The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current, January 13, 1907, Magazine Section, Image 51

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Newspaper Page TextTHE 1 SUNDAY OREGOXIAX. PORTLAND, JASUAKY 13, 1907. 51 "Warm fireside nooksthe newest books, A chummy friend like you, A. wife that's fair an easy-chair,-- A bowl end pipes for tyro. BeJsiirMe Caaflrrnsrtfoms of Old Testament HlstofT, toy Gor( Fredarlck Mrifht, JD. IX, r. O. S. Illustrated, $2. The Blbllo- I theci b'acra Co.. Obcrlln, 0., and the J. l K. Olll Co.. Portland. The dsy 1st p&ased common ense and scholarship be praised when theologian will cram down our unwilling uWU their time worn theory, which they in ula t is Inspired from t he Scriptures, that th world wa created 4O0 B. C, and that the terms "days," mentioned In Genesis, mean Interval of time about 24 hours each. And the more liberal of these tlieo- ' tha ! hnM o n I loiana do not any moro consl devil and his angels those who hold to-an honet but oppuHlte opinion. Dr. Wrljrht, former preacher and affrward profesHor of the Liingua fee and Literature of the New Testament la Oberlin Theological Seminary, and at present the accom plished editor of the archaeological maKH zlne. The "Records of the .Past, is a.ble to reconcile the teachings of the Bible with the researches of modern .science. It Is all a matter of Interpretation, after all. Dr. Wright's "Selentinc Confirmations of Old Testament History." is the result of 40 years' continuous atudy of the sub jects discussed, and It Is lgnirlcant that fit 3 view and researches are marked by riw scholarship, liberality, and sanity. His book is so attractive that it will be found IntreBtlriK and eatly understood by the man of common-school education ffho candidly wishes to read iho Bible narrative in the llg-ht of litjeher criticism. And to ta Vco tidVHntaite of deliverances from modern souluxlats, rchaeuloKlsts, m$ ftymoiogifits, The psjfs are 1?Q tilled with valuable Information drawn from the author's on tire Meld of study and travel, which embraces the lararor part of the Kortliern hemisphere In both continents. The book Is timely !n view of the start of Sunday school lessons for 1K7. Aa tor ouch Biblical events as the years of (amine and plenty In Eeynt. the cross- Ins; of the Jordan, the falling of the walls of Jericho, and the destruction of Sadoui and Gomorrah, these according to Dr. Wright are natural phenomena which are now easily understood through the light of modern science. He believes that tho flood was an actual occurrence, that it must be considered to be connected with the extensive earth movements accom- panyinK the Rtaclul epoeh. and that It took: piaoe in the Buphrates Valley where the last, remnant or the Human race was located at that time. He shows that "the ice piled up over tho slu.cin.ted area of the Northern hemisphere would weight pearly a much up the whole Jfgrtli American continent, and Is Itself probably a cause suf flcien t to disturb the equil ibrium of the earth's crust. and produce the change of level nlnoe man came Into thft world, of which there is so muoh evidence." Now for the flrt chapter of Genesis. Tr. Wright thin Ka tJiat the purpose of tins particular chanter m to impart H rclentlflc but reliffious truth and that the object of the brief hletory of the human race from the creation to tho time of ADraijam, "covering a period ot unKnown thousands of years. was likewise rc- IIrIoiw. Mention in muxle that Sir. J. W. UHwnon mid others would place the founn ciKjumfmcnt of the children of larae! some distance north of tho preofnt pouthcrly cxtenalon of tha larger of the Bitter lakea. To better illustrate the parting ot the wkteri cf the Jordan. Br. Wright In. stance that a similar- Interruption of I Ho waters of the Columbia River, in Oregon, Is known to have occurred at the Ctus- cudii, where an old channel wis pernvi- nently obstrurted by an immense land lide. produclnar a ta.lce above, whose out let -is still over the rocks, which causes Kie cascade These submersed trees to- rether with the lo?r stUl reach of m-ater shove, at once BUSeract that an obstacle ha been placed athwart the tstreum. rormlnf dam willed convened the river vnllev above It Into ft Ion?, narrow lake. atnd that the rloiiiK 1tfr tlb merajed a.n old forest of which these trees are the vestiges. Of Btrlklngr Interest are the chapters on the detune. with the Biblical and cuneiform Accounts ariven side by side. The cuneiform tables mentioned are those dUcovtrad by George Smith about 1S70 and supposed to date from at least 3000 Ft. O. . and the translation from Berosue. Ur. Wright says In passing that accord- tng to the ordinary Interpretation of the Itibllcal account, the deluee continued one year and 1? daya, and that accardlnjr to the cuneiform tablet it lasted only It days, This Quotation will fthow Dr. V right's clearly cut tyle of writing) lit the ntuflea in the nrth chapter of Ciifsls, ten generations ar mention tf twen Adam. and Noah, snd tho sue of the parent at the time or the birch of the man -who la nct In th- chain, 1m In each flven. In th lUh chapter, ten more genera- ttor. between Ko&h and Abrkham are men tioned in the M.m manner that le. the iik 'or the gta.ront at the birth ot a.ch succor iv son is f tvon in denxilte nsures. So that A song or two, the kind that woo Our thoughts from care and strife, A mind that's bent on sweet content: This is the Happy Life." -HARVEY PEAKE. .' r : : ' :;; by addlns- together these euro ts the date of Abrstimm which Is IBIS 33 . C a. Arch - blah op Veher did, we eL the dates which are found In the margins of many of our English Bibles of the creation of man. 'namely 400- H . (.7 . . an cl of th flood. 