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The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-05-05

The Nav number of ''McClure's Maya
zine is an unusually good one, even for
this bright and popular monthly. In it
appcars what is advertised as 'Dreyfus'
Own Story" otherwise leaves from the
autobiography of Captain Dreyfus, in
Guiding passages Of the diary kept by
him on Devils Island. This will doubtless
prove interesting to most readers. THE
Deer is an article by William Davenport
Hubert. illustrated by Arthur Heming.
Clara Morris contributes an article. which
is decidedly fascinating TO anyone in
terested in the private lives OF players,
and its title is Mr.. and Mrs. Charles
Kean." In the way of fiction there are
More Dolly Dialogues by Anthony
Hope, whose supply OF these things seems
inexhaustible. and drama by Elizabeth
Stuart Phelps. Within the Gates" which
is practically Il revised edition of story
with a similar title published by her some
wears ago II might also be said that
Mrs. Wards supply of heavenly literature
is inexhaustibIe A little poem by Paul
Eester "Beyond the Gates" possess :
the peculiar daintinsss and charm of the
work OF this author. and there is a poem
Wv WiIfrid Wilson Gibson, entitled The
song of The Tough Maiden" Jack Lon
duu contributes q story or NE IN tho
ESfondike region. which he calls The God
n HIS Fathers" and which will be in
Guided In a new collection OF stories by
him which is soon to appear under the
anne title II they are all as good as
this one the book should be popular
George Madden Martin, who has made
som, thing of a reputation by two or three
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-05-05
LITERARY NOTES.

Mcclure. Phillips 6 Co. will publish
during the coming year the Temple
| Moliere, of which the first two volumes
are now ready, lie Bourgeois Gentil-
homme'' and lie Medecin Malgre Lui."
This edition is the original French taken
from the text of MN. Despois and Mes
| nard and will be brought out in conve-
| nient 16mo. form. in both cloth and leath-
er. The same firm will also publish inn
mediately, "Buch der Lieder," by Heinrich
| Heine, in the German.
"A Journey to Nature by ]. NJ. Now
| bray, which Doubleday. Page & Co. are
| to publish shortly, will be beautifully dec
! grated throughout by Charles Edward
| Hooper in a manner peculiarly sympa-
/ thetic to the story, which is that of
| Wall Street man learning the delights of
nature during forced sojourn in tho
country
Blue Shirt and Khaki" by Capt. James
T. j. Archibald the war correspondent,
contains a revelation of large interest 1t
| is the only detailed comparison between
the British and American armies ever
published.
In her book on Flowers and Ferns In
Their Haunts." Mrs. Mabel Osgood
Wright has treated her subjects in their
relation to the landscape and the whole
is bound together by thread of narra-
tive. The Illustrations consist of fifty
full-page plates of the flowers and ferns
as they grow by the river side, in woods
and along roadsides; together with over
one hundred cuts In the text made direct
from flower photographs. These photo
graphs were taken at close range and the
| result is unique with its intimate glimps-
es of nature.
The Vice Provost of Eton, the Rev. DR..
F. W. Cornish. has just completed work
4
pany will publish Immediately. The au-
thor's aim has been rather TO sketch n
state of society than to chronicle a pc
Rod.
Dodd Mead & Co will publish in the
fail book of short stories by Caroline
Duer entitled Unconscious Comedians"
When the Isabel Carnaby Birthday
Book" was issued in London the critics
coined new literary expression, the
"Carnaby' style. which was thus defined
in the London Academy:
He who would talk write Carnaby must grasp
its simple canon, which is this: To level ideas
down Connect the Parthenon with the pantry
love with lczenges, or Shakespeare with boots,
and you are safe.
Messrs. Doubleday, Page & Co. an
nounce the immediate publication of the
second volume of their Personal Edi-
ton" of George Eliot This will be
| Scenes of Clerical Life" with the usual
personal Introduction by Esther Wood
that lends much interest TO the stories.
Before writing this. Eliot was not sure
she could write fiction, and her indecision
at attempting it finds sympathy with the
amateur. Henry Lewes. her husband.
thought it worth trying, for if it were
not quite failure, it might warrant an
other trial; and, still there was no telling,
it might be a chef-d oeuvre When the
first part was completed they both cried
over it, and Lewes sent it to the publisher,
BlackwOod. without divulging the au-
thors identity
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-05-05
CURRENT VERSE.



