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/ l TENTH PACE '?HE SUNNY SOUTH Whence Comes This Mighty Healing Power All the Land Wonders at the Remarkable Cures Effected by Professor Adkin. HEALS DISEASES CALLED INCURABLE Ministers, Doctors and Professional Ken Tell How He Has Cured the Blind, the Dame, the Paralytic and Many on the Very Brink of Death. PBrEE HELP FOB THE SICK Professor Adkin Offers To Help All Sufferers from Any Disease Ab solutely Free of Charge. Professional Men In vestigate His Powers. PROF. THOMAS F. ADKINS, President of the Institute of Physicians and Surgti ns. In all parts of the country men anl women, doctors and surgeons, clergymen and educatets, are wondering at the re markable cures made by Professor Thomas F. Adkin, discoverer of the Ad kin Vitaopathle treatment. Professor Adkin heals not by drugs, nor by Christian Science, nor bv Osteopathy, nor by Hypnotism, nor by Divine healing, but by a subtle psychic force of nature in combination with certain vital mag netic remedies which contain Ihe very elements of life and health. A reporter recently talked with Pro- lessor Adkin and was asked to invite all readers of this paper who are sick or who nee worried by the ills of those dear to them to write tc him for assistance. ‘Some people have declared." said Pro fessor Adkin. ‘that my powers are God; they call me a Divine healer, man of mysterious powers. This is not »o, I cure because I understand nature, because I use the subtle force of nature to build up the system and restore health. But at the same time I believe that the Creatcr would not have given me the op portunity to make the discoveries I have made or the ability to develop them if He hid not Intended that I should us.; them for the good of humanity. I. there fore. feel tl at it is my duty to give the benefit of the science 1 practice to all who are suffering. 1 want vou to tell your readers that they can write to me in the strictest confidence if they are trou bled with any kind of disease.' and I will thoroughly diagnose their cases and pre scribe a sipple home treatment which I positively guarantee to effect a com plete cure, absolutely free of charge. I care not how serious their cases, nor how nrpeless they may seem, I want them to write to me and let me make them well. 1 feel that this is my life’s work." So great is the sensation wrought in the medical world by the wonderful cures performed by Professor Adkin that sev eral professional gentlemen were asked to investigate the cures. Among these gentlemen were Dr. L. B. Hawley and Dr. S. Dutton Whitney, both famous physicians and surgeons. After a thor ough and painstaking investigation these eminent physicians were so astounded at the far-teaching powers of Professor Ad kin and the wonderful efficacy of Vltao- pathy that they volunteered to forsake all other ties in life and all other kinds of treatment and devote themselves to assisting Professor Adkin in his great work for humanity. With the discovery of the Adkin VltaoDathic treatment emi nent physicians are generally agreed that the treatment of disease has at last been reduced to an exact science. In ail some 8.000 men and women have been cured by the powers of Professor Adkin. Some were blind, some were lame, some were deaf, some were para lytics. scarcely able to move, so great was their infirmity. Others were afflicted with Bright's disease, heart disease, con sumption and other so-called incurable diseases. Seme were sufferers from kid- rey trouble, dyspepsia, nervous debility, insomnia, neuralgia, constipation, rheu matism. female troubles and other simi lar ills. Some were men and women addict ed to .drhnkenness. morphine and other evil habits. In all oases Professor Adkin treats he guarantees a cure. Kven those on the brink of the grave, with all hope of recovery gone and despaired of by doctors and friends alike, have been re stored to terfect health by the force .f Vitaopathy and Professor Adkin's mar velous skill. And. remarkable as it may seem/ dlstar.ee has made no difference. Those living far away have been cured in the privacy of their own homes, as well as these who have been treated in person. Profes3or Adkin asserts that he can cure any one at any distance as well as though he stood before them. Not long ago John Adams, of Blakes- bury. Iowa, who had been lame for twen ty years, was permanently cured by Pro fessor Adkin without an operation of am- kind. About the same time the city of Rochester, N. Y.. was startled by the cure of one of its oldest residents, Mr. P. A. Wright, who had been partly blind for‘a long period. John E. Neff, of Mil- lersbuR. Pa., who had suffered for years from a cataract over his left eye. was speedily restored to perfect sight, with out an operation. From Lcgansport. Ind., comes the news of the recovery of Mrs. Mary Eicher. who had been practically deaf for a v<;nr. while In Warren. Pa.. Mr. G. W. Savage, a noted photographer and artist, who was not onlv. partially blind tnd rl ‘a