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American Publishers’ the American n have come the last Their plan went into operation on the 1 of May, and deserves the hcarty peration of all readers and book- n town t at as low a pri m the im- “some- time for orange- refore no po in a southern clime— afford to give awa un’ grower hink that by buying some- place you are has to help “the other > time and have tc do ¥ g yourself. ne cut rate of the past years in book- have been alike da ous for and It not only death of thd g no syscem only bring disaster. market uncertain for the scouraged the bookseller who obliged to ask for more margin the pub who in turn was from the profits of hor—and there you are, right back reader again, for if the a sell his wares he will s the loser. cannot_bring good quality, from obliged to take away cannot This new plan of the publishers and however, is not to arbitiar- ise the price on all books to the triment of the buyers’ poekets, but merely to establish a price at a living on each copyrighted work—a price once and for all at “net” and then edhered to. Here is the gist of the matter as set forth in a little circular which is being circulated by the American Booksellers' sociation among readers: In accordance with the mutual agreement recently entered into by the members of the American Publishers’ Association, there will be a general reduction in the. price of books published under the NET system, and no dis- count will be allowed from the advertised ice of new copyrighted “net books™ publish- ed after May 1. The wisdom of this beneficent measure will be apparent to all after a brief consideration of the facts. 1 The mew “‘net price” will be absolutely maintained to all customers, so that the ‘‘net book” of real worth will have a recognized permanent value, after you have read it and placed it in your Mbrary. 2 When you purchase @ new “‘net book™ you no ionger be tempted to spend time and money “'shbping around” in order to get it &t the lowest market ps 3. Hereafter, in ordering a “net book™” from ur dealer, you will have the assurance that u a purchasing it at the lowest price Yor t can be manufactured and sold with g profit for author, publisher and dealer, and that no one elsc can purchase it for less ey than you are paying for it. Under recent conditions, the $! 50 novel has been retailed at all sorts of prices, ranging from $150 to 79 cents. In the first case a good profit was made, except by dealers in the far West and Southwest, where trans- portation charges are very heavy; but every person who sold this book for'79 cents incur- red an actual loss on each volume, as it is im- possible to wholesale, even in very large quantities, & §150 book at 7 cents. The money lost by those merchants who advertised popular books at such astonishingly low prices, was charged “to advertising account,” and it was thought by them that the money actually lost in selling books for less than cost was well invested, as 1t created the im- pression on the part of their customers that all goods in thelr storcs were sold at corre- spondingly low prices, which obviously was not true. Another development, under recent condi- tions, has been the formation of “home library amssociations” and other mail order agencles, for the avowed purpose of supplying books at “wholesale prices” But obviously the suc- cess of these enterprises has depended upon the melintenance of local bookstores, where the mew books could be inspected by pros- pective purchasers before they placed thelr or- Gers for them with thelr purchasing agents, m; ex to make proper local booketores, without yielding any profit in return to pay the local me for clerk hire, rent, insurance, n. and for the risk of inv in new b with only a pos the has doubtless sideration—or under the have through these have been req ers for the same editions. to receive the com- book to ray to local dcal- This plan canrnot f: mendation of the L it to th It wil! mean for authe in a R incite pubiishers put forth better editions; and it will en- courage booksellers keep a larger and better stock. B. G. LATHROP. Bird Life. Avpleton & Co. of New York t published a new cdition of that a general rule, book-love but little differency on natural history—and birds—have given him an reputation, was born at Englewovod, 5 in Jun 1864. He received an academic education and ce 1887 has been connect- rican Museum of Natural leader in the wide- d movement for the »rotection of from destruction for commercial s. He is president of the Lin- n Soclety, and a member of the