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HISTORY FOR CHILDREN.

THE CENTURY BOOK OF THE AMERICAN
RENOLUTION-hy Elbridge S Brooks. New
ork; The Century Company. Price 81 So
The Century Book of the American Reyolu-
ton, the latest of Mr.. Brooks many popular
books. contains the glorious story of the reyo-
luton told in the account of the trip of a party
OF boys and girls with their uncle 10 the land
of these historic scenes. Not ONLY are the
Northern attlefelds-Lexington, Concord.
Bunker Hill, Long Island, Harlem Heights.
Monmouth, Princeton, Germantown, Brandy.
wine, Saratoga, etc.-described, but the trip
extends to the Southern fields Eutsw Snrinps
Camden, Guilford Courthouse, Kings Noun
tain, Cowpens, Savannah and Charleston.
about which very little has hitherto been writ
ten. Many OF the charming illustrations in
the book were taken especially for this work.
Tney include pictures OF battlafields. of
places connected with notable events in the
war, offamous buildings, monuments. statues
etc. In addition there are portraits and char.
acter pictures in sufficient number to give an
Illustration for almost every page. The book
is Issued under the auspices of the Empire
State Society Oh the Sons of the American Rev
oluuon and contains fine introduction by
Chauncey NJ. Depew
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Macmillan of Macmillan & Co. responded to
The toast of Literature" In the course of
his remarks he dwelt on the fact that while
there were few instances of making money
by writing books and obtain ing subsistence
by the same he said the great mass of Euglis h
literature which will remain in the world OF
letters has been the product of men who had
other occupations than that OF writing. Shake
speure actor-manager, Lord Bacon
lawyer, John BunYan tinker, Dean Swift a
parson, Edmund Burke q statesman and
Charles Lamb clerk in the India House. Mr.
Macmillan continued: What have in my
mind in making these remarks is the melan-
choly spectacle of young men and women,
ambitious OF literary fame, who are only TOO
ready to throw up their positions in office or
shop 10 buy an inkpot and ream OF paper and
set out on literary career. 1t is my lot to
come across many such aspirants to immor-
tality, and TO them l always say: If by a liter.
airy career you mean writing books, rememb be T
that Scott composed great part OF his
immortal works while he was earn
ing an official salary as Sheriff OF
Selkirkshire and collector of sessions in
Edinburgh; and to come nearer 70 our own
day. remember that the many and excellent
novels OF Anthony Trollope were written by an
active and busy Official of the general post
office, that the poetry and prose of Matthew
Arnold flowed from the pen OF an inspector OF
schools and that Iothair' was the work OF a
Prime Minister OF Englandp
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THIS RESEMBLES POE.

