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. shado 30 CALL, SUNDAY, JANUARY 3, 1897. [ T 7 ARIS, which was so surprised to Ps learn the other day that Victorien | \ Sardou was a spiritualist, is even urprised now at the news that Vic- | ko was also to a great extent a be- 1 in spiritualism. in Hugo's “‘Jour- al of My Exile,” which has not yet been published, there are several passages bear- g on this point, New York | Herald, Some of thes ted by the poet’s daughter, Mlie. Adele Haugo, have been read by some of his friends, and area convi proof to them of his belief in cceult powers. Here follow the most notable passages, 83 written by M 3 is an islend full | March 23, 1854. of legends. Tuere is not a rock, not an | oid ruin, i vposad to be | hau d that th devil has nd they horror ints of this with have seen nt o they the rock ed to “One night about three months young workingman was Church Sai the end of the road | It sc ed, one mas be workingman stopped | The ag a vio- 0 got past | ared several times became known as s ad one time Lis papers would | zh there was no wind; at an- | e some one would be heard | g at his wall. My brothers, who | n the adjoining rooms, heard the | e noises. *Other things equally strange also hap- vened. On the evening when Tapeur, the vened. incendiary, died my mother after locking bedroom door went to bed, forgetting blow out the light. The night was very | and there was not the least breath | Yet when my mother awoke the asdark, The candle though not | ned had been extinguished. By | Februar, . 3., and my father came home s he passed through the m facing the street he noticed that the dows were quite dark. Yet, when my thers came home at 2 p. . the windows | > ablaze with light. Yesterday even- g Charles was amusing himself by try- ing to make a table talk. First he said to | the rit who What is you “The spirit, or ghost, replied that its name was the White Lady, and that it could not talk to any one except in the 1 her came in just rmed of the hour be concluded that rtable in bed than a desert street We all de- ed to do the sa d we went to bed were soon all sleeping soundly, ex- father, who wa was his occasional ¢ - heard a bell ring loudly, and at once he remembered the White Lady snd the rendezvous. He Iit he would be m ng with a gh hour chat ing. my his can and looked at his At Weak souls be- in mystery, strong souls it, great souls become very grave en confronting the unknown. They have a sacred horror of it, as my father had, and they say with Hamlet, ‘There are more things in heaven and earth, Ho- ratio, than are dreamed of in your phi- losc > “In the future state,” said Victor Hugo, | on another occasion, “the full meanine of lierty will be made clear. The laws reg- | ulating it will be revealed, and men will then be free to do what they please and at | their own risk. So rauch the worse for | those’ who commit suicide and thus fling | themselves into a fire which they surely | w will consume them. ixcess of grief may be sn excuse for cide, but it cannot serve as a plea for absolution. No person has a right to tter his fetters and go of life, aban- | ng the house which God gave us when he put us into this world. I believe that | ie crime of suicide will be punished in | nother world. If, however, a man com- its suicide under excessive provocation, I b e that God will then make him | live again in this worid, and under much | harder conditions than those from which he hoped to set himself free.” | In a letter written to Mme. Girardin, in 5, Victor Hugo says: les indeed tell us surprising things. ing in 2 mysterious horizon; the | us to keep silenceand not e any secret. You will find, | then, in the ‘Contemplations’ mothing | which comes from the tables, with the exception of two details, They are very fraportant, and I have asked permission o use them.” Here again is a very curious note, writ- - ten by the poet on the manuscript of the “Legende des Siecles” ; “1 have taken part several times re- cently in what is known as the phenom- enon of the antique tripod. A table with three legs dictates verses by means of raps, and strophes come forth out of I need hardly say that I have never piaced among my own poems any of the verses that have come to me in this _mysterious fashion; these latter I have religiously allowed to remain in posses. sion of the Great Unknown, who is their * sole author. I have not even allowed them to influence me in the slightest de- gree. The work of the human brain | ought to be entirely its own, receiving no aid from such phenomena. ‘The exterior manifestations of the in. visible are a fact, and the interior creations of thought are another. The wall which separates these two facts should' be main- tained in the interests of observation and of science. No breach