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THE SUNNY SOUTH
JULY 30, 1904
I
tender the Lamp
With Late BooKs
HIS FORTUNATE GRACE.
IS Fortunate Grace," by
Gertrude Alberton, is very-
clever of Us kind—a story
of New York society, and
its reception of the titled
fortune hunter—and makes
very g-ood “summer read
ing," so-called, as the John
Lane Publishing Company
recognize, bringing it out
in The Canvas Back Li
brary. Admirers of this
versatile author will recall
the appearance of the book
sometime back, but it will bear a second
perusal, especially by persons witli a too j almost hypnotic; iu the beginnin
that Sir John Suckling was called learn
ed at 5, and Infantile wonders only less
remarkable have appeared from time to
time since.
It is Julia Cooley' herself who will In
terest students of psychology. And the
Question is, where falls the line between
the Imagination and the frank, straight
forward truthfulness inherent in the hu
daughter of the old noblesse of France,
distinguished historical characters abound
in the story. President Thomas Jeffer
son. Lewis and Clarke, the most promi
nent families of old St. Louis, and the
Imposing figure of Black Hawk, the fa
mous chief of the Sacs, are among the
personages Introduced; while across the
: oce^n, Napoleon; Talleyrand, Marbois and
man mind before it lias learned from the the leading men of the days of the First
world around ft; the necessary practice
of dissembling. This child who "has had
the good fortune of growing up in an it-
mospheru which is Christian in the most
gracious and fruitful sense of that word.”
as Richard Le Gallienne says, is at. times
most ingeniously and undisguisedly un
truthful—which must be attributed, of
Consul play- a notable part in the plot.
.Then there is the Chevalier Le Moyne.
Who supplies much of the excitement of
the narrative. He is determined to win
the charming Pelagic for himself, and.
to secure his end and thwart his rival,
does not hesitate to use Indian allies in
America and his influence with Bona-
course, not to any moral deficit, but io parte in France. But the true lover and
poetic imagination? For instance: “When ; the dainty' lady of his heart come to their
she was the merest baby she talked al- own at last after many perils, and the
ways of Gavyan, Sosie and Alta. Gav- romance ends happily, as all romances
yan was her evil spirit, and exerted a j should. The rushing incident of the
tyrannical power over Julia, which is now story carries these dramatis personae
she from St. Louis to France, then back again
strong predilection for foreign titles, and j would disobey in the name of Gavyan, al-
threatened with what is described as "a j "'“S'* explaining to her mother that Gav-
germ disease—a species of brain-poison- I yan commanded her to do so and so.
ing” which “eats and rots.” I This was Gavyan's special influence ! n
About ten young women in a certain i the early days. Now she lias become a
set—daughters, all of them, of million- I law In Julia’s life, which she cannot
afres—fancying that they take life se- | resist. Gavyan prompts all her naugiiti-
rlously, go in for wlirit they imagine to ness, and Julia does nol dare to diso-
be reform, vaguely referring to social- | bey- her. Sosie was originally a good in-
ism as a something which they espouse
and to which they are coming, not scorn-
ing to recognize by the way' to “awaken
the soul in our men” as a measure to the
furtherance of their ends. Most devoted
among the young adherents is the daugh
ter of a prominent New Yorker, who
fliience, counteracting that of Gavyan,
but she soon became indistinct, and re
mains merely' as a name in Julia’s mem
ory.”
Imagination is itself genius, and the art
of dissembling a talent which may be
cultivated almost to the same point, but
rates his wealth at thirty millions and where they go hand in hand, just whar
who could “make presidents” if only he j m .,,. wf . , ook for , hp n ne c f demarca-
may
tion!
chose to pull the wires
The duke of Bosworth, impecunious, j p ' PrniU pb , co t o moral responsibility
fishy-eyed and short of physical man- i thte , lnfo rtunate chlld-for with a
hood as ol funds, over lor the purpose of
recuperating both with good sound Amer
ican blood and dollars, is received by
these young disciples of Henry George
with surprising cordiality considering
to St. Louis, where life a hundred years
ago seems to have been full of merriment
and adventure.—The Century Company,
publishers. New York: $1.50.
