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THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1896. LIFE OF McKINLEY. N advanced copy of Robert P. Porter’s *“Life of William McKin- ley” has been received for review from the publishers, N. G. Hamil- ton Company, Cleveland, Ohio. It is a voluminous work of 440 pages, finely printed on heavy paper and handsomely illustrated. Aside from the powerful political interest attached to McKinley, the publishers aver in a prefatory note, “his life has been one so typical of all that is bestin the seli-made American, his career one that affords such stimulus and inspiration to the youthful brain and sinew of our country, that it is with genuine satisfac- tion we publish the stainless record of the citizen, soldier and statesman.” The biographer, Mr. Porter, is not a stranger to the people of the Nation. “When we asked Mr. Porter to under- take is work,” say the publishers, “it was with the knowledge of his peculiar | fitness—as writer, economist and personal | friend of McKinley—for the task. For | years an investizator of industrial topics, | as member of the Tariff Commission, | Superintendent of the Eleventh Census | and active journalist, Mr. Porter has had | unusual opportunities to observe the prog- | ress of the Nation under a generation of | protection policy; and he, perhaps, more | any other, save McKinley himself, | given the people an intelligent under- | of its working.” s introductory remarks, Mr. Porter thus refers to McKinley: *Essentially a man of the people, his rise from a lad, born in an Ohio village, to the position of one of the foremost statesmen of the times, is full of interest to the American public. 1 in the prime of a vigorousand de- veloping {manhood, the subject of this sketch presents alike to young and old the possi es of our free institutions, when supplemented by patriotism, integrity, cour: perseverance and unbounded faith in the economic policies which best promote the welfare of our common coun- try. The story is that of a serious and earnest life—a life of devotion to duty, to principle and to the public service. Aided by nothing, save an honorable parentage, a good constitution, a quick perception, a courteous bearing, a brave heartand a Ligh sense of honor, this youth in teens was mustered into the army, and began tfie conflict of life on the Nation’s battle- frelds—a conflict continaed in the balls of National legislation, and closely inter- woven with the last twenty-five years of National progress.” It has been the biographer’s purpose to make the volume under consideration the most complete life of McKinley yet pub- lished. The work contains incidents of the boyhood life of the subject at Niles and Poland. Immediately fol- lowing the war McKinley laid aside | the accouterments of the soldier and entered upon the study of the law, and was graduated from the Albany (N.Y.) Law School. “One year after the cloge of the war he was a briefless young lawyer | in the little town of Canton, Ohio, study- ing early and late, and endeavoring to eke out a somewhat scanty living by the aid of | such retainers and fees as would come to one experienced in civil war but inex- perienced in the practice of the legal pro- | fession.” The biographer endeavors to give the real every-day life of the young lawyer and to picture the surroundings | under which his fertile mind was devel- | oped and his sterling character built up. The peovle of Canton recognized in | him a man with a future, and twenty-five | years ago they elected him Prosecuting Attorney of Stark County. Mr. Porter | opines that McKinley would have made a | profound jurist had he not devoted the best of his life to statecraft, for when he accepted the nomination to Congress his | | David McKinl | william MeKinley. | Revolution; hence McKinley comes from | good fighting stock. As to his parentage | tionary ancestors. The father took naturally Ohio’s Presidential candidate; in the sec- ond he considered himself bound to the cause of Harrison. In each case fidelity to his trust and to his friends caused him to put aside the Presidency. “Twice,”” declares the biographer, ‘had McKinley put from him a nomination which would have been purchased at the expense of broken pledges.’’ McKinley is of Scotch-Irish descent. James McKinley, an emigrant from the north of Ireland, who at the age of 12 | years, crossed the Atlantic with his rela- | tives 1n a small sailing vessel at the begin- | ning of the last century, was the father of v, the great-grandfather of David McKinley, as shown by records in the Pension Bnreau, re-enlisted seven times in the War of the | we quote the biographer: Niles isa small Ohio city,and at the time of the birth of William, January 29, 1843, his father, William McKinley Sr., was managing an iron furnace there. The McKinleys in- herited not only fighting qualities but the skill of iron manufacturing from their revolu- t0 this occupation and followed it until 1876, when he retired. This was his business in the early part of the centuryat New Lisbon. In The Allisons originally came from Eng- land. Abner Allison, in 1798, married