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King Via admir- In Russia.

Mr.. Arthur Dougherty Reess drama
Of "Give Up Your Gods" 81. B. Lippin-
colt Company, Philadelphia relates the
coming Of the barbarian KIM Vladimir
to barbarian / ussia, his overthrow OF
the gods that he found there, his con-
version to Christianity and the regin-
nings Of Christianity in that land Vladi-
mir. according to the play, was an un-
daunted soul, not at all frightened by the
persistent ghosts OF people that he had
slain. 1t must be said that he was a long
time threatening them and thrusting
them through vainly with his sword.
He was boastfully vociferous, like many
another hero of his age that we have read
Of Though he could not slay the ghosts
Of the slain he did make an end Of the god
Perun, an absurd deity with a wooden
body. iron legs, a silver head and gold
beard There is little simple spelling
in the play; we marked for example q
line in which Vladimir, when his con-
science has begun 20 work, expresses
desire to forget something that has been
said to him. The line runs:
out out. ye villain words we've pierced me
thru and thru.
Happily the play is not marred very
much by this grotesque device. 1t is
naturally eventful and vigorous and it
is fairly interesting,
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Crossing Africa in Good Company.

As delightful book OF travel as we have
rome across in many years is Mr.. A. F. r.
Volaston's From Ruwenzori TO the
Congo (E. P. Dutton and Company. The
author was a member OF a scientific expe-
dlton sent by the British Museum to COL
let botanical and geological specimens.
It was not equipped for mountain climb
ing and had little luck with the weather.
70 that it had the provoking experience
d meeting the Duke Of the Abruzzi and
almost watching him accomplish the feat
deIploring the mountains which IL would
have liked TO have tried itself. 1t is not
the record of his own expedition. however.
that DR.. Wollaston has written, though the
results will he found in his appendices and
can be pieced together from his narrative,
but description Of what is seen in travel
ling across Africa such as no traveller
has written yet.
Nearly all African narratives deal with
cone feat the explorer is attempting;
the accomplishment holds the readers
and the authors attention and descrip-
tons and observations are only incidental.
That holds for nearly all from Stanley 10
The Duke of the Abruzzi DR.. Wollaston
oeongs rather TO those medieval and
Renaissance travellers who journeyed
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The Italians OF New York.

4 lr-ge folio volume with many illus
trstions, compiled for the Milan exhibi-
ton. comes to us. somewhat belated,
-Gli Italiani negli Stat Unit d'Amer-
ica" Qtalian Directory Company. New
York). Tho editor. Count Luigi Al
dovrandi. who was assisted by Signor
Roversi of the Metropolitan Museum,
sIcceedod in gathering e. number of COM
petent writer's for his first part. This
includes articles on immigration by the
editor. on ltslien manual leborers by
signor Adolfo Rossi, on It2li.n in the
colleges by Prof. Speranza of Columbia,
on teaching in the schools by Prof. Ardib-
Costa Of the City College, on the relations
between Iteliens and Americans by Mr.
Gino c. Spersnza, on meny other sub
iects by other hands, including sketches
OF the Italians in Boston, Buffalo and San
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have been careful to admit no "radiccl'
criticism. The volume will therefore be
uncxceptionable to Bible students end to
;he general public affiliated 10 their doc
trines. Those belonging TO other de-
nominations und the liberal school OF
Bible students NAV find something lack
ing.
There is much information about non
theological matters, Articles on sub
jects like agriculture" end money are
adequate and Illuminating; great cPre
has been taken with geographical points,
in the light of the lstest investigations;
the historical articles, too, are good within
their limitations. The care with which
controversial matter OF theological
character he's been evoided is ingenious,
but the suppression Of disputed points
will give TO some who consult the volume
a sense Of iucompleteness.
Another criticism that applies TO many
biographical articles is due to modern
historical methods. The articles are
restricted to what the Bible scys Of the
subjects; that is scholarly and assures
the reader Of our limited knowledge. In
many cases however. a mass OF tradition
and legend he's gathered around the
names in the Christian Church which WIS
universal before the Reformation. and II
would have added interest IL some indic2-
fion OF the traditions had been joined
to the jejune and puzzling Bible quota
tons, even if the volume Of the book had
been increased.
The dictionary will he found well
p pdaptei for the narrower public. for
which il is intended. Catholics or Episco-
palicns are not likely to consult it. while
the advance guard of the newer criticism
will be surprised to find how little i'm
preston its onslaughts have made on the
orthodox views.
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The
Gorgeous
Borgia
By Justin Hantiy Mccarthy \

