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11 mm THE SUA DAY OKEGONIAN, ; POItTXAND, MARCH : 8, 190S. T7T A TWTn) .ID they Indict any mor of them bankers today?" asked the Home Detective of the St. Reckleaa, 'as he saw the Hotel Clerk glancing over hi ticker tape. "Only two." said .the Hotel Clerk: "a big, 'tuzzy one and a. small, slick Dne. It must have been an off day for the grand jury." "They certainly have been pourin' the hot mucilage Into 'era lately," opined the House Detective. 'They have that," said the Hotel Clrk. . "If got so that a grand Jury counts that day lost whose low, declin ing sun sees no bank president on the run, as the .poet says. Indicting bank ers, Larry, has become the National In door sport of the lower and middle classes. It has taken the place former ly held In the popular affections by the game of pinochle. Seven-up at 5 rente a corner and 10 cents set-back no longer holds the fancy of the com mon people as U once did. Tlte great passion of the Republic is gigging for bank presidents with the deadly three tlned ftsh-spear. Any day now I'll te prepared to receive the news that war rants are out for John D. Rockefeller, alias John Dough, alias the University Ute, alias the Man Higher Up, and his two fellow-malefactors, Thomas For tune Ryan, commonly known ta the Virginia Creeper, and J. Pierp. Morgan, the notorious head of the Wall-Street Blackhand, on the charge of knowing ly having cash money In their posses sion. "'Twas not like this in the days when we were investigating the old b in' insurance companies, Larry. The lower orders In this country hadn't lost the proper respect for great riches and social prominence - then. When word was brought to the grand jury that the McCurdle and tho McGalls and the Snydes had been handing the nollcy. holders a few clandestine wal lops on the point of the assets or foul ing them below the surplus, the fore man of that august body would say, in a grieved tone of voice: 'Gentlemen, such things cannot be. . The oldest daughter of the McCurdles married a i'ountx The Snydes occupy one of the handsomest homes on Upper Fifth ave rnue. I myself have the honor of a peakins acquaintance with old Mr. McGall'a youngest son. Pe.rclval Mike, a lovely young fellow' who plays polo divinely and is received into the best set in Newport. To Iridict such men as theso would be to crack a blow at our "D "It is faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes Oliver Wendell Holmes - if A - :.;r JP it? 1 r $ 1 : :iy J5 4 - . v I' tfth Walt IVhJ.mnt. in Cimdfn. By Hor se. TrvuhI. Volume It. price, $3. IIIub t rated, u. Apploton t Co., jew Tork Sinr th Ilr.t volume of Mr. TrRuhel'a bipsrnpliy of the "gtmd, srroy poet" was tNstiffi. there b twakenM a keen desire for more.of these delightful, go&sipy paRPa. It in not tor much to say tht these volmnee are welcomed with koen appreciative Interest as occupying fore most plac In current American literary olograph.. This volume tella of llttlo more than three month of tha poet's life, from July 1. 1SS8, to October 31. 1SSS. The period upoken of waa Wiittman'a physically del icate days, the days when he, ailing, spent h j;ood deal of his time In bed. cheered by his .faithful friend , Trnubel'e lovins rare. It should be explained that the. ramdrn referred to is the pretty little New Jersey town of that name the home of Whitman and just over the Delaware River from Philadelphia. As In the first volume, much space In this one la devoted to 'Whitman's conversations with Trau bel concerning the events of the day, but principally about literature. letters from celebrated men are intro duced and facsimiles are given of orig inal copies of several of Whitman's better-known poems. For instance, the first draft manuscript of one verse of Whit man's "My Captain" shows that in tho famous tine commencing-: "Oh, captain, deureat captain, pet up and hear the bells." in the original the phrase first decided on was "wake" Instead of "jret." The second line of this verse originally read "Wake up and see the shining sun. but it was afterward altered to "(.Jet up and see the flying; tings There's a your? American poet I know he lives in Boston w ho so rapidly writes verse for newspapers and magazines that his newspaper "copy" rarely haa one al teration and his usual exclamation on an occasion of composition: "Here Is a little thing- 1 have just thrown off." How dif ferent with Walt Whitman! This book shows that his verse was written In an aulsh, aelf-eearehing, hesitancy, and may be tears! Kor instance, opposite page 136 Is Riven a facsimile of the original man uarript of Whitman's poem. "The Sobbing of the Hells. and the writing has. been so often changed by words scored out ajid most sacred Institutions, ' such as the Millionaires' Club, and Meadow brook aunt. I move, therefore, that the incident be closed.' "And it was closed, Larry. But what a difference three short years have worked. Money in large chunks now faila to in spire reverence. Side-whiskers and a white piijue vest on week-days are no longer things to conjure with. By, tho time O'Rohrer, the Irish god of day, has reddened the Jocund East, the grand Jury or 1 . 