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THE STTXDAY OREGOXIAN. PORTLAND, NOVEMBER 3, 1907. 11 Tb HAVE I DA3;i5 TO GATHER FLOWER5 jVTO THINK, IS.TO WELVE .THEM INTO GAf?LANDJ." :. J- Gift: The Story of b Pagan, by Beatrice Mantle. fl.SO. The Century Company, New Torli City. A new novelist of National reputation has suddenly appeared among the literary stars of the Western skj', as good as any In current literature. Her name? Mrs. Beatrice Mantle, Market street drive near Twentieth street, this city. Her book? "Gret" a story of the Oregon woods, and Incidentally of Portland, Or. It possesses unusual dra ma tic quality, the power to grip and hold, and has caught the true spirit of God's out-of-doors. No more realistic picture cf every-day life in a lumber camp could be Imagined. In three phases It is out of the ordinary In setting, heroine and plot. The authoress Is like a surgeon at i clinic she creates her book-characters and when they hop, skip and live their little day, she remorselessly kills off some of them, remembering only to save enough lives to ensure the continuity of the story. The undertaker is here kept working overtime: Walter Silway, dies from appendicitis. Robert Wynne Start, killed In a fight. Hev. Arthur Mcaslngar, dies from tuber culosis. Major Errol Ludlowe. killed by brigands in Morocco. Gret, is Miss Helen Margaret Silway, daughter of a lumber magnate who operates a camp along the Wlshkak Rlverr-in this state. She bursts on our vision as a wayward, unspanked damsel who Ls a spoilt child of nature, the darling of her father's camp, the owner of an Imperious will, but who loves na ture with the passionate, unblinking adoration of a pagan. She was never in a church and doesn't read books, but curiously enough Is an unconscious poet although she talks In laconic, chopped-ofT sentences. Hot father prefers to live In Portland most of the time, where he maintains questionable relations with a woman, and leaves his wife and two daughters Gret and Eva to live In the lumber camp. Mr. Bilway has long since ceased Ho love her husband and busies herself In her selfsatistled way with her books. Papa Silway is past-master of nagging and criticism during his rare visits home, and adds to surrounding uncongenial con ditions. The Silway lumber camp Is managed by Dick Swinton. Boy-lovers buzz around Gret, and one of them "Robin" Start, because another boy in the vicinity had suddenly been married proposes marriage to Gret, so that she should be in the fashion. Start and Gret secretly journey to Monty vllle. Or., where they are made one by a sleepy Justice of the Peace. Mr. and Mrs. Start enter into a covenant to keep their marriage secret, they afterward go to their separate homes, never live to rether, and look upon each other with aversion. Major Ludlowe comes along In the years that follow, and he and Gret fall In love and are about to be married, when Start informs the Major that Gret la already a married woman. Crash! The Ludlowe alliance is off. At this point, one becomes curious to know what Mrs. Mantle is going to do, to make Gret happy with somebody. Gret looks upon a divorce as "cheap." The reader instinctively fears that Mr. Start la going to meet a violent end. and the guess is correct. Like Robert W. Cham bers In "Ths Younger Set," when it be comes necessary for happiness to blot out a marriage, Mrs. Mantle dodges a divorce ending. Gret and Start meet on the river's brink and when he strikes her, she "returned the blow -with vicious In terest, whereby he struck the boom post a few feet behind him, slid obliquely along it. and vanished into the smooth, dark water." His body was never found. Gret went directly to a dance at the lumber camp. The moBt dramatic moment is the scene where Gret and Major Ludlowe rart as lovers, and this incident shows the girl's strong character. Ludlowe is afterward killed in Morocco,- and Gret ultimately aprees to marry a lover who hitherto has been kept in the background. It wouldn't be fair, for the sale of the book, to say more at this time. U'hn the 403d page Is turned and the reading of the book finished, one feels that Mrs. Mantle has written with the skill and fidelity of one who is a born maker of books. Every note rings true. "Gret" Is really an original novel, and it honors Portland and Oregon. Ancestor,, by. Gertrude. Atlierton.. $1.75. Harper & Bro. Now York City. Mrs. Atherton, by her Independence of mind and incision of phrase, is brought as much into the limelight by these ex pressed views as by her habit of writing readable American novels in which her characters are known as high-steppers. She can be depended upon not to evolve a hero of the horny-handed variety, of a heroine who makes an honorable living by baking doughnuts or washing clothes. The Atherton characters have blood. Ideas, money, and highly-strung tempers. And Mrs. Atnertnn can also be depended UDQfl tp aend out a story calculated to i" I j '.' ?V r ' " . xl - 4 , s.s ..si"-, s ' "V ? , 'v ! '.-Vs -r vV v. - . ' ' ' v rN ' - sr ' 5tST j -SELECTED. . arouse lazy people out of their equanim ity. In writing about highly-bred folks. It is well to remember that ancestors of that type play their part in Mrs. Atherton's own heritage. Her mother was the daugh ter of Stephen Franklin, a descendent of Benjamin Franklin's youngest brother, John, a;id by her marriage to George Henry Bowen Atherton, this brilliant novelist entered another of the distin guished families of California. It is also recalled that Mrs. Atherton's grandfath er, Stephen Franklin Horn, shortly after he settled In California, founded the Golden Era, San Francisco's first -newspaper, and that Mrs. Atherton's first printed story was in the columns of the San Francisco Argonaut. As a native California. Mrs. Atherton Is well quali fied to portray San Francisco life broad ened to Anglo-American vision, as she has done in "Ancestors." She was in San Francisco during the recent earth quake and fire, and without sensational effects she has pictured her thrilling ex periences of that event In this new novel. But it Is not chiefly through Its San Francisco atmosphere that "Ancestors" will be remembered but as a clever piece of fiction dealing with studies of emo tion, temperament, graft and forbidden paths also receive attention. The hero ,is Elton Gwynne, an Eng lish statesman, who happens to be born In the United States but at the supreme moment of his great popular success,- the death of