This is a story of the tyrant
Caesar Borgia, the terror Of
Rome in the fifteenth century,
who turned happiness into
misery, song into groans, life
into death for the sake of the
cruelty that was in him. He
was as beautiful as "tiger, and
as bright and strong as a tiger,
and truly as cruel as a tiger"
Here he plays the "love game"
in disguise, finding an unsus-
pecting girl who is beautiful as
a pagan and innocent as a saint.
The girl, in her ignorant beauty,
adores him. Herself of the
rival house of Orsini, she is
elected to slay the tyrant, not
dreaming that the tyrant is her
lover. The story is suffused
with the color Of that red day.
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some Poems OF the West.

Mr.. Daniel s. Richardson's Trail
Dust; a Little Roundup Of Western
Verse" CA. NJ. Robertson. San FranciscoJ
contains good deal that is clean cut
mighty spectre. stripped and bare,
She stands with pallld arms in air.
So begins a poem concerning one Of
the giant trees which has been stripped
OF its bark for the space OF $50 feet from
the ground to provide specimens and pin
cushions for curiosity seekers. Another
poem concerning the redwoods begins:
Like tuftcd arrows. straight and tail,
Down hurled by some Titanic hand.
Against the purple sky they stand
And tremb.e on the mountain wall
Part of a poem addressed TO the lawless
Colorado River declares;
Roaring through deep cahons where
Not the sun himself may dare
Trace thy windIngs thou cost bore
Through the hdamantine floor
or the cosmos biting out
Clefts 10 deep and CULTS so dread
That the very birds o'erhcad
Hesltate before they leap
outward from the painted steep
Giving nothing. taking all.
Thou dost drain the mountain wall
ON each side until thy course
Prom Its delta to Its source
Marks a desert fercc and bare
Haunt OF death and red despair
Sepulchre OF whited bones
Blastec things the Sun God owns
,nd thou Iaughest. Thou art glad.
Seeing all about thee mad 90
in the blister OF the sun
Crying er-hndlnS none.
There are poems Of sentiment as we'll
"a poems OF places and things They
have much TO recommend them.
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N'' N|5's' gs57T 7T
THE SUN SMILES
ON DAvY JONES
From The Sun. FEB. 18Th.

