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14 BOOK TOPIGS IN TIJIIES OF Wflß Famous Books Which Other Wars Saw Produced-== Their Sale Sometimes Very Large THE EOUB, AND THE BOOK ■Wi.iiv* of «.<-iiiiis Timt Date Prow Kapoleon'l Time :ind Our Own Revolution Hooks on the Bicy cle \<>« Read Some of the Best B n Hundred Tlint Ilnve Apnenreil The New Edition of Byron Mar) thiiworth's Portrait Tlinrfcerny'n IJuiißhter Ktllts Tbarker«yia Writings Ren i:«H tion of IHekeiiN. Correspondence The St. Paul Globe. NEW STORK, May 20.— 1t is not alone war topics Chat now interest readers of Im,*--. Nor are these alone likely to Interest ih m as the war goes forward. Sir Walter Beaant has just reminded Englishmen that in the history of their' own country it was times of war than saw produced .<.mie of the most famous books in English literature, whereas times of peace have sometimes been marked by the most commonplace and unimportant productions. And he is certainly speaking with many facts on. Siis side when he refers to the era of Napoleon's wars. From that period dati 1 tin- poems and some of the ea.rly Im-.w writings of Svott. To it belong many of Coleridge's poems, many of Wordsworth's and some of Byron's. ly they are among the greatest names English literature has gathered to !i> r roll of honor in the present cen tury. Nor do their names exhaust the j -<:i>V list. Landor, L:mb and Southey. I.i cm no further afield, belong to thait perl< d. Kngland's earlier conflict, that ■was epoch making in another sense — the war with her colonies In the At- . iantic seaboard — could tell a similar story. It was in the period of Wash ing-tun's soldiership, and the French Revolution, that Burns was writing his Immortal songs, Boswell collecting ma terial for his immortal biography and Otbbon writing his lmmortail story of a great nation's decline and fall. France herself, from the outbreak of the Revolution until the battle of .Wa.terloo — a period of twenty-six years nnd y^ars of almost constant warfare — taw produced some of the best remem bered works in modern French liter plure. Th-e advent of fine spring weather — end we have had fine weather in this latitude within the present week — has' directed attention, not only to books Dn outdoor life in the large sens.; implied In the list which I sent The Globe a few weeks ago, but to that smaller Class which relates only to the bicycle. It is remarkable how large a list of 1 '.>ks on this subject has grown up "within a few years. One of the earliest of th- m at] i.s a boak still read, though rot many years old. wfoich will long refrain a monumental sort of tribute to the favorites of this pastime. It "waa called "Ten Thousand Miles On a BicycK;" its author, a man still living In this city, who chose to write under] the name of Karl Kron. Those thou- ' paoj3s of miles were covered, not on the modern sa.fety wheel, but on the old liigh wheel .which one now almost nev- ' tr meets even on thoroughfares that are crowded with wheelmen. Since that ttopk was published probably a full hundred hooks relating In one way or snother to' the wheel, have appeared. ! In the selected list given "below I have '■ turned to indicate those which have j seemed to me to have most interest land value, on the one hand a prat-ticai pensc and on the other the sense of affording entertainment. Among works which relate to the practical side of Wheeling these may <>c named: Cycling for Health and Pleasure. By Lu '!•..;■ ](. Porter. With illustrations. lGmo. iDoild. Mead ft Co.) $1. Wheel Within a Wheel: How I Learned to lUda a Bicycle. By Frances E. Wlllard. CHerell.) jo cents. . Bicycling for Ladles. By Maria E. Ward. Illustrated. (Brentano's.) $1.50. Cycling, dn the Badminton Library ) By the Earl of Albemarle and G. Lacy Hiilior. Plate 3 and illustrations by the Karl of Albemarle. Pennell, Dadd* and Moore. (Longmans.) 43.50. Road Rights and Liabilities of Wheelmen. By G. B. Clementson. Chicago. Callag han & Co. Pleasure Cycling. By H. Clyde. (Little Brown & Co.) $1. Bicycles and Tricycles. An elementary Treatise on Their Design and Construc tion. By Archibald Sharp. Illustrated. (Longmans.) Athletic .Sports. Bicycling articles by Philip O. Hubert Jr.. Marguerite Mering'ton and J. West Roosevelt. 12mo. (S<-ribners ) ?1 ..",0. For beginners, probably the best of these books Is Mr. Porter's. Tt is thor oughly practical, direct and helpful. Mr. Porter knows what the beginner ought to know, and he understands flow to tell it clearly and briefly. Once a rider has mastered his wheel, books of this class cease more and more to Interest 'him. He may have a curiosity to ivad what they contain, but they offor him few suggestions that he will Value. 11 •? has now reached the point where touring books have more at traction. In this class some very good books are to be had, and here are the best with which I am acquainted: Aiound the World on a Bicycle. By Th mas Stevens. Intr..du.;tion by T. W. Hiffgin- BC&. I! v., rations. $2.5"'. Acrcss Asia, on a Bicycle. By Jam*s G. .AM?n Jr.. and William L. Sa-chtleben. Il lustrated. Tho Century Co. $1.50. "Why Not Cycle Abroad. 'What a bicycle trip in Europe coota, how to take it, how to enjoy it, with a narrative of personal tourp. Illustrations, and reaps. By Clar ence Sretsrai. American News Co. CO cents. fir i^.y \ 1.-'"* v^Er^—^^ ?