are eight or ten of these "Glimpses of Scenery," and the three-color process has been used generously in reproducing the wonderful atmospheric effects to be seen. only, we suppose, in this veritable wonderland. The colonial period of American history and biography is an exhaustless mine, which each year yields many volumes. Doubtless the most important book of the season, so far as authority of authorship goes and thoroughness of treatment, is Dr. John Fiske's "Old Virginia and Her Neighbors," published two or three years ago, and now reissued by Messrs. Houghton, Mifflin & Co. in one of those elaborately illustrated "holiday editions" which stand for the best modern combination of beauty of elaboration and substantial value. There are many full-page illustrations in photogravure, among them portraits of Pocahontas, Sir Walter Raleigh and Lady Baltimore, and an unfamiliar engraving of Mount Vernon. The half-tone plates are profusely scattered through the big book, including many old maps and plans, title-pages of rare books, and scores of portraits from original paintings or scarce prints. Mrs. John Randolph, Martha Washington, King Charles, Colonel David Parke and Mrs. Richard Lee are a few of the personages who helped make history ashore, while portraits of Captain Seach, commonly called "Black Beard," and of that king of cut-throats, Sir Henry Morgan, are among the sea rovers. The portrait of Morgan, painted by the old artist attired as a man of consequence, looking haughtily from beneath his heavy brows, while in the distance is sketched a fleet of burning ships, is a worthy effigy of that splendid scoundrel, most romantic of pirates and worst of Britain's captains, whose rhyme is among the best of Mr. Stedman's ball-ds: "Oh, what a set of vagabondos, Sons of Neptune, sons of Mars, "Dawn to dusk they stormed the castle, Beat the gates and gratings down; From "Treasure Island." Copyright, 1900, by Charles Scribner's Sons. AND THE PARROT WOULD SAY WITH GREAT RAPIDITY, PIECES OF EIGHT! PIECES OF EIGHT! PIECES OF EIGHT!'"' and so, in this year of grace 1900, Mr. Drake has found it good to put forth a new edition of what was at the time a complete compendium, and has enlarged it with much new literary material and a quantity of additional pictures. "Boston to-day," says Mr. Drake, "is hardly more From "With Both Armies." Copyright, 1900, by Charles Scribner's Sons. PRETORIA SQUARE OCCUPIED BY THE BRITISH like the Boston of fifty years ago than a new growth resembles that which has replaced the original forest after fire has swept over it. It then had a good deal of the Indian-summer atmosphere of the past." What it will be like fifty years, hence no man can say. In a hundred, of the old city perhaps not one stone will be left upon another. In truth, such surprising physical transformation as has been brought about, even within the last thirty years, by the great fire, the leveling of Fort Hill, the filling up of the Back Bay, the extension of Washington Street and the improvements incidental to the building of the Subway, strongly emphasizes the fact that in the very nature of things nothing is, noth niteness and full details of historic matters, documentary and illustrative, it is probably because there is so scant room in a single volume for sketches, however brief, of a score of towns each of which might make a book by itself. The pictures of modern buildings, in the present volume, justify their presence, probably, but one could wish for such ample details of older scenes as, for instance, Dr. Fiske pours so lavishly into his chronicle of Old Virginia. But where so much has been done well, it is not gracious to criticise sins of omission. ing can be, permanent save the written record. Like every great city, Boston is forever outgrowing its old garments, and must be patched and pieced accordingly." In the series of books on "American Historic Towns," edited by Mr. Lyman T. Powell (Putnam's), appears this autumn a volume on "Historic Towns of the Southern States," which includes illustrated sketches of Baltimore, Frederick Town, Washington, Richmond, Charleston, New Orleans, Annapolis, Williamsburg and a dozen others, prepared by various writers specially fitted through residence or special knowledge for the work. Two previ- In her "Dames and Daughters of Coloously issued volumes in this series dealt nial Days" (T. Y. Crowell & Co.) Miss respectively with the historic towns of the Geraldine Brooks-who is the daughter of Middle States and of New England. The that tireless writer of historical books for plan of the work is excellent, and if its young Americans, Mr. Elbridge S. Brooks execution has been something less in defi--has tried to make such selections from the list of women famous in our earlier history as shall best illustrate the various types of woman, periods of development and sections of the country. Beginning with Anne Hutchinson, of Boston-whose is the almost sinister distinction of having founded the first woman's club in America, in 1636, and who was cast out of the church as a seditious and dangerous person, albeit that harsh judgment is now righteously held a glory by her descendants-Miss Brooks devotes the succeeding sketches to Mme. Frances Mary Jacqueline La Tour, of Nova Scotia, who "held the fort" so gallantly against Charnisé; Margaret Brent, the woman ruler of Maryland; Mme. Sarah Knight, of Boston, the famous traveller of colonial times; Eliza Lucas, of Charleston; Martha Washington; Abigail Adams; Elizabeth Schuy From "The Widow Lerouge." Charles Scribner's Sons. 46 CLAIRE-MADEMOISELLE-I LOVE YOU" ler of Albany, who became the wife of Alexander Hamilton, and Sarah Wister and Deborah Norris, two Quaker Friends of Philadelphia, in 1776. Their stories are told with much spirit, and their portraits are made. from originals whenever possible. A book made up from the gathered records of a single family is "Colonial Days and Ways" (The Century Co.), by Helen Elvertson Smith. The Smith homestead at Sharon, Conn., which was built in 1765, contained thousands of family letters, covering a period of nearly two hundred years, and she has constructed, mainly from this source, the family life during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, mainly in New Eng |