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The Fifth String. BY John Philip Sousa.
Illustrated by Howard c. Christy. Indian
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The Fifth String. By John Philip Sousa.
Illustrated by Howard G. Christy. Indian
apolis: The Bowen Merrill company.
The maestro who has through his quivering
baton drawn the manifold music tones, tender
and plaintive, stormy and passionate, tri-
umphant and respondent, from orchestral
brass and flutes and violins, with mystic
voices and the Tilt Of falling water, has shown
in this book that he write love story
Of no little power. In brief, great foreign
violinist comes to New York and plays hts
audiences wild with emotion under his Won
derful manipulations. Only one person is I'M
moved,-a beauty Of the first order with whom
Diotti fell in love at first sight. He fails to
excite her emotion leaves his engagements
and fees to a lonely southern island and prac
tees to perfect himself that he may win
the lady's attention. In despair he breaks
his violin. And here the maestro adapts the
old legend. The devil appears suddenly and,
after much effort, tempts him to accept a
violin with five strings, the fifth string being
the death string, which, if touched by the
player, would mean death for him. The other
four strings were deliciously potential to move
to Joy sorrow and thrill the heart. This
too strong temptation for Diotti He
accepted the violin with the fifth string curse
and returned to New fork. and renews his
engagement, bringing vast audiences to his
feet by the emotional force of his playing. The
lady was won, but the tragedy-making fifth
work and Sousa is at his best describing the
outcome. Sousa deposits many Of his weird
imaginings in the little story. In a musical
atmosphere and his nature vibrant with the
concord of sweet sounds and swayed by all
the influences Of 1.-The heavenly maid," Sousa
puts some Of his soul of music into this his
first published romance. No doubt he can
give another.
Lyrics of Love of Hearth and Home
and Field and Garden. By Margaret
Sangster. Chicago: Fleming H. Revell
company. Price, $1.25 net.
Many Of these poems have appeared In the
periodicals and many appear for the first
time. The author has written some verses
touching hearth and home and the beauties
Of nature which appeal strongly to the better
and higher Ii; ture. Here is little taste Of
the authors quality in LAS Women Know:
May be woe too deep for means and tears !;
Love may be chrism Of blessing poured
The quiet days Of uneventful years;
And love may sometimes be, just patience,
spent
In trying how to find and keep content.
Whateer 1t be, true love is crown or cross,
Infinite gain or woe OF bitterest loss.
Dutch Life in Town and Country. BY
VI. ".
P. Putnams Sons. Minneapolis: N. Nc
Carthy. Price $1.2O net.
This is very interesting volume of the
Our European Neighbors" series, which is
designed to cover all the countries of Europe.
This plucky little Holland is always interest
ing. One can go from one end of the country
to the other in a few hours. and from the
tower Of the cathedral at Utrecht, it is posi-
BILE to look over large portion of the land.
But Holland, OF the Netherlands, has colonies
Of Importance, although the colonial territory
has dwindled to insigniacance compared with
that of former times. Great men have come
out of the little country-great statesmen,
navigators, artists, soldiers, sailors, patriots
and martyrs. and mighty champions Of human
liberty. The Dutch are proud of their past.
They are slow Of thought, speech and action,
and it is hard to stir them to enthusiasm,
and this, the author thinks. is due to the
history of the country which has taught the
.Netherlander to attempt to prove by other
peoples experience the value of new ideas,
and only when he has done so will he adopt
them; this saps all Initiative" The author
describes all sorts and conditions of men and
women and the employments and customs OF
the people, and the Dutch of the colonies In
a most interesting way. The Dutch woman
has a congenital desire to wash and keep
things Clean and everything her hands can
reach is scrubbed and scraped, but sngularly
enough, these people do not generally wash
themselves Women of the upper middle
class are educated better than those of Eng
land. Dutch girls read enormous numbers Of
French novels and are not fastidious about
the quality Dutch women not addicted
to clubs or leagues, but the girls are free1
from the maternal restraint which used tc
keep them from indulging in modern sports
and they are beginning to study the profes-
sions and fill posts in public offices. The
women dress we'll; their toilettes are the
German model, but the quaint provincial cos
tunes may still be seen. They make much
OF marriage and regard it as woman's tri-
umph. A man engaged to a woman has to
wear an engagement ring, as she does, and
the two considered almost married and
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