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DARTMooR.

Maurice II. Hervey, in his new book,
"Dartmoor," has given US a sensational
story of love and crime wherein the pu-
gilistic training of the hero ultimately and
Unexpectedly serves him in most excel
lent stead. Morley Griffin is that hero,
impulsive and somewhat highty at the
start. He has a rival in love in the per-
son of Hugh Darrell, who poses as Nor
ley's friend and helper. Darrell and q
Jewish mohey-changer conspire to ruin
Griffin. The latter loses the bulk of his
fortune in horse-racing, and, being of
splendid, muscular build, he resolves to
train and make an effort to win back lost
riches in the fistic arena. He is already in
first-class trim when the plot against him
succeeds, and be is sent to prison for a
crime of which he is innocent. He es-
capes from prison along with a desperate
convict, who attempts the life OF q
beautiful girl in the house that has
yielded shelter TO the fugitives Grifin's
iron muscles here save the girl, for whose
sake he is compelled to strangle the
desperate. The papers applaud Griffin's
act. and a pardon is the result. The con-
spirators meet With dire and Just punish
ment, and Griffin winds up by marrying
the girl he rescued and, OF course, ''living
happily forever after" The moral is that
evil ofttimes turns to good, and that Bit
terest trials may be the prelude to endur-
ing happiness. New York and London
Frederick A. Stokes Company. For sale
by the book department of the mporium /:
price 75 cents.
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anecdote) as father, friend and neighbor,
on his return To the practice of law at
Springfield after serving a term in Con-
gress OF quite extraordinary interest is a
series of portraits of Mark Twain-fifteen
of them. covering period OF thirty years,
and almost putting circle round the globe
in the variety of localities in which they
were taken.
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps provides some
very entertaining "reminiscences of James
T. Fields, her publisher, and OF Harriet
Beecher Stowe, her intimate friend and at
one time neighbor in Andover. Will II.
Low writes Geographically and critically of
the picturesque group of English painters
known as the -Raphaelites, and his
paper is illustrated with reproductions of
the best pictures of Rossetti, Holman
Hunt, Burne-Jones and others.
FRANK LEsLIE's.
In the June number OF Frank Leslie's
Popular Monthly is paper by Colonel
John J. Garnett of the Confederate States
artillery on The Seven Days Campaign
Near Richmond" which describes the sec
ond battle of Manassas, the first invasion
of MARYLAND and the battle Of Antietam.
The article is handsomely illustrated with
battle scenes and portraits of General Lee,
Stonewall Jackson, General Johnston and
others. Then there is an interesting arti-
Gle about Sarah Bernhardt, ''The Genius of
Tragedy" by w. de Wagstaffe. with num-
Der OF portraits of the great actress in
her various characters. Then there is
description of The Ladies of the Harem,"
telling OF their life, amusements. ETC., and
beautifully pictured. Other features are:
An account of visit to Dalmatia, by
Robert Howard Russell; "In the Grand
Canyon of the Colorado" by Edith Ses-
sions Tupper; "In the Land OF St. Fran
cis." by Marie D. Walsh; an entertaining
article on pistols and their early history
and use, by John Paul Bocock and the
first installment OF new department for
young people, containing a serial story by
Horatio Alger Jr., and a short bicycle
story by Henry Z. Haydock. Besides this
there are some excellent stories and
poems.
scRIBNER's.
Henry Norman contributes an interest
ing article to Scribner's Magazine, I'm the
Balkans, the Chessboard of Europe" A
few months ago Mr.. Norman made visit
to this region, and this article is the
first presentation of the impressions
then gathered of Roumania, Servia,
Bosnia, Herzegovina, Bulgaria and
Montenegro Tie crisis brought about
by the Armenian question is of course in
timately related to affairs in the Balkans,
and Mr. Norman's article is a clear
presentation of the exact situation of
the whole Eastern question as 1t appears at
the present moment to trained observer.
The second and concluding paper by Mrs.
Isobel Strong, giving "reminiscences OF
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A RoGUE's DAUGHTER.

