34 THE SUNDAY OREGONIAX, PORTLAND, OCTOBER 1, 1905 "Neither staff nor scrip I take & But a little book instead. T This the consecrated bread I break, This the brook where thirst I slake" The Heart of a Girl, by Mrs. Ruth Kimball Gardiner. -12 mo. Cloth. $1.50. A. S. Barnes & Co., Kew York City. We "who are bent with the weight of years, carry a cane and now patronize ctore teeth, know In our heart of hearts that the brightest and most innocent days of our lives were our schooldays when we knew no real care and when the thrilling joys of "commencement" were yet a journey or two away. In the average schoolgirl's life, to mas culine eyes, there is an element of ten der Interest, when her babyhood, little toddler ways, and awkward, unformed young womanhood are pictured, and a case in point occurs in reviewing "The Heart of a 'Girl," which Is illustrated by Charles Louis Hlnton. Margaret Holyoke Carlln is the name of the girl about whom this readable nox-cl of 38C pages is written, and her life Is similar to that of many a Port land schoolgirl. The literary work shows an- experienced pen, the word plcturaa tell of 'human, honest people, and the sketches of character In the process of formation are given with photographic fidelity and ability. Mar garet's faults and virtues are unshrink ingly laid bare to all who may care to look at them. She is no Blessed Damo zel or spiritual Little Eva, too good for this wicked world, but a girl who has her Ideals, looks up to them, some times misses, but ever presses toward the mountain height. She smokes her first cigarette to her sorrow but de votedly loves her father, mother and home. Inherits literary instinct from her father, who Is a newspaper edi tor, is a power for good In her schools. Is gifted with the ready utterance of a natural debater, and has In her person ality the making of a good woman. The story has as its successive scenes Illinois, Dakota, Nebraska and Certropolis which latter may be In terpreted as Milwaukee, Wis. The story begins when Margie is nearly 5 years old, on the day she slowly swung her feet on the top of tho gate. "Margie swung her feet in a new way, the way the new little girl she had seen In a Sunday school the day before swung hers, round and round. In a sort of cir cle. It seemed to Margie an elegant ac complishment." In the first grades of her school life, Margie was a ort of animated Emmy Lou. Then she grew a bit and one day her bosom schoolgirl friends said to her: "What boy do you like best?" Margie admired the largest boy In the pchool. but in a far-off. Impersonal way. He seemed to her brave and handsome, like' a Prince In a fairy story. She had not the slightest wish to know him, and she would not for worlds have admitted her admira tion. "I don't like any boys,' she said. "Didn't you ever have a fellow?" Flo asked. Margie felt her cars grow hot. "My. But you're queer. Why, every -girl has a fellow," said Flo. "What does a boy do who's your fellow?" Margie asked. "Oh. write notec In school, and choose you In games, and take you to parties, and kiss you. and be sweet .on you. You'll get one alter a while." This struck terror to Margie. Then she began to attend baseball games, with her father, and promptly fell in love, in a far-away, silent fash ion, with the pitcher of the baseball nine. Patsy Welch, principally because: "His gray suit fitted him finely, and its open collar showed a statuesque neck. His teeth were dazzlingly white, and when he threw off. his cap to catch a high ball, one could see that his brown ' naif i'uiicu crispiy. awry iiiuvemvni wuss i gracefuL Ho was a hero. Slides that would have appalled any ordinary man he took without hesitation." Poor Mar gie f She was soon to know that men, that is some of them, are deceivers ever. She attended a dance with several of her bpy and girl friends, when a voice said to Hunter, Margie's partner: "Say, gimme a knockdown to Miss Carlln." Patsy Welch had arrived. He hod pitched a winning game that day and perhaps he was flushed with something else besides vic tory Hunter, taken unawares, presented Patsy to Margie. Then it seemed to her that everybody drew away and left her with her hero. "I seen you at all the games." he said, showing his dazsllng teeth. "Is his nibs that goes with you your father?" "Ves." said Margie. "I thought so." said Patsy. "I knoo you wouldn't be goln around unless he was one of the family. Tou ain't that kind." Margie felt as if she wore going to scream. This Patsy? This her Greek, God-like hero? There was an odor on his breath as he bent nearer her that disgusted her. It was like the yes. It was whisky! She had taken a dope of It once when she was seized with a chill. She had a great longing to run home and tell mother. In the waltz that followed Patsy swung her out on the floor, and held her closer than any of her boy partners had done. It pleased him to bang Into people and knock them to one lde. Patsy was enjoying him self, but Margie could utand no more and she told a white He by saying she had sprained one of her ankles. So Patsy went ana danced with somebody else. circles'' and ly her experiences ! with secret societies form most enter talning reading. In a debate on the j question; -Which was the greater ' Rome or Greece?" Margie found herself ! on the side of Greece, and In her speech ! she said: What does being great mean? Home was I great, like a balloon. Greece was great, 1 like a rock. Latin was the language of the j Dark Ages. It was not until the world j stopped speaking It that the Dark Ages j were over. In what language was tho