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A Cure for Youthful Posing

know you're sorry. and I'm sorry; but
forgive you, and well forget il, and
you'll never do ii again But Just in
time she remembered that nice girls
must not take these things too lightly
What opinion would he form Of her
purity OF mind, the innocence OF her
soul, II an incident Ike this failed to
shock her deeply? He. himself. was evil
IDENTIFY a prey to the most rending re-
morse. He had told her of the thing
ms one tells Of a crime AS the con-
fession Of a crime she must receive it.
How should she know that he had only
told her because he feared that she
would anyhow hear IL through the IN
discretion OF the girl in pink, or Of that
other girl IN blue who had seen and
smiledy How could she guess that n,
had tuned his confession 70 the key Of
what ne believed would be an inno-
cent girls estimate of his misconduct 2-'
And so on. Truly fl was not SO much
out OF the way. what James Lane Al
len said through one of the charac-
tiers In THE Mettle Of the Pasture
that If men would stop lying to women
they might some day stop lying to them
selves and 10 each other. And unfor-
nately the observation would be Just
as true If applied 10 women in their re-
lations with men. There is much silly
lying I'm the world and this keen analy-
sis shows up some OF Il. (New York:
The Macmillan Company
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The StoTU of a Blind Girl

and she is left to the mercics of an I'M
sympathetic cousin-in-law that her help
lessness becomes apparent If it was
the object of the author TO show that
with proper training any intelligent
blind person may become a self-sup
porting member Of society, she has
efectually done II. The realism Of this
story is self-evident and certainly such
a girl as Daisy Warren might have
been taught to earn her living in half
a dozen different ways. Lace making,
plain sewing. knitting, almost any rou-
tine handwork, may be open TO the
blind
Another effect of this book may be to
convince the thoughtful reader that
there is no sense in treating the blind
as II they were lacking in wit. and
herding them together with nothing to
do. The picture drawn of the asylum
in which the unfortunate girl found
herself at one time Is a telling bit Of
work Fortunately, all asyiums are not
like this one. There is also capital
character sketch in the picture of Miss
Adams, who belongs 70 that class of
femininity which may be called the fad
philanthropist class. Taking UP charity
as she might have taken UP bridge
whist. prison reform or the study of
entomology. the woman fails 10 see that
human beings can only be dealt with in
spirit of human sympathy. CNew
York: Mcclure. Phillips & Coz
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New Books Received.

THE Story OF Rapid Transit BY
Beckles Wilson. illustrated. New York:
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Laura Bridgman, DR.. Howe's Famous
Pupil and What He Taught Her" By
Maud Howe. Illustrated Boston: Lit
tie. Brown and Company.
The Beatrice Book" BY Ralph Harold
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Gee Boy" BY Cyrus Lanson Hooper.
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-Four INLAND" BY Geraldine Anthony.
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''Hesper' A novel BY Hamlin Gar
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The Relentless City" BY E. F. Ben
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THE Damsel And The Sage" A Wo-
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MY Mamie Rose. The Story of My Re
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ION The we-A Trail" Story Of the
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TEA AND IT'S HISTORY.

1.-The Little Tea Book" by Arthur
Gray. is even prettier than the COM
panion book by the same author. It's
cover shows a tea kettle singing cheeri-
~ and watched by a mediative cat. and
the book is fncIosed in a cover OF Japa-
nese woven straw. 1t contains Chinese
recipe for making tea, written by a
Chinese Emperor two centuries ago.
There is "A great deal about the tea cup
times Of hood and hoop and we find
here innumerable quotations from the
poems and plays OF that time. when
people spent hours
Drinking tea on summer afternoons
At Bsgnigge Wells with china and gilt spoons.
Another way Of making tea IS quoted
from a Chinese priest who gave the
recipe TO the Earl Of Clarendon. We are
told that Milton drank tea while writing
Paradise Regained. We are told in
Vulnerable other interesting things in
this queer and pretty little gift-book-
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no
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Why. so did I" from Judy. calmly.
Jess pursed her lips into a silent whss-
tie. She had thought she was the only
ono
Wen. 1 decIarer laughed Barbara.
III go and do II now. Somebody get me
a towel
You don't need any towels. Plain
Mary said. You can sit on a stump and
look at the mountains and drain
With such gay nonsense is page after
page filled. The girls find little Emme-
line Cody's doll buried with a pathetic
little epitaph;
Hear lies the prlnsess Esther. who
pined away OF broken hart because
they would not let hes mother Low her
they said she was TO old. When her
mother was sevVen years old she dide-
] mean the prinsess Esther did-and
hear lies. She was grately beloved 1t
brok her mothers Hart two. She M
Yer sined. She was a Darling Anu sne
was not for God Took her. her works
do follow her." 80
These extracts tell as much OF the
book as any extracts can but any
twelve-year-old girl who does not con-
slider II splendid" is somehow abnor-
mai. (Boston; Little. Brown & Coz
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Love and Honor and War

