The Washington herald., 1909-02-28

me Gorgeous Borgia Is the ute OF
Justin Huntly McCarthy's forthcoming
novel which the Harpers wiI issue Gu
rIoasIy enough. by all who hear il the
! title is assumed TO refer 10 a woman
AS a matter Of fact. the gorgeous Bor-
gia Is Cesare Borgia. whom history has
written as a tyrsnt scarcely second to
Nero. Mr.. Mccarthy begins by saying
that he was beautiful as tiger. and as
bright and strong as a tiger, and truly
as cruel as a tiger" The splendid ty-
rant is to be pictured in the novel as
playing the love game in disguise with
/ Roman maiden whom he first woos as
a common citizen. and then defles when
/ he has told her OF his identity.
The Duchess Of Marlborough IN the
current North American Review discusses
the relative standards OF honor among
men and women. "All We wish 30 es-
tablish." she says. is that Woman's
sense OF honor Is not expected to be
either logical or rational; and that its
! conception is purely masculine One Of
/ the first reforms women should set them
selves when franchise enables them to
do so Is TO establish a moral standard
+ for women in which every iOta win not
be relative to the sex question
Dr.. Weir Mitchell says OF his story Of
The Red City" that the period was
socially interesting because OF the early
immigration Of French mobiles who came
to Philadelphia and remained there for
! a time. supporting themselves IN ali sorts
Of ways. as teachers OF music. dancing.
French, and IN one case by 5ock-selling.
&c. The Society Of Philadelphis was
/ luxurious. wealthy. and representa- by
/ the great shipping merchants The. mar
rage OF a French noble to a Quaker girl
( DR.. Mitchell says. is not without prece-
/ dent. in fact. since the Baron Of Mar
/ b0is married Miss Margaret Moore, and
oct OF this marriage came IN later times
those remarkable trials which interested
/ the society OF the FaubOuTg- Many OF
the authors facts he obtained from a
diary left by Mrs Drinker. Quaker
lady who kept Up her chronicle from
1853 to about 1SC5.
Last year the pupils OF the grammar
! grades in the New York city schools were
u asked 10 write short reviews OF their
favorite books in the class library. From
these reviews, numbering several thou
sands. written without any knowledge
on the pupils part Of the use TO be made
| Of their opinions. a list Of the most popu-
lar books has been made. The first six
books in This list written in the order %
their popularity are Little Women, ("
sara Crewe,~ Uncle Toms Cabin, 4"
Black Beauty" Birds Christmas
i Carol" and Robinson Crusoe Among
other authors Included IN the list Of fifty
books are Carroll Muiock. Dickens. Scott
\ Shakespeare, Twain. Hale, Lamb, and
Hawthorne.
4 William Hemingway. writing Of John
D. Rockefeller at Play" for Harper 5
Weekly. says: To see this king Of
finance. the world forgetting and careless
whether he is By the world forgot. all
his immense energy absorbed in conquer
ing the difficulties OF a mere game. Is 10
receive an object lesson IN the art OF
.! concentration. He uses a cleek OF ne
\ dunn length, perhaps q triie longer than
/ the average IN the shaft Greater lever
I ge insures greater distance 10 the shot,
4 and accuracy can be maintained BY ever
lasting vigilance. II the ancient 6efini-
ton OF genius is correct. he IS a golfing
genius. for he displays the capacity for
taking infinite pains over each stroke
An article in the March Scribner's on
sport" gives q very Illuminating picture
OF the place that athletics play in Eng
llsh life in contrast 10 our own attitude
toward sports. The author says: Eng
! land. at any rate. has kept in view the
u IaudabIs ambition TO bring Up her rich
! with the hardness and resouTcefUlness OF
the poor. while We in America have drop
ped into the vulgari1y OF bringing Up our
poor 10 be rich"
y Dr.. Charles II. Sterberger. the author
Of The Life OF q Fossil Hunter" IS one
lof the Oldest and best-known explorers
in his field. He has not only furnished
many OF the finest specimens from Kan
sas, Texas, Oregon. and other places tc
the museums Of America and Europe but
he has had many lively adventures with
Indians. buffalo. &C. The book contains
more humor than its title would indicate
Dr. Ellsworth Huntington. who wrote
The Pulse OF Asia started from New
Haven last week for an extended scien-
tic trip in Palestine and Asia Minor as
the representative OF Yale University He
/, viii make a study of the fluctuations OF
the Red Sea with a view toward securing
I further data regarding the climatic
Il changes Of the region. He win then 70
10 the L-yrisn Desert. and z-iIl spend the
summer studying the geography and ruins
Of the lake region Of Western Asa.
Mr.. B. ". Bacon. the Buckingham
\ professor Of New Testament criticism
and exegesis at Yale. is bringing out a
volume entitled The Beginnings Of Cos
pei Story" Il is described as a histor-
lico-critical inquiry into the sources and
structure Of the gospel according TO St.
Mark.
\ a. E Jacomb. who won the 25o-guinea
l prize offered by a London firm for "the
best first novel," is a woman. and her
book is called The Faith Of His
! Fathers" It IS a powerful study Of lie
among a narrow community OF Dissent
ers. and Il recounts the tragedy that
tovercomes a family group through the
father maintaining 10 The bitter end the
creed OF his forbesrs. A Z Jacomb is
Miss Jacomb-Hood, a sister Of the artist,
Mr.. George Jacomb-Hood. Very few au-
thors ever received so large a price for
a first story. Mr.. George Gissing has said
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