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Qonducted by B. G. Lathrop. | _————— HERE is this to be said for Charles Major's latest novel “Dorothy Ver- non of Heddon Hall”: the {llustra- tions are quite attractive. They are by Howard Chandler Christy, and the work has been well done. As evidence of their excellence we have reproduced some of them on this page, where you can see them and judge for yourself. If Mr. Major could have done as much for his heroine in his book as Mr. Christy bas done for her with his clever brush “Dorothy Vernon” would indeed be a work to live among the better fiction of the age . As it is, “Dorothy Vernen" savors strongly of the “pot-boller”—a few well- known persons of history to give verity to its pages, some conceits of character to impart flavor, a dash of dramatic in- cidents rather stale in conception for body—all well stirred up and skilifully cooked. Such a mixture fortified by a bit of past reputation and much megaphone singing of its praises by the publishers, will make it sell well, but it will be found after all only sawdust to the reader's stomach, whose palate may have been hypnotised by the honeyed advertise- ments. Big names &o not make big stories. All the Mary Queen of BScots, and Eliza- beth Queen of Englands, and the Earl of Leicesters in the worid—all of them rolled together into one big colossal fig- ure—really add but very little after all %o & story where you read for the story’s sake. Bir Walter Scott has done so much better with all of these characters that I should think plain Mr. Major would be ashamed to look his set of Waverly nov- els in the face Mr. Major has endeavored to give us something original in the way of differen- tistion of character. Dorothy is supposed to be & type of maid both. modest and wvirtuous who falls in love and then gives herself up entirely to her passion without hyme or reason. The author tries the t trick of sustaining his heroine in ary roles at one and the task. In justice to be said that in this t he succeeds, and at least ure consistent. the story hinges on the ha- r George Vernon for the nd. Dorothy meets Sir son of Lord Rutland, ove at first sight. The of the young people is r George until the latter but there is plenty of s on account of the to marry off the t her will. The first securs upon the Malcolm Vernon, { Queen Mary of Old Sir George of years ago shall his estates and £0 to one of the Neither Malcolm nor are ready to ac- The plot of tred of ol owever. s seen at the first glance ¥'s disposition is too miuch of to suit him, and Dorothy has had her eye upon the handsome John Manners, whom chance has it as a fellow traveler with Mal- to the inn where Dorothy happens ping at the time of the young does not share In Sir George's of Rutland, so when the outbreak occurs over his refusal of the fair Dorothy’s hand he even goes for & time to seek safety in the castle of his family's my. Malcolm at this time is & fugitive ‘ear of his life for having aided Mary Etuart Failing in his first effort at matchmak- ing, Sir George tries again, but with egually bad luck. Old Sir George goes through the book in three happy lights— first, drunk; second, as & matchmaker; third, as & hard-handed corrector of fem- inine cussedness in the shape of his Qaughter. At times he even threatens flogging, end once he calls for manacies and & dungeon dark. The dungeon scene s rather cheep in theatrical tawdryness, but then in these deys of quick publication end many writers what is an author to do in the face of such competition? Do as Mr. Major has done—"pot boil.” imax of the story is brought about the jealousy of Dorothy when ver has Mary Queen of Scots in hid. bis father's castle. Then it is that fair heroine muses in this wise: “John will be with the most beantiful Queen— Bhe broke off in the midst of her sentence, and her face became cloud- od with an expression of anger and hatred. “God curse her! I wish she were dead, Gead, dead! There! you know how I mun-lm-seotmp Curse the mongrel—!" She halt- eyes were like glowing em- bers, ‘were flushed by the Bbe finelly heers a tale of John's deve- tion that sets off in & paroxysm of Jealous rage to tell Elizabeth of Mary's ‘whereabouts that the Scottish Queen may be captured and incidentally taken aw her lover. Her plan works to the extent of the capture of Mary, but it gives Bir John a ciose call for his life. Dorothy, &8 soon as she sees that she placed her lover in peril, also awak- i i Mr. Major is equal to the occasion, however, and gives his story a skiliful twist that saves the lives of everybody &8 per the scheduled system usually —_— Avthor of “Lords of the North.” T TN 1 who empires . ;:pd nfl&l‘g«: as readily as