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THE SUNDAY OREGOMAX, PORTLAND. AFRIT, 26. 1903. 11 22TJZB3 a2 ro JJESIZRCTT : y I. ... .: , ' - v 1 : I,ef ud Tendril. By John Burroughs. J'rloe. (1.10. Houghton, Mifflin & Co., Roston. Thirteen essays on animals and men mostly animals by a master naturalist, and, on the whole. delightfully and in formally written. Mr. Burroughs says that ns most of the essays wert written in a bark-covered study, surrounded on nil sides by vineyards, he thought It appropriate to go to the vine for a title fur the collection. The leaf, he think, may stand very well for the nature sketches, and the tendril may symbolize those other pupers In which he has groped his way in some of the great problems, seeking some law or truth to cling to. Titles of chapters are: "The Art of See ins; Things"; "The Coming of Summer"; "A Breath of April"; "A Walk In the Fields"; "Gay Flumes and null"; "Straight Seeing and Straight Think ing"; "Human Traits In the Animals'; "Animal .and Plant Intelligence"; "The Tleasonnble but t'nreasonable Animals"; "The Grist of the Gods"; "The Divine Soil"; "An Outlook Upon Life" and "All's Higlit with the World." When Mr. Burroughs talks' about ani mals and natural history, he la really worth listening to for the reader feuls: "There Is a man who has been through It all. But when Mr. Burroughs tries to write an Emerson essay, he falls by the way. Besides, he Is ofter unneces sarily crude In his expressions of thought. For Instance, his conclusion as to sex-love, on the second last line of page 271. That blunt way of writing might not look out of place In the Bible, but not in any other book. The animal, says Mr. Burroughs, has sensation, perception and power of as sociation, and these suffice It man has sensation, perception, memory, compari son, ideality, judgment and the like, which suffice him. He finds that there la one Instinct or faculty that the animals have far more fully developed that we have the homing Instinct, which seems to Imply a sense of direction that we have not. The point is made that we have lost It. because we have other fac ulties to take Its place. Just as we have lost that acute sens of smell that Is so marvelously developed In many of the four-footed creatures. Mr. Burroughs suspects that we humans have lost an other power that the lower animals may possess something analagous to, or deal with, what we call telepathy power to communicate without words, signs or sig nals. I do not sree with Stevenson that the dug Is a snob. The key to a dog's heart is kindness. He will always meet su half av and more. I have leen asked why the farm do usually shows eu-h hostility to tramps and all disreputable-looking per sona. It Is not their looks that disturb the dog. but their smell a strange, un known odor. This at once puts him on his suard and excites his enmity. The don. through his long Intercourse with man. has become charged with our human quaJlty as eieel Is charged by a magnet. I do not be llss that animals ever commit suicide, have any notlous of death, take any note of tints, ever pat up any "bluff game" or ever deliberate together, or form plans, or forecast the seasons. Several bear stories, as told by Presi dent Roosevelut, are quoted, and one Is; "President Roosevelt tells of a Colorado bear he once watched at close quarters. The bear was fussing around the carcass of & detr. preparatory to burying it. Once the bear lost his grip and rolled over during the course of some move ment, and this made him angry. He struck the carcass a savage whack. Just as a petted child will strike a table against which It ha knocked itself." An Index at the end of the book is conveniently arranged. , To Metropolis. Br Vpton Sinclair, rrlre. (l.M. Moffat. Yard Co., New York 'lt. It Is with mingled feelings that one approaches a review of Hilts novel de pleting the vices of New York's vul-gar-rich showing an atmosphere of monkey dinners, highballs, married women with .lovers, drunken, sottish husbands; autoe; stock exchange gam bling, and generally the yellowest of the yellow. One authority has already expressed this conviction of "The Me tropolis": "It s a huge joke. It's fun nier than Mr. Dooley." This is, how ever, an extreme view to take. The scenes are painted on a tremendous canvas, ihowlng rictures of voluptuary pleasure rivalling the debauchery of Rome In the worst days of the Caesars. The -situation are bold and dashing, but although the book is nauseating once or twice, it .doesn't l-.ave the raw power and staying qualities of "The Jungle." One can easily believe that The Metropolis" has already proved to be one of the ready sellers. The hero. Allan Montague, Is a young man who. all through the book, doesn't fall In love with the heroine. As a young lawyer, he comes to New York from the Southland, and la introduced to one of the sessions of the Loyal le gion, where his dead father's war- 11 J&VZ2TZZZ'ZT T257 CIYZZZFi.; - r .- A 1 j starred comrades fight over again the battles of the Civil War. Really,, the best word-picture in the book is that given on page 9, describing a battle scene in the Spottsylvania campaign: The approach of the regiment . . . they lay down for a moment in a swamp, and the mlnle-balls sang like swarming bees and split the blades of the grass about them. Then they charged over ground that tan with human Mood. Tn the trenches the bndlee of dead anil dying men lay three deep and were trampled out of sight In the mud by the feet of those who fought. They would crouch behind the works, lift ing their guns high above their heads, and tiring into the throngs on lbs other eld; again and again men sprang upon tha breastworks and Bred their muskets, and then fell dead. They dragged up cannon, one after another, and Mew holes through the logs and raked the ground with charges of canlsten. Had there ever