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Under the Lamp
With Late BooKs
RETURN.
HE rather noisy decrial on
the part of certain critics
of the historic novel has not
deterred those charming;
collaborators. Alice McGow
an and Grace McGowan
bye. The lady being, in truth, a terma
gant. the scene which follows Is past com
prehension. Having deported herself lr<
church and at home most scandalously,
she determines on leaving Charles Town
for Savannah, declaring that had she had
one to draw sword for her this unbear
able humiliation would not Have been put
upon her. Accordingly, the Chafers’
household being removed thither and
established with as little delay as might
be. the story thenceforth is laid in Sa
vannah and roundabouts.
Mistress Diana, seeing but one way
whereby to avenge herself, determines
again, and that she will marry a sword-
arm and a name, the two of which sha‘1
be her protection. As the fates favor
omes
Cooke, from making use for
their latest work of some of
the most delightful mate
rial offered at all in the
early days of the colonists— I sometimes the unworthy, it now
the story of the islands off j about that a most estimable and noble
the coast Of Georgia, ln | >oung man in the person of Robert Mar-
1739. Oglethorpe's new I shaI ’ of Virginia, falls straight into her
I towns of Savannah and Frederica, with
. glimpses of aristocratic old Charles Town,
i and the Indian settlements as far north
-as the Cowetas, and south as Augustin-',
■the stronghold of the Spanish. And a
brave tale have they made of it. Them
selves the descendants of a family whose
path, and with wiles and false dealing
is promptly captured and caught, h?
blinded with a quick and unreasoning
passion, and she so intent upon the win
ning of her game that she has no realiza
tion of her feelings toward himself until
her uncontrolled temper and licensed
tongue have driven her young husband
from her. He draws his sword for he,
leaves her his name, and goes—where the
fortunes of war may take him.
Now begins what may be called the
evolution of Diana. With the birth of
her son she is regenerated. And but that
metaphysics must never invade ihe sa
cred realm of romance we might be dis
posed to marvel a little at the complete
transformation of a life-long vixen and
virago, within but three years’ time, into
so generous a mother and friend, and.
withal, so womanly a woman, as Diana
in her unwearying search for her hus
band. apears. It is a bit of a. shock, this
Diana Marshal the second half (the hook
is divided into two parts. “The Book of
Going Forth” and “The Book of Return
ing") as against the Diana Chaters of
the tirst. but so -consummate is the s’iill
of the author we find ourselves utterly In
sympathy with the former, and forgiving
the wilful and selfish girl’s past, oven
to the point of forgeting it. And when,
a I last, after long and cruel wanderings,
- she finds Robert, and they are reunited
in a love grown perfect through separa-
tion and suffering, we would not have
I had it different, nor one whit delayed.
Alice McGowan and Grace McGowan ] But while the love of these two is the
! main thread through the story, the hope
less passion of Agnes of Glasgow for ‘he.
of the two old ladies to the royal house -of money taken in—money that is wrung
of Louis and their determination to leave (from the public in the very face -of a law
all their wealth to the “Nineteenth that makes betting illegal. He also says
Louis.” whom they are confidently ex
pecting. The plot is sparkling and de
cidedly original, and the situations are
well developed, with many touches of
#umor. Funk & Wagnalls Company,
publishers. New York.: SI.
that the pool rooms are merely closed
by the trust inorder that the betting
People may be forced to the tracks to in
crease the admissions. Cleveland Moffett
contributes the fourth installment: of "The
Shameful Misuse of Wealth.” This time
he deals with the great waste in food
and trifles. He says that the people of
New York approximate in gluttony the
lavish appetites of the Greeks. Vance
Thompson, in “How Rerevolutions Are
A RAILROAD COURTSHIP.
By Karl Edwin Harriman, author of
"Ann Arbor Tales,” etc. This might well
he called “A Railroad Courtship," near
ly entire action being covered by a j Made in Russia,” gives a great deal of
business trip from Boston to San Fran- . “inside history” of the causes leading up
cisco; tile novel position in which the I to the .outbreaks in the empire. Samuel
man and girl are placed, the amusing in- i Mermin in “The Gould-Cassat Fight for
cidents arising therefrom, the witty con- j Pittsburg,” alsot reveals an “inside story,”
versation and the bright repartee scat- j—that of the long strategic fight of two
tered through the pages, the odd scheme j corporations to gain the right of way
of instruction that the girl#proposes, and into a great c-ity. Hosmer Whitfield con-
tlie final happy denouement make de- [tributes a character sketch of Governor
lightfuj reading, it is bv far Mr Harri- j Fol k. of Missouri, and clever fiction
man s best work: it has a life a ; stories are supplied by Henry Gardner
and a freshnes
it has a life, a sparkle,
about it that nothing
else from his pen lias hitherto possessed:
tlie very story for wliiTTng away a ,'ong
summer afternoon or for lessening the
tedium of a tiresome journey. George W.
