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THE SUNDAY CALL e e e — Robert Grant ened ¥ leading character n poss! e n worse morally, but s! e Leen more unp ve t's skill in the deve r character and ls gives one a s ctory to be o Selma White s £ w represented not_un- seldom r latter day civilization. That pe he movement W ; en us the new woman is, perhape 3 . v false. Mr. Grant's ¥ finds ellectual freedom now rded women a weil her tende , but s would have gulded woman shdt up in e for the axercises d the excitation and ¢ scandals. an of a Mmited amount ssesses a supreme faith n of ability without limit. she became a school oung, finding with the who was a farmer of it not congenial com- d more clever than es, she longs far she may display her reciative audience, and cise of the influence can wield, no matter gs, if only she can great world, and be given a r her personality upon sppears to give her craves, and when man wealthy, accepts growing the goal where her hus- s in business. Bab- P a has been :aranteed God—a God with ing him diseriminating bet and this the 1 est 1 God that has narchies they have backers author goes been supposed to be the special 3 na sookesmen of G on to trusts are hurch must of me nd of all edu- 1l at last arise. a g n the n elard, P r instead a woman whose the chivair, 14 art shall com: ¢ v is to be a lamp to its flower losure of the f) 1 t tened, but and democratic titution of Conspicuot medieval unfver « ford. re » matter whose b Bologna comes as a surprise to se I ed for her. Exc whose ldeas of a univer: have be s = ntment undermin. tormed on the model of Harvard and Littleton alth his death leaves Yale, and the like prim high schools and Eelma & »w. She returns to Benham knowledge shops of Burope. But the end 1t omes the bride of a politi- medic -.9[ schools like the modern were cian, James Lyons, who has st b stifled In Aristotle and deoted on ‘fead elected to Congress things. The university is in the rutw When me for the nomination of awaiting the rise of a Democratic Cath- Governor in his State a hes Lyons olicism.” be for it, although some im- Thus the church of the new faith is to P ss ventures which he has be the university, and its n'ssion will be ma so badly that he fe: to seek truth, to discover and to each. f ruin will put an end to his poli* Of it the writer says: *“It summons the tica ition. By agreeing to protect@youth and the faith of the nations io the the Interests of tain corporations infinite and arduous labor of the revoly obtaine from thy man of influence tion. It requires of its children the most er e him, as well as the peyfect purity and self-denial. For no pr and elec- one whos= soul is knotted with Just or tic his term fear; no prurient glory seeker; no trap o Ator from - setter to catch distinetion: no vne afra ¥ seems to stand ¢, gje in his working clothes, as a com- s appoipted to the mon man, c ba a man of 5 oriunately, Circim- cotemce and. a c ‘he Religion € risen making it probable of Democracy,” by Charles Ferguson. t by signing the bill as he ploar & Shepard, 238 Post street, San pr declares himself on the side of Francisco. Frice, paper cov 50 cents.) T he will lose his chance -~ « He tells his trouble i s t true to her princip iy her husband would commit felfilling a mere prom- of sacrificing for himself e and r her w she terms a larger ob- portunity to do good. Lyons is persua to break his word and so becomes ator. We take leave of Selma happy Ir the consciousness that at last she h Te osition where she can have great nities to lead others awa: from worn-out conventions to a larger life where the development of individuality is u red by unproductive consider- at or the welfare and ®desires of o s succeeded in describing ies of one life which are T American and which 100 ve for so ma of the ers who endeavor to picture our man- and motives Sel White is so fine of art and yvet so unpleasant with for even a ould wish that Mr. depict with as fine a skill f whose prototype proud and not ashamed. Charles Scribner's Sons, Price $1 50.) a Americans (Pub- New “The Religion of Democracy.” According to the Rev. Charles Fergu- he spirit of the age is saying to its Have faith. Make yourself at This is your own house. The laws &re made for you, gravitation and the cal affinities; not you for them. No 7 put you out of the house. Stand - children home. up; the ceiling is high.” order that the children of the age stand up there is needed for them a Bew faith. To that faith Mr. Ferguson gives the title, *“The Religion of Democ- racy”; and by way of preaching it has published a volume bearing the title. He a The thing that has been most #teadily desired since the world began is not money, nor long life, nor pleasant Eugene McCarthy written an ad- mirable book on amilfar Fish, The'r Habits and Captur Not that books cn fishing evar materially aid the ambitions fisherman in fil inspire a pec ng his confidence, it the: it aft reading you are still obliged to buy your fish from the proverbi: mall b with the