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Possibilities of the Negro: The Advance Guard of the Race

JV. E. Burghardt Du Rots

Portraits in tint of Booker T. Washington, Granville T. Woods, Daniel H.
Williams, Henry Ossawa Tanner, Edward H. Morris, Charles Waddell
Chesnutt, Kelly Miller, Francis James Grimke, Paul Laurence Dunbar,
W. E. Burghardt Du Bois 3

Bret Harte : Romancer, Poet, Parodist

With portraits and other illustrations

Bret Harte and the Argonauts Albert E. Hancock 17

Tennessee's Partner (Reprinted) 'Bret Harte 17

Portrait of S. Weir Mitchell, by John s. Sargent 33

Pictures and Art Talk 34

The Sun: Is it Heaven?

Illustrated George tV . Warder 49

The London Zoo : A Study in Animal Photography

Illustrated by special photographs 63

Artistic Aspects of the Modern Office Building

With eleven full-page illustrations Albert W . Barker 75

A Parliament of Education

With portrait George Perry Morris 89

The Best New Things from the World of Print 93

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BOOKER T. WASHINGTON

EfiRO

It is usually considered that Negroes are
today contributing practically nothing of
importance to American civilization; that
only one or two individuals of Negro blood
have so risen above the average of the
nation as rightly to be judged men of mark.
Nor is this assumption to be wondered at,
for in the world of work men are not
labeled by color. When, then, the aver-
age American rushes to his telephone there
is nothing in the look of the transmitter
to tell him that it is part product of a Negro
brain ; when the whizz of the engine
weaves cloth, drags trains, and does other
deeds of magic, it does not tell the public
that the oil which smooths its turning is
the composition of a black man ; if the
medical student reads in DaCosta of the
skilled surgeon who recently sewed up a
hole in a living man's heart he will not
read that the surgeon was colored ; the
wanderer amid the beauties of the Luxem-
burg is not apt to know from the dark
hues of the "Raising of Lazarus" the still
darker hues of its painter; and it was a
Texas girl who naively remarked : "I used
to read Dunbar a good deal until I found
out that he was a nigger."

Such ignorance of the work of black
men is natural. A man works with his
hands and not with his complexion, with
his brains and not with his facial angle ;
and the result of his work is human achieve-
ment and not necessarily a " social prob-
lem." Thus his work becomes gathered
up and lost in the sum of American deeds,
and men know little of the individual.
Consequently the average American, accus-

tomed to regarding black men as the outer
edge of humanity, not only easily misses
seeing the colored men who have accom-
plished something in the world common to
both races, but also misses entirely the
work of the men who are developing the
dark and isolated world of the black man.

So here I am seeking to bring to mind
something of what men of African blood
are today doing in America, by selecting
as types ten living Negroes who in abil-
ity and quite regardless of their blacK. blood
have raised themselves to a place distinct-
ively above the average of mankind. Just
how far they have risen I am not attempt-
ing to say, for human accomplishment is a
thing difficult to judge; and peculiarly diffi-
cult in the case of people whose ability
and worth is a matter of hot questioning
between friends who exaggerate and foes
who persistently belittle. I do not say,
then, how much of genius or transcendent
ability these men have; I do say that meas-
ured by any fair standard of human accom-
plishment they are distinctively men of
mark, and that they all have enough black
blood in their veins to disfranchise them
in Alabama.

Of the fields of endeavor conspicuously
open to Americans there are four chief
groups: the field of commerce and indus-
try, in which this land has gained world-
wide preeminence; the field of political life,
in the governing of a continent and seventy
millions under republican forms; the field
of the learned professions — law, medicine,
preaching, and teaching; and, finally, the
paths of literature and art, as expressive of

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the mighty hfe of a new world. In these
four lines of striving the men I notice
work.

In commerce and industry the Negro
started as the dumb-driven tobacco-hand
and cotton raiser — the bottom of the sys-
tem, without apparent initiative or mechan-
ical ingenuity. Yet today partial records
of the United States Patent Office show
that 357 patents are known to have been

apparatus, four electric railway improve-
ments, two electric brakes, a telephone
system, a battery, and a tunnel construc-
tion for electric roads. His telephone
transmitter was assigned to the Bell Tele-
phone Company, and is in use by them.
Many of his other inventions have found
wide currency, as for instance, the electri-
cal controller system used on the Manhat-
tan Elevated Railway. Mr. Woods was

From photograph by Eddovjes "Brothers

GRANVILLE T. WOODS

ELECTRICIAN

granted Negroes, covering all fields of
mechanical contrivances. Foremost among
living Negro inventors are Woods and
McCoy. The latter is the pioneer in the
matter of machinery lubricators; the for-
mer is a skilled electrician. Granville T.
Woods has patented thirty-five devices;
they began with a steam boiler furnace in
1884, and include four kinds of telegraphing

born forty-four years ago, and although he
had his difficulties, yet a man with so rare
a gift of mechanical ingenuity could hardly
be kept back by the handicap of color.

On the other hand, in the world of com-
merce and business, where men work elbow
to elbow and come in close personal touch,
there is room for the very effective bar of
race prejudice, especially on account of the

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large part conscious selection plays. A
business man may be looking for talent,
but he does not look for it in his black
office boy or porter; and even if signs of it
appear, he is usually certain that he must
be deceived — that it is the " imitative " gift
onlv. Consequently the Negro, being a
small consumer, is almost shut out of the
white business system, and can only enter
the business field among his own people,

bellum times drove them out of business
and gave their sons no opportunity to enter
the new system save as menials. Today it
is the small retail business and cooperative
enterprise of various kinds that is open-
ing new fields which the Negro is entering.
In 1 88 1 a Virginia Negro organized a
mutual benefit insurance society in Rich-
mond, with a capital of $150 and one
hundred members. Today the "True

Photograph hy Gilbert and Bacon

EDWARD H. MORRIS

LAWYER

and then in the face of ruthless and skilled
competition. For such reasons the Negro
business man has developed slowly, and
has onlv reached conspicuous success in
cases where special circumstances gave him
a chance to stand against competition.
The skill of the Philadelphia and New
York caterers gave them a chance before
the war, but the large capitalism of post-

Reformers," under the presidency of Mr.
W.L.Taylor, the successor of the originator,
has 50,000 members and $223,500 in real
estate; it has paid $2,000,000 in insurance
claims, and has established, besides its mnin
business, a bank, a real estate department,
a weekly newspaper, an Old Folks' Heme,
five grocery and general merchandise stores,
and a hotel. Such a phenomenal growth,

From photograph hy Gutekunst

HENRY OSSAWA TANNER

ARTIST

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when one considers the material and the
opportunity, means unusual ability of man-
agement ; and it seems fair to rate the
president and chief director of this remark-
able business as a person of more than
average ability according to any standard.
To be sure, the organization has undoubt-
edly stormy times ahead, and yet it is
already over twenty years of age, and
weathered with conspicuous success the
storm of 1893. -The savings bank depart-
ment was opened in 1889 with $4000
capital. Today the bank has 10,000
depositors, and had done a business up
to December, 1900, of $7,426,450.92.
The real estate department was estab-
lished in 1882. It now owns fifteen
halls, three farms, two dwellings, and one
hotel, and holds fourteen halls on lease.
The Reformer, whxch. is their weekly paper,
has a circulation of 8000 copies. A farm
for the Old Folks' Home has been bought
for Si 4,000, and a small town, laid out.
The latest department is the mercantile
and industrial association ; this association
conducts stores in Richmond, Washington,
Manchester, Portsmouth, and Roanoke,
and these stores did a combined business
of $75,000 in 1901. They are rated as
" O. K." by the mercantile agencies, and
are on a strictly cash basis.

Turning now to the field of political and
social activity we may note a long line of
Negroes conspicuous in the past, beginning
with Toussaint L'Ouverture, American by
influence if not by birth, and going past
Alexander Hamilton, whose drop of African
fire quite recently sent Mrs. Atherton into
hysterics, down to Purvis, Nell, Douglass,
and Bruce. All these are dead, and today,
strange as the assertion may seem, the
leading Negro political leader is Booker T.
Washington. Mr. Washington is not a
teacher; he has spent little time in the
class-room; he is not the originator or
chief exponent of the educational system
which he so fervently defends. He is pri-
marily the political leader of the New
Commercial South, and the greatest of
such leaders since Appomattox. His ability
has been shown not so much in his educa-
tional campaign, nor in his moral earnest-
ness, as in the marvelous facility by which
he has so manipulated the forces of a
strained political and social situation as to
bring about among the factors the greatest

consensus of opinion in this country since
the Missouri Compromise. He has done
this by applying American political and
business methods to an attempted solution
of the Negro problem. Realizing the great
truth that the solution of this vexed ques-
tion demands above all that somehow,
sometime, the southern whites and blacks
must agree and sympathize with each
other, Mr. Washington started to adver-
tise broadly his proposed basis of agreement
so that men might understand it. With
this justification, he advertised with a thor-
oughness that astonished the nation. At
the same time he kept his hand on the
pulse of North and South, advancing with
every sign of good will and generosity, and
skilfully retreating to silence or shrewd
disclaimer at any sign of impatience or
turmoil. The playing of this game has
been simply wonderful, the success phenom-
enal. To be sure not all men like the
outcome, not all men fail to see the terrible
dangers of this efifort at compromise. Some
have felt it their duty to speak strongly
against Mr. Washington's narrow educa-
tional program, and against the danger of
his apparent surrender of certain manhood
rights which seem to be absolutely essen-
tial to race development and national weal ;
and above all, against his failure to speak a
strong, true note for justice and right ; but
all this is beside the object of this paper.
Of Mr. Washington's great ability as a
politic leader of men there can scarce be
two opinions. He is manifestly one of
the greatest living southerners, and one of
the most remarkable of Americans.

It must not be thought that with this
new political leadership the old political
activity has stopped. The Negro is not
eliminated from politics and never will be;
he is simply passing through a new phase
of the exercise of his political power. Here
and there in the legislation of the land his
work and influence may still be felt. It has
been said several times in various places
that the keenest and, in many respects,
the most able member of the last Illinois
legislature was a Negro lawyer, Edward H.
Morris. Mr. Morris represented the rich-
est legislative district in Illinois, the First ;
on some occasions he presided over the
deliberations of the House ; he was chair-
man of the important committee on elec-
tions, member of five or six of the other

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leading committees, and also a member of
the steering committee of the Republican
party. Born in Kentucky forty-five years
ago, he was admitted to the bar at the age
of twenty-one, and since then, in the severe
competition of a great city, handicapped
by color, he has become one of the strong
members of the western bar, with a prac-
tice of at least $20,000 a year. Many
people will qualify their admiration for the

of the civil-rights legislation, his winning
of the suit between Cook County and the
city of Chicago, and also of the test case
over the taxation of the net receipts on
insurance companies.

Continuing in the field of the learned
professions it should be noted that no
single sign of Negro progress has been of
such marked significance as the rise of the
Negro physician in the last ten years. The

Photograph by Scott

DANIEL H. WILLIAMS

SURGEON

unquestionable ability of Mr. Morris by a
wish that he was less closely identified with
the Chicago political machine, or that his
great skill as a lawyer had not been used
to free tax-collector Gunning from the toils
of the law, or to draw up that marvel of
ingenuity, the Illinois municipal ownership
bill. On the other hand, Mr. Morris may
point with real satisfaction to his defence

really striking fact about the recent post-
of^fice case at Indianola was the driving out
of a successful Negro physician, who was
crowding the white physicians to the wall,
at the same time with the post-mistress.
It was but a short time ago that a Negro
led his class at the Harvard Medical School,
and another one in Philadelphia passed the
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under the State authorities. By far the
most conspicuous of Negro physicians, for
his skill as a surgeon and his unique con-
tributions to science, is Dr. Daniel H.
WiHiams, of Chicago. Dr. Williams,
born in Pennsylvania in 1858, is attend-
ing surgeon to the Cook County and
Provident hospitals in Chicago, and was
formerly at the head of the Freedman's
Hospital in Washington. In 1893 Dr.

suture ever recorded." So said the Med-
ical Record, of March 27, 1897. The case
attracted the attention of the medical
world, as have several other cases of Dr.
Williams. It was only last summer that
the Charlotte Medical Journal of North
Carolina published a violent article against
Negro physicians, stating that the formation
of the Negro head was such that they could
never hope to gain efficiency in such a pro-

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Williams operated upon a stab wound of
the heart which had pierced the pericar-
dium ; the operation was successful, and
the patient was known to be alive three
years afterward. "Official records do not
give a single title descriptive of suture of
the pericardium or heart in the human
subject. This being the fact, this case is
the first successful or unsuccessful case of

fession. About the same time the editors,
Doctors Register and Montgomery, were
writing the following letter to Dr. Williams
in blissful ignorance of his race :

"We have just read a paper of yours
entitled 'A Report of Two Cases of
Cesarean section under Positive Indications
with Termination in Recovering' that was
recently published in Obstetrics. You are

From photograph by Scurlock

PROFESSOR KELLY MILLER

MATHEMATICIAN

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an attractive writer. Is it possible for us
to get you to do a little editorial writing
for us?"

Turning now to the professions of
teaching and preaching we must expect
here a limited development in certain
directions: for the Negro teacher is almost
invariably confined in his work to Negro
schools where the pay is small, the tasks
excessive, and the grades low. No matter
how much promise a Negro student may
show, the path of scholarship is closed to
him in most cases : he can practically never
be made assistant or tutor with time for
study and research. Thus a man like
Kelly Miller can only by dint of extra-
ordinary exertion rise above the average of
teachers. He was born two years after
the Emancipation Proclamation, and early
showed even in the wretched country
schools of South Carolina a mathematical
mind of unusual keenness ; but few careers
are open to a Negro in mathematics, be he
ever so skilful. To be sure, he studied at
the Naval Observatory and in the post-
graduate school of Johns Hopkins— politely
unwelcomed. Eventually he became a
professor in Howard University — at a small
salary, with much work, and in a position
where prospective revenue from students
did not attract text-publishers to his really
good work in mathematics. Despite all
this he rose slowly, steadily — as a writer on
mathematical subjects, as a student of race
problems, as a social leader of that group
of 90,000 black folk at the nation's capital,
who are in many respects the advance
guard of nine millions. His subtle, force-
ful articles have been read in the Forum,
the Outlook, and the Dial; his voice and
peculiar power of argument and expression
have been heard before many noted clubs
and gatherings, and his recent monograph
for the United States Bureau of Education
is of exceptional value. Far beyond, how-
ever, this record of tangible work stands
the forceful personality of a clean-hearted,
clear-witted man — an inspirer of youth, a
leader of his people, and one who is
coming slowly to be recognized as a not-
able American.

The Negro in this land has produced
many ministers of religion of considerable
power, from Richard Allen and James
Varick to Lemuel Haynes and Highland
Garnett. But I have chosen as typifying

the Negro minister, not one of its forceful
orators and organizers — one of that pecu-
liar dynasty of the socio-religious Negro
church who have built up this powerful
organization — but rather a moral regener-
ator, an inspirer of ideal Christian living,
such as the world, even in its most callous
days, has ever recognized and honored.
Of such sort were Daniel Payne, the Little
Father of a million African Methodists,
and Alexander Crummell, the master
Christian. These have passed, and their
mantle of moral earnestness and impecca-
ble character falls worthily on Francis J.
Grimke. In Washington there stands a
small red church on Fifteenth Street, well
worth your visiting. It was one of the
earliest tangible protests of the better part
of the Negro world against noise and emo-
tionalism in religion. The children of its
founders and their children's children have
worshiped here until it has grown to be in
a special sense the moral center of black
Washington. Here, if you sit of a Sunday
morning, you will see immediately the per-
fect earnestness and moral fervor of the
tall, thin preacher whose stern, carved
lineaments are so impressive; and you will
hear a simple, clear-cut sermon with fear-
less conclusions. It will be easy for you
to see the influence for goodness and truth
and purity that now for full twenty-one
years has gone forth from these lips and
out from these low doors ; perhaps some
time in life you may learn how the influ-
ence of this one man, and of her whom
God joined to him, has in the course of
half a century of life, through the medium
of a pure home, a righteous church, and
unquestioned personal integrity, so built
itself into the lives and hearts of a myriad
of men and women as to make the world
visibly better for their living.

The late Dr. McCosh considered Mr.
Grimke, when studying at Princeton, ''as
able and promising a student as any we
had," and the same kind of testimony has
followed his life work as pastor, as school
commissioner of the District of Columbia,
as trustee of Howard University, and as
preacher at Hampton and Tuskegee. "I
do not really know whether I have done
anything worth mentioning or not," he
said once; "I have thought of but one
thing — the work, in which I have been
deeply, profoundly interested. I have

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longed with all my heart to be of service
to our poor, struggling race, and have
labored as best I could to help it in the
effort which it is making to rise. No one
has felt more keenly than I have the wrongs
that have been perpetrated upon us and
are still being perpetrated upon us in this
country. In spite of all the tremendous
odds against us, I am not disposed, how-
ever, to become despondent. I have faith

faintest doubt as to the outcome, if we will
trust in God and do our level best." So
are the souls tuned who will yet make the
Negro race the salt of this poor earth.

Thus we have striven in the world of
work. But the Negro, as the world has
yet to learn, is a child of the spirit, tropical
in birth and imagination, and deeply sensi-
tive to all the joy and sorrow and beauty
of hfe. His message to the world, when

Photograph by Tiice

FRANCIS JAMES GRIMKE

CLERGYMAN

it comes in fullness of speech and conscious
power, will be the message of the artist,
not that of the politician or shop-keeper.
Already now, and in the past, have flashed
faint forerunners, half-conscious of the
message in them, choked at times by its
very fervor: Phillis, the crude singer.
It is in this faith that I am living and Aldridge, the actor, Burleigh, and Rosa-
moving and working. I have not the mond Johnson. Over the sea the masters

in God; faith in the race; and faith in the
ultimate triumph of right.

' Be strong !
It matters not how deep entrenched the wrong,
How hard the battle goes, the day, how long.
Faint not, fight on ! Tomorrow comes the song.'

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have appeared — Poushkin and Dumas and
Coleridge Taylor — aye, and Robert Brown-
ing, of whose black blood the world but
whispers. Here in America three artists
have risen to places of recognized import-
ance— Dunbar, the poet; Chesnutt, the
novelist ; and Tanner, the painter.

Widely different are these men in origin
and method. Dunbar sprang from slave
parents and poverty; Chesnutt from free

a year for scribbling about black folk ? Of
the dozens of colored men who, if encour-
aged, might have thought and painted and
sung, these three alone pressed on, refus-
ing lightly to be turned aside.

So out of the heart of Dunbar bubbled
the lyrics of lowly life — in inimitable rhythm
and beauty, with here and there a tinge of
the sorrow songs. Tanner painted slowly,
carefully, with infinite pains and alluring

Photograph by Baker

PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR

POET

parents and thrift ; while Tanner was a
bishop's son. To each came his peculiar
temptation — to Dunbar the blight of pov-
erty and sordid surroundings; to Tanner
the active discouragement of men who
smiled at the idea of a Negro wanting to
paint pictures instead of fences ; and to
Chesnutt the temptation of money mak-
ing— why leave some thousands of dollars

color, deeply original and never sensational,
until his pictures hang in many of the
world's best galleries. Chesnutt wrote
powerfully, but with great reserve and sug-
gestiveness, touching a new realm in the
borderland between the races and making
the world listen with one short stor\ .

These are the men. Hut already you
are impatient with a question, " How much

From photograph hy S ewton

PROFESSOR W. E. BURGHARDT DU BOIS

SOCIOLOGIST

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Negro blood have they ? " The attitude of
the American mind toward the mulatto is
infinitely funny. Mixture of blood is dire
damnation, cry the men who did the mix-
ing, and then if a prophet arise within the
Veil or a man of any talent — " That is due
to his mixed blood," cry the same men.
If, however, we study cases of ability and
goodness and talent among the American
Negroes, we shall have difficulty in laying
down any clear thesis as to the efifect of
amalgamation. As a matter of historic
fact the colored people of America have
produced as many remarkable black men
as mulattoes. Of the men I have named,
three are black, two are brown, two are half
white, and three are three-fourths white.
Many of those with white blood had one
or two generations' start of the others,
because their parents or grandparents were
natural children of rich Southerners, who
sent them North and educated them while
the black men toiled in the fields. Then,
too, the mulatto is peculiarly the child of
the city ; probably two-thirds of the city
colored people are of mixed blood ; and it
is the city that inspires and educates the
lowly and opens the doors of opportunity.
If we choose among these men the two of
keenest intellect, one is black and the other
is brown; if we choose the three of strongest
character, two are yellow and one is black.
If we choose three according to their
esthetic sensibility, one is black, one is
yellow, and one is three-fourths white.
And so on. Let wise men decide from
such cases the exact efifect of race mixture,
for I cannot.

But what has this to do with the main
point? The fact remains that these men,
all of them, are representatives of the
American Negroes, and whether they rep-
resent the five million black, or the four
million brown, yellow, and white hosts of
this group, they all equally represent those
who suffer from caste proscription, from
political disability, and wanton narrowing
of opportunity. And against this injustice
their lives make eloquent and ringing
protest.

(At'anta University)

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A Note on Dr. DuBois

A survey of the notable achievements of
men of Negro blood would be sadly incom-
plete if it failed to include a word regarding
the career of the author of the foregoing
article. His influence in promoting the
highest interests of his race is hardly less
potent than that of the distinguished
principal of Tuskegee Institute.

In preparing for his life-work Dr.
Du Bois enjoyed the largest opportunities
which the highest type of education can
offer. He is a Harvard man with the added
advantage of the impress of a great German
university. Since 1896 he has held the
chair of sociology in Atlanta University.

It would not have been surprising if this
broadly cultured scholar had developed a
sense of detachment from the interests of
his race, but instead he has dedicated his
best powers most unreservedly to the ser-
vice of his people. The race discussion
has hitherto been characterized by a super-
fluity of prejudice and a dearth of exact
information. The most sweeping general-
izations have been made by the " car-win-
dow sociologists." But now the investi-
gations of Dr. Du Bois have applied the
methods of exact statistical science to the
examination of the Negro problem. The
rhetorician with his theory is at last con-
fronted by the scientist with his facts.
Furthermore, this man who has the facts
is competent to interpret them. He
understands the view-point of the white
race as thoroughly as he knows the needs
of the Negro.

His recent book. The Souls of Black
Folk, reveals the range of his power. As
you read, you recognize the impartial his-
torian, the sober statistician, the fearless
critic of men and systems. But you dis-
cover also a man of fine poetic tempera-
ment who is able to step aside from
economic discussion to lead you "within
the Veil, raising it that you may view
faintly its deeper recesses — the meaning of
its religion, the passion of its human sor-
row, and the struggle of its greater souls."
His economic science is not invalidated
by his poetic strain, and the imagina-
tive touch in his work reveals the secret
of the influence of this scholarly leader
upon a people whose emotions are strongly
developed. — EDITOR.

From photograph by London Stereoscopic Co.

FRANCIS BRET HARTE

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Bret Harte and the
Argonauts

By Albert E. Hancock

Of all the States in the Union
Virginia and California, perhaps,
present the most effective back-
grounds for the canvases of fiction.
There is something about both
that makes an unusual appeal to
the imagination, something dis-
tinctive yet strikingly American.
Virginia always suggests the fine
old traditions of the expiring aris-
tocracy, and California, with its
rare natural scenery, illustrates
that rapid, almost feverous, devel-
opment which has been so conspic-
uous in the growth of American
civilization. Moreover, there is a
certain tone in California life
which gives to that common-
wealth an artistic distinction.

In 1848 California was an un-
disturbed paradise, thinly popu-
lated by Spanish rancheros, Jesuit
priests, and flat-faced Indians, all of
whom passed their lives in a sort
of languorous inactivity. Then
the peace of that ambitionless ease
was broken by the cry of Gold !
Gold ! Gold ! and alien immi-
grants hurried into her valleys with
the eagerness of a crowd dashing
to a fire. Cities and towns were
built under rush orders, and for a
decade the eyes of the world were

TENNESSEE'S PARTNER

BY BRET HARTE

I do not think that we ever knew his real name.
Our ignorance of it certainly never gave us any
social inconvenience, for at Sandy Bar in 1854
most men were christened anew. Sometimes these
appellatives were derived from some distinctiveness
of dress, as in the case of "Dungaree Jack"; or
from some peculiarity of habit, as shown in " Sal-
leratus Bill," so called from an undue proportion
of that chemical in his daily bread ; or from some
unlucky slip, as exhibited in " The Iron Pirate," a
mild, inoffensive man, who earned that baleful title
by his unfortunate mispronunciation of the term
"iron pyrites." Perhaps this may have been the
beginning of a rude heraldry; but I am constrained
to think that it was because a man's real name in
that day rested solely upon his own unsupported
statement. "Call yourself Clifford, do you?" said
Boston, addressing a timid newcomer with infinite
scorn; "hell is full of such Clififords ! " He then
introduced the unfortunate man, whose name hap-
pened to be really Clififord, as "Jay-bird Charley"
— an unhallowed inspiration of the moment that
clung to him ever after.

But to return to Tennessee's Partner, whom we
never knew by any other than this relative title;
that he had ever existed as a separate and distinct
individuality we only learned later. It seems that
in 1853 he left Poker Flat to go to San Francisco,
ostensibly to procure a wife. He never got any

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directed toward California with
the absorbing interest of an audi-
ence watching a play on the stage.
In time the nuggets on the sur-
face were exhausted, mining be-
came an ordinary industry, and
the surplusage of population turned
to the steadier and more remuner-
ative tilling of the soil. Then the
state was transformed into a ver-
itable garden — a land of beauty,
of sunlight and song, which might
well vie with Italy.

farther than Stockton. At that place he was
attracted by a young person who waited upon the
table at the hotel where he took his meals. One
morning he said something to her which caused
her to smile not unkindly, to somewhat coquet-
ishly break a plate of toast over his upturned,
serious, simple face, and to retreat to the kitchen.
He followed her, and emerged a few moments
later, covered with more toast and victory. That
day week they were married by a Justice of the
Peace, and returned to Poker Flat. I am aware

Photograph by Sarony

BRET HARTE IN 1872

But those pioneers of '49 — the
Argonauts of the western world —
in that remote country acted all
the parts of a drama whose theme
was an ineradicable human lust.
For a brief space their play was in-
tense, exhilarating; suddenly they
vanished, leaving scarcely a trace

that something more might be made of this epi-
sode, but I prefer to tell it as it was current at
Sandy Bar — in the gulches and bar-rooms — where all
sentiment was modified by a strong sense of humor.
Of their married felicity but little is known, per-
haps for the reason that Tennessee, then living
with his partner, one day took occasion to say

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of their existence. In 1853 at
Poker Flat there were two thou-
sand people, a hundred stores, five
hotels, seven gambling dens, and
when, one day, a circus came to
town, fifteen hundred tickets were
sold at twenty dollars apiece.
At present there are only half a
dozen tumble-down shacks in the
place, and less than a dozen per-
sons remain to suggest to the
imagination the lawless tumult
that once reigned supreme upon
this spot.

something to the bride on his own account, at
which, it is said, she smiled not unkindly, and
chastely retreated — this time as far as Marysville,
where Tennessee followed her, and where they
went to housekeeping without the aid of a Justice
of the Peace. Tennessee's Partner took the loss
of his wife simply and seriously, as was his fashion.
But to everybody's surprise, when Tennessee one
day returned from Marysville, without his partner's
wife — she having smiled and retreated with some-
body else — Tennessee's Partner was the first man
to shake his hand and greet him with affection.

