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Tb MoncoU In RomIa, by Jeremiah Cur
tn Uttle. Hnwn A Co.. Boston.
That period of history dealing with
Russia In Its? yrmi-avaf state, -hen
Its native Pinces had (trained the best
riRhltn blood of tt pepl y continual
i tl war: the far-buck age hon tha
heathen ModkoIk led br the brutal Batu.
a skillful M.inieul. trained In the tradi
tion and polic ies of his grandfather or
mirk, p. I. Una 1"). the great Jinghls
Khan, conquered province after prov
im In what i now Russia and Imposed
a Mongol yoke on the Russians for
inre th.in -0t years has ever been the
nu9t of the painstaking student, of hla
1orv. But the subject Is one on which
little light has been thrown In the past
at lat In English and Information
was difficult to get. unless one consulted
a multitude of book.
Into the breach steps Mr. Curtln'a
learned, disrriniinatltig volume, "The
McriKoi In Russia." which Is a continu
ation of " The Mongols." published last
vear. and pronounced by a high literary
authority as being the best single work
on the Mibject yet published in English.
Uriefiv, it describes the invasion of Rus
sia bv the Mongols, after the latter's
expulsion from thina by the Ming dy
naty. tells of the domination of Russia
and surrounding territories by Batu. ac
companied by a Mongol army estimated
at 5it.it.j warriors: the rule of the new
Moneol empire, and how it held the
Russians In an Iron grip until the melt
ing away of what Is known as the great
Mongol horde at Sarai. In 1505. The
Invk Is exceedingly valuable from ai
historical standpoint, represents the ex
penditure of vast energy and untiring
industry, and sen to be Just what the
reading world Is waiting for. Extracts
from nearly inacccsible authorities are
presented In graphic form, so that the
races are always readanie. 1 ne nisior-
leal period Meeeribed Is 1093-1506, and In
gathering material for his book It may
be well to explain at this point that the
author used the early chronicles of
China, Persia and Russia, and that to
obtain these he visited Russia several
times, and abo the Orient.
0 eager was Mr. ("urtln to lay
road. historical foundation for the
Mongol picture to follow that for the
first 224 pages be gives a painstaking
study of Russia under lta native Princes,
In which he states that Russia's polit
ical history hectns lu $2, when Rurlk,
Fineus and Truvor came from an un
known country, probably Scandinavia, to
rule over the Novgorod lands. In this
portion of the book Mr. Curtln wanders
sometimes until the reader begins to
wonder when the Mongols are to step
into the scene of action.
It was tn the year 1--4 that the whole
course of Nature seemed changed hi
Russia. "There was an unheard-of dry
season, and a hazr beat with it; pttchy
forests were burning and turf swamps
were smoking alt over the country; birds
bad not strength to fly, and fell down
Inanimate. In tho Autumn appearea
great 00 mot : after sunset tt lifted up
the whle heavens, extending nae
lone awful lance from the west
toward the east. There were tales of
floods overwhelming distant places.
There were earthquakes. In Vladimir,
during mass. the holy Images In
churches hepan to oniver; the walls of
the citv trembled. More than once was
the sun darkened. People fell on their
l nees and pra y ed to t he tord to ha ve
merry; they took farewell of one an
other, feeling sure that the end of all
life was tbn near them. There was
pestilence. In Novgorod there were not
graveyards to hold aM the corpses, and
fence were made n round new ones."
And so on. amid a m.iss of some un
printab'e details. It must have seemed
to the Russians trmt their cup of bitter
ness could have no more depth of sor
row, when from the Kast. from the land
of the Fuigars of the Vo!c:i. came re
ports of ill omen: "Mongol! It Is they
wh cave t he Knian Princes that
awful disastrous defeat on the Kalka.
. . . They mill come before time ends
and capture all places." The Mongols
advanced toward the capital, between
December., 1 and January the year
fo'Iowinc. and In their military suc
cesses they reduced city after city bv
the sheer force of numbers. They did
not only surround a doomed city with
an snnv. but with a wall as well, and
thev strengthened this wall In places
with firm palisades. They railed this
preceding 'driving the pig tn." and
generally planned their operations so
that no one could escape when the city
was stormed. To ns and villages were
made charred ruin.
It became a common circumstance
to see a devoted band of Russian pa
triots surround on of their Princes
and fight until tho all died, one after
the otn. r. When M wow was stormed
and sacked, it is re'ated. the Mongols
iiiick ly k illed ordinry prisoners, but
"others of dlstinctl a were crucified,
fiityed alie or burn 4 " At Vladimir,
only young women, a ins and strong
laborer were led away captive. The
sick, l-rfirm and the weak and aged
n erc slaughtered without mercy. 'The
Mongols cut down people as a mower
cuts grass. When they entered a prov
ince they sent out detachments on
every, side: like locusts, they utterly
destroyed everything. From stores of
grain they took what they needed, and
burned the remainder, boasting that
grass would not grow In their path."
After making Mongol territory out
of Russia. Batu threatened Hungary.
This extract is taken from page 241:
Am soon as the Dnieper was frozen, the
army passed over. The 11 on cot warriors
were so numerous, the squeak in b or their
asona eo piercing, the nemhlng of their
homes and the roaring of camels so deaf
ening that men in the citv could not hear,
as was derlm-ed. what they said to one
another. First the attackers surrounded
Klrf; next they built a. wooden wall: then
they erected their engines and hurled im
mense stones at the city walls day and
nlrht without ceasing. The mother city
was defended bravely by It citizens, but
available warriors were fe-; for no short
sighted bad the Princes been that even
hen the enemy was on the march the;
had continued to struggle for succession.
When the Mongols had made sufficient
breaches in the walls they rushed through
and began a hand-to-hand struggle.
It Is stated that Batu, who had
brought terror on all Kurope by the
riHtrurtion wrougnt in nungar, iro
atla. Servia. Bulgaria. Moldavia and
other portions of Poland, was not
pleased with those lands. He thought
that the West was too narrow for a
nomad people like the Mongols, and
so Russia became a real province for
thm. Batu pitched his tents and
built Sarai on the bank of the lower
Folga, from whence It was convenient
and easy to send troops in every airec
tion and keep conquered Russia In
obedience. Little did Batu dream that
he was building a city of destiny, the
Oolden Horde as It began to be called,
the Khan's residence in Russia.
