iTTTti smrTUTT ftrinvTv pnPTT.i VT). ATTflTTST SO. 1908.
S"si . -
i 'f-r-.r tir. a, mMfiif the, mind :
it requires the same effort of the' brain
that it takes to balance ..one's self on a
bicycle.rJIelen Keller.
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JMARY .ROBERTS
Halfway Hoaaa. bv Maurice Hewlete. f I 30.
Charles ficrihner's tout, New York City.
and the J. K. GUI (. Portland
It is well to remember tliat tha iub
title of this novel ts "A Comedy of
Degrees." before' deeply wading Into
w hat is an analysis of English "high"
life and the temperamental study of
a foolish but fortunate young woman,
Mi Mary Middleham. afterward In
succession Mrs. John Oorman and Mrs.
Jack Senhouse.
Halfway House." In title, almost
suggests a sort of Last-Chanr Saloon,
a last gap for liquid refreshment and
a two-fer cigar before we again "hit"
the dusty road; but the author clearly
shows that it is a place of moral
shelter. The book is a striking; bit of
fiction and comes up to the front In a
season noteworthy for meritorious
story-telling. ' England" Is written all
over It from the Insistent use of the
verbs "shall" and "will," down to many
cups of tea. On page 244 we read that
one Tristram Duplessis "leisurely sipped
bis tea before answering;, got up and
waited for another cup while ho col
lected his reply. It's a long time I
know that. Thanks, no sugar." Next
page, we come across Miss Nina
Ewetebrede. of Copestake, who "came
In. craving tex" And further along,
the young person says, as ahe dis
tributes her nods and smiles on either
hand: "Dear Mary, I'm so tired. Do
feed me and make a fuss of me and
1 shall love you."
- But after all Mary Middleham Is the
star performer, the top-liner tn this
comedy of temperament. She first
comes on the stage as a country gov
erness, a penniless dependent, who is
fortunate enough to attract tha notice
of John Germain, widower, a man old
enough to bo her father, but the pos
sessor of a long pedigree, a country
house, an atate and iota of money.
"She glowed like a peach' in the sun.
She looked wholesome and healthy.
Her figure was charming softly, ten
derly curved." Germain was impressed
with the maloVn, for he wistfully said
In his heart: "To woo the confidence
back to. such eyes, to still the doubts
In such a breast, were work for a
true map."
Now, Miss Mary was clearly not
meant for marriage, since she was cap
able of loving only one person In the
world herself. But she hankered
after matrimony and the delight of
having money and a . handle to
her name. The average young man
of her acquaintance tn those days al
ways wanted to fall down on his knees
and worship her just as soon as she
put In. an appearance. Three of her
chief lovers were John Germain, 30
years old, lord of the manor; Tristram
Duplessis. a six-footer who looked on
every pretty girl as his lawful prey,
and Jack Senhouse, poet, 'dreamer and
tinker. Senhouse is the most Interest
ing of the three, and this description
of him Is furnished by an envious
friend:
Jack Eenhnuse? 'Well, he's mad. Hieh
chsp at least hla father waa rich. Well.
Jack chocked all that took to painting,
scribbling-. God knows what. His governor
s;te crow; sends hlra 'round tha world on
tha chance ha settle down by and by. Ha
collects plants In the Atlas. Ha turns up In
Warsaw. talking to the Poles about revolu
tion. Ha goes to Siberia after plants and
polities. Mora rows. Well, he came back
and said ha was a tinker. Had learned
tinkering somewhere, sowderln' and all that,
and I'm d d If he didn't set up a cart
and corse and go about with a teat. Ha
paint, he ecrJbblee. ha sowders and ha turns
England Into a garden and planta hts
plant. He's got plants out all over tha
cou n try.
Mary marries Mr. Germain, although
she doesn't love him, and he treats
her as h would a grown-up daughter.
Even after marriage Mr. Germain al
lows Duplessis to pay her remarkable
attention, a fact of which her hus
band Is painfully aware, although he
prefers to suffer In silence. Senhouse,
he who allows his hair to grow long,
walks about without shoes or stock
ings, and tramps over Bngland with
his caravan, horse and dog, thus senses
the situation:
Old Germain what's he doing but playing
the "King on tha Cross?" But has ha any
thing to give? Its an Infernal shams. He's
bought the child. She'll never forgive him.
Fhe'll harden, she'll be pltlleea have no
mercy when tha hour strikes. ... If
there'e a woman in her, after travail she'll
b- bom. If I bedeck he bosom of England
and star It with the flowers, do I do batter
than Germain whh bis money, or Duplessis
with his rights? And If X were to court her
bosom Oh, ray brown-eyed venturer
in deeo- waters. I could serve you well! Go
to school, missy and when you are tired,
there'e Halfway House.
When one. reads of the armed-peace
between Mrs. Germain and her hus
band, and learns that the queerly
assorted pair have hardly one thought
In common, one dimly suspects that
the husband will conveniently dia be
fore vary long. No tender-hearted
novelist would dare In fiction to
hint that such a marriage ought to be
of the untll-dcath-doth-us-part order
So. old Mr. Germain dies, of a broken
heart, and leaves a fine house and
$15,000 a year to his widow, so long
as she remains unmarried. But, if she
marries. $2500.
Now, put on your thinking cap. What
do you think this very-much-loved
young woman does? Go through the
remainder of her life a widow? Mr.
Hewlett finds a ready answer.
Some Afrtaaa Highways, by Caroline Klrk
land. Illustrated. St. SO. Dana Estes &
Co., Boston, Mass.
Frank G. Carpenter, through his letters
to The Oregonian, has mads African
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CIRCUlR STAIRCASE
travel a familiar subject in this region.
and so complete have been his word pic
tures that it would seem that the entire
subject had been exhausted for tne
Dresent.
