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Si THE SUNDAY OREGONIAN, PORTLAND, OCTOBER 15, 1905. "Fiction does not teach a lesson which the lessons of life and disengages us from Sablna, 8 Story of the Amlnh, by Helen Reimensnyder Martin. The Century Com pany. New York City. It would have been equally "fitting had the authoress o this readable novel called It "Sablna; A Story of Psychic Phenomenon." for Its scope Is within, that peculiar viewpoint. The plot Is new and original, and the work complete with emo tional Interest handled with remarkable skill. It Is a love story, but the strang est kind of a love story and with a most unexpected ending. No Illustrations adorn the pages, but a picture of a demure looking Amleh maiden who resembles a Quakeress In personal appearance looks at you from; the book cover. Helen. Relmensynder Martin Is well known for her studies In religious sect subjects, and she achieved a success with her previous book, NTlllle; A Mennonlte Maid." In the present volume she tells of her newer friends who belong to a strange religious sect known as the Amlsh, their chief places of habitation being in portions of Pennsylvania, partic ularly Lancaster County. Apart from quecrness of garb and life, they have their loves, " bickerings, envylngs and deaths Just as other "people In the world." The heroine of the novel Is Sa blna, or "Blney" Wilt, daughter of a farmer, and shey would have probably been an uninteresting rustic had she not only been very pretty but a Junior Joan of Arc "who saw visions. A painter, Au gustus Acker, Is the second chief moving figure In the story, and In the ordinary course of events would undoubtedly have married Sablna, but her psychic personal ity Interfered, and she ultimately mar ried another, Ulmer Popple, a Pennsyl vania Dutchman. Acker secures board and lodging In the Wilt household for $3 per week because he said he wished to find local color for his pictures, but the real reason was that he saw Sablna's pretty face as she assisted her father to sell his farm produce at Lancaster mar ket Then the action starts. There is no doubt about It that Sablna alternately loved and hated Ulmer Poppe when she was In the possession of her natural senses because of his' masters her. and that in '"her shy way she loved Acker when she was In her trance con dition suffering from psychic phenomena. The authoress states in her preface that the psychic mystery on which her volume Is mainly founded is. not -fictitious, and that she can vouch for the truth of 1L Let Sablna tell the story when she ex periences second sight: I can't think where first I could of yaw that face. To be sure It might have been one of them faces in the "circus ?arade I seen onct in there at Lancaster. Us Amlsh we don't uphold to circuses, but I stood In the front rank of that there parade and my conscience troubled me a heap fur lookln' on at such a worldly scen'ry as that there. Do you think mebbe I seen the face that day and that it comes back to me In my dreams? Mebbe Gawd sends It to me fur a punish ment fur to trouble me because I looked at the parade that day. One year ago. while vlsltln' my Aunt Rebecca. I had a dream of seeln' such a ugly face of a man o wicked like. And I knowed, as certain as If Christ had tole It to me, that somebody at home was in trouble. Aunt Rebecca said I was hysterlcky. I come home. And sure, enough Mcllnda had fell In the well and was nearly drownded. All that night while I waa dreamln' of the face the doctor and pop and mom and Aunt Susanna was work In to keep Mellnda alive. Had Sablna been a wrinkled old hag. wjth a black cat or two wriggling around her, it would be hard to keep up a re spectful interest, but when Sablna is a slip of a girl and as pretty as a jeach the case wears a different aspect. Especi ally when Sablna is a sort of living ba rometer to. foretell trouble. And she never makes a mlsB In her predictions. A cheerful sort of Tierson to have around a house! Once the painter asked old man Wilt If he ever took any time for pleasure? "Yes," said Levi. "We go, still, on wed dln's and funerals. And onct me and Naomi and Susanna we went to PhH'del fy." The male Amlsh around the Wilt house wore pants cut alike behind and before, vests fastened with hooks and eyes the Amlsh faith forbidding the worldliness of "buttons and buttonholes and dark brown shirts. The fashion of the hair among the Amteh then was a bang to the eyebrows, and flowing locks behind reaching almost to the coat col lar. When Sablna was asked If she would like to draw pictures, she answered: "I couldn't waste my time. What good o a body Is the picture of a thing? When you're got the trees and skies all around you, what's the use wastln time makln' pictures of 'em? It ain't worth while." Her. father proposed to cease buying a weekly newspaper because "them news paper folks they print their paper on such little sheets we can't use 'cm to cover our cupboard shelfs, still. And the paper's so thin that we can't make it do to cover our apple-butter crocks!" After various calamities, duly foretold by Sablna. had happened in the family, she was stricken with fever, and when she recovered her health, she seemd to forget her love- for Acker andcertaln events of her past life. When Acker re turned to the Wilt household years after, he found that Ills Sablna hair married Popper, and