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TIIK TXDIAXArOLTS JOÜRXAL, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 2S, TOOL 0 SOCIOLOGICAL THK mx.iai. mmhit i aiii:hia. Trof. Crmrle. It. HtM rr-on. author of the work nam-l atnvf. i a:i Irvlk'ra man. lie v. as torn in Lafjy tt wht re his fath-r an.l family srv stitich nurnter.s of the ItapHst Church. WhU" n jour.s mm he was the very nieces .-:ful i-astcr of the First Ilaptist Church of Ttrre Haute, from where he moved to Detroit. Mich., and sub sequently became profuse r of nclolntry in the University cf Chiaifio. Dr. Henderson has occupied this chair from the beslnninsc of the university with great acceptability, publishing from time to time valuable books upon the specialty, as wtli as Uctur in Illinois and the adjoining States. In this book, which Is published by Scott. Foresman & Co., Chlcis. Dr. Henderson has popularized cur sozial and oclolopical duties as well in the methods of best per forminK them. The volume Is a part of the i'hautauoua rur-?e for I'-Ml-'-. Nothing could be more attractive th in its chaptt-rs, from Homr-makinR" to "Ko i-1-buüriinK." In graceful and graphic periods the author treats of our various duties as parents and citizens, laying special emphasis upon charities, education, working people's wages and our religious life. Selections from the chapter titles show how attractive and practical t-o obscure a subject as sociology may be made by a writer like Dr. Henderson, who deals with the concrete rather than speculates on the abstract: "Home Making as a Social Art,' "Better Ifous-es for the People," "The Pub lic Health' "Good Road.-i." "The Organi zation of Wage-earner," "Socialized IJeauty and Recreation." "Charity and Correction," "The Institution of Ideals." The title of this volume might well be "Applied Christianity." While Dr. Hender son doe3 not say "less psalm-slnglng and fewer long-winded prayers," still he none the less emphasizes the essential hypocrisy of well-fed and well-paid pastors and church members In shifting the relief of the destitute upon the Lord by a string of high-sounding sentences and a few reluct ant dollars. To work Is to pray, and the object of the book Is to suggest to begin ners how to work the most effectually, and who are our neighbors. Here are a couple of quotations to show of what manner the book Is: "We are learning the value of franchises We have come to the end of giving away the use of roads and streets to make rich capitalists still richer. We are weary of yielding, without compensation, our streets to be deformed by unsightly pole and wires. We are coming to see that a part of every fare we pay should go to some pub lic use. Now that electric roads are running In every direction, it Is time for farmers to look after their Interests and exact com pensation. Many companies will be glad to keep the highway in order for their use, if county and township authorities are honest and will be up early on the day when the franchise is to be let." "There Is no historical stratification of so ciety in this country like the rocks that hold one class down forevermore and let another come to the surface and stay there forever and rest upon those beneath. Our social stratification is like th ocean, where every individual drop is free to move and where, from the deepest depths, any drop may come up to glitter upon the high est waves. We confront the dan gers of suffrage by the blessings of free and universal education." D. P. BALDWIN. THK SCIENCE OF TKXOI.OGY. i This is a book of 450 pages, written by Henry M. Boies, member of the Board of Public Charities of Pennsylvania, and pub lished by G. 1. Putnam's Sons, New York. The work appears to contain a careful pre sentation of all the information relating to criminals that has been obtained by the men who have considered the subject prac tically and theoretically. The writer divides the science of penology into three depart ments or sections diagnostics, therapeutics and hygienics. In the first department or section, the science Itself is explained; crime is defined; the criminal class is iden tified; the several species of criminals are designated; the methods of defection, iden tification and first treatment of individuals re specified, and the social conditions which conduce to criminality are disclosed. Therapeutics is that section of the science which relates to the defense of society against the criminal class; it states the principles which regulate the repression of crime, and formulates the laws governing the- treatment and cure of criminaJs; fixes the disposition which is made of convicts according to their character, and specifies the remedies applicable to different phases of criminality. Hygienics treats of the sources, origin and causes of crime and criminality, and the measures