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The Washington times., 1902-02-09
Famous Pictures.

In the latest issue of the Riverside Art
Series. Miss Estelle NJ Hurll continues
her interpretations of famous pictures
with collection of fifteen masterpieces
by Correggio. The introduction gives an
estimate of Correggio as an artist. a few
helpful paragraphs on books of reference,
an historical directory of the pictures re-
produced in this volume and an outline
OF the painters life. The illustrations,
which are printed in an attractive tint.
include The Holy Night" (Detain "St.
Catherine Reading THE Marriage of
ST. Catherine Ceiling Decoration in the
Sala del Pergolato" DIANA .St. John
the Evangelist" st. John and st. Angus
tine st. Matthew and St Jerome"
Madonna della Scodella, "Ecce Homo"
Apostles and Genii.' st John the Bap-
tist, ''Noli me Tangere,'' THE Madonna
of st. Jerome and Cupid Sharpening
his Arrows" Detail of Danae). Curios-
lty as to the personal appearance of Cor
reggie is satisfied. so far as may be. by a
photograph of the supposed portrait in
the Parma Gallery.
The present volume is the tenth in the
series and should receive as hearty a
welcome as its predecessors. especially as
II Is one of few treatises upon a painter
who deserves much greater popular at
tentlon than has heretofore been his por-
ton Messrs. Houghton, Mifilin & Co.,
are the publishers of the series.
The Washington times., 1902-02-09

I'm March Congress recommended
the disuse of all East India teas- The
committee request that their con
Stituents, in their several families
Will adhere to this resolution, and
however difficult the disuse of any
article which custom has rendered
familiar, to many almost necessary
vet they are induced to hope the la
dies will cheerfully acquiesce in their
self-denial and thereby evince to the
world a love to their friends, posteri-
ty. and country
This drew forth the following APP
peal:
petition of divers Old Women of
the City of Philadelphia. Humbly
sheweth That your petitioners. as
well spinsters as married, having
been long accustomed to the drinking
of Tea. fear it will be utterly impos-
sible for them to exhibit so much
Your Petitioners beg leave to observe
that, having already done all possible
injury to their nerves and health with
this delectable herb, they shall think
ii extremely hard not to enjoy it for
the remainder of their lives. Your
petitioners would further represent
that coffee and chocolate, or any
other substitute hitherto proposed,
they humbly apprehend, from their
heaviness, must destroy that brillian-
The Washington times., 1902-02-09
SPRING PUBLICATIONS.
New Book by John K. Bangs.

To the great reading public the name of
John Kendrick Bangs is known chiefly in
connection with quantity humorous liter
ature Mr.. Bangs reputation, fairly
earned with his House Boat on the
Styx," many years ago. has, as the sales
of his latest piece of fun attest, not
grown dim with the succeeding years; but
the famous originator of the House
Boat" it now appears. is intent upon
using his literary powers to graver pur
pose than his name has commonly sug-
gested
Not long since. Mr.. Bangs went to Cuba
as commissioner for 'Harper's Weekly"
The things he saw in Cuba, and the con-
clusions he drew, were many times too
much to be discussed. even briefly, in the
pages of a periodical. Being, like other
really great humorists, a profound think
er under his motley. he saw what i'm
pressed him as a strong vindication of the
Government and the army of the United
States, guardians pro tempore of the Pearl
of the Antilles; and this impression he
is now to embody and enforce in a work
to be entitled Uncle Sam. Trustee" 1t
is authoritatiyely promised that this new
est work of Mr.. Bangs will issue from the
press in april next. While one cannot
but expect to find the old humor cropping
out here and there in the product of this
writer. it is to be serious work in the
main. 1t is to be profusely illustrated
with views of Cuban scenes selected
chiefly to show the contrast between what
was in that island and what is the scope
of the book being TO prove how very far
from mere succession of blunders has
been the work of General Wood and his
little army of occupation.
An additional interest attaches to the
forthcoming Uncle Sam. Trustee" as the
inaugural output of a rev firm. the Riggs
Publishing Company, 1923 Broadway. New
York city. Although with name I'M
familiar TO the public at large, this house
opens its career not only under the happy
auspices OF great authors name. but
with something like guarantee to Amer
lean writer's in the name of one of its
OF John Russell Davidson.
well known as a literary agent
who has managed TO combine honesty
with success in manner altogether sur
prising to many who have known the
baser methods of literary agents.
The Washington times., 1902-02-09
THE PHILIPPINES.
A Retrospect and Outlook by President Schurman.

little book has
i OF
E taking Philippines
Philippine
of
Il
Philippine Republic
of On
II n
the educ and
of
all should filled Fipno
e o He say
ALLEVIATE and embe them the still tending
The Washington times., 1902-02-09
DOROTHY QUINCY.

