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Literary JVetvs and Criticism
More Books on China and th
Dowager Empress.
THE CHANGING CHINESE. The Con
filet of Oriental and Western Culture
in China. Bv Edward Alsworth Ross
Ph. i>, 1.1.. i> Illustrated, svo, pr
xvl, 256. The Century Company.
ACROSS CHINA ON TOOT. Life In ttrn
Interior and the Reform Movement
Bv Edwin J. I?ir.Rlo With numeroui
illustrations. Svo, pp. xvi, 446. Henr;
Holt & Co.
TWO YEARS IN THE l*?>RBir>r >E>
CITY. Bv the Princess Der Liner, Kirs'
Ladv in waiting to the Empress Dow?
ager Illustrated from phoumraphs
svo, pp. ix, 3*3. Moffatt, Yard & Co.
The profound interest taken by the
Western world in the new China?an in?
terest that has rapidly overtaken and
now decidedly overshadows that called
forth by Japan a decade ago?has led to
th? publication of an endless stream of
books on the subject in all its phases ?
i.i-oks superficial and understanding,
ephemeral and of lasting importance and
usefulness. Dr. Ross's "The Changing
Chinese" belongs to the latter class. It
may be called a. study in Chinese social
1 'ithology. with an examination of the
therapeutic effects which the nation's
progressive adoption of Western civil?
ization has already brought about and
m _ I
self-consistent planetary culture. v.hen
scientific research shall long hsrs'^T.
subject to the law ?>f diminishing re"??".
when nothing but a thin rill of tjinina
discoveries will trickle from the splenaui
Isboratorlea; when the proceeding or sci?
entific congrsaa? will be as trivial ?"; ! ;
discussions of the church councils or u?
seventh century; when the elite or"??*
human race will have forgotten the thrill
from such fructifying new truths as our
generation has enjoyed. Then, Pprn**,??,'
without any abatement of Its powers, tne
intellect of our race may develop such iin
Shakable faitli in the soundness and sum?
ciency of its system of scientific nnowi
edge and thought that nothing but inter
? course with the Martian-; will be able to
release it from the numbing grasp or me
established and arouse it to fresh con?
quests.
it is significant, Dr. Ross adds, that
superior white men of long residence in
the Middle Kingdom often become too
Chinese in their point of view to be o?
I much service to their governments.
| Many foreign consuls are said to cham
| plon tho Chinese way of looking at
I thing?, because in the Chinese of th?
superior type they discover an outlook
more comprehensive than their own. a
broader tolerance, and a philosophic
patience that makes mock of the eager,
impetuous West. Sir Robert Hart was
complained of as having become practi?
cally a Chinaman.
How environment, an unchanging civ
THE PRINCESS DER LING (MRS. THADDE?8 C. WHITE).
(From a portrait In "Two Y ears in the Forbidden City.")
may achieve hereafter.
It is largely a book of generalizations,
but of generalizations that are not hasty
and superficial. An enormous amount
of close observation and patient investi?
gation, of correlation of masses of de?
tails.' lias at its base. The author be?
gins b?i-declaring that the Chinese mind
does nog differ essentially from our own;
he denies the familiar conclusion, arrived
at by earlier students, that between the
two there lies a chasm that cannot be
penetrated to its depths. On the con?
trary, he maintains that, given the same
point of departure. Western civilization
would have evolved practically In the
same direction and with the same re?
sults as that of China. Dr. Ross !>e
lleves firmly In the paramount shaping
powers of environment.
One of the greatest of these formative
Influences In China, he holds, haa ben
the ruthless deforestation of the coun?
try:
In China the notion of an un?Hstrihuted
public good distinct from private gooda
has never established Itself in the ?general
mind. The state has been tribute taker
rather than guardian of the general wel?
fare, so the community is sacrificed to the
individual, the public to the local group,
and posterity to the living. Along the
Wet River great quantities of quick ?trow?
ing trees HTe scattered amid the crops,
while the mountains miles away art- de?
nuded. Instead of growing their wood
and fuel on the rough latid which is good
for nothing else, they ?row it in their
fields, to the detriment of their crops, be?
