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CURRENT VERSE.
BenutifuI lean

Beautiful Jean, when the spring g-iime comes.
And the goid-he4ted bee in the locust huns
When IN biiioWs Of pink the peach,bi0om blows
And apple and plum scatter swirls oi SHOWS
When the scarlet wreath oi the cross-vine swings
And the blueteii there in the garden rings
No blossom aglow through the world of green
Is iair as your lace, my beautiful jean
Beautiful lean, when the poppies burn
And the grapes into gold and purple turn:
Wien the .ippiius wheat hides the partridge
nest,
And the trumpet flower aaunts With his flaming
When the ferns droap low by tie woodland
And the gre; dove coos in blissfal dream
No charm of the summer gives soul 10 the
scene
As the sweet. sweet smile Of beautiful Jean.
Beautiful Jean, when the astcrs blaze
And the gcutiaHs glcam by the country ways;
When the naples flush with q royal red
Where the broken heart OF the autumn bed;
For glory OF earth that is passing away
Your heart Is aglow IN golden sheen,
fOrsaking me not, my beautiful Jean.
Beautiful jean when The north wind blows
And the desoutc fields are furslken 90 suovsi
When the dead branch waves in The duh grey
glooms
And the blossoms are laid in their chilly tombs,
When the lilies Eit in their pride no more,
And the ruse5 all are dream Of yore-
You reign in my heart. my empress, my queen
Through sun OF through Snow, my beautiful jean
Walter Malone.
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APPIAN'S ROMAN HISTORY In two volumes.
Translated from the Greek by Horace White,
VI. A., Ii. D. New York: The Macmillan
Company.
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nr1nn,inr Bird.

When the. mild gold stars flower out
As the Summer cleaning goes,
dim shape quiyers about
Some sweet, TiCh heart vi a rose.
Ii YOU watch its iuttering poise,
From palpitant wings wall steal
a hum like the eeIie noise
OF an elm spinning wheel.
And then from the shapes vague sheen
Quick usJers of blue viii float,
That melt in a luminous green
Round q glimmer OF ruby throat.
But doetly across the gloom
This trcmuous shape VIII dart,
While searching for some fresh bloom,
To quiyer about lis heart,
Then YOU by thoughts OF it stirred,
VIII dreamiiy question them:
'Is il gem. half-biTd,
Or is il a bird, half-gem:'
Edgar FawCett.
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In the house of Ibn MokbiI,
Stands a vase;
Masters ii YOU ask as
What within its heart is dreaming,
Heart Of gold and crystal cleaning,
We shall answer.
All the riches Of Damascus,
Cairo or ShiTaz.
No man-even Ibn M0kbil-
Ever guessed,
Whence it clme-who brought III;
But it stood there one tair morning,
All the simple place adorning
With its beauty
People said that jinn had brought it
Faith IS best.
In the house Of Ibn Mokbil,
Till it came,
There was nothing, only
just his books and herbs for healing,
And his prayer mat worn with kneeling,
And the old man,
With his sleepless eyes and lonely
Heart Of flame.
Full of woe was Ihn M0kbl
To behold
Brothers overtaken
By miSfortune-sitting restless
In his house f0rlorn and guestless,
With larder
Empty, and a purse forsaken
OF its gold.
For the spirit Of the iakir
Loved the light,
And the burden weighing.
Deeper still with every morrow,
OF the peoples want and sorrow
Bent and aged him.
And his knees were sore with uraviug
Day and night.
Then somehow, 20 Ibn Mokbn
Came the vase.
And the tale would task ne.
Hall to tell what meat and treasure
Things Of help and things Of pleasure,
Dverbrimmed it.
All the riches of Damascus,
Cairo or Shiraz.
Now the doors Of Ibn Mokbn
Open wide
Moan is heard no longer
Now the gifts are overflowing;
Coming round the vase and going,
Crowd the people:
None that all and none that hunger,
Are denied.
For the vase, a magic fountain,
BY unseen
Hands at midnight charging
Jim, they s1y-its store renewelh
Ready for the lip that sueth,
First az morning.
Heapcd about the flashing margin,
Gold and green.
Yet one law for Ibn Mokbi,
Ii he break,
spoils and ends the treasure:
Round the vase it runs in letters.
Woven like a wreath of letters:
Not one title
Must the iakir for his pleasure
Touch or take.
Never mUrmurs Ibn Nokbil,
Nor complains:
Though the fierce and greedy
Enter at lis gate ior piunder,
Scattered by no bolt Of thunder,
Yet untTOubled.
He, a fakir, poor and needy,
Still remains.
In the house Of Ibn Mokbil
Nothing stays,
OF the gifts returning:
All IS empty; II is lonely;
Save the b. oks and prayer mat only,
And the fakir.
With his cleaning eyes and burning
Heart Of praise.
For the vase beyond the crystal
To his eyes
Now when day Is sinking
Opens like a rift Of heaven,
And the things of Allah given
Dreams and visions
Pour unon his spirit, drinking
Paradise.
To the ears Of Ibn NokbiI
Angels tell
Stories how the bringer
OF the faith cf old still careth
For the foot that strictly iareth
And he listens.
Falls a voice divine. the singer,
ISRAELI.
krgfs sl,s11 T4,,,r,,,5 10
The times., 1899-11-19