house. While it cannot be said that this
Is a particularly effective form Of fiction.
II is in this case managed sxillfully
enough not to detract from the inter-
est Most of the letters are written by
Arundel TO her aunt. but several are
from Bevill Rowlestone showing his
character as n man. OF letters and
fashion. and two or three from Blount
himself
some OF the scenes are indeed very
realistic. The picture OF Blount as
Ooy' porting over the chance-discovered
record OF his ancestors. with a dim pur-
pose to carry on the traditions OF the
1amily' stays with the reader; so does
the Characteristic scene Of the supper
on Beyill's wedding night; so does the
scene OF the trial.
But the strongest point of the book.
all considered is the misunderstanding
and especially the character Of Blount.
In these days OF swashbuclIing and
daredevil heroes IT is rather refreshing
10 hnd the hero OF novel Of adventure
VINO Is neither unreal nor brutal IL IL
also refreshing to find situation emo
tonally strong carried through to the
end without any bucking over the traces
OF convention. Miss Dix has. most re-
markable of all, resisted the temptation
to twist the ending or the tale to suit
the lOHipop-loving reader. She brings IL
to a conclusion both logical and artistic
tNew YORK; The Macmillan Company
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:: :: :: CAMP FIDELITY :: :. :.

OF the book is the carelessness which
the people OF the neighborhood are said
70 EXHIBIT regarding contagious disease.
Even in the country there are few
Americans who do not respect the dan
gers OF scarlet fever.
ms is a scrap OF the dialogue which
tooh place on the second morning:
II was Plain Mary who insisted that
there be a bench on the back porch.
with looking glass hung above It.
And beautiful shiny tin basin on
II. ana soapdish and a towel she
stipulated stubbornIy, or else I'm think
ing or going home to have the scarlet
fever Do you suppose I've come to
this beautiful wild place with a rum
ming brook under my window to wash
my face In a room?'
or course not Judy fell in at once.
1t would take so much water to fill it
and make things so mussy and wet
i suppose we might do it Barbara
assented slowly. I have read that
mountaineers always wash themselves
under pump or in IA glacier, or
something. Perhaps 1t will be fun
1t VIII be fun said Plain Mary
with the decision of one who knows 4
tried 1t this morning. and yesterday
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BOOK REVIEWS AND NOTES OF RECENT PUB
Child'S Letters 10 Her Husband

Here is the beginning of another:
Dear Prince Cherrival: 1 did not
write to you for all this long time, be-
cause Aunt Cornella and God have been
Furnishing me. and 1 must be very bad,
indeed. It has taken them so long to get
me all punished up. Aunt Corneha told
me not TO eat any green apples, be-
cause If l did l would be sick. So ate
some to see If Aunt COrnelia told me
the truth. because sometimes she
doesn't I suppose you don't always have
to tell the truth when you grow up,
only when you're small and don't always
know what the sure truth is This is
so you can find out"
There is something rather pathetic
about Virginia, when she tells of the
terrors Of that awful judgment day,
and thoughtful people reading 1t. Will
see what horror the old theology was
to a sensitive. imaginative child. She
says:
when I get 20 thinking about it 1
can't sleep at all at night, and 1 am
afraid 1 shall not die soon. before the
end of the world comes. II 1 don't.
though / know what I shall do. / shall
keep tight hold Of Uncle BOwens hand
all the while. right up 10 the throne of
God. He is so good. and minister be-
sides God will certainly have to be
polite to him. and IL / forget to tell
some Of my sins he win help me, and
apologize to God for me. the same as he
does TO Aunt Cornelia." New York:
Doubleday, Page q Coz
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Resultant Greek Testament BY the
late Richard Francis Weymouth.
Edited by Ernest Hampden-Cook.
New York: The Baker and Taylor
Company
Memoirs Of Monsieur de BIowitz. &"
New York: Doubleday, Page and Com
pany
The Life and Times OF Thomas Jeffer-
SON" BY Thomas r. Watson. Illus
trated- New York: D. Appleton and
Company.
'Shakespeare's Comedy OF the Merchant
of Venice" Edited, with notes, by
William J. Rolfe. Illustrated. New
York: The American Book Company.
over the Black Coffee" Complied by
Arthur Gray New York: The Baker
and Taylor Company
The Little Tea Book Compiled by
Arthur Gray. illustrated. New York:
The Baker and Tay-or Company.
How to Judge Architecture A Popu-
lar Guide to the Appreciation Of Build
ings." BY Russell Sturgis. New York:
The Baker and Taylor Company
Hawthorne and His Circle" BY Julian
Hawthorne. Illustrated. New York:
Harper and Brothers.
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:. OTHER REVIEWS OF THE WEEK :.