f. but at death's door from a complication of diseases, was restored to perfect health and strength by Profes sor Adkin. Vitaopathy cures not one disease alone, but !t cures ail diseases when used In combination with the proper remedies. If you are sick, ro matter what your dis ease nor who says vou cannot be cured, write to Professor Adkin today: tell him the leading syntbtoms of your complaint, how long you have been suffering, and he will at once diagnose veur rase, tell you the exact disease from which you are sufferirg, and prescribe the treatment that will positively cure you. This costs vou absolutely nothing. Professor Ad kin will also send you a copy of his mar velous new book entitled “How to Be Cured and How to Cure Others.” Th'i book tells you exactly how Professor Ad kin will cure vou. It fully and complete ly describes the nature of his wonderful treatment. It also explains to you how vou veurself may rossess this great heal ing power and cure t'ne sick around you. Professor Adkin does not ask one eent for h!s services in this connection. Thev will be given to you absolutely free. He has made a wonderful disco' ery and he wishes to rlace It in the hands of every sick person In this country, that he mav be restored to perfect health and strength. Mark your letter personal when vou write, and no rne but Profes sor AdKIn will see it. Address Professor Thomas F. Adkin. office 100 N. P. Roches ter. N. Y. OEL, CHANDLER HARRIS' new book, “The Making of a Statesman; and Other Stories," will be published about the middle of March by McClure, Phillips & Co. In the novelette which gives th etitle to the book the creator of, “Uncle Re mus” has gone Into a very different line from his for mer work. The story deals with a young college grad uate who gives up his ca reer in payment of a debt of gratitude to his patron, a Georgia planter. The planter has a possessing ambition to become a successful politician, but is hampered by his inability as an orator. The young man, who is naturally gifted in this respect, trains his senior for years, and finally wins success for him. There is a very charming love-story interwoven, with the planter's daughter for heroine. The shorter stories in the volume are character sketches of somewhat the type for which Mr. Harris is famous. The author's illness has somewhat delayed the publication of the book. ♦ John Murray has just published^n Lon don Lord Goschen's long-promised book on his grandfather. The title page reads: "The Life and Times of George Joachim Goschen, Publisher and Printer of Leip zig, 1752-1829. With Extracts from his Cor respondence with Goethe, Schiller, Klop- stock, Wi eland,* Korner and many other Leading Authors and Men of Letters of the Time. By his Grandson, ' Viscount Goschen. With Portraits and Illustra tions." The London Literary World has an In teresting article on the.English poets as makers of popiilar\quotatiqns. Pope, of crurse, stands high upon the list, his “Essay on Man" alone furnishing almost as many famous lines as can be found fti a like amount of text from Horace. Gray's “Elegy” has strings of much quoted phrases, while Goldsmith furnishes many. Cowper's most famous lion is— “England, with all thy faults I love thee still!" Bums and Byron and Keats were very happy in this respect. Mr. Tennyson shows probably more familiar lines and phrases than any English writer since Shakespeare. It is noted very truly that some of the greatest authors furnish the fewest pf Wiese “jewels five words-long,'* while many obscure poets will live just because of their gift for pregnant diction. Thus Browning and Ruskin yield very little to the gleaner, while Coventry Pat more abounds in the “glorified common places" which are the pemmican of ex perience. Edited by Lucian L. Knight items: “History of Haverhill. Massachu setts. by B. L. Mirlck.” Haverhill, 1832. The poem is as follows: “When our moments of youth are glided away. When the pleasures of youth are sunk In decay. Wlien the hopes we have cherished and the joys we have known Oblivion has covered and time over thrown. If these lines come before thee, thy memory may cast * Through the wreck of long years a dim thought of the past. - Thou mayst thine upon him who thus feebly has penned The lines here annexed to the name of a friend. “Life, at best, is but a rqund of weariness and care. In which few delights are found, so transient all our piea'sures are; Joined in friendship’s sacred ties, Our hearts forget each earth-bound woe; Nor can on earth be found a prize Enhancing our joys below So pure as friendship's sacred glow. “W.. 1823.” These lines, which are unknown to any biographer or bibliographer of Whittier, are not included In the “complete and definitive” edition of his writings, and are not referred to in the authoritaiive “Life” of the poet, written by h.'s nephew in law and literary executor, Samuel T. Pickard. The earliest of hhs boyhood poems that Whittier saw fit to reprint in that collect ed edition of his works (seven volumes, 188S-9) are dated 1825, Most of these early verses were published over the names of “Adrian,” “Donald,” “Timothy," “Mlca- Jah," "Ichabod," and “W." The poem now first printed is signed, like many of these youthful efforts, “W.” The first poem that appeared with his full name is the ballad. "Pericles: by John G. Whit tier, Havertiill, 9th Mo., 1827,” which ex ists in the unique copy sold at Libbie’s March 5. 