1 H a life worth looking at 4 - $ t it.? i 'ii V 4 v V- ft 8 ... . T:?it." ie. '. others substituted, that probably none but a printer could decipher the meaning. The relations between Whitman and hi biographer were friendly to the point of extreme intimacy and mutual confidence. When Traubel left the poet's house, he often bent and kissed him. On page 332 It Is written: "I kissed W. as I left. He seemed very grave. 'Some kiss some day (maybe some day when we both least ex pect it) will be a last kiss. Good-bye Oood'bye. Ood blewi you. " The friendly kiss appears again, even as the book closes: "I gascd at W. His face shone he regarded me with great love. I kissed him good .night and withdrew. 'Good night, he called after me." This was at the close of a memorable conversation on science and religion: The whol mass of people are being leav ened by . . . this spirit of sclentino worship this noblest of religions coming after ail the religions that came before. After culture has said Its last say, we. r.nd j inat tne oest things yet remain to be said: that the heart is still listening to have heart things ald to n the brain still llmtenlnfr to have brain thins said to It the faith, the spirit, the soul of man wait ing to have such things of faith, spirit, the toul. said to It Books won't say what we must have ald: try all that books may. they can't say it. The utmost pride goes with the utmost resignation; science says to u be ready to say "Yea" whatever hap pens; whatever doesn't happen: "Yes, yes, yes." That's where science becomes religion where the new spirit utters the highest truth makes the last demonstration of faith; looks the universe full In the face lis bad In the face. Its good and says "Tea" to It. In speaking of Joaquin Miller, Whit man asked: "Can you read Miller's let ter? I always have trouble with his handwritiig. In this letetr referred to, dated April 16, 1576, Joaquin .Miller writes: Of course, it is idle for me to congratulate you on your accession to immortality and your well-deserved re nown. I will only say that my soul and my sympathy all go out towards you, and I often think of you as tiie one lone tree that tops ua all, battered by storm and blown, but still holding your place, serene and satisfied. . . . Good-bye and the gods be with you. Whitman must have had some strange visitors among newspaper people. It is related that he once had a call from l 4 " -sNsI foreman is up In his pajamas and down at the front door to get the morning paper, and see what bank presidents are being prominently mentioned on the front page. After which he reads a chapter from his favorite author, Tom Lawson, and 9 o'clock finds him at the Courthouse with his work for the day cut out for him. They're hard at It indicting bank presidents In alphabetical order when up rises a grand juror who In his private capacity runs a delicatessen emporium In Richard Harding Davis, then a reporter on the Philadelphia Press, and it is added "So you say that was the son of Rebecca Harding Davis? I thought him an Irish boy: I like him he was so candid, so interesting. Such tall, wholesome-looking fellows are rare among American youngsters. ... I have had some tough experiences with reporters and illustrators." ' The poet did not believe in the restric tion of immigration. Of course, he was not practical - in this, but his opinion was: "America must welcome all Chi . nese, Irish, German, pauper or not, crim inal or not all, all, without exceptions, because an asylum for all who choose to come. We may have drifted away from this principle temporarily, but time will bring us back." Ah me! times have changed since those days of 1888, when Whitman uttered these words he spoke as a poet and dreamer and didn't know. When asked why he didn't fight in the Civil War, Whitman said: "I had my temptations, but they were not strong enough, to tempt. I could 1 never think of myself as firing a gain or drawing a sword on another man." W7hatman .mod estly did not relate his self-denying la bors during the Civil War when he. was a guardian angel in "Washington, T. C.f hospitals, ministering to the wounded. As to Robert G- Ingrersoll, Whitman said "Ingersoll certainly has what I would call a gpnius for making; a speech. All his funeral addresses are marvels of beauty: siiort, musical, rich In cadence, pithy, never too much, never too little: and the best part of Inger boII is, I don't think anybody ever loses interest in him who hears him speak ever