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New-York tribune., 1910-12-31
LYNN PEACE COUNCIL PLANNED
Object Of Organization Will Be to Pre-
vent Strikes in Shoe City.

Lynn. Mass. Dec. 50.-There is a move
ment on foot among the shoe workers of
this city, the largest shoe manufacturing
centre in the world, for the establishment
of peace council. the object of which will
be to prevent strikes. Walter g. Murphy,
president of the Goodyear Operatives
Union, has undertaken to appear before
each of the unions connected with the indus
try and outline the plans for the proposed
organization.
one representative to a central body to be-
known as the Peace Council This cent. & /
tody is to have the power to restrain any
union from declaring a strike until all eI-
forts to settle the difficulties by arbitra-
ton have failed. The Goodyear operatives
and tEe heelers have already declared in
favor such an organization.
It is provided also that the business inter
ests of the city in general and the shoe
manufacturers shall have a representation
On the council.
New-York tribune., 1910-12-31
FLEETS H0MEWARD VOYAGE
q. s. Battleships. Of scilly ISL
ands Will Sail To- day.

c,.,,., France Dec 30-The sixteen
...,.ss,rs comn-isine the. United States
Atlantic Fleet, gathered off the sciiiy io
,,ds today. following goodbys at the
French, and English ports where the oiiiOe'
.nd men have been entertained by govern
,,en+ officials and civic bodies for the last
six weeks.
Tomorrow the warships Will turn their
prows homeward, the immediate DESTINATION
being Guantana no, Cuba, where they are
due on January 16
The first division. comprising the battie-
ships Connecticut. the Delaware. the MICH
igan and the North Dakota, under COM
mand of Rear Admiral Schroeder. COM
mander in chief OF the Atlantic fleet. sailed
from this port at o'clock this morning AS
the vessels passed out Rear Admiral
Schroeder, from his flagship. the Connecti-
cut. signalled a cordial message of fare
we'll to the French naval authorities. sa-
lutes We're exchanged with the French
squadron
The third division. comprising the Min
nesota, the Idaho. tine Mississippi and the
Vermont, Rear Admiral Murdoch COM
manding sailed from Brest at 2:30 o'clock
this afternoon Earlier In the day the sec
ond division, made up Of the Louisiana, the
Kansas. the New Hampshire and the South
Carolina. left Portland, England. while the
fourth division, including the Georgia, the
Nebraska, the Rhode Island and the Vir-
ginia. set sail from Gravesend yesterday.
In addition to the search problem, in
which the battleships Will attempt to es-
cape the vigilance of the scout cruisers
lying in wait for them. and approach un-
noticed the American coast. tne divisions
combined will undergo feet manoeuvres
en- route.
yxykiIa =. U-,,ro,o.o ,r,to-s .L.o Sa,.r;oo,
ships, officers and men made a most pleas
ing impression.
New-York tribune., 1910-12-31
Literary .Neta,S and Criticism

ends suggestively with a comparison OF
our millionaires with those of Europe,
who give nothing away, who would
laugh at the mere suggestion that it Is
their duty to give away money, or that
they hold it in trust for the people or for
society at large, a theory held by so
many American millionaires in practice,
and even put forward by some OF them
in theory. The book is a kaleidoscope of
American life, ever changing; it reaches
no wide generalizations, as has already
been said, but it may we'll help the for
eigner to see US more clearly, as it is
sure to help Us TO understand better our
selves the causes and the relations of the
many little things" and many of the
greater ones of our life.
New-York tribune., 1910-12-31
FUN FOR BLIND CHILDREN
Will Have a Magazine All Their Own,
in Raised Letters.

