Evening star., 1901-07-13
NEW PUBLICATIONS.

tragic appropriateness. For scarcely had
1t been launched for publication, his first
effort In literature, than death placed upon
his earthly career the "seal of silence"
which has closed so many ex-
istence in the first evidences of success.
The book is posthumous and must stand
as all that the reading world will ever
know of young Conder. Ordinarily this
would not be an especially depressing
thought as regards the possible loss to
literature, but in this case the idea cannot
be avoided that something of the kind that
lasts might have come from him in time
had he lived to learn and to develop. The
story is of unusual quality. 1t has an in
tricate dramatic groundwork, its charac-
ters are clear cut and interesting and it's
style Is far beyond the average of the
modern story teller The story is woven
around crime which is later proved not to
have been committed. freakish person.
age furnishes the mystery, which is not
solved until the concluding chapters. Will
fred Rutherford is the center of human in
logical study. The love motive is well
worked out The Seal of Silence IS a
striking work without reference to the
unusual circumstances of it's production.
THE KIDNAPPED MILLIONAIRES: a Tale of
Wall Street and the Tropics. BY Frederick l.;
Adams, author Of President john smith
Boston: Lothrop Publishing Company.
A young millionaire, amateur correspond
ent for an influential New York newspaper
of the most pronounced modern type of en-
terprise, while temporarily insane con-
ceives the plan of kidnapping six of the
money kings and holding them, together
with lawyer with pronounced views of
the trust question, In an isolated tropical
haunt, thinking thereby to get at a solu-
ton of the problems of finance and govern
ment which have been suggested of late
by the giant commercial developments.
The working out of this scheme and its
Illustration after partial success afford the
groundwork of a story of quick movement,
daring development and in some respects
clever manipulation. But it is marred by
undue haste In preparation. 1t is under
done in some places and overdone in 9TH
erS. 1t Is too palpably turned out for sale.
The dissertations on the trust question are
in some respects interesting, though not
particularly convincing. The best feature
of the story is the satire it affords. whether
consciously or not, upon the methods of
yellow Journalism at it's ultimate stage
of development.
facts and statistics regarding Foreign Com
merce, with Helpful Suggestions for the Ex
the Assistance of the Diplomatic and Consular
Officers of Countries Represented In the I. S
and the direct cooperation of the Department
of State at Washington. New York: Charles
Austin Bates.
The American trade supremacy is one of
the striking phenomena of the times. 1t
has shaken Europe to the foundations
Yet it is only now beginning to be fully
appreciated on this side of the ocean. The
American trader and manufacturer have
gone ahead thus far, each on an individual
basis. to secure that which the foreign mar
ket has offered and their success is just
being measured at home. Mr. Bates, en-
hjant of he
tunities which even yet lie ahead of the
American producer. pleads for thor
ough and systematic advertisement of the
American products in the foreign trade
field and for a systematic study of the
conditions abroad and the ultimate con-
servation of the energies which are now
unorganized, but which even under this
handicap have wrought such remarkable
changes in the worlds trade.
THE INTERNATIONAL VEST POCKET LIBRA
RY. Chicago Laird & Lee.
These six neat little volumes, nicely in
cased in a box barely big enough to hold
pound of cheese are calculated to make a
student out of the most Indifferent person,
so insidious are they in their suggestion of
knowledge readily secured. They represent
the encyclopaedia habit at it's ultimate.
They include the Webster Dictionary,
edited down to 80, 600 words, by Alfred B.
Chambers, Phi D., with an appendix giving
rules of spelling, of etiquette, of punctua-
ton, of parliamentary law and sundry other
matters, and even a series of forms for
after dinner speeches, a German English
dictionary by Prof Ludwig V. Zorn, LTD,
Heidelberg University; a Spanish-English
and English-Spanish dictionary by f. NJ.
de Rivas of the University of Seville; a
French English and English-French die
tionary by Max Maury, University of Paris:
a popular explanation of the latest applica-
tions of electricity, and a cyclopedic ques-
tion-answerer on all conceivable themes.
These six tabloids of wisdom ought to work
a revolution in popular attainments.
ANTINGANTING STORIES; and Other Strange
Tales Of the Filipnos. BY Sargent Kayme.
Boston: Small, Maynard & Co.
A rich store of romance, superstition and
tragedy is just being opened as a result
of the American occupation of the Philip
pine Islands. Sargent Kayme has under
taken to lay some specimens Of his finds
before the reading public in these stories,
which reflect the life of the natives as far
solved natural elements. Here and there
the effect of the new governmental factor
is to be seen, but the stories as whole
are not dependent upon the change of po-
litical conditions. They are we'll told and
suggest the native character.
New York: Doubleday. Page & Co. Washns
tom VIM. Ballantyne & Sons.
This novel, which might be condensed
with good effect, presents the story of a
young theological graduate trying to bring
a conservative country community around
to more liberal views of the doctrines which
have been given to him in their most
stringent form, but upon which he has
broadened through his experiences. The
story is written with evident personal
knowledge of conditions and characters
and contains some excellent phases. The
village personages clearly drawn, with
many humorous touches.
BIOGRAPHIES; the Lives of Some
Every-da Butterflies, Moths Grasshoppers
and Flies. BY Clarence Moores Weed, author
of 'Ten New England Blossoms etc. With
$50 Photographic Illustrations by the author.
New York: Doubleday, Page & Co. Washing
ton: VIM. Ballantyne & Sons.
NEW MODES OF THOUGHT; Based upon the
New Materialism and the New Pantheism, In
Guiding Tribute to Edward Drinker Cope. By
c. T. Stockwell, author Of ''The Evolution Of
Immortality" Boston: James II. West Com
pany.
Isaac Q. winslow; NJ. Al, Principal of Thayer
Street Grammar School, Providence, r. l. In
three volumes New York: American Book