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CONDUCTED BY B. G. LATHROP ! 0 - ILBERT PARKER is rapldly earn- ing the right to take his place near the top in the list of writers of to- day. His book of last season, “The Right of W is probably as well known and has awakened as much discus- sion as any other novel published during the decade. It is one of the most remarkable studies of life and character that has appeared for many a year. A book of short stories can never attain the pop ty of a novel, even though may repre more actual labor on the t of the author and may be even more literary excellence. Gilbert “Donovan Pasha, Appleton & Co., New" n of short stories, but deserving of all the that has come to t this latest Parker book rest attached to clever sto- ture. author is a master hani in the sketching of human nature. Whether it is in the portrayal of the life of the French-Canadians, as we have read from bis pen In former works, or in the pres- ent series of sketches of Egyptian life, Mr. Parker is equally careful, conscien- tious, exact—and yet brilliant. He hoids your interest to the highest pitch by his powers of narration and his masterly handling of dramatic incident; but he also gives the reader more intimate acquaint- ence with a foreign phase of life than could be had even by a personal visit to the scenes described—for Mr. Parker is more skilliful in seeing into the minds and motives of human beings, whatever be their race or religion, than most of us. The only reason for giving the present volume the title of Donovan *Pasha i that little Di service in be is miost Donovan of the B , or JDonovan Pasha [ better knowr ures as the hena in of the short s jes that go to make the life of as Mr. tion: ““So full of ve simplicity: of of cruel indole f tyranny of the high eler and the shameful pra ail_touched off , the to help the persecuted or save o #; or to do a little inves his own punt in the my of the One of the narrowest es- f the irrepressible ix when he gets a leave of from his at'endance at the court Egvptian_ Khedive ostensibly for e the purpose of visiting bis relatives in England, but in reality that he may be- come a Dervish and make a pllgrimage with them. This story is called “At the Mercy of Tiberius,” and its ending is as dramatic as even the most romantic fields of the East can suggest; for Donovan makes the pilgrimage to Mecca with the Mahmal caravan, the finale of which is that all the Dervishes shall lie face down- ward and, packed as close as sardines, make a lane over which shall ride the Sheikh of the Dosah. ~ Donovan is game to the last, and his h bulldog courage is more than up e he realizes that the Khedive hds jsguise and is watching inch at the last moment, 0 he takes his chances with the fanatics and wins out—but it is a hair-raising es- cape. In all there are fifteen stories book. It is more than likely t have read some of them in the p that has been publishing them in the if s , it is safe to prophesy that you will wish to have the whole collection in book form. e Njr. Parker has this to say in his fore- word: “I shall be sufficiently grateful if this series of tales do no more than make ready the way for the novel of Egyptian life on which I have been work- ing for some years. It is an ‘avant cour- fer’” With this promise before them there is ail the more reason for readers to read the present book and imbibe a little of the atmosphere of Egyptian life, 80 altogether different from our own, that ay the better appreciate and un- that is to come in derstand this novel the’ future. Below is an extract from one of the stories: “Fielding Had an Orderly.” It is quite characteristic, both of the style of Gilbert Parker and of the present series of sketches. The story relates how Dono- van Pasha suspects his superior's native orderly and has his suspicions confirmed when, in the disguise of an Egyptian dancing girl, he visits one of the cafes and overhears the plot of a massacre and the boast of the orderly that he will kill both Flelding and Donovan that night with his own hand. Dicky Donoven gets back to the boat first and here is the way that he deals with the situation: How he should do it he planned as ‘he opened the door of Fielding's cabin softly, and saw him in a deep sleep. He was about to make haste on deck again, where his own nest was, wWhen, glancing through the window, he saw Mahommed Ibra- him stealing down the bank to the boat'd side. He softly drew to the little curtain of the one small space A leaving only through which the moonlight streamed. This ray of light fell just across the door through which Mahommed Ibrahim would enter. The cabin was a large one, the bed was in the middle, At the head was a curtain slung to protect the sleeper from cold draughts of the night Dicky heard a soft footstep in the com- penionway, then before the door. He crept behind the curtain. .Mahommed Ibrahim was listening without. Now the door opened very gently, for this careful orderly had oiled the hinges that very day. The long, flabby face. with the venomous eyes showed in the streak of moonlight. - Mahommed Ibrahim slid in- side, took a step fyrward and drew a long knife from his sleefe. Another move toward the sleeping man and he was near the bed; snother, and he was beside it, stooping over ow, a cold pistol suddenly thrust in your face is disconcerting, no matter how well laid e plans. It was useless for the orderly to raise his hand; a bullet is quicker than the muscles of the arm and the stroke of a knife. wo stood silent