But the writer of this Interesting book
of observation holds up a new mirror and
tells about what may be called "a wo
man's Africa." She describes the Jour
ney of herself and mother to Uganda ana
tha Transvaal, the accompanying photo
graphs toeing excellent. She tells of utter
savagery In closs contsct wun monem
aortal Ufa bu lit ud by Britons, r rencn.
Germans, Italians and Portuguese. A
llvelv Introduction Is given ny ueutenani
General Baden-Powell, the hero of Mafe-
klne during the British-Boer war.
The authoress says that her book Is
published with tha hope of Interesting
other Americans In one of the most fas
cinating and unique tours In the world
a tour which can be made with entlra
safety and great comfort.
"Where else?" asks she. "can you look
from railway carriage windows and see
sebraa, gnus, giraffes, hyenas, and even
lions, as you steam through a land? We
two women only touched the surface of
it. but we were ever conscious of much
that we could not see, nor hear, nor
formulate, but which exists In a land
teeming with fierce and savage life."
In speaking of Victoria Nyanza. the
latter word meaning "lake," our author
ess writes:
Lake Superior has none of the hippopo
tami, tha giant crocodiles, or tha still mora
repulsive water-pythons that Infest this
body of water and glva a sinister glint to
the sparkles.
By way of reassurance, tha captain of our
steamer showed us photographs of huge
crocodiles he had ahot from tha and of that
very pier; also of a mammoth water-python
which had crawled up a few months ago
on tha very deck where we were pitting,
where It stretched tta horrid, slimy, 17 feet
of colls, and Interrupted a "capital game of
bridge."
In nearly every chapter the authoress
voices her appreciation of what she. calls
English colonial rule In Africa- For In
stance, on page 113 she speaks of the
King of England's birthday, which was
observed by English officials with pomp
and ceremony. English? Surely she means
British. In mentioning a dinner party
given at Entebbe, Uganda, it is related
that a portion of tha eatables consisted of
salmon from the Columbia River.
The most Impressive word pictures given
are those describing disease-producing
tropical Africa, the land of ants and
sleeping sickness. It Is thought that this
latter disease first appeared in West
Africa about 15 years ago, having pos
sibly been brought there from South
America- The natives of Uganda paid
Its most shocking toll, for out of a popu
lation of about 300.000 In the year 1900,
200.000 died of sleeping sickness between
that date and 1906, In the Protectorate.
Tha opinion is .expressed that a long
residence In tropical Africa has a disin
tegrating effect, both physically and men
tally, on the white races? It saps the
vigor, rendering bodies anemic and minds
torpid, one of Its most peculiar effects
being the destruction ef the memory. The
tenure of the Anglo-Saxon in Central
Africa, It Is stated. Is rather like that of
the animal trainer in a cage full of
trained linns and tigers, because "the
black races do not like tha white people."
The Wayfarers, by Mary Stewart Cutting.
$1 55. Illustrated. Tha McClure com
pany, New York City.
Just as Conan Doyle is known to tha
world for his wonderfully good detective
stories, O. Henry, ' for his New York
tales of the four million: Robert W.
Chambers, for his brilliant pictures of
our new plutocracy Mrs. Mary Stewart
Cutting has become known as tha nov
elist of the American suburbanite. Pic
ture a business man in the city manag
ing a machine shop or a foundry, a train
tooting toward the fragrant meadows,
a trolley car or a ferryboat, and a wait
ing wife accompanied by lota of babies
at tha other end of suburban-town, and
the Cutting atmosphere arrives.
Mrs. Cutting, up to now, has rather
been known as a writer of short stories,
but lately ahe liu wooed fame as the
author of regular novels. A typical
Cushlng study is "The Wayfarers," be
ing the story of a married pair who
narrowly escaped being tha principal
actors in the domestic tragedy of an
unhappy marriage, the moving spirit in
It being Justin Alexander, a husband
who becomes so much absorbed in hla
business that his wife suffers from lack
ef his society. She was made to be
coddled and loved like a big baby and
she has one long wall of regret. Just
like the rat whose milk-bowl is left
unfilled for a succession of mornings.
Probably Mrs. Alexander would have
been happier had her husband been able
to store her in one ef his vest pockets,
the one nearest his heart.
But, anyway, Mrs. Alexander is human
and lovable, and possesses an interesting
personality, so much so that she makes
one curious to watch her to the and.
One morning she "sat up" to welcome
her husband on his return, from a club
dinner party, and "her facfe was white,
and her large eyes stared straight be
fore her rigidly, yet with a wild gleam
in them. As he looked at her she rose
and moved as. If to pass him."
"Where are you going?" he asked, aa ha
atepped forward with his dripping overcoat
it waa raining half off.
Her lips stiffly framed, the word: "Out."
He spoke roughly, in a terrible anxiety
and anger mixed together: "What are you
working yourself up to all this foolishness
lor?"
"Tou don't cars any mora." Oh, if ha
would snatch her to him now. that she
might feel his protecting arms around her.
If he would kiss her now with the kisses
she remembered, and love her, and comfort
her, and send this horrible spirit out of
her!
"Tou don't care." she whispered again.
"No. I don't care for you when you act
like this." His voice was sterner" now: It
was time, that this travesty came to an end.
She atared at him aa before. "Then I'll
go." she said wildly, and slipped past him
out of the door and Into the rain, running
with swift uncertain footsteps down the
black, wet street, listening, listening al! the
time for him to follow listening aa she ran.
She had gone nearly a block toward the
river. Oh. watild ha let her go?
Of course not. Mr. Alexander came up
with his foolish wife and caught her
and the little tragedy dissolved amid
kisses and tears. So a woman'e words
, are shown.
