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The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1897-07-07
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DONE BY THE DUCHESS

NOR WIFE NOR MAID-By Mrs. Hungerford.
American Publishers Association, New York.
Paper so cents.
This is q reissue in paper cover OF what is
said 10 be one of the Duchess best novels.
Those who like this style OF literature will no
doubt find the story very entertaining, and
the Duchess style is widely known. The
Literary World OF Boston says: There is no
use snubbing the Duchess Her books sell
better than those OF many standard authors"
So she is evidently giving multitudes of peo-
pie what they want, and any one who pays at
tention to the new books that are being pub
lished can see that some readers must make
worse selections than those who delight in her
productions.
The woman, who was neither wife nor maid.
is good, sweet, beautiful-au things neces
sary for most fascinating heroine-and her
anomalous condition came about from her
supposed marriage with a man whom she
believed q wldower, and who had every rea-
son for believing himself one, but his wife had
only seemed 10 die. The climax OF the story
comes when this wife, who was neither loved
nor loyable, is about to die for the second
time, while Mary, the heroine, IS at the same
time about to become a mother. Then the
good husband finds himself franticaliy and
murderously wishing that the unloyed wife
might die in haste; he begrudges her even
five hours OF life. The sister of the heroine
says she is going to get down on her knees
and pray that the wife may die quickly, so
that Mary may be happy instead of sad in her
motherhood The situation in which the
Duchess has placed these people will be thrill
lngly interesting 10 some tastes and intensely
absurd to others. Every one to MS own
taste.b
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LOVE LOST, BUT GREATNESS
GAINED.

CHRISTIAN VELLACOTT-By Henry Seton
Merrman. American Publishers Corporation,
New York. Paper. Price, SO cents.
A thoroughly good story. OF a singularly
strong character, is this account OF the la
borious and well-tried life OF the journalist,
Christian Veliacott 1t records the double
strain put upon an am bilious young man by
managing great newspaper, and going every
night weary from his desk to the far more
wearying duties of an unhappy home. Once
he ventured to take vacation for a month
The relaxation from work was fatal TO half his
happiness for he meets at friends country
house the woman he is to love, but not to
marry. part of the story is graphic ac-
count of the communistic outbreak in Paris.
We are told that there can never be any real
peace for q man like Christian Vellacott, for
ambition had set its hold upon him. He
wanted to do more than there was time for.
Like many of us, he began by thinking that
life is longer than it is" Disappointment
never made him waver in his work, and at the
end of the story Vellacott's dear friend, the
Jesuit missionary, says to him: "And now
you are great man. they tell me. l thought
there was some one else-some woman-who
was waiting for news" There is no woman
who wants news of me-" said VeLacott, .and
the result is, as you kindly say, 1 am a great
man now-in my way"
Among the many true aud worth remem
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SENTENCED TO SIBERIA,

DARKEST HUSSIA-By II. Grattan DonnelIy,
Street & Smith, New York. Paper % cents
This is g story from the play of that name,
written by the same author. The book is
quite well written, contains q number OF
thrilling adventures and some descriptions OF
scenes "that make you see them" One OF
these is of the nihllist rendezvous, where, In
an underground chamber, some very exciting
scenes take place among the conspirators.
The Minister OF Police and the elaborate sys-
tenn of espionage of the Russian Government
are made vivid to our apprehension by this
account of their workings A pretty love story
adds to the interest OF the adventures, and in
the end the lovers are saved from the terrible
sentence to Siberia and they sail across the
Atlantic to seek happiness in freer land.
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FICTION ABOUT SCIENCE