Photograph by Downey, London

BRET HARTE IN 1886

The Argonauts were a strange
medley of culture and rifif-raff . As
a rule they were young men who,
restless at the slow gains of busi-
ness or desperate in the losing
struggle with fortune, took chances
with an unknown fate. Some of
them ran away from the querulous

The boys who had gathered in the canon to see
the shooting were naturally indignant. Their
indignation might have found vent in sarcasm but
for a certain look in Tennessee's Partner's eye that
indicated a lack of humorous appreciation. In fact,
he was a grave man, with a steady application to
practical detail which was unpleasant in a difficulty.

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tongues of their wives, some from
the warrants of sheriffs. Some of
them secreted in their breasts locks
of hair and pink-tinted portraits,
while here and there was one who
could scan his Greek with schol-
arly accuracy or quote his Byron
with fluent ease. The ex-judge,
the ex-colonel, and the ex-convict,
clad in red shirt, coarse trousers,
and high boots, sat at the same
table and gambled away their gold-
dust with the indifference of men
who cared little, apparently, about
laying up treasures on earth, but
who, on the slightest provocation,
would snatch their weapons and
send their companions ^to a pre-
mature reckoning of their treas-
ures in heaven.

Few women were out there in
the earlier days. In the absence
of women that sentiment of chiv-
alry which is expressed in tender-
ness and devotion, and which is
always strong in men of blood and
brawn, spent itself in the loyalty
of comradeship. In the romance
of that life not the lover but the
partner played the principal part,
and the fidelity of man to man
was often as beautiful as the hero-
ics of love. Later when pros-
perity increased the women came
on its trail, and then that rough
and ready society took on the last
vices of the profligate world. Pre-
viously there had been the clash-
ings of the instincts of selfishness
and cupidity, the brute struggle
for the survival of the strongest.
These were bad enough. But
when the women, the dance hall,
the gilded saloon with the un-
speakable annex began to domi-
nate the life of the mining camp,
the colors of the picture became
gaudy and the details obscene.
It was a spectacle from the realis-
tic reproduction of which the true
artist would shrink. Rich though
it might be in variety and inci-
dent, if such a life were to become
fit material for literature, there
was necessary the interpretative
vision and the master's refining

Meanwhile, a popular feeling against Tennessee
had grown up on the Bar. He was known to be a
gambler; he was suspected to be a thief. In these
suspicions Tennessee's Partner was equally com-
promised ; his continued intimacy with Tennessee
after the affair above quoted could only be accounted
for on the hypothesis of a copartnership of crime.
At last Tennessee's guilt became flagrant. One
day he overtook a stranger on his way to Red Dog.
The stranger afterward related that Tennessee
beguiled the time with interesting anecdote and
reminiscence, but illogically concluded the inter-
view in the following words: "And now, young
man, I'll trouble you for your knife, your pistols,
and your money. You see your weppings might
get you into trouble at Red Dog, and your money's
a temptation to the evilly disposed. I think you
said your address was San Francisco. I shall
endeavor to call." It may be stated here that
Tennessee had a fine flow of humor, which no
business preoccupation could wholly subdue.

This exploit was his last. Red Dog and Sandy
Bar made common cause against the highwayman.
Tennessee was hunted in very much the same
fashion as his prototype, the grizzly. As the toils
closed around him, he made a desperate dash
through the Bar, emptying his revolver at the
crowd before the Arcade Saloon, and so on up
Grizzly Canon ; but at its farther extremity he was
stopped by a small man on a gray horse. The men
looked at each other a moment in silence. Both
were fearless, both self-possessed and independent;
and both types of a civilization that in the seven-
teenth century would have been called heroic, but,
in the nineteenth, simply ''reckless." "What
have you got there? — I call," said Tennessee,
quietly. "Two bowers and an ace," said the
stranger, as quietly, showing two revolvers and a
bowie-knife. "That takes me," returned Ten-
nessee ; and with this gamblers' epigram, he threw
away his useless pistol, and rode back with his captor.

It was a warm night. The cool breeze which
usually sprang up with the going down of the sun
behind the chaparral- crested mountain was that
evening withheld from Sandy Bar. The little
canon was stifling vv«th heated resinous odors, and
the decaying driftwood on the Bar sent forth faint.

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touch. By a fortunate chance a
man with just such quahfications
was ultimately found among the
Argonauts. His name was Francis
Bret Harte.

If you had seen him in London
during the latter years of his life,
you would never have suspected
him to be one of those frontiers-
men who lived under the rule of
Judge Lynch. He affected a mon-
ocle; he dressed with the splendid
fastidiousness of aristocracy; he
had the taste of an epicurean,
exactingly nice about all things.
There was about his features a
natural repose and distinction, as
if he were descended from a family
of old and high renown. His man-
ners were those of a polished cos-
mopolite. You might easily have
mistaken him, in his Astrakan
coat, for a French count of the
second empire. And yet at heart
he was a plain, simple American.
You are sure of that when you
read his works.

It was in 1853 that, at the age
of twenty-four, he left his Albany
home, set sail for Panama, crossed
the isthmus, and took ship again
for San Francisco. He was one
of those gold seekers who could
scan their Homer; for his father
was a teacher of Greek and had
given his son a classical education.
Bret Harte went into the fields of
Tuolumne County and worked a
claim with but little result. Be-
coming discouraged, he turned to
other things, and in the next fif-
teen years he rose in the scale
from express messenger and school-
teacher to journalist and editor of
the Overland Monthly. In 1867
he published a story that brought
him fame, and no manuscript of
his thereafter was ever refused by
a publisher. By the sketches now
associated with The Luck of 'I{oar-
jng Camp he gave to literature
a local color that was unique to
California. The East first recog-
nized his value, and while he was
still a prophet unhonored in his
own country clamored for a sight

sickening exhalations. The feverishness of day,
and its fierce passions, still filled the camp. Lights
moved restlessly along the bank of the river, strik-
ing no answering reflection from its tawny current.
Against the blackness of the pines the windows of
the old loft above the express-office stood out star-
ingly bright ; and through their curtainless panes
the loungers below could see the forms of those
who were even then deciding the fate of Tennes-
see. And above all this, etched on the dark firma-
ment, rose the Sierra, remote and passionless,
crowned with remoter passionless stars.

The trial of Tennessee was conducted as fairly
as was consistent with a judge and jury who felt
themselves to some extent obliged to justify, in
their verdict, the previous irregularities of arrest
and indictment. The law of Sandy Bar was
implacable, but not vengeful. The excitement and
personal feeling of the chase were over; with Ten-
nessee safe in their hands, they were ready to listen
patiently to any defence, which they were already
satisfied was insufficient. There being no doubt
in their own minds, they were willing to give the
prisoner the benefit of any that might exist. Secure
in the hypothesis that he ought to be hanged, on
general principles, they indulged him with more
latitude of defence than his reckless hardihood
seemed to ask. The Judge appeared to be more
anxious than the prisoner, who, otherwise uncon-
cerned, evidently took a grim pleasure in the respon-
sibility he had created. *'I don't take any hand in
this yer game," had been his invariable, but good-
humored, reply to all questions. The Judge — who
was also his captor — for a moment vaguely regretted
that he had not shot him ' ' on sight," that morning,
but presently dismissed this human weakness as
unworthy of the judicial mind. Nevertheless, when
there was a tap at the door, and it was said that
Tennessee's Partner was there on behalf of the
prisoner, he was admitted at once without question.
Perhaps the younger members of the jury, to whom
the proceedings were becoming irksomely thought-
ful, hailed him as a relief.

For he was not, certainly, an imposing figure.
Short and stout, with a square face, sunburned
into a preternatural redness, clad in a loose duck
*' jumper" and trousers streaked and splashed with

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of him. So eastward he went,
where, as a writer and a lecturer,
he estabhshed his financial fortune.
After he became known the world
over as a master of the short story,
he removed to London and there
resided until his recent death.

Thirty years ago he was most
widely known as the author of
Plain Language from Truthful
James, immortalizing Ah Sin, "the
heathen Chinee." This was one
of those catchy, opportune poems,
mere doggerel in truth, which
phrase a fact or condition of
momentary interest. But it gave
him advertising notoriety ; for the
question of Chinese immigration
at that time was on everybody's
tongue. Harte wrote the lines for
their political and not their literary
effect, and he meant to insinuate
that the Chinaman was as imita-
tive as the monkey, and being
more sly, patient, and painstaking,
would inevitably surpass the Cau-
casian, not only in the tricks of the
card-table but also in the rivalry of
competitive labor. The other
sayings of Truthful James nowa-
days seem rather flat and forced ;
a contemporary popular mood
must have given him a borrowed
vitality. We must turn elsewhere
to justify the author's title to per-
manent recognition.

Bret Harte deserved his great
reputation. He was not, in the
large sense, an overwhelming ge-
nius. He was an artist who, like
Cellini or Teniers or Meissonier,
wrought exquisitely and perfectly
within certain definite bounds.
When he stepped beyond he was
mediocre. The world today cares
little about his satires of fashion-
able society, some critics declaring
that in these he is only an imitator
of Saxe and Praed. Few people
have read with keen relish his
attempts at long fiction, but every-
body, even Max Nordau wM"th his
pessimistic view of all things mod-
ern, will admit that he is an abso-
lute master of the short story, and
that his tales of the mining camps

red soil, his aspect under any circumstances would
have been quaint, and was now even ridiculous.
As he stooped to deposit at his feet a heavy carpet-
bag he was carrying, it became obvious, from par-
tially developed legends and inscriptions, that the
material with which his trousers had been patched
had been originally intended for a less ambitious
covering. Yet he advanced with great gravity,
and after having shaken the hand of each person
in the room with labored cordiality, he wiped his
serious, perplexed face on a red bandanna hand-
kerchief, a shade lighter than his complexion, laid
his powerful hand upon the table to steady himself,
and thus addressed the Judge:

" I was passin' by," he began, by way of apology,
'* and I thought I'd just step in and see how things
was gittin' on with Tennessee thar — my pardner.
It's a hot night. I disremember any sich weather
before on the Bar."

He paused a moment, but nobody volunteering
any other meteorological recollection, he again had
recourse to his pocket-handkerchief, and for som.e
moments mopped his face diligently.

"Have you anything to say in behalf of the pris-
oner?" said the Judge, finally.

" Thet's it," said Tennessee's Partner, in atone
of relief. "I come yar as Tennessee's pardner —
knowing him nigh on four year, off and on, wet
and dry, in luck and out o' luck. His ways ain't
allers my ways, but thar ain't any p'ints in that
young man, thar ain't any liveliness as he's been
up to, as I don't know. And you sez to me, sez
you — confidential-like, and between man and man
— sez you, ' Do you know anything in his behalf ?'
and I sez to you, sez I — confidential-like, as
between man and man — ' What should a man
know of his pardner?' "

" Is this all you have to say?" asked the Judge,
impatiently, feeling, perhaps, that a dangerous
sympathy of humor was beginning to humanize
the Court.

"Thet's so," continued Tennessee's Partner.
"It ain't for me to say anything agin' him. And
now, what's the case? Here's Tennessee wants
money, wants it bad, and doesn't like to ask it of
his old pardner. Well, what does Tennessee do?
He lays for a stranger, and he fetches that stranger.

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will live as long as men are inter-
ested in the early history of the
Golden Gate.

His literary bailiwick was a patch
of territory about sixty miles east
of Sacramento, and his most suc-
^ cessful characters were drawn
from that isolated group of human
beings who gleaned and gambled
away the richest fruitage of the
desert. He was, I have said, a
supreme artist, and he has revealed
this passing phase of life with the
temperament of one endowed with
the highest talents of insight and
expression.

In the first place Bret Harte
had the perceptive quickness of a
poet. His eye was trained to see ;
his senses were alert to catch the
fine shadings of color, odor, and
sound. He felt the wild joys of
mere physical being. The azalea,
the scented pine, the rapid rush
of water, the measureless sweep of
evergreen mountain slope, meet-
ing and melting into the paradise
blue of the sky, affected him like
a symphony. His terse style is
suggestive rather than descriptive,
and it gives to the reader the
vague haunting sense of the inex-
pressible. Nature in California
presented to him a spectacle of
impassive vastness. The silence
of the first dawn seemed to hang
over her hills, still vibrant with the
primal echoes of the Creator's
voice, and, like a god, nature
seemed to enjoy a benignant calm
that regarded the intrusions of
man with imperturbable uncon-
cern.

Bret Harte, however, was far
more a humanist than a poet of
nature, and even on such a stage
of natural grandeur, he won for
man a superior sympathy and ad-
miration. It is easy enough for
realism to paint vice and human
depravity; it is a far more difficult
task for art, without departing
from truth, to discern and har-
monize with evil the hidden vir-
tues of the ribald and the unre-
generate. But this Bret Harte

And you lays for him, and you fetches him; and
the honors is easy. And I put it to you, bein' a
far-minded man, and to you, gentlemen, all, as
far-minded men, ef this isn't so."

''Prisoner," said the Judge, interrupting, "have
you any questions to ask this man?"

No ! no ! " continued Tennessee's Partner,
hastily. I play this yer hand alone. To come
down to the bed-rock, it's just this : Tennessee,
thar, has played it pretty rough and expensive-like
on a stranger, and on this yer camp. And now,
what's the fair thing? Some would say more;
some would say less. Here's seventeen hundred
dollars in coarse gold and a watch — it's about all
my pile — and call it square ! " And before a hand
could be raised to prevent him, he had emptied the
contents of the carpet-bag upon the table.

For a moment his life was in jeopardy. One or
two men sprang to their feet, several hands groped
for hidden weapons, and a suggestion to "throw
him from the window" was only overridden by a
gesture from the Judge. Tennessee laughed. And
apparently oblivious of the excitement, Tennessee's
Partner improved the opportunity to mop his face
again with his handkerchief.

When order was restored, and the man was
made to understand, by the use of forcible figures
and rhetoric, that Tennessee's offence could not be
condoned by money, his face took a more serious
and sanguinary hue, and those who were nearest
to him noticed that his rough hand trembled
slightly on the table. He hesitated a moment as
he slowly returned the gold to the carpet-bag, as if
he had not yet entirely caught the elevated sense
of justice which swayed the tribunal, and was per-
plexed with the belief that he had not offered
enough. Then he turned to the Judge, and say-
ing, "This yer is a lone hand, played alone, and
without my pardner," he bowed to the jury and
was about to withdraw, when the Judge called him
back. " If you have anything to say to Tennessee,
you had better say it now." For the first time
that evening the eyes of the prisoner and his strange
advocate met. Tennessee smiled, showed his
white teeth, and, saying, "Euchred, old man!"
held out his hand. Tennessee's Partner took it
in his own, and saying, " I just dropped in as I was

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accomplished. Old Kentuck, in
The Luck of Roaring Campy to the
casual eye was simply an uncouth
shaggy animal; yet Harte saw that
he needed only the touch of a
baby's hand to arouse in him the
divine tenderness of the paternal
instinct, and it was his artistic
genius which gave to that instinct
the natural grotesque expression.
He wrastled with my finger — the

d d little cuss." Jack Hamlin,

by general repute, was a blackleg,
and yet in the depths of his nature
there was a sense of pity and loyalty
to friend that enabled him to rise
to a great renunciation. And
Miggles, poor Miggles, who had
sold her beauty to loveless ruin,
when the soul's final test came
could take up her cross and spend
her life in the service of an imbe-
cile paralytic. Bret Harte has that
insight which unerringly penetrates
behind the veil and flashes its
light into the darkness where the
spirit of goodness, cabined, cribbed,
confined in the dungeon of unholy
environment, languishes for release.
And he does this not as a- senti-
mental apologist, but as a dispas-
sionate believer in the ineradicable
divinity of man. He has such a
faith in man as a loyal wife cher-
ishes for a convicted husband.
Against the evidence of outward
fact he still believes.

This is his merit as a man. As
an artist, within his limitations, he
has again and again touched the
highest reaches of imaginative crea-
tion. It may all be true that his
plots are melodramatic, that he
cannot develop a character, that
he cannot sustain himself for a long
continuous effort ; but, in spite of
these things, he does see life in the
broad wholeness of its double
aspect. The profoundest creators
are all face to face with the fact
that life is a riddle — a paradox of
humor and pathos. Only a shift
in the point of view is needed to
change the smiles into tears. He,
therefore, is the greatest master of
the mystery of human nature who

passin' to see how things was gettin' on," let
the hand passively fall, and adding that "it was a
warm night," again mopped his face with his
handkerchief, and without another word withdrew.

The two men never again met each other alive.
For the unparalleled insult of a bribe offered to
Judge Lynch — who, whether bigoted, weak, or
narrow, was at least incorruptible — firmly fixed in
the mind of that mythical personage any wavering
determination of Tennessee's fate; and at the
break of day he was marched, closely guarded, to
meet it at the top of Marley's Hill.

How he met it, how cool he was, how he refused
to say anything, how perfect were the arrange-
ments of the committee, were all duly reported,
with the addition of a warning moral and example
to all future evil-doers, in the Red Dog Clarion y by
its editor, who was present, and to whose vigorous
English I cheerfully refer the reader. But the
beauty of that midsummer morning, the blessed
amity of earth and air and sky, the awakened life
of the free woods and hills, the joyous renewal and
promise of Nature, and above all, the infinite
Serenity that thrilled through each, was not
reported, as not being a part of the social lesson.
And yet, when the weak and foolish deed was
done, and a life, with its possibilities and responsi-
bihties, had passed out of the misshapen thing that
dangled between earth and sky, the birds sang, the
flowers bloomed, the sun shone, as cheerily as
before; and possibly the Red Dog Clarion was
right.

Tennessee's Partner was not in the group that
surrounded the ominous tree. But as they turned
to disperse attention was drawn to the singular
appearance of a motionless donkey-cart halted at
the side of the road. As they approached, they at
once recognized the venerable "Jenny" and the
two-wheeled cart as the property of Tennessee's
Partner — used by him in carrying dirt from his
claim; and a few paces distant the owner of the
equipage himself, sitting under a buckeye-tree,
wiping the perspiration from his glowing face. In
answer to an inquiry, he said he had come for the
body of the "diseased," " if it was all the same to
the committee." He didn't wish to " hurry any-
thing "; he could "wait." He was networking

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can see his characters in that puz-
zling complexity which calls at
once for merriment and infinite
pity. Shakespeare had this con-
ception of life, and so had Cervan-
tes when he sent his Don Quixote
— the buffoon and the hero in one
— of^ on his ludicrous quest. And
Bret Harte, in his minor way, had
the same feeling that it was only
the standpoint which made life
divertingly comic or pitiably tragic.
The instances of this are almost as
numerous as his stories; Tennessee's
Partner is only one of its best illus-
trations. The man called "Ten-
nessee" is hung on Marley's Hill
as a criminal. To Jack Folinsbee
he is only a thief gone to his just
deserts, and Jack, with the crowd,
follows the body to the grave,
jauntily playing on a mimic trom-
bone, while the dead man's part-
ner, the sole mourner at the fun-
eral, gives to the last remains of
the desperate rogue the devotion
of a comrade faithful in disgrace
and in death. The mining camp
had got rid of a pestiferous felon ;
Tennessee's Partner had lost his
only friend, and the laughter and
the tears were merely matters of
point of view. The burial was
the last act in the tragicomedy
of hfe.

So, we may say that while Bret
Harte occupies a unique position
as the imaginative historian of the
Argonauts and the days of '49 in
California, his greatest merit as a
humanist is his preception and
revelation of the dual significance
of life. He knows that life is a
riddle — at once a comedy and a
tragedy — a mystery which every
man must read through the preju-
dices of his own personal tempera-
ment. For his own part, even
amid the depravity of a mining
town, he is an optimist — an opti-
mist with a sane knowledge of the
facts to the contrary.

{Haverford College)

that day ; and when the gentlemen were done with
the " diseased," he would take him. ' Ef thar is
any present," he added, in his simple, serious way,
" as would care to jine in the fun'l, they kin come."
Perhaps it was from a sense of humor, which I
have already intimated was a feature of Sandy
Bar — perhaps it was from something even better
than that ; but two-thirds of the loungers accepted
the invitation at once.

It was noon when the body of Tennessee was
delivered into the hands of his partner. As the
cart drew up to the fatal tree, we noticed that it
contained a rough, oblong box — apparently made
Jrom a section of sluicing — and half filled with bark
and the tassels of pine. The cart was further
decorated with slips of willow, and made fragrant
with buckeye-blossoms. When the body was
deposited in the box, Tennessee's Partner drew
over it a piece of tarred canvas, and gravely mount-
ing the narrow seat in front, with his feet upon the
shafts, urged the little donkey forward. The
equipage moved slowly on, at that decorous pace
which was habitual with 'Jenny" even under less
solemn circumstances. The men — half curiously,
half jestingly, but all good-humoredly — strolled
along beside the cart; some in advance, some a
little in the rear of the homely catafalque. But,
whether from the narrowing of the road or some
present sense of decorum, as the cart passed on
the company fell to the rear in couples, keeping
step, and otherwise assuming the external show of
a formal procession. Jack Folinsbee, who had at
the outset played a funeral march in dumb show
upon an imaginary trombone, desisted, from a lack
of sympathy and appreciation — not having, per-
haps, your true humorist's capacity to be content
with the enjoyment of his own fun.

The way led through Grizzly Canon — by this
time clothed in funereal drapery and shadows.
The redwoods, burying their moccasoned feet in
the red soil, stood in Indian-file along the track,
trailing an uncouth benediction from their bending
boughs upon the passing bier. A hare, surprised
into helpless inactivity, sat upright and pulsating in
the ferns by the roadside, as the cortege went by.
Squirrels hastened to gain a secure outlook from
higher boughs; and the blue-jays, spreading their

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Bret Harte as a Parodist

The supreme proof of the fact
that Bret Harte had the instinct
of reverence may be found in the
fact that he was a really great
parodist. This may have the
appearance of being a paradox,
but, as in the case of many other
paradoxes, it is not so important
v^hether it is a paradox as whether
it is not obviously true. Mere
derision, mere contempt, never
produced or could produce parody.
A man who simply despises
Paderewski for having long hair is
not necessarily fitted to give an
admirable imitation of his particular
touch on the piano. If a man
wishes to parody Paderewski's
style of execution, he must
emphatically go through one pro-
cess first: he must admire it, and
even reverence it. Bret Harte
had a real power of imitating great
authors, as in his parodies on
Dumas, on Victor Hugo, on
Charlotte Bronte. This means
and can only mean that he had
perceived the real beauty, the real
ambition of Dumas and Victor
Hugo and Charlotte Bronte. To
take an example, Bret Harte has
in his imitation of Hugo a passage
like this :

" M. Madeline was, if possible,
better than M. Myriel. M. Myriel
was an angel. M. Madeline was
a good man." I do not know
whether Victor Hugo ever used
this antithesis; but I am certain
that he would have used it and
thanked his stars if he had thought
of it. This is real parody, insep-
arable from admiration. It is the
same in the parody of Dumas,
which is arranged on the S3'Stem
of "Aramis killed three of them;
Porthos three ; Athos three."
You cannot write that kind of
thing unless you have first exulted
in the arithmetical ingenuity of
the plots of Dumas. It is the
same in the parody of Charlotte
Bronte, which opens with a
dream of a storm-beaten clifi, con-

wings, fluttered before them like outriders, until
the outskirts of Sandy Bar were reached, and the
solitary cabin of Tennessee's Partner.

Viewed under more favorable circumstances, it
would not have been a cheerful place. The unpic-
turesque site, the rude and unlovely outlines, the
unsavory details, which distinguished the nest-
building of the California miner, were all here,
with the dreariness of decay superadded. A few
paces from the cabin there was a rough enclosure,
which, in the brief days of Tennessee's Partner's
matrimonial felicity, had been used as a garden,
but was now overgrown with fern. As we ap-
proached it we were surprised to find that what we
had taken for a recent attempt at cultivation was
the broken soil about an open grave.

The CcA was halted before the enclosure; and,
rejecting the ofifers of assistance with the same air
of simple self-reliance he had displayed throughout,
Tennessee's Partner lifted the rough coffin on his
back, and deposited it, unaided, within the shallow
grave. He then nailed down the board which
served as a lid; and, mounting the little mound of
earth beside it, took off his hat, and slowly mopped
his face with his handkerchief. This the crowd
felt was a preliminary to speech, and they disposed
themselves variously on stumps and boulders, and
sat expectant.

"When a man," began Tennessee's Partner,
slowly, "has been running free all day, what's the
natural thing for him to do ? Why, to come home.
And if he ain't in a condition to go home, what
can his best friend do ? Why, bring him home !
And here's Tennessee has been running free, and
we brings him home from his wandering." He
paused, and picked up a fragment of quartz, rubbed
it thoughtfully on his sleeve, and went on: "It
ain't the first time that I've packed him on my
back, as you see'd me now. It ain't the first time
that I brought him to this yer cabin when he
couldn't help himself; it ain't the first time that I
and 'Jinny' have waited for him on, yon hill, and
picked him up and so fetched him home, when he
couldn't speak, and didn't know me. And now
that it's the last time, why — " he paused, and
rubbed the quartz gently on his sleeve — "you see
it's sort of rough on his pardner. And now, gen-

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taining jewels and pelicans. Bret
Harte could not have written it
unless he had really understood the
triumph of the Brontes, the
triumph of asserting that great
mysteries lie under the surface of
the most sullen life, and that the
most real part of man is in his
dreams.

This kind of parody is forever
removed from the purview of ordi-
nary American humor. The wild
sky-breaking humor of America
has its fine qualities, but it must
in the nature of things- be defi-
cient in two qualities of supreme
importance — reverence and sym-
pathy. Can any one imagine
Mark Twain, that admirable
author, writing even a tolerable
imitation of authors so intellec-
tually individual as Hugo or
Charlotte Bronte ? Mark Twain
would yield to the spirit of con-
tempt which destroys parody. All
those who hate authors fail to
satirize them, for they always
accuse them of the wrong faults.
The enemies of Thackeray call
him a worldling, instead of what
he was, a man too ready to believe
in the goodness of the unworldly.
The enemies of Meredith call his
gospel too subtle, instead of what
it is, a gospel, if anything, too
robust. And it is this vulgar mis-
understanding which we find in
most parody — which we find in all
American parody — but which we
never find in the parodies of Bret
Harte.

