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A Feminine Robin Hood.

"Marcelle the Mad" was a very san and
engaging young girl Robin Hood who led
a band of m%alcontents in the Forest of
A.rdennes in the days when Louis the Elev-
enth reigned in France. This coterie of
outlaws we're called the Companions of
the Green Tent" and they ranged over the
hills about Dinant making things dangerous
and unpleasant for all followers of the
House Of Burgundy until on a certain day
among the spoils they gathered in the
brave and gallant Sieur d'Orson and Mar
oelle the warrior discovered that she was
only a woman and desperately in love.
The action of the book is swift and pict-
uresque. the whole period of the story
covering but a few weeks. 1t resounds
with the trampling of steeds and the din of
arms. the thunder of conflict and the gentle
harmonies of romance. In short 1t is much
like the usual tale of its kind, clustering
chronicles of deeds of prowess, treachery
of villains. the planting of banners and a
general fuss and furry to pair Of two sets
of lovers to their liking at the end of the
fray. The hook is writ ter by Seth Cook
Comstock and published by the Appletons.
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New Editions.

Admirers of Mr.. George Bernard Shaw and
those merely curious about him will be
able to procure part of his work in Plays,
Pleasant and Unpleasant" We volumes
(~Brentano'sl. Some of these have been
performed with great success Of late;
one has been even more successfully pro-
hibited. The very latest are not included,
for this is practically the edition published
eight years ago in Chicago. The intro
auctions added are not an improvement
and might arouse comment from the author.
So many second rate detective tales
have been accepted by the public that it
has seemed worth while to reprint some
OF the older stories. THE Circular Study"
by Anna Katharine Green, appears in a new
edition (R. F. Fenno and Company.
The stories Of Mr.. E. Phillips Oppenheim
have improved steadily in construction
and in style. He handles adventure best
where he is not restricted by facts and
manufactures his own history and geog-
raphy. To present his books in uniform
shape, we infer. Little, Brown and Company
publish new editions of "A Millionaire of
Yesterday, " which deals in part with Africa,
and The Man and His Kingdom" where
the scene Ia mythical South America,
TIL handsome library edition Of The
Works of Maurice Hewlett" published by
the MacnillaIs, nears completion, Volume
VIII. contains the picturesque romance
that appeared not 90 long ago, The Fool
Errant." As in the case of the other works
of fiction, illustrations are wisely esohewed,
the beautiful typography giving dignity
to the volume,
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Rocks Received.

THE Gho st IN Hamlet and Other Essays" Msu.
rice Francis Egan, "a. c. McClurg and Company
Chicago
CAppletons)
* Woman OF the Ice Age" L, p. Gratacap,
(Brentano'sl
old Tales From Rome" Alice zimmern, "A,
c.. McClurg and Company
The United States Register and Stud Book for
Cats" Mabel Cornish Bond. United States or.
rcisl Register Association, Tashington)
Hawaiian Yesterdays" Henry NJ. Lyman,
NJ. "a. c. McClurg and Company
Ten Thousand Miles in a Yacht" Richard Ar.
thur. If. p. button and Company
I'm Praise Of Books" H, Swan, George Rout.
ledge and Sons. E. P. Dutton and Company
I'm Sonnenstht elm" Theodor Storm, edited by
G. L. Swiggett, american Book Company
Les Entants du Capitaine Grant" Jules Verne
edited by Edith Healy american Book Company
Wilhelm Tell" Friedrich Schiller. edited by
Edwin Carl Rordder, Phi d, american Book Com
panyl
THE Dynamics Of Living Matter" jacques
Loeb. THE Columbia University Press; Macmll
lansl
composition Rhetoric" Stratton D. Brooks
and Marietta Hubbard. american Book Com
panyl
can Book Company
The Golden Fleece" James Baldwin. Amer-
can Book Company
"LysIas. Selected Speeches. Edited by Charles
Darwin Adams. Ph. y. american Book Company
Mine Choice Poems" James Baldwin. american
Book Company
Ia Poudre aux Yeu1." Labiche ct Martin.
edited by Victor E.. Francois. tAmerican Book
Company
"a Manual Of American Literature" James B..
SMILEY. american Book Company
The Fading o! the Mayhower." Theodore Tilton-
"a. y. Marquis and Company, Chicago
III Youth But Knew" Agnes and Egerton Castle.
Macmillansl
The Heart OF the Railroad Problem" Prof.
Frank Parsons. Phi, D. dAttle, Brown and Com
panyl
The Lucky Piece" Albert Bigelow Paine.
The outing publishing Company. New York;
The Princess Olga" Erwin Wardman. lHar.
pcrsl
Pigs Is Figs" Ellis Parker Butler Mcclure.
Phillips and Company
"Wayside Tails" Charles Wagner. Mcclure.
Phillips and Company
The Lady of the Decoration" Frances Little.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-04-14
Another John Henry Book.

