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Newspaper Page TextTHE. OREGON SUNDAY 1 JOURNAL, PORTLAND, SUNDAY, MORNING," MARCH 21. 1009. 7 V r i VI if; IPf P .their-y, J I . If1 KHr, i tSm.m- 1 i'l ' .1 L , i ll I 1 . in ' tmniivi aovlfp tuxr." by a p. .I .! Bailer. With such fiction 1, this sppearinj, one Is reluct- ' ant to aee the day 'of the, hl , tortcal novel disappearing, but then there are historical novel, and bit torlcal novels, the; same tn name but 'widely dlfferentja merit and vaiue. 10 .. 1.. irt.rr and dramatic power - belongs thla - present , work. , or Mr. Bailey s. - . . .;.'. ' : Napoleon Bonapart, aa the nero, enows the almost hypuotlo Influence he ex ercleed over, hla fellow men. Hla rise Irora an unknown lieutenant to the first consul of Vrance. ahe .conquest of the east by the . French army. .Napoleon a niarrlagp to Josephine and hla other love The author followa an almost obso Me custom In worka pf fictton, by writ ing an- Introduction. Aa a " rule they are Juat aa well omitted, for they are . aeldom read, but tha reader who falls to peruse this will lose a very rood key to the author'a treatment of , thla great hlatorlo character of whom he aaya. In this .Introduction: ."He (Napoleon) Is the moat awful vision in' all history of liie ruin wrouim-iw air hla world by the wedding of a great V, ,-.. to an Irnohln heart. And be side losing this advantage, the reader wno omlti tne iniroaucuun j" deprived himself of a very readable And exeeueni on 01 mriur. khe author aaya some Incontrovertible ihina-a' nnnilnf the historical man When be. figures In fiction, and the 'manner In wnlch "he should tee taaied. Jle. beljeves. and says: "Imaginative literature ha a higher truth and . a deeper seriousness than- history- Truth does not consist in a record of what has happened. One Bhort story may Jell more of a man's soul than a library full of the chronicles of his deeds." The story Itself Is ably 'written, In teresting In-plot and brilliant from atari to finish. It Is handsomely bound and well Illustrated by Alec C; Ball. Bren tauos. Price $1.80. "Lentala of the South Seas," by W. G Morrow. The author certainly has an Imagination which knows no bounds. and which soars Into the unreal and Improbable with ,the utmost confidence In tha credulity t. hla readers.. tIt la amatory of a body of colonists.' bent itnnn founding a new home, and "who have been ahlpwrecked tipon the .allores 01 a south sea lBiBDd mat is unnamed anil nnmarkert "unon anv ' tint. . The hardships of the vovagera; who are op posed by- the barbarian king; and hla nair crazy suDjects are staggering ana their adventures and escapes are aa thrilling as they ATe-.lmorobable when oe a-eta their breath sufficient to' real- U" ail tney nave oeen reaain.. , y A vovage on"' a - subterranean, river, arolmr through volcanic mountains and harelv escaping the Inpendtng erup tions la perhaps the most vivid and un real narrative in the book, which is full of weird and unearthly - experi ences, j The earthquake, which' follows la-ao remarkable, yet so aorurata in'lta detail and description, ror tne moment one almost believes . tha whole thing tnlrht he true., --,.. The leader of the shipwrecked col nny becomes enamored of Cental a. wtiose Identity becomes known onlv towards the close of the story though he la the white man's friend and guide. She rescues them from all sorts of dangera. euch a.s earthquakes, aottve volcanoes and cannibal Inclined natives, as-, well as from .