8 OUR NATIONAL ARTERY. Discovery, Exploration and 'Acqui sition of the Mississippi. THK OPENING OF THE MISSISSIPPI: A STRUGGLE) FOR SUPREMACY IN THE AMERICAN INTERIOR- By Frederic Austin Ogg. With four maps. Svo, pp. xl, 670. The Macmliiaa Company. The story of the discover}', exploration and exploitation of the Mississippi River forms one of the most Important chapters in the history cf the growth of civilisation on the North American continent. Three great nations. Spain. Franc© and England, contested for Its control, which passed from hand to hand untll'the In creasing power of the United Slates enabled it to step In and to remove the bone of contention by absorbing the territory on both Bides of the river, from its source to its mouth. Mr. O« has evidently entered upon his task with enthusiasm, and has carried it to completion with painstaking research. The references to authorities In his footnotes are copious, and where they differ in their conclusions he gives the opposing views and his reasons for Inclining to one more than to another. It may be said severally that, while in places his enthusiasm may lead him Into a certain flam boy an cy of style and recklessness of statement that are hardly consistent with a Judicial presentation of his toric facts, his careful and conscientious weigh ing of authorities and his evident wide &rasp of bis subject have resulted in the production of a volume that reflects credit on the author and will occupy a unique place In the litera ture of American development. Beginning with the discovery of the river by the Spaniards in the early years of the sixteenth century, the author follows its history down to the time of its coming unreservedly into the hands of the United Stales through the closing events of the War of 1812. when it ceased to be a factor in international schemes for territorial aggrandizement. The credit for the actual discovery of the Mississippi Is not easy to assign. Mr. Ogg uiv< s many reasons in categorical array for doubting that the river mentioned by Pineda was the great "Father of Waters." and. al though Cabexa de Vaca unquestionably Failed into Its eastern moat mouth on October 30. K>'JS, leading the way for the 111 fated expedition of Narvaea, none of the Spaniards were able to net within a mile and a half of land or to re alise the Importance or significance of the great waterway. It was Hernando De Soto, who. com ing upon the river in hie land expedition, crossed it and followed it up to a point probably not far from the mouth of the Ohio. Disappointed in his search for gold, De Soto and his countrymen tailed to recognize the far more valuable nat ure of his actual discovery, and for two hun dred years no further efforts were made by Spain to utilize Its boundless facilities for pro moting exploration, trade and colonization. "Ex cept for a basis for subsequent territorial claims, the discovery of the Mississippi by the Spaniards might as well never have occurred." The opening of the Mississippi to the knowl edge and use of the world remained to be ac complished from another direction and by an other people. "The glory of revealing to the world the nature and extent of the Mississippi and its great drainage system remained for the fur trader and missionary of New France." The Spaniard stumbled upon the river by merest accident. The Frenchman sought It out, being drawn to it by a desire for more extended trade routes and to carry the Gospel to the re moter Indian tribes. The search for the river by the French began as early as 1634, when Champlain dispatched Jean Nicolet to find the "Sea of China," which hs supposed must«be the "great water" spoken of by the Indians; but it was not rewarded until June 17, 1673, when the missionary Marqnette and his companion Joliet. Journeying down the Wisconsin, "floated out upon the placid waters of the Mississippi." La Ealle, who knew that the "great water" was not the Pacific Ocean, but believing that the river flowed Into it through the Gulf of Cali fornia, named his Montreal settlement "La Chine." "as if It were but the stepping stone to his ultimate goal," completed the work of Marquette. He explored the river to its mouth, and on April 9. 