Three young H0osiers who have come
into prominence Of late are Booth Tark-
ington. author of The Gentleman From
Indiana" George AIDE, author of "Artie, 3"
Doc. Horne" and Fables in Slang, and
John T. McCutcheon, the artist and war
correspondent, who has done such notable
work in the Philippines. All three attend
ed Purdue University, at Lafayette and
were members of the same college frater-
nifty. Harrington and McCutcheon are
still under thirty.
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native tribes, is a matter which cannot be
decided off-hand. II will be easier TO an
swer questions on that subject twenty-five
or fifty years hence. (New York; G. P.
Putnam's s Sons. S1.25D
The times., 1899-11-19

Things as They Are" is a small book
by Bolton Hall, author of Even as You
and ]" The first half of the book consists
OF series OF short essays on ethical sub
jects, with an introduction by George d.
Heron. They are full of good wholesome
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NOTES AND QUERIES.

What is 2 "seli-cousaiaed" euginel Ally.
This term is usually applied TO engines
that are mounted on their own boilers.
The times., 1899-11-19

"The Half Back is that rara avis, a
football story. Considering the large part
which football plays in the life of the av-
erage modern boy, it is rather curious that
more fiction has not been written about it.
This particular book for boys is by Ralph
II. Barbour. and the hero is a country boy
who goes to an academy of some impor-
tance. and eventually becomes both a IA
nous football player and fine scholar.
The interest of the story is fairly well
sustained, and the football atmosphere re-
produced with considerable care. 1t is said
that one or two of the incidents in the
story, which sound rather as if they we're
made up TO suit the exigencies of the plot,
have been duplicated in football games dur
ing the present season. The book viii inter
est boys of from ten to sixteen years old.
There is a most orthodox moral-that
knowledge, and not athletics. is the end
and aim of school and college life; but
the average boy is not likely to read the
book for the sake OF the moral New
York: d. Appleton & Co. $3.50.
The times., 1899-11-19

James Barnes has written the ro-
mantle story of Colonel John Laurens' spe-
cial mission TO France in 1881. II is a sto-
Ty that has almost never been told; yet
Laurens mission is believed to have been
the one thing that saved the cause of
American independence at moment when
it seemed to be lost. The article will be
fully illustrated by Howard Pyle
The times., 1899-11-19


