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stead ot leader o the green hilIstles and
fresh summits; he would feed the fornu-
lative mind with good and bud with tho
logic OF the phystc4an. who. gives . com
pound OF all medicines for; any disease, and
in the face OF the fatal effects cries, 'sBrt
j gave you only medicine
So in the face OF the undesirable effects
OF promiscuous truths set out IN the pages
OF self-styled sociological noyciists. Dr.
Bourget would wash his hands with hrs
defense, II told only the truth" A
wise philosopher has said that one Of the
wisest uses OF the tongue is TO keep silence;
SO the pen is put into mans hand to dis
tract mans mind from the dangerous influ-
ences that disease and destroy. However
much we may quarrel with NJ. Bourgeois
principles, no one will quarrel with bis
style, his invention and his skillfnl par-
ration. He has the instructive humanity
and art not to carry his principles 10 their
logical end. and in that is the beauty and
force OF his story. "a Living Lie" is an
early story, written before "Outre-Mer".
or The Tragic Idyl." and furnishes In
teresting cont rasts.
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Literary Notes.

Venice will be the subject OF Zola's next
book
One hundred and sixty books were pub
lished last m onth.
News come from Japan that Lafcadio
Hearn has become totally blind.
Ten thousand dollars has been raised In
England for the Huxley memorial.
The late Lord Leighton chose the title
OF William Blacks last novel, "Briseis."
The old home of Charlotte Bronte at
Thornton, England is now a butcher shop.
George Gissing is called 1.-THE novelist OF
the Masses" He is thirty-eight years old.
1.-The Seven Deadly Sins OF America" is
the title OF a book to be brought out In the
fall.
Regina Armstrong Hiniard is a Ten.
nessee woman whose lamp of literature
shines brightly.
The London Sun makes a plea Tor the
paper knife in speaking of the fascinat.nu
OF uncut books.
A London library claims tt has saved
200 year by the abolition Of the
three-voiume novel
1t Is said that Sir Arthur Sullivan has
realized $50 600 from the sales of the
Lost Chord" alone.
Stanley Waterloo Is the last American
author to make pronounced English sue.
cess with bis books.
A book on romantic characters and Incl
dents in Kentucky history is in preparation
by James Lane Allen.
Cardinal Gibbons new book is in the
The morning times., 1896-08-16

In the mauuDcript purchased by the Ktanar
mock corpofnuon In 1854.
Sir Walter Resant tells of the following
curt0uS c0tncloeut which happeBod TO htfD-
self: IT was consultipg," he says. ian
artist with regard u the face aad feature
OF q Character which ne was Illustrating for
me, and briefly described TO him the kind
OF face 1 had In mind. He was meanwhile
rapidly skctching q face on piece OF
paper he had before him. .wnl that dor
he asked, showing me the exact portrait
OF the man had been thinking Of"
copy oc the Philadelphia edition OF
Burns poems, published In June, 1888, at
rs cents, was recently sold In that city Tor
SITS. The second American edition. Is
sued a month later in New York. both small
12mos. has during the present year brought
$50. Copies OF these two rare reprints OF
the Edinburgh edition OF 1887 are lin
Guided in the Burns exhibition just opened
In Glasgow, Scotland, the occasion being
the centennial OF the poets death. July Fl !.
1796.
Mr. Austin, assistant librarian at Cor
nell, is u pioncer discoyerer OF the book
worm in America. Recently while cata-
bguing the Dante collection, presented
TO the university by Prof. Willard Fiske.
he found in an 1896 edition OF the = Di-
vine Comedy" some live worms. From
these Prof Conistock. OF the entomoiogicc.l
department. has gone to raising eggs or
worms and beetles as specimens ror the
university museum. the book-worm being
n rara avis In this country. Only twice
before has IL been found in an American
library
Says Dibdin's Ghost in the New York
World: do you know whit the Robes
OF Immortality cost? l have Just learned
through the Paris correspondent OF the
London Chronicle: The embroidered coat
OF d full-tl0wn French acaden,ician costs
500 francs, the white cloth waistcOat. 25
francs, and the striped trousers, 70 francs;
the piunied hat and tox are down for 69
francs; and the sword, with scab-
bard, 40 francs. Total, 6S4 francs. IL Is
irfeverent even TO narrate that RudOlphe
Sails, the poet tavern keeper OF the Cat
sNoir, recently bought up the coats OF ce
deased acadenic.ans for his waters. The
government. however, put stop to the
desecration.'
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have us read Mrs. IDchbald's 'simple
Story Hopes "Anastasius," "yathek;"
Lady Morgan's stories, Paul FcrrolI.s,
Thomas Love Pcaccck's, and the elder
Gffbert's.