It would be tiresome to go on with
the story of such ruthless conquest,
and the thoughtful reader, busy with
Russian history for the first time. Im
patiently waits to hear that the Lord
raised up a great patriot leader to
save his people from slavery. The
hero dawns In the person of Ivan III.
In the year 1 505, two hostile armies.
Russian and Mongol, faced each other
on opposite banks of the River L gra,
Iran pursued a wise Fabian policy.
and the Khan also waited, hoping for
reinforcements that did not come. Was
there to be another Marathon, or
Tours? To the surprise of the Rus
sians, the Mongols marched off, never
again to appear as conquerors. They
began to fight among themselves, they
themselves destroyed the Horde, and
Russia was free, after more than 240
years of foreign domination. The
feeble continuation of the Horde was
the small Astrakhan kingdom, once a
vassal state in Batu's empire. The
Mongols began and ended in blood.
They sank fittingly with the name
less dust.
My IJfe. Py Jostah Flynt. Price, $2. Illus
trated. The Outing Publishing Company,
New York City.
A more than ordinarily careful reading
of this frank biography of a natural
t ram p. and an A me r ica n tramp at t h at ,
emphasizes the conviction that the late
Mr. Flynt was that natural curiosity, a
lover of his kind for the sensation of lov
ing and without the expectation of get
ting anything in return. From Flynt there
never came the seltlsh query: "What Is
there In it for me?"
From the world's point of view,
Flynl's life was a failure, because he
never knew the value of money and
didn't leave much. If any. Yet, as a nat
ural philosopher and wanderer, J?lynt
was happy in his' ignorance.
In his youthful days. Flynt was known
as "that awful Flynt boy." Yet there
was a tender chord In his being, waiting
for some one to give it soul. He loved.
devotedly, his mother, and of his early
home life he wrote:
Aa I sot well .on into my teena and was
at work with my school Noks. It naturally
required a different kind of anneal to start
me off on a trip from the simple call of
the railroad train which had sufficed In
the earlier years. For periods of time,
long or short, as my temperament dictated.
T became definitely interested in my books
and in trying to behave for my mother's
sake, if for no other reason. I knew only
too well that my falling caused her much
anxiety and worrlment. and for weeks I
would honeii'r struggle aralnst all appeals
to vamose. Then, without any warning, tha
mere reading of some biography of a self-
marie man. who had struggled independent-
lv in the world from about my age on to
the Presidency, perhaps, would fire me with
a desire to do likewise In- some far-off com
munity, where there was the conventional
arademy and attendant helps to fame and
fortune. There was an academy - in our
own vlltare and I attended it, but the ap
peal to go elsewhere carried with it a pic
ture of Independence, mmnignc on ana seii-
supporting- work, which fascinated me. and
at an age when most boys have gotten over
their guoto for wwndering I would start off
in secret, to return faraoua, I hoped.
Of his early tramp-life, Flynt spoke
with agreeable frankness:
Durtna the flrst month of my wandering!
X was bed less and frequently roofless, In-
deed, when I finally did rest or try to, In
a bed. the experience wu so strange that
I slept very little. A box car, a hay etacK.
a railway tie drawn cloe to a ftra these
were my principal lodging places during
the entire eight months. It may have been
a hard outtng. but it toughened me and
inured me to unpleasantness which would
certainly seem very undesirable now. In
a way they were undesirable then. I al
wavs laugh when a tramp tells me that he
la happier in a box car than in a bed. He
merely fancies that he Is. and I certainly
should not like to risk offering him my
bed In exchange for bla box car. . . . All
told, I traveled in the great majority of
the full-fledged etates of that period and
visited many of the large cities.
In Europe, especially in Germany. Flynt
tried desperately to lead a conventional
life, and he nearly took a degree at Ber
lin T'niverslty. Of Ibsen, Flynt said:
"Occasionally he (Ibsen) would smile, and
then we saw the man at his best.
Crabbed and curthe might be at times,
but behind that genial smile, there was.
without doubt, a very kind nature, and
I was sure of it then and have been ever
since."
Twelve years ago Flynt visited the
celebrated Tolstoy In the latter's Russian
home, and the impressions given are
characteristic:
A good illustration of Totstoy'a trrewponel
bilitv on the estate, or what he meant to
be such, Is the way he invited me to stop
one niht at his houae. I had gona swim
ming with the boys to a pool perhaps a
quarter of a mile from the houae. and tt
waa getting to be time for me to know
whether I was to sleep at the Tolstoys or
In the neighbor's barn, w nue we w.
ins and dressing ourselves I heard a voire
In the brush wood near by saying: ""r
Fleent, my wife invites you to spend the
t.h iia Tt m-u the Count himself
who had come all that dlstanca to tell ma
that bis wife had told him that ne was i
seek me out, and deliver hr invitation, not
his. I shall always reroemtwr his face as
It appeared through the twigs, and tha r-
rand-boy accent in nis voice n
t k. nr twtfnre seen sreatnesa in such
bumble posture. It was openly said to me
in nf the Count's friends that this
v.'. i -u.a .fivsn th nlri eentleman con-
Iderable trouble. In lta acquirement aa well
as in its exercise. . . . I learnea
much on the spot: Tolstoy feels very keen
ly the seeming Inconsistency of hts life,
the fact that he cannot make his altruistic
notions harmonize with his dally life. His
chagrin haa on one or two occasions nearly
mai- . roward of him. At nignt. wnen
wn t.o trairin-v he has slunk away to
ward Moscow, like a tramp, to be himself
somewhere. But always, before he has got
tmr m. vo!r nas said to him I "Lyoff MCO-
layevitch. you are afraid. You dread the
remarks of the crowd. Tou are afraid of
hearing that you preach what you don't
practice. You are trying to run away from
It all. to be comfortable yourself whether
others are or not.
