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TIA de mi alma, no serfa diRno nj eeneroso
" estoy resusla q no consentirlo.
LA verdad es que tsnisndo que hab9rse-
LAS con OarvsJau, harfa ell pobre mucharho
an triste papel. / All 81 yo tuviese uua
varita de virtudes, para que IN genio, pe-o
mn genio serio, practico, no como Ell de tu
padre, nos ayudase, con que placer le pom
ARIA erfrente de ese demontre de alcalde!
Mi gusto serfa devolveF ese brib6n todo ell
llafio one nos hizo, herirle con sus propias
rmas, para, luego que Q yiese yencido.
peirme de el No tsbes t6 10 que yo harfs
por conseguir esto
La TIA Isabel movie Ia cabexa con violen-
ala, did un paseo por Ia habitaci6n, sen
fAndose enfrente de su sobrina, dijo:
-IPor que tn hermano no habia de ser
tim fnteligente como vigoroso de cuerpoG
81 le Correspondia hscer freute IA situa-
ei6n; pero no entiende de negocios; le pasa
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La democracia. (Ponce, P.R.) 1890-1948, 1896-01-25
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Boy will not bring shudder in anticlpa-
ton OF the experiences which ''The Golden
Age" reveals. However droll are the
creations of Mark Twain and the happily
forgotten Peck there is fortnight and
brutal coarseness in them that your gentle
-Englishman avoids as he would
leprosy. In all the mischievous pranks Of
these English boys of whom Grahame
writes there is that sound and clean at
mosphere which the better classes of
Great Britain breathe from their infancy.
And that goes to the root of many things,
which we need not pry into here, but
which mean mucn to the student. No
American is as good as an Englishman if
he prefers what is bad in American litera-
ture to what is good in English; and for
the education of American readers it is
well that every possible encouragement be
given to the American interests of British
writers.
One of the chapters is entitled "Alarums
and Excursions" The author and his
brother Harold had just agreed to play
that they were Cavaliers and Roundheads
respectively. But spirit OF unrest per-
turbed Kenneth. Instead" he exclaims
in recounting the incident, ''of active
'pretense' with its shouts and perspira-
ton, how much better-I held-to lie at
and golden fencies, slipping the husk and
passing, careless lounger, through a
sleepy imaginary world OF gold and
greenl" Presently the combat began.
Then once more in this countrys story the
mail-clad knights paced through the green
wood shaw, Questing adventure, redressing
wrong; and bandits, five to one, broke and
fed discounted to their caves. Once again
were damsels rescued. dragons disem weied,
and giants, in every corner of the orchard, de-
prived of their already superfuous number OF
heads; while Palalnides the Saraeen waited for
us by the we'll, and Sir Breuse Pite vanished in
craven flight before the skilled spear that was
his terror and his bane. Once more the lists
were digit in camelot. and all was gay with
simmer of silk and gold; the earth shook
with thunder of horses, ash-staves flew in
splinters, and the armament rang IN the
clash of sword OH helm.
While the battle was thus raging it hap.
pened that troop of cavalry came past
along the highway. The boys had never
seen sight SO wonderful and inspiring
'Down the road they came, two and two
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no respect, but only certain blend of envy
of their good luck-and plty-for their in
ability to make use of it. Indeed, 1t one
OF the most hopeless features in their charac-
ter (when we troubled ourselves to waste a
thought upon them, which wasn't often) that,
having absolute license to indulge in the
pleasures of life. they could get no good OF IL.
They might dsbb,e in the pond all day, hunt
the chickens, climb trees in the most uncom-
promising Sunday clothes; they were free TO
issue forth and buy gunpowder in the full eye
of the sun-free to fire cannons and explode
mines on the lawn; yet they never did any one
of these things. No Irresistible energy hailed
there regularly of their own accord, though
they betrayed no greater delight IN the eX-
perience than ourselves.
