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New-York tribune., 1909-03-27
Lfferoe,Y Nes0s and Criticism

write. nowadays, in order to transmogrify hand
some young men in that fashion. Their young
men are TOO clever by half to submit to such
treatment. David Amber is no exception to the
rule He carries himself with admirable spirit
and resource through series Of highly pictu-
rescue adventures. He is ably seconded. too, by
one LabertOuche. 1 worker IN the Indian Secret
Service as wise, in his way, as Mr.. Kiplings
Strickland.
The subtitle of John Silence" is decidedly
apt The central figure is physician "extraor-
binary" II ever there was one He is Psychi-
cal Sherlock Holmes, man who undertakes
mental case" and gets at the seat of the trouble
with the same uncanny penetration that belongs
10 Conan Doyles detective The first sufferer
who comes TO him in this book is writer of
droll stories who suddenly loses his sense or
humor In relating his woes TO DR.. Silence
he describes experiences which would move the
ordinary physician to recommend his sequestra-
ton in an insane asylum. DR.. Silence knows
better than to jump to so cheap q conclusion.
He cross examines his new patient making
few notes as he does So and then. after causing
the man to leave the house with his wife he
spends 8 night under their roof, accompanied
only by cat and dos. He ends by estao-
fishing a connection between his patients H.
ness and the hanging of-a certain woman In
previous century and he tells the humorist how
TO recover his wonted art. In another story
an insignificant individual is privileged by the
Intervention of psychic forces to share in the
witches Sabbath It is clear that Mr.. Algernon
Blackwood does not restrain his imagination
Yet We would characterize John Silence" as an
original and rather beguiling book. grotesque,
but with a kind Of grave sincerity underlying
its fantastic aspects The authors only fault
is that he is a little too deliberate and volu-
minous.
MI Rowland Thomas, the author OF The
Little Gods" would, like Mr.. Blackwood, be the
better for the application Of a friendly blue
pencil TO his work. In his case, however. 1t is
not the story itself that is unduly strung out:
he wearies the reader rather with the frame
work which he has devised in order to hold his
collection of short stories together. They do
not really need this Fictitious aid. Each one
of these sketches Of life in the Philippines is
well enough contrived to stand by ITSELF Some
are better than others. The initial story OF
Pagan" is a shade superior to anything else IN
the book But Mr Thomas is never dull He
too. makes US think for a moment of Kipling
He hits off his military types, invents his pun
gent dialogue in just that staccato manner
and In inst that spirit that Kipling has made
popular in a hundred magazines. The frame
work aforesaid suggests that this author takes
himself and his feeling for the East perhaps
little too seriously. When he is content to spin
his warn he does it straightforwardly and to
good purpose.
New-York tribune., 1909-03-27
nRS RL4INES LETTERS.
4 Record of Home Life in D'Uers
Places.

LETTERS OF MRS, JAMES G BLAINE, ,,oE;,lss Edited
nv Harriet s Blaine Beale. In Two volumes
Emo. pp 31s-39 Dufaed Co
The letters in these pretty little volumes were
nearly all written by Mrs. Blaine to her children
when they were away from her at school, or in
Europe or. as in the case of her elder sons, en-
paeed in careers which led them out OF the pa
ternal nest They are more a transcript OF DO
rnestic life than anything else, full Of the de-
tails which TO worshipping wife and mother
were naturally OF constant interest, ana WHICH
as she knew, as constantly interested her young
correspondents II some Of these letters seem
trivial in their incidents, they nevertheless hetp
to paint an engaging picture Of an American
home in the last century, and TO reveal, more
over very unselflsh devoted and resolute per
souality. There are traces, here and there Of
hunor. and now and then glimpses Of the more
or less noted people whom. during Mr.. Blame
public life his wife came to know Well.
Some of the most vivid Of these pages were In
dited in the sad days when President Garfield
Law slowly dying. Mrs. Blaine was at the
White House when he was brought back from
the station where Guteau had shot him. II
stood with Mrs. MacVeagh in the hail. she
writes TO one Of her daughters, when dozen
men bore him above their heads stretched on
mattress and as he US and held us with his
eve he kissed his hand TO us-I thought should
die: and when they brought him into his cham
her and had laid him the bed. he turned his
ewes to me, beckoned and when went TO him.
pulled me down. kissed again and again, and
said Whatever happens, l want you to promise
to look out for Crete the name he always gives
his wife Don't leave me until Crete comes 1
took my old bonnet off and just stayed. never
left him a moment. Whatever happened in the
room I never blenched. and the day will never
pass from my memory. At or thereabouts
Mrs Garfield came. frail, fatgued.- desperate.
hut firm and quiet and fun of purpose to save.
and I think nov there is a possibility of sue
ceeding" On some OF the days which followed
hope for the wounded man revived: 1T looks as
though Gaffy would live she writes He had
asked for beefsteak'-and here she adds
New-York tribune., 1909-03-27
BOOKS AND AUTHORS.
Current Talk of Things Present and
to Come.
Mrs. Edith whartons volume Of verse is near
ly. ready for publication She has bestowed upon
il the title OF "Artemis to Acteon."