Thlnic of vour wife and children, of the
home that you have made. Is it your right
to sneak away from all this Juat to make
yourself look and sound consistent? Have
you not duties towara your wire ami cnn-
dren to observe ? Do you think that you
can throw over all that you were to them
and they to you merely to satisfy your
v un 1 1 y van 1 1 y. Ly off . and nothing more.
You are vain tn your very sneaking. You
Insist upon appearing all that you think
von are
Back, hack, harm riememoer your who
nd children. Hemember that you have no
rlirht to make them think and move the
way you would. Hemember that to sneaa
away la cowardly. Barn J, yon icoiaye-
vltrh!" And bark the old man has trudged.
to take up his burden as a citlxen.
Ttie American College:
A Criticism, by
$1. The Century
Abraham Flexner. Prlci
Co., New York City.
A finely educated man for whose pin
Ion I have Infinite respect on most sub
jects, assures me if he had his youth to
live over, he would not attend college,
It's a waste of time." he argues. ' I
prefer to get my education in the world.
nowfver, mis in uic i-w ui mc
norltv, and I for one am not going to
deorv the value to a young man of a
college education, notwithstanding Hor
ace Greeley's opinion to the contrary.
Mr. Flexner picks flaws In our college
system and marshals facta "lo support
his arguments. He asserts that the
average boy is tsimply not educable and
that in point of scholarship and trained
apaolty the American college graauate
of 13 is sadly inferior to the Uerman
book is such an earnest appeal that It
j is sure of sensible consideration and will
awaken discussison. '
Here is oart of "the way out
The American college Is wisely committed
to a broad and rtexible scheme of higher
education through which each individual
may hope to procure the training best cal
p..iiitMH tt realize his maximum effective'
ness. The scheme falls for Jack of suffi
cient Insight: in the first place, because the
preparatory school routine devised by the
iuvu onnnroxpii iit what the co He gp: as
nm. th.it it will develoo: in the second
niace. because of the chaotic condition of
the college curriculum; finally, because re
search has largely appropriated the re
sources of the college, substituting the
methods and Interest of highly specialized
investigation for the larger objects of col
lege toaching. The way out lies, aa I see
it. through the vigorous reassert ion of the
priority of the college as such. The point
of empnaais musi do inuin u-.
Other extracts follow:
I do not mean to imply that a college
experience ought properly to contain noin
inir hut what Is explicitly or technicaly ed
uratlon; I do mean, however, to Intimate
strongly that nowadays the college puts
the emphasis In the wrong place: inai inci
dental and sometimes Irrelevant elements In
eoltoco pxoerlence dominate the essential
ami fundamental educational purpose.
Does the outcome bear the impress of a
clear, consistent and valid purpose T Does
the thing prove an education to nave oeen
sue.
The important'thlng is to realise that the
American college is pedagoglcally deficient
and unnecessarily deficient, alike in earnest
ness and in intelligence: that In consequence
our college aiuoents are. anu iur
part emerge, flighty, superficial and Imma
ture, lacking, as a class, concentration,
seriousness and thoroughness.
College standards of success are actually
below those mat prevail ouiaiur a uui
may win his degree on a showing that
would In an office cost him his desk.
The prominent features of college life
an Immense sociability on a commonplace
basis, widespread absorption in athletics.
cliLbs Journalism, etc. are for my purpose
symptoms which enable us to gage the ex
tent to which the college enlists the youth s
total energy In appropriate intellectual ef
fort Not only 'the weight which it at
taches to Its alms, but the sincerity and
Intelligence with which It embarks on their
attainments, mav thus be gathered from the
occupations and diversions which the col
lege finds not incompatible with its stand
ards end expectations.
An education which seeks to And for
cverv Individual his appropriate place can
not construe its undertaking narrowly with
out disintegrating the society it sets out
to serve. It cannot survey its pedagogical
prnhlem and conceive Its pedagogical pro
cedure simply from the standpoint of the
individual student, and from a single as
perX of his real concern at that.
The elective scheme has no necessary,
inner logic.
If a liberal education is anything more
than a personal indulgence or a personal
opportunity, the college has a very distinct
task In reference to the impersonal aspects
of social and civic life.
The elective system Ignores the educa
tional aspects of the inclusive social and
buman relationship. Further, It leaves the
student entirely free to follow his speolal
interest narrowly. . . . The elective sys
tem Impoverishes and Isolates by excessive
and premature specialism where it does not
waste by aimless dispersion.
It Is the college where a boy may be
trained In seriousness of interest and mas
tery of power, that the nation preeminently
needs. The graduate school is a late de
velopment, a proper beneficiary of the col-
leg surplus, it sucn tnere e; not the
leKitlmate apprnpriator of the lion's share
of Its revenues.
Kmphaats of the teaching motive will put
i end to commercialism. Efficient
tearhing is utterly Irreconcilable with nu
merical and commercial standards of suc
cess.
The secondary school Is the key to the
college position: On the vigor and Intelli
gence of the secondary school, the perma
nent solution of college problems now de
pends. Taken as a whole, the book shakes up
.over-complacency, and shatters a few
college ideals. Mr. Flexner waa born at
Louisville. Ky.. in and was educated
at public schools; is a R A., Johns Hop
kins University: A. M.. Harvard Uni
versity. He studied at the University of
Berlin and Columbia University, a year
each: was instructor in Greek. Louis
ville high school. 1SSK-1W1: principal prep
aratory school. 1S91-1905. For the last three
years Mr. Flexner has been engaged in
studying educational systems, methods
and results In the United States, England,
and Germany. His conclusions are based
on long contact and experience with sec
ondary school and college methods, and
results and first-hand investigation of col-
I lege students and college teachers.
Christ Tjegrnd. By Selma Lagerlof. Illustrated-
Henry Holt A Co., New York
City, and the J. K. Gill Company. Port
land. Eleven admirably-told sacred etories
for children, written by Selma Lagerlof
and translated from' the Swedish by
Velma Swanston Howard, with decora
tions by Mies Bertha Stuart, of Port
land, Ore. The stories are real literary
gems, the sacred atmosphere being well
preserved, and they can be safely in
troduced without fear of harm Into the
home. They belong to that character of
good stories with a moral over which lit
tle children grow enthusiastic, saying.
