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do this with splendid ease as long as II is
merely matter of writing letters, but
when tie old man sends word he is COM
( ing 10 visit the supposedly happy couple
they have TO arrange to live together and
play very hard at the play of really being
what they seem TO be. In the acting of
this the actor and actress find out they
I nave developed a mutual wish that the
seeming was reality And so II IS. He
was very silent and she was very proud,
but the truth got itself uttered at last,
and then-Oh bliss,
The German story by the Baroness Won
Heyl1ing called THE End is about the
end of a gambler named Allan. He had
not touched the cards for years. He met
at the gaming tables where big stakes
were played a man known of old by him,
but long separated. He had played with
this man before at another game of life.
The stakes then had been a woman. AL
Ian had won. He had wearied of the
woman and left her long ago. He won
dered if the vanquished was to have a
chance of revenge. So they played. till
Allans fortune was gone and he faced a
ruin he could not bear. The power of the
story is in the description of how 1.-The
end" came to the gambler that night
when his brain was in a whirl of mad
fancies.
The Spanish woman's story, 'Tn the
Name of the Father" tells of an old cob
bier who with "riddled skin, clouded
eye and game leg nevertheless got him
fine wife, who presented him with a
lovely daughter. "Margarita was star,
and her doting father. admiring by
stealth his lovely offspring, was childish
ly proud of the girl A fencing master
ruined her He Knocked at the old cob
bler's prowess as a duellist But the old
man went to mass on the morning of the
fight and in his crazy grief he cried out,
In the name of the Father" at the
stroke of his sword, and the thrust went
to the right place.
One of the best of the stories by men
writers is a good translation of Maxim
Gorky's famous 'Makar Chudra," which
was his first big success. 1t tells Of the
love of the gypsy, Loiko, he who could
make many kinds of music, among others
that which causes US TO long for some
thing which we feel that if we had it.
then it would not be necessary to live
any longer. The fascination of the story
is that ii makes outward nature that
surrounds men as something so united to
the play Of mans inward life. and that 1t
tells of a strange abnormal love which
was intense enough to lift itself above
the commonplace of inability to decide
daringly between two great issues.
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Industries and Their Place in
Elementary Education.

The Place of Industries in Elementary
Education" by Katherine Elizabeth
Dopp, Is to be issued this monthsin new
and enlarged edition by the University Of
Chicago Press. The book first makes a
study of the significance of the Industrial
epochs in mans development from a
savage up to civilization. Thus the hunt
ing stage, the fishing. the pastoral. agri-
cultural, age of metals, trade and trans
portation, handicraft, or period of town
economy, and the factory or national
economy period, are all examined as
anthropologists would study the develop
ment of the race. The work instincts of
the child as they have come to him
through physical and social heredity are
made the base on which the author plans
to build up a progressive curriculum that
will correspond to what the growth of
mind and body makes most natural. 1t
is IAN attempt to make clear that there
is a closer relation than Is usually rec
ognized between the attitudes of the child
and the serious activities of society in
ali ages. 1t is an attempt to bring to-
gether from the domain of education on
the one hand, and of anthropology, sociol-
ogy and history on the other, ideas that
will mutually reinforce each other
1t is explained that whoever would
study the attitudes of the child must take
dCCOuul OL lltlI lib, anu 10 uO tiliS
1t is necessary to study the past activi-
ties of the race in which they first took
root. Among the interesting things in the
volume is one which tells of how the arts
of spinning and weaving had their effect
in developing the rhythm of woman's
movements, and out of this came art
forms in which music. poetry, and the
dance are intimately associated. "As the
worker surrenders herself to the rhythm
of the movement there is a tendency for
the entire organism to respond to the
rhythm, and we thus have tone rhythm,
which accompanies the movement
rhythm. 1t is very probable that mothers
made use of these suggestions in teach
ing their daughters, and that later the
activity was represented in play" Thus
did an industrial occupation influence the
development of poetry and song.
university of Chicago Press. Chicago.
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Wall Street the Background BAG
Of Imaginative Tale.

