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The (.ibb0 8 Moon Is In II.

Foolish Edith Deming! The reader will
want to pinch her at page So Of Gertrude
I.ynchs vivid and scintillating story. AThe
Fighting Chance" (The Smart Set Publish
ng Company. When she tore once across.
and threw into the copper waste basket
letter beginning Dearest" and two blctted
envelopes addressed to JohnTownsend, ESQ,
did she not know that "the statesman
was coming-the statesman from whose
eye nothing, except with the greatest diff
Guilty, could be concealed? She ought to
have known that her act would have been
dangerous even if he had been in another
hemisphere. But here he was only a mo-
ment after her
The chapter heading reads: From a
Single Desk" He seated himself at the
desk and wrote letter. Then turning
quickly he accidentally kicked over the
! copper waste basket. He picked 1t up to
restore it to its place. There wore but
three strips Of paper in it, and these his eye
could not avoid. An envelope torn half
way across had on it the name of his
secretary John Townsend and on jagged
| edge of paper, in the same handwriting,
the word Dearest invited speculation"
The invitation was accepted. But one
result was possible. From that hour.
marked by that act of unaccountable
and stupendous folly, John Townsend and
Mrs Deming were to the statesman as an
| open book "He looked thoughtfully out
of the wide doorway to watch Mrs. DEM
ing as she strolled toward distant point
of shade Had he been ten years younger
| he would have whstled; as it was he con-
| tented himself with stare Of amazement. y
| He went out and joined Mrs. Deming.
He twisted her around his finger. 1t was
not difficult In two minutes, under his
sarcast c provocation, she had blrted out
all that it was her business TO conceal.
| Too late, she bit her lips. "Oh," she cried,
Il k! ow | have made fool Of myself
always do. / am not fit to carry other
pco les secrets, when l can't keep my
own. Why did you goad me as you did,"
To this pitful question the statesman
| pitiessly replied. "To convince myself
finally" he said, that you were what l
| have always suepected-the most indiscreet
woman Of my acquaintance
II will surprise the reader to learn that
| the statesman himself made mistakes.
! He. of all men, permitted himself to count
bis chickens before they were Matched
He was sure that he had been selected to
90 abroad upon the NEST brilliant piece
, Of diplomatic business that had ever be-
fallen anybody since the United States
Government was estabished--a job that
meant something very near to top niche
in the Hall of Fame. He did not get it.
He thought that he\was goirg to marry
"the ingenue, that lovelest of fair young
creatures, who had accepted him He
did not get her. either. He was indiscreet
enough to kiss her. whereupon she ran away
and married beautiful young man. The
story says that lat the touch OF his lips
on hers all the repulsions Of youth at the
kiss of rge overwhelmed her"
The ingtnue wanted to be married, 80
that she might properly wear dress cut
low enough to show to the world dimple
that she had rather far down on her shout
der At the beginning of Chapter vi.
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The once Boy to the rypewr,t