-trouble and- strife amona themselvea. and is the means of Does He Pay Your Bills? No? ' lenTOU.pay for HIS judgment, dont you ? :' Pretty easy for him isn't it ? . ' ; t y" Is that ,tiow you ran your businesscaU in the neighbors? . No. vou relv on vour own business sense. ' Then whr not buy - There is no mystery self- starting, six-cyliridef : ;? Goes Well franklV teU yoo bow' n make it and 'what weTnakt It f.:-;,'T :-"".""T" T""r ' , Well explain ,th prindplef of iu detitn and conatruction. , , , .. . .. . . ' , ' " Well pfov what we y by what tha car does. Or,- if - you want "trustworthy, idiaintereated counsel, frt any mechanical expert tonugietr vital questions, and well anawer them td hia aat ' iafactioa and your. -" j h ' Thafa petting the -purchase of an automobile : upo a comreoa-aanse commercial basis with the brass band, false pride and misinformation elirai--nated.. , ' And wall show also that you get in the $3000 "4$-HJ, five-pa wenger Wirrton Six a car that isn't equaled for less thaa $450a That's the pre of our 60-HJ, seven-paMenger Wintoo Six. This Manrica-Maeterlinck. Author of "The Treasure of the Humble," "Wis- . ' dom and Destiny," finallv deciding the colonists to make this island their permanent home. . The romance of course centers about Lentala. who proves to ba the daughter or tne. savage King, ins doo is very handsomely gotten up. w-lth Its fine cover design, heavy paper and clear, bold- -type. It-ha neveral , new ; and unique features, natably .the, atyle and manner of chanter headings. . The book Is Illustrated In colore frpm -oil paint ings, by Maynard Dixon. Frederick A. Etokea Co. PHe tLSO. , "Monna Vanna," Maurice. Maeter linck's dramas now converted into op era, has had a somewhat stormy history. The , newj .opera wtiicn nna just Deen prodnced on the- other- side " and which Mr. Hammersteln announcea will be given at .the, - Manhattan opera Aouae, was produced idesplte the legal - efforts of the dramatlat to prevent It. One re members when the stage presentation of the play wae the subject of mis understanding between Mr. Conrled of the Irving Place theatre and Mr. Fisk. This concerned the German translation; an English translation waa also made, which the; Harpera Published 1 1 book a few years ago. Nor is it forgotten that Mr. Maeterlinck himself had made some difficulty In having his play pro duced, the Condon censor having sev eral ; times'-- opposed it,,, many thought, absurdly. -'., !:-;- Maeterlinck, like all ' master tminds, has received" severer criticism.- but he is nevertheless one of the towering fig ure In the Uterarv world todav. He is a somewhat prolific writer, but has not 1 YOUR automobile on JYOUR OWN -judgment 3- about automobiles 'least of all the Route Like Coasting Down Hill car differs frdra the 48-HJ. Winton Six only in " lxe cot In quality, because ths. $3000 Winton Six has all the quality that any maker can put into V- a car. . , - , .. '.'.'". ' Let's be open-minded and frank with each , ' other. Let us send ear catalog. Read what it says, then put your point-blank questions up to US , oh anything that the catalog aays or fails to say.' - - The Winton Six is the car that established the ' world's record of 443 miles on One Dollar Up keep, Phone us for demonstration today. Phones A4944. Main 25(3. VVIntork IVIotor Co. . OF OREGON ' Sixteenth and Auto FoW, Portland, Or. & "The Double Garden." , confined himself t6 one class of lltera ture; essays, verse and science have engaged his attention, but pf recent years the drama has received the most of It. . For some time Maeterlinck has not given, the world a new production, but ft is probably .only a temporary halt, as he Is a man only In the prime of years aa -yet,-, . .-. , ''The Straw." bv Rlna Ramsay. Thank a to the, fdndSmentaT law of both England ' and America, which forbids any man to be put in Jeopardy of- life or liberty twice on the same charge, the central figure in a sensational English murder- In the Leicestershire hunting aet, can , face the , revelation of his identity fearlessly, The revelation has come through the. medium or this recent novel, "The Straw," by Kina Ramsay. "Rlna Ramsay," hoWgyer, it is is assert ed, la not an English woman at all, but an American man. For obvious reasons he has chosen to protect : himself by 1 nSeudonvm:- the Identity of his charac ters Is not so wejl concealed In fact la hardly concealed at .all by tne ricu- uoua names Destowea upon tnem. The consequence is that In "The Straw" is