a relative makes him a member of the House of Lords. This, In Eng land, Is fatal to a commoner, and he leaves England and settles in California where he becomes a ranch-owner and Interests himself In American politics. The heroine, Isabel Otis, is his cousin and the owner of a ranch close by, and she and Gwynne become intimate friends. Their love-making Is unique. Talk about Platonic affection: -. But now as he gazed down and over the great, beautiful expanse for even the moun tain side and much beyond was his he fell a sudden passionate gratitude to that Otis whoFe flirt name he had forgotten, pride fairly invaded his chest: then as he realized that It was visibly swelling under Isabel's Intent gase, he blushed, laughed confusedly, turned away his head. But his annoyanca was routed by a speechless amazement, for Isabel suddenly flnug both arms around his neck and gave him a hearty kiss. "There!" she exclaimed. "I never really liked you before, though I never denied you were Interesting enough. Men are nothing but overgrown boys, only some are nice and some are not. Tou are. I'll really adopt you now. Instead of merely doing my bounden duty. Now look at those mountains in the south." More disturbed than he would have be lieved possible at the young warmth and magnetism of her embrace although It was disconcertingly evident that she would have kinsed a small boy in precisely the same manner he composed his features to In difference and followed the motion of her whip. Or this: It had occurred to me that society of any sort had reased. Of the famous Cali fornia hospitality I had seen nothing. A number of men have driven out and called upon me, and I have returned their calls and found their houses very well appoint ed although some members of the family usually answered the bell: and one morning I saw Miss Wheaton sweeping oft the porch, her head tied up in a towel. All I meet appear, to be very cordial and friendly, but I have not been asked, to take so much as a cup of tea in' a house in the county, and I have now been here something Uks five weeks. California hospitality is a mere legend except in Han Franclsoo. In the small com munities it has never existed in my time, although they used to dance a good deal. You will find ilist as much haggling over a five-cent piece here as in any small New England town. These rich men have made their money by hoarding and wary Invest ments, rarely speculating; and that tells Im mensely on the character. I, doubt if the state itself has ever known the meaning of hospitality since the old ranch days. when, of course, it was prodigal. - It Is the Ban Franciscans that have kept the tradition alive; they are as reckless, as extravagant, as royally Indifferent to mere money as in the famous 50s. If you happen to call too close to a meal time in one of these towns, the meal will be postponed until you leave. In Stan Francisco they would give you two thirds of their last cryst. . . . One reason we all love California is be cause we never know what she will do next, and because she is still primeval under this tiiln coat of civilization that is too tight for her. I admire England, but I could not live in it. It Is too peaceful, too done. It is impossible to Imagine any further change, for civilization can go no further. But out here the whole country may stand on its head any day; and we may yet have cities as great as Babylon and Nineveh. It Is safe to guess that San Francisco will receive "Ancestors" with well-mixed feelings. The Harrison Fisher Book, being drawings in colors and black and white. Charles Scrlbner's Bona, New York City. To any person of artistic sense the possession of this splendid book of Har rison Fisher's drawings ought to be the joy of Joys. The pictures are printed on thick, creamy paper, and the general mechanical result Is a fine example of the art preservative. It will awaken a responsive beam in the eyes of even a critical' printer. What are the pictures about? Girls, and then more girls. Then, equally well groomed young; men. of the American type with dogs and horses making up the background. All the persons pic tured seem to belong to the leisure class, the kind one associates with Fifth avenue. New York City, cr an afternoon at a Country Club. The special typesj or girl presented. is the out-door girl, she of the golf links, tennis court, or the cross-country tun with the hounds. A high art authority recently accepted Fisher as the most natural successor In America to Gibson, since the latter went to Europe to devote himself to the study of painting. Fisher's art career dates from the days when he studied- in the San Francisco Art Association, and naturally his admirers on the Pacific Coast are many. The Harrison Fisher book is the highest art star of the year. Human Bullets, by Lieutenant Tadayoshi Sakurai. S1.25. Houghton, Mifflin & Co Boston. Surely at this late day It would seem that the principal events , of the late Russo-Japanese War - have been viewed from nearly every possible standpoint But here comes a soldier's story of the fall of Port Arthur, told in simple, di rect language that awakens instant echo In the hearts of all men with red blood In their veins. , It is noteworthythat the original Jap anese edition of this little book reached Its 41st thousand within a year of Its publication and that translations have been made Into Russian, German and French. The Japanese Emperor Indorsed the book by granting the author a spe cial audience, an honor no other of his rank In the army ever received. Sakurai tells his story from the time he started out from his home to Join the Japanese army at the opening of the war, until he was wounded and left for dead in a furious attack on Port Arthur. What follows is a wonderful revela tion from the Japanese view in regard to patriotism, bravery, ' ancestral wor ship, the hereafter and magnaminity to ward captured enemies Sakurai also tells when, in his fighting, he felt the spirits of dead Japanese heroes fighting with him. . A colored frontispiece, was done by the author with his left hand, after he had lost his right hand In battle. An Intro duction Is given by Count Okuma, the translation Is made by Masujiro Honda, and Alice Mabel Bacon is the editor. Memoirs of an- Arabian Princess, translated by Lionel strackey. Illustrated. $2. SO. Doubleday, Page & Co., of New York CUy. Strange and Intimate revelations con cerning court life in Zanzibar, and Arab life in general. The woman about whom this remarkable tale centers was a real ity. She was Salamah Bint Said, end took the name of Emily when she became a Christian. She was a daughter of Seyyid Said, Sultan of Muscat and Zan zibar, and a sister of Mejid, who suc ceeded to the throne of Zanzibar, and of Bargash, who followed. Her hushand was Ruete, a German trader, she hav ing married him when she escaped from Zanzibar to Aden. The book, of which ' a translation ls- here offered, wajs originally published In Germany In 1SS6 and afterward in Eng land and created a profound Impression because the Princess Salamah did a good deal of intriguing . with notable Germans, Bfsmark, In particular. Rarely has so much Information at first-hand appeared concerning harem-. life, and tne descriptions given or r.asi ernlloister atmosphere possess unusual charm. The Tnie Fatriek Henry, by George Morgan. Illustrated. 