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Dixie After the Wax.
SIGNIFICANT contribution
to tlie literature of '‘re
construction" is Mrs.
Myrta Lockett Avary's
new book. "Dixie After
the War,” which has just
been brought out. This
book was originally in
tended for publication in
the spring, and has been
widely heralded. It is the
tlie third of a remarka-
able group of memoirs by
southern women, includ
ing • A Belle of the Fifties," and “A
Southern Girl of ’Cl,' thus covering tlie
whole period from before tlie war until
years after.
"Dixie After the War" is in the nature
of a revelation in that it portrays the
■southern situation with peculiar vivid
ness Mrs. A vary, who has been called
"a born reporter," herself a member of
i distinguished Virginia family which
nistiiKgutshed itself n tlie war. obtaneh
iH her material at first hand. Tlie book
■overs a wide range. AH those problems
which tried file soul of the south are
oet us-ed with frankness and without
prejudice. This took is Uarinig, too. be
cause it discusses the crimes against
womanhood in the south, a subject
which most writers have avoided, but
which .til must lace. Among tlie many
rare pictures in "Dixie After the War”
is a mitherto unpublished .portrait of
Jefferson Davis taken immediately after
l.is release from imprisonment In Fort
-Monroe.
The Story of Martin Coe.
Actual experience enabled Ralph D.
I “nine to infuse so much reality in "The
Story of Martin Coe.” which comes from
t he press of Outing Publishing Company,
it is a rattling store, told with dash and
pirit, and Is wholly satisfying as a ro
mance. even if much of It is truth.
An interesting part of the three
months’ filibustering in “96. which Air.
Paine has drawn tupon very thoroughly
for his background, was spent aboard
the notorious filibuster. "The Three
Friends,” when “Dynamite Johnny
O’Brien," Paine and many others fought
the only naval engagement of the Cuban
revolution. While they were trying to
land a cargo at night’ on the southern
coast of Cuba, they ran into two Span
ish gunboats hidden in a bay at a place
called Rio San Juan.
On the voyage a gunner’s mate, who
had deserted from tic navy, Mike Which
—who is, by tlie way. the original of tlie
character of ".Martin Coe"—had mounted
a twelve-pound field piece in tlie bow.
With his firing he disabled one of the
Spanish gunboats, and “The Three
Friends" ran away from the other gun
boat after a brisk engagement with can
non and rifles. Incidentally Ralph Paine
was named in a legal proceeding brought
by tlie Fnited States government, in
which lie and his associates were named
as pirates. After the expedition Mr.
Paine spent a good deal of time in
Florida dodging United States mar
shals.
Putting the Most Into Life.
“Putting the Most Into Rife." hy Book
er T. Washington, is published by Thom
as Y. Crowell & Co. The author of
“Up From Slavery" and tlie founder of
Tuskegee institute has been accustomed
to giving week-end talks before 11 is stu
dents on tlie most practical sii...iccts pos
sible. 1 lie does not deal with theories,
but with facts, and these facts which
will most assist his hearers in their
struggle toward good citizenship. A re
cent iseries of these addresses, and one
of the best, has been enlarged by the
author, and now appears with the apt
litle of “Putting the Most into Rife.”
It is discussim under six heads, dealing
with tlie physical, mental, spiritual find
racial aspects of the ease. Tlie discus
sions are broad-gauge, sensible and in
spired by that intense desire for uplift
which lias caused the author himself to
rise from the humblest rank- to a posi
tion of commanding influence.
The Shock of Battle.
Now that tourist travel is beginning to
set in toward the Wort Indies, the trav
eler will find entertainment and no little
instruction In "Tlie Shock of Battle." by
Patrick Vaux, and published by G. P.
Putnam's Sons. It is a strenuous tale,
and while tie can vividly picture a ter
rific naval battle. Mr. Vaux also has the
temperament and the color of the true
poet. Some of his bits of description are
gems in a way and give to this tale of
slaughter and deist ruction a charm
which lingers long after the smoke and
tumult of battle have passed away. It
Is a fine story, based upon an imaginary
war between Great Britain and Germa
ny shortly after the opening of the Pan
ama canal. Through a series of acci
dents an unwilling 'but courageous news
paper reporter is forced to become an
eyewitness, almost ;1 . participant, of the
naval operations in the West Indies. His
vivid and startling accounts of the hor
rors of modern warfare—tlie hideous and
ghastly scenes on board one of the new
naval fighting machines in action—are
extremely powerful.
Jimmie Suter.