Forever fair, forever young,
Leaving her loved. olympian hill,
The Goddess of the rhythmic tongue
Visits her chosen still.
Not with loud. tempestuous rush,
Or sudden flash Of golden wings
Descends the highest Muse; hush
OF balny calm she brings.
Mysterious as spectral ship
Emerging from a spectral mist.
She comes with fresh. with Aoral lip,
BY winds auroral kissed.
To him She csme-that dreamy boy,
knight-errant through the vernal camps.
Where jasmnes, in their virgin 10y
Relume periumed lamps"
On him She smiled in many a glen,
BY many a wild and weird lagoon,
Where erst the songs OF Marions men
Rang to the midnight moon.
She gave him OF her grace antique
OF deeds divine. divinely sung;
She thrilled him with the surge of Greek
And Rome's majestic tongue.
Deeply he felt that ancient grace.
That power. which babe the song outroll,
The song Of Helen's fatal face
And Hector's patriot soul.
To his own Troy. beeaguered long,
Serene amid the battles blaze
He sang clarion song.
His Troy went down; but DER the hush
OF the spent storm of blood and tears,
Sweeter than Tilt of lark or thrush
Up the resounding years,
His lyric music echoing flows
Each vital note crystal-clear
As dew Of Morn upon the rose,
Or PHYS perfect tear.
Poesy. so quick to thrill
And soften cen a foeman's breast,
Ne compass bounds thy scope and skill
No South, North, East or West.
The whole world trembles to thy charms;
Is chastened by thy mystic spell;
Art rose victor over arms
When Hermes strung the she'll.
Measured by outward shows alone
How sad our Poets life would seem
0'ershadowed by a Cause o'erthrown-
The chaos Of dream.
How marked for grief and set apart,
Nay, whensoe'er the Muse is kind,
She makes a hey-day of the heart
May-day of the mind.
Music is aye its own reward,
Its own rich recompense is Rhyme;
Bright. when the splendor OF the sword
Rusts in the sheath of Time.
Thus, now that Carolina calls
No longer on her soldier sons,
And Peace, with sweet oblivion. falls
Upon the .fsstal guns
The lyrist of her valiant past,
The Inner OF her radiant land
Receives his monument. at last,
From Cardinals hand
Henry Austin.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-05-05

OF all the ages ever known.
OF Brass or Bronze. Of Brick Stone,
The blacklist and the worst, | think,
Is this pestiferous Age of Ink.
In volume vast the torrent pours
Its volumes blocking all outdoors;
And fed and fattened as it flows
With verses scanned and potted prose
Though all would dam it-and some do
The Deluge still is apres nous.
Lured to the brink women and men
A moment pause-then dip pen.
H. deep of keel and broad of beam,
Some mighty monster stem the stream.
Green paths and pastures boys torsake
To founder in the Kipiing wake,
And girls-not gunners nor marines
So swift could food the magazines.
Through many-storied novelties
Their hero strides, in pantalets,
Naughty of mein. psilid of brow,
And would be bsd-if he knew how.
Pity they've not special pen
That women must line up with men;
In the same field they harrow So
She with her Rake, he with his Hoe;
And wonder wakes with every sereed,
II ali are writing, who's TO read?
''And YOU ! hear some scribbler say.
Oh yes, I'm there exhibit A.
But one must live; small is NJ store;
A wolf stands darkening the door;
He must be driven to his den.
And so ] prod him with my pen.
When children for new graminars cry,
Can parents stand unheeding by?
Nay; my pluperfect babes / kiss,
Then dash of verses much like this
II any are my special pride,
Excursion tickets, | provide
That il none else the moral sec,
At least it WIN come home to me.
But my envelopes, as their crest,
Bear never the return request"
That in detail superfuous gives
The street wherein the Poet lives.
The door outside OF which elate.
His Muse a minuet treads in state,
With broidered skirt and lifted head
Inside cakewalk does for bread.
Though few may know where Sappho sung,
Or 0ssian once his wild harp hung
And Homer's birthplace be i'll doubt,
Ny sins and songs soon find me out,
And with promptness none would guess
Turn up. and at the right address.
II this do not. I'll say and think
There's one redeeming thing in Ink.
Charles Henry Webb, in the Atlantic.
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"The Critic' for May saws:

