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Under the Lamp
With Late BooKs
“SANDY.”
I\CE “Mrs. Wiggs of the
Cabbage Patch’' went right
straight to the hearts and
the risibles of the reading
public as one individual.
Mrs. Alice Hegan Reice.
hias buls Ifo announce a
coming story with her
name appended to insure
an eager reception and a
big sale. If it Is a little
different from her other
two. how would it be oth.
erwise? Certainly there
could never have been but one Mrs.
Wiggs—nor but one I.ovey Mary. And
if by any possibility either should have
had her double, it could hardly fall to
the lot of any due person to discover the
two—or the four—of them. So, if the
reader takes up “Sandy,'’ expecting jus*
such another, let him just remember, and
consider 'that a young Irish stowaway,
safely stranded, or anuhored. in the very
charming old "town of Clayton, in Ken
tucky, may he. every bit as interesting as
Mrs. "Wiggs in her immortal “cabbage
patch”—it is only the point of view’. And
there may be even ithose who will prefer
the loving-hearted, sunny-tempered lad.
and a society which is better understood,
for when all is said, Mrs. Wiggs—not to
disparage the dear, good sou I—aside from
her philosophy, which is undeniably of
the first class, is not “of our set.” We
prize her, she h;i» made us laugh immod
erately for which we are unstintedly
grateful, and we acknowledge to a rosier
view in general after a look through her
spectacles, but since the last good book
always seems just a little the best, we
may be forgiven for settling ourselves
Comfortably in the delightful environ of
Clayton, with only a smiling recollection
of “the cabbage patch,'' and no regret.
“Sandy” is inevitaby the hero of his
own story. “In the great stream of life
Sandy was one of the bubbles that are
apt to come to ’the top.” “A born lover,
lavishing his affection, .without discrimi
nation or -calculation;’’ and when once
'“his impetuous knight-errant enlists un.
der the will-o’-the-wisp love, and starts
joyously forth on his guess,” not a gaze
nor a heart but will follow after him.
But there are just as delightful people
everywhere around—Judge Hollis, Doctor
Fenton. Aunt Melvy—and those captivat
ing gtrTs. It is one of the best feattures
of the little book, that every character
is a distinct and live personality—had
Sandy fallen overboard on voyage, clay-
ton folk would still have made a dozen
capital storie.
Heroes too often fall a little short in
the matter of where they bestow their
hearts, and we confess that while Sandy
could not have done otherwise than he
did, having followed his "will-o'-the-wisp”
from tne pier in -New York to her home
in Kentucky—followed blindly as only a
raw irisii lad in this great, strange coun
try could—still, it is at one time a little
disappointing. Reuth, a very nice girl
under average eircumtances. makes but
ti pale heroine set against site dazzling
Annette, with her light curls and deli
cious little stammer, and if Annette had
carried off the prize, as once seemed
imminent, it would have been but the
natural eome-aboue, seeing h
of these episodes most of us are famihar.
It is the sidelights of intrigue and the hu.
man elements 'that entered Into them of
which we know little. Mr. Thompson
give us .these. He has drawn 'the cur
tain and offers us glimpses- into the “cab
inet noir” of some of the European chan
cellories, and to throw light on some hap
penings which are cloaked in mystery.
He tells of the romance and trugir end
of King Ludwig IT, of the plot which
ended the life of President Faure of
France; how the sultan of Turkey has
spread a great net of secret agents over
the whole of Europe; of King Rudolph's
futile efforts to assert his authority and
his terrible taking off; of the violent
death of the empress of Austria: of “the
only free man In Russia''—Tolstoi: of the
secret causes of the present war between
Russia and Japan, and many other sen
sational secrets of European circles of
state.
Mr. Thompson writes in a style of un
common vigor and vividness and gives
us a series of pen pictures which are re
markable for their dramatic quality and
absorbing interest. J. B Llppineoitt Co.,
publishers. Philadelphia; $1.50.
Publication Notes
THE TRAGEDY OF HAMLET.