to be found the inside his tnrv of a series of events which culm! nnt'eA tn a mvsterloua murder and startled the sporting set of England's nunting snire as it nas rareiy peen startled before. - The searchlight, so xinexpectedly thrown by "Bina Kamsay a- npvei upon thla riddle can hardly be said, however to reveal a scandal. No remorse has about "the sweet-running, to torment the murderer, nor la It probable that any of his anoea will condwmn htm tor his act. I.i'xully, aurlally au1 one may add tnoH any tie tanla as tilglj in Wis llon of tliu oummunlty aa lie did whnn, aa yet, no blood hud ben found upon his (Hindu, , ... - When "The Straw" 'waa regurded as a worg Of Imaslnutton only. 11 claimed attention aa a brink vivid lata out-door porting llfr, and real love. Now that we muHt regard It mora aa a true nar rative than as a novel, the fascination Of Its characters and thi.-lr actlun 1 Incrcaaed. . - S "Hlna Ramsay" haa taken real people as niodfls; sbs haa succeeded l making her copies- aa thoroughly aiiva as m orlgl naia, The Ktraw" herself cluiohed at by deHualrlng man,- the woman who cl' lvea back to him the aur- faring lie causes his Wife, causes his Wife, tha hurd-rio- Ing men,- and last, but not least, Lord Tokenhouse, who believes and perauadus others to bllsv that hla nerve Is gone than would Im real and vivid even to the reader who was not aware that thalr true namea must now be known all over -England. ' The WacmllUn Co. price i no. :r; ' ; -v, "The Angel." by Ouy Thorne.--Thla' la a phycholoalral story of hypnotic pow er, dual personality and thought forces, so merged ' Into-one another that1 the reader pauses to determine whether lta teaching la - Christian Science.- New Thought,' the Emmanuel movement or plain witchcraft. .But there la no un certainty that whichever it may be It Is Interesting, not improbable, and baa a strong ethical force, which must raise the reader to a higher plain and Inspire within him more exalted, rellgloua thought One, "Joseph."' an , athelat, meets with an accident, and during Ills unconsciousness a myaterioua change oc- oura, making him propnei, mina rf""" and mystic, fllo goea Into the "Welsh mountains to visit, and be with a cer tain hermit, and while there tht i harm" dlea and leaves (beyond doubt) his aoul and spirit, with hla visitor. After second lllnesa Joaeph awakea to fnd.bla face ana figure a counterpart of .the universal Idea of the Christ; The story Is his crusade against crime and vice in London, and the great religious revival 'lVr. ""story of powerful-and impell ing Interest and save for , J' ' ?on. fuslna- and Indefinite lntermlngllngor uhllosophlea la a book of P'"la Mr. Thorne is noi a. new i: everal occasions has attracted , the at fevf.r" Si -Tii rnrth nulDlt oratory f;SmmanydlsTingt.l.hedEngU. men This was notablv the case in nia book "When It Was lrk." J sale of 100,000 -copies in1 Great Britain In'-The Ahgel" Mr Thorne handle- a still more daring ltngham Co. Price $1.50.- . , , . "Historic Indiana,''- by juna e.- fwoMvtnfarrycTountiof7wlvt f. memorably tHkingand I pic- S goro'us "selectlveprocess,; has exchid ed the inslgnlfioant; an In'a, grkpMc and rapid tyle, she tells that part or the story of her .state ..wltn wnicn aii good Vlooslers should be fam mnd which ehould have a place In the mem ory-of all those wnp.pri-uU -knowledge of American history " first -wa arOiioia m 1M - j tic" ixperlencee down--unexplored streams and tnrougn ,,,e,","" ' and of the redsklna he enTOuntered. Then comes the tale of French and 5"Al!!!h XZ: ?hen we rt of" thVdlrlnVanShirdy jWthaplo- terra - who, in inrmwiin ,.iVZ hl heavy wagons -Inland from the tidewater eastern states. ' There Is a stirring .account, too of Ti, in the nivil war with a apWted picture, we cannot omit, to men tion of Morgan's raid. . Abundant attention la given to the very rapid social political. and literary development of the state flowing the Civil war. O: P. Putnam's Sons, publishers. , , - ri-i..' M..r.raiiH