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Outline* of Ancient History.
wt. j; tins book, Professor Wil
liam C. Morey has success
fully followed the plan of
treatment of hjs Greek ami
Roman 'histories, but while
the present volume covers
the same ground, it sup
plies the need of a one-vol
ume courso In ancient his
tory meeting fully the col
lege entrance requirements,
for schools t»hieh cannot
devote more time to the
subject. The matter is so
arranged as to Indicate the historical re
lations of the countries treated, and the
contributions which oach has made to
the progress of mankind. The stages in
the growth of ancient civilization ait*
clearly shown. The history of the Orien-
tal countries illustrates the beginnings
of man’s industrial life, and the initial
stages in religion, art and science. The
Greek world Is treated a s especially dis-
vinguished for the growth of political lib
erty and of a high stage of culture. In
describing Rome, emphasis is laid on the
Roman genius for organization, and the
development of a universal system of gov
ernment and law.—American Rook Com
pany, New York.
Tannahauser.
Oliver Jflieket i 8 performing a distinct
lervice to musical and poetic art, and
o popular education through his retelling
if Wagnerian dramas. Hia “Parsifal”
tnd ‘'Lohengrin" are now followed by
yTannliatiser," published b>; Thomas X.
Crowell & Co. It is printed in black and
red. with stiecial type designs by the Mer-
rymount Press. Wagner is a great poet
in the strictest literary sense, just as he
is the Milton of music, and the more the
beauties of this man's great genius are
made known the broader may be the edu
cation of those who beneilt thereby. Mr.
Hucker.’s metrical rendering is entirely
satisfactory, When ‘’Parsifal’' appeared,
critics were agreed that this ,wtL8 the Irst
genuinely poetic version to be published
in America. “Lohengrin,” son of “Par
sifal.” was naturally a fitting successor;
•while there is much in the 'Tannhau-
ser” story which marks it one of the
triology. The revolt of this errant knight
from lihe powers of evil; his second down
fall; the devotion of Elizabeth; and tho
iinal redemption, unite to form one of the
noblest spiritual dramas in any language,
and to give complete demonstration of
Wagner’s masterly .power* as a dramat
ic poet.
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‘' Caybigan. ‘ *
MoCIiure. Phillips & Co. publish “Cay-
iiigan," by James Hopper, several ex
ceptional stories of life in the Philip
pines that have appearud in McClure’s
imil oihar during tha lual
year or two. They attracted so much
favorable comment on thoir first appear
ance that tlie 'publishers decided to bring
them out In book form. The tales are
the result of personal, close range ob
servation, plus the author's strong and
graphic gift of story telling. Mr. Hop
per wag formerly a school teacher in
the Philippines.
The Second Violin.
Mrs. Grace S. Richmond's new book,
“The Second Violin,” iwhich has Just
been published by Doubleday. Page *
Cc„ underwent the same experience as
her first book. “The Indifference of Ju
liet.” She wrote a short serial, which
became so popular that *he had to sup
plement it with a continuation. Then
she got so many letters asking for thi
publication of the story in book form
that she made a book out of the original
story. Tills is the career of "The Sec
ond Violin." It deals with the adven
tures of a family of young people tem-
iperarUy orphaned because of their moth
er's Illness and keeping up the home
together.
Joseph Vance,
"Joseph Vance: an Ill-Written Auto
biography,’' by Wilson De Morgan, pub
lished by Henry Holt A Co., la a noval
by an eminent English artist, who K
also a brother of the great mathema
tician. Jt is the alleged autobiography
of a middle class Englishman, with a
genius for love and friendship. He tells
of Ills parents, loves ana friends, and
o; his growth from a boyhood amid
squalor to a successful manhood as an
inventing mechanical engineer. rhe
book is a noteworthy picture or middle
class England fifty years ago; it is not
a tale of sensational happenings, but a
probable and interesting life history with
a wealth of humorous and descriptive
detail. A complete human dooument, full
ol laut,-.ter and tears, a book for the
discriminating.
