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Newspaper Page Text, y i t THE OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, SUNDAV -MORNING, f. FEBRUARY 2, 1908: i LACK OF -IDEALS BASIS OF AMERICAN HUM-DRUM LIFE f i , -; Owen Wister Sounds : 'Keynote r of LA larm-rPursult , oi J, ' Wealthy HtSays,' Deadening Cloud (on Tills ; .r . , Country's Hall of Immortals -1 ' v r ) T N. A LECTURE which he lately delivered at, Harvard, Owen Wister, I i the novelist and 'essayist, spoke on the ideals,' or, as he put it, the JL lack of ideals, of the - American peopled; .?, 5 V: . V ,- t -The reason -why the Americans i who would be accounted great thinkers or artists in ,the perspective of a century are so few. in number that they can be counted on the fingers of one hand is that' the ideal is oracticallv an -unheard of ouantity in the lives of most of us, said Mr Wister., ...... - - ' '. " f.- ' "' .It seemed to.' be the speaker's impression that never before had a race of people been so swayed by a common impulse as are Americans-by the desire for wealth. Sydney Smith, writing nearly a century before, made the same com plaint of the English. Referring to the motive power of life he said that if one were to watch, the throngs in Bond street or the Exchange and take out those who were moved by the love of power, the love of wealth and the love of esteem, in half an hour the streejuwould be empty. Everybody plaints of art and of ideals. The difficulty lies in distinguish ing between that ideal that strives, for good as the extreme object of knowledge, and that miscalled ideal which seeks the gratification of the verv common desire to be thoueht well of. Not everyone can comprehend and still fewer can be sure of them selves feeling that exquisitely homely reply of Burbanks Italian gardener, who when the Californian asked him what he would do if he had the million dollars he had heard him wish for, answered that he would build greenhouses and'hdt beds ' so 'that Re might furnish the poor with all the vegetables and fruits that tirev could want He was uneducated and unlettered. His life's, horizon was bounded by the vegetables, over which -he puttered and toiled. But his work had hot consisted in merely hoeing potatoes or grafting fruit trees. While he worKea ne naa reasoned mat me iruit wnicn ne woncca to Dnng to per fection was something intrinsically, good and that by . rights it should be distributed to rich and poor alike. He was unintelligent, as the word . intelligence goes. And yet Plato in his, Republic classifies intelligence into four stages, of which the first might be called imagination and conjecture, the second certainty, the third intellect, with its formal rules and laws, and the fourth pure ideal. The Italian had not failed to conjecture, he may have revelled in the certajnty of his knowledge of his own craft, in his modest sort of way, and he was not oblivious to the fact that life has its aims as well as its daily routine. But however great the number of those who have no ideals may be, the number of idealists who caA't see the 'forest for the trees is almost a disconcerting. . The young actor, or writer or artist of any kind is rather prone to consider the routine as inconsequential. For instance, the stage manager of a stock company will tell you that all his people are occasionally good but that few of them can keep their enthusiasm and bring it into play to help out a part that does not appeal to them. Perhaps once a month they are cast in the way they approve of. The other three weeks are spent in uncongenial labor. There is an element of pathos in the effort of Eddy Foy, the comedian, to turn from the burlesque parts -which he has played so long and to take up with that most deeply metaphysical of Shakespeare's characters, Hamlet. Foy has made thousands laugh by his absurd antics as a clownish comedian. He has won fame and wealth in that way. And yet all through the years he must have had a feeling of