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Vulnerable details brought in to help in
of the reader are, at the end. free from
sny confusion or lack OF clearness.
! There is a chapter toward the end OF
! the book in which the growth and charac-
| teristics of what the author calls Metro
/ poltan England" are treated. He shows
how London, standing at the focus of
four great natural roads, has come to
be what it is. and, although these chap
ters are not of a sort to be proftably
chopped up into sections, the conclusion
of this one may perhaps be quoted in part
as another example of the character of
the work.
AT the focus OF the four quarants is
the Great City, which has grown with
each addition TO the territory ruled from
it, each increase OF the population for
which it is a distributing centre. each bet
tering the means of communication, en-
abling it to outbid the local subccntres.
London is the enc community III Britain
whose long continued Importance places
it in the category Of the great historic
tIiitS Vi Upt. DGSlut lNUllt, dElSs
Vienna, Bruges, Client, Florence, Venice,
Lubbock, and Augsburg. In the Middle
Ages. when Britain was a pastoral coun-
try, and wool the staple export, London
was large town, and all the other CEN
tres of the land, as measured by modern
standards, merely villages. The metrop-
oils, in fact, occupied in medieval England
a ~
Melbourne, in the colony Of Victoria; Sgd
ney, in New South Wales, and Buenos
Ayres. in Argentina.
London has had two lives. 1t first rose
to greatness during the latter part of the
Roman dominion in Britain, so that the
city walls denied the Thames road TO the
Saxon barbarians. Afterward it lay
vacant with ruined walls, and the Danes
made the Thames one of their chief lines
of invasion. But the second life OF Lon
don had already commenced when the
Conqueror crossed the Channel and the
campaign which followed the battle OF
Hastings hinged almost entirely on the
reserved power of the great city. The
Mayor of London took his place along
with the peers of the realm, among the
of Magma Chsrta. In subse-
quent generations London played a de-
cisive part in the wars of STEPHEN, OF
Simon de Montfort. and of the Roses.
In the great civil war the wealth and
power OF London was one of the ultimate
causes OF the overthrow of Charles the |
First.
the Continent through Kent, confined be- |
tween the Thames marshes and Wealden |
forest, emerges on the banks of the river
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at the head of the estuary. London
Bridge is the pith and cause of London.
Below, either on the north side on the
south. and often on both. are flats OF al
luvium, with breadth of at least three
miles In the earlier centuries high tide
! converted these into an arm of the sea,
replaced at low water by a reedy fen
| through which tbs river wound with un-
certain course The tributary flow OF the
| Lea was through a similar though mar
rover marsh bottom, and the Isle of Dogs
was the Lea Delta, compelling the Thames
to cut bluff into the Greenwich rise on
the southern shore. Thus London stood
on an angle of solid ground, with tidal
marsh to east and south of it, across
which roads were afterward brought on
the Hackney and Newington causeways.
Once north of the bridge the traffic
was free to spread along the great fan of
roads northeastward into East Anglia,
northward to Scotland, northwestward to
Chester and ireland, westward to Bristol
and southwestward to Southampton.
Moreover, by the impediment which it
presented to water traffic. London Bridge
came to mark the limit between sea and
river navigation. Thus London arose on
a commercial foundation. 1t was bridge
place, place of transhipment from water
to land, and from river to sea, and a
centre for the distribution of passengers
and goods down the several roads.
And that is not all of the CHAPTER by
any means. But It shows the absolute
sureness and simplicity OF the deductions
of the writer.
To many people the concluding chap
ters will be most interesting. dealing. as
they do, with the question which is vex-
ing the whole worId-tha problem of the
stability of the British Empire. A care
full and judicial survey is taken of the
effects of colonization upon the colonists,
upon the home staying English, and upon
the Empire as a whole. The final word on
the subject is this:
Geographical position has thus given
to Britain a unique part in the worlds
drama. But the end of her history must
depend on the ethical condition of her |
people, on their energy, knowledge, hon |
esty. and faith. For the permanent facts |
Of physical geography now bear proper
tion to political regeneration, differing |
widely from that borne when England was
making In the presence of vast Powers,
broad based on the resources of half con-
tinents, Britain could not again become
mistress of the seas. Much depends upon
the maintenance of lead won under
earlier conditions. Should the sources of
wealth and vigor upon which the navy is
founded run dry, the imperial security of
Britain will be lost. From the early his
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A NEW and unique series of books
~ under the title The World Sc
1 \ ries" is planned by the Appletons
and the first volume has just ap-
peared, bearing the name Britain and
the British Seas If the whole series is
as interesting and valuable as this book
it will be one Of the finest things of its
kind yet published.
The author of the work is H. j. Mac
kinder, student of Christ Church. reader
in geography in the University of Ok
ford, and principal of Reading College,
and he is to be the editor of the other
books which will follow. To those ,yho
have read the first of the series. this will
be all the accommodation needed
Too many works of this class are su-
perhcial and Inaccurate. or made sub
servient to some theory. The achieve
ment of this writer is a careful. pains
taking, thorough. able presentation of a
subject difficult in its very nature. and
made doubly difficult by the seriousness
with which he takes it. Its general ma
ture and aim are stated in the first para
graph of the preface. in which he says.
The idea of this book was first sug-
sested to me by the needs of some for
eign students visiting Britain. but when
my publishers proposed a description of
the world my scheme was expanded 70
twelve volumes by different authors. The
aim of each is 10 present a picture of the
physical features and condition of
great natural region. and to trace their
influence upon human societies."
The book is fully illustrated with mans
and diagrams. which give II n somewhat
statistical look. out of keeping with the
really fascinating nature OF the contents.
Inc material is infinite in interest, for
one thing. and the scientific, not to saw
artistic, way in which it is handled.
arouses the admiration and delight which
is always caused by the sight of work
done exactly right, and with apparent
ease. Probably there was a good deal
OF labor connected with the prepa-ation
ct this scholarly view of the foundations
OF the British Empire: but nowhere is
there sentence which shows it. They
III III INTO the paragraphs as if they grew
there. Even the unscientific mind can see
that
1t may not be clear at first sight, even
aiter the authors statement of his pur
pose Just what the scope of the book
Is, or how the physical features OF Britain
nave contributed to the making OF its
people. But step by step, as one traces
any other course of evolution-as Darwin |
and compared innumerable facts
n I,
prove his-the author shows how one |
characteristic OF the island Influenced the |
inhabitarts in enc way. and another in |
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CnlIcgc SONGS.

