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BLACK VlLIANY.

| BEI.LCROFT PRIORY. BY ". Bourne
Cooke Emo, PIP. 3s4. The John Lane
Company.
| Old villains for new is the simple
formula on which Mr.. Cooks long and
complicated and quite entertaining story
! is based. The time. the end of the eish-
teenth century: the place. remote Eng
lish village. with its medieval ruin.
"Bellcroft Priory," which the peasantry
believe to be haunted Another old
house, on the outskirts of the place has
also its ghost OF a suicide. and is there
fore the fit abode of the little man in
black, the Mephisto, who plots the dark
deeds that arc done, OF which murder is
a repeated and TO his mind perfectly
natural part. Whence did he come
what is his past? He has lived in
strange countries, as witness the giant
gorilla that is his pet. A retired pirate?
Perhaps. Then there is the Young lady
OF the manor, an orphan, her wealth as
we'll as her beauty well worth nIottinr
for Add TO these the sister of a young
farmer. who is the first victim of viii
lany, the curate. the village doctor, who
is also a magistrate; Il yokeI or two. the
little black mans servant. so strangely
resembling him; that servants gfantess
OF a wife, and finally a debonair young
profligate. entrap them all together i'll
the most intricate network of scheming
and violence, shroud them in the fitting
atmosphere of remote days and places.
and you have q general idea of a story
that harks not unpleasantly back to a
past ana forgotten genre of English
fiction.
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INGENIOUS ROMANCE.

MOLLY MAkE-BELIEVE. BY Eleanof
Hallowell Abbott. With illustrations by
Walter little 16no, PIP 211. The Cen
tury Company.
The amusing plot of this little story
of romantic love by correspondence is a
felicitous find. it cannot have been so
prosaiC q. thing as a deliberate inven-
ton. 1t is d trifle, but delightful one,
about which one can say but little. since
the pleasure lies in the originality of
the idea The treatment is in keeping
with IT, whimsical. light and judiciously
brief. The author has refrained from
torturing her slender woof into fatal
substance or embarraS sing length. This.
too. should prove to be a velcon .
Christmas gift: the moral. such as it is,
being applicable even more to mon than
to the young women who will probably
form the majority of its readers. for
men, far more than women take love
too much for granted. and f. I too often
to understand that repetition of protes-
tations, sweet nothings whispered or
conf1ded TO paper. are its sustenance as
well s its adOrnment. Molly Make
Believe is a little homily on the i'm
portanCe and mission of love letters
Also on the danger involved in the I'M
Willingness to write them.
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princes decided 70 play for thelf nearesf
game Of cards. They went 10 agreeing
inn and wrote and signed should marry
that whichever won the game Won and,
tho lady fair. Prince Lucieit. time after
faithful to his word snoi island as
married her She never lelI ,,ired in Eng
land secnr,r,- ril me Comfortable income
which she received till her dea'n nnIring of
years ago, somewhere about w
1891.
The extravaganza Of society III -
days of the Second Empire Is nv
these pages. The toilets OF INC 80
Princess Metternich required TOT .ie'
transpor. to Riarritz a whole railway
van. An invitation to spe''N'
function" says Caroline, oiLeh Oe
q calamity which could not be a'o''e''
One of the lady guests of the hrs' SCI
was heard 10 say. I have been o'uueA
to Compiagne. and have had to sen d
flour mill to meet the expense. Inc
person to whom this was confesseo
marked that Madame had no uo'D'
spoken the truth, and that sic ''
nevertheless. taken care to reserve pio.''
of flour for her face" Princess oai JIM
has recorded some observations on Nine
Betsey Patterson. of Baltimore lli"N7
during the winter of 1867 1 ne
quaint American sayings of Jerome
first wife were q source of great aiiius0-
ment to her.
She was very bitter against klng JeIUILlo.
which was perhaps only natural ~ ~
never met and she always alluded 10 nl M,
as 'the son that had slipped III p9 lhlS 9e
between two NapoIeons.' 1t was so cIeeei
or should have felt annoyed was P ai
ticularly devoted to my great-uncle, VIZ,
whom | often stayed al the Palals roy d.
He was all kindness, and ] only reneIil'Cei
TO have incurred his diSpieasure once
when ] was late and kept an ofilclal ulli,
ner party waiting. Mrs. Paterson Wa
very handsome even when / knew her. ohe
was rather disturbed about her nose, as
she considered it the special feature OF hei ne,
beauty and she had met with an accluelll5
on board the steamer. missing q step, ana
her nose was all Scraped and bruised Al
though she was immensely rich. she was
very careful of her money. On leaNiue
Paris TO return TO the States she sent her
largest hatbox as a present TO her grand
SON When opened It was found 10 con
tain loaf sugar. with a line from her, eN-
planning that the sugar had been collected
tea and coffee She had gathered two OF
three Jumps each morning ana evening
during her stay at the hotel.
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Ike any other, and the philcsophic ana no.
hunahstic aspects of their science do not
interest them. ~
one is constantly tempted to quota
tion as where DR.. Slosson saws so neatly
that the evils resulting from poor teach
Ing. or the sciences are the same ana
quite as great as those produced by poor
teaching of the classics. The vivifying
touch Oh the instructor is as important
In the one as In the other. All the an
cleht eVlis which the advocates of the
new iearnlng so vigorously criticised III
the Old. the author informs us, are to be
found too often in classes devoted to the
most novel and utilitarian of subjects,
that is, the aloofness from life. the
memor1zing instead of thinking and the
cheating of the pupil into the belief that
he is getting valuable information when
he is only learning new words. {.
Everybody will agree that zoology as
taught by an Agassiz or a Huxley. Is
an inspiring and profitable study, but the
question is whether zoology as taught
by the ordinary high school teacher Is
bSNeti Ldlln DIS Taught by d i.iOh
of the same calibre."
In this chapter on the University OF
Minnesota DR.. Slosson remarks upon the
harm done to our cultured development
by the immigrants anxiety to shut off
the channel Of communication with the
higher life of the country he has left:
German philosophy. German science and
German literature have in the last half
century profoundly influenced American
thought. but the influence has not come to
any great extent through the German I'M
migrants They have sworn off allegiance
to Kaiser and Kant. together. Some OF
them. it is true. had never heard Of Kant,
but they had nevertheless been under his
sway quite as much under the Kaiser $:
. d. They are sometimes even ashamed
of their European heritage. If you call a
Minnesota youth SWede he is apt to re-
sent it as an insult. particularly if he hap
pens TO be a Norwegian.
One takes leave with regret of this
capital work, with it's delightfully."- liv-
ing touch on one Of the most truly
living of human interests.
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The GLAMOUR OF BRITTANY.

