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Here's to the'books of the year tocomer
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Arminrl of the Wt. By John Trivena.
Mottat. Yard Co.. New Tort City.
C'nw-ponies. a ranch, a young woman
In khaki, and a wide, sombrero hat. al
kali dust and the red sun sinking over
a Western prairie? Is that the atmo
sphere surrounding this novel? Not a
bit like It.
A new literary star has arisen, a great
realist in the person of Mr. Trevena.
with a sweep of pathes and power re
minding me stron-jly of Thomas Hardy.
"Armlncl nf tne West" nearly grips you
as does Tess," but without any of the
bitter tragedy of that story. "Armlnel"
Is also an Kngllsh novel. In which sterl
Irg character play abounds and the Tess
In It Is llisa Nona Wistnian. daughter of
a clergyman. Here Is the opening scene:
Th lan?s of mid-Devon are very muddy
In Winter time. Nona mor ao that those
which descend Into the old coach-road be
tween Okehajnpton and the village of
Stlcklepatb. They are like muddy tribu
tarla feeding a river. There ts plenty of
tranle along tlits road, especially on Satur
day, ivhlch is market day In Okehampton:
bit the lanes are always lonely. They are
dark. too. and the lop-sided oaks which
rretcb their crooked branches from one
sTone-hdge to the other creak, as the wind
from Iartmoor strikes them. It Is that
wind which makes them lop-sided. When
s'ranrers meet in one of these lanes they
run hardly pas without a word of greetinfe.
When one stranger is a youns; man and the
ether a younr maid, there Is often a cer
tain amount of awkwardness; with blushes
en one side and bold glances on the other.
Sometimes the bold glances are recipro
cated, which Is natural enough, tf foolKh
and dangerous especially so when the
primroses are In hud and there Is warm
sunshine falling between the oak branches.
Trie lanes which descend Into the Oke
hampton road are very lonely, and there
are no prying Pauls behind the primroses
and young ferns.
One of the "characters" of these Devon
lanes Is John Zj;jle. but better known as
Dartmoor Jack, who went about the
country selling oil from a tank hauled
by Sarah Jane, a knowing mare. Dart
moor Jack.- It Is stated, was under 60
years old. wore big spectacles, and his red
face waa childlike with Innocence. He
knew no blasphemy, did not drink, and
did not run after strange women, al
though more than one had made advances
to him. "daffy old dear" as they called
him. He had no professed religion al
though he admitted to have tried them
all. to find Methodism "too rorty," the
established or Episcopal Church "too
old fashioned." and the other sects "all
money grab." and ministers In general
too much heaven for me and hell for
you."
Dartmoor Jack's one supreme flower,
his Jewel of great price, was his daugh
ter Arniincl. a schoolteacher and a sun
beam selected by the master from the
sky and placed on this dull, old earth to
brighten It. It Is Interesting to read
how Dartmoor Jack, originally a Cornish
man. became an English commoner. He
married, but not before his daughter
Iarla or Armlncl had been born to him.
His wife promptly cloped with a ser
geant of artillery, and Jack then In
stalled a near-by widow as "mistress"
of his house, principally to care for his
daughter.
It d'es not take long to discover that
many of the people Mr. Trevena creates
are those of easy virtue, to whom mar
riage is a hit of a joke. But the moral
lapses of these people make up the Tre
vena reaiism. Do you see? If the book
folk wcie all spotless and had wings
growing over their shoulders, their ad
dress wouldn't bo Devon. Kngiand but
heaven. The statement Is m.ido on page
IS that up to quite recently before a rail
road was constructed through mid-Devon
that the people were little better than
.savages. "There were villages In which
a stranger was certain ,to be pelted with
sticks and stones; the children were as
rough and unruly as the ponies of the
moor; the men were so dull as to be
unable to learn which was their right
hand and which their loft tthey wore
straw tied to one leg and hay to tho
other, and their employers would guide
them by calling "hay or "straw'): the
women did not know what constituted
vice or virtue. These people lived In
half-ruined cottages of cob. Every vil
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lage had Its witch and every small town
Its witch-doctor. The clergy made hard
ly an effort to reclaim them."
Rev. Stephen Wistman was rector of
the living of Tordown, and lived In the
Middle Ages but didn't know it. He waa
his own Christianity. He was narrow
minded, but a great scholar: didn't be
lieved in music or dances, and wondered
why people kept away from his-church.
His wife was the mother of 11 children,
each more of a weakling than the preced
ing one. All the children born to him
died, except two, one being Miss Nona.
Her father determined that, Nona should
not know "what human passion was."
So he reared her In dense ignorance, like
a hothouse flower, and his wife's reason
left her. As a religious experiment. Rev.
Air. 'Wistman forced Nona to become a
novice in the Convent of the Sisters of
the Cross, but Nona was a weed and
didn't blossom.
Suddenly, Brian Challacombe. a young
aristocrat, leaps into the story and starts
action. Nona knows him but not wisely,
and her life Is ruined. .Brian loves Ar
minel. whom he marries under an as
sumed name, but when she discovers his
guilt toward Nona she leaves hlra. All
this Is described with refreshing, orig
inal candor. Of course, young Mrs. Chal
lacombe does not institute proceedings
for divorce remember, the story Is writ
ten about England. So she calls him
monkey," talks - poetic, delicious prose
and ultimately forgives him.
