The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-11-30

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The Christmas issue Of woman's Home
Companion is full Of Christmas atmos-
phere. Laura Spencer Portor and jean
uette S. Porter contribute cinderella a
little family Christmas play. a feature
is a theatrical "reminiscences by Clara
Norris. Christmas on the Road Dir.
Edward Everett Hale writes Of How TO
Use the Christ-Mass." Irving Bachelor
has written a new book. and the first
part of 9TH Cricket Tales which Is It's
title. appears in this issue. DR.. Woods
Hutchinson. the distinguished physician,
in "Chtdren and Candy d~issipates once
for all the old bugaboo that candy is
harmful. ut isn't" he says: ut is one
of the most wholesome things one can
eat Elizabeth Stuart Phelps's novel,
Though Life Us Do Part which has
jus, begun in Woman's Home Companion,
continues. Two songs by the late Edward
Grieg, the famous composer. with full
musical score. form a treat for the lovers
of music. The stories in the Christmas
number includes "A Wild Boar Rampant
by Robert Barr, and several others.
Literary Notes.
President Roosevelt has written a fore
word for the late jeremiah Curtin's THE
Mongols," an historical work which Little,
Brown y Co. are publishing, in which he
says: The death of Jeremiah Curtin
robbed America Of one of her two or
three foremost scholars. The extraordl-
nary facility with which he learned any
language. his gift of style in his own lam
guage, his industry, his restless activity
and desire to see TRANCE nations and out
of-the-way peoples, and his great gift W
Imagination which enabled him to appre-
ciate the epic sweep of vital historical
events. all combined to render his work
of peculiar value. His extraordinary trans
lations Of the Polish novels of Stenkiew1cz
would have been enough TO establish a
irst-class reputation for any man. But
nothing that he did was more important
than his studies of the rise of the mighty
Mongol Empire and its ~decadence. In this
particular field no other American or Eng
lish scholar has ever approached him.
Mofat. Yard & Co. will publish. in Janu-
airy, Colonel John S. Mosby's monograph
on "Stuart's Cavalry in the Gettysburg
Campaign" The work will contain a
sketch of the battle of Charlottesville,
in which Stuart succeeded jackson in
command after the latter fell, and of the
great cavalry combat between Stuart and
| Pleasanton, which was the first act In the
drama Of the Gettysburg campaign.
"The Awakening Of Helen Richie has
been dramatized for Miss Margaret An
glin. who will appear in 1t probably some
time during the late winter. Mrs. Delandi
the author OF the book. had nothing to do
with its dramatization. The stage ar
rangement was made for Miss Anglin by
Miss Charlotte Thompson, and Mrs. De
land will be merely an interested out
slider when the play is produced.
Sir Gilbert Parker first conceived the
H. - srrl,o x1roo,rarofs Ton xaare a on Hp
did not begin to write the book until six
years afterwards. Then he occupied foul
years in the work. completing 1t last year,
and from that moment until its publication
last September continued to revise and pol
ish the pages as they came to his hands
On account of this precision of work Sill
Gilbert accuses himself of being an expen'
sive author from the publishers point o.
view, but it is doubtful whether the Har
pers would agree with him, In view O.
the popularity of his books.
Those who are Interested in Spain and
the life of her people will 1nd 'The Son OF
the Bondwoman" good reading, we are in-
formed. Primarily 1t Is q love story, but
1t also contains many descriptions OF tho
customs and life not only In Spanish
cities but also in the remote country. The
book is announced for early publication in
this country by John Lane Company.
Convinced that the cause of peace itself
Is jeoDardized by the exaggerations and
oversishts OF its holster followers. ! have
thought it expedient to collect under one
cover a few articles, IN which the rationale
and justification of war and Of it's proceed
ure have been considered under different
aspects says Captain A. 7. Mahan in
the preface TO his new book, Some Me-
elected Aspects of War which Little.
,u,. T. ~ - a ptah1iuhfnn TA ranfoi.a
Mahan's articles ON 1.-The Moral Aspect of
War 9TH Practical Aspect of War"
''War from the Christian Standpoint" and
'tThe Hague Conference of 1907, and the
Question Of Immunity for Belligerent Mer-
chant Shipping" nave been added a paper
on the topic, ''The Power That Makes for
Peace by Henry s. Pritchett, formerly
president of the Massachusetts Institute OF
Technology and a discussion on '"rhe Cap
ture Of Private Property at Sea" by Julian
Corbett, an English authority on naval
subjects.
In 9TH Road which the Macmillan
Company issues this week, Jack London
has given us a fragment of autobiography
the story of the period In his life when,
a young fellow Of eighteen, he took TO the
road as a tramp. In the months covered
by this narrative he lived the life of the
oiAd AlaAbR ihhfsAAA5 IN way AADfh
place to place on freight trains and blind
baggages," begging his food, and sleeping
wherever night overlook him. More than
once he must have suffered keenly from
cold and hunger. He was arrested as a
vagrant, and in one of the most interest
ing portions OF the book. describes his life
in prison and his associates there. He
frankly confesses that In all this he vas
not a soclologist looking for material. but a
healthy youngster in search of adventure.
A two-color drawing Of Santa Clans
adorns the front cover of the December
American Boy. The story Of Jimmy
~Jones-Pirate,' is continued for two. chap
tiers, as Is also THAT Dillingham; Boy" by
Oliver Optic. ]. T. Trowbridge's serial,
1.-THE Boy and the Beast" increases in in
terest, and 'Off the Reservation" by Ed
ward s. Ellis, is brought to a conclusion.
Among the shorter stories, Christmas
of course, takes first place.
early photographs"
Long before Professor S. F. B. Morse
had perfected his great invention the word
telegraph" was used for a sort OF soma
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