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The Washington times., 1902-03-16
A French GriSette.

Mile. Fouchette," by Charles Theodore
Murray. is, one is inclined to say, story
of an entirely new type. Certainly nothing
like this heroine has before been seen in
fiction, and yet she impresses one as being
very true to life. She is bundle of para
doxes. and yet she is not impossible.
The author. it may be said at once, is
evidently out of sympathy with French
life He does not believe in the chivalry
of Frenchmen or in the purity of the
French home to any great extent. His
heroine IS a lusus naturae, a white flower
blossoming in rubbish heap, and yet she
is not SO very white. Perhaps 1t would
be more accurate to call her a bunch of
scarlet SALIVA. or some equally fiery and
impressive bloom.
Fouchette is a little Paris waif. brought
up in den OF thieves, educated in re-
form school, and making her living as
secret agent of the police; yet, although
she can on occasion use all the abusive
vocabulary of the Quarter Latin, al
though she can fight with hands, feet, and
teeth, and thereby earns the sobriquet of
ia Petite Chatte," she is disconnected
Win any lONt OF any WndlSO-
ever. Some instinct of separateness
makes her resent undue liberties with a
force which deters the most brutal. In
short, she is in the life of the quarter
without being exactly of it.
1t is a story without a hero, for when
the one man comes along, to whom Fou-
chette. without knowing it, gives her
ha haha in r.
fiedIy caddish that the reader feels that
it would be a satisfaction if any of the
numerous villains of the book were TO
kick him the length of the street. The
only heroine remotely approaching Fou-
chette in fiction is 0uida's Cigarette"
and this little French waif is Cigarette
without the romance ard the heroic op-
portunities. 1t is a curious and an inter
esting study, and artistic in every line.
philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company
The Washington times., 1902-03-16
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About Alexander Hamilton.

Mrs. Gertrude Atherton's THE Con-
queror." which the Macmillans are to
publish this month, WIN be something
of an innovation on accepted historico-
romantic lines. The author mingles new
fact. She has paid a visit to Hamilton S
birthplace, the island of Nevis in the
West Indies, has made researches as to
his parentage and his early life, which
dissipate many of the myths that have
crystallized around his memory, and has
taken the biography of the man-so cor
rected-as the warp and woof of a week
wherein romance is only the external
ornament. This book, If successful, may
set a new fashion for the coming novelist.
The Washington times., 1902-03-16
AN OLD BOOK REPRINTED.

capitals. He considers this emotion to
be too lofty and complex for the enjoy
ment of any but a person Of position and
intellect He apparently does not happen
TO know that most of the love songs of
the world which are worth anything
songs full of true poetry and the most
delicate feeling-have been the work of
peasants so utterly obscure and insignif-
cant that they are forgotten and only
their songs remain.
If there were really any scientific value
to his dissertations on the minutiae of
love. they might be pardoned, but the
fact is that their intellectually and rhet-
oric alike are about on a par with the
correspondence corner OF the farmers
weekly. Among all the mistakes of va
rious kinds 1t may be unnecessary to pick
out one, but ii might be mentioned in
passing that when Mr.. Finck speaks of the
vituperative book on America written
by Anthony Trollope. he is several miles
away from the truth. The book In ques-
tion was Mrs. Trollore's. New York:
The Macmillan Company.s
The Washington times., 1902-03-16
Scotch Stories.

Love in Its Tenderness" by ]. R. Ait
ken, is series of tales of the type which
has been called "kailyard fiction" but
the dialect is not quite so intricate as
that OF Barrie and MacLaren, and one
can read the book without needing any
dictionary. The scene is a small village
called Enochdhu. and the characters are
those commonly to be found in such n
village. Perhaps the strongest of the col
lection is the first, of which the hero is
the young minister of Enochdhu, one of
those latter day mystics more or less
frequently found in the lowlands of Scot
land. New York: d. Appleton & Co. 81
The Washington times., 1902-03-16
REVIEWS OF THE WEEK.
A Spanish Fisherman.