Adeline Sergeant is the author OF this
new novel. the heroine is Della Vansit-
tart, whose father, as secretary of the Ori-
noco Mining Com pany, EN- bezzles funds as
a result of his craze for gam bling, and fees
the country. His son and daughter suffer
ON account of his m1sdeeds. His son is
employed by a wealthy bachelor named
Cyprian Harcourt, but young Vansittart's
wife commits crime, for which her hus-
band loses his position and iscoihmitted
to prison. Then Della assumes another
name, and Harcourt falls in love with her
and marries- her. Deiia's father returns in
disguise to England, where he suicides
when re finds the bloodhounds of the law
closing in on him. Della then dis
closes her real identity to Harcourt,
who is shocked to think that he mas been
tricked by Julius Vansittart's daughter.
He thinks they must go through life. with
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A NEW NOTE.

This novel. by Ella MacMahon, the
author of ga Modern Man" and "a Pitiful
Passion" has been making great stir in
London literary circles. 1t is a novel
which attempts to depict the better side of
English social life, and we are bound to
admit that the writer has succeeded ad-
mirabiy.
The heroine of this striking book is that
essentially end of-the-century product, a
"new woman" Around her the author
has built story of uncommon breadth
and possessing high literary quality. The
authoress has displayed her characters,
mere puppets in unframed hands, and has
made of them living and speaking photo
graphs-if such q thing were possible.
There is in "a New Note" vast amount
of brisk and clever writing, which shows
off TO great advantage certain cynically
philosophical passages. The dialogue por-
lion of the book is excellent. New York:
r. J. Fenno & Co., I12 Fifth avenue. For
sale at the book department of The EN-
Dorium: price 81 25.
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And when I'm in the dsncinghan no maiden seeks
the stair.
I've genius for Irritation; there are twinkles in my
eye
you're very shy;
And told one evening, promenading in the
park
My gIances were so swapping you could see 'em
in the dark
I two-step 'iust divinely"-youT II observe merely
quote;
And when 1 sing a college song, or strike banjo
note,
My hearers grow ecstatic-these are facts. not
Dragging vain
And ask If old Apollo is not back on earth again.
In conversation, must say, you'll rarely find q
To talk as entertainingly as people say can;
And in a match at badinage. chatting erudite,
The hippant and the learned all agree l'm out of
sight.
But am poor-oh, very poor-as poor one can
Jobs turkey was a Croesus in comparison with me /:
And that is why write these lines, nov summers
coming
To ask if you'll subscribe for me for periods an on
For fifty dollars weekly and expenses will so
And make barren mountain house mansion
full OF glow.
The summer girls who throng the hills, who crowd
the sounding sea,
Can possibly make no mistake If they'll subscribe
for me.
I'll dance with you, III walk with you I'll sit
upon the stair:
rlI dash on lovely verses to your dimples and your
hair;
rn Hlrt with you; TIL bait your hooks when you
perchance would fish;
In fact I'll be fine beau as any one could WISH
So hurry, summer maidens haste aud get your
offers in,
If you lovely cavalier for August next would
win;
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vorce from Josephine, his marriage with
Maria Louisa and the birth OF his son, the
King of Rome. An artist that will attract
the especial attention of all interested in
art Is Sargent and His Painting" by
william A. Coffin. II contains nine pic
lures by John S. Sargent and sketch por-
traits by Carroll Beckwlth and Au-
gustus St. Gaudens. Eliza beth Robin
Pennell contributes a fine bit of de-
scriptive writing, Lights and Shadows
of the Alham bra," which is illustrated
by Joseph Pennell. There is a timely
paper entitled "Humor and Pathos Of
Presidential Conventions" oy Joseph B.
Bishop. These are only few of the good
things to be found in the Century.
HARPERs.
Harger's Magazine for June is an excep-
tionally good number. Special features
are: GA Visit to Athens" by Bishop
William CroswelI Doane; Queen Lukeria
Lynch; "The Greatest Painter of Modern
Germany" by Charles -Waldstein /;
Through Inland Waters illustrated by
the author), by Howard Pyle; THE Qua
naniche and Its Canadian Environ
ment" GlIustrated), by E. T. d. Cham
bers; "The German Struggle for Liberty, -
XII Gllustrated), by Poultney Bigelow;
cussion of the germ theory of disease, by
Andrew Wilson. The fiction of the num-
her includes the first part of "a Rebellious
Heroine humorous tale, by John Ken
drick Bangs; "Evelina' S Garden" by Mary
Z. Wilkins, a romance of considerable
length, with New England background; !;
IA Wall-Street Wooing," New York love
story, by Brander Matthews, and THE
Thanks of the Municipality, study of
metropolitan life and politics, by James
Barnes. The poems of the number in
ciude "The Sea" by James Herbert Morse
'Preterita" by Madison Cawein and Lip
Service by Louise Belts Edwards.
M'cLURE's.
The June number of McClure's Maga-
zine is an excellent one. Perhaps the
most notable article is little battle study
by Stephen Crane that, In its way, is more
dramatic and striking than even sThe
Red Badge of Courage" the novel by Mr..
Crane which is now attracting so much
attention both in America and England.
1t shows, Enthusiastically, the hand of
genius. Another bit of distinguished fc-
ton is Rudyard Kipling's Elm the Rukh"-
one of Kipling's earlier stories, but also
one of his best, relating how that ever
entertaining orphan of the jungle, Mowgli,
made acquaintance with white men and
became a lover. Then there is Cy War
mans marvellous true tale of s'The Loco
motive That Lost Herself" and an INSTALL
ment of Anthony Hopes "Phroso' fairly
bursting with love and adventure. The
Lincoln paper in this number exhibits
Lincoln (mainly by new reminiscence and
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THE UNCLAssED.

