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Literary JVe&vs and Criticism
T>, Career of an English Soldier
, : : Fortune in China.
_~r. ttTE OF t=TR HAI.LIDAT MACARTNTTY.
oL.*ff v C. Commander or LJ Hong Chang's
JLi£»d Force ln the Taeping Rebellion.
P*Sfcr of the First Chinese Arwnal. for
J*J£r ! Y#«rs Councillor and Secretary to the
iJSwia. Lecation In London. By Demetrius C.
2£Sr With * Foreword by Bir James
525£i-B«mS*. M- P- LL. D. Illustrated.
£X"pTxxiii. Uf. John Lane Company.
subject of this memoir was of Scotch-
Juk descent, and was abundantly supplied with
—yergv. persistency and high purpose which
brought fuccess and -worldly honors to so
***_ of his countrymen. Born in 1533. he 'was
:iiZ 'fsicsl .tudent In the Edinburgh University.
*bsi at the outbreak of the Crimean war a
Z^Binent oScer visited the university with
pf l sS^ission t0 form tne medical staff of th«
* AC o _Turklsh contingent then being or
** Led. The youthful Macartney had not yet
H^L^j his degree when he was appointed as
r^ t surgeon and assumed the Queen's uni
•■" His Crimean experience did not Include
IT c contact with -warfare, but St settled his
*.»—« and as EOOa as circumstances permitted
*hTco=pletio3 of his studies he Joined, as third
*«!stsat curpeon. the I^narkßhire regiment.
\.,»er orders for India. This was in ISoO, and
Threat mutiny having been put down then-
Zas little active work for the regiment, so that
h- transfer at th» end of the year to China was
v^ed with delight, for In China great deeds
-rere peniing. I
It was a period of warfare, of friction and un
-st, when Ch:r.a emphasized her aversion to
•arelroem hf arresting or executing English
iK^senta-tlves. and England retaliated by
toidßS the summer palace. Just why a bar-
Uroas act of vandalism was needed to demon
--te to the heathen the superior advantages
a» Cfcristia:: civilization has never been mads
clear, hot the event doubtless had its effect on
the youthful Macartney, who witnessed It. An
incident of this period may be mentioned, not
m account of any special significance, but as
illustrating the courage and determination of a
.aajg man who had to carve out his own career
ia the world. With a fellow officer Macartney
antered a court of justice ln Canton, at which
k trial was In progress. Says his biographer:
A — Acflar'n. •'- ■ Judge, was sitting at a table and
•^n"^-eia'rles were also seated there writing
tantMr notes. On the table was a large saucer
f'i«i with indiar. ink. into which the scribes dipped
£Sr Sir The court was ruied with people, but
«r t'>-e «-ght c' the English uniforms way was made
ft- £♦> officers *n that they occupied a prominent
ila'-e la the alienee. A man. obviously the pns
m£? rater trial, was beir.p examined, and either
declined to s -,«; W e- the -j:e!=t:oiis put to him or did
«o A i a BffißT unsatisfactory to the Judge. Sud
flHd? the Juds» maci^ a sign, uttered some
w-d« t£> purport of which was not Intelligible
♦r. either ilacartnev or his friend, but the gaolers
«r yamen attendants kaew very well what was
rieaat ami proceeded to action. Immediately be-
Sltte prisoner the yamen roof was support
•fl^r pillars. ari<3 it was seen that rop«s passed
tbroigh holes In fr.err hung down loosely to the
roar when the ludge save his order, the men
r7»-*ion°d promptly rew themselves on the
prisoner aad attached these cords to his wrists
No sooner was ha attached than men at the
ether eifie cf tbm pillars pulled the ropes and he
■bbj shin* cp ae-sT.st it.
Th- 6r*ci2_ cruelty of the proceeding was that
the lower jarts of the victim's legs were pulled
fca-kward with the -r.tica of continuing the
strain until th* leg below th*> knee had been
vrlced up iato a horizontal position. A? Th« tor
ture proceeded the cracking of the -unfortunate
man* bones could be heard throughout the court.
But the punishment had not gone very far when
jlacar : losir.g aU control over himself, rushed
■up to the table at which the rr.andarian was
fitting, raised the saucer of indian Ink and
broaciat it do-^n trjth a crash on the table, smash-
Ing: It and spiattr.riag its contents over the aston-
J«a«J fall and his secretaries.
proceeding led to an in
quiry, which resulted :n the incarceration of the
TnaEoarir., and, lawless as it was, seems some
how more in consonance ■with Western ideas
of retribution than the destruction of priceless
fflocam^r.ts of s."'