Ann Campbell, who came of a Scotch-Ger- man family, and these were the parents of the mother of McKinley. Referring to the regiment in which Mc- Kinley enlisted and to his military record we have this from the volume: The Twenty-thira Regiment was officered by three men whose aiter prominence mede this command one of the most noted inthe war. The first colonel was W. S. Rosecrans, after- ward General Rosecrans, a captain whose re- nown is now worldwide, and whose services later in the War of the Rebellion were import- ant in its suppression. The first lieutenant- colonel was Stanley Matthews, afterward Sen- ator from Ohio and a Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. The first mujor was Rutherford B. Hayes, afterward a general of great ability, thrice Governor of Ohio and President of the United States. * * * The official recordsindicate that McKinley’s military life aud advancement were most creditable. They show that William McKin- ley Jr. enlisted asa private in Company E of the Twenty-third O. V.I., June 11, 1861; that he was promoted to commissary sergeant April 15,1862; that he was promoted to second lieutenant of Company D,September 23, 1862; that he was promoted to first lieutenant of Company E, February 7,1863; that he was promoted to eaptain of Company G, July 25, 1864; that he was detailed as acting assistant McKINLEY’S RESIDENC i E AT CANTON, OHIO. 1829 he established an iron foundry at Fair- field, Columbiana County, Ohio. For twenty | years William McKinley Sr. was interested in iron furnaces at New Wilmington, Ohio. From Niles he moved to Poland because of the edu- | cational advantages of Poland Academy. Shortly after he was associated with 8. O. Edison, uncle of Thomas Edison, to construct iron furnaces at Black River, now Lorain. In 1869 he moved to Canton with his family, in- tending to retire, but he enjoyed and managed iron interests at Caseville, near Saginaw, Mich., up to 1876, when he retired. He kept track of his business with exactness up to | three weeks of his death, which took place November 24, 1892, William McKinley Sr. was & man of char- sueter and of the highest integrity. His habits were frugal and regular; he was a hard and constant worker. While at times it was a struggle to provide for such a large family (nine children) he conscientiously performed what he believed was his duty and made every possible sacrifice to educate and make useful men and women of his children. In all this he was more than seconded by his noble wife, McKinley’s mother, whose maiden nume was Nancy Campbell Allison. Mrs. Mc- Kinley was one of those rare women who are destined to shine in all sorts of good and use- Mr. KcKinley in 1865. Mr. McKinley in 1876. law practice, in a measure, had to be given up. McKinley is compared to Garfield with reference to a thorough preparation by reading and study for a broad public career. Each of these possessed elements of strength, by reason of his conscientious study of political subjects. McKinley was first elected to Comgress in 1876 and re- mained s\member of the House of Repre- sentatives for fourteen years, his closing year being signalized by the passage of the tariff measure which bears his name. The volume treats very extensively of the volicy of protection as represented in the McKinley law and discusses at length the crushing Republican defeat of 1892 and the tidal wave that engulfed Democracy two years later. Extended references are made to two episodes in McKinley's' career that have been discussed of late in the public press. These are his fidelity to John Sherman at the Republican National Convention of June, 1888, and to General Benjamin Har- rison at Minneapolis in 1892. In the first instance he was under instructions of his State convention to vote for Sherman as ful work, whether in pioneer 1ifs or amid the comforts of our modern homes. McKinley owes much to this good mother. All the chii- dren were instilled with sound Christian ideas of life and with a patriotism and love for their. country which made no sacrifice for it too much. Moreover, the mother was &n intel- lectual force and encouraged boys and girls alike in their studies, and was ever ready to surrender her own personsl comfort that they might equip themselves as thoroughly as pos- sible for the battle of life. Here we have a strong force in the develop- ment of the young man’s charaster. Many of the wnolesome traits which in after years en- deared the soldier and statesman to comredes and fellow-countrymen may be traced to the early teachings of the mother, who lives to feel proud and happy over her son’s achieve- ments. That her son should have won fame is undoubtedly a source of gratification and pride to the mother; but her real happiness comes from the fact thathe is a man of honor and integrity. To this plain, sweet, simple pioneer mother, who has experienced much of the hardships and struggles of early Western life, with & large femily and Iimited means, the fact that her son William is a man of high principles and patriotic ipsiincts and has never ceased to love and cherish her is a greater comfort than the fact that he may some day occupy the White House. 