The oldest medical library In New York
belongs to the New York Hospital II con-
tains about 25, 900 volumes, among which
are many rare editions. The largest mcdi
cal library OF the city is that of the .Acad-
emy OF Medicine in West Fort y-third street
Is is the second largest in the United States
and contains about $4,000 volumes.
An English lady of Brighton contributes
a hitherto unrecorded anettlote of Christie
pher North. A lady admirer had Just COM
plimented Kit upon the size OF his noble
head,' when he rather sta ggcred her by re-
plying: True, madam; in our villa ge there
was only one head bigger than line, Ind
that was the village IDIOTS"
W. T. Stead confesses that when he in
cluded q selection from Matthew Arnold in
his Penny Poets, he wondered greatly
whether poet so exclusive and SO cultured
would meet with welcome from the
masses" The result has been eminently
satisfactory, for in less than six months
nearly 900 copies have been sold.
Stephen Crane writes the best descrip-
ton OF war, and he has never been in bat
tie: the best description OF scenery is said
to have been written by man who had
never climbed a mountain, and Miss Nora
Hopper, tie most distinctly Celtic of the
ne w Irish school of writers, has never SO
much as set foot on the Green Isle in her
life.
Prof Iombroso contributes a paper to the
German review, Zokunft, in which he st
tempts to trace the relations between relig-
ion and crime, and makes out bad case
for the older crccds, He sums up: 1.-THE
religions which serve as a check to crime
are those for morality and those that are
quite new; the ethical influence OF the
rest is not greater than that Of atheism -
Ruskin is growing weaker and weaker
Sara Orue 'Jewett has added to the
esteem Ia which she Is held in Maine by
paying the South Berwick local band $10O
to continue their customary summer con-
certs, after the town council had decided
that it could not afford the expense.
An Island Without DEATH is the pecu-
liar title OF sketch of travel written
by Miss E. B. Scidmofe It Is an accouat
OF the sacred island of MIyatima. one Of
the three wonders Of japan. The title of
the article was suggested to Miss Scidmore
by the fact that no pne Is allowed to die
at the point of death are PLACED on n
boat and seut I'd the nearest adjacent
island. nlJ'
The original agseement between Gold
smith and Caldwell. the publisher, concern
ing the writing Of the History OF Eng
lapd' is about to he sold in London.
Al the same sale Will be offered the av-
gfaph manuscript 6f Barus' Holy Willie's
Prayef.~ on fosr q>aafto pages, WhscA DIFF
fers from the printtai eaitOas Of the poem,.
and contains q o'gpls3e stanza not found
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hands of the publisher. 1t is called IAN
Ambassador of Christ"
A librarian who recently had a call for
Last Days of Pompeii' was asked, What
did he die Of an Dyway?"
james Lane Alien considers his But
terflies'' the best book he has put cut.
His readers are diviced On this point.
Shakespeare's longest play is Hamlet"
1t contains 4,05S lines. The shortest is
1.-The ComedJ OF Errors" with .sO7 lines
The author of Mc6uffey's school readers,
known to every school roy, died recently
in Cincinnati at the age OF seventy-nine-
Grant Allen is said by those who know
him TO be always looking as though he
We're Just recovering from a severe i'll
ness.
Gissing is the first writer to deal success
fully with the great lower middle class
life of England, from a serious point Of
view.
one-volume edition ofGeorge Meredith's
"A amazing Marriage has appeared in Lon
don, and so 900 copies were Sold the first
week
The Pratt Free Library of Brooklyn,
though opened late in the spring, is thirdin
rank Of the libraries OF Greater New
York.
Though a shilling is charged to enter
Carlyle's house, over 5000 persons have
visited the exhibition since ii was opened
year ago.
Edward 8 Ellis is dear 10 the heart of he
average boy reader. He is Jersey inan,
and is beginning the second half century
OF his life.
The term Chestnut meaning '-trite, y
is said to have originated In play called
"A Broken Sword,'' written and acted
before 1860.
Lorna Doone'' was offered by its au-
thor to nineteen publishers before it was
accepted Then il fell lat Till an accident
drew attention to it,
Oliver Cosweii, hind and deaf mute
TO whom Dickens devoted several pages
OF his American Notes." died recently
at Canouicut, R. 1.
Gladstone, It is said, has devoted his
leisure OF the past ten years to the prepa-
ration OF a new edition OF Bishop Buffers
.Anoiogy," with notes.
The Dublin Review Is aboot to ceaebrate
the sixtieth anniversary Of lis founding.
Its founders were Cardinal Wiseman and
Daniel O'ConneIl in 1886.