Very likely the reader, when he comes to
"Love Sonnets of an Office Boy by s. E.
Kiser Forbes 4 Co., Boston and Chicago),
will think it less remarkable that an office
boy should love than that he should write
sonnets. 1t is not surprising that the
tender passion of an office boy should find
its provoe alton in the typewriter Here is
the first sonnet;
On II you only knowod how much Ike
To stand here, when tho "old man" amt around
And watch your soft white fingers while you pound
Away at them there keysl Each time you strike
II almost seems to me as though you'd found
Some way while writing letters, how To play
Sweet music on that thing. because the sound
Is something could listen to all day.
You're twenty five or six and I'm fourteen,
And you don't hardly ever notice me
But when you do you call me Wunel Geo,
| wisht I'd bundles Of the old long green
And could be twenty eight or nine or so,
And something happened TO your other beau.
Surely a creditable performance, inter-
esting in its sentiment and marked by the
proper sound and flow. From number Of
illustrations in the manner OF the early
woodcuts we discover that it was the habit
Of the Office boy to comb his hair carefully
and to try to conceal from the notice OF the
typewriter the fact Of the somewhat adj
vanced development Of his hands and feet.
I There are twenty-eight Of the sonnets, and
they acqunint us with much. Once the
"old man" scolded the typewriter because
she didn't spell right, whereupon the Office
boy went and dented in the tyrant's hat
secretly. ANY way you spelt would do
for me" he assured the lovely martyr after
lie
how he looked at her neck, so soft and
white, as she bent over her work, and
noticed where the poker had singed her
hair"-whatever in the world that may
mean The Office boy had many visions
regarding the typewriter, in which he
saved her from kidnappers and other per-
SONS of evil intention, and from fires. At
the end of the eleventh sonnet. in which
she has cold in her head he had vision
like this:
wish was the doct or that they d get.
And when I'd take her pulse d hold her hand
And say Poor little Girll' to her a nd set
Beside the bed wlile and kind oflet
My arm 20 round her, slow and careful and
Say. Now put out your ton que little, pet"
This is so fulfilling as literary effort
that we hesitate to notice that the poet
makes two syllables Of word that many
persons make only dhe syllable Of At the
end of the fourth sonnet we have the line:
I'D throw my job up if they fired you.
To make this scan we must read: I'D
throw my job up II they f-ered you.
This plainly is what the poet intends. As
we say, there are many who are not ac-
customed to make two syllables OF the
word fire. The same with flower Not
everybody will have the presence Of mind
to read: "He dropped the flower with a
sickish SMILE
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Two Books ON wlld Animals.

Accepting the sentimental point of view
that it is wrong to kill wild animals even
for food, no more charming book can be
ina gned than Mr.. William j. Longs Fol
lowing the Deer" (Ginn Il Coz The author
watched the deer in the Maine woods In
all seasons. He followed their tracks and
watched their ways, and his account is as
exciting as a detective story. The reader
cannot help sharing his indignation at the
wretched tricks of the unveracous back
woodsman, who hunts merely for a bag,
with total disregard of all rules OF sports
manship Mr. Long makes many novel
observations on the habits of the deer and
of the changes that come upon them when
they are hunted. His story OF the buck
driven to bay is extremely dramatic. The
book first appeared as Mature Reader" y;
it is now copiousiy illustrated by Mr.. Charles
Copeland, but the pictures, though pretty,
lack distinction. 1t certainly should at
trect every one who cares for nature.
Of wholly different sort, perhaps as
objectionable to nature lovers as an ac-
count OF hunting wild game, but sure TO
be read with great interest by city jewellers,
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Other Books.

