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heering the Philippines with pointer
and spelling book. were called upon
10 solve ia their far. strange fields of
endeaVor. They display insight into
Filipino character and picture with
sharp vividness phases OF native life
that no mere traveller or copy hunter
could hope TO see, much less under
stand one fine story, very real
and convincing, has first TO do with a
young maestros difficulties in teach
ing physical culture to some of his
unwilling students, and then turns a
comedy situation TO near-melOdrama.
Papa lsio, called the mad Pope" stirs
the natives to rebellion and they at
tempt to burn and pillage the little
town. The native coustables funk at
the appearance Of real danger and for
get all their military discipline. How
ever, a few college yells. which the
lonely maestro has taught them, sue
ceed IN pulling them together and he
forms them into the flying wedge" of
the gridiron. and with this novel for
nation rOuts the enemy
few Of the stories serve to Illus
trate the painful effect upon the civil
lied white man of tropic drinks. ways
and climate, and others deal with the
inevitable tragedy of the white man
with the wife at home and the brown
skinned querida at his side.
It is not too much praise to give Mr..
Hopper credit for the best short fiction
that has been brought back from the
Philippines. He tells any kind of a
story with an art that is strong, IL i'm
mature, but he tells best Of what he
saw and heard and lived down in
Luzon.
Mcclure. Phillips & Co, New York.
Price sl50.)
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man, It creates great expectations
among his critics.
The late Mrs. Craigies posthumous
novel, The Dream and the Business"
is of more than passing interest, since
it is the novelist's final work on life as
she saw it. Her nom de plume, "John
oliver Hobbies was well chosen. There
has been no more virile woman writer
since George Eliot.
Speaking of George Meredith, Robert
Louis Stevenson said: Truthful with
out coarseness. romantic without
reality, analytical. without morbidity.
he has painted for us gallery of
female portraits fit to stand by the
side of Shakespeare's 'Ah, he is the
master of US ALL"
Thomas Hardy is a Justice of the
Peace. and it is said that his English
neighbors think more highly of him in
that capacity than as a dramatic poet
or novelist.
Chatto & winders of London town
have been in business more than two
centuries. They have just opened Of
fees at 123 Fifth avenue, New York,
and announce that they have been
moved to take this step by the fast in
ature, both grave and gay, which is now
eagerly sought by British readers
curious and interesting inversion of the
old order of things.
F. Frankfort Moore, known generally
as the author of The Jessamy Bride"
is a prolific writer He is a we'll known
clubman of London, but has travelled
extensively in India, Africa and South
America. He has devoted sixteen years
to active newspaper work and at the
same time has produced fifty novels
and dozen plays.
Myrtle Reed. whose latest book. "A
Spinner in the Sum-" has made some
s. Mccullough, we'll known in the busi-
ness world of Chicago. where he deals
extensively in real estate.
Hildreths Japan as It was and Is"
written in 1855 by man who had never
been near Japan, remains to this day
one of the most interesting and accu-
rate historical handbooks of the Mi
kados empire. Richard Hildreth was
an American scholar, editor and aboli-
ZIONIST. The voyages of Perry to Japan
aroused his interest and he began a
systematic study of the narratives of
all travellers to Japan-Portuguese
EnSllS0, OuICI ana Spanish. FROM
these books, studied with the greatest
care, Hildreth composed not only an
account of Japanese customs. but sur
prisingly accurate history of the coun-
try from the time of its earliest contact
with Europeans. SO highly is his work
esteemed that it has been translated
into Japanese and is textbook for
Japanese students and scholars.
Mrs. Maxwell. known for many years
to literature as Miss M. E. Braddon,"
has just passed her seventieth birth
day and is still welding her pen She
has a new novel announced for the
spring, entitled The White House
Mrs. Molly Elliot Seawell has re-
turned to Washington after spending
the summer in Europe She has been
paying visits in England. in the beauti-
full hop country of Kent, staying with
Mrs. Burnett at Maytham Hall.
1t is a curious coincidence that two
books on a serious and important sub
ject were not only published almost at
the same time. but have the same title,
"The Family" and both were written
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of modern wrestling" To the skill oi
this one man the Japanese owe theil
reputation as the best ac-
robats and tumblers in the world. Tc
quote:
Neither he nor his manager nor
his teachers receive a penny for
their work. Love and enthusiasm
inspire the workers. Professor
Kano is content to draw his salary
as a professor in the Higher Nor
NAL School. There is no sordid mo-
tive in his private enterprise, and
no school could be more public.
''Whosoever will may come" with
out entrance or tuition fee. Money
is an unknoWn element in his
school, and its platform is truly
democratic. The true sporting
spirit for fair play prevails. No
blemen, rickshawmen and coolies
are on an equality. and skill in
throwing is the only badge of
merit
The author devotes a chapter tc
.'Woman's Education in Japan" in
which it is interesting to note the ef-
Oriental mind The women are slowly
but surely becoming emancipated, and
much time is now given to their educa-
ton in schools and universities.
Mrs. Fisher does not bore her read
ers with merely personal adventures
and impressions; she writes with re-
freshing frankness which is new fol
Japan, even touching on some subjects
which other travellers have thought
best to leave out, of their pen pictures
The book is tasteful1y bound and
printed and contains thirty-two full
page illustrations from photographs
and an attractive frontispiece in color
(L C. Page & Co., Boston)
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Books Received