THE BYWAYS OF BRAITHE.
By' Frances Pow'ell. The scene of this
new story, by the author of “The House
on the Hudson,” ts Bralthe Manor, which
the first American Braitlie built in ex
act reproduction of the ancestral English
hall of the Braitlies. even to the secret
room and the hidden laby'rinth of pas
sages called “the by-ways,” from which
the novel takes its title. Here all the ac
tion takes place, and the reader Is held
in tenso suspense as the striking plot
unfolds through a series of powerful
Literary Drift-Wood &
Where does poetic endowment I scenes. A capital romance of the old
y?
11
her gift we must still think her blessed
below all ordinary, sane-minded children
—possessed of an unhealthy Imagination
whose little' flame, flaring up so brightly
days in America without affecting Xo be
a "historical” romance. The author sus
tains her reputation fully.--Charles
Scribner's Sons, publishers. New Y’ork;
$ 1.50.
their avowed leform tendencies and scorn now - wiu K ° < ? uickly 0 ’ U ’ ' ca '' inK a
of anything less. His frank rejection of j feeble sputtering in the little cant o-
Mabel after learning that her father fs ! stick. Are these little poems product
about to go through, and prompt turn I of a genius that will live or simply ema-
to Augusta wtth her thirty-three mil- ! nations, dazzling flashes from a too-
lion assured makes him none the less de- precocious mind?
siralilo. Be that as remains to lie seen, we
Augusta's father, outraged as any true j must recognize the undeniable beauties
American would be that his daughter, i 01 - snme of these little word pictures—
upheld by hc-r mother, should stoop to fancies of the most exquisite creation, in
“outbidding Mabel,” as the former puts
it, Uius expresses himself;
“The Infatuation for titles is a germ
disease with Americans, more particu
larly with New Yorkers. The moment
the microbe strikes the blood, inflamma
tion ensues, and the women that get it
don’t care whether the immediate cause
is a man or a remnant.”
Outwitted by the two. and finally
brought round—this is a little attempt at
the dramatic which barely- escapes the
spectacular—the marriage is, of course,
consummated and another American cit
izen experiences the humiliation of hav
ing been made a fool of by the women of
his family.
Mrs. Atherton's giift for turning tact-
PHYSICIAN VS. BACTERIOLOGIST.
By Professor Dr. O. Rosenbach, of Ber
lin. This important book, in which the
author aims to place medicine on the ra
tional basis whence, it is declared, bacte
riological aberrations have been endeav
oring to banish it, is an authorized trans
lation from the German by- Dr. Achilles
Rose. The translator gives as Ills reason
for presenting the book io Ala English
speaking colleagues, that they “may learn
prose as well as poetry-, for Julia writes , what an independent and original lnves-
both—though, to tell the truth, there is i tlgator has said on the great problems of
sometimes little difference between the medicine today, and what he has written
two in construction or poetic thought j to restore the rights and reestablish the
■uid expression. "The Wise Wishes," : position of the general practitioner, which j Hugo, it seems, received the little girl
nnis“ is a lilt or the most beautiful tin- ( have been encroached upon by a morbid j and her mother with much graciousness,
„ J Pr v closing with this sentence: “Each proliferation of specialism and a one- j having Informed himself of Ills visitors.
Wf-ew Their sins on the setting sun I sided organo-therapy-.” Dr. Rosenbach, 'Tour ancestors, my dhild,” he
" d e ver after that every one was good." ! as his translator points out, fully appre-
' Turning through the little collection elates the value of bacteriology as a bio-
e is struck with the daintiness of the ! logical science, and is well aware what
surprising Information and important
HAWTHORNE’S CREED.
