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He talks like a comrader' cried Sena-
tor William Warner, past eommander-in-
chief OF the c. A. r. and presiding officer
OF the afternoon, at the conclusion OF
President Taft's address yesterday at the
unveiling OF the memorial 10 the founder
Of the Grand Army. DR.. Benjamin Frank
lin Stephenson.
The Chief Executive IN his speech had
called the association that knitted their
thinning ranks together 'the finest ssso-
citation he could imagine" The memorial
had been presented 10 the nation, through
the President. by the organization.
through its commander-in-chief. Col.
Henry NJ. Nevius.
Thousands Of men and women and for
mer men OF the civil war crowded inside
and outside the inclosure at Seventh
street and Louisiana avenue. in the cen
ter Of which stood the shaft, shrouded in
American flags.
It was a typical q. A R. celebration.
with ell the pent-up loyalty 10 the old flag
and enthusiasm for the new country that
.characterizes such exercises. About the
iDclosUre the national emblem was placed
a. intervals. and the speakers stand was
decorated IN white. with green festoons.
Directly on the conclusion OF the cere-
monies a military parade OF regular and
militia troops wese reviewed by the Presi-
dent
The exercises opened with the playing
OF 1869 BY the Marine Band The as
semblage was called TO order by Charles
A Partridge, chairman OF the memorial
committee, who presented Senator War
~
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The Best Cypress Shingles, 81 Per Loco.
Every shingle guaranteed perfect.
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Second Prize.

White Steamer. valued at $3.50
This prize was purchased from the
White Steamer Company. and Il cost
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Fifth Prize

A European trip valued at $1,000
This tour completes the list Of five
grand prizes. and viii be given 10 the
receiving the fifth largest
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CuIbersOn Loses

Mr.. Gore then offered the Dingiey law
section as an additional sec
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THE BRONZE BELL
BY LOUIS JOSEPH VANCE.
1905 by Louis Joseph vance,
fncludin the Scandin


say that I was riding carelessly. which
is quite true. and that the horse SHED
and threw me, which again is true: but
the rest for ourselves only. Please
. What do you say"
He was infected by her spirit of ire
sponsible mischief why, yes-I say
yes" he replied: and then, more gravely.
Il think it'll be very pleasant to share
secret with you. Miss Farrell. j shan't
say a word to any ono until have to-
AS events turned he had no need to
mention the incident until the morning
of the seventh day following the girls
departure. In the interim nothing hap
pened, and he was abe to enjoy some eX-
cellent shooting with Quain. his thoughts
undisturbed by any further appearance
of the babu.
But on that seventh morning ii became
evident that burglary had been visited
upon the home of his hosts. \ window
had been forced In the rear of the house
and trail of burnt matches and candle
grease between that entrance and the
door of Amber's room, together with the
somewhat curious circumstance that moth
ing whatever was missing from the per-
sonal effects of the Quains. forced him to
make an explanation. For his own be-
longings had ben rifed and the bronze
box alone abstracted-still preserving it's
secret.
In its place Amber found a soiied slip
of note paper, inscribed with the round.
uniformed handwriting of the babu:
Pardon. sahib mistake has been
made l seek but to regain that which is
not yours to possess There will be
naught else taken. A thousand excuses
from your hmbl. obt. svt., Behari Lal
Chatterji."
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equipped with pen and pencil to give
literary and artistic treatment AT we
same time. The reader of this attrac'lNc
book is alternately delighted with the
illustrations. which are in two styles ~
outline and fun tone, and the letter pres:
which Is graceful. humorous. vivid ana
dramatic. The author-artist tells liS
story as that of a personal tour. as m
deed il was Yet this not a single
expedition. Rather is the work the result
of many adventures and pilsrinages IN
France. most of them of the beat"h
path. Mr. PeiNotto declares that with
the possible exception OF Italy there is n'
country whose little towns so well repay
investigating. and which. until the recent
years of automoJilng. have been but lit
tie visited by the tourists. He addresses
himself to the lover of the picturesque
and the student artist rather than the
hurried globe trotter. whose interest Is
CompasSed by the covers OF a Baedecker
and whose time is regulated by tourist
guide. The author gained his first inn
preston If France as Il mere boy. when
he went to that country to study. There
is no evidence of a diminution OF his af-
lection for the land in those chapters
which are drawn from his more mature
experiences.