1682, named the Mississippi Val ley "Louisiana," taking possession of it in the name of the King of France. In the mean time the Flemish friar Hennepin fend two compan ions, Astached from La Salle's expedition, had ascended the river from the mouth of the Illi nois to that of the Rum— from 39 degrees to 45* degrees north latitude. The control of the Mississippi and the St. Lawrence gave France the mastery of the conti nent, with tb» exception of the Atlantic sea board east of tb* AUaghanles, but she neglected her opportunities Tba French were explorers BSjftt»Sj|[ BJ ToXL^r U>a.i c •:.»-: r-. pjaj n^ . •..,. great waterways as trad* routes rather than as avenues to new colonies. In consequence there was not & sufficient population from which to draw a l oros •tronc enough effectively to resist the sea power of Great Britain when It was di rected against the French settlements on the 61 Lawrenoe; end when they were lost, disheart ened France riadUy parted with her interior do main west of the Mississippi to fiMjn for the sake of a defensive continental alllj(ce. Unable to bold her territory eaet of the river against the steady encroachments of the English col onies. France had been forced to yield this, too, Thus the close of the Seven Tear's War brought the complete subversion at the French colonial empire in America. Though the great Pitt had not been able to maintain himself at the British helm all through the contest, the outcome for America was substantially what he had planned and hoped ior— except that ha might have contrived to secure all the Mississippi Valley at once tor people of Ksglieh speech and blood. Instead of allowing: the western half of it to tail for a time to the Span 'lards. By the treaty of 1768 the plans and achieve ments of scores of patriotic and ambitious French men— Salle. Iberville. Bienville, Cadillac. Crozat. . •asllss— Celoron and many of lesser lam. — ■were brought to naught. Missionaries, coureurs de bois. Cur traders, explorers and colonists had la bored, In all more than a hundred years, with greater or less skill and ardor, to build a great Trench dependency In the heart of the continent. They bed been the pathfinders of the Mississippi Valley; they had borne the brunt of the conflict *rith hostile natives and primeval nature; they had revealed to the world the resources and prospective value of the great rejrion; but In the laying of foundations for on abiding political power they failed. Their number* had always been too scant, end support from the home government too "penny ■wise and pound foolish." They could have main tain** themselves quite well as against the Span iard or any other possible European competitor, ex wapt the very one with whom they had to contend. But the Englishman was too hungry for land and too ehsewd in his methods of obtaining it. as well mm toe strong numerically and financially to be teas? resisted with such fore* as the French could command in America. At the beet it was but. a ejsjsslfsß of tta« until th* scattered Gallic settie- TD^nts b^tw^ea MoatraJ and the Gulf should be rutraerpod faf Oh Anrto-Saxon advance- bpynnd the JWstfiaplssTS; the latter pert of th« eighteenth c*ctury axd after. I When Che English colonies, throwing off the "British yoke, became tb* United States of 'America, tha yv.ur.p rcpntllo found Itself greatly liampared on its "Western frontier by the Spanish occupation or the farther bank of the Mississip pi anaztish Ministry thoroughly ~wlth .the necessity of an early, and. ©ren-en-tmmedl- E «te, settlement of the raatten,** When Jefferson became ■ President, in 3SOI, HL»t>ain had scolded in American diplomacy anfl HL^ eigned a treaty la 17&5— t0. run fur threa — CrnntJnt? our. demands. Although tha i had Ion? "xi'.^tra. £sa!r.-.liad never it rogated the treaty, anfl the development of the Wtft bsd quickly responded to the favorable status quo. Rumors of Napoleon's ambitions to retrieve the humiliation of 1763, and to re-es tablish the dominion of France In America by eecurins; the retrocession of Louisiana from Spain, seemed full of foreboding: to the future of the West Jefferson at once determined to use every effort to purchase the Floridas and New- Orleans from France, and, backed by Congress, sent Monroe as a special envoy to treat with Na poleon, notifying Livingston, our Minister to France, of hi 9 mission. In the mean time, he organized the expedition, under Lewis and Clark, to explore the region to the west of the Mis sissippi and northward, ostensibly for the pur pose