Yet Hawthorne believed that the sin
and sorrow of humanity, inexplicable as
they are, are not to be thought of as if
we were apart from God. A neighbor of
Hawthorne in Concord has recently writ
ten me that when death once entered a
household there, Hawthorne picked the
finest sunflower from his garden and sent
it to the mourners by Mrs. Hawthorne
with this message: “Tell them that the
sunflower Is a symbol of the sun, and
that the sun is a symbol of the glory of
God.” A shy, simple act of neighborhood
kindness—yet treasured in one memory-
for more than forty years; and how much
of Hawthorne there is in It! The quaint
flower from the old-fashioned garden; the
delicate sympathy; the perfect phrase;
the faith in the power of a sy-mbol to
turn the perplexed soul to God! Haw
thorne was no natural lover of darkness,
but rather one who yearned for light. The
gloom which haunts many- of his pages
is the long shadow cast by our mortal
destiny- upon a sensitive soul, conscious
of kinship with the erring race of men.
The mystery is our mystery, perceived,
and not created, by that finely- endowed
mind and heart. The shadow Is our
shadow; the gleams of insight, the soft
radiance of truth and beauty-, are his
own.—Bliss Perry, in the August Atlan
tic.
THE ETERNAL DRAMATIZATION
‘Winston Churchill’s new novel, “The
Crossing,” is said to be in course of dram
atization by his friend, Louis Evan Ship-
man. who dramatized “The Crisis.”
James K. Haekett, who has been camp
ing in the Thousand islands, has an
nounced that he will appear in the play
next season, first, it seems, in Washing
ton, then in New York.
iting Certaldo, where Boccaccio was born
and died. That merry author’s own
house remains, part of it being a fine
tower. There is nothing to be seen in
the house, Mr. Hewlett says, “but what
is outside it. so to say—the great open
view of the downs, the incidents of the
cheerful street." Of the Certaldesl, Mr.
Hewlett writes; “Their woman are hand
some, as they ought to be, with green
eyes, dusky skins, fair, tangled hair.
They carry themselves bolt upright, like
all mountaineers, but with better reason
than most, for their figures are remark-
glenne, psychical methols. auto-sugges
tion, and practical psychology as applied
to the every day affairs of life. Dr.
Charles H. Davis, an acknowledged au
thority on consumption, contributes a
practical article on “The Self Cure of
Consumption,” and Professor Elmer
Gates, Washington, D. C., advances the
startling theory that life is a property
of matter.
lover. In size the magazine will be a
royal quarto, admitting full illustration
and forming one fine volume yearly. A
prospectus may be had on application.
A CHILD’S VISIT TO VICTOR HUGO
Helene Vacaresco, author of “Kings and
Queens I Have Known” (Harpers) de
scribes in the current Contemporary Re
view a visit made to Victor Hugo short
ly before his death, when she was a
child. “He then looked,” she writes, "like
a robust and sinewy laborer, a man whose
life bad dealt with all the forces of na
ture and had conquered all. His immense i
blue eyes darted flames at us; his huge I
white forehead glistened; his massive,
though short, stature spoke of untiring
energy nnd miraculous power.” Victor
Warren Elbridge Price, who establish
ed and owned The Booklover three years,
and was its editor all the five years of
its existence, announces from 24 East
Twenty-first street. New York, a now
magazine for book lovers to be called
“The Rose Jar.” It will be a veritable
edition de luxe, but 2,500 copies being
printed for sale. Only yearly subscrip
tions will be undertaken and the price
will be $2 per year of four quarterly
numbers. "The Rose Jar” will be splen
didly produced and cover a field left un
occupied by the withdrawal of The Book
able. The men sing gay songs, are hap- | iest crowd of tyros. It Is the mo3t sen-
py and free mannered, and If Boccaccio ! sntional instance of the double cross in
is not at the bottom of it the mischief is. ] modern finance
If you set these deductions down to ray
fangy you will be wrong. I saw here
what I have never seen elsewhere in all
long Italy, a man stop and kiss a girl
In open street. No offense, either. He
was a baker, who came—a floury amorino
—saw, and considered the bend of lier
industrious bead, and stooped and kissed
her as she set sewing at her door. Her
lovers and acquaintances about her saw
nothing amiss, nor was she at all put
out. After so flagrant an achievement,
the madcap went a whole progress of gal
lantry down the street, none resenting his
freedom. He danced with one good wife,
chucked another's chin, and lifted a third
bodily into the air, singing all the while.”