was the buxom mother of two babies. She and he met. face to ace. A strange, clairvoyant look came into the young mother's eyes and she began to tremble. But Just then her younger baby cried, and the look of terror in Sablrfa's eyes gave place to motherly tenderness. Acker had completely passed out of her life. The novel pictures of a type of rugged American character.. , The Pascpert. by Klchard Bigot. $1.0. Harper & Brothers, New Tork City. t This novel has a touch of Old World romance, for the scenes are laid in sunny Italy and principally concern the efforts' of two lovers, Silvio Rossano and Step Uncle d'Antin, to win the love of a greit -heiress. Blanca Acorarl. Silvio had long loved her In secret and at pne of their early meetings, when they were slowly passing the borderland of mere friend ship Into something more tender, she said to him: "If I were a, man I would marry whom I chose, no matter how many dif ficulties stood in my way if I knew the woman whom I cared for, cared for me. Of course I know that a man is obliged to speak to a girl's parents before he can tell her that he loves her. But I am quite sure If I were a man and wanted to know If my love were returned, I should ask the person I loved." After a speech like that, small wonder It la that her adorer poured Into her willing cars such passion ate wooing that they were speedily an engaged couple. Of course the step-uncle, because of his relationship, wooed under a handicap, but he had the active co-operaUon 5I his sister, the Princess Montefiano. and a Prince of the church, one Abbe Roux. The plot that follows Is a tangled one. but It Is worked out with consummate skllL There is a secret passageway leading to Blanca's room in a medieval castle, and through this entrance a faithful retainer brings love letters which cheer the heart of the waiting 'damseL The conclusion, dealing with a revolt of the peasantihbe cause their Vents were unjustly raised, and the ultimate union of Silvio and Blanca, Is a well constructed one. The novel could have been " well named: "Blanca and Her Lovers." Coloalal Administration, by Paul Relnich. Cloth. $1.20. The Macxnillan Company. New York City. In this era of expansion, when al most every government Is endeavoring to extend Its Influence and activity by the acquisition of important colonies, the subject of practical administration of distant colonial possessions Is cer tainly an interesting study. This is especially -so when we consid er the subject from the standpoint of the recorded past, as well as from that of the immediate present. Indeed, It Is only in 'the light of history that we can trace the great importance of colonial possessions upon the mother countries: and, guided by this light, we shall find a visible and audible demonstration of theinfluence for good or evil that dis tant colonics exercised upon their pos sessors. When we recall the fact that liberty perished in Rome only when the em pire became the mistress of conquered races, to whom she waa unwilling to extend the principle of equal freedom, we 'shall understand why Great Bri tain is today the great world empire with loyal colonies In every part of both hemispheres while Germany Is a colossal failure, and Spain, but not so very long ago mlstTess of the world, "has lost all ofher distant possessions. For, If there be any lesson at all that the history of the past teaches the present In unmistakable terms, It Is that colonial possessions, while yield ing allegiance to the mother country, must not be governed as subject colo nies, but should b placed upon terms of actual equality with every other part of the empire by which it Is gov erned. The author of "Colonial Administra tion," however, does not enter much Into the philosophy of history of gov erning colonial possessions. His aim Is rather that of presenting: "a statement of the various problems confronting colonial governments," such as educa tion, finance, commerce, 'communica tion, land, labor, etc. In doing this, he deals chlefl7 with experiments which "axe of eo recent an origin that their outcome Is still entirely problematical." Nevertheless, the book as a compara tive study of methods of colonial ad ministration Js a useful handbook for administrators whose chief interest. It must be admitted, is confined almost exclusively to revenues and their prac tical distribution. The book is also very useful for the many valuable references with which each chapter is well supplied. But the tendency of the author to surround the subject of colonial expansion with a halo of altruism and benevolence. Is certainly untenable. At the base of co lonial expansion, it must be admitted, self Interest pure and simple 'is the actual motive cause. But enlightened expansionists will strive to make adu quate returns to their colonial posses sions for whatever Interests they may derive, and thus transform their col onies Into loyal dependencies. That Is what Great Britain has accomplished. and It Is the very thing In which otiit-rs so far have failed. W-H. G. The Social Secretary, by David Graham Phillips. Illustrations by Clarence E. Un derwood and decorations by Ralph Fletcher Seymour. The Bobbs-Merrlll Company. In dianapolis. Ind. Miss Gussle Talltower Is the name chosen for this smart but sometimes silly confessor of .social doings in the society of Washington, D. C. The print, pictures, and