On the whole the existence OF these
terests, even as their movements were confined
and slow, and their habits stereotyped
and senseless. To anything but appearances
they were blind. For them the orchard 70
place elf-haunted, wonderfully simply pro-
duced so many apples or cherries; or 1t didn' =,
when the failures of nature were not 1nire-
quently ascribed 10 u.s.. They never set ioot
within irwood or hazel copse, nor dreamt OF
the marvels hid therein. The mysterious
sourees-sources as OF old Nile-that fed the
ouckpond had no magic for them. They were
unaware OF Indians, nor recked they anything
vi vi plsons or of pirates with pistolsD, though
me me whole place swarmed with such portelts.
e! cared not about exploring for roppers
IVES W nor digging for hidden treasure.
wen! The 0lympians are all past and gone.
So;neenow the sun does not seem 10 shine SO
ia ~ * MY as 1t used; the trackless meadows OF
faSr sline se nave shrunk and dwindled away to
nc,dpn poor acres. A saddening doubt, dull sus.
resrtoin,r roH ,Ereeps over me. Et in Arcadia ego-I
no Ay .ay ala once inhabit Arcadia. Can 1T
W. nave become an Olympian?
roasd nave made this long extract for two
seboias one can be guessed by any
This a.; Dut VIII be mentioned later in
20 o9is review; the other is for che purpose
Va giving key TO the boolx
ver y IJped J.oped that memories of Tom Saw
'S'' aucAleperry Finn and Peck's Bad
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The months instaliment of Professor
Sioane's ''Life of Napoleon" treats of the
meeting of Napoleon, Alexander 1 of
Russia, Frederick William III and Queen
Louisa of Prussia at Tilsit. The illustra-
tons are particularly noJable. Mrs.
Warts novel, 'Sir George Tressady."
gives pathetic glimpse OF life in an Eng
lish mining town.
Harper's Magazine opens with an at
tractive article on Baltimore by Stephen
Bonsal, one of the best known of that
city's younger sons. Caspar w. Whit
ney's description of his notable journey
to the Barren Grounds of British North
America grows more interesting as it ad-
yances. Theodore Roosevelt furnishes
vivid account OF General st. Clair's ill-
starred expedition against the Miami
Indians century ago. The illustrations
are furnished by zcgbaum. Poultney
Blgelow's history of 1.-THE German Strug
gle for Liberty" reaches the period of the
popular uprising which led to the over
throw OF Napoleon, in spite of the inca
pacity and cowardice of Frederick Will
liam III. There are two fine poems,
"Pestum, a sonnet, by John Hay, embel-
lished with some very effective decorations
by III. Siddons Mowbray, and ''The Ac-
acknowledgement" by Miss Quincy, subtle
and mystical expression of content even
with life's universal tragedy.
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HIS PERPETUAL ADoRATIoN.

Under this somewhat mystifying title ].
f. Flint has written wholesome and in
teresting picture OF soldier life during the
last war in this country. The hero. Rob-
ert Armstrong, not only fights his coun-
try's battles at the head of his regiment,
but wages the warfare that goes on under
the skim" and in this. too, comes out vic
tor. OF the materials afforded by this dual
warfare the author gives us a readable
narrative. which is, however, somewhat
maried by his own attitude toward it.