arMvities of interna tional peace advocates have brought .be fore the public-eye a few tnduals-of no email 'Interest. Among the foremost is the Baroness Von Suttner. who, at i. ct as. has lust written a history of her life, which has been published by the well known "Deutsche Verlagan stalt" of Stuttgart rfnd Ilpzig. iiM.. .u.vln rnn Werthfl- VOTr-HUtt- ner" Is full of the warm sympathy and keen Intelligence which has character-, iA,i thA life of Its author. Many un- vnerlenRes and lncldents: In the lives of no few characters whose names .mniuiit in nineteenth: ' century history are to be found among its pages. It was in 1KB i wnen uie orra c..f,n. rr.t tiniird of the existence of the International Peace and Arbitra tion association tnat sne aiouovrru u real mission of her life. In 1890 was ..kii.i. ,a "T. v Down Tour Arms, which has since been translated Into all European languages, and sold In hun dreds of thousands of copies. n,t.. n ninn Co. has secured the rights to publish the "Memorien In all English' speaking countries, and will shortly bring out an Engllah edi tion. r T-. a Vacmlnii fif TjetterS." edited by Charlotte Porter and Helen AClarkvet- -It ldoubtf ul - If thera- Is another roagaulne, even Inthla age magazines, that holds anything like the unusual place in meraiure "Vj "fnM r.nre." . It has an Individuality that Is so marked It haa no ImiUtors and It Is of such character as would not admit of. spurious reproduction-r-for It only holds Its well earned place by the high atandard of Its work. Ita sole attraction Is Its literary merit, and so Sure of Us position In the literary world is It that It needs none of the attractive embellishments of gaudy mvw or elaborate illustration, to carry It Into favor or hold the ground It haa won. Each Issue, which is quarterly, contains, aa Its leader, a play f ran some of the leading dramatists of tne times; usually it is a translation, and' when It is It" is appearing-for the first time In Eng""h In .this magazine. -In the Issue Just received the drama Is "Agnes Bernauer," by Frederick Heb- bet translated Uy Loueen rattee, and la a tragedy in - five acts. It Is ef great have ter length than moat of those that e preceded it. ana nas sucn a large caste of characters that, at times. It Is almost donfusing to follow them. This. however, does not detract materially from the Interest or depreciate Its lit erary value. Milton Bronner writes a very Interesting article on "Sarojinl Naidu. the New Hindu Poeteaa." quot ing freely from various poems and drawing an Interesting comparison be tween, this new star, and her predeces sor of a few years ago, Toru Dutt. "A Reincarnation Ring." is presented by Edith M. Thomas, with an introduc-a lion 10 two poems, one Dy an unanown "New England singer." who wishes to remain anonymous, and the other by t . ..1 a 1 1-n W - -,1 - ,I,I,.K Ulii Thnttiil wishes the reader to compare. The first ' miss Tnomas minus might easily be called "The New Elegy In a Country Churchyard." ss It so delicately embod ies the awakening and reincarnating principle. Several ether articles of equal , Interest and merit complete the contents of this valuable number. Poet Lor company, Boston. Single copy, 1. " "Myrtle Baldwin." by Henry Roth This la a revelation of life In the under world of a great city and Is the most oowerful and dramatic of all thla cele brated author's works. Its cenea are largelT laid where, as Mr. Munn ears: "A few -drones Tnd money In idle luury while (he many starve and where virtae. honor, noneaty and Mfe. almoet. are crushed beneath the Iron wheel of want" ' It shows how hard ft is for any self resrwtlng girl of average good looks and without friends or -money, te obtain an roe est ureiinood said euch snrroandtnra. " The storv of Myrtle Baldwin la told with, forceful vigor and patbo anl will hold the r-lera eitnUon rrnm corr to rover. L-Uiroj, lr A Shepard Co. Prica 11 1. -The Castle of Dawn.