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Published By D. Appleton & Co., New York.
Price s1-5O.
We have had every sort Of civil war
story but il has remained for Robert
". Chambers to write the most perfect,
a rhaps from all points OF view that
g be imagined. 1t is almost impos
eible to believe that Mr.. Chambers is
still young man, of this generation,
who has obtained his Information by
reading. by study. by conversation per-
haps. but can have no knowledge at
first hand of this terrible period in
our cOuntry's history. The tale. as he
tells it. seems written by one who saw
all the horrors Of war and who under
stands conditions which prevailed then,
as people OF today can not.
The author writes a brief preface in
which he tells his readers that there
are no such people or regiments as he
writes Of that il is a tale of two regi-
ments-"which might have been. but
never were"
While the book tells the story OF
family, il is the war descriptions which
very young widow living in the north
and with decided anti-slavery opinions.
She is related by marriage to several
southern families, giving the author a
chance 10 present to US the two pic
tures. northern and southern views,
one may say. Of the slavery question.
Mrs Paige has for the guardian of her
property and her legal advisor a Col
oneI Arran. whom she loves and re-
spects as a father He has had sad.
history, not known to many except
IN barest outline. His friends and
relatives have heard Of his marriage
when a young man and how in a few
months his young wife had deserted
him and run away with her cousin,
whom she had loved before her mar
ria &c. The colonel in time had gotten
s divorce and his wife had. married
~ cousin the next day. What they
do not know is that she had a child.
2 son and though it is evident that
Colonel Arran is the child's father, the
colonel chooses TO deny il. However,
when the tale opens the colonel makes
an offer TO the young man. known as
Philip Berkley. to live with him and be
treated as son.
When Philip learns how Colonel Ar
ran had treated has mother allowing
her To live under a cloud after she left
him, he refuses the offer with scorn.
The young man is in a peculiar posi-
tion. He is denied by his real father.
and can not claim the name of the man
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And dost of a dead flower make a living
butterfly
Thy miracle, wherever almond trees
Shower down the wind their scented
shreds.
Dead petals dancing in living swarm
worship thee, o Sun. whose ample
light,
Blessing every forehead, ripening every
fruit,
Entering every flower and every howell
Pours itself forth and yet is never less,
StilI spending and unspent - like
mothers lovei
sing of thee. and will be thy high
priest,
Who disdainest not to glass thy shin
ing face
In the humble basin OF blue suds.
Or see the Lightning of thy last fare
well
Reflected in an humble cottag pane,
Thou smilest on the sunf1ower craning
after thee.
And burnishest my brother of the vane.
And softly sitting through the linden
trees
Strewest the ground with dappled gold.
So fine there's no more walking where Ii
lies.
Through thee the earthen pot is an
enameled urn,
The clout hung out to dry a noble
banner,
The hay rick by thy favor boasts
golden cape,
And the rick's S little sister, the thatched
hive,
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Notes and Gossip Of Books and Their Authors

In long dispatch from Kansas CITY
to the Chicago Inter Ocean is given the
plot of new novel, Love in the
Weaving" which It is prophesied will
by comparison relegate Three Weeks"
to the purlieus of ultra moral fiction.
Its author is, OF course, a woman, Mrs
Edith Hall Orthwein, and appropriate
ly the dispatch concludes by saying
that she has for several weeks been
taking the rest cure at sanitarium"
The late Marion Crawford once re-
marked that after all. the first object
OF the novel is to amuse." And surely
there is, even perennially very wide
place for the novel written frankly for
the sole purpose of entertainment And
in the hot days of summer the novel of
pure romance, diverting, epen-airy,
free from affectation and from pre-
tense, is still more alluring.
