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7 r Tim SUNDAY OKEGOXIAX, PORTLAND, JANUARY 10, 1909. , I - - i : . . No life can be cure in its strife and all life er thereby. Owen Meredith. I i .1 ' I .til ! I - " r f . V ... LSSM tl -4 '3 -. . III1! BOOTH Tbo KnnliiMTO.-rk of Cart H-taurr. Velum I jury.' New York City, and Th J. K. GUI y ompany, Portland. j The Oreconlan ban already nvlew.l the Trl and second volumes of the rnlnis rcni'ps of l"arl Srhtirz. Gerninn pollllcal j-ef-iKoe. orator. soldier, I'nited States t. nalor. inKsrapor editor and publisher. This tho third and conoltidlnK volume of t'.ie serin contain Oerieral Schurc' tnemoirs from L8 to six years later, when ilra'h stilled his busy hand. R.nd Us personal book-maklnjr stoprwl. Hut t:ie account (toe on. a sketch of his lifo ard puKiu services from to UK lha latter t.le. year of h! death being con tributed by VV.-d.-rlr; Kanrreft and Pro fessor William ,. Uunntng, of Columbia ft'lversllr. The a" central thougHs of Schurx's pervade- tha volume: His lienr-disliko of ik-neral and afterward Priilert firanf, defiance of party political ties; Ill-concealed doubt and almost dislike of lYesi dents IKKinl.-y and Boos-velt; and vio lent distaste for the American cxpansorr Idca. proven so popular since the days of the. tpai:i.sh-Ani. riean War. Yet tho book Is a brilliant picture of our history, con tain important Information that one iloopn't meet with In ordinary channels, and Is liio fearless record of a born fifrhter. j tt sburs opens the book, and In de- crlblnK a phasa of the third day's fight. General Schurx remarks: That the battle, should have tnm to a short nv would have surprised nobody. Hut -when that nop lenR-thened from min ute to minute, from hair-iiour to half-hour, and when It settled down Into a tranquillity like the peaceful and languid repose of a warm tnld-f uiuincr morning, m wiii- om mv-! t expect to hear the rinicluic of the vI.1h church be:!. tliere was something ominous. aoniathuiir uucann. In theea a:range. unexpct-d houra of profound 11,-ice o eliarplv contraetlt, with the b.oody horrore which had preceded and whlih were sure to follow. Even the liKht hearted aoldlers who would ordinarily never lose an opportunity for wmi outbreak of an hilartoua mood, even In a short moment rt re-ptta In a tiirht. reemea to itea us op; r.ris'.on. Some aat allently on the ground munehirs; t.'i. Ir hardtack. while othera a-retched tlinie'.ves out aeeking le.tp. which thev nrohably would have found rnriMv tifirl the cannon been thunder Inc at a distance. The otr.cers at.od to ctl er In little proup. dlscuffcinc with evi dent conctrn. "hat this lor.g-contlnued n, i.-t.t n roulil It be that l-e. whose artillery In lone row of batteries been s: -ntlv TroiMiir.E ' " an m mornlns. had given up h'.a Intention to make another rreat attack? If not. why he not bezun at an earlier hour, which. tiniuestlonably would have been more ad tntsccoUB to him? N,.,n' th. rt.lrtle waa aolved. About 1 r'cTe.-k the long bush wis broken by the nTn!r.jr of two suns nren in rnp:a ninw on oo the eneiuv's rirht. u here I-onK- reet's eorpa stood. At once this signal mas attawered 1? all the Vatt'Ttes or the I on-y-lrat Army, about l.t'J cannon, that -o'il.l be broisrht to beir uioa Cemetery Jtm and the rilge Joln'tig It to tho Ttound Tops. Instantiv about M pieces or our ar t:Il.rv ils many as could bo usefully posted In our lire facing west and northwest took up the ehallnFe and one of the granaesi rtfUTHr i!ie'.s In the history of war f'i- Joncd. All that I had ever read In battle e'erles of th boomlnr of heav gur out thunderlng the thunder of heaven and sriskiiiF the earth tremble, and almot stojv- lnc one' breath by the roneiiasion of the air ess her made real. In torrlflc effect. A graphic word picture sliowir.; a record of conversation between President Lincoln and fctehurx. at the time when the opposition ta Lincoln's second nomination to the ITeeidency became manifest: Lincoln aooke as If he felt a pressing red to ease his he.-irt by civlng voice to the sorrowful thoughts lis:res:ng IJm. l:e ould nt eoiupiam of tiie fearful bur. .n of rare and responsibility put upon his s loulders. Nooouy kr.e-e the weiKiit of t ist burden a-e hlir.s!f. Put it rcesary. waa it genrus, was It right, to Jrrpeach evea the rectitude of M motive? 1'hev urae nte with almost violent lau guagc," he said, "to withdraw from tne contest, although I have been unanimously romir.atrd. In or1r to muJce fi'l for a Verier man. T a sh 1 cou'.d. perhaps aome ohr m:i mlcht do this business tetter than I. That ls po. lile. I do not deny It. Xtut I am h re, and the better man is not Jie-e. Ar.d If I slwu'd step aside to make T om for htm, 1t Is n-u at all sure perhaps Itot fvn protiablc t-.at lie would get here I would t F.'f'li more likely that the fac tion opposed to me wou'd fall to lighting an.org themselves, ar.d that those who want m to make room- for a better mau would get a, ruan whom most of them wuid not stnt at all. Mv withdrawal, therefore, might, and rrol-aMy wou'.il. bring on a con fusion worse confounded. t5od knows. I fcave at least tried very hard to do my duty . to do right to everybody and wrong to bodv And now to have It said hy men who have been my friends and who ouht to know better that I !:av been seduced by what- they call th lust of power, and that I have been doing this and that unscrupu lous thlnr. hurt'nl to the common cause, only to myself In ofTlce! Have they thought of thfct common csue when trying to l.reik me down? I hone they have." So he went on. as If sneaking to himself, now pausing f r a secom!, then utterlna a ntence or two with vehement emphasis. Meanwhile, t li - du? cf evenlns; had act in. and auen the room v.a lighted I thought I saw his sad eyes moist and his rugged features workt.g slraiflr its If under a very strong and p.i'.nfTi! rniotl.in Vhen I to-k ny leav i fiat nlrht he waa !n a ialni nnod, Ir.duiged himself In a few humorous reiTiarris. sl:o,'k my hand heartily, .