The skies they were ashen and sober,
The streets they were dirty and drear,
It was the dark month of October,
In that most immemorial year.
Like the skies, I was perfectly sober,
But my thoughts they were palsied and

sear,
Yes, my thoughts were decidedly queer.

This could only be written by a
genuine admirer of Edgar Allan
Poe, who permitted himself for a
moment to see the fun of the
thing. Parody might indeed be
defined as the worshipper's half-
holiday. — By G. K. Chesterton in
The Pall MalLMagazine.

tlemen," he added, abruptly, picking up his long-
handled shovel, ''the fun'l's over; and my thanks,
and Tennessee's thanks, to you for your trouble."
Resisting any profifers of assistance, he began to
fill in the grave, turning his back upon the crowd,
that after a few moments' hesitation gradually
withdrew. As they crossed the little ridge that
hid Sandy Bar from view, some, looking back,
thought they could see Tennessee's Partner, his
work done, sitting upon the grave, his shovel
between his knees, and his face buried in his red
bandanna handkerchief. But it was argued by others
that you could n't tell his face from his handkerchief
at that distance; and this point remained undecided.

In the reaction that followed the feverish excite-
ment of that day, Tennessee's Partner was not
forgotten. A secret investigation had cleared him
of any complicity in Tennessee's guilt, and left
only a suspicion of his general sanity. Sandy Bar
made a point of calling on him, and proffering
various uncouth, but -well-meant kindnesses. But
from that day his rude health and great strength
seemed visibly to decline ; and when the rainy sea-
son fairly set in, and the tiny grass-blades were
beginning to peep from the rocky mound above
Tennessee's grave, he took to his bed.

One night, when the pines beside the cabin were
swaying in the storm, and trailing their slender fin-
gers over the roof, and the roar and rush of the
swollen river were heard below, Tennessee's Part-
ner lifted his head from the pillow, saying, ''It is
time to go for Tennessee; I must put 'Jinny' in
the cart" ; and would have risen from his bed but
for the restraint of his attendant. Struggling, he
still pursued his singular fancy: "There, now,
steady, 'Jinny' — steady, old girl. How dark it is!
Look out for the ruts — and look out for him, too,
old gal. Sometimes, you know, when he's blind
drunk, he drops down right in the trail. Keep on
straight up to the pine on the top of the hill. Thar
— I told you so ! — thar he is — coming this way, too
— all by himself, sober, and his face a-shining.
Tennessee! Pardner ! "

And so they met.

{Copyright, 1899, by Bret Harte. Published by special arrangement with
Houghton, Mifflin & Co.)

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S. Eytingc, Jr., in Every Saturday

''Ah Sin was his name'*

An Appreciation by an Old
Friend

Nobody else has drawn such vivid back-
grounds of Cahfornia scenery as those
which appear in Bret Harte stories. The
untidiness and squalor of the mining camp,
as well as the grandeur and beauty of the
natural scenery, are faithfully reproduced
by the master hand. With the solitary
editor of the Bugle, the reader hears the
tapping of the woodpecker on the shingled
roof of his forest office. As the funeral
cortege of Tennessee moves along the

skirts of the wood, "the redwoods, bury-
ing their moccasoned feet in the red soil,
stand in Indian file along the track, trail-
ing an uncouth benediction from their
bending boughs upon the passing bier."
And a touch of animated nature falls
where we see the picture of a hare, "sur-
prised into helpless inactivity" by the pro-
cession, sitting "upright and pulsating in
the ferns by the roadside" as the slender
column moves by. We catch again the
resinous odor of the redwoods and the
plaintive soughing of the pines, the dank
perfumes of the salt marsh, and the harsh

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call of the rain-crow, as we turn the magi-
cian's leaves.

The multitudinous phases of the rough,
reckless life of those early days are repro-
duced with faithfulness in Harte's pages;
of these he might truly have said, 'All of
which I saw, and a part of which I was."
A man who has spent years in drifting
among the solitudes and the scanty settle-
ments of California during its period of
social and industrial formation must needs
have a pouch full of recollections and
impressions unless he be a very dunce.
And Bret Harte was an exceeding close
observer of men and things; he was
endowed with a memory as plastic as wax
to receive and as firm as steel to hold. . , .

Harte's personality was gentle, winning,
lovable. His familiar conversation had all
the grace and charm of his literary work,
and, although he was a good talker, unlike
many another of his kind, he was a good
listener. Looking back upon one's inti-
mate acquaintance with him, one might
truly say that he was always a student of
men. He listened that he might see
through the eyes of other men. If he was
disposed to hypercriticism in his tastes and
in his judgment of the work of others, he
was unsparing in his criticism of that which
flowed from his own laborious pen. At
work he required the nicest adjustment of
materials and surroundings. One or two
disturbances would so interrupt the move-
ment of his thought that his task must be
laid aside until a more convenient season.
It can be truthfully said of him that he
never let go to the printing-press anything
with which he was not completely satis-
fied. The manuscript which he sent out
and the proofs which he had read and cor-
rected with many pains were alike illus-
trated with interminable interlineations and
changes.

Broad and catholic in his views of life,
Bret Harte instinctively looked for the
good that is in mankind. It is not true,
as has been injuriously said of him, that he
sufifered one virtue to outweigh a thousand
vices. He bade us regard the virtue ; and
he did not seek to hide the vice. One of
his German translators, Ferdinand Freili-
grath, said of him that he mined for gold,
"the gold of love, of goodness, of fidelity,
of humanity . . . which remains forever
uneradicated from the human heart"; and

the good old poet adds: "That it is which
drew hearts to him wherever the language
of Shakespeare, of Milton and Byron is
spoken."

In his peculiar field he had few imitators,
no successors. The short stories on which
his permanent fame will rest are flawless in
their finish and so felicitous in their con-
struction that no word could be added or
taken away without marring the effect of
the whole. No other American writer
has evinced such a perfect art as this. No
other American or English writer can paint
so broad a picture on so small a canvas as
that which Harte has used. — Noah Brooks^
in The 'Book Buyer, June, igo2.

Bret Harte

By Ina Coolbrith

Overland Monthly, September, ig02

A stir of pines in the forest,
A klink of picks in the mine,

And smoke from the tent and cabin
Under the oak and vine;

The peaks of the great Sierras,
Awful, and still, and white.

Piercing the clouds of sunset.
Touching the stars of night;

And the subtle scent of the laurel.
Pungent, that fills and thrills, —

The breath of the wonderful laurel
On the wonderful Western hills.

Men, of the brood of giants.
Lusty and young and strong.

With heart-pulse set to the rhythm
And lilt of a brave new song;

Mighty of nerve and muscle

As the hero-knights of old.
Fighting the New World battles

On the Field of the Cloth of Gold.

And O the scent of the laurel ! . . .

There's a new moon low in the west,
And the night is a brooding mother

With the tired world on her breast.

And these are her dreams and visions.

Who spake of a face that lay
Under the English daisies,

In a silence, far away ?

THE SARGENT PORTRAIT OF DR. MITCHELL

On the opposite page is presented the first reproduction of the portrait of Dr. S.
Weir Mitchell by John S. Sargent. The painter and his subject are of equal distinction.
Dr. Mitchell holds a position of undoubted eminence in both medicine and letters, and
to Mr. Sargent is conceded by competent critics, both American and European, the
highest rank in portraiture. The portrait faithfully reflects the artist's recognition
of the qualities of mind and heart that are represented in the face of his sitter. The
painter convej^s admirably the impression of strength, wisdom, and kindliness, and has
not omitted the humorous twinkle in the corner of the eye that no one who has had
the good fortune to know Dr. Mitchell can have failed to notice. The pose is
characteristic and dignified.

The coloring, from the very nature of the subject, is dark, except for the flesh
tints, the gray hair, and just a hint of red in the faint line of the cravat. The work
shows the sure touch, the faculty of definite expression of what he sees, that are the
distinguishing qualities of Mr. Sargent's best work. The portrait was painted during
the month of May in the Philadelphia studio of Mr. John Lambert.

From the painting by John S. Sargent

DK. S. WEIR MITCHELL

Photograph by Bertha M . Lothrop

BETWEEN MEALS

• PICTURES • AND ■ ART • TALK •

Etching enthusiasts have often deplored
the undeniable fact that this art has not
met with its just measure of popularity in
America, despite the temporary gleam of
encouragement that greeted it some years
ago. The cause may lie no deeper than
in the whim of fashion; it may be in a
genuine, if unreasonable, dissatisfaction
with the limitations of etching and an
unwillingness to accept its necessary con-
ventions. Or, perhaps, it lies in a certain
impatience which the uninitiated feel at
the postage-stamp variety of etching con-
noisseur— the collector with his talk of
trial proofs and remarques and first and
second states and destroyed plates, inter-
ested in an etching only for its rarity, not
for its beauty.

In whatever ground the objections are
rooted, the best answer to them lies in a
study of such a comprehensive collection
as that recently exhibited by Mr. Max
Williams, of New York, in Pittsburg, and at
the McClees galleries in Philadelphia. The
skeptic is speedily converted into the enthu-
siast as the sense of the power and scope
of the art, of its delicacy and freedom and
precision, is impressed on him anew.
Whistler is inevitably the most conspicu-
ous figure in the exhibition. His famous
Venetian set, from which one of the most
masterly examples, Tragetto, is repro-
duced in this number, occupies the place
of honor. Rotherhite, one of the Thames
series etched in the sixties, affords in its
massing of shades an interesting contrast
to the delicacy and economy of line of his
later work. It has been said that a
Thames bargeman, with short pipe and
jacket, is the only human figure in which
Whistler evinces any interest. Sir Sey-
mour Haden is well represented by a series
of landscapes, straightforward, decided,
rich in contrast. One of his most char-
acteristic but least-known subjects is here
given, IVareham Bridge, a spontaneous
and sympathetic work.

Nor are earlier masters forgotten. The
supreme technique of Rembrandt and the
almost morbid intensity of Durer find a
place beside the picturesque fantasy of the
ill-fated Meryon or the delicate, if not

wholly satisfying, tenderness of the land-
scapes of Claude. A good example of the
ease and completeness of the sketchy, light-
handed method is afforded by Detaille's
Cuirassier, in a trial proof — the inverted
head shown was etched out in the later
states — while Millet and De Gravesande
are not forgotten. It is to be hoped that
the revival of interest of which the success
of this exhibition is a symptom will go far
to raise the art of etching to its rightful
place in public esteem.

There was recently published in a pop-
ular magazine a series of pictures by
Henry O. Tanner representing the artist's
conception of four Mothers of the Bible.
The inspiration for this series is easily
traceable to the remarkable portrait of his
mother painted by Mr. Tanner in 1897,
now hanging in the home of his parents
in Philadelphia, which is reproduced in
colors in this number of The Booklovers
Magazine. The portrait is little known,
and has not been exhibited, but it is a
strong work, recalling inevitably Whistler's
portrait of his mother. Differing from
that famous picture in its color scheme,
it is in a low key, mostly of browns.
Qualities and characteristics manifest in
the portrait are also manifest in the Mothers
of the Bible. Always of a religious turn of
mind, and a student of sacred history — his
father is a Bishop in the African Methodist
Church — Mr. Tanner treated those pic-
tures with the same reverent care that he
has given to the more personal portrait.
When they appeared they attracted atten-
tion and provoked discussion, for they
differed materially from the ideals of any
previous painter. Especially was this the
case in respect to the Madonna, who has
none of the idealized beauty that is tradi-
tionally associated with almost all pictures
of her throughout the history of art. Mr.
Tanner has depicted her as a plain, typi-
cally Jewish woman, with only a great and
holy mother-love glorifying her face. It is
a fine and reverent conception, and while
it may not satisfy some aesthetic tastes, it
does credit to the artist's sense of fitness.

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Miss Elizabeth Wentworth Roberts'
seriesof paintings dealing with Emerson and
the Emerson country, the first of which was
reproduced in the February BooKLOVERS
Magazine, are attracting much attention.
They are the fruit of a summer's residence
in the old Emerson house in Concord.
Miss Roberts is a young Philadelphia artist
whose career has been almost uniformly
successful, but who has accomplished her
ends by untiring industry and an immense
amount of hard work. Her early studies
in this country were principally under the
direction of Henry R. Poore. Thence she
went to Paris, where she worked for two
years at the Academy Julian, and privately
under the instruction of Jules Lefebvre.
For six years this continued, and she then
devoted herself to the study of Botticelli in
Florence. Much of her work has a strong
religious tendency. With youth, enthus-
iasm, talent, and high artistic aims, her
career will doubtless justify the expectations
aroused by her recent notable work.

"^ ^ ^

The past few years have witnessed the
development in France of a method of color
etching which is bidding fair to absorb the
energies of artist and collector alike, to the
exclusion of the severer black and white
form of the art. By making the use of
color possible, the new process confers on
an art hitherto confined within somewhat
strait limits opportunity for unlimited
expansion. There are some technical
variations in the methods followed ; some
etchers use a single plate, applying the
color with a brush or cloth ; others use one
plate for the shadows and another for the
colors, while in still a third process a sep-
arate plate is made for each color. Two
examples of the new method are here
reproduced, Osterlind's The Dancer and
Muller's Playmates. Other artists who
are using it are Charles Huard, Robbe,
Delatre, and Houdard. There are not
wanting critics who consider the new
development treason to the past work of
the masters who found black and white
adequate for all their needs and refused the
adventitious aid of color. But the
movement is already far more than a
mere fad and gives promise of wide
development.

The Four Tipses of Frant Dvorak shows
striking mastery of the broader effects of
color. The artist came to this country in
1889, an absolute stranger with no recom-
mendation. He spoke no English, and
trusted solely to his art for his support.
He obtained several portrait commissions
in Philadelphia and secured the support
and recommendation of the late Mr. A. J.
Antelo. Many commissions came to the
young painter through Mr. Antelo's
influence, and later through the success of
his exhibit at the World's Fair in Chicago.
From this point success seems to have
followed him continuously. He has since
been enabled to return to Paris, the
artist's haven. He has exhibited in the
Salon in Paris and has obtained honorable
mention there. The picture reproduced
here belonged to Mr. Antelo, and was
purchased at the sale of his gallery by its
present owners.

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The present visit of Mr. John S. Sargent
to this country, from which he has been
absent several years, is of especial interest
as regards the mural decorations that he
has undertaken for the Boston Public
Library. It is universally acknowledged
that the second instalment in the series of
paintings comprised in his great scheme
suffers in no respect by comparison with
the first. His own words in regard to the
general plan were that he intended to rep-
resent the triumph of religion — a mural
decoration illustrating certain stages of
Jewish and Christian history." The first
series of paintings carried the idea from the
polytheistic theogony of Egypt to the
Mosaic period, closing with the stupen-
dous group of Moses with the tables of
the law, supported by Joshua and Elijah,
with the prophets both of lamentation
and hope on either hand. The new work
is called by Sargent himself The Dogma of
the 'Redemption. The word "dogma" is
significant ; it shows a deliberate design to
portray the Crucifixion, the Act of Redemp-
tion on the part of Jesus Christ, as a defi-
nite accomplishment with all its spiritual
significance, rather than simply to depict
one episode in the epic of Christianity.

To convey an adequate idea of so huge
a composition is not possible, but its main
features may be briefly described : In the

Alexander Stirling Calder, sc.

QUEEN OF THE RIVERS

MODEL FOR STATUE OF MISSOURI FOR LOUISIANA PURCHASE EXPOSITION

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centre of a high, arched panel is the figure
of Christ upon the cross. Behind and
above Him are seated crimson-robed fig-
ures representing the Father, Son, and
Holy Ghost in glory, each with two fingers
raised in benediction. Around the circle
of the arch are doves, each with a nimbus
above the head, representing the seven
gifts of the Spirit. The emblematic stole
of priesthood hangs from the shoulders of
the Christ, falling also across the figures of
Adam and Eve, crouching in a panel below
the arms of the cross. Each holds a chal-
ice to catch the blood dripping from His
hands. The woman kneels forward to the
cross, but with head averted. The man,
with one arm extended, looks away; about
his feet is coiled the serpent, the rest of
whose body is crushed beneath the pierced
feet of the Saviour. The lower end of the
cross is terminated by the representation
of a pelican, a familiar symbol of the sacri-
fice. This is the central design, and angels
and other symbolic figures flank it at length
to right and left. The color scheme is
deep blue and crimson, with notes of gold
and silver here and there, and the whole
has a subdued richness of tone that seems
to have felt the softening influence of cen-
turies. The principal figures are thrown
forward in bold relief, emphasizing their
importance, and adding greatly to the
artistic efifect. There are, in the concep-
tion, evidences of a deep religious feeling,
combined with a supreme power of imag-
ination, and in the execution there is the
exhibition of extraordinary technical skill.
It is ;i noble work that Mr. Sargent has
undertaken, nobly accomplished so far, and
it is the earnest hope of all lovers of Amer-
ican art that he may live to complete his
splendid project.

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The statue personifying the State of
Missouri, which is reproduced on the
opposite page, was executed to the order
of the Commissioners of the Louisiana
Purchase Exposition at St. Louis by Mr.
Alexander Stirling Calder, who received
the award after a competitive trial in which
were engaged many of the well-known
sculptors of the country. The accom-
panying photograph was made from the
original model in the sculptor's studio.
The reproduction for the Exposition will

be in stafif, and the figure will be of heroic
size. Mr. Calder has also in hand for the
Commissionersastatueof Philippe Renault,
one of the pioneers of New France.
Mr. Calder is a son of Alexander Calder,
himself a well-known sculptor, and his
talent, therefore, has come to him by
inheritance. He studied for some time in
Paris, where much of his important work
was accomplished. He has exhibited fre-
quently and has won many honors. He
has recently executed a memorial fountain
for the University of Pennsylvania, and
has done much in the line of minor decora-
tive sculpture and architectural ornament.
His decorative sense is unusual, and his
imaginative power has a wide range.

The sculptor thus sets forth the symbol-
ical significance of his latest work: ''Seated
in a chair whose supports are decorated
with fasces, Missouri holds in her right arm
the Caduceus, the emblem of commerce,
adopted by the State as being appropriate
to the most commercially enterprising of
the Western States. Her left hand rests
on a shield bearing the State arms, inter-
twining below with the fleur de lis, empha-
sizing the French origin of the State,
' Missouri ' being the French spelling of
Missuri, the native name for the great
muddy river. Tobacco leaves and flowers
are dressed in the head of the statue, while
a deer skin covers the lower part of the
figure. The wave line of the base is a
decorative suggestion of the great rivers
that flow through the State. In the whole
statue the thought has been the symboliz-
ing of the alert vigor of the powerful young
queen of the rivers, adopting civilization
and culture."

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It is reported from Genoa that several
famous paintings belonging to the collec-
tion in the Rosso Palace there have been
totally ruined by unscientific treatment.
The paintings included two Van Dykes, a
Carlo Maratta, a Pris Bordone, a Valerio
Castelli, and two Guido Renis. They
were intrusted for renovation to a profes-
sional cleaner, who applied an alkaline
solution which completely destroyed them.
It is stated that the Van Dykes were
among the most valuable specimens of his
work. The loss is incalculable.

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THE DANCER

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THE CUIRASSIER

TRIAL PROOF

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IN ANlMArPHOTOGRAPHY

Note: — The photographs ivhich illustrate this article nvere made by Mr. W. P. Dando^ the ivriter
of the paper ^ ivho is a specialist of high rank in animal photography. He is a Fellonv of the
Zoological Society of London and a Director of the great Zoo, ivhere he spends a large part of his
time making obser'vations and photographic studies of the animals. — EDITOR.

The idea of founding a zoological society
in London was no doubt originated by Sir
Thomas Stamford Raffles. From the T^/^/w-
oir written by his widow, it appears that in
1816 Raffles "meditated the establish-
ment" of a society on the principle of the
Jardin des Plantes in Paris, which finally
he succeeded in forming in 1826, under
the title of The Zoological Society of Lon-
don. From fifteen members and admis-
sions of only four visitors in 1826, the
society has grown to the present period
when it has about three thousand mem-
bers, five hundred fellows, a record of over
forty-five thousand visitors in one day, and
an income of ;!£^3o,000 a year.

The amount of food required to feed the
animals at "The Zoo," as the society's
gardens in Regent Park are popularly called,
is enormous. A chef at a first-class restau-
rant has not so many dififerent tastes to
cater for. It is astonishing to think that
more than 1,338 tons of food, equalling
about 3,000,000 pounds, are required
annually to feed the animals. The prov-
ender amounts to 1,168,400 pounds; the
fish, 35,000 pounds; the fresh meat killed
at the society's abattoir, 916,400 pounds.
Carrots alone work out at 173,550 pounds.
The menu is made up of 59 varieties of
food with "Liebig," 9,530 fowls' heads,
and 35,000 eggs just thrown in by way of
a luxury. These figures do not include
the enormous amount of food given to the

animals by the visitors. Over five hundred
" bags of food" is the average daily sale at
the refreshment counters ; and on a busy
day twelve thousand buns, three thousand
cakes, and thousands of rolls are purchased
and taken away by the visitors, mostly for
feeding the animals, while in addition tons
of food are brought in from outside. I
doubt if the feeding of the animals by the
public is a privilege which should be allowed,
as it is acknowledged by the society's offi-
cials that numbers of animals die annually
through overfeeding by visitors with
unsuitable food.

But it is my present purpose to describe
and illustrate a few of the most popular and
the rarer animals to be found in the
society's menagerie, all the illustrations
reproducing photographs from life.

As proof of the care and attention given
to animals at the Zoo, no better illustra-
tion can be afforded than Jim, the fine
Indian rhinoceros which was presented to
the society in 1864. Considering the
enormous weight of this animal he is
remarkably straight on his feet. Contrary
to popular belief, the skin of the rhinoceros
is not bullet-proof; in fact, it can be pierced
easily with a pointed knife. There are five
species of the rhinoceros — three Oriental
and two African. The Rhinoceros uni-
cornis, though known to the ancients, was
seen for the first time by Europeans in
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Portugal from India. Although the appear-
ance of these animals is clumsy, when
necessary they can run with great swift-
ness, and in their wild state they show
considerable ferocity when provoked.

Until lately Jingo, the tallest African
elephant in captivity, was housed in the
same building with Jim. Jingo was a
grand specimen, which had been brought
up at the Zoo from a "baby," twenty-
two years ago, and stood nine feet seven
inches high. Having about eight years

Kordofan, and were presented to the
society by Colonel Mahon, the gallant sol-
dier who relieved Mafeking. It will be
observed that the legs of the animals curi-
ously form the letter M, the initial of their
generous donor. The other giraffe illus-
trated is a much taller animal.

Another of the big animals which attracts
considerable notice is Guy Fawkes, the
hippopotamus, born in the menagerie,
November 5, 1872, her birthday suggesting
a name for her from the celebrated would-

JIM, THE OLDEST INHABITANT

more to grow. Jingo gave every promise
of reaching Jumbo's enormous height of
over eleven feet. Mr. Bostock's purchase
of Jingo, and the animal's death from sea-
sickness— or, what is more likely, home-
sickness— are well-known events of recent
occurrence.

The giraffe house, at present, contains
three very interesting specimens of these
costly animals, which the society has pur-
chased on more than one occasion for
about jC^OOO each. The two giraffes
which are illustrated together are from

be wrecker of Parliament. The animal is
a very fine specimen, and is a great attrac-
tion during the summer months when she
is let out into her outside quarters. These
are provided with a tremendous tank hold-
ing about a million gallons of water, in
which this enormous animal can totally
submerge herself.

The King has always taken great interest
in the Zoo. The record year for admis-
sion to the Zoo was the one in which His
Majesty, then Prince of Wales, deposited
the animals collected on his tour through

THH TALI HST GIRAFFE IN THE ZOO

GIRAFFES PRESENTED BY COLONEL MAHON

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India. The total number of visitors was
915,764, and the income for the year was

234.955.

The beautiful zebras are the admiration
of all visitors to the Zoo. The animal
shown in the illustration was originally
kept at Windsor, and was presented to the
late Queen Victoria by Emperor Menelik,
who at the same time gave a pair to Presi-
dent Grevy, of France, after whom this
species is named. The King last year pre-
sented this beautiful creature to the Zoo
with two other Grev^^s, and these three,

on all four legs and also on the loins, and
the "gridiron" markings extend upwards
from the root of the tail. These are the
only characteristics of the zebra which are
noticeable, the great mane of the zebra
being lacking, as are other prominent
features.

At the Zoo the wild Indian swine, pre-
sented by the King, attract much interest.
They are now fully established there.
Since the herd of swine, which the King
used to keep at Windsor, was abolished,
many litters have been seen at the Zoo.

GREVY ZEBRA PRESENTED BY THE KING

excepting one owned by the Duke of Bed-
ford, are the only specimens in captivity.
All four are females.

A most interesting animal at the Zoo is
the hybrid zebra, a cross between a stallion
horse and a Burchell zebra mare. This
unique animal was sent over to the King
by Lord Kitchener, who discovered it
among the remounts placed at the Gen-
eral's disposal during the Transvaal war.
The animal is very savage and wild, no
doubt through want of proper exercise.
The zebra markings are distinctly visible

All the wild swine, with perhaps one
exception, are marked lengthwise with
stripes when born ; and, curious to relate,
although domesticated pigs show no signs
of these markings, when they revert to the
wild state, as they have done in South
America and Africa, the young are gener-
ally striped when born. The Indian wild
swine are very savage if cornered, and will
"go for" anything — man, horses, elephants
— even though severely wounded.' The
boars weigh about 270 pounds each, and
are very ferocious.

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We are proud that we have a verj^ fine
specimen of the Rocky Mountain goat at
the Zoo,theonlyonein Europe ever brought
over alive. The specimen in the Philadel-
phia collection, I understand, is not as fine
as the one at our Zoo. These animals are
solitary in their habits. They are about
as large as full-sized sheep, and have long
white hair, well suited to harmonize with
their snowy surroundings. The hair,
which is very abundant around the throat
and neck, stands erect like a mane down

Of all the animals at the Zoo the mar-
supials hold the record for being "born in
the menagerie." My photograph of the
wallaby with young shows the head of the
young one protruding from the pouch,
with which all the native animals of Aus-
tralia are provided. I can find no reliable
testimony as to how the young are placed
in the pouch after their premature birth.
And no information on this subject is forth-
coming from any of the keepers at the Zoo,
although for years they have been close

SULTAN

the centre of the back. These goats range
all through the Rocky Mountains, and it
is with the utmost difficulty that hunters
reach their haunts, as they usually inhabit
the most inaccessible places. Although
they have the credit of being extremely
agile among their native mountains, the
lazy and stiff manner with which the speci-
men at the Zoo hobbles about on the very
poor imitation of rocks with which it is
provided, gives the impression that they
are very dull and stupid animals.

observers and have had exceptional facili-
ties; not one of them knows how or when
the transition takes place.

