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IX DLL
Researches in the Earlier History of
Its Civilization.
BUDDHIST INDIA. By T. W. Ilhya Davids. LX..D.,
Ph D Illustrated. (The Story of the Nations
fierles.) Octavo, pp. iv, 332. G. P. Putnam's
Son*. ,
lIKDIATAJ, INDIA irNDER MOHAMMEDAN
RULE. H2-1764. By Stanley I>one-Poole. M. A.
Jllu^trat* 1 .! (The Story of the Nations Series.)
Octavo, pp. «vin. 4«.1». G. P. I'utnam'a Sons.
iTofessor Davi<!s has produced a compact sur
vey of the India of the Buddhist period, a vivid
picture of a civilization long burled in the Jun
gle. Even the sites of most of the great Bud
dhist towns remain to he discovered, but the au
thor proves t!ie fallacy of the idea that India id
lacking in historical data. Moreover, he shows
that in studying such data as they have found
accessible scholars have too readily accepted the
Brabmlnistic descriptions of ancient India, de
scriptions which are not by any means always
to te relied upon. Thus the Brahminical litera
ture has failed to draw attention to an impor
tant factor In the social condition of the country
during the sixth and seventh centuries B. C.
This v.as the existence, side by side with power
ful inor.urc.iieß, of republics enjoying a complete
or partial Independence. Professor Davids gives
a picture of society in this epoch that is very
attractive. There were no landlords and no
paupers. The people led a simple, industrious
life, with nothing to mar their happiness save
•when famine overtook the:;:. While nobody was
very poor, nobody was very wealthy. Class and
caste distinctions, th* Brahmins to the contrary
notwithstanding, were not tightly drawn. In
deed, the caste system, as it prevails In India to
day, was unknown.
Of the fifteen to twenty millions of people who
then Inhabited North India the majority lived
In villages, the life of which forms the sub
stance of a diverting chapter in this book.
From the village Professor Davids passes to the
town, with which bass-reliefs and BrahminlcaJ
literature have given us some acquaintance, but
bout which we have wanted certain Informa
tion which the author endeavors to supply. The
Buddhist town was noisy, crowded and unsani
tary, but its people beem to have thrived and to
have enjoyed life much as did the villagers. It
was not without architectural beauties, boast-
Ing, as a rule, some interesting edifices. Among
these were hot air bathhouses, and the writer
Buggests that from them the so-called "Turkish
bath" may have been derived. A public gam-
Ming hall. It appears, formed a customary part
of a royal palace, dice being the gaming imple
ments. "Law books," adds the author, "disclose
a. custom whereby a share of the winnings went
to the treasury." Economic conditions, the be
ginnings and development of writing, the evo
lution of language and literature and the ani
mistic and Brahministic religions form the sub
jects of successive chapters. Little is known of
the events of the century and a half following
the Buddha's death, and Professor.Davids passes
on to record the conditions found during the
reign of , Chandragupta and his famous sou.
A&oka. Chandragupta rose from the status of a
frontier bandit to be the ruler of "the mightiest
throne then existing in the world." and has been
made the hero of numerous legends. The author
point? out the resemblance between one of these
stories and the mythical "cake" romance of
Kins Alfred the Great. The tale runs thus:
Tn one of these villages a woman by whose hearth
Chandragupta had taken refuge baked a chupatty
and gave It to her child. He. leaving the edges, ato
only the centre, and. throwing the edges away,
asked for another cake. Then she said, "This boy
conduct Is like Chandrajrupta's attack on the king
dom." The boy said. "Why. mother, what am I
doing, and what has Chandrapupta done?" "Thou,
my dear." said she. "throwing away the outside of
the cake, eatest the middle only. So ChandraKupta,
In his ambition to be a monarch, without beginning
from the frontiers and taking the town* In order as
he passed, has invaded the heart of the country..
. . . and his army is surrounded and destroyed.
That was his folly." And Chandrasrupta overheard
and learnt tne lesson and prospered.
In his closing chapter Professor Davids dis
cusses the decline and fall of Buddhism in India,
commenting adversely on the theory that it was
Drought about by prolonged Brahministic ac
tivity. In his opinion it was caused rather by
changes that took place in the faith Itself and
in the intellectual standard of the people, and
by the Influence of the foreign tribes that in
vaded India from the northwest. He admits,
however, that the material available is insuffi
cient to warrant a final judgment on this ques
tion.
Professor Lane-Poole's "Mahommedan India"
Is. as he remarks, "more a chronicle of kings
and courts and conquests than of organic or
national growth." There is too much truth in
his picture of the national inertia of the Hindoos.
The development of civic rights, the vindication
of individual liberty, and the evolution of self
government are ideas wnlch seem to have no
meaning to the Indian mind. But it was. not
«o much the Oriental view of power as a divine
gift that enabled Islam to triumph as it was
the fact that Mahometani.sm was an all embrac
ing caste. This is clearly brought out by Pro
fessor Lane-Poole, whose work Is, Indeed, so
«uggestlva that it would be unfair to consider
It merely as the "chronicle" that he calls It.
Nevertheless, it must be noted that he presup
poses some acquaintance on th* part of the
reader with the broad facts of Indian history.
