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The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1903-11-03
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The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1903-11-03

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The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1903-11-03

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The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-06-28
BY ANNA cHAPIN RAY.

hood in him descending from a long line of New England ancestors. the music coming through his Russian mother. The question is, of course. which Is the dom- inant strain-a question answered in an hour of supreme temptation by the tri- umph of the Puritan fiber over the Slav temperament. A fine. manly fellow is Cotton Mather Thayer, one who puts his passion into his song. but his principle into his life.
 The musical atmosphere of the book is felt throughout, but Is never overdone. Thayers friend and accompanist the modest little German genius. Is excellent ly drawn and is a very attractive char acter The snubs he receives from the vulgar rich as they push him aside in their rush after the lion are only too true to life We commend the authors mu- sical taste, intellectual rather than emo- tional She places her hero we'll From the first We were sure we had laid our hearts at his feet once in 'The Flying Dutchman," and, true enough. 1t was one of his great roles. He has. too, the dis tinguishing merit of not taking himself too seriously-a rare virtue in both hero and musician. Altogether we are glad to give a hand" to the man and artist.
 Secondary characters pleasantly per wade the pages. There is a dear old maid. There Is a lightsome and clever Sally, and a Robbie of warm heart and nimble wit. almost too suggestive of certain too well known Lord Bobby Thistletown. (Bobbies are always delightful in fiction.) We confess to a sneaking preference for
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-06-28

Because she must When President Roosevelt writes of Ease loving Lazi- ness" in this age. where does he find 1t? Even the pronounced pleasure seeker Is d stranger to ease and laziness applying the same dinamic energy to his ends as his neighbor devotes to serious pursuits. One is forced to admit that his Is not an art age. that literature lacks great and shining lights. that the higher repose" has fled; but decadent we are not. Our vlrility. on the contrary. is so all com passing that the very health of the ind- vidual and the nation is being brought to a higher standard. under a strain which would have decimated the world a few hundred years ago.
 And the girl of today! How can she sit idly at home employing herself with homely duties (which she undertakes. not understanding their signifcance) when she is being drawn from without and pushed from within to explore and test the range of her possible activity. and also to obtain that inalienable birthright of every human soul-independence? And to her elementary development "Inde- pendence" means the ability to buy her clothes and food In reality 1t means but poise-that boise which makes a wo- man recognize inherent independence. which may find its expression in the
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-06-28
|A The Dominant Strain. 4s

George Elliot says somewhere that the vows at which love laughs are prenup- tial promises. Especially, we may add. when they are promises of masculine re-, formation. Yet so perennial is this "tri- umph of hope over xperienee," that, without doubt, millions of maidens an nually marry fast" young men to keep them straight" and then. until the bond Is severed by death or divorce. spend their lives in the futile effort to shove their husbands up to a tottering perpen- diculaf Of such a man mad such a maiden Miss Ray writes. If whom the Gods destroy they did not first infat- uate," we should say that Beatrice was woman of too steady boise to have fallen into the common delusion of the feminine mind, but no faith is impossi- ble to a woman in love. so perhaps it Is only natural that she should have trodden the beaten path to wretchedness. In spite of ingenious sophistries one can not understand, however, the silence of her friends. True, their warnings would probably have been warnings of Cassan- dra, but at least they would have had the comfort of the Prophet Ezekiel The ''hideous mistake" and its sequel are strongly set forth, so that all may run who read" If this woman under these conditions. failed who, then, may hope for success?
 The title has to do with the hero, a baritone singer bearing the remarkable name of Cotton Mather Thayer. He is both a musician and a man. the man.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-06-28

Sally over the epic Beatrice. The Sallies, like the Boobies. make life less difficult and much more sunny than the Dorotheas and Beatrixes and Belindas "of larger mold" who are always dragging their friends into tragedy after them. There are. incidentally, good many glimpses of New York society and much spark ling talk. We energetically protest. how ever, against the treatment meted out to the heroine's parents. She might have been an orphan with no loss to the story. but the suppression and effacement of the senior Danes goes beyond the per- missible limits of even an American fam fly
 Upon the whole the Dominant Strain is a novel of uncommon merit. It is full of refinement and charm, witty in the light toss of conversation, true in its criticisms and charged with a truly hu- man interest. Its thesis Is one of far reaching importance, and the author has tactfully permitted 1t to speak for It. self. The book has its message of value as it's mission of recreation.
 garize the text. In one picture the hero is an awkward and pudgy butler; in an- other Bobby is cad. The women are simpering of face. poor in figure. un- graceful in toilet While the furniture is a collection of Mid-Victorian horrors Ev- cry image presented by the story is fiatly contradicted by the illustrations-a pal pablo case of '1ucus a non lucendo. " They are a grievous wrong to a delight full book.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-06-28

