New-York tribune., 1901-12-13
held I'D the left arm-the hand had been severed
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The captivating style In which dafie''
Serviss always discusses stellar science is pei
hsps a sufficient excuse for his wriuhs upo"
any phase of It, matter how trite- out i
bic "Other Worlds" ID. Appleton & Coz he
himself offers two different prete1ts ooth VI
them excellent. Since Proctor and Flammarion
dasortbed the n1anets and considered the posi-
hIIity of their being habited. much fresh IN
formation has been adduced by discovery Aho
secondly there has been marked deFeIophleIl'
of popular interest in this subject Wl1hlh ti1e
last fifteen or twenty years. Whle tTsa'iIs
the members of the SUMS planetary 'alhiiS seP
arately Mr. Serviss shows that venus anu MIDI
are apparently those best suited at present u
the maintenance of beings akin to man. bu'
IN his Introductory chapter he makes a strong
argument in support of the hypothesis tha' NE
is a phenomenon general to the entire system
and absent only where its essential ana iunu-
mental conditions, for special and local ana
nerheps ten7Dorary reasons, do not exist
Charts and instructions which enable a novice
to find the planets IN the skies aoo 10 Ihe
value Of this charming volume
Acton Davies has written a short ana enter
tanning sketch of Maude Adams. taxing up hef
life from the time she was carried on the stage
on a platter, at the tender age of nine months
IL IAiglon" This little book. 'Maude Adams
IF A Stokes Company. contains many Incl
dents Of Miss Adams's early stage career, winch
are told by her mother. Mrs. Kiscadden, whose
stage name was Annie Adams. Her first en-
gagement was 1he result of making NIT as
substitute for the infant who played all roIes
under year. both masculine and FEMININE IN
a Salt Lake stock company. At the end OF the
first scene in 1.-The Lost Child" the regular baby
began to cry. The little thing was only SIX
weeks old and could not be persuaded to stop
her noise so "Maudle," aged nine months TOOK
her nlace Her additional seven and half
months growth was responsible for the phe-
nomenon which startled the audience. They could
not understand how the youngster could have
increased twenty pounds in weight inside Of
fifteen minutes. She was five years old when
an opportunity offered for her to take a real
part. and she appeared before San Francisco
audience Mrs Adams, in telling the story of
the first performance, says:
wish YOU could have seen Maudie that night.
She was simply wriggling with excitement. 1t
was all I could do to keep her IN my dressing
room until the came for her to go on She
was most critical about her makeup. and after
I had darkened her eyelashes and rouged her
cheeks she turned to me very seriously and
said: "NIuffer, are you I've got louge
enough on?" Just before the curtain went up
I made her repeat her first-act lines to me. She
had learned them like parrot. to be sure, but
she spoke them like a true little actress. l had
explained the story of the play TO her very care
fully, and she seemed 10 grasp perfectly the
Importance of the part which she to play
in the plot. The thing that we were all
nervous about was that millwheel scene. I
stood in the wings and watched her all through
the first act. She really did splendidly. When
the millwheel scene came I was the stage
too and as the critical moment came nearer and
nearer Maudie would whisper TO every mo-
ment "Muffer. must I scweam now?"