| From The Sun, FEB. 18Th.
Strange Poems OF the Sailed Seas.
II is an amusing lot Of tales that we fir q
related in Mr.. Thomas Ybarra's -Davy
Jones's Yarns and Other Salted Songs
We erecall stirring sound from the famous
earlier poem concerning Casey. the base.
ball player.
1t is full Of the element Of startling sur.
prise-carries the same shock that we
| feel whom the umpire calls strikes on
Casey. The fret yarn relates the hipkiy
interesting facts OF Ddry's meeting uith
the icecreambero and Of his later meeting
with the Swiss Admiral.
The Russian army also took a turn at
Davy He might not have endured to
tell the tale Of the shivering and unwilling
poet had the excellent Swiss Admiral not
been at hand. His own cele-
brated locker seemed to be yawning for
him. At this point happily we read;
But one old chap a bomb-kersispi-threw
straight beneath my feet
II burst into a dozen chunks ! used one for a
The other sailed poems are similarly
surprising and admirable.
IL was mermatu OF great Deauty ana
power OF persuasion who Swan the
placid ocean and with banjo softly sang
In a waterproof contralto with a lovely
little twang." The feelings OF the salt
water person addressed may be ina gined
as he listened to her thoroughly friendly
invitation:
Mister Sailor. Mister Sailor. OF ungraceful curves
and bends.
OF the unromantic features and the plural lower
ends.
Plunge. oh, plunge In sIlvery waters gsyly down
ward navigate.
There a cergyhsh shall join us-n you don I
asphyxlate.
Mr.. Henry Mayer. the illustrator. en-
phdsises in number OF bold unfrdm-
neIled pictures the ,oy that permedtes the
book.
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A,drade the affair triumph and had even
"mssd the envy Of Mrs. Van Astor- Gould.
A Tramp and Trianon' supper for mil
Eopair,s disguised AZ tramps and mil
G,n.lressrs dressed in Watteau costumes
had rleased many. Her skunk party
hovcycr. was her chef d'1uvre. She was
.oultra double chinned that she appeared
more than double breasted. In a loud
voice speaking with an accent like a
bario. she laid down he law in indifferent
sramnar on men and things and cities"
If this is lacking in reserve. It Is still
in keeping with the general tone of the
story We read Of the beautiful Mrs.
Iinslc" and her bachelor lover. the young
harr,ster whose mouth threatened with
the coming Of old age TO be too cruel to
be- pleasant Mr.. Ainslie. the husband.
was going to his club The chances,
said he to Mrs, Ainsle and her barrister.
.rr thousand to one shall find bore.
1.,res one thing can't tolerate. and
that's bore" When he had left the
room the barrster said TO the lady: IF
that Is really his view Of bores. suicide
is his only course" Then sin an instant
adding emphasis TO the lovers strong
pleasantly,
The story is without retcence in relat-
rg the affairs Of the lovers We have a
close study Of the barrister's beauty In
the half hour before he is ready to wake
up in the morning. How splendid he
looked His hair scarcely dishevelled.
his profile handsome in it's irregularity.
bis neck like white column. For dark
nan his skin seemed singularly pale
And so forth For some reason we could
not help thinking Of him constantly as
sharrister. as a belated and rather absurd
figure in gown and wig. and these intimate
cnnf1enCes occurred to us as singularly
ncongruous At one point where we
found Mrs. Ainslie murmuring. -Oh.
Richard, Oh. Richard" we thought surely
that our reading was wrong and that what
she really murmured was, -Oh. my bar
lister Nh. my barrister"
Eirhari for man with a salient chin
and fer barrister familiar with the bus
mess Of the criminal courts was unac-
countably overcome on learning that his
fat hrother-in-law, whom he hated was
dishonest and nothing could be more in
explicaho or more unnecessary than the
stern refusal Of Richard to go to see Mrs.
Ans'le hen that unhappy lady was lying
IL from cold caught in the cemetery
while she was attending her husbands
funeral There was moment during
Richards powerful trouble on account
cf his b-other-in-law when IL Mrs Ainslic
k,I ,oL i,, har H.k
have witnessed a sight the most terrible
in the world-the sight OF a strong man
when he weeps" II is furthermore said
to have been the case regarding Richards
brother-n-law that his complexion was
notified and fabby"
The book is coarse. 1t Ia a book for
weak mind and strong stomach. but
is tragedy parts are not unamusing
Not every barrister's brother-in-law has
Adbby complexion.
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leisurely. noted shrewdly the things they
nothing about them. There is no count
ing on acquaintance with the general
facts or the literature Of the subject here
DIR. Wollaston offers only what he saw him
aelf and thought worthy OF note to people
that he feels pretty sure know little of the
facts however much they may have read
books.
He writes naturally and charmingly;
he sees the things most intelligent people
would like to know about; what a good
tempered and delightful travelling com
panion he is can he learned only by read
ing his book. This again demonst rat es
how simple travel in Africa has become
The book really consists Of two parts, the
longer dealing with the journey to Ru-
wenzori and what was done there. the
shorter with the journey TO and down
the Congo.
In this latter part Dr. Wollaston goes
little out Of his way to deliver short
and much needed lecture on tho condition
OF things in the Congo FREQ State. II
takes courage to do that in England now
that the Liverpool rubber merchants are
trying to drive Great Britain to snatch
the prize from Belgium. Dr.. Wollaston
docs not palliate the faults of the Congo
administration. but he points out the coed
it has done as well, and with perfect sanity
and hard sense shows what the "atroci-
ties" agitation amounts TO. His COM
parison Of the Congo with the British
history of colonization is notable in an
Englishman.
More knowledge Of life in Centfal Africa
will be derived from his book than from
library of African literature, and few
modern books of travel are as entertain
ing and readable.
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Mad
Barbara
By Warwick Deeping