'Why," he asks in his preface, 'sshould
vice eclipse virtue in latter-day art and
literature?" The only apparent an
swer to this question is that it does
not. There is, unquestionabIy, much
that is weak and vicious and pernicious in
modern literature, but there is, on the
whole, much more that is wholesome and
true, that makes for literary and artistic
righteousness, and Mr.. Flint's naive as
sumption, that in putting forth simple,
straightforward story of a mans battle
with and victory over the forces of evil
within himself he has given the world
something unique, Is as untrue as it is ab-
surd. 1t is an assumption which materi-
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at an easy walk; scarlet famed in the eye,
bits llngled and saddles squeaked delight
fully, while the men, in a halo OF dust,
SMOKED their short clays like the heroes
they were. In swirl of intoxicating
glory the troop clinked and clattered by,
while we shouted and waved, jumping up
and down, and the big, jolly horsemen
acknowledged the salute with easy conde-
scenslon." OF course the boys, their
hearts already atiame with the spirit OF
war, imagined at once that a battle was
imminent. Kenneth loftlly informed his
brother that such must be the fact. "Per-
hapS, he informs the reader, 81 ought to
have known better; and yet. The pigs
and poultry, with whom we chiefly con-
sorted, could instruct Us little concerning
the peace that in these latter DAYS Tapped
this seagirt realm. In the schoolroom we
were just now dallying with the Wars OF
the Roses; and did not legends of the
countryside inform US how cavaliers had
once galloped up and down these very
lanes from their quarters in the viliage?''
The boys, shifting the joy of battle, put out
after the troop.
They followed the soldiers for a time,
grieyously disappointed and immeasur-
ably surprised to observe that they passed
through the village without resistance;
and finally, when the lads attem pied to
make short cut and head off the troop at
point where they knew battle must be
surely fought, they became hopelessly
lost, and their wretchedness sand desola-
ton were complicated with gathering
darkness and a cold, drizzling rain.
Luckily their family doctor happened
along in his carriage and took them in.
"If ever god emerged. from machine it
was when this heayen-sent friend, recog-
nizing us, stopped and jumped out with a
CHEEKY hail" When the situation had
been explained to him he looked grave,
twisted his face this way and that, and
said: "Well. the fact is there isn't going
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a CLAIMING ENGLISH nooK.

n n these days OF diseased and morbid
fiction it is exceedingly pleasant TO
discover here and there writer whose
N morals are sound and who is blessed
with a wholesome instinct of the pen
1t has been a year since "The Golden
Age" by Kenneth Grahame, was pub
hshed in this country, and so far as n
limited inquiry has informed me it has
never become popular in this country
a fact not to be wondered at when we con-
slider the fine art with which the book has
been constructed.
1t is written by man who while he
writes occupies boys point of view, and
it perfectly achieves its purpose in present
ing the stupidity of grown-ups and the
fantastic imagery as we'll as the sordid
real life of healthy children. The chap
ters constitute a series of pictures and
happenings of childhood, and while the
surface is surprisingly delightful we can
easily see beneath it into still depths
where the sadder and harder lessons and
errors of life are read. The author calls
the grown-up folk of his boyhood environ
ment "Olympians." and his prologue has
this to say OF them:
Looking back to those old DAYS, ere the gate
shut to behind me, can see now that TO chill
oren with proper equipment of parents these
things would have worn a different aspect
But TO those whose nearest were uncles and
aunts special attitude of mind may be al
lowed They treated US, indeed, with kindness
enough as 10 the needs of the heSh but after
that with indifference ian Indifference, as /
recognize the result of certain stupidityl
ana herewith the commonplace conviction
that your child is merely animal. At very
early age remember realizing in quite i'm
personal and kindly way the existence of that
stupidity and its tremendous influence in the
world, while there grew up in me, as in the
parallel case OF CalibRn upon Setebos vague
sense OF ruling power, willful and freakish
and prone 10 the practice of vagaTies-si usi
choosing So" as, for instance, the giving OF
authority over US to these hopeless
and incapable cres lures, when 1t might
lar more reasonably have been given
TO ourselves over them. These elders
our betters by trick OF chance, commanded
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his affiiction at her death shortly before the
time appointed for their marriage.
The Lee family of Virginia is the subject
of a series of profuseiy illustrated articles
which will constitute a leading feature in
Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly during
the current year. The February number
contains the initial article OF the series,
entitled "The Ancestors of General Robert
E. Lee, and the Times in which They
Lived" written by Mrs. Roger A. Pryor,
embodying many rare portraits, coats-of-
arms, etc. This same February number
illustrated articles upon "a Roman
Festa," by Theodore Tracy; Sardinia, ="
by Charles Edwardes; "The Social Settle
ment in America by Rufus R. Wilson;
"West Polnt," by Carl j. Becker; cart
Students in Paris; and stories, sketches
and poems by Howard Paul, George Edgar
Montgomery. DR.. J. 81. Porter, ]. f. Sulli-
van, Ella Rodman Church, Lena L. Pep
per and other popular contributors.