of establishing: trade relations with the In dians. The circumstances which determined the First Consul to aell the entire domain, instead of the restricted concessions for which Monroe was authorized to treat, are now well known, and are admirably Bet forth by Mr. Ogg, who writes with much Interesting detail, also, of the way In which Congress met the problem presented by the unexpected acquisition of Louisiana and committed the United States to its policy of territorial expansion. He ends his story with an account of the establishing 1 of the American regime in New-Orleaiis and the new Louisiana, and of the final removal of the river and its contiguous territory from international rivalry and contention by the superfluous defeat of Packenhams army by General Andrew Jackson la IftlSL NEW NOVELS. Romance in the Forest and Crime in the City. GREBN MANSIONS: A ROMANCE OF THE TROPICAL forest. By W. H. Hudson, Unto, pp. 315. G ; P. Futnum's Sons. THE GREEK DIAMOND, By Arthur Morrison. Illustrated by P. H. Townssed. 12mo, pp. 804. Boston: L*. C. Paga & Co. THB WOMAN ERIIANT. Beini? Some Chapters from the Wonder Book of Barbara the Com muter's Wife. With illustrations by Will GrefS. IZrno. pp. 376. The Macmlllan Company. THB MOTOR PIRATB. By G. Sidney Paternos ter. With a frontispiece by Charles K. Sykes. J2mo, pp. 261. Boston: I* C. Pas* & Co. The Mr. W. H. Hudson who has written "Green Mansions" must surely be tho Mr. Hud son who has hitherto been known chiefly as the author of "The Naturalist in La Plata." "Green Mansions" is not a novelist's novel; it has no taint of the lamp; there is nothing: professional about it whatever. It is, rather/ the work of a man whose Imagination has been touched by the magic of the tropical forest, and hns vent ured, somewhat diffidently, to make a book out of what he has felt and seen. Th«»-e is scarcely any plot to be found in these pages. The sup posititious narrator is a man whose failure as a Venezuela conspirator has driven him Into exile. He wanders off to the forest, where he meets some savages, and, presently, a beauti ful girl, with whom, of course, he soon falls in love. But Rima is more than beautiful; she is a weird, almost uncanny maiden, a kind of nymph of the forest to wliom the Indians at tribute evil powers. She drifts steadily toward tragedy in her strange sylvan life, and the book, from beginning- to end, seems somehow to be tinged by the sombre colors In which her in dividual story is whelmed. Mr. Hudson Is sparing of incident as tho ordinary novelist understands it. He is content to paint for us the magnificent spectacle offered by the forest, and to introduce a figure here and there not so much for its own sake as for its significance as part of the great natural panorama be un folds. The scene in which hero and heroine meet with a deadly coral snake between them is most humanly dramatic. Yet wo value it chiefly for the sense of woodland mystery it brings. It is not in order to give a fillip to his story, but simply that he may show us what life In darkest Guiana is like, that he thus describes the way in which a certain savage offers his sister to the hero in marriage: Anxious to punch him, I manap^d to control my muscles, and asked him what authority he— a young nobody, who had not yet risen to the dignity of buying a wife for himself— could have to dispose of a sister in this offhand way. He replied that there would be no difficulty; that Run! would give his consent, as would also Otawlnkl. I'i.-ikc and other relations: and last, and least, according* to the matrimonial customs of these latitudes, Onlava herself would be ready to bestow her person queyou, worn fig-leaf-wise, necklace of accourl teeth, and all— on so worthy a suitor as myself. Finally, to make the prospect still more Inviting*, he added that it would not be necessary for me t'<> subject myself to any voluntary tortures to prove* myself a man and fitted to enter Into the purca torial state of matrimony. He was a great deal too considerate, I said, and. with all the gravity I could command, asked him what kind of torture he would recommend. For me, so valorous a per son, "no torture," he answered, magnanimously. But he, Kua-ko. had made op his mind as to th* form of torture he meant to Inflict some day on his own person. He would prepare a largo sack, and Into it put fire-ants— "as many as