The new book called The Golden
Flood" which appeared as a serial
story in McClure's Magazine, is quite
flight of imagination about the power
that same Imaginative faculty might
have On the great fnanciers of Wall
street if some clever trick were played
upon them to set it to work. The au-
thor, Edwin Lefevre. is the financial
editor CT the New York Globe, and he
is a living proof that practical financial
study and occupation Is not incompat-
ibls with dreamy romance in the same
mind. He puts this into the mouth of
his hero: "Of course / assumed that
business training and Wall-street prac-
tices did not kill the imaginative fac
ulty. That is what 1 had to work on.
No fnancier can be great that has not
great Ina ginatfon. The author was
trained as a mining engineer and spent
some time as the sub editor of the En-
cheering and Mining Journal. SO he
evidently has had his mind on the sub
ject of gold production and manipula-
ton for many years.
The golden flood consists of the re-
peated deposits of vast sums in the
Metropolitan National Bank by a young
man named Grinnell, who was unknown
to the business or financial world until
the mood began to frfghten the bank
ers. So rapidly did the millions to the
credit of the stranger. who was a met
allurgical chemist, pile up that the rich
men Of the money centers became sus-
picious that he had really discovered
the process of manufacturing gold.
When this fear became a panic that af-
fected the stock and bond market in
the paradoxical way of the bonds of the
railroads going down extremely low
at the same time that their stocks rose
rapidly the young man operated
through his bankers so as to clear fif-
teen millions From his familiarity
with Walstreet men and methods It
is assumed that the characters he
draws of rich men and bankers are
studies from life. To those who have
read the book 1t may be interesting
to know some OF the guesses that have
been made as to the Identification of
the originals whom he has dressed in
fictitious guise. Richard Dawson, the
banker to whom Grinnell goes with his
astonishing deposits. is said to be sug-
gested by James r. Stillman; the i'm
mensely wealthy Mellens are supposed to
represent the Rockefellers, and the ad-
mirable Isaac Herzog may be Jacob
Schiff. Lefevre pays this banker and
the Jewish race this compliment: His
eyes were alert but kindly-kindly
rather than merely good-natured. The
accumulated wisdom of five thousand
years was in this Hebrew bankers
business soul; and with it that respect
for the higher law which has made
Israel endure through the marching
centuries"
Mcclure. Phillips & Co., New York;
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girls they loved had stolen the box They
try to find out which one Is in such sui
cidal grief. In this suspense of loving
dread there comes from behind closed
doors another scream-this time more ter
rible and startling both in its issuing and
in the preparedness of those trembling
hearts for the happening of some awful
thing. "a piercing and insistent scream
such as curdles the blood" They hurry
to Dorothys room. but the girl is gone
The adjoining room was the tyrant
aunt's. There LAY a form-awfui, ghast-
ly, and unspeakably repulsive. 1t was
death we looked on, but not the death
we had anticipated. The heartless
aunt. who now lay facing the reward Of
her earthly deeds, alone"
Suspicion of murder now adds to the
mystery of the theft of the amethyst box,
and so the horrors of the night cumulate,
and the mental states of the suspected
girls and of the two men who loved them
are the authors theme. The compiexity
of the love interests of these four people.
and the unraveling of all the mystery of
their words and actions crowd book
with delineations and explanations. What
must be the purpose Of such art-the au-
thor's purpose, and the purpose beyond
hers shown in the mechanism of our
brains that makes them heed such story
telling2 Possibly in this particular case
it was to suggest by the perfection of the
denouement of the mystery what purpose
NAV unfold to us in the final denouement
of life's experiences which seem such
mystery of unfinished stories.
(Bobbs-Merrill Company. Indianapolis,
rs cents.)
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versity as a textbook. and there Is not
much doubt that the students will
enjoy it. and probably profit by it as
much as by their study of some of the
rather grim and formal works that they
are required to go into. In this connec-
ton it is interesting to recall that it is
not so many years ago that the class at
Yale studied (among other novels) The
Dolly Dialogues" and the children OF
the World"
The Confederate Veteran for June may
be designated picture number. so re-
plete is ii with Illustrations Of value and
of interest In addition to some historic
scenes, such as Camp Morton while oc-
cupied as a Confederate prison and Of
some handsome monuments recently
erected, there are a number of charming
pictures Of the fair daughters Of the
South who are to participate in the U.
G. V. reunion a. Louisville.
A recent incident of interest and OF
some significance. and commented on in
the Veteran for June, Is the Appomattox
banquet given by the Alexander Hamilton
Club of Chicago on the fortieth annivers-
airy Of General Lees surrender. and peril
nent extracts are given from the speeches
of two distinguished Southerners-Hon.
Sawyer Shirley of Kentucky and
Judge ]. NJ. Dickinson, formerly Of Nash
vilel, Tenn, but now a resident Of Chi
cago. Judge Dickinson's remarks were
of especial interest. particularly when he
said that '.as an evidence Of a reunited
country We have come TO witness what
thirty years ago no man would have
believed possible-a Confederate Con-
gresham at the head Of the Department
of Justice; Confederate colonel as Post
master General; three Confederate sol
diers on the Supreme bench of the United
States; a Confederate soldier who invaded
the great State OF Ohio under the leader
ship of General Morgan and who was
imprisoned at Columbus. sitting In tudg-
ment on the people and lives Of that
State; another, both a Confederate and a
Democrat, by the appointment Of a Re,
publican President, Governor Of the
Philippines; and another. bearing on his
person scars received in battling for the
Confederacy, standing before the as
sembled battleships Of the world on the
flagship Of our navy as the representative
Of the navy Of the United States"
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The Amethyst Box From Pen
of Anna Katherine Green.

