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Newspaper Page TextTJIF. SUNDAY OREGOXIAX, PORTLAND, DECEMBER 13, 1903. "I care not how humble your bookshelf may be, or how lowly the room which it adorns. Close the door. Shut off with it the cares of the outer world. Plunge back into the soothing company of the great dead. Thers stand your roble, silent comrades, waiting in their ranks. Pass your eye down their files. Choose youf man. And then you have but to hold up your hand to him and away you go together into Alaska, the (.rent tonntry, by Klla H'Kx.n son. Illustrated. -;i The Macmi.lan Co.. New York City, and the J. K. Gi.l fo Portland. From her earlier books. "Marlella. of Out West." "When the Birds Go North .A :atn." "From the Land of the Snow Pearls." Mrs, Higginson has many ap preciative readers In the Pacific North west, especially In the Pugct Sound country. She was born In Council r,rove. Kan., was educated at Oregon City Seminary and at a private school, and Is a well-known writer of stories and verse. LP to quite recently she was. and for all that 1 know, today. Is, connected with the literary department of a Seattle newspaper. Her newest book. "Alaska." will not only retain the appreciation of what may be called her usual readers, but will gain new ones as well. To be sure, the number of books on the Far Northwest Is legion, and it would almost seem that at this late day It .would be difficult to throw fresh light on the picture. Airs. Higginson's "Alaska." however. appeals from among the cloud of witnesses by its sparkling- wit. wealth of description, a lively Interest that never flags, and bright historical pictures. Then the book Is suitably illustrated. In all. It's the Pacific Northwest book of the year. Mrs. Higginson thinks that two great American statesmen. Seward and Sum- per. must have been inspired when they saved for us in the face of the bitterest opposition, scorn and ridicule. Alaska, the country that Behring discovered and which is now coming to be recog nized as the most glorious possession of any people: but. first of all "were the gentle, dark-eyed Alents inspired, when they bestowed upon this same country with the simplicity and dignified re pression for which their character Is noted the beautiful and poetic name which means "the great country.'" No writer has ever succeeded in de arriblng Alaska, Mrs. Higginson says, and no one ever will; but each must do his share according to the spell that the country casta upon lilm. "The spell of Alaska falls upon every lover of beauty who has voyaged along those far Northern snow-pearled shores, with the violet waves of the North Pacific Ocean breaking splendidly upon them; r who has drifted down the mighty rivers of the Interior which flow, bell toned and lonely, to the sea." In describing Unimak Island, the statement Is made that one of its most active volcanoes, Shishaldin. is the most perfect and symmetrical cone on the Pacific Coast, not even excepting Jlood. Not having seen Shishaldin, I cannot challenge the comparison, but all the same am not "going back" on our own Mount Hood, because It is the best, greatest and most glorious ad jectives fall me. Fill up the blank to ault. It Is worth while to note that our author has wisely availed herself of the researches of earlier historians In sum ming up her estimate of Alaska. She lias borrowed from Bancroft's "His tory," Dall's "Alaska and Its Re sources." Elliott's "Arctic Province." tc. The point is made clear that in a tourist's ten-day trip from Seattle, and seated on the deck and often in the cabin of a luxuriously appointed steamer, one cannot really know Alas ka, and that to do this and fall under the spelt of the real Alaska, one will sail on to Westward, on to I'nalaska. or go northward and drift down the Yukon, "that splendid, lonely river that bas its birth within a few miles of the e. yet flows 2300 miles to find it." Mrs. Higginson makes it not only comprehensive that she actually parti cipated In the Alaskan trip she so well risribes. but that she has absorbed the spirit of that land. One rover she met on her trip said to her: If vou love the sea you've got to follow Ir. and that's all there Is to It. A man can