- -Sf'v"- Our Cycling Tour In F.ngland. By Reuben Gotfthwaitcs. Illustrated. (MeClurg.) H. 50. Ten Thousand Miles on a Bicycle. By "K. Kron." New York; Carl Kron. ?2. In the foregoing list, the work of Mr. Stevens is an epoch making one in bicycle literature. The volume by Mr. Qoldthwaites, the secretary of the Wis consin Historical society, and the edi tor of the noble edition of "The Jesuit Relations,' 1 now in course of publica tion in Cleveland, is a delightful chron icle. "Awheel in Modern Iberia" will interest many who ai>e reading other books on Spain nowadays; but it will scarcely move them, at the present juncture, to make a trip into that hos tile territory. Meanwhile, a considera ble number of books celebrating the wheel in poetry and fiction have ap peared—not the least of them Zola's recent "Paris." The World Awheel. A collection of vjrse and prose stories. Edited by Votaey Streamer. Illustrated. (Stokes.) $2. D0. Paris. By Emile Zo'.a, translated by Ernest A. Vizcitellpy. (The Maomillan Co.) $2. The Wheels of Chance. By H. Q. Wells. Illustrated. (The Macmillan Co.) $1..10. The Quest of the Golden Girl. Including a Song. By Richard Lo Gallienne. (Lane.) $1.50. Judging from new editions of their works— and there could be no better guide to conclusions — there is a renewal of interest in several of the older au thors—notably in Byron, Thackeray, Dickens and Jane Austen. The first volume of tho Byron edition, with the Earl of Lovelace, the poet's grandson, as sponsor, shows a handsome and interesting work. Several volumes will be devoted to poetry, and several oth ers to the letters. "The Earl of Love lace has supplied the editor of the poems, Ernest Hartley Coleridge, with many unpublished manuscripts. Val uable notes have been added, showing variations in the text, and elucidating ( many statements. One of the illustrations in the fU -s t volume is a new portrait of Mary Chaworth, Byron's early love, whose rejection of him, as Byron told Med win, probably changed the current of his life. It was certainly due to his disappointment that he sailed away from England and gathered the in spiration to write "Childa Harold's Pil grimage." The story of this romance in the poet's life is told in the well known jioem called "The Dream," where Miss Chaworth is described as "his life, the ocean to the river of his thoughts." Miss Chaworth's portrait has not been unknown to us hereto fore. Many years ago one was printed in Byron's works; but the later present one is less pleasing. It has been made from a miniature supplied for the pur pose 'by a daughter of Mary Chaworth, who is still living in England, at more than ninety years of age. The new edition of Thackeray is edited by his daughter, Mrs. Ritchie, who contributes an introduction to each of the several volumes, giving biographical facts. No authorized life of Thackeray has ever been written; ror Is one likely ever to be written. Mrs. Ritchie's introductions will do with Anthony Trollope's sketch in the English men of loiters series, they are practically all that the public may ■hope to know of the life of Thackeray. Mrs. Ritchie, in the introduction to "Vanity Fair," points out how slowly success came to her father. "For years," she writes, "he had to face the great question of daily bread." Thackeray was r.o longer a young man when "Vanity Fair" made fame certain for him. Even "Vanity Fair" made a halting start. Here is one interesting story that Mrs. Ritchie tells: "I ttill remember going along Kensington pcide;is with my s'.ster and our nursemaid carrying a parcel of yellow numbers, which she (the novelist's grandmother) had given us to take to some friend who lived across the park; and aa we walked along some where near the gates 'of the gardens we mat my father, 'who asked us what we were ' carrying. Then somehow he seemed vexed i snd troubled, told us not to go on, and to ] take the parcel home. Then he changed h s ! mind saying that If his grandmo'hrr wished it the books had best bs conveyed; but we Kucssed tes children do, that something was seriously amiss. Something was seriously amiss. The sale of 'Vanity Fair 1 was so »mall that It was a question at that time whether Its publication should not be discon tinued altogether. I have always been told t^a' I: wa3 'Mrs. Fe-kir.s' pall' which played the' part of pilot, or steam 'tug to that great linc-of-'battle ship, 'Vanity Fair,' and which brought it sufeiy off the shoals In later days I have heard my father speak of those times, and say that besides 'Mrs Perkins Ball ' a review in the Edinburgh Review by ■Mr. 