In London Town.
F. Berkeley Smith’s newest book is
“In London Town." In this volume tho
author has treated the great British
metropolis in the same dashing, racy
style that made his three former books
on Paris and Parisians so popular. The
author’s style is too sprightly and im
pressionistic for his work to be accepted
as a guide book of London. In other
words, it is a volume to laugh over
rather than study.
There are upwards of fifty illustrations
by the author and other artists. Mr.
Smith Is a son of P. Hopklnson Smtth,
and inherits to a marked degree tho ver
satile genius of his famous sire.—Funk &
Wagnalls Company, New York.
The World’s Christmas Tree.
"The World’s Christmas Tree.” hv
Charles Edward Jefferson, author of
"Doctrine and Deed.” is a powerful plea
for the true spirit of Christianity. He
views as in a vision the present method
of observing Christmas, and finds that
"the human race has crystallized into
a countless number of little circles, and
from hand to hand around each circle
the presents pass. ’I shall give some
thing to you and wonder what I shall
t.ct f-om ..on!' this is the unspoken
fijir;! .’■ Meanwhile the great fallen,
needy nice of men ire being forgotten,
ai d neglected.
‘‘The World's Christmas Tree,” as Dr.
J( fferson sees it. is the tree of Opportun
ity. Each r erson is privileged to hang
something u.pon it for the benefit of man
kind. There lives not a man. anywhere
op oarth too poor to put something i t
It.—Thomas Y. Crowell & Co. publish
tile book.
Every Man a King.
You will feel stronger and own a de
lightful stimulation in reading Orison
Swett Marden’s "Every Man a King. ”
Tite writer Is a leader who may he fol
lowed With great profit. His view of life
and the responsibility of man are sane.
Wholesome and inspiring. His practical
hooks on success in life have received
the indorsement of presidents'and orowneu
heads, and have been translated as far
even as Japan.
This latest of his books Is perhaps ex
plained best 'by its subtitle, ‘ Alight in
Mind-Mastery.” It is a powerful plea for
the mastery of self and the training of
latent forces to the 'highest ends. Some
suggestive chapter headings are: "How
Alina 'Rules the Body,” "Thought Causes
Health and Diseases,” ‘'.Mastering Our
Moods," “The Power of Cheerful Think
ing” and "Building Character.”
We cannot give a belter idea of the di
rectness of the book than to quote from
the opening chapter: “Considering the
mind governs everything in our world, its
force has been singularly neglected and
misunderstood. Even when tribute has
'been paid to its power, it has been treat
ed as something unalterable, a tool that
could be used, if one were born with the
genius. . . . The possibilities of thougln-
training are infinite. Us consequences
eternal. . . . There can be no more ini
poruint study, no higher duty owed to
ourselves and those about us, than this.
Garland’s Latest Book.
Mr. Garland has rewritten and greatly
enlarged his story, "The Spirit of .Sweet
water,” and Doubleday, Page & Co. now
issue it under the new title of Timh's
Gold.” in very attractive binding, with
three full page illustrations by \Y. L.
Taylor, besides decorations. Tlie scene
of the story Is laid in the west, where
Air. Garland won his first literary suc
cesses, and that country which is asso
ciated with “Rose of Dutcher's Ooolly”
and “Main Traveled Roads.” The hero
is a strong man who wrests a fortune
out of .the earth, and the heroine is a
very fragile woman who goes to the west
Jor 3ier health. Between these two peo
ple is developed the romance of tho book,
and it Is a story of moral uplift through
love.
As the story originally appeared in se
rial form, it was regarded as one of Air.
Garland’s most effective stories, and now
that It has been thoroughly rewritten
and enlarged, there is every reason to
believe that it. will repeat Tis first suc
cess.
Balance of Power.
