t THE OREGON ; SUNDAY JOURNAL. PORTLAND, SUNDAY! MORNING, MARCH 6, 1910. S 1 i AND THEIR' HJBLISHLRS L -A4rNQ FACTS OF AMKRI-I CAN HISTORY," by I). H.I Montgomery. In no branch of study or literature haa thera been auch ' a radical change, aa In tbo treatment of history. Tha good historian of former daye waa tha ona who could maka history read Ilka ro mance, and tha ona who had tha power of narrative, and waa able to tell a conaeoutlva story. In lta class atudy, the child that could gllbbly count off the rulera of a country, their cabinet offloera, their wars -and conflicts, waa the child that went to the head of tha clasa. But these aame children were seldom abla to tell a fact relating to the commerce, inventlona or domestic affaire of the country, which were. In fact, the real causes of tha political upheavala, while the wara and suc cession of rulera were but the effects. This style of history writing and history study Is fast disappearing and in us place baa come a grouping to gether of oontemporary people and events., showing the relative position or one thing to airother, which teaches riot only history In Its truest sense, but the social, economic and Industrial forces, as they work out to natural and logical conclusions. These lessons are worth infinitely more to a child than all the narrative history -that waa ever written. It Is a history of this most Improved type that Mr. Montgomery haa written. The very title of It lmpllea lta char acter, for plain, simple facta, it cer tainly la. The history begins with the forces that set Columbus' face toward the un known world and concludes just after the Inauguration of President Taft, and yet, the" history ltaelf, Is confined to ' 400 pagea nor Is It small print Con cise as It is, and brief. It Is doubt ful If mora real necessary history for the pupil, could be gotten out of one of our great voluminous histories. As a book of ready reference it would not come amiss on almost any desk, but It Is particularly arranged for a text book. It la classified under nine general heads or periods In the history of the country, and theae are divided Into sub-periods, and then arranged In para graphs, which are almost wholly bare facts, but put In such a manner that the student cannot fall to see the re-! latlon, one with the other, forming tuaf connecting link in the memory we oall association, and which Is the surest of all ways to indelibly fix the events in the - mind of a reader or student. Here is a striking Illustration of Mr. Montgomery's style of compiling his tory. In summing up the administration of Jackson he says: "Seven Important evente marked the administration of Andrew Jackson. They were: (1) The beginning of the system of removals from government office for political reasons; (2) the commencement of the anti-slavery movement by William &r , ' a '.',.: 't " -v., -; ' ''':- - - j . ' ( .' , " ..'". . J ( t -' - - ' y :'H ' t . . 4. U , 1 i i - - X - ' " 1 I . r ,-' I ' Gertrude Atherton., author of "Tower of Ivory." Lloyd Garrison; (3) The overthrow of the United States bank; (i) the dispute over the protective tariff, and the 'nul lification' of acts of congress by South Carolina; (5) rise of the Whig party; (ft) Indian wars in the south and west; (7) the rise of American literature anJ the cheap newspaper." Here are facts boiled down and so clinched ' together they can never -be forgotten. In this way the entire subject la treated. Bo sldes the history proper, the book con. tains the constitution of the United States, several valuable tables, a group than tha men and women we see uround us ourselves. Incidentally the story perhaps gives us the closest study of a young Englishman that any novelist has attempted In a great many years. Here Mrs. Atherton knows thoroughly what she Is doing. She has lived a very long time' In England, and to good ad vantage, and the extent and accuracy of her knowledge of the English Is shown by the fact that no other Ameri can novelist meets with the same re ception from them. The scene of the new novel Is laid partly In Munich, partly In London and partly In the English country. It Is possible that Mrs. Atherton knows Munich even bet ter than she does London. At any rate her description of life In this artistic capital will be a revelation to many who know only Its outer setting. As a story of modern life