-'! jaid: "W.-.I. thlncs riillit look better, end r:iec irlit !-olc Wilis', ilo In. and let us a ! do the West we cHn." As fortJrar.t: ".Votiili.c; of the fuss-and-f;l:h.ers stylo, nothing of tiie stage ric turc of tiie O-nrral a'oout him." Uut pnj furthf r on: la t'e opin'on of many competent per sons. ,-hrrman v as t -ie ablest eommmuler of ihom ail. t remen.oer a remarkable ut-t-ran-e of his idol lve mere speaking of 0,-jr''s aniraian There wax a differ ence." Sherii,u:i eaI. "beiveen (Iranl's and m way of looUinr at tMngs. tlrant never eared a .d v. aat was nins on behind the ei-.t-iii-.-'s liner. tut It :vn scared tne I ke 'he il.-vil." He aii nltted. and Ju".;ly o. ha: Sim,! f G-ar: a. s-cceeses m'ere ovitii; t t'.is very fact, but also some of Ms most cori.;ucu"US failures. Grant be lieved In hii!uneri:ig Sherman In maneuv ering. It had burn the habit of (tenerala eomiiunJint the Army of the Potomac to cross tVe Kai u-.h.innoi k. to st theirirul Vtnc from T.r-. a-ti Then promptly to retreat and redone t .e l;,ipi'auM:inoi'k again, tlie.nt erosett tiie P.appiiiianro' g. got his drub bing from I.ee, bet d:d ro: rcc ross the r.apcab.-ini'o k asrain In retresr. lie sturd ily ment en lintmnrriiic mo, I hammer'.e.iE. end. mill' I 2itiv suo-r. or resioirrt-s. tnaliv J-.ammered Lee' army to pieces, but I in its purpose or strong not be purer and strong aRKlNC5XaiSI. with a most dreadful sacrifice of life hi omn part. Norn-, comparing flrant oo on part. Norn', comparing orams woi- palcn for the niKinu oi hichtouii ... Sherman's campaign for tho taklnj ot At lanta without loeing sight of any of the jiiv.,..,.. nf thelc respective uluatlors ;icn mono we' mar well arrive at tin conclusion that. Sherman was the superior tralstt ar.u the greater General. S-htin's contrast of Presidents Lincoln and Andrew Johnson: If AndreT Johnson had possessed only a little of Abraham Uncoln sweet temper, generous tolerance and patient tact In the treatment of opponents, he might at leat nave nrevented the conflict of opinions from degenerating lato an angry and vicious per sonal bram I. Hut the brawl was Johnson congenial atmosphere. I have alwas been, and am now. of the opinion that had l.ln eoln lived, there mlaht indeed have been animated controversies about tne matter of reconstruction. but those controveraier. mould never have drom-ned the voice of calm reason by the clamor of passion. The North mould always have believed that Abraham Lincoln mould do or advise noth ing apt to Impair or endangor the freedom and r.eht of the emancipated lve and the security of the tlnion men. The South mould alwavs have believed that he never mould do anything from motives of enmity or vlndlctiveness. to inflict unnecessary suf fering or htsmiliatlon upon his vanquished countrvmen He mould thus have l-etl met with universal conndonce and good will on the part of the people of both sections. In speaking; of sotne of the Tvarrinir troubles experienced by General Grant In changinir his mental makeup from suc cessful Union commander In the field to President of the Cnited States: The cloak-room of the Senate where Sen ators amused one another with the gossip of the dav. continued to buia with anec dote about President Grant' cunou no tion of the nature and functions of civil government. One of these anecdotes, told by a Senator who was considered one of t,& vest Inmver In the bodv and one of the most Jealou of th character of his pro fession was partlrularly significant, lie heard 'a rumor that President Grant mas about to remove a Federal Judse In one of i. tet-ttorles of the I'nited State. The Senator happened fo know that Judge as a lamyer of excellent ability and uncommon fitness for tho bench, and he wont to tho President to remonstrate against so ex treme a measure as the removal of a Judge unless there were cogent reasons for It con nected mith the administration of the. office. President Grant admitted that, as far ss he knew, there mas no allegation of the unfitness of tl.a Judge, but he added: the Governor of the Territory writes me that he cannot get along mith that .tudgo at all. and ls very anxloua to be rid of hisn: and I think the Governor is entitled to have con trol of hla staff." The Senator closed his story by saying that he found It to be a delicate as well as a difficult job to make the great General In the chair of the presi dent Of the United States understand how different the relations between a Territorial Governor and a Federal Jud;e were from those between a military commander and his staff offlcera. Th anecdote mas re ceived by the listeners with a laugh, but the mirth mas pot far from heael-shaklng auprehension. However, there being tin cere and perfect good will on both sides, th'ngs went on pleasantly In the expectation tliat the military hero at the head of the Government mould learn what he needed to know and that the men In political places of power mould treat him with due con sideration and fairness. It wa not unnatural that In the abso lute absence of political experience Presi dent Grant should not only have had much to learn concerning the nature and con duct of civil government, but that he should also have had much to unlearn cf the mental habits snd the ways of thinking he hsd acquired In the exercise of large indeed almost unlimited military command. This was strikingly Illustrated By 4iie remarkable Incidents. I As :sub1. the nominations made by the President for Cabinet offices w re prompt Iv ratified by the Senate mtthout being referred to any committee. But after this had teen done It mas remembered and re ported to President Grant that one of the nominees ao conrtrmed. A. T. Stewart, of New York, whom President Grant had aelected for the Secretary of the Treas ury as a person enraged In commerce, m-as SEW PnEMDKM OP NEW YOltK, Jan. 8. (Spe cial.; General .Vicente Gomez ls the successor of Castro as President of Venezuela- He was Vice-President under Castro and was supposed to be a friend df the President. This has caused a great many persons to doubt his Rood faith lu the matter of the revolution. Xo doubt a rev olution Tvas due In Venezuela Ccstro saw this and the suspi cion ls that he arranged with Gomez to carry It out in his ab sence with tho least possible in convenience to ..the friends of Castro. A few of Castro's por traits burned In the public square is almost the extent of t.io damase done up to the pres ent tittle. n I f - i ! l x ;' ' 1 I J v" 1 1 ji ?rl j i r " V I ' , fit I 1 e' ' ' -s ! ! "e. . 