New-York tribune., 1906-06-11

an expose of the traffic in human beings still
carried on in Portuguese Africa has had
lively and varied career. After a few years S
land surveyor he became war correspondent
and volunteer in the between Greece and
Turkey in 1897. The following year he was sent
by his paper, The London Daily Chronicle to
watch the various movements in Spain during
the Spanish-American War. where he is said to
have discovered the hiding place of the finest
Spanish battIeship-"so splendid a vessel that
the Spanish government refused to use her dur
ing the for fear she might be DANA ged!'
In 1899 he was shut up in the siege of Lady
smith for four months, and afterward accom-
panied Lord Roberts's column on the march to
Pretoria. Later he with Lord Kitcheners
army and witnessed the conclusion of the peace.
afterward riding through the length and breadth
of the devastated republic. In 1908 he was sent
on special mission for the relief of the Mace
DOMAIN peasants, and in the next year he under
took the expedition 10 Central Africa which
forms the subject of "A Modern Slavery On
returning from the equator he went to Russia,
and present during all the fighting at the
Moscow barricades last winter
The disciples of Izaak Walton have happy
faculty Of making entertaining reading out OF
the least of incidents occurring in the pleasant
pursuit of their avocation. There is
doubted charm 10 the reader, provided he is a
devotee Of the gentle craft. in accompanying the
Mterarily inclined angler on his brookside ex-
peditions, in rejoicing in the successes and in
sympathizing with the disappointments that
constitute the proverbial luck" of the fisher
man, in following the discursive reflections
which the Turing Of the fnny tribe appears in
evitably to provoke. Thus there is in Mr.. E.
Marston's little book. Fishing for Pleasure and
Catching It" 1T. Werner Laurie London). moth
ing Of more importance than record Of the
quiet vacation days of veteran publisher spent
in often unrewarded angling amid English rural
scenes. When the weather Is propitious he tells
of his excursions and companions. his advent
his lack Of them, and when a stormy
day intervenes he tells Of the book that he has
read or recalls some incident Of bygone days.
The personal note is predominant. and the effect
produced is Of a socable evening by the CHM
neyside after days fishing, listening TO the idle
observations Of agreeable comrade. The vol
ume is abundantly illustrated and contains two
chapters on Angling in North Wales by r. B.
Marston.
Among the English towns appearing under
various disguses in Thomas Hardy's novels
Weymouth. or Bydmouth it is called in the
wessex novels. figures more frequently perhaps
than any other place with the exception of Cas-
terbridge King George ILL., as is recalled in
Bertram c. A Windle's The Wessex of Thomas
Hardy" recently issued by John Lane Company.
made Weymouth a fashionable resort, a favor
that was repaid at his Jubilee by the erection of
one of the most inartistic statues produced.
The King made his visits in house on the
esplanade which is now the Gloucester Hotel.
and used often 10 honor with his presence the
balls and assemblies which held at the old
RovaI Hotel Some quaint rules governed these
entertainments II was stipulated. for example,
that gentlemen were not 10 appear in the rooms
on either Tuesday Friday evening In boots.
nor ladies in riding habits; that gentlemen would
he nleased 10 leave their swords at the door. and
maj no lady or gentleman could be permitted TO
dance in colOred gloves.
Under the general title of The Grafton His
torical Series" the Grafton Press purposes TO
hiring out a number of historical. genealogical
and biographical works. together with copies OF
ancient records and other documents of his
torical interest TO Americans The editor OF the
series Is Dr. Henry r. Stiles, A. NJ. author OF
..Tbe History of Ancient Wethersf1eld, Conn,
and for many years president of the New YORK
Genealogical and Biographical Society The FIRST
volume lust issued. is Charles Burr Todds In /
OIdc Connecticut" a combination or fact ana
story The next volume will be "Historic had-
lev" by Alice Moorehouse Walker. or Amherst.
Mass.