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t. ALFRED Russell WALLACE, ].
!. Well-Known Scientist Whose Auto $:
/ biography Will Appear This Fall. !.
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| Another book of exceptional value will
be AN Autobiography by Alfred Rus
sci Wallace. To Alfred Russell Wallace
! belongs the distinction of having separ-
ately, and few years earlier than OAR
| win. formulated a theory of evolution
which is substantially the same as OAR
wins The autobiography Of a man who
was prominent in the movement which
| brought to the front Darwin, Huxley and
| Spencer, who preceded them and has out
! lived them, will be a notable addition to
the Biographical books the season.
| Among other books Of serious nature
to come from the same publishers this
fall are Twenty Years of the Republic,
by Harry Thurston Peck; "A History of
| English Literature" by w. Robertson
Nicoll; photographed account of the
| first printing press established in English
America, together with a list Of the is
| sues Of the press by Robert F. Roden; a
memoir Of Jacques Cartier: "The Great
Word by Hamilton. Wright Mabie, a
series of studies of the phases and as
| poets of love: "a New Volume of Es-
says" by Maurice Maeterlinck. The firm
will do well also by the lover of fiction
'Nedra, by George Barr McCutcheon
author of "Graustark,'' is.given a promi-
nent place on the list. Next comes '"The
| Resurrection of Miss Cynthia" by Flor
ence Morse Kingsley, author of 1.-THE
Singular Miss Smith,. After that there
is 1.-THE Man from Red Keg," by Eugene
Thwing, author of 1.-THE -Keggers";
| 'The Edge Of Circumstances" a sea tale,
! by Edward Noble, author of Waves OF
Fate; "A Motor Car Divorce by Louise
Closer Hale; "Cecela's Lovers by
Amelia e. Barr, a tale of New York. This
| includes by no5ameans all of the firm s
l offerings for the fall; it only shows that
the reader who trfesl to keep up with
the procession of books will have to make
his plans for plenty Of time in which to
read. S@ + - 'z'
THE GIFT oF%THE MORNING STAR,
by Armistead G.. Gordon, is a novel
I whose scene is among the mountains of
the eastern side of the continent, in a
Dunkard settlement The lines of life
as drawn among the people are clear and
hard. A people toiling. rnoiing, early
and late; saving and boarding to gather
more money in order to buy more land,
in order to have more feed to fatten more
/ stock to sell, to get more money to buy
more land, etc, yet, while so doing, being
| scrupulously honest in paying and taking
the last cent; worshipins God Sunday
! IN the sanctuary after their own form,
according to their own conscience; living
their simple, busy toilsome life in right
| eousness to its close; looking to and
trusting the Master Of Life for what lies
rbeyond-such is the, background Into
| this life comes young bride, beautiful
! and winsome, Of alien blood and alien
| ways of living. She finds it hard, UNI
! lovely, lonely beyond measure. Her first
two children follow the type of the father
and Of the people to whom he belongs.
! The third follows the maternal type and
| grows up to manhood beloved only nby
his mother and his brother and sister.
| The plot carries him away from home,
| under the impression that he has COM
mitted the crime of murder. He is never
| accused, settles in a 'boom'' town, de-
pendent on a railway and mines, and
grows immensely rich. Then the boom
eoHapses and everything is lost He goes
back home and finds his brother dead,
his sister living, and he at last takes up
the old labor on the farm, which he once
SO hated, and finds peace-also wife.
l The plot is good, the story fairly well
! told, the characters interesting. The lit
erary finish is not high w. r. K.
| Funk & wagnalls company New York.
| MR.. HoWELLs' EvAsIvE REPLY
| Women are reading William Dean How
ellis novels with increased avidity.
/ Since the publication of his latest novel,
Miss 8eIard's Inspiration (Harper &
Brothers), they are beginning to suspect
| .erif tad Of Io SIT,
heart has sometimes a bit Of a laugh at
| their expense. When questioned about
his theories and beliefs regarding wo-
| mankind, the other day at Kittery, Mr..
Edowells skilfully evaded his feminine in
quisitor.
| at least. he said. smiling. women
are not boasters. They do not go about
! telling tesWorld how clever they are
| and the great things they propose to do.
/ What a certain lady said to her hus-
band could never have been truthfully
said by her husband to her. This young
| couple had an only child-a baby 4
! months old
! "Oae evening, when the young man re-
turned home from work, his wife said to
him:
oh, Elmer; the baby is beginning to
take after YOU 5
After me-? said the young man, much
pleased. In what way?'
: He's beginning to crew
THE MAKING OF A MAN.D-Under
that title Orison SWEET Marden, editor Of
Success, has written a book containing
abundant good advice, happily put, for the
| youth Of the land. Mr. Marden stands
! for the gospel of gentlemanliness, alert
ness, hard work. persistence and fair
play. These ought to bring success to
any young man. If they do not, there
is something that saves even them from
defeat. Mr.. Marden puts it thus:
4 victorious but not vainglorfous; strive and con
/ tend for the prize, and win it honestly or lose
1t cheerfully; use every power in the race, and
yet never wrest an undue advantage or win an
4 unlawful mastery-he 1t is who "by life
1 heroic conquers fate. y
Lothrop Publishing Co., Boston, $1.25.
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