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1 THE SUNDAY CALL. HIS navel ter year Josiah which g and instruc work of last ynt gives the les is ax year—* World of Graft.” *The World of Graft the result of his investigations of police methods in large cities and of the life of the criminal element. Mr. Flynt nas and making a spe ever since his you Y ly to read his books to appreciate what a close student he has been. The better to further his purposes he has lived the life himself and is frank in saying: “I have probably seen all t 1 can of Hoboland without everlastingly identifyihg myself with it and that I have no desire to do. 1 have not been on a regular trip since 1898. At the same time there comes sometimes in the summer the feeling t 1 would like again to dangle my legs out of the door of a ‘side-door Pullman’ and see the land- scape by.” His book this vear,”*The Little Broth- er,” is distinctly devoted to trz life, and w its blend of truth and romance it will be found good reading. The story is not a pleasant one, yet it has tr peculiar fascination of revealing a phase of life that is an absolute mystery to the majority of us; the life of that abandoned mortal, the vagrant of the road, who is so familiar as a type to us of the West and vet whose ways of Mving and code of ethics remain in such absolute dark- ness to any but the initlated. “The Little Brother” is by no means lacking in merit as a clever bit of fiction. The ending of the story, that may appear cruel to some, is softened by the bright thread of a Jove affair which develops solution happy apparently impossibl of assured position centers e Broth- the “Wan- school and country in search about which he the height of ydy of nk, and < delight interest tk gs of “The L » has inherited ves his ut for yme ing natural food and for ampdom knew of the road' name was, ‘West man Vir- hat he was an agreeable ngouts, and one of the m warers’ and trainers of life has produced: periences afford the book underlying s a strong second in romance cleverly hold- i highest pitch of an- its mystery well parts. and quite char- s whole, is that portion of book where Blackie is engaged in the delicate task of ring** his “Prushun” by telling him storfes.” He fil little Benny's ears with such marvelous tales of all that they shall see and do that it is no wonder the boy cannot re- sist such an alluring prospect and is won to cast his lot with that of the tramp. The following dialogue may possibl cast some light on the question of kid- naped or runaway boys and give a clew 10 the reason for their taking the first step in the life of 2 hobo: introduced to the conventionai ‘ghost stories” of his i st Benny was but always tantalizing first Jocker. “But think of the lake and the Indians, X14,” Blackie remonstrated in reply to Benny’ yemark about his sister. ““Think what a fiy kid yowll be when you get back. You'll te the boss of the town. “Wil 17" Benny asked, half incredulously and baif proudly, his eves brightening at the slluring prospect. “Sure. You'll know o much that the other Kids'll just have to stand around and listen when you chew the rag.” “And 6o you think’t T'll be able to throw Jimmy Ryerson when we wrestle?” the boy asked_ as if this accomplishment were the am- bition of his life. “Well, T should say! boid & candle to you,” Blackie went on. you'll know how to jump trains, too. like that, won't you?" *Betcher life. I ain’t very good at it mow, ar’ the boys laugh at me when-I stumble. Do you think that T'li-get so that I can put my foot on the exie-box climb up the side of & cattle-car, the way the men at the tank @o? “Why, Kid, after & while you'll get so slick that you ean rifie on the trucks and cook your Jimmy Ryerson won't “And You'tl coffee in & tomato can on a hot box. Think ? that™ cofness! That'll make the boys open thelr eyes, won't it? Say, I tell you what I'll Go.” end Benny fairly clapped his hands with giee. ““When I get so't I can do that, I'll tell &ll the boys to be at the station some dey. an’ I'll go up to the Junction, catch the , an’ go by Tonarga on the trucks, out o' the can. My, how the boys'll won't they? How big will I have to be re 1 can ride that way?’ TH NEW NOVEL. By g‘;’g‘-w GERTRUDE sizonet. ATHERTON «Clever, brilliant 2nd undoubtedly able beyond anything she has yet written.” — Boston Budget. “A coear, forceful, brilliant story.” ~8. F. News Letter. - o Elder and Shepard, 238 Post 'Strest, Saa Francisco, Send for Catalogue of Dulilications. La*’ then you riding aslesp on the trucks. Course they'd learned how, but I'll teach you before yoy kn " “An’ can I learn how to mide bareback with the Indians=?" Benny questioned, shifting the subject, determined to make sure of ail the ways in which he w. before making up his mind, which however, bad already made up for him, though the boy did not and could not know “Cert. And you'll learn how to shoot. ton. Blackie replied, reassuringly. ““Why, I've been on trains out West when you could sit in a boxcar and pick off Indians with rifle as easy as birds op the telegraph wire y, but that 'wd be fun. The Indians t skoct at you, can they?” going to be perfected Blackie, al- ca “Oh, they try to, but the train's going so fast that they only hit you once in a whlie, and t so tough that the bullets don't hurt “an I used to have a pal s” country th: they only ade hat's all.” at wouldn't the bovs at came back that The grown-ups wouldn’t they “I should ile! Why, Kid, you'll be changed after/ you've traveled with me a year that Tonarga, grown-ups and all, won't know you" This statement contained no ‘“ghost story,” only Benny fatled to see its entire sig- out in was just full of bul- him weigh a little ome look at Benny ex- surprised, way w'd be e We got to be gone a year?"’ he asked get scared if I'm away as long as but think what you'll be when you W up again! A year ain't no time at all \.\'hpn you're' riding on trains and shooting In- dians.* - we golng to live while we're ? I've only got ten cents.” This was the first practical question the boy had put, and Blackie deemed it wise to sound him in regard to his manner of living on his previous short excursions. A Jocker always likes to know beforehand just how much wis- dom his new Prushun had acquired before he red” him. w did you live when you took the other meying-about trips?”" he asked “1 was so busy seein’ things.” Benny re- plied, *°t 1 mostly forgot about eatin”. Once when I was off for nearly two daye-I just k water an’ ate berries. 1 had a whop- ¥ appetite when I got home, though Mother Deane said she'd never seen a boy eat ach, but she ain't seen much anyhow. ime I guess I'll have to have somethin’ more'n berries an’ water, I'm goin' so far. I've heard the men at the tank tell how, when they have big appetites an’ are travelin’. they g 8 somebody for nourishment—that's wh call it—an' I guess I'll have to do something like that. One man told me once't if T'd 2o on 2 movin’-about trip with him we'd get £0 much just askin’ for things 't I couldn’t bring 'em all home, there’d be so many.. I'm to ask for more things this time, wouldn't e: that's the way to do it."” Blackie de- t a little pleased to learn that Benny od the necessity of begging on “mov- trips, if not its true significanc Il get together fine. Now, 2 and take a snooze, ard in the 2 we'll_start out again.' ought to say my prayers? ain't any bed to kneel morr Do veu think I 1doa Towr home, but ther here, 1 ay them in your sleep, Kid: it'll be just ame.” it? T used to tell too: sister that, but she said that God wants you o exert your- self—that's the word she uses—when you ask him for things, an’ I had to kneel down I zvess I'll risk sayin' "em lyin’ down to-night I want, anyhow, without tellin’ n’ about it s the idea. Now, you curl up and our ear, and T'll keep the fire going.” arranged the railway ties in the shape of a triangle and Benny curled up on the ground in the corner and was soon asleep. There was 2 ook of peace and contentment in his face as he -lay there such as the road scldom exposes. ‘“The poor-litttle greeny,' the tramp muttered, and then rolled himself up into a ball and “‘pounded his ear,” also. “The Little Brother” is publishea by the ¢ Company, New York. Price $1 30. Whist. The latest and by far the most com- plete edition to whist literature is now before the public—The Principles and Practice of - Whist,” by Lennard Leigh and Ernest Bergholt. It is a thorough compilation of the very best things on whist and. will go far to fill a long left want in whist iiterature. The topics are made so clear that the beginner as well as the more advanced student can read understandingly. Lennard Leigh is well known as the editor of Whist Opinion, and the burden of the werk has fallen on his shoulders. Ernest Bergholt is one of the most prom- inent whist problem composers in the world and is the whist editor of Field, and has now the position held by Caven- dish for so many years. A.chapter is contributed by W. H. Whitfield, a whist mathematician and analyst of great ebility. In this volume the different subjects are und classified heads; the problems and fllustrations are well defined in black and they represent a table and four ;- the card holding the trick is marked by a dash. The notes following each play make the suundness of the piay clear to the reader. The subject of American leads is fully explained; also after leads, discard, trump plays and the combination game are gone into thoroughly. In addition seventy-five critical endings are given, with their so- lution All toupice are treated in a mas- terly way, Leing made clear to the begin- ner as well as tc the more advanced player. The old ieads are taken up in the ve- ginning for this purpose. As the auther views it the 0id leads are simpler and more readily Jearned and put into practice