Jacobs ft Co., publishers, Philadelphia:
$1.25.
Cooke, Joint Authors of “Return.”
sons “fought with targe and claymore
•lor the gateway of Georgia’s sea islands.”
•these gifted daughters and faithful his
torians have brilliantly and thrillingly
depicted a time of which they are the
lineal exponent, and so not separable
•from it—a time of which they may be re
garded still a. part. This, no doubt, as
largely as the talent which marks all
their former work, accounts for the utter
truthfulness of style which not once dis
appoints. and that familiarity with the
time which is as careful of detail as it is
,PI enteous of color.
“Return." the title of the romance, is
not explicable until the tale is half told,
it sets the reader a-wondering from ‘lie
first, bnt the tabic of contents with its
quaintly named chapters, each headed
with a bit of old English or Scotch verse,
the absorbing interest of each page in
vite no hurry. It is like an early raorn-
THE GIFT OF THE MORNING STAR.
"The Gift of the Morning Star,” by
Armistead C. Gordon, is a story of Dan
ker life and character, yet it is a fat-
broader study -than of tlie bunkers. They
are types of a spirit which finds expres
sion in many sects and unattached indi- i Gregory, which -tells for the first time
viduals. The story tells of inward strug- I the story of tlie oil man’s service to Mark
gle, and the plot is constructed on strong [Twain. “The Masters of Insurance Fin-
I Hunting. Holman Day, Isabel Gordon
Curtis and others. The home department,
under the editorship of Mrs. Christine
Terhtime Herrick, continues to be a pop
ular feature of this monthly.
The May World’s Work teems with
timely features. The first hand investiga
tion of tiie Kansas oil fight, by Isaac F.
Marcosson not only reveals the facts of
both sides of the dramatic conflict, but
shows the people and the methods. The
article is adequately Illustrated. Of kin
dred Interest in the intimate character
study of Henry H. Rogers, by Joint S.
lines. It has originality, tenderness and
power. The hero recognizes an inherited
weakness of character and overcomes it.
“He that -overcometh ... I will give
him tlie morning star."
This novel deserves praise highly r or
its sincerity, its beautiful descriptions of
nature, its satisfying conversations, and
its splendid charaeterizatons. as well as
for its strong, original plot. Funk ft
Wugnalls Company, publishers, New
York: $1.50.
WOOD MYTH AND FABLE.
by l. S. Grim, is an illuminating
I view of the men behind the great insur
ance companies, to whom two-tlilrUs as
much biase paragrap’ners may affect to
laugh at it. It is but natural that: lie
sho-uld feel a particular and emphatic in
terest -in the books of the hour, because
he likes, when he is not otherwise oc- j
cupied, to dash off one himself.—Reader
•M'agazine.
. A GREAT AMERICAN NOVEL.
Mr. James Lane Allen has for the mo- 1
men-t interrupted his career of writing i
masterly novel!* to discuss tlie require- :
ments of the master novels. His analysis, i
given in The New York Times Saturday [
Review of Books, of the artistic processes !
involved in the making of a great work !
of wiction is characteristically convincing j
and lucid.
“There -is," ho says, "but a single 'test—
both first and final—either of a poor
novel, a. good one. or the greatest. Shake
the story out of tiie finished book. s.>
that you may be able to see it somenow
apart in i-ts brevity and bareness. Then
ask yourself the cfTTbstion: Is this story,
thus exposed in its final poverty, rich !
with human -truth and human interest? j
If you say, ‘Yes’ you may go oil to say j
regarding it. as tlie case may be, much j
more -than that, many other great and i
deep and eloquent and enthusiastic things.
But if you say ‘No.’ then you can add j
nothing—you have said all.”
