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which we find her weeping in an early
chapter. She is charming from the
first. and fascinates the imagination
not as a mere heroine. but as per-
sonality.
TIKI Princess Cont. of whom we get
only glimpses. IS equally successful as
a piece of character work. The large,
arrogant. extravagant illogical Polish
woman, with her freaks, her impulses
and her curious mixture Of ignorance,
carelessness ana shrewdness, is the
kind of character who would seem I'M
real if drawn with less consum-
mate skill; but as Mr.. Crawford does II
one feels that one might meet her in
the flesh. The same is true Of the
Baron and Baroness Volterra- Mali
pieri. the hero is as attractive as the
charming Sabina, and as real. In fact.
reality is the salient characteristic oil
each person in the story, down to Lotto,
the mason, who could have existed
nowhere but in RoE;e.
AS In all Of the more successful novels
of Mr.. Crawford, there is in this one a
hint of mystery, and not the least OF
its entertainments is the sound Of the
mysterious lost water" trickling. fall-
ing. rushing under the walls or the
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Two Love Stories.

"Calderon's Prisoner" by Alice Duer
Miller, Is a book containing two good
love stories. of which the first gives
its title TO the book. II deals with the
adventures Of a young lady in search
of excitement, who travels down into a
Central American republic. becomes ac-
quainted with the head Of it's army. and
finds all the excitement she wants. and
more, too. Alicia Lea is very well drawn
and very attractive, despite the habit
which she seems to share with Two
thirds Of the heroines Of latter day
uovels-of being around under foot
when the hero has something else to
do besides making love. 1t is really Gu
rious. this tendency OF the modern hero
inc to get in the way. Some of the old
fashioned heroines must have been
rather a nuisance at times, but they
never ran their heads into danger II
they could help 1t. The modern damsel
comes around teasing for excitement
when the hero Is busy attending TO his
Career
The second story. cyril Vane's Wife, -
is a story of marital unhappiness.
worked out in an original way. and
clever from first to last. (New York:
Charles Scribner's Sons)
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LITTLE STORIES

Sins of the Fathers" has also a strong
human interest.
OF The Oriental stories THE Jewels OF
Consistency Is a fair example. II is
very short. and runs as follows:
The dead OF a graveyard sat in their
Jombs. for now il was the feast Of the
Melad. when the dead are as alive and
may walk tie earth for a night and
neither the angel MoOnkir questions nor
the angel NeiIur forbids.
-But many missed their bones. and
walked with vain rattle OF speech. TIL
one. who was a miser. with dry laugh
ter spakc: What need have 1 10 walk 2
Here be my bones TO SELL Then a
woman gave for leg bone a ring. and
another fillet or gold for a hand. and
thus there was soon left OF him only
skull. and TO that skull some treas
ures. These others stumbled away, re-
joicing. and as the muzzin sounded the
first sunrise call 20 prayer clattered into
their graves. But at morning came down
from the palms monkeys and took the
misers skull for a ball. The gold and
Jewels a beggar found anc the fakir
and Suh. speaker OF verse. Ferishtah
who saw all this wonder. said: AS are
the living, so are the dead
Clear-cut, obvious, profound, are these
little studies. joy 10 lovers OF thought
tNew York: The Century Company
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UNDER THE JACKSTAFF"

Coggin's s.. "CIarence's Mind" The
Proving of Lannigan.- Help from the
Hopeless" Clarence at the Ball. - The
Lannigan System with Girls" and "A
Yarn of the Pea Soup Sea" The titles
of these really give a good idea OF their
character. II The Lights OF Sitka" Is
the best, certainly "A Hard Road TO
Andy Coggin's" is the funniest The
spectacle of a haIf-tipsy Irishman ram
paging all over Newport. clad IN
medieval armor. on the way to Andy
Coggin's to get a plate of beans. is GER
tainly one of the things that are almost
too funny for laughter.
Help from the Hopeless is at the
other end Of the scale Of emotions-a
somber tragedy told with a certain
grim humor. IN The Yellow Burgee"
the author seems to be letting OF his
opinion of some newspaper man afflicted
with jaundice OF the imagination. and
the opinion goes of with a sizz like
Roman candle.
Altogether. Mr.. Fernald has given one
more proof of his ability and willing
ness 20 write most original and inter-
esting fiction. and as he can write some
of the worst that ever was DenneG, we
ought to be grateful. (New York: The
Century Company
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:. :. :. IN MODERN ROME
A New Book by F. Marion Crawford.

PaIazzo Cont. The soUnd Of this unac-
countabie stream adds siie last touch to
the historic atmosphere OF the place
that wonderful palace of which II is
said in the beginning:
Dust everywhere. the dust that rams
silently at night from the ancSS1t wood
en- ceilings and painted beams Of Ro-
man palaces; the dust of centuries ac-
cumulated above and sitting forever to
the floors below. 1t was on the yellow
marble pier tables, on the dim mirrors
in their eighteenth century frames, on
the high canopy draped with silver and
black. beneath which the eff1gy of an
other big cheeky eagle seemed to be
silently moulting under his antique
crown. the emblem of a race that had
lived almost on the same spot for eight
hun bred years through good and bad re-
pLls, but in nearly uninterrupted pros
perity. The baroness, who hankered af-
ter greatness. felt that the gloom was
q twilight of the gods.
The only false step IN the book is the
last chapter. Why. oh. why. did the
author choose to destroy the illusion by
announcing "and behold. it was all a
dream" (New York: The Macmillan
Company
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fGeorEe Washington Jones' "a Christ
mas Gift That Went Begging BY
Ruth MeEnery Stuart. is an amusing
little story II a louisiana pickaninny.
told with al the charm Of style for
which Mrs. Stuart is famous. Every
line she writes is worth reading.
George Washington Jones was the
grandson Of an old Negro preacher who
had long ago In slave days been given
as Christmas present 10 a beautiful
young mistress. Left alone By the
death Of his grandfather. George form
ed the resolve Of hunting until he found
some beautiful young lady who would
allow him TO serve her with the same
loyal devotion. How he searched, how
be lost Aope. and how he finally found
the mistress whom he sought is the
story and IL contains many inimita bic
touches Of humOF and pathOs. George !
philosophy Of life. inherited from his
grandfather and modified by himself
his quaint pride, his principles. his pa
thetic yearning for affection. make him
altogether the most attractive charac-
ter created by Mrs Stuart since she
wrote Of 80 razy Abe philadelphia,
Henry Alter us Company
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''The paokman."


The Christmas n, mber Of THE Book
man" contains an article on William
Butler Yeats, by Isabel Moore Mr..
Yeats is likely TO be in the foreground
of American literary scenes for some
time. Prof. Harry Thurston Peck has
probably found his meter at last, for
he has written for this number story
for young children called 'Hilda and
the Wishes" An interesting article
with many Illustrations is American
Undergraduate Dramatics"' by i.
Guernsey Price. An item which will in
terest readers Of John PerCyfeld' is
TO the effect that the original of the
Swiss chateau so charmingly described
by the author has been found and pho
tographed. THE Resources Of MycToft
Holmes is an amusing piece of work
by Charlton Andrews. Owing TO the al
legged absence Of the Junior Editor, who
appears to act as office eat for this
magazine, an unusual number of letters
appear in the Letter Box There are
obituary sketches of Mommsen Lecky
and Richard Henry Savage. and one
particularly interesting of Albert ORES
den Nandam.
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SIMPLE JOYS

Circus Day" by George AIDE. needs
no recommendation beyond the cover.
and the cover is not very gorgeous,
either. When George AIDE writes Of a
small boy az the circus il IS not neces-
sary te say much more about il. But
the pictures are by John T. McCutcheon.
He takes She small boy the night be-
fore-the circus always begins the night
before The boy is counting up his
moneys cents. Then he and Shaver
Thompson and sam Groves sit on the
edge Of the sidewalk and talk al bout il
tn the BOYS father comes along and
tells him TO ga to. bed II is a way
fathers have. And so we follow the
boy along every step of the joyous
morrow, until the lights flare and the
band plays for the last time under the
great white tent. and the boy has spent
all his money and has not come to the
blank. bleak. fiat waste Of the morrow
when he will realize that there il nc
more circus for a year and no more
money at least FOR the present This
little book is pure joy to the reader
VINO has ever been ten or eleven. O
thereg1outs. on circus day. akron. Thu
Saalheid Publishing Company
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fkV Under THE JACKSTAFF
is the title Of a new book of
tales by Chester Bailey Fer
Maid. the first which he has
given us since the Incompatible cat
and the Cherub" and other Chinese
stories. 1t must be confessed that, for
sheer grewsome originality and force.
Mr.. Fernald has never surpassed that
haIf-dozen Of Chinese-American tales,
and by the way. they ought to be re-
published in an edition de luxe with IL
Illustrations. But those who enjoyed
THE Spirit in the Pipe" a sea tale. not
Chinese, in that collection, will find here
several more Of the same sort, together
with the sample tale itself
The Lights of Sitka" is perhaps the
best There is in 1t a touch of the grim
horror which made The Gentleman
Who Lost His Head" a person to be re-
membered. Clarence O'Shay and Lanni-
gan are the two jolly mariners who
figure in these yarns. Mr.. Fernald has
departed from the fashions set by Du
Mautier and is not turning out his ad-
venturers in punches Of three this time.
There are eleven Of the stories in all,
including, besides the two mentioned,
The Yellow Burgee.' The Transit OF
Gloria Mundy.' "A Hard Road to Andy
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Kindergarten Rhymes.