goes to sleerj ever goes wool gathering to other scenes in his pres ence." Of Charles Dana, the great editor of the New Tork Sun, newspaper, Whit man gives this estimate: . ' In talking the other day about great editors, 1 for got to speak of one man who Is maybe the greatest of all and who Is besides my dear friend. I mean Dana Charles Dana. Dana's Sun (nwspaper) has al ways stuck to it that Walt Whitman" is some pumpkins, no matter what the scorner said. I don't say that Dana Is greatest of all but I put in my vote for him as a tremendous force. Dana has a hissing, hating side, that I don't like at all it g-oes against -my grain but It is not the chief thing; in the man, and' when his total is made up, cuts only a small figure." High tariff met with Whitman's ridi cule. Whitman's opinion was: "I hate the bigotry of the high tariflfites. Even Blaine, I notice, thinks that revenue reformer is in English pay or says he thinks so: is a foe to the Republic a willful marplot bent upon the enslave ment of labor. Charles Emory Smith I the editor of the Philadelphia Press a protectionist newspaper) might be a king among- asses, but among philos ophers well, I wouldn't like to say what he wo,uld be among philosophers." Among: letters In this volume are those from Henry M. Alden, John Bur roughs, Moncure D. Conway, Richard Watson Gilder, Lord Houghton, G. C. Macaulay, John Boyle O'Reilly, James Redpath, "Whitelaw Reid. William M. Rosetti, Elliott F.- Shepard, Edmund Clarence Stedman. Major-General Sum ner, John Adding ton Symonds, Oscar Wilde, etc. Like a warning appears this message, as a frontispiece, from Whitman to his biographer: It won't be long, and I will be dead and gone; theji they will hale you Into court put you into the witness-box ply you with questions try to mix you up with ques tions; this Walt Whitman this scamp poet, this arch-pretender what did you make him out to be? And you will have to an- swer-mand be sure you answer honest, so help you God! You'll be speaking of me many times after I am dead; do not be afraid to tell the truth any ort of truth, sood or bad. for or against. Only, be afraid not to tell .the truth. Come and Fled Me. By Elisabeth Robins. Illustrated. Price, $1.50. The Century Company, New Tork City. Before she made her reputation as a novelist. Miss Elisabeth Robins was rec ognized as a talented actress who had played In this country with Edwin Booth and had been known in England as one of the best Interpreters of Ibsen's women on the stage. But It was written In the stars that literature, asd especially story-telling, would ultimately claim Miss Robins. Under the nom-de-plume of C. E. Rai mond, she published three novels and in the year 189S Issued her first literary suc cess, "The Open Question," which was followed by "The Magnetic North," a novel of adventure and filled with por traits she met with when she resided in the Arctic circle. Miss Robins is an American, having been born at Louisville, Ky., and educated in Zanesvllle, Ohio. While quite young, she was married to George Richmond Parkes. an actor of note who died several years ago. The authoress, however, pre fers to be known by her maiden name. Miss Elizabeth Robins. "Come and Find Me." with illustrations' by E. -L- Blumenschoin, would appear to West Two Hundred , and Eighty-First street, " 'My fellow members, says this Juror, 'I feel very keenly about this matter: I have J18.94 tied up In the Solider-Than-Gibraltar Savings Institution, which closed the other day with a loud crash and which is going to pay out 3 per cent on the dollar If we're lucky. I move you that we In4ict the whole lot of them in a lump." Everybody votes 'aye' and the jurors go home to dinner with the feeling be a sentimental girl's yearning cry for her. lover, but on reading 1531 pages one disenvers that it is the challenge of the undiscovered country around the Korth Pole, to the explorer. The novel is also a temperamental siudy of two love stories, those of Harriet HUdegarde Mar and Louis Cheviot, and Belle Wayne and John Galbraith. It begins in California and aurges around Nome and other portions of the Far North during the recent dis covery of gold deposits there. Consider able skill is shown in weaving the Inci dents together and a strong dominating interest carries the reader along. Heart interest and lively character building are met with, and the scenes describing primal Nome life are splendidly construct ed for a woman. Jack London and Rex Beach-couldn't do any better. A morbid note ushers in th tale, when Nathaniel Mar, the gray-haired bank teller of Valdfvia, Cal., appears-. His wife is a shrew and he Is a drudge so much so that It is surprising to learn that he had once been an Intrepid Arctic explorer who possessed the secret relating to the loca tion of a gold mine at Polaris, on the Bay of