2. J. B. Llpplncott Company. Philadelphia. f It must be a comfort to promising youths who are continually being scolded by their ciders, to know that at the age of 15, Patrick Henry, who afterward turned out to be thexgreat est American orator and the burning genius of the Revolution was "a wastrel and an idler, a reputed hater of books and work, a loud-tongued joker at the village tavern, and that he loved Idleness for Its own sake." It's bo in this biography. Mr. Morgan has had access to the accumulated Henry papers of 100 years, including many unused Wirt originals, and has made his hero stand out in the atmosphere of the Revolu tion. Historical matter given is wise ly selected, all calculated to evolve around Henry, the patriot, soldier, and statesman. The book will Interest the student, and general readers as an im portant contribution to Henry litera ture. , ' Th Great Plains, by Randall parrisb. Ilus trated. $1.73. A. C. McClurg & Co., Chi cago, and the J. K. GUI Company, Fort- land. Often he question has been asked tor the benefit of younger readers anxious to better know their country- why has not the romantic history of the Great Plains a vast area of over 600,000 square miles never been con densed along popular lines, within the limits of a single volume? Mr. Parrish is a public benefactor for he has filled up the blank. Texas has not found a place in these pages be cause it is assumed that the Lone Star State Is separated from the country of the - northern plains. The expedition of Lewis and Clark is briefly but skill fully mentioned and the general facts can be relied on for historical accuracy. The word pictures are not dry, but clothed. In language sufficiently Interest ing to awaken lively Interest in pron eer times. The Cosy IJon, by Frances Hodgson Burnett. Illustrated. 60 cents. The Century Com pany, New York City. Of course you have been to a circus and seen lions? But, fancy a Hon that wished to enter society and be known as a "cosy" lion, one that at first longed to eat fat children! That's what this little fairy story is about and to say that it is nice, is but a feeble expression. It is the third of the series of fairy stories which is Mrs. Burnett's latest work for children the series taking its name from Queen Sllverbell, who tells the stories. Mrs. Burnett states that she reformed the lion in this tale, taught him how to behave himself, and inti mates that the grown-up person who reads from this book to children, must know how to roar.- Captain June, by Alice Hegan Rtce. Illus trated. $1. Tba Century Co., New York City. Alice Hegan Rice is best known by her "Mrs. Wlggs" stories, but she was ambitions to write purely for children and "Captain June" is the result. It is deicious, and has that sunny, cheerful spirit that is like a dainty, fra grant flower in a sick-room. Captain June is a little American boy who remains in Japan with his Japanese nurse while his mother is in the Phil ippines nursing the soldier father through a fever. The name, June? It's short for Robert Rogers Royston, Junior. Fresh glimpses of Japanese life and customs are given, in simple fashion. This little book will be a seasonable gift to any boy or girl. School Says: A Memory Book, by Joeephine Bruce. Brentano's, New York City. Arranged and pictured by Josephine Bruce, this exquisite book of 1(5 pages, - each page measuring lli inches by eight inches. Is an art treasure reminding one of one's school-days. There are pages for the record of the principal schooi day events, such as "the first day at school," "kindergarten days," "chums," "mother's notes," "modeling," "excurs ions," "first grade," "lessons in German." "historical places visited," etc. When you are buying Christmas gifts for boys and girls you know who are still at school,' look for this memory book. The lucky Juvenile who gets your present will think of you very kindly In after years. The Lone Star, by Eugene P. Lyle, Jr. Illus trated; $1.50. Doubleday, Page Co., New Yark City. Exciting to t point of patriotic Ore.jLAUken six Xeet four la fels stockings, "J 1n telling how Tom Houston, Jim Bowie, Davy Crockett. Ben Milan, Will Travis, Stephen Austin and others gave Texas her freedom. The tale is in novel fashion and can be commended for boys. It has the good, old-fashioned ring of adventure and is well illustrated. Here is one sample paragraph. The white men numbered exactly eleven and Bowie's nigger Jim, and the 164 Indians screeching like thirsty vampires around them on the prairie, were desirous of an even dozen scalps. But the eleven lone white men beat them off. The Daughter of Anderson Crow, by Georae Barr McCutcheon. Illustrated. (1.50. Dodd. 'Mead A Co.. New York City. It's a far cry from "Beverly of Grau stark" to the uproarious fun of "The Daughter of Anderson Crow," and thlo time Mr. McCutcheon emerges as a hu morist, Anderson Crow himself is town marshal, fire-chief, street commissioner and Pooh-Bah generally of Tlnkletown, at a salary of $300 a year. He Imagines himself to be a born detective, and as he generally guesses wrongly In working out his clues, he ends In laughable disaster. Mr. McCutcheon has tapped a new vein of catchy humor and has written an easily read story remarkable for its In genuity and amusing character studies. The novel Is one laugh. The incident of Rosalie, the foundling girl-baby, is well worked out, and will be the one serious part remembered. Improving Songs for Anxious Children, by John . acd Hue Carpenter. Illustrated. 