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THE SUNDAY CALL NICHS) who was of the Zedlandia heré on her second Manila in 189, has ting account of his “Ten Months a Captive The main value of y the fact that it 1s an of a people and country s and unfavorable i gives an excellent ter of the Filipinos n reached Manila Bay on of time for the capture when the Fil rericans worked side by sh. He became a nd the a os were forced farther farth k from the suburb n conquering the territory o 3 e and felt that he and o be placed on an equalf refore when the 1 back from the city i from friendliness to San Francisco boy nion through all uber, the son of l-known advertising It will be remembe the F not ng of us &toc with fixed ut to ch ared liv bayonets, were thrown into ¢ convicts and t is rem ct some f. a filthy jail ttical pris- hat they did When night came vere being sixteen of us, our re cramped, to put it mildly. At n¢ a fithy Tagalog so close to suggestive of decayed fish, I tried to escape this hor- Huber, but he wae likewise ur [ conside: night 1 became a Dar- on, Tats, appeared and prome: ded about y confined have com- ngled in my inside of my fest, and, in ous In general T back the soles of my ves cbn T 3 arrest & —some merely be e poor creat- | vPrions rea- re the for se they w who had escaped, or | who were friendly to the one incident of m of soldlers. Here is o4 then v st recollection of those ghastly s boy of less than 14 years of 0 had been m servant with some " and ero over into the in- join his family. Arrested as e boy denled the charge, bu force a confessicn from him. the 4 him 1o & tree, and then burned neck and chest with the glowing ends igarettes. When thrown in with us, 4. although by nature of a pleas'ng was fairly hideous, with his dis- 1 tace and neck, f a emalipox patient his story When he told us could hardly believe it, but the which the sergesnt of the guard pr with Lossted of his complicity in the outrage re- v ur jast doubts. We named the lad Cigarettes on account of his experience, and | appeliation he soon became known t the prison by soldiers and prison- it being considered very appropriate. Sonnichsen’s account of the prison fare n lly causes one to wonder how these men managed to keep alive. ative prisoners lived chiefly on rice ways had some side dish, which, no tter of what composed, was always called “vianda” or “ulam” in Tagalog. Sometimes t was ehrimps or small crabs, at times a spe- cies of catfish bolled with tamarind beans. but their favorite relish was “bogone.” 1 boldly by | lizards and a specles | re at least treated bet- | Even chiidren did not escape | the remains | having all the appear- | swallowed a spoonful of this mess one day and survived, which is proof of an excellent constitution. *‘Bogone’’ {s made in this man- ner: A quantity of small shrimps, hardly big- ger than the ordinary spawn, are placed in an earthen jar, where they are mixed with salt, vinegar and areca nut, and allowed to stand & week. The mixture is then ready for use. Sometimes small fish are substituted for . but the result 1s the same. With a h of this on one side of him, & pot of on the other, and two bananas within reach, Mr. Filipino is as happy as the proverblal pig in clover. Squatting en his heels in true Oriental style, he reaches into the rice pot, takes a handful, squeezes it into a ball, and, dipping it into the “‘bogone,” con- veys the whole to his under lip, which in an astonishing manner profects itselt to receive it. While their jail was strong enough to keep its prisoners from escaping, still it would have amounted to a poor defense in case of mob violence, and frequently their lives were in danger. eacy At about 9 o'clock a mob of bolomen gath- d outside the prison and amused themselves Jabbing their long knives in between the We were now alone; the native disappeared. It was bright by bars at us. prisoners had moonlight, and plainly could we see the crowd f half-naked savages outside, the long blades of their bolos flashing in the yellow light as they ficurished them overhead. Again those s cries of ‘‘Muerte! muerte! muerte a los ricance”’ Then they tried to force our doors, tut they were strongly bolted. Every ment their fury increased. and it seemed to that the long-dreaded climax had arrived But just then In the veriest heat of the ex- we ment ard the trampling of horses’ and the next moment a mounted er dashed Into the midst of the turbulent mob, laying about him with a heavy riding whip and thundering out oaths in Spanish and og. We could hear that whip whizzing the alr, followed by cries of pain. In minutes the horseman was alone, glaring sut him as if seeking some more victims roaching the bars, he shouted to us: *All t: 1 told ‘em: they not trouble you again®” two ab 1t was Pera, the Comandante or Military Governor of the district. We admired his style t them What the author has to say about the attitude of the