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PEERAGE AND STAG
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the i.i?ihteonth Century.
?'?ut.
? ? lllu?tr?'
? toi '? The aul
?' lins supplied the he?t posS
description of his entertalaing book.
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? .'.i . IBS been produ?
years,
? ratet the
I portance ?if the p< r?on_ge around W?
it i? wi\- ? ? ??gleets
' for the sake of the gossip. And
? . nr while, si
Of the social
of London d with wV
t?os of the st
tatas of the player in the E
? of the inc
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?*a. Of )
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arcos new c
trihatlOB to the subject hat Its vaiu?
Harriot Mellon (of Malone) was
daughter of an Irish strolling actr
Bad a mysterious supposed Brit
army officer, who deserted them t
Barer was heard of again. The ,
? d her mother's career, was tal
-?> honi her beautv r
?rit for broad comedy appeal
?. i ? ded in ?rail ? ig . foatiag at Drt
d In course
time married Thomas Coutts, the ri<
OSS banker in England, an elderly u
lonely man. Harriot, according to g
sip, had entered into nn agreement w
him to remain single until his ft
wife's death. On his demis? the fou
herself m possession of an enorme
forture, which enabled her to give fi
rein to her love of pleasure, displ
and BBSysteasatU charity. It fi
:,?ht her an o-*?*;r ?f marriage fn
.^significant i'lk? of St. Albai
h* r junior h\ twenty years, which s
accepted. ? arioualy e*iough, hor hoc
ding a-i a rich widow was fnr hi
ter than the one. she was able t'. ga
a* n dacheas, notwithstanding the s'.n
goring lavishnesa of her entertm
I ments The end of the profligacy a
1 rr.ua hunt for pleasuro of the Kegen
was .iIho the end of her flashy care?
On dying she left her fortune, whi
ha ) crnstantly Increased, not-wlthstnn
? er extravagance, to her first hu
I. riece, the late Buroness Hu
' ontts, Harriot Mellon was not
gr? at actress, buta popular one. Anil s)
i ice? ? I m iheddiog the n
dence, in her manners nnd carriage.
her humble early environment, so si
was told when her friendship wn
?i ? . 6? becaJBS known, In as typlr
I the journalistic lud
cency of ?he day as the book contain
String a performance of "The I oral
' try Girl," "The Sntirist" .aid in 1808;
We -hall only ohnerve that the
character wag meant for a gentle?
woman and that it was played by
Miss Mellon. Nothing need be
added, for it is as impossible for
an owl to fly in the face of the sur!
as it is for Miss Mellon to look
anything but a Sunday dressed
cook or a bouncing barmaid at fair
time. . . . Her faults fors?
wore natura!; wilful careles
?;ow added to them, and |
she has obtained a prize in the .'
tery ths stag? is looked unon as a
secondary object, and rather used
as an ost.nsibie than a necessary
profession.
The reriod of Harriot Mellon'g con
- the Ei gllsh stage was als
that of Garrick in hi? closing days; o
[enables, Kim?;*.! Ker.n, Macready
M \"h.-v-?e?. of Elisa Faurrei
\e CoQBtass of Derby). Mrs. ?for
da*?, Mrs. Siddons, Miss Foots, Mr?
Becky Wells an?d mtti)
Others, of oil of whom there is norm
[interesting gossip here. Tho picture!
of theatrical life and theatrical condi
' I Toiid, as we say nowaday?
are curious, and so are the accounts o
or of theatre audiences, ever
? .-.? cities, of the attitude of th?
eracy and Phlllstia ?"ward th?
feven Garrick was habitual!*,
?ed by fellow gue*'? at the houte?
of the scan?
dal that almost automatically attache.:
Itself to every woman who entered th?1
. profession. Among the illustration?
there are elsrht caricatures of Harriot
the eighteen known to
lay. Mr. Pearce dis<
? them : n hi* Introduction. -\s
an artist sh< stridently not of suffl
??? a'tract the stten
? ?,ts. In fsot, they
ick her with their customary
Varlty until
?f her coming marriage
Bt, Albans. One of their delicate
...i- to exaggerate the growth of
? her upper lip and to depict the
Harriot Mellon
knew Ute power of wealth and used it
? ? gain wh.-i* shs d
She i- red to discover what it could
r her. A mos*. entertaining
volume about a decidedly interesting
?er and period.