?cause, in the absence of public adminis?
tration, the mountains are a no-man's land
which all may ravage and abuse. The ?le.
etructlon of the remaining forests gess
on apace, for the officials are utterly in?
different.
Waste, indeed, the lack of scientific
management against which the Western
world is organizing, has been the lead?
ing feature of the evolution of Chinese
civilization. Dr. Ross's pictures of its
ravages are appalling. It has created
the Chinese standard of living at it?
lowest, which, together with the narrow
margin that divides it from starvation,
has been described often enough, but
which in this book is presented anew in
an uncommonly succinct and clear way
from the economist's point of view.
Under such conditions the Chinaman has
' developed the fitneBS to survive that
makes him the terror of white labor.
He is immune against unsanitary condi?
tions to which the white man succumbs,
he can subsist and work on a ration
that would kill our worklngmen. The
problem of his competition resolves Itself
into this, that under good conditions tne
white man can beat him, while under bad
conditions ho can best the white man,
because he can better endure spoiled
food, poor clothing, foul air, noise, heat,
dirt, discomfort and microbes. "Rellly
can outdo Ah San, but Ah San can undrr
lite Rellly." But Ah San is sure to loso
this peculiar toughness of fibre with tho
Introduction of modern sanitation.
Meanwhile, there he Is, willing and able
to undersell Rellly In his own markets.
The Chinese mind Dr. Ross ascribes to
the isolation of the civilization In which
it has evolved. Fundamentally, how?
ever, he compares It with the Anglo
Saxon's. It Is atable, he says, unswerv?
ing, influenced not by promptings, but
by decisions. "The patent stagnation of
the collective Chinese mind is due not
to native sluggishness, but to preposses?
sion by certain beliefs." Chinese con?
servatism la not chiefly a matter of
dread of the unknown, of horror of the
new and fanatical attachment to an age
old system of Ideas. It is tho logical
outcome of an inflexible environment:
For centuries the Chinese have found
themselves In the situation our descend?
ant? will perhaps find themselves in when,
half a thousand yeara hence, they are en?
folded in the colo??al body of a single
i ilization. has promoted overpopulation,
?which even a distressingly high infant
1 death rate and female infanticide can?
not counteract, is explained by the
author, who points, for one thing, to the
fact that in China early marriage carses
the generations to come at least a third
closer together than they do with us.
Even if their average family were no
larger than ours, they can outbreed us,
for they, marrying at twenty, get In
four generations where we get three.
Large families have no terrors for them,
thanks to clan ties and to the readi?
ness of childless couplai to adopt boys.
Indeed, there is a brisk trade in Shang?
hai in kidnapped male Infants. More?
over, the Chinaman considers his sons
as an investment, upon whose returns he
will schsist when they shall have grown
to manhood. All this leads to "procrea
tlve recklessness."
The industrial future of China Is still
afar: the inefficiency?the wastefulness
and graft?of the management of mich
undertakings is appalling. The story of
the war upon the opium evil is one of
the most significant in the book, unless
it be the account of woman's dawning
emancipation, beginning with the "un?
binding" of her feet This reform has
not reached further than the cities and
the higher ?-lasses, tradition retarding it h
progress elsewhere. As for the influence
of the missionaries, that of the Ameri?
cans appears to be greatest to the
he seemingly "Jumps" at generalizado
whose occasional soundness Is yet e
tested by their agreement with Dr. Rosi
mature, deliberately formed oplnioi
Mr. Dingle crossed China on foot frc
the head of the Yangtse gorges to Rrl
ish Burma, returned thence to Yun-N;
and travelled in the wilds of the eu
rounding country. He saw China fro
the roadside, and brings back, first
all, warning of the continued hostill
of the mass of the people of the lnt
rior toward the foreign devil and his 1
novations. He makes no pretence of ;
analytical study of the Chinese mind
the surface of their daily life, Its poveri
and squalor suffice him. Yet, in decid?
and decidedly questionable contrast
Dr. Ross's well balanced analysis, 1
ventures upon the broad, unqualified a
sertion, In which there is nothing ne\
that these Orientals are "two-face
crafty, past masters in duplicity, who?
whole life is one vast sham." He wii
nessed the riots at Hankow a year agi
They were his parting impression (
China. Throughout ho la of those wh
predict new Boxer risings and attach
sinister significance to China's moder
army.