A Woman Alone in the Heart OF
Japan. by Gertrude Adams Fisher: L.
c. Page & Co., Boston.
Little Pilgrimages Among Bavarfan
Inns, by Frank Roy Fraprie; l. c. Page
& Co., Boston.
The Art of the Dresden Gallery, by
Julia de Wolf Addison; i. C. Gage &
Co., Boston.
Health Through Seff-Control In
Thinking. Breathing and Eating, by
William Anthony Spinney; Lothrop,
Lee & Shepard Company, Boston.
A History of the Earthquake and
Fire in San Francisco. by Frank Ait
ken and Edward Hilton; The Edward
Hilton Company, San Francisco.
Caybigan, by James Hopper; Nc
Clure Phillips & Co, New York
Jonathan Upglade, by Wilfrfd Earl
Chase; W. Z. Chase, Madison. Wis
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Good Stories of Philippines
by James Hopper

James Hopper, football hero and
newspaper man. went to the Philip
pines a school teacher and came back
a magazinist. There had been a
painful dearth OF Philippine fiction
that amounted to anything until Hop
per begun TO put out through the mag
azines his short stories about the peo-
pie and the places in the land Of the
uipa and the palm. Fifteen of these
tales are now grouped under the title
Of "Caybigan," a book that may be
sure OF it's welcome among all who
qhre for the modern short story done
d. the American plan.
Y The overseas school teacher figures
strongly in these tales, for Mr.. Hopper
is essentially a realist and chooses,
wisely, to write Of that which he
knows. Most OF these stories have to
deal with the curious problems which
the shiploads OF teacher-civilizers pio-
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first of all. that they are well done
and next. because their author as thor
oughly understands the Mexican peon-
ada of whom she writes as Kipling
does his own East Indians. Too few
Californian writers have attempted any
thing about the despised Mexican peon-
ada, the subject, perhaps. seeming be-
meath their art, and most frequently
when they have essayed the field they
have found in ii only the filth, treach-
cry and lawlessness of a despised and
degraded race. But Miss Matthews
shows quite another side of people
under foot and yet, humbly enough. low
ing and living much after the fashion
of their contemners. with much the
sane elements of comedy and tragedy
to color their affections and tinge their
hates.
The book is daintily bound and print
ed by the Artemesia Bindery of Los
Angeles.
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graduate at Stanford, going thence to
Harvard and finally to Oxford and Leip-
zig for advanced work. His speciality
was English literature and his grasp OF
the subject won the admiration OF
President Jordan, who called him TO
the Stanford faculty at the close Of
his studies abroad.
The poems composing Moods and
Memories reflect the authors estimates
of great names in literature, impress
sions of things a traveller sees. his
devotion to his friends and, most in
teresting OF all. perhaps, his outlook
upon life A deep reverence for all
the things that are of religion per-
vades many of the verses The little
volume opens with THE Inestimable
Boon" which is good enough to quote
in full:
To each Of US the years benignant bring
Some gift; to one the power TO .inhame
From eyes long dry impassioned tears. to make
Minds dormant leap with virile thought. or wake
Men somnolent TO deeds OF deathless fame
Inspired by his illness. perhaps, is the
poem when I Lie Dying yet it re-
fleets little of sorrow and nothing OF
complaint.
Unto another cometh skill to paint
With cunning art the eolorS OF the rose
So deftly, that onlookers catch the faint
Fragrance from honey-laden blossoms shed
The bandit bees that all their sweets disclose.
And ofttimes he whom the Power Supreme
To thrill the world with word or work denies,
Exultant in his stalwartness of limb
His 1.-THE and sinewy strength and rugged
health
Compiacent finds a pIenitude OF wealth
In firm knit muscles and in clear-lit eyes.
And even to him driven by adverse Fats
To drain the bitter dregs OF life. to move
Slowly in tortuous anguish, to await
Evasive Fortune with despairing eyes,
Even to him one gift she ne'er denies:
The inestmable bOOn--a Mothers Love.
When I lie dying / would have tears.
No noiseful wailing the wringing OF hands
To mark my setting forth to unknown lands.
For all must go with passing OF the years.
Rather word OF cheer from each to all
Congratulatory, OF who fares
On brave adventures bent and gladly dares
Dire perfls IL but noble occasions call
Still, IL one doth hold fast persistent grief
At loss Of me, nor aught may ease his pain.
This would I urge could I but speak again:
Haste thou. to bring some other man relief.
So shalt most soon thy sore wounds cease TO
feel:
(Stanford University Press. Price
&
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Story of Jerusalem at the Time
of Christ