New Testament written. Latin or Greek? Greek. of course. Greece gave Christianity to the world. Pontius Pilate and Nero can a I Chrlstan world call their nation sxeat? What do we say of a person who is brave? Do we say Roman? No, we say Spartan. That's Greek. If killing and enslaving peo ple Is great, then Rome was great. If leaving beautiful and enlightening things after them Is great, then the Greeks were certainly better than the Romans. Tho Greeks taught the world philosophy and art. The Romans merely went out and killed. Tou must admit that the Greeks were greater than the Romans when you think of one thing: Which nation produced the nose we admire the most This Is the whole ques tion. If you admit that the straight Greek nose is the more beautiful, you must admit that the Greeks were greater than the Rom ans. If you admire the beak-like pro boscis th hideous Roman nose call tho Romans great. Pontius Pilate had a Roman nose. Enough has been quoted to show that Mrs. Gardiner, whose stories in the Century and Cornhill magazines have attracted so much attention, has sketched Margie's life in all Its deli cacy with chnrm. humor, pathos and frank truth. "The Heart of a Girl" is the great schoolgirl story of the year. The Trident and the Net. by the author of "The Martyrdom of an Empress," with Illustrations painted In water color. Har per & Brothers, New Tork City. ' Vibrant with life and motion, this novel, with scenes laid in Brittany, Paris and New York. Is a striking and trium phant, piece of literary art. So many nov els are like sugar-plums, the vehicle of persons who are so faultlessly perfect that they are without sin and wher- either have money or position sufficient to fulfill all their sordid wants. Life for them is one continual, .glad dream of joy. How different Is the mood of "The Trident and the Net," where pain, suffering, squalor and dissipation are written on the thread of the story JIke marks made by a red hot Iron on wood or leather! The anonymous authoress writes about French aristocrats with the familiarity and case of "Ouida," and mercilessly ex poses much moral "rottenness concerning a blase aristocracy claiming Brittany and other parts of France for its home. A calcium light is turned on the character of Lolc, Marquis de Kergoat, much in the same fashion as in a Chinese play from his boyhood until whisky and pneumonia kills him. In early manhood. The Brit tany which Is revealed Is not the .Brit tany of the tourist. Lolc suffered in the beginning from too much petticoat gov ernment, but when he revolted he found himself as handsome as. a Greek god and as strong as Hercules. Time hung heav ily on his hands if two women were not in love with him at the same period, and he became an adept In saying to love lorn damsels, "Avaunt thee." In these triumphant days, Lolc asked himself: "Was there ever a woman half, worth, a perfect horse?" Fool. He had yet to learn of the ease with which a woman manages a man. Here is the fashion in which a widow, VIcomtesse Gynette, made love to him: Will you marry me? I know what I'm doing Is shameful, degrading, but 1 am past observing the dictates of calm custom and conventional routine. Tou do not love me I know It at least not as I had hoped you would but I love you. Oh, I do. I do. with every nerve and fibre of mc, fiercely, blindly, exclusively. That Is whatjttvcs me courage to asK you again, such as my lite is. it is " r,.l" 3" J"l y0U ae your wife. It is unexplalnable why Lolc did not take advantage of this passionate offer, and live happily forever after, for he was as yet heart free and in all the glory of his strength and comeliness. In a spirit of mere bravado he sent a bouquet to one Bose whose moral reputation was not of the best, and did not seriously rebuff her when she poetically threw herself In his way. Without the formality of a mar riage ceremony, Loic and she lived to gether, and one daughter was born to them. Rose is described in the book as possessing "a fourth-rate soul in a first class skin, lier only beauty being her daz zling teeth." She became a slattern, a common scold, a drunkard, a woman whose language was a foretaste of tho wrath to come, but Loic took her and the baby to New York, where he scoured work as a professional horseman. Argu ments against some marriages can be se cured by reading the blistering life of this couple in New York. Of course she soon left him, taking her little girl with her. Splendid Loic did not rise superior to his misfortunes and show himself to be a man by forgetting he ever knew such a wretched creature, masquerading in the sacred name of womanhood. Instead, he tried to find out how much whisky a weak man can consume before death over takes him. The book Is not without a certain fas cl nation, and the nictures are so lurid I . i,- a' .I.