should be made in it. By the side of science, which guards it, stands also religion, the great, the true, which forbids us to tamper with it. Ire- “to divai | an thir | one who has made s loving study of those old peat, then, that I have 1solated myself in this matter as much through my religious | conscience as through my literary con- science, and also through my respect for the phenomenen itself, having made it my law to admit no such outside inflnence into the sphere of my inspiration, and wishing to keep my work absolutely my own and personal.” Like Sardou Hugo believed that spirit- ualism was a fitting subject for the stage, In 1838 he suggested to Autenor Jely that it would be an admirable scheme to estab- lish what he styled a ‘‘fantastic theater,” but uniortunately the plan was not carried out, “owing 10 the pigheadedness of the directors.’ Phantoms, Huego thought, might just as reasonably be called upon to play a part on the stage’as human beings, and be was fond of citinz as a good example the apparition of the commander in Moliere’s ““Don Juan.” The news that this great poet believed in the existence and influence of occult | and wastoag extent a believer | i , while it has sed much | 1 France, bas also given great | ire to the numerous French mystics | materiaiisis, “If Hugo and Sar- eve in itnalism,” say these ter, *'it surely will not be hard to per- de the multitude that spirits exist and are a potent 1nfluence for good and evil.” COMPLETION OF A GREAT WORK. | OF THE PRINCIPLE SOCIOLOGY. Thira | volume. By He Appleton & | Co., New York sale by Wiiliam | Do: Palace Hot d | g to the public of this third | volume of the “Principles of Sociology,” Her- | bert Spencer ends the great work of writinga | complete h he be- ago. setof | ic phiiosophy 1s printed in ten | volumes and is one of the greatest of literary | nts. In addition to the continuous | since 1860 doune the phenomenaliy clear-headed and industrious author, the ten large volumes represent the labors ofa number of able assistants, who aided in collecting the necessary data and 1n veriiying the statements made in the books with elaborate care. The “Principles of Sociology” alone involved the reading of 500 works in order to get together the necessary data. The work is not exactly | as planned and promised, but while some parts have been omitted this philosophical library | has been made more complete i promised, and the amthor considers that the | promise of the prospectus has been fully re- | deemed. The important part omitted w stoi‘ have treated of progress—linguistie, iutel- lectual, moral, esthetic. But these. topics | were t00 extensive and complex for an invalid 0i 76 t0 handle adequstel The two fi With the giv Iast volume, on ec- d professional inst ave b shed before, but_th a rial institutions is here to the public. It discusses twents- | in the author’s usual clear, ative wa probat and more ac cts gathered by | rate, comprehe: Lly considered than the student can elsewhere in literature, Among the opinions and conclusions of this | t philosopher a few may be mentioned as | al interest. He considers compound capital as & great factor of modern prog bim sive and philosophica find and says that as a result of limited lia companies stagnant capital has s peared. In the chapter on trade es how the work with natural another. He says the assumption 1s still domi- ent among trades union people that the | ual workers do everything and the mental | nothing. | He gives the pros and cons of co-operation | with remarkable fairness and lucidi and in the conclusion of the whole matter shows | that he is decidedly in favor of strivingto | overcome the difficulties in the way of making | this fair ideal of gemeral practicability. He | says: *‘The practicability of such a system de- pends on character, the best industrial insti- tutions are possible only with the best men. | The requisite ‘sweet reasonableness’ 1s not yet | sufiiciently prevalent.”” The main diffiexlty | in the way of co-operation he thinks fs the | getting of honest and skillful management. Though he beiieves in co-operation he is de- | cidedly opposed to socialism. “Atthe same time that it is biologically fetal the doctrine of the socinlists is psycho lly absurd. It implies an impossible mental structure.” He | deem ess to hope that seifish men may be 50 manipulated as to behave unselfishly. THE GIRLS AND THE PRINCE. When the Prince of Wales was in America in 1860 he was a young man of 19 and un- married. Neturaliy, the American girls were deepiy interested in him, and a period of the most romantic cxcitement ensued i all the citles. Every subteriuge to dance iwith.the voung Prince was resorted to, and members of his party were bribed 1o arrange & waltz with the beir apparent. The most unusual