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Jbe Golden Rose, by Amelia Rives. Price.
1.:. Harper db Brother New York
City.
Near the edge of a leafy lane and bor
dering on an orchard where birds sang
joyously in the Summer sunshine, lived a
colony of roses whose nodding heads gave
a perfume which was described as "the
breath of the Lord." And the woman
who ruled over these roses was what the
world cruelly call an old maid.
Day after day she lived for her roses
ai.d seemed content to lead the flower
life. She and her little maid servant said
in their innocence: "Surely this Is
heaven. There's no man to bother us."
But in the fullness of time the woman
of the garden began to long for more
human society and one morning she hor
rified her maid-of-all-work by placing a
man's hat on the tiny rack in the hall
way of her house and a man's walking
stick in the umbrella stand. "The hat
and walking cane will give a certain re
spectability and completeness to the
house," the flower woman told her lit
tle maid. The serpent had entered Its
Ilden.
This Is exactly the awkward situation
In which the heroine of "'The Golden
Hose finds herself. She believes In a new
psychology of love that can have no
physical fulfillment, forgetting that we
are creatures of passion, flesh and blood.
It Is written In Genesis: 'Therefore shall
a man leave bis father and his mother,
end shall cleave unto his wife; and they
shall be one flesh." But In the telling of
her story Amelia Rives who is also
known as the Princess Troubetzkoy, the
author of "The Quick and the Dead" has
written a delicate, poetic fancy that holds
the patient breathless with intensity. One
moment the book Is chaste ice, and the
next flaming Are. Its beauty of language
In depicting ecstatic passion lifts It from
common ground to ether. Dull words
glow with the divine fire of poetry.
Really the best and sanest story bearing
the name of Amelia Rives as author.
- The central figure in thjs psychology
of love Is Mrs. Meraud Cabell, a young
widow who has endured the misery of
an unhappy marriage. Tp her compan
ion. Miss Anlce Mayo, the widow con
fesses: How strange, after all I've been through!
Vet It's there the girl feeling, 1 mean. I'm
like a rose cut back to the roots. I'm all
fresh little twigs and leaves and buds oh.
but It's different. This pear that I should
ever know peace. That I should have given
up all thought of love a great love be
tween man and woman I mean and yet
bn happy golden happy. My kind of lovs
doesn't exlut In this world. In some other.
'es I know that, I remember it. But here?
No . . . I tell you It doesn't exist on
this earth. Men don't want It: some women,
maybe. What does love on this earth lead
to? Always the same end and it is an
end. It ends all the beauty, all the dream,
all the mystery. Why, what men call love'
on this eaVth It's Just a hungrlness. My
lilnd of love Is a thirst. . . . What peo
ple call the fulfillment of love means love's
death. "I'nder every flower Is coiled a ser
pent" that Is it. Under every flower of
that human love Is colled a serpent. I was
In love with "him" and In that love were
all the dreams that you ever dreamed. Now
1 am awake.
This was the mental condition of Mrs.
Cabell before she makes the acquain
tance in the second chapter of Steven
Gordon Trafford. a young man of 30. a
sort of cousin of hers who called sud
denly at her house, saying that he Is an
historian and wishes to write a history I
of that part of Virginia where Mrs. Ca
bell's estate is located- The property Is
known as the Klngsweather estate. It
had been a royal grant to the Cabclls
and had never been bought or sold. Its
llrst owner had named it in honor of I
Charles II, who had been "le beau temps" j
inr tne uaoeii family, very little Is men
tioned in the novel about Mrs. Cabell's
departed husband out of sight, out of
mind. On page 65 is a reference to Mr.
Cabell having been appointed Minister to
England.
Mrs. Cabell Is silly In her simplicity.
Phe has a glowing, daszllng pallor, and
when she blushes Instead of blushing
red. as any other woman would this
creature of pure Ice blushes "a dazsling
flame white." Her physician. Dr. Rob
ert Dundas. had warned her that she
w'hs subject to heart disease. She loves
animals so much that sho can't imagine
eating them.
"Why should I," she asks, "munch lit
tle pieces of my sister the hen, or my
brother the lamb, as St. Francis would
liave said?" She believes In reincarna
tion and thinks we have all lived before
often and shall live again on this earth
"until we conquer once for all; until we
reach the end of that 'ancient, narrow
path, stretching far away, as hard to
tread as the edge of a raior.' " She likes
Trafford because he is what she calls
"pure" and "clean of mind and body.
Pure as the 'Knights of the Qrall' under
stand purity."
It ultimately dawned on her that Traf
ford lived 12 miles away, and as she
suddenly discovered that she was lonely,
she Invited him to be the guest of her
self and Miss Mayo. Trafford and Me
raud have many talks in a charming
garden that is an exotlo dream. Dr.