Stanley Waterloo has composed poem
called "The March of America" II is I'd
he set to music and musicians predict that
IL ma y become ouF leading national anthem.
Rose Hartwick Thorpe, author Of sCurfew
Shall Not Ring Tonight" lives in pretty
cottage at Pacific Beach, near San Diego
Cal. This poem was the first of hers ever
published.
The memory OF Thomas Hughes il espe-
cially green m Chicago because. amer tAe
fire, he sent thatcity collection of eco
books to serve rs a basis Of new Gubafc
library. The books were all EDgiish,s
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graphic title "A Living Lie" TT

story is highly colored picture OF modern
life, in which the writer confessedly fol-
lows the school OF TRUSTS who paint life
as it is without raising themselves to the
higher plane of painting life as it should
be. Stendhal and Blzac are the grand
parents of this school. Balzac called him
self a doctor Of social SCIENCE" and
stendhal, when asked his profession. used
to reply observer of the human heart''
Says Bourget. in apology for his methods
and theirs: These writers do but follow
consciously or unconsciously the scientific
movements of the age. They are socioIogists
aud psychologists who write In imaginative
form. The attitude they take up toward
the object they are studying is explained
the tact that as analysts they are Obliged
to assume that absolute Indifference which
should animate every savant while pur-
suing his Investigations. For them the
whole question resolves itself into this:
They must look the bare realities of life
fun in the face, reproduce them with alb
solute fidelity and reject nothing they
find. 1t should be their aim to produce
of truth rather than of beauty. The nor-
eiist is merely a chronicler OF actual life,
and the value OF his testimony lies In Its
truth"
And. pray, who will subscribe to such
principles? It has never before appeared
that there is SO wide a breach between the
Gallo and the Anglo Saxon school There
is a heresy in every line According to
Mr. BourSet, there must be no ideaitsm; the
stenographer in the police court Is, after
an t~>-.e Ylu& %. 81. - Il
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rather than the editor, everybody Is 50
helpful and kind"
II suppose you are very proud OF your
self," remarked the reporter. whereupon
the editor laughed in true, girish fashion
and then putting the question on business
basis, said:
NO. I'm not proud-yet-but I like to
think the day is coming when l will have
the right to be-
Have you any definite idea as to
when that desirable time will mature?"
Yes" she answered, with enthusiastic
. promptness, lit will come when the Home
Magazine equals any woman's Journal in
the country. aud is surpassed by none."
Miss Hunter will leave shortly for
trip to Toronto. Canada, where she viii
rest few weeks to gain strength for the
heavy duties in the fan.
The morning times., 1896-08-16
BOON TO LEGLEss MEN.
New Substitute for the Human Limb
Almost as Good AS the Original.
Netc York Herald.

Almost as Good as the Original.
Nec York Herald
Persons who have their legs cut off In
railroad accidents in future will at least
have the satisfaction of underst anding
that few beyond their immediate friends
viii ever know it. for an inventor has Just
produced an artificial leg which is just
as near human member as can be de-
vised.
This crowning achievement In the leg
line is production of Massachusetts,
man. and with this invention properly at
tached to the stump of the missing member
those who leave their leg at Dead Mans
Curve can have the deficiency supplied
so that no one can detect the fraud without
sticking a pin in It.
This artificial leg Is curious contrivance
of hinges, screws and elastic bands Ex-
tending downward from about what in the
human leg is the ankle, to Joint midway
between the heel and the instep are two
steel rods. placed one in front OF the other.
One rests on q sort OF a roller hinge and
allows the foos to give or bend with each
step. The other servesthe purpose Of bring
ing the foot back into place after the
step Is taken.
Any lateral movement OF these rods Ii
prevented by the sides of the slot through
which they move. A screw and a nnt
at the top of the rod also prevents the leg
from turning. and thus gives troable in
walking. An artificial heel tendon Is also
placed within the foot, back OF the ankle
Joint, and extends loosely through . hole
In the leg. where 1t connects with q nut
Mt about midway up the leg.
The morning times., 1896-08-16
YOUNG WOMAN ITS HEAD
Miss Hunter and Her Work as
Magazine Editor.
SUCCEEDED MRS. LOGAN
Is a Virginia Girl and Manages Her
Publication With the Skill
Of a Veteran.
SUCCEEDED MRS. LOGAN

One OF the youngest newspaper women
In tbecountry is Miss Susan Hunter, editor
In chi er OF the Home Magazine. pub
hsbed for years in this city, by Mrs. Gen.
Logan, aud which, after being suspended
for a year following her withdrawal, re-
sun,ed publication last February. under
its present mana cement. and Is steadily
regaining its former prestige.