'A. Hay ward, greatly helped the sale of 'Vanity Fair.' " The new edition of LWckens has An firew Lang for editcr. It Will com prise, when completed, thirty-two vol umes', and twenty-six are already pub lished. The illustrations are th* old ones— these Which Dk-kens himself ap proved for editions printed in his life time Although an English manufac ture, this edition 1s offered in this coun tiy for the remarkably low prkv of $1 ?3 ncr volume. In the present state of new interest in Dickens I cannot doubt that many Americans already have added this edition to their shelves. Of th» Jane Austen edition n<i copies aro yet to hand in this country. But we have been well .supplied with this author's delightful books through a Bcston house— an edition adequate to the merits and charm of the stories, convenient to read and attractive to look upon. The war has brought Capt. Mahan ■ into a prominence shared probably by no other writer on war topics. His books about "The Influence of Sea Power" ara talked of everywhere. Newspapers are quoting passages from them, not the least interesting of which is the account of Rodney's great victory in West Indian waters over the French and Spanis-'h in 1783, by which England acquired Jamaica, For the June numtoer of the Century Oap:. Mahan has written an account of the defeat of the Armada, in which he shows how it was that smaller and fewer ships commanded by Drake and Frobisher, were able to overwhelm the so-called invincible force of Philip 11. In that defeat' certainly was seen an event which changed th.c current of human history. Henceforth the domi nant civilization of the world was no longer to be Latin, but Anglo-Saxon. England now .saw that 'she could-ac quire strength beyond her own bor ders. It w«s not until after this sue-. cefia that she undertook to plant col onies across the Atlantic. John Smith' and Raleigih, the Pilgrim Fathers and ' the Winthrop migration were direct-' consequences of this new rise of Eng land to power and dominion. From -.he overthrow of the Armada in very con siderable degree dates the Tiistory of the United Staites as an English-speak ing oommuTiity, as a nation founded in Anglo-Saxon institutions and laws. Much else remaining in the destiny of our land was to be fixed beyond dan ger. The most memorable conflict of all, that century,-long conflict with France which closed with the victory of Wolfe at Quebec was ahead. For ever was it now to be decided that neither Latin laws, nor Latin si»eech, was to dominate the continent of North America. Henceforth an undis puted sway was assured for that type of civilization we call Anglo-Saxon. And In this war which is now en gaging our energies is seen another step in this progress of what Lord Sal isbury has called "the living nations at the expense of the dying nations." Once more the conflict depens. Out of ii will come still greater and better tilings for the world and for mankind. — Francis W. Halsey. THE ST. PAUL GLOBE SUNDAY MAY 23, 1898. LITERATURE OF TODAY THROUGH THE GOLD FIELDS OF ALASKA Mr. I>«« Wliidt'N I'n i<i u»- Trip Hop kliiHon Smith's 1 .11 nI Novel, "Caleb' West, Mutter Uivi-n' «?«•• lope'fl I'roKreHH," l»y Kate l)ou« --lns WlfiVilM "Spun Yarn," Sea Stories liy n Sailor. When the war is over and the coun try has time to think of other things we shall have another Klondike tx oitement, probably, end <.ne of the books to be read, in this event, with the greatest pleasure will be Mr. Harry De Windt's "Through the Gold Fields of Alaska to Bering Straits." The trip that Mr. De Windt proposed to. take was certainly unique and en terprising enough, and, if he was not quite successful in carrying it out In. all its details, tyrannous nature and not the ambitious traveler must bear the blame. In May, 1896, Mr. De Windt started from New York to Paris, and bis Intention was to make the entire journey by land. The proposed route 1 was from New York to Juneau, via Victoria, B. C, thence across the Chil koot pass to the chain of lakes at the head of the great Yukon river, and down the river to St. Midhael on Bering sea; the crossing of Bering sea was, if possible, to be accomplished over the •ice. Then he was to reach the'settle ment of Anadyrsk in Siberia and from there journey to St. Petersburg, 6,000 miles distant, with communication only possible every six months. From St. Petersburg to Paris the way offered all the conveniences of modern travel. Mr. De Windt was forced to cross Ber ing straits in a United States revenue cutter, because the straits are really never completely rozen over; and his unique course of travel included also short journeys over waterways, but in comparison with the breadth of the Atlantic or Pacific oceans by the usual beaten track the water traveling is not important enough to mention. Mr. De Windt anticipated hardships and was quite ready to discount them; that the story of his adventures is largely a record of difficulties over come and sufferings endured, because they were inevitable, is no surprise. The ordinary reader is rather well in formed concerning the dangers and hardships that attend the usual trip to the Klondike, but, even so, surprises await him in every chapter of Mr. De Windt'e goodly sized volume, and he is allowed to suffer and enjoy experi ences that are quite as real aa the printed page can make them. But the book is of a larger enterprise than just a sight-seeing trip through the Klondike, and, although the reader will spend much time over the part de voted to the gold region, the rest of the volume is more unusual in its in teresits and helps to complete the pic ture of Alaska as a whole. 