Dundas, however, makes fun of Widow
Mciaud's theory of platonlc affection,
and says:
Po you think that because she looks and
feels and acts like an angel that Maraud is
an angel? She's a human being. I can tell
vnu. in the most beautiful sense of tha
word. That heart of hers, weak or strong,
pumps red. human blood and It's ss big
as the world and has the needs of the
world. to you think that nature will let
such a being aa that continue to live proud
lywithout any throes or Interruptions, tha
ascetic, bookbound. solitary, unnatural yes.
unnatural life that she has been leading
here for five years?
Of course when Mrs. Cabell and Traf
ford discovered that they loved each
other, their lovemaklng wasn't of the
common sort. It suggested angels' wings
and icebergs. "When you look at me
like that." she said to him, "as you are
looking now. I seem to be about to re
member something to remember you. I
think long ago somewhere. It was the
same no. not quite the same there. It
has gone now, but I've felt it once or
twice before. I wonder what that place
was? I wonder what we were doing to
gether that long, long while ago?" Like
a flash, the two know that they love
each other and they walk forward "into
the warm dark, hand locked in hand, like
two bewildered children fleeing from
some vague shape in a fearful house."
Trafford kisses her and she speaks of
h.iving "hurt him" and of the love that
has been "desecrated." But she la sure
3 in
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she can never marry him, and that she
will never marry again. Trafford as
sures her that there is no passion in his
love for her and swears It is more of the
spirit than of the flesh. She answers:
Listen and I will tell you what It is.you
have done for me. I had a dear and won
derful friend ooce and when she lay dying
she said many beautiful things. . .
and among them: "Always the painted ap
ple, never the golden rose." I said: "Gen
evieve, who aald that? Rosettl?" And she
smiled and said, "No. Genevieve." And a
little while after aha died. And then, later,
when when I had lived more, 1 felt that
I knew what she meant- But, oh! tonight
you have given me the golden rose.
Such bliss could not last. Trafford
finds that, according to a promise he had
made to a friend, he must pass the Win
ter In India, and the lovers part for the
time being, vowing to live on each
other's letters, and swearing eternal de
votion. ,
Then human frailty crept In. Away
from Meraud's physical presence, Traf
ford found that he was human enough
to let bis love Blacken for so ethereal a
being.
Months later, he suddenly returns to
Now York and the lovers accidentally
meet on electric-biasing Broadway. The
fair widow Instinctively knows that the
love-light has died In Trafofrds" eyes:
And a sort of wild pity came over her
for him only for him. the pity we feal for
soma one who has loved fair colors and all
the lovely pageantry of form, and who haa
been stricken suddenly with bltndnessu TpT
she knew In that moment that the wonder,
the splendor of a great passion had dimmed
Into tha commonplace for him, had flick
ered and died down and left him .In the
graynesa of every day. The mystery of
her nature had lost jta allurement as of the
land beyond the lightning and only a chill
void inclosed- blm.
It Is a relief to know that this oddly
assorted couple part. There is nothing
so vulgar as the hint of even a tragedy.
They just pass. They typify an Ameri
can Beauty rose which has been trans
planted from its native earth and sud
denly burled In a "bed of concrete.
A History of the I'nited States and Its
People. By Professor ISIroy McKendree
Avery. Volume IV. Illustrated. The Bur
rows Brothers Company, Cleveland, O.
This, the fourth volume of an historical
series promising to conclude with the .
15th, groups the causes and complaints
which eventually led to the American
Revolution. In the third volume, the
author traced the continued amd intensi
fying conflict between prerogative and
popular rights in the English colonies In
this country; and In the present volume,
enough Is shown to demonstrate that the
American Revolution was in the people's
blood, and that the Iniquitous stamp act
and George III were only Irritants that
hastened the birth of the Republic. I
Appropriately enough, on opening this ;
handsome volume one meets with a por
trait of Benjamin Franklin, a reproduc
tion from the original painting by Joseph j
Slfrede Duplessis, in the Corocoran Art
Gallery, Washington, D. C, and the ;
Franklin signature is from an autograph j
letter in the library of Congress.
A perfect wealth of valuable maps, re- I
productions of historical documents, por-
traits, etc., delights the student, and he
instinctively feels that such information
and especially the liberal, scnoiariy in
terpretation of history, are met with no
where else. "Avery" is the open door.
For Instance, the illustrations include:
Letter to Sir William Pepperrell, from the
Massachusetts General Court, dated December
24, 174S. congratulating him on the capture .
of Louuburg; Massachusetts three-penny bill. :
17DO: manuscript declaration of war against
tha Penobscot and other Indians by Governor j
Bennlng Wentworth. of New Hampshire, i
174.; the royal armet. probably painted about
1724; seal of King's College. 1754 to 177S;
crown on flagstaff of King's College (Colum
bia University): seal of Princeton University;
title page of "Poor Richard's Almanac." 1733;
manuscript of Indian treaty, 1748; relics of
Maryland Palatine; view of Baltimore, Md.,
1752; North Carolina nine-shilling proclama
tion money: facsimile of One of the lead
platea burled by Celeron de Bienville; silver
bowl used at christening of George Wash
ington; plan of Fort Duquesne; 6ignaturea
of the members of the Albany, N. T. conven
tion, 1754; page from Braddock's order book.