that! he ex claimed triumphantly, stooping and filling his two hands with loose sand. He would put them in the sack, and then get into It himself naked, and tie it tightly round his neck, so as to show to all spectators that the hellish pain of Innumerable venomous stings in his flesh could be endured with out a groan, and with an unmoved countenance. The poor youth had not an original mind, since this was one of the commonest forms of self-torture among the Guayana tribes. But the sudden wonderful animation with which he spoke of it, the fiendish Joy that illumined his usually utolld countenance, sent a sudden disgust and horror through me. But what a strange inverted kind of fiendlPhness is thin, which delights at the anticipa tion of torture inflicted on one's eelf and not on an enemy! And toward others these savages are mild and peaceable! No. I could not believe in their mildness; that was only on the surface, when noth ing occurred to rouse their savage, cruel Instincts. 1 could have laughed at the whole matter, but the exulting look on my companion's face had made me sick of the subject, and I wished not to talk any more about it. There is enough of this sort of thing in "Green Mansions" to show that the author can be something of a realist when he chooses, and tho whole book is, indeed, wonderfully true and vivid. But it remains, when all is said, the book of a poet, a piece of writing in which the glamour and beauty of the forest are rendered with a fine emotion. The author of "The Green Diamond" has ex panded Into a book the kind of story which Conan Doyle might have told in twenty or thirty pages. The stone that gives tho tale its title is the property of an Indian prince. It is the usual Jewel of fiction", a rarity of fabulous value. The rascal into whose hands it passes through the commission of a great crime real izes that there is danger in seeking to get it out of the country by ordinary processes. It would be folly for him to conceal it about his person. so he hits upon tho happy idea of placing it in a magnum of Tokay and sending it to England in a case with oitier magnums, in the care of an acquaintance, who has not the smallest sus picion of what he has undertaken to transport. Naturally, when the innocent man finds himself at sea with the Tokay, he is tempted to sell it. and. thinking that he is thereby doing the owner a good turn, he ultimately does dispose of the stuff. At an auction on land the bottles go to different buyers, and then, if we may be per mitted the figure, the fat la in the lire. The gentleman who has hurried home from India expecting to take possession of the Tokay and the Jewel nearly collapses when he hears what has become of both, but he pulls himself to gether and starts out to regain his (?) property. Incidentally his secret la divined by the man whom he has tried to use, and the story thence forth resolve* itself Into a record of more or less fantastic, episodes, each one carrying the Jewel further from all chance of its recovery. Mr. Morrison Is a clever writer, and he has made -The Green Diamond" amusing". But as we turn the last page we cannot help reflecting on what Conan Doyle might have made of the same mot**. "Th* "Woman Errant" is very like the pre ceding -books put forth "by the same anonymous author, an easy, eently. flowlr.s blend of humor NEW-YORK DAILY TRIBUNE. BATUBDAY, SEPTEMBER 3. 1004. and sentimentality, a discursive tale (which is hardly a tale) in which commonplace people are made Interesting and likable. The claims of love, though not forgotten, are not given undue emphasis. The attention of tho reader Is drawn first and last to the engaging or piquant tral's of a dozen different types, and he is made to feel not that he is assisting at any very extraordi nary drama, but that he is sharing In the pleas ures and worries of an ordinary circle of pleas ant people. Two special gifts belong to the author of this book. She understands her fel lows, and she has a genial, spontaneous way of handling their characters. Moreover, her men and women always have characters. They are genuine and original, in their modest way, and we take inevitably a lively interest In them and in their affairs. A pretty book is "The Woman Errant," and sunny, too. with truth in It, and an atmosphere that is altogether beguiling. Mr. Paternoster has written an entertaining