The work of A. Palacio Valdes has been
finding some of the favor which il de-
serves on this side of the water, since the
appearance of THE Joy of Captain Ribot. -
the first of his hooks which was trans
lated into English. This wa followed by
THE Fourth Estate and now by Jose, -
which is a story of a Spanish fishing
town. and quite different from either of
the other two in subject. scene. ana char
acters. In fact. the versatility of this au-
thor is one of his striking characteristics.
The style of Vsldes is as far as possible
from that which we iustincuvely asso-
ciate with Latin literature. 1t is ex-
Qusitely simple and natural, and full of
graceful turns of humcr and fancy. his
favorite characters are the people OF the
provinces of small towns of Spain, where
the national character may he touched
but is not remodeled by the spirit of the
age.
The introduction of this particular novel
is one of the most charming passages in
the book, and also one of the most char
acteristic. 1t is in part as follows:
''If some day you come to the province
of Asturias do not go away without TAX
ing a peep at Rcdillero.
1T is the most strange and curious
place there, if not the most beautiful.
Yet, in point of beauty. l consider that
1t can hold its own with any other. al
though this is not the general opinion.
The majority of people smile compassion
ately when speaking of Rodillero, even
as when. in conversation, mention is
made of a cripple or hunchback, or any
other mortal marked in grotesque way
by the hand of God. This is unjust. l
confess that Rodillero is not genteel, but
1t is sublime, which is more important.
THE inhabitants of Rodillero are pro-
foundly religious: the constant peril they
live in moves them 10 fix their thoughts
and hope on God. The fisherman every
days casts himself on the sea which
knows him not. Every day he goes out
to lose himself in the infinite azure Of
water and air without knowing if he will
return. And sometimes, indeed, he does
not return. Never do many years pass
that Rodillcro does not pay her tribute
of flesh to the ocean. On some occa-
ter of 1852 eighty men perished, repre-
senting one-third part of the working
population. Little by little this goes on,
telling upon the spirit of the men, sepa-
rating them from materialistic interests;
making them generous, serene, tender in
the family. Misers, schemers, and swind-
lers do not abound among men of the
sea, as among those in the country
The hero of this novel is a simple
hearted young fisherman, quite accurate
ly described in the foregoing passage;
and the heroine is the daughter of the
schoolmaster, somewhat above him in
station, but as charmingly simple char
acter as himself. For the rest, the minor
characters are genre portraits of indi
viduals. One sees the life of the little
fishing town as if one sat on the sands
and watched and talked with the people.
Those who enjoy book which thus accu
rately describes the life of little group
of peasants will certainly enjoy this one.
(New York: Breatano's)
The Washington times., 1902-03-16
The Fighting Bishop.

Herbert NJ. Hopkins, author of THE
Fighting Bishop" was born in Hannibal.
No., but always speaks and thinks of
Ohio as his home. From his twelfth
year he lived in Toledo and his fore
strong character "the lighting Bishop"
Ambrose, for whom his novel was named,
was drawn from the life and actual ex-
perience of the authors grandfather, and
many of the characters of that remarka-
BILE old-fashioned family which he has SO
truly pictured, are taken almost wholly
friends.
The Washington times., 1902-03-16

A Book of Old Travels.

Messrs. A. c. McClurg & Co. announce
that they are planning an extensive series
of reprints of Americana" in elegant form
and limited editions. They will inaugur
ate this series in the fall of 1902 with the
issue of 'Hennepin's Travels" under the
editorship of the man best qualified in
America, perhaps, for such a task, Mr..
Reuben Gold Thwates. For the text Mr..
Thwaites will use the edition Of 1898, and
the maps and Illustrations will be repro
duced in facsimile. The work will be
thoroughly annotated by Mr. .Thwaites, who
will also furnish an introduction and pre-
pare the index. There will probably be
two volumes. and the edition will be
limited to one thousand copies, two hun
dred and fifty of which will be on large
paper The "Hennepin" will be followed in
1903 with other important issues, which
will be announced later The most com
petent. historical workers in the country
have been interested in the enterprise.
The Washington times., 1902-03-16

Another Napoleon Book.