before bsen a time in history when breastworks had been charged by artillery? . . . And then blasts of canister sweeping tha tram-lies and blowing scores of living and dead men to frag meuta! And Into this hell of slaughter new regiments charging. In lines four deep. And suad after squad of the enemy striv ing to surrender, and shot to pieces by their own comrades as they clambered over the blood-soaked walls. And heavy, tim bers In the defenses shot to splinters. Since ths world began, had men ever fought like that? A sharp turn from this stirring war picture Is taken to the debauchery of Now York's idle-rich who don't work, who inherit million upon million of dollars of papa's money, and whose most difficult task in life it is to kill the time that hangs so heavily on their hands. Astors and Vanderbllts appear under other names. Allan Montague's brother. Ollle. is a typical member of the newly-rich, and he Introduces Al lan to his foolish world. Then serious work creeps in for Allan. He gets a retaining fee of 150.000 to prosecute In a life Insurance scandal against what Is called the Fidelity Company, only to find in the end that he had been used as a catspaw by one financial agent to squeeze money out of others. There Isn't much Socialism in the book the Inference Is rather hinted at that there Is such a yawning gulf be tween bloated plutocrats and the projp tariats that we In this country are rap Idly drifting toward another Civil War. I do not think it worth while to give extracts from Sinclair's descriptions of the "pleasures" of the Idle-rich. The subject has already been cartooned and paraded in this country to such an ex tent recently that the reading public is beginning to yawn. The Simple Case of Susan, by Jacanes l-- D. Appleton & Co.. Near 1o,k City, and the J. K. Glil Co.. rort land. Novelists of tfie up-to-day, clever sort are enterprising enouph to write modern love storlP. with an atitomo Me accompaniment, while a million S;' f2f her, "torms in the background. in point, because it fills the bill and is th daintiest, moat sugar-plum sorlcty ovm story published this Spring. Take .tTul4you,to d,so-t room and It will brlnp the sunshine of merry com panionship; or take It to while away the time on a tiresome railroad Jour ner and It will make good, "Susan" Is Mrs. Paul Abercrombie Harwell Rpwland, whose husband is a lieutenant In the United States Army Here Is her plctu.e: ?uT?m r blu wlu promt m unfulfilled; 8usn' mouth was a Kartet bow of hop unattalnuM; Sun' hair was an alUirliin- trap, tmtted with sunllght Huaan'a not was retrousne. 8un was the vr-recedmr rainbow, th mocklnw will-o'-the-wisp. Imantribl mm the a-oiden miit of dawn. irrepribi aa the perfume of a row Irresistible as the son of the eirn She waa unexpectedness in person, a quirk In the eereptwl erder of thing-s. elusive as fame fleeting aa moonbeams. She was still ador able from thw tips of h,r boots to the Ust riotou strands of her head. There was an indisputable unanimity of masculm opinion on this last point. It will be seen by this description that Susan was capable of doing- thing's. Two of her friends are Dan Wilbur, an idle younr man whose income is liS.Tlu a year, and Lieutenant Faulk ner, whose Income Is considerably less, but who Is long-' In pedigree. These two men love Marjorie Stanwoort, daughter of Multimillionaire Stan wood, and their different ways of courting a maid are vastly entertaining. Of course Faulkner, with the ardor of a soldier. loved the maid, and when he approached her father to ask for her. he did so In a manner calculated to take away that gentleman's breath: My name Is lieutenant Robert E, l,c Faulkner of Virginia. Thirty yeare old, only wen nf ("Jenerel Putnam Faulknvr. of the late confederate states, a tlshtln man who at Iast on one occasion, took th Federal forces over the high lumps; (trend son of two Governors of Virginia In the davn when public office was a patriotic obligation and not a commercial transaction: and dir-ct descendant of Amenedah and Charity Faulk nr, who landed at Jamestown about !uT and er. respectively b-st man and mat-mn-ef-fconor at the Pocahontas-John Rolf nuptials. The stern father, however, objects to Faulker's application to be his son-in-law, and the warrior hies to Susan, who arranges an elopement, and the end Is a mst delicious mix-up, told with inimitable humor. riosiit Dare Fne Possd, Br Arthar A. Denny, and edited br Alice Hirriraan. IHQstraitMl. The Alice Herri man Com pany, battle. Wash. Students of Americana, and especially those Interested in the history of toe Pa ciHc Coast, will be very much interested In this beautiful reprint of a book esti mable for Its associations and knowledge of local conditions. Nearly eery resi dent of Seattle has hrard of the little book with its modest brown covers of the year IS, but found It difficult to procure a copy. Inde?d, so great is the demand for the original copies that dns ens of collectors would probably appear, were one cipy discovered and offered for sale. The present book belongs to a souvenir t edition of wjiich only S50 copies have been printed from type- and the type distri buted. It Is In attractive shape, well printed on good paper and the Ink Is of that intensely black color that one's eyes are rested. " An eloquent record of pioneer days is. presented, of time when men s souls must have been tried by want, hunger and Indians. Mr. Uenny was a rugrred hero- Just the true pioneer that the stormy times fittingly produced. In the words of the editor: Theee unpretentious annals prv vivid Im pressions of patient, hard-working, loyal wives and mothers; of little children play ing around loc-house. on the shore or on the wooded bluffs arising- from the blue waters or the sound; of friendly Indians, and. elm! others not so friendly; of long days of fear and niffhts of dread: of men who. venturing