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The times., 1898-02-20
But only One above us
Tbe Maid of Ca har.

By the blue lagoons Of Bonny' Where
the oleanders blow.
DweUs q little dusky maiden, pacing
sadly to and fro.
By the Kibbi where. we trysted' SUN
see her standing there,
With a wreath OF red ehupattleS
crowning her luxuriant hair.
80 return" L hear her calling Ger the
crue! habo: baf.
80 return again and love me, on the
coast of Calabar."
o, the happy days we wandered meath
the luscious tum-tum tree,
Listing to the loye-sick numbers of the
gentle chimpanZee.
And she'd lift her amber eyelids, ask
ing me in accents bland.
"If you love your Fanti sweetheart,
why forsake this coral strand?'
And I'd answer, Lovely maiden, mar
ry you, alas, I can't:
But I'll think of you forever as Sis
ter o. an aunt
And my thoughts still wander south
ward to our ancient trysting place,
Where they manufacture biscuits for
the faithful canine race:
And / see my ebon angel. standing on
the distant shore
(She espoused an Egba chieftain in
the spring of '74):
o farewell my sweet enchantresst o
farewell my Bonny Star!
In my heart you live forever. little
maid o. Calabar,
Pail Mall Gazette.
The times., 1898-02-20
"Tbe Lion of Jenino (,

Maurus Jokai's Turkish novels form n
class by themselves, full of the fataIisrn
aud intrigue. fierce feuds and terrible
deeds, of Oriental despotisms. The first
edition of "Janicsarok Vegnapjai." liter
ally translated THE Last Days of the
Janissaries," appeared some forty-iiye
years ago. The present translator. r.
Nisbet, Balm. has thought we'll to change
this title, and call his translation 1.-THE
Lion of Janina,i' thus giving the place of
prominence to Ali Tepelent. Pasha of
Janina the chief character in the book
The story of this old rutffan. whose dar-
ing, ingenuity and relentlessness in car
rying out his atrocious purposes amount
ed TO absolute genius. is told in Jokais
usual mastery way. The Magyar novel
ist never wastes words. He tells an
Oriental story In the same terse and un-
impassioned style in which he would re-
count the doings or a milder set of char
acters. The most prominent character
istics of this particular novel are its
vividness of description and it's atmos-
phere of fatalism. The prophecy made
in the beginning of the book Is literally
fulfilled in every particular. Ali Pasha
himself seems to be thoroughly satisfied
that it will be fand occupies the attitude
rather of a man who knows his fate and
is resolved to play his part on the great
stage of human life. than of man in
rebellion against destiny as II is revealed
to him. This attitude OF mind is almost
incomprehensible to the Westerner. The
Western hero of a novel is seldom
fatalist If he sees calamity coming his
one thought Is to avert the evil. He
is always in rebellion against destiny in
some form or other. but this Oriental
greybeard told that he has but two years
more to live accepts the decree with in
scrutable calmness, and proceeds to live
out his life exactly as the prophet has
foretold. He is an interesting old scoun-
drel and the question of what he VIII do
next occupies the full attention OF the
reader from the beginning to the end OF
this remarkable book The Lion OF ia
nina, is novel without hero or heroine,
and there is no love story in it. 1t is a
romance of mdomitable Will ana IRE
sistible fate (New York: Harper
BROTHERS. Washington: Woodward q
J.othrop)
The times., 1898-02-20
Marie Louise Pool.