Miss Challacombe. Brian's rich aunt,
dislikes Armlnel because the latter is "a
common person," and nd "lady." But
Arminel ' wins her in the last chapter:
Miss Challacombe bad to stop: had to
return: had to bend over the lounge and
confront tuos eyes. "What Is It. child?"
she said.
I have something to tell you. Etnd over,
p'.ease. close to my mouth."
Miss challacombe struggled: decided to
refuse, and obeyed.
"I am going to have a baby." whispered
Armlnel. now. Miss Challacombe. It's going
to be such a pretty one.- and I want you
to be fairy godmother. You'll love It?"
Yes. darling:" Miss challacombe waa
sniping In a ridiculous fashion.
Then Armlr.el put up her arms and fast
ened them round the stubborn old Isdy's
neck.
Won't yon love the little mother, too?"
sbe -whispered.
Reservoirs. By James Plx Schuyler. Illus
trated. Price. . John Wiley Sons,
New York City.
A second edition, revised, enlarged and
otherwise improved of a deservedly es
teemed book on "Reservoirs, for Irriga
tion. Water Power and Domestic Water
Supply." An account-is given of various
types of dams and the methods, plans
and cost of their construction, and also
miscellaneous data upon the available
water supply ' for Irrigation In various
sections of arid America; distribution, ap
plication and use of water; rainfall and
runoff from various watersheds; evap
oration from reservoirs; effect of silt
upon the useful life of reservoirs: average
cost of reservoirs per unit of capacity,
etc.
Mr. Schuyler is a member of the Amer
ican Society of Civil Engineers; member
Institution of Civil Engineers. London;
member Franklin Institute, and corre
Coast: member Engineers and Archi
tects' Association of Southern California;
member Technical Society of the Pacific
spondlng member National Geographic
Socletv. It is slated that over 60 per cent
of all' the illustrations in the book are
new and that nearly as great a propor
tion of the reading matter is rewritten
or new. The pages amount to 573. and
the whole will prove or especial value to
the engineering profession..
The Book of Ceorgtaa Verse. Chosen and
edited by William Stanley Braithwaite.
Brentano's." Ne"w York City.
Within the limits of 1311 pages ap
pear selections from the best work- of
those British poets born under the four
George Kings, verse which marks the
rise and development of a distinct po
litical epoch, and the book should be
h welcome addition to any library.
The four books which form the series
aim to cover the entire range of Brit
ish poetry, from the publication of
"Tottel's Miscellany," 15.".". to tho end
of the Victorian epoch. Just past. The
present volume Is the third of that
series, the others being, first, "The
Book of Elizabethan Verse": second.
"Book of Restoration Verse," and
fourth. "Book of Victorian Verse." It
Is worth notinfr that Mr. Bralthwaito
uses wisely tho term "British" verse.
Instead of writing "English." for he
gives selections of English, Scotch and
Irish poetry. He has avoided all for
mality and has succeeded In giving
coherency and representation. Many
dear old poems, which have hitherto
heen consigned to the forgotten dust
of generations, emerge in a new dress
and take honored place in the ealaxy
of stars.
To Americans the book must possess
more than a mere sentimental Interest,
since tt Is from the gold mine of verse,
with its home In the British Isles, that
we jret the foundation of our educa
tion in the English language. Thomas
Moore. Sir Walter Scott, Lady Naolne,
Walter Savage Landor, William Coo
per. Robert Bums. Lord Byron. William
Blnke. Thomas Campbell. Thomas Chat
terton. Samuel Taylor. Coleridge. David
Garrlck. Oliver Goldsmith. James Hogg.
John Keats. Charles Lamb. Percy
Bvsshe Shelley, Robert TarnaliilT. Will
lam Wordsworth and others the list
is a brilliant one. There are a glossary.
Index of authors and Index to titles
and first line of poems.
The Other Americans, by Arthur Ruhl.
Illustrated. Charles Scrlbnefs Sons. New
York City.
Curious pictures of life come to us from
this record of Soutli American people,
and the impression deepens that we need
to read or travel much to endeavor to
know what these near neighbors of ours
really are.
Here Is an amusing letter written to the
sporting editor of a South American
newspaper about a football game:
" -Senor Sporting Boy. Miestimado amlgo.'
the letter began. That which Is past is
psst. 'We have suffered. In truth, a shame
ful defeat; yet what we are to blame for
we ought perhaps to accept silently. There
are however, undoubtedly certain thinss
which might well be brouitht to the atten
tion of the honorable directorate of the
Association de Football do Santingo.' WhHt
should have been. It seems, a great inter
city match became merely a mere chnnce
for the portcnos (or "people of thei gate.'
as the Valparalsons are called) to give us
on our own grounds a proof of their u
perior discipline and orsanizatlon.' The
Santiago team had been well trained. The
selection of players made by Its captain,
rwn GulUermo del Canto. wa maenlflcent.
The public were confident. The great day
dawned propitiously. But at the last ce
ment It appeared that one player was
missing!. The public protested, the captain
searched. Tho portenos embarrassing
thought 'observed this lack of discipline.