'Through the Gold Fields of Alaska to Bering Straits," by Harry de Wendt, F. R. G. S. $1.50. Harper & Bros., New York. For sale by the St. Paul Book and Stationery company. Caleb West, Master DJver. The novel of occupations has arrives to stay. If nothing is so interesting to a man as how the next man gtts his bread and butter, then surely the stcr ies of life which deal largely with Aha tasks by which bread is earned are fully justified. Mr. Kipling set the ex ample with his admirable study of the codfish business, and F. Hopkinson Smith has followed with a spirited arid interesting account of how light houses are built in Fhippery places, and what the life and dangers of the builders are. "Caleb West. Master Diver,'" is a good bock of its kind. It conveys a great deal of very absorbing information in an agreeable way, and the story of the young contractor's struggle, with the refractory government inspector is the best and brightest Incident in the tale. For, after all, unless you are a very great writer, indeed, the occupation novel has its limits in your hands. Mr. Hopkinson Smith is often charm ing, but never great. The character drawing in the bookjis a distinct filling off from anything the writer has djne Bein« preoccupied with the light house! the writer has not wasted much strength in realizing the personages of the tale. Caleb West's young- wife the Platonic friend of the contractor' the young Southern girl, all are indis tinct, misty, uninteresting. The men are better, because they are set off and broug-ht out by their work, but even they are not such clear-cut and vigor ous pieces of portraiture as we expect from the creator of "Col. Carter." Can H be that there is something about the consideration of man the bread winner that detracts from man the entity? It Is true that men define themselves with less clearnfss In their business rela/tions than in iheir social and domestic environment. Perhaps this accounts for the fact that the oc cupation novel, as such, is a little dry and hard, a little less intimate and moving than the ackr.owl -dgei novel of character. A combination of the two in which full justice is clone to each element is of course the ideal to be pursued, but as we saia before, only a grfat' man can hope to write a book of that sort "Caleb Wps=t. Master Diver," by F Hop kinson Smith. Houghton, Mifflin & Co. Boston. $1 50. For sale -by the St. Paul Book and Stationery company. Penelops's Progress. Oay in tartan plaid is the binding of "Penelope's Progress," and its outer form is but an earnest of its inner brightness. Kate Douglas Wiggin is always charming in her breezy confi dential way. and these "extracts from the common-place book of Penelope Hamilton that relate to her experience in Scotland" are conceived in her brightest and most appreciative spir it. It is a continuation of "Penelope's Experiences" in England, and her for mer tried companions, Salemina and Francesca, are with her again. The best thing about this form of triangular marriage, Penelope claims, is "that they know the very worst there is to know about each other," and this is not, by any means, an inconsistent estimate of friendship. The Scottish .Spirit is lite in the book, and Scottish ballads, Scottish religion, Scottish hos pitality and Scottish wooing make up the story. Penelope herself, as her old friends • will remember, had her future bespoken in the English experi ences, and Willie Beresford is some thing of a bar' to further conquests on her part. But Francesca is still heart free, despite various experiences of the past, and quarrels herself into love with a fine specimen of a high-bred Scotchman, arrfl, after walking rough shod over his happiness through many pages, she discovers that her own joy In life depends on his, and one infers the good old conclusion that "they lived happy ever after*' unless, per haps, one is' skeptical and -doubts Fran cesca's adaptability to the new require ments. The story closes with a wholly happy- Scottish wedding, and Penelope is the happy, bonny bride. "Penelope's Progress," by "Kate Douglas Wiggin. Houghton, Mifflin & Co., Bos ton. $1.25. For sale by the St. Paul Book and Stationery company. Spun Yara. Sea stories by sea-farmg men have become so popular of laite that a iDook; with a nautical title not justified by the marine experiences of the author Is | looked upon with" "disfavor and must justify its existence by. a degree of realistic impressivaj^ess not always ex- I acted from the "men that go down to i the »<±a In ships^ ■ Mr. Morgan R<nlfc*»tson is one of those i fortunate Individuals who oan justly claim to speak a? one who knows the sea with an Intimate knowledge and who adds to this advantage a certain breezy, salt-lectured style well adapted to his natural subject. He has not rid den the Kig'h-seas without developing hia Imagination, anil the result of the oombi nation of "his personality and ex perience is a iiumbiT of stories Ingen uous and int(*restii# and worthy of success. "The^urvlval of the Fittest" is, perhaps, tlfe s'ti ingest of the five yarns. It is the ta c of a strange and weird voyage, full )f horror and fear, taken in a dismantled ship by a land tramp. The only man left on board the wild craft, crippled, ignorant and mis erable, but with a miraculous inherited instinct for mec.haries, and a heaven given knowledge o: the right minute for action, he .bfiirgs the wreck to port through one of the errible storms that sweep Lake Erie. r I he tale, improbable as it is, is so force ully told that it is impressively refelistl •., and the character study of the ,»&'er ,do-well himself is worthy o f the rest df. the sketch. "Spun Yarn." D y Morgan Robertson. Har per & Bros., New York. ?1.25. For sale by the St. Paul Book and Stationery com pany. Notes. A mystery as unsolved and- perhaps as nn solvable as that of "The Man in the Iron