New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-12-07
THE SILVER QUESTION.

And travelling rates are nlS1
wlth frigd glance pierced E him , through.
s55 s s sSue &i nn Be 0h TaR Wits S y yo
lend it to the Moon
that evening on the beach lay
Behind Ia lonely nsd a6 60Re'' thu rav
! buttonhoied the Moon
esirr. she exclaimed, how. can you try
An honest Siooq this way?
Against a rainy day.
smiled and shook my head; An right,
II change II into silver bright
WheTewith 10 tip the Sea
The waves became SO rough
thought Of those at in ships
And felt I'd said enough
For if one virtue ! have learned
IT'S tact; so forbore
To press the matter, though l burned
TO ask one question more.
hate a scene and do not wish
10 De mixed up in gales: F5.b
Whence came their silver scales!
~ Herfor5 has a way Of his own in the use
Of words. and he Is always right To whom else
co,I5 II have occurred to give "a roomy smile
20 a sernent as he does IN THE Charm That
Failed . the sad tale of a snake. conquered by
a stuffed bird? The original twist he gives 70
the story OF Shylock in the verses called "A
corner in CurIs'' is only equalIed by the origi-
rsIi+v shown IN the drawings that go with them.
IN short this little book stands out from the
rJlcl1 as the work Of 8 genuine artist.
A half dozen other booklets Of wit and wisdom
from the West and from the East also claim at
tention -Four Of them come from the Pacific
coast and are characterized by the good taste
and good va S1nanship that usually mark the
publications Of Paul Elder & Co. of San Fran
cisco. THE Complete Cynic's Calendar of Re-
vised Wisdom" heads the list and is made up
Of the best things IN the two previous clever
volumes It IS thus both 2 new friend and an
old one a double merit Oliver HerfOrd, Ethel
Watts AIumfold and Addison Miner are re-
sponsibIe for its authorship, and this year the
sources OF the various contributions are indi-
Gated BY cIDhers Good Things and Graces"
by Isabel Goodhue. printed on Japan paper with
decorative borders and fabricated initials, con
tains a number Of wholesome recipes, with APP
propriate expressions of thankfuness for each.
The kind Of dishes provided IS best indicated by
the following extracts:
GAME PIE.
Search for your game carefully until you you, md It:
observe It well and then leave i TO tRe Illi enjoy
!nent Of life and its native haunts You VII soon
have IN q green dish Of rarest design and orna-
ianT T3ernSTieg seasoned with vgor and beauty
Every time the pie IS opened these memories VIII
MAYoNHAIsE FOR Blue MONDAY SALAD.
Cut p some lively capers add to them sauce
made Of the milk Of human kindness thicAen WIN VIZ
peace oil and spiced 10 TASTE. llel uslL6 ~
rnayonnaise always serve some fresh peaIs OF
TO obtain the fresh peals. use some that you have
dried for emergencies.
Under the title Of sovereign Woman and
Mere Man" Jennie Day Haines has gathered
host OF quotations about both sexes in the vaTi-
Gus relations of life, and arranged them with
delightful irnpartiality on facing pages The vol
une Is attractively got up in a square duodecimo,
With decorative borders, printed in heavy faced
tyne on thin. japanese paper, doubled. Lest We
forget" should be the motto Of the fourth little
book Of tbs Paul Elder consignment It is
called aoThe Joke Book Note Book" and is a
pocket volume, with blank leaves. thumb In
dexed On the margins, for those who wish TO
make memoranda Of the clever stories they hear
or rarchance invent It is divided into appro-
pirate divisions, such as Professions" 'Ir1sh'.
'Co5ns" Germans" Kids" etc, with an Illus
+rata5 heading for each and a sample joke as 8
sort Of anecdotal nest egg.
Turning from San Francisco to Boston, we
have The Foolish Almanac" published Dy
JOHN ". Luce & Co.. which claims various
authorship. Nixon Waterman, George Barr Nc
Cutcheon. W. D. Nesbit, Arthur Z Parke' Nlr-
GINA Van de Water and others having collab-
Grated ,n ,ts production, while Wallace GOLD
smith has made the illustrations and decora-
lions This little satire or the farmers alma
maze n a former day IS not only attractive 10
look Of bpt amusing to read, and is filled with
really clever epigrarns. twisted proverbs verses
sr5 s..eo,ot1a hints. "Sweethearts ind BeauH'
y, ar,-r. Thomas Antrim, issued by the Henry
AItsn,us Company, Philadelphia. is given up 10
,,,-,Lor - original observations and epigraIns
On tbe subject indicated by the title Inc loIi'l
Of the booklet with its white ana Solo anu
maroon cover and its fabricated pages IS per
hans more pIeasing to the eye than the colle'i1S
is satisfying 10 the intellect
Miss Violet Jacob goes on. almost rom ~eoA
n 81, v,-~,+,,, verses for THE London Out
loot,,, Irtatber she writes them TO please me
e5,.o- &c nat periodical or because she cannot
HELM herself she makes them very persuasive
IS witness these latest lines or hers'
FRosTBoUND-
when 5rta~-s mise seems dead benealh tle St""
and has no tfrq6 s to g 81 mine. beloved and
Shall your heart I'VE
For mine is fire. a furnace strong ana 'eu'
Look up into my eyes .. z.at-a fha dead
There shall YOU see fame 10 nlahS ~'' ~
Take lie and rise
Ky eyes are brown and yours are sun a"o BY
whose Depths are sleeping in the Icy sway
And viii not wake.
soundless they are below the leaden sky
Bound with that silent ctaln.
81 chains may faIl ana tl'SS 'NAb -
May live again
Yes turn away, gray eyes; you dare not i~Ns
n min he