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perhaps an Older generation. IL is a d.
verting tale of how the stubbornness Of
a war veteran about to be married to the
middle-aged village seamstress almost
precipitated a tragedy. Mischievous boys
hid the wedding garments, and with them
a number OF valua BILE bonds. which con
stituted the fortune OF the bridegroom
Suspicion fell on a small chore boy. OFF,
spring OF a ne'er-do-weli. Mr.. Thompson
effectively suggests the mental agony Of
this poor lad thus unjustiy accused. But
the tale is not all of a melancholy turn.
The obstinacy of Job Bixby leads 10 some
delightfully."- amusing situations. and offers
an effective medium for q narrative OF
village life i'm which a number OF divert
ing types are presented.
r. r. IN CARTOONS. BY John T. Nc
Cutcheon. Chicago: A. G McClurg
4 Co.
The return OF Mr.. Roosevelt from his
African and European trip gives point to
this reproduction OF IT. r." cartoons. by
one OF the best known American news
paper humorous artists. These cartoons
were originally printed i'm the Chicago
Tribune. They treat in large degree OF
the experiences of the faunal naturalist
abroad. but show him ina other relation
ships and activities. They effectively
demonstrate the truth of Mr.. McCut-
cheon's foreword to the effect that Theo-
dore Roosevelt has been an unfailing
source of inspiration to the writer's and
artists OF this country.
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BOOKS RECEIVED.

MY personal EXPERIENCE WITH
TUBERCULOSIS. BY Will NJ. Ross.
Stevens Point, Wis: Published by
the author
DEATH AND RESURRE(T1ONs From
the Point Of View of the Cell-Theory.
BY Gustaf Bjorklund. Translated
from the Swedish by j. L. Fries.
Chicago: The Open Court Publish
ing Company.
ADDRESSES AND PAPERS On LIFE
INSURANCE AND OTHER SUB
JECTS. BY John F. Dryden. presi-
dent of the Prudential Insurance
Company of America, and United
States senator from New Jersey,
1902-1907. Newark, n. j.: The Pru-
Dental Insurance Company Of Amer
lea.
BONBONS. BY +. r. Savinien. New
York: Broadway Publishing Com
pany.
NATIONAL LUMBER MANUFACTURE
Frs ASSOCIATION. Forest Con-
servation. Forest Land Taxation,
Private Forestry, Utilization OF
Waste, the Lumberman and the Peo-
pie. Official report eighth annual
convention. held in New Orleans. La.
April 10 and 90, 1910. Chicago.
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extricate the object of his affections
from mischievous influences surrounding
her. The situation thus developed leads
to complications which are briskly and
entertainingly traced to a dramatic con-
cluSion. There is much flashing and
clashing of swords and the story alto
gether is true to the type of the swasa-
buckling period. An entertaining char
acter is developed in the Duchess of
Croome. dowager of rare ability in
handling a delicate situation.
POTASH AND PERLMUTTER, Their
Copartnership Ventures and Ad-
ventures. BY Montague Glass. Illus
trated. Philadelphia: Henry Alte-
mus Company.
These stories Of business in New York,
originally published serially. leave the
average reader eager for another volume.
They are true to the life. They present
with unmistakable evidences of first-hand
knowledge the experiences of partners
in the cloak and suit manufacturing line.
Potash and Perlmutter are honest men.
They are excellent examples of mer-
chants who scrupulously fulfill their OBJ
legations and expect equal treatment from
those who are dealing with them. yet
alert to protect themselves. matching
one device with another. taking toll for
tricks played upon them and extricating
themselves from difficult situations with
keen ingenuity. They are kindly men.
upon whom their less scrupulous brethren
occasionally practice They have thci-
differences, quarreling bitterly at times.
and yet always making up at the end
of each chapter with true affection and
respect for one another fully reinstated
Mr.. Glass insight into the conditions of
the cloak and suit manufacturing bust
ness argues professional acquaintance. II
is more than likely that he has drawn
some of his figures from life. The i'm
posing attorney to whom these busy men
hasten in all of their predicaments. who
believes that the next best thing to know
ing the law is to talk too profoundly for
a reflex of some breathing personality OF
the metropolis These are tales that de-
spite their dependence for consecutive in
terest upon the intimate details of bust
ness appeal instantly to virtually all
classes Of readers. No one can miss the
rich humor of their situations or the
often excruciating fun of aphorisms
which flow from the perhaps unconscious
lips of Potash and Perlmutter i'm turn.