H» has found It impossible to incorporate in so
»rr:sil a book th« wealth of Information that
exists relating- to the many centuries of Ma
hometan rule. But he gives as full an account
as Is consistent with the narrow boundaries of
his schema of »he advance of Islam from the
temporarily successful Arab raids of the eighth
century to the establishment of the kingdom of
I>elW In the thirteenth, and the subsequent
rrowth of the Mogul empire in the sixteenth,
seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Mahom
etanism as a temporal power is dead in India
but as a spiritual force it is still strong. "The
King of England rules twice as many Moslem
rnbjects as the Sultan of Turkey and the Shah
of Persia together." Every sixth man In the
Population of over three hundred millions is a
follower of the Prophet, and It has been esti
mated that fifty thousand Hindoos "turn Turk'
annually. The author draws some striking por
traits of the great figures of the various dynas
ties, perhaps the most noteworthy being that of
the famous Akbar. who is described as "the
noblest king that ever ruled India "
AN IMPERIAL ROMANCE.
The Life of Francis Joseph of
Austria.
A OF y^TA?-V M ?' mX - WtAKCffl JOSEPH
r Jk\nve,or U T H aUt ' iOr °' ihia "Pertaining
J^kenYelops the petaosmllly and career of the
5555 * AU " tlla in a ha " of romance.
.-■■: t>,- * VCnU In the narrative are historical,
they.r* Ron freely and picturesquely handled.
There i. nothing here of the formal Woeranliv
Tbe object or thC author seesae to have been to
portray character rather than to set forth a sya-
Umauc record of people and thing,. Thus. * et
n?^™^ a very un« oiivwitlonal and vivid
Picture is dvea of the young "Fransl." growln
sr^£L? c c H r : of onoof the m^ «»TkaS;
.fncer' h a llgh U,cert._-dU ,cert._-d Iad ' spontaneous and
•Jjeerr. but cbviouaiy the object of a solicitude
which saw in him above all thing* a future *, -
Peror. U Cr father-in-law once said of tho Arch
<luchc« Bophia that she had it in her to bT a
•jJ-M-rlaTher-a. tft. W, J^o inL
mm? he added, "no opposition of any kind.
8h« is overbearing and autocratic." Fran- Jo
mm u±* all his life disotoeae „i«, ,i« ££? b J °;
he inherited one eurn tfft from hla mother, the
capacity to rule.
She began to train him for his high office when
he was still a boy, and as he developed under
her shrewd hands she grew impatient io see him
upon the throne which ahe believed in every
fibre of her being he was peculiarly fitted to
adorn. She knew that he had strength ot char
acter; she knew that that quality was needed
more than any other In the administration of the
state, and she was quite convinced that the
Emperor Ferdinand was making ducks and
drakes of a task which her son was born to ex
ecute with succeeß. Uerly In the volume there
is a scene between this Indomitable woman and
the man whom she sought to sweep from her
sons path In which the author sets tha two to
quarrelling, and reports their talk aa with the
dramatic touch of v. novelisi.
The Emperor shuffled bis feet in a manner aug
g;a*Uv« of increasing discomfort, his dull <;yea
Uklnnlns to Mink, no eyes do in dazzling sunshine.
"You want me to abdicate ii. favor of your son?
he ea!d suddmly. In a trembling voice. "Uliy do
you* not say so. *
For Just an Inetant the Archduchess Sophia
started in obvious surprise. Was her imperial
dummy about to behave like an intelligent being
and spare her any furl her effort?
"Is not that what you want?" ho asked again,
in his thin, hiKli pitched, querulous voice.
"That is ex-act-ly what I want." she leplled
slowly and deliberately. * ,
But Ferdinand was not quite as malleable as
she bad Imped. He fidgeted and writhed under
her scrutinizing gaze, hi* face twitching rantasu
cally ajici toara actually rising In his lace ius.r«
"I can't dr. it, Scplila.. Indeed I cannot. Think
of my deserting the throne when It is menaced—
of showing tho white feather! Think of the rial;
cult— the— the lxvsentss of it: I may be a weak ana
worthless man, as you Bay, but this I cannot ao;
it would be like siting hell through its open doors .
The archduchess's fa-.- whitened and her atnugut
brows ominously lowered over nor eyos
••You miserable wretch!" she cried, shaking 'from
bead to toot In uncontrollable passion. •\\ hat
Idiotic voltefnce is this, after living a life of utter,
re ir.oraeU selfishness, during which till the man
hoo.l you ever possessed has dwindled way to
nothing? What Insanity has overtaken you to
t.roposa playing the part of a man now. not to
mention that of a aoverei«n? Do you imas.ne
»hat I will allow your stillborn scruples to Inter
fere with the fulfilment of my boys destiny? Do
you fancy that I will let the monarchy be killed
l.v your feeble attempts to retain a hold upon
what is left of it?" . . . .
She bent lower to scoji his ashen oheeKS. wn.cn
looked as if they would b« as cold to the touch
a* those of a corpse
"You are." she resumed, keeping her eagle glance
upon him. and with a ring of sarcasm In her voice
t^rrib-e In its cold intensity— "You are a fit person
to hold the reins of a runaway chariot Of state,
art- you not? A nice yellow lmac« to waken from
your reptilian letherry now— now that it is too
lat«* ;"
The Emperor Razed n.t her with almost an'.rnaj
fear, like a poor, crouching dog; "begging off
from punishment, but It whs only too evident th at
slip had no intention of relenting With a pitiful
effort, he succeeded In controlling himself for a
moment, then shame, humiliation and the violence
of change mastered him. and with a groan he nid
his face in his hand*.
In this lively fashion the story Is told of how
the way was paved for the accession of Fran
cis Joseph, of how he proceeded to govern his
realm, and of his steady rise In the affections
of his people. He is sketched on the field of
tattle and at court, his character as a man as
well as his ability as an emperor is kept con
stantly In view, and the result Is a clean-cut
personal Impression, full of color and vitality.