The love and lawlessness Of
the patch-and-powder days when
Charles II. was King make this
bv far the lest story Warwick
Deeping has writtSn. Barbara,
the daughter of a noble house,
finds a clew to the murderers of
her father. The two who share
the guilt and the secret, as we'll
as a lover who comes to Barbara,
are the central figures in this
story, which stirs with wild ad-
venture.
1.-The American Nation" that great ~
poL History. IS no u eon,piefed after seven
wears of scholarly 7eork. A booklet tell
ing Of It is yours fo, the asking.
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Of burlesque. and several Of the episodes
are very funny. The woman in the case
enlists the reoder's sympathy for her
pluck end energy; her husband and his
omniscient assistant ere entertaining.
The villain is sbsurdly bad. The dialect
with which Mr.. Townsend endows his
theatrical characters is fesrfully and
wonderfully made; the archaeological rem.
nants OF extinct slang that he has EN-.
bedded in IT may be beyond the memory
OF the older survivors OF the Bohemian
days he celebrates: the praise of frank.
furters and Bismarck herring seems a
tribute to the authors individual taste
and we have detected at least one refer.
ence to the cold bottle from which we
hoped Mr.. Townsend had freed himself
All this the reader will forgive, but WHY
did Mr.. Townsend feel obliged to give a
moral termination to clever bit OF fun?
The SNUG propriety OF his conclusion ia
wholly insrtistic. end his having written
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4 Bible Dictionary

Bv this time whenever a book OF refer
erce appears with the imprint OF the
Funk and Wcgnals Company the public
expects confidently accurate and com
petent scholarship in the compilation,
conciseness and cleerness in the form Of
expression, ingenious typographical meas
ures to insure compactness and some
individual characteristics that attract
attention. All these will be found IN
"A Standard Bible Dictionary edited oy
Dr. Melanchthon W. Jacobus and DR..
Edward r. Nourse OF the Hartford Theo-
logical Seminary and DR.. Andrew c.
zenos OF the Mccormick Seminary in
Chicago.
The greater part Of the articles has been
written by scholars belonging to the
stricter evangelical churches. While ac-
ceptins all that they have thought ad-
visable from modern investigators they
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| The
BY William, Dana Orcan

The quality which sets this
novel apart altogether from
others is the quality Of the peo-
pie in it-men and women Of
that world where good breeding
is taken for granted. Here is a
young wife who struggles against
th- passionate fear that her
husband is happier in the COM
panionship of another woman
and who loves and protects the
other woman! The wife's frank
offer to give him up brings on
a climax.
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some New Fiction,

In The Climbing Courvatels" tfred-
erick A. stokes Company Mr.. Edward
W. Townsend has written an amusing
and readable story, The idea OF intro
ducing the pair Of iugglers into the most
select society necessarily calls for tone
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Al RO0ks ~
The
Actress
BY Louise Closer Hale

1t is by the actress herself
this story of a New York girl
who gives up her sweetheart for
the stage. The fun and the
tears of stage life-the real, not
the scandal kind-reveal the
actress as an original, frank,
humorous, likable girl. The
man is a prosperous, level
headed business man who knows
just what the feminine "artistic
temperament" really needs
common sense and protection.
Naturally he hasn't much SYM
pathy with the "career er"-but-
the actress tells her heart-story
better that any one else can.
The sun., 1909-02-20

BOOKS-An out OF print books supplied. no
matter on what subject write me stating books
wanted: ! can get you any book ever published
when In England Call and Inspect, my stock oi
G6oP. jean Bright IT,, BirminEhsm. England
The sun., 1909-02-20
Historic Indiana
A Resemblance
and Other Stories

By Clare Benedict $3.50
The fresh and charming sentiment
that pervsdes Miss Benedicts work,
her care for lively and ingenious plot,
her faithful presentation OF social life,
her sunny humor, her convincing
Characterization and her grace OF
style have four d a large circle OF eager
readers for her stories.
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TIE Century
OF the Child
By Ellen Key

BY Ellen Key $3.50 net
Some Of Miss Keys ideas are strong
ly revolutionary, but in educational
questions she shows originality, and
her writings have wide appeal
among progressive people. In the
matter OF the education OF children she
is the Zoe OF mechanical methods
and recommends large liberty in
the bringing-up OF young people.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-15
NINE STILL ON FIRE.
First Rescuing Party Today Reports
the Walls Gazing.