willow pole of trout you at least fezl that you rcordng to written directions, 2 failure of the finny denizens to m e on yo hook was not your fault. David Starr Jordan gives a proper santi- ment for the hook in the opening para- graph of He says: t:me or another, one and maybe at al times, the impulse to go a-fishing. That is what fishes are for—to call us away from newspapers. and counting-rooms, schoolbooks and parlors and "clock tea out In the cpen of existence, where life i real and banks are green, skles blue and the birds ng in the branches over the water.” The author realizes that he ‘can hardly guarantee to his readers successful results in the fleld, and wisely quotes from Izaak Walton’s “Complete Angler,” published in Now for the Art of Catching Fish, that is to say, how to make a man that was none to be an engler by a book; he that undertakes it shall undertake a harder task than Mr. Hales, a most valiant and excellent Eencer, who in a printed book called ‘A Private School of Defence' un- dertook to teach that art or science, and was laughed at for his labor. Not but that many useful things might he learned by that book, but he was laughed at be- cause that art was not to be taught by words, but practice: and so must Angling. “And note also that in this Discourse T do not undertake to say all that is known or may be sald of it, but I undertake to ac- .G.L athrop. t the Reader with many things that ally known to every Angler; lenve gleanings and observa- ugh to be made out of the expe- > of all that love and practice this m. to which I shall encourage them. * Angling may be said to be like the Mathematics—that it can never be fully learned; at least not so fully but that re there will still be more new experiments left for the trial of other men that suc- ceed us.” Neverthelcs Mr. McCarthy's book makes capital reading, for aside from the real good advice he gives about the actual catching of the fish he presents in- book lies in its eoplous notes, convenient index and author’s suggestions for study of the poem. In addition to a handy ref- crence map, a chronological table and comprehensive life of Walter Scott have been added. (Published by the Macmillan Company, New York. Price 25 cents.) Concerning Cats. A pleasant bogk for summer reading. one that fs well written and charmingly iliustrated, 1s Helen M. Winslow’s work, “Concerning Cats; My Own and Some Others.”” The book contains many half- tone reproductions of prize-winning fe- lines the world over, some of which are printed on this page. The author is well known as the editor of “The Club Wo- man.' - The object of the book is not to ais- cuss the low street yowlers and back- yard brawlers, but rather the very swell- est of full-blooded kitty cats. There are chapters which tell all about certain his- toric cats, and give some good anecdotes. Then the cats in England are discussed, and cat clubs and shows in/general given seffous attention. There are talks on cat artists, cats in poetry, the origin of catology so thoroughly on the possibili- ties of the high-bred feline. (Published by the Lothrop Publishing Company, Bos- ton. Price, $1 50.) The Black Terror. The latest novel of contemporary Rus- sia is “The Black Terror,” by John K. Leys. The author gives us a wildly Im- probable tale, but so plausibly written that the reader can bear him no grudge for his fanciful flights. The story con- cerns a young Englishman, an architect, residing in Russia, who is wonderfully like-the Czar, Alexander 1I. The archi- tect is engaged upon the work of restor. ing the castle of a Russlan nobleman whose cruelty has marked him for a vic- tim by the Nihilists. The nobleman is spirited away, and the Englishman, in love with the haughty daughter of the Russian, takes up the search for him. The Nihilists are looking for bigger game than the Russian nobleman, and decids that if he will allow his daughter to wed the Englishman, and further, if the Eng- lishman will render them assistance, the nobleman shall go free. Counting upon the striking resemblance of the architect LA USTRATIDNS oncerning, teresting data connected with, the'r life and the whole work indicates the and of a_true spertsman—a lover of the rod—and fair play for the fish, with healthful rec on for the fisherm The hest proof of the auth that you cannot read many ch out feeling a desire to close up business for a fe and take with rod yourself while the day (Published by Price §1 30.) i game. & Co., New Y Scott’'s ““Lady of the Lake.” A valuable little book for careful read- i of dents is a new of the Lak rs and Scott's L introduction and notes Pac d, head of English and hi the High School at Oakland, Cal text of this edition is st lition edited wi beth ory in The that collated by, Dr. Rolfe. The chief value of the little ent which will post the diligent de A N e RANE was not an’ eccentric char- acter. Many people have said t he was. It was even told in print in this city that he was drug- uch stories were absurd. He was the combination of ele th genius. When one writes of Stephen Crane the expression He was never physically His greatest eccentricity was his habit of all night work. I never saw him wholly at bédily ease. He was not a per- sistent worker, because his body—a body youth’ is qualified. strong. which suffered from the constant drain- ings of an intensely active mind—was ever too weak to bear continuous labor. His n rever rested Yet when emergencies arose so also did Crame. He was a correspondent on one New York newspaper during the war with correspondent on another On June 23 I was hi would occur the next . ane If he intended to go the front, It was insufferably hot, d all learned to distrust rumors. 