When Andre Castaigne first to America,
eleven years ago. after six months sojourn in
England he made his home in Baltimore. devot-
ing his great talents and energy to the reiuve-
nation of the Charcoal Club of that city. He
tion still to make. At forty he is known the
world over as the most brilliant Of living il
Illustrators, with the possible exception of the
Spaniard, Verge. Most of his work has been seen
in the Century," illustrating Prof. Sloane's
Napoleon Bonapsrte," Richard whiteing's Paris
of Today" the revived Olympic Games. Prof
Wheeler's Alexander the Great Mr.. Birrelrs
Down the Rhine" and Miss Bertha Runkle's
Helmet OF Navarro"
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-05-05

The popular craze for love letters in
fiction and out, seems to have found its
latest satisfaction in THE Love Letters
OF a Liar" by Mrs. William Allen, and
of all the fiction of a sentimental kind
which has been published lately in the
form of correspondence, it is the bright
est. The writer OF the letters appears to
be one of those men who have been
termed, less elegantly than forcefully
tame cats''-the kind OF man who is
never comfortable unless he is sentiment
tally purring around some woman. The
Inconvenience OF the feline type of man
and woman-is that WREN such persons
become tired of the objects of their af-
lection they are quite ready to scratch
The purr in these letters begins immedi-
ately. and grows louder and louder. un-
ill the creature seems fairly to revel in
his own song. after the nature of cats.
There are promises. and promises, and
promises, spread all over these letters.
until the most unsuspicious might be say
ing after the fashion of a shrewd OBJ
server in a similar case, 'Methinks the
gentleman doth protest too much" But
just as one begins TO tire of the cloying
and saccharlne quality of the first two
thirds of the tiny book, there comes a
change, and the rest OF it is spicy. 1t
would make charming gift book, either
for a person capable of conducting a
similar correspondence or for one who is
not In the one case It would serve as a
gentle warning, in the ether as compli-
ment (New York: Ess Ess Publishing
Company
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-05-05

In what year did the Johnstown food ocour2
?. On what day did June 1, 1887. come? o. B.
In 1889 on May 81 2. Wednesday
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-05-05

Who wrote the lines: "ohi woman in your
hours of ease" etc. A. 8
Sir Walter Scott. The lines occur in his
poefn. '.Marmion."
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-05-05

William Demont, adjutant general of
Robert Magard. commandant of the post.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-05-05

On what day of the week did september Is fall
in 1902 b. B. b.
On Tuesday.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-05-05

Who was the deserter who carried the plans Of
Fort Washington to the English commander in
l.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-05-05

VIII you please give me the distance in miles
from London, England, to st. Petersburg, Russia7
r. G.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-05-05

The travelling distance is IA miles, the
actual distance some 200 miles less.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-05-05

How many miles Of railroad are there in the
United States? 2. What proportion OF the rail-
roads OF the world are located in the United
statesf g. How many persons are employed by the
railroads in the United States7 J. X s..
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-05-05

A Mohammedan ruler; those of AZ
ghanistan and of Bokhara are the more
important ones. . Seven.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-05-05


The 'Eookman" SAYS in an article on
Bret Harte. which forms an interesting
feature Of the May number:
There today but six houses in Poker Flat
and but one woman | have forgotten her name,
but upon my last visit there | remember her as
a very large person with very red face. who
worse short green dress, heavy boots with spurs
on them, straw hat and a paper collar And
she smoked a clay pipe inceSsantly.
In ls52. Poker Flat produced 100000 in gold
bullion in single month and celebrated the
event with triple hanging. Then came the
public spasm Of virtue which caused the John
Oakhursts and the "Outessts of Poker Fiat to
depart from thence and die of cold and starvation
on the snowbound road 10 Sandy Bar There are
no "Oakhursts' nor Uncle Billys'' in Poker
Flat today and when the stranger makes the slow
descent and suddenly, by sharp turn in the trail,
comes upon the famous camp, he finds in that
huddle of cabins little to remind him OF the
Poker Flat of 1852.
The famous slope presents almost a picture OF
utter ruin. There are but eight people living in
the old town, while hundred dead ones sleep
in the cemetery. Some Of the graves marked
with wooden headboards some with stakes. but
many have nothing above them. Nearly all OF
them were laid TO rest without religious rites
save Bible reading by old Charlie Pond. who.
though a professional gambler. selected for
the religious office owing to his excellent voice
and oratorica ability.
In 1858 and 1854 there two thousand souls
in Poker Flat, and fifteen stores, five hotels, three
dance halls and gambling houses. There is
He is Henry Waggoner, old and grizzied
veteran. who delights to tell how in 1856 circus
came to town and sold fifteen hundred tickets OF
admission at so each
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-05-05