Edited, with notes, introduction, glos
sary. list of variorum readings and se-
leeTeJT criticism, by Charlotte Porter and
Helen A. Clarke, editors of the "Cam
berwell Browning.”
“Hamlet" is the latest play in the note
worthy "First Folio” edition of Shake
speare's works. As its title indicates,
this edition is based directly upon the
original first folio of 1623. the first col
lected text to appear after the dramatist's
lentil and therefore the one giving a
true version of the plays as Shakespeare
himself left them.
In looking over those new “First Folio”
volumes as they appear, the constant
wonder is. why has it not been done be
fore? Shakespeare in the original has
been absolutely denied to ordinary read
ers. although he is our supreme author.
His sentences have been edited and re-
edited until some, of them have been alter
ed past recognition by ambitious critics
who thought they knew Shakespeare’s
mind better than he himself knew it.
Yet Shakespeare in the original presents
few difficulties, and these can be ex
plained as they .appear by footnotes.
Such a method of preserving the text
undisturbed is the one. here followed,
and it is certainly just and commendable. .
This edition. however, is something
The ixcent revival of “Trilby” on the
stage has led to renewed interest in du
Manner's tragic masterpiece, and the
Harpers are printing a large new edi
tion. A new edition has also been or
dered for England.
A recent book of essays by Mrs. Mar
garet Deland, published by the Harper?
under the title of “The Common Way,”
Is coming to be quite a cult among wom
en. Several prominent clubs have adopted
j the essays as basis for discussion at
meetings this fall, and members are busi
ly preparing papers to be read. The
topics greeted by (Mrs. Deland in this
book are such as would appeal to every
woman, as she has Written luminously
and with clear common sense upon the
every day things of life, which are, after
•all, the most important.
Mrs. Kate Douglas Wiggin returns this
week from England to her summer home
in Maine. Her new story "Rose o' the
River" will be published by Houghton.
Mifflin & Co. early in September. ‘'Re
becca of Sunnybrook Farm" has just .
gone into its 170th thousand.
Edwin Lefevre. author of “The Golden j
Flood,” based his book on the supposi- .
tion that the big magnates of Wall street I
are gifted with great imagination, on |
which power their success is largely |
founded. Now imagination has become a |
feature of the stock market. A New
York paper says under the head of “Stock
Market Ruled by Imagination:’’ “Le-
fevre's book is being read more carefully
than the railroad reports, and it really
is more imptrtiint just now. It is a pho
tograph of the Wall streett mind, and
shows how imagination can shake the
mightiest. The fact that there are a.
dozen men in Wall street able to do
just what Lefevre’s hero did makes thei
story a living issue worthy to be ranked
with the tariff, crop scares and rate re
vision.”
Charles Wagner has more than half
finished his "Impressions of America,”
which are to appear in La Revue des
Revues. There is. of course, to be a
chapter on President Roosevelt. Trans
lations of "The Simple Life.” by the way,
are to be made both In Japanese and
Hebrew, and an edition of it is being
arranged for the blind.
It is a curiouw thing how difficult it Is
to name a book if the right title does not
suggest itself al the outset. Anna Mc
Clure -Sholl’s latest novel, “The Pori
Storms." published by D. Appleton &
Co., underwent many changes of title
before the last one was finally adopted.
It started out as “The Metropolitans.”
changed to “The Storm Centre," and
finally glided peacefully into “The Port
of Storms.”
“A Diary from Dixie.” edited by Myrla
Lockett Avary, author of “A Virginia
Girl in the Civil War,” is reported by its
publishers, the Appletons. to be attract
ing no littlet interest in England, owing
to its allusions to the king.
Brentano’s are about to issue an
American edition of “The House of Sin,"
translated from the French of “Marcelle
Tinayre" by A. Smyth. T. P.’s Weekly, of
Ixindon, says of this hook: “This is the
title of th% last and most remarkable
book of the writer who signs herself
iMarcelle Tinayre.' She is by no means
unknown (one of her books has had the
honor of being crowned by the French
academy), but shc> his hitherto never
reached anything like the level of her
present work—a work which places her
among the half dozen foremost living
novelists. For this is not merely a re
markable but a groat book."