The lion house contains some very fine
specimens, two only of which can be
shown. Sultan and his companion Mona
were photographed upon the tree trunk
which is placed inside the spacious den.
Another splendid lion is Duke, a very
handsome animal captured by Grogan and
Sharp, those plucky explorers and authors
who made the first journey in Africa from

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south to north. This fine specimen was
brought to the Zoo as a cub in September,
1898, and is another example of the care
and attention given to any animals deposited
in the society's gardens.

The ape house at the Zoo, built at the
cost of £jooo, and opened to the public
last year, is quite a new departure in the
housing of apes and monkeys. The main
feature of this edifice is the entire separa-
tion of the part appropriated to the public
from that in which the anthropoid apes are

to handle and talk to Mickie, the pet
chimpanzee, and to see him go through
his performance of taking the keys out of
his keeper's pocket, selecting the right
one, and proceeding to unlock the door of
his cage — never by any chance offering to
put the key in upside down. Mickie can
make O and X with a pencil on a slate;
he plays at guessing which hand the larger
piece of apple is in ; he sits up, with a basin
and spoon, and eats as rationally as any
" grown up "; and does things which seem

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lodged. An extra thick plate glass screen
forms the division and runs the entire
length and height of the spacious building.
Up to the present time the new scheme
has proved most successful, as an even
temperature can be kept up in the animals'
quarters no matter what the outside tem-
perature is; and this is not varied by the
constant opening and shutting of doors.
The public, that used to feed and handle
the favorites in their old quarters, was at
first greatly disappointed at not being able

to point to reason as much as to instinct. But
the plate glass screen has stopped Mickie's
attraction as one of the most intelligent
apes in captivity. There were two other
chimpanzees in the ape house which were
exceedingly amusing, for, although quite
young, their blows, measured movements
and actions, were extremely ludicrous, and
served again to point to a power of reason-
ing, or to an instinct far and away beyond
anything exhibited by the more agile-tailed
monkeys. This pair of comic duelists were

WALLABY WITH YOJJNG

JIM AND SUSAN

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named Jim and Susan. Poor Susan (who
is represented on the right of the illustra-
tion) died suddenly, and poor little Jim has
to do a comic turn all by himself.

The new ape house also had as an
inhabitant a proboscis-monkey {Nestor
notabilis) which was the first specimen
ever seen alive in Europe. It was a weakly
creature when it arrived and did not live

Borneo apes do not live long in captivity,
and adult specimens are very difficult to
obtain. Two fine ones were lost at the
Zoo within twelve months, and the society
has not been able to replace them. The
ape house also contains specimens of the
silvery gibbon and a hoolock, both very
rare and very healthy. In our Zoo, also,
there is a splendid collection of birds and

MICKIE

many weeks. It was no doubt the rarest
monkey ever seen in captivity, and it proved
beyond doubt the gross exaggeration of the
drawings illustrating this monkey that are
found in most of the works on natural
history, and the errors that were performed
in setting up some of the stufifed speci-
mens seen in natural history museums.

Ourang-outangs have been well repre-
sented at the Zoo, but unfortunately the

reptiles. The exhibit of birds is generally
recognized as the largest and finest in the
world.

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MODERff DfflCr^BD I l!D1NG

The modern office building was an
entirely new problem laid before the archi-
tects of America. The conditions that
were to be met were growing imperative
and still lacked answer, when a radical
change in construction not only gave the
true solution, but proved to be the archi-
tectural opportunity of a generation. It
has been an inspiring task to take these
new conditions and mould about them an
expressive and beautiful form.

Twenty-five years ago the increasing
value of land in the centre of the larger
cities began to show itself in the greater
height of the buildings erected for business
purposes. At first there was a gradual and
slight extension upward of the old type of
structure, but a limit was quickly reached
beyond which the extra expense of heavier
construction outweighed the rental saved,
and beyond which human endurance in
stair-climbing had an end.

The steel-skeleton and the elevator sud-
denly opened up a field of untried possibili-
ties. There was now no assignable limit
to the number of stories which might be
built, one upon another, at a reasonable
cost, any one of which might be easily and
quickly reached from the entrance hall on
the ground floor.

The consequences that were to follow
were so various and so contrary to the pre-
cedent of architecture that they could not
be comprehended all at once, and as they
were realized one by one, at first as possi-
bilities, so radical were they that it was a
triumph of intellectual as well as mechan-
ical daring to put them into execution.

First among the signs of a great revolu-
tion, buildings appeared which soared up
into the air and sunlight to a height three
or four times that of the surrounding
masses of stone and brick. The ' sky-
scraper" had come into existence. Height
was from the first their notable character-
istic. Then, since the skeleton carries the
walls, story by story, and the walls carry
less weight than in the smallest of dwell-
ing houses, these could be made thin and
light, and the weight of the entire struc-
ture was greatly reduced. All this tended
toward airiness and delicacy of treatment.
An increase in the size of windows, answer-
ing a demand for brighter offices, led still
in the same direction.

Strange to say, at first few among our
architects seem to have appreciated the
new conditions as an incentive to original-
ity. Every means was used to mitigate the
apparent height of the new buildings ; every
means was used to hide the mighty skele-
ton, and to give to the walls the appear-
ance of sustaining their own entire weight,
as well as that of the floors and roof, as in
buildings of the older type. Instead of
expressing, emphasizing, the vital charac-
teristics of the new building, instead of
celebrating its raison d'etre in a fitting and
beautiful garb, the architect did his utmost
to make it look like what it was not. The
result was naturally hypocritical, incoherent,
and hideous.

There were office buildings that wore
the guise of feudal castles, and office build-
ings in which it seemed that the roof of a
two-story building of classic design had

PRUDENTIAL BUILDING, BUFFALO

A FRANK AND STRAIGHTFORWARD OFFICE BUILDING IN WHICH FUNCTION AND CON-
STRUCTION HAVE GIVEN CHARACTER TO THE DESIGN ; THE WALLS ARE SEEN TO BE
ONLY SCREENS, AND THE ORNAMENT HAS BEEN FITLY DESIGNED FOR THE ENRICHMENT
OF FLAT SURFACES AND PANELS.

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been lifted a hundred and fifty feet above
the original cornice line and the space filled
in with vast walls of an entirely different char-
acter, different in material, in construction,
in the style and arrangement of openings,
and in ornament. The prestige of the old
architecture was strong enough to control
in large measure the outward form of these
buildings, and, indeed, continues to do so
to this day. The inevitable logic of physi-
cal circumstances compelled designers to
accept a new ideal of construction, but few
among them believed that this called upon
them to forsake old ideals of beauty and to
discover a new type as individual and per-
sonal as that of a rose or poppy, and differ-
ing from the beauty of other buildings as
rose or poppy differ from larkspur or
golden rod.

Nevertheless, certain architects felt this
call and have lived and worked by it. Louis
H. Sullivan said, some half dozen years ago,
of the tall office building, that "to the art-
ist nature, its loftiness is its thrilling aspect."
This was the right note; recognize the
function and constructive basis, the char-
acter of the building, as the motive of the
only beauty that can really belong to it, or
seem to belong to it, and the first step is
won. But a building may be sincere and
functionally true, yet be the baldest of
prose architecture; for instance, the aver-
age factory building.

Art must add the imperial touch of
emphasis; "to the artist nature its lofti-
ness is its thrilling aspect." Now the
artist nature must so clothe the loftiness
that it shall be irresistibly thrilling to any
nature sensitive to such things ; that is the
business of the artist, his function in
society. With this in view, there will
sooner or later appear the perfect office
building, or better yet, and quite as possi-
ble, several equally admirable works, as dif-
ferent as are the various famous cathedrals.
Experiment and partial success must alter-
nate with prosaic barrenness until some
true solution dawns in the intelligence of a
man to whom the promptings and endeav-
ors of others are the atmosphere in which
he is to awaken to the work of lyrical
accomplishment.

Today is no time to dogmatize ; never-
theless, in looking along the line of half-
success, we can clearly see that there are
points at which victory has been more com-

plete than in others; some, again, where
we have been clearly baffled. Of the mid-
dle section, that above the second or third
story, as the case may be, and extending to
within a few stories of the roof, we can
find many examples of good treatment in a
negative sense, in which, if there is no clear
expression of construction, there is no false
pretense. In a few cases success has been
quite complete ; the expression of the ver-
tical members of the steel frame has been
taken as a decorative motive, the walls are
clearly seen to be screens only, not walls at
all, in the old sense, and the decorative
ornament has been fitly designed for the
enrichment of flat surfaces and panels.
Moreover, the comparative lightness of
these screen-walls has been given pleasing
expression in terra cotta and brick, which
lend themselves admirably to this end. At
the roof the traditional demand for a frieze,
and the unwillingness of designers to let
well enough alone, has done plenty of mis-
chief, but it is rather in the first three
stories that he who runs may read the
wildest tales of nightmare-blundering in
solid granite.

Here, of course, has been the strongest
tendency to adhere to old forms, which,
then, have been repeated at the roof with
strange effect. On the other hand, one
excellent designer, in his effort to free him-
self from tradition, let a fagade, otherwise
seemingly unsupported across its whole
width, appear to rest on an immense sheet
of plate glass ! A simple external expres-
sion of the girder which actually carried
the weight developed at that line would
have remedied this, and saved an otherwise
admirable and original work.

The difficulty of the problem at this par-
ticular point lies in the fact that, while the
mind instinctively looks for heavier walls
and piers to support the increasing weight
near the earth, yet because of their posi-
tion and the uses for which they are des-
tined, the lower stories dem.and larger
openings than the upper. This, in order
to secure sufficient light for the interior,
and also because in many cases the win-
dows are to be used for the display of
goods. Admitting, then, the almost para-
doxical nature of the requirements, the
fact remains that no completely satisfac-
tory treatment has been found. On the
one hand, we have buildings in which the

HARRISON BUILDING, PHILADELPHIA

AN EXCELLENT EXAMPLE OF THE ATTEMPT TO ADAPT THE ARCHITECTURAL MOTIVES
OF ANOTHER AGE TO MODERN NEEDS, AND TO BRING THE CHARM AND BEAUTY OF A
CHATEAU OF OLD FRANCE INTO OUR DAILY SURROUNDINGS.

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solidity and weight of the lower units satisfy
the eye, but in which at the same time
they are out of character with the greater
proportion of the superstructure, and are,
moreover, like stage properties, seeming to
carry a weight which they really do not,
but which is carried, as is evident above,,
by steel columns. This group of buildings
includes the greater part of those designed
strictly as office buildings and those in
which the first floor is used for banking
purposes. On the other hand, we have a
class in which the lower floors are frankly
treated to secure a maximum of light and
display space, and here almost inevitably,
it seems, there is a sense of inadequacy
and bareness.

The perfect office building is, then, still
an ideal of the future. Yet the natural
sense of discouragement felt in the thought
that among so many opportunities not one
has been fully grasped is but a form of our
national impatience. If we look at the
other side of the account, we can hardly
realize how much has been gained until
we compare one of the recently completed
buildings with the best of those dating
from the eighties. Impressive in height
they surely are, and each year shows a
steady advance in the expression of the
lightness and airy brightness that belong
with this. So far have we gone in this
direction that we hear of ' window-frame
buildings," in which the outer "walls"
are not even screens, but are reduced to a
mere sheathing of the iron columns as a
fireproof covering. The columns are of
fireproof steel and the sheathing walls are
of glass.

Again, look at a group of them from a
distance — see how they rise like great towers
in the midst of the city. At their feet
the old city lies dull and grimy ; only here
and there a spire or tower rises to break
the monotonous level of roofs, and only
the white ribbon of a sunlit street or the
green trees of some little park relieves the
smoky grey of the desert of houses. Out
of this, aggressive, vigorous, as if of a
more powerful and robust race, stand these
giants of modern construction. Other
buildings may hide a few of their lower
stories, but their clean vertical lines spring
out of the confusion below into a region
that belongs to them almost alone, and in
which their bearing is that of the superb

confidence and force of the nation of
which they are the embodiment and the
latest symbol. Have we not already,
in the largest sense, found memorable
expression ?

Or, forget all their details in the growing
dusk and look open-mindedly at them
again; now sparkling all over with lights
from within and so vast of height that
the cornice is almost lost in darkness;
men will not soon forget this ! Surely,
something of poetry already clings to them.

Functionally, moreover, the modern
office building is as perfect as anything
that man has made. The framework is
light, economical of space and material,
and yet is perfectly rigid. The floors and
walls are fireproof and practically sound-
proof, weigh but little, comparatively speak-
ing, and the arrangement of rooms and
halls is such that every room bears out the
impression of brightness and airiness that
belongs to the whole building. Then,
again, the elevator system, the lighting
and heating plants, and the plumbing sys-
tems all come near to the ideal of a maxi-
mum performance with a minimum of
material.

Nor can we afford to forget the far-reach-
ing influence that this evolution has had in
setting a new and higher standard through-
out the physical side of architectural work;
one which shows in smaller operations
quite as clearly as in the larger. The
office building of moderate size, the modern
hotel, the store building, and even the
dwelling house, all owe to the stringent
demands of the sky-scraper more than to
any other single cause a long series of dis-
coveries and inventions in method, material,
and design in which simplicity and economy
are combined with completeness and effici-
ency. Thus, the modern office building
has not only given us a new ideal and a
new motive in the art of architecture,
but it also stands as the exponent of man's
highest achievement along certain lines of
physical endeavor. To ,the least fixture
the building carries the impress of this
spirit of mechanical perfection, character-
istic of a time and people to whom per-
formance is the criterion of all things.

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CORN EXCHANGE BUILDING, NEW YORK

A SKY-SCRAPER MASQUERADING AS A FOUR-STORY BUILDING, IN PLACE OF
ACCEPTING AND EMPHASIZING ITS DISTINCTIVE CHARACTERISTIC OF HEIGHT.

BROADWAY CHAMBERS, NEW YORK

NOT RADICAL IN SPIRIT, BUT EXPRESSING ITS CHARACTER WITH CONSERVATIVE
MODERATION AND DIGNITY ; ESPECIALLY HONEST IN THE TREATMENT OF THE
MIDDLE SECTION.

ST. PAUL BUILDING, NEW YORK

A PLAIN FRAUD A3 TO THE NUMBER OF STORIES, WHICH PUTS IT ENTIRELY OUT
OF SCALE ; NEVERTHELESS IT HAS A DIGNITY DUE TO THE SIMPLICITY OF ITS LINES.

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PARK ROW BUILDING, NEW YORK

IN THIS GIANT A FRANTIC EFFORT HAS BEEN MADE TO DIVERSIFY THE FACADE,
EVERY KNOWN DEVICE— ^COLUMNS, PILASTERS, CORNICES, BALCONIES, BROAD
WINDOWS, NARROW WINDOWS, CARYATIDS, MINARETS — HAS BEEN USED IN AN
ATTEMPT TO COVER THE SURFACE WITHOUT REPETITION.

TACOMA BUILDING, CHICAGO

THE FIRST BUILDING WITH STEEL CONSTRUCTION ERECTED IN CHICAGO, SHOWING
THE LARGE WINDOW AREA WHICH ALMOST FROM THE FIRST HAS BEEN CHARAC-
TERISTIC OF THE MODERN OFFICE BUILDING ; A DESIGN MARRED BY THE
LACK OF PLANE SURFACES.

MISSOURI TRUST BUILDING, ST. LOUIS

THE LIGHT-WELL IS ACCEPTED AS AN IMPORTANT FEATURE IN THIS DESIGN ; INSTEAD
OF BEING HIDDEN AWAY AS A NECESS/iRY EVIL IT IS USED TO GIVE INTEREST TO
THE FACADE. I

LAND TITLE AND TRUST BUILDING, PHILADELPHIA

SQUARE-BUILT THROUGHOUT, DEVOID OF CHARM EITHER OF FORM OR COLOR, IT HAS
ITS OWN VIRTUE : IT IS FRANK, AGGRESSIVE, AND TRUE TO ITS PURPOSE ; ONE WORD
MARKS IT — UTILITY.

ST. PAUL'S CHURCH, NEW YORK

THE CONTRAST OF THE OLD CITY AND THE NEW — ON THE ONE LIES AN ATMOS-
PHERE OF REPOSE ; IN THE OTHER THE URGENT PULSE OF LIFE BEATS FAST, AND
ITS GLOW AND FORCE ARE IMAGED IN ITS TOWERING BUILDINGS.

From photograph by Notman

CHARLES W. ELIOT

PRESIDENT OF THE NATIONAL EDUCATIONAL ASSOCIATION

A PARLIAM

A great man, an inspiring environment,
and an elaborate institutional device for
promoting professional and patriotic ends
— these are to be the outstanding features
of the greatest educational assembly of the
year, the forty-second annual session of the
National Educational Association, which
meets in Boston, July 6-10.

The great man is Charles W. Eliot,
president of Harvard University since 1869.
Indififerent to adverse precedent, the Asso-
ciation singled him out to preside at a meet-
ing held in the city where he has only one
rival as first citizen — Edward Everett Hale.
His personality will dominate the adminis-
trative and pedagogical aspects of the con-
vention. As presiding officer at the great
evening mass meetings in Mechanics' Hall,
he will introduce speakers with his custom-
ary felicity of characterization and terseness
of speech, and will himself contribute to
the discussion a formal presidential address
on the "New Definition of the Cultivated
Man." President Eliot personifies that
type of culture and aristocracy of which
Boston is proud, an aristocracy based on
character rather than on money or family,
and a culture which unites spiritual with
intellectual attainments. He will stand
before twenty thousand delegates and
receive the homage which is due prodigious
industry, unswerving loyalty to personal
and professional ideals, candor seldom
equalled, and conspicuous constructive and
organizing talent.

Other large personalities will be much
in evidence. William T. Harris, United
States Commissioner of Education, with
a quiet demeanor and strictly intellec-
tual type of personality, is always a power-
ful influence, whether in expounding prin-
ciples of psychology and philosophy, or
dealing with practical issues ; and in
formal or informal debates he is a fencer
whose foil goes straight to the mark or
disarms an opponent of his weapon. No one
gives a more distinct impression of intel-
lectual agility, of power to dissect an argu-
ment, to objectivize truth and walk around
it, and view it on all sides to see whether
it indeed be truth. President G. Stanley
Hall, of Clark University, is a prolific and
suggestive contributor, always stirring up

conventional folk by his unconventionality,
plainly making known his own opinions,
cross whose beliefs they may, and coming
to the problems of education with the pres-
tige of one whose training in problems of
psychology and pedagogy has been excep-
tionally ample and thorough. Another
speaker of authority is Nicholas Murray
Butler, formerly editor of the Educational
Review, and now president of Columbia
University. He, too, comes to the debate
with a reserve of theoretical knowledge
which practical educators have to respect.
While such men as Eliot, Hall, and Butler
stand for the higher institutions of learning,
it is from the normal schools, high schools,
and state and city superintendents that the
working rank and file of the association
are drawn, and these will be represented
by a group of notable men.

Confident of the result and admitting
his superior skill the educators of Boston^
who might naturally have been entrusted
with this duty, early left administrative con-
trol of the coming convention to President
Eliot, and last fall he at once picked out
a working group of six young men — Mr.
E. R. Warren, chairman, and Mr. Charles
Francis Adams, treasurer — upon whom
he knew he could rely for unlimited time
and labor, and this executive committee
of lieutenants has worked out with his
advice and that of local educators the
elaborate scheme of entertainment. This
plan had the advantage of giving the gen-
eral his choice of lieutenants, men who
can make a business of it for a time. It
centers responsibility both before and dur-
ing the convention, and it relieves the school
superintendents and teachers from exhaust-
ing extra labor.

Turning to environment, what will the
delegates find at Boston, and what
will they take away ? To many attend-
ing the convention its formal sessions will
be its least valuable feature. From
South, West, and Interior hundreds are
coming to see not only Boston but New
England for the first time. They will
attend the many summer schools — at
Harvard, Woods Hole, and Martha's
Vineyard. They will reverently travel to
historic shrines inseparably identified with

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the political and historical development of
the nation. Concord and Lexington,
Salem and Cambridge, the haunts of
Hawthorne, Emerson, Whittier, Long-
fellow, Lowell, Prescott, Motley, John
Fiske, Margaret Fuller, Louisa M. Alcott,
and Mary E. Wilkins will be sought out
by thousands of the delegates. Thus,
apart from what they gain in professional
ways, they will take back to their homes
an intensified Americanism and a broader
culture. Viewed in this larger way the
gathering has its splendid potentialties. It
will make for nationalism as against
provincialism.

Boston will bestir herself to provide
something more than the antique and his-
toric. Musicians from her Symphony
Orchestra and the Cecilia and Handel and
Haydn choruses will furnish choice con-
certs. The presidents of all her learned
societies and best municipal agencies are
serving in something more than a perfunc-
tory manner on President Eliot's advisory
committee, the plan being to put all of the
city's resources at the service of the visitors.
Harvard University, though not in session,
nevertheless will keep open house for the
benefit of the teachers. The Massachu-
setts Institute of Technology gives over
one of its buildings as an administrative
center. The Girls' Latin School is to
serve as a club house for the women.
Museums, art galleries, historical collec-
tions will be open — and free. In short, the
disposition is to put at the disposal of the
host of teachers all the facilities and treas-
ures which the city and the citizens have
for making a sojourner's stay in the city
broadly educational; and the program
has been arranged so that the afternoons
will be free for this form of instruction.
Boston, in effect, has said, " Here I am,
most ancient and most intelligent of cities
of the first class. Here I have stored up
priceless treasures — take and use them."

From persons to environment — and
now from environment to program and
mechanism as a demonstration of Ameri-
can capacity for organization. Slowly but
surely during the thirty-two years since
under its present name the Association
first assembled in St. Louis those leaders
most responsible for the success of the
association have built up a program for
the annual gatherings which, however

much the speakers may change, is remark-
able for the thoroughness with which the
entire field of education is covered. For
instance, at the coming assembly, in addi-
tion to the five large evening meetings,
when topics of general professional or
national interest will be discussed, there
will be held at the morning sessions more
than thirty meetings under eighteen
departmental subdivisions of the associa-
tion, at which two hundred and fifty
speakers will be heard in formal papers or
speeches, not to mention others who will
participate in the supplementary round-
table conferences.

Obviously, in planning this elaborate
and carefully articulated program, much
responsibility falls upon the heads of sev-
eral departments. Hitherto they have
worked very much in independence of each
other and without preliminary conference
with the president. One of the radical
innovations of President Eliot was his
prompt summoning to Boston, six months
in advance of the convention, fifteen of
the departmental heads, and with them
undertaking the task of co-ordinating the
program and enlisting the speakers best
fitted to deal with specific subjects. The
result is apparent.

Hitherto at conventions the assembling
of so many teachers and school officials has
been utilized by publishers and makers of
school apparatus for a display of text-books
and school paraphernalia. Nothing of the
kind will be permitted at this convention.
It is to be an educational conference and
not a commercial venture, and all aspects
of commercialism in connection with it are
to be eliminated.

Coming more directly to the program
itself it is seen to be full of suggestion to a
thoughtful citizen. That the times demand
a new definition of the term culture, and
fresh efforts to conserve culture after it is
redefined, is shown by President Eliot's
choice of theme for his presidential address.
The vital importance to the nation of ade-
quate educational facilities in the South is
shown by giving over one of the popular
evening sessions to Governor Aycock, of
North Carolina, and some of the administra-
tive officials of the Southern Educational
Board. Manual training and technical
education have the center of the stage at
another great mass-meeting ; and school

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gardens, city school yards, and the sur-
roundings of rural schools, at another
such session.

The ever-increasing interest in suitable
religious education, whether in Sunday-
schools or week-day schools, is met in a
departmental session when Bishop J. L.
Spalding, the eminent Roman Catholic
prelate and thinker, Professor George A.
Coe, of Northwestern University, who so
rapidly is coming to the front as an author-
ity on the psychology of religion, and Com-
missioner Harris, will discuss the theme.
Mr. R. W. Gilder, of the Century, will
champion the kindergarten as an uplifting
influence in the home and community.
Nature study will have the championship
of Rev. William J. Long, whose ideas of
animals and their intelligence have recently
called forth rather bitter condemnation from
John Burroughs. The vexed matter of
the length of the college course necessary
to gain the bachelor's degree, and the time
of preparation for professional schools, will
be argued by Presidents Eliot of Harvard
and Butler of Columbia University.

Symptomatic of the new outlook of the
nation beyond itself toward the trade of
the world, and a sign of the demand that
our schools fit our children and youth to
enter better in competition commercially
with youth trained in German and French
schools — England's competition we have
little reason to fear — is the topic of " Trade
Schools" to be discussed both from the
manufacturer's and from the educator's
point of view, and as to the technique of
their organization and the probable rela-
tion of trades-unions to them. Further-
more, a report will be presented by a
committee of ten experts, appointed at the
last meeting, who will formulate a com-
mercial course for American high schools.

Such themes as these are prophetic of a
new day in esthetics and in politics in this
country. We are to be keener lovers of
beauty, and are to train our youth more
and more in handicrafts that will minister
to the beautiful. We are to capture the
markets of the world by adding to our
natural talent for business and industry,
and to our unrivalled natural resources, the
best trained body of artisans and business
men in the world, not excepting the Ger-
mans. And hereafter our political foreign
policy is to reflect our trade policy, which is

to be one of expansion and reaching out
to the ends of the earth.

One cannot glance over these and the
many other themes to be discussed by this
convention without being deeply impressed
with the inclusiveness of the word educa-
tion, as it is defined by American educators,
and also with the area of territory from
which professional experts can be drawn
to discuss technical problems. The East
may furnish the president and the meeting
place this year, but the participants in the
convention and its governing personalities
under normal conditions are principally
from the Interior and West. The inhabi-
tants of the Mississippi valley shape the
politics of the country now, and their
educators control the National Educational
Association. New England in the earlier
years of its history furnished a dispropor-
tionate number of officers because of her
acknowledged primacy in matters educa-
tional. But that day is past. Education in
the Interior and West has great common-
wealths back of it, from kindergarten to
university. In New England the colleges
and universities are dependent on private
benefactions; and, as President Eliot has
recently intimated, in such competition
between donors the state-backed systems
must win.

Appraised independently of its technical
or professional value, an assemblage which
brings together twenty thousand influen-
tial molders of opinion from every state
and territory in the union, and enables
them to rise above sectional points of view
to the plane of national unity and kindred
oneness as citizens of a nation, is to be
rated as a valuable medium for the unifi-
cation of opinion in matters political and
ethical as well as pedagogical. Its heroes
are men of peace and wisdom. Its
enthusiasms are not the passions of a
thoughtless mob but the sentiments of
disciplined minds and seekers after the
ideal. It will be worth going many miles
to see the spectacle when the vast
audience of teachers rises to its feet to
salute its president and begin the vital
discussions of the convention.