4 ' ; f ; ? . i I t Vi : y A : i s - i i ' l ' s i j Sao-n.iw J . lasay f. .j mm. iAiw .oisial lienrral s Icente Cones, f t a f disqualified by one of the oldest laws on 1 th aiatute books In fact, the act of Sep tember 1!. 1TSH. establishing the Treasury Department. That this lam-, which pro vided that the Treasury Department, hav ing the administration of the custom houses under Its control, should not have at its head a merchant or Importer in active busi ness, was an entirely proper Indeed, a t ecessary one. had never been questioned. The next morning. March 6. I had occa sion to call upon President Grant for the purpose of presenting to him a congratu latory message from certain citizens of St. Louis. I found him alone, engaged in tvrit irg something on a half-sheet of note paper. "Mr. President." X said. "I see you are buaj". and I do not wish to Interrupt you. Mv business can malt." "Never mlndi" he animered. "I m only writing a message to the Senate." My businesa waa quickly dis posed of, and I withdrew. In the course of that day'a session of the Fenate a message from the President waa brought in. In which, after quoting the statute of September 17$:), the Preai- Ae "neUe.l I liat l r Kt.nlUt b fltiliPted I by Joint resolution of the two House of Congress from tne operation- m t." mhlch stood In i!r. Stewart's way. There mere some sign of surprise among Sen ators when the message was read, and llr. Sherman at once "asked unanimous consent to introduce a bill" in aceordnnee with the President's wish. But Mr. Sum ner objected to th Immediate considera tion thereof because o! Its great Import ance. This stopped further proceedlnr". ard the bill man laid on the table never to be hear'! of B-ain. At the time when some newspapers were urging General Sherman's nomina tion for the Presidency, that hero said to Schurz: "WJiat. do tney think I am, a d il fool? . . . Look-at Grant! Ixiok at Grant: Wliat wouldn't he ajive if he hnd never meddled with politics! No, they must let me nione.'- As may be expected. Schurz constantly speaks in terms of commendation for the hravery of the American volunteer, dis played on botli sides In our Civil War. After becoming head of the New Tork Tribune news-paper bureau at Washing ton. D. C. where Schurz really learned practical politics for the first time, he came into closej antagonism with Maine end onnosed the latter's nomination to the Presidency. Then Schurz edited tha Detroit Poet and afterward accepted a responsible position in directing the for tunes of the Wesliche Post of rit. Louis. Mo., and in maklns: a plea for newspapers cot printed In Hrfflish. says: It Is argued that the existence of th German remspaner ! apt to render tha German Immigrant less sensible to the necessity of learning English. It la not tho existence of German newspapers that mill keep them from reading Knglish news paper but It ls their inability to read Kngiish trorman Immigrants of education mill read Kr.gilah nem papcrs. but many of them will read German neieapapor. to... because thv And In them things of In terest which the English paper do not give them. The young people, as a rule, lea-n English very quickly and in many Instances turn to English Journals for their dally reading. On the whole It may ba aid that the German newapapera ran with the English papers of th same class, aocordlng to their environment and their financial resources. Their tone la through out clean and wholesome. The sensational "yellow" class ls almost wholly unknown among them. I cV not follow Schurz into his after career as statesman and diplomatist, be cause that story is too well known. Dyins May 14. IPOS. It is to be believed that Liberal-Republican as he called himself. Schurz lived to regret many of his fears with regard to the otabillty of this Re public, and that he must have counted as wasted the futile efforts he mado in tho political arena to help the fortunes of P.rvan and Parker. Schurz" farewell to his loved one's was in contrast to the life of this stormy petrel: "It is so simple to die." Out of the Trump, by Mary E. Marcy. BO cents. Illustrated. Charles H. Kerr & Co., Chicago. What a non-euphonious name for a rug ged study in sociology! Mrs. Marcy ls associate editor of the International Socialist Review and re cently gained prominence for the original ity arid boiness of view she displayed in her "Letters From a Porkpacker's Sten ographer." Mrs. Marcy acquired mo in formation she printed while working as a stenographer for tne Armour tompajiy at Kansas City, Mo., and she was arter ward one a! the star witnesses summoned by the United States Government to ap- oear asralnst the beef trust. Alterwaru she became interested in the Bureau of Charities work in Chicago, and in mag azine work. Then, among others, she heard the call of Socialism. In this story of 123 pages, Mrs. Marcy has nlctured the woes of the piper tam- lly. In a large American city, probably Chlcaeo. and trouble starts wnen Air, Ptrjer. the breadwinner and head of the family, sustains an injury at his place of employment and through tne neg.i gence of his employers, by which he speedily dies, leaving his widow and young children in want. They beg on the streets