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SOME LATE BOOK NEWS
Edward S. Kills, one of the best living
writer of boys' Juveniles, ha« Just
completed two nice books, "A Hunt on
Snow Shoes" a.'d "Th? Cruise of the
Firefly." His fornvr works have met
with tiuocess, and in these has reached
a height of Interest, thrilling situa
tions and adventures thnt he ha« never
fturpnsfted In any of hts worka. "A
Hunt on finow Shoes' 1 is full of hair
raising episodes, and Is the story of the
ltd venture of two boys, Clarence nnd
Sidney Langdon, during their holidays.
How they win o\n In a. race with a
howling pack of wolves, elude a gi
gantic bear, a moose hunt that ends
In a chase by th#' moose, how they are
enptured by a craay man, how Sidney
falls down the ravine with a panther,
how Clarence finds the den of a gang
of desperadoes under a waterfall and
what comes of It, are all adventures
whtch no boy should miss.
. ■ A Hunt on Snow Shoes by "Edward
fl. Ellis. Chicago: The John C. "Winston
Co.
A fine new sehlen of five music read
ers, graded, has just been Issued by
the American nook Co. - They are
called the "Melodic" course and are
coincident with the same company's
"Harmonic" course, each being planned
to cover the field of music tuition, but
In a different way.
The awakening of the east is prov
ing one of the most Important and In
teresting problems 'In the history of
civilization. Since tha discovery of
America no one event has been more
significant. The result of the Russo-
Japanese war, on the one hand, and
the rapid growth of the United States
as a "world power," with Its eastern
possessions, on the other, but intensi
fy the profound import of this latest
phase in the world's annals. While
much has been ■written and said con
cerning these eastern peoples, there yet
remains a widespread Ignorance con
cerning them. They have been alien for
so many centuries that we of the west
cannot seem to grasp their genius
and spirit It remains for such books
as "The Spirit of the Orient," by Prof.
George William Knox, to explain many
things hitherto dark. He does not view
the orient with the cold aloofness of a
"rank outsider;" but he displays j a
sympathy and intimate knowledge al
most native. -' Thus India with its ad
mixture of religions and Jumbling of
castes lls ■ revealed I from within out
wardly—much as an East Indian him
self would explain It. China and Japan,
also,' are discussed in an easy, discurs
ive way which yet throws. a flood. of
light "upon them. ■
The Spirit of the Orient. By George
William Knox. New, York: Thomas Y.
Crowell & Co. .
"Cupid's Middlemen," by Edward B.
Leet, is a humorous book, not a "fun
ny", book. It is a stirring story narrat
ing the things that happened when the
Middleman wrote his chum's love let
ters. I The poets helped" the ■ good work
along, but a- flery prospective father
in-law and the nervousness of the dif
fident lover upset the smooth running
of events. : The path of true love be
came unusually rough, but the delight
ful ending chapters present the surpris
es that straighten out the tangle. The
moral of this book Is that a man should
never try to help another man make
love. .'John Olden is cited as an ex
ample to give point to this moral.
Cupld'B Middleman. By Edward B.
Leet. New York: Copples & Leon.
' The author of "Up from Slavery,"
and the founder of Tuskegee institute,
Booker T. Washington, has been ac
customed to giving week-end talks be
fore his students, on the most practical
subjects possible. He does not deal
with theories, ■ "but with facts which
will , most assist his hearers in their
struggle toward good citizenship. A
recent series of these addresses, and
one of the best, has been enlarged by
the author, and now appears with the
apt title of "Putting the Most Into
Life." It is discussed under six heads,
dealing with the physical, moral, spir
itual, and racial aspects of the case.
The discussions are broad-gauge, sen
sible, and Inspired by that Intense de
sire •to uplift which has caused the
author himself to rise from the hum
bler ranks to a position of commanding
influence.
Putting the Most Into Life. By
Booker T. "Washington. New York:
Thomas Y. Crowell & Co.
•'. That interesting series, "Her Broth
er's Letters," which were printed ser
ially in a well known woman's period
ical, is now available ln book form.
The \ author's name Is not given, but
they sound enough like the discourses
of Edward "W. Bok to have been from
his pen. They are nice, lady-like let
ters, hardly masculine enough to come
from any other man. In the main,
\ their sentiments are good, though often
prlgglshly extreme. The first one ln
, velghs so bitterly— and even senseless
ly, not to say morbidly — against de
collette gowns that It ; may disgust
some, who will thereupon read no more.