Golovin. Mrs. Mar had an indulgent contempt for her husband and! she smiled at "the inveterate childishness of the lords of creation." The school-period life of her daughter and Miss Wayne is de lightfully natural and is amusingly told. John Galbraith, Arctic explorer, is a hero in both girls' eyes, and each one loves him. Miss Wayne and he are about to marry when an Arctic fever to roam seizes him and he passes out of the girl's life forever. The real story of the far North begins when Nathaniel Mar, discharged from his bank position because he is- too elderly, roes Via Nome to find tho mA riorwialt Via knows exists A Polaris. Hl h&Khline ' tongue enables other adventurers to lo cate the claim ahead of 4iim and "prove" on it before he arrives, with the result that the strangers become millionaires. The first rush from Seattle wharves to Nome is tiescrlbed In the 14th chapter and forms live reading. I would quote page 247 to show a bustling scene at a Seattle wharf, in the bustling period referred to, but presume that such atmosphere is too well known around Portland. Rascals, thieves and "grafters" en route to Nome and at that place, are boldly dfr awn al most with masculine severity. - Such expressions as these, strike one: She bad found out one thing on the threshold of the journey; It is the fear felt for u by the men who love us that, makes cowards of womankind; It Is their shrink ing that goes far to make us quail. It Is not all lorn to be 'unable to run from danger. You gain a curious new sense of the inevitableness that lies at the roots of life a sense wiotbered In the cities and forgotten In the towns. And this calm that walks the perilous places of our earth with Its front of untroubled dignity and Its steadfast eyes this gain among many losses was not denied the girl faring North for knowledge and for old devotion's sake. "You can't, be at the head of things and not be lonely.' "Men's lives are so hidden from girls. How la it possible for us to knqw them? We never see them doing things that are worth -while.. We haven't a notion what they're like when they are at work." "The great bond between him and me was that we both bad . that pasplon for the Xorth that is like nothing else en earth in the way of land love. Talk of the SouthJ A man loves the South as1 he loves a soft bed. and the warm corner by the fire, but he loves the North as be loves his prey." -"Tou can read the kind of thing we went through In any Arctic book. You can read it all and then -know nothing about It. We did impossible things things any man will say he can't do. And then he dees them because he must, and because human endurance Is the one miracle left in the 'world." "It almost seems as If nothing In the world-scheme were so precious as suffering. Men feel that when they recall their early hardship. Dimly they see that nothing thej-'ve found later was of euch "value to them. Yes yes beside the days of the struggle, the days of the harvest are dull. "The gain to science Is -the by-product. The true gain is to the human soul." "There's - nothing like that wonderful north light for makins- you see truly.", "When you think what a miracle It Is to find the right one in the maze, how Is it that we ever let the right one go? . . . I wonder we don't watch at the gate of the Beloved from dawn till night, wait in till he cornea I wonder be doesn't lie all night at her door, for fear In at dream she may steal away." r Tjove makes you think you've got wind mills shut up inside you. Men are all babies, and if women didn't look after them they'd be dead babies. . Only once does Miss Robins disappoint. She leads us to the desolate shore In the far North, where John Galbraith, Arctic explorer, lies dying from exposure and want of food, only attended by a dog. He had reached the North Pole, and the read er naturally looks for a graphic descrip tion of that hungry-for-a-notlce spot But, no. Miss Mar. who by this time is be trothed to Cheviot, providentially comes across the dying Galbraith In the latters hut, and he gives her a drawing purport ing to be a description of the North Pole country, as he -saw it. His concluding message: That's what I found. Instead of the pa laeocrystlc sea. Here is where the lce-hl!ls rise. There'd been p. torm. The kw dou3 massea they were incredible. And the zenith clear, except for- the banners of lifrht." The colored crayon was both marred and battered. For the picture brought out of men who have done their duty and en Joyed themselves while doing It. -. -i " "Up until a few months ago any banker could, go to Europe with impunity and come back again wir even greater Im punity. But now as soon as he clears Sandy Hook on the way out, the grand Jury begins taking notice of him. On his return he is met at Quarantine by an en thusiastic party composed of Deputy