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Literary JVebv* and Criticism. fie Memoirs of an Actress of the yapoleonic Era. Paris. June 25. jjafienioiwlle George, "queen of the stage and . t^nty." "was born during the ancien regime, g^ attained the summit of her glory during the Consulate and the Empire, and was the fa vorite of Napoleon and the Emperor Alexander. c»s# was the foremost actress of the romantic o'crversent in the early 30's and she died at Paysy In January. 1 R 67. a kind hearted old lady c' eighty, whose life had embraced some of the jurist changeful y.ears in the history of Europe. Her memoirs, just published here by Plon-Nour rit are replete with personal reminiscences, anecdotes and episodes concerning Napoleon. Talleyrand. Talma and many* of the prominent political and theatrical characters of her day. The r have exceptional fascination for all read-_ ers interested in that stirring period. The editor who has most Judiciously put these pages together and annotated them is M. Cberaxny. the Parisian art collector, who as a vonth enjoyed the friendship of Alexandra Dumas, Dumas fsls, Frederick Lamatrre, Rachel and Madeleine Brohan. He has taken the me moirs from the original manuscript, written by Mile- George in 1557 and confided by her to Mme. Despordes-Valmore, with the idea that that obscure and rather pedantic poetess might Impart to thorn a certain literary charm. The greet actre<s herself had never in her life writ ten a line for publication, and she feared that her Inexperience would be disastrous for her book. By a happy chance M. Cheramy bought at auction, at the Hotel Drouot. in l? 03. the au thentic manuscript, fortunately untouched by the writer's friend. It is a pity that these souvenirs, which begin with the young girl's debut at the Theatre Francair" In 1802, end abruptly in ISOS — period accurately correspond ing with the duration of her Intimacy with Xa poleon. The editor has. however, atoned some what for this by publishing a number of de tached papers, letters and memoranda that carry the record down to the Second Empire. Mile. George was the pupil of Mile Raucourt, the popular actress who was on most intimate • terms ■fiith Josephine. It was Josephine her sajf who introduced her to the First Consul, and M". • George took part in the private theatri cals at Saint-Cloud, those who acted with her on •-, <= occasions being Lucien Bonaparte. Hort»'. - c . Mme. Barcioci. and even "Madame Mere." Bonaparte's mother. Lucien Bonaparte, after M of these amateur performances, gave Mile George a gold enamelled toilet set with 6 hundred louis concealed in the puffbox. Prince Sapieha presented her with jewels and with a costly lace veil. The young girl re marked: "If it is to the artiste to whom you offer these beautiful things, it is strictly in my capa city as artiste that I accept them!" "It is purely through admiration for the artiste that I place thorn at your disposal, together with a house, horses and carriages," was the reply. Strangely enough, the venerable and eccentric Pole spoke the truth, and his platonic attach .-• lasted for some years. Mile. George was now fifteen years of age. She was a dark. tall, massive, sculptural beauty, and was forthwith Eurrcrunded by ardent admirers. One gallant and extravagant suitor asked permission to ar range fcwr hair, and did so with a score of curl papers, each of which consisted of a five hun dred franc note. The fascinating actress does not hesitate- to narrate with extreme minuteness of detail he? first serious interview with Bonaparte. It oc curred one summer night, after a performance of the "Misanthrope." Constant, the confiden tial valet of Napoleon, was at the stage door waiting for Mile. George. -Who came tripping lightly down the stairs dressed in white and ■Rearing the lace veil that Prince Sapieha had given her. Cesar, the First Consul's coachman, was in readiness with a coup£ and a spirited pair of horseE. She was driven to Saint-Cloud, and there shown into a large room brilliantly lighted with hundreds of candles. Bonaparte soon entered In court dress — silk breeches and stockings and the familiar green coat trimmed with red. His hat was under his left arm. "I rasa as he approached," she says, "and "with a brusque gesture he tore away my veil." The First Consul complimented her upon her act!r.g. ar.d this conversation ensued: "I am more amiably and courteous than you are." "How so?" '"R'hy. I ordered s<Y(i-i francs to be given you for the Fur*-rb ffisnr.w in which you played the part of EmeHe. I hoped, that you would ask to be pre tested to thank ir.e in person, but the beautiful U proud Emelie did not come." "But I dar^d not take such a liberty." "Bad excuse! "Were you really so afraid of me?" "T«r "And row?" "Now, I am still more afraid of you." Napoleon burst into a hearty laugh, and went on to Mfc, "What is your full name?" "Jo sephine-Marguerite," she replied, and her inter locutor continued : "Josephine pleases me, I like that name, but I am going to baptize you Gtorgina— do«»s the name suit you?" She re mained . .