-, .u. .. A ,caves not made ot asbestos" Matrimonial Primer, by V. B. Ames. Dec orations by Gordon Ross. 75 cents and $1.50. Paul Elder &. Co.. San Francisco. Sparkling with naive epigram, clever satire and shrewd wisdom. At the same time Its enjoyable humor Is free from objectionable liberties, and it can with perfect enjoyment be read by married folks as well as by those who do wish and who do not wish to enter that condition in life. Theweakncsses and foibles of hus band and wlfo are frankly dealt with, and the humor is Infectious. Cupid Is present ed in a variety of guises. The little book is sure to be popular during the coming" season. The first edition consists of, the publishers say. 25,000 copies. Here are some of the book's thoughts: If you are looking for a wife who will be as pliable and responsive as olay In the pot ter's hands, .you'll have to dig her up from foreign soli. A lover Is an indulgence: a husband a confirmed habit. Acquire only a good one. How ' beautiful is .love. How perfect It seems with all Its Illusions, delusions and dreams. Don't be a valet to your husband. Absence may make the heart grow fonder. Presents havr been known to have the same effect. A little love Is a dangerous thing. "LTee your best conversational powers occas ionally at your own dinner table. A woman who appears at the breakfast table hideous in curl papers and sloppy wrappers must think she has married a blind man or a sandburr. For a wife who whines or a husband who sneers there is no sort of marital salvation. Be entertaining to your husband. or some other -wosian will.. X is the Tea you loBt just when The coal In the bin vas low; Or It may be the bill that went to fill Her soubrettlty after the show; Or possibly, now. It played that cow Called the favorite on the track; Or It may be was caught where Horatio fought. At the bridge, against the whole pack. Thero are nagging women and profane men: It is to bo hoped they will all marry each other. Z may stand for zero; In spite of the axiom taught That In marriage two are one. The result Is often naught. Compound your Interest dally. Subtract all fear and doubt. Multiply your Joys, add more love; The Fum's worth figuring out. Love's Way in Dixie, by Mrs. Katharine Hopkins Chapman. SL25. 12mo. The Neale Publishing Company, New Tork City. Mrs. Chapman, who is tho wife of Dr. John S. Chapman, of Selma, Ala., has at tracted attention from timo to time through her publication of her short stories of Southern life as contributions to periodical literature. It has been said that no fiction Is representative of the South which does not include "a mule, a nigger and a yaller dog," but these stories of Mrs. Chapman's are about refined Southorn people, . whose love affairs are handled with sympathetic Interest. With two .exceptions. Cupid's bow and arrow are happily met with in each of the sevon short stories. "A Willing Victim" and "Misdirected" are somber, and have, a wall of sorrow running through them of tho ghoul order and are not entirely ac ceptable. They bear the mark of the amateiifT For example. In "A Willing Victim," the authoress makes Harry Har din give the car conductor two railroad tickets as he nods towards the express car ahead, and explains: "Wife corpse." Tho wife was a suicide, and the afore said Harry is killed in a convenient car smash up. A happier tone Is observed, and also commendable literary ability, in "The Top o' the Morning." A prcfiy girl. Grace, is In a rose garden throwing roses into bas kets held by her two dogs, Hector and Juno: "No. Hector, down. This Is June's morn ing to carry the basket Tou won't be so anxious when it Is filled with thorny roses. Ah-h-h." And she bent over a pink beauty to drink Jn It fragrance. "Cathorlne Mer mct, you are generous this morning." and she snipped oft a dozen buds and laid them In Juno's basket. "Hiding, are you 7" nnd she dived for one near the ground. But when rhe straightened up. & strong, stiff branch of Paul Neron caught in her fluffy hair. She .pulled and twisted In vain, nnd Anally sat down on the ground and tried to ' untangle the glossy strands. "What a how- ! de-do. And all because Paul Neron Is J pal ous that I flrtt kissed Catherine Mermet this morning." "Tho Peanut Prince" shows humor and maturity. Mrs. Chapman, you write well when you stick to this cheerful kind of text. The Silly Syclopedia, by Noah Lot. 12mo. CIcth. 75 cents. Illustrated by Louis F. Grant G. W. Dillingham Company. New Tork City. "Impossible to read without a smile, and the humor is catching. Set In alphaboti-j cal order are a number of words in com mon .use, ana opposite these are most amusing definitions. The pictures are warranted to force a laugh from profes sional mutes, yea even to the Ia9th na cn- Hero are a few of the Lot specimens: All Is not cold that shlrers. Succeen never shake. hands with a lary man. The most successful politician is the one who known how to finance his brains. Before marriage, a woman is an angel. After marriage, she is still an angel, but her husband is now from Missouri, and he has to show him. A miss In as good as a mile of misses if you love the girl. How the rest of the world does hate the reople who have a good time. A hard worker will never be arrested for killing Urocy The girl wno hesitates Is left at the bitching post. . Lady Avgentlcman woman. Absinthe The national headache of the French. Applause The fuss which we think the world ought to make over us for doing our duty. Beauty only a skin game, after alL Jug A place to keep the material before '.t becomes a Jag. Letters on the Theology of the New Church, by Rev. J. H. Smllheon. Swedenborg Pub lishing Association. Germaatown, Pa. This little book contains a series of let ters illustrating the theological beliefs of the Church of the New Jerusalem, known also as the Swedenborglan, 'a religious sect believing In the teachings of Emanuel Swedenborg, a Swedish philosopher and writer, who was born 1GSS and died 1772. One well known authority states: Swed- enborg taughtthat Christ, as compre hending In himself all the fullness of the godhead, is the one only God, and that there Is a spiritual sense to the scriptures 1 which he Swedenborg was able to re- ! veal because he saw the correspondence oeiween nuiurai uuu suaudi imn&s. xnc letters contained in this book of 230 pages were