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D<3 THS OTHSR HALF Eft!
A CHAT WITH PATTI j
TIIK QREAT SIKGEB LOVES TO RE. I
CALL IMIDKXTS OK lIKII '
YOUTH
SHE SANG IN THE CRADLE ;
Demanded Her Claret Before She
Knew Its Name Stole Behind <
the Scenee and Watched the Per- ]
forotanee 'i"iir«:uj*;-h a Hole In ihe j
Scenery Sang at n Benefit for (
Sarah Bernhardt.
I
When a great singer consents to talk about '
herself it is as it a strong opera glass were '
placed beton the eyes of the public and the
personality of the diva breught within close '
range.
A conversation with Pattl appeared recent
ly In the Chicago Record and in Its smoothly
flowing current one sees the singer as she
sees herself.
"1 believe I sang In my cradle." ehe de- '
rlares, "and was the most weird ar.d pre*
coeious baby ever known.
"When only two or three months old I had '
a troublesome way of sending up a long, wild
ory directly my mother sat down to dinner.
Every blandishment was tried in vain to i
soothe me, until the happy thought struck my
mother of letting me drink out of her glass
of claret. That was all 1 wanted, and regu
larly every day at the same hour I cried for
my claret until I got It.
"As I grew older my one joy was to go be
hind the scenes at the opera where my parents
were singing. The artists used to bring me
cake and macaroni, and, peeping through a
hole in the scenery, I enjoyed myself might- ,
Hy, watching the performance. My musical ,
ear was so keen that one night when a fa
mous artist had performed her long slow
piece. I todd ed up to her and said in my lit
tle Yankee way: 'Just you listen to me right
away! Try to trill as 1 do! You trill nt flat!*
"Of course to me my parents seemed the
best and greatest people In the wide world.
And I doubt, indeed, whether any woman I
have since met ever came up to my mother
for beauty of person and uprightness of !
character. She was excessively pious and
never missed attending early mass. At
tracted by her grace and beatity, a member
of the congregation used to follow her so '
persU-tently every morning on the way '
to church that my mother became annoyed. '
One day she turned upon him suddenly, with
her purse In her hand. 'Here, poor man,' she
said, iv a pitying tone, 'this must be what
you want; take all I have.' And she was
never followed again."
The great Adellna cherishes with unceasing ,
love and duty the memory of her parents, and
will often tell how her mother, In the-pride
of her heart, would join the crowd waiting
nightly at the stage door to see La Somnam
bula, cloaked and bonneted, step Into her
carriage. "Mia flgl'a! Mia Adellna!" would '
be the fond mother's exclaim, vastly enjoy
ing the surprise and curiosity of the crowd
about her.
Pattl hag naturally met every European ]
•^4e£e Literary Gleanings, =r
—^ — =_i
"America mid Enro-pe."
Three disconrsp.s on international relations,
written in 1896. Cloth; pp. 127. G. P. Put
nam's Son?. New York; !>t. Paul Book and
Stationery company.
This little book is one of the "Ques
tions of the Day" series, and is an in
teresting addition thereto, notwith
standing the fact that the discourses '
bear date of 1896. 1
The first discourse Is by the late '
David A. Wells and Is highly enter
taining, because of the sudden change
In the popular feeling toward Great
Britain. Mr. Wells directs all his ener
gies toward allaying the Anglophobia
in America, little dreaming that in two
years the country would be In sore
need of an antidote for Anglomania.
Wlille it is so much easier to believe
what we want to believe, it Is a ques
tion whether the most hopeless Anglo
nianiac will be satisfied with the sup
port which the writer gives his asser
tion that "wherever England's sover
eignty has gone two blades of grass
have grown where one grew before;"
that her flag has benefited every coun
try over which iti floats and has car
ried with it civilization, Christianity,
order. Justice and prosperity."
Did these virtues breed the American
revolution and the interminable Irish i
rebellions?
The next article is one by Edward i
J. Phelps, who makes an attack on the
Monroe doctrine as meaningless in
these days of America's strength. He i
argues to prove the groundlessness of
the interference in the Venezuelan dis- ,
pute and dashes at those who advo- ,
cated Intervention in Cuban affairs in
1596, with the accusation that they
clamored for war for war's sake; "for
its contracts and its plunder and its
offices and the spoil that can be gath
ered out of the common calamity; that
they wanted it to further among the
ignorant the chances of some party
candidate" and were not unwilling to
drive the country into disgrace and :
dishonesty for the sake of those "who
had its material to sell."
Two years have slipped away since
those words were uttered, and now that j
HELD CAPTIVE. ,
«* W§!/ a condition she
\ *j4.T)B*. can " nl be a happy wife or '
F&KfclfiS^B tnot1 "' '"''"'• she cannot be an
I foki'SSxS efficient housekeeper; she '
' &s■'s£ cannot be a woman at all
__W_W<fiW i" any complete or satis- !
"I was afflicted for seven- '
teen months," writes Mrs.
