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Mr. BANGS .yimmieboy Again.

In Mr.. John Kendrick Bangs's -Bikey.
the Skicycle, and other Tales of Jimmie
boy" Briggs Publishing Company, We
ind Jimmie talking with another boy and
saying such things az that his bicycle has
rheumatic tires" and that II may be that
the tires are 40 called because they move
a little stiff at first" A little further along
we come upon an explanation Of the differ
ence bet tween stub nose and a snub nose
We read: Stub means more than snub
Snub means just a plain turn-ip nose,
but stub means that IT'S not only turned
up. but has very little Of itself left"
The book il full Of these things; no mat.
ter how many of them one may want, we
think Il likely that there will be enough,
Jimmieboy goes OF with Bikey 10 the planet
Saturn. and at -the Tyred Inn for the tired
out the landlord asks whether they will
have IAN air cake or piece OF fresh pneu-
matte mince pie" There are two grades
Of the pies. A 1902 safety pneumatic
mince pie costs 81" says the landlord, "but
1901 pie | sell for 81 So" and the reason
for this, says the landlord is that The
air in this years pie is fresher, that's oil. :
Then there is an imp with whom Jimmie.
boy has adventures and conversations
and one OF the brand-new stories that tn,
imp tells Jimmieboy is about how az the
North Pole once il was so cold that when
the imp lighted match the fame froze.
Mr.. Peter Newell has enriched these
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Company for the Eireside.

There are twenty-one stories in Mr. A
I. Quiller-C COUGHS book. The White Wolf
and Other Fireside Tales" Charles Scrib-
ner's sons, and they make easy and enter
tanning reading White wolves. we think
like white bears, belong in the far north;
at any rate this one docs, although. for the
matter of that, this il -the miracle OF the
white wolf" and by n miracle. without doubt
IL might have come from anywhere. The
story called "Sindbad on Burrator' was
told in a farmhouse on iDartmoor over
pipes and whiskey. and We consider that
il justif,es its title. Then there ia the Al DRY
Of the capture OF the Burgomeister Van der
Vert, which Is a tale of Dutchman and
a privateer; and the story called King O.
Prussia" which IL a tale Of a smuggler,
q revenue cutter and an officious minister;
and the story Of the haunted yacht: and.
since there are twenty-one Of the stories.
OF course there are stories besides. They
range far and afford variety Tho Preside
will be made additionally attractive by
reason Of them
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shrunk from the task of research and has
been fortunate in securing new material
of some interest. Among other things she
has obtained some hitherto unpublished
letters. and has had access TO diaries which
have heretofore heen held in secrecy. Fur
thermore certain people who knew the
subject Of her work have consented TO talk
10 her and have given her valuable remi-
ni-cences The author has taken time TO
study the influence of environment and
association on the mind Of Thoreau. and
she has embodied in her volume interesting
sketches Of his friends, Emerson, the AL
colts and others
= The results are, in the main. excellent.
Thoreau has been more or less Of a mystery
TO readers Of his works. He has appeared
only a. dim figure. shrouded in the sombre
shadows of the woods he loved and occa-
siona!ly sending forth a writing filed with
an intimate knowledge of nature and
curious. VET fascinating philosophy. OBJ
scure al first and known only To the more
serious students of American author
ship. he has gradually came into his own.
and to-day he is recognized by all lovers
Of our literature AS an element of IL, strength
and as u permanent influence. Mrs Marble
has written with these facts in mind, and
she has striven To present a full and reason
able estimate of Thoreau a. "a man. AZ all
author and a. a naturalist. She has done
this from the point Of view of to-day and
she has quoted literally from Thoreau's
writings She has produced a good and
serviceable book. and the publishers have
enriched il with excellent Illustrations
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About q Cavalier Maiden.

'The Wooing Of Judith" by Sara Beau
mont Kennedy Doubleday Page 4 Co }.
il another plunge into the era of doublet $
and plumes and sweeping bows. The
action takes place in Virginia among English
colonists driven from home by the hard
rule Of Cromwell, The heroine is a flesh
and-blood woman and the hero il a genuine
man. The dramatic climax OF the st DRY il
reached through the practice Of piece Of
deception by which Lawrence mai es Judi, h
his bride She has been wooed by Arthur
Seton and has given him her promise, even
while she was driving him back to England
to take his share in the fighting
He il seen TO fall and is left for dead upon
the battlefield, Judith is persuaded to
give her consent to Lawrence. Then, Just
two days before the wedding. Lawrence
gets a letter from Seton He is alive and
hopes to ret urn to claim his bride. law
renee would have told Judith. but her
father, partly 10y argument and partly by
craft, prevented him So after the mar
riage Seton returns The rest of the story
shows how judith at last learned that she
had he RICH, man, after all II is a pretty,
but not important story II is told simply
brisky and with some touches OF skill
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The Marriage Question Discussed.