Cherry, ILL.,, Nov. 15.-The mine is
still on fire and it is now known that
more than 800 miners are inside.
Members of the first rescuing party
which entered the mine this morning
were unable to see bodies in the mine
although it was impossible to explore
more than few feet beyond the shaft
entrance. The first rescuerS to return
to the surface reported that the mine
il caving in several places. States
Mine Inspector Taylor accompanied
the rescuers when the cage was low
cred the second time this morning.
Officers of the local miners union
today notified President T. L. Lewis
of the mine workers union that 80
lives had been lost in the ST. Paul
Coal company mine disaster.
President Lewis has advised the To-
cal union that 5000, the contribution
of the national body will Immediately
be placed at the disposal of the wild
ows and orphans of the victims.
A representative of the owners of
the mines today declared that the loss
of life would be 800.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-15

cage be raised had no authority to
/ tell him what to do
According to Cowley he feared that
! in raising the cage he would risk in
jury to some of the men below and
that he might leave them without
means of escape should he lift the
cage while they were not in it.
CoWley declared that after the final
cage with men in it had been raised
the cage was let down and raised five
or six times with the chances that some
of the miners might reach the shaft. He
testified that he lowered and raised il
slowly every time.
One Of the Jurors asked why Cowley
could not have raised the cage, slowly
when Powers. Howe and Lewis appeal
ed.
Nosberg's orders again were given as
an excuse.
Previous to the final raising of the
cage bearing the rescue PARTY, Cowley
said the bell signals had been unusual
and disconcerting. He received one sig
mol of three bells to ''hoist away'
which was followed almost Immediate
ly by four bell signal, meaning ehoist
slowly"
At height of s or 9 feet the cage
was stopped at a one bell signal, and
started up at another. Then came a
six bell signal reverse the fan and
then two bells. lower"
Cowlsy lowered the cage in answer to
the signal. the last ever sent from the
doomed members of the rescue party.
The jury adjourned after Cowley
John Raisbeck, engineer in the air
shaft, and several relatives of the dead
in the rescue party had testified.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-15

IF we had been here Saturday we
could have prevented the death Of the
men who brave1y, but fQolishly. and a9
it turned out, futilely went down th.s
shaft in an effort to save the miners. ="
declared President Richard Newsam to-
day.
1.-THE members of the state mining
commission would have known rescue
and that it would be most needless
risk of life to attempt it,
Our object in sealing the entrance CT
the mine was to end the fire, thus max
ing 1t possible for a party to enter the
mine and pierce the lower levels prac-
tically. assured of safety"
The party selected to make the first
descent today includes James Taylor.
state mine inspector; r. Y W1lllams OF
the United States rescue station at Ur-
bana and James Hand and Henry
Smith, both of whom were among the
men who escaped Saturday.
Neither the miners or officials think
there is a chance the men below are
live Rumors that shot was neard
heneath the surface and that rappings
Z ~ nipes had been used to indicate the
entombed miners were living, were de-
clared absurd.
The resumption of the coroner's in.
quest is an important event scheduled
for today.
Coroner's Inquest.
The state officers here are taking a
deep interest in the inquest. but their
guarded statements make it apparent
,hey don't expect decision which viii
blame any particular person for the
fire in the mine.
The inquest so far concerns only the
rnen of the rescuing party who died
Sunday-the only persons, in fact,
known to be dead. Therefore the
primal cause of the disaster has not
cen entered into and the state officers
have been more interested in getting
into the mine, rescuing the miners or
bringing out their bodies.
Governor Deneen at Springfield has
Kept in constant touch with the situa-
ton.
AS proof of the lack of hope enter
tsined by Mr.. Earring, seven special
funeral cars were brought to Cherry
early this morning.
Early today relatives of the buried
men, miners and villagers gathered
GROUND the hosting shaft.
In the soreness of their hearts, many
OF the supposedly bereaved have con-
demned the action of the officials in
closing the only openings of the mine.
hut 1t seems that the officials took the
only course open to them.
Though tests yesterday seemed to
indicate that the fire had burned out,
smoke continued last night to issue
from the airshaft until it was sealed
and as it found vent, smoke poured
out of the hosting shaft this morning
rs the covering was removed.