An elaborate exposition in the Magyar
tongue of the doctrines OF modern French
philosopher, Paul Janet, comes to us direct
from Budapest in Janet Spiritualismusa,
a philosophical monograph by Ldszl6
Juhasz Franklin-Tarsulat). The author
in about 300 pages, after describing Janet s
life and opinions, passes in review all other
philosophers from Aristotle to Schopen-
hauer, showing how their views affect the
Janet philosophy, Tho typography OF
the pamphlet is excellent, and shows that
the MGgyars hold b, Franklin, printer
in honor.
A pretty and valuable memento for the
Fourth of July is issued by the Christian
Herald 1t is THE Story OF the Declaration
of Independence, by Henry Mann, fol-
lowed by "rhs History of Our Flag" by
John Quincy Adams, an oblong pamphlet
very fully illustrated, 1t includes q
fac-simile of Jcfferson's draught Of the Dec
laration and is accompanied by broadside
fac-simile Of the Declaration itself.
The blight Of tho seminar" and the
doctor dissertation il upon -Self-0overn-
ment In Canada and How 1t Was Achieved:
The Story Of Lord Durham's Report" by
F. Bradshaw Up. S, King x Son, London,
1t is conscientious piece of work, which
will be OF use to others, and probably TO
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we read: @Ths ingenue stood at tho mirror
with a handglass In position. She was
en- nsgEgee. and above the laces rose neck
Of marble Wilderness.
"She was gazing refiectively at a dimple
near her shoulder blade. III any other
woman had that she said to her maid.
the patient Jane, she would have her
dresses cut accordingly. But can lp Oh,
no-guimpes, covered yokes and every
thing else that fits my roel It's a wonder
society doesn't decree that debutante
shall be put in mealsack and have 1t
tied about her neckl It's a shame, a per-
feet shamel There isn't q neck in the
house can touch it, and what good does
it do?'
"She counted on her fingers. Even
supposing that accept one Of the two
mon who want me, it will be three solid
months before I can appear in decollete
gowns. Three months gone, simply gone
out of my life it's SIM
"She stood like stole while Jane but
toned the corsage carefully up the back =,
then wriggled her shoulders with her head
thrown backward Not glimpse of il,
not glimpse; that's the worst of n country
dressmaker Madame Lance would have
lessened the fulness in that particular
place without your saying a word, but
that rustic idiot has actually made it thicker
right in that spot; you couldn't see the
dimple with magnifying glass. Marry
mamma needn't worry. I'd marry If it
were only to show that dimple to an I'M
suspecting world
Mrp N t11 bad hnr arf ar
rather, her indefinite period. OK tragedy.
When the icy Townsend forsook her she
threw herself on the sward amid the roses
and beat the ground with her clenched
fists. How long she lay there she did not
know-minutes, days, months, years. an
eternity. She lived them all, and found
them all alike futile and bare"
Most of the characters suffered They
had all had their fighting chance and plenty
of it. Kenneth Bigelow, the most beauti-
full youth in the world"hiS clothes seemed
part Of himself; they and his manner were
so perfect that no one ever thought of
them"-fainted when he heard that the
statesman and the ingenue were engaged.
"The next he knew he was on the floor
with the statesman bending over him,
pouring water APPS anu VA Nus
head" When he cana to he took his medi-
cine handsomely. "You will be good to
her, will you not?" he implored the states
man. "She is so young and sweet and
dear, and perhaps does not always think.
| imagine girls are like that; they don't
feel so deeply themselves, and they don't
realize all man suffers" He did not know
that Mrs. Deming was lying on the ground
in the rose garden at that moment, beating
the earth with her fists.
But up came the gibbous moon for Ken
meth and the ingenue later. That reward
and solaoe Of the tired and deserving swims
into our approving ken on page 2l7. THE
gibbous moon was rising over the rose
garden" She had just said to him: Listen,
Kenneth. l was tempted for a while
any girl would have been-and did want
to wear low-cut gowns. She said 1t very
softly. The gibbous moon, as gibbous as
the Heidelberg tun flooded the rose garden
with tremulous and silvery light.
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A Story OF q Trust.

story of the mill bus mess. and Of the
making OF a t"ust of the same, is told in
The Wars Of Peao,,' by A. F. Wilson
little, Brown & Co., BOSTON,. 1t is highly
tragical story. Albion Harding seems to
mean well, and to have the conscience of a
good man, but with every step that he
takes in the formation of his trust he is
made to assume more and more an aspect
of great wickedness. We found ourselves
feeling a large sympathy for him at the
last the author showed him 80 little mercy.
Ordway, a small manufacturer, a man Of
much obstiracy, was urged by Harding
to join the trust. He refused. failed in his
independent business and died of a brain
fever. His ills are pathetically described
and his ruin ard death are made to seem
charge lbe to Harding, Again, Hardings
son Theodore in spite of the most cordial
efforts to restrain him. stands out against
the trust and when a crazy Socialist bl, VS.
up his mill and Theodore with it, Harding
is made to seem responsible for that tragic
disaster.
1t is well told and very readable story,
though the sorrow Of it is little oppressive
ht times, and though its logic is not entirely
clear.
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Family Jarl.

Heaps Of trouble in Miss Lillian Bells
story, "rhe Dowager Countess and the
American Girl (Harpers). Trouble for
the Dowager Countess and trouble for the
American girl; trouble, in fact, for pretty
nearly everybody in the book, which is a
prolonged feminine sornpping match from
start to finish. The trouble began when
Edith Joyce. the American girl, married
Archibald Cavendish, the younger son Of
the late Earl of MAYHEM and came to live
with her mother-in-law, the Dowager
Countess. The Dowager Countess did not
like Edith and Edith had not any unrcason-
able affection for the Dowager, Then. too,
there was an old friend Of the family, Sir
John Chartersea, who added to tho general
lack Of cheerfulness by stirring up further
trouble whenever things were getting
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A Puritan BARITONE.

