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ST. PAUL BOOK & STATIONERY CO.,
Fifth and ST. Peter Streets ST. Paul Mimi

has slyly played for an hour before
giving them to their rightful owner.
Another. series, she Lady Cay" in
cludes stories for somewhat older
children, the authors being. Mrs. George
M. Archibald, Miss Laura T. Meade
and Miss Henrietta R. Eliot The au-
thor Of the most successful children's
book of last season, Mr.. Eldridge S.
Brooks, has completed his ''True Story
of Benjamin Franklin" and, perhaps,
considering the diplomatic achieve
rnents of the postmaster of Philadel-
phia, this also might be called a story
of the Revolutionary war and regard
ed as another indication of war fever.
A still better sign, perhaps, was the
unanimity with which every one
awakened by the explosion in the great
grain elevator burned Saturday night
cried Navy yard True, the elevator
wharves misealled docks, adjoined the
navy yard, but there was no delibera-
ton about distance or direction in the
minds of those who were aroused by the
roar and crash that flung the elevator
dome upon the adjacent roofs and al
lowed a fountain of flame to squirt up
ward, standing with scarcely a change
of outline for nearly two hours. But
the very anxiety that found vent in
that cry has diverted the popular mind
from the investigation now making,
and in the struggle to learn the latest
word from Washington nobody volun-
teers to assist the fire marshal in his
efforts to find the causes for a fire in
an area unlighted and unwarmed for
nine hours, but suddenly SO heated as
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by local applications as they cannot
reach the diseased portion of the ear.
There is only one way to cure deafness,
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dition of the mucous lining Of the
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NAVAL BOOKS TO THE FRONT
A List of Some of the Best Recent Ones
Placed on Sale

made by states and cities. and they
And yet for the year 1898 the total
in the United States was $29.000,0
In 1894 X was $50. 600 900: in 1895 it was
49,. 500, O0O; in 1896 it was $27.000,0O0, and
in 1897 it was s45.060,000.
For the five years, therefore, we
have a grand total of $l65, $780, zoe. With
private persons willing and glad to
make such gifts to public uses in this
country. who can doubt what resources
would be at hand in this country to
carry On a war with another nation?
Meanwhile, we hear of theatrical en-
tertainments and bull fights given in
Spain to raise a war fund-which
sounds odd enough, and all the more so
when we try to imagine a war fund
in this country seeking aid from shows
given by Buffalo Bill.
Nothing in book sales has surprised
collectors and the trade more than the
prices for Americana obtained at the
Deane sale in Boston a few weeks ago.
Would a man buy books on which his
heirs may reap substantial profit by
all means let him by Americana. They
are as certain to rise in value as is
any sort of possession a man can have.
The Deane books brought several thou
sand dollars more than they would
have brought few years ago when
Mr.. Deane died. For the Brinley col
lection-the finest one in America that
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..The rian Who outlived Himself.