Well worth the reading is this new novel
py that clever English author, George
Gissing. The hero is literary man who
undergoes a world of experience in love
affairs and narrowly escapes the snare of a
siren. but is preserved by providential
turn to make happy the long -misrepre-
sented heroine. There are many charac-
ters in the book, and the interest is well
susta ined. Here is one of the interesting
paragraphs concerning subject on which
nearly everybody at one time or another
has philosophical. The hero is the
speaker:
What is a fellow to do to get money? I'm
growing sick of this hand-to-mouth existence.
Now If one had bare competency, what glorl-
GUS possibilities would open out. The vulgar
saving has il that time is money; like most
vulgar sayings putting the thing Just the
wrong way about money is time, prefer to
say: it means leisure and all that folIowS-
Why don't you write poem on money, CAST?
] almost feel capable of it myself. What can
claim precedence, III all this world, over hard
cash? II is the fruitful soil wherein is nour-
is he'd the fruit of the Tree OF life IL is the ver
fying principle of human activity Upon II
luxuriate arr, letters, science; rob them OF It's
sustance and they dToop like Withering leaves.
Money means virtue; the lack of IL is vice.
The devil loves no lurking place ike an
empty purse. Give me thousand pounds
Tomorrow, and i become the most vlr-
tuous man in England. ] satisfy all my
instincts freely, openly, with no petty
makeshifts and vile hypocrisies. To scorn and
reyile wealth is the mere resource OF splenetic
poverty What cannot be purchased with
coin OF the realm? First and foremost, free
doml The moneyed man is the sole kings the
herds of the penniless are but as slaves before
his footstool. He brea thes with sense OF pro-
pr1etorship in the whole Rlobe-enveloping at
mosphcre. for is it not in his power to 1phale
ii wheresoeyer he plcases? He puts his hand
in his pocket and bids with security for every
10y of body ard mind; even death he faces
defeat will only coincide with that of human
science He buys culture, he buys peace OF
mind, he buys love. You think notg don't
earnest Make me 8 millionaire and VIII
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A BRIDE FROM THE DESERT.

The volume of (which this is the title
story contains three of Grant Aliens
charming tales, "a Bride From the Des-
ert," "Dr. Greatrex's Engagement" and
"The Backslider." They are just the
thing for summer reading, and couple of
hours could hardly be passed more pleas
urapIy than in their perusal. In the first
named story Private Moyle's exploit in
saving from an awful fate on the African
desert = party of English ladies, rouses
sucn enthusiasm ana admiration in
England that the boy is enabled to
redeem himself from past mistakes, Sc
cures promotion from the ranks and wins
for his wife one of the ladies whom he had
borne from the gates of death to home and
friends. New York: r. F. Fenno e. Co.,
publishers. For sale by the book depart
ment OF The Emporium; price so cents
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THE SCIENCE OF MONEY.