THE CRIME OF THE BOULEVARD-Bv Jules
Claretie; translated by Mrs. Carlton Kfngsburv
New York: K. f. FenDo & Co
Jules Clareue is q member OF the French
Academy, and is peculiarly at home in story
OF this kind. In the opening chapter gentle
man OF leisure is found murdered in one of
the suburbs OF Paris. police spy, who hap
pens TO be an exceedingly well informed man
and an amateur photographer as weu
remembers having read an article wherein the
writer claimed that by photographing the
Tetina of a murdered mans eye the image OF
the one who killed him had been discovered
At the autopsy, alter no little trouble the
surgeons performed the necessary operation
the retina was photographed, and, after
development of the plate, the face of he man
WIS clearly visible therein. A friend OF the
murdered man. whose face corresponded
exactly with that seen in the retina was
arrested, and after an examination in which
he could not satisfactorily clear himself of
guilt, was thrown into Jail In the end, how
ever, another man turns up who confesses to
having committed the terrible deed How the
dying man saw his absent friend, and how 1t
Is proved that science is always correct, are
things that will be made clear by reading this
interesting story to a finish.
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ter not .serf of his education" In this the
critic OF the critic unquestionably refers 10
the endless references to authorities Andrew
Lang any many others indulge in.
The matter of the stylist is a difficult one,
but we think, with Max Beerbohm, that Mr..
Quiller Couch is an incompetent judge.
Andrew Lang, in his "Pickle the Spy,'' is
particularly cold blooded. Impartial he is,
but when reading this book no emotion is
called up. You look upon the Jacobite Prince
through the long years which separate him
from to-day. You are not made to feel q
spark of pity even for the man whose misfor-
tunes degraded him. 1t is The history of a
dry bone without any flesh to cover it.
That there Is more than one style, each one
with its special qualities is what Max Beer
bohm wants to show For all the critics may
write about Andrew Lang, what he writes will
always be read. You go TO the table he spreads
in cool and deliberate way The dishes
will be capitsIly served; the garnishing OF the
plates excellent The attendance will be ab-
solutely perfect. Nothing viii be slipshod.
If you want a curry with heady wine with
to dine somewhere else, and perhaps in a very
much LEGS elegant company.
In the meantime we have to thank Mr.. Lang
for having left aside, if but for an instant
ghosts, table rappIngs and the mysterious
ringing OF axes in Sumatra jungles, for in his
lode to the Philadelphians" he lauds
our cricketers. These pleasant verses. with
their graceful and gracious lines, are to be
read ''At the Sign of the Ship in a recent
issue of Longmans Magazine
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dorian environment" The fact is. Andrew
Lang has been for long time the cock of the
walk, and may have made himself "unpleas
eht' by a little assumption of superiority.
He picked quarrel long ago with that most
estimable and learned man Max Muller, and
was by no means nice in the way he handled
the sun myth
Itmight be that Andrew Lang's omniscience
brought about an uncomfortable feeling, for
his dicta were too imperious, whether the SUBJ
jects treated related to a trouthy or a folklore
story. A certain resentment is sure to come
about whsn you dance on other peoples toes.
Joseph Jacobs, who is quite as strong folk
lorist as is Mr.. Lang, has more than once come
down heavily on Mr.. Lang, and as far as we
can make it out, not without reason.
These are, however, personal details, and
have nothing to do with style, and yet person
alities color words. Max Beerbohm gives Mr..
Lang what might be called "the esteem OF sue
cess" 1t is ga nice little STYLE but we find it
too spins terry 10 be at all inspiring, and even
his slang, though it enrapture Quiller Couch,
seems to us rather like after-spark of Cir
toms chaste conviviality. We never have, as
far as we can remember, seen anything like
slang in Andrew Lang's writing. Certainly
there is some malice in this criticism which
says that in Mr.. Lang's essays "the charm
| and distinction are few," but ra sher @meager
| peevish and anemic trails of little sentences"
Surely Mr.. CUTLER Couch h as little apprecia-
ton of what is English when he prefers Lang
| to Thackeray. That is as if you were 10 COM
| pare the shadow and the form. Mr.. Lang does
write in an emotionless kind of way He holds
| his feelings under strong control, but Mr.. Max
Beer bohm has no right 10 say that he has
not any.
Mr.. Andrew Lang is always before the public
| He is the best EN- pioyed preface of the
| day. He must be the most industrious literary
| man OF the period. 1t is always misfor tune
| when q man writes too much. The many
others who want jobs get jealous of him. Mr.
| Max Beerbohm regards Mr.. Andrew Lang as
| one of the best and lin Bos stonian sense)
brightest of our critics, but is sorry "to notice
that he is slipping gradually into most fool
| ism habit" He never writes himself" but
| about other people.
| 'T would urge" writes Mr.. Max Beerbo Inn,
that assimilation, not vomition, is the right
use OF culture; that critic should be mas
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A HELPFUL BOOK.