From the Lighthouse at No. rs East
59th street, the New York Association for
the Blind will send out on New Years
morning HUNDREDS of copies of The
Searchlight," a new magazine for the blind
children of the city. The publication was
established by the association in response
to letter sent it by a blind child vino
wanted a magazine all our own" 1t is
the first publication Of it's kind that has
ever been issued, and it will De distributed
free to the many blind children the society
Is constantly in touch with.
There win be letters from the children
themselves, talk by the Lighthouse
Keeper" stories of adventure, puzzle de-
partment and numerous other features for
their amusement. The magazine will be
printed in raised letters. and each little
reader will be presented with a calendar OF
the same sort for the year 1911
with the issuance of the new publication
the association appeals for funds for its
support The organization is entirely sup
ported by voluntary contributions. and the
publication of the magazine has severely
strained its financial resources.
New-York tribune., 1910-12-31
DICKENS ANECDOTES
Told About the Novelist by His
Son.

Mr.. Alfred Tennyson Dickens, who
has been lecturfng in London on his
eminent father, is described as being
remarkably like that parent. "He has
not,"1the Pail Mall Gazette says, "the
beard or the flashing dark eyes. but he
has other characteristics in full meas
ure-the prominent brow, the sturdy
nose. the high cheek bones, the forcefui
mouth and chin, and the flexible tonai-
ity of utt,-rance; even the simple ges-
tires of the old-fa shioned and unframed
reciter with a natural weakness for elo-
auence and descriptive splendors of Ian
guage.''
One of his stories related to Dickenss S
interest in crossing sweeper OUTSIDE
his door in the early SOS. He took pity
on the waif and arranged that he should
have his meals in the kitchen and that
he should attend a night school. Two
years later he provided an outfit for the
lad and sent him to Australia, whence
many years after came grateful letter
describing it's writer's prosperity. The
novelist, meanwhile, had used the boy
as model for Poor 10 in BLEAK House"
Another story was this:
Another admirer of Dickens's, stranger,
wrote in middle life to say that he had
| thIiven and owed his success in life to a
Dickens's writings. He was, a practical
MIN, this correspondent, and enclosed a
cheque for $500. Dickens returned the
,heque, but valued the praise, saying that.
though a man of moderate means, he
might account himself fairly prosperous,
md it was against his rule to receive
Of tod Iloy actor Ia
could see no objection, however, to any
small souvenir which the donor might
magnificent basket of silver fillgree, with
medallionS representing the four seasons.
By way of compliment the donor removed
the winter picture as in no way emblematic
of the novelist he was nonourins, and in
another way the symbolism of the gift
rang true, alas. for Dickens never saw
another winter
Mr.. A. T. Dickens appears to have gem
uine gifts as lecturer. and is espe-
cially entertaining in his presentation of
new anecdotes of his father.
4 relic of Charles Dickens, which is
for sale in London, is the gun mentioned
in his letter to Wilkie Collins under date
of October 24, 1860: "Rumors were
brought into the house on Saturday night
that there was a ghost up at Larkin'5
monument; Ploon was frightened to
death, and 1 was spprehensive of the
ghosts spreading and coming here, and
causing warning and desertion among
the servants; Frank was at home. and
Andrew Gordon was with us; time, 8
O'Clock; village talk and credulity amaz-
ing; l armed the two boys with a short
stick apiece, and shouldered my dOH5ic-
barreiEed gan 1ccH lomded aeith shot.
Now observe says I to the domestics
If anybody is playing tricks and has got
a head I'll blow it off 4"
New-York tribune., 1910-12-31

hcEEN T.. by FRANK
Lille Pollock Illustrations by ii: }.
Peck 12nao. pp 322. New York: The
Macaulay Company.
Mr.. Pollock's shilling shocker''-it is
more than a penny dreadfuP'-is far
from bad reading matter for whoever is
looking for something that will divert
his mind for an hour or two from more
serious pursuits or who wishes to fill
an idle moment in an inconsequential
way. There is plot enough here to fill
to overfiowing a narrative that is not
spun out to exceeding length. The trou-
BILE starts with the villanous physical
double Of a Californian newspaper
man who is heroieally trying TO nurse
a deserted mining town back to its pros
perity. The resemblance between the
two is not very great On closer inspec-
ticn, but as the villain has ample reason
TO keep under cover, it almost suffices
for his purpose. Next, We are aboard a
steamer bound for the Klondike. It runs
into an iceberg, is wrecked, the news
paper man alone is saved by jumping on
the berg. and-tIle frozen fortune is
found. The ice contains gold in large
quantities. This is only the beginning
of the story, for next there is a rescue at
sea, a mutiny and a hunt for the frozen
fortune that is rapidly disappearing as
the berg melts on its southwark way.
The paths of the doubles meet again,
and with them walks senorita who
considers assassination a mere incident
of temperanental existence. Which
reminds us to add that there is also a
Iovable and capab bic heroine.
New-York tribune., 1910-12-31
vETOES TILDEN MONUMENT
Madison Square Site Objected to b.
Municipal Art Commission.