A vigorous, well knit novel of Amer
ican life is Arthur Goodriciis "Balance
of Power,” from the press of Outing
Publishing Company. The author has
spelled success in big letters. He evi
dently has a first hand knowledge of
what he writes and he knows exactly
how to write it. John Gilbert, the hero,
has been called the \\ illiam Travers
Jeroms of fiction. His simple philosophy
may be suggested by the following re
marks:
It s the thing that counts, not me
nor them nor anybody else.”
“It’s a pretty good world. There
aren t half as many people who want to
shoot you and sandbag you as the news
papers try to make you think there
are."
"It don’t pay for a yankee to say that
a tiling can’t be done. The first thing
lie knows along comes some other fool
yankee and does It.”
"Hardy looks at life as a long bridge
over a chasm. He thinks there’s room
for only one on that bridge, and to get
across he’s got to knock evervbocH- else
off.”
“Being poor Is all right if you can for
get it.”
"There is one Joy greater than being
with people when one wishes to be with
people, and that is to be alone when one
■wishes to be alone.”
Every time we hear a. band play
we’d like to think it’s for us.”
.y V1 \ y s uffer with female disease or
piles. T will s*ncl free to every sufferer
my simple vegetable cure. Write Mrs
< ora B. Miller, Box 2056, Kokomo, ind!
Publication Notes.
Steward Edward White, whose new
book. “The Pass.” is adding to his repu
tation for powers of description and ap
preciation of nature, is very modest
about ITis work. About one of his novels’
Which had become a typical White suc
cess, he remarked naively: “And tlie
wonder to me Is that rney like it at all.
It lsn t really a novel, lt^ description
around a narrative.”' And this Is really
what “The Pass” is; "description around
a narrative,” but JTuelT'uescription that it
carries the reader along with it.
The colonel in Arthur Goodrich’s “The
Balance of Power.” - who has been oaTTctl
tho ‘Militant David Hamm," is said to
have been drawn straight from life. The
man in question lived for some twenty
years on t7ie western plains, fighting
Indians, riding pony express, mining for
gold and Silver, and now lives in just
such a -Connecticut city as the Hamp
stead of the story. Many of the little
stories which tin- colonel tells in the
ii>-vel are, it is said, true stories of the
old west.
The ’October 5 number of tlie North
American Review is notable for the time
liness and variety of its contents, it
opens with the third instalment of chap
ters from Mark Twain’s autobiography.
Wayne Mac Yeagh exultantly recounts
the "Reforms Secured in Pennsylvania.”
Georg. W. Scott discusses “International
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Law and the Drago Doctrine.” Charles
!■. Beach, Jr., tells what has been re
cently done In the wqj' of "Educational
Reciprocity' between some of the great
nations. t\. D. Howells gives a charm
ing description of "Oxford." A student
ot financial and industrial subjects, writ
ing over the pseudonym "Scrutator,”
gives a very favorable mea of "Our Busi
ness Outlook.” K. K. Kawakaml gives
an account of the "Awakening of China.”
T. Speed Alosby presents certain views
as to tlie incidence iof crime derived from
an examination of the criminals confined
in “America’s Greatest Prison.” In the
literary department, Dr. Joseph S. Ken-
nard s "Italian Homawce Writers" is re
viewed by F. Taber Cooper; Henry W.
Nevin son's "The Dawn in Russia,” by
Abraham Caban; George Saintsbury's
“History of English Prosody,” by Bran-
<ler Matthews; and "The Art of Fiona
Aiaclccd" Is considered by Lawrence Gil
man. The department of' World-Politics
contains •communications from London
and St. Petersburg; ana among the tonics
dealt with hi the Editor’s Diary are "The
Necessity of Woman Suffrage;” "Eng
land, the United States and Cuba;" "The
Kearst Force in tho Scales;’’ "Of Edl-
lors and their Critics;” “Of Honesty in
Advertising.” and “Conventional or Un
conventional Morality.”