Sheriffs. county detectives, ' police sergeants, blacksmiths carrying handcuffs that-almost religious conviction of the truth that great art gives. The dome of the sky I op yonder was an inverted bowl of brass. And in the heavenward hollow of it a giant brood of serpents flamed and wrlthta" -above a wild, white waste, warmed here with violet, cooled there with silver and pearl. Tes, Miss Robins. Your "Come .and Find Me" just reached the threshold of being a North Pole novel. .; Mexico, With Comparisons and Conclusions, by A A. Graham, si. Crane & Co.. To peka, Kan. Proceeding along descriptive, industrial, commercial, religious, political and social lines, Mr. Graham, who is a lawyer at Topeka, Kan., has written a book marked by critical and discriminating and yet not unkindly comment directed toward Mexico. He saye that he was in -Mexico for about- two months during the early ; portion -of the year 1907, and certainly, made good use of the time at his dts- j poaal. His comparisons, mostly with this country, - are most thoughtful ones, and are worth reading. Sometimes he uses sentences of unnecessary length; for in- stance the one at the bead of page 276, but this doesn't often happen. He is of j opinion that after the death of Presl- j dent Diaz rebellion In . Mexico will j follow, ultimately bringing Intervention in Its wake. An Introductory Coarse in Exposition, by Frances M. Perry. $1. 'The American Book Co., New York City. The author of this book Js Instructor In English- m Wellesley College, Mass., and the student by an application of the principles herein taught, cannot fall , to understand what Is meant by literary ex pression. This definition of "Exposition". Is given: "It is admitted to be the most generally used form of discourse, and further, to be that form of discourse whose successful practice requires no special aptitude, as do description and narration. It - has an assumed place in every high school or college composition course." The Pendleton Twins, by' V- M. Jamison. 41-25. Illustrated. Jennings & Graham, Cincinnati, Ohio. . "The Pendletons" and "Peggy Pen eton" are already known to be fa vorite books for children, of the safe and healthful brand. The Pendletone are a -family of lucky English boys and girls who live a life of frolic, and "The Pendleton Twins" tells more about them. The book is as gdod as its predecessors, and Is well fitted to please its audience. Bridgets tow, by Rev. Mark Guy Pearse. $1. Jennings & Graham. Cincinnati. O. Twenty-four chapters of an excellent hovel relating the quiet chronicles- of a Cornish parish, somewhat after the style of Ian Maclaren in his Scotch parish. "Brtdgetstow' has lovable characters and breathes a quaint philosophy that Is filled with humor and pathos., yet has the atmosphere of out-of-doors and the roar of the ocean dashing on the cliffs. Some Recent Phase of German Theology, by John L Nuelsen. 75 cents. Jennings "& Graham. Cincinnati. O. Dr. Nuelsen is professor in Nast Theo logical Seminary, Berea, O., and these three lectures "Bihjllcal Studies," "The Person and Work of Jesus Christ" and "The So-Called Modern Positive School of Theology,' were delivered at the Bible Institute, Lakeside, O., In August, 1907. Valuable from a critical standpoint. The Hemlock Avenue Mystery, by Roman Doubiedey. Illustrated. Little. Brown & Co.. Boston, What may be termed a "lawyer" novel, with a puzzlipg element of mystery in It affecting the sudden death of a promi nent lawyer and the chance that another member of the bar might be the guilty man. The ' story compels Interest, leavened as It is with" a love of the silver-lining kind. Hoyle'e Standard Gam(. Illustrated. 75 cents. Laird as Lee, Chicago, III. A new, revised .edition of a famous book adapted to present usages and up-to-date methods. Bridge-whist, "500," fan-tan, solo, hearts and different card tricks are placed in the lamplight. There are 349 pages, with a valuable cross index. J. M. QUENTIN. IX LIBRARY AND WORSHOP. The eighth impression of Mary Caroline Crawford's "Romance of Old New England Rooftreea" Is now In press, - V Ten of Mlas Alcotfa most inspiring short stories are contained in the Louisa M. Alcott Reader, Juat Issued for suppmen tary use In the fourth school year, by Boa ton publishers. - "A Bank' Clerk's Tale," by Chauncey Thomas, lately of this city, is the title of a readable story In McClure's for March of a sensational bank theft. The tale 4b very well told and pulse with a thrilling object lesaon. New Macmlllan book : "Flower o the Orange," by Agnes and Egerton Castle: "The Golden Hynde, and Other Poems," by Alfred and leg-Irons, lawyers. Assistant District Attorneys, United States Marshals, re porters, special writers, lady Journalists, photographers, sketch artists, criminolo gists and cltlzens-at-large. After he has been properly chained by the wrtets and ankles and accurately measured for the Rogues' Gallery the newspaper men are permitted to ask him to explain how It happened 'that the great Institution over which he lately presided had Jll In assets and Hl.QOO.'OPO In liabilities. 