THE, SUNDAY OREGONIAX, PORTLAND, DECEMBER 9, 1906..
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Ituliian lH.rt and Ways, by Anno Holllngs
wurth Wharton. 1 lliiKtratrd. 1.rU. J. B.
I.lppincott Co.. Phllartelpliia, J'.
SomethInK entirely different by reason
of Its delightful freshness and humor,
from the ordinary dry-as-dust guide
look. It's a woman's story about her
journeylnRs ' In Italy, told In the form
of letters. The diction used is almost
conversational and the Illustrations are
really superb.
In the first letter this paragraph oc
curs: "You wish to know what are my
flit impressions of Italy and how we
three women get on together? To be
perfectly candid with you, we ourselves
are not wandering in sunny lands at
present, and the cheerful blaze of your
library Are would prove most welcome to
benumbed fingers and pinched noses"
speaking of Genoa.
Of Naples the relator says: "If Iady
Morgan wrote of her beloved Irish Capi
tal 'dear dirty Dublin." we may describe
Naples less alllteratively m somewhat the
same words, except that to American
eyes the Neapolitan city is even dirtier
and vastly more beautiful."
The exquisite illustrations include pic
tures of Castcllo Sanf Angelo: the bay
of Naples; on the road to Paestum; an
Amazonian tribute, Capri; cypress walk,
Hadrian's villa; a street In Florence; the
Michael Angelo well at the Certosa, Flo
rence, and the Palazzo Rezzonico. .
I,iU o l.ove, by Judd 'Mortimer T,ewls. Il
lustrations by Dearborn Melvlll. J. V.
Dealy Co., Houston, Tex.
You can count on your fingers the list
of real newspaper poets in the United
States. And Mr. Lewis is one of them.
Observe poets, not mere writers of dog
gerel. ' His recent book of poems, "Sing
the South," universally approved, showed
that a new poet who sang about children
has arisen In the South probably a re
Incarnation of Eugene Field. Give Mr.
I,ewis time to grow, and sympathy to
allow him to blossom.
Mr. Lewis Is. or was recently, the gift
ed versifier who daily fills a column de
voted to poetry and comment In the
Houston aily Post, and his poetie work
has achieved, a recognition that is na
tional In scope. The present volume Ttf
poems Is wider in measure than its pred
ecessor, and does not have so many chil
dren's songs. A more mature ring is no
ticed, an authority or grip not observed
before. The poems have both laughter
and tears, now a military fervor and then
a swaggering, rippling movement that
recalls Kipling. This is especially notice
able In the poem, "He Doesn't Know
"W hat For." '
In another poem, "Kitty's Going Home."
Mr. Lewis tells of the girl's various
lovers and her laughing defiance of them:
In her moods do come and so, swinging,
swinging to and fro, singing loud or
weeping low,
Moods aro very near,
Near the. surface, near her eyes, laughter,
mockery, surmise to their limpid sur
face rise.
Kltyt Is a dear
Let ncr dream of Jack and Ned, and re
member Will and. Fred, bless her
curly, tousled head, ,
Let her If she wills; m
I've a notion. I may be .somewhere in her
memory, that her thoughts will turn
to me.
As too country rills,
"Whether blocked by rock or fern, thougn
they pause, forever turn where the
ocean billows yearn
With their rushing hills
Turn to me and I'll be glad, for the Sum
mer's fun she's "had, and they'd ought
to I'm her dad.
And I pay her bills.
Our C'onMtltuilon, hy Kdward Waterman
Townsend. $l.ro. MofTat, Yard & Co., New
York City, and tne J. K. Gill Co., Port
land. A great lawyer once said that many
public speakers argued about our Con
stitution without knowing clearly what
the Constitution is. Works ranging from
leaflets to ponderous histories have been
written on this subject, and yet the lack
has been felt of a plainly told story that
can be understood by the plain people.
Mr. Townsend's book fills the bill. It
tells of the Constitution - of the United
States, why and how It was made, who
made It, and what it is. It begins in
England, and through devious paths
brings up the story to the present time.
Emphatically, a book for thinking young
men and women.
llow to Appreciate Music, by Gaston kobhe.
l.r0. Moffat, Yard'& Co., New York City,
and the J. K. Gill Co.. Portland.,
Do not be discouraged. You may neither
play nor sing, but it by no means fol
lows that you are unmusical. So great
an authority as Mr., Kobbe says so! He
also argues that If'you love music and
appreciate it. you may be more musical
tnan many pianists or singers.
This book is planned for those devotees
and students who throng recital and con
cert halls and attend the opera, and
"who want to know" humbly and sin
cerely. The language used Is clearly
untcclinical, and great names In musical
b ; : i
. " feiiiai"ai 1 " 7 '," j
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history are made plain. There are 16
chapters, the subjects of a few being:
"Chopin, the Poet of the Pianoforte,"
"With Paderewski, a Madman Pianist,
on Tour," "Bach's Services to Music,"
"How to Appreciate an Orchestral Con
cert," "Vocal Music", and "Concerning
Symphonies."
Mr. Kobbe writes with discernment and
yet charming . sentiment. People who
are fond of music and "want to know"
will rise up and call him blessed.