to the Iand of the Tardy Sunset, worked and strove through the days when souls were tried. Some conquered; others fell in the hard, continuous strug gle All were heroes. But beyond all, tha author's splendid personality shines clearly his absolute Integrity, gift of enthusiasm. tndomlteMe pluck and enduring belief in the future greatness of the city of which he was one of the founders. No shaft of marble or tAblet of bronse will perpetuate Arthur A. Ienny"s brilliant and never-to-be forgo. ten services to Seattle, as his "earnest endeavor to state nothing but facts." Mr. Denny, who was born June 20, 1822. left his home in Illinois to proceed to the Pacific Coast April 10, 1851, traveled across the plains, and In 10S days the party reached this city. They came from the Cascades in an old brig named the Henry. Their baggage was the first freight to pass over - the tramroad and was taken over on a car propelled by hand, while the voyageurs made the trip on foot to the lower end of the rapids, where they boarded the brig and made the voyage to Portland by sail and the help of the current. Portland's popula tion was then 2000 or more. Mr. Denny's history extends to 99 pages and then come three pages of chronolog ical notes of the early settlement of that part of Washington Territory now prin cipally embraced in what is now King County. Following these pages are half tones of honored pioneers, blockhouses, churches, etc., pictures which cannot probably be readily obtained elsewhere. The back cover is tastefully designed and in the center Is a picture of Mr. Denny. He died January 9, 1899. The Old Testament Problem. By Albert C. Knudsnn. price. 25 cents. Jennings 4 ttreham. Cincinnati, Ohio. The learned writer of this Instructive little book is professor of Hebrew and Old Testament exercises in Boston Uni versity, and what he says is sure to strengthen reverence for the book of all books, and awaken ft desire to know it better. The Insistent view Is taken that the first task of the church In dealing with the Old Testament has been to In terpret It, to render It intelligible, and Intelligible to the average mind. The Old Testament, we are reminded, ts the connecting link between heathenism and Christianity. No oho can find fault with our author's orthodoxy. - Vayenae, by Percy Brebner. IUustrated..The John McBrlde Co.. New York City. MT'Brebner's previous novel' "Prin cess Maritia." was so successful that the lucky author has written another romance about a mythical city called Vayenne. "the capital of the Duchy of Montvllllers, the center of an Independ ent state, the dukes of which could till link themselves with those Frank Ish pirates who had conquered and made their homes here. The hero is Roger Herrlck, an Englishman of the kingly type mentioned in "The Pris oner of Zenda," and the 4'lavla of the latter story lives again in Mr. Her ricks" Christine de Liancourt. Herrick shows himself to be a soldier and statesman, and well qualified to be leading man. "Vayenne" has a fighting atmosphere, and reminds one of a drawn sword the point of which is red. Sunshine. By Rev. A. A. Wllllta. D. D. Price, $1. Pearson Brothers, Philadel phia. Pa. Sixty years ago. and for a long time afterward, this waa a current, famous lec ture, for was not Dr. Willits one of the principal speakers in the celebrated Neal Dow campaign? Now. he Is the only survivor of it. Dr. Willits is 87 years old and Is still active on the lyceum platform. This, his best lecture, has been reprinted so that the sales will go to the venerable lecturer. It Is happy, cheerful, full of anecdote and wise ex perience, and will be prized as a souvenir by those who know or -have heard of the author. It is -a classic The Footprint, By Gouverneur Morris. $1.W. Charles Bcrlbner's Sons, New York City. Eleven well-told stories breathing mysticism and love, and worthy in every way of this experienced novelist's art. "The Footprint" has a Bret Harte tinge and "The Crocodile might have been written by Poe. Some of the tales are printed for the first time; and others recently appeared in magazines. Biixlne- MeWing MannaL By Clarence" A Palmer. The Minnesota Typographic Co., St. Paul, Minn. Were you ever suddenly appointed chairman at a public meeting, and didn't know "the rules of the Kame?" If so, this little book would have helped you. It gives a clear explanation of parlia mentary laws, and can be accepted as a condensed model of correct procedure. Karl Marx: Biographical Memoirs. By Wll- heim Leiennecht. Translated by Brnest ITntermann, C. H. Kerr & Co., Chicago. For years, Liebnecht was often every day In Marx's house and was received as a part of his family. Consequently, a most intimate and personal view of the great Socialist, born in a Jewish family, at Treves, Germany, May 5, 1818, Is here presented. The Sarretfl Hrb. "By Ferirus Hume. G. W. Dillingham Co.. New York City. With an old-fashioned plot, this Is a story of aristocratic England, princi pally concerning the adventures of Lord Prellce. , It's fairly Interesting. J. M. QUENTIN. IX IJBRARY AND WORKSHOP. ".'an'tT go out In the ba' k-yard and play In the garden, mamma?" "Certainly not. child. Yon raurt stay in doors and study your nature books." Life. . In her latest story. "In the Mountain's fthadow," Mary Rodney has painted life iha lm it ia- a ft m mnn f thsa nura-aul of the mountains of Idaho. mm Frante Arrhenlus, whose new treatise on cosmology Is called "Worlds in the Making." is a Swedish scientist and director of the Ph slco-i'hemtcal Nobel Institute at Stock holm. Hie book ha-H been translated from the German by Dr. H. Borns. and has just pen published In this country. e . During this week will be Issued "American Insects," by Professor Vernon 1. Kellogg. This book Is a revision Cwith a brief ad ditional chapter on reflexes, insects and in telligence of one of the same