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the author sets forth the proposition that
In no other land is literature SO influential
in shaping the character Of the people or so
potent a force in the cultivation of the
younger generation.
After historically tracing Russian letters
from their beginnings. the author devotes
himself chiefly to the modern writer's. Push
kin. Lermontoff. Gogol, Turguenen. Toll
stoy, Gontcharoff, Dostoyevskiy, Nekrasoff,
and the folk novelists, of whom the most
conspicuous modern instance Is Maxim
Gorkiy, to adopt Kropotkin's own spelling
OF the name He pays high tribute to
Gorkiy as a great artist who renders truth
fully the life that he has led, which is the
life of great host In Russia. In every
case the author develops the bearing of each
individual writer upon the thought OF his
period. and measures the part he had play
ed in the cultivation of a Russian national
and intellectual life. The work throws
light upon a Russia which is far different
from the Russia Of the press dispatches or
of the official negotiations the Russia in
which lies the hope of the future.
THE SHOES THAT DANCED. and Other
Poems. BY Anna Hampstead Branch.
Boston: Houghton, Miffiin & Co.
Washington: Woodward Lothrop.
1t is always a joy to come upon pure
poetry. 1t is like the finding of arbutus
in the dead leaves; the pleasure is sudden
and delicious The intellectual complac-
ency of the mind that has duly considered
some kind of work and found 1t good after
delberation is quite a different matter.
Certainly that little band of dreamers who
keep their faith in true beauty will feel
that the author of Ora Pro Nobis," the
poem with which this volume closes, has
genuine gift. 1t is entirely fair that she
should be judged by this her best attain
ment, but It's very excellence tempts the
reader into serious criticism of that which
falls below. The title poem lacks an in
nocence Of vision which is the very source
of charm in Ora Pro Nobis" and the SIM
pier lyrics The form is not spontaneous,
and there is a certain absence of sincerity,
a conscious method. 1.-THE Madonna Of the
Earth" and I'm q Vision Of the Night"
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Writing Letters for Sailors.

From "Shning Ferry" by A T ouiller-Couch :
courtesy Of Charles Scribners Sons.
To be deserted thus was more than Hester
had bargained for, and for a moment she
felt helplessly dismayed. A sheet of paper,
half-covered with writing. lay on the desk,
and she put out hand for it.
us this your letter? Perhaps you'll allow
me to read 1t and see how far you and Mr.
Benny have gone"
That Is the way. Only YOU mustn't give
me no credit for it; 1 sits and looks on.
Never take hand in a business you don't
know'-thats my motto"
Hester wished devoutly that 1t had also
been hers. She picked up the paper and
read:
Dear wife-This comes hoping to find you
in health as 1t leaves me at present, and
the children hearty. We made a good
passage, and arrived at Troy on the 18th
instant, a romantic litter harbor pic
tureSquely situated on the south coast of
Cornwall. Once fiourishing port, second
only to London and Bristol, and still retain
Ing in Its ivy-clad fort some vestige of it's
former glories, it requires the eye of
imagination to summon back the days when
Gas Halls tells us) it manned and sent forth
more than forty ships to the siege Of
Calais, A. D. 1347.''
Eester glanced at her client obviously
That's all right, amt it?" he asked.
"Ye-es.''
Far as I remember, 1t tallies with the
last letteI he HXeQ up lot me. something
about gray old walls there was. too"
Yes that comes two sentences below
Confronted with these evidences Of de-
cay, the visitor instinctively exclaims to
himself. If these gray old walls could
speak, what a tale might they not unfold"
SO heve put that in again? There's
what you might call a sameness about
Benny, though he do write different to any
body else"
And here are more dates, and an epitaph
from one of the tombStoneS in the church,
yard. Indeed, Mr.
Salt. Tobias Salt-and by natur'''
Indeed, Mr.. Salt. can't write a letter
like this. To begin with, 1 haven't the
knowledge"
The Lord forbid"
But 1 suppose your wife likes to read
about these thngs?'
"She can't read word. bless you. She
gets the parson to spell it out to her. or
the seamens missionary. Yarmouth our
home is"
She likes to hear about Them then?'
What? Sarah? Lord love We. miss you
should see the woman. Mother of eight
children, she is, and makes 'em toe the
mark at school and Sunday school A
woman like that don't bother about gray
old walls"
You are proud of her I see''
Ought to be, l reckon. Why today
she can pick up two three-gaIlon pitchers
OF water and heft 'em along for a mile
and more without turning a hair
And the children? How old are they?"
Eldest just turned eleven
why, then, he must be able to read?'
"'Tisn't he, tbs a her. Ay. reckon
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BOOKS RECEIVED.