The marriage question Is discussed in one
Of it, least attractive phases In "The Strong
est Master" by Helen Choate Prince
tHoughton. Mif1in 4 Coz. Not infra-
quently does some person come forward
seething with the idea that the institution
OF marriage ia all wrong and that people
who find themselves unhappy together
ought 10 be free to separate at their own
sweet wills and take unto themselves new
mates without any formalties. All the
arguments in favor of this arrangement
are familiar. Helen Choate Prince could
not invent any new ones and the old ones
seemed so weak that she had TO put them into
the mouth of DanMorrison, whose magnetic
personal force gave them undue influence
II is so easy for an author of fiction 10 say
II you had heard this man talk, you would
have been carried away. just az the people
in the book are" We are bound to believe
the aut hor, because we have no way Of
proving TO the contrary. But Daniel does
not seem so potent when you simply sit
down and read about him.
Therefore one is shocked when he leads
his own daughter TO make "a marriage which
is not marriage in the eye of the law or
in the opinion OF human society. Human
society has had an opinion about this matter
so long that II Is unlikely to alter II. So Il
proves in this case. and for the matter of
that the girl herself is not satisfied with
the contract. though she makes it to please
her father and her persuaded lover. When
her child is born, however, 1t all looks diff
ferent TO her; or rather tho truth comes
home with irresistible power. and she gets
up out Of bed and goes with her baby to
her mothers grave. The exposure kills
the baby. and she tells her husband that
she is glad of il. That sentiment opens
his eyes, and he has a marriage ceremony
performed.
The story would lie a deeply interesting
one were il not for he long achments Of
Daniel and the long arguments between
him and Christopher. the hero Chris
TOPPER is not bad sort he is perhaps the
most fe-like character in the book II is
not quite so easy to believe in the heroine.
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and great deal Of talent mark Mr.. Jack
London's Children OF the Frost MAC
inillanG. The stories are all about ths
natives OF the great Northwest, the further
Northwest that runs TO the Yukon and the
Mackenzie. The point OF view II that Of
the Indians and Esquimaux. As TO its
correctness W. cannot vouoh. but il has the
semblance Of vcrismilitude. and that il all
any one has right TO ark Of q story. The
tales are often barbarous and cruel. but tho
the adventures are exciting.
Mr.. W. W. Jacobs has made a speciality
Of humorous stories, not precisely OF the
sea. b'it Of the accessories Of sea life. the
people who handle the ships in port sea-
men on shore and so on The title Of his
latest book. THE Lady Of the Barge ODodd.
Mead d Coz. would lead the reader TO ex-
poet more stories Of the same kind, but he
will be disappointed. While two or three
are In Mr.. Jacobs's usual style. the greater
part are tales intended TO curdle the blood,
and these are the best in the book
Mrs. Gertrude Atherton's short stories
Of California life. printed several years ago
under the title Before the Grngo Came.'
are republished in an enlarged edition by
Messrs. Macmillan as an the Splendid
Forties.' The author Ia nothing IL not
audacious and here INDUCES perhaps un-
duly in narrowed feelings and gore, but
the stories are spirited and the scene re.
mote enough to conceal incongruities.
Babu English Is pretty easy TO initiate.
and surely the author Of .Viceversa" might
be in better business. A long career in
Punch. however. has worn OF the edge
OF his talent. and Mr.. F. Anstey deecends
to Offering us "A Bayard from Bengal.
Being some account OF the magnificent
and spanking career OF Chandler Bindabun
bhosh, Esq. B. A., Cambridge" Apple
tons). The papers appeared in Punch as
q sort Of serial and passed muster there
They are very funny in spots, if the fun is
Of pretty cheap sort, but Mr.. Anstey had
led lis to hope for better things from him.
Perhaps the funniest thing about his book
liz the way the English critics have taken
il. They apologize to the Hindus for the
way in which Mr.. Anstev ridicules them,
whereas If there Ia any point to Mr.. Anstey's
sire it is in the scathing manner in which
ii shows up British society from the Ba bus
standpoint,
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NEW BOOKS.
A Roman Of the Everglades.