While this is by no means new book
(the first edition having been published in
1880, it possesses considerable value to
students of economics at this date. Its
author is Alexander del Mar, who was
formerly director of the Bureau of Sta
iistics, and the Mining Commissioner to
the United States Monetary Commission
of 1876. He has written several other no.
table works treating OF financial matters
notably history of the precious metals
and one dealing with monetary systems
in various States.
An extract from the preface to the Sec
ond edition shows the scope of the present
work, at the same time stating truism.
THE practical world, says Mr.. del Mar,
wants a working theory or explanation
of money as it now stands in law and fact:
a theory which explains precisely what
money does, and precisely how it does it.
Those who place their trust to a great ex-
tent upon precedent are dismissed in these
effective words: Practical science knows
nothing about first causes The remote
origins OF customs may with advantage be
/ lett to the researches of antiquarians."
| Mr.. del Mar goes very eXhaustively into
the origin OF present monetary systems,
! tracing them from the first transactions of
| exchange and barter. He shows that price
must be defined as the expression of value
in money-the precise expression, but this
! it cannot be unless the whole sum of
money is limited and known. He further
indicates those fluctuations of price which
do not belong to the domain of science and
| those which do.
The whole work is, as we have said, of
real value to students of economics. 1t
! forms solid argument for the regulation
of money, Mr.. del Mar arriving at the con-
clusion that if it had been so regulated, in
stead of being left to commerce, chance
and political contention, the great panics
of 1851 1921, 1887, 1861, 1873 and 1893 might
have very successfully been averted.
New York: Macmillan e. Co. For sale
at the Emporium Book Department
! price 81 25.
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out love or faith or happiness. Della, how
behalf proves his innocence, secures his
pardon, and wins new admiration from
her husband. who cannot help but love
her in spite of himself. The brother S
wicked wife dies, and a happier marriage
is in store for young Vanslttart, and on
the occasion OF that marriage peace de-
scends on the domestic life of Harcourt
and Della. the former having discovered at
last that he possesses a jewel of life part
ner, even although she had often been de-
scribed as "a Rogue's Daughter" New
York and London: Frederick A. Stokes
Company. For sale by the book depart
mont of the Emporium; price 81.
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NEW EDITION OF THOMAS PAINE

The publication of new edition of
Thomas Paine's "Age of Reason" (Lon-
don: A. and 81. B. Bonner), like Mr.. Con-
ways interesting biography of Paine, is a
reminder not only of the great influence
exerted by Paine, but of the vast and
silent changes which have passed over
society since his time.
Most adult men now living can recollect
the name of Paine being mentioned with
bated breath, and the "Age of Reason"
being spoken of III much the same terms
that the late Lord Shaftesbury used re-
garding "Ecce Homo as 1.-The worst book
ever vomited out of the jaws of hell"
A good deal has happened since the
"Age OF Reason" was written in Paris
during the Reign OF Terror. Not only has
century passed, but mighty intellectual
revolution has been and is still proceeding
in mems s minds.
The Revolution itself emancipated men
from the superstitions of the old monar-
chial regime, when the person of the king
was looked on as sacred, and be
was. believed to be a special representative
OF GOD on earth. Republican government
has extended itself since then, and where
kings remain, as they still do in the
greater part of Western Europe, they
are regarded solely from the utilitarian
point of view as being useful means
of preventing undue difficulties about
the executive. But even greater than
the political changes which the
Revolution effected has been the intel
lectual change wrought by new discover
les. new concep tions of the order of nature
and new philosophic ideas embodied in
modern literature. We are, in short, liv-
ing in new world from that of our grand
fathers.
The mythical Paine of raw head and
bloody bones associations vanishes, and
we find instead a serious thinker who ad-
dresses himself to the real evils of his
country and his time with a suggestive-
ness and perspicacity rarely equaled in
the history of political literature. This
impression oeepens when we turn to the
age of Reason" How is it, we ask, that
! such a fury should have been reused by
| this book? We read page after page, and
we think we have heard our clerical
! friends even say something not very un-
| like what we here read.
! When we recall the writings of Colenso,
the sermons we have heard from univer-
sity puIpits, and such books as Essays
and Reviews" LUX Mundi' and whole
series OF theological works published here
and in America during the last twenty
years, we marvel al the horror which
| greeted the work which Carlyle's ''rebel-
! lious needleman" gave to the world a GEN.
tury ago.
But we must remember, saws the London
Chronicle, that Paine lived in the bad old
times of Farmer George" when all
the awful mysteries OF religion were
drawn out into formulas, were lit
eraliZed and devitalized, were robbed
of the spiritual and converted into hard
dogmas for the express purpose of propping
up corrupt system of politics and an i'm
! possible order of social life. 1t was the
period when, as Cowper put it, "the sym.
! bols of atoning grace were made ian
! Office-k KEY. q picklock to q place,
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JUNE MAGAZINES.