"Tell us some more. And don't skip."
The three stories which stand out for
their gentle reverence and touching ten
derness are "Bethlehem's Children." "Our
Lord and Saint Peter' and "Robin Bed
breast." The latter story tells of the
mlracu lous manner in which our Lord
created "a little gray bird," and told It
to remember that its name was Robin
Redbreast. The bird was puxzled at its
odd name, for the little creature was
"all gray, from its bill to the very end
of its tail.
Why was It called Robin Redbreast,
when It did not possess one single red
feather? But the Almighty knew. The
story goes on to say that when Jesus
Christ was dying on the Cross, that
Robin Redbreast looked on with compas
sion, wondering how one could mitigate
the Redeemer's agony. Robin flew close
to the Christ and with his bill drew out a
thorn that had become imbedded In the
brow of the Crucified, and Just at that
Instant a drop of blood fell from Jesus'
face and made red all the little breast
feathers of the bird. The dying man
whispered: "Because of thy compassion,
thou hast won all that thy kind have
been striving after, ever since the world
waa created." And every Robin . Red
breast's throat and breast are red to this
day.
Mies Stuart has done artistic work on
the beautifully designed book cover, a
representation of three wise men on
camels, probably on the road to Bethle
hem. The title page is skilfully treated
In black and gold, and before each story
is a finely drawn picture in black and
white.
The f arolyn Wells Year Book for 1909. 11
lusirated. Price. 11.23. Henry Holt &
Co.. New York City, and the J. K. Gill
Company. Portland.
Jests, advice, limericks, and fun gen
erally out of that seemingly inexhaustible
humor-mine of Miss Carolyn Wells, best
known among America's younger poets
whose field is popular on topical verse.
Her work appears only in first-class
magazines and newspapers, and her ad
miring readers run into the hundreds of
thousands. Her verse has that rare sun
shiny, laughing sparkle that ought to
make a mummy smile, and in another
mood she Is all tenderness and delicate
sympathy. And Just for a change, she is
sarcasm Iteelf.
This artistic book Is a diary for every
day of 1909, with Miss Wells' amusing
verse or prose close by. Her funniest
momenta are when she writes parodies
on the most celebrated, but more serious
verse of our generation.
The pictures for each month are by
Mrs. M. E. Leonard; the cover and 12
sketches by Miss" Bertha Stuart, and fur
ther pictures by C. De Tornado, Oliver
Henford and Strothmann.
Portland hag an unusual interest in
the book, for Miss Bertha Stuart Is a
Portland arttet. The cover she has de
signed is a whirl of fun, and her dozen
pictures are highly creditable to her
artistic sense. This gay, little book will
make a long-wished-for Christmas pres
ent.
The Hermit and- the WHd Woman. By Edith
Wharton. Charles Scribnere Sons, Sew
York City.
Seven we 11 -told short stories, each pos
sessing that human inferest and natural
process of development that has marked
all Edith WTharton's books, so far. The
titles are: "The Hermit and the Wild
Woman," "The Last Asset." "In Trust "
'The Pretext," "The Verdict." "The Pot-
Boiler" and "The Best Man."
The best story seems to be '.'The Hermit
and the Wild- Woman," with a most un
usual plot, detailing a time of rapine and
war or tne middle ages. The hermit as
a little boy ran from his father's house
wnen "a steel-colored line of men-at-
arms murdered nearly ail the family,
and sacked the town. So the boy ran
for his life to the hills, where he lived
for years in a cave. As he grew up, the
simple folks of the valley called him a
noiy man. One day he returned from a.,
short Journey and found a strange woman
sleeping on his bed of rushes. On in
quiry it appeared that she was a runa
way nun and that she had got into
trouble at her convent because she had
insisted on talcing baths. The rule of the
order was that to wash was unholy. A
most unusual ending has this beautifully
poetic tale. It has tender sentiment
Bound the Fire Stories. By Sir Arthur
Co nan Doyle. The McClure Company, New
York City, and the J. K. QUI Company.
Portland.
You who have read The White Com
pany" and about the cold-blooded de
tective doings of one Sherlock Holmes,
may be pardoned If you do not at once
trace the author of the books named
as being also responsible for "Round
the Fire Stories. The latter di ff er
from the ordinary Conan Doyle style
of Action, because they portray the ter
rible, the grotesque somewhat after the
fashion of Poe.
These short stories of English life
are nearly perfect In their way and
teach us that the art of Guy de Mau
passant lives again in the fiction of
1908. The most thrilling of the series
are: "The Leather Funnel." "The Jew's
Breastplate," "The Brazilian Cat" and
'The Brown Hand."
To' insure a fitting environment when
you read- these stories, open the book
in a dimly lighted room, insist on ab
solute quiet, and have near you a black
cat with gleaming eyes. Then a weird
spell will be woven.
Her' Caveman's Letters and Hex's in Reply.
dt iance cwiri ana aroi Steele. Gil
lam's Sons Company. Philadelphia.
Most lovers prefer to meet each other
personally and to exchange their love
vows by word of mouth. But not so
Bruce MacMahon and Eleanor Vaunton
Phelps. The latter is an artist, and Mr.
MacMahon first writes a business letter
to her about her pictures. An art atmos
phere Is created, and the letters grow
more intimate until love enters and
then!
The surrender of the woman to the
man typifies the old unwritten right of
the cave-man who in pre-historlc times
ran out from his cave, flung a passing
woman that pleased his fancy over his
shoulder, and walked off with her. And
a strange experience came with the con
viction that it was the primal, natural
t to do. and after a little while of
protest and pouting, the woman willingly
Joined her lot with the man's until death.
This cave idea is most artistically and
poetically conveyed In these letters,
which are really a literary curiosity.