The Emperor Francis Joseph Is described as a
lovable man who nevertheless remains always
the Emperor. He Is "the father of his nobles
as he is of his lowest peasants, and th^re is
none oven second to him, so that, while he is
simple and unaffected in his manner, and with
out th« slightest touch of arrogance, he nev«*r
mingles with them at any time in the social
sense." In this book he is a type of monar
chical character or he Is nothing.
THE AMERICAN TROTTER.
An Expert Study of the Growth o,
a Great Industry.
THR TROTTING AND THE I'ACINV, lIORSB
IX AMERICA. By Hamilton Busbry. With
forty-nine illustrations. (American Sportsman's
Library). Bvo, pp. x, 359. The Macralilan Com-
It is a wide subject which the experienced
Editor of "Turf, Field and Farm" has compressed
Into a single volume of the American Sports
man's Library; but he has succeeded in giving
a history of the development of the trotter and
the pacer In this country — Is the country
where they were developed that is unique In Its
scope and completeness. The evolution of tha
trotter occurred during the active period of the
author's life, thirty-eight years of which were
spent in close observation of the trotting horse
at racing track and breeding: farm, and In re
cording its progress in the sporting press, so
that he writes of knowledge Rained at tlrst
hand. There is perhaps a sense of crowding
here and there, especially in the chapters devot
ed to the records and performances of the kings
and queens of the track, which is doubtless due
to the desire to omit no essential fact.
The first horses imported to America were
those taken to Florida In 1027 from stock
brought to the West Indies in 1403 by Colum
bus; but, although English ships landed horses
in Virginia in IGO9, It was forty-seven year 3
later before they made their appearance In
New-York and Massachusetts. The Southern
horses were generally bred for the running track,
when the love of sport was once aroused, while
in Pennsylvania, New-York and New-Englan<l
the horse of general utility was cultivated.
The state of the roads and the limitation*- of
wheelwrights conspired to make the earliest
trotting contests under saddle. "Tho saddle
contests," Bays Mr. Busbey, "were far from or
derly, but were keenly relished by the little
communities weighed down by monotony and
craving excitement." They mark. Indeed, the
birth of outdoor sport in the North Atlantic
States. Sharp practices prevailed and tlmo
could not be accurately taken. It was not until
1818 that we have the first authentic record of
a mile run by Boston Blue at Jamaica. Long
Island, In thr&o minutes. It took eighty-five
years of breeding and racing to lower tho fig
ures below the two-minute mark, and It was
only possibli for Lou Dillon to reach this result
in 1003 by the invention of the bicycle sulky (in
1802) and by the use of a pacemaker with a
dirt shield running in front of her. It was not
until 1543 that the 2:30 mark, the present
standard, was passed by Lady Suffolk (2:29^).
To-day there are over thirty thousaand trotters
and pacers of standard spaed rank.
/
The long- road from three minutes to two roln-
Btea ran through shadow as well as sunshine, but
tne accomplishment was worth millions of heart
beats, because the light harness horse Is recog
nized the world over a* one of th«; greatest tri
umphs of the Industrial life of America.
Mr. Busbey has no doubt as to the Influence of
the racetrack in building up the horse breeding
Industry in the United States, but he is far from
blinking its shortcomings, and is aa strong an
advocate in his book as ho has been in active
life for the regulation and reformation of the
institution. He strongly opposes the accept
ance of records made with a pacemaker and a
wind shield and contributes a chapter of Interest
ing history to tho controversy on the subject,
lie considers that the 2:08?; of Maud S.. to a
high wheel, plane axle sulky, all things taken
Into account, has probably never been surpassed.
It Is a matter of Knowledge that th» high wheel
sulky to which Lou Dillon made her C:OS had
ball-bearing axles. He says:
Controversy over th* coming of the two-minuie
trotter, which m d for wm« yean. haa not been
Mtistaetortty sottu-d. Thore who maintain that
two mlnatea nt a trot i* an impossible performance
will not surrender their views uotil the fact \%
Bhkia li'.ti without the use of lawmaker and dirt
sniem*
Two great foundation horses stand at the be
ginning of American trotting: stock, Imported
Messenger and Justice Morgan. Messenger was
brought to this country in 1780 to Improve the
breed of rumiiiiß horses, but, crossing with our
native mares, he bred, In fact, a race of trotters.
and from his li Re sprang Rysdyk's Hatnble
lenlaa. tho most prepotent sire in trotting an
nals,-not exc-^tlr. the great Morgan, the racial
NEW-YORK OA.JLY SATURDAY, AUGUST 20. 1904.
characteristics of whoss family "are as nearly
fixed as those of the Jews."
Little Idea of Hamblctonian can be gained
from his pictures. One published in Mr. Bus
bey's paper, taken from a photograph, save
mortal offence to the owner, because the cam
era had caugrht the great stallion with his ears
back.
Rysdyfc knew nothing of art. and every one who
painted the stallton had to comply, as far aa pos
sible with his directions. This is the reason that
so many picture? of wooden imapea. dubbt-d "Ham
bletonlan." found their way to the market.
Tracing the history of the great sires of the
turf downward through their Interesting gen
ealogies, the author lays special stress on the
Importance of the breeding of the producing
mare, instancing Green Mountain Maid, whom
he considers the greatest of matrons. Bred to
Hambletonian, she produced Electioneer, who.
although without a record himself, did more as
a prepotent sire to fix the rank of hia dam than
all her offspring that made their mart on the
track.
Mr. Busbey makes a strong plea for a re
vision of the rules governing admission to tha
tuble of qualinod mares, which now contains
over four thousand names, and doubtless his In
fluence will be felt In this, as it has been In
other directions in the furtherance of discipline
on racetracks, the promotion of road driving
movements and the encouragement of amateur
driving clubs, to all of which he devotes illu
minating chapters, and all of which have accom
plished much for the elevation of the buaineaa
and pleasure of horse breeding In the United
States.
