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 social scale, in education. in refine ment is an interesting study. Young Cynthia's love for young Wortning- ton is not very enthralling to the reader. A glimpse of each other every four or five years. no persistent. little wooing except when chance actually forces them within speaking distance Is all until Worthington by merest ac- cident hears of Cynthia being the wri- ter in Boston while he is at Howard. After a second call upon her at the home of her friends proposal Cyn- thia confess her love, it has cer- tainly sprung ard fiourished with It, tie culture from her lover but sees with an eye which is no less than prophetit at that stage of the book that father worthington will forbid tho banns. It Is well that he does else the cause of this otherwise un- eyentful love would have run all too smoothly
 But the stern father comes in to give the needed jostle to young loves career. and all Je1tro's devotion to his adopted child is needed to bring things to a happy issue.
 MT. Churchill is not much of ma ker of lovers or lovers talk. No score of his would give place in garland of Best Love Scenes of Literature.
 The memories of old love bring more eloquence to his pen. The pages where Wetterall, young Cynthias father, tells Jeltro that his wife ever loved Jeltro. the crude lover of her youth, is far tenderer and stronger than the tell ing of the experides of the young loy- CTS, 4
 The "Woodchuck Session" is well told thing. Wetherell's unconscious part in that serio-comedy and its con sequences is quite the best of the book. Mir. Churchill talks to the dear read CT" in quite cosy, old fashioned way. begs him to continue to read, promises better things all along, (and verify will fulfill these promises) gives out limits and hopes of other books to fol- low in other years with perhaps some of the same characteristics in them. if we are enough attached to them to send to meet them again, and much more to this effect. The "Afterward' tn the world will probably be read with deepest interest by those who support and those who oppose eff there are any such.) Mir Churchill's present politi- cal aspirations. coniston is an impor- tant American rural sure to attest and hold full share of attention There are hundred instances where one might draw comparison between the iAe OA Llc SO1blOn OA O0A country, its costumes, people, charac- ters, characteristics and that of our Southern section. but we forbear. IT the novelist of each section depicts tru- ca nmake for itself the comparison.
 Rahab, A Drama, by Richard Burton Dr. Burton has put into poetry the old story of Rahab, of the two Israelites hV InSbn9 fO tha land of the Cannanites, of the stalks of flax on the roof. the scarlet thread tied to the widow of the house on Jerichos walls. The verse is flowing and grace full and the readings pleasing. But the poem does not embody the strength and spirit of the old story.
 The graceful, beauteous, dreamful, idyllic girl of the poem with her mar ble balls and luxurious surroundings does not fit the idea of Rahab of the house on the wall with only her good heart to commend her as we find her in the Book of Joshua. T have show ed you a kindness that he will also shew kindness into my fathers house, And that he will save alone my father, and my mother, and my breth- ren. and my sisters, and all that they have, and deliver our lives from death :"
 She who hid the spies unto stalks Of flax and herself let them down over the wall by the rope of scarlet seems made of sterner stuff than the delicate maiden to whom the gay goulters of Jericho sing thus:
 "Rahab is queen of love; her dress
 Betrays the beauty claspt within; Her mouth Is made for tenderness.
 Men lose their souls her grace to
 win:
 She stands like a pomegranate tree, Straight. beautiful, and proud to see
 Solomon the Prince of Israel sent to learn of the strength of Jericho falls instantly in love with this Rahab oe modern verse and presents her with a graven pearl "a wondrous word there on; Kismet
 The Israelites are sent to the roof and hide themselves under the stalks of flax while Rahab commands her maid to hang the scarlet cord from the window on the wall so that the spies may make their escape. Solomon de- parts with. Dear, we shall meet again, beneath the expresses, under the stars" Though the conception of the charac' ters is far fetched and unsatisfying there are beautiful pieces of word painting abrunding in tha power A love of Nature, an appreciation of her loveliness In all words is richly laid along the lines:
 Such weather should be sung
 To sound of lutes.'
 The drama ends with Solomon of Is rael victorious in the house Of Rahah where she has with mighty efort, sort deceit, and perfect love gathered her kn. Thus the two lovers in the dih of war
 Lucy of the stars, by Frederick Pal nter; A story of the lives and lovers Of fcuI young people, two fine men, one an American in public life, the other an English Earl and two girls. an Amer | ican of beauty and wealth, ana Lucy of the Stars" of German and Frencn ancestry and a home in London. It is difficult to compare these twt ] heroines, so different are they and ye' both so Iovable. Lucy with her strong | loving nature, her dainty manners brilliant repartee and NeVer-cafe songs, is irresistible. A quotation suatched from the book by the author and placed on the fly-leaf' sounds the keynote of the character of Lucy; "1e' you would bring something whlct kings cannot confer, or milllonalre buy. that little something in the na | ture which is lovable, that little some thing in the mind-found only Tn wo mans mind-which Is the gFeateS charm of the universe"
 | Geraldine, the American girl, Is | str,ro t,-ra of har country woman