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VIEWS AND REVIEWS
OF CURRENT FICTION
Algernon Rlackwood's World of Childhood?The Ranch
<H,c* the Movies?Elinor Mord*.tint's "Rose of
Youth"?Richard Harding Davis's Stories.
THE F.XTR\ DAT.
? I ? I ..-?wnM
Lido ? : . - via ralUaa Cr?aseos
Mr. Blaekwood hst ere now delighted
ut wit! ? litlra stories of chll
, of childhood. A poet
ut he?rt, a loVW of nature ano! n mystic,
un imagM, Y. rohes hut
-.ilion memory and builds fur bet?
ter anew. "Tho K>'.ra Day" 1? not a
Ida? Age," hut it hot much
charm anil sentiment, and, nearer the
f-uif;ice, much of the uncontciout
humor of children. If occasionally he
or belief a little with the
rdinary doings and Ideas and
ff this book, he
make? up for it with the delight he gives
ut. There is Mr.Jlaks, for mtt.'inoe, their
,'f. loti civil ter
? * talks to them in the
.tu? ?ray which children hate.
Him t1 to th? nursery (la make
believe, of courne) and arrange a hor
nt for him on their toy rail?
road. "Shall we break both Ma legt?"
"?ir just his neck?"
Mid Tim, briefly. "Mr. Jinkt
icked no with woolly rugs and
?applied with an iron foot-warmer.
?'- ?, and the train
? u TREMENDOUS rate. So
?at the o'.her train. It was the mott
appal; . at hu.-? erar been
of. It took place between the
footstool and the fin-place."
I'nrle Felix is their friend and com?
panion. He tells them a story of a tiger
hunt of his. The elephant trod on a
cobra, which bit it. The maddened ani?
mal ran away, shook off the mahout
and the gun-bearer and left uncle and
the howilah suspended in a tree. Hut
the children's only comment whs that
"it was net fa.r to ttep on the cobra
and expict it to do nothing."
And "hi n? is their friend the tramp.
II" was wonderful. "How could he live
without furniture, honte, regular meals,
it possessions, In a word? It was
*re?r life to live that way." He wat
,'uett at a picnic. "And you eat
'. Tim. "I swnllow sun
?ett and I bite the moon," he an
i never need
I live on ?apt-n h'uir anil bits
' rlothet me, and
I lay me 'ead"
"Water, boiling," cried Uncle
Fell? ' Hand round the cups and
cut the luiif.''
"I>" y.m take sugar, please?"
asketl Judy of the guest. The auiet
? ade it a?moet
tend? r. Such a man might, mora?
lise sweet thinga. But he
h<- <1Y1.
lumps?" ?he asked, "or
ont
"Fir?, please,** he said.
to arrest the
tramp hicktm and a roil
of butter. hy the neck till
I :m, "and after?
ward they'll bury the body In a lime
hi.s family cant visit
the grave."
STEVE YF.VC.ER.
STTVr, riAtm T*t >.'.? ISSl IfMtattd Rtlna.
I Mlfrtii C tnptnr.
We mny trust Mr Raine for good
r '"rt-xirimeit, and he gives it In full
measure here. The Lone Star Hat.ch
ha? been driven o'it by ?etilert; StSSrC
Ycager's cowboy job hat deserted him.
Hut never before hBs the cowboy been
In Mich demand as In thote days of the
moving picture, to Steve becomes a
movie actor the real thing In the mat?
ter of breaking bror.cos. wild riding
and quick shooYng The "outfit" it
working on the Mexican frontier, and
what more natural "hnn that the hero
thould become mixed up in the wild
doings Just beyond? The Greasert are
a burl, treacherous lot, but the cham
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of course, is abducted by this villain,
taken from him by the Mexican com?
mander, and Steve must rescue her.