name which heretofore ha been Issued outside Its series. It covers the entire American insect world. Including moths, butterflies and beetles. t which separate volumes are sometimes de voted, and Is written la the siagularty inter esting s'y t hat has made the author' 'Darwinism To-Jay" 4.dcip" ! ur-JecO one of the non-ActlMi books mon la dvnan4 la the New York Public libraries. PrfessT CharTee lueblta of the Ta'ver Ky of "bieaa;o. baa written a book he caUs The Rellsiion of the Iemocrat." to be pub lished shortly, rrofsaenr Zueblin la a popu lar lecturer at some of our most prominent unlverviiise. His forthcomlr; book tiaia with t?ie qtzeetion of man's reHirious needs and he present-day means of satisfying Lhem. a e "Purple and limxun' is the title f Samuel A. Uard'-nbirc e rw novel, to be published Immediately. The wooine; of a eeif-made Western Senator for the heart of an Ambassador's daughter explains the vm bolUm :n the title, and provides Mr. Uarden hire with a nld that extends from hish circles of Washington. I. C- and London to the subterranean sphere of the last tS.de. 'The Farrier." by Rex Beach, has heea sent In a heavy shipment to Australia. Other Australian edition in response to eable de mand are annuned as follows: "The Set tler."' bv Herman Whltaker: Money Mastic. by Hamlin Garland; "Walled In." by Kliia beth Htuart I'heips: "eania Fes Partner." by Thomas A. Janvier, and "The SqunW Man." by Edwin MiUon Roy and Julie Opp Fa vers ha m- Most srudenta have heard of thatFrench bo., "Fans Qui nl Que," whfeb, as the tit! Indicates, contains in all ita length not one " who" or "which." Ge'.et Burgett bas accomplished almoat aa remarkable a lit erary "stunt" In "The Heart Line." his latest noveL One of his fads ts a disbelief In the word jerery." Kxcept when quoted In conversation, the word is not to be found among the 139.0O0 of "The Heart Line," e e Warwick leeplng's forthcoming novel will be entitled "Bertrand of Brltany," and will mark the return of te author to the medi eval theme which he laid aside In his Inst book. "A Woman's War." Bertrnnd Is the Ill-favored son of a noble family, whose career as an outlaw serves for an epic of adventure and bloodshed, and throws Into mellower light a love story with an ending which Is said to be a novel one. Mr. Dop ing is at present at his home In Batk Cot tage in Battle. Sussex. m It Is not surprising to learn that the Rus sian authorities do not sennit "As the Hapue Ordains: Journal of a Russian Pris oner's Wife In Japan" to get Into the Czar'a dominions. Possibly It Is also of some interest to note that the author has received 110 book notices of which he says that but one was distinctly hostile. This book, al ready in Its fifth d rinting. continues to he one of the most popular, and although It appeared nearly a year ago, as yet no one out Fide of the publishers' office seems to have any Idea as to who the author la . e . French rights of Nell Wyuian Williams "The Electric Theft" have just been placed, according to a letter received from the author by his American publishers. The translation of the book will be begun forth with. The story Is one of an Bngliah engi neer sent to Athens to discover the cause of a theft of electricity from the Athenaeum Electric Power Company. The suggestion of an underground electric aiege of London, carried on by means of the stolen power, which was shipped to England In great accumulators, is likely to be of special Inter est to Continental reader. e The illustrations in "Climbing Up to Na ture," drawn by M. A. Claus. depict some of the Thost dellclously humorous hits In the story. One shows the guests at Mis' Jawk 1ns' tea party, and the disastrous results of their first acquaintance, with a polished hardwood floor. Another picture, even more mlrth-provoklBK. shows the grocer's free outing to Mis' Jawkins and her brood, in consideration of her being one of his "paid ups." There Is some trouble In stowing them all away in one small team, but she accomplishes It by such d 1 roc Hons as "Naomi, you ninny, kneel down and grab hold of the dashboard- Bethsada, git your legs doubled up and git In front of me." a William Helnemann. the well-known Lon don publisher. Is a man of varied talents. It Is known that he has successfully ap peared In London tn a number of copy right performances of modern standard plays, and now he has been displaying his skill as a photographer, lu a number of striking sna-p-shota that he has taken of William DeMorgan. author of "Somehow Good." and "Joseph Vance." in Florence. Although it Is known that Mr. DeMorgan is considerably over 40. he does not look a day over it In these pictures, all ef which -show him In the best of humor. Most of tbera were taken In the beautiful Cachlne Park, one of them at the spot where Sholley wrote "The Odo to the West Wind." BUM another shows Mr. DeMorgan on the Lung Arno near where Dante met Beatrice, see Mental healing of disease and vice If the two are not in fact identical, as some peo ple claim has been finding emphatic hos pitality among the churches. Boston is usually friendly to a new cause, but it has remained for the famous Emmanuel Church of that city to make the most significant Indorsement cf healing by hypnotic sugges tion. Dr. Elwood Worcester, the rector, ex pressed his feelings upon the matter In a recent letter to Dr. John D. Quackenbos, author of "Hypnotic Therapentics," the book lately Introduced by the Harpers, which has made so favorable an Impression on the public "I have Just finished reading your book," writes Dr. Worcester, "and wish to congratulate you on having completed so important a piece of work. It seems to me one of the most practical and comprehen sive statements of the value of hypnotic suggestion which have been written in English. It is certainly, as far as I know, the most Important contribution on the subject In our American literature." see A report that got Into the Boston newspa pers to the effect that Mrs. Eleanora Piper, the celebrated medium, had returned to Eng-' land for further Investigation by Sir Oliver Lodge and other scientific men, has been authoritatively dented. Her hu&band says: "There Is no need for Mrs. Piper to go abroad to be studied by the London Society for Psychical Research because all her sit tings at present are In charge of Professor James, of Harvard, who la the American representative of the London society." The Idea that she was about to go back to Lon Books Added to The following books at the Publld Library will go Into circulation April 27: BIOGRAPHY. ChBterfleld Llf of Lord Chesterfield; by W. H. Craig. lyO". Hole Letter of Samuel Reynolds Hole; d. by G. A. B. Dewar. Jc.d. 2. 