By Martha Tames, author of "My Friend
Jim," etc. A great many boys will tell
you that " My Friend Jim" is one of the
best books that they ever read, and they
will be glad to know that here Is an
other by the same author with even with
more tn it to interest a live boy of twelve.
Jimmie .tauter is a sturdy, active, honest
boy, whose father and mother are very
worthy people of moderate circumstances.
Wliat Jimmie lacks in pocket money,
however, he more than makes up in me
chanical ingenuity and other good Quali
ties, and ids best boy friend is the son
of a ricli man, but not spoiled by the
fact. They have royal times making and
sailing an ice boat and doing many other
tilings, and best of all they organize the
"S. F. B.,’’ or Society for Feeding Birds,
which spreads far and wide and is pro
ductive of most enjoyable acquaintances
besides doing good service in the cause
for which it was intended. Deeds of
kindness to a queer old neighbor bring an
unexpected reward, and Lhe happy, whole
some book closes m a thoroughly satis
factory way.—•Rothrop, Ree & Shepard
Company, publishers, Boston.
With Mask and Mit.
By A. T. Dudley. Tlie books of the
Philiips-Exeter Series have become stand
ard on account of the accurate athletic
knowledge presented, the excellent pic
tures of American boarding school life
Unit are given, and the thoroughly manly
quality everywhere in evidence. Two nave
uealt with toouoau and one with base
ball as central features of their descrip
tions of school life and development.
"With Mask and Mitt" continues the suib-
jest of baseball, although very much
more than merely a .baseball story, and
linos Phil Pooie, tlie clever young hero
of "Making the Nine, ’ a dignified ,senior
and Hie captain of tlie brst nine, in the
search for new players a promising pitch
er from among the new students is soon
brought into prominence, while the fact
is not recognized that lie owes much of
his success to the quiet and consistent
head work of another new student who
lias come from the same school and lias
been his catcher. The drifting of tlie
former lad toward the fast set and the
unprofitableness of all furnishes oppor
tunity for the most serious and aide study
Mr. Dudley has yet given us, while the
constant* progress of his discouraged tout
resolute classmate, whose ultimate tri
umph comes in connection with the thrill
ing big game that closes the season. Is
told in a way liiat makes old boys feel
young again. Athletic science, rousing
geo,l fun, and wholesome character
building are well combined.—Rothrop, Ree
A Shepard Company, publishers, Boston.
Meg and the Others.
Of especial appeal to girls is tills de
lightfully written book, but it should also
please, their brothers, and young people
o’* ail ages. It is the tale of a little girl
of the long ago. her playmates and her
adventures, as they were related to two
other little girls, after supper time, by
their grandmother. Meg was the name
TOM FORTUNE TOLD FREE
AS TOCR STAR KETEAl-S IT I ^31
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Would it help you to be torwarncJ In advance of sickness T—Financial loss .—or deception T Wot a
you not thank anyone most heartily for showing you a favorable opportunity that m.gbt pad to ’ kappln
and riches .’—if HO. (lend your name, birth dale and 2c snap, sad I will tell you the above things by aatro.ogy which -
all thin plain, and much more too. I went to send FREE a reading of your life which will show Just what late has
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guide and asyist you i:i business, lot o, marriage, society, etc. It will explain the Influence o. the P *nets uni 'rinn’t
yon were born. It will hem vou to secure perfect, happmess and real success and avoid the dangers ana pitiai s - -
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and I want to read to yon from its pages. Simply seDd you
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By the Author of “The Garden of Allah’
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BLOOD
By ROBERT HICHENS
It Is a wonderful story—a story
thrilling with the exultant joy of physi
cal life—a story which brands itself
upon the mind with the touch of white-
hot iron.
The scenes are laid in the most
beautiful and romantic of the Mediter
ranean Islands—Sicily. Here the hero
and heroine come from England to
spend their honeymoon. In the man’s
reins runs a strain of Southern blood
which is roused by the environment of
his fathers’ land and by the beauty of
an alluring young Sicilian girl.
The story runs through a series of
breathlessly intense and passionate
climaxes. Every scene breathes the
same wonderful mystic charm that
made “The Garden of Allah’’ a marvel
of romance.
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of the old-fashioned child, and she was
subject to most of the failings of present-
day, happy, healthy, adventurous young
folks. Thdu there is a Boy, spelled with
a capital letter, if you please, who was
very much in evidence; and, lastly, an
other girl, who wore very tine clothes
and lived quite near by for those days.
