The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-11-13

ence of debauchine temptations AT
seasons when work is impossible, ARE
going to their own ruin because
there nothing else to do"
Mrs, Virgins New Play.
Kate Douglas Virgins play, "Rebec-
ca o. Sunnybrooz Farm" is a dramati-
cation of her two "Rebecca" books, Of
which over half a million copies have
already been sold. Mrs. Wiggin is now
busily rehearsing the play, which will
have its first appearance in Springfield,
Mass, on Monday. The other day when
the property man and some Of the stage
hands were called In for a. conference,
the children were rehearsing the first
act. The wonderful Concord stage
coach found by Mrs. Wiggin in an old
barn in York county, was drawn I'D
outside the gate, while Emma Jane
Perkins, Minnie Snellie and the others
were welcoming Rebecca to Riverhoro
Say" said the property man. Word
better hire the theater for year It's
com bination you can't beat, kids and
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DR.. George A. Gordon's new book.
Religion and Miracle" seems to have
caused quite stir in religious circles
A Fellow pastor in Boston went so far
as 70 denounce him as an 'infldel'' be-
cause of his views about miracles. DIR.
Gordon IS Well-Snown as a broad think
er and his liberality Is evidenced by his
ezchIanging pulpits with Rabbi Fleisch-
er last Sunday.
For Winter Reading.
In selecting books for winter reading
DR.. Hamilton W Mabie gives the fol-
lowing list Of twenty-five representative
American biographies; Schurz's ''Abra-
ham Lincoln Irving's Life OF George
Washington Eliots Charles Eliot,
Landscape Architect HAWTHORNE
Nathaniel Hawthorne and His Wife"
Hlgginson's Henry Wadsworth Long
Fellow, Greenslet's James Russell
Lowell" Farnham's Life of Francis
Foe, Joseph JeffeTson's Autobiog-
raphys Perry's Walt Whitman"
richards Life and Letters OF Whit
ter Life and Letters Of Phillips
Brooks" Hale's James Russell Low
ell and His Friends" wilson's George
washington. Autobiography Of Benja-
Life Stillman's Autobiography Of a
Journalist" Hoar's Autobiography of
Seventy Years GreensIet's Life of
Thomas Bailey AIdrich.'' Palmer's Life
Personal Memoirs sherman Mem
oir's," Cabot's Memoir Of Ralph Waldo
Emerson" Minis Sidney Lanier" and
Lounsbury's Life Of J. Fenimore
Cooper"
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Harper e. Brothers have lust pub
lshed The Image Of Eve" a novel by
Margaret Sutton Briscoe; The Great
English Essayists'' IN the Readers Ii
brary," edited by Coningsby w. and
William ], Dawson. and Equal Suf-
fTage in Colorado" the report Of an in
yesugatton made for the COIligate Suf- /
frage League Of New York State by
Helen H Sumner, Pm. D.
Magazine
On Thursday. November 4, Hamptou's
closed a contract with Com
mander Robert Z. Peary for the ex-
elusive periodical rights to his own
story Of the discovery Of the North |
Pole. All Of the facts that will set AT /
rest the Peary-COOk controversy will |
first become known through this Sc
ues Of articles. and will afterward be |
put into permanent book form BY Fred
er1ck 4. Stokes Company, New York
publishers, who have secured the ex-
elusive rights for publishing Commander |
Peary's book
November 81 is the date fixed for the |
by Sturgis & Walton Com
Jany. Of Shortcut Philosophy" by Al |
bert William Macy.