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 Susan Hale's life that they make up a room. People ring at the door at the top fidelity iu this missive to her sister, New England 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 Boston '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.