story around h'.s idea of a twentieth century Dick Turpin, operating a motor car of unpar alleled spc-ed and control, and has overcome the literary difficulties of the case In a highly in genious fashion. If his detective is rather more the man of the world than is usually the case, and a little less analytical than Mr. Sherlock Holmes, he is none the less agreeable on the first account, and his apparent lack of penetra tion permits us to enjoy for a longer period the daredevil deeds of the Motor Pirate. The novel is both a detective story and a love story, and the two nre Intertwined with a narrative of ex citing adventures. In order to secure for the pirate a machine that should surpass anything hitherto known to automobile manufacturers, the author has conceived him as the accom plish. >1 Inventor of the novel car he uses. Such a machine, if put *>" the market, would nat urally be of far more profit to the Inventor than anything he would be likely to pick up on the road as a highwayman; and as a man must probably be orasy who would sacrifice an as sured fortune for a precarious if exciting liveli hood, tho irrationality of his nets but proves the more lxittlit;B to those who are on his track, and leads logically to the dramatic climax in which the benefits of his skill ore lost to posterity or 1. ft to 1^ worked <»ut anew by other and saner Investigators. If there is any Inconsistency in a man who is so clever In one direction b"lnp so unbalanced in another, it is, at least, not without its parallels In real life, and is readily overlooked in th» interesting character of the story. Tho author h«s not followed the usual method of writers of detective stories in mak ing an absolute mystery of the Identity of his villain, and perhaps it in the ability of the rend er to pick Op the clews s little faster than the hero and liis detective friend that seems to de tract somewhat from their cleverness in finally running him to earth. The Interest is rather that of tho playgoer who knows, r>r suspects, tlie r .;:l villain all along, and whose sympathies nre enlisted In the efforts of the Other charac ters to arrive at the knowledge which he has already attained through his superior facilities <>r insight The experiment is s dangerous one. but proves nor unsuccessful In the present in stance. HOOKS AND AUTHORS. Current Talk About Things Present and to Come. "Th ! Affair at the Inn." th" novel which Kite Douglas Wlggln wrote this summer in collabora tion with three friends, Mary and Jane Flndlater and Allan Maeaulay, la Just Issued by Hoaghton, Mlfflin ft Co. It is a love xtory. the scene of which is s quiet country inn on Dartmoor la Devonshire. Each author is responsible for the point of v "\v of one "f the four charactera The hero is s young automobillnsj Knpiii on it?" A new one-volume edition of I>r. Edward Everett Hale's "Memories of a Hundred Years" is to be brought out this fall by the Macmillan Company. It will contain all the matter appear ing In the original two-volume edition and three additional chapters. In one of these Dr. Hale describes n Journey he made from Boston to Washington just sixty years ago. Which occu pied thirteen days Of travel and involved twen ty-eight changes of conveyance. It is interest ing to note In this connection thai the present plans of the railroads, by which trains from Boston will cross ths Ward's Island ISridge to Long Island and re-enter New-York by means of the East River tunnel to the new Thirty eighth-s* station, will enable the trip to be made without change of car or recourse to ferry transfer, relegating the metropollo to the posi tion of a way station between Boston and points South and West, The letters of William Makepeace Thackeray, written to members of the family of George Baxter, of New-York, a home which h« visited often and loved much during his lecture tours in this country, will be published by the Century Company in book form this autumn. These aro "The Letters to an American Family" which have be> n appenrint? in "The Century Maga zine" during the current year. The volume will contain ;:n Introduction and notes by Miss Lucy Baxter and many characteristic pen sketches by the author. Robert W. Chatnbers's new novel of the Amer ican Revolution will be called '"The New Yorker," and will appear serially in one of „ the magazines before its publication in