THE SUNDAY OREGONIAX, PORTLAND, NOVE3IBEIS," 4, 1906.
"HE NEEDS. NO OTHER ROSARY WHOSE
THREAD IS STRUNG! WITH THE BEADS
OF LOVE AND THOUGHT".
Sue John Lubbock.
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Bir Nigel, by Sir A. Conan Doyle." Illus
trated. McClure, Phillips & Co., New York
City.
Among all who read English and their
number is many whose veins iiave not
thrilled to the martial music called into
being by Conan Doyle's "The White Com
pany" ?
Readers were disconsolate when the last
page came, and knew at that time there
was no more for them of Sir Nisei Lor
iiiR he of the red roses on a silver
shield. Sir Nisei wa then an elderly,
battered warrior. But Conan Doyle was
resourceful and knew his public. ' Why
not write a war novel picturing this
young knight's earlier days?
"3r Nigel" is the answer, and it is
positively, for Blowing- military pictures
and enthusiastic appreciation of a fighting
age. when England first humbled haughty
France, the best war novel Conan Doyle
has yet written. It charm draws like a
magnet, and when once the first chapter
is read there is no peace until one finds
contentment in the last. Love and war
have rarely had so strong a portrayal.
Patriotism runs riot. No purer, healthier
book for the young has been published
this season. "Sir Nigel" is the great mil
itary novel of the day.
Here is one of the war verses breathing
feudalism in every line:
A sword! A sword! Ah, give me a sword!
For the world is all to win.
Though the way be hard and the door, be
barred.
Tiio strong man enters in.
If Chance and FaTte still hold the gate.
Give me the iron key.
And turret high my plume shall fly.
Or, you may weep for mc!
Organized Democracy, by Albert Stickney.
t. Houghton. Mifflin & Co.. Boston, and
the J. K. (Jill Co., Portland.
This argumentative study is not an
appeal to resurrect that political party
vaguely known as the Democracy
which one man supposes to be under
the domination of Bryan, another of
Cleveland, and a third of Hearst or
take your choice.
Democracy in the general sense is
meant, and Mr. Stickney accordingly
proceeds to find fault with nearly
every principle In our political system.
He says that Abraham Lincoln's nomi
nation to the Presidency of the United
States was procured by a political bar
ter: that our Civil War might have
been brought to a successful conclusion
in two years instead of four and at
half the cost in men and money: that
our recent war with Spain was man
aged by party politicians for party
purposes; that the Panama canal is a
waste of money and that we should
Instead build a ship railway and that
money expended upon our battleships
is thrown away. Why? Mr. Stickney
thinks that "A modern whaleback ship,
with an overdeck of steel, with low
revolving: turrets on Kricsson's meth
ods, carrying two or three rifled guns
of the longest range and the highest
power, would sink our entire fleet of
battleships." All of which goes to
show that Mr. Stickney is out of har
mony with the great majority of
thoughtful people in this enlightened
country.
In matters of governing the people
Mr. Stickney favors the selection of
lawmakers through the medium of the
old-fashioned New England town meet
ing with certain specifications, the
most important of these being the cre
ation "f an electoral college. His main
conclusion is: "Democracy must he
governed by the people's brain. But
.that is an impossibility under the; su
premacy of the election machine. We
murit now make a thorougli reorgani
zation of our political system."
Teachers' Guide to the International Sunday
(x-hool IKMinn for 1907, by Martha Tar
bell. Ph. D. $1.23. The Bobbs Merrill
Co., Indianapolis. Ind.
Wherever the English tongue is
spoken there will be the Bible in Eng
lish, and there ought also to be side
by side with that Bible the Tarbell
teachers' guide, which is designed both
for teachers and pupils, and is helpful
not only to advanced students, but to
the. lower grades of classes. The Tar
bell guide for 1906 was hailed with
marked favor and immense numbers
of copies were sold, but the hew vol
ume will receive equally as cordial a
reception. It naturally contains more
material than its predecessor, and is
lighter and more easily handled. Its
500 pages contain nearly everything
and that practically is everything
that the Bible student and teacher
want to know. And the price is rea
sonable. The special features of this
year's Tarbell are 16 full-page illus
trations, many of them made from the
famous pointings of J. J. Tissot, for
the use of wnich exclusive permission
has been obtained. There are also a
InrRe number of reproductions of cele
brated pictures of the life of the peo
ple of Bible lands and times, ancient
inscriptions, coins, Egyptian and Assy
rian wall paintings and other original
sources.
Walt Whitman, by Bliss Perry. Illustrated.
$1.."0. Houghton. Mifflin & Co.. Boston,
and the J. K. GUI Co.. Portland.
Among American authors no one has
been praised in the one breath and
condemned In the other as has Walt
Whitman, poet. And in speaking of
recent books on the general subject
one Is irresistibly reminded of the
worth of Horace Traubel's "With Walt
Whitman in Camden." Now here is
0
another view from the pen of Bliss
Perry, editor of the Atlantic Monthly.
Not only does he present new bio
graphical material, but his principal
aim is to portray the man and poet
with sympathy but yet without parti
sanship. Mr. Perry even goes further
he Is, not afraid to speak out and
.the picture he presents is a very hu
man, loving one.
John Burroughs has aided Mr. Per
ry in the preparation of the book.- Mr.
Perry's language is always beautifully
polished and his 'work elegant and
scholarly, these attributes being spe
cially noticeable in. the present volume.
"Whitman will survive by the ampli
tude of his Imagination, his magical
thougn intermittent power of praise,
and the majesty with which he con
fronts -the eternal realities," says Mr.
Perry. "No American poet now seems
more sure to be read, by the fit per
sons, after 100 or 300 years."