book-cover are all so delightful that it Is difficult to speak of this 1oolc with necessary candor. The contents are not equal to the ele gant surroundings, although the prac ticed hand of the bookmaker Is seen. Mr- Phillips may have written the nov el as a sort of relaxation from his great success, "The Plum Tree." Who knows? we must afterward unlearp. It repeats ourselves." Robert Louis Stevenson. The Social Secretary" is written by ! a man who is familiar with Washing ton, and Is the sort of a story to appeal to people of elegant leisure, and as such It is sure to be doubly welcome. Miss TaHtower Is engaged at the start at a salary of $2000 per year to pilot the Burkes to social success In the whirl or rather treadmill of gay, polit ical Washington life, and she Is so .tactful that she rarely makes a mis take in her steering process. Being a smart society woman and one "who dresses her hair in pompadour fashion, Miss Talltower knows Just what to do and what to say. She introduces her employers and others under her moth erly wing to tho right sort of people, and apparently is on terms of Intimacy wlfh "the President" presumably President Roosevelt. Here Is a picture of the President at a reception: After a while the President came In and said: "Is this your reception, Mrs. Burke, or Is It mine?" At which there was more laughing, he raising a great guffaw and slapping his hip with his "powerful hands. Then they all went up to have something to eat. The book is not without Its enjoyablo human nature and its quick, amusing cleverness. Here are a few of its ob servations: Washington, D. C. Is the hardest place la the world for a woman to find a husband, unless she's sot something; that appeals to the ambition of men. As If any woman waa Indifferent to m,en! What a changed Washington it Is, and what a fight the new simplicity is making against the new ostentation. No proper man servant ever permits any one to see his eyes. I wonder why they teach men at Harvard to use their lips In making words, as a Miss Nancy sort of man uses his fingers in doing fancy work? Men forgive slights, and. when It's to their Interest, to forget them. But I know that the women never do. They keep the knife sharp and wait for a chance to stick It In. for years and years. The men sleep In Washington. But the women with social duties have no'tlme for sleep only for naps. Women always seem older than men who are even mwiy years older than they. I like the man a woman can fool easily. That shows he's honest. There's nothing deader on this earth than an ex-President, with no offices to dis tribute and no hopes for a further political career. A woman slept on her way to a muslcale. "Oh," he exclaimed, "I was dreaming I was In bed asleep, and it ain't so. Instead I've got to enjoy myself." .... I believe the primeval woman fancied the lover who lay .In wait and brought her down with a club. A Washington love story told by a wom an: "Do you know when we became en gaged? Listen. It was the first time we met after three hours. Afte one hour he made me Insult the men who came up to claim dances. After two hours ho made me say: 'I love you. After three hours he m fa com Into a little reecptlon room. And he closed the door and kissed -me. That makes you my wife.' he said In a dreadful voice, and he added: 'Do you under stand?' And the woman nodded ravlsh Ingly. "I understood." Under Rocklsg Skies, by L. Frank Tooker. $1.50. Illustrated. The Century Company, New York City. Good sea stories are not so plentiful as formerly. We have had our day of Cap tain Marryat, Clark. Cooper. Mayne Reld and that Ilk. Lately, we have enjoyed Joseph Conrad and John R. Spears, and our Pacific Coast writers. Jack London and John Fleming Wilson. Now comes a new writer of the ways of the sea. Lewis Frank Tooker. who was born In 1S55 In the lllagc of Port Jeffer son, on Long Island Sound; his father was a sea captain, and the boy was raised In the strenuous enjoyment of the seafar ing life. Growing older, he became Dep uty Clerk of his native county, but 20 vears ago he capitulated to New York City, joining the editorial staff of the Century Magazine. And In the long 20 years of his service to literature his name remained unknown to the general readers, though- an occasional poem In one of the magazines made us aware of a poet who knew the sea and sang of it beautifully. These occasional poems were collected and published, three years ago. In a thin little volume, "The Call of the Sea." a book which no one who ever owned It has ever parted with The very flrst poem, the title-poem, was Mining enough to set the reader tramping to and fro. with longing fancy feeling for the swaying of the deck. "Under Rocking S8de'r fairly has the breath of the sea In its 2S2 pages, and the story well deserves the popularity It has earned while being Issued In serial form In the Century Magazine. It is undoubt edly written by one who knows life on shipboard as we landlubbers know our asphalt pavements and cement sidewalks. The voyage pictured In the brig Henrietta rC March, 500 tons burden, from Long Island to Santa Cruz, West Indies, is no holiday sail the storms roar, the .ship wrecked crew is met and rescued, and captain and sailors fight on "slippery decks with the warring elements for their very llves.t The chief actors are Captain March, his wffe and