and character, Mrs. Atherton's recent work will more than sustain the high reputation earned by her previous works. The Macmlllan Co., Price $1.60. convey a living picture In 14 lines must be possessed with the power of tha real poet,, and h Is Mr, Venable has done. , The sonnets are not entirely confined to describing features, of the beauty-and life of Florida for a num ber art ascribed to various persons, many of whom theiwielvea confined much Of their work to this mods of ex pression, as Milton, '-, Sllakerpeara, Wordsworth and other English - poets. Richard O. Badger company, A Price l.oo. .. v, . ' : "Dick of tha Everglades," by A. W. Dlmock A boys' book, full tO tha covers, with tha most delightful adven tures In (hat weird, uncanny, llttl.0 ex plored, but quit remarkable country, tha . J3verglade of ; Florida. Two schoolmates, - through their honorable, upright conduct, gained tha' goodwill of their parents and teachers, and aa very' good tory writer ntuit arrange it, .re ceived their reward. In this instanoe tha boys are , allowed to undertake a canoe trip through the Intricate water, ways of tha Everglades, where they meet with all sort of experiences, run ning upon strange animals, and under going . privations and great dangers. Nor do they escape , several real trage dies,, and they makemany hair-breadth escapes. . The book nds with a fina climax and the reader must rank tha boys real heroes. The book la well Il lustrated. Frederick A. Stokes Co. Price 1.60. Houghton Mifflin Co., publish the first of their spring books on Saturday, February It, with the following' list: "Little Brother o' Dreams," a tender poetical story by Mrs. Elaine Ooodale Eastman: "John Foray th's Aunts," by Miss EUxa Orne White; "The Earliest Sources for the Life of Jesus," by Prof. Francis C Burkitt of Cambridge, Eng land; "Faul and Paullnlsm," by Dr, James Moffatt; "Church and Labor," by Charles Stelzle; "The Principles of Edu cation," by Prof. William C. Ruedlger of George Washington University: 'The First Book of Stories for the Story- Teller," by Miss Fanny H. Coe; and school editions of "Llttle-FOlk Lyrics," by Frank Dempster Sherman; "Old Balrnda In Prose," by Miss Eva March Tappan, a translation of tha "Aeneld" by Theodore C. WUHsms, ' and Mrs. Gasklll's "Cranford." PLAYS AND PLAYERS "Changing Voices," by R. D. Brodle This Is a collection of about 20 poems of more or less length, but none over two or threo pages long. The book takes Its title from the first poem which la only a sonnet, but Is sweet and sympathetic enough to deserve the title page, though It Is not the only one with those characteristics. The "Three Tears Behind the-Guns" Is to be put Into emboesed type for the blind. This Is the story of tho experiences of runaway sailor, lad on the Olympla; and It was of this book that Admiral Dewey wrote to the publishers: "I oaa vouch for many of tha facts; and the description of the battle of Manilla Bay Is one of the best I have ever seen published." The Century Co. The seriousness with which teachers and educators are devoting themselves to the problem of maintaining better health conditions In schools is demon strated by the eagerness with which they are attacking the most helpful literature on the subject. Allen's Faversham'a repertolra xt aeason will lnolufle a tnuslo drama, , ' 1. . . ' as., f' ' ' 1 " New Tork haa " 102 moving picture theatres and Chicago haa in. Rosa Melvllla haa bought an orchard In California. e The City." Clyde ntch'a laat play, Is to be seen In Paris. Billy B. Van has promlaed to shlv 'Tatsy Bolivar" forevar, ( e Dorothy Morton Is to maka a tour of tho west In "Tha Widow Jonet." e - Tha Climax- la to ba produoed In London wltn Maria Doro In tha leading Pt. ... Charles Frohman la going to produoe :hantlcUr" next fall In Nw Tork. Bos ton and Chicago. e Oscar Wilde's play. "Tha Duchess of Padua," is to ba produced in ixmaon next sesson by QeoYge Alexander. -Thd rwn of a Tomorrow," In which Eleanor Robeson has been starred, will be produced in Berlin aoon. virrtnl Thornton will succeed Prlscllla Krentes as leading woman with the Lyric Stock company. . Hartford will not stand for nasty show posters. This waa well sei rorin in the action of the police In tearing down posters sdvertislng "The (jueen of the Moulin Rouge." Hartford Times. John Howard Payne, author 6f "Home, Sweet Home," was the first actor born In America who ever played Hamlet, It Is said. He waa the original boy Ham let, having played the part at the age of 17, at the Park theatre. New Tork, In May. 1809. Francis Wilson may write another play for himself when ha concludea to give up playing "The Bachelor's Baby," which met with great success. Henry E. Dlxey will appear during the coming season In an adaptation from a German play under the management of Walter N. Lawrence.