PERSONAL ITEMS.
Miss Ellen Glasgow-, whose novel. “The
Deliverance,” is one of most successful |
books of the year, has gone to Germany
to spend the summer.
Dr. Booker T. Washington is resting
up after a busy year, at South Weymouth,
Mass. His new bdok, “Working with the
•Hands,” is in a second edition.
Harry Leon Wilson, the author of “The
Seeker,” is spending the summer at Wal
pole, N. H., where his chief diversions
are cross country walking and boxing.
G. H. Loriir.er, the creator of the fa
mous “self-made merchant,” whose sec
ond volume of letters, entitled “Old Gor
gon Graham,” is to be published in the
fall by Doubleday, Page & Co., is rus
ticating at Wyncote, Pa.
Country Life in America for August is
a superbly illustrated magazine contain
ing vacation suggestions and timely ar
ticles which touch upon all sides of
work and pleasure out-of-doors. Among
i the leading articles, “Cruising in a Small
That Everybody’s Magazine really has j Yacht” shows how eleven people enjoyed
the biggest “scoop” of the era in Thomas • twenty-one days of sailing at the cost
W. Lawson’s “Story of Amalgamated” is I 535 each; ‘Swans and How lo Manas-
abundantly shown by the first install- J Them” is an interesting article or pi?pe '
ment of the series proper which is in the 1 cial importance to owners of country
August number. The foreword was por- ! estates and farms; “The Herring \V eiri
tentous with promise of startling disclos- i of the Maine Coast” is a quaint account
ures. The initial chapters introduce the of a picturesque industry; and ”\Y van-
secret organization of Standard Oil and ! dottes” has to do with one of the best
its actual master, who Is a person al- ! all-round American breeds of chickens;
most unknown to the public. It Is a while “Hop-Picking in Central
wonderful picture Mr. Lawson gives of ; York” tells about an interesting localized
the huge business machine which has * rural occupation. Ernest Thompson Se-
its headquarters at 26 Broadway, New | ton contributes an article of a series on
York, and he paints, for the first time :n ( the ways of woodcraft, which informs
his real colors, the man he declares to one “What To Do When Lost In t ®
be the greatest businws genius of the j Woods.” Walter J. Travis, the world*
period, Henry H. Rogers. Then, with j amateur golf champion, writes on an in-
brutal directness, he describes how in j teresting phase of the game in this coun.
dividing the profits of the Amalgamated i try. And Professor L. H. Bailey con
tinues the “How To Make a Living from
the I .and” series with an article on the
subject of “The Making of Cheese in the
Mohawk Valley.” The ninth article on
“Country Homes of Famous Americans
Is about Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s
home in Cambridge. Other important ir-
tieles range from such subjects as ’ 1 »*e
Making of a Suburban Colony,” being
the story of the purchase of an abandon
ed farm by twelve well-to-do city- fami
lies; “Grading w-ith a Hose with a Great
Saving of Expense;” “A Back Yard Gar
den and a Vacant Lot Next Door;
“Planting Strawberries in August,” to
vacation camping articles, automobilir.g,
nature study in the mountains and along
the seashore, and a hundred other time
ly topics that interest those who lova
the country.
deal the biggest financiers In Wall street
were tricked and deceived like the ver-
Career of “Ban” Emmett
subjects, which are mostly of nature,
and the choice of words, as in “The La
ment," which begins with this line:
“Oh. those sword-clad words, sword-clad
words!”
ful phrases and coining live, telling words 1 And one ts scarcely surprisedi to rea
lends her work a freshness of charm 1 tills sentence from Julia s note- oo .
rarely captivating. “ITis Fortunate “I just love to write. W henet er am
Grace” is a clever hit at the weakness of ' ready for a new- sentence it comes to
a certain moneyed set.—John Lane: New : me as if I turned and saw an ange
York and London.