Mask" envelopes the question of the guilt or Innocence of Capt, Alfred Dreyfus, of the French army staff, convicted in 1894, by secret trial, of having sold government army secrets to Germany, and sentenced to a living death at the hideous Isle dv Dlable. A very general feeling that Dreyfus had been not only illegally but erroneously con victed, and that the acquittal of Maj. Ester hazy, who was later accused of the crime for which Dreyfus suffered, was brought about by equal injustice and illegality, found its voice ' in M. Zola, the great novelist, who arraigned the government In a long, published letter and challenged the government to prosecute him. The government responded by trying M. Zola upon a single techuioal point avoiding the main issue, sedulously keeping it out of" court, and conducting the whole trial with such a suppression of evidence and brow-beat ing of witnesses, such utter disregard of the rights of the accused and every principle of justice or equity, as to make the French courts and French justice a scandal and a laughing-stock to the whole civilized world In the May Atlantic, John T. Morse Jr takes up the question from the beginning re hearses clearly and accurately the details' and the whys and wherefores of the Dreyfus and Esterhazy cases, awl the racial feuds and ' hatreds involved; dissects. and analyzes wittily and keenly the abuses and shortcomings of the Zola trial, and concludes finally that after all and in spite of all. "tho affair remains an unsolved mystery. But its mystery is its r m \J f We knew ' as an absolute fact either that Dreyfus is guilty or that he la based ™ W »f Uf^ ed against her Te «> ™ sreat h,™n -discrepancy between tho Mr H»h» ' somewhat bovine heroine of animated n i°n 6l and slen <^. nervous, animated intelligence which wo know a<i Mrs Fiske. Objections in one ease aSTSua" iflcations in the other. Physically int^c »' .?"*£ and Jess siva It o^poske poles A Do'l's House," "The Queen of Liars/ and Mrs. Flue's repertory in «£ --venture 8 " 6^ the PUblfC faVOr ln 3* «*s^ But the histrionic interest i 3, If anything ' exceeded by the ilterary problem wh "eh thfs ?^SJi Mt ° n i. w tt - "T" Uis a Question of ' j the newer school of art In English. The art 2? .the novelist is near its acme in "Vanity Fa<r." Yet at the time If was written, and Mtw?* 7 *? fr«* since, there was nothing the English dramatist could do well except borrow from Franaftl. If h« depa-ted f'-om this by eve,y no little; he did" very bid' v indeed. And *«*. all through this dMsSied Pe w^ h r'f 81 -"X* .dramatist collectively —would insist upon attempting to rei-i/e up^Ve nd s«ago b - thS CraWIPyS «* SSS Necessarily, all such attempts so made were failures. To argue from ihis, as so m my have done, that the novel does not lend it«elf to the uses of the stage is not. nor has" it ever been, a criticism of th s book, but of the capaovties of the British playwright.-The Cliap-Book. Mr. Henry James' "American Letter" in the current number of Literature begins with a discussion of the question of groups and directions in American fiction. "Are there groups, directions, Schools, as French criti cism, for instance, deals with such matters T*" he asks; and, on his way to reach an answer to this question, he touches in this lotter upon work of .Mr. Winston Churchill, Mrs. Atherton and Mr. Bret Harte. One paragraph on the threshold of this inquiry is eminently quotable: "The great difference— to speak broadly— between the French reading public ! I and the English is that 'literary success' is ' \ for the one the success of the author and for ' j the other the success of the book. The book has often, for the English public, the air of a result of some impersonal, some mechan!cal , process, In which, on the part of the produc ing mind, a particular quality or Identity, a I recognizable character and cast, are not ln | volved. It is as if the production, like the I babies whose advent is summarily explained j to children, had been femd in the heart of a ] ca.bbage. This explains why one of a writer's ' ■ volumes may circulate largsly and the next j not at all. Ther© is no vision of a connection. ! In France, en the contrary, the book has a j human parentage, and this humanity remains | a conspicuous part of the matter. Is the par i entage, in the United States, taken In tha same- degree into account, or d;->?.s the cabbage origin, as I may for ccnvenl-n.:e call it, el-o there predominate? We must travel a few stages more for feidence on this point, and in the mean-time must stay our curiosity wiLh such alda aij we' happan to meet. Grouping them is. yet awhile, not easy — grouping them, at least, in relation to each other.'" ; Besides the article on the causes of the • j failure of the Spanish -Armada, by Capt. Mahan, the June 'Century will contain "Ten Months with the Cuban Insurgents," the ex j perienoes of a piajof- in the army under i Garcia, and an article- en "The Confederate 'Torpedo Service. "' by the electrician of the ! I tcipcdo division in the Confederate navy > I who ia.id the mine which blew up the first • j guiuboat ever destroyed by this means. The youngest person who has ever illus trated a magazine article Is without doubt the boy whose drawings are reproduced in the June Harper's to illustrate the article en titled "The Study of a Child,*' by Louise E. Hogan. The author, who is interested in the development of the new science of infant psychology, busied herself with collecting authentic records of spontaneous mind de velopment. The child studied was allowed to grow up as much as possible as his own nature prompted. He learned to count ana to write as nature taught him, and almost from infancy he drew things he saw with a pencil or cut them out of paper. The arti cle is full of amusement and is, besides, an important addition t to the science of bringing up children. On Our Book Tab'e. From the St. Paul Bock and Stationery Company : LITTLE BROWN & CO.