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daughter who loves him. The daughter
having Inherited responsibility from her
father unknowingly marrieS the one man
whom her mother really cares for. Love
wires are so crossed and situations maue
So complicated that the last page IS
reached before the reader is permitted
to know Just how tho story Will end. In
tereSt in plot and dialogue is sustained
throughout, and one feels a personal sat
isfaction that Emily Stedman. the 'sma II.
pale, depressed New England author or
the questionable book. is made To write
a second novel that puts her reputation
on a higher foundation.
Herbert Quick, author of Double
Trouble" etc. Indianapolis: he
Bobbs- Merrill Company.
With the coming of the aeroplanes and
other craft of the air Herbert Quick has
gone farther into the future. revealing his
ideas OF romance when airships are OF
the ocean-liner variety. Like Verne
around the World III Eighty Days." Mr..
tQuick:s tale will perhaps some day give
little reason for wonder: yet today the
theme is novel to the extreme. The fancl-
full story is decidedly interesting. but at
times has sensational and melodranatic
strain. Tie harbreadth escapes of the
heroine and her airship are thrilling,
THE TITLE MARKET. BY Emily Post.
IlluSt 70 lions by j. Fl. Gardner Soper.
New York: Dodd, Mead Il Co.
Here the life of New York girl taken
from her home to marry the usual shop
worn noble is fully described or novelized.
The noble turns out to be a spendthrift,
using his wifes money to his own salts
faction. Social conditions are given a
thorough airing, full description being
given of the home lives of all sorts OF
mobiles with all sorts of titles. The Title
Market is by no means complex III Its
situations.
MARGARITA'S SOUL. BY Ingraham
Lowell. Illustrations by j. Scott Will
liamS. New York: John Lane Com
pany.
From the title one would suspect that
this might be treatise on the immor-
tai spirit which inhabits the body. but
it is not. The story is good for man.
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CHAPTER II-Continued.

Il don't wonder you think so. Perhaps
the man had been up to some mischief
But said the girl. with note Of
regret, we're almost home."
They had come to the seaward verge
of the woodland, where the trees and
scrub rose like a wild hedgerow on one
side of broad, well metaled highway.
Before them stretched the eighth of a
mile of neglected land. knee deep with
crisp, dry, brown stalks of weedy
growths. beyond which the bay smiled, a
still lake of color mirroring the intense
lapis lazuli of the calm eastern skies of
evening. Over across its waters the sand
dunes of long island glowed like bar
of new red gold. tinted by the transient
scarlet and yellow glory of the smold-
ering autumnal sunset. Through the
woods the level, brilliant. warmthiess
rays ran like wildfre. turning each dead.
brilliant leaf to wisp of tncandescent
flame and tinging the air with an evan
escent ruby radiance, against which the
slim young boles stood black and stark:
To the right, on the other side OF the
road. a rustic fence inclosed the trim.
we'll groomed plantations of Tanglewood
Lodge; through the dead limbs Windo"
Of the house winked in the sunset glow
like an eye of garnet. And as the two
appeared man came running up the
road. shouting.
That's Quaint" cried Amber. and sent
long cry of greeting toward him.
Watt said the girl. impulsiveiy, put
ting out a OBTAINING hand. Lets keep
our secret she begged, her eyes dancing
Just for the fun OF it!''
Our secret!''
About the babu and the token: it's a
bit of mystery and romance to me-and
We don't often find that in our lives. do
We? Let us keep II personal for while
between ourselves. and you will prom
Use to let me know IL anything unusual
ever comes Of 1t after I've gone. We can
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crimson and gold stabbing the purple twi-
light, and then the acrid reek of smoke
less drifting into Amber'S face, while
from the sky, where the V-shaped flock
had been. two stricken bundles of blood
stained feathers fell slowly, fiutter-
ing.
Honking madly. the unscathed brethren
of the slain wheeled abruptly and, dashed
by the easterly gale. fed out over the
open sea. triangular formation dwindllng
rapidly in the clouded distances.