Mr. Dinglo makes no allowance fc
gradual developments. What is to Di
Ross a passing phase he bluntly puts 1
the form of a finality. He sees the her
and now, but looks neither beneath no
ahead of it. As a narrative of travi
his book is Interesting, however, evei
though occasionally it lapses into piirpl
patches of description. Ills illustration
are worth while, especially those takei
in regions where none but an occaslona
missionary had preceded him.
The Princess Der Ling presents u;
with some interesting studies of the fa
BOU? Empress Dowager, and of the ?iail>
Ufe and ceremonious doings of her court
Historic comparisons have been drawi
ere now between this remarkable womar
and Catharine II of Russia, but the
closest resemblance between them wU
probably be found in their amiability
toward their entourage, and the eondl
tlons they tolerated at their respective
courts.
Educated at mission schools, and "fin?
ished'' in a French convent during th.
years of her father's ambassadorship in
FaTanoe, the Prlnoeati Der Ling returned
with him to her native country in li?1?.'!,
being immediately appointed her maj?
esty's first lady-in-waiting, largely 09
account of her knowledge of foreign lan?
guages. In 1900, during a leave of ab?
sence from court caused by BOY father's
Illness, the princess became engaged to
an American, Mr. ThaddetOI C. White,
whom she married two years later.
Her reminiscences do not enter into
the dlscussit . of matters of Chinese pol?
icy and diplomat- during the two years
they cover. T*1 ? Empress Dowager
stands forth In thcin as a shrewd, kind
old lady of amuxlng physical and mental
vigor and ?activity. Her one great pre?
occupation was to Impress the foreigners
whom she received at her palace. "You
will see," sh?- told the princess shortly
after her appointment, "how differently
I act in their rrr-senco, go that thev
cannot see my true self." An incident
that reminds one of Catharine the
Great's court took place wh?n Mir..-,
rian?on, the wife of the Russian Minis?
ter, was present? <I
The Empress Dowafer asked me If 1
eo?ild speak Rusalan. I ?"Id her that 1
could not. but that most Russians spoke
I'r? nch, which seemed to satisfy her She
however, said, 'Why didn't you tell mi
vou speak Russian'.' I won't know or l
alile to find out." and at the s**nie tlnv- w-m
looking at one of the <o:rt ladles I con?
cluded ?ha? some one nv I be fooling her,
for she seemed to appreciate ?he fact that
I had told her the truth Tl.is afterward
proved to be true.
Her majesty was fond of a bit of gos?
sip. Her august favor also expressed
Itself in a promise to make a sultabl?
match for the princess, much to her dis?
comfort and apprehension. t?f the Em
peror Kwnng Hsu the princess says tha;
he was very Intelligent and Interesting,
and a delightful companion, b?it that he
would "look serious and as If worried to
death" in the Empress Dowager's pr s
enc? He was a man of great gifts, well
Informed about the ways and r.-sourc.-?
??f Western civilization, but opportunity
v. as nenie.1 him, perhaps chiefly by the
reaped and obedience which he owed to
the Empress Dowager under the lawa
that govern Chinese family life.
The book is more than Idle and exotl
c;:lly pictur? spie court gossip, for it
gives an insight into the pereonality of
a remarkable woman. And ever and
anon the author returns to the ways of
her majesty's servants with her, to the
unruliness ?>f the eunuchs," the trickii of
the maids, who, disliking certain tasks.
pretended to be too stupid to perform
them properly. "It isn't that they can?
not do their work." patiently explained
the ruler of a third of the human r?o e,
"but they do not like to wait on me in
recollections issue every day that need
never have been written, which no one
will ever want to read. These were born
dead. Books that die of neglect, falling
uron a generation that knows not Jo
Saph, are a sadder sort of lumber. Most
of the books we call modem books are
of this class. For to be modern to-day
is most often to be dead the day after
to-morrow. Only those books which are
something more than of a mode can Uve
beyond It.