1907. BOOKS IK FOREIGN LANGUAGES. Baroja L a feria de los llacretoa. Peres GaJdos Casandra; novela en clnco porndas. Rawaoa Eiograpbia del Tctor Gudllermo Rawson; by Jacob Larrain. Ed. 3. DESCRIPTION AND TRAVEL. Jackson Persia, past and present; a book of travel and research. 1VK. Ransome Bohemia In London. 100T. Tomalln Three vagabonds In Frlesland with a yacht and a camera, 390T. . FICTION. Bjornson Captain Mansana. J est-up & Canby. eds. Book of the short story. Lagerlof The wonderful adventures of Nils; tr. by V. B. Howard. Tracy The red year; a story of the Indian mutiny. Weyman Laid tip In lavender. FINE ARTS. Bumpui Cathedrals and churches of Northern. Italy, n. d. Burton porcelain; a sketch of Its nature, art and manufacture. 16. Eylau A Eylau The profeion of teach ing music. ltK6. Fraiiu The golden treasury of music; a collection of 62 songs with piano accom paniments; ed. by II- E. Krehbiel. 10o". Haydn Twenty piano compositions; ed by Xaver Sfharwenka. 3007. "Ross-tti Dante Rossetti and the Pre Raphaelite movement; by Esther "Wood. Wagner Lyrics for baritone and base; td. by Carl Annbruster. 1907. W'yllle Sheffield plat. 1907. HISTORY. Hoyt The Merklenburg declaration of In dependence. 1907. Lea The lnaulsitlon in the Spanish de pendencies: Sicily. Naples, Sardinia. Milan, the Canaries. Mexico, Peru. New Granada. Sparks National development, 1877-1885. 1907. PHILOSOPHT. .Tudd Psychology; general Introduction. 1907. LITERATURE. Bailey The novels of George Meredith; a study. lf07. Onant The Oriental tale In England In the 18th century. 190H. don, where she sprt last Fpr'.ng givtag a ris of s-ances under the direction of a committee of t'.e Ergiith society, may hae arisen from eone intimation given early this year. when I! ere ward Carringtow. e-ithoe of "The Physical Phenmera X Spiritual ism," was p-rmlited to study the convHtlns unlr which, her "automatic" writings are produced. F.W BOOK Ri:( l.h J. Jon act Ssbast!an t'sbM, bv Frederick A oter, $, and The Gulden Ladder, l7 Margaret PMer, SI p (Harper's. Htuart'e t'avalry in the t.ettysb'irg Cam paign, by John i?. Mushy. $3 (Moffat, Tard : ''o.). The Supre-me Otf, by Grace Denlo Utch flMrt. $!.." i I.lt e Browr . Gertrude Elliott's Crti-ible. by Mm eore Phe'.d.-m lwns. and The Sealed Message, by Fergus H-ime (G. W. DlMlupham Co.i. Goethe's Faust: A Ftudy In racialist Crit icism, by Marcus Hitch Kere A Co . A Virginia Feud, by George Tavlr I-. 1 r-o. and The True Story of AndersonvlUa Prison, belrg a defence of M a Jt Henry Wlrs. by James Madison Page, $3 tNeale Publishing Co.. Altars to Mammon, by Slisabeth NefT. and For Jar in La. by Harold Bind loss, ach $L00 t Stoke. The Clutf-h ef iMrcumstanca, by Jamea Barnes, $1 M Appleton'si. The Tenants, by Mary 8- Watts (M Clnre"s The Great Sa'vatlon. r Ber. P. Wilson. 11.2.".. and The Christian View of Childhood, by w. e. Edwards. S3 cants (Jennings Uraham. Henry Hudson. His Time and His Voy ages, by Edgar Meyheie Baeon, $1 If, ; prin cess Nadlne, by Christian Retd; The Sphere of Religion, by Professor Frank Sargent HofTman, 4 1.71: Tabular Views of Universal History, by George Palmer Putnam. (I'utnfim'). The Church of Today: A Plea, by Joseph Henry Crooker, 73 centa (Pilgrim Press) . The Master Criminal, by G. Sidney pa ternoster, and The Forbidden Road, by Maria Albaneal, both Illustrated Cupplea A Leon Co. i. Good Samaritan Continued From Face C. trlbuted, mom tha?i any othar man, to fie wonderful amelioration of conditions or the Kast Side poor that has taken place of late ysars. He literally has chaneed the map of that teeming region. Mulberry Bend Park is one monument to his ceaseless activity In behalf of tha poor." The new style of tenement house Is another. In large measure. He re formed the system of municipal lodging. Kvery movement for civic betterment In the metropolis gets a part of his time and energies. For these and other rea sons he has been called New York's 'most useful citizen" by President Roosevelt-" The well-known friendship of the two men dates back to the day when Rlls was a police reporter and Theodore Roosevelt Commissioner of Police. In those days, as In this, each man was the other's ardent admirer and supporter. Dr. Edward T. Devlne la the country's, great charity Investigator and organiser. He has done more, probably, than any other Good Samaritan of today to make of charity a science In the broadest sense. Ho is the chief exponent of the doctrine that the giving of alms without Investi gation, and hence recklessly, only tenos to increase poverty, not to relieve it. This view is receiving wider currency con stantly. As general secretary of the Charity Organization Society, he has made that - Important organization one not only to relieve distress, but also to act as an Intermediary and clearing-house for Investigating and obtaining relief. So great Is the confidence of many wealthy New Yorkers In the society's ability to distribute charity to the best interests of all concerned that they never give a dol lur to charity except through it or on