Tuck, of Pook's Hill, by Rudyard Kipling.
Illustrated In color by Arthur Rackham.
l..)0. Doubleday. Page Jfc Co.. New York
city, and the J. K. Gill Co.. Portland.
The day Is past when anything that
can be said in print will persuade people
to read what Kipling has written. Peo
ple read Kipling because he is Kipling
one of the truly great writers of the
English language. His new book . now
under review is a collection of short
stories and poems most of which have
already appeared lately in magazines,
where they aroused tremendous Interest.'
In these ten short stories in which two
children named Dan and Una and the
fair Puck play principal parts. Mr. Kip
ling fills modern England with old-time
fairies. At his command a .vivid pano
rama of knights, robbers and pirates flit
across the canvas and take part In some
of the most exciting events in old English
history. Needless to say. Mr. Kipling
shines as a writer of fairy stories and
again demonstrates his marvelous versa
tility. Fourteen poems adorn the volume.
They have the genuine Kipling ring and
can be easily recognized by the liberal
use of Italics. The. greatest of them Is
that gem entitled "The Children's Song,"
reminding one of the martial tread in
stinctively felt in the "Recessional." The
first and closing verses are:
Land of our birth, we pledge -to thee
Our love and toll In the years to be.
When we are grown and take our place.
As men and women with, our race.
Land of our birth, our faith, our pride.
For whose dear sake our fathers died;
O motherland, we pledge to thee.
Head, heart and hand through the years to
be! .
This poem is written on lines so broad
that it will live when the others in the
collection are forgotten. Among the
stories,' the best one is "A Centurion of
the Thirtieth."
The Charlatans, by Bert Leston Taylor. Il
lustrations by George Brehm. The Bobbs
Merrlll Co.. Indianapolis. Ind.
Imagine a musical conservatory where
young Bachs and Beethovcns are turned
out as if by machinery at so many dollars
per quarter! Add to this lots of human in
terest and the loves of several maidens
and you have this new musical novel.
"The Charlatans." The heroine is Miss
Hope Winston, a farmer's daughter, who,
because she could play on the piano fairly
well "Autumn Leaves." "Forest Reveries"
and other brave tunes of an- elder day,
had visions of a greater musical career.
So. Hope hied to a neighboring town to
the Colossus Conservatory of Music, which
from its advertisements was supposed tobe
the largest conservatory of its kind in this
or any other land. "Graduated wnile you
wait" might have been its motto. Hope
found tnat one of the piano students' drills
was to rise on their toes with hands high
and fingers arched and at a signal to
pitch forward on a bench. This was said
to develop volume of tone. To produce a
perfect crescendo, singers warbled under
a Japanese parasol. The girl extracted
much amusement from the method of
this "fake" conservatory, and the whole
tale has a delicious humor that will surely
enthrall all music-lovers.
Geronimo's Story of Mb IJfe, edited by S
M. Barrett. Illustrated. $1.50. Fox
Duftleld & Co.. New York City.
This remarkable autoblographv taken
from the life of the great Apache war
chief by S. M. Barrett, Superintendent of
Education, Lawton. Oklahoma, is worth
reading because of Its plain, unvarnished
style and because it discusses historical
events in a free manner not met with in
the usual history books. Geronimo begins
his story with the origin of the world, one
of the first heroes being a boy named
Apache, meaning "enemy." Then he un
folds a blood-curdling tale of war and
rapine principally against Mexico, and
latterly against this country.
In the 17th chapter, Geronimo criticizes
many of the acts of General Crook and
says that the General's death was sent y
the Almighty for the many evi deeds he
committed. According to his own account,
Geronimo was a very badly used person!
A Lady of Rome, by F. Marlon Crawford.
$1.50. The Macmlllan Co., New York City.
Kipling found his India and Crawford
his Italy, and they have both given us
men and women whose fame is of the
lasting order. Mr. Crawford is one of
the most voluminous novelists of our gen
eration. We recall more than 30 good
novels he has WTitten. and they have such
uniformly good qualities that It is a diffi
cult matter to say which one excels.
"A Lady of Rome" is of two parts, the
first being devoted to Maria and the next
to the Countess of Montalto. The Rome
to which we are introduced Is the mod
ern city, and, although there are several
plots and counter-plots and pictures of
military life in the ranks of the Piedmont
Lancers, there .is no lurid war. Rome
strikes the central note. As Maria's son
says: "If Rome has no other enemies,
there are always the French and the
priests. No priests are soldiers. They
wouldn't defend Italy. 9o they are
Italy's enemies."
Roman life Is handled with consummate
skill, strong and yet sensitive pictures
being given of militarism and clericism.
The study of emotion awakens sus
tained, sympathetic interest, and it is
another pleasurable experience to know
Mr. Crawford's Italy. "A Lady of Rome"
is the best Crawford has yet built in a
literary monument of the Eternal City.
Jewel Weed, by Alice Ames Winter. Illus
trated. The Bobbs-Merrlll Co., Indlan
. spoils. . s
In the midst of fiction, we are in life,'
and characters met with in modern nov
els will here and there appear in the
maelstrom of American every-day exis
tence. This prompts the query: Does
the Almighty send forth helpless souls
into space totally unaccountable for their
impulses and trusting in a vague way
for divine guidance to work out their des
tiny? Or do'souls find themselves in this
world masters of their fate to work out
their existence according to the human
Impulses within them for weal or woe?
These two suppositions are suggested. by
two characters in this remarkable novel
Miss Lena Quincy and her mother, shrew
ish, creating discord with as much delight
as the witches in "Macbeth," and prone
to malice and envy.
