The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-04-28
BOOKS AND AUTHORS.

hOOhS AND AUTHORS.
The second instalment Of DR.. van Dykes
Way In Womanhood, now running ssriaIly
In Harper's Bdsdr, gives another trilogy Of
qualities essential to womans excellence
land the word IL used always In lie proper
meaning TO denote superiority and these
three are a certain fineness and delicacy
OF physical organization and balance; q
certain deep and sensitive power Of intelloo-
tual and moral sympathy; and certain Arm
and gentle faculty Of social order and ruiz
The qualities Of bodily excellence Dr..
van Dyke would have acquired by 'Eamas
and exercises which develop quiClEness and
accuracy Of perception and response, firm
mesa and gentlenesa Of hand, steadinesa
OF Poise and grace Of movement rather
than the heavier and rougher sports which
pile up muncle, for 'man builds the house,
woman keeps and orders it,
For the intellectual development he
would choose such study a. Is necessary
for the training Of the intelligence and the
quickeninE Of the imagination. 90 that
women shall be able to comprehend more
clearly and to sympathi1s more deeply
For the "cocksureness OF limited knowl-
edge and the complacency Of conven-
tional virtue the women who would Be
Regulators Of the universe by chatslains
watches which never keep time. the writer
has only soom.
The final virtue OF the trlogy must be
gained In the place where II will ono day
be exercised In a well ordered homo, for II
none are ft to rule but those who have just
learned 70 obey, then the girl who Is ever 10
be worthy Of the rulership Of q household 10
best educated in the obedience Of homo.
A mans ideal2 Yes, but only q woman
can fulfil IT,
Herbert K. Job. whose new bird book,
entitled wild Wings comes out May o,
has been using the camera IN connection
With his bird study for more than eight
years. 1t Is his custom to take one extended
trip each year to some new section Of the
country notable for its birds and next
month he purposes visiting either Dakota
or Assinibois on . camera bird hunt,
II Is not generally known that Ernest
". Hornung, who wrote The Amateur
Craoksman- and whose new book, sitting
aree has just come out, is q brother-in-law
OF Conan Doyle. THE Amateur Cracks
man Is dedicated to his brother-ln-lav,
saying simply. ITO A. c. D. his form
Of hattery. Mr., Hornung says Of his stories
that they are not detective stories pure and
simple, but that primarily they are oharao-
ter sketches. 1T is not merely the pro blem
that has TO be worked out, but the oharao-
tiers that have to be studied even more
carefully
Nothing Is more chara cteristic Of AmeTi-
n -. -. 4 ~ ~.
ban commuters whom Mary Stewart Cutting
portrays with humorous and pathetic
touch in her Little Stories Of Courtship.'
Every large city has It's fringe Of townlets
inhabited by people living on moderate In
comes and regulating their existence by
railway schedules Mrs. Cutting realized
the literary opportunity in this typical
phase Of existence and introduced II oleverly
in her Little Stories Of Married Life, which
met with the success due their originality,
Little Stories Of Courtship' develop the
same field in the same popular manner
and will crafty the curiosity Of the subur-
bante who desires to sec himself a. Others
see him.
Gilbert K. Cheaterton, the author, IL a
spirited craftsman and usually carries
n DlN VI NAegbA III tAAn lfVNh0N w w NS"h
such oonoeits as may strike bin. In APP
pearanoe Mr.. Chesterton retains some Of
the bohemianism Of his early art student
days, Is unconventional In dress and always
wears a SLOUGH hat that Is the despair OF
his friends, Mr.. Chesterton has expressed
his opinions recently on the subject Of
dress:
There are literary men q have even known them
myself whose costume sometimes leaves something
10 be desired In point Of eXsoutude aud fashion
But being Intimately acquainted with the souls
Of these pcrtons, l answer for II that they do
not think there anything IN the least Artistic
about this peculiarly, II IL simply small perSonal
deficiency. partly oulpable. and partly occidental.
Its little more serious than dropping ones he.
sRecolleCtions and Letters Of Gen. Robert
E. Lee has been ofiiciAlly adopted for the
libraries OF United States navy yards and
ships. The letters are also being widely
read and reviewed In England Just now,
and Il Is interesting TO see how tenaoiously
the British mind olings to It's prejudice for
the Southern side IN the great controversy,
while in America time has 20 modified
prejudice that Lees letters are read a.
widely In Boston as in Richmond and with
the same sympathetic appreciation Of tho
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