Orni- sts' Union: he is also editor of ore, He has been a most sue- ful lecturer on 2'l subjects conneczted h the study of bird innumer- ticles on birc “Bird , am: has written a valuable “Handk rth America,” "I era,” for the prop: led 10.900 mil tion of wh! exercised 3 ty on our common ticularly tor t ge of bird ce with cur speaking mon birds. Its ies of birds devicted with Ernest Seton-Thomn- on as an animal p, er and illustrator i ond to no artist in this country lates reproduced not by an nd uns factory color photoz: graphy. and are ju: a triumph of successfu! iliustraiions. The production of this remarkable bock at the low price of $2 09 will be welcomed by all genaire nature lovers, and will in- sure it a wide circuk n. Montanye. “Montanye.” by William O. Stoddard. is a work of historicai value, although this feature does not delract from its interest as fiction. Montanye is a corruption of Mont the name of an old New York fam actually owned the land given the story. It is now a part of Central Park and on it was a spring which generations bere the name of Montany fountain. Dr. Montanye himseif, with his dark secret to keep; the Pequot slave with his flogging to av se privateers, pirates, slaves and slave merchants are all tractive stu and o0 is Madeleine """~ ish foes and under the B: e all other American seaports werce preparing for freedom and ity the city 5f New York remained h camp. The last months of this paraiyzing occupation are pictured to the life in Mr. Stoddard’s fascinating contri- bution to historicel romapce. He has treated the topography of the tale with his well-known accuracy and has brought in many rare features. The last d of piracy and the slave trade pass dly before our eyes in connection with the thrilling incidents of the story. The book is not o valuable as a care- fully painted historical picture, but it Is a delightfully entertaining romance with a well-sustained plo. that holds the read- er’s attention to the very last. . The story is one ibat has long needed telling and a better narrator could hardly be found than Mr. Stoddard, a writer of known brilliancy, in whose hands history becomes fascinatini romance. Spirited action, coupled with the charm of nar- rative and the character drawing that characterize Mr. Stoddard’s work, Is fully displayed in the novel. (Published by Henry Altemus Company, Philadelphia. Price $1) Hallie Marshall. “Hallie Marshall,” by F. P. Willlams, is the story of a man who, wholly against his volition, deserts his family and home. The people by whom he finds himself sur- rounded seem to have entered into a con- spiracy to efface all traces of the past from his memory. At first he struggles against this, but gradually he yields more and more to the sweet influences that are working on him—the generous Southern hospitality and the witchery of Hallie, who strives in many ways to convince him that his real past is not the past that he recalls. Finally the picture of his de- serted wife becomes so faint in his mind that he finds himself making passionate love to Hallie, on Echo bridge, beneath the glorious full moon of the South. And, as he searches the depths of the girl's eyes, suddenly it seems to him as though he had passed out of his old life through the gates of death and has entered into a life that is free from the disappointments and sorrows of the old. He renounces his old allegiances, but before Hallie will accept his fealty she insists upon a test; she bids him return to his Northern home and then choose once for ali between the old life and Hallie. The reader will find rather a surprise in the conclusion of the story. (Published by the Abbey Press, New York. Price, $L) Reading and Composition. “How to Teach Reading and Composi- tion” by J. J. Burns, M. A, Ph. D, is a book designed to help the teacher to pre- pare for the labor of training puplils to read and to write the English language. It aids in gulding the student to secure knowledge and culture from a book; and in training him to express what he may know or feel with clearness and grace. The quotations chosen for study are most suitable for the purpose; to some notes are appended, of others, questions are asked: sometimes both modes are used. Suggestions are given for the production of compositions to be based upon the se- lections read. The book is attractively il- ene which we can rec- eachers as timely and hed by the American New York. Price 50c.) tion’' of the Eacieties. ng revelatt 0 the cause ration of the Dau hiers of the ion trom the Daugzhters of the u : founder, Flora Adams Darling. The