- Augustus Thomas Is at present work- Ing upon a play which will treat of racial hatred In a novel way, aad prom ises to ba aa Interesting a drama as Bernstein's "Israel," or Zangwlll'a "Tha Melting Pot." e Olga Netheraola wlU have a spring eason In London, opening In May. Later ha may maka an extended tour of the larga cities of South America. Tha Idea of a play in which all tha characters are birds, as in "Chantlder," Is by no means new, for in the aixteanth cantury, "Aesop's Crow" was performed, and In it tha actors appeared aa birds. Naslmova'a repertolra in New Tork next month will Include three Ibsen dramas. "Little Eyolf." "Lady Ingra of Ostrat." and "The Wild Duck" 'The Fairy Tale." by Snltiler "An Ideal Life." by Marco Prago. and "The Saa Gull." by Anton Tchekoff. e Henry B, Harris has signed contracts with Charles Klein to write a play for Ross SUhl. who Is now playing her fourth aeason In "The Chorus Lady." Miss Stahl will appear In New Tork in tha aprlng of 1911 in her new play. "Actors did remarkable things In the days of variety," aald Jimmy Powers. "You had your specialty, of course, which consisted probably of songs and dances and a monologue. Tou knew that but they had what they called after pieces, and everyone had to take part In the arterpieoe. This afterpiece was never put down on paper, and at theTe hearaal you Just had to fig re it out for yourself." N. C. Goodwin will resume profes sional activity late In March In the title role of "An Old New Yorker," a com edy by Harrison Rhodes and Thomas A. Wise, authors of 'a Gentleman From Mississippi." Mr. Goodwin will first appear In this play la Los Angeles, A tour of the Pactflo coaat cltlea will fol low, and tha New Tork city reentree of Mr. Goodwin la dated for mlU-8eptem-ber. William Collier will maka a trans continental tour. Collier's newest com edy sucoess, called "A Lucky Star," Is ona of the pronounoad hits of tha New Tork aeason, -a a "My new play," said David Warfleld, "is by Mr. Belasco and ona Of tha young er Da MUlea. Tou remember that In the old days Belasco and Da Mills wrote some of tha best successes of the old Lyceum company. Tha theme la a beau tiful, poetlo one, modern, and at the ama time fanciful and romantic. It will ba In a sense, A. dream play. My own character will likewise partake of tha fantastic." e For next season Mrs. Leslie Carter haa In mind a new play adapted from the Spanish of Jose Echegoray. It Is a modern realistic drama of much force and Intensity, she asserts, and It will make a good vehicle for her talents. Underhlll Is making the adaptation of tne piece, -meres anomer piay, saia Mrs. Carter, "which I may do. Mme. Sarah Bernhardt haa been good enough to offer it to me, and It Is one in which she haa appeared, though It haa never been played in this country." The careless people who speak of the players ss puffed up sometimes are sheer slanderers. Even when they tell the truth they do not take the trouble to Inquire Into the reason for the phe nomenon. The actor la apt to be puffed up not with pride or notoriety, as Is supposed, but from the sheer labor and bulk of carrying so many characters around Inside of him. Multiply Jekyll Hyde by the number or weeks in s H BAKER Civics and Health (Ginn and company), an extremely practical work pertaining to the health needs of schools, towns and cities, Is becoming familiar to thousands of teachers all over the United States. It haa already been of ficially adopted In the teachers' reading clrcues of 14 state's. nt n,i..tinn. r.rfinin. t.. ,.h r,riH poems may fall a good deal short of and division of the history, several I .classics, but what Is lacking In, pages of topical analysis and a very satisfactory index. The book Is elaborately Illustrated and Is rich In new and corrected miifi. Ginn & Co. Price $1.00. "Passers-By," by Anthony Partridge "A passer-by," Ambrose muttered to himself