An immense amount of business philoso-
ply il packed away into these pages. the
perusal of which leaves the reader not
only better informed as to the suit man.
featuring business, but more agreeably
disposed toward those engaged in it,
An ARMY MULE. By Charles Miner
Thompson. Illustrated by F. r
Gruger. Boston: Houghton Miffiir
Company.
This story was originally printed in the
Youths Companion. where. perhaps. 1t
failed OF its full function as an impress
sive moral proposition. Now 1t is Of
fered in book form and II can be read by
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tors in this problem, are separated into
three classes: The moderate southerner,
represented fairly in the writings and at
titude of Thomas Nelson Page as per-
haps the best known of the group, the
violent southerner. compact in Thomas
Dixon, jr., 1.-The most misleading of all
southern writer's; and the negro work.
ers and writer's. conspicuous among them
Booker Washington. w. E. Duz Bots and
Kelly Miller. The all-around view of this
subject, the dispassion of it's considera
ton. its wealth of up-to-date. substan-
tiated fact and the interest of it's pres
entation make up the supreme qualities
of this study.
ALONG THE TRAIL OF THE FRIEND
LY YEARS. BY William f. Hatch
err. IL. D., LII. D.. author of John
Jasper" New York: Fleming H.
Reveil Company.
Not so secretive as trail is this de-
lightful record of good mans life.
Rather is it like a stream Of the open
field, lettering, friendly stream. inning
and outing with the curling banks i'm
memoryful talks of happenings back
among the hills of it's birth and along the
meanderings of it's lower reaches. These
recollections have the freedom and init
macy of fireside story with many
when l was a boy" refrans where in
sight and candor and feeling lead one up
Out of the active, wandering life of a
practical as well as a spiritual religion
list, bound up in constructive church work
in the south. come dozens of perfect pic
lures of men and affairs. These pictures,
simple in line but keen to essential traits
and aspects, bear the cartooniSt's touch,
though not used with the cartoonist's in
tent. Good sense. good fun, good in
sight mark this life story. and besides
these it bears the quiet directness that
stamps the manner of those who live
close to real things-as Thoreau did in
nature. as Emerson and Holmes did in
their relation to life and to other men.
One of the prettiest most appeal
ing touches in this story is the
writer's devotion to the little home cor
lovely Peaks of Otter" that broke Won
drously upon his homecoming after long
seasons of foreign wanderings. and stood
with brave and undiminished front in
face of Alps and Andes and Himalayas.
THE GOOD OF LIFE AND OTHER
LITTLE ESSAYS. By William
-Cleaver Wilkinson, author of THE
Epic of SAUL etc. New York: Funk
& Wagnalls Company.
Like a boys pocket of delectable
stuff. this-a knife. a pair of jack
stones. few work-stained marbles
what our grandmOthers used TO call a
"snuvvle" of string, key permanently
estranged from its lock, and the whole
lump sweetened by the warm friendli-
ness of a half-absorbed peppermint
all of the highest utility, not a thing
among them to be spared. The author
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which is added the tang of the man him
self, q personality that makes the reader
think of the author as a fact in back of
his style To possess Maurice Hewlett S
works. complete to the present with Mr.
Bronner's fine review added. all OF these
uniformly rich and soft in the externals
of publication as they are in theme and
literary art. and then to look forward for
more to add to this treasure. is matter
of intellectual and esthetic stir.
THE SOUTHERN SOUTH. BY Albert
Bushnell Hart. Phi. d.. LII. D., Lift.
University. New York: d. Apple
ton & Co.
To gather UP the south as such in its
individual stamp of character, in those
peculiar qualities not shared by other
sections. and to throw into relief this
body of related facts with rational
forecasting of sequences and effects, Is
the aim of the present study Student
wise. the author not only makes his
purpose plain. but he also spreads out
for inspection the materials. both first
hand and second, used in this enterprise.