Salads. Sandwiches, and Chafng Dish
Relishes" is a dainty little work by Janet
Mckenzie HILL editor of the Boston
Cooking School Magazine, and deserves
especial mention above most other books
of its kind, because it is really useful.
Those who buy the book in expectation Of
finding many new chafing-dish recipes
will. however, be disappointed, for this
department only fills about onequarter
of the work, the first half being devoted
10 salads and salad dressings, and the re-
naming space to sandwiches. To the
housewife who likes new and dainty ways
of serving food this book will simply be
a godsend. There must be more than
hundred different varieties of salad among
the recipes-salads made of fruit, of fish,
of meats. OF vegetables, and made to look
pretty in scores Of different ways.
There are also instructions for making
different kinds Of lemonades and other
soft drinks, and for making breads and
rolls in the truly artistic cooking school
style. The illustrations, thirty-twO in
number show how many of the dishes look
when prepared and are valuable as
supplement 10 the text. Since the intro
duction of five-o'clock teas and like refine
ments among the middle classes in Amer
lea, there have been many peTplexed
housewives who have sought in vain for
information regarding the proper way to
serve the more complicated dishes appro-
pirate to these functions. No cookery
book yet published contains more of such
information than this little volume. 1t
would make a delightful Christmas gift for
almost any housewife. Boston. Little,
Brown & Co. $1.50)
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Is it true that an American Indiln IS exempt
from msIpcNt EN
No; thousands OF them have dieI of the
disease
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An Tnappreciated Victor.

Who is it, when a wars declared
That's always the spot prepared,
To keep his side from being shared!
The censor
Who keeps the friends Of those who fight
Assured that cycrythings an right
Who sends them pleasant dreams az night?
The censor,
Who spoils the angry i0omln's aim,
Who thwarls their plans and blocks their game
While they move forward, just the s1me3
The censor.
Who when the dickens is TO pay,
When all the rest are in dismay,
With one stroke hrayeiy saves the day2
The censor
Who when the light is over sees
The earth strewn with dead enemies
Who is it strives so hard 10 please2
The censor
And who, despite his happy kn2ck
OF winning while he's falling back,
Is always cursed at home, alack1
The censor.
S. E. Kiser, in ;he Chicago Times Herald.
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VII yoa evplaiu boss Sc is that Iu old prints
the Is oit,n Spelled 'ye" or yt
NtNrN
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Another of T. Jenkins Hams diverting
tales of the sea is announced for immedi-
ate publication by the Lippincotts. The
Wreck of the Conemaugh" is the title Of
the forthcoming volume, which is a COM
plete novel, and not a collection of short
ctr
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IceEergs.

No port lamps CLEAN along our sides,
No banners float on highi
No human lookout raises glass
TO sean our sea or sky.
No admirals above our decks
Mid guns and gunners stand;
In hidden sheath To send the sound
OF warlike. stern command
Yet all the navics Of the world
our bows in vain assail;
We fear no smoking battletower
That thwders through the gale.
BY captains grey our path is marked,
BY sailors white and old;
For us the phantom rockets glare
And phantom bells are tolled.
In misty, UnTememhered ports
Our beacon lights were set,
BY hands long gone from mortal view,
BY forms that men forget.
And we may wander on our course
Till time at end shall be,
For in our breasts are locked the hulls
OF ships once lost at sea.
John James Meehan, IN the Criterion.
The times., 1899-11-19

Ihis use OF ''y'' originated in an Anglo
saxon char9cter whose English equivalent
is ''th." "Yt" is that. not the
The times., 1899-11-19

Rosiu, probably. Sal ammonia tallow.
oil, Venice turpentiue, and chloride cf
zine are also used as soldering duxes
The times., 1899-11-19

What was the Trc4eie Bib-c9 F.
An edition Of the Bishops Bible
which was printed about 1865 under IT,
cense from Queen Elizabeth. In Jeremiah
vii.-2, the word "trcacls" was used for
balm
The times., 1899-11-19