Mr. Allen applies the test with search- ,
ing earnestness -to “Hecia Sand with,” tliq j
new novel by Mr. E. U. Valentine. And }
the. verdict of the author of “The Reign
of Law’ 'is that it is “a great human i
story, an American story of the first j
magnitude; Thomas Hardy, had lie been
an American, could have built upon i-t
one of her masterpieces.”
-Mr. Allen has many other great and j
deep anil eeloquent and enthusiastic j
things to say about ‘‘Hecia Sandwith.”
much wealth is entrusted as to our sav- l which ,he takes as a. sort of 'text for Ills
ings banks. The personality of James
Hazen Hyde, the storm center of the
Equitable fight, is interestingly explainer
by Lindsay Denison. The story of the re
cent Japanese loan is told by Baron
Kaneko who was connected with it. To
get a first hand experience in writing
“Strike Breaking As a New Occupation,'
Leroy Scott joined tile strike breakers in
j tlie elevated and subway strike in New
Bv Ernest Thompson Seton. In Ernest shows James Farley King of
'Strike Breakers,” as lie really is. “Jap-
illuminative essay on American fiction.
But everybody will bo glad that he has
harked back to tlie story, to tbe original
thread of narrative, as tlie core and tlie '
prime requisite. ;
A BITTER ATTACK
UPON THE SOUTH
was made some weeks ago by Albert BoslmBU Hart, ^ITofessor of His
tory at Harvard University, in an article entitled
Southern Problem,” which was printed in The New York independ
ent. Dr. Hart avers that the “poor whites of South Carolina
“keep a man of their own type in the United States Senate. He
harps upon the James Tillman-Gonzales feud. He charges Governor
Vardaman, of Mississippi, with brutally threatening the negro an °
white friends in the North. He accuses the intelligent whites of the
South of “trying to keep the negro down because otherwise the low
est white men will marry negro women.” And so on, ad nauseam.
In the MAY number of
TOM WATSON’S
MAGAZINE
the editor, Hon. Thomas E. Watson, of Georgia, replies to Dr. Hart’s
attack in an editorial which every self-respecting man and woman in
Dixie should read. He calls Dr. Hart’s attention to the Stokes-Fisk
murder in New York, not so very many years ago; to Gov. Varda
man’s protection of a negro woman from a white mob; and, without
defending James Tillman’s killing of Gonzales, Mr. Watson, referring
to the case of Congressman John A. Sullivan, of Boston, says:
44 South Carolina is far behind Massachusetts—
she has not yet sent James Tillman to Congress•"
READ WATSON’S REPLY
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TOM WATSON’S MAGAZINE
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Publication Notes
Seton’s TTTioks always the c-liarm of then
form challenges attention even before tlie
text; and one is glad to turn page after
page enjoying the clever marginal draw
ings, and all the quaint conceits, so char
acteristic of bis books, of chapter head
ing and initial, of tail piece and unex
pected illustration. "Woodmytli and
Fable” furnishes abundant material f ir
by Jiliei Hashi-
count of Japan-
Dr. S. Weir Mitchell's new novel, “Con
stance Trescot,” has followed so closely
upon his “Youth of Washington” that the
renegade Cameron, and the elieckered
love of Francis Bennerworth and the
Scotch girl hold us almost equally.
Haste Thee Wynnewood, “the silent
lady.” who for fifteen years permitted not
speech to her lips, but made use of a
slate or tablet, until she should be ab
solved of the wrong done her absent
lover—a more picturesque character could
scarce be found. And Buccleugh, in his
way, were perhaps even more so.