The exhilaration of a life of adventure con
vhced Macartney that he had qualifications for
taccess in a more strenuous sphere than his pro
fesgion ailorded, and so upon due deliberation
•Ed & careful - .-.ation of the chances, in
1562. beinc i.Jßttte short of thirty years of age.
he resigned from the British army and adopted
the rather precarious role of a soldier of fort
tae •- the service of China. His engagement
J»R«i hi various capacities for practically the
uiole cf his life, and during upward of forty
Tears he served the riental empire without de
tatitos himself in spirit or In sympathy from
tie bai cf his birth. His ambition was. through
tesnrieCge of their difficult tongue, to acquire
** position and influence among the Chinese
tiat early Catholic ssionaries had possessed,
ard without thought of a possible return to Eu-
r > he burned his bridges behind him and pro
cseded to qualify himself for his life's work,
•^ to the point of taking unto himself a i
Ciaese wife. The lady in question was of high '
Tsafc, a r^r^ - at good appearance and intelli
aoe ' who followed the Chinese custom of liv
fc* apart end not receiving visitors. The posi
tion cf the ex-surgeon was now rather expectant
tiar established. He was even considered f«r
y* coTsrr.f- cf the Ever Victorious Army, a
"* lJfi -' body formed for the suppression of the
Taeplsg rebeSton, but that charge was more
Stably tastowed upon General Gordon—Chin
*■» Gordon, es he was long known— the
«her devoted himself with great energy to th«»
♦staillahaest of an arsenaL He became In ef
fei the right-hand man of the Futai LJ Hung
Csa^S. and his labors were summarized by Gen
<B*l Gordon in th« words: "Macartney drilled
tr *°P£ supervised the manufacture of shells,
**ye advice, brightened the Futai's intellect
**« foreigners and made peace, in which last
lc *=Pllshir:ent his forte lay."
1I *amiey had the faculty of making himself
t^ efcl -to others besides Li Hung Chang. His
"* tt< *» to Tseng, the most powerful man In \
taSa *. who named all the viceroys, were inti
**ie ajid cordial, ar.d among his treasures was
*f Eaialcated scroll in v.hich Tseng paid him !
iOTSI * compliment: "Your writings are. in
**>« vast ia the extreme. For discursiveness
*ey aay be likened to ttw alternating waves
*• «ea " The Marquis Tseng, later Ambas
*£*» to Great Britain, son of the aforemen
°°°*^ was also his "voted patron, and did
~^> to promote his fortunes. But gratitude
■o -interest and appreciation of individuals
o *^ no Illusions as to the fibre of the
2?a among whom he earned his bread, and
~*r tea years" residence, upon visitinf; the
* b of Confucius, he wrote to a friend: "It
-M tak* op too much time to tell all I saw
•i: i thought on the -way down, but I may '
TT *** conclusion I formed was that the Chlna- !
ia a low ar:m<±:, and the country, ln spite ;
*•* many great natural capabilities, a very |
W Cae " Durt2 e all this time Macartney was
'ly engaged In hia arsenal, but the presence |
atfaor: ty cf native colleagues and his own !
*/**^t refuaa] to profit by the obvious op- j
niues cf a "squeeze" BO Increase his fort-
Craduaiiy CPeate< friction that undermined
**fr tscfaiaeas. T pon his resignation without !
1 eel* 66 * 1 »rr*pect o ; re-employment, he faced j
v^aplet* change of career, with vastly en-
IT** 4 **!>erienc« and no diniinution of ambi- ;
-Jr 1 * 3uactur fate stepped in and pointed
te^rf *° comfort and a competency, if not
«*ZJ* mxii rortune - Tne first Chinese Minls
'*t^y^ »bout to be dispatched to London to \
* Jeeatlon an(l to carry out a special ;
scio* ** a Pol°gy for soma outrage of the
jjg^A "ecretary was sought who combined
log trj^* , of Chinese character and language ,
<iSJo aiat aca with European customs and
I «sa^^ Through Li Hung Chang-*
BN &ii'^ acanney ws named for the position. .:
I ■•* biaseif so invaluable by his ; tact, j
discretion and vigor that a temporary appoint
ment became a lifelong engagement, and under
a succession of ministers he continued to act
as secretary and virtually to shape the conduct
of the legation until briefly before his death.