until organized cnarity inter feres and assumes the care of the waifs. taking them from the den called the "Dump, which thny miscalled noine. One of the daughters. Miss Piper, tells the story, and ls particularly perturbed when her brother. Bob, isv arrested, charged with disposing of stolen prop erty and Is sentenced to serve one year at the House f Correction. A rich young man. a Mr. Lee. who was rich be cause of inherited wealth, comes Into the tale and a romance springs up between him and the friendless girl., who by this time ls employed in charity organization work. These paragraphs show tha general so cialistic style of the book: It'a a crime to be m-ithout work and often we can't get work. It'ics crime to beg (ask the charily workers, and they'll tell you how true this Is) and It's painful to starve. Every poor man will say that honesty and poverty can't go very far hand-ln-hanil because they starve to death, and poverty and dishonesty don't go far either, becauee they land In Jul Tho cap italists love a moral working man. He Is patriotic. Ho mill light then for his coun try. All that tho king of Industry have to do wh-m their m-arehouses are crammed to the bursting point is to pick a quarrel with one of the little countries. Somebody In sults the tiag. The dear, old flag! And the moral, patriotic man is up in arma in a moment, ready to shoot the HtMe Cuban or Mexican or Venezuelan In to the eternal darkness, or to be himself shot. And so the beef trust gets a new mark-'t and the cotton trust another lease on life. ' This is a burning tale of the lowest strata of poor people as they really are. Crude, but interesting and unspoiled by tho advent of a fairy prince who had only to wave his wand, and lo, privation and hunger vanish. ' The Curst of Qtiesnay. by Booth Tarkington. Illustrated. Tiie ilcOlure Company, New York c'lty. It isoften the case that up-to-date pub lishers on the momentous occasion when an already celebrated author gives to the world a new book, announce that the said book Is the greatest, the best star in tiiat author's sky of created fiction. Now, Mr. Tarkiugton's story of French Normandy, told in "The Guest of Ques nay." has already boon acclaimed as the author's best, but while gladly bearing testimony to the fact that it is a cleverly written, entertaining story, I think that it does not reach the sublime pinnacle of artistic excellence reached in "Monsieur Beaucaire." The latter is one of the really great novels of a generation. "The Guest of yuesnny" tolls the story of a modern reincarnation. Of course nearly all the scenes are laid in France, in conformity with tho latter custom of this French-American author, Booth Tarkington. who seems disposed to for get for the time being tnat ho Is an Amer ican. He was born at Indianapolis, Ind., July 2?, 1SJ9. A modest artist tells the tale, and on the stage of action there rushes a white auto containing Larabee Harraan, disssi pated, a moral leper. one of the idle rich and his companion, a Spanish dancer. La Bella Mariana la Mersiana, a member of the vicious set. It was vaguely under stood that Harman's American wife hud secured a divorce from him, and that the had afterward married the dashing Mariana. At this period, the relator and Harman really live the lives of expatriat ed Americans, though they don't know it, and the relator thus muses: I have lived In Paris so long that I am afraid to go home: I have too little to show f.r my year of pottering m-ith paint and ennves. and T have arrown timid about a! the changes that have crept In at home. I do not kr.ow the "new men.'' I do not know horn- they would use me, and fear they might make no place for me: and o I fit myself more closely into the little groove I have morn for myself, and resign myself to stav. But 1 am no "expatriate." I know there Is a feeling at home against us who remain over here to do our work, but In most Instances It ls a prejudice which springs from misunderstanding. I think the quality of patriotism in those of us who "didn't go home in time" la almost pa thoiicailv deeo and real and. like many aii- other oldish fellow In my position, I try to 1 keep aa close to things at homo as I can. t All of mv friends gradually ceased to write to me, but I atlll take home uewspupei i. trying -to follow the people 1 knew and the things Utat happen. As for the rich sot, Harman, whatever Ills features might qnce have shown of honor and trood looks, these had become a. blurred distortion. "The lids of one eye were discolored and swollen almost together; other traces of a recent bat tering were not lacking, nor was cos metico evidence of a heroic struggle, on the part of some valet of infinite pains, to efface them. Tho nose lost outline in the discol orations of the puffed cheeks; the chin, tufted with a small imperial, trembled beneath a sagging, gray lip. And th.it this bruised and dissipated mns should suffer the final grotesque touch. It was decorated with the moustache of a coquettish marquis, the ends waxed and exquisitely elevated." Mariana, at least. was "thoroughly alive, bold, predatory and in spite of the gross embonpoint that threatened her, still savagely graceful. Her lips were splashed a startling carmine, the eyelids painted blue, and from between larhes gummed into little spikes of blacking, she favored ner companion with a glance of carelessly simulated 'tenderness a look all too vividly suggesting the ghastly cal culations of a cook wheedling a chicken nearer the kitchen door." As Harman arid his Mariana fore their auto in mad career over a Paris road, the auto collides with a cart, and Har man is picked up dangerously Injured about the head, while .Mariana suffers the breahing of one of i.er legs. "That imbecile. If he has let me break my leg. A pretty dancer I should be. I hope he is killed." moans Mariana. Har man is taken in an unconscious condition to a hospital, where he