Queen Victoria was the subject of a lecture
lately delivered at the Royal Institution by Lord
Esher, the editor Of the Queens Letters" He
was permitted to give in this discourse some in =
teresting If not very important unpublished ex-
tracts from the Queens journals. In reference
to these journals he said that they will never
be seen hereafter in their entirety; and he
added: BY the Queens express wish they have
been carefully examined by her youngest daugh-
ter, who with infinite labor has copied in her
own hand many volumes of them; excsing the
passages which the Queen desired should not
be seen by any eye but hers Still when this
pious work is complete. the story of a royal and
noble life will be without any parallel. All the
earlier journals. certainly up to the date OF the
Queens marriage. and during that year she. be-
gan her twenty fourth volume are untouched
and remain in her own handwriting" One of
the extracts from the unpublished journals was
written just before the Queens accession:
"wednesday Path May.-To-day is my 18th
Bns What should be- sha om am this da8
take the fTm m n resolution to study with f renewed
on whatever am about and to strive to become
Heaven wills It, I'm some day TO be-
Lord Esher in reply TO questions as to what
England owed to Victoria, what was the secret
of her influence and what will be her place in
history said that we owe to Queen Victoria
the reinstatement of the monarchical principle
in the eyes OF all grave and earnest men. We
owe to her the deep respect with which the Brit
ish Crown is regarded by the subjects of this
vast empire. The secret of her influence was
her unfaltering devotion to duty, her simple re-
gard and--if the word is not misplaced-her mar
row adhesion 10 the plain unvarnished truth in
every action and relation Of her long life"
The original documents of Jeanne d'Arc's time
and the folklore Of her native village have been
investigated by Professor Charles Roessler
French scholar, and he is about to publish by
subscription in English a volume entitled
Jeanne d'Arc: Documentary Evidence of the
Heroine and Christian Healer"
Ruskin relic which belonged to the critics
publisher the late George Allen. and is now
for sale is work IN two volumes. containing
the collection of architectural engravings from
which Ruskin studied architecture as youth.
The books contain also some outline drawings
by Pugin Coney and Ruskin himself, and some
remarks in his handwriting
Volumes thirty-six and thirty-seven of the
dehnitive Library Edition OF Ruskin have now
appeared, and with the publication of the volume
which includes the index and catalogue of draw
lngs the edition Will be complete. 1t is worth
phfe 10 note that there are 100000 references in
the edition.
The University of Leipsic is nearly five hun
tired years old, and il intends TO hold, in con-
nection with its anniversary, an exhibition of
all its art treasures. 1t will also exhibit such
New-York tribune., 1909-03-27

The great movement whose goal is the re-
union of Christendom is considered from an
Anglo Catholic standpoint by the Rev. F. Claude
Kempson in The Church in Modern England"
(E. P Dutton & Coz. So far English church
men have responsibility in the matter, a pre-
New-York tribune., 1909-03-27

that the Provost outside should knock for admis-
sim and should be soemnly received by his asSo-
ciates as their head While Hawkins was Taitins
man the Dean asked in solemn Latin phrase,
who is there?" Please, sir. it's me-. was the
hoIf-audible response The gate was opened and
through the double line of expectant Fellows
marched buck ba sllet in hand, the college washer
New-York tribune., 1909-03-27

DR.. Hugo Munsterberg's new book on "Piycho-
therapy' will be published soon by Moffat Yard
& Co. 1t is addressed much TO the general
reader as to the professional one.
New-York tribune., 1909-03-27

sketches. plans. pictures and other objects as
may reveal the gradual development of the IN
stitution Men of culture all over the world VIII
be interested in this exhibition
New-York tribune., 1909-03-27

General Kuropatkin's military Memoirs" WI
be brought out here almost Immediately by E
P. Dutton & Co The work has been SUPPRESSED
in Russia
New-York tribune., 1909-03-27

What ought 10 be entertaining article o.
the Rev Samuel NJ. Crothers will appear IN the
May Atlantic" 1t is to bear the title Of The
Hundred Worst Books"
New-York tribune., 1909-03-27