Dugald c. Jackson, who, with his
brother, John Price Jackson, is prepar-
ing new edition of his alternating
Currents has just been elected presi-
dent of the Electrical Engineers of
America. In recent article in pro-
fessfonal paper Professor Jackson ad-
vances an interesting and practical ar
gument for the establishment of great
central electric power station which
lively uneconomical steam power plants
so thickly sprinkled through the con-
gested industrial sections of our great
manufacturing cities. Professor Jack
sons ideas on the subject are receiving
no little attention throughout the coun-
try. The Boston Transcript has been
particularly impressed with them and
even goes so far as to fit the plan to
Boston. declaring that it is physically
and economically practicable, not to say
actually profitable
Who is the great American poet? If
quantity of poetry dealing with our
country combined with quality is to be
the test. possibly Whittier 1t is inter
esting in looking over the advance
sheets of Miss Lucy H. Humphreys
The Poetic New World" TO notice how
more than any other poet. Whittier is
represented among the selections. Many
things might occur to one looking over
this suggestive contents. Very early in
the book there is a subject capable of
infinite expansion-an anonymous poem
on New England Annoyances"; then
our contemporary singers are also well
represented, but a few of them being
Percy MacKaye, Richard Watson Gill
der William Vaughan Moody and John
G.. Neihardt. Comment has already been
made upon the poems in New York city.
1t is interesting to note among them
two on the Brooklyn bridge and two
on Broadway. An unfortunate accident
in the printing office injured the sheets
of the first edition of this book, so the
publishers had to wait till they could
manufacture paper for an entire new
edition.
The Business Mans publishing COM
pany Ltd. desires to announce that the
name of The Book Keeper Magazine"
will be changed to Business and the
Book Keeper" beginning with the Sep
tember issue
Yellow stars, shadowy figures, jang-
ling spurs, barbed wires, high boots,
hero, coon songs, college girls, a hero
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"THE DOCTORS LASS"

Girl Published by The Century company,
New York. Price s1.30.
Do you remember Pain, the postgirl
who was introduced to us a couple of
seasons ago by Edward c. Booth?
He has some charming friends, for here
he brings us another, quite as bewitch-
ing as Pain, like his in many ways,
but fully as distinctive and individual
in character. This new claimant for
our interest is Jane, known as The
doctors lass
Thirteen years before this tale opens,
the doctor Humphrey Bentham, had
been engaged to a sweet young girl.
He had prepared the home for her and
looked forward to rosy future, when
she left him and ran away with an
other. The doctor allowed the shock of
her treatment to wreck his life and he
became a drunken. dissipated wretch.
gradually losing his friends and trying
to finish his restless life as quickly
rs possible. The girl had no knowl-
edge OF what she had done to him. and,
having made a terrible mess of her own
life and knowing herself about to die.
writes TO him for help. What she asks
of him staggers him; 1t is nothing less
than to take her IS year old
daughter and care for her She thinks
the father is dead. but can not be sure:
she sketches her own brief and tragic
history and begs he will not refuse.
This letter comes to Humphrey after
her death, and though very unwilling
and reluctant and rebellious, he sends
money for the child and she comes.
Humphrey has an old woman house
keeper. and he tells her she is to take
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whom his mother afterWard married
nor can he tell his story without hurt
ing his mothers name. He has led
rather fast life up to this time any way,
so now he determines to forget his
troubles and drink and carouse and
fritter his life away.
He meets Ailsa Paige. He falls in
love at first sight. It. is mutual and
Philip has hard time keeping away
from her. She knows there is some
secret trouble but can form no idea
what il is and she is determined to
save him from willful self-destruction.
War breaks out; he goes to the front
as a common soldier, she as a nurse
and they meet in many ways. and
places. How their difficulties are
solved and the path made smooth is
revealed in the story and for readers
searching for only a romance it is
charming and delightful.
The serious reader however, looks
back on the book as anything but a
romance. From the page where war
is declared to the close of the book II
is a marvellous series Of moving pic
lures which, we must repeat, is almost
Incredible as coming from the pen of
one who was not an eyewitness Never
before in the history OF romance have
such pictures of the horrors of war
been shown to us. We bathe in blood
and filth till our blood is curdIed. but
not for one moment have we any doubt
OF the absolute truth of the picture.