The Amethyst Box" by Anna Kath-
arine Green. is a fine example of the art
of elaboration upon a single incident until
the telling of it grows to be quite a
lengthy and intensely interesting story.
It's $50 pages about what happened at a
house party IN one night, but it was a
crowded night-deciding the destinies of
five people about whom we are skilfully
compelled to feel curiosity. 1t is a use
of the grewsome for arts sake, and an
art that uses horror as supservient to an
end that justifes its shudder-causing pre-
sentiment to US.
The story's genesis might be guessed to
be as If one should lift some little trinket
from a jewel-box and say: why may
not lima agination weave around this little
nucleus a story complex enough to fill
an evening with entertainment and q
week with thought-a mystery needing
many chapters for its untanglement-an
extension of life experience by rea..za-
ton of a tragedy, fictitious. but possible:
verisimilitude so fraught with human
interests that TO experience it by yield
ing To the writer's art is to be maturer
in sympathy by that much a fuller life %
and then having unused a while upon the
potentialities of the little gem, sat down
and wrote them out with large elabora-
ton, but free of unlifelike padding.
Such a trinket was this tiny amethyst
box. Sinclair bought II as a sample of
exquisite jewelers. work. It came from
Venice and might have adorned the
bosom Of a Borgia' for in ii was q vial
containing drop of the most deadly
poison. Walter, Sinclairs friend, tells
this tale of night in the first person
The morrow is to be Sinclair's wedding
day. Gilbertine's the girl-good, beauti-
ful, niece to a millionaire aunt who is a
gorgon. Walter loves her cousin, Dor
othy, who holds him in doubt as to her
response The scene is at Mrs. Arm
strong's Newport villa, where the we'd
ding is to take place. Sinclair displays
the jewel to some ladies-just to see their
eyes shine with admiration and curiosity.
When he told of the deadly drop of
poison il contained and held the gleam-
ing vial up to the light he heard the sup
preston of a scream behind him. The
description of that scream and the
thoughts it suggested is where the writer
begins to get to her work in way that
grips attention. Whose fair lips let it
half escape, but caught 1t before detec-
ton came, the lovers wondered, for only
Dorothy and Gilbertine were in place to
be suspected.
Later in the evening the amethyst box
is stolen. Then the lovers remember the
dream Beaton had earlier told. 1t was of
a maiden he saw in the moonlit night,
cloak hid, on the verge of cliff, evidently
nerving herself for suicide. He told 1t as
of a wraith-a maid of his imagination,
but, Was it so told because Beaton was
a gentleman, and wished thus to delicate
Iy warn a woman without betraying her
Many strange things happen in the even
ing to intensity the fears of the two men.
They believed one or other o. Aha -
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Stirring Romance Of Scotland
Told by s. R. Crockett.