Though no creatures of fiction were
ever so absorbingly interesting as tbe close tenderest sympathy and closest in-
men who in reality peopled the little -ol- jtimacy with the free people of the wilder-
ony. Oglethorpe appears here just th" [ness. He is at once tile student and the
lofty, the generous and sweet character | lover; he expounds the lives of the dwel-
the record of his life would seem to bear hers of the woods with rare simplicity and
out; W-hltefield the same. While the pleads for fair play for the creatures lie
passing of the aged Tomo-Chi-Chi were j loves with an earnestness as impressiv
S. Mellt
Hard Meikljolm with the aid of unusual
photographs points the significance of
“Electricity Transforming Traffic.” “The
Senate Plot Against Pure Food." by Ed-
a» attractive book: and writer and ar- | ward Lowry, is a startling- revelation of
tist and bookmaker have made good use ‘legislative inactivity and "Coddling Theo-
of their material. .logical Sclents,” by Everett Tomlinson,
As an admirer of the artist-author s.ibl. [is an expose of amazing; conditions in bid-
apropos of one of his earlier works, the (ding for students. The second installment
secret of Mr. Seton’s vogue is the tern- j Of 'the “Confessions of a Business Sen-
perament of his work. "There is scarce- in.tor show how political control of a state
iy a page of his book which does not dis- ! V s Shined. Summer Camps lor Boys, by
an's Peace Negotiators
guichi, is an intimate
ese politics and the real leaders of the i public may get the idea that Dr. Mitchell
nation. Eugene P. Lyle. Jr., tells of “C. j j s 3. rapid writer; but tile facts are quite
Master of Traffic,” and Ber-
not more noble and touching than the
devotion to Oglethorpe of the nephew,
Toonahowi. especially after the old chief's
ing canter on a. richly blooming prairie. \ death, when he had himself become Mico
every step through dew laden bloom, one j of the tribe. The pathetic story of the
of such exquisite satisfaction, to go for
ward toward the glories of the newly ap
pearing sun or back to the purple peaks
fast dissolving of their mists—either can
wait, while about our feet is the crim
son and gold of earth's broideries and
in our nostrils the breath of the morn
ing. A fine and a gay story, and a long
withal, yet never dropping for an in
stant in the keenest interest, until in the
good old-fashioned way the characters
.are all disposed of—such as are not hap-
, plly married being consigned to the
grave, the only other thing, apparently,
left novel writers, and having at least tbe
advantage of being definite.
The Honorable Diana Chaters. dangb’er
of Sir Hector Chaters. and heiress to
many thousands, as to tbe high spirit Of
generations of Chaters.'who followed the
■-•brave calling of the sea. a famous beauty
and jilt of Charles Town. S. C., having
numbered her suitors and victims by the
■core, finds her rnat -h in Archibald Cant->-
ron. a bold Scottish gallant and adven
turer.
The story opens with the arrival of tlie
wedding party nf St. Phillip's ehuren.
■where. Instead of a groom. Mistress Diana
finds awaiting her a formal letter in
which be tells her pointedly that as she
has dealt with others, so deals he now
with her—"having no fancy to try tbe
taming of a shrew more bitter than Pe
Truchio’s Kate" and so bidding her good
young brave's love for tbe fair English
girl he knew while in London and his
silent renunciation, followed by his un
timely death, make a thrilling chapter.
It was Toowahowi who gave the name
it now bears to Cumbei'anil island. Call
ed first Wissoo by the Inmans, then St.
Peter's by the Spanish, it finally was
given the English name by Toonahowi, in
honor of his grace of Cumberland, win
had presented him with a gold repeating
watch, and shown hint many Kind atten
tions.
It is a charming story, possessing tbe
most vivid inteerst. particularly for
those who live in the neighborhood here
described, and in Charleston, where de
scendants of Robert Maraha.1 and his son.
Return Marshal—or at least of that fam
ily. still reside. L. O. Page & Co.. Bos
ton. publishers.
FLORENCE L. TUCKER.
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“My Lady Peggy Goes to Town." has
written a sprightly and most entertain-
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lit tells of an American girl and her
j French fiance and the curious intrigue
by which they seek to gain possession of
[the millions belonging to her rich aunts.
1 Tbe money would come to the girl as sole
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as it is convincing. He gives his ani
mals an actual personality, and stirs nur
emotions as no biographer of the four-
footed kingdom has ever done."
In "Woodm.vth and Fable" Mr. Seton
has gathered together many odd bits,
partly from Indian legend; partly, the
reader feels sure, from Mother Nature's
own lore—quaint myth and fable in bo‘n
prose and verse. Its issue, coming in mid-
spring, is happily timely. The Century
Company, publishers. New fork: $1.25.
SANDY.
By Alft-e Hegan Rice. Quite tlie most
lovable of Alice Hegan Rice's characters
to date is "Sandy.” We enjoy Mrs.
Wiggs’ philosophy, and we sympathize
with Lovey Mary’s trials; but, in com
mon with every character in the book, tv
love Sandy, from stowaway to happv
bridegroom. It is not, altogether his
smile—“a smile that waited for an an
swer and usually got It. a smile so brim
ming over witli good fellowship and con
fidence that it made a lover of a friend
and a friend of an enemy.” But ‘lie
qualities that make his smile winning
make Sandy irresistible.