. sGCCESCBy orison SWEET Marden Boston /:
W. a. Wilde d Co. Price 81 25
orison SWEET Marden's books are all writ
ten with the purpose OF helping and inspiring
young people while they are in the transitory
state from dependence to indcpeudence. Tnev
are packed with stimulating uplifting and
inspiring material, and it is safe to saw that
not one paragraph in them is ever overlooked.
his pushing to the Front was widely read.
ana success should become even more pop
ular' II teaches the youth who may think he
has no chance that, in land where farmers
and mechanics sit in Congress. no limit can
be placed TO his career If he is armed with de-
termination and has learned his nj lphabet
such teachings are healthy and helpful, and
can only result in spurring on the young to in
creased efforts. The book is Handsomely bound
IN cloth, and is illustrated with fourteen full
page portraits OF people who have become
eminent through hard work and determine
tion.
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we are no longer exasperated by those
cranks who wrote tedious folios explaining
how Shakespeare never wrote a line at all.
What Mr. Sidney Lee is trying to do is to
find out the source OF Shakespeare's fortune.
What was he worth? How did he accumulate
his shillings? What were his investments?
We know that, to use a strong modern phrase,
the paternal Shakespeare was dead broke. I"
and we learn, too, that his son paid his fathers
debts.
Shakespeare left Stratford in 1885, and did
not return till 1896. He was away some eleven
years. When the dramatist was 81 he was
married and the father of not less than three
children. During that brief time he had
written his most successful plays, and he must
have saved money, because he wss able to pay
his fathers debts
Sidney Lee shows that Shakespeare about
this time began making investments in land.
In 1897 he built New Place." which was the
largest house in Stratford, though in bad Or
der. What he paid for this property was $50.
In 1902 he was the owner of ''107 acres OF
arabic land near Stratford,'' the cost of which
was 1920. Where did this money come from
What were the dramatists accumulations,
which must have been considerable?
Mr. Sidney Lee calculates that the f100 OF
Queen Elizabeth's time would be worth $1,000
to-day-that is in purchasing power. If we
say that the English pound of the close of the
sixteenth and beginning of the seventeenth
century, compared with the purchasing power
of the 20 shlllings of 1897. was as to 8.
Did Shakespeare fl his Golfers swell his
account with the goldsmiths By writing his
plays? Assuredly not. In those days f6 was
paid for play and occasionally $40. There
had been written by him, say, fourteen
dramas in the six or seven first years of his
life. Then. argues Mr.. Lee, If as playwright
he made f20 a year out OF his plays that
was the extreme limit of receipts. Shakes.
peare was, however, an actor. An actors
salary was then as high as 3 shillings
a day-or was worth for the year s45. Now
add f45 to f2O as coming from his acting and
his plays, and that would make f65 for the
| twelve months. Suppose, however, Shakes.
| pear was leading performer. Then his sal.
ary might have been larger. Mr.. Lee
believes that Shakespeare may have received
| f1O0 year as an actor. Then We have fl30 o
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HIS FRIEND THE ELEPHANT.