8. r. Crockett's new story, May Mar
garet," called THE Fair Maid of Gallo
way" is a stirring tale of the old ro-
mantle days in Scotland when the Doug
lases were such a power. 1t is told In
the first person by Margaret Douglas,
who was brought up in a convent. and
who rejoices greatly when she gets her
liberty to be out among men and to see
life and have adventures. She did not
know the charms that had come to her In
those schooling days. A little while after
she gets out she says: In a word 1 was
Just beginning to learn what l could do
with the hearts Of men," The whole ma
ture of her who is supposed to write the
book, and to a large extent the style of
the work, can be estimated from this
passage: And there is nothing like that
to a woman. In her heart, carefully COW
cred over, maybe-to be dug for deep and
long, but still there-indisputable. unob-
trusive, there is the same desire of every
one of womankind Bah-they tell you
different. some of them. but they lie. To
be beautiful and to turn men between
their fingers, this way and that, as a
potter doth his vessel, molding 1t to his
thought That is the Thing Desired of
the Heart-the priesthood, the Queens
scepter.
'I say that is the second best thing in
woman's life. The absolute best, the gold
center of all, is that during her love time
she should have known one man. good
and true and great. Then only can she
forget self in another, which is woman's
heaven of heavens.
One of the scenes pictured in the book
is where the men are forging a great
cannon: And we seven McKims shut
ourselves out from the worldly day in
a hot and painting purgatory of burning
sun and blowing fires. At night 1t was
little better. The deep glow of the forges
was reflected on the still waters of the
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BARONESS FOLLOWS sPoUsE's
EXAMPLE AND ENDS LIFE
German Noblewoman Sends . Bullet
Through Her Heart I'm q Hotel
I'm SaxOuy.

BERLIN, June IA few days ago .
lady dressed in deep mourning took
apartments at hotel in Zittau. Saxony,
and retired to her room Immediately
after supper. As she did not appear at
dinner next day the landlord entered
her room and found the lady dead In
bed, having fired a revolver bullet
through her heart
With great difficulty the authorities
discovered her identity. the lady prov
ing TO be Baroness Amalie Marianne
Won Gersdorff. She was born in 1872.
the daughter Of a clergyman OF aristo-
cratic family. She married in 1898
Baron Won Gersdorfr. a lord-in-waiting
and the possessor of large estates. Dur
ing last summer he threw himself, In a
moment of mental arrangement. from
hotel window. causing fatal injuries,
and this evidently so preyed on his
wife's mind that she was driven to
commit suicide. The Baroness leaves a
daughter aged T.
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"The Master Mummer, "a Novel
by E. Phillips 0ppenheim.

In "The Master Mummer," the new
story by the popular English writer, E.
Phillips Oppenheim, the master hummer
is the actor who won the affections of
the Princess of Waldenburg and thereby
caused scandal in European courts. In
this fiction it was correct and true love
romance and the child born of it was the
heroine of the story, Isobel de Sorrens
whose charming personality and whose
troubles and the love she caused in mems 8
hearts make the novel worth the reading
The fame of the author was well estab-
lished by writing THE Mysterious Mr..
Sabin,' 1.-THE Prince of Sinners" and
Anna the Adventures He Is 36 years
of age, married to Boston girl, and has
little girl whom he makes his constant
companion. His plan of writing is to
strive to make his novels as exciting
as he possibly can and to keep them alb
solutely free from sensationalism.
Isobel has been placed when a little
child in convent and knows nothing of
her parentage when she is taken out of
it at the age of fourteen. Her guardian.
Sir William Delahaye. is taking her from
the convent to London when the young
girls evident dread of him as the two
are dining in restaurant excites the
chivalrous interest OF a writer Arnold
Greatson, and of Grooten. who was the
master hummer and lover Of her mother.
Grooten is so sure Of Delahaye's evil
intent that he shoots him with an air
gun Greatson takes the girl away to the
studio quarters, where he lives with some
art students, and the set of them become
her guardians. One of these artists Is
Madame. good and wise. and somewhat of
mystic. When the girl comes to
them he says to Greatson. I'VE have lived
little lives-very little lives" He pro-
phesies that the girl will bring a change
to them they will drift" no longer.
Greatson asks IL 1t is this child who is
to open the gates of the world to them.
Remember" said Madame, that before
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many months she will be a woman"
Greatson says, half to himself. II wonder
whether l did well to bring her here" :"
Madame laughed shortly, 1T was not you
who brought it. She was sent
These things are not of our choosing,
Arnold There's something behind that
drives the great wheels. You can call
1t Fate or God according to your philos-
ophy."
The book is well pictured and one Of the
best Is of this scene when the young
girl comes to dwell with the students
and announces with dancing eyes her
JOY at being there, but follows that
with a smothered sob when she Is
brought. by their questioning, to remem
Der her complete loneliness. No friend
or relative had ever been to see her or
written to her since she was years old.
0ittle, Brown & Co, Boston. 81 SOD
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WIN Auction zola,s Enect..