The optimism that shone from every
page of Mrs. Rice's earlier books has
lost none of its impressiveness by being
transferred to a wider range. Humor,
the belief in love as an uplifting force,
tho conviction that kindliness and hone-
fulness make life worth living, and that
character wall always win over adverse
circumstances—all these qualities Mrs. |
Rice has given 11s reason to associate
with her name on any title page. In
“Sandy” she has widened her field.
A little Irish stowaway, he comes
through many adventures to Clayton, a
Kentucky town, where Judge Hollis takes
him into his heart and home; and here
1 Sandy's Irish heart never wavers in its-
j devotion to the little aristocrat whom he
j first sees on the big boat across a great
'gulf. Young love and loyalty can bridge
• any gulf, however, and young love and
j loyalty are themes that have eternal hu-
I man interest. We shall all want to read
' "Sandy” because we read "Mrs. Wiggs
! of the Ca.bage Patch" and “Lovey Mary;”
j we are likely to forget all about Mrs.
Wiggs and Lovey Mary under Sandy's
: fascination. Tlie Century Company, pub
lishers. New York: $1.
Dr. \\ . T. Talbot, tells of a beneficient
work. Frank W. Noxon explains “The
Fight tor Trade Schools” in Massa
chusetts. A superbly illustrated article is
“A Money Test of Art Appreciation,” by
Charles H. Oaffrn, which shows with the
jaid of remarkable photographs, how New
I York lias come to be a great w% ld mar-
| ket for painting.
Literary Driftwood
UNTOLD.
(J. M. Lewis in Houston Post.)
Though no tears made sad our parting
there was somethin, in each heart,
-■h heart's far in
mst
each one held in control.
That cried out against the going on the
day that saw us part.
One loud cry and then a silence; ’twas
i»ur hailing souj to soul.
You shall wander where the billows pound
the tropic sunlit s'trand;
il where inland prairie breezes weight
the day s breath with perfume,
You shall wisli the old days with you that
we walked through hand in hand.
I shall long for curving Tieeches and the
salt sea's morning brume.
And we both shall hold the world off and
our each face be a mask
Wrought in laughing guise and careless
-that the gazer may not read.
the reverse. Dr. Mitchell lias rewritten
"Constance Trescott” three times in tbe
Past three years. The manuscript was
put into type for the first time two years
ago. and a single set of page proofs was
struck off on “large paper" and bound
up for the author, who worked for a vear
on these page proofs. So many changes
were made that the book was entirely
reset before issue. Dr. Mitchell believes
lliat "C-onstance Trescot” contains the
best work he has (lone or will ever do.
Brentano s have just ready an edition
of “The Lunatic at Larbe." by J. Storer
Clouston, a rollicking story, full of hu
morous complications and unusual situa
tions. The interest of the book centers
around a well to do Englishman, who,
owing to illness, has temporarily forgot
ten his own identity.
Otis Ashmore, superintendent of schools
at Savannah, Ga., is investigating prac
tice school problems. Mr. Ashmore has
recently written a “Manual of Pronun
ciation.” Ginn & Company, publishers.
Ernest Thompson Seton's first literary
work was a series of papers on the
cockles that I zoology of Manitoba in 1883. These were
gathered together, extended, and pub
lished in book form under the titles of
“Tlie Birds of Manitoba” and "Tlie Mam
mal s of Manitoba." The illustrations of
these and other papers aroused such in
terest that The Century Company called
him to New York to illustrate the zoo
logical work of the Century dictionary.
To this work he contributed over one
thousand drawings.
Maxime Gorky, it is said, has been of
fered $150,000 for the English rights t>
his next novel.
Andrew Carnegie has been at work for
six months on a life of James Watt, the
Mr. Robertson lias created for us a dis-
tinet new character as real and amus
ing as Kipling's Mulvaney. in the per
son of, Finnegan, the man-o’-war's man.
He figures delightfully in several of the
stories, and in one of them. "The Tor
pedo." hrlilgs about the serio-comic ond-
ing“tT? jTliTs thrilling story of the Russo-
Japanese war. Finnegan is a delightful
character, -of many talents, and in emer
gencies! invariably proves an instrument
of providence.