So able is the character drawing of
Miss Quincy and her mother-that these
two are as dominant in the novel as
other people in it of more healthy influ
ence, such as Ellery Norrls and ' his
sweetheart, Madeline Elton.. At first ac
quaintance the novel seems about, to de
pict civic, reformers attacking political
corruption of the day in the town of- St.
Etlenne. Minn. But th'is is only a minor
phase of the picture which really : princi
pally concerns the growth of Lena Quincy
and her baleful influence over Richard
Perclval. The . Perclvals and their kind
are ladies and gentlemen, not because of
their dollars and fine worldly position,
but because of their high character and
influence for good In all that counts the
best in life. Lena is described by one
woman who knew her as "a vulgar little
image overlaid with tinsel." Here is an
other view of' the fair Lena, for. from a
physical standpoint, she was beautiful to
look upon:
Lena has been a bald revelation to me of
things I only half understood in better-bred
women. She's like a weed- transplanted from
her lean ground to a garden and grown
more luxuriant In her weediness. Do you
know what I think? I believe that when
the last judgment - shall strip her of her
sw-eet pink flesh there will be nothing found
inside but a little dry kernel, too hard to
bite, and labeled, "Self." :
Richard Perclval starts out with .his fel
low Yale graduate, EHery Norrls. and
both young men make a good friend and
comrade in Miss Elton. Of . the latter,
there was "a certain serenity even in the
broad curve with which her hair clung
to her temples, and in the over-crowded
room her smile was as refreshing as a
draught from . a cool spring. She was
Lmarkcd by a repose of manner which dis
tinguished her from the eager crowd."
Had Percival known the direful fate In
store for him, he would have married
Madeline, but instead he married Lena.
How- he wasn't driven .to drink or worse
is a mystery. . ,
Another baleful influence scattered
through the book is a Hindu named
Swam! Ram Juna. an "apostle of theoso
phy. In secret, however, he is a danger
ous criminal and a .maker of 'counterfeit
coin. Both Norris and Percival strive to
exert a better civic- influence in the com
munity in, which they live, but while
Norris forges ahead as a newspaper edi
tor, Perclval disappoints by his inability
to finish any one given task except when
aided by other people. It is delightful to
read about the courtship of Miss Elton
and Norrls. because it is out of the beaten
path and do-you-love-me order. Miss El
ton Is not only a talented musician, but
a composer, and here is one of her verses
breathing the spirit of the West!
Oh, young blood of the Nation; ,
Oh, hope in a world of need; ;
The traditions of 'the fathers
Shall be our vital seed.
Thy newer daughters of the West,
Columbia, mother mine.
Still hold' to th' simple virtues
Of field and stream and pine!
Most novels are of the lovey-dovey or
der and only picture lovers who marry
and live happily ever afterward. "Jewel
Weed" is different. It tells of lovers
after they are married and who live a
human existence, in which both sunshine
and rain happen. The novel has caught
the true spirit of the Northwest, and has
wit, fine sentiment and common-sense
philosophy to commend it.
No Friend Uke a Sister, by Rosa Xourhette
Carey. J. B. Llpplncott Co.,1 Philadelphia,
and the J. K. Gill Co.. Portland.
Worthy in every respect of the dis
tinguished authoress of "The Household
of Peter." In writing "No. Friend Like a
Sister," Miss Carey has given us a typi
cal English novel portraying the every
day emotions of middle-class, educated
people in short a tale that speaks with
insistent emphasis to young women who
desire calm, restful reading without any
fireworks. The story is built around St.
Monica's Nursing Home, two sisters
named Frances and Augusta, extreme
"High Church" believers, and the uplift
of the submerged in the parish of St.
Mathias, London. The book will also be
remembered by its pure simplicity and
healthful influence.
The Happy-Oo-f.ucky, translated from the
German by Mrs. A. L. Wister. Illus
trated. The J. B. Llpplncott Co., Phila
delphia. Leaves from the life of a natural
bohemian young man who left the
pleasant country stream - where his
father kept a prosperous mill and
drove with two aristocratic young wo
men to Vienna to seek his fortune.
He found it, in romantic fashion and
married a porter's niece with whom he
lived happily ever after. Just the kind
of new fairy tale to enthrall young
folks. Its tone is good, the transla
tion being from the works of Joseph
Frieherr von Eichendorff. The little
book is, finely bound and richly decor
ated. The Hock, by Mary Austin. Illustrated by
, E. Boyd Smith. $2. Houghton. Mifflin
& Co., -Boston, and the J. K. Gill Co.,
. Portland.
Beautiful in Illustration and design, this
book Is Instinct with open air life on the
sheep ranges of California. Its long note
is: "Be-a-a!" Mrs. Austin begins with
the early Spaniards who drove their flocks
from Vellcia. in the year when Daniel
Boone moved into the then unknown
West, and she successively introduces
herders and 'shearers Frenchman. Span
iard. Basque and American. calm and
restful influence accompanies the telling,
and the romantic story ought to particu
lary commend itself to Oregon, where
there are also large sheep interests.
A Modern Madonna, by Caroline Abbot Stan
ley. $1.50. The Century Co.. New Tork
City, and the J. K. Gill Co., Portland.
The germ thought in this novel with
scenes laid in the District of Columbia
is the law which was in force until ten
years ago permitting a man to will the
custody of his own child, even of an unborn-child,
to any one he might choose.
The father's violent death and the forci
ble separation of a young mother from
her baby are told with fine dramatic
power. It is a relief to find at the end
of the story a period of tragedy succeeded
by clouds breaking into calm.
The Impersonator, by Mary Imlay Taylor.
Illustrated by Cti. Grunwald. $1.30. Lit
tle. Brown & Co., Boston, and the J K.