MY LITTLE BOOK OF PRAYER. Rv
Murlel STROBE. Chicago: The Omen
Court Publishing Company.
CERBERUS, THE DOG OF HADEs,
Ine History of an Idea BY Maurice
bloomfield, professor of Sanskrit and
comparative PhilologN Johns Hon
gins University. Chicago: The Open
court Publishing Company
n PRIMER OF FORESTRY, Part TT
Fractical Forestry. By Clifford Pin
chot, Forester Bulletin No "a Part
n, y. .. department Of Agriculture
bureau of Forestry. Washington:
Government Printing Office.
SOLDIERS OF FORTUNE SERJES-ar
The FALL. OF PORT ARTHUR; or.
Young American in the Japanese
navy. BY Edward Stratemeyer, au-
thor OF Under the Mikado's Flag"
&c. illustrated by A. b. Shute. Bos-
ton: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Com
pany.
PROGRESS AND POVERTY, an inquiry
into the Cause of Industrial Depres-
sions and of Increase of Want with
Increase of Wealth-The Remedy.
BY Henry George. Twenty-fifth an
niversary edition. with medallion
portrait of Henry George by his son,
Richard F. George. New York:
Doubleday, Page & Co.
LA CHUTE. Par Victor Hugo With in
PRODUCTION, notes and vocabulary by
w. E. Kapp, Cherokee Iowa. New
York: American Book Company
LITTLE BURR, the Warwick of Amer
lea; Tale of the Old Revolutionary
Days BY Charles FELTON, Pidgin, au-
trated. Boston: The Robinson Luce
Company.
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Hbet's Holy Of Holes.

From ''The Opening of Tibet" by Perceval Lam
don; by permission of Doubleday. Page & Co.
Just In front, seen through a forest Of
pillars. was an open verandaed court yard
It's great age was at once apparent. The
paintings on tie walls were barely distin-
guishable through a heavy cloak of dirt and
grease, and 1t was difficult to imagine the
colors with which the capitals of the pillars
and the raftered roof overhead had orig
irally been painted. The court Is open to
the sky. The architecture is of the kind
invariable in religious buildings in Tibet-a
double row OF pillars carry the half-roof
overhead. each supporting on a small cap
ital a large bracketed abacus, voluted and
curved on both sides and charged in the
center with a panel of archaic carving.
The wooden doors which secure both en-
frances of the first court are Of immense
size, heavily barred. and embossed with
fligree ring plates of great age.
AT the opposite end of the court an open
door communicates with the second court.
revealing bright mass of hollyhocks, snap
dragon and stocks. vivid in the sun. The
sanctity of the temple obviously increased
as we ventured into the inner court. Its
sides are honeycombed by small dark cham
bers, apparently built in the thickness of
the enormous wall Each is idol
crowned sanctuary. Into these obscure
shrines one stumbles. bent almost double
to avoid the dirt of the low. greasy Intel
to distinguish anything more than the
dim outlines of altar in the middle
of the chamber. On 1t stand one or two
copper or brass bowls filled high with but
ter, each bearing on its half-congealed sur
face a dimly burning wick in a little pool
of self-thawed OIL These dim beads of yell
low light provide all the illumination of
the cave, and after little one can just dis
tfDguish the solemn images squatting round
the walls. betrayed by points and rims of
light, reflected here and there from the
projections and edges of golden draperies
or features. The smell is abominable. The
air is exhausted and charged with rancid
vapors. Everything one touches drips with
grease. The fumes of burning butter have
III the course of many generations filmed
over the surfaces and cloeged the carving
of doors and walls alike. The floor under
foot is slippery glass. Upon this recep-
tive foundation the CRIME and reek of CEN
turtles have steadily descended with results
that may be imagined. Except that the
images themselves apparently receive from
time to time a perfunctory wipe with the
greasy rag which is generally found in a
conspicuous place beside a Tibetan altar.
there is not in one of these numerous
chapels the slightest sign of consideration.
respect or care.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-06
THE PUBLIC LIBRARY
A LIST ON SUMMER TRAVEL
SOME RECENT ADDITIONS.