— "The Duenna o£ a Genius," by M. E. Francis. $1.50. DREXEL BIDDLE PUBLISHER— "A Duel With Dcstiuv, and Other Stories," by Edith Townsend Everett; "Shanty town Sketches," by Anthony J. Prexel Blddle; "The Revenge of Lucas Helm." by Augusste Blondel', "Word for Word and Letter for Letter," by A. J. Drcxel Elddle. AMERICAN BOOK COMPANY— "Latin Prose Composition," by Charles Crocker Dodgo, B. A., 75 cents* i From the rublUftieTs: F TENNYSON SEEMf— "The Rise and Fall of the United States' by a Diplomat; "A Spanish Plot," j&y W A. 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Q "THE DUENNA OF A GENIUS" BOSTON'S CHIEF NEW NOVEL OF THE WEEK Clinton Scollard's "A Man at Arms'' Is Well Done First Volume of the English Dialect Dictionary to Be iHttned In July Sir Wulter Besont's Allegory of Two Cousins Rush's Prophetic Words. Correspondence Tho St Paul Globe. BOSTON, May 20.— The chief new novel of the week is Mrs. Blundell's "The Duenna of a Genius," published by. Messrs. Little, Brown & Co.; a mu-. slcal story equally unlike the rhapso dies of "Charles Anehesiter" and "Counterparts" and the inanities of the commonplace musical story. The two heroines, a Hungarian violinist and her sister, Who plays duenna, are seen in the course of their struggle to obtain recognition from tlhe London world, and the stolid strength of Eng lish convention makes a very good foil for their artistic temperament. The author allows the book to end happily, contrary to her ordinary' custom, and seems to have deliberately set herself the task of producing a story entirely fiee from anything painful. The chap ter heads are musical, .from •'lntr'o duzione" to "Finale con Molto Sentl mento," and the musical hero, with his white hair, black brows and ivory white face, suggests a pianist wall kno,wn and well worshiped -in London. Mr. Clinton Scollard's "A Man at Arms," published by Lamson & Wolfe, is precisely what might have been ex pected by those who know his poetry, very carefully finished, even polished, accurate in all its minor derails, but never concealing its art. "It reminds one of Dick Heldar's picture painted to please the British public, and "drored, and redrored, and tre-dored," and fin ished up with a high light on the sol dier's boot toe to catch the eye of the Biiitish buyer. The thing is well done j and pleases those for whom it is in tended, but doing it injures the artist, who has no right to think of the pub lic. The time of tlhe story is the four teenth century; the scene and char acters Italian and chiefly Venetian, for Mr. Seollard has no 'idea of being measured against Mr. Weyman. In spite of its shortcomings, this novel prophesies better things than tdie au thor's verse, for its subject is mas culine, not effeminate. A very good book to read after this Is Dr. Alex ander Robertson's "The Bible of St. Mark; the Altar and Throne of Ven ice." It is to be published by Mr. George Allen, of Ruskin House, and will especially appeal to lovers of Rus kin. For July, a very se-ric-us work is an nounced, but Interests only scholars and librarians. The first volume of the "English Dialect Dictionary." It has been camp! led by tlhe fame methods a3 rhe great Oxford dictionary, by the labors of many voluntary workers and by a lar.^e staff of paid assistants. Tn« cost Is about $7,C00 a yaar; twenty-threi yoars have been spent on tho work; a million and a half of reference slips have been collected; and the first vol ume, c^ntaii lrg three letters, will give 17,519 words and 2,248 phrases, with 42, 91 5 quotations, and the exact source whence they hsxvs been obtained. . Sir Walter Besanit haa just published a little allegory of two cousins, Jane and Sophia, a;nd tifceir conduct in re gard to certain suffering nei^ihbors, and undtr its cover says some very good words for the United States, as is hi 3 custom. In Englar.d, they grj quoting Sir Charles Murray's observations in regard to the Cuba of sixty years ago, with its captain general controlling G5.G00 soldiers, only 10,000 less than England -required for the whole Indian empire; and also Trollopi'a comments on the srtate of affairs thirty-nine yeaiM ago, when Mr. Buchanan advocated the purchasa of the island. 