first published in England, several years agb, in a weekly religious paper, and attracted considerable notice at that period and atterward. They present in a clear and forcible manner many of the doctrines' of the New Church, and will prove acceptable and serviceable to mem bers of the denomination for which they are primarily intended and also for all in quirers. Original Journals of the Lewis and- Clark Expedition, 1801-OG. Edited by Reuben Gold Thwaltez, LL. D. Volume six. Dodd. Mead & Co.. Kew Tork City. Another part of a valuable series, dis playing the same careful scholarship and excellent choice of material. The chap ters are s,even in number, and the sub jects discussed are: Geography, ethnol ogy, zoology, botany, mineralogy, meteor ology, astronomy and miscellaneous mem oranda. The frontispiece is a fac-simlle of the flrst page of Floyd's Journal, and as the story is unfolded one who reads it for the first time is struck .with the ro mance and thrilling Interest met with in the chronicles of pathfinders whose won derful Journey eeems all the more won- -KIRK dcrful when wc consider it In the light of this work-a-day age. The printing and paper are fully up to previous good rec ords. . A Proposal Under Difficulties, by John Kend rlck Bangs. Illustrated. 50 cents. Har per & Brothers, New Tork City. Somehow a smile over a good story well told awakens, whenever one opens any of Mr. Bangs' humorous books. The present volume of 71 pages is fully up to the Bangs standard of excellence and wholesomeness. Written in the form of a farce, it is marked by sparkling dialogue and laughable complications. It is suitable when read aloud, or used at private the atricals where the actors belong to the home circle. The characters are: Robert Yardsley and Jack Barlow Who both loved Miss Dorothy Andrews, that much love young woman; Jennie, a housemaid, and Hicks, a butler, who docs not appear but is heard in the distance. The motive of the play is when Yardsley rehearses the proposal of marriage he Is to make to Miss Andrews, but is heard by Jennie who thinks she herself Is Yardsley's lady love J. M. Q. IX LlBItARY AND "WORKSHOP Peerfbly one of the chief rearons why Henry Holt & Co. are reprinting Mrs. Carroll aton nankin's "Dandelion Cottage" Is that the book la as humorous as it la-wholesome. McClure-Phllllps have postponed the pub lication of "The Panc-Tanger." by Elma A. Travis, and the "Portfolio of Bird Portraits," by Bruce Uorsfall. text by W. E. D. Scott. Little. Brown & Co. announce a second printing of Roger Pocock's "Curb-, a Tale of the Arizona Desert." which has been termed the best Western story since "The Virginian." Good love stories are few and far between In these days. "The After Play." by Mabel Herbert Urner, In the October .Issue ot Ap pleton's Booklovers Magazine, la a good love story. "Twenty-flve Hundred Miles In a Ten-Ton ner," being a voyage from San Francisco to Panama, and a. lively bit of fiction. "Mike a Adoption" belongs to the ban features of the September Overland Monthly. A. 8. Barnes & Co. are publishing "The Cherry Ribband." S. R. Crocketfa new novel, which English readers ot the serial publication consider likely to repeat the suc cess of "The Lilac Sunbonnet. Helen Leah Reed, the writer of girls stories. Is rusticating at Dublin. N. II.. after having completed the first volume of the second e lies of the popular "Brenda" books, entitled "Amy In Acadia." to bo lnucd this Fall. The Emprern of Japan has accepted a copy of Mr. Sarah A.Tjooley "Life of Florence Nightingale." and has communicated ner in terest In the work to the author through Sir Claude Macdonald. the British Minister at Toklo. "The Biography of Billy, an East Side Cat." is sketched with striking ability In Wayside Tales. Other readable articles are "Do Women of Fashion Smoker and "The Passing of the Home." The fiction department Is In teresting. ' Mltt Sinclair's "Divine Fire." which bejran sporadically in certain parts of tee country. now seems to have spread generally, and is listed among the six "best sellers." Henry Holt & Co. are Just sending it to press for the ninth lime. The Macmlllan Company announces the publication, in response to repeated demand, ot a paper-bound edition, at 23 cents net. of Edgar Gardner Murphy's "Problems of the Present South." The edition will appear this month. Several well-written articles on Chicago i distinguish the September number of The "World Today. Anne Shannon Monroe writes Interestingly on "Oregon at Its Exposition." I and William A. Giles on "Is New England I Decadent?" I There's a dash of tho prairie and the Joy of the round-up in a new Wyoming cowboy story. "When Cupid Camo to Mne Bar," In the October Smart Set. It in written with plenty of stirring action. The quality of verso la steadily Improving. Mary Farley Sanborn, the author of "The Revelation of Herself," etc has been spending the Summer at Hull. Maoa., having completed for Fall publication a new novel witn Southern flavor and & touch ot politics, titled "Lynette and the Congressman." The October Atlantic contains a paper by Colonel Hlgglnson on "The Cowardice of Culture, a paper ny oouinige .untnomon on "Lafcadlo Hearn. the Man." showing how that verr extraordinary prose poet struck one of the race with which he found himself most truly In accord. Charles Dickens" "Tho Chimes' will be one of the- Century Company's new Thumb-nails this Fall; and the announcement that Blanche McManns Mansfleld has designed the cover Is assurance that the form will be all that could be desired. The frontlspleccby Relyea, will bo