The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-02-10

mans Sons The frontspeoe Is a repro
duction Of the portrait made Of Wilde while
he was in New York by j Kelly, the etcher.
Sara Andrew Shafer. author Of Beyond
Chance Of Change is n Western woman
of Eastern descent She grew up in the
little Indiana village Of which she writes.
in the late eos Like many Western
towns. the population was made up Of
Eastern people who had emigratcd into
the West. with all the New England integ-
rity OF character and vigor of intellect.
but under the free life Of thenew and wider
country they gradually left tehind the
narrowness peculiar 10 the New England
environment and broadened into the
finest type Of American character After
Mn. Shafer's marriage. she lived for a
time in Baltimore and while there wrote
the story Of The Day Before Yesterday $
in which the people Of the village recog-
nized themselves, with pride because Of
the sympathetic manner in which they
had been interpreted. Since the great
Ere in Baltimore Mrs. Shafer returned to
the Western village The new book is
written in the same vein "A It's very suc-
ccssful predecessor. and is faithful chrcn-
icle. humorous, yet reverent' and intin-
itelv affecting. Of the simple lives Of the
generous. honorable men and women
who have built UP the Middle West.
II is an encouraging sign Of the times
that a new series Of French books is being
brought out in America, printed in French
and bound like the Temple Shakespeare in
f,u leather with ornate stampings The
seriee is known as Les Cassiqu Francois ~
and tho productions selected will be pre-
sented in complete and unabridged text
each volume containing an introduction
NV A recognized critical authority. The
frat eroup will comprise Alta "A, Z ne ct lie
Dernier Abencerage. rar Chateaubriand ="
@Conte Choisis d'Honore de Balzac. and
other works OF the same sort which are
recognized ar classics They are publi,hed
by G. p Putnam's Sons.
Cvnis Townsend Brady gives some inter-
esting war statistics in The Conquest of
tho Southwest" which Appletons publish
this month. According to Mr.. Brady, we
mid about sos for each squire mile Of terri
tory acquired in the conquest OF Mexico.
or ss2 for each member Of the population
of to-day. II has been estimated that the
cost of the Revolution was upward Of
$40 10000. The Louisiana Purchase cost
sl5OoO.Ooo. the price Of Alaska was 81. no 900.
and the Philippines cost 100000, besides
tho terrible expenses Of the war. In con-
alteration OF these figures Mr.. Brady be-
lieves that we wolld have been greatly
the gamer from a financial point Of view il
we had purchased tho Mexican territory TO
round out and complete our national domain
even at the great cost Of 500 100000
Sidney l. Gulick. author Of The Evolu-
ton Of the Japanese. for fifteen years a
resident and student Of japan has now in
press a small volume that deals with some
OF the deeper causes Of the Russo-Japan-
ese war. entitled The White Peril in the
Far Fast Mr.. Gulick finds from extended
intimate acquaintance with Japanese men
OF Affairs with whom he was in daily con
tact. that the aggressiveness Of the white
race. their progressive civilization, their
greedy dreams OF Oriental Empire and tho
unsettling effect upon Oriental religions