They had preferred to leave behind such
gcod players as Morrison aad Mackenzie
merely because they had missed one day's
practice at Vina del Mar: The csme be
gan, but what had happened? Why were
Voiles, Rogers. Hamel. etc.. who. two days
before had spoken gaily of the intercity
as of a coming victory, not now the same?
The cause seemed inexplicable. It was this.
The substituted goal-keeper did not guar
antee security. There waa weakness In that
most responsible position. In that point do
transcendental linportancla en la defensia
de un team. The result but why leeep up
humiliation? To all the world now it is
told, only too eloquently. In the score." "
Here are concluding extracts! showing
the author's graphic style:
This Africanism has tinged religion and
language, and contributed, undoubtedly,
with the climate and environment, to pro
duce that mingling of melancholy, super
stition, and sensibility, now gloomily savage,
now acutely sentimental to the point of be
ing morbid, which Is common In Brazilian
literature aad poetry. Even without It peo
ple could not live under the brooding In
fluence of such a land without getting some
thing of its sombre mystery and creepy
beauty into their blood. There Is a passage
In Senhor Garca Aranha'a novel, "Chanaan."
so full of this Brazilian feeling that It is
worth quoting, even In a shambling transla
tion, and aside from the fact that It Illus
trates the sort or thing that makes a writer
famous in Brazil. Everybody was talking
about "Chanaan" which is the Portuguese
for "Canaan" when I was in Bio. and It
was still so new that the distinguished
Academician, its author, could be Induced to
read selections to appreciative listoners
after dinner without the slightest difficulty.
The most famous, of these was the one
about the "vagalumes" of fireflies. The
poor, young girl. Marls, deserted by her
faithless lover at the moment she needed
him most, had wandered for several days,
jeered at and turned away from one door
after another, until, overpowered with bodily
fatigue and morbid Imagining, she came at
nightfall to a forest. Its gloomy depths
attracted her. hunted animal that she felt
herself to be, even while she shivered at the
look of it:
Within the shadowy Interior came and
went enormous butterflies, azure and dark
gray, in Incessant glistening flight. Ex
hausted, Maria sank down, without tho
courage to enter, without the strength to
flee, fascinated by" that sombre and melan
choly world. Her hands, limp and trem
bling, let fall the little bundle of clothes.
Faint, friendless, frightened. wrapped in
the darkness of night, she shrank between
the great roots of a tree, and with dilated
eyes, ears alert, listened to the murmur
and whisper of things. . . .
The darkness deepened. Issuing forth
from the tangled verdure like the Impalp
able, vaporous breath of the earth Itself.
To her perturbed imagination it seemed as
though all nature were trying to overpower
her and crush out her breath. The
shadows grew darker. Great swollen clouds
rolled down the sky toward the abyss of
the hcrizon. In the open, in the vague
glimmer of twilight, all things took the
form of monsters. The mountains, rising
menacingly, assumed terrifying shapes. The
paths, spreading into Infinite distance, ani
mated themselves into infinite serpents.
The solitary trees moaned in the wind like
fantastic mourners about the corpse of na
ture. The night-birds began to sing their
mournful songs. Maria tried to run away,
but her worn-out limbs would not respond
to the Impulse of fear, and she sank down,
hcpeless.
Oar Wasteful Nation. By Rudolf Cronan
Illustrated. Price, fl. Mitchell Kenner-
ley. New York City.
Thoughtful Americans are already
atlrrcd with the meaning of that great
congress which met at Washington, D.
C last May. when President Roosevelt
and the Governors of states considered
the waste of our National resources in
forest, water, soil and minerals. This is
also the subject Mr. Cronan takes up,
but In addition he also discusses our
game, fur and great marine animals, our
birds, fishes, public lands and privileges,
and the waste of human lives In railroad
and mining accidents. He calculates that
during last year. 61G.295 persons were
either killed, maimed or injured In "ac
cidents" in this country nearly twice as
many as were killed and wounded in
the Russo-Japanese War. He also shows
that the one great American malady Is
that mad. unreasonable haste that In
volves carelessness, recklessness, selfish
ness, stupidity and brutality.
Such facts as are here so skillfully pre
sented differ materially from the asser
tions of our self-satisfied epread eagle
orators who only speak to please the.
gallery.
How to Appreciate Prints. By Frank
Wettenkampf. Illustrated. Price. J 1.00.
Moffat. Yard & Co, New York City.
Mr. Weltenkampf is curator of the print
department of the New York Public Li
brary, and in this artistically written
book of MO pages he gives a personal talk
on etchings, engravings and other prints,
jid also provides a finger-post pointing
to a wide range of Innocent, Interesting
pleasures.
The list of contents: "Taste for Prints,"
"Jitchlng." "Line Engraving on Metal,"
"Stipple and Other Dot Methods," "Mez
zotint," "Aquatint and Other Tint Meth
ods." "Wood Engraving," "Lithographs,"
"Photo-Mechanical Processes," "Color
Prints," "Collecting." "The Making of
Prints." "Care of Prints." "The Subject
Interest" and "Some Specialties."