which are necessary for the restriction of the crimi nal class and its final extermination from society. The criminal class Is composed of those members of society whose dispositions and acts are hostile to its welfare, to its order, to its laws and customs and to the rights of Its members. It Includes not only those who have been convicted of crime, those who have escaped detection, those in whom the disposition to crime exists, but all chil dren whose heredity or environment pre disposes them to become criminals. Crim inality cannot be suppressed or restricted by neglecting action until the crime is com muted, any better than smallpox or ty phoid can be neglected until the doctor is called. The scope of penal legislation, to be effective, must comprehend the whole crim inal class. It is this noxious 2 per cent, of the criminally Inclined that makes society Insecure. This fact leads one writer to urge the extermination of all criminals by a painless death. While this method is not upproved. Mr. Boies does hold that gov- crnmert should have a bureau which shall realste; the criminally Inclined or diseased. to the end that remedies may be applied for the protection of society. In the science of penology punishment for the crime perpetrated, simply as pun ishment, holds no place, since all treatment of the criminal mut be with a view to the food of society. The purpose of the arrest and sentence of young criminals should be to bring about the cure of the disease, which crime is hdd to be. Any aystem of pilson confinement which does not embrace the nirans of recovery is defective. Hence, the reformatory and the reform school take the place of the penitentiary, but when a man Is sent to the reformatory or to any other prison he should not be permitted to Ive until he Is cured of his disease, any ir.ore than he would be discharged from a hospital before recovery. Half the conv'cts In our prisons are recidivists, or backslid er run who commit a fresh crime as soon they are out of pri?on. This criminal is a social pest and should bo kept perpetu ally in prison for the security of society und because it 1 much mote economical to 4o n. A large part of the f fY),HO which it costs this country nnnu.illy to hold crime In chrk is expen.W to guard against the crlmir.Hie who are pcpulrrly classed as pro- fslrutls, but whom thf wilfer clas!:! as "the criminal expert class" and "the pareM and educator, the inspiration and example of youthful crlmlnality-the un failing source und spring of the reinforce ment which baffle and defeat all the ef forts made :o bring the contest with crime to a victorious conclusion." The extermina tion of Hit ridlvlsts. which includes the criminal ma!m-n, the instructive and the habitual criminal, is the only way to rid the community of the nunr of the criminal, leaving only the occasional offender to be ualt with. The conclusion reached by the professional penologist I that' "the strat egy of social defence against crime is that every developed case of the disease of criminality must be curtd before society is again exposed to Its attack." To deal with the criminal from the standpoint of the i safety of society, the element of expiation must be excluded from the punishment im losed by human law. Therefore, the pun ishment must be fitted to tje criminal rather than to th crime. When scientific penology shall be applied to the manage ment of criminals, crime will be treated as a disease and will be determined by diag nosis, ami the remedy applied will be suited to the cae. One of the most interesting chapters in the book is that devoted to the indetermi nate sentence, which is defined as "a sen tence which commits the convict to con finement in a scientific reformatory until he is pronounced fit to be restored to social freedom by a competent tribunal, with the condition that when this tribunal shall pro nounce the convict Incurable or Incorrigible, he shall be transferred to a prison where secure seclusion and the cheapest mainte nance are the chief objects, for continu ous confinement. No matter how exemplary the record of the convict in prison, if the intelligent warden and tribunal discover in dications that the disease of committing crime is not eradicated, he must not be liberated." The "Science of Penology" Is a valuable contribution to the information incident to the development of one of the most Im portant departments of sociology. As It Is Important that the subject should receive wider attention than it has, Mr. Boies's book can be unhesitatingly commended to those who desire the latest conclusions upon the subject. A DAY AVITII A Til A MP, AND OTHER DAYS. Students of sociology will find much of interest in the writings of Walter A. Wyckoff, one of the professors of political economy in Princeton University. His first book, "The