The idea of the title of Anna Chaplin
Rays very clever and readable story, "The
Dominant Strain" little, Brown Co.
Boston is that Cotton Mather Thayer in
herited in great degree the artistic and
emotional temperament and the rare
musical ability Of his Russian mother, and
In degree still greater the strong Puritan
character of his father, who was Yankee
sea captain. 1t is curious to remark the
outcroppings of the Puritan part OF Thayer'a
nature in the course of his great career rs
n concert and opera singer
We we're little afraid at first of the en-
thusiasms that 30 commonly associate
themselves with exalted music. Here Is
the lovely Beatrix Dane who was destined
TO marry the drunkard Lorrimer. Let us
attend her for n moment at page SO. where
Thayer is about to sing
she drew a quick, nervous breath as
Thayer, followed by Arlt, came striding
out across the little stage with the eame
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In search Of Treasure.
NJ. W. n

when Miss Eastlake, who wrote stories
vi" verses for the magazines, went out
20 california to hunt for some hidden
treasure that an old Spanish padre had
."'n her grandfather about, she had some
astonishing adventures. First Of all she
N'' h"Id up in the stage while on the Cuesta
grade and the robbers took all her money
NeHt morning she went out for walk in
"" queer little old town OF San Luis, and
.'e streets were SO muddy she lost one Of
"' o'ershoes and had TO hail passing
D''e't car just as the conductor came
round 10 get her fare, and she suddenly
,h.'I'e'hoeTcd that the robbcr had not left
, ,sr cent, an obliging gentleman dropped
,''e .ost oyershoe in front of her and slipped
nickel into the conductors hand. She
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slack He described the Dowager as
"google-eyed.' and Miss Bell elucidates
the description by telling us that -her pale,
bullying eyes seldom seemed to have the
same intent on ct the same time, so that In
their rolling they gave a stranger the I'M
preston that she could see behind her.
When Edith met her husbands mother for
the first time she trembled visibly in her
effort not to break INTO hysterical laughter;
while Sir John. courtly old aristocrat, was
twisting his face into contortions behind
the poor old woman's back.
Here Is Miss Bells description Of the
Duchess OF Strowther, who also involves
herself in the general fracas. "Her nose
was fiat and the nostrils ambiguously
melted into her billowy cheeks without
troubling to let you known the line OF de-
marcation. Small red and purple veins
ran scattering over her face like rivers on
well-drawn map. Her mouth was loose.
her teeth projecting and fan-shaped and
Sir John was vile enough to warn Edith
that the Duchess was a human atomlzer,
and she'd better raise an umbrella when
she talked to her. The Duchess was fat
not large, but fat-and, to quote Sir John
again, that part Of the Duchess which you
can see In evening dress looks for all the
world like two loaves of graham bread
set to rise Nora O'Gorman, to whom
he said this, said the wicked part Of Sir
Johns speech lay In the word graham,
but she admitted, under pressure, that the
Duchess was rather polka-dotted.' From
which 1t will be seen that both Sir John
and the fair author are somewhat full
favored In their humor. wild bull is
let loose in chapter X. and there is a
sudden death through which Edith's hus-
band becomes the Earl OF Mayhem. She
brings the long nagging match to con-
olusion by promptly firing her mother
in-law and peace broods over all. Let
men not read this simple tale" says the
author In one Of the early chapters, FOR
to woman alone belongs the gift OF beng
able to appreciate how one woman Is
capable Of torturing another through
small things" This Is the chapter wherein
the Dowager has Edith's house hung with
the cheapest and gaudiest wall papers
with purple dragons and flowers whose
colors set the teeth on edge. There was
one particularly atrocious design, with
yellow men-of-war riding on tempestuous
purple waves. When Edith saw them she
burst into tears and let out subdued
shrek Then she had the walls washed
and sent the bill to the Dowager.
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unconscious ease with which he had crossed