A young girl. Miss Dosla Linden. Is in
troduced with admirable yet amusing
effect. She is a girl of foolish senti
mentalism who has a vasiety of lovers
and can't for a long time make up her
mind which one Is "the" one. Ultimate
ly she i suited.
The portrait of -Justin Alexander is
perhaps the best drawn, because he en
dures the most-r-a young business man
starting on borrowed, capital and whose
financial savior turns out, indirectly, to
be his wife.
"The Wayfarers" has a domestic thrill,
a homey feeling that goes to the right
spot. Its- married lovers are natural folks
of every-day type.
Anne of Creen Gables, by L. M. Mont
gomery. Illustrated. 1.S0. I. C. Page
A Co.. Boston. Mass.. and Llpman, Wolfs
A Co., Portland.
Tod much praise cannot be awarded this
splendidly drawn and daintily apprecia
tive sketch of sensitive and Imaginative
girlhood. The heroine is Miss Anna or
Cordelia Shirley, who has red hair and
creeps into the book and Into your liking
when she Is Just 11 years old. and is a
graduate from an orphan asylum on
Prince Island, Canada. There Is a quaint
humor about her that is contagious, but
pleasant the kind you chnckle over. She
has all sorts of odd adventures, and tha
delineation of character seen in tha per
cons of a rugged old farmer and his
drled-up spinster sister is above tba aver
age.
Anna is a child of trouble, but there la
enough ootimism In her to say at tha end
when she is really a success In life:
"Dear old world, you are very lovely and
I am glad to be alive in you." Tha teach
ing of the novel is wholesome, ana tne
book Is a suitable present for a young girl
at school. There ought to ba mora eenai
bla books like "Anne of Green Gables."
The Vegetable Oardea, by Ira n. Bennett
lllustrsted. $150. The McClura Com
"" pany. New Tork City.
Away with peddled fruit and tht
dusty vegetables that grace the gro
cars' doorway! In tha words of thli
client honk. "There are no vege
imMki ilka those which coma wet with
the morning dew from one's own gai
. L. - V. (Ohio wit
UCil, in (tract? iiiw u n o " . . . . , ..
the toothsome erlspness of the scarlet
radish or the fresh coolness of lettu e.
To possess the land and till it, is the
primal heritage of men."
All of which goes to show that you
(i U K 1 1 1 iw lit v " . ' ' .
den all your own. and that you ought
. . , . 1 V. nalAnt Aarth
to plant seeas i Fnllr,,fc ...
which before long will come out as
food. This nneiy uiustrsicu b.hu
Itoly written book will tell you Just
what you ought to do. Its wise ad
vice Is worth real money.
How to Dreae a noil, by Mary M. Morgan,
.o cents. Henry Aitemus company. Phll-
A valuable little book admirably
adanted for use in schools, churcn
sewing classes and the home. Both
mother and child will welcome It as a
friend. Tha authoress is an experi
enced teacher of sewing and seems to
know ev-erv difficulty that besets lit
tie needlewomen. Simple words are
used, so simple that most of the little
folks will understand the lessons
iriven. Pictures, diagrams ana pat
terna help to simplify the text, and
the mysteries of iucks, nems anu
stitches are made clear.
The Mystery of the Four Fingers, by Fred
M. White. W. J. Watt & Co.. New York
city.
A sensational story of English life, de
pleting the aftermath of one Mark Fen
wick, who committed murder to gain tha
secret of how to obtain gold from tha
Four Fingers mine, in Mexico. The "four
finger" thread in the story is a grewsome
one, and the subsequent Nemesis which
overtakes Fenwick thrills like melo
drama. But the story Itself is undeniably
cheap, and I can t recommend it aa one
to read Just before dinner.
The Social Puty of Oar Daughters, by Mrs.
Adolph Hoffman. 85 cents. Vlr Publlsh
Comp&ny, Philadelphia. Pa
Mrs. Hoffman, of Geneva, Bwltxer
land, is prominent In European reform
work, and In this sympathetically writ
ten book gives a helpful message to
mothers and grown daughters on the
responsibility of motherhood.
J. M. QUBNTIX.
IN IJBRARY AND WORKSHOP.
New books received: "Peggy at Bplnater
Farm," by Helen M. Winslow (Psga A Co.);
"The Study of Nature," by Dr. Samuel
Christian Schmercker (Ulppincott).
New books received: Through LJpman.
Wolfe A Co., "Anne of Green Gables and
. . -. Lj.in.i.. Vav m-" through the J.
K. Gill Company, "Tha Study of Nature,1;
Tne wayiarers, in vsksu,
c - ubi .Mil Wordum to define
the difference between genius and insanity.
,.nr. ii .nihnr of "Doacneratlon.
speaking in a tone of conviction, "the luna-
. . a. I lutavil m rA
tic its. av iMm u'" . ' ""
lothes." . . .
Robert Hsrriek's new novel "Together."
l nrose ante of marriage, continues to ba
sought after. It's ona charm is that It
begins at tha place wnere neroea ana nr-
nes are generally sujuwtw w "
ever after.
v.. - ... .hlldren that
J t . . - ' - m
. . UnjIvaAM T3 , ... mil b. a M written
for some years will ba -ubHshed lmmediate-
... . . I .1.1. Tl'nlf Al
ly U 111) CI UIV I ' U w. - . ---
ready, through Its serial publication, tna
and the book will no doubt meet with a
large 'Bala.
Warner's "American Charities." which for
several years has tesn tha standard work of
reference upon tta subject, ta to be presented
In entirely revised ana enlarged lorra oy its
publishers this fall. A naw poetic version
of Tha Pearl," a medieval poem, oy rrw.