Filipinos toward the friars s not without interest or political signi- ce. Not only do the Tagalos hate the friars, but natives of Luzon, liocanos, Macabebes, 708, and even the Spanish soldiers regard them as human b s of prey, and the stories 1 have heard of their flendish cruelty and cun- nine trickery would Al volumes and make a ng parallel to the Spanish inquisttion m robody, not even the Spanish officers ave I hea a word in their defense, and the ative ciergy unite in calling them ofly hypo- rites and tyrants. There were, of ex- tions, for once I heard of a good friar whe 1 in a small provincial town and as “‘cura’ kis flock with sympathy and love, but he died were mostly of the Franciscan, Recol- Agustin_and Jesuit orders; and, strange say, the Fillpinos are not so averse to the s the rest. The Jesuits have schools and done less harm. but the ts seem to be the moét hated. I have d men show me crippled limbs caused by the by torture infiicted In underground rs in order to force their victims to re e hiding place of insurgent refugees. ther showed me scars on the soles of hix where they had tortured him by p:acing candles to the bare flesh. I have my- red secret chambers under their con- nd seen hideous instruments of torture. party were taken ire length of the island an excellent opportunity to different tribes. Here is what say about the Negritos and friars As Sonnichs !most the had the he has to lgorrotes on I had never seen a Negrito b 4. They were dwarfish in stature coal black and their hair crisp bafore, not 50 was well built helr skins and k.nky of an African negro, but thelr heads e better formed, I think, not being so egg- aped. They are cticy primitive sav- their only approach.to clothing being a around their ioine Their teeth they file arp points. * ¢ * The Igorrotes are by o means stmilar o the Negritos, except in the ence of all manner of superfiuity of dress, ba t of the most economical ring a breech clo sensions. Thelr straight blueblack hair is nd cofled up locsely on the top of the Thelr color Is of a light coffee brown Qiffers but slightly average Taga- Most of them 2 some even in In physi pearance they are but well shaped, every muscle developed trical proportions, and compare rably with the Negritos, whose legs se have almost uniform What caused us to wonder was the fact that we seldom observed an Igorrote who was not leading a string of d Inquiry revealed the fact that dog forms the favorite dish in an Igorrote bill of fare, and to cbtain a siffi- cincy they often come down to the lowlands to trade horses, calves, goats, copper ore ani even gold dust for curs that would hardly ve permitted to exist in our country The religious bellef of these Igorrotes is of the vaguest order, tainted with gross supersti- tions of secmingly Mohammedan origin 4 ia- calf als the efforts of the friars to convert them have rignally failed. I am told that the monks who went up into the mountains for this purpose had a nasty habit of disappearing. Finally the friars decided to leave them entirely alone. These people live in small villages, each gov- erned by the oldest male inhabitant. The vii- lages are famillarly known by the Spanish name ‘‘rancherias’ throughout the islands. In spite of his harsh treatment at first, the author bears no ill will toward the Filipinos, for in the course of the ten months of his captivity there were fre- quent opportunities of which the natives avalled themselves in particular instances to show that many a kind heart beat on the island. Considering the circumstances, the poverty of those who held us, themselves sometimes starving, we ought not to complain. Those who really have come in sufficiently close con- tact with the Filipinos to know them and are enabled to judge them without racfal or na- tional prejudice, cannot but admit that they are as entitled to be called civilized as other nations, and even more 80 than some whose representatives we receive at our capital and accord the same honors as those of the most polished nations. Considering the chances th. had had, or rather not had, and who their teachers were, the Filipinos have certainlv ha- haved as well, If ot better, toward thelr pria- on than other nations have done in recent war Mr. Sonnichsen’s narrative reads like the romances of Dumas for dramatic incl- dert. There is not a dry page in the whole book, for it holds the attention by the crowding of thrilling events the one on the other. ot only is the book of merit as a y of adventure, but it oc- cuples the higher plane of filustrating the life and character of one of our most in- teresting possessions and will hold its place as one of the best bhooks on the Philippines for some time to come, (Pub- lished Charles Scribner’s Sons, New York. e $150.) Starboard Lights. rhoard Lights,”” appearing as “Salt Water Tales, by A. B. Hawser, Master,” is a more than ordinarily good collection of short stories. As the title implies, all the sketches are connected by the com- mon subject of the sea, yet there is so much variety that the little book makes a reading in one sitting a'pleasure from start to finish. Some of the tales have uappeared in the New York Press, but nearly all of them are worth a second Pri reading and will be welcome in the more permanent form in which they are now offered to the public. They all have the right whiff of salt air about them, which marks them a: from the pen of one familiar and enthu- siastic with life on the ocean.’ In theme they vary from somber and weird to humorous and sketchy. In those of lighter veln the author's humor is con- stantly cropping out in a delightfully sub- tle way. Some of the characters appear in several of the stories, and are sure to make fast friends of the readers. The bock is in two parts, the first of which is supposed to be from ‘‘Captain Hawser's Log,” and the se¢ond gives a few tales “picked up on Captain Hawser and his “Bo’s'n" are both great old characters. What the captain has to tell about his fillbustering trip is especially rich in the flavor of humorous salt. It seems that that worthy tar had been trying to turn an honest penny In landing arms for the Cubans—before our recent trouble with Spamn—and after a deal of trouble momentarily delayed tho pursuit of a cutter by tangling a fish line about her propeller. He succeeds in get- ting aboard his schooner with a free way head with the one exception of a launcn oad of officers, who are acting in eor- junction with the cutter to arrest the fili- buster. Here is the naive way the capta’n has of telling just how he handled the immediate difficulty In sight: ““We knew that we had to hurry, for it wouldn’t take them long to clear the pro- veller. Maybe It was owing to this hurvy that we ran into the launch that had re- mained where I had seen it first. The men in the launch were Spaniards and when we got close to them I recognized the ugly face of one. He had made trouble f r me once before when I had tried to turn “an honest penny in the filibustering line. “They had me In Morro Castle for a few weeks till they found that they couldn't prove it on me and all the time this fellow had enjoyed himself kicking me whenever he got a chance. I found him to be a very unreasonable man down there in Havana, and it seemed that our northern climate hadn’t improved him, for though any man could see with half an eye that we wers in a hurry he insisted in running his launch across cur bows. Then he shouted to us to stop, and v/hen he saw that we didn't consider it wise he pulled out a horse pistol and began to shqot at us. the waters.” , 'My mate was at the helm, and he must have got terribly frightened, though not inclined that way generally, for he wab- bled the wheel like mad and somehow ran right on top of the Spanish launch. We hit her lickety-split and burst her wilde open. We didn’t stop. “After we got about a mile out to sea the mate slapped his thigh and sald: ““There. If I ain’t about the absent- mindedest galoot! I never thought to ask them fellers if they could swim!" And we never found out. Besides tales of ships where they werc afraid to light a match, a sun stroke of an officer in the Arctic Circle, a sallor nearly frozen to death in the tropics and other freakish bits of narrative, the au- thor shows that he is equally adept in giv- ing uncanny touches to his storles. “A Mystery of New York Bay." “The Pro- fessor's Manuscript”” and “The Little Yel- low Man.” make splendid reading for cold chills under the lone gaze of your mid night ofl. Published by Quall & Warner, New York. Price $1 Rover Boys Out West. “The Rover Boys Out West” is the fourth volume of the “Rover Boys" serles, by Arthur M. Winfleld, a line of works popular with boys from the start. In the previous books the youthful readers were introduced to the Ruver boys at school, on the ocean, and in the jungle. In the pres- ent book the scene is shifted to the West, whither the three boy heroes have gone in search for a lost gold mine belonging to thelr father. This mine is claimed by the Rovers’ old enemies, the Baxters; and the struggle to locate it and to prove the,title make absorbing reading. Vivid pictures of life in the mountain camps are given. The book is Hllustrated. (Published by The Mershon Co., New York. Price $125.) Literary Notes. The third volume of “The History of South Carolina,” by Edward McCrady, president of the Historical Society of South Carolina, has just been {ssued by the Macmillan Company. This volume deals with South Carolina in the revo- lution, 1775-1780. Seribner's Magazine for April will be a spring number with a special cover in colors and illustrations in color by a new metbod. It will contain six short stories —articles by John Fox Jr., Walter A. Wyckeff, Mrs. Gilbert and others; and the picturcs will represent the best work of such artists as Peixotto, Steele, Christy, Weeks