BOOKS AND AUTHORS.
Current Talk of Things Present
and to Come.
Mary P. Welts Smith, the author of "The
Young Puritan Series," a number of stories of
Colonial life for girls and boys, has begun a
Dew series with "The Boy Captive of Old Dter
fleld,' 1 to be followed by other tales of lha
French attack on Deeiiield, Mass., and of the
events that grew out of It. Little, Brown &
Co. are the publisher*.
The childhood of "Pastor Wagner," the au
thor of "The Simple Life." who la coming to
America on a lecture tour this fall, was spent
In the little village of Wiebersville. Alsace,
where he had much practical experience of the
simple living of which he is the consistent ad
vocate. Speaking of his early days, he says:
I was fourteen before 1 had my first glimpse of
mod*™ complex civilization. I was to go to Paris
to school, and was put on the train and told to get
out when the guards called "Paris." My life had
been so simple up to that time that I did not know
what a gas burner was, and my idea of artificial
illumination was confined to candles. You can im
agine what a revelation to me were the boulevard",
the lights, and the crowds of gay Paris.
The many recent changes in the management
of the publishing house of D. Appleton & Co,
point to Its absorption by the Harpers. Gossip
among other New-York publishers during the
last week has all tended to that view of the
matter. The facts seem to bo aa follows: Mr.
J. M. Seara. formerly Editor of "Harper's Week
ly," has been made president of the Appleton
Company, Mr. W. W. Appleton stepping down
to take the chairmanship of the board of direc
tors. Mr. George S. Emory, also of the Harpers,
has been elected to the second vice-presidency
of Appletou's, while Mr. Hoy Mason, formerly
of the editorial staff of "The Sun," has been
made advertising manager of the Appleton firm.
"The Hun" and Harper & Bros, are supposed
to be controlled by Mr. J. P. Morgan. and the
new directory of D. Appleton & Co. seems to
place that concern under the same ownership.
George H. I.orlmer In to publish this fall
through Doubleday, Page & Co. a second vol
ume of the letters of a s«lf-mad« merchant,
under the title of "Old Gorgon Graham." Mr.
Lorimer la spending the summer at Wyncot©.
Perm.
Frank T. Bulien, th author of "The Cruise
of the Cachelot," hi I in preparation a new
book, entitled "Denizens of the Deeps," which
will be Issued by tho Fleming H. Revel] Com
pany. The book Is intended to do for the in
habitants of the sea what Ernest Thompson
Beton and oJher "Nature" writers have done
for the creature* of the woods. Beginning with
the biggest, the volume will open with the
autobiography of a whale, Which Will be fol
lowed by the stories of the cuttlefish, the shark,
the sea turtle, the walrus, the sea serpent, an 1
bo on. There will bo many illustrations by
Livingston Hull and other artists.
A. B. Barnes &■ Co. announce a now volume of
their "East and We«f series for young readers
for publication this falL it is by E. P. Weaver,
ami is entitled "The Search : A Story of the Old
Frontier." and tHis of a boy's Journey from
England to Philadelphia In Colonial days, and
of his further adventures in the wildernesses of
Western New-York and Pennsylvania in the
endeavor to rescue v captive held by the Indians.
The Menpes family have turned their atten
tion to Venice, Dorothy writing of the archi
tecture and tlif gondolier, the urt, the shops,
the palaces and the various other interesting
features and phases of the fascinating city,
while her father illustrate the resulting vol
ume with one hundred full page plates In colors,
reproductions of his paintings. These are
printed at the Mf>np»o Press, and the book Is
published by the Macmlllans.
Profeesor Oeorga E. Howard. In his "History
of Matrimonial Institutions," notes the marked
Improvement in marriage and divorce legisla
tion In the United States during the last twenty
years, and commends the services of the "Na
tional League for the Protection of the Family
in accomplishing those results. The league
has compiled from the book an Int. Testing .sum
mary of the divorce legislation In that period.
Maine stsnrts alone In having made the condi
tions for the divorce of persons coming into
the State a little easier. Advertising to procure
divorces has been made illegal In California,
Illinois, Indiana, Minnesota, Montana, Ohio and
Washington.
The question of the Identity of tha "Billy,"
to whom Stewart Kdward White dedicated his
book, "The Forest " has at lust been aatlatao
toiily settled. A literary personal having stated
that "Ullly" was Mr. White's half-breed guide.
Its dictum has generally been uccepted by read
ers. But his publishers now definitely announce
that "Billy" wus the author's special name for
Miss Grant, of Banta Barbara, Cal.. who Is
bow Mrs. Stewart Edward White.
Tom Ms.ay.on, the author of "In Merry
Measure." and the managing and literary editor
of "Life," was born In Essex. Conn., In 18(?C.
His father was a well known oldtime sea cap
tsin, and the younger Masron made his first
voyage when he was but nine months old. Mr.
ftfaason Is now a resident of Olea Ridge, N. J.
His family, according to his own statement]
"consists of tares children, three dogs, three
servants and only one wife."
Thu" Century Company has decided to start
an educational book department this fall. It
will pay especial attention to textbooks for col
leges, as in a lettM on "The American State,"
edited by Professor Willoughby, of Johns Hop
kins University, but will not neglect the needs
o? the elementary echools. For these. Miss H.
U. Carter, of the department of science in the
New- York Training Hchool for Teachers, has
edited a ?erlen of six volumes about anlmaN. se
lejCtl— h«f material from the rich mine of
natural history stories contained in tha bound
volumes of "St. Nicholas/ such as "Cat Stories,"
"Stories of Brave Dogs," "Lion and Tiger
Stories," etc.