Workers," attracted a great deal of attention, especially in labor circles. His second Is not so pretentious as the first, but it is just as entertaining. Professor Wyckoff says his narratives are drawn from notes taken from an expedition made ten years ago. In the summer of 1S31 he be gan an experiment of earning his living as a day laborer and continued It until, In the course of eighteen months, he had worked his way from Connecticut to California. "In justice to the narratives," he says, "it should be explained that they are sub mitted simply for what they are the casu al observations of a student fresh from college whose interest in life led him to undertake a work for which he had no scientific training." In his story, "A Day with a Tramp," Professor Wyckoff tells of his walk with Farrell, a hobo who had some redeeming features, and whose career was temporarily changed when he fell In love with a grocer's daughter. A vein of pathos runs through the narrative. "With Iowa Farmers" is merely the professor's experience in a State where work was plenty and the soil-tillers prosperous and generous. As "a section hand on the Union Pacific Railway" Professor Wyckoff had a chance to study another phase of life. "A burro puncher" gives the author opportuni ty tö do some descriptive writing of moun tain passes and heights, of verdant valleys and arid plains. "Incidents of the slums" tells what the professor learned in Chicago of the evils of the "sweating" system, of the pitfalls for girls who work in stores for $3.50 a week and of a scene in the poJice court following the arrest of a street-walker and her defender. The book is published by Charles Scrlbner's Sons. New York. A GLIMPSE OF GILDER. truyed woman with a finesse wholly feminin.;-, a completeness of visualization which left the reader In no doubt as to the eter nal truth of the picture presented. In his "Heroines of Fiction," which the Harpers have Just published. Mr. Howells gives a delightfully thorough consideration of the dornen created by the masters of fiction of botli sexes. THE LAW OF NOVELISTS. How the Editor of the Century Maga zine Came to Hin Position. Christian Endeavor World. "I was not at all a phenomenal child," said Mr. Glider to the reporter. "I read a good deal. My father was a Methodist preacher, a school principal also, and a man who wrote, and had many books. Hut, really, I was a sort of Jekyll-and-Hyde reader; I can't tell exactly why I was. I loved passionately 'Paradise Lost.' but I longed as keenly for a yellow-backed dime novel which I begged from the colored coachman of my uncle, and absorbed with beating heart in the shelter of the stable. There was adventure plenty of it in both books, and I did not draw a close distinc tion between the grades of adventure. The yellow-backed novel was wild. but. as I remember, not dirty. It is the salaciously adventurous dime novel that rots the young heart. However, I am not recom mending the dime novel. I think that a child can make many delightful pilgrim ages in a library, with no one to 'conduct' him, provided the library Is not French." Mr. Gilder was as deliberative and easy in his manner as if he were not late at his desk and I were not bothering him. Now I discerned that he has the poet's face and the editor's hand. He seems like one who has be n In delicate health all his lite. He is now fifty-seven years old, and I can atmost behold him at seven with that same sensitive face. 'J shrink from an Inter view," he once wrote to me. But this little talk, these sonant hiatuses on a sunny De cember morning before an open fire, this was no "interview!" "You ought to have some data, I sup pose." continued Mr. Gilder, hurrying into the next room, where the assistant editors work. Mr. Gilder could have sent he of-tice-boy on the errand, the oftice-boy whom I heard him address in terms of good fellowship; but he chose himself to go; he appeared to relish doing me a fa vor. No doubt this kindliness commenced In the days when little Richard set up a miniature newspaper, the St. Thomas Ga zette, named for his father's school, and published editorials intended "to instruct and uplift mankind." This shy, delicate man went to war as an artilleryman, and is a member of a Grand Army post. Unpre tentious, constant helpfulness, with a humble reliance on one higher, has occu pied no mean place In the reason for Mr. Gilder's advancement from a position as reporter cn the Newark (N. J.) Advertiser to that of editor-in-chief of the Century. "Here is the scrapbook." he said, opening It before me. "Under the subject 'Gilder' you will find me abused and appreciated, and a good deal of the abuse is deserved. This is amusing. I am dissected under the topic. 