Sophie Jeweu of Wallealey. is also an
nounced. ess
When Sir Robert Walpole. tha English
statesman, retired Into private life, time
hung heavy oa his hands, and Horace ex
erted himself to amuse his father. One
day ha offered to read ta him. "What will
you read, child?" askad tUr Robert, wearily.
Horace suggested history. "No. no," replied
the veteran statesman; "not history, Hor
ace; that can't ba true."
e e s
The Blue Dragon." by Kirk Munroe, and
"Cast Up by the Sea." by Hamuel White
Baker, old-time favorites with young peo
ple, have gone Into reprint. Other Juvenile
reprints noticed are "Toby Tyler," by James
Otis; "Pony Tracks and Crooked Trails."
by Frederick Remington; "Nan." by Lacy
O. 1,1111s. and three books by Ellen Douglas
island "Oakleigh," "Josephine" and "Alan
Ralnsford."
ess
la a few days will ba Issued a new novel
by Frederick Palmar entitled "Tha Big
Fellow." This Is a big itory with a big
American -for Its heroa new character,
simple and magnetic, full of boyish unaffect
edness. a rr.&l hero without even wanting to
be one. Tha story recalls measurably, the
author's other fine American novel. "The
Vagabond" but it is xnaturer, more finished,
better In every way
It is being told of Renan in Paris that
his contemporary Bolsaler came to him
beamingly to boast that one of his auto
graphs had been sold at an auction for a
dollar, while Renan's had. brought only 80
cents. "Well." said Renan. "now let me
tell you the reason." And he produced the
Identical dollar autograph from his desk.
There were three mistakes In Fpelllng and
It had besn bought in at a fancy prioe to
keep the public from learning that an acade
mician couia tint p-mi.
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"Tha Duke's Motto" Is the title of tha new
novel by Justin Huntly McCarthy which will
sea the light In a few days. Ivers of
facile swords and devil-may-care heroes will
rejoice to know that Mr. McCarthy hero
will be like that. The plot has its setting
In France under I.tuis XIII.. shifts also to
Spain, and is described as sheer adventure
completely under the spell of a hero so
audacious and resourceful that all of his
exploits seem true.
A novel of international flavor, powerful
In plot and action, will be published under
the title of "The Ptstue." It Is the Joint
work of Eden Phlllpotts and Arnold Ben
nett, and partakes of the great story
telling qualities of each of these rreatly
unlike novelists. The scene Is England and
the Issues Involved, soclsl and political, are
of tha larger kind. The novel Is finely
written. It leaves the reader at the close
of the exciting clln ax with the feeling of
satisfaction that follows the reading of only
a few booka each year.
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An exciting detective etory Is announced
under the title of "The Man Without a
Head." The -autho- is Tyler de Salx. The
scene Is England, for the most part London,
and the hero a young German recently an
nexed to the staff of Scotland Yard, who
has his reputation to make and makes It.
The story Is ona which depends for its
powerful grip on the attention upon the
keen clash of wits between the pursuer and
the pursued, rather than upon the sheer
force of horror plied on horror, which Is
the method of so many rtcent writers of
mystery stori-s.
Among women who write there Is aoms
diversity of opinion about women's clubs.
Many of the best-known writers are identi
fied with club life. Gertrude Atherton. of
course, being the great exception, and the
newer ones are also divided among them
selves. "I am very fond of clubs," con
fesses Maude Radford Warren, who is being
noticed as the author of tne new novel
"The Land of the Living." "I belong to
half a dosen or so of all sorts merely so
oial. surely fashionable, really Intellectual
and aolely philanthropic. In short, I belong
to all tha nice clubs I can nna.
see
Mary Roberts Rlnehart is a young au
thoress who Is going to be lucky with her
first novel "The Circular Staircase" a
first-class detective atory, which proves to
be mysterious and very readable. Up to
now. Miss Rlnehart haa attracted faver
abla notice as a writer of short stories.
"The Circular Staircase" tells what hap
pened to a middle aged spinster, who. with
her sisters two grown children, occupies a
country house for- the Summer. Then a
murder happens, and' the clue to the mur
derer Is so deftly hidden that the explana
tion relative to the Identity of the wretch,
comes Ilka a sudden blow In the face.
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Of course, the ona Important feature of
the September number of the Pacific Monthly
is the new story, by Jack I,ondon. entitled
"Martin Eden." The opening chapter open
exceedingly well, and all the good things
said In advance of the etyry so far turn out
to be true. London appears this time In a
new and better light, and It's about time.
His story l sure to meet with a great re
ception. Very useful is William T. Proe
ser's article, "ts Alaska Becoming a Rich
Man's Preserver' Ared White, seemingly a
new writer, e-ritea gilt-edge ' Action in a
stirring tsle of a man hunt. "The Anniversary
of Los Plnoe." Mr. White's word pictures
are eo vivid that one almost seems to eee
his characters move on a stage.
One of those people who concern them
selves with such things wrote the other dsy
tn Charles Rann Kennedy, author of "The
Servant in the House." asking for aome
story of his childhood. Evidently much
success the hook has exhaustsd many
editions, and the play Is touring the coun
try has not quenched the Englishman's
ambition, for he replied promptly: "Only
etory of childhood recorded by my mother.
One whole day I cried literally for the
moon. Like the atory." offers Mr. Ken
nedy. "Symbolical. Been crying for It aver
since. And I'll get It yet." According to
literary reports, tha two books ffictlon and
plays) moat in demand in New York libra
ries at this time are Rex Beach's "Tha Bar
rier" and Charles Rann Kennedy's "The
Servant in the House."
e e e
William Helnemann. the well-known Lon
don publisher. Is a man of varied talents.