No effort fancy word painting is
evident; no study for effects; Just the
straight and simple statement of the
grewsome and dreadful facts. Where
are the glories and dashing patriotism
or war in passage like this:
w here are you going Hev,
Scouting? Well, scout to the front.
d-n youi Where are vor
going, young man? For ammunition?
Go back to the front or I'll shoot YOU.
Get along there, you malingerersi or.
by God, I'll have a squadron of Arran's
pig stickers ride you down and punch
your skins full of holes, Orderly. ask
Colonel Arran if he can spare me a
squad Of his lancers for a. few min
utes-'"
Could you blame the young man of
the day If descriptions like this fright
ened all the patriotism out of him and
left only a sickening disgust?
A solid shot struck No. gun on
the hub, killing cannoneer No. g. who
was thumbing the vent, and filling No.
l gunner with splinters of iron. whirl-
ing him into eternity amid fountain
of dirt and flying hub tires. Then a
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tnlh' h' so tnat he scarcely heard it amid
.ne herce cheering of his comrades
tne pounding of hoofs, the futile cIat
tering of equipments.
IL was all swift, terrible night.
mare TO hfm--the squadrons brea king
my saiiop, the woods suddenly
peited with smoke the th,d an5
thwack of bullets pelting leather and
llVlng flesh, the frantic plunginr Of
stricken horses, the lightning down
crash OF riders hurled earthward NJ
full speed. the brief gHmpses of scar
let streaks under foot--of a horses
oeIly and agonized iron shod feet OF
a Whlte face bathed instantly into oh
liberation, of the ruddy smoke Moving
with sparks, amid which bugles rang
above the clashing halt OF maddened
squadrons.
Then. through the rolling ocean Of
smoke, he saw officers and men irwin o.
to hack away and beat out the burn
ing tlmbers; saw a reckless carbineer
his own tentmate-dismount and run
out across the planking which was
already afire, saw him stumble and
roll over as bullet hit him, get to
his knees blindly. trip and fall fat in
the smoke. Then Fear beloved in
Berkley's ear, but he had ALREADY
clapped spurs to his horse, cantering
out across the burning planking and
oil mo. TUE SinOhS pail.
Where are you, Burgess?' he
shouted. The fear of death stiffened
his lips as he reined up in a whirling
spark shot obscurity. Burgess-d-n
you-answer me, can't your he STAN
mered, half strangled in the smoke.
trying to master his terrified mount
with rein and knee and heel
Vaguely he heard comrades shout
ing for him to come back, heard shells
exploding amid the smoke, wheeled
his staggering horse, bent swiftly and
grasped at an inanimate form in the
smoke; missed. dismounted and
clutched the senseless carbineer-his
comrade-and once his valet.
'Out of the fiery tunnel came tear
ing his terrified horse, riderless; out of
the believing, ruddy vapor reeled
Berkeley, dragging the carbineer.
1T was the regiment cheering him
that the zouave heard"
This book is the most ambitious
piece of work from Mr. Chambers pen
and is worthy of all praise. No civil
war romance has been written so COM
plete in every detail and so graphic in
it's descriptions. 1t is a book to place
with. historical fiction, while making
no claim for that position.
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shell blew gun team into ragments,
plastering the mems faces with bloody
shreds of flesh; and the boyish lieuten-
ant, splitting out filth, coolly ordered
up the limbers and brought his section
around into the road with a beautiful
display of driving and horsemanship
that drew raucous cheers from the
zouaves, where they lay. half stiAed.
firing at the gray line of battle gath
ering along the edges of the woods"
We have all read descriptions of
the bravery and recklessness which
soldiers show in action, but little has
been said of fear. When young Philip
Berkley went into his first engage
ment he was terrified and he had never
been known as a coward in his life
A page of description is not too much
to quote here for it tells of this phase
most graphically and how it was over
come by action before he had time to
think:
Fear had squired him
that day. When the bugles sounded
through the cannon thunder and his
squadron trotted out, Fear, on a paler
horse than Death bestrides. cantered
with him, knee to knee. Fears star
tied eyes looked into his through the
jetted smoke of musketry, through the
tumult of the horses and the trum-
pets; Fear made his voice light and
The San Francisco call., 1910-09-04

York After the narrowness of a cir
cult life. the wife expected New York
to delight her, but she was disap-
pointed.
