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an author, a painter and an automobile
maker. The last seems to be brought in
chiefly to emphasize the Trilby recollection.
She inspires all three to better things and
all three strangely enough fall in love with
her. Many attempts are made to remove
her violently from this companionship;
these provide the needful excitement, and
various extraordinary persons are made to
do strange things.
A pretty idyl of the loves Of an English
man and a Japanese half-breed girl, Mrs.
Hugh Frasers "A Maid Of Japan" is pub
lished with appropriate imitation Japanese
decorations by Henry Holt 4 Co. The
sentiment in it must be as foreign to real
Japanese we fancy, as Pierre Lofts maun-
dering over Nine. Chrysanthame, but the
story is pretty and will satisfy Western
admirers Of things Japanese.
An early book associated with Mr.. Ham
lin Garland's name. his Rose of butchers
Coolly," is published in a new edition by the
Macmillans. The same house has added
to Macmllan's Paper Novels" Mr.. H. G.
Wells's excursion into humor and bicycling
'The Wheels of Chance
An invincible. fighting Irishman with a
brogue, who has stepped bodily out OF
Charles Levers books is made the hero
Of Mr.. Louis Joseph Vanoes Terence
ORourke, Gentleman Adventurer" CA.
Vessels Company, New York;. The author
builds up the first part of his plot on Mr.
j. Iebaudy's recent efforts to establish
an empire of Sahara and sticks pretty
close to the reported facts. His chara cteri-
cation of that gentleman and his COM
panions under different names, we imagine,
is fanciful for it is distinctly lihelous
After awhile. however we get into the
realm Of fictitious geography and politics
favored by one branch of modern romances.
We don't care to count the fights and hair
breadth escapes of the hero, but he comes
out Of them safely, as it is his duty to do.
pleasant reminder of the days when
humor was something more than dressing
up stale jokes in new slang or colored pic
lures will he found in Mr.. W. l.. Alden s
Jimmy Brown Trying to Find Europe
Harpersl. Jimmy Brown left delightful
recolections with host of friends who will
be glad to find he has come to life again.
The story suffers a little by being q sequel,
but Mr.. Alden is as funny az he ever was
in many places, and much funnier than
most of the testers now in fashion.
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A Tale OF the DpyOnshire VALLEYS.

In these days Of machine ma de monotony
In romance it is refreshing to come across
bit Of conscientious and original work
like 'Widdicomb by NJ. p. Wilcox There
are no disturbing social problems no
political intrigue, no cryptic and tortuous
rhetoric, no psychological vivisection and
analysis 1t is simple story Of real life
and real characters in the Devonshre
dreamy valleys, dealing with elemental
emotions and natural impulses and pas
eions, described with an earnestness that
gives them dignity. And while it may
not he a story to be placed carelessly in
the hands OF youthful and indiscrimina-
ting readers, as a piece of literature it has
abundant charm and interest and a con-
rncing sense Of reality and naturalness.
The distinctive originality of the book
lies in the very modern Romeo and Juliet,
who play out the love drama after very
up to date methods. She is child of
the Moors comely in her splendid healthy
rgor a chaotic mass Of possibilities, sensa-
tions and undisciplined emotions. He is
astudent Of humanity, of overwide thou gifts,
narrow emotions, unawakened passion
and unbounded egotism, absorbed in a
morbid responsibility for the salvation
of the race and seeing in the lady of his
feeble desire but the adequate mother of
worthy posterity. The evolution of the
girls character, the dissolution of his
ideals, their final reunion through her
splendid alruism and his sincere con-
version forms the main argument of the
story. which is psychologist rather than
episode series Of emotional rather
than actual adventures. The hero is ruth
l@ssly sacrificed on the altar Of the heroines
supremacy from first to last, but she ia
worth IT, and he is a poor sort after all,
although Granny Rosden did say of him:
He'll be something like a man if he ever
stops looking into the middle of next
week Granny herself was good deal
OF woman. The book is published by
John Lane The Bodley Head.
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Other hooks.