1.25. A. C. McClurg & Co., Chicago. Happy ought the little children to bo whose homes are made bright by this beautiful gift, in oblong quarto. Big chil dren are warned away its' only for HUle toddlers. The pictures are in color, charmingly done, accompanied with dain ty verse set to music. One of the. beet offerings of the kind seen this season and worth attention from Santa Clans. J. M. Q. IN THE LIBRARY AND WORKSHOP. The postponement Is announced until the early Spring of the publication of "Build ing a Home." by H. W. Desmond, editor of the Architectural Record. A new printing is reported -of 'Dimble and I." by Mabel Barnes-Grundy, author of "Hazel of Heatherland." Mrs. Grundy, who Uvea in Cheshire, In England, la at work on a new book. . Swami Abhedananda, of' the I Vedanta Publication Society, haa'nst returned from England, where he has been establishing a branch of his society in London. He re ports that his mission was successful. Speaker Cannon, of the House of Repre sentatives, Washington, D. C, has written a letter commending Masujl Miyakawa's new book, "Life in Japan." Curiously enough, Mlyakawa was the attorney for the Japanese school children who had been expelled from the public schools of San Francisco. A new edition of "Our- Christmastlde," by Dr. Theodore L. Cuyler, recalls the fact that Dr. Cuyler is not only well, but active, and In spite of his great age of 85 years he still continues to write. Dr. Cuyler has contributed mors than 4000 articles to the religious press. A new volume in the Inns Series will ba Mary Caroline Crawford's "Old New Eng land Inns." Her previous work on "The Romance of Old New England Rooftrees' and "The Romance of 01i New England Churches" ara indication of the experience and knowledge, that she will bring to these latest researches Into our Colonial antiqui ties. . While Samuel M. Crothera has given such wholly entertaining books as "The Gentle Reader" and "The Pardoner's Wallet," he is first and foremost a preacher and religious thinker. "The Making of Religion," Just an nounced, is an exposition of the fundamen tal elements of growth of the religious In stinct of man. with a survey of Its historic origin and the evolutionary development therefrom. Closely following Marion Crawford's latest novel, "Arethusa," which has for scene the Constantinople of the 14th century. will come another story that the Macmillaa Company la announcing for publication next month. It will be called "The Little City of Hope." and It will reveal Mr. Crawford in the somewhat unusual guise of writer of a tale of American life. Its characters mov ing amid the nearby excitements of Con necticut. "The Tides of Spring," by Arthur Upson, a dramatic romance of the coming of Queen Margaret to Scotland in i the 11th 1 century, will be issued early in this month. i ne curious jova siory or Malcolm, son or Shakespeare's Duncan, and Margaret, sister of Edgar Atheling. Is retold by Mr. Upson In vigorous verse. Mr. Upson's "Westwlnd Songs," published with an Introduction by Carmen Bylva, and "Octaves in an Oxford Garden." have already -been Issued in Great Britain. George E.. Woodberry, whose new book, "The Appreciation of Literature," has just been published, issued his first book years ago. A grsduate of Harvard, he was professor of English at the University of Wisconsin, but later became professor of comparative literature at Columbia Uni versity. Mr. Woodberry is the author of 11 works and editor of the complete works of Shelley and Edgar Allen Poe, with Edward C. Stedman, and is now living in Beverly. Mass., engaged in editorial and literary work. The professor of moral philosophy In the University of Glasgow, Henry Jones, Is publishing this Fall a little book called "The Immortality of the 8oul In Tennyson and Browning." This study of the poems of Tennyson and Browning, with reference to the evidence of immortality, seeks to show that, so tar aa -the religious or other conceptions of the poets serve to make the world more intelligible and man's purpose more rational, they share the same right to convince that belongs to the most secure of all human sciences. The new novel by A. E. w. Mason, the author of "Four Feathers," Is to be called "The Broken Road." It will be published about the end of the preeent month. The lnfluence'of the road on the lives of the two men who aro the central figures In the book gives a curious oharacter to the story and an interest of a most unconventional kind. The scene is laid In England at first and then In India, and the story is full of that dramatic interest, that tense and repressed vigor of style of which Mr. Mason showed the beginnings in his earlier books. Alice Williamson writes from her home In England that the stery of the bulltlght Introduced as a main feature In the "Car of Destiny," in which a girl comes into the bull ring to pardon the bull. Is founded on an actual scene which she herself wit nessed while on her 'Spanish tour. Every ten years or so, she states, It is the custom to pardon a bull, on account of its bravery. In the actual case of this kind which she witnessed In Spain, it was- a boy, however, and not a girl, as described in the book, who brought the pardon Into the ring. Early in the new year will be Issued a booklet from the pen of Horace Fletcher, with the suggestive title "Optimism, a Real Remedy." Mr. Fletcher's name and fame make this announcement of peculiar Inter est. Mr. Fletcher has done much to show humankind how to secure rational and pro longed happiness in life. His books on the proper methods of eating have been made the basis of a system known the world over as "Fletcherism," and his entire outlook Is that of practical optimism. There is no doubt that the new book will be eagerly awaited. A new edition from Scrlbner's of Sidney Lanier's poems, "Hymns of the Marshes." is beautifully illustrated by reproductions from photographs of scenes taken especially for the work on the Marshes of Glynn. The photographer spent many days in and around the marshes photographing them ac every hour of the day and in every phase. Some of his most successful wont was done In the neighborhood of Jekyl Island. His views bring vividly before us the inspiration of the poems. The demand for Sidney Lanier's poetry is increasing, and his posi tion as one of the foremost of our American poets is now very secure. e Robert Aitkens' new novel. "The Golden Horseshoe." is nearly ready. Among the writers of rapid romance, with probable exception of Riohard Harding Davis, there are few who have had such