The T.lfe and Genius of Nathaniel Haw
thorne, by Frank Preston Stearns. Illus
trated, fl. J. B. Lipplncott Co., Phila
delphia - It may safely be assumed that no pri
vate library in ' an American home is
complete unless one has in It a life of
Nathaniel Hawthorne or one or more
of excellent novels he has left.
The most familiar biography of the
great novelist is that issued by his -son
Julian Hawthorne, but the latter did
not complete his task because he modest
ly refrained from expressing an opinion
as to the quality of his father's genius
and from ' attempting any critical ex
amination of his father's literary worth.
Mr. Stearns, who knew the eldjer Haw
thorne Intimately, has written -a biogra
phy that is in every way a credit to him.
Calm, dispassionate.N and yet kindly
critical, the book will make friends be
cause of Its Inherent worth. History has
been patiently . examined and several
curious mistakes relating to family his
tory corrected. Two portraits of Haw
thorne adorn the volume, and out of the
nine illustrations the most familiar Is
that of the custom house at Salem, Mass.,
where Hawthorne -was employed as sur
veyor of that port when he wrote "The
Scarlet Letter.".
What is Mr. Stearns' concrete estimate
of Hawthorne? In -a few words:
Hawthorne is the romance writer of the
English language and there is- no form of
literature which the human race prizes more.
It cannot be questioned that "The Scarlet
Letter" ranks above ."The Sorrows of
Werther." Nor Is It less evident that 'The
Marble Faun" falls short of "Wilhelm Meis
ter" and "Don Quixote." Hawthorne's posi
tion therefore lies betwen these two nearer
perhaps to "Wertlier" than to "W'llhelm
Meister." In certain respects. Hawthorne Is
suiDassed bv the great English novelists.
Fielding. Scott, Thackeray, Dickens and
Marian Kvans. But Hawthorne in turn sur
passes them all In the perfection and poetic
quality of his art. He has always ben ac
corded a high position in literature, and
as time goes on I believe this will be in
creased rather than diminished. In beauty
of diction he is the first of American writ
ers, and th.'sve are few that equal him In this
rcsjject in other languages.
Mr. Stearns' biography will be ac
cepted as authoritative.
The nlary of a Forty-Nlner. edited by
Chaunrey I. Cantield. tl.'JS. Morgan,
Shepard Co., New York City.
Did Bret Harte romance when, in
speaking of the '49er in California, he
drew the uncouth miner', stoic gambler,
draggled-tailed courtesan and Impossi
ble scltoolma'am? Many veteran miners
say "yes." affirming that the bald truth
would have rpade stories not worth the
reading. Now. here is the real diary of a
real '49cr Alfred T. Jackson, of Litch
field County. Conn., arid carefully edifc
cd'by Mr. Canfield. It's a personal tale
of a rough- diamond telling of queer ex
periences and showing nearly savage rug
gedness. An interesting record of an
unpolished time that will always inter
est Americans.
The Standard Operas, by George P. Upton.
Illustrated. A. C. McClurg A Co.. Chicago.
The 19th printing of a famous guide-,
book to what is known as the standard
joperas, their plots, music and com
posers. Many new operas have been pro
duced since the first edition of this book
was published, and these are now In
cluded, with notes and other valuable
data. Mr. Upton has wisely written his
book for the general public, rather than
for the trained musician. Portraits of
prominent artistes are also given.
Lincoln, the lawyer, by Frederick Trevor
Hill. Illustrated. $2. The Century Co., New
York City, and Uie J. K. Gill Co., Portland.
Lincoln's achievements as a statesman
have been so transcendentally important
that testimony concerning his qualifica
tions as a lawyer have largely been over
-ELIZABETH DICKSON CONOVEIC
looked by students. Mr. Hill's book
throws a- new light on the martyr Pres
ident, showing conclusively how much
Lincoln's legal training did to fit him
for the ultimate position in which he
gave up his life-blood. The viewpoint
is unique, and the book is rich In anec
dote and in reproductions of portraits
and documents. The printing matter
first appeared as a recent serial In the
Century Magazine.
In the Days of the Comet, by H. G.-Wells.
J1.50. The Century Co., New Y'ork City,
and the J. K. Gill Co., Portland.
Daringly imaginative and pointing to
a height where sense grows dizzy in the
grasp of the supernatural, this novel of
evolution is not only the greatest- among
the many creditable productions that Mr.
AVells has ever written, but it is one of
a hundred and will be cheerfully given a
chief place among tile remarkable books
of our era.
The story has recently appeared in
serial form in a well known magazine
and by this time it is fairly well known.
To say that It has been admired,, is to
statp the case mildly. Shades of Lord
Bacon, Bullwer Lytton, Bellamy, et. at.!
This story seems to borrow from each
and yet have a strength all Its own. The
dream of Utopia Is as old as the race,
yet like a star it ever beckons upward,
hopeful and fascinating. In allegorical
sense, the reader of Mr. Wells' book is
recalled to the beauty of the prophetic
vision In "Paradise Lost" and "Paradise
Regained." We read of the warring
classes- and of the vengeance that at last
is meted out by the plain people to ruth
less plutocracy.