gl along without th. woman he love, best on earth. If he has to. but he can't get along without the If he once get. to kisg It. ! g.t. so It seem. like a thing c to bin? and it make, up for every thing else that be doesn't have. And It. iist Ilk that with Alaska. When a man m made two or three trips to Alaska, you csri't get tlim off on a Southern run. as lorg ss he vmn help himself. . . . No. I oon't know wn.t It Is hut I do know how It It Is; and so doe. every other poor devil that ever heard that something calling him that's Just Alaska. It wakes you up In the middle of Ut. Qlght Just a. plain as if some body had .!d your name out loud, nd you Just lay there the rest of the night aching to go. I tell you what. If ever a roumrv h.d a spirit It's Alaska: and hen It once g.n hold of you and gets to calling voti to com, you might Just as wen get up and start, for' it calls you and follow, you, ard haunts vou till you do. The Oregon treaty between this coun- I L- rr &zAnr-' ? n PS U j&zr S-TTZ-ZT dreamland." ak a-m. u vuxia jjuxxjx.. try and Great Britain Is criticized by oiir author as "by it we lost the splen did country now known as British Col umbia, which, after our purchase of Alaska from rtussla. would have given us unbroken fronta.se on the Pacific Ocean from Southern California to Beh ring Strait, and almost to the mouth of the Mackenzie Kiver on the Frozen Ocean." But have we lost British Col umbia for good? Not a bit of it. Within the next 100 years or so. by peaceful International agreement Brit ish Columbia, if not tne otner portions of Canada- wlu belong to the United state9 But you won t see It. There are no snakes In Alaska, It is asserted, and that Is the reason why the serpent has tio place In Alaskan basketry, for the very good reason that the Indians and Innult. who never leave their homes, do not know what snakes are. It Is stated that the worst feature of Alaskan social life Is the "coming out" of many of the women in Winter, leaving their hus bands to spend the long, dreary Win ter montha as they may. "To this self ishness on the part of the women Is due much of the intoxication and im morality of Alaska few men being of sufficiently strong character to with stand the distilled temptations of the country. We are told that there are SO differ ent species of birds In Southeastern Alaska, and that the greatest glacier in the world Is the Malaspina, located on the western shore of Yakutat Bay, with a sea frontage of more than 60 miles, extending from the bay to the west ward. It Is estimated that the length of the splendid sweep of this glacier from its head to the sea at the foot of Mount Ellas, is 90 miles. The most fascinating historical period described Is the reign of the. Rus sian Governor. Alexander Baranoff, who at one time was In supreme com mand of all the Russian territory in America. Baranoff's .rule in Alaska seems to have been one of splendid but rude magnificence. He had the expansion spirit, but particularly the governing genius of our own Mc Laughlin, In the settlement of the old Oregon country. Baranoff believed In high revels and getting drunk "like a gentleman." During his administra tion, naval officers and other travelers were enthusiastically received by Mm in the period just previous to our War of 1812. and it is related that "the only thing asked in return from the guests was the capacity eat like gluttons, revel like roisterers, and drink until they rolled helplessly under the table." Yet. Baranoff had his grander moments. Mrs. Higginson also visited the Yu kon Territory, and makes comparisons, which are not all the time flattering. Site complains that when she xlsited White Horse that a swarm of mosqui toes attacked her so severely that her hands were swollen to twice their ordi nal size and that her skin became dis colored. T'ngallant Canadian mosquitoes! Eskimos and Indians met with were in variably fond of music and It is related that at a recent festival held at Fair banks. Alaska. when some visiting Indians were invited to sing "O Come. All Ye Faithful." they sang one verse It. their own tongue, as follows: Onu, tsenuen whudugudun-huta yllh; Oni, yuwhun dutllsh, oni nokhlhan, Oni. dodutalokhlho, Oni. dodutalokhlho. Oni, dodutalokhlho, I.'