new addition to the great library of
Napoleon books is announced by John
Lane for spring publication. 1t is Paul
Fremeaux's with Napoleon at 81.
Helena" from the memoirs of DR.. John
stokoe, naval surgeon. The original of
this book, under the title OF Napoleon
Prisonnier," appeared in Paris just a year
ago. the author used as material pre-
viously unpublished letters and papers
written to or by DR.. John Stokoe, sur
geon on the Conqueror, the British flag
ship at St. Helena. They contain inter-
esting details of his intercourse with Ma
poleon, who wished to have him as his
medical attendant after O'Meara's S banish-
ment The book exposes the system
adopted by Sir Hudson Lowe and his
treatment OF the prisoner. The transla-
tion is by Edith S. Stokoe, great
grandniece of the DOCTOR and contains
facsimiles of letters and documents in her
possession.
The Washington times., 1902-03-16
Mary Tappan WRIGHT.

Mary Tappan Wright. whose very
strong novel of Southern life, ALIENS" >"
is soon to be published by the Seribners.
is the wife of Prof. John H. Wright, Of
Harvard University, the dean of the grad
uate department and professor of Greek
She and her husband are we'll known in
the society Of Cambridge, where they have
lived for years. Mrs. Wright comes OF
the well-known Tappan family Of Ohio.
her father having been President of Ken
yon College. She was born In Steuben-
VILE
"Aliens" deals with that extremely in
teresting period of Southern recovery, SO
neglected in fiction, Immediately follow
ing reconstruction, period and environ.
ment of which Mrs. Wright is well fitted
to write by reason of long residence in
.he South.
The Washington times., 1902-03-16
LITERARY NOTES.
Napoleon.

Mr. Thomas E. Watson calls his new
book Napoleon: A Sketch of His Life,
Character, Struggles, and Achievements"
He approaches his subject from a popular
and democratic point of view, using the
word democratic in its broadest sense.
Napoleon's personality Is studied rather
than his campaigns, and his political sys-
TEN, his laws. institutions and civil ad-
ministra tion are considered by Mr.. Wat
son as his most important and enduring
work. and his attempt to reconcile mod
ern liberalism with the absolutism of
divine right is looked upon az his fatal
mistake.
The Washington times., 1902-03-16
Log Rolling.

This is the comment of the "Londol
Academy" on Mr.. Shorter's assertion
that Life in London would be well-nigl
without" log-rolling:
This rolling of the log is-what?
Preferring to the Fact
A statement of the thing that's not,
To make a friendly act;
An inability to slate
The volume of friend;
Extolment of the second rate
To serve private end;
CAS- if the friend that fled before
genuine review
Were worth a rotten apple core,-
Yet that's the common view.)
self-protective jet of slime
Which may some morning lead
To like expenditure, what time
The rollers self has need.
And this we suffer to the full,
This pact of craft or fear,
Lest life become unbearable
To certain stalwarts here.
The Washington times., 1902-03-16
Cecil Rhodes.

Mr.. Cecil Rhodes latest biographer. Mr..
Hensman, contradicts the story that
Rhodes ever used the phrase "he never
met man whom he could not buy" The
germ of this fiction, Mr.. Hensman says.
''is to be found in the fact that one day,
many years ago. when discussing his pro-
posed telegraph wire from one end of
Africa to the other, somebody asked him
how he proposed to carry 1t across the
Soudan, which was then under the domi
nation of the Khalifa. 'Oh, leave 1t to
me- Rhodes answered. 4 never met the
man yet that I could not come to an
agreement with, and shall be able to fix
things up with the Khalifa when the
time comes This is the true version of
a story that in its distorted form has
been so widely circulated"
The Washington times., 1902-03-16
The New Game,

ping Pong: The Game and How 10
Play It," by Arnold Parker is slender
little volume which will prove accepta-
BILE in many households where the mys-
teries of this new fashionable game are
giving trouble. Mr.. Parker is the winner
of the Queens Hall Ping Pong Tourna
ment, and announces that his object in
writing the book is to put before the
public in the simplest and clearest man
ner the way in which the chief strokes
of the game can be performed. 1t is
especially designed for the assistance Of
those who live far from large towns and
must gather their knowledge of the new
sport of 'table-tennis from books.
CNew York, c. p Putnam's Sons)
The Washington times., 1902-03-16
Economic Obligations.