An objec, ionable man was Jim Kavanagh
IN The Secret OF the Everglades; a Story
NJ Adventure In Florida" by Bessie Mar
chan, dondon: Blackle 4 Son, imported by
Charles Scribner'- Sons). He was not the
sor, of man 10 make a good husband. and
Nllicpn' Osney was determined that she
rould not have him for a stepfather.
Think mother" said Millicent. "wha, a
cruel man he il. Don't you remember
Row he Aicl<cd poor little black Pete until
,hre. ~ the boys ribs were broken, Just
because he had been licking out an empty
nloisssrs cask' And see how savagely
lie beats his dog
Besides. had Jim Kavanagh or anybody
ese a righ' TO marry Mrs. Osney? Was
,,., really widow? The facts were simply
rha, Iohn Osney and Jim kavnnagh. his
partner ten months previously had gone
into the Everglades hunting and tina, Jim
kavanagh lad come back alone with the
story that Osney had been killed by an
alligator. The creature had him by tho
leg. and ho was dragged under before
could move a finger" said kavanagh
'Oh, II wa. an awful moment, and nearly
drove me mad" The tears ran down his
face as he told this tale" Ave. but were
,hov crocodile tears? Well. this story tells
considerably more about John Osnev
and perhaps IL Is not revealing 100 much
for us 20 tell that on page 23s il save, But
John Osnev never ventured into tho Ever
glades again. having had 81 much of those
terrible snitudes as to shrink with strong
distaete from ever revisiting them. So he
turned farmer In his old age. importing
cove and sheep from the mort hern extrem-
i-y Of ,he Okeechohee. and raising large
families NJ pigs. which were fattened upon
superAuous melons and pineapples
And Jim Kavanagh' Well. there were
symptoms in his case that should properly
attach only 10 the guilty. Instead OF
the easy, confident air with which he had
been wont to carry himself. he wore a
scared, frightened look. the least sound
made him Jump. and the sight Of person
walking in at the door Unexpectedly sent
a cold Precipitation rolling down his face "
No wonder While he was building his
new hotel and trying to marry Mrs Osney.
his psrne John Osney. was of in the
profoundest depths Of the dismal ever
gades. a slave among the Seminole Indians
l. IL all in the story. Chapter XXII. bears
the beading Jim KavanaRh is missing
L. was natural that he should be missing,
inasmuch az John Osney came back. as
We have seen. and enga ged profitably in
the raising of live stock
There are mystery and incident In the
story. We have no doubt that young
readers W i'll be absorbed in IT,
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Emmy Lou. q Great Child's Book.

Those who have been following month
bv month the adventures ard up-growt h
Of tina, delightful young person Emmy
Lou. will be glad TO have her all in one
piece In Emmy Lou" bv George Madden
Martin (McClurs. Phillips \ Coz The
stories gain by being read consec,itivelv
The book IL sure to become classic If not
among chidren's books. AZ any rate among
books about children. Emmy Lou Is a
dear. little girl not clever, not precocious,
the little girl that il found in every home.
Her adventures are the ordinary occur
rences In every child's school life The
author. who is Mrs and not Mr. Martin,
has managed 10 see into the little thing s
brain and TO tell how the circum., ances
around her impress her little noddle Funny
az the stories are they are better worth
reading by serious-mnded student Of
child life than whole library of Froehclan
pedagogics.
To mos, readers the book will appeal
as story pure and simple, a. 1t should
There Ia plenty of fun among the little
ones and LOT Of humor among their elders
who act as sort of Greek chorus The
tone with them is rather masculine and
might make one believe that a man after
all, is the author, Nothing more original
or clever has been written in this line in
many years not since kphng's Mowgl
tales. which are entirely different We
confess that we like Emmy Lou better
as a little child than as high-school girl.
but We can't keep children little. they will
grow up and Emmy Lon with the rest
A refreshing book that old and young
should rea1
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Nr. Burton's Musical Romance.