The latest John Henry" book is called
~sSkiddoo," and like its predecessors it is
a triumph of manner. " a model Of style.
John Henry is a philologist as well as a
philosopher, andhis vocabulary is enriched
with a'variety of expressions unknown to
the mass of mankind That the author
doesn't fit out his volumes with a glossary
and foot notes that would make them in
telligible is due to his kind heart and polite
manners. He shrinks from insinuating
that he possesses knowledge unfamiliar
to the average reader by expl aiming
things that every simple Bowery boy
knows.
There are people who thirk there isn't
anything in the John Henry books; there are
people who can't ma ke much out Of Chaucer.
1t is all their own fault. If any ore doubts
that the John Henry books do not belong
to great literature let him read John Henry's
humble confession. modostly ST forth in
the preface Of the sale of $4,000 Of his books
ard that his is IL per cont. of the gross. '
Did Chaucer ever rca lie anything like that
The style Of the hooks is h ST described
by John Henry Understanding like
Sanscrit only Sian gior." He di1n't say
this of himself, but of the langua &c of the
Jersey mosquito-another evidence of his
subtle modesty.
The new book deals with Upper Berths,
Cooks" Mosquitoes. " &c, all topics OF
vital interest and treated with John Henry's
usual skill and dignity. Some people think
it is funny, but they are light minded
trifers. The book is published by the G. W
Dillin CHAN Company.
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HOW d. & o. HELD coal TRADE.
Owned the Mines. the Railroad and the
Distributing Agencies.

BALTIMORE, April $50 then" asked
Attorney William A. Glasgow of the Inter-
state Commerce Commission, of Arthur
Hale, general superintendent of transporta-
ton of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad,
at the end of a long series of questions,
the coal is taken out of the mines by a
company owned by the Baltimore and Ohio,
Il Is transported over a railroad owned by
the Baltimore and Ohio, and it ia distributed
to retailers by companies in which the
Baltimore and Ohio Is interested, either
by direct ownership oil indirect stock owner
ship or other control?"
Il would not challenge that statement
answer ed Mr.. Hale.
This was the chief point brought out at
10 days session of the Interstate Com
rnerce Commission in its investigation of the
Baltimore and Ohio interests in the coal
business.
General Manager W. W. Atterbury and
Vfoe-President Thayer, Mr.. Taylor, Robert
Pitcairn and Second Vice-President Joseph
Wood Of the Pennsylvania Railroad were
other officials who had held stock in one or
more of these companies.
Capt. Alfred Hicks of Pittsburg, president
or treasurer Of a number of coal companies
ON a division Of the Pennsylvania, testified
that he had paid dividends to these gentle
men at intervals, as much as he thought
proper. we didn't have a very thorough
system Of bookkeeping" he said,
aDid these people pay anything for their
Stock?' was asked.
sSome Of them" said Capt. Hicks. He also
oaid that he was in the habit of giving cigars
to the division superintendents Of the Penn
gylvania Railroad or presents to their wives
ground Christmas time. Some Of the stock
Of the wives and daughters of the men
ment0nad-
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-04-14
Mr.. W1ster Goes South.

A very pleasant book that must be read
as leisurely as it is told is Mr.. Owen Wister's
Lady Baltimore" Macmillane,. In it's
dilatory rambling 1t seems to have taken
the "Autocrat at the Breakfast Table" for
its model, and in its digresaions allows the
author to comment on all manner of sub
iects the negro, the new South, the manners
of society, women's clubs, New York news
papers, and 30 on. This is his hit at the
Ercrinq Post, for instance: ITS partially
tonguetied, a sad victim Of its own ex-
cesses. Habitual ove%r-indulgence in blam-
ing has given it a painful stutter when
attempting praise; it's the sprucely written
sheet of the supercilious; it's the after
dinner pill of the American who prefers
Europe; it's our Republics common scold,
the Xantippe of journalism, the paper
without a country"
As he placidly drifts through his South
Carolina love tale, Mr.. Wister introduces as
to many delightful old ladies and to one very
nice young one. 1t is likely that he will
meet the fate Of Mr.. Cable with his charming
Louisiana stories. The women will resent
the intrusion on their privacy and will
brand his account as false. To Northern
readers, however, their gentleness, their
refinement, their brightness and loneliness
are extremely attra ctive.
1t is a pretty middleaged young man of
twenty-eight that tells the tale. Even in
Philadelphia, we imagine, young blood is
not so contemplative at that age and does
not moralize like a clubman Of forty. The
contrast between the refinement of the
generation that is disa ppearing and the
whirl of the modern fast set is perhaps
too violent; it is difficult to understand
how any One can share in both. Even the
vulgar rich are hardly as bad as they are
painted here, and the self-centred young
woman belongs to melodrama rather than
to real life.
Mr.. Wister's story makes very pleasant
reading all the same. His descriptions are
helped out by the pretty pictures in the
text, and the reader can derive from it only
a favorable impression Of South Carolina
and it's women. The title Of the book is
unfortunately misleading.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-04-14
Annfher BYRON Story.