THE Songs Of the Trees" by Mary
Y. Robinson and Josephine Robinson.
is big fiat book full OF rhymes. songs,
pictures, and easy reading. There are
twelve parts-one for each month. Each
begins with an artistically decorated
silhouette title page IN red, black, and
green, and goes on through a song
about the tree belonging TO that month
to another silhouette and a rhyme, and
then a short descriptive article about
the tree. The designs are odd and
pretty; the music simple and suited 10
children's voices. and the rhymes and
prose adapted TO their understanding.
Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Com
panN.l
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SETTLEMENT WORK

"A Listener in Babel is an alleged
novel by Vida .. Scudder. which is less
a work of fiction than a study OF social
conditions in cities. The heroine is
young girl. reared in Europe and edu-
Gated in an American college, whose in
herited tendencies take her into what IS
known as Settlement work. This Settle
ment work as it is really carried on IS
highly practical and useful. but some
how IL does not appear so in the book
There is a good deal OF rather windy
discussion OF abstract sentiments, COM
pairing Of social theories and expression
of doubt and dissatisfaction. and the up
shot of the whole thing seems 10 be
that it is hard for those trained TO
affiuence to get on any common ground
with those whose training has been all
of the hand-to-mouth variety
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A BEAUTIFUL FAIRY BOOK

The Crimson Fairy Book. by An
drew Lang. is the annual volume in
Mr. Lapgs popular series. and it seems
as if each years edition were more ex-
quisite than the last. Certainly this
book, with its glowing cover and deep
hued Illustrations. will be the most cher
iShed possession of every child fortu-
nate enough TO get one at Christmas.
Many of the tales in this collection
aae Hungarian, Russian or Servian in
sheir origin. \ few come from Finland
and Iceland. others from japan, Tunis.
and PortasfI. Among the alluring titles
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NEW FAIRY LORE

The last OF the trio is THE Magical
Monarch OF No." with pictures by
Frank Verbeck. whose whimsical genius
seems especially suited to the fantastic
tales of Baum. No child can see the
funny little squat man with an UNI
brella and high conical hat, who adorns
the title page. without longing 70 know
more about him. He lived in most
alIuring place called the Beautiful VAL
ley. which is thus described:
THE sun shines all the time, and
it's rays are perfumed. The people who
live IN the valley do not sleep, because
there is no night. Everything they can
possibly need grows on the trees. so they
have no use for money at all. and that
saves them a deal Of worry.
There are no poor people IN this
quaint valley When a person desires a
new hat he waits till one is ripe. and
then picks IL and wears It without ask
ing anybody's permission. If a lady
wishes a new ring. she examines care
fully those upon the ring tree. and when
she finds one that fits her finger she
picks II and wears it upon her hand.
In this way they procure all that they
desire.
There are two rivers In the Land Of
Mo, one Of which flows milk Of veTy
rich quality. Some OF the islands in
the MIX River are made of excellent
cheese, and the people are welcome to
spade up this cheese whenever they
wish to eat it
And so on. It is to be hoped that all
Of Mr.. Baum's fairy tales will event.
ually be dramatized. for if there is any
form of musical comedy truly delight
full 1t is that fanciful dramatic creation
which the English call pantomime, and
no one is better adapted to such work
than he. indianapolis: The Bobbs-
! Merrill Coz
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.T TITLE STORIES by S. Weir
Mitchell. Is slender book
/. - -eontaInlag several Of the brief