an adventurous career as Mr. Aitken. Besides being a com missioned officer In the British army during the Boer War, Mr. Aitken has been Identi fied with two South American revolutions. During his last filibustering expedition, ne J was captured and sentenced to be shot. Ria and Is built in proportion. He is an Eng lishman by birth, but la equally at home in New York, London. Paris and various parts of South America and Africa. He is not the type of man to talk about himself or hi exploit in fact, he Is knowu among his friends as "Silent Aitken." In "The Golden Horseshoe" it's a long distance from the Flatlron building and Madison Square to the tropical republic of San Benito In South America, but Mr. Aitken carries his readers there with a hop. skip and a Jump, and the f.erson who has read the opening page won't et go till he reaohes the end. These books were received from publish ers through the courtesy of the J. K. Gill Co., of this city: "Romeo and Juliet," edit-, ed by Charlotte Porter and Helen A. Clarke: "Alice in Blunderland." by John Kendrick Bangs. "Ted In Mythland." by Hermlne Schwed; "Rainy Day Diversions," by Caro lyn Wells: "First Love and Other Stories," by Ivan Turgenierf; "Emperor and Galilean." by Henrik Ibsen; "For Malsle." by Kath arine Lynan; "The Uprising of the Many," by Charles Edward Russell; "The Lost Princess." by William Frederick Dix. and "Semiramis," by Edward Peple. George W. Cable's great novel. "The Grandissim.es." illustrated by Albert Herter and just published in a new and beautiful edition, tells of the life of the French Creole families In New Orleans, In the early part of the loth century. Mr. Cable. was born In NewOi leans and lived- fn the South until after the Civil tVar and there are few writ ers who can reproduce more perfectly than he does the manners, speech and whole social atmosphere of a remote time and a peculiar people. This story is delightful and there is the same delicious flavor or humor that distinguished "Old Creole Days." ' The articles entitled . "Your Savings." which have been appearing in the Saturday Evening Post, of Philadelphia, have been revised by the author. Isaac F. Marcrosson. and will be brought out in book form next week under the title. "How to Invest Your Savings.", Mr. Marcrosson is the financial editor of the Saturday Evening Post, and writes, among other departments rt that publication, the much-quoted "Wall-Street Men" articles, which appear every third week.- He Is a well-known magazine editor and writer, and before Joining the Post's staff was associate editor of the World's Work. . Increasing interest is being shown in psy chology these days, and there comes to the reviewing desk the November number of La Courrlere, a purification 'devoted to psychic facts, and published monthly at Oakland, Cal. . In one article. "The Nature of Spirit," It is argued that the spiritual world is here, everywhere around and with in the material universe, but that tt requires a spiritual eye to see a spiritual objoct. Another article on Robert G. Ingersoll states that Ingersoll was not an atheist in the true sense of the word, and that he wa a worshiper of the Ood of Love. The little magazine Is well printed and edited, and evidently has a mission. . A book that will set one thinking has been written by Milton Reed, an able Mas sachusetts lawyer, and is published under the name of "The Democratic Ideal." It Is a calm, rational, dispassionate survey of the democratlo method of government, with an indication of those respcls In which the American people are not living up -to their highest principles, but pointing out in a reasonable spirit the simple truths needing recognition to hold us true in onr course of apparently triumphant democ racy. The author idealizes the 'American spirit and American traditions, snd looks beyond the temporary expediencies of over feverish days. e v The first three volumes of the centenary edition of Theodore Parker, to be issued in 16 volumes, and completed by the end of 1909, sire announced for early publication. The titles are: "A Discourse of Matters Pertaining to Religion." "The World of Matter and the Spirit of Man" and "The American Scholar." ' Each volume is care fully edited and accurately annotated by a competent scholar. Some hitherto unpub lished material will be inoluded, and the whole edition will be authentic and defin itive. Some of the volumes will have pho togravure portraits of Parker, and the books themselves will be sold separately previous to the completion of the entire set. Hereafter McClure, Phillips & Co. will be known as the McClure Company, the policy of the new company remaining prac tically unchanged. 8. S. McClure is still president of the book publishing Interests of the Arm. and with him will be associ ated J. W. "Corrlgan, vice-president and gen eral manager; Harold Roberts, treasurer, and O. W. Brady, secretary. As before, also, the magazine Interests will be in the control of the S. S. McClure Company. The McClure Company's Fall list will Include works by C. ,N. and A. L. Williamson, An thory Hope, Myra Kelly, Stewart Edward White, Mary Stewart Cutting, George Mad den Martin, O. Henry, and Ellis Parker Butler. , - "The Crested 6eas." by James B. Con nolly, contains another group of his graphic and always stirring sea stories, of the men and boats that sail from the New England port. His stories are. not all of humorous adventure and reckless daring. There is pathos as well as humor and nerve, and "The Harsh Word," of this new volume, la a worthy companion to "Dory Mates" and "On Georges Shoal." two of the most power ful and dramatio stories that Mr. Connolly has perhaps ever written. There is a true sailor's appreciation for his subject In this new book and an alluring toueh of sym pathy and sentiment In the author's enjoy ment of the sterling characters and vigor ous manhood of his chosen heroes. The publication of Netth Boyce's new novel, "The Bond." has been postponed until January. In a few days the DufTlelda will publish "Painters and Sculptors." a book of art criticism by Kenyon Cox; "Historic Churches of America." by Nellie Urner Wal llngton, with an introduction by Edward Everett Hale; "Plays of Our Forefathers," by Professor Charles Mills Gay ley; "The HolyGrail and other Fragments." by Rich ard Hovey; "Gypsy Verses." by Helen Hay Whitney: an illustrated edition of "Stories From the Old Testament for Children." by Harriet S. Blaine Beale, and "Childhood, ' by Mllllcent and Gltha Sowerby, a volume of verses and pictures by two sisters, whose work has attracted great attention in Eng land. The new edition of George W. Cable's great novel, "The Grandlsslmes," which has Just been published, is Illustrated by Albert Herter In a number of full-page drawings and head-and-tail pieces reproduced in photojrravure. Mr. Herter, is the Berne art ist who illustrated the special edition of "Old Creple Days," published last Kail, and his work in "The GrandlsBlraes" shows the same charm and distinction and helps to make the book one of the most attractive special editions of the year. The author, Mr. Cable, was born In New Orleans and served for a couple of years In a Louisiana cavalry regiment during the Civil 'War and was wounded in a skirmish with the Federal troops. His present home Is in North ampton. Mass. Mies Marlon Cook, of 671 Schuyler street, is busily engaged In getting her new book of sonnets, entitled "Where Flows Hood River," and thinks that the book, which will consist of &7 pages, will be on sale about December 1. The verse Is of su perior, poetlo quality, and describes nearly every mood of life in the picturesque Hood River Valley, and Is brightened by '25 full page Illustrations of half-tones and artlstla pen washes, the latter being executed by Miss Cook. Views of Hood river scenery familiar to most pilgrims give increased in terest to the little book, and on every al ternate page peeps a delicious-looking strawberry of the Hood River variety. "Where Flows Hood River" will be a moat seasonable present to send to "the folks back East." ... A new peelea of "supartnan, beside whose dircot method of attack, the heroine of Bernard Shaw's eml-notorloua play dwindles Into a rather Insipid person, is por trayed In "An Impossible Qlrl," the novel ette, in November Young's Magazine. The theme Is th same reversal of man from the pursuer to the pursued, but there is a breath of freedom about the Girl's plan that dwarfs Mi. Hhaw's Ann into Insignifi cance. The Girl picks out the man she wants to. marry with cool deliberation, then with primitive savagery she proceeds to "bag" him. She has never met him, knows be is engaged to another woman, but trifles like these are not allowed to daunt her. However she scorns the "catty" wiles and begullements of the average woman for her own dare-devil scheming. The novelette Is one long chuckle. - . . The Vniverslty Magarine, published at Montreal, Canada, thus pays its respects "to the American newspaper: "There are signs that the people are tired of the farce, and thax soon the lights will be out and the audience gone home. AU arr passes through this stage. In the early days of the vaude ville - negro and a fiapstick were consid- ment. Toward the finish of the programme uu 8ui "ui rcijo newspaper wHfor Ik t h In at m an in Vi a w.-ia j . . tt vi lt-l IU UI- cern the hopeful end. The reporter of the baseball game continues his buffoonery every morning, la repeating bia Jargon which was already tiresome when Kelly slid and Casey went to the bat. The sport ing editor yet "breezes" his horses, "works'' them "on the flat." or "lifts" them "over the timber' His pugilists are as of old time "gluttons for punishment." and their "blows" will not be "denied." All sensible persons must yearn for the time when the "yellow metal" will have disappeared, when the "fiery element" will be quenched, and the "palatial hostelrles' closed, when the "speckled beauties" will have vanished with the other members of the "finny tribe." and the "kings' of cotton, lumber and wheat will have gone with the "merchant princes" to their own place. These books were received for review through the courtesy of the J. "K. Gill Com pany: "The Domestic Adventurer," by Josephine Daekham Bacon; "Her Prairie Knight," by B.M- Bower; "The Tracks We Tread," by G. B. Lencaster: "The Good Comrade," by Una L. Slltferrad; "Rabelais." by Arthur Tilley; "Home Ufe in AH Lands." by Charles Morris; "The Cosy Lion." by Prances Hodgson Burnett; "The True pat rick Henry," by George Morgan; The Great plains," by Randall Parrish; 'The Lone Star," by Eugene P. Lyle, Jr. ; "Memoirs of an Arabian Princess," translate by Lionel Strachey; "Captain June," by Alice Hegan Rice; "The Daughter of Anderson Crowe," by George Barr McCutcheon; "Gret," by Beatrice Mantle; "The Harrison Fisher Book," and "Human Bullets," by Lieutenant Tadayoshi Sakwlat. "The Romance of the - Old-Fashioned Gentleman," by F. Hopkinson Smith, which has Just been published, la Illustrated in colors by A. I. Keller. The scenes of the story are laia in Maryland and Paris, very familiar ground for Mr. Smith, for he was bom in Baltimore and has lived and studied in Paris. Mr. Smith's home is tiow in New York, but he loves to wander to strange out-of-the-way placee- and has spent a great part of the last few years abroad. Hla trav els have taken him to Asia as well- as Europe, and the result has been some charming stories and pictures of Constan tinople, Venice and other ports and the peo ple who live there. In this new book he has added a new figure to the gallery of notable characters in American fiction, that of an elderly artist of the most charming and ad mirable quality worthy to rank with Colonel Carter. The career of Roy Harriman, whose latest novel, "Lord Cammarlelgh's Secret," has Just been Issued in this cour :ry. possesses many points of eventful Interest. He is the son of a British naval" officer, and his child hood was consequently spent in various parts of the world. At the age of IS. he is said to have written a novel entitled "Co rinne." but has never been able to recover the manuscript from his mother, who con fiscated, it when she discovered its erotto nature. He completed his education in England. -aspired to be an actor, made a failure as a clerk In an office, and then sought his first love, the stage. He at tained considerable success In- the com panies of Forbes Robertson and Mrs. Pat rick Campbell. Of bis previous novels, the most successful Is "Bellamy the Magnifi cent," h la dramatised version of which Sir Charles Wyndham has arranged to produce. Some contemporary criticisms of Cole ridge's "Christabel" may be found In the current Issue of The Periodical, a little magazine of literary marginalia that comes at regular intervals from the Oxford Uni versity press. "Had we not known says a. writer in the- Anti-Jacobin Review of July, 1SHJ. "Mr. Coleridge to be a man of