Dorothy Quincy, Wife of John
Hancock; with Events of Her Time.
by her great-great niece. Ellen c. ID.
Q. Woodbury., is a daintily bound vol
me which will be of interest to all
who enjoy delving into records of
American history. The work is dedi-
Gated to the women of the patriotic
societies of America.
Thanks partly to DR.. Holmes
charming poem. and partly To her
own decided individuality. the per-
sonality of Dorothy O." is better
known than that of almost any other
very little definite information about
her could be called to mind by most
people. The present work contains
most of the facts which can be found
in old records of all kinds. and in lei
ters of the time; and il is illustrated
from portraits in possession of the
family and in the art galleries
There is almost as much of contem-
porary history as OF biography IN the
book. for the Quincys and Hancocks
were intimately connected with all
the Revolutionary movements in Bos-
ton, and good many quaint bits of
verse and prose are quoted in con-
nection with the part of the biogra-
ply which deals with these move
ments. Apropos of the "Boston Tea
Party" is this scrap of history:
The Washington times., 1902-02-09
A Philippine Periodical.

In the leading article in this months S
Philippine Review" J. G. Palfrey consid
ers he Philippine Commissions act of No
yember T. 1901 relating to treason, rebel
/ lion and sedition. The question OF the
/ acts constitutionality is not taken up,
but the author points out clearly and
| briefly wherein the act is different from
the Spanish laws, and from our own stat
utes. Apropos of the much referred to
limitation of free Speech, under sec
tion 10. which makes it a misdemeanor
Cor anyone to advocate, even in private
conversation the independence OF the ISL
ands, even though obtained by peaceful
means, the author says: 1t is impos-
sible not to note the marked advance to-
ward the somewhat inquisitional point
Of view of the Spanish code The number
is greatly enlarged of high political
crimes which are in their nature often
committed in secret or in the presence of
one person, and for which conviction may
be had upon the testimony OF a single in
former, and ununprecedented restraint
placed upon personal liberty and freedom
Of speech. This is said without intend
ing to condemn or to commend or to
Anglo Saxon traditions with the advlsa-
bility of addressing the Filipinos in terms
with which they are familiar. We mere
ly note the facts as not without signif-
cance to the student of history" In re-
gard to the clause of the act which makes
II possible, contrary TO our Constitution.
article III, section ,, for man to be CON
yicted Of treason without the testimony of
two witnesses TO an overt act some
grounds on which the act may be held
unconstitutional are indicated
The rest of the review is given up TO
what may best be called summaries OF
Philippine news-of the Taft report for
1901. of the measures before Congress. and
OF the months Associated Press" news
and very interesting letter from the
" Reviews Washington correspondent To
have an impartial and not too much alb
breviated digest of the more and more
confusing and voluminous Philippine lit
erature made readable and accessible is
what the editors Of the "Phlippine Re
view" are apparently trying to do. If
they succeed in making the forthcoming
issues good as the current one they
will be doing real service to those busy
less than living in darkness.
The Washington times., 1902-02-09
Biology and Health.

The Macmllans announce among their
spring publications Principles of SAM
tary Science and the Public Health" by
William T Sedgwick. of the Massa-
chusetts Institute OF Technology.
Prof Sedgwick-himself bacteriolo-
gist and sanitaran, with large experience
in public health work and sanitary teach
ing-having felt, has sought TO meet, for
the benefit of students, engineers, ply
sicians. publicists and general readers
by series of brief but carefully consid-
cred chapters dealing with the subjects
mentioned followed by others on more
practical topics. such as filth and the
philosophy of cleanness sewage and the
publication OF sewage, drinking water
and disease. milk supply and the public
health, ice supply and its dangers, sani-
tary problems connected with uncooked
foods, such as oysters. fruits, vegetables.
etc, disinfection and similar matters per
tanning to the public health or to mu-
ncipal, domestic or household sanitation.
The Washington times., 1902-02-09
SLASON THOMPSON'S BOOK.