Naturally, such a book is finely illus
trated. Picture of Old Chinatown. By Arnold
Genthe. and text by Will Irwin. Moffat,
Yard o.. New York City, and the J.
" K. GUI Company, Portland.
Mr. Genthe toiled for eight years tak
ing snap shots with his camera in the
Chinatown of the San Francisco that
was before the upheaval or tremblor of
April 23, 1306- Then, crashl the gen
eral picture went Into the oblivion of
ruin. - -
A sort of public request came, when
San Franciscans found their breath, that
Mr. Gonthe's pictures be published In a
book, and here they are, with a descrip
tive and reminiscent text furnished by
Will Irwin. Chinese, men, women and
children, are pictured in various atti
tudes, all graceful and , interesting. Mr.
Irwin's story is graphic and filled to
the brim with human Interest. The lit
tle book, printed on thick cream paper
and extending only to 57 pages. Is an
unusually high-class, worthy souvenir o
old San Francisco's Chinatown.
Woodsmen of the West. By M. Allerdale
Grainger. Illustrated. Edward Arnold.
London, and Longmans, Green t t-o..
New York City.
' It would have been more appropriate
to have chosen as a title for this story,
"Logging in the Woods." instead of the
one on the book cover. Mr. Grainger
has written a stirring, every-day but
rudely drawn word picture of logging Ufo
In British Columbia, and It Is easy to
concede the accuracy of the statements
made. Thev are written by a man who
cvidenflv knows the business, wno has
"been there." It is a record of personal
experience, often amusing and largely
interesting. Here Js the odd conclusion:
"Farewell to loggers and my youth.
MINISTEll OF THE I'XITED
J STATES TO HAITI.
II. W. Karslss.
WASHINGTON. D -. 26.
(Special.) II. W. Furniss Is
the Minieter of the United
States to Hayti, who handled
the dli-lomatij interests of' this
country with credit during the
recent revolution Jn Hayti.
Farewell to it all marriage is better.
And now, I must go and search the kitch
en floor of the cottage next to Mrs.
Potts, in which will be Lyall avenue,
outside the city limits of Victoria, B. C."
The Heart i of a Geisha. By Mrs. Hugh
r i a.r i . jin.ru ... ... -
Sons, New York City, and the J. K. Gill
v.ompany, Portland.
With frontispiece by Ludwig Holberg
and each page there' are 165 of them
elaborately decorated by R. Weir Crouch,
this tragically but eloquently told love
story of a Japanese geisha's life makes
a suitable gift book. The geisha is
Shinaye San and her patriot-lover Tatsu
Marinaga. The historical period de
scribed is when the Shogun is the real
ruler of Japan, before the IJmperor came
Into his own. Shinaye San helps her
lover to "escape from Kyoto to Europe,
where he learns legislation, and a well
told, romantic story follows. ;
The Girl and the Motor. By Hilda Ward.
Illustrated. Price. SI. The Gas Engine
Publishing Company, Cincinnati, Ohio.
A gift edition of a modest little
book, suitable for girl friends who
think they can operate a motorboat or
automobile. It is the experience of
one bright girl who bought a small
motorboat and later a 20-horsepower
auto and managed them herself! She
relates her novel adventures, the most
Interesting of which Is where she
actually worked at repairs when the
engines broke down. There's some ro
mance, too, the principal assistant
being a master mechanic who conven
iently happens to be around. The book
Is dear at $1.
Songs Every One Should Know. Edited by
Clifton Johnson. Price. 00 cents. Ameri
can Book Company, New York City.
Two hundred favorite songs, calculated
to stimulate among children a love of
good music. Nearly every variety of song
Is included except hymns, so that no
ecclesiastical taste need be offended.
The music, of course, is written in the
staff notation, and many of the tunes
SUCCESSOR TO JUDGE WIL
FLEV AT SHANGHAI,
CHINA.
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feu.
Judge Kufua H. Thayer.
WASHINGTON. D. C, Dec.
26. (Special.) Judge Rufus H.
Thayer has been chosen by the
President to take the place at
Shanghai just resigned by L. H.
Wilfley, ' of Missouri. Judge
Wllfley was the first American
ent to preside over the new
court In China, and he promptly
made himself unpopular by his
rigid enforcement of the rules
of practice. Charges were made
asainst him. but were disproved.
After meeting them success
fully, he resigned.
provide the four vocal parts, so that
the book can be used both at the school
and home. It Is a pleasure to see In the
cellectlon so many National and folk
songs.
William the Conqueror. By Frank Merry
Stenton. G. P. Putnam's Sons. New York
City.
Mr. Stanton, who is a late scholar of
Keble College, Oxford, and a recognized
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II. W. Kornlss.
historian, writes in an original, com-
rorting way to prove uui n .
the Illegitimate son of Robert of Ilies
mois and Artelle. the tanner's daugh
ter, had not conquered at Hastings in
the year 10C6, and that some other invader
would have swept away the weak, quar
reling Saxons. So tt -happened to be the
Norman. An admirable presentation 13
made ,of William's character and of the
constitutional and social changes which
followed his advent on English soil.
Camp-Flres on ncsert and Lava. By Wil
liam T. Hornaduy. Illustrated. Price.
tS. Charles Scrlbner"a Sons, New York
City.