book makes clear the distinciion between these two patriotic societies which are so ¢ allied in name, but which have ired distinct organizations for the nine vears. It explains that the dis- ted from a clique of woman's ates converting the D. A. R. into an order accentng members Who merely collateral kinswomen of -re- i patriots. The collateral ele- DLl J Mrs Darling’s history recalls the ‘“‘war” of the daughters that was waged with such intensity during 1%90-01; and presents the hitherto suppresced officially attested of the first two years of the or- ganization of the societies. To confirm the statements made iv the book the zuthor caused mportant letters, locuments and papers to be reproduced in fac-simile. Mrs. Darling offers her history to the daughters as a proof that “the records of the D. A. R. have been itered to cover the false story of the »unding which the boarG of managers of 1891 set up, and which has since been per- petuated.” As a story of diplomatic intrigue and finesse the history is interesting even to the casual reader. It explains the many aifficulties that had to be overcome in the effort to unite the two extremes of society 1 — —- 3 Illustrations by Howard Chan- dler Christy in Frederick Palmer’s “The Ways of the Service.” Copyright, 1801, by Charles Scrib- ner’s Sons. THE SUNDAY CALL. —the rich and the poor, by the hitherto untried bond of pedigree. In the history the full story of the early days of these great and important patri- otie societies is told. It is the belief of Mrs. Darling that with this history to ald the two sister socleties in getting at the bottom of the facts that led to separa- tion they will find means for a reconcilia- tion. The D. A. R. and the D. R. have the same noble purposes, to foster and extend the interest of the peopl2 in the history of their country, and the preservation of his- toric landmarks. That they are not now working in unison is a matter of keen re- gret to their founder. (Published by In- deperdence Publishing Company, Phila- delphia. Price $2.) The Trophies of Heredia. This little volume of sonnets seems to have stepped in from the classic past. They are by Jose Maria de Hereda, a Cuban poet. son of another Cuban poet by the same name. The younger, the one whom we are concerned, is now 59 vears old, and his recently published col- icction shows the flame of youth tem- pered by matiire art His early edveaion was received at a Rom coilege in France. Later at the University of Ha- a, he returned to Paris. Frank Sew- all. to whom we are indebted for the di- vining translation of the poems, Savs: ‘“Heredia took up a course of paleo- graphic studies, the fruits of which ap- pear in the exquisite elaboration of his later work. He became associated with Leconte Ge Lisle and others of the poet circle of the ‘Parnassiens,’ and in this at- mosphere were oroduced, at first for pri- vate circulation, the remarkable sonnets. ‘Les Trophees,’ wkich in 1123 won for the author his admission to the academy and which have alone sufficed to place him among the most eminent cf the French posts of any age. The poems appeared here and there in the Revue des Deux Monges, but were too refined in their su- preme beauty to appeal to tifore cutside of a select circle; and therefore the poet has remained ‘illustricus and unpublished." ‘Les Trophees' have at last received the public’s recognition and ~have passed through many editions.” Jules Lemaitre has covered the sonnets broadly when he has said: “Each one in- cludes much science and much dreaming —all the beauty of a myth, all the spirit of an epoch. all that is picturesque in a civilization.” And Sewall calls attention to the hot Spanish blood traceable in Heredia’s “‘fervent description of the hot Jands of the south, and his ‘portrayal of Cartagena.” Given this ardor, 't has been chiseled, polished in the school of old- world art, and the result is found in poems like this: Like flight of falcons from their native crags, Content no more in their high solitude, From Palos or Moguer the captains sailed, Half drunk with dreams of deeds heroic and wild, They went to seize the fabled metal veins Cipango ripens in her distant mines; The trade winds bent their lateen yards toward The shores mysterious of the Western World. Each evering hoping for an epic morn, The phosphorescent azure of the sea Would charm their sleep with its mirage of gold: . Or leaning o'er the caravel's white bow, They saw ascending in an unknown sky New stars from out the depths of Ocean. (Published by Small, Maynard & Co., Boston. Price $2 