BIZ
OF
public
which
% be issued is
First of all this
find a sinla
to that OF Mr. Fields make
its
speeches called
finer qualities the of
between still
which had
sisted he
whether would
O
nifed should of
serious
poet
The Washington times., 1902-02-09
The Late Queen.

Longmans. Green & Co. are pub
fishing book on The Girlhood Of Queen
Victoria" by Mrs Gerald. Gurney Mrs.
Gurney is the granddaughter of the
late Bishop Bloomfield. one of the early
tutors of the Princess Victoria. She is
thus enabled to give to the public for the
first time. by the permission of His Ma
jesty the King, some remarkable corre-
spondence between the Queens mother
the Duchess of Kent. and the Bishops of
London and Lincoln bearing directly upon
the education and up-bringing of the
Princess, and also the reports of her vari-
Gus masters, a list Of books used by her
in her studies, and disposition of her
day. The author states in the preface
that her task, though labor Of delight,
was not an easy one. Volumes OF letters
and histories of the period had to be
waded through, each OF which yielded.
perhaps but one tiny anecdote or remark
about the little, princess, SO secluded was
her childhood.
The Washington times., 1902-02-09

Later in the biography mere are
records of the festivities which took
place in honor of Lafayette and
other distinguished foreign officers.
One of these officers, i'm letter to q
friend, recounts with naive frankness
his astonishment at his first sight of
flock of firefiies, on the way from
Cambridge to Boston. He thought
there was an incipient conflagration.
There are all sorts of fascinating
scraps of records of the life of the
Hancock mansion in this book When
the Hancocks lived in Boston a con-
through their house. One of the in
cidents connected with this part of
their life is as follows:
at is related of Governor Hancock
that at one of his dinners TO sixty
guests. servant. removing a cut
glass epergne, which formed the CEN
tral ornament of the table, let it fall,
and it was dashed into a thousand
pieces. An awkward silence fell upon
the company. who hardly knew how
to treat the accident. Hancock re-
lieved the embarrassment by cheerful
ly eXclaiming, James, break as much
as YOU like. but don't make such
confounded noise about it, Under
cover of the laugh this excited the
fragments were removed and talk
went on as if nothing had happened"
Altogether the book is a graphic
picture of the doings of the Hancock
household, and the social life of the
time. Washington: The Neale Pub
fishing Company. S1.50)
The Washington times., 1902-02-09

Somebody has been doing a clever take
off of Anthony Hope, in The Smart Set"
and it runs as follows:
POLLY PowwOWS.
g - =" said l. stroking the cat.
e - she replied, vaguely. Il was
an evasion, but l decided to let it pass.
e -" She frowned ever so slight
ly. After ALL" l thought, what does it
matter?''
Which is almost an epigram.
- - -" she ventured. There was
nothing for it but to stroke the cat again.
g - =" naively.
l kept silent.
- =, tapping her foot. which was
q great deal, under the circumstances.
e. -" l remarked. stepping On tho
cat.
"-- -" Polly said. vexedly
felt I mad been awkward
- - - | hazarded. defensively.
''---," with a shrug. Polly is proud
of her shrug.
- - 1t was hardly an answer.
t. - Polly observed. Evidently
she had not so considered it. l fear Polly
when she is sarcastic
e. - / said, appealingly Polly
broke cup thoughtfully. We were hav-
ing tea.
49," she replied. passing the cake.
l eyed II doubtfully and then took 4
piece. Polly watched me with interest.
- - - l said, carelessly.
g. =" she pouted deliciously. 1
felt that this time had scored. YOU see,
she had made the cake
e. =" ahe continued bitingly. /
have said we We're taking tea.
The curate entered. On the whole. he
was rather relief.
The Washington times., 1902-02-09

lay was offered for sale. and was i'm
mediately purchased by Rcman, in
strong assurance that the Roman
valour and courage would soon raise
the siege. Equal to the conduct of
that lluStri6us citizen was the mar
riage of the Hon. John Hancock. Esq,
who. with his amiable Lady, has paid
as great compliment to American
valour. and discovered equal patriot
ism. by marrying now, while all the
colonies are as much convulsed as
Rome when Hannibal was at her
gates"
There are some interesting glimpses
of the young brides life in Philadel
phia. The life into which she was in
troduced was not exactly congenial
one, but John Adams. in letter to
his wife. writes of her:
Two pairs of colors belonging to
the Seventh Regiment were brought
here last night from Chambly and
hung up in Mrs. Hancock's chamber
with splendor and elegance. The
lady sends her compliments and good
wishes. Among a hundred men. al
most, at this house She lives and be
haves with modesty and decency, dig
nifty and discretion, assure you. Her
behavior is easy and %enteel. She
avoids talking upon politIca. In large
and mixed company she is unusually
silent, as a lady ought to be-"
The biographer says:
John Hancock. in addition to the
duties of Congress, which occupied
The Washington times., 1902-02-09
" The Sharp Truth"

