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tion of : at* system, which thus far has
developed no tangible weak points, to
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aspirations In the welfare, the progress
of the Empire. The growing Influence
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perial ?onfVdcracy is tending more and
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indivisible. The government of Prussia
Is far 1? ss SIberal than that of many of
the smaller .states of the union, but, on
the whole, the Germans appear to be
content with, the measure of political
liberty and power they have. In fact,
their interest in parliamentary govern?
ment is as yet but small. Mr. Rerry de?
votes considerable attention to the posi?
tion of the German workmen in the body
poHttC, ? position that sets them apart
from their felkow citizens ;is a growing
power with positive aims.
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stitution of the Empire und of the
Reichst*-????. Its composition and parties;
! the chapter on religion In present day
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I ing, and so is? especially for us in this
| country--that on forestry. Compulsory
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J firmity and old age. receives the close at?
| tention which It Is beginning to attract
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istration ant law. "the letter is adhered to
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lying the judgments of ?11 German
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j wealth of tho nation pas pr?"hi' <?'! I
| class of noui'iiur rieket, who are heard
\na well as neon In all the summer and
? winner reports of the Continent, where
1 tlvy have a.lr?-ady made themsHvos ns
cordiall?. riialiked M ?lid their English
pntrdecessors in thj? last century. But
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of txio German people, ? continued m? ai -
ntf ??f n.f.'ssity as well as still another
rrsukt of discipline: and in tho Germany
Of thVt Germans "family has not yet
been .ousted by "smart sets."
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r. sources, industrie*, trade and wealth,
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resembles the great Gorman Empire.
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r?? s well earned authority, has selected
with unerring judgment those ejiochs in
| the country's earlier history that have
? had a share in tho making of its pres
' ent state. His first chapter aptly sums
[ this up in Its title: "Belgium, a ?Jfod?
[net of medievalism moulded by nod
| Olli conditions." He uses statistics far
Ijnore freely than Mr. Berry and. in an
Incidental way. is far more of a guide
to? intending tourists The strugtgle be
j twv-en Walloons and Flemlnss, whleh is
a struggle between two ? Utilizations,
thut of France on the one hand, and of
tho Netherlands?anil indirectly that of
\ Germany?on the other, but also a bat
tit- between liberalism ;m?l hideboun?!
i cone?-rvntlani, is explained at length.
\ There are chapters on tho court, so
' fifty and the haute notteppt, .'?: well as
I upon the common people, their frugal
wajrg und their amusements, not iorgct
tlng the lermexHi. The ?'liapter on the
country-V. defensive strength in ?tp?? 'if
WUX la les*- informing than could he
i wished m the present moment. A Priel'
?urvery of the grand ?luchy of LuZOm?
ban ?? Inctaded, and there li :i final
chapter on the Congo. The illustrations
Of both these hooks have not heen
1 "picked out" muiv or los at random.
: They bave baen st-teated with ?-are and
i knowkdgv.
Mod? n T u '??,. the Turkej of the
revolution of 1908, lias beefi so abtfn
?.iuntly ?lis? uss.'(l and doacrlbod in looks
thai it would l?e unjust to ?xpeet mu? a
11,at Is HOW from Miss Gam? tt's pages.
They an picturesque, however, m well
M informing, the author, in keeping
Wap-b the brand ntrw ?'institution, dealing
in SllftfSlllJ ? hapteis with Moslem,
?'hiati.i'i and Hebrew ottomans. Per?
haps thd now tonn of goveinin? nt has
not y.-t had sufficient time to demon?
strate what it can accomplish, hut at the
pn ont moment the world at large \g\
very much Of the opinion that in Turkey
"plus '.a change, plus c*aat la m?me !
cho?o." The author gives to the Turk j
at hom? the frugal, bt-av?**, fatalistic
peasant the praise he invariahly re
i ??ves fron his European ?rlaltora. and
pointa ont that after centuria, of
woman stealing and child stealing he
must have a consult i able admixture Of
European blood in his veins. She re?
tells some \t-ry interesting Turkish folk
talcs, and ?pioles th?* patrl"ti?- tOttf that
has been provis01 ily a?lopt? <i as the na?
tional ant)i?*m. It is taken fr??m the
?Itanuitic poem ' Silistria," by Kemal
Bay, which ?bals with incidents of tho
Crimean w ..r'
'[.. Use gloiy Of our ?ountry dear ar?- all
?.m enoi ts vowed;
On ih? aab? ? of her sons is btttlt aaoh
frontier fortress prood;
Y< a as Ottomans we llvs "t die, mir ?..i?1k<i
i)k eiimaoned shroud.
