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6 THE SUN, SUNDAY, AUGUST 29, 1915. SOME NEW B00K8. i - .In.. i gad Ihr lliiteh InsnllnHc. Tho Jadid traveller in search of glow scenes nnd now sensations. If ho bo equipped with abundant leisure, flgbtist health nnd strong nerves, enn Jhardly do hetter thnri follow in the tMUMtyt of Mr. Author s. Wauxm through .'Ma and tter Ifeiokbori, published MM time Bin hy O. Pi l'utnnm's Sons. Tin- kind which Mi Wuicott AMorflMM li of unaurpnsged natural beauty Utd varied historical, arch tool og leal and geological interest It Is. moreover, ti land wliieh In spite of the comforts of civilization established ly Dutch enterprise is still little visited by pleasure seekers. The automobile mA fh cinematograph have found ..v... .... laiin lava Kin thl tourist is as pat a negligible quantity. During . mm weeks voyage the mOCS distant islands of the Dutch-Malay arrhioelaeo hv an I tcrisland steam- hip linn rejoicing In ths phonetic name of the Koninklljko Cakctvaart MantsehnppU M r. Walcotl saw not a single American or Englishman, A little while. hOWCVOr, and all this may iw. ..hnmr. d We ere told thai very Mostly there riaa t eompleti face about In the attitude of the Dutch ofllclnls. formerly travel In Java WU hedged al.ut with a plen itude of restriction! and red taie Which BMda a trip through Bussia reoin a .Journey of flllldUBI lit "in Jiarison. N'.'W tin re Is a burSOdl of Information at i:.ruvla under the dl- reetlon of the Dutch nuthoritles, and, lllirll are easily Obtained. The ; !..v..ri:nnt is "'Via u ,d. rl ikon the. n..i,t.Ti of hotel and carriage Vm establishing 1"dli at a nasi rate tariff. At Welter red en, the modern eectijon i or t'ie city of Batavla, where, is to hoi found MM Lest hotel I the Dutch Kast IndteB, the traveller lt ys 4 a day for accommodations, including! moults and BerVlCe. Mr Walcotl do- ecribea tiie plan of this hotel, which j I hi tvnieal of modern host dries through I out the arcnipeiago, mere is a in. no milldlng containing the dining room, rending room, .iflli-o and k . hens, with a broad v im mi. i eq tripped with the tnartilo topped table dear to the h art of the Parisian hmilevirdler. Long, One shrt-lod galleries stret.-hing out on either Hide contain bodroom apart ments. Each traveller paving his mod est $4 a day has a private porch fur nished with easy chairs nnd eo-trV tights, a bedroom with running water and n telephone, a rear yard 111 WMdh to dry the dampness from his olothes, mid a small bathroom with modem plumbing. He lia.x also abundant mos quito le 'tinus, a BMaquttO broom and a "Dutch wife," which, it may le best to explain. Is a huge hard liolster. ex tremely useful on a tropical night. He will find "real English siwaking jrrnh" at table, and although the In- auUnda btoadam exict: his "per cent ," hia expectation are not as exorbitant as those of Ma Occidental brother. From the high standard of this excellent hoel ai'i-ommodatione throughout the islands dwindle to the Inconveniences and hazards of prim itive inns where one is likely upon retiring to find a wiggling something Inside t lie pillow case which proves to Ik. a good sized lizard, to com.' lute for dinner anil surprise a rooster wad ing In .ihe gOUpi and to lie forced to share a liedroom wifh colonies of res! nnts, poisonous looking spiders nnd to use Mr. Waloott'a adjective, "un objectionable" g. kkos. Hardly less alarming thnn resting plaooaof this character, WttlOh must lie endured if a trip to the outer islands 1 undertaken, nr.- the conditio na un der whi.-h Carriage riding must )e n Joyed or endured, according to the temperament of the traveller. A oim blnatlon of half broken ponies, rock loss driver and rottt n barnaai ae enn to lie the rule rather than the ex roption In tJbta pirt of the world. Speaking of a certain drive in North Celebes, Mr. Walcott says: "My 'out fit' was. I think, no worse than the average, yet twici I os aped an over turn by the narrowest margin, and we finally arrived at the end of the twen- ty-two miles with the rtnatihnard kicked to fragments, the traces broken and Oha OUtatde pony l-! tvhind the cart in disgrace by ;, neck rope, the remain! or his harnmai reposing on the bot'om of the vehicle." Mr. Walcott prefaces the account of Ms paraonal Impreaalona with a hia torlctl sketch of the VloilsitUdca of the islands through aucceaalva Mohalti medan, Portugueae, Dutch, Bngliah, French and Dutch rule and of the gradual weakening and subjection of the natives, .if the preaent condHlona tw renrt that the Inlquttoui aya tem of "forced cultivation" by which the expioiia'ion of tiie natlvea brought o Holland yearly a aurplua of some 11,000,000 gold has n..w almoal h gppaared fr,m the Insullnde, Ijchnea of it are still heard iii Sumatra, bin in Java, in Celebes, in the Moluccas free labor is now practically untver gal, Income and capitation taxes have taken Bha place or wholeaale robbery of niie uofortunata natlv a, and they Bre now allowed lo lease land and oroflt by the rosulm ,f their labor. JkvastaOng famines ale L inmlng in frequent and the native population i lucreaatag rapidly. With regard to the I al and n. talleotual characterlattci ..r these in. aulinde natives Mr. Wa speaks In various fashions. He doe not wax rnthualaatlc over the Inhabitants .if north Bumatm, the mnai unprepoa- sesslng of all the virions ethnological etieciinetiH. in whom, lie Maya, "every Oriental vice aeema "i mally oyer- developed ami every Occidental virtue ponapiououely laoklng " The Javanese nr batter, although they show "few ign of mental activity aid seem oomparatively lacking In Initiative, ambition ami alertness of otanprehen eion." Phyaically the Javanese appear to ba lather aitraotive. Hmnll ami elender, with email mil formed ha mil ami feet and cfimplesiona varying from bright brown in n rich yellow, they have the gentle nesa ami grace which, as Mr, w.iii mi aaya, make Ihc baaaantry of Asia seem hss uncouth than inn corresponding social grade in England or Amerlcu In North Celebes the tribes of i.,ii hunlcra, who less than a century ago clothed in mseivcH oni.v m strips of hark and ; domed the tombs of i heir chiefs with rreemy aevereo human heads, have developed Into peaceable and orderly Individuate who have uiupted (Vestorn elvllleatloui even iivrradupted it to she 1 .1 hi of adorning Ihe eaietior or helr collages with rhe colored up plementa of Kurnpenn weeklies, 11 is rumored that the "older fnmlllaa" (1f "tl.oso Mluahat colleetlona -.f natl 1 1 stm preserve klllls as nmnfS of an- cestrai prnweee but y.ut bo