Still. another Byron story is added to
the list ba sed upon the poets mour
in Lafayette McLaw's Maid Of Athens
Oittle, Brown and Company. This is
no deliberately constructed and subtle
romance in which personal es are disguised
under unfamiliar titles and readers are
left guessing as to original identities. 1t
is an old ia shioned romance. dea ling with
Byron's love for Thyrsa, the Maid of
Athens" to whom he wrote the verses so
popular with a past generation.
The episodes of the poets life have been
carefully selected and manipulated to
ma Ike him appear the heroic figure he
morbidly long5d to be-the lover Of noble
personality tcndt rress and passion, with a
daring disregard for dan ger and the loyalty
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NEW BOOKS.
Continued from sepenM Page.

earlier idealized inclination; the heroine
doubts her W feelings because the mis-
placed her al eotions before, There is
room here for much entertaining discussion
and keen observation, and in this Mrs
Wright is at her best.
In following up the love story she holds
to her plot more closely than usual and the
college part falls into the background
This il somewhat Of a disappointment, for
the types we're sketched 20 vigorously that
we hoped to have a picture of one peculiar
form of American life. The figures stand
out so that they are easily recognizable
but the author has 40 skilfully blurred her
composites Of places and persons that no
body can pick any one out as a portrait, mat
makes us regret the more that she did not
continue. with the college life, the struggles
and the intrigues. but turned to an episode
that would nav been as good in another
setting. Two thinge stand out with cruel
Tvidness. the merciless trafficking in men
Of the business president, and the hope
less struggle for e~ustenance OF the pro-
lessor with inadequate salary.
There are many young people brought
in, for some indefinite purpose, and all OF
these are ~entangled in love ecrapes. 1t
would never do to generaiize from these
as to the amativeness of college communi-
ties. We regret that Mrs. Wright should
be obliged. to describe, as have other care
full observers, the lack of good manners
in the Younger generation, One young
person, an enfdnt terrible. whose aim it is
TO fy in the face Of all the proprieties, is
even more remarkable for her rudeness
But she, with her companions, young and
old. is cast aside as the chief love affair
progresses.
The charm of the story is in the wayitis
told. There is sentiment, there are many
vivid descriptions of scenery and of nature,
there is a great deal Of quiet fun. Pervad-
ing all is the memory Of a deceased literary
humbug. He is merely a type of other
humbugs. scientific and academic, but it
is difficult in reading about him not to think
| of The Simple Life" There are hits that
college people will appreciate, and much
more humor that q wider public will relish.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-04-14
The Story of a Remarkable Young Woman.

"Judith-A story of the Candlo-lit Fifties,'
by Grace Alexander, is just about the kind
of tale people of that period who had plenty
of time to waste over books that were
neither entertaining nor we'll written would
have enjoyed. judith" is the ideal hero
inc for maiden ladies' with no experiences
Of life nor Discrimination regarding prob
abilities to en- joy weeping over.
OF courss Judith was motherless and
beautiful. She was further distin guished
by a Paris education and reduced circum-
stances. She returns TO her native town
to wed the stupid farmer boy she was en-
gagged to in her childhood. She heroica lily
goesto the altar with him to make him happy,
but firmly refuses to carry out the contract
by living with him as his wife. Noble girl!
The husband promptly has some kind of
"a stroke and lives on to give Judith further
opportunity to show how noble she is by
her devotion TO him during illness, and then
dies in time 10 low his young wife to we'd
the Methodist parson she has loved all the
time. If ever a girl had a star part it is
Judith, but it is an arduous one, and per-
haps she deserves the glorious reward of
marrying the ira Yelling parson at the
| finish. II is a tale of vigorous morality,
but it does seem a great waste Of a Paris
education. The book is published by the
Bobbs- Merrill Company.
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Mr.. Lloyd's Rural Friends.

