The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 20, 1901, Page 4

THE SUNDAY CALL SRR T ”%;'w' RIENTAL rugs were first a fad, then & fashion; now they are facts. In them the history of Asia is written, the poetry of the East is pictured, and its religions are emblematized. When they were only fads those who knew nothing about them were merely nmot in the lead: when they became the fashion the unimitiated were only behind the times. Now that plain matter of fact underwriters gravely dls- cuss relative values of rugs for purpose of taking insurance on them, and when prudent and economical houseturnishers find that they are cl!elhpe‘rhtlu:.l1 \7:1:t ;:::\‘ malk carpets, with thelr '*-o:u;! hideous” as the Encyclopedia Britannica says it is almost a necessity to have some means of acquiring knowl- edge concerning them. It is a strange thing that an Iindustry which occuples much of the spare time of perhaps five hundred million people should not until recently have had one single book written about it. John Kimberley Mumferd has this blank page of bibHography all to him- seif, except for such small splotches upon 5t, @ have been made by a few maga- zine articles. and some untranslated for- elgn technical works of the dyer's and weaver's craft, which would be useless to the hesd of a family who wishes to buy & beautiful and serviceable floor covering for the home. His book. “Oriental Rugs,” was one cf those uncertainties of which publishers usually fight shy. It had no t, and according to all good old ruies of the guild should have been a dead fail- ure. It @id not appeal to the masses. It was meither amusing to the filppant. nor full of salacious details for the vuigar. It lacked the union of faét and fancy ch make the latest style of novel; warmed over history, with fiction sauce, slide down the gullet of popular fancy. By good luck as well as good manage- ment the deserving book. so carefully written and fllustrated, succeeded as it deserved, and a second issue was called for 1t is Aifficult to explain to a person who knows nothing about “rugs” why it is e so much diffcrent from any I myself not =0 many scorning slight 1 styled in my “a lot of their But a rug of ine antique. is to tapes- records, he loom cars ago looked with pon a bequest of what at the time, heiess, #t will its manufacture 1 body Brus- ne is w1iling to do vio- ng it down on dust clogged the Orientals who be walked on, but off upon entering i, theretore, their rugs be- soft-soled sandals, n wear for a ce brighter with the fric- age brings them, ¢ wiference are these, of all hand- thrown througn aten gown close and hard Ezb, after which an- : point of ains which are used of our which have littie more g flecting prismatic re- coal tar from which they 15 spread upon the £ all their endur- of the wool from spun by hand; 1as proven to be the which will wear. an view of it, ntirely upen tood, and t sufficient for the picture minded » This lutter class are particularly unfortunate if they hap- pen 1o be » Mohammedans, and so are smpeiled to a strict observance of that vne of Moses' commandments which says: Thou shall not make unto thee any aven image or any likeness of any thing ven above or that is in the ed coming along some six cen- turies after Christ took much of the re- ligion which he bad made and all of that ch had come before him and added his it. Among the things which he mean what it said was this about pictures, and he enjoined upon his followers; for he atly not one of the picture mind- t, befhg imaginative enough to a1 of anything whica d for him. own 10 k 10 re making c sec a menthl written words descril But art, like love, will find 2 way, and the good Mohammedans found two courses open to them. One was to obey the letter of the law and well; confine themselves to writing, but make thelr chirography so beautiful that it might be studied as a picture would be. To this day there are many of this class who can study a piece of beautiful Arabic or other handwriting and analyze it a8 we would a drawing or painting. To them the writing master includes all that we know as art. There sre others of the Mohammedans who follow the letter of the law and while making no likeness of anything in heaven above, or earth beneath, or waters under the earth, still weave in their rugs amd khitims soft sensuous colors