2X18 H - t - Dr. Wright, to set out of what mifrht prove to be close quarters, retorts ttwt the linked goneoloelcal tables referred to were not intended by their writer nor un derstood by bis readers to ttach a. defi nite chronology, but "simply to show lines of descent In which any number of Intermediate links may be omitted wit h- out Interfering with tbe purpose of the tableH." Dr. Wright is even orthodox enough to Incline to the opinion that Cen tral Asia Is the original home of man kind. In general. he hold tht tho strength of truth in historical state ments of the Bible la not diminished but Increased by modern scientific investiga tion. Scorn of Women, in three acts, by Jack London. $1.2.. The Macmillan Pew York c:tty. and th K. Olll Co.. Portland. What would the world say if a play or a novel by the author of "The Call of the WIlil' be labelled: "John' Ipu- don ? It would surely be a cheap cus tom were our novelists .to announce themselves as Bill, Bod or DtcKt uni- formly epeakinff, however, Ixmdon'a lit erary work Is so original and masterful that any atyle of name the author chooses is immaterial, An Indian humorist who occasionally us.. brimritone words, several tlogn, a. womin with n. past, und u. tlash of hiiow und ire eltlier in AlasKa or the TuHon und tliere you have ft bottltd-up Loiiuon romance. This Is true of "Scorn of ii 1 1 1 11 . ' " London'a new play, starting In 1697 in the AlKBka Commercial Com- Daiiy's store at Cawsun. Yukon territory the en tire action occurins; in 13 hours. The prlnolpal character in it is to. Ureek grirl named Freda Moloof, who is thus described: "A dancer: speaks iicrfeot Rnlixh. but withal has that slight Indo nnablf! foreiKn touch of accent: goad XJx- ure, willowy, yet not too slender; of In- determinate age. possibly no more than 25: her furs i the Y ti kon co Michaels: and lii of wen." 5: her furs the most maRnltlccnt In the Y ti kon country trom Chilcoot to St. Michaels: and her name common on the Opposite to Vfindcrlip, i 2.1K)0,000. but Opposite to Freda in the play ia Kloyd vjindrTlli, an Eldorado kin r- worth 2.i-oo,ooo. but although he is big-muucled and blg-bodled be Is just the sort ot a man whom clever women can tie Into knots. VautJiTllp ie really ensaKed to mrry one Flossie she of the wo ft and cllntf Ins Rind with pretty pouting lips and blow away hair. She Is on her way to Daw- o:i to marry him whoi i the latter dls covers that he also loves Freda fuloof, ana Loraine Lisznayi, a Hungarian ad venturess no lonrer In the first blush of youth. Indeed, Vanderllp isn't very xure whether or not he also loves Aire. ISppinK- weii. wir of the special asent for the Vultecl Slates finvernment. Vanderllp and Lorain o are on the point of loplng toarethcr -whon Freda rflscove rs their plot. and Tor the anke of Flossie, the pur and Loral n o are on the poln tonetlicr -whon Freda dleoovei and for the poke of Flossh alrl vhftm VaiuWHp Womli!J to marry. Fredn make herself a social martyr for his sake. Herp i r one svi r-ret I ve dia logue a li London between Vanderlip anil Freda: "When you came acalnsl me and rested your hoed on my hronct so that the cn t of vouc- hair orot Into my frain and rnnddened me," etc. f . Tbe comedy clement Is curdled by Sitka Charley, an Indian - doj puncher, and Mrs. MiFec. a tnlddle-atrfd Scotch woman, wliofo sharp noe easrerly leads ber to pry into tbe afrairs of otbprs. Pflsh. snap and color mark the oon- ntriictton of the play and the action If r-iirlv exefttne- hut uuleier than t lie usual T tindnn i?ranfl( wlildi penerally gncHg pen satlon. Its Inherent dramatic visor will surel v hri njar the pin v success when it appears on the boardf. In fte Tire of the Hurl, fcy Etlph Waldo Trine. Meflur. Phillips & Co.. New YorJc CTJtj-. and the J. K. Gill Co.. Portland. A spreat Btateaman once defined poll- tics as that vehicle which directs the happiness of the common people. And as the faithful herald of a similar doc trine of comfort and cheer. Air. Trine Fives this most Interesting sociological study. In plain laniruasre that baa no double meanlnK, aa Kmeruon or Henry Qeorgo would nave written, Mr, Trine ehowj that our system of representative jrov- erntnent has Its leper spots, and that many of the men we send to make laws tor us are bought up -like sheep t)y moneyed Intcresta whlrh rule us in stead, for Instance, it I-i shown, at tho prevent moment that Instead of tho people ot New york etate having two representatives in the United State Senate as a matter of fact a ;X e w York express company has one repre sentative there, and a very rich family of railroad owners has the other. Truly a merciless but Just -view of United States Vjin atom Piatt and repew. -A.3 a pauvca tr. Trine advocates - v tf-4 direct primary legislation and the Ini tiative and rofiTf nd n in as we know thttwe measurea. In,' Oregon. Indeed, he Klyrra favorable resume of conditions In Oregon generated by the measures described. The hh!o - of public fran ghlaes, the greed of corporate Wealth. ana the.,Tl?e el raeplpy -pliHucracy asserting te itself the Cod-given right to manMre public n t ) 1 i t i In any wav tt pleue. theac are pictured with vigor and otirring purporse. The book Is a valuable one to place In the hands of & yount; man Just awakening to the responsltillltloii of civic life and who In hia perplexity to cling to one ot the two great political parties forgets that his primary duty as a. voter first belongH to his city vnd state, and that mere party Is not. every- thin?. Mr, Trine gives a powerful pliture of the end of a plutocrat whose one passion In life was to make money and keep it: 1 The greed of gain becomes his mister and drlts up his very powerB of enjoyriient thp flnr thinfcs In life. He accumulates S lOO.llOO.OOO with fill tho" cure and worry ttiut kecplnir this invented to tbe beat advaur tttge means. He dies. Three pi'onths aftr he has Rone, hts name in scarcely ever heard except perhaps in some lonr-cl rawn-out or bttteriy-tousht win contest, tus ciw is iik that of a duK. In short, many a- do HEaith- ful, Intelligent and uscfulr-ha';been Wore rtenulnely mourned and longer ana more irnicrniiy rememnerea. - This human cry voiced by the itfshop ol Exeter Is notedj Oive us men! " r V Stronj? und stalwart one;-.. Men whom highest hope Inspires, Wen whom purest honor nres; f Men who trample self beneath them, Men who make their