BRITTANY AND THE BRETONS. BY
George Wharton Edwards. Illustrated
- ITO PIP XII, pa. Moffat Yard & GO.
Alr. Edwards turned 10 She writing OF
tliis book after producing one on Hol-
land. and in the transition lie would APP
pear to have suffered little loss. This
j. due, we fancy. TO his having slighter
acquaintance with the Brctons than with
the Dutch of course, it Is possible that
he has had years of acquaintance with
his French folk. but VIC miss here. never
theless. the leisureiy. intimate quality Of
the volume published q year ago in the
present instance Nj. Edwards does not
seem 10 write SO Inucn as the familiar
friend. hat moro as the detached oh
server the interested, Industrious hut
rot completely initiated, traveller. And
yet the glamour Of Brittany does not
sltosether olude him. perhaps because.
s,etng an artist he could not fail to re
srond 10 the almost fantastic beauty OF
SHE scenes he has set out 10 portray
They are very old scenes. Whether. in
.F1ittanv one rambles among the Druidi-
irBl n1enhirs and dolmens Of an immemo-
rieI past or fingers 3n the media9val
Towns beneath the shadow Of romantic
4churChes and dwellings, one is never re-
Haased for moment from the atmos-
iyhcre OF an ancient and oddly self-cen-
tired. reserved and superstitious people
Mr. Edwards. duly recording this or that
H'sisht" or other fact for the edification
Re the tourist. somehow brings into his
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-11-19
Holiday Portraits of Places, ana
Other Illustrated Books.
a NOVELIST In PALESTINE.


