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Asiatic affairs He here calls for the yell
low races for that square DEAL of which
President Roosevelt spoke. He conceives
that there Is greater danger in white
peril in the east than a yellow peril, OF
which there has been much loose and i'll
considered talk since the remarkable adj
vance of Japan into front rank in the
world. He cites examples of the overbear-
ing attitude of the white men in Asia to-
ward the owners of the soil. and the steady
upgrowth of a feeling of bitter resentment
against all westerners. He instances the
trickery in trade and treaty making that
has robbed the AsaticS of many of their
rights and much of their land. He demon
strates that the present war is for the
checking of this process, the natural revolt
of a nation against dangerous encroach-
ments. His book is scholarly and thought
full in it's treatment of matters which are
in constant evidence before the readers of
as it exists today will be valuable in cor
recting certain erroneous impressions of the
Asatics that have formed in the public
mind in some quarters.
STINGAREE. By f. w. Hornung, au-
thor of THE Amateur Craftsman,
&c. Illustrations by George w. Lam
bert New York: Charles Scribners
Sons. Washington: Woodward &
Lothrop.
In "Stingaree" Mr. Hornung produces
character somewhat like his "Raffles, a
vital parsonage with a deplorably criminal
trait yet of nature to be loved and adj
mired and even respected, and whose pass
ing from the scene is an occasion of sin
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reading any other nature book in a long
time. Such queer little people as it re-
veals to us, SO whimsical so tickle, so fussy,
so forgetful, so wise and yet foolish,
such victims of routine and yet so indi-
viduai, finding their way back to the same
ScCare inch of earth in the monotonous eX-
panse of wide plowed field with unfailing
accuracy, and then at times finishing their
cell and sealing it up without the spider and
the egg; hardly any two alike; one nervous
and eXcitable, another calm and unhurried
one careless in her work, another neat and
thorough; this one suspicious, that one
confiding; one species digging it's burrow
before 1t captures it's game, others captur-
ing the game and then digging the hole;
one wasp hanging its spider up in the fork
of weed to keep it away from the ants
while 1t works at the nest, and then run
ming to 1t every moment to see that it is
safe; another laying the insect on the
ground while it digs-verily, a queer little
people, with lot of wild nature about
them, and of human nature, too"
The book justifes the high expectation
raised by this warm praise by one of the
leading living naturalists. Viewed as a bit
of Interesting reading, it is one of the
most entertaining works issued this season,
whether of fiction or of fact.
THE JAPANESE FLORAL CALENDAR.
By Ernest w. Clement MA. Illus
trated. Chicago: The Open Court
Publishing Company.
A well-known writer on Japan and rs
Art" has said: Flowers are associated
with every act of a Japanese's life; they
herald his birth, they are his daily compan-
ions, they accompany him to the grave,
and after that they serve as link be-
tween him and those he has left-for his
relatives and friends do not rest satisfied
with piling up mis- coffin with floral tributes,
but they show their remembrance by offer
iugs for long years afterwSzd." 1t is there
fore necessary. in order r,~y to realize the
truth. of the Japanese character, to study
the relations of the people to the Jewels
of nature, and for such purpose this lit
tie work, with its handsome Illustrations
is especially valuable. The year is divided
into floral periods corresponding to the
months. There have been some changes of
late years as the western methods of time
reckoning have come into vogue In Japan,
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cusses first what the anarchist wants,
by no means clearly defined desire save In
the terms of the most rational of the pro-
ponents of that ideal state of no-govern-
rnent, of social existence by natural pro-
cess. He then treats of the various means
adopted to the same end, the oral prop
agaAda, the written propaganda. the prop
aganSa by example-such as Tolstoy has
undertaken in Russia-and finally the prop
agandA ''by the fact" with which form of
anarchfsm the world is most sensationally
familiar. He Interestingly discourses upon
the Lain quarter, where the propagandiSts
do mostly congregational where they do
mostly starve.
He pays an eloquent tribute to the true
Bohemian of the quarter and dramatically
tells of the expedents to which he is
driven by his necessities to exc out an
existence. In discussing the literary and
artistic aspects of life-the life of Mont
martre, the center of the world of revolu-
tlonists-Mr Sanborn does perhaps his
best work. treating at length of the men
and women who have made that region
famous throughout the world.