printed In green. Cantaln A. T. Mahan'a Important contribu tlon to American history, "Sea Power In Its Relations to the War of 1S12." will be pub lished in two volumes, superbly illustrated. In October. It will have the Imprint of Little, Brown & Co. In this country. The flrst Enz Ush edition will be as large as the American. Alnslee's for October brings the magazine down near the end of Jtlie year with a table of contents that promises a remarkable cli max to an unusually successful 12 months. It begins a new serial, "The westerners,' br Marie Van Vorst. s typical humorous story by Joseph C Lincoln,, and equally good tales br Lucia Chamberlain. IL r. irovoit Battenbri- Mrs. Wllioa Woodrow. Mary H. Von e, Beatrice Hanscom. Grace MacGowaa Cooke and Anne O Hagan. "Broke of Covenden." which has been pro nounced a masterpiece by the majority of critics of Great Britain and America, is about to go into a fourth edition. It will prove a revelation to that portion of the American public In search of Imagination combined with subatanco and literary flnlsn. Talfo for October contains a remarkable horse story. "The Only Misfortune," by S. Kondurushkln. It has a moat unexpected end ing. All the other stories are worth while, the most ambitious of them being "Forces ot the Past." This magazine contains about the most carefully selected ehort humorous -stones published anywhere. Herbert B. Turner & Co. announce that Professor James H. Hyslop's "Science and a Future Life" ha Just gone into a second large edition. The book Is a very Important one as It Is a review of the results' of 23 years scientific Tesearch in the field of psychical phenomena, by some of the moat eminent scientists living. One of the new chapters In the forthcom ing enlarged edition of Mrs. Pryors "Remi niscences of Peace and War" gives an ac count of the first celebration ot Decoration day In this country and ot the origin of that observance. A number of new and attractive illustrations are added, and the volume has been revised throughout. Three humorous books. "Get Neit." by the author of "John Henry": "Real Boys." by the author of "The Real Diary ot a Real Boy," and "Representing John Marshall Sc. Co. Being Confessions of a Commercial Drummer," are Just Issued by G. W. Dil lingham Company. The nine titles of John Henry books have now reached a . sale ot 450.000 copies. "The Balllngtons," by Frances Squire, Is said to be one of the Fall novels by a new author, likely to attract more than the ceual attention. It la a story ot modern social relations, worked out with daring logic, and Its solution Is bold and unmistakable. The author In private life Is Mrs. Frances Squire Potter, a member of the faculty of the Uni versity ot Minnesota. Mrs. Hugh Fraser. author of "A Maid From Japan," which is just going Into Its second Impression, has gone to Toklo on an Important mission, the nature ot which Is not yet made public. Sir Donald Mackenzie Wallace, a re written and up-to-date edition of whose "Rus sia, has recently appeared, from the same house. Is now at Portsmouth as special cor respondent of the London Times. The News-Tribune, of Austin. T-x.. In Its notice of O. Henry's "Ah Unflnlstd Stort." which appeared recently In McClures, thtows additional light on Mr. Porter's career: Austin "people are particularly Interested In everything from O. Henry's pen. since he is no other than Will Porter, who formerly lived here a number of years." A People at School " br H. Fielding Hall. author of "The Soul of a People": "Micky." by Evelyn Sharp, the author of "The Toung est Girl in the School." Illustrated by II. M. Brock, and a new uniform edition In six volumes of the novels of Charles Lever, with all the original Illustrations, are among the new books which the Macmlllan Company announces for publication this Fall. Here Is a sample verre from a poem entitled "Luxury." by Abigail James. In Appleton's Booklovers Magazine for October: "My happiness Is wishing hard for things. In mind I own. and reconstruct, and plan; I think: 'How fine 'twould be had I but this." He has It. and he knows It is not bllm. He has no luxury of longing poor rich man!" The flag on the Ethan Allen memorial tower recently dedicated at Burlington. Vt.. was raised by Miss Theodora. Peck, author ot "Hester of the Grants," a romance of Oia Bennington, published by Fox. Duffleld & Co., New Tork. Miss Peck's norel. puDllsftHd last May. has gone through several editions, and has been for some time- listed among the six best sellers." ' Dr. Gustav Mann, of the Physiological Lab oratory at Oxford, has written a book on "The Chemistry of the Protelds," whrch will be Issued within a few weeks. The book Is based on the second edition of Dr. Cohn- helm's "Chemistry of the Protelds." which was entirely remodeled from the flrst edi tion, but Dr. Mann's part of it Is so consid erable' that It Is practically an original work. 