dliturl ed by ..11 such heirloom. On the contrary he will meet with an unvarying courtesy and deference which is not always ex hibited by the peasantry of older civ ilizations. Mr. Walcott beitan his trip through the Dutch East Indies at Singapore, from which iort a two days trip by the Dutch mall steamer landed him in Tend long Prtok, the iort of modern Volto rrden and old Matavia. Of the latter ancient city, whose plOtUreOQUI If malarious canals still teatlfy to the naiVC efforts of the Dutch settlors to reproduce the Joys of the homeland Undtr tropical skies, there are now but sorry romnlna. The town hall, a few old mansions, a church and a soc tlOII Of the old city wall plensantly decorated with the whitewashed skull of a certain half caste traitor, am- the only "sights" to lie visited In what was once grandiloquently christened the "Queen of the Orient." and also, much more appropriately, the "White Man's flrave." In Woltevreden. the new section of Hatavla. the ruling race. INffl wise through experience. ).aVP hullt up a modern sanitary city w!tn nn architecture and a mode of life suited to the climate. Whether a traveller hss the time to make a cruise of the eastern Islands of the Malay Arehlpelngo or must confine his wanderings to .lava alone, Mr Walcott recommends a trip by boat from Hatavla to Hoorahaya, thence to the volcanoes In the Itng gor Mountains of eastern Java, and n turning by rail through the IcnKlh Of the Island. Mr. Walcott himself tpenl three months In the Insullnde, and In that time he not only made a rinse of the eastern Islands and v,lld" .lava with considerable thoroughness, but he also accomplished a coasting trip Up the west coast of Sumatra, turning the northern end of that ! Island and ending his wanderings at the lsla:al of I'cnang. off the west Coaat of the Malay Peninsula. As soon M Mr. Walcott embarks for Buemhaya the conviction Is forced iilsin the most optimistic reader that fastidious ur criH-hety tourists had Letter confine their Investigations to the whereabouts of Batavli. with por- ips a trip to the world famous BOTO ie,loer. or stay at home altogether. For there are trials lth of the tlo.h and 'he spirit. M-. Walcott describes his first night out en route for Soera heya as follows: "My cabin hsiked roomy and OOOl and I turned In early, prepared to enjoy a good night's rest, but hardly had the light lieen turned out when In the dim light from the saloon I could see an army of huge cockroaches swarming In under the doir nnd through crack In the wall near the ceiling. After over an hour of hard work I actually killed over forty of the creatures, and finally, after sprinkling liberal allowances of 'Keating'' over lsth myself and the bed. alept an uneasy sleep until day break." If one decides that phys.cal rtlOOOm fortl can lie tolerated then It is wise tn learn a smattering of the Malay language In order to avoid that o' her Oriental pest, the "boy" or native sorvatK. Mr. Walcott "hoy" waa "irreproachably artistic in nttire. bland and Innocent in expression, mild and conciliatory in voice and manner." but of such moral characteristics a to confirm his master in an opinion that, with the exception of a few Chi neae, all AeiatlC travelling servanta deserve to be classed together as liars, grafter and petty -thieves. The iiet 'boy" he ever had. Mr. Walcott says. cheerfully presented a letter of recom mendation frOffl a former employer declaring him to he willing, good nature d, inclined to he lazy and too stupid to steal if wutchod." Java is worth all th.se petty n noyenoee, however, for it is doubtful Whether there Is any place of equal size in the world which has as varied and unusual interest for tile traveller. The lniats between Batavla and Boera baya stop at Semarnng. the port of Solo, one of '.he two native capital of Java. There i n hotel passably com fortahl i in the dry season) nt Solo, end from its portico one may watch a never ending pan .rami of street life, for thi is the .lava of the Java nese. Strunge. comic opera figures fol low one after tihe othr. Solemn, stately dignitaries wearing "high, brimiess foolscaps, their issiies bare to the waist or ettegged in brass but tuned coats, their loins wrapped in bright body hairs, their legs hare, their f et protected by sundnis held on by hug... broad topped pens, which nro- trnde fr, in between the big and the other toea, the handle of thou- knife- like weapons projecting from th-ir heavy belts. ' Th se illustrious per : sons are followed by numerous ragged servitor bearing the portabli cuepidor, I the official umbreHa and similar a. - oraaoriea Of rank. In Soki the police men wear what is apar. ntly a sec tion of a black Iron chimney pipe; an. 'other sot of officials wear white chlm ney pipe. Soldiers wear an Alice in Wonderland son or helmet, which has atmoel no top and back and is nearly all visor, while drivers Jauntily wear Inverted dinner plates ' The centre of this native life Is the I RuBuhunan or native prince, other-' I wlso called tho "Spike ,,f the I'nl-I Verse." There seems to bo II lie about the gentleman'! present existence to justify this grandiloquent tit e, The excellent Dutch officiate, having ob tained ascendancy over a native ruler. supply him with a liberal allowance, and 10 use Mr. Walcott'e word, he Is' "permuted to eke out a lazy rotatem amid the unathnuhttlng surrounding of a large harem, half a hundred ohll- dren and thousands ..f sycophant I , hangereon and more useful attend ,ants." As n final precaution agninst . ny ombttionaon the part of the prince -me praamm rival is also Ink. n unner me protect ton of the fatherly Dutch Iteeldenl and eaubilehed as a or) of Independent vvaaal, sufficiently Irpng to i.e a disqui ting menace 'o in., puaununan and ufflclentlv wee k or mo iteaKtenta comfort, , The word Java is undouhl illy sv nonmnus n the minds ,,f the Jority of travellers wllh Huddlllsl mu- and hrnnman ruins and mure spec with tin. remarkable Horo it Ifleally wdoer. 