remains for a long time. Here a veil falls, and when it is lifted we find ourselves in the pleasant country estate of Quesnay, Normandy, where we make the acquaintance of Professor Keredec and his pupil, diver Saffren. The latter Is a young man who has lost not only his memory, but memories, and Keredec is devoting himself to the young man's education. Saffren manfully strug gles with his algebra, and appears to be a new man cleansed of his vices, and possessed of a new heart and loving only tho good. Of course, the watchful reader by this time has guessed that Saf fren ls the reincarnation of Larabee Har man, the roue. Mrs. Harman. Larabee's wife, comes on the scene, and it appears that the di vorce proceedings she had started were afterward withdrawn. Under an assumed name, she, as a stranger, meets her hus band, and he again makes love to her. Had Angel Mariana next discovers him and also tries to make him love her as she wants his money, bu he has no re membrance of ever having met her be forea. very convenient method of dis posing of a surplus wife. Technically, Harman has committed big amy, but he isn't punished for his forget fulness of the law In such matters, and the inference ls given that he escapes scot-free to America, where he lives with the real Mrs. Harman. Tarkington takes a sly slap at America by making one of the buffon-comedians an objection able Bowery tough, Carl Percy, or, as the latter calls himself, "Oil Polcy." Mr. Tarkington s plot although ingen ious is not new, jiavlng already been principally used in Sir' Gilbert Parker's novel, "The Right of Way." JOSEPH M. QUENTIJf. IX I J. BRAKY AND WORKSHOP. The first of the many Harvard clubs to order a copy of President Eliot's new book. "University Administration," was the Harvard Club of Hawaii. "The Komaace of American Expansion." bv H. Addlngton Bruce, which has been appearing serially in the Outlook, mill b published very soon in book form. " e e Mrs. Humphrey "Ward ls thm serial con tributor for 1110!) to McClure's Magazine. Her latest novel, "Marriage a la Mode," begins its course In tho current number. "The Woman of Corinth." is announced, a narrative poem by Hermann Hagedorn. who came into no little prominence on hla graduation from Harvard In 1007 by his class poem, "A Troop of the Guard." "The Mvstery of Golf." by Arnold Haul tain. In a special limited edition, was largely taken up in advance of publi cation. Among the prominent subscribers ls John I. Rockefeller, who sent in an early order for two copies. . Enos A. Mills, who Is known through out the country as tha Government Lec turer on Foreatry, finds large audience mho are eager to hear his talks on trees. Mr. Mills 1 to publish a book next Spring on "Wild Life in the Rockle." Professor David Todd, the Amherst Col lege astronomer, who has Just been elected to honorary membership in the Peruvian Geographical Society, is said to be mrlt lng a book on Mars, based In considerable pare upon his experiences and observations during his recent residence in the high Andes. A singular use has been found for John Graham Brook's "As Othera See Us." by a protei'sor of philosophy In one of the large iKi'veottcs. He hos sihmteil the work as Books Added to Library The following books may be examined at the Public Library during this meek and mill be ready for circulation Monday, Jan uary 13: BIOGRAPHY. Poe Edgar Allan Poe: by John Macy. I POT. Stephens Alexander H. Stephens; by Louis Pendleton. HioH. BOOKS IN FOREIGN" LANGUAGES. Aiigaard En spogelseshistorie. Aubert Dago som svandt. lileibtreu Wellington bel Talavera. Eourget I." emigre. Bui! Bendeoproret. Ewald Fortaellliigcr. Gllman- HJemmet; dcts arbelde og Ind flydelse. Hesse Dlessells. Klrschner Vollmondzauber. Maeterlinck Theater. 3 v. Nlelson jLaerebog i trlgonometrl. Poland & Wagner Die Hellenlsche kul tur. Renan Souvenir dTenfance et de Jeu- nesse. , Sthulten Dos Romlsche Africa. Stegemann Die als opfer fallen. DESCRIPTION ANO TRAVEL. Amundsen Tho northwest passage. 2 v. 190S. Bradley Round about Wiltshire. lf07. SldgwlcU Horn life In Germany. 1008. FICTION. Adams Shlbusama:. or. The passing of old Japan. Ballantyne Coral Island. Becke The call of the South. Benson A mirror of Shalott. Bindloss Delilah of tha snowa. Hourget The mcight of tho name; tr. by G. B Ives. Bowen The master of Si air. Crawford The diva's ruby. Day King Spruce. free On tha wall; Joan and I In the East End Hawkins The great Miss Driver. Jacobs Salt haven. Leroux The mystery of the yellow room. Olllvant Tho gentleman; a romance of the sea. Forter At the foot of the rainbow. FINE ARTS. Baker Yard and garden: a book of prac tical Information for the amateur gardener. lts. Lounsberry The garden book lor young people. IDiiS. Thomas swimming. j-e'. HISTORY. Morse Tho' trade and adminlatration of the Chinese Empire. 1908. Page The Old Dominion; ner waiting and her manners. l'JOs. . a textboo'k for a class In ethics, because it shows tne contrast, oeiwcen ci.i,,ue. in th United States and in Europe. Not everv class in philosophy ls lucky enough to have so entertaining a text book. Readers of "Rosa MacLeod" will be glad to know that Miss Alice Brown has ready a new novel, which mill b published In tha early Spring. The Macmlllan Company ha Just Issued the lltb. edition of Robert Herrlck'a "lo gether," which has been for some montns one of the most widely- read books In the United States. Among the other Mac mlilan novels of the year which have been often reprinted are ".Mr. Crewe's Career, by Winston Churchill, aeventh edition; "Tne Heart of a Child," by Frank Darby, 10th edition: "The Open Windo.w." by Bar bara, fourth edition; and "Over Bemer ton'a." by tT. V. Luctl, third edition. When Mis Grace Donmorth. author of the droll and delightful "Letters of Jennie Allen." informed recently one of her friends that she waa going to have a new picture taken, the friend, being can did, quoted Jennie to the effect tnat " f you could see her. you would know that it was the merit thing she could do" a wit ticism which is open to the Boston Her ald's objection: "In this case, however, tha wisdom of Jennie failed, for surely much of Miss Donworth's winning personality - ls reflected In her portrait." Hamlin Garls.nd and Holnian Day, au thors belonging out West and down Lust, respectively, have been recently in New Vork. eac l on lus own nivrai n.i' Mr c.rimiH is ii ten summoned from I'nl cago to fuiMil some engagement to read or lecture. Besides thl. It is expeeieu ir.a .V,T,e..ee an nuthn. noblifiheS S new b'KIK as Vr Garland bus tlcili' in "The Shadow World." publishera- matters usually have a,.rv,A n1rl,. enll for him. and till- ISSt 1 ,-,, . n o' Mr Da-.