country wreath them A. a her noble ons. Worthy ot tfceir sirea. Men who never shainc their mothers. Men who never shainc their motr r t a M it i . iitn wno never ran tnoir orotiuTs, True, however fale )thcra; y a train. , , rarmlnar Almaniic. lflfi.. mvai by tliude II. Miller. Ph. B- Doubleday. Fa;e A. Co. K w "V o r te O i t y . , - it la noteworthy that, according tf) eml- ncnt authorities, the second pleta of printing1 done In the American colonies wae an almanac. And today the almanac is as useful as in the year 1731., when the almanac "Poor Richard" was started In Philadelphia by Benjamin Kranklln, hecausu he needed ready nionoy. Mr. 3Illlei-s almanac is a ror.l almanac und icrcrcnw uouk lor trie farm as well as the home. Within Its 10ft pases aro con tained special planting time-tables, rules for foretell Ins the weather, farm law, arithmetic, rules ror hcaltti, simple reme dies for the diseases of farm animals, useful recipes and household lain ts. 12 immediate service coupons, etc. Orenon gei its share of mention, ana the bOOK la sure to find its way to all farmhou Its material Is well selected and uonted with the utmost, care. ses. pre- Tbe House or the Hundred doob, by Will M. Clemens. The Hawthorne Press, New Tork City. The title of this little story of 4X paea BtifgeBts a ctunese vr Japanese begin- nine, but Instead one meets with an ex pose of vivisection. Five of the chap ters tell charinlngly of various iIorb, one dos timt went to ctiurcU to pray, another flog tliat W4s an authority on etiquette. and yet another Beauty, "a IMaclc-and-tM. a wlctacltnr. wiry mite or a dog ttiat Qrougni -witn niro 10 ins new home a llttlf! yelp. H little bark and a little nunaie or nerves." All the dates aro snlsed and taken to the Houmc oC the .Hundred Doors, where thev find other animals captive and ready (or the vlvl. BertloniBt's lance and needle. A simple story told In kuo h plain lansuaso that a child can understand It. John ftherinan. by Tlifodoro K. Burt on. 1.SS. JtouKiiion. Mimin - Co., Boato; J. K. C511I Oo.. I'"rt!.ml unci lha Jtmt the klna of a book to place 111 the hands of young: Amorlean a study of one of tho strons-est Americans of our generation. For John .Sherman's public career as a member of the HOUSQ of Representatives and of the genat. Secretary of the Treasury and Secre tary of State, extended from March 4. 1S55, to April 27, lss, a period of more than 43 years, He died at Washington In October. 1S00. The book belongs to the "American Statesmen." second series, and 1b compact without belns dry, and brilliant without being ful- some. Mr. Burton gives an educative picture of political conditions which cannot fail to interest the reader. Tiles Trom the Porcelain Tower, by Edward UllchrlMt. 9 The Book Koom. Boston, and the J. K.. Gill Co., Portland. A volume of superior poetry which Is as different from cheap verse as china Is from earthenware. The 3S poems sing a uong of dinlf led beaut y and speak a calm of philosophy that harks back to Omar Khayyam. M. Q. IX JLIBKAItl AND WORKSHOP Braumont nd Fletcher were th nrst to collaborate plays in JaCnslixh literature. London puncli suggests as one way of raising revenue that every "authoress and author shall be subject to an adjective tax. Kate Douglas Wlggin's popular story .of "rtebecea of Bunny brook Farm" has nou been I f.Skji In aomew tiat. abbiavlated form in X-elpxis- Of the 1000 eopies of the epeelal quarto edition of "Benj.mlD Frnkltn' Autobloe-raphy.-' published t;y Houfihton. MlfTlln e Co., 8oO have already been subscribed for. A nw. novel hi announced by William de- Xlorgun, whose "Joseph Vmice" na ri'Cfclrt-.I praise from loailltiir c-rU lc- both here and bvoad. The new book win bear the title "Alice or Short." -A coal company recently ordered a copy of the novel 'The Divine Fire' from Henry Holt & Co., and now the same publishers have received an order from a lumber cor poration for ''The Lo of tha Sun." One Indication of the world-wide Interest In the Panama canal 1 the fact that Cas lell 4 Ca.t of London have, already secured rights for the E.nfllsh market or Willis Fletcher Jo I n -on" ' 'Four Ccnturlo of lae Panama- Cuu.l." Josephine Preston Peabody. author of "Marlowe," Ths isinslntc Loaves." etu.. who has been tra vetliif; 1 1 Kuropr l :;- her mar rinrT last June to Professor l.lonf Maries, vt Hurvara University, is now u presaen tor th Winter and has again taken ui hor lit erary work. alias Kate Sanborn, one or. the pioneer reclaimers or aiwifloncd farms, tins pub- tUuied an inter?nThif and unlauo tllimtraied book on old-fash:oetI wall pnpen. oahe not unly fluda time for "farm! if and bouk -making, but v rites columns of lively bouk re- view, nd outoitoTn topics for a dally paper. - I1T Mo tr "Whit," whose Hrm book, a tale ot the fllldulc Wes;, "The upstart," follows a numbor of short stories. wflUa'of conditions and characters with which be is laminar. He is a natlv of IlJInolf. ana 1m now editor or the Technical Worm Alagia- ine, after sevtea years' work on ihe editorial fian ot tne Clilcago Tribune. t re tm proposed to purcliaM the Ktowey. Enclanil. In v hieti Co! Mttiva wrote "The Ancient Mariner.". 'ChrUtabei" ana others of iiln nnest poems and to m it ks far as possible in the atate In whlnh It wa durinjE the pott'i raild-n-e. It p.-an in tl:i col Ian.- tliat Colerlrtae nurtaliiMt Wll lim and Dorothy Wadsworth, CbarUAiamb, wmiani Haunt and otucri, rr. ' H 1 1 a. m E. C3rrinls. whose hotcB on Hoi land .'- ivldcly Known. ri ae rturned from -hi seventh trip ot obervatifq and study m Europe, during wnicl) He uttcnfled the Rembrandt trctnter.Rry In Holland. This Winter ha will deliver t hrea-f ct u r.