The work is an important Offering, for 1t
explains much that is today obscure in the
minds of men at a distance. In enables
the western readers henceforth to measure
more accurately the significance of the
repeated demonstrations in the French cap
ital and the various ebulltions of the fer
vent spirits of reform. Mr.. Vaughan Trow-
bridges drawings are in the main effective,
but occasionally they are too grotesque to
De dCCeDlaDle.
WASPS; Social and Solitary. By George
w. Peckham and Elizabeth G. Peck
ham. With an introduction by John
Burroughs. Illustrations by James
H Emerton. Boston: Houghton.
Mifflin & Co. Washington: Woodward
& Lothrop.
After reading this thorough work on a
subject that is unfamiliar to great ma
jority of people, the thought occurs that
the wasp might be styled the eagle of the
insect kingdom. Fierce, brave and of
voracious appetite, shrewd in surveying the
field, and to a certain extent solitary in
habit, the wasp is a scourge. feeding upon
all lesser and many larger creatures. In
his delightful introduction to the work in
hand, which was rescued from virtual OBJ
lIvion as an official publication by being
printed in this form, John Burroughs says:
81 am free to confess that l have had
ore delight in reading this book than in
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cere regret on the part of the reader. Stin-
saree is an Australian bushranger of I'M
limited nerve dash and ingenuity, a robber
of coaches, a rescuer Of prisoners, cham
pion of virtue, an all-round adorable viii
lain His escapes are marvellous. The au-
thor of 1.-THE Amateur Cracksman can be
depended upon to manage such details with
skill OF course, he has his romance. No
career of violence is complete without a
touch of sentiment. And the failure of his
hopes causes some qualms IN the sympa-
thetic breast. But 1t could not be other
wise with Stingaree. He was socially I'M
POSSIBLE in a way, yet not the way that
counts with so many votaries of the po-
lite world. His was a legal lmpossiblllty
not temperamental. Maybe some day MIR.
Hornung will learn what became of Stinga-
rec after the night when he vanished from
the sight of men and will relate his subse-
ouent adventures. That he had them IL he
lived is as certain as that the day follows
the night for it Is born to men like Stinga-
rec to be always at odds with circum-
stance.
DEYOND CHANCE OF CHANGE. By
Sara Andrew Shafer, author of The
Day Before Yesterday" New York:
The Macmillan Company. Washing
ton: Brentanos.
Inasmuch as only few people ever grow
up without being really. truly children, with
children's temptations and struggles, disap-
pointments and joys, failures and successes,
practically all adults should find in this
book of slightly connected sketches about
the same group of youngsters a rich re-
minder of other days. 1t is in effect trib-
ute to childhood. to the ingenuity of boys
and girls for getting the most out of life
cleyerly written, tender and sprightly, and
best of all, 50 probable that 1t will be rec
ognzed by the average reader as almost
a personal transcript of lfe's record. The
time of the action is few years following
Va civil war. perhaps in the early seven
ties The scene is laid in the middle or
nearer west, a village In which people knew
each other more or less intimately. and the
fame of active youngsters spreads to the
bounds of local existence. The exploits of
Rachel and her brother Dick and Sophy
Jane and her brother Jimmy are many and
varied. They get into scrapes and out
again, and over them is spread the sweet
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by the state and returned when Ethan
Allen had buildozed the council into the
act OF justice-these are by no means all of
Hesters sad experiences. Two or three
times the sympathetic reader feels that
there surely must come an end to the
threats and disasters. But no, there are
still more pages and this means more COM
plications for Hester. The story of her
woes has some excellent points, and it af-
fords a clear view of Vermont in the days
of fighting and admirable account of
glimpse of Ethan Allen after his release
from the British prison. But it would be a
stronger and better story for little judi
cious pruning of the thrill parts.
PARIS AND THE SOCIAL REVOLT
TION; a Study of the Revolutionary
Elements in the Various Glasses of
Partisan Society. By Alvan Francis
Sanborn. With illustrative drawings
by Vaughan Trowbridge. Boston,:
Small, Maynard & Co.