Literary Driftwood
MAKING BURNS POPULAR.
(From The Baltimore American.)
If the London county council had
schemed to advertise “Bobbie" Burns and
increase the sale of his poems, and of all
that is included under the name of Burn-
reprint. It include a wealth | siana, it could not have taken a better
more than
of critical and illuminative materia! ! plan than to prohibit the use of Burns in
which mokes the hook a veritable pocket ! the public schools of the metropolis of
variorum. Here will he found a preface. ] thp world lt ls almost inconceivable
an introduction. literary frontispieces ; , .... <■
1 that after this lapse of time any body
from rare editions, notes* discussing the
argument, sources, duration of action,
date, of composition, and early editions,
literary illustrations, glossary, variorum
readings and selected criticism.
It will undoubtedly take its place as
the most completely equipped and most
accurate text ever published at a popu
lar price-—Thogias Y. Crowoll & Co., pub
lishers. New YV»''k; 75 cents.
TRANSATLANTIC HANDBOOK.
“Tlie Travelers' Handbook for Trans-
Atlantic Tourists," by Josephine Tozier.
author of “Among English Inns." is a
practical honk prepared on new lines for
travelers intending to visit Europe for
the first timei It is not intended to take
the place of “guide hooks.” as those of
Baedeker, but has been compiled with
the object of collecting, in one compact
and convenient volume, enough hints and
suggestions to assist travelers contem
plating a journey abroad to make the
i necessary preliminaries for accnmplnsh-
. „ . , bewitch- | jn the crossing of the Atlantic com-
in^, n »isti eness and the boys soft f 0r tably, and understanding the eondi-
ncai , an no one could have been sorry. | tions n f transportation and other items
Bui there were the three fortunes Aunt
Melvy had told!
“Aunt Melvy, do
palmistry?" asked Reuth
I tions of transportation and
* directly concerned with traveling on the
I oilier side- of the ocean.—Funk & Wag-
you tell fortunes by | nfl iis Company, publishers, New York:
. , $1.00.
Yais.m; 1 reckon da't’s what you call l
hit. I Wills by de tea-leaves.”
And the tea-leaves had told for Annette
one ''sorter dark complected and fat,”
and Sandy was not of that description.
Xo; Reuth it had to be; and Reuth it
was, and Reuth that Sandy wanted. And
what matters, since at the wedding the
radiant Annette is attended by Sid Gray,
carrying her bouquet, and not a regret
for tlie lost Carter or even the bride
groom himself. And this is another charm
ing thing about the book: There are no
broken hearts anywhere about. Such
as could not have what they coveted
Just lay down and died, and left the
world to the winning ones and to foy
at is a thoroughly delightful little story.
THE HOUSE OF CARDS.
By John Heigh. The person who gives
tlie name and background to this novel
is neither an idealization nor a caricature,
but a transcript from life of the typical
and dominant American of our day. He
is set forth, as the last fifty years have
made him. in the terms of a coherent
story: and he is brought to the present
moment as to a crisis in our national
life. Contrasting him is the equaily
strong but undertermined element in the
situation, the young American, the twen
tieth century American, whose attitude
toward the national problem is all im
portant. These are the materials which
but not one that can be. told, ii must be j ,ulr story undertakes to transform lino
read .and laughed over in pleasant recol-1 terms of active and emotional life, full
lection, and treasured among the sweet- I of human Interest, and to work out on
est. and wholesomest little stories you 1 tj 10 lines of a closely drawn plot.
It holds the reader's interest along
more than one line of strong appeal. Its
figures are the men and women one would
be glad to know. The social life of to
day and that of forty years ago are in
terestingly contrasted, the old, old social
warfares of Boston and Philadelphia crop
ping out amusingly now and then. The
effect of the civil war as an influence in
character building and the changes
brought about by growing material and
commercial development are expressed in
a strong story that is alive with keen
thrusts of somewhat grim humor, its
undercurrent, however, is that of a clear,
sweet and attractive love story that goes
far to restore one's faith in the future.—
The Macmillan Co., publishers, New York;
$1.50.
know.