In Washington's handwriting; view of Fort
Niagara; plan of the battle of- Lake George:
seal of Nova Scotia at tha time of George
II; uniform of a French soldier. 1765, in
colors; view of Loulsburg during the selge
of 1758; Forbes' order appointing Washing
ton president of a general court martial, the
taking of Q' Bbec; portrait of James Wolfe;
house In which Montcalm died: "Montreal
taken" medal. 1700: George UI; facsimile map
of Detroit River. 1T4; redoubt at Pittsburg;
medal presented to Indian chiefs at .the
treaty of 1764, after the Pontlao conspiracy,
etc.
The special historical period treated be
longs to the colonial times of 1745-1764. The
volume, of J97 pages, bears the marks of
scholarship, accuracy, and wise discrim
ination, and at the top of each page Is the
year about which the historian writes.
This plan saves confusion. Nothing Is so
exasperating to the reader as to meet
with histories which mention a jumble of
different months and force one to go back
several pages to hunt for the year in
which the events referred to happened.
Professor Avery's history Is free from
this. It leads, and Is a remarkable wit
ness to the life work of Us author.
Physical Geography, by Dr. M. F. Maury
and Dr. Frederic William Simonds. Illus
trated. $1.20. The American Book Com
pany, New York City.
A generation of teachers has stamped
approval on the MauryePhyslcal Geog
raphy, and mainly because of the ad
vances in recent years of physiographic
science. Professor Slmonds, head of the
department of geology In the Univer
sity of Texas, haa thoroughly modern
ized the text of the book, revising and
to a large extent rewriting the entire;
work. It is, so to speak, brought up to
date. For Instance, the picture oppo
site the "title pape represents the erup
tion of Vesuvius in April. 1906. The
illustrations are unusually good.
Poems, by Robert Underwood Johnson. The
Century Company, Naw York City.
Many of the poems gathered together
In this volume have been favorites
since they originally appeared In maga
slnes, and it is a pleasure to have them
In a permanent collection. The verses
are marked by brightness, quaint senti
ment and ringing optimism, although
Mr. Johnson sometimes criticises life
and leaves you wondering. His style, is
of the scholarly, American type, that
leaves an Impression for good
Mr. Johnson's book of poems Is is
sued by the Century Company, on the
completion of his 35th year of service
with the magazine now known and
universally admired as the Century,
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and he has been Its associate editor
since 1881. It is also notable that his
first poem. TTo Ralph Waldo Emerson,
on the 'Death of Garfield," was the last
accepted by Dr. J. G. Holland for the
magazine.
The poems I like best in this coflec
tion are:. "An English Mother," "The
Welcome of Our Tears," "Dewey at
Manila." "Hands Across the Sea,"
"Apostrophe to Greece." "An Irish Love
Song" and "On" a Candidate Accused of
Youth." These latter verses are writ
ten with piophetic fire, and describe
the Theodore Roosevelt of the year
188C. I give two of the three verses, to
present an idea of Mr. Johnson's earlier
literary style:
"Too young." dr they call him? Wljo say
It? Not they
Who have felt his hard stroke In the civic
affray.
When eiders, wnom veteran fighters had
taught
Till they knew all the rules bj:" which
battles are fought.
Fumbled weakly with weapons bis foresight
naa sougnt.
see.
Yea, tha strength of the arm la tbs strength
of its use.
Not its years; and when fighting la on,
better chooea
Not the rust-eaten sword from the library
wall.
But tha new blade that leaps in its sheath
at the call.
Ask tha foe by which weapon he fears most
to lain
The Cltr of neHiaht. bv Elizabeth Miller.
The Bobs-Merrill Co., Indianapolis. Ind.
It is A. D. 70. Titus and his legions
storming the . holy City of Jerusalem.
Mailed Jews and Romans In blazing
brass, as they rush Into the fight that
was to decide the fate of the historic
empire whose history is entwined with the
names of ' Moses, David, Solomon and
the Nazarene these are the principal
word pictures of this kaleidoscopic novel
notable among , literary wares of the
spring.
Its canvas is huge and Intensity of situ
ation striking, while the novelist only
errs in want of concentration. The tplen
dor of Orientalism favorably IrnDresses
the reader, who Is led on and on, by
the sweep of a powerful imagination. The
story ought to specially appeal to Sunday
school folks. In addition to the hardened
novel expert.