momm thirty years afterward. A characteristic
note from General Gordon was sent from the
Soudan in June, 1577. it runs as follows:
this B ™>" J* I *™^ .comfort for m», it Is over in
xnia »re. n for I trill devote myself to this coun
have hVrT »T TaldT ald »° falr a n>ld a* I
if T.n.T^' thou « h it is & hot. weary one enough,
hart th™,^?* to th world - I wish that your lot
I inflnltSi? 1 yo u h * re lns? tead of China, for though
vanned J7J 7 / I"**1 "*** 1 " th< Chinese, yet they are too ad
idSuT^J*}' coaßen-ative a peop!<» to receive new
TPrtTr^ £. the3e people are much more unadul
■ nrt ™L **> not thlnk I compliment you. but you
oplnloTto^et %£%£?" Uld £ abl *- lD my
And here It is proper to quote from a letter
of an American consul long resident In China,
which accounts for some of the influence of that
singular and erratic personality: "I think for
eigners owe more than they imagine to the mere
moral force of Gordon's character in impressing
LJ and other eminent Chinese with a lasting
feeling of respect for the good qualities of mind
and heart foreigners are really capable of—not
withstanding the strong doubts to the contrary
of the native official class." The work of the
legation was as that of other legations. At first
there were incivilities and Indignities, due to the
strange garments of the Oriental visitors. Street
urchins, moved by uncontrollable sense of hu
mor, pulled the pigtails of the Chinamen and
contributed to their comfort by pleasant re
marks. Later the novelty wore off and Chinese
costumes could pass unnoticed in the streets. At
the time of the imbroglio between France and
China, in regard to the former's sphere of in
fluence In the Far East, Macartney took a
prominent part in bringing about a settlement—
as Gordon said, his forte lay in making peace.
As has been indicated. Macartney was the re
cipient of many interesting letters frcm people
of note, and if it be good for the soul to see our
selves as others see us, the following letter from
a Chinese secretary, dating from IS SO. may not
have been written in vain:
The city of "Washington seems to be chiefly in
habited by colored people, as when you go
out you can ccc tht>m everywhere. My im
pression uas. and Is. that Washington Is much
Quieter than Xew Tork, and the Inhabitants are
also nicer than New Yorkers. The treatment of
"Celestial etrangers" by the natives appears to be
better than what we received in New York. At
any rate, we meet with more courtesy and hospi
tality. Sometimes we have been regaled with
curious food, which was served up under the Im
pression, no doubt, that tne Chinese have a. spe
cial penchant for rats. None of us have ever been
out of doors In our national costume without hav
ing be«n Informed by the intelligent Yankee who
passes us ln the street that we are addicted to
eating rats. Where they have obtained their in
formation it Is Impossible to say, but I confess
that when I eat some of the messes they give us
at their restaurants I fancy there mutt be some
thing ln. their remarks. You have been in China.
Can you «ay that you have ever eeen a Chinese
eat rats, even In a nightmare?
American cities are not to b« compared with
those of England and France. My experience
with this land of freedom has disenchanted me
with American civilization: I am heartily tired of
them. Their estimate of themselves soars beyond
my appreciation; England. Paris and Berlin have
spoilt me for Yankeeland. I never had the slight
est unpleasantness during my sojourn in those
places. I always say to my friends that England
and France are the most civilized countries ln the
whole world, and I admire them very much.
America may be a wonderful country as regards
its material prosperity. commercial enterprise and
the Brnartneee of Its citizens, but If the word civ
ilization means a high Etandard of refinement,
culture and morality, then I think that America
should take her place among uncivilized powers.
This life of a useful public servant Is carefully
written, devoid of exaggeration, and is beauti
fully printed and illustrated.
XEIV XOFELS.
The Story of a Woman Too Tenderly
Beloved.
A BPIRTT TS PRISON 1 . By Robert Hichens.
Illustrated by Cyrus Cuneo. 12mo, pp. 663.
Harrier & Bros.
HILARY ON* HER OWN. By Mabel Barnes-
Ornndy. I2mo, pp. 401. The Baker & Taylor
Company.
AMEDEE'S SON". By Harry James Smith. 12mo
pp. 33;. Hougaton, Mifflih & Co.