An American traveer, who spent some time
in the company of Rudyard Kipling in Lon
don lately, tells the following story:
zone afternoon we went together to the Zoo,
, and while strolling about our ears were as
sailed by the most melancholy sound have
ever heard, q complaining, fretting, lament
ing sound proceeding from the elephant
house.
What's the matter in thereT asked Mr..
Kipling of the keeper.
/" a sick elephant, sir; he cries all the time:
we don't know what 10 do with him. was the
answer.
'Mr Kipling hurried away from me in the
direction of the lament which was growing
louder and more painful. followed and saw
him go up close TO the cage where stood an
ele phant with sadly drooDed ears and trunk.
He was crying actual tears at the same time
that he mourned his lot most audiby In
another moment Mr.. Kipling was right up
at the bars, and / heard him speak to
the sick beast in language that
may have been elephantese, but cer-
tainly was not English. Instantly the whin-
ing topped, the ears were lifted, the monster
turned his sleepy little suffering eyes upon his
visitor and put out his trunk Mr.. kipling be-
gan to caress it, still speaking in the same
soothing tone and in words uninteligible to
me at least After few minutes the beast be-
gan 10 answer In much low cred tone OF voice,
and evidently recouuted his woes. Posi-
bly, elephants, when enjoying poor health,
like TO confde their symptoms to sympa-
thiZing listeners as much as do some
human individuals. Certainly il was that Mr.
Kipling and that elephant carried on a
conversation with the result that the elephant
found his spirits much cheered and improved
The whine went out OF his voice, he forgot
that he was so much to be pitied, he began to
exchange experiences with his friend and he
was quite unconscious, as was NJ. Kipling of
the amused and interested crowd collecting
about the cage. At LAST, with a start, Mr.. Kip
ling found himself and his elephant the OBJ
served of all observers, and beat hasty re-
treat, leaving behind him a very different
creature from the one he had found
Doesn't that beat everything you ever saw?'
ejaculated compa triot of mine as the ele-
phant trumpeted loud and cheerful good-by
to the back of his vanishing visitor, and I
agreed with him that it did.
"'What language were you talking to tn at
elephant? / asked when overlook my friend
"'Langusge? What do you mean?' he an
swered with laugh.
"'Are you Mowgli? 1 persisted, and can
you talk 10 ali those beasts in their own
tongues% but he only smiled in reply"
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several radical defects of Hugh Wynne.'
These might have been avoided when the
book was adapted to its present form. For
the rest let good word be said for the
scholarship evinced in the work, for its
careful local coloring, for its apparent
honesty, and let the reader who may have
the patience to carefully peruse so cum
bersome a book be assured that he will
thereby add much to his stock OF knowI-
edge on i'm portant but neglected points in
the history of this country when ''the best
who left England were trained to rely
on themselves" EMANUEL ELIAS.
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A CRITICISM ON ANDREW LANG.

Max Beerbohm is an entirely new lit
erary element He may be lied an unpslat-
able one. II criticism is medicine to those
who. nolens yolens. swallow some of it, there
are slringency and corrosiveness in Max
Beer bohm's minstraiions.
Quiler Couch certainly wrote nonsense
when he said that Andrew Lang was 1.-The
master OF the best style in English prose dur
ing the last years" "Where, then" very prop
erly asks Max Beerbohm, ''are we to place
Pater. Froude, Newman, Hardy. Ruskin.
Stevenson, Arnold?" And is Meredith TO be
overlooked? 1t all comes. says Max Beer
bohm, from Quiller Couch being in "a Wal
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HOW DID SHAKESPEARE MAKE MONEY?

The uncertainties of authorship is the oil lest
OF themes and is always being presented to
the public and somehow, we think, interests
ii little. The meager pittance doled out to
Milton or the thousands of dollars thrown at
the iibrettist OF an opera boutfe excite but
monentary wonder. If Alexander Du-
mas the elder were paid 10 cents (ein-
quante centlmesl every time he wrote a
Yes" or a NO." and quarter of a farthing
a word is considered fair pay in Grub street, it
is the quality of the writer which makes all
the difference. The ten-cent-a-word authors
are but few-the ten-words-for-a-cent writers
are legion. One commands the market for
literary wares and the others do not. Dia-
monds are scarce and there is rubble in pro-
fusion, and still We never could quite get
along without plenty of rubble.
Sidney Lee has been working up Shakes
peare in a new direction. Some idiot, 1t may
be remembered, insisted that Sweet Will was
nothing else than gambler. Fortunately
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A BOOK WITH A MORAL.