lta advice. Though Dr. Devlne conducts all his important Investigations personally, yet, strange as it may seem, nothing very exciting has happened to him In his go ings about In all sorts of places where one would naturally look for adventure to befall an outsider. This is one of his minor distinctions among our Good Sa maritans. Before lie took up charity work to the exclusion of other things Dr. Devlne waa a teacher and then a lecturer on econom ics. He waa one of the first men to lec ture for the American Academy of Po litical and Social Science when it was or ganized In 1S81; five years later he be came secretary of the Charity Organiza tion Society. His choice as dispenser of Red Cross aid to San Francisco resulted from President - Roosevelt's personal knowledge of his work and methods. Ex pert charity workers are pretty generally agreed that Dr. Devine can make a dol lar's worth of relief go further than al most any other man engaged in the mod ern business of ameliorating distress. Like most of the Good Samaritans of today he is comparatively young; he will be 41 next month. General Booth is the dean In age; he waa 79 on April 10. Rob ert C. Ogden, friend of Hampton Insti tute and Southern education generally, wfio began his mercantile career as an errand boy in a hardware store, comes next, with 71 years to his credit. Riis will be 59 next month. All of the women here mentioned and now active in char itable work except one are in their forties, and most of the men whose ages have not been given are in their forties or fifties. All of which Is but another way of say lng that Good Samaritan work of today needs generally the service of the young and strong, for It is work that Is not only exacting, but also frequently strenuous, as the lives of most of our prominent Good Samaritans show. (Copyright, 1908. by Dexter Marshall.) Public Library Marliham Lincoln and other poems. 1901. "Woodberry Groat Writers; Cervantes, Scott, Milton. Virgil. Montaigne, Shakea pere. 1907. RELIGION. Wat son God' s message to th h uman soul; the use of the Bible In the light of the new knowledge; by Ian Maclaren (pseud.) SCIENCE. Jppson A flora of Western Middle Cali fornia. 190J. Punnet t Mendellsm. Ed. S. lOT. SOCIOLOGY. Carpenter Civilization; Iti cure. New ed. 190i. cause and Cubberley School fun da and thslr appor- portionment. . Iiuft. r Y The raid on prospsrity. if) or . , Henderson American diplomatic anea tlons. 1901. M Kir km an Basts of railway rates and prf vate vs. governmental management of rail roads. 195. RobertMin The eight-hour question, jfiim. 5ttraer City school expenditures 1606. Thacher Initiative and referendum In Oregon, n. d. USEFUL ARTS. Gill TJngine-room chemh'try. irv7. Grelner Practical farm . chemistry; a handbook of profitable crop reeding. 1801. Kidder Building construction and super intendence, v. 3. 190. Latte. Handbook of American gas-angln-eering practice. 1907. Sevey Bean culture. 1907. Splllman Farm grasses 0f the United Stater. 1007. Tracy Tomato culture. 1907. BOOKS ADDED TO REFERENCE DE PARTMENT. Bolto Ornament! di divers! mn tavole ad use desli artistt. Kd. 2. Hitchcock Journeys in fiction. 1899. Rand. MoNaily & Co.'a new Imperial atlas of the world, fttftft. Kicnarason The modern asphalt ment. 19T. pave- Reid Concrete and reinforced concrete construction. 19oS. Roberta Practical adelca for marine en gineers. Kd. 2. liOT. Ruskln Works. SO-fti. 1O08. United States. Court of claims. Case da elded In term of 1904-1907. 1907. BOOKS ADDED TO JUVENILE DEPART MENT. Aikin A Barbauld Erenlnirs at horn Eggleaton Long knives; the etory of how th- won the Wet. Favorite fairy tales. Indubti ial school association. Roe ton. Wood-working tools; how tn them Kanktn The girls of Gardenvflle. RELIGIOUS VIEWS OF A MAN NEARING DEATH East-Side Nonogenarian Writes a Remarkable Letter Expressing His Disbelief in Future Life A.V OPEN letter to Mrs. Julia It ry J. Warren Ketfer. Jr.. Lincoln. Nebraska. LENTS. Or.. R. F. T. No. 1. April K. Dear- friend and relative: Tour desire, to know my reason for not believing tn God. Cbrist and the Pibls aa a divine revelation Is creditable and proper, and I will icladly endeavor to do It. although In two weeks I shall enter on my ninetieth year and. feeling; the Jaws of death clna uipr upon me, failing tn memory. It is quite a task, and cm only feebly and briefly he accomplished. These are my arguments to sustain my theory: To start, thtre are three things that were never made: SHace, which had to be: Time, which hart to tick; Matt.-r. which cannot be destroyed. That which la made can be destroyed. Matter makes world's plants and animals. Tltese out be destroyed, but matter cannot. With these three things, chemistry solves all combinations and dissolutions of matter, and shows how life star la and death comes. There Is no place In space where mat ter does not exist. Matter attracts mat ter and forma worlds and satellites. The sun aa a body tn our system, as in all systems, got tha start tn collecting mat ter and Is 821,000 miles In diameter, and In ita gravity, or attraction to the center, creates heat and heat makes light. Ita heat la so great that It cannot be meas ured. Intense heat reduoea the hardest substances to gas, which is thro'vn off from the sun thousards cf miles in a minute and when condensed by attrac tion, forma bodies of matter which are attracted to larger bodies of matter and form worlds, and In process of time be come suns. When our sun shall have beootriB extinct, thla new body, or sun, wilt become a center of attraction aa has been the case from all time. All matter is governed by law, and that law is made by the combination of mat ter. Take charcoal and niter and combine them in certain proportions, and you have a substance which, when lighted, fritters away until consumed. That Is Its law. Take other proportions and it