'As the author of poetry of exquisite quality, where for the last time may b heard tho priceless note of the Elizabethan lyricist, whilst at the same moment utter ance Is being given to thoughts and feelings' which reach far forward to Wordsworth and Shelley. Marvell can never be forgotten in bis native England." From Augustine Blr rell's Life of "Andrew Marvell," In tho English Men of Letters Series. B. L. P. Weale, whose new work, "Arma geddon, or. The Reshaping of the Far East." will be published presently. Is an Englishman who has spent several years In business and travel In Manchuria and the neighboring countries. His new book on the war and its results In the trade and com merce and every-day life of the Far East is said to be packed with fresh and pertinent Information, picturesquely presented. The Putnams have arranged for the aerial publication of "When It Was Dark." by Guy Thome. The theme ot this story Is a conspiracy in modern days to overthrow the Christian religion. The plot Is developed In a most dramatic manner, with Intensely pow erful and sflklng situation. Many promi nent clergymen have Indorsed the book, and the Bishop ot London chose It as the theme of a sermon, strongly recommending It to bis hearers. Charles H. Caffln. whose new book on "How to Studr Pictures" will bo published this Fall by the Century Company. Is ot English birth and parentage, and a gradu ate of Oxford. Mr. Caffln came to this coun try in ISO 2. and was associated with the I'ecoratlon department of the World's Co lumbian Exposition. Since 1S0T his work as an art critic, lecturer and writer has been In New Tork City. Mr. Caffln Is alao Amer ican editor of The Studio. George Randolph Chester, whose stories have succeeded one another rapidly In recent num bers of McClure's. has Just accepted an edito rial position on "Men and Women." a monthly publication of Cincinnati. It was within the year that Mr. Chester rave up an editorship of the Cincinnati paper to follow his literary bent in a quiet Indiana town. During his lmmerrioa In placidity. Mr. Chester has been remarkably prolific, anil has more than Justified his course by some remarkably good stories, A noteworthy work which Robert Grier Cooke has In band Is a seasonable volume of the proceedings at the nineteenth annual Lin coln dinner ot the Republic Club ot New Tork. which will be Issued privately by the club. In a limited edition. This volume contains Pres ident Roosevelt's notable address, and the Instructive speech Senator Dolllver made on that occasion, which flred to patriotism every one of his enthusiastic listeners, and also Senator Knight's addrers In response to the toast, "The Republican Party.' a A new book by the author of "The Mar tyrdom of an Empress. Imperator et Rex." will be Issued thla Fall by the Harpers. "With the forthcoming volume, however, the author enters a. new field, for she has now written a novel of love and passion, the scenes of which are laid mainly In Brit tany and on tho Continent. Inasmuch as the main characters are eald to be real, and the plot a drama taken from .real life, the novel may be cla.ved with what might be called the "Action of actuality." I It Is good news that a volume of drawings by John Leech. In convenient and Inexpensive form, is to be brought out by the Putnams for the coming holldav season. The title Is "Pictures of Life and Character." and the work will contain 212 ot Leech's inimitable Illustrations with the humoorus anecdotes which originally appeared In the London Punch. In his own time Leech delighted such men as Ruskln and Thackeray as well as the rank and file of English readers. This book will certainly be equally enjoyed today. "Casual Essays of the Sun," which was brought out a few weeks ago. la being taken up In educational circles as an auxiliary vol ume in many courses In English. The Interest and tenseness In expression for which this famous collection of the best editorials of the New Tork Sun Is noted, forma a valuable ad junct to the student of literary expression, and promises soon to be found In many class rooms. Prominent after-dinner speakers hall the book as a Murce ot Inspiration. Its Jubi lant humor being a stimulus to thought and Imitation. Another UluArated volume of French legend and history Is announced by the Putnams from the pen of Elizabeth Williams Champney. This author's three previous books tell of the etories that cling to the old French chateaux, and In the same spirit the new work Is en titled "The Romance of the French Abbeys." Mrs. Champneys enthusiasm for the subject that she has made so thoroughly her own Is explained when one understands the special opportunities afforded her by her family life. Her husband, the late J. Wells Charaoney. made France his second home, and crossed the ocean some 34 times to study the French masterpieces. Together they explored the dif ferent provinces, visiting over BO chateaux. While Mr. Champney was busy with his brush, Mrs. Champney was deep In the books and parchments of the old libraries. "The Romance of the French Abbeys" was planned by Mr. Champney, who photographed many of the picturesque ruins now so fast disap pearing. During the past Summer Mrs. Champ ney has visited more of the other abbeys, assisted In this work by her son, EL Frere Champney, who Is a student of the Ecole des Beaux or Arts, and as devoted to French architecture as was his father to the French painters. Certainly Will Lilllbridge, whose Western story, "Ben Blair." will be one of the fea tures of the Fall publishing season, cannot be accused of picking up his Dakota local color by looking out of the window ot an overland train. Here Is his autobiography, which can be commended as an example ot brevity: "Probably If there ever were one typical of Dakota and that for which It stands. I am that person. I was born within the then territory 30 years ago. Daring various times between that date and tills I have traversed It from north to south. fom east to west, and obliquely. One thing In life I know and know well, the fascination ot the country and of the life the country induces in the prairie land of the Middle West. On it I've raised every crop that grows. I've been rancher and herder. I've seen It In all Its seasons and In