repulsion for his work, which grew and grew until he is finally able to attempt that which he has aimed at through thousands of nights of buffoonery. It is said of the playwright, Alfred Sutro, that when a young man he had a consuming ambition to write plays. He realized, however, that the way of the young dramatist is usually a lean and hungry one and so he calmly set about to make enough money to insure himself from starving. Always keeping his ideal before him, he worked up a chemist's business, becoming finally a manufacturer. When he had made enough money to insure himself of a. comfortable income he gave up his business and set about seriously to the writing of the kind of plays he desired. Robert Louis Stevenson relates of Thoreau that once the Sage of Waldon Pond tried the manufacture of lead pencils. When he had gained considerable success and his friends began to congratulate him on his estab lishment in life he said he would never make another. ,"I will not do again what I have done once," said Thoreau. "When a thing has once been done as well as it wants to be it is of no further interest to the self-improver." But later on when his family needed money he went back to his cast off art and went at the distasteful work of making pencils again until something more congenial came to him. Thoreau was not a man who liked business. He was a worthy prede cessor of Mr. Wister. "The whole enterprise of this nation," he wrote, "is not illustrated by a thought, it is not warmed by a sentiment, there is . i t i- i i j i j i : i : r . l . 4 ' . " , r v. Cherldah Simpson, in "Red Feather." ciently clad, improperly nourished, waiting on table, doing the work of servants between recitations and lectures, not only undergoing hardships themselves but enforcing hardships on their families at home, all that they may attain some position in life which has been idealized by their imaginations. The 6i'lly faddists are largely responsible for this. They insist on ro- mancine about the beauty of this and the nobility of that, hold their idiotic exhibitions of one kirfd and another and chatter until the head of the honest artisan who if unmolested would do- his work and do it well, becomes turned. Then, the mischief done, they run away, and leave their victim to follow the ignis fatuus kindled by their talk of art and fame and wealth. "Every kind of work tends to be lowered by becoming a professional," exclaimed Socrates, moved to anger by the Sophists. Arfd one kind, sen sible person, doing his day's work well, whether it be the mere "filling in," of a minor part in a cheap stock company, the teaching of school, the clerking in a store or the bringing up of a family is probably credited with more in the ultimate reckoning than the art of Paderewski and all his votaries taken together. The stage-struck school girl who raves over the mummers she sees each week would probably be crestfallen to know that most of them are very nice comfortable people indeed, who live in unromantic boarding hquses and sit at the table with Brown, the shoe clerk, and Smith, the assistant paying teller at So-and-So's bank, and usually support their moth ers, provided their mothers need supporting. They find something more in me tnan a cnange ot costumes and the reolacinir of "a blond wig by an auburn one. And having done that they have started on their way to the fourth stage of intelligence, which is the much sought-for ideal. eupled a bo il'Mn.' tfifca't perform no of ,Komrholm," t th Lyrlo thrtatr, at th conclusion of which h Vlaltcd Mri. Flak In her dreading room nd expressed har dollcht' and apprecia tion. This was the first visit of tht Spanish actress to New York, thoufh she has mad many toura to South America, Mrxleo and Cuba. On of Senora OuerYero'a most successful roles ts that of Marta, In "Marta of the Low lands," which ttertha Kallch Is now act Ins; so triumphantly under Harrison Grey Flake's direction. She wss grat ly interested in Madam Ka Hen's suc cess