4 not to go. 1 was amazed by indolence. I went to the to and w ind was badly hurt by a bullet, 1 ained consclousness. hours r the fight had ended, one of the first I saw was that of Stephen Crane. AUTIFUL wreck of her former £, Amelie Rives, Princess Trou- betzkoi, is now a voluntary pris- oner at the home of her father, Colonel Albert Rives, “Castle HilL"* Al- bemarle County, Virginia. ‘The final chap- ter of a short but romantic life is being written, and ary day may witness its close. Many months have passed since this gifted woman turned to her father's home from the gayeties of life in Paris and the great cities of her own country, with her health ruined and her nervous system un- strung. Her coming was an_event in Al- bemarie County, and from far and near the friends of the family gathered to see her. But ghe would receive no one. 3 She shut herself in her own room and refused to hold conversation even with the members of her own family. To this Aay she has kept up her self-imposed soli- tude, and not until night has fallen does she 'venture forth. , draped all in white, she wanders back ~and forth through the wide. halls and up and down the winding staircase of the old-fashioned mansion. 3 B B> S e e e e N [ r‘.’\é.fl. cat Ianguage, and high-bred cats In America—in fact every phase of kitty hfe is ta 1p. Some neople do not care for cats: for those this book is not ir tended, but for any one who has a soft spot in his heart at all for this intell little 7 the work will prove en- tertaining. I be only a sma I ! class of n if your cat happer gree removed from the of the night th be some satisfaction in read rs qn cat nospitals and refuges, eneral treatment of cats.and the ndix conce for cats both the same ail nin~ the diseases of nigh and low suffer from Cat clubs are becoming a fad here in > West, as well in the ern g0 Helen Winslow's book should have many readers now in California. There i certainly no other book t pi SN PN , Sxaiing Life Scenes of JStephen Crane, Journalst. taker. merel The thermometer—had an instrument in that God forsaken and man invaded wilder- ness—would have shown a temperature of something like 100 degrees. Yet Stephen Crane—and, mind you, he was there in the interest of a rival newspaper—took the dispatch which I managed to write five or six miles to the coast and cabled it for me. He had to walk, for he couid go( no horse or mule. Then he rushed bout in the heat and arranged with a number of men to bring a siretcher up from the coast and carry me back on it. He was protaply as tired then as a man could ke and 5till walk. But he trudged back from the coast to,the field hospital where 1 was lylng and saw to it that | was properly conveyed to the coast. One day In 1£90 a young man came to my office with a letter of introduction. He was_thin—almost cadaverous. He wanted work and got it, His article—written for a ridiculously low price—on tenement- house fire panies. was one of the best things that he cr any ather man ever d'd it was foHowed by other strikingly strong stories. One day he said to me most modestly: “1 have written some verse.” He handed me a package of manuscript. The next day T left the package on an elevated rail- road train. I never toid him about it. for within twenty-four hours I had recoverel it from the lost property office of the Man. hattan L. The manuscript was that of The day was hot. there been such @A THTATATATAIAT AT AT AT A T ATASATATAD DAT AT AT R AT AT TR § | Her Mind a Wreck. Ameha Rives Lives as a Jrermit. How her time is spent no one knows ex- cept the trusty ola colored woman who carries all her meals and attends to her wants. It is known, howewver, that she writes at intervals, and this has given rise to the report that she is preparing another book, which may create a sensation in the world like that produced by her first vol- ume, “The Quick or the Dead.” Twice a month her. husband, the Prince Troubetzkoi, now a resident of Washing- ton, comes down to see her and spends a few days at “Castle Hu..”” Sometimes she consents to see him for a short time, and sometimes she does not. The life of the young Princess, now evi- dently near its end, is more remarkable than many which have been woven by the skilled pens of writers of fiction, She was born and rajsed among the mountains of the Blue Ridge and grew up with a large share of beauty, for