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The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-12-21
Christina. Books.

mo previous SEASON. mas seen SuCn a
lavish and versatile display of that form
of literature specially designed for holi-
day purposes.
The shelves and counters of the book
sellers and the department stores fairly
bulge with reprints of old anthors-poets
and prose writers-illustrated with specific
reference to Yuletide.
Nor are the clever works OF the more
successful moderns ignored. The writer's
who have achieved popularity or fame in
the magazines, or who have at least sue
ceeded in making ar appeal to a definite
clientele. ere we'll represented in the ros-
ter of the books, booklets and cards that
demand attention from the man or the
woman whose taste leans toward gifts of
this nature as a fitting token of their
esteem or recollection at the season when
we all Try to make cur purses keep pace
with our generous instincts.
And, as a matter of simple common
sense, books offer an extremely accept
able solution of the annual dilemma. In
this day Of universal education and appre-
citation, there are few people who may not
be reached and pleased with the printed
word and the illustrated page.
Juvenile books, educative and of a purely
amusement nature, are to be found in a
sbewildering gamut Of character and gravity.
Reprints of the standard authors, hand
somely printed and illustrated, tempt the
buyer whose tastes may be of the more
prosaic, staid description.
Volumes OF poems running the range OF
the maudlin, love-sick moon-age to the
complete works of the singers who are Sc
cure in the estimation of posterity, are
present in an array that will adapt itself
to the slimmest purse OF the most exact
ing criterion.
Books, after all, make most satisfactory
Christmas reminders.
Among some of the Christmas offerings
are the following from Scribner's:
THE Fruit Of the Tree" by Edith
Wharton, illustrated by Alonzo Kimball.
days OF" by Henry Van Dyke; Illus
trated in color by r. e. S~choonover.
1.-The Romance of an O~ld-Fashioned
Gentleman" by f. Hopkinson Smith.
1.-The Novels and Stories Of Ivan Tur-
genieff,' translated from the Russian by
Isabel r. Hapgood.
'The Natural History Of the Ten Com
mandments," by Ernest Thompson Seton.
Camp Kits and Camp Life by Charles
Stedman Hanks, "Niblick."
THE Harrison Fisher Book" Nine full
page drawings in colors and eighty draw
ings in black and white. With an intro
duction by J. b. Darlington.
1.-THE Queens Museum" by Frank r..
Stockton, with ten full-page drawings in
colors and other drawings in black and
white by Frederick Richardson.
Poems of Childhood" by Eugene Field,
with eight f~ull-page drawings in colors by
Maxfield Parrish.
"A Child's Garden OF Verses" by Rob-
ert Louis Stevenson.
THE Congo and Coasts of Africa by
Richard Harding Davis: illustrated from
photographs by the author and Others.
Hymns of the Marshes" by Sidney
Lanier; Illustrated from nature by Henry
Troth.
Among the Offering by the Putnams are:
sCathedrals and Cioisters OF the South
Of France" Provence. L~anguedoc, Gas
cony. By Elise Whitlock Rose.
"Honore Daurnier.'' a collection of his
social and political ~caricatures, together
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-12-21

with an Introductory essay on his art.
BY Elizabeth Luther Cary.
Two new volumes OF Little Journeys"
BY Gilbert Hubbard.
Love Affairs of Literary Men, BY
Myrtle Reed.
In the catalogue of holiday books issued
by the Macmillan Company contains a list
of books for children. including such stories
as ''Redcoat Captain by Alfred Olivant,
and "Nina's Career" by Christina Gowans
Whyte, while the offering in poetry n
belles-lettres could not probably be
euualled by any other publishing house.
Among the portraits included in the cata-
logue are those OF Marion Crawford, Jack
London, James Lane Allen, Zona Gale,
William Stearns Davis, Percy MacKaye,
Walter Crane. Daniel @. Mason. and
Presidents Hadiey, of Yale, and Butler,
OF Columbia
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-12-21
Most popular Books.