Among them, the trio managed to keep
tilings lively: but after all, the mischief
was never of a very serious kind, and
they were never long in disgrace. At the
last a splendid secret leaks out which
concerns grandmother herself, and grand
father. too. But we must not anticipate
the story!—Thomas T. Crowell & Co.,
publishers, New York.
Tales from Herodotus.
Tn presenting a series of stories for
children based upon the great authors,
poets, and historians, tlie publishers of
these popular classics are doing a real
service. They are. inculcating a taste for
tiie highest and best, and giving an intro
ductory knowledge of books which every
child should know—and this without sac
rifice of interest in .lie stories them
selves.
me latest volume in the "Children’s
Favorite Classics" is a good example ot
tills. It will make Herodotus a friend of
many young people who otherwise would
view him as a musty name, it ind< e.l.
they heard of him at all. Yet the "Father
of Historians" was a fine old story-teller,
as this little book bears witness. It was
lie who first told of -Midas, file king
whose touch turned everything to gold;
of Croesus, tlie rich king who sought
iiappiness; of the famous wars of tlie
Persians against Greece, when Xerxes
<Sco urged the sea with whips, and,
brought so vast an army that they drank
a river dry ;ond of how the little bands
of Spartans and Greeks fought them and
drove them back by land and si a. thus
preserving the freedom of all Europe
for ages to come. The present book is
largely devoted to this Greek struggle
lor liberty, a theme which will never lose
its fascination: and it was to popularize
that story and its original chronicler
which inspired Air. Havell in his luudti-
ble and successful venture.—Thomas Y
Crowell & Co., New York.
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Literary Driftwood.
To a Literary Man in Love.
Rover, If you would Randor now.
And my advice will Borrow,
Raleigh your courage, storm her Hai le
It other words, be Thoreau.
You'll have to Stowe away some Sand.
Four doubtless you’ll Findiater
That to secure the maiden’s hand
Hugo and tackle Pater.
Then Hunt a Church to Alarryatt.
An Abbott for the splice;
And as you Rideout after Ward
You both must Dodge the Ri. <
Next, on a Heaven-Gissing Hill,
A Grant of Land igo buy,
Whence will be seen far Fields of Green,
All Hay and Romany Rye.
Here a two-Story Houseman builds;
The best of Holmes is it,
If you make sure that on its Sill
The dove of peace Hazlitt.
"Hough does one Wright this AXotley
verse,
This airy persiflage?"
Marvell no Morris to Howitt’s Dunne,
Just Reade Watson this Page'
—Elizabeth Dickson Conover, in Put
nam’s Monthly for October.
A New Kipling Story.
Kipling’s new book, "Puck of Books
Hill.” grew out of a characteristic inci
dent. it is the author's habit to prowl
through the village of Burwash. which
lies near his farm in Sussex. England.
One day two years aigo he went into an
old bookshop and picked up a time-worn
“History of Sussex." He began to read
tlie volumes and became absorbed in
them. Finally he bought the set. When
he brought tlie books home Mrs. Kip
ling asked:
"Why did you buy these old books?"
"1 am going to get a book out of
them." replied Kipling.
The result was tlie group of fanciful!
tale? which compose “Puck of Book's
Hill." and whieh have tlie Sussex back
ground. It is a. modern 'Mid-summer
•Nilght’s Dream." for it deals with fairies
and knights. 1
The Personality of Lcl'cado Hsnra.
"When in 1889 Hearn appeared in my
receipt ion room." write* Dr. George M.
Gould in Putnam's Monthly for October,
"although I had not seen any photo-
igraph of him. and had not oven known
of his coming. I at on •»• .-aid, ‘You are
Rafeadio.’ The poor exotic was so sadly
out of place, so wondering, so suffering
and shy that I am sure he would have
run out of the house If 1 had not at
onee shown him on overflowing kindness,
or if a tone of voice had betrayed any
curiosity or doubt.
"It was at once agreed that he should
stay with me indefinitely, -and there was
no de'ay in providing him with a seat
at my table, and a room where he could
be at his work of proof-correcting. His
‘Two A’ears in the French West tndies’
was then going through the press and
an incident connected with the proof
reading illustrates how impossible it was
for him. except when necessity drove, to
meet any person not already known.
"He wished to give bis reader the tune
of the songs printed on pages 426-431,
but ne knew nothing of music. I ar
ranged with a lady to repeat the airs
on her piano as he'should whistle them,
and tin n to write tTiem on the music
staff. When the fatal evening arrived.
Hearn and I went to the lady’s house.