ex- pedients were resorted to by girls. His bag- age was kissed s it was put aboard the cars, and when he left a hotel room women would rush in and carry away in bottles the water in which he had washed his face. Church people forgot themselves and stood on the cushions of the pews in order to see the royal visitor. On every hand it was ascason of exeitement, and balls, dinners, fetes and receptions ruled. One of the Prince’s party was Stephen Fiske, who was delegated by the elder James Gordon Bennett of the New York Herald toremain with the Prince while he was in America. fr. Fiske saw ell the incidents of His tour. Tekinga 1ik ng to the Ameri- can journalist the young Prince saw.that he was present upon all occasions. Now Mr, Fiske has written out the whole story, and it wiil form the January instellment of the La- dies’ Home Journal’s series of *‘Great Personat vents.”” Iifustrations of some of the great scenes have been made, and these will be given with the eriicle in the January Journal. PLANTATION LIFE AN ARKANSAS PLANTER—By Ople Real Rand, McNally & Co., Chicago and New Yori For sale by William Doxey, Palace Hotel, City, The 0ld, proud, honorable and independent race of plautation-owners and their families is portrayed in this book with a manner as of days and lordly ways. The sceneis on the Arkansas River below Little Rock. *Tbeir country was comparatively #new, but their fathers came mostly from Virginiaand their -whisky came wrolly from Kentucky.” The heroine of the story formsa sentimental at- tachment to & consumptive and marries him despite her father's plesding and opposition. The author gets rid of the invalid by letting him die early in the tale, and in the end the widow merries a perfect giant in health, stature and strengtn, —_— COMMONPLACE AND TRIVIAL A PROFESSIONAL LOVER—By Gyp. F. Ten- nyson Ne-ly, New York, For sale by the Em- porium Book Department, City. This is a.little book translated from the French, and the story told entirely in dialogue is verly worldly snd commonplace. There are dukes and duchesses, but their conversation is not brilifant nor edifying. The cover isJ decorated with many hearts upen a string. - g R SIOUX ON THE WARPATH. [From General Miles’ New Book.] When Is a Woman 0Id? This query on my window hung: “When is & woman old?” It clings to me, and long has clung— The answer must be told ! ome are old before half-way, me are never old; For these but laugh life’s cares away, While those both fret and scold! And yet it is no easy task, However well controlled, To answer one, if she should ask— When is & womean 0d?” The young ones never ask you, sir, The answer to unfold— The old ones only ask you, sir, “When is & woman 0la?” Conceited ones are never so— Unhappy ones t00 soon; But wise ones love life’s morning glow, And prize its afternoon. The graceful ones are still young, And those alone are old Who try to make themselves look young When age has taken hold. The oldest ones of all the old Are those who would look young; For they will always fret and scold, When age’s sign is hung. The old in years who live among in their hearts, Ives remaining young Long aiter youth departs. As long as women cling to yoath, And disregard their age, They never can be old, forsooth— Their youth fills up the page. Yes, some are old before their time— 0ld age usurps their youth; And some are young beyond their prime— Unless they hide the truth. —Washington Post. A After Sunset. One tremulous star above the deepening west; The plash of waves upon.a quiet beach; A4 sleepy twitter from some hidden nest Amidst the clustered ivy, out of reach, The sheep-bell’s tinkle from the daisied lea The rhythmic fall of homeward-wenaing feet; # | An open lattice and the scent of mu: A wind that croons amongst the leafy trees, And dies away in whispers faint and sweet A pale young moon, whose slender silver bow Creeps slowly up beyond the purple hill; And seems to absorb the golden afterglow | Within the far horizon lingering still. Then, through the slu' and sky, A tender mother-voice that in the dusk Sings to & babe some old-world lullaby. E. MATHESON, e LD Love's Transformation. No more unto the myths of old Sweet Love delighted clings, For Love rides on a bicycle, And Love has lost his wings. brous hush of earth No more the romance of the past A pleasing thrill imparts, For Love upon & bicycle Now chases human hearts! Alas! the happy, happy days! But—cool my burning brow; | For Love wheels down the dusty ways, And Love's a scorcher now! PICTURES OF A PASSING RACE In the Targe and interesting volume just publishe 1 of the recollections of General Nel- som A. Miles, » short general review of which was given in these columns last week, there are a number of goud anecdotes, cspecially aboutIndian warfars and illustrative of Indian