Judged as a romance the book is' de
cidedly attractive. A middle class Eng
lishman Is in love with a girl who elopes
with another man Just at the time that
a great comet, swiftly approaching the
earth, lights the sky at night like a noon
day sun. The streets are filled with awe
stricken people. The young man, only
thinking of his selfish revenge, shoots his
rival Just at the supreme moment that
,the comet grazes the earth. All living
"things are suddeuly asphyxiated by won
drous gases, and the world appears to be
filled with the dead. But the human race
at length awakens to a new life in a
new atmosphere,, to findtthat the warring
of the classes has ceased and that the
Brotherhood of Man has at length
dawned. .
Here is a word picture of conditions
after "the change:"
For the fluctuating, uncertain, passion
darkened thought and feeling of the o!d
time came steady, full-bodied, wholesome
processes. Touch was different, sight was
different, sound and all the senses were
subtler: had it not been that our thought
was steadier and fuller, I believe great mul
titudes of men would have gone mad. Hut,
as It was, we understood. The dominant im
pression I would convey in this account of
the Change Is one of enormous release, of a
vast, substantial exaltation. There was an
effect, as It were, of llght-headedness that
was also clear-headedness, and the altera
tion in one's' bodily sensations. Instead of
producing the mental obfuscatlon. the loss
of Identity that was .a common mental trou
ble under former conditions, gave simply
a new detachment from the timid passions
and entanglements of the personal life.
Man himself had changed not at all. We
knew before the Chunge, the meanest knew,
by glowing moments In ourselves and others,
by' histories and music and beautiful things,
by heroic instances and splendid stories, how
f.ne mankind could be, how fine almost any
human being could upon occasion be: but
the poison in the air, its poverty in all the
nobler elements which made such moments
rare amd remarkable all that has changed.
The air was changed, and the Spirit of Man
that had drowsed and slumbered and
dreamt duN and evil things, awakened and
stood with wonde'r-clcan eyes, refreshed,
looking again on life.
The Hat and the Man, by Henry Irving
Dodge. Illustrations by Dan Beard. G.
W. Dillingham Co.. New York City, and
. the J. K. Gill Co., Portland.
. Recalls the uncanny genius of Poe or
Stevenson. The story is a vivid descrip
tion of ruin following the possession of a
magical hat which is ruled by the spirits
of evil In a battle rfivftl between the
passions of love and hate for the do
minion of a soul. The climax is of the
spine-thrilling order, and the general
workmanship shows unusual ability.
The Kleclrlc Theft, by Neil Wynn Williams.
$1.50. Small, Maynard & Co., Boston.
If you are on the hunt for a novel
with an absolutely new plot, read this
whirlwind sensational romance dealing
with the theft of electriolty in accumula
tors, and culminating by an underground
electric siege of London, England. The
nights of terror that followed the pres
ence of sound riots apparently proceeding
from the depths of the earth, and the
wit and skill of the engineer who defeated
the anarchists the" and more are told
with a brilliant. Imagination recalling the
lightning touch of the late Jules Verne.
The King's Daughter's Year Book, by Mar
garet Bottome. $1.25. Henry Altemus
Co., Philadelphia, Pa.
As has been her habit for a long
time, this gifted writer on religious
subjects again gives to the world and
particularly to the international orga
nization of which she is president, a
book that will be eagerly desired by
all who appreciate a helpful message
foV every day in the year. Every
separate day is set aside and a motto
or message stands out like a beacon.
Just the sort of book for a young
woman or girl entering into the larger
life called the world.
Here Is a telling message for one of
the .days: -
One Summer as I " stood before the won
derful cathedral at Cologne, with Its 501")
turrets and spires "spires like delicate
limbs in tplinter" and thought of the ca
thedral's slow growth (it was 800 years be
fore it was completed), I also thought of
what we make so much of In our great
sisterhood character. And we must never
forget that the growth of character is al
ways slow.' We are ever going on unto
perfection. The delicate spires are going
up. The acts of patience, self-denial, of
thoughtfulncss for others all these y done
by us every day and hour are the stones
by which the building Is going on. Eight
hundred years since the foundation was
laid. I thought as I looked at that splen
did masterpiece of architecture: "What shall
I be RrtO years hence? Shall I be a ca
thedral?" You remember one of the great
artists of the world said: "Trifles make per
fection, but perfection Is no trifle." Let us
aim at being cathedrals. Instead of huts!
Knights of the Silver Shield, by Raymond
M. Alden;The Live Dolls' House Party,
bv the author of "The Story of Live
Dolls": Little Ited, White and Blue, by
Josephine Scribner Gates, all $1.2. cah;
and Thf King of Gee Whls, by Kmersnn
Hough. Illustrated. The Bobbs-Merrlll
Co., Indlanupolis, ind.
Among the many pretty and really
Interesting children's boofts this sea
son, these four stand out with particu
lar attraction. Each story shows, with
out preaching, something admirable in
life-tenderness for suffering, charity
for wrongdoing, kindness In pla.ee of
spite, and the uplift of noble purpose.