I'm the Red Bridge Neghborhood, :"
the latest work of Maria Louise Pool, is
one of those books which lead one to
wonder why some people, and inciden-
tally some books. should ever have been
created. IL is a grewsome sort of a book,
but its greWSoRleness is not at all of the
Poe type. 1t is sgualid commonplace,
creeping sort OF horror, a daylight hor-
ror, the kind ofthing that stays with one
all the time in sociable family fashion
The story is very simple. A young girl
marries an unworthy man, the son of a
very unpleasant old miser, and finds her
husband slowly developing all Of his
fathers traits, and is haunted by the fear
that her son may one day come out with
the iamfly characteristics Inch by
inch she iszbroken: down, ground down.
made. to pinch and save and contrive,
turned into a slave for two grasping.
narrow, hard men. her beauty faded, her
strength gradually giving way, all of her
compressed into the narfoweSt possible
limits except her heart and her con-
science. Meanwhile the husband whom
one cannot respect in the least for any
thing, is scandalizing the neighborhood
with his attentions to another woman.
1t is commonplace story enough-only
the story Of the wreck of a woman's hap
pineSs-and the atmosphere is so entire
ly that OF everyday life-life with all the
romance taken out of it and nothing left
but the dregs-that the picture is consid-
erably more depressing than anything
Poe could do. The grewsomeness comes
in by way of the old miser whose char
acter is a very uncanny one, in subtle
way. He is the sort OF man that peo-
pie do not like to live with; the sort of
man, who, If one met him in railway
station, would inspire one with desire
TO get up and go out on the platform for
some fresh air, and then look furtively
over ones shoulder 10 see if his eyes fol-
lowed the movement. An additional ele-
ment OF unpieasantness is a gross and
half-comic sarcasm, with which the old
man is endowed. Altogether "Old
Nawn' is a sort of Silenus endowed with
love for dollars instead of drink, and
clad in semi-respectable farmers habit
mentS. Imagine a sensitive woman
gradually tracing in her husband a like
ness to such a man; imagine her tied
down to monotonous routine of farm
work for few years, without permis-
SION TO incur the expense of visitors or
new gowns for social occasions, and you
have very good beginning for a case of
insanity. Olive. however does not be-
come insane. She survives her husband
and his father, and is rewarded in the
last chapter with a comfortable home
But one is tempted to ask whether it
was worth going through SO much, even
In book, to obtain so little. CNew
York: HARPER & Brothers Washing
ton: Woodward & LothrOp. $1501
The times., 1898-02-20
Prof. Wards Book.

Outlines of Sociology" by Prof
! Lester Z. Ward, of Washington, is
! just what its title Indicates careful
of social phenomena. 1t is made up
out of a course of lectures delivered
az the School of Sociology of the Hart
ford Society for Education Extension,
two or three years ago. After these
lectures We're delivered they appeared
in The American Journal of Sociology,
in very much the form they have
taken in the book The first half of
the volume is devoted to the nature
otEer sciences, and its data; the sec
ond part treats of its purpose, practi-
cal use, and of sociological facts and
forces Although a great part of the
book is given up to the discussion of
problems already familiar to the stu
dent. there are some arguments made
by Prof. Ward which are essentially
different from those employed by 9TH
er writers. One point which he makes
very early in the book is that whereas
opponents of religion, and some of its
strongest supporters, have virtually as
sumed that a religious condition ar
gued feeble intellectual powers, the
contrary is in reality true. He cites
the argument of Benjamin Kidd, in
Social Evolution in which religion
is made the handspring of human pro-
gress, while the reason is charged with
being anti-social and progressive
Prof Ward, on the contrary consid-
erS that religion has its very origin
in reason, and that eventually these
TWO great human movements, the spir-
itual and the intellectual, Will arrive
at the same goal. OF the two great
religious divisions of the world, the
Western and the Eastern, he argues
that the Oriental is pessimistic be-
cause of the unf&vorable conditions
OF his existence, and his intellectual
activity in the line of metaphysics,
while the Occidental is optimistic.
owing TO dislike for metaphysics and
greater freedom of action
another rather original argument
made in this book is that the highest
faculty of man is not the altruistic,
but the intellectual. and that the no
blest ambition of which the human be-
ing is capable is that for the discov-
cry of truth. One of the arguments
brought forward in support of this
view is that the altrust must inevita-
bly,. in time, come to the end of his
powers, for if il can be conceived that
all the people on earth win one day
become intensely altruistic there will
be no suffering to remove and hence
no way Of increasing happiness, and
the altruist Will thus be left without an
occupation; whereas truth being in
| finite, the discovery of truth can new
er, in the nature of things. cease to
develop and to become greater. wiser
and more useful. This argument is
I a
pie will doubtless disagree with the
author, but, at any rate he supports
his view very cleverly, and the chapter
is an interesting one (New York:
| Macmillan & Co. Washington: All
booksellers. So
The times., 1898-02-20
A SIumher Song