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The CongregationalistJ

Courtesy of Collier's Weekly

A> CLOSE CALL

Three RemarKable Inventions

One after another, almost within the
space of a single year, Mr. Peter Cooper
Hewitt, of New York City, has given the
world three remarkable electrical inven-
tions. Any one of them would be suffi-
cient to make a man famous; the three
have placed Mr. Hewitt in the very front
rank of present-day inventors and scien-
tists. So high an authority as Lord Kelvin,
the greatest of living electricians, said after
his recent visit to this country:

What attracted me most in America
was the work of Mr. Peter Cooper Hewitt
and his vacuum lamp."

And the public at large is quite as deeply
concerned as the scientists, for the new
inventions have an intimate importance
for every man, woman, and child in the
country.

Briefly, this is their essence and signifi-
cance :

First. — The new electric lamp.

On an evening in January, 1902, a great
crowd was attracted to the entrance of the
Engineers' Club in New York City. Over
the doorway a narrow glass tube gleamed
with a strange blue-green light of such
intensity that print was easily readable
across the street, and yet so softly radiant
that one could look directly at it without
the sensation of blinding discomfort which
accompanies nearly all brilliant artificial
lights. The light was dififerent from any-
thing ever seen before, grateful to the eyes,
much like daylight, only giving the face a
curious, pale green, unearthly appearance.
The cause of this phenomenon was soon

evident ; the tubes were seen to give forth
all the rays except red — orange, yellow,
green, blue, violet — so that under its illum-
ination the room and the street without,
the faces of the spectators, the clothing of
the women lost all their shades of red;
indeed, changing the very face of the world
to a pale green-blue. Here was an entirely
new sort of electric light. The familiar
incandescent lamp, the invention of
Thomas A. Edison, though the best of all
methods of illumination, is also the most
expensive. Mr. Hewitt's lamp, though
not yet adapted to all purposes served by
the Edison lamp, on account of its peculiar
color, produces eight times as much light
with the same amount of power. It is
also practically indestructible, there being
no filament to burn out ; and it requires
no special wiring. By means of this inven-
tion electricity, instead of being the most
costly means of illumination, becomes the
cheapest — cheaper even than kerosene.

Second. — A new, cheap, and simple
method of converting alternating electrical
currents into direct currents.

The apparatus now in use is cumber-
some, expensive, and wasteful. Mr.
Hewitt's new converter is a mere bulb of
glass or of steel, which a man can hold in
his hand. A three-pound Hewitt converter
will do the work of a seven-hundred-pound
apparatus of the old type ; it will cost dol-
lars where the other costs hundreds; and
it will save a large proportion of the elec-
tricity wasted in the old process. By this
simple device, therefore, Mr. Hewitt has
in a moment extended the entire range of
electrical development. Every electric

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railroad, every lighting plant, every factory
using electricity, is intimately concerned in
Mr. Hewitt's device, for it will cheapen
their power, and thereby cheapen their
products to you and to me.

Third. — The third invention is in some
respects the most wonderful of the three.
Technically, it is called an electric inter-
rupter or valve.

The chief demand for an interrupter has
come from the scores of experimenters who
are working with wireless telegraphy. Who
has not read with profound interest the
news of Mr. Marconi's success? Who
has not sympathized with his effort to
perfect his machine, to produce a tuning
apparatus by means of which messages
flying through space could be kept secret ?
And here at last has come the invention
w^hich science most needed to complete
and vitalize Marconi's work. By means
of Mr. Hewitt's interrupter, the simplicity
of which is as astonishing as its efficiency,
the whole problem has been suddenly
and easily solved. Mr. Hewitt's new
interrupter may, indeed, be called the
enacting clause of wireless telegraphy. By
its use the transmission of powerful and
persistent electrical waves is reduced to
scientific accuracy. The apparatus is not
only cheap, light, and simple, but it is also
a great saver of electrical power. — Ray
Stannard Baker, in JUcClure's Magazine.

Humors of the Pencil

Any emotion can be shown in eight
lines so convincingly that there can be no
doubt as to what is intended. The slight-
est turn of one or more of these lines will
change gladness to misery. A few lines
will suggest President Roosevelt so that

An old-fashioned plug hat and some
straggly whiskers suggest Mr. Kruger.
Instead of being portraits they are merely
symbols that mean certain people — symbols
which newspaper readers become familiar
with and which never fail to suggest the
people they stand for.

Just as certain symbols mean famous
men, so other symbols stand for imaginary
people. For instance, a fat man generously
besprinkled with diamonds, gorgeously
adorned with side-whiskers and a silk hat,
is the symbol used to express "capital" or
"trust." An anxious-looking man loaded

down with bundles stands for a suburban-
ite. Old maids always wear spectacles
and ringlets; family men usually are wheel-
ing a baby-carriage ; club-women are shown
with high foreheads, contracted browns, and
ample avoirdupois. Uncle Sam is always
the tall, gaunt gentleman with an old-fash-
ioned beaver hat, a wisp of beard trimmed
a la Capricorn, and trousers a few inches
too short. Just why the United States
should be so represented nowadays is past

no one could mistake the intention, even
though the picture does not look like him.

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finding out, unless it is because we dislike
to give up our old traditions. The mod-
ern Uncle Sam should be a clean, up-to-
date, aggressive business man with million-
dollar bills sticking from his pockets and a
copy of the Monroe Doctrine embossed on
his shirt-front. Then he would be typical
of us.

A cartoonist is seldom a good judge of
what will strike the popular fancy. Fre-
quently the drawing that he labors over
and considers exceedingly successful will
never bring forth a single word of com-
mendation, whereas some little feature
that he regards as inconsequential may
appeal to popular favor with mighty force
and unanimity.

An instance in my own experience proves
how true this is. At the beginning of the
campaign of 1896 I was working hard and
conscientiously on political cartoons. Peo-
ple looked at them and occasionally said
pleasant things. But one day I inadvert-
ently drew a dog — a rather ungainly but
good-natured canine, merely to supply a
needed detail in the composition of the
cartoon. The next day, with similar pur-
pose, I drew another
dog that looked like
the first dog. A sub-
scriber wrote in and
asked what the dog
meant. The third
day, just for fun, I
drew the dog again.
He was wisely listen-
ing to something
Mr. Hanna was saying. A dozen letters
swooped in and a dozen persons demanded
to know what the dog meant. The dog
then became a fixture, and with each day
the letters from anxious inquirers grew
in number, until a perfect avalanche
descended upon the office. '*What does
the dog mean?" "Why is that dog
always around watching the progress of
the campaign — now with McKinley, now
with Bryan, and now with
Hanna?" "What is the
deep-hidden significance ? ' '
In a month it seemed to
those around that particular
newspaper as though the
Presidential campaign had
become almost totallyeclipsed
by the mystery of the dog.

Thousands of letters came in from all cor-
ners of the country. If a day passed when
the dog failed to appear there was a storm
of solicitous inquiries from mothers and
children, and even from men whose
thoughts might presumably have been
upon larger afifairs. One day when Mr.
Cleveland accidentally rocked on the dog's
tail there was a flood of letters suggesting
various remedies, and great relief the next
day when the dog appeared with no visible
sign of disaster beyond a bandage wound
around the injured member. When people
spoke of me it was as author of the dog,
whereas I aspired to a more honorable
thing. All of my serious work apparently
counted for naught, and I really began to
fear that forevermore I should be known
only through my association with the
homely, good-natured creature that inhab-
ited my cartoons. — John T. McCutcheoriy
in The Saturday Evening Post.

How Mosquitoes Pass the
Winter

It is well known that mosquitoes hiber-
nate in the adult state ; a certain number
of these unpleasing insects pass the winter
in various retreats — in slaughter houses,
granaries, cellars, etc., and in the spring
they resume active life and multiply their
kind. Hibernation, however, does not
always take place in the adult form only;
the larvae can also pass the winter with
safety. This has been shown by the
observations of Mr. John B. Smith made
during the winter of 1901-1902 and at the
end of 1902. The winter cold does not
regularly destroy aquatic larvae. They
will bear a considerable degree of it ; they
have been seen surrounded with ice, the
water having frozen around them, and
after the melting of the solid envelope they
still lived. The same larvae may be alter-
nately frozen up and melted several times
in the course of the winter. Certain species
hibernate in the adult state; others in the
larval state also; others only in the larval
state, and some hibernate in the ^gg. But
many have hibernating larvae; with many
the larvae passthe winter under the ice, orin
the ice, without the least injury. It may
easily be seen that cold will not kill mos-
quitoes, for numbers of polar explorers

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have noted the abundance of the insects
in the regions of ice ; and it is well known
that the mosquitoes are one of the plagues
of the summer in the moist parts of Alaska.
— 1{evue Scientifique^ translated for The
Literary Digest.

A Labor Cabinet

The Independent Labor party in the
British House of Commons is becoming
more conspicuous with every parliament.
Of those represented in the illustration on
the opposite page Mr. John Burns and Mr.
J. Keir Hardie are well known both in
England and America. It is about ten
years since they first secured seats as re-
presentatives of the people. They have
rigidly held aloof from party affiliation,
though from the very nature of their cause
they find themselves more in sympathy
with the Liberal party than the Conserva-
tive, particularly when the Liberal party is
out of power. Messrs. Shackleton, Bell,
and Crooks are more recent acquisitions
to the ranks of the parliamentary labor
party, Mr. Crooks having in fact come in
only during the past winter when he
achieved one of the most notable electoral
triumphs on record by converting an enor-
mous Conservative majority into a sub-
stantial minority. All the labor members
are intelligent representative workingmen
of the best class, clear-headed, of simple
tastes and habits, and well able to hold
their own in debate.

Dangerous College Tendencies

The peril of the small college is the
peril of all colleges, the temptation of
advertising. All boasting is self-cheapen-
ing. The small college can do good ele-
mentary work in several lines. It can do
good advanced work in a very few. If it
keeps its perspective, if it does only what
it can do well, and does not pretend that
bad word is good work, or that the work
beyond its reach is not worth doing, it is
in no danger.

The great college can draw the best
teachers away from the small colleges. It
has the best teachers, the best trained, the
best fitted for the work of training. But
in most cases the freshman never discovers

this. There is no worse teaching done
under the sun than in the lower classes of
some of our most famous colleges. Cheap
tutors, unpractised and unpaid boys are
set to lecture to classes far beyond their
power to interest. We are saving our
money for original research, careless of the
fact that we fail to give the elementary
training which makes research possible.
Too often, indeed, research itself, the
noblest of all university functions, is made
an advertising fad. The demands of the
university press have swollen the literature
of science, but they have proved a doubt-
ful aid to its quality. Get something ready.
Send it out. Show that we are doing
something. All this never advanced sci-
ence. It is through men born to research,
trained to research, choicest product of
nature and art, that science advances.

The spirit of advertising leads some insti-
tutions to tolerate a type of athlete who
comes as a student with none of the stu-
dent's purpose. I am a firm believer in
college athletics. I have done my part in
them in college and out. I know that
" the color of life is red"; but the value of
athletic games is lost when outside gladia-
tors are hired to play them. No matter
what the inducement, the athletic contest
has no value except as the spontaneous
effort of the college man. To coddle the
athlete is to render him a professional. If
an institution makes one rule for the ordi-
nary student and another for the athlete it
is party to a fraud. Without some such
concession, half the great football teams of
today could not exist. I would rather see
footbail disappear and the athletic fields
closed for ten years for fumigation than to
see our colleges helpless in the hands of
athletic professionalism, as many of them
are today.

There is something wrong in our educa-
tional practice when a wealthy idler is
allowed to take the name of student, on
the sole condition that he and his grooms
shall pass occasional examinations. There
is no justification for the granting of
degrees on cheap terms, to be used in
social decoration. It is said that the chief
of the great coaching trust in one of our
universities earns a salary greater than was
ever paid to any honest teacher. His func-
tion is to take the man who has spent the
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few hours' ingenious coaching, to enable
him to write a paper as good as that of a
real student. The examinations thus
passed are mere shams, and by the toler-
ance of the system the teaching force
becomes responsible for it. No educa-
tional reform of the day is more important
than the revival of honesty in regard to
credits and examinations.

The same methods which cure the aris-
tocratic ills of idleness and cynicism are
equally effective in the democratic vice of
rowdyism. The rowdy, the mucker, the
hair-cutting, gate-lifting, cane-rushing
imbecile is never a real student. He is a
gamin masquerading in cap and gown.
The requirement of scholarship brings him
to terms. — David Starr Jordan, in Popular
Science Monthly.

Democracy versus Caste

Literature is, after all, only the reflex of
a national life; and to this day the national
life of Scotland differs essentially from that
of England. The theory of society in the
geographical area called England remains,
among many changes, dominantly one of
caste. Scotland, on the other hand, is
essentially a democracy. The consequence
is that the classes in Scotland are being
perpetually kept in a state of solution and
sediment; whereas in England they tend
to assume the character of a hard crust. In
Scotland the strong, generating impulses
come from the bottom. In England the
influence is from the top downward.

This shifting of the social centre of
gravity has had a remarkable influence on
the literature of Scotland, for, with a few
exceptions, notably that of Scott, the pro-
ducers of that literature have come from
the people. There has been no parallel
to the class which we call English men of
letters. The characteristic creative litera-
ture of Scotland has, in the main, come
from the soil or from the wage-earning
class — from Burns, the plougfiman; Hogg,
the shepherd; Carlyle, the stonemason's
son ; and even the universities, democratic
as they always have been, cannot boast of
the literary lineage of the simple, but
thorough, parish school. In England, on
the other hand, it is "the classes" who
have produced the best writers, on the

whole, from the days of Chaucer, the pro-
fessional courtier.

I think it is to this fact that we owe the
distinctive feature of the most character-
istic Scots literature — the quality of inti-
mateness. It is unnecessary to describe to
a generation which has read Margaret
Ogilvy and The Little White Bird exactly
what is meant by intimateness in literature.
It is easy to understand how this art tends
to become puerile and mawkish, and how
many opportunities it ofifers for ridicule,
such as Mr. Crosland has bestowed upon
it. But intimateness has done this for
Scotland ; it has made its literature part of
the average man's life in a manner which
has no parallel in England, with perhaps
the sole exception of Dickens, who illus-
trates my proposition of the great value to
a writer of coming freshly from the people
without the intervention of that intellect-
ual caste feeling which makes a man be
sparing in his emotional means. — /. M.
Bulloch, in The Lamp.

Where Froude Was Wrong

It is never wise, and seldom decent, to
interfere between man and wife. You
cannot hope to know the real facts, even
if you condescend to collect gossip. If
Mr. Froude had only been content to leave
the matter alone, and do his plain duty as
an honest and discreet editor of the Remi-
niscences and Letters and Memorials, we
should have been spared a "pluister" and
splutter which still endures.

The time for repose had come at last,
But long, long after the storm is past
Rolls the turbid, turbulent billow,

Froude's notion, that Carlyle prepared
the Letters and Memorials in a spirit of
deep, abid;ing remorse, as of a man self-
convicted of horrid selfishness, is extremely
far-fetched. What,- in Froude's opinion,
was the head and -front of Carlyle's offend-
ing? His devotion for Lady Ashburton.
But nowhere else does Carlyle state his
admiration for this gracious lady so strongly
and so unabashedly as he does in these very
Memorials. It does not weigh upon his
mind or poison his memory one atom.
What cut Carlyle to the heart was the
sadness of his wife's life, he being of grim
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tions, Cromzvells, and Fredericks^ whilst
she, thriftiest of wives, was grappling with
narrow means and ungracious circum-
stance. He longed to let the world know
how brilliant was her wit, how lively her
pen, how great her courage. As for Mrs.
Carl^^le, she knew well enough, be her
grievances what they might, that she had
by her marriage secured for herself the very
fittest audience for her peculiar humor to
be found in all Europe. Carlyle never,
from first to last, ceased to admire his
wife's somewhat bitter tongue, though the
'cauldness" of the blast sometimes made
even him shiver. Was it nothing to have
such constant appreciation from such a
man? Suppose she had married a fool —
no difficult thing to do, according to the
Carlylian statistics ! Poor fool 1 Her
health was bad and her mode of drugging
herself portentous (and she a doctor's
daughter), but until her last years her
vitality remained amazing.

Take a day at random, August 13th,
1855; she is fifty-four, and what does she
do? She is up betimes, and catches the
eight o'clock Chelsea boat, *'with a good
tide," for London Bridge Station, where
she buys herself a third-class return ticket
to Brighton, which place she reaches in an
open railway carriage "without the least
fatigue." On alighting at Brighton she
plunges into the sea, and after the bath
walks along the shore to an inn, which, as
usual, she finds noisy and dirty. She con-
tinues her stroll along the cliffs till she
reaches Rottingdean, four miles ofif. She
falls in love with Rottingdean, and fixes
upon a cottage as the very place she has
long been searching for as a summer retreat.
She dines at the little inn, devouring two
fresh eggs, a plateful of home-baked bread
and butter, and a pint bottle of Guinness.
She lies on the cliffs for an hour and a half,
and then walks back to Brighton, and
searches up and down its streets for the
agent, whose name and address she had
got wrong. At last she finds him, and
almost commits herself to the cottage.
She travels back to London Bridge, walks
to St. Paul's, where she gets a Chelsea
omnibus, alighting at a shop near home to
write the agent a letter, and then on foot
to 5 Cheyne Row. The next day she
complains of a little stififness. This is sus-
piciously like "rude health." Had anyone

ever ventured to be '* wae" for Mrs. Car-
lyle to her face, I wish I could believe she
would not have replied with one of her
favorite Annandale stories: " Damn ye ! —
be wae for yersel."

It must, I think, be admitted that it was
Froude who, in cricketing phrase, " has
queered the pitch."

The mischief once done, it was certain
and right that an attempt to undo it should
be made. If we were to have so much, a
little more material of an explanatory and
mitigating nature may perhaps be wel-
comed.— Augustine Birrell, in The Nine-
teenth Century.

"How We Saved for a Home"

A Young Couple Did it in Ninety=five years

How did we do it? Simply by going
without everything we needed. When I
was first married my salary was thirty
dollars a month.

My mother-in-law, who lived with us,
decided to save enough out of my salary to
build us a home.

tf-:.::^ i

By special permission

When the cellar was finished, I became
ill and lost my position, and had to mort-
gage the cellar to make my first payment.

Although we went without food for
thirty days the first year, we never missed
a monthly payment.

The taxes, interest on mortgage and
monthly payment on house were now three
times the amount of my earnings.

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However, by dispensing with the service
of a doctor, we lost our father and mother-
in-law. which so reduced our expenses that
we were able to pay for the parlor floor
and windows.

In ten years seven of our nine children
died, possibly owing to our diet of excelsior
and prunes.

I only mention these little things to show
how we were helped in saving for a home.

I wore the same overcoat for fifteen
years, and was then able to build the front
porch, which you see at the right of the
front door.

Now, at the age of eighty-seven, my
wife and I feel sure we can own our com-
fortable little home in about ten years and
live a few weeks to enjoy it. — H. M.
Perley^ m Life,

The Lost Art of Singing

The indulgent English audience has no
artistic necessities to be outraged by the
incompetent singer, who is generally sure
of applause if his performance, while false
for the artist, has been true for the senti-
mentalist. Meretricious ways of moving
us must then be sternly discountenanced
if we are to have art and not music-hall
performances. What should we say of the
violinist who snapped a string to express
pathos or despair, and why do we tolerate
the same class of expedients in a singer?
So popularity wedded to spurious sentiment
have combined to rob us of good singing.
Today we have either the declaimer or the
diseur ; we have no longer the cantante.
We roar, scream, or warble, we talk or we
declaim, we pour out sentiment and "class-
ical taste" — but,we do not sing. We are
all accustomed to voices completely
strangled in the throat, with no resonance,
no limpidity. Our baritones, it would seem,
must burst a blood vessel when taking sol,
our contraltos have two voices — one below
and one above "the break of the voice."
What should we say to a "new" Stradi-
rarius which had the timbre of a 'cello for
half its extension and blossomed out into a
vioHn timbre for the remainder? Has the
cornet, which takes the solo part in the
orchestra, one uniform voice, or three Oi
four dififerent voices, according as it sounds
a low, a middle, or a high note ? Are not

the effects of ail instruments obtained by
greater and less intensity of sound, not by
difference of structure and register? The
vulgar idea is that vocal effects are obtained
by inequality of production ; but they are
effects like those of our new StradivariuSy
the effects of an imperfect string or an
imperfect wind instrument. An art may
die of too much popularity, and this
moment has come when the cantante^
instead of interpreting great traditions to
an audience, waits upon their ignorance,
like some Latter-Day minister on his con-
gregation.— M. A. Tuker, in Nineteenth
Century.

The Influence of An^erican
Wealth on Divorce

The bulk of those who spend (not
necessarily who make) huge incomes here
have but a shallow emotional soil to work
upon. Their souls seem undeveloped,
their minds are incredibly uncultivated. A
real "intelligent foreigner" — it may have
been Mr. James Bryce, orit may have been
?vlatthew Arnold — after a round of fashion-
able house-parties, once threw himself into
our easy-chair with a sigh of relief, and
delivered himself of what our Whitman
would have termed a yawp — though a
cultivated one. He had been from palace
to palace — from Trianons to Georgian
residences, from copies of Chenonceaux to
imitations of the Hermitage — and he swore
(he did swear) that in all that time he
had not seen the outside of a book or any
one who talked as if he had seen the inside
of one. Wonderful tapestries there were,
and great pictures, and even beautiful gar-
dens, and bronzes and ormolus and jades —
and the women wore exquisite frocks.
But, even the men who create our fortunes
seem occasionally to have sunk the higher
powers of their mind in a fixed capital with
the other assets of the trust — they have no
mind left for circulation in society. And
it is easier to be a connoisseur in bric-a-brac
and pictures, or understand the points of
horses, than to buy and understand good
books.

Hence their minds are shallow. And, to
our mind, this shallowness of their sinning
is the cheapest sin. Humanity — though it
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for an eternal emotion, though iUicit ; for
even an ungovernable passion, though
wrecking lives. But for adultery, ever care-
ful of the forces of law, a Francesca who
turns up smiling with her Paul at the next
dinner party, a Lovelace who waits for the
last husband's settlements, a Helen who
goes to Paris with her husband — it has
nothing but contempt. Passions which
do not wreck lives are simply nasty.

That is why, as it seems to us, the spend-
ing of great fortunes, without responsibility
and without intelligence, by persons with-
out a mind for the higher enjoyments of
life, is in great part a cause of our numer-
ous divorces. The newly rich, the idle
spenders, are like a shallow soil too quickly
fertilized, too suddenly exposed in the
forcing-house of prosperity. Shallowness
of nature brings ennui of life. And that
is why (as we hold) our public opinion —
and our religious opinion — should have
even less patience with a world that sins
in play than with those who sin in truth.
— Harper's Weekly.

The Satirist of the Girl
Proposition

Of the Fables in Slang we. have now four
volumes and several hundreds of them,
forming a splendid triumph on terms which
might well have warranted defeat after the
first twenty or thirty. But our life, our
good, kind, droll, ridiculous American life,
is really inexhaustible, and Mr. Ade, who
knows its breadths aid depths as few others
have known them, drops his net into it
anywhere, and pulls it up full of the queer
fish which abound in it. There seems
never a doubt of a catch in his mind, and
so far there has been no failure. The form
of these fables helps itself out with capital
letters such as the nouns and other chief
words of the old printings of ^Esop used
to wear, and there is a mock moral tagged
to each, but each is really a little satire,
expressing itself in the richest and freshest
slang, but of a keenness which no most
polished satire has surpassed, and of a can-
did complicity with the thing satirized —
our common American civilization, namely
— which satire has never confessed before.
I am trying to get round to saying a thing
I find difficult — that is, how the author
deposits his varying people in their varying

HANDICAPPED

what's bothering the professor ?

HE can't remember HIS OWN NAME.

WHY doesn't HE TRY WRITING IT DOWN ?

HE DID THAT BUT COULDN'T READ HIS OWN WRITING.

— "Brooklyn Life

situations without a word of excuse or
palliation for either, in the full confidence
that so far as you are truly American you
will know them, and as far as you are truly
honest you will own yourself of their breed
and more or less of their experience. I will
not load up this slight paper with any
statement or analysis of them ; everybody
has read them, and knows what they are.
and how, while they deal with any or every
phase of our motley yet homogeneous exist-
ence, they deal chiefly with its chief inter-
est, as it is, or as it has been, which the
author calls The Girl Proposition.

He gives that name to his latest volume
of fables, but it is the nature of nearly all.
Somehow, more or less, they centre in it.
Sometimes it is the old-girl proposition :
the relation of husbands and wives in mar-
riage and divorce; but mainly it is the
young-girl proposition, as it should be in a
republic so pastoral as ours, where the inno-

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cent love-making, innocent however vulgar,
of youthful unmarried people is the national
romance. He divined that this was the
great national concern, or else he has
recognized it as such without being at the
pains of any previous inspiration; and he
has made it the ever-fascinating theme of
his fables, as he had made it the theme of
those earlier stories of his which one can
hardly call novels. But even when the girl
proposition is not the theme of his alle-
gory, it is so joy-givingly true to the cir-
cumstance and character which no one can
deny, that when the fable comes with each
successive Sunday paper, and you sit down
to it, you are sure of five minutes away
from all the tiresome unreality and pretense
of the workaday week, and experience
something of the bliss of looking at your
own photograph, either as you once were
or as you are now. — W . D. Howells, in
North American Review.

A Dream of Empire

If I were a German, and permitted my-
self to indulge in dreams for the future, I
should create in my thoughts a great
Austro-German Empire, with twin capitals
(it may be) at Hamburg and at Constanti-
nople, with ports on the Baltic, on the
North Sea, on the Adriatic, the ^gean,
and the Black Sea — an Empire, a Confed-
eration which should eventually extend its
influence through Asia Minor and Meso-
potamia to the vicinity of the Persian Gulf.
This continuous empire from the mouth
of the Elbe to the mouth of the Euphrates
is surely as glorious a dream as any great
nation might caress. This empire might
not include all the northern parts of Asia
Minor ; it might have to leave outside its
limits Syria and Palestine ; Greece, contin-
ental and insular, for the memory of its
past and the hope of its future, should
always be an independent State ; Arabia
and Egypt must be left to the influence of
England ; Tripoli and Barca to France and
Italy — mainly to the latter Power. But
this new Confederation of the Nearer East
would be, on a larger scale, a repetition of
what Germany now is — an Empire of
many confederating States, large and small,
with a common fleet and army for extra-
territorial purposes, a common foreign and

fiscal policy. The Kingdom of Poland
might be reconstituted. The Kingdoms
of Bohemia and Hungary become in reality
kingdoms, with kings similar to those
who rule over Wiirtemberg, Bavaria, and
Saxony ; and in like manner there would
be Kingdoms of Servia, Bulgaria, Albania,
and Macedonia, a Republic of Constanti-
nople, like the Republic of Hamburg ; a
Free City of Smyrna, like the Free City of
Bremen; a Government over Mesopotamia,
like the Imperial State of Alsace-Lorraine.
Roumania's connection with this new
German Empire might be that of a
friendly, -but independent, ally, similar to
the position occupied by Greece. — Sir
Harry Johnston (of Uganda) in The Berlin
Fmanz Chronik.