Tom IWat
a marked i
erary line.
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Established uw.
Magazine Melange
; Over the wiiode continent—in tlie east.
: in the middle, in the west—Graft has set
its talons. Dou you want the facts?
j Everybody’s for May is full of them: facts
j about Mr. Rogers and Amalgamated;
! facts about the land thieves; facts about
'the beef trust; facts about the people
i ruined by the graft of business by what-
! ever name it is called,
j The May Everybody’s is a strong num-
| ber even without the three articles nam-
j ed. Harold MacGrath, author of “The
( Man on the Box,” has a capital story of
j politics entitled “Two Candidates;" Zona
Gale has a delicate story of sentiment,
“The Other Two;” Rev. E. Beacli contri
butes a strong Klondike tale, entitled
“The Scourge;” Vincent Harper tells a
capital Wall street story in “The Hurry
in Bubbles;” Miss Bensiey continues her
actual "Experiences of a Nursery Gover
ness;” and besides contributions from
Anne O'Hagan Henry Sydnor Harrison,
Grace McElroy Iurs. and others, there is
a charming child study, ' “The Country
Child In the City Square,” by Sarah
Guernsey Bradley.
Tlie race track trust receives a solar
plexus blow by Alfred Henry Lewis in
Success magazine for May. In his strong,
forcible style Mr. Lewis lays bare the
method by which the best tracks in the
east are operated, showing the amount
A * '!S C L d eSppSea”ik US ■»'
And the days shall slip by swiftly, we |°f steam while watching thelid of a ket
shall give such little heed.
Yet you know r know you’re knowing
there is that between 11s two.
That our lips shall never utter, that our
hearts but half admit;
But your soul calls out -to my soul and
my soul shall call to you.
And the gods shall act as “central”
from the thrones whereon they sit.
ROOSEVELT AS A BOOK BOOMER.
Mr. Roosevelt, like Gladstoneft is him
self a. maker of books, and he has a fel
low feeling for authors. He enjoys sig
naling out some good . book and giving
it public praise. Only Mr. CcClure knows
how much he helped Pastor Wagner’s
little book, “The Simple Life.” Previous
to that he had given his unqualified in
dorsement to hooks by Jacob Riis and
Booker T. Washington. He told his 00un-.
try merit how he' had enjoyed “Mrs.
•Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch.” He set
people to looking up the works of Fred
erick Mistral when he subscribed to a
French. fund, and lie attracted renewed
attention -to Judge Robert Grant’s "Un
leavened Bread” by severely criticising
the heroine. Other instances of his in
terest in contemporary literature will oc
cur to -the reader who keeps tab on
“things as they are” published. And it is
not likely that this amiable ambition on
tlie part of Mr. Roosevelt, to act as pub
lic encourager of the deserving, will de
crease with age and successive presiden
tial administrations. Mr. Roosevelt is
patriarchal in his feelings, and he enjoys
giving his children an encouraging word.
He is the sort of man who likes to see a
good word passed on, and he probably
knows of no better way for the doing of
that than to help a good book to sell.
The president takes an interest in almost
everything, and is adored for it, however
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pathetic and clever biograph.
After a long silence. Amelie Rives, we’.l
known as the author of “Virginia of
Virginia.” 'The Quick or tlie Dead?” and
ofner stories and poems, has written a
dramatic poem entitled “Selene.” which
The Harpers published. The theme is
the love of Diana (Selene) for Endymion,
and it relates the struggle of the beauti
ful goddess against the love which final
ly masters her. The opem is admirably
conceived and developed in the classic
style suited to the theme, and will in
terest even those who do not usually
read poetry. Amelie Rives returned from
abroad a few weeks ago, and is now at
her Virginia home.
The current number of “The Bookman”
still places "The Masquerader,” by Kath
erine Cecil Thurston, at the head of the
1 isTt of six books most in demand during
TTie month. This popular book was pub-
T:“\eu on the 12th of last October, and at
tTTTs fSTe date not only ranks first, blit
is steadily growing.
Morgan Robertson has just published a
new book of sea stories, bearing the title
"Down 57. the Sea.” These stories have
the variety, swing, and humor that are
TT be expected from the pen of the au
thor of "Sinful Peck.” but. in addition.
TO^t WATSON’S MAGAZINE.
