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human nature. The important position
on the reform committee held by John
Hays Hammond. made it possible for
his wife to know the hopes and inten-
lions of that body of unfortunate men.
She gives, to the public a picture of
the Imprisonment of the leaders of the
revolt, which is graphic, tragic and, at
times, humorous, and loses no possible
force in the way it is told. Apart from
the historic Importance the book is eX-
tFemely interesting and holds the
reader from start to finish with thrill
oEspersonal hazard borrowed from the
tension and suspense of the woman
who writes it from the fullness Of her
suffering. We know the issue and yet
We follow the account of Mr.. Ham
mond's Imprisonment, trial, sentence
and release with the same anxious sus-
pense that Amos Wickliff, Octave:
Thanet's sheriff hero, experienced in
his reading of United States history,
which kept him from sleeping for fear
the thirteen colonies would fail to
ratify the constitution.
The tension of the book is relieved by
a charming humor, which is almost
events and human endurance. AS a
whole the little volume has more
virtues than pretensions and should be
read by all those who wish to know
the Johannesburg revolt, apart from
its political significance, with an inter-
ested woman's knowledge.
CA Momans Part in a Revolution, by
Mrs. John Hays Hammond. Longmans,
Green & Co, New York. $1.25)
THE Burglar Who Moved Paradise
is in a way a sequel to AN Old Maid S
Paradise" The paradise is there, the
characters are the same from Corona
to Matthew Launcelot, only the point
of view is different, and this time It
is indeed entirely from the mans
point of view"
The successful story which Elizabeth
Stuart Phelps constructed some few
years since from the varied experiences
of the old maid who built a matched
board cottage at the seaside and mad4
il her hero has been continued by Mr..
Ward in the same humor that gave
fascination to his wife's whimsical an
nails 1t will be remembered by the
readers of IAN Old Maids Paradise"
that at the end Corona sat calculating
the costs of a robbery that had dis
turbed Paradise and deprived her of &
five hundred dollar bond; to this had
been added the expense of the attempt
ed recovery, which amounted to four
hundred and eighty-two dollars and
thirty-siX and half cents, when a gen.
tleman arrived unexpectedly at the
Old Maids Paradise. He was a wild
over and an old acquaintance, and
Corona's biographer raised the ques-
ton, Had the most dangerous burglar
of all climbed up to Paradise?" This
question Mrs. Ward had meant to an
swer herself, but the solution really
comes most happily from another
source. This time it is a mans book
and the matched board cottage yields
its place of hero to the widower, who
marries its mistress in the second chap
ter of the present volume, wedding
at which Matthew Launcelot plays a
characteristic part. The welded idyl
is told with a whimsical, humorous
sympathy which makes very pleasant
reading.
c'The Burglar Who Moved Paradise" by
Herbert D. Ward Houghton. Miftiin & Co.,
Boston. M.25. For sale by the ST. Paul
Book and Stationery company
THE Real Condition of Cuba Today,
IS a book to arouse the sympathy of
the world, If the world has syrnpat hv
left to arouse. Stephen BonsaI knows
whereof he writes-the sting of exDeri-
ence is in it all, the bitterness of i'm
potent observation. We have had
many hedlSdy ldleS oI CUBAN warfare.
the country has been flooded with such
quantities of sensational literature on
tha subject that we are prone to dis
count the sentiment that comes in +ho
name Of Cuba, not because we doubt
the intensity of the reality, but because
artificial heroics defeat not themselves
alone. but-more's the pity--the good
cause they initiate. Thus 1t is that Mr..
Bonsal's articles have not made the
deep impression that is due his subject
and his sympathy. The worlds nerves
are scared AS every one knows, Mr..
Bonsal went to Cuba as q newspaper
correspondent, and besides the matter