-id. It Is not the mining, businesslike, lucky strike Alaska that is presented to us In this volume of observation. It's pictur esque Alaska. ' Klncaid's Battery. By Gorg W. fable. Illustrated, rrlce, 1 5o. ("h.rles Scrlb ner' Sons. New York City. A battle epic, straight from the heart of the South, and so much of the latter spirit Is present that one again uncon sciously drinks In much of the quiet charm of "Old Creole Days." "Klncaid's Battery" will be a leader In Its class, for It fairly pulses between love and war, and moves In and around New Orleans before and during the armed strife be tween North and South from 11 to '63. What is Klncaid's battery? A Confed erate field batten- armed with six frown ing brass guns presented to the cause by two devoted daughters of the South, who believed In their hearts that what -e fought for was right. The leading char acter In the novel is one Miss Anna Cal ender, aristocrat. Just the blue-blooded girl that the youth who now cheers when they sing "Dixie" would rave over. She has two lovers Fred Greenleaf, a North erner, and Hilary Kincald, for whom the battery is named, a Southerner and her heart Inclines toward Kincald. Here Is a fancv picture of Anna drawn of her while Greenleaf and Klncaid were yet chums and before the Civil War dawned: In the midst of the gay skirmish and while .he yielded Cireenlesf her chief at tention. Hilary observed her anew. What he thought h saw was a golden brown profusion of hair with a richness In it. platted colls, an unconsciously faultless poiae of head and, equally unconscious, a dreamv (ottiRsa of .weeping lash.. A. .he laughed with the general, her student noted further what seemed to him a rare allkl nes. In the tresses, a vapory lightness In the short strand, that played over the out line, of temple and forehead and the un studied daintiness with which they gath ered into the merest ml.t ot a .hort curve before her exquisite ear. "A child', mouth and a woman's eyes," he mused. Flora Valcour, a Creole girl, adds con siderably to the action by quaint con versation. Another Creole girl Is Vio torine Lafontalne. who sings out as Captain Kincaid and his battery ride off to war: "Louisiana foot-rifles, ah, but the'r true name Is the Chasseurs-a- Pied. 'Twas to them my papa billons biffo. he join' hlsself on the batt'rie of Captain Kincald, and there he's now a corporeal:" However, If Captain Kln caid presents a warlike appearance on cage 66. as he rides at the head of his battery, he is equaled in every military V 3 it 14 i Marvelous Blind Girl Has Written a Book : ",: : - , - 1 . X ft-;?- v ', - .. : , ,-r, : s: t " v v ' -, j f ' - , t " - t copyright 100T by Whitman Studio. HELEN KKI.I.F.K, "LISTENING- TO THE TREES. NEW YORK, Dec. 12. (Special.) Helen Keller, that marvelous blind deaf girl has written a book. That is, she has written a series of essays which have been brought together In book form under the title "The World I Live In." It is one of the most remarkable of hu man documents. That it is unique should go without saying, for Helen Keller is the first of the human race afflicted, as she 1. who has received the highor education. It is one of the most Interesting of hu man documents because It give a clear respect by Colonel Greenleaf. Federal, later on. Some of the war pictures Riven, for In tensity of description, nearly equal the realism shown of the famous "Re4 Badge of Courage." Eut shot. Bhell and battle-smoke pass. Then enters peace and true love- reigns: Out forward yonder on the upper deck, beside tall Hilary Klncaid. Greenleaf eyed them from the pilot hou, where he had retired to withhold tb ward reminder Inseparable from the blue liven-- in Hilary. fingers wa. a writing which he and Anna had just read together in reference to It he wa. saying that while he South had fallen to the bottom dep h. of poverty the North had been rowing rich and that New Orleanfor 'n"-"-? ?fr.ld tna". what he called them-Yake with greenback. In every pocket, eager to .et up any gray soldier who knew ho to make, be or ao mi.i"'e ----- ' ,1(J able. Moved by Fred Greenleaf who couM furnish funds, but preferred to be anything but a soldier, ,h .e"rpnr'' ing