'Eminent Literary Editors of Ameri ca.' I wonder what nn i'-literary editor Is like? Once I had a queer experience with a reporter. He asked me all kinds o ques tions, and I was made to answer them on paper in a way diametrically opposed to what I had actually said. I servt-d as the reporter's mouthpiece, nnd fanfared his ardent convictions: and I don't Imagine the feUow knew he was not quoting me." Would you. dear reader, speak with pen tie humor of a reporter who. after inter viewing you, rot only omitted to show you copy before publication, but misrepresented you throughout the length and breadth of his columns? Interpreter of "Women. Literary Bulletin. Mr. Howells was recently asked which he considered the better inteipreters of feminine character in fiction, men or wom en novelists. To this query he promptly re plied. "Women." .Mr. llowtll th.-n pro ceeded to say that while mn have depleted women with ureal skill and mastery of the subject, be thought their success was built upon a eoinpt h-n?IoM of the more obvious Peculiarities of woman. It seemed to hlrn that t he more subtle feminine traits eluded the man's search, .even In the caso of so ci-jse hn analyst as Henry Jarne. That George Eliot, on the contrary, and Mrs Humphrey Ward and Mary Wllkins por- Some of Them Are Whe Enough to Seek Legnl Gnidnnce. Albany Law Journal. Just as in later times Robert Louis Stev enson consulted Mr. Graham Murray, the present lord advocate of Scotland, with reference to legal matters touched upon in hl.s novels so George Eliot sought to avoid mistakes of law In her writings by seek ing the guidance of Lord Itowen. In addi tion to valuable adyice for the latter on a b eality arising in "Daniel Deroda," she is said to have been guided through the legal labyrinth in "Felix Holt" by the threads supplied to her by the late Lord Herschell and Mr. Frederick Harrison himself, who wrote the "opinion" of the attorney gen eral printed in italics in that work. In the September Harper's Mr. Harrison says: "I was at first inclined to think the case to be impossible, as contrary to the then existing statutes of limitations. But 1 presently fell back on the rare, but not impossible, case of the Base Fee, under which settlement might be perfectly valid for the issue of a tenant in tail for many generations, but would not bar the rights of the remaindermen. It happened that, before I finally submitted the scheme to George Eliot I asked the opinion of a col league at the bar. The man I consulted chanced to be the late Lord Herschell. the ex-chancellor, who died on a public mis sion in the United States, and who was then a junior barrister. Having his entire concurrence, I carried the scheme to George Eliot, who at once recast her plot, and was enabled to carry back the settle ment of the Transome estates not only for forty years, but for more than a century. An attempt was made in a review to throw doubt upon the correctness of the law on which 'Felix Holt' was based, but an emi nent conveyancer of Lincoln's Inn disposed of this criticism in a conclusive answer in the press." Mr. Harrison told George Eliot that he should always boast of having written one sentence that was embodied in English lit erature. An English contemporary naively remarks that "it is not perhaps to be re gretted that certain other novelists did not avail themselves of the services of tnelr legal friends, for the correction of their legal errors would have deprived thflr legal readers of the only element of humor to be found in them." It is recalled that among the novelists of the last cen tury who were lawyers, were Sir Walter Scott. Charles Heade, Wilkle Collins, It. L. Stevenson and It. 1). Elackmore, and that the leading writers of tiction now living who belong to the bar are Mr. Itlder Hag gard. Mr. Anthony Hope, Mr. W. E. Nor ris. Mr. Stanley Weyman and Mr. Anstey. What seems somewhat strange is the fact which our London namesake points out, that the novelists who have received a legal training are far less ready to intro duce legal details into their stories than are the writers who prove their utter ig norance of the law. NOVELETTE AXD PLAY. A History of Hovr First One, Then the Other, Cnme to fie Written. New York Times Literary Review. The real history of "Beaucalre" has not yet been told in full. The play is an origi nal comedy in four acts. The impression that "Peaucaire" Is a dramatization of Booth Tarklngton's charming novelette, "Monsieur Beaucalre," is not literally true, though Mr. Tarkington is author of both book and play. When he had finished "The Gentleman from Indiana" and that novel was in the first flush of success, he determined to try his pen on a dramatic composition. Mr. Tarkington bad previously been conspicu ous in theatricals at Princeton University, and is still an active leader in the amateur dramatic club of Indianapolis. He conceived the story of "Beaucalre," and, having gathered the threads of