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IN WOMAN'S REALM. 1
OKI. AM 7. XI) ACTIVITIES.
What the Klßin Woman's Club Hum
Done lilcii'i 5:: 1 Convention.
The Woman's Cub of Elgin 111., has per
haps as brilliant a record as any woman's
club in the country for hard and effective
work. According to a report of one of the
local pa] ers the organizat'on's first enterprise
was the improvement cf the Elgin academy's
grounds and buildings, and the addition
thereto of a thoroughly equipped manual
training school. Sherman hosp.tal was built
by the dub and Is maintained by it at an
expense ol JB.OOO a year. In connection with
tbe hospital the society also runs a nurses
training school. Five members of the club
being members of the board of education, the
organization baa succeeded in intreducing a
domestic department into the school cur
riculum.
The home department of the club compiled
a cook book that found an extensive market
outside of the rooking schools, and which has
been a largj and quite unexpected source of
IMIIS. ELLES HAUDKN WALWORTH.
Mrs. Walworth Is director general of the
Women's National War Relief association,
nhich is acting under specific directions- from
Income to the branch of work having it in
charge. The credit of the club Is financially
'sound, and it has the respect and confidence
of Elgin's husimas fraternity. The society
owns a farm, which will eventually be util
ized for ciub occupants, the present occupant
having deeded it to the club for hospiul uses
find accepting a life lease of the same.
Mattle U(.-kwlth Lowrie, president of titls
successiul organization for the past year, is
one of the ablest executives in the state, and ■
has identified with her board of directors '
many women of as strong character as her- I
self.
She I» Improving.
Although there ls ample room for further '
improvement, it is still evident in many ways j
that women as a class are beginning to find
It possibla to assume an impersonal atiltude
toward any subject under discussion. In the
matter of n blackball at a woman's club, for j
example, there are no longer the sime hor- |
ror and sensitiveness of it. It is interesting I
to note in this connection the differ:mt point '
of view from which a blackball in a woman's !
club is regarded from thai of the same a:t;on
taken by a man's ciub. In a man' 3 club the
casting ;>f the blackball is a far more sis- !
nificaiit action. In a woman's club It often I
ibcms merely that a particular candida-e I
will not contribute to tbe welfare cf that rar
ticular club. A loyal club woman will black- I
ball her dearest friend sometimes in the in- I
terest of her organization, fearing that some
petty hobby or tendency of the candidate
may obtiude itself upon the ciub, to the club's
detriment, it is this growing sense of per
sonal responsibility and of organization loy
ally rather than individual preference which
Is adding to the power oi club development.
V \ew t'lnb.
A students' reference bureau Is another of
the far-reaching ideas that have been put in;o
operation by the Cnieago Woman's club.
The design of the bureau, which cannot
be called strictly new, since it has been more
or less employed since January, is to open a
means of communication with sister club 3in
Chicago and in outlying districts and towns
who cannot avail themselves of the facll.tles
afforded by the extensive city libraries, and
to furnish for a reasonable sum any lnfo.ma
tion upon any desired topic.
The i lan saves a vast expenditure of time
and energy to those busy w..msn in the city
and elsewhere who find the demand upon
their time larger than strength or oppor
tunity can comply with. Members uf country
clubs, in fact any one in need of tlie bareau's
assistance, can avail themselves of its la
cilitles. and feel absolutely certain that the
best authorities will verify all information
furnished.
A record is kept of all Inquiries and the
topics embrace art. science, history, litera
ture and ail questions of a social or relig.ous
interest. It is designed to be an adjunct to
sincere study and to the preparation of club
papers. A fee of 50 cents is required to ac
company inquiry. The bureau also prepares
programmes of study for youug clubs, and
Eims to be altogether an efficient ciub help*.—
Chicago Tribune.
She Ih a Failure.
A foreign magazine announces a Berks of
irticles upon the "Failures- of Women,"
which ate calculated to arouse the Ire of the
to-called "new woman," says the Chicago
[Hoes-Herald. The subject ls to be treated
ji nine papers, devoted respectively to fail
ures In literature, music, medicine, science,
politics. I—Mom, cookery', painting and
sculpture, and if the first attack, which has
already appeared, Is an indication of the se
verity that is to follow, poor women, as the
New York Sun observes, "will be left with
out a withered twig or laurel." In two short
columns the writer of the first paper sweeos
away a woman's claim to a place in literature
He pays a passing tribute to Sappho and ac
knowledges that George Eliot and Jano Aus
ten did s\>ine passable work, but declares firm
ly that so far as great creative literature is
concerned, woman is a failure. The average
woman may not resent being barred from the
fine arts, but when it comes to scoring her
prowess ln fashions and cookery she h-is
cause to be Indignant. Naturally, the argu
ment will be that all of the famous chefs
have been men, but that women by the scores
who have been ln.-pired cooks w 11 ba lo go.ten.