and mystical designs which fill their yearning for art, and even 2ppeal to us of the West who have been surfeited with pictures of things that are, untll we long for the rest of the “are not.” “Oriental Rugs” is a book of which fts owner will be proud. He will loan it only as 2 mark of distinction to friende. Ac- quatntances will be permitted a glimpse in passing. It is large, well bound, well printed with good big type, wide space be- tween lines, and wide margins on which the lover of good books will take the Jfb- erty accorded to a really good book, and make marginal notes of his or her owndis. coveries concerning “rugs” and their meaning. The volume is bound ‘in stoyt canvas of & deep anatolian red, tooled with & color which calls to mind the back- grounds in the rugs of Iran, and lettered with the soft ivory white which one sees in the rug of Tcherkess or Tekke, 1t is a book which would look well on the center table, without bearing upon its face the Ceinnark of having been made for that miserable pretentious purpose. The chief glory of the publication is in 1ts sixteen color plates which are beautiful s ofl paintings, and so minute In their detail &8 to reproduce the texture of the fugs and even the traces of wear upon the spirit as that texture. They are so natural that one yields to a custom of the rug lover, and passes the hand over them as though they had in them something of the feel- ing of the rugs which they represent. The pictures will stand comparison with the originals, which is a severe test of color printing. It is but fair in a review of a consclen- tiously written book, which shows labor of research in its making, to give some of the preface, which is the author's own best words about it. Mr. Mumgord says: “The volume here presented goes the first into a fleld as empty as it is ex- tensive. It is the result of several years' study, and the author hopes that it will serve well the purpose which prompted its creation. “The maker of books of this sort is, after all, only & weaver. The whrp and weft of fact are paramount. These the writer has sought assifuously wherever they were to bo found, Including the mys- terious, contradictory East. “Out of the years spent in the work little time has been devoted tb the fanci- ful or imaginative side of the subject. Its poesy and romance have in a measure been accepted as corollaries, assumed as among the reasons for the book's ex! ence, and therefore perhaps neglected in the presentation. Ta those who have al- ready come under the spell of the East- ern weavipgs- this will not be felt as a lack. “What of color has been distributed through these pages is cf more moment to those who are still groping in the dark belief that rugs are merely—rugs. If too little of tingent has been employed it is because the fabrics themselves, properly understood, provide it in plenty, far better than can any vocabulary or any thesaurus of poetic imagery. If foundation shall here have been laid for that understand- ing the work will have been well done and the worker will be cqntent.” The table of contents, ih most boeks is dry encugh. but that in “‘Oriental Rugs" sends delicious shivers of delight up and down the back of the lover of rugs who is for the first time promised a revelation of thoee secrets which he has so often tried to puzzle out by studying the sphinx-like ru; themselves, which teill little more to the phisticated than do the knots In the string which constitutes an Indian’s diary record of his adventures tell to any but the one'who tied them. The chapter headings are as follows: History. The Rug-Weaving Peoples, Ma- terfals. Dyers and Dyes. Design, Weaving. sification, - Caucasian, Turkish, Per- Turkoman, Khilims and Indian. A r in the back of the book & the trade names of all Tugs, togeth- er with the kind of knot with which each is tied, the color and material of the warp 2nd weft, the material and length of the pile. a de of the manner of fin- ishing the sides and ends and the number of knots to the inch, both horizontal and vertical. This is of zreat assistance in enabling one to tell the name of any given rug. to know whether the rug in qu is true to the require- ments of the type to which it is sup- posed 1o belong. A very complete and veluminous index, and maps showing the names of towns and countries in the rug- making