The heroine was "tall and slender, sup
ple and alive. About her hips was knot
ted a silken scarf of red and white and
green, with long, undulant fringes that
aaaea to the lithe grace in her move
ments. Under it was a glistening arar
ment of silver tissue that reached to the
small ankles laced about by the ribbons
or white sandals. In those full, tender
Hps. in the slope of those black, silken
brows, in the sparkling behind the dusky,
slumbrous eyes, there was all the fire and
generosity and limitless charm that
should make her lover's world a place of
ueugnt. ana periume and music."
Quite a different picture from our mod
ern, chewing-gum girl.
Two ward pictures of the Emperor Ti
tus arrest attention, the first being as a
shepherd boy eees the haughty Roman, on
a Syrian plain:
"It was a young face, tanned by the sun
of Alexandria but bright with an emana
tion of light that somehow-was made tang
ible bv the flash nf hi, aB w . ... T-.
8IYl,,he 'Darkle of his lively eyes. For a
"Posed to the open air and the
.!5ttn.. "fe of ,he cmp. and burdened
with the grave task of subduing a desper
ate nation, he was free from disfigurements.
His brows were knitted aa If to give his
full soft eyes protection, and the frown,
with the laughing cut of his youthful Hps,
gave his face a quizzical expression that
was entirely winning. In countenance and
figure he was handsome, refined and thor
oughly Roman. The little shepherd' was
won to him instantly. Without knowing
that the world from one border to the
other had already named this charming
young Roman the Darling of Mankind, the
little shepherd, had Ills Hps been shaped
to poetry, would have called him that."
The other picture of Titus, as he ap
peared to Jews, gazing at him from Jeru
salem's walls:
"There a solitary borseman rode. Not a
scale of armor was upon his horse; not a
weapon, not even a shleM depended from
his harness. His head was uncovered and
a sheeny purple fillet showed In the tum
bled, dusty black hair. There was no
guard on the hand that held the bridle:
the cloak that floated from his shoulders
was white wool; the tunic was the simple
light garment that soldiers usually wear
under armor; the shoes alone were mailed
It seemed that the young Roman had
stripped off his helmet, breastplate and
greaves to ride less encumbered or to ap
pear less warlike. But the Jews who
looked at him understood. Here was Titus
come In peace!"
Better -.descriptive-writing Is met with
in three paragraphs which deal with the
siege of Jerusalem and the ultimate vic
tory of Titus:
"She saw the ascending streets of Zlon
and the tail fortifications mounting- the
heights within tha city's limits. There
she eaw the flash of swords, swung afar
off. speara brandished and tha running
hither and thither of ..defenders on the
wall. Below she saw the remote constrict
ed passages between rows of desolate
houses, movlnr with people, sounding with
clamor. There she aaw combats, terrible
scenes of frenzy, deatha and unnamable
horrors: starvelings gnawing their nails;
shadows of Infants pressed to hollow bos
oms; old men too weak to walk that went
on hands and knees; young men and young
women In rags that failed to cover them
and wandering skeletons screaming 'Woe!'
"Meanwhile huge stones mounted over
the walla and fell within the city; three
great towers planted beyond the walls
out of range of the Jewish engines and
equipped with superior machines, were
ateadlly devastating the 'entire quarter
near which they were erected. Here two
thirds of the forces of Jerusalem were
concentrated In a vain effort to resist the
dire inroads of these effective englnea.
Here, the Maccabee and his Gibborlm
stood shoulder to shoulder with the Idu
means and fanatics of Simon and John,
and here the ha!f-mad defenders awak
ened at last to the fact that only divine
interference could save the city against
Roma. -
"In the aouth and the east, conflagra
tions roared and crackled, where burning
oil had been scattered over some remain
ing structures near the walla When a
great ram began its thunder somewhere
near the sheep Gate, there came a hollow
booming noise of deafening volume from
the charnel pits outside the walls, and a
black cloud of Incredible depth soared us
Into the skies."
Just Friends, by Mary Ives Todd. Calkins
A Conuiany, New York City.
Time now looks more kindly on the
memory of the English-American, Thom
as Paine, once called atheist, and by
many thinkers ha is revered aa having
possessed the giant Intellect that started
the popular agitation culminating In the
American Revolution. He fought under
Washington, and was the friend of liberty
as he saw it. and of women and animals.
A legend remains that Paine wrote a
part of the Declaration of Independence -a
statement which has been as often de
nied as affirmed. It Is noteworthy also
that Paine's will closed with these words:
"I die in perfect composure and resigna
tion to the will of my creator God."
This book of 150 pages purports to be
largely- an exposition af Painea rather
loose ideas concerning the laxity of the
marriage relation, and the telling Is often
weakly sentimental, approaching to ab
surdity. At other times poetic ideas
appear clothed In beauty of sentiment,
and Interest deepens to read to the last
what the author is to evolve to end her
plea. The book is largely conversational
carried on by a hoary old sinner, Mr.