by the beginner than the er system of American leads, The new American leads ate, however, glven later ¢t with cupplementary illus. trations. As an appendix is given the text of the laws of duplicate whist as revised and adopted at the third American Whist Congress in 1893 and the laws of duplicate whist as amended and adopted at the tenth annual American Whist Congress, held at Niagara Falls in 1900. The volume contains over five hundred pages and is bound in cloth. (Published by Henry T. Coates & Co. of Philadelphia, Va. Price $150 net.) As I Saw It. J. J. Mclntyre, a well known 8an Fran- ciscan and prominent member of the George H. Thomas Post of the G. A. R., is' the author of a book of short stories published under the title, “As I Saw It.” Mr. Mcintyre writes under the pen name cf Harvey Argyle. Bix stories make up the contents of the' present book, and the matter is so varied with dashes of humer and bits of pathos that the reading 1s quite enjoyable from beginning to end. Mr. Mcintyre does not strain after lit- erary effect. He has his story to tell and he goes about it with a directness guite deligniful in these days of padded writ- ing. His first sketch is probably drawn from hif own vpersonal experiences or those of his friends in the War of the Rebellion—“Incidents of the Civil War in Missourl.” The anecdotes that he in- troduces are given with a life and color most convineing and entertalning, and the genial humor of practical jokes among the soldiers is varied by an ac- count of the clever ruse of a Northern spy in the service of his country—a nar- rative by no means lacking in dramatic situation and breathless interest. The second sketch is a touching and true inctdent of the Philippine trouble. The name, “The Story of a Blood-Stained Poem,” gives the key to its character. “A Story of the Mines"” is peculiarly ‘Western in its flavor and quite character- istic of life among the open-handed sons of our mountainous and mining regions, and is written with a zest only possible in one who has the subject at his fingers’ ends and has been a close student of hu- man nature In “My iirst Sweetheart and Scenes of My Childhood" the author goes back inte the days of the very early times—the pio- neer period of Ohio—and paints a glowing picture of its life and customs. < “The Commercial Traveler” is writton in a vein of quaint humor quite original. It tellz of the remarkable experiences of a young countryman who tries his hand at be; becoming a drummer and succeeds far ond his expectations—in fact, to the s own mind he is making nothing but a series of failures, when to his surprise he finds that in the eyes of his firm he has peen a great success. The last sketch of the book, “A Horse Wife in the Days of Slavery,” pretty romance with a happy a very AN JOSE has a literary prodigy in Cyril Clyde Lotz, a 12-year-old boy. With but a dozen years of his life rounded out he has already from the press a book of stories that contain much merit. This pamphlet of “Storfes for Children”” has been issued in an author's edition of 500 copies. It is made up of six stories, covering forty- three pages. Cyril Lotz, the young author, is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Lotz his father being the well-known ' County Treasurer. He is a native son, having been born in San Jose in 1889. The boy does not look his age, being rather delicate. He has been a pupil at the Washburn School for the past three years. This lad with a literary bent is just like other boys, with the exception that he would rather write stories than engage in the usual pastimes of his companions. While the more rugged boys of the neigh- borhood have gone off to play ball Cyril has been known to sit down and put into story the doings of an imaginary game of ball. 1f his parents did not insist that he take exercise he would do nothing else but st his study and write stories. For the past three years, or ever since he has been going to school, he has been a lover of literature, and has been con- stantly grinding out boyish stories. Many of these have been printed in the daily papers, and this encouraged him. Hardly a day passes that is net marked by a fairy tale or a story of boyish pranks, and some of this work has been done in bed when he was too ill to go to school. He is wrapped up in his work, and noth- ing in the way of a subject is ever al- lowed to escape. He has attended school but three years, yet with this mcager tuition he has a marvelous store of knowledge, especially of current and his- torical events. In Engiish he always leads his class. After long and hard teasing he lately secured his parents’ con- their part of the Russian claim to the boundaries now contended for by the United States as.the purchaser of Alaska,- and reproduces in a-series of plates eight official maps and charts which sustain the American claim. One of these he bought in Gockspur street in London