as he held his freshly filled tum.bler to the light. "I drink to the passer-by, to those who stop and bend over anu are curious, to those who walk on. to those who walk on and come back." So said the poor hunchback, Ambrose Drake, and gave title to the story mat is as lntcrenting ana com pelling as It Is well written. While not Btrhtly within the Sherlock Holmes i lass of detective stories, "Passers-By combines a etrong detective feature with romance and tragedy. The story opens with the Introduction of the girl Christine, the hunchback, and the monkey Chicot, as they jjlant their little street piano in the passage-way of a London street one dark, rainy night, hoping that, while the hunchback plays and the girl sings the monkey may gather up a few pennies in his hat frdm the passers-by,, to keep body and sou together, it is an incongruous group and the reader recognises it, even before a young man looks out of the window and exclaims: "Tha girl, the hunchback and the monkey! In London of all places!" Later In the "evening he took down the receiver and rung up the Mar quis of Elllngham, giving to tho English lord, with whom he had no acquaint ance. this Information: "I saw a 'dark' haired girl singing in the streets, a nuncnoacx ana a monxey. within a few pages the fact Is revealed to tho reader that this odd group had tramped to London in search of some ona tho girl wanted to find, and the some one was this English lord, out ' of whose paralyzed hands had dropped the re celver when he heard that they were In London. The story, which Is rapidly told from that on, is v not of lta own making, but Is -principally the sequence of an unfortunate tragedy that had occurred In Paris a year or two be. fore. It was a tragedy that sent Chris. tine wandering . tho streets with the hunchback and his monkey, that WTccked other lives and put the most noted de tecvtlve of Paris on the trail of all of them. But what tho tragedy was, or who tho real motors were, one must read to the very end to find out, for it la one of the most delicately illusive stories that was ever written. The author never onca makes the mistake of rough treatment, or blunders into the error of disclosing a clue. He simply plays with his readers as the good fish erman (loos with his trout, leading It up to the bait, but never landing it till just the right moment. Of all the characters in the book, the hunchback is tho most interesting, and strongly reminds one of several hunch backs of earlier fiction. He is tho ab ject Blave of Christine, who little appre ciates his doglike devotion, and while the reader can despise him for some things, they could cry over him for oth ers. The story -carries no moral and It would bo hard even to find a lesson, but it is intensely interesting, full of animation, and moves to a finish In a masterly way. The book Is well bound with appropriately mbossed cover de sisrn, and It has numerous Illustrations. Little, Brown & Co, Price $1.60. "Tha Tower of Ivory," by Gertrude Atherton. The easiest way to describe Mrs. Atherton's new book Is perhaps to state what it 1s not., Emphatically, it Is not a problem novel, a sociologi cal novel, an historical novel, nor any of the other peculiar forms of novel that at one tlma or another of recent years have had so much of the public's attention. I . ' It is, however, a real novel, a story of people Whom Mrs. Atherton has' mgde more real and, more significant high literary perfection is more than compensated for in the strong human appeal they make upon the heart of the reader. In almost every poem tho au thor shows a strong religious senti ment, and an implicit faith In the real ities of the heavenly world. Some of tho poems are narrative and a few have special significance, although making a very desirable little book. Richard G. Badger company. Price $1.00. J "True Detective Stories" Told by a former chief of United States secret service, A. L. Drummond. The author i has seen' many, many years of active service in protecting the lites and I property of citizens from the criminals, 1 be they murderers, counterfeiters or plain thieves. In tils preface he says: "For almost 40 years, I have been en1 gaged In the business of running down criminals, In 1871, I Joined In a sub ordinate capacity the United States se cret service. When, In 1894, I resigned from the employ of