he Would change his ceat. 12mo. Cloth. $1.50, For $120 mct. Elder & Shepard, 238 Post Street, San Francisco. Send for Catalogue of Publications. Laddlors Jloll —= arid other Books N\ Illustrated by Howard Chandler Christy. THE SUNDAY CALL. S adopted by novel writers for cases of that kind. You may find ‘Dorothy Vernon™ to your taste for an idle moment, but the moment must indeed be an idle one. “‘Dorothy Vernon" is published by the Macmillan Company of New York. Price $150. The Mastery of the Pacific. Mr. Colquhoun opens his book on “The Mastery of the Pacific” with a history of the Pacific, from the coming of the first bold navigator to the purchase of the Philippines by this country, and then proceeds to discuss the position Iin the Pacific of the United States, Great Brit- ain and her colonies, Holland and Japan, devoting but a single chapter to Ger- many, France, Russia and China. He considers naval power as the ultimate solution of the problem. Japap has, of course, the great advantage of being the only naval power on the spot, put in Mr. Colquhoun’s opinfon the United Statey will be the dominant factor in the mas- tery, of the Pacific China he treats throughout as a negligible quantity, a giant who will passively await what- ever the other powers may decide to do, after they have settled the question among themselves, either by diplomacy or a resort to arms. Yet, in the very last sentence of his book he recognizes the fact that the “utilization of the huge force lying dormant in China is one of the great problems of the fu- ture, and upon its solution depends to a great extent the future of the Pacific.” The usefulness of the Chinaman throughout all the Far East is referrea to time and again. In Australia the prob. lem is two-fold—how to keep the China- man out, and what to do withohit him. He is sorely needed in certain regions where the white man cannot work and live, but the Australlan Labor party is very strong, and cannot allow of dis- criminations of this kind. It is a racial question, rather than one of cheap com. petition, for, says Mr. Colquhoun, *“it must not be supposed that John, at this stage of his career, will act as an emer- gency man—he has realized his own value too well. It is to the choicest spots where the precious metal is to be found and profitable work done, that he turns his face now. Impoverished Borneo starves for him, opens her arms to him, but he will not go to her. * * * The situation is already acute In Australia.” It is a curious feature of the New World politics that, at the beginning of the new century, the young powers of the world have Gemonstrated thelr as- cendency by their action In the East. The author points out that of the coun- tries concerned, Australia is the young- est, Russia the oldest—as a world power she is but some two centuries old. Eng- land, the old Titan past his prime, feeling the beginning of a decline after & century of supremacy, no longer leads in the Orient. The alllance with Japan is already regarded with doubt by many of her serious thinkers, and other close allies she has none. Russia, the United Btates, Japan, Australla, Canada, to some degree at least, but as yet mostly in the future, and, finally, Germany—an empire thirty years old—are the chief actors in what is perhaps the most be- wildering and difficult problem of world politics ever offered to the world for so- lution. Mr. Colquhoun relegates Germany to an sitogether secondary role in his book, placing in her stead Holland, on account of what one of her literary men, who de- sired the late King Willlam III to assume the title of Emperor, called the sland In- @ia, “Insulinde.” But, however puszling the policy of the German Emperor in Chl- na, there can be no doubt that iIf a trans- ference of the Dutch East Indies is to be made in the future, they will go to Ger- many, not by conquest but by the acces- sion of the Netherlandé to the German confederation, on the footing of Bavaria, not willingly perbaps, but under the pres- sure of international complications in which & small and weak nation cannot re- tain its independence of action and sur- vive without loss. The possible compli- cations in South Africa, once Holland has become a partner in the great German empire, come not within the scope of present considerations. The prophecy that England will ultimately lose the Cape, whatever the outcome of the present wac, assumes new significance in this light. Mr. Colquhoun doubts very strongly the success of the education we are going to give to the Filipinos, and bases his doubt upon the characteristics and possibilities of the Malays, as revealed hitherto In their relations with Europeans, The Malay has undoubted charm.. Ha