which her family on both sides long been noted. At 18 vnrl of age there was no lovelier girl in irginia. er petite, rounded, graceful figure, soft blue eyes and crown of golden hair made her the belle of the county. But even at that early age the eccen- tricities, now so marked, began to dllpll{ themselves. She went in for literary worl and produced a number of short pieces of S TIRT Ste B0 et aNg o _iy assigned to this work as a soldier might ELT °°°o° <, 3 to the Czar, the Nlhilists propose that he shall assume the rdle of the real C while the latter is béing kidnaped. Suc a scheme as this affords the author great possibilities .in the realm of exciting fle- tion, and he evolves a highly interesting and a story. (Published by L. Puage & Co., Boston.) Literary Notes. A “Manual of Marine Meteorology,” in “Grifiin’s Nautical Series,”” has recently been published by the J. P. Lippincott Company. A rudimentary work for the use of apprentices and officers of mer- chant ships, it forms a convenient, intro- duction to a_deeper investigation into the theory of the subject and its development along sclentific lines. The third adition of “A Friend of Cae- gar,” by Willilam Stearns Davis, was is- 1 on July 30. As a first novel by TR TR AT a | ‘“The Black Riders.” which had a tre- mendous vogue In England. > both _members of a club made | up of writers. The best part of its fur- | nishings was a great open fireplace. Four | or five of us sat before it one night and | Crane read us parts of a story full of | fighting. It was ““The Red Badge of Cour- | age.” Afterward. when we ‘had really seen fighting tegether, I marveled beca his storfes of actual battle were less re- alistic than his descriptions of imaginary conflicts in this book. It was that faculty | which would have made of Crane a great | novelist. He had an accurate and logical imagination. 2 An episode in his life was unpleasant. He went to a place known as the Broad- way Garden to write a descriptive article for a certain newspaper. He was definite- e | be to guard duty. A woman whom he met there—he met her as a part of his work—was a few moments later grossly | by a policeman. Crane, raised ail f ‘trouble for ie officér, and in | turn was arrested and bothered himseif He took it like a man. He accepted the exceedingly unpleasant notoriety with no | comment except that which he made in | court. | In losing Crane America lost one of ker | most promising young writers. But his| friends Jost more. They lost a chap whom | they all knew to be a real man as well as a talented acquaintance. no especial merit until her sensational and somewhat risque book, “The Quick or the Dead.” was written. Her father, Colonel Albert L. Rives, a distinguished engineer, was in France at the time, being connected with the Pan- ama canal work. In the first bicom of vouth she married John Armstrong Chanler, a man consid- erably her senlor, of grave, dignified de- meanor, and her opposite in almost every respect. Their married life was unhappy. | and while the ties were not legally severed for years they lived together only for a short time. He is now in an insane asy- lu‘%‘m New York S;nlle.l le on a tour of Italy some yea Amelio Rives-Chanler. a5 sha calleq her self, met Prince Troubetzkol, a Corsican. lgeems to have been a case of love at iy sight. The wedding, which took place in Paris, was a brilllant one. The Trince is an artist, and his Washington studio is a fashionable one. He has painted the | “Th | and Literature in the Univ | fornia portrait of the Queen of England and of other crowned heads of Europe. The Princess Troubetzkol is said to have amassed several hundred thousand dollars For emporal comtarta” during "ne ot comfo! urin h mainder of her life. ‘J’ Gtk very young man ‘such a reception may fairly be called remarkable. Critics have classed this story as a pagan counterpart to “Quo Vadis® and have compared it with Canon Farrar’s famous book also. In reality, however, it stands alone in its treatment of the human side of the last days of the Roman republic. The Mac- millan Company has a fourth edition in preparation. The August Home Magazine, in discuss- ing the latest developments of the Chi- nese situation in an article entitled “The Yellow Danger.” calls attention to the fact that there was a great uprising and invasién of Europe by the Chinese in the sixth century under Attila, “the Scourge of God,” who marched across Asia and Europe to the very gates of Paris. This was followed 700 years later, in the thir- teenth century, by another uprising of the Chinese people under Ghenghis Khan, King of the Mongols, who led a vast army in the path of Attila and stopped on the threshold of Germany. Another 700 years has passed, and the writer, in view of the present growing troubles in China, asks is it time for another uprising of the Chinese people and is Christendom any better prepared to exist The editors of Ainslee’s Magazine de- vote the August number to the younger writers of American fiction. Those repre- sented fare