AH reports from newsdealers show that
the first among the “six best sellers” is
now Robert W. Chambers’ story of New
York, “The Fighting Chance.’’ Air. Cham
bers has never before held first place,
though he has often been well toward the
fore. None of his books has failed of a
good sale, and the publishers compute
the total number of vommes of his that
have been sold aggregating over 600.000.
This does not include “The Fighting
Chance.” which ran as a serial and ac
quired such momentum that its first edi
tion was 50,000 topics. Four more edi
tions have since been added In as many
weeks. Tills is doing fairly well consider
ing that Air. Chambers has Just turned
forty.
The very day that John uliver Hobbes
(Mrs. Craigie) died in her sleep in Eng
land. the copy for her last finished novel
was received in New York by her pub
lishers. D. Appleton & Co. The book was
sent at once to the printers and will be
issued as soon as possible. Jfeing her
last work, and representing her final
word on life as she saw it with her keen
eyes, it is bound to attract wide atten
tion.
“The Guarded Flame,” by VY. B. Alax-
wt 11, the author of “Vivien” i D. Apple-
ion & Co.), is said to be a story ol gen
uine literary excellence. Air. Alaxwell is
taking his place in England with such
writers as Thomas Hardy and Aleredith.
I lomer Davenport, the cartoonist, is
about to combine the crayon with the
■pen; in fact, he is becoming almost as
versatile as Hop Smith. While the latter
huil is light houses, paints pictures and
writes books, Davenport breeds Arabian
steeds, draws forcible political cartoons
and writes magazine articles. It is in
teresting to note that t he commission
recently given him by tlie Woman's
Home Companion to sketch and describe
the Arabian horse and his master on
their own wind-swept desert haunts is
the direct result of Davenport’s engross
ing love for horses, especially the beauti
ful Arabian kind. It is sail that Daven
port threw over a twenty-tkousand-cloilai
position to write and illustrate a series
of articles on this subject for the
Woman’s Home Companion.
‘‘Typographical errors,” said William
Dean Howells, the famous novelist, "are
always amusing. When I was a boy in
my father’s printing office, in Martin's
Ferry, 1 once made a good typographical
error. Aiy father had written:
” ‘The showers last week, though copi
ous, were not sufficient for the millmen.’
"I set It up ’milkmen.’ ’’—Chicago Inter
Ocean.
A link with the past is broken by the
death of Viscountess Knutsford. niece of
Lord Macaulay and sister of the histor
ian’s biographer. Lady Knutsford was
born in Macaulay’s house in India, and
he showed great fondness for tils' child,
who was permitted to invade her uncle’s
room every morning to feed the crows,
some of which were almost as big as her
self. As she increased in years, Macau
lay's interest in his niece by no means
diminished. He superintended her read
ing, and she benefited by accompanying
him when visiting the places of interest,
in London, the provinces and France.—
London Globe.
Alessrs. A. S. Barnes & Co. announce
for immediate publication “The Voyages
and Explorations of Samuel de Cham
plain.” In two volumes, translated for
the first time and edited by Professor
Edward Gaylord Bourne of Yale uni-
versty. Interest in the famous explorers
of our country is constantly growing.
Recently a monument to Champlain was
dedicated on Mount (Desert island to
mark its discovery by the French ex
plorer on September 5, 1604.
Randall Parrish’s new novel of the
west, “Bob Hampton of Placer,” just
recently published, follows a series of
successes. “A Sword of the Old Frontier,”
"My Lady of the North,” and “When
Wilderness Was King.” In all of these
Mr. Parrish has proved his right to the
title of story teller through his ability
to create strong characters and vivid
scenes. Bob Hampton in this latest ro
mance is discovered in action, seeking to
save tlie life of a young girl from the
Indians as the curtain rises. He fights
with Custer in that desperate struggle on
the Little Big Horn when it falls; and
throughout tbe hook marked powers of
description are manifest. The story has
the full fiavoy of the west in the early
seventies, and its hero and heroine, their
interest heightened by an agreeably pro
longed mystery, are of the sort that Bret
Harte introduced to the literary world.
lug Genera] Merchandise Catalogue ever
printed, and they are willing to send it
free to any one who will write for it.