an instant, the sleeping 1 peaceful between them. Dicky made a of his head toward the door. Mahom- m turned. Dicky «id not lower his the orderiy, cheying, softly went as d softly come. Out, through the doorway, the stairs, then upon the moonlit deck. the ug coid muzzle of the pistol at the head of Ma- Lommed Tobrahim. Dicky turned now and faced him, the pisiol pointed, hen Manommed Ibrahim spgke. ‘‘Malaieh!” id. That was cor 1t was Mahom- resignation the ineviiable. h— 10 ter!” he said again; and “‘no was in good 1 Dicky's back was to t face in the full glow of it. ht. the orderly's Dicky was stand- the wire communicaging with tha n, He reached out hig hand hook. The beil rang below. Tie stood silent, motlonless, the pistul the young Yorkshire engineer, pull- up to the deck two steps of the r ut a_time “Yes, " he s coming forward quick- but stopping shor: when be saw the lev- 4 pistol. “Drop the * said Dicky aropped the be useful, Holgate dropped it in:ide his 1l steam, and turn her nose to Cairo, P No time to lose!” He had told Holgate earlier in_the evenimg to keep up steam, He could see a crowd slowly gathering under the palm trees between thff shore and. Bell Hassan. They were walting for Mahommed Ibrahim’s signal. Holgate was below, the sallors were at the cables. “Let go ropes!” Dicky called. A minute later the engine was guietly chuning away below; two minutes later the ropes were drawn in; half a minute later still the nose -of the Amenhotep moved in the yater. She backed from the Nile mud, lunged ree. “An old man had three sons; one was a thicf, another a rogue, and the worst of the three was a soldier—and he dies first. What have you got to say before you say your re 7"’ Mafl pr said Dicky to the orderly. > " answered Mahommed ~Ibrahim, moveless. = “‘Mafish—nothing!”" ~And he said “nothing’’ in good English, L ‘Say your prayers, then, Mahommed Ibra- him,” said Dicky In’ that voice like a-girl's; and he backed a little till he rested a shoul der against the binnacle. ahommed Tbrahim turned slightly till his face was toward the east. The pistol now fell in range with his ear. The orderly took off his shoes, and, standing with + his face toward the moon, and toward Mecca, he mur- mured the *fatihah’ from the Koran.. Three times he bowed, afterward he knelt and touched ) & - tians really delimit the meaning of-the ‘words. The fllustrations, over 500 in num- -ber, ald this process by showing essential and characteristic forms of the objects and ‘ideas defined.” Thus the contrasted terfos endogen and exogen are explained by pictures which are more illuminating _than a page of text. 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The artist went to Dakota in the summer of 1901 for the express purpose of studying the life of the Indi; ans and thelr customs that he might make his drawings in perfect harmony with the spirit of the text. How well he has succeeded is partly shown by the evident character and truth in the yictui'u reproduced on this page. “Indian Boyhood” is a book of more possesses a real value as a record of life among the Indians, worth as a narrative of a poetic and romantic nature. than pa$sing merit and idterest, for it besides its The author is Dr. Charles A. Eastman, and Dr. Eastman is none other than ““Ohiyesa,” a full-blood Sioux Indian, the whole of whose younger days was passed on the plains of the North- west in the tribal life of his family. Later he left savagery for clvilization, but he never lost his love for the ojd ways of life. His affection for the past infuses his reminiscences with the fine spirit of poetry, so that his book stands almost as the epic, a saga, of l’/!hs race. The price of the volume is $1 60 net. L the deck with his forehead three times also. Then-he stocd up. ‘*Are you ready?" asked Dicky. “Water!” answered Mahommed Ibrahim in English. Dicky had forgotten that final act of devo- tion of the good Mahommedan. There was & filter of Nile water near. He had heard it go drip-drip, drip-drip, as Mahommed Ibrahim prayed. “Drink,” he said, and pointed with his finger. Mahommed Tbrahim took the little tin cup hanging by the tap, half filled it, drank it off, and noiselessly put the cup k n. Then he stood with his face toward the pistol. “The game is with the English -all the *" gaid. Dicky softly. alaish!” said Mahommed. time, “Jump,” said Dicky. One insf pause, and then without a sound, Ibrahim sprang out over the railing into the hard-running current, and struck out for the shore. The Amenhotep passed him. He was in the p of a whirlpool so strong that it twisfed the Amenhotep in her A His head spun round like a water-fly, and out of the range of Dicky's plstol he shrieked to the crowd on the shore. They burst from the palm trees and rushed down to the banks with cries of rage, murder and death; for ndw they eaw him fighting for his life. But the Amenhotep’s nose was toward Cairo, and steam ‘was full on, below had his too. Dicky_looked back at the hopeless fig] as jong as he could see. Down in his cabin Fielding Bey slept peace- tully end dreamed of a woman in Calro. ————— Concise Standard Dictionary. For a handy dictionary at an easy price, 60 cents, here is ode that is probably the best of its kind in print. It is “The Con- cise Standard Dictionary,” abridged from the Funk & Wagnalls’ Standard Diction- ary by James C. Fernald. It contains 28, 060 words and phrases selected from the unabridged Standard Dictionary with spe- cial reference to the needs of the average man. The spelling and proaunciation are those of