There is s good deal of everything
Wild Western and wilder M* .?.can In
tho Story, from the rustling of a mov?
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rattling gaod Story for relaxation.
THE ROSE OP TOUTE.
TUT. R?1SK OF TiiTTH B? EM-IT MnrrlirjaL
l__a ? - i-tne Comparu
There Is a great deal of the poetry
of life in this new story by an author
who is increasingly claiming our at?
tention, and a great deal of the hard
facts of life as the poor of London
learn its lessons. The eoekney hero, a
draper's assistant, who "Uves il:," pre?
serves amid all the cramping, spirit
killing horrors of ?he system his vision
by that happy gift, not rare in youth,
of withdrawing from the realities of
his fate and living a fanciful ex.si" BS
in another sphere peopled with the
romance of other days and the thoughts
of the great singan af his race. He
Is, Indeed, kin to the cockney boy of
Kipling. "Greatest Story in the World,"
a Mister Polly to whom gorgeous words
suggest gorgeous images of a wider,
fner existence filled with adventure
sad beauty.
To this youth the London of coek
neydom is the broad highway of nd
venture. He creates it for himself,
others help bim, und in the end, face to
bCS I '' ths choice between ?aoII
mearinir Philistinism, a marriage with
the heiress who owns the shop, and
real danger arid daring in a gun run?
ning exploit to insurgent Albnma, he
does not h.
Side by side with this young victor
there are the pale, languishing victims
In the submerged soil of Ix>ndon, cock?
ney gtlis and boy? nnd failures at the
en 1 of their days, tho pitiful procet
ilon of the slaves of a ruthless ?co?
nomie rystem. And there is the no less
pitiful "gentility" which, while sus?
taining, cramps so many of these
women still more. But occasionally,
alto, a kindred spirit, like the youth'?
landlady, who had been a circut per?
former, a woman of many adventures
and many memories. Her basement
living-room was 'illed with souvenirs
of many countries, with portraits of
many men:
There was something buccaneer?
ing in her ways her big. Jolly
laugh, her shrewdness, her love of
adventure, her amorous tales;
tales ander which Miss Leslie ap?
peared ta literally wilt away in
horror. For between the two
women there vas only this point
in eermmoi temptuous pity
each f. It for ths "awfulne*?s of
the ? ?"? Mr? Coates was
affcctionati. in her behavior tow?
ard Eddy Earp; called him "my
dear," and died his hair when he
sauced her. ?t did not mean any
iat her way of be?
ing "bright." There was nothing
nded or petty about the
woman; she had lived her life and
eras warmed through and through
with it as one is with a generous
wine. ... It wa? Miss Leslie
who had the nasty thoughts.
And this cockney boy, whose fisi?n
ranges from past to future, sees the
passing of the old order when first he
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chiefly by American contribution?. Th?
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The contributors of poetry are Laur?
ence Blnyon. Rupert Brooke. P. Clu-idel,
Jean Cocteau, Comtesie de N'oailles,
Henri ne R?gnier. Robert 'Grant,
Thomas Hardy. W D Howellt. Frnneis
Jamwe?. Alias Meyaell, Josephine Fres
fa Paabody. Lilla Cal ' Hos
?tayaaa, Ed
Herbart Trench, E. M Vorhat i, Bai
i?'t We-i.!' I . Marcare:
!.. Woods antl W, B Yea's.
The contributors of pro?ae ar?? Mau
rice Barret. Jar?? : a Em lo Blanche,
Sarah Bernhardt. Peel Bourget, Josep'i
Conrad, Eleonora Duse. John Gait
worthy, Edmund Go.se, Paul Hervieu,
General Humbert, Henry James, Gen?
era! Joffre, M. Maeterlinck, F.. S Mar
; tin, Paul Elmer More. Agnes Repplier,,
j Andr? Saur?s and Mr? Humphry Ward
The contributors of tht
which are reproduced by the photo?
gravure process except in tht
a number printed in full colors, aro
I.our, Baket, Mai B?erbohas, I E
; Blanche, Edwin Howland B'.ashfleld.