Elizabeth J. Bullard, of Winnie, Bladen Co., l
N. C, in a significant letter to Dr. R. V. Pierce, t
of Buffalo, N. Y. "I was confined to the house i
and yard all the time. I could not be on my '
feet but a very little. I could not lift the weight '
Of a cup of coffee; and did not have strength to
speak more than a fessr words at a time. 1
"We tried three doctors and a lot of patent ,
medicine which cost over one hundred and
twenty-five dollars; and I found no relief. I had
lost all hone of ever getting any better when my J
friends advised me to take Dr. Pierces medi
cine. My husband said we would try that next 1
He got me five bottles of ' Favorite Prescription ' |
and three of ' Golden Medical Discovery.' I .
commenced taking these medicines and soon
found relief. When I had taken one bottle of *
each I walked half a mile to church. '
" I commenced taking it the first of January «
1897; the first of the following June I took my *
Cooking in hand and have cooked for eleven In ,
family all through the summer. It was Dr.
Pierces medicine that gave me all the relief I
have received. I recommend it to. all suffering
females, for it is his medicine and the help of
God that has restored me."
Every suffering woman In this land
should write to Dr. Pierce and learn how
certainly he can help her to health and
strength. It costs nothing to write and ,
receive entirely free the advice of one of ,
the most experienced physicians in this <
country. His great thousand-page book the ]
Common Sense Medical Adviser will be
sent free for 21 one-cent stamps, the bare
cost of mailing.
sovereign. The old German emperor was her
E-reatest favoilte. When a naive girl, singing
at Hamburg, the emperor sent her a message
requesting her to walk with him early In the
morning while he drank the water. "Cer
tainly not," was her reply to tho bearer. "I
get up early for no king In Europe."
The last time before his death that she
saw the emperor he sent to ask her to visit
him In his opera box, apologizing for being
100 unwell to come behind the scenes, and
when she appeared he playfully thanked her
for the condescension. "Oh! now, sire," she
replied, with tears in her eyes, "I would run
anywheie to see you."
The Emperor Alexander 11. of Russia hon
ored Patti by a peculiar distinction, of which
no one but the celebrated Boslo could boast.
He bestow; d upon her a large gold medal set
In brilliants, and requested her to wear it on
i ribbon belonging to the order of St. An
drew. He also appointed her his court singer
In ordinary. The Duchess of Edinburgh has
known Patti since her childhood. A few
years ago they met at a R;>thschild reunion.
Looking down .at a bracelet on the diva's arm
the duchess r. cognized It as a present of her
father's — the Russian emperor. "Those were
happy days when you sang in St. Peters
burg!" she exclaimed.
The Prince and Princ.ss of Wales have al
ways shown Patti a great kindness, most cor
dially appreciated by her. The princess she
considers the prettiest woman In England.
When Marquise de Caux, dining at Marlbor
ough house, Pattl caused much consterna
tion among the guests and amusement to the
prince by exclaiming In her impulsive way
as she sipped her coffee, "Oh, sire! Que
voire cafe est debutant!" (How disgusting
is your Cafe!)
BERNHARDT'S BENEFIT.
The occasion of the first meeting between
Patti and the divine Sarah is related by th 9
woman who wa3 a close companion of Paul's
at the time. "Immediately on our arrival In
Paris," sihe says, "Adellna was besought by
several journalists to co-operate in a benefit
to be given in aid of the obscure actress, Sarah
Bernhardt, who had lost all her small pos
sessions In a fire. The Marquis of Caux
did not at first like the idea of his wife's
singing for an actress of no renown, but at
last he gave his consent. On the 6th of No
vember, lSti9, Adellna Patti sang at the Odeon
theater for the benefit of Sarah Bernhardt.
After the concert the latter, clad in a black
woolen gown, timidly approached the great
sing: r aud offered her a small bouquet, and
being too shy to utter a word of thanks she
kissed her hand. Who would have guessed
that so Insignificant a girl would develop into
ihe famous Sarah Bernhardt of today and
istonlsh the world by her triumphs and her
r-uarrels?"
PROPOSAL NO. 1.
This same woman tells of the unique pro
posal of the Marquis of Caux. This noble
gentleman had been following the diva about
for many months, in opposition to his moth
er's wishes, and meeting with but little en
couragement from AdeHina's family. They
were living at that time In the Champs
Elysees. The marquis came dally to the
house, and at last succeeded in securing the
good will of Patti's father and her brother-in
law, Strakosch. "One evening," she says,
"it was after the performance of the 'Travl
atl," the marquis remained with us when all
the rest had left Adeiina's dressing-room. As
be always retailed minutely the gossip of the
the war i 8 over and we have heard
seme queer noises in official circles
and smelled some queer smells in our
government contracts, one cannot help
but speculate as to how much truth
there wa.s in that caloric charge.
The third and last part of the book
is an address by Karl Schurz on arbi
tration and international disputes de
livered in 1896 before the arbitration
conference in Washington.
The burden of his thought may be
weighed in his opening words: "To
show that arbitration is preferable to
war," he said, "should be among civ
ilized people a s superfluous as to show
that to refer disputes between individ
uals or associations to courts of justice
is better than to refer them to single
combat or to street fights— in a word
that the ways of civilization are pref
erable to those of barbarism."
"Wlmlyhangh."
B ?>, 9i aham Trav ers (Margaret G. Todd).