hushand of the once deported but n ever so happily married schoolmlstres. who "Yes. I know." said Anna. -r - - - . mnfil. V DCOIl" Well for a trifle, at its roui. th, man had bought Kiucil ndr' which stood waiting for Hilary control and In the end recover to his ex elusive ownership on the way larger iningtC Who gave the subject an Intense tendernes. of unsordld Interest wa. that t meant for the palr-what so sands of paroled heroes and the m "e loved Pand who loved them were hour y finding out-that they L,ar, after all, but they might even X?" and then name their wedding day. which then and there they named.. Br the hrlstma. Fire, by Samuel M Vrothers. Houghton. Mifflin & Co.. Boston. These delightful essays are "Snt" ened by captivating humor mingled with a certain playfulness that nowa days stamps nearly every page Dr. Crothers writes. Read, for "ance- J his hint nbout women s clubs: A . goo lady who soes to the art class is able to talk of Botticelli, but s he has no right to look down upon her husband as an Inferior creature because he sup poses that Botticelli is one of Mr. Blank's 57 kinds of pickles. He may know some things which she does not. and they may be fully as Important. A doctrinaire, affirms our es sa st Is a person who defines truth in this nutshell: A truth Is that which has got Itself believed by me. And also, in this one regard: His thought, form an exclusive club, and . new Idea apl.lie. Mr admiwion .... i . h. waiting lit. A black- It is pi.-cu - - sufficient perm a tie n 1 1 y t o exclude It. When ,n Idea :? a7, rhe,lophi"onryme3.,tr.arni Lnd on good terms with one another. Whether anv of them are relared to any allty outside of their own circle would be a question that it would be Impolite ?o ask To the doctrinaire there seem. I" sordid and vulgar in the anxlety from an SOm-iniB rn-iin. ;rcmeeet.t It tT indicate" that' one ilot Intellectually in comfortable clr- 'T'.ho'ufd not object to his. unprepared ne for the actum state of thtnp the doctrinaire did not assume the airs of a u perlor person. He lays all the blame for tPhe discrepancy between himself and to. universe on the universe. He has the right key. only the miserable lock, won ,t fit it. HI. praise is always for the deed, "or "for the yet unborn; when he looks on ST. contemporaries he take, a gloomy view. That anv great man should now be alive he considers a preposterous assumption. Ha treats greatness as If It were a disease, to be determined only by post-mortem examination. t-he Orphant Annie Book, by Jsmes Whit comb Jtil-y. Illustrated. The Bobb. Merrlll Company. Indianapolis, ma. Of course, you've both seen and heard of the "Orphant Annie" verses by James Whltc'omb Riley, and If you have not you're a Goth, an unread person. But It is surely safe to conclude that you have never met with such a daintily artistic copy of the joys and sorrows of the said Annie as is here presented. The Illustrations are by Ethel Franklin Betts, and are creditable specimens of high-class art and engraving. The book-cover Is a graceful representation of the famous Annie, she of the "if-you-don't-watch-out" temperament, as she sits In the midet of white flowers, which nod on tall stems. It seems to us that the artist makes Annie wear a half-roguish grin, or rather the sus picion ot an"about-to-dawn smile. There Is the characteristic dedica tion: "Inscribed, with all faith and affection, to allhe little children: The happy ones, and sad ones, the sober and the silent ones, the boisterous and glad ones, the good ones yes, the good ones, too: and all the lovely bad ones." Each page Is a striking art picture, and the typographical appearance of the book Is excellent. In addition to the "Orphant Annie" verses, the book in cludes such equally old favorites as "Billy Miller's Circus Show," "Some Scattering Remarks of Bub's." "Lixa beth Ann on Bakln" Day," "The Boy 1 - - idea of the terms in which a person with three senses grasps the things which we comprehend with the aid of Ave senses and the way In which she is able to inter pret them In the language of the five senses understanding!)