Published by the Century Company New
York.
FLORENCE L. TUCKER.
THE ULTIMATE PASSION
Revelations of the methods of poHtien'
corruption in one of our large cities now
being made each day throukh the news
papers give special timeliness to Phliln
\ errill Mighel's novel. “The Ultimo*"
Passion,” recently published by the Harp
er ®: A "™ng many ' real" episodes with
which this novel bristles
of more immedia
elation of the ret
th
there is pone
import than the rev-
methods employed bv
'ring" to insure that young legisla
tors at Albany will not interfere w<th
vested gas interests. Mr. Mighels- has
related real facts concerning political
methods in New York city respecting this
Vital matter. All his references to the
question of gas are based on fact, not
on fancy. The character of Breeme in
the novel is a real man, and the things he
tells have all happened and will happen
again.
DIPLOMATIC MYSTERIES.
By Vance Thompson. This is not
a novel, but it is. more fas
cinating than an t v fiction. Mr. Thompson
is a trained writer of international rep
utation. He has spent many years in Eu
rope. living in, the foreign capitals. In
his book he tell?, the "inside stories” of
some of the most startling chapters in
European TUpiomacy. as he has heard
them in part or in whole from those who
played the most potent and often nt.,st
secret parts in them. With the outcome
COOKING THINGS.
When my mother’s cookin' things
You bet l never wait
To put away my ball or gun—
I drop 'em where they are an' run
b'er fear I’ll be too late.
The most exciting kind o’ game
Er toy, er storybook,
1 let 'em go, an’ never mind.
The very minute that I And
My mother's goin’ to cook.
When my mother's cookin’ things
Fr'ap? it's pies to bake,
Er doughnuts bobbin’ up an' down
in honin’ grease till they are brown.
Er pr aps it’s Johhnny cake.
Whatever kind of thing it is.
I always like to hook
The biggest piece of dough I can
An* bake it In a patty-pan.
When me an' mother cook.
—Burges Johnson, Harper's Magazine
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of persons having control of educational
institutions should place Burns in the
index of the expurgated. Tlie one in
evitable result must be that the school
children will secure the poems at all
hazard, and that they will seek out the
reason for the prohibition.
That Burns was at times ribald and
coarse no one can dispute, but so were
nearly all of the great poets of former
centuries. Many passages of Shakes
peare are unreadable in company and
unactable before the general public. By
ron’s “Don Juan” must be read with
eyes blind to many passages. Not only
in the days of Shaktspeare and other
British dramatists and poets of the medi
eval period, but also as lately as the days
of Burns and Byron there obtained a free
dom of speech in depicting with bald real
ism the human nature of the day that
would not now be permitted. The great
est geniuses of this period must avoid
the plainness of those older masters.
But that which is objected to by the
London council is a chronicle of the time
and fashion, and no vandal would dare
to expurgate it. If the council deemed
Burns unfit for the young of the schools,
it would have been easy to have had a
special edition, such as that of Shakes
peare, .which is in use in many of me pre
paratory institutions. It is imbecile to
banish all beauty and sweetness and
loftiness on account of a few lapses, and
the Scottish people may well hold that
it is an insult to them to place Burns
into exile.
BENEATH SCHILLER’S STATUE.
(From The Chicago Inter Ocean.)
As the sun peeped over the north shore
sea wall Sunday morning its first glints
rested on a unique scene. Clustered about
the Schiller monument in Lincoln park
were the eighty mem net's of the Sene
felder Liederkranz, a male chorus of
German-Amerlcan residents of Chicago,
Who, foJTowIng the custom established
some years ago, assembled in the park
to pay tribute to the memory of the
German poet. Even t-he birds stopped
fheir twittering for the moment as the
music swelled to the breeze from the lips
of the well trained chorus. It was the
“Shepherd's Sunday Song.” tuneful and
sweet, and quite appropriate to such an
occasion.