Judith of the Cumberland. By Alice Mac
Gowan. Illustrated. Price, I.M. G P
Putnam's Sons. New York City
Miss Alice MacGowan knows intimately
her Cumberlands about as Intimately as
we know and love our Oregon. So It isn't
surprising that she has written an in
tensely interesting American novel about
the region indicated, a novel that reaches
the high-water mark of excellence, be
cause it s a pure love idyl, has a setting
of much brightness and has the true
we first meet her In the village milliner's
shop, as she tries on a new hat.
"Far over to one side, honey jest the
way they're a-wearln' them in New York
this minute." says the little milliner, con
sidering privately that Judith was a big,
coarse country girl, and that "a pair of
stout corsets, well pulled in, would im
prove her crude figure.'
Judith U a born flirt, and looked upon
every man as a being to be snared. Most
of her suitors were rough mountaineers.
There was Blateh, whose idea was freely
expressed, so confident was he that she
was his: "The way to do with a woman
like Jude is to give her a civil beatin to
start out with, and show her who s boss:
wouldn't be no trouble after that. Jude
Barrier ha got a good farm. She's the
best worker of any gal I know, and I am
for to have her an' this farm." Elihu
Drane, of some education and comfortable
means, and an elder In the church,
asked Judith to wed him. He had already
buried two wives.
Since 14 years old. Judith had been
love's votary, and her aim was "to lure,
to please, to exploit, to defend, evade,
deny, in each postulant seeking, testing,
trying for the right man to whom should
be made love's final surrender."
But Judith's master came in one Creed
Bonbrlght and that's the main part of
the story. Of course, there are dishes of
gun-play, lllloit stills, mountain dew all
well served. A story of the Cumberlands
would be Incomplete without these.
The Speaking Voice. By Katherine Jewell
Everts. Price 1. Harper & Brothers, New
York City.
Interest in voice-improvement has
been quickened by the "success of the
recent "Speech Crusade" of Harper's Ba
zaar and the sharp, rather aggravating
criticisms of such literary men as Wit
Mam Dean Howells and Henry James,
Those -who have even given the subject
superficial consideration, unite in stat
ing that the American speaking: voice
is hard, shrill and often unpleasant to
the sensitive ear. There is a wise little
book that delves Into the heart of the
matter, and written by one who knows
what she is talking about, for she has
had experience as reader, teacher and
actress. Within the scope of 218 pages.
the author gives a sensible method of
voice training, accompanied -by easily
understood exercises, first for freeing'
the voice and then for Its development.
The venture ought to secceed, both for
patriotic and educational reasons.
Mv irfv f thi Kosr. By Ralph. Henry Bar
bour. Price, S2. Illustrated. J. B. Lip-
plncQtt Company, Philadelphia.
An edltlon-de-luxe of one -of the very
best and most moving love storiea and
American at that I ever read in all my
life, and I've read well, several thou
sand.
Pure as a rose, bright as a star. Old
maids and old bachelors may sneer at
love, because they don't know what it
Is! But "love's marriage ring's 'round
all the earth, an' I love thee," as one
singer says. "My lady of the Fog" tells
of the accidental meeting of Miss Ju
dith Sypher and Tom Randall, in a fog
near Sweetwater Island. She was
a dory and he in a motor boat. She had
about $20,000,000 of inherited wealth in
her own right, and he was a poor, civil
engineer.
But the things that happen to these
two! Mr. Barbour tells the story with a
sweep that makes one forget ' mealS;
sleep, telephone calls.
Keminlaoencee of a Ranchman. By Edgar
Beeciier Bronson. The McClure Company,
New York City.
"All, yes. Indeed, my boy. You are
quite right. My years in the Sierras and
plains of California, Oregon and Nevada
were the happiest I have ever known or
ever expect to know.
So opens the first paragraph erf a rous
ing, realistic collection of ranch yarns,
all breathing the open air and freedom of
action. There's plenty of motion in the
way of 'things doing" to suit the most
critical. Many of the incidents are found
ed on real life, and they may have all
happened for all that I know, but even
passing that by, the book is as entertain
ing as a novel and as good as any liter
ature of its kind.
A Canyon Voyage. By Frederick S. Dellen
baugh. Illustrated. Price, 3.50. . G. P.
Putnam's Sons, New York City.
The narrative of the second Powell ex
pedition down the Green-Colorado Rivers
from Wyoming, and the explorations oh
land, in the years 1871 and 1872, and writ
ten by Mr. Dellenbaugh, artist and as
sistant topographer of the expedition.
With 50 Illustrations.
Here is an important book that is a
noteworthy addition to the scientific,' geo
graphical knowledge of a most interest
ing part of the West. The subject has
been little understood until Mr. Dillen
baugh's book appeared, and he gives an
intimate, always interesting record. Its
wealth of maps will be specially appre
ciated. Such patriotic writing makes new
patriots of readers.
The Wisdom of Walt Whitman, and The
Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln. Edited by
Laurens Maynard and Temple Scott, re-
epectlvely. Price, Si each. Brentanos,
New York City.
Two prettily bound little books, with
limp-leather covers of red and gold,
containing extracts from the written
and spoken thoughts of Walt Whitman,
the Quaker poet, and Abraham Lincoln,
the greatest American, surely, since the
white race landed on these shores. The
pages have neat margins, and the in
dices complete. Should be acceptable in
the Christmas present line.
The Art of the Nether land Galleries. By
Daniel C. Preyer. Illustrated. Price, $2.
L C. Page & Co., Boston.
An educational treat. This beautifully
illustrated book gives a history of the
Dutch school of painting, illuminated and
demonstrated by artistically executed de
scriptions of great paintings in many his
toric galleries. To read the book Is as
good as going to Holland's picture land.
Mary Ware. By Anne Fellows Johnston.
Illustrated. L C. Page & Co., Boston,
Mass.
Rosnah. By Myra Kelly. Illustrated. D.
Appleton & Co., New York City.
