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ATLANTIC BEACH HOTEL
-FORMERLY -- =-—
THE CONTINENTAL
Will open for the Season of 1913 on Saturday, May 31, under the management of MR.
HENRY M. STANFORD, for the past two years manager of the famous Tampa Bay Hotel
•THE Atlantic Beach Hotel is to be
* operated continuously from
this opening, and not merely for a
brief summer season. It will be run
on the American and European
plans. The rates will be moderate
and will not be advanced over
those of previous seasons, while
the service will be vastly superior
in every respect.
Mr. Stanford has assembled an
operating staff such as has never
before been gathered for the com
fort of hotel guests and patrons in
the South.
Ferdinand Grand, formerly of
Martin’s, Twenty-sixth street and
Broadway, New York City, and for
four years chief steward at the
Windsor, Montreal, will fill a simi
lar position at the Atlantic Beach.
x The following hcImmIiiIc of ra(p« will l>e In forcei
AMKIIH A\ PL AX.
One pernon In u room, $21. n week anil
upward.
Two person* to a room, a week and
upward.
El HOPE A \ PI.AX.
One dollar a clay nud upward, without hath.
Two dollar* a day and upward, with bath.
A special neck-enil rate Mill be made. Including dinner Saturday evening and hrcakfimt
Monday, FIVE DOLLARS.
v Joseph Olivetto, formerly chef
at the Rudolph and the Shelbourne,
Atlantic City, will be in charge of
the culinary department. He will
be assisted by Albert Corvi, Mar
tin’s famous fish cook; Ulysses Mar
tos, pastry cook at the Waldorf
Astoria and Francisco Vinny, baker
from the Boulongerie de Paris, Bos
ton, and later of the Plaza, New
York.
James Demorest, of New York,
will be in charge of the buffet and
cafe.
*
An orchestra of fourteen pieces
will give concerts morning, after
noon and evening. Special music
for dancing Wednesday and Satur
day evenings.
The Atlantic beach Hotel is without a rival as a resort hotel. Its location on
the finest beach in the world, with unequaied facilities for surf bathing,
for automobiling, with a menu unsurpassed and unattempted before, with the
cooling breezes straight from the ocean and every attraction of climate and sur
roundings, will make this the social resort of the South.
It is advised that reservations shall be made immediately by wire or long-dis
tance telephone, as the large number of applications already on file indicate that
the capacity of the hotel will be taxed from the opening day.
Address Dept. D. ATLANTIC BEACH HOTEL Atlantic Beach, Florida
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"THE LIFE MASK.”
. ,3y the Author of "M. L. U." Frederick
A. Stokes Company, New York.
’ A year or more ago everybody was
talking about the author of "To M. L.
. 1." and today everybody is talking about
he same author again, who gives us an
ther novel entitled, "The Life Mask.”
, The author inscribes the latter book "To
i the friendly ones woh helpdd find M. L.
ill./-" and in a very cleverly wrought story
shows skill ami power id an entirely dlf
f''"erit direction from the former offer
i:i>e story is simply told or a young
miaii wlio Starts out with a terrible
•igedy enveloping her. What it Is, is kept
1 crret until the book's close.
The woman fears facing life, and is
: .king a haven of rest soiviowliere, some
11 iv, away from the madding crowd, and
MAURICE LEBLANC
Author of “The Crystal Stopper”
she and her companion, Sarah, finally
find it near the Alhambra, where nature s
balm and beauty arc healing, and grad
ually our heroine gets over the sadness
and depression that have so long en
thralled her.
Sarah, Hie nurse, plays a conspicuous
part Ir. the unraveling of the story, and
her unexpected revelations regarding ner
self make an interesting chapter in the
denouement of a very interesting story.
"The Life Mask” is well written and
cleverly conceived, and Is destined to
make the author of "To M. I.. G.” more
popular than ever.
"NEW LEAF MILL.S."
By William Dean Howe. Is. Harper
Brothers, New York.
It is a delight to pick up a hook
Jrom a veteran author, who has lost
none of ills ideals, his convictions, or
his keen souse of humor.