Mother's pies and Aunt Susan's strawberry
shortc.ike. Mary's liollanda s s;u v anti Jane's
rarebit will be a thing of the past. Wcrth
and Felix will doubtless be cited triumphant
ly ln proof of the superiority of men In mat
ters pertaining to gowns, and the list of men
milliners will of course be a long one The
fact that the success of these men is largel
due, in fact, almost entirely due to wo-nen
designers will not be credited. Rut such is
the case. In several of the largest houses in
Parts bearing a man's name, women have
entire charge of the designing departments
and work rooms, and the executive marage
ment alone is the man's province. Masculine
superiority in business matters must be ac
knowledged, but in matters of fashions and
cookery, no.
To Tent Its UtiMlhy.
In buying an Oriental rug ma can dis
criminate between the imitation and g(uu-
me, not by the color or pattern, which may
be copied, but by a careful examination to
see if each stitch is knotted. If the stitch
is knotted and it is impossible to pull it out,
the rug is genuine Turkish, whether the
warp is cotton or wool, but if one can pull
the stitch out it is imitation, no matter how
closely color and pattern follow the original.
The matter of testing the quality of the rug
is as follows: A live coal is dropped en the
rug and allowed to burn a little. When It
is removed a yellowish mark will be left. If
this can be brushed off with the fingers, leav
ing the original colors unaltered, it is a
sure proof of the genuineness of the rug.
It is necessary, however, for one to ba a
connoisseur ln rugs in order to be able to
discriminate between the qualities of rugs
of various countries and to understand the
age of the rug from the intensity of the
luster. Some of the rugs which find their
way here have been damaged, but so skill
fully- restored that to the eye of the un
initiated they seem in perfect condition.
Many of these have been cropped to remove
signs of wear, which reduces not only the
richness and depth of the pile, but affects
the durability of tho rug as well. Damaged
spots are also frequently touched up with
ithe surgeon general of the army. Mrs. V. S.
Grant is the president of the organization and
Mrs. Russell Sage is a prominent member of
the executive committee.
water colors and a fine brush, a deceotlon
easily discovered If the colors are wiped over
with a soft cloth somewhat moistened. — San
Francisco Chronicle.
AET NOTES.
The several important gifts and other
acquisitions of the Pennsylvania Academy of
Pine Arts, Philadelphia, have been arranged
iv the big galleries. A Philadelphia news
paper says:
"Among new acquisitions ls William M,
Hunt's large study for 'The Flight of Night.'
particularly valuable on account of the de
struction of the original on the walls of tha
Albany capitol. Another new possession ls
the 'Midday Rest,' by J. Alden Weir, pre
sented by Robert C. Ogden, Isaac H. Cloth
ier, J. G. Rosengarten, Dr. Francis W. Lewis
and Edward H. Coates.
"The cast of the recumbent figure by
Frank Duveneck, prepared as a tomb for
Mr 9. Duveneck, has received a prominent po
sition in the central gallery. The original
bronze is in Florence, and the academy is
fortunate in having the replica of one of the
most interesting examples of native sculp
ture.
"A notable addition to the collection of
portraits by Gilbert Stuart, of which the
academy has the finest group in existence,
is a portrait of George Reigncld. a stationer
in Stuart's time. This is an especially fine
example. Another acquisition is a canv.-s
by the late Theodore Robinson, representing
a girl in a black dress at the piano. The
academy's galleries are now open free every
day.* —Exchange.
The first great original Japanese statue
was carved, nearly life-size, out of hard
dark wood, by the Prince Shotoku, in 600 A
It represents the "Spirit of Providence'"'
seated in thoughtful attitude. Severe and
unornamented. without losing Chinese dig
nity it adds to Korean spirituality a more
human proportion and a nfore human charm
fL a &ZZ s^tn«ss. Nude from tho waist up,
its abstract beauty disdains, without offense
all suggestion of muscular detail; and'
though it Is almost clumsy in parts, its Dreal
ence at the nunnery Chuguji is so powerful
as almost to compel the obeisance of the be
holder.—Century Magazine.
THINGS ~CUBIOUS.
Recently a Parisian tea merchant gave an
unusual impetus to his sales by employing
as salesman a penniless duke. Very numer
ous are the customers who flock to buy te.
of a duke. The driver of a certain omni
bus plying in the streets of London is a
lord. He was disowned by his family for
having committed a felonious act, which if
his father had prosecuted, would have got
him a long term of imprisonment. Another
member of the aristocracy— a marquis— earns
a livelihood by going around London playing
a barrel organ. His wife accompanies him
on his rounds, and she. having a very fair
voice, sings while the marquis plays the or
gan. A young nobleman who ran through a
substantial fortune left him by his father
is at present a member of a traveling negro
minstrel troupe. During the summer he
vi.-its nearly all the large seaside places ln
England. This young spendthrift, who had
a fortune of about $250,000, has now to be
content with a weekly income of $7.50.