FLORENCE L. TUCKER.
THE POEMS OF A CHILD.
After reading Richard Le Gallienne’s
lengthy and enthusiastic introduction to
bringing it to me. ’
FLORENCE I.. TUCKER.
Harper & Bros., New York.
THE ROSE OF OLD ST. LOUIS.
By Mary Dillon. A genuine love story
Julia Cooley's little book, and then the j | g thjs f nle 0 f “The Rose of Old St.
methods are to be found in its study, but
he alms to overthrow the fallacious con
clusions that have been estahlisned, that
all infectious diseases are caused by bac
teria, and that all diseases In which so-
called specific bacteria are found are in
fectious diseases. The thorough and
comprehensive manner in which the au
thor has examined and discussed his sub
ject cannot fall to be of very great in
terest, if not elightment, to the medical
profession.— Funk & Wagnalls Company,
publishers, New York.
Publication Notes
The western outlaw upon whose early
career Frances McElrath founded a part
verses themselves, the mind is in a state L(>uis _.. told with much literary skill and
bordering so nearly on uncertainty it is j c ] lan n. and full of dramatic incident. The
difficult to conform it to any set lines— j hcro ^ nd - nC roine are both winning per- of hpr story _ .. The RuRtIer „ has ended
Impossible, almost, to place this youth- L onamie s and the various historic char- hlg dayg much afJ the nove]ist fore _
ful Prodigy That she has gifts even the ; act er S impress the readerwith theirtruth Ehad0 wed. He died "with his boots” on.”
most ungifted must perceive. The tin- 1 psctnrv and to their own indivlauan
demanding, the grasp of words, the ! L a brave, though a bad man. The Colorado
infinite delicacy, with which this child of The novel deals with the time of the | ™ n robber who recently blew out his
eleven spins her fancies, fine and ex- Louisiana Purchase, just one hundred brains to avoid capture has been ldenti
quisite as a fairy's web, can leave no I years ago; and the negotiation of the
doubt that she has been touched of some | treaty figures largely in the narrative,
divine spirit of genius. Though, marvel- j The hero Is a young American of fine
ous as it is, we are not struck dumb, le- family, and the heroine. Dr. Saugrain’s
tnembering that Pope lisped in numbers, ward, is a bewitching, high-spirited
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fied by the Pinkerton detective agency
as Harvey Dogan, alias “Kid” Curry,
who was, according to The New York
Sun, the "toughest bandit of the modern ; ture.
west.” He was the last leader of the I many kinds of interest in life.
“Hole in the Wall” gang whose daring ! napolis he revived shell racing, and he
exploits Miss McElrath has made famous I is fond of horseback riding, fencing, ten-
said,
“have made your name familiar to me.
I know how toprononnee its harsh, weird
syllables, whose cadence I love: never
write under any other name but your
own. It sounds like a clash of armor.”
Then lie insisted that tike little girl, who
was already a poet, should read her verses
to him. which she did in trembling tones.
When she had finished she found herself
“wrapped in his arms,” and heard him
say, “Bravo, child, this is well Indeed.” A
few days later Victor Hugo was dead of
a sudden illness*
THE AUTHOR OF “THE CROSS
ING.”
Mr. Winston Chuchill. whose new novel,
"The Crossing,” has proven the book of
the year, was born in St. Louis In 1871.
He graduated from the naval academy
In 1894, and spent the next two or three
years in magazine work on The Army
and Navy Journal and The Cosmopoli
tan Magazine. In 1898 appeared his first
book, "The Celebrity." “Richard Car
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letters, which was strengthened by the
appearance In 1901 of “The Crisis.” He
lives in Cornish, N. H„ .where he built
Harlakenden House on a bluff overlook
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VL, and for two years he has been a
member of the New Hampshire legisla-
He is a young man with a good
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It will be welcome news to Joel Chan
dler Harris’ many friends, and to those
who have been amused by his Uncle
Remus stories in the past, to know that
he Is spending this summer in writing a
lot of new stories about Br’er Rabbit
nis and other manly sports.