Smith, who once unhappily married a
woman and then because of "liberty"
without the formality of divorcing his
wife, lived with another woman until she
died; and a Mrs. Wells, one of the nu
merous runaway wives of a Mormon
elder. .
The talks between these two apostles
of freak love take place In Italy, and
every time Mr. Smith makes an heroic
speech he usually stands beside a statue.
Mr. Smith and Mrs. Wells tell each other
of their "past." over which chloride of
lime ought mercifully to be spread, and,
although they love each other, they agree
that they will be "Just friends." For
which the reader is thankful.
High-flown ideas abound in the book,
which is finely printed and adorned with
superior portraits of Thomas Paine,
George Washington, Thomas Jefferson,
Benjamin Franklin, Andrew Jackson,
Abraham Lincoln and Ralph Waldo Em
erson. Paine Is spoken of as the "apostle
of common sense." What a pity there
isn't more of that scares article In this
Btory! .
The Adventures of Charles Edward, by
Harrison Rhodes. Illustrated. SI. 50. Lit
tle, Brown A Company, Boston, Mass.
Charles Edward Austin, the idle-rich
American young man who lived on papa's
money, and who jnarrfed Lady Angela
Farnston, because he had nerve. Have
you heard of them? This new edition of
a popular society story will prove a fit
ting medium. It's Just the Summer book
to take with you on a holiday trip to kill
time. The black and white Illustrations
are by Penrhyn Staniaws.
u 1. M. QUENTIN.
IN LIBRARY AND WORK SHOP.
Th half-torve of Blatr Hall. Princeton
University, New Jereey, shown on this book
pa fro la taken from a picture shown In
John Corbln's new book, ,WhIcn College
for the Boy?" recently reviewed In The
Oregonlan,
.
Professor Stevens, of Annapol!, "haa writ
ten "The Story of theSubmarine' for an
early number of St. Nicholas, to be fol
lowed in the next Issue by A.' W. Jlolker's
account of "The Under-Seas bailor and His
Boat," both, articles to hive a number of
picture.
Am president of the British Board of
Trade, Winston Churchill, who has only a
modest private income, earns a salary of
$23i.04)0 per annum. He make a good deal
by M writings and received $40,000 for the
biography of his father, Xxrd Randolph
Churchill.
It is suggested by the Topeka (Kan.)
Journal that as a companion book to "A
Gentleman From Indiana.," it Is up to Booth
Tarkington or someone else to write one
called "A Perfect Iay From Indiana."
The reason ia considered to be that Mrs.
Belle Gunness has furnished the material
for a stirring novel of this ort.
Miss Alire Fletcher, whose little book on
"Indian Story and Song." published a short
time ago, .was the first to popularize the
music of the Omahas and other Western
tribe, is now a part of her work at the
Bureau of Ethnology In Washington, D. C.
making a test of the phonograph as a means
of securing the most complete record pos
sible of the vanishing melodies of the abo
rigines. Chatto & Winflus. London, are now pub
lishers of "The Book of Elisahethan Verse,"
chosen and edited by- William Stanley
Bralthwalte, the Boston poet, and published
In this country by Small. Maynard fe Co.
The literary critic of The Queen says of it:
"This book i as essential to keep In one's
reference bookcase as the Golden Treasury
Itself; it is a regular encyclopedia of the
Elirabetnans,"
Mrs. Humphry Ward at a women's lunch
eon in New York eatd of the literary style
of a popular novelist: "It Is an insane
style. it makes me think of the school
pirl novelist who wrote: 'He sprang ar
dently forward, but a look of soft entreaty
from one of Pearls eyes and a glance of
warning darted from the other in the di
rection of her aunt forced him regretfully
back into his chair."
While Mrs. Humphry Ward was In Amer
ica there took place in London the produc
tion of the re-dramatlzed "Marriage of Wil
liam Ashe." The version was as different
from the one produced in America as two
versions of the same book could very well
be. a notable difference being the much
desired happy ending. The new play was
accounted a great success. Mrs. Ward her
self collaborated with Miss Margarej. Mayo
in Its dramatization. s
Marion Beve ridge Lee has written In
"Barselma's Kiss" a strong story of love
and hate around the novel Idea of a pre
mature burial. It is a question thnt is agi
tating medical and legal minds just now
to a marked degree. Massachusetts has a
bill before the Legislature to enforce a law
of practical tests on a body before assign
ing it to the grave. But, despite her vital,
central question, Miss Lee handles the story
with a stir and vim that are refreshing,
and the tale brims over with humor.
"The Enchanted- Castle. a new Juvenile
story, comes already recommended as being
by the author of "The Wouldbegoods." E.
Nesblt Bland. It 1 a pure fairy tale, as
full of quaint impossibilities as "Peter Pan."
The plot turns upon the discovery of a
magic wlshlnjc-rlng," and forthwith breath
less .adventures follow, until all ends hap
pily. "The Enchanted Castle" possesses, In
a very high degree, the true child quality.
and the true a ream quality, ana tne oldsters
will enjoy It quite as heartily as will the
children.