Songs of the Eastern Colleges" is a
new collection 81 e9llege melodies, com
piled by Robert w. Atkinson, of Harvard
and Ernest Carter, of Princeton. The
avowed object OF making the collection is
TO provide the various institutions with
one book which snail contain all their
characteristic songs. and thus foster the
spirit of frate.ity among the fraterni
ties.
As TO the merits OF the book, il may be
said that the object of collecting the
Characteristic songs Of each college has
been accomplished, and that is about all.
Otherwise the compilation is not remark
able as distinguished from other similar
works II is up to date; that is, it con
tains several of the latest productions OF
the glee clubs. among them music and
verses composed by the editors of the vol
ume, and it is also conservative in that
II does not exclude the familiar old stand
bys. which have been sung by gleeful col
legians for the last fifty years. "Juani-
ia " Drink to Me Only With Thine Eyes"
and Jingle Bells have nothing to do
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A DIVERSIFIED CROP.

0 lie present nc rush OF
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th import 300 o. ki ip iyf tbe, t bt its l N gen
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of the pagt reader wi we sol Htt o r of
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GEORGE w. CABLE.

The recent success of Mr.. George ".
Cables novel. THE Cavalier" recalls to
many the impression which his person
slity made upon the public when he gave
readings from his own works some ten or
htteen years ago. At that time he had lust
written 'Bonaventure" and DIR. Sewer, "
anc the extracts which he read from these
and from "Old Creole Days" were given
with perfect appreciation OF the delicious
quality OF Louisiana atmosphere and life
Ihey were revelation to many North
erners who had never before heard creole
dialect spoken.
There is little story of his stay In
small massachusetts town which has never
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SARAH BARNWELL ELLIOTT.