Tills great concern now advises us that
they are handling ali orders with won
derful speed since they are entirely lo
cated in their mammoth 40-acre plant
and are filling and dispatching the thou
sands of orders they receive dally in about
one-half tfce time they formerly required
and are setting a new standard for good
service in the mall order world. With this
firm’s wonderful facilities in their new
plant, with the marvelous values as
shown by the low prices and high quality
of the merchandise In their latest free
catalogue, with the liberal Profit Sharing
Plan which they maintain, whereby they
give their customers a large share of the
profits of the business, giving away an
endless variety of valuable merchandise
absolutely free to their customers, and
with the accuracy and speed with which
they are now handling every order that
comes to them, we look forward to see
them break all records for volume of
business this season. The honest and
straightforward as well as liberal manner
in which this. institution treats its cus
tomers is certainly a model of business
policy, one that all other tradesmen
could well afford to pattern after. *'**
DuMaurier was 60 v\*ien he gave
"Trilby” to tlie world, but DeMorgan.
whose “Joseph Vance” has just appeared
and is receiving high praise both here
and in England, is over 70, and lie is said
lo siill lie hearty and writing other
novels.
The story that Afartin Coe tells the vil
lage literary society in “The Story of
-Martin Coe” is drawn straight from real
life. When Ralph Paine, the author of
the book, was reporting for one of the
New York papers some of tlie filibustering
expeditions along the Cuban coast In
1896 ho and the party he accompanied
had almost identically the same experi
ences that Alartin Coe retails to his wide-
eyed audience. Alike Walsh, the original
Alartin Coe, was also one of the party.
Sears. Roebuck & Co.’s Wonderful
New Catalogue Just Out.
SEARS. ROEBUCK & COMPANY, the
great Mail Order House of Chicago, have
just issued their new Fall and Winter
Catalogue, the largest and most interest-
Literary Driftwood.
Ahead of Time.
(From The Boston Journal.)
A New York publisher modestly an
nounces that the great American novel
has been published by him. Ij ig some
what early in the season for such an an
nouncement. and it is an omen of a large
harvest. The great American novel is
due in October and thereafter at the rata
or three a lnQiith until just just before
Easter.
This great American novel is character
ized by a remarkable atmosphere. So
says the publisher. He does not like to
claim too muq, for it. but lie admits that
in every essentia! for the making of a
great American novel, that which he lias
in mind and stock is so far ahead of all
others thal they should not be mentioaeu
in the same breath. He believes tha
i lie critics will be at a loss for words
with which to express their opinions. He
does not know the critics. They are
never at a loss for words. Y’ery often
they are hurried and at a loss for time,
bm words are their stronghold.
However, the publisher in question in
sists that atmosphere is the one great
point In connection with the great Amer
ican novel which he has succeeded in find
ing. There is some doubt on the part
of experts concerning the power of at
mosphere to float a bociJi. Books and
balloons are not altogether unlike, but
in some respects they are different. At
mosphere is necessary if or the successful
operation of an airship and yet there are
books which might have been produced in
a vacuum, so far as atmosphere is con
cerned, but they sell well and are co
herent.
On he other hand. Upton Sinclair wrote
a. book which contained not only at
mosphere, but odor. It might have been
published bv the New England Sanitary
Product Company without creating more
than a mild protest to the board of
health. That book sold exclusively on its
odor, or atmosphere, but even now it Is
removed from the list of best sellers.
Still, if the great American novel has
been written, it should be welcomed with
a glaq hand. And yet, although publish
ers are the most veracious of men, possi
bly the public may differ in this case, as it
has in some others.
Novelist’s Body To Be Cremated.
(London Cable to New York Sun.)