The Municipal Art Commission has dis
approved the design and location Of the
proposed Tilden monument on the west side
of Madison Square
John Quincy Adams Sd, secretary to the
commission, explained yesterday that the
disapproval had been due solely to the be-
lief that the site should net be used for
any monument. and that it was impossible
to accept the design without also approv-
ing site for it. There are monuments al
each of the four corners of the park now:
that of William II. Seward at the south
west corner; that of Roscoe Conkling at the
at the northeast corner and that of Adj
miral Farfagtt at the northwest corner.
William Ordway Partridge designed the
monument, and Wilder and White designed
the pedestal.
New-York tribune., 1910-12-31

Carac the Inca of Peru. and rising high
in the favor of that rulers successor,
teaches the people many things, which
is in accordance with the vague Indian
legends of wise white man who visited
them long before the coming Of the con-
qustadores. The author follows Garsi-
laso de la Vegas account Of Pizarro's S
conquest Of Peru very closely in the his
toricaI part of his narrative. which takes
in the struggle between Atanualpa ana
his brother Huascar, the coming OF the
Spaniards and their reign of terror. The
fiction interviewer with this consists
chiefly of the love of the English adven-
turer and a daughter of the old ruler. A
conscientious and very tame attempt at
historical romance
New-York tribune., 1910-12-31
ESSAYS.

ANARCHISM AND OTHER ESSAYS By
Emma Goldman. with Geographic sketch
hy HippoIyte Havel- 12mo. pp- 2tI.
trhe Mother Earth Publishing Associa-
tion.)
A collection Of twelve essays Some OF
the titles are Francisco Ferrer and the
Modern school, THE Drama: A Power
full Dissemination OF Radical Thought.
patriotism: Menace to Liberty.
Woman Suffrage and The Hypocrisy
OF Puritanism, etc.
FINANCIAL, ECONOMIC AND MISCELLA-
NEOUS SPEECHES AND ESSAYS. By
Henry CIews. Frontispiece- Svo. PIP. TX,
4:s. tThe irving Publishing Company
Included in this volume are the author
a,Idrl sses on Socialism and American
citizenship Negro Education" and Ma
tional Ideals. etc.
REVISED DARWINISM: OR, FATHER WAS
MANN ON EVOLUTION. BY the Rev
Simon Fitzsimons. i2mo, PIP. 81 0 J.
Kennedy & Sons.}
An essay dealing wholly with the scien-
tific and philosophical aspects of the prob
lem of evolution.
New-York tribune., 1910-12-31

number of old coins and three pieces OF
bronze Two of the latter fitted ana
formed one piece five inches long by one
inch broad The three pieces are IN
scribed with Greek characters. Iney
were sent to Mr.. Grueber, keeper OF the
department of coins and metals at the
British Museum. who replied that the
two pieces referred to are an Athenlah
jurors ticket of the fourth century peioIe
Christ The inscription states that the
ticket belonged to enc Polystratos OF
Halae. of the 9th section that town.
Mr.. Grueber added that these tickets are
rare, only eight being known, OF wnlch
four are in the British Museum, ana tnat
the find is of very special interest. he
asked where this one was found, as u
could not have been found in England
or Wales. The Bangor curator is unaple
to answer the question. Captain Jones
travelled all over the world ana col
lected the objects in his museum from all
countries.
New-York tribune., 1910-12-31
EDUCATIONAL.