The Court Of PLATE" is historical ro>
nance, with all Of the history and most
of the romance left out The publish
ers quote a newspaper which cuotes a
publisher as saying that 'the most in
terestinR period in the worlds history
for basing a novel" is the time of
Christ, for the reason that. being too
dangerous for the author" it is "the.
least worked Of any known period"
The quoted publisher continues: There
are millions of people who are familiar
with every line of sacred and profane
history concerning that period, and the
limelight has been turned on so elar-
ingly that the least slip would spell
very much like ruin for the author"
Roe r. Hobbs, whose name appears on
cover and title page of this work, has
evaded those critical millions by care
ful avoidance Of anything that would
challenge the historians or their stu
dents. Though he writes of the time of
Christ. the Man of sorrows is but
vaguely and heetingly glimpsed in the
story; in passing the crucifixion is mere
~ mentioned as having taken place,
and yet the tale is Of the most famous
Of Caesars procurator and Of the time
Of the atOnement
The love Of two women for Cestus,
popular centurion in Jerusa Iem, is
about all there is to the romance
Myria. the good and beautiful Jewess.
and Paulina. the wicked and beautiful
Roman. one is poor, weak and perse-
cuted; the other is rich. powerful and
prosecuting The villain is a Jew who
covets Myria. and. Paulina aiding, con-
trives much misfortune and sorrow for
Cestus and the lovely Jewess.
r. +. Fenno & Co, New York Price
s15Ol
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Here and There Among the New
Publications

The first installment of Maxim
Gorlxy's new novel, Mother" printed
in the December number of Appleton's,
warrants all the advance notices have
said of it. There is something of Vic
tor Hugo in the humanity, the flashing
vividness of the language and in the
plot, which shows the development of
human soul from the dregs and lees.
An important book-at least to the
Hills famiiy--is published at the
Grafton Press. 1t is called "The Hills
Family in America" and contains pic
lures and records of over 5000 of the
descendants of William Hills of Rox-
bury, Mass; Joseph Hills of Maiden
and Newbury, Mass, and the sons of
John Hills of Ashford, county of Kent,
in England.
prince Ivo of Bohemia" by Arthur
S. Mann, is a blank verse tragedy in
five acts. The author is Yale gradu-
ate and the poem is an effort in the
movement to raise American literature
to higher artistic level. Mr.. Mann
has produced a serious piece of lit
erature which will delight dis
eliminating class of readers, and, being
the first published work of a young
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Pen and Camera Pictures of Ba
varian Highlands