There is also originality in the easy
reading, of a kind that ajl children can
understand. Then the fun in "The
Live Dolls' House Party!" Imagine a
book .in which all one's dolls came to
life In a single day. That's the exper
ience. The books are strongly bound
In cloth that will stand the tear and
wear of busy little fingers, and each
book-cover measures nine and one-half
inches by about' seven and one-half
inches. "Little Red, White and Blue"
has a pleasant military atmosphere.
The Upstart, by Henry M. Hyde. Illustrated.
$1.30. The Century Co., New York City,
and the J. K. Gill Co., Portland.
Mr. Hyde, WTiy have you chosen suh
a misleading title for such a good Amer
ican novel? .
No man is an upstart in this free Re-,
public, who, by sheer ability and native
worth, rises from the grade of a shanty
Irishman as Pat McCormick is described
on page 53 to become a schoolteacher,
lawyer. District Attorney of Liberty
County. III., and prospective Congress
man. The book ' is a well-told tale of a
struggling Irish boy, who fought the
good fight and won against tremendous
obstacles. Aunt Bridget, who smokes a
plpo; King Anders, a bloated capitalist,
who is a first-class ruffian; dainty Miss
Antje Anders are all cliaracters power
fully drawn and add to the Interest. The
two dominant notes of this book are love
and politics. It has an American ring.
The Shock of Battle, by Patrick Vaux. $1.50.
G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York City, and
the J. K. Glil Co.. Portland.
.Pulsing with the red life- that spcMs
war. There are many who believe that
one of the bloodiest battles In history
will yet be fought between Great Britain
and Germany. 'This . soul-stirring novel
describes the conflict. its best word pic
ture being an account of a naval battle
off the "West Indian coast, the period
being shortly after the 'opening of the
Panama canal. The style Is dramatic and
powerful. The action Is so realistic that
It cuts like a whip.
J. M. Q.
IX IilBRARV AX1 WORKSHOP
There seems .to be - a revival of interest in
Miss Sinclair's "The Divine Fire," which is
now being studied for its second year In
the University of Nebraska by a class of
nearly JiUO.
, .
"The Garden Book of California," by
Belle Sumner Angler, is ready this week,
and "Bird Notes Afield," by Charles Kee
ler, will follow a month later.
.
Dr. Edward' Robeson Taylor, of San Fran
cisco, has completed the. fourth .revision .of
his translation of "The Sonnets of Jose
Maria de Heredla." The new edition is an
nounced for early publication.
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While living In retirement In the Adirondack
Mountain. Maxim Gorky srwnt his time In
writing a novel of Russian life as it Is today
among the revolutionist. It will be flr.t pub
llsned in this country a a serial In Appleton'a.
.
"Froghole'- Is the quaint and modest name
of the home of Edward Verrall Lucas at Edtn
brldge in Kent. Mr. Lucas has very few
equals as -a compiler of anthologies, and his
"Friendly Town," a' companion volume to his
"Open Road," is being favorably received.
Johnny Jones, the author of that impor
tant work on land zoology entitled "Book
of Nature." with spelling by his mother,
has in press a naive treatise, on various
members of the finny tribe, to be pub
lished soon with complete illustrations.
.
"The Princess of Manoa" Is the title of a
collection of romantic stories of old Hawaii
by Mrs. Frank R. Day. of Honolulu, to be
published ln a .handsome Illustrated - volume
for holiday presentation. The Illustrations
are from paintings by D..Howard Hitchcock,
who also designed the rubricated decora
tions. Dr. William E. Grtffis. whose book on
Holland are widely known, has. returned to
Boston. Mass., from his seventh trip of ob
servation nnd study In Kurope, during which
he attended the Rembrandt bl-centennlal In
Holland. This Winter he will deliver three
lectures: "On the Dutch at Home." "Social,
Artistic and Literary Holland." and "On Rem
brajidt; the Man, His Country and His Art."
The title 'of George Moore's latest book,
"Memoirs of Mat Dead Life," proved an enig
ma to the compositor Condemned to put It Into
type for the llt of books that appeared in
a recent Issue of the Boston Transcript, The
title was plainly before his eyes In type-written
copy, but In his superior wisdom he pre-,
ferred to have It read, "Memoirs of My Dead
Wife."
Delia J. Desel lias compiled from the
Bible and later works certain quotations
of courage to be published under the title
of "Fear Not." The little volume is
planned jn massive but harmonious style,
set in blackface legible type, the message
appearing throughout the text in strong
red. Rubricated Maltese crosses are to
form the simple yet effective decoration
scheme. "The Twins and the Whys" Is a fairy story
.descriptive of a journey of two little girls,
resulting In a series of experiences somewhat
reminiscent of Bunyan and somewhat sug
gestive of a newer teaching. Susan F.
Thompson 1s the author. The volume is
to.be issued with full-puge Morris decora
tions, to be rubricated and printed in
blackface but legible type on heavy an
tique paper. '
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Another soa book by Frank T. Bullen "Our
Heritage of the Sea" as announced, for early
publication In London. In It he endeavors to
explain what the sea means to the Kngtish
people as the universal highway of the world.