all Its moods. Frankly, to me It Is 'God's coun try.' None other to me In America or else where carries Its appeal. I love the country and the life. It Is for this reason that of It I write most. I tried practicing In various places, but eventually the "prairie siren' called me back and I located in Sioux Falls, wher I have been six years and where I will probably eventually die. Every Sum mer 1 feel the restless desire for change arid hie me forth for strange lands but always I come back to the old ground." A tablet Is to be placed on the bouse which Charles Lamb Inhabited In Colebrook Row. Islington. "I have a cottage In Cole brook Row, Islington," Lamb wrote to Southey In 1S23, "a cottage, for It Is de tached; a white house with six good rooms; the New River (rather elderly by this time) runs (If a moderate walking pace can be so termed) close to the foot of the house, and behind Is a spacious garden with vines (I assure you) pears, strawberries, parsnips, leeks, carrots, cabbages, to delight the heart of old Alctnous. Tou enter without passage Into a cheerful dining-room, all studded ovr and rough with old books, and above Is a lightsome drawing-room, three windows, full of choice prints. I feel like a great lord, never having had a house before." Troubles, however, soon came upon him, says a writer In the Academy. His gardener lopped off some choice boughs which hung over from a neighbor's garden; whereupon the elderly woman who lived next door appeared In a fury, and made ominous allusions to the law. George Dyer, too. who, was so absent minded that he sometimes emptied his snuff box Into the teapot when he was preparing tea. walked Into the New River one day when he had come to call on Lamb.and when rescued and put to bed In his friend's house, he became delirious, rigid teetotaller though he was. because Mary Lamb had plied him too diligently with brandy In order to drive out the cold. It was at this house that the family was enlarged by the arrival of the or phan Emma Isola. who eventually became, as It were, an adopted daughter of the Lambs; and It was during his residence here that Charles Lamb sent In his resignation to the directors of the East India Company. The Funk is. Wagnalls Company will pub lish shortly "The Preparation of Manuscripts for the Printer," by Frank H. Vlzetelly. as sociate editor of the Standard Dictionary. Besides giving directions to authors on how to prepare copy and correct proofs, Mr. Vltetelly's work points out how authors can effectively reduce the cost ot corrections In typo and tells them when, where and how to make them. Mr. Vlzetelly. who was born In London, comes from a, family whose an cesors migrated from Venice to England In the days of "Good Queen Bess." The differ ent members of his family may be said to have been reared on paper and print. His grandfather was a printer of renown In the late years oT the 13th century, and his father. Henry Vlzetelly. followed as a printer and publisher In the 19th century. Among the popular books issued by his press were "Christmas with the Poets." printed In col ors; Longfellow's "Hyperion." with Illustra tions by Blrket Foster, engraved by Mr. Vlzetelly: "Uncle Tom's Cabin"; "Poe's Tales," eta Henry Vlzetelly was one of the pioneers of the pictorial press In England. and took part In the launching- of the Illus trated London News. He had six sons, two of whom died early In life. Of the remain ing four all have turned to literature par ticularly to Journalism for a livelihood. Ed ward Vlzetelly, lately deceased, was war cor respondent for tho New Tork Times and tho London Dally News during the Franco-Prussian War. and later was leader of the New Tork Herald expedition sent out by James Gordon Bennett to find Stanley and the Emin Pasha relief expedition. Ernest Vlzetelly. novelist and translator of M. Zola's novels, was correspondent for the Torkshlre Post in Paris during the siege by the German army; Arthur Vlzetelly. for years editor of Pit man's French Weekly, also experienced the horrors of the siege of Paris, and Is best known as the translator of the works of Emlle Gaborlau and F. Du Bolsgobey. de tective stories ot International fame. A ninth printing of "The "Wood-Carver of Lympus" Is announced by Little, Brown & Co., who will publish Immediately a new edi tion of Miss Waller's "A Daughter of the Rich," of which one reader soya: "Since the days of "Little Women I have not read a book which appealed to me en strongly for girl, old and young. There Is a sweet whole someness about It. and- one grows to love the character of that Vermont home, and draw an Inspiration from the lives of those happy. cheerful, loving chi'dron, and that noble moth- Marle.' " TRAVELERS GUIDE. CASCADE LOCKS on. the Columbia You cannot go home without taking the trip, Portland to tho locks and return, on tho splendid Steamer Bailey Gatzert Leave week days 8 :30 A. M., Sundays 9 A. M. Returning, arrive 5:00 P. M. Regular service Portland to Tho Dalles, daily except Sunday, leaving- at 1 A. M. Connecting at Lyle with C. R, & N. By. for Goldendale and Klickitat Valley points. Dock foot Alder atroet; phono Main 914. " Citr Ticket Ofnce. 122 Third SU rhoae 638- 2 OVERLAND TRAINS DAILY O The Flyer and tho Fast Mail. SPLENDID SERVICIj- UIVTO-DATE EQUIPMENT COURTEOUS EMPLOYES For tickets, rates, folders and full Infor mation, call on or address H. DICKSON. City Passenger and Ticket Agt.. 122 Third street. Portland. Or. JAPAN-AMERICA LINE S. S. IYO MAETJ. For Japan. China and all Asiatic Ports. wUl leave Seattle about October 3. COLUMBIA SCENERY FAST NEW Steamer TELEPHONE Leave Oak-st. dock, blocks north Wash ington st., dally except Friday and Satur day. Cascade Locks and return, round trip SI. S:30 A. 31. Sundays, 0 A, 31. S. F. & Portland Steamship Co Operating tho Only P&ssenger Steamers for Saa Francisco Direct. "Columbia." October 3. 