The complete novel in the February issue
OF Lippincott's is "Ground-swells," by Mrs.
Jeannette H. Walworth. 1t is readable,
lively, and 'up-to-date" tale. DR.. Harvey
b. Bashore gives an interesting epitome of
the furthest researches OF geology in a
rapid sketch of "The First Days of the
Greece are described by Charles Robin
Men Drink .sThe Child and His Fic-
tions" is a pleasant paper by Elizabeth
Ferguson Seat. Frederic NJ. Bird points
out certain "Paralyzers of Style;" some of
which are intended to have precisely op-
posite effect, while some are the result of
mere carelessness. The poetry of the num-
Der IS by joseph Wharton, Charles G. D.
Roberts and Clinton Scollard.
Among the articles of special interest in
the Century is oneon Pope Leo XIII and
His Household" by Marion Crawford, a
Pope, accompanied by portraits and pic
lures from photographs of the Pope S
private apartments taken for this article
and not elsewhere accessible. Henry NJ.
Stanley retells ''The story of the Develop
menJ of Africa" Captain Alfred T.
Mahan, the distinguished naval critic,
contributes the first of several papers on
Nelson's naval victories, dealing with
"Nelsen at Cape st. Vincent" which is
illustrated with portraits and diagrams.
A paper written before the Presidents
Venezuelan message, but dealing with the
present situation, is 'The Palmerston
Ideal in Diplomacy" by Edward Mortimer
Chapman. A picturesque paper on Ser
land" is contributed by DR.. J. w. Palmer
(himself Marylander). 1t includes por-
traits and pictures by Sir Joshua Reynolds,
Sir Peter Lely, Charles Wilson Peale, Rem
brandt Peale, Sully and others. An illus
trated paper on Puvls de Chavannes
president of the Salon of the Champ-de-
Mars, derives additional interest from the
fact that his decorations for the Boston
Library have recently been put in position.
The article is fully illustrated with pic
lures and details of pictures by the artist.
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is dedicated to Henry Norman, the Eng
lish correspondent who created world wide
comment by defending the American side
of the Venezuelan controversy in a leading
British journal. The book also contains
that now famous sonnet, ''The Turk in
Armenia" in which Watson impeaches
England's inaction while it witnessed the
horrible atrocities of the Turks. 'The
Tomb of Burns is brave tribute to the
favorite Caledonian bard. Here is an ex-
ample of the stanZas to natures poet:
With shatterihg ire or whitening mirth,
He snote each worthless claim TO worth.
The barren fig tree cumbering earth
He would not spare
Through ancient lies of ofproudest birth
He drove his share.
Watson has soft place in his heart for
Americans, and it is quite possible that
his poetry may be more widely admired in
this country than in the land whose rul-
ing power made the poet more popular by
its frown. [For sale by William Doxey !;
prica 81 Ok
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THE FATHER OF THE FOREST.

A superb little bouquet of fresh verse by
William Watson, whose democratic indie
pen6ence and spirit are said to have lost
him the poet laureateship OF England, has
just been issued by Stone & Kimball OF
Chicago. "The Father of the Forest" the
longest poem of the collection. is an ad-
dress to an old yew tree, which is besought
to answer such queries as these:
Old Emperor Yew, fantastic sire,
Girt with thy guard of dolard kings,
What ages hast thou seen retire
Into the dust of alien things
What mighty news hath siormed thy shade,
Of armies perished, realms unmade
The poet pictures the thrilling events
and historical epochs which have marked
the centuries of the old yew's existence
from the Roman invasion, and then fan
cies the tree TO murmur, as if in response
to the questions of his thoughts:
Who prates to me of arms and kings.