1 adjutant-general of the First Diviston, First Army Corps,on the staff of General Carroll; that he was brevetted major March 13,1865; and that he was mustered out of service July 26,1865, * * * McKinley is & Knight Templar, a Knight of Pythias and also a Greek Fraternity mean. His entrance into Masonry was an incident of the war and rather unique. McKinley was going through & hospital with one of the regimental surgeons. He noticed that the surgeon and some of the Confederate wounded were very friendly to each other, and in several instances the surgeon gave money to the prisoners. There was an unmistakable bond of sympathy between them. Young McKinley asked the sur- geon if he knew these vrisoners. The surgeon told him they were brother Masons. Young McKinley was so much impressed by the friendly feeling existing between Confederate and Union Masons that he expressed the de- sire to join the Mesons. He was made a Mason in Hiram Lodge, Winchester, Va., May 1, 1865, receiving his degree at the hands of & Confed- erate master of the lodge. McKinley was married to Miss Ida Sax- ton, aaughter of John Saxton,an Ohio journalist of note, on January 25, 1871. Two children were born to them, both girls, but they died early in life. For years Mrs. McKinley has been an invalid. In her gentle heroism, she never allows her health to interfere with her husband’s career. In regard to Governor McKinley’s domestic life, perhaps the most pathétic thing to be said is that there has been so little of it. On Janu. uary 25, 1896, Governor McKinley and his wife celebrated their silver wedding in the same modest house in Canton in which & quarter of & century before they began life together. The part played by McKinley in the Chicago convention of 1884, which nomi- nated James G. Blaine for President, is described in a rather effective manner. McKinley was pledged to the Plumed Knight. Mr. Porter thus tells the story: McKinley bore himself modestly at Chicago, but his great quality of leadership came to the front by force of circumstances. He only spoke two or three times from the floor of the corvention, but every time ne arose he at- tracted attention, and the influence he exefted was most remarkable. At the critical time during the convention his was the voice that rallfed the Blaine forces. Three baliots had been taken. Blaine gained on each ballot. The final and desperate effort was made by the other candidates under the leadership of -the dashing Foraker in Sherman’s behalf for an adjournment. Curtis, the great editor of Harpers’ Weekly, and Theodore Roosevelt were on chairs frantically yelling. Stewart of Pennsylvania and Carr of Californis, in their zeal for Blaine, were trying to outdo Curtis and Roosevelt 1n voice. The massive and phlegmatic Dutcher of New York, one of Arthur's generals, was thundering away in the effort to catch the ear and eye of the chair: man of the convention, General Henderson of Missouri. There was pandemonium and there threatened to be & panic. In the midst of the storm MeKinley arcse. Although only of medium stature his form seemed to tower above those around him. His face was pale and looked like a piece of marble statuary, except that his eyes fairly blazed. Before he had uttered two words his voice could be heard. He waved his hand and the tumult ceased. No mistake about it—he was the master-spirit of that convention. Calm and like granite be stood. His short speech was carried in clarion tones all over the im- mense hall. As a friend of Blaine, he said, he recognized and respected the rights of friends of other candidates to secure an adjournment and then he said: “Let the motion be put and let everybody favorable to. the nomination of Blaine vote against it.” That settled it. Under McKinley's leader- ship, assumed ;spontancously and boldly, the 21 | Biatne aen accepted the challenge, the motion for an adjournment-was voted down and the vietory wes won. It was not defeat that Mc- Kinley turned aside—the situation was not so serious as that—but in a crisis where the Blame men were getting demoralized and the convention was turning itself into a mob, Mec- Kinley, leaping to the front, by one command marshaled the Blaine men into line and pressed them forward to their already sighted victory. Speaking of the Congressional experi- ence of the Ohio man, the biographer proceeds: McKinley is an adroit debater. The Con- gressional Record does not show that he was ever worsted in & passage of arms with the most brilliant of his colleagues, In the earlier years in the House of Representatives he was cautious, and only undertook debate on ques- tions with which he was thoroughly familiar. Unlike most new members, McKinley did not rush madly into the wordy arena. He listened, weighed well the strength of his antsgonists and said little until his time and opportunity came. ' For this reason, when McKinley arose to speak, he invariably com- manded the attention of the House. He was generally regarded as one of the members who _had something to say, who said it well, and when he had said it stopped. It was also dis- covered that