daughter. Hetty; Rev. Robert Drew, a clergyman, who Is taking a fail for the benefit of his health; and Thomas Medbury. flrst mate. Med bury loves Hetty, a damsel who Is not sure of her own mind for more than a minute at a time. Consequently, she dal lies with Mcdbury's affections. Here Is Hetty's portrait: "HcF face was. In pro file, and the mouth, clear-cut and un drooplng, had the softness of outline as sociated with good temper. Her eyes, though now sod. had the same gentle look. He liked her thick brown hair and th clear oval of her face. They gave "him the impression of harmony." Hetty became angry at the thought that Modbury, her old schoolfellow, had again sailed with the brig with the avowed de sire to win her as his wife, ahd she looked with favorable eyes at the parson. Poor Medbnry! He, made fast and furious love to his fair dlvjnlty. little dreaming that she. a woman, would exercise her preroga tive to dally with two men Willing to make love to her at the same time. Just as a cat would play with a meek little mouse. At last Medbury was stung to his Inmost soul, and said to her: "You are a hard woman, a hard and heart less woman." '"I wish you wouldn't," she whispered pas sionately, "wouldn't speak to me. You hurt me." He did not understand, and his eyes "Rcew hot with impotent anger. "You've hurt me for many a long year," he an swered hotly. "But you'll hurt me no more The parson began reading the "Idylls of the King" to Hetty, but she was won at last by the dog-like devotion of Medbury. Captain March, who said: "Ashore I mostly smoke cigars. My wife says that a pipe Is low. Here on shipboard I'm mas ter," was at the wheel through the thick est of storms. There Is a thrilling little passage when he Is taking the brig past Sail Rock. Apparently Just to enjoy the steadiness of his hand, out of a strong soul's bravado, he carries the little vessel so close that the startled mate hears the seablrds crying. "You can always hear them at night If you go close enough.' the unsmiling old captain explained. Best of all the passages concerning Captain March Is the one after the fight. The crew had given up hope, had slipped away from the pumps and were hiding in the booby hatchway, where the mate fell upon them In mighty wrath; the fight was swift and murderous, and only the flash of the captain's lantern saved Med buryt but the men were driven back to the pumps, and as the mate stood over them with the admonitory belaylng-pln. the old . captain leaned over and roared Into his ear: "Keep 'em going! Don't let 'em stack up a oit: Ne,ver baa such a lot aboard a vessel or mine before. It makes me sick. "Don't understand it." went on. the can tain In an aggrieved, plaintive voice; "no- Doay couia. The foreign girl and her brother, saved from their wrecked ship, are not so strongly drawn, and their broken English is dimcult to understand. They ought to have taken a stronger part 'in the action. But 'in genuine sea pictures the author Is at his beat. He paints with a, master hand and with authority. BnMarss Philosophy, by Benjamin F. Cobb. i.zu. Taomas x. Crowell & Co., New York City. Sound common sense and practical sug gestion along business lines are the prom Inent features of this helpful book, and It ought to be read with profit by both employers and employed. Mr. Cobb goes minutely into problems of buying and selling, some of his chapters being on xnese topics: "How to Handle a Cus tomer," "The Credit System," Collec- tions, -Loarers, "How to Treat a com petltor." "The Class of Men to Employ," "Advertising," etc Here are a few of Mr. Cobb's Ideas on advertising: The secret of successful advertising Is to make people talk about you. It is only a narrow-rain iled man who says he does not advertise. Everybody adreryses and cannot help It, The good advertiser Is the one who fully appreciates the fact and makes his "ads' count Tor all they are worth. Do you know what, It means to be a successful advertiser? It Hneans success in business; and the only way. to be successful In bust ness Is to keep constantly at It. Here is a paragraph on labor unionism: This should be a free country. We have always boasted that It Is, but labor unionism brings us much nearer slavery than any thing this couhtry has seen slncClSW. It not only enslaves the employers, but it makes the majority of the members of the union slaves to the few. The labor unions. If they carried out the Ideas of the labor agitators, would be the greatest trusts that were ever Invented. Tho only thing that holds tho unions together is fear. The men are forced to Join a union and then they are forced to strike. Everybody will not be disposed to agree with Mr. Cobb In this view of the sub ject, but he goes on to explain the mat ter In detail and ultimately concludes that employers and labor unions should get together and be friends. He adds: "I believe that the only possible under standing that can ever be had between capital and labor is through a system of .profit-sharing, and It can be done In the smallest or largest uusiness. Her Letter, by Bret Harte. Pictured by Ar thur L Kellar. iiougnton. jauiiin t to.. Boston. Mass. f An edition de luxe, such as we might wish to handle when we wear white kid gloves and place - with our dearest treasures In the book line. The print Ine and binding form a union of per fect beauty, and if you know a young man of literary