Its reservoir of health and a greatest battle
field.-. Mr. Bullen tells of winds and waves
and ocean currents, their genesis and . their
effects, with the knowledge of one who has
struggled with them in every quarter of the
globe. v
The movement or a memorial to Henry
Kirke White, the Nottingham poet, makes good
progress. It haa been definitely deekied to
have a dinner aa xn as a subcommittee can
make the necessary arrangements. Efforts are
also being made to establish a Kirke White
scholarship at the University College, Notting
ham, to be awarded to persons under the age
of "I for the best original poem. About $-.r0
Is needed for this purpose, and an appeal ask
ing for subscriptions will be made.
Jennie 15ay Haines Is adding two new vol
umes to her series of original compilations.
"Ye Gardeyne Boke" will strongly appeal
to all garden lovers, being a classified ar
rangement of selections from many writers
from Palladius down to Henry Van Dyke,
to be issued in a quaintly d Ceo rated volume.
"Sunday Symphonies" is the title of the sec
ond volume, a companion to "The Blue Mon
day Book." which, with "Sovereign Woman
vs. Mere Man," has been reprinted.
With Its pages of text printed upon a green
tinted background representing foliage, flowers,
cottages, m reams, bridge a and much elee of
out-door fiignlflcance, the little volume con
taining "The Swarm." a fragment of Maeter
linck's "Life of the Bee. presents an especially
alluring holiday appearance. " The translation
Is by Alfred Sutro, now well known in the
Knglltth and American literary worlds as the
author of "The Walls of Jericho" and other
plays of distinction, and the frontispiece and
page decorations are the work of Anthony
Euwer.
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Richard Mansfield's production of Ibsen's
play of "Peer Gynt" recalls the fact that Ed
ward Grieg's "lovely music for this play was
written, to order, tho suggestion coming to the
composer from Ib.en himself. "Peer Gynt"
had gone through three editions In book form
when Its author had the Idea of abbreviating
it for stage performance, providing it with
interpretative scenic effects and music. Among
his published letters is one to Edward Grieg,
laying out the musical scheme that called forth
among othr things the now familiar and popu
lar air of "Anitra's Dance." "Asa's Death
march" and others. Edward Grieg's brother
John, by the way, though a Norwegian, was
the first to translate any of Ibsen's works Into
German.
Vcre Goldthwaite, a Boston attorney, is
about to publish a selective. compilation from
the works and lectures of Robert G. Inger
soll, presenting only his best and kindliest
thought. Ingersoll was a man of composite
genius-: great in unbelief, great in personal
magnetism and magnificently great In &
broad spirit of humanltarlanlsm. To the
many who have been deterred from reading
IngersoU'r? collected work's because of the
popular Idea of his antagonism Kmr the ac
cepted beliefs of the day, thy publication of
this volume will afford an opportunity to
enjoy hi brilliant epigram and exquisite
Imagery and to acquaint themselves with
his doctrine of love and service .without fear
of meeting with unpleasant passages.
.
It is curlouw to note that there if very little
that is at all autobiographical in William De
Morgan's novel. "Joseph Vance," which is ex
citing enthusiasm among the critics. Mr.
DeMorgun is a man of over 70. He is a
man of high ' education, being closely related
to DcMorgan, the great mathematician. He
himself was Identified ith th Pre-Raphaelite
brotherhood, and is an artist of great taste and
merit. Among other things, he experimented
in a certafn glaze for tiles which obtained a
great success among architects and decorator.
He designed the tile himself, and they are
till very beautiful in design, and the glaze he
Invented has a luster which no one else has
ever approached. DcMorgan tiles are a house
hold word among architects and decorators,
and he has now for wme years given up this
branch of his work, and as apparently no one
e!.e knows the secret, they fetch rather high
prices.
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A Japanese student In America recently
asserted tbat the six Americans best known
and most admired In Japan are: President
Roosevelt, Admiral Dewey, Professor Frank.
lln H- Giddings, Carnegie. Harrlman and J.
Pierpont Morgan. wien asked who was the
greatest, in his opinion, he replied: "Profes
sor Giddings. He is a philosopher. you
know." It is said that the Japanese are well
acquainted with his writings on sociology.
Rider Haggard tells. In an article in the
Youth's Companion, how he came to write
his wonderful story of "King Solomon'
Mines." and how, after' he had written It.
history verified what his Imagination had
portrayed. The people who worked the mines
and took from them some f.'tTo.Ono.OOO worth
of gold were probabl Phoen icians, and
more than 300 ruins of their temples and
forts are still to be seen In Central South
Africa.