McKinley was quick in debate, and that, though his speech upon such occa- sions might be termed the essence of courtesy, it usually made the gentleman who had inter- rupted wish he had let McKinley alone. A remarkable epispde in his Congres- sional career was the following: Samuel J. Randall of Pennsylvania was Speaker when McKinley entered Congress and they became warm friends. Thers was one memorable scene in the Fiftieth Congressin which both figured. It occarred on May 18, 1888, the day on which the general debate closed on the Mills bill. Randall opposed this measure and incurred the displeasure of the rampant free-trade element, headed by Mills of Texas. He took the floor to speak against the bill. In feeble health, his voice at times almost inaudible, the great leader labored under serious disadvantages in this, his first fight for protection. Before he was through his time expired amid cries of ‘“Go on!” Mr. Randall asked for an extension, but Mills, with a discourtesy almost incredible, walked to the front and said, “I object!” The cry was repeated by nearly fifty Democratic members. It was a sad sight to witness this great Democratic leader thus silenced upon & mo- mentoud question by his own party friends. There was an exciting scene. Members and speetators, for the galleries were crowded, joined in making the tumult. Amid itall the chairman announced that McKinley of Ohio had the floor. The latter was to close the de- bate on the Republican side. His desk was piled with memoranda and statistics. “Mr. Speaker,” he cried, and his voice stilled the din about him. *“Iyield to the gentleman from Pennsylvania out of my time all that he may need in which to finish his speech on this bill.” Cheer after cheer arose from the House and galleries, and by the courtesy of the Republi- can leader the once leader of the Democracy was enabled to finish his speech in & body over which he had thrice presided as Speaker. An estimate of McKinley as a public speaker is thus given: As a public speaker McKinley stands in the frout rank. Even those who say that he can make only one speech must admit that he can make that one well. But such a eriticism is not fairly taken. The truth is that few men in political life have delivered speeches upon such a variety of subjects as has McKin- doys . In his specialty, the tariff, he stands the un- disputed master. His attractiveness in the presentation of this question is only equaled by the consistency and tenacity of his views thereon, * * * Wherein is McKinley’s strength as a speaker upon the tariff ? The answer seems to be: First, his evident sincerity, and, secondly, his simplicity in the presentation of hisargument. There is very little of the ornate in his styl but still it is graceful. It is eminently epi- grammatic, yet not mosaic, for the sentences are not only well rounded but are well con- nected and are forcefully arranged, so that the climax stands upon a broad and firm founda- tion of argument and fact. Not only has he a splendid voice, but his pronunciation is charming. McKinley’s views on public questions, his opinions of National celebrities of the past, his religious sentiments, are pre- sented in chapters devoted to thosg par- ticular topics. There are chapters on reciprocity, finance, public education, labor issues and the McKinley tariff law, as well as a resume of the history of Mc- Kinley’s gubernatorial administration, which is characterized as ‘‘wise and pru- dential and without red tape.” In his concluding chapter the biographer declares in plain terms what_may be read between the lines of the book from the very beginning: The surest road-to Republican success in the coming Presidéntial election is to put the ariff to the front. We should begin a fresh campaign in behalf of the wage-earners of Americe, a campaign which should be carried on without cessation until the sinister shadow of free trade is lifted from every American home and American industrial independence is assured forever. * * * McKinley is a type of American citizenship | the public-interest been aroused, and the GOVERNOR WILLIAm McKINLEY. . [From his latest photograph.] most difficult problem to be solved is how to secure a better balancing of | the intellectual and the spiritual man. ‘When this problem shall have been suc- cessfully soived there will be a civilization such as the world has never yet known. The leading aim in the teaching of Eng- lish should be: First, to enlarge the stu- dent’s vocabulary; second, to cultivate a nice sense of the force of words, and third, to speak and write good, live . Knglish. These three things can be secured only through an extensive and sympathetic reading of good authors.”’ 5 Such an author as Washington Irving Professor Corson considers excellent for | voung students, for in Irving’s works it | would be hard to find a Latin word used | where its Saxon equivalent would be pre- ferable, or vice versa. Furthermore, the careful student could hardly help being wholesomely influenced by the genial per- sonality of the author. For advanced stu- dents no more educating author could be selected than De Quincey. Dr. Corson considers examinations the bane of literary study, for the reason that they largely determine the character of this study in the school. Literary knowl- edge and literary culture are quite distinct things. The author considers it fortunate that much of the finest genius of our d&y is employing prose fiction as its most effi- cient instrument and form. Stadents can turn in their leisure hours to great novels which are instinct with the poetic, are in- formed' with intellect, heart and con- science, and_often grapple with the most serious questions of life and desviny. “In studying a poem with a class of students,”” Professor Corson says, “‘one very important aim of the teacher should be to keep the minds of the class up as near as possible to the height of the argument.” The best response to the es- sential life of a poem is to be secured by the fullest interpretative vocal rendering of it. The reading voice demands at least as much cultivation as the singing voice. The author finds it a cause of much regret that so little attention, comparatively, is paid to the cultivation of the reading | voice in our schools and colleges. [New York: Macmillan & Co. For sale by Wil- liam Doxey; paper; 153 pages; 25 cents.] “HUNTING IN MANY LANDS.” This is the title of the latest volume issued by that famous organization of | sportsmen known as the Boone and | Crockett Club. Sixteen members of the club contribute articles based on their various experiences while in quest of big game. The editors are Theodore Roose- velt and George Bitd Grinnell, and the work is published by the New York Forest and Stream Company. The editors declare that the Boone and Crockett Club was largely interested in securing the passage by Congress of an act to protect the Yellow- stone National Park, and to punish crimes and offenses within its borders, “though it may be questioned whether even their efforts would have had any result had not Congressional conscience pricked by the wholesale slaughter of buffalo which took place in the park in March, 1894.” It is deemed necessary, that public senti- ment should be aroused on the general | question of forest preservation, and espe- cially in the matter of securing legislation which will adequately protect the game everyday language, the accounts of adven- tures had by the authors in quest of big game, GALLOPING DICK. A series of stories dealing with the possi- | ble adventures of a humorous highwayman in the days of Charles II of England forms the contents of 2 small volume bearing the title of ““Galloping Dick.” The tales are all of a fantastic character and are written ina style just quaint enough to suggest the mode of speech common in England in those days. There are six tales in all, but have no connection with one another fur- ther than that they are told by the same | person, Richard Ryder, otherwise Gallop- | ing Dick, and relate some of his fantastic fortunes in pursuing his calling asa gen- tleman of the road. The stories were originally published in the New Review and the Chapbook and are already known to a wide ciréle of readers. Even to those who know them, however, the new volume will be interesting, as all the tales are well worth reading twice, taking rank in fact among the best short stories of the day. [“Galloping Dick,” by H. B. Marriott Watson. Chicago: Stone & Kimball. For sale by William Doxey; price, cloth, $1 25.] A HISTORY IN RHYME. “‘America Liberata’’ isthe title of a poem by Robert H. Vickers, who is already known as the author of a History of Bo- hemi issued by Charles H. Kerr & Co. of Chicago. The history of the revolutions which have resulted in the independence of States which had formed part of the old Spanish dominion is told in 136 eight- line stanzas of labored verse, running thiough seventy-four pages. The volume is supplied with copious foot notes. Trib- utes‘are paid to Simon Bolivar, San Mar- tin and other liberators and patriots of Spanish-American countries. To-Mexico, Venezuela, Colombia, Peru and Chile, re- spectively, many pages are devoted, and the Spanish names often play the mischief with the meter. . USEFUL INFORMATION. A new edition of Conklin’s Handy Man- ual of Useful Information has been issued for1896. In addition to its wide scope of general information the volume contains facts concerning the latest subjects of pop- ular interest, such as the Cuban uprising, Venezuelan boundary dispute, Transvaal | troubles, new and old tariff laws, etc. Chicago: Laird & Lee, publishers. Price, 50 cents. LITERARY NOTES. A complete American edition of the works of Alfred Austin, the new Poet Laureate, is contemplated in New York. It is thought that M. Gaston Paris, the learned philologist, has the best chance of succeeding M. Pasteur at the French Academy. 