Baby. you stand by gate that leads
Into a land of dreams:
There's a drowsy watchInan here who
heeds
Never the struggling CLEANS
OF light that stray from the far-or
Always for him its twinklfng begun
And watch and wait.
And watch--and wait!
Little one, hear what the stream sings
of
Here in this quiet land:
1t sings of the joy of mother love
Sings to birds in the sand
To the strange, tall birds, with dreamy
eyes,
That look at you,. dear, In mute sur
And watch and wait.
And watch-and watt
If you open the gate no one will know;
The guard will never guess.
You must open it gently. slowly-sO,
No one has heard. unless
Those dreamful birds, or the dream
land sheep, ~
Heard you stealing through their land
of sleep
While I stood by the gate,
And watch and wait,
And watch-and wait.
Oh, strange are the birds and sheep
that dwell
Here in the land Of dreams,
But you must not see and you must
not tell,
However strange it seems,
Or they'll never let you in again.
And 1t would not please you, baby,
then,
Just to stand at the gate,
And watch and wait.
And watch-and wait.
Meredith Nicholson.
The times., 1898-02-20
THE TIMES WASHINGTON, SUNDAY FEBRUARY 20 1898

Payson should have known better than
to dabble in melodrama when dealing
with newspaper Offices. There Is plen-
ty of melodrama in some phases of
newspaper work, but not that kind. It
is kind to which one becomes accus-
toned, so that nothing can surprise
one. But the very STACEY melodrama OF
rich uncle, fortune, deserving hero and
'opportune will is not the kind which
happens nlreab life, and real life is all
that newspaper Office has any bust
ness to treat. N4
And there are false touches elsewhere
in the book. On the very front page
there is one. Journalism is defined as
copy making, and copy is defined as
inky paper about to become inky type.
Now, the real reporter uses pencil,
unless he is so fortunate as to securd
typewriter to himself. But for all
that, the book is amusing, and wortl,
the short time it will take to read 1t.
New York: New Amsterdam Book
Company. Washington: All booksell-
ers.)
The times., 1898-02-20
A Light woman

She had as many loves as she had folIies.
And all her light loves sang her
praises;
But now, beneath a tangle Of sea-hollies
And pale sea-daisies.
Here at the limit or the hollow shore.
Folly and praise are covered meetly Ger
We will not tell her beads of beauty
over:
All that we say and all we leave un-
Be buried with her now: since there's no
lover
But Scatters on her bed
Pansies for thoughts, and woodruff
white as she.
And, for remembrance. quiet rosemary
Here is the end of laughter. and here
wither
Sorrow and mirth: here dancing feet
fall still;
Here where the sea-pinks flower and
fade together.
Even at the winds wild Will
All! lull her softly in her quiet home
She was your sister, Sea, and light as
foam.
Nora Hopper in Black and White
The times., 1898-02-20
An Obstacle.