CHILD LIFE IN SONG AND SPEECH.
Study in Development. By Alys T. Bent
ley From tispiece I2mo, PIP 23 (The
\ s. Barnes Company
manual on voice training for chill
dren,
TONE PLAYS FO1 CHILDREN. BY Alys T.
Bentley svo, no pagination. tThe A. 9.
Barnes Company
Comprising exercises for the develop
ment of the voice OF the child
INDUSTRIAL. STUDIES. United States. By
Nellie B. Allen. illustrated 12mo, pp
xii, $50. (Boston: CHM & Coz
Chapters on the Industrial life of the
United States intended for the use OF
children from the fifth grade up In these
studies each industry is dealt with as
type. so that the Tupl meeting with the
same subject in later work will under
stand its essential f aUures.
New-York tribune., 1910-12-31
BANQUET" FIT FOR A KING
Alfalfa from Soup to NutSAnd Neb-
uchadnezzer Dead and Gone.

Rife. Col, Dec. 3o.-A menu which might
have made the mouth Of Nebuchadnezzar
water in the latter days of that Biblical
personage's life has been prepared for a
banquet to be given here in celebration
of the opening of an alfalfa mill The
succulent green plant will appear in every
dish on the board
Biscuits will be made of alfalfa meal, the
turkey will be stuffed with alfalfa, mashed
alfalfa Will take the place of potatoes
and alfalfa leaves will counterfeit spinach.
Alfalfa salad will be served, and for bever-
ages there will be alfalfa tea and alfalfa
cider. At the end of the feast toothpicks
made of alfalfa straw will be distributed.
For mental food the guests will listen
to Ex-Governor Alvah Adams discourse on
Apples and Alfalfa"
New-York tribune., 1910-12-31
RIVAL SPONSORS CHOSEN
Two Arkansas Girls Selected 80 Mama
BattIeShip

Little Rock. Ark. Dec 30.-The annource-
ment from Washington that daughter OF
Representative r. 3. Macon, OF Arkansass
had been selected to name the battleShip
Arkansas when the vessel is launched at
Camden. y. J.. on January II. mas devei-
oped an interesting situation. Governor
Douaghey has also named sponsor. MISS
Marion Clarke, daughter of Senator James
P. Clarke.
Governor Donaghey said that ne was net
advised by the Arkansas delegation u
Washington at the time of making his ap-
pointment.
New-York tribune., 1910-12-31

T. =
lex Orin Bartlett. Illustrated by Howard
ton: Small, Maynard & Co.
He was a joVial prodieal on his own
account. the son OF A bus ness man who
preferred the service O. Art . the offices
where the family fortune was being
built up. but cir TC-.ls stance led him to
rlay the part of another prodigal as
Well who refused to return home when
his dying father inplored him to do SO.
An act of humanity, therefore, made
possible by that other fathers falling
,yesight But when a man thus rashly
consents to impersonate another, with
cut any knowledge whatever OF his past
deeds and nlisdeeds. complications are
likely to ensue. This is what happened
in the case of which Mr.. Bartlett tells
In this amusing book, whose scene, it
must be added, is laid in the Catskills in
the summer time when artists go
sketching under smiling skies and fair
rnaidens roam the country lanes It is
in this story. one is inclined 10 believe,
that the rural free delivery rostman
makes his first appearance as an agent
Of Cupid ir our fiction.
New-York tribune., 1910-12-31
BOOKS AND AUTHORS
Current Talk Of Things Present
and to Come.