is bright, hospitable, has & certain ten- derness of heart, and possesses in general the fundamental traits that make the gentleman, the world over. He is easy to rule, 80 long as he recognizes his mas- ter, is brave, but superstitious. He also hu, in tullest measure, the defects of his qualities. Experience has taught one thing: he de- Benerates when brought under the influ- ence of Western civilization, losing some of his primitive virtues, and failing to acquire others that require the exercise of reason and discipline. In his analysis of the Malay character, Mr. Colquhoun says: “Other deficlencies, in their mental and " moral equipment, are a lack of organiz- ing power. No Malay nution has ever cmerged from the hordes of that race which have spread over the islands of the Pacific. Wherever they are found they bave certain marked characteristics, and of these the most remarkable fs their lack of that =pirit which goes to form a homogeneous people, 10 weld them to- gether. The Maiay fs always a provin- clal; more, he rarely rises outside the in- terest of his own town or village. He is never honest, as we count that vir- tue, never truthful, and never industrious or persevering. This is his dark side, but it is with that we are concerned. 'fhe two points which are most Inimical to progress are, as already indicated, the lack of unity and the lack of persistence. The*Malay fs the lazlest of Orlentals, and the Filipino i{s not the least lazy of Ma- lays. The Malay, in short, is a creature of limitations,” The author points out that the Span- fards ‘have made a double impression upon the Filipino, by intermarriage gnd government. From them the Filipino has a certain grandiloquence, words without thought, but strangely deceptive as an in- dication of mental faculties. The “‘intel- lectual subtlety of the Latin has also been curiously grafted on the simplicity— which is not stupidity—of the Malay. .The result is a peculiar leaning toward ab- stract ideas, a love of the purely theo- retical side of learning, with a corre- sponding inability to apply those theories which are to bring things apart from real life—things they have learned or read, and not evolved from life itself. They begin with the abstract, and fall to work down to the concrete, instead of taking the concrete and so, through circles of thought, reaching the abstract.” Mr. Colcuhoun believes that we are in too much of & hurry to bestow upon the Filipin the benefits and blessings of our civilization. He holds that it will take more than two generations to create the new Filipino and obscrves very per- tinently that we must not forget that our brown friend in the islands must, first of all, unlearn a great mauy Jhings taught him by his Spanish masters. The Filipiro is not a pure Malay: he is 8o heterogeneous as to defy classl.cation, Colquhoun says that 1Le principal ele- ments in the mixture are Spanish and Chinese. The Chinese half-breeds are the most brainy and puszling members of the population and form a large proportion of the insurgents. ““The Chinese character is so involved,” says Mr. Colquhoun, “and so impossible to generalize, that '* is dif- ficult to suggest the possible modifications it Would make in the Malay; but when we remember the strong conservatism of the Chinese and their jntense supersti- tion, we cannot be surprised at the promi- nence of these two qualities in their Fili- pino descendants. Some of the traditions current in the Philippines, for instance the idea that mines could not be opened without the applications to the ‘veins’ of an unguent composed of old women's eyes, and a report, as late as 1830, that children weie to be selzed, that their blood might wash the gold and silver mines of Spain—these are characteristically Chi- nes ““The Mastery of the Pacific” will be found ohe of the most instructive books of the year. It is published by the Mac- millan Company, New York. Price $4. Nathan Hale, William Ordway Partridge, the sculptor of the colossal equestrian statue of Gen- eral Grant in Brooklyn, of the herolc statue of Alexander Hamiiton in front of the Hamilton Club of the same city, of the statue of Shakespeare in Lincoln Park, Chicago, and of many memorials, ideal groups and portrait busts which or- nament the cemeteries, parks and private gardens, galleries and drawing-rooms of these and other art-loving cities of Amer- ica, is also the author of a number of Looks that reveal, less strikingly, per- haps, but no less indubitably than his plastic creationg, that idealizing faculty which marks the artist. They are “Art for Amcrica” (Mr. Partridge is above everything else a patriot), “The Bong Life of a Sculptor” (idealism as the mon inspiration of all