Inc musical novel has arrived once more
FREDERICK r Burton IL the latest author Of
nus species Of fiction and he calls his story
IN" Song and the Singer" New York,
o'I'e' " smith Mr., Burton is himself a
musician, a composer and a critic. and
therefore he ought To know whereof he
whites His story il enacted by persons
engaged IN musical occupation and us pages
are well spriukied with musical terms
'"h,cqu en,ly it is musical novel II took
courage for the author 10 send a smart re-
P'ter TO cover the Bedford music festival
IN place OF the regular critic Of certain
paper IN spite OF the fact that this part ocular
crF'os articles would have been the only
excuse for covering the festival And
men he smart reporter stole the prima
COMMAS aria. composed especially for her
!u>' so that he could induce her 10 substitute
to' II another aria composed by his friend
oid"ay, the talented but as yet unknown
urner
n" prima donna made a huge success
WIN ne song, and the audience forced
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Joyous Children In Rhyme.

In Mr.. James Whitcomb Rileys new
book Of verses. The Book Of Joyous
Children" Charles Scribner's Sons) we
are not sure about the moral OF the poem
called Extremes. II says:
little boy once played 10 loud
That the Thunder up In a thunder cloud
said: Since cant be heard. why. then.
Ill never. never thunder agslni"
And a little girl once kept ~ still
That she heard a 6y on tie window sill
Whisper and say 10 lady bird
She's the stl'est child ever heard"
There is a picture Of the little boy with a
table knife in one hand and pair Of shears
in the other. and feathers in his cap, dane
ing in front Of an overturned doll carriage
He seems to be playing Indian. The doll
lies face down az the bottom Of the wreck.
and she may have been tomahawked and
perhaps il about to be scalped. A bunch
Of firecrackers Is going "a in the foreground
There is a picture, too. of the little girl
She has finger in her mouth. and the
picture includes the fy, though il is on
the glass Of the window instead Of the
sil. II there il no lesson in the poem il
IL no great matter, we have the narrative
and the illustrations and should not be
grasping. But there il a plain enough
moral In the poem called A G,is,atory
Achievement
An -l-Gir't-et- no-pie -Slnoe!
Last Thanksgivin' dinner We
II AZ Grannys house. an she
Had--iSt like she aug does
Most an best pies ever Wi,
Canned NdethuTry pie an goose.
bury. squshin'- full o Juice
An 'osburry yes. an plum
Yes an cherry pie-u,H yum,
Peach an punkin' too you bet
Lhwzy' kin taste 'rm yeti
Yes an cuSia,d pie. an mfrcs'
As for questions that children sometimes
ask here are two that would have Interested
Solomon
one tins Winnie ask her Ma.
A. me pinder. SEWN.
what's the wind dom when
Us a-not bown'
Yes an Del that very day.
When were nearly froze out,
lie ask Uncle Thsre y goes
When the Gre goes OUT
Az for the rhyme. spirit" and hear II .
IN the Introductory verses, il is not exactly
precise and intimate, but We should have
TO be paid before We would take the trouble
10 grieve about il. There are many poems
In the book and many pictures
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McMs tiers Daniel " cbstr r. :"

John Bach McMastcr's Daniel Webster"
Ghc Century Company, is timely, if il il
nothing else, Not that there il lust now
any sudden accession Of historical or politi-
cal interest in the famous expounder of
the Constitution, but there il every reason
why young politicians and invaders OF
public life should study the records Of
Webster's unique career. u is generally
conceded that the era of great senatorial
oratory IL past and yet when one comes
10 read the life of Webster. one naturally
wonders whether master speaker aris-
ing on the floor of the Senate Chamber
to-day would not achieve an effect similar
10 those wrought by the mighty son Of
Massachusetts
The story of the famous debate in which
Webster made his crushing reply TO Hayne
is worthy Of renewed study in these DAYS
In the first place il serves TO remind us
that the tariff question is perennial, that
the battle over It was waged with bitterness
and logged resolution in the early years
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4 Novel OF Dark Nystery.