Il have not been morally offended by
anything l have seen in the theaters or
other places of amusement. but 1 have
had conscientious scruples about the
churches here. This would be the Sab
bath day far away in the country,
where the hills are at prayer and the
pine trees swing their shadows over
the Redwine churchyard. But here in
New York it is merely the day when
you change your occupations and
Still there is preaching
for those who are not drunk or asleep,
or in the park, or at Coney Island or
giving weekend parties at their social
istic scantlings of thought and barbed
wire theories of the brotherhood of
man."
The book is unlike any other 1t is
sensational but sane Illustrated by
Walter II. Everett
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Il never knew but one pastor who
told the whole truth in a funeral SER
mon, and he had to be moved immedi-
ately by his presiding elder. The whole
community regarded it as one of the
most brutal outrages that had ever been
perpetrated in their midst"
"A woman is a very poor creature. I
think she bankers more just for love
than she does for heaven. L don't know
how she will get on in place where
there is neither marrying nor giving in
marriage. It's bound to be hard on
her if the Lord does not give her some
thing more than harp and golden
crown with which to fill the aching void
she is sure to have somewhere under
her breast feathers"
Eventually the minister grows old
and goes upon the superannuated list,
and the allowance for superannuated
ministers being what it is, it is very
convenient that he dies.
The wife then accepts the invita-
tion Of rich sister to visit her in New
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Published By The Henry Altemus company. Phil
sedphia. Price $50.
This is q story of spiritual Drawn
END worldly humor. told with a wit that
IS never sacrilegious and a tenderness
that is never maudiin. Every sentence
OF II winks with a tear in its eye at
tne reader. The hero and heroine Of il
Sre two old Methodist itinerants,
preacher and his wife, who have prac-
5tfced beatitudes for 30 years among the
people on backwoods circuits in north
Georgia. There is everywhere the
sweet vision Of the fields of humble
homes. Of long country roads leading
10 the. meeting houses" but the scenes
: re really laid in the hearts of the
preacher and his wife and Of the simple
folk they served with a gravity that
rs half hymnal and always more than
halt smiling. The application OF world
ly philosophy to heavenly things will
draw the world close to the book and
the tender effulgence OF humor which
gloWs upon every page gives it a pc
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culiar and happy fascination. The cir
cult riders wife says in the begin
ming:
But now, after an absence of nearly
80 years, 1 am addressing this series of
letters to the people OF the world con-
corning life and conditions in another,
removed from this one by the length of
country roads, by the thickness of
church doors, and by the plate glass
surface of the religious mind They
Will record some experiences of two
Methodist itinerants and whatever I
think besides, for they are written more
particularly TO relieve my mind of a
very great burden of opinions, for Will
lam has been promoted. He has re-
ceived his Ii. D. in the kingdom of
heaven by this time, If there are any
degrees or giving of degrees there
along with Moses and Elijah. And 1
doubt if there is more respected saint
in that great company
Listen to some OF her keen telling
commentss
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from him till he can send her to a
boarding school. The girl has no such
ideas. Humphrey has evidently been
painted to her in glowing colors and
she refuses to believe that he does not
wish to see her. So in she walks and
hugs and kisses him and demands love
and affection in return. Despite Hum
phrey's bitterness he tolerates her at
first, but in an Incredibly short time
he is her slave. He turns over a new
leaf in his own life. too. drops his
boisterous friends and drinks no more.