Irving as Dante

Judged by its own standard, this
" immense production " — that is quite the
fittingexpression — may probably be counted
a success, but why this particular author
(Sardou) and, more especially, this partic-
ular actor (Irving) should choose so low
a standard is not easy to say. M. Victorien
Sardou is a dramatist of great and varied
talents — the author of many extremely
clever society comedies which attracted all
Paris for at least a dozen years. How
comes it that at the end of a brilliant
career the imaginer of Patrie, Rahagas^
and Les Pattes de Mouche, should turn out
such bald, lifeless, undramatic work as
Robespierre and, now, Dante f It is not
that story and incident are wanting, it is
that they are presented in so unconvincing
a fashion as to lose all effect ; it is that the
old power of characterization is scarcely
visible. Then Sir Henry Irving. Here is
an actor acknowledged to be the Head of
our Stage, one held in honor and beloved
by all theatre-goers. He has been a most
distinguished performer in our great
national drama, in eccentric comedy, in
melodrama. The father in The Two
Roses, Shylock, Don Quixote, these and
many others attest that in spite of marked
physical peculiarities and exceptionally
strong mannerisms he can cover a wide
range of great parts. What is he doing in
this second-rate, artificial drama, composed,
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.DANTE ON THE MODERN STAGE

SIR HENRY IRVING AS DANTE; MISS LENA ASH WELL AS PIA

— The Sketch

dresses, properties, and the wonders of the
electric light ?

But let us take what M. Sardou has
been pleased to give, and make the best of
it. The atmosphere is undeniably good.
Scenery (also from France), appropriate
dresses, the brilliant glare of an Italian
sun, the heavy, fever-laden miasma of
Maremma, the groupings and movements
of suoernumeraries, these are all admirably
true, and all bring before the audience the

age and the place. So far, praise may be
unstinted, but, then, so far there is no
drama in our sense. It is a salmagundi of
exciting episodes set in beautiful scenery,
but it is not a play. The chord of human-
ity is not once struck. No one this side
of the footlights cares a pin what becomes
of anyone the other side. I had almost
forgotten to say that Beatrice once appears
— in a vision by no means well contrived.
Sir Henry is charming in the quiet

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scenes and well represents the righter of
wrongs. His voice is in good state, and is
used with discretion. His appearance is a
perfect picture — he is every inch the
traditional Dante. Miss Lena Ashwell
gives a beautiful performance of the mother
in the prologue, and of the daughter
afterwards.

No, whatever else it may be, Dante
is not a play. — London Pilot.

The World Beyond Our Senses

Beyond all that the eye may see, that
ear may hear, that hands may feel, outside
of taste or smell — outside of any native
sense — there lies an unseen, unheard, unfelt
universe whose fringe we are just begin-
ning to explore.

A flash, so to speak, from this supra-
sensual world came with the discovery of
the Rontgen rays. It is now eight years
since we first learned that we may look
straight into our bodies and see our bones,
that in this light even great books of phil-
osophy become quite clear — transparent,
even ; and the wonder has a little died.
But they are still called X-rays, for we still
do not know what they are nor where
they belong.

What is tolerably sure is that there is a
wide gap between the Rontgen light and
common light, and the gap seems to lie
far above the shortest little light waves
hitherto known. It is in the form of
minute waves, more than microscopic
undulations in the all-pervading ether of
space, that physicists nowadays conceive
light. And it is a difference in wave length
merely that makes what we call color.
The red and the orange are long waves,
not more than 33,000 to 40,000 to a linear
inch ; the indigo and violet waves are only
about half as long, from 50,000 to 60,000
per inch. In between are the yellow,
green, blue, and all their insensible grada-
tions.

It was Sir Isaac Newton's first notable
discovery that white light is a compound
of all the others, and that a sunbeam may
be broken up into its component colors by
means of an ordinary three-cornered prism.
Old Sir Isaac called it a spectrum, and the
name has held.

Curious-minded men were not long in
finding out that beyond either end of the

visible spectrum curious things go on. For
example, if a thermometer be held below
the red end of this artificial rainbow, in
the ' infra-red," as it is called, it gets hot,
although there is very little heat in the
visible part of the spectrum. The quite
unbearable heat you get with a burning-
glass is due to these invisible heat rays, and
not to the light at all.

So, too, with the other end of the spec-
trum, the beyond-the-violet end. When
Daguerre and others found that upon cer-
tain delicate salts, like nitrate of silver, light
has a chemical action, they opened the way
for an exploration of the ultra-violet. A
large part of the waves which affect a
photographic plate do not affect the eye
at all. These are the so-called actinic or
chemical ra^^s. They seem to have heal-
ing powers, for under their influence can-
cers disappear, and many skin diseases may
be similarly treated. Their role in nature,
too, is immense, for it is these rays which
in the green leaves of the plant turn the
carbonic acid and water into sugars and
starches : the first of those conversions of
the inert materials of the air and the soil
into food; the first step toward the organ-
ization of life. — Carl Snyder, in Harper s
Magazine.

The Secret of Success

"What is the secret of success?" asked
the Sphinx.

"Push," said the Button.

"Take pains," said the Window.

"Never be led," said the Pencil.

"Be up to date," said the Calendar.

"Always keep cool," said the Ice.

"Do business on tick," said the Clock.

"Never lose your head," said the
Barrel.

"Do a driving business," said the
Hammer.

"Aspire to greater things," said the
Nutmeg.

"Make Hght of everything," said the
Fire.

" Make much of small things," said the
Microscope.

"Never do anything offhand," said the
Glove.

"Spend much time in reflection," said
the Mirror.

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" Do the work you are suited for," said
the Flue.

" Get a good pull with the ring." said
the Door-bell.

" Be sharp in all your dealings," said the
Knife.

"Find a good thing and stick to it,"
said the Glue.

Trust to your stars for success," said
the Night.

Strive to make a good impression,"
said the Seal. — Life.

Is There Life on Mars?

How far is it possible to draw any con-
clusions at all from the apparent artificial-
ity of the markings upon Mars, in the
absence of an intelligible explanation of
what the artificiality may mean ? So long
as their purpose cannot be explained, we
ought not to deny that they may be nat-
ural, even though nothing like them had
ever been observed in nature. The essence
of Mr. Lowell's argument is that nature is
haphazard; a geometrical construction on
a grand scale must be due to man's intelli-
gence, because upon earth natural geo-
metry is found only in small things, in the
forms of crystals and the patterns on the
scales of insects. But we need go no
further than the moon to find an example

of natural geometry on a scale as large as
that of Mars. Any one who has looked
through the smallest telescope is familiar
with the bright streaks that radiate from
Tycho and some other of the grander
craters. They have precisely the more
remarkable characteristics of Martian
canals, radiating six or eight from a point,
straight like the spokes of a wheel, regard-
less of the inequalities of the ground.
There is no explanation of them, though
we can examine the moon at close quar-
ters. It is rash beyond legitimate scientific
boldness to deny in toto a natural explana-
tion for geometrical markings not unlike
these, on a world more than a hundred
times as far away. We dare not assume
in our dilemma that human knowledge
covers the whole range of nature's opera-
tions. The special question, how we are
to recognize life on another world, is small
compared with the general, what we are
to recognize as life. But it is of more
immediate interest to our limited powers
of conception, because in asking it one
tacitly assumes that the life is to be such
as ours, recognizable by works which we
can conceive ourselves constructing if we
were placed in a similar position. And if
evidence of what we may call human design
is to be found anywhere outside our earth,
we should look for it first upon Mars.
The things that have been discovered in

THE CANALS OF MARS

— Knonvledge

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the last few years may even give rise to the
hope that we are at last on the right track
through the tangle, but it is a pity for peo-
ple to shout as if they were already out of
the wood. — Arthur 7^. Hinks, in The
Monthly "Review.

The Greatest Hoard of Gold

Nearly one thousand, three hundred
tons of gold lie today in the vaults of the
treasury of the United States — the greatest
hoard of the yellow metal ever gathered in
the history of the world. Four hundred
tons of this gold are piled, like bags of salt,
within the four walls of the sub-treasury
in Wall Street, New York. Outside the
treasury hoard, there is in circulation
through the country a nearly equal amount
of gold coin, making more than two thou-
sand, five hundred tons of gold in the
United States, bearing the imprint of the
eagle. The value of this coin is more
than one billion, two hundred and sixty
million dollars.

One of the remarkable things about this
gold is that, despite the fact of its forming
one-half of the country's circulating money,
it is rarely seen in the course of ordinary
business. One may live in New York or
Chicago or San Francisco without seeing
a single gold coin for a year. This is in
striking contrast to conditions abroad,
where gold is everybody's coin. The gold
sovereign of England is as current as the
five-dollar silver certificate of this country.
There, a man with a small income may not
have a piece of paper money (the five-
pound Bank of England note is the small-
est) in his hands for months. What
becomes of all our American gold ? The
mines of Colorado, California, Alaska, and
other gold-producing regions of the West
add eighty million dollars a year to our
hoard of gold, and three-fourths of this
output goes to the mints. The yearly
coinage of gold actually approaches in value
the entire circulation of silver dollars.

The treasury holds in trust, against out-
standing gold certificates, four hundred
million dollars in gold coin. These gold
certificates range from twenty dollars to
ten thousand dollars. They are issued
from the treasury in exchange for gold
coin or bullion, and are just as good as gold.

The Englishman wears his pockets out
carrying gold coin around with him; the
American prefers to have his money in the
form of representative paper that can be
folded compactly in his waistcoat pocket.
In the sub-treasury at New York, recently,
I picked up a handful of gold certificates
of the value of three million, six hundred
thousand dollars; the bundle could be
stowed away in one's hip pocket, but it
represented seven tons of gold. Stored
away in the vaults of the building at the
time was a hoard of gold coin of the value
of two hundred million dollars. In one
vault, no larger than the bedroom of a
New York flat, was an aggregate of seventy-
eight million dollars in gold. This was
stored in little white bags stowed away in
scores of steel boxes, covering the four
walls of the vault from floor to ceiling.
Every box was sealed, and some of the seals
were dated several years back. The first
thought, at sight of this gold hoard, is that
it is idle money, but it should be recalled
that all of it is in circulation by proxy
in the form of gold certificates. — Frank
Fay an t^ in Success.

Society for Sale

Shopkeepers sell their goods, " Society"
sell their friends ! The following adver-
tisements, which are quoted from a well-
known London newspaper, deserve more
attention than they have received : —

"A LADY OF TITLE, moving in the
BEST LONDON SOCIETY, is prepared to
introduce a LADY OF MEANS. Luxurious
home in the West end; carriages kept.
Terms must be liberal. The highest ref-
erences offered and taken. Address Box

"A WELL-KNOWN LADY, titled, is will-
ing to chaperon a colonial or American
lady. Would instruct one unaccustomed
to the habits and behaviour of GOOD
SOCIETY. Liberal terms required. Ad-
dress, in confidence, care of. . . ."

"A LADY. — A member of one of the
oldest county families, having a beautiful
place in the countr}^ would receive a young
lady during the w^inter months, and intro-
duce her to the soc'ety of the neighbour-
hood. Good huntiag, hospitable county.
An unique opportunity."

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"A WEST-END DRESSMAKER who de-
sires to extend her connection wishes to
meet with a lady, or ladies, who would
introduce business. Liberal commission
offered. The strictest confidence may be
relied upon. Address. ..."

"An old-established firm of WINE MER-
CHANTS (City) is desirous of obtaining
WEST-END ORDERS. A high percentage
given to ladies or gentlemen introducing
business."

"To NOBLEMEN or gentlemen of posi-
tion IN SOCIETY able to influence capi-
tal. A large sum wanted by an old-
established firm. Genuine concern. Par-
ticulars in confidence through. . . ."

"A YOUNG lady, rich, desires to spend
the season in London, and to be intro-
duced to THE BEST SET in Society. Would
PAY HANDSOMELY for Services rendered.
Absolute secrecy guaranteed. Address
Box . . ."

Our commercial friendships ! Not con-
tent with selling worthless shares, ill-con-
ducted horses, impure wines, and unsmoke-
able cigars, the " ladies ' ' and ' ' gentlemen"
of the day apparently sell each other to
middle-class aspirants for social distinction
and to tradesmen ! They complain that
their servants receive commissions, and
accept commissions themselves ! How
popular in the West End should be the
well-known hymn as revised by Artemus
Ward :—

I want to be an agent.

And with the agents stand! "

— Truth.

The Submarine Toy

Considering the articles which fairly
inundate the newspapers and magazines
regarding the submarine boats, one w^ould
think that this type had achieved success,
but really the submarine is not worth the
space that has been given to it. It would
be difficult indeed to outline any points
upon which the submarine has been a suc-
cess, except, perhaps, the single point that
it has successfully remained stationary on
the bottom of a body of water for a few
hours. But even this is a doubtful honor,
for the crew suffered great ph^'sical and
mental fatigue, and it is a foregone con-
clusion that thev were not in a warlike

mood at any time during the experiment.
The submarine is without practical maneu-
vering power and all the experiments
which have been held so far justify this
statement. To flounder about is not to
maneuver. It has no defensive qualities
whatever in itself and its offensive qualities
exist largely in the over-enthusiastic imagi-
nations of the public.

In the recent trials of the Adder and
Moccasin in Peconic Bay the storage bat-
teries ran down in three hours and the
total radius of action did not exceed twenty-
one knots. Of what earthly use could
any such instrument be against a ship in
motion? Moreover, when the submarine
is being steered with her conning tower
out of water she must have a perfectly
smooth sea to have any sense of direction.
In the trough of the sea she cannot see
anything at all except the waves rolling
over her, and on the crest the spray blinds
the vision of the lens. It is admitted that
crews cannot live in them except for
periods of a few hours without breaking
down both physically and mentally. Liv-
ing in them is intolerable, for they cannot
be heated, nor can any cooking be done in
them. Testimony is yet to be adduced
that the submarine is anything but a naval
toy. — The Marine Review.

Poland's Pent=up Energy

We must picture to ourselves a natu-
rally very energetic people, against whose
energy a barrier not to be broken down
has been erected, a war-like people, who
only reluctantly enter the army, in which
practically no young man voluntarily
chooses the post of officer; an extremely
ambitious people, to whom all high posi-
tions and offices are closed, and to whom
all distinctions and demonstrations of honor
are forbidden, in so far as they are not
bought with sacrifice of conviction or
denial of solidarity with their countrymen ;
a people naturally hostile to Philistine
ideals, but who needed to acquire the civic
virtues, and whose circumstances now
give them constant encouragement to
unsteadiness; a pleasure-loving people, in
whose capital not a single place of enter-
tainment is found ; a people with a lively,
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all political education has been made im-
possible, because they are allowed neither
to elect representatives nor to discuss
affairs of state, and whose political press is
silenced in all political matters; to speak of
political newspapers in Poland is like speak-
ing of nautical journals in Switzerland.
Let us imagine to ourselves this people,
constituted for a large, free life in the
broad daylight of publicity, imprisoned in
the chiaroscuro of private life, thinking of
Siberia, as we think of a disease which
may come when least expected.

Conceiving all this, we shall understand
that under the pressure which has been
exerted simultaneously from so many sides,
there necessarily sprang up an extraor-
dinary concentrated activity, a boiling
intensity of life, in the narrow circle which
remained to them. The higher classes,
which could not adequately recruit them-
selves from below, came to lead a kind of
island life of the highest and most refined cul-
ture, a life w^hich is indeed national in every
heart-beat, but cosmopolitan in every form
of expression, a hothouse life, where
flowers of all the civilizations of Europe
have come to development and exhale
fragrance, an eddying, seething maelstrom
of ideas, endeavors, amusements, and fetes.
The best society scarcely ever goes to bed
before four o'clock in the morning in the
month of February. In carnival time the
day in Warsaw has twenty hours, and so
long as the season lasts they are prodigal
of time and strength.

" Life in Warsaw is a neurosis^'' said one
of the most intelligent men of the city to
me; "no one can keep it up long." —
From Poland, by Georg ^randes (Heine-
mann).

A New Light in the English
Pulpit

The sudden emergence of the Rev.
Reginald Campbell as a great popular
preacher is one of those mysteries which
baffle analysis. A few months ago he was
only one among many eloquent Noncon-
formist divines. Today he is the most
famous preacher in the three kingdoms.
His success at Brighton was brilliant, but
not more brilliant than the success achieved
by Mr. Jowett at Birmingham or by Mr.
Sylvester Home at Kensington. What

is the magic secret which has enabled
this young man to play Elisha to Dr.
Parker's Elijah ?

Let me describe what I saw at one of
his Thursday services. At half-past eleven
the area is filled and the galleries are fast'
filling with one of those electric crowds
which vibrate with a common nervous pas-
sion. The atmosphere stings with expecta-
tion, like the atmosphere of the House of
Commons in the grip of a crisis, or of a
theatre on a tremendous first night. You
can feel the volleys of emotional molecules
discharged by the human radium. Your
temperature rises to the temperature of the
crowd. At noon the building is packed
like a huge match-box in which 2500
matches are on the point of ignition.
About half of the congregation are young
women, about a quarter are young men,
the other quarter being composed of men
and women, middle-aged and old. Many
look like clerks, typewriters, business men,
but the majority belong to the leisured
religious classes. An attendant in a livery
like that of an hotel porter places a Bible
on the cushion of the pulpit. Then a
phantom in a black Geneva gown mate-
rializes in the air behind the Bible, a phan-
tom with an aureole of blanched hair and
a mysteriously beautiful young face som-
bred over with strange shadows, and illum-
ined by large, sunken eyes burning w^ith a
mystical light. It is an unearthly face,
seraphic in its spiritual beauty. It has a
romantic glamor that sets one dreaming of
Raphael's or Rossetti's angels, or of Tenny-
son's Galahad. Do not smile at my extrava-
gance. Let me tell 3'ou what a shrewd,
hard-headed, unsentimental business man
said to me about Mr. Campbell: "He
looks more like an angel than any man I
ever saw." Physical beauty in a man is
almost a contemptible quality. But this
is something far subtler and far rarer than
physical beauty; it is spiritual beauty; it is
not the flesh, it is the soul shining through
the flesh. That, I think, is the secret of
this man's magical personality.

The face is a mixture of masculine
strength and feminine delicacy. The
square virility of the forehead and the reso-
lution of the broad, deep male jaw are
softened by the sweet contours of the
mouth and chin. There is wistful com-
passion inl the moist lightning of the eyes.

From The Tatler, by arrangement

HALL CAINE IN HIS STUDY

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The face is rich with personal history,
scarred with intellectual and spiritual war.
This man does not evade life, but calls on
it to play on his soul at all angles, takes it
with large courage and flings it back with
all his might. He is folded in a personal
peace which isolates him in an age of
unrest. I think it is his victoriously imper-
turbable peace which individualizes him,
separates him, insulates him — it is a peace
like the remote quietude that sits on the
Jungfrau at sunset. His voice deepens the
spell. It is sweet, low, and clear, devoid
of stress and strain, a paradoxically silent
voice, floating in a silence of charmed syl-
lables. His preaching is persuasive divina-
tion. He winds himself into the sad mood
of modernity, that mood which is a bewil-
dered fever, a dazed delirium, an uneasy
dream. He interprets its soul to itself.
— James Douglas, in The IVorld^ s Work.

Omar Feminized

Alike to her who Dines both Loud and Long,
Or her who Banting shuns the Dinner-gong,

Some Doctor from his Office chair will shout,
' ' It makes no difference — both of you are wrong! ' '

Why all the Health-Reformers who discussed
High Heels and Corsets Learnedly are thrust
Square-toed and Waistless forth ; their Duds are
scorned.
And Venus might as well have been a Bust.

Myself when slim did eagerly frequent
Delsarte and Ling, and heard great Argument

Of muscles trained to Hold me up, but still
Spent on my Modiste what Pd always spent !

When you and I have ceased Champagne to Sup
Be sure there will be More to Keep it Up ;

And while we pat Old Tabby by the fire.
Full many a Girl will lead her Brindled Pup.
— Josephine Daskam, in Harper^ s Magazine.

The Pros and Cons of America

The American atmosphere has one great
and indisputable superiority over the Brit-
ish : it insists upon the right of every citi-
zen, it almost presents it as a duty, to do
all he possibly can do ; it holds out to him
even the highest position in the state as a
possible reward for endeavor. Upon the
point of its equality of opportunity surely
no sane Englishman can do anything but
envy the American state. In America

" presumption " is not a sin. All the vigor-
ous enterprise that differentiates the Amer-
ican from the Englishman in business flows
quite naturally from that; all the patriotic
force and loyalty of the common American
which glows beside the English equivalent
as the sun beside the moon. But apart
from these inestimable advantages I do not
see that the American has much that an
Englishman need envy. There are cer-
tainly points of inferiority in the American
atmosphere, influences in development that
are bad, not only in comparison with what
is ideally possible, but even in comparison
with English parallels.

For example, the theory that every man
is as good as his neighbor, and possibly a
little better, has no check for fools, and
instead of the respectful silences of England
there seems — to the ordinary English mind
— an extraordinary quantity of crude and
unsound judgments in America. One gets
an impression that the sort of mind that is
passively stupid in England is often actively
silly in America, and, as a consequence,
American newspapers, American discus-
sions, American social affairs are pervaded
by a din that in England we do not hear
and do not want to hear. The real and
steady development of the American scien-
tific men is masked to the European
observer, and it must be greatly hampered
by the copious silliness of the amateur dis-
coverer, and the American crop of new
religions and new enthusiasms is a horror
and a warning to the common British
intelligence. Many people whose judg-
ments are not absolutely despicable hold a
theory that unhampered personal freedom
for a hundred years has made out of the
British type a type less deliberate and thor-
ough in execution and more noisy and
pushful in conduct, restless rather than
indefatigable, and smart rather than wise.
If ninety-nine people out of the hundred
in our race are vulgar and unwise, it does
seem to be a fact that while the English
fool is generally a shy and negative fool,
anxious to hide the fact, the American fool
is a loud and positive fool, who swamps
much of the greatness of his country to
many a casual observer from Europe alto-
gether. American books, American papers,
American manners and customs seem all
for the ninety and nine. — H. G. IVells^
in The Fortnightly Tieview.

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John Bull's Courage Revives

John Bull is asleep ; at least so we are
told on every occasion, by friend and foe,
especially by those dear friends who claim
to be the most wide-awake. Other coun-
tries are making vast progress in all
branches of activity, but England is in a
state of senile sluggishness. Young Amer-
ica has won all our trade by its infinite
superiority and has driven our merchants
from the markets of the world. Consular
reports are prodigal to nauseousness with
instances of dying markets caused by the
rock-ribbed conservatism and the over-
weening superciliousness of our manufac-
turers. Our Press preaches innumerable
sermons upon the apathy of our merchants,
upon their unresponsiveness to new needs,
and upon their hide-bound adhesion to the
methods of the past which is surely caus-
ing them to be left far in the rear in the
commercial competition of today. The
cry of "Wake up, John Bull, bestir your-
self," is dinned into our ears, not only by
our Consuls and our Press, but by others
in unexpected quarters. Turn where we
will, we are faced with evidences that
England's economic display is as complete
as it is lamentable.

A declaration that England's position
affords no cause for a threnody, and that
statements to the contrary are the results
of mistaken zeal, crass ignorance, and
unscrupulous rivalry, would not be taken
seriously. Nevertheless some more than
superficial observers lately seem to have
conceived an opinion that these lugubrious
statements may be somewhat exaggerated.
Upon consideration it seems decidedly
absurd to brand all our merchants and
manufacturers as being dolts and idiots,
blind to their best interests, deaf to the
adjurations of their well-wishers, and insen-
sible to the promptings of professional
pride. Clear-seeing observers know how
well the effusions of ignorance and constant
misstatements combine to give semblance
of reality to the grossest fiction.

Reference to the accompanying diagram
will show that the periods of increasing and
decreasing foreign trade show an approx-
imate coincidence in the case of the
great trading nations. The years 1883
and 1 890 were very good ones, as far as the
value of the general trade is concerned,

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THE TRADE OF THE
LEADING NATIONS

1876-1901

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while the years 1885 and 1894 were bad
ones; the values for the last year have
obtained a height hitherto unexampled.
The facts conveyed by the diagram will be
better comprehended after the imports and
exports have been dealt with severally.
However, it will be seen at once that the
United Kingdom holds its predominant
commercial position, and, wonderful to
relate, by no means cuts the sorry figure
which some of its reckless critics would
have us believe. From 1 880 to 1890 Ger-
many was England's most dangerous rival,
but the year 1891 saw a prodigious decrease
of no less than ^123,115,000 in the total
general trade of that country. Since 1894
the value of the total general trade of Ger-
many, in common with that of the other
nations, has increased continuously, and
Germany still is second to England. It
will not fail to be noticed that in 1892 the
value of the ioreign trade of the United
States of America exceeded that of Ger-
many by some ten million pounds. In the
following year America dropped to the
fourth place among the trading nations,
but in 1900 it displaced France after a
close race of many years. France held the
second position in the period 1876-1879,
and also in 1891-1892.

To sum up : considering all of the salient
circumstances regarding international trade
seems to attest that England's proud posi-
tion of premier trading nation is by no
means in jeopardy. Gauged in different
wa3^s there is strong proof of material
progress. Contemptuous opinions of Eng-
lish trade are due to rank ignorance, at the
best. There is not one tittle of evidence
that England has lost her grip of the
world's trade or that her traders and man-
ufacturers have failed to realize the altered
and constantly altering conditions of for-
eign commerce and to respond elastically
to them. As regards commercial expan-
sion, other nations are advancing at a great
rate ; this notwithstanding, England, so
far from exhibiting signs of decay, shows a
healthy and vigorous development. Today
English commerce is in a flourishing con-
dition, there is not the slightest foundation
for conjecture that any decline is at hand,
and there is nothing in the condition of
the world's trade to give reasonable
ground for alarm as to the future. — Mark
JVarren^ in The Contemporary 'Review.

Strenuous Sport

Apropos of the hold football has taken
on the North of England, a story is told
which would form a splendid reply to Rud-
yard Kipling's sneer at the "muddled oafs."
In a recent match the Sunderland club
began the game two men short of the reg-
ular number. Shortly before half time one
of them turned up and took his place on
the team. His head was covered with a
blood-stained handkerchief and he limped
painfully. The referee asked him why he
was so late and what was the matter with
him. The latecomer replied: "There's
bin a fall o' coal i' th' pit and me and my
pals had to cut our way through it." The
referee then desired to know if the eleventh
man would turn out. The answer was,
" Oh, you bet he'll come if he can, but ah
canna' say for sartin wot time ; it's him the
coal fell on." — Athletic News.