-w : "On t.Uv Dut'-ii at Ho m "Paulal. WUhiIc and IJtarary Holland." and "On Rembrandt: tha Man, tilt Country n(J HU Ait" Tha cover dealrrn of m. Boyd ltfmlt!i' pio- ir mcinn. r lr o oft "The Ktrtry tif I '.. - anonvas ana. captain on n nmi I it m ?r nnn ot tug Virginia colour, qoi tiie lal of the State of Virginia, Tfee eoat of arm, with Its crait and motto, l a fac--simile or th originnl. in plao of th con ventional ' supporter. Mr. Hrnith has .used roc6tiont ana John smltn, (tiey "oclfir uvs "aopporteru" of tha Virginia Colony, accord- lnff to the story. ' Of the first edition of "The Ilfr ancl "I.et- ters of Ufcadlo Hearn," by Elizabeth Ills- lahd. 200 ropie have . bn printea tund iiouiid entirely Uncut, with papor Ia1l, utiU con tat nlng a paecrt of Hearn original innu-sc-rlpi, which will rIv -Uim copies- T) un usual auravtiai) mong ull lovers of first frdltldns.. Various reVleu ra fiave - said that TIearn's letters here published srfc ' the mot intercitins and Important 1 nc-c those of Bmvnon. yi t sac raid and Lowell, t G. Btrnerd IMHaw's now book. "Dramatis Opinions and Kixaya." appean Jtint in ad vmice of Tolnl'jl'n book on Hltaki-apa-at r- . to which Bhaw is said to have -contributed a ou of fctm-aiotion. ot course, piiaw'f Klcn llty has Iten Oi;t!onr(l So perilstcntly does he tay tn the other aids of the water that thn American public, not bavins ocu lar prnor to the contrary, be) lews that he U a rreatt coosclrnciU'ss eyndlcalc, and not a lone, misunderstood Individual. ; t mm Evr elnee th dsy of publication of the "Holtenlohe Memoirs." the publishers have been raclnj tu keep pace vith tlia demand for the Work. Tha first printing was en tirely axhauatefl In atdvanc. of publication, i i' 1 1 It v.' not until last wrt-lt tlia.t til. ux- ply of eoples rauitit up with lUe denmna. In the mconilrau, orders from .tha' large beokaullrr. wer cut tn two by the publith- ers. in order to divide th. evallablo supply a-x laa fooata aa avemy a lid lairiy taa .slMfj. . - . .. f, V J - . . Another painting of Mary McNll Peuol l"a g (Sidney McCain "Truth Dpttnr," which was brought out In a new Illustrated edition last Hprlng, is announced, Nearly HK).000 copies of this popular Amfvlctit romance lievo been aolrt. With "The Urjxon Painter" said to b Mra. fcnolloaa's rlpeat and most artistic work, on the road to per- manent success, tun- talented Author S now arltlni a novtl dealing txcluslvrly Tte m of romance are becoming al- most as tlilckly Ftrewn with lolands as the oceann of comic op-ra. Tlif tataire Has glvrn ua I ml frf nf Clam pas lie, Inlvi of Pplc, Il-a of By-and-Bj- and so without number. Ttob- ert touls etevenson seems to have bun puilty .-.f start inr the tltlfc craze in ro. manllc geography. HH "Tri'awiro Julanrl" wk followea toy Marrlot , WataAn's " Hiarri- canu Island." jsow cornea Mla Zona Oale, ot the poetic name, with "Itomanco Island." located , somewhei la the fairy seas south of rh Aaoroa. hut dlaroverntilo only by tliosu who undir-tanrl t riJHtilio my li ter! t'S of the fourth dlmenfioa' V I I I One of t ra m cut orlitinal of the recent JTriKlih llluKtratfd Lo..lt ts a voiUTOO on "Costume: Fanciful, Historical and That- ricai," cQinpiitru Mid, Aria anfl llluaaatfsa hy Pertfy AfttWiOn.' Mrs. Aria ha left the tank of rrltlnjc a wulK-hty historical and cintiflf trutis on covturae to others, M - r own tum't has btvn -mora modest and, it may be aaaeu, minutely more entertain- inir Soon will be publlsh-d Practical Proh--lotms In HunlvlsiK nud Currency . " T t vol ume will consist of addresses delivered be- low tte Kationai Banking AsoclMlon In recent years, and the Hat nf about 80 auth ors includes many distinguished namea. George Syiveoter Viereck, the extremely yciUthfuL has the pleasure d tnlnc on tale for the flrfU time a book of his own writ 1ns. "A On mi at L'.v." it ts decked in r and eiid and Innide and out la worthy of more than jmssiug notice. The auttmr Is Indeed ttrunely touched with tli mod- ern view of love-mftkingr, but beneath it all there tn the wondorful O erm n n ocntlment that pervades all ti in love situations, and causes one to remember what a recent nov- tllst said that nu woman had really Wn made love to artistically until the had had a German lover. Vltrrck. however, needs to rii Mv-1 - the New Yot R.ir a little more ciofeiy, fcr it Is Impossible to thlnK of his charactorg as real, live Kew Yorkers. The atmosphere is n;t there. An amualrifr hoolt-liunttrin story is told by thr. Fails Iic;iir, A touqulnlsle C tlio riVH Bauchr latoly. mirft.nprtl at an auction - little volume, or y:it pane, for I franc. HV cat.loEU-d It i. I .". franco but no on. ' 11 1 1 1 It: H r. t li :i jn I '1 it ait -4 franc, n.xt a - 3 franca and at lost al 2 francs 50 centimes It was consigned to llio limbo of tlie Wes en the u.uai. The bool-t was a copy of the "Oeiivra Oomplet cm." of Joan !.. valtita. a. n academician of the year 3 1 . Just at this time, hyt a curious coincidence, J. Fred- tt'ln MaRson mi a Dap-r at the Institute on this Ue valnes. reveallns the fact that of the -Oouvre Completna" only 14 examples N- t-r. (irinted, of whlt-h only four had been traced. The purchase, eo far from gotns besitini,' at 2 francs and 50 centimes, found a ready buyer at 1250 francs. Stephan Qwynn Is a man after Justin Mc- Crtb" '"n hart. Thy arc hoth Irlsn- m-n. as as literary men. and th vcriu atlllty of each is matched only by that of th- other for Mr. Owynn, like XI r. Aic- Carthy, ha, written novels, essays and de- eci'Jptive works, besides hlatorj- and biog raphy. But Mr. Owynn'x latest bid for Mr. McCarthy's admiration, in his election to Parliament a. thr NutlonnliFt member for the City of Galway, is also the rtrona-- est. "Stephen Gwynn U a man of intellect and of high education." said Mr. McCarthy in a recent article in The Independent, -who won rrucli unlviralty distinction, and has made for himself a great success as ail author of boohs and a- writer for re views and magazines. . . I - confi dent that he -will win for himself a dis tinction in that political path of Itf r. as h has already done in other paths. Mis election speeches show that h la likely ii hava a grsat guccosa In the House.'1 ti w story. -"The nublibiied in Eua- ton, and a law first edition ha- been printed to supplv the advance orden In. "The Malefactor." Mr. Oppi-nhalm employs Greatest movsritase r s wono-ri 114 ult its an orhiner Story wMct. Is ' UKtMy to to m (jreaten