Cloth; pp. 418; price, $1.50. D. Appleton &
Co., New \ork; St. Paul Book and Station
ery company.
What possesses the young women
authors that they tear open with de
light all the old wounds of childhood,
trace with ill-concealed glee the scars
of youth, pnd probe with a fiendish
persistence through the callouses of
age? It would seem that, when George
Eliot put her scalpel knife into the
tissues of girlhood, there was not a
shred that did not pass beneath the
blade. But dissection has a weird fas
cination about it, and a subject Is nev
er lacking.
Two women have displayed unusual
analytical skill recently — Elizabeth
Robins (C. E. Ralmond), in her char
acter sketch of the storm-tossed Val,
and Margaret G. Todd in her drawing
of Wilhelmina, of "Windyhaugh."
No doubt the author of "Windy
haugh" is gratified to know that she
has awakened hundreds of heart aches
by her vivid picture of little Wllhei
mina's throbbing sorrows. There have
been kind-hearted Mr. Darsles and
crusty Mr. Tail-o'-the-Weeks In the
lives of many people, and the little
friendships and childish antipathies
touch responsive chords. Then comes
girlhood cut short by premature wom
anhood, fronting the vexing perplexi
ties of life, the decisions, the pain of
long endurance, the storms, the trage
dies — the calm.
"I don't see why a man and a wom
an should be doomed, as so many are,
to go on perpetually consuming each
other's souls," says one of the subor
dinate characters in comment upon
Wilhelmina's sudden departure from
her husband, after but one day's
brldehood. In the little sentence the
author has slashed open one of the
livid scars on the face of modern life.
Skillfully has she, by context and In
ference, laid bare the cause of the
disfigurement in the first place. The
heroine was married at eighteen and
had little conception of life's possibili
ties for pain and pleasure. She sud
denly waked up to these, but, unlike
most girl women, she did not suc
cumb, but broke away like a wild colt.
Had she "bowed to her circumstances"
no doubt she would have been one
of those who fully justify the author's
discriminating declaration that "a
woman judges her male relatives In
the light of the great world and Its
Interests. The male relative judges
her in the light of his dinners and his
shirt buttons." '
"Windyhaugh," taken as a whole, is
a diamond In the rough. There are
many brilliant flashes and subtle plays
of color. But the author was evidently
afraid that Wilhelmina was too fine a
woman to be considered genuine, and
therefore she has attributed to her he
roine one or two rasplngly sneaking
tricks which are wholly out of har
mony with the character, and which
do much to spoil the picture. The
effect is much as If she had hung on
Wilhelmina's back a placard, where
on was Inscribed "This girl is human,
though she doesn't look It."
"Tlie Hng-uenot Sword."
By Jean Baptists Thill. Cloth; pp. 244 F
Tennyson Neely, New York; St. Paul Book
and Stationery company.
After one has followed the course
of love sketched lightly and with that
Quietness which respects the veil of
stillness that nature draws over the tu
multuous passions of the human heart,
there Is need of a new adjustment In
threading one's way through such a
story as that of "The Huguenot Sword,"
- ■ ■ - I. Mi Jl
THE ST. PAUL GLOBE— SUNDAY FEBRUARY 26, 1899.
town Adellna turned to him with a smile
and said: 'Now, marquis, what news? What
do they talk of In Paris?' 'The latest news,'
was his reply, Ms that we are engaged 1' This
was rather startling, but Adelina's features
lighted up with a charming expression. Smil
ing, she turned to the marquis, 'And why
not? I hope you do not object.'
"At first somewhat embarrassed, and then
with joyful agitation ths marquis stam
mered out: 'Oh no! Certainly not; I should
be the happiest of mortals If it were truer
"With a lovely blush Adellna put out her
hand to the marquis, who was almost be&lda
himself with joy, and said: 'It would make
me happy, too.'
"The marquis pressed the proffered hand to
his lips, and, Intoxicated with delight, ha
clasped Adeliua In his arms and then rushed
silently away."
THE DIVA'S PARROTS.
Patti has always been very fond ot parrots,
and the last time she was in New York she
was informed that there was a marvelously
clever "Polly" for sale, of which she ought
to become the proud possessor. Now Pattl
was quite willing to pay the enormous price
ol $*>0 to add "Jumbo" to her already valu
able collection of wise and witty birds. No
sooner did Jumbo come Into her possession
than not one word would he utter. Months
went by. but still he remained mute. Ono
day, however, he took a violent cold, and on
the prima donna's doctor entering the room,
to prescribe for her sulky pet this strange,
unaccountable parrot, opening his beak for
the first time, exclaimed tn hoarse, sihrill
accents: "Oh, doctor! I'm so sick. Take me
out of this!"
Lei)tei) Glasioips
Our Puritan ancestors are, no doulbt, re
sponsible for the fact that the season of
Lout in the United States is not regarded
with quite the same importance that It is in
European countries. Yet even there the
blood spilled during tlhe reformation did
much to deaden the original color of Lenten
customs.