Take the example offered us only a
week age. The books of Hesba Stretton
are fast coming to be reckoned among
books that are dead. She belonged to a
i generation which did not yet repeat that
I modest doubt was beacon of the wise.
! She was as completely of her time, and
not of another, as Mr. Shaw is of his
There are few to-day?in the towns, at
any rate?who begin their reading with
?"Jessica's First Prayer." Yet this book,
?like Mr. Shaw's plays, was translated
Into nearly every European language: It
was recommended to a great nation by
one monarch and banned by his suc?
cessor. But she was not great enough
to live beyond her day of writers for
good children. We know of only one
writer of that school who can hope to
live beyond her generation. Mrs. Ewlng,
the author of "Six to Sixteen," is still
better raadlog than many a modern nov?
elist whope books will be dead to-mor?
row*.
WILLIAM ALLEM_ BUTLER
A Prominent New Yorker of an
Older Generation.
A RKTROSPW'T OF FORTY YEARS,
US-TM. By William Allen Butler.
Bdited bv his daughter, Harriet Allen
Butler. With portraits and illustrations.
Xvo. pp. .will, 412. Charles Scrlbner's
Sons.
"Nothing to Wear" won Immediate
popularity, What Is more, It has rince
achieved that kin.l of minor Immortal?
ity which consists of occasional familiar
reference, and of leM occasional reprint?
ing In tho columns of some newspaper
01 magazine, of its author little else Is
known t<? the world at large beyond the
fact that ho di?l write the poem, but
?*\?n In this connection It should be ob?
ra r\. ?1 that th?- name of Miss Flora Mc
Pllmaey, of Madison Square. Is far more
widely known than is his. A prominent
citizen ?>f New York in a staid age, Mr.
Mutier published his verses anonymous?
ly, lost | ganara] knowledge of his flirta?
tion with the lighter muse (should unfa?
vorably affect his standing as a lawyer.
After a schoolgirl had claimed the au?
thorship he did his best to dissipate the
anonymity, and rooceeded for a while.
Still, It gradually has overtaken him
again In a younger generation.
Mr. Btttlsff began the writing of his
reminiscences in istm, when he was 'n
his seventy-fifth year, intending to carry
th?m ?l??wn to the ? lose of the Century,
but at his death. In likXi, he had <<>m
pleted hi? re? ..rd only to the end of the
Civil War. it Is this fragment that h|3
DEATH IS THE OPIUM LAMP
(Trova a native <-.,rt'>nn In "Th" ?"hanging
Chinese.")
? laiishter has edited and annotated, apt?
ly Introducing h?-re and there some of
Ms other, last ?rail known vers.-. An
appendix contains lbs memorial r.?a?i i?>*
Judge George C. Holt before the H.ir
Association of N?sw York In March,
1003: th.*- memorial procosdlngs In the
Supreme Court In this city <>n October
'-".*. 1902, and before tbe United Btati -
District t'onrt. six ?lays later; nnd th??
address delivered by the Hon. Alton h
Parker on the occaalon <>f the presenta?
tion of Mr. Butter*! portrait to tho t'ourt
Of Appeal! Ol the State <?f New Y<?rk, to
gether with i'Mof Justice, Cullen's repli
William Allen Butter was born at Al?
bany on February Li?, 1825, the .-"ii of a
prominent lawyer, Benjamin Franklin
Butter, who in i883 ?accepted the -Mist of
TEMPLE OF SCI-F?, OVER LOOKING THE YANOTSE.
(From an illustration in "Across China on Foot.")
author, because they are most active in
the medical and educational flelda. But
as for the progress of Western educa?
tion, the Chinaman as yet ?cannot grasp
the massiveness and depth of our cult?
ure. Hence his retarding tendency of
dismissing his foreign teachers too esrly,
and of substituting for them native edu?
cators entirely unfitted for their task.