LkT TITLE STORIES by s. Weir
Mitchell. is a slender book
IL containing several Of the brief
character studies for which
Or Mitchell is well known. Some Of
them have am Eastern setting. but most
deal With modern American life and its
problems All are more or less meIan-
choly in tone though not by any means
nassimistie, merely charged with Sc
rious thought as a Leyden jar Is with
electricity
a Dilemma" is an exceedingly in
Eenious story Of an old miser's revenge
Most dsabolicaly ingenious the scheme
IS, and II is a good thing that the car
rying out would also require some in
genulty or DR. Mitchell might find him
self in the position of accessory be-
fore the fact 20 somebody's revenge
there are 50 many malevOlent people Ia
the world 80 "A Consultation" suggests a
strong dramatic situation in medical
practice
BY far the strongest OF the stories.
however are those IN which some weird
or superna tiiral element is suggested.
a Ghost Of Glory. THE Waters Of
Oblivion. ard Thou Art the Soul Of
Thy House. IN the last mentioned the
old idea Of haunted houses Is worked
out IN an unusl ally effective way The
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ABOUT MOTHER AND SON

stronger hold on the sympathy of the
reader. The central figure. Kate Orme.
afterward Kate Peyton. is an unusual
but by no means an impossible woman;
while in her opposite, Clemence Nerney.
We have a type of one of the mischiev-
Gus forces of the day-a force essen
TALLY pagan, essentially destructive. 1t
has been recognized more or less vague
IL by ether noveliSts that the worship
of mere force and material success by d
young girl does not make her a force
for good in the world. Ii has been as
sumed by other novelists that only such
worship of force proves the true wo-
man: that at bottom all women like the
stuffed club method of wooing and de-
spise man whose conscience is too SEN
sitive. ClemeRce Verney is the kind OF
girl whose nus band cannot afford Il
keep "a conscience. Her. influence is all
the more vicious because ostensibly In
favor of the power which builds. we
are ia danger nowadays of worshipins
that power. forgetting that unless the
Lord build the temple they labor IN
vain that build it: that unless there IS
something of that life which we cal
moral force in a man. he accOmplishes
nothing which can last.
The most telling touch in the book
however. is that which makes The
mothers influence silent Kate Peytor
is one Of those women. rare in fiction as
i'm life. who know when not 10 talk
In this. as in all the rest of the story
the author has worked with the uner-
ring touch of one who Is sure Of hel
ground Sanctuary ought to be Onj
of the marked books of the year. 1t vii
End its way into the library of man,
book buyers whose taste is above ordi
nary fiction The illustrations by Wal
ter Appleton Clark are perfect. (NeV
] York: Charles Scribner's Sons.)
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:. :. :: OTHER REVIEWS : :. :,
"The Reader."

"The Reader"
That entertaining literary magazine,
The Reader" bears the portrait Of
Mark Twain on the cover Of its Decem-
Der number. and perhaps that has some
thing to do with the uncommon bright
ness Of its contents. THE Reader" is
the TOuchstone OF periodicals, anyway.
It combines wit with information in
truly delightful proportions.
The funniest thing in this number is
THE Literary Amateur Circus and Wild
East Authors Show" by Henry Tyrrell.
II is a pity that this cannot be quoted
entire. but when one reads the an
nouncements of Hamilton W. Mabie.
the barker for the side-shOw. one imme-
diately buys the magazine. This is part
OF e:
Here you have Bliss Carman, the
marvellous Living Skeleton; Jack Lon
don. the Wild Boyle eats EN- alive;
Henry Harland, the Ossified Man. a
puzzle to sciencer'
Thomas Dixon figures as the Leopard
Boy.
There are many other good things in
the number. including several clever
''Limericks." by &C. s. and a Moral
Tale by Carolyn Wells. but they are
literally too mum erous to mention
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Housekeeping Hints.