and McCarter. Brentano's have for immediate publica- tion a novel by F. Frankfort Moore, en- titleé ““Neil Gwyn, - Comedian”; a finer piece of litepary work that “The Jessamy Eride,” by this same.author, fthich was such & pronounced Success tWo:years ago. The story Is written in his most dashing style, and 1s full of quip and eolgram sufts the subject and .time. The book will be illustrated very handsomely, and the binding will be most attraciive and characteristic, with a medallion of “Nell” in colors inserted on the front cover. ‘““Her Mountain Lover,” by Hamlin Gar- iand, author of *“*Maln Traveled Roads,” etc., will be published by the Century Company on April 3. It is a story of pic- turesque contrasts, and its hero suggests a masculine counterpart of “‘Daisy Mil- ler.” A young Colorado ranchman is sent to Landor to place an interest in a West- ern mine; his unconventional manpers make friends for him, and his affections become somewhat ‘“entangled.” The charm of the romance lies largely in his breezy character and humorous speech. “The Wizard’s Knot,” by Dr. Willlam Barry, author of “Arden Massiter,” “The Two Standards,” etc., also announced by the Century Company, is described as a graphic picture of life in Ireland. The author is a well known Catholic priest and theologlan, & lecturer, traveler, student and thinker. In his latest ro- mance the plcturesqueness that char- acterizes all of his writings is a dist'net- ive feature. Doxey’s (at the Sign of the Lark, New York) sends out from ths well-known booi shop a volume of verse the like of which has never been ventured in this country. The decadents have had their poets, but it has remained for the author of tne “Book of Jade,” whoever he may be, :» claim recognition as their leader. His verse is Orfental to a degree; it is redolent with strange perfumes. Occasionaily it is lurid and flery; sometimes it !s chill with the damp of death; it is always original A first perusal will lead to a second and it will then dawn on the reader that even Charles Beaudelaire, the great French de cadent (to whom i(he book is dedicated), wrote nothing more unique. The questicn will undoubtedly be asked, “Who Is th2 author?” The publiskers are only at lib- erty to state that he is an American and graduate of a leading American college Theé book is got up in Doxey's best style and is in every way one of the oddest isdued this year. We notice, moreover. that the edition s limited to five hundred caples, each numbered. Cloth $1 The Ess Ess Publishing Company will soon publish in book form “The Love Let- ters of a Liar,” by Mrs. Willlam Allen They were first printed in The Smart Set last September, and owing to their charm- ing style and fascinating “humanness’ at once attracted much attention. The soclal prominence of Mrs. Allen in New York and in the South, and the charge—vehem- entiy denied by the author—tha they were letters written to her by one of her admirers, have made them a subject of conversation in fashionable drawing- rooms. The New York World says: “All the werld s talking about ‘“The Love Let- ters of an Englishwoman,’ but they do not compare with ‘The Love Letters of a Liar’ in brilMancy, knowledge of men and the world, and -their daring.” McClure, Philllps & Co. will publish shortly Edward H. -Sothern’'s Prompt Book on Hamlet, as it was orepared for bis own successful praduction for the first time at the Garden Theater, New York, on September 17, 190. The publishers have endeavored to make th's book 1 cvery way worthy of tke play and the production. The format is the same as that of the Mansfleld edition of King Henry V, which they published recently, and it is printed on toned deckle edge paper. Sixteen half-tones illustrates tiw volume, eight of which show Mr. Sothern and Miss Harned as Hamlet and Ophelia. the rest exhibiting whole scenes-in the play. The cover design is the most ela- borate ever attempted or a book of this character, being a representation In six colors on imitation Japan vellum of the brial of Ophella, and is the work of a distinguished English artist. The volume is a narrow octavo, bound in a flexible board cover and sells for 5 cents net. Among the new editions issued by Ran”, McNally & Co. in their popular Orientui Library, paper covers, are the following: “In Hampton Roads,” by Charles Eugene Banks and George Cram Cook: “The Launching of a Man,” by Stanley Water- loo; *“Judge Elbridge,” by Opie Read; “The Lady of the Garden,” by Marah Ellis Ryan; “A Married Man.” by Franc:s Aymar Mathews; “The Flame in tha Socket,”” by Adeline Sergeant. Among th2 now editions recently included in their Rialto serfes are: “Captain Landon,” by Richard Henry Savage; “The Woman That’s Good," by Harold Richard Vynne, “Mexjcan Vistas,” by Harriott Wight Sherratt. A most complete guide to the Pan-American. Exposition, Buffalo, and Niagara Falls, has been issued by Rand, McNally & Co., which will be of great