his sit uations together, he wrote what every dramatist writes before he puts his materi al into acts and dialogue that Is, a sce nario. This scenario grew under Mr. Tark lngton's pen, and with some polishing he found himself in possession of a novelette which an extensive public knows as "Mon sieur Beaucaire." How much the play of "Beaucalre" was in his mind when he completed the novel ette may be gathered from an interesting and heretofore unpublished document writ ten by Booth. Tarkington himself. It is the dedication of "Monsieur Beaucaire" to his sister. Haute Tarkington Jameson, which was set up by the publishers, but recalled by the author before the book was printed, in it he speaks of his composition as if it were a play: "You will not. 1 trust, consider me too Ingenuous when I tell you that, while I have ever observed your courtesy toward a person in poor raiment to be of an even finer quality than your treatment of a gentleman in a fine coat, yet no one con versant with your character could fall to be aware of the mighty liking you have for a pretty fellow in brocades ind satin, with brilliants shining from every buckle. Nor can it be said of you that, in spite of your strong advocacy of all the arts of gentle ness, you shun the wildest fighting In a book with that measure of horror which you should, for consistency's sake, exhibit; and so I make bold to offer you this play of "Monsieur Beaucaire," beseeching your attendance for an hour, to watch, if you will, the faces in what I would have, for your pleasure, a little theater; and begging you, during just the time of performance, to believe the actors real, as they move across the stage, dancing In the candle lights of long ago, while your kindly fancy brings to you some faint waft of the Frenchman's roses, with the echo of the crumbled and forgotten fiddles which I have wished should play again for you, my dear sister." Having completed "Monsieur Beaucalre," Mr. Tarkington returned to his play, lie had Mr. Richard Mansfield In view for the role ol Beaucalre for more reasons than this actor's pre-eminence or his fitness for the characterization. During his 'varsity days Mr. Tarkington wrote a comedy which he sent to Mr. Mansfield. The great actor did not find in it all the technical qualities which he felt would Justify its production, but he recognized the Rifts of the writer and sent him a letter which the author says he has cherished as one of his most potent encouragements. Hence Mr. Mansfield's creation of Mr. Tarklngton's first char acter to reach the stage has in It a strong measure of poetical justice. Winter Headline for Irl. Woman's Home Companion. What Is needed first Is a settled plan or programme along which mental effort may run. Most persons are more readily inter ested in people than in events. Girls, especially, like to take some one man or one individual until they become thorough ly acquainted with everything relating to him. Choose your subject. Be sure that it is one upon which you can keep up long sustained interest and effort. Then, through -library and publishers' catalogues, by consultation with men and women of culture and discrimination, by eager seek ing In books and magazines, begin read ing, always getting as near your main ob ject as possible at first. For example, by autobiography you can sooner get in touch with any character than you can by gen eral historical sketches and works even more ambitious. And if you are interested in an, author, read first what he wrote, and know all he wrote well before you be gin to read about him. Next to his books read his life and letters, so that you will be well acquainted with him before you meet his friends and contemporaries. Klint A Wonder Work. New York Mall and Express. Rudyard Kipling's "Kim" Is a wonder work. Whoever reads it sees passing be fore his eyes the whole wondrous pano rama of the lives of India's straining. weird-minded, gaudy-colored millions, with their traditions, feuds, caste lines, customs and habiliments all thrown up in bold re lief. And Kim himself is a treasured friend of all of us. who is going to live in our hearts as long as those hearts beat. Thus has the Master fastened the gag upon the mouths of those who a short month ago were so eager to declare him spont and done, a back number and a broken prom ise, lnose wno Know Kipling well know . I i. 1. - . b ! A L .11 mar. ne is a patriot auove an inings a patriot of the breadth that takes in all of the world that speaks the English t'ngu- and his mission Is to labor for the unity tin civilizing purpose) of the English- speaking races. Literature comes after this with him. or. to put it better, he cannot help producing literature, but he Is proud to stir himself for the advancement of the principles cherished by "the white man." As he said in a recent