tastes to whom you wish to clvc a Christmas present send aim "Her Letter." and you will make him your debtor when all his other nresents shall have 'faded. Is. life worth living? ask the discon tented, - whose digestions are out of order and whose lives ougnt to D.e regu lated by a wise physician. There are too many of us who have devoted our selves to the pursuit of Ignoble ends such .an the unceasing pursuit of tue elusive dollars because we loved those same dollars for their sake and ask ourselves when life's sands are waning "What act of ours wll keep us in grateful remembrance when we are dead?" At that moment bonds, watered stocks, money and real estate must seem meaningless to us. since we can not carry any of It away with us to the land .we are Journeying to. On the other hand we are told that in thffTnaklng- of books there Is no end. But if ever an American writer is lov ingly remembered, now that he is dead, it Is Bret Harte by such a book of verses na "Her Letter." Verily, his words and message live after him. The flrst of the two poems given have lon been popular favorites, but the third was not wrlten until near the. end of Mr. Harte's life. All the poems are rounded out with completeness and charm depicting as they do the rugged, picturesque beauty of Western life. As an Illustrator, Mr. Kellar has performed admirable work. In the verse, we scarcely know what to admire the most: I'm sitting alone by the fire Dressed ut as I came from the dance. In a robe even you wouladm!re , It cost a cool thousand In France Or the girl's surrender of her heart: Good night! -Here's the end of my paper. Good night! If the longitude please For maybe, while wasting my taper. Your sun's climbing over the trees. - But know. If you haven't got the riches. Andnre poor- dearest Joe. and all that. That my heart's somewhere there In the ditches. And you've struck It on Poverty Flat. "His Answer" has enthralling charm and keen humor, and this verse Is worthy of the delicate finish of Ton Moore: He hopes you are wearing no willows. Buk are happy and gay all the while. That he knows (which this dodging of pi. lows Imparts buCsmatl ease to the style. And the same you will pardon) he knows. Miss. That though parted by many a mile. "Yet. were he lying under the snows. Mlsr. They'd melt Into tears at your smile!' Mr. rcHwIper's Fairy Godmother, by Amy Woods. Illustrated by DIantha w. Home. 30 cents. Dana Estes & Co.. Boston. A readable, little book of 9S pages, for children. It Introduces a new writer and clever "first book," the style being crisp and bright and the coloring whole some. Every child who reads this story will love little Mary Gray, who was run down by an automobile and narrowly es caped iriing crippled for life. She effected a reformation In the hard-flsted, buslness- Iovlng Oliver Hardwlck. alias "Mr. Pen wiper." and, the way In which this Is 'done and told leaves a helpful influence for good. The old-fashioned virtues of patlenceahd unselfishness are skilfully portrayed. A child reading this book will grasp a sermon without being aware of so doing. Hie Queen's rag., by Cornelia Baker. Illus trations by Fanny i. corry. xne jjodds- Merrlll Company. Indianapolis. Ind. An historical novel for children, which has no cruel, bloodthirsty setting, but illustrates court life when Charles the First was King of France, and Catherine de Mcdlcl flourished, but had not' yet had the opportunity to wtrk her death har vest, two cnuaren are tne cntet moving figures in the novel. Pedro and his sister Petronllla, whose father was Don Her nandez de Velasco. of Navarre. Pedro be comes page to Queen" Eleanor. The story Is told In a natural, refreshing -manner and the Interest is kept up tnrougnout tne whole 319 pages. A healthy book for boys and. gins, as tney can icarn a mass oi historical data without their becoming aware of It. J. M. Q. IX IiIBRAItY AND "WORKSHOP Vaughan Kesters new book dealing In a romantic way with the settlement of the Mississippi Valley. "The Fortunes of the Lanarays. naa gone mio a secona eaiuan. Th Tti1titrnnt!nn of Aunt Mary." by Anne Warner, has already gone Into a third edition, xne aumor in ner latest noon naa written a story excelling in Interest both "Susan Clegg and Her t riena iirs. iainrop and "A Woman's Will," according to the c rules. The poet, -Cale Younr . Rice, author of "Charles jll Tocca" and "David," dramatic poemo. has Just taken up with a venture that In Quite at variance with poetic traditions. He Is to hold an Important executlv position In a bank which he has been Instrumental In forming In Ixraisvuie, ivy. Says an appreciative reader to Eugene Wood in praise of Mr. ooa s volume ol siunes, ti, v itr,m-"' an. sire us more Of the , nr via.i-.iin nmduct from VOUr nn-i..iiir SfiVnn-. t enfov your style and hope the tree is a proline iryii-oratcr. From one wno naa eaien some oi jic uyyi. A holiday edKlon its eighth since publlca-.X-Af "Wiilnn.. 0Callachans Boys." is a welcome announcement. An en tirely new set or. uiusirauons uj jam. o.imn. t... o I ih rhmrtm ' In "Mrs. WIggs." greatly enhances the value of this newv edition, for in her pictures she presents the O'Callagtmns Just as we have always Imagined them, -wiaow j i.aiiasun uu "her b'ys" are still amusing delighted readers. . . f -.III t..,, T.I.M V.1I gene" Farmer's "Versailles and the Court T-tui vi V" thti Fall. The volume will be a royal octavo, bound In light blue cloth. with 72 full-page inusiraiions in uni, repro ductions from photograph- and ofamous pic tures.! Mr. Farmer, who la master In history and English literature at St. Paul's School. Concord. N. H., has been a zealous student of French history and has spent considerable time at Versailles and rana garnering al for this work. A level-headed and Intelligent criticism - 0 - -.