'There must be -some stage in misgovernment," ii£. says, "that will justify the interfer ence of bystan'd'lng; nations." It is rather Interesting at this time to find in Richard Rush's "Residence at the Court of London," published in 1845, and containing remeniscences of his life as American minister during Mon roe's administrations, words, now s,*en to be prophetic. Discussing the independence of the South American republics witlh Canning in 1823, he wrote to th« secretary of state that he said: "Spain might go on with her languid efforts and -protract the miser ies of war; but over the question of Spanish-American independence, she had no longer any control. Europe had no control over ft It war. a question forever settled. The indenenden-ee (of the late colonies of Spain) was ihe new political element of moiltrn times, and must henceforth pervade the military ai rangements of both worlds." This was said almost s&venty-flve years be fore the battle of Manila- impressed I' s truth upon Europe. — Stephenson Browne. Tho official decree whleh the archbishop of Cincinnati has issued with regard to "Quo Vadis" is interesting. Wo have already spoken of the divided religious and erotic in t"r«-st of the book, and of how each justified tho reading of the bonk in the minds of various classes. The archbishop of Clncin rati had evidently hung for some time on the- horns of a dilemma, undecided whothf-r a knowledge of the manners of the e-arly Christians was worth while having if it en tailed too intimate a knowledge of the habits of their pagan contemporaries. He finally announced his vicwa as follows: As regarding the book "Quo Vadis." the archbishop is not disposed to take part in the discussion of how much or how little harm it may do to readers, young or old. He wishes, however, that the Catholic insti tutions, schools, colleges, etc., c-f the dlo ce°« of Cincinnati should not take on them selves tho responsibility of favoring Its being r< j ad by persons under their oare; particu larly that they should not give it for pre miums m.r cast it In their libraries.— The Ctap-Book. _ CANNING AND PRESERVING CANS AND TOPS MUST BE CLEAN How to Have Whole Brl^lit lierrlex, Cherries and Crab Apples—— Plums Will Keep Covered 1h Cold "Water Bent W«y to Slake Urapei Jell)' How to Make Clear Crn»»] Apple Jelly. Of all woman's work there is none probably quite so hard as oanning and preserving. The long hot days over the hot stove are bad enough, but the certainty that all the work may not be in vain Is often the hardest part The first requisite is to have the can 3 and tops perfectly cleian and acalded with boiling water tfust before using. To prevent breakage rinse first in very warm water; wrap a wet towel around each and set In a pan in which there ia an inch of hot water; pour in the boil ing water; rinse well and put in the fruit at once. The same method may be used in pre paring jelly glasses. As an extra precaution after the tops have been screwed down aa tightly as possible, prepare a wax of three parts of rosin, two parts bees' wax and one part /tallow, me.t md mix well, and when preparing to can put on the back part of the stove, allow it to warm and after each can is ready put a thick rim of this around the base of the top. The friend who gave me this recipe said: "I would not give two cents for a can of fruit that had been boiled again after It had commenced to work. By using the wax the fruit would keep, if I U3e3 no rubbers, but I always use them to be sure." To have bright, soft preserves, bail thoroughly from three to four hours bsifore j adding tha sugar. To be 3Ure the jelly will jell heat the sucar in the oven so hot that it will sizzli when added to the juice. To have clear Jelly do not | boll longer from five to ten minutes j after the sugar is added. To have whole, bright berries, cur/ants, cherries, grapes and erab-appies, carefully p!ck them over, then rinse in tepid water and put into the cans, usln^ aiboat cnp-hal'f cupful of sugar to each pint, fill as closely as pos sible without mashing the fruit and cover with co4d water; put en the rubbers and screw the tops on loosely, put ln a boiler In which Is sufficient cold water to cxumc to t-.vo inches from the tops of cans, and boil about twenty ! minutes; screw the tops tight and add the wax. Appleß, peaches and other such fruit may ba j peeled, cut in halves, cored or pitted and 1 canned the same way. If thfi fruit is desired sweeter a thick syrup i may be made of white sugar and watei and ■ used instead of above method. The fruit will keep if less eugar Is used. Plums will keep by putting them in jars, covering with cold water and scaling clcsely^ by tying paper over the top. Plums for pre serves or butter should be scalded and ■ ! drained. For preserves, make a thick syrup of water and white sugar. Add the plums and one cupful of vinegar for each gallon ! I after the plums have been added. 801 l about i i three hours, can and seal. There is no need I to mpaeure to get the exact amount c>f vine- , gar, but any cno who ence uses It always ; uses It. To make plum butter, rub the scalded plums through a colander, add half as much sugar as fruit, boil slowly, stirring well, to prevent burning, until very thick. The most satisfactory way to make grape lelly is to put the grape 3 in a granite Uettlo | with one-half cup of water for each four i quarts, boil unti! soft, strain through a jfllv j t>ag, pressing through all that will rome, bell I twenty minutes, add as much sugar as juice j and boil ten minutes. This is very dark and rich and takes the place of grape Jam without ' the addition of the useless s^edß and skins. | To make very nice grape jelly put the grap?g j in a jar. place it in a kettle of boiling water, i boil until soft, put in a jelly bag. let drain, but do not press; add an equal quantity of sugar and boil ten minutes. What remains in the jelly bag may be made into sauca by the addition of water and sugar and boiling a few minutes. Currants, to be palatable when cooked, rc j quire at least one-half a3 much sugar as: j fruit, and are much nicer if canned with ! that amount of sugar added. Currant jelly I is made like lecond recipe for grape Jelly. j Green currants are very good canned, but | Gi;s!'be 'iullo sweet if we are to be paid for our trouble by the way Uiey are llkrd. In green gooseberry" catsup is one of th^ THE PHTHEBN INSTITUTE OF OSTBOPBTH V nvvr^vxi. Globe Bttildiagi Minneapolis. O*blC£,b. New York Life Building, St. Paul. Edwin C. Pickler, D. 0., President. 