The charm, perfect mechanism, and lyric sweetness of his verse may be seen to the full in the exquisite poem, "A Match," which has been called one of the dozen perfect poems in the language. Four stanzas are given below: 'If love were what the rose is, Green pleasure or gray grief; And I were like the leaf. And love were like the tune, That get sweet rain at noon; And love were like the tune. And I your love were death, And hours of fruitful breath; "If you were thrall to sorrow, And I were page to joy, The other notable poetic works of Swinburne which must not be forgotten in even the briefest sketch are: "Chastelard," a play; "Mary Stuart"; "Songs Before Sunrise"; Erechthus," a drama on the classical model; "Marino Faliero," a dramatic poem of medieval Venice: "Tristram of Lyonesse," a long narrative poem; and "Laus Veneris." Swinburne was buried in the little churchyard of Bonchurch, in the Isle of Wight, on April 15. Other poets may have accomplished greater things during his lifetime, and there may be some things to be censured in his methods and themes, but, says the literary critic of the New York Evening Post, Algernon Charles Swinburne cannot be deprived of the honor of being the greatest master of musical words in the nineteenth century." Before his advent, said the American critic, Edmund Clarence Stedman, no one realized the full scope of verse." BOOKS OF OUTDOOR LIFE. wilderness. Their field FOUR books of mild adventure have recently the willed States, but South has been not only of-doors breathes from the pages of all of them. Scientific results are only incidental; practical achievement is subordinate. The authors of these books have written first of all stories of adventure in sections of our own country where nature is untamed and, if uncouth, yet alluring and health-giving Mr. Sternberg' is one of the oldest and best-known of the investigators of fossil life. He has contributed to science some of its finest specimens from Kansas, Texas, and Oregon. Mr. Mills in his "business hours" conducts Long's Peak Inn, in Colorado, and in his "idle moments" takes "interstate tramps." He is United States forest agent in Colorado, and he knows his territory thoroughly. The "Fish Stories " Mr. Holder and Professor Jordan give us they characterize as alleged and experienced, with a little history natural and unnatural." They decline to give themselves the trouble of adducing proof of the truth of these, for, as Professor Jordan puts it in his preface, a fish story needs no apology, and no affidavit or string of affidavits can add anything to its credibility." The various writers who contribute to the Harper book of "Adventures in Field and Forest "* have told some stirring tales of out-of-door adventures in facing wild beasts and of hunting in The Life of a Fossil Hunter. By Charles H. Sternberg. Holt. 288 pp.. ill. $1.60. 2 Wild Life on the Rockies. By Enos A. Mills. Houghton Mifflin Company. 263 pp.. ill. $1.75. 3 Fish Stories. By Frederick Holder and David Starr Jordan. Holt. 336 pp., ill. $1.75. Indies, Africa, India, and other untamed sections of the earth's surface. Dr. Frank H. Knowlton's "Birds of the World" is the third issued of the American Nature Series which is being brought out by Holt. The entire series is, we are informed, divided into six categories, entitled, respectively: Natural history, classification of nature, functions of nature, working with nature, diversions from nature, and the philosophy of nature. The volume on birds, which is written in a plain. simple, popular style, contains sixteen colored plates and 236 illustrations. Dr. Knowlton, of the United States National Museum, is a member of many learned bodies throughout the world, including the American Ornithologists' Union. The present volume includes also a chapter on the anatomy of birds, by Frederic A. Lucas, curator-in-chief of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, and the whole is edited by Robert Ridgway, curator of birds in the United States National Museum. The method of treatment not only includes scientific accuracy and comprehensiveness, but supplies that information which the general reader is likely to require concerning the habits and distribution of, it may be said, every known member of the bird family. 4 Adventures in Field and Forest. By Frank H Spearman, Harold Martin. F. S. Palmer, William Drysdale, and others. Harpers. 