To the polemcai literature that has
sprung up about the Congo administration,
Mr. John de Courcy mcdonnell adds
large volume called King Leopold II.
His Rule in Belgium and the Congo"
(Cassell d Coz. II is e euogy Of a monarch.
who, like most members Of the SAKE Coburg
family married in foreign lands, has TN
derstood the constitutional limitations to
bis authority and lived in peace with his
subjects. OF the bemishee on King Leo
pod's character and the mistakes he has
made. the author has nothing to say. So
much has been made Of the wrongdoing
IN the Congo State by virtuous British
traders, who are eager to GUST the Belgians,
that a restatement Of the Belgian side
of the controversy may be needed in Eng
lish though less prejudiced presentation
would probably carry more weight, Much
wrong, unfortunately, has been done to
the blacks by Belgians, but that seems to
be an inevitable concomtant Of the "civi-
lizing" process where the savage has any
thing that the white man wants, and the
Belgians can point to worse examples in
every case where Englishmen have pushed
their way into the land of a weaker race.
Even now the gish newspapers are
printing stories of the treatment Of Austria
Ian natives that will match the Belgian
atrocities that shock them so. The book
ia illustrated with photographs,
The remarkable work done for his race
by Booker T. Washington is described
admirably in the volume he edits called
-Tuskegee and Its People, (Appletons,.
This is a collection Of short articles by
different persons. Mr. Washington's own
contribution is a general introduction in
which he states modestly and forcibly his
views about the education Of the negro
This is followed by accounts OF the Tuskegee
Institute from various points OF view by
members of tho staff. Then comes the
most interesting and telling part Of the book,
seventeen photographers by graduates
OF the institute in different walks of life,
from college president and lawyer to car
penter farmer, blacksmith and shoemaker
There may be sameness about these lives
and lack Of art in the telling, but they are
impressive when taken together and bear
witness to what Tuskegee means for the
black man.
In The Sword of Islam" CE. P. Dutton
4 Coz Mr.. Arthur y. Woolaston has written
a clear and readable account of the Mo-
hammedan world The first half Of the book
deals with history. full enough for the period
Of Mohammed and his followers. but very
much abridged for modern days. The second
half is an account Of the religion, of the con-
tents Of the Koran and Of the various scots
that have sprung up in Islam. Though
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The Old HOWells Again.