Mr. Dingle is an English newspsper
correspondent, and a competent one.
Preoccupied with his cwn far from un?
interesting experiences snd adventures,
my bedroom, so they pretend to be
stupid, and make me angry ao that I
will send them to do the common work.
Now I have found them out."
DEAD BOOKS.
From The London Saturday Review.
Lord Rosebery, apeaklng of dead
hooka touched only the fringe of his
theme. There sre many klnda of dead
books. There are books that die of old
age, and many more booka that are born
dead. Books of verae, Action, travel and
Attorney General under Jackson, chiefly
through the urging of his friend, Martin
Van Buren. Mr. Butler's reminiscences
may be said to begin with these two his?
toric personages. Van Buren would
have made the elder Butler his leers
tary of State, but he refused, resigned
his post, which he had continued to hold
until 1838, and settled in New York to
resume the practice of law. His son
graduat-sd from the University of tho
City of New York In 1K-.-3. winning dur?
ing his college course the distinction of
being the Class Poet. Admitted to the
CAPTIVES OF THE LAMP AND PIPE.
(From a native opium reform cartoon reproduced in "The Changing Chinese.
bar three years later. William Allen But?
ler mad i the grand tour of Europe, visit?
ing in London Carlyle, Lord John Rus?
sell and other celebrities, among them
Samuel Rogers, the banker-poet, and, re?
turning home In 1R4H, began the prac?
tice of his profession.
Ills reminlscemes are strung on the
thread of the political events of the peri?
od, the progressive stages on the road to
the irrepressible confli? t. Their greater
Interest for the present generation lies,
however, In their reflection of the social
atmosphere of his day, and in his ref?
eren? es to the many men he knew. He
Is entertaining always, often In lighter
vein, and he tells an anecdote here and
there that Is worth remembering.
FICTION
Some New Novels, American
and English.
SCIENCE AND FAITH.
THK BREXTOX8. By Anna rhapln Ray.
Frontispiece by \Villiam C. Dexter.
limo, |i|> ISO. Boston: Little, Brown
& Co
Th?- new ohas?? of the struggle between
?Ctence and religion whh h we call mod
ernism is reviving a genre of fiction
Which had its vogue a quarter of a cen?
tury ago, when "Robert Klsm??re"
sound.??! th>? keynote. Mrs. Ward has
r- ' ently given us a modernist serjuel to
tliat story, th?> Continent, and especially
Italy, has contributed to the discussion
of the burning <-|Uent!on In tlctlonal form.
and now Miss Hay takes It up In this
DOW tale from her pen. complicating the
main Interest with and In the outcome
far from minor Christian Selene.? motif.
Her hero Is. on his mother's side, the
descendant of a long line of grim New
l England preachers, and It Is for her
sake that he dons the cloth. <umpro
lg with his conscience by exchang?
ing their Calvinism for a more liberal
faith. But he is a chemist, a m!?ro
blologtet, by instinct. The nirl he mar?
ri? s Is a social Climber, a vain, pr?ten?
tion*-, empty-headed, selfish ? reature.
His first Important charge is in s uni
* vaity t?.wn. whero he is surrounded by
m??d -rnlsni more or less Indifferent
towaro religion. His first serious doubt
! Providence comes to him when a
frler.1 of his colleso days, a splendid
crest-ire physically and mentally, is
struck down by an affll?*tlon that will
keep him tied lb Ills couch, a helpless
cripple, for the rest of his days. Being
young and having small experience of
life, he refuses to pee the possible mid?
dle ?ourse of useful service that is
pointed out to hlni alik- by his col?
leagues in the Church and his friends
among the s? lentlsts. both of whom th?
author provide! with ex?*ellont argu?
ments. To him then- appears to be only
I ?In km ss <>n the one side, all the light on
? the other. Miss Ray is not ? partisan;
j she hag n ? "purpose " She has taken
trutn the current life around us an In
terestlng situation and turned it Into a
serious and Interesting novel, supplying
la love story that. In Its way. is a pr.to?
ll al commentary on th<- ?loubts ?>f her
111.t-,* man hero.