genius and of talents, we should Teally, from tne present production, have been tern u ted to pronounce him wholly destitute of both; Mr. Coleridge might have spared himself the trouble of anticipating the charge of plagiarism or servile imitation' it Is per fectly original composition, and the like of Make Clear the Wanted Position So Clear That BY THOMAS BUCKMAN. In The Oregonlan recently you grave a synopsis of the discourse of the Rev. Benjamin Yeungr, the new minister, at the Taylor-Street Church, in which he took occasion to castigate the infidel and unbeliever, and he says: "If we give up all that is embraced In the Christian faith what shall be the .prac tical results?" The question can well be asked at the present day, what is the Christian faith? To sum it up from his stand point I suppose it would be about this: Man was created good as stated, but he fell, and by that fall he was lost. At length Christ was born, and all who would have faith in him was saved; but those falling- to have tne proper faith were lost; but whether they are now Buffering; the torments of the damned or whether they are Btill lying- In their graves waiting for the day of resur rection is not made perfectly clear. The Seventh-Day Aavent here says: It is perfectly clear, they are all lying in the grave waiting for the call of the trumpet, when they will be called up and judged, and the wicked and the unbeliever will be cast into the fire and burned up like the chaff, and that is the end of them. There is no such a place as hell with Its eternal torments, and never will be. The Catholic says: The teachings of the Holy Church are that the wicked are now in torment; but there is a place called purgatory in which there are many souls that by the lnterces sions of their friends they can be prayed out and thereby escape the place of eternal torment. The good, of course, are enjoying the bliss of heav en. The XJniversalist says: There Is no such place as hell with its torments as pictured by the other churches. "As In Adam all died, so in Christ are all made alive." The Agnostic says he does not know anything about what will be the consequence of death, whether it is final so there is no awak ening, or whether there is a portion which survives the shock and wakes to conscious life again; if tnere is such a part he does not propose to make any statement concerning Jt as he knows nothing whereof to speak., - The Spiritualist says that It is only the physical body that dies, that the real person contlnuea to live, and finds either heaven or hell to live In according to the life they have lived while here. But thoee In hell, or torment of soul, will, after oing through a sufficient refining process, iiavlng the dross of evil eat out by the sharp acids of remorse, so that art ready to make full and compete restitu tion to everybody they may have wronged, they will find the roadway open so they can finally work their way back into the realms of bliss. Last Winter I met some people who called themselves, or more properly their church doctrine, tho "Millennial Dawn." And they had it straight from the Bible that the dead are all in their graves, waiting for the day when the trumpet shall sound, when they all shall be brought up, when the wicked will be given a thousand years to get themselves right, and then those who fall will be cast into the fire and simply burned up like any other useless matter. I do not think that I have placed any of those mentioned in a, wrong j.ght, and their standards of Christian faith would be as far apart as, I have placed thrn. The Spiritualists and the Agnostics would not claim to give a standard of faith from a Chrifftian standpoint; but both stand ready to accept what they believe tcf be the truth, let it come from where it will. The one claims to have testimony suffi cient to establish it as a fact to his mind that we still continue to live after the event of the death of the physical body; while the other says he knows nothing about the matter, and if it is a fact that we continue to live, he does not know it. . Can a person be blamed, after he goes over all these conflicting belief?, if he takes to the woods? I can't blame him. after he has read some of the pages' written in the rocks If he discards the account of the creation as recorded in the book of Genesis; nor can I blame him, after viewing the starry heavens. If he fails to se in the ene who spake unto Mosea the great Infinite power and intelli gence that called into being and controls thla vast universe. I would not wish to say anything against Christian faith. If it means to visit the widowed and the fatherless In their a,fflJctlon, and keep yourself unsp0t-J it is not to be found In the English lan guage." And a month later the British Re view Indulged in even stronger language Toy remarking that "we should not oe mucn surprised If the object of the poet was to make fools of the public. . . i . and If it was really published on the first of the month before the month of May we cannot altogether disapprove of the pleasantry." Another month elapsed and the Edinburgh Review burst forth with this astounding ver dict: 'Upon the whole, we look upon this publication as one of the most notable pieces of impertinence of which the press has lately been guilty.: . . . The thing now before us is utterly destitute of value. It exhibits from beginning to end not a ray of genius; and we defy any man to point out a passage of poetical merit In any of the three pieces which It contains, except, perhaps, the fol lowing lines in page 82, and even these are not very brilliant; nor Is the leading thought original: 'Alas! they had been friends In youth, etc. With this one exception, there la literally not one couplet in the publication before us which would be reckoned poetry, or even sense, were It found in the corner of a newspaper or upon the window of an inn." . Further information regarding the be ginnings of William De Morgan as a writer of novels is vouchsafed In "a. recent number of The Sphere, and the story differs in so many essentials from the tale as originally told that it will bear repeating. It seems that only four years ago Mr., De Morgan was struggling to make a living at the In dustry of tile-making and In which he had grown from youth to middle age. ana time hanging heavily on his hands, he began the first chapter of "Joseph Vance." Circum stances soon compelled him to lay aside the manuscript, and it was not until about