-n .nnntrv t n lwAVS BCCCDtablC. and particularly so" when the criticism comes rrom a nam? or uuumc iuuu. "The Land of the Strenuous Life," the Abbe r-.fi vi.in rnMT-Am his ImnrMslons Of a Visit to the United States, and his opinions and observations on American life, seen from his own standpoint, make very Interesting read- Alfe... lt(j ho vlsltod 'ew York. Chicago. Boston. Philadelphia and Washington, V. ana ne gommcuu " each, from an unbiased point of view. In a lively and most entertaining manner. The book contains many portraits and views. The publication of a short story In one of the leading monthly magazines under the title of "A Lady of Balance," completes the toll of work which Is to appear In print from the hands of Elizabeth Cherry Waltz, author of The Ancient Landmark." Mrs. Waltz's flrst book, a series of hort stories of Kentucky life, 'was "Pa Gladden," and she died while It was still In press. Her novel haa also a Kentucky setting. Mrs. Waltz prom!id to do for Kentucky what Frank Xorris was dolne for California and the West, and there is a pathetic similarity In thK.amall amount of work they were both able to achieve before death stopped their pens. Few of this generation are better fitted to write the thrilling story of the flrst days of overland commerce In America, than Charles F. Lummla. The routes of all the zreat dtreams of past travel he follows In "Pioneer Transportation In America" have been tra versed by him afoot or on horseback. In the course of many years of leisurely wandering he has explored the Americas from Canada to Chile. Twenty years ago he followed on foot the route of the Santa Fe trail, traversing In 143 days 330T miles from Cincinnati to California. In addition to his experience of the hardship" of the trail, Mr. Lummls brtngts to his subject a scholarly knowledge of the Spanish colonial history. "The Ward of the Sewing Circle." by Edna Edwards Wylle. Just published. Is the first prose of more than ohort-story order that the author ever sent to a subllsher. The Ideas for this tale of an orphan, who was adopted by a sewing circle, the members of which take care of him In turn for two months each, while not gathered from 1U were In spired by Mrs. Wylle's residence In Beverly. Mass., which was her husband flrst parish. It way written amid the cares of a pastor's life, the eights and scenes of staid New Ens land life breaking full upon one accustcaned to Western ways and ecentw. had a deep In spiration. Mrs. Wylle Is a native of lows, and a direct descendant of Jonathan Edwards. At present she lives in Cleveland, O. ' Tho King of England's brother-in-law, the Duke of Argyll, won considerable literary fame during his famous father's lifetime. He was at that time the Marquis of Lorne. and his work on the. "United States After tho War." published In 18S3. brought him promi nently before American readers, fter serv ing aa Governor-General otCanada. he wrote hl "Canadian Pictures." a book of great In terest and value. It Is, . however, as a poet that the Marquis won his best reputation. The Duke Is once more entering the literary field this time as a writer of nonsense verse of the Lewis Carroll and Lear order. His first venture la this line !o a long ballad which will appear In the November Issue of The Smart Set. with the title. "The Three Little Africanders." An amuring Incident illustrative of the shifting relations of politics occurred during the printing of the little volume of speeches by George, Washington Plunkltt. Tammany leader of the lBth New York district, entitled "Plunkltt of Tammany Hall." For a frontis piece there was furnished a picture of the Honorable Mr. Plunxltt sittinz on the New York County Courthouse bootblack stand sur rounded by friends, but when the proof of the cut was shown to Mr. Plunkltt he was In consternation, for "tfc picture showed standing close by him In a friendly attitude a man whom the fortunes of politics had recently made an active enemy. The news of the di lemma was carried to the publishers, but they were equal to the occasion, and no one would recognize the portly gentleman with the very Frenchy moustache and clde whis kers who nceunles so nrnmlnmt a. DoMltiun in me picture oy me siae oz me uonoruoie r Mr. Plunkltt. I m I "A Modern Symposium" Is the title of a nefrr book from the pen of G. Lowes Dickinson. author of "Letters from a Chinese Official" and "Religion: A Criticism and a Forecast." It Is a volume quite as much out of the ordi nary as the author's two prevloua produc tions. Mr. Dickinson has set himself the- task of showing how great a factor In life Is the point of view. Like an extremely able and discerning novelist, he presents a group of typical Individualities the artist, the poet, the politician, the connolasenr. the dilettante. etc. and makes them explain and derend their methods of life, and their outlook uion the things people and events. Ideals, etc. of the world. These speeches