Judge Tourgee groups three short
stories under the title of the initial
tale, 1.-THE Man Who OUTLINED Him
self" The sketches are in the judges
well-known style, and one-the last
has to do with the time and place so
closely associated with his earlier
writing-the reconstruction period in
the South.
THE Man Who OUstlived Himself
is study in the realm Of insanity,
more curious than convincing. A man.
under the strain of pressing anxiety
and self-reproach, gives over the I'M
equal struggle and seeks to make a
new beginning. More thoroughly than
he means does he give up the old iden-
tity, for, in escaping from the old life,
memory and understanding go, and
after years in an asylum, unknown,
though searched for, he finally real
ICES himself answering to No. SO, yet
knows he has another name.
Poor joel Pike" is the story of an
unappreciated old bachelor, whose
coed is evil spoken of and who only
in death is revealed to his critical
neishbors in the colors of romance
and generosity.
The Grave Of Tante Angeliaue" Is
the account of young Connecticut
stonecutter's romantic experience in
the South. Employed to renovate
tombstones, he is shabbily entertained
at the great hall, yet nevertheless falls
in love with the very young hostess
ard gains the declaration of her ro-
mantle affection in return The story.
it'll its spice of vilfainy and surfeit
of romance. is as old-fashioned as the
period in which the plot is laid.
1.-The Man Who Outlived Himself. bv
Aibicn w. Tourgee. Fords, Howard &
Hubert, New York: 81 80. For sale by
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to start an automatic fire alarm and to
explode wheat dust in state Of abso-
lutte repose.
A single volume Of serious criticism.
Mile. Yetta Blaze de Bury's French
Literature of Today will appear early
next week from the press of Messrs.
7Houghton, Miffiin & Co., and viii be
found worthy CT some special atten-
ton from those who wish to read crit
lcally, even if they do not care for
French writers. Mile. de Bury criticises
Pierre Lott, De Maupassant, NJ. lola,
Edmond de Goncourt, Or. Charcot, NM.
Bourget, de Vogue, Brunetiere and
Lemaitre. Anatole France. Nine. Blanc
Bentzon and Paul Verlaine, but it is
less her subject than her manner of re-
garding it tina. concerns the reader.
Her standard of morality includes all
the commandments instead OF one; her
standard of judgment includes all an
authors vices and virtues, no one Of
the former excluding him from grace.
no possible number of the latter excus-
lr.g him from condemnation for a fault.
She is keenly susceptible to the merit
or industry and of merciless self-sacri-
nee for art, and, considering the mar
Vicious crudity now offered as criticism
by many American writer's. the in
Huenee OF her essays should be very
good. Her English has a touch of
qua1ntness here and there, but is al
ways ineligible to a French scholar
OF very modest capacity.
But who shall say when English is
Ineligible? Here is Prof. Mark II
Lfdden, of the University of Texas
writing to the Atlantic Monthly tina:
he finds passage in Loves I.abour's
Lest -Qv. ii. 7S) unintelligible to any
reader not learned in Elizabethan pro-
that he pronounces person" as If II
were written "pursun," and 'wl1r' and
'purhaps" and "surtain?" Perish-1ot
pur-ish-the thought
Stephenson Browne.
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On Our Book Table.

From the st. Paul Book and Stationery
company: ~
HoUGHToN. MIFFLIN G CO., BOSTON
-"Cabel West, Master Diver by
F. Hophinson Smith, $1.5O; "Tales Of
Home Folks in Peace and War;" by Joel
Chandler Harris, $3.50: "The Imported
Bridegroom" by Abraham Cahan, $1.OO
D. APPLETON & CO., NEW YORK-"A
Forgotten Sin," by 'Dorothea Gerard 81;
The Animal World. ,sby Frank Vincent.
M. A, 60 cents.
DOUBLEDAY & MCCLURE NEW YORK
Little Masterpieces: Benjamin Frank
lin, Daniel Webster edited by Bliss
Perry, 80 cents each; "a Minister Of the
World" by Caroline Atwater Mason, so
LEE & sHEAARD, BosToN-"victor
serenus." by Henry Wood, s15O; "a His
tory Of Our Country" by Edward S.
H. S. STONE G Co, cH1cAGo-"Here and
There and Eyerywhere,' by Mary E. w.
Sherwood, $3.50
R. H. RUSSELL, NEW YORK-"Two
Prisoners" by Thomas Nelson Page.
MACMILLAN COMPANY, NEW YORK
'Guesses at the Riddle of Existence" by
Goodwin Smith, S1.25.
F. TENNYSON Nicely, NEW YORK
elson, 81: The Embassy !, IS Ball" by Viz
Wife, by Gibson Willets. so cents; "The
Spanish Plot by B. A. Randle, so cents:
''Walewska,' by Lima Bartlett Ditson, Is
cents; 1.-THE Sword of Pyramids" by Ed.
ward Lyman DILL 80 cents. 80 -,
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Under the Ban,'' by Teresa Hammond
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OUR WAR3HIPS.