30.) . The Woman Who Trusted vill N. Harben has been g}ven high preise and possesses Trare ability as a writer of short stories. His novel recently published cannot fail to attract attention. While *The Woman Who Trusted” was runring as a serial in the Saturday Even- ing Post the editor received many letters containing the highest praise of the movel and showing absorbing interest in the plot and characters. The average reader is interested in the vivid, artistic portrayai of a strong char- acter strugeling against overwhelming odds, and Mr. Harben's hero is a voung man possessing a most sensitive spirit and the highest ideals. who proves his true metal by successfully passing through a crucible of sorrows and reverses that would have consumed a weaker man. The o - 5 “The Ways of the Service.” better known as a war correspond- ent than as a writer of fietion, but now he will undoubtedly have the distinction of taking even higher rank as a novelist than he did as a handler of news. During his campaign in the Phil- ippines he found time to collect material for a book of short stories, which has re- cently appeared from the press of Charles Scribner’s Sons under the well sounding title, “The Ways of the Service.” If you have not rcad ‘“The Ways of the Service” waste no time in getting it and sampling a few of its pages—once begun it will not be put aside until finished. If by the end of the season—or before—it is not recognized as one of “‘the best sell- ing books in 191" I am greatly mistaken. In the first place, the publishers have given the book an ideal cover and the typographical work is such that the me- chenical effort of reading is reduced to nothirg. In the second place, Howard Chandler Christy has illustrated the steries with a touch so lifelike and full of .ction that a glance at the pictures Im- pells a reading of the text. But, in the third place and best of all, if these stories of Frederick Palmer appeared in a cheap paper binding they would be read just the same, for the meat is there—he has stories to tell and he knows how to tell them, and that is more than can be said of many authors of the present day who are fortunate enough to have their efforts perpetuated in fine ink and linen and em- bellished covers. A “The Ways of the Service” includes eight tales, homogeneous inasmuch that they all deal with army life in the Philip- pines. One character, Mrs. Gerlison, who can be taken as the ideal type of army woman, plays an advisory part in many of the stories and then figures as heroine in the last one in the book—the romance of her own life. To say that she is spltn- did is putting it mildly. After one has read the drama of hér own life it is easy to understand why she is picked out by every one in the service as the one into whose ears shall be poured their secrets and to whom they feel free to come for FREDERICK PALMER is probably sympathy and advice. Mrs. Gerlison is taken for the type of “The Army and Navy Woman,” shown on this page. She 1% just as charming in Mr. Palmer's stories as she has been made to appear by the able pen of Mr. Christy. The romance of her life is twenty years of sadness, with sunshine at the last. But for all her reason for sorrow, Mrs. Gerlison never for an instant forsakes her philosophy of trying to make the world kind—and in the end this phiios- ophy wins out, as is so well told by Mr. Palmer in the last story of the serles, “Mrs. Gerlison’s Own Story."” Of these eight stories that go to make up the contents of “The Ways of the Service” it is difficult to say “this one is the best.” It all depends upon the read- er's taste or the reader’s frame of mind at the time that he has the book in his hand. It may safely be said that they are all equzlly good. There are plenty of herolc men and ‘women, plenty of trials in the battlefield, plenty of dash and vigor in the pages of this book, and there is not one page that does not hold the attention. Mr. Palmer is exceptionally ingenious in the matter of plot making. It is not until the last page of a stury Is turned th:l you know exactly how it is going to end. His first tale is a good example of this. “Ballard” is the name of it. Ballard is also the name of a very interesting young ensign in the navy, who becomes engaged to the girl he loves, receives promotion and finds out that he has a fatal case of heart disease—all in the same day. He hopes against hope that this lesion of the heart will not kill him before his wed- ding\ day at least, and sails away in charge of his new ship to capture a few islands from the Filipinos. The