•• and confused, and he asked her to explain h^r embarrassment. "Because," sh« replied, "all these lights bewilder and fatigue Ef; do have some of them extinguished." He rang (lor iml in and said to him. "Put out e/-.rv of these lights," turning to the actress and asking, "Is that enough?" "No," she answered. "extir.iruish half the candles in those huge candelabra." "All right," he ordered, "put them out." ar.d he turned to see if she was at last satisfied. Then, in a good humored way, he asked his fair visitor to tell him all about her life and ambitions. They chatted like young school children, she says, for half an hour. She ■Hi that he was the most charming and fasci nating man she had ever met, brusque and often rude, but thoughtful, delicate, witty, sentimental and amiable. She says further: As= 1 was about to return to Paris the First Ccn^ui placed my shawl over my shoulders and *our.d the lace veil around my head. He did so with Kra<~e and tact, and. bidding me goodby. kiffpij mo on the forehead. I very stupidly said, rT«a have just kissed the veil that Prince Sapieha pave m"." Bonaparte became furious at this and tor* the veil into a hundred shred*. He pulled efT my cashmere shawl and stamped on it. He removed my ring — a little gold one that contained a lork of white hair of Mile. Raucourt and broke It. He seized mv pink coral necklace and threw it «n the floor. I trembled with fear and had no idea of what would happen nfJtt. To my aston if-hment he i*,anic quite calm. and. in his agree able, low toned, poft voice, pair; "G«*orglna, do not p. • snpry, but when you come to Bee me you ir.uFt not wear any ornaments except those that ' Five you." "I am no? ancry," I answered, "but lam afraid I shall catch cold." The First Consul forthwith laughed pleasantly, summoned Con stant, and told him to bring at once a white cashmere shawl and ■ large veil of beautifully embroidered tulle. The resourceful valet soon ProQuoed the precious garments, and Napoleon adjusted them with hi* oxi-n hand««. then accom panying me to the coup£ that carried me home. Najmit-on always manifested a great liking for tragedians. His intimacy with Talma is a mat ter of history- Victorlen sardou, who knew illle. Gfwrge and saw her act, when asked what he thought of her, said: "She was one of the most imposing actresses that France ever produced. There was something grand, royal and su]*rb about her. 1 haw never seen on the stage anything so thoroughly majestic. She was essentially Roman and Corneillian. Napoleon, who never really appreciated any other tragedies except those of Corneille, was intensely f On <j of Mile. George, who was the ideal personification of CorneiHe's heroines. No 'jne can be compared to her in Coraeillian trag ciy. '".;. George was Roman, just as Mile. Rachel was Grecian. With George one was in ancient Rome. With Rachel* as Phedre or Her niion. «..e was in antique Greene. George was. the ideal interpreter of Corneille Just as Rachel *•£* the inimitable trag;dif r.n; of Racine. Na |*itoa—was c? thorough Roman textura. I can readily understand his' infatuation for George. Indeed, Talma and George Invoked for Napoleon the most intense artistic emotions that he ever experienced." . Mile. George found in Napoleon— "The Im mense Man," as she and her comrade Talma used to call him— true friend and wise coun sellor. She noticed but very little change in his manner and demeanor after he became Em peror. One evening at the close of a perform ance of "Cinn'a" the Emperor sent for her. It was the first occasion on which he had sum moned her since his coronation. The faithful Constant brought the message. Mile. George writes: "I at once arranged my toilette for the ceremony, and soon appeared at the Tuileries in my most elaborate dress. The Emperor received me with his u.sual frank good nature, and said: 'Heavens! how beautiful you look, and what a magnificent gown you have on" I replied: 'Can one be too sumptuously attired, sire, when one has the honor of being received by your majesty!" The Emperor quickly retorted: 'How ridiculous! What a ceremonious costume, and what formal stilted manners! Do try and be simple and unaffected! These straight laced, courtly, protocol ways do not at all suit you. Be what you really are — an excellent, good k hearted, sensible, beautiful woman, frank and simple!' The Emperor then chatted familiarly for half an hour and the interview, terminated." The minute .descriptions given by Mile. George furnish some new and somewhat Indiscreet side lights upon Napoleon's character. One evening she appeared at the Tuileries wearing a superb crown of white roses that set forth admirably her luxuriant black hair. The Emperor, who was in a particularly merry mood, laughingly removed the crown, placed it on his own head and, stepping in 'front of a mirror, said: "Just look. Georgina! How pretty I am with your enormous crown! I seem like a fly In a bowl of milk!" xie then began to sing, and made her sing wllh him, the duet in "La Fausse Magic." beginning with the words, "Do you remember that f€te. where they wanted to see us dance?" Another curious Incident is related by Mile. George. The Emperor had asked her to pose for her