The dissenters, who were in perpetual hot
water over "papish" practices, were wont to
regard with disfavor many of the usages
during this season. Dut before the reforma
tion, things. Indeed, were different. It was
necessary then to prepare for Lent In earn
est; to eat all one could hold, for, when the
t4me was on, no one dare taste meat, butter,
eggs nor anything which we would call
desserts. Hence Lent was preceded by a
season of feasting which began with Collop
Monday, when people revelled In meats and
puddings. "Shrove Tuesday" la still pan
cake day In England, and has not a few de
votees In Atmerlca.
Shrove Tuesday, says the Sunday Maga
slne, was not merely a pancake day, It was
a day of general merrymaking, with the
street full of muirniers and processions,
where good che-r, represented by a "drest
n*.awWn>" was burled, or when carnival,
"bedizened with tinsel and ftauntery," was
much applauded by tflie people, while Lent,
dressed in white and herring skins, on a
horse with trappings of oyster shells, was
equally reviled.
In different countries Lent was represented
by various unlovely personifications. In
Brflin It was a hidetoius old woman, who had
locked up carnival and killed merriment.
In N amies people still dress up a sort of
doll, wfoom they call La Quardssima. This
doll has an apple for a head, fastened by a
where the tale of love is accompanied,
as it were, by the beating of tom-toms
and the din and clatter of frenzied re
ligionists.
But such was the turbulent course of
life In Prance when Catherine de Medici
played cut-throat euchre with the Duke
of Guise and Admiral Collgny, using
Catholics and Huguenots alike as cards
and the supremacy of France as the
stake. It is this period that, covers the
life of Jean dp Marquette, the hero of
the romance. The story of his wander
ings brings the warm color of life to
the Huguenot settlement in America
during the sixteenth century. The book
therefore strikes a note In French his
tory that is in weird accord with the
stormy measures which Frenchmen are
playing even now.
"Tlie Cruise of the Cachalot."
By Frank T. Bullcn. Cloth; pp. 579; price,
$1.50. D. Appleton & Co., New York; St.
Paul Book and Stationery company.
When RudyardTCipling says of thl§
"epic of whaling" that no gther word
save immense can describe It, that he
never read its equal for deep-sea won
der and mystery, and that no other
book so completely covers the business
of whale fishing, it is in order for com
mon folk to hold their peace. Never
theless there are such .graphic descrip
tions, such simplicity of treatment,
such excellent illustrations that at the
risk of being called presumptuous we
venture to say that It is a good book
and wonderfully attractive.
BRIEFER NOTICES.
"Jasper Fairfax," by Margaret Holmes, re
vivifies the scenes of plantation life during
the Civil war, when the blacks that were
bound to their masters by ties of affection
regarded the "Lincum sojers" as a species of
devil. In the career of the unfortunate girl
Salome there is also a finely drawn picture
of racial prejudice, though In her nature there
is an unreal combination of virtue and vil
lainy.
The book is a cloth-bound edition of 319
pages, published by R. F. Fenno & Co., ot
New York. (St. Paul Book and Stationery
company.)
• • •
"The Hidden Mine," by Joseph A. Altsheler,
Is discovered, not by pick axes and shovels
only, but by crooked knives, revolvers, guns,
blood and broken bones. It is a "gold fever"
story, and therefore the characters are neces
sarily "tough." However, the fearful des
perado, "Halftrlgger," with his ferocious face
and brutal manner, finds a laughable con
trast in the polished, almost pedantic Mr.
Sheldon, who develops sterner stuff than that
which makes up the dandy— much to the sur
prise of his comrades.
The book is brought out by the Continental
Publishing company (St. Paul Book and Sta
tionery company), and may be had for $1
» * »
Intense dramatlque, remarkable humor and
graphic description distinguish Maurus Jokal's
historical romance, "Midst the Wild Car
pathians." It is a story of the Transylvanian
nobility of the seventeenth century, when
Hungary had become a Turkish province and
these valiant men maintained a perilous inde.
pendence in their mountain fastnesses. The
theme of the romance Is the sudden eleva
tion of a country squire to the throne of
Transylvania. The book Is translated from
the Hungarian by R. Nisbet Bain and is pub
lished by L. C. Page & Co., of Boston. (St
Paul Book and Stationery company.) Price,
$1.25.
• » •
In a handsomely bound little volume of
120 pages Tom Hall gives to the public a
collection of verses under the title "Wh?n
Love Laughs." On the cover, Cupid, mount
ed on a saucy pony, has run his feathered
lance right through two hearts, whose trick
ling blood has made a great red pool down In
the corner of the lid. Would the author
laugh at bleeding hearts? Hardly that The
bleeding hearts are only on the outside of
the book; the inside is just full of pleasant
fancies and piquant lines. E. R. Herrlck &
Co. publishers. (St. Paul Book and Stationery
company.)
• • •
Another tale of the old South which has re
cently been written Is that of "Llddy," by
Eugenia J. Eacon, who was herself a'slave
owner, and therefore feels that she knows
whereof she speaks. A little girl who heard
the author mention the fact that she had
been a slave owner regarded the Southern
woman with Buch apparent horror that Mrs.
Bacon could find no adequate vent for her
feelings except in writing the story of the
slave, "Llddy." Continental Publishing com
pany. New York; St Paul Book and Sta
tionery company. Price, $1.25.