value to those who contemplate visiting the great fair and who want to know something about it ir advance. It con- tains a historical review of the exposition, with a list of the officers, the scope of tLe work, an exhaustiye description of the grounds and buildings, and, in fact, infor- mation on every subject with which the visitor will be interested. The book has numerous half-tone illustrations of the buildings. plans, officers, etc. Aside from the exposition itself there is a descripticn of Buffalo and its many attractions and full instruction how to see Nlagara Fal's, places to visit, expenses incurred and many helpful suggestions. Besides the half-tone illustrations there are maps of Buffalo, Niagara Falls and the exposition grounds. Maurice Thompson did not live to see the dramdtization of his novel, “Alice of 01d Vincennes.” There is great pathos in Dbis leaving this world almost at the be- ginning of the popular success for which he had worked and waited. But his tal- ents were not without appreclation long ago, and he had an every-day joy in life and nature which blessed him as he went aiong. ‘Whenever an author scores a success his early efforts are sure to be dug up, however deeply they may be buried in ob- livion, and offered to the public, with or without his consent. Anthony Hope re- vived more than one of his early novels after *“The Prisoner of Zenda" had brought him popularity, but in his case there was no attempt at deception, and the quality of his work in the earlier books proved to be fully as good as that of his later ones. “The God in the Car,” for instance, was published several years before ““The Prisoner of Zenda,” and apathetically received. It was reissued after that famous story had its long sea- son of prosperity, and none could do aught The Part 2 r.\' these days of the making of many | I books. notably novels. the increasing !l difMculty of finding good. strong. at- © tractive titles is preoccupying the { minds of busv authors, and still more, | perhaps, those of the hard-worked literary advisers of the publishing houses, duties of these gentlemen are man: more numerous than the public wh accepts cr rejects tne novels, they select for publication can possibly suspect. Not the least of thesc duties is the finding of £ood tities for good books, for not all au- thors have the knack to do this. It is af- | ten a thankless task; your writer is gen- | emally a sensitive being, clinging as fran- | tically to a title that is bad as to his be- Iief In a story that is really good; but oc- | casionally virtue finds Its reward in the | gratitude of a man who willingly surr | ders the meaningless name selected b: | himself in favor of a title that‘is sonor- | ously alliterative, or ruggedly strong, or | felicitously inviting. { _ The title must fit the book, of cours: | but when a title is found that, while aj propriate, arouses curiosity or interest on its own account, perfection is reached in |a aicuit 6y It is not perhaps too much to say that one-half of the English and American novelists of the past and present have lacked this form of invent- iveness, and that of the remaining half but few have been signally successful. Georee Eiiot did not nossess the gift, | neither did Dickens, or Thackeray, “Van- ity Fair" being the exception that proves the rule in the latter's case, as “A Tale of Two Cities,” and perhaps, “Hard Times" and “Barnaby Rudge,” on account of the ruggedness, in that of Dickens. George | Eliot made one deliberate attempt, It would appear, and failed—in *The Im- pressioas of Theophrastus Such.” Successful titles may be roughly divided into two classes—the absolutely and the celatively good. The former arrest atten- ton even before the book Is read; they the give full promise of what the prospective reader is to expect, but the book must fulfill the promise thus made. The appro- priateness of the relatively good title is only recognized after the book has been real. “A Window in Thrums” is an ex- ample -of this relative merit of titles, and S0 is “Unleavened Bry £ These titles are excellent, because they at once attract the attention and arouse curiosity. Charles Reade, too. had this knack, apparently so simple. “Foul Play.” “A Terrible Temptation,” “White Lies,’ “A Woman Hater” and rd Cash” were act the shil- titles well caleulated to ext lings from the pockets of a public avid of entertainment. For his best-known book, however, he could only find “The Cloister and the Hearth,” which really deserves to be classed in the second category, that of titles whose excellence is seen after che book iteelf has been read. Our own James Fenimore Cooper is an- other author who must not be overlooked in the honor list of novelists with a talent for titles, his having the added advantage of being admirably simple. “The Last of the Mohicans,’ “Pathfinders,” *“‘Leather- stockings,” ‘“Deerslayer,” “The Spy’ how directly these titles must