1 n it the is and cuntain some ,if the iinesi volcanic mountain aeenrry in the world is not ulwaya so well re memhered, A trip to the most inter eating section of the Tengger Moun tains can now i. made wiih rompar stive rasa and comfort, Thou. H I. let at To.'iri, a town on Hie not. ' idtlrta ,.r the Tengger range with an of K.000 feel. H eoinl.ill.il, I.. tlval end even luxurious hotel of the nii prnved mountain reaort type. The trip to Tosarl Is made hy railway, pony posting and for the last nine miles on pony bank or In ,1 sedu, chair, The aacenl is steep hut, as w understand It, neither periloua nor Ktremely unoomfortahle, Vrom To. sari a not loo difficult trail leads to the Moenggal Pass, from which is oh. iraveller Will talned a view of the grandest vol exhibition of j canoes in Java Smeroe, Bromo and Hetok and of the groat "sand sea" at their feet. This scene Mr. Walqott, who la guarded and conservative In hlr statements, speaks of as one of the most extraordinary panoramas In the world. The Moenggel Pass Is 7.800 feet above sea level, and as one looks Hcroiw "hundreds of feen below is a valley carpeted with gray black sand ; a gray green hill, In form a per fect trunrated cone, rises abruptly from the middle of this valley floor; behind and a little to the left of this hill is a Iwre gray smoking crater with steep serrated walls. Kir off to the right, towering above all else, nnd iHiuring a column of vapor Into the air from a height of over 11,000 feet, rises In stately grandeur a magnificent gray pyramid of fault loss lines, Smoroe. the highest and grandest of all the giant volcanoes of .lava." Ambitious visitors may imss the sand sea and ascend to the (rater of llromo, now tame and well behaved, but still capable of giving forth enough muttering and thunder ing to add a tang to the excursion. Without taking upon himself the tespone. Dilutes of an archaeologist Mr. Walcott gives a good general descrip tion of the "Shrine of the. Many Iluddhas," whose enthusiastic admir ers rlaim for it rank as the greatest arrhieolngical wonder of the world Personally his flrst Impression was disappointing, an impression of a "siiuat, pyramidal ma of gray stone, broken, Irregular and unlmposlng " I'pon closer examination his disap pointment was replaced by ever in- 1 be divided Into throe classes: ro creasing admiration and wonder, for i maneos, novels and studies In social the marvel of the Itoro BoadOUf Is not silence. His romances or experiments so much In the beauty Of Its propor- (wlth the Improbable became as he pro tion or even in the novelty of Its con- reeded, increasingly Involved with the M run Ion hut in the extraordinary social problem. variety. Interest nnd beauty of ita de- ; The plain message of the early tall, or its wall sculptures which ilepu t lth marvellous truth and fidelltv practically every phase of life and action. Mr. Walcott also visited the moat Important Of the temple ruins on the Pram ha nan plain, which differ from the Bora Hoedoer In that they are monuments of ihe Mrahman faith. These ruins of central Java are for the archa'.iloglcal specialist, and Mr. Walcott wisely doe not attempt to lead his reader Into deep anil dan tero'i waters. He has written a moat excellent liook. a hook which will be valuable to those who are fortu nate enough to plan a trip to .lava nnd Interesting to a larger group of rinder who mils' ho content to know this remarkable island at second hand. A -in, i. of It. a, Wella. In the "Writers of the Day" series, published by Messrs. Henry Holt and Company, J, D. ItSKespoRn publishes a scanty and very uperftclnl study of Jl. (1. (Trite, The flrst division (one can hardly call the small six pages a chapter) Mr. Heresford calls "The Normality of Mr. Wells" If to any one normality carries the significance Ol average health, ability to live nnd see and act as others do, then this first division should have been headed "The Abnormality of Mr. Welis." it opens up with a paragraph retelling Mr. Shaw's chuckling delight when the oculist told him that he had per feetly normal eyesight; that his sight I reeded no correction by glasses, but Ithat with the naked eye he saw Just I what average men saw. The remark able thing about Mr. Wells 1 that he I sees Ihe world with as fresh and un trammelled an eye as if ho had Jut descended from the moon, lie has ebeOlUtely no background, no preju dices, no traditions. The average child born in the average home, for I example, grows up with an innate prejudice in favor of the marriage parents, if only because this fact of I ls s, usual. Not so Mr. Wells. Me looks nt monogamic marriage as it obtains in our world of to-day. and seeing li at it has its mam imperfection! and limitations, he Immediately queetiom the "scheme of things entile.'' Mr. It hoatorton regretted that George Ber nard shaw had never been happy little boy in a happy home where they ii ang up their stockings at Chrlatmaa, I ecauae such an experience in early otith tinges an entire outlook upon Luch wideepreadlng quest lone as homo life, the validity of the family as the unit in the Slate, mono; amy. Ac I The question In view ,-f the present book Is whether so unusual and cx ceptd nai a childhood as that of Mr. Weill docs or does not endow a man with the normal his tori Bereeford thlnke II does. ense, Mr. He theref. re makes ins ii:i deiinitioii of "normal. Normal sighl. he tells us. is the I'll- dOWmt nt Of a few happy tn rials here and there who have no need for the physical assistance of glasses, in order to see as other men see, and ' wh so mental outlook is undlstorted by tradi tion, prejudice , r some sort of bias " The number Of lUCh people, he con tinues. Is BO small that we regard thetn as criminal or Inspired, according to the Inclination of our own beloved pre dilection. It is futile to discuss here whether or not a Just and true his toriC sense emerges from person who Is, as it wore, in history, a part of it, witii every turo of his being, lov ing ami hating because all events drive home lo him; or a totally de tached human being without effec Hons, likings or disllkings, who views! the course of events as unrelated to himself. We are entirely willing to an- id lo Mr. Bereeford the fact that j Mr. Wells's host gift to us is the do- j tached, unprejudiced eye with which he has looked at modern life ami 1111- 1 errlngly pointed out its Itawa. Might in- 11 t, however) have had a more ; Weighty historic sense nnd a juslcr social sense if itc had realized thai I mnsi human Institutions, including among them monogamy, are hullt up j as safeguards against the Innate and 1 riot al Impulses of nut oral man'.' Ii doe Indeed add lo Mr. Welle' value as an exponent of human limitations that he belonged 10 no particular order; that his inlellect was far 1 o searching and puwerful than any he came In contact wllh in early youth, and that in consequence ho was able lo set down for what it is worth a I purely Indlt iduullstlu Interpretation 01 human lile. A minimum of biography is given' m the one hundred pagea of this, sllghi essay; not nearly so much, for' example, as is found in the lirst third of "Tono-ituiigay." This eeaay merely motions thai Mr. Wells was the so II Of Mr. and Mi s. Joseph Wells; the I former was an able cricketer, ami Mrs. Wilis was the daughter of an Innkeeper at Mldhurat ami whs later In service as a lady's maid, and still ; later lis a housekeeper. Mr. Wells, i the author, alter a minimum of edu-l ration, became assistant in a small drapery simp, thro he qualified him self for the post of assistant at the Mldhural tlrnrhmar School, and then von u scholarship at the Normal School of Science, South Kensington, passing on to an assistant mastership at Henley House School, st. John's Wood, and so Doming by way of tutor lecturer, demonstrator to the begin "I nlngs of journalism and the trade of litters. A glance nt the blhllogrnnh" at the back of the book shows that In Ids twenty-ninth year he had few books liefore the public and as mafty publishers were serving him. "Selapt Conversations with an Undo" Ws chaperoned by John I.nno Cnmpaary. 