reglon and from which the rugs names. complete the book. the of the Orient is to us, one will be astonished by Mr. Mumford's showing of how the manufgeture of them in Central Asia has been debased by the introduction of Western methods, dves E: wileh would make in his grave: for in- g % that of a offcer in _uniform in aniline dyes. European American dealers have taken and their the: and are now employing the native wea BY push with ers to work in their native towns, making heap fimitaticns from machine-spun wools dyed with chemieais and following patterns which are jumbles of every de- sign used from the Bosphorus to Belu- chistan. These are to supply the demand for “cheap” rugs. They mo more decelve the careful observer, even {f he be with- out technical knowledge, than could an American be decelved by a flag of his v bearing twelve stars and four- tripes. fore the course of empire balked and commenced to back up eastward agaln, in controversion of the poet’s statement, the rugs of Asla were genuine, all wool, dyed In the wool and struck in the weave fabrics. Now that the foolish men from the West have commenced to work thelr wise men from ast they are using every method to vor to make time lie for them. and ¥ EiVIDE an appearance of age to the rugs which their sweat shop system pr duces make them appéar to be antiques and therefore genuine. Of this Mr. Mum- ford says: “It may be that your ‘antique’ which you brought home yesterday proud joy of ownership has with!n its brief twelve months of existence been made to undergo many processes. It may have been treated with lemon fuice and oxalic , for example, to change fits flaring reds ints old shades, or with coffee to give it the yellow of years. Its lustdw may be born of giyeerine. It may h been singed with Lot frons. Its hues may perhaps have been dulled with smoke. It may have been burfed in the ground and then renovated. sand-papered back a front to give the thinness of old age, ald for the sheer decrepitude of an almost sacred and invaluable antiquity ham- mered and combed at the sides and ends and on spots cver igs surface. There is no end to these devices, and not much cure for them. “On the whole, If s to be well consid- ered whether, with these facts in view, graft upon the craft of t the the wisest course in selecting Orlental rugs for all save most opulent buyers— the ‘collectors’—i= to abandon the rather bontless search for genuine antiques and purchase fabrics confessedly new but which conform minutely to the highest standards: which have the requisite num- ber of knots to the square inch; the col- ors, which will not run when attacked.by water; the patterns of which are purely the patterns of the Fast—what may, to fdentify them, be called practical an- tiques £ 'he money paild for artificlal age would secure all thess merits In & fabric, the amount of service and genuine comfort derived “would prove greater jn the end, and as helrlooms—for they will cutlive the buyer by generations—they would be dearer than If they had come into the family with what may accurate- ly be calied a ‘doubtful past.’ “In any event It is hest to recognize firét as well as last that you cannet now secure desirable Orfental rugs for a song. Even though they should be sold in the Orient 2t what we consider most reason- able prices it must not be forgotten that the duty upon them is 40 per cent ad valorem and 10 cents per square foot direct. When transportatfon and ordi- nary business profits of counted, the forsign calls for a substanti, i an Orfental rug very cheap s selll; very cheap Oriental rug -lpwoll. . “There is another value that genuine rugs have, and that is as mementoes or ¢ in all the. souvenirs; for they came from a part of the world which is rich in history. When you stand upon & genuine Oriental rug it is made perhaps of wool from a sheep which was nourished by grass that grew on the site of Babylon or Troy. Per- haps the goat whose gray hair made its warp had chewed up roses that grew on Omar’s grave, near Nishapur, or wan- dered through the grove that now stands on the site of the Garden of Eden. course, mementoes are not so much ex- cept in themselves; however, the pos- sessor of such a rug, which has in addi- tlon been prayed upon by a genuine Mohammedan, may display it with more pride than did the returned tourist in the story, his basket full of noses which he had knocked from marble statues as souvenirs of thelr beauty.” 