flashes off at once. That La Its law. Take other material and you have a quicker explo sive. That Is its law, and these propor tions will always develop the same law. Mind. however great, cannot develop a physical law. It cannot say "World, ex ist," "Sun, shine," and make It so. They are made by law. and that" law is made by the combination of matter. Life Is the chemical product of matter through heat and mixture developing protoplasm, which Is 'rallied cell life, where all organism starts. Evolution bring us to the present standard, and each organism of the present existence starts from the original protoplasmic cells and passes through each evolution ary development until It presents itself, as a representative of Its Immediate par ent or family. So all organism starts from the same source and Is related, but branches off and makes Its existence In life In form and habit, according to Its necessities and surroundings. Man branches off from an animal called tha lemure, with feet and hands to grajsp, similar to man's. Man, like him, had a long head and walked on all fours, dumb as the beasts of the forests, seeking food, killing and being killed, without home or shelter, learning to walk erect and talk, using his hands, gaining experience, placed himself on advantage ground, ceasing to gnaw hie food lika carniv orous animals from the bodies of dead animals, but cut It with stone and knlvea. and, walking erect, his head changed from long to round, his mouth receding formed the chin; growing In knowledge, by experience, outclassed all other animals. It Is now determined that man has been on this earth 400,000 years, com ing up from the bloody brute beast to the present social Intelligence of today by his experience and reason alone. Mo animal or Insect can have a thought or reason without a brain. When the brain Is destroyed, thought ceases. - Thoughts cannot be punished. They have no physical existence. They are the product of the brain and are not responsible or tangible. The brain can be punished, but when destroyed is gone to Its proper elements; no sen sation, no life. It is nonsense to say a dead body, thought or soul can be punished. Soul cannot be anything but thought or feeling, and when death comes they cannot have a tangible ex istence and are obliterated, lost, unless preserved by tradition or recorded. That which is made can be destroyed. Thoughts are made by the brain. We have a good history of the Egyp tians 2000 years before Moses' day. They were advanced In art, science and agriculture. They were known as disc worshipers; they worshiped the sun, earth and water the things they needed. They got their Ideas from tha preced ing nations. Moses' God never came Into existence until Moses was about 40 years of age. About 19 ha murdered an Egyptian and fled to save his life. When he returned he told his people they had a God and must go three days' Journey in me wilderness to worship him and take all their possessions and borrow from the Egyptians silver, gold and wear' lng apparel with a promise to return them Immediately after their worship. After much persuasion of their masters they accomplished their purpose. Moses, for. getting his God worship, ran his tribe away. Having six days the start before the Egyptians discovered the fact and many more days before they emild gather a sufficient force. Moses and his tribe escaped. . Moses became their supreme ruler. Ths tribe being as Ignorant as cattle, having been In servlis bondage 160 years, obeyed him strtotly and believed him without question. Moses was educated In ail tha learning of the ages by the Egyptians Naturally smart, brutal and immoral, being a murderer, a thief and a liar, he was prepared for anything favoring his personal eaee, interest ana glory. tin Moses made his unknown God excel all the thirty thousand Greek gods by giving him all power, yet not able to overome "chariots or Iron." All goodness, yet or dering the destruction of Amalek and all his belongings men, women. Infants and sucklings; killing captive women because they were married and raping the vir gins; ordering Ezekiel to eat human and cow dung, and every other abominable act In the catalogue of crime favorable to Moses or his tribe, making his God have a double character In every act and attribute. He made him to have all knowledge, yet he had to go around to Inquire. He made him to be everywhere present, yet he had to go to the Garden of Eden. v He made him have a body like man's, walk, sit, smile, breathe, talk and occupy all space, yet space held worlds, plants and animal. God has been seen and talked with. He ordered Ezekiel to He on one side 390 days and 40 days on the other side. Moses, Aaron, Nabad and Ablhu and 70 of the elders of Israel saw God and did eat and think and many others saw him. Then It Is declared no man can see him and live. The Greek gnds are all dead; Moses' God is very sick and will soon follow. Christ, It Is claimed, waa th son of God and was as old as his Father, and "without him nothing made that was made." thereby robbing his father of his six days' labor; born of a virgin who was impregnated by the shadow of the Holy Ghost without her knowl edge, which was rape. Now. common Intelligence, observation and exps- rlen.