success. .Sir Wingrave Seton. re-entering the world after an imprisonment chlval- r-ourrt y faced. rather thnn doTijrui li im n.l f strange events and baa a remarkable Influ enca upon the people wlh whom h Is brought tn contact. Daedrtd, brooding on hie wrongs. youn, wealthy and free, he ttgins a new lit., ni Ui rt3r wonden what will happen. Littl. Brown & Co., who are the sole American publishers of Mr. Oppanhftims novel. have Just reissued In new illustrated ert HI one two of his earlier stories, Enoch Strone," the story of the events career of a masterful man, and "A Sleeping Memory." a story in occultism, with abundant love interest. Tte following recent printings give good evidence of books for which there Is a strcnt. steady demand, says the Atlantic Monthly: Thtrty-Bijhth edition of "To Have and To Hold," by Mary Johnson. maKlng- a total ot u2V,ooo copies; lth edition of "K. hecca of Junnybrook Farm," by Kat XOUKla? "WllCKln. ma Ulna; the lOOth thou sand; IKth eiiltlon or "Jwb1." by Clara Loulyp Burnham; 11th edition of "Caleb West," by T. HopRlnson Smith; 10th edi tion of "AnuTlcan Traits," by Professor Hupo McnetcrtTr; 7th edition of the vol. umB or "Poem-A ly William Vaughn Vo nlr eth edition of "The Opened Shut. tfrr," by Clara - I-ouls Burnham ; 5th edl- tior. of "The Immanence of God," by Bor tan P. oou-nf; 4th editions of "The Clam- m-.." hy William J. Hojkirja. and "Lin cola ; l aster of Men," Ty a Ion x. Rot he clilldr vil -dltions or "TTae Li f ear.d Lttora or lafcaOio Hearn," by "Elizabeth Elsland, und "KMdlnl St. Timothy's." by Arthur S. V-ter: and 2d edltlous of "The Story of I'oca 1 o-itn aud t'aptaln John Smith,'-' by ':. Bo-a rn.irTi. -CIOKin Xa of tha Itf naisance in Komr." by Roaulfo J.o nclaiii. Tri?ndtj cn th fihelt," ty Bradford Torrey, The Plook,' by Mary Austin. "The ettb- con .clou".' ' b- Frofaaaor Joseph Jnatrow. The nolrten 6ooin.,r ,y i-.-a Maroh Tap pan, and "Walt Whitman," by Bliss Forry. ' I " I A few days. eo, . aayt a eorrespondent tn Hie Boston Tmnscrtpt. t eaw the paraKrur'ai from iScrlbnei M-fiR-asIne ttf whioiiKukli. is quoted as sppHjns 'with irornrul amu-HV meht of surK mlBlskfn enthusiasts &n wished to enroll Jans Welch Carlyls amonit the m any r. '" on ncroiint of her "man" a'" bad temper. 1 ? ts muted to have acknoI etl k e 1 -that carlyle was frequently grumpy and M' irritated, and (thli follovi) "that ctvr shrew." his wife, a- 1 1 knew this, and by th verv tons of her vulct as alie rvepd out ti ! name, could set hi nervrp on e-ct S in a paroxysm of febrile irritation, - Nrtu I in far f:9m Demi onrcf tioip nilatal.cn nt.iilslHt. because I am aa intense . lover or Justice and hnve always claimed evaiy- oortv-B rlnht to it. Thcr'r.irt' I would Iik very much to prutmnt, iti conjunction with tho paragraph above (fiven, In Which kin is said to hav o.tl'ed Mrs. Oarlyle "tbat clever shrtw." the following- quotation from a letter rlltnn to myso!C ly n rrlenti of both t h j Co r I y : e.. In London. February 20. 1S36. Mrs. oarlyle wm a hlgh-pirUcd won- an with a sharp tongue, but how s.t und how good shp was! I loved l)?r at first sight. a nl aom r v hat to Mr, ltunl ln urprlsi P"ke of her to him as ' swept -woman. "Wle 1a a nweet woman, was his reply, 'but now iki you find it out? Tfiat'8 not tlie character aho i?pnerally bears.' f myself would like ta ante anyone who knew Mr. llii.k In ilietner he would Have li .'.-! lH:cly to bextow the epl:hi "clever ahrew" upon one wh'im hv aino rerognUed 8S "ft fwtet WOninn." and If xvhat i thr value of his characterisation either way? And especially, i it Jitat to print on deacriptlon to tne ex clusion of the other 7 Xothinr could exceed the efrlousnces with ""hlch wrlinrs or fli-tlon take thrait9lvca nowadays. The artlet its alwayn nrrioua, in a benao; but a portentous appreciftr(oB of hlfl own valun to the world i!not hMfi- pary to his work, says -th Providence Tt. I. Journal si-s. irtrude At honor lia teri -reeently dlacourslns-. with a iravl ty wonny ot nun caine, upon tHt Impedance of travl. If novelists. sh avi,- "Jo not study Iffe and human nature at flrat hand thf.y are iu Ot for the position." And she poei on to re tat her own experience- "I tuinK nothlpg," she arnrti, W irTeln from Munich to California If I find mj knjwledftt ts not definite enoutrh. and foi R-izanirr' I "went 1 1 om San FmnclaGt . jfca SttKa. a. trip of IS days. with- the - return to Vancouver, B. . for th overland train. for tin) mke of on chapter. And I found It quit-. worth whil. for the .mental picture I had n.ad-j of the place front mub descrip tion was quit different from the reality. " It is perfectly easy to understand how thin can be with m admitting th conclusion that M:. Athrton draws aa to novelists in sreneral. Of course it Is well to visit SI tic a brtaro writing about 1 1 . even if the late General Wallaco did, write "Wen Kur", with no personal knowledge of the scnoa d- scrlhed. A ireenal impression muat he miri vivid than one ralnd from print. J3ut it tioeti Bit follow 't hat ths areatest nnv- lst U li4 whoso .Tiige u t largest. "Tbe writers of Action tjiat oonfin thmselvei .to Giia locality. M says Mrs. . Atherton. .'"whore they Cnd It-' convenient ox econom ical to live, soon axbaust thexnaslvea and drop betilp.a. Grerter nonwwa then this Tould hardly hfc putiforth. Did Jn Austtn exhaust herself becuuve she s w In all her life only a small part of Knfland ? The prosperity of a novel lis in the toward ys of lilm whs writer it. TTnlted States Bmator Knos. it is belle-red. subscribes , reRulnrly to more magailnei, newspapers ana othpr pfrloaicnU ilmn floel ally other man In public Ufa. Ha receive throuirh the ails every month every popu lar monthly d rectilvea dally most of the fiaily newspaper of F(tubur nd rhlla(3ir pr.11, Bt'iines tn morning papcri of wash. lng-tota and noma of those of Xew York and Baltimore. In addillon to these sources of lnformnllon anrt nttt iln m nl, n - Is a sub scriber to nearly every weekly o-f both par- tits In reniisylvanii. He Is an early riser. and manages