-. For Helen Kel ler speaks of "seeing" and "hearing" things as do we. And actually through her sense of feeling she does detect sound vibrations In an intelligent and discriminating way: so that 6he knows the rustle of the trees and feels the ap proaching storm. This picture ehows her "listening" to the trees. Lives On Our Farm." "The Squirt-Gun fnele Maked Me," and "The Old Hay Mow." , For whom is this beautifully appear ing book meant? Some lucky boy or girl. And to be tied with strong string to a Christmas stocking. The CwremaiT. Letter, and Her. in Reply, by Lance Swift and Oarol Steele. Glllara Son. A Co.. Philadelphia, Pa. Remember that these clever letters are written by a busy lawyer to a young artist woman he had never seen, and vice versa. His opinions are un usual some people would, say extraor dinary. And he croaks, sometimes. For a caveman he writes good Eng lish and displays an intimate knowl edge of readable literature. Some of his opinions: I care more for Hamlin Garland than for Guy de Maupassant. 1 like James Whitcomb Riley better than Robert Browning. I like Mr. Dooley better than Mr. James. I be lieve that Miss Alcott and Margaret Sidney bave done more to mellow hearts and brighten the live, of both old and young than all the Balzac, and Zolas who. ever .delved Into muck and mire. 1 like Burns, the peasant, better than Byron, the lord. I can get more useful ideas from Kipling than from Milton. I like the sermon on the mount hetter than any of the creeds I've ever examined. I'd rather you would paint for me for everyone a picture ot some lowly cigarette girl at work m a catrv loft 'than to reveal on your canvas the lines of your appealing Egyptian dancer. By vis ualizing the human tragedy or etilld whos natural heritage Is sunshine and laughter you can. with art. true, lofty art, for youg vehicle, reproach the world for Its cruelty. nd. perhaps who know. ameliorate "man'. Inhumanity to man." The tilrl Question. By .Tonn W. Harding. Price. $1. G. W. IMllingham Company, New Tork City. Reflects Chicago life and principally the funny sayings of one Cornelius or "Con" Ryan, manager of slang, and also of a food-swlftly-swallowed restaurant. Con Is also In love with his glrl-cashie"-, and he is pictured as a shrewd-observer, fond of giving his opinions. Here are several of them: . - T think anv guv ought to coo out a Love, Honor and Obey as aoon a. he raises the nrice. I notice that every guy that's wise to what J. Plerp. Morgan Is goln' to do next is rollin' hi. own cigarette... Make a guy think he's the mustard and agree with everything he .ays. no matter how phony It is, and you got him nailed to the mast. Anybody that marries a chorus girl la takin -chances If he don't . have his flat fitted ud with footlights and an orchestra Any time yon see a fresh young rabbit who has a high batting average with the Geraldine. you can gamble he's never much of a ten-strlka with the poker players. I ain't the rtresldent of a National bank, but when the pipe la drawing right I can figure out where I can get tne coin to pay for the Installments on enough red plush furniture to- do tor two people. Would you be wlllln' to hold down the other end of the breakfast table from me for life? What Is it? Just a book for the giggles. The Country Rand. By Henry A. Shuts. Illustrated. .Richard G. Badger. Boston. Have you ever played a horn or a flute in any country band? If not. you've missed one of life's greatest treats to the young. The author of this laughable book of experiences must have "been there" him self as one of the band, for the revela tions he gives while a member of a band In a country town in Eastern Mas sachusetts have the real ring and are not overdrawn. They were funny old quicksteps in which the E-flat cornets did all the eexcutlon, carried the air and did ail the ornamental work." he says, "while the tenor and alto horns went um-pah, um-pah, and the big brass horn hoarsely vociferated oomp-oomp." How the author began with a wheezy flute and tin whistle; how, at a musicale he tried to play through an alto horn but ultimately found that some wag had placed a wooden 'plug in the tubing; how. when he first joined the town band, he walked so fast that he ran into the drum-major are all told with natural humor. The little book Is sure to awaken many pleasant