I was climbing up a. mountain PAIN
With many things to do.
Important business of my own,
And other peoples, too,
When / ran against Prejudice
That quite cut off the view.
NV work was such as could not wait,
My path quite clearly showed,
My strength and time were limited,
/ carried quite load,
And there that hulking Prejudice
Sat all across the road.
So I spoke to him politely.
For he was huge and high.
And begged that he would move bit
And let me travel by;
He smiled, but as for moving!
He didn't even try.
And then / reasoned quietly
With that colossal mule;
My time was short, no other path
The mountain winds Were cool;
i argued like Solomon,
He sat there like fool.
Then / flew into passion,
/ danced and howled and swore,
/ pelted and belabored him
Till / was stiff and sore;
He got as mad as / did,
But he sat there as before.
And then 1 begged him on my knees;
l might be kneeling STILL
If so hoped to move that mass
OF obdurate ill-will;
AS we'll invite the monument
To yacate Bunker Hill
So I sat before him helpless,
In an ecstasy of woe;
The mountain mists We're rising fast.
Tie sun was sinking slow,
When sudden inspiration came,
AS sudden winds do blow.
took my hat; I took my stick,
My load 7 settled fair
1 approached that awful incubus
With an abaend-minded air.
And walked directly thro' him.
AS if he WASH 'tsthere!
Charlotte F. Stetson.
The times., 1898-02-20
A Kentucky Phenomena.

(From the Hawesvile, Ky, Clarion)
Six years ago there fell on the DEFER
nett farm in an old field, four miles from
Hawesville, about barrel of small
green pluIns, supposed to be the South
ern hog plum They are TO be found
growing nowhere hereabouts, but were
droped there during a wet and stormy
period, such as we had for ten days re-
Gently. People came miles to see the
wonder, but it had about dropped out of
memory, when on last Friday night dur
ing like spell about one-half bushel
more fell in exactly, the same spot. The
remarkable part is that nowhere else
were pIums found on either occasion.
The times., 1898-02-20

human doings: it is a life in itself, and
treated as such. This lack of persona
fication is trait peculiar to Miss
Stein One feels in reading these po-
ems that the boundary between ami
mate and inaninate, between man and
nature, has simply melted into obscur-
ity. All things are sentient; all things
have their own beauty, their own
charm, and that is the charm of this
Way to the Woods" (Boston: Cope
land & Day. Washington: All book
Sellersl
The times., 1898-02-20
The Maid of Destiny.

Little maid, Little maid. | heard your
voice calling
Away back in the years of my boy
hoods first dreams:
1t sang in the lisp of the shy waters fall
ing
In sun-dimpied ripples in wild wood
land streams
1t piped in the call of the bird of the
meadows
And laughed in the IiIt of the bird on
the wing;
1t lurked in the drowsily whispering
shadows
OF green-arbored summer and light
hearted spring.
And then maid of mine, when my boy
hood departed.
And its dreamingS gave place to the
bright quests of youth.
L still hear the call of nay love, tender
hearted.
Far up on the pathway of progress and
truth.
1t is well that at last you are sitting be-
side me;
Yet through the long years l had
known that place
By your side, dearest heart, could not
long be denied me-:
That soon. love. my eyes would behold
your dear face.
They say that I met you and won you,
not knowing
That your voice in my heart was my
childhood's first song;
And that song in my heart. dearest love
is bestowing
A blessing that shields fsle from weak
ness and wrong
Little maid. Little maid. may hear your
voice calling
Away down the hills and the wales of
the years:
May its song on my heart be, oh, tender
ly falling
When ife's journey ends in the valley
of tears!
Chicago Record
The times., 1898-02-20

The original drawings for Senator
Lodges STORY of the Revolution" now
appearing in Scrbner's Magazine, have
been collected and are being exhibited in
cities throughout the country under the
auspices of local patriotic societies. They
are now in New York, and will thence
come to Baltimore and Washington.
The times., 1898-02-20
LITERARY NOTES.