In the play, and aaked that she might hare portrait of Madame Kalich a Marta and a set of photographs of the production. Angel Oulmera, the author of "Marta." la at work upon a niw drama fop Ouerrero. unon the Amer lean lights of which Mr. Fiske ha an option, ; e The empress of Austria has . eon ferrd th golden cross for merit on Lllll Lhmann, th noted German song- stresa Henry B. Dlxl is to star In a new play called "Poltohe," under th man agement of th Sbuberta. a -e Mrs. Sarah Cowell La Moyne rturna to her former field, the reading of Browning and Shakespeare. If 'Th Jesters" proves th success expected, Maude Adams win proDSDiy D seen in the play in ixmaon. Marie Doro is to appear in London, but first will be saen in the larger American cities In "The Morals of Mar cus. Itonnld Brian, who plays Prince Dan lto to Mlns Ethol Jackson's flnnla In the New York The Merry Widow" com pany, mud his first lilt as lMerre In "The Two Orphans," which was written by Miss Jackson's father. Musical friends of Henri Oressttt, who was lar.t year axaoclated with the gubllclty coips of Puccini s "Madam utterfly," will be glad to learn thai he. has resumed his position with this company. Mr. Urcesltl'a blue-grass courtesy haa made him a column of irienas. streieninc rrom Maine to Cali fornia, and he has received from them a stack of congratulatory messages on his return to the staff of Mr. Savaae's great operatic success. Another former member of Henrv W. Savage'a English opera forces lias en tered unon what promises to be a brlcht career in Europe, Marlon Ivel, the young American contralto, maue ner deDut at Nantes recently In "La Favorita" and will remain there all season, appearing in 15 dirrerent roies. Miss Ivel commenced her musical ed ucation in Paris In 1800, studying with Scrlglla for a year and a half. Mr. Bavage heard and engaged her as prin cipal contralto for his English grand opera company. She made her Ameri can debut as Amnerls in "A Ida" at the Broadway theatre. New York, In 1901. fcihe remained for four seasons with the Bavagb company, singing the contralto roles In "Lohengrin," "Trovatore." "Ai ds," "La Gloconda" and "Faust." also "Carmen." For the last year she has PORTLAND PLAYLRS -SUCCEED IN LAST (Wssblngtea Boreas f The JotroaL) -'Washington, D, C, Feb. l.PopuIar Portland actors have-been in Washing ton thla week and othersrecently, and one, Bennett Southard, formerly of th Baker Theatre Stock company, gives an account -of what these thesplans hav been doing since leaving th Ros City. Southard, who was with Morosco 1n Los Angeles, came east a year or so ago, and, appearing in New York for th first time as an aspirant for Broadway honors, laid his card on th desk of Charles Frohman. "I hav been looking for you. Bennett Southard, for two weeks; I have heard of you from the west and I want you to recreate your part as th judge In The" Judge and the Jury at the Savoy theatre." Straightway the former Portland fa vorite was signed for the opening of the fall of 1908 and played the summer be forehand In Chicago in "The Coward." When "Th Man of the Hour" was Etit on at the Savoy for H road hurst by rady & Grtsmer, Southard was cast for Henry Thompson, the private sec retary of the capitalist Watnwrlght, th part which Broadhurst, the author, as sert "makes the play." providing the element of mystery which keeps tnu ti H ( n r milnr A proof that he "made good," he re mained in th original cast of the New York company until tnis ran, aucr unprecedented winter na lummer un Interrupted run "to capacity when he w. transferred at his request to the eastern road compariy. . wk. H.i,hrA onsned here, ac me v.. i .1 .h.Qtr. with President Koose "nd. "'"J., ? e.r v.Klee?vatTonn and waa recalled half a dosen "e has perfected hi an, ana vl""'r conscientious work in Portland. . Lillian Kembie. anotner """l' i a.