The District Public Library issues this
week the third of its reference lists. This
deals with summer travel and gives in
classified order several hundred of the
newer books of travel with occasional an
notations and the library call numbers. The
books are classed according to prace-Can-
ada, Alaska and the United States first,
then European and other foreign countries.
1t Is thought that the list will be conven-
len. at this season and will Indicate good
many books that are not generally known
to be available at the library.
In connection with this subject it might
be mentioned that the collection of adj
vertising material on summer resorts mas
been considerably enlarged, and every one
interested is invited to inspect 1t. Many
Of the pamphlets and folders are for free
distribution. The advertisements are dis
played in the small room opposite the Ii
brarians Office from 10 to pm. every
day that the library is open.
Tuesday. May 8, is the Tooth anniversary
of the death of Schiller. and books by and
about him, in German and English, on
the shelf opposite the registration desk.
The following titles are those of books
recently added to the library:
Biography.
Italian Letters of a Diplomats Wife.
Nine. NJ. A. X. Waddington. E-w116sa.
Life and Letters of Mandell Creighton.
Louise Creighton. E-CS65c..
Life of Sam Houston. c. E. Lester. Ell
S1l.
Poetry.
Songs from Vagabondia. Bliss Carman
and Richard Hovey. YP-C2124s.
Poetical Works. R. S. Hawker.-YP-H
3114.
London Lyrics. Frederick Locker. YP-L
1851
Studies in Prose and Verse. Arthur sy-
mons. ZY-Sy666s.
Travel and History.
Under the Care of the Japanese War Of
fee Ethel McCaul. G67-M12S
Studies in Naval History. j. K. Laugh
ton. E-9L362s.
Three Lectures Delivered at the Royal
Institution on the Ancient Regime. Charles
Kingsley. F392S-K615
Court of England Under George w.
Lady c. S. NJ. c. Bury. F4599- B952 1
Polynesian "reminiscences; or. Life In
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-06

G17-P93S W. l. fltchard
R history y. of the Loco,,foco or Equal
isishts farty f. Byrdsall. JUS3J a. RaG-
ooutnern SldellShts; A Picture of Social
ana economic Life in the South a Genera-
non Before the War. Edward Ingle Csc.
Sketches of Russian Life Before ard
During the Emancipation of the Serfs
henry Morley. G54-MS34.
Blue Jackets of '16; a History of the
Naval Battles of the American RevoIntion
doSetner With a Narrative of the War
With Tripoli. w ]. Abbot-tFS32- Abr
GS96C- R453 N'-
Philip Won Schwaben und Otto " Won
Braunschweig. E. A. Winkemann F4T24-
Washington. the Nations CapitaI @ ID
Reynolds. GS-59- R:334w
G724
Historical Recollections of the Reign Of
William ~. A ]. Maley. F4565-M 293
Les Salons de Vienne ct de Berlin A. Fl.
Blaze de Bury. Y39-B61S.
An Ancient History for Beginners G.
w. Botsford. Foo B655.
Old Glasgow; the Place and the People
Andrew Macgeorge. F43G-M1I3.
Europe and the Far East. Sir r. X.
Douglas F3O-D745.
Religion and Philosophy.
The Conception of Immortality. Josiah
Royce. BSS-RS13.
outline OF the Lie OF Christ. William
Sunday. CGQ-Sa532.
Scriptural Philosophy. Founded on the
Teaching of S. T. Coleridge. ]. H. Green.
B-GS24
Two Thousand Years of Missions Before
Carey. L. c. Barnes. DS-B267
Christian Missions and Social Progress. a
Sociological Study of Foreign Missions J.
s. Dennis. DS-D427.
Life of Reason. George Santayana. BIZ
Sass.
Influence of Jesus. Phillips Brooks. CGH-
B79J.
Social and Ethical Interpretation in Men,
tai Development Study in Social PsychoI-
Ogy. j. M. Baldwin. BI-B19Ss
The Divine Force in the Life of the World
Alexander Mckenzie. CK-M193
Ten Great Religions. ]. F. Clarke. RI
C553
Making a Life. Cortland Myers. Bos-
Af993ra
The Evolution of Christianity. LYMAN
Abbott CC-Ab2SSe.
Art.
L'architecture Grecque Victor I.aloux
WJ32-L156.
Frans Halls. G.. S. Davies. Wl0-H167d
A Manual of Photoengraving Harry Jen-
kins. WR-J4193.
William Blake. Irene Langridge. w1o
B5S3.
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open at the very utterance Of the names.
The last of these nine sketches, italian
Backgrounds" gives the title, and the OPEN
ing paragraph suggests the general signih-
canoe and application. In the italian de-
votional pictures of the Renaissance Mrs.
Wharton discovers two unrelated parts: the
foreground. which Is conventional and &C
cepted by the artist quite passfvely, and the
background. in which his own personality
asserts itself. free from tradition. This
principle she extends to Italy, observing
that the country too Is divided into the
foreground. which Is the property Of the
guide book and of its product. the mechan-
ical sightseer; and the background, that of
The dawdler. the dreamer the serious
student. 1t is this background with which
Mrs. Wharton concerns herself. and 1t is a
little curious that she should just here in
troduce the idler. In view of the fact that
her treatment of italian backgrounds Is
unlikely to arouse his enthusiasm.
JORN UHL. BY Gustav Frenssen. Trans
lated by F. S. Delmer. Boston: Dana
Estes & Co.
Gustav Frenssen was born In north Ger
many, in 1863. Despite his fathers humble
circumstances, Gustav managed to attend
the Latin school at the neighboring town
of Husum. and in due time became a stu
dent of theology. He heard courses Of
lectures at various universities. passed the
necessary examinations. and finally was APP
pointed to the little Lutheran pastorate OF
Hemme in Holstein. Here he wrote his first
two novels, which remained almost UNI
known until after the publication Of "Jorn
Uhl" in 1902. This book took Germany
by storm. Its author. much to his own
surprise, "awoke one morning to find him
self famous Over 100000 copies of the
German edition were sold within eighteen
months of issue-a record never before
equaled by any novel in Germany, and edi-
tons speedily appeared in the leading Euro
pean languages Frenssen's books aroused
much hostility among the Orthodox Church
party. and in 1903 he gave up his pastorate
and retired to the Hostein village of his
youth to devote himself to literature "Jorn
Uhl" has appealed to modern Germany in
somewhat the same manner that the works
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-06