EVANGELICA - BY polio Belved re" New
York: X. RUSSELL bookseller Price 81 25
The aim of this little book is TO show that
through viii the most degraded OF human
beings can be born anew mentally. morally
and physically. The heroine of the story.
Evangeilca, is born of poor and vicious par
ents and is surrounded by evil influences un.
I'll they die, which, fortunately for her, takes
place when she is 13 years of age. Up to tha,
time the girl had received no spiritual train
ing, having been left to herself entirely. She
stranger to the love and companion.
snip of other children, and. although she had
two brothers, they were both habitual drunk.
ards, and what influence they had over he,
was OF the worst After the death of her par.
ents Evangelical was taken care of by one oi
earth's "minis iering angels,"a lady OF
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wealth and refinement whose life was de-
voted to helping the poor and attending to
cases such as the one before US. Under her
care Evangelical finally blossoms forth iuto a
spiritual and perfect woman; she refuses to
marry. lives an ideal life and at the early age
of % dies.
The lesson the story teaches is a good one,
but the writer's method of telling it is faulty
in the extreme. The few characters in the
book indulge in long -winded speeches cover
ing several pages: the authors sentences are
constructed in a manner both obsolete and
ungrammatical, and in laying down the book
one experiences the sensation that is felt after
the perussl OF a tract by an early father
rather than by a nineteenth-century writer.
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USEFUL TO LAWYERS.

THE FEDERAL COURTS-By United States
Circuit judge Char es H Simonton Richmond,
va; B. +. johnson publishing Company.
We read much these days about the so-called
interference of the Federal courts in matters
coming under the jurisdiction of those OF the
State. Judge Smonton's book, consisting of
lectures delivered at the Richmond Law
school, and setting forth the organization,
jurisdiction anc procedure OF the courts in
question, Will enable the reader to acquaint
himself with the subject. The style is neces-
sarily somewhat heavy, but the text can be
mastered without difficulty by any one with g.
fair knowledge of legal lore
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OF duty and save her father, who is to pay for
MS political intrigues with his life, is told in
manner that cannot fail to hold the readers
attention. How Captain dAmyot fails, and
what terrible fate befalls the girl he loves,
must be read to be appreciated. The story is
tuli OF good descriptive work and is one of the
bestof It's Kind we have peruseu for long time
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A MEXICAN Story.

lsiDKA, THE PATRIOT DAUGHTER OF
;MEAloo-By Willis steelL New York; I.
Iennyson Nicely.
Ihis ls an exciting and tragic story of love
aho war, the scene being laid in Mexico in the
year 1904. when the country was in the tn roes
OF an internal struggle for independence and
rrencn troops were aiding the partyi power.
In spite Of the troublous times q young cap
tain In the French army finds time TO fall des-
perately in love with Mexican girl, who
turns out to be notorious bandit Her at
tempt to make her lover swerve from the path
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WOULD-BE AUTHORS, PLEASE NOTE

Alta recent dinner in London of the Associa-
ton OF the Correctors of the Press Frederick
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HERE AND THERE.

Hall Caine is said to be hard at work upon
the dramatization of ''The Christian Will
son Barrett Will probably present the plsy in
America.
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The French Academy has awarded Nine.
Blanc, who recently visited America in COM
pany with NJ. Brunetiere, prize of 1900
francs for her interesting book on American
women.
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LITERARY NOTES.

Miss Mary E. Wilkins has written book of
verse for children, which will be published
Immediately, under the title of "Once Upon q
Time" by the Lothrop Publis hing Company
of Boston.
The San Francisco call., 1897-10-03

Notwithstanding there are innumerable edi-
lions of Dickens on the American market the
copyrights of his works published by Chap
man & Hall, London, do not expire till the
wear 1912
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Oil OIL OIL We are to have. in a separate
and distinct book, "Gems From the Writings
OF Marie Corelli" Let us make g display OF
Cape May diamonds, and Strass mounted in
pinchbeck.
The San Francisco call., 1897-10-03

Harper Brothers are to publish in the
near future "Marehesi and Music" by Ma
thilde Marehesi, which will contain remi-
niscences of many OF the great composers and
singers in the past fifty years.
The San Francisco call., 1897-10-03

Some one trying TO find Macaulay's grave at
Westminster Abbey found the task impossible
AZ las. it was discovered in the center OF pile
OF wooden desks. The ''Poets' Corner was a
dumping ground.
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When T. Y. Crowell & Co. publish Dean Far
rar's book of recollections, "Men Have
Known" in short time, they will reproduce
in the work, in facsimile, letters written by
Tennyson, Browning, Lowell, Holmes, Dean
Stanley and others.