-.b ...k.. nt rrat noDUlarltV la iMrilm woman of the New xora . . . r . , irn," Man of th Hour" company, and opened , 1 . r. ..... m mfl v.tv..i.r '-nnntlaa. who WBS leading woman of tne Baaer ineairo pany. recently was married to Mr. Price n iha in.tiirata.ta Amusement company, unu i w,o - , . . n,..ni,iMnm in the east. Miss r'nnntlaa lately opened as imuius woman of a stock company in Pittsburg, under Price's management, and 'J real ising every pledge of her fin abilities and faithful work In Portland. Elsmeth McNeill, formerly of the Baker Theatre Stock, played the Indian girl in the "Girl of the Golden West" company, which cover th middle west states. Charles Wyngate, leading man when Catherine Countlss was leading woman at the Baker, ts here with 'The Great Divide" company at the Belasco theatre. PKOMISES MADE BY THE PRESS AGENTS & T (Continued from Page Five.) "The Wolves of New York." There will be a widespread interest felt in the performance of "The Wolves of New York," that famous metropoli tan melodramatic success, in which th Allen stock company will appear at th I.vrlc commencing Monday night am continuing- throuah the week, with mat nothing in it for which a man should lay down his life, nor even his gloves. nnrAtliy ni it our mercnants did not most oi tnem ran ana tne Darius, iuu, uiy rami in the old laws of the world would be staggered. The statement that ninety-six in a hundred every such business surely breaks down is per bans the sweetest fact statistics reveal." As Stevenson adds, the wish was probably father to the figures, but there is a great deal of truth in the statement after all, and Thoreau did not fail to nerceive the lesson thev contained for him. He, however, was a man of exceptional strength of character. It sounds romantic to go off into the woods and build one s own cabin and furniture and live entirely by the labor of one's hands. Actually there is a deal of hard work in it, con siderable privation and more inconveniences than most dreamers ot dreams are willing to undergo. Pacts are disillusionmtr. The world is overrun with people who see before them the ideals of wealth, or . power, or learning, or art. They strive and work " and suffer now as they always have and always will. Take the very-common" instanee-of the poor boy struggling to win a higher education, that he may shine in some profession or possibly some art. It is one of the most pitiful things one sees in the universities and (Colleges of the country. Boys toiling from morning till night, insuffi- CS. j. XJS Jpapa V - ST jV J Xee'Willard, In tha ."CountySqulr,"rt the Mafauam brand.' Sunday. The management has provlden a rnmnlntn Investure or eiaoorate ana beautiful scenery and effects, and some of the most famous localities in Gotham will be reproduced with marvellous rnll8m Tfc. laarilnir rnla la a rolllcklns- SOU brette, such as Katie F.mmett made so popular, and in me pari em rm"'" will have an opportunity to display her remarkable versatility in a role somewhat different from anything shu has done before. Rupert jjrumm win ulun h a surnrlse to his friends and admirers, for he will appear as tho vil lain oni rivA a crest nrrf ormance. For rest Seabury will appear as a darkey and will make one of his customary hit Mrs. Clara Allen will play the ni haa- snA Marin ThomDson and Irv lng Kennedy will be well cast Better a-o Monday night and enjoy tho big show. The Best at Pantages. Even if you have not seen the mar velous Florense troupe at Pantages this week, there-Is little doubt but that you have heard people talking about them The three inimical Kuhns have proved another big drawing card of the past week and the bill throughout haa been good. Music, burlesaue and lively comedy combined in one act will be the whole snmA feature nt the new week, especial ly when it is taken Into account that the producers of the act are the famous Colby rour. Something novel and pleasing in the comedy quartet line is the act put on by the u. s. tour. Mnw nnea mvslicuh cnanKH me vuiui- in- of his clothes, hat and aloves rigm before your very eyes without your dis covering the secretr