"I'm from Missouri" Is the title of the seventh
volume In the "John Henry" scries which George
V. Hobaxt has written over the norn de guerre
of Hugh BfrlUssh HU publishers, the QlM«l
W. Dillingham Company, state that the first
edition of this latest addition to the series runs
the total sales up to 425.000 copies. The samo
house announces a new novel, her thirty-fourth,
by Mary J. Holmes, a story of the New- England
coast. More than three million copies ot her
books have been sold.
L. C. Page & Co. have Issued a new Illustrated
edition of Annie Fellows Johnston's "Joel, a
Boy of Galilee," her story of the times of Christ,
for young readers. The new volume In tho
"Little Colonel" bet-Ira by the sama author la
entitled "The Little Colonel in Arizona."
Kate Douglas Wtggtn*S childhood was spent !n
Maine, where she has made her summer home
for many years. This summer the Pine Tree
State honored its foster daughter through Us
famous old college, Bowdota, which conferred
on her the degree of Litt. D.. In acknowledgment
of her literary achievements
George Ade. fabulist and playwright-, finds hi*
recreation In farming, which he carries on In a
way to astonish his rural neighbors at Brook,
Ind. A reporter from "The Indianapolis News"
went down to Brook to Interview the author
farmer, but found morn interest In tha com
ments of the natives. Ho writes:
Folks around l;ro<k find Haze.den farm interest
ing, because the master of the place does such out
landish thlnzs. Mr. Ado. they Insist, has tried
to do everything so differently from anybody else.
His houso Is of queer architecture, the rafters in
the barn are varnished— honestly!— and he brought
a man here from Chicago to beautify the olace— a
landscaub (arflenar. you know— and in.->Le>ul of cut
ting out the hazel brush the Chlcacoan insisted on
letting it grow, and wanted to transplant more of it.
And the farmers of Newton County have been
struggling for years to clear their farms of the
very thing that the landscape gardener insisted
ought to stay. So Hazelden farm has hazel brush
in lta front yard.
The biography of Thomas Nast. by Albert
Bigelow Paine, which has been running aa a
serial In "Pearson's Magazine." will be published
In a much enlarged form by the Macmillan
Company this fall. Mr. Paine was compelled
by the llmltationa of space to omit a great deal
of Interesting material la preparing hla work
for the magazine, and the publication of the
articles has elicited much additional Information
of a valuable nature. The book will contain
reproductions of nearly four hundred of the ar
tist's most notable cartoons.
A. J. Mounteney-Jeiihson, the last surviving
officer of the expedition which Stanley led across
tlio "Dark Continent." bus written his reminls
cences of the explorer for "Scrlbner'a. ilagaame."
The article will appear In the September num
ber. The author, in analyzing Stanley's leader
ship, defet.ds him from the charge of cruelty.
an«l assorts that during three years of close as
soriatlon his oini ers "ne\er once saw him do a
cruel or wanton thing, or anything of which our
consciences disapproved." Ho says that "those
who followed in his footsteps In Africa always
apoke of his Justice to the natives."
The dangers of too realistic writing are again
Illustrated in the case of Miss Marian Michel-
Bon, the author of the novel, "In the Bishop's
Carriage." Miss Mlchelson has been apendlng
the summer at Lake Tahoe, In Southern Cali
fornia. After Fhe had been there n. few days
Ff.o began to notice that she was evidently not
regarded aa persona grata by the other cot
tagers, [n fact, they 6tuil!ou!=ly avoided her.
Bonie of the women even crossed to the other
aide of the road when they met her. and eve •
tho men seemed to exhibit nervoosoeaa in pass
ing h»»r. while the children regarded her with
mingled dr»-ad and admiration. The mystery
was. of course, aolved when it was learned that
a romnntlc and Imaginative (or perhaps misin
formed) summer girl had spread the report that
the a<l\«*ntuie« of Nsjwa Olden, the clever glrl
thlef heroine of the story, «ere autobiographi
cal!
Not all authors are ao fortunate as Miss
Mil nelson In having a convenient summer girl
to spread reports to furnish interesting personal
Items about them to the press. Gelett Burgess.
for Instance, who is summering at Scltuate,
Mast . has been compelled to find and to con
struct the necessary material for the silly season
paragraphlsta In the corner of an apple orchard
be baa built out of old packing boxes a little
bouse which he calls tho "Goop Hotel." It Is
two stories hiKh. anil contains four rooms and a
stairway, with doors, windows and a piazza,
As the ground plan covers a apare of only 0 by
s feet, and (he rooms are only high enough
to admit a child of four to stand erect In them
without stooping, the exploration of the house
is achieved with some difllculry by nn adult, yet
Ur. Burgess allows it to !><• stated that he has
spi-nt hours of seclusion In the upper chamber.
Which is but •'* feet square, in literary com
position! When ho Is not writing, he comes
downstairs and gives tea parties.
Guy Wetmore Carryfa untimely death last
winter baa been ■BiTtphsstlSti by Kate. In one of
her most ironical moods, in the success of his
novel, "Tho Transgression of Andrew Vane,"
which, Henry Holt & Co. announce. Is now on
the pnss again for Its fourth printing.
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ART.
FOUNTAINS ABBEY. Th« Stan of a Mediaeval Mon
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An account Of the foundlnc of Fountains Abbey,
with dcFcrliJtlons of Its buildings, thn various um«s
to which ii.' . were put, and the dully win of th«
in. inks. llliib'riL«><l with a frontispiece reproduction
of a water-color by Turner, and i>hotograptiA.