5 Here #s the way that the rug weavers get thelr wonderful colers: “In the great rug-weaving towns the dyers aye many, but there Is work for of * changes l‘l frequently, almost, as the pattern. ' The women have little money, -; they m‘r‘“ take what u\e;v1 :'::: {et in the way of material. It_is pit o _go over one of these khmms.'ltltéh‘sy—lflfi%. and sea the painful little economies, sav- -ings and’'makeshitts which made its con- struction possible. ere is a bit of goat hair- spun for warp; ‘there beside it 1s some false, hard, jarring hempen string that came on some package from @ar away. Side by side with the finest wool in the best of colors are strands spun from human ha'g, i y 8eldom is a stripe commenced with ercugh material on hand to finish it. and whén the material is used then the change is shown by the difference in color of the' dye, and sometimes cotton is used in place of wool. Not an Inch square in a good kbilim that does not tell its own story of how a cherished scrav of wool from some passing flack was spun and dyed to take 30 John Rimberley Mumford. . ou them all, each with his specialty. If a place be blessed with a stream possessed with the magic solvent property, upon which the excellence of Eastern colors so largely depend, the dyehouses are ranged close beside its banks. for the quelity of water is even more vital In the mixing of dyes than R has been shown to be In the washing and scour- ing of wool. The superiority of one water over another has becn cstablished by processes continued over n::ull‘uns,;m: of other walers for the solution ol gr‘!?mm dy in %uropean cittes for in- stanee, have resultéd in an utter loss of spirit In the color. . Speaking of the Tcherkess (Circassian) rugs Mr. Mumford shows how the West- ern invasion is destroying the industry. He says: “The Tcherkess rugs are few in Ameri- can and European markets now, and good 2d in the fact that the Tcher- race, are routed, dissolved, oyed. This sturdy, comely and un- :::v::u)-led race, whose women filled the seraglics. and whose men the guards, of the Turkizh Suitans, and whose lons, flerce struggle against Russian supremacy amazed Europe, is to-diy 48 a Tace ex- tinet. Finding it impossible to withstand the Muscovite, aimost the whole people, half a million of them at least, went out in one great wretched éxodus from thelr native land, vanquizhed, but bound, net to serve the infidels. The two hundred miles of country which they had occupled, stetching along the Caucacus and to the shores of the Black Sea, Is to-day unpeo- pled save for a tribe or two of mixed Cir- cassian blood, and a handful of Russian or German immigrants huddied here and there. When in 1864-5-6 these exlles came strolling through Anatolia, they were beg- gared, bereft of everything in the way of earthly goods, and lived in prelatory fash: fon, stealing where chance offered. With part of their scant gains they bought cheup yarns and wove rugs for coverings. In the carpets which the vegrants made there was small and rude pretense at de- sign. Sometimes, since dyeing involved cost, they wove simply white woc cotton yarn. Even in the most tious of their fabrics, white areas were frequent, and the few tints used were of the most elementary kind. Ruxs of this sort filter into the Constantinople markets nowadays. It is owing to the fact that Russia, Germany afid Iingland, all have predator railroads running into the rug countri that rugs are now so plentiful and cheap. It I8 the accimulation of heirlooms which has been handed down for generations, be- ing captured, bought or bartéred from their possessors. In return they are re- celving our machine made fabrics, and worse yet, our fashions. It is a repeli- tlon of the time when the Navajos would trade thelr blankets, colored with vege- table dyes, in return for the cast-off coat of a sojdier. The coat of the soldier, they saw was of finer weave than thelr ow cloth. Its bright buttons sealed the bar- gain. The coat was worth one dollar and a half. The blanket would now easily bring one hundred and fifty doliars. Navajos have. now learned use our dyes, and even buy Germantown yarns and weave them up. The old blankets are made no more. % With all the liberal sfze of Mumford's book