II" HE ROSE OF JOY" by Mary
Findlater. is one of those
books Of which most folk will
say that there is no reason
why II should have been written. The
heroine is not pretty. though we are
given to understand that she had a Ger
tain indefinable charm. and was peren-
nially interesting to herself: she GER
tainly fails TO interest the reader. The
very unheroic man whom she marries
is even less attractive. and as for the
shadowy Tertium Quid whom she, per-
haps. might have married. there is not
enough of him 10 cause emotion one way
or the other. Emmy the little sister.
and Mrs. Crawford. the weak and COM
monplace mother are realistic enough.
and Juliet is really charming. but none
Of all these people is interesting enough
to warrant the writing of a book
There is touch OF imaginative power
here and there; the picture OF Susan
what a name for a heroine,-sitting up
at night to work at her beloved drawing,
and comforting the small sister, fright
ened by bad dream. is vivid and
quaint. and the little sisters dream Is
not bad, either
L thought Janet was here began
Emmy. sitting on the nursery chair
darning stockings, and a squirrel came
in at the window. a beautiful red sdulr-
rel. Sue. ] was in bed. and he ran on
the coverlet and let me play with him
he had such a fine tail. and / felt his
clammy foot on my hand. Then he ran
away. and. Susan'-she turned in bed
with a contortion of fright saw a
black man. i think he was Satan (she
lowered her voice and glanced fearfullv
about the room. He was sitting on a
bench at the foot Of your bed; he took
up the squirrel and held it for a mo-
ment, and then it ran back TO me: but
OH her voice broke with the reasonIass
horror of dream-'its back was ALI
covered with cinders. And Satan got
up, and / think that he was coming
over here TO me. and / screamed 10
Janet, but somehow she didn't hear me.
or had gone away. and then / saw there
was a kind Of light at the foot OF nv
bed-there. And someone was sftting
with his back turned 10 met vas
Jesus, sue; and when screamed He did
not say anything at all, but Just turned
round little and stretched ont tIfs
hand. did not see His face. but HIS
mana was so kind. and / took n and
the other person went away. and !
thihk the squirrel got out OF the
WINDOW Inen l Weakened, and II was
you"" - dc
rms is fairly good example Of tho
enect which the material images of the
Ola theology sometimes had unon the
iancy OF young children. New York
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TALE OF A SCOTCH ENGINEER.

The ship had boats in abundance
when she left the Elbe. but If you
asked me where they were. then / could
not say. The seas were making a clean
breach over her And such seas they
were, too, I've never seen the like OF.
They were no ordinary waves. They
were great green mountains of water
that hit down upon the decks like earth
quakes No vessel built Of man could
have long weathered that pounding, and
the Stuttgart was YEARLY old, and long
overdue to meet her end.
Bridge. boats, skylights. and rail
were all over the side when first ! came
on deck; and as l lay there hanging
on 10 stanchion stump. L knew that
more was swept away every time the
tearing seas sluiced across her fabric.
But 1 could see nothing in detail; all
lights were out by then: all was inky
blackness. and beating water. and pom
derous, believing noise. 1t was horrible
to have to die helpless in the peopled
dark like that / hung on to
that stanchion for it might have been
two hours-though / wouldn't swear II
was above two minutes-and then the
deck seemed TO break UP beneath me,
and l found myself soused over ears in
the sea.
IT tried TO drown and could not. The
spirit was willing. but the swimming
instinct was strong in me- / trod water,
breathed the wet air, and cursed my
self for being weak enough to let the
agony be prolonged. I shouted aloud
into the storm that l was done with
life, that death might have me when
it wished. and then something gray and
solid doomed out through the blackness.
1t was one of the Stuttgart's lifeboats."
The book is one of the best specimens
of sea fiction of its kind. and while
some OF Mr.. Hyne's readers may prefer
Captain Kettle TO McTodd as a hero,
the latter's Individuality Is distinct and
pungent as the flavor of Scotch whisky
He is not in the least like Kipling s
engineer McAndrew, the .stiff-necked
Glasgow beggar." but he is quite as in
teresting- New York: The Macmillan
Company.)
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FIRST USE OF oU1N1NE.