character, and there are 8 number of carefully | tormed opinions expressed, all of which are of unusual interest when we consider the emi- nence of the source from which they come. Some brief selections from among these will | give the reader an idea of what a valuable and entertuining book the general has written about his personal experiences. Prominent among the features which willbe noted with close attention is his studious un- raveling of the mystery of the famous Custer fignt, from which no white man escaped to make report. General Miles, from.a careful examination of the ground and of the army orders angd reports, together with collectin the accounts of she Indians who were engage 4in the conflict and analyzing and verifying these by comparing them with other evi- dences, has been able to writea history of that terrible disaster perhaps almost as accurate as if Custer himself had come back from the dead 10 tell of that fatal day of heroism and of cow- ardice. His testimony in favor of Custer both 5 2 man end on able commander is without a wavering doubt, and his condemnation of Reno, while wholly without the aid of vitu- perative adjectives, is like the scientific- ally planned attack of & capable mili- tary chieftain—cool, terrible and deci- sive. “The distance across the valley from the position first occupied by Reno, where Custer undoubtedly expected him to re- main, end the position where Custer’s com- mand fought is not more than two miles. Rifle shots {rom one would cross the line of fire from the other. In other words, an enemy between the two commands would have been under the fire of both. Had Reno remained in that position it would have enabled Benteen 10 ‘comae on’ and 1o ‘be quick,’ as he bad been ordered and es he was doing. It would have brought him into position and into action be- tween the two commands of Custer and Reno. “When asked what would have been the re- sult if Reno had not retreated the Indians frankly said that if he had not run they would have fled. They were also asked what the consequences would have been if Reno with the seven troops had followed the Uncpapas and Ogalailes when they turned ana went down 10 the assistance of the Indians in the village, and they candidly sdmitted that they would have been between two fites. In other words, the battle was lost twice, not by the ac- tion of Custer, however, for his command fought gailantly &s long as it lasted and he had given proper and judicious orders to the other commands. “Itis not expected that five troops could have whipyed that body of Indians, neither is it believed that that pody of Indians conid have whipped twelve troops of the Seventh Cavalry, under Custer’s command, or if his or- ders hed been promptly executed. The fact that after Custer’s five troops had been anni- hilated the Indians who came back aud en- zaged the seven troops were repulsed, and that they failed to dislodge the troops, Is proof that the force was amply strong if it had only acted in full concert. No command- ing officer can win victorles with seven- twelfths of his command remaining out o1 the engagement when within sound of his rifle- shots. Grouchy did not come up to the ‘sound of the gunus,’ but Blucher did, and the his- toric Waterloo was the result.”” In his chapter about game in the great West, General Miles relates an adventure of Captain Frenk D, Baldwin while hunting buf- falo. The captain wes mounted on anun- trained horse, which did not tnderstand ouick dodging. Instantly aiter being shot the chased buffa. 0 wheeled, placed his horns be- neath the flanks of the horse and threw both him ana his rider clear over his head. The horse was killed, but the captain only stunned. Another adventure of Captain Baldwin’s was in being chased Ly wolves for tweuty miles. He escaped only by riding his borse 1o death. The general tells of acquaintance with the noted hunter, “Buffalo Bill,” somewhat less known as William F. Cody. “He was at that time a young man in the twenties, tall, stalwart and of magnificent puysique, one of the handsomest and most poweriul men Ihave ever known, with locks of a golden hue, large, brilliant, dark eyes and perfect features. He was & daring rider and & mostexpertrifieman. He excelled in the rush after geme and could VICTOR Kill more buffaloes during a single run than | any other men I have ever known. He not | only took the risks of & desperate chase, but | he and his party had to be constantly on the | lookout for Indians.” Speaking of the Sand Creek massacre, which occurred in 1864 under the personal direction of J. M. Chivington, colonel of the First Colo- rado Cavalry, he says: “It scarcely has & par- allel in the records of Indian barbarity. Flee- ing women, holding up their hand and pray- ing for mercy, were shot down; nfants