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Rev. J. R. T. I-athrop. D. formerly of
this city, and now of Grand Rapids, Mien.,
lias written a new book, "How a Man
Grows," In which he deals with doubters
who find It difficult to believe the teach
ings of the Bible. The book Is a neatly
bound volume, issued by Jennings-Graham,
of Cincinnati, O., and the chapters. bear
these heads: "The Problem Stated," "The
Data of Philosophy." "Cosmic Ethics,"
"Christian Ethics," "Cosmic Regeneration,"
"Christian Regeneration," "Forces in Man's
Becoming." "Certainties In Religion," "Re
ligion," "The Religion of the Future," and
"The Coronation of Man." In an Interview,
Dr. Latbrop said: "My book consists of a
philosophic and religious discussion. I wrote
it to help men who find it dlfTicuIt-to be
lieve; men of a scientific turn of mind who
cannot receive certain worn-out interpreta
tions, and yet earnest men who are living
and doing their work' In the light of present-day
problems. The last quarter of a
century has seen marvelous advance in the
biological and psychological world, and these
have tnrown new light upon many hard
questions. The book treats man from a
racial standpoint." '
Wallace Irwin, author of "Chinatown Bal
lads," was born at Oneida, N. Y., in 187",
but went with his family to' Colorado at the
age of four. Cat tie-herding for his father left
little time for education! so that when the
family moVed to-Denver he found himself; at
15. graded in a public school with children -of
10 or less. His pride was trmched. however,
and studying through four grades in one year,
he entered the High School: his "father's full
ure making it necessary to work his way
through- Stanford -University, . When- he- left
Palo Alto on foot in Jtlt, bis worldly pos
sessions were a handful of small change and
a wardrobe tied 'up Mn a handkerchief. Night
overtook hfni st the fashionable suburb of
Kurltngame. and he crept into a haystack be
hind Prince Poniatowaky's house, and slept
like a moujik.
Arrived In San Francisco, h,; found a ready
market for verse Mat five cents per- line) and
one newspaper there was so taken with his
merits as a poet that it engaged him to write
versified introductions to its local stories. So
in l'.Mll he felt warranted in marrying.
Shortly afterwards he became editor of the
News Letter; and In the following year he
edited the Overland Monthly. Then he came
to New York, where he found it less difficult
than he expected to support a household, by
poetry alone.
'
So little comes to light about Thomas Hardy
and his relations with his fellow-literary men
that the follow irtg is of exceptional Interest.
It appears In the "Jife and Letters of Sir
Leslie Stephen," Just iAeued In London, and
It recounts the incidents of a visit by the nov
elist to Sir Leslie' house at 8 Southwell
Gardens. "He welcomed me. with one hand,
holding back the barking dog 'Troy with the
other. The dog's name I. of course, had never
heard till then, and I -raid. 'That is the name
of my wicked soldier-hero. He answerd caus
tically, 'I don't think my Troy will feel hurt
at the coincidence, if yours doesn't," I re
joined. There is also another coincidence.
Another Leslie Stephens Uvea near here. I
find. Yes, he said, "he's the spurious one.'
Percelvln. what I had not gathered from
his letters, that I had a- character to deal
with, I made some cheerful p ply and tried
htm further. We were looking out of the
window and I asked him what made him
live In such a new street (he had lately
removed thither), with pavements hardly
laid, and the roudntones not rolled In. He
said he had played as a child with his
nurse in the fields hard by, and he fan
cied living on the spot, which was dear to
him. though the building operations' Inter
fered with the sentiment much. I ftt then
that I liked him, which at first T had doubted.
The feeling never changed."
- '
When Stanley Waterloo, of Chicago, au
thor of -"The Story of Ab: A Tale of the
Time of the Caveman," first published in
1S07 and brought out later by poubleday.
Page & Co., read the first installment ft
Jack London's study of prehistoric man
"Before Adam," now running serially in
Everybody's Magazine, he charged at once
that London had stolen his story. To a
friend in New York he wrote, inclosing the
third chapter of "Before Adam," to show
that It follows in incident and detail most
closely the first chapter of "The Story of
Ab." In the letter he openly charged pla
giarism. It said:
"I had not thought at first of paying any
attention to it, but it seems, to me now that
Jack London's extraordinary plagiarism of
The Story of Ab' in his 'Before Adam.', now
running in Everybody's Magazine, ought to
be known. It Is the most daring piece of
work of the sort I have ever seen.
"I inclose the third chapter of this work
In Everybody's. Will you nor. kindly com
pare it with the' first chapter of 'Ab' ? Even
the incidents, to say nothing of the idea, are
lifted bodily the child in the hollow, tne
advent of a wild beast, the rush of the
mother, and the leap to an overhanging
limb, the coming of the father through the
tree tops, and even the provoking of the
beast afterward. .And the line he gives on
what his story is to be is quite as bad the
heroine (Tho Swift One for Lightfoot,"
the close friend, the Fire People, and all
that. It seems to me literally incredible.
.Mr. London tartly replied that his story
was a reply to "Ab."
The name of Burney is a synonym for lit
erary retrospection and social gossip during the
period of Johnson. Garrlck, Reynolds and other
English celebrities. The Burney house was
for many years a. gathering place for the ar
tistic clans, .-and few Indeed were there In
the London world who were nor welcome with
in its gates. From various sources, and large
ly from Miss Burney's own correspondence and
diaries. Miss Constance Hill has gathered suf
ficient material for an octavo volume entitled
"The House In Saint Martin's Street." It
covers a period of nine years from the Autumn
of 1774 to the Spring of 17X1, and It records
the events in the dally life of this "most
amiable and affectionate of clever families,"
their intercourse with their many friends, and
a great deal of gossip that is merely of pass
ing interest and fleeting moment. But the
time and the place were so filled with people
of distinction that the volume itself is of
lasting importance a veritable treasure-house
of anecdote and personalia. The house in St.
Martin's Street, just out of Leicester Square!
may till be seen not much altered from the
days when it was the home of the Burneys.