American Cookery

No better cookery, independent of any
special school, is to be met with than that
of the superior restaurants and hotels of
the American metropolis and numerous
clubs within and without its confines.
The cookery of the capital of the United
States, as it exists in many of the better
restaurants and in private houses where
Southern dishes are especially well pre-
pared, is deservedly celebrated. The New
Orleans kitchen has also its ardent admir-
ers; but outside of New York the restau-
rants of San Francisco are perhaps the most
famous and cosmopolitan. Receptive and
creative America has learned from all, and
added to acquired knowledge the results
of her own inventive genius. The era of
fried steak, saleratus biscuits, and ' apple
floating-island" has happily long since
passed, and already in many instances an
American dinner has come to be recog-
nized as among the very best it is possible
to obtain. A well-prepared Chateaubriand
is no longer confined to the Cafe Ruche,
or a bisque d'ecrevisses to Voisin or to
Laperouse. In none of the useful arts has
progress been more marked in this country
during the past decade. Even in remote
New England villages a leg or a saddle of
mutton is rarely sent to table with all its
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THE FORGED TIARA OF SAITAPHARNES

— Les Arts

commonly finds it on the tables volantes of
the prominent English restaurants. And
for the omnipresent "greens" of Great
Britain in winter — the Brussels sprout, dis-
tended to thrice its size and deprived of all
its pristine delicacy by crossing it with the
cabbage — there are with us countless vege-
tables to choose from. The cooking-school,
also, is rapidly contributing its share toward
the evolution of eating, wherein wholesome-
ness and variety are properly regarded as a
means of health, enjoyment, and longevity.
— From The Pleasures of the TabUy by
George H. Ellwanger.

An Artistic Forgery

A sensation has been sprung on the art
world of Paris by revelations of the forger-
ies that have been palmed off on unsus-
pecting collectors in recent years. The
most remarkable case is that of the tiara
of the Scythian King, Sa'itapharnes, which
was sold to the Museum of the Louvre for
200,000 francs. It has been virtually
demonstrated that the tiara is a forgery,
the work of a Russian artist, M.
Roukhomovski. The Minister of Public
Instruction has held an investigation,

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bringing M. Roukhomovski from Odessa
to testify. The latter admits that the tiara
is all his own work, made with no further
aid than that supplied by a popular manual
of archaeology. Many experts w^ho had
pronounced the work genuine refuse to
accept the Russian's testimony, and argue
ingeniously to save him from himself.
The government, however, has finally
removed the tiara from the Louvre and
thus acknowledged that it had been
imposed on. — L' Illustration.

Tennyson's Religious Position

Down to his latest years, Tennyson was
constantly shaken with the enigmas of
the Universe, the Infinite, Death, the
petty and transitory nature of our Earth.
All this, in the absence of any authori-
tative Revelation, Creed, or Church, hung
over his subtle and brooding soul, and
made him almost a pessimist, in spite of
his resolute will to "believe where we
cannot prove." Such was the tone of the
cultured academic mind of the first half of
the nineteenth century. Tennyson lived
his whole life in this atmosphere, and
transfigured its hopes, its doubts, its horror,
and its yearnings in a series of exquisite,
but depressing, descants.

Lyall's account of Tennyson's religious
position is admirably worked out and quite
convincing. He rightly fulfilled ' the
poet's mission, which is to embody the
floating thought of the period." "The
poet leads us to a cloudy height ; and
though it is not his business to satisfy the
strict philosophical inquirer, he offers to all
wandering souls a refuge in the faith."
Nothing can be put more accurately. And,
as Lyall shows, the clouds rather thickened
than dispersed with the advancing age of
the poet. Such pieces as " Despair " and
"Vastness" indicate a morbid tone in
man's view of life, duty, and religion: and,
with all their sublimity and pathos, they
tend to debilitate and unman us. As
Lyall says, " they have a tendency to weigh
down the mainsprings of human activity."

The problems of Infinity, Eternity, the
brevity and littleness of human life loomed
ever darker, and never rested in any com-
plete and final answer. He was ever in
many a subtle question versed," and ' ever

strove to make it true." But to the last
he never quite beat his music out. He
faced the spectres of the mind; but he
never absolutely laid them. I remember
as a young man when first admitted to his
company, he turned to me, with that
grand assumption which he affected to
those with whom he disagreed, saying
with a most cadaverous air : " If I thought
as you do, I should go and drown myself."
I smiled; for the absurdity as well as the
ill manners of such an outburst amused
me. I replied quietly, looking, I am sure,
as cheerful as he looked disconsolate :
"No! Mr. Tennyson, if you thought as I
do about Life and Death — you would be a
happy man !" Personally, the poet seemed
to be even more unsatisfied with his own
beliefs than the poems showed. But if it
did not tend to peace of mind and energy
of action, the pathos and the dreaminess
of this habit of thought were the inspir-
ation of much exquisite poetry. Like
other people, he mistook his own gift of
words for profound thought. — Frederic
Harrison^ in North American Review.

A State of Mind

In the state of Mass.

There lives a lass
I love to go N. C. ;

No other Miss.

Can e'er I Wis.,
Be half so dear to Me.

R. I. is blue

And her cheeks the hue
Of shells where waters swash ;

On her pink-white phiz

There Nev. Ariz.
The least complexion Wash.

La.! could I win

The heart of Minn.,
I'd ask for nothing more,

But I only dream

Upon the theme
And Conn, it o'er and Ore.

Why is it, pray,

I can't Ala.
This love that makes me 111.?

N. Y., O., Wv.

Kan. Nev. Ver. I
Propose to her my will ?

I shun the task
'Twould be to ask
This gentle maid to wed ;
And so, to press
My suit, I guess
Alaska Pa. instead.
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NEW BIOGRAPHIES AND MEMOIRS

1443. Arnold, Benedict, The Real Charles Burr Todd

The author claims that this is a "true, unbiased, concise biography" of
Arnold. He asserts that Arnold's treachery was inspired not so much by
sordid motives as by "the fascinations., the persuasions, long continued, the
intrigues with the British, of a wife madly loved." [A. S. Barnes & Co.)

^ 1326. Bismarck, Prince, Personal Reminiscences of s. Whitman

An interesting record of visits paid to the old Chancellor after his retirement
from public office. Mr. Whitman's portrait of Bismarck reveals a man of
feeling as well as of blood and iron. {D. Appleton & Co.)

1398. British Political Portraits Jusun McCarthy

Pen portraits of Balfour, Chamberlain, Salisbury, Rosebery, Aberdeen,
Morley, Labouchere, Bryce, Harcourt, Redmond, Campbell-Bannerman,
Burns, and Hicks-Beach. {The Outlook Co.)

ic 1472. Browning, Robert g. k. Chesterton

Browning is meat for the critic: he invites attack and challenges exposition.
Mr. Chesterton is a new critical force in English literature, and, though it
remains to be seen what he will ultimately amount to, he has courage,
audacity, and a fresh way of expressing himself that is attractive and stimu-
lating. He has produced a very good biography of Browning, that contains
critical comments of much originality and force. {The Macmillan Co.)

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1369. Channing, William Ellery John White chadvick

This is an admirable and sympathetic biography of the leader of the liberal
wing of the Congregational Church that afterwards developed into Unitarian-
ism ; a man foremost as the champion of free thought and free speech ; the
apostle of emancipation and temperance. {Houghton^ Mifflin &' Co.)

1386. Exits and Entrances

Charles Warren Stoddard

An entertaining book of travels and reminiscences by the author of South Sea
Idyls. There are records of meetings with Stevenson, Bret Harte, Mark
Twain, Charles Kingsley, and George Eliot. {The Lothrop Co.)

1464. Le Conte, Joseph, The Autobiography of

Edited by William Dallam Armes

Written for his children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren, the auto-
biographical narrative of this famous scientist is delightfully informal and
intimate. It covers the whole of his active lifetime from the fascinating
Georgian plantation days of his boyhood to within a few months of his death
in his beloved Yosemite. (D. Appleton & Co.)

1387. LespinaSSe, Mile, de. Letters of Translated by K.P.Wormeley

These are the passionate love letters of the woman from whom Mrs. Humphry
Ward drew the inspiration for the heroine of her recent novel. Lady "B^ose^s
Daughter. She was magnetic, brilliant, tactful, and unhappy. Inspiring
the deepest devotion in such men as d'Alembert and the Marquis de Mora,
she poured all the fire of her affection on a man whom she herself felt
unworthy of her. {Hardy ^ Pratt &' Co.)

1430. Letters of a Diplomat's Wife

Mary King Waddington

Madame Waddington is an American woman, the widow of the late M.
Waddington, who was for ten years French Ambassador to Great Britain and
also Ambassador Extraordinary representing France at the Czar's Coronation.
Her letters are intimate and graphic pictures of Court life, and are full of
unusual interest and charm. {Charles Scribner's Sons)

>i< 1342. Parker, Joseph, The Life of

William Adamson

Dr. Adamson was a life-long friend of Dr. Parker and writes from full
knowledge of his subject, with affectionate candor. This volume very
pleasantly supplements the reticence of Dr. Parker's own autobiography, and
reveals the marked characteristics of the famous London preacher with ample
detail. {Fleming H. %e'vell Co.)

1438. Poe, Edgar Allan, Life and Letters of james a. Harrison

A book not only welcome but necessary. Professor Harrison has been col-
lecting Poe material for years, and is most desirous to be fair. Out of amass
of vilification, he digs not a perfect but a human and intensely fascinating
figure. A sensitive, imaginative, ardent, marvellously talented man, hemmed
by the direst poverty, dogged by misfortune — no wonder his genius was bril-
liant gloom. (T. Y. Croivell & Co.)

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1480. Schumann Annie W. Palterson

Robert Schumann was, in his time, editor, essayist, and composer, and has
left behind him a reputation for scholarship and charm of composition —
literary as well as musical. But his personality has been overlooked. Miss
Patterson reveals it to us in an excellent study of the man in his varied
capacities, and the portrait she has drawn is a very winning one.

(£. P. Button & Co.)

>h 1348. Story of My Life, The Helen Keiier

The remarkable autobiography of a remarkable young woman, handicapped
by blindness and deafness, and who has yet learned to read, write, and type-
write. Miss Keller is a graduate of Radcliffe. [Doubleday, Page & Co.)

1436. Studies in Contemporary Biography

James Bryce

A series of short, critical, and most readable appreciations of Lord Beacons-
field, Gladstone, Lord Iddesleigh, Lord Acton, Cardinal Manning, Arch-
bishop Tait, Dean Stanley, Bishop Fraser, Sir George Jessel, Earl Cairns,
and other leaders of the Victorian era. {The Macmillan Co.)

1371. Wesley's Journal, The Heart of

Edited by P. L. Parker

This is a one-volume condensation of Mr. Parker's four-volume edition of
this famous journal, which gives as intimate and entertaining a picture of
English eighteenth-century life as Pepys' Diary did for the previous century.
Such a condensation was long desired by Edward Fitzgerald, who greatly
prized the "Journal." {Fleming H. Re'vell Co.)

1399. Women Authors of Our Day in Their Homes f. w. Haisey

A series of twenty-eight interviews with the most popular women writers of
England and America, illustrated with pictures of their homes. The authors
talk shop delightfully and informally. {James Pott & Co.)

NEW BOOKS OF TRAVEL AND DESCRIPTION
k 1469. Danish Life in Town and Country Jessie Brochner

Denmark, although the smallest of European kingdoms, has never, in the
two thousand years of its existence, been subjugated by any foreign power.
This is significant of much that is interesting in its history and observable in
the character of its people and their mode of life today. Miss Brochner tells
of this life in an interesting manner. {G. P. Putnam'' s Sons)

1364. Doukhobors, The

Joseph Elkinton

A concise and interesting account of the beliefs, practices, sufferings, and
emigrations of the leading "nonconformist" sect among the Russian
peasantry, now seeking asylum among the free institutions of the northern
half of the American continent. {Ferris &' Leach)

1363. Down the Orinoco in a Canoe s. Perez Triana

An interesting glimpse of Colombia and Venezuela may be obtained in this
volume of an adventuresome cruise down the Orinoco. The narrative is a
trifle amateurish, but the romance of the primitive country, and the novelty of
the voyage make it a noteworthy minor book. {T. T. Cromwell & Co.)

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1429. Business and Love

Hugues Le Roux

Cherchez la
uxury-loving.

Americans are in a bad way, according to M. Le Roux.

femme ! The married women are restless and selfish and

Still worse, there are many women who are rebellious and irreligious enough

not to marry. Statistics might have saved M. Le Roux much grief — but,

perhaps, he favors bigamy or the practice of disposing of female infants.

These American notes are certainly piquant. [Dodd, Mead & Co.)

Bernard 6. Richards

1408. Discourses of Keidansky

Keidansky is a young Hebrew in revolt against the reactionary, revolutionary,
and conventional ideas of our times. His discourses are seasoned with Attic
salt, and overflow with much caustic wit and humor. {^The Scott-Thanxj Co.)

^ 1473. Essays and Criticisms Robert Louis Stevenson

This volume is not a posthumous one, but it contains fugitive papers that
have never before appeared in book form, and which will be practically new
to most readers. There areessays descriptive of walkingtours and of Swiss life,
and criticism of the literary life, its ethics and its problems. The true
Stevensonian philosophy and charm of style are to be found in these essays,
and cannot fail to delight as well as instruct the reader.

{Herbert B. Turner & Co.)

^ 1458. French Impressionists, The CamiUe Hauciair

This is an exceedingly interesting little book. It deals with a phase of art
unusually attractive to the ordinary person and full of the modern spirit.
The artists whose work is described and illustrated (1860-1900) are: Renoir,
Manet, Degas, Claude Monet, Pissarro, Sisley, Cezanne, Berthe Morisot,
Mary Cassatt, Jongkind, and Theo van Rysselberghe. (E. P. Dutton &" Co.)

1405. Happiness

Carl Hilty

A series of brief but engaging papers on philosophic idealism by the professor
of jurisprudence at Bern University. They can hardly fail to help one in the
search for highest happiness — "The Art of Having Time," alone, sends one
a long step forward. {The Macmillan Co.)

Laurence Hutton

1372. Literary Landmarks of Oxford, The

This volume is virtually a reprint of lectures delivered by the author at
Princeton. They represent the fruit of a six months' vacation spent at Oxford
in the endeavor to disinter from the records some of the sayings and doings
of those worthies who have made Oxford famous. {Charles Scribner's Sons)

1441. Musical Education

Albert LaYignac

To all students of music, and to parents of children who are beginning a
musical education. Miss Singleton has done a real service in the translation
of this admirable, thorough work of Lavignac's. There is not a practical
point in a whole musical training on which he does not touch — including an
instructive treatise on the different instruments. {D. Appleton & Co.)

1445. Souls of Black Folk, The

W. E. Burghardt Du Bois

This volume of essays and sketches shows "the spiritual world in which ten
thousand thousand Americans live and strive," and is an earnest endeavor
to throw light on the problem of the color line, which, the author says, is the
problem of the century. {A. C. McClurg & Co.)

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iiC 5111. Lav of Mental Medicine, The Thomson Jay Hudson

Dr. Hudson thus declares the object of his book: "To assist in placing
mental therapeutics on a firmly scientific basis, and incidentally to place
within the reach of the humblest intellect the most effective methods of healing
the sick by mental processes." This is an ambitious programme on a par-
ticularly interesting theme, but Dr. Hudson's treatment of it, though terse,
is singularly clear, sane, and suggestive. {A. C. McClurg &" Co.)

THE NEWEST FICTION

1358. Anna of Ihe Five Towns Arnold Bennett

A quiet but realistic picture of life in the English pottery country. It chron-
icles episodes in the gradual emancipation of a young girl from the miserly
meanness of a narrow religious environment. {McClure, Phillips & Co.)

1450. At the Time Appointed a. Maynard Barbour

A story of mining and mystery, starting off with a murder and loss of mental
power, and proceeding to a dramatic close when the mystery is solved and
the mental power of the hero is restored, " at the time appointed " by fate
and circumstance. {J. B. Lippincott Co.)

1354. Before the Dawn Joseph a. Altsheler

This is a stirring story of life in Richmond just before and during Grant's
celebrated siege. There is an air of mystery throughout, some impetuous
and dangerous lovemaking, and a description of the Wilderness battles that
is grimly realistic. {Doubleday, Page & Co.)

1350. Better Sort, The

Henry James

This volume takes its name from the first of eleven short stories, all in Mr.
James' characteristic vein of psychological analysis, and are no better or
worse than the usual style of thing from his provoking but clever pen.

{Charles Scribner^s Sons)

Frank Levis Nason

1394. Blue Goose, The

This is a capital story of modern Western mining life, with the usual accom-
paniment of labor disturbances, Eastern interference, and love to complicate
matters. "The Blue Goose" is the name of the tavern where all the deviltry
is hatched, and the French proprietor and his associates are very cleverly

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sketched characters

1433. Brewster's Millions

Richard P. Greaves

This is a breezy story of how young Brewster, of Chicago, in order to inherit
his grandfather's seven millions, had to spend his uncle's million within a
year. His experiences and expedients make up a breezy and readable yarn
to read in an idle hour. (//. S. Stone & Co.)

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* 1475. Bubbles We Buy

The title suggests the struggle for prominence characteristic of modern social
life. But there is much more to the story than this. The law of heredity, a
family mystery, and a love episode of much originality form the elements out
of which Miss Jones has elaborated a story of great interest. The scenes are
laid in Canada, the United States, England, and the Continent, and we are
introduced to a number of clever people whose actions are dominated by the
will of a strange old man. {Herbert B. Turner & Co.)

>h 1335. Calvert of Strathore Carter Goodioe

This sprightly tale has a theme new in American historical romance — the career
of Jefferson as Minister to France. Calvert is his secretary, and his adventures
in love and diplomacy make a readable story. {Charles Scribner^s Sons)

1431. Canterbury Pilgrims, The

Percy Mackaye

This is a four-act poetical comedy, audacious in conception, delightful and
amusing to read ; full of Chaucerian touches, and a succession of most artistic
pictures that will make it a delight to witness on the stage when Mr. Sothern
produces it. {The Macmillan Co.)

^ 1340. Captain, The Churchiu wiuiams

A Civil War romance dealing with the career and exploits of General Grant
and his operations south of Mason and Dixon's line. The pictures are well-
grouped, the hero faithfully portrayed, and the love-story interesting and
eventful. {The Lothrop Co.)

* 1463. Captain's Toil-Gate, The Frank r. siocWon

The situation which Mr. Stockton has amusingly exploited in The Captain's
Toil-Gate is that of a pretty girl at a house-party with three declared lovers,
and a fourth whose proposal is always imminent. She gravely keeps them
all dangling while she weighs in the balance of her favor their merits and
demerits. {D. Appleton &" Co.)

* 1479. Castle Omeragh F. Frankfort Moore

Mr. Moore has deserted Bath and its gay Pump Room, and takes us to Ire-
land during Cromwell's attempt to subjugate it. Castle Omeragh is besieged
and gallantly defended, and we get a very graphic picture of rural Ireland
under the Protector's iron rule. Father Mahoney is a man of infinite resource,
but the exigencies of the siege and of two brothers' love-making during that
anxious time tax it to the uttermost. (Z). Appleton & Co.)

James Weber Linn

1357. Chameleon, The

A searching and convincing study of the poseur as he is in public and pri-
vate. Also a picture of life in the West, a mushroom university and its
petty politics, and a love romance, all very cleverly done, and unflatteringly
true to nature. {McClure, Phillips & Co.)

►J^ 1341. Circle, The Katherlne Cecil Thurston

An ambitious and most successful novel by a new English writer. It traces
the career of a poor young Russian Jewess of genius and beauty who is given
an opportunity to exploit both on the stage. The story gives the results of
her experiment on herself and her friends. {Dodd, Mead & Co.)

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Kenyon West

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A Revolutionary story of love and war. The scene centres around the now
famous old Chew House in Germantown, Philadelphia. The Red and the
Blue are rivals not only in war but in love, and endless complications and
adventures are the result. {Jthe Lothrop Co.)

S. Weir Mitchell

1392. Comedy of Conscience, A

The conscience belongs to Miss Serena Vernon ; it is of the New England
variety, of course; and the comedy is furnished by a valuable diamond ring
of which Miss Vernon becomes possessed most unwittingly and unwillingly.
Dr. Mitchell gets much fun out of a slight incident. {The Century Co.)

1380. Conjuror's House Stewart Edward White

This is a story of the Hudson Bay country when it was under the autocratic
sway of the Scottish Factors of the famous Fur Company. Ned Trent, as a
democratic "free-trader," dares the wrath of the local autocrat and carries off
his daughter after a hard fight. {McClure, Phillips & Co.)

1410. Conauering of Kate, The

J, p. Mowbray

Kate is one of two charming sisters who lived some thirty years ago in South-
ern Pennsylvania on a huge unremunerative estate, John Burt comes to it
as overseer, and a very pretty love-story ensues. {Doubleday, Page & Co.)

1400. Cornet Strong of Ireton's Horse Dora Greenwell McChesney

A tale of the grim Puritan days when Roundheads fought with Cavaliers,
having a mystery cleverly concealed until the very end. A Captain of
Ireton's Horse falls, in due course, in love with an Irish Royalist maid, but
the real hero is fierce, fanatical Cornet Strong. {John Lane)

1384. Barrel of the Blessed Isles

Irving Bacheller

The story of a mysterious and philosophical clock-tinker of vast Shakes-
pearean erudition, a blithesome foundling boy, and a stray dog, who take us
delightedly on a voyage to the "Blessed Isles of Imagination," too seldom
visited in these days. {The Lothrop Co.)

* 1468. Betached Pirate, A Helen Miiecete

The ' ' pirate ' ' is the ex-Mrs. Colonel Gore, who has been legally ' * detached ' '
from her consort on account of his jealousy, and goes to Halifax as Gay
Vandeleur. There she falls in with many smart people, good and bad,
among them her former husband. The complications that ensue are exciting
and diverting, even if a little improbable. They are related in a series of
vivacious letters written to Gay's friend Vera. {Little, Broivn & Co.)

^ 1470. Bominant Strain, The

Anna Chapin Ray

This is a strong and well-written story, whose title expresses its treatment
both of heredity and of the musical temperament. A woman marries a man
to reform him, and fails; a musical star wins more than artistic triumphs;
and a number of other people add their quota of clever sayings and doings
to round out a most readable tale. {Little, Broivn &" Co.)

►Jh 1324. Bonna Biana

Richard Bagot

A story of modern Rome and the Roman Church, in which newly-awakened
love leads the heroine from the cloister to the hearth. This is the third of
Mr. Bagot's ecclesiastical trilogy. {Longmans, Green & Co.)

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-k 1474. Dowager Countess and the American Girl, The

Lilian Bell

A better book than its predecessor, and in no way dependent on it, The
'Doiuager Countess and the American Girl sets forth the nagging, hectoring,
and hostility shown the young American bride of Archibald Cavendish by
his mother, the Dowager Countess of Mayhew. Sir John again stands by the
young American in her "foreign" surroundings like a trump.

{Harper & Brothers)

1397. Filigree Ball, The Anna Katherlne Green

Mrs. Green's latest and one of her very best stories of mystery. A bride is
found lying shot through the heart — the third mysterious death in the unin-
habited, ill-reputed Moore House. Mrs. Green develops the situation clue
by clue, step by step, cleverly keeping the suspense and mystery intact until
the surprising discoveries which precede the end. {The Bobbs-Merrill Co.)

►J^ 1325. Flowers of the Dust

John Oxenham

John Oxenham has written a story of the Franco-Prussian war, Floivers of the
Dust, which possesses a mysterious plot, cleverly concealed, cleverly unrav-
elled, plenty of exciting, if somewhat sanguinary, incident, clever description,
and crisp dialogue. {A. Wessels Co.)

1391. From a Thatched Cottage

Eleanor G. Hay den

A word and a blow, murder and remorse, hatred and love, all contribute
their share in this story of life in an English rural hamlet among farmers and
poachers. The sombreness of the story is relieved by many touches of
genuine humor. (7". T. Cro'^vell & Co.)

Elsvorlh Lavson

1375. From the Unvarying Star

The scene of this story is laid in a country parish in Yorkshire, where the hero
is a dissenting minister of liberal views and emotional nature, both of which
are sorely tried by his experiences. It is not a problem novel in the current
meaning of the phrase, though it deals with the results oi which the ordinary
problem novel usually furnishes the details. {The Macmillan Co.)

1401. Girl of Ideas, A Annie Flint

This story has a novel and unique plot, developed with much skill, ingenuity,
and humor. The heroine is a disappointed literary aspirant who starts an
office for the sale of "ideas" to publishers and writers. It is a clever satire
on literary works and ways. {Charles Scribner's Sons)

1415. Golden Fleece

DaYid Graham Phillips

This story satirizes panoramically, keenly, humorously, and truly, the hunt-
ing of the American heiress by an impecunious English earl. He stalks his
game in New York, Boston, Chicago, and Washington ; bags it, loses it,
and returns to England. {McClure, Phillips & Co.)

1421. Gordon Keith

Thomas Nelson Page

This is the first novel Mr. Page has written since Ti,ed ^ock appeared. Its
hero is a Virginian ; its heroine is from New York. The period extends from
the close of the war down to our own times ; and the scene shifts between
Virginia and New York. {Charles Scribner's Sons)

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This story is written for that large class of people who seem to possess an
inexhaustible appetite for Marquises and Chevaliers, rapiers and daggers,
point lace and diamonds, adventure and mystery. It supplies these in pro-
fusion and should satisfy the most romantic. {The Bobbs-Merrill Co.)

1353. Grey Wig, The

Israel Zangwill

Mr. Zangwill's latest volume will be warmly welcomed. It takes its title
from the first of six stories which picture the life and character of the London
Ghetto with wonderful skill and realism. The stories are full of pathos,
keen sarcasm, and wit. {^The Macmillan Co.)

1416. Handicapped Among the Free

Emma Rayner

" It's sure the biggest curse that could fall upon a man to be born a nigger
in a white man's land." This cry of a man in sore distress is the burden of
a really noble book which avowedly aims for the betterment of the negro's
position in the South. It is vibrant with sincerity, abounds in human interest,
and should be commended to every reader. {Dodd^ Mead & Co.)

1423. His Daughter First

Arthur Sherburne Hardy

This novel contains a triple love-story, and its plot turns upon the entangle-
ments of an upland house party and upon stock-market complications. It is
a picture of present-day society life in America. {Houghton, Mifflin & Co.)

1393. Horses Nine

Sevell Ford

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Nine stories of nine horses In various walks and runs of horse life. They are
capital sketches, lending no undue psychological motives to their subjects, but
showing observation and sympathy. {Charles Scribner's Sons)

^ 1338. In the Garden of Charity Basil King

A serious and sad study of the marriage problem. Charity Pennland, a Nova
Scotian, marries a soldier who, during his subsequent absence of eleven years
in war service, makes a mock-marriage with a half-Greek girl. He dies.
Charity's attitude toward the poor deluded girl and her babe is the theme of
the story. {Harper & Brothers)

C. Hanford Henderson

1374. John Percyfield

The author calls this "The Anatomy of Cheerfulness." It is fiction and a
little more. The more is a discussion of all sorts of 'isms, the fiction the
doings of the "United Kingdom" (represented by one female each), the
chatelaine, John Percyfield, and Margaret in a pension-chateau on Lake
Geneva. {Houghton, Mifflin & Co.)