Bret HaTie has written new book OF
stories, and it is called Mr. Jack Ham
Inns Mediation" 1t is rather melancholy
to record it, but of late Mr.. Harte seems
to write with the intention of filing space
rather than of doing good work He may
have written himself Out-he has been
most prolific writer; and the days of the
Argonauts are passed, so that his material
of that particular kind is limited.
This his latest book, however. contains
one story which is equal TO the work done
in his palmiest days. Ii is the one which
gives its name to the recolIections of eight
little romances of California life. Ii is the
story of a woman of the Miggles type who
married and reformed and was discovered
by MIR. Hamlin on a lonesome ranch two
miles from a postoffice. There is very lit
tie padding in 1t, and a great deal of dra-
matte force and fire. Mr.. Hamlin is his
usual mastery, unique self The heroine
of the story once Nell Montgomery. now
Mrs. Joshua RyIands, is a character sketch
in the authors best manner The only per-
son who fails 10 come quite up TO expacta-
tions is Mr.. Rylands Quiet sober steady
going he does not exactly understand the
woman whom he has loved enough TO take
her out Of a music-hall life, out of San
Francisco in the ffties, and marry her after
knowing all her story. His character is
fairly well brought out in the impassioned
confession of his wife. When we find him
talking with Mr. Hamlin we are a little
disappointed He is not exactly the strik-
ing figure we have been led to expect But
after all. ii is hard to put a sober stOlid
man on paper, and the rest of the story is
good enough to make up for this slight lack
of force. 1t is in its way a remarkably
good study of one phase of feminine char
acter
OF the other stories the best is perhaps
The Boom in the 'Calaveras Clarion, ="
which is a newspaper yarn, rather i'm
probable, but no more so than many true
things. The other tales are The Man at
the Semaphore," " AN Esmeralda of Rocky
Canon" Dick Spindler's Family Christ
mas" when the Waters Were Up at
Jules, " The Secret of Sobrientes Well, >"
and Liberty Jones Discovery" (Boston:
Houghton, Mifflln & Coz
The times., 1899-11-19

"Heronford," by S. R. Keightley, author
of The Cavaliers" and two or three other
novels, is a remarkably good novel of the
last century, as such novels go. There is
nothing marvelously striking about it, but
it is well conceived and well worked out.
and interesting from beginning to end. 1t
concerns the fortunes of the house of Her
oxford, an old English family, the heir
of which tells the story. There have been
intrigues in the family history, involving
a secret marriage, forgery, a sudden
death by accident which bears the aspect
of a murder, and other interesting ele-
ments. and the untangling of these so that
the name of the hero may be cleared and
the character Of his father brought out,
forms the plot of the story. The heroine,
Victory Blythe, is the daughter of an old
sea captain, and is as winsome and attrac-
tive as one might suppose from her name.
although she plays a comparatively small
part in the story. tNew York: Dodd,
Mead & Co. S1.50)
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sentiment, in accord with the spirit OF the
age, but not especially striking in any way.
The second half Of the work is more TAX
ing both in form and style. 1t is collec-
ton Of shrewdly written fables, each voic-
ing some conviction regarding the social
or economic systems Of the day. Here is
one of them, whole Il Will give fairly
good idea OF the style:
AN APPEAL To FORCE.
Missionary went to culighten the Canni-
balls; but the Chiefs said that IL was the hat-
ural condition of the common people TO be eaten
By their rulers and would not listen az all. Inc
Priests said that his doctrines were contrary 10
the Sacred Books and that the Gods would re-
ward those who were eaten. Therefore the MIS-
slunary turned to the poor
Then The officials Of the tribe called him
denagoguc and q foreigner; and thelr party,
with political club rebuked him at the polls
The Commercial Savages said, we eat our
neighbor, rs he would eat US, which IS the
Golden Rule OF trade.
The Deyout Men OF the age said that there
was over-popultion. and that the divine intent
was that the surplus should be eaten.
The Philosophers explained that the sagos Of
old had always been mau-eaters. They showed
also that the strong and intelligent must ear
the weak and stupid; Tor this was the law oil
progress.
The Orthodox Cannibals said. 'Men arc black
and good for nothing, bUt they are toreordalned
10 be served on toast" :"
The Privileged Glasses said that it was rank
dishonesty 10 deprive the poor widow and the
orphan OF their means of subsistence. They clear
" showed that to allow the rabbe to be uneateh
would be to Overtum society.
The Missionary insisted. nevertheless, that men
should not be eaten. The rulers called mm an
Anarchist and a Bryanite, and ate hlHl, too
But next year two missionaries came
The title of another story is THE Rev.
Heavenly Holmes on the Iucorruptble In
heritance," which it may be seen that
Mr.. Hall is not burdened with overmuch
-everence for established institutions. The
book might be more striking in form than
it is-in fact, it would be an Improvement
if the fables could be published by them
selves and illustrated-but it is reasonably
entertaining just as it stands. Boston:
Small, Maynard & Co. $1.25).
The times., 1899-11-19