The second paper containing the "Im-
pressions OF South Africa" by James
Bryce, NJ. P, appears in the June mum ber
of the Century. This takes up the race
question at the bottom of most Of the COM
plications which have made that coun-
try the subject of international dis
pute, Mr.. Bryce describes the differ
ences between the Boer farmers and the
British Government of Cape Colony, that
led to the great trek of the former into the
Transvaal. In the same mum Der the life
of Napoleon" deals with Napoleon's di-
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HER HAPPINESS +.

Since that day, of which no word
From her lips is ever heard,
She has known that at her side
Sorrow evermore must oide,
Drink her cup and eat her bread,
Walk her paths and share her bed,
Be the last to say GOODNIGHT,
Greet her first at morning light,
Go with her through all her ways,
To the ending of her days.
This is hers at last; to know
Life has dealt its heaviest blow.
She has nothing more to dread;
All her bitterest tears are shed.
Pain has now no poisoned dart
That she fears may reach her heart;
Neither day nor night can bring
Any untried suffering.
IL is something. Just o rest
OF this dreary peace possessed;
Just TO slip the long control
OF her pride -encompassed soul,
And to let the days move on
In accepted monotone;
Not to more anticipate
This severest blow OF fate;
Not against its doom to pray,
Any more by night or day;
Not to fear its deadly blight,
Any more by day or night.
AS the storm-tossed mariner
Finds the desert island fair
After all the storms wild stress,
20 she. too, is almost glad.
Is there aught in life more sad:
What have been her strife and loss,
Her despair and pain and cross,
Who at last can almost bless
Such hopeless happinessl
CARLoTTA PERRY in June LIppincot t's.
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BOOK OF VERSE.

Poems" by Caroline and Alice Duer,
make up 6O-page volume, which is neat
ly printed. Some of the verses are decidedly
clever, ard few of the love songs espe-
cially are happy in their expressions of
tender feeling. Caroline and Alice Ger.
tainly have talent in the way of verse
writing. New York: George H. Rich
mond, publisher.
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THE RULES OF GOLF.

This little work is timely, seeing the
recent and rapid spread of the game of
golf all over the world. The rules fol-
lowed throughout are what are usually
known as the ST. Andrews rules. which
are usually conceded to be authoritative.
The gentlemen who have compiled the
work under review, Messrs. ]. Norman
Lockyer and w. Rutherford, have taken
considerable pains in the matter of notes.
For the sake OF clearness some definitions
nave been added, but these are marked
.'new," and in no wav change the mean
Ing OF the rules to which they are added.
Specimens of the early codes will be
found in the appendix New York: Mac
milan d Co. For sale at the Emporium
book depart ment; price rs cents.
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A SUMMER BARGAIN.

I'm young and very handsome. I have heard
maiden say
She thought me quite wonder in my own peculiar
way.
I'm what novelist would call person debonair
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PARTING.

MY life closed twice before its close;
1t yet remains TO see
II Immortality unveil
A third event TO me,
So huge, so hopeless to conceive
AS this that twice befell.
Parting is all we know Of heaven,
And all we need OF hell.
EMILY DICKINSON, in June Scribner's
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purchase the passionate devotion of any free
hearted woman the world contains.
While the reader may take exception to
the hero's utterances some times, vet
there is no getting around the fact that he
talks eloquently, and the further fact that
he often hits upon cold truth. New York
r. F. Fenno & Co. For sale by the book
department of the Emporium; price
81 25.
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LIFE AND LOVE.

Life and Love at the crossroads met,
Out for a holiday;
Cried Love, sweet Life, thy cares forget,
'Tis Love who bids thee stay,
Come, journey on wi tout regret,
Through summer hours AWAY"
rose-white blur against the SKY,
Crabapple blossoms blow;
The drifting swallows homeward fly
To April slopes aglow;
And Life and Love in laughter vie
As.on their way they go.
Pans pipes sigh n cath a crescent noon,
Like cobwebs float and stray;
Night moths seek the white fowe rs soon,
'Tis the daffodiI month of May;
And the pilgrims sing merry tune.
They comrades true for aye.
To June's rose-hidde en- portals led
Glad Love his comrade true
"Now we must part" was all Life said,
sand fare alone. for who
Finds Love and June and roses red,
Has lived his day-adieur'
nancy MANN WADDLE in June Ladies' Hom
Journal.
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SOME VERSES FROM THE CURRENT MAGAZINES.

For there are indications 'mongst some heiresse
know
To corner all the stock there is in this especial
beau.
-"Editor's Drawer of Harper's Magazine
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Do not fail to read Thomas slaters advertise.
ment on page 26 for men.