EDUCATIONAL. (
A OENKRAIj VIEW OF THE HISTORY AND ORGAN
IZATION OF PUBUC EDUCATION IN THE OEK
MAN EMPIRE. Translated from tha Oerman of \v.
Laxls, i:i [■. By >: .1. Tamson, Ph. D. ( M. a.
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FICTION.
VEIIOILIUS. Bj Irvla* Bacheller, ISmo, bb, 279. (Har
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A tale of Roma In the days of Augustus Ctesar.
BALTHAZAR THE MAGC3. By A. Van D«r NalUm.
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"TURK." liy t>i>l« Head. 12ir.0. pp. B?ft. (Chlcaso:
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MISCELLANEOUS.
DOCUMENTS RELATING TO THE BKVOUUTIONART
HISTORY OF THE BTATE OF NBW-JERSKY Vol.
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For Boys and Young Men— City.
CHAPIN COLLEGIATE SCHOOL,
2* EAST GO 111 ST., NEW YORK.
.1111 Vn-i i> Begtns'Ocfc 3. lUO4. | fr'marjt.
* Jlll *■*-•*« Krui'sh. Classical and Pr«m*r»(.
B. IX*} < BtJCKLET, A. IV. Prlnciral.
H B. CHAPtN D. D., Principal Emeritus.
MANHATTAN COLLEGE.
Orand Boulevard and 13 1 st St.. New Tort
Tor circulars address Brother JEROME. President.
For Young Ladles —
THE MISSES GRAHAM
(Successors to the Misses Green).
Boarding and Day School for Girls.
(Established UK Ueopen* Oct. S.
New Locution, I*o \Xe*t "7(1 St.. Miern.an Square.
MRS. LESLIE MORGAN'S
BOARDING AND DAY SCHOOL FOR GIRLS.
13 and 13 WEST Jw.TH BTRCST,
NEAR CENTRAL PARK. N. Y. CITY.
DE LAUCEY SCHOOL FOR GIKLS,
71 Went K.-,th St.. Net* York.
Twrnljr-tlitril Year.
Collet* preparatory nnd special courses. Small
classes. Individual care and Instruction. Gymnasium.
College, certificates. Circulars on application.
MRS. COOPER HARTMAN'3
RIVERSIDE SCHOOL FOR GIRLS,
815 RIVERSIDE DRITBI AND ANNEX.
NEW YORK CITY.
T "INLERGAItTEN TRAINING.— .ipens Sept li Fro*
I\. t>cln-iai'kiilps ltd.; tn>!u>-'ts ear'y rvgl>t:»'n FROS
UKLNUItMAL IN£>T.. 2. A. CUTrEN. 48 Irving PI., N.T.
\ CADEMY MOUNT ST. I'RSULA.
For c;rou!»r «<l.lre<» M. itl.tr Surertor.
I!"Jf..rd Park N- ■■■■ 'i ik City.
THB OARDNER HOME SCHOOL FOR GIRLS.
X tX)7 FIFTH AVKXL'E.
BET. 4bTH and 4jfTH 6T3.
For Both Sexes City.
STAMMERING.
And all nervous affections of speech corrected. Estab
lished MM, Sand for "Cause* and Treatment of Stan>
murinic' Also tample copy VOICE Ti'l'lt'S
F. a. BRYANT. M. D.. l- N. Waal -^th St.
I'll!. I I (M. UAL examinations dally FOWLER
WELLS CO (established 182JI. .'» East ::J St.. N Y.
Tor Young L-iaiea— Country.
MANHATTAN COLLEGE
C'hrUllan Itrotlier*. inline; and Pay Scholars.
Grand i' ilevaxd a., l 13 1 st >t . New York.
COI'K.SB.I Il.Vl>.\«i TO 11. A. & B. S.
l.ii^lui-i'iin;. Arrtiitrctttrv.
Mu.lr.u LjMSPB»n > s (jeutrral Srirnre,
l't'il.!g»K> .'I •'« » * mi'"'.-, i Lit Cuursesj
uNo v Prepsratori llrpaitnient.
R«open.i Sept. 7. BRUTHEH JBROMB, President.
Academy Mount St, Ursula,
BEDFORD pakk. new YORK CRT.
Bearding and : a-, School Dm Young '■■<■■■•* anJ Little.
<;..-:» directed try the L'rsuiinea. Delightfully situated on
ii. Harlem KaUro»J. inur .-;. John CoU«fta and ot>i>«>*K«
biU*.«.\ PAUtk 14-J . • N.i a!. i.AitiJt..\ . .
Tha couraa of Studies Is ttiurouKh. embracing all the
branches requisite Co* a complete m»>i reAaea education.
The Academy will reopen on U'eUnesiuty. 6cvU 11. For
circulars adores* Mm.:.-! Superior.
Academy of Saint Joseph-in-thePines.
The AcadVtny of St. Juseph. a Bearding School for
fcung Ladle*. 's pleasantly located tit Brer.twood, the
Pine Refclon at Lnns Island. The Curriculum fnbricej
the Primary, Grniumar. Academic and Fust-Graduate
rr.iO.i :-pf.-:al Mi; i;.n rrav pursue elective studies la
r.r., 11»N. Mathematics. Foreign Une'J«SM. Vocal and In
strumental Music. Drawing, i'atnunc. etc.
£tudles will be resumed Thursday. September Bth.
••CIIKNOIVKTH" BOARDING SCHOOL FOR YOCNO
1.A1>»1.-< — Located in the most exclusive resident sec
tion of the city. overlooking Dupom Circle. Every »a
kantase In Music Art and Languages. rnu*u.il social
advantages bring pupils in contact with the noted poo
plu of .ur Nation Addrea* fur catalogue, PRINCIPAL.