The Little Pilgrimages" series has
been augmented by the addition of
Little Pilgrimages Among Bavarian
Inns" by Frank Roy Fraprie. For
those who know much, little or moth
ing at all about the Bavarian highlands
this volume holds many pleasures. Its
author thought--mistakenl one would
say-that it would be best to tie his
descriptions together with bit of a
story. The descriptive matter is good
enough to go out united, but the story
does not seriously detract from enjoy
ment of the book by those who prefer
t.eir fiction and their travel straight.
Mr. Fraprie has lived in Bavaria and
is a most enthusiastic and appreciative
adn1irer of its beauties. Some of his
little journeys are out of the beaten
track, but all are entertainingly writ
ten. Ancient Augsburg, Nuremberg,
most picturesque of European towns; I;
Rothenberg, so remarkable and yet so
little known to English-speaking trav-
elers, all are pictured with sure hand.
Much space is given to Munich, the ar
tistic center of the kingdom. with it's
gay, bright. pleasure-l Loving inhabi-
tants ard its beautiful statuary and
parks.
The book il full of curious old
legends and traditions which, more
than anything else, show the life and
growth OF the people.
The book is illustrated by some
thirty or more Photographic reproduce
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Los Angeles Writer'S Book of
Peonada Stories

Miss Amanda Matthews has collected
some of her stories from the weeklies
and ma agazines in which they have APP
peared and added a few new ones so
that a very creditable showing is made
in little volume entitled THE Hero
glyphics of Love" These stories de-
serve to be well received for the reason,
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Book of Poems by Member Of
Stanford Faculty

Under the title Of Moods and Mem
ories" little book OF poems by Charles
L Story. instructor in English at Stan
ford University. comes from the Uni
versity Press In addition to the charm
OF some of the poems the circumstances
under which they have been written
are unusual. The young author Is an
invalid Incapacitated by disease for
the work assigned him by President
Jordan, and for the past year con-
fined to his bed, he has applied him
self to his poetry with a wholeheart-
edness that mostly has excluded all the
gloom Of the sick chamber from his
verse And he has the gift OF verse
writing.
Mr.. Story, who is 2S years old, was
born at Dixon. After graduating from
o sectarian college he took a post
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CONDUCTED By UNA III. III. COOL

by women. Mrs Elsie C1ews Parscns'
work has already been extensively adj
vertised. but the other book has re-
ceived little notice as yet. 1t Is BY
Mrs Helen Bosanquet, an English
woman, wife Of Professor Bernard
Bosanquet, who occupies the chair OF
moral philosophy at st. Andrews. She
was already known as writer on So
Geological subjects. 1t is reported her
new book is not so startling in its sug-
gestions as Mrs. Parsons sensation
making treatise.
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In need of such inferentiai support TO
help us to the truth"
After ii had been accepted by, most
scientists that the curious markings on
Mars were really canals, tit was only
step in reasoning to declare them the
handiwork of beings of intelligence.
and all the observations of recent years.
made almost easy by the wonderful in
ventions and improvements in tele-
scopes, Professor Lowell accepts as con-
firmation of his theory.
Mars, is the only planet so far dis
covered which, like the earth, is SUBJ
ject to the vicissitudes of night and
day, and improved instruments of OBJ
servation have enabled astronomers to
discover the length of the Martian day
to the exactness of a few hundredths of
a second. The day is twenty-f four hours
and thirty-seven seconds, and the tilt
of the planet in its orbit making n
difference in the seasons, is found to
correspond as nearly with the length
of day as on the earth.
SO many facts of interest are un-
folded in this book and in such simple
language that it cannot fail to interest
all classes of readers. Scientists will
find all the steps of discovery care
fully stated. dated and mapped, and
the layman will be so interested IN the
story-it is almost romance-tf1at he
will not realize that he is reading a
scientific work, dealing at first hand
with the most abstruse problems of
the most abstruse branch OF human in
quiry into things superhuman.
CThe Macmillan Company, New York
Price S2.5O.)
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tions of inns and castles. lakes and
other bits of characteristic German
scenery.
Il. c. Page & Co.. Boston.)
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1t is a curious coincidence that two
books on serious and important sub
ject were not only published almost at
the same time. but have the same title,
"The Family" and both were written
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Mrs. Molly Elliot Seawell has re-
turned to Washington after spending
the summer in Europe. She has been
paying visits in England. in the beauti-
full hop country of Kent, staying with
Mrs. Burnett at Maytham Hall.
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Mrs. Maxwell, known for many years
TO literature as Miss M. E. Braddon,"
has just passed her SEVENTEEN birth
lay and is still welding her pen She
has a new novel announced for the
spring, entitled The White House"
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Astronomy's Intricncies.