He discusses himself, moreover, as an
agent for this task in the light of north
ern birth and republican, even an
abolitionist. paternity. These preliminarieS
settled, Mr.. Hart chooses as his field the
far south. purer in southern strain than
the modified borderland between north
and south. Out of it's foundation of eli
mate. soil and topography are rapidly
drawn occupation, habit, disposition, out
look and temperament of the southern
people. This is the present common high
way of investigation, yet not all set out
so briskly. or make so straight a course.
or attract so close attention in the pas
sage. The people are themselves CLASH
fled sharply as whites and negroes. The
white race separates into three classes.
III the well known social class. CD the
poor whites, or lowlanders. rich enough,
however, to furnish three Presidents
Jackson, Johnson and Lincoln, CD the
mountaineers. unique in being the only
distinct mountain people in the United
States possessing a special character
local dialect and a social system, their
life resembling that of New England in
the seventeenth century, New York in
the eighteenth and Minnesota in the
nineteenth. An examination and discus
sion of the southern temperament, psy-
chologically and historically based, makes
d chapter of deep interest, that of the
character of the negro another. The re-
mainder of the study is given up to the
supreme problem of the relation of the
veIopment of the south. The negro at
home and i'm industry: race association
and separation. white and negro educa-
ton; crime and its penalties; peonage;
material. political and moral remedies
for the dangers and disadvantages of the
southern situation, are among the peril
nent and pressing subjects brought out
here in a fair-minded. unevasive spirit,
buttressed by official evidence and per-
sonaI research. The southern people
themselves, the greatest of all fac
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himself says in a Latin whimsicality
| that his book is about everything and
no attempt toward order and arrange
ment. In friendly fashion he advises
| the reader to take it as it comes, with
out worry over the untidtness of the
gathering. 1t was more enjoyable
however, in this particular reading to
open the book at random-as the kaiser
does the Bible when seeking direction
| in affairs of moment as we do. too.
| for that matter-tO see what the au-
thor touches at these unguarded points.
"A Good Word for Book Agents to
Matthew Arnold as Revealed in His
| Letters From Pulpit Swindling' te
"A Plea for the Elusive in Poetry:
Faust y clear seeing into people.
coupled with the best and kindest of
feelings for them, reading ano
thinking point of view. habituaI rea-
onableness and consistency: and the
writing art with. now and then. a
James-like invOlution in its turn. round
this medley of subjects into a volume
of fresh and entertaining essays back
ed by an author of distinct literary
personality.
THE TEACHERS OF EMERSON. By
John s. Harrison. PHI. D., assistant
professor of English in Kenyon Col
lege New York: Sturgis & Walton
Company.
Placed side by side in this volume are
selections from the writings of Plato and
Emerson on certain universal subjects,
before which each assumed a definite at
titude in seeking expression for his
theories of life. Nature. the intellect
the over-soul, the world-soul. beauty, love
and art. as philosophically interpreted by
these two are here Scrutinized in parallel
lines. whose almost complete coincidence
points, in the authors mind, indubitably
to Plato as the source of Emerson's spir-
itual and intellectual being. This theory
sets aside the common assumption that
either German philosopher or oriental &C
mysticism of the New England seer.
any sort-lifted out of their surroundings
may be made to establish almost any
theory, and so are looked upon with
degree of suspicion, they. in this in
stance. are of scope and nature to DEM
Onstrate the large Indebtedness of Emer-
son to Greek thought and platonic in
SEPARATION. Added to the purely evidential
character of this study is the more gen.
eral interest that springs from the schol-
arly treatment of a matter of philoSoph-
ical and literary moment.
A MARRIAGE UNDER THE TERROR.
G. P Putnam's Sons. Washington:
Woodward & LOthrop.