were killed and scalped in derision; men were tor- tured and mutilated in a way that would put to shame the savages of interior Africa. No one will be astonished that a war ensued wh ich cost the Government $30,000,000 and carried conflagration and death into the bor- der settlements.” Thisisbuta samplé of the many things General Miles telis us about which make it clear to us that the terribie re- talistions of savages trained for generations to believe that vengeance wasa virtue were in- evitabie. One of the humorous things in the book is | the tale of how that grim savage, Sitting Bull, could enjoy & joke. When he came down to the white settlements it was so uncertain whether he was bent on peace or war that one day the master of a trading-post where the old chief was wont to dispose of his furs jokingly handed the savage a red shirt and asked him waen he came to the settlements bent on mis- chief to please wear that red shirt as a sign. sitting Bull said that & good time to wear it was right now, and he proceeded to put it on. He then jumped over the counter and took cherge of the store in the most determined and business-like way, to the terror of the trem- bling trader and his assistants, but to the hilarious delight of the warriors who were with the chief. Then he began to trade with the Indians and in derision mimicked the trader’s methods of trying to overreach the red men in shrewd bargaining. The tall warriors seemed to have been in t0o sportive & mood to commit murder, bu they bartered their furs at the store that day to much better advautage than they bad ever done before, and displayed their enjoyment of the im- provised comedy in deep grunts of satisfaction. For the most thrilling incident perbaps the capture of Lame Deer, chief of the tribe of that name, might be safely selected. The chief, in- tending to surrender, had dropped his rifle, and General Miles rode up ana extended his hand, which the Indian grasped in token of friendship. An indiscreet white scout, desir- ing to be sure of the safety of the Genera rashly covered the quick and powerful warrior with hisrifie. The savage thought the inten- tion was to kill nim, and quick as the thought, he wrenched his hand from the clasp of amity, threw his rifle to his shoulder and fired at Miles. With equal swiftness the General jerked his horse to one side. The bullet killed a soldier near by. The truce was at an end, and Lame Deer and his followers wera soon lying dend on the prairie. A fine description is given ofa sham battle which was fought by the wealthy and accom- plished Crows for the entertainment of Gen- eral Miles, “As they passed through the camp the horses were cereering and prancing, and tne men were shouting, singing war songs and firing their rifles in the air. It wasa wildand piciuresque scene, and as they passed in re- view before the head chief, Black Foot, and myself, we were saluted with every mark oi re- spect. In all my experience with Indians I have never seen such a display of decorations. | Tne'men were painted and ornamented with the most brilliant feather-work. Their | eagle head-dresses were waving in the air. Bear-claw necklaces hung about their uecks and scalplocks adorned their spears. Their war jackets were bespangled with glittering pieces of flashing silver, elk teeth and mother of pearl, &nd one of the singular features of the display consisted in the fact that in the whole num- ber there were no two Indians decked alike. They did notcopy or duplicate, and all their work was of original design. The colors were of the strongest and most durable character. Many of the war jackets could herdly have been purchased atany price, each one being the resuit of almost the work of a lifetime. Going to the end of the camp they separated into two large bodfes, which took positions about a thousand yards apart and facing each other. Then ata given signal ‘from the chief they deshed forward in sham-battie, giving one of the most perfeet portrayals of g real combat I have ever witnessed. Discharging their rifles in the air with great rapidity, they went through various evolutions.of an Indian battle with wonderful rapiaity and spirit.” In summing up the Indian problem General Miles gives it as his opinion that the bestso- lution is to place all wild tribes under mili- tary government, with United States officers in full control and with laws and courts estab- lishea by Congress specislly for Indian needs. He quotes onme of the wisest of the red war- riors, Chief Joseph, as saying: “The greatest want of the Indian is & system of law by which | controversies between Indians and white men can be settled without appealing to physical force.” NOT TO BE TAKEN .SERIOUSLY. Those reviewers who are taking Elbert Hub- bard’s latest book seriously are having