to kim through the most of tho murnlnit paper., that r-ach him aoon aiier day llcht. Letore breakfast, savH the Washington, 1- c, Herald. When he re- turns home in Uic CTenlQK H gloncf! through ?neh paper as have been delivered at his rosldenre after he had Isft for the day's; work. When the house la quiet at nijtjht he takes up his man"-l na and coun- try weekllefl, vftlnj thl8 Hgilt reflfJJnff ffltfl flips Into law books, rongrensinnal reports. Supreme Court decisions." etc. How he finds tiiT.t- to lie?i up with (lie latest novols afttr doing nil the other reading: he Is Known to 10 is h mystery, but mat He does 18 tV (Unrtd fcy his thorough acquaintance with them. In prepar'nir himlf f- the xrutt prosecutions lie Innugura t-4. w-mio hold 1 net the office of Attorney-General. Mr. K.n-x read every ocrap of literature Bva)iah9 on that groat subject. He paid particular at. tention to the de-bates In Congrtiii ever since the National lawn-inkers li B n ri to tU'runn the power r,r tMe I- r il Government over tho railroads and other hujte Bgref-atlom Of capital. Hfi stated some time m that of all the arg-uments made in Conprress on the trust and related themVs those presented by tho late no tor Oeorse. of M laal ippi, struck him as the stronsest. most lucid, and en- iwicnins. senator Georse must have beon a lawyer of exceptional ability and lndu- try." declared Senator Knox. , That ffcntle phlloixjpher, WoncUfC P, COII' Way. has hem hai'J from win. maklnir hin reappearance with "My Pilxrimage to the Wise Men of the East." a gossipy nar rative of a Journey t h rough many of tha Eastern lands, whr he -studied tiuman lja ture. In Hindustan ha met Uana-ne Bia- vatsky, who. h says, admitted franklv to hint that who wau a f i-.u1 and a. IiumbuG " titZ thus disarmed him and. prevented- him from e.ttackinR her. The book la valuable for many thlnsrs, and not tli kit for another collection of thone fpisrammatlq entence for which Mr. onway Is noted. Here are sorne Of the latent ; Who can love a Cusmoa? I retard Theosnphy simnly as aplrltuallim crati a Knallnh man with a flu J a crusader. From I-foccacio's Klametta to Goethe's Gretchen it Is churclieotM that furalshri the Iwprfl' pportunity. i hav ri -pv , i that 1; partir of the ceeds the other arrays itself finely; the minority sc. dressln. plainly, In Australia the ' womn. beinr relatively f i w. are ourc of huibaodi without resort ins to decoration. I onr.e met Mr. Atkinson, Harriet Mar- tenoau'a famous friend, and found the "Ba. conlan Theory' was his nubtttttute for ChrlR- tiaitity. That thin Idoa about Bacon wrlttna; !?h akfspari rhoulrl flit arounil th- world and nil Its believer with an exaltation and ptiate tha irorhj cannot give is "hrnomenal. Tf -'all th- world loves a lover." It would seem possible that sf t r reading the "JL-ovo Letters of IT-nry I II to Ami Boleyn." which have just bcn iMFiird, a kindrr mem- ory may b? Iwl of "Blutt Klny Hal" thnn has uBually Wn accorded to him. Certain. Jy these rRmorkable letters bear every evi dence of iietrity and honest passion, and thftir simple directness and unpretentious utterance give them something that ap proaches real literary charm. As befits ao uniquf a volume, the book has been made in an original fonuut by the 2rtrry mount Prasi and the rieli. full leather -bindine maaes it an Ideal glfc. .XEW BOOKS RECEIVED. Famous Hymns of the World. Tlielr Ori- Kin ana Romance, liy Allan riutiieriana, 11- lustrated. tl.Sd;. The Maklnpr of a House wire, hy Imbt'I Oordon Curtis. US illustra tion h. l.a.-.. P. -A.- titokea Co The tetory Book Oirls, by Chriotina Gow- ans White, 151.30. (Maclilllan. The Sword of Wealth, by Henry Wilson Thomas. S 1.30; Wemtward the Course of Empire. t y Montf., m r y- ftchuyler. illus trated, $ 1.25- Putnam's Eons. : Tho Fairy Ring, edited by Kate Douftlaj Wig-gin and Nora Archibald Smith. M.c- Cltire. Phil 1 Ir". . These stic TooKs wssrs rect)lvd throue-h tbe J. K.. Gill Co. Help Wanted" our people could not compas., but, honestly, aren't you proutl tht you live Jn a iand where. in spite of the litsh prices, the wage earnera have a. tota.1 or more than (our billions of dollars- twenty billions of French francs, by the way accumulated by their two moat favored methods ot savinsT their sur plus? Great Call for Graduates. You may happen to know some one who wishes to get work, or seems to, but can't fret it, and this may have kept you from appreciating? the de gree to which "help" is "wanted" tu tills country Just now. But did you read the annual report of the Post master General presented to Oontrress at the boBlnnlnR of the present ses- sion? ir aw, you remember tliat he urged the raising of postal salaries. not only "to meet the increased cost of Hvlnar," but also oec&use, good men in the service are constantly leaving H sin re they can earn more elsewhere. Between July 1 and Not-ember 1 last year, for i natanre, 2.44 2 rural delivery curriers resigned their Jobs, an ftver age of 58 a month. This Is unprecedented and so were last year's resignations In other brandies. .postal employes don't UKe to give up their placet., even If they can earn more else- w here, for such places are permanent. Tout today Che cry of "help wanted" Is so Btrony in man quarters that they are resDufitJIna (a It In great numbers. You m-oliahly didn't read the report of -"Sl i" "ow York Civil Servlca Commissioner. It indicated a imllfix state ot thins. when it told about lists of candidates for city places who had passed the exam inations. lut were already employed when the places were ready for them. Tills situation Has caused a good deal of 'com ment. So haa the fact, as reported re cently by one of the district superintend ents In ?se w York, that the metropolitan available, supply of gcnool teachers is no longer equal to the demand. The rela tive number of youn sr men an d women surf icleiitly educated for teaching does not seem to have fallen off, out there is so much greater demand for them now than formerly in other callinars that they so into them instead of teaching. Nobody