are like a ser ies of flashlights upon human character. The book becomes a species of antidote to that attitude of mind which, while willing to ad mit that there are many defensible attitudes toward the world, can never appreciate tne real tenshlllty or Justice of any but Us own. At the announcement that those poems of Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning which were written by eachto the other are to be gathered now for the nrat time into one volume, the first feeling. Is one of sur prise that such a compilation has not been made before. Under title or "Sonnets trom the Portugueses." the Century Company has collected. In addition to the .sonnets, six lyrics from the pen of Elfzabeth Barrett Browning;, and Robert Browning's "One Word More," "Prosplce" and "O Dyrlc Love" from "The Ring and the Book." The Htti volume. In appropriate cover designed by Blanche McManus Mansfield, and with por traits of Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning, will be one of the Thumbnail series. It will have an introduction by Rlchard Watson Gilder, giving the hlstory of the Brownings' meeting, friendship and marriage, and discussing sympathetically this remarkable and unique antlphony of love poetry. "The flrst turning of a French door-handle Is symbolic. Just as we lower the knob to the left, our neighbors raise It to the right, so we may safely take It for granted that everything done across the water is per formed after a fashion directly contrary to our own." This Is lust the reason why Miss Betham-Edwards In her book entitled "Home Life la France" gives us a study of French home-life from the most Interesting point of view. In describing the domestic, social, and business life In France, she includes all the characteristic details which make her book both valuable and Interesting because It de picts a dally life In distinct contrast to our own. There- are chapters on "Social Usages." "Housekeeping "Holiday Mak ing." "TheBaby." "The Girl." "The Boy," "Conscripts." "Brides and Bridegrooms." "Wives and Mothers." "The Youag Business Lady." "Restaurant-Keeping In Paris." "The Famlly Council," 'The vCode Civil and Fam ily Life." "Svvr Year's Etiquette." all of which subjects the author knows Intimately, owing to her many years' residence In France. Mary Farley Sanborn, the author of one of Little, Brown &. Co.'s new Fall novels, en titled "Lynette and the Congressman." had a peculiar but valuable experience when she wrote her first nove, "Sweet and. Twenty." "One prominent literary woman, to" whom I sent the' manuscript, with the usual humble suggestion of. the novice that I would will ingly change It, If It were not what It ought to be," says Mrs. Sanborn, "replied bluntly that no amount of alteration would make It what I wanted my work to be. She added, however, you make your characters real, not lay figures; that is a great power.' Upon this bit of encouragement I began the pro cess of rewriting, with the result that the book was published and still continues to sell steadily." "Sweet and Twenty" was fol lowed by "It Came to Pass," and "Paula Ferris"; then for a short time Mrs. Sanborn wrote only short articled, until "The Revela tion of Herself." which appeared in the Bookman serially, was published a year ago. "Lynette and the Congressman" Is a love story, with a. Southern flavor and a touch of political life. The scene Is laid In Washing ton, the hero Is a Western Congressman, and the heroine a girl of Virginia. Mrs. Sanborn Is a deep and ardent lover of Washington, not for Its surface life, so much as for th quality of Its personality which has devel oped out of Its history. The opening sen tences of "Lynette and the Congressman" were written one day In the Senate gallery, when the business on the floor was not In teresting enough to hold her attention. Mrs. Sanborn Is a native of Manchester, N. 11.. but at present resides In Boston. TRAVELERS GUIDE. CASCADE LOCKS on the Columbia , Yon cannot go Home without taking the trijS, Portland to tho locks and return, on the splendid Steamer Bailey Gatzert Leave week days 8 :30 A. M., Sundays 9 A.M. Returning, arrive 6:00 P. M. Refjular aervfee Portland to Th Dalles, daily except Sunday, leaving- at 7 A. M. Connectlnc at Lyle with C. R. Ss N. Ry. for Goldendala uuid Klickitat Valley points. Dock foot Aider atreetf phone Main 914. THE COMrORTAIlC WAY. City Ticket Office, 122 Third St.. Phono C80. 2 OVERLAND TRAINS DAILY O Tho Flyer and the Fast Mall. SPLENDID SERVICE rjrr-TO-DATE EQUIPMENT COURTEOUS EMPLOYES- 1 LEAVE, f ARRIVE. S-30 A. M. I Tortland 7:00 A. M. 11:45 P.M. 1 Via Seattle 0:50 P.M. ofl5 P. M JL. Via Spokane 8:00 A.M. 1 (OILtN. CoO UKEAX NORTHERN STEAMS HIP CO. hailing from b cuttle. S. 8. Minnesota, Nov. 6; S. S. Dakota, Dec. 16 For JdPn and China Ports and Manila. NIPPON YLSKN KAISHA (Japan Mall Steamship Co.) 8. 8. KANAGAWA MARU Sails From Seattle for Japan, China and All Asiatic Port About October 21. For tickets, rates, bertn reservations, etc., call on or address H. DICKSON. C P. & T. A.. Portland. Or. COLUMBIA SCENERY FAST NEW Steamer TELEPHONE Letves Oak-St- Dock, 2 blocks north of Washington St, daily. Cascade Locks and return, round trip $1. 8:30 A. M. Sundays, 9 A.M. S. F. & Portland Steamship Co. Operating the- Only Passenger Steamers" lot &ib Francisco Direct. Sailing Dates From Portland October IS, 23, 28; November 2. 