Mysucus nas puz zled tne whole country. He Is very careful of his secret and works only on a hnxerl stare so that not even uie tarn hands can have any chance of learnins- his nrocesses. Cal Stewart and troupe will put on a lively comedy, uncle joe on me cow ery.'' Stewart, by the way, is the leader In the Kube comeay Business. Herman and Race, comedy acrobats, are a lively brace of clever comedians. They come from the east, demand a good salary and are sure of making good. Fred Bauer, the Portland tenor, will sing a new illustrated song and the blograph will depict a new motion pic- mHv -wpiiA Trtah RlArkamlth." ,U1 U ,WU. - - . "Jack Wells" Today. The closing performances of "Jack Wells of Wyoming" will occur this aft ernoon and tonight This play has ben one of the biggest successes in the history of the Lyric, and the Allen stock .company has certainly Increased its hold on popular favor by its splendid work in the various roles of this great est of all cowboy plays. Go this after noon or tonight. Grace George in "Divorcans." Grace George in Sardou'a "Divorcans" will be the attraction at tha Heillg the- Stre for three nights beginning Thurs ay, February 13. DeWolf Hopper at Heilig Sunday. An attraction that gives promise of being one of the most enjoyable of ferings of the season is no less than the favorite comedian De Wolf Hopper, supported by dainty Marguerite Clark, In the most successful musical produc tion -Reginald De Koven and Frederic Ranken'a comic opera de luxe, "Hap pyland." "Mappyland" cornea to th Heillg the atre for four nights beglnlng next Sun day, February 9. The advance seat sale will open next Friday. "Kerry Gow." Born of Irish parentage in Lynn, Massachusetts, twenty-six years ago, Bernard Daly, who is Dan O'Hara in the new production of "Kerry Gow." which comes to the Marquam Grand nexi ween, is naiiea in ineatricai circles as the sweetest singer of Irish songs on the stage, and a worthy follower of William J. Scanlan. ' "Dream City" Coming. Little Chip and Mary Marble have scored splendidly in Joe Weber's pro duction, "Dream City." These clever little stars and their merry associates will undoubtedly draw a capacity audi ence at the Marquam Grand, for they have never had so fine a vehicle. Th management is entitled to much praise too, for the stunning manner in which It Is mounted and cast and the chorus Is remarkable for the number of pretty and graceful young women. . t "Charley's Aunt" Released. "Charley's Aunt." after being with drawn from stock for" nearly four years, has been released for use In the high class companies, and is announced for me Bauer ror the week following David Harum. It will open next Sunday mat inee. February, with Howard RnHseli in his popular role of the young college boy who plays the bogus Aunt. Mina Gleason as the real Aunt and William Dills, also of the original Baker produc tion, as Spcttigue, the Oxford lawyer. "As Told in the Hills." "As Told in the Hills." which follows Peck's ad Boy" at the Empire, tells a story ol emigrants who, crossing the plains, aro attacked by Indians and killed, while their beautirul little daugh ter is taken captive and brought up by me inaian. n is n neauurui tale. 4 v , ' - t i r ',- I i v V 5 with " Henry ; Miller ana. Marg- Angelln. - . ': . , Whit WhltUesey la leading man wl Julia aiarlowe. Lillian Rhodes, another popular TUV stock member, who played ingoi. part, ha been In comlo opera in York, to enter which she cams eust from Portland several year ago. Fred Eatnelton, another Baker sto U favorite, waa her recently a th buiio., with Wilton Lackey . in th Utv r -i "Law and th Man,'1 his dramatisation of Hugo' "L Miserable"; in the sain. company was "Billy Lamp, who wh one of th matin girl fsUchea at lin ker's theatre, . ank Mc Vicars, who wa wall-known In Portland, was Horrlngton In "Man of th Hour." said to hav don Incompar ably the beat work (Ion la that role; he died lately In New York. - Lincoln Hart, known in Portland publisher of at