The action of teaching all animals has cer
tainly affected those which are domesticated.
It has not affected the lower ones so much,
as these die off too quickly, yet even here
soma very odd things have been accomplished.
Frank Buckland, the great naturalist, had
a tortoise and frog, who, he said, were inti
mate friends and understood him better than
any human being. Sir John Lubbock had
some pet ants. A Brooklyn naturalist suc
ceeded in taming black beetles to come to
him. Miss Jenynge ha 3 trained butterflies.
Asa Bird has long had a company of trained
bees, and Torinl used to drive a little chariot
with trained fleas.
Hoynl Feet.
Although It ls an accepted fact of Spanish
etiquette that "the queen of Spain has no
feet," so much cannot be said of Queen Vic
toria, empress of India, queen of Great Brit
ain and Ireland. Short and stout as she Is—
something under five feet — the royal lady
wears a No. 8 shoe, as do all of her daugh
ters. Therein she shows her German blood,
as does also Maria Christina, Spain's queen
regent, who is by birth an Austrian arch
duchess Her predecessor, Mercedes, g. true
Spanish Bourbon, albeit the daughter of the
French Due de Montpensier, had, it is said
the foot of a fairy. Therefore she resembled
her aunt and mother-in-law, ex-Queen Isa
bella, who has small and beautifully modeled
feet. It was one of her great-grandmothers
whose slender foot, trim ankle and highly
arclipd instep, drew from a foreign ambassa
dor a compliment, which the Spanish minis
ter to whom It was spoken answered '"**tnor~
the queen of Spain has no feet." Germany's
ran ST. PAUL. GLOBE SUNDAY— JULY 17, 1833.
1 empress, it is irreverently whispered, inclines
' to be splay-footed, though otherwise she ls a
well-modeled woman. Princess Alix of Hesse,
now czarina, treads upon a foot long and
slender, as suits one of her height. Humor
s^yeth not as to the feet of Italy's queen,
Marguerite— but it does tell how her majes
ty's latest fad ls the collection of aiicinet
royal footgear.— Chicago Times-Herald.
The Gloved litshii.
Mustapha Pasha Fehmi, prime minister of
Egypt, who has Just been decorated by Queen
Victoria with the grand cross of her order
of St. Michael and St. George, Is known
throughout Egypt as the Gloved Pasha, ow
ing to the fact that no one has ever seen his
left hand bared since the day, two-and
tweney years ago, when, as one of the cham
berlains of the late Khedive Ismail he
helped his colleague, Sahml Pasha, to stran
gle the Egyptian minister of finance at the
close of a supper party given by the wicked
old khediv e on board his steam yacht
lying at anchor in the Nile at Cairo, just off
the palace of Gezereh.— Exchange.
BOGS OF WAE.
At the time Shakespeare wrote the line 3.
"Let slip the dogs of war," he probably had
small idea that his words would one day be
used literally. Yet such will doubtless be
the case in the next European war. In tha
armies of almost every European country
except Great Britain dogs are trained either
as spies, messengers or to render help and
assi3tauco to the wounded. Germany, France,
Russia, Austria and Italy all have the.r bands
of trained dogs. A writer in tho Rambler
states that since 1888 Prussia has employed
various kinds of dogs for this purpose, in
cluding short-haired German pointers, spaniels
and sheep dogs. Two dogs are appointed to
each company, each being under the special
care of one man. Almost the entire time of
these men is given up to the training of the
dogs under their care. They teach them to
carry dispatches and deliver cartridges to tre
fighting line, to search for wounded or fal
len soldiers, and when they have found them
to bark until assistance arrives. If they can
not attract any attention by barking t!:ey
carry back the wounded man's ca^, or tear
off a piece of his clothing and carry it to
the hospital, when the attendants return with
them to the wounded soldier. Another clever
trick of thelr's is to give an alarm at the
approach of an enemy, a German being
dressed up in the cloths of a foreign soldier
for the purpose. Another important part of
the service of the war dog is bringing up am
munition during a fight. Wheu the battle has
begun the handler takes up a stand near the
ammunition wagon with the dog. As soon as
he sees ammunition is wanted he loads the
animal viith 150 cartridges, carried in a double
saddle-bag. Thus loaded, the intellig-rm
beast does his best to reach the iine of aha; p
shooters, and if successful, return immedi
ately to the handler, and so continuas the
work until the battle is over.