Shotgun poised abreast, his keen eyes
marking down the fall of his prey. AM
Der stood without moving. eXultation bat
Ting with d vague remOrSe in his bosom
as always when lie killed. Quain. who
had dropped back a pace after firing but
one shot and scoring an unqualified miss
at close range now stood plucking clum-
silly. with half-frozen fingers. at an OBJ
stinate breechlock. This latter resisting
his every while. his temper presently
slipped its leash. as violently as briefly
he SWore-"D-n.
GLADLY" agreed Amber, without turn
ing. But what?"
This gum
"Of course" There We're Celebrations
which would not lend themselves to deco
rative effect upon printed page.
Then d-n it yourself, Quain: I'm sure
you can do it ever so much more thor
oughly than I. But what's the matter?"
Rim-jammed cartridge" explained
Quain, between his teeth. The lock just
then yielding to his awkward manipula-
ton. stock and barrel came apart in his
hands. Just my beastly luck.'' he added,
gratuitously 1T wouldn't we been me
if! How many d you pot, Davy?"
only two" said Amber. lowering his
weapon. extracting the spent shells and
reloading.
Only two.'' The information reused in
Quain i demon of sarcasm. Fumblng
in his various pockets for Il shell eX-
tractor. he grunted his disgust. Here,
lend us your thingumbob, We lost mine.
you expect to drop on snapshot like
that?'
Two" returned Amber. so patiently
that Quain requested him. eXplosively,
to go to the devil. IF you don't mind
ne said, IN go after my ducks instead
You'll follow? They're over there. on
our way" And accepting Quain's snort
for an affirmative he strolled OF in the
direction Indicated. hugging his gun in
the crook of his arm.
Ffty yards so away he found the
ducks, side by side in d little hollow
Pine fat BIRDS he adjudged them sage
~ weighing each in his hand ere drop
ping it into his lean game bag. This
Satisfaction Elimmering In his grave
dark eyes. he fingered in the hollow,
while the frosty air.. whipping madIy
through the sand hills, stung his face till
it glowed beneath the brown But pres
emily. like the ghost of II forgotten kiss
something moist and chill touched gently
his cheek and was gone. Startled, he
glanced skywards, then extended an arm
watching it curiously while the rough
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hes in the great city. the Englishman
who owns the estate employs Diamond
father and gives him a snug cottage
with flowers and trees around. and with
lovely fields for Diamond, the horse to
be free in. And near by one can almost
see Diamonds nest high up In the beech
tree where he loved to climb in the
night SO that he could he nearer TO the
moon and to the dear stars that told
him things that prosaic people will never
know--because the North Wind will
never tell them.
The full-page Illustrations are heauti-
fully colored and carry out with artistic,
ideality the personality of little Diamond.
picture him.
ANNE PAGE. BY Meta Syrett. author
of The Child of Promise, etc. New
York: John Lane Company.
This is not story of Shakespeare S
heroine. The author has simply borrowed
the classic name for her own enga ging
middle-aged spinster who is the social cen
ter of a small English rural community.
The author has chosen a difficult and at
times misunderstanding method of telling
her story. frequently reverting from the
present to the past in a manner to Keep
the reader at a loss to know in which
period the story -in-chief is to be deVei-
oped. With delicate touches she discloses
Anne Pages past and presents a prob
lem of tremendous social significance, the
more difficult when viewed in the light OF
the limitations of English middle-class life.
Anne Page herself is charming charac-
ter and shines brilliantly in the murk OF
her rural surroundings.
AUNT AMITY'S SILVER WEDDING:
and other Stories. By Ruth McEn-
ery Stuart, author of sonny" etc.
Illustrated. New York: The Century
Company.
The surprising circumstance which en-
ab1es Aunt Amity and her husband to
celebrate together. yet individually, a
silver and wooden wedding respectively.
provides the charm characteristic of this
authors work.
Petty Larceny" who owes her name
to the fact that her father, king David,
was once employed around a courthouse.