heard tljo cry for the help of trained young: men more clearly than the authorities of the colles-es and technical acliDolH previous to srraduatlon time last year. The cal was pot delayed until jut before commencement season. It began In the "Winter months and was voiced by the .sxenti of all sorts of blac employers. The secretary of one of the largest and best known , lihlvenltlei' In the country told the writer last March that jobs were then - w&ltlns for every member of tho graduating- class that he could recommend as likely to do good work. Situations were offered in bis: railroad offices and In t h" offices of srreat mlnini, commercial and manufacturing corpora- tions,; Civil .engineers, electrical cng n-eera and ' mechanical enfinerti were Wanted. Suitable Jobs for graduates were offered by the proprietors of department stores, by trolley companies and by great financial Institutions. There was an espe. oiavlly etronir demand tor young men who knew enoucrli of chemistry to help push along the work that hue to be gone In the laboratories which are such Impor. tant features of the smeltlnB works, the steel works and half a hundred of the country's other great Indubtrles, Must Be Competent and Willing. iut and this is something- which must not be lost sight ol-the cry for "help wanted" In this country is one not to bo satttsAod oy any except the thoroughly competent.. The employers of the United States have a job (or every one. but to tret one of these jobs you must give sixns of comnetence and to hold it you must maKe good. The work to te douo is im portant and would better not be done than dono poorly. That la one of the reasons why,' despite the real shortage Qf worHtw, there often seems to be a surplus, especially amon those who believe themselves to be well trained. Von cnuld rind a. sood many last year's sclenttflc" graduates who have hot yet found themseivea. while any man well versed aa to the need for experts In electricity. chemistry and sanitary, mechanical and civil engineering can tell you of employers who are a: tliclr wits' ervrl to find competent youngsters to enter tnew! cainnKi. The writer was present at a recent mmtnjr or sKiilea and employing etiem ljt, when the chief question discussed was. - Where are we to find enoujeh ex perts to man our laboratories?" At the came time It was freely eutea tnat ap' plloana for laboratory situations, who had (Tone through the prescribed course o preparation at famous scientlflc achoola were constantly being turned away be eaus brief practical examinations showed them unfit for the work they spired to do. This condition is not peculiar to the cheniical Industrlee; It r slfits In every 611G of thft grat IndustrUa mentioned above. For those who cannot find work in x.rac- tlcal science because they are not thor- oujlily prepared there are only . to courses open: they must either prepare themselves all over again or they must take what they can get and be ready to worn witu all their migiit and strength, The cry. Is "help wanted. and there aro few jobs worth while for those who are not able and willing to helr In the full est sense or the word, This Amerind, which has more work to give to her sons. both native and adopted, than there are .one to do It. will not tolerate 1 1 in Imy any more than the Incompetent. Speaking1 about this feature of the situ- at ton a famous architect gaid the other Hay that there Is a heartbreaklriK short age of competent and industrious youny men with the necessary artistic sens to do the minor work. In every blr archi tect's establishment tn the country, yet there are more applicants than there are places, constantly. "Many of the applicants who do not feet places or, el tinsr them. fall to kep them." he said, "ar young European! trainca in European schools of the first gradn. Home of these youngr men have all tha artistic taste and perception re quired, but few are willing; to worst as every one must wortf Jn this country. "I hava In mind at thin moment." he continued, "a. young man, the son of a prominent Parisian. The father wrote to me asking that I allow hia son to come to me and work with ma in America, where he was sure the hoy could rise rapidly to distinction and accumulate more wealth in a few years than he could in a lifetime pent in France. I wrote: 'Send him along-, if you 'will, and X will give him the chance you ask for. But I aoyiBe you to keep him in France; lie will not be able to maintain the Ameri can pace.' " "I" tj . father 'aant hint nl.nijr,' however. and I put the youngster at work. I paid him twice as much as he could have got In Parle after two or three years of practical work, although not bis; wages, of course, and gave him every opportun- ity. But do you suppose he made good? Not a bit of it. He seemed willing enough, but tho hard work and persistent appli cation necessary In my office to keep pace with the other young chaps employed there knofketl him out completely. He was positively bewildered by the American rush. I was beginning: to fear mat j .would ntive to send him home, when I waa called away from my office for a few days. On my return rre was missing-, and I aaked for him. 'Gone fcacK to France,' I was told, 'J-Je WHIteiJ us to beg your pardon, and to say he couldn't understand the American way In the least. "I could understand him perfectly, and 44 America's Cry although he had some food points I was glad he couldn't understand us. .Which d rings me to the statement that Ameri can workers are paid more than other mainly because they earn more," Manual Workers Farina ttest. Undoubtedly manual workers In tli country, those who work with their hands and wear overalls. are .retting: more Ira proportion out of the present wave-crest" than any but the highest grades of those whose work entrbles them to enclrcl. tlielr necks with linen collar, and Incaae their feet tn polished shoe.. Often the bookkeeper jets less than the bricklayer, while the salesman In the retail shop la almost invariably much less liberally paid than the man who Imper ils his life working at diszy heights erect- In? skyscraper frames. Perhaps thatV all right: it is from the standpoint of the bricklayer and the structural lronworlt-r at all events. And although the clerk. booKKfeper and the salesman would line the better wages of the beat paid work ers at skilled trades. there are few among the "'bo tied -shirt" wage earner.