Tom jWatson Magazine for May shows
improvement all along tlie Iit-
whicli is saying a good deal,
considering the excellence of the two pre
vious numbers. Mr. Watson, in his de
partment of Polotics and Economics, con
tributes red-blooded editorials on "Pub
lic Ownership in Chicago,” “A Bitter At
tack Upon the South,” "Remember the
Rascals,” “Introductory to a Letter from
a Boy," “A11 Educational Department”
and a running fire of “Editorial Com
ment." 'Hie interesting table of con
tents follows;
“The Lady's Slipper,” Cyrus Townsend
Brady; “’Populism.” Charles Q. De
France, secretary people's party nation
al committee; “To Roosevelt;” “Tlie Re
galia of Money,” Alexander Del Mar;
“The Open Door of the Constitution,”
Frederick Upham Adams; "To One De
parted," Bernard P. Bogy; "Pole Baker”
(chapters IV-VI1), Will N. I-Iarben; “The
Conservative of Today,” John H. Gird-
ner, M.D.; “A Character Study of Byron
and Burns,” Elizabeth Bailey Traylor;
“The Man with White Nails,” Captain
W. E. P. French, United States army;
“Organization and Education," Wharton
Barker; "The Panic of 1893," W. S. Mor
gan; "Tlie Cradle of Tears,” Theodore
Dreiser; "The Racing Trust,” Thomas
B. Fielders; “Dependence,” Reginald
Wright Kauffman; "What Buzz-Saw
Morgan Thinks; Hie Heritage of Max
well Fair” (chapters VIII-X). Vincent
Harper; "Money and Prices." E. L.
Smith; "The Say of Reform Editors;"
“News Record;" “Toll,” Joseph Dana
Miller.
The all-around excellence of Tom Wat- i
son’s Magazine insures its success, '
which is now acknowledged in tlie pub
lishing world.
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A large shopkeeper in London West
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hands every day at bridge in England.
Scotland, Wales and Ireland together.
"This game, therefore, deals with more
than £150.000 000 in the year in these
countries.” He writes further: “Most
of my customers arc of the upper or
the middle class, and three in every
te'n of them are affected by the craze.
Many of them play all night, rise late
tuid do no shopping before luncheon.
This aeffects manufacturers as well as
dealers. The middle classes in England
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upper class—idleness, extravagance, love
of excitement and immorality; and the
latter those of the former—greed for
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What Rhomatism Is.
Rheumatism is a deep-seated, danger
ous disease, caused by the absorption
into the blood of effete refuse matter,
which should be carried out of the sys
tem through the proper channels. Tilt*
poison soon destroys the .purity of the
blood and as it circulates through the
body the acid particles that are thrown
off penetrate the nerves, muscles, mem
branes and even the bones.
In Acute Articular Rheumatism, the
affection usually commences suddenly;
sometimes pain or soreness in tlie joints
precedes the disclosure of the disease.
The joints become swollen, particularly
those of the knee, ankle, wrist, elbow
and the smaller joints of the hands an-l
feet. Acute Rheumatism is always iden
tified with more or less feverish con
dition and profuse perspiration, especial
ly at night, same being strongly aeitl.
showing the system is attempting to
throw off the poisonous particles. Chron
ic Rheumatism is the same as the acute
form, but milder and less extended,
though strange to say, more persistent,
and difficult to cure.
Muscular Rheumatism also exists un
der two forms, acute and chronic, the
iatter as in Articular Rheumatism, not
so violent in attack hut pitiless in its
hold on the system. in the acute form,
there is. first a dull pain in tlie muscles,
which gradually increases, growing al
most. unbearably violent in movements
which require the contraction of the mus
cles. In the chronic form, pain is ex
cited only when the affected muscles are
contracted with an unusual force, and is
more apt to change its location than in
the acute form.
With the blood in an unhealthy condi
tion, exposure to cold, combined with
moisture, the night air, eudden changes
in the weather, sleeping between lamp
sheets, sitting in a cold, damp room, es
pecially when heated from exercise, or an
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to bring 011 an attack of Rheumatism, in
those who have never before experienced
this difficulty, and cause violent attacks
in those who are subject to it.
Vitae-Ore. the Natural Mineral Medi
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Alkalies and the remedies that are al
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the system. Vitae-Ore. being a powerful
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I throbbing muscles, dissolves the hard,
! calcareous matter that has collected in
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keeps it so and the cure is sure and
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