'Gentlemen,' Koyes; "The Interpretation of the Bible." Professor Georse Holley Gilbert; "A Short History of Architecture: Europe," bv Rus sell sturgis; and "The Animal Mind." by Margaret Floy Washburn. . Clement 8horter-s "Charlotte Bronte and Her Circle," is now out of print, after a prosperous career, and he Intends to juper sede it by a larger work, containing much new material with the old. It will be called "The Brontes: Life and t Letters," and will extend to two volumes. Fifty-eight of Bacon's Essays" are in cluded by Mary Augusta Scott, professor of the. English language and literature in Smith College, in a new edition issued for school use. To them she prefixes a lengthy biographical introduction and appends at the bottom of each page a series of foot notes that will help the student over many stumbling blocks. i - ' . "The Mother of California." by Arthur Walbridge North, being an historical sketch of Baja California from the days of Cortes to tho present time, depicting the ancient missions, the mines and the physical, so cial and political aspects of the country, la promised soon. The work will be illus trated by 32 photographs of scenes and per sons and will furthermore contain the mosi accurate and only complete mas of the country ever made. , Next month there .will be brought out a "Life of Alice Freeman Palmer," by her husband, professor George Herbert Palmer, of Harvard University. As Mrs. Palmer was president of. Wellesley College and ac tive In many educational Interests of her time, and as Professor Palmer Is himself one of the leading philosophers and edu cators of the country, the biography will have a double interest, both because of its subject and its writer. After "Broke of Co vend en," that remark able novel herewith J. C. Snaith awoke the world to his existence - three or four years ago, came "Henry Northcote." not so notable a work of fiction, but no less significant In It revelation of Its author's vivid Ihfagfnatlon and technical sklU. Now that there will soon be Issued Mr. Smith's "William Jordan, Jr.," a narrative of tha life of a poet and recluse whd is thrown, airainst his will, into the turmoil of Lon don commercialism. ' ' Chnrlea Whibley haa been Instructed by the Duke of Rutland with the task of writing a life of his father, the seventh duke, better known In British politics as Lord John Manners. Mr. Whibley will be obliged if anyone possessing letters or other documents that throw light upon the biog raphy would send them to him, eare of his publishers. the Black-woods, 4 George street. Edinburgh, Scotland. Letters for warded will be carefully preserved and re turned with as little delay as possible. For "Middlemareh" Georre Eliot got 40.- 000 and for "Romola" 835.000: Macaulay's history brought the' author $100,000 during Its first ten weeks' sale; Emlle Rlehebourg used to get $20,000 each for his novel be fore they apneerpd in. book form; Scott earned from f SO.OOO to 75.Of0 a year by his pen for several years, and for 11 novels and nine volumes of tales he received J550.OAO; o-orsre Ohnet received 810.000 fo- "The Forge Masfer" as a novel. And $15,000 from It a a play In the first three months. Out of the play ha made more than $30,000. . ' Students and teachers of comparative pny ehology have long felt the need for a text book summing up the remarkable achieve ments of Investlirators in this field. The need seems altogether likely to be met by a reeentlv published book entitled "The Animal Mind." 'the author of whh Is Dr. Margaret Floy Washburn, instructor in psy chology. Briefly, this book presents tha prin ciples, methods, and materials of the scl ence of animal mind. As the author states In the nreface. the title mlffht even have been "Tha Animal Mind as Deduced from Experimental Evidence," for Its chief aim Is to exhibit the facts unon which com parative psychology rests. , " The scheme of Jack London's new story, "The Iron Heel." is incenious. The narra tive ,ie supposed to be contained In a manu script written by the wife of Ernest Ever hard, one of the leaders of the Social Revo lution. It differs from "Looking Backward" and" other books of that character In that the events narrated begin practically In the present, and the history never loses touch with present conditions.