1t is always necessary to translate the
word revolution when it is used in the
French sense. To the Frenchmen it means
much more and yet much less than to the
American or the Englishman If the hours
of workingmen are changed, it is "a revo-
luton, while if the state is overturned by
a cataclysm which drenches the land in
blood it is no more revolution. If judges
and courts were tomorrow abolished. it
would be a revolution, and If. on the other
Land, the doctrine of free bread from the
state to the poor were put in force, it
would be equally a revolution. To the
propaganda of Paris revolution means
change. progress, however great or small,
toward new ideal of government or
new state of society. This definition IS
necessary in order to understand why
there are so many revolutionists in Paris
without result; why so many grades of
doctrine. so many schools of radicals.
Mr.. Sanborn's large book fully and per-
haps too voluminously explains the revo.u-.
ton and the revolutionists of Paris. It is
q philosophical treatise and at the same
time assemblage of personal sketches
and descriptions of places. an analysis of
motives and a panorama of the restless
seethe like boiling cauidron. He dis
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THE COUNTRY HOME LIBRARY
THE ORCHARD AND ERUIr CAR

DEN. By b. p. Powell. Illustrated
New YORK: Mcclure, Phillips & Co.
Washington: Woodward K Lothrop.
The author of this valuable work on prac-
teal pomology appropriately dedicates it to
Charles Darwin. flor breaking down the
impossible barriers between species and
pointing the road of progressive achieve
ment;" to Charles Downing, for untiring
assiduity in collecting and classifying Amer
can fruits, a herculean task" and to
Luther Burbank, for leading the ever
increasing host of plant breeders and fruit
creators" adding: They have opened the
way into a new world, as truly as Colum-
bus, world of wonders and treasures to
be measured only by the enterprises of fu-
ture mankind" In consequence of the rapid
progress OF the science, new fruit book he
says, has become d necessity every ten
years, but so large is the field and so rapid
Its development that never again will a
truly exhaustive fruit book be written Til.
object of the present writer is therefore
not to accomplish the impossible not to of
fer an exhaustive" treatise on orchard
fruits and fruit gardens but to furnish a
thoroughly reliable book for those who are
establishing their homes on the improved
basis of intensive culture, and especially ito
assist those who are escaping from the
confinement of city life to the freedom and
luxuries of suburban homes
CAMBRIDGE HISTORICAL SERIES:
Edited by G. w. Prothero, LTD,
honorary fellow of Kings College,
bridge-SCANDINAVI BY R.
Nisbet Balm, author of The Daugh-
ter of Peter the Great" &c. Cam
bridge: The University Press. New
York: The Macmillan Company.
Washington: BrentanoS.
Students of modern political conditions
in Europe are aware of the fact that a
breaking strain exists at present between
the Swedes and the Norwegians, who are
bound by political ties which at times do
not seem to be strong enough to prevent a
rupture. This potential schism is one of
the latent forces for an upsetting of the
peace of Europe. 1t is causing great I'M
easineSS among those who dread the COM
ing of the day of any change whatever in
the political map. For the proper under
standing of the true situation in Scandina-
via and conception of the. possibilities of a
separation such work as that now in hand
is invaluable. 1t is the result of a careful
research chiefly among native sources and
presents the peninsula in all its bearings,
social, political and artistic, considers its
people as a whole and Individually traces
the many changes whieh have resulted from
the frequent wars in which the Scandina-
vians have engaged with other peoples, and
indicates the grand opportunity which was
lost by those natural allies, the Danes and
the ScandinavianS, when they failed to
coalesce at a time when Europe lay vir-
tually at the mercy of one strong state,
such these two might have formed. The
work is a scholarly performance, and will
be of great value to American readers.
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influence of wise parents who know well
how to deal with growing little folks with
active brains. Each chapter comprises an
episode, and yet 1t is difficult to stop read
ing, so keen is the interest aroused in what
these youngsters are going to do next.
THE SUNSET TRAIL. BY Alfred Henry
Lewis, author of "WolfvilIe Days.
&c. Illustrated New York: A. S.
Barnes & Co.
1t Is good news to the admirers of his
former work that Alfred Henry Lewis has
harked back upon his western literary trail
once more, after dallying with the subjects
of the effete east, and flushes more live and
interesting characters. To any one who has
the sniff of prairie or mountain in his nos
trils the very title of the book is taking
and suggestive. The Sunset Trail!' OF
what does it not whisper? In this case 1t
is story of the cow days. with here and
there a trace of the Indian militant, just
enough to lend spice of powder and
adorn with the feather of an arrow. Rough
and rude were the times and the people as
we'll. Sixshooters cracked often. the ping
of the Winchester bullet and the soft thud
of the buffalo guns missile punctuated the
hours perhaps too frequently. But they
We're interesting times and interesting peo-
Pile; folks of flesh and blood-especially
blood. Mr.. Lewis knew them we'll. He
possesses the faculty of reviving his rem
iniscences in a rarely interesting fashion.