portrait. "I will do so, but on one condi tion," she said. "Ah," replied the Emperor, "I don't like conditions But never mind— what is It?" "Well. I want you to give me in exchange a portrait of yourself." She adds: The Emperor, instead of handing me a gold coin bearing his effigy, as I had supposed he would have done, bluntly refused to give me his por trait. "I am getting angry." I said, and shall ask for something else." "Ask for what you like" he replied, "and we shall see: "Will you ring for Constant?" "No: ring for him yourself— I permit you." When the valet appeared I said, -Constant fetch a air of scissors!" Napoleon added. "Bring the scissors. Constant. , The n turning to me. he said. "What are you going^to cut with the scissors. I am frightened I onij want to cut off a lock of your hair, because you refuse me your portrait.' ."No. indeed; I have too little hair already." I ran after him. scissors In hand. "I promise to cut only four hairs. "Very well; cut away, but clip the hairs so that they will not be missed" I cut four or five hairs. 'You see. I kept my word; but I want more." "All right, clip away again, but don t cut too many of them!'" I cut off a nice lock. That is enormous!" "Oh, but I want something else; I Insist on your giving me your portrait in minia ture'" After a while the Emperor consented, and a few days later I received his miniature set In a beautiful gold frame The "M£moires Inedits" of Mile. George con tain many episodes written In the same light conversational vein. It la a pity that they are so short. The volume with its preface, notes and appendix has less than three hundred pages. M. Cheramy promises before long to publish the memoirs of another great actress. Mile. Marie rvirval. who was one of Mile. GeOTge's most Intimate comrades, and who was opoken of as a "Venus enrages. " c - l - B - MAN, THE SOCIAL ANIMAL. His Traits Studied in an Illuminat ing Volume. SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY. An Outline and Source Book By Edward Alsworth Ross. gvo. pp. 372. The Macmillan Company. The best abused man among the academics has long beer, the sociologist, and he has earned curses by his own hard labor. Two heavy charges have been repeatedly lodged against him: he- deals In vague, useless gen eralities, and his flimsy teachings corrupt the youth of our land. Does he not resolve all the institutions and ideals of civilization into mere manifestations of the psychological laws of suggestion, impulse and habit? And in doing this, does he not breed, In the student mind, a saucy contempt for the Constitution, the Church and the courts? Those who hold this opinion will doubtless be greatly strengthened in it after reading Professor Ross's latest volume. Social psychology, the study of "the psychic planes and currents that come into existence among men in consequence of their association." must sorely vex every thoroughgoing conserva tive, if only because it remorselessly lays bare the origins and transient nature of many things which men hold dear and cherish as eternal truths. Put, however much the conservative may disapprove, he cannot accuse Professor Ross of having committed the sociologist's orig inal sin— dabbling. The present volume marks off for itself a very definite field of research and scours the circumscribed area in the most scientific manner. Superficially inspected. It seem." to depart little, if at all. from the stand ard set by many popular sociologists who love to tell stories about "mob hysteria." fashions, conventionalities, etc.' But Professor Ross has accomplished more than this easy task. He has accumulated a mass of facts culled from personal experiences and the grubbings of his torians, anthropologists and psychologists. He has ordered these facts so as to make them point toward a definite system of fairly precise mental laws, worthy of comparison with Gabriel Tarde's famous laws of imitation. Finally, he has stated these general principles in precise summaries at the close of each chapter. While this is "the pioneer treatise, in any language, professing to deal systematically with the subject of social psychology," there are very few novelties, either of fact or of theory, in it. This must be charged up to Professor Ross's credit; dealing with facts, he has brought to gether a horde of things about which all of us have read from gme to time in the newspapers, and his generalizations usually have a most familiar ring. The following, taken from his admirable summaries, are typical: Suggestibility seems quite as pronounced among iS^T.