But they Improve as they go on. Still,
one can hardly, approve of a cad who
tel^s tales on a ! rival in love, even
though that rival be unworthy.
Her Brother's Letters. .Anonymous.
New York: Moffatt, Yard & Co. $1.25.
"Success Nuggets." By Orson Swett
Marsden. A unique little book. Is not
given over to long-winded sermons on
right living, or to discussions as to
why some men succeed and others fail.
Instead, it treasures up— as its title
•' signifies— little nuggets, of thought
mined out of the world's experience.
As editor of Success, the author has
specialized upon this one j theme until
his view has come to be that of an
expert; and the thoughts here chosen
and classified by him are directed to-
ward specific needs. Their force, also,
jj will be increased by the striking way
.! in ' which they are grouped.
Success Nuggets, by Orson Swett
'■Marsden. New York.: T. Y. Crowell
&.Co.
A, book to prize, to read, to keeri —
that is "Famous Actors' Families in
America." By Montrose J. Moses. If
this work contained nothing more than
the bibliography, It would be worth
while, for the author has blazed a
broad, clear trail in thethirty-flve final
pages which it will be a delight for
future writers to follow. This, how
ever, Is but an indication of the schol
arship and thoroughness found ln every
page of the text proper. Not that Mr.
Moses Is pedantic; he is- too seasoned
a critic and too delightful an essayist
to fall Into this rut. Instead, he has
given live sketches and stories of the
great actor. families' which have left
lasting Impress on the stage of today.
The book naturally begins with the
Hooths, about whom many new facts
are brought out. /Then come Illumin
ating chapters on, the Jeffergons the
' R re^f\, the^ Bai P' more8 ' the Botherns.
the Hollands, the Hacketts, the Wal
lacks, the Bouclcaults, the Davenports
; and the Powers. Other noted ' names
are dealt with In passing. Preceding
each chapter with a genealogical table
the author bat made an interesting
presentation of the ancestry and con
' dltlona of . those of, . our ' distinguished
stage folk who inherited their rights to
theatrical honors, and have defended
the heritage.
'Famous) Actor Families of America.
By Mont. -ohm J. Moses. New York: T.
Y. Crowell & Co.
'Scraggleß" win h little song spar
row that Mr. George "Wharton James
of Pasadena found weak, crippled and
unable to fly. He took the. little . bird
to his home and It became his constant
companion, perching on h\» foot and
nf-stllntj In Ma hand, while he was
writing: hli'book "In and Opt of the
Old Mis«lon« of California." The ded
ication of that book led many people
to write to the author fxprenslnn a
desire to know, more of the atory of
"Brmfrgles."' In this atory, which Mr.
James tins now tenderly and faithfully
told, la rlrsirrlhori an ununual Instance
of a friendship between man and one
of the tower animals. It was an old
tradition of the Indians that birds and
beasts once had a language similar to
men's and conversed with them., Mr.
James has tried to place ■ himself In
the personality of the bird, letting It
tetl the story, and has succeeded ad
mirably. It Is a bright, wholeaome and
winning tale and should create a new
Interest In the songbirds.
Scragglps. By Ogrge Wharton
James. Boston : Little, . Brown . & Co.
- Pottlcers' "Up-to-date • Houses" con
tains 160 designs for houses "from $500
up. In. many of the designs a tyro
could suggest Improvements, but some
show taste, skill and artistic worth.
New York: J. 8. Ogllvle Publishing
company. 1 , <f \ •
"Dreamthorp," Alexander Smith's
"book of essays ■written ln the coun
try," Is almost classic. Lovers of lit
erature are Indebted to Mitchell Kon
nerloy, the New York publisher, for a
beautiful new edition of these essays,
with a fine biographical and critical
Introduction by John Hogbon. The book
Is artistically a fit chalice for' the
beautiful thoughts It contains.
In "What's Next? or, Shall a Man
Live Again?" Clara Spauldlng Bills
has compiled answers by 200 great
Americans to her queries as to the
soul's Immortality. In this day, few
doubt a future state; to all who do,
this compilation ought to be sufficient
reply ln the affirmative. Only those
In secular life are quoted. Among
those quoted are Mme. Severance and
Gen. Adna R. Chaffee of Los Angeles.