Mr.. Edward Marston. the father Of
English publishing" is at the age Of
eighty seven about to publish a journal
OF night thoughts acquired during his
wakeful hours. He entities it AN Old
Mans Noctuary''
A characteristic incident is noted in
the just published portion of Crispis S
diary. It occurred at the royal recep-
ton at Naples on November 7, 1860:
Presentations at court in the throne
room. Garibaldi aside with his hat on.
One of the courtiers is surprised at this
Breda replies: The grandees of Spain
had the right to keep their hats on be-
fore the King; Garibaldi is the Grandee
of Italy. He can do even more"
Lovers of prints and of architecture
have long been waiting for just such a
volume as Mr.. Arthur Samuers
'Piranesi." just published by Batsford
in London and Immediately to be
brought out here by the Scribners. The
art of one of the most picturesque etch-
ers of the great monuments OF the past
who ever lived is traversed in this vol
ume with the keenest sympathy. More
over, the author treats Piranesi not
only as an artist but as a man, and has
something 10 say about his time A
number of the famous plates are repro
duced in photogravure and a list OF the
etchings is given, with a bibliography
The new book about Racine. written
by NJ Mason Forester in whose veins
runs the blood of the poets family. has
a particularly interesting frontispiece. It
Is a reproduction of the portrait now in
the Museum of Langres. which was
painted just after Racine had written
"Phedre." It is said 10 bear a strange
resemblance to the early portraits of
Shelley.
There are many hitherto unpublished
documents in NJ. Gaspard Valettes new
book. lean Jacques Rousseau. Gene
vols" The author has undertaken to
r-ove. we are told, that Rousseau was
essentially a Swiss and not a French
man, I I'd more particularly that he was
a eitfzrfr OF Geneva, not only by early
association but in his ideas, tastes and
pTejudices.
While Harper &, Bros. are complet-
ing their admirable thin paper edition in
pocket volumes # the works of Thomas
Hardy we wish they could see their way
to including in it those fugitive pieces Of
which have not yet been put into
book form. Some of these waits al
strays are recalled BY q writer in ''Tny
Manchester Guardian" AS Far back
as l-6J Hardy wrote Tor "Chainbers's
Journal an article on y r' I Built My
self a House" Elsewhere. years ago. he
wrote on Ancient EarthWorks at Cas-
terbrf lge," Tho Dorsetshire Laborer
ard Memories Of Church Restoration. e"
n ne 70's there is record of his having
.litteu on "Dialecl in Novels and the
.oems # william Barnes. and these
critics papers also embrace notes on
..The Profitable Reading Of Fiction" and
aCandour in English Fiction From
1891 dates q piece on Why Do Not
Write Plays" and it ;s said that there
are three short stories of his awaiting
reUublica ton. An Indiscretion in the
Life OF an Heiress,'' The Romantic Al
New-York tribune., 1910-12-31
GENERAL HOWE RETIRES
Colonel j. w. Duncan Promoted
to Brigadier General.

Washington, Dec. 50-BrigadieT General
Walter Howe, after forty-three years or
service in the army, will retire from active
duty tomorrow. having reached the age
limit of sixty-four wears. The vacancy thus
created will be filed by the promotion or
Colonel Joseph W Duncan, of the 9th m
faLtry. to brigadier general
Colonel Duncan is the son Of the late
BrigaGier General Thomas Duncan and a
grandson of Captain Matthew Duncan. OF
the Ist Dragons. He was born IN an army
tent at Fort-Eweil, Texas. on June y. 1876.
New-York tribune., 1910-12-31
A TALE OF THE rECAS.

THE UNsTRUNG POW 4 story Of Con-
quest BY David o. Ratchelor 10.
PIP $50 Boston: sherman, re ca a. Co.
This story purports to be the narrative
of ar Englishman Who. sent on a mis-
sion to the Pope by Henry VIII was
sIlipwrecked near Gibraltar and picked
ND by the Spanish galieon that was
carving Pizarro 10 the New World
This Englishman. kidnapped by the Ind
iaus, is carried TO the court Of Huayna
New-York tribune., 1910-12-31
JUVENILE.

THE poiNGs OF THE DOLLIvERs. The
Strange Adventures of a Doll Family
By Grace MacGowan Cooke With Illus
trations BY Harry I.fnuell. 12mo. pp- III
(The Sturgis & Walton Company.)
Telling OF a little community Of dolls
Of different types and colors that live
life of their when the children have
left the nursery.
AN OI-T-OF-DOOR DIARY FOR BOYS AND
GIRLS Designed and i, Istrated by
Marion Miller. Small qUarto No pasina-
ton. (The Sturgis & Walton Company
An illustrated notebook. with notices
and verses and blank pages for the jot-
ting down of notes and observations.
New-York tribune., 1910-12-31
FICTION.