In the French army the chief dogs used are
barbets and Pyrenean sheep dogs. The bar
bets are used because of their great intel
ligence. Their training as a war dog begins
when they are eight months old, and it is
nearly a year before they are proficient. The
Russian dogs are chiefly trained to assist the
medical corps in their work and _to helu In
the humane task of bringing aid' as rapidly
as possible to the wounded soidier. Big,
strong dogs are selected for this purpose,
St. Bernards by preferece, as being ihe mest
intelligent when left to their own devices,
and also the most faithful. Attached to tho
collars around their ne<-ks ls a small fl:sk
containing brandy, or sometimes a strong,
nourishing broth. A little roll of bandages,
of which the wounded may avail therns Ivpb.
Is also tied around their necks. They are
sometimes used to pull a small cart on which
a couple of wounded men can be carried off
the field of battle. These war dogs have been
tried In actual warfare, and the French, ln
their wars In Tunis and Algiers. u?ed them
to advantage. The soldiers of the great
white czar also employed them during the
war between Turkey and Russia. In s^.vnze
warfare, too, they have been found extreme
ly useful in preventing the stealthy savages
stealing up and stabbing or shooting the
sentry. In discovering the wounded on the
field of action the dogs are at their best, and
the qualities required for this work are In
herent ln the St. Bernard.
Bnllflncli Day.
Bullfinch day. which has been kept at
Merton college, Oxford, since the middle of
the seventeenth century, is said to owe its
origin to Katherine, wife of Charles 11. It is
said that the king sent his queen to Oxford,
commanding her not to return for a year.
The warden of Merton entertained the queen
during her exile, and the rooms which she
occupied in the quadrangle are still shown.
One day, as she sat working at the open
window, a bullfinch flew into the rcom. The
queen caught it and held it until a cage of
hemp and rushes was made. Some weeks
later, as she was leaving, the bird escaped
Ou her departure from the college gate her
majesty said: "Mr. Warden, in remem
brance of my happy visit, I pray you always
liberate a wild bullfinch on this day." So It
is that every year the warden comes out
into the quadrangle at 11 o'clock on this
day, holding a little cage of hemp and rush
es, in which is a bullfinch. The junior
bursar, who has been awaiting his arrival,
then advances, saying: "Mr. Warden ls
this Queen Katherine's bird?" "Aye," the
warden replies, "this is Queen Katherine's
bird." The bursar then opens the cage and
clans his hand until the bird flies away.
During the rest of the year the cage Is kept
on a pedestal in the senior common room.
MME. ROSALIE DE GRAHAM.
Among the Cuban women ln the United
States who are working for their country
is Mme. Rosalie Chalia de Graham, a mu
sician. Mme. Chalia ls a member of one of
the best families in Cuba; her father occu
pied a position of greit responsibility, In
cluding that of minister of marine, to which
he was appointed shortly before his death.
Mme. Chalia's grandfather was an admiral ln
the Spanish navy. Through her mother, who
was a De Fonseca, she traces lineal descent
from Ponce de Leon, the conqueror of Porto
Rico. The De Fonsecas were bitter enemies
of Columbus and contributed to his down
fall. Mme. Chalia was born in Havana, but
she was sent at an early age to Spain to
be educated. She gave evidence both of he.r
musical talent and her humanitarian impulses
SOCKS FOR MY LADY.
The Girls Are Now Discarding; Long
Hone.
From the Chicago Times-Herald.
Socks, for all the world like those her hus
band and brother patronize, are the new
garments that every modish woman is wear
ing with ill-concealed pride and ankles. Ro
man striped socks, lisle thread and gray yarn
socks, socks ln silk and cotton, barred and
starred, and rolling up just midway over the
calf of the leg, are among the qualities and
colors demanded. Socks of rainbow stream
ings are worn by the golfing and bicycling
women, who, in place of bloomers and their
uwn long hose, hitching high above tho knee,
elect now to wear black equestrian tights.
There is no contradicting the assertion that
these close clinging garments are both cooler
and more comfortable ln summer, when their
wearers exercise, than the combination of
knlckerbocker and long hose. A final argu
ment Is that the knitted garments are a bet
ter protection against chill when taking exer
cise, and by a great display of logic it has
been proved that a heavy golf stocking can
not be worn over the ankles that are already
well covered, hence the compromise on souks.
The smart woman, whose petticoats are
nipped Just short enough to show, on the
links and wheel, a well-turned ankle to ad
vantage, adopts a delicate lisle or Bilk stock
ing, In a aeries of stripes that would make a
Tito Royal ia tha highest grade baking powder
know r,. Actual testa show it goes one
third further than cay other bread.
l POWDER
I ROYAL DAKINO WWa CO., NEW YORK.