FACING THE FLAG. BY Jules Verne E. Ten
nyson Neely New York. Paper, so cents,
In conformity with his custom, Jules Verne has
here told US a most incredible wonder tale, but
which is nevertheless based to some extent on
the truths OF science. Ii some Of the men who
have passed the age of thrae score years and
ten could by some hypnotic spell be made to
forget all that has happened in the last half
century, and then be given one of Jules
Verne's wild romances TO read, he would scarce
be able to pick out from the mingling of highly
imaginative fiction and marvellous facts in the
book which were the truths and which the
creations OF exuberant fancy. When Tenny-
son speaks OF ''nourishing a youth sublime
with the fairy tales OF science and the
thoughts that shake mankind" he no doubt
means that the achievements of modern
science read like the marvels of a fairy tale;
and in this story OF Jules Verne's the part
PLAYED by the submergible boat in which the
pirate chieftain dives through the deep sea to
the he art of q great grotto on one OF the Ber-
muda Islands, marvellous though it seems, is
based on one Of the fairy tales OF science
which are facts.
The story is about half-crazed inventor
who has a new explosive of such destructive
power that whatever nation becomes owner OF
it would be easy master of the world. He is
kidnapped by the pirate and carried off to the
pirete's lair in the heart of what the inhsbi-
tants of the island are made to believe is q
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more honorable. Under the power of he-edity
and parental admonition the youth does not
realize that he himself becomes snob in try
ing TO carry out TOO strenuously this maxim.
At school he assiduously cultivates the friend
ship of the delicate son of lord, and when he
is spending his holidays with this boy he con-
forms to the little lords custom of taking a
dose of nauseous codliyer oil every day to pro-
pitiate her ladyship, his mother. "Just fancy
trying to suck up to fellows people by taking
codliyer oil" was the contemptuous criticism
of one of his schoolmates. Following this bent
of early training Martin when grown to man
hood chooses for wife the daughter of
Countess, who proves far worse dose than
codliver oil once day. Out of this unhappy
marriage come the causes of the wreck OF the
moral reputation of the husband and the balk-
ing of his political and philanthropical ambi.
tiops, which he was close to the accomplish
ment of.
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FOR THE STUDIOUS.

CHRISTIANITY AND IDEALIsM-By John
Watson, LID. The Macmillan Company. New
York. Price 81 25. For sale by William
Doxey, Palace Hotel, City.
This is the second volume of the publications
of the Philosophical Union OF the University
OF California and IS a natural sequel to the
authors previous work, "Comte, Mil and
Spencer" which has been the basis of the
studies of the Philosophical Union during the
year 1895-IS96. The criticism of that book
was submitted TO counter criticism by the
members Of the union VINO were deepest
versed in the sciences discussed. This later
work Of DR.. WATSON is the completion OF his
part OF the discussion. 1t treats OF the Chris
uan ideals OF life in its relation to the Greek
and Jewish ideals and TO modern philosophy.
The author shows how Christianity was de-
veIoped out OF Judaism and Hellenism, and
how idealism rose out Of lower phiiosophies
such as empiricism, pOsitivism and agnos-
ticism. He exposes the onesidednes5 that
would recognize the negative thought OF the
age exclusively, but he does not dismiss this
thought as worthless. He would only keep it
in its proper relations to the more definite and
fruitful systems OF philosophical and reli-
gious thought. He regards belief in God, in
our responsible freedom, and in our immor-
tality, as necessary foundation OF civilized
society. He shows that the union OF morality
and religion cannot be severed without the
destruction OF both.
The whole history of man goes to prove
that no advance of the one has ever taken
place without going forward of the other.
BE says what is distinctive of Christianity is
not the union OF morality with religion, but
the mprehensiveness Of the principle upon
which that union is based. In conclusion we
are told that Christianity must free itself from
the narrow conception Of lie by which Protes-
tantism has tended to limit its principle, and
recognize that the ideal OF Christian manhood
embodies the Crock love of beauty, the Jewish
idesl OF righteousness, the Roman ideal of law
and order, and harmonizes all by the divine
spirit OF love TO GOO and man.
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ton in the Elusive, the mystical the
transcendental. But after all this is nothing
new. 1t IS as old as thought and has been ex-
pressed in countless ways. OF course we all
know that originality is only seeing freshly
and presenting freshly the same old subject;
but does not that imply presenting it clearly
and pOignantly? mere extravagsnt use Of
words viii not accomplish this AT the same
time. one at all in sympathy with Oriental
thought cannot read Noguchi's lines without
finding indications OF real poetic feeling and
occasional poetic expressions. And granted
this much one realizes how easy it would be to
read into all the verses deep meanings and
subtle beauties, and, like Nareissus, become
quite enraptuTed with our own reflection in
this stream OF words.
Let Us quote further from Mr.. Gosse: There
is one condition which distinguishes art from
mere amorphous expression; that condition is
the result OF a process through which the
vague and engaging observations OF Whitman
never passed he lay spread abroad in
a condition OF literary solution wait
ing for the structural change which never
came = for want OF a definite shape
and fxity doomed forever to sit apart from
the company of poets" If for Whitman"
we read NoguchI and apply these words rs in
deed they seem TO apply, to him, his admirers
might retort that we are bringing heavy bat
terry to bear upon an unarmed man, and that
tn young Japanese, with his imperfect
knowledge OF our English tongue, makes no
claim of art tor his verses or OF place for
himself in that magic realm" The answer
seems obvious that the author of a published
volume OF poems does put forth tacit claim
of consideration poet and that if he uses
the English language he should bide by the
laws OF that language-unless, indeed, he
would wish 10 regard mis- productions as
did that amiable reader whose sex inclined her
to kindness, and who after puzzHng through
half dozen of the 'monologues," J." remarked:
well, no doubt he writes much better poetry
in English than we could IN Japanese"
This much surely the most exacdng critic
H-n11ld ha ,r-ilLircr "a cr-a n
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TREATMENT OF CONSUMPTION