1631 Now Hampshire Avenue, Washington. D. C.
IOCICWOOI) COLLEGIATE SCHOOL
4 Ootsnarlj M. unt Vernon. N. T.)
luoyens ivultr 3id.
HXATHCOTE HALU SCAJISDAIA >?. T.
ST. DAVID'S 11 Al.l_ — ThorouKQ education, limited
number of buys; ldi-al spot, college preparation; home
Influence: r«>w tin*.. Bev'd W. L. EVANS. 11. A..
Bearadalo. N. Y.
rnilG Misses Matcalfs Hcardlnc and Day School for
TUB Minxes MataalTa Boardta* on.l Day School for
Olrls, ■ s. N. Y. i „-,, „..'.ri». !'..:.. fnv.i
ca.l Culture. Tmn!s. Lsa«ket-batl. Keopens Sept. 220.
For Boys and Young Men — Country.
Montdair Military Academy.
Thlrteou miles from New York, summit of Oracge
Mountains. Erlt or Lrickawanna i:. It.
Seventeen jean ut this on* school have Riven to the
headmaster ...".<• Interest Ins ttitntr> to say In the book
let enUtled ••Your I"-.y fci.-i Our School." It will interest
>. •.! nn matter where youi son goej for his schooling.
Sent OB request
JOHN <i. Ma»VHAK. A. M..
..: Wulilcn VIMSj Monti-Ulr, N. J.
HUDSON RIVER MILITARY ACADEMY. So. Nyack
on Hu.lsoa; Now Tark City, -."• miles; * park of
beautiful «lvi» un i!'f West, -'> Biles of nujipib liver
view on tna «..ist. make the location Ideal; room* Urge
anJ cteatn heated: foil and special courses; stable of
torses and beautiful Denies lac iiihu: recreation and
drill tree of oost; o\er - ' years under present aupeiiu
t»-.uU-iit guarms -,s "a ■\..-. thoroush >>%-hotil. unj«r kind,
firm, homelike iuana»{«.nie:it"; l!:iu.i;atcJ catalogue. Cap
lain J. WILSON. V. \S V.. A. M.. Superintendent.
SCHOOL IuT^^'T^
. 'a..jiui prepaj ul n or l." u^jj, oUase and business.
(Fees, SCOO and >TOO I Fall terra. Septeniaer 21' J.
JaaiesiC lla< koiiil«. Director. W.W.Randall Headmaster.
OVERLOOK MII.IT. RV ACADEMY.
I-?. is 17
NYACK-OX-IICDSON, tS mll<^ from N. T.
Ptvi.a.atury for rollcsf an 1 technical, special courses In
ttoiiCKrurtty. t.vi'fwrllmt nnii l.«n.h.iirt 1 1::*. Athietlca en
cuaruKi-'.l Modern conveniences •
Pr ARNOLD V. POWER. Principal. J ».„_..
Major C.KO. WILSON. ComirtHn 'ant. S «'«"»«.
N. Y. Repiesentatlv... Room 131. WorU Bide.
HACKLEY SCHOOL,
Tarrytovrn. N. T..
Open* September 2Sth. 1904
A Home School for Boys.
lower BTHOOL admits u>.\ » of tea years of ass ana
fits them (ur th«
UPPKH SCiHOOU which prepares for the universities.
colleges and technical kchuol >.
i'rufiieclua sent un application.
Sum m er Resorts.
CONNECTICUT.
EDGEWOOD INN.
EDCSirWOOD PARK.
OREEXWICH-O.N-THE CONN.
NOW Of EN ►OR THK STIiIBM MSBSVK
li«au:!fully ii«.*t^<h with all rooms r» ■»"• ma mod
ern condition* ami furtii»iiii««Ts. Caww «tvic» for seUct
pnwcti.t*e. oupeiior *iaole» uml "a.: • quarters; \iuit,
Tftiiue. Cu«lm> ■-.<■■ music ana p<u<eci *«.■>• aiui drivaa
through plcturvmiu* country.
IX p. SIUPIION. U&nag**.
>. Summer Resort*.
NEW-YORK.
RICiFIEMira.
On Lake Canudarago. 1.400 feet elermtioa.
For liraitli. Kvst and Recreation haa a*
equal in tha State.
BO TEL EAULINGTOH,
la Karlincton Turk.
Ft accommodations, appointments aad op fa £•«.
requisites has no equal In the place. urn
The only house having its own private park aad rw.
cheatra. inorr.tnga and evenings. v— *
NEW YORK OFFICE HOTEL E »Rt INr.TQM.
. 27TH ST. WEST. NEAR BROADWAT.
Booklet on application.
The great White Sulphur Springs C vthtns EstabHm*
tnent Is directly opposite the Hotel Earllnrtos. "•"••
THE GRATSfD HOTEL
Catskili Mountains, N. Y.
T!.« leading Hate! of the Catikills.
Reanodi.ied. redecorated and refurnished sine* last ■■
•on. A magnificent rssort for pleasure and health tail
the comforts and luxuries of a high class city hotel in t>
heart or tee CaMkill Mountains. ™ **•
NOW OPEN.
N. T. Office. 1.404 Broadway.
Telephone. 4.-So— 3SUi St.
__ H. E. EDER. Max.ag»a.
B*4 hour* from New York. ""*
Through parlor car service to
Hotel Kaaterskill,
„._„ ON TOP OS* CATSKH.f, KOUNTAD*.
ELEVATION- 8.000 CAPACITY lm
Same management aa former years. '
Hotel Kaaterskill Co . Kaalerskl!!, N. T.
MANHATTAN BEACH.