American literature has been almost bar
ren' of reminiscences of artists, particularly
artists of the prevailing scnool. No msn
has had a wider circle of friends than Will
H. Low, who will soon begin articles on "A
Chronicle of Friendships," In which al ths
charm of student life in Paris will be pic
tured, not as fiction but as fact. In which
the peal characters are men like Wyatt
Eaton, Augustus Salnt-Gaudens, Robert
Louts Stevenson, Theodore Robinson, and
great Frenchmen such, as Millet and Caro-lus-Duran,
with many comments on. life and
art to adorn the pages.
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Ths new volume -by Charles A. Conant
Just published under the title "The Princi
ples of Banking" Is directly In line with
the call for books on financial subjects
created by ths recent disturbance in banks
and trust companies. Th origin of crises
ana tne management oc crises are c no. piers
likewise bearing on banking problems, and
based on the author's "The Principles of
Money and Banking," from which this new
book has been adapted. Mr. Conant has a
reputation which is international, and has
served on the monetary commissions both
of ths Philippines and Mexico.
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There will be brought out in few days
a new Western novel. "The Jaymakers."
John A. Martin, of Pueblo, Colo., ia the
author. The story deals with the "boom
days" on the plains, when men staked out
and fought for towns on ths prairies just
as they stake out and fight for mines in
the mountains. The author knows his types
thoroughly and so graphically has he caught
the atmosphere surrounding them that one
can almost hear the clink of the boot-spur
and the singing hiss of the lassoo, as well
as the drawling, musical suavity of voice,
associated with these grim, picturesque
men.
see
Fred M. White, the author of "The Crim
son Blind," etc.. Is stated to be the most
popular writer of serial stories In England
toaay. mis American auaience is steadily
growing larger, and there will be many
eager readers to greet his new mystery
story. "The Five Knots." The latter de
scribes the attempts of two Malays to pro
cure a vast, hiddn treasure from a wealthy
London shipowner, and their strange prac
tices upon him oy means or the "blue ter
ror" and a string with five knots. This
story has great originality in plot, and is
unusually fertile in interesting and unique
situations.
Jesse W- Weik, one of the co-authors of
Herndon it WIk"s "Life of Lincoln," has
written for the June Century the story of
Lincoln's vote for Vice-President In the
Philadelphia convention of 1856s quoting a
hitherto unpublished letter of W. B. Ar
cher, the man who, It appears. Is entitled
to the credit of first suggesting Mr. Lincoln
for the office. Mr. Lincoln was not in
Philadelphia at the time, but was In Illi
nois following Judge Davis around tha clr
Entered m 2ad CU MW Matter
OUR PRESIDENTIAL
PLATFORM
W are th origlnar Prohibition.
Istt Our wife Is prohibited from
Going: anything except
housework! We sold our
country place because the
air was so Intoxicating 1
We refuse to wear cotton
because' of the cotton gin! Fair
banks take notice!
We challenge all rival candidates
to be more In favor of an elastic
currency than we are! When we
are elected we shall pass a law pro
viding for the immediate minting of
suspenders!
Gown with govern
ment by injunction! The
day we are Inaugurated
we will take the crown
of thorns from labor's &
nrnw o n n nnt it m m v .
ital's chair. Bryan take
notice! Copyright
Infringers take notice! Our trade
marks aio: Equal Justice for All!
A 8quare Deal! This Broad Land of
Ours! Malefactors of Great Wealth!
Take notice! Consumers, accept no
substitutes!
Down with do
mination by the
courts! Whn we
are President they
will have to hand
down decisions
that will . please
both sides!
Tours for Peace. Progress and
Prosperity! No campaign promise is
genuine without our signature in fac
simile! cuit. and Mr. Welk quotes him as say lnr,
rather ungrammatically, when told that he
had received 110 votes for Vice-President:
"Surely it aint me; there's another (treat
man named Lincoln down In Massachusetts.
I reckon it's him."
s
Mary Austin Is a writer who Is becoming
known for a gilt for clever phrasing which
Is not of the "smart" order, but rather
simple, and of a sort , ordinarily heard
among people one meets. "Santa. Lucia"
owes much of the discussion which rather
suddenly followed its recent publication by
the Harpers to the quality of saying; wise
things briskly. "An unsuitable marriage Is
like a mended teacup. It can be put to
gether so it looks well from the outside,
but It never holds tea," says one woman,
sagely. "A wonderful woman to talk to,"
remarks another character, plainly a man.
"I don't suppose she understands half I say
when I get going about my work, but I
understand It better myself afterward."