Quinine was first introduced into Eu-
roue by the wife of a Spaniard. who
was vicerOy of Peru. Then Jesuits car
rfed IL 10 Rome and throughout Spain
and Italy. proclaiming it an infallible
remedy for all ills and selling il TO the
rich at unheard of prices An English
man At last got hold Of some OF the
quinine powder. cured Charles II Of a
treian fever. and on the strength OF it
was appointed court physician and
granted n knighthOod. Later he SINH
larry cured the Dauphin of France and
induced Louis AIV to purchase his
secret" Still the medical faculty
fought against quinine Not even the
patent efficacy of the thing could over
come the fact that it was introduced by
one not OF themselves For many years
the contest waged; men faithful to the
faculty died for want of quinine; others.
not caring a snap for the associated
pedants. took their quinine and lived
TO see their children congratulate the
medical schools of their day on climb
ing down and admitting that Quinine
was a good thing-Chicago News
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Ca9ee and Its History.

over the Black Coffee" is a little
book by Arthur Gray, which is gotten
UP in a fashion decidedly striking and
quaint The cover design. in dark brown
on a cafe an iait ground, with touches
OF white. exceedingly pretty. and the
book IS inclosed in a diminutive coffee
sack. II would make dainty gift book
for anybody who is fond Of the roman
tic drink.
drinking. directions for the preparation
Of coffee according to the customs Of
various countries in which 1t is used.
descriptions Of famous old coffee houses,
and some poetry and other literature
associated with the drink 1t is all very
bright and original. New York: The
Baker & Taylor Company
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IN 'McTodd." Cutcliffe Hyne's
latest book. is set forth the adj
ventures Of one Neil Angus Nc
Todd. onetime comrade OF Captain
Kettle. and as one would infer from the
name, a Scotchman with all the some
what "dour' humor of a northcountry-
man. The book is not In any sense a
novel, being simply collection Of short
stories Of daredevil venture on the high
seas and in waste corners Of the earth.
The Quah Ju-Ju' deals with native
life IN place which McTodd calls
Starry Leone and a gruesome enough
story IL is. with touch of squalor In
the gruesomeness. The same is true Of
THE Late Esquimau Pout," but these
are two good stories for all that partic-
ularly the last mentioned. Esquimau
Pout was degraded skipper with only
one hand. who lived for years on IA
miliar terms with the native Inuit and
was much married in the course Of that
experience. The story in question
might have been called THE Rehabili-
tation of a Beach Comber." since It is
the account of the last and biggest ad-
venture Of this Arctic character. after
which he ceased to be a beach comber
and became a reputable II not respect
~DiN hASAipCA VI LliS ISL SOCleLy. IN COM
rany with McTodd and a mixed crew
of Eskimos, this Pout explored a giant
berg. found an abandoned whaling yes
sci high and dry on the top thereof
guided her down an improvised way to
the edge Of the berg. and caused her to
dive into the sea. after which, having
come out of this surprising adventure
right side up with care. she was taken
20 England and salvage claimed. Pout
thereupon sloughlng his past and be-
coming Captain Pout, retired sea cap
tain.
The tale reeks with the smell of bIub-
Der and other things. and is besmeared
with unsavory images. but for all that
IL is capital story.
Not the least satisfactory part of it is
the conclusion The late Esquimau Pout
forgot his half of the bargain. which
was to pay McTodd hundred pounds
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out of the salvage money. This is what
happened. one of Pout's Arctic wives
being fortunately within reach:
He said he owed me nothing. He
said IL l didn't clear out quick he'd
call slop, and have me run in for at
tempting to obtain money under false
pretenses. And then he called me
miserly Scot to ram II all home.
We'll, knowing me as you do, you'll
be surprised that ! didn't make a row.
But L guessed Pout was ready for that,
and so L sheered off. That evening /
came back with the late Mrs. Pout in
tow We sat down on the doorstep OF
that temperance hotel, and the lady
sang song. The tune had only two
notes in It, and some people might have
called 1t monotonous. crowd collect
ed. intoned 'Amens' at the end of each
verse. Presently Pout came out himself
and ragged at us.
Tell that filthy pagan to stop. Nc
Todd.
Ay, ay. sir. But when she stops
shall give these people here a transla-
ton OF the words. You know them, /
think They describe some of the we'd
dings of an old beach comber they call
The Man ardest-to-K ill-in-the-Arctic =
Regions.
4" You beggar. If you dol.
" Pay up then, old Acknowledgements
HE got notes out of his pocketbook
and gave me a hundred pounds.
Now. then. Captain Brigham Young,
ten pounds more for the woman, and
you see the last of us
He gave that, too, and 1 saw her
well bestowed.
Then 1 sent the hundred pounds to
my mother in Ballindrochater before II
began to melt. and the next day was OF
TO sea again"
THE Cold-Water Prophet is not only
good comedy. but remarkably good
adventure tale; also IN the Arctic re
gions. "A Deal in Bears" is another.
and The Duel is another. Lost With
All Hands is a story of a swamped
enigrant ship and contains this weird
piece of description: