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SL Talks oi The a.sj than she,-y the Aluu c-oi have be> mai ol' cultu r - J It is -pi. mt "s •oule a-’truSfs thing's s-e t -,' e ty and e Da- lie cou'irff;. words. Be n- An a J * ,,e «RV- and lierj meek, ie ad- larmer nt, ni self to J' is , . o/j** lrusibai dented ar money * own, whe' r MaKing q/ BooKs 'OA, (Aaf mine enemy would make a book.” Conducted By 3^ W McAdam Under the Lamp < Wish Late BooSi*; j 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. J ‘' 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 •7T- IVI F\ MONNISH, IVI. D. Specialty: Diseases of Woman. Every Disease, tut Females Exclusively Traatsd. Graduate of European and American Hospitals and Colleges. Skilful, re liable and up-to-date treatment. Medicines furnished in office. First-clasp a. commodations furnished to select lady patients. Offices at residence at 349 PEACHTdEE ST., ATLANTA, CA. Main B6II and Long Distance Phone 1343. Atlanta phene 817. 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? ffl 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. the tlie 15= marie JUST QUIPS. 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