The English Melrose prize-about
S125O-called out. by the separate de-
cisons of three literary critics and ad
Indicators, the first novel of Patricia
Wentworth as the winner. A courage
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of so high an order that it either de-
MES or courts difficulties chose the
Geological phenomenon. that blood-red
scroll of bestial passions. as the field
of it's adventure. Despite the hazard.
however. this new author comes off with
something very like a fine triumph
The story itself, that of the marriage
of a beautiful aristocrat, condemned.
and a man of the people, all in the way
Of dramatic deliverance from the gull
then undoubtedly overborne by the mad
tumult surrounding 1t, but this is no
great surprise or fault since, in fact.
no single thing under heaven could
strous hydra. The authors general
fidelity to historic fact bespeaks a
studious preparation for this task. The
skill shown fin creating and controlling
is a marked feature of the story, as is
the power of Characterization. The
types here, aristorat and third estate
are real. The individual. too. Robe
women, one of the latter almost a
Citizeness De Fargo in sinister vivid
ness, have dimensions. three at least
It is crowded stage, but an orderly
and color. 1t sums to a well construct
ed dramatic story set in a cataclysmic
field.
THE HEART OF DESIRE. BY Eliza
beth Dejeans. author Of THE Win
ming Chance" etc. Illustrations in
color by the kidneys. Philadelphia:
J. 3. Lippincott Company.
Under the natural law of progress one
rightfulIy expects to set out confidently
i'm this review by saying that here Is the
authors best book as well as her latest
one-but, unhappily, it is not equal
either i'm dramatic interest or sustain
ment of power to The Winning Chance"
Nevertheless. it stands distinctly superior
to the summer mob of books. This author
has the good gift of storytelling. with
situations natural, neither over-done nor
under, and all set out in cumulative
order Besides, a remarkable use of de-
tails in relation gives complete realism
to subjects of description, working out
admirably here in the California setting
of this story. Again. the characterize
tons are good, the people vital. with
most of them in high society, we'll bred
and natively gentle, giving certain tone
to the whole. These fine instruments of
her craft render this level social drama,
with one woman and two men at its
center surrounded by lesser folks of
simple design and action, an interesting,
but not compelling matter.
THE GILDED CHAIR, a Novel BY
Melville DAWSON Post illustrated
by A. B. Wenzell and Arthur f..
Becher. New York: D. Appleton &
Company.
If Mr.. Posts chief purpose in writing
this book was to hold wildly before the
American people the possibilities of a
japanese war he has, merely succeeded in
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Mountain Hospitality.

TO a veteran survivor Of fourteen
Washington boarding houses the re-
cent heated term brought longings for
the simple summer joys of the country
joys whose deep delights had the pink
excitements of the metropolis faded to
pale monochrome. He had heard OF
southern hospitality. this veteran, and so.
to make a combination that would run
one thousand fine in pure pleasure, he
visited Linden.
Linden is a small hamlet nestled in the
lap of the Blue Ridge mountains of ole
Virginny. on the dividing line between
the washed and the otherwise. The
whisky is not unfrequently untainted by
government stamp. and the folks stlil
use Confederate money at par.
AS the city man. the morning after his
arrival, sat reading his paper in 'front.'
of the little shack that did duty as a
tive-evidently a committee of one from
a gathering under a neighboring syca-
more.
How y like it up hyah n the
Very much indeed" replied the city
seeker after rural happiness. But II
does seem a trifle quiet"
Quiet exclaimed the native in sur
prise why, AID HudnelIs jus gwine
ter shoot er dawg over cross the bridge
in erbout er minute. Don't we want ter
20 long n see it? veybody's gwlne,
he added, persuasively.
The city man expressed regrets tndt
his taste for diversion did not run to that
form Of entertainment and returned 10
his paper Half an hour later another
aborigine came sauntering his way; IN
his wake swarmed the village popuiace
with appetite for large excitements
whetted by the recent violent death or
the dog In his hand he carried a pottie
of dark LIQUID. He halted in front OF the
city man, tucked his other trouser leg IN
his boot top. and spake thus:
How " like it round hyah?'
First rate" rejoined the stranger,
Saw went on the native. Isl Aliens
horse IS powerful sick 18th collie down
wonder n the bottom, n I'm Jes gWlne
down thar ter 'drench' him 18th THIS hyan u
medicine Don't yer want Ter go iohs :
All the crowds gwine.
ton and courteously declined. He was
deep in his paper when a third chin
whiskered member of the community ap-
preached, i'll supervising an excitement
striving to bubble forth from every 1ea-
ture. .s,.