Jane is an adorable heroine and
Humphrey fails In love, of course. but
his path to happiness Is not clear A
The San Francisco call., 1910-09-04

By Edward {. Booth. author of The Post
Girl Published by The Century company,
New York Price 81 30
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1910-09-28

ator Root, then premier of the then
national administration, was selected
at the meeting of the state committee
held month before the convention.
"As chairman of the Republican
state committee no one had suggested
to me, or, as far. as I know, to any
other member Of the committee, the
name of any other person than the
vice president as temporary chairman
until Mr.. Griscom, sitting in the COM
mittee as proxy, moved to substi-
tute another name for that of Vice
President Sherman after the latter's
name had been: properly presented.
What was the object Of this action?
1.-THE correspondence between Colo
mel Roosevelt and myself just after
the meeting of the state committee
shows more clearly than can other
wise be presented that his opposition
to the selectionSo of Vice President
Sherman was not based on any per-
sonal grounds, but because he desired
an opportunity to present his views
as to the policies which should here
after guide the destinies OF the Repub-
lican party" ~ -1..~--
Reads Some Correspondence. =
Chairman Woodruff here read sew
eral letters between himself and Colo.
mel Roosevelt and continued:
Colonel Roosevelt manifestly meant
that he desired to. PROFOUND the doc
trine of the new nationalism, admit.
ting with his characteristic frankness
that we were right in selecting the
vice president If we preferred the ira
ditional Republicanism of the admin
istration of William H. Taft, founded
upon the great national administration
of Lincoln, Grant, Mckinley and
Roosevelt himself, for which James S.
Sherman, with his quarter of a Gen.
fury of splendid services in congress
and as vice president, has always
stood and stands today.
"In accordance with the instructions
of the state committee, present as
temporary chairman of this conven-
ton Hon. James S. Sherman"
Chairman Woodruff added to his
speech the letter written by Vice
President Sherman to the state COM
mittee asking that the committee in
vestigate the charges that his selec.
ton had been made by misrepresenta.
ton and the committee action on the
matter.
The committee, Mr. Woodruff said,
decided that Vice President Sherman's
selection was made. without deceit and
Misrepresentation.
Pays Respects to Roosevelt.
Abraham Gruber Of, New York, who
had been selected to fire the broad.
sides of the old guard against Colo,
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mel kROOsevelt's selection, was recog-
nized and made his way to the plat
form. Colonel Gruber made a bitter
attack on the former president. He
said, In part:
Twelve years ago on this platform
l warned Republican convention.
against turning the executive mansion.
into shooting gallery. Ny advice.
was not needed. Since that memora.
BILE day the man who has ever since
been shooting has seen his party or
ganization divided in every state, his
party's candidate overwhelmingly de-
feated, business depressed and the in.
telligent and honest workingman with.
out employment and hungry. Look.
ing for other fields for shooting prac.
tice, this man Is now shooting at the
courts and its judges.
Himself posing as a lawyer, who
never had case or drew a brief, he
now finds sport in holding up the
courts and judges to the scorn Of the
mob. But this is not a new. symptom.
It is an old disease. This apostle of
sDerringer practice, while he was presi.s
dent, abused Judge Humphrey of the
United States court, a gentleman and
an honest man. for rendering de-
cision which was made according to
the laws and which to this day is un.
reversed When the United States an.
pellate court reversed Judge Lands
the same shooter, not from the, head
Of a barrel, but from the White House,
sanctified by Abraham Lincoln, told
the people of the United States that
the judges had been guilty Of miscar..
ry1ng Justice" -
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Floats Above Paris for Hours.

Paris, Sept. 2S.-The French war
dirigible Colonel Reynard cruised over
Paris for three and one-quarter hours
at an average height of 400 feet. The
balloon assembled and alighted at
Issy. suburb. 1t was under perfect
control and was put through some diff
ticult maneuvers. -, -
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The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1910-09-28

ator Root, then premier of the then
national administration, was selected
at the meeting of the state committee