Miss Dorothea Klumpke, the astro-
nomer, was talking about the difficult
ties and intricacies that astronomy
presents to the lay mind.
For instance" she said, smiling,
there is the well-known case of the
meteorite that fell on Vermont
farm in 1890.
"It was valuable meteorite, and
the landlord at once stepped up and
claimed it. All minerals and me-
tails on the land belong to me-" he
said. That's in the lease
But the tenant demurred. This
meteorite,' he said, wasn't on the
farm, you must remember, when the
lease was drawn up
"The landlord perceived the jus
tice of that claim. He thought a
moment Then he said, decisively,
L claim her as flying game
But the tenant was ready for
him. She's got neither wings nor
feathers he said. Therefore, as
ground game, she's mine.
"They continued their argument,
and in the heat of it a revenue officer,
arriving with a truck, proceeded to
put the meteorite aboard. i claim
her for the government he said
as an article introduced into the
country without payment of duty
Boston Budget.
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Silver TIPS On PoeLetlnives.

"You wouldn't think that the little
German silver tips on pocketknives
are cast separately, but such is the
case" said Clayton Davis. Just
why they cannot be cut from one
large sheet of metal l do not know,
but every one of these tiny pieces OF
metal is poured separately, thou
sands of little molds being required
for the purpose in a large establish
ment. Scrap German silver is melted
down and little aluminium added,
the effect of which is to release the
oxides In the silver and make 1t run
more easily. The molds are poured
standing up and when the metal
hardens the casting Is pared off to
give it the rounded shape in which
it Is used.
The American boy of the present
day is not the whittier his Yankee
ancestors are said to have been, but
there is plenty of safe for pocket
! knives. those of good quality being
bought extensively. The English
and Germans are ahead of us in
making tool steel, and the result is
that Made In Germany is seen on
the blades of knives that are made
In Connecticut and elsewhere. Mil
waukee Sentinel.
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PE-RU-NA Al MEDICAL. COMPOUND

In medical
IT Is compounded dients used.
First of the
tn the pharmacopea
with strict reference
dugs may be well selected
x ss,LED Bf THE PROPORTION in which they combined
chemistry
ton can be determined EXPERIENCE
compromising had many
remedy Peruna 10
action OF each ingredient
alton and the chemical peculies
pharmaceutical
WE REPEAT THAT AS MUCH DEFENDS ON WHICH
The compound
OF temperature
must combined
logging mining
complete list Of the ingredients would enable drug
physician which
these ingredients brought together much Of its
liar claims efcacious
OF
which
combined
medical can be made Of realva
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-03-28
GOOD NATURED AGAIN.
Good Humor Returns With Change to
Proper Food.

For many years l was a constant
sufferer from indigestion, and ner-
yousness amounting almost to pros
tration," writes Montana man.
MY blood was impoverished, the
vision was blurred and weak, with
moving spots before my eyes. This
was a steady daily condition. grew
ill-tempered, and eventually got so
nervous l could not keep my books
posted, nor handle accounts satisfac-
torily. 1 can't describe my suffer-
ings.
Nothing ate agreed with me, till
one day, l happened to notice Grape
Nuts in O grocery store, and bought
package, out of curiosity to know
what 1t was.
Il liked the food from the very
first, eating 1t with cream, and now
| buy 1t by the case and use 1t daily.
/ soon found that Grape-Nuts food
was supplying brain and nerve force
as nothing in the drug line ever had
done or could do.
1T wasn't long before ! was re-
stored to health, comfort and happi-
ness. Through the use OF Grape-Nuts
food my digestion has been restored,
my nerves are steady once more, my
eyesight is good again. my mental
faculties are clear and acute. and /
have become so good-natured that
my friends are truly astonished at
the change. l feel younger and bet
ter than l have for 20 years. No
amount of money would induce me to
surrender what have gained through
the use of Grape-Nuts food" Name
given by Postum Co., Battle Creek,
Mich. There's reason" Read the
little book. "The Road to MELVILLE"
In pkgs.