rather abad time of it. “The Legacy” has the genial breeziness, the quaintgood humor that char- acterizes all of Mr. Hubbard’s works, and it must be admitted that it has an air of serious- ness that is very deceptive.. There 1sa mean- ing in the work, but its riddle wilt. hardly be read by those who fancy there is & 00l mas- querading as s philosopher, nor even by that other class of reviewers who are in such haste to proclaim to the world that here isa philoso- pher playing the fool. The situation about which the story turns is both novel and funny. A Harverd professor and a Harvard post graduate, gone crazy over Well-street speculation, take-to the prairie with Rattlesnake Pete, an Ibsenesque compos- ite of- Buffalo Bill, Dayy Crockeit, Big-foot Wallace and Mary’s little lamb. He is no more absurd than Professor Wilson, the stu- dents, post and under graauate, and all the women who float through the narrative, but he is very hard for the reviewers to take care of, and their varying treatmentof him must give the author not a little fun. The professor and his assistants strike a curio mine in Colo- rado and dig themselves into health and hap- piness until civilization again claims them, when the professor turns the farce into trag- edy by committing suicide. There are & good many capital bits in the | book, and Mr. Hubbard’s good humor almost, but not quite, takes the sting out of the lash that he has well in nand for certain human follies. Mrs. Wilson is & little overdrawn. The worthy lady is tiresome enough without her “damnable iteration” of her own inani- ties, and one may question the good taste of introducing real characters inco fiction, but the cleverness of the work must be granted. That the book is typographically unigque goes without saying, for it comes from the Royeroft Printing Shop, the queer little coun- try printing office at East Aurora, N. Y., where the most beautiful books n the world are just now making. Hand-made paper, rubricated title pages on Japanese vellum, exquisite initiais and ornaments, all the dainty, dexter- ous human hand-work that no machine-made thing can approach go to making the Roycroft books, and they are things for book lovers to handie tenderly and joyfully. The Legacy is in two yolumes, bound in bottie-green chamois leather, lined with sntique silk. This work, 100, is done by hend, carefully and lovingly, and the artistic result is necessarily beautiful. Tng output of the Royeroft shop is necessarily limited. Itisnot manufactured for the bar- gain counters, but & Royeroft book is some- thing to be kept for its besuty and its worth, and we have seen no finer example of the shop's work than the two volumes of The Legacy. Roycroft Printing Shop, East Aurora, N.Y. Price $3. FOR PASTORS. THE AMBASSADOR OF CHRIST—By James (Cardinal) Gitbons. John Murphy & Co., Baiti- more and New York. +or sale by the Emporium Book Department, City. Though this work was written specially for for priests and ministers, the Cardinal hopes that it ““will be acceptable to students of civil professions, to literary men and to a wide circle of the general community.” The dig- Aity and responsibility of the Christian min- istry is the theme heye treated by this learned and widely respected dignitery of the Roman Catholic church. The Archbishop observes in his preface that “‘rabid bigotry is nota plant that flourishes on Columbian soil. Those ebullitions of unreasoning hatred toward the Catholic church are not congenial to the American character. They are generally aroused and fomented by aliens as yat ill ac- quainted with our constitution, which guar- antees to il freedom of conscience.” Speaking of that class of citizens who, while bearing no 1il will to Catholics, yet sincerely regard with dislike and suspicion that religion, he says, “their animosity is no evidence of their hostility to Catnolic doctrines, but rather to what they believe to be such.” WHERE SIMPLIUITY IS ART. NOBLE BLOOD—By Ernst von Wildenbrach F. Tennyson Neely, New York. For sale by the Emporiam Book Depertment, City. This little story of a noble and most lovable oy by an officer of the German army is pub- lished in the same yolume with one called “A West Point Parallel,” by Captain Charles King of the United States army. The cleverness of it is concealed by its seeming simplicity of narration, We are made by theartof it to love the brave and tender-hearted cader, de- scribed as if he had reslly lived and fought and suffered as the old colonel in the story tells aboutit. The book contains a lesson in true manliness that reminds one of the writ- ings of Thomas Hughes. THE JANUARY MAGAZINES. The most striking article in the January Scribner's will be the account of an eye- ‘witness of the recent massacre in Constanti- nople. This will be the first