The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-12-02

good, and the story an interesting one.
The picture of Garrick here given is a
particularly clever one. Boston: L. C.
Page & Col
miscellaneous Books.
Lucid Intervals" is the quaint title OF
book of essays by E. S. Martin. They
are OF a gently humorous type. and among
the subjects treated are Children" Ed
ucation," Swans and Damsels.' and
Husbands and Wives The first Is
charmingly illustrated with pictures OF lit
tic folk in all stages of development. The
tone OF 1t is optimistic-extremely so-as
may be seen from the following extract:
A family of well.born children. committed to
| parents who appreciate their charge and equal
to it. is Of the very best things going. The
| very best and most important thing in the world
is folks. Without them the world would be a
| mere point in space and OF no account except as
| q balance weight All that ais the world as il
is is shortage OF folks of the right quality. OF
| everything else there is enough TO go around.
| Consequently the most valuable gift that can
come to earth through is rightly consti
tuted children. Besides them all other forms Of
wealth defective.
Another chapter contains this sage
comment:
Once the hu,band Is acquired the more in
extricably he is COMPOUNDED with destiny the
better Make the mystery OF choice seem to vim
dictate itself and the mere fact that it is impen-
etrable avail nothing for its disparagement.
| The great general rule about husbands from the
standpoint of wives is-make the best of them.
Every truly wise woman doubtless begins to put
| that maxim to use her way back from the
altar rail to the church door, and continues to
use it as long she has husband.
And again:
In the present generation. for some reason or
| other. the domestic seems to have been
| pretty efectually removed from men of exccp-
| tional talent. One may tell of half dozen men
| but read the names in the other column. What
| exemplary domestic characters Tbackcray.
Tennyson. Browning. n;srael Gladstone. du
Maurier, and among Americans. Hawthorne, Coop
an invalid, and nouad. of genius. with
| every apparent excuse for being indifferent
| husband instead of which he seems 10 have been
| delightful man to live with. Ability
| won't MAKE up for serious defects of character.
| Don't marry brute. however clever he is. nor
| a man more selfish than is proper in man, nor
/! any sort Of bad man whatever, but don't dis
| criminatc against intelligence, when II eS-
/ ceeds the usual limits. man OF sense will make
| his wife happy il he can. More women suffer from
| lack of intelligence in husbands than from an
excess of it, Girls about to marry should guard
| perhaps, against choosing who are so clever
| that they won't care for their wives but they
| must take thought also against choosing men who
are dull that living with them will be uninter
| estins.
And after all this wise advice people
will probably go on choosing Just as the
fancy happens to take them, the same IS
| if 1t had never been written. But it is
| interesting as a matter of speculation,
| and good advice in itself. New York:
| Harper G. Bros. s1.50)
THE Wall Street Point of View" by
Henry Clews, reads very much as its au-
! thor looks in the portrait which forms
| its frontispiece. 1t is a clear, shrewd,
| decisive statement of certain truths of
which Mr.. Clews is evidently convinced
with absolute conviction, and whether one
agrees with its conclusions or not il is
| Interesting. In ii the author discusses
Wall Street as a gauge of business pros
| perity; the stock market: money and
usury; the railroad problem the manage
| ment of our industrial enterprises. trusts
and corporations, the art of making and
saving money, business education, false
business methods, and panics. He then
goes on tn speak OF Wall Street in its re-
lation to the Government and of its his
tory during the Administrations of Cleye-
| land, Harrison, and Mckinley. He con-
cludes with a general survey of reform
parties. labor unions, and the financial
and political situation of the country.
There is 4 paragraph in the first part
OF the book which, while it has small i'm
portance in the main argument. is worth
quoting as showing Mr.. Clews idea of
man who is untrustworthy from bust
ness point of view, and it may be added
that the qualities he condemns are in
general, those which the American re-
CARDS as essentially those of a cad. II
not only tells how not to be a good bust
ness man, but how not to be gentle
man The author says:
Avoid man
Who vilfes his bencfactor;
Who unjustly accuses others, of bad deeds;
Who never has a good word for anybody;
Who is always pratine about his own virtues
Who when ne drinks habitually drinks alone;
Who boasts OF the superiority al his family;
Who talks religion down town in connection
with his daily business;
Who talks rccklcssly against the virtue OF re-
spectacle women:
Who runs in debt with apparent intention
OF paying;
dated ahead
Who won't work for an honest living;
Who looks down upon those who do:
Who imputes bad motives to those trying to
do good;
Who betrays confidence;
Who lies.
Who is honest only for policy's sake;
Who dcceives his wife and boasts of II to Others;
Who chews tobacco in public conveyance;
Who gets intoxicated in public places;
Who partakes OF hospitality and talks behind
his entertainers back;
Who borrows money from friend and thcI.
blackguards the lender
Mr.. Clews then dryly adds that with a
population of eighty million people
which this country now has it is not hard
to find associates without selecting men
possessed of any of these characteristics.
1t is not necessary to choose Pharisee
or a Puritan, for n man may avoid all of
these taboosd habits without being either.
The last part OF the book is strong en-
dorsement of President McKinley's poll
cy. and the author emphatically does not
believe in any kind of socialism or COM
munism. and does believe in the necessity
of corporations, trusts. and other pluto
cratic institutions. lNew York: Silver,
Burdett & Coz
The first title Frank r. Stockton chose
for his recently published novel, "a BIZ
cycle of Cathay' was "a Cycle of Cathay."
Before sending the book to the press,
however, he learned that DR.. w. A. p.
Martin had published an historical work
on China, called "a Cycle of Cathay," now
in It's seventh thousand. The two books
were utterly dissimilar, and 1t is an odd
coincident that Identical titles should have
been chosen and that Mr.. StOckton's
book should have made its appearance
simultaneously with DR.. Martins arrival
from Pekin. AS soon as Mr. Stockton
learned of DIR. Martins book he changed
the title to Its present one.