There is not dull page in the book. 1t
is full of action, the homely philosophy and
serious wit of the western country, with
just enough of pathos. well concealed, to
give ballast Mr.. Lewis established an en-
during place for himself in American liter
allure by his Wolfville tales, and many
people rank him with Bret Harte as de-
picter of the West and the characteristics
of its settlers. He has not subtracted from
his reputation in the volume now under
consideration. His friends will thank him
-tr,Sr hon thnr
and only regret that the tales are not twice
the number.
HESTER OF THE GRANTS; a Romance
of Old Bennington. By Theodore
Peck. New York: Fox, Dufffeld & Co.
Poor Hester Robinson had her trials in
rapid sequence. Her father traitor to the
cause of the colonists. her lover suspected
of treason, captured by the British, wound
ed and captured again; herself kidnapped by
a scoundrelly lover and saved only after
desperate efforts; her, property contiscated
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farland. Ph.D. (Yale). minister OF the
Maplewod Congregational Church OF
Maiden, Mass. With Introduction by
Frank X. Sanders Ph.D., ID. dean Of
the Divinity School OF Yale University.
New York: c. z. Putnam's Sons.
= Washington: Woodward & Lothrop.
THE CORRECTED ENGLISH NEW TEs-
LAMENT; n Revision of the Author
lied" Version Thy Nestle's Resultant
Text). prepared with the assistance Of
eminent scholars and issued by Sam
uel Lloyd life governor OF the British
and Foreign Bible Society as his Me-
mortal of the Society's Centenary. 1894.
With preface by the Bishop OF Dur
ham. New York: G.. L. Putnam's Sons.
Washington: Woodward & Lothrop.
THE WITNESS TO THE INFLUENCE OF
CHRIST; Being the William Belden
Noble Lectures for 1904. By the Right
Reverend William Boyd Carpenter.
DID. Bishop of Ripon. Boston: Hough-
ton, Mifiiin & Co. Washington: Wood
ward & Lothrop.
THE ITALIAN IN AMERICA. BY Eliot
Lord. AM. special agent. u. 5. Tenth
Census; John j. ID. Trenor, chairman Of
immigration committee National Board
OF Trade, Annual Session, 1904: Sam
uel J. Barrows. secretary OF the Prison
Association of New York, New York;
b. +. Buck Il Co.
MISS BILLY; a Neighborhood Story. BY
I.diin fN6elSN olpheiN anu hsiiisIl htnN
Hurd Illustrated by Charles Copeland
Boston: Lothrop, Lee * Shepard Com
pany. Washington: Woodward * 10th
rop.
THE CHARM OF YOUTH, Poems. BY
Alexander Jessup. Boston: Herbert B.
Turner X Co.
THE TREE OF WORLDS; or. A Greater
and Higher Creation. and Life BY
Jesse 7. Hall, MD. Chicago: NJ. A.
Donohoe n Co.
MAN LIMITLESS. BY Floyd D. Wilson. au-
thor OF Paths to Power" New York;
r. r. Fenno 4 Co.
AN EMBARRASSING ORPHAN. BY w. Z.
Norris. author of The Flower OF the
Flock" &c. Philadelphia: The John c.
Winston Company.
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LEADING FACTS IN HISTORY Sc
RIES-THE STUDENTS AMERICAN
author of the series Revised edi-
ton. Boston: CHM & Co.


ton. Boston: CHM & Co.
Written in the same interesting style as
that which characterizes the authors books
for elementary grades, this Students His
tory is broader in scope and more phiIo-
sophical in treatment. In this latest edition
the work has been thoroughly revised and
many parts have been rewritten. The fol-
lowing distinctive features of the revision
are important: Particular attention is
given to questions of political and of con-
stitutional history; the opening and the set
tlement of the west and its influence on the
development of the nation are fully treated; ,
for the greater convenience of teachers and
pupils all references to authorities are
given at the bottom of the pages and the
system of cross references has been made
more complete; new maps and illustrations
have been added wherever it seemed desir-
able.