the arts is an evéy-re- ¢lrring theme in his writings), “The Technique of Sculpture,” “The Angel of Clay,” = novel, and now ‘“Nathan Hale,” which combines all the qualities of the former books—patriotism, ideality. prinecl. ples of artistic construction and graphle presentation of character and action. The formal theme of “Nathan Hale” is the Revolutionary spy of that name, and the formal on of the book the com- ing erect| on New Haven green of Mr. Partridge’'s statue of Hale. The true sub- Ject of the book and the real impulse of its production are, however, larger in scope and deeper in design. As the au- thor says in his preface: “This book is not a conventional blography * * ¢ with cuts of tombstones and dry historical data. * * * I have attempted to give the very spirit of one of America’s fore- most patriots.” . Accordingly he writes of Hale as an artist and not a historlan would write. He says: “A sculptor living with his statue and seeing it grow from day to day gets very close to the spirit of his subject, and such a one hopes to say in his blography a few words which thoss lips of bronze might utter could they open and speak.” As a contribution to American the book is of no mean value. It is pub- lished by the Funk & Wagnalls Company, New York. l;flc_c LY The Silent Pioneer. Those who enjoyed “Juletty,” from the pen of Lucy Cledver McEiroy, last sea- son, will appreciate her last work, *The Silent Ploneer,” just published by Thom- as Y. Crowell & Co. of New York. Here is another story of Kentucky, but one showing Kentucky just after the rev- olutionary period. It is and is not an his- torical novel. The characters are not cavallers or banished noblemen, or the blood-thirsty brawlers of the average his- E torical novel; but they are the Moqur.. _ otker unique feature is q v the great middlé class of earnest, pa men who hewed homes for them out of the American wilderness. An glnce of the flighty, scolding, heed! eroines of romance, we have the gentle, faithful women whose part in the early ploneer life was so important. horse and the dog who ot Sty 2 GLinl Aot 2 i, S0 h’l.({ places in the early days of American ory. B ‘The Mntumxuo figure of Danfel Boone greets one kindly in the opening chapters, and his dry wit and ho&u n.phnonphv lend zest to the pages from that timé on. The adventurss with the.Indians the reader of cogp:r. There is life and ughout L bright -unllgm in the forest, a rush the pines. We see again th wild, uneettled country as it must ha been when the wandering tribes of In- dians slowly gave way before the advanc- ing foot of the pathfinder. We watch Boone struggling in the death-clutch of the savage; his friend running the cruel ,luntlet; brute and man hemmed in by orest fires, and the faithful, intelligent service of the horse and dog. All this and n?x‘ch :norle is p;esemedd amid a wg-llh of local color, and a sgeady stream of ex- citing adventure. Pn{: $1.60.° Maids gnd Matrons of New France. “‘Malds and Matrons of New France,” by Mary Sefton Pepper, is a volume that deserves a place among the best histories of American women. n!{ gives in a charm- ing way the story of the ploneer women of New England. The subject is divided into four periods, the first of which is called the *“Ploneer Women of Acadia,” under which we learn of Marguerite de ngl;‘ar\'%l !‘llxle heroine of the Iul-fi of lge- m H e Marchioness de juerche- ville, the first ness of American mis- slons; of the Lady de la Tour, the fair chatelaine of Acadia. In the second Berlod of the book before us we have ame Hebert, Madame de Champlain, the “First Lady of Canada”; Madame de la Peltrie, foundress of the first school for tory—a gleam of ry:- 8] of ocoupy. .mmu :-_?‘ & present W.’ Abernethy, m the - L Ph.D., prlnczgfl gcrkcloy Institute, Brookiyn, N. ¥, His long and successtul experience as a teacher and the time and thought that he has devoted to the work ake the book useful for study or gen- ng. an of the book includes a brief of the growth of our literature msidered as part of our natlol his- tory, with such blographical and critical "ot “American auihers. 