The Washington herald., 1907-10-06

! EUiIpuSAs teltS as tRot the most inter-
esting thing he saw among all the Won
| ders Of the National Park was the Pres.
ident himself. and he gives very
! graphic and entertaining account Of him
his manner of meeting people along
/ the route of travel, his chats with old
/ acquaintance of his ranching DAYS. his
rides and walks in the wilderness. his
! campfire conversation and storytelling.
/ Mr.. Burroughs knows the President S
outdoor side so well and sympathizes
with it so thoroughly that what he has
20 say OF him is well worth reading The
volume IS attractively illustrated from
! photographs, many of them showing the
| President while I'm the Yellowstone. 9TH
ers give glimpses Of the beauty Of his
home at Oyster Bay.
! Mr.. Joseph a. Chisholm writes to the
/ London Spectator recommending the col
lection and publication in book form Of
all the principal speeches and writings
/ Of the late Hon. Joseph Howe of Nova
Scotia. The governor general Of Canada
/ recently referred 10 the edition printed
/ in Boston, in 1859, by Jewett & Co., Mrs.
Stoves publishers, as not containing
/ page which does not stimulate the mag
4 inauon, please the fancy and quicken
/ the soul. and he further said that il
/ should be on the book shelf Of every
| teacher IN the empire The two volumes
/ or the original edition are out of print
and command high prices. The Spectator
/ says Surely this opportunity viii not
/ be neglected IN the publishing world"
/ In d. discussion Of Mr.. Everards new
/ History Of the Royal and Ancient Coli
Club st. Andrews" Mr.. Andrew Lang
has some interesting notes on the origin
Of the game. Was golf brought 20 Scot
/ land from Holland? Mr. Lang thus an
swers the question.
| Visiting Holland ia $50 Mr. Cunningham OBJ
I served ln the Rotterdam Galltu a picture by Jan
/ boy IS swinging an undoubtld golf club a club ia
gu reslee,s identical with the vaehuger type NJ
NFl.tT nus picture lC1 llr- Cunningham o. In
stecR is late in relation 10 scottish golf We
NOV jAaJ ne game was So popular IN Scotland TWO
nouncd 10 Illegal Men ought % De practicug
tfeheIE ana leaning % hold their own against
sle Eng-ish bonmen. not playing goh. Bot IN
Se5i.aud 20 nan paid any attention 90 acts q
Parliament aud goh went 1u meuiy. We do not
SneE how much older lt is than li5o but 1t Is
pretty certain that The balls AID clubs were az
IrSt brought from Holland. Tic Rev. AlT. Blair
about lt5O dreW parable froa the making Of
I
rr and rather an irIegerond ass than otherwise.
Parrots may argue that scotland Might have lent
lHe s.i-e Go Holland but 3iT. Cunningham proves
IS Dutch for "t5c golf ana our tee" Is the
Du1Cl uIiIJe. pronounced 'toyteg.' Clearly 81
scotland borrowed tie terms of the game from
irm trance. Holland is the cradle q s1it. as
France Is the cradle # tennis. I am greatly guilty
tariff Dutch s5lf balls and 50 enabled the scots
,e haNe tAtT own; NJ cunningham quotes ny
history u Cot, lu The Badmiuton Book f-r this
ltrce Of t1rih reform. but who Rss my authority
Alr. Cunningham should aaTe verified my fact lu
our acts Of Parliament Ct in rEe records ot our
though ! think ! have made il clear that in l6li
scots Cnt balls were n wood. like the balls used
balls stuffed with feathers came IN jthey lasted tli
anli l'5i We DO not r1rcisaiy kI-qW. In tAe
declined into q bastard game no better than cro-
gUer. and Mr. Cunningham nuds that even this
form Is dcC8leut TIE Dutch however are the
iatA-ts of soi Alr- Cunningham has placed that
fact beyond doubt.
The F. A. Stokes Company viii soon
publish Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnetts
new novel. The Shuttle" An interna-
tional marriage plays an important part
IN the story, but the writer attempts 20
give her work wide scope. bringing into
her love story "a thousand other
things" Abiding 20 her qualification IN
this enterprise. Mrs. Burnett says. in
letter quoted by her publishers. because
I am English by birth and American by
q sort of adoption and because I have
vibrated between the two continents for
years. 7 have learned 10 be impersonaI
and bipartisan. 7 was neither American
nor English when I told ;he story"
John Lane Company announces for
early fail publication Abraham Lincoln.
an Appreciation" by the late Robert G.
InEGrsOIL This volume VIII ba issued In
two editions, a small l6mo, containing
frontispieoe Of Lincoln, and a special
limited collectors autograph edition.
Among the anecdotes told by John Bur
roughs in his book, Camping and Tramp
ing with Roosevelt" to come out in Sep
tember, IS the following: The Rough
Riders, wherever they are. always look
TO President Roosevelt when in trouble.
One had come 10 grief in Arizona. He
was in jail. So he wrote TO the Presi-
dent and his letter ran something ike
this. Dear Colonel, ! am IN trouble
shot lady in the eve. but I did not in
tend 20 hit the lady. I was shooting at
my WIFE
Apropos Of the deceased wife's sister
bill, which is agitatIng good Brltons. an
English writer calls attention to the fact
that among literary unions of widower
with his deceased wile's sister the most
notable is that Of Richard Lowell Edge
worth. the father Of the novelist. Edge
worth married HOnOra Sneyd of Lien
81 w hn nd
Andre. HOn0ra found q very good friend
in her talented stepdaughter. Honora
died seven years after her marriage. and
upon her deathbed advised her husband
20 marry her sister, which he did without
undue delay, as such marriages We're not
al that time Illegal. EdgcwoTth was mar
ried four times and was never a widower
for more than five OF six months az a
time.
The Messrs. Putnam import from the
Cambridge University Press John Bun
vans Grace Astounding" and The
Pilgrims Progress" in the Cambridge
English Classics Series. The printing
and binding are both excellent. the lat
ter being in plain red cloth with gilt let
tering. The text adopted in Grace
Astounding" is that Of the sixth edition.
published IN 1888, the year Of Bunyan's
death. OF The Pilgrims Progress" the
text used for the story Of Christian is
that Of the eleventh edition of 1855. and
for the story Of Christiana and her chill
dren that Of the second edition. pub
llshed in 1857. Each of these received
Bunyans latest additions and correc-
tions. Only one perfect copy Of this
edition of Part I. Of The Pilgrims
Progress is known and this was loaned
by its American owner 10 furnish the
text for this present edition.
The following books are published to-
day by Houghton, Mlfiin & Co.: A hoH-
day edition Of Longfellow's Hanging Of
the Crane" with colored Illustrations by