< 'h"
Aj tii.iii:.i> on lbs h;micii<-i?i. our i.? . la*
tl. ?-il?- \? e gain:
We're (aHtornans, our lives we niv?' high
to attain
Still the blood-'taint il BWOrd ui.s?'.ihliui ?It tl
out banntsn blasoned i"-ar.
Th?- fear of death upon oui hill? and val
lev? walked hath ne'er.
, ? lion at each cornet of ?>u? empire
?ratcheth e'er.
Choi ill
As mari i : >-. et?
ffosa ai ? >'i/-' d Iden dread who
bear of ottoman th?' name,
i n ths ?I" ?i- "i . fathers tiii??l ihe
v.l.). world with thi Ir f line.
Nor are v?<- of other nature, roi Ihe ra?te
ih Mill tt?<" Mine
?> - n..-, I - -. ? *?
|uns sod i ???i' ? foi i ta i
||) tir<? ;??ol)?!i|
l-'i.r ??*??? ??iinmni ar? I iradlea who
lin?t death In i-.??iiie (mind;
,nd what unto ?
i ?., ih a nh gloi ' '. "? tied
1 hot oi
rtyrs, et?
| .Mr. Lj n-1 sddi to in? delightful iTitm
1 a;,d Eiigli>L ' a nt?\ vclunn. of btudics
of Irish Hie and character, this tl
transferring the balance of interest ft
Ulster to the south of Ireland,
fundamental thesis is lbs otoaansaal
the Irish nice, whether north <<r BOt
whether of Celtic, Beoteh or English I
ces try. "Personally." hs fays, "I ?I?
the existence of Bay a-ofafa lastwaaai <
ferent SStIJian Of the inhabitants of I
land srhlch ne? d prevent us from,
gurding then as one people. pUft PA
regard the Knglish or the French Of
italluns M one people." Hs drawn
Irishman as n human brother. n?'t a
ins; act apart, initiier the- my;
dreamer of the Celtic literary reu;? ? ? ;
nor the "broth of a bhoy" of BJiotl
literary trailitimi. neither the Cd
caricature Of good MUUiad I I
tioii, nor the unpleasant tifimcnt of M
prejudice. Whllo he doc? not DSgl
Irish town life, he devote-.?? himself tn
Of all to the country districts, giving
much attention to economics as to <"
turns, pastime."?, religion Bad lbs l4'
Fein in politics. Throu;;hout there i;
note of optimism, ? chronicling of p
ccptlble progress In the condition of 1
people. A delightfully written book,
well as a serious and informliiK OtM
SCIENTIFIC FAIRY-LORE
Nature's Progress Through tl
Year.
tuf. BiOLOcrr of the bbasons. b?
Arthur Thomson, M. A.. Rfgiua l
f^-^or of Natural Htatory In the T ni*
stty of Aberdeen. Illustrated by Wtlin
Hnilth. ?vo. pp. K. Hi Henrj Holt
?"o.
This is an exceptionally vnluabl. ?
Interesting contribution t.? the popu!
literature of Nature, and :i ?Mit-hifii
readable one ns well. M |OSt la: I
ynnd the natural history <-f the niner;
ity of books of this kind. Strl-tly sde
tifie in the most modern sense of ?
word, it yet succasdi in latadntag I
.harm of the age-old nature myths si
folktales while tnins'.atins* then. In
tantas of present-day knowledge, Blee
ing Beauty appeal; nil the inore to
when rrofes?or Thomson simply i
her Nature, .md Prince ?"lnrmin
Spnns. Facts as he present? them, ge
eralizations hs he Illustrates them v i
concrete instances. acquire a mcanit
far wider and deeper to the mod-^i
mind than that inherent in th<"> BltogOli
of old. tetones, In the hands of a syn
pathetl?' familiar of her secrets and pro.