heart disease makes him a trifle reckless and he permits himself to be made a target of by a shore battery with the understanding that if they cannot hit Lim the town is to surrender. The strain on the reader at this point is something as tremendous as it is on Ballard's crew, who are watching him go through this ordeal of flying lead. But this time Bhllard wins out and gets the town: to hold it is another matter. Then it is that another most interest- ing young woman comes on the scene in the person of Senorita Maria, a half-caste of great wealth and influence. She saves the life of Ballard and in an unguarded moment with this beautiful woman he kisses her, to repent of it the next in- stant. ‘There is a plot for you. Will Ballard forsake the girl he really loves and is engaged to for this other beautiful and alluring creatufe? ‘Will he not be forced to do so? For it is easy to see that she has the blood of the tiger in her veins. To complicate matters, Ballard's be- trothed appears on the scene with ,her chaperon, Mrs. Gerlison, and the whole party go to Maria’s inland fortress on a visit. This throws them all into the power of the fair siren. Mr. Palmer is equal to the occasion, but it is only in the last line that you know ‘what the ending really is. Five out of the eight storles have the tragedies of life for their themes. The other three are equally good in their way but in lighter vein, and make a pleasing variety. “Against His Own People” is as strong sketch as you would wish to read of e horrors of a deserter who, through the conflict of white and Indian blood as an inheritance, takes sides with the Fili- pinos and is brought face to face in bat- tle with his old company. If I may be pardoned offering a sug- gestion to the War Lepartment, I should say that if every copy of military tactics presented to Uncle Sam’s men was ac- conipanied by “The Ways of the Service™” it would be good seed sown in good soil. There is a hint for some philanthropic patriot. (Published by Charles Scribner’s Sons, New York. Price $150.) B. G. LATHROP. story opens in the South, shifts at once to bohemian New York, and terminates hap- pily in Europe.There are few men in the United States better qualified for such an undertaking than Will R. Har- ben. For years he fought the grim battle for literary recognition in New York, where his assoclates were men and women struggling like himself, but now known the world over. For two years he was one of the editors of the Youth's Com- panion in Boston, where he learned the inner workings of a great periodical and came in touch with the hope delayed and despair of literary aspiration in all its phases, humorous, ironical, tragic. Leav- ing his post on the Companion to gratify a htinger for new fields. Mr. Harben drift- ed to London, where for over a year he wrote and studied in that vast round, glass-domed hive of literary industry—the British Museum, meeting almost every writer and artist in England. (Published by Henry Altemus Company, Philad®lphia. Price, $1.) Eastover Court House. After that splendid story by Ellen Glas- gow, “The Voice of the People,”” perhaps we have had our taste cultivated to such a pitch that we would not enjoy even a good story of “life of the South to-day.” In any event after Miss Glasgow's sym- pathetic and remarkable work, “Eastover Court House,” which is a fair story, sinks to the degree of “poor.” “Eastover Court House,” by Henry Bufnham Boone and Kenneth Brown, Is the first of a series of twelve American novels by American writers which Har- per & Brothers propose to bring out dur- ing the coming literary season. The idea is an excellent one and thg scheme is de- serving of success. The words *“Court House” in the title might lead the reader to suppose that this is a story of law and lawyers, but the name merely refers to a Virginia town, the seat of Eastover County. The story is. supposed to be of up-to-date Virginia, but at times savors strongly of the South of vears ago. Frequently it is difficult to tell what it is all about. There is a slight strain of love, a bit of horseflesh and horse racing and some of the old “Uncle Tom's Cabin™ flavor of negro flogging—but the work as a whole is lacking in continuity. Literary Notes. Love letters seem to be the order of the day, and particularly timely therefore is the new edition of “His Letters,” by Ju- lien Gordon, author of “‘Mrs. Clyde” and “A Puritan Pagan.” It wiil be brought out by D. Appleton & Co. “Out-of-the-Way Places in the Orient” is the collective title of three illustrated papers in the Foreign