lrtter to a friend, in explaining the abuse he got for pointing out the faults of the blundering War Of fice in England, "it follows that a man who criticises what is amiss in the white MUSIC AND VERSE A VI-: A II HOOK OF LYKICS. Frederic Lawrence Knowles has compiled from Erltish and American poets a volume of verse arranged In the form of a calendar for daily reading. Many volumes containing selections of verse and prose for each day of the year are to be found, but the ex cerpts offered are almost invariably brief a single stanza, an epigrammatic line, etc. This work differs from all such books in that it undertakes to serve no religious or didactic purpose, but rather to afford an Intellectual pleasure and to make easily ac cessible a large number of poems of high quality. Two complete short poems are se lected for each day, not all of them widely known, though there are a great number of old favorites, bfit all worth reading, or as the compiler suggests, committing to memory. They are lyrical poems for the most part, and that they are well chosen and the compiler competent for his task Is sufficiently indicated by the fact the "Golden Treasury of American Lyrics" was arranged by the same hand. With the number of poems included, the book, nat urally, covers a wide range of thought, and a large number of writers are repre sented in its pages. The editor regrets that copyright restrictions have prevented him from adequate representation of a num ber of popular American writers. There are more British than American authors luoted, but it is well for Americans to know these songs. It is rather an ingenious plan to offer them In the shape of a year book, for they are thus more likely to be read. The sense of duty that leads each morning to the perusal of the page for the day will, in time, become a habit, and the lofty thoughts and sentiments of many poets become the real possession of the reader. Merely as a reference book the vol ume should have a place In the library. It is well indexed and embellished by a num ber of portraits. Dana Estes & Co., publishers. COLONIAL PROSE AND rOETRV. Prof. W. P. Trent and B. W. Wells have done a good service to literature in col lecting in three handy little volumes selec tions from the prose and poetry of the colonial period, from 1G07 to 1776, showing the beginning of the intellectual and liter ary movement of the American people. Much of the earlier prose is heavy and the poetry Is crude, but there is other work of the annalists and letter writers that has a literary tendency; while the later writers of the period indicate in their ef forts that literature had secured a foothold and that its foundation was securely laid. These volumes have been carefully edited and are instructive from a historical stand point. They are Impartial, in that they give the Cavalier all the space his work merits. the Puritan, of course, occupying the most space because of his greater industry with the ren. From Capt. John Smith to Benja min Franklin the field has been gleaned in an appreciative way, and one Is not ashamed of the results, which are very creditable to the writers who wrought in the formative period of our country's literature. T. Y. Crowell & Co., publishers. New York. THE LALREL SOXG HOOK. This book Is the result of an effort to give young students of music a collection of songs and choruses representative of the best musical art of the world, but more especially of the art of contemporary American composers. The editor, W. L.. Tomlins, fays that to any one who has fol lowed with Interest the development of musical art in America, It must have be come apparent that the time is at hand for the fullest recognition of the writers of our own country, for a change of attitude in regard to the artists, of America, and also for the realization of the hope, long enter tained, that we may begin to speak with confidence and pride of the existence of a "national art." The songs in the book, the editor admits, will be found reminiscent of the compositions of standard writers in form and treatment, but "under all, as fuse and amalgam, will be found the pul sation of a new life, the life of the men and the Ideals of modern tlmesj' The songs have been taken from a large number of compositions gathered by the editor through many years of teaching and con ducting, and their merit has. therefore, been attested. A noticeable and most com mendable feature Is th high quality of the text used, the pgrins representing the best English lyrical literature. It is altogether an admirable collection, and Is deserving of attention by musicians. Ml'SIC A X D ITS .MASTERS. The masters of music acknowledged by O. B. Boise, the author of the above-named book, are Wagner, Palestrina, Each. Beethoven, Schubert and Schumann. Their portraits appear as Illustrations. Accord