• • •
It is remarkable how Dr. Lyman Abbott
could have found time to write books in ad
dition to performing all his other duties. But
a volume of 332 pages on the "Life and Let
ters of Paul" Is proof that the great divine
is more than equal to the heavy routine de
mands of his life.
The position, th* learning, tbe caliber and
spike to an orange body, into which six
quflla are stuck, each auWl meaning a week
of Lent. Tlie whole thing is hung acrows
the etreet from window to window on a piece
of string. Eaoh Sunday a quill is pulled out
amid great merry-making. In the end what
remains of poor Quarissima is blown up by
gunpowder.
Children still go a-shrovlng in the smaller
English country towns. They go from house
to house, singing quaint songs, and for their
pains get a pancake or some goody. A less
pleasant variation of this custom was Lenit
ctrockery, which flourished la Dorsetshire and
Wiltshire, where the children went armed
with etlckfi and stones and broke crockery
singing —
I've come a-Shroving
For a piece of pancake,
Or a piece of bacon.
Or a piece of truckle cheese
Of your own making;
If you give me a little
I'll ask for no more;
If you don't give me nothing
I'll rattle your door.
So if there was no pancake forthcoming,
at a signal fnom the leader the broken crock
ery, etc., was thrown against the door.
» • *
Time out of mind football has been con
sidered an appropriate game for Shrove Tues
day. Long ago ball was even played in, tlie
churches by lalce and cJergy on ' that day.
In a certain town In the County of Perth the
bachelors and miarrled men play football
against each other. The man most recently
married Is supposed to furnish th© ball.
The third Sunday in Lent a similar game
was played at St. Maio. Here again the soule,
a sort of rude football, was furnished by the
most newly married man. it was gayly
decorated and brought to the church, and
Placed on the high altar, wnere It remained
from early mass until noon. Then the priest
blessed it and gave it to the players.
• • •
"In old times the first Sunday in Lent was
the day for shooting the goose, and also the
papagiae. This latter game was an innio-va
tion introduced by the Duchess Anne early in
the fifteenth century. Tbe papagiae was a
email wooden pigeon, placed on the highest
turret of the castle. All the good marks
men for miles around came to the contest,
and tlhe one fkwtunate enough to knock the
blid down was called king of the papagiae.
No small thing, for not only was he kink
of all carnival, but he received an allowam.ee
varying from $300 to $500 the following year.
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"At the service of the Tenebres a quaint
custom still exists. At the words 'vale of
the temple was rent In twain' the priest not
only overturns his stool, but the congregation
bang on kettles and pans they have bought
for the purpose. 'A means whereby the
faithful were encouraged to take part In the
service, the old chronicler put It,"
The air of general gloom was added to by
the women, usually so trim, coming to mags
with streamers and loops of their coifs flap
ping loose and unstarched about their faces."
• • •
"Formerly in England the processions of
Palm Sunday were carried on with a good
deal of realism. The wooden figure of an
ass, with a figure of the Christ upon It, was
dragged through the streets, while the people
waved palms and sang songs before it. Later
an angel was added to the procession. For
in St. Andrew's parish in London the church
record for the year 1520 shows eight pence
paid 'for hire of the angel on Palm Sun
day.'
"However, angels became a drug on the
market or else the quality of angels dete-
the heart of the author are sufficient guaran
tee of the value of the book. Houghton,
Mifflin & Co., Boston; St. Paul Book and
Stationery company. Cloth; price, $1.26.
• * *
"The Unseen Hand, by Lawrence L. Lynch,
author of "Shadowed by Three." is a mystery
story of sufficient power to keep one chasing
the phantom to the edge of the last page. It
is published by Laird & Lee, of Chicago, and
can be had in board covers for 80- cents, or in
paper for 25 cents. St. Paul Book and Sta
tionery company.
LITERARY GOSSIP.
"Sour Saints and Sweet Sinners," by Dr.
Carlos Martyn. This is a sharp, caustio
description of parochial life, written from
the inside, by a pen as keen as Dean Swift's
or Junius'. The well-known author run"* the
gamut from candidating, throligh the "unco
quid," to church politics. Every clergyman
and every church officer will be Intensely in
terested in this volume. Pictures are painted
with pre-Raphaelitlc finish and fidelity, and
with wit and satire enough to furnish a
dozen books. We commend this work as
unique of its kind. The Sour Saints may ob
ject, but the Sweet Sinners will overrule tlie
objection, and the public will buy the book.
F. Tennyson Neely, publisher. New York and
London.
• • •
"A Brief Tn'trodtiction to Modern Philos
ophy," by Arthur Kenyon Rogers, Ph. D.,
is published by the Maemlllan company.
Prof. Rogers has attempted to show how
the problems of philosophy arise from the
presuppositions of our ordinary beliefs and.
practical needs, and what are the most sig
nificant solutions that have been given to
them by modern thought. It thus alms to
furnish a general survey which shall be use- '
ful to the student as ' an introduction to a
philosophical training, i
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There has been much comment concerning
the title of the novel upon which Beatrice
Harraden has so long been engaged, and
which is at last completed and about to be
published. It was to have been called, "I,
too, have passed through Wintry Terrors."
This Is a line from one of William Watson's
poems. She now has betaken herself to Holy
Scripture, and appears to have finally adopt
ed as her title, "The Fowler."