Dr.. Albert Abrams of this City has written
"a Popular Catech1sm on Consumption"
which represents in substance one OF his lee
lures delivered at Cooper Medical College
The work is a modest one, in which technical
terms and phrases have been studiously
avoided. Hence, it will be found OF consider
able value to those who are either suffering
from or fear the ravages OF tubercular com
plants.
DR.. Abrams divides his work into chapters,
these being systematically subuivided into
headings. He shows the relation between
various blood complaints and the main dis
ease, and indicates both the method of detec-
ton and the treatment 10 be followed in cases
OF consumption. OF particular value are the
suggestions contained in chapter ", headed
''The Prevention of Consumption" wherein
are desert bed the precautions that should be
taken against infection. Those having the
care of consum ptiyes will also read with inter
The San Francisco call., 1897-01-24
PLEASANT MOMENTS WITH JHE CURRENT VERSIFIERS.
An plays in actor shows:

An plays in actor shows;
He smokes a skull pipe and his hair
Is always mussed, and he don't care
How much we pull it-me and Don
or Jack, who sews his buttons on!
Ma says that nc has sowed wild wheat
ms prodigious son,
But wunst lady, dressed so sweet,
Went upstairs on tn run
An called him her'n and burst in tears
An nen tn door shut-but 1t pears
He wouldn't go, an me an Don
Kept Jack, who sews his buttons on.
One day last week piece ma read
Near made her faint awav;
1t said at Jack, right from his head,
Had wrote an actor play,
An he was rich an famous, too,
An ma says: "Here's a howdy dop
Now all 'cept US says Mister John
To Jack, who sews his buttons on.
Chicago Record.
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Love S Wau.

Why do I love you, sweetheart mine?
In sooth. l cannot say.
Love came to me so stealthily
never saw his way.
His gentle footsteps scarcely pressed
The pathway to my heart;
only saw him standing there
And knew he'd ne'er depart.
How can tell what brought him when
know not how he came?
only knew, and bowed before
The magic of his name.
So many are more beautiful?
All, wei, perchance 'tis true;
So many are much better, dear?
Sweet, no one else is "your'
Baltimore American.
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Jack, Who SeWs His Buttons Or

Jack, who sews his buttons on,
Lives on the toDpest floor,
An every day, before he's gone,
We raps upon his door.
He hoIlers loud, Come right in, kids!"
An laughs aud says, Take off your lidsP'
Ma says that's slang, but me an Don
Likes Jack, who sews his buttons on.
Sometimes, TO please Us two, he plays
His yaller violin,
An, say, his eyes just seem to blaze
l hor my breath right in
An seem TO be tioatin' roun'
In some bright place above the groun',
A driftin' way from little Don
With Jack, who sews his buttons on.
He does tn awful queerest thing
He sleeps sll day, nen goes
An writes about tn folks what sings
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So Nav It Hap.

Perchance tits true, as often so it seems,
We see truth clearest in the land of dreams
What while we wander through the waking
hours,
Whether the path be carpeted with flowers.
tract
Fen watehful eyes from the eternal fact.
So may it hap, though life seems doomed to
naught,
The end will prove what men O. dreams have
taught. FRANK PUTNAM
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The WeaVers.