Two years ago Mr. Hichens published a senti
mental story entitled "The Call of the Blood."
The hero was a young Englishman with Sicilian
blood in his veins. The woman he married and
whom he took to Sicily for the honeymoon was
genuinely in love with him, but she thought
nothing of leaving him temporarily in order to
nurse a sick friend, a novelist. In her absence
Maurice Delarey engaged in a vulgar Intrigue
which led to his tragic death. Mr. Hichens
made a long enough taie out of this curious
business, but apparently he was not satisfied to
drop it. He has now written another volume
continuing his "drama." Even more than its
predecessor, it makes us wonder what has come
over the author of "The Garden of Allah." That
was a remarkably good book, having In it much
more than the cleverness by which ilr. Hichens
had previously made himself known. "A Spirit
in Prison" is not even clever. Hermione De
larey reappears in it, unaware of what evil her
husband had been up to before his death, but
somehow strangely troubled. Their daughter.
now a bright girl in her teens, gives her a cer
tain amount of happiness, but her soul is dis
satisfied. She talks over the subject with the
novelist aforesaid, a Frenchman named Emile
Artois. They talk and they talk and they talk.
They are forever talking. The reader Is very
nearly bored to death.
There is a purpose underlying this prodigious
ly verbose narrative. Mr. Hichens asks rur
sympathy for Hermlone because she is a spirit
in prison, and it interests him to illustrate tha
significance of the peculiar kind of captivity to
I which ehe is condemned. "She was in the
dark." he says. "She was in an airless place.
She was deprived of the true liberty, that great
freedom which is the accurate knowledge of the
essential truths of our own Individual lives."
Artols knew that the fisherboy Ruffo, suddenly
brought into Hermione's life, was her husband's
son. Gaspare, her faithful servitor, knew it
also. But both of them loved her too well to
make her unhappy by enlightening her. where
upon, of course, sha proceeded to accumulate
unhappiness for herself. It Is conceivable that
an effective story might be made out of the
emotional experience of a woman thus situ
ate her vague unrest, her slowly developed
eusplcions. and her final illumination affording
some scope for the subtle psychologist. But in
Mr. Hichens's hands the motive Is exploited
with really astonishing dulness. Long before
the climax comes the reader gets tired of wait
ing for it. and he Is the more wearied because
It is foreseen »o early ln the book. There is a
little Neapolitan nobleman introduced who Is
mildly amusing, but the rest of the charaetera,
supposed to be much hia superiors, have not a
tithe of his vitality. It is to be hoped that Mr.
Hichens will not carry Ruffo and Delarey's
daughter Into another book. The talent used
to such good purpose in "The Garden of Allah"
abould be reserved for better things.
"Hilary on Her Own" is not the kind of novel
which one takes too seriously. The girlish hero
ine is very girlish. Indeed. Her sudden resolu
tion to escape from the monotony of a com
fortable home In the country, and to seek her
living in London, is treated by Mrs. Barae*:-
Grundy with no attempt to be despemtdy ro
mantic. This author has no problem to solve.
Her heroine is not put forth aa representative
of ' unnumbered gifted young women, eating
their hearts out in cozlness and yearning to
♦'enlarge woman's \ sphere." Hilary could not
be a suffragette •if she tried. • She Is a mere
fluff of lovable' femininity, bubbling over with
XEW- YORK DAILY TRIBUXE. SATURDAY. SEPTEMBER 10. TOO*
hieh spirit?, tremendously ambitious, a.nd abso
lutely convinced that marriage is not to be
thought of, but all th© time making: herself,
quite unconsciously, an object of masculine ad
miration. She is a dftlfghtful litt.e minx, and
her adventures are recounted with vim. Th«
author writes as though Hilary were a real
person, and she had caught come of her gayety.
These pagres pparkle, in a modest way. They
are not precisely witty. There is nothing dis
tinguished about the author's style. But the
fun Is spontaneous, the sentiment is sweet. The
gravest senior, having once begun the tale,
would be hard put to it to close the book until
he had followed th© heroine to the end of her
lucky experiment.
Mr. Harry James Bmith has written In
"AmWee's Son 11 a winning idyl of Cape Breton
life. He has not a very weighty story to tell.