.. i s —
rainbow envious. The flnev the sock the less
the bulk it adds to the foot, and it ls essen
tial to add that these .socks are not gartered.
After the black tights, are the socks
are drawn over the feet, Already clad in a
dusky weave, and simpiy drawn up as high as
they will go. They perhaps are allowed to
roll over a little at the top, after the fashion
of a Scotch golf hose, but the nap of the
sock, catching in that of the half-woolen
tightß, serves to keep it up close and smooth
about the ankles. Thlck-ankled women must
be cautioned against the sock colored in hor
izontal stripes, unless they are content to
publish unblushingly the heavy girth of their
joints to a critical world. They had best con
fine themselves to the attractive dark blue,
brown and green socks that are. brightened
up by figures of tiny golf drivers and white
balls.
Effect of Cuban Cnpld.
A strange way the Cuban lover has of win
ning the approval of his dulclnea ls "playing
the bear." Such an exhibition ln front of
an American house would be promptly
stopped by the arrest of the lover as. a dis
orderly person. But not so in Havana.
"Playing tho bear" Is Strictly orthodox there.
The stricken male of any age, dressed in his
best, takes a position In broad daylight op
posite the residence of his adored, and paces
back and forth like a caged bear, always
keeping his face toward the house. All man
ner of wriggling, twisting and shrugging and
sober grimmace3 are indulged in, and It is
said that the grim humor of the situation is
posiUvely pathetic. He aims to be soldierly
and chivalrous in his bearing. He is not only
paying his devoirs, but he Is "showing off,"
and the prancing, cavorting and genuflexions
are marvels of effort. As all Cuban windows
are without glass, and those of the wealthier
classes are always protected from the gaze
of the passers-by by costly Spanish laces,
the lover ts unconscious of the audlence'wit
nesslng his voiceless eloquence. It may con
sist of the object of his affection alone, of
herself and a dozen giggling senoritas, or her
silent, stern parents exclusively, but the
loyal don, in shade or scorching sun, does
valiant duty in his exhausting vigil until
some token of approval Is given, or, if with
held, he "plays the bear" in vain until ut
terly exhausted, when he retires in grave and
decorous melancholy from the hard-fought
field.
TUey tiotve Vn Dearly.
The Paris paper, Le Journal, protests
against the "opinlan" that France ls
hostile to United States. The following was
translated from a recent issue:
It ls especially Paris which would show
Itself ungrateful if it forgot all the joy, ele
gance and "luxe" which have been brought
to It by that American colony which has
installed its nests ail around the Aro de
Triomphe, and which has so often, thanks to
illustrious alliances, mixed its blcod with
ours. The Maro.uise de Bassano, of so dis
tinguished mind; the Comtesse de Caste'.lana,
the charming Duchesse de la Rochefoucauld,
the Comtesse de Courval, whose salon of the
Paul-Baudry street ls so recherche; Mmes.
de Kergorlay. de Lagrange, de Latcurrette,
yho were the most ancient names of our old
French territory, are all 'of them Americans.
They offer refined luxury, unknown until
now; profusion of flowers, delicious young
ladles and young married women— not prettier
than our Parisians, but different with large
eyes, more provocating smiles, freer manners,
and with a something which gives to those
mundane reunions a, special attraction. The
men also bring their influence and add to the
eclat and animation cf our Parisian life. Mr.
Ridgway devotes himself to all sportlrg exor
cises and is interested in our horse ri'c.-'s
like Mr. Vanderbilt, the father of ' the
Duchess of Marlborough.
Rooms Pull of Russian Gems.
"A whole guide-book devoted simply to tie
Hermitage could give no sort of idea of the
baillbaric splendor of its belongings," wrl e3
Lilian Bell of the famous St. Petersburg
museum m the July Ladies' Home Journal
Its riches are beyond belief. Even the
presents given by the Emir of Bokhara'to t"-e
czar are splendid enough to dazzle one like
a realization of the Arabian Nights. But to
when a very young girl by giving a con
cert, assisted by her sister, In aid of some
poor old men who had aroused their childish
sympathies. The performance was such a
success that a small house was secured to
make a home for them, and the same founda
tions were used later for a home for aged
Ss£ S h 00U afte f Senorita Chalia's return to
Cuba she married T. H. Graham, then a
resident in Cuoa, where he has extensive ln
ml™ ™ "?? ?*, nes and railroad construc
ih»m ,7 hey J , T e< l ln Santia e° until war drove
them from their home. One of Mme. Chalia's
P*"*! m Santiago was to give a concert
for the benefit of the Jose Maria Heredia club
a club named in honor of the Cuban poet'
whose object ls to care for the suffering Cu
ban soldrers. 6
see the most valuable of all. which are kept
in the emperor's private vaults ii to be
reduced to a state of bewilderment borderine
on idiocy. It is astonishing enough, to ora
who has bought even one Russian belt set
with turquoise enamel, to think or all the
trappings of a horse— bit, bridle, saddle-girth
saddle-cloth and all— made of cloth of gold
and set in solid turquoise enamel; with the
eword hilt, scabbard, belts, and pistol hindl"
and holster made of the same. Weil th»se
are there by the roomful. Then you come to
the private Jewels, and you see all these same
accoutrements made of precious stones— one
of solid diamonds; another of diamonds
emeralds, topazes and rubies."