Just what Hilaire Belloc attempts to
accomplish in his "Robespierre," Just
published by the Scribners, is explained
il his own words in the preface of his
book. He says:
The work that remains to be done with
regard to Robespierre does not lie in the
discovery OF. new documents; there are
too many already, and those that would
have told us most were burnt by Courtois.
l say that it is impossible TO add Sc
riously to the collection of facts which
NJ. Hamel made in the course of some
thing like a lifetime more than thirty
years ago. II is a record containing
nothing but facts, each one substantiated
and every document quoted. and it is
nearer 1000 than LOCO pages long.
The work which remains to be done
upon RObespierre is the explanation of
him There are the facts in a vast accu-
mutation. They contradict each other;
they present a problem not only of the
greatest intellectual interest. but of some
considerable moment TO those who would
comprehend the nature and the origin of
our modern politics.
ITO arrive at the sharp truth with re-
gard to this man, vino, at the renaissance
OF European democracy. was made for
few months a kind of god, is to under
stand perhaps the problem which the i'm
mediate future presents to us, and even
If 1t does not do this, the solution may
help US to understand the revolution in
which our modern theory began.
"To explain that man imperfectly is all
have attempted. 1t has been so diff
cult that with the exception OF a slight
essay upon the town OF Paris) it has pro
vided the occupation of two years.
Now that the work is over | could al
most wish that instead of wandering in
such a desert it had been my task to fol-
low st. Just and the wars, and 20 revive
the memories of forgotten valor."
The Washington times., 1902-02-09

TO fly without wings He then gave
the woman a guinea for the loss of
her goods. who was very wei! salts
fled about the matter"
Mixed in with these grave events
are anecdotes of less weighty char
acter, of which one is the following:
Judge Quincy, in his letter to his
daughter, July ~. 1875, writes the
amusing item that Mrs. Rice had
twins, and they were named John
Hancock and Dorothy Quincy. He
went to see them, and gives his i'm
preston: I think them a couple of
fine children, considered as twins "
This cautious commendation doubt
less meant something from the old
judge. The twins in question were
christened while Mr.. Hancock and
Miss Quincy were yet in the position
of betrothed couple. Their mar
riage occurred in September of the
same year, and there is IA copy of the
marriage announcement in the Penn
sylvania Gazette" which runs as fol-
lows:
Last evening was married at the
seat of Thaddeus Burr, Esq, by the
Rev. Mr.. Elliott, the Hon. John Han
cock, Esq, President of the Cont
mental Congress, to Miss Dorothy
Quincy, daughter of Edmund Quincy,
Esq, of Boston. Florus informs us
that in the second Punic war, when
very near making himself Master of
it, field upon which part of his army
The Washington times., 1902-02-09
The Eastern Question Again.

A new and most interesting work an
nounced by the Macmillans is The Mas
terry of the Pacific" by Archibai Id r. Col
quhoun whose former works, Overland
to China and China in Transforma-
tion," furnished some valuable and much
needed information on the Chinese s1tua-
tion. The publishers say of the work,
which will appear some time this spring
THE mainland of Asia is now pracu-
cally mapped out, and the changes there
have been practically Unforeseen by the
world. The next arena in the worlds
politics will be the Pacific. The conflict
of interests is likely to become keen
where the Oriental and Western Powers
meet. The author has visited all the prin-
cipal Islands of the Pacific. and is intimate
ly acquainted with the mainland of Asia
Dor ,ering that ocean from Korea TO Sing
apore, and with the United States, Cana
da, and Central America. He has but re-
Gently undertaken a journey to ascertain
the exact condition and possibilities of
the Pacific and to gauge the position OF
the Powers interested in 1t. His book
contains an account OF political and ma
terial development in the Far East, with
an estimate of the present status of Rus
sia, Germany. France, Great Britain, and
Japan. He takes into consideration the
collapse OF China and the vast changes
imminent in that country owing to the
appearance OF America on the Far Eastern
stage His final chapters bear on the fu
ture of the Pacific and the relation OF the
four Powers at present chiefly involved
Great Britain, America, Japan, and Hol-
land-and a fifth, Germany, deeply inter-
ested; a discussion of the problem of the
future political and commercial interests.
communications, and the influence that
sea power will have in the settlement OF
all questions relating to the Pacific.
The Washington times., 1902-02-09