two years ago that he was able to resume work upon it in earnest. When completed. It was sent immediately to a publisher, but it was at once returned with the remark that it was too long. "One wonders whether the reader to that publisher actually read the book at all," says the writer in The Sphere. "That seems easiest to believe. Though the writing was clear enough, a manuscript of 200.000 words would not prove exhilarating at the first taste. That the manuscript went back to Its owner at Chelsea must now be giving considerable mental tribulation t one or two gentlemen In the publishing world. The author bethought himself tnat a better effect might be gained by having the manuscript typewritten. He sent it to a firm presided over by a very Intelligent woman. Passing through her office a day or two later this lady found one of the girl typists m tears. A little Inquiry led to the discovery that this critic of the future was weeping over an Incident in 'Joseph Vance.' The lady related this unique experience-m the history of typewriting to a friend, an art publisher, who Is well known to me. He begged that he might be allowed to see the manuscript and read It with zest, for my friend is both a good judge of literature and also of the books that will sell. He csr ried it to Mr. Hclnemann. whose "render made a most eulogistic report, with the re sult that the book was published, and it has been foils wed by another novel at least equally good, 'Alice-for-Short.' " NEW BOOKS RECEIVED. "Her Prairie Knight." by B. M- Bower (Dillingham). "The Good Comrade." by Una L. Silberrad, and "The Tracks We Trad." by G. B. I-ancaster. $1.50 each (Doubleday-Page). "Mountain," by Arthur. Train, and "The Moon," by Garrett V. Serviss, 1.R0 each Appletons). "The Do mestic Adventurers," by Josephine Dask ham Bacon, $1.,V (Scribner's). "Francois Rabelais," by Arthur Tilley. $1.30, and "Home Life In All Lands," bv Charles Morris. $1 (Lippincom. "The Spiritual Prin ciple of the Atonement." by John Scott Lldgett, $1.50; "Tangible Tests tor a Young Mans Faith," by Albert G. Mackinnnn, 75 cents, and "The Tree Pilot," by Bertha Seavey Saunier, $1.25 (Jennings-Graham). Christian Faith Everybody Can Xnderstakid. ted from the world: if It means to feed the hungry and clothe the naked; If it means leading a correct and upright life, and exemplified by working out your be lief in every day practice and doing unto others as yqu would have them do unto you. Such a faith is what the world wants, whether it is entitled Christian faith or not. Btit what we don't want Is a faith that allows one to go into the byways of sin and selfishness, imagining that through the power of their Christian faith they can escape the consequences of their sins. A woman who had great Christian faith, but was noted for her lack of truthfulness when she spoke, and light ness of fingers when there were things within reach that she could carry off, and other traits that were not what they should be, when remonstrated with for her failures in trying to live up to the proper standard, asked in all seriousness, "And what Is the blood for?" If Christian faith will not do the work this woman supposed it would, it Is time the matter was made clear; if Christian faith in the efficacy of the blood to cleanse fro msln will make, the tarnished ' soul as white as snow without further . effort than simply to believe, it 'Is right it should be known. The people of the . world need the instruction. It has been so preached, and thousands have taken advantage of that promise and reveled ' in what they felt to be the pleasures of sin, supposing they could escape the pen- ' altles through their faith, and if such .-, belief is wrong and penalties cannot be . escaped, then their troubles can be laid directly at the door of being falsely taught. What is wanted is a position sufficiently death so that everybody can understand; and when one speaks ot Christian faith the majority of the peo ple can know just what he means. Ashland, Or. Schemes of CoL Clay Continued From Page Jflna. who was a familiar person in literary and artistic society, as it turned out, brought an action against the so-called expert who had declared against the genuine ness of his alleged Rembrandt, and con victed him of the grossest isnorance and misstatement. Then paragraphs got about. The World showed us up in a sarcastic article, and Truth, which has always been terribly severe upon Sir Charles and all the other South Africans, had a pungent get of verses on "High Art In Klmberley." By this means, as we suppose, the affair became known to Colonel Clay himself, for a week or two later my brother-in-law received a cheer ful little note on scented paper from our persistent sharper. It was couched in, these terms: "Oh, you innocent infant! "Bless your Ingenuous little heart! And did it believe, then, it had positively caught the redoubtable Colonel? And had it ready a nice little pinch of salt to put upon his tall? And is it true its in spected name Is Sir Simple Simon? How heartily we have laughed. White Heather and I, at your neat little ruses! It would pay you, - by the way, to take White Heather into your house for six month to instruct you in the agreeable sport of amateur detectives. Your charrqjng naivete quite moves our envy. So you actually imagined a man of my brains would condescend to anything so flat and stale as the silly and threadbare Old Master deception! And this In the 13th century! O, sancta slmpllcltas! When again shall such infantile transparency be mine? When, ah, when? But never mind,, dear friend.- Though you didn't catch me, we shall meet before long at some delightful Phllippi. Yours, with the profoundest respect and gratitude, "ANTON'IO HERRERA. "Otherwise Richard Peploe Brabazon." Charles laid down the letter with a deep drawn sigh. "Say, my boy," he mused aloud, "no fortune on earth not even mine can go on standing it. These perpetual drains begin really to terriiy me. I foresee the end. I shall die in a workhouse. What with the money he robs me of when he is Colonel Clay, and the money I waste upon him when he isn't Colonel Clay, the man is beginning to tell upon my nervous system. I shall withdraw altogether from this worrying life. I shall! retire from a scheming and polluted world to some untainted spot In the fresh, pure mountains." "You must need rest and change," I said "when you talk like that. Let us try the Tyrol." (Copyrlsbt, 1907, by W. O.. Chapman.)