association. The simpler the conditions the greater seemingly, the popularity of the work. Nothing else could have made The Log of the Cowboy have such a wide reading. A critic has said of this story that 1t is the product of thor oughbred.'
 Public opinion copying from Ella Mor- ris Kretschmar, tells us that she con- tiadlcts the statements of the President and Mrs. Van Worst in her book The Woman Who Tolls" pronounces the girl who works from choice. when she might be supported by her parents. a snob. drawing the sweeping conclusion that she is prompted to effort "in her unmeasured vanity" by desire to dress better, and to possess more luXuries than otherwise would be possible. This writer asserts that intelligent people have ceased to re gard the horizon as the end of the world : and her view of the question of woma n 8 attitude in self-support is that the old view of things must give way to newer conditions-
 Miss Kretchmars view of the situa- ton" is interesting, and perhaps in giving us a change of view, instructing. This is what she says:
 Why is President Roosevelt strenuous He can't help it! Why is Mrs Van Worst thinking. iaferring and expressing? |?
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-06-28
BY ANNA ROBSON GREEN.

to him that when Mary silently acquiesced in his agnostic theories that she cared not jot for his principles. The man him. self held her. without thought of his re- ligion or creed. His strength, h's indif- ference to social laws and conventions.
 his very brusqueness attracted her until. where she had meant to conquer she her self was the slave. And the Truth that he loved was as nothing to her beside the thought of losing him should he learn that to her the idea of God and the church was still an irradicable part of her. Love perfected by unison of thought and feeling was his ideal Love, unrea- soning blind. and passionate was hers. Miss Browns logical mind saw the im- possibility of mating, even in book, two natures so widely antipathetic. He had promised not to discuss there religious differences. but with the reticence on that point came naturally a reticence on other points. It was merely mad desire to move him, to make him love her as madly and passionately as she loved him. and made her break their engagement. She closed her eyes to wait for him to come
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-06-28
Rapid Sales of Books.

Appleton & Company has given us some light on the subject by a statement which they have prepared in trying to ascertain what is the true reason for new books ready sale. Advertising is, at the present time, believed to be the most effective agent for pushing the sale of book To ascertain if this were true. Appleton applied a test in connection with the issuance of the lrst edition of Chauncey c Hotchkisss new novel, For a Maiden Brave"
 When the first edition was placed on the market. postal cards were inclosed re- questing purchasers to make replies to series of questions as to what had ir duced them to buy the book. Nearly 800 purchasers responded. with the follow ing result: Was it because you saw It advertised? Replies 80; per cent 12. Was it because you saw it reviewed? Replies. 49: per cent. To Was if because q friend recommended it? Replies. 69; per cent, IA Was 1t because the book seller rec commended it? Replies. 12S; per cent. 2h. Was it because you had had the au- thor's previous words? Replies. 16; per cent. 16. Was it because you were at tracted by the binding? Replies. ?. Was it because you were attracted by the title? Replies. 25: per cent B Was 1t because you were attracted by the colored illus tratlons? Replies. 12; per cent. 3 Was 1t because you were attracted by the gem eral appearance? Replies. 36; per cent 9. Was 1t for some reason not here stated? Replies, "A: per cent 5.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-06-28
How PariC AmuseC Itself.

oils to delve into it's written history. But the true abstaining American can read 1t. title page to finis, without being poisoned with a desire to share the empty pleas ures of this idle throng who meet out their souls at the feet of Bacchus.
 With the merry cllnk of glasses and the soft whispers of music in your ears you are told how an almost depraved and pleasnre-lovihg people live The writer writes well. but his theme does not ap- peal to me. It is like reviewing crim- inal's gallery in a police court There is nothing uplifting about 1t. but-bangl bang! The fair Zulema in tights is com- ing on the stage. There Is no time for moral philosophy or nudge your neigh bor and tell him Its wrong. It is the age, the time; q generation [ corruption must come and create its havoc. then yield to the confiux of new and purer era. (Funk & Wagnalls Co.,, N. r., $1.50.)
 Horatlo Lankford King.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-06-28
BY c. 0. HoTcHKIss.