The latest book about oxford quotes Dean
Burgon's amusing story of DR.. Hawkins's first
admission to his provostship:
According to custom. the College gate was closed.
the Fellows drawn up in the quadrangle and the
Proyost-elect detained without Then the rule
New-York tribune., 1909-03-27

There is a movement in England to enlist
British children in the plans for the placing of
memorial window to BUnyan in Westminster
Abbey. Mr. j. N. Comper is the artist to whom
the commission for the window has been in
trusted His designs are, of course, taken from
the "Pilgrina's Progress
New-York tribune., 1909-03-27

Books and Publications.
New-York tribune., 1909-03-27
Cyclopedia Of American Agriculture

the place 1t will
fuIyM
New-York tribune., 1909-03-27

The just published book on Nine Novikof
contains this odd paragraph from a letter of
Froudes addressed to the Russian lady: we
hear less of your famine, so 1 hope you have
got control of It. Pity your Alexander was ever
tempted into Emancipation While your poor
peasants were serfs they belonged to somebody
who had an interest In preserving them. They
are left now to benevolence. Carlyle-he alone
ALWAYS foretoId how 1t would be"
New-York tribune., 1909-03-27

The University of Leipsic is nearly five hun
dred years old, and it intends to hold in con-
nection with its anniversary. an exhibition OF
all its art treasures. It will also exhibit such
New-York tribune., 1909-03-27

FILTERS OF MRS. JAMES G. BLAINE. Edited
by Harriet S. Blaine Beale- IN Two Noluhee-
1an1o pp 31e-33 Dufleld & Co.
New-York tribune., 1909-03-27

The original documents of Jeanne dArc's time
and the folklore Of her native village have been
investigated by Professor Charles Roessler, a
French scholar, and he is about TO publish by
in English a volume entitled
Jeanne d'Arc: Documentary Evidence of the
Bsroine and Christian Healer"
Gilpin observer., 1909-04-01
Woman's Pen Picture Of jackson.

I shall see him, thouyht, the brave,
the intrepid, the invincibie jackson; l
shall now be gratified with a sight OF
the brave Tennesseean, whose valor
has secured forever tie honor of this
state. l was devouring Coun-
seior Phillips speeches in a corner,
when heard loud cry, Gen. Jack
son comes" Running to my window
saw him slowly walking up the hill
between two gentlemen, his aids. He
was dressed in a blue frock coat with
equalets, common hat with a black
cockade. and sword by his side. He
walked on by our door to Maj. Wyatt's,
his companion in arms, where he put
up for the night. His person is finely
shaped, and his features not hand
some. but strikingly bold and deter
mined. He appears to be about fifty
years Of age. There is great deal Of
dignity about him His language is
pure and fluent, and he has the ap-
pearance Of having kept the best
company. He related many hardships
endured by his men, but never
breathed word of his own.-From
Life and Times of Anne Royal" by
Sarah H. Porter.
Gilpin observer., 1909-04-01
Plans to Cure by Music.

That healing by music will ulti-
mately be accented as the panacea for
hundreds Of cases of disease which
now battle physicians is the belief OF
Boston woman, Miss Christine
Brown. who has founded a new health
cult in that city.
The secret Of cure lies entirely in
sweet, melodious and seductive
strains of music" she says. Musical
harmony is a fundamental law of the
inner self. To be well our bodies
must not only be in tune with the self
within, but in accord with external
conditions. l believe that music, sci
entiically employed in prisons and
asylums for the demented, will eventu-
ally become the means of reforming
criminals, and will result In a steady
decrease in the thousands who now
crowd the insane asylums. 1t is not
necessary that a person should pos.
sess an artistic sense or that suf,
ferer should even have a musical ear
TO obtain the benefcent effects Of har-
mony."
Gilpin observer., 1909-04-01
of the Red Mems hall SO that late

of the Red Mems hall SO that late
arrivals at the wigwam may know
that they are in the right camp.
The town board has placed several
men at work shoveling out and re-
pairing the California road.
Nicholas Semmens left for Denver
Monday to visit with his wife who
is at st. Luke's hospital convalescing
from the effects of surgical opera
tion. 1t is reported that Mrs. Sem
mems will be able to leave the hos
pital in about two weeks.
An unusually attractive Easter pro
gram will be rendered by the young
people of the M. e. church.
Thomas o. Davey has very at
tractive line of postcards on display
in the postoffice window.
Gilpin observer., 1909-04-01
FEW OPPORTUNITIES IN CHINA.
Learned Professions Offer Little In.
ducement to Foreigners.