The will of Airs. Craigie, better known
as John Oliver Hobbs, the novelist, was
probated today. Tlie value of the estate
!s stated to be SI22,510 net. The personalty
is valued at S4.975. In her will Airs.
Craigie expressed the desire that her
body be buried according to the rites
of the Roman Catholic church. Never
theless she directed that it be cremated.
She desired that her son should go to
Oxford university and that he should be
left unfettered in his choice of religion
and profession.
Effrontery Rebuked.
(From The Denver Times.)
A western poet sent The Chicago Rec
ord-Herald a poem entitled "Tlie Lay of
a Setting Hen,” but the editor was too
old a bird to be caught with chaff. He
referred the matter to an expert in hen-
ology and returned the manuscript to
tlie brazen-cheelted author with a severe
reprimand and the information that set-
ling hens do not lay.
Tire Chrystalis.
(Clinton S. Hard, in New York Sun.)
Sport of the winds through long white
days of snow
With the bare boughs it swayed, a
lifeless thing;
Spring touched it. came a tremor swift,
and lo.
Athwart the sun a radiant lift of
wing!
Plaything for wliatso chill Fate might
devise.
His unresponsive heart was e’en as
tills
Until it felt the sunlight of her eyes.
When love awoke and burst Its chrys
alis.
Burton a Plagarist.
The appearance of a new and what is
regarded as a definite biography of Sir
Richard Burton, the “Arabian Knight,”
the ''Nineteenth Century Ulysses,” 'will
not at this late day open many old
wounds, arouse old enmities, or inspire
again the stubborn battle between the
Burtondtes and the Laneits. The years
have softened the asperities of Burton's
character, even if they havo not lifted
the mystery that shrouded some of his
exploits as an army officer in India,
where he prowled among the natives in
much the same manner as Inspector
'Strickland in Kipling's plain tales from
the hills. The controversy over “The
Scented Garden” is also stilled, and the
leaders of tlie "Nights.” who have been
very bitter toward the memory of Lady
Burton for destroying the manuscript,
will have their anger allayed 'by the
present biographer. If Air. Wright is
to be ibelieved, and as lie was familiar
with the manuscript of “The Scented
Garden,” there is no reason to doubt
his word, the world did not lose a lit
erary pearl by Lady Burton’s “act of
sacrilege,” as some of her critics have
termed the burning of that erotic work,
on which Burton pathetically toiled tip
to the day of his death. The biographer,
however, lias tossed a bombshell into
the Burton camp. The “Arabian Nights.”
regarded as the corner stone of Bur
ton’s literary fame, is shown to have
been taken almost verbatim from an
earlier translation by the scholarly
John Payne. The ibicgraplvsr does not
dispute the monumental nature of the
Burton edition, equipped with its fa
mous anthropological and ethnological
notes and its celebrated terminal essay,
forming a veritable encyclopedia of
eastern iife and manners, but he con
tends tnat in literary quality and schol
arship the Burton text is inferior to
the work from which he borrowed. Mr.
Wright floes not merely make .the charge
that Burton pilfered from Payne, but by
a frequent use of the deadly parallel col
umns proves his contention. It will be
a bitter pill for the Burtonites to swal
low—but they can comfort themselves
with the biographer’s estimate that
Burton was the greatest English lin
guist. traveler, ethnologist and anthro
pologist of his age.—Rochester Post-Ex
press.
Profanity in Books.
(Pittsburg Post.)
Uid-fashionel gentlemen still refrain
from swearing within the hearing of
women, and none contends that intem
perance is either smart or wDe. How
does it happen, then, that the novels of
current issue are unusually ir.rofuse in
profanity, and some of their authors are
women? For many years there was that
feeling akin to chivalry of hyphenating
the first and final letters of an oath. with,
the polite intent of softening its impact
on delicate ears. Now, the whole exple
tive is spelled out boldly, as if there were
some peculiar element of tlie picturesque
or added power to the realistic curse.