G. LOWES DICKINSON.
G. Lowes Dickinson, author of “Re
ligion—A Criticism and a Forecast,
which McClure.Phillips have just brought
out holds an official position at Cam
bridge university. He is. in addition, one
of the editors of The Independent, ac
knowledged In England to be the best of
the British reviews. He Is a frequent con
tributor to its columns; and it was in The
Independent that the first chapters of his
latest book originally appeared. One of
his most recent contributions is an article
on motoring, in which he takes the mad
rush and wild recklessness of the most
modern sport as a symbol of the lower
moral and intellectual level of our age.
RICHNESS OF THE RUSSIAN
LANGUAGE.
Those who have been accustomed i
think of Russian as a barbaric, outland
ish tongue will find their judgment some
what altered after reading the following
paragraph quoted from Prince Kropot
kin’s new book. "Russian Literature”:
“The richness of the Russian language
in words is astounding. Many a word
which stands alone for the expression of
a given idea in the languages of western
Europe has In Russian three or four
equivalents for the rendering of the vari
ous shades of the .same idea. It is
especially rich in rendering various shades
of human feeling, tenderness, love, sad
ness. merriment, as also various degrees
of the same action. Its pliability for
translation is such that in no other
language do you find an equal number of
most beautiful, correct and truly poetic
renderings of foreign authors. Poets of
the most diverse character, such as Heine,
Beranger. Longfellow, Schiller, Shelley
and Goethe, to say nothing of that
favorite with Russian translators, Shake
speare, are equally well turned into Rus
sian. . . . Th* desperate vagueness of
German metaphysics is quite as much at
home in Russian as the matter of fact
style of the eighteenth century J>hU?go :
! phers; and the short, concrete and ex
pressive terse sentences of the best Eng
lish writers offer no difficulty for the
Russian translator.”
AUTHOR OF ‘‘THE YELLOW WAR.”
Art English correspondent writes the
publishers suggesting that the brilliant
author of "The Yellow War” (McClure-,
Phillips), who conceals himself under the
nom de plume “O,” is Captain James, the
well-known war correspondent of The
Lyndon Times. This would account for
the intimate knowledge which the book
displays of the Japanese war both on
land and sen, for Captain James organ
ized and directed the dispatch boat Hai-
ntun. which, equipped with wireless tel
egraphy and American operators, built
up a great journalistic record last sum
mer in the .\jpllow war. Captain James,
who is a young man just over thirty, is
credited with having seen more varied
fighting than any other man of his age.
His record includes five campaigns—on
the Indian frontier, the Karthoum ex
pedition. South Africa. Macedonia, and
the Far East, on both sea and land. He;
will he most familiar to American read
ers as the author of the series of articles
on the .American army and West Point,
which appeared in The London Times.
He is also, probably, the author of a
book on the Boer war. similar in charac
ter to this present volume on the Russo
Japanese war. “On the Heels of DeWet
tvhieh appeared over the pseudonym “In
telligence Officer.”
Magazine Melange
John S. Sewall was captain's clerk on
the Mississippi, the steam frigate that
carried Commodore Matthew Calbraith
Perr>, in 1853, when he was the bearer
of a letter from our government to the
mikado asking for a treaty. The de
mands of this treaty, its signing and its
influence, are matters of history, of
course; but personal recollections of such
an expedition are especially interesting
reading just now, and the July Century
will contain Mr. Sewall's story "With
Perry in Japan, ’ in which history will
be pleasantly enlivened with anecdote and
reminiscence.
Mayor Tom Johnson, of Cleveland, has
been thinking all along that he was
surely "Colonel Lumpkin,” the genial re-
formed monopolist in the political satires
that have been running in McClure's.
He has been so sure of it that the other
day lie spoke about lt to a yOung man
on McClure's Magazine who was for a
time in the employ of the city of Cleve
land after Johnson became mayor. He
thought that the young man had writ
ten the stories under an assumed name.
Of course, the author is Captain John
McAuley Palmer, a grandson of General
John M. Palmer, and an instructor at
West Point. Captain Palmer has used
"Colonel Lumpkin” as a literary device
for the popular treatment of economic
questions. He did not have Tom John
son in mind when he Invented the tyBar-
acter. Tom Johnson thought that the
coat surely was intended for Kiln—and
he put it on. So people now have the
chance fo see for themselves jusl what
sort of a fictitious cTHiracler Tom John
son regarded as his own likeness.