It can but hint at the weslth of romance in the rugs of Asla. In the one word “khill there is a string of suggestions that might .take chapters for their elaboration. In them are woven the idle fancies of maidens fancy free, for most af them sre made s dowries by the unmarried girls, Like “Tennyson's\Lady of Shalott— There she weaves by night and day A magic web with colors gay. ra O 1 . . £he hath no loysl knight and true—* The Lady of Shalott; But in her web she stiil delighte. To weave the mirror's magic sights. The peculiar structure of the khilims is explained by this, for they are the only specimens of the Oriental weaves which are always completé in any part of them- selves. As long as the girl is unmarried she works. The ends of the warp are left rough, so that more may always be spun into them, and the weft Is carried through but a few warp strands at a time and then returned upon fitself. The patterns, being small, are capable of in- finite duplication, and no border is. ever attempted. The whole I8 typical of the incomplete, always unfinished, yet wun- bounded life of the unmarried woman. To carry the simlile further the material its place in the growing fabric which shculd cover the nuptial couch of its mak- er. 15 there anYthing which would sgoner bring a young man to the feet of a dark ved Persian than to see her weaving her u wedding dowry. And while she works and dreams of the glorles of 2 bridal tour, she is hurrying on Its com- ing. Marrlages are carly made by the £irls who weave the khilims. There. are coming to be many peaple whq ‘are so Interested in rugs that tley nd hou n_sales which o nave B sullmecttdgne, ahd there listen to co! its of the auc- tioneer and of othér purehasers and speo- ‘tators. To such, as well to those who have an equal interests but lack the tfme for its gratification. “Orfental Rugs” wil make u present which they will value twlce as highly as they would a rug of the xame cost and they will think of the book In the same way. for the suthor has treated his subject seriously. almost rev. erently. (“Orfental Rvj Mumford. York.) ' ** By John Kimberley Charles Beribner's Sons, Nuw MORRISON PIXLEY, Blennerhassett. * Now comes Mr. Charles Felton Pidgin into the fleld historical with his novel of pralse of Aaron Burr—"Blennerhasset Furthermore. Mr. Pidgin announces that he has come to stay and intends to fight 1t out on that line. Although *Blenner- —— By IRVING BACNELLER such people in old Concord.” THE INTERIOR uy Ruv. T.DWITT influsnce will Le healthful. false love . you feel the pe: who are approaching that fights with nds that th m-n u!";\’mlét m, an D’ \ lowix Hon. JQHN. HAY (Secretary of State) says: ,“ It is a most vivid.and engrossing story, wosth telling and well told.” Hon. GEORGE F. HOAR (U. S. Senator) says . “1 have read it with great pleasure and approval of the Yankee countrymen of the elder generation have nothing of exaggeration or casicature n them. EBEN HOLDEN 265 THOUSAND ‘ THE LORNA DOONE OF AMERICAN FICTION.” “+ D'l and 1' is a rare book, i style vi “ 1 wish every young man and woman might read it for.the lesson of, love motive. ‘It makes you see clearly the dif 1;;! the one. the beauty of the other. All me moment upon & word ma! nge their destiny for good or evil, muy get wisdom out of this hz:t‘ NEW YORK TIMES sys: “ D'ri, & mighty hunter, has the same dry humot as lUncle Eb. - He h ifcently on the Lawrence. and both he and Ramen. were b ded when Pet t to th 3 B o e Sl oo o e ‘::ph yet chdmm‘.(n ‘_‘ fizgl%» A e set ance; oz, , Quéstion as 30 whether or not hnpza“ng:od»u:tn'u 3.-....." v ool I anp | ————————————————————————— LOTHROP PUBLIBHING COMPANY, BOSTON hassett” 1s barely cold from the press, the energetic publishers are already pass- ing word in advance to tne literary world that in 1904 Mr. Pidgin will have ready a life of Aaron Burr; and further, that two romantic successors of *Blennerhassett’ will be ready in 12 and 193. Mr. Pidgin says that ‘' ‘Blennerhassett’ is not a de- fence but only the opening argument in. the long postponed case of the American people vs. Aaron Burr." When Mr. Pidgin comes forth with his “Life of Aaron Burr” then it is time enough to consider his opinifons and such facts as he has to offer in the light of history. At present the reader who does not take historical novels with a pinch