Gill Co., Portland.
To those of us out West who have
never seen Washington, D. O, that city
if we are to believe society novels pub
lished in its honor is a mixture of
"strata" society, diplomacy,-and autos.
"The Impersonator" Is another Wash
ington. D. C, novel, but it is far above
the ordinary because every scene in it
is a delight, its composition shows great
talent, and its people are witty and
amusing. May Hading, shrew and art
student in Parte, is Invited to visit a
rich aurit whom she has never seen and
who Is a leader in Washington society,
and induces her chum, Mary Lang, a
beautiful girl, to impersonate her.
The icomplications that follow when
Mary Is ultimately unmasked and finds
that she is the long-lost daughter of
Count Portucarreo. a foreign ambassador,
is true literary art.
The Dragon Painter, by Mary McNeil Fen-
ollosa. Illustrated by Gertrude McDanlel.
$1.50. Little. Brown & Co.. Boston, and
the J. K. Gill Co., Portland.
Instinct with the spirit of old Japan and
Its art, and just such a novel of the Far
East as one might expect the creator of
"The Breath of the Gods" to write. "The
Dragon Painter" is Mrs. Fenollosa's ripest
work,- and in it she has caught the true
spirit of painting for art's sake. The
principal characters are Kano Indara'. last
of a mighty race of artists, his daughter.
Ume-ko and a dragon-painter-named Tat
su. a wild mountain artist. The love
story unfolded Is an absorbing. one.
J. M. Q.
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R. S. Andrews, illustrated. &0 cents; The
Pets, by Henry Wallace Phillips. Illustrated.
50 : cents; The Shadow, of the House, by
Ivan Strannik. a translation from , the
French; Cayblgan. by James Hopper: Tin
ker Two, by Edgar Jepson; The Pettison
Twins, by Marion Hill. (McClure-Phillljjs.)
Further Fortunes ot Plnkey, Illustrated,
by Captain Harold Hammond. U. S. A., il
lustrated, $1.50, and Don-A-Dreams, by. Har
vey J. Htgglns. 11.50. (Century Co.)
The Slave of Silence, by Fred M. White,
Illustrated, $1.50. (Little-Brown.)
Set In Authority,, by Mrs. Everard Cotes,
$1.50. (Doubleday-Page.
Books. Culture and Character, by J. N.
Larned, $1; Nelson, the Adventurer, by Nora
Archibald Smith,. $1. (Houghton-Mlfflln.)
Lady Hollyhock and Her Friends, by Mar
garet Coulson Walker, illustrated. (Baker
Taylor.) Tiie Avenging Hour, by H. F. Prcvost Bat
tersby, $1.00., (Appleton.)
The Country Road, by' Alice Brown, $1.50.
(H. Houghton & Co.) i
The Wild Flower Book for Young People,
by Alice Lounsberry. with 77 illustrations.
$1.50; Favorite Nursery Rhymes, by Ethel
Franklin Be Us, illustrated, $1.50. (Stokes.)
i The above books were received through
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The Minute Boys of the Wyoming Val
ley, by James Otis, illustrated. (Dana
Estes.) Are Tou a Bromide? by Gelett Burgess.
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Trusia, A Princess of Krovltch, by Davis
Brinton, Illustrated, $1.50. and Queen of the
Rushes, a Romance of the Welsh country,
by Allen Raines. $1.50. (Jacobs.)
IX LIBRARY AND WORKSHOP.
That humorous Vlassic of childhood, Mrs.
Rankin's "Dandelion Cottage" has already
gone into a fourth printing.
The third good-sized edition of ' "Power
Lot." Mrs. Greene's new book, will be pub
lished simultaneously with the opening-of
her play, "Cape Cod Folks," In New York
City.
Paradoxical as it may appear, the main
portion of "A Romance of Old Wars." by
Valentlna Hawtrey. is the peaceful idyl of
a honeymoon in camp In France in the Mid
dle Ages. .
m
n
Henry Holt & Co. were obliged to send
the second printing of Mrs. Fraser's "In the
Shadow of the Lord," a romance of the
Washlngtons. to press on the day that they
issued the first.
Booker T. Washington's new book, "Put
ting the Most Into Life," has gone into a
second edition the first month of publica
tion. Tt is devoted to addresses delivered
before Tuskcgee Institute.
, Anne Warner's latest book. "Seeing France
wun uncie jonn, a Duricsque on the Ameri
can tourist abroad, will be published In book
form this week. The book will have a num
ber of Illustrations, in sympathy with the
humorous character of the narrative, by
May Wilson Preston.
Recent aVchacologlcal discoveries have
interrupted in one or two instances the
progress of the text of the earlier part of
Mr. Eturgis" "History of Architecture." so
that Volume I has again been postponed
and will protaMy now not be Issued until
the middle of November.
The opponents of that exotic novel,
"Folly," will not down. One reviewer ex
hausted her vocabulary in the Spring in
one magazine, and In two columns heaped
abuse- upon Miss Rickert. At the same time
It is only fair to add that the book itself
will not down, and that the sixth edition
Is now imminent.
The author of "In the Daya of the Comet."
"The War of the World." "The Time Ma
chine" and a long list of other works, lives
and writes In Kent. England, his native
place. Mr. Wells was educated mainly at
private schools, and carried ofT first-class hon
ors at the Royal Academy of Science a fact
of Interest since the jtuper-natural enters so
largely into all his books.
Roy . Rolfe Uilson. whose "Katrlna" has
Just been lKsued, has leased a house In Con
cord, Mass., which he will occupy shortly.
Mr. Gllson has always loved the traditions
of Boston and of the Transcendental period,
and It is the fulfillment of an. oft-dreamed
dream to settle in Concord. .