1N oresting authors interesting itable. One of the most interest- eatures is the supplementing of the Work f the mbre enporiant: Araaricen worl more important’ American writers with opinions qpnooM from con- temporary sources. - Other strong points are the attentlon given to more recent contributions to American literature and the fact that Southern literaturs ‘is ac- corded a consideration commensurate with n}&“..o.:"”" it of the ook 1s § e joal merit of the n- dicated by the care which has been given to the production of a teaching apparatus which is at once simple and entirely ade- uate. At the end of each chapter t lists. of selections are provided for ea important author, one for critical study. the other for outside reading. Lists of _mdh? material for the historical back- round also are given. Study along theé ines indicated will lead to a closer cor- relation of history and lterature than is » - “HER FATHER'S GIRL TORE HER BODICE OATH HAD HARDLY BEEN SPOKEN TILL THE FROM HER SHOULD] 2 girls in Canada; Mother Marle Guyard of the Incarmation. The last chapter of this * od,” “‘The Pioneer Women of Quebec,” s entitled “Some Dainty Nurses of Long Ago. In the third *“perfod,” “Maids of Montreal,” we read of the “Founding of Montreal,” and then “Of the Work of Jeanne Mance and Margue- rite Boutgeols”: of ‘‘Judith de Bresoles and Her Com e the recluse of de Verchiever, Dangerous. = The fourth “:Majds and Matrons of New and closing “Advent of the Corrignan In this “period” ‘are thr chapters—“Coming of the King's Girls, or marriages and social life In New “Women in the First Slege of and “The Two Pompadours,” or iIn the Downfall of New France, In this book the author shows a care- ful use of authorities combined with a pleasing stvle that makes the volume a most readable and cntertaining history. The publishers, Little, Brown & Co. of Beston, have given the work an attrac- tive dress and the book should be highly prized as a gift. Price §1 50. The Rustler. In ““The Rustlef* Miss McEirath, the new novellst from Montana, presents us a plcture of Western life, the Plog being founded upon the “Rustler War” in Wyo- ming of a few years ago. Jim, the hero, 18 a_‘*‘cattle puncher,” who, while foreman of a ranch, has been Jiited by Hazel, a cultivated Eastern woman, who {8 a guest of the owner. He determines to display to the coquette his wer and ability, and begins to *“‘rustle,” brand others’ cattle on his own ac- count. He gathers about him a band of outlaws engaged in the same work. - In the conflict with the ranch owners he tures Hazel and takes her to the ole-in-the-Wall a_ natural fortress held by the rusticrs. Here she undergoes & change of character and becomes a re- generating influence in the camp. y one the outlaws feel her power, till “Jim" at last succumbs to it. Miss McEirath comes from & journalis. tic family, her grandfather, Thomas Mc- Elrath, in association as publisher with Horace Greeley, having founded the New York Tribune, and her father, Thomson McEirath, after a military career of some years, having left the army to e newspaper work. He was for a time ed- ftor of the Brooklyn Union and later of Frank Leslie's Weekly. While in the lat- ter position his health broke down, and in ho; f reltorln’ it he moved West to with his family, At t was, t{ynlcnlly frontier- vivid conglomerate of soldier, Indian, cowboy and Yankee elements, and Frances, grow- ing up from young girlhood amid these surroundings, had somewhat unusual op- rtunities for acquiring knowl, of he West In ét- town, range and also in its military tures, Miss McElrath has spent considerable time on stock ranches d is quite famillar with the life of hich she writes. (Published by Funk & gnnlll Company, New York. Price $1.20) o in and a Grafton Press (New unusual work. In view nu&l:cnz at Washi askan scandals, Hgl‘fly. Its scope i§ succinct- e author’s p: ‘e, which of this M Sea ment o ul r tod the «publie. S e e ~an &H.l?“l of & ortune huntas conlfl'lé' ‘whose Dl'ogrflll‘l the Unit Getice of this Sountryr s M Stchea o, x bk usually secured, and to a more just uz fation of the literature. The boo! ncluded in the list at the end of the work constitute an unpl: and fairly com- yleta library of blomp y and criticiam or students of erican literature. Price, 31 10. Geographical Reader of Europe. The American Book Company of New York is issuing a valuable series of books for children In ‘‘Carpenter's Geographical Readers.” We have before us the latest one, which is devoted to a trip through Europe. It is based entirgly upon the re- cent personal observatio; £ the author, and is, therefore, up-to-date in gll its de- scriptions, It takes the children through every part of Europe and points out all the most Important places and things, the uub&ecu being chosen both with due re- gard to child-interest and at the same time to instruction. While it gives ade- Qquate attention to the scenic side of the lands visited, it is also essentfally prac- tical in its discussion of commercial and industrial tapics. It devotes more space to manufactures than to mountains, more to nhlg‘pln: than to scenery, and empha- sizes the artisan as well as the artist. The reasona for the growth of cll:lu and coun- fiva‘l,l'ly human side of the subject treated, sen especially to show the customs, cos- tumes and industries of the ople. Twelve colored maps show every I’.:. - tant town, river and railroad line in Eu- m.m:"ht Ill.url:rn{fp-'. whlchhm mainly ~tones, al 0gT: : Price, 70 cents. g o o N Roget’s Thesaurus. 