detailed and authentic account of this Turkish outrage to appear in print. The author of the article suw all that he describes as he passed through the city on his way to business. The new year begins for the children with the appearance of the January St. Nicholas, The number comes just at the holiday season and so it contains much of the Christmas spint. It ovens with a story of Western fron- tier life, “Danny and ‘The Major,’ " by Ger- trude P. Greble. This is & tale of the adven- tures of & brave little seven-year-old boy, son of an army captain, who rides through a band ot hostile Indians &ll alone. *Hop Wing and the Missing Treasure,” by Frank M. Bicknell, is one of the tales from his “City of Stories,” the present one drawing its inspiration from the Flowery Kingdom. Tudor Jenks exolains the phenomena of the mirage in a brief paper called *‘Mirrors of Air.” “Pins” by C. A. Parker, and “Cousin Anite’s Surprise,” by Eleanor Root, are two little stories about two little girle. Various interesting papers oo «Historle Dwarfs,” by Mary Shears Roberts,will be remembered as having appeared in this magazine in past years. Another one is given this month, devoted to Bertoide. He was a shrewd little Italian, who became prime min- ister to Alboiu, King of the Lombards. Gustay Robbe tells of “St. Paul's Rocks,” & mountain pesk that appears above the surface of the ocean in mid-Atlantic. “A Tender-Hearted Monster,” whose Wwoes are set forth by Alice Calhoun Haines, was a dragon tifat could not bring itself to devour princesses. Annie C. Kuiper describes the peculiar obseryance of st. Nicholas Day in Holland.” Laurencs Hutton’s reminiscences of boyhood life in New York nearly half a century ago tell of the great social function of the boys—paying New Year's calls. The story of Shakespeare’s time, ‘Master Skylark,” by John Bennett, introducas the hero to thé stage in the old city of Coven- try. The veracious Venetian traveler, in “The True Story of Marco Polo,” as set forth by Noah Brooks, shows how the great Khan of Tartary went a-hunting. There are many poems, jin- gles and pictures in the number. One of the first articles Ir the January number of the Century ltkely to attract the attention of the reader is a new story by Chester Bailey Fernald, author of “The Cat and the Cherub” and “The Parlous Wholeness of Ephraim,” a writer whose literary work is identified with this magazine. The title is “The Lights of Sitka,” and it exhibits this already versatile story-teller in an entirely new vein. Itistold in sailor's lingo. The number also contains a novelette of a wholly different sort by Hamlin Garland, entitled “A Girl of Modern Tyre,” and depiciing life in & Western town. It has striking pictures by Thulstrup. | The installment of Dr. 8. Weir Mitchell’sserial, “Hugh Wynne, Free Quaker,” deals with Hugh’s weywardness and the subscquent re- action toward a more serious and stable life. General Horace Porter, in his “Campaigning with Grant,” continues his serles of anecdotes, incidents and descriptions of- the movement upon Richmond in 1864, and there Is a picture Dy the late C.S. Reinhart of Grant's passage to the left on the night of the third day in the Wilderness. A paper richly illustrated by Mr. Castaigne on “Public Spirit in Modern Athens” Is contributed by D. Bikelas, as the | leading literary man oi Greece. Mr. Cas- taigne's illustrations, which were made in Athens especially for this arricle, take awide range and deal with “Socrates in the Streets of Athens,” “The Pnyx,” “The Acropohsat Sunset,” “The Academy’” and other character- istic scenes of Athens, R.W. Gilder contrib- utes & poem, entitled, “The Parthenon by | Moonlight.” "“Napoleon’s Interest in the Bat- tle of New Orleans” is the subject of & short article by Willism Hugh Robarts, which in- cludes & description of the battle by General Jackson, which, it is believed, has not before appeared in English, and which was shown to Napoieon himself by James Monroe, after- ward President. Captain Alfred T. Mahan, the distinguished writer on naval affairs, con- tributes & paper on “Nelson in the Battle of the Nile,”” with pictures, portraits, maps, ete., graphically serting forth this engagement. Among other articles in the number ara: “Lenbach, the Paiuter of Bismarck,” by Edith Coues; “Speech and Speech-reading for the Deaf,” by John Dutton Wright; “The Ladies of Liangollen,” by Helen M. North, all of them illustrated, and “The Absurdity of War,” by E. L. Godkin. LITERARY NOTES. Chester Bailey Fernaid, whose first volume of stories, ““The Cat and _the Cherub,” has just been cordially received, is shown in a new {vein in a story which will appear in the | January Century. This is +The Light of Sitka,” a tale of the sea with & tragic element. Mr. Fernald was married a few months