2 “‘The Werewolf,” a hitherto unpublished story by the late Eugene Field, will soon appear in the Ladies’ Home Journal, strikingly illustrated by Howard Pyle. “Browning and the Christian Faith’’ is a new volume just issued in England. The author, Dr. Berdoe, considers the evidences of Christianity from Browning’s point of view. Two new volumes by Quiller Couch will = Zor = = " o < A WOLF HUNT IN RUSSIA. [Reproduced from ‘* Hunting in Many Lands.”] and American manhood of which we may well be proud, and whether his public life termi- nates now, or he achieves still further honors, the name of McKinley will never be erased from the memories of a vast majority of his party followers, who are rightly inspired by the hope that he may some day be President of the United States. THE AIMS OF LITERARY STUDY. This little book is the ninth of the Mac- millan Miniature series, and 18 a learned dissertation on the subject under consid- eration. The author, Hiram Corson, LL.D., takes for his keynote the doctrine of the trinal unity of man as enunciated by Robert Browning in “A Death in the Desert.” He holds that all literary study should aim to develop to the highest de- gree that immortal part of a man which will survive the grave. Dr. Corson defines literature as the expression in letters of the spiritual co-operating with the intel- lectual man, the former being the pri- m dominant coefficient. e says: “A ge uction of the pure intellect does not long to the domain of literature proper. ‘We can know a true poem only so far as we can reproduce it sympathetically within ourselyes. Ia these days the and the forests of the various forest reser- vations alreadv established. A matter of peculiar interest is embodied in the follow- ing excerpt from the introduction: A réally remarkable phenomenon in Ameri- can animal life is the attitude now assumed toward mankind by the bears, both grizzly and black, in the Yellowstone National Park. The preservation of the game in the park has unexpectedly resulted in turning a great many of the bears into scavengers for the houi‘.‘ within the park limits. Their tame- ness and familiarity are astonishing; they act much more like hogs than beasts of prey. Naturalists now have a chance of studying their* character from an entirely new stand- point and under entirely new conditions. It would be well worth the while of any student of nature to devote an entire season in the ark simply to study of bear life. Never be- fore has such an opportunity been afforded. One bear has made a practice of going into thekitchen of the Geyser Hotel, where he is fed on pies. if given a chance, the bears will eat the pigs that are kept in pens _near the Hotels: but they have not shown anyXendency to molest the horses, or to interfere in any way with the human beings around the hotels. These inciaents and the confidence which the elk, deer and other arimals in the park | have come_to feel in man are interesting, for they show how reudfl{‘:heu creatures may be taught to look upon human beings as friends. The different papers have nothing of brilliancy about them, from a literary point of view; they simply relate, in plain, be published by Messrs. Cassell of London int se course of the-spring. One is hisvol- ume of papers, “Adventures in -Criticism,”’ the other a Cornish story, ‘“Ia.” Moncure D. Conway’s article in the re- cent Open Court symposium on the Mon- roe doctrine has called forth a storm of ad- verse and bitter comment, which is now published with other views in No. 440 of that journal. J Parisian gossip savs that M. Maeterlinck, whose admirers discovered for him the title of the Belgian Shakespeare, is ep- gaced to be married. His fiancee is the sis- ter of M. Maurice Leblanc, a_well-known member of the staff of the Gil Blas. “The Day of Their Wedding,” a novel by W. D. Howells, which first appeared as a serial in Harper’s Bazar, is issued this month in book form by Harper & Brythers. The charms of the secluded life of the tslimke“ are pictured faithfully by the au- or. The Brooklyn Eagle Almanac for 1896 is an improvement on the previous issues of this useful publication. It contains well- arranged information and statistics of the city of Brooklyn and Long Island that will prove of interest to those who wish to know about this section of the Union. The stage rights of “Macaire,” the play by Stevenson and Henley, a review of The new work has just been | which appeared in THE CALL a few weeks since, has been purchased by Richard Mansfield, who will produce the play in America, while it is expected that Beer- bohm Tree will in‘roduce it in England. Francis Beilamy, who for nearly six years was one of the editors of the Youth’s Companion, has been added to the editorial staff of the Ladies’ Home Journal as one of Mr. Bok's principal as- sociates. The new editor is a cousin of Mr. Edward Bellamy, author of “Looking Backward.” Mary Anderson de Navarro's long-ex- pected work, ““A Few Memories,” will ap- pear during the month of March. Harper & Brothers are the publishers. In April .the same house will issue a volume en- titled ‘‘Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc,” and the second volume of Curtis’ “Constitutional History.” Henry Houssaye writes in the annual of the Societe des Amis des Livres: ‘‘Aldus is taking the place of Virgil, Trabouillet of Moliere, Pierre Brunel of Montesquieu.” He means that book lovers, considering books as art objects, not as instruments of labor, think of their illustrators, editors and publishers, and