ef salt us far as facts are concerned has not been following that fidod of modern lterature with much care. . - Mr. Pidgin is absolutely frank in his partfsanship for Burr. He places his ldol on the highest pedestal and then takes his rizder up in a balloon that Burr may be seen ard admired while the rest of the world fades away in the dim perspective far bclow, & ¢ ; The general reader is so busy with his awn heroes Bf the present day that it is doubtful whether he cares very much whether Aaron Burr is held up In the light of angel or devil. To'.the masses it I8 safe to predict that “Blennerhascett” wiil appeal merely as a novel and as such it 1s simply ope of many—good énough and better than the majority of such published to-day but nothing remarkable. The book is rather loose in construc- tion. 1f Mr. Pidg'n had not occupied him- self so serlously in his effort to ralse Burr and ‘emirch President Jefferzon and Alex- ander Hamliton he would have written a Letter storv. That the book {s not with- out dramatic Interest is shown in the foi- selectio “The cut(hroats are coming’™ cried the captain, “end they will give us no quarter. fay your prayere, for' they will not give you tme when they are once on board.” “But,” cried Theodgois, ‘are we to make no resietance? Are we to sténd here and l- low ourselves to be taken or killed without one word of remioratrance? Are to make no effort whatever (o wave our lves Iy will do mo good,” answered tha captain. “What can we do ugginit sixty bloodtidrsty plrates: each cne of thuse boats has fifteen men in ¥ “But you have.a cannon mounted there!" exclaimed Theodcsta, and, she pointed to the stern of th: boat. “‘Have you no ammuni- i + “‘the carpeniter tha use? Every dewth ot their answered the captain. But whav to—picet x But.'" sajd Theodcsla, “wa can die but onee, and they can d no more than kill us I we kill some of them.™ Then wke cried: ‘“‘Gentlemen, arm your- sefven with whatever weaoone you can find. Where is the corpenter?’ He stepped for- whpd. ““We will do what we can,’ she said. “ta defend ourselves.! The smyll cannon was socon loaded and priined. “'Docs one’ knaw how to fire it?" Theodoa captain, “'we never fire it and then I al- e charge of hire an éxtra man to “Then 1 will fire it!"" cried Theodoila. With the sesistance of the carpenter and one of the pyrsengers the guD was sighted, Theodo- sla touched it off and, as luck woulll have it, the aim wes Zoodss = y # ball struck the forwerd boat, tearlng lh}filh it in such a way that it soon filled with water and the pirates were oblixed to Jump from it helter-skeiter. They were soon picked up by the gther boats, which kest on their way toward the shlp. “f told yot it would do no good,” sald the weak-knead cajtain. “It tas surcly done no harm,” answered Theodcsin, it wo are to die anyway. It is the first (ime | ever fired a cannon and I feel quite proud of my marksmanship.' reached the side of d its occupants. armed with tols, -anie ‘clgmbering ovér Then a hand-te-hand Aght ensued. (f course the Issie can essily be divined. TRe passengers and crew were poor- Iy armed, and no match for the broad cutlass the palr of plstols carried by each of their enemles. As the pirates reached the deck Theodosia xrasped « cutlass. Suddenly, In front of her, the head of a nn appeared, his hands grasp- iog the bulwark. Ralsing the sword aloft, the Lulwarks. aunér or EBEN HOLDEN Your pictures 1 was-born-and bred among * TALMAGE says: , in thought elevated. Its nce between true d i . Booth Tarkington's charming she brought it down on one hand, severing it from his bedy. With a yell of rage he let 80 his hold with the other hand and feli back into the water. (Published by C. M. Clark Publishing Company, Boston. Price 3130.) Galopoff. “Galopoft,”” by Tudor Jenks, is a story of modern child-life, and in telling it the author hds dohe his work well. All the characters he introduces are lovable d likable—all but Gudgins, and his ‘brief hour’ is so brief that we do not mind him in the least. He simply has to be In the book, for the author's quick sense of h ust present a foil to the agreeable , young and old, that his vigorous imagination has conjured up. So we are glad to have Gudgins, and Galop- off enjoyed him, teo. It would bs vegy hard to find two more charming little girls than Lola and Pauline. deserve the