Here in this court of old repose
Thy babble Is of transient things,
Broils. and the dust Of foolish blows.
Thy sounding annals are at best
The witness of q worlds unrest.
Finally the yew, with welcoming eye,
sees approaching that mlllennial condition,
wherein Earth
Wise from all the foolish past,
Shall peradyenture hail at last
The advent of that morn divine
When nations may as forests grow,
Wherein the oak hates not the pine,
Nor beeches wish the cedars woe;
But all in their unlikeness, blend
Confederate to one golden end
Beauty: the vision whereunto
In Joy, with paintings from afar,
Through sound and order, form and hue,
And mud and clay, and worm and star
Now touching goal, now backward hurled,
Tolls the indomitable world.
Watson's verse is nearly all character.
lied by strength and richness. He breathes
truth without fear or favor, and crowned
heads do not escape their just deserts
wh-n he deals with history, past or pres.
ent. One OF the poems of the new volume
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ally weakens the moral force and artistic
value of his work. Boston: The Arena
A DAUGHTER OF HUMANITY.

This is story by Edgar Maurice Smith
dealing with certain phases of the intro
duction OF women into mercantile life.
The heart of the author has evidently been
deeply moved by the struggles of young
women to earn an honest livelihood in our
great cities, and some elements of this
struggle he has woven into a narrative,
which he ded:cates to every pure woman
struggling TO gain an honest livelihood"
That the book is an entirely serious study
of a very painful side of life must be con-
ceded, but it is not study that, from the
standpoint either of art or utility, should
have been made in the form of fiotion
Judged by literary standards the work is
sufficiently poor to be irritating, circum-
stance which must interfere with it's use-
fulness. This is pity. for the world needs
much of the information Mr.. Smith has
gathered and might make use of it were il
presented in more legitimate form. [Bos-
ton, Mass: The Arena Publishing Com
pany. Price ST. 25.
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best work. It is published by Laird &
Lee of Chicago. Price, 81.
eTHE PURPLE cow,

II the author of the "Purple Cow" had
only known what the English Premier ex-
pected of laureate he might have secured
the position. For the benefit of readers who
are not familiar with that remarkable pro-
ductlon, we append it. submitting the
opinion that it is quite as forcible as
"Jamesons Ridep:
never saw purple cow,
l never hope to see one
But can tell you, anyhow
I'd rather see than be one.
Pioneer Press.
The remarkable production" which
the Press quotes appeared first in The
Lark. clever little periodical started
about year ago in San francisco, and soon
stopped because the people took it seri-
ously!]
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NEW KINDERGARTEN WORK.

a new volume of the International Edu-
cational Series, containing ''The Songs and
Music of Friedrich Froebel's Mother
Play" has been published by D. Appleton
& Co., New York. The book will be in
valuable to kindergartens. The songs have
been newly translated and furnished with
new music prepared and arranged by
Susan E. Blow, who says in the preface
'The poems in this volume are not literal
translations of those in the original
Mother Play, but attempts to cast Froe-
bells ideas into truly poetic FORM A few
songs have been added in order to develop
the thoughts suggested in some of the
more important plays, and series of
Wandering Games has been given to illus
trate Froebel's method of genetic evolution.
Since most of the melodies in the original
Mother Play have been condemned by
competent critics, new music is given in
this volume This music consists in part
of melodies written by composers of ac-
knowledged merit and in part of selections
from folk songs. A few of the best melo-
dies in the original Mother Play have been
retained. and, finally, some of the music of
Karl Reineke has been used" The illus
trations are reproductions from the we'll
executed cuts of the Wichard Lange edi-
ton, long since out of print and now very
difficult to procure. The volume is edited
by w. L. Harris, LID. For sale by Will
liam Doxey. Cloth covers, ST. So