A dear, little, sweet, little Irish Ioe
tale told with -that piquant humor which
iMyra Kelly makes her very own. The
novel moves amid aristocratic Irish in
Ireland the Duchess of Clontarf, Lord
Kevin Cretghton and Lady Rosnah. And
there's Sheila, a beautiful wild flower.
"Rosnah" is the very author's best,
far.
The IHwtributor. By Anthony Partridge.
The McClure Company, New York City.
An aristocratic English story. In which
an organization called the Society of
Ghosts provokes one's curiosity. Then
there's money in it, and people with
queer ways of spending their destiny.
The best part of this readable novel is
its clever conversation.
The Boyhood of Lincoln. By Eleanor At
kinson. Price. 30 cents. The McClure
Company, New York City.
Told in dialect form, a little story is
presented about Abraham Lincoln as a
boy, by one who knew him well. Gen
uinely interesting and sure of a cordial
welcome, even If several more ambitious
Lincoln books are being published just
now.
Cupid the Surgeon. By Herman Lee Meader.
Illustrated. Price. $1. Henry Altemus
Company, Philadelphia,
Medical schools warned away. Mr.
Pleader is up to his old tricks as a laugh
maker, and he gives ludicrous advice on
the asjeient art of love making. His wit
is dry but pungent.
An Immortal Soul. By W. H. Ma! lock.
Price, $1.50. Harper & Brothers, New
York City.
An entertaining story of a girl with a
double personality, with a frame of Eng
lish life. The people In it are mostly
patricians. and the novel shines In bril
liant conversation.
The eJimple Jography. By Oliver Herford.
Illustrated. John W- Luce Sc Co., Bos
ton. An amusing little book on the world's
geography, sparkling with good-natured
fun. The Illustrations and comment are
u n us ual 1 y c le ve r .
Vnder the Gremt Ber. By Kirk Munroe.
Illustrated. Price, $1.25. Harper A Broth
ers. New York City.
Pictures exciting days axound the
shores of bleak New Foundland and Lab
rador, with smuggling, sailor fights, etc.
A healthy adventurous yarn for boys.
JOSEPH M. QUENTIN.
IX LIBRARY A XT) WORKSHOP.
Dr. Horace Edgar Flack's "The Adoption
of the Fourteenth Amendment." will be
issued early next month from the Johns
Hopkins Press, Baltimore. Md.
.
An attractive edition of musical collec
tions for piano and vocal student is Oliver
Dltson's "The Musician's Library,' In which
piano compositions by Johann Sebastian
Bach are dominant.
Mary ehlpman Andrews' story, "The Bet
ter Treasure." is about the length of the
author's memorable Lincoln story, "The
Perfect Tribute." and has an equal beauty
and appeal. It la adapted for Christmas.
'
Marie Corellt's relations with the village
people Of Stratford -on-A von, England, are
said to be "extensive and cordial." This
will be interesting to the mayor of that
town, who confessed recently that, although
not a rich man, he had come to the con
clusion that he would be willing to give
S50OO to get Miss Corelll out of the place.
Readers of "The Life of Alice Freeman
Palmer." now In ira ninth pointing. wiH
be interested to know that the only papers
by her which are to be oublished have
just appeared in the volume entitled "The
Teacher," of Which she is the joint author,
together with her husband and biographer.
Professor George H. Palmer. The four
essays by Mrs. Palmer are entitled: "Why
Go to College?" "Three Types of Women's
Collegea," "Progress In Women's Eudca
tlon," and "Permanent Results of the
World's Fair."
Meredith Nicholson, who prides himself
on his careful accuracy, ventures, in "The
Little Brown Jug at Klldare," to 8feak of
robins nesting above Tim rod's grave In the
Cathedral Churchyard at Columbia. S. C.
Now comes the secretary of the historical
commission of South Carolina to deny
very vigorously that the robins prevail
In the Palmetto States tn nesting time.
He brands the author as a nature faker.
Mr. Nicholson avers in reply that he knowa
a robin from a reed bird, and that he saw
them with hla own eyes.
"The World I Live In," by Helen Keller,
is an unique and valuable autloblnsrraphtcal
record of a deaf and blind girl whose career
haa been watched by the public for many
years the first deaf and Diind person to
receive a higher education. Among other
topics, the book discusses The Seeing Hand,
The Hands of Others. The Hand of the
Race. The power of Touch, The Finer Vi
bra tion s. Smell, the fallen Angel. Relative
Values of the Senses, Imagination and the
Senses, Inward Vision, Analogies in Sense.
Perception. Before the Spiritual Awakening,
The Larger Sanctions, Dreams, A Chant of
Darkness.
J. C. Snaith's new novel, "Araminta,"
will be published early in January. In
"Araminta" he returns to the field of the
legitimate novel of "character and manners,
and with a power of characterization, and
an art of expression developed so far above
the level of "Broke of Coveden" as to ful
fill the liveliest expectations aroused by that
novel. "Araminta" Is Inspired by a tine
humor and a high artistic purpose. The
scene is laid In the London of today, which
Mr. Snalth treats with wonderful success.
I'nless the present reviewer guesses wrongly,
if Mr. Snalth lives say ten years more and
works as assiduously as he does at present,
he may be the new Charles Dickens of Eng
land.: It Is common to read In a report con
cerning the failure or suspension of a business-house
or corporation that not until
experts have been at work upon the books
for several days or weeks rfan anyone learn
the exact state of assets, liabilities, or
loss. The frequency with which this state
ment is made naturally suggests a causal
connection between accounting and suc
cess. The long-felt want of a reliable,
up-to-date book upon the construction and
interpretation of accounts for the use of
business men. Investors and students of
affairs is said to be met by the publication
of a volume entitled. "Accounts." by u il-
liam M. Cole, professor of accounting in
Harvard University.