book form by D. Appleton & Co., who will hereafter be Mr. Charnbers's publishers. This will be the third volume written by the author dealing with this period, the former stories being "Cardigan" and "The Maid at Arms." He writes of a region with which he is personally familiar, his country home being at Broadalbin. near Joiuis town, the seat of the Johnson family, famous In the Colonial and Revolutionary history of Cen tral New- York. Frederic 5?. Isham, author of "Under the jtosV* and "The Strollers," has written a new novel, which is as yet unnamed, although it is scheduled for publication this month by the Bobbs-Merrlll Company. It Is understood to be a story of "Black Friday" and the exciting times of the gold corner, and to Include Jay Gould and other contemporaneous Wall Street operators in its dramatis persona. The new story will be Illustrated by Harrison Fisher. The letters of Ernest Renan to M. Berthelot, written while gathering material in ! „ Palestine for his famous "Life of Jesus." have been translated by Lorenzo O'Rourke. They will be brought out this fall in , b!■ < : - Vdl tlon. With photogravure portraits, by Doubledoy. Page ft Co.. under the title of "Letters from the Holy Land." and will contain an introduction by Mr. O'Rourke. "The True Henry Clay" will be the next vol ume In the J. B. Lipplncott Company's series of "True Biographies." It Is written by Joseph M. Rogers, at one time Editor of "McClure's Maga zine," who was born and reared on a farm ad joining Ashland, Clay's country home. He haa had access to all the private Clay papers now in the possession of the family, who have greatly aided him in the preparation of the work. It Is said to contain many hitherto unpublished anec dotes. There will be twenty-four illustrations, mostly taken from photographs made especially for the book. President Butler of Columbia University has contributed an article of timely interest to the current number of "The American Review of Reviews?" on The Educational Worth of the St. Lrf>uis Exposition," having reference particu larly to the great world congresses of science and art to be held there this month. "It Is en tirely probable," writes Mr. Butler, "that never before has so large and representative a body of scholars been brought together; it is quite cer tain that never before has such a body of scholars assembled for so specific and lofty a purpose." The organizers, who have been dili gently at work for two years, consist of Pro fessor Simon Newcomb, who will preside over the congress, and" Professor Munsterberg. of Harvard University, and Professor Albion W. Small, of Chicago University, who will be the vice-presidents. Sister Nivedita (Margaret Noble), the Irish woman who has lived for several years with the Hindoos in Calcutta, and whose book, "The Web of Indian L.lfe." has recently been the subject of review and correspondence in these columns,, is In America, She will be one of the speakers at the coming Peace Congress. The book has aroused considerable comment and criticism, and has already gone into a second edition in Eng land. Miss Noble'a London publisher, Mr. Helnemann, has received a letter in regard to the volume from Flora Annie Steele. the author of the well known novel of the Indian mutiny. "On the Face of tha Waters." in which she says of "The Web": It is exceedingly interesting: though a trifle per haps too enthusiastic it Is an excellent bit of work for India- The woman's standpoint is, of course, taken at its highest, but it la, as such, not in the least exaggerated. In a recent review of "The Boss," Alfred Henry Lewis's novel of American political life, an Australian critic makes the book the text for a warning to those opposed to the reign of labor in Australia, although he adds that the slacken ing of Immigration "makes the danger distant." Quoting from a correspondent In Sicily, who says that the people there "earn only four shill ings a week working twelve hours a day, but get a broth of b\g beans every night, stewed with water, and have to find their own break fast, if they can find it, or else they simply Starve," the critic reir.urks, "You can't turr such men into free Americana In two or three years without giving the 'boss' and his associates a SllOW."' Another member of a literary family Is to be heard from for the first time this fall. Rosalind Ri.!.;irds, the daughter of Laura E. 