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these episodes with masteriy hand. He has infused all with vitality. Taking Paul for the principal character. the keystone of the arch of the story is master stroke The mighty Paul gay the bcdy to the Christian church whose spirit our Lord had brought down from Heaven. On the words of Paul and oh the Christ of his vision are set the pll- lars of the church. Mfr. Gardenhire shoSs the MiRhtiest Missionary of earth in
 beautiful human light.
 | Mir. Gardenhire has set the dialogue of his characters in a semblance of old | English. It seems a wise choice, soT though antique English Is no nearer an | approach to the Latin of the first cell tury than our English of today, yet it suggests that medium through which we all learn to know Paul. Peter, Herod | and the other characters which MT. Gaf- l denhire presents in hts historical novel. The thousands of readers who weicoIied Ben Hur'' and Quo vadis'' will find | an equally compelling interest in Lux Crucis.
 Lux crucIs, Samuel M. Gardcnhire, Harper's, si.5g.
 A book of quotations is published by F. Taylor & Co. The Manual of Forensic Quotation; Great Truths uttered by many great men are gathered therein. Quotations from Lord Erskine, Burke. Lord Chatham, Patrick Henry. William Wirt, Evarts, Coniling. Benjamin Harri- son and many others The St Louis Worlds Fair enterprise Issues an interesting volumn: Out of Fleutde-iis." It Is by Claude H. Wet more and Is the history, biography, TO- nance of the Louisiana Purchase Exposi- tion. It is abundantly and beautifully H. lustrated
 'The Bar Sinister."-This story of a dog has already won enthusiastic adml ration as it appeared In magazine. It is now made up in an exquisite little vol ume all to itself. The illustrations are the work of E. M. Ashe. seven full page colored pictures and hundred or more little sketches, which could not have been done except by one who knew and loved dogs and a}l their fine attractive ways. The story ttself is full of dog sense, dog wit. dog wisdom. dog honor.
 One can read over and over again the tale of the little street dog and his mas ters-and his black and tan mother.
 How he lead and tugged his first mas ter home from public business, how the Loyalty fought in the ring to bring in money for drinks.
 How he turned his love Loyalty to the farmer who bought him for ten pounds. What a well-behaved, modest fellow he became when aristocracy became his patrons. How he won the blue ribbon and the ribbon of champion of champions at the great Garden Show and later, over the country as Boston, Chicago, Danbury, he won silver cups, blue ribbons and med- als.
 But. best of all Is the stury of his last great fight with the street dogs. The fight that saved his old black and tan mother and brought her to share the goods the gods had brought him.
 It Is good story and all will be glad to hear from Mir. Davis's preface that 1t is a true one, for when a story Is good and true also 1t is doubly to be enjoyed.
 The Bar Sinister, Richard Harding Da- wis; Charles Scribners Sons. Price, $1.5O.
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 Tn March Bookman in the article, 'sThe Southern Women in New York;" several Alabama artists are interviewed. Of Miss Heustis, formerly of Mobile:
 Miss Heustis's settling in New York was wholly without intention. I should never have had the courage deliberately to establish myself; even now the idea of it-corping here a young girl and strang- CT with my future in my hands-appals me.
 You see. am from Alabama. and New York Is 50 far from Alabama! I never realized how far in everything that makes for art until finished my studies in Paris and went back there to live. At the end of a winter of retrogressive idleness, was called here to fill an or- der for a portrait; before it was finished had another; this was followed by a third, and when I returned to Alabama 1t was for a visit.
 ''This was several years ago, and now I know that couldn't live anywhere else in this country, but New York. How did begin to get work7'
 T never really began-things just came to me I did a lot of illustrating while I was studying with MT. Chase-that full length figure of a girl you are looking at