It is known that be has successfully ap
peared In I,ondon In a number of copy
right performances of modern standard
playa, and now ha has been displaying bla
skill as a photographer in a number of
striking snapshots that he has taken of
William DeMorgan. author of "Somehow
Good." and "Joseph Vance," In Florence.
Although It Is known that Mr. DeMorgan
la considerably over 40 years of age, he does
not look , a day over It In theae pictures,
all of which show him In the beat of humor:
Most of them were taken In tha beautiful
Cachlne Park, one of them at the spot
where Shelley wrote "The Ode to the West
Wind." Still another shows Mr. DeMorgan
on the Lung Arno near where Dante met
Beatrice.
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Commenting upjj Lord Dunedln's leroark
at the recent unveiling of the memorial to
Mrs. Ollphant in Fdlnburrh Cathedral, to
the effect that the author of "The Chrr.n
leles of Carllngford" was the greatest novel
ist Scotland had produced since Miss Fer
rier. the Springfield Republican Bays that
this Is "an estimate to which some ardent
Btevensonlans would take exception." And
It adds: "As a matter of fact. Stevenson
waa hardly a novelist at all. though a
brilliant writer and romancer. It may well
be believed that If he had lived another ten
years and learned to portray women and
develop character he would have become a
great novelist as well. JHs unfinished Weir
of Hermlston shows a remarkable growth
In this direction Mrs. Oilshant was by
comparison a second-rate writer, but a mora
accomplished novelist, and her books hsva
lasting charm."
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"Tha Whole Family." the remarkable ae
rial novel now appearing in Harper's Basar.
Is conesded by the critics to be a most strik
ing magazine feature. "The Whole Family"
la written by twelve of America's most
famous authors, whose names are: William
Dean Howells, Mary E. Wllklna Freeman,
John Kendrlek Bangs, Mary R. S. Andrews.
Mary Stewart Cutting,-Alice Brown, Henry
van Dyke. Elisabeth Stuart Phelps, Elisa
beth Jordon, Edith Wyatt, Mary Heatoa
Vorse, Henry James.
The navel is unique and wholly different
from former composite novels ln the fact
that each author writes his chapter In the
first person and aa the mouthpiece of ona
member of the family. Moreover, the
Bazar is publishing the chapters without ths
names of the authors, and allowing the
public to guess which has written each In
stallment. eee
The September Century contains tha first
of William H. Crook's reminiscences of
Andrew Johnson In tha White House, an
nounced some monthB ago. Mr. Crook was
for many years one of the White House
staff: and his reminiscences of tha daya of
Andrew Johnson's presidency, written In col
laboration with Mrs. Margarita Spalding
Gerry, are marked by a sympathetic appre
ciation of the mora engaging qualities of a
man who ts the ona of our Preetdenta least
known and, perhaps, least understood.
Edward C Parker, of the University of
Minnesota Agricultural Experiment Station.
who has written for the same
magazine of "The Future Wheat
Supply of the United Stages." started in
June for Manchuria on an agricultural mis
sion for the VThlneee authorities, who re
quested the State Department of the United
Statea to furnish them with two American
experts In agricultureal experiment work.
The work contemplated la that of organiz
ing an experiment station and agricultural
school in the province of Manchuria,
eee
It is well know that Mrs. Humphry Ward,
whosa Influence on the American publie has
deepened since "The Testing of Diana Mal
lnry" has been written, is an ardent settle
ment worker, and prominently identified
with the promotion of recreation schools.
Only recently Mrs. Ward was hoetess at a
settlement garden-party in London, where
the children of the play achools entertained
her guests, the Society of Women Journal
ists, of which she Is president, with exer
cises, dances and songs. "I have seen Mrs.
Ward." said one woman who was present at
the fete, "on a platform with the late M.
Auguste Sabatier, Joining In a discussion on
religious and philosophical problems. I have
heard her lecture on Pierre Loti, and ad
dress an audience of learned people on
Modernism' in Italy. But never has she
appeared more charming or more womanly
than In the company of the tiny members
of her 'Guilds of Play.' '
Sir Gilbert Parker's boyish taste in books,
if it does not indicate the future author
ship of novels like "The Weavers" and "The
Right of Way," is at least uncommon. "The
hooks of my boyhood which lured me most."
writes Sir Gilbert, "were Shapespeare (eight
of whose plays I knew by heart). 'David
Copperneld." 'The Heart of Midlothian.' Ma
caulay'a 'History of England,' Kinglake's
'Eothen,' Carlyle's 'French Revolution,' and
Webster's Dictionary. You will see that it
la an oddly Incongruous lot, but I browsed
In my own way, and if I did not understand
all of Carlyle. the drama,the vivid plctur
esqueness of his style, captivated me. Web
ster's Dictionary and Shakespeare were to
me the most alluring of all books, but I
must add to the list the Apocrypha, which
had all the glamor and none of the perils
of forbidden fruit.
Solving the Secrets of Aerial Flight
CONTINUED FROM PAGE THREE
can. Certainly within the next score of
years, but, then, it may come In a
night. But this I do know when the
scientists come to irrefutable facts and
figures In aerial navigation and can
lay down a set of rules and laws and a
formula for the guidance of us prac
tical men, then will come perfection In
a Jump.
"There are very few who have taken
up the subject methodically and scien
tifically; in fact, practically none but
experimenters like myself plain, prac
tical experimenters, willing to take a
chance and find out the best we may
how the thing is to ba done. But It
takes years and lives to learn and get
tha experience. We can only hope that
science will join hands with practical
bllity and gain perfection In aviation.