LOVE ON A SHEEP T.ANCH.
THE WRONG WOMAN B) Charles l>
Stew-art. Colored Illustrations l2mo,
pp. *~M, Tin- Houghton Mlflttn Comp ?y.
Mr BteWfUrt, Who has given nov<?|
readers some pleasant hours with his
"Partners <>f Providence" and * Th?
Fugitive Bi.i? ksinith." has chotea ?
smaller canvas f??r his new store To be
sur??, ils seen?' is th?? boundless prairie of
Texas, but the part "f it framed In by
the human Interest i.? only ? amall one
In fact, the book is a bit of delightful
comedy, The substitute school teacher
of the settlement?a young woman
starts on horseback for the county
town, is thrown by the pony ami left
alone In ? sp??i where there is not even
a wire feme to guide her. Su she wan?
ders blindly until she rancheo a sheep?
border*! shack, whose occupant immedi?
ately placee it at her disposal roe the
night with true American chivalry. She
accepts, since there is nothing else for
her to do, nrul In the morning starte
once more for li.-r destination, with a.-r
host's explicit directions to guide her.
She walks all day, and In the evening
completes the Inevitable circle of th? lost
by ??nee more reaching the shack. This
Is the framework of th-- plut, to wlnVn
may be added the Bcandallsatlon of the
settlement at a ?listan.e. The merit of
the story, its delightfully light and
graceful entertainment, lies in the au*
thor's treatment of the situation, a defc
mingling of sentiment and humor ami
?lean, honest Americanism. The stupid
?hoop and their daltit. lambs pla-, their
parts with laudable understanding .
whut Is expected from them.
A STORY OF OXFORD.
MR. WYi'HEKI.EVS WARD8. My L.
Allen Haraer. LSmo, pp. ?t>. Charles
S. i Ituier's Sons
This tale is a sequel to, rather than a
continuation of, the author's earlier
"Mise Esperance and Mr. Wy h.-rlev. '
Miss Esp?rame has crossed the bourne
and left her two nephews In Mr Wycher
ley's charge?the absent-minded, gentle.
unworldly guardian being rather mor*
helpless than his wards. He resolves to
move back to Oxford, and there his
troubles begin. He has taken a house,
and is at the mercy of charwomen until
others take his affairs In hand arid pro?
vide him with a housekeeper who is a
model ?>f efficiency, and of that essen?
tially English virtue, "knowing one's
proper station." So ? onseious is she of
it that she cannot help referring to .t
constancy. Still better dties she know
the proper station of her little niece and
ward, who, by Mr. Wycherley's permis?
sion, comes to live with her at the
house. And thus the girl la'comes his
ward as well. The book Is In reality
her story rather than his, or that of th?
two boys, for sh? bas a strange ar
ceatry, half Greek, half English, an
when a foreign admixture of any kin
is found In honest British veins in Brit
ish fiction much may be expected, "tem
perament" at the very least. And thl
child has temperament entirely out o
keeping with her proper station. Mr?
Harker revels in the depletion of th
delicate breeding of an older generation
vanishing fast before the direct, lncon
siderate ways of present day civiliza
tion. Mr. Wycherly is a very sympa
thetlc Incarnation of its virtues an<
shortcomings, though his creator wouk
probably deny the latter.
A PRUSSIAN PRINCESS
Forty-five Years of the Court ai
Berlin.
Paris. January 10.
Sidelights at once highly interesting
and of great historic value, bearing upon
the Court of Berlin during the first part
Of the nineteenth century, are to be
found in t,he souvenirs of Louise of
Prussia, Princess Antoine Radzlwill and
niece of Frederick the Great, which, un?
der the title "Quarante-Cinq Ann?*es de
Ma Vie," were inherited by Princess
Radziwlll, n?*-e Castellane, whose hus?
band was Princess Louise's grandson.