AS indicated by the demand at the New
ark Free Public Library, the most popular
books OF the week are:
Fiction-"Arethusa," by f. Marion Craw-
ford; THE Shuttle" by Frances Hodgson
Burnett; THE Ancestors by Gertrude
Atherton; Money Magic" by Hamlin Gar
land; The Broken Road by Alfred E.
w. Mason; Love of Life" by Jack Lon
don.
Observation-Disclosures" by William
James; The Efficient Life" by Luther
H. Gulick; THE Boston Cooking School
Cook Book, F." by Fannie NJ. Farmer; BEAD
Work" by Mary White; English Compo-
sition," by Barnett Wendell; Worry, the
Disease of the Day. by%Dr. Caleb w.
Salaeby.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-12-21

No better fate, from a commercial point
OF view, could have been asked for Three
Weeks Elinor Gyms latest novel. than
the seal Of condemnation put upon 1t by
the Watch and Ward Society.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-12-21
Poems by WIN Carleton.

TN Old Schooldays." BY Will Carleton.
Illustrated by ]. Montgomery Flagg. Moi
fat, Yard & Co. New York.
One of the most attractive Of the sea
sons gift books, printed of heavy, highly
glazed paper, one stanzl on a page, sur
rounded by dainty scroll designs IN green.
1'he cover, of dark green linen, shows IN
the centre a reproduction of one Of tn:
Illustrations, which are dainty color draw
inss of real boys aud girls.
Nc aesthetic soul-yearnings hore, such
as the modern fashionable poet loves to
describe, but kindly memories Of the days
that were told simply in the old familiar
metre of al of Will Cartoons poems. Not
only his childhood, but yours and niue,
has the author put into the dainty jingles
that form the whole. A whole choir Of
recollec tions sings round you as you read.
so clearly do you see the funny little
%voungster who was once yourself.
A world of wisdom was shown in leaving
the girl who sat just on the seat ahead, y
unnamed. She was the maid OF your
dreams. as well as his. and he has made IL
easy for you to call her what you liked.
He says of her:
"The little maid,
Whose brown eyes 1urked in her blonde
hairs shade,
whose soul cISpI up IN neT SnapSly lldlus
AT things she could not understand.
20 little girl with the hair so soft.
o little girl with the yearning eyes
And rosebud mouth, I have prayed full oft
You might grow happy as you grew wise.
How little you knew what later you knew
Before the studies of life were through;
How many the tasks that would yet remain
To puzzle your heart as well as brain"
All through the book, in school and out,
runs the little girl that might have been
you, my feminine reader. You will remem-
Der how you scorned the boy you liked be-
cause you liked him, when you read the
lines:
"4Ah, little dame with the naughty air,
How ehary you were of every charm:
You let me walk with you here n there,
But hardly would touch my proffered
arm"
And:
'.once, just in the dream of a summer day,
A<boy sat musing a minute away,
stared at the world with eyes
thought-dim,
That hung on the wall and beckoned him
This lad who thirsted to win a name,
To scenes of luxury, pride and fame,
But he turned his back to the chart, in
stead,
His world was just OF the seat ahead,
With cheeks that Knocked at the roses
bloom,
And slim feet sandalled with leaf per-
fume."
The child who once was you will be very
near as you read:
"Last-day-of-school! When at last it came,
We all were glad-and we all were sad.
You know life never is the same
When anything goes that once was had.
20, glad. sad day. How many have heard
That long, significant, compound word,
Last-day-o'-school, and have not met
Some brooding shadows Of vain regret?'
A book to please adults as well as hill
dren; sure to receive a welcome from those
who have enjoyed the bumor and pathos
OF many OF the writer's earlier lines.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-12-21
Not Worrying Nnu-

Long-By the way. old man, you are
looking a hundred per cent. better than
you did this time last year. Are you
feeling good?
Short-YoI bet l am. A year ago I was
worrying about my debts.
Long-All paid now, eh?
Short-No, but they have increased un
TIL there is no use in trying to pay. so
I've cut out the Eorry.-ChIcago News.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-12-21
Literary Notes.