"Our soul is escaped as a bird out of
the snare of the fowlers."
The book Is to be published by the Black
woods, in Edinburgh, and by Dodd, Mead &
Co.. in New York.
• » *
"Fighting for Humanity; or, Camp and
Quarter Deck," by Gen. O. O. Howard, the
American Havelock, who, a delegate of the
Christian commission to the encampments,
hospitals and ships', visiting soldiers and sea
men, has put his> observations and sketches
into book form under the title of "Fighting
for Humanity; or, Camp and Quarter Deck."
His reviewer says: "The book could not be
better." The work affords graphic pen pic
tures of the pavilions, the tabernacles, the
hospital tents, with camp life, the saloons and
their antidotes, of men-of-war and transport
ships, of Clara Barton and her work, of the
Cubans, and the closing chapter contains an
estimate of Gen. Shatter and some interest
ing Items touching his campaign and battle.
F. Tennyson Neely, publisher, Xew York and
London.
• • •
Lothrop Publishing company have in press
for early issue "Tales of the Malayan Coast,"
by Rounsevllle Wildman, United States con
sul at Hong Kong. Mr. Wildman's connection -
with the stirring affairs in the far East, his
association with Agulnaldo, the Filipino chief,
and his intimate connection with Dewey's
victory and the progress of the war In the
Philippines will give to his stories an espe
cial interest. The book is timely, and no
one better knows the Malayan coast than Con
sul Wlidman.
• * *
The timely topic of Mormon polygamy, and
the opinions of the late Brigham Young and
various Mormon wives regarding It, Is tact
fully discussed by Mrs. Frank Leslie In an
illustrated article which is one of the prin.
clpal features of Frank Leslie's Popular
Monthly for March. The Nicaragua canal
project— past, present and futjjre— is ably dis
cussed by E. A. Fletcher, whose contribution
has the advantage of being thoroughly well
Illustrated. "Queen Wilhelmina and Women's
Work in Holland," by S. M. D'Engelbronner,
Is full of personal and literary, as well as
pictorial interest, which is squally true of
"Sketching from Nature," bj- H. Vllliers
Barnett. Thomay R. Dawley Jr., famous for
his hair-breadth escapes while campaigning
with Gomez in Cuba, tells some thrilling
stories of that veteran hero and the late Gen.
Quintin Bandera. "A Skein of Silk" Is a
charming illustrated paper, by W. C. Kitchin,
describing silk-worm culture In Japan. Tho
"Woman In Action" article tells about the fair
sex in Wall street. Bret Harte and Egerton
Castle head the fiction writers In Frank Les
lie's Popular Monthly, and there are com
plete stories this month by Mary J. Holmes
(illustrated by Wenzell), «"d Etta W. Pierce
rlorated, for in 1637 the hire was only four ■— **^ 1— ■ ■*-— -p^m^m^^mui™ i
pence." "^^^^^"^■^^* ,^^^^^^^^^^^M"s'*"*""-"-b*'"-b»
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attired official entered and with the greatest
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of figures on the window are Miriam, carry
ing her timbrel and standing for art; the fDA^HP<J IMDnDTPH CII IS Cr»Aa UC? o
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Munklttrick and others. The fine art repro
ductions in thia number are profuse and beaai
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MARCH MAGAZINES.
ATLANTIC MONTHLY.
"A Wholesome Stimulus to Higher Politics."
"9o*me Cranks and Their Crotchets," John
Fiske
"Our Contemporary Ancestors in the South
ern Mountains," William Goc<lell Frost,
"Talks to Teachers on Psychology," 11., Will
iam James.
"Reminiscences of Julia Waa-d Howe," IV.,
Julia Ward Hiowe.
"Co-mida, An Experience In Famine," Frank
Norri-j, ,
"PfeST3ent Eliot as an Edueatdonal Reform
er," William De Witt Hyde.
"The Kindergarten Child— After the Kinder
garten," Marlon Hamilton Carter.
"An Evicted Spirit," Marguerite Merington.
"Chief," James B. Hodgkin.
"The Autobiography of a Revolutionist," VI.,
P. Krc-potkin.
"The Vital Touch in Literature," John Bur
roughs.
"Writers That Are Quotable," Bradford Tor
rey.
"A Winter Holiday." Bliss Carman.
"The Largest Life." Archibald Lampman.
"Benediotus," Julie M. Lippmann.
"Such Is the Death" the Soldier Dies," Robert
Burns Wilson.
"The Upbuilding of the Theater," Norman
Hapgood.
"Experiences of a War Censor," Grant
Saulres.
THE CENTURY.
"At the Court of an Indian Prince," R. D.
Mackenzie.
"The Bond of Blood," Will H. Thompson.
. "Heroes of the Railway Service."
I. Notes From Experience. Charles De
Lano Hine.
11. General View, Gustav Kobbe.
Sonnets: "The Duomo," "The CathedTail Mur
mur," Edith M. Thomas.
"Via Crucls," a romance of the second cru
sade, V., F. Marion Crawford.
"Poor Llttde Jane," John Vance Cheney.
"Alexander's Victory at Issus" (Alexander
the Great), Benjamin Ide Wheeler.