The orphan lad who is his hero is placed In a
predicament which the author does not make too
bitter. Young Michel is a sailor's son. Inherit
ing his father's love for the sea and the life of
freedom that it means. His grandfather, a re
tired sea captain, seeks to educate him to make
a name for himself. The boy is restless at his
desk, yet he shrinks from giving pain, by re
bellion, to the loving old man who has brought
him up. The issue as Mr. Smith devises it is
easily got at without recourse to any very
elaborate machinery, and stress is laid through
out the book not bo much upon dramatic devel
opments as upon the traits of a number of
delicately defined characters. Michel and the
girl with whom he falls in love; old Captain
Foug^re; Johnny McPhee, the lazy man of
Scaramouche, and his stout CSleste, are friendly,
likable souls, possessing idiosyncrasies which
give them relief upon the printed page. About
them all there Is the atmosphere of a corner of
the world the freshness and simplicity of which
have plainly lent a zest to the author's task. He
has made an engaging story out of his whole
some material.
BOOKS AND AUTHORS.
Current Talk of Things Present
and to Come.
The editor of "The Atlantic Monthly." Mr.
Bliss Perry, has in press a volume of eßsays on
themes of peculiar interest to him through his
association with that magazine. He calls his
book "Park Street Papers," and treats in it of
"The Atlantic" and of magazine editing in gen
eral. Hawthorne. Longfellow. Whittler and
Aldrich are also dealt with, in his pages.
Mr. Andrew Lang brings a strange bit of
news to market. "Sir "Walter Scott," he says,
"was offered a large sum if he would lay the
scene of a "Waverley novel in a new American
hotel! He never did so, and a Queer novel It
would have been if he had. The fact is not, I
think, recorded by any of his biographers: my
recollection is that I came across it among the
letters and manuscripts at Abbotsford." It
would be well if we could have chapter and
verse for bo comical an incident.
Sir Mortimer Durand. formerly British Am
bassador in this country, has written a life of
Xadar Shah, the Turcoman conqueror of Persia
in the eighteenth century. He has cast the
biography in the form of a romance.
The books of reminiscence promised for the
winter season will include one from Thackeray's
daughter. Lady Ritchie. It will bring together
the "Blackstick Papers," which were first
printed from time to time in the "Comhill Mag
azine." Another book in this department, from
which we are pretty certain to derive charming
entertainment, will be the "Old and Odd Mem
ories" of the Hon. Lionel Tollemache. As his
letters to "The Spectator" used often to show,
he has known many of the most Interesting:
people of the last half century. Anecdotes of
them will probably abound In his forthcoming
volume.
Professor Arthur L. Frothlngham. of Prince
ton, is the author of a work which the Macmll
lan' Company announces on "The Monuments of
Christian Rome." In it he covers the develop
ment of art in Rome during a thousand years.
In the first half of the book political, social and
religious facts are co-ordinated with the history
of art. In the second the monuments and works
of art are arranged and described under the
general head of architecture, sculpture, paint
ing and the subsidiary arts.
That splendid "Survey of London" to which
the late Sir Walter Beeant devoted himself with
so much enthusiasm, is soon to be completed.
His last volume, the one on "London In the
Nineteenth Century," is now in press. A great
part of it is in Sir Walter Besants own hand.
He explains that it was impossible for him to
treat the nineteenth century historically, as he
was still in it so he treated It in a manner sug
gesting a bird's-eye view, inviting the co-opera
tion of others who knew special subjects to fill
in details.
Dr. J. H. Rose, author of the best of all the
popular biographies of Napoleon, and Mr. A. M.
Broadley have collaborated In the preparation
of a book on "Dumouriez and the Defence of
England against Xapoleon." mimouriez was a
French officer who went over to the enemy,
being employed by the English government to
aid in drawing up a scheme for the defence of
the country against the Emperor. The authors
of the forthcoming volume have had access to
his own copy of this project, and they have
come upon other unpublished documents of con
siderable importance.
The china, of Derft is describ-d in a book by
Mrs N. Hudson Moore, which the Frederick A.
Stokes Company will soon publish. The author
brings together a quantity of information for
the guidance of the collector, she gives a set of
trademarks in facsimile, and she illustrates her
pages with photographs of beautiful epecimens
from many noted collections. The book is the
first in a series projected by Mrs. Moore. The
next on* will be devoted to "Wedgwood."