In Miss Bellard's Inspiration" (Harpers)
MIR. William Dean Howells reverts to his
early manner, that Of -The Chance 40
quaintance" and 4The Wedding Journey,
which first attracted people to him and
which 1t has been the regret Of many Of
his admirers that he abandoned for realism.
He is not exactly the same, Of course the
Years have told and perhaps even more
his appreciation of Mr.. Henry James. but
he is much closer to the Howells of yester-
year than in anything he has written Of
late.
The story, Of course. is very slight-plot
never counts with him-but slight as it is,
it is very well put together. There are
three women to be dissected for the reader 3
pleasure, for with Mr.. Howells man is only
shown in reflected light. One is our old
friend, Mr.. Howels's comfortable married
woman, lovable, charming, illogical, i'm
pulsive, as he has represented her for SO
many years, with changes Of name and age,
but always the same. We are always glad
to meet her no matter how she is gotten up.
She has her comforta BILE, tolerant husband
as a foil. Why Mr.. Howells should think
it strange that happily married people,
CNSh 'Hou6 ~ dBcu VI elIiciiy, sHoulu
address each other as dear or darling"
when they are alone We do not understand.
Perhaps New England reticence extends
even to intimate privacy.
Then We have the young woman with
a purpose, who will not allow love to inter-
fere with that higher aim. She, too, is
not wholly new to Mr.. Howells's readers.
but she is amusing and delightful and in
the lovcmaking the author allows more
natural feeling than usual. The third
woman seems to be a photograph from
life. A nagging jealous wife. with out
bursts of almost insane violence, whose
love for her husband takes the form of
not only suspecting every woman he meets,
hut of hating his work on account of the
interest he takes in it, With notifications
she is not uncommon type. 1t is sordid
side of life that she and her husband repre-
sent and We wish Mr.. Howells had left
them ont of this story.
His analysis Of these women is enter
tanning, as it always has been but it is
not wholly satisfactory, There is good
deal of pretty fine hair splitting over very
trivial matte $, that seems devised merely
TO show the analytical machine at work
There are some sentences, only few, to
to he sure. that seem intended to show
the authors friend. Mr.. Jamss, that il
tangling up simple idea in complicated
sentence be art Mr. Howels can perform
the feat, too. All the same il will give
pleasure to many people to be able to read
q genuine Howells story this summer.
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put in popular form the book Is based on
sound learning and long familiarity with
the subject.
Mr. Napier Malcolm's Five years in a
Persian Town (E. P. Duttton & Coz ID
written to help other missionaries in Mo-
hammedan lands. The town in which he
was stationed was Yezd, in the middle OF
Persia. In so long period he was able TO
see many things and to learn much about
the land and the people, and enough that
will attract the general reader may be 1ouno
in his warnings to missionaries about the
peculiarities OF Mohameden thought ana
customs: but his single minded devotion
to his object is very provoking when he
drops an interesting subject that the reader
would like to know more about as soon as
his missionary purpose ia attained mo
field of what should be AN extremely at
tractive book is narrowed unduly by the
professional point of view.
The forms of government possible under
the Constitution of'the United States have
so increased in the last seven years that "
takes a fair sized volume to describe them
as Mr.. William Franklin Willoughby has
done in Territories and Dependencies
of the United States" (rhe Century Com
pany) Mr. Willoughby il the Treasurer
Of Porto Rico. 1t is natural, and 1t adds
to the value of his book, that compare
lively little space should be given to the
story Of the acquisition Of the Territories,
to their government and to the District OF
Columbia. The bulk Of the volume Is taken
up with full and careful account OF the
administration Of Porto Rico and of the
Philippines, including the provincial and
municipal governments. Samoa. Guam and
the Panama Canal Zone are not neglected,
Mr.. Justice Simeon f. Baldwin OF the
Connecticut Supreme Court of Errors has
written a clear and entertaining account
Of -The American Judiciary for the Amer
lean State" series published by the Century
Company. In the first part he shows the
nature of the judicial power and its rela-
tons to the legislative and executive, with
the general lines on which it has developed;
in the second he describes the State and
Federal courts, those Of special jtlrisdic-
ton, methods of trial, procedure and so on.
1t is a well constructed summary which
an intelligent layman can understand and
which should remove many misconceptions
about American matters from such for
eigners as may read it.
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Dnnker Life and Character.

The Gift Of the Morning Star" by Ar
instead c. Gordon. is a story Of bunker life
and character. 1t is a faithful chronicle
of a peculiar people involving some tragic
epis odes and introducing some well defined
and unusual types of character. The Dun
kers are pious and silent sect occupied with
acoumulating wealth by honest labor and
in avoiding the world and its affairs. They
till the soil raise cattle and sheep, and sit
beneath their own we'll laden vines and
f,g trees in quaint and homely dress. They
are honest and thrifty and virtuous and
deeply religious in thought and habit.
Into this peaceful community one OF the
members brings fair young wife Of French
descent who before her early death left
q son whom she named Benamini-"the
son OF my people b blessed or cursed with
an heredity handed down from her own gay
and pleasure loving people. Realizing his
own weakness of character, judged by
bunker standards, the child, grown to man
hood overcomes his faults and repents OF
his misdongs, hence the name of the story
.He that overcometh will give him
the morning star" The book Is printed
hv the Funk and Wagnalls Company.
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Books ed.