'The Time Machine" by llelnemattn. "The Htolon Hacllbis nnd Other sttn ries" by Macmlllun and "The Wonder ful Visit" by Dent. The year follow ing, inns, saw the publication of two morn books; IM'7 of silll two; I III of one; 1SH9 Of two; HiOO of one; lUl of two; 1001 (.f tWOi 1001 of two; 1904 of one; l!0,r, of two; 1000 f two; 1907 of two; 1101 Of tliTee; 1909 saw thi publication of thai coioaaal word "Tono-Bungay' and "Ann Veronica"; 1910 "The His tory r.f Mr. Polly" and "The New Machlavelli"; 1911 "The Country of the Blind" ta republication of short stories) and "Floor flames" and "So cialism and the flreat State" la elim ination with only one essay by Mr. Wells); 1912 "Marriage"; 1913 "The Passionate Friends" and "Utile Wars"; 1914 "An Englishman book! at the World," "The World Set Free" and "Sir Isaac Harmon s Wife." So thai In nineteen years Mr Wells has produced thirty-eight books, selected nnd republished I volume of short stories and contributed the baM essay to a volume on social economics. Whatever else he may be accused of, he has been a fnlthful and Indus trious writer. HI books may readily romances, says the author, "is the neceeel y for ridding the mind of tra- Oitlone, Of the hypnotic suggestions. of parents and early teachers, of the I t I parochial Influences of immediate sur rounding, of the prejudices and self- Interacted Oogmatlama and hyperbolae of common literature, egpei lally of the ' dally and weekly press, in order that We may. if only for an exero.se in almplo reaeon, dissociate ourselves for I moment from all tluse Intimate' force, and regard life with I calm-' res of one detached from personal Interest and desires. No human being who hns not thus stood apart from life enn claim to have realized him self; nmi In so far as ho is unable thus to separate himself temporarily fiom hi circumstances he confesses' that he is less n personality than a bundle of reactions to familial stimuli. But given that power of detachment," the author continues, "the reader may find in these first four liooks matter for the reconsideration of the whole gonial problem." Here indeed we: reach the statement of Mr Wells s supreme Contribution to literature; he. does furnish rd for thought.! Whether or not we rank him as a j great nrtist. whether or not his char acterizations live for us. nt least he offers meat for the mind We are led i to reconsider our creeds ami our con- duct nnd to reestimate the value to society of It established convent. ons. au th anauaderaieadtage the tek- eCBOea the nolnv. meaning. ei embtttonOt Ihe lenl-l nccentanre ef t r.i.l 1 1 l-.na : e:an ctardn. have been expoied by Mr Wall! tn ihee fnntMlei ..f hi- I betttva that In theni may be fnuinl jui th.-e tawatUli of .letiohment mil lnoa I vision whl h: nilalc eenc to promote a high table civilization and more 1 Tins peragrapl as nunted gbOUt 1 sums up all the present author has , to say of Mr. Well. His summaries Of the later novel are so very sketchy as 10 suggest a lack of candor. No mention is made, for example, In "Ann 1 Veronica" of that lady's defiance of the marriage law, nor throughout Mr. Wells evident distrust of any at- tempt t" i-onnno auu siaoioae ui amotions and passion. If some of the book are over praised, hardly enough is said of the worth of "Tono-Bungay," one of the great novels of this age; of "The New Machlavelli," almost aa neat a novel. and Of "First and l-ast Things.' a volume of profoundly thoughtful and stimulating essays. A little lsik has recently la-en published called "The World of H H. Wells.' which con tains in the same space as the vol ume before us four times as much leal information about this author and his amazing production, The Warae 'e mr.. wvid and exciting, nnd bear the hallmarks of truth and a Very jng all 11, raonal xpei a nee AliBLg Bug n kai 's Tht Nurse a Hfory (Bobbe-Merrill Company, Indlanapolle). opening up rather boldly, with curt, short aentencee, even the style itself im proves as the author . nines into the more exciting portion of her narra tive, if the story is purely live, the author has succeed! Imaging I ill con- eying a wonderful sense of actual ity. The sparse descriptions, ihe swiftness of action, the incicsant movement ns of an actual diary in time of action help to convince the reader that the story is true Adele Blenenu. thi' daughter of a Louisiana doctor, left alone in the world, engages the Interest of one of her father's medical friends ta find her a post as a Hod Cioss nurse. The only points thai had one to believe one is leading a concocted romance rather than an actual record Is the accidental meeting of the hero of the tale on the Btegmer going over, to geilicr with a few other rather' HardyeSqUS coincidences. However, the story moves bravely on, and one comes to believe thai a groat deal of actual experience Is embodied. The description of the hospital v. sited near Boulogne under the di rection of a titled Kngllsh lady, seem undoubtedly tin tnterparl of a well known hospital in the vicinity of Boulogne established ami fitted out by .1 well known Kngllsh baronet, and man Iged by lib wife. 11110 of the first experiences of tho iittio American nurea was to see a 'r. unload ol' wounded priaonom who had been shelled after the train was loaded Some nf the injured had been killed as I hey lay there, and others had been seriously wounded. Pass ing over Ihe first glimpse nf Paris with a aomewhal unpoetlc description of the Seine as "'bright as a new dollar," the nurse starts Upon instructions to field Hospital Ix, J.Mi miles from Paris by the route taken. Her French officer chauffeur comments to her on the