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NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
NEW BOOKS 
Recently Added to Manchester Public Library 
fee Report of the Trustees of the 
Manchester Public Library for the 
year 1915 contains a classified list of 
the books purchased during the year. 
This list will be found in the Annual 
Town Report. Some two hundred extra 
copies were printed and bound in pamph- 
let form. They are at the Public Li- 
brary and may be obtained from the 
librarian—but not more than one cops 
to a family. The trustees had these 
extra copies printed as the beginning 
of a finding-list of the new books, and 
hope to continue the practice from 
year to year. If the patrons of the 
Library will save their copy of the re- 
port each year, they will have a com- 
plete finding-list of all the new books. 
The trustees do not feel justified at 
the present time of asking the town to 
go to the expense of publishing a com- 
plete catalogue of the books in the 
Library. 
However, it is hoped with the card 
catalogue and the lists of new books 
issued annually, those using the Li- 
brary will have no difficulty in finding 
what the Library may have on any 
subject in which they may be inter- 
ested. 
I just finished reading a two-volume 
work on English literature in which 
I became very much interested. ‘‘In- 
terpretations of Literature’’ by La- 
feadio Hearn is entirely different from 
The life history of the author was a 
somewhat romantic one. His father 
was Irish and his mother was Greek 
and he was born 1850 in the Ionian Is- 
lands. Self educated in France and 
England. He came to this country in 
1867 and learned the printer’s trade, 
later becoming a journalist and edi- 
torial writer. He went to Japan in 
1890 and became a citizen of that 
country taking the name Yakumo Koi- 
zumi. He married a Japanese woman. 
He was lecturer on English litera- 
ture at the University of Tokio, 1896- 
1903. These lectures made the two 
volume work referred to above. The 
lectures were delivered in English to 
a group of bright Japanese students. 
He did not use any notes and talked 
very slowly, some of the students took 
the lectures down verbatim and after 
his death they were collected and have 
just been published. There is so much 
that is good in these talks on literature 
that it is hard to make a selection. 
The chapters on Crabbe, Cowper, 
Wordsworth, Byren, Shelley and Keats 
tell us much about these authors and 
their works. Anyone who wishes ito 
get a clearer idea of what Carlyle 
meant in Sartor Resartus should read 
the chapter on the philosophy of that 
work. Two very instructive chapters 
are ‘‘Some Poems About Insects’’ and 
‘‘On Birds in English Literature.’’ 
mists and their Kindred,’’ ‘‘Shake- 
speare,’’ ‘‘The Bible in English Liter- 
ature,’’ ‘‘ Value of the Supernatural in 
Fiction,’’ ‘‘Poe’s Verse,’’ ‘‘A Proper 
Estimate of Longfellow’’ and ‘‘ Poems 
on Night the Moon and Stars.’’ The 
author became much interested in his 
adopted country and wrote much about 
its folk-lore. He was a voluminous 
writer. 
‘The World Decision’’ by Robert 
Herrick the novelist, is a book on the 
war that will repay the time spent in 
reading it. The author spent a year 
in France and Italy since the war be- 
gan. He was very much impressed 
with the spirit shown in France. 
The last chapters on the relation of 
the war to America should be read by 
every American citizen. 
- **The Note Book of an Attache,’’ by 
Erie Fisher Wood, is another volume 
on the war that is equally good, but 
treating the subject in an entirely diff- 
erent way. The author, an American 
artist, was in Paris when the war 
broke out. He went to the American 
Embassy and offered his services and 
they were accepted. He had some 
thrilling experiences and they are well 
described in his book. 
‘‘The Writing on the Wall’’ by the 
same author treats of America’s un- 
preparedness. 
‘German Culture, Past and Pres- 
ent,’’? by E. Belford Bax gives much 
information about that country. ‘‘The 
New (German) Testament,’? by An- 
thony Hope Hawkins, compares the 
English and German standards of mor- 
als in relation to the war. <A few 
notes on some new works of fiction will 
be given in the near future. 
March 10, 1916. © 
any other work on the subject of lit- 
erature. read are 
Other lectures you should not fail to 
““Society Verse,’’ 
*< Pessi- 
—R. T. G. 
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The short Palm Beach season offers, in a way most 
natural, an unusual opportunity to the well dressed woman 
of leisure. It has been justly called the “natural” fashion 
show of the country and the “dictator” of our spring and 
summer seasons. There is practically very little else to 
do there from breakfast to bedtime but dress. The morn- 
ing suit, the bathing suit, the luncheon dress, the sport- 
ing outfit, the late afternoon dress, and the evening gown 
are all part of the typical Palm Beach day when the sea- 
son is on. Bicycling, which is coming into its own again, 
calls for some jaunty little touches of dress. Mrs. Hamil- 
ton Wilkes Cary of New York, when taking her first 
bicycle lesson recently, wore a dark blue sweater and veil 
to match, with white linen skirt and low white shoes. 
She usually wears a chiffon veil to match her sweater. 
Mrs. C. King and Mrs. Henry Carnegie Phipps are fond 
of a blue sweater for bicycling. Blue seems to be the 
favorite color among those who cling to the long sleeved 
silk sweater with its soft sash knotted at one side. Other 
bicycle enthusiasts and some who are seen on the golf 
links are wearing the jaunty little sleeveless jackets sug- 
gestive of the polo field. They are seen in various gay 
colors. 
SyDNEY Brooks, IN AN INTELLIGENT Essay in the 
North American Review is optimistic in his views on the 
war and its results. He believes that out of the slouchy, 
easy-going ways of England in the days of peace there 
has come forth a new England with nerves taut and fac- 
vities alert to the demands of the hour. When the war 
is past he believes that the co-operative spirit will con- 
tinue and that in a good and true sense England never 
will be the same. In business the methods will be 
thorough-going and scientific as against the old rule of 
thumb; in agriculture as a future defense against isola- 
tion there will be a rush back to the land under the direc- 
tion of the government, and in politics the old petty party 
pelicies will never be revived. The tense and bitter ex- 
periences of the battle-fields and trenches have served <0 
drive the peasant, shopkeeper, merchant and aristocrat in- 
to the closest sort of companionship and fellowship and 
v.hen the war days are done the silly separatist spirit will 
have vanished. If England fails to win it will be because 
oi the inferiority of England’s national spirit which it 
cannot for an instant concede. Mr. Brooks’ suggestions 
are well taken and there is every reason to believe that 
most of his conclusions are sound and will stand the acid — 
test of time and national experience. 
The dealer in antiques was showing an old violin to a 
probable buyer. oe 
“Yes,” he said, “this is of historical interest. That 
is the identical fiddle Nero played while Rome was burn- 
ing.” ; 
co) , 
“Oh, that is a myth.” ds 
The dealer agreed, saying: a 
“Yes, it is, and Myth’s name was on it, but has ge 
worn off.” ~ 