1 Thomas Y. Crowell & Co. of New York have just issued a new edition of that most valuable work ‘‘Roget’s Thesaurus,” which for so many years has been the recognized authority for the convenient use of writers are not lacking in ideas, but cannot find ,ust the suitable ‘word for thelr proper ression. To all scholars the work has lo; cons venient and valuable hand suca a0 et o Sl T, 4l larged contents, will prov':r?uo-t welcm;le. a ok for To any who are not already acquainted with {mportance of the book it may be briefly :x&hlm that its purpose is to WO! for ideas. Often a-writer it he considers a happy thought, but is nlnlu,bl:x;l.t’h u,.ullmxlcf xmbu ary er! s himself; e use Thesaurus he can fnd Just the our sal, but it is e index has been inco: in the vol- ume that adds mnchmt%n!ho eonvuenl‘co of its use, # A Colorado Colonel. ‘Willlam Cary Campbell of Prescott, Ari- sona, the general attorney for the Santa Fe and Phoenix Railway and also for the Prescott and Eastern Rallroad. now ap- in & new role as the author of a tgolr natures heroic— M ost. T LG A Writer of Attic Prose. a, - fessor Robe; many of the pictures being cho- - Ellx«’lchmn plan of mm“fi and m.&‘: d80s, hersior. e seiections aasd e and lnnl“nupd first for reading and P‘fl-lh exercises are upon ‘writer's gulde of f plain the 1 ‘.,:3. te v lons 18 placed tis & 1 Cesn structors. The price is $1. The Aliens. “The Allens,” from the pen of Mary T‘?&l.n Wright, is rather disappointi in the light of the previous excellen work done by Mrs. Wright. Her story 15 supposed to bring out the life South of to-day; but to those of readers who are at all familiar with the Southern life, even through hearsay, it must be evident that the author has al- lowed her fancy to' stray—and in a - ner that will be found most unpleasant to our Southern cousins. - ““The Allens” tells of the life of a young Northern woman who comes to live in the South as the wife of a college pro- fessor, also a Northerner, who has ac- cepted a chair in a Southern university. The motif of the book is supposed Lo bring out the radical differences encoun- ter bl an alien in the land of the cot- tou and the 1 of which is done o people. Fortunately the book not interesting enough to have the ful effect that might otherwise possible. (Published by rles Serib- ner’s Sons, New York. Price $150.) r, o For Women of Forty-Five. ““What & Woman of Forty-five Ought to Know,” by Mrs. Emma F. Angell ake, M.D., is the last volume in the Self and Sex Series. The matters discussed in these little books are those with which every intelligent and right-minded girl d woman shou! ar, but which, a sense of false modesty, they ignore. Dr. Drake deals with her subject in a most thorough yet deiicate mn--ra Her advice is sound and sensi- e an: simple rules should be of benefit to women who_follow them. (Vir 'l:u"bu-hm: Company, Philadelphia. Price ’ Prize Pleces. Hinds & Noble of New Y?rk have issued ‘“‘New Pieces That Wit Take Prizes,” compiled and mgted by Har- riet Blackstone, instructor In the art of speaking and dramatic art, Galesburg igh School, Illifols. The book will. be found very useful to the contest speaker who is weary of the old matter and would have something new in the way of a plece to learn. The contents include selections from the best writings of the leading authors of to-day, all carefuly chosen for their dramatic possibilities. Even for general reading the book possesses merit and will be found quite interesting. Literary Notes™ By a transfer with Messrs. Silver, Bur- deti & Co. the previous publishers of the works of Charles G. D. rts, L. C. Page & Co. of Boston now become Pro- rts' authorized publishers. Here is a hand: -, list of the volumes already on “The, Heart ““The of the An- Forga the ! ta vangeline,” ' “By the Marshes “‘Songs of the Common Day,” r “In Divers Tones,” “The Book of the in all, though Many of them R g reprodu int. Mr. clever- and versatile artist in land, and in this serfes of informal ts he has done lis cleverest by ‘Whistler, whose accentuated talents e him the most of sul 'rg; u:ch}n‘logrc ac- companied & ort introducto: by tan__ Brinton, who . Glo. cusses in turn Mr. Menpes, Mr. Whistler, and the etchings. Besides its hutu"un pages of “Chron- icle and t,” the contents of the May Bool include: “A Ballad of Detection” (poem), Carolyn Wells; “The Detective in Fiction” (L. The old detec- tive. I1. The new detective), Arthur Bart- lett Maurice; “Constance de Cordurcy,” an historical novel (cha?!sr XCII), Her- man Knickerbocker Viele; ““Woman's Dress in the ern _French Novel,” Louise Faure-Favier; “Bohemia’ (poem), John Paul Bocock; “Vitre ahd Madame (llustrated), Bradley Gil- rx‘;.:.l::;n.