1901, and now in the library of Joseph W. Stern of this city. The latter antedates, of course, the poetical address, "J. G. Whittier to the Rustic Bard, which was first published In Robert Dins3 moor’s “Incidental Poems,” Haverhill, 1828, and was long believed to be his first poem to appear in a book. te- Some cf the most famous authors of the day have suddenly risen in arms against the quality of British book printing and production, which is variously described as “cheap,” “shoddy,” “vulgar," and “very decadent.” Mr. George Bernard Shaw leads oft the grumble In the new number of the Cax- ten Magazine, in which he Says that “many fashionable books show that the printer has not only not known the first canon of his art, but that he has actually gone out of his way to Introduce leads and spacings wherever he can. Well-printed books are just as scarce as well-written ones, and every author should remember that the most costly books in the world derive their value from the craft of the printer and not from the genius of the suthor.” Mr. H. G. Wells says: “I must confess I don’t think much r.f contemporary book production Modern type to Pickering type is a treacle to good wine.” Mr. Gilbert Parker. M.P.. thinks that lockbinding is far more artistic, origina , and tasteful in the United States than in England, but that the printing is better here than in America. Mr. Eden fhilpotts complains that hit books rre always dead and flat and tame in their English covers, and nearly always bright and attractive as bound and produced in America. Mr. I. Zangwill deo’ares that there are some new books properly printed “because their authors gave a special order therefor. But the majority can only be described as shoddy:” and Mr. Morley Roberts does not think anything bad enough can be said of the ordinary bindings of books, and refuses to try. Almost the only good word that is spoken for the modern book comes from two eminent lady writers—“John Oliver Hobbes" and Mrs. L. T. Meade. Literary Outlook. Reviews of Latest New BooKs HAVE YOU TRIED MY SKIN FOOD Clean sallow com plexions. Removes wrin Kies. Relieves Sunbnrn. Fifty Cents by mail. Money must be eent with all or ders. AGENTS WANTED on very liberal terms. Address Mrs. Clementine Hope, p. o. Sox 484. Washington, D. C. “Aliens, a Novel of Contemporary Life ir. the South,” by Mary Tappan Wright, which will come from the press of Charles Scribner’s Sons next week, deals with social and political conditions south of the Mason and Dixon line during the period of reconstruction, and up to the time of the birth of the new south. TMT author is the wife of Professor Wright, of Harvard, and her father. Professor Tappan, was at one time president of Kenyon college, Ohio. ♦ Ainsworth R. Spofford, former librarian of eoneress. has issued in brochure form an address on “Rare Books Re lating to the American Indians," which was read before the Anthropological So ciety of Washington last May. Mr. Spof ford says that "books and pamphlets re lating to the aborigines of both Americas and their islands amount to many thou sands of volumes, _ in many languages— Latin. Spanish, Freiici, English, German, Dutch, Italian, Portuguese, Swedish, Rus sian, and native Indian of many vary ing dialects.” He regrets “the lack of any Indian bibliography which is .at all comprehensive in its scope or its ma terials ” Mr. Spofford gives “Herman E. Ludewig's ‘Literature of American Aboriginal Languages,’ published by Trubner & Co., London, 1858,” as the first catalogue representing portions of the “great wilderness'’ of Indian bibliog raphy. Toward the end of his discourse the author says: “I come now to the rar est of all rare Americana connected with the Indians—the Holy Bible translated by John Eliot into the Indian language, printed at Cambridge, Mass., during the years 1661 to 1663. This early typographi cal monument was an achievement which, in view of the age in which it appeared, in the infant Massachusetts colony, may fitly be called marvelous.” Herbert S. Stone Co., are to publish shortly a dictionary of art, beginning with the Renaissance, and including the great painters and sculptors down to the present time. The editor’s aim will be to give something of the relation be tween the painter and Jiis time in a con cise biography. The volume will be val uable as a reference book, and will have several hundred reproductions of notable paintings. ♦ Maxim Gorky is taking Great Britain by storm. ’.