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reasons but tho main one il that Ii Is
SO different from all other examples OF
late fiction. An American love story.
related by an old man, the romantn
recollectionS of Il man OF nifty me
romance is of a genuine nature. anu
the quaint originality Is refreshing. me
story is well out of the beaten paths,
and this alone holds the reader. me
book shows the skilled workmanship
of the writer and it is probably the
daintiest and cleverest bit of fiction IN
months.
KEZIAH COFFIN. BY Joseph C. Lin
coin. I1lust rations by Wallace Nor
gan. New York: ID. Appleton n 20.
A good. wholesome story of life IN
the usual New England village. Joseph
c. Lincoln with his latest work. has
found a home in the hearts OF the
devotees of this class of hctloh ana
X eziah Coffin will not fail 10 please
The reader is taken back to the cape
Cod country about fifty years ago, "nei
the people were simple, homc-ioN
variety vet with the shrewdncSs ana pc
culiar characteristic of the New Eng
land Yankee. The prominent cnarat-
tiers of the village are always III .ne
foreground, and keZiah Conn. me
widow. is genial. loVable opllniSt
There are no exciting incidents Wheh
the readers spine is a course for racing
cold chills. yet the tale is clean ana not
unlike all of Lincoln's work. The New
England characters show the pest
things in human nature, the lauSHao''
incidents of = small and secluded COM
munity where a new minister Is INC
candle and the swarm of splnsters are
the white winged moths.
THROUGH THE FRENCH PROVING ES.
By Ernest PeiXotto. Illustrated by
the author New York: Charles
Scribner's Sons. Washington: Wood
ward IL Lothrop.
1t is said that every traveller feels that
he could write a better travel book than
any that has been produced-possibly an
exaggeration, but still an expression oil
the sense of personal familiarity winch
is felt upon visit to places often read
of and finally attained. Few TOURISTS
however could hope so fully to express
the spirit of land as has been done by
MIR. Peixotto in this exceptionally beauti-
full volume, for few are so admirably
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is the heroine of another plant 'ton
romance-the hero of which is Little
Yellow Phil. the fiddler
A third sketch. '"The Hair of the Dog"
mendacious imp who has Visions and
for the final story of her series Mrs.
Stuart presents with dramatic vividness
the slave daughter of an African pri.l-
cess whose whole life has been an in
herited cry for freedom. but who finds
that deprives her sof comfortable bond
age-''telling her she was free and then
turning her loose. Even this sad
glimpse of the first hard days of free
dom has its sunny side i'm the flock of
children who call Jane nanny. though,
Jane takes occasion to thank the Lord
for being an ''ole maid Lacking an
obvious father of their own. the young
sters claim for their collective daddy a
good-natured young "ruckapaw niger
who obligingly dies and provides them
with the distinction of riding to his
funeral in their capacity of the family
of the diseased
THE STAR OF LOVE. BY Florence
Morse Kingsley. author of Titus. 4
Soldier of the Cross illustrated in
color by Arthur f. Becher. New
York: D. Appleton & Co.
The story of Esther. the queen of the
Persians, has lured many romance writ
er from modern themes. Mrs. Kingsley
has yielded to the temptation to render
the romance of the tragedy of Xerxes'
queen with the result OF novel of ex-
ceptional richness of detail and dignity
of dction. She sets forth the despicable
Haman in all his meanness and craft. She
presents Xerxes the great. with his faults
of vanity. cruelty superstition and self
ishness and with his great capacity for
human love. Nathan, commander of the
immortals. and Mordecai, keeper of the
seal. and Amytis. the daughter of XerXes,
pass across the stage of this moving ro-
nance with many others. The story lit
orally follows the scriptura record. but
invests it with an intense interest as the
author traces the lives of those she has
chosen for her chief figures. The mar
rative reaches its climax in the slaughter
of the Jews, commanded by XerXes at the
instance of Haman. The character OF
Esther is invested with a deep emotional
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quality which appeals to the best ele-
ments of XerXes. Mr.. Recher contributes
eight illustrations in color which are eX-
teptional in their fidelity to the text and
BEECHY: or. the Lordship of Love. Ey
Bettina Won Hutton. author of Our
Lady of the BeecheS. etc Colorcd
frontispiece by \. G. Learned. New
York: Frederick 4. Stokes Company.
Reechy was an opera singer with the
artistic temperament intensely developed.