When Mr.. Nelson Lloyd deals with Penn
~sylvania rustics he is master Of his subject.
In the sixteen stories that make up Six
Stars" Charles Soribner's Sons there is a
good deal Of fun and humor, there is senti-
ment at times, and there is always close
observation Of nature, human and other
wise. Some Of the stories are little more
than sketches, but in them all Mr.. Lloyd's
touch is light. Artistically it seems the
best work he has done,
The temptation to use dialect is great
but Mr.. Lloyd restraints himself pretty
we'll till the end. There is more boisterous
fun in the latter dialect tales than in the
others. The stories are entertaining, and
mark besides a bit Of American life that is
disappearing.
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WHAT Ais MONTCLAIR?
Pastor Lucas Surprised al One Thing-Are
the Young Wen RackMardo

MoNToLAIR, n. j., April 13.-The Rev.
DR.. Abner H. Lucas will perform his first
wedding in Montclair on Wednesday next.
He is pastor of the First Methodist Church,
where he has been for over a year, and
although he has been a guest at severa
weddings he has never off ciated at one in
the Orange mountain town. Before going
to Montclair Dr.. Lucas says he avera ged
from fifty to a hundred weddings a year
both in Albany and in P%ittsburg. A short
time ago Health Inspector Chester N.
Wells wrote a note to DR.. Lucas. stating
that the law required every wedding to be
recorded with the Secretary of Vital Statis-
tics within sixty days, and requesting that
he submit the record of those he had per
formed.
In reply DR.. Lucas sail that before going
to Montclsir he had often hear of S beauty,
its healthfulness n its other good quail
ties, but that he did not expect 10 find it so
nearly resembling heaven, "for here" the
doctor continued, there is neither marry
ing nor giving In marriage"
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-04-14
FOR FIRE ALARMS,
o MNIsSONER OERIEN ASKSTHE
MAYOR FOR TIE MONEY.
says Our Present system Is Out Of Date and
Refers to the Report OF the Committee
OF the Underwriters Who Investigated
the Matter and Favored a Change.

Fire Commissioner O'Brien sent the
following letter to the MAJOR Yesterday:
The fire alarm telegraph system in the
Borough Of Manhattan has been IN operation
for a long period Of time, and for several
years past It's enlCiencr and hdaptabhity TO
the present requirements Of this great sec
ton of the municipality have at recurring
intervals been the subject Of discussion in
the public prints. Indeed. il is but reason
able to assume. in vi"w oi the great progress
that has been mode in elcctricGi science since
the introduction OF the system, that II might
be materially improved with resulting ad-
vantag &c 70 the public.
My predecessor in office. as the result OF a
preliminary inquiry made b. him into the
subject. became satisfied that there was CON
siderable room for improvement, hut that TO
arrive at the actual state Of affairs would
necessitate an exhaustive and costly inves-
tigation by qualified experts in this line OF
work, and therefor" when II was proposed
by the New York Board If Fire Underwriters.
which naturally was deeply Interested In the
matter, that such an inquiry should be con-
Quoted by that body at its own expense, he
accepted the proposition with tne approval
of his Honor the Mayor.
Mr.. Kempster r Miller was selected by
the underwriting authorities 10 conduct the
Investigation, in tho capacity Of electrical
engineer. with MIR John \ Cartv as con-
sulting engineer. and every facility was
Afforded them nv this department for the
successful prosecution Of their task
As a result Of thrir Investigation. extend
ing over a period Of several months. these
experts submitted a report on the subject.
in which they reached tho conclusion that
the total cost Of an adequate system OF fire
alarm telegraph protection for the Borough
of Manhattan would be- about 81 ,625 900.
exclusive of the ground for the central office.
for which no estimate WAS submitted
After giving to the matter careful con-
sideration, | have come 10 the conclusion
that the issue is OF such vital Importance
to the public welfare that immediate action
should be taken looking to the replacing
Of the present IRE alarm telegraph system
In the Borough OF Manhattan with a modern
and up to date system commensurate with
the requirements Of the situation
/ have therefore rho honor 10 request that
the Board of Estimate and Apportionment
authorize an issue of corporate stock to an
amount not exceeding 81 ,e25, 900, for the pur-
pose of esta blishing. building and %equipping
q fire alarm telegraph system for this depart
ment in the Borough of Manhattan, in &C.
oordance with the estimate made in the
abrid ged report Of the Committee on Fire
Alarm Service TO the New York Board Of Fire
Underwriters, bearing date September. NOS.
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The Scholars Daughter an Interesting Girl.