‘Foma Gordyeeff" is extensive ly reviewed in the daily press as well as in the literarles; and. as in this country, the young Russian is accepted as a giant. The Athenaeum says: “Maxim Gorky has Just been ’discovered.’ and undoubtedly, as soon as any one discovers a new writer of any power at all, the temptation is al most inevitable to welcome him with an enthusiasm which maturer judgment is sometimes apt to modify. We have tried to bear the danger in mind while reading Foma Gordyeeff,” nevertheless we must confess to being carried away with genu ine enthusiasm for this writer, who seems to have something real and something new to say.” Below will be found for the first time in print what is believed to be John G. Whittier's earliest poetical production. In 1823, then 16 years old. he visited some friends in Newburyport. Mass., and while there wrote in an album fifteen lines, which are said to be the first of his pro ductions in verse of wnich there is any definite record. These lines are now printed through the courtesy of a friend whose knowledge of Whittier and his writings is intimate, anl among whoso' many bibliographical discoveries in con nection with the poet is the notable one which identified Whittier's name with a work long prized as a scarce volume of lccal history, but now ranked high among the most important of the early Whittier “The Jew as a Patriot,” by Madison C. Peters, is the first book which has ever been printed to point out conclusively the soldierly qualities of the Jews both in Eu rope and America. The book, written by the author of “Justice to the Jew,” a well known Baptist clergyman, is in the nature of a reply to 'Mark Twain's article in Harper’s Magazine where he accused the Jew “with a patriotic disinclination to stand by the flag as a soldier." Dr. Peters first points out that Jews furnished the money necessary for Co lumbus’ expedition and that the won derfully well planned expedition of Co lumbus was due to the scientific achieve ments of Spanish and Portuguese Jews. He takes up the part which the Jews played in the colonial cause, how freely they gave their lives for independence and aided with their money to equip and maintain the armies of the revolution. Next, the author speaks of the Jews who distinguished themselves in the Mex ican war, while in an interesting chapter he portrays the conspicuous place of the Jew in our regular army and navy, show ing that in every branch of the service he has made an honorable record. Al though there were only 150,000 Jews in the United States at the time of the civil war, nearly 8,000 Jewish soldiers served in the union and confederate armies. The first official call to_organize the abolition movement In 1853" was signed by five Germans of Chicago, four of them Jews. Over 4.000 Jewish soldiers served in the American armies during the war with Spain. - - r r V In the : armies of Europe the Jew-has likewise been conspicuous. Some of Na poleon's greatest marshals were Jews. Some of the greatest soldiers of Germany and Austria were Jews by birth and in herited genius. The Jewish population of Europe is about 8,000,000. They contribute *350,000 men of the war strength of Euro pean armies. The, proportion of Jews among the soldiers of Europe is greater than that of any other race. Nearly 1,000 Jews have served England in her war with the Boers. All over the empire Jews arose one in heart and interest with the imperial people. The book is strong, clear and convinc ing. It has the interest of historical rev elation coupled with an electrical style which has made Dr. Peters one of the best ktlbwn pastors of New York. (Baker & Taylor Company, New York.) ♦ Elien V. Talbot has laid lovers of Shakespeare under especial obligation to her by filling an inviting gap in “The Merry Wives of Wlnd- *‘THE COUaT- sor” with the charming SHIP OF romance of Sweet Anne SWEET ANNE Page and her courtship P.» E" by Ellen by the three lovers—Abra- V. Talbot ham Slender, the tallow- faced gawk chosen by her father; Dr. Calus, the garlic-scented fa vorite of her mother; and the “gallant Fenton,’’ the choice of that "youthful un derplotter,” her own wilful self. How thd second suitor was played against the first, and the third, bantered and co quetted and finally eloped with, is made the matter of a plot which Shakespeare himself could not have construed more artistically. The diction, too, has the true Elizabeth an flavor, and the humor possesses all the wit of that period without its vulgarity and horse play. Indeed, if Shakespeare had written "The Merry Wives of Windsor” to suit his own refined taste instead of that of the coarse "virgin queen,” he would have developed into the main plot of the comedy the very story that is told so charmingly by Miss Talbot. She has, therefore, accomplished a task second in value only to the discov ery of a lost play of Shakespeare, and every book lover should add the dainty voluipe to his Shakespeariana. (Funk & Wagnalls, New York.) •THE CRIM SON WING” Chat- nerd- ■■■- Taylor’ "The sandals” referred to in this story were the foot covering of the "blessed