-, author of "King spruce," m ho has Just 'published a story for young readers, "The Laglo Baugc. Y.wsTor reports of the novelty of photographing medlumtstlc seances, nractised bv the Baron von Eriiardt, German painter resident at Rome, seem to ienore the fact that pliotograpny nas iw aome. time been in common use among 'iiilun. o? r-svohicnl reicarch. Photo graphic Illustrations from seances of the celebvatea tsu.3ap:a raiaoino arc an nw rvonant nHrt .if the record, for instance, in famine Flammarion's "Mysterious Psychic Forces," and they will be given a bavins: possible evidential value In the n.-,.T.L- rxr nsvehlcnl research bv the Ttallan savant Cesare I.ombroso which is shortly to appear. A "Biography of Thoreau" would hav seemed strange to Thoreau himself, with only two books to his credit even in his last vears when his vcritlnc mas nnlsnco. Am even after his death, though volume-after volume of his writings appeared in ranld succession, such a thing was tor many years ur thought of. Now. however, that 1.1s fame has grown with tho years and his literary Immortality ls well-nign assuren. n. sc-eui e,,ie. n .wi eeeo oeeess.T.rv to add a com pl"te bibliography to the increasing list of booka about him. Such a volume ha Just been complied bv Francis H. Allen and published by Houghton Mifflin Company In tnetr series oi Aniencu umiiutifti""';.. aecnrdinr to a writer In Aonleton's Mag azine, "Mr. Crewe' Career" marks the de cline of muck-raking and a turn in the tide of denunciation of great corporations. This m-rlter quotes "a great trust mag nate" as saying: "This book ls tho lirst sign of a possible popular appreciation ti.nt th eornoratlon men are not deiin rat.lv bnrt Tt I not a. defense but It Is an explanation." Mr. Churchill, he goes on, Is the first popular writer mho undertakes even to suggest to the public that there are tm-o sides in the "big busi ness In politics" problem. From this point of view he holds "Mr. rrome's Career" to be "a doubly important contribution to American literature." Th. Toihllshinir denartmont of Paul El der & Co. mill be returned In February fmm v.w Vorlr to the home ofnee in San Francisco. Promptly after the disaster of April. 190S, the firm erected an attractive bulldlag In San Francisco's new business center on Van Ness avenue. In which they continued their local and retail business. but found It necessary tmepoearlly to re move their publishing Interests. The . re building of the city, already so far ad vanced, the rapid resumption of norms' business conditions and especially tue re newal of adequate facilities for printing and publishing have now enabled the firm aealn to concentrate all departments in their San Francisco quarters. Frederick Trevor HML whose llluminatln narrative of Wall street ls published under the title of "The Story cf a Street." like most delvera for burled treasure, uuoarthed a good deal that m-as unexpected. Legend says that Captain Kidd had a house some where In New York, but few are aware that he m-as at one time owner of the first house built on Wall street on the north side. The future pirate acquired the property by mar rying a m-idow whose former husband had succumbed to a malady which, as Mr. Hill points out. has proved fatal to many dwell ers on the street, sinco tne report or jnis demise says quaintly that . he "took too much water in." Thus Caplaln "William Kidd became one of the earliest proprietor of Wall street a locality lu mhlch people have been treasure-hunting ever since. Miss Fluffy Ruffles, whose first sponsor m-as Carolyn Wells, has had a second In Charles Battel! LoomLs. Mr. Loomls. who has been conniving at the fortunes of Tdiss Fiuffy for several modths past, is among the best known of contemporary humor ists, and began his "funny" career many years ago by contributing to the news papers, and In spite of much magazine and book ' success still contributes to them. His first notable book. called "Just Rhymes," brought out a few years ago by the Harpers, owed some of Its success to the Illustrations of Fanny T. Cory, and la one of the few nonsense books which are no less popular now than when they were printed first. Mr. Loomls ls numbered among ' the authors who have two nem booka simultaneously before the publlo this present season. What of literary Louisville, Ky. ? Wil liam Dean Hom-ells, who favorite critical pursuit ls the discovery of American lit erary centers, might well consider Louis ville where, as shown In a. recent special Rrticle In the Cincinnati Enquirer, verses are being m-rltten by Madison Cawein, styled by Edmund Gosse as the "one hermit thrust in the world of poetry who sings from Louisville, Kentucky;" Charles Ham ilton Musgrove, satirist and fellow-mem- MolmentI Venloa: Its Individual growth from the earliest beginnings to the fall of the republic. Pt. 11. In 11 v. 11)08. LITERATURE. Symon Studies in prose and vers. IDofl. PHILOSOPHY. Maccunn Six radical thinkers: Bentham, J. S. Mill. Cobden, Carlyle. Mazzini, T. H. Green. 11.07. MacKayc The economy of happiness. 