-e knows that to be a lie. for it never has repeated Cslrus. Roman historian, personally knew Joseph and Mary, ar.d says Jo seph divorced Mary on the ground that sh was a prostitute, and says shs was a stroller snd cohabited with a Roman soldier and bore a son who was called Tanthea. after the soldier' name. feiru wrote extensively against Christians and never mentions the nam of Christ. Scholars say that Christ is not a proper name, hut the same as Messiah, meaning king or ruler. The Rev. McClintoek. a Chris tian bigot. In McClintoek snd Strong's Cyclopedia of Hlbllcal Theology. IS forced to give up th personality of Christ, and says. "Christ Is not, strictly speaking, a propr nam, but a desig nation of office. .lesu Cbrist. or. rather. Jesu, the Christ. Is a, mode of expression, as John the Baptist or Fap tlser." Historian . mention particularly very great man that ever lived at that day, but ChrUt name does not appear, though from the gospels ha was the greatest man that ever was on this earth. That passage In Jo sephus ts pronounced sn Interpolation, a fraud. The gospels are the only document paktng of Christ In exist ence of that day, and they were writtesi over 100 year after his. death, and no one know who wrote them, and at that day they had no other standard than writing of an Imaginary hero. They were taken up by the Christian sect to gain power, property anil ease, and forced upon the world by the slaughter In every conceivable form of cruelty of SO.000.000 of human beings by th clargy. They burned the libraries, de stroyed every vestige of civilization that did not point to their belief, and brought on the dark ages, which lasted for a thousand years. When their power became broken, through oceans of blood, and free thought once more began to make progress and redeem the world from darkness. Tou ask what I would give the peo ple instead of Christianity. In answer, I would give liberty; not believe or be damned, but tiilnk and bo wise. I would give morality, not destroy the unbeliever, but give education In the sciences and new discoveries and not educate to fight them as Christians are doing and have done to keep the old thought, barbarism, the hcadllglit. I would give sociality, kindness, not division, hatred and war. I -would give honesty, and not make liars of those who join the church by making; them say they bellevo in Clod the myth, Christ the child of a shadow, tho Bible which teaches polygnmy, witchcraft, faith moving moving mountains, what soever ye ask In faith ye shall re ceive. Instead of weakness. I would give courage and manliness, tipeak out, look up, and not cringe like a criminal, a slave. The Bible they compel yon to say you believe contains 123 flat contradictions. I will add ono more to those I have already referred to with their text to support It. AFFIRMATIVE. God Is kind, merciful and good. The Tuord la very pitiful and of tcndr mercy (Jamea v:ll). For he doth not afflict willingly, nor grieve th children of men (Sam. lii:33). For his mercy endureth forever (1 Chron. xvl:34). I have no pleasure in the death of him that dleth, salth the Lord God (Ezek. xvlil:R2). The Lord is good to all, and his ten der mercies over all bis works (Ps. cxxxxv:9). Who will have all men to he saved and to .come unto the knowledge of the truth (1 Tim. 11:4). God Is love. (1 John lv:16.) Good and upright Is the Lord. (Ps. xxv : 8.) NEGATIVE. God Is cruel, unmerciful, destructive and ferocioua. I will not pity, nor hRve mercy, but destroy them. (Jer. xlil:14.) And thou shalt consume all the peo ple, which the Lord thy God shall de liver thee; thine eye shall have no pity upon them. (Deut. v!i:16.) Now, go and smite Amalek, and ut terly destroy all that they have, and spare them not, but slay, both man and woman, Infant and suckling. (1 Sam. xv:23.) Because they had looked Into the ark of the Lord, even he smote the people fifty thousand, and three score and ten men. (1 Sam. vl:19.) The Lord thy God la a consuming Are. (Deut lv:24.) The Lord cast down great stones from heaven upon them. (Josh. xiv:ll.) The balance of the 12S contradictions are as well supported by the text as the above. The Bible made It proper for a man to have his wife murdered It he got tired of her by charging her with In fidelity and taking her to a priest ( consecrated x-lllaln to administer poi son. If innocent, God would take cars of her; if guilty, death took her. Death, always took her. The Bible made It m sin for her to bear children. She had to purify herself by a sin offering and other penalties, without giving her s, choics whether she would be a mother or not. The Bible made her depend on her husband for knowledge, forbade ber to teach, mult her a slave to her husband; she had to obey him. Tha Bible legislated against her and brutal. Ised her. Its, devotees have followed It up to this day. Yet she has been, more merciful, more loving, more re fined, more honest, more skillful; a het. ter employee than man, and paid less, encouraged less. What would I do with the BlbleT I would expunge the dirty, vulgar pas sages and leave the book to be read as other books of an age of ignorance and brutality sprinkled with bright gems among heaps of rubbish. The first formation of tha church was ths trus Biblical doctrine. Ignor ance and barbarism. Th Testament says Christ came with fire, sword and division. Every move for the better ment of mankind has been against these fundamentals of Christianity, and the only reason they are not enforced today la th want of power. Man Is civilizing ths church instead of the church civilising man. If half th effort were spent In ths betterment of this life that Is spent on the future life, more downfallen would be uplifted, less pain would come to the suffering, more Joy would gild sorrow mors nobility displace disgrace and sooner bring universal brotherhood. I submit these views in all kindness for your enlightenment and Judgment, and believe me, as sver, the same. v JAMES STOUT. Ansuer-tlie-JJoor Dor. A family residing In Groveport Is mourning th loss of It dog. The par ents In the home are unfortunately deaf and dumb and are often left in th house alone. The dog had been trained to answer knocks at the door so that calls could be known. It would upon hearing a rtng at the door. Im mediately go to on of Its masters and. by pulling at the clothing, attract at tention, and then It would lead th way to the door. It was also trained: to run errands. Columbuua O. Dispatch, .