The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-06-08

how long the patient has been III or what
her age q DO she will surely recover
under proper treatment.
1t Is interesting 10 learn from this pro-
fessor Of nervous and mental diseases that
while an occasional visit to the theatre is
beneficial going to church almost always
makes a nervous person worse.
Mrs. Kenneth Brown, who was Miss Deme-
ira vaka, a Greek, has written a novel Of
| Greek and Turkish life that Ia unusual In
plot and character, for few people with
the writer's knowledge Of the inside life of
Greece and Turkey have her command Of
English. Before her marriage Mrs. Kenneth
| Brown was q teacher Of French In a fash
ionable New York boarding school. She is
now living on her husbands estate in
Virginia.
The first instalment OF Mary Stewart
Cuttings Talks to Wives will appear in
the July Hdrper's Bdsdr and is addressed
ato the wives of close men, Mrs. Cut
| ting is inclined to blame the woman herself
for the very trying vocation Of being the
wife Of the CLOSE man. Either the wife
herself or the mother before her or both Of
them have managed the man badly. The
| mother has failed to teach him consideration,
the wife is too apologize in her request for
what rightfully belongs to her, too irritating
In her recriminations when her request
provokes argument. Il have yet to see
the man who feels more amiable and
thoughtful and unselffsh after he has been
rammed into a corner and confronted with
his faults" writes Mrs. Cutting. Her cure
for the chickering's that destroy the peace of
many homes is to put sentiment out of the
way, sidetrack feelings and establish a
business basis for the household by giving
the wife a suitable allowance and a check
book Of her own and not having any dis
cussion about the small expenses of the
family with the man, whether CLOSE or
generous.
M. Jean Jaures, the author of Studies
In Socialism, Is one of the most rabid
socialists in Europe. His personal organ
published in Paris, L'Humdnitf, contains an
article a day signed by him. NJ. Jaures has
been twice professor of philosophy at
Toulouse, and he is a member of the Cham
Der of Deputies, a p~olitical. leaderand orator.
During an interval of four years in his
parliamentary career he wrote a history
OF the French Revolution based upon care
full study of original documents. The COL
lection Of his writings which appears under
the title of Studies in Socialism" wa made
by Miss Mildred Minturn, who lis the trans
lator Of the book.
There is in every life, according to the
author Of THE Secret Life, some secret
garden where one unblnds the girdle of
conventions and breathes to a sympathetic
listener opinions one would repudiate
upon the housetops. Lacking a kindred
soul, one naturally resorts to the pages OF
a diary, and from its revelations has beer
made up the new work OF essays. The
subjects Of these essays are THE Modern
Woman and Marriage THE Ideal Hus-
band Amateur Saints DO.
The late Nora Hopper wrote several
volumes of verse and prose strongly i'm
bued with Celtic sentiment, She was not
an Irish woman, however, and had never
lived in Ireland. She was the daughter
OF an English army officer, and in 1901 mar
ried Wilfrid Hugh Chesson. Among her
books are "Under Quicken Boughs' and
Ballads in Prose"
Among the English towns appearing
In Thomas Hardy's novels Weymouth,
or Budmouth. as it is called in the Wessex