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stroyed-chased and hunted down as long as fun
a dollar could be got out of their bark hiueH
branching horns or magnificent boe backbones
Few that fell trees plant them; nor would pant
ing avail much toward getting hack anything liz
the noble prmeval forests. During a man III
only sapiinss can be grown, in the place Of CID
trees-tens of centuries old-that have been de-
stroyed. 1t took more than three thousand years
to make some of the trees in these western woods
trees that still standing in perfect strength
and beauty, waving and singing in the mighty FOR,
| ests of the Sierra. Through all the wonderful
eventful centuries since Christs time-and long be
fore that-God has cared for these trees, saved
them from drought, disease, avalanches and a
thousand straining. leveling tempests and floods;
but he cannot them from fools-only Uncle
Sam can do that
THE LAST OF THE KNICK Com
edy Romance BY Herman Knickerbocker Niele,
cago Herbert S. Stone & Co.
This is one of the most delightful bits
of light literature the season has yet pro-
duced. 1t tells the story of the financial
decadence of certain of the "first families
of New York" of the Knickerbocker
strain. who come into contact with the new
rich element. The reader is introduced to
a boarding house kept by representative
of one of these families, who ..ertertains"
a few choice spirits of the same kind gen.
tlewomen, whose incomes diminish,nSly
returned by the Guardian and Trust Com
pany, and who prefer to remain blissfuly
ignorant of the invasion. of the sacred pre-
cincts of the social me tropolis by western
hordes with money. A love story OF some
seriousness is injected into the comedy,
which develops smoothly to dramatic
climax. The multi-millionafre manlpula-
tor of great railroad interests is lured
from town by false dispatch and young
actor-himself the scion of past eminence
--impersonates him in Wall street as in a
dying condition. The heroine, fortunately
present on the scene, intervenes to prevent
hear a
wedding bells and smiles. Some sparkling
paragraphs of description occur and
glimpse is given of the inner workings of
the great financial machine.
JUNK; Verses Pathetic and Otherwise, Mostly
Otherwise. By Leon Iempert, jr. Boston, Z.
NJ. Clark Publishing Company.
This book of pictured verse, done in red
and green, is styled "a book to stagger
SORROW 1t is a broad claim, and cannot
be effectively disputed, for there are va
rious causes for sorrow. The verses are
bright in spots and dull in others. The
pictures are clever in some cases and crude
in others. The combination is not always
refined to the point of pleasing the fas-
tidious reader But those who like hearty
fun, generously provoked by ruthless
means will find solace in Junk"
(Mrs. Charles Rohlfs}. New York: G. p Put
nan's Sons. Washington; Woodward & Lothrop.
Mrs. Green-Rohlfs fell off somewhat for
time from the high standard she set in
her earlier stories of crime, perhaps
through writing so many of these tales.
In this one, her eighteenth, she has re-
gained some of the lost ground. zone of
My Sons is a stirring story of a myster-
iouS poisoning in which the solution is
deftly withheld until many interests are
interviewer and the reader is aroused to a
keen appetite for the answer to the puz-
I'll 10 somewhat in fbo MID
die in consequence of its length.
ries of Pictures and Notes Of Travel nlustrat-
Ing the Adventures of Modern Dante in the
Infernaf Regions; also other Pictures of the
Same Subterranean World. By Arthur Young
New York. Zimmermans
This is a book to arouse the criticism of
the conservative, who do not like to con-
template the traditional neither world where
the misdeeds Of this life are conventionally
supposed to be punished. But it is undenia-
bly, ingenious. 1t hits off the shortcomings
of modern man with such justice that few
unprejudiced readers will be inclined to de-
mur at the sometimes terrible punishments
described for particular offenders in both
text and pictures. 1t does not make nice
light reading for the young, nor is it cal
culated to soothe the dreams of the restless
sleeper If used as a soporific. In this some
what grotesaue form some powerful morals
are preached.
FLOWERS FROM PERSIAN POETS Fditea bv
Nathan Haskell Dole and Belle NJ. Walker
New York: Thomas. Y. Cspweil & Co.
The vogue of Omar Khayyam in the west
is considered by students of oriental Iitera-
ture as particularly remarkable from the
fact that the Tent Maker is scarcely
known in Persia. 1t required the kindness
Of an American woman resident in Paris
to bring to the notice of the Persian consul
at that capital the beauties of the Rubai-
yat. Yet in Persia the poet is honored
highly. The passionate aast tells its tales
of love and grief in meter and ryhme IT
was a Persian king who, accordlng to the
people of that country, invented rhyme
Naturally the literature of Persia is rich in
poetry, and these two volumes are designed
to present some of its flowers" to the
works of Firdausi, the Homer of Persia.
Omar Miami Rumf, Essedi, Sa'di. Hafiz
and Jami all regarded highly by the native
masters of literature: They breathe the
highly spiced aroma of the east. The poems
are mainly descriptive, the pictures thew
present are colored with the hues of The
orient The translations are soft and
graceful, and the work is handsomely nre-
sented between beautiful green-and-eoId
covers and with green-bordered pages
MEMOIRS OF MADAME de MoTTEyuJB an
ANNE Of AUSTRIA and HER COURT With
an introduction by C. A. Sainte- Beuve Trans
lated by Katherine Prescott Wormeley In
three volumes. Hardy Pratt and COMPANY
Boston
By translating the Memoirs of Madame
de Motteville" Katherine Prescott Worme-
ley has opened the innermost life of Queen
Anne and her court. The book deals less
with historical facts than with the minute
details Of a court famed for its grandeur,