^ 1337. Journeys End Justus Hiles Forman

A charming little novelette detailing some American experiences of an Eng-
lish heir to a dukedom, whose poverty and pride drive him to America. The
story ends with a puzzle as distracting as that of The Lady or the Tiger.
A popular actress is a character. {"Doubleday, Page & Co.)

1367. Karl of Erbach

H. C. Bailey

A vivacious and graceful novel, which might be historical and isn't, with
scarcely a threadbare incident or worn-out character in it. There is intrigue
in Karl of Erbach and murder, war, and love making, but they are played
to skilful variations of the old historic tune. {Longmans , Green & Co.)

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^ 1453. Kempton-Wace Letters, The Anonymous

Herbert Wace, an Anglo-Californian, a professor of Economics, and a self-
satisfied, self-centred materialist, attempts to prove to his old London friend,
Dane Kempton, an ardent idealist, the superiority of intellectual affinity over
merely sensuous love. The letters that pass between the two reveal the pros
and cons of the controversy in a quite unusually clever way, but Wace's
theories fail as completely as his practice, and Hester Stebbins, his betrothed,
tells him so at the end. Barbara agrees with her. {The Macmillan Co.)

>h 1329. Lady Rose's Daughter

Mrs. Humphry Ward

A brilliant and consistent picture of the social progress in London of a beau-
tiful and ambitious girl who is handicapped by a bar sinister and by a fatal
disingenuousness of temperament. Mrs. Ward has drawn her inspiration for
this heroine from Mile. Julie de Lespinasse, whose Letters have just been
published in English form. [Harper & Brothers)

1413. Land of Joy, The Ralph Henry Barbour

This is a capital story of Harvard undergraduate life. The chief interest
centres in the relations of John North and his protege, Phillip Ryerson, a hot-
tempered young Virginian whose sister John adores. Phillip has a love affair
of his own. The local atmosphere is admirably reproduced, and the book is
a simple and humorous comedy of college life. {Doubleday, Page &' Co.)

1366. Lees and Leaven Edward w.Tovnsend

This is a "New York story of today." It contains a bountiful supply of
incidents and of characters. The incidents are typical and the characters
individual, and both are admirably drawn. Business stress, newspaper hustle,
and the gay life of theatre and cafe are all sketched with skill and lightness.
The book is New York in miniature. (McClure, Phillips & Co.)

1389. Legatee, The ^lice Prescoti smiih

A clever study of character contrasts. . A Virginian moves to a Wisconsin
lumber town, and encounters a rich variety of adventures, including a strike,
a forest-fire, and an affair of the heart. The forest-fire scene is a dramatic
episode. {Houghton, Mifflin & Co.)

1373. Lieutenant-Governor, The Guy Wetmore Carryi

A political story of the Pennsylvania coal fields, not openly hostile to labor,
but antagonistic to the socialistic ideas of the labor party. As a story, it has
an unhackneyed plot, and is told with animation. {Houghton, Mifflin & Co.)

1349. Life Within, The Anonymous

A Christian Scientist propagandist novel, but a good story for all that. A
young girl of good family is engaged to a young doctor. She becomes a
convert to Christian Science and commences to treat her neighbors. Com-
plications— social, medical, and legal — ensue, and the once peaceful town is
speedily divided into hostile camps. {The Lothrop Co.)

i^ 1456. Life's Common Way Annie Eiioi Trumbuii

"Life's common way" is beset with pitfalls for the wariest; how much more
for the unwary and the unfaithful ! Such is the idea which this excellent
story unfolds with strength and skill. The hero, a clever but weakly ambi-
tious man, is false to the fundamental virtue of honesty, and falls by the way,
wrecking his happiness and his future, and involving that of his wife and
friends. {A. S. Barnes & Co.)

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1365. Light Behind, The Mrs. Wilfrid Ward

This is a story of contemporary English social, literary, and political life,
chiefly concerned with the fortunes of a brilliant, ambitious, but unhappily
married social leader and a young man whom she patronizes, but whose
weakness trips her up and brings down her house of cards about her ears. It
is well written and distinctly above the average. {John Lane)

* 1465. Log of a Cowboy, The Andy Adams

No fiction this, but animated fact. To drive three thousand one hundred
long-horned, long-legged cattle from the Rio Grande to Montana is not a
pacific undertaking. The Log of a Couuboy is an unsophisticated and true
record of such a five-months' drive, made in 1882, by the A No. i "outfit"
to which Andy Adams belonged. {Houghton, Mifflin & Co.)

* 1477. Love of Monsieur, The George Gibbs

In his last story Mr. Gibbs took us "in search of Mademoiselle." This
time a haughty young English beauty goes "in search of Monsieur," whose
love she has spurned. There are stirring adventures on sea and land, and
while it is not an historical novel, the fiavor of romance recalls the best of that
class of fiction, without its limitations. {Harper & Brothers)

>^ 1347. Lovey Mary Alice Hegan Rice

A happy little book, as the sequel to Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch was
bound to be. Although Lovey Mary starts out with quite different views (if
she may be said to have views), she soon finds herself in the Cabbage Patch,
and there Mrs. Wiggs reigns supreme and dispenses her voluble and versatile
optimism as of yore. {The Century Co.)

-k 1476. Main Chance, The Meredith Nicholson

A "traction deal " in a Western city is the pivot about which the action of
this clever story revolves. But it is in the character-drawing of the principals
that the author's strength lies. He has given us a group of men and women
in whom we become very much interested. Exciting incidents develop their
inherent strength and w-eakness, and if virtue wins in the end, it is quite in
keeping with its carefully-planned antecedents. {The Bobbs-Merrill Co.)

1385. Mannerings, The Alice Brown

A study of marital infelicity, in which a high-strung woman is mated to a
dull-witted sort of knave, and in which two other couples embark at length
on the uncertain sea of matrimony. {Houghton, Mifflin & Co.)

1411. Marjorie

Justin Hunlly McCarthy

A pretty little tale of philanthropy and piracy told in a monologue by Master
Raphael Crowninshield, an actor therein. The philanthropy was the project
of Captain Marmaduke Amber; the piracy was the work of Cornelys Jensen,
who thought a bird in the hand worth two in the bush. {R. H. Russell)

>h 1336. Master of Warlock, The

George Cary Eggleston

A Virginia war story, in w^hich neither Mars nor an ancestral feud can over-
come Venus and Cupid. " Jeb " Stuart figures as a match-maker as well as
a soldier, and the author gives a very true portrait of this brave and lovable
man. {The Lothrop Co.)

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* 1478. Mettle of the Pasture, The James Lane Alien

The mere announcement of a new book by James Lane Allen sends a flutter
of anticipation through the literary world, which will be followed by a breeze
of enthusiasm when it is found that it resembles Mr. Allen's earlier romances,
and has a heroine who is the acme of beauty, refinement, and grace.

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1425. Middle Aged Love Stories

Josephine Daskam

Seven stories of the loves of middle-aged people, humorous and pathetic.
They possess individuality and that quality which has made Miss Daskam's
former books so enjoyable. {Charles Scribner^s Sons)

* 1462. Modern Obstacle, The

Alice Duer Miller

The modern obstacle to marriage — what else but the lack of money ? A girl
of luxurious necessities, whose beauty and charm demand an exquisite setting,
finds the obstacle greater than love. If the lover is ready and even eager, by
quietly committing suicide at the end of six months of marriage, to ensure the
necessary luxury — what then ? The Modern Obstacle is a decidedly clever
picture of our society, which too often offers up Cupid a sacrifice to Mammon.

{Charles Scribner^s Sons)

1412. Mystery of Murray Davenport, The Robert Neiison Stephens

This is not, strictly speaking, what one would call a "detective" story,
though the mystery would have interested even S^ rlock Holmes. It is the
story of a disappointed misanthrope who sudden disappears from human
ken, under suspicious circumstances. \L. C. Page & Co.)

1414. No Hero

E. W. Hornung

In this story Mr. Hornung has taken leave of his cracksmen and heroics
and has written a very readable, natural story of the infatuation of a young
Eton lad for a widow older than himself, the intervention of a third party, and
the entanglements incident to his mission. {Charles ^cribner^s Sons)

1382. On Satan's Mount "Dwight Tiiton"

A very melodramatic story of love, business, and politics, portraying the
probable future supreme strife of labor and capital in this country. The two
rivals are caricatures of John Mitchell and J. P. Morgan. (C. M . Clark <Sf Co.)

1403. Our Neighbours lan Maclaren

A bright series of stories, grave and gay, and short papers descriptive of the
author's experiences as a traveler and lecturer in Europe and America. It is
filled with wholesome spirit, humor, and manly pathos. {Dodd, Mead & Co.)

1417. Pagan at the Shrine, The

Paul Gvynne

The quaintness of custom, primitiveness of life, and unconscious picturesque-
ness of the most Spanish of Spaniards, their folk-lore, superstitions, loquacity,
and love of merriment are charmingly depicted in this novel of Andalucia.
The story itself is a tragic one. {The Macmillan Co.)

1359. Pearl-Maiden H. Rider Haggard

A tale of adventures many, which befell a Christian maid at the period of
the destruction of Jerusalem. The fall of the Holy City is vividly described,
as is also the Triumph of Titus. Some 200 Essenes are Miriam's guardian
angels, helping her in her hours of greatest need. {Longmans^ Green & Co.)

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1426. Spedre of Power, A Charles Egbert Craddock

It is a long time since Miss Murfree has written a story, and her welcome is
all the more assured. She sticks to her Tennessee mountains, but goes back
to the time of the struggles of the French and English in the early eighteenth
century for possession of the Cherokee territory. The story abounds in adven-
ture, mystery, peril, and suspense. {Houghton, Mifflin & Co.)

1379. Spoilsmen, The Eiuott Flower

A clever and convincingly realistic picture of municipal politics in Chicago;
of the unavailing struggles of a poor man to keep honest and keep in politics;
and of a rich young man's whirlwind campaign in order to win a girl's love.
A good story, with a good lesson in it for " reform.ers," {L. C. Page & Co )

1336. Squireen, The shan f. BuUock

An Irish story portraying a typical Celtic temperament whose progress, down-
wards and upwards, retains our interest and enlists our sympathies, although
we cannot restrain our resentment against the hero's vagaries that wreck the
peace of his home and neighborhood. {McClure, Phillips &' Co.)

►J^ 1330. Star Dreamer, The Agnes and Egerton Caslle

A very delightful love story of the olden time in rural England. No problem
disfigures it; much quaint knowledge and humor distinguish it; while jeal-
ousy and pride create interesting situations. {F. A. Stokes &" Co.)

1432. Stirrup Cup, The

J. Aubrey Tyson

A novelette of the courtship of Aaron Burr, narrated by Master Hartrigg,
ex-schoolmaster and actual sergeant in the Continental Army. It is a bright,
imaginative little tale of the beginning of what was in reality Burr's happy
married life. {D. Appleton &' Co.)

Lillian W. Belts

1435. Story of an East-Side Family, The

The East-Side without glamour — degradation, drunken women, and brutal
men. In the centre Jack and Marj', who start matrimony with a dollar, in a
room furnished with a orrowed table and two soap boxes. It is the real
thing — the shameful thing — studied with sympathy. {Dodd, Mead & Co.)

1381. Substitute, The win N. Harben

A story of Northern Georgia. The plot is original: that of vicarious restora-
tion, or expiatory substitution. The hero is a young fellow, poor but honest,
whose foster-father — a confessed murderer — brings him up to lead an upright
life, and thus to atone for his wrong-doing. {Harper &' Brothers)

►I^ 1323. Success of Mark Wyngate, The

Una L. Silberrad

An English story of a silent, self-contained, successful man of science, baffled
but ultimately successful in his work, which gets such a hold upon him that
it drives love from his heart until too late. A strong but sad story, yet with
touches of humor to relieve its sombreness. {Doubleday, Page & Co.)

1404. Tar-Heel Baron, A Habell Shipple Clarke Pellon

A fresh character-creation is the Baron Frederich von Ritter, and an engag-
ing one. Placed in the incongruous environment of North Carolina, he
acquits himself like a man. (J. B. Lippincott Co.)

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4201. Explorations in Bible Lands Edited by Herman Y. Hllprechl

A large and profusely illustrated volume containing a complete and authentic
history of the results of the exploratory work already accomplished in Bible
lands. (^. J. Holman & Co.)

1376. Great Siberian Railway, The

Michael Myers Shoemaker

This is an illustrated record of a trip made over the great Russian transcon-
tinental railway by a keen and sympathetic observer who does not allow preju-
dices to sway his pen in recording actual conditions. ( G. P. Putnam's Sons)

1406. Greater Russia Wiri Gerrare

A readable and instructive study of the social and political status and aspira-
tions of modern Russia. Its English author has traveled far and wide in
Asiatic Russia, and has an Englishman's pluck and obstinacy in the face of
obstructions and discomforts. {The Macmillan Co.)

iK: 1459. How Paris Amuses Itself

F. Berkeley Smith

Parisians know how to amuse themselves, and to judge from Mr. Smith's
descriptions — literary and pictorial — they do not take their pleasures sadly.
Most of the amusement appears to be frothy and somewhat audacious, but it
is Iridescent, artistic, and perfect of its kind. {Funk & JVagnalls)

1447. Poland George Brandes

The celebrated Danish critic has vividly reported in this book his impressions
of divided Poland — Russian, Prussian, and Austrian — gained on different
trips when he was an honored and feted visitor and lecturer. He finds much
to admire in that gallant little country that Is not a nation. "We love
Poland," he says, " not as we love Germany or France or England, but as we
love freedom." Coming from the hand of Brandes, the volume would not be
complete without such an appreciative and historical review of Polish literature
as it contains. {The Macmillan Co.)

^ 1345. Romance of the Colorado River, The Frederick s. Deiienbaugh

A superbly Illustrated and most Interesting account of the country through
which the great "red" river runs and of the Powells' two dare-devil expedi-
tions down its almost Impassable canyons. Mr. Dellenbaugh was an adven-
turesome member of the second expedition. {G. P. Putnam's Sons)

1437. True Tales of Mountain Adventure Mrs. Aubrey Le Blond

The author is an intrepid Alpine climber, and writes from experience. She
has narrated her exciting adventures in a very Interesting manner, pic-
turing most vividly the joys, benefits, and dangers of mountain climbing.
The book Is well Illustrated. {£. P. Dutton &' Co.)

1442. Turk and His Lost Provinces, The Wiiuam Eieroy Curtis

This goodly volume contains Mr. Curtis' impressions of his recent visit to the
Balkan peninsula. It is a lively and discriminating account of present day
conditions in that disturbed bit of Eastern Europe. {Fleming H. Re'vell Co.)

1383. Winter India e. r. scidmore

An entertaining and instructive record of travel in India by a keen and
experienced observer. The, author has gone the usual rounds of India and
much more, and her comments are wise and witty. {The Century Co.)

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>^ 1344. American Diplomacy in the Orient

John W. Foster

An authoritative account of the origin and progress of American expansion
during recent years. Mr. Foster writes from a wide personal knowledge
of the events he describes. {Houghton, Miffiin & Co.)

Gabriel Hanolaux

1439. Contemporary France : 1870-1873

The first of four important volumes which will give us contemporary France,
reflected in a gigantic mirror, polished and held — so to speak — by one of her
most eminent Republican statesmen and historians. The present volume
comprises the critical period of 1870-1873. (G. P. Putnam'' s Sons)

* 1454. Fight for the City, A Alfred Hodder

The "city" is New York, and the "fight" was Justice Jerome's spectacular
but successful campaign of truth-telling, as against that of the " administra-
tive lie," in New York's last great municipal contest. Mr. Hodder is Mr.
Jerome's private secretary, and his book is not only a vivid account of his
principal's heroic campaign, but is an exceedingly valuable exposition of
modern civics of the better sort. [The Macmillan Co.)

1428. Kaiser's Speeches, The

Edited by, Wolf von Schierbrand

However much omniscience may be the foible of the Kaiser, he is never dull.

To this fact this goodly volume bears witness. It contains extracts from his
^ ,^ speeches on all conceivable subjects and occasions, and every one of them is

jT~r[]\ full of matter and to the point. Herr Von Schierbrand 's annotations give

unity and vivacity to his compilation. {Harper & Brothers)

1448. Political Parties and Party Problems in the United

States Albert S. Woodburn

This work is both historical and critical. It traces the rise and growth of
American political parties ; points out their ideals and their development;
and criticises the defects and dangers of their methods. {E. P. Button & Co.)

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1407. American Industrial Problems w. r. Lawson

This book contains the serious, careful, and suggestive comments on the
American situation of an English observer who has lived in America and
speaks from experience. {McClure, Phillips &" Co.)

^ 5110. Social Unrest, The John Graham Brooks

This" is a thoughtful and stimulating book by a man who has lived among
men and knows whereof he writes. It is a careful, informal discussion of the
causes of the present industrial unrest in this country. {The Macmillan Co.)

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1440. Trust Finance

The Trust question needs to be understood, and few people understand it.
Dr. Meade helps the reader to an understanding of the methods of the pro-
motion and financing of industrial trusts, and leaves him free to draw his own
ethical and moral conclusions, being satisfied to be an expositor and not a
critic, a croaker, or a prophet. {D. Appleton & Co.)

►J^ 1331. Woman Who Toils, The Mrs. John and Miss Marie Van Yorst

An account of the practical experiences of the joint-authors as wage-earners
in the East and South. An Introductory Letter by President Roosevelt.
Illustrated. {Doubleday, Page &' Co.)

>i< 5109. Work of Wall Street, The Sereno s. Pratt

This book treats of corporate transactions and the machinery of combines,
mergers, trusts, and the like. It is a clear and concise explanation of things
financiaJ, suitable and iristructive to the lay mind. (Z). Appleton &" Co.)

DOMESTIC ECONOMY AND RECREATION

1427. Athletics and Out-Door Sports for Women Luciiie e. mii

This is a symposium on athletics and sports for women. There are articles
on physical training at home, gymnasium work, dancing, walking, swim-
ming, skating, bowling, golf, running, lawn tennis, field hockey, basket-ball,,
riding, fencing, rowing, and track athletics, each by an expert, and all finely
illustrated. {The Macmillan Co.)

Clarence Hoores Weed

1446. Flower Beautiful, The

There are many people who love flowers but who have not the knack of using
them effectively for decorative purposes. Mr. Weed's attractive book will do
much to supplement the lack of such a knack — or rather art — as well as to
increase and direct it. He has a true appreciation of the fundamental law of
harmony. [Houghton, Mifflin & Co.)

1368. Millionaire Households and their Domestic Economy

Mary Elizabeth Carter

This book, by a former superintending housekeeper in millionaire house-
holds, reveals the menage of a modern millionaire and the details of his
strenuous quest after luxury and amui^ement. It is full of practical good
ideas on housekeeping in general. (Z). Appleton &" Co.)

►J^ 1333. Principles of Home Decoration Candace wheeier

An admirable blending of the practical and the artistic pervades Mrs.
Wheeler's exposition of the true principles of harmonious interior decoration.
The criticism and the hints are most valuable. [Doubleday, Page & Co.)

1361. Racquets, Tennis, and Squash Eustace Miles

A capital handbook, finely illustrated, with valuable hints on training, etc.,
by an expert and champion. Mr. Miles says many good things on the spirit
of sport, its advantages, and its influence on character. [D. Appleton & Co.)

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1362. Taylor on Golf

J. H. Taylor

What Mr. Taylor does not know about golf is hardly worth knowing. He
has put most of what he does know into his book, and what he knows is apt
to be valuable to the golfer and to the duffer. [Harper & Brothers)

1377. Woman's Hardy Garden, A Helena Ruiherfurd Ely

A practical book on gardening, most clearly and concisely put, and beauti-
fully illustrated. There are no babies to distract, no man of wrath to dread,
in this garden; just frames, fertilizers, and flowers. {The Macmillan Co.)

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^ 4199. Agnosticism Robert Flint

A most valuable historical study of the "theory as to the limits of human
knowledge," otherwise popularly known as agnosticism. In reality, the book
is positive and constructive in tone and temper, although dealing with the
doctrine of negation. [Charles Scribner's Sons)

^ 4203. Babel and Bible Friedrich Deiitzsch

This volume contains the full text of Professor Deiitzsch 's two famous lectures
on the Babylonian cuneiform inscriptions that raised such a storm in Germany
so recently. The title means "Babel (Babylon) as the interpreter and illus-
trator of the Bible," and while the lectures are radical, they do not deserve
the violent aspersions to which they have been subjected. Dr. Deiitzsch
produces evidence that calls for very serious consideration, not for abuse.

(G. P. Putnam's Sons)

►J^ 4200. Extra-Canonical Life of Christ, The Bemhard Pick

Dr. Pick has collected and arranged in a concise and admirable form all the
most valuable of the apocryphal accounts that deal with our Lord's earthly
life. A book that laymen will find as interesting as clergymen, and valuable
as a study in comparative biography. {Funk & tVagnalls)

4202. Other Room, The Lyman Abbott

A study of death and immortality from the spiritual standpoint. Wise and
stimulating in conception; simple and elevated in style. Dr. Abbott writes
from long ministerial experience and meets the doubts and soothes the sorrows
of many perplexed hearts in this fine little book. {The Outlook Co.)

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1444. Better Way, The

This new book, by the author of The Simple Life, represents the application
of the doctrines of that book to the affairs of the spirit. It is full of sugges-
tive helps as to acting and thinking so that we may become masters of our-
selves and better able to meet the crises of life. {McClure, Phillips & Co.)

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1395. Traitors, The E. PWllips Oppenheim

A dashing tale of love, politics, and war in an imaginary Balkan principality,
in which natives, Turks, Russians, Englishmen, and Americans jostle one
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1422. Trent's Trust Brei Harie

Seven stories of the old California days, as original, powerful, and fascinating
as the author's best. These stories are published with the authority of Mr.
Harte's literary executors. {Houghton, Mifflin & Co.)

1360. True Love Edith Wyaii

The author calls this story " A Comedy of the Affections." It is a story of
life in an Illinois town, and deals with its commonplaces in a cleverly observ-
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>h 1328. Truth Emile Zola

A powerful and absorbing story, the third of the " Four Evangelists" series,
throwing a flood of light upon the anti-Semitism and anti-clericalism of con-
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in the story. {John Lane)

ik 1471. Truth and a Woman Anna Robeson Brown

This rather brief but interesting story has been written to prove woman's
reliance on love and temperament as against masculine logic and pure reason,
and its failure. True, the man of the book is unreasonably, almost icono-
clastically, opposed to compromise and conventionality, but such types do
exist. They are not successful lovers, however, and that is fatal to woman's
happiness, which, after all, ought to count for something in life.

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1351. Turquoise Cup, The Arthur Cosletl Smith

Two brightly written novelettes, ' ' The Turquoise Cup ' ' and ' ' The Desert ' ' ;
the first humorous, the second tragic; and both artistically wrought out of
very slight and delicate materials. {Charles Scribner^ s Sons)

ii^ 1461. Under Dog, The f. Hopkinson Smith

This is a collection of stories of the "under dog" In life's struggle: of the
misunderstood, unappreciated, unsuccessful, and even of the criminal. Mr.
Smith has seized on the dramatic and picturesque features of their tragedies,
not merely to make good copy — that goes without saying — but to appeal for
justice for those who have stumbled or fallen. This serious purpose of the
book in no way overwhelms its pictorial, graphic, and humorous value as
literature. {Charles Scribner's Sons)

>ii 1343. Under the Rose Frederic S. Isham

Under the %ose is a romance of the "Court of Love" — the languorous,
silken court of Francis I. The adventures of the court, and how a jester and
a jestress flee through the forests, across France, to Charles V., are cheerily
and prettily told, and Under the %fise will probably be as great a success as
The Strollers. {The Bobbs- Merrill Co.)

>h 1346. Virginia Girl in the Civil War, A Hyrta Lockett Avary

This book reads like a novel, but is, in reality, the record of the personal
experiences of a Southern lady during the dark days of the Civil war. Mrs.
Avary learned the facts during a Southern visit and has pieced them together
with great skill into a coherent and readable narrative. {D. Appleton & Co.)

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1424. Voice in Ihe Desert, The Pauline Bradford Hackie

The reviewer has never dwelt in the arid deserts of the mid-continent, but he
is sure that he would feel as if he were returning to a familiar scene were he
now to visit them, after reading this powerful and tender romance. Both
places and people are life-like, and the description and dialogue are perfect
parts of a complete and satisfying whole. {McClure, Phillips & Co.)

Oltilie A. Liljencrantz

1420. Ward of King Canute, The

A brave and novel story of olden days when the Danes, under great Canute,
swooped down upon England. A noble Danish maid, who serves him, dis-
guised as a page, is the lovable heroine. She is taken prisoner by an Eng-
lish etheling, both gallant and gentle, and both are worthy of the adventures
they have. {A. C. McClurg & Co.)

iK^ 1457. Wars of Peace, The a. f. wiison

This novel seeks to portray a phase of American industrial life much in
evidence just now: the struggle of the individual against the Trust. While
a little bit melodramatic, it is a powerful picture of a son's revolt against the
tyranny of a self-righteous father whose conscience is gradually stifled by the
stress of competition. {Little, Broavn & Co.)

1449. Wee Macgreegor j. j. Beii

Macgreegor is a braw wee bit Glaisgey laddie who is the pride of his dotin'
faither and mither. He wheedles them a' the time, playin' off ane against
the ither wi' muckle skill. He's na sae blate at a crack, and bauds his ain
wi' his parents, and, indeed, talks the braidest Scotch for 165 pages, for the
kennin' o' whilk Maister Bell has maist kindly providit a usefu' glossary —
keeps a' ! {Harper & Brothers)

1355. What Manner of Man

Edna Kenton

A strong and tragic story of the artistic temperament run literally mad. A
decadent artist marries a wild Scotch lassie, and breaks her heart. He is not
sufficiently punished. {The Bobbs-Merrill Co.)

1434. Wind in the Rose-Bush, The

Mary E. Wilkins

Ghostly shapes, illusive shadows, haunted chambers, mysterious noises, and
all the proper spectral paraphernalia of New England villages have crept into
these stories of Mrs. Freeman's. They are not too "scarey" — just curious
and weird. No more so, however, than the Peter Newell illustrations that
accompany them. {Doubleday, Page & Co.)

►J^ 1332. Youth

Joseph Conrad

A book of three rather long short stories by the author of Typhoon. Grim
realism. The titles are: " Youth," " Heart of Darkness," and " The End
of the Tether." {McClure, Phillips & Co.)

LIBRARY OF FOREIGN LITERATURE

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