Vacation Excursion.
To those having but a brief holiday at their
disposal this ten-day Soo Line vacation excur
sion offers inducements of no ordinary nature.
It Is beyond all dispute the most attractive of
any of the lake excursions and possesses the
one great advantage ..of .being, Inexpensive.
The tourist can enjo^' the health-giving, re
freshing cruise through the .""0,000 Islands of
the Georgian bay, the wonders of the scenery
along the northern shore 6r Lake Huron, and
study the beauties of r/ature's mysterious
handiwork at the matchleei Is'e of Mackinac.
The outing costs less .'nan flrst-ciasa hotel
rates. $.16.00 for the Touhd trip, which in
cludes all expenses. The excursion leaves
Minneapolis »rd St. Paul July 31. Soo Line
ticket office. IU Robert atraet-
LITERATURE OF THE DAY
THE BIOGRAPHICAL EDITION
OF THACKEEAY'S WOBKS
"Vanity Fair" and "The Memoirs of
Mr. Charles J. Yellow-plush"— —
"The Gods of Our Fathers," by
Herman I. Stern "Cuba at a
Glance," by E. Kaufman and A.
O'llatcan.
"The book does everything but pay,"
wrote Thackeray of "Vanity Fair"
shortly after it was published. And yet
how much In the coin of many lands
has "Vanity Fair" not paid since then?
Here we have a new edition of It — and
fortunately not of It alone, but of all
of Thackeray's long list of novels— and
if the public is at all discerning It will
pay the publishers a goodly sum In
deed, for this new edition has an ad
vantage over all others that will place
it in the libraries where already are
choice editions of the genial artist; for
this is the biographical edition and
as such its publishers have a right to
claim great things. As is well known
Thackeray, for good or evil, objected
•to having his biography written; the
public's concern was with the books,
not the man. Now those who could
have written with authority of the
man respected his wish, and so It hap
pened that no reliable life of the great
novelist was ready for his lovers. Still
respecting the spirit of his prejudice
while, perhaps, disregarding the letter,
Mrs. A*ne Ritchie is writing prefaces
to her father's works, that, being far
from the ordinary birth, life, and death
chronicles, reveal the man aa he was
and as he still is to all who know him
through his books. The picture that
Mrs. Ritchie draws of her father is not
a new Thackeray, there's not a rev
elation in it so far, it Is just a corrob
oration of our own Thackeray; but
it's all the more acceptable for that,
lor who does not like the assurance
that he has seen with true eyes. The
biographical edition is to consist of
thirteen volumes, to appear monthly,
and each volume is to be prefaced by I
a sketch of that .part of Thackeray's
life that was mosn closely connected j
with the novel, and in this way we
continue to see Thackeray as he wish
ed to be seen — ln his relation to his
work, and therefore to his readers. So
the book and its preface mutually illu
minate each other.
"Vanity Fair," while it does not be
long with the master's earlier writings,
yet connects him with the schools of
his boyhood, and Mrs. Ritchie bases on
this a most charming sketch of Thack
eray the boy — "Billie Boy," as she calls
him.
"Vanity Fair" went the rounds of the
publishers, like many another master
piece, and after it found one with dis
cernment enough to bring it out the :
"saJe was so small that it was a ques
tion at that time whether its publica
tion should not be discontinued alto
gether." This we read of the novel
which Thackeray himself called un
doubtedly the best of his books. "It has
the best story," 'he said, "and for an
other thing the title is such a good
one, you couldn't have a better."
Even tn the days before the "Book
News" extracted the authors' personal
"aims" from them, writers aecasionaily
expressed themselves, though perhaps
only to their nearest. Thackeray
writes to his mother: "Of course, you
are quite right about "Vanity Fair*
and Ame'tia being selfish. It is men- |
tlorued in this very number. My object |
is not to make a perfect character, oi i
anything like it. Don't you see how i
oclloue all the people are in the book !
(with the exception of Dobbin), behind
all of which there Is a dark moral, I
hope.