^^^oHn^e build up a SSSgSiSSinras ' • % m^n": Sr£« individuality wilts and rules of order save the J^rative «"«" th¥ h i O SsU n takS. C«»e"C «»e" to develop to its full power "followed by ■ corresponding reaction. and frequently leaves minds susceptible to other 'Th^iudg^s of the leisure class are adopted by the classes below them as superior and author '"workincmen defer unduly to business men and borrow from them standards which mislead them as to their true line of effort Women, instead of finding for themselves the right adjustment to life, follow male opinion as to what U proper and womanly Personal ideals circulate more quickly than re liefs. For this reason art needs the censor more than science or philosophy. The outer form of institutions lasts, whereas the spirit and purpose change easily The undu- prestige of a metropolis may oppress and dwarf local life. ■ A society may be democratic without repunlat lnc the leadership of the genuine elite. " \ rapid and wide departure from the customary and familiar produces in many a distress sense i f -elf-alienation. The proverbial energy and prosperity o*. new XEW-YORK DAILY TRIBUNE, SATURDAY. JULY 4, 1908, communities are due largely to escape from the burden of the past. When the spirit of custom rules every innova tion seeks to commend itself by feigning age and pedigree; when the liberal spirit reigns every hoary dogma or institution strives to furnish up to-date reasons and support. All losing sides dread discussion and try to stamp it out. Agitator and compmrnicnr are both servants of progr^s. yet each hates the other. The agitator and the compromtsor are hardly ever the same man. because the one Is spokesman of a single party, the other is spokesman of all parties At all this the honest conservative sniffs, with the comment that It Is nothing but a parcel of commonplaces solemnly reworded as great scientific discoveries. To this Professor Ross will gladly assent, we fancy, and doubtless re peat the observation that the new cannot be discredited by making it out to be the old, any more than evolution can be dismissed with the cry that it is "a rehnsh of Lucretius." Th* accurate systemizlng of platitudes about human nature and society is a useful work. It "en larges our knowledge of the individual by ascer taining how much of hi? mental content and choice is derived from his social surroundings. . . . The realization of how pitiful is the contribution we have made to what we are. how few of our Ideas are our own. how rarely we have thought out a belief for ourselves. . . . first mortifies, then arouses us to break out of our prison of custom and conventionality." i'rofessor BOM carries his reader through th» fascinating problems of suggestibility, the crowd, the mob fashion, conventionality, custom and social progress. If one-half of his pages are filled with long citations familiar to most readers of sociology, the repetition is always timely and pointed. No occasion for holding up the mirror to Americans is lost; the anecdotes about our fads, religious and financial manias, society sillinesses, deep rooted irrationalities, etc.. drive home the author's contentions most effectively just because everybody has heard them a hundred times and knews them to be true. Nor is the convincing power of this huge bulk of evidence shaken by occasional misinter pretations. In explaining the function of leisure classes. Professor Ross appears to fail now and then through mere unfamiliarity with the "real thing": for instance, he revives Grant Allen's angry sneer at the English Society of Authors, which allows its annual dinner to be presided over, "not by Thomas Hardy or William Morris, not by Robert Louis Stevenson or Andrew Lang, but — by a casual lord, who has written a book let, fished up by hook or crook from the squares of Belgravia." This and like opinions about other aristocracies suggest that Professor Ross shares the blindness of many other democrats who do not realize how great a blessing it is for a society of busy men. geniuses, and poor folks to have a leisure class which is will ing and able to discharge the purely formal, ex pensive and indispensable functions of toast mastership, entertainment and the like. On this topic he might profitably have listened to Georg Simm-?1 or some other sociologist familiar with the Inner workings and needs of a highly or ganized, fairly stable society. The most serious fault of his book would have been largely avoid ed in that case. Happily, though, the formal functions of leisure classes are not the things about which American students most need to learn. We can readily forgive Professor Ross's shortcomings in this matter because he has laid bare the more vital social traits, good and bad. of the human mind, and in a manner calculated to awaken thought. BOOKS AXD AUTHORS. Current Talk of Things Present and to Come. The John Lane Company announces a special extra number of the "International Studio." illus trating "Art in England During the Elizabethan and Stuart Periods." It will contain many drawings In black and white and In colors, in cluding reproductions of sketches made by Will iam Twopenny during the early part of the last century of houses which have since been de molished. The architectural details shown will embrace chimneys, fireplaces, ceilings, and so on, and space will be given to furniture and em broidery. M. Etiennfi Moreau-Nelaton has Just published in Paris the fruits of his investigations into the history of the Clouets and the Dv Monstier brothers, the official portrait makers of the French court. It Is to be hoped that his page 3 will be put into English, for his subject is one on which new light has long been desired by art students. The