The Portland daily press., 1899-01-05

villain Of the story. The better spirit
struggle In her behalf against the cham
pions Of her cousin. The action take.
place In the rural peighborhood Of the
colonial manor, and IN part in New York
City. and presents . strange combinati on
Of natural and supernatural elements,
Peeps at People. Passages non tbs
Writings OF Anne Warrington withcrap
Journalist. BY John KendYick Ban6s
Illustrated. New York: Harper & Bros
Portland; Lorina. short h Harmony
In Peeps at People Mr.. Bangs makes 4
decidedly novel departure and indulses IN
what might be termed satire In dupiica n
first at the expense Of Mise witherup, q
typical woman "interyiewer, and
secondly at that Of the celebrities who
fall a prey to her prying persistency and
her agile pen.
Miss Anne Warrington withsrup ssts
forth 10 the shrines Of the worlds illus-
trious In order TO write up celebrities 1t
home for an Ansricsn paper She goes
first to Nansen whom she finds on an
Toe foe which was passing the winter In
the far famed Maslstrosn; then TO Gloom.
star Abbsy, Isle Of Man, the rssidence Of
Hall Caine; and from there TO Berlin
where, as the Warehouses Of Spuyssn
Duyville and Princess Of Hssrlsm
Heights, she calls upon HE Imperial
Highnem William the Second. better
known as the Yellow Kid of Potsdam.
In Englandfsbe sees Mr.. Alfred Austin;
Miss Phipps-Phipps. representative Of
Andrew Lang who is not an individual
but corporation engaged In turning out
an average of 647, Oo0. 900 words year;
and Sir Henry Irving. In Poland she In
tsrviews the De Resskes who are farming
with the cid of the members Of the Opera
company; and Henry Sienkiewiez, who
IL not going to lecture In Ameriea be-
cause no one can proneanoe his name.
and he could not, therefore. be introduced
to his audience.
lola she finds In Paris. General Weyler
in Spain, Ian Maclaren In Scotland, and
Rudyard Kipling on . p & steamer,
and In each and every oase the situations
are original and comical and the inter
views replste with humor and Wit.
The.New God. haLslated from the
German of Richard Yoss by Mary
Robinson. New York: Harper n Broa
Portland Loring. Short h Harmon.
The New God (Dsr Meme Gott) is visor-
GUS and brilliant romance Of the day of
Ttbertus, many of the chAracters being
those WHOSE names the gospel narrative
has already made familiar. The atmos-
phere Of the story Is full of the vague
unrest that 10 supposed to have filed the
world with the coming Of Christ. and the
introduction Of PLATE. Mary Msgdeiene,
and others lends 1t much vividness and
dramatic strength.
Vslosianus, the king OF priests, has an
intense disgust Of things earthly and
heavenly, and leaves the priesthood. In
the country he realizes the beauty OF
heaven and earth and is seizsd with an
irresistible longing to wander through all
creation In order to seek God-a living
God. He falls In with young Hebrew
maiden, Jarius's daughter. who has been
raised from the dead, an d together they
90 TO Capri where 1iberius is holding
rsye Is In the Jupiter villa. On the way
Jairus's daughter n o vision describes
the closing events In Jesus life then hap
pepipg. Then the scene reverts to Je'usa
lem at the time following the cruoii3xior
Of the Christ and the legend Of Veronica.
Tiberius seeks the new God, dies. and
CaIieula becomes Emperor. Mary Mag
dalene tries to convert the Emperor, AND
after spurning his love is orucihed
A book has Just beel' issued by TIT
Knickerbocker Press--Putnam's New
York-which will intereAt the Portland
reading community, from the Tact ma
Its author is Edward Payson .Passon form
erly IA resident here, 1and gAsndson o
DIR. Payson.
The volume is modestly entitled S'ug
gestions towards an Applied Schemes
Sociology. but the student of shat grs at
est of modern problems the bettesmcnt
social conditions, win find herein ella y
" reasoned and most interesting ess=i
upon this and allied subjects.
Mr.. Payson maintains the ground thsa
without regard to antagonisms Of relig'
ious belief, and admitting freely that
religion, aspiration and divine hope
are the light of the world and may vivify
all Its work "a day effort, In his own words
"from the infant just becoming receptive
to impressions, to the criminal with many
a congenital or acquired dsformity,
humanity is capable of physical manipu-
Iation; and that one price for its at least
par tial regeneration is an adequate and
adapted physical treatment in criminal
Jurisprudence, education and philan'
thropy."
A brief notice Is not the place for the
analysis Of q thesis developed ~ clearly
and as brilliantly as that under examine
ton; but the fact should be distinctly
emphasized that Suggestions towards
Applied Sociology Is notable contribu
ton to the literature Of . science still II
a form alive stats. 1t is such thought a
this that gives hope of Its progress.