At that time Its windows commanded wide
spreading views of the fields of Iondon; now
they look across narrow areas as walls as
Uttlc miiK as tneir own. "The house is
INFLUENCES OF LUCK
Continued From Page Forty-Four.
trying his luck with the painter's
brush without success some 25 years
agro. He was so poor that, as he has
himself said, he sometimes "dined on
the smells" which floated out of res
taurant windows.
Gilbert and Sullivan were then begin
ning their great success as opera
writers. Mansfield had a good voice,
but not a highly cultivated one. and
one day, being in despair over his pic
tures, concluded to go and see the
operatic firm and let them hear him
sing. It was the luckiest tiling he
ever did. The Gilbert and Sullivan
operas were so popular that the firm
had several companies on the road and
needed all the singers they could get
They liked Mansfield's voice and en
gaged hinj for the part of Sir Joseph
Porter. K. O. B. This put him on the
stage. Ills subsequent change from
opera to drama followed as a matter of
course.
Stuart ttobson used to say that his
greatest luck was in becoming ac
quainted with Kdwin Booth when thev
wore both boys. Kohson's first appear
ance on any stage was as a member of
a boys' dramatic company got up bv
Booth to give plays in a loft in Balti
more. Kobson always doubted whether
he ever would -have been Interested In
theatrical matters but for his boyish
performances in the attic with Booth.
Oscar, Hammorstcin, now ileinrich
Conreid's rival in opera management,
was lucky cnoiigii one day to stop in
front of a window and watch a cigar
maker at work. While standing there
he got the idea that cigars might be
"molded" be made by machine. He
went home and began to work on his
first cigar-molding device. Its success
laid the foundation of his fortune, and,
us everybody knows, the royalties from
his cigar-making inventions have fur
nished the resources which have en
abled him to withstand his frequent
and terrific strokes of bad luck as an
amusement manager.
Wellington, CIlvc, Cockrell, Hughes.
Some time away late in the ISth cen
tury a young officer in the Knglish
army named Arthur Wellesley (hq was
born Wesley and changed the name In
1790) was in an engagement some
where in Southern India. He was
counted a steady, reliable soldier, noth
ing more, but his status was complete
ly changed before this engagement
was fought out. Suddenly his horse
became uncontrollable and carried him
straight Into the enemy's lines. The
enemy broke and ran away, terrified by
the savage and desperate onslaught of
a single soldier, who must be nothing
less than a god to dare so splendidly.
The Knglish forces, seeing the rout,
followed up the involuntary iiero, and
turned what was practically defeat
into a brilliant victory.
From that time on young Wellesley's
fame waxed great. Ultimately he rose
to the highest possible military rank,
the climax of his life's achievement
being his defeat as the nuke of Well
ington of Napoleon at Waterloo. The
a largo and good one." writes Miss Burney.
"It wa3 built by Sir Isaac Newton; and when
he constructed it. It stood In Leicester Fields,
not Square, that he might have 1i Is observatory
unannoyed by neighboring houses; and his ob
servatory is my favorite sitting-place, where I
can retire to read or write any of my private
fancies or vagaries." Thither came many emi
nent men and women of the day. and thence
went forth the correspondence that has mads
Miss Burney one of the best known and moa;
accomplished letter-writers of her day.
in the December World's Work F. T
Halsey gives a lint of the 20 most notablf
books of the year. In history the follow
ing are Included. "A History of the I'nltedt
States From the Compromise of IS.'iO to the
Final Restoration of Home Rule in tne
South in is7." Vols. VI and VII f complet
ing the works), by James Ford Rhodes; ".V
Political History of the State of New York.
1777-1SU," by De Alva Stan wood Alexan
der; "A History of the People of the
United States," by John "B- McMaster; "Sea,
Power tn Its Relation to the War of ITJ."
by, A. T. Mahan ; "The American Nation,
Series; The. Rise of American Nationality,
by K. C. Babcock. "The Ris of tne New
West." by F. J. Turner; "Jacksonlan Democ
racy." by William . McDonald, and "A H Is-,
tory of the Inquisition In Spain," Vols I
and II, by H. C. Lea.
The biographies mentioned are: Winston
Spencer Churchill's, . "Lord . Randolph
Churchill." Elizabeth Robino PenneMs
"Charles G. Leland" (Hans Breltman; Her
bert Paul's "The Life of Froude," and Bliss
Perry's "Walt Whitman."
Fiction In the list is "The Awakening of
Helena Richie." by Margaret Deland; "l-ad"
Baltimore." by Owen Wister; "Coniston." b
Winston Churchill; "The Jungle." by Uptoc
Sinclair; and "Puck of Pook's Hill," by Rud.
yard Kipilng. Only three books of travel aro
included: "The Passing of Corea," by Ho
mer Hurlbert ; "Persia, Past and Present."
by A. V. William Jackson, and "Life in
Morocco and Glimpses Beyond." by Bml
gett Meakin. The following two volumes
of esnaps complete the year's Hr-t : "From
a College Window," fry A. C. Benson and
"The Makers of English Prose and the
Makers of English Poetry."