One of the newer ma gazine writers who
has been making a name for herself in
the past two years is Sarah Barnwell Ell
lott. whose novel The Making of Jane"
appeared last fall.
Miss Elliott began by writing short sto-
ries of the South, which, although they
dealt with very much the same material
as the work of Thomas Nelson Page, Ruth
McEnery Stuart. and other authors Of
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young girl, delicate, refined. sensitive,
and repressed in every thought and action
by the irt.gence of the dominant person
ality CT her aunt, who brought her up.
The workings of this fine nature under
its abnormal conditions might seem TO
need the pen of a Henry James or
George Meredith to record them properly,
but throughout the story Miss Elliott
was accurate, sympathetic, appreciative,
and poetic in her portrayal. She never
overstepped the mark. and even when the
story was verging on the melodramatio
there was nothing of that quality in her
work. From her writings thus far one
gets the impression that she will do
some thing one of these days which will
make decided hit.
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Of them are girls" whereat the audience
looked mystifed until he finished the sen
tence, and the other half are girls, too. i"
Next morning two small girls who had
heard the address took it into their heads
to carry him some flowers; and they met
him at the station with a dainty basket
of jOnquils, snowdrops, and other per
quisites from their mothers gardens and
carefully worded little speech.
A day later each got a note of thanks.
worded as gracefully as if the donors of
the bouquets had been seventeen instead
of seven years old, and those notes are
carefully preserved unto this day
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Janyier's Latest Book.

Mr.. Thomas a. Janvier has recently ar
rived in New York from England, where
lie has been looking after the English
publication of his latest book of stories.
In Great Waters" recently issued on
:lus side by the Harpers. Mr.. Janvier
is master of the short story. IN The
Passing OF Thomas" his touch was large
ly humorous, but In Great Waters is
full OF the tenderness and simplicity OF
sea-dwelling folk, and of the poetry and
pathos. and often tragedy, of their lives.
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Mining in this Country.

The annual report of the United States
Geological Survey on the Mineral Re
sources of the United States" has come
out. and contains an immense amount of
conveniently arranged informa tion. In 1t
are the records of the development Of
mining industries in this country during
the year 1900, and the report will be val
liable to teachers of mineralogy. geology,
and economies, and to writer's on politi-
cal economy as reference book wash
inStOn: Government Printing Ofice)
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neIore been given to the public He went
eneIt, NOT IN order to give 1 reading, nut
on private business and made n ,,,.J, 10
a local Sunday school before ANYBODY
fairly understood who he was, though his
audience was captivated by the quaint
terms OF his talk and the beauty of his
diction. In the course of this talk he
held up one hand and said that he had as
many children as there were fingers on
that hand Of course, 1t was not difficult
TO guess i've. Then he added: And half
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older reputation. had distinctive indf-
vidual flavor. They were earnest. graph
&c, and often touched with vivid imagina-
tion and romance. One in particular, n
study Of the lynchins problem. attracted
widespread attention.
Her latest book. The Making OF Jane"
was of an entirely different type from her
former work. 1t was the life story of a
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X is known to the public not only
Il Y through work in the biogra phical
line, but as a writer of some clev-
er fiction, has come out as President
Roosevelt's biographer The book is in
tended to appeal to the popular taste, be-
ing fully illustrated, and written in a
breezy. entertaining style. There are over
twenty pictures of the President, counting
those in winch he is one of a group sew
eral of Mrs. Roosevelt and the family
and portraits Of people more or less con-
nected with the life of Mr.. Roosevelt
The general tone of the book is ac-
curately indicated in the first sentence Of
the first chaper, in which Mr. Meyers
says:
The training of man, according to
Oliver Wendell Holmes, should begin with
his grandfather. If this formula be cor
rect. then the training of the twenty
sixth President of the United States began
at the right period of time"
That the biographer is heartily in SYM
pathy with the aims and ideas OF the
President is easily evident, and in dealing
with the beginning of Roosevelt's career
he thus presents his view of the young
politicians attitude:
"A man with university education was
in honor bound to take part in political
life, and to do his full duty as citizen
by helping his fellow-citizens to the ex-
tent of his power in the exercise of the
rights of self government. He was bound
to estimate action as far above criticism,
and to understand that the man deserv-
ing credit was the man who actually did
the things. even though imperfectly, and |
not the man who did nothing but say how |
they ought to be done. He was bound to |
have a high ideal and to try to realize it, /
and yet he must make up his mind that |
he would never be able to get the highest
good. and that he must devote himself
with every bit of his energy to getting the
best that he could. Finally, the college
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tory of Britain herself, it is evident that
mere insularity gives no indefeasible title
to marine sovereignty. In this respect the
dtiOn which has here been described as
of geographical inertia. 1t is the great
opportunity of human initiative. The
whole course of future history depends on
whether the Old Britain beside the Mar
row Seas has enough of vitality and
imagination to withstand all challenge of
her naval supremacy, until such time "a
the daughter of nations shall have grown
to maturity. and the British navy Shall
have expanded into the navy of the Brit
aims New York: ID. Appleton & Coz
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inadvertently "Esoteric Christianity q,
by Annie Besant, was credited last weet
to L C. Page & Co instead OF to J,hu
Lane. who is the publisher, and tne mis-
take was discovered too late for correc-
tion in that issue.
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Poetry in Slang