212 pp., ill. 60 cents. Birds of the World. By Frank H. Knowlton, Ph.D. Holt. 873 pp., ill. $7. Readers who are at all interested in practical agriculture may profit from many of the suggestions contained in this volume, and we are sure that all who read "A Self-Supporting Home" will be interested in tracing the subsequent fortunes of the author. Both Mr. Roberts' and Mr. Thompson-Seton tensive and diversified farming experience. have a remarkable faculty for writing fascinating animal biographies. The exactness of science and the sympathy and appeal of literary flavor characterize these little volumes, which ought to be of special interest to younger people. Mr. Roberts' volume is one story embodying various phases in the life of that wonderful little animal, the beaver. The adventures of "The Boy and the beaver make very good reading. Mr. Thompson-Seton's story, which by the way is seductively illustrated from his own drawings, is the story of "Domino Reynard, of Goldur Town." The purpose is, he tells us, "to show the man-world how the fox-world lives," and above all "to advertise and emphasize the beautiful monogamy of the better-class fox." A "complete handbook of practical and profitable poultry-keeping for the great army of beginners and small breeders," by R. B. Sando, is illustrated from photographs, most of them taken by the author. The general theme is a discussion of the question, Is there profit in raising poultry? A copiously illustrated monograph on "The Development of the Chick," by Frank R. Lillie, is subtitled An Introduction to Embryology." While exhaustive and painfully erudite in detail, the work is not technical in expression and is easily intelligible to the general reader as well as to the student of embryology. Miss Kate V. Saint Maur, the author of "A Self-Supporting Home," has written a sequel to that very sensible and practical treatise, entitled "The Earth's Bounty." In the present volume are embodied the results of a rather ex erts. The House in the Water. By Charles G. D. Rob- The Development of the Chick. By Frank R. The Earth's Bounty. By Kate V. Saint Maur. Macmillan. 430 pp., ill. $1.75. The scientific aspects of Luther Burbank's work in plant culture are attractively treated by President David Starr Jordan and Prof. Vernon L. Kellogg in an illustrated volume which comes to us from a San Francisco publishing house. Mr. Burbank's fame as a plant "wizard" has been so thoroughly exploited in the popular magazines and the newspapers that it is a real relief to find his work taken seriously and analyzed in a scientific spirit by men who thor- • oughly appreciate its possibilities. A new edition of Professor Ganong's "Laboratory Course in Plant Physiology " has been expanded into a handbook for the use of students and teachers in botanical work. It is the hope of the author that the book may be used as a guide to self-education by ambitious teachers or students. The book has been thoroughly tested in educational work and is certainly an important addition to the equipment of any college course in botany. Superintendent Meier's "Plant Study" is another valuable aid to the botanical student, especially in the elementary work. of volumes on particular plants of England, has Mr. Edward Step, the author of a number written "Wayside and Woodland Ferns: a Pocket Guide to the British Ferns, Horsetails, and Club-Mosses." The Scientific Aspects of Luther Burbank's Work. By David Starr Jordan and Vernon Lyman Kellogg. San Francisco: A. M. Robertson. 115 pp., ill. $1.75. Plant Physiology. By William F. Ganong. Holt. 265 pp., ill. $1.75. Plant Study and Plant Description. By W. H. D. Meier. Ginn & Co. 75 cents. "Wayside and Woodland Ferns. By Edward Step. New York: Frederick Warne & Co. 137 pp., ill. $2.25. OTHER BOOKS OF THE MONTH. The Great Lakes. By James Oliver Curwood. the fascinating story of the struggles, the fa. Putnams. 227 pp., ill. $3.50. tastic failures, and the final triumphs of the The Story of the Great Lakes. By Edward Pioneer railroad builders. The author tells us Channing and Marion F. Lansing. Macmillan. 398 pp., ill. $1.50. Of these two volumes one is largely historical, while the other is more largely concerned with the commerce and traffic of the Lakes at the present time. Many well-traveled Americans have never made the tour of our inland seas from Buffalo to Duluth or Chicago. To such we commend Mr. Curwood's entertaining description of the modern passenger traffic of the Lakes, and possibly they will be surprised by the statistics that he gives of the freight tonnage. When Railroads Were New. By Charles Frederick Carter. Holt. 324 pp., ill. $2. This book is not a history of the development of railroad finance or railroad exploitation, but that he attempts to follow the history of those railroads "which best typify the processes of evolution under characteristic circumstances up to the point where the story ceases to be romantic and begins to be commercial and commonplace." There is an introductory note by Logan G. McPherson, lecturer on transportation at Johns Hopkins University. England and the English, from an American Point of View. By Price Collier. Scribners. 434 PP. $1.50. One of the most thought-provoking, stimulating, and keen analyses of the English character we have ever seen. Mr. Collier's style is very graphic and suggestive. His comparisons of English and American life and temperament cannot fail to be highly interesting and profit By Greatness and Decline of Rome, Vol. V. . Guglielmo Ferrero. Putnams. 