feet" which were “pierced for our re demption,” and the story “THE tells what • were their SANDALS” 'wanderings and who were BY their wearers from the Z. Grenell • time that they fell to the lot of a Roman soldier when Christ’s garments were parted among His crucifiers, to the day when they came back to Mary, the mother of Jesus. The little book exhib its both strength and beauty of literary style. The initial scene, where the sol dier pawns the sandals at a drinking shop in Jerusalem, is written with masterly vigor, and the love story of Zera'h and Elihu, the shepherd lass and lad Into whose possession . the sandals shortly come. Is told with the delicate touch of a true poet. An inference may be drawn by snmp readers that the author imputes mystical virtue to the sandals, but the conclusion is Just as legitimate that the wearers re ceived power from them because of belief in their supernatural qualities. Whether this virtue is physical, that is, inherent in the substance of the relic, or psycho logical, pertaining wholly to the mind of the venerator, Is the problem of all relic worship. Small as the present book is, therefore. It may be regarded as a con tribution to a very fundamental and im portant controversy, as well as a delight ful bit of Oriental fiction. (Funk & Wag nalls, New York). ♦ This is a romance of the Franco-Prus- sian war. the heroine being a young girl. Marguerite, who sheltered a wounded Prussian from the Franc- Tireurg under the com mand of Pau'i d’Arblay, jrho loved Marguerite, but "wlTo did not return her ; love. Ludwig, the Prussian, was engaged to another, and he Was sotely tempted to yield to the ycung French girl’s fascina tions, but she nobly saved his life for her rival, and in despair committed suicide to escape, the'hgtefp) attentions of Paul d'Arhla;V :^'|4(pr” * rt ”'‘° a faithful but lurid picturji-of tfie hLprrors of war on the borders of Grande, and describes many daring deeds qf braVery on both sides. The only fault' that etui be found with the story is Its tragic'gliding. (Herbert S. Stone & Co., Chicago.) The Fofit Track Magazine As an up-to-date periodical. The Four Track News, published by the New York Central and Hudson River Railway Com pany, udder the editorial supervision of Mr. J. E. Root,, chief of the advertising department is rapidly becoming one of the best magazines in the country, and It appeals with growing interest to general readers as well as to tourists and sight seers. Each issue of the magazine con tains an interesting assortment of arti cles representing the best thought of the day and contributed by the mos' popular writers. The magazine is bouncLJn yellow covers and outwardly bears some resem blance to Scribner’s, while inwardly it i3 not below the, standard of this old estab lished publication. The illustrating and typographical features are fully abreast with the latest developments in the art of magazine making. Altogether it is an exceedingly attractive and unique period ical.'' More than 50.D00 copies of JJie mag azine are published monthly and still the demand is increasing. But no one who reads it can marvel at the favor it seems to have found in She eyes of the public. NE of the most important announcements made thus far during the present sea son is an autobiography of Helen Keller, the deaf, dumb and blind girl who is now a student in Rad- cliffe college. For years Miss Keller has been a study for the psychologists. Gradually she has acquired the equivalent of the senses without which she was * „ - born - until now she cannot y ta.k but also enjoy to a very large degree all the privileges of those who see and hear Her story is the account of this unfolding of her nature and the de- veiopment of her powersi She has de scribed her first sensations of life, the first impressions .of the world, and the first, realization of understanding. Here should be a story of unusual “human in terest. ’ The work wili appear serially during the coming spring and summer and will be published in book form this rail It is said that Miss Keller under- took writing the story in order that she might earn enough by it to purchase a small island in Halifax harbor and build a summer -home there. I The following are Brander Matthews’ twelve rules for reviewers, as set forth in his last book. “Pen and Ink:” 1. Form an honest opinion 2. Express it honestly. 3. Don t review a book which you can- not take seriously. 4. Don’t review a book with which you are out of sympathy. That is to sav. put yourself in the author’s place, and try to see his work from his point of view, which Is sure to be a'coign of vantage. 5. Stick to the text. Review the book before you, and not the book some other author might have written; obiter dicta are as valueless from the critic as from the judge. Don't go off on a tangent. And also don't go round in a circle. Say what you have to say and stop. Don’t go on writing about the subject, and merely weaving garlands of flowers of rhetoric. 