers, most amusing and owns his wants for noth- have sent me the early school days, at a school of seventy tard, rotten eggs and anything else vile father land and Hor- charming letter I ever liad. It beak pupils, where ".lane Bradford's sister" that you can think of." ing. Both are the friends of poorer farm- WaljHde Mme. de Scvignc!" was one ers who have to pay heavy rents. Natu- ace and of the teachers, Susan attempts But the landscape near the Dead Sea i3 love form of his looked upon thus showing his for that to reproduce some of the pictures from lovely, "a kind of pink heather grows in rally Kit and father are literature. an admirable old text lxok, now remem- profusion and willow tufted shrubs and as meddlers by the large landowners bered them. Susan Hale's Life. only by a select few, Agassiz and tall gras-e- s and the sea itself, a lovely about Gould's Zouloyy. les- Osborn, the richest landowner, has a , the editor of the Bosto t She had an evening soft blue, plashes on the shore like any son in zoology every day, except young daughter who (he hopes) will some Paily Adrertiscr, was the father of the Monday New England lake, and stretches off be- and Satunlaj', was taught day marry Alan Thorn, a man of her own large anil able family of which the Rev. and by the tween lovely headlands, sparkling and rip- great Prof. Gould himself. die's. Through a chance meeting Kit and nale. became the bright Evidently this pling in the sun, far to the south." The instruction did much Grace Oslioni become acquainted and and particular shining light. The young- toward making her Jordan, too, seemed "just like a New Eng- ft fauna! ; writ- then friends. Grace Osliorn likes the est child. Susan, was born in Boston in naturalist for years later, land stream brawling along." The party ing to her sister nltout six mile people and doesn't like her father's deal- 1833. She liecanie a teacher, an art stu- a warm camped one night by the famous Brook walk on an April afternoon, gives ings with them, but she places the blame dent, a lecturer and public reader, a trav- Siuau Cherith, when; the frogs made a prodig-iousnoi.s- e. I.ucretia the following list of the animals upon his agent, one Hayes. The situation eller and, perhaps most important of all. Instead of being a dried up which she and heard : becomes such that Kit's father advises the head of the summer household of the Saw water course, it was really a babbling "Saw one mud turtle, one purple lizard, him to join his uncle, Adam Askew, in Hale family at Matunuck, IS. T.. for many brook. with yellow spots; 2,000 squirrels, 1,100,-00- 0 America. Kit becomes a partner in that vears. birds and one dead snake. Always the Traveller. uncle's business. Then- - was little opportunity for much "Heard millions of one pho-bc- , Thirty five years Adam Askew's business? Ah, now it's noteworthy achievement in these succes- bird, after her first visit to one bird, very rare, name KfTi'I'l. Susan Hale took (Ik- - funny you should ask about that. Becauso sive occupations, it may lie said; but th" unknown; trip up the 20,000,000 frogs, and 0 hylas. Nile again. The camels and t he we can't tell you about. Adam Askew's fact does not detract from the value or palms and "I forgot to mention among 'Raws one the temples were "right there strange business. Ills business is if yoit interest of Susan Hale's letters, in the just the hepatica bud, very small; smelt one dozen same," but Cairo, ami in will pardon our saying so none of your iew which wo take, of them. These let- Luor Assouan sk k cabbages and no end of gonl 1005 had become mere replicas business until you read The. liuceai'ter ters constitute an intimate narrative of of . things." The same cheerful spirit, however, per- Farmer. the lilr. activities and thoughts of a culti- vades her letters. She continued to be an Eventually, Kit gels back to England, vated American woman of (he highest and The Great Storm of '6. enthusiastic and tireless traveller always, where he meets a challenge which calls for Ii.-- type (luring a most interesting pe- In the following the Gicat January, and possessed the rather rare quality of all the courage life hat taught him. The riod; and it will I chiefly from such Storm of 1807 was the subject long of a being contented and happy wherever she outcome is just what it ought to le in a that tin- - future historians of letter to her brother, Charles x.nrcis Hale, then happened to be. Letters from Spam and romantic novel. meriia will draw their materials for a Consul-f'encr- (.'niled of the States in from Corsica, from the Island of Jamaica true portrayal of the social development Egypt. This only sur- THK Ut'CVANKKn KMSMKIt. I'.v Hikoid storm has been and from California, from Washington ol the country. passed oa the Atlantic coast by great Hinhmiss. Kicilnrii-- A. Stokes Company. the and from Chicago, indicate the length and What is wen more important to the blizzard of LSSS. $10. pn cut day reader is that the Utters ar? Susan Hale saw it from her parents ciil.Tt.iiiiiii'; a- - vwll as inslruelivc. They home in Brookline, when- - the family then fairiv sparkle xitli good spirits in many resided, and, according to her description, TO BE plac. and '.;''" with gentle lurnor i't it was, indeed, "very exciting." She w:is PUELISHED OLD-DA- o her-- : anil all are written in strong idio- - snowed in for two or three davs, with FEB. 15 D several pupils, to whom she gave les-o- at this period, and her vivid and humorous By ELEANOR HALLO WELL ABBOTT The Challenge story of their experiences offered a strik- ing contrast to the climatic conditions at Author of "Molly Miic-Beliecc,- " etc. to Sinus Cairo, where her letter wa- - read A lovable, unbelievable, quite impossible, breath-takin- g story; its YE-SMIT- By SHEILA KA H In Egypt. central figure is a white-haire- d though still young father of an adorable Author of "Sussex Corre" witch of a daughter. It brims over with the quaintest humor, sparkling She followed it to Egypt hctscll, on A iludy of the inrer forces wWrh dialogue, and altogether makes just such amusing leading for those fagged visit to the Coiisul-t'enera- l, in the au- c'ro'.e P innn from quiet Sussex a by the long strain of war work as you have barned to expect from through the American Civil tumn of the same year; and her letters Wr.r, irto the forests cf Yucrtrn from Egypt and the Holy Land abound ELEANOR Im- HALLOWELL ABBOTT mil drew hixu back in touches, while pressive becauic ot its quiet quaint and felicitous not sub-.taiic- $1.50 nci al any bookstore or may be ordered direct power. Act St. 90 wanting in solid Here is her from description of her brother's house at At all boohlorts. fns'.ai extra & 681 Alexandria : E. P. DUTTON CO., Fifth Avenue, New York E. P. DUTION & CO.. 681 5th Ae.. N. V. "Charles has one story of a house, two