13. 23; November "St. Paul," November 7, October 8, IS, 23. From Alnsworth Dock at S P. 31. REDUCED ROUND-TRIP RATE. $23.00. Berth nnd Meals Included. JAS. H. DEWS ON, Agt. Phone Mala 2C8. 21S Washington St. ALASKA FAST AND POPULAR STEAMSHIPS LEAVE SEATTLE 0 P. If. "Jefferson," Aug. -'J. Sept. 7. 17, 27. -Dolphin." Sept. 2. 12. 22. CALLING AT KETCHIKAN, JUNEAU. DOUGLAS. HAINES, SKAGWAY. Connects with. W. P. & T. route for Atlln. Dawsoa, Tanana. Nome, etc. CHEAP EXCURSION KATES. On excursion txlpa steamer calls at Sitka. Metlakahtla, O lacier. Wrangal, etc. in addition to regular ports ot call! Call or send for "Trip to Wonderfut Alaska." "Indian Basketry," Totem Poles." THE ALASKA S. S. CO.. Frank Woolsey Co., Agents. 232 Oak St. Portland. Or. TRAVELER'S GUIDE. OREGON ShojtLine Union Pacific S TRAINS TO THE EAST DAILY Threiirh Pultmin mtanJnf ami imiiHi ln!nr.r rinllv tn Omaha rtlrn kane; tourist sleeping-car dally to Kansas t-iry; tnrouga iiiman tourist sieepmg-car (personally conducted) weekly to Chicago. Reclining chair-cars Heats free) to th Eut dally. UNION DEPOT. j,ettVfaj ArrtTft. " SPECIAL for tho Easi Dallr Dallr via Huntington. J" J SPOKANE FLYER. M S:2 M" v i Dally. j Dally. For Eastern Washington. Walla Walls, Lewlston. Coeur d'AIcne and Great Northern points. ATLANTIC EXPRESS c15 7.13 . M " Star vu Huat- RIVER SCHEDULE FOR ASTORIA and S:W P. it. 3:CO F. II, nay points, connecting Dally, Dally, with steamer -for llwa- except except co and North Beach. Sunday. Sunday, steamer HasaIo, Ash- Saturday, st. dock (water per.) IU:U0 P. M. FOR DATTON. Ore-7:00 A. M-5:30 P. il. gon City and Yamhill Dally. i Dally. River points. Aaii-stJ except I except fiocfc water p'er.) I Sunday. Sunday. Vor Lewlston. Idaho, and way points Irota Rtsarla, Wash. Ticket Office, Third and Washington. Telephone Slain ?12- C. V. Stinger. City Ticket Agt.; A. L. Craig. Gen. Passenger AgU EAST via SOUTH Leaves. UNION DStUT. UY.cKLA-.MJ mV PRE&a UMtAa-SS S: P. M 'or Sale, Klaf lurg, Ashiunti. a.u. fan t'ruaci cv, 3luja o, Lva Augelct. El PiiM, New Orleans d. is a Eu-jL. Moruuig train jonnccia at WuoU burn aahy txceyl tunaay with ti;r. tur Mount Anji., 3uven.ua, Bruwai rllle. syrxtisaoiC. esdMui; n ua .Ni tron. Eugene passenger connects at Wood burn with Mt. An sel ana iuvcrtou local. Corvallls passnzer Sheridan pajeng!r Forest Grovs Passenger. 7.23 A. it S:S0 A. M. '3:33 Pi il 6:00 P. it. 10133 A. it. 7:30 A. M. :C0 P. M. tl0:5 P. M. 3:30 P. iL US 3 A. U- tl:30 P. M. Dally. Dally except Sunday. PORTLAND-OSWEGO SUBURBAN SERVICE AND YAMHILL DIVISION. Depot. Foot of Jefferson Street. Leave Portland dally for Oswego at 7:30 A. M.: 12:30. 2:05. 3:33. 5:20. d:23. 7;. 10:10 P. M. Dally except Sunday. 3:30. 0:30. 8:33. 10:25 A. M.; 4:10. 11:30 P. 3L Sunday only, 0:00 A. M. Returning from Oswego, arrive Portland, dally. 8:30 A. M.; 1:53. 3:03. 4:33. 6:13. 7:33. 0:53. lt:10 P. M. Dally, except Sunday, 6:23. 7:23. 0:30. 10:10. 11:45 A. M. Except Mon day. 12:23 A. M. Sunday only. 10 A. M. Leavo from same depot for Dallas and In termediate points, dally. 0:00 P. M. Arrive rn..tn lO-lfl A "f The Independence-Monmouth Motor Line operates dally to Monmouth and Alrlle. con necting with S. P. Co.'s trains at Dallas and Independence. First-class fare from rorwana to oacra mento and San Francisco. 320. Berth. 35. Second-class fare. $13. Second-class berth. ?2.50. Tickets to Eastern points and Europe; also Japan. China. Honolulu and Australia. CITY TICKET OFFICE, corner Third and Washington streets. Phone Main 712. C. W. STINGER. A. L. CRAIG. City Ticket Agent. Gen. Pass. Agt. TIME CARD OF TRAINS. PORTLAND DAILY. Dsart. Axrlva4 Yellowstone Park-Kansas City, St. Louis Special tor Chehalls. Centralis. ' Olympla. Gray's Harbor. South Bend. T a. coma. Seattle. Spokane. Lew lston. Butte. Billings. Denver. Omaha, Kan sas City. St. Louis and Southeast 8:30 a ra 4:30 pa) North Coast Limited. i electric lighted, for Ta coma. Seattle. Spokane. Butte, Minneapolis, St. Paul and the East.... 3:00 pm 7:00 a m Puget Sound Limited for Chehalls. Centralis. Ta coma and Seattle only. 4:30 ? m 10:93 pa Twin City Express for Tacoma. Seattle. Spo kane. Helena. Butte, v.iinwtinn. Pn ri.- Min neapolis. St. Paul and the East 11:43 pm 6:30 pat A. D. Charlton, Assistant General Passen ger Agent. 235 Morrison st, corner Third. Portland. Or. - Astoria and Columbia River Railroad Co. leaves. UNION DEPOT. t Arrives. Dally. Eor Maygers-Ralnier, Dally. Clatskanle. Westporr. Clifton. Astoria. War rantor Flavel. Ham- 5:00 A. M. mond. Fort Steven. 1 1 :ZQ A. M, Qearhart Park. Sea side. Astoria and Sea shore. Express Dally. 7:0O P.M. Astoria Expresx 9:30P.M. Dally. C A. STEWART, J. a MAYO, Comm'l Agt. 243 Alder st. G. r. i P. i Phone Main 006. For South -Eastern Alaska Steamers leave Seattle 3 P. ii. SOX S. S. Humboldt. S. S. City vi"Ao Seattle. S. S. Cottaxa CUa. September 26. 20. Oct. 3. For San Francisco direct. Queen. City ot Puebla, Uma tilla, 0 A. M. Sept. 30. Oct. 3. 10. Portland Office. C 249 Washington st. Mala 224. D. DUN ANN. G. P. A.. San Francisco. WILLAMETTE RIVER ROUTE Steamers Altona and Oregona . For Oregon City. Buttevllle. Champoeg. Newberg. Salem and way landings: Leave Taylor street. 6:43 A. 31. dally, except Sun day. Oregon City Transportation Co.. Phone Main 40.