Not only an important book from Its
scientific value, but because It sheds first
light on nearly inaccessible deserts In
Southern Arizona and Northwestern
Mexico and preaches the joy of an out
door life far away from hot-house civ
ilization. Dr. Hornaday, In brief, tells
of- an exploration party he led through
the Arizona deserts from Tucson to the
then unknown region surrounding Plna
cute. The book is interestingly written
and elaborately illustrated. Plenty of
adventure Is also described.
The Lincoln Slory-ralentiar. 109-1909. Il
lustrated. Price. $1. The Biddle Press.
Philadelphia.
Mainly written by Wayne Whipple
from his 700-page "Story Life of Lin
coln," and Is a calendar designed to
be suspended from tho wall, showing
In convenient form the . remarkable
career of the greatest of our American
Presidents. There is a sheet for each
week, with a Lincoln sketch, in which
tun, pathos, patriotism and eloquence
'are skillfully mingled. The calendar
ought to give inspiration in everyplace
of business. It's American.
Psychoma. By Helen Rhodes. Elizabeth
Towne. Holyoke, Ma?s.
Mrs. Rhodes has also discovered what
Dr. Maurlco Burke calls "cosmic con
sciousness," and defines psychoma as the
diagnosis of the soul. She writes beau
tifullv of soul-sleep, the spiritual life,
transmutation, subconscious mind, control
of the breath with liberating exercises,
law of suggestion, and generally matters
relating to our brethren of the new
thought. But. it is a pity that Mrs.
Rhodes spells "through" as "thru."
The Gentle Grafter. By O. Henry. The Mc
dure Companj-. New York City.
A reprint of 14 not 13 of O.
Henry's, inimitable tales, the most of
which have already appeared in maga
zines, where they have been joyously
welcomed as being up to tho standard
work of the Guy de Maupassant of
America. Ail the tales are bright, and
reflect an unusual knowledge of swift
city life and human nature, generally.
Justice and liberty. By G. Lowes Dickin
son. The McClure Company, New York
City.
a nnKHoal dialogue between Henry-
Martin, a professor, Charles Stuart, a
banker, and Sir John Harington, "a gen
tleman of leisure." Has all the wit and
wide information which distinguished the
same author's previous success. "Let
ters From a Chinese Official." ,
The Wonder Book of Magnetism. By Dr.
Edwin J. Houston. Price. S1..'.0. Fred
erick A. Stokes Company. New York City.
-D-tnn-a ctiiifnHir hoiTiA to voune read
ers, especially boys, the marvels of na
ture and laws governing tuem. nB""
batteries and currents, lodestones. the
compass, auroral lights, the telephono
graph or talking newspaper and other
wonders are all reviewed.
. .. u.Tnii -Waldo Trine.
price. 00 cents. Thomas Y. Crowell &
Co., New York city.
Comforting thoughts on the gospel of
wholesome living, and which should ho
the good angels of all young people
whose character is just to'- tv
JOSEPH M. QUENTIN.
IN LIBRARY AND WORKSHOP
An. Important new volume from the pen
of Paul Sabatier. entitled "Modernism, la
announced by the Scribners.
t. .nAl that the subject selected
by the English department for the John
Hubbard Curtis prize at Yale this year Is
.-itieai F.ssav on the Novels of William
DeMorgan." the award for which will be
S100 in cash.
John La Farge's "The Higher Life. In
Art" will be the first of the McClure Com
pany's volumes to bo published by Double
day Page & Co. under the arrangement
whereby the latter firm assumed the Mc
Clure book list.
One of our Consuls In England suggests
the opening In London of an agency in
v. i .. w v . ATiri nonsuited and bought
American books on American subjects. He
says that he is very onen
Information which can be found only - la
American books of reference.
Madonnas of our ordinary story books
suggest blue skies, sunshine and Italy or
Palestine. But why not a Northern Ma
donna? She Is pictured oa this book page,
the portrait being taken from Mrs. Ella
Higginson's book on "Alaska." reviewed in
The Oregonian or December 13.
So Donald Grant Mitchell, better known
by his nom de plue of Ik Marvel, has
passed away In his 84th year. He will be
remembered best for his "Reveries of a
Bachelor" and "Dream Life.". His literary
associations had been with Washington
Irving. Hawthorne and other stars or a
n-arvelous New England galaxy.
During a sojourn in Italy Dickens wrote
"The chimes." at which time he wrote
to his friend Maclise, of the Mediterranean's
blue and of the hedges covered with pink
roses. One morning he was startled by a
tremendous clashing of chimes, a veritable
sea of sound, and two days later wrote:
"We have heard the chimes at midnight!"
Vegetarian Cookery," by Florence
George, author of "King Edward's Cookery
Book," is out. From hex new vegetarian
book Miss George does not exclude all ani
mal food, since eggs, butter, milk and
cheese form a large part of her dishes. The
various chapters deal with soups, sauces,
pastes. p!e3. curries. stews, salads, etc..
the author furnishing under each head
recipes for vegetarian dishes.