In China the mother-in-law's position
in the family admits of no doubt; she
rules her son's wife. "A shcrt time ago.
when in Canton, an illustration of tnis
was forcibly brought home to me." writes
Frederick S. Isham. author of "The Lady
of the Mount." from the Far East. "A
wife was found murdered. The husband
was accused, and would have been con
victed and had his head taken off. when
most obviously his motner. the mother-
in-law In the case, came forward.' 'I did
It myself she said, calmly; 'the woman
had a bad temper and answered back. So
I punished her.' The judge acquitted the
son. and. in accordance to Lninese law.
inflicted a mere nominal fine on the
mother-in-law. She and the son left the
court with a look on their faces which
seemed to say: 'There has been much ado
about little.' "
There is much of curious interest to the
bibliophile In W- H. Chesson's study of
George Cruikshank. just published. It is
also the record of an astonishing pro
ductive career that touched the English
public from the year 17M9 until 3S75.
Cruikshank wtfs born September 27, 1792,
and he died February 1, J 878. the years of
his activity covering a greater period of
his life than is common with most famous
men. "It Is not not much as an artist that
we here admire him." says Mr. Chesson. "It
is as an Argus of the street., an Argus not
only with many eyes, but with feet enpugh
to plant him at once in a hundred coiners.
From this voluble Argus his mistress. Clio,
recoils but cannot dismiss him. . . . The
packed and ugly caricatures which are the
visible laughter of Cruikshank the Argus
of journalism. Their violent colors and
vigorous lines fail not in invocation. . . .
He is the illustrator whose fame makes
more than 600 books and pamphlets de
sirable; he Is truly an artist, a maker of
beauty."
'
The first part of Ernest Thompson Eeton's
new story of animal life, "Domino Reynard
of Goldur Town." will appear la the Christ
mas Century, with many of the author
artist's characteristic illustrations. Mr.
Seton believes that for ages the animals
have been groping for an ideal form of ;
marriage; and his avowed purpose In the ;
new storv is "to show the Man-world how
the Fox-world lives and above all to ad
vertise and emphasise the beautiful
monoiramy of the better-class Fox. "The
Books Added to Library
The following new books may be examined
at the Public Library durinsr tnls wee,
and will be ready for circulation Monoay,
November 30.
BIOGRAPHY.
Buckingham The romance or George Vil
liera, first Duke of Buckingham, and k''8
m.n and WOmen OB inc oiumul tuu.
H. Gibbe. 1908.
Terry Ellen Terry, by Christopher St.
John (pseud.) 1W)7.
BOOKS IN FOREIGN LANGUAGES.
Asbjoritsen & Moe Eventyrbog for born.
Baleac L.a Cousine Bette.
Bazin Le ble qui leve.
- Dahl Johan Bverdrup at Storthingsbll
lede. 2 volumes.
Decken Die Elken von Eiken'.ieide.
flor Haandbog I den Danske llteratur.
jacobson 1m dienst.
Maeterlinck La vie des abeillea.
. Rlehl Ein ranzer. mann.
PESCRIPTION AND TRAVEL.
Henderson ft Watt Scotland of today
19McKenzle The Unveiled East. 1907.
Sayce The archaeology of the cuneiform
Inscriptions. 1907.
FICTION.
Bazin The Nun.
Booth The Post Girl.
Church Lords of the Worm.
Litchfield The Moving Finger Writes.
FINE ARTS.
Maris The Brothers of Maris; ed. by
Charles Holme, text by D. C. Thomson. 190l.
Elliott Pottery and Porcelain. l?7ti.
Murlllo Murtllo, a Biography and Appre
ciation: by A. F. Calvert. 1907.
Patterson Chats With Music Lovers, n. d.
HISTORY
Acton History of Freedom and Other
Esays. 1907. .
Margoliouth Cairo, Jerusalem and Da
mascus. 1907.
LANGUAGE.
Bonilla Spanish Daily Life, a reader.
1907. .
ftuehler A modern English grammar,
with composition. 1906.
SCIENCE.
Campbell Modern Electrical Theory. 1907.
TT.Ml.r A Smith Teacher's handbook to
accompany the essentials of chemistry. 1902.
McCook Nature's Craftsmen: popular i
studies of ants and other Insects. 1907.
story of Domino Reynard," Mr. Seton told
a questioner, "gives the life history of a fog
In the form of fiction. It Is fiction founded
on fact, on my own observations, extending
over a period of many years. Domino
Reynard, the hero of the story. Is a com
posite of some 20 or SO foxes that I have
watched as they appeared either in a wild
state or tamed in indifferent households.
Among other moral qualities which I have
thus discovered in the fox Is a strong
monogamous tendency in his family rela
tions, and that ts something which I hava
emphasized in my story."
mm
Feter B. McCord, an artist and rartoonit
well known in the newspaper world, recent
ly died at his home in Newark. N. J., of
lung trouble. Successively connected with
the Philadelphia North American, tha 8t
Louis Olobe-Democrat and the Newark
Evening News, his name and the clover laf
sign which invariably accompanied It. were
familiar to many thousands. Hesldes h
talent for pen and pencil drawing he was
a clever water-colorist and a connoisseur of
Japanese art. A new book from his pen.
"Wolfe, the Memoirs of a Cave-pweller." a
tale of primitive man in America, is an
nounced. It was illustrated with a number
of very original drawings by the author,
and has attracted much comment.
The Champlain Society of Toronto, Can-
ada, is preparing, with H. p. Piggar as edi
tor, a translation of the complete works
of Champlain. accompanied by a reprint
of tho original French tt-xt, the whole work
extending to four large volumes. Mr.
Blggar Is well known as the author of
"The Early Trading Companies .of New
France." and other important historical
works. The publications of the Champlain
Society ace In limited editions of 5(K copies
2."0 for members and '2b0 for subscribing
libraries. It has already undertaken Lea
carbofs "History of New Fiance." part of
which has appeared, as has also the
hitherto little known work by Nicholas
Deny s, "On the Coast of North America
in the 17th Century."