What is the meaning Of "AmeerT' . How
many children has the Emperor Of German2
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-05-05

quaint studies of child lite, writes one en-
titled The Right Promethean Fire" But
perhaps the gem of the collection, in one
sense. is The Run OF the Yellow Mail"
by Frank Spearman. which is not only
good in itself, but the best thing the au-
thor has yet done. and altogether the best
story of the railroad yet written. 1t es-
tablishes Mr.. Spearman's right to be con-
sidered ths legitimate Interpreter of this
feature OF American life. There is not a
false touch in It,
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-05-05

States? X. y. p.
over eight millions. probably. but the
figures of last years enumeration have
not been given out.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-05-05

"a Victim OF Circumstances" by Geral-
dine Anthony, is the fourth in a series
of Stories OF Modern American Life"
aad ii looks rather as II the series. like
deaconed Strawberries, was arranged so
that the best should come first to view
Passover Court House" the initial
story, was good. while this. the work OF a
new writer. is distinctly inferior to any
of its predecessors, also from the pens of
new authors
Miss Anthony has chosen for the scene
OF her romance place somewhere on
Long Island, inhabited by a set OF people
who are all supposed 10 be ruled by an
sutocratic old lady, and who are, with
two exceptions, so insfpid as scarcely TO
be distinguished from each other without
labels. The two exceptions are the old
lady above mentioned and n person re-
ferred to as Bobby Floyd. who is probably
the most disagreeable and wholly exas-
perating cad ever put into an American
novel, not excepting the social nuisances
in the works of Mr. Howells. The crea-
lions of the latter appear. in fact, to be
cads because they cannot help IL, and
have not thought about IL; Mr.. Floyd is
a cad with malice prepense, n determined
cad, cad who is proud of his cadship,
and who, for some inscrutablo reason, is
tolerated and even encouraged by every
body else In the book. He begins his ae-
euaintance with the reader by guying a
young Englishman who is the guest of
enc Of his friends, and somewhere In the
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-05-05

What has been the increase Of population in
Canada every decade since 1857 ALBION.
The census figures have been. 1861, a.
IS, AIS: 1871, $685., GA; 1881, 4,S24Slo; 1891 a.
~ 90
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-05-05

untraveled field 1t is nearly certain that
one of the great topics of study, for nov
elists, statesmen, and artists in the next
twenty-five years will be the relations be
tween the various races of the earth, now
for the first time beginning to be brought
into close general contact; and the char
acter, influence, and general behavior OF
the half-brecd win be Of considerable
Importance in solving this problem, If it
is ever to be solved. Mr.. Palmer is
therefore, in these two stories, heading in
a direction which is likely to be followed
by a great current of fiction sooner or
later. CNew York: Charles Scribner's
Sons. s1.50)
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-05-05

1.-THE Mystery of the Clasped Hands is
a somewhat gruesome tale by Guy Booth
by, who has won some reputation I'm this
line of work. 1t is a detective romance,
and deals with English life, the hero be-
ing a properly handsome and athletic
young English squire, and the villain a
beneficiary of his. There is no particu-
lar fault to be found with it, unless it
is that the author is rather too long lead
ing up to denouement which the reader
foresees as inevitable. (New York: ID.
Annleton q Co. 81
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-05-05

Was ever a man known to have been attacked
or eaten by shark J. c. G.
Yes, though such thing may never
have occurred in temperate waters. In
the tropics there are several species that
attack man, the most formidable being
the white shark. which sometimes attains
length of forty feet.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-05-05

About $4,000. q About 40 per cent. 3.
Very nearly one million.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-05-05

viii the railroad from Moscow to Port Arthur
run through any territory other than what be-
longs to Russia? t. j.
Yes: unless before the road is finished
Russia seizes the territory through which
it passes. This is hardly likely, because
she has the right by treaty with China to
carry a railroad into Central Manchuria
and to build from the latter point to Port
Arthur unless China herself decides to
construct the latter line. And China will
not soon be prepared for railroad building.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-05-05

