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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.
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9 A.M. Returning, arrive 6:00 P. M.
Refjular aervfee Portland to Th
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7 A. M. Connectlnc at Lyle with C. R.
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Torvallls passenger
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5:33 P. M.
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10 -.33 A. M.
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Twin City Express far
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neapolis. Bt. Paul and
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Portland. Or.
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Queen, City of Puvbla. lo-
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day. Oregon City Transportation Co., Phon
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