! rsse?, almost popularizes herself, tl
more :??? In this case because It is sv
, ?lent that Professor Thomson has wrl
j ten this b"ok as much to plsai
| entertain himself M to guide and Intel
' est others.
The rhythm Of life is his main
? the rhythm that is visible all around 0
1 the alternation of work and rest of ?'
I penditure and repair, the ebb and lie*
! ?.I ? thousand processes thai .citv.vr.ll
are Influenced an?J ?lotermin? d by SI
vironment. Itself changing with the ses
sons of the year. This is what ProfSI
sor Thomson means by "The Biology C
i the Seasons."
While his field of ohsorvatlon is nom
j inaiiy that of Bngland, he arandera fa
? abroad, from antic to the tropic:?, thenc
: to the antarctic rcRiotis, as in tin* cas
' of the protective coloration ?if fur-bear
' ing animals or in that of the mil
of birds. From hi.-? pages devoted to tl;
I latter subject may well be quoted B DBS
; sags that lUastratss the cbanri of hl
j manner:
it' as arc convinced that there Is war
' runt for speaking of a migratory in
I stlnct we may pass t?> the n<ixt ques
i tion: What conditions led tu tic ?
I lishment of this instinct0 When a
think back imaj-'lnat i\ ? ly ti> the begin
i ning of migration, are see the am? ;
; ni a new idea, which is called, In Ih
t.-. hnlcal language of biology, a muta
tion. A oetv constitutional type arose
the revolution?r}, who would not tak
hard tinos lying down, who
Uve, alert, restless, unconventional, ad
venturous, who was a genlua, In ahort
a Columbus-bird
To meet B difl-CUlty?SUCh as hard win
ters there may bs detailed readjuat
'mints of what has already be? il eatab
. liahed; the plumai..' may turn white, foi
Instance, which alwaya helps, or a th
layer of fat ma* s? ci m ilate b? d? ath ; ?
skin. Hut there is another way of me? i
! Ing a difficulty -by evading it sito
and that requires genius, and that wai
i boa migration was started by a num.?
i bar of highly origin il birds, a bo dii
eovsrad that the prlaon doors were open
and who thought it was worth ului?
; trying whether Lands End In i '?
or elsewhere was rtvi?l.' Lands Li'.il.
i'rofessor Thotnaon'a manner
1 ft lidtoua when h? talka of a bal th<
modern naturalist still Ignores aa wi,. n
he trritea of what hsa already b? ?
eu\. red. There are many probl? m
to be soiv ; .i com et ning thia \? i matter
of ntlgratlon, im?i concarnlni hibernation
as w.?. Th.? soaps 0f tin? booh rangea
frota the lowest forme of marlni animal
life and planl i to man, after the syn?
thetic manner, even though th? lord
??f ?nation is ?.-t apart in tin? modern
" ientiflc ssnse that dlffara so fai
till ?Id titeo], Iglca] ope. ( ',,?. (
reader cotSSS upon paSM t i?x
ti?? maslvcB in the memory, i ?
he gathers int.. of information, sa where
he learns that, according to one In?
genious theory, the "turning of the
leaves" is an Instance of the aeon? ?. .,;
nature, the ejeen chlorophyll being rs?
abtorbsd by the plant in the autumn, a
saun-; m rtftrogsa and magnesium by
which it greatly bsneflts. And through?
out the lasson Is Impressed upon us that
Bunimer is Nsturt/a Bsaooa of arork, not
ot play.
Professor Ihcsnson has bssn deserved
I) fortunate in limin i?_c an illustrator.
?Mr. Bmith'i ?rater c-oaWa, excellently re?
produced, really Illustr?t.? the text This
Is a i.ook that v.iii hold the attention of
the most casual Of nature lovers, a.s well
SB Of serious StUdantS Of her ?
?-_
POET AND SOLDIER.