‘mx LEdith Wharton; . Alison M. Lederer; “The Snapshot and the P-ycboelggc;l Novel,” Annie Nathan Meyer; “Artistic, Literary and- Bohemian London in the Seventies"—Fart (1 (with drawings by Arthur Lumiey), J. Henry Hager; “The Harpist’ 'm), Francis James Mac- Beath 1ie Poets of Printing House Square” (liustrated), La Touche Fan. coek; * Literary Forgers,” Charles Whibley; _“Dramatizations of Seott Part Il Paul Wilstach; “The Drama of the Month,” Norman Hapgood, and “Fuel of Fire" (Chapters IV and v) Ellen Thornyeroft Fowler the author of a ‘The French Acad- cmy,” in the May number of Lippin. Magazine, was born in St. Louis, Mo., 1870. He is in of French-Alsatian parent- age. He was brought up and educated in France, cerved in the French army, graduated from the University of Paris with the dcgrees of licencie es-letires (A.M.) and licencle en droit (bachelor of law). He began journalistic work on L’Estafette, the “arislan paper owned by the famous statesman, Jules Ferry, and contributed to various Paristan re- of the Spanish war, he came to the United States as correspondent of Le Tour du Monde, Le Siecle and Le Temps. He re- mained in America .sending to the latter Journal letters on. American life and lAn‘nflun p:linflocl. M.IGHQHM, who is instructor of mance languages in Cor- nell University, has contributed many ar- ticles on France to American papers, es- pecially the Nation, the New York Trib- une, the Independent, the New York Herald, ete. In French M. Guerlac has published a small political pamphlet, which is out of print, S‘Drumont Roche- fort Severine,” and is just now correct- ine the proofs of the French transia- tion of Booker T. Washington's “Up From Slavery.” A novel experiment is tried in “The World’s Work” for May in the publication of an article made up of explanatory notes to a series of sixteen full- page pictures of the business streets of Cairo — “DBeyond the American jovasion.” The other {llustrative feat- ures of the number include an article on Leland Stanford Jr. University—its re-. markable history and splendid equipment; another on. Mr. Carlin’s wonderful snap- shot and flashiight photographs of wild animals; a sequel to Mr. Branson's arti- e real Southern question, enti- tled The Real Southern Question Agzin,” and a sto: about _a wonderful éry salt seq in the Western 4 Wol von Schierbrand furnishes an intimate studies of modern considering, this time, the co: lations of the United States d Frederic Emory es new role as an International “SHE SANK TO HER ENEES ON THE DUNGEON FLOOR.” tive,” ‘New York Nocturnes,” History of Canada. They will have ready on May 15 “The Kindred of flgfl Wild,"” and on October 1 “Barbars . A. 8. Barnes & Co. (New York) an- nounce for publication at an ol.l;.llyl date “A World's Shrine,’ b{ Virgi W, Johnson, author of “The u!{ of the 46 n vivia s ht most beas- scribes in vivid that most u- tiful of the Italian es, Lake Como, its surroundings, its legends, its former greatness, the home of Pliny and the im- mortals whose names are linked with its history. The volume will be beautifully 1llustrated. “The Fruits of June” ticle of one of the chapt: in the June Delincator, devoted to the ends of the summer kitchen. There is also & help- ful article on stewing meats, with some recipes, another on the —uses of as- ragus, and one on dishes that g: repared from the emergency shelf. The usefulness of peanuts is indicated in’ the alluring letes a domestic section of unusual ?erelt to housekeepers. The contents of the International l’ n:hly for May include: The question o . m 0] *“Greatness in Literature,” W. Trent; ‘“Germany in Ints ery Paul_Arndt; “The ens,” Rufus B. Richar 3 Life of Ants,” Augu ; ‘‘Motives to Imperial Federation,” Captain Alfred T. llngn.hn‘ U, 8. N.; “Some Aspects of Rome in the Middle "~ Maurice Paleologue; “The Matter of the Play," Mra. t and the Chronicle—"Cecil Rhodes and His Will," Joseph B. Bishop. 10th-of May the Century Com- o Cuniished “Chimmte Fadden and fa‘ Paul,” by Bdward . Townsend, by Anne Sl DRm, Yyutens Dewgl wi new lons _ of 88 icicls former books, *“Fhe Duit Miss and the “Confound of both of the latter in orm ew n-.-lal::a o a) English critics, some vggn liken it tfi that of the Brontes. Sedgwick is a young Ameriean woman who has lived much abroad, but who is now visiting in this country, lllu&:n the. ._::Eh:n of u;: is = The plates num. ‘amelia,” d_with colared frontispleces, :v':cl'l work Is hllhbm ‘Without Critic MY Whist . 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