The Washington herald., 1908-08-02
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that We are Gudgeons and u1oles, 7
couldn't believe II. went ever the PROB
lem again, and verified it, CHAIRMAN had
the wheel from S 70 10 that evening. l
told her to keep her eyes open and look
due south for the Southern Cross. And
when the stars came out. there shone the
Southern Cross low on the horizon
Proud? No medicine man nor high priest
was ever prouder- Furthermore. with the
prayer wheel I shot Alpha Crucis. and
from its altitude worked out our latitude
And still furthermore 1 shot the North
Star, too. and il agreed with what had
been told me by the Southern Cross
Proud2 Why, the language OF the stars
was mine. and listened and heard them
telling me my way overNthe deep
Toby. NJ P" otherwise Henry W
Lucy, Is writing another series Of remi-
niscenoes. The new instaIlment. TO be
called sixty Years in the Wilderness:
some Passages by the Way" VIII after
serial issue in the CornhiH Magazine. be
published in London by Smith. Elder &
Co Mr.. Lucy is one OF the few members
Of the press gallery in the House Of Com
mons who has received a public tribute
from an ex-minister- IN 1893 Lord Rose
berry. in a speech al Epson. said: On
anything relating 70 Parliament. Mr
Lucy is an expert There IS perhaps TO
man living who has had so constant and
So close observation Of Paruameutary
life in its many aspects These new
"reminiscences promise 70 deal with the
private affairs Of the many eminent poll
tioians Mr. Lucy mas encounre-ed-
Correspondence TO and from the fourth
President Of the United States during the
four years between 1873 and lst7 nils I'D
the seventh volue Of The Writings Of
James Madison as edited from Official
and personal sources by GaiIIard Hunt.
and published in a half-leather binding by
O. P Fu1nam's Sons. The period covered
therein was q crucial one IN American AZ
fairs. and the letters gathered n by EIr
Hunt are. therefore. OF the Utmost polit7-
cal and historical value. They VIII pre-
sumabiy be thoroughly inCexed in the
hnal volume
The late Jonas lie had the tendency 20
laturalism which characterIzes the Scan-
dlnavian literature OF This era. but Lie.
-eaven Of Imagination and chcerfuln1ss
gave charm 20 his books He was thirty
three years old before le published any
thing, and then he put forth O. tuiu vol
Irle OF poems now all but forgotten Lie
- d. 2 4tl4'fN Llleli or lUSeI and J. El- n
son at the University Of ChrisrIa1ia. hut I
he revealed 70 Inclination for literature /
n those days he took Up the law but
his wife. Thomasiue Lie. who was his
cousin, seems 20 have inspired him 10 4
he literary life and acted rs E1s col
abOrstor- He was forty years old VIXEN I
be published his famous novel. The Pilot
and bis VIE. which placed rim IN The
ront rank Of Norwegian vrs-=-z
Henry c. Shelley. the author Of John (
Harvard and HIS Times" has completed +
us new book on travel and description
nrtled ''J ntrodden English Ways" and .
las gone TO the Isles OF Shoals for his
,nnual summer outing Nj SheIIey-s
lew book viii be illustrated from Pho
OEraphS OF English hooks and corners
aiken by AIr Shelley and IL viii be issued
. the autumn by Little. Brown & Co An
ther book Of descriptive travel 70 ap-
ear from the same firm IS sun and I.