Travel number of The Century (May).. India and Burma are the countries referred to; ‘A Visit to Ne- paul” being described by Mrs. Lockwood de Forest; “Amber, the Deserted Capital of Rajputana.” by Marion Pope; and “The Defiies of the Irrawaddy,” by V. C. Scott O’Cennor. Mrs. de Forest's account of personal experiences is lilustrated in part by Lockwood Kipling, the famous story- teller’s father. “American Countty Life” is the title of a new monthly magazine Doubleday, Page & Co. will publish early in the au- tumn. It is expected to interest every one who cares for out-door matters of any sort. Liberty H. Bailey, who, as editor of the Cornell Nature Bulletins, author, professor and practical farmer, has done more than almost any other person to promote interest in outdoor matters. viu edit it. The publishers claim that it is going to be the mest beautiful magazine on the news stands—because it has the most beautiful subjects, and no pains will be spared in reproducing them with all their criginal charm. Heavy enameled pa- per will be used throughout. Though the idea of this magazine is a new one, it will stand for the same love of nature and outdoor life thag has enabled this same publishing housd to print 65,000 books of their new nature series with colored plates. Such a pgriodical will have an ap- preciative audiente and will, doubtless, in time gain one of fhose large circulations— and have a hostyhf imitators. Outing for M{y is iastinct with the im- pulses of the Hudding season and aglow with the sense{of country living. Even its fiction, “The Homesickness of Ke- honka,” from the ilyllic pen of Charles G. D. Roberts, Ir based on the all per- m$azing influence of spring. “Country Life in France,” by Guy Wetmore Carry!, fllustrated by Hy S. Watson, reveals an aspect only to be found by long and familiar residence. ‘‘Musk Ox Hunting Among the Twilics” is a whalers’ expedi- tion on the break up cf the Arctic winter. “The Captain of tic Nine,” a study in college baseball. by Clarence Deming, is seasonable as weil as analytical. The fortbcoming visit of an English team which will Inciude the woman champion makes especially Inieresting N. L. Jack- son’s review cf “The Present Status of Lawn Tennis in Engiand”: ard the com- ing season’s arrangements for long road- journeys make lienry R. Sutphen's “Touring in Automwobiles” a valuable guide. “Sledge Dogs of the North,” by Tappan Adney, is a thorough -exemplifi- cation of the absolute necessity of man's best friend, the dog, in our northern pos- sesslons. ‘‘Camera Studies of Living In- sects™ is entertaining as observation and instructive as summer photography. “The Private Stables of Manhattan,” by R. W. ‘Woclley, depiets with photographic full- ress and close persornal knowledge a phase of city life that is not often seen by those outside Touring bicyclists will be in- structed and interested by ‘“‘Corsica for Bicyclists.” Frank S. Peers opens a wide and profitable fleld cof entertainment in “Cattle Breeding for Gentlemen Farm- ers,” the first paper of a series with gen- eral principles and broad results. It is to be followed by others of express ap- plication. “Iowa’s lack of Sportsmar- ship” occupies the pen of Leonidas Hub- bard Jn,, who recenily made a tour of the Middle West for Outing, in the crusade for gaTe and fish protection. George ‘Wharton James pours forth a bouatiful stream of facts and illustrations of “In- dian Basketry.” “The Growth of Whist in America,” with especial reference to American leads, is by N. O. Messenger, and has numerous portraits. ‘“Marble Lore” is a delightful reminiscence that will appeal to every man who has not for- gotten his boyhood. It is written by James L. Steele and illustruted by Mr. Brough- ton. *“Angling as a School of Virtues” fitly opens the season. The editorials, “Sportsman’s Viewpoint,” and numerous departments by the highest authorities complete a number rematkable for rich- ness and breadth of interest. The A. Wessels Company have in active preparation a new life of Scott by Pro- fessor Hudson of Stanford University. Despite the fact that in Lockhart’s Life of Sir Walter Scott weé have something of a classic in biography, it Is not aitogether to be wondered at that new “lives’” should be attempted more fitted to the taste of a hurrying generation. Professor Hudson, within the limit of a volume of 500 pages, tells anew the story of Scott's life and gives some fresh and iInteresting criticisms of Scott's work both as a poet and a novelist. The volume will be neatly and attract- ively produced and has by way of