6. Beware of the sham sample, as Cnarles Reade called it. Make sure that the specimen bricks you select for quota- tioii do not give a false impression of the fatjgde, and not only of the elevation merely, but of the perspective also, and of the ground plan. 7. In reviewing a biography or a history, criticise the book before you and don't write a parallel essay for which the vol ume you have in hand serves only as a peg. 8. In reviewing a work of fiction don’t ~ive away the plot. In the eyes of the novelist t^jis is an unpardonable sin. And as it discounts the pleasure of the reader also, it is almost equally unkjpd to him. 9. Don't try to p.;ove every successful author a plagiarist. It may be that many a successful author has been a plagiarist, but no author ever succeeded because of his plagiary. 10. Don’t break a butterfly on a wheel. If a book is not worth much, it Is not worth reviewing. 11. Don't review a book as an east wind would review an apple tree—so it was once said Douglas Jerrold was wont to do. Of what profit to any one is mere bitterness and vexation of spirit? 12. Remember that the critic's duty is to the reader mainly, and that it is to guide him not only to what is good, but to what is best. Three parts of what is contemporary must be temporary only. “Did you ever notice,” inquired an old reader, “how many of the book reviews today bear evidence to the fact that the reviewer has frequently read no more than the preface of the book he has writ ten about? It reminds me of the story of Lamb's letter to Coleridge. It seems that Coleridge had written a very extended re view of Priestley’s works, whereupon Lamb wrote: “ ‘Dear Coleridge: 1 was very much interested in your review of Priestley's works. Priestley'is a great favorite of mine, and I am sure, if you would' read him, you would like him, too. Yours. •• ’CHARLES LAMB.’ ” ♦ “Probably the next great book of trav el," says an English literary journal, “will he Dr. Sven Hedin’s account of his two years’ wanderings in Thibet, western China, and the desert of Gobi.” Accord ing to recent newspaper accounts. Dr, Hedin claims to have traveled 6,000 miles, only 500 of which were through Jtnown country. He left Stockholm in June of 1899, for St. Petersburg, whence he made his way by rail, horse and foot to the lake of Dob Nor, where his 6,060 miles of travel began. The greatest dangers he encountered were the sand storms In the Gobi desert, which occur as frequently as twice a week and sometimes last t w0 days. He made several attempts to reach Llasa, the sacred city, but on one occa sion he was captured and sent back and on another most of his caravan and equip ment were lost. He is reported to have saved the notes he made during the months previous and also some very valu able manuscripts which he had unearthed in ancient Chinese and Mongolian cities. At the present time he is traveling home, where he will at once begin the prepara tion of his book. The new edition of Walter Savage Lan- dor’s book on Thibet is announced. Read ers have not yet forgotten the horrible cruelties which Mr. Landor suffered in this same country. Entirely aside from the merits of the story. “Circumstance,” by Dr. S. Weir Mitchell, many readers who have been afflicted with the mania for collection will thoroughly enjoy old John Fair- thorne and his delight in his collection 'of autographs. It recalls many instances of the extent to which collectors will go in order to satisfy their cravings for rarity. A story is told of a parson who had quite a collection of autographs which were stolen one ' night along with a great deal of valuable booty. The parson advertised his forgive ness to the thief if he would return one- half of the autographs. ♦ Clement K. Shorter is of the opinion that a number of literary men of England will be knighted during the coming cor onation services in London, but he adds that he does not believe that Anthony Hope will be among the list. The reason given that Anthony Hope has been indis creet enough to write a play. “Pilker- ton's Peerages." which has aroused dis approval at the court. Sir Conan Dovle and Sir Rudvard Kipling are at the pres ent time being mueh discussed. Kipling deserves the honor because of “The Ab sent-Minded Beggar.” and the $500,000 it was instrumental in raising for the wi dows and orphans. Doyle's “Great Boer War” should be ground enough for his title. TO ALL WHO SUFFER FROM Spu^l Deformities. 85 per cent cheaper than the old methods; 100 per cent better. Weighs ounces where ofhers weigh pounds. For Men. 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I always think about the pleasant things, and If you don’t know It, Dormy. let me tell you that that’s the way to be happy and to make others hap py. Sometimes people think me vain. The fender told me one night I was the vain est creature he ever knew. I’m not really so. I only will not admit that theje is anything or^ anybody in the world who is more favored thaii I am. That is all. If I didn't do that I might sometime grow a little envious in spite of myself. As it is I never do and haven't had an unhappy hour since I became a contented Poker.” Tom was silent for a few minutes after the Poker had completed his story, and then he said: “Don’t you sometimes feel unhappy be cause you are not the boy you used to be?” ' “No,” said the Poker. “I am not be cause Rollo makes a better boy than I was. He is a contented boy and I was not.” "But don't you miss your father and mother?" queried Tom. 