Imt as wo proceeded ills part in our
chatting lapsed into silence, and lie
lagged behind, although he finally
dr:egged himself to the foot of the door
step. After 1 had rung the bell his
courage failed, and before the door was
opened X saw him running as if for life,
half a square away."
Mr. Cleveland’s Outdoor Aphorisms
In the course of a new book to be pub
lished this month under the title “Fish-
ing and Shooting Sketches," Grover
Cleveland observes:
The unstrenuous, philosophical fishing
fraternity does more for humanity than
the strenuous people.
T'ishing stories are always to be be
lieved.
It is better to go home with nothing
killed than to fot ! tile weight of a. mean,
unsportsmanlike act.
There can be no doubt that the prom
ise of industrial business, of contented
labor and of healthful moderation in the
pursuit of wealth in this democratic
country of ours would be infinitely im
proved if a large share of the' time
which has been devoted to tlie concoc
tion of trusts and business combinations
had been spent in fishing.
The biggest fish arc always lost.
Fisherman necessarily s ee anil dn won
derful tilings. If those riot members of
the fraternity are unable to assimilate
tlie recital of these wonders; it i.s be-
. use their believeing apparatus has not
been properly, regulated and stimulated.
Daniel Wobster’s most thrilling ora
torical flight - were composed while wad
ing waist deep and casting flies.
So man can bo a completely good fish
erman unless lie is generously sympa
thetic and honest.
Great Was Pepys.
“T atn inclined to think that Pepys.
when it is all said, is tlie greatest of the
.Londoners—a fuller, more intensely alive
Londoner than either Johnson or Limb. '
says E. V. Lucas in "A Wanderer in
London" (Macmillan). "Perhaps he wir«-
iiis preeminence rather by his littlene:s,
tor to be a Londoner in the highest one
must be rather trivial or at least be in-
tcrested in trivialities. Johnson was too
serious. Lamb too imaginative, to com
pete with this busy secretary. Neither
was such an epicure of life, neither found
the world fresh every morning as lie
did. It is as the epicure of life that he
is so alluring. His self-revelations are
valuable in some degree, and his picture
oi the times makes him perhaps the
finest understudy a historian ever had:
but Pepys' greatness lies in his apprecia
tion of good things. He lived minute
by minute, as wise men do, and lie ex
tracted whatever honey was possible.
Who else has so fused business and
pleasure? Who else has kept ids mind
so open. so alert? Whenever Beuys
found an odd quarter of an hour he sang
or strummed it away with a glad heart.
. . . Samuel Pepys was a superb artist
in living. He was a man of insatiable
inquisitiveness; there w’s always some
thing he considered ‘pretty to see.’ ”
The Rodway.
"The Roadway" is the title of a del
icate bit of verse by Ella Young, an
Trish poet:
There is a little road that "winds and
winds.
But never seem- to come to any end.
And by it crimson lilies sway and bend
And shake down petals no one ever
finds.
T think the road is hidden through the
day.
But I walk on it when the twilight
makes
A dusty splendor over unknown lakes
That glimmer faintly very far away.
And all the trees are hushed and full
of sleep,
And all the birds are gone out of the
sky.
And the white moths have not begun
to fly. j
And silence is about me. soft and deep.
And where the roadway goes to. mile
on mile;
And why the crimson lilies are so tail
I might find out. and wltv tlieir pe.als
fall.
If only I could stay a little while.
Proposed Addition to America.
Henry Van Dyke, in a recent number
iq The Interior, proposes the addition
of two stanzas to tlie national anthem.
He thinks these are required to express
tlie inexhaustible riches of the sublime
and beautiful, tlie broad and varied nat
ural enchantments of all America. He
says:
"Let us sing the familiar and we'.l-
loved verses which come from tlie east;
but let us sing also of the north and
west and tlie south, the great lakes,
the wide forests, tlie vast prairies and
tiie blooming savannahs:
"I love thine inland seas.
Thy groves and giant trees.
Thy rolling plains:
Thy rivers' mighty sweep.
Thy mystic canyons deep,
'Thy mounains wild and steep.
All thy domains.
“Thy silver eastern strands.
Thy Golden Gate that stands
Fronting the west:
Thy flowery southland fair.
Thy sweet and crystal air
<), land beyond compare.
Thee I love best!"
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"Common American and European n-
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Moths." In these manuals each type is
reproduced in natural colors, and the
common and scientific names of each ore
given; the manuals arc also nidexed.
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in entomology, it is believed that ‘lie
manuals will be of especially value in
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