Rev. W. A. B. Coolidge is publishing 1 — very appropriately, considering the weather — a book on "The Alps." In the first par* he traverses the political history of his subject, and the story of Alpine exploration past and pres ent, with separate chapters on guides, natural history and the beauty of the Alps at different seasons of the year. In the second part of the book the main divisions of the Alps are specifi cally treated under twenty groups. Readers who have a soft spot in their hearts for the picaresque literature of Spain will be glad to hear that they are soon to have a really satisfactory translation of "Lazarillo de Ton nes," which is known in English, but not In a precisely consummate version. Sir <"lement9 Markham has been translating this classic from the first Burgos edition. Doubtless In his intro duction he will definitively discuss the question as to whether or not the book was written by Don Diego Hurtado de Mendoza. "Lazartllo" is not a pretty hook. Mr F. W. < 'handler, in his use ful little work on "The Literature of Roguery," thus indicates its drift* "Its rogue jauntily re counts his rise through service with a blind beg gar, a miserly priest, a proud hidalgo, an in dulgence seller, a busybody friar, a painter, a chaplain, and an alguazil. to the dignities of town crier and complacent husband of an arch-priest's mistress." Nevertheless, this classic, for Its in trinsic qualities and for its relation to a literary species, will always be valued by the literary connoisseur. Mark Pattison. the great man of Oxford, the original of Casaubon in "Middlemarch." and the husband of the brilliant woman who as his widow became Lady Dilke.. was not a handsomo P er=on There is a story in the "Contemporary Review" which has amusing reference to this fact A certain eccentric Oxford FVllow mar ried and took a college living, and to the par sonage one day came Pattison and West to dis cuss some expenditure *hich the ex-Fellow and hie wife wished the college to undertake. "Pat tison stiffly refused, and Just then the baby was brought in, and. being exhibited to Pattison. be gan to <ry The mother took the child and dandled it. saying, 'Poor little thing; was It frightened, then, at the nasty, great ugly man? 1 So the lady had her revenge." Students of Milton have known of a lost por trait of the poet, painted by Cornells Jansen and engraved by Cipriani. This portrait, show ing Milton at the age of ten. was recently dis covered in the collection of Mr. Pasmore Ed wards and has been placed in the exhibition at Christ's r-ollege, Cambridge, organized In com memoration of the poet'" tercentenary-. \nv nibbling objections to Mr. Stephen Ber nen Stanton's way of writing in "The Essential Life" (Charles Scribners Sons) are headed off by an august precedent quoted in the chapter on Expression. "Whatever most rests on rea son." the author tells us. "needs none, the uni verse contents itself with statement." Whether Mr. blAQton teeks to be in tune with the uni verse in the matter of style, or feels that the exigencies of edification make mere proof an impertinence, or whether, with Oliver Gold smith, he can argue best by him*elf. his chap ters maintain a magisterial complacency which never quivers. One rarely comes across such a bookful of staccato passages and indicative moods. As portrayed by Mr. Stanton, "The Essential Life" Is built on the belief that all great events happen in the mind, and that if we did nothing but think beautiful thoughts the world's reform would be at once accomplished. In such a world view there Is, of course, nothing for tears. As the author assures us, the forces of nature are against evil, and will sweep us clean of It If we but let them enter. Even to readers who cannot be persuaded that we need no longer be girt about by "the ringed fixity of fact." Mr. Stanton's moral generalizations may prove use ful. They are put in an unusual way. and they serve to reinforce the lesson involved In Bacon's fine saying, "The souls of the living are the beauty of the world." There is to be a new book about Thomas a Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury. It Is being written by Father Hugh Benson, a member cf a writing family. He has hitherto been known as a contributor to romantic fiction. Dr. A. T. Robertson's "Epochs in the Life of Jesus" (Charle* Scrlbner's Sons) is offered as a presentation "in the light of modern knowl edge," yet It takes no serious account of recent research In New Testament problems. The steps by which the Cross and triumph of Jesus were achieved are, however, reverently traced, and their lessons cogently appplied. Apropos of the birthday celebration which cer tain admirers of Tolstoy have been seeking to arrange, Mr. C. K. Shorter printed an inquiry as to whether the Russian novelist kne-w anything Of the writings of half a dozen living English men. Tolstoy's friend and translator, Mr. Ayl mer Maude, responded with a 'etter, which Mr. Shorter thus summarizes: He tells me that Tolstoy once praised Mr. W. P. Howells. saying. "All that I know of Howells is to me very sympathetic." Edward Carpenter he declared to be a worthy