10C. RELIGION. Broadliead The religious persecution in France, 1900-1UOB. 1807. Cochrane Among the Burmans; a record of IS years of work. 1904. Spenee Mythologies of ancient Mexico and Peru. mil". Wherry Islam and Christlnnity in India and the Far East. Ed 1!. 1907. SCIENCE. Burroughs Leaf and tendril. 190H. Jordan The California earthquake of 1900. 1907. Morgan Experimental zoology. 1907. SOCIOLOGY. Engels Feuesach; the roots of the So cialist philosophy; tr. by Austin Lewis. lOOtl. Gregory A -book of saints and m-onders. 10O7. Hawley Enterprise and the productive process. 19U7.' Kemmerer Money and credit Instrument in their relation to general prices. 1907. Tyasen Leasehold assurance guide, ism. Untermann Science and revolution. 1907. USEFUL ARTS. Green Baa-brecdlng. 1907. Junge Gas power. 1908. Markliam The American steel worker. Ed. 2. 1900. BOOKS ADDED TO REFERENCE DEPT. Air-brake Assoclaltlon Proceedings of the 14th annual convention. 1907. Chicago Architects' business associa tion. Handbook for architects and build ers: ed. by E. P. Hall. lns. Edwardes, comp. A summary of the lit eratures of , modern Europe, from the origins to 1400. 1907. Mackey Lexicon of freemasonry. Ed. 14. 1871. New York State Library. Van Rehse lear Bowler manuscripts. 190S. BOOKS ADDED TO CHILDREN'S DE PARTMENT. Buttermorth Young folks' history" of America. Drysdale Cadet Standish of the St. Louis. - Houston The boy geologist at school and in camp. Otis, (pseud.) With Latayelts at York-town. - t w t f a And thus IT 1 When wrestling to gain my right ; With a curse that is keen as a serpent's tooth I swear you shall bend to me As deathless and great as the sleepless truth This curse JhatI make shall be. Though a man go down to the house of death Revenge is a living thing ' That will pulse its way as an outgrown breath. Where the stars in their courses swing, That will follow far past the dying suns Through the orbits devised of old Till it reaches the place of the faithless ones Where the planets have long grown cold. And thus have you lied, and so have you lied My spirit can bide and wait With the faith you broke and the truth denied Till it finds you before the gate. And there in the glow of a light sublime In a vast, eternal place I shall tear all the truth from the page of time And snail tang it ber with John D. Rockefeller: and George Adn In the American Press Humorists As sociation; Charles T. Rogers, magazine poet; S. J. Duucan-Clarko; Charles '1. Moore; Luclen V. Rule; "ioung V Allison, widely known for his completion of Robert Louis Stevenson s - ruiovii , Man's - Chest;" Charles Moons; ,.,u. OSullivan; CaJe Young Rice husband of the author of "Mr. Wlggs of the tabbag; 1'atcn, arm ,ucia. urn-..-. .--.. - . of this school malies a .ivlujr from writing .. 1V.1.. M i'ltl-ltl WmlHri verse, except .P'" " ,", . work have lateij uecu . magnificent five-volume limited edition do luxe and published hy a Boston house. This m-ell-Knowu ,;t "' ' "V" ;,. been in reccini. ol c,. -. .u iat m,i,i.n pan v to support the ordinary literary Bohemian. A statement to the effect that lie is a succu.-mu, -"" In Loulsvlllo ha greatly - amused Mr. Cawein. . . . l..,uleea of tllA MC- -l lie nOOK-puuiu.n:T; i,..-. - . u.i.i.-i, him. tin to tiie pres ent, been owned and managed by S. S. Mc.- Clure, lias passed into ii o.- . da, . "page P Co.. who -cently assumed aotlve management. . X. f gives Doubleday. Pago & Co. a catalogue of 1000 titles anu a ni i "'V "' lc; transter been Clure ana .vir. i.jooieuj. : - close personal friends for years, and mho vera earlier ast-ocuueu m i, no. ..-.. r.-i.i.ii. vier-liiie company. tne nam oi -' ,',; f.,r Mr. Mccture sa.s 'in y - selling his book department Is , h.s desire to nevote as muen muc .. i'----;: magazine that bears his name. I he Mi. Clure magazine Is not n any wa u. , . ... tran.sier. j nw i)i'i,"u - , . . books already published but contracts -tv ith UlllOrS TOl- POUlr, ... an ..,.,- here are a considerable number of these, ome of them by the foremost writers in the country. The Meciure lompanj pub lished from r.O to 7o books a year and there ,-ero on the starr auoui. jto u...e. . How much does your soul weigh? Dr. ames H. Ifyslop. secretary o: the Amer an Society for Psychical Research and utiior of "Psychical Research and the esurrectlon." and other standard claaslo orks. observes, apropos of lournier Albo's newly enunciateu ii.e.o.v liromcres. or soul itartic.es. vnai. i u-. .i.e tf.nl l.ns m-eiirht or lot Know iwioiiici - v - - iot, and it does not make any difference me In my expei-mienis " '-.me lons. If the soul is CUinpose.. oi that is, of a suostance wiucu .o cognize ns matter It must lave tne atlty of gravilntion. l-ini. it "i". u" v""1- .osed of a substance n-u no, i matter but which many yeaia nemo iy be Included lu the category of mat- when our scieuunc mm".. e..e.. e developed much more extensively than . n .t.lri In eertaln r tne sou. nas w-ieut . ..- -fncult problem to weight It. on account '. -i- . . . v,i inv Bnpnntno- nt dentil. Dr Hvslop in this matter aa well as hers stands T.i-p-tMnh.pnt.y for .application of Hctehti.ic methods of phenomena auegeu to be occult. Tnrupcn litt-rarv output ls the sub ject ff recent dls-'ussion anions writers in Fntcland - Somewhat heated arguments with plenty of smoke, of course are in drled In between those who favor and those who are opposed to the use of the "fragrant weed." In or der to ascertain the opinion of an ex pert tn such matters, appeal has been made to J. M. Harrte, a,s the author of Mv T adv Nicotine." In reply to an in terviewer. Barrie nan pr-pareu m imiuvi IntT curious schedule. dl idiiiK his work into journalism" and "ilctton," and show ing tho amount of tobacco used in each occupation: "Journalism. two pipes, ontj hour; two hours, one idea: one idea, three paragraphs: and three parasraphs. one leading article. With reward to fiction. Barrio wrote as follows: "EinlU pipes, one ounce: seven ounces a week; two weeks, one chapter." . It is evident