What does the blacksmith use f1- soldering ircn
besides horaXl FARWER
The times., 1899-11-19

What college Or university in the United states
has graduated the raast students ana ha,, r-4urf
How does Cornell rank iu thls respeets H
The times., 1899-11-19

In the days Of the Crusaders jlI an amy ef
the faithful starting Jo capture Jerusalem ever
number million men. p AID w-s theirs
chi.dreH's crusade. CLASS
Yes: the crusade of 1l47. which was
preached by Saint Bernard. included one
army led by Louis VII. of France. and
another under Conrad VII. OF Germany.
the two numbering 100000 men. The
expedition failed completely, neither army
reaching the Holy Land. ?. The Childrau's
Crusade came in 1912, and is one OF the
strangest occurrences of history. In the
belief that the Mediterranean Sea would
open before them in a path 10 Jerusalem.
and that the Moslems would be converted
to Christianity by miracles 30,090 unarIned
French children, led By a lad named Ste
phen. set out from Marseiiles- st about
the same time two armies of German
Youngsters. of 10000 each. started by diff
fereRt routes. on the same journey. Some
grew discouraged and returned. others
stopped by the way, but most Of Them
died or were sold into slavery.
The times., 1899-11-19

Harvard University with = 2S7 Ger
nell's figures are 4.755. and are exceeded
by twelve institutions
The times., 1899-11-19

The Lippincotts announce for early pub
LEGATION The True William Penn, by Sgd
ney George Fisher. Ii is in line with The
True Benjamin Franklin" and The True
George Washington" with which it is to
be sold in sets, or in single volumes, as de-
sired.
The times., 1899-11-19

Why are or were certain parts Of Russia called.
respectively, White Russia and Red Russil1 .
What were the results, ii any, Of tae Peace Con
ference? G.
There is also q Black Russia. The terms
arose from chronological differences in the
inhabitants of these districts. 2 Progress
in arbitration. extension OF Red Cross rlies.
and OF the laws OF the Brussels Confer
ence. and expression by most OF the par
ticipating states Of dislike for expansive
bullets asphyxiating gases, and the use OF
explosives from balloons.
The times., 1899-11-19

Where DOES tHe following quotation occur. ssH-s
words were bonds. bis C5th or3c!cs- his iove sins
ccre Ills thoughts immaculate. bis tears pure
images sent from the heart. his heart IS f.r ram
fraud as heaven from earth." ABC
In Two Gentlemen OF Verona. act Ir
scene
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Is the title Of baron hereditary in European
countres3 IL so. does Jhe oldest inherit lt, or
are all tie sons entitled 10 the titlct A. 5
The title is hereditary but the question
Of inheritance varies according to the g ant
or patent under which the title vas origi-
nally conveyed. The range OF variation
is from inheritance by first son 10 cases
like that OF Lord Brougham, England
where in default Of male issue. it may
pass to a collateral male relative; or OF
Lord Nelson, where it may 80 70 the heirs
of a sister.
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To the ears Of Ibn HokbI

Angels tcii
Stories how the bringer
OF the faith Of old still careth
For the foot that strictly iareth
And he listens.
Falls a voice divine, the singer,
ISRAELI.
Archibald La
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The vase of Ibn srokbiI.

In the house of Ibn Mokhil,
Stands a vase;
Masters If YOU ash as
What within its heart is dreaming,
Heart Of gold and crystal cleaning,
We shall answer:
All the riches Of Damascus,
Cairo or ShiTaZ