successor tc, Carlyle and Ruskin. Olive Schreiner's "Dreams" he did not like. Mrs. Humphry Ward he spoke well of, and some of Mr. H. S. Salt's writings he arranged to have translated into Russian. "To complete the half a dozen names of living men you ask for." Mr. Maude continues, "his daughter in a. letter just to hand tells me h"r father's strength has been failing. He has recently had two se\ - er<» fainting fits and he abstains as much as he can from literary work, but he has been reading Mr Bernard Shaw's "Major Barbara." Dr. Robertson Nicoll has for some time been engaged upon a niography of the Rev. John Watson, better known as lan Maclaren, and one of the pillars of the Kailyard school of fic tion. The book Is nearly completed, and will soon be published. Few foreign travellers in Italy are acquainted with the country of the Abruzzi, that region which lies to the east about the centre of the peninsula. Miss Anne Marrdonell has written a book on Its picturesque aspects, its monuments, its people, and Its manners These last are rather lawless, by the way, and should yield some interesting material. The Illustrations, made by Miss Amy Atkinson, will be reproduced in colors. Mr. John Bumpus has written a "History of English Cathedral Music" in which he. critically discusses the work of all the great church com posers from the Reformation to practically the present time. His illustrations include not only portraits but facsimile scores. The tercentenary celebrations at Quebec are to be marked by the publication of a new book by Mr. A, G. Bradley, author of "The Fight with France." It is called "The Making of Canada^ — 1763-1814." The death of Francois Copp4e has. of course, led to the printing of many anecdotes about him. It li said in the "Figaro" that he lived surrounded by cats of all kinds. So much did he love these pets that, fearing to leave them uncared for when he died, he took pains In his last years to give most of them away to his friend.-. At the end there were only two left, a young black and white cat and a venerable creature named Isabelle. Both of these are being well looked after by his old servant. Alfred H. Miles, author of "One Thousand and One Anecdotes," has prepared a new volume along similar lines. This. "The New Anecdote Book," is published by Whtttaker. Mr. W. E. Norris Is a novelist from whom we hear only too seldom, and so we are glad to note the early publication of a new story by him, called "Pauline," The heroine is a beau tiful actress who shows great unselfishness toward the young Englishman who unwisely falls In love with her. The book contains tragic incidents. The latest novel written by Mr. Eden Phillpotts and soon to be expected is called "The River." BOOKS OF THE WEEK. ART AND ARCHITECT" "IE. JJJW KL.LERT. By H. Clifford Smith. M. A. Illustrated. Bvo, pr xlvll. 400. (G. p. Putnam's Eons.) In "The Connoisseur's Library." edited by Cyril Davenport. A history of th*> goldsmith's art from the ancient Egyptians to modern times. A HISTORY OF ART. By Dr. G. Carotti. Vol. I. An cient Art. 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MUST MAKE UP LOST TIME.-It ha been dis covered that the army appropriation act of May 11 contains phraseology -which will require that here after enlisted men who have been absent without leave, as <H."»tin«ru!she<i from desertion, must mak* good the time thus lost. In the case of men who enlisted before May 11 the making up of this time Is optional with them, and It will depend on whether they are going to re-enllst a« to any ad vantage It will be to them should they make up this time, but they must do so If they wish to take full advantage of what is known as con tinuous service, pay. Those who enlisted after the act was signed will be obliged by its terms to make up the time lost whenever absent without leave. This Is for the reason that the law re quires that every enlistment shall be of the Ml complete term of three years, except when there is special authority given for premature discharge. COMMISSIONED WARRANT OFFICERS.— A new term is to be employed In the designation of certain members of the naval personnel. Warrant officers are those whose places are secured by warrants signed by the Secretary of the Navy. Commissioned officers are those who have com missions signed by the President. It Is now pro posed to designate chief boatswains, chief gun ners, chief sailmakers and chief carpenters as "commissioned warrant officers." This describes their positions and the authority for their appoint ment. They are warrant officers who have been commissioned. This is the term used In the English service, from which the method of appointment was copied. It is expected by the naval authori ties that there will be some criticism of the desig nation, but it is an accurate description of the conditions attending this particular class of the naval personnel. MILITARY BEFORE CIVIL TRIALS— The War Department is impressed with the number of eas»s enlacing its attention lately having to do with soldiers who were arrested or threatened with ar rest by civilian authorities for offences committed agalns the civil government. In cases where thers; Is an allegation of crime It Js desirable that the military authorities take the first step and secure the enlisted man from ctvll trial until the military authorities can take action. This can » done only by immediately acting and without waiting for civil authorities to arrest a soldier who Is under charges. There seems to be some misunderstanding among army officers as to how or when su-h action should be taken. It Is desirable, however, that there be the least possible delay In having the military authorities act In these peculiar cases re fore the representatives of the civil government. Instructions to this effect have been sent to officers. TORPEDO RENDEZVOT^S.