Bngligtl thnn; "Those Knglish arc tine fellows. The Qermani al nrsi deaplaed them, ami i confess we French did not begin in appreciate them al their full value until 111 the rotten email Hiiiish army. from Minis the nl fearful loss. kepi the Herman hordi enabled our forced to safety. And. ou know . is appalling, unnetlovabli I off nnd so fall back In Lhelr cool neae Thev ciMik, milkix fht'ir Ptl'flin! n'ooli .! asana shave under Ore. Tney are queer." Relng able to speak both French -od (lermnn Miss Bleneau was fre quently chosen for excltlnR duty be c.i.uss she could Interpret. One af ternoon the dortor sent for her for n long automobile ride to bring In the wounded that the Fhlans had left behind. The road led among bom barded villages. One, a plnce that must once have been home to ten or twelve thousand, was In such a state of devastation that only two none had remained to save the altar from desecration. At one place some pow erful factory machinery stood totally uncovered, and so completely In ruins that the engineer with them could not guesa what had been mnnufnetured. one house only stood In what-must once have been a town of some Imp. nance, and It 'had an order from a Captain Keuss on Its outside, "Do not burn or pillage this houae." Ar riving at a large country houae where they were to put up while they gath ered the wounded they found every algn of loot and deatructlon. Tarda and empty champagne tHittlea were on the floor, tablea were overturned, cigar and cigarette atumps every where, chairs upside down, knives, fork and spoons everywhere. In the whole tense and gloomy pic ture one little Incident stands out. to'.d to the nurse by ("apt. Frnzler: "As I went hack through the trenches I passed a numher Of men who were muttering aometWng through their teeth. They were actually praying that Ood Almighty would give tho Herman sufficient grace to make them come out nnd attach u. A If in answer to their prayer rifle began to crack all arnind. Just be fore I reached the end of the lnt trench I wa surprised to henr the order, 'Ceaae firing.' and when I turned tn learn what had occasioned this unusnnl command I saw a wounded Herman lying half way be tween our linos and his. An officer who hnd gone out to pick the man in, was struck before the Hermans reelisM what he was doing and them- SetVee ceaeed Hring. Nothing daunted, the British officer staggered to the fallen man and hnlf carried, half dragged him to the Herman linos. The officer on duty rorelved him with a j salute and the men In the trenches el up a lusty cheer. Then the Her man officer took off his own iron cms nnd pinned It on the breast of the man In khaki, and a he stag gered back to our trench we could still hear the Germans cheering poor devil 1 He wa recommended for the Victoria I'russ, but he did not live to wear it. He died from the wound." he got." The hook end quite after the con ventional manner with wedding bell and the promise of the "happy ever after" kind. The value of the hook depend entirely upon whether or not It may he accepted as a record of ac tual experiences. Tf so, it will ho material for the history which will si. me day be written Of the greatest war in history. If it Is not, having no literary value whatever, it I merely an exciting romance dealing with a topical subject. lr. One of ihe great tragedies of life tg olng or about us and only the few- , t people are awakened to the fact, . . , ,,...t..i.. ,, -vilneiion r.f a great source of he.iuty and delight, the little song birds of our land. I Who that has seen the sudden, scaric: j flight of a cardinal over the tender ' green of spr.ng. who hd watched the I flash of goldfinches swooping over a mush at sunset, who has seen the oriole make love in the orchard and heard their rich, loud, cheery warble, can hear the thought that all these delicti) nre disappearing nnd that j year by year fewer and fewer birds! atv to be seen and heard? U I a idea to save the birds that ! Mr. Krnk.-t HaHOLD BaTXBI offers a in it 'lid Hod 0 aetle oad Bow 10 f.'n fcrfoiii Them iK. P. Dutton & Co., I New York 1. Could a more delightful Incident offered thnn that in the author's first paragraph" "If," he j writes, "on some winter day you were I to alight from 'Ike' Bonner' stage land approach one of the neat looking j Cottages on the main streets of Merl- I den, N. II . it is more than likely that )ou would is- greeted oy roe augnungi of 1 wild bird upon your shoulder. I And probably you would think that 1 the bud had made a mistake until nr. ether one aiighted on your hat and peeped at you over ihe brim." it la worth a trip to Merlden, N. H. And this wonderful experience, so very wonderful to those Who peer and 1 watch and get only occasional gllmpeea Of Ihe flee) little strangers 1 l the rewardi so we are told, of being I very uulel and gentle with the feath-I I ered guests; of being patient with. I hem. and Uaing a little thought and Ingenuity for their comfort and wel fare. Merlden, where apparently the author lives, has been trained to do these things, w ith the result that seven of the specie! of wild birds will feed here fmni ones hands in w niter. The pine grosbeaks, white winged cram bills, rod polls, pine siskins, white breasted mil hatches, red breasted nut hatches ami chlckadeea hnvo thus conferred their fr.endehlp. ne so. vero winter, when Ihe pine grosbeaks came down from the north In great quantities, they were fed In the gar dons of Merlden and became so lame ilia' a bird lover could sit down tn J the middle ot a flock and the hints would come into his lap lo be fed. Another winter the auihor noticed a few crossbills who appeared to he busy In a small patch of clay, Kx nmlnlni li with a mlcroacope he found that salt hid b n sprinkled there to kill out the weeds I lo then ran into ihe houae for more salt, wllh Ihe re gUH thai the (look continued to grow until ii numbered about one hundred nnd twenty-five, "We would it." writes Mr. Baynes, "on the well tram pi .1 .