as late as the summer of 19%1—a British Admiralty chart published in 1877 and corrected to April, 1898, and showing that up to that time the British Admiraity itself agreed with the territorial claim advanced by the United States. Mr. Balch arrives emphat- ically at the conclusion that our Govern- ment should never aceede to the Canadi- an wish, supported by England, for sub- mitting to arbitration a question in which the rights of this country, unchallenged for half a century, are so clearly mani- fest from both the historieal and geo- graphical evidence, and likens it to a de- mand such as England might make if she were to advance a claim to sover- eignty over the port of Baltimore or the coast of Georgia and then propose that it should be referred to the judgment of foreigners! The whole document is worthy of consultation by public men; diploma- tists’ and writers who would understand the American side of a case which is likely to claim a large share of public attention later on if there shall not be a. recession from the Anglo-Canadian posi- sent to have a small book of his stories printed. These have been highly praised for the work of one so young, and met with great success, and there has been a demand for the book that threatens to exhaust the edition. Young Lotz comes of a family that is noted in art and literature. His aunt, Matilda Lotz, is one of the greatest liv- ing animal painters, being now in Ku- rope, where her work is attracting great attention, and his maternal grandmother, Mrs, Elizabeth Cross. Peckham of Los Angeles, is an authoress of note, her poetic and prose contributions having been published in many of the leading papers. She has also published a series of descriptive articles of the State under the title of ““Glimpses of California.” Cyril's early venture into the litérary eld is the result of a natural inclination for this kind of work, and for the past two years he has declared that he in- tends to become a great author. His first work . surely shows he is on the right path. He is more than mentally bright, and his work indicates a ready fund of topics and vivid imagination to draw upon. 4 In his book “Stories for ildren” arc stories entitled “The Magic Arrowhead,” ‘“Courageous Robert,” “The Mysterious Ring,” ‘‘Harry and the Indians,” ‘Rob- bers’ April IFool" and ‘‘Andree and tl North Pole. The last two are remark- ably good for a boy. Two or three of the storfes in the book are modern fairy tales, and the others are sketches of boy life. They are all interesting to children of his own age. Some of the tales were written two years ago. when he had just com- menced his school life. Superintendent of Ecnools Chipman, Wwho has reviewed the hook, states that the storles would be-a heip in the lower classes of the schools ag substitute read- ers. They are easily understood and en- joyed by young children. i ending. The character drawing of the little darky jockey; who saves the day is very cleverly done and the Interest in the narrative is well sustained until’ the climaxz that holds the eader in a state of expectancy Is reached on the last page. The Alasko-Canadian Frontier. A very valuable and interesting paper that was read before the Franklin Insti- tute at its annual meeting by Thomas Willing Balch on January 15, 1902, has been reprinted in permanent book form by the press of Allen, Lane & Scott of Philadelphia. This is 2 monograph on the Alasko-Canadian frontier, and establishes beyond the question of a doubt the rights of the Americans over the claims of the British. Mr. Balch has so condensed his matter that to reproduce any withont Ziving the whole of the paper would prob- ably result in a misunderstanding of the Qquestion. The reproduction of many maps and charts adds much by way of illu- minating the text and simplifying the proper understanding of the boundary dispute. ; 8 He goes into the historical side of the affair from the time when Russia was the owner of Alaska an negotiated with England the bourdary treaty of ‘This treaty he analyzes at length and adduces numerous acts of the English and Canadi- an governments which tend to support the allegation of a previofis recognition on tlon, and it reflects no small credit on its Philadelphia author as an example of diligent collation and illumining state- ment. The Moral Law. “The Moral Law;: or, the Theory and Practice of Duty,’ by Edward John Ham- ilton, D. D., is the work of one accus- tomed to fmpart instruction. It is writien clearly and simply and abounds in illus- trations. Each chapter is divided into sections and js preceded by a full synop- €is, and there is a good index at the end. But we have here somefhing more than a textbook. We find in this treatise a re- statement of every specific doctrine of ethics and a new conception of the univer- sal principle of morality.. Dr. Hamilton perceived five competitive doctrines soliciting his