- hr Harold Morton Kramer Once in a while there oires el ore- a atorv that tt )nmt eiyplv a story. PoffW that It gets boM ef yew. and Tn don't are who wrote Iu fr what barrens eatll yot have rV It froea beglrmlng to endThe Cat le of tiawn" wmei - nnder ' this category and If yvm wast ta kimm any more eboot It. ft a copy and fine et of la -f yos wll r-t your morte-r s worth. UothfVa, L ?MTrd . Price li lt yet conn "The PVgrarfcr f a Wil-er- tx." TraMt Tbotnxeoa tVevnaTtus la r moat , notable and ' certain to be the most popular- of all Mr. Salon's books to dale. All the magle of the wild free life of tha hills la caught and held In its pages; tha tragedy of every wild animal's struggle for existence "In the desert as on meets a. friend:" the romance of an -l!al life union of two noble animals. - The story of this life friendship, set down by - Mr. Keton'e sympathetic pen. makes an altogether delightful' and fascinating ; narrative: the book la made atrll more delightful and faaclnAttug by - many of - the au thor'a characteristic illustrations The Century company,. Price II. 60. . - Frank W. Skinner, who writes of "Foundations - of Lofty Buildings" fop the March Century, for many yeara after hla graduation - from Cornell made a specialty of ' bridge engineering- in mill, shop, - field, and office. Since 1KII9 he has been non resident lecturer In field engineering at Cornell university, McGIll university. Tale. Harvard, .Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and other Institutes, be sides contributing extensively to maga Sines .and technical publications. , GOOD BUSINESS YEAR IS AHEAD ;0F US JL. Bowman Gives . Figures v and Fads for Jlis Traclc v Predictions; i .' '' "; : ' vThe American ".Clothlngi company during the first alx! weeks that they showed thla fall's- samples took orders for 117,000.000 worth, of gooda aa against J9.000.00Q during the same time last year." 'Bald X I.-Bowman, propri etor" of, the BownsvUle Woolen Mills store,".who returned 'last week from a trip to New York city. "There )s no denying, tha fact continued Mr. Bow man, "that since the national -'.election all tha American woole"n- mills are turn ing out a much larger quantity. of ma terial. Everything In. the- manufactur ing line presages good times ' because the manufacturer la not going to branch out' without due Investigation of trade conditions. He haa too -much at atake; hence,--may-be depended -upon to exer cise more caution than most any. other branch of .business., '..-j-"Without any such, statistical facts to suggest prosperous time one accus tomed., to even the retail trade of New York, could appreciate the almost mar velous ; change for the better during the past year. . The tide In business affairs has turned for tha bettor. -and the change is so - decided.- and so no ticeable from every standpoint . there can be no.-mletaklng-Itfr meaning." --- iBrmisItii MnninsatoaM tow 9 1 1" I t - city salesmen, solicitors, collectors, investigate the Brush,: it just fits your business. . " - C A. Puarica, State Agent Fifteenth and Washington Streets, Portland, Or. With GRAHAME MOTOR CAR CO. , MY. PATENT SUCTION TEETH Ntver SUp or Drop ALL WORK WARRANTED FOR TEN YEARS-WHY WAIT? Delay Is Dangerous. NO PAIN I NO HIGH PRICES! . , I 1. f f t ItCTRO FLEXIBLE FLESH COLORED PLATES. REG ULAR $20. 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The BRUSH, with standard fearing, cannot go faster than S miles per hour, but it is al--ways going. . 7 the Brush Has Never Broken a Speed Record tThe' BRUSH has crossed the 1 continent with full load; climbed Pike's Peak and then , climbed -up the stairway into the Summit 1 house; won hill climbing con tests against cars of ..five times . its raled' DOwer: climbs to the ( top of Washington street with .' four passengers on high speed;,, climbs Portland Heights with ' as, many." people 5 as can. stick ..onto Jt, then runs up the stair way -at entrance tor City, Park -with - ease,'5 carrying ;vthree ' pas-1 sengers;,; runs-ftqm.i,20 ito- 30 miles on one gallon of gasoline. DentiGii