Over In London they have kind of n q vel
which they call shilling shocker' These
novels are written for people who love to
have the horrors. and every one knows
that there are many such persons All kinds
Of deep and gruesome mysteries are pro-
vided by the authors Of this class of Act ion
and the contrasts between the good and the
wicked in their works are made especially
sharp, The shilling shocker is not un-
known In this country. but you generally
have 10 pay more than a shilling for II. A
very well developed specimen Of the native
horn shocker Is Il Will Repay" by George
Dvre Eldridge 0ewis Scribner 4 Coz.
This tale OF mysteries starts out with a
prologue in which there is a very poor imi-
tstion OF the effect wrought with such won
derful art in Stevenson's "Dr Jekyl and
Mr. Hyde" A respectable doctor receives
. mysterious visitor. who accuses the ply
sician Of having ruined his life. A guest
In the next room hears the conversat ion be-
tween the two and sees the doctors face
In mirror. II is described "a demon
face and the guest hopes that he willhever
see II again Then comes the story. which
all experienced novel readers will discern
Is going to be a study Of the effects of this
mysterious piece Of wickedness on the after
life OF this apparently respectable doctor
l. is dire tale and it ought not to be read
just before going to bed unless he reader
Is actually hungry for dist resslng dreams
The story il needlessly spun OUT. Too
much space is occupied with explanations
OF things which can be understood just az
well without so many words. Authors
often mistake their readers for stupid per-
sons, No doubt il is stupid to read such
story. bur il could easily have been made
shorter. and IL IL had been half a. long it
would have been tWica IA uood
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GORGE FRANCIS TRAIN has written
~ his autobiogrsph- r. = present gene
ration hisname Ia associated r..iefy with the
children and birds In Madison square. Yet he
was once the best known American on the
face OF the globe He organized the clipper
ship line that sailed around Cape Horn to
San Francisco, and made American shipping
lead the world; he organized the Credit Mo-
bilier md the Union Pacific Railroad He
has been In Jail fifteen times. from the Tombs
TO the Bastile. and never committed n crime
He has made more than seventy ocean voy-
ages and has broken the around-t he world
record three times He formerly lived in a
villa and spent e.. 600 a week maintaining
II Now he lives in the Mills Hotel and spends
81 q week He was the King OF Finance
of a generation ago MY LIFE IN MANY
STATES AND IN FOREIGN LANDS"is
the story Of this wonderful career. and the
New York World declares there IL not dull
page in IL, illustrated 12mo. Cloth. d rs
net Postage ~ cents additional
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Good short stories.

The salt sea waves leap and the ocean
winds blow in Mr.. James b. Conollys out
Of Gloucester" Charles Scribner's Sons),
1t is the real thing, There are only
half a dozen stories in tina book, but they
give sea life as few books do. There is no
question Of Mr., Kipling OF W. Clark Russell.
Mr.. Connolly represents the fisherman's
life as II actually is. and his stories will
appeal TO people ashore as well as those
who know what salt water is. They are
good and exciting stories by an author
who knows what he is talking about.
Realism, carried TO extremes, possibly,
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4 Mixture by Alexander Itlack

Alexander Black II always fond Of king
artists with society" people and he has
not failed 10 do 80 again in Richard Cor
don (lothrop Publishing Company. The
artist In this case IL one Jasper Cdrrainc
and he ia pretty poor specimen of the
breed. The literary guild appears 10 be
somewhat too fond Of showing the .ramv
side of artistic life. The really great arts
has elements of greatness in his nature
but il is impossible TO discover any good
whatever in this Carraine. He afIrcnts
the love of good girl by Offering her a
brutal insult and she fades away and dies
She happens TO be the sister Of Richard
Gordon, the hero of the story, and lac hap
pens 10 be a lawyer. What does he do?
He defends this cheap cad when he Is ac-
cused Of grand larceny and gets him ac-
quilted.
Blu, the real hear, of this story lies with
the love of Richard Gordon and Julia BAR
wood. She refuses him and he can no, for the
life Of him understand why In the course
OF time, however he learns tina, there was
dark and unhappy incident in her young
life. She had made one of those misst cps
which are usually fatal to the future of n
girl. But this extraordinary Richard Cor
Jun 'oNeS Hei 40 Ilucn tnat ne ONerloOkS
the error and takes her TO his heart and
home in spite Of il. The story il fairly well
written and il deals with many aspects Of
New York life, Here are carouse in an
arts studio, an Arion ball, Democrat ic
convention, peep into Tammany Hall and
look at Richard Croker, a political meet
ing and convention. There il also a flying
glimpse of the Cuban war. 1t can be said
without reservation Ina, Mr. Black has used
plenty OF material in making back ground
for story which never rises above the
level Of the ordinary