The Pail Mall Magazine for March will
contain a highly interesting description of
Stag Hunting in the Olden Time" illus
trated by reproductions of quaint old
prints. Another feature of this number
will be an article by the Duchess of
Cleveland on Battle Abbey, which was
built by William the Conqueror on the
site of the Battle of Hastings, and is now
owned by the Duchess of Cleveland.
The times., 1898-02-20

One of the things said by Mr.. Richard
lie Galienne when he landed on American
shores the other day was that he consid-
cred Stephen Phillips the most promising
of the younger English poets at present.
Whatever may be thought of Mr.. lie Cal
lenne as a whole his taste in this respect
is rather good. The book of poems just
ISSUED by Mr.. Phillips contains some re-
markabl work
The times., 1898-02-20

Cy Warman's new volume OF fiction,
",rhe Express Messenger, and Other Stor-
les is attracting a great deal of atten-
tlon. The stories are those of a man who
has seen and felt that which he describes.
The times., 1898-02-20

One of the features of the February
number of Little Folks is an article about
the three little children of the late Chi
nese Minister, Mr.. Yang Yu. This num-
Der is, of course. a valentine number,
and contains stories by Abby Morton
Diaz, Sophie SWEET and others.
The times., 1898-02-20

When was letter postage In this
country reduced from three to two
cents? j. F. p.
October /, zss3.
The times., 1898-02-20

The second of the Little Journeys to
the Homes of American Statesmen by
Elbert Hubbard. takes for its subject
Benjamin Franklin, and the wise llumor-
Gus and kindly face of the old philosopher
looks out beneath a fur cap ON the 'front.'
ispiece. Among the anecdotes of Frank
lin in this little paper is one which never
got into the Sunday-school books. When
the elder Franklin was packing n barrel
of beef in the cellar. says Mr.. Hubbard
and Ben was helping him. the youthful
statesman suggested that his father ask
a blessing ON the whole barrel, once for
all. to save saying it at every meal all
winter. There is also given a description
of the Junto Club, founded by Franklin,
one of the most remarkable clubs that
ever existed. Mr.. Hubbard recounts a
few details of the great mans private
life which are not familiar to the public,
and the sketch ends with the quaint epi-
taph written by Franklin for his own
tombstone. but not to be seen thereon
The times., 1898-02-20

Through what process does a body
pass when cremated2 NJ p
1t is subjected to intense heat until
combustion is complete The body is
taken from the coffin and placed in
steel cradle, wrapped in a sheet: it is
then placed in the furnace. The gas for
producing the combustion is prepared
and led to the furnace, already heated.
The gas and air unite, creating a very
intense heat, which reduces the body
rapidly; the gases of the body supports
ing combustion. The body is reduced TO
a white lime ash
The times., 1898-02-20
CURRENT VERSE.
The Debutante.


Not yet have the dark years touched hei
With the edge of their. clinging shade
She has grown like flower in the sun
light.
This slender slip of maid
Who stands in the wing of hsr mother
1 And smiles as we greet her, dear
As the bud half-blown, as .lse daw ming
ray.
Our pride in this latest year.
We wish her joys unnumbered.
We hope for her all things bright,
That only the best may reach mel,
And never the worst alright:
That her own may swiftly find her
And her life be brimrned with cheer
AS che stands to face her future
In the morn Of this latest year.
But only One above us
May cast the horoscope
OF this sweet daughter waiting
For the doors of fate to ope.
Her steps may lead through deserts.
Through pathways steep and dreas,
Or over desolate mountains,
Through many a lonesome ysar-
Yet. as we watch her standing
Pure as a vestafs dream.
Her eyes are as an angefs,
And we may safely deem
The sweet maid sure OF hnolnS
A life of bliss and cheer,
And Wistfully we greet her
our pride. this latest year.
-Hafper's Bazar.
The times., 1898-02-20

German book of interest to psycholo-
gists and sociologists in this country is
"Abergiaube und Strafrecht," by August
Lowenstein, in which the influence of
popular superstition in promoting crime
is traced. The German peasants super
stitions are very large part of his life.
and the work of Mr.. Lowenstein has its
interest for all criminologists.
The times., 1898-02-20