The Hetchy-Hetchy Valley In I he To
semite National Park to which wider at
tention has been attracted recently through
the grant by the present Administration to
the city of San Francisco of extenslye por
tions of the great Yosemite National Park
lor use at a water-supply will be the sub
ject of description and discussion by John
Muir In the January Century. It is a val
ley of rare beauty, and the California
naturalist declares, ought toe preserved.
Seumus Jfacmanus Is one of the dis
tinguished visitors to America at present.
He Is knotvn In Donegal, Ireland, as "the
fa!ry-man." as he has at his command an
Inexhaustible supply of fairy and folk
lore legend and tradition, which he tells
with a fascinating broguo and most con
tagious enthusiasm. He dresses In the
ancient Gaelic dress a green kilt and
Jacket with silver buttons and wears .the
costume well. ...
Eastern correspondents seem to agree that
since Hawthorne,, no novel, except Miss
Johnston's "Lewis Rand." has shown such
creative Imagination coupled with such
finished literary art. At present it Is said to
stand at the head of the best-selling books
In this country. Vivian Carter pronounces It
"a book to be put next to Thackeray., of
whose "Virginians" It Is often reminiscent.
This book will do much to add to Miss
Johnston's reputation as one of the fore
most novelists, not only of America, but
of the English-speaking race.
Frederick R- Burton has received letters
criticising the ending of his novel. "Strong
heart." and now hi" publishers, G. W.
Dillingham & Co.. offer S50 for the best
200-word criticism on the matter, decision
to be made by a committee of distinguished
literary men. The successful criticism will
be published with the author's name and
address. Contest to close December 24,
naymeat January 1. 1809. I should say that
this is shrewd advertising on Mr. Burton's
part at comparatively little expense. Note:
From now on. sales of "Strongheart" will
increase. . . '
W'. J. Locke, the author of "Simple Sep
timus" Is a tall, fair Englishman who
thinks Washington. D. C, . beautiful city
and "the strenuous man in the White
House." a striking personality. Mr. locks
was first an architect, and has enjoyed
examining the public buildings of Wash
ington in company with an American archi
tect. One of his chance remarks, which
remind the listener of the characters In the
author's "books, is: "I don't play golf or
bridge therefore I have time to enjoy my
self." rrofessor George McLean Harper. of
Princeton University, after a year abroad,
during which he has been working upon his
life and critical study of Staine-Beuve. the
great French critic, for Llppincott's French
Men of Letters series, has now collected
all his material for the work and Is now
returning to this country. He Is revising
and rewriting the book at Princeton during
the Winter and It will probably bo Issued
during the early part of January. It Is
based In great part upon original research
and will no doubt be one of the most Im
portant books of Its season.
e
"The Wlnterfeast," a new Icelandic
drama by Charles Rann Kennedy, whoso
fame "The Servant In the House" so sud
denly established, will be published by the
Harpers in a few days, immediately follow
ing Its production on the stage. The two
plays will provide a sufficiently interesting
contrast. While "The Servant In the
House" Is a modern drama set in present
day Kngiand. "The Wlnterfeast" is a story
of the nth century, with Vikings for heroes,
governed by the stern passions of the
North. The personal symbolism In the
"Servant" in which Christ is visibly pre
sented as a perfect brother of man. turns
HERE IS A SIXGER WHO RE
t CITES HIS SONGS.
'V
Dr. Ludwig: Wullncr.
NEW TORK, Dec. 26. (Spe
cial.) A singer without a voice
seems anomalous. Dr. Ludwig.
Wullner, who has come to this
country to show us how to in
terpret German lieder, Is known
as "voiceless," but this means
merely ' that Dr. Wullner re
cites rather than sings. Others
have attempted recitals of po
ems with orchestral accompa
niment. BIspham attempted
tiiis style of entertainment some
years ago, with rather Indif
ferent success. It remained
for Dr. Wullner to show Amer
ican audiences how the beauti
ful songs of the greatest Ger
man composers could be Inter
preted by a voice which did
not follow the rnelod-. Dr.
Wullner's voice is rich, sonor
ous, essentially musical. But
it Is his intelligence which gives
life to hisMnterpretation of the
works of the German writers.
He has created unbounded en
thusiasm whenever he has ap
peared in New York, and musi
cians acclaim him one of the
world's, greatest artists.
Impersonal in "The Wlnterfeast." The new
drama will seek to show the devastating in
fluence of & lie.
Miss Jessie Hodge Millard, head of the
children's department of the Portland Pub
lic Library, has an instructive article in
the current number of "The School and
Home" on the subject, "Christmas Booke."
Parents' and guard" ians ara often puzzled
what sort of holiday gifts as books will
really Interest children, because style In such
changes from year to year. Miss Millard
shows that she has an admirable knowledge
of her subject, and ehe goes over in detail
a list of favorites that appeals to all tastes,
books new and what one might call old. Her
style of writing is Illuminative and easily
understood.
