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after the close of our unpleasantness
with Spain, but now all he has to 90
is to furnish them up bit, substitute
Russia and Japan for America and
Spain and send them out. One joke
which he regarded as funny then but
which did not sell was of man who
refused to enlist because he was under
bonds to keep the peace. His bicycle
Jokes he has had to change into auto
mobile jokes and this has necessltateo
a good deal of treatment before they
could leave the hospital. He has also
Klondike Jokes which by a little judi
cious turning over can be applied TO
Siberia and obtain a new lease OF life
A reading of this article is quite
revelation of the tricks of trade that
must be taken seriously even though
it relates largely to the little squibs
most frequently under the eye in news
papers upon the construction of which
we ponder but seldom.
o
The Affair at the Inn-By Kate Douglas
Wiggin, Mary Findlater, Jane Find
later and Allen McAulay; HIo 10 i5o,i;
Mif1in &, Co. For sale by st. Paul
Book and Stationery company
A very good love story is this one
written in a series of confessions, one
might call them, by the persons most
concerned, and the fact that each or
the characters is written by one OF the
four authors gives the book the charm
of novelty. Naturally the reader IS
most interested in Virginia, the part
written by Kate Douglas Wiggin, al
though they are all so well written
and the whole so prettily told that
there is not much to choose between
them. Virginia Pomeroy and her lnotn-
er are rich Americans who are doing
England and have reached the Grey
Tor inn in Devonshire, where on ac-
count Of Mrs. Pomeroy's health they
have elected to tarry for time. Here,
too, are the other persons of the drama,
Mrs. McGill, a fretful English invalid,
and her companion, Miss Evesham, and
Sir ArchibaldS Maxwell Mackenzie, who
with his automobile, is the hero OF the
romance. Each one writes of the do
ings of each day from his and her point
of view and looked at from the differ
ing standpoints they make most
amusing story. OF course Sir Archi-
bald falls in love with Virginia, which
She intends him to do, and equally OF
course he is unaware that he is doing
so and much aStonished when he dis
covers it. The distressing and dis
tressed Mrs. McGill, with whom beauty
and charm are great crimes and doubly
heinous when possessed by an Amer1-
can girl, is well drawn both by herself
in the chapters which she contributes
and when seen through the eyes of her
victims For of couse she makes it
diSagreeable for everyone and Incl
dentally contributes much to the gay
ETY. of nations by her absurd objections
to everything anyone else desires to
do. Very charming is the story of the
picnic to which Virginia went in the
automobile, and Mrs. A1cGii in the lit
tie cart pulled at intervals by Greyto-
ria, fat pony, which had a way of
sitting down in the road to rest. This
picnic was the beginning of the end as
far as Sir Archibald was concerned,
and he discovered on the way home
that Virginia was necessary to his hap
piness. A very pretty love story is
this, the reading of which will cor
sumo an hour most pleasantly.
.
The Trail to eoyIand-By Wilbur D: Mes
bit BobbS- Merrill company, Indianap-
oils. For sale by St Paul Book and
Stationery company.
Seldom have so many poems of genu-
inc heart interest been assembled be-
tween two covers as in this instance.
Poems relating to boyhood are here
which will appeal strongly to every
man VINO has not forgotten that he was
once boy, and there are plain but
striking rhymes on intimate affairs of
everyday life and also poems of pa
triotism. Mr.. Nesbit long ago acquired
more than local reputation by his
newspaper verse, first in the Baltimore
American and then in the Chicago
Tribune, with which latter paper he is
still connected and furnishes the de-
lightful Line O. Type" column every
day. No ambitious flights of the i'm
agination or journeys into the realm of
metaphysical poetics find place in "The
Trail to Boyland," but it has on every
page something that moves the heart
profoundly and not little that will
be treasured long because it deserves
treasuring.
The Green Diamond by Arthur Morri-
SON L.. c. Page & Co. For sale by
st. Paul Book and Stationery COM
pany.
Possibly Arthur Morrison-s other
stories, TALES of Mean Streets" and
The Hole in the WALL" may be better
literature than "The Green Diamond"
put it is quite certain that his latest
book will be more widely read and an
preciated. 1t is one of those adventure
stories which deal with modern times.
containing a mystery not solved until
the end and interviewer is a love story.
Harvey Crook is an Englishman who
deals in antiques, or rather, as he puts
IT, he buys in a cheap market and sells
dearly almost anything that happens to
interest him. In 1902 he attends the
Delhi durbar. and among the native
visitors is the rajah of Goona, owner of
the famous and priceleSS-green dia-
mond known as the Eye of Goona. One
day there is a commotion in the raiah's
tent and the great Eye is missing. This
is the prologue. Harvey Crook is about
to sail for home when Hahn, a German
collector of curios, sends for him and
asks as favor that he carry with him
to London dozen magnums of old
Tokay, which he has picked up for a
song and hopes to sell at a big adj
vance. His excuse for not taking them
himself is that he is i'll and cannot
leave now and he does not care to send
them in the ordinary way. So Crook
consents and places the priceless Wine
In his cabin. On the voyage he meets a
millionaire American, Lyman Merrick.
and his daughter Daisy. Here the
love story-story bgiEs. Crook tells the
American What he has in his cabin and
the latter becomes interested and
finally offers to buy the wine at the
fabulous price of e zoo for the dozen
anagnuns. Crook feels that he is be-
traying his trust, and yet remembering
that Hahn said he hoped TO receive
6 100 for the lot. decides to sell. So
he accepts the offer and the wine goes
to Merrick. When they reach South
ampton, after having drank one bottle
of the wine on board, the American
puts up the eleven magnurns at auction
hoping to get some of the money back