THE HOLY LAND. By Robert Hlch 1s.;,o
iIl,,s,-arad hx Jules 6uerin, ana VIII WI
asiiofoerarsils RcNal octave, PIP a. 49,
The Century Company
professional habit IS generaliH ~
c,rsFle. once novelist always a HOY
,ris+ we are naturally inclined 20 say
and !, Is with some trepidation that we
,o1gov- Mr. Robert Hicheus into Paies-
tine. doubling il 50 confirmed rol'iaii-
.icist can strike quite the rleht Key III
dealing with SO grave "A subject his
skill I'm the painting Of landscape mas
Lang l,ean known. Hitherto he has done
nothing. not oven IN his excellent book
an Izpvpt. 10 show just the instinct for
such associations as those with which ne
has had To- reckon in the course OF ms
latest travels But the first chapter OF
Tho Hclv Land" wins our sympathy
and We have not proceeded very much
further before We are convinced that My
Hichcns is an altogether happy COM
ranion under those sublime skies.
TIe has always been a clever writer.
but We like him on this occasion because,
With delicate taste. he has abstained
from cleverness. It is not that we would
have a writer on the Holy Land push
gravity to the point OF the lugubrious-
hut that there IS something in the theme
which forbids the exercise Of mere liter
srv vanities. one may delight in the
exquisite fmpressionism OF Pierre Lott IN
some austere scene. but Pierre Lott is
law unto himself The writer who can
not command his subtle art is well adj
sieed 20 keep to the safe ground of alb
eolutely unpretentious prose. This is
what AIr. Kitchens does. and, thanks to
his sincerity and his naturally careful
craftsmanship, we have from him some
very true, vivid and interesting pages
without the smallest approach 10 a devo-
t1onal tone he nevertheless succeeds in
preserving throughout a certain whole
some solemnity. The consciousness of
the tremendous issues determined on
-tbat sacred soil is implicit in what he
writes. At the same time his eye is
steadily on the tangible objects of his
search. an eye greedy OF color. Of pict-
uresqueness, and especially OF those
strange, mysterious effects which belong
fn heaped up measure 10 Eastern an
tiquity. The majestic ruins of Baalbec.
she light charm Of Damascus, the tragic
wildness OF Judea and the high sanctities
OF Jerusalem are set forth IN this book
with a singularly gentle and. withal, de-
cisiveIy illuminating touch. The seventh
and last chapter. descriptive of the cere-
monies at the Church Of the Holy
Sepulchre, gives the book a fairly dra-
matte climax. Yet here. too, We are i'm
pressed by the authors dignity and re
straint- It IS no small thing to have
made a volume Of travel in the Holy
Land at once so full Of life and so fine
in tone. Mr.. Guerins illustrations are
sn an appropriate mood of serenity. and
the plates from photographs are uncorn-
monty admirable. This is one of the
Solidly meritoTious Christmas books
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COS the bloody struggle for the last
frontier and the security of the COM
,nunitv. With all this to draw upon,
the author has not lacked material for
plot and action. Hers is not a wide
historic outlook. but within the scope
of her vision she gives rather inform
irg picture OF the time and the place
and It's progress through many tribula-
tions II is different with her imagi-
nary hero. The pretence that ne. man
Of sixty, is telling the tale in the first
person is not particularly convincing
His sentiment borders too often on femi-
nine sentimentality. He is at his best
10 action.
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IoLANTHE AND OTHER . OPERAS As B -
W s Gilbert. With Illustrations T., N
color by W. Russell Flint no. PIP ~
224 The Macmillan COMPANY
u ;s good to see that MIR. Gilbert and
his illustrator have been encouraged TO
go on with the reprinting OF the Savoy
OPERAS in luxurious form. A Voiume OF
them was issued last year, and now we
have another. containing "lolanthe.
1.-THE Nikado." THE Gondoliers and
"Ruddigore." Mr. F'lint's full page pict-
ures. capitally reproduced IN colors, come
Justly enough into the foreground. Inc
Mikado" especially has inspired him TO
feats of clever grace. His color is dainty
his drawing has precision and vitality
his DESIGNS are effectively put together
and above all, they are full of humor.
Decidedly. Mr.. Flint deserves our con-
gratulations. But though We pore with
appreciation over his sprightly sketches
we are always being lured away from
them by things like this:
Good morrow, good lover.
Good lover. good morrow.
I prithee discover.
Steal. purchase OF borrow
Some means of conceailnE
The care YOU are feelIng.
And join in measure
Expressive OF pleasure.
For were to be married to-day. to-day!
For we're TO be married to-day,
How the tripping lines sing themselves
over in the brain again! How the merry
figures move across the stage Of men,
ory and the blithe strains of the most
adorable of comic operas resound across
the years, Like the volume we have
Just relinquished. this one, though meet
for the holidays, is destined to be placed
upon convenient shelf. where it may be
found for repeated dips into its peren-
niaIly droll pages.
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and wrote in a Spain torn By polissc.,
dissensions. which had but little l.,.,.'
and less taste for imaginative Iitera,u-.
The illustrations are reproduction, :.
pictures of the Spanish places that for.
tho scenes Of these stories.
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CHIlOREN'S BOOKS
Fairies and Wonders and Such.
like. and Animals.