-now. which we had prepared for tin feeding ground, ami from ihe trees about us thev would come in a musi cal shower ll gllghl upon our lends, shoulders and to feed from our hands." As to ihe ndpolls and siskins, the author says liny treat him much as li, y would a bush or a .slump. A nuthatch allowed Ihe auihor to stroke him Wl th a linger a.s he fort tlsil sl'Ot. and the hairy w I'ker continued operations while the bird lover came within elgtlt niches of hini. The ohic ii. lees are the tamest of nil There si ems iob no limit to their confidence If they are PtlOnuragt'd lli At ihe author's homo, he says. If you do not know what they want they practically ash for it. They will knock on the author's liedrootn window Is fore he I Up ami when he throws up the wish 1 In thev v, il come M II nd bits of brok. n nuts .hi th dressing tab!.., line morn Ing a t ible was especially set for them nenr an open window ; the rhilradeea tiew in, seised their bits of nits and, nren to ino gnroen. I lie next morn- tng the airhnr stttched each piece of nut to t.he cloth and after that the chickadees ate their hreakfaat on the. table where It wna served. The au thor's picture of himselt with the birds, one eating from his llp. one standing on his breakfast tabl. an other looking down the barrel of his gun, illustraui the clove acas of his friendships- Three comprehensive chapter!, treat of the destruction of btids by the ele ments, disease, their natural enemies, 1-y man and man's tame animals. There I UMle man can do to prevent the destruction of birds by storm ex- cept to supply food where and when ( citizens of Brussels wantonly tied, he ran. Their destruction by their Passing on to Namur from Brussels natural enemle is quite as difficult to ' the author was led to reflect again deal with. Wildcats, wolves, foxes. 1 upon the peaceful Industry of Bel squirrel, raccoons, weasel. kunk glum, the wonderful perfection of cul nnd mink, chipmunks. muskrats. tlvatlon of the whole Country, Bel- shrikes are nil destructive either of birds and their young, or of the nests and eggs. Owls eat smaller birds nnd Cooper's hawk nnd the shnrp skinned hawk are perhnps of all the birds of prey the worst for their smaller brethren. But, sad as It may seem, civilized man Is Infi nitely worse as a bird destroyer thnn wild animals or savages. He has cre ated a market for their flesh and their plumage a market that will never be lessened until women positively refuse to wear, barbarously, their little elaln bodies upon hat. "When I see Women wearing the plumage of wild birds in their hats." says Mr Baynes. "I wonder if they have normal brains or If they have any brains at all." The heartlessnen. the stupidity, van ity, lack of .esthetic sense which the I wearing of dead birds liespeaks is cor teinty enough to make any one ques tion a woman's ordinary sense Al most as stupid is the wholesale slaughter of robins In the South for a breakfast food. Oats, especially cats 111 fed and neglected, are respon sible for the slaughter Of about I00, -imio song birds a yea- In one State alone. Ton birds n dny. the author says. Is frequently the sacrifice made to one cat. The Kngllsh sparrow and i ihe European starling are "likewise bitter enemies to the native birds The final solution of aM these proh j loins lies not In the enacting of more j and better laws, hut in edu.-atliig poo- pic to know, love nnd protect the most Vethetle and lovable f ,ur animal I friend, one of the main method of teaching the love if birds Is tn attract "hem by a year round hospitality. In I MerMen. N. H.. for example, a num lier of people make a practice of gath erlng in the fall the berries of the mountain h, wild cherry, drying them on the stalks, and then when a snowstorm comes hanging these her-I rbs on the tree nnd hruh where hungry bird will gobble them up. i Also meal worms are excellent f.Msl for rob ns and bluebirds. While meal worms, which are the larvfr of th black liectlc. easily found from May to October in granarl. s and mills, are a pest In the garden and on the farm, they are indispensable ns fanri fr,p birds The author akK give n I lei of the tree and shrubs most uei ful to the birds m winter. He gives an Invalu able chapter to bird houses and how they are to be made and hung; direc tion! is to the extermination of the English sparrow. anl last but not raaex, Invaluable instructions a to the 10, inai,, in or nird clubs and how awaken the interest of tho pIiIMm. the preacrvation of native birds. This hook should lie m every public BChoOl and in every prom-ess, ve pri- ..... Knwi in our country, and manv copies in every public library, it l practical, v aluable and Important What a Wonderful increase of real beauty I of pure doliKht. of true testhetic cul ture might be the nni..,,m. . imo .nests and Ho- ... I- i-iiii-u.iiii inotn ,cou, leioiii !..,, it., . . 1 . r--iiei instead in- 1.1s, enc.p. machine made sillv 1 novel. tmerleaa War ion ir,u ' Heluiuiu. A ipei ial correspondent of ihe Kn- ' i'n Daily Teleorapk, Mi. Oiunviuji I ORTgaci E, add! his account of the In- X!?nm? B1"" Al ihr Front nun rrce drmfes tBrentanos, New-; orki. I.Ike ad the records of the I " i'"- neutral country leaves th.- reader wondering, d .ur rorteecue once rf the In ted Slates irmy, has evidentlv hi. ..i i,, i.o Just and fair in his account. Hi statements are measured and careful and Hie only message hi book car ries i thai any one wh., disregards the preparedness of (ho Qermani for continued aggression or the might of their war machinery is foolish. Mr. Forteecue was nt Liege when the rtrst shell fell into the city on thr 6th of August, nu t. The roar of the c.iosi,.n waa in the air as he mounted ' Ihe refuge train leaving I. lege. The description of the wretched people , i.cas.no.s ami nODlllty, Women, Child) ion land wounded herded together, is Vivid an I nin nig. "What was cry nir I Posuion last night'.'" he asked ,, soldier I of ihe Fourteenth line regiment, hit arm in a sling, among the wounded. Splendid. I was the nearest man of . my regiment to the Qermana." j Prom Liege Mr, Forteacue made various futile attempt tO get b) au tomobile to Brueseli and finally man aged it by tram fact lie gives it j as nis eaperience thai the b I WllV I ir a war correspondent to k Pep near me iiom is to give up automobiles I and travel by train The journey by train to Bruagele, he announces. Waa g real Quy de Maupassani tale; but I when one remembers the strange and I remarkable things thai can hapi in a rgllrogd carriage in Ihe pages of I Maupassant, one feels thai Ihe author I has raised egpectation 100 high. To he sure, an old lady whoso chateau had bean burned died In the train reoelv ling extreme miction from a. priest, j Mr. Forteacue is evidently under obligation for politeness from a e tlermani lie says nf them, in Brus sols, "it cm be taken for grained that the average Herman citizen who has established himself In a foreign city I has in a measure cut the tics that 'bind him to the fatherland Pinter jiiny circumstances he, Individually, is in no way responsible fot (hi use taken by the powers that he n his country In fact, I know person illv thai many Hermans