her parlor tho veal bssoro y 50 His
shouldera stra;rhtarad ,,a ~, o,r,s 10
attention aa Arlt str,,clr tho onering chord
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to begin his propramroe with the Infelioe. >
for. In snits NJ ito Verd,;srn n bad been a
favorate % his old master in Rerl;n Re-
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! bending forward VIVA ,;step;ny with parted
Inns and fusb;no checks ~ ,yhaver as
man who had dall;ed viii ono og her Guns
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at least, is Mr.. Frank @. Bos tock's The
Training of Wild Animals" (The Century
Company. In the introduction we are
assured that the training is carried on with
no cruelty to the animals, The extraor-
binary performances of the many savage
beasts that Mr.. Bostock has trained need
no comment. They have thrilled and de-
lighted many audiences, Naturalists may
deplore the turning aside Of noble beasts
to do tricks that seem unworthy OF them,
but the city public throngs to see them
and to cape in amazement MIR. Bostock.
In very readable and entertaining manner.
tells how these wonders are brought about
and tells many interesting stories Of animals
and of trainers. There are many illustra-
tiona
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Mr.. Bradshaw himself, when he RECEIVERS
from his overdose OF "Hansard" and has
digested the information he has acquired.
There is an account OF Lord Durham, OF
affairs in Canada before and during his
Governorship, of what he wished to have
done and what the British Government
did, and an elaborate examination OF
Lord Durhams report. 1t is an important
contribution to Canadian history, and stu
dents will wade through it In spite OF it's
unattractive style. A photography Of Cana
dian history and very full index are ap-
pended.
Another academic product is "The Rise
and Progress of the Standard Oil Company"
by Gilbert Holland Montague (Harpers).
This consists of two papers reprinted from
the Quarterly Journal OF Economics, which
were the outcome of seminary" workat Har-
ward. The author seems more eager to arrive
at Judgment than to tell tho story OF the
company. knowledge of the moro import
ant facts is taken for granted, The con-
trast In interf S. between the extracts from
committee reports-the language OF aosivo
business men--and the authors own MARIA
tive is striking There are many things OF
importance in This world that do not appear
in official papers, and papers are all that the
seminary" students have to thresh out.
II Is gratifying to find that Mr.. Montf gus's
Judgment on the Standard Oil Company Ia
very favorable: he is rather more severe on
the railroads.
The con fict between the "higher criticism
ard orthodoxy is going on Al vigorously
among the German Lutherans as In this
country. To Prof Hfrnocks critique What
is Chritionity?" Prof DIR. Herman, Crenrner
of Grifswald replied IN a series Of lecture
on At. Essence Of Christianity. These have
been translated into English by d rnhard
Pick, PHI. D.. DID, and are published by tho
Funk " WagnaIL Company They may be
called the most authoritative conservative
ansv e. to the attacks of the higher critlcism.
Prof Maxwell Sommerville Of the UNI
versity OF Pennsylvania is an authority on
ancient coins and gems He ventures out
side of Lis domain in queer book called:
"Joliffr" Drexel Biddle, PHILADELPHIA. This
il an account Of stay in the Riviera,
made up Of bits of description, bits OF stories
and bits Of religious outpourings. Joined
together in the hap-fazard fashion Of the
French romanticists, but In the tone Of the
Chcvalicr Fuller. Prof. Sommervilles Eng
fish bears unpleasant marks OK sloyenly
translation from the French. He illus
tratcs his book himself In color, and 10 more
successful with landscape than with figure.
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Books Received.

THE Met,lc OF the Pasture" James Lane Allen.
Mac nilarSi,
"Mors ct Victoria" NonEmans. Green 4 Co).
"A Partnership In Magic" Charles Battell
LOOMS. uothrop Publishing Company.
andy Barr willis o. Hawkins. Isthrop
Publishing Company
"OR Special Assignment. Samuel TfAvers
Clover. Uothrop Pubushine csmpsnwk