371 pp. $2.50. This fifth and last volume of Signor Ferrero's monumental work considers "The Republic of Augustus," bringing the history down to the year A. D. 14. In noticing the preceding volumes of this work as issued in the authorized English translation by Dr. Chaytor (I., "The Empire Builders"; II., "Julius Cæsar"; III., "The Fall of An Aristocracy"; and IV., "Rome and Egypt") we have expressed the pleasure and appreciation we believe the historical student cannot fail to gain from Signor Ferrero's largeness of vision, sound scholarship, sense of proportion, and power to measure life that has been by his observation of life that is. The present volume, like all the others, gives us considerable vivid interpretation of documents and presents vignette pictures of Roman life and some of the greatest personalities of Roman history. This Italian scholar certainly knows how to make history interesting. Of particular interest and historical value, we think, is the chap ter entitled "The Great Social Laws of the Year 18 B. C." The translation, as in the case of the other volumes, is by the Rev. H. C. Chaytor, head master of Plymouth College. Une Campagne de Vingt-et-Un Ans (1887-1908). By Pierre de Coubertin. Paris: Librairie de l'Education Physique. 220 pp. In this earnest, straightforward description of "A Campaign of Twenty-one Years," Baron Coubertin tells the story of what he calls the battle for physical education, not only in France, but in the rest of the world as well, a battle in which he has borne such a distinguished and efficient part. In the early chapters there is a consideration of the early days of physical training in England, with affectionate tribute paid to Master Thomas Arnold, of Rugby. Baron Coubertin, however, soon passes to the activities of the movement on his native soil, and in succeeding chapters carries the story through the Olympic contests up to the fourth Olympic Games held in London last year. The volume is copiously illustrated. Discourses and Sermons. By Cardinal Gibbons. Baltimore: John Murphy Company. 531 PP. $1. This is a series of simple, sincere, and earnest sermons for Sunday and the principal festivals of the year." The volume contains matter on every subject upon which the Catholic pastor is expected to speak to his people. Life's Day: Outposts and Danger Signals in Health. By William Seaman Bainbridge, M.D. New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company. 308 pp. $1.35. In this forcibly but smoothly written little volume Dr. Bainbridge has given us a really helpful manual of health. The book is made up of a series of lectures delivered at Chautauqua by Dr. Bainbridge and is really the answers to questions which have been put to this physician in the course of a long and successful practice. Special attention is paid to the critical periods of life, from infancy to old age, while at the same time the author does not advocate any fads or movements." America at College, As Seen by a Scots Graduate. By Robert K. Risk. Glasgow: John Smith & Son. 214 pp. 90 cents. These observations of various American colleges and universities, frankly set forth, are both entertaining and profitable. Mr. Risk seems to have been powerfully impressed by the material resources of some of our universities, but he does not permit himself to be blinded to certain deficiencies. This canny Scot glories in the traditions of Scotland's ancient seats of learning, and he evidently believes that America has some things yet to learn. Thus he is quite ready to admit that his country has nothing at all like Cornell,-" a useful form of words," he says, "which conveys hearty compli ment, and yet leaves room for mental reservations!" The Churches and the Wage Earners. By C Bertrand Thompson. Scribners. 229 pp. $1. Mr. Thompson has addressed himself to the specific problem of the gulf existing to-day between the masses of the laboring people and the churches. After a survey of the extent of this alienation, its causes and results, this writer offers a definite program under the heading What to Do." His conclusion is that the old methods and ideas of the churches have failed and must be changed to conform with_the_predominant social interests of the day. In short, the churches must be thoroughly socialized. If this means that many of the old dogmas must Let them go, since the preservation of religion be sacrificed, then Mr. Thompson would say. itself is at stake. Accounts: Their Construction_and Interpretation. By William Morse Cole. Houghton Mifflin Company. 345 pp. $2. In this volume, which is intended for business men and students of affairs generally, Mr. Cole (assistant professor of accounting in Harvard University) maintains that "the average business man does not know what things cost him." 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