Th? se memoirs, which the princess noted
down in French during the years 1770
to 1S15, cover one of the? most stirring
periods of Prussian history'- The vol?
ume, which contains a fine engra\ring of
LITERARY NOTEsT^
An English edition of a. Mairie.
Low's "The American People: Ag^
in National Psychology," the second^J
ume of which the Houghton jgjff.
Company brought out a few weejfVj"*
will be issued immediately by T. FuC
Unwin, of London. A German ?tdt?^
will be published by Moraw? & g^
felt, of Berlin, as soon as the nece-j^J
translation can be made. *'7
A Byron Anecdote.
In Mr. Justin McCarthy's recently ww
lished "Irish Recollections" there art, ?*
course, many anecdotes and atorie? ejj.
nected with Cork, the city of hla youth
and its environs. One of the most into,
estlng we quote below:
I was wandering, one flrie evenln? ,.
early aummer, In the neighborhood of**2
was then called the Cove of Corle ^
I was smoking a cigar, and much erner*?*.
the sea view and the smoke. .**?
Presently a sailor, who appeared byui
"rig" to have come from one of th? ?Z
vessels in the harbor, approadied m? ?2
asked.me if I would oblige him with 4 iS
for his pipe. I have to mention h?r# tC
even In those early days I was v?try ?-?w
sighted, and had been accustotned to JT
an ey-aglass. which I held always m-*- 2
muscular attachment In one eye. Of touna
I readily produced my matchbox fjg\7L7*
piled with his reasonable repeat TE
sailor thanked mo cordially, and th?
added, "Do you know-, sir, I uas afrrd* u
first, when I noticed your eyeglass ?J?
you might be a self-conclted young ?S
who would look down upon a poor ?jC?.
but now I know that I was niisuk? ?i
I think a young gentleman like yoa ?7
must be fond of poeti-v, and wovfi ?
pleased to know that long ago I loti?,
for this very ripe from Lord Byron, ??L,
Athens. I asked him Just as I ask**, Jf
and ho did me the favor ju>t aa you ??"
"Marquis" as a Family Name.
Don Marquis, the author of "?tinft
Own Story." whose name looka Illa u
id?3al literary pseudonyme, recently fe.
clared: 'It never occurred to me th?
my name was unusual until other peopi?,
noti-ced It In some parts of Ohio It *
as common as Smith or Brown, aim?.
In Western Pennsylvania, near the Ohi,
line, is a community composed almo*
entirely of Marquises. There is a church
there?Crab Tree Church?that haa h-4
one Marquis after another as a proecht*
for considerably over a hundred yea?.
But they are scattered all over Ohla"
Mario Rapisardi.
The Sicilian poet. Mario Raptaar*
who died at Catania on January 4, era
born there on February 25, 18H 1*
educated at its university, whose del?
of Italian literature he held for muy
years. He made his debut with "Palh.
genesl," a poem In ten cantos, lnsptni
by the hope that a new Reformat!?
would restore peace, prosperity and the
Golden Age to earth. His later Tad?
tero" traced the development of ft*
PRINCESS L0UI8I OF PRUSSIA IN 1782.
(From the portrait by Therbusch.)
the Princess Louise, from the portnit
painted by Therbusch In 17S'J. is pub
llehed by Plon-Nourrlt
The l'iincess Louise ?as born in 177?>
and ?lied in is:'?i. lived at the Court of
BerllB ?luring three reigns, that of Fred?
erick the Great ?bat of Frederich Will?
iam II ami ?hat of Frederick William
?III. and thus was an eye-witness of the
! most memorable episodes of the strug?
gle between Napoleon and the morose,
unsympathetic Frederick William 111.
Sti. gives ? picturesque description Of
her brother, tjOttle Ferdinand, whose
brilliant career ?ras ended by his death
at the battle of Saalfeld. Mme. de Sta?l
(ailed him the "Ah iblad.s of Prussia."