"The airship of the future will be of
tha Von Zeppeiln type. I have studied
out that phase of tha question to my
own satisfaction, and I have oome to
the conclusion that such will ba the
type. But It will hava more planes
more than on my dirigible In fact, ba
a combination of the dirigible and the
aeroplane, but larger. The airship of
the future, as I sea It, will he of Im
mense size, hava great speed and will
be as easily controlled aa this hundred-footer
of mine. It will be of
such slse that it will overcome the ele-.
ments as does the modern liner, and
will be as capable, from Its great lift
ing power, of being of service not only
In war but in commerce."
By 0. Chanut8
Builder of Airships and author of
several books on aeronautics.
I .BELIEVE the ultimate type of flying
machine will preserve the feature of
bridge trussing, because In that way we
ejeem to be able to attain to the maxi
mum of stiffness and strength with the
minimum of weight. My interest is in ths
two-surface or double-decker machine. It
ta with that type Farman. Bell, tha
Wright brothers and De la Grange are
getting their best results.
While I am satisfied that the two-surface
Idea will be adhered to, I am also of
the opinion there may be a variation from
the present manner of arranging tha sur
faces to get the best possible results. It
is most Important now that there should
be such arrangement of surface as will
assure automatic equilibrium in the air.
By automatic equilibrium I mean that
the apparatus itself shall he able to neu
tralize irregularities of the wind and that
less reliance need be placed on the. human
equation. Wright brothers, for instance,
have, done some great things with their
flying machines, but It is questionable if
any one else could hava dona eo much
with them.
The ultimata heavier-than-alr machine
must he one which will meet suscess
fully Its own emergencies in fiiglit nnd
overcome obstacles without too much In
tervention on the part of the opritar.
That is recognised both In this country
and In Europe as the one great desider
atum. The monoplane gives greater supporting
power to ti-e square foot, but it 13 much
heavier than the double-surface ma;aine
and one lo: more in the latter direction
than Is gained in the former. .The great
effort of the future, it seems to me,
should be to bring about automatic equi
librium. That accomplished the hardest
part of the road will have been passed
over.
I have made up my mind that no
heavier-than-alr machine ever will be
devised that will serve for practical com
nercial purposes for carrying passengers
and freight In any numbers or quantity.
The difficulty is that the weight of tha
rraachlne will increase more rapidly than
its carrying capacity.
I do not now see any . possibility of
building an airship that will bear more
than five persons. The use of the flying
machine will be confined to three things.
First, it will be used for sport; second,
for reconnolaance In times of war, and,
third, for the exploration of lands and
places that are otherwise plainly inac
cessible. ,
I do not subscribe to the prophecy that
the flying machine will Temodel civilisa
tion, that it will do away with tariffs and
frontiers, and that it will result In modifi
cations of existing styles of architecture.
There Is too much optimism In that fore
cast for me, and I have studied the' sub
ject pretty thoroughly. I do not expect
to sea the day, as some would have us
believe, when the roofs of men's houses
will ba constructed to serve as lighting
stations for their flying machines. Dirigi
fcle balloons may be built to carry a score
of men but they must be always cumber
some and dangerous, according to our
present knowledge.
ByAlexanderGraham Bell
AS to the ultimate type of airship,
that to my mind is a question that
canot be answered. There are two dis
tinct classes of aerial vehicles balloons.
which are lighter than air, and airships,
which are heavier than, air. I believe
that aerial navigation will be solved by
tha heavier-than-alr machines, and conse
quently am giving all my attention to
that class.
There are) threo varieties of heavier-
than-alr machines aerodromes, helicop-
'lera and the ornlthopter. All three of
these ere being worked, but only the
first named has given any practical re
sults and carried a man any distance.
Aerodromes are divided into many types,
and the type that will eventually be suc
cessful will ba decided by experiments
now being made, but I have the greatest
confidence in the tetradons. As to the
probable influence on social and political
conditions, I might reply that I am not
Interested In that phase of tha airship
question and have not given It serious
thought. I am anxious only to succeed
without reference to the uses to which
tha machine may be put, but I will say
that the success of the airship will rev
olutionize warfare. It may become, in
fact, a war exterminating agency, and
thus end all armed conflicts between na
tions. For Instance, as an Illustration of
the tremendous use to which the airship
will tie put, a $7,000,000 ship might be
easily destroyed by a cheap machine, and
by tha earns agencies whole cities wiped
out.
Then when you regard tho more peace
ful side of the question, it is safe to pre
dict that aerial sailing will become a
great sport, for it will entail less ex
pense than automoblling or motorboats
and prove infinitely more exciting.
By Captain W. H. Hedge
Founder of tho Aero Club of Amer
ica. Founder of the Aero Club of America.
THEJ flying machine will make our
seacoasts absolutely impre enable. It
has been estimated that a single airship
station costing $23,000 would render useless
a war fleet worth tens of millions of dol
lars. A small fleet of such craft would be
more than a match for the combined
navies of the world. Hera is but one
utility of tho airship. When it Is consid
ered what a tremendous advantage It
will afford reconnoitering and in all field
operations it seems no exaggeration to
say it will revolutionize warfare.
Ultimately ths airship in some form Is
certain to play an Important part in gen
eral transportation. First, we will see
airships used as a sport and within a fear
years aeroplanes or dirigibles will be as
common as automobiles. Later they will
be utilized for transporting lighter freight,
such as the mails, and ultimately we will
have the sky filled with great passenRer
ships crossing the Atlantic as well as the
entire continent.
By Brig.-Gen. G. J. Allen
Chief of Signal Office, U. S. A.
THE practical utility of the airship
. seems to be limited at present to
warfare, but in this field its value can
scarcely be estimated. I am very
hopeful of its future. The Government
tests at Fort Meyer will be the roost
rigid yet tried and will doubtless go
far to establish the airship in this
field. The use of such engines for
reconnoitring promises to work a
revolution In our methods of warfare.