Miss Ja:e Adams, widely known as the
head of the Hull House Settlement, in
Chicago is the author of the next vol
ume In the Macmillan Companys "Citi-
zens' Library of Economics, Politics, and
Sociology" II will be entitled "Democ-
racy and Social Ethics" Its six chapters
are devoted to the various types and
groups who are impelled by the newer
conception of democracy to an accept
ance OF social obligations involving in
each instance a new line CT conduct. She
finds that the tentative and actual at
tempts at adjustment are largely coming
from the less educated classes in the
community.
The Washington times., 1902-03-16
A New Book of New York.

Robert Shackleton, author of Many
Waters, A Story of New York." published
practice of law to enter the literary field.
in which he has already achieved a repu-
tation. He is forty-one years old and
native of Wisconsin. Almost all of his
early life was spent in Cleveland. Ohio,
where he obtained his preliminary educa-
tion. He studied law at the University
of Michigan, and was admitted to the bar
in Ohio. Following a natural bent for
he was attracted to newspa-
per work, in which he was successful,
serving from 1895 to 1900 on one of the
great New York dailies. For the last
two years Mr.. Shackleton has occupied
an editorial position on the Saturday
Evening Post" Of Philadelphia.
The Washington times., 1902-03-16
Bran Stoker's New Novel.

Doubleday. Page & Co., early in March,
publish The Mystery of the Sea- by
Bran Stoker. story of modern life on
the English seacoast in which an Amer
lean heiress figures as the heroine. One
may feel assured that the author of"Dra-
cula" has written an unusual story, full
of weird Imagination. An ingenious elab-
Grafton and application Of the Baconian
cipher, which 1t contains, is said to be
both novel and absorbing.
The Washington times., 1902-03-16
A Happy Embarrassment.

Mr.. Harris Dickson, whose new novel,
1.-The Siege of Lady Resolute," was pub
lished by the "Harpers" on February 18th,
said in an interview: II find it very en-
barrassing to be asked for data concern
ing my life and achievements, for 1 am
one of those fellows who has dreamed
great deal and done very little"
The Washington times., 1902-03-16
Scientific Observations on Love.

Sctentlnc OCSeIVdtlOnS Ou LOVE-
new edition of Romantic Love and
Personal Beauty" by Henry 7. Finck, has
Just appeared. The book was first issued
fifteen years ago and 1t is not quite clear
what may have been the reason for re-
printing it. There is no definite theory in
the work, other than the general theory
of the world on such subjects. and very
little which the average person, with the
aid OF a library, or even of the agony
column of a newspaper, could not find
out for himself Moreover, when one
comes to consider what Mr.. Finck does
not know, in a scientific way, about this
subject, one is forced to admit that it
would fill several volumes much larger
than the bulky one which he has filled.
For example. he Is firmly convinced that
the peasant, as he calls him, is utterly
incapable OF experiencing Romantic
Love-" as ha cG!!s i.--al@@yc using t-o
The Washington times., 1902-03-16
HawthOrne's Life.

The long delayed volume of Hawthorne
in the american Men of Letters Series"
will soon appear. II was supposed that
MIR. Lowell would prepare this biography;
Mr.. Henry James also was mentioned as
its possible author. We are at last to
owe it to the industry of Professor G.
E. Woodberry. No doubt he will give us
readable volume, but we must never
theless regret that the work could not
have been done by one of the elder gen
Grafton who knew Hawthorne.
The Washington times., 1902-03-16
A New Book of ESSAYS.

Mr.. Richard Burton's latest book,
Forces in Fiction has just been an
nounced by the owen-Merrill Company.
DR.. Burton is a professor of English lit
erature at the University of Minnesota
and the author of half a dozen volumes
OF essays and poems.
The Washington times., 1902-03-16
An Authority on Finance.

new book. Financial Crisis ID. Apple
ton & Coz, as an authority on financial
and Industrial problems has been recog-
nized in London fully as much as il has
been here. and arrangements have been
made to bring out an English edition.
The Washington times., 1902-03-16
Mrs. Fremont.