The sale of 1.-The Lady of the Decora-
ton" is still surprising its publishers. The
book was issued twenty months ago, but
the sale during the week ending Decem-
Der Z was 1900 copies. Edition after edi-
ton is being printed and two book
binderies are working on it night and day.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-12-21

stanza is an example-and an example Of
infelicity as well:
Lee and Randolph. Wise and Custis.
Homo we each ~well-known name.
Page and Nelson, Tyler, Ewell-
Theirs our love aud ours their fame.
Leave the faults that were but human
What we prize was tree from blame
One is inclined to believe that, with the
best of Intentions, the work could have
been done very much better by somebody
else.
Some pertinent words were spoken by
II. G. Wells at a recent dinner OF the
Institute of Journalists in London. lie
denied that any just distinction can be
made between literature and journalism.
except that the one claims immortality
and the other does not. Some books last
longer than Others he said. land some
topics last for centuries and centuries, but
| do not believe that any books last for
all time" To this extent agreement may
be had with Mr.. Wells-the value Of a
book cannot be Judged merely according
to the time it continues to be read. The
first appeal of every author must be to his
own generation. m a writer in the
London Daily News, and that generation
has as much right to judge whether he
Is worthy or unworthy as any succeeding
generation. If his contemporaries embrace
him and posterity ~denounces him that, he
may well say. is not because posterlty is
wiser, but because Il lacks just that
quality to which he appealed In his con-
t~emporaries. IL he has profoundly af-
fected one generation alone then he has
profoundly affected the history of the
race.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-12-21

Theodore Roosevelt contributes to the
January Scribner an account OF his recent
bear hunt I'm the Louisiana Canehrakes.''
Dr' Alexander Lambert, who accompanied
MIN, furnishes a series of photographs Of
the guides, the dogs and the canebrake.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-12-21
.9T1,e World ana the woman.v

The World and the Woman BY Ruth
lfimball Gardner a S. Barnes & Co,
New York.
Interesting and well told. but containing
much Tint might be eliminated without
detracting from the story. The writer, in
an attempt TO make Lindsey, the heroine,
worse than pretty-elusive, contradic-
tory" endows her with a character that
outside OF a book would be termed down
right deceitful.o She nbs to her mother,
and is spiteful toward her friends, display
Ing qualities which no self-respectmg hero
inc should have. These are discovered
early in the story, so that afterward,
when she makes a really noble sacrifice,
promising to marry a rich man lie order
to clear her mothers debts. when she loves
another, you do not believe In her tol i
moment, feeling sure that she Will find
some loophoIe Of escape. You are told IA
so many chapters that her head droops
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-12-21

Inc safe OF Inc Lady or the Decora-
ton" is still surprising its publishers. The
book was issued twenty months ago, but
the sale during the week ending Decem-
Der 7 was 1900 copies. Edition after edi-
ton is being printed n two boob
binderies are working on 1t night and day.
Little, Brown & Co. announce for early
publication a new edition, of THE Re-
juvenation of Aunt Mary" by Anne War
ner, with additional Illustrations from
photographs of scenes from the play in
which May Robson is starring. 1t is now
announced that Miss Robson as Aunt Mary
will return 10 the Madison Square Thea
ere December % for a prolonged engage
ment.
In the Crawford Christmas story, "The
Little City of Hope the critic of the
Church Standard sees a decided likeness
TO the W ,rk of Dickens, as we'll as "the
very best Christmas story we have read
for years" As an Illustration OF the
Dickens touch this critic quotes from the
first page of Mr.. Crawford's story: MIR.
Burnside always gave his hand in a
friendly way, even when he had fatty re-
fused to do what people had asked of
him. 1t was cheap; SO he ave it," The
whole story, he goes on to say. reminds
OA1 VI AAlS hAAAAAA u ny 9dClA a
ters of the craft as Dickens and Thack-
cray. who did so much to create and
maintain the feeling of good cheer and
kindliness. and Crawford is one Of the
masters of romance"
The definite edition of Ibsen's dramatic
writings will be completed next mouth by
pthe publication Of me volume containing
the three early plays Loves Comedy"
Lady Inger at Ostrat," aud THE Feast
at S%olhoug.' Although the last to appear
1t is volume one In the edition. the plays
following chronological order. Since Ibsen's
death last year. the interest in his work
has been increasing steadily and this edl-
ton makes available in handsome form and
st a low price tho complete work Of prob
ably the most widely discussed writer of
the past generation.
Mr.. Archer has had much experience IN
translating from the Norwegian and sue
ceeds fully n preserving the quality of the
original.
DR.. S. Weir Mitchell's new novel, "The
Red City, will begin in the January Cen
fury and run through the volume. II j.
announced as a mate to Hugh Wynne;'
and the early chapters introduce Hugh
Wynne, Aun Gainor and other familiar
characters. A young Huguenot emigre is
the hero; and the scenes are set in Phila-
delphia in the time of Washington's
second presidency.
In commemorafion OF the 300th a~nniver-
sary of the settlement of Virginia, Miss
Alice Maude Ewell has written 'The Heart
OF Old Virginia, . for which Miss Sue
Berkeley Alrich has made a number of
drawings to accompany the verses. These
are Of a historical nature. written M i
sort Of Jig time, Of which the following
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-19
Sub-Rosa Movement