theatrical paper there, h-. an amateur comedian doing "stunt' with Rea Irwin, later a manager of the Empire theatre on Morrison and Twelfth streets, recently established Th Broad way New" in New York, and for m tlmt enjoyed thereform an abundance of au tomobile ride and sumptuous- repast at the Casino cafe; but he wan 'com pelled to witness th enforced folding of the editorial tripod, and turn hi atten tion to other thfngs. A. H. Ballard, one member Of th ad vertising firm of Ballard A Lee, later also ownersAof Hart's theatrical Port land paper, II syndicating dramatic let ters out of New York, and sella thnt each week to a Washington paper. - "Broadway has been kind to Paclfls coast actors," says Southard, and ap parently the record bears out hi state ment. Southard will be heard from In the future, as he Is more than merelv "making good." His manager says be counts htm a coming quality In theatricals. r - - t J" ILL W Tv, 4 v k VK if r Jit J Bowen Brothers, Singers and Dancers, at the Grand. rilled with excltlnc events, anil last season made a splendid ImDressinn with all patrons of the Empire. It will ODen next Sunday matinee. February 9. THEATRICAL NOTES. 7 Nat Goodwin is to reorganize his com pany, keeping some of the old members. Kdna Goodrich will remain his leading lady. studied with Jean da Reszke, perfecting herself in the French repertoire. In view of the fact that It never ceases to rain in musical prodigies in London, some one facetiously suggests that that cltv should have u new con cert hall, called after the Salle des Enfants des Arts ' In Paris. John Drew, who is starring in "My Wife," is collecting material, with tho Intention of writing- a history of the Drew fftmtlv which has been Identified with the staee in this country for nearly a century. . In Paris BDDeared lyrical fairy play. Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett Is writing a new play for Eleanor Robson founded on her story, "The Dawn of a Tomorrow." Sarah Bernhardt a on December 25 in a "La Belle an Bols Dormant'' "The Sleeping Beauty,') by Jean Rlchepin and Henri Cain, with music by Kranci Thorne. M. Judic was leading man. W. L. Hubbard, who for many years has been dramatic and music editor of the Chicago Tribune, haa resigned tho dramatic side of his work, but will re tain the music editorship of mat jour nal. Mme. Simone le Bargy, the well known Parisian actress, will hereafter be known as Mme. Simone. Le Bargy. leading man at the Theatre Francalse from whom she was divorced, has re Robert Edeson has now been a tar '.I8eJ to Permlt her t0 cntinue to for six vears. His Mir treat hit htnr- . "Is name. his starring days was in the title role of "The Little Minister," as leading man wun Mauae Adams. a A one act melodrama by Owen Davis. The Battle of Port Arthur," has opened at the New York Hippodrome. Six hundred persons took part and the military and naval part made It a big spectacle a a Pietro Mascagni. like most other Ital ians, is said to be extremely supersti tious. He carries about with him a regular battery of charms and mascots. One of his mascots is a livlna diva. Mme. Calvi, whom he always tries to secure to sing in the first production of his new works, because he believes Manager Henry W. Savage has leased a theatre in Paris in which to continue the production of musical comedy in the French capital. He felt warranted In making this arrangement by the success of -The Prince of Pli sen." to which he recently invited the attention of Parisians. His next duction there will be "Woodland." pro- she is an Infallible magnet for success. a. Austin Strong, who Is a nephew of Lloyd Osbourne, and who wrote "And What Happened Then?" for De Wolf Hopper, has jn his home a tiny theatre which just fits the top of a large table. It is completely eaulDDed as to scenery and lighting effects, and in this theatre he puts on with casts composed of pieces of pasteboard the plays which he afterward takea to the managers. Ua.lo nit..a.n t V. a