HONOR TO A SOUTHERNER.
Yale university has just conferred upon
Mr. Edgar Gardner Murphy, of Mont
gomery, Ala., the honorary degree of
Master of Arts. In presenting Mr. Mur
phy the orator of the university styled
his book, “Problems of the Present
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Book News for August is sprightly in
tone apd optimistic in atmosphere. One of
the special features is “A Month With ! vaudeville act, appearing In the same
the Magazines.” by Cyrus Townsend : year at a P riv ate banquet in Chicago.
HE death of “Dan” Em
mett, the famous origina
tor of burnt cork min
strelsy, has taken gray-
headed theatergoers back
into the days of their
youth, when his name was
known and his personal
ity loved from one end of
■of the country to the
other. He was just past
his eighty-sixth birthday
when he died, and he
made his first appearance
before the public a.s a performer in July,
1836, acting almost continuously from
that time to 1888, when Vie retired,
choosing for his farewell appearance his
seventieth birthday.
Even after that he took part in many
minstrel performances, and as short a
time ago as 1899 went on the stage in
three or four eastern cities and did a
Brady. In his usual breezy style Mr.
Brady analyzes the contents of the larg
er American magazines through one
month's issue, with a view to finding out
whether or not the magazine editors
and publishers have been working along
the lines of a high ideal, and If they
have, to determine as to how far they
have succeeded in fulfilling that ideal.
Entirely apart from his position as the
originator of stage minstrelsy, which for
a third of a century was the most popu
lar form of entertainment ever devised
for the public, Emmett’s principal claim
to fame and memory rests on his author
ship of “Dixie.” This famous air he
produced in 1859, and he saw it sprin-r
immediately Into wonderful popularity
and had the satisfaction of knowing,
when he lied, 45 years later, that it re
mained, if anything, more popular than
ever.
It Is one of those songs which for some
Mr. Alden, the editor of Harper’s, in
the August number, takes up the gaunt
let thrown down by Alfred Austin in his >
remark that there is “ a growing dis-
toste the higher forms of poetry” !, , .. .
Mr. Alden questions this statement, a. I Incomprehensible reason seizes a people
sertlng that "the satisfaction which we ! and nev ? r di6S ° Ut ’ The W ° rdS are n0t
derive from the masterpieces G f the oast : extraor(iinary ' the m ” sIc «■ common
* * * is so complete that we do not blendlne <>f rapid tunc - and yet its power
hunger for their repetition in the pros ' to set men and women dnl »c in S and the
ent. • • • We are just . . eager for U ’“ 1 '
the new wine, though we do not want it
In the old bottles.” As to the general
appreciation of good reading, Mr. Alden
thinks there is some evidence of that in
the success of good books, such as Mau
rice Hewlett’s and Mrs. Humphrey
Ward’s, and of the best magazines
which “win for themselves every year a
larger acceptance.
Ralph Connor begins a new novel, ‘‘The
Prospector,” in the August Fiction num-
rection of “Al” Fields, he toured the
United States. Being received with great
cordiality everywhere, especially- in tha
south, where his presence created much
enthusiasm.
His last years were spent on the home
stead, where he lived entirely alone, hi*
violin and banjo constantly at hand and
utilized up to within a few days of his
death. Several relatives who were with
him at the end sang a verse of “Dixie”
just before he died, at his request. j
EASY EXPLANATION.
(From The Chicago Tribune.)
“How do you account for the fact,”
asked the doctor, “as shown by actual
investigation, that thirty-two out of
every hundred criminals in the country
are left-handed?”
“That’s easily- accounted for,” said
the professor. “The other sixty- eight
are right-handed.”
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blood stirring has lost none of its inten
sity with the passing years. It is the
one melody of all—including the whole of
our patriotic airs—that invariably brings
an audience to its feet wherever it is
played.