adherence. First, utilitarianism, which might be better named bonitarianism, since it asserts good or welfare rather than mere utility o be . the fundamental end of duty. Secondly, perfectionism, according to which the de-. velonment of spiritual exceilence, or of ‘‘the true gelf,” is the essentlal aim of virtuous effort. Thirdly, motivity ethics, ‘which teaches that the moral ultimate is the dominance either of couscience or of love over our other motive tendencies. Fourthly, authority ethics, according to which the rules of duty are simply the commands of God, or, it may be, the per- megent and important reguirements of society. And, finally, duty ethics, which accepts the dictates of moral reason as not admitting, or as not needing. analy- sis, and which is content with the direc- tion, Do what is right just because it is the right. After ‘“Moral Actions,” Professor Ham- ilton considers “Ends, or Final Causes,” a fundamental topic in ethics. In other ‘chapters he discusses ‘“The Moral Rea- son,” “Pleasure, Happiness and Good,” “The Moral Law,” as contrasted with other forms of law, and ‘“The Conflict of Duties,” wherein the weaker rule gives way to the stronger. In short, every car- dinal pgint of ethical inquiry is ably han- dled in this new treatise. Published by Funk & Wagnalis Company, New York. Price, $1 60. The Webster Centennial. ‘“The Proceedings of the Webster Cen- tennial of Dartmouth College,” edited by Ernest Martin Hopkins, has been printed under the supervision of Homer Eaton Keyes, for the college. Dartmouth Col- lege celebrated on September 24 and 2. 1501, the one hundredth anniversary of the graduation ef Daniel Webster. The cen- tennial was a commemoration of Mr. ‘Webstef's services, not only to the col- lege, but also to the nation. For this rea- son it was made a civic rather than an academic event, and thus the proceedings became of general interest. The exercises of this celebration have been published in full in book form by the college. . The speeches are of permanent value and make the book necessary to the students of Mr. Webster's life and period. Enough time has passed to make possible the formaticn of a just estimate of Mr. Webster as a statesman. Nothing 1s more striking_ than the unanimity of the ad- miration in which his name is now held, to which the words of Congressman Mc- Call, ex-Governor Black, Senator Hoar, Dr. Fdward Everett Hale, the Honorable William Everett, Chief Justice Fuller and others testified. The book is for sale by Dartmouth = College, Hanover, N, H. Price, $1 50. 3 Angelot. In “Angelot,” by Eleanor C. Price, the story is laid in France at the time when the conqueror Napoleon is endeavoring to fasten his imperial ideas upon the whole people; and when among the stiff-necked Chouans rebellion awaits only the season- able time to burst forth. Napoleon himself does mot appear in the story, but_ his spirit of domination is present in the person of a general, risen from the peaple, who wishes to ‘wed the daughter of an old. arfsto- cratic family, and who seeks to enforce his wishes through a decree of the Em- peror. :But he meets with a continual stumbling-block in the person of the young Angelot, whodesires the maiden also for himself. This ciash of militarism with sentiment is the motif of the book, giving rise to a pleasing story, with just enough adventure in it to keep thd atten- tion riveted, but not written primarily for adventure's sake. The dweilers of the countryside — noble and peasant — are sketched clearly and sympathetically. The animus of the time is outlined dispassion- atel, Miss Price is an English w8man who has lived several years in France, and has thoroughly acquired the native attitude without losing the foreign impartial spirit. Published by Thomas Y. Crowell & Co., New York. $150. ‘Windows for Sermons. Louis Albert Banks, D. D., s the author of a book recently published by Funk & Wagnalls. Company of New York, under the title of “Windows for Sermons,” that sheuld prove a great help to the clergy- man or public speaker seeking for an apt ilivstration of some point that he desires especially to emphasize. In the first part of his book he gives a study of the art of sermonic illustration, The bulk of the wvclume is given to a choice collection of modern illustrations, weii caleulated to furnish features for pulpit arrows. They are drawn from many sources, evidentiy culled from the author’s current read- ing of books and papers, and from his abservation of current movements and events. Used with discriminating judg- ment in the adaptation, they could not tail to give a modern flavor to"the preach- er's discourse. A closing section of the book contains 2 shorter’ collection of {llustrations espe- cially for the use of temperance and rec- form speakers, most of them graphic and applicable. The book is conveniently in- dexed. Price $1 20. Cosmos Pictures. The Cosmos Pictures Company of New