fotvtrhita Snatitalt actress, spent, a faw days In New YoVk last week on her way from Havana; whero she has just closed a brilliant sea son, to her native Spain. On Monday evening, January 6, Senora Guerrero oc- A company has been formed of Am erican stars to start on a globe girdling tour, beginning in April and visiting nearly every country in the world. These stars include Mile. Dasle. the famous dancer; Josephine Cohan, sis ter of George M. Cohan; her husband. Vrort Nlhln And Henrv Lee. the char- ! acter actor. A composite program ha been arranged to suit an places, ins tour will be under the management of Mark A. Luesher. the husband of Mile. Daxle. . Paul Armstrong, who has written two successes, "8alomy Jane" and "The Heir to the Hoorah," and oneawful failure called "The Superstitions of Sue," has Just bought a place near Annapolis, to which he has retired while he writes a tragedy. Raymond Peck, who draws royalties from many musical comedies with which his' nama aa a librettist and lyric writer is- not publicly connected, haa- bought a place on Lond Island, where he and hi wlf, Edith Decker, the prima donna of th Anna Held com pany, do thefr resting. ;; : r-.-.. ru .. ' -'7' "' 's '"'' 'i ' fi i-- fi-i-t-':"S SOCIETY LEADERS TO BE LIVING PICTURES New York, Feb. 1. Mrs. Waldorf As tor will be stage manager at one of the most gorgeous living picture shows ever given in New York. It will take place February 26 and 27. The enteretalnment is to consist of tableaux vivants, and it is probable that John W. Alexander and several other artists will aid the posing. Society women whose families and names are known well In tills city and London will take part In the tableaux, posing In gor geous costumes of long-ago centuries to represent compositions oi the old masters. Mrs. J. J. Astor will pose In several of the pictures, as will Mrs. Clarence Mackey, and probably Mrs. Reginald Brooks, a sister of Mrs. Waldorf Astor. The duchess of Sutherland, the famous beauty of London society, will be in New York at that time, and It Is ex Dected that she will consent to dupli cate the art pictures in which she has posed abroad. ftilss rora Langnorne, the "baby" of tho beautiful Langhorne coterie, will pose. Mrs. Astor and Mrs. uulnness ar ranged for the grand ballroom at the Plaza yesterday. "It will be for charity," said Mrs. Waldorf Astor. NEW BOOKS FOE THE LIBEAEY BIOGRAPHY. Gosse Father and Son; Biography. biographical Recollections, 1907. Hamilton lanma. unay namuion; From New and Original sources and Documents; ed. by Walter Slohel. -Ed. rev. 1907. Lever Charles Lever. HU Llf and Letters, by Edmund Downey; 3 v., 1966. Lowell Lire ana ietters or Charles RusseU Lowell. Captain Sixth United States Cavalry. Colonel Second Massa rhusetts Cava! nr and Briaadler-Oen. eral United State Volunteers; . by E, W. Enrtrson. 1907. , DESCRIPTION AND TRAVEL. , Chart Story of Dublin; 1907. ' ' Gould A Boole of the Pyrenees; 1907. Low A Vision of India; 1907. 1 - ' Shaler, ed. Th United : State - of America; - a Study of th American Com monwealth; Its Natural Resources, Peo ple, ludustrtes. Manufactures, Com merce, and It Work In, Literature, Set ence. Education and Self Government; 8 v., 1894. fiction. ",; Jennings Under the Pompadour. Morris The Pagan' Progres. , , . Mott To th Credit of th Sea. 2' Rldeout Admiral's Light Tarklngton His Own People. ' Wllkins Th Fair Lavlnl ; and Others. FIXE ARTS. Baker Color-Correct Photography, 1906. Morse Venetian Iron Work, 1907. Shoemaker, Comp. Humorous Dla Iogues?mnd Dramas, 1906. Street Good Bridge; a Classification and Analysis of the Best Play as Played today by the Best Playar. 1907, HISTORY. Davidson Reference History of th United States, for High School and Academics, 1892. Fling. Comp. A Sourc Book ot Greek History, 1987. Helmolt History of th World, . . 1907. McMaster A School History of the United States, 1897. Politovskll From Libau to Tsushi ma; a Narrative of the Voyag of Ad miral Rod jesven sky's Fleet to Eastern Seas; tr. by F. R. Godfrey, 1907. woodward A Short history of th Expansion of the British Empire, 150U- 1902, ed. 2, 1907. l t .