memories or the past in the remembrances of Its readers. The Four-Flusher. By John Edward Has. sard. G. W. Dillingham Company. New York City, and the J. K. Gill Company, Portland. A pretty face In a rapidly passing auto! And there you have the plot of this up-to-date, slangy story. The latter consists of a series of let ters written by a "sporty" New Yorkei named John Dangerfield Smith to .his female cousin, telling her of the prog ress of his wooing with Miss Vance Glen don, patrician, but also a sensible girl. Smith consumes a vast amount of liquor in living up to his description of a four flusher: "A man who Is trying to make people believe that he is something that he is trying to look like." If you wish to be "up" In all sorts of slang for 1908. and live some distance from New York, by all means read this novel. It will teach you. Yet Smith Is a bit of a hero In his way, and he read er is bound to express admiration for Smith's luck in becoming one of the newly rich and in being able to win his heart's desire. " The Wolf Hunters. By James Oliver Cur wood. Illustrated. The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Indianapolis, lnd. James Oliver Curwood knows, from personal experience, what he Is writing about when he seeks to portray the wild Indians of Northern Canada, for It is only recently that he escaped from that region chased by the redskins and Just saved himself- from being scalped. In "The Wolf Hunters." Mr. Curwood rivals Jack London as a born story-teller. This time his white hero is young Rod erick Drew, and two Indians. Wabi and Mukokl. The three hunters tour through the Woonxa country, principally hunting wolves and to earn the Canadian govern inent's bounty of Jlo for every scalp taken. The hunters are also attacked by the Woonxa Indians, and the descrip tions of various skirmishes in which the fighters use repeating rifles are tinged with primal instinct, while the word nictures of wild nature are admirable. Any healthy boy will hardly resist the combination. Home Again Wilh Me, by James W7hit comb Kilsy. Illustrated. The Bobbs Merrill Company. Indianapolis. Jnd. Beautifully artistic drawings in colors by Howard Chandler Christy and deco rations by Franklin Booth made this holiday copy of this favorite poem un usually attractive". Just the gem of a book to appreciate at Chrlstmastide. Do you remember the lines? 'Stia o' bad I ort to be Feelin' good, pertjckerly Yes. and extra thankful, too, 'Cause my nearest kith and kin. My Evelyn', sohoolin's through. And 1' got her home ag'in Home ag 'n with me. It's the old story of the Indiana farmer who welcomes his only daughter hoir.? from school, and everything is fathcr-and-dauRhter until Jonas, the hired man. breaks into the picture. Mr. Christy- gives a true Christy figure and pompa dour hair effect to Miss Klviry. A IJttle Maid In Toyland. By Adah Louise Sutton. Illustrated, price. 11. Saalfleld Publishing Company. Akron, Ohio. Belongs to the Billy Whiskers series of children's books and tells how capti vating Sally, while furnishing a doU's house, ste a piece of magic cake and was herself transformed Into a doll. Then come funny adventures with the wizard,' the weather prophet, the handkerchief man. the doughnut man and others- of that ilk. The Illustrations are by A. Russell, who gives six pages done in colors and lots of black and white draw ings. The story Is well planned and sure to interest its audience. T oodles of Treason Town and Her Snow Man. By Frederic Chapln. Illustrated. Trice, si. SO. Saalfleld Publishing Com pany. Akron. Ohio. A handsome Christmas volume for chil dren. The illustrations are by Mer'.e Johnson and he has contributed 43 paees in colors and upwards of 150 excellent AMELIE RIVES BLOSSOMS OUT AS ARTIST, HER HUSBAND AS NOVELIST XiX:X;i:.sX :XX"XXkX;,XX.:A.XXk.X f$-Xy X, .;;:!-; ' -i.i ty fcs iXfXXMi XXWXSXXXxWiXxWx . 4 -i, t i : ;s sX WXxW3M'xi&0:Mxi 1 M i Si x.xx mmxxsxm m mJi:xxmm:xxxj m mxmxx. m . : ; ' ; , WlSSi. Ill pftff; - " x.