Within I lie past week four pretentious
books of fiction have been loudly boomed
by publishers, an l in each the offense of
profanity is marked to a striking degree.
One is a feminine product dealing with
tlie Klondike, and its gages reek with the
coarsest oaths. It will meet its deserved
fate, 'but only because of its excesses.
Another woman’s product, an author of
standard worth, feels tlist to deoict New
England coast life swearing must be in
cluded'in her characterizations. We have
a story of the Tennessee valley, written
by an acknowledged poet, and he aban
dons the -divine afflatus to swear volably
by proxy. A fourth tells a tale of shys-
terdom and naturally the pages must
teem witfi cheap profanity.
Does i: "a particularly gentlemanly
(one impart," this brazen introduction of
raw oaths in a hook advertised to be a
best seller? One might infer that such
characters as are portrayed do know how
to swear; but why lengthen lines by in
cluding their particular brand? What
force or lineament is added by this.literal
transcript? It is not hoped that a whole,
sale reform can be executed in profanity,
bill ought it not be kei; t out of tlie so-
called literature which forms the diver
sion of the present generation?
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Continental “Red” Keeps
London Police on Jlnxious Seat
■BOUT twenty years ago.
when the more desperate
section of the Iirish Fe
nians was almost baffling
the English and Irish po
lice by dynamite and other
outrages, it was decided
to organize a district tle-
•tective machinery, known
as the "special branch” of
the criminal investigation
department, for the pur
pose of locating and dis
secting the various murder
and dynamite plo s. identifying the mei-
connected therewith and keeping them
under observation; also, of course, for
protecting public men whose lives were
in danger, notably Arthur Balfour when
lie ovas the chief secretary lor Ireland.
The work of organizing this -branch was
intrusted ;o Chief Inspector LittlecHTid,
who retired on a pension some eleven
years ago. The machinery and methods
of the special 'branch were found to be
equally well adapted to the ultra-earnest
Russian patriot or the fanatical bomb
thrower from France, Italy or Spain.
The criminal investigation department
special branch is, although composed
almost entirely of criminal investigation
department men, more directly under the
control of the home office than the res?
ol -the metropolitan police. Its duties
consist in what is described politely as
"political work,” including the supervis
ion of ariarenists and nihilists and other
persons who .may be a source oi personal
danger ;o the king or queen or to mem
bers of our royal famny or to foreign
potentates visiung uur country or out-
own ministers of stale.
LOOK AFTER FOREIGN SPIES.
The branch is sometimes kept Dusy in
trying to trace the source of anonymous
letters written to any of the amove; it
also undertaxes the necessary inquiries
in the case of applications for letters of
naturalization or on behalf of the. foreign
office for passports. Persons suspected
of being foreign spies also receive atten
tion lrom tne spetnai orancn, generally
a’ the instigation either of the admiralty
or the waT olflce.
The present staff consists of Superin
tendent Quinn—an admirable appointment
-one cidef inspector, three inspectors
and fifty-two other detectives, in the case
of two or three of whom the old estab
lished rule that every detective must
have started as an ordinary constable
has been waived. These exceptions are
linguists and men of peculiar experience
among the most undesirable aliens in this
and other countries.
Some thirty of this number are divided
up among six foreign and seven British
ports—wnich shall be nameless—to keep
observation on outgoing and incoming
passenger boats, a lew of them occasion
ally going abroad on special duty con
nected with royal visits to continemal
countries or otherwise.
One member of the branch speaks and
writes seven languages, another three,
one lias resided in live different countries
and speaks four languages, and most of
them know French. Heliographing is un
derstood by some of them.
EMBASSIES HAVE DETECTIVE.
Our detectives uo not, as is olten sup
pose.], permanently safeguard the inter
ests of other countries as regard for
eign "political" suspects in this country.