From The London Llohe.
in ins young daya Um pot t Col? ?
had ?'? little love affair which SBd?
disaster, for the lad] raftiaad him In
d apalr bs enlisted In ? cat
mint, win? h hs hoped would be ordered
on foreign >-<-r\ lee, tl si be n Ight and
his bllghtsd can er on the tented
For family reasons he dropped bit cor?
r? et name, but, from .? reeling ol m i tl
ment, retained the initials; ao g
Taylor Coleridge bsoam? Privati Hilaa
Tompklna Cambcrbatch, The r?giment
did not leave the roafnti .. and it n ,
not long i" fore his boni wearied ? :
lu k llfi? 'nd Its utter iibsen? e
n. n< '. iti- military lit
? nrio us fsshloi
i ?ne d ?. a oil" ' olei ,.:.;? " ,,?, doing :i
? entrj -k?, tw?i ofll? ? i
past One ot them mud? usi ol ? ?
.I ilion, lu. ii the oth? ? ?... i,. i. ;
'i h< in ? n .' is?..! . m his correct ?
a hii<- the ?-.ih??i tras lusi is po ? ? i .
\> sa srroi i '?'. hlK lhay dtoput? d, th?
.??< nti ?? audd? nJ* pre ei '.? d a i mi. and ? ??
??i" ? tfullj I I. th< la that "
h'.?h In rroi He gave the <
I name of the aut
? umatan? c it his mu '."ken
th< I;* ??!? - ? ")'" not h i ' ? been more
istonl i" i 'i in Incid? ni !? ?I t" rtii m
??'ill !. ..nd Ihi i"" t ?? ,i restored to the
b<e< in of his family.
I FICTIDN
I Romance and Realism in New
Novels.
A MODERN FAIRY STORY.
Tin; WONDER LADT, iiy Klla Lowory
m..m he Illustrated by John Ooot
labno, pp. tSt Boston: The Lothrop,
Lee <??? Shepard Company.
To roh ? goo?! tain of lier wings ami
gire her an ear thi.?. local habitation and
an taithlv name, to trau-late her Into
a mortal woninn, pi???asinp and dainty to
heliold. into a lady hoiintiful overflowins
with love aud sympatliy and pity, as
v. eii as with the matarlal giood thlngi
? 1" lif.' which Um poor lack-all this is
a llttio'.ial device as old as fairy lore
Itself perhaps, but one that will never
ceaae to he employed. Bo here Is the
iii\sterlous "Woniler Lady." carrying*
the ' DM"latlon of her smile, h?r com
paaalon, her temperum? nt. and her re
SOUrCOfUl prat thai lu Ipfiilnc.'-s to the
bedadde of Um crippled hoy condemned
lo a few years of homeless suffering by
I many doctors. The Prince Charming,
t"?.. is decided'y of the here and now, a
young tuagirian of th<? operatinq; room,
whooo powers lurk In X-ray apparatus
ar.il ln.itrument cas.-, whoso spoil is sto
valne. Uoth Prince ciuumin-- and the
VVonderflt] Lady go about ?loins good,
aiding each other without ? vc: meeting,
f' r '.vhen the "Prince appears the Lady
vanlahee. That is the speii of the ogitam.
who m?"ke.s strange conditions In the
will that ?lisposes of her fortune. Hap?
pily she and the minor evil spirits of
the tale are not nearly so black as they
appear, wherefore all onda well, as it
should in ? fairy tale. And the moral Is
j ??ne of ??traipenelon, of belptnlM??, and
happfneaa through love of our neigh
bora, Including the one we mam.
TEXAN TALES.
? TKX.VS RANGER By William Mac
Leod Raine Illustrated by \v. Herbert
Danton and Clarenci Rowa limo, pp
Phi Q. ?*? I??' ngl on Company.
There la taeef??aanl tel >n In these two
tales with one hen? The tirst denla
With the ?s ape of two li.itorious crimi?
nals from a Texas jail, the pursuit and
capture of on? of them, the frustration
' l lynching moh and other picturesque
! Incidents, into whose crowded doings a
e-irl is drawn. The second story takes
th? Tex.m Into th- midst of a cattle
feud, end agavin%a girl is in the t h i ? ? k
of it. Revolver? pop constantly, one
acrapo merely l?ads to another and far
?? ? one; in fact, one is reminded of
M ? alluring "continued In our next'' Of
? 1?in? nove] ??ays. Mr. Ralne writes with
. he seema to he amusing himself
us much .1 ? bla randera with his yarns,
and he maki'S goou use of the stock
lera, had men and good, who have
alwaya peopled the storks of this kind.