There is some disappointment and some
quiet pleasure in store for the discriminating
reader who takes up Beatrice Harraden's
THE Scholars Daughter" and compares
1t with Ships that Pass in the Night 1t
is a slender story, but it is not a minor
place one, although it lacks the pathos and
force that distinguished the earlier work.
Much allowance must be made for disre-
garded probabilities and condolences that
are theatrical rather than plausible. The
materials out Of which the plot is con-
structed are hin and threadbare in spots.
but the writer's style has a compelling
charm which condones these technical
shortcomings,
Never was there in fiction so quaint a
househol d as that in which the Scholars
Daughter grew to w~omanhood. 1t was a
mans house. From the stern scholar
soured by the unfaithfulness of his young
wife to the rugged old coast guardsman,
who acted as parlor maid, only men lived
in the ancient mansion with its yew hedges,
ladies' plaisance and famous panelled
library. There were the three Book
worms" who toiled year after year at the
Scholars Dictionary, there was Daddy
Durham" the Scholars friend; Christian,
the cook, who learned his trade on a Nor
wegian ship, and one eyed Tom" the
~ex-soidier all adoring Geraldine, the
Scholars Daughter, and spelling her with
royal enthusiasm.
Geraldine was blithe and bonny. she
badgered and bothered the Bookworms.
She refused to be educated and help on
with the great work Of the dictionaries.
She melted up her college medal and had
il made int a bangle. She surrendered I'M
oonditionally and with undecorous haste
TO the first suitor that appeared, The life
of these quaint, quiet people is delight
fully pictured with tenderness and humor
and charm. The entrance Of the breezy
young man from the Bush is well managed,
and Geraldine's. swift capitulation is we'll
handled. The theatrical appearance Of the
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-04-14
ALDERMEN G00D SPENDERs.
They've Already authorized Three'fOurths
Of the Revenue Bnnds FOR the Year.

They've AireaGy authorized Three'fOurths
Of the Revenue Bonds Tor the Year.
Since January /, when the new Board Of
Aldermen came into office, issues Of special
revenue bonds to the amount Of more
thar 81 ,665, COO have been authorized. The
Charter permits only $1,000, 900 Of these
special revenue bonds to be issued in any
one year. Had tho Board Of Estimate
approved all the outlays there would be a
margin Of less than 100000 left for the
rest of the year. Issues of special revenue
bonds must be initiated by the Aldermen
A large part Of the bonds already au-
thorized are for salary increases. AS yet
the Board of Estimate has approved of only
about 90 per cent. of the bond issues ordered
by the Aldermen, but the Board of Estimate
is only awaiting reports from the Comp
troller before proceeding to make further
Endorsements.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-04-14

The Century Company
a Diplomatic Adventure" s. Weir Mitchell,
NJ. D, LII. n. THE Century Company
In the Days Of Scott" Tudor jerks. "A. S.
Barnes and Company
The Heart of a Rose" William Marabell. The
Klebold Press, New York;
The Personality Of Jesus" Charles H. Bar.
rows. CHoughton. Mifnin and Company
Between Two Masters Gamallel Bradford,
Jr. tHoughton. MifNln and Company
Modern Marriage Emile lola. translated by
Benz. r. Tucker. CBenJ. r. Tucker, New York.
Irrigation In the United States" Frederick
Haynes Newell. IT. Y. Crowell and Company
Medieval London, Vol. l." Sir Walter Besant
adam and Charles Black: Macmlllansl
Church Hymns and Tunes" Edited by the
Rev. Herbert y, Turner, d. D., and william F. Bid
die. tA.S. Barnes and Company
Main Currentstn Nineteenth Century Literature.
Vol VI. Young Germany" George Brandes. Mac
millansO
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-04-14
JURY judged HER SANE.
Justice Rurr Holds With sanltarlum Doctors
That She's Insane.

Supreme Court Justice Burr in Brook
Ign yesterday denied the writ of habeas
corpus applied for by Victor NJ. Osborn.
who seeks to secure the. release Of his wife,
Penelope Osborn, from a santa mum at Wal
demere. Mamaroneck, n. Y. Mrs. Osborn,
who owns considerable properly, was adj
tarium in April, 1901. In the latter part Of
last y,ar a Sherif's jury decided she was
sane and competent TO manage her prop
cry.
The officials OF the sanita rum, however,
contended that she was not sane, and her
husband therefore secured the writ. Mrs.
Osborn vas then hkJuNlt before Justice