Such is the case with "New Year
Leafs," from the pen of that delight
Tul writer, Mr. William Doan Howells,
" lias been regarded by many as
the “pioneer" realist, although his
realism is the realism of life in its
teal phase and not the perverted and
abnormulized phase that so many other
writers have called “realism."
However, as Owen Powell says in
Howell’s latest book, "all things are
but opinions."
"New Leaf Mills" tells the stony of
the Powell family and Owen Powell is
a most interesting 'character. He is a
.Swedenborgian, a dreamer and an
egoist.
Mis buying of the "Mills," the efforts
of his family, their homely life and
companionship form a fertile back
ground for the master hand of Mr.
Howells to weave a most delight! ul
story, which he does quite successfully.
"THK CHKQCKK BOA HD."
By Sybil Grant. George H. Doran Co.,
New York.
In "The Chequer hoard." by Sybil
Grant, the readers interest is grea'ly
aroused, since the*e : lories are written
by the daughter of me Karl of Rosebeny.
It does not take one long to discern
that the*stories are lar beyond the ordi
nary—they are unusual both in matter
and style.
They possess the cosmopolitan touch;
the types of character they describe are
as varied is tlie countries which afford
their setting.
Life’s chequer board is the subject—
the haphazard defeats and conquests,
moves and counter moves of diverse des
tinies.
The stories are told with restrained and
powerful imagination* the language ot
their telling has tlie fine texture of dis
tinction.
"THE APPLK OF DISCORD."
By Henry C. Rowland. Dodd. Mead &
Co. New York.
"Some years ago J lost all my dislikes,
and I have never advertised for them.’’
So writes Henry ('. Rowland, author,
surgeon, traveler. Ard although he has
named Ids latest book "The Apple of Dis
cord." still it is a novel that well Illus
trates this happy quality of temperament.
Dr. Rowland has had a varied career 1
Just after graduating from the Yale med
ical school he entered the army and I
served as surgeon through the Spanlsh
American -war. and later in the Philip
pines and in China.
After two years’ p-aetice in New York
citv he pave up medicine for travel and
study and since then has been in all
parts of the globe and is now known as
one of the most popular writers for the j
big popular magazines. Dr. Row land has j
some excellent advice for new authors:
“One owes it to the public to furnish
something as fresh as one can. and not
«*erve out a literary ration composed of,
the ‘rehash’ of other minds. Personally,
1 am constantly confronted with my lack
of knowledge and broader education and
constantly trying to remedy it. 1 wil'
cot lay a scene Iri any place of which
f have not a first-hand knowledge. Per
sonally, I th’nk it is a higher art tc.
vary constantly the subject matter, style
l*ev and In every other wav. If on* is
able to do so and keep the product of
tills versatility sound of its sort. .V
writer who ran do ttiis ought never to
find himself 'written out.' As for arad
miie perfection, that Is » tiling which
one has to study en route. Technhiue
belongs, I think, inoie fully to the later
decades when the I.oug Trail becomes
impossible, due to such shat kies as ill
health. adverse fortune* bright eyes or
twins!”
I
"COONCAN."
A CARD GAME* ALSO KNOWN ’ AS
“RUM." By R. F. Foster. Frederick
A. Stokes & Co., New York.
"Cooncan, a corruption of “eonciuian,"
the Spanish name for the same game,
is the largest rage in London and New
\ ork. as well as in many other parts of
the United States. The Brooks, the Sav
age and other famous London clubs have
been obliged to open cooncan rooms.
'Rum is also a widely used name for
the game, but it was decided that "coon
MR. WINSTON CHURCHILL
nan' would be the surviving term, as it
Is easier of explanation.
The game has two great advantages
First, it run lie played by two, three,
tour or more players; second, it is easllv
learned and comparatively simple, vet it
offers great opportunities for skill. '
This book contains the complete laws
and directions for play by the great card
authority, R. F. Foster.
"VANISHING POINTS"
By Alice Brown. The Macmillan t o.,
New York.