THE GREAT SCOTCH GIANT.
.\ POR^ENTOUg HISTORY. By sUfred
Tennyson. Itmo, pp. 119 Dufneld <<
? '?'.
Th"?- la much more than an attempt
to be bumorotia In this story of the
childhood and youth of Jamas Mac
dont id. the Scotch giant, who in litter
years, BO w? undontend ?from the ei.d
I <?? ime th" wonder of the circus
world .lane | liad an unhappy child?
hood . in bis Highland village the mo-!
in? nt his abnormal growth began to set ;
him a??art from other children. Uorn in
poverty, he ran Wild, ne?leoteil, un
kompt. At school he was the butt of his
matea, timid bocauae mentally undo?
vdop?sd, morbidly sensitive. Ina.rtlcu?
lately affetrtlonete. H? oommuned with
nature In ;i vague, uncomprehending
way until the Highlander*! deep lova of
mountains ? r? ?? t Into his heart and;
gava him ?"?isolation. At oeTenteen ha
f.-i! in love with a girl who aoornedhlm
and Who ?ame to fear his gigiintic
strength When? to aava her life, he threw
a bull and nearly kiii<?i it. Mis strength
oras a revelation! Tames ebueed
it one ??' Uli ilia night by terrifying the
village that had persecuted him. Then
came th? unpraaaiiOi who explained to
him that the phyalcally abnormal can he
happy only In ea>ch other's company:
i '.n d i fan lly, between
api i ? r? Is a tacit understand?
thy, drawing a llvellii.I
n on. 1 : ?? conventionally moulded ?
i. i.it'.. i all, James, th? y have In !
??. ; v ? ddltl? ource? ??t wealth and l
... and i think that in tini- they
; the ? 'li:
?? r? i,. ? in t tth? r ?laj ? no doubt
-. .i in mi-? raMe.
Thi itorj ends with the announcement
on London's MHboaxdi of the coming of
Jam? - the Scotch giant. ?.could wish
. an) -?on wool,! write a aequ? !,
dealing with the life <>f the freah family
James, the Boarded Woman, the
LiUputlani and the Dog?faU ad Man, the
v? m tiiti dwarf ud man* othera. it j
mlghi be worth doing if it were donel
St Icall) and with knowl
n has, moreover, never
been done, li memory k??i<rvoa, axt?ept in?
tuit ntally by Hector Malot in one of his
i for ' ?tii'iitii. "Romain Onl?
11 that was an episode of
iiitr? i i ?? ,? alouay rath? ;? than of aym?
pathy. Evan Jamee, no doubt, developed
in co?t?e "i Urne an "artlatlc tempera?
meni "
THF GREAT THEFT
A Romantic Reverie on "Mona
Lisa" and Her Paris.
r* n ? Thi Lend n Nation.
There li In the "Thais" ?if Anatole
Franc? ? Platonic myth, half poetry,
hah blasphemy, which talla how the ?II
\iiie grace .m*?. matea hti.-e!f and de?
?cenda among men In the form of a
a ?m?an. Who .submits?a divino penance
to be seised b] men. She was Helen
Of Tro', and assuredly .she is Mona
? th Lou, te. The worttf is gap.
.? Ing t" day, as the Argives
must have mped and toaal|ied. when
? ?,. ws ran round the town that Parla
bad carried the quean in hla black ship
beyond the ;?? i. "liiere were m?asii?. w it?)
th? i. h? ads and guessed that the
thing bad been '?one to show bow eare
! ? of Atr-us ?guarded the
?.omen's quarters "There were cynlca
m. t/ulgai and leaa Ingenloua, who
pretended thai Parla held hla prtae to
A present of oxen and of
t. p of slave glria ar I a char?
two, a ?-"it of anno . nnlngly
. !,!. and fine linen rt\? d with Tj I -
I, ., ?) i n it was tin. tl Pr?dan
prlnc? in e v.anted aa the . ? ? h? :
. i, ?, re? in The ??alieyi ?ailed, and tha
war raged, and when proud Troj la)
in i ulna, then ?it lust tha gtwslpa
It m u, j to hake their beatla to aomi
purpoi . ?i"i unden tood that u Is the
tut] and th- pasaion of pos
n ik?' the Imi.' ?i thefts
t ,, ? ? mi- <? ? nave their
to-di ' ? gosalp on Nona
. i .in?i has a ith
,? place of pllgrlmaga m
?i,., i,..,, .. i? is .i ho ' v sa| ? one, ??>
. arelessly the i??ptibll?