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'£ V Moral and Instruct ire lies about beauts, birds 2 »■ Moral and tnfttrnctiTe lie* about beasts, birds '» S> sad lUtic that do nut stretch the creaullty much '2 i> harder than somo of the serious stories of ant- 'J ft mat intelllcrncs. Some fifty sketches by Albert * *. U. Blashileld ably assist tha author In smashing •" •i the verities. M | The Pursuit of Phyllis, { * By J. HARWOOD BACON. $1.25. •* ■ - J. A genial, humorous romance of travel In "2 1^ Er.Kland. France. China and Ceylon. Tas hero. 9 11 ordered abroad for his health, finds a package *• X of letters In a hotel bureau drawer, and on a -X V whim tries to find the »irl to whom they are .1 V addressed. H. I..itlmer Brown contributes pict- % jg ures of pursuer and pursued. if Rare Books and Prints in Europe. FOREIGN BOOKS. For the Information of Trlbane readers Who answer the advertisement* of the Lon don Book Shop. In The Trlbane. the mode of ordering »>.>•> ..in abroad la uractlcully the 11 am ♦? us In thin country. laclos* forelKß money order or exchanire instend of check. Book* tuny be ordered by mall anil th* dnty paid to the lost Ufflce Department on delivery. l»t«luguri will be sent tree on request. CHOICE ENQRAVINQS (Mezzotints, Colour Print*, Americana, &C. . FINE AND RARE BOOKS, VALUABLE AUTOQRAPHS, &C. Sabin, (Frank T.) nB, Shaftesbury 4vcnue. LooJsa. w. I~\« • . * Dealers In Rare An- IBS *>■ A. Hi Topography. i>n».i! '<■•, FlMt J\.l7ltLt AiL/\yT Editions, Old Novels. Rare Pooks. every dcsertxitton nupplled. State Wants. Cata tccues frts. 100.000 Books In Stock. Write m« for any book ever published. Always at your service : can supply a'most anythlrg. BAKER'S GREAT BOOKSHOP. 14-1& John Brlcht St.. Birmingham. England. A collection nt humorous verses about som» notable men. THE PI'SSKRS Ili^OK Rules by Anna Archibald G^orar- Ina Jones. I'lctures by Florence Wyman. l^m">. pp. *►. (Fox. DuffleUl & C*> Golden rules for men. THE HUH ORAB9 COOK BOOK. Cbmpilrd by Mtnnl» C tv x. With an totroductl by John Fox. Jr. Illustrated. 12mo. pp. xlll. .'!."><►. (Fox, Pufflel.l & Co.) A collection of recipes for Southern dishes. Il lustrated with photographs. MUSIC. THE INVERSIONS CF A MUSIC I/'\T.R. Tly C L. Craves. l"mo, pp. 2. iTiie Msx-rniUan Company.) A collection of eosays on sundry musical matters. REPRINTS. OLD CLOCKS AND WATCHES AND THEIR MAKERS. By F. J. Urttten. Illustrated. Svo. pp. vtll. 734. (Imported by Charles Scribner's Sons.) Descriptions of tho various styles of clocks »nil watche*. with tal>l".« of marks, ami a list of former clock and watch makers. Illustrated •with photo graphs. EARLY WESTERN TRAVELS— 174.5-134 H. Edited, with Notes. Introductions. Index, eti-., by Reuben Gold Thwaltes. LL. D. Vol. vi. Bvo, pp. 410. (Cleve land: The Arthur 11. Clark Company.) Presenting **Bntck*Brlds*'i Journey T*p the Mis souri. 1"11." and •"Frunchere's Voyage to Northwest Coast, lsll-'14." THE TRAOEDIE OF MACBETH. By William Shake speare. First Folio sMltlnil Kdlte>l. with Notes. In troduction. Glossary, etc.. by Charlotte Porter and Helen A. Clarke. 16mo, pp. xxxvlll. r*4. (Thomas T. Crowell A Co.) In the "First Folio" Shaketrear* series. SCIENCE. WEATHER INFLUENCES. By Edwin Grant Dexter. Ph. D. With an Introduction by Cleveland Abbe, Li. D. Bvo. pp. xxxl. 2SO. (Th« Macmlllaa Com pany.) A study of weather lore, and the influences of at mospheric conditions upon the human mind. SPORT. FISHING. Edited by Horace 11. Hutchlnson. in two volumes. Illustrated. Rvo. pp. xvlll. &M; nii. 445 (Imported by Charles Sorlbner's Sons.) In the "Country Life Library of Sport." Illustrated with photftgrapha. drawings and old prints. ROCKY MOUNTAIN COUNTRY CLUB— I9OS. 4t->. Il lustrated. (Published by the Club.) Containing the constitution and bylaws of the club. Illustrated with drawings and photographs. TRAVEL AND TOPOGRAPHY. THE CATHEDRALS OF SOUTHERN FRANCE I*» Francis Mlltoun. Illustrated by Blanche McManus 12mo. CD. xlv, 554. (Boston: L. C, Fb£« & Co.) " In the "Cathedral" series. Illustrated with draw Ings, plans and diagrams. AMONG ENGLISH INNS. By Josephine Toiler Illus trated. 