Stephen rane, H Still- well Edwards, Brand Whitlock, J Barry and Eugene Wood. Stepher “The Kicking Twelfth’ and the vivid picture of the blo which he has presented must conv reader anew that American liters ture has cause for regret in the untimely end of this author. Harry Stillwell wards® “The Stirring Up of Billy Willi s a delightfully humorous story of South. Brand Whitlock, whom we have known only for his strong political storfes, in “The Old House Across the Way" offers a most moving and tender tale. John D. Barry's “‘At the Shrine of the Idol” is a finished product terary art. The reader's curiosity will be p jued to know just which celebrated English author is the dol” in this very Interesting story Eugene Wood is as strong and 1 as ever in a mining center story called t About Laura Hornbaker.” Alto- gether Ainslee’s for August contains some captivating fiction, while the special articles in it are of the usual distinction. Among the latter are: “A Talk With President Kruger,” by Allen Sangree; “Missfonary Work in China.” by John Fryer, professor of Oriental Language sity of Call- ark Tw n the Lectu form.” by Will smens: and * Actor and Playwright, Besides ther in r Fille . by Richard Duffy re two very humorous con- e. , “The Plague fense of Plagi and a | of Flie The Midsummer Fiction number of Me- Clure's Magazine, with a cover by Louls Loeb, suggesting by its rich, warm color- ing the lassitude of with a trong list of we n the art of story telling, produces at once a pleasing impression. To th number Frank H. Spearman contributes the first of a new series of railway stories, telling of the exciting race of a train of Yellow- stone Park excursionists with a runaway “freight.” Jack London, ung Cali- fornian, has In this issie a tale of the perilous journey of a Klondike miner and his Indian wife to obtain reiief for a starving camp. This story is imaginative in the highest degree. and possesses strik- ing local color and extraordinary pathetic force. Another strong story is “A Bill from Tiffany's.” by Josiah Flynt, the well-known explorer of tramp and crimi- nal life, and Francis Walton. The life of metropolitan policemen and -of profes- sional thieves is graphically portrayed: and there is a keen relish in the account of the means by which Detective Charley Minick secured funds for the purchase of his wife's jewels. The relations of “guns’ (members of the thieving guild) with one ancther are treated in a highly illuminat- fug manner. Equal if not greater interest attaches to one or two stories founded on fact—to W. D. Hulbert's story of a Michi- gan porcupine, with illustrations by A. Radelyffe Dugmore, whose studles of mocking birds and other animals have attracted much attention; and also to Lieutenant Commander Gilimore's ac- count, beginning In this number, of tho ‘extraordinary hardships of his party in the wilds of Luzon, where a brutal death more than once seemed imminent. The illustrations to this article are by W. R. Lelgh, and are marvelously realistic. The number also contains attractively {illus- trated stories by George Beardsley, G. X, Turner, Frederic Van Rensselaer Dey a Henry Wallace Phillips; a cmm-nc-me:‘ poem by E. S. Martin and the eighth stallment of Ian Maclaren's “Life of ths Master.” J. D. Whelpley 2lso exposes the recent attempt of Russia to enter fto ar international wheat combination with t country. The leading article in Outing for An. gust s by Henry Savage Landor, the thor of “In the Forbtdden Land,” w travels in Tibet have created worldw interest. In Outing he relates and i trates one of the pleasant sides of Tibet life, their “Racing for the Kata.” Willlam Dinwiddie, the famous Ph pine war correspondent, tells of the w drous physical capacity of “The Igorrots Kunners of Luzon,” upon whose enc ance the American soldier in the m: tains relies for the transportation of his store: Jack London, whose “Son of N Wolf” has attracted such wide has a sketch of the D “Jan, the Unrepentan Besides these adventures of the turous there are plenty of nitabl ing apd seasonable toples. “The Isk Delight” reveals the possibilities of cam at 97 e of ing at the very gates of the city, ar utgoing Ways" is a daintily fllustrat 1ayll of a nature lover. Bieye Through Shakespeare’s Land,” profuse fllustrated, is a glimpse of the Eng west country. “The Sportsman’s Phot graphic Equipment,” in which Mr. W. Carlin gives practical advice, based on experience with bird and beast. The art cle of Horace Hutchinson discusses “Ths Golf of the New School” and gives ’ Justrations of famous English pla H Chatfleld Taylor gossips pieasantly on “The Development of Golf in the W 2 Colonel C. L. Norton justifies the title “The Practical House Boat.”