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<EIGHTH PAGE 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 SOME LEADING BUSINESS CONCERNS Who are prepared to offer special facilities to the “ Mail Order Trade,” or otherwise. Owing to the extension of the rural free delivery service throughout this section, it is no longer necessary to “come to town” to do your shopping. Catalogues, prices or any kind of information sent free on application. ATLANTA’S OLDEST BOOK HOUSE "If it’s known to be ill print we can fill your order promptly," Hooks. Periodicals, Subscriptions, Blank and School Books, Fnnqj- Stationery, Novelties aiul Games. Write to us. JOHN M. MILLER BOOK CO., »9 Marietta St.. Atlanta. E3CB 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 vel” established his position in American letters, which was strengthened by the appearance In 1901 of “The Crisis.” He lives in Cornish, N. 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Ark. and Br’er Fox, and that they will short- ! South,” “a contribution to the discussion ly appear in book form. j of the vital needs of that portion of our country which is of unmatched and per- The definitive edition of “The Letters j manent value,” and termed the author “a of Charles Lamb” has Just been pub- ! constructive statesman and philanthrop- liphed by the Macmillan Company in ! i3t - who is rendering original, unique and two volumes in The Eversley Series, j Powerful service to the uplift of the ig- The letters have been newly arranged, \ Magazine Melange 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.” BIS B8flSS BUS OFFER, We sell the celebrated IMPERIAL. DU PONT and MARCEAU Band n i. Instruments at^ ^ about one-'* half the prices others a«k for the same high grade -/.m ?oods. For our Free Band f ^IL nstrument Catalogue, also Free Booklet, entitled, t How to But Band Inetru- raentB.’* for large illustrations and complete descriptions of our three large lines of brass instru ments, also everything in Drums. Clarionets, Flutes, Saxophones, etc., etc., for the free catalogues, our guarantee and refund proposition, for the most liberal band instrument offer ever heard of, for the new method of selling instruments fully explained, for Something new and Immensely interesting to e^ery band man, cut this ad out ana mail to us today. SEARS, ROEBUCK & CO., CHICAGO, ILLINOIS. 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. Mrs. Maurice Hewlett, who is spending the summer in Italy, finishing his book on “The Tuscan Crown,” has been vis- 156.00 QASOLME EROINE. 4RS8 - hors* s*w*r. with h*t tub* Ignltsr, h*ra* **wcr cnsln* c*m*i*ta with _ (larger sizes In proportion), w* farnlah the best vertical gasoline engine* made. 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SEARS,ROEiUCK ACQ, CM iSr*- ber of Leslie’s Monthly Magazine and ^ s,ons bein ” an ° 1<J violin, which he play- 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. 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