frontis- pléce a capital reproduction of Geddes’ portrait of Sir Walter Seott, in the Na- tional Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh. ‘The contents of the May issue of Every- body’s Magazine are very varied. They range from a superb character study of Chief Croker of the Fire Department of New York, contributed by Lindsay Deni- son, to a compilation of opinions of prominent actors and managers on “How to Go on the Stage,” gathered by Frank- lin Fyles. An story of deer ufe, “Terror,” by Maximillan Foster; ‘Making Rain by Electricity, study of Elmer+ Gates’ experiences in Wash- ington: stories of the newspaper world, “Adventures in Newsgetting,” by Allen Sangree, a study of Mrs. Piper, the fam- ous medium, by Mary C. Blossom. “The Novel Bequests,” by Eugene P. Lyle, Mr; Kasebier's photographs, J. P. Mowbray's “Making of a Country Home"—all will be found readable, entertaining and ipforma- tive. Drexel Biddle, publisher, Philadelphia, anncunces the shortly forthcoming pubii- cation of a highly Important centribution to English hterature. It Is a work by Professor Winthrop Dudley Sheldon, t vice president of Girard College. Tha work will bear the title. Secona Cen- tury Satirist,”” and contains tne nrs. Eng- lish translation ever made of the mo impcrtant and interesting dialogues of Lu- clan There are for - logues of this brilliant satirist:who in the age of the Antonines, and w the 'most entertaining among ancien writers, because, more than any of them, he possesses a genuine flaver of mod- ernity. Professor Sheldon has worked many years on this great and comprehensive undertaking, and the table of offers a highly appetizing list By a liberal supply of foot-note refer: and an alphabetical index, the work once suited for the reader who seeks tertainment and for the student at s or at college. A powerful chapter from one of the most remarkable of recorded human ex- periences appears in MzClure’s ) for May—CAptain Alfred Dre story of his arrest. degradation portation to Devils Island. To this is added a portion o. the diary Dreyfus on the island for his wife a referred to so often and so mysterio in the Rennes trial, but never made p lie. A more intense and convincing expres. sion of human agony than that found in these fragments is iuconceivable. From first to last it is evident that the sufferer is bewildered and maddened by what h: befallen him and that all w keeps him from fnsanity or death Is his deter- mination to prove that his persecutions are powerless to overthrow what he calls the “sovereignty of the soul.” These dra- matic passages make it clear, too. that Drevfus was compelled to undergo on Devils Island every,ignominy and hard- ship his jailers could devise, even to closa confinement in a but. enclosed by pali- sades and shut out from air and lignz, with double irons upon his legs through- out the night. The book from which this remarkable document is taken, ~ontalning the story of Dreyfus’ entire five years of suffering and imprisonment, is to be published by Me- Clure, Phillips & Co. in May. Mary Catherine Crowley, author of “A Daughter of New France,” which Little, Brown & Co. publish early in May, has been actively engaged in literary work for the past ten years. She is well known as a writer for the young, and has also cc tributed to various magazines and syndi- cates, sometimes under her own name, sometimes under pseudonym. Miss Crowley is a native of Boston, and had the good fortune to be born of schol- arly stock. Her father, John C. Crowley, is an alumnus of Harvard University: her mother is a graduate of the Sacred Heart, Manhattanville—later the daughter’s alma mater. With so favorable home and school Influence, a large circle of traveled and book-loving relatives, a host of fam- ily friends among the clergy, and, in due time, a broad and varied social life, her literary gift made rapid and symmetrical development. In 1862 Miss Crowley went abroad, visit- ing Rome, Paris, Dresden and other Old World cities. For the past eight years she has lived in the West, a part of the time at Detroit. She has traveled in Canada, and is familiar with Quebec and Mont- real. Thus among her acquaintance be- longing to the old French-Canadian fam- ilies, and from the pages of old memoirs and histories, she gathered the material for the ground work of this romance Daughter of New France.” which oc- curred to her dbout 1894 It was begun three or more years ago, laid aside for other work and finally taken up and fin- ished during the past winter. 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