-. -y L M -&xxm mxm.xM $Axxm kT" : " ': ' ' -X s :i ?: :5;f:-:iJ. Si ': XX X XX- MAyf ' WX i iPLW ' J :''v:::io::''o::-::::v:Wv.''''::S':- 'l . I TaaCaHBMMitrtilMaWM.IM '-' ' i juj-t X C null f" f $ltiCL TiOUBEIiSKOI $.. I Q I , I Ya: 4ND WIFE . -', A ZBIXXNTG PRINCE'S 5, XSOUBETSROI NEW YORK, Dec. 12. (Special.) When Amelie Rives was a young girl in Virginia, she showed a wonderful varlety of talent. She had ambitions then to be an artist and she went to Paris and blaeTt-and-white drawings.' Toodles s a little girl from Florida who. with the help of one Pedro, fashions a snowman, and the latter comes to life and bright ens up the tale with his humor. A jour ney into fairyland follows. Songs of Summer. By James Whitcomb Riley. Illustrated. The Bobbs-Merrill Company. Indianapolis, lnd. With pictures by Will Vawter, this holiday, edition of some of the most famous of Riley's poems, will surely find a readv sale. Many favorites are In the collection: "The Circus Parade." "Me and Man'." "The Old 'Swimmin' Hole." "A Summer's Day." "McFeeter's Fourth" and others. The book Is a handsome one, and the paper Is thick and glossy. A hint for Christmas. Captain Margaret. By John Masefleld. The J. B. l.ippincott Company, Philadelphia. Pa. A romance of the sea in the good old days when English and Spanish adven turers fought to found empires in the new world. Told with plenty of com manding sweep and action, flavored wilh the tang of the salt breeze. JOSEPH M. QCENTIX. IX LIBRARY AND WORKSHOP. These books were received for review through the J. K. Gill Company, of this cltv. "Bill, a Cheerful Dog": "Henry of Navarre": "Pete. Cow Puncher1: The Wolf": "The Four Flusher," and The oiri Question," The demand for Miss Eliza R. Scldmore's "As the Hague Ordains" continues so re markablv good that its publishers are hav ing to print that book for the eighth time. The onlv change in the new edition, it Is aid. Is In Its dedication, the Emily E. of previous editions turning out to be Emliy Karnes McVeagll. The key to the pictures on this back page: The double-column hand-drawing Is a rep resentation ot a poster illustrating tne meaning of Meredith Nicholson's new novel of the South. "The Little Brown Jug at Klldare." which is unique in Its class be cause It's a joke and a laugh from start to finish. Who would have thought that so much romedv could have been generated Dy the gift of two brown Jugs, one containing moonshine whisky and the other humble buttermilk? The get-up ot the book Is highly creditable to the Bohhs-Merrtll to. Books Added to Library The following new books may be exam ined at the Public Library during this week and will be ready for circulation December 14: BIOGRAPHY. Hawkins A sea-dog of Devon; of lr John Hawkins; by R. A. J. Monday. the life Walling. 1907 . IjlTOKS IN FOREIGN LA NO I AGES. A5;,.pBlandt Nordpolens nabocr. Carlen Rosen pa tistelon. Tegner Fritiofs saga. Chateaubriand: Les martyrs, cooper Stlnnder. IV.sen Peer Gynt. Kullberg I.udwlg Rosenberg and snhn. Llman Hnhenzollern. MscFierllnck l.e tresor des humbles. p.on- Les deux femmes. Sperling EIne weltrelse unter Deutscher flagge. DESCRIPTION AND TRAVEL. Calvert Toledo: an. historical and de scriptive account. 19CT. Craig Recollections of an Ill-fated ex pedition to the head-waters of the Madeira river in Brazil. 1"7. Lane Cairo SO years ago. ln. Smith China and America today, inns. FICTION. Day The story of two boys; retold by Clifton Johnson. Oppenhelm The great .ccrct. Smedley The daughter. Williams The girl and the game, and other college stories. LITERATURE. Trevelvan The poetry and philosophy of George Meredith. I'.'Ofi. Warren, comp. I'nder the holly bough; a collection of Christmas poems. 1007. SCIENCE. Hepwortb Notes on maritime meteorol ogy. 1o7. Houston Wonder book of volcanoes and earthquakes. IPO". LANGUAGE. Monsanto and Lsnguellier A practical course in Spanish. .1603. for a time studied under an American instructor. Then she returned to this country and wrote "The Quick or th Dead," which suddenly brouclit her famn in unexpected measure. Then she mar ried John Armstrong Chanler, who was one of a small army of men In her tram. Chanler and she did not get ulong to gether, so they were divorced ami after a time she married Prince Troubctskol. She has been loss in the public s eyo since that. time, but her husband has had great vogue In society as a painter of portraits. Now their positions arc (sud denly