It Is Impossible to say whether tha
dirigible or the aeroplane will ulti
mately be adopted. At present the dir
igible balloon answers our purposes
better. It will go higher and stay
aloft longer. The aeroplane Is more
dependent upon the atmosphere. In
the next few years, however, the de
velopment of the aeroplane may be
such that It will surpass the balloon.
We are wWtlng meanwhile and watch
ing with the liveliest Interest and
hopefulness.
The advance In aerial navigation' of
lata has been remarkable.- Compare the
recent German war balloon with the
balloons we sent up during the Civil
War. When we see what has been ac
complished, the most extravagant
hopes of the future do not Seem Impos
sible. Publie confidence In the airship
meanwhile seems complete: After the
loss of the French war balloon, for In
stance, many people in Franc seemed
to Imagine that Germany would be
able to Invade them within a few
hours.
By Dr. A. F. Zahm .
Cathollo University of America.
SINCE automobiles hava been per
fected In ten years It seems safe to
assume that tha flying machine will
be crystallted in five, said Dr. Zahm.
With tha hiachines which are now
available a revolution is at hand In
methods of transportation. We hava
dirigible balloons which will travel
35 miles an hour and carry two
people. Within two years we may
expect a speed of forty miles or more
an hour with a carrying: capacity of
twelve people for voyages of 40 hours.
Today the aeroplane will carry two peo
ple at a speed of 40 miles an hour and
within a year this speed will probably
be increased to 60 or SO miles. As for
distance, the Wright brothers already of
fer to build an airship which will travel
500 miles without coming to earth.
In other words, within a year or two
we will find ourselves In a new age. Our
methods of warfare will probably be- the
first to be affected. I believe . that a
single aeroplane capable of traveling 500
miles will be as effective as an army
of 60.000 men. A fleet of such machines
will revolutionize warfare. With snch an
engine of war the enemy would have no
secrets. Its exact force and distribution
could be observed and reported hourly.
The airship again will soon become a
very active and terrible engine of war,
apart from Its value as a scout. It will
be Impossible to scatter explosives, aa
has been suggested, because bombs are
heavy and could not well ba raised in
The Frisking
CONTIXUKD FROM PAGE SIX.
glad you're here! I'd follow an old Injun
fighter like you anywhere. Come let's
rush "em!"
I'd got him by the elbow and was
pushin' him out the front door by that
tlsne; so It was a case of must. It was
a mighty nice moonlight night, but there
was so many bushes and trees around
the grounds that the shadows were plenty
and black.
"Git behind one of them trees, quick!
says Joe, all excited.
So we makes a run for It; but we
hadn't got half way before there come
a bang! bang! and half a dozen bushes
was lit up by flashes.
"Oh, lordy, lordy!" groans Joe, and then
he streaks It for the tree like he was a
hundred-yard champ.
"Git out!" e&ys he, when I comes up.
"Go find a tree of your own.''
"Not much!" says I. "I'm goln' to stick
by you and watch the slaughter. Why
don't you get busy7"
"I'm waitln' to shoot at some of them
flashes." says he.
He didn't have to wait long. They
opened up again, and Joe lets drive back.
And say, I'll be hanged If he wa'n't
goln' about It cool and business like. He
might have been some scared at first;
but the minute he gets to work his nerve
comes back, and he acts like a man who
meana to do a good Job. Course, he didn't
know that nothln' but Fourth of July
ammunition was bein' burned, and I be
gun to see that behind all that bluff there
was some real grit.
"There!" says Joe. crackln" another
shot. "I'll bet a doughnut one of them
pesky redskins bit the dust then!"
I guess It was lucky for them Cat
taraugus braves that Joe was shootln'
nothin' but powder.
"Look out!" says I. "They're crawl in'
up on us."
Blamed If It wa'n't better'n anything
Buffalo Bill ever put on, to see them tur
key tail bonnets wrlgglln' along, and the
moonlight shlnin, on the pistol barrets.
Dodge has spread out his crowd so that
they had us cut off from the house, and
was closln' in gradual.
Joe, he lets fly a couple of times: but
when he don't see ony of 'em tumble
over he don't know what to make of It.
He stands it a couple of minutes, and
the next thing I know he heaves up a
yell you could have heard 40 blocks, and
starts over the sod on the Jump. I keeps
on after him the best I can. and the whole
bunch trails after, shootin' and yellln
to beat the cars. It was a hot pace he
was settin', and we left 'em behind like
they was all standin still.
Joe was headed toward the station, and
by the time I'd got there he has turned
over the baggage truck and has his
knife out, preparin' for the last stand. I
knew Dodge had called oft his crowd at
the gates and had gone hack to let Mrs,
Pell into the game.
"It's all over, Joe," says I.
He wouldn't believe it for a spell; but
after he'd listened and couldn't hear any
thing, he simmers down.
"How many do you reckon It was that
I killed?" says he.
"I lost count," says I; "but you put up
as gamy a fight aa I ever saw. As an
Injun slayer, Joe, you're all right. Want
any great quantity. But. the aeroplane
might scatter fire pellets with deadly ef
fect over wlda areas. A piece of phos
phorus, for Instance, dropped from a
great height would instantly ignite any-'
thing it struck. Great forests or fields
of grain or even cities could be tired In
this way. The possibilities of such war
fare are Incalculable.
Within a few years we may s actual
battles in the air between war aeroplanes.
