The Washington herald., 1908-08-02

ADl ldu puDllcatlOn by the ApDleTOnS
The title Of the book is The Emotion
alist- Its scenes are laid among the lit
erary and artistic people IN Germany
I and New York. and the book as a whole
IS described as a study OF the artistic
/ temperament The other books which are
l promised are oscar WILDE a critical
summary OF his work by Leonard Cress-
/ well Ingleby. and Charles Dickens. His
/ Life Writings, and Personality" by
I Frederick G. Kitton. The last-named
/ book contains considerable amount of
| new material which in a way, gives il
/ a character that is unique since the pub
| hcation OF Forester's famous Life" thir-
| ~ years ago
When Meredith Nicholson comes down
town in Indianapolis these DAYS he waves
of all his friends and cries. 'Unclean.
unciean-" He sometimes takes the mid
die Of the road Those who have heard
about him whip up as he passes. and he
himself admits that chaudeurs turn on
their hill climbers to get away from
him. while the night-blooming dogs con-
template him with meanest mien- II Is
the whooping cough,
My children are now whooping in the
hills north Of New York somewhere 81
he says. -and they gave ii 10 me as I
was leaving them. so that I could not
rail 20 remember them in absence. As z
TlementO-a slight souvenir so TO spea K
the whooping cough has any other form
Of memorabilia whipped OF the reserva-
uon- The seismographs AT Washington.
Greenwich. and that most sensitive one
on the Isle OF Wight all record me now.
have WhOoped Up things down IN
Monument place. so that the lady or the
Soldiers and Sailors Monument seemed
10 dance. and I fear that one whoop that
/ who0ped listed the whole monument
70 starbca-d about A. degrees Fahren-
heit- Ny whOJp Is the purest symphonic
IN three movements and a choke For
crescendo work. 7 have not been au-
preached. even in 'orphant' asvIurns
where grest choral effects are obtained
from the wboopers- This disease IS not
one for children it should be reserved
solely for the adult II IS not fair 10 place
on the young and weak a disease exert
Ing such strong horse power"
In Thou Fool which is % be pub
lishel In August by the Baker & Taylor
Company. J. J. Bell leaves the dialect
and humor 90 Tver NacGregor. and writes
a novel in which society people. both
Scottish and English. are depicted The
Fool is Robert Barker a merchant prince.
and l. makes him a conqueror q all OBJ
stacles except the one thing that he most
desires
IN October book entitled Good
Health and How We Won It. viii be
published By the Frederick A. stokes /
COMPANY IN Il the authors. Upton SIN
clair and Michael Williams. relate how
they won their way into good health out
Of disease In the course Of the story il /
IS made clear that they are disciples OF /
Horace Fletcher. and have been ina--
enced as vel by the discoveries of Profs.
Chitrenden. MendeL and Fisher. Of Yale: I
DR. KelogE. Of Battle Creek. NIetcnrl-
Son. OF the Pasteur Institute. ard Paw
low. Of s. Petersburg The authors
however 90 not co1fna themselves 10
any one theory or set ~ theories. bur
give the actual results derived from their
'wu studies. enforced by their own ex-
7eriences and experiments
Ferdinand Bonn. an aspiring German
lctor- who is not unknown in this coun-
~. has published IN Berlin some chan
ers of contemporary history in the form
Il diary Bonn undertook 10 manage q
heater in Berlin. He also wrote a t-iloRv
" the HohenzoIleTn family. the perform
-ncs OF which was prohibited Disaster
threatened him. until the Kaiser kindly
COX him uQ. Then his house was crowd
4 every night But the Kaiser seemed
% regard Bonn as a joke. and he soon
Tres Of a joke He dropped him and the Z
isaster came The charm OF the book
S its perfect frankness and naivete. They
ay in Berlin that II makes very amusing
eadi-g- and Il IS likely 70 be translated
ere- So Boun's misfortuneS may vet be
urned into profit. l.
Cyril Daveaport's The Book. Its His /
ory and Development ID Van Nostrand ,
'ompaHy) makes no pretelsion at style
nd fails al times in orderly arra1ze-
1ent But It IS replete with special IN
ormauon- on a fascinating subject Pur-
10 patches are not plentiful but the
Glowing from the chapter on 'Leathers-
olds the attention
perhaps the most curious leather IN
7hich any book can be bound is human :
kin Such treasures are by no means
nknowu- Il is said that a friend Of .
amille Flaumario1. the French writer.
assessed beautiful shoulders. and that
hen she died she bequeathed her skin
MN. as ne had always admired Il He =
ad the skin tanned ard used some Of Z
for a binding Of one OF his own books.
,iel ct Terre- There are other ex- 6
mples In private ownership. but so far >
S public Libraries are concerned the =
MY instance 7 know Of IS now in the =
arnavalet Library at Paris It IS Z
'Py Of the constitution Of 1923. and is a
ound in the skin of one Of the revoiu- I
onarles who was killed at the time al
he skin was tanned BY Meudon. HUI d.
an skin. Undyed. looks Ike thick calS. :,
I'd It is most difficult to get nd entirely =
the hair" s
Il is very true thing for the political =,
Unions Of a Presidential nominee to be Il
und in book form on the eve Of cleo Z.
on, but such IS the case in -Four As p
cts Of Civic Duty by the Hon. VIII
IN Howard Taft ex-Secretary of
ar and Republican nominee for the :
-esidency- Any politician or layman by :.
aiding this book can md out exactly :,
lat the probable next President thinks II
parlor socialists. practical politics "a
operty rights muci-razers. the atti- fc
de of the citizen toward the President. n
2 Philippine Islands. and all other i'm ce
rtant questions Of the day Published {,
Charles ScrIbner's Sons.
BY the end Of the week. teaching my pe
Il. writes Jack London in Harper's
eekly. Of his mastery Of the science Of IA
L was able TO do divers ev
inss. For instance, I shot the North nC
ar at night, Of course; got its altitude, %
rrected for index error. dip, &C, and &C