of Dickens appealed to the England Of his
day. One Of Frenssen's admirers has said
This book has sprung from the deep
consciousness Of modern Germany, and ut
tiers the longings, thoughts and aspirations
of the German heart in a way that no
other modern book has done" The present
version is the first translation into the Eng
fish language.
PRACTICAL DIETETICS, with Refer
ence to Diet in Disease. By Aida
Frances Pattee. Third edition. New
York: A F. Pattee.
Miss Pattee Is a special lecturer at Belle
vue. Mount Sinai and the Hahnemann
training schools for nurses, New York city,
and was formerly instructor in dietetics at
the Bellevue training school, In the course
of her work she has found the need of
text book or guide, and the volume in hand,
now in its third edition, is the result of her
studies. 1t treats of the preparation of
proper food for the sick and conyalescent
giving in detail the method Of preparing
and administering liquid, semi-liquid and
solid food. 1t also gives the diet lists and
suggests what to avoid in various ailments
outlining the proper diet for infants and
children, as advised by leading physicians
II serves the physician as a reference book
on diet; the student in that it touches upon
matters not discussed in the class room.
me nurse, as a hand bag equipment, to be
affording reliable guide to the correct
dieting of the ill and the convalescent-
Miss Pattee has proceeded on the theory
that the preparation of food is a science as
we'll as an art, the chemistry of which is
as precise as the chemistry of the labora-
tory.
SPECIMEN LETTERS; Selected and
edited by Albert s. Cook, professor
or the English language and litera-
ture in Yale University and Allen
r. Benham, fellow in English of Yale
University. Boston: CHM & Co.
Pupils in schools and students in college
are taught description. narration and even
augmentation. few of them will have
occasion to describe, to narrate or to argue
but all of them will have occasion to write
letters Yet beyond the formulas for begin
ming and closing letter. little is contained
In the ordinary text books on rhetoric to
aid the beginner, and there have hitherto
been no available collections of models.
The present book is a selection of familiar
and entertaining letters by a number of
writers and In variety of STYLES. Here
the novice can see how even trivial mat
ters are invested with grace and charm
ana perhaps learn to initiate the care and
i., LUZ aiIesS OF the masters of epistolary
style. Both the eighteenth and nineteenth
centuries have been laid under contribution
anu several recent memoirs have enriched
the collection. Although designed chiefly
with reference to school and college use 4
VIII repay even frequent perusal by the
general reader ~ ~--S
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-06
DIR. GRENFELL's PARISH, The Deem


Sea Fishermen. BY Normal Duncan.
author Of DIR. Luke of the Labra,
dor" New York; Fleming H. Reveu
Company.
DIR. Wilfred T. Grenfell is the young En-
glishman who, for the love of God practices
medicine on the coasts of Newfoundland
and Labrador" Thus does Mr. Duncan in
troduce his hero, the greater hero, be 1t
known, for the fact that he is an actual
personality, man of today, and not a
character in fiction. This young English
man is an adventurer in the field of philan-
thropy. He has undertaken a work which
has no exact parallel. a work of infinite toll
and danger and little remuneration, practi-
cally none at all, calling, indeed, for GEN
erous help from the world beyond the
world where people sleep safely in their
beds and walk the solid earth and go about
their tasks of life in security, not knowing
of the perils braved by hundreds that they
may have food The deep sea fishermen of
the Newfoundland and Labrador coasts are
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-06