the Standard. Every word is re- spelled according to the Standard Scien- tific Alphabet, which was prepared by the American Philological JAssociation, and forms an easily understood and accurate guide to proper utterance. The prineiples *of this aiphabet are carefully presented and explained in this abridgment and a key to the system appears in a single line on the bottom of each page. The definitions, unlike those of most abridged dictionaries, are truly definitive; oc lly for the sake of condensation definifon by synonym has ‘been resorted to. In such cases words have been de- fined by synonyms that have been defim- tively treated in their respective places. In the Introductory Standard the defini- e young man returns to Upper Louisiana. In time the quarrel of Louis with the girl he has loved, and his absence from her, prove but temporary impediments to his suit. The story is one of average merit. 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While still a very ‘While there she meets Glles Wil- loughby, who has gone to France to rest: Christianity, which she considers errone- +ous, and to train them in what she deems cgrrect habits of thought, Vera decides ta-undertake their care. For their sup- port and education she vses her own pri- vate income. Gradually all of the noble, unselfish traits in Vera's & character, which until now have not met with an op- portunity for development, reveal them- selves. The knowledge that upon her de- volves the necessity of making or mar- ring thé happiness of the children whose lives she has taken upon herself to fash- jon spurs Vera to the exercise of an un- selfish deyotion which ends only with her life. At last in self-abnegation and in the practice of/a religion which she once de- spised, Vera finds the way of escape from the evil effects upon her own character of the errors of her youth. (Published by D. Appleton & Co., New York. Price $§150.) The Way of a Man. “The Way of a Man,” by Morley Rob- cris, is @ recent issue of Appleton's Town _ and Country Library, It is an interesting story which takes the rgader from England to South America and through the exciting adventures attendant upon a revolution in thelatter country. The heroine is an English girl, very different from the accepted type of the Anglo- Saxon malden. She is filled with the spirit of adventure which leéd her hardy sncestors to roam about the seas In search of daring adventure. When she learns that her lover, who is supposed ta have been lost at sea, is in a republie of South America, which is fn the throes of a revolution, she follows him. A serie: of thrilling experlences fall to her lot but they lead her at last to find even greater happiness than she sought when she started out from home. The story is simply a chronicle of adventure, with little or np attempt at analysis of emo- tion or delineation of character. (Price $1.) Liferary Notes. 5. M. Barrie’s fine story, “The Littlg “White Bird,” 1s concluded in the Novem- ber Scribner's. > F. Marion Crawford has turned te the scene ‘of some of his greatest sue- cesses for the plot of his new novel, “Ceclia, a Story of Modern Rome,” which . the Macmillan Company will publish-this pt month. Frederic Remington, famous for his drawings of army life and Indian war- fare, publishes this month through the Macmilllan Company his first novel, which he calls “John Ermine of the Yellow- stone.” George Ade’s new book of fables will be issued in a few days from the publishing house of R. H. Russell, New York. It is entitled “The Girl Proposition; a Bunch of He and She Fables,” and it is packed with the sort of entertainment which Mr. Ade’s numerous admirers have a right to expect. The book will be appropriately illustrated by Holme & McCutcheon. - The Bowen-Merrill Company will have four book plays on the stage this season. Effie Ellsler succeeds Miss Marlowe in “Knighthood,” and Gertrude Coghlan takes Miss Harned's place in “Alice of Old Vincennes,” while Otis Skinner has just scored in the initial performance of “Lazarre” _and Cecil Spooner will maki her debut as a star in “My Lady Peggy. opening at Brooklyn December 1. “The Doom of King Acrisius,” by Wil- llam Morris, is one of the very finest in the list of R. H. Russell’s latest output of choice books—choice both as regards literary quality and the essentials of ar- tistic book-making. The {llustrations, which include twelve platinum full-page prints of the utmost delicacy and finish, are reproduced from the series of mar- velous paintings by Sir Edward Burne- Jones. In no other book that could be nuamed have the genius of Morris and the 2rt of Burne-Jones found a more com- COuRTSHIP oF nhlfl'ro:qu ment does not prevent his falling deeply in love with Vera.” Vera, who is not awarc that Willoughby is already - trothed, returns his love.. Willoughby®s suppesed to be a most exemplary young man, and Vera trusts him completely. When Giles has almost decided to marry ‘Vera, he is recalled te his home by news of his father's fllness. 'When his father dies and Giles is left with his mothar and 3 sisters to support, he is led by motives ed in the autumn list of D. Appleton & of expediency the girl to engaged. marriage trously to her. Before.long Vera' father dfs and leaves her in possession of a small fortune. For several years she ‘whom r'ha has been He deserts Vera, although his acquaintance with her has ended most plete and harmonious expression. Fits Roy Carrington contributes an introduc- tlon of critical value. 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