— It has been decided to make the new navy yard at Charleston. S. C.. the headquarters of the torpedo tout flotillas on the Atlantic Coast. Possibly aa allied station will be eventually established at Key West. Fla.. and maybe it will be found necessary to have a North ern sub-station. But for the present the intention is to fit out Charleston only for this purpose. Large slips are being built, equipped with railway facili ties for the handling of the boats, which will be hauled out of the water periodically. The idea is to construct storage places, where they may be placed out of the water when they are not in use. In this condition they will be kept reader for ser vice, and It will be a simple matter to put their seagoing supplies on hoard and slip them into the water. The first work In this direction will b« done under the bureau of yards and dock* of the Navy Department. It consists of the construction of specially designed slips, to cost about $50,000. ORDERS IBSrED.-The following orders have been !«iued: ARMY. Lieutenant CoJon.l ALEXIS B. PAXTON. to 24» I- Cap-aCT ROGER BROOKE Jr. medical mji. from S«r. vm\ hoßDlta! Fort Bayard, to proper station. WmrTieutenant HENRY H. MOORE. Philippine PcAUt* to Army and Navy General Hospital. Hot Springs. First uewnan MARK L. IRELAND, ordnan.e *»P«rt- MINTYRE.' medical corps, from the Philippines. Sep tember I.i to San Francisco. Ch^'aTn MICHAEL G. DORAN .first lJeu»-mant). a s£ned wart artillery, to Fort Screrem August . t^-h Leave, of absence— First Lieutenants SIDNET H. '.'TH RTF and RALPH E. HERRING. coa.« art lllery. on« month from August 1; Major CHARLES G- TREAT^ 3d Field Artillery, two month.; C*pt%ln EDWARD P. NOMES. quartermaster, July 23 to September 3. . - NAVT. Commodore T. PORTER (retired), detached Naval Home, C.mm hIPh 1P H ia MoSR (retired), detache* th. ™- Ca P t < a'm Sln H hO w": HARRISON ,rettred). detach** the CMtaln'T b'r^N^om. 'mm Newport MiM •• B *nn C V %. CommaruTer O. XABMMERUNO » bureau of steam engineering;: vice Commander B. C. BKJA-n. nill .r,r? F ird E. P B^AT^d««~he« the Charfeston: to CbnSSS^M^xT^SK- detacher nay, yard. FM.a wi!TLUrhtnot.se District. Portland, vire Captain 1 wfh LUhtnouse District. Portland, vice Captain P- i. WERIJCH (retired), to home. «-.«-,,., Commander W. S. HOGG, continue «« m » B * "L*^^ Commander E. LLOTD. Jr.. detached Oth Lighthouse Dls - -?-* 5*2 Ta'rKS. detached bureau of .team engineering ' to Inspection duty Newport N#"ws. Commfndtr F* M ° BENNETT detached nary yar* Pj£ ola: detailed Inspector In chance .th ".^paT District. Key West, vice Commander B. TAI v A> gSSS member board of Inspection and survey. U^nant^mman^er »! £ DOWLAS, to navy yard. LtauliSSSr'R. MM detached m* Maine; to naval Lleu'te^ tm £**.*?' ROPER. U> char.- r^rnftln.. d— ; land vice -v.mmander W P WHITE, to command H^VTra'kE. H. G KNOX.nd, MATX,NS. Ensign C. 5. GRAVES, detached the Nebraska, to tne Missouri. MOVEMENTS OF WARSHIPS.-The following movements of vessels have been reported to the Navy Department: ARRIVED 2? "tS»in2«tl *t . allfornia c.ty the *h!pp!.. the Hull Ratale-. the Cleveland and Denver at juK £-The Rainbow, th. Cleveland and th. Denver at ' Hankow. SAILED. July ••—The Standlsh. fr«im Annapolis for New London. th"- cyich. from Oyster Bay for navy yirtf, Netr Vork r th. Wisconsin, from Mare Island fas California. cm 'the "Whlpple, the Hull and the KMriarp from San Fr»ncUco for Mare laiaa/ HOW TO COOK FISH. By '--■—• Green, t*B». pp. v. 52% id. P. Putnam" • Sons.) - "—>'-' NATURE STUDY. CTCLOPEDIA OF AMERICAN AGRICCI-TUKIL^ * Popular P-j.-.t of Arricnltural Conditions. Pra^ticj and Ideals In the Cnite<j States and Canada- Editj« by U H. Bailey. WWII 100 full pa»» plates an* * mor* than S.!*^ illustrations In tnU In fOT* •»*" umes. -i. HI. Animals. 4th PP. SB*, •<». <"• MacznlUan Company.) POETRY. RrrLXETS OF SONG. By Percfral D. iteTaHam. 12mo. pp. 37. (Broadway PubUshJnsj Company.) POEMS. By Elliabeth Hwtaa* Freston. 12tao. pp. 14* (Broadway Publishing Company.) v RELIGIOUS. qHRISTIANITT IN THE UNITED STATES. By J©&» Franklin Voucher 12n»o. pp. 33. (Eaton * UMizOL) REPRINTS. THE GOrRMEXS GUIDE TO EUROPE. By IJeut«naa« Cblon-H. Newnham Davlea. Second edition. l«mo. pp. xv. 3151 (Brentano's.) Reviewed m The THb-rav* of Sunday. Jane »■ SOILS AND FERTILIZERS. By Harry Snyder. B. & Third edition. ISno. pp. iv. 390. (The MaaaOSSJ Company.) TRAVEL AND TOPOGRAPHY.' GRANADA: PRESENT AND BTGONE. By Albert T. Calv^rt. With twenty illustrations In coUV. e««I»t halftone Illustrations and numerous drawings in tb« •■-,- »vo. pp. xvlll. 