As a writer of delicately turned sliort
stories, fine in execution. Alice Brown
has few equals. She is best known, per
hapg. for her New England tales and
there ar« a number in the present col
lection, "Vanishing Points," which rep
sent tlie true and ever pleasing at
mosphere of that part of this country.
Tlte book is not, however, composed
solely of this kind of fiction. Not a
few of the most interesting of tho
stories make their appeal because they
rest on feelings, belief and character
istics that are universal in human na
ture. One feels, as one reads of the
man who thought that as so many peo
ple in this broad land must suffer from
poverty and cold and hunger, be, too,
should share their lot, or of the writer
who, though his success did not ap
pear to be great was. nevertheless, in
fluencing the work of others, or of the
editor who took a stand against the
unfair policy of his magazine, or of
the mother who saved her son from
the wiles of an adventuress, or of any
in fact, of Miss Brown’s delightful
characters, that the art of short fic
tion is at last coming into its own.
"THE CAKE Ell OF DOCTOR WEA
VER."
By Mrs. Henry Bachus. illustrated. L*.
C. Page & Co.. Boston.
A big and purposeful story inter
woven about the responsibilities and
! problems in the medical profession of
; the present day. is Mrs. Henry Radius’
| clever story. "The Career of DoeJor
Weaver." Dr. Weaver, a noted spe
cialist, ami head of a private hospital,
had allowed himself to drift away from
tho standards of Ills youth in liis de
sire for wealth and social and scientific
prestige. When an expose of (lie meth
ods employed by him in furthering his
schemes for tho glorifying of the name
of "Weaver” in tho medical world is
threatened it is frustrated through the
efforts of the famous doctor's younger
brother, Dr. Jim. Tho story is power
ful and compelling, even if it uncovers
the problems and temptations of a
physician's career. Perhaps the most
important character, not oven except
ing Dr. Weaver and Dr. Jim, is "Tho
Girl,” who plays such an important
part in the lives of both men.
“ONE WOMAN'S LIFE.”
i By Robert Herrick. The Macmillan
company, New York.
When the reader meets Milly Ridge, the
.heroine of Robert Herrick’s “One Wom
an's Life." she is a strong-willed girl
in her early teens who is rebellious at
the middle-class home in an unfashion
able section of Chicago which her father
has leased. In those first few scenes of
tiie novel there is clearly revealed the
principles, as yet not wholly formed,
which in time become the guiding forces
of Milly’s life. That she will not remain
all her days cooped up in a house that
is barely habitable, that she will meet
people and be in touch with and a part
of the really worth while society of the
big city, tiiat she will do things, in
short, be somebody, are among the
points on which she has quite made up
her mind.
It is the old story of the struggle to
cut a dash, to live up to appearances and
to make those appearances very much
larger than the poeketbook justifies, that.
Mr. Herrick tells. And Milly succeeds In
a way. too. She does get an entry into
what she thinks is the best society, in
the course of a few years, and she soon
becomes the feted of a particular group
of rich people. Of course, all this time
Milly had had her eyes open for a mar
riageable man and the result of her many
social maneuvers Is a proposal from a
wealthy, if somewhat brainless, gentle
man. t
Right here Mr. Herrick snows his skill
not only as a novelist, but as an inter
preter of feminine character. “One
Woman’s Life" is not a story of do
mestic difficulties resulting from a union i
with money as its only bond, for Milly
ultimately rejects her suitor with the
millions for a dashing newspaper artist
with ability but no cash. And the rest
of the book following Milly's mariiage
to Jack Brandon take; an entirely differ-1
ent trend from most of the fiction which
has hitherto portrayed nn ambitious
woman Mr. Herrick has not written
extravagant!', but rather in such a way,
that the experiences of his heroine might
I almost be the experiences of any woman.
[ Milly’s married life is not wholly a happy
[ one, but its “ups and downs'’ as narrat
ed by the author ring distinctly true.
This quality of naturalness, this almost
amazing analyzing of an ordinary type
of woman, is one reason for the hold
which the story undoubtedly possesses.