12mo, pp. xl. i&5. Boston: L. C Paga & Co.) In the "Little Ptlgrimace" series. Descriptions of some picturesque English taverns and villages ar ranged for the convenience of the tourist, Illustrated with photographs. PICTURES BY THE DOZEN. From The London Chronicle. Now that Alma-Tadema's pictures fetch al most any price — one we remember to have fetched 6,000— la interesting to recall that once upon a time they were ordered by the dozen —"like gloves," Lady Alrua-Tadema is reported to have said. This was when Mr. Garabart. the great picture dealer, was at the height of his career, and, coming to London, found himself at the door of a wrong studio— at any rate not the studio he intended to reach— was asked by its ¥ owner, young Alma-Tadema. to enter "Did you paint that picture?" asked Gambart* pointing to the canvas on th* eaa*l The painter admitted the offence. "Well, then - said Gambart, "let me have twenty-four of the sort at progressive prices for each half dozen " The delightful bargain was struck; and proved to be mutually so satisfactory that, on its completion four years later, another twenty-four Dicturea Were ordered, and in due time executed V all ver Jug. bearing a flattering inscription anJ given by the dealer to the artist to commemor ate th ? completion of the contract. to Tr£on* th, most romantic of the many souvenirs in the Alma-Tadema treasure house in st. Johns ' I 1 — Samuel Compels. pre&ldvut of the American Federa tion of Labor, tells Us* story of I.ab.ir !>«,, wnl ch win b« celebrated this yeas In thirty-three State*. See XU« Sander Trlbuod to-morrow. 1 ■ • Autumn Resorts. OPEN ALL VKAR.. 3 CHALFONTE : I ATLANTIC CITY, N J. ?* New; Complete; Ten Storlesx S Fireproof; Always Open. Writ* 3 for .Folder aad Kates. P THE LEEDS COM PA NY HOTEL DENNIS, Atlantic City, N. J. Situated directly en th» be^ch front with an unob structed view. Liberally appointed and liberally con ducted. OPEN THE ENTIRE YEAR. WALTER J. BUZBY. SOMERSET INN BKRNAftnSVaXZ. x. 3. And ti.'ht Cottasea. Thirty- v« miles from New York, on D.. L & W. a n.. via Barclay or Christopher be Ferry. Altltuda. ••• tent. T«L. Ib licrnardsvllla. UEUEGB W. TCTTI*. Manatw... [ MARL6QRQU6H ROUSE, I Atlantic City. g Ju>l:»h White * Sons. HOTEL RUDOLF. On «- beach front. Atlantic City. V. J. Open all year. American and European plans. Rot awl cold sea water baths en suit* with rooms. Orchestra. C. R. MYERS. Peninsula - I YBRIOHT. N. J. C. U. D£I>ERER. Proprietor. Thf ATFfll?r> ocean grove, n. j. IDC 3 IK/! 1 T\Ji\U 9 MAIN aye. at bssach. Good taMe; Sept. |« & «T. a. W. L.YMAN. 2>TEW-*OUK. EICBFIELO^BIKSJ.! HOTEL EARLINGTON AXO BATHING ESTABLISHMENT Will remain open durtrtsr September. Special rates. Booklets. E. M. EAKLE & SOX. X. T. Ofllre. 27th Street, near Broadway. MANHATTAN BEACH. MANHATTAN BEACH HOTEL T. F. SILLECK. Manasar. Tsi. SUO Consy lataod. THE ORIENTAL HOTEL JOS. P. GR3AVE3. Ifanassi T«t TOO Coaoy iTlanrt BiJIiBCLIFf HAHOS. NEW 'Ml BRIARCLIFF LODGE— Open Until October. Reprssentins th« acme of b«au— tiful location, retlnetl service and luxurious cuoditiens. ETABLEJ SERVICE. AUTO QUARTERS. SWIMMEta FOOL. GOLF UINK9. SUFERJOR MUSIC. ETC. If. Y. Central Station. Scarboro. 'Phon» 1. BrtarcllS. DAVID B. I'LLMER. Manager. POCANTICO LODGE— Open All the Year. stations — Briarcltff Manor on Putnam Division, or Pleasant', on Harlem Branch. MASSACUC3ETTS. Hotel Aspinwall LENOX, MASS. O. D. BBJUtTSXr, FRGPUIETOR. An Ideal Resort for Health and Pleasure. BEKKSIIiru: HILU THE MAPLEWOOD, PITTS FIELD. MASa now OPEN. SenC for 1904 Booklet before looking elsewfcera* ARTHUR W. PLUMB. Prop'r. PE.\->SYI.VAXIA. DELAWARE WATER GAP. PA., ■ THE PARADISE OF AMERICA. Pocono & Blue Ridge Mountain Resorte. Information Bureau, -*Ut> Broadway. N. Y. VIKGIXIV. Virginia Hot Springs 2.300 feet elevation. Opes all th* rear. Waters, baths, hotels and scenery nowhere equalled Rheumatism, gout, obesity and nervous diseases cured. N«w nyrfrotherapeutlc apparatus totalled. Golf, shim ming pool, fine .. l very , and lou1 ou 4 oor pastimes TUB NSW HOMESTEAD U mod.r» ,:, the strictest sen** and p*t- Sct'ji V VlrJ hl * hh * 3t cU3i Brokers- oflca wtta Jl- The Chesapeake & Ohio Railway, World's Fair Sccm'o Route. A\est tot side tr.p to Vlr B inU Hot SprlniS. Pullman compuxtment cur. via Washington. learts BIBEfijBSt&MP way.oecs H|nna.n. R and f eo^Ur^^Ven*^ * K£.o STERKY. Manager. Uot aprtags. V«- Tk* larcrly tnrre&aea circulation of Ike Sunday Tribune Beressltates ear going- to s«es. at an early boar. Advertiser. wtu essea a favor by «endla S fa, their copy '£TV-JEILnET.