established in foreign cities deplore Ihe position of tlermany In ihe witr." Then- is one feature, this eyewitness tells us, thai stands high in the credit nf llclgium; that Is the manner In which tin. ex pelled (jermuna were sent out of the country, in Brussels tin authorities laid to contrive to arrange tin depart ure of i. ooo (Hermans, They were got out of Hie country without suf fering any hostile act Indeed, the Belgian troop themselves acted gs tiieii trienoa an.t protectors. Mr. For. leeoue dcscrii.es the fortitude ami pa tience nf the Belgians; their confi dence; their hopeful waiting for reen toroements from the All is: their w'tlolesalc and moiclloss destruction I The exodus from Brussels, he savs had In It something quite Biblical. They were g people fleeing before savage wrath. From Dlfge, Tlrlemont and Lnuvaln they came bringing the tales of the Herman savagery; women wantonly shot down; towns given over tn the flames; the high men of the villages, loved and respected by all who knew them, given as short shrift as a mad dog. Cruelties were told and retold at every street corner. And then suddenly people realized that j those Hermans were nt the gates of their city. Haunted by the tales of 1 the Teuton method of warfare the glum looked like the kitchen garden of Ktirojie. The whole land smiled In , consciousness of plenty. The neat farmhnuKCa looked as If they had re cently been gone over with scrubbing I brush and cloth; they were so clean they eemed to .sparkle In the sun light. The author actually saw the J sieges of Ilge, Namur, Dlnant, Mons. 'Antwerp. During this time ho also I crowed the border to Berlin, returned ! to lie present at the bombardment Of jlthelm. and finally had nn Interview with King Albert, before returning to Ixindon. He suffered the Inconveni ences nf all correspondents nt the hnnds of the censor nnd had to i carry hi weightiest communications I through personally. As to flermany during warfare (hi ' record cover only the first three 'month) he 'onnd conditions normal, (lormnny has adopted the method of returning tho slightly wounded to th. lr families for care, thus providing them with a congenial atmosphere und sparing the State their expenses. In Germany war was I purely DUOl 1 nes pr .position. Kvery detail was as oarefuly considered aa is it bust- . no hy an American oar company. No detail was too small to be care fully attended to. The handagee of the soldier returning from the Held bespoke efficient Held hoapttale, In the confusion that has engulfed com merce many trade secrets are coming to light, among others that Hhelfield steel has been for yean manufac tured In derma ny nnd all the Bngllsh gloves In Bavaria. Berlin was entirely gay. The cafes were open till midnight and the tiighl life of the capital wont on ns usual. A for any shortage could have existed only i supplies it in the Imag- ination of certain wntei. The prices for rooms and food wore reasonable. Nor was there any striking lack of men in the crowds I nter den Linden. The only reminder of war was the , continual passing of troops headed by their hende. As late as S. plciliher. 1914, Mr. Fortescue reports that there were plenty of men f military age In Berlin. Potsdam was the great n cruiting centre, ami here the training 1 of the embryo soldier went on. 1 in the anniversary of the battle of I Sedan all Berlin celebrated. What was ordinarily confidence, on this day showed as arrogance. A groat display was made of captured guns and the crowd sang "Deutachland ueher Allea" while they gloated over the mute evi dence f the on. my'l downfall. While In Berlin the author visited ' the prison camp at Qfabow, Where "' 3.000 French, 1,000 Belgians ai d s un. Knglish civilians wore In captivity. Th- author reflects that with an the j improvements in ihe general c mil lion of warfare the prisoner is as badly off as he was during the civil j war, and adv ises that eome quicker and simpler method of exchange bo (devised. In Berlin st ties were rife 'of attacks made hy tlolgian CiVlliani 1 upon till (1. rm in soldiery. "Hut ., what." he exclaims, " dni the Qermani expect when they threw 100,000 of the most brutal soldiers that the world ha eve: seen into tiie most peace lov ing nation of Europe?" PROFESSIONAL READERS' FUN. lino The) tiet gome Dlvereloa While Qotng liter Manuscript. "Pew people wiio have not had prac tical experience even remotely BUgpOCt how much tiie Irksome drudgery of manuscript reading is relieved by the unconscious humor, the blunders, the ineptitude! of certain Inevitable per centage of the specimens received lit every mageglue otttce," sayi a writer In tin- Bookman, "To the uninitiated the task of marching day after day for the rare gom, the crowning masterpiece i supposed to he a sort of stimulating game, fraught with delightful and scintillating possibilities As a mailer of fact, and more csp, cuilly In the case I ol the Bliart story, that sort of ex- nectancy n gives place to a cynical ! hope for an occasional manuscript smn- ciently absurd to ho diverting. , "Some concrete Instance! wer. brought 10 our notice the other dny by I reader of some experience, who in Ihe course of an exchange of confidence! drew upon a rich fund of memoranda gathered In the course of a recent short story contest, Many of hia choicest specimens it would ho. for obvious rea son!, unfair to reproduce, since their j absurdity hinges upon an impossible I plot that nevertheless is t.u the au- I thor's private pro part)'. Many of Ihe gUthori themselves, however, hnd been loss scrupulous, and tho number of pur- j lOlned situations arose In one single hatch of 3"0 stories to Something over j in per cent. "The reader found himself making a sort of game of the thing, betting wit himself whether a given plot would re cur more than a certain specified HUITI- i tier of times, forecasting what the pgr- , tlcular variant would be, To take a I concrete instance; e do not remember I just when 01 whore n Hrsi appeared, hut every one knows the glory of the ! married woman whoso lover has given i ni r a v im inie Jewel iud vv ho faces I ine miemutg ol explaining lo her ius i hand how it lias coine into her posses sion, so site pawns the jewel, pretends to have found Hie ticket in th,. Ktreei and bogs her husband to redeem Ihe ticket and satisfy her curiosity, Next dny husband returns with a cheap Iml-1 I tallon ring, and wife's bewilderment continue until she subsequently sees t o original Jewel worn by husband's I stenographer Well, among the gtorle submitted In th most n w,.t,..n i I his plot