Here Is one thoug'utrul criticism on Her
rick's story-attack on the complacent view
of marriage, found In "Together": "What
Is the moral of -Together'? Is It not to
marry, for if you do -i particularly If you are
a woman), in 99 cases out of 100 you will
select the wrong person; for It is impossible
to know, until it Is too late, whether you
have chosen wisely or not? While one can
not but admit the cleverness of the book,
isn't it unpleasant to have one uncongenial
couple after another trotted out and their
unmoral natures dilated upon? And It
would almost eeem that in order not to ap
pear too extreme, in the end tho author
tries to leave the Impression that Isabella
Lane has undergone a change of feeling
toward her husband and that they will live
happy ever after. But isn't it too late to
create such an Illusion? One feels that
such a thing cannot be: that Isabelle Is only
In the grip of a mood. There are only
I
Books Added to Library
The following new books may be ex
amined at the Public Library during this
week and will be ready for circulation Mon
day, January 4.
BIOGRAPHY.
Channlng Autobiography and diary of
Elizabeth parsons Chanuing. 1!)07.
Eddy Mary Baker G. Eddy; by. Arthur
Brisbane. 190S. .
Lull Ravmond Lull, first missionary to
the Moslams: byS. M-'..1;.,
-BOOKS IN FOREIGN LAMJLAGiS.
ubln Das heutlge Marokko.
Barrle Den lllle praest.
Bohlau Ralsmadelgescmcnten.
Bourget I-e disciple.
Defoe Robinson Crusoe's llv og liaen
delser. Eider Klhrwedder.
Gran Norges Daemring:
La Rochefoucauld Maximes.
Maupassant Les dimanches d un bour
geois de Paris.
DESCRIPTION AND TRAVEL.
Koebel Modern Argentina, the El Do
rado of today. 1007.
Sewall The log book of the captains
clerk; adventures In the China seas. lVDo.
Waddington Chateau and country life in
France. 190S.
FICTION.
j,ateS The Intoxicated 'ghost and other
stories.
Bell Tales of Greyhouse.
MacGowan Judith of the Cumberland
Panders The forest playfellow.
White The rlverman.
P,rjlson Mariam; a romance of Persia.
HISTORY.
Murray Imperial outposts, from a stra
tegical and commercial aspect; with special
references to the Japanese alliance. 10O7.
O'Donnell Causes of present discontent
in India. 1908.
LITERATURE.
Faguet A literary history of France.
19Morley Critical miscellanies, v. 4. 1888.
PHILOSOPHY.
Di-hop Seventy years young. 1907.
KaUlSKJ i:.i""-
ceptlon of history; tr. by J. B. Askew.
19" RELIGION.
v-yj-tisLaos of North Slam. 1903.
Lelghton Jesus Christ and the civiliza
tion of today. 1907.
Underwood Tba call of Korea. 1908.
three really fine Deonle in the story (tho de
lightful Colonel. Alice and Steve Johnston),
and two Of them die. If this Is a true
picture of life today, what a commentary
on life:"
In his new book, "France In ttie Twen
tieth Centurv." Just published, the auth"
paints a picture of the life of the French,
people of today, taking for his sr.bjecf
"The French Woman," "Church and Staiej
"The Drama," "Marriage." "Sitciallf-ir..
"Moralitv" and "The Revolutionary Spirit."
Another'book. published at the same time,
has to do with Louis Napoleon, the author
F. H. Cheetham. narrating the career of
the latter up to the time of his election to
the presidency of the French Republic anil
de't-i'ling the story of his adventures until
1S4S. . -
After all. and after all.
Since ever the world began.
Just two have lived and two have died
In lowly meln. In lordly pride.
The rogue and the honest man.
After all. and after all.
1 he classes are but two;
And both are rich and both are poor.
And both still know, as they knew before.
The things which they ought to do.
After all. and after all,
Escape It we never can;
Only the choice of one have we.
And you must be and I must be
A rogue or an honest man.
John Randolph Stidman. in Appleton's.
This week heralds the arrival of a long
expected book - of Imn'irtuiu-e, "The Mys
tery of the Plnckney Draught." This is not.
as its title might, at lirst view, snem to
indicate, a novel, but, according to its sub
title, "A Ptudy In Constitutional History."
The author, the Hon. Charles C. Nott. ex
Chlef Justice of the Vnited States Court of
Claims, has mado a ntudy of a mooted point
in the history of the Constitution of the
Vnited States how much of the work of
Charles Plnckney, of South Carolina, Is em
.bodied in that document. Tt is known that
Plnckney presented a draught of a consti
tution which was referred to the committee
of the whole. This draught disappeared
and many years after Plnckney sent what
he culled a copy of It to John yuinry
Adams, then Secretary of State. If this
document is really Identical with the paner
which Plnckney laid before the convention,
then Pinckney made a greater contribution
to the provisions of the Constitution than
any other man. The book fully discusses
and endeavors to arrive at a detlnte con
clusion as to this odd point In constitu
tional authorship.
The authoriship of the. Immortal baseball
poem. "Casey at the Bat," has long been In
dispute, and Is about to be determined. Ju
dicially, btyi conclusively, at any rate, says
Harper's Weekly. It was wrttlten by Kr
nest Lawrence Thayer, a Harvard graduate
of the class of ISS.'t. and during his collece
period an editor of the Lampoon. Thaer
was a contemporary of Wiiliam Hearst, anil,
having a newspaper propensity, went to San
Francisco and took service on a newspaper
there. For that paper he wrote his cele
brated lyric. For a while the lyric lan
guished in comparative obscurity, but pres
ently, after a lapse of time computed by
historians to be two years, the last ei;ht
verses of it were copied Into the New Yorlt
Sun. and the poem started on its way to be
come a National possession. Either Thayer
did not put his name to it in the Ilrst place
or the name became detached, for authors
for It sprang up. a-s It became popular, un
til as many poets claimed it as cities
claimed Homer. One of them was so per
sistent that we believe Mr. Thayer has
taken legal action somewhere to establish
the rightfulness of his own claim.