Would you like to know all about our
pattlesh1ps, cruisers, monitors and ter
pedo boats? They will be fighting nr5t-
ty soon, and every American Should
know all about them. Six portfolios
of the series of ten are now reedy
Read the display advertisement else
where in this paper for full particulars.
The portfolios now ready are:
No. 1.-The American Navy-Part !
NO THE Hawaiian IsIands-Part 1.
No. 3-The American Nayy-Part IT
No. 1.-The Hawaiian Islands-Part
IL
No. 5-The American Navy-Part III.
No. 6-The Hawaiian Islands-Part
III
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pip-''yyondcr Tales FROM W'ag-
ner," by Anna Alice Chopin.
Bret Harte'S latest group of stories,
Tales of Trail and Town." leaves one
the victim of contendipg opinions. 1t
would be so very agreeable to have I'M
limited admiration for sketches so
clever and virile that it is impossible
to escape the remembrance of them, or
it would be almost equally comforting
! to have ones vague discomfort forced
into definite form. But the book is
closed without an untangling of the
various warning moods it creates, and
the task of sorting is left to the reader
The fascination of the tales is I'M
questionable With, perhaps. the ex-
ception Of one, 1.-TWO Americans" the
tales hold one with all the force of Bret
Harte's strongest work. Interest is one
Of the emotions never lacking, and
sympathy with the author and his crea-
tons is equally present, But a stray
link here and a questionable one there
in the realism of his story-a realism,
we demand to be in keeping with the
laws of true romance, though not with
reality as the realists write it-dis-
turb the symmetry OF the whole and
,, worry in the midst of ones enjoy
ment.
''The Ancestors Of Peter Atherly" is
the sketch that carries its reader to the
extremes of admiration and annoyance
Admiration, because the story is I'M
usually thrilling and impressive, even
for one of Mr.. Harte's Western tales
and annoyance, because even amid his
interest and pleasure the reader is not
quite persuaded of the reality of either
the man or his development. 1t is a
little disconcerting, too, to have the
hero introduced in the first few pages
as a self seeking lover of name and
high place-a man who nags his mother
on her death-bed for scraps Of infor-
| nation concerning his titled ancestors
and later on to meet him without any
recorded change of heart, grave state
ly, impressive, overawing his supposed
relatives in England with his dignity
and igh-nindedness. If Mr.. Harte
had been but a little more careful Of
the impression made by the first ap
pearance of his hero-a hero we after
wards accept in all his undouhted
Eeroism-the harmony of the sketch
would have been complete. The name
of this initial story is as artistic a
thing as the volume contains.
Two Americans" the story of a
young man and woman studying an
urconvincing art in Paris and miracu-
| lousy reaching happiness, is trite and
unworthy of a place with the other
| sketches.
| 1.-THE Judgment of Bolinas Plain"
ga Night on the Divide" "The Young
est Prospeetor in Calaveras," and ga
| Tale of Three Truants' are western sto-
! ries, with all their authors well-known
vigor and atmosphere. 1.-THE Strange
| Experience of Alkai Dick is a quaint
| little conceit of a cowboys romantic
experience in his ancestral French
manor
/ This group of sketches, we repeat,
are vigorous and extremely interesting
| and admirers of Bret Harte cannot
| afford to miss them.
''Tales of Trail and Town" by Bret Harte
HoUghtcn, Mihlin G Co.. Boston; 81 %.
For sale by the st. Paul Book and Sta
tionery company.
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The poor little king of Spain, Alphonso
Kill, having come practically unscathed
through measles, mumps and the whooping
cough. is now threatened with the more pro-
tracted affection of marriage. He is rumored
about to be betrothed to the Arehduchess
Elizabeth of Austria. daughter of the late
phanie. True, the king is but little over II
years old. and the little archduchess is Just
turned Is. but this, as royalty goes, seems q
small barrier to a betrothal
The small archduchess is granddaughter to
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ever was sold at auction sum fully
100000 larger than it sold for in 1873
1882, could now be obtained. OF all
American libraries. the greatest in the
country is owned in Providence. 1t was
gathered together by John Carter
Brown and / have heard it's auction
value today placed as high as 81 100000.
1t might even sell for $250,000 more than
that sum. These figures made me re-
mark to my informant that it must be
the most valuable collection in the coun-
try. "Oh, no. said he, there is one
more valuable and it is owned here
in New York" But that collection is
not so specially devoted to Americana.
1t is owned by Robert Hoe.
Francis Wilson's book on Eugene
Field, which he called 1.-The Eugene
Field I Knew" does not prove to be
an exhaustive and extended piece of
biography. but a charming book of re-
collections, told in an affectionate, in
teresting and effective way that must
win for 1T great liking among Fields
admirers. Stories abound in it and they
are highly characteristic. Here is one
concerning Carl SchurZ, whom Field
followed during a political campaign,
when acting as newspaper CORE
spondent. On one occasion Missouri
audience had been tired of waiting for
Mr.. Schurz and so when Mr.. Schurz
finally arrived it was suggested thar
the audience might be put in good
humor if Mr.. SchurZ We're introduced
by Mr.. Field. Here is Mr.. Wilson's &C
count of the Introduction:
Field pulled out his chest. and as uming
super-dgnifed manner and a strong Ger
man accent, addressed the meeting as fol-
lows:
Ladies and Chentlemens: I have such
severe colt 1 cannot make me speedy
tonight, but / hat die pleasure of to intro
duce to you my brilliant young chournal-
istic companion. Mr.. Eucheene Fielt, who
will spheak in my blace.'
with this Mr.. Schurz was presented, 1t
is said in no very pleasant frame of mind
The explanation which followed caused up
rCarious laughter. One can but marvel at
Fields temerity, for he was wholly I'M
known at the time
Francis w. Halsey.
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Ny Country, It's of Thee.