- LITERATURE. ; Christmas Antholoav: Carol' and Poems, Old and New, 1907. Drummond The Habitant, and Other French-Canadian Poems, 1907. Gummers The Pooular Ballad. 1997. Kellog. Ed. How to Celebrat Thanksgiving and Christmas, 1894r. Nicholson, Ed. British Songs for British Boys, 1906. MUNICIPAL AND STATE REPORTS. Boston Parks, Department of An nual Report of the Board ot Commls- . sioners, 1902-1907. Chicago Civil Service Commission Twelfth Annual Report, 1906. Chicago Electricity, Department of Annual Report, 1906. v- Chicago Finance, Department Of Annual Report, 1906. Chicago Fire Department Report nf the Fire Marshall to the City Council. 1906. Chicago Health, Department of Biennial Report, 1904-1906. Chicago Mayor Annual Message; and Annual Report of the Department of Publio Works to th City Council, 1906. Chicago Park Commissioner An nual Report of the South Park Com missioners, 1906.' - . " ; Chicago Police, Department of Re port of the General Superintendent of ' Police to the City Council, 1906. - Detroit Controller Annual Report, 1906. Indianapolis Mayor Annual Mes sage, with Annual Report of Head of . Departments of th City Government.' 1905. Iowa Public Instruction, Department of Biennial Report of the Superintend ent of Publio Instruction, 1906-1806. V Iowa Public Instruction, Department of Iowa Educational Directory for th School Year. 1906. ' .v.. Kansas City., Missouri Controller Annual Report, 1906. Kansas City. Missouri Education, . Board of Annual Report, 1906. Nashville, Tennessee Annual Report of Departments, 1906. 1 - Nashville. Tennessee Education, Board of Annual Report of th Pub lic Schools. 1904-1905. Nw . Jersey Stat Sewerage Com- . mission Report to th Legislature. 1907. ,, New York (cltyV Education. Depart ment of Annual Report. 1905. .- - .!' rr.uaaeipnia Mayor Keport, 1908. r " Philadelphia Publio Education. Board of Annual Report, 1906. . . . Salt Lake City Sixteenth Annual Re port ot tho Publio Schools, 1906.. RELIGION. ' i, Genung Hebrew Literature of Wis dom in the Light of Today; a syntbe!, SCONCE. . ,.' French & Ives Stereotomy. ed 1. 1906. Hull Volcanoes. Past and Present. 1904. Iddlngs Rock Minerals.-Their Chem-. leal and Physical Characters and Their Determination in Thin Section. 1906. Keane Alan, past and Present. 1800. SOCIOLOGY. ( ' t I Batch A Manual - for ' Boards of Health and wealth Officers, 1907, Chancellor Theory of Motives, Ideals - and Values in Education, 1907. Dealey Our Stat Constitutions, 1907. - ;. Direct Legislation Record, . March, 1898-December, 1903, v. 5-10,- , Dun mora Ship Subsidies. - an Eco nomic Study of th Policy of Subsidiz ing Merchant Marine, 1907. Hamlin, Comp. Th Act to Regulate Commerce and Acts Supplementary Thereto, Indexed and Annotated, 1907. Haynes presentation - in s Stat Legislature-, 1900. - Jordan College and th Manr an Ad dress to American Youth. 1907 Marx & Engels Manifesto . of th Communlrt Party, 1888. v- -. . Morritt Federal Regulation of Rail way Rates, 1907. . . USEFUL T ABTS. American Society of Civil Engineers. Transactions, 1906, 1907. Forel Hygiene of Nerves and Mind In ; Health and Disease; tr. by IL A. Aiken. 1907. - . - t Graphic Arts and Crafts, year book, 1907, . ' Harper-r-The utilisation of wood wast by distillation. 1907, Hlscox. ed. -Henley Twentieth Cen utry Book; of Recipes, Formulas ! Processes. 1107. . , Kellogg The Art, of - Msag; It Physiological Effects end Therapeutic Applications, E1. 4. ltS. New Jersey Health, Board of. Tut! I Health Laws. ,1907. v BOOKS ' FOR CHILDREN, -Church Th Odyssey for Boys ant Girls. " Greene Pickett' Cm- . ; 4 Houghton Telling Bibl ftnr'es, ' International Sump . Albuui . (f I. twentieth century); .. , ! Pier Harding of fit Tlmolftv's : Pottar Tale of Kr. Jtroiy i i, c. Scott Ivanhoe. Shackleton ar,d Others ft.f Stortea of the Civil War v jomllDson Th JUr n