Referring to the recent noteworthy article
In Harper's, In which Miss Carolina Tlck
nor showed that George Washington was a
direct descendant of King Edward I., of
Kngland, & correspondent of the same mag
azine, in an interesting letter printed In the
current issue, asserts that Washington was
a direct descendant of still another King
Henry I., of France. The line of descent is
through John de Sutton, Baron of Dudley
and son of John de Sutton and Margery de
Someri. heiress of Barony of Dudley. This
Margery de Someri was a direct descendant
of Lady Isabel, wife of the Earl of MUlsnt
and Leicester and daughter of Hugh ths
Great, Count de Valrnandois, who was son
of Henry I., King of France, and his wife
Anne of Russia.
The Bible as a standard for the correct
use of words has been urged upon readers
by Professor Lounsbury, of Yale, writing in
the June Harper's. "Make up your mind,"
says Professor Lounsbury, "that the Bible
is a guide to be followed grammatically as
much as it is morally. The languags of our
version belongs to the loth century. It,
therefore, naturally contains expressions
which, though proper at that time, are not
in accord with the common usage of our
day. When it was originally translated,
"which" was generally the relative pro
noun referring to persons. Hence, we say,
"Our Father 'which art In hsaven." More
than this: the subtle distinction found in
the employment of "shall'- and "will" had
not then become established in ths lan
guage. Bur these do not affect ths correct
ness of its procedure In regard to expres
sions still met with everywhere. In such
cases accept its authority without question,
and conform your practice to It."
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The Popular Magaslne for June opens
with a complet novel, "My Lord of ths
Pillagers," by Francis Lynde, author of
"The Taming of Red Butte Western," etc.
It is filled with rapidly shifting scenes and
Intensely dramatic situations. The main In
terest lies in the efforts of the hero to pre
vent the despoliation of forest reserves by
an organized band of lumber thleves.i "How
He Beoame a Ballplayer by W. B. M.
Ferguson, is the unvarnished account of ths
supposed formation of the greatest baseball
nine the world has ever known. In "$1000
Worth of Violets," Charles Prescott Fuller
tells of a man whs came to New York with
plenty of money and nothing to do. He
wanted adventure. He found It. Ralph D.
Paine's great- serial. "The WlM Man of Jer
sey," gets even runnier as it proceeds. sir.
Paine is well known from his stories ia
EcTlbnars and other leading periodicals.
"No Margin," by Harold C. Burr. Is the
Inside story of a little Wall street game,
see
Few more dramatically thought out situa
tions could be imagined thas that which
Frederick A. Ray so graphically pictures
In one chapter of his latest book. "The
Devil Worshipper.' It is a love scene,
played under the protecting base of a huge
bronze idol, by a Christian maid and man,
while the shouts of ths devil worshippers
ring. In their ears as they pay homage to
this their god. Around them are the smok
ing ruins and awful devastation of the city;
the conflagration gradually creeping upon
them, announced by the volumes of sulphur
and f lame-tongded smoke, belched forth
from the cone of the burning Mount Pelee.
Mr. Ray Is probably the first author to lay
a -heart drama In such an unique setting,
and, needless to say, has done the task
well. "The Devil Worshipper" handles be
sides, as its title would Imply, one of ths
most novel and interesting sects of occult
ism. A description of the rites of "Satan
Ism" during the burning of Martinique is
marvelousiy written.
e
No one is likely to stand up for the abso
lute linguistic inspiration of our transla
tion of the Bible. There are unquestionably
grammatical faults in It, though the num
ber of these Is far fewer than Is often as
serted, remarks Professor Lounsbury In Har
per's. The place In our version where par
ticular error is found Is In those passages
of the gospels where Christ Is represented
as asking the opinion of his disciples as to
the view entertained of him, by people In
general and by themselves in particular.
"Whom do men say that I am?" is the
question as It appears in Matthew. This
may be taken as the representative of all
the six Instances of the occurrence of the
construction. Its employment was due to
ao Inadvertence. It Is essentially the same
In the account as found in each of the first
three gospels. ... It would never be
made If one simple fact were kept In mind:
The very "to be" takes the same case after
It as before It. If one of the finite tenses
be used, both the subject and the subject
predicate are necessarily In the nominative.
If it be the Infinitive which is employed. It
Is the accusative that must appear In both
fy Under
fS Royal
pCEQ3 Patronage
5
MAY 31. 1908-
THE FATAL EGG; or, A WOEFUL WOOING '
CHAPTER VI.
Meantime there was Joy and evil congratulation among the low
browed financiers and burly capitalists who made the United States unsafe
Through all their dens and lairs had gone the news of
the President's unsuccessful hunt for the railroad rebate.
Many toasts were drunk in the secret boosing kens of preda
tory wealth to the Dukees of Arfenarf.
ia me wnite House there was deep dejection
Day after day the President galloped a few hundred
miles to search for the
-
worn to the shadow of a sky scraper
wm wusiuviiufi iu uoBvwati vxpeaieui jl uecoming speechless!