Says "A Cheerful Tear Book": "And the
automobile may be Identified as the sub
stance of things owed and the odor of things
unseen. Dreams are the spiritual savors
from our supper tables. Homo men are
never so solitary as when alone with their
thoughts."
Henry M. Hyde's "The Upstarts." which
The Century Company will issue sfn. Is the
author's first book, although magazine readers
are familiar with his short stories. The narra
tlv9 deal with the life and common people
of the Middle West, a life which has always
had strong interest for the author. Mr. Hyde
is now editor of the Technical Magazine, after
several years' editorial service on the Chicago
Tribune.
A complete illustrated account of J. Pler
pont Morgan's collection of pictures ap
pears In the October Issue of the Cortnolsseur
Magazine. As the collection of works of art
owned by Mr. Morgan is the most repre
sentative of any American collection, this
article, will prove of the greatest Interest
to all connoisseur readers In the United
States.
A child's book of more than ordinary in
terest is "Indian Boys and Girls." This
book Is Illustrated by Alice Mar and Ed
win Willard Demlng. while the accompany
ing verses and stories were written by Aliue
Calhoun Haines. Children are proverbially
more Interested In our American Indians
than in any other race. This book Is cal
culated not only to . arouse this interest,
but to give them accurate knowledge of
the manners and customs of Indian chlldren.-
Love seems to be the strain of the song
of the modern poet no less than that of the
ancient bard, and no form of verse Is, per
haps, a more perfect embodiment for rhymed
expression of this sentiment than the sonnet.
This fact has led the publishing house of
Small. Maynard & Company to prepare, under
the editorship of Laurens Maynard. an anth
ology entitled, "Latter-Day Love Sonnets,"
made up of a notable group of poems of near
ly 100 writers of the present day, both Brit
ish and American.
A etlrring new novel to be issued early this
Fall by Small, Maynard oV Company is "Father
Pink." by A. Wilson Barrett, the author of
"The Silver Pin." It is a lively narrative of
the wily machinations of m seemingly good
natured and harmless priest, who has schemes
of his own for the benefit of a favorite niece.
Large property rights are involved, together
with a hoarded pile of diamonds, which have
been singularly concealed for safe-keeping.
The hand of the woman whose property la thus
at stake is sought by two eager rivals, whose
fortunes are Involved in the plot. The custody
of the diamonds, when at last found, gives
rise to exciting complications, with the priest.
Father Pink, as the cleverest actor In the
drama. It Is by no mean an ordinary man
who can elude obviously certain capture by
backing into a cage of trained lions with
whom he-had previously made friends for that
purpose, and then retreating, without possible
pursuit, through a secret passage.
The study of history and biography of
great men is an effective way by which to
get a , proper perspective of present men
and events. ' Such a perspective can be
gotten from "Four American Leaders" by
President Charles W. Eliot, announced for
early publication by the American Unitar
ian Association. The contents of the book
consists of essays on "Franklin," "Wash
ington," "Channing" and "Emerson." w'hlch,
condensed in expression and broad sugges
tivenees. summarize the influence of four
great Americans in shaping the political,
moral and intellectual trend of the republic
and by their lives and writings in framing
our American ideals.
.
Miss Mary Mears. whose novel, "The
Breath of the Runners," Is shortly to ap
pear, Is a young writer of unusual promise.
She discloses to readers of fiction a phase
of- American life little known outside its
own limits. The art world of America has
never before been made the environment of
a thoughtful and significant novel. Miss
Mears is , herself an American artist, and
has secured great facility as well as repu
tation as a writer by frequent contributions
to some of our leading magazines. One
need read a few pages only of this strong
book to realize that Miss Mears' apprentice
ship both as artist and writer has peculiarly
fitted her to depict graphically her "world."
"Daughters of the Puritans" sold so well
last year and' seemed to give such general
satisfaction to its wide circle of readers that
a portrait edition for the holidays is an
nounced for early issue by its publishers, the
American Unitarian Association. 'The-or'.?
Inals -from which the portraits are reproduced
are the very best obtainable of the seven
women whose sketches make up the contents
of the volume Catharine Maria Sedgwick,
Mary Love 11 Ware". Lydle-Maria Child. Doro
thea Lynde Dlx.. Sarah Margaret Fuller Os
soll, Harriet Beecher Stowe and Louisa May
Alcott. The brief lives of these descendants
of the Puritans are treated by the author,
Seth Curtis Beach. In a delightful style that
makes their - perusal a source of pleasure no
less than of information.
-
"Cap'n Chadwfck: Marblehead Skipper and
Shoemaker" is the third volume ef the series
of "True AmertcatWTypes" (of which the first
was "John Gilley," by President Eliot, and
the second. "Augustus Conant." ' by Robert
Collyer) and maintains the high standard set
for this little group of homely biographies.
It presents the humble but ennobling life
story of a Marblehead skipper and shoemaker,
revealing the method and spirit of one who,
by turning his hand to more than one vocation
in the course of Summer and Winter, secured,
with serene coura'ge. a comfortable mainten
ance' for himself .and family. The book Is
written by his son, the well-known author
and preacher, John White Chadwlck, and Is
to be published immediately.
A recent number of The World's Work
contains a remarkable story of a negro who,
like Booker T. Washington, rose from the
humblest beginnings to the headship . of a
helpful and Important Institution. He was
put to work when 4 years old. and at 9
w-as a regular plowhand. Yet he managed
to learn to read and write, at odd moments,
and later worked his way through Tuskegee
Institute. After a series of hardships, he
says: "I felt that I was born to bad luck
and gave up all hope of future work. Just
at that time some one sent me a copy of
Orison Swett Marden's book. "Pushing to
the Front." I read every chapter. . Every
line In It seemed to say to me:-'You are a
coward to give up.' " The book, which
proved the turning point in his career, is
now translated into nearly every civilized
tongue, including the Japanese.'