One at her looms toiled fast-early and late
she wrought;
But the grief and plant OF her days in the
silent web were caught.
And after her hands we're stilled, all the cold
world would see
Was the woman that drudged and sighed and
the shade of her misery.
One sang in her humble place, q song that
the shuttles knew,
And golden thread of hope the warp and the
woof ran through.
And after the task was done, and after the day
had fed,
The work of her hands shone fair, though the
woman, unknown, lay dead.
The Peterson Magazine.
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BALKED AMBITION.

MR. BAILEY-M BY Percy White
American Publishers Corporation New YORK
Price, 90 GEMS, paper.
This story told in the first person, starts out
with a Rousseau-like promise TO make con-
fession that would take off the close-ftting
case by which self" is covered and let the
world see .he mainspring of the teller's char
acter. 1t is sad story told by a satlrical man
with such sense of humor as to brighten
pages that otherwise would be all too somber
Mr.. Bailey Martin is born of parents who are
very anxious TO get on in worldly way, and
the oesre to succeed and form connections
with aristocratic families has been trait OF
so many OF his ancestors that the boy inherits
tendency that way just as a re etrievsr pup is
born with faculty for retrieving.
A maxim OF Martins father was that it was
just as cheap to know nobs as sno obs and much
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Like a Paper Lantern.

YoNE NoGUCHI
"0h, my friend, thou will not come back to
me this nightw
am alone in this lonely cabin,
Alas, in the friendless universe,
and the snail at my door hides s.ealishly
his horns.
"oh, for my sake, put forth thy honorable
horns!"
To the eastward? TO the westward? Alas,
where is truthfulness? goodness? light?
The world enveils me; my body itself this
night enveils my soul.
Alas my soul is like paper lantern; its
pastes wetted of under the rainy night,
in the rainy world.
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At Sea.

Shall we, the storm-tossed sailors, wes
For those who may not sail again;
Or wisely envy them, and keep
Our pity for the living men?
Beyond the weary waste Of sea-
Beyond the wider waste OF death,
strain my gaze and cry to thee,
Whose still heart never answereth.
o brother, is thy coral bed
So sweet thou wilt not hear my speech2
This hand methinks. If l were dead,
To thy dear hand would strive to reach.
l would not, ii God gave US choice
For each TO bear the Others part,
That mine should be the silent voice
And thine the silent, aching heart
All, well for any voyage done,
Whate'er its end-or port or reef;
Better the voyage ne'er begun,
For all ships sail the s ca OF Grief.
JAMES JEFFREY ROCHE,
In AngeIus Magazine.
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est what DR.. Abrams has TO say regarding the
dietetic treatment of the patient on page o.
The work may be recommended both to tu-
dents and 10 the general public as being a
carefully compiled manual upon the treat
ment OF tuberculosis in all its forms. The
thesis is published by William Doxey.
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burning crater by periodically setting fire to
great masses OF seaweed. When men-of-war of
various nations are sent to fight the pirates
the inventor, who is Frenchman, suddenly
becomes conscious when he sees the trieolor
flying from the French ship that he is com nit
ting the crime of lese-patrie, and rushing to
the magazine whore his terrible explosives
were stored he blows up the pirate crew and
their fortress
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bering sentences in the book is this: $50 po-
tential is to-day that it not only holds to-mor-
row in the hollow of its hand, but 1t can alter
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LITERARY NOTES

writer in an English literary publication
declares that Jules Verne never made more
than $4,000 in any one year. Zolas annual
income is believed TO be about 100000.
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"THE SONG OF THE SHIRT"