? uree How stu
I the thi? ' ? ' b\t iirirri
hot ? i?; it i ? ?? in "?'i i ' an
, n?, fall?n In ihe world!
? talks I erne Ils of ? neurotic
ind ? rrr"!iptlng of Inaanlty,
iuii! g.uis proudly into the calm
I arse of hi? ravished bride ami de
j the gossip? and the experts, the psy
ohologlftts and the detectives, to under
stand the simple passion which gav
liis hand Its daring
We have out? own a*USSS, u? ?*?? OOP
tentsdly among the gossips. Who would
mot gossip proudly ah*n La ??loconda
Is th. themsT We think we know what
manner of -non this happy Paris is. He
BBW his lady of the Alpine peaks wnlt
tng with her etsrnal smile within the
trame that could not hold her. For
four Inn? centuries she had waited, He?
ren?? and tireless. Her eyes liud sought
him out among th?? geiierationa of nien,
and they had never wearied in their
aaarch. She had stood confident and ex?
pectant waiting with her folded hands
for the day that was to come She re
membered something of the other men
Who luid jo-th-d and struggled around
! h? r, dim spicks in the valley when the
! white water curves its question among
jthe rocks. There was King Fran-Ms. who
hoi paid sreat sums to poss?>ss her in
her limn?.ttal youth. She thought ?>f
him as the man who had made the
wrong eplxram. "T??ut est perdu sauf
l'honneur," he ha.i s:?id at Pavia. Lut
Mona Lisa remembered that she too
v.i. safe at Fontalnlileau?safer than
any monarch's honor. She rememhered
it and sniihd. There was another
man who marched up to her as
a conqueror. Rut Wellington turned,
rigid, virtuous and English, and
still she adorned a royal wall In
France. Phe remembered the honest
man and smiled. Then cam.- another.
Hie Cern?an Llsmarck, who clattered his
sword nnd took his millions and rode
awny. fr'he remembered his Inillfferenco
and smiled Napoleon, she sometimes
thought, might have been her Paris had
she never quitted Florence, but Napo?
leon's taste wasj a little Inldscrimlnato
and voracious. She thoueht dimly of
the crow.is that had filed'before her, the
photographers and th?* critics, the
phraaemakers and the laggards In love,
i They had called her smile nn enigma.
They had gHat?*?l on her folded hands.
They had written their monographs and
I burdened the praanas of oxford with
| their eeaays. _nd at hist Paris ap
! He wrote no monograph; h<-|
published pi. phrases- Bui be did what
neither Wellington nos Btsmarch had
dar<?d. ?-?he shares a garret with him In
Montmartre to-day. The curious world,
of the capital g'>??lps down below. The i
newspapera >t two hemisphere? shout'
their question* and nsal little men In
blue cloaka and suords run questioning
among the dealers and the pawnshops.
The toan has come at last who has
I dared to answer the ehallenge of that ;
?:mili. It had searched the Renaissante
'in vain. It knew the inanity of the Kn- ;
j lightenmf nt. It saw the Romantics
nerveless and afraid. But It has found ?
i at tongtfa 'he man who would risk fut- ?
I tire and honor, friends and fame, for,
the |tory Of Helen's possessing Anil
Still th" ?-mile play.? eentlv round the;
cornera of the upturned mouth. The
unique lover, the daring lover. Is not less '.
diverting than the rest. The hands are
folded idly: they will not grasp the dar
1 Ing rieht which snatched her from her !
I Republican Meneiau??.
Let US proclaim this man the greatest I
; of all thieves, others have stolen and ,
; clothed their thefts in hypocrisy. When
Napoleon took th? cross from the Krem- |
lin he meant to plant It on the dome of!
the Invalides, a glory for France, a
; i ride for hla citizen subjects. When I
Lord Klein brought the marbles from
j the P.irthenon h" mear.t to rescue them .
j from the Imp-ons hands of the Turk
land display them to the caze of London. !