York are supplying a long felt want of excellent pictures at small prices. Their photographic reproductions of ancient and modern works of art, judging from the samples sent us, compare most favorably with actual photographs and should prove valuable as educators or in colfections. Any one may obtain a special group. ac- cording to the schools in which he is in- terested. Thus, one series is devoted to the Venetians, another te Raphael's Ma- "donnas, another to Millet, another to an- tique sculpture, anothey to Mr. Sargent's decorations in the Boston Public Library another to English cathedrals, and so through a long list that s entirely coverad by a fully {llustrated catalogue of a very wide range. The company are certainly producing splendid examples of modern highly developed process work, and at a twentieth the cost of a photograph. Their catalogue can be had by addressing the Cosmos Picture Company, 296 Broadway, New York. .. Mary Garvin. “Mary Garvin, the Story of a New Hampshire Summer,’ {s a novel by Fred Lewis Pattee, with the setting of a coun- try village, with its cross-road store, its mill, its lake and its baek-porch philoso- phers. Mary Garvin is a wWholesome. true- hearted farmer's daughter, whose love for an educated man leads her also to aspire toward education and culture. Her awak- ening is sudden—caused by the advent of a dainty city woman—and brings with it an uplift to the whole community. One of the most interesting characters is Joel Green, the farm-Hand, who is primed with an inexhaustible supply of laugh- able stories, pungent philosophy and dry wit. The material for the romance was drawn direct from life. The story is new’ and as quietly charming as its New ‘Hampshire fields and hills, Published by Thomas Y, Crowell & Co., New York. $150. Elements of Political Economy. The American Book Company of New York has recently published a new edition of “Laughlin’s Elements of Polit- ical. Ecoromy” (revised edition): by J Laurence Laughlin, Ph.D., thead professor of political cconomy in the University of Chicago, in the revision, among other changes and additions, such topics as the tariff and bimetallism are impartially disoussed mn ‘their latest phases; a fuller treatment is given to the development of division of Jabor; and there is added a brief discus- sion of large production and of combina- tions of producers. The book represents the best thought of an acknowledged au- thority. as modified and adjusted to (he latest soclal and polftical movements in this eountry. Price $1 20. Latin Composition. A book for classes reading Caesar 1S “‘Mellick’s Latin Composition,” by Anna Cole Mellick, and published by the Amer- ican Book Company, New York. This book is intended for students who are reading Caesar and using a Latin gram- mar for the first time. It aims to fix in the mind some of the simpler construc- tions of nouns and verbs as found in tke Commentaries, and consists of twenty- five lessons, each illustrating certain grammatical principles, these being sys- tematically- arranged and graded accord- ing to difficulty. Each lesson contains, besides reference to standard grammars. exercises for translating into, Latin, some of these being intended for writing in class without the aid of the grammar. Price 40 centa, e EaBL b Literary Notes. An' American book has just been “crowned” in Parls, where the Soclete d'Anthropologie has awarded the Prix Bertillon to Professor W.Z. Ripley’s great sociological work, “The Races of Eu- rope,” published by D. Appleton & Co.; whose list of peculiarly distinctive and important scientific literature thus re- ceives another mark of recognition. It is said that Richard Harding Davis' hero, “Captain Macklin,” now published serially in Scribner’s, was suggested to him by a man who handed him a business card on which was inscribed, “Promoter of Revolutions.” Mr. Davis considers him one of the most interesting characters he ever met. The Captain Macklin of the story is a young West Pointer, and in the May number he reaches the army of rev- olutionists who are the beginning of his marvelous adventures The New Centaur for April comes in a handsome lithographed cover, and is = much larger issue than last month. This accounted for by a long article on the cago automobile show, which was held the first week in March. The magazina opens with five full-page illustrations in color of well-known autoists, prominent among whom may be mentioned J. Ogden Armour of Chicago, in his automobile. and Albert C. Bostwick. These pictures have special interest as showing different types of machines in use by prominent 1toists. There is grim humor about the treat- ment to which the Russian police have st subjected the popular—the too popu lar—novelist, Maxime Gorky. Gorky was traveling to Moscow, where the admiring students of the university had arranged a reception at the raliway station, when the police quietly uncoupled