THE PENDULUM. A Story. BY Scotia sorin
Frontispiece. limo, PIP. 2sc. (Dufield &
Coz
a story of modern life.
BLACK HUMPHREY: 4 STORY OF THE The
OLD CORNISH COACHING AND KID
MAPPING DAYS. BY James Cassidy.
12mo, PIP. 295. (London: The Walter
Scott Publishing Company. LiniIedl
New-York tribune., 1910-12-31
LARGE SUM PAID IN BENEFITS.

Since the organization of the PennsyI-
vania Railroad Employees Relief Funds
so95n, ,26S q has been paid out in bene-
fits to members, according to a report is
sued yesterday by the company. In the
month of Move mber the benefits amounted
to $lS9, $50 80. The total payments on the
lines east of Pittsburg and Erie since the
relief fund eStE Wished in 1856 have
amounted to s2I, ,5oi ESQ 81.
New-York tribune., 1910-12-31
JAPANESE WARsHIPs AT Annoy.

Annoy. China. Dec. 30.-The third squadron
OF the japanese navy arrived here to-day
II is commanded by Admiral kawshlnl@'
whose flagship is the cruiser TsushiTna
New-York tribune., 1910-12-31
FATHER LEAVES 2s CHILDREN

Newburg. N V. Dec So.-John Bodnes,
who is dead at West Marlborough at ths
age OF sixty-five years. leaves twenty-tnIss
children He was twice married
New-York tribune., 1910-12-31
A JURORS TICKET.

From The London Telegraph.
In rearranging the museum bequeathed
to Bangor by the late Captain Jones,
the curator. Mr.. Roberts, came upon a
New-York tribune., 1910-12-31
ventures of Milkmaid' and 1.-The wait
ing SUPPER

1t is announced that Nine. Marcele
Tinayre is bringing out. in collaboration
with her husband, limited edition Oh
an artistic volume of Scenes de la We
de Port-Royal" NJ. Julien Tinayre is an
engraver of ability It was the studies
made for La Maison du Peche," pub
lished in 1902, which suggested the max
ing of this new book
The recently published anthology, IN
Praise of oxford" has been so enthusl-
astically received that another volume,
I'm Praise of Cambridge is to be
brought out. This fact alone might not
be of exceeding interest to American
university men-but it may stir curl
osity to hear that a stream Of volumes
in praise of Greece, Rome, Switzerland,
Paris, Edinburgh Eton and Harrow VIII
be forthcoming. VIII Harvard and
Yale be encouraged to swim in this
stream?
The picturesque biographies which are
just now SO popular have won their
popularity because such works are al
most the only ones at the present day
in which history is to be had in read
able FORM So says, at least. an &C
complished critic in "The Manchester
Guardian The public. he adds. must
have history, and when they turn TO
the historians proper they find that they
are not writing for the general public,
but for one another, or alternatlvely, Tor
some hypothetical man of genius Who
is to arise in the future. utilize the ma
terial they have amassed, and by ms
gift of imagination revivify it and once
more bring back history into the realms
of literature. They aim less than for
merly at general ideas, and as 1t Is
general ideas that determine the scale
of Importance of facts their paragraph
are often packed with facts important
and unimportant. SO that your average
pleasure hunting reader would under
take the perusal of one of their books
only as a Lenten penance." This is per-
haps rather sweeping, but it Is not an
unfair stroke at the scientific MS
toran of the day.
A book on the great political treaties
OF the world has just been published In
Paris, NJ Pierre Albin being the COM
;, efa collection of al
New-York tribune., 1910-12-31

A book on the great political treaties
OF the world has just been published In
Paris, NJ Pierre Albin being the COM
piler. It is complete collection of all
the principal treaties and their accom-
panying conventions and agreements
that govern international relations. It
opens with the Treaty of Vienna OF 1Slo.
a good index has been added.