The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1900-03-06

array of timely and interesting articles.
No dull contribution graces- its pages.
Among the twelve papers to be found in
this number are Government Deposits in
Banks" by George e. Roberts, director of
The United States Mint Mr.. Henry o.
Dwight discusses s"Our Mohammedan
Wards - George F. Becker, United States
Geologist, portrays Rights and Wrongs
in South Africa . F. Cunliffe- Owen writes
of "Englishmen in the
United States;' William O. Partridge, the
celebrated sculptor-author, contributes an
article on ssThe True Relation of Sculp-
ture to Architecture - Ho Vow, Chinese
Consul General to the United States, gives
his views concerning western Benefits
China's Development - and
Prof. w. P. Trent furnishes review of
Mr.. Stephen Phillips Play"
From the sssalen1ander'' point of view,
however the greatest food "bonanza" of
all is a sweet potato patch. IA 'possum
up 'simmon tree or spig in clover" is
not more alive to the delights and advan-
tages of the situation. He not only eats
all he can stuff, but invites all his relatives
and friends. Nor is this all. He has
learned that in autumn sweet potatoes are
time"-and the potatoes-'by the fore
lock-" and packs them away in liberal
measure in his burrow for winter use. So
well understood are the ways and weak
ness of this underground marauder that
any suspicious mound of earth in sweet
potato field is signal for an active cam
paign of determination, which ends only
in the intruder's flight or death.-Fr0M
" Saiamanders'' and .SaIamandsy" Cats BY
Prof Norman Robinson, in ApbLetOn's
Popular Science Monthly for March.
Book News makes new departure. All
the features that have given it value and
are retained, and many new
ones are added. The shape of the maya
zine has been altered, making it handler
to read and better to bind, and the contents
will delight old readers and win countless
new ones by their variety and timeliness
and interest. There are charming analy-
ses of two historic novels-"Richard Car
vel'' and 'Janice Meredith; study of the
genius Dickens; sketches of Albert Bolles,
author of that unique colonial panorama,
the History of Pennsylvania, and of
John Ruskin; portrait and sketch of Har-
ris Dickson, author of 1.-THE Black VOLTS
Breed" with the new books by Talcott
Williams, LIZ D.; authors calendar for
March, forthcoming books, magazine re-
views, half-tone pictures from the newest
books, etc. Five cents copy; so cents
year. John Wanamaker, Philadelphia
and New York.
Rudyard Kipling's first piece of sustain
ed work since his illness last fall turns
out to be series of humorous animal
stories which are said to show all the
freshness and zest of man who has had
long rest. Kipling loves to write an an
imal story better than anything else, and
when his physicians allowed him to return
to work he instinctively turned to this
series which he had had in mind for years
Teere are nine stories, and each one is
supposed to tell the origin of the most
part of the animal portrayed.
Thus, in 'The Elephants Child" he tells
a most dro1l story of how the elephant
happened to get trunk, and in The Sing
Song of Old Man Kangaroo he gives the
history of how the kangaroo got his long
legs, for, Mr.. Kip1ing says, there was a
time when elephants had no trunks, and
legs were not as long as they
are now. The stories, it is said, show Mr..
Kipling at his very best. They are ex-
pressively funny and have that rare quail
ity of appealing to old as well as young.
The author has sent the entire series to
The Ladies Home Journal, and that mag
azine will begin their publication in its
next issue.
disaster second only to Naseby and
still more unforeseen, soon followed. Fair
fax and Cromwell laid siege to Bristol, and
after fierce and daring storm (September
I4) Rupert, who had promised the king
that he could hold out for four good
months, suddenly capitulated, and rode
away to Oxford under the humiliating pro-
lection of Parliamentary convoy. The
fall of this famous stronghold of the west
was the severest of all the kings NORTH
cations, as the failure of Rupert's wonted
courage was the strangest of military sur
prises. That Rupert was too clear sighted
not to be thoroughly discouraged by the
desperate aspect of the kings affairs is
certain, and the military difficulties of
sustaining long siege were thought even
by those who had no reasons to be tender
of his fame, to justify the surrender. The
king would listen to no excuses, but wrote
Rupert an angry letter declaring so mean
to be the greatest trial of his
constancy that had yet happened depriv
ing him of his commissions, and bidding
him begone beyond the seas. Rupert
nevertheless insisted on following the
king to Newark, and after some debate
was declared to be free of all disloyalty or
treason, but not of indiscretion.-Joh
Morley, in March Century.
E. w. Hornung's complete novel in the
March New Lippincott" called "The
Shadow of Man" is not only frst-rate
story but its quick action and general
breeziness of plot make it especially
adapted for the "New Lippincott," for
which it was written. An English girl,
fresh from Government House, at Mel
bourne, Australia, elects to visit the man
she is engaged to, who IS somewhat out OF
her set. She persuaded her legally inclin-
ed brother to take her to New South Wales
where her lover has position as manager
of a station. Their stay lasts only a week,
but life in the bush is full of excitement
and adventure, and Mr.. Hornung has put
so much enthusiasm into the telling of
that weeks happenings that the reader
should, in kindness, be warned not to
begin it until he, or she, can finish it at a
sitting. Under the title of 1.-THE Little
Christian" Maarten Martens contributes
one of his always enjoyoble tales. 1t is
about family of rich, jolly Israelites from
Paris, who are travelling through the
Italian lakes. The strong under current
Of human comedy and tragedy is splendidly
worked up. "The Grandmother's Story,
by Mrs ]. K. Hudson, is prefaced by these
words; s'This story of Mormon life and ex-
perience is a true one. The incidents
were told the writer" But she has con-
cealed ma mes and places and wholly
altered the episodes. The GRANDMOTHER"
was originally Philadelphia Quaker. Mrs.
Hudson's series on Mormon life began in
January. ''M. Galleria," steamer tale,
by Jessie Van Zi1e Be1den, is love story
hat is likely to find an echo in many
hearts.