- In fact, it la the very reverse of the usual Utopian story, for while the final conquest of social ideals is clearly indicated- the story deals directly with tha present system In an Intensified foVm, and ftops before ever the remedy haa been applied. "The Iron Heel" la not merely a Socialist tract. It Is emphatically a story of character and adventure. Ernest Ever hard 1s ono of the most genuine personages London has ever created. It may be there are some autobiographical touches In the character: at least Everhard's life reminds one of the author's In being packed full of movement and adventure. Professor George Holley Gilbert's 'Inter pretation of the Bible," just published, seeks to enhance the practical value of the Bible by promoting Intelligent Interpretation of It. Specifically. It Is a study of the In terpretative methods of the past and the dominant method of the present. This study covers the earliest rabbinic interpretation of the Old Testament and Its interpretation by Phllo: then its use by Jesus, which the author retards as of fundamental signifi cance, though Quite neglected In the past, and Its use by the New Testament writer: the interpretation of early Christian writers from Clement of Rome to Irenaeus; then the Alexandrian and Syrian types of exe gesis; mediaeval interpretation; interpreta tion a practiced by the Reformers; Interpre tation In the 17th and ISth centuries; and finally the treat movement toward a more scientific Interpretation which has marked .says the prisoner, making vain efforts t cross tus legs and put his hands In hto pockets, 'Gentlemen, the whole blame for this lamentable condition of affairs rests with th President of this country, t refer to the creature, Roosevelt.' There's great feeling against Roosevelt,- Larry, among both the bankers who are out on bail and those who haven't been In dicted yetj . "The outburst of applause which fol lows the mention of bis name at a ban quet of the Bankers' Association 'sounds like somebody passing under the lnfluenca of chloroform. You'd be astonished to see how many teetotalers are present when they drink- the toast to the Presi dent at a social gathering of New York financiers. "A bank, Larry, Is something like a lady. It's above suspicion until somebody whispers a word against It and in 43 hours its reputation is as full of holes as the back end of a shooting gallery on a Saturday night. We gaze with -undisguised awe on the noble edifice, with Its marble pillars and Its tesselated floors and Its night-watchman dressed In the full dress uniform of a Brazilian general and carrying in his hands a mother-of-pearl dingus with which to slay th errant cockroach that skims athwart the onyx wainscoting. We contemplate humbly a receiving teller who Insults us when he takes our maney away from us and wa bow before a payer who swears at us when we want "to draw some of it out. We peer longingly through' the gratings of the gilded cage where they keep that frequent bird of passage, the cashier, and feast our eyes upon those rare old mas ters, the -pictures on the hundred-dollar certificates. We see small but haughty messenger boys darting hither, thither and yon with king's ransoms in their careless young hands. We catch the sound as tha porter shovels coin into the vaults down stairs with the abandon of a Janitor stoking- an anthracite stove. And we say to one another. This institution is one of the few things which no storm can shake.' But tomorrow morning before breakfast somebody starts a report that the presi dent has been detected In the ur.t nf sell ing off his automobiles and by noon the front doors are closed and some 9000 de positors are banked on the sidewalk in, front with their bank books clutched in their hands, qualifying for aottve member ship in .the I-suspected-ll-all-along Club and looking for a chance to lynch the di rectors." ."I guess mebbe this bankin' business is a kind of give and take game, anyway,' said the House Detective. "Yes, but when the depositor does all the giving and the bank does all the tak ing it loses its charm," said the Hotel Clerk. the past 60 years. The book gives Illustra tions from earlier writings, with critical comments thereon, and is fully though not blindly in sympathy with what la knows as "modernism' in Interpretation. T4ie Love Sonnets of a Car Conductor. by Wallace Irwin, with a harmless and in structive introduction by Wolfgang Coper nicus Addleburger, professor of literary bl products. University of Monte Carlo, is to be published shortly. The author's The Love Sonnets of a Hoodlum," though first issued a number of years ago, has not by any means been forgotten, a new edition having been printed during the present Winter. By many this volume was looked upon as a clover literary eccentricity, but the discerning soon saw the serious pur pose under the Jest. One college professor at least used It in his classes as an exam ple of the perfect sonnet form. The new volume therefore will find a public Interest ready and waiting;. For early publication is announced a volume by Cora Brown Potter on the sub jects of "Health" and "Beauty" that