ago and has recently gone to Japan, where he will remain for & year or two in order to get local coloring for & new serfes of stories. He is best known Dy his Chinese tales; and yet this is his first tr1p to the Orient, as his studies of Chinese characters were made during a residence in San Francisco. Stephgn Crane, the suthor of ‘The Red Badge of Courage,” has written a vivid story of border life, which the Century will print. Last summer George W. Smalley, the famous correspondent and man of letters,wentabroad in the interests of the Ladies’ Home Journal. His commission was to write two articles, oue on “The Personal Side of Bismarck” and the other on “The Persomal Side of the Prince of Wales.” Mr. Smalley personaily knows both men, and he had no difficulty in getting into close touch with them, while other men would have found insurmountable barriers. The first of these articles will be printed in the January issue of the Journal. Unpublished portraits will fllustrate the papers. Outing for January is the holiday number ot this best of sporting magazines. It is beauti- ful and entertaining, from the special cover to the last of its seasonable pages. In the January number of Harper's a paper entitled “Science at the Beginning of the Cene tury,” by Dr. Henry Smith Williams, wiil be an important contribution to the history of nine- teenth-century civilization, and will be fol- lowed by other papersshowing the progress of scientific discovery during the last hundred years. These papers will be fully illustrated. The Century is to have several articles on “Heroes of Peace,” beginning with one by Theodore Roosevelt on “Herolsm Among the Police.” Articles in the January Forum' include “The Urgent Need of a National University at Wash- ington” by Prestdent David Starr Jordan of the Leland Stanford Junior University; “The Philosophy of Meliorism” by Junius Henri Browne, and & timely paper by Professor R. C. Ringwalt of Columbia University on “Inter- collegiate Debating”—its scope, mechanism and valuable results. In fiction the January issue of Godey’s Maga- zine is especially strong. The opening serial is “Elsbeth; the Story of & Little Gray Dove,” Dby Carrie Hunt Latts, who tells the story of & sweet little Quaker lassand her people, her environment and her lover in a charming style that wins the reader at once. “Elsbeth” 1s & story which pictures life in bright hues, even while it deals with much that is sad and tragic. 1ts climax will not be given until seb- ruary. Lieutenant-General Schofield, lately general- in-chief of the army, and formerly Secretary of War, has written several articles which witl soon appear in_the Century, giving the inside story of some famous events in American his- tory. The first is an account of Napoleon's withdrawal from Mexico, with special refer ence to the part taken by the United States Government. The handsomest calendar for 1897 which has yet appeared is the one issued by Perry Mason &Co., of Boston, publishers of the Yout Companion. The calendar is in the form of & folder, 1035 by 24 inches in size, having four leaves or panels, on each of which is the figure of a beautiful maiden, lithographed in twelve colors trom an original painting. The calene dac will be an ornament toany home or any business office. Perry Mason & Co. give it free to all subscribers to the Companion Wwho send the subscription price ($1 75) of the pa- per for 1897. The order of the King’s Daughters and Sons 1s described inan interesting well-illus rated article in Frank Leslie’s Populac Moathly for January. The auther is Louise Leymour Houghton, one of the leading spirits in the orgamzation. It contains portraits of lk}e principal officers and many attractive views. Few people in these busy days are willing to live without a calendar to mark the passing of time. This fsct, no doubt, accounts for the calendars of all kinds, colozs, shapes and sizes which flood the mails at this season. Among them ali the one that best sulls us is that issued by N. W. Ayer & Son, the newspaper advertising agents of Philadelphia. We Lave just receivea our newscopy and are fixed for 1897. It is pot difficult to see why this calen- dar is so greata favorite. The figures on it are large enough to be read across & room; its handsome appearance makes it worthy of a place in the best-iurnished office or library, while it is business-'ike all the way through. The publishers state that the demand for this cnlendar has always exceeded the supply. This led them vears 8go to place upon it'a nominal price—25 cents, on Teceipt of which it is sent, postpaid and securely packed, to any address. A new long story by Anthony Hope is soon to be published serially. Itis of a social, 1 0 historical, character, and the bicycle rege forms one of its chief attractions.