"What I want is to make a set of
people living without God in the world
(only that is a cant phrase), greedy,
pompous men, perfectly self-satisfied
for the most part, and at ease about '
their superior virtue. Dobbin and poor
Briggs are the only two people with
real humility as yet. Amelia's ls to
come when her scoundrel of a husband
is well dead with a ball in his odious
bowels, when she has had sufferings, a
child and a religion. But she has at
present a quality above most people,
whizz— -LOVE— by which she shall be
saved. * * * I wasn't going to write
in this way when I began. But these
thoughts pursue me plentifully. Will
they ever come to a good end? I should
doubt God who gave them if I doubted
them."
The first volume of the "Biographical
Edition" is rich with those delightful
pen-and-ink sketches that were as
dear to the novelist's heart as they are
to the favored owners of early editions
of his work. The "Yellowplush Pa
pers" are illustrated by Cruikshank.
The volumes of this edition are very
sightly; the letterpress ls a delight,
and the binding and cover design of
that dignified simpleness that is real
ly the secret of elegance. The only un
favorable criticism that even a cavller
could make Is that "Vanity Fair" is
a two-volume novel, and it makes a
rather weighty handful as one, and
"The Memoirs of Mr. Charles J. Yel
lowplush," "The History of Samuel
Titmarsh," and "The Great Hoggarty
Diamond," "Cox's Diary," etc., make
a volume too generous to be altogether
desirable.
The frontispiece to "Vanity Fair" is ;
a very satisfactory reproduction of
that familiar photograph of Thackeray
where he sits at ease against a back
ground of arbor leaves. More unique
is the portrait that comes with the
"Yellowplush Papers;" it is a reproduc
tion of a drawing by Maclise, which is
owned by the Garrick club.
"Vanity Fair;" "The Memoirs of Mr. Charles
J. Yellowplusfo," Etc.. by William Make
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"The Gods of Our Fathers."
"The Gods of Our Fathers" is a study
of Saxon mythology, by Herman I.
Stern. Mr. Stern takes to heart the
suggestion of Rasmus B. Anderson
that "it would be an interesting work
tfi show how Norse and Greek mythol
ogies respectively have colored the
religious, social, political and literary
character of Greek and Romance peo
ples on the one hand, and Norsemen
and Teutons on the other." Half of
this task Mr. Stern has undertaken to
do at some length, and in a very in
teresting manner; the other half he
has left, save for a summary glance
Introduced for the sake of contrasting
the genius of the north mythology with
that of the south, to other hands. It is
the Saxon mythology that interests
him and that he presents In a very
interesting form to a public that he
holds criminally Ignorant of the form
and spirit of Its ancestral religion, a
. religion that he claims to have given
the moral and intellectual character
to the Saxon race of today. "It may
be considered no exaggerated surmise."
he says, "that among cultured people
who are not scholars, aside from the
hearers of Wagner's operas, there Is
one conversant with Norse mythology
to one hundred conversant with the
mythology of the Greeks and the Ro
mans. 'The Iliad' is known to thou
sands, 'The Edda' to dozens. The
divinities of Olympus are household
names, they pervade all modern litera
ture. * * • But how many have
ever heard of Freya, of Thor, Baldur
and Loki, of the Nornes, the Valkyries?
Yet the latter constituted the gospel
upon which our pagan forefathers, In
the days of their unalloyed nationality,
fed their hearts and minds, while the
former were imported later along with
an alien civilization."
But Greek mythology has influenced
I literature rather than character. When
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"Cuba at a Glance."
"Cuba at a Glance" Is an unassum
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ness of its title. It gives, what every
one wants at tho present time, a his
tory of the Cuban war, not alone of ;
the present rebellion, but of the Ten
Years' war as well. WTiat we are real
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knowledge of the late Cuban wars, j
for these, in detail, tlie newspapers :
have furnished, is a comprehensive j
history of the relations between Spain !
and Cuba from the earliest times j
down, and this this small volume fur- !
nlfhes In compact form.
A chapter is devoted to Cuba from '
1492 to 1762, and one entitled 'The
Ever Faithful Isle" continues the ;
story, taking up that unselfish devo
tion to the mother country that gain- j
ed for Cuba during the Seven Years' j
var the name of "The Ever Faithful ;
Isle." The history of Spanish rule in
Cuba Is the history of insurrections
without number, and one and all of !
them repeat the stories of a hopeless j
struggle against cruelty and oppres
sion.