™ Freder J. Wells tells how “Surf Bathing” can be made safe and enjoyable. Duffleld Os- borne gives “A Common-sense Swimming Lesson”; J. Parmly Paret, “The Progress of Lawn Tennls” by instantaneous pho- tographs. W. J. Henderson has an ar- ticle on “Nawigation for Yachtsmen™: J. B. Berryman on “Yachting on the Great Lakes,” A. J. Kenealy in “Beating to Windwar” gives valuable and practical fnstruction. Charles G. Davis pleads for “A Centerboard Cup Defender for 1901 Also “The Phantom Loon of Louis Lake. one of the delightful canoeing and fish ing experiences of the late Frank H. Ris- teen. An 'exceedingly interesting letter from Robert Barr was published recently in the New York Herald, but was gtven such an Inconspicuous position that it has probably escaped the notice of many of the readers of the Pocket Magazine. Thers 18 so much-in it that Is characteristic of its writer and of the late Stephen Crane that we print it here in full: “Hilthead, Woldingham, Surrey, “June 8, 1900. “My Dear * * *—I was delighted to hear from you, and was much interested to see the article on Stephen Crane you sent me, It seems to me the harsh judgmen of an unappreciative, commonplace per son on a of geni Stephen had many qualities which lent themselves to misapprehension, but at the core he was fingst of men, generous to a fault, something of the oldtime reckless- which. used to gather in the ancient y taverns of London. I always far r Allan Poe revisited t}‘ Crane, trying agaly falling again and dying ten years han he did on the other ceeaston of his stay on earth your letter came I had just re- s man earth succeed! as turned from Dover, where I stayed four days to see Crane off for the Black For- est. There was a thin thread of hope that he mig co but to me he looked like a man already dead. When he spoke, or rather ispered, there was all ¢ accustomed humor in his sayings. I { to him t I would go over to Schwartzwald 'n a few weeks, when he was getting better, and that we would take some convalescent rambles together s listening he said, faint- Iy, ‘I'll look forward to that’ but he smiled at me and winked slowly, as much as to say, ‘You d—d humbug. you know I'll take no more rambles in this world." Then, as If the train of thow suggested what was looked on before as the crisis of his illness, he murmured, ‘Robert, when you come to the hedge— that we must all go over—it isn't bad. You feel sleepy—and—you don't care. Just a littde dreamy curfosity—which world yow're really in—that's al “To-morrow, Saturday, the 9th, I go again to Dover to meet his body. He will rest for a little while in England, a coun- try that was always good to him, then to America, and his journey will be ended. “I've got the unfinished manuscript of his last novel here beside me—a rollick- ing Irish tale, different from anything he ever wrote before. Stephen thought I was the only person who could finish it, and he was too ill for me to refuse. I don’t know what to do about the mau»‘ for I never could work up another man ideas. Even your vivid imagination could ly conjure anything more ghastly than the dying man, lying by an open »w overlooking the English Channel, ating in a sepulchral whisper the codfilo situations of his humorous hero so that I might take up the thread of his story. “From the window beside which I writs this I can see down in the valley Ravens- brook House, where Crane used to live nd where Harold Frederic, he and I spent many a merry night together. When the Romans occupled Britain some of their legions, parched with thirst, wers wandering about these dry hills with the choice of finding water or perishing. They watched the ravens and so came to the stream which rises under my place and flows past Stepher’s former hom hence the name. Ravensbrook. “It seems a strange coincidence that the greatest modern writer on war should set himself down where the greatest anclent warrior, Caesar, probably stopped to quench his thirst. “Stephen died at three in the morning, the same sinister hour which carried away our friend Frederic nineteen months before. At midnight in Crane’s fourteenth century house In Sussex we two tried to ire back the ghost of Frederic into that house of ghosts and to our company, thinking that If reappearing were ever possi so strenuous a man as Harold would somehow shoulder his way past the guards, but he made no sign. I wonder if the less Insistent Step! 1 suggest some Ingenious method by which the tw: can pass the barrifer. I can imagine Ha "] old cursing on the other side and welcom- ing the more subtle assistance of his fine- ly fibered friend. “T feel rather like the last of the Three Musketeers, the other two gone down in their duel with Death. I am wondering if, within the next two years, I also will get the challenge. If so. I shall go to the competing ground the more cheerfully that two such goodgfellows awalt the out- come on the other side. Ever your friend, “ROBERT BARR.” Books Received. WHEN JEREMIAH PROPHESIED- By Alice Kingsbury Cooley. Street & Smith, New York. In paper 10 cents. WINNING OUT—By Orison Swett M den. Lothrop Publishing Company, Bos- ton. $1.00. THE JAYHAWKERS-By Adela Orpen. D. Appleton & Co., New York L. % THE SECOND LADY DELCOMBE Mrs. Arthur Kennard. J. B. Lippinc Company, New York. In paper 5 cents. 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