The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-08-12

| Out of the Nursery" The verses and
songs by Eva Eickemeyer Rowland are
merry and rollicking, and written about the
real children in the pictures, for children
and lovers Of children.
Rural Wealth and welfare" by George
T. Fairchild, is a little book discussing
economic principles as illustrated and APP
! Piled IN farm life, 1t viii be good book
i for country libraries aud for agricultural
| colleges. The author has been for more
than thirty years a student Of this subject
and has dealt with it in his work at the
| Michigan and Kansas Agricultural Col
| leges He is now connected with Berea
College, Kentucky.
The book is divided into three parts:
First. productive industry; secoid, the dis
| tribution of wealth, and. third. the con-
| sumption OF wealth. Every point important
| to the farmers welfare is taken up, and
| there are numerous interesting and valu-
able charts. The authors style is clear,
condensed, and practical. He wastes no
| words, and is never obscure. This little
work should be widely read by farmers,
and by those interested in economic sub
jects as relating to agriculture. New
York: The Macmillan Company. s125.)
Mr. George Moore has lately come for
| ward with novel proposition that instruc-
tion in the public schools of the Irish
speaking districts in ireland should be
conducted in the Irish language. Mr..
Moore contends" says the London Acad-
envy that the English language, bur
dened with four hundred years of litera-
ture, has lost its freshness, and that its
fate is to become the mere language of
commerce. as Latin became the language
of theology. The literature of the future,
Mr.. Moore thinks. will be written in small
languages rather than in the universal
language Mr. Moore's views do not seeIl
to be taken very seriously, though Mr.. Ed
mund Gosse has expressed a mild approval
in print.
Sir Walter Besant calls his new novel,
soon to appear in this country and Eng
land, THE Fourth Generation"
A sequel to Bellam,'s Looking Back
ward is announced in London. Its title
will be MY After Dream" The author,
of course. is not Bellamy. Sequels not
written by the authors of the original pro-
ductions are less common in literature
than on the stage. Tom Taylor's "Ameri-
can Cousin" 1t will be remembered. was
followed by oxenford's Brother Sam
and II. ]. Byron's Lord Dundreary Mar
ried" and Done For In both of which
Dundreary was the leading character. So
Lytton's THE Lady OF Lyons" was followed
by Monyale's Lady of Lyons Married and
Settled" Other instances will readily
spring to the mind Of the o.; playgoer.
II this Chinese situation inspires any en-
terprising publisher to order sensational
novels dealing with the subject the au-
thors will certainly have to work overtime.
The ordinary plot, character drawing, and
local color will not fit in here.
George Moore is writing a new novel,
Sister Teresa" which will be, not a Sc
quel. but sort of supplement to Evelyn
Innes.' The idea of Sister Teresa was
originally in the conception of the earlier
novel; but in writing the story of Eve
Ign lines the book heightened out to 500
pages. and it had to stop. Novels of a
thousand pages are not requisite in these
days. Mr.. Moore, however, intends to put
into this new book all the material he has
for the fuller development of his idea, and
it will be published In the spring OF next
year, together with new edition of the
earlier book.
The political campaign and the Chinese
problem are the two most prominent topics
in the August Review of Reviews In
THE Progress of the World the editor
analyses the platform adopted by the DEM
ocrats at Kansas City. Among the contrib
uted articles there is brief review of the
work of the Kansas City Convention, by
Walter Wellman. followed by personal
sketches of Mr.. Bryan at Home, - "Theo-
dore Roosevelt" by Jacob A. Riis and
''Rooseveit's Work as Governor The
Chinese Revolution Is the subject OF
well-informed and timely paper By Stephen
BonsGl. Important phases OF the situation
In China are also set forth editorially.
The Saturday Evening Post tells
this little story of Homer Davenport and
his father:
Homer Davenport, the cartoonist. was an as
siduous attendant at the Republican National
Convention.
Did l tell you about my father aud Creelmaa %
he said al the close Of one OF the SESSIONS. No?
Well, it this way: My father has been mere
with me. and I've been busy .--.nting out to him
all those men people read about, so father could
feel. when he read his paper, that he was now
getting his moneys worth
well. he took them al in and yesterday we ran
against James Creeman. introduced father,
and was surprised 10 that he took it CALMLY
Well. each of them seemed to get the idea that
the other was little hard Of hearing and they
got their heads close and jumped in without any
preliminary sparring-this way.
well, you know that way OF Creelman's whap
he gets interested-jerks his head up and down
as he talks-this way Well, first thing | saw,
the brim of his straw Fedora caught the brim Of
fathers derby and damned It down over his
face. That almost ratified father but he straight
ened his hat and the talk went on A little more
and an upward jolt caught under tie derby and
tilted it clear of. but father caught it on the
drop.
Another man came up just then and father
edged away, little red in the face and breathing
trifc hard
- say Home. who is that MANI Knocked my
hat of twice"
What Didn't you knowY That's James
CreelmanP
. 'cFeelman, the correspondent and special
commissioner to high nobsP
" Yes. he's the one >
g Great Scottl And / was talking with Creel-
and didn't know itf
Il told him that was about the size of it. and
father didn't say word He just pulled his hat
down, way his ears-tight and trm-this
way. And then, with a determined look ON his
face, he waded in again"
Davenport paused few moments, and a far
away look came into his eyes. Then he added:
We'll, CreelInan just wore off the brim OF that
straw Fedora on fathers derby"
The New York Tribune" says:
Apropos Of the recent sale OF the manuscript
OF story by Robert Louis Stevenson, the Lon
don Daily Nall tells Of 4 curious experience
that Stevenson had about ffte,p years ago He
had been invited TO write n blood curdling
Christman story and he offered 'Narsheim'
As this not sufficiently sensational he sub
mittel The Bodysnatcher." Then the paper
pr ceedsd to boom il. ''Six plaster skulls
were made by a theatrical property man. Six
pairs of coffin lids, painted dead black. with
white skulls and crossbOnes in the centre for re-
lief, were supplied by a carpenter Six long
white supplies were purchased from 4 funeral |
double rates. One quiet morning, when all was
ready hey were dulv alfred With diff |