Ihere are three professions in par
ticular which are attracting the atten-
ton OF foreigners in China" said DR..
u. M. Perkins OF Shanghai in a recent
interview. DR.. Perkins has been in
China over ten years and is in the Uni
ed Sites on visit to friends and
ola iTe5.
"Tfcso three profession are law
medicine and dentistry The Chinese
reoI le have had all three for ages, bu.
lheir practice has been difsere Mt froa.
nat IN other lands, and it will be some
time before Chinese competition in any
OF them will be felt except through
foreign training and as a result of the
efforts of foreigners.
Chinese medical men have not been
in very good standing among their
own people for many years.
Chinese dentists have done mere
than their fellows in the medical line
and. all things considered, Chinese
dentistry, while it cannot compare
with modern dentistry as practiced in
America and Europe, especially in the
former, is far above what might have
been expected
There are no requirements for ad-
mission to the bar in China, for the
reason that there is no bar Each
consular court has its rules for admis-
sion, and when an attorney is allowed
to practice in one court it is taken as
an International discrimination If any
other consular court does not extend
like courtesy.
There is but limited field for the
law in China at best and most of it is
already occupied by men who are well
established, whose business is pro-
tected by the intense conservatism OF
the dominant British. 1t can safely
be said that there is little to encour-
age young man entering upon tn"
practice of law in a Chinese port
Unless he is able to buy his way into
an old established firm his struggle
for business is fully as keen as it
would have been at home, and he has
neither the field to work in nor the re-
stTictions to guide him and protect
rim from mistakes as he has at home"
Gilpin observer., 1909-04-01
SLIGHT ehn1n N D.ASNOSiS.
Mr.. Fu!Itr.on Net the Mind Eesder He
Thought He Was.

"Fl.tterby, by .Toye! AMI headed
this way, tco! Just my luck. Bor-
rowed $40 of me last week and $40
four days ago. That time it will prob
ably be touch fer an additional ten,
in order to NIKE it an even $40. Hang
the dog"
"Ah, Fullerton! You're just the
man I'm looking for. I'd like 10 bor-
row"
Il knew it the minute l saw you
coming. This 5or-o wing habit grows
On man and marks him every time
Half the weld borrows from the other
half; that's the reason half the world
is peeling its eye and dodgiag round
the corner-try!ng to sidestep the
o.ae- half"
"Cuoa5 you're right, old man; but
want to borrow"
Il know you do: that's the trouble
that keeps friends on the anxious
seat. Borrowing is subversive of true
friN-dsa.r. It"
VERY true. old chap; but as fell
low is in hard luck at times the only.
thing he can do"
rs to do a friend, eh? Same old
story-hard luck, Illness in the family.
poor business, forgot your roll, which
is in another trousers pocket, press
ing note due, and all the rest of the
old gage. borrowing, Flitterby, is "a
debasing. as well IS al Irritating
habit. Now, I've some sort of admira-
tion for the highwayman who thrusts
pistol under ones nose aad demands
your coin There's an elemens Of
courage about that proceeding on his
part that appeals to one, but to be
eternally bounding friend for money
IS"
Il agree with you in every respect;
but l want to borrow"
Il could tell it at a glance. Some
thing in your miserably shifting and
falterins demeanor betrayed you at
once. Quit 1t. Flitterby Retain some
remnant of your former manliness.
Make an effort"
Look here, man; you're going too
far! l want to borrow"
Sure you do! Why. it's got to be-
regular profession with you. You
want to borrow"
Your fountain pen." suddenly in
terjected Flitterby. Il wish to indorse
this check to your order I've been
trying to tell you SO for ten minutes"
Puck.
Gilpin observer., 1909-04-01

Read The eilpin Observer; $500:
Trade at Hawley's.
Gilpin observer., 1909-04-01
Writing Rooms in Stations.

Nothing could surpass cur big rail-
road stations in regard to luxury and
comfort" sad New York suburban
lite. He closed his evening paper and
paced the long corridor They lack.
however, writing rooms he added.
"a much-needed accommodation. All
big department stores, all hotels. pro-
vide. without charge, attractive desks
covered with pretty stationery, good
pens, clean blotters, for the use of
their customers. This convenience is
much appreciated. and the neat mo-
nogram of the establishment on the
paper and envelopes amply pays, in its
advertising value for the expense Of
the writing room. Now, where would
a writing room be more serviceabIe
than in railroad station? Look at
me! Here have half hour to put In
and nothing to do but pace the corri-
doris. The letters l could get off, the
important business | could attend to
in this forced period of idleness, Ger
tainly, here in America where time is
so valuable. the railroads should give
their travellers writing rooms
Gilpin observer., 1909-04-01
A Poor Dollars Worth.