There are many p?-rsonal atn-cdotes
about Napoleon In these memoirs, great
?trees being leid upon the feredty of hie
personal relations with Frederick Will
lam in. There are allusions to that
nniaiki.bie .1 na] abominable etrtdmntreH,
Pauline Wiesel, Printe i.ouis Ferdinand's
inlstTiss, who.?- pot trait was found OB
his corpas b neath the thirteen wounds
that ?mied his life. Mme. de Etnri ?as
often present at Pauline Wiesel's re?
ceptions in the ?eager Itrneee, where
tin- most Interesting men of the day
paid her c?urt
This ni- ? I; Often tip-volume makes an
Interestini,' counterpart to that which
Princess RadslwllI Castillan?- recently
brought out about her grntuUnothe.-, the
Duchess ?i.- hir.ii. ?'. I. B.
TOLSTOY AND ANIMALS.
From The London Globe.
Tolstoy has left on record how on on-s
occasion an old servant thus reproved
him lu words which he never forgot:
"Ah, master, you have no pity! Wh\ ?in
you beat him? He is twenty years old
and is tired out; he can hardly breathe.
Why, for a horse, he is as old as Tlmo
feyltch"?a very old peasant living on
the place. "Yi-u might as well get on
Tlmoieyitch's back and drive htm be?
yond his strength like that with a
switch."
"I thoiight of Timofeyitch," says Tol?
stoy, "and harkened to the man. 1 got
off the horse's back, and when I noticed
how his steaming side3 were working
and how heavily he breathed through'his'
ri<?Btrlls. swlhhlng his thin tall. I under?
stood how hard it was for him. And I
felt so ?sorry for Raven that I began to
kiss her sweaty neck and to heg his
Purdon for having beaten him. Since
then I have grown up, but I always havo
Pity on horses and always remember
Raven and Timofeyitch when I seas
horses ill treated."
religious and philosophic thought <<
mankind up to the year 1870. He sab
made a translttmn of Bhelk jr'i pr**J
theus Unbound." and in IS'.?? pi?b'|?*?J
"Africa Orrenda." voicing the indlgSj
tlon-of the Italian peo) J
..m adrentures after the dlsi -ter ?'
A.Iowa. In l'.ki"? he wrote an ode ?,
Catania's famous .?on. the con - r B*
Uni. Rapisar.li, a radical, oft n csBbt
Into conflict with the great Carducct
who had abandoned his early theortel
and become a conserxative. As a poet
he irai not, however, of Carducdi
stature.
Galsworthy. Poet.
John Galsworthy, the author ot "TM
Patrician" and other novels, is sito a
po t Four of his poems will appesr U '
the February number of "ScrlbWrl
Magazine."
Arnold Bennett's Short Stories.
It I? somewhat dilhYult to think of Mr
Arnold Dennett as a writer of short
?tones. However, the first collection Of.
his briefer llc-tion. "The .Matador of the
Fi-.. Towns, and Other Stories." is An?
nounced by the George H. Doran *"?>n** |
p.inV for early publication.
Mediaoval Architecture.
Mr Arthur Klngsley Porter, who*
"Medieval Architecture" was well re?
ceived three years ago, has Just pu?*
lUhed, through the Vale University
Press, a mnnoKrnph on "The Construe?
tlon Of Lomlianl an?l ?lothic Vaults.'
Rider Haggard's First Inspiration.
Stevenson's "Treasure Island'' is saW
to have be-n responsible foi starting?'
recently knighted Rider Hazard on NJ
,-ir.vr as a novelist Travelling ?I?
his brother fron. Norfolk to London. M
b??ught a copy of the book to .vhilo aWST
the tedium of the journey, and, ha via?
finished it, remarked: "Well. 1 think?
could write a better boys' story truw
that" "If >ou think it's so ?-as> as tw
that, why don't you try.*" his broth*
mockingly replied. "I will." said m
future knight. A few weeks later he M
completed the manuscript ?if " King ? ??
ornons Mines." of which over ?>ne hun
?dred thousand copies were sold ?wr
the first five years. His brother. CoW
Andrew C P. Haggard. D.S. O-^J;
won distinction as a novelist "'? i
book, dealing with life on Van?"-*
Island, will shortly appear und?*
title of "Two Worlds: A Romanea