the carriage at an intermediate station and sent it off, with the novelist inside, “in the direction of the Caucasus,” while the Moscow train was fllled with police, who on its arrival at its destination promptly dispersed the assembled students. That is the way they do things in Russia, and there is some- thing to be said for it. Mr. Carnegie's new book, “The Empire of Business,” contains the results of his long business career, which is certainly more successful and extraordinary than® that of any other man in America. The author has covered fully the important points in business conduct and manage- ment, beginning with a young man’s first start, discussing the A, B, C of money, capltal and labor, thrift, the winning of a fortune and its spending, trusts, the Anglo-American trade relations, business as a profession, the costs of living, rail- roads, steel-making, special education, the tariff and many other subjects in a most interesting and forceful style. The busi- ness man who will study one of these books has an invaluable possession. Doubleday. Page & Co. of New York are the publishers. P For those who shoot and fish there are some rare good things in the April Out- ing: “The Witchery of Wa-Wa,” by Ed- wyn Sandys; “‘Fishing for Japanese Sam- lets in the Jewel River,” by David Starr Jordan; ‘“Protective Instinct in Game,” by Lynn Tew Sprague: ‘“The Man-eater of Seven Streams,” by Captain R. G. Bur- ton of the Indian army; “The Elk of the Pacific Coast,” by T. S. Van Dyke; “The Bloodhound. the Harmless Hunte: by Lillian C. Moeran, and ““The First Trout of the Season,” by Reginald H. Johnson. Mike Donovan, boxing instructor of the New York Athletic Club, gives some graphic lessons in bag-punching. and Leon Vandervoort talks - entertainingly of ““Making. College Freshmen Strong.” For yachtsmen John Hyslop tells of “The New Rule for Yacht Measurement.” There are also the usual seasonable de- partments, and Caspar Whitney talks in his entertaining way in “The Sports- man’s Viewpoint. “A Textbook of Insanity™ is the title of a work by Charles Mercier, lecturer on insanity at- the Westminster Hospital Mc‘dk‘al School and at the London Medi- cal School for Women, which the Ma. mil- lan Company is publishing this week. It is an attempt to put into a handy form for students the main lines of the study of insanity, free from deseriptions of il- lustrative cases which bulk so large in most textbooks. Part I contains “The In- stitutes of Insanity,” Part IT “The Forms and Varieties of Insanity,” Part 111 “The Legal Relations of Insanity.” The atthor has written his book on the prineiple that it is disorder of conduct that gives to in- sanity its whole significance. Disorder of mind without disorder of conduct. if Jt were possible, would be unimportant; if it, were important it would be unrecogniz- able; and thus the first essential to a knowledge of insanity is an enumeration of the main features of conduct, and of the ways in which conduct may be disor- dered. ‘There is to be an American edition (pub- lished by the Putnams) of “Chateau- briand's Memoirs,” as translated into English by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos. This work will be in six volumes, with mwany illustrations from contemporary scurces, and is the first thorough render- ):a into our language of the famous Me- cires D'Outre-Tombe. It is remarkable how many events of werld-kistory are covered by this one man's experience. “I have met.” he says, “‘nearly all the men who in my time have played a part. great or small. in my own country. or abroad; from Washington to Napoleon, from Touis XVII to Alexander, from Pius VII to Gregory XVI, from Fox, Burke, Pitt, Sheridan, Londonderry, Cape d'Istrlas to Malesherbes, Mirabeau and the rest; from Nelson, Bolivar, Me- hemet, Pasha of Egypt, to Suffren, Bou- gainville, La Perouse, Moreau.” ‘The historical interest and value of the Temoirs, covering elghty years of a life ‘spent in the midst of the makers of his- tory, are efformous. But the greatest charm of this monumental work lies in e. exquisiteness of the style, which « it to be univer=ally r rded as the most of French prose classies The first number has come to us a new publieation by Ma Joyant & C ccessors to Goupil & Co.. of Paris Th is ‘a monthly’ review art exhibitions, «private galleries and muséums, wilh French and Engiish text, published under the title of “Les Arts.” Judging from the excellence of this initial num “Les . Arts” should prove most acceptable in every drawing-room, library or siudio, for the connoisseur or the general reader. Besides being a chronicle of the art moves ments of the day, one of its chief objects is the reproduction and description of many of the unpublished and compara- tively unknown works of value and beau ty to be found so plentifully in the pri vate collections of all countries. 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