We stand at the dawn of a epoch in history.
Over two centuries ago John Sobies TUNED back the
hordes OF Asian barbarism and saved Europe civilization
So this hero will drive medieval despotsm from
continent From today America is the champion of lib
erty as Europe has been champion of civilization.
Who would appreciate the events of this and
their results must be familiar with the that
past
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Little Masterpieces.

The Little Masterpiece Series" edit
ed by Bliss Perry, Princeton university,
and published by Doubleday 6 Nc
Clure, gives the book buyer about the
most for his money that can be had
in the market. The binding is both
dainty and serviceable, the letterpress
about all that can be desired, and the
judgment with which the authors rep
resented are chosen and the discrimi-
nation shown in the choice of available
material from their writings make the
small volumes very desirable. The two
new additions to this series represent
the statesmen in literature, Frank
lin and Webster. Benjamin Franklin
is represented by selections from his
autobiography and Poor Richard
Almanac" Advice to a Young Trades
man. ''The Whistle" Necessary
Motion for Prayer and Selected Let
ters.' Daniel Webster's representative
speeches are adams and Jefferson, -
and THE Reply to Hayne." Both vol
umes are prefaced by comprehensive
introductions by Bliss Perry.
Little Masterpieces" Franklin and Web
ster. Edited by Bliss Perry 50 cents
each. Doubleday G Mcclure company
New York. For sale by the ST. Paul
boOh ana StaI1Onery company.
ga Dictionary OF English synonyms
Little, Brown & Co., of Boston. viii!
hereafter publish Richard Soule's Die
tionary of English Synonyms, a book
published up to this by the J. B. Lip
pincott company. This dictionary of
synonyms, as revised and enlarged by
Prof. George Fl. Howison, Of the Uni
versity CT California, is one Of the
most valuable reference books a library
can contain. Comprehensive and con-
densed, it gives the hurried man lust
what he wants, and while we all appre-
clate the great joy of chasing the right
word through the labyrinth of our
minds until, like Sentimental Tommy,
we succeed unassisted in capturing it,
the practical advantage of having Eng
llsh synonyms Gagged and accessible ap-
Peals to the weary ones who lack time
for the mere qualification of selfish SEN
tnent.
"A Dictionary of English SYNONYMS and
Synonymous or Parallel Expressions. by
Richard Soule. New edition revised
and enlarged by George H. Howison.
Little, Brown G Co., Boston. For sale
pany.
Notes.
Hon. Richard Olney, late secretary of state
gives the May Atlantic his recent Harvard
ADDRESS upon, sThe International Isolation OF
the United States. From Europe in Matters
OF international Political Interest" He Dc. nts
out that this is something different from and
Independent of the Monroe doctrine. end has
grown out of the physical separation of the
two continents. First formulated by Wash
ington. it has been rigidly adhered to for a
century. until now Mr.. Olney is inclined to
think that circumstances have changed and
demand different policy. and he suggest,
splendid possibilities from an Anglo-Amari-
can alliance, or. at least, from more aetiye
cooperation in the general international con-
Germs of the world.
At a recent meeting of the New York
Library association and the New York Lib ar ,
club committee was appointed to go careful
ly over the works of fiction published in 1897
and make list of those deemed worthy OF
permanent shelf room in public libraries,
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What is SCOTS Emul-

What is Scott's Emul-
sion?
1t is the best cod-liver oil,
partly digested, and com
bined with the hypophos-
phites and glycerine. What
will it do? 1t will make
the poor blood of the anamic
rich and red.
twill give nervous energy
to the overworked brain and
nerves. 1t will add flesh to
the thin form of a child,
wasted from fat-starvation.
1t is everywhere acknowl-
edged as The Standard Of
the World.
soc. and sr.oo, all druggists
S~Oi Z BOVINE. Chemists. New York.
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the emperor and empress of Austria but as
females are excluded from the Austrian
throne. she may only become a queen as
lesser women become MRS" AS far as
rank goes she~is well fit ed to mate with a
king, and 1t seems like bit OF history re-
peating itself. for the last king of Spain mar
ried an archduchess of Austria, and the pres
ent king Is thus half Austrian by blood The
dreadful thought that turks back s in remela-
bering the mad father of the fiancee-e lect
and the fear and horror of such hertdi:y
Alphonso is deIicale but bright, ard the
same seems true Of young Elizabeth.
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Aqueous.