Count of Loeb. "Tell the caller it was
Then his eye alit on the name!
wita tremoang legs he ran to the Throne Room and uttered thai .inri.
word "Saved!" The President dropped a con-tressmln "'"A1?
sprang up. ' uwr
At this terrible moment the door opened and disclosed the forms of
fufvert Model- 6' 7 Chauffeur Md Willi. Colander the beauU-
'Eggs "ln4 Ulem !m tt" Seoretrr
Hflatfl-r fliiaan TT"ti H Iv. KmVa
- , "j .
and beautiful as ever, the Dukess of
SneerlnK coDloualr. nho ' InnVoH
her. Too clearly' she saw that she
her bosom she drew forth the rn
dent's feet.
"Take It!" aha irlsil In inn. a
Arfenarf knows how to escape your
.SS," , i ,!r . 5 a Derore
"u wj.
witn me I
She iumDed Into the air And rsma
nixed aa the wslUnnwn Hull h,,
I . - - ' - -"
ins uuKess oi Arcenan naa exploded!
The rent rtt nnr simnl. t.u im 4i t.u i . ... 7
ring-leaders to Philadelphia for Hf
Terror-atrlr.knii a t thto
.
IlLvnttAn rain. nA HAtfam. V. .
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TaSA(1UH C Y7 J W.a.
, ' - , 7w ft,. "na YV1"1
the world In thr- WHaVk,""" rrX.r"L.?-l..""aeymoon "P
; . . """""""
took up their residence in New York.
one or tne prettiest sights in
see Mr. and Mrs. Cnlanriar iinnrf
7 , .w.ii ic7 J- uu VCIBU
with diamonds, speed down Fifth Avenue In their Smello-
"uj wuiie Denina mem
automobiles each containing a Colander.
THS ENDJ
Instances, or, to adopt English grammatical
terminology, the objective No one would
think of asking such a question as "Whom
am I?" Yet It Is a thing of this very sort
which Is done In the passage quoted from
Matthew; and it Js done because the two
subjects had been separated by an interven
ing verb. On the other hand. It would have
been grammatically correct, even If rather
unusual, to put the question in this form:
"Whom do men say me to be?'
"I know with .certainty that in dying I
shall be- happy and that I shall enter a
world more real," said Tolstoi recently In
summing up bis anticipation of death to
a friend who congratulated him upon his
approaching 90th birthday. Elsewhere, aa
quoted in Helen Phllbrook Patten's "Inti
mations of Immortality," an anthology of
the comments of thinkers of ancient and
modern times on the subject of life after
death, the Russian phllosopner has said:
"Men who have renounced their individual
happiness never doubt their immortality.
Christ knew that he would continue to live
after death because he had already entered
into the true life which cannot cease. He
j lived even then In the rays of that other
center of life toward -which he was advanc
' Ing, and he saw them reflected on those
' who stood around him. And this every
; man who renounces his own good beholds,
i he passes In this life Into a new relation
Colonel Baker
Continued
In considering- and portraying; the de
lights and charms of peace, he was not
surpassed, but Senator Baker showed
that those who then were clamoring;
for this boon had precipitated war by
firing- upon the flag- of their country,
and were now trampling- that flag- un
der foot. He depicted the evils that
must come from a divided country. In
one-half of which the flag under
whose folds we had gained so much
glory would be excluded, and declared
that an Inglorious peace would be far
more disastrous than the horrors of
war, however much In blood and treas
ure It might coat.
The passage which most struck me,
and which Impressed me to such a de
gree that it can never be effaced from
my memory, was what follows. It now
seems prophetic.
After exclaiming, "Do not make
peace until the glory of the American
flag shall be Its own defense," he con
tinued: "I have heard It said that
there was a time In Ireland I believe
It to be a myth, but It Is said that
there was a time in Ireland when a
virgin, alone, unguarded, could go
through all Its length and breadth
with a crown upon her head and gold
ir vsae In hr hand, nnd no man dis-
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From Page 5.
turbed her chastity or robbed her of
her treasure.
After drawing this picture of respect
and devotion and reverence, tho ora
tor appeared to rise to a great height,
his whole frame quivering with emo
tion and fn tones that seemed to me
would ring through that Senate cham
ber for all- time, he continued: "I shall
not consent to make peace until ihe
time when a little drummer boy shall
be able to carry the flag of the United
ttle drummer boy shall I
Y the flag of the United -J
city and In every wW f'
sr It once floated, amir
i, the submission pi
everence of every mi
lid who gazes upon l.
States In every
derness wherever
the enthusiasm,
the profound re'
woman and child who gazes upo
stars."
I never saw Senator Baker-'after
wards. At the head of his command
In the thick of the fight he fell only
a short time after at Ball's Bluff. I
shall always remember him as I saw
and beard blm there In the Senate,
self-poised, majestic, sublime, and I
shall never cease to be grateful that
I have been permitted to live to see
the return of the peace he predicted,
the "peace which passeth understand
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