New-York tribune., 1905-06-27
LITERARY NOTES.

7,,e magazines of the month are fun Oh ne
ZION full to brin1ming over. In all the iiipo'
,,r aryav of stories. long and snort eheie "
nothing to equal the latest chapters oi
uouse of Mirth" in ''Scribners MIS- "
,o,,s novel has from the start testlneu " ''
increase in her powers As story anu as
soc:al document 1.-The House OF Mirth Is VI
sor,.,Ie interest and value. and this month
the author carries her work through ho'aOie ~
,,elonments. The short scene in which war Is
see-';4o,- declared between the heroine and her
e~,erd Mrs Dorset is for truth. dramatic
oi,, and artistic finish positively brlillah'
oael of what that sort of episode should De-
= .1+ayrer,s" Mr. Howells continues TO SET
forth his impressions of London he lhaheS
much of the church in which Willain eiii
WAS baptized ard if is interesting to ma an au-
thor who has somehow got associated III "U1
minds with the New-England tradition turn
Ing with special sympathy to contemplation "a
the Quaker ideal He says:
will own here that had more heart in the re-
searches which concerned the ahceS,a@ @ican citizen
ali mankind. including so much AIneIlcn Of
ours. The reader viii perhaps haTe m reIIgious
and that though some of the American plantalloas
e.sre al fTst the effect OF commercial enterprise
hey we're m peoDe wS by desired for theee il
not for others. freedom for the forms 9l
so-bi55an rbem at home. Our colonial beGlhliIss
were Illustrated by sacrifices and martyrooIsII tnI
e e Cd 1icisstde from pulpit to prison, back ana
forth until exile became their reIusS n,,rra
hTessiS er rad in their heroic fideity their ideals
put II s San9f 3b W ali Sought some OF them not
willing TO impart when they had IoIio ,aiir Tbey
nracfised the lessons of persecution theE @ nau
learned in Old ngand Two Pr3ynGedS $1,000 Sor which
Roger Williams imagined = the nrst otg s - +i,ne
WIilism Penn embodied in the polity of state
the gospel of peace and good VIII 10 men iarv
M these colonies has become the most eNellplfI
Of our commemorative; both are perhaps Tor some some
@ . The lga s SO arer IL 'Ree eoTes appeal
believer in the universal right 10 religious
a m me sone lae have VI realized The ouakers
longer sensbly a moral force; for
& a gIs on. s3od sssn eH6 IN sG Should eorp, the
but the creed of honest work for daily bread, ana
~ Which thew lived can never perish Their testi-
mcny against bloodshed was practical iheiF @ 9ot
was their legacy to people and it remains now now
nnt n iTe Toas Jeferson who first imagined the frst
of the sef-evident truths OF the DeclaralioH' Nu'
George Fox.
The old 'eT3ookloyers Magazine" has beeh
taken over by the publishing house whose name
is included in the title of the July NUMBER
which appeaFs as "Appleton's BooElovers Mag
azine." and under the editorship Of MI James
Barnes the periodical takes on a new and en-
gaging aspect In the current number, Whlch
starts a new volume, fiction, Of course, has us
place. There are short stories. and Mr.. R. W.
Chambers begins a novel Of life in the Revou-
tionary period. But the first pages are given
70 illustrated extracts from the journal Of
I,atrobe the architect of the Capitol at Wash
ington and there are other signs that the poley
of the magazine will be to print articles OF gen.
eral interest well as fiction The BLOCH
Museum at Lucerne; the stately homes OF
American women who have married titled Eng
lishmen; the personal appearance Of John PAU
Jones and Napoleon III after Sedan are among
the topics treated in this number The last
tv the way, is dealt with in few pages from
the forthcoming memoirs of DR.. Thomas w.
Evans the American dentist who helped the
Empress Eugene to escape from Paris The
magazine is launched upon its new career with
excellent paper and presswork, and its numer-
Gus halftone illustrations likewise good, but
the cover is one of the ugliest have seen in
long time.
The latest volume in the series of small il
Illustrated volumes of Our Asiatic Neighbor5,"
edited by w. H. Dawson for the Putnams, is
Chinese Life in Town and Country adapted
from the French of Emile Bard, by H. Twitchell
1t is a readable handbook. The historical side
Of it is confined TO single chapter at the back
the author giving the bulk Of his space TO notes
the Chinese they are Chinese life as
It is lived to-day. Much Of the information has
been made familiar of late years but NJ Bard
has al least the merit of retelling the old story
in lively and concise fashion. Touching upon
the fact that Chinese etiquette makes the ma
tives seem TO foreigner ideal candidates for
some vast circumIocution Office, he gives these
illustrations:
\ Chinaman. wearing his finest gown of silk
rat which was regaling itself out of jar Of oil
standing on beam over the door. In its sudden
lngnt the raj upset the OIL over the luckless
visitor, running his fine raiment. While the
was still pale with rage his host appeared. and
after the customary greetings visitor accounted
for his appearance IN this wise:
As / was entering your honorable dwelling |
frightened your honorable rat; while il was trying
TO escape, II upset your honorable jar CT oil
Ily poor and insignificant clothing. This explains
the contemplate condition which L find myself
in your honorable presence
found i'll this maxim Of Chinese politeness the
eAplSaLdtioh OF the strange oehaV1or Ct our COM
prador during the Illness of OF bis children.
inquired after him with much solcitude. The
father replied in smiling, careless msnner that
by this absence of sens,biity. / referred to it in
conversation with person who knows the Chinese
better than do.
You are wrong in your Judgment he assured
me- The father might be suffering his very ut
nese etiquette, not to sadden you 6oId your
attention TO thing OF so little importance as his
sorrow- The same etiquette requires you to offer
euce."
Through OF those typographical errors
which will sometimes occur even in the best
regulated OF newspaper offices, The Tribune was
made TO say the other day, that "One Bates
had written the baccalaureate hymn to be sung
The writer to whom we meant to refer was, of
course, Mr.. Orc Bates the vounp pove1is+ -rbo