"What's Next? Compiled by Clara
Spauldlng Kills. Boston: Richard O.
Badger. , ■ ....... . .
Thanks are due Mitchell Kennerley,
the New York- publisher, for issuing ln
so neat a form a thin but interesting
selection of Algernon Charles Swin
burne's best verse. "Anactorla" gives
title to the little volume, which Is little
indeed, compared to the eleven books
required to contain his complete works,
but the poems here preserved I are
worthily selected and comprise not so
much the faded favorites all know as
those examples of higher versification
more likely to live through time.
Anactorla and Other Lyric Poems.
By Algernon Charles Swinburne. New
York: Mitchell Kennerley. $1.
The keynote of Thorns Gibson's little
but Important work, 'The Pitfalls of
Speculation," may be held to be struck
in the foreword which faces his open-
Ing chapter: "So great are the oppor
tunities offered by speculative changes,
that, with proper methods and self-conr
trol, the poor man cannoj. afford to
overlook them." "While the public atti
tude toward speculation is undeniably
hostile,' there has been ■• a ' modification
of harsh Judgment of late, as a more
general knowledge of such matters has
spread, and as it has come gradually
to be understood that speculation may
be a safe and a legitimate business
when business methods are applied to
it. And It Is in fulfilment of a duty to
the public that Mr. Gibson has set down
in order certain facts which will lead
to a correct line of thinking,' and has
pointed out the reasons for the failure
of 80 per cent of the speculators as well
aa the methods by which the minority
have succeeded. . •
The Pitfalls of Speculation. By
Thomas Gibson. New York: The Moody
Corjjoration. '..
Three high-class school books just
from the American Book company are a
"Beginner's ! Greek," by • Allen Rogers
Bennerof Andoyer and .Herbert Weir
Smyth, Ph. D., of Harvard; an "Intro
ductory Course ln Argumentation," by
Frances M. Perry of Wellesley, and
the "Nine Orations of Cicero," by Al
bert Harkness of Brown, assisted by J.
C. Kirtland jr., Exeter, and G. A. Wil
liams, Kalamazoo. All three are of the
usual high order of textbooks issued by
this concern. -
So full has been the life of George
Brandes, so large has been his part in
the world's affairs, and so high Is the
position to which he has raised himself,
that his , own story, told by himself,
should prove very valuable as_a guide
book to others on life's way, regardless
of any personal Interest ln his history,
great as' that it. Hence a hearty wel
come undoubtedly awaits his "Remin
iscences of My Childhood and Youth,"
now just issued in splendid dress by
Duffleld. The large volume Is compre
hensive to a marked degree; Its style
Is excellent, and Its Interest never flags.
It Is more like a fictional story than nn
autobiography, and considered ln this
guise it is as fascinating as almost any
story of today. '
Reminiscences of My Childhood and
Youth. By i George Brandes. New
York: Fox, Duffield & Co. $2.50 net. .
For the young girl about the home
who desires to acquire a fund of in
formation about that most necessary
but least known of all ■ sciences, house
keeping, "Saturday Morning," by Caro
line French Benton, is just the book.
The greater part of Its contents were
published -in Good Housekeeping, and
they proved so interesting and so valu
able there that the general demand for
them in book form was wisely antici
pated. For giving a girl a complete
Idea of a woman's household duties. It
is admirable.
Saturday Morning.' By Caroline
French Benton. Boston: Dana Gates
& Co. ■ • ■• ••
All ■ boys , love stories of adventure,
hence H. C. Moore's "Afloat on the Dog
ger Bank" will appeal to them most
surely. It Is a fine, stirring tale of
shipping ln the North sea and In China
waters; it gives much information
even as it tells a strong and fascinating
story, and it will be read with avidity
by any healthy-minded boy with ths
Ideals of youth and the aspirations of
that period of life when all the world
Is but a - field for travel and making
one's fortune.
Afloat on the Dogger Bank. By 11,
C. Moore. Boston: Dana Estes & Co.
The Broadway Magazine for October
Is still another number ln that stead
ily increasing list of "worth buying"
Issues put forth by that publication
since Its new editorial policy has been
adopted. When New York was selected
as a field for exploitation the editors
made* a most wise choice. The results
have justified their Judgment, for every
lesue has handled phases of New York
life in a way to Interest 'not alone New
Yorkers but . ever/, citizen of the
country. - . •-' ■
Every American business man has
reason to be Interested in the leading
article in the Atlantic for October.
"Commercial Panics, Past and Future"
li the title, and the, author l» A. n.
Noyei, financial editor of; the Evening
Post. -. Just at present, when we are
riding on the .top wave >of * prosperity,
it Is well worth while- to take a -look
ahead. . Another panic year will be due
before long.' Mr. NoyeS" believes) that
If we can , ftn<} out the, ■ causes . . that
bring about ; bui h. a « disaster, we fan
control them—at least to tome extent.
The game number contains 'n.'.tlmely
political article by John H. Latane ou
LOS ANGELES HERALD: MONDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 15, 1906.
the "Forclblfl Collection of Internation
al Debts." Precisely what the "Drago
Doctrine" stands for, what the situa
tion was which forced it into being,
and what our position should b« In fu
ture crises of the same character—
Ihnsc ore some of the important points
covered. •
Sir Conan Doyle Is one of the best
story tellers of the day and any book
from his pen In sure to have a large
following. Nothing he has done In his
long and varied career la stronger,
more stirring or more characteristic
than his latest novel, "Sir Nigel,"
which ran as a serial In a weekly mag
azine and wan followed With absorbing
Interest from Ita opening chapter to ltd
close. II Is a novel Of adventure, of
chivalry, of the good old days when
men were men and fought bravely for
what they believed the right with
sword and spear, Instead of buying
their ease with 111-got gold. It Is laid
in the fourteenth century in England,
when the Norman French were still
almost wholly the upper class, ere the
sturdier Ango-Saxon stock had come
into Its own, and Its basis is history.
The fantastic graces of the chlvalrlc
day still glamored the land, and the
life was stern and wild. The code of
morals It depicts would shock our
softer senses, perhaps, but there Is
good reason to believe that the author
can find ample warrant for all the
events he chronicle's, ln fact and his
tory. For despite the thin veneer of
knighthood, itself bloody, and harsh,
was a populace Ignorant,' brutal and
degraded, and so devoid of the finer
feelings that it was little better than
animal ln Its Instincts. To portray this
life ln the light of the twentieth cen
tury and still to retain its atmosphere
without too great a shock to our super
sensltlveness, is - a task I that few
writers would set themselves, yet Sir
Conan has done all this admirably and
thoroughly. It Is a book for men, full
of meat and good red blood, and will
hold one spellbound to the end.
Sir Nigel. By Sir A. Conan Doyle.
New York: McClure, Phillips & Co.
*1.50.
Baroness Orezy, whose "Scarlet Pim
pernel" attracted much attention and
brought her prominently to general
notice in America and England, is now
represented by another volume, equally
fine, called "A Son of the People." The
story is a strong one, told in her lucid
and excellent style. It is a romance
of the Hungarian plains— the hero, a
handsome young peasant, who, having
inherited a fortune from his thrifty
father, io enabled to save a Hungarian
nobleman from losing all his lands and
In return receives the hand of the lord's
daughter, whom he has long wor
shiped from afar. Like "The Scarlet
Pimpernel" the present story Is of In
tense dramatic Interest and shows
great emotional strength.
A Son of the People. By Baroness
Orezy. New York: G. P. Putnam
Sons. .
It is surely worth while to give heed
to a man who can command an audi
ence of one and a half millions of peo
ple; yet this great throng, scattered
in every civilized country around the
globe, does not measure the number of
those who have been influenced by Dr.
J. R. Miller. It is merely the number
of his books that have been sold — each
book reaching, who can tell how many
hearers? For twenty years he has been
sending out these messages of comfort,
uplift and cheer, until today his name
is a household word in thousands of
homes.
It is not necessary, therefore, to give
an extended notice of "A Heart's
Garden,", this latest book from his pen.
Its keynote is found in its opening
lines: "A good woman said, 'My heart
is a little garden and God is planting
flowers there.' Every heart should be
a little garden, full of sweet and beau
tiful plants and flowers."- . /• ■
Another, smaller. but none the less
fine, book from Dr. Miller's pen is
"The Beauty of Kindness." It preaches
a doctrine all too little followed and
an earnest reading of It is commended.
A Heart's Garden.. By Dr. J. 'R.
Miller. New York: Thomas Y. Crow
ell & Co. • . •
The Beauty of Kindness. By Dr. J.
R. Miller. New York: Thomas Y.
Crowell & Co.
The slangiest, most up-to-date-Ish,
rollicking 1 stories of New York life yet
written came from the pen of Sewell
Ford. They chroiUcle the doings of ona
Shorty McCabe, ex-pugilist, now a
physical culturlst of much A/ealth and
more good sense, together, with Sadie
the fascinating, Plnckney the sport,
and several more, types all, but ex
tremely human and jolly to the last.
The tales are all of Jhe very present;
the things recorded happen today; the
slang is the latest and the humor is all
pervading and rich. Of their literary
merit a pedant might have little to
say, but as crisp, lively stories of a
present phase of life, told most enter
tainingly and cleverly, to pass away an
Idle day or two, no praise for them is
adequate. They have already appeared
in serial form, most of them, but gath
ered into . one volume they are vastly
more charming, and their publishers
have done the great reading public a
real service.
. Shorty McCabe. •By Sewell Ford
New York: Fox, Duffleld & Co. $1.60.
The Outing Magazine for October
cover,s the better part of three con
tinents • with sterling, human interest
articles. Horace Annesley Vachell's
"Stalking Scottish Moors," handsomely
Illustrated, Is full of Scottish humor
and Scottish charm. "The English
Foxhound." by T. F. Dale, has much in
teresting comment on dogs, and is, as
well, a mightily attractive human In
terest article. More of Clifton John
son's remarkable outdoor photographs
Illustrate his "Farm Life in lowa." 7
More important than any of these, be
cause they are part of a scries, are Dillon
Wallace's "The Loner Labrador Trail,"
which leads deeper 'into the northern
wild to Lake Niplsslsh; and John R.
Spears' stories of "The Buccaneers,"
full of hidden treasure, fights with cut
lass and pistol, sea battles of the old,
romantic kind. Of the lighter, fas
cinating sort of article, Charles Eelmont
Davis* "The Rlalto," with the aid of
Mr. Watson's drawings, Is one of the
most attractive features of the Lumber.
No one knew the old Chinatown of
San Francisco better than, did Wallace
Irwln, and no one has wrltu-- better
verse about It. The picturesque quarter
Is now gone forever, but happily the
verses live— and will for many a year.
They have been collected ln a bizarre
little volume, "Chinatown Ballads,"
which Fox, - Duftleld Ci Co. present ln
most attractive fashion t and every lover
of the old Chinatown— and this means
everyone who ever . saw it and was
gripped by its fascinations— will want
the book as a precious memoir of one of
the/ oddest quarters the world ever
knew.
Chinatown Ballads. By Wallace Irwln.
New York: Fox, Duffleld & Co. $1.25.
McClure'g for October Is full of keen,
vigorous articles and delightful fiction.
First of all comes Lincoln . Steffens'
study of the Juvenile court of Denver,
with . its picturesque stories of "bad
kids,", and Us vivid, human* portraiture
of, Judge Llndsey, . the man who has
created a. new method of dealing with
Juvenile offenders. . Burton J. Hendrlck
continues bis history of Ufa insurance
in, "The Raid on the. Surplus,". a re
markable Htory of extravagance, waste
and graft. George K. Turner tells how
(JiilvoMton has cut down her clty.expen>
dlturea, cleaned and lighted her' street*
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and controlled disease and' vice under a
new form of city government— a politi
cal experiment which every citizen' of
America ' ought to study. C. P. Con
nolly, in. the third -chapter of "The
Story of Montana," relates the dramatic
story of "Whiteslde's exposure of Clark's
bribery of the Montana legislature — a
narrative of exciting, incident. :and
splendid movement. ■
Seldom, -If ever, does there appear a
wider range of fiction than ln the
Bohemian for October. Among, the
clever stories in this number are "Sha
Sa: A Tale of 'The Hell-Born,'" by
Adele Marie Shaw. W. Carey Wonderly
contributes a theatrical story, "Michlng
Mallecho." "The Enterprise of Han/
lon's Manager," by John Winter, is 'a
circus story In which appears an ac
count of a very realistic performance.
There is a pathetic newspaper story,
"The Grind," by Olin L. Lyman, which
Is ln striking contrast to "Plympton/s
Chance," by Homer Bassford, which Is
a story of a successful beat. Bernard
King has written an animal story, "The
Abrupt Reformation of Hiyu." It deals
with the civilization « f a wolfish dog.
Eleanor M. Ingram is the author of a
love story of llfeMn Sicily when that
island was under the rule of France.
George Allan Englands's . '.'Two in a
Zoo" may very properly be called a
little comedy of errors. A story of the
Canadian northwest full of love and ad
venture is Bertrand W. Sinclair's "No
Robbery."A ; .-.-•-
In • the October. World's Isaac
F. Marcosson tells of. "The Beginning
of Reform in'Packingtowri."' The arti
cle is the result of a 'first-hand investi
gation' of the' new conditions -in the
beef packing Industry in Chicago. . In
"Labor in Politics," M: G. Cunnlff gives
a picture of the 1 labor campaign in
which President Samuel Gompers of
the American ' Federation of Labor is
endeavoring to overthrow the "enemies
of labor." Dr. X' •A. Hourwich shows
intimately "The Russian Revolution" in
Process," which, is an orderly account
of the awakening of the people against
the autocracy.' The leading Illustrated
article deals with "The Work of Three
Great Architects,"- McKlm, Mead &
White, and shows, with the aid of un
usual ' photographs, the , aesthetic . work
accomplished by these men.' , ' « v :
The Reader, Magazine for. October
presents the first of its series of articles
upon "The South American Situation."
The paper treats of the great sub-tropic
city of Rio de Janeiro In a most inform
ing fashion, vividly i 1i 1 pictures It's odd
foreign customs; gives familiar pen
portraits of its brilliant journalists and
its history-making diplomats, chats de
lightfully of the great shopping street,
the Kuu de Ouvldor, and of what one
may .see on .that quaint meeting-place
for all . true Brazilians. Considerable
space is devoted to an interesting de
scription of the elghty-milllon-dollar
boulevard . which IHo. Is constructing
upon property formerly occupied jby
plague-spotted slums. Few cities of the
United States can point to such a re
markable sti'p toward civic betterment.
Rio in summer is now as healthful as
and a cooler place than New York 1 city.
The article is Illustrated by numerous
photographs. . ... . -^ ■»
The October. number of Country Life
In America Is the annual house-build-
Ing number. It tells how to. build a
country house (at various prices), what
to put Into the house, the prevailing
architectural taste. The supreme fea
ture of. thU issue Is the selection of
perfect country houses by four of the
leading itrchltecta of the United States.
Mr. "Wilson Eyre and Mr. Charles Bar
ton Keen of Philadelphia,' Mr. John M.
Carrereof New :York and ' Mr. Guy
Lowell of Boston have combined to se
lect twenty-three representative coun
try houses that 'out of their wide expe
rience have appealed to their artUtlo
taste- ''i
While the October Century will bring
to an end Anne rollicking
story of travel, '"Seeing France ..with
Uncle John," new chapters of A. E. ,W.
Mason's "Running "Water" will carry
Sylvia-- to her father in England,
tangling the thread of the plot, and
there will be blx short tales:- , Edna
'Kenton's "The Doll Lady," a story of
newppaper dramatic criticism;: Grace
Ell.ery.Channlng's "A Perverse Genera
tion," an account ; of how three' clever
New England girls met an emergency;
another of Henry J. O'Hlgglns' tales of
the New York firemen, "An Appeal to
the Past";- Grace Lathrop Collins'
"Junslna's Playmate," a pathetic story
of adoption; : Charles Bryant Howard's
"A, "Voice from the Dark," a Porto Rl
can comedy; and Edith Wyatt's "The
Perfects Woman," a ■ humorous -. tale of
the editor of a "woman's department."
If Edgar Saltus 'would but slough oft
his pedantic eccentricities of style and
his erratic tendencies and confine him
self to 'less acrobatic English and less
freakish subjects, he might yet become
a writer of moment and weight. -; But
so long as he tears the language to tat
ters, devotes himself to outlandish con
structions and odd variants on the
natural .usage of words, he confuses
and mars where he could instruct and
Interest. •
"Hlstoria Amoris" is an attempt by
Saltus to give "a history of love as that
divine passion has affected the . great
actors lon the world's stage." Thus it
contains the germ .of a great . idea,
which .yet has not blossomed in full
beauty from sheer inability to force its
growth through ;the dark, and mias
matic Swamp of 'the Caltus .verbiage.
Most of his love subjects, too, show the
morbid ' side of ' "le : grande passion";
deal .with .the illicit and the unusual,
rather than the really true Love which
has made a heaven for so many on this
mundane sphere. , True, - It ' , may ■be
argued that there. is nothing dramatic
In, the sweet . domestic ■ love, but how
may lt.be Ignored, when It constitutes
by far the most of the love of the
world?*
Historla Amoris, by Edgar Saltus.
New York: Mitchell Kinnerley. $I.BCf.
While "The Crimson Sweater,", by R.
H. Barbour, was evidently written for
the boys of the family, it is a book their
Blstors should enjoy as well. . Roy, the
chief character, is a. manly, bright lad,
more Interested perhaps In football
than in algebra; but stanch In his Ideas
of right and fair play whatever he Is
doing. - There is a healthy comradeship
between Roy and Harry, the daughter
of the head schoolmaster of the school;
and the story of I "the school's" adven
tures and misadventures is of whole
some interest. There Jsn't a dull page
in "The Crimson Sweater"; and the
many, lively illustrations by C. M. Rel
yea add much to the book's attractive
ness as a gift. . '.i.;.
The . Crimson Sweater, .by . Ralph
Henry Barbour. " New. York: The Cen
tury Co. ■ . '■. ;• . . ■ : „
Among the mirth provokers of the
present season, one must certainly not
overlook that delightfully droll collec
tion of drawings called "Animal
Serials," from the v collection .of "E.
Warde Blalsdell. . ' Mr. Blaidsdell has
depicted so many animals jln | human
gutse that he frankly confesses he has
come to think ln terms of animal life;
and his four-footed heroes and heroines
not i alone .stand for personages, but
really are human In his eyes. And so
he shows us here the foFbles and fan
cies of Mr. and Mrs. Rabbit. Miss Hip
popotamus, v Mr. Bear,' Colonel Lion,
Major Elephant, and all the other
members of jungle society. - Each group
Is given In a series of sketches, with, a
brief word of running cotnmenti'and If
a bit of satire at the expense of higher
society. Is found. It makes the point of
humor all the keener, ' .
-Animal Serials, by B, Warde Dials
««>U. New York: , Thomas 'V. Crowell
& S».; ■ ■ ' „ • ..v,<
'Not ij> know that one la funny adds
to the fun;. and Uncle John's .blissful
unconsciousness: of the umu&ement he
supplies la tho richest part. of the fun
through all the pages of Anne Warner's
"Seeing Prance With Uncle John."
Uncle John Is generous, well-lntentlon
ed, prejudiced and loquacious. . Tvonne
and Kdna are lively- damsels .who at
tract . lovers and good times wherever
they go.. Uncle John thinks he is sacri
ficing himself for his nieces— his nieces
and the reader think the sacrifice is not
all on- Uncle John's- side. Lee and
Harry and Edgar are clever" and very
much-in-love young Americans to
whose companionship .and attentions
Uncle John. ls opposed only on general
principles— every man who appears on
the horizon impresses Uncle John as a
man 1 who could never make .a " girl
happy. Uncle John's sightseeing- is on
the whirlwind order; and his views of
foreign sights In particular and of hu
man nature ln general mako rich and
racy reading. Uncle John has" a little
affair of his own before the trip ends,
which furnishes amusement for all. The
book is cleverly done and is very read
able. . . ..- ' ■ •• ■" '■ ■
Doing France "With Uncle John. ' By
Anne Warner. New ' York: The-Cen
tury Co. . ■ . ■ , .
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' In"The Upstart," by Henry "M. Hyde,
the ■ "upstart" is Pat— Patrick • McCor
mick on. rare occasions— sdn_ of one of
those shiftless ne'er, do-wells who yet
on occasion could die a hero's death for
his adopted- country. It was hard on
Pat that the people of his town : re
membered too well his father's lapses
and often forgot his father's end; but
Pat, had limitless, ambltlon/and abund
ance of. grit; and he fought" his way
valiantly from rags and ignorance to
honorable rank as a lawyer.' political
advancement fairly won, and. the hand'
and heart of the girl of his choice.
'.The.ypstart. By Henry M. Hyde.
New York: The Century Co. ■ .
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