In the !darch Century will appear an
article on THE Mammoth Cave of Ken
tucky," by John r. Proctor, formerly
State Geologist of Kentucky. The pa
per is illustrated by the noted French
American artist, Andre Castaigne
The times., 1898-02-20
x new series of scientific books will be

A new series of scientific books will be
published this year, under the edtorship
of Professor ]. McKeen Catell, of Column
bia University, with the cooperation of
Frank Evers Beddard. F. r. s., in
Great Britain. The first volume of the
series will be 1.-The Stars" by Professor
Simon Newcomb. and others will be
'TThe Earth as Planet Professor C. A.
Young; Earthquakes" by Major c. E.
Dutton, u. s. A.: Recent Theories of
Evolution" by J. Mark Baldwin, and
''The Groundwork of Science" by st.
George, Mivart.
The times., 1898-02-20

What is the present tariff on wool? Is
the tariff calculated on secured wool OF
wool in the dirt? A. :.
Wool is in three classes. On The first
class Merino woOls. the duty is III cents
a pound. or % cents washed or 80 cents
secured On the second class. eombing
woods. 1t is 12-cents pound. or S6 cents
secured. On the second class. DonskoI
woods. valued at less than 12 cents a
pound. il is cents; valued at more than
12 cents. z cents. The tariff is calculated
on wool in the dirt, washed wool and
secured wool.
The times., 1898-02-20

eighty Years Ago and More" reminis
cences by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, is one
of the books just out. and the story of
Mrs. Stanton's early life is q vivid illus
tration of the kind of thing that made
the Moman,S suffrage InoYenent
The times., 1898-02-20

Are James Lane Allen and Grant AL
len related? If so, how?
The times., 1898-02-20

We think not. Grant Allen was born
in Kingston, Canada, in 1913. James
Lane Allen was born in Kentucky at
much late, date.
The times., 1898-02-20

A benevolent lady in England has start
ed fund for the support of INDECENT and
infirm authors, and it is announced that
any author who has physicians certifi-
cate to the effect that his health requires
a mild climate win be received for five
or six months at home on the Riviera,
provided he will pay his own fares to the
Riviera and back, and a pound week
for his board and lodging. The bloom is
rather rubbed off this scheme, however,
by the fact that almost anybody can
board at almost any place in the vicinity
of the Riviera for less than pound
week.
The times., 1898-02-20

The first volume of Munkacsy's auto
biography has appeared in Berlin.
The times., 1898-02-20

Can you let me know how 1 can work
UP my genealOgy?
il. coRcoRAN.
We are afraid not.
The times., 1898-02-20
NOTES AND QUERIES.

Was Stratton. who discovered Grip
pie Creek, ever resident of South Da--
kota? WESSINGTON.
We think he was, though few facts
about him are TO be found. He was a
carpenter by trade
The times., 1898-02-20

A life of Millais is now in preparation.
which is to be collection of letters and
"reminiscences compiled by his son. Chap
ters will be contributed by Sir William
Howard Russell, Sir William Vernon
Harcourt. Sir Noel Patton. Holman Hunt,
Mrs. Perugini tkate Dickens. and other
distinguished friends of the artist. The
book will be issued some time next year.
The times., 1898-02-20

A book by Francis Wilson called The
Eugene Field Knew" is soon to be pub
lished by the Scrbners.
The times., 1898-02-20

Some observer of books and boozish
people lately remarked that memoirs and
"reminiscences are just now taking the
place lately held by the novel. Instead of
going back 10 realistic novels, after a diet
of romanticism, the public is taking to
hjoeran nhV
The times., 1898-02-20

Andrew Lang has begun a new series
of Letters TO Dead Authors the first of
which, addressed to Hawthorne will ap-
pear in the Chap-Book.
The times., 1898-02-20

Do the Russians celebrate New
Years on the same day that We 10?
SUBSCRIBER.
No. They are twelve days behind US
now. and keep their New Years Day
on our 18th Of January. Their Christ
mas comes on our Twelfth Night