The magazine is issued monthly In a
red brick building, opposite" Belmont the
residence OF Mr.. A. L. Barbour, on w
street, and though a rather bare place. Is
deliciously quiet and cool.
The sex OF the management Is expressed
in a card over the editorial doorway. that
prohibits smoking in letters as black as
ink eau print them, while spirit OF
patriotism maniSests itself In a stuffed
eagle near the entrance, which. with out
spread wings, clutches at a mock siab OF
granite by way OF pleasant variety from
the monofonOus log.
SANCTUM OF THE EDITREss.
The editors saDctum, after the fashion
or Mrs. BOffins' bower, is distinguished
from the surrounding baroness by rug
and hedged into existence with an im-
promptu wall Of shelves laden with pom
derous textbooks, together with a big
prosaic desk with an unabridged dictiOn-
AIRY lying open beside it On stand.
On the wall hangs portrait OF Mrs.
Logan in a nligree frame. and, to give a
cheery ligltness to the diDgy array Of
pads, paste cups. ink wells and shears.
strip of gay blossoms that probably
came" with some up-to-date Sunday issue.
was tackled into prominence with crooked
ness that betrayed the editors giriish
heart and hand. A stack OF fashion maya
zines with poster covers lay on a table, and
a bunch OF flowers in a glass hung heavily
sweet on their stems. The editorial chair
was empty, and while a waiting the arrival
OF its owner a Times reporter was given
a chance to contrast the leisIrely move
ments of ladies and gentlemen WHO have
only one number month to worry over with
the pcessant rush of a staff that gets out
two issues. and IL need be, an extra a day.
This profitable employ yemnt was sud
denly put an end to by the entrance OF a
young woman with brisk step and
friendly. outstretched hard, who smilingiy
agreed TO tell all she knew about her
literary self. which, she frankly admitted,
wasn't much
HER PERSONAL APPEARANCE
She was a slender young woman, with
tie military erectness OF cadet; with
russet- brown hair. brown eyes that Open-
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are excellenty achieved. and the reader
will recognize In the hero type which Is
continual reproach to the ietharyy of those
who have Idle means aud ouseised oPpor-
tunities. The purpose OF the story Is to
stimulate an interest in children who are
born into home of abandonment and sin.
Miss Penberton makes her case, and It is
60 be hoped the seed she lows will give
lfruition in more Jameses being rcscuesi from
the uncorrective influence OF jail and le-
fornatory to the gentler and more per
suasive Influence OF country home, with
nature and the unsoplisticated.
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Ii Hung Chang's Education.

Ii Hung Chang came OF worthy but net
distinguished parentage. His father had
successfully passed the examinaticns, but
OF no opportunity to secure his sons ad-
vaneement beyond affording him an oppof-
tunity to pursue his studies and fit himself
for the examinations. These he success
fully passed in an grades, and in the final
contest at Peking he came ont with dis
tinguished honors among 10000 competi-
tors. Later he was made member OF the
Haalin College, which corresponds some
what to tire French Academy. He there
fore has reason to take pride in his ac-
complishments and standing as scholar.
though jadsed by the Western standard Of
education Chinese scholars would hold .
very low grade.-The Century.
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I'd bright and wide. and fresh skin gen
erously starred with treckles. that save
a :;irlish piquancy TO her features, which
were given to dignity in repose.
Her dress OF white muslin was daintily
simple. and she wore a dark sailor hat.
She might have posed as q typical sum
u,ar girl Tor all padantic evidence she gave
OF her Importance, though there WIS u
sefiateness OF manner about her. caIsed,
not SO much from CONSCIOUS self-apprecia-
tion as from the fact OF her having spent
years enough in her Virginia home to
acquire Virginia girls sweet, prin ways.
Miss Hunter is Scotch by birth, bei,i, the
daughter OF James Hunter. famous IS an
educator in the north OF Scotland, Ind
after coming to this country wcllknown for
his editorial work On the supplement of
worcester's dictionary, and later ft,r his
connection with the Gebbic edition OF
Burns poems, the best ever published in
his country
OWES IT TO HER FATHER.
II am very proud of my father" said
Miss Hunter, land whatever have accom-
plished has been due to his untiring aid
and encouragement. 1t may interest YOU
to state that he was born in a little town
in Dunfriesshire, tie home of Jean WEIGH.
who afterward became the wife of Thomas
Carlyle, and my father. as Ii 10y, was a
great fayorite with Miss Jeanie'' and
often spent the day with her and her
mother at 'Craigeputtock' He was the
youngest school principal Of his day. and,
for all l know, Of any day, in Scotland,
having been elected rector of the Boutwell,
Academy when only twenty one"
Miss Hunter tegan to assist her father
in his literary labors ten years ago, though
she owes her practical training in edito-
rial work to MIR. Manley NJ. Gillian, who
was editor of Book News at the time she
worked on that journal before coming to
Washington, five years ago. to assist Mrs.
