"the strangest opinions have been current." He quotes freely from Emerson's correspondence and books, and the chief merit of the biography is the skill with which these quotations are sometimes chosen. In other respects, the style wants warmth, and the sketch is not sufficiently concrete in dealing with Emerson's personality. Hints of what he did and of what he said one may gather from it, but scarcely a vision of what he was. Indeed, it may be objected against all the biographies of Emerson that they are deficient in just that dramatic quality which is wanting here: a synthetic appreciation of the man has yet to be written. Mr. Sanborn, who was a friend of Emerson's, might have added much to the portrait had he been able to infuse the personal note into his memoir; not in mere expressions of esteem, for of these there is no lack, but in givng us such of the experiences of his own friendship as the world might properly share. G. C. H. Books Received. "THE TEACHINGS OF DANTE." By Charles Allen Dinsmore. Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company. "BIRTHDAY POEMS OF THE CENTURY." By Ernest Green Dodge. Chicago: M. A. Donohue and Company. "THE WESTERNERS." By Stewart Edward White. New York: McClure, Phillips and Company. (To be reviewed next month.) "JARVIS OF HARVARD." By Reginald Wright Kauffman. Boston: L. C. Page and Company. (To be reviewed next month.) "LIFE EVERLASTING." By John Fiske. Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company. (To be reviewed next month.) "THE LOVE-LEtters of the KING or, THE LIFE ROMANTIC." By Richard Le Gallienne. Boston: Little, Brown, and Company. (To be reviewed in a later number.) "ESSAYS, THEOLOGICAL AND LITERARY." By Charles Carroll Everett. Bos ton and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company. "AMATA." From the German of Richard Voss. By Roger S. G. Boutell. Washington: The Neale Publishing Company. "NEW CANTERBURY TALES." By Maurice Hewlett. New York: The Macmillan Company. (To be reviewed in a later number.) "THE WAYS OF THE SERVICE." By Frederick Palmer. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. (To be reviewed in a later number.) "HARVARD LYRICS, AND OTHER VERSES." Being selections of the best verse written by Harvard undergraduates within the last ten years. Selected by Charles Livingstone Stebbins. Boston: L. C. Page and Company. (To be reviewed in a later number.) Two hundred years have brought their crown of glory: The centuries to come shall cry—All Hail! The sons of Art, of Science, and of Story, Bow down and worship at the feet of Yale. II. Strong, world-scarred warriors, scholars pale with learning, III. As old and young stand staunch upon the heather, |