Margarita Spalding Gerry. who haa
written "The Toy Shop." a story-siudy of
Lincoln, which .appeared hrst in Harper's
Magazine, and is published now as a book,
has been a privileged student of the Lin
coln period. Mrs. Gerry, who Is a resident
of Washington, D. C, waa engaged in writ
ing an article on the historic associations
of a little Washington shop when the per
sonality of Lincoln as one of its visitors
overshadowed all others, and led to "The
Toy Shop" in fictional form Instead of the
intended article. It was during the course
of her search for Lincoln memorabilia That
Mrs. Gerry met Colonel William Crook, the
author of reminiBcenses of Presidents Lin
coln. Andrew Johnson. Grant and Hayes,
which have appeared in Harper's or in
The Century, and an Inmate of the White
House since the days of Lincoln. After
ward Mrs. Gerry assisted in preparing
Colonel Crook's memoirs for publication
Ralph D Paine, author of "The Stroke.
Oar." which Is to be Issued soon. row4
on the Yale crews of 'in. '92 and '03. Ha
made the crew in his froshman year, and
had the added distinction of being the only
crew man who had ever been chairman of
the Yale Literary Magazine, a fact which
shows that athletics do not interfere with
the cultivation f a man's litoraiy powers.
Mr. Paine rowed No. 4 on the '92 crew,
which was one of the fastest eights that
ever churned the waters of the Thames
at New London. Ct. After his graduation
he was sent to Henley. England, with the
Yale crew as correspondent, and with three
other "gracls," improvised a four-oarrd
crew and rowed a scratch rac wiih he
Henley Boat Club four, beating by two
feet. This race, which, however, being
something of a Joke, cannot be considered
seriously, was the only instance of an
American college crew ever finishing fitst
at Henley. .
Mrs. Annie Iee Wister, who died the
other day at Wallingrord, Pa., in her 7!th
year, is remembered as one of the most
talented and learned of contemporary
American translators. Beginning her lit
erary work in isti4. she spent more than 40
years of her life in translating the works
of German authors principally novelists.
The last of her productions. "Tho Lonely
House." was published last year. Another
recent production w as "The Happy Go
Lucky." One of Mrs. Wister' s best-known
translations, from a selling standpoint, was
"The Old Mam'selie's Secret." by Marlitt.
A few of the other books translated by her
were "The Second Wife." "At the Coun
cillor's." "Vain Forebodings." "The Lady
With the Kuby." A peniless Girl." "A
Noble Name." and "The Green Gate " Mrs.
Wister had no children. In addition to
her literary work she was devoted to
music. Her brothers are Dr. Horace How
and Furness.- Captain Frank Furness and
William Henry Furness. -Jr. Owen Wister,
the novelist, 1b her nephew.
To the dehate on the question whether
rum is an inspiration to industry or a
blight upon the muscle and intellect, comes
Professor Muensterberg. the Harvard
psychologist, who has been contending that
moderate use of alcohol stimulates a man
to more and better production, says the
New York Press. This experimenter now
tells of the case of a brilliant New York
author "whose secret trouble is that he bs
never written a pace of his brilliant books
but after intemperate use of whisky. Un
fortunately for the value of the instance,
the author is a patient of Dr. Muenster
berg, so that his name is kept secret.
Thus we do not know whether the psychol
ogist's judgment on the brilliancy of the
work done by the said writer is correct.
If it Is, why does he want to be cured of
the habit? If hypnotic suggestion stops
our gifted author from putting in a quart
of whisky before settling down to the de
lirious delights of composition, professor
Muensterberg may be doing the world an
Injustice and the patient, too. Our In
vestigator in psychology would do much
better to find out the brand of whisky and
let the literary world try what virtue lies
therein.
NEW BOOKS RECKIVED.
"A Happy Night." by W. J. Patmore
(Cochrane Publishing Company, New
York.
"Miss Betty of New York." by Ellen
Douglas Deland. $1.23 (Harper's.
"The Supreme Test," by Mrs. Balllle
Revnolds i Brentano'si.
"That Pup." by Ellis Parker Butler,
(McClure's.
"Little Stings." by T. W. H. Crosland,
(John W. Luce & Co. .
"A Physician to the Soul." by Dr. Ho
ratio W. Dresser. $1: and "A Woman at
Bay." by Sibilla Aleramo, Sl.fiO, (Put
nam's). "The Blue Peter." by Morley Roberts,
$1.50. (L. C. Pago & Co.).
Rich Feathered Game of the Northwest.
19Serviss Astronomy With the Naked Eye.
Straahurgor and others Textbook of Bot
any Ed 3. 3908.
LITERATURE.
Aflaio. comp The Call of the Sea; a
pro.e anthology. 1907.
Jeseopp Frivols, Simon Ryan and other
papers. Ed 2. 190".
Trent & Hcnnemann, compa. The Best
American Talcs. 1907.
SOCIOLOGY.
Cronson Pupil Self-Government; its the
orv and practice, uios.
Hall Youth; its education, regimen and
hygiene. 1907.
Lowell The Government of England. 2 v.
Perry The Management of a City School.
190S.
RELIGIOUS.
Balzani The Popes and the Hohenstaufcn.
1901.
Gwatkin The Arian Controversy. 1903.
Programme of Modernism; a leply to the
encyclical of Plus X. 10S.
USEFUL ARTS.
Audel's Gas Engine Manual. 100S.
Barton Terriers, their points and man
agement. 1908.
Carr Open hearth steel castings. 1907.
Crelghton The steam engine and other
heat-motors. 1907.
Hasluck Practical metal plate work.
1907.
Lodge Electrons. 1907.
Oswald German cookery for the Ameri
can home. 1907.
Practical Upholsterer. ISM.
Schofleld Tho Force of Mind. 1908.
BOOKS ADDED TO REFERENCE DE
PARTMET. Brynildsen Dictionary of the English and
Dai.o-Norwegian Languages. 2 v. 1902.
Heck The steam engine and other steam
motors. 2 v. 1UO5-1907.
Hiscox Modern steam engineering in tHe-
ory and practice. 1907.
Verity and others Flats, urban houses
and cottage homes. 1908.
BOOKS ADDED TO JUVENILE DEPART
MENT.
Adams ft Baker Harper's electricity book
for boys.
Baldwin second tairy reaaer.
Brown Star Jewels and other wonders.
Knapp Raphia and reed weaving.
Madden Two Royal Foes.
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