Elements OF Political Economy" r. Ievas
seur Translated by Theodore Mar5urs Macmu
lan>J
Examples in Algebra" Charles NJ Clay. Macmil
lanSl
Threads" Garrett W. Thompson crhe Johr
c. Winston Company
Two Practical Hcrolnes." Joseph u. Harris
broadway Publishing COMPANY
The Venus OF Cadz." Richard Fisg'ill tHenry
Holt & COZ
"rols,oy as a Schoolmastcr" Finest crosby
trho Hammersmark Publishing Co., Chicago
"Sorne Funny Bible Stories" ". a. CroNut
The Truth Seeker Publishing COMPANY NV York
Down Country lanes" Byron Williams 9Th,
International Press, Chicago
az New Humanity. or the Faster Island" Adolf
Wbrandt, translated ny nr. A. S. Rappoport
u. r. Llppincot CompanyJ
The OltlOok to Nature" l.. II Bailey. (Macmi
larsA
Edward rnz Gerald" Arthur c. Benson
MacmlansJ
Theodore and Theodore" Marian W Wild
man. H.. c. Page 4 Co. BoS,on)
Brothers OF Peril" Theodore Roberts. IL. c
Page 4 Coz
In the Rroodlng Wild" Ridgwen Cullum
IL. c. Page & Coz
japanese for Daily Use" z. p. Prentys and
kametara Sasamoto civilian X. Jenkins, New
York;
The American Family" Frank N HasM
TIN. University Publishing Society. New York;
provincial America" Evars Bouteu Greene
Phi. n. CHarpersJ
Duncan Polite" Marian Keith Tlemhr Fl
Rrvcl Company
"Glrnanaar." Canon p. A. Sheehan. o. D
uongmans Green 4 Coz
Echoes OF the Civil war as Hear Them.
Michael H. Fitch. R. F. F,nao Co, New York
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Another Story or the Stare.

Masks" by Emil Friend is the log book
81 an actress. beginning with divorce and
ending in shipwreck. The plot is merely
series of sordid and unsavory incidents,
petty lealousies and intimate disclosures
Of o~ensive transactions strung into a
chronicle too long by half and tediousy
tHy'aI in detail and episode. By way OF
literary criticism there is little to be said
OF II, ave that it is an example OF crude
and .n"fectual realism-the realism Of the
camera, which brings ont unimportant
oe'ai,~, not the transcription of the artist
"hn-' trained faculty of selection seizes
upon the salient features OF the actual and
f'j"n's the unessential and the insignificant.
IL" heroine Of this loosely constructed
narration, after disentangling herself from
M undesirable matrimonial alliance, starts
on' upon a stage career in which the envy Of
h"r Interiors the jealousy Of her superiors,
N" embarrassing interference Of her mascu-
nm" admirers furnish complications and
hlharanccs which retard her progress
'N' furnish her with variety Of experiences
NOT altogether agreeable, which the author
PRESENTS with no expurgation or restraint
|aptuiating finally to the most persistent
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Poor Little Soldier Of tho Gar.

Ezra S Bridno's story Of The Little
Conscript' Doubleday, Page + Coz is a
tragical tale of the reign of Nicholas |. of
Russia. Yosele was a prodigy. He was
the pride Of the Lithuanian hamlet Of
Ora zhni. At the age of IA he had a Won
derful understanding of the Talmud.
"Rabbis and er,idite Talmudists from near
and distant places came to Grazhni to wage
Talmudc war with this youngster From
sunrise till late at night he was inva riaby
found in the old. weatherworn synagogue
swayng his little body over large folio Of
the Talmud or its commentaries. Unlike
most students of the Talmud, he never raised
his voice above whisper but hummed
quietly like spinning wheel while his
thoughtful eyes scanned page after page
Of small print.
They carried him off for soldier. He
was treated brutally. He made acquant-
ance with the knout and with other forms
of torture He was baptized In river of
ice. and Christian name was put upon him,
but he chung to his faith, He had sweet
heart. whom he lost through his Jewish
sense of duty. She killed the Governor
General OF Mini Novgorod, who wished
to marry her, and to that end had poisoned
his wife. The little conscript proudly paid
the penalty Of this assassination. He
declared that he had killed the Governor
General and the soldiers shot him in due
form.
dramatic and effective story. There
is much admirable workmanship in the
course of it.
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OF her adorers and the most influential
she is launched upon the high tide of SUCCESS
and is sent to Paris to procure her costumes
In that city she is personally conducted
through historical scenes and Bohemian
slums. introduced to famous and infamous
personages and instructed in the cynical
indeoency of modern school French inn
morality. After all this arduous prepare
ton and with her Paris costumes COM
pleted, the heroine is suddenly drowned
In storm at sea, which is perhaps the best
thing that could happen to her
The book we're it less frank in it's ex-
ploitation Of certain matters which un-
written literary convention has relegated
to obscurity, or at best introduces by deli
cate insinuation rather than elaborate
description, might prove useful as warn
ing to restless and ambitious young women
who flock to the stage only to come to grief.
The book is published by George W, Ogil-
vie & Co.
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Fond