ing to the author, music has significance only when fraught with messages from the composer to the hearer. The origin of music is accounted for by the. fact that "in tellect took in hand spontaneous, isolated shouts, cries and moans, and gradually endowed them with continuity, rhythm and form." The intellect has also made these shouts, cries and moans "exrtees sentiments surcharged with emotion, creating a defi nitely significant atmosphere." The prog ress of music Is said not to have been uni form, owing to its sensitiveness to un favorable conditions. The conditions fa vorable to its progress seem to have been the movements of the masses towards re finement and fine sensibility, or, as might more plainly be interpreted, the continued prosperity and greater leisure of the masses. The author's idea is somewhat different from that prevailing in many places as to the low estimation placed on dance music. He writes: "The world re quires that music shall suit its varying moods. Some of Johann Strauss's waltzes are quite as genuine music as are Beethoven's symphonies, and each, in its way, contributes to the pleasure and benefit of mankind. The artist's ideals should embrace the whole gamut of human feeling, and music that strikes our sensi bilities at any point In this line is genuine, whether it be a symphony, a love song or a waltz." "Music and Its Masters" Is care fully and clearly written and contains much information. The J. B. LIpplncott Company, Philadelphia. GLORIA DEO. An explanatory addition to the Latin title of this book designates it as "a col lection of hymns and tunes for public wor ship In all departments of the church." It is, in fact," a practical hymnal for all church services and has the merit of being convenient In form, nondenominatlonal, and containing the best hymns In use, with tunes that are strong In melody and well harmonized. The leading aim of the com pilation Is to attain good congregational singing, whether it be in the regular serv ice of the morning and evening, the prayer meeting, the service of the young people's society or of the Sunday school. The fa miliar tunes of the old masters are numer ous, as well as those of modern hymn writers, both American and English, and the tunes Include both old and new ones by the best composers. "Gloria Deo" is probably the most compendious collection of sacred hymns and tunes ever made. It contains 767 numbers, including chants, all carefully and Judiciously selected with reference to merit. It also has a psalter of sixty-nine pages, an Index of subjects, an index of first lines, an index of tunes and an index of anthems and chants. A feature that will interest choirs is the unusual number of metrical glorias, responses and vesper hymns. The book seems to cover the whole ground and meet every demand of a hymnal for every kind of religious service in all orthodox churches. New York: Funk & Wagnalls Company. man must be on the downward grade mor ally, mentally, politically and from the lit erary point of view." But Kipling did not care a 2-cent rap tor such criticism, and in the meantime he has Just written his greatest work In "Kim." THE TWELFTH'S COLORS. Gen. Williams Tells Why the Reel ment Und Two Sets. Northern Indianlan. Some time ago we noticed in the Indian apolis Journal that in dedicating the monu ment the battle flags of the various regi ments would be carried in the procession held on the day that the procession will pass the monument. The Journal gave a list of the regiments and the number of colors that wer Issued to them during their respective terms of service, and stated that an attempt would be made to secure the attendance of as many color-bearers as are still living to carry the flags of their old regiments as possible. We also notice that it gave the Twelfth Regiment two sets of colors, and this reminded us, as com manding officer of that regiment, of the cause of its receiving two sets. The re organized Twelfth Regiment It had served a one-year term in the Army of the Poto macreceived its Hrst "baptism ol nre at Richmond, Ky., where 5.0UO federal troops all of them new regiments and composed of men who had never been in a fight met the Confederate victors of Pea Ridge, un der General Kirby Smith, 30,000 strong, and weru badly worsted, although they fought five distinct battles during the day. The color-bearer of the Twelfth was killed early in the fight, and the carrying of the llag fell to another man detailed for the pur pose by the captain of the color company. He. too, was killed, and a third one was selected. Along In the evening, when ctr taln disaster and capture awaited the en tire command, the last color-bearer stripped them from their staffs there were two. the American colors and the State Hag wrap ped them around his body, and then, re placing his