that BTrrle depends greatly upon Ids pipe, as do & great many other Englishmen. Many authors prefer American to Egyptian or Turkish v tobacco; though the camps are somewhat equally divided on this score. Nearlv all authors smoke, and tobacco is conceded to be an aid to composition, despite tiie fact that many "total ab stainers" have done good work:. "The Man from Home," Ty Booth Tark ington and Harry Leon Wilson, the play which has had so much success in New York, may nopw- be read In book form, not novelized, but in direct stage version. Tti4 humor of it is American to the core. "Th Man from Home" Is a type of the prosper ous youiiK citizen of the Middle Ve,st. shrewd, easy, with dry speech and simple n CDtlbtcr D Dbil I you have lied, and so have you lied, And thus have you wrought me wrong And I curse you now by the truth denied That shall cut like a hissing thong; By the hope you crushed, by the faith you broke, By the grief that you rendered worse, It shall drift in your eyes in the altar smoke Till you cower beneath my curse. ' I have dreamed of this in the darkened days And brooded in wrath at night, I have fought with your lies in the srloomv ways agambi yuui iciv,c. manners Just a plain man. He happen to he the guardian of a. charmlnc yountf woman and her younarer brother, and takee tho run over to Italy to have a look at their matrimonial plans: for the girl Is Just about to pay for a title and the boy not far from entanglement with a 1-Tench ad venturess. These two, In planning m. S" lal ca reer, are trying their best to forget Kokomo. Indiana ull spoiled by the new arrival. As for the girl, whose father had been his friend, he used to love her way back in Kokomo. Now she turns up her pretty nose at his manners and stamps her pretty foot at his Interference. If you enjoy seeing an. American hold his own if you relish a dry speech with tho flavor of a native slang If you care for a straight, lively story with Just the right proportion of love in it, and If you like to iaugti. read Th Man from Home." Kdward F"pi, author of "Th Spitfire. has proved himself. In a recent interview, a humorist of quality as well as playwright and novelist. He saya: "I was burn In Richmond, V in tne year eighteen hun dred and none of your business. My father, a Uelgian, was an artist and a scholar, am served as naval officer In the Confederacy. My mother's maiden name was lowndes. an nM familv well known to Virginia. Mary land and South Carolina. At an early at;e I developed measles and a tuste for litera ture. Luter ! dropped the measles and stuck to literature, a choice, I am told, which was most unwise. I did not go to college, on account of financial inconven ience; therefore I appointed myself as my own corps of venerated professors, and graduated at the bond of my class. I have -written quite a number of short stories for various magazines. As for written, but uu produced works, you watt! That ls what I am doing mysolf. No, I will not give you my opinion on Ibsen, nor tho Kthical Ten dency of Dramatic Art in Amurica.; but I c'o think that pet cats are perfectly delight ful stuffed. Beyond this I would say that I am unmarried and expect to remain so; SL-vernl of my teeth are tilled. And tills, I believe, Is all, though blush In telling it." Charles II. Hnswell, the famous civil engineer who years ago wrote for the Har- pers that mln of Information about old New York. "Tho ltemlnlertuieei of an Oc togenarian," waa far more than tin octo genarian when he died. Almost to the lust, his erect, dlgnllied figure arrayed in formal frock-coat with the In variable car natb n in tho buttonhole, was familiar to observing New Yorkers. One day. a short time before his death, a gentleman who had Jufit boarded an KIghth-avenuo car aw Mr. Harwell in the act of getting off. With out waiting for the car to stop the old gentleman swung to the street. The spec tator was shocked and procoeded to re mcnstraie with the conductor. "Do you know who that old man was? he inquired. "YeM." Bald the conductor, "I know that was Mr. Haswell." "Well." continued his passenger, with aome indignation, "you ought not to l"t a man of his age J urn;, off r car in that faebion. That man's almost a hundred 'y.-artt old." "I know It." said the conductor. "I've warned him and I've watched him, but he's like a kitten. I don't oven worry about him any more. Hi lands as lightly as a boy."' Mr. Ilaswell at his death ly-k'.d oniv two years of being a centenarian. The English magazine known ns Tha Author publishes ea-.li mouth a "Contem porary Criticism." that ls, a reprint of a criticism n tha flrFt efforts of literary men who have since achieved fame. In its ht lpue It quotes from the Quarterly Keviewr of April, JSHo. an article rrituli'lnc "roe in by Alfred Tennyson, pp. It;:;, Ttuidi-n. r.'inn, lS:i.'t. . . : "This is. as some- of his nmrprinal notes intimate. Mr- Tennyson's second eppearance. By sotno sti a nee ,c lit nee we have never seen his first pub lication, which if It at all reseiubb s its younger brother, must bo by this time so porular that auy notice of it on our p;irt would seem idle and prelum ptlous; but we gladly seize thin opportunity of ropuli ing an unintentional neglect, and of Introducing to tho admiration of our moro Btqueatt .vd readers a new prodigy of gonius another and a brighter star nC that iraiuxy or milky way of poetry of which the lamented Keats was the harblngor . . . We havi to orrer Mr. Tennyson our tribute of tmmliitkd approbation, and It Is very agreeable to us. as wel! as to our readers, that our present task vill be little more than the selection, for their delight, of a few specimens of Mr Tennyson's singular genius, and the ventur ing to point out. now nr.tl then, tho pcul iur brilliancy of some of tiie ieina that irra diate hla poetical crown ' America's first Biblical publication ws a verbified edition of the I'salms sent out in HJ40.