- who would charge places with the othrr J even at the Increased pay. Tt seems odd or otherwise according to the way you look at it. Mow great lias been the increase or waives and of prices? It la too early to make accurate calculations as yet. Both are hlKhcr than since 18SO. Tliat yesr- prlcca Of living, according to Pun. were 122.GT6. aa compared with loS.ITi on IV cember 1. 190C When Bulletin No. 65 was issued by the Department of 1 a bo th increase of the purchasing power of wekly ttawi m 3.5 rcr cent over that of 1SS4. the year of lowest prices, but there have been great chansRs since then. While prices have gone up the advances In pfes made by the $m rftllro com' panles whose net earnings, by the way, were 78S.OOO.OOO. nearly 97.000.000 more than last year the United States teel Corporation ami 0tnr employes ot many thousands have publicly announced Increases at a rate amounttnj to hundreds of millions a year. The Standard Oil 1 the latest great corporation to put wages up. At the fame tlmo thousand of smaller employers have raised wane also, but of these advances the general public can know nothing. Meanwhile the call for help is louder than ever, and accordingly the Immigra tion for 1907 will probably be th lara-est In history. That the foreign worKers tn this country were never bo prosperous as now is ahown by the unprecedentedly liarare number of them who went homo for Christmas more thatn M.OOO ItaU.na, Counting thoee of no other nationality. (Copyright. 1B0T. hy Dexter MafhtUl.) Bntte XTserdl to Set Them t'p o Cel- ebrate trie Glorious Fourth. ICew "V-orle Sun . The man from Butte, Mont., stopped to look at the Christmas trees stacned up outside the grocery store. Well, well." he said. "Those malts me think of Fourth of July at home.'" "TOU mean Christinas, don't your "I mean just what I laid. They make mo think of Fourth of July." "Butte's a srreat 1,1 li town, you know, but It ain't tho kind that ilo soms as the rose. Ko. elr. It ain't. Fart Is. therr's folk., out ther that have been trying: their darndeat for more than 21) years to raise even a trr-e." "Thoy didn't insist on any lofty. spreading: sriant. either. Jtist any lit tle mean ornery thins with leaves on it would half tickled 'em to death. "Butte folks ain't tHe kind that rIv tin raay. so we have grot a few tree out there now, thouath you mlMTht not think much of tliem at first "Bignt. Put up to a few years ago a trr-e was ft arorxl to Hutte eyes u water Is to a tlllrsty man, "And ao tt happened that ir w want ed to spread ourselves the first thin? we did was to have some trees hauled in from the canons. 15 or 20 miles . away. Every holiday that came along. Christmas. Thanksi'vlntf, Fourth of July. Miners' Union day evory sort of Mperisi occaalon the WaK'onlottd S of trees came rolling into tow, - and for once our streets were lined viYi tucm. "You folks down But here de.orato with bunting svnd fia and. llsrlits. But the rarest and consequently tho tn -it decorative thin? in uutu wai a tm. So trees were what we wre get on having. "We didn't throw them awy as soon. as the immediate reMiTitjr wn er, either. They wer planted firmly in place and Just as ion as there was "V suspicion of srreennesa about them they were Kept there, A11 the buplness riouFCB st tho trees out in front, but the saloons and the marHeta made tha finest show. JI)', put our Butt's maracta wm ortn a trip to Montana Just in themselves "In the rlrat olace they had masse, of r.'.-n fresh from tho raiiyona for a. background, And against this bacK Rround were whole deer, alieep. Leaf and strings of gamcbirds. "But It wasn't only the business firm that Imported trees to town. People uned to buy tacm tnd set them up in their yards, especially for the Fourth of July. "That was the greatest treat you could give the children. Buy 'cm an evergreen tree Just off the mountains s.nd you'd make em happy for a month. "Why. I've seen two or three cltil- dren trying: to crawl in under a nutc tree not more than there or four fot htsrh that made a patch of shtx-do nbout as big as my hand Kerch i f. Thay hutl all their trucK witn incm nna were pretending to be having: a plcnio. "That was beforu tho street railway company ran out to a placo 'vli-rn there are some real trees mive -nu growing- Since folks can trot out t' the,- trees there they don't sot tip tb cut ones the way they used to- "Put I don't think Vil cv.ir soe a fhrUtmas tree without it en Hint,' 111. the picture of thorio wfl ued to bavfl stloklns up alt over town to fourth Qf July." t-l brute ON TRAITS OF ANIMALS Burroughs Says Tliey Do Not Com mit iStaicicfo or Put. .'p Uluff Oamas. I do not believe that animals ever com mit suicide." says John BurromhB in Outint. "1 do not believe that they have any notions of death, or take any note of time, or ever put up any bluff game, or ever deliberate together, or form lans or forecast tho seaeons. "They way practice deception, as when a bird feigns lameness or paralysis to de- coy you away from her nest, but this, of course, is instinctive and not conscious deception, "There Is at times something that sue- rests co-operation amonr them, u when wolves hunt in relays, as they are said to do, or when they hunt in couples, one en- cagln? the Quarry In front while the other assault it from the rear; or when quail roost upon the sround in a rinaj, their tails tu the center, their heads outward: or, as when cattle or horses form a circle when attacked In the open hy wild beast. the cattle with their heads outward and the horses with tl.er heels. "Ot course an this is instinctive ana not the result of deliberation. The horse al ways turns bis tall to and cows and steers. 11 ly. turn their heads,"