ITCH Judge
She Go the doctor)-How did you find old
Mrs. rawes?
The Doctor-I found her head nearly sub
merged. She had waterfall behind and cat
aracts over both eyes.
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The books published were many, but those
inst came up to the committees standard
were Few enough. They were only seven,
ana were the following: ION the Face of the
waters, by Mrs. Fla. Steel; "St Ives" by
ROBERT Louis Stevenson: /" The Gadfy," by
4. L. Voynch; School for Saints by John
Oilyer Hobbies; Captains Courageous" by
huayard kipling; Hugh Wynne, Free Quak-
er. by DR.. S. Weir Mitchell, and 1.-The Choir
INVISIBLE by James Lane Allen.
The May number Of Che Pall Mall Magazine
VIII be especially rich In fiction Besides
Antnony Hopes enthrailing conclusion to the
PRISONER of Zenda, "stfie number will include
second installment Of Mr.. Cutcliffe Hyne's
thriiilng stories Of adventure on the Spanish
Main entitled. Prince Rupert the Buccan-
eer;g La Bellertsusesr an exciting tale of
theatrical life. by Mr.. &C. E. Raimond; while
Miss Nesbit the well-kaown poetess, will con-
tribute another Of hey charming stories Of
children. All these stories are sun,ptuouslv
Illustrated by the leading artists-Mr. Gren-
Vile Manton, Mr. lBsfaard Higham, etc.
Inc first of series OF American Letters"
oy Henry James, appears in the current num-
Der or Literature. the periodical published in
London by the Times and here by Harpers.
They are to be letters on American literature.
Topic on which, Henry James speaks with
authority He Is critic with such delfcacy
OF perception and with SO large a view of
MS subject that In two senses American liter
ature Will be the' gather by his critical dis
cussion of 1t. eri s-
The Critic of April 16 gives an interesting
study OF the composite play compiled from
the writings of Ian Maelaren. and produced
at Chicago on April II under the title of ''The
Bonnie Brier Bush"
The May number Of st. Nicholas opens
with an article by Tudor jerks on Three
Boys In Armor,' describing the famous por-
traits OF Don Carlos lBalthazar, Prince VIII
lam OF Orange, and. Charles H., painted by
Velasquez and Van Dyck. Fine reproductions
OF the pictures are given. An article illustrat-
ed by Nine. Rcnner and others describes
"Pussinella," cat that was born in palace.
Pussinella was a fine Angora cat, of most
lmperiors ways, that was presented by Queen
Marguerite to little Italian girl, the
daughter Of one Of King Humbert's aides.
Frank Stocktons interesting Pirates of
the American Coast" which is now running
In st. Nicholas, will after it's course as
serial, be issued by the Macmillan company
under the title Of buccaneers and Pirates
Of Our Coasts"
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the st. Paul Book and Stationery COM
ga Night in Acadie."

Mrs. Kate Chopin is already known
as the writer of Creole stories of a
very. quaint and charming kind. ga
Night in Acadie" contains enough good
material to give her an enviable place
among the short story writer's of the
day if she did not already have one.
The title story of her latest collection
is very pretty sketch of sudden love.
and in subtlety of treatment strikes the
key note Of the book.
''Athenaise," besides being a charm
ingly told love story. is an extremely
subtle study of a very possible over :
strung and undereducated girl who
persuades herself that she hates bit
terly the man to whom she is married.
a man in his way quite as interesting
to the reader and as well drawn as the
young 'Cadian girl is in hers. The
sketch is ambitious and successful. The
dozen or more other tales that the book
contains are equally pleasing, though
less aspiring, and for stories written
in dialect they are unusually readable
and fascinating, though perhaps a
trifie monotonous if not judiciously
scattered by the reader over many days.
"a Night in Acadie," by Kate Chopin. Way
& Williams, Chicago SIPS. For sale by
the St. Paul Book and Stationery com
pany.