“Uncle Dan,” as he was known in ev
ery part of the United States In his
younger days, drifted into minstrelsy
without knowing or earing very much
what he was doing. In 1841 he found
himself in New Y'ork. his sole posses-
wlth additions and notes, by the late
Canon Ainger, who wrote the biography
of Lamb. Lamb's letters, it is liardly
necessary to say, are unrivalled In their
charm in English literature.
The Macmillan Company announce that
the second (revised) edition of Ilenry W.
Elson’s “History of the United States”
will be ready the middle of tills week.
The very large first edition of the book
was exhausted soon after publication
norant, unfortunate and humble, both
white and black, in north and south.”
CONRAD AND OPPRESSED PO
LAND.
Joseph Conrad has every dight to be as
ardent a Russophobe as Marus Jokal.
Instead of giving to the world his won
derful descriptive stories—“Romance,”
“Youth,” “Lord Jim,” etc.—he might eas
ily have written such a series of patriot
ic Polish novels as did Jokal. Conrad
was cruelly orphaned while still a young
and It has taken more than a month to , boy ’ after the Polish uprUln « of ’62, when
print the second. This is believed to
be the fullest and^most attractive one-
volume history of our country that has
yet been written.
Among the books on Doubleday, Page
& Co.’s list for late summer and early
fall are "Confessions of a Club Wo
man,” by Agnes Surbridgo, an !!auto-
biographv" that is arousing keen Inter
est: “The Interloper,” by Mrs. Violet
Jacob, announced by foremost British
reviewers as a remarkable novel; “The
Seeker," by the author of “Thee Spend
ers-,” Harry Leon Wilson: “A Belle of
the Fifties.” being the memoirs of Mrs.
Clay, of Alabama; “Letters of Robert E.
Lee." edited by his son; and, notably,
Rudyard Kipling’s new volume of stories,
“Traffics and Discoveries," and George
Loriiner’s “Old Gorgon Graham,” which
as a serial is now even more popular
than the very successful "Letters of a
Self-Made Merchant to his Son.” The
same house also publishes a large and
beautiful band book to the Louisiana
Purchase exposition, a volume of 400
pages, issued as a double number of “The
World’s Work” for August. An un
usual feature for a magazine is that
three special editions are bound in cloth
and leather.
It is said that Marion Crawford’s new
novel, which the Macmillan Company
will publish in the fall, derives its theme
from one of the best known passages in
the New Testament: “Whosoever shall
offend one of these little ones, it were
better for him that a mill stone be hung
about his neck, and that he be drowned
in the depths of the sea.”
'his father, who was the editor of a patrl
otic review in Warsaw, was exiled with
his mother to Siberia, where both died.
Joseph was adopted by an uncle, but ran
away to take ship in a French war ves
sel at Marseilles, thus beginning the long
and varied sea career which supplies the
material for his works.
THE HOME OF BOCCACIO.
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the summer in Italy, finishing his book
on “The Tuscan Crown,” has been vis-
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the first chapters promise a better storv ! ed bpautifu,, Y- a stock of catchy songs
than either "The Sky Pilot” or “Black ° f hls OWn composin £ and a scanty
Rock.” There are eleven other stories kriowlf ' d S e of the printing trade. He fell
In this number, by such people as George i in wlUl tbree other occasional printers,
Hibbard, Henry C. Rowland Alice Mac mPn wbo - like blms elf, could set a little
Gowan, Holman F. Day,. H. i. Greene *
and Rex E. Beach, and they cover near
ly every variety of up-to-date fiction. J
Adam Bede, the humorist of the house of
representatives, haa a mosf amusing ar
ticle o n “The Spellbinders,” whom we
all expect to listen to during the next
few months In which he tells a number
of good stories. There are also remarka
ble photographs of the St. Louis fair
and portraits of the men who created
that exposition, and a helpful little
sketch of the cost of a visit to St. Louis
this summer *
Readers who remember Arnold Haul-
tain’s delightful discursive essay "On
Walks and W'alking Trips,” which was
printed in The Atlantic last fall, will
bring a keen anticipation to hi s discus
sion of “The Mystery of Golf,” i n the
July number of that magazine-an antic
ipation which will not be disappointed
Mr. Haultain writes of golf with keen
est joy and persuasive humor which ren
ders hia curious inquiry Into the secret
of Its charm most engaging reading.