All the novels of Robert Herrick have
been forces to reckon with—they have
stirred the waters of life to their deepest
depth, probed relentlessly into the in
nermost recesses of the human soul and
have shown in the broad glare of day
whatever of rank growth existed there.
They have been novels to set the reader
thinking about the real issues of life,
to plunge him into the deeper currents
instead of leaving him to disport himself
upon tlie sunlit surfaces. They have been
books that demanded some experience
of life and willingness to face the truth
in certain phases of our modern society.
Keen critics of American letters have
watched with interest the work of Mr.
Herrick—seen how with each successive
book he has broadened his held of vls
! ion as his knowledge of life widened.
They have watched the growing power
i of his word in “The Common Lot,.I'o
• gether..Phe Healer.'' and have real
| ized in him a great novelist. With the
; publication of “One Woman's Life" they
| will acclaim him, out of the perfection
i of this book, as the greatest American
author of many who draw upon the eur
I rents of our feverish modern life for
! their material.
“IN THE VANGUARD.’’
! “A PLAY IN THREE ACTS.’’ By Ka
trina Trask. The Macmillan company.
New York.
“In the Vanguard,” by Katrina Trask.
Is tiie most dramatic appeal for universal
peace that has appeared for some time.
It Is not only this bigness of theme,
but the sparkling dialogue and clever
handling of dramatic* situations, as well,
that lifts Hip play out of the usual con
fines of contemporary drama.
Mrs. Trask's play has to do with a
man and a woman and the theme with
its intensely dramatic qualities Is evolved
from the conflict that takes place be
tween the man's realization of the tru*
value of war and the demands of the
wmum he loves.
The solution of this situation is worked
out through scenes of delicate sentiment
and deep feeling and that which begins
as a glorification of war ends in a most
eloquent ami stirring plea Tor peace.
OTHER ROOKS RECEIVED. (RE
X'IE WS LATER. >
“COMRADE vETTA." By Albert Ed
wards. The Macmillan Co., New York.
“THE GIX)VED HAND." Ry Rur.ton
K. Stevenson. Withs 'illustration*. It.'
Thomas Kogarty. Dodd. Mead & Co.,
New York.
"THE PENALTY." By Oouvenenr Mor
ris. Illustrated. By Howard ('handler
Christy. Charles Scribner's Sons, New
York.
“THE MAXWELL MYSTERY." Bv
Carolyn Well*. With a frontispiece in
color. By Gayle Hoskins. J. B. Lippin
cott Co., Philadelphia.
Earthworms in Egypt
From the Chicago Record-IIerald.
The fertility of tile valley of the White
Nile is renowned. British scientific sur
veyors report that Us remarkable pro
ductiveness is due In large part to the
diligence of earthworms, which have been
digging it for thousands of years. Ob
servations are recorded showing that dur
ing the active six months of each year
the castings of tlie worms brought to the
surface there amount to about 24-l.OCO
pounds an acre. Spread out evenly this
would make an appreciable annua! layer.
Darwin estimated tlit*t tiie castings of
five years in England would cover the
wnole kingdom wilh a layer of new earth
an Inch thick. In the Nile \alley tlw
layer would doubtless be thicker were
the worms equally numerous and busy,
as appears to be the rase, because the
proportion of nonarable land there s
much less than In the British isles. It
must be remembered also that in addition
; to the beneficial service of stirring up the
i soil, admitting air and water more easily
'and bringing deep deposits to the sur
| taco, there Is a constant fertilization ef
' looted by the vegetable matter dragged
I into their burrows by the worms, much
of which is left to decay where it will
do the most good.
Entirely Different
From the Philadelphia Public Ledger.
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four-year-old daughter of the hostess,
who sal opposite the minister, looked up
and said:
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"No?" sweetly asked the minister; "and
what kind of grace floes your papa say?'*
\Y hy, said the little one, "lie came
home last night and when he sat down
to the table lie just said, ’Good Heav
ens! What a supper!"
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