,lt sounds like exaggeration to say that a
volume of 340 pages is the finest collection
of ethical scriptures that has ever been
printed. Such a book, however, is an
nounced as one of the early Fall publica
tions of the American Unitarian Association.
"The Message of Man," which has been
gathered from many sources and edited by
Stanton Colt, Is. in scope, quality and ar
rangement, as near a perfect expression of
the concentrated thought of the world's
greatest thinkers as it is eastly possible to
imagine can be compressed into a little
pocket companion. Arranged' in chapters by
topics, with an Index of authors and 'edi
tions, and with footnotes giving the exact
source, even to the folio number, of each
quotation, the book becomes not merely an
Inspiration In itself, but a key or -guide to
the finest things in all literature, ancient or
modern. ' ' - N
.
A book that- is being much discussed in
Paris Just now is "La Voile du Temple"
("The Veil of the Temple") hy Jean.Dornis,
which troats of a very "live" topic, in
French society. This is the growing irre
liglon of the time, or rather the disappear
ance of religious intolerance. To present
the question In concrete form, the author
has chosen for his hero the scion of an old
Catholic family who loves a- Jewess. She
is his sister's most intimate friend and is
In all other respects a most eligible wife
for him. But his aristocratic 4ld mother,
who had found the Jewess perfectly suitable
as a companion of her daughter, will, not
hear of her as her son's wife, even though
she abjures her religion and becomes a
Catholic. And not less Inflexible In her
opposition to the match Is the girl's- aunt,
Deborah, who Is an admirably drawn ex
ample of the old-fashioned daughters of Is
rael. .
A curious mingling of fact and fiction,
somewhat in the manner of Mrs. Gertrude
Atherton'a romantic treatment of Alexander
Hamilton's life In "The Conqueror." Is "La
Chute de l'Algle" ("The Eagle's Fall"),
In which Camille Vcrgniol presents In the
form of dialogues 'the Important scenes in
the last days of Nanoleon's life. They
range In point of time from the ascent of
Louis XVIII to the throne of France to a
final scene In November, 1817, at Longwood,
on the Island of - St. Helena, where "the
eagle's" captivity ended four years later In
his death. M. Vergniol takes an undoubted
liberty In thus putting words .and senti
ments in the' mouths of historic person
ages, but the thorough knowledge of facts
and characters with which he has equipped
himself and the cloverness ' with which he
has performed his task, have not only been
his excuse, but have won for him high
praise. The work Is curious, but interest
ing and of distinct value.
A Portrait.
Caroline Duer.
A man more kindly. In his careless way,
Than many who profess a higher creed;
Whose fickle love might change from day to
day
And yet be faithful to a friend in need:
Whose manners covered, through life's outs
and Ins,
Like charity, a multitude of sins.
A man of honor, too. as such things go;
Discfeet and secret qualities of use.
Saltish, but not self-conBclous, generous,
slow
To anger, but most ready in excuse.
His wit and clevernt-ss consisted not
So much in what he said, as what he got.
His principles one might not quite com
mend. And they were much too simple to mis
take; Never to turn his back upon a friend.
Never to He, but, for a woman's sake;
To take the sweets that came within his
way.
And pay the price If there was price to
pay.
Idle, good looking, negatively wise,
Lazy In action, plausible in speech;
Favor he found in many women's eyes.
And valued most that which was . hard
to reach.
Few are both true and tender, and he grew
In time, a little tenderer than true.
Knowing much evil, half regretting good.
As we regret a childish impulse lost.
Wearied with knowledge best not under
stood. Bored with the disenchantment that It
cost ;
But, in conclusion, with no fallings hid;
A gentleman, no matter what he did.
"God's With the Country Still.'
Frank Stanton In the Atlanta Constitution.
It's the same old sun as It heaves in sight
The same blue sky o'er the hill.
And the song by day, and the song by
night
"God's with the country still!"
It's the same sweet moon with the same
soft light.
And the stars their splendor spill,
And the song that thrifts through the starry
night
God's with the country still!"
It's the same old world with its rosy round.
And the same sweet song birds trill;
And the storm winds blow but the roses
know
"Gods with, the country still r"
Back to the Little Red Schoolhouse
! Not a Single Change Was Apparent After i
an Absence of Two Score Years..
I. K. Friedman in the Chicago News.
ff AST week," said the high school
La principal, "it occurred to me that
I should like to renew my acquaintance
with the little red schoolhouse to which
I used to go when ' I" was a boy.'. So I
started out bright and early along the'
friendly old country road that saunters
unhill and across the fields like a lazy
man with his hands in his pockets. Here
and there where the hills are steep and it
comes down at breakneck speed, head
over heels, it is not so indolent nor so
shiftless in Its manner. At the river the
road pauses for a swim. . It dips, as It
were, into the sparkling waters and
comes out bright and refreshed on the
other side. . ..
"Every foot of the way was as familiar
to me as the face of a friend. Seeing
the orchards I had robbed, the farmhouses
I had visited and the fields I used to
scurry across when I was a boy, it
wasn't long before my boyhood came
back to me.- Soon a little youngster, book
and slate in hand, trudged along at, my
side. . We two had much to say to each
other of times gone by. and so, before I
knew it, I found myself a good two miles
from the village and face to face with the
little red schoolhouse out and in at the
doors of which I had passed times with
out number always, if memory serves me
right, a little bit gladder to get out than
to go In. j
"There It stood, the one story, square,
red brick, building, with the white window
sashes and doors and the fantastic little
bell tower on top. just about the size of
the bell inside of it that called me to
school on more than one early Spring
and early Fall morning when I would
have preferred to go elsewhere. It would
astonish you to know how much noise
that bell can make and from what a ter
rible distance you can hear it, especially
if your conscience happens to be out of
gear'and you happen to have made up
your mind in advance to play truant.
