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10 THE BOOK SHELF. [Conducted by ALBERT LEE, "91.] To a recent number of the “Chap Book” (Chicago: H. S. Stone & Co.) Mr. Joseph Pennell contributes an ar- ticle on “Robert Louis Stevenson, Il- lustrator,’” and it is somewhat sur- prising to those of us who have read and admired Stevenson for a number of years past to note, in the opening paragraph of this contribution, that the little books under discussion “‘are virtually unknown” save to Steven- son’s friends. Mr. Pennell tells us in- genuously that for some years he has “been aware of the existence of a whole series of little books.” Who has not, who knows anything about Stevenson’s work? No doubt Mr. Pen- nell is also aware that the same writer gave us “Treasure Island” and “The Ebb Tide.” Aside from the patronizing tone of his introduction, however, Mr. Pen- nell’s article is interesting, and forms a valuable contribution to our Steven- soniana. Mr. Pennell is especially qualified to write upon this subject be- ing an artist of talent himself, and a clever writer besides; and in addition he has in a way been brought closer to Stevenson than most of us ky hav- ing visited the region made famous by “Travels With a Donkey.” He very justly comments on the fact that it is estonishing that Stevenson ‘could start from a town like Le Puy and yet barely mention it in his book,” and any one who has read Mrs. Pennell’s article on ‘The Most’ Picturesque Place in the World,’’ which appeared in the “Century” a few years ago, will readily agree with him. But this is an aside from the “little books.”’ The latter have never before been so fully and carefully, not to say affect- ionately, described, although their ti- tles have long figured in ‘bibliograp- hies; and it is the first time, I believe, | | | } YATE ALU hee 6 WHEKLY that any of the cuts have been reprint- ed. Mr. Pennell takes a somewhat exaggerated view of Stevenson’s tal- ent as an illustrator, but his enthu- siasm and admiration for the man doubtless overcame his critical judg- ment. It is by the publication of just this: sort of thing that the “Chap Book’) maintains, in the estimation of book. its position of pre-eminence. among the countless periodicals that © claim to belong in the same class; and » by steadily maintaining the standard . lovers, for ‘‘new’’? material that it set for it- self at the start, the “Chap Book’’ has succeeded in earning for itself a place . that cannot be denied or disparaged, even by the old folk wh ling along with the rear guard. In its new form the ‘B‘ook Buyer” (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons) may now take rank as one of the chief of the many periodicals has been greatly improved typograph- ically, and there are signs that it in- tends to reach forth into a wider field. 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THE SEVEN SEAS, But to turn from the magazine to books, let me recommend as one of the most important, if not the most important, publication of the year, Rudyard Kipling’s “The Seven Seas’’ (New York: D. Appleton & Co.) I hope it is not my enthusiasm for Mr. Kipling’s verse that leads me to praise his work as of the strongest and best that is being done at the present day. There is no poet alive who can turn Gut the virile, swinging, soul-stirring rhythm that Kipling gives us. You may talk about Dobson’s graceful forms, which I am second to no one in appreciating; you may quote me Swinburne, and you may stumble through the stilted platitudes of the Salaried Austin, but when it comes right down to power and manhood and human nature, you must turn to the author of ‘“McAndrew’s Hymn” and “Danny Deever.’”’ I wish Kipling were an American. He is the next thing to it,—but yet not close enough to the land to give us patriotic verse. I wish he were a Yale man. If the Corpor- ation wish to henor themselves, they should confer upon Mr. Kipling a de- gree in 1897, and thus make him a Yale man. In the meantime I advise all of you fellows who have degrees already to get “‘The Seven Seas’’ and tead it, so that you wilil have some sort of an idea of the kind of a Yale song Mr. Kipling will write for us When he gets that degree. —__—__+0e—___-— At a regular meeting of the New England Intercollegiate Triangular League at Boston on Saturday, De- cember 5, the following officers were elected: President, C. E. Carr, Dart- mouth; Vice President, C. W. Mer- riam, Amherst; Secretary and. Treas- urer, A. C. Twitchell, Williams. The football championship of the season Was awarded to Dartmouth. a The University of California had a live bear as a mascot in their Thanks- giving Day game. : ‘Tiffany & Co. Gold Watches for Christmas Giits An entirely new series of superior Gold Watches for Ladies, in plain 18-karat gold open-fuce cases, $25. 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