"The interests" seek to prevent MT. Bryan from coming again before the people as the nominee of great party, If they can accomplish that in any way-and they are moving heaven and earth to that end-they will be free to bring in a reactionary candidate bear ing the indorsement of the republican national convention. Under the surface .the interests" are up and doing.
 In order to keep the big New York delegation from becoming committed to Governor Hughes the Wall street subway workers have brought out a favorite son. He is no other than the hero of the slush fund of 1904, George B. Cortelyou. He is now declared to be New York's favorite son. Senator Steve Ell1ins has said it, and he ought 10 know, even if he does spend a part of his of" time in West Virginia He really lives in Wall street, and when he says Cortelyou is New York's favorite son that settles it.
 The favorite-son business is to be worked against Taft and Hughes for all it is worth in the hope that con- rcntration can later be brought about les upon a recationary. Fairchilds is an ideal reaotionary, and so is For aker, and so lis Elihu Root, and so is Philander Knox, and so is Speaker
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-19
Immiurants in 1907

The total number of newcomers In 1,2S5,349, as against 1,100,735 landed in the previous year. The arrivals of new citizens in the year just ended was never equaIed in a single year in the entire history of this country, but the new record may be exceeded in the current fiscal year, for the wave of immigration is running full and strong.
 Out of the vast number that came in during the last six months 1862 were debarred from admission to the coun- try. Possibly 10000 all told were turned back in the fiscal year.
 The deails of the worlds figures are not at hand, but no doubt Russia Hun gary and Italy were free contributors to the makeup of the United States
 Comparatively few of the 1,2S5,349 newcomers landed at southern ports, and no great number will be landed in the south until the Lodge immigration bill is amended so that the states that need more white citizens can seek them in the home lands without mo- lestation or embarrassment. Congress can turn the tide southward despite the pull" of New York and New York steamship lines, and it should amend the act 1t passed under presidential pressure last spring.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-19
RAISES WHISPERS TO SELL.

St. Louis Cor. Memphis News Scimitar
 Growing. harvesting and marketir $ whiskers for revenue is the unique side line in which Fred Evers, otherwise "Old Man Fritz" keeper of the golf links d. the St. Louis Country club, Is engaged.
 Eevers, who Is 61 years old, has for many years added to his income by clip ping hs luxuriant beard annually and selling 1t to mattress makers or ether per- sons who can use silky 'lilacs" of Titan hue in their business
 While Evers declares persons who men tion his transactions "crazy with the heat" his associates say he himself is ad- thority for the statement that for many years he has received from s10 to sS5 for his annual crop of facial fringe.
 Club members recall that during the several years he has served them he has let his beard spread every year from his chin to his waist and then cut it off. Now they know why.
 The last crop was garnered by Evers this week. He now displays only mus tache. ut a reddish beardlet commencing to sprout Is taken as evidence that he is entering the market again.
 "Old Man Fritz's' beard grows very fast He has told friends that he grew long whiskers before he was 21 and sold his first crop on entering the German army He refuses to say who has been buying his whiskers In St. Lous
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-19
WIG FOR A sALD-HEADED DOG