Logan on the magazine of which she is
now in charge.
Despite the fact that The Home Maya
zine is published but once every four weeks.
its editor comes in each morning from her
home near Fairfax Courthouse and remains
at her desk until after 4. Her mothers
farm Is nearly two miles from the sta
ticn, and the only difference that the
weather makes in her journeyings TO and
fro is that when 1t storms she drives and
when it is fine she wheels.
During the winter she rematns in the
city, though she prefers her home life on
the farm
DEvoTEE OF SPORTS.
She 10 especially devoted TO horsehacS
riding, and owns . camera, with which she
snap shots materials for her magaxine.
onsSanla - she pinys the organ at the
Episcopal Church, near Fairfax Court
house, aud IN speaking Of her choir work
expressed TIE aame loyal friendhness fol
tts mem hers as she had previously done In
referring to her staff.
That 10 reaily the reason I gct asong
90 nicely" she explnised, with quains
simplicity that suggested the country maid
The morning times., 1896-08-16
S THERE are places undiscovered to
literature so there are people whose
oddities and peculiarities and vir-
tues seldom find their way between


- literature SO there are people whose
oddities and peculiarities and vir-
tues seldom find their way between
; book covers. Mastering the char
aciers from memory, it is not easy to dis
cover what phi ase of life, what eccentrcity
OF nature, what genus of man, has escaped
the deiineator. But there is one wellde-
fined class OF men, picturesque and orr ginal
constitut,onaiiy, aud distinctly American,
which. until recently fctionized, has re-
mained a stranger to literature. 1t is our
numerous and ainiabe brotherhood OF COM
merciai traveller. He is typical OF a large
heart; he spends money with picturesque
sans souci; he lis Glib as tale-telier of
Canterbury, not more veracloas than Num-
chausen, but admirable in all the liberty lie
takes with conventionaiity.
The comedy of the character was appro-
priated to the stage in the successful play
of ..San,I o. Posen," hut that was more
a racial burlesque than type photo
graph. Alwyn II. Thurber introduces the
commercial traveller to fiction In the per-
son of the hero of his recent story. "Quaint
Crippen,'' published by McClurg. The
character is drawn with appreciativc
fidelty against a story background which
carries the interest along in an engaging
manner. It is n delightful book with
many excellencies aside from the attractive
originality of its pivotal character.
The morning times., 1896-08-16

HE great problem of the age Is
woman. The unsophisticated may
sayi is finance, the hungry may say
it is bread, but we know they are
mistaken; that there is only one
Consuming unavoidable enigma which we
are peering- into with the lights which the
end of the century gives US, aud it is woman
She Is in process Of Il grand tour of einanc-
patton, evolveinent, progression, or, as some
cynics insist upon asserting, OF retrogress-
ion. She is evasive at this Moment as Min
now in Il pail Of water. And she inter
ests US so. The strolling orator need only
announce woman as his text and he has
an audiencc. 1t was either an exception
ally fortUitous chance or penetrative shrewd-
ness that induced Roy Devereux to rnfurl
her banner rs the student and apostle Of
woman. Curiosity wins her mankind's
attention; gratitude commands wonian's de-
votinn; SO she is safe. Aside from the
policy OF her work she has given subtle
study of woinankind, her ma ture and environ
ment in the recently published ascent of
Wornan.' II is from the press of Roherts
Brothers.
She opens her book with critical
introduction ON her sex closing with these
significant words: The prize as well as
the penalty of womaukind still awaits
her who has the heart OF a lion and the
hand of lily. For that which is strong
and fair, and is OF the sex of its mother.
may yet be mistress of the world, sister
to the sun, aud free forever With the free.
dom that Is tod1y not SO very far off,"
Some OF the titles of the main subdi-
visions OF this book-"Her Life aud Her
Looks"-may give an insi ght into its
character. These are" The Value OF Love-"
'Tbe Practice of Marriage 1.-THE Mater
nal Instinct" The Feminine Potential"
"The Significance of style,' Color In
Costume" and The Progress OF Fashion,"
The writer is occasionally superficial, but
always entertainingiy SO, with delightful
femininity. More often she exposes her
intelligent and subtle thought on the
topics she has elected of treatment. The
Ascent OF Woman" Is distinctly au acquisl-
ton to the literature OF the enigma