The work is adapted for use as a text
book in higher schools and colleges.
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ADV EMU RES AMONG BOOKS. BY
Andrew Lang. London x New York
Longmans, Green * Co.
These essays, to use the authors phrase.
are frankly boollish" They have the
mood OF quiet library with its long rows
Of volumes darkly bound: the light is gen.
tie and subdued. The eager outside life is
forgotten-"the tempestuous traffique and
society Of mankind. to quote St Angus
tine. whose Confessions stands upon
these shelves. The reader is led into the
presence Of a various company He passes
from ST Augustine to Smollett, from Haw-
thorne to Helen OF Troy; but they are all
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DEN. By b. p. Powell. Illustrated
New York: Mcclure. Phillips & Co
Washington: Woodward K Lothrop.
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Sara Andrew Shafer author OF The
Day Before Yesterday" New York:
The Macmillan Company. Washing
. ton. BrentanO'S
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BOOKS RECEIVED.

JESUS AND THE PROPHETS; an His
toricaI, Egetical and Interpretatiye
Discussion of the Use of Old Tesla
ment Prophecy by Jesus and of His
Attitude toward 1t. BY Charles s. Mac
Morgan County democrat. (Versailles, Mo.) 1900-1906, 1905-06-02
Just Discrimination in Railway Rates

Just Discrimination in Railway Rates
All railroad men qualified to speak
on the subject in a responsible way are
likely to agree with President Samuel
Spencer. Of the Southern railway, when
he says: There is no division of Opin.
ion as to the ~desirability of stopping
all secret or ~unjustly discriminatory
devices and practices Of whatsoever
character"
Mr.. Spencer, in speaking of unjust
ly discriminatory" rates and DEVICES,
makes q distinction which is at once
apparent TO common sense. There may
he discrimination in freight rates when
Is just, reasonable and imperatively re.
Quired by the complex commercial and
geographical conditions with which ex-
pert rate makers have to deal. To abol.
ish such open and honest discrimination
might paralyze the industries of cities,
states and whole sections of our national
territory.
This distinction between Just and un-
just discrimination is clearly recognized
in the conclusions Of the International
Railway Congress, published yester-
day:
Tariffs should he based on commercial
principles, taking INTO account the special
conditions which bear upon the CONNER
cial value of the services rendered. with
the reservation that rates shall! be charged
without arbitrary discrimination to all
Shippers alike under like conditions. the
making of rates should as far as possible
have all the elasticity necessary TO permit
the development Of the traffic and to pro-
duce the greatest results to the public and
TO the railroads themselves"
The present proposal is, as Mr.. Walker
d. Hines. Of Louisville, showed In his
remarkable testimony the other day
before the senate committee at Wash.
ington, to crystalline flexible and justly
discriminatory rates into fixed govern
ment rates which cannot be changed
except by the Intervention of ONE gov
eminent tribunal, and by this very
process to increase "the temptation to
depart from the published rate and the
lawful rate in order to meet some over.
powering and urgent commercial con.
dition."--New York Sun.
The Bored.
"You look bored" said the landlady
70 the star boarder. What Is it?"
"!''s the board" replied the 6. B.
lie us,pn Post
Morgan County democrat. (Versailles, Mo.) 1900-1906, 1905-06-02
Got Wise

A British oficer, in his expense liot
on government service, put down:
Porter, 2 pence" The war office. In
q verbose letter, pointed out that re.
freshments, while in the execution Of
public duty, were not chargeable to the
nation. The officer replied that the
item did not represent refreshments,
but a fee to a carrier. The office re-
piled: You should have said porter
age" The officer treasured the hint.
Next time he had occasion to lake Q
hackney coach he put down in his ac-
counts: Cabbage, 2 shillings."
Morgan County democrat. (Versailles, Mo.) 1900-1906, 1905-06-02
Explicit Enough. .

Driver" said an English tourist who
was being driven on a jaunting car
through the Donegal highlands, Il no.
tice that when you speak to your friends
whom you meet on the road you in
variably do SO in Irish, but when you
address your horse you do so in Eng
lish. How is this?" To which came
the retort: "Musha, now thin, isn't
English good enough for HMM. Y.
Tribune.