Mr.. Andrew Lang has been an annual
boon to bewildered grown-ups locking for
Christmas books for their expectan,
juniors for more seasons than one cares
to remember. unless it be TO wish him
as many more seasons to come He is
in the parIance OF a vanished sport, the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-11-19
KANSAS DAYS.

TIE PRICE OF THIS ppATpTt,. a
SI III, or KANSAS BY Margaret
nm McCarter. illustrations In color
C ~ .; ~ Marehand. 12mo. PIP. 4s9.
Shicaso; a. c, McCIurg 4 Co
In the guise Of fiction the author of
inns story tells the history of Kansas
settlement from the sos of the last
century onward. The narrator Is
growing boy. at the time of the out
break of the Civil War. and 70 him and
u NUMBER or other boys whose fathers
nave gone to fight for the Union is left
tue ueiehce of the settlement and the
AGAINST the Copperheads I'm their
''''uS' ana the plottings of the Confed-
crates The Indian danger. threatening
oheh' again plays It's part In the later
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So please You, gcntIes, I viii tell a
fair tale Of love and death. II is the tale
of Tristram and of Iseult the Queen.
Listen how with great JOY and great grief
they loved each other and then died on
the same day, he by her and she by him
How is il possible to read these golden
words and then proceed TO consider the
volume before us as merely holiday
book? This is not, indeed a holiday
book at all. in the conventional mean
ing Of the phrase. There are pictures in
il. romantic designs cleverly drawn by
Maurice Lalau and handsomely repro
duced in colors. Each chapter has it's
decorative initial. the Typography is dis
tinguished. and the whole is set forth I'm
a. fcstal cover Of red and gold. But we
read again, $50 please you, gentles,
will tell a fair tale of love and DEATH
and we forget the holidays.
That is the immortal power Of this
beautiful and heart-wrenching love story
the power 10 win the ima gination from
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-11-19
THE JOY OF LIVING IN PARIS.


PAGES FROM THE BOOK OF PARIS.
BY Claude e Washburn. Etchings and
drawings by Lester =. Horribly SVo, PIP.
viii. 276- The Houghton Miffiin Co
1t is delightful to pick up book about
Paris in which there is not too much
about Paris The monuments OF the in
comparable city have been done TO death.
and one might almost risk the same OBJ
servation on the life that flows through
its streets The wise author, then, who
chooses Paris for his theme is the one
whose interest lies largely in his own
emotions, leaving the causes thereof to
take care of themselves. Such an author
is Mr. Washburn, who tells us about
cafes which we have heard of before
but sketches them in q new light. Il
choose my home" is the title Of one of
his chapters. That is much better than
The Louvre and the Carnavalet," and
we find Mr.. Washburn talking about
nothing in particular much more inter
pretative of the joy OF Paris than we
find the average oracle discoursing of
the treasures in the museums.
This sojOurner by the Seine is very
happy and gay. and at the same time he
is blessedly free from the mawkish SEN
timentality of the American who has
lost his heart TO France. He looks in
upon Bohemia and rejoices the soul by
medtating Ion the delusion of b.
hemianiSm.' In other words. he is clear
eyed and has common sense a quality
not at all Incompatible with enjoyment
OF Paris-thoUgh that may not be be-
lieYed by those who are very young.
There is no local color in this book. no
local color Of the sort that sticks out, -
but there is. instead. much of that won
derful gray tone which is among the
most precious OF the city's charms
This is, TO be sure. the true Paris, the
Paris that for all its feverish and some
times even theatrical traits is one of the
places in tie world in which men know
how to live without artifice. All of MI.
Washburn's chapters are good. but
apropOS Of that word ''artifice'' there is
one, the last, to which We must take
: terview.' and in it he reports a meet
ing with Anatole France. The chapter
is very winning, and just as you proceed
to reflect upon its contents the author
exhibits them all as the vain substance
OF a dream That is carrying the gayetv
Of this book a little too far. But we
viii not be out of humor with the vi
v&cioEs MIR. Washburn. We owe him
SEINE pleasant pages. and. besides, we
owe to his illustrator, Mr. Lester G.
Hornhy. remarkable little gallery or
impressions. These lightly touched
etchings and drawings catch the very
spirit Of Paris. and the SAVIOR of orfgi-
+ naiity about them gives the last touch TO
a thoroughly welcome book
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Literary .Nese,S and Criticism

pages also the vague note OF romance.
the vague sense of legend. which is
everywhere in the land. He is success
full. toe. in this book, as in the one on
Holland. where his architectural and his
torical notes are concerned. introducing
them quite unobtrusively. so that they
contribute to the broad effect of his mar
rative His text, in short, is helpful and
readable. As for his drawings. they are
the best he has ever made. They set the
quaint roofs of Brittany against the sky
with all the swing and vivacity in the
world. and We observe. moreover. that
composed They make really charming
pictures.
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isEULT OF THE WHITE HANDS

THE ROMANCE OF TRISTRANT AND
ISeCLT. Translated from the French
Of Joseph Bedier by Florence Sinl1nouds,.
Illustrated by Maurice Jalau 4to. DIP.
XII. III Philadelphia: The J. r. Lippir-
colt Company.
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BOOKS AND PUBLICATIONS.
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SHEER FUN.

1oLANTHE AND OTHER OPERAS BY
". s Gilbert. With illustrations IN
color bv w Russell Flint 40, PIP S,
224 The Macmillan COMPANY
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-11-19

MOLLY MAKE-BELIEVE BY E,leanor
Hallowell Abbott. With illustrations BY
Walter little 161no, PIP. 211. The Cen
fury Company.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-11-19
OUR UNIVERSITIES
A Survey of Americas Educa-
tional Resources.

GREAT AMERICAN UNIVERSITIES, BY
! ITtiy.in r Slosson NJ. s.. PHI. d. Illus
trated Svo, PIP. xvi, 52S. The Macmillan
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-r,r ,4ar.y LAND B,- Robert Hichens
IIl,,st-atad hx jules Suerin, ana "sns
1,ilof os.ra lsils RcNal octave, PIP - ~
The Century Company
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BEI.LCROFT PRTORY. BY ". Bourne
Cooke Emo, PIP. 3s4. The John Lane
Company.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1910-07-16
Children to Get of the Streets
at Night.

Christiania, Norway.-Curfew ring
ing in Norway is not custom of long
standing. but while the practise seems
to be getting more and more obsolete
in countries where it was formerly
well known 1t has been taken up in
this country with great energy by a
number of social workers, who, argue
that ringing the church bells at say
eight o'clock p. m. in winter and 8
p. m. In summer will prove the best
means of keeping children away from
the streets. And it is further argued
that their staying there after dark
has been one of the principal reasons
for the comparatively numerous Of
lenses by children which have been
reported during late years. The work
for introducing the curfew here in a
short time won good many follow
ers.
After being tried in some of the
smaller towns the practise has now
been introduced in Christiania Al
though the press has done its best to
prepare the public for 1t. the first
chimes created considerable sensa-
ton. Ringing the church bells at
night has been something altogether
unheard of here for years, and the
first night most of the daily papers
had a number of anxious inquiries.
some calling in person and some over
the telephone wires, who wanted to
know If war had broken out or a
great fire had been discovered some
where in town
Ii remains to be ascertained wheth-
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1910-07-16
Bird Fought OF Marauder.

The extraordinary sight of thrush
fighting a cat which had designs upon
its nest of young ones was to be seen
at a park in Dover. England, recently
The hen bird with her young was In
the nest, to which the male thrush had
returned with worm IN his mouth,
when he observed a cat in neighbor.
ing tree. The plucky male bird at
once flew at the cat and attacked II
with beak and wings open. striking
again and again at the animals head
The cat eventually got down the tree
to a wall. Here the bird again at.
tackled the cat with all it's force of
wings and beak. Several times the
cat nearly fell from the wall in es-
Gaping the attacks leveled at its head,
and eventually skunk away.