"A Temple of Solomon," Margaret Sutton
Briscoe.
"Reciprocity," Mnry A. Mason.
"Gilbert Stuart's Portraits of Women,"
Charles Henry Hart.
"The Winslow at Cardenas." J. B.
Bemadou, Lieutenant, U. S. N.
"Silence," Peter McArthur.
"Cable-Cutting at Cienfuogos." by the com
mander of the boat expedition, Cameron
McR. Winslow. Lieutenant, U. S. N.
"British Experience in the Government of
: Colonies," James Bryce.
"Gen. Sherman's Tour of Europe," Gen. W.
T. Sherman.
"The Century's American Artists Series,"
Arthur Hoeber.
"Pilgrims of Mecca," Mary Hallock Fwrte.
"The Sinking of the Merrlmac," Part IV.,
Richmond Peairson Hobson, Naval Con
structor, U. S. N.
"Scenes In the Spanish Capital," Arthur
Houghton.
"The Capture of Manila," 1., Crossing the
Pacific and Landing Near Manila, Francis
V. Greene. Major General, U. S. V.
"The W'ocdhaven Goat," Harry Stillwell Ed
wards. - -
"Topics of the Time."
"Open Lettrs."
"In Lighter Vein."
HARPER'S MONTHLY.
"The Spanish-American War," Part 11., "Th»
Coming of War," by Hon. Henry Cabot
Lodge, United States senator from Mas
sachusetts.
"Hearts-Ease Over Henry Heine," a poem
by Sarah Piatt.
""On the Steps of the City Hall," a rtory
by Brander Matthews.
"Major General Forrest at Brice's Cross-
Roads," by John A. Wyeth, M. D.
"Storm and Calm," a poem, by Helen Hay.
"Their Silver Wedding Journey," a novel
Part 111., by William Dean Howells.
"English Characteristics," by Julian Ralph
Stories In Verse— l., "A Woman's Hand;" 11.
"At the Comedy;" 111., "A Tragedy, by
Arthur J. Stringer.
"Without the Courts," a story, by Sarah
Barnwell Elliott.
"The Building of the Modern City House,"
Part 1., by Russell Sturgis.
"The Way of the Cross," a story, by Stephen
Bonsai.
"Ebb-Tide," a poem, by Guy Wetmore Car
ry 1.
"A Song," a poem, by Hildegarde Hawthorne. '
"The Span o' Life," a novel, Part VI. (con
clusion), by William McLennan and J.
N. Mcllwraith.
"The Rented House," a story, by Octave
Thanet.
"The Massacre of Fort Dearborn at Chicago,"
gathered from the traditions of the In- '
dlan tribes engaged in the massacre and
from tne published accounts, by Simon '
Pokagon, chief of the Pokagon band of
Pottawatomie Indians.
"Vvolet," a poem, by Martha Gilbert Dickin
son.
"The Drawer," with introductory story by '
L. Morgan SHI. - •
Literary notes by John Kendrick Bangs.
LIPPINCOTT'S.
"The Sport of Circumstances," by Clarinda '
Pendleton Lamar.
"Cuba," by Joseph A. (Nunez.
"In the Night," a poem, by Charles G. D.
Roberts.
"Recollections «f a London Lawyer," by Q.
Burnett Smith.
"ImpeTialism," by Owen Hall.
"Bralnerd's Idol," by William T. Nichols.
"Perception, of the Picturesque," by J*. Hun
ter.
"Chinese Physicians In California," by Wil
liam M. Ttedale.
"Mendicity as a Fine Art," by Francis J.
Ziegler.
"His Honor," by Geraldine Bonner.
PALL MALL.
"At Lady Grenfel'l's Masquerade Ball," C.
Dana Gibson.
"Kinsmen Strong," Charles G. D. Roberts.
"Sketches in Egypt," C. "Dana Gibson.
"Behaji'e Masterpiece," Capt. D. Beames and
Edgar Jepson.
"The Sunset Glow," M. J. Marshall.
"On the Sea Shore," Arthur L. Salmon.
"Puvis De Chavannes," Marie L. yon Vorst.
"Whitechroats," Ada Smith.
"The Shipwreck," Gertrude Atherton.
"Mrs. Merington's Philosophy," C. O'Conor
Eocles.
"Suppressed Plates, " 111., George Some 3
Layard.
"The Skirts of Chance." V. Aurelia, H. B.
Marriott-Watson.
"How Like the Sea," Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
"The Ship," Her Story, V., W. Clark Russell.
"Mysie," Lockwoedi Towle.
"The Kaiser in Palestine," Frederick Green
wood.
"Old Memornles." Afghanistan, IV., Gen. Sir
Hugh Goug-h. G. C. 8., V. C.
"A Month Among the Pines of Areachon,"
T. Andrea Cook.
"The Silver Sku.ll." Chapters XIX.-XXI., S.
R. Crockett.
"For One Man's Pleasure," "Violet Fane."
"From a Cornilsh Window," A. T. Qulller
Couch.
"Humours of the Month."
ST. NICHOLAS.
"In the Toy-Country," Mrs. Burton Harrison.
"The Pirate Poodle." Verse. Carolyn Wells.