Everybody should read Wallace Irwin's
Love Sonnets of a Hoodlum." The SON
nets are in perfect form. The language
is slang Of the most pronounced sort.
The book has a mock-historIc nd phflo-
logic Introduction by GeIett Burgess
They are issued attructively by Elder
x Shepherd, san Francisco.
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nnrTTV nI0I cTADc
ThLttI UinL ) ADO
HER LOVER TO DEATH
Tragedy on One of LondOn''
Busy Streets.
A MOST SENSATIONAL AFFAIR
Young Woman Named Kitty Byron
Plunges Knife Into Breast of Prom
inent Stock Exchange Member In
Presence of Hundreds of People.

New York, Nov. IA sensational
love tragedy has been enacted in this
city, in full view of hundreds of peo-
pie, cables the London correspondent
of The Herald.
A young woman named Kitty By
ron stabbed to death her lover, Ar
thur Reginald Baker, a well known
member of the stock exchange. Be,
fore the woman could move she was
seized by several witnesses of the
deed and given into custody.
The crime, which had every ele
ment of sensationalism, took place
just outside the Lombard street post
Office. Although the city was gener
ally making merry over the lord may
Or's procession, there was the usual
press of business at this ever busy
Office.
Scores of men and boys were pass
ing the spot every few minutes. Short.
ly after o'clock young woman of
attractive appearance, with slight fig.
ure, dark brown eyes, black hair, and
handsome features went into the
postofice, and sent an express letter
to the stock exchange. She waited
a few minutes when she was joined
by Mr.. Baker, to whom the letter had
been addressed.
For several minutes the couple en-
gagged in conversation near the coun
ter. Then their voices rose and the
clerks noticed they were quarreling.
Finally the man turned toward the
street with a gesture intimating that
he wished to end the interview. He
passed through the door. The woman
followed, nervously handling a knife,
and dealt the man a terrible blow in
the back.
AS he half staggered and then par
TALLY turned around with one foot
on the lower step, the woman with
drew the weapon and struck again,
this time plunging it into the left
breast.
The man gasped and fell heavily
forward, his head striking the stone
pavement. Two clerks seized the wo-
man, who was leaning over the pros
trate form as though preparing to
strike a third blow. Mr.. Baker died
on his way to the hospital.
The young woman was taken to the
police court, where she gave her name
as Kitty Byron, aged %, but refused to
say anything further.
Bakers wife lately instituted di-
vOrpp nrOceedinoS
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sLAsHED SELF WITH RAZOR.
North Carolina Girl Attempts to Take
Her Life.

Wilmington, N. c., Nov. 11.-Miss
Lena Harr, a well known young wo-
man and member of a prominent Ger
man family of this city, made an un-
successful attempt at suicide early
Monday morning, It created quite a
sensation and the family Is mystified
to account for her reckless deed.
Shortly after breakfast she obtain
ed a razor and made two deep slashes
with it across her breast, over her
heart She was discovered lying in
a pool of blood on the floor. She was
very weak from loss Of blood. A ply
sician was hastily summoned and
sewed up her wounds, which were
very serious, but not fatal
Miss Harr explains her act by say
ing that she was despondent and did
not want to live any longer, but fur.
ther than that she would say no mora.
She Is IS years old, and was happy
to all appearances. Her brother, Hen
ry Haar a prominent young business
man Of this city, is now in New YORK
on his wedding tour.
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ALAN G. MASON is
NOW A FREE MAN
Judge Almy Discharges Him
From Custody.
EVIDENCE WAS INSUFFICIENT.