| many hours, was obliged to sign the
officers, civil and military; to attend
to an extensive political correspond
ence, and to promulgate all orders
and regulations for supplying an
army. Continuous labor. with the eli
mate, affected his constitution: but,
as was said of him, His mind rose su-
perior to this misfortune in the dis
charge of his public duties Mean
while his own affairs and those of
others were left to drift in their
course. which impolitic proceeding
caused him much trouble in after
years.
THE sensible young wife entered
on the new life with zest. and in
stalled herself as assistant to her hus-
band, finding pleasure in facilitating
his drudgery as far as was possible.
Her embroidery was laid aside in
o~der to become sedulous worker.
She trimmed with her scissors the
rough edges of the bills of credit is
sued by Congress and signed by the
President: arranged them in saddle
bags, then despatched them to the
various quarters for the use of the
army. She also packed the commits
sions. which she forwarded making
herself a veritable helpmate \
writer tells us that previously all
this business of Congress had been
done by the President, and was very
arduous, but later clerk was Sc
cured.''
The Washington times., 1902-02-09
An Unprecedented Achievement.

a Harvard law school man has been
translating Homer's "Iliad" in English
heNameter. and as this task was pro-
nounced impossible by Pope and Bryant
the achievement is something of which
to be proud. The author of this transla-
tion, Mr.. Albert J. Lonrey, has been
working on it since the spring of 1900
and his work is said to conform closely
in idioms and spirit to the original
Greek. 1t has attracted the favorable at
tion of scholars everywhere. and many
subscriptions have been received for the
yet unfinished translation. Voss. the Ger
man author. succeeded in translating
Homer into German hexameter. but the
work has not been done in English at all
The Washington times., 1902-02-09

cy of fancy and fiuency of expression
usually found at Tea-tableS when we
are handling the conduct or charac-
ter of our absent acquaintances.
Your Petitioners are also informed
there are several old women of the
other sex laboring under the like diff
ficulties, who apprehend the above
restriction will be wholly insupport-
able, and that it is sacrifice infinite
ly too great to be made to save the
Lives. Liberties. and Privileges of any
country whatsoever. etc. petition
to be presented to the Assembly now
sitting, or next Congress or commit
tee
Another bit of historical literature
is an anecdote from the "Pennsyl-
vania Gazette" of 1715:
"In London. last Tuesday, some I'M
lucky but genteel youths went to one
of the temporary cook shops in Co
vent Garden, and one of them said to
his companion: I'll show you how
the Americans intend to serve Bos-
ton. You must suppose that pan over
the charcoal fire to be the town, and
the Sausages in ii to be General Gage
and the Kings Troops; and then
(says he) they will be served thus;
When he threw paper, with some
gunpowder in it, under the pan,
which Immediately blew the sau-
sages. etc. into the air. There (cries
he), now you may see where Boston
is. and also how the Americans VIII
learn General Gage and his soldiers
The Washington times., 1902-02-09
A New Literary Magazine.

Dodd, Mead & Co. will shortly begin
the publication of new monthly maga-
zine, The photographer, devoted to
photography and rare book news. The
new periodical will be issued only nine
months in the year. publication being
omitted for the months of July, August,
and September. Photograph facsimiles of
rare books, manuscripts, etc. will be
freely used. Mr.. Paul Leicester Ford will
be the editor of The photographer, -
certainly an admirable choice.
The Washington times., 1902-02-09
History of Western Fur Trade

Francis p. Harper. New York, an
nounces he will have ready early in Feb
ruary Capt. Hiram Martin Chittenden's
The American Fur Trade of the Far
West: History of the Pioneer Trading
Posts and Early Fur Companies of the
Missouri Valley and the Rocky Noun
tains and of the Overland Commerce With
Santa Fe.' This important original work,
which promises to at once take front
rank among the authorities on Western
history. is in three volumes. 1t is largely
based upon unpublished records which
are scattered in all parts of the United
States. 1t Is a new and consecutive his
tory of the great West down to 1850. A
love of the subject and many years of
research have materially aided the author
in his task of producing these exhaustive
and interesting volumes.