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Atlanta., Ga. “Audrey,” Miss Johnston’s Latest Story of Colonial Virginia When Miss Johnston began the writ ing of her third story of colonial times in Virginia, there were many of her ad mirers who were rather distrustful of her attempt, knowing that many authors had made brilliant successes with earlier works and disastrous failures with later ones—Du Maurier being one of the most conspicuous of recent examples; but no one who has read “Audrey’ can fail to acknowledge that Miss Johnston has ably sustained her reputation as the author of “Prisoners of Hope” and “To Have and To Hold.” Perhaps she might not have been as successful in dealing with other material for romance, as It so of ten happens that when authors get beyond the sphere of familiar environment they lack the inspiration which led to former success; and this consideration may no doubt have prevailed upon Miss Johnston to abandon the idea of searching for ma terial elsewhere and to keep within the aroma of her native woods, but whatever the author’s limitation may be, it is cer tain that riie term “successful” richly applies to her present work, and that so far her star has not commenced to de cline. Those who have read her former works will notice that while her descrip tions are less prodigal of coloring matter, they are not less vivid or real, but reveal the same beautiful landscapes through maturer eyes. What is true of her de scriptions is likewise true of her style generally; while preserving the individual ity apparent in her former works, it also shows distinct growth. "Audrey” fails to command the reader’s attention at the start on account of the cumulative contents of the introductory 1 Chapters, but once in the current of the | story we are borne with swift and com pelling force to the breathlessly attained close. Certain faults lie upon the sur face; here and there a careless expres sion marring the symmetry of the style, a split infinitive smiting the ear. The branded schoolmaster is introduced with too muoh circumstance to fall into “in nocuous desuetude.” The romance of the Highlander and the pretty Quakeress, evidently Intended as a relief from the more intense emotions of th tale, seems, after all, somewhat superfluous; and, white we are in captious mood, we may add®hat no extremity of provocation could have forced from the lips of that most courteous gentleman. Colonel Byrd of Westover, a sneering insult to the por trait of his host. We foresee wide diver sity of opinion in regard to the denoue ment of the tale. The book might well have ended with the lovers reunited in the drawing room of Westover. Read ing it as a serial, it seemed that then and there the final word was said. Should it indeed have been so. or is the wholly unexpected close artistically better? Had Miss Johnston taken counsel of her read ers. she would not have been permitted to ring down the curtain upon a tragedy: yet. with the artist's unerring instinct, she has chosen wisely for her heroine and for her book. We are forced to agree with Gordon Pryor Rice in The New York Times Sat urday Review that the highest achieve ment of “Audrey” is found in the por trayal of Evelyn Byrd, who, as the his torical heroine of the story, stands out in shining supremacy over the less engag ing attractions ck Audrey herself. The real Evelyn Byrd has slept for more lhan a century and a half beneath the wil- hangs the veil of romantic mystery. So lovely was she that her father, in the lows of Westover. Around her name pride of his heart, had her presented at the drawing room of George II. who. looking Into her face, exclaimed: “Milch, mv young ladv. hath been told me of the goodly land of Virginia, but of her beau- 1 tlful 'bird. I never knew until now!” Rich, gifted, fortunate in all the condi tions of her life. ,an unrevealed tragedy envelops her. “She was young, she was lovely, she was beloved—and she died of a broken heart!’ Her epitaph alludes to her beauty, her virtues, her accom plishments. and gazing upon her portrait, still extent, we can well believe that an epitaph for once speaks truth. According to an oft-repeated legend, no ghost of tradition is better authenticated than the fair phantom of Evelvn Bvrd which “walked” as late as fifty years ago. wearing the g’haming satin in which she made her ohetsar.ee to rovaltv, and wringing its slender hands as It eHd“d through the twilight gloom of the West- 0’’“r churchyard. 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