343. (E. P. Dutton * C<x> Containing a history of the elty. a t||Hos» of the Moorish remains and an essay on the wotn «* A).->nsn ian-i. with » MM of rtw most tmpor-ant ,-r-ulptiires earrings and other works ascrttied to fitra. NEW ZEALAND AT HOME- By Hon. R. A. LrfMBSjMSL «M. U. C Illustrated. 12mc. pp. Tit. 224. (Impor»«« by Charles Scribner's Sens.) t>e«<-rtDinir the domestic Mf» of **• r«"©pS«. *• *■- dustrles and arts, the political and adrnlalstratfrs «y» . tern. mil so nn. IV THE TRACK OF* R. L. FTEVENSOJf AND El**- WHERE IN OLD FRANCE. By J. A. HamuMMa, Illustrated. 12nio, pp. xli. S3- (B. P. Duttan • Co i F<->!i"w'Ti« the route. described In "An Island Vo*« age" and In "Travels With a Donkey." ■ NEW WORLDS INTRENCHiNG BECOEDS. Blue Army Likely To Be Declared Victor at Pine Camp. Pine Camp, N. T.. July 3.— Two world's no ords for Intrenching troops were broken last nigh*, by Company H. of th» engineers" corps, dnrinjr the attack on Watertown. Private* Barry, BJviars and LJndaman clipped several seconds off the prerlou** record for building ore trench nine feet Ion*! four feet deep and four feet wide. their tim» Vine I one hour and five minutes. The company brok*j the record for Intrenching an entire company br' 30 minutes, the time being one hour and 30 minutes, i At each end of the army a redoubt was put up _ and at 4 o'clock this morning the Blue) army dyna mited the bridge in the rear of the Hog's Back. The Blue army was retreating during the mtnew vres last night, and if it did so in good order. *•' it apparently did, It will be declared the victor. lieutenant V S. Grant. 3.1. and Mr*. Grant, th». latter a daughter of Secretary Root. arrtvwd la camp this morning and Mrs. Frederick D Grant la' expected to-morrow. TIME OF FLEET'S DEPARTURE. Washington. July 3.— The Atlantic fleet of battle ships. which is to sail from San Francisco on July, 7 for Honolulu, on its trip around the world. wUI, leave the Golden Gate at 2 p. m. An announcement? to this effect was made at the Navy Department' to-day. ARTILLERY ORDERED TO (FORT TOTTEN. Washington. July 3.— General iJ. Franklin Bell., the chi»f of staff of the army, has issued order» to the 16oth and 167 th companies of coast artillery.^ now on duty at Fort Monroe, Va., to proceed lot Fort Totten New York, for station on or about* August 1. DIPHTHERIA AT NAVAL PRISON. "Washington. July 3.— Actinr- Secretary Newberry, received word to-day of twenty cases, real and sas pec-ed, of diphtheria at the naval prison at Boston. Orders rave been given, to transfer the men ta\ tents In the navy yard for a thorough disinfec tion of the prison and for extra medical help. Mr. Newberry left here to-day for New England for, a visit of a week on business of the Navy £>•*{ partment. He first will go to Boston, and afteW ward will select a site for the new naval ho»-j pltal at the training- station on Goat Island, nea»" Newport. CHANGES IN ENGINEERING BUREAU, Washington, July 3.— lncidental to the appoint ment of Captain John K. Barton as chief of tb» bureau of steam engineering 1 of the navy, sevsrai chances have been made in the personnel of ••*■•- bureau. Captain Albert F. IMclcson. assistant chief of the bureau, -will succeed Rear Admiral J. A. 3. Smith (retired), as ctfef inspector of machinery, with headquarters at New Tork. Commander R. j 3. Griffin, now In the bureau, will become assistant} chief, succeeding Captain Dickson. Oomman<i«r ! G. Kaemmerlinsr, now inspector for th« Maaa»u:htt setts district, has b*-en ordered to duty in th« bureau at Washington. Captain Barton will b* succeeded as head of the department of oteasv engineering at League Tsland. by Commander B» C. Bryan, now on duty in Washington. LIEUT. TURNER REDUCED IN RANK, Oyster Bay. July i— President Roosevelt to-day approved the recommendation of the Secretary off War In the case of First Lieutenant Frederick E. Turner, of the 6th Cavalry, Department of Missouri. that he be reduced fifty marks in rank for irregu larity in his accounts. Lieutenant Turner wj* tried by court martial in Omaha, found guilty and, recommended to be dismissed. The Secretary rf War found the irregularities were unintentional,! and Instead of dismissal recommended reduction ii» rank. MR. STRAUS TO INSPECT LIGHTHOUSES^ Boston. July The lighthouse service all along the New England coast Is to be personally In spected by Secretary Straus of the Department a& Commerce and Labor, who lerft port to-day a&oaxa the lighthouse tender Mayflower. Secretary Strauss*, tour will last about a month. He has his ffcrnlljg with him. ' LINCOLN CENTENAB.Y COMMITTEE. Mayor' Names 178 Men to Arrange for Celebration in This City. Mayor McClellan 'made public yesterday th». names of the member* of the committee appointed!! by him to arrange for a suitable celebration of: the centenary of Abraham Lincoln. The list, whir hi; is made up of 178 names, includes many of ti:»" most prominent residents of the city in vartou» branches of activity. 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