the government, I. was chief of the service. Since then, I have been at tho head of a detective agency of my own In New York. "These stories, for the most part, re late to events that occurred while I was connected with the government service. Many are stories about coun terfeiters. In the days following the civil war, the biggest, grainiest crim inals in the country wefe engaged in tho making of spurious money and bonds. Counterfeiting has now dwin dled to unimportant proportions, and the 'present generation has little con ception of tho magnitude of the opera tions of thoaet old-time swindlers. They were crafty resourceful men, some of whom did not hesitate to attempt mur der when they felt the . halter of the law tightening about them. 'I wish to add a word about the last story in this book: 'Three Women and a Man. It is so astonishing a nar rative that when these stories were published aerially in the newspapers throughout tho country, many persons had difficulty in believing that three such women could have existed. Truth, indeed. Is stranger than fiction. This story Ilka all the others is absolutely true." The atorles bear the stamp of truth while they are hardly believable upon every page, for there Is the lack, In all of them, of tha dramatic climax professional writer of fiction would I have given them. This would natural ly bo the result In tho work of a man of action, rather than of letters, who had an immense amount of raw ma terial be wished to work un. and whose Jhly desire was to tell the truth, and keep within )the limits of a given num ber of pages. The stories also seem to be utterly without coloring, and so un finished with so many "half told tales," that the clever fiction writer might glean a wealth of Incidents upon which to found Innumerable stories, if he wished to take advantage of Mr. Drum mohds' experience. This style of nar rative would be . very objectionable In ordinary fiction, but. where only truth meant to bo told, it enhances the value of ' the tales and stamps their honesty upon them. There are 17 of them in this volume, and it only re-1 mains to the individual taste to decide which Is the best George W. Dilling ham company, Prlca $1.60. mm f in iiijn,iiiiwiiiiiiiwmwiiiiJinw;'..'J')lil yi " V - ) A V ' ' " - V' ''' - kx ;pi- 1 ! 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(Holiday Matinees KlTi Prices.) 125-Peoplc-125 45-Own 0rchestra-45 "Florldlan Sonnets," by William Henry Venable To ona . who la fa miliar with Florida, Its Inviting coast and languid atmosphere, this collection of 86 sonnets will be a treat and a delight for the au thor has a poetic vision and the pen to draw the pictures pe sees. Whil the popularity of the sonnet may have waned .somewhat from tha day of Shakespeare when the literary world i waa sonnet mad; tha fact nevertheless remains that it is a very attractive style of verse, and the ana who can 2Qth Century Thriller Aeroplane Automobile Race SUNDAY AT THE AVIATION MEET Take Special Trains at Union Depot or Street rs Hamilton Will Fly Sunday and Monday GENERAL ADMISSION $1.00 32 3SSSR PANTAGES THEATRE Advanced Vaudeville Stars of All Nations Week Commencing Monday Matinee, March 7 SPECIAL ATTRACTION EXTRAORDINARY wtaa's I . m-mm mm, Living Reproductions of Famous Paintings. 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GRAND VAUDEVILLE Week March 7 Girlish Novelty in Black and White THE LANTASTIC HANTOMS WITH Hilarion and Rosalie Cahallos SPECIAL ADDED ATTRACTION The Balton Troupe 8 CHARMING WOMEN 6 Aerial Sensations) Reese Proser Assisted by Helen Reed. A Delightful Vocal and Minstrel Offering. Smith and Harris In their Scenic Travesty "AT THE NORTH POLE" Pete Baker The Famous Dialectician. Kelley & Wentworth "The VILLAGE LOCKUP" GRANDASCOPE OH JOYTHEATRE afOBBXSOir, STBAB TXXBD ST. jJirection or FHOTX.WB AlaTJBBMinre CO. 3upplled exclusively by tha Amal gamated Film Exchange, 141 H Fourth st. Pictures That Please and Educate PROGRAM STARTING TOMORROW SUNDAY, MARCH 6 INDUSTRIES OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA Showing Ostrich and Alligator farming ; JOSEPH SOLD BY HIS BROTHERS Story of Biblical Beauty THE DOOR A Comedy BRITTANY LASSIES For Young and Old .... .. - , I. .. .. J.-SIS.. Haba-Haba Special Engagemoit of tha Sirs ana aiamo mng f MR. 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