Macedonian conqueror 1n Egypt and the founding of Alexandria; and Mr. Crawford's romance, " Via Cruris," continues its course. The Amer1can Monthly Rev1ew of Rev1ews for May devotes considerable space to a survey of re cent developments in American cities. The editor comments on the reelection of Mayor Carter Harrison in Chicago, on Mayor Jones' remarkable triumph in Toledo, on the Detroit project for municipal owner ship of the street railways, and on the general situ ation in Boston. San Francisco, Minneapolis, Cleve land, Denver, St. Louis. Philadelphia, Pittsburg, and New York. Dr. Shaw also contributes a special study of the new San Francisco charter — a remark able document in its way; and Mr. George E. Hooker gives some interesting facts about Mayor Quincy's administration of Boston. There are also illustrated character sketches of the American commissioners to the Czar's conference at The Hague. Mr. Julius Moritzen contributes a dispassionate and wellinformed statement of the influences tending to bring about a disruption between Norway and Sweden; and Professor John Bassett Moore, who served as secre tary and counsel of the American Peace Commission at Paris, writes on the points of international law brought out in the war with Spain.
Mr. W1ll1am George Jordan has just retired from the editorship of the Philadephia Saturday Even1ng Post, which he started so auspiciously on its new career. When the Curtis Publishing Com pany purchased the moribund Saturday Even1ng Post, Mr. Jordan was induced to become its editor. In a short time his enthusiasm and genius quickened the Post into new life, until it bristled with new ideas that rapidly made for it hosts of new friends and sub scribers.
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the reader to find out for himself, is based upon this guilty (as Harriott conceives it to be) marriage. This story is almost morbid in its intensity, but it is one that once begun will not be laid aside until the end is reached. Those who read Mr. Johnson's delightful romance, "The King's Henchman." will welcome the sequel to that story, which has just been published and is en titled, King or A'nave, H 'hieh Wins?1 Much of its interest centres in the personality of the famous Gabrielle d'Estrees and the efforts of Henry of Na varre to obtain possession of the throne of France. There is plenty of exciting adventure and dramatic situation, and, incidentally, a graphic description is given of the defeat of the Spanish Armada. The book is not only absorbingly interesting, but it also gives a faithful portrayal of the manners and course of events in France at that period. Two of the most delightful books of travel pub lished in recent >cars are Mrs. Dodd's Cathedral Days* and Three Normandy Inns? A new edition of these works has just been issued which is beauti fully illustrated with sketches and photographs. In Cathedral Days the reader is taken over an ideal route in Southern England, extending from Arundel to Exeter and the author's charming descriptions Of that picturesque part of England inspire one with an intense longing to follow in her footsteps. The Three Normandy Inns visited are at Villerville, Dives and Mont St. Michel; all of them fascinating. Mrs. Dodd knows how to travel, is a close observer of human nature, appreciates to the uttermost the beauty of the scenes through which she passes, and, best of all, has the rare art of imparting to others what she has seen in such a manner that her pen pictures glow with all the warmth and beauty of originals. No one will lay down either of these books without a feeling of regret that these journeys are so soon over, and an ardent wish that they might be continued indefinitely.
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In The Maternity of Harriott Wieken,1 Mrs. Dudeney gives us a story of more than ordinary power and interest. Her theme is heredity, and the book is a protest against marriage without full knowledge of the antecedents of the contracting parties. Har riott Wicken, an attractive girl, and, to all appear ances, the embodiment of physical health, marries and has an idiotic child. She learns, too late, that on the father's side she comes of a line of epileptic and drinking ancestors and that she never should have married. A well-worked out plot, abounding with exciting incident, the details of which we leave 1 The Matern1ty of Harr1ott W1cken by Mrs. Henry Dudeney. The Macmillan Co., New York, 1899. Cloth, $1.50.
The Ladder of Fortune * is a vivid account of how many a family in America rises from the poorest and lowest ranks of life to the top rung of society. The husband who makes the money necessary for the gradual rise on the ladder, with the ambitious wife 'K1ng or Knave, Wh1ch W1ns? An Old Tale of Huguenot Days. By William Henry Johnson. Little, Brown & Co., Boston, 1899. Cloth, $1.50. -Cathedral Days. A Tour in Southern England. By Anna Bowman Dodd. New Edition. Little Brown & Co., Boston, 1899. Cloth, S1. 50.
- In and Out of Three Normandy Inns. By Anna
Bowman Dodd. New Edition. Little, Brown & Co., Boston, 1899. Cloth, $1.50. • The Ladder of Fortune. By Frances Courtenay Baylor. Houghton, Mifflin & Co., Boston, 1899. Cloth, S1. 50.