1t was proba bly, due to this fact that she
was SO delightfully."- unconventional so
personally charming, so remarkably sue
cessful in her profession, and SO desper-
ateiy unhappy for a part of her life.
Starting her career as Il singer in boy s
clothes in a small opera house in Rome.
she evolves in remarkably short time
to become the most noted prima donna in
the world. later meeting man chiefly
distinguished as being the most tickle
person in England. 1t is gratifying to
record that Beechy did not permit her
artistic temperament to sway her unduly
from the principles of proprety which she
inherited from her cockney mother. She
is an altogether delightful parsonage, this
little nglisli-Roman, who has hardly an
al i'm her Anglican vocabulary. The
story would be more effective If the au-
thor did not So frequently anticipate
Beechy'S future in the course OF her ear1-
er descriptions.
OTHER PEOPLES HOUSES. BY e. e.
Dewing. New York The Macmillan
Company.
Venus is the presiding and almost Nisl-
bile deity Of this unusual romance. AS
an armless statue in a New England vii
lage library she dominates the personality
of an innocent girl and makes her write
81 book unfit to be read by other lnno-
cent girls Later on the scene shifts 10
the Island of Cyprus, where the goddess,
on a yacht instead of in her traditional
shell, assumes the form of widow with
a grown daughter, and enables her to en-
tlrall a man young enough to be her son.
When the widow wearies of her rich VIC
tim she decides to marry him to her
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summoned to Brussels to design and en-
grave the "Siege of Brenda" after which
he was employed by the French king,
Louis XIII to execute in like manner
the sieges of La Rochelle and the Isle
of Re- He witnessed the siege and
downfall of his own city. Nancy, but
when called upon to engrave 1t by the
French king refused, declaring, it Is said,
that rather than do it he would cut off
his right hand He died in Nancy in
1885, still in the prime of life. The num-
Der of his plates is amazing, there being
over fourteen hundred. The majority are
however, extremely small. numerous eX-
ampIes in the present exhibition being. it
will be noted, no larger than an ordinary
visiting card. 1t has been remarked with
much truth that Callot's etchings exhibit
extraordinary power of imagination and
individuality of style. Apparently he had
n keen sense of humor and was impress
sionable, alert and alive. Some of his
e,chings are very droll and not little
satirical; others have historical interest;
a number are purely illustrative, while
a few are characteriZations. The last
are, perhaps. of all the most spontaneous.
exhibiting lightness of touch and astound-
ing accuracy of insight His beggars are
better by far than his courtiers, and sug-
gest on the part of the etcher more re-
spect. Not a little do some of these re-
call the beggars portrayed by Rembrandt
in the same medium. In the exhibition
at the Library of Congress Callots beg
gar series Is aQmlraDly set s1Ortn, as We'll
IS representative examples of each phase
CT his art: F2rsiHstance. passing from
case to case his series of tiny
etchings illusRe1tnR the Life of the Vir-
GIN his ..Ecssa1Sno' and quaint Holy
Family, representing the little Savior
at the table with the Virgin, Joseph in
attendance, and all in the guise of French
peasants of the etcher'S own time. Cal
lots martyrdom of st. Anthony is here
also, chiefly interesting as evidence of
xol11 %
gether with a series of pictures repre-
senting the mseries and misfortunes of
war. and curiously interesting pictures of
street scenes in Nancy and the formal
garden of the palace.
Della Bella is not so largely represent
ed, but no less well. His style was
graver and his line more sensitive. He
was born at Florence in 1910, the son of
a goldsmith, who quickly recognized the
boys ability and placed him under the
tutelage of good masters. At first he
studied painting but. showing a prefer
ence for engraving, became pupil of
Gallina and came under the influence OF
Callot. No artist, his biOgraphers have
said. handled the point with more facility
and finesse than Della Bella. whose execu-
ton is pronounced admirable, and his
touch spirited and picturesque. His COM
positions are we'll arranged and his
plates brilliant and at the same time
rather subtle in effect. He, too, was an
enormous producer, rivaling Cabot in the
quantity of his output. He died at the
age of fifty-four. There is an exquisite
Holy Family among his etchings on
display at the Library of Congress,