Tolstoi, Lyof Nikolaievich. [Anna Karénina.] $1.50. Crowell.
This volume is one of the handsome but popular priced “Luxembourg” series, and contains Anna Karénina as translated by Nathan Haskell Dole.
Tomlinson, Everett Titsworth. Soldier of the wilderness. [†]$1.50. Wilde.
Mr. Tomlinson’s third story in his “Colonial series” is based on history centering about the French and Indian war,—the fall of Fort Frontenac and the disaster under Abercrombie at Ticonderoga. The adventures introduce Abercrombie, Howe, Putnam and Montcalm, a young hero Peter van de Bogert, besides hunters, rangers and men prominent in those times.
Tomson, Arthur. Jean-François Millet and the Barbizon school. $2.25. Macmillan.
A new and cheaper edition of a book which describes the life of Millet and his relation to the other painters at Barbizon. It also deals with “the life and work of Jules Dupre, Narcisse-Virgilia Diaz, and Theodore Rousseau, and in a chapter on ‘The influence of the romantic school’ are briefly considered Paul Huet, Charles Jacque, Jules Bréton, Monticelli, Bastien-LePage, Adolphe Hervier, Harpignies, and two or three others. The illustrations number fifty-three, and include examples of some of the best known pictures of the artists studied.”—N. Y. Times.
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Tooker, Lewis Frank. Under rocking skies. [†]$1.50. Century.
The captain of a sailing vessel takes his wife and daughter and a young minister on a voyage from the Long island coast to the West Indies. Thomas Medbury, a youth from their home village, who has always loved the girl, seizes the opportunity to ship as mate and in the course of the stormy voyage the captain’s daughter, in the light of great danger, comes to know her own heart.
[*] “Poet, sailor man, and born storyteller are written large on every page of ‘Under rocking skies,’ and the result is a picture of the sea and life aboard an old-fashioned sailing vessel that charms by its simplicity and absorbs by its vividness and reality.”