AFTER THE DIVORCE; Romance.
BY Grazia Deledda. Translated from
the Italian by Maria Hornor Lans-
dale New York: Henry Holt & CO.
Washington: William Ballantyne &
Sons.
This tale OF Sandman peasant life re-
veals a picture of sordid passion. cruelty,
superstition, revenge and tragedy. 1t turns
upon an Italian law which permits the wife
OF a man convicted OF a crime to secure a
divorce, despite the prohibitions of the
the church. Constantine, a young husband,
Is unjustly convicted of numbering his I'M
Gle. His wife is distraught with explosive
grief. but in the course of year or SO she
is persuaded by her mother, a shrewish,
ambitious woman without sympathy, to
seek legal separation Her child has died
and her husbands sentence Is for twenty
seven years. She marries n former lover,
son of a comparatively wealthy house,
whose mother is a miser. The young wo-
finds herself in torments. Later the
real murderer confesses and Giovanni is
faced with the predicament of two living
husbands. one In law and one In truth of
her real sentiments. The climax is highly
dramatic.
The squalor, sordidness and suffering of
the peasants of Sardinia are graphically
works have begun to attract attention in
Italy. She has unmistakable power which
is not lost IN the translation. Her book
teens with striking characters, men and
women highly emotional people, aughing
hilariously at questionable jests, feeding
their remnants of pagan faith upon secret
practices OF exorcism, Quarreling over the
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-07-15
ROOSEVELT WILL
KEEP HANDS OFF
President Will Not Try to Name
His Successor in White
House.
New York Sun Special Service.

New York Sun Special Service.
Chicago, July 15.-Walter Wellman,
in New York special to the Record
Herald, says, in part:
President Roosevelt will not make the
slightest effort to name his successor
in the White House. He will leave the
| choice Of the next republican candidate
for president wholly to the party. All
talk that Mr.. Roosevelt will try to
make Taft or Root president in 1908
| is beside the mark. For this statement
I have the highest possible authority
that Of President Roosevelt himself.
With a friend who called on him at
Sycamore Hill a few days ago. Presi-
dent Roosevelt discussed what he
termed the absurd rumors that he was
planning to make Taft or Root his sue
cessor. One day the newspaper Cos
sipers were sure Secretary Taft was
the chosen one. The next day, when
they learned Elihu Root was to be the
new secretary Of state, they switched
over to Root and declared he was to
] be the Roosevelt candidate for 1908
Some papers even went so far as to
assert that one Of the conditions OF
Mr.. Root s accepting of the secretary
ship of state was that he was to have
Mr.. Roosevelt's support for the presi
dency.
The president laughed at these ru
everyone who knew him would know
that he was incapable of trying to die
tate to the republican party whom il
4 should name for his successor. So fal
4 as the 1908 man is concerned, it is ar
open field. Mr.. Roosevelt will keep hi
! hands off.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-07-15
KING OF THE BELGIANS
AND MORGAN CHUMMY
New York Sun Special Service.

London, July Isl. Pierpont Nor
gan and the king Of Belgium have had
a six-hour interview at Dover, discuss
ing big scheme on the Congo under
which a Morgan syndicate is to get a
lease of hundred miles of frontage
on that river for development and trad
ing. King Leopold and Mr.. Morgan
met on the station platform and they
greeted each other most cordially, each
raising his hat and giving hearty hand
shakes. Then they went aboard the
kings yacht.
King Leopold had two high Congo
officials with him. The conference was
carried on under an awning on deck.
The king and Mr.. Morgan could be seen
walking up and down the deck for
long periods in deep converse.
It is believed the king is anxious to
interest Americans in his Congo en-
terprises in the hope of disarming the
persistent British criticism of the way
the undertaking is conducted.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-07-15
6 MONTHS IN JAIL
FOR A FILTRATION
Washer Is Sentenced to Cell on
Testimony of Married
Woman,

New York, July .15.-A six-months
sentence to prison for a passing street
filtration with married woman was i'm
posed on Benjamin F. Smith, who came
here from ST. Louis, by Magistrate
Steinert today.
?. Late last evening, Mrs. Grace M.
Gamble, who is handsome and dresses
stylishly, was waiting for her husband,
a Brooklyn business man, at the Madi.
son avenue and Forty-second street en-.
trance subway entrance. Smith was
passing and spoke to her; Mrs. Gam
face and caused his arrest.
In court today, altho Mrs. Gamble
herself requested clemency to the pris
oner, the magistrate imposed sentence
and at the same time invited other won
en- who suffer from "mashers,' to act
| as did Mrs. Gamble.