During his last illness Tom Hood, in an
die moment: made an imaginative sketch
of his own tombstone. He drew himself re-
cliniug at full length on thick slab OF stone,
on the edge OF which, in large capitals, he
wrote, "He Sang the Song of the Shirt"
This was the only inscription, and, as he
himself has said, Tom Hood needs no other.
How much he felt and prided himself upon
the song by which he became known and
loved by millions is shown by this and the
following fact: "If were ennobled these are
the arms l should adopt" said he one day,
showing q rough vignette to friend The
sketch contained a very beautiful aud
pathetic idea. 1t represented heart pierced
by needle threaded with silver tears, and
beneath was the motto he had inscribed on
the imaginary tombstone.
1.-THE Song of the Shirt appeared in the
Christmas number of the fifth volume of
Punch. 1t was unsigned, but every paper in
the land quoted it, and it speedily became the
talk of the day. Hood himself did not think
it very remarkable, but Mrs. Hood had said TO
him as she folded il for press, "Now mind,
mark my words, this will tell wonderfully. 1t
is one of the best things you ever did,"
Mrs Hood was right. The song was trans.
lated into French, German and Italian; it
was printed on cheap cotton handkerchiefs
and parodied times without number. ''But
what delighted and touched my poor father
most deeply" says Tom Hoods son, "was that
the poor creatures to whose sorrows and suf-
ferings he had given such eloquent voice
seemed to adopt its words as their own by
singing them about the streets to a rude air of
their own composition"
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Hush! Whose Sobs?
YnNE NnGvCHI.

lUNE NUULLHI.
The bare tomb stands in the wind
The vellless moon shiYers, breathing her
yellow sIghs among the naked twigs;
The broken banana leaves chant in silence
eve are content with sadnessr'
The immovable hillside cabin is dumb,
enwrapped by the thousand autumn
voices.
Hush! A maiden's sobs! Are they the
ripple-tears OF the iriendless brook
breaking the stiffness?
"Oh my love, my love, am here !" Imurmur,
but hear no reply in the darkness.
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The biography of Lord Tennyson proceeds
slowly. 1t was thought at first that the delay
was caused by consideration for persons now
living, but it is SAID that the great magnitude
of the Life" impedes progress. Some bulky
volumes may be expected when the present
Lord Tennyson completes his labor.
The San Francisco call., 1897-01-24

A particularly bright and attractive number
OF Frank Leslies Popular Monthly is that for
February. 1t has long list of good articles
and capital short stories, and almost every
thing is illustrated
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Mary E. wilkins is engaged in writing ser
les OF striking sketches OF New England neigh
borhood life for the Ladies' Home Journal
They will portray a small community's social
indulgences, sketching the old fashioned
quilting-party, the time-worn singing school
and an apple-parins bee
The San Francisco call., 1897-01-24

The third revised edition of q detailed
course, Qualitative Chemical Analysis with
explanatory notes, by Arthur A. Noyes, Phi. D.. ,
assistant professor of chemistry in the Massa-
chusetts Institute of Technology, published b.
the Macmillan Company, is now in prepara-
tion and will appear early in February.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-02-19
GREEK FLAG TAKEN DOWN.
Nevertheless Col. Nassos Continues
His Preparations for Fighting.

CANEA. Feb. 1S.-Owing 10 the anon
alous situation. all the Greek consuls on
the island. on the representations OF the
foreign admirals. have removed the
Greek flag from the cOnsulates.
The British and Italian torpedo boats
stopped the Greek ironclad Hyda. which
was conveying provisions TO the Greek
camp.
Col. Vassos. commander-in-chief of the
Greek forces. has decided 70 attack and
occupy several strategic points.
Turkish volunteers and refugees who
have been brought here by transport
state that 100 Mussulmans have been
killed at SerkaniOs and SelinOs. and that
an equal number have been killed in the
surrounding country.
LONDON. Feb. Iq.-The correspondent OF
the Times says he Is informed en- the best
authority that Col Vassos IS complying
with the powers Injunction 70 abstain
from active hosulities. Col. Vazsos has
issued an order advising his men 70 avoid
any collision with foreign marines and ex-
horting the Cretans 20 treat fairly both the
foreigners and the Mosiems He prom
fses the latter protection and religious
eduanty. but VIII Try 10 persuade them 70
leave the island. lie viii punish severely
all acts Of violence against them. Tur-
kish soldiers who yield VIII be disarmed
and sent to Smyrna or some other points
in Turkey The chief % the genearmerie
has ordered the Greek consulate a. Carea
guarded. the foreign marines changing
daily, according 70 nationality.
The admIrals commanding the foreign
r1en-of-vvar threatened 20 send marines 70
force the consulate at Canea % remove the
Har. unless the Greek consuls compiled
Win the request Of the powers in this par
ficular