D. Appleton & Co. have acquired the
Booklovers Magazine, of Philadelphia, and
will publish it in New York under the
title of Appleton's Booklovers Magazine,
'beginning with the July number. It is
said that D. Appleton & Co. expect to
greatly increase theTr sales of books and
the efficiency of their advertising through
its agency. It Ts understood that the
policy of the magazine will be changed,
and that the fact and fiction of Apple
ton's best authors will be published in
it serially. The house will naturally
make an extraordinary effort to have the
first number published under the new
title a great success, and much is to be
expected of it.
“Rise. Mighty Anglo-Saxons!” Is the
title of a spirited poem in tne June
Arena, written hy Katrina Trask. It is
instinct with moral enthusiasm, and is
a moving call to the conscience in ?...»•
land and America to unite in a practical
manner for the furtherance of the cause
of peace. “In prison and in femre: 'me
Experience of a Russian Student” ls a
paper of general interest told in a sim
ple. direct, and effective manner, reveal
ing the trials and privations which the
students of Russia are liable to undergo
if they express the slightest interest in
the cause of freedom and enlightenment.
The Commerce of Latin America: A
Magnificent Field Neglected by the Uni
ted States,” by Professor Frederick M.
Noa, is a very thoughtful paper that
should appeal strongly to business men
and aU £eri9U» jgjgggjjBfl ip fctsadeniag
the field of American commerce in a
legitimate manner. “The Benjamin Fay
Mills Movement in Los Angeles,” is a
highly interesting and suggestive paper
showing what a practical manifestation
of the Christianity of the Nazarene has
accomplished in less than one year. “The
Constitutional Rights of American Ship
ping,” by William W. Bates, the well
known author of "American Navigation,”
and other Important works on the com
merce of the new world, is a valuable
contribution to present-day discussions.
Mr. Bates, tlTough opposed to ship sub
sidies, is a strong advocate for American
commercial expansion, and points out a
practical way In which our country can
regain her supremacy by methods which
prevailed before the decline of American
shipping. "Frederick Opper: A Cartoon
ist of Democracy” is a character sketch
of one of the most popular and influen
tial of the newspaper cartoonists of the
day, and contains a great number of Mr.
Opper's best cartoons. Among the po
litical, .social ancl economic papers of
special value are a very timely and ex
haustive discussion by W. G. Joerns, en
titled “Juggling With Facts and Figures
About Transportation; or, How the Rail
way Interests and Their Special plead
ers Are Seeking to Deceive the People,”
and Rudolph Rlankenburg’s unmasking
of The amazing corruption in Philadel
phia. under the title of "Municipal Black
Plague.”
Gertrude Atherton never write?' an un
interesting story. Her novel, “The Trav
eling Thirds," which opens the July
Smart Set. is a particularly striking
piece of work, full of brilliant dialogue
and exquisite hits of description. The
tale concerns the adventures of a par
ty of Americans who travel through
Spain third class, in order that they may
come into close contact with the peop.e
of thaf country. The heroine. Cata'ma
Shore, is as independent, as original, as
fefresfiTng as the author’s famous Pa
tience Snarkhawk. The love story in
“The Traveling Thirds” is delightful, and
the sensational denouement is one of the
most dramatic scenes which Mrs. Ath
erton has ever written. The Smart Set
has published a long list of novelettes
which have lived a far greater length of
time than the usual magazine story, but
Mrs. Atherton’s latest piece of fiction wili
win even a more lasting measure of
praise.
The short stories in this number cover
a wide field. Frederic Taher Cooper, the
well known literary critic, contributes
his first story to any magazine—a won
derfully strong study of a woman in a
frying situation. It is called "Mrs. Paw-
ilng’s Subterfuge." Harold MacGrath
tells in his easv and charming way an
excellent story. “A Dress Rehearsal." and
Beatrix Demarest Lloyd, who is so rap
idly coming to the very front rank of
American authors, contributes “The idol
atry of Shirley Burr." the finest fhing
she has yet written. Ellis Parker But
ler is a real humorist, and in “The
Grafters" he handles a unique plot as
only he know?- how m do. Gilbert Frank
lin. the son of “Frank Danby.” is rep
resented by a bizarre little tale happily
ealled "Two Recurring.” Other remark
ably original stories are by Emma Wo'f.