I'm very much pleased" was the re-
:.Glad ter heah it, Say. yer see all
them folks headin' fer ole man walters
sto'?'' he continued, taking careful aim
weed and squirting forth a torrent or
tobacco Juice that sealed that insects
DOOM 'They's all gwine In thar ter
see Dorse Helms toothache. HIS Jaw
all swelled up like er yaller jacket mao
stung him. Ole man Walters is gwine
ter Dull Their tooth. an he axed me ter
come over n AK yer eff yer didn't want
ter come OVern see IL.
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presenting one extreme phase of such q
potential situation. 1t is impossible how
ever. to regard the story as document or
an argument 1t must be treated as fic-
ton and as diverting narrative. In that
light it has striking merits. 1t offers the
portrait of an Englishman of noble lin
cage. matched by a young American girl
of the appropriate degree of beauty and
attractiveness. An International marriage
is the inevitable consequence, it being
purely incidental that the bride in this
instance Is heiresS to an enormous for
tune. Meeting in Scotland, under the aus
piceS of well meaning marchesa OF
American birth whose Italian husband
has lately passed beyond. they separate.
to meet again in America. The latter
part of the story involving the second en-
counter of these two. with its swift rush
of incident and tragedy, is the most vital
ly interesting part of Mr.. Posts present
ment. Cyrus Childers, the girls uncle. a
man of immense wealth and far-Teaching
power. has built himself chateau in the
mountains of the Pacific coast. hiring only
Japanese servants and laborers and there
by bringing upon himself a swift fate
when these aliens, under the secret guild
ance of ernissaries from their native land,
strike treacherously. The escape of the
Duke of Dorset and the two women from
the beleaguered and burning mansion is a
dramatic episode, handled with mastery
skill.
WILLIE McWATTIE'S MASTER. BY
j. ]. Bell, author Of "Oh! Christina!
ETC. New York: Fleming III. Revell
Company.
Somewhat in the style of his previous
offerings of Scotch tales are these chap
tiers which present Mr.. Redhorn. master
painter. philosopher, optimist and finally
successful lover. There is no sequential
relationship between the parts of the book
and it might proceed indefinitely, showing
Mr.. Kedhorn and his apprentice, Willie,
in variety of discourses and adventures.
The middle-aged painters romance comes
to him swiftly. Mr.. Bell demonstrates
anew his versatility in showing the hui
Scotch character in these pages, in which
there are many laughs.
A DISCIPLE OF CHANCE; an Eight
zenith Century Love Story. BY
Sara Dean, author Of "Travers.
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Co.
This is tale of the mad. wild days of
high gaming and recklessness in Eng
land in the eighteenth century, when the
young blades of London sat until broad
was at such a party. as this that Lord
Yerington made a wager I'm which his life
was staked against the fortune Of another
man. The bet was that Yerington would
lose his own wealth within a year. The
loss occurred through the malevolent
management of his supposed friend but
secret enemy. When 1t came it found him
deeply in love. AS a man of honor he
was under obligation to kill himself in
payment of his bet AS lover he was
impelled to live. at least long enough to
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The Eternal Balance.

1.-THE Washington people smile dowr
upon the Alexandria folks, said
a philosopher on Potomac fiatboat. land
the Alexandria folks laugh at the natives
back in Fairfax Court House. and the
Fairfax natives poke fun at the aborisi'
mes over on Pohick creek"
And the Pohick folks?" he was asked
Where do they come in?"
"Oh, they're all right he replied
They gifts their turn plying the poor
devils in Washington what has to wear
their Sunday clothes every day In the
week and s got to come way down. tc
Pohick when they wants to go coon
huntin'!''
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Not Very Accurate.

Q ENATOR ROOT at Senator Depew's
- farewell dinner in his honor In
Washington said, anent his coming Eu.
ropean tour:
well, I hope I'll gather over there
more accurate information than that
which Lady Salisbury's housekeeper used
to give her American visitors.
Lady Salisbury had a housekeeper
who, in showing American and other
visitors over Salisbury Castle, would al
ways pause before a painting of Cath
crime de Medici and say:
".This lovely painting Is portrait OF
Catherine de Medici, sister Of Venus de
Medici'"