good win This somewhat worn-out
 theme Is bedzened and ornamented by
 every kind of adventure-poisonings ar rests. treachery, duels. disguises. and for the third time this year we have plot that hinges on the phenomenal resem- blance of two of the characters Of course the good people are supposed to be very good. and the bad ones very dread
 full; but unfortunately the author has not made a very great difference be-
 twen them We are' told that he villial- ness is a very devilish person. but mo- where does the author convince his read CTS that she is so in fact. as far as one can have sympathy with such machine made characters, ones sympathies are rather with her than with the maiden brave" And while the hero is not as murderous in his tendencies as his physi cal counterpart the villain, he is no less
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-06-28

The tide or historical romances Is re- ceding A good many such books are still being published, but all the signs of the times show that the public Is less eager for the pageantry of the Middle Ages and the rattle of Revolutionary drums and We may look to see our writers turning more and more to descriptions of nature and political novels or to dissecting the souls of women Among these literary turncoats we may bo sure we will find Mir. c. c. Hotchkiss. who, since great popularity of the historical romance, has been industriously writing historical novels.
 The plot of his latest work is almost touching in its fundamental simplicity. There are a brace of bad people a will lain and a villianess; a brace of good ones-a hero and heroine. The bad plot against the good, and needless to say the
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-06-28
sx Truth and A Woman.

back to compel her to surrender her own will to his. and by the very force of his passion to let her taste again the fierce sweetness of surrender. But, being a worshipper of Truth. he did nothing of the sort. He took her words as final, bowed his head under the blow, turned and walked sadly out of her life. loving her none the less, but bearing his dismiss sal with cold calmness.
 The ending of the story, which is by no means with the breaking of the engage ment, is likely to be surprise to the reader Not that he had ever hoped for a conventional termination and a happy re- conciliation, but after poor Mary had played her last trump card and been beaten, it does seem cruel of Miss Brown to rub 1t in so to speak. and not let the poor thing die in peace in the lovers arms. Such retributive justice as 1t meted to her may well inspire her aunt s hearty sympathy.
 Tt may be true that she has brought this on herself. but the currents are so swift. and some are set forth in such rough waters" (Herbert s. Stone & Co.,, ChicagoO)
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-06-28

Anna Robeson Browns story, Truth and Woman" in spite of it's brevity and the lightness with which she has touched upon weighty subjects. is still a book which holds the reader after he has fin- ished the story. Perhaps she has been a trifie hard upon her heroine. who, al- though justice may have demanded harsh treatment, was nevertheless. not so bad as Miss Brown pretends to believe. For in spite of Miss Browns harshness, one feels that 1t is, after all. merely a pre- tense and that she is pursuing her hero inc more out of a sense of what is due to logic than because her heart Is in the work
 Mary Langland. a gay. superficial, in- telligent young woman, wealthy, of high social standing. and possessed of ready tact, meets and loves a man who has openly professed agnosticism Mary has been raised to respect all the splendor of the church It was merely love of CO., quetry-a womanly desire to conquer that started her idle filtration with Ar thur Geraint. Truth was the only God he worshipped, and so it never occurred
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-06-28
Brewstar,s Millions

In order to secure seven millions left him on such conditions, Montgomery Brewster. a young New Yorker of good family and principles. must spend legiti- mately one million in a year; he must not gamble 1t away or give inordinatel to charity; he must apply 1t to living ex- penses; by the end of the year he must be penniless. His mad race after poverty is exciting; he is called a fool by the world, moaned over by his friends, and rejected by the woman he loves. But he manages to spend the million and more. Tables are given showing receipts and disbursements. The executor hand ing over the seven millions. says:
 "As for your ability as a business man have this to say;any man who can spend million a year and have nothing to show for it don't need a recommendation from anybody" (Herbert S. Stone & Co.,. Chicago)
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-06-28

Those who have read "The Real Latin Quarter" a similar production from the pen of the same writer will appreciate this last effort or Berkeley Smith, which Is profusely illustrated and profusely written, Between it's gaudy covers you will find that same swerve and go which Is the cardinal characteristic, if I may use that expression. of the intensely hu
 man and folatre Frenchman in his own
 gay Paree" In this book. just from the press, or just from life, as you will, you are told in laughing numbers how the Frenchman and Frenchwoman. from the canaile to the haut-monde, succeed in making earthly existence worth the while. And In the lively narration of events that follows the title page. which is fair promise of better things to come in itself
 you may meet quaint, queer and interest ing people, and. of course, the all bewitch- tug and bewitched Mademoiselle. who leaves the imprint of her little French
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-06-28
3 For A Maiden Brave. @