L?on Bonnat, Dagnun-Bouveret, Walter
Gay, C. P. G?r?me. C. D. Gibson, Reno
M?nard, Claude Monet, Renoir, Rodin,
Van Rysselhrrghe and John S. Sargent.
There are two contributions of music
a musical score, "La tagende
Christophe," by Vincent dimly, anal a
"Souvenir d'une marche bche," by Igor
Stra\ .nsky.
Mrs. Wharton hat written the prof
ace and Colonel Roosevelt furnishes
the Introduction. Beside?, the regular
edition there ?rill be an edition de lUXS
on Van-Gelder paper, limited to 12".
copies, and an edition de grand lur.t? of
fifty copies, printed on French tone
hand-made paper, with an extra et of
mounted Illustrations In a portfolio,
and with facsimiles of tho contribu?
tion! of Tbomaa Hardy, Puse, Rostand
and Joffre.
The original sketches, autograph
articles and mutical score? contributed
to the bo^V will be ?old by auction In
N'ew Yoi after its pablication. The
proceeds of this sale will also be d.'
voted exclusively to the hostels and
the rescue committee.
observet i ta mastere at supper in one
of their gaudy restaurants. "Real
toffs," he tald, have a sort of look of
knowing that they're slipping -slip?
ping back again." And the '
whom ho eaid this answered: "That's
what we are doing flipping back. All
the dram drink II
mestic squabbles Ye betweea us and i
the people we look on as be.ng nt the
bottom. Tho aewapaper
would have nothing to wri*e a*1
we were all middle-elaas, pros* i
? tleek, law-abiding. It' ? ? rcle."
SOMEWHERE IN FRANI
M_-_W__-UJ M FiiAMi
l>?n? Colar 1 f- ??'?ii-? ismo, n? ""'. .
Oi?j ? a ? sr*t I a
The six thort stories published in thit
new volume ai III Da la'i did
quality, at collectloni of this tort are
apt to do. The opening tale, which
givat the book its title, is a rattling
' good yarn of a German woman spy in ?
' the French lines. It is told in an off- '
hand way; the plot, as a whole, con?
vince! one for the moment, and why,
having been entertained capitally,
should one go back to question the
weakness of gome of the linkt of the
plot? But one cannot help reflecting
that the chief of the Gonaaa Secr.it
Service would not have made hit agent
take quite so great a risk. The war
plays no part in the other stories.
"Playing Head" is, frankly, a pot
boiler; "The Card Sharp" it another of
Mr. Pavis't familiar appealt to tenti
mentality. Hut the remaining three
' ttoriet are again of better quality.
j "Billy and the Big Stick" is a cheer
! ful extravaganza of how r- Yankee elec
? trida? collected his e*egei from the
Pr?sidant of Hayti. ?a American w?i
ehip and a movie actor belag BM
play their parts in the process;
Bey Scout is, one tolleres, already
sufnclently well-known, wi'h its ingeni?
ous congeries of good dcedl star*
the boy .when he gives his little sister
a dime to go ta, tke moviet. And,
finally, "The Framc-l'p," an attempt
of Tammany politician? to discredit
i an honett district attorney, might very
i well be tasa* As always Mr. Darla
give? hit readers good value.
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\n Interesting 5*tndv of Barvey.
"Harvey's l i m of the
i irrulation of tho Blood." I
John <;. Curt.a, __ 1? . [.[
rii-.unced by the Columb i 1 niv.rsity
The boo- n lult of its
authur'n intensive study of Harvey's
ideas, and a eompari on of them with
i Hippoeratic writers, Am
. and others. After dealing
??ith Harvey, carer >.? a vu.lint at
Padua, the author presents his general'
attitgUS toward t tl I BBS
rcula) - on to
s the circul?t:..
si ous authorities eited, m its
I
[ respiration and th.- primacy of the
heart and of tin? bio
the h?art beat, an.! !?? ???urn.1
Ho then considers the curious doctrine
of the blood as the ?en? of the soul, and :
the innate heat in its relation to tho j
blood ; and com?
pletes tho study with ?
?.'ion of the blood and I
of the heav? i
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