clothes, succeeded in saving them from capture. It seemed that the blood of both the color-bearers who were killed baptized the flags, and they were presented to the mother of the first one. whose name was Lennox, and who lived at Marion, Ind. When the regiment was re organized a set of colors became necessary. The mother of young Lennox took so much pride in the relics that the writer never asked her to give them up, and procured a new set from the quartermaster general's office. Mrs. Lennox has doubtless Joined her gallant son ere this, but for a number of years after the war the old lady pre served the flags stained with the blood of her noble son, and It is. in all probability, still in the possession of some relative or friend of the boy who gave up his life on the bloody field of Richmond, Ky., and it is for this reason that the Twelfth Indiana Infantry is credited with the number of colors Issued to it, as stated by the Journal. position comes hard until I get in the har ness again. The first of the present year I made up my mind to write a poem every day, and 1 have lived up to this resolution. I have now over three hundred on hand. 1 haven't attempted to dispose of a single one, and shan't until next year. The verses I have had published recently are old ones that I have worked off on the editors. Those I have written this year I have filed away without even a second reading. Next year I shall take them up and begin the weedlng-out process, for a lot of them are bound to be pretty bad, especially after the glamour of composition -has given place to sober Judgment tempered by a year's time. I have an idea that about fifty will be marketable." Paraphrasing a Joke. The Force of Habit. Washington Times. With his back against the wall, ex-Sen-ator George L. Shoup. of Idaho, sat In the smoking room of the Normandle a few evenings ago. He sat in the corner far thest from the door, which he faced. Sen ator Shoup always sits down with his back to the wall, when he can, and he always faces the door. It is instinct with Senator Shoup. It Is the echo of his many stirring years of life as a Western scout. His conferees in the Senate often made fun of the caution with which he would take his place in his com mittee room, his back against the wall; his eyes on the door, in order that no one might get "the drop" on him by surprise. In the hotel lining room Senator Shoup always tries to get a table next the wall, and he refuses to sit where he cannot see everyone that comes In. 1 1 libit of VTe-WrttlnK. Philadelphia Record. "Writing verse is largely a matter of habit," said a local newspaper man who contributes to the magazines and weekly papers. "My experience Is that if I stop for a while I get rusty, and then metrical com- St. Louis Republic. A big good natured farmer was awaiting the suburban train accompanied by a hand some Gordon setter. Two sons of Britain stood near him. The dog strayed away from his owner, who was reading a news paper. "Hey," called the farmer. "Come here Locksmith," and the dog immediately ran to his feet. One of the Englishmen approached the farmer. "May I ask," he said, "what you called that dog?" "Locksmith," said the farmer. "And why. pray?" "Because every time I kick him he makes a bolt for the door." There was a general laugh in which the Englishman Joined. When he returned to his companion he remarked: "Most extraordinary name that man ovu there calls his dog." 9 "What?" asked his friend. "Locksmith." replied the first Briton. "And why such a name?" "Because, he says, every time he kicks lm he bolts for the door." The Fitness of Things. Brooklyn Eagle. The gold statue of Maude Adams, which has just been broken up. ought to have been a statue of Colonel Bryan, cast as a token of esteem for all he did in behalf of the yellow metal. A llallnde of Ambition Some aim t write scholastic lor In words a$low with learning's lljjht; While ethers would In verse outpour Their hsrPJ" souls so clear and white. Some would achieve Fame's glorious height lij treeiy screeds of babbling brooks; Llut as for me, I'd fain indite One of the ix Heat-selling Books. With tirrinj tales of sea an! shore Some would the TTh of Fame ignite; Others l'arr.asus-wari would soar On Hymns and Odes of interest slight. Some-, common iat ion would Invite Hjr "AUs to Health" or "Hints to Cook;" liut I would mbileh if I mlcht One of the Six Be-StÜlnj; Uooks. 'Ti easy. All one nj 1 Gore, A Shipwreck or a Frantlo l':zht; Hints ot flerc oaths the villain wore. Some saws and aphorisms trite. Although these elements mmii quite Enough for certain crihllin crooks, I reach but in my fanev'a tlisht One of the Six H-st-SeUiiiK Uooks. Envoi. Oh. Fame. I ak not sllünj: Lrijrht. Nor brave editions de luxe; But (trant that sum ly I mar writ? 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