prom ises to be of considerable and permanent worth because of its practical common sense viewpoint. During the author's stage experiences and extended travels In all parts of the world she gathered a collec tion of valuable prescriptions and practices remcing- 10 tnese subjects. Tnese are to be presented In the - forthcoming volume, to gether with suggestions for the right care of the person, prefaced with a personal in- iiuuuuuuu. a no voiume is to De issued, under the title of "The Secrets of Beauty and Mysteries of Health," and Is to be illus trated with a series of photorraDha of the i author in various prominent drama tip- char-. e " Russell Sturgia, whose writings on archi tecture have given him a commanding po sition among Irving authorities on this sub ject. Is the author of a book entitled "A Short History of Architecture: Europe." which has Just been Issued. It Is intended both as a textbook and for the general reader, and contains all that- the general student need learn of architecture othet than that of Oriental and prehistoric races. The author traces the origin and growth ol European architecture in the Mediterranean lanas, ana later in tne countries now called. France, Belgium, the Rhinelaiafl and Eng- land, as well as In Italy and Spain. Accord ing to Mr. Sturgia the architecture of the European world is that of the Roman Em pire, as it was first from -0 to 400 A. D. : then from 400 to 11U0; then from 1180 Te 1420; and finally during the years of what we call Renaissance and Decadence, rebirtn and decay the years of the Keoclassia epoch. 1420 to 1739. ' . A new volume of poems by that brilliant young Englishman, Alfred Koyes, is a liter ary event of some imoortance. - The vol ume which has just appeared Is the third ot his to reach the American public. The former two have created the impression that he is on the whole the most important of the younger lyrical and narrative noeta of England. "The Golden Hynde. and Other Poems,' is not only entirely new to Amer ican readers, but contains, along with some poems that have appeared in English maga zines, a considerable amount of work that has never before been In orlnr. The flrnt poem in the book is one of 'Noyes' stirring ballads, in a style which he has caught more perfectly, than any other poet since Tennyson. Indeed, though Noyes Is by no means an echoer of Tennyson's music the scope of the collection and the nature of the subjects treated recall certain volumes of the late laureate. . . . Introducing a new edition of Jane Aus ten's ''Emma," E. V. Lucas, writes: "It would," he say's, "be found by any collec tor of the opinions of the best critics that -'Emma' is considered to be Miss Austen's best novel. What 'David Copperfield is to Dickens, and "The Egotist' to Mr. Mere dith, so Is 'Emma' to Miss Austen her ripest and her richest. Emma Woodhouse Is her most complete character study, and among all her heroines the one, which prob ably contains most points of resemblance to the girl reader. To contain points of resemblance to the reader is the duty of the great figures in analytical fiction, par ticularly when that fiction belongs to com edy. Indeed, In the multitude of such re semblances resides much of their greatness. Juat as Turgenef descried in all men some thing either of Hamlet or of Don Quixote, so might a similar investigator discern In all women something of Emma Woodbouse, and, say, of Letitla and Dale. But with the merit of Miss Austen'a great novel I am not here concerned. They will be patent to the reader, before whom a very delicloua banquet is spread; and, indeed, to praise It now would be an offense. I content myself with calling it the most readable-agaln book I know." NEW BOOKS RECEIVED. r "Christianity Ui Japan, by Bishop Marrl xnan C. Harris, 35 cents (Jennings-Graham)-Elementary Algebra, by Frederick H. Somerville. $4. and Reader of French pro nunciation, by Julius Tuckerman. 50 cents American Book Co.). The Reaolna. bv Marv Imlav Taylor (Lit tle. Brown A Co.). A Bunch of Limericks, compiled by Ralph A. Lyon. lO cents (J. S. Qgilvte Pub. Co.). The Pacific Monthly for March never had a more varied, better bill of literary fare. And the cover, picturing a Chinese mer chant adding up figures, amid a wealth of warm color, stimulates curiosity to sample the wares within. "Lot-gins: Scenes in the California Redwoods" opens the magazine attractions, followed by "A Purposeful Pic nic" by Fred A. Hunt. describing the Custer battlefield. Ira E. Bennett Inter estingly writes of "Western Affairs at Wash ington, D. C." and "Football: Battle or Eport." written by David Starr Jordan, la a ) boldly epeken. courageous presentation. A ' notable article is Arno Dosch's "Kit Carson, ' Great American." "A Missionary to Kings." . by John Fleming Wilson, Is a Pacific story ' of abiding power.