reversed. The Prince-painter has 'become an author. He has written what he styles "an episode" called "The pas-er-By;" while his wife. Amelie. lias painted as a frontispiece for it a very beautiful picture of a woman the heroine of the story. The dedication is interest ing as well as quaint: "To you Amelia who wrote 'Augustine the Man.' 1 dedi cate this book because it is due to you as the light Is due to the flame.'' . . . The single-column halftone Is the frontispiece of Miss Marlon Cook's Christ mas story. "The Child nnd the Dream," a book which is now on sale at the .1. K. OS 1 1 (.'o.'s. The pretty face In the picture is taken from life, I am Informed. It 1. thrtt of a little East Side girl, but I do not have permission to disclose her identity. . . The circulating department of the New York Public Library gives the following as the most popular books of a recent week: Adult fiction. Ward's "Testing of plana Mnllorv." Chambers' "Firing Line." Fox's Trail of the Lonesome Pine." Juvenile fic tion, pyle's "Merry Adventures of Robin Hood." Harnett's "Little rrincess," Daland s "Friendship of Anne." Nnnflctlon, Ihsen'. "Plays." Kennedy's "Servant In the House" and Monroe's "History of Education." Dr. J. K. Mitchell, a son of Dr. S. Weir Mitchell, has Just completed a book that is likely to prove of great utility and value. It bears the title. "Self Help for the Nerv ous." and is an expansion of a series of letters written some time ago for a wo' man's magazine. In them' Dr. Mitchell not only gives clear direction, for the sufferer from nervous disorders by which they can save themselves suffering and colla-pse. but elaborates the hardly less necessary advlc. for the friends and families of nervous pa tients. The author of "Anne of Oreen Gable" who. living In Quiet Prince Edward's Island. Is unaware of the ways of the advertiser, sent her book to Mark Twain In the Inno cent hope of amusing him and was rather overwhelmed by receiving In reply hissec retarv's statement that in writing to Fran cis Wilson of the book, the master of his craft bad named Anne "the dearest and most moving and delightful child since the Immortal Alice." It is unnecessary to saj that the author in question was as much delighted as surprised. New Book. Received. "Bill, a Cheerful Dog." by Frederick W'hite. Illustrated (Moff att-Yard ) . The Wolf." by Eugene Walter and founded on the play of that name by Charles Pomervllle. Illustrated. (Dilling ham Company). "The Auto Hovs." bv James A. Brnrten. $1 (Saalfleld Publishing Company). How four boys buy an auto. Well told. "Pete Cow Puncher." by Joseph B. Ames, SI Ml '(Holt & Co.). A rattling, lively story of life on the Texas plntns. for boys. "Henry of Navarre (Putnam's). A ro mance of August. Ifi72 and relates Id thrill ing si vie the massacre of St. Bartholomew, gWessel'y nnd Glronos Handy dictionary of the English and Spanish languages, n. d. FINE ARTS. Abraham The complete mountaineer. 1!)"7. Sullivan The Olympic games at Athcn, lOiMi. 11107. Van Dyck Sir Anthony Van Dyck; by Hugh Stokes. 1(10.-,. Wright The art of caricature. 1 !M4 - RELIGION. Farls. comp. Pleasant Sunday afternoons for the children; a hook for parents. l:M7. Lindsay History of the rerir.iitilion. - v 10011-11107 Plummer The church of the early fath ers. 1;mi;. SOCIOLOGY. Mackpy Symbolism of f l-eenuisunry. I;') S,,i(.k-Mediaeval stories; tr. fr-im ths Sw-dlsh by W. F. Harvey. I'."'-'. Wilson Constitutional government in ths United Stales. P.inS. USEFUL AP.TS. Lidgerwood Manufacturing Cn Cabteway. for hoisting and .eon e tug. l'.'os. Lidgerwood Manufacturing Co. Logj-lnif by steam. H'O.Y Moody Men who sell things; observations and experiences of over 20 jears as Maid ing salesman. HtoS. Rlrkard Guide to technical writing. H'OS Rowan Boiler incrustation and corrosion. l!)fl. Starbuck Practical wrinkles for' rh. plumber. 1907. Terry India-rubber and its manufacture. 11107. Vosbnrgli The tinsmith's helper and pat tern book. Ed. 4. Haiti. BOOKS ADDED TO REFERENCE DE PARTMENT. Berlespsch Rhododendron; bllder aus den Schweizer Alpen. Channing History of the United States. V. 2. I'KIS. Crelle calculating tables. Ed. .1. !". Dresden Komgllehc gcmaldeKalerie. Cat alog. g-Glft. "