Eleanor H. Abbott. Margret Temple and
Tom Mason: and there is one in French
by J. Marni.
"Edgrar Saltus. who is always epigram-
ma-tic, has fairly outdone himself in his
essay. “The Importance of Being Some
body.”
ReereatTon for June is filled with good
things for the outdoor people. The lead
ing story, “The Road," by Walter K.
Stone, illustrated' by the' writer and
Charles Livingston Bull. contains an
urgent appeal to the jaded city sports
man. asking him to turn aside from the
beaten paths and explore the by-ways an 3
high ways through the fields and in the
woods. The simple story has -the tang of
unfrequented spots and the lure of wild
ness. thfs feeling being well carried out
In the number of full page pictured.
"Joe’s Double Catch." by Don Cameron
is a charming short story, with a coun
try boy and girl and a big trout as the
stars. Alvah D. James, the South Ameri
can explorer, has a short story, “Mr.
Peterson of ParTs." describing an inci
dent on the Pacific.
Homer Davenport, the cartoonist, has
an Interesflhg story in the June Recrea
tion, entitled “John Davenport. Colfax.”
The storv 1? illustrated liberally by th"
cartoonist and is a brief sketch of ac-
ual incidents which occurred in the life
of his uncle during the early days in the
far west. The story sheds an interesting
sidelight on the ancestry of Mr. Daven
port. whose kindness of heart and sin
cerity of purpose is known to thou
sands who have visited his stock farms
in New Jersey or have met him in so
cial or business life.
The rapid rise of Japan as a srspat
naval power and an important factor in
The Sfljustment of affairs on the Pacific
gives added point -to an article by Ath
erton Pcownell. In Public Opinion. June
10. on "Tawaii as the key to -the Pacific.
Mr. Brownell has studied the Pacific sit
uation wdth great care, and his conclu
sion is that our national and commer
cial safely demands the establishment
of an adequately fortified naval base on
tile Hawaiian islands.
THE WAY TO WOMANHOOD.
Cnildnodd and maidenhood have always
an attVScffi’e beauty of their own. Go
where you will, in strange and half bar
baric lands, you find the touch of grace
and freetfbm that charms you in
Little Indian, Sioux or Crow,
Little frosty Eskimo.
Little Turk or Japanese.
•But with maturity you look for some
thing more: and how -many are the
countries In which you find something
less—a womanhood from which the charm
of win youth has vanished without a
compensation. Tfiese are the countries,
says Hehry Van Dyke, in Harper’s Ba
zar. in which a false social order, an
Imperfect arifi partial religious rule, a
Tow national aspiration, a split sense
of humanity, has blocked or bewildered
the upward path for half the race.
To discover that path and keep it clear
and open, so that the feet of the young
maT3s may walk in It with joy, is ono
of the vTtal problems of civilization. It
is not woman’s problem only, but man’?
also; anfi in some ways It presses upon
film more closely than upon her. For
as the arrangement of the world's work
and the making of the world's laws still
lie, fbr the most part, in his hands, so it
rests with him to remove the hindrances
and obstacles, false standards of pro
priety, and ill conditions of life, that
woman may have liberty and incentive
to rise to her full development. Never*
yet was a fine womanhood unfolded in a
■country where the dream and the desire
of her fulfillment were not cherished in
JSe heart oz man. ..—-———-—
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The Constitution's
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A new series of choice literature for young people, selected from the best
and most popular works. Handsomely printed on fine super-calendered paper
from large, clear type, and profusely illustrated by the most famous artists, mak
ing the handsomest, most attractive series of juvenile classics before the public.