"I stopped to refresh myself with a
cup ot water from the pump that had
quenched my thirst times Innumerable of
yore. Then I climbed the few steps and
passed thhrough the door. Children's
voices in recitation greeted trie and the
school teacher bowed me welcome, lift
ing her spectacled eyes from her book in
a quaint flutter of surprise at the Intru
sion. - '-'I tiptoed my way to the back of the
small room over the' rough pine flooring
and took my seat in the last double bench
of the row. A glance or two convinced
me that nothing had changed in all the
years I had been away, unless you would
call the mellowing that things and people
undergo with time a change.
' "There was the same old-fashioned
wood stove with the fat round pipe that
ran parallel with and -just below the
New and Old Dramatic Favorites
BY A. H. BALLARD.
NEW YORK, Oct. 24. Henry B. Irv
ing and Dorothea Balrd are contrlb-
utlng the dramatic treat of the day
at the New Amsterdam Theater.
There is no one whom I can recall who
has done as good work as this son of the
great ' Irving since Edwin Booth. The
play In which this fine pair of English
actors first appeared, andtiave continued
for two weeks, is Stephen Phillips' vPaola
and Franceses," an uplifting and Inspired
classic that breathes the most beautiful
poetry In every line, and which is inter
preted by the Irving players with infinite
good taste and rare discrimination. , .
I went there expecting to be bored. I
had the most delicious sursrlse. They
will come out to the Coast, and don't any
one miss. them. Mr; Irving has not the
one last spark that .we call genius, but
he is better looking than his father was.
effectively sincere and impressive. Intelli
gent to the highest degree, and the per
formances can be relied upon to be cor
rect and satisfying in every way. Miss
Balrd is charmingly naive, and the quint
essence of English culture. She adds the
same air of lovely womanliness to the
picture that was contributed to the elder
Irvlng's theatrical presentations by Ellen
Terry, in the days of old. I cannot think
how anything could be more welcome or
more productive of good results for theat.
rlcal art than the tour of these excellent
English players. Mr. Irving will remind
you all of his illustrious father, but ' he
has none of that eminent man's man
nerisms. I have never been so unquali
fiedly pleased with a young actor in my
life. '
Their repertoire includes: "Paola and
Francesca," "The Lyons Mall," "King
Rene's Daughters," "Charles I," "Maura
cette," "Hamlet" and "Othello."
Following the Irving Company at the
New Amsterdam will come Forbes Robert,
son and Gertrude Klliott (sister of Max
Ine), - who will open In George Bernard
Shaw's "Caesar and Cleopatra," in which
production and performance there is a
big amount of. interest. --
Forbes Robertson is the man whom the
critics dub great. His painstaking labor
in the field of the legitimate are lauded
to the skies, and he wields a large influ
ence here. As a matter of fact, young
Mr. Irving is his professional superior In
every technical point.
Xillliau Russell's Great Exploitation.
Lillian Russell has at last come to
town with Paul Potter's play. "Barbara's
Millions." and dt has met the Inevitable
fateIt .has fallen flat. It Is the result
of having Paul Potter try and take out
theTobasco sauce from a French farce
and still keep It interesting. He has tried
to replace the Tobasco with humor, but
he has failed to accomplish a wildly ex
citing finish. The finish will come soon,
for the play is not drawing, notwithstand
ing the magnificent cast, the high-priced
players, the beautiful scenery. Miss Rus
sell's abundant personal popularity, and
the general good will of everybody alive
concerning the enterprise.
There is something back of this Lillian
Russell exploitation that is of -special in.
terest. There are all kinds of money be
hind it. The players have been selected
solely with an eye to getting the best
and fittest that can be gotten together.
Miss Russell's name and fame are some
thing to conjure with all over the coun
try, and her backers will at last succeed
In obtaining a suitable vehicle for her
and her companv that will at length
sweep the land with signal success. I
believe that the present play will be with,
drawn soon, and something else substi
tuted. Ferdinand Gottschalk, the clever
little fellow who translated "The Love
Letter" now played at the Lyric Theater
toy Virginia Harned, Is one of the cast
in Lillian Russell's company, which may
suggest the caliber of the dramatic per
sonae. Catherine Counttss.
Another Item of Interest to Portlanders
will be the fact that Miss Catherine Coun
flss has the leading part in the play next
to the star. Miss Countiss grows younger
every day, and never looked so well as
she does now when she appears nightly
at the Savoy Theater In this play. Her
gowns are dreams, and (she'll kill me if
she ever sees this) she has let her beau
tiful hair go back to its pristine, lovely,
light brown hue.- This makes her look
ten years younger.
I understand that the Intention hs to
keep the organization of this company In
tact and supply a play, from somewhere
or other, that will fill tha cejurremenU.
ceiling. The movable blackboard, paint
ed anew. I suppose, occupied its corner.
The wash basin, a clean crash towel, and
the pitcher of water were in another
corner as of old, and near the door stood
the teacher's unvarnished wooden desk.
An .American flag, hung gracefully on
the front wall over the recitation bench,
was the only attempt at decoration.
"Even the children ' seemed the same
the same flaxen haired, freckled and rosy
cheeked crowd that used to attend school
when I did. Nearly all the children in
the room, whose aites varied from 7 ta
17, had bare feet. The girls were dressed
in faded calicoes and the boys were ar
rayed in blue Jeans and hickory shirts.