I Rut this man has stolen only for him- j
self, No all.>v of patriotism mars his I
I sublime rapaeltv, no thought of the
common weal makes his dishonesty dis?
honest. We Harare him to ourselves, a
simple, poor man, Inhabiting a hired
?.'arr?t, eaflnc, frugally his bread and
cheese and grapas before the world's i
pt?lcaioas treasure which is his. oti?pr ?
m?n have robbed kinga and millionaires,
but he lias robbed the human race. ?
Tl WS! no overman before him. no '
Individualist to vie with him. He has
vindicated his right to beauty, and he
sits before li?t- to-day, n conqueror, tast
Ins in hla anenymlt?- the envy of man
k'ti'l. What an experience Is his! Fi.r
four reniurl.-s the ?.nhlnx of the Rod.s
has stood in palaces and smiled at '
crowds. Rut he has lived erith her
alone. He sits facing her. drinking in
the made of that smile which no other
?an enlov. What is any other posse?-!
sion to compare with his0 He i nnnot
I ? lueath 1i"r to his heirs, he cannot bal- '
an' e lier aeatns! his debts. She Is his
; k our banda and fee. are our own. but
Bgeleas and Immortal Does he think
of the future as he gazes at her in the ,
first delirium of peeaeaalonT He turns
(a his '?ill thumbed copy of Lionardi's
notebook, and finds there that out? r ? ?
against mutability?"O, envious aee, ,
thou destroyest sll thlmrs and dsvourest
all thintrs with the hard teeth of the
years, little by little, In slow- deatbl
Helen, when the looked In her mirror
and saw the withered wrinkles which ,
o'.d acre had made in her face, wept and !
wondered to hsrsslf whv ever she had
twlee 1" rn carried away." He knov ??
that hla Helen will never fade. Th re
Will come no wrinkles In that smooth
ntiil rounded brow, nor crea sea In the
Idle hands that have mocked the la- j
i ora of t" >'ir centuries. Hut he knows,
as he gases, thai he will grow o'd and
die, and he asks himself whether he will
n grat hla Infamous darin?* He takes
hi? p? :i as he muses, and drafts with it
hla testament With some faint recol?
lection of Nelson, h< bequeaths his lm- >
mortal Helen to the gratitude of the
French people. The smiling lips great
him .'i1^ he raise- his eyes ones more to
nvaa '>n his eaJBaL Ha feels him-1
cell Tlthonus, wedded to the dawn, the;
mortal linked to the undying bride, Hel
.?inks in hla own . teem, the robber of
the human rae,?, the giant who had
scaled (l'- mpus, the man who had raped
Ideas finks until he feela himself
.'.n Item In the life of the eternaL Fran ia
carri'd her to Fontainebleau. David
put her In th?. Louvre. A ?core of dl
rectors and ministers have moved her
from one room to snother. Porters bava
carried her. Custodians have handled
her. And he- he- has borne her from
the Louvre to Ins Montmartre carref.
Bhe amll? d through all her mlgratlona
s? ?? amllsB arlth the same serene ex?
pectancy to-day. Baffled, humiliated, hs
carriea her once mote at althlly and
sadly bach to the Louvre, and places
her against the old familiar wall In her
conventional place of honor. Th." en!?
"di- la over, th?* rape accomplished. The
divine graos has descsnded among men
and Buffered violence. Unsullied, entil?
ing end ax].tant, Bhe returns to await
once more the thoughtless kings, the
honest conquerors, the careless barbar?
ians, the laggard lovais und the rare
Paris of four hundred years. Keen to
Paria her only favors wet?? the question
Of B sm'le. Her penance Is ended, and
iinoe more Bhe asks -but what la it she
asks? She a?ks why no one dares to
carry her away; but acnin she asks why
It Is that any one aJhouM wish to carry
her away.
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Bret Harte.
Mr. Henry c. Merwln hs? been pro*
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fnl biography of Francis Brtt Ha-fn,
For the life of the. Callf?>rnia pioneers i f
1840, which furnished Harte with ???
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Romance in the Middle Agea.
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