Fine English cloth, handsome new original designs, 50 cents,
1. The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe. 70 illustrations.
2. Alices Adventures in Wonderland, 42 lllustiritions. _.
3. Through the looking Glass
arnl What Alice Found There 50
illustrations.
4. Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress.
46 illustrations.
5. A Child's Story of the BiM°.
72 illustrations.
6. A Child's Life of Christ. 49
illustrations.
7. Aesop’s Fables. 62 illustra
tions.
8. Swiss Family Robinson. 50
illustrations.
9. Christopher Columbus and
the Discovery of America. 70
illustrations.
10. Exploration and Adventure
in Africa. 80 illustrations.
11. Gulliver’s Travels. 50 illus-
^ trations.
^ DVivm.c Tinsrits and Fairy Tales. 234 il- lustrations.
12. Mot ^| r the R prMldents of the • United States. With portraits and
niustrations^ory of the Frozen Sea s. 70 iHustratioM.
15. Wood’s Natural History. ®° 1 go' illustrations.
16. Dickens’ Child’s History of Engla nd- 80 illustrations.
.7. Black ^f^^Y^I’JLfnment, .30^^illustrations.
|f Anderaen^^Fatry Talls.^S fifusfra tions.
20. Grimm’s Fairy Tales SO^Uustratlons^ ne 68 illustrations.
21. grandfattier s Chair.^B> Nathanle con 5o iUustratjons
ft. aunt C Martha^s ^ornfr Cupboard. By -Mary and Elizabeth Kirby. 54
Hlustrat^ r Babies. By Charles Kingsley 84 inustrations.^^^ 70 illustrations.
25. Batt es of the TVar for B^epende Holmes. 80 illustrations.
!*: ?oiT 4^ iUustrations -
If KnelX t^ued^te*. 60 i,lustrations.
I?: Vicf^h^XuLbtog^hy* o^a r Fox-Terrier. By Marie More Marsh, illus-
tra 32 d Tales from Shakespeare. By Charles and Mary Lamb. 65 illustnations.
33. Adventures in Toyland. 70 «>ustr*Uons.
34 Adventures of a Brownie. 18 illustrations.
II iinthf Simi^prince'^ir^stratlons. |
• ll Ttlp Van eP (vmk.f: By W^hfn^on I^ing 46 illustrations
If: A ^Ws Garden of Verses. B y R^ert Louts Stevenson. I
40 Romulus, the Founder of Rome.
Bv Jacob Abbott. 49 illustrations.
41. Cyrus the Great, the Founder of
the Persian Empire. By Jacob Abbott.
40 Illustrations.
42. Darius the Great, King of the
Medes and Persians. By Jacob Abbott.
34 illustrations.
43 Xerxes the Great, King of Persia.
By Jacob Abbott. 39 illustrations.
44. Alexander the Great. King of
Macedon. ‘By Jacob Abbott. 51 illus
trations. _ „
45. Pyrrhus. King of Epirus. By Ja-
ctfb Abbott. 45 illustrations.
46. Hannibal, the Carthaginian. By
Jaoob Abbott. 37 illustrations.
47 Julius Caesar, the Roman uon-
By Jaoob Abbott. 44 lllustra-
100 illustrations.
By Jacob Abbott. 30 illus-
queror.
tiomr A Hred the Great, of England. By
Jacob Abbott. 40 illustrations.
49 William the Conquerer. of Eng
land ' By Jacob Abbott. 43 Illustrations.
50. Hernando Cortez, the Conqueror of Mexico.
trations^ Queen of Scots. By Jacob Abbott. 45 illustrations.
52 Queen Elizabeth, of England. By Jacob Abbott. 49 illustrations,
sa' King Charles the First, of England. By Jacob A'b6ott. 41 Illustrations
54" King Charles the Second, of England. 'By Jacob Abbott. 38 illustrations
55 Marie Antoinette, Queen of France. By John S. C. Abbott. 41 illustrations.
56 ; Madame Roland, a Heroine of the French Revolution. By Jacob Abbott. 43
illustraj nse p^| ne -Empress of France. By Jacob Abbott. 40 illustrations.
58! Animal Stories for Utile People. 50 lllusi rations.
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