It Is certain that the above 11st will
provoke difference of opinion several books
that have clearly won marked recognition
are not on the list. For instance "Blind
folded" Is omitted, and so is the Traubcl
biography of Walt Whitman.
NEW BOOKS RECEIVED.
River and Jungle, by Edward S. Ellis. Illus
trated. $l. (Winston Co.)
Smith of Bear City and Other Frontier
Sketches, by George F. Buffum. Illus
trated. $1.r0. (Grafton Press.)
Baby Craft, or Just What to Do for tn
Baby, by. Dr. Alice B. Stockham. and
Parental Rights and Economic Wrongs,
by , Virginia . M. Butterficld. (Stockham
. Co. )
Senator Sorghum's Primer nf Politics, by
Philander C. Johnson; The Magic Wand,
by Tudor Jenks. Illustrated ; The Nine
Swords of Morales,' by George' Homer
Meyer. (Altemus Co.)
Ithuriel Spear, by W. H. Fltchett.. (Jennings-Graham.)
The Pacific Islanders, From Savages to
. Saints, edited by Delavan L. Pierson. Illustrated.-
$1. ( Funk-Wagnalls.) .
Cilory oP "Winter.
Appleton's.
What joy to face the sting of the air, to fee!
The' hard and hale and hearty buffeting
nir.
To meet the rush of the rollicking winds
a-reel.
To call to the cold in his eaves and fling
him a dare!
Shout loud to the spirit of snow and chal
lenge him forth.
Beg of the sleet to -bite and the frost to
be bold.
Hail to the winds of Winter, come down
from the North!
Thrill body and nerve and brain with the
sting of the cold!
Bathe all -thy being deep In the stream of
the storm.
And drink long draughts, lung-full, of it
free-flung flood. "
Till, every vein Is aglow and throbbing ami
warm.
Thrilled through and through with tha
h 2ti.lt h of the leaping bluod.
So bathe thy soul In the Joy of unyielding
strife.
A bitter cordial to sweeten the taste of life.
- In Oei'fmbrr,
Maud Scofield Beeon.
0 sullen sky and leafless tree.
And brown field freezing fast.
And wintry wind, you chill not me.
For I am home at last!
At last! Dear home! My heart and I
Perpetual Summer know.
Blow, lev blast! Within leaps high
The fire of love's own glow.
1 kneel before the grateful flame.
And. shielded, saf and warm.
Forget the bitter" way I came.
And feel no more the storm.
At home at last! At home to stay!
Oh. mercy unsurpassed !
God grant all wanderers find the waj
Into their home at last!
Fate.
Appleton's.
It's always hard for me to tell
The difference that makes
Some things I do exactly right.
And other ones mistakes.
Germans and others who like to regard
the Iron Duke as largely a creature of
good fortune, say that his greatest
piece of luck was the detention of Na
poleon's Marshal Grouchy by the Prus
sians, but there is still a tradition in
the British army that the luckiest
thing in his whole career was that run
away in India, since it brought him to
the attention of his superiors and gav
him a chance to rise.
. Knghuid owes its possession of India
today to the fact that twice, when h
tried to kill himself because of home
sickness, the pistol held by a young
Irishman in the employ of the Kant In
dia Comnatty at Madras, failed to go
off. This youngster's name was Robert
Clive, and the lucky failure of his
weapon to explode enabled him to write
his name in big letters in the annalu
of the Knglish In the Kant. He was
under 21 when he tried io suicide. Be
fore he was 40 he hud firmly founded
tile Indian Kmpire.
Seventy years ago there was horn in
Missouri a hoy who grew up to be a
soldier in the Confederate Army. Hn
was so good a soldier that they mado
him a General. After the war he want
ed to be Governor, and lacked nomina
tion in tlic convention by only one
slxth of a vote. Had lie' been nomi
nated he would have been' elected: but
he wasn't, and his friends count his
failure the luckiest tiling in his life.
No Governor of Missouri has ever risen
higher after the conclusion of his term,
though Joseph Kolk has hopes.
The failure of this former Confeder
ate General whose name Is Francis
Marion Cockrell to be Governor gavo
him a chance to be t nited States Sen
ator, and for 30 years he represented
Missouri In the upper House at Wash
ington to the good of his state and tho
country. His unusual record led to the
President making him an Interstate
Commerce Commissioner at the close of
his Senatorial career two years ago.
On Tuesday, November 6, the most
recently lucky man in American poli
tics received his reward at the hands
df the people of his state for living up
to the chance luck brought to iiim two
years ago. when lie was made the oun
sel of New York's legislative, Gas In
vestigation Committee. Kor although
Charles I. Hughes did live up to his
chance, it was nothing but luck tlia'
gave it to, him. He was known to only
a few as tho shrewd, profound, indefa-.
tigable lawyer that he is: he had never
been in public life and, seemingly, nev
er had aspired to be.
Great as was his work in the gas in
quiry, he might never have been select
ed as chief counsel in the. insurance
investigation had it not been that ntr..--ly
ail the other prominent lawyers of
the metropolis were so tied up in cor
poration practice that none of them
cared to question the insurance leaders.
Now Mr. Hughes Is in direct line for
what? Some New York Governors have
risen to the highest possible public
place.
(Copyright, 1900, by Dexter Marshall.)