Good Housekeeping for December
begins with an article entitled THE
River" by Ruth McEnery Stuart. de-
scribing the Mississippi. "A Home , a
Hundred Daughters BY Mabel Craft
Deering. tells Of a most interesting
philanthropic experiment. Hospital or
Homer" by Clara Game. treats OF the
care Of the sick. Mrs. Perkins Invest
ment" is strong story by Augusta
Kortrieht- One Of the happy thoughts
Of the editor is 10 publish each month
a number Of recipes intended for little
girls just learning TO cook. These hints
are really practical.
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u days three books by L. Frank
n Baum occupy prominent place.
Mr.. Baum's fairy books are OF
a new type. and most individual While
they do not scintillate with sly fun like
Stockton's elf tales. OF glow with ex-
quisite description like the wonder
stories of Hawthorne. or display unique
originality like the Carroll classics, they
are none the less delightful in their
way Their simple grotesquerie cannot
fail 10 charm the fancy Of children, and
they are neither erudite nor foolish, but
just at the golden mean.
The first of the three Baum books is
a new edition Of THE Wonderful
Wizard Of o." and in the preface Mr.
Baum states the principle on which his
fairy tales are constructed, which gives
them their peculiar atmosphere. He
says that he intends this 70 be "a
modernized fairy tale. In which the
wonderment and joy are retained and
the heartaches and Nightmares are left
out This edition is called The New
Wizard Of o. and is illustrated by w.
W Denslow.
The second book is 1.-THE Enchanted
Island of Yew,~ and Is illustrated de-
iiShtAuiiy OS amy L. OOfSs WIN many
fulI-page colored pictures and numerous
marginal Illustrations and sketches. It
Is more delicately fanciful than its pre-
decessor. dealing with the adventures
Of Prince Marvel. fairy knight-errant.
but It Is quite as fascinating as the
Dorothy story. The island. we are told.
was round-like a mine pie. Somewhere
within its confines lay the Land OF
Twi. where everything comes In pairs
Also there was the Land of Spor, ruled
over by king with an elephants nose.
And there were other queer things.
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THE NEW WIZARD OF or L. Frank Baum.
illustrated in color by ". ". Denslow. In
diansp polls: The Bobbs-Merrill Company.
THE. ENCHANTED ISLAND OF YEW. l. Frank
Baum. illustrated in color by Fanny l.
Cory. indianapolis: The BObbs-Aerrill Com
pany.
THE MAGICAL MONARCH OF NO. l. Frank
Baum Illustrated in color by Frenk YER
beck Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrih Com
pany-
JOHNNIE. E. o. Iaughlin. indianapolis: The
Bobbs- Merrill Company.
FOR ENGLAND. William Watson. New York:
John Lane: The BOdley Head
CANES AND SONGS OF AMERICAN Chill
DREN William Wells Newell. New York:
Harper & Bros.
THE JUsT-SO SONG BOOK Rudyard Kipling
and Edward German. New York: Double
day, Page & Co.
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are: "Peperarello, - "The Harry Man, -
The Language of Beasts" lucky
Luck" THE Colony of Cats. Clever
Maria The Magic Kettle, Little
Wildrose. % The Cottager and His Cat,
'Tritill. Litill and the Birds"
Especial mention should be made of
the illustrations. by II. J. Ford. There
are eight colored plates, numerous full
page pictures, and some other ilustra-
tions. The designs and colors are OF a
quality TO train the eve of the child
and lead at least To the appreciation of
the best art. (New York; Longmans
Green & Coz
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GO ANcTuARY." the non-eommit-
tai name Of Edith wharton's
- latest book, gives the reader
no inlkling of its character.
and affores no iutimatiSn Of the pure
and exquisite beauty OF the little story.
Yet no mcre fitting title could have been
found for this beautiful history of the
relation between a high-souled woman
and her son.
The problem pro scented to Kate Orme
IN the first chapter IS one which many
a sensitive woman has had TO face. and
some noveiists, and some people outside
novels. have disposed OF 1t liz easy fash
ion by saying that no woman ought Ia
love a man whom she cannot respect
Yet in real life il too often happens that
one or the other in marriage = possess
ed OF high ideals which are incompre-
hensible 10 the one person who ought
TO understand them; and now that we
have discarded the old theory that it IS
a woman's duty to love her husband
whether she can OF not. and respect him
whether he is respectable or not. the
problem OF adjusting such relations on
q basis both honest and Uuselfsh some
times proves troublesome. Tile nearest
that anyone has come TO meeting SuCh
q problem in the sane and wholesome
spirit OF Mrs Wharton is that crisis in
Mrs Dcland's philip ana His Wife.
when the author tacitly condemns
Philip for his siRgle-minded devotion "a
the good Of bis own soul Eut "Sanct-
nary Is a step a0ove IL 1t. 1t pictures
success instead of faiiure-aiways q
harder thing to do in novel of thi,
kind, since It is easier to give up q
moral than TO solve Il.
Mrs Wharton has never written q
finer. more artistic or more absorbins
story than this. or one which takes