have spoken to the readers of his day and gen- eration! Ther: was nn mistaking their meaning, and the prémise they gave was consclentiously kept. Hawthorne stands high in this smalil company. “Twice-T Tales,” “Mosses From an Old Manse,” “The House of the Eeven Gables,” “The Scarlet Letter,” “The Marble Faun,” “Tanglewood Tales" are attractive titles, alluring rather than explicitly promising, with a supremely clever use of alliteration and assonance, one of the great alds of the maker of titles. Anthony Trollope, too, had his happy inoments in “Can You Forgive Her?" “The Way We Live Now," “The Prime Minister” (how many English Prime Ministers we have had In English fiction lately), “The American Senator," *“The Duke's Children” (a Duke fs always a safe venture In England) and “Is He Popinjay?”’ We may add here for curios- ity’s sake, the titles of four unfinished novels—Hawthorne's “Dr. Grimshawe's Secret,” Trollope's “The Land Leaguers,” Dickens’ “‘Mystery of Edwin Drood” and Thackeray's “Denis Duval,” three of which show alliteration. There are fashions in titles, and some of them persist. Green's “Philomela the Lady Fitz Water's Nightingale” and ‘Mo~ rando, the Tritameron of Love” of Eliza- bethan days find their successors in Miss Rhoda Broughton's “Red as a Rose Is She,” *“Ala “Not Wisely. but Too Well” and in that undercurrent of minor fiction In which shone “The Duchess” with “Beauty’s Daughters,” *“Molly Bawn" and “Alry, Fairy Lillian,” and which reaches Jow-water mack in such inventions as _“Oh, What a Plaugue is Love" and ail their kind. The Bible has often served as a source of inspiration to authors in search of titles, and so, of course, has Shakes- peare. Wlilam Dean Howells' constant rellance, “A Hazard of New Fortunes,” “A Modern Instance,” A Foregone Con- clusion,” “The Quality of Mercy"—these are apt titles, well found. “The Lady of the Arcostook,” *“The Rise of Stlas Lap- ham,” belong in the category of names whose appropriateness becomes apparent only -in_the light 'of the story-itself. Maarten Maartens, too, has not applied in vain to the world’s poet. “The Greater Glory” was the only title for his book of that name. Occasionally the first comer in the fleld finds the only good title possible. More's “‘Utopia” was perfect of its kind; noth- ing appreaching it could be found by Mr. Bellamy, who had to content himself with the clumsy “Looking Backward,” which Well Chosen Title Blaus in Making the suggested to the professional humorist a fear that he might suffer from a crick in the neck if he read the book; and Mr Howells spoiled his “‘Altruria” ide: through conscientiousness. To be explicit in describing the scope of his work he added the ‘“traveler from,” and mad: the title unwieldy. Other writers of so- clal novels of the future have l.2en equai- ly at a loss. The late Ignatius Donnelly's “Caesar's Column” was not particularly g00d: nnd flounderings in “As It Is to Be,” “A. D. 3001,” etc., do not improve matters. Some fashions in novels are short- lived. Notable among those was the style invented by Mrs. Margaret Deland in *“John Ward, Preacher,” which was jmmediately followed by ‘“Metzerott, Shoemaker,” and a host of other imita- tions, the novelty of the thing being worn out within a year. The most notable re- cent example of- this class of titles, prob- ably the last, is Dr. Mitchell's “Hugn Wynne, Free Quaker.” Then there was the fashion set by John Oliver Hobbes in “Some Emotions and a Moral,” which led not only to imitation, but to parody as well. 2 At the present moment the inventivé- ness of authors and publishers in the matter of titles seems to be at a low ebb. A minor English novelist, Ernest Willlam Hornung, !s remarkably busi- ness-like in his method: "A Bride From the Bush,” “Irralie’s Bushrange “The Boss of Tarocmba''—these are unmistak- able titles for Australian novels; “Dead Men Tell No Tales” is allke explieit and suggestive of endless possibilities, and the work by which he promises to become best known is designated “The Amateur Cracksman.” James M. Barrie has been felicitous with “My Lady Nicotine. “Tommy and Grizel” was of course the commercially, that could be found for the sequel to “Sentimental Tommy,” but it was obvious, and there- Book a Hi)’: fore deserves no praise. Mr. Zangwill has a good title in “The Mantle of Elijah™; Mrs. Dudeney’s “The Maternity of Har- riott Wicken” and Mrs. Voynich's “The Gadfly” have something in them to at- tract attention: Eden Phillpotts’ titles are not particularly felicitous; Anthony Hope's are adequate, but no more, and Stanley J. Weyman evidently gjves but scant attention to the names of his mas- terly historical novels. They, with the possible exception of “Under the Scarlet Roke™ give no intimation of the nature of the stories that bear them. Mrs. Humphry Ward's titles are built after the old, unassuming method of Scott and Dickens and Thackeray; and several of our recent