From the Philadelphia Record.
 A bald-headed dog is a sorry lokoing spectacle, especially when his bodySis cov- cred with good supply of silken brown hair. Such an animal is owned by a kind-hearted women in Sixty second street. His name Is links. It Is a suit able name, too, for the pet figures in all the high jinks in the neighborhood. The boys picked on him especially because of his badness, and for time his life was one of constant misery. A week ago his mistress took Jinks to a fashionable wig maker and had wig made for him that fits as if 1t grew on his head links didn't like the adornment for cent, and tried every means his doggy brain could conceive to tear the wig to shreds. He found it especially unbearable during the hot spell. Yesterday Jinks got into ! fight with a tramp terrier at Sixty-thrd and Vine streets, and in the mix-up his wig was torn off. The terrier ran up Slxty-third street with the wig, and hasn't been seen since. links didn't mind ths few scratches he got in the battle, and runs around now completely happy in his badness.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-19
That Yea-and-Nay Vote

The bill to give 81 per cent of the children in Alabama the benefit of competent school supervision was tabled in the house by a vote of 54 to 37. The deathblow given to the most important bill that has come before the legislature came in the shape of yea-and-nay vote, and the unanimity with which the correspondents ill Montgomery have failed to report that vote in full is something impressive and remarkable Not one of them seems to have wanted "a scoop" at that particular time, whatever they may ardently desire at other times.
 The names of the 54 men who, to use the words of Representative Lee of Etowah were fighting to save the necks of their county superintendents rather than to advance the interests of the children, should appear in print, but the correspondents at the capitol lack time and also inclination to fur nish them. It appears, however, that the Mobile delegation voted against tabling the bill, and so did Representa- tive Lovelady of Jefferson.
 The yea-and-nay vote by which the careers of 600,000 children were brushed aside to accommodate hand full of incompetent placeholders should be printed, but a reward for the list may have to be offered in order to bring it to the surface.
 The points presented in the debates were novel to say the least. MT. Pitts of Dallas opposed the Gunnells bill because it would enable few men to travel over a county in smart vehicles and to eat as they went yellow-legged chickens and to sleep in soft feather beds. To MT. Rushton of Crenshaw the bill appeared unconstitutional, but MT. Sherrod of Lawrence took the cake when he declared that the bill invaded "the sacredness of home" As soon as MT. Sherrod had explained his discovery the bill was at once laid on the table by yea-and-nay vote that the reporters now lodged and fed in Montgomery refuse to disclose in de- tail.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-19
Openinq the Warrior

Locks 1, ? and in the Tombigbee remain to be completed. All the money needed for their completion has been appropriated and the engineers in charge of the improvement are push ing along the construction work. The three remaining locks will be com pleted in the course of the next calen- dar year, and the sriver will then be open to navigation from the sea to a point ten miles above Tuscaloosa. where lock 13 is open for traffic.
 The chief task before the govern ment engineers on the Warrior IS found in the location and building of locks IA, 15, Is, IT, IS and 19. The completion of these locks will carry slackwater navigation above Squaw Shoals to point not far from the forks of the river The cost of the six locks in question has been voted by Congress. This was the great vic tory that Messrs Underwood and Bankhead engineered through before the final adjournment of the Fifty ninth Congress.
 The big work is pretty well ad- Yanced, but the heart of this district will not be reached until slackwater navigation is carried up Locust Fork toe the mouth Inf Village creek. Pos sibly the SiXitieht Congress can be induced to render useful the expendi- tres of preceding Congresses.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-19
Rermsdorf Dyeinp.

Louis Hermsdorf, the great dyer, began at first by dyeing for manufac- turers," said one familiar with the art of dying. Now he has a manufacture ing plant of his own and he Is the lead Ing dyer of the world. because he pos sesses secret. in the art.
 "In the frsteprocess of dying fast black there are at least twenty chem icals and combinations used the prin- cipal ones being chlorate of potash, muriatic acid, aniline oil, sal ammonia, verdigris, and chlorote of soda. These chemicals are put in a revolving ma chine and the stuff to be dyed me chanically saturated. After this the goods go to a hyro extractor to re- move the surplus. Next the large oxy- dzing machine for fixing the color Is used the hosiery say, will come out an emeral green.
 "A chroming rotary machine with reverse action treats them to a bath of bichlorate of potash which turns this green to a deep black. Then dear water is used. Next a softening mix ture of olive oil and sal soda. Each pierce of hosiery is put on shaping boards and placed in dryer Wh en ready they are assorted, stamped, labeled in packages and they go forth to fit foot"