MANHATTAN BEACH HDTEL
T. T. SILLECK. Uua,^
TeL 600 Coney u,^
THE ORIENTAL HOTEL
JOS P. GR3AVES. Ui : » sn
TeL 100 Coney Isiaa*.
ERUBGLIFf MM. HEW YOU.
BRIARCLIFF LODGE -Open Until October.
Hep.-«ser. the acme of beau
tiful location, refined service and
luxurious conditions.
STABLS 6ERVICE. AUTO OUARTER3. gWIVXCra
POOL. GOLF UNK9. superior MCSia ETC
M. V. Central Station, dearborn. 'Phune i Brtaraiff.
DAVID B. PLUMER. il^nwe.
POCAKTICO loDGE—Open All the Year.
Stations — Brtarclia Manor en Putnam Dfrtaoo. or
Pleasantville on Harlem Branch.
SADIHO>DACKS.
ARANAC IH«-cott. m
l iii.er MtrauuM Lake.
A elect Mounialn Uiime.
Ftkhlns. tifii. etc
Open ilay to No*.
U li MARbIIALL. Mir..
lirtnao Inn. X. T.
At'lltOMlACk HOI'SE, Indian take. H«miltoa C*.
N. V.— Accommodates IJ. Rates $8 to i . , per week
and %1 per day. Mrs. E. MEAD. Prey.
NEW-JKRSFT.
I CHALFONTE
| ATLANTIC CITY, NJ.
B New; Complete; Tea Storieat
Q Fireproof; Always Open. Wrtfia
H for Folder and Bates.
| THE LEEDS COMPANY
HOTEL DENNIS,
ATLANTIC CITY. N. J.
Directly facing the Oc<-ma: hat »ad e«M
aea water la private b*thsj golf ItmM
prlrllegf*.
WALTEB J. BUZBY.
MMLeOBOUSH ROUSE,
Atlantic Cltj. 21. J.
HOTEL Ua beach front. Atlantic City. Jf. «.
On tte beach front. Atlsntlo aty. .1. *\
Open all year. American and Europe** D-ana. Sat «M
cold eea water j»:r.» — i suite with rooms. Orcaeetrsv
C. R. LITERS.
SOMERSET INN
BERN.VRDSVTTXB. K. J.
And *.«ut Lottasee.
Thtrty-n»e miles from Nbw Torn, aa IX. L. * W .^
R via Barclay or Chrlstaimer bu Ferry. Altitude. IM
(ut, T«. . IB B^nardsvme. .^^^
Peninsula
6KABRIGIIT. N. J. C. U. PEI'ERKR. Pr»prte*ae\
"HOTEL COLUMBIA,
DIRECTLY ON THE OCEAN FRONT,
BKLMAK. N. J.
The Select i.e.ort of the Seaahorev
FRANK D.WOLF. __^
Tt.cTDJTFAPn OCEAN GROVE. !». #. .
The M I rUKU.MAINAVE. ATTHEBSACH.
BO rooms.- good table. A. W. LYMA.N.
" OCEAN HOTEL,
ASBURT PARK. N. J
LARGEST AND LEADING HOT=»
OEO. L. ATKINS' SC»Ca.
HASH AC HIS ETT9.
In Th* Berkshire*.
STOCKBRIDGr. MASS.
HEATOM HALL
Cuisine and service unexcelled. B«antlrol drives.
AtLE^T? ITREADWAT.l TREADWAT. J. A. SHERRAJITX
Hotel Aspinwall
LENOX, MASS.
O. D. 6EAVET. PROPKIETOn.
An Ideal Resort for Health
and Pleasure. __
BEKK^HIKK H11.1.9.
THE MAPLE WOOD,
prrrsFiEU>. mass.
NOW OPKS.
Seu^ for 1901 Booklet before looking cl3«wber«.
AUTIIUR W. PLUMB. Prop'r.
TIKGINIA.
Virginia Hot Springs
t.300 fee* elevation. Open all the r**»-
Waters, baths, hotels and scensry
nowhere equalled
Khsumatlsm. gout. obesity »nd nervous dlJsasss -y^l
New dm therapeutic apparatus Installed. Go-t. 'C.
mlnjf pool, line liver;- and outdoor vast»m»s. THE >»
HOMESTEAD Is mo«l«rn la the strictest s«ns« »»JL»3 1 »
rontsed by the hl«ao»t class. Broker*" office essi w*
r«ct N. T. wlr*.
The Chesapeake & Ohio Bailway,"
World* Fa?.- Scenic Rout*.
allows «top-oTer at Covia»ton. Va,. on *;- -*\?&£»
to Cincinnati. Lo-alsvlll*. Chtc.iro. St. Us*) • aJ "
West, for side trip to Virginia Hot Spring* -_ f M r^,
Pullman compartmmt car. vta WasMn«ton. Jr^ \
N. T. 4 55 p. nv. arrive* dpring* «:=; a. «■• 4 j.
time. Eicurslon tickets at C. iO. oaces. M- *££$,
may. officer Penna. R. R. «nd conneotlnsr J"*SfZ*
PREP BTEItKT. M*ca««r. Hot sprm** •■"
VERMONT.
THE GREEN MOr\T.U» .-— '
IAKE DUNMORE HOUSE
■■ AND fOTT.\(.T'* Ink* »'>»*'■ **• _. .
A most D :ctur.aau« lmxe anC. :• «- a u^o3SN
all forms of amuaernent: excellent »«rrlc» «^i "
new Mnwemtnu Bend toT l^£l*^j gs?*XVt. »«•»
PKVNSTTVAMA.
DELAWARE WATEB GAP, PA*
HUB VAJLABiaa OF IMT""*^ .