successes carry on the tra- “David Harum,” “Richard Car- Janice Meredith,” *“Eben Holden. To offset these we have, however, “To Have and to Hold,” “Prisoners of Hope," ““When Knighthood Was in Flower” and “The Redemption of David Corson,” of which the last Is the best, so far as the information given by it is concerned, while Miss Johnson's are the most at- tractive. Conclusions are hard to draw In the case of book titles. A good title undoubtedly is an aid to a new novel in its early days; but no bad title has ever yet stood in the ‘way of the success of a really good book, nor has a good title ever brought popu- larity to a poor one. The best title ob- talnable will, of course. always be used, but the story will remain the thing, and, if of true merit, will make even a poor title acceptable. “Quentin Durward” never was euphonious, nor was “Martin Chuzzlewit.” “The History of David Grieve” and “Helbeck of Bannisdale” are but little better; and. by the way. is *“Da- vid Harum” particularly pleasing to the ear? A good title is a treasure to be sought for, but it is not all-important to the fortunes of a book.—Mall and Ex- press. hut tha the author and his publishers for thus giving the world ar srtunity to revise its first, unju The late Maurice Thompson's “Alice of 01d Vincennes™ led to considerable enters prise of a somewhat different kind. Ol4 stories of his—pot-boilers—pra y for« gotten after their short struggle for ex- jstence many ago, e resurrect- ed, cunningly dressed up and adroitly ac vertised, on the strength of the popularity of his last novel. The field of American Mterature is vast enough to make imme- diate recogniuion of old books of this kind sometimes impossible. It was thus in Mr. Thonmson's case with more than one ex- rienced hand. Suffice it to say that “Alice of Old Vincennes” is the only new novel by Maurice Thompson now on the market.—New York Mail and Express. vears we Perhaps there is not another citizen of the republic whose autoblography would exceed the direct human interest of Book- er T. Washington's life story in “Up From published by Slavery which will be Messrs. Doubleday, Page & Co. within a few davs. This is the work of a large- minded, forceful man who, by sheer weight of character and emergy. made himself the leader of a race. Twenty-five years ago he, as a negro boy, slept under a sidewalk in Richmond: now he s known as the founder and head of one of the greatest educational institutions of the South, which property and an endow- ment of nearly a half million dollars. And not only that, he probably has done more than any one man toward solving the “negro problem,” and has given the great- est human document on the subject pub- lished since the touching the etviliza- in the South as int tion of the whites mately as the problem of the negro. It is interesting to recall that an honorary de- gree was conferred upon Mr. Washington a few years ago by Harvard University, this being the first one conferred by any New England university upon one of his race. Mr. Washington says his whole life has been one of surprises, and doubtless none has been greater than the warm re- ception given his autoblography when began its serial publication In The Out- He has stood as much as any man the good old Anglo-Saxon gospel of work, and this new flood of praise from est fellaw citizens does not turn him from it. The sertal publication has. it is said, brought about a large demand for the book before publication. This is the sort of a story—full of romance and practical wisdom—that will make one of the widely read books of the year. A work of considerable p terest will be Professor G. “Fhe Limits of Evolution says in philosophy illustr: aphysical theory of personal idealism. Professor Howison Mills professor of phiiosophy fn the University of California and the essays alluded to in the title of his book are: The limits of evolution; modern sclence and pantheism: later Ge man philosophy (exhibiting the trend personal idealism through the sel lution of pessimism, materialism and a nosticism); the art-principle as repre- sented in poetry; the right relation be- tween reason and religlon; human immor- ity; its positive argument: the har- mony of determinism and freedom (in- cluding a new estabilshment of freedom and a new proof of the existence of God These essays present, in a literary and untechnical form, the main features of a new system of philosophy, which is, how- ever, an organic outgrowth of the chief historic systems ot idealism, especially those of Aristotle, Leibnitz and Kant The purpose is to curry the pluralistic or individualistic insights of these master- thinkers toward a nsistent completion The essays alm to refute and suppla the monism which In various forms, ma- terialistic, idealistic or agnostic, has come so extensively to dominate the thinking of the century now passing away. 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