There sre many shudy paths nf author
ship besides that of anonymity. The
shadiest of them all Is. of course, that
which an author treads In company with
his "ghost." remarks the New York Times.
Every one knows that tho name of ghost
has been given to those unhappy Individuals
who write for a consideration what other
and far better known authors sign and sell.
That the keeping of ghosts must be a very
common form of Indulgence among writeis
is proved by the fact that In the las-t few
years I have run across at least half a
dozen struggling authors who have told me
In confidence that they have been invited
to turn ghost. Another of tho secrets ct
authorship consists in an absolute reversal
of the process of ghost keeping. This is
the writing by ons author of work pub
lished under several names. This Is far
less dishonorable than the other: Indeed, it
Is perhaps not dishonorable at all. There
are at present several authors to my knowl
edge who. really well known under one
name, write also under one and sometimes
several others. I have even heard of an
author who by his own unaided pen pro
vides the entire Actional output of a certain
moderately flourishing publisher. It must
be a curious sensation to have to pause
after writing a story to scratch one's bead
and wonder to which of one's personalities
it would most appropriately be attributed,
and whether It should be signed let us say
"John Smith" or "William Robinson'' or
"Angelina St. Claire."
Will H. Low-s new book,. "A Clironb'le
of Friendships." Is remarkable for the light
It sheds on the friendship which existed be
tween the author and Robert Louis Steven
son. Here Is one extract describing a
conversation between Low and Stevenson,
lust before the lattar's departure for the
South Seas: Louis broke the silence, speak
ing at first as though to himself. "England
Is over there: well, I bear her no grudse,
though she has cast me out. I cannot live
there and" turning to me almost fiercely
-Lou, I wish to live! Life is better than
art; to' do things is better thnn to Imagine
thein ves, or to describe them. And, find
knows. I have not lived all these last years.
No one knows, no one can know, the tedium
of It. I've supported It as I could I don't
think that I am apt to whimper but to b.
even as I am now. is not to live. Yes. that's
what art In good for, for without my work
I suppose I would have given up long ago,
without my work and my friends and nil
those about me. I am not forgetting them,
for witli all the courage I could summon I
would not be here today if all their loving
care had not added to my courage and
made It my duty to them to light it out.
There's - England over there and I've left
it perhaps I may never go back and there
on the other side of this big continent is
another sea rolling In. I loved the Pacific
In the days when I was at Monterey, and
perhaps now It will love me a little. I am
going to meet It; ever since I was a boy
the South Seas have laid a spell on me. and
though you have seen me all these weeks
low enough In my mind. I begin to feel a
dawn of hope. ... In a better climate
on the Pacific surely a better life awaits
Shedd Islam and the oriental churches.
1908.
Van Sommer & Zwemtr Our Moslem sis
ters. Ed. 2. 10"7.
Watson Egypt and the Christian cru
sade. 1907.
Zwemer The Moslem doctrine of God.
190."..
Zwemer and others, eds. The Mohamme
dan world of today. F.d. 2. 1900.
sociology:.
Darwin Municipal ownership. 1907.
Fuller Govern live nt by the people: the
laws and customs regulating tho election
vstem and the formation and control of
political parties in the United States. l'JUS.
Ross soi-ial psychology? 190S.
Weld Private freight cars and Americas
railways. 1908.
USEFUL ARTS.
Bergh Safe building construction. ions.
Starbuck Mechanical drawing for plum
bers. 190G.
Whipple Typhoid fever; its causation,
transmission and prevention. 190S.
Bach Die wasserradt-r. '2 v.
Baker Dictionary of engraving. inns.
Carnegie Institution of Washington
Handbook of learned societies and institu
tions in America. 1908.
Lake rlaeid conference on home eco
nomics, proceedings. 1SlP'.l-lii7.
Los Angeles Chamber of commerce. Re
port of the citizens' relief committee, for
the relief of sufferers from the earthquake
and fire. lOS. .
Mercks index; an encyclopedia for the
chemist, pharmacist and physician. 1907.
National conference on state and local
taxation State and local taxation; first
National conference. 190.S.
Rhead Studies In plant form: Intended
to demonstrate the method of deriving
ornamental 'auggestlor. from natural
growths, i no:;.
San Francisco Charter of the city and
county. 190S.
Pan Francisco Auditor, Annual finan
cial statement of tho city and county.
1UI18.
T square club (Philadelphia) American
competition; comp. and ed. by A. B. Lacey.
1907.
Tennyson Works: ed. by Hallam, Lord
Tennvson. 5 v. 190t.
Zwemer The Moslem world. 19"?.
BOOKS ADDED TO JUVENILE DEPART
MENT. Janvier In the Sargnsse sea.
National rhymes for the nursery.
Williams How it works.