Blue Shirt and Khaki" by Capt. James
T. j. Archibald, the war correspondent,
contains revelation of large interest. 1t
is the only detailed comparison between
the British and American armies ever
DuhlfShad
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-05-05

L the order known in which Shakespeare plays
and poems were writtenF D. u. r.
Not entirely and it was much disputed.
hut it is believed that If he wrote Titus
Andromeus," it was his first play, and
thai il was brought out before 1890
Loves Labor Lost" q59W is generally
nut as his first original play, followed by
COMEDY of ErTors,' Two Gentlemen of
Verona and "A Midsummer Nights
Dream. Here. too. come Henry VIZ
and .'Fichard Ill" Romeo and Juliet is
mt next by some writer's, later by others.
Then come Richard H." King John
'The Merchant of Venice" Henry w.
Henry v AS You Like 1t. Much
Ado Ahout Nothing. Twelfth Night
Julius Caesar. THE Merry Wives"
..Taming of the shrew,H Hamlet ''Airs
Well" Measure for Measure, Henry
VIII" ''Troilus and Cressida." "Othelio.'
King Lear Macbeth" Antony and
Cleopatra" ''Coriolanus," "Cymbeiine."
..The Tempest" and Winters Tale" the
last at about 1911. 'Timon of Athens
''Psricles," and Henry W. are not
wholly Shakespeare's, and their history Is
dim Venus and Adonis' was an early
work: "i4ucrece" came not long after It.
The ''Sonnets'' are placed at from 1895 to
1899. 90
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-05-05

Can you give me anything concerning the dates
OF the birth and death OF certain Hall. whose
initials do not know and cannot ascertain, who
was a distinguished mechanic at the Harper $
Ferry Arsenal for many years. and invented, il is
believed a breech-Ioading earbine and also was
the suggester of interchangeable parts, the first
one in the United States. and in fact. in the
world? j. :.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-05-05

The "Eookman" says in an article on
Bret Harte, which forms an interesting
feature Of the May number:
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-05-05

Is Memphis a chartered city, or is ii still the
county seat of Shelby county, NJ. F.
1t is a chartered city, having been re-
Incorporated in 1891. after having over
come the financial difficulties that led to
the surrender. in 1879. of the original char
ter, and is the county seat Of Shelby.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-05-05

Who we're the Labadists. and what were the
doctrines OF their belief? , Did they ever prosper
in this country? t. e.
Converts of Jean Labadie. who was born
at Bordeaux in 1910, and who left the Jes-
mis- 10 preach doctrines of his own. BY
1850 he had publicly embraced the Reform
ed faith and for the next nineteen years
preached in Germany and Holland. max
ing eminent converts and strenuous an
tagonists. In 1863 he formed, in Amster
dam, the body that took his name. and a
year later was expelled from Holland.
-Four years afterward he died. his doc
trines were combination OF Calvinism
and mysticism. He rejected infant bap-
tism and observance of the Sabbath and
advocated communism in property and
asc.tic practices . Early in the eight
eenth century Labadist missionaries set
lied in New York. but did not found
churches.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-05-05

What five States have the lowest percentages
of illiteracyY J. n. p.
Returns of this character from last
years census are not yet availa BILE. The
Bill per cent; Wyoming. 81 Iowa, 3.5l;
Kansas, 3.99, and South Dakota, AZ
These percentages are based on the total
population of those ten years old or older.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-05-05

What was the original package decision, and
what was the outcome of it? H.
A decision of the United States Supreme
Court in May 1880. which held that liquor
might be carried into any State and sold
in the original packages without regard
to local profibitory or restrictive laws.
The result was the establishment in
States that had prohibition laws of many
original package liquor shops. In July,
1890. Congress passed n law that made all
such beverages brought into a State or
Territory Immediately subject to its laws.
as If they had been introduced within it's
borders, without exemption, because they
had been introduced in their original pack
age.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-05-05

Coat the steel surface with wax made
of equal parts of beeswax. Burgundy
pitch, and asphaltum. scratch the name
in the wax coating and apply nitric acid
to which about four parts of water have
been added. In few minutes wash of
the acid and clean the steel within ben
zine