A chapter is devoted to "Spanish and '
Cuban Leaders," and another to "Cv- J
ban Government." "The Geography
of Cuba" is an Interesting chapter !
supplemented by a colored map. The I
first four chapters of the book are I
devoted to defining the position of the j
United States in the struggle. Tho
authors of "Cuba at a Glance" are
Emma Kaufman and Anne O'Hagan,
and they have been assisted in their
work by Estrada Palm a. president <f
tbe Cuban junta, who also writes the I
preface, "ln compiling the work the i
authors have had access to the New j
York Journal's comprehensive library j
fin Cuban history and to original docu
ments in possession of the Cuban
junta.
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Note*.
It was while Thackeray was at school at
Chlswick that his mother and her husband
came homo from India. In a letter written
to India she tells of her meeting with her
sont
"He had a perfect recollection of me: he
could not speak, but kissed me, and looked !
at me again and again, and I could almost
have said, 'Lord, now lettrst thou thfy UT- :
vant depart in peace.' He is the living image ]
of his father, and God in heaven send
that he may resemble him In all but his too
short life. He is tall, stout and sturdy. His |
eyes have become darker, but there is still tho I
same dear expression. His drawing ls won- j
derful."
There is- a great deal of biography In that |
short extract, and the reference to Thackeray's
father constitutes the only allusion to him
not merely formal which ever haopened to
come to the present reader's notice. Evt- |
dently this boy loved his mother, and sho
him. as was to be expected, and one may rec
ognize from scraps of later letters that tho
relation always continued intimate. If the
man's nature was sweet, and a store of luve
was always in his heart ready to leaven the
thoughts of a host of readers. It is obvious
that he came honestly by those blessed at
tributes.—July Scribner's.
A c.ass of immigrants who produce leas
15
than half their pro rata of criminals. n«
paupers, and hold the death rate in their
tenements lower than the rich do in their
homes is surely not undesirable. Such the
Russian Jews are claimed to be by Abraham
Cahan in his Interesting sketch in the July
Atlantic.
Of the works of Action publish -d ln thU
country during the year 1897 only the seven
following were deemed worthy of pern.an. Nt
shelf room in public libraries by the commit
tee appointed for this investigation by the
"New *iork Library club: "On tbe Fac of
the Waters," by Mrs. F. A. Steel; "St. Ive; "
by Robert Louis Stevenson; "The Gadfly'"
by E. L. Voynlch; "School for Batata." by
John Oliver Hobbcs; "Cap alns C urag o s "
by Rudyard Kipling; "Hugh Wyana F-.'e
Quaker," by Dr. S. Weir MttekeU; aai "Tha
Choir Invisible." by James Lane Alio:,.
The last literary manuscrip; from Mr G'ad
stone's hand was his tribute to the .
of Arthur Henry Hallam. his friend at Bl i
and after. The article was writ n
s Companion, and appeared In
-New Year's number. Tne finishing :„u n 3
were made In the statcmau's own bai [writ
ing in November.
■ I_ !«r. P r'*! k 'y »»1 run se.-iall* n '> »
a novel of the romantic schoM by iowlri S
Van Zile. entitled "With Sword and ■
Betng an Account of the Strang! \ iv.-m'rV:
o Count Louis de Sancrre. C -Vian, ,- o"
bleur de la Salle on the v w , &iului ni
ber of Lippincotfs M.^azlne a un,
Pllvwr^t^- nt€r ' Cn;Ul d "««">" B
*» an Zile is engaged upon another i.ov 1 - | ■,
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Current Literature.
The latest addition to the ranks ef m'-'-Vi
ers is the partnership whk-h has Ju*t he, n
formed between Messrs. William H Hadiev
recently president of the New Amsterdam
Book company, and E. Roscoe Mathews, who
l-a a for some time past been conn, c:,<d' with
Charles Seribner's Sons. They ».ll 1,- -..
their attention primarily to the imp
editions of English books and the publica
tion of the best class of literature.
With five German warships fa, Ing \dmiral
Dowey's iieet at Manilla, and the in-ent on*
of the German kaiser still a matter of totra
doubt, the leading article presented in T"-.e
Cosmopolitan for July will be read with In
terest. The forty-sx portraits ard poses of
the Emperor William which lllustrat,- -.-a
article arc in themselves an extrtt-.-rd.m.'v
exhibit. They might be described as "The
Evolution of an Emperor shuwn by fo-ty .-;-.
human documents." Undoubtedly H large
a number of portraits were never
gathered together of any royal or imperial
ptrsonage.
What has bpen attempted, and exactly what
may bo done, in the way of civic aid for co -
dlers and sailors at the front or in the hn = -
pltals. Is told in the Charities Review for
July. The seeend section of this study, which
will appc-ar in the August number, wll *!.*
an exhaustive account of relief me .. ur, s bow
under way for destitute ram:l-..s af men ,v
the field, together with si'in- praaOual sug
gestions, based on a careful survey of the
entire movement.
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