recurred four times, w ith ch.se verbal parallel!, th ilv Immirtanl air. ferem helllU t hit the I .ver's present was reeiiectlvely diamond solltalr a sealskin coat rcspi . tivolv a sipphue pracebu ' peal I necklace and Then there is tho squall) fmnlllar and much more banal type that may ho tirletty epitomised after Ihla riii...,'. Rtheli engaged to Tom unhlushlngly lavishing . .lack, and pouring Into mentg oalculiited to Jealousy And In tho i tlor Is unite simple Is s own to ns caresaei upon his ear elide ir k 1 1 ul It- a mad o r ial tho oxpl ma- .lack Is only H as though its own protected this plot vet it recurred dog It WOUld seem 1 futility should have from the plagiarist si v,-n tunes py gctual count, Jg changing, Protauellke from a Scot come to a pegingeee, n st Barnard, a Kentucky thoroughbred. ,i ihetls'nd I pony, i pirrot and a cat. "Then t ere is tho smry of the nd ventureg! who plana to ruin a certain distinguished statesman Ha. ... aged to ls found alnno with h m compart mem or a railwa) carrla r wniis innii mo iram .iiiro.i 1 a Bullion, men teais now 11 lire hail, . ranges nor r iot li m 14 ami sen -help. The guard BfriVee, followed v an officer i the woman n.. . , lor case: the man Is a'.o.n tj n rested, when ho vindicates hlm'fff s serenely point Inn to th. . gal Is still smoking - a v er) a , which still retains n full Inch of nnd .. turned white ash. We nusprci 1 1 story goes hack to a I'n n h 1 MURRAY AS A LEXICOGRAPHIR How Me Became Fitted t.. n., m, lltniiii l. a i.l. Work. The glory of t c origin of thi Now Knglish Dlrtl tin shin hy the I iti maty and ol it . e.. Dr. Hurra) London rt m toil by a writer In the "When Mill li mOOl W is n rned unner inn nvaamasieranip ur n ,. mouth, Murray, who hid man I IS17, as Ills second Wife, VdK the eldest daughter of tleorgi Km , of Kendal, wont there .,. ., ., io and remained t ere year. i nose no nivvav- t. tho most delightful yeai ol H nt golden age,' his Arcadi perlo.l t he should edit a dlrtlonart m . Miggeited to Murray hy Me-rr lan, hut It was not ti l ... . work was Is.gun. lb- i)., , ,., . touch with the OgfOrd rl' . ,-. . ..n. were arrangeu nn l . , Murray should bo editor, r.nd ment wag entered into I hit It was then contempt it,-. dictionary would bo fit . ed limited time and Would very limited numl or ,.f ,.. was Mrs, Murray who ,i. i.,h t v erv :-i a oeptanea of the offer, she took t.. , .w that her husband. Instead ileum number of small things, hnuld grout thing. Hut It proved , , .,. onus no ami BSS. 1 1 '.' for his work not so mui i i.v es what may he on Mod ., IllUs With great IISlU il I aatillty of item and powi "lie ad, both In his edii his experience, ctlltll iti I on many line. n add love and mft r.u langu . - also, from the til t. ii . . I I' al and "tl I Ir t e matlrian. He had . ,di early Mars at n i . ., botanist, ktarnlna to know e, tieclea, and by degi i II t I c (MM ol them Me w n Hnmi . ir .,' a zoologist and had dol . his own account In g net lose competence A- owe i tho Philological Moclety he , v; , . neighbor h I and lieram with the leading geologists, g then S'r Arehlbeld ii,.;kie and ' - ; Ills wife and himself a!vv ijl t ... that i e dictionary was golt u- t . i. I Ishe.l m ., limited ti n -, but . ' , nm tn on.i. use the lm & always to move w it h Ihein I "The first three yearn , f were spent In collecting thi and in elaborating the i r -TV 1 oris upon w hleli il..- d tin oe namrurtfa. xn reu nooks whn h had he n ' ly -.i I for me pUrpOSI s f l ,. , isionc, , ami show - r , . t ... , .work have thus been - I The quotations extr . .i mi than 1,000, i if t . . I million appear In thi ! I i : process of selection , . ., j ami involv e. a great 1 time. It w.niid at to print thr in ail Ml nnd could ho ma i student of the lutui . u amplification. H . I dictionary would. In though It in:g..". be a Ultimately pay . 'AliJ . II to tnc end,' ia . ih ' ANCESTRY IN STATE CENS laterestlaar Resalta .,f x, ,, in,. aireatlon In Suuth lliikoin, In taking the now em n l lakota nn offoi t lo- i . . . o i first time In thai State In set d ., ancestl y of all realdei l The show that many ol those w classed as Russian in tin gcnei us ,ite in fact of pu . dermal and ancestry. Thone classed ... lean" or "Canadian" ar, ,.t . ... ancestry has been so long It ihb try i at any foreign blood oi othi tries has been l"-t tl k :. centageg the "Amerli ins" stjr.d : per cent , ami the "' ; m ill per cent., with others rangii it so I tt.at the percentage would y "trace." In numbers the shondng - M : American. 1117. Hill : Austl . I :i li. is. an, .ijii Boh i ninth l i na . sis . Canudliiii, ti'.i ; English, French, i.vi : Qernian, 6t . Holla! ders, n.iefi . Irish. :r..r,-; Italia,,, l,t1 I ' ' li 1 i negriii. T, . Xorweglan, ' t::' p guese, " ; Busi an. t.Tiii . s ... Servian. S : gpanlsh, 8 - 22.X72 , Svv gg, l.x.. : T Welsh. i,sg, others ..r mix. i SO.viT. The returns show that III' t of foreign born population ,.- .. . crease in the Mtate, Wl '. thi n number of foreign born is Into the State. I". tin pa.-t i most of th, iii came In from III the L'nlon, voiv few .on iuj . from foreign countries in i twenty years The shown. for the IgOli enisits, tun. '' :. census and (0,IIT till! yeai T rentage of foreign t ; t the State for a series of v. a It TO, .11.7 : IMG, :) I Is." 27. ; 1 18, lit . 1 i. r." . UK), 17.3. ISIS, I'd! STATUE OF VIRGINIA DAR1 in llemori ill First htld u . Knglish I'arents in tun n . That North Carolina is ... as soon as ii rr for ii i i ransi executed life s Bale, lile W'.il. o' usblngtott i. leineni - . . ' irtatlon, h Im ' .-.I atati v of Mls 1..... , was in ol, the first line il the i-ol 1 glnln I li re's natal da) i t I' ii--, Wednesday, vuginit 1 1 sixth annu 1 1 eelehr ill auspices ei .he tinatv 1 . rial tasncia 1 of th. 1 first - I'd ..I English p. American sod ith reference to V'ii Sllllo Whitehall Cotton said in an nildri -s " great deal '.u the i Itognnke Isl mil I waul ilsuit its future, S'lig 1 mean something In ihe w ho grow Into m lllll I Within slgiu ot her III spot k uillld 1 me ' ' I 'ulted Si ii . - tlovernnii he made a nai lonnl tun '. steel pii HllOllId I.e 1. 11 oral itnvi 1 ntneiit nut t flu the landing ..I' b StatUI' of si i c Wallei on this ground "Very so- . jierhniH ho rsI up in the ba now Slate building it .11 - shot I. . of Virginia Itsre, .ion. beautiful 11 iliHn mm hi of Washington." Mrs. LottOll ' on vvei i donor of the g tt mid Mis Lander h ,,! m 11 ipie.it ho. it to the i iti that t he ,issiir;. oa thai of the now hultil it afford it sife make the don it kill I K i, h