The possibilities of resistance In these
machines is greater than would be Im
agined. It would be Impossible for them
to raise cannon or heavy guns to the up
per air to fight with, so lhat In -fighting
among themselves their batteries will
consist Onty of rifles or pistols. Since
these planes would b sweeping, abr.it
at a mile-a-minute gait they would be ,
hard to hit In any vital spot. They might '
be riddled with shot and still keep afloat. ;
The only way to sink these ships would
he to disable the operator, and this would
prova a very difficult thing to do. A
battle In midair will last longer than
most people would imagine.
We are likely to develop the .balloon,
the dirigible and the aeroplane . along
more or les parallel lines. Eai-h form
of airship nas its own merits. In Amer
ica especially I think this advance will
be very rapid. The Government restric
tions are the most rigid of their kind In
the world. The requirements for th
UttB at Fort Meyer are fsr more exact
ing than In any other country.
By Peter Cooper Hewitt
Inventor, member Aero Club of
America.
I AM not only hopeful but confident of
the Immediate future of aerial naviga
tion. It is but a question of a very few
years before we will see airships In more
or less common Use such as automobiles
are today. The use of such craft as a
means of transportation will eventually
follow. It is already possible to calculate
with some degree of accuracy the cost of
this form Of transportation. The airship
will prov somewhat cheaper than an au
tomobile. The airship consists merely of
canvas and a few bars nnd bolts and
pieces of wire. The cost of road3 which
must be provided at public expense will
be done away with. The cost of propul
sion will be less than In the case of
boats or automobiles.
The cost of propelling an airship has
been found to be about one-eighth that of
a boat, taking weight for weight. The
question of the cost of the machine is
quite apart. Allowing for variations there
is still obviously a very great advantage
in favor of the air craft In comparison
with the boat, which in turn is cheaper
than a locomotive. Some such proportion
as this will eventually be found to exist
between land and air transportation. It
Is impossible to predict with any certainty
when the era of air transportation win
arrive, but the future would seem to be
assured.
The aeroplane will eventually be used
for the lighter work of transportation.
Since it is very swift Its usefulness is
obvious. As we learn to drive it more
swiftly through tho air It will hecomS
safer and more efficient. There is little
variation, for instance, in the path of a
bullet. An aeroplane traveling 60 miles
an hour need fear little from the wind
currents. For lifting and carrying greater
weights, the dirigible balloon will doubt
less bo found more efficient.
The airship has already reached a point
where it has become a question ' of the
motor rather than the form. , The prob
lem lies in the motor. A great advance
has been made In motor building in the
last few years, and we may look for still
greater improvements in the near future.
This applies both to the aeroplane and
the dirigible balloon. Within a year or
two I expect to have sevpral of my own
airships in actual operation, while many
other inventors are working toward, the
same end.
of Caribou Joe
to go out and see if you can gather a few
scalps for souvenirs?"
"No." says he. "I can't wait. I've got
to go back to the lakes."
So I telephones for 'em to send down
his traps, and starts him north on the
next train that comes In. Pnrdy Pell gets
off one car Just as Joe climbs m an
other. "Hello, there. professor," says he.
"What's up now?"
"Nothln" much." says I. "only we're ,
been glvln' the folks a little outdoor I
melodrammer." '
"Where is Caribou Joe?" says he. .
"Him?" says I. "The Terror or the
Rangeleys? Oh. I've Just loaded him into :
the smoker there. He's goln' back to the
woods to tell 'em about the Battle of I
Roekywold."
Then we goes up to the house, where
Mrs. Pell Is glvin' the basketmakers a 1
swell midnight spread, and everybody has
a lot of fun tellin" how scared Joe was. :
But say, I ain't so sure he didn't come
pretty near makln' good his bluff, after :
all.
Prepared Sandwiches.
Boston Post.
Take a long oblong-ehaped loaf of bread
and out the crust from the sides, top and 1
bottom; then cut Into thin slices, length- 1
wise; chop a quantity of cold boiled bam: 1
also a quantity of cold boiled chicken; 1
take a slice of the bread and place upon :
It a layer of chopped bam, then a layer '
of mayonnaise dressing, a layer of '
chopped chicken, a layer of chopped Eng
lish walnuts) and another slice of bread:
attain a layer of chopped ham, mayon
naise dressing, chopped chicken, chopped
English walnuts) and lastly a slice of
bread. Wrap all in a damp cloth and
place a heavy weight on top (flat iron
are serviceable) to press well the ingredi
ents. Allow the loaf to stand from six
to eight hours, then slice aa you would
bread. Thl makes a very dainty course '
for luncheons, parties, etc. A layer of
finely cut lettuce or celery may be used
with effect.
The Town Summer Girl.
New York Times.
The Rummer Girl, down by the sea.
fitrolls lonely on the silver strand;
Or. In the wild waves, billowy,
Ts guided by her own fair hand.
Day in. day out, 'tis hers to scan
The sea and shore, to find a man.
The Rummer Girl, up In the-hills,
gits lonesome in her hammock awing;
She reads a novel for her thrills.
And hears no little love-bird sins.
She wanders far, she braves the tan
In searching vainly for a man.
The Summer Girl, who stays In town.
Is' en the everlasting Jump,
Until her system's aulte run down
And her emotions on the slump.
The men are standing In a line
Around the block, or more;
They beg of her to sup or dine.
Or go down to the shore;
They take her out In motorcars.
To ail the roofs In town she noes:
They walk with her beneath the stars.
nr tnkA her to the Summer shous.
What's sea or mountains? Town is where ,
The Summer Girl has men to spare.
Another writer to spend his vacation In
Maine Is Norman Duncan, author ef "The
Cruise of the Shlnlns Light" and other
stories of the seacoast. Mr. Duncan ts in
camp at a place whose very name Is sus-
Kestive or tninrs com ena remote inaiaa
Fond, at Moosehead Lake.