Passages singing the song Of
the sword and scenes wrapped in
soft suggestions of the Lutte" in
the words of one critic, aptly
describe these wonderful tales by
Maurice Hewlett. Since the
publication of The Forest Lovers
Mr.. Hewlett has written nothing
SO palpitating with the full and
splendid life of the middle ages.
Each Of these four glowing love
tales has a beauty and charm
distinct from the others. All
are romance of the rarest quality.
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The Tyranny
of the Dark

Hamlin Garland has woven
from his experiences the threads
of most interesting tale which
will interest both believers in and
scof1ers at the life invisible -
N. Z. WvM. 1t is absolutely
different from everything else in
modern fction-with a lovable
Western girl for heroine, such
as Mr.. Garland knows so we'll
how to draw.
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Fiction.

There is go in Mr.. E. Phillips oppen-
helms tales and an abundance of excitement,
whatever may be thought of his originality
or the probability of his plots. London
must be strangely insecure place if we
wish to believe 1.-THE Master hummer
Little. Brown 4 Coz. and beautiful, inno-
cent Young women are to be picked up in
il by competent young men without diff
Guilty. 1t is at a restaurant that the hero
secures the helpless young person in this
story. 1t is a strange coincidence that in
another tale that comes to US at the same
time the hero in an equally unconven-
tional way takes charge of helpless inno-
,ence on the Thames Embankment. Mr..
Oppenheim young lady is taken to
studio. which is the home Of three men
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-06-17
20 Ialready shown. We think, that tho

havejaready shown, VIC think, that tho
fisherman does more than fish, ard that he
il a poet as we'll as fisher, THE Inyio-
liable shade May Day on the Exc" A
Brace of 1ench, Fisherman Billy" "Three
Wild Days in Wessex'-the reader will
Re stirred by these titles and eager with
the bore that they inspire. Nor will he
be disappointed Mr.. Sheringham quotes
Horace and Matthew Arnold, and this proves
again what we have said-that the fisherman
has imagination and is peculiarly ready to
embrace the Joys Of the mind.
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BoOKS-An out of print books supplied no
matter on what subject: write me stating books
wanted: / can get you any book ever pubshed
when In England call and nsnect my stock OF 50 900
rare books. BAKERS GREAT BookShoP' John
bright ST.. birmingham, England
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PUBLICATIONS.
Harper's Book News
The
Accomplish

Frederick Trevor Hill has
done three effective things in his
new story. He has evolved
new point of view in having the
narrative of murder trial told
by the foreman of the jury; he
has created a new and surprising
denouement; and he has written
most absorbing book. ~. I.
Press.
"It is within bounds to say
that The Aee0mpAee is the very
best novel founded on a crime
and its unraveling that has been
published in a decade-and we
do not forget Conan Doyle or
Raf1es, either.-N q M Ville
AMerifan.
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Sauna

As refreshing and delightful as
a sea-breeze comes this story Of
Nantucket and Sanna-wild,
romping, wilful Sanna-by the
author of The W00d- Career Of
'LympA. The critics have all
generous praise for this sweet,
wholes story, which is achiev-
ing popular favor as triumphantly
as its predecessor. ga pastoral
of the purest sort" declares one
crltie;-an ideal book for sum-
mer days, restful, original, and
with a peculiar charm of its
own. ~. r. Times. Take it
along on your vacation
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The
ViCissitudes Of
Evanqeline

A sparkling twin sister volume
to The Tisits Of Elizabeth, with
dashing heroine such as only
Elinor Glyn can picture. "The
book is undeniably clever and
alluring; the reader will know
no dull moment from cover to
cover. "-Chicag0 Record Herald.