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meetings, such long sweep Of fortune
bringing the right and wrong people into
relationship. The author has shown con-
siderable fnventiveness In providing for
the exits and entrances Of his characters
In way to make things happen. With
an utter lack Of likelihood and no particu-
lar skill in narration. and with coinci-
dence piling upon coincidence until the
reader hears the mechanism creak and
groan, this story Of a conviction Of crime
based upon circumstantial evidence is not
calculated to appeal to any save the UNI
discriminating lover of the melodramatic.
THE LIGHTED MATCH. BY Cha rles
Neville Buck. author OF 1.-The Key
to Yesterday" Illustrations by r.
F. Schabelitz New York: W. J.
Watt & Co.
This is variation upon the theme OF
love between an American and a woman
of royal rank. 1t begins in one of the
suburbs of New York, where are assem-
bled members of a house party. including
a cousin OF the host. who. though known
by an assumed name, IS. in fact, prin-
cess There is also the gallant lover. who
is later to find himself. though accepted
in the heart, forced to dream of his
ladylove as the wife of another. Mr..
Buck creates an imaginary state. fronting
on the Mediterranean, where IT is the
purpose of France to establish a new
regime. In order to do this 1t is neces-
sary to arouse from his lethargy vir-
tually exiled cousin royal. The plot in
wolves the destruction Of the king. and
queen. 1t is. of course. the American
lover who intervenes in this bit of Euro
pean intrigue and blocks the game. But
the wheels of diplomacy keep turning
and eventually France has her way, and
the intrepid. attractive and altogether
satisfactory young American has his re-
ward An exceedingly we'll written story,
The Lighted Match" is intense in its
appeal to the interest. The scene shifts
frequently and provides many we'll drawn
cha acters for the reader. The love
story is told with admirable restraint and
convincing force.
THE RED-HOT DOLLAR, And Other
Stories from the Black Cat. By
H. B. Umbstaetter, with an intro
duction by Jack London. Boston:
L. G. Page & Co.
Mr. Embstaetter is founder and pub
Usher Of the Black Cat and has been
naturally a regular contributor to its
columns, possessing peculiar faculty of
short story writing style that enables
him to set forth an Interesting, impressive
or dramatic situation with minimum of
words. Twelve of these tales comprise
the present volume, which Is especially
interesting because of the few pages Of
introduction contributed by Jack London,
who pays to Mr.. Umbstaetter a warm
tribute of affection and appreciation, for
it was the publisher of the Black Cat
who extended to him a helping hand at
a time of despair at the beginning of his
literary work. None of these twelve
stories is of any material literary con-
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creation and analysis of character. AS a
mere story denouement or as bare fact.
this outcome leaves one uneasy and DIS
appointed. AS the only possible issue
from a given set of conditions. it salts
f1es the reader as does any other har-
mony of art. The author conceived the
characters Of this romance in a complete
objectivity and set them in an appro-
pirate field This done she no longer
led. Instead. she followed them, watch
ing their individual response to the in
fiuences bearing down upon them. In other
words. she applied the scientific method
to the art of story-making- The result
is convincing. satisfying. AS a romance
it is a swift-moving human thing, with a
subtle. poetic grace about it. and habit
of humor and laughing irony i'm its too
human parts. AS volume. ii is one of
the first to turn an attractive holiday
face toward the public.
TALK OF THE TOWN. BY Mrs joan
Lane, author of According to
Maria" etc. New York: John Lane
Company
With a mind possessed of keen eyes as
We'll as body so equipped. with an in
dulgent humor not Yet steeled into wit,
with a fellow-feeling for the world and
a range of experience to fifty ground
such feeling, with a radiant manner of
talking. Mrs. John Lane entertans one
delightfully."- through this volume of es-
says on all manner of passing topics
Latterly the essay has grown ponderous-
learned and dognatic. Not these. how
ever One reads them all with thorough
enjoyment of their original sparkling
open qualities, of their kindly feeling and
human outlook.
DIVIDING WATERS. BY T. A.. r.
Wylie. author of The Native Born"
Indianapolis: The Bobbs- Merrill
Company.
This is finely developed story, big
and interesting one, Ringing on the log
Ical effects of international marriage.
Narrowed to illustrative linn ts the theme
portrays the marriage of an English
curafe's daughter to an officer of the
German army. From beginning to eli
max the matter moves through a maze
OF m understanding and malad juStment
natural consequences of wholly different
lifelong surroundings. This is realistic
story OF stress and b tterness, which only
an ideal quality of affection ultimately
rescues from pure tragedy. Very excel
lent work is done here i'm depicting the
German character and German domestic
life The lesson comes only by the way
without obtruSion on tn, authors part
The romance itself. convincing in action
and atmosphere, s the obvious and sus-
tanned concern of the writer.
THE DRIFT. BY Marguerite Mooers
Marshall New York: D. Appleton
& Co.
If it be fair to weigh a full cor
one represented here may be counted
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BOOKS RECEIVED.

THE LAST LAP. BY Alden Arthur
Knipe. author of Captain OF the
Eleven" Illustrated. New York and
London: Harper & Bros.
SCIENTIFIC, MENTAL HEALING. BY
Addington Bruce. author OF me
Riddle of Personality, etc. Boston:
Little, Brown & Co
THE AMERICAN HISTORY STORY
BOOK. BY Albert F. Blaisdell and
Francis K Ball. authors OF Hero
Stories From Amer can History:
etc With illustrations by FRANK
T. Merrill Boston: Little, Brown
& Co.
WHEN MARGARET WAS \ FRESH
MAN. BY Elizabeth HOLSTER HUNT.
illustrated. New York: Monat'
Yard & Co.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN; A Lover Of Man
kind. An essay by Eliot Norton
New York: Moffat, Yard 4 Co
THE ORIENTAL RELIGIONS IN
ROMAN PAGANISM. BY Franz Gu
mont With an Introductory essay
by Grant Slovenian. Chicago
The Open Court Publishing Com
pany.
MARY STUART (Mary, Queen Of Scotsp:
An essay by Una Birch, author OF
Secret Societ es and the french
Revolution" etc. New York ana
London: Funk & Wagnalls.
AS SOLDIER WOULD. An army
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as somewhat dull matter. Few are
inspiringly vocal at any time And. ac-
cOrding to those who profess to know,
the emotion of love is remarka BILE
through it's silences, not it's vocalities.
Love letters of supreme quality alone,
such the whole range of literature
shows less than half a dozen times. can
command even a passing interest. save
to the parties of the first and second
part. The love letters Of this story
do not carry the flaming torch. The
story unfolded by them is. however. a
sincere study of human nature-male
and female-under the obsession Of what
poets name the heavenly madness
There is the early ardor. the unreckoned
waste. the world we'll lost-and the rest
of it. Then. the slow cooling, the
tiful, the thing to be desired AND
later. the final retreat into the covert
of honor. duty. morality. society-and
the rest of this series also. The story
side of this correspondence represents
one already under marital contract
A SHORT HISTORY OF WAR AND
Russia in Revolution. etc. Mem
Der of the International Institute OF
Peace New York: Henry Holt
Co.
Taking natural environment and it's Sc
auence Of social organization as the
prime agents of progress. this author
makes a brilliant and graphic review OF
the successive stages of society, as these
have fashioned their structure upon the
demand of function. Movement. advance.
aggression mark the historic swarmings
from the human hive. Periods