PARIS, June 17.-Some time ago Zola
presented the City Hospital author
titles the villa at Medan, where Zola
passed his summers and where the ma
jority of his works were written
Preparatory TO the departmental au-
thorities taking over the house. which
Is to become a convalescent home for
nurses, an auction sale OF Zola's effects
will be held The sale will include the
furniture generally and the billiard
table and accessories of the famous bill
liard-room; also the wine. domestic
animals, carriages and plants.
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BOOKS RECEIVED.

MAY MARGARET-By s. r Crockett.
Dodd. Mead & Co. New York. 81 80
MOTORS AND MOTORINGBy Henry
J. Spooner. Dodd, Mead & Co. New
York. 80 cents.
duction and notes by Joseph Edward
Harry. American Book Company. New
York. 81 go
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Short Notes Of the Writers
and Some of the Books.

Alfred Russell Wallace. in an appendix.
which appears only in the popular-priced
edition of Mans Place in the Universe"
which McClure-Phillips have just brought
out, adds an important argument to his
theory that man. is the only thinking
being In creation, and that he and his
world are the center of the universe This
argument is based entirely on the theory
of evolution. and is the strongest support
to his idea that Doctor Wallace has yet
produced II Is stated that the famous
thinker. now dean in the realm Of science.
has set about writing his more specific
autobiography.
Charles Wagner has more than half
finished his Impressions of America"
which are to appear in La Revue des
Revues. There is, of course. to be
chapter on President Roosevelt. Trans
lations of "The Simple Life by the
way, are to be made both In japanese
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Freneh Artlxt. start Zoo.

PARIS, June lin order to give
animal painters a better opportunity OF
studying their subjects. a number OF
influential French artists have formed
a society known as the Psycho-Zoo-
logical Institute. with accommodations
at Abort There dogs. horses. wolves
and other animals will be allowed a
certain amount of freedom 1t Is in
tended to petition the Government for
a subvention in order to carry out the
idea on a larger scale.
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loch, and the clang of the forehammers
was heard afar.'
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According to the leading authorities.
who have been singularly unanimous
1.-The Divine Fire" is likely to take its
place among the works of standard Eng
lish literature. In fact, it has just been
ordered for a class in a Western uni
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HORT stories by the cieve-est
writers of rsany lands are
gathered together in the first
number OF the new magazine.
Tales. in a way that makes Il
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WEEKLY ASToRiAN.
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old man of Oregon was crushed under its
heavy weight, The Orcgoniau may make
every possible excuse for the defeat of
the republican mayor, and may back it
up with PLAUSIBLE statements and sar'
castle editorials, but the people Of Ore
gon know the true cause Of the defeat,
The oregonian was responsible for the
defeat of the republican candidate for
governor three years ago ", ], Furnish
and his metallic influence with the One.
gonian resulted in his nomination over
7. T. Geer, who could have been re.elec'
ted governor OF Oregon, but the man in
the tower refused to allow him the nomi,
nation TO which he was entitled, The
people of Oregon rebelled against such
methods and they viii continue to do SO