pleasant sur- roundings Mr. Jenks has given them, and they deserve Galopoff—was there ever such another creature as Galopoff, so amusing and so talented, with a convinc- ing philosophy and descriptive powers equal to any“demands upon them? And Patrick; how he did enjoyv catching that fish—"The fish that laughed in me face The book is a series of delightful inci- dents, and vivaclous eonversations be- tween the little girls and tne talking pony. (Published by Hepry Altemus Company, Philadeiphia. Price $1) « Books foy the Children. “Prince Harold"” is a fairy tale by L. F. Brown that should prove a great delight to the children. The story is good and the fllustrations by Aline Witry are of just the sort to please the little ones. Prince Hareld is an interesting little chap of the romantic falry tale period. 'He has a won- derful series of adventures that are only equaled by those of his factotum, the monkey. Lawng Tall. (Published by L. C. Page & Co., Boston. Price $150.) Among other similar publications by the same company is the Cosy Corner Serles very attractive gift books for children at 50 tents each. In this list are “Findel- kind,” by Ouida; ‘“Madam Liberality,” by. Juliana Horatla Ewing; “The Fairy of the Rhone,” by A. Comyns Carr; “Gatty and 1" by .Frances E. Crompton: “A Bad Perny.” by John T. Wheelright, and “A Small, Small Child,” by E. Livingston Prescott. As Ithers See Us. Percy Vere (J. T. Huddle) calls his latest book ““As Ithers See Us.” In this work he endeavers to give us a glimpse of ourselves, or in other words to point out the oddities and peculiarities of peo- ple in different spheres of life. To do this he presents a series of short essays under such heads as “Obstinacy,” “Sel Contrel,” “Dissipation.” “Immobility etc., so that the reader can turn to some heading that seems to fit his case and recelve the proper advice. Under such headings it 15 an easy matter for any one to moralize and the author does not rise above the ordinary. If one can keep from falling asleep he might finish the book in time. (Published by The Abbey Press, New York. Price 31) b Literary Notes. 'wo hundrad and seventy illustrations efabellish the “Young Folks’ Cyclopedia of Literature and Art,” which wiii very shortly be issucd. This book is tie latest 2ddition by J. D. Champlin to his series of “Young Folks' Cyclopedias,” pubiisied by Henry Holt & Co. The volumes al- reddy on the market ure “Persons and Places,” “Common Things” and “Games and Spor! A seasonable otmosphere rises from the varicus usgful and valuable features of the November Delineator. The styles shown are thjse- of early winter; the dressmaking article télls about the mak- ing of coats: the fancy needlework arti- cle bears upon Thanksgiving and Christ- mas gifts; the crocheting articles are those of a winter character; the garden- ing article deals with the pruning and protection of rose trees throughout the winter. D. Appleton & Co.'s October announce- ments Include “The Quiberon Touch,” by Cyrus Townsend Brady; “The Alien,” by F. F. Montresor; “The Apostles of the Sputheast.” by Frank T. Bullen: “‘Some Women 1 Have !znown." by Maarten Maartens: “Shipmates,” by Morgan Rob- ertson: “While Charlie Was Away,” by Mrs. Poultney Bigelow: “The Wage of Character,” by Jullen Gordon: *Other Worlds,” by Gairett P. Serviss of the Alr” by H. G. Famous Loba,” by N. K. Bifssett. On October 7 Richard Mansfield opened his season in Philadelphia with a drama- tized version of “Monsieur - Beaucaire. romance. As one reviewer has sald, “this is too goad a atory for the mind's eye alone”—at least Mr. Mansfield has found it so. After the Philadelphia engagement the attrac- tion will appear in Boston and several Edstesn cities, going to New York on De- cember 2 for an elght weeks' stay at the Herald Bqnare Theater. Later in the sea- son a Western tour will be taken, extend- Ing ¥s far as Galveston, Tex. Little, Brawn & Co. announce the publi- cation of “Mistregs Brent, a Romance of Lord Bgitimore's Colony in 1638." by Luey M. Thrustan: “Lassie.,” 2 new book by the author of “Miss Toosey's Mission,” “Lad- etc.; volumes 9-14 iInclusive of the ket Balzac: ““Deafness and Cheerful- . A. W. Jackson; a new edi- New England Legends and Folklore,” illustrated: “The Captain of the Bchool,” by Edith Robinson, ilius- trated by Alice Barber Stevens: “Mor- gan's Men,” by John Preston True, author of “The Iron Star,” etc.. illus- trated: “Another Flock of Girls,” by Nora Perry, @ new edition uniform with “Hope Benham," etc., lllustrated by Birch; “High 8chool Days in Harbortown,™ ly F. Wasselhoe! . auther of “Doris and Her Dog Rodney ete., and "Teddy: Her Daughter,” by Anna Chapin Ray. Mrs, Arthur Stannard (John Strange ‘Winter); whose “The Price of a Wife," her latest novel, has just been publis| by J. B. Li tt & Co., was born In the mt city of York, England, on Janu- ary 13, 1866, and is the only daughter of the lgte Rev. Henry Vaughan Palmer, rectar of Bt. ret's, York, who in his early days was an ofticer in the Royal Ar- tillery. and had come of a long line ot military ancesters. The celebrated actress, Hannah Pritchard, to whose memory a tablet was placéd In Westminster Abbey, close to the bust of Bhakespeare, was his great-grandmother. York, in Mrs. nard's young days, was a great cavalry center, a fact .which explains her excep- tional knowledge of the army. Mrs. Stan- nard was married in 1884, and from that time has made her home in London, ex- cepting for a few récent years passed in Dlnpp:. H .:\lgy-n:::nd attractive per- sonality m er extremely popular litoraty -and soctal eirclea. T oro o F. l!wlbfl Smith's most ibit! story, “The lunes of Ollver H‘:a."fi gins in the November Scribner's. 1t deals with the career of a younwx artist who comes to New York to seek fame in his profession. The author has drawn upon his own intimate knowledge of the liferary and art life of the past thirty-five years, and gives a vivid and attractive impres- elon of the “artistic atmosphere” in which Lis characters move and which often seems so full of glamour to the looker-on. These early chapters are characterized by a rare sense of refined humor, and the passages of sentiment and pathos are handled with a certain vigor and manli- ness that have already done so much to establish the author’s popularity. Each installment will have an illustration by ‘Walter Appleton Clark. Outing contains entertaining papers for sportsmen on the ruffed grouse, wood- cock. prairie chicken and wild turkey shooting and a very practical article on “How to Make Duck Decoys and How to Set Them Out.” There is, too, a character study of the black bear and a reproduc- tion in Colors of the okapi. the newly dis- covered beast of the African forests. A paper on “The Making of a Strong Man,” with some startling photographic {llustra- tions, will interest every man who seeks to improve his physique. ‘“The Future of Golf Champlonships” apropos of the Am- erican standard of play is a very timely discuesion just now, on the conclusion of the national event. “Fox Hunting in Eng- land” is written about and most attrac- tively fllustrated, and there is a Ken- tucky frontier sketch by John Fox Jr. The difference between American and English university athletics is described by a Har- vard man who spent two years at Oxford. Besides these are other papers of import- ance and interest. among them the story of British experience in yacht designing, which has evolved the Shamrock. — Mrs. Alec Tweedie's new book, “Mexico as I Saw It,” is to appear almost Imme- diately. It contains over 100 {llustrations taken on the spot, besides water-color a splendid field for her pen. She journey ed astride with an escort of soldlers view some of the ancient temples and oth- er out-of-the-way places. Mrs. Tweedls was present at the latest Aztec excava- tions, which proved to be the richest finds ever made in Mexico, and she was the guest of President Diaz. of whom she has much to say. She was also entertained for a week at a time by various Gover- nors of States in truly old-world courtly style. A special chapter on mining and trade ard a map will add to the interest of the volume, which is being published by The Macmillan Company. Many readers will remember Mrs. Tweedie's other_ en- tertaining _book, which she called “Through Finland In Carts.” sketches by the writer. Mexico has mv-i t ‘ A peculiar inferest attaches to the life of the first martyr President. which has been prepared by Silas G. Pratt on a novel The title of his book is “Lin¢oln in and the book presents a most in- teresting biography, composed of stories told by and about Lincoln. 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