However, lest you should thing that they
paid no attention at all to dress. I wish
to call your attention 4o the transcen
dent art with which their suspender I
use the singular . purposely was twist
ed behind their backs and across their
shoulders. - It ' takes a count-ry boy to
catch the trick of that!
"One class after another of the severi
grades that the room comprised, the size
of the' classes varying from two to five,
left their seats at the word of command
from the teacher and took their places in
the front of the room In the recitation
bench and proved their knowledge of the
text they had been studying while tha
others had been reciting before them.
"A teacher handling in that fashion a
whole roomful of children Is kept pretty
busy, as yon can well Imagine. Yet 'tha
discipline was marred only by the nat
ural restlessness of the pupils, due to
the warmth- of the drowsy September
(lay. ' An Intruding bee droned away in
one corner of the room, some Insect or
other chirped lustily ,in another corner
and through the open windows the flies-
"It was an atmosphere that inspired
drowsiness, if not dreaminess, and I fain
would have laid my head down on the
desk as . did some of those sleepy boys
and given myself over to dreams of tho
days gone by. ' '
"The initials I found carved on tha
desk were conducive to dreams my own
initials intertwined with those of a girl
who had passed out of my life as com
pletely as he had left that room. They
tempt me to grow sentimental, putting
me In that 'old apple tree' sort of mood
but I forbear.
"Yet. looking across the road to thn
grape vines, burdened with their purple
clusters, to the golden tassels of the corn;
shimmering in the sun, my thoughts
passed beyond the confines of the room
into the greater world, reflecting that
there, after all, in the illiteracy it com
bated, in the characters It helped to up
build, in the lives of the men and women
it influenced, were to be found and
weighed the true worth and influence of
the little red schoolhouse. 'May its
doors," thought I as I passed out of
them, 'never be shut and its last lesson
never be taught.' " I. K. Friedman, in
Tne Chicugo News.
Miss Countiss hosts of friends in Port
land will' be glad to learn that this" en
gagement has brought her to the atten
tion of the big managers, and that her
dash and charm and technical finish
has caused so much comment that even
now her career is assured from a Broad
way standpoint. I was astonished to no
tice how beautiful she has grow'n. She
was featured In Chicago as the beauty of
the cast and Lillian Russell, the world
famous beauty right there at the same
time as the star.
E. D. Price, who was a long Mme con
nected with the San Francisco theatrical
firm of Belasco & Mayer, and who is now
suing them for his share in the division of
their profits, is now in the employ promi
nently of the Klaw & Erlanger people,
and acted as manager for tho Lillian Rus
sell Company on their Chicago trip. He
is also general manager of the Man
agers' Association that was recently or
ganized. There is no brainier man in tha
business than this same Mr. Price, and
vou will hear from him in the next few
years around the purlieus of the borough)
of Manhattan.
VALUE OF LOST FINGERS
Appraisement Jr'lxcd by the Various
Countries of Europe,
Philadelphia Record.
Thfl H'ffprfint finfrni-M nrp far fr-rh rr hair.
ins the same value in the eyes of the law
with reference to their functional utiliza
tion. Much the most important is tha
thumb, for without it prehension would ba
very imperfect. The hand Is no longer
pincers, but merely a claw, when de
prived of the thumb. It may be esti
mated that the thumb represents fully a)
third of the total value of the hand. Tha
French courts allow 15 to 35 per cent
value for the. right hand and 10 to 15 for
the left: the Austrian schedule gives from
15 per cent for the left to 23 per cent for,
the right; in Germany 20 and 28 per cent,
and even as high as 33.3 per cent has been,
awarded. The percentage is based or
100 as the total Industrial value, of the
hand previously to the accident, a loss oC
50 per cent representing half of tha
value, etc.
The total loss of the index linger causes)
an incapacity estimated at 10 to 15 pen
cent in Austria, 16 to 20 per cent In Ger
many, 15 per cent for the left and 20 per
cent for the right hy Italian courts; the
French allow 15 ter cent.
The middle finger is of much more lm
portance than the Index, states Dr. Mel
guan, whom we are citing, and who is no
small authority, for a great loss of force
la observed In the hand when the finger is)
amputated. Yet almost all the authoritiesf
ascribe less importance to it than the in-
dex. The Italian law allows 5 per cent,
the Austrian 5 to 10 per cent.
Thi rlnc finppr iia the lp.iiat imnnriant.
Its total loss often does not cause inca
pacity. The Austrian tariff assimilates
this finger to the middle one. The Italian
law is liberal, with 8 per cent. The
French and German tribunals often re
fuse Indemnity, considering the Incapacity
resulting from the loss as very slight.
The little finger may be compared to tha
ring finger, except in the professions In
which It serves as a point of support for
the hand. Jt may be reniarkedhere that
the artist has not been taken Into con
sideration in these cases.
A Sleepy Song.
As soon as the fire burns red and low.
And the house upstairs is still.
She sings me a queer little sleepy song
Of sheep that go over the hill.
The good little sheep run quick and soft
Their colors are gray and whlto;
For they must be home by night.
And on slips over, and one comes next.
And one runs after behind.
The gray one's nose at the white one's tall.
The top of the hill they find.
And when they get to the top of the hilt
They quietly slip away.
But one runs over and one comes next .
Their colors are white, and gray.
And over they go and over they go.
And over the top of the hill
The good little sheep rtln quick and soft
And the house uptftalrs is still.
And one slips over and on comes next.
The good little, gray little sneep
I wateh how the fire hums red and, lowi
And aha sstys that I fall Mk,