not of their authors. M. Georges Ohnet is engaged on anew novel. The title he has chosen is “Le Fils Adoptif.” M. Jules Lemaitre, whose re- ception at the French Academy was the great literary event of January, awoke to find himself famous in consequence of an article in which he “‘executed’’ M. Ohnet, as few authors have been executed vefore or since. The new edition of Poe has finally been completed by the issue of the tenth volume. It is now two years since the actual work of this edition was begun, and this time | has been one of unceasing labor on the part 6f Mr. Stedman and Mr. Woodberry, the editors, and Messrs. Stone & Kim- ball, the publishars, to make this edition the absolutely final and definitive one. In “The Lounger's” column of the Critic of February 1 appears this brief, pointed note: Mrs, Madeleine Yale Wynne, the author of “The Little Room and Other Stories,” is the daughter of the inventor of the Yale lock. As a Yale lock anied by a Yale key I wish that Mrs. ‘)Vynne would use one to unlock the mystery of “The Little Room."” To the Photographic Times (New York) for February Professor Charles F. Hines contributes an excellent article on “Elect- rical Discharges Investigated by Means of Stereoscopic Photography,” with a re- | markably interesting photograph. The | Hon. A." A. Adee, Assistant Secretary of State, who is a distinguished microscopist, contributes an illustrated article entitled | “A Water Beetle.” The notable features of Outing for | February include *“The Llewellin Setter,’’ | “Sweet Marjory,” “Paddling in Hon- | duras,” “Shooting at Swatow, China,” ‘‘Modern Snipe,” *The Wizard of the Cascade,” *“Cycling in Mid-Atlantic,” ‘‘Cruising in the Gulf” and ‘“About the Balearics.” The editorial and record de- partments are valuable, and the number is beautifully illustrated. The American Academy of Political and Social Science, Philadelphia, has just pub- lished three volumes that are of especial interest at the present time. They are: “The Nicaragua Canal and the Monroe Doctrine,”” by L. M. Keasby, paper, 25 cents; ‘‘The Advantages of the Nicaragua Route,” by J. W. Miller, paper, 15 cents, and ‘‘The Nicaragua Canal and the Eco- nomic Development of the United States,’ | by E. R. Johnson. | In the February number of the Progress of the World, the notable features are the | accounts of some recent marvelous dis- | coveries, such as the device of, Dr. A. Graham Bell, by which he transmits sounds and ordinary conversation along a sunbeam, in the same way that we now use a telephone wire; also the new light, m‘cidenmfiy produced by Professor Roent- gen, that'penetrates solid -substances, and | can photograph the skeleton of a living man. The Roycroft Publishing-house, East Aurora, New York, announces for imme- l diate delivery an exquisite edition of *“The | Song of Songs; Which is Solomon’s,” | being a reprint of_the text together with a study py Elbert Hubbard, wherein a most peculiar and pleasant effect is wrought by easting the song into dramatic form. The study 1s sincere, but not serious, and has | been declared by several learned persons, to whom the proofsheets have been sub- mitted, to be 8 work of art. Hand-printed on excellent paper, and bound in antique boards, §2. The new biography of Lady Blessington, which Messrs. Downey of London, Eng., have announced, will be published on February 15, “The Most Gorgeous Lad Blessington,” as the memoir is called, will appear in this country on the same day. J. Fitzgerald Molloy, who is the biographer, has, in_preparing the present volume, had at his disposal letters ad- dressed to Lady Blessington by such celebrities as Marryat, Dickens, Tom Moore, Lytton, Disraeli and Galt, the Scot- tish novelist. Much of this correspondence will see the light for the first time. In the February 1st issue of the Chap- Book is an_interesting announcement. Beginning with the next issue the price of the magazine is to be raised from 5 to 10 cents. This 1s the first sign of a reaction against the cheapening of magazines, which has gone on at such a furious rate during the last year or two. Many people have questioned whether it makes any essential difference to the purchaser whether he pays 5, 10 or 15 cents for his magazine, provided only he gets some- thing he really wants. And he saspects that there is a limit to the possible cheap- ening in the manufacture of a magazine. is always accom An official report en Dr. Marmorek’s new serum for erysipelas and puerperal fever will be made soon by Professor Chantemesse. At the Necker Hospital it has been tried 1in four cases of puerperai fever with astonishing results. One pa- tient who had been given up recovered under the serum treatm NEW TO-DAY. TOBACCO-TWISTED NERVES, The Unavoidable Result of the Continued Use of Tobacco. Is There a Sure, Easy and Quick Way of Obtaining Permanent Relief From the Habit ? Millions of men think they need stiin. ulants because their nerves are set on fire Dby tobaceo. The per- sistent abuse to which § the tobacco-user sub- jectshisneryescannot possibly fail to make weak the strongest man. 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