A dozen short stories, well illustrated
seventeen portrait art studies and «
brilliant cover by Wldney makes the
August Red Book an unusually attrac
tive number. Stewart Edward White
abandons the Canadian northland and
writes a story of art studuent life j n
France under the title "GabrielJe.”
na Mathewson. with a story called
•’What Took Place In Tangier,” gives
fascinating picture of the romantic side
of life in that land of kidnapers. Maar
ten Maartens, W. A. Fraser, Clinton
Dangerfleld, Carroll Watson Rankin
Anne Warner, Porter Emerson Brown
and Mary Dunlap Dexter are among
other familiar names In the table of con
tents.
Klpllngesque In it* power of vivid
searching description is an exceptionally
powerful story by James Hopper, i n the
August McClure’s, called "The Coming
of the MAestra.” The thrill of Interest
and sympathy seizes and holds the read
er from the first, as the real people of
the story are swept through exciting in
cidents. The plot Is laid In the Philip
pines, although the characters are all
American. But there is nothing American
In the events which make the story.
Into them are woven the fascinating
charm and mystery of the Far East and
the strange tropical life of these remote
islands. Through it all runs a vein of
tender sentiment, of engrossing interest.
Some attractive illustrations by Thomas
Fogarty make the most of the pictur
esque setting of the story.
The August issue of Suggestion, a mag
azine of the New Psychology, Chicago, is
particularly Interesting to those studying
drugless methods of cure, rational hy-
type, do a little circus performing and
turn their hands imperfectly to a hun
dred other things at short notice.
The four soon became fast friends, and
with the approach of winter found it
necessary to earn money to keep them
selves in food and clothing. So they
started out giving entertainments in the
little towns round New York city, till
one day the notion came to Emmett that
their act would attract more attenion
if they blacked thoir faces with burnt
cork. The idea was at once put Into
practice, and thus negro minstrel-sy was
born.
Ffom 'tilts fime on hs tasted all the
sweets of easily acquired fortune. The
craze for minstrel shows grew, and he
took very good care to keep his organi
zation so far In the lead that all others
who followed in his path always seemed
rank imitators. Emmett rapidly accu
mulated a fortune, and for fifteen years
his entertainment was the talk of the two
continents and his personality was as
well known in London aa it was in New
York.
At one time in this period he had an
available capital of nearly a million dol
lars, but it did not last long. No more
generous man than "Unce Dan” ever
lived. For years he made it a rule every
day of bis busy life to seek out some
case of distress and relieve it. Broken-
down actors and hangers-on, knowing
that he would never refuse an appeal
for aid, bled him mercilessly, till at lfist
he was striped of nearly the whole of
his wealth. He accumulateed at least
five fortunes, losing them one after the
other.
In 1859 he was the composer *ind lead
ing singer of the famous Bryant min
strels, and was asked one day to give \
the company a new chorus that could !
be whistled on the streets and taken up
and popularized by musical bodies. He |
received the order on Saturday night, i
On Monday night h« electrified his man- '
ager and the balance of the company- ;
with “Dixie.” A year later It became
the battle isong of the confederacy, but
It never lost an atom of its popularity
in the north on that account.
From I860 to 1888 Emmett continued
to perform as the star member of mln-
stel troupes, at times owning three or
more of his own aggregations, and thet.
again, when he ran through his capi
tal, appearing on salary for other man
agers. Hls first “retirement” came in
1875, when with a comfortable bank ac
count he went to Mount Vernon, Ohio,
bought the house in which be was born
and several acres of adjoining property,
and settled down.
A few years later he broke away
again, however, "retiring” a second time
In 1888, only to come before the public
once more In 1894, when, tinder the dt-
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