The sun., 1910-03-03
nOOKS AND AUrHORS.

The Prolon9aiiOn of Life n q subject
in which every one 10 vitality interested.
and the publicaiio7 of . new and cheaper
edition % Ellie MetchnikoH's ideas ON this
subject which 10 20 bs arranged soon
should be Welcoms To a large class %
readers. Ths nov ediiion includes An
Introduction by Prof charles ). Minot
The three chief evils that hang over us.
according to the author. Are disease. old
age and death Modern srience has
already made vast strides toward the
Destruction % disease, and no one knows
better that which he prophss,es than =
leader oT the Paste'Ir Institute when he
ASSERTS that rational hygiene and pre-
ventive measures will ultimately rid
mankind oG disease The scientific in
vestiGation of old age atte~ts that -enility
- nearly always pTecOcious and that lts
disabilities and missries are for the mOs'
part due 60 preventable causes
OeorRe MeFedith's unpublished Story
-CeIf and saxon n appearing serially
in the Forum. IL deals with a young
Irish gentleman of the numerous clan
O'Donnell and . Patrick. hardly a dis
tinction Of him until Ne know him." a.
Meredith Asys IN the opening paragraph.
This fanciful CelI u making a journey
to squire Adis,er ~ North Wales on
behah oG Patrick : brother Philip and
the Squire's daughter Adiante. Philips
losi love. Love vas his lPatrick'sl
vislonary temple. and his idea Of love
sas a solitary light in IL. Faith
leanneaa he conceived to be Obno NOUS
to nature. He conceived IL IN
the feminine: for men are not those holy
creatures whose conduct strikes on The
soul With direct edge. Women.
sacredIy endowed with beauty and the
wonderful vibrating note about the very
mention of them. are criminal TO hIdeoIIs-
ness when they bstray'
One merit the new school ~ irish
drama Possesses in comparison with our
plays Of to-day. according In a writeg
In the ithsRGUm. n that 1T does reflect
faithfully and uniformly the common
life of the people. Our drnmatists seem
in many instances to travel outside the
parish oG Sc James or its annex. the
country house. and even while they are
castIGating the sins ~ the smart Set
display a certain partiality Tot or eX-
ceasive interest IN such society Hence
When Our plays ~ fashionable life that
. to say the hulk of London plays are
not frivolous. they are rather rqualid
dignity being scarcely the pose Of our
wealthy Idlers. and high play aud sexual
irregulsnty being. iI their stage censor-
are 10 be believed. their main pastim~
since fashion paws the piper in our thea
tres u insists On calling the tune. and
Fr.lL
hold On ,hs English stage The Irish
playwright therefore IL no, Obliged 10
consult the tastes Of wealthy patrons.
indeed 10 probably ignorant of the lives
such people live On the other hand he
knows we'll for he may possibly hail
from the class in whar consist the JOYS
and the su6erinEs 81 rhe peasant in his
home
Margaret Deland. writing ~ the New
Woman in the current Atlantic. empha-
siEes two characteristics which she con-
siders serious The itrst - a prevailing
di.cort~nt among women and tho SEC
Ond a change in what y" might call the
feminine IDEAL II - she says the dis
contents Of the woman of privileR-. the
woman Of sane and sheltered life. which
have reel siGnincarca.- Mrs D~lrnd
spcaks 81 the young person. IN" whole
aorns. lovsble creature with rurrrisin Ely
had manners who has been 10 college
10 determined TO earn her own living and
hss views upon maTTisg- and th" bIr'h
rate which she discus@ss calmly while
h-r moth blushes with embarrassment.
ShH spec ks also of the -re-tlessness- of
the older woman and of the countless
woman's clubs which have sprung up all
over the country and which express =
restlessn. - infinitely removed from con-
ditions of generation ago The
club woman ~ to-day he's none oT her
mothers placid cortrn' with things a.
they are any more thsr she hashs
small convortiorFl charities or her sweet
and gracious end dutifuI living
ScInA - zerIof is tha first woman ~
win tn" Nohol rrizN for lit-raUIr". for
when the Raror"ss Won SuttnsT received
the Noh~i prI1e u Was NJ ot for the literary
quality ~ her work IN Die WaHen NisStar
hut for IT, tendency toward the promote ION
~ peaCo Vslma Swanston Howsrd has
written oG Miss IaGerlof's work IN the
current PmRdD''s. work which - little
known outside Scandinavia and Ger
mhny 4 d"lIcate child unable - plav
with other children. sh" listened To- The
fairy tales told by her grandmo,hAr and
AZ Q years ~ age she began 20 dream ~
becoming an author The author was
~ whom her fret novel upon which she
had spent ten years. WaS punished
Her greatest novel is -aid - ha -Jer,Is.-
Iem a study in two volumes of ireasant
IIfe IN DsIecarlm A. IN" great hsngu"t
given m her honor after sh~ received the
pri1- ~ tsO.OOo I 20 women were guests.
while ? OOO more wer" unable To Obtain