7, 12. 17. S2. -7. From Alnsworth Doc!c at 8 P. M. REDUCED ROUND-TRIP RATE. $25.00. Berth and Meals Included. JAS. II. DEYVSON. Ast. Phone Main 20S. 24S Washington SI. ALASKA FAST AND POPULAR STEAMSHIPS LEAVE SEATTLE 0 P. M. -Jefferson," Ocu J.0, 20. 30, U P. M. "Dolphin,". Oct. 5. 13, 25, 4?. M. CALLING Af KETCHIKAN. JUNEAU. DOUGLAS. HAINES. SKAGWAY. Connects with W. P. fc Y. route for Atlla. Dawon, Tanana. Nome. etc. CHEAP EXCURSION RAXES. Ob excursion trips steamer calls at (tka. Metlakahtla. Glacier. Wrangs!. tc. in addition to regular pons of call! Call or send for "Trip to Wonderful Alaska." "Indian Basketry' "Totsra Poles." THE ALASKA 8. S. CO.. Frank "WooUey Co.. Agents, rsr Oak St. Portland. Or- TRAVELER'S GUXDK. Jilt . iiHtL Oregon SHOPrLiNE and union Pacific S TRAINS TO THE EAST DAIL"2 Through Pullman standards ana tourut sleeping-cars dally to Omaha. Chicago. Spo kane: tourist Ieeptng-car dally to Kansas City; through Pullman tourist slceplng-cir (personally conducted) weekly to Chlcaxx Reclining chair-cars (seats tree) to th Eut dally. UNION DEPOT. Leaves. CHICAGO-PORTLAND SPECIAL for ih Has; via. Huntington. 9;1S A. M. 3:2a P. M. Dally. Dally. SPOKANE FLYER. -y For Eastern Washington. Walla Wall. Lewtatoa. Coeur d'Alena and Great Nortbara points. ATLANTIC EXPRESS!..,, w '-.i3 . u KtVEU SCHEDULE FOR ASTORIA andlbX P. M. ,5:00 P. M way points, connecting Dally. Dally. with steamer for Ilwa co and North Beach, iteaxner Hasaolo, Ash it. dock (water per.) xcept Sunday. Saturday. 10.-00 P. M. except Sunday. FOR DAYTON, Orr-)T:0Q A. M. gon City and Yamhllli Dally. River points. Ash-st.! except dock (water per.) Sunday. 5.30 P. M, Dally, except Sunday For Lewlstos, Idaho, and way point trots Rlparla, Waah. Leave Rlparla 5:40 A. M. or upon arrival train No. 4. Sunday. Tuesday and Tl-urviay Arrive Rlparla 4 P. M-. Monday. Wednes day and Saturday. Ticket Office. Third and Washington. Telephone Mala tXZ. C. W. Stinger. City Ticket Agt.; A. L. Craig, Gea. Passenger Ast. E AST via SOUTH Leaves. UNION DlfiPOT. Arrive. UV.fcUU-A-M- PRESS TRAINS 'or Sale, Ro lurg. AfthUad. bcrimento. Wi den, aaa rnuici Ci, Uojavfi, Los Angeles. El Paso, New Orleans ud the East. Morning train connect at Wood bum dally except Sunday with trais tor Mount Ansa, BUveruia. iirowaj vllle, springaeia, WcndllOK nad Na tion. Eugene pa&senge; connects at Wood burn with Mt. An. gel and SUvurtoa local. Torvallls passenger Sheridan passenger Forest Grove Passenger. 3:43 P, M. 7. 3 A. M. S:30sA. M. 5:33 P. M. e:CO p. U. 10 -.33 A. M. 7:30 A. M. 4:00 P. M. t!0:45 P. M. 3:30 P. It. H8:23 A. M. tl:30 P. M. Dally. Dally except Sunday. PORTLAND-OSWBGO SUBURBAN SERVICE AND YAMHILL DIVISION. Depot, Foot of Jefferson Street Leave Portland dally for Oswego at T.39 A. II.: 12:30, 2:03. 4. 3:30. 0:33. 7.4.3. 10 IU. 11:30 P. M.. Dally except Sunday. 3.30. u M. 8:33. 10:25 A. M. Sunday only. 0 AM. Returning from Oswego, arrive Portland, dally. 8:30 A. M.; 1:35. 3:03. 4:53. 6.20. 7 9:53. 11:10 P. M-. 12:35 A. M. Dally .'H Sunday. 0:25. 7:23. 0:30, 11:45 A. M. Sunday ohly. 10 A. L Leave from same depot for Dallas and In termediate points, dallv. 0:00 P. M Arrlr Portland, 10:10 A. M. The Independence-Monmouth Motor Lias operates dally to Monmouth and Alrlle. con necting with S. P. Co.'s trains, at Dallas and Independence. First-class fare from Portland to Sacra mento and San Francisco. $20- Berth. $3. Second-class fare, 513. Second-clan "berth. 52.50. Tickets to Eastern points and Europe; also Japan. China. Honolulu and Australia. CITY TICKET OFFICE, corner Third and Washington streets. Phono Main 712. C. W. STINGER. A. L. CRAIG, City Ticket Agent. Gea. Pass. Agt. TIME CARD OF TRAINS PORTLAND DAILT. Ds&rt- ArriTSki Yellowstone -Park-Ksnsxa City. St. Louis Special for Chehalls. Centralis. Olvmnls. fSrav'a Hurhor. ' South Bend. Tacoma. -. Seattle. Spokane. Loir ! lston. Butte. Billings. Denver. Omaha. Kan- i . rirx- fit LmiLa ani Southeaac S :30axa 4:39 9 a North Coast Limited, electric lighted, for Ta coma. Seattle. Spokane. Butte. Minneapolis. 8u Paul and the East.... 2:00 pm 7:00 a at Puget Sound Limited for Chehalls. Centralla. Ta coma and Seattle only. -4:30 pta 10:55 p ra Twin City Express far Tacoma. Seattle. Spo kane, Helena. Butte. Yellowstone Park. Min neapolis. Bt. Paul and the East 11:45 pra 8:30 pa A. D Charlton, Assistant General Passsa ger Agent. 233 Morrison st-. corner Third. Portland. Or. Astoria and Columbia River Railroad Co. Leaves. UNION DEPOT. Arrtva. Dally. For "Maygers. Rainier. Daily. Clatskanle. Westpor.' Clifton. Astoria. War-, rcnton, FlavoL Ham-I 8:00 A. M. mond, Fo-t Stevens. H:20 A. M. Gear hart .irk. Sea side. A3tor). and Sea shore. Express Dally. 7:00 P. M. Astoria Express. 0:30 P. M. Dally. C. A. STEWART. J. C. MATO. ComaVl Ast. 243 Alder it. G. F. P. A. Phono Main 000. For South -Eastern Alaska Steamers leave Settla 9 P. if. S. S. Humboldt. S. S. Cltr of Seattle. S. S. Cuius Clt. October 10. 15. 17, 21. -Z. 27 For San Franclscc dtrvcr. Queen, City of Puvbla. lo- tltla. u A. M. O.ctober 10. 13. 20. 23. Portland Office. 24'J Washington r Main 22X C. D. DUN ANN. G. P. A. Saa FrsncUca. WILLAMETTE RIVER ROUTE Steamers Altona and Oregona For Oregon City. Buttevllle. Champo?. Newberg. Salem and way landings. Lea a Taylor street. 0:45 A. M. dally, except Sun day. Oregon City Transportation Co., Phon Mala 40.