"a cad. One regrets that somewhere he should not have received the thrashing which he richly deserved.
 MT. Hotchkiss has been at some pains to look up the historical data upon which his story is supposed to rest. The reader Is not allowed to forget this. Foot-notes dot the pages. and the reader is informed that such and such an event was a fact, or that such an such a street mentioned in the story is now called by a different name.
 Worse historical novels than this have been written and have been successful There is probably a public which will read this with the same sort of interest with which they have read many kindred books. But. on the whole. it will make discriminating readers glad that the day of the historical novel seems to be waning again.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-06-28
Carrots Morning.


 ''One rises early, at three in the morn ing. before the sun; one goes and seats ones self at the foot of a tree One watches and waits There is not much to be seen at first Nature resembles a Whitish canvas upon which the proflles Of certain masses are vaguely sketched; all is fragrant, all thrills under the re- freshing breath of the lawn.
 Bing! the sun is becoming clear The sun has not yet rent the gauge behind which hide the meadow. the valley, the hills of the horizon. The vapors of night still creep like silvery tufts over the cold green grass. Bing! ping! a first ray of the sun! The tiny flowers seem to awake. joyous; each one has Its drop of trembling dew; the leaves, sensitive to the cold, move to and fro in the morning air. Under the foliage the birds sing un- seen. It seems as if it were the flowers saying their prayers. The loves on wings of butterflies, descend upon the meadow and make the tall grasses sway to and fro. One sees nothing-everything IS fhere-the landscape Is all there behind the transparent gauge of the mist which rises, rises, rises, inhaled by the sun, and discloses in rising the river scaled with silver. the meadows. the trees. the cottages. the vanishing distance. One distinguishes at last what one divined at first. This is thinking as that great glacier discoverer, John Muir. thought. He went out to see God making land- scapes;" he thought of the Landscape countenance' and the expressive out- spokenness of the canon rocks He rushed up from sleep. as he says. to be- hold "a noble earthquake" It has been said that John Muir shows us nature 'tinged by the prismatic rays of the hu- man spirit" He has said, I would go down on my knees and barefoot to learn something more about how the Lord works. These few following expressions give his feeling toward the creatures which he finds in the "mildness" that he so much loves. Hunting is a healthy. natural instinct. but one should outgrow it." About killing the birds. he wrote. ''Why should kill them? They are not my birds" Of snakes: Poor creatures, loved only by their maker"
 He personifes the insect devouring plant that he stumbles upon in the woods by Hello, who are you? snake. guess" To the squirrel he sang and whistled Bon nie Doon." and he tells us that Burns listened with interest with his telling eyes fixed upon me" but when he tried to give him Old Hundred" He screamed hIs Indian name. PilHlloveet, turned tail and started with ludicrous haste up the tree out of sight, his voice and action in the case having a most pro- fane impression as if he said. "I'li be hanged if you get me to hear anything so solemn and unpiny."
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-06-28
The Kings Gift.

This story takes you over the seas and back through the centuries to New Testament days, depicting in a brief narrative the incident of the healing of the man with the withered hand. The story pictures him-Amasa. the copper smith-strong. muscular and of splendid physique. but alas. his hand has wither ed, and now grows worse each day, until he is almost unable to do any work. He hears that Herod has offered an almost princely gift to the man who will bring the most beautiful pattern of a censer and caldron for the alta of incnse in the chief synagogue His beautiful daugh- ter. Talitha, urges him to try for this gift but he fels that his withered hand has unfitted him for the work.
 Rumors come just at this time of a wonderful Healer, and instead of earn ing the Kings gift" of gold, Amasa finds the Christ. his hand is restored and he receives the gift of eternal life [" The story is told sweetly. and pictures very vividly this incident in life of Christ Presbyterian Board of Publication, Rich mond Va.)
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-06-28
Memorial Collections of Sermons.

A genuine pleasure Is experienced when one gets fully into this volume. The ser mons are by Edward A. Park, D. D. and some of them had tremendous effect when preached some years ago by the eloquent theologian who wrote them. Their reputation makes their publication now of great interest. The eight dis courses present a variety of treatment. One is memorial sermon: two are mark ed by strong element of appeal, while force of conviction and grip on con- science are to be powerfully felt in all. (Pilgrim Press, Boston, Mass, $1.50.)