President John M. Thomas of Middlebury
College In "The Christian Faith and the Old
Testament" (Thomas Y. Crowell & Co.), under
takes to show that when rules of historical and
literary criticism are applied rigorously to the
Hebrew Scriptures the result is essentially con
structive and In no wise menacing to Christian
belief Indeed, a burden Which has weighed too
heavily on the spirit of the Church may be said
to pass away with the traditional view of th*
Bible By placing all the writings on a dead
level of authority Christians have frequpntly
derived a -Biblical" sanction for ethiea some
thing less than Christian. Cromweifs zest
for the imprecatory psalms and Luther's excuse
for Philip of Hesse's bigamy illustrate this ten
dency. Moreover, the failure to see in the Old
Testament a record of a progressive revelation
of God to man has given rise to an allegorical
method of interpretation, with the consequence
that some of the noblest practical ut'erancps of
the prophets have been shorn of mural vigor
and made to do service as pretentious predic
tions.
Mr. Thomas assures us that, thanks to the
critical method, the harm which results from
promiscuous adoption of the ancient pr'cepts
Is obviated for the modern Christian. One now
has the privilege of reading an Intelligible his
tory of Israel and of working his way close to
the creators of the world's highf-at religious
uuUia. mmHtfiom a« Jesus jn-nlaimed It is the
personal attachment of the heart to God Rv
announcing him?«if as or." who fulfilled th<« law
and the prophets th* Ifatatar <lid but pay tribute
to the abiding religious value Of th» Old Testa
ment, which, rightly Interpreted, must always
remain for Christian people a storehouse of
ethical Instruction and a battery of moral force.
BOOKS OF THE WEEK.
ART.
SEVEN CENTURIES OF LACE. Br Mrs. John Hun««r
ford Pollen. With preface by Alan Cole. C. B. Il
lustrated. Folio, pp. xvi. OS. (The M*cmi'.lan Cora
pany...
A collection of one hundr-d and twenty plates Il
lustrating many beautiful examples or antique and
modarn design. ■> -.;..-■
BIOGRAPHY.
THE HOLLAND . HOUSE CIRCLE. Bjr Lloyd Eandert.
Illustrated. Bvo. pp. xxv. 3SI. (O. P. Putnam'* Son».)
A * chronicle of a celebrated - En«Il»h tarallr an.l
a grllmpe« into the society of the early nineteenth
century.
CHAUCER ANT) HIS ENOLANT). By G. O. Conlton. M.
A. Illustrated. Svo, pp. ill, 321. (O. P. Putnam'*
£ons.)
A rtudyof Chancer the man, with an hlitorlcal
commentary on his works.
DRAMA.
THE "WORTH OF A 'WOMAN. A Play in Fcwr Arts,
Followed by a Point of Law. A dramatic Incident.
By David Graham Phillips, 12mo. pp. vUI. 128. ID.
• A pleton & Co.)
EDUCATIONAL.
SELECTED ESSAYS OF SENECA AND THE SATIRE
ON THE DEIFICATION OF CLAUDIUS. "With In
troduction and notes by Allan P. Ball. Ph. D. 12m.
pp. xxxiv. 212. (The MacmlUan Company.)
BEGINNINGS TN INDUSTRIAL. EDUCATION AND
OTHER EDUCATIONAL DISCUSSION?. By Pau.
H. Hanoi. 12mo. pp. x. 18»- (Houghton. Mlfflin
Company. >
SOCIAL EDUCATION. By Colin A. Scott. Ph. D. 12mo.
pp. xl, 300. (Glnn & Co.)
FICTION.
THE METHODS OF MR. AMES By Frederic Carrel.
12n>o. pp. 295. (Mitchell Kennerley.)
The story of a modern Machlavelil.
THE TESTING OF DIANA MALLORT. By Mrs. Hum
phry Ward. Illustrated. 12mo, pp. MS. (Harper *
Bros.)
ARTHUR'S. By A. Nell Lyons. 12mo, pp. H. S2Z (John
Lane Company.)
A study of London slums. Arthur, the hero, U
the keeper of a famous coffee stall.
THE MAN FROM BRODNET^. By <*££« BB m 7
McCutcheon. Illustrated by Harrison Fls&er. l-mo.
pp. vi. 855. (Dodd. Mead & Co.)
A tale of adventure and love making in a small
European principality.
THE TETHER. By Ezra P. Brudno. 12mo. PP- 334.
(Philadelphia: J. B. Llpplncott Company.)
The romance of a young Jewish poet-
THE LOST ANGEL By Katharine Tynan.^ Ij-mo. PP
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