Mrs. Jessie Benton Fremont, widow Of
Gen. John C. Fremont, is still living at
the age of seventy-seven, in her pretty
home at Los Angeles. 1t may not be gen.
orally known that her Souvenirs of My
Time" contains some of the most delight
ful "reminiscences of old Washington ever
published
The Washington times., 1902-03-16
Dedicated to the Prince.

E. F. Henderson's Short History OF
Germany will be dedicated to Prince
Henry Of Prussia, by his special permis-
sion. and will be published by the Mac
milan Company next week, in two octave
volumes.
The Washington times., 1902-03-16
Some Old-Time Letters.

The late Mary Cowden Clarke in tho
period from 1850 to 1861 addressed to an
acquaintance in New York a number of
exceedingly interesting letters devoted
chiefly to literary subjects and people
These epistles are soon to be published
in book form under the title of "Letters
to an Enthusiast"
The Washington times., 1902-03-16
Appletons' Cyclopedia.

nual Cyclopedia has made its appear
ance. and while 1t cannot be said, in the
language of the Snowman. to be bigger.
greater. and grander than ever before"
it nevertheless measures fully up to the
high standard set by previous issues.
The Washington times., 1902-03-16
Our Presidents.

Col. A. X. McClures book of biography.
Our Presidents is to be issued in new
edition next week by the Harpers, revised revised
and brought up to date.
The Washington times., 1902-03-16
An American Book in Japanese.

Dr. Nathan Oppenheim's book on THE
Development of the Child published by
the Macmillan Company, has been trans
lated into Japanese.
Crittenden press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1879-1907, 1902-11-06

In an experiment whose purpose was
to trace the stages of development Of
baby's mind the infant vas placed
before a mirror daily. During the
earliest stages of the test be simply
looked at hi, reflection, as birds do.
lIencXt showed fear oft, a, domanv
cf the higher animals. lie then
gra,ped at it with hi, hands. a, cats
strike at reflections with their paws.
Later he looked behind the glas. TO
find the object, as cats and monkeys
have been known to do. But on the
l2Oth day of his life he deliberately
turned the glass at different angles
to obtain required reflections, an in
telligence not possessed by any ami.
NAL other than man.
Crittenden press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1879-1907, 1902-11-06
CASE OF LoCKJAw CURED.
New Method Of Administering Antitoxin
a Triumph Of Medicine.

or unusual interest. ,ays the New
York Sun, j, the report from the
Harlem hospital that a patient Of
that institution. a boy seven wears
old. who came there suffering from
lockjaw, ha, been cured. The secret
OF the. cure, a. it appears, lies in the
fact that the tetanu, antitoxin was
injected, not in those parts Of the
body where subcutancou, injections
are commonly made. bat directly
into tine spinal column method Of
treatment which proved successful.
also, in the case of another patient
Of the same hospital last summer.
1t Is scarcely more than a year ago
that tctanus became known general
~ as a germ disease, that il, one which
Is durable by the administration Of
& proper serum. Then came The dif-
ficulty Of finding such a serum In
January last, the doctors at the ST
rancls hospital. IN Trenton. an
nounced that they had hit upon the
desired remedy, and in proof Of their
assertion they called attention to
the case of victim Of lockiaw in its
worst form who had been restored TO
health after having received four in
jections of the new serum. Natural
ly, therefore, this hospital in Tren-
ton was looked upon as, sort Of a
Mecca for lockjaw sufferers from
that time on. The physicians at the
Harlem hospital declare that thcnew
method of administering the serum
practically solves hemystery oflock-
jaw, a scourgc much greater in fact
than the general publicimagine
Crittenden press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1879-1907, 1902-11-06
Taxation in Colombia.

The story Of the Colombian idea Of
taxation is told by Peter MacQuecn.
the Boston traveller, after a visit to
the scat Of the South American rev.
oIution. "Some American friends Of
mine,' he said, "were visited by the
city official of Colon. 'Senor,' said
the leader Of the delegation, we have
come to collect $12 in gold from you,
your share Of the cost Of collecting
the garbage for this year. But my
dear sir said the American, in sur.
prise, you have not collected the
garbage once during the whole year.
That's true said the collector,
scratching his head; well, let's maks
it So then "-N. Y. Times.
Crittenden press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1879-1907, 1902-11-06
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