At least three European governments are
represented in England by tnelr own se
cret service agents, who are attached to
the embassies and act independently of
us. A foreign detective sent here for
special purpose, however, as a rule places
himseif in communication with “the
yard. " At present there is no combined
international movement aganst this class
of crime.
Tlie results of the special branch or
ganization cannot be judged by what is
read in the newspapers as regards the
suppression of anarchists—there have
been only two prosecutions in the last
two years, but a vast amount of quiet
work has been achieved. Suspected per
sons are located, observed and often
frightened out of the country, unknown
to the public.
The relations between the detective and
the anarchist are peculiar. One sees a
member of the S. B. enter one of three
shops suspected o fprovlding informal
meeting places for anarchists not far
from Shaftsbury avenue, ostensibly to
make a trifling purchase. The owner of
tlie shop an l the one customer, an Italian
suspect, each gr-'et him. but In two dif
ferent languages. Both know his busi
ness almost as well as he does. But
there is no animosity between the hunted
and the hunter.
APPEARS AND QUELLS A RIOT.
On another occasion a crowd of more
ot less undesirable aliens In one o* ‘-he
dangerous foreign quarters is looking on
a. a struggle between a couple of con
stables and some roughs, one of .-he
former having just sounded the shrill
signal for help. The onlookers are pe-
vling the police in several languages,
and some of them are inclined to join
in (it is thirty to one against tlie unl-
•;orms) when an Englishman or no re
markable physique, pushing Ills way
through tlie outskirts of the crowd. !s
keenly scrutinizing faces—one in particu
lar, that of a man who Is exhorting oth
ers to violence. The Englishman is rec
ognized and the foreigner who interests
him steals away, whispering something
to acquaintances as lie passes them.
They and others follow suit, and tlie S.
II. man lias achieved more than three
•constables could have done. Moreover,
be lias located a man who lias been lost
sight of lately.
The force is apt to have its zeal se
verely trieq by false scents, and ev“n
hoaxes. Less than a month af:o what
appeared to any one but an electrical
expert to be possible infernal machine
w as discovered on the day of the arrival
ir. London of. two threatened members
of the royal family, and at a spot whence
an outrage might have been effected. It
was in the ordinary course of precau
tionary measures—the S. B. never de
spises any suspicious sign. nov
slight—taken to an is fitted spot i'
.l imes’ park and examine.': by tlie
office inspector of explosives and
m unced
iiscarded dry
At another
inch had
)
were suspected oi
ii g observations
tary position, an
be as harmless
nothin
cell bait*
time not
shadow
worse than
ry.
distant the
to shadow -ome men who
being foreign spies tnk-
near an important mili-
ti the "spies” proved to
as the "bomb.”
At the present moment, in view of tip-
recent outrage in Madrid, and tli" visit of
i lie king and queen of Spain to England,
tlie S. B. is 'particularly busy, and an in-
ic resting story could be made out ot' the
various men and movements to whirl
the S. B. activity is directed, but th"
writer of this article, who has been in
touch with the branch since its founda
tion, has no intention, while satisfying
tin curiosity o>f the public on a most
absorbing subject, of providing the mis
creant with valuable information. Suf
fice it lo say that among other precau
tionary measures tlie newspapers pu >-
lished in London, two in Yiddish and one
in German, and one published in Berlin,
where tlie police are supposed to exer
cise a strong press censorship, and cir
culated in London, are being carefully
lead an<J translated into English, and that
several Very interesting "ostriches" of
tlie proverbial order are burying their
beads in the sand and imagining that
consequently their .whereabouts and a -
lions are a profound secret, whereas their
photos, each one bearing a description
various .physical characteristics
subject, are being carried in the
pocket of some dozen or more S. B
sleuth hounds.
\Y Iiile the principal officers o*f this
branch receive salaries ranging from LI80
to. ^f 00 DT an mini, the rank and ii'e
V Y 1 ® have to hunt down men with funds
their disposal, draw from T2 to 12
tveek. no extra alowance being
lor languages.—(London Chronicle.
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