"Apprentices of the United States Navy,"
Joseph Coblen-Iz Groff.
"The Case of Mrs. Burrows," George Madden
Martin.
'"The Wheat That Drowned the City," E. W.
C.
"When the Old Toys Were Young," Chapters
IX., X., E. H. House.
"The Best Game We Play," Verse, Annie C.
Steele.
"A Piece of News," Verse, Margaret John
son.
"Dorothea Puts the Room in Order," Julia
Darrow Cowles.
"The Taming of Little Pleasant," Mary
Tracy Earh-v
"The Story of Betty," Chapters V., VI., Caro
lyn Wells.
"The So'e Survivors," Chapter IX., Gerrge A.
Henty.
"How We Helped Uncle Sam Prepare For
War," Henry La Motte, U. S. N.
"One Kindly Thought," Veirse, R. W. Mc-
Al-pine.
"The Snow Man," Edwin Emerson Jr.
"The Old Moon," Verse, D. H. Barron.
"The China Animals," Verse, Elizabeth Cart
wright.
"The Taming or the March Hare." Verse,
Christopher Valentine.
"Books and Reading For Young Folk."
"The Goops," Verse, GeJett Burgess.
Current Eevents.
Editorial Notes.
Letter Box.
Riddle Box.
NEW ILLUSTRATED.
"How They Survive."
"The Return of John Abney," M. B. Hardi»'
"The World's Sport," W. Blew and Rock
wood.
"The Treasure of Awatapu Creek," Herbert
W. Tompkins.
"The Labourer of Port Aven," William
Farquhar Payson.
"A Famous Fratricide," Maj. Martin A. S.
Hume.
"Rose and Chrysanthemum.— l.: The Mv- j
sume," Carlton Dawe.
"Flashes From the Footlights," with por- j
traits.
"B 23," Ernest W. Low.
"Camp," Lewis Torre.
"From the Cape to Cairo," C. de Thierry.
"Lady Barbarity; A Romantic Comedy, - ' i
chapters V. and VI.. J. C. Snaith.
SELF CULTURE.
"The Hawaiian Islands of the United States"
(illustrated), Prof. Olaf Ellison.
"England and the United States and a De
fensive Alliance," Francis Asbury Roe,
rear admiral, U. S. N.
"Athenians and Pericles," Hon. Boyd Win
chester.
"National Songs of America," Delia M. John
son.
"Victorian Thought and Thinkers: ll.—Evo
lution," Eugene Parsons.
"Self-Realization," Prof. J. Grier Hibben.
"The Modern Search for Ancestors," Mary
Hall Leonard.
"Dante and His Age: lll.— Minor Works,"
William Clark, D. C. L.
"A Glance at Heidelberg, Past and Present"
—11. (Illustrated), Anna "L. Wetmore
Smith.
"The English In Egypt: How and Why They
Are There," Hon. David Mills, M. P.
"Sea Wave Motors," E. E. Treflry.
"Life In a Social Settlement— Hull House,
Chicago," Alzlna Parsons Stevens.
"Rubber Gathering," D. O. Kellogg.
"The German Army and Its Organization" (Il
lustrated). Leon Mead.
"The Fate of the American Farmer," Edgar
L. Vincent.
"The Cultivation of Literary Style," Presi
dent T. J. Allen, M. A.
"Writing as a Means of Improvement," B. F.
Cochran.
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"The Physical Basis of Life," Prof. Rollln H
Burr.
"Between the Covers of the 'Postal Guide' —
II.," Lora S. La Mance.
"The World and Its Doings," Editorial Com
ment, The Editor.
"Chronicle of the Month."
"Correspondence: Inferior and Superior
Races." Hartwell M. Ayer.
"Inquiries Answered," I. M. J. and The
Editor.
WIDE WORLD.
"I Crashed Heavily Overboard," frontispiece.
"Tlie Adventures of Louis de Rougemont,"
VII. (As Told by Himself.)
"The Miraculous Black Virgin of Roc-
Amadour," B. Waters.
"The Wine Festival of YeveY," Miss Kath
leen Schlesinger.
"The Strange Story of John M. Smvthe,"
John G. Rowe.
" Ho JY A Girl Climbed Fujiyama," Miss Yei
Theodora Ozakl.
Short Stories— l.— ".Lost In the Snow." W. E
Condln; ll.— "The Linguln." Lieut Col
A. Haggard, D.5.0.: lll.— "Shot Throu-jh
the Head With a Ramrod," Alfred Crab
tree and Samuel Jepson: IV.— "Through
Twenty Miles of Maelstrom." William
Jameson Reid.
"A Cossacks' Climbing Race," Robert L Jef
ferson. F.R.G.S.
"A Martyr to Science." L. H. Eisenmann.
Round the World on Wheels " Fredrri. k
W. Emett.
"A Norwegian 'Klapp-Jagt,' " Capt. Gerard
Ferrand.
"A Breton Wedding," Miss Emma Pugh.
"Life In a Bengal Forest," A. Rattray
"The Boomerang and Its Flights,' 1 John
Jennings and Norman H. Hardy.
"Twenty-eight Days Without Food"," Robert
Radellffc-.
"Odds and Ends."
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