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For further particului-s call v-; :• it LAROKST MUSIC HOI'SK IN" Q5 1-QQ M-/01R* E"S4F4Ip Q* ■ ** THE NORTHWEST. mk i a jSL€-> S'JcSI ■ STSEa Sli W 1^ NEXT TO POSTOFFICE. nicest ways <n which this fruit may be p UI up. Take half as much sugar as fruli and hair as much vinegar as sugar. ad« thfrif * ccinn a mon and clovea, boil until thick, can and seal. As tastes differ I cs ay ad b d e zi l L to B r^r who Ilke thinKa s ™ There are hundreds of ways to use tojna toes. The usual mistake made Is in add ing water when put to cook. The propel way is to. set the kettle that holds the peole* ; , O nT.f°l S °, n . thß baOk part of th « "toy, until the Juice starts, when they may h. moved to the front and canned aft™ thej addition of sugar, if liked as sau ■" If lemon flavor is liked, sliced lemon may b« added to suit the taste. Green tomatoes re! quire longer cooking, but make a very nlc« sauce w.th the addition of either cinnamon and cloves or lemons for flavoring. Pieplant for canning should be gathered when tender and need not be peeled. The easiest way is to rinse, wipe cut In inch-long strips, flll the cans, pour "old wa ter over, and seal. A better way is to flll i.,ffJ; ai l?L add no w ater, put to boll in cold water like other canned fruit, and as tlia «£ Pl ?, n n b^f, 1° Wn add more unUI th" j£. are full boll twenty minutes longer, s-al. The pieplant will be a light wine colof. For preserves boil the pieplant in a thick syrup until it is thick. It does not «make a good Jelly without the addition of other fruit, such as currants or apples. A very health, ful drink Is made by pressing out the julc3, adding a cupful of sugar to each pint bring to a boil, can and seaj. This make 3 a nice family wine by putting it in Jars, tying a cloth over the top, and allowing It to fer ment. It Is &t to use in about a year. Clear crab apple Jelly: Pick the apples over, reject all poor ones, and cut out any bruised spots; wash, core and quarter, put in the preserving kettle, with water enough to cover and boil until soft. Strain m!M, d f ° ft n ° l^ lUeeze th ? bag> boll tne julce ten> mluutea, add an equal quantity of sugar, and boll flve minutes. Apple butter may be niad» of what is in the bag. Press through a col ander, add water until it Is like sauc then add one-half cup cider vinegar and two I pounds of sugar to each gallon. Flavor with I cinnamon, boil flown about one-third Three hours Is none too long. Care must be tak.n that it does not burn. Plums and crabapples, equal parts, makes a bright, well-flavored Jelly. Scald the plums, put in the kettle with the apples and pro ceed as for apple jslly. The pulp may be made into butter in the same way. All fruits should be gathered on a bright day; never after a rain. To make the syrup for preserving, uke a pound of sugar for a pound of fruit, add one tablespoonful of water for each pound of sugar. Many recipes are given for preserving | grapes fresh during the winter. The flr3t requisite is that the fruit be in perfect can* dition. If the grapes bought in the market are to be used, they should be as fresh aa possible when receivrd; remove any inuierfccj ones with a sharp pair of scissors, put a layer of cotton in a pasteboard box; then a layer of grapes; the bunches not touching each other; another lay of cotton, and so on. until the box is full, witli a layer ot j cotton on top. The cotton should be tucked down at the sides after each layer. Put on the cover, tie securely, and put away in i ' cool, dry place. A good cellar doos verj I well. — K. E. H. "A Yankee in Spain" is the title of a seripi of articles by Poultn^y Bigelow, beginning in the number of Harper's Weekly dated Ma) 14. Mr. Bigelow made a bicycle trip througt the peninsula in the interests of the weekly to ascertain the s:ntlment of the ppopl~ ol all classes in the couutiy in regard to man] • subjects that are now of vital interest. Th« articles will be illustrated with photogntphi by the author. The opening of tlon between Dawson ard the outside worU brings letters from Tappan Adncy, the Week ly's special correspondent in the gold fields. "Animal Intelligence," by Wesley Mills, ii the title of a book announced for ear'.y publi cation by the Maoruillan company. Ttaa \ author treats hia rubject from thp point o: j view of the comparative psychologist, end from the physiological standpoint several f chapters of the book are devotee! to hiberna tion and allied states, and the physical cor relation to psychic development, etc. 41 will ! be remembered that tho autnor was i;i UtJ ! the president of tho Sodety for the 9nd f^a I C'oii!r;rra:lve :'e-«v^i.-? • in .~.~ ~- i A Wlinle's Skolt-toii. Thp skeleton alone of an average whale WelghH twenty-five ton*.