Was Accused of the Murder of Miss
Clara A. Morton In 5oston.-George
Perry, a Negro, Is Held as the
Guilty Party.
Cambridge, Mass. Nov. 1.-THE
discharge of Allan c. Mason, the man
accused of the murder of Clara A.
Morton, at Waverly a week ago on
last Sunday night, was ordered by
Judge Charles Almy, of the third dis
trict court of Eastern Middlesex, to-
day. The government lawyer an
nounced that an investigation had
failed to disclose evidence sufficient
to hold the accused man, and ordered
the discharge of Mason.
Almost Immediately the negro, Geo.
i. o. Perry, young negro, who was
held as q witness against Mason, was
charged with the murder Of Miss Nor
ton. He pleaded not guilty and was
remanded without bail for a hearing
Nov. 18.
After his release Mason held an in.
formal conference. and after a short
time was driven to his home in Bos.
ton.
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Williamson Chosen President.

Savannah, Nov. Ill. p. Williams,
having declined reelection as presi.
dent of the Savannah cotton ex.
change, Major w. w. Williamson has
been unanimously elected to serve the
ensuing year Following was the tick.
ct elected: President, w. w. William.
SON. vice-president, ]. B. Hoist; di-
rectors, John Flannery F. d. Blood.
worth. Charles Ellis, Wright Hunter,
John Nisbet, James M. Barnard, Jr,,
George A. Gordon, G. A. Shearson, M,
M. Hopkins; inspectors of next elec.
ton. E. w. Smith, A. B. M. Gibbs, D.
NJ Young.
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MAN WAS DETERMINED TO DIE.
Rips Open Wound That Doctors Had
Sewed Up In Throat.

Chicago, Nov. 11-Tearing open the
wounds which he had inflicted few
hours before with suicidal intent, De.
tective Edward INLAND, Of the South
Englewood police station, died last
night at the Englewood Union hospi.
tai
In the morning inland in the pres.
ence of his sister, cut his throat and
when taken to the hospital declared
he would not leave that institution
alive He fought with those at his
bedside for nearly an hour, and re-
sisted efforts of two policemen and
two physicians to keep him quiet.
Finally his right hand was freed.
and in another instant the wound in
his neck was opened. Every effort
was made to save his life, but without
success.
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Decoration for Mrs. Harrison.

Chicago, Nov 11.-Mrs. Carter H.
Harrison, wife of the mayor, has be.
come the recipient of a decoration at
the hands of Henri Mercu, the French
consul. for her work in advancing the
interests of the alliance Franchise.
On behalf of the latter, M. Merou pre-.
sented her with a handsome gold med.
al suspended from a clasp in the form
of a rosette The medal is the insig-
MIA of an officer of public instruction
and is a French order highly priced
among educators
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OFFICE OF J. R. LAsSITER.
HENDSONyILLE, S. G Sc

HENDoON
Mr. A. B. GIR4RDEAU, Savannah, Ga.
DEAR SIR:-Some years ago l operated float
inc saw-mill on the Savannah River. My base of
operations was being constantly changed and my
hands we're always exposed to the worst malarial
influences. [ employed over one hundred hands,
and the work was conducted as much in water as
out of it, For this reason, in August and Septem-
Der there was great loss Of time and business on
account of sickness among the workers.
NV attention was then called to Johnson's Chill
and Fever Tonic, and I determined to give the
medicine trial. 1 procured it, and those who
we're sick were put this treatment, and those who
we're feeling badly were at once given the Tonic.
In a short time every one ofthe one hundred hands
was well and reported for duty; and from that time
on l used nothing else but JohnsOn's Tonic, and
never had another case of fever
Yours very truly,
J. r. LASSITER