I'm inclined to believe in fortune
tellers," said the little grass widow
and would II h hadn't been for one
saw up in Sixth avenue gave her a
dollar and she began to tell me what
n fine husband had and how happily
was married, and what good fortune
was coming to me.
But 1t isn't true 1 interrupted
her. have a husband, but he is In
England and 1 am here, and he never
has supported me. and l never expect
to live with him again. Never want
to- All those fibs she was telling me
and my dollar gone!
Give me another dollar?" she said,
and I'll tell you some more
But not for me. What did she take
me New York Press.
Gilpin observer., 1909-04-01

NOR, and fighting to vanquish the
debasing conditions of life, they have
sold their birthright for a mess Of
pottage, and have given themselves
to idleness. Righteousness and in
temperance. Too many of our young
women are feasting on those things
that nauseate and live in the whirl
of disappointment. They spend their
time reading the trashy material of
the day, or over the card table and
though there may be no harm in the
things themselves. it is a crime to
waste the passing hours OF our short
life in such way and leave nothing
worthy for an epitaph. Our country
needs strong system of education
and numerous educators to cope
with the situation. The unlearned are
coming to our shores who have in
culcated mistaken ideas of mans re-
iation to man and with belief that
all governmental power is against
them.
They must be met with the re-
filming fire of education, that shall
disperse their superstitions and give
them brighter view. Our land is
impoverished through the ignorance
of its tiliers, and knowledge is nee.
essary to reclaim 1t and cause 1t to
produce an hundred fold. Our timber
tracts are being devastated and we
need wisdom in their preservation.
and the creation Of substitutes to
take the place of that material. Our
coal supply win soon be exhausted.
aid our children will suffer unless
it can be supplemented by some other
combustible body.
There Is no grander right on our
shore than the schoolhouse over
which floats the American flag. 1t
is the ennobling influence Of educa-
tion that places man above the brute
creation. Our plains are broad, our
hills are high. our rivers are pure.
now we want men and women on the
same grand scale.
The wayside weed Of today, will be
the plant OF tomorrow and It rests
largely with us whether It will yield
figs or thistles.
A. T. T,
Gilpin observer., 1909-04-01
WHAT OTHERS
HAVE TO SAY

| Better get the thing straight be-
fore you repeat it. thing that Mrs.
So.and-So said that Mrs. So-and-So
said that her hubby said that John
keepitstill said that his wife sail
that her closest ohum and secret az
! wiser, Mrs. Nevertel;it, said that her
husband said he heard on the streets.
may not be as true as gospel You
take a clean rag and lie. it be drag
ged around over town a few days,
and it's color will be greatly chang
ed.-Center Point (Tex.) News.
An old negro was asleep on the
train out of Seladia the other day,
mouth open and snoring, when a
drummer emptied quinine capsule
on his tongue, says the Butler Dem
ocrat. The old darkey awakening, be-
gan to spit around and called for
the conductor, saying: "Boss, is dere
doctor on dis here train?" 81 don't
know" said the conductor. Are you
sick?" "Yes, sir, l sho' is sick, l
sho' is sick" What is the matter
with you?" 81 dunno, sir, but it
taste like 1 busted my GALL
The following note was received
by village teacher from the am
bilious mother of one of her pupils:
Dear Cir-You will pleze not lern my
children emmy thing more about fiz-
zyollogy stuff don't think it is pret-
ty to talk to children about their skill
ton and Bonze and wont have it.
want my children razed nice. You
can lern them to speak gramer and
talk Korrect butt 1 do not desire
them to know that they have such
things as bonze. Please let them
come home befoar the fizzyology class
begins to talk"
The following beautiful sentiment
is from the pen of that gifted editor
and present United States senator,
Bob Taylor:
Il would rather fill my purse with
money and keep it's gates ajar to my
happy girls while yet they linger un-
der my roof than to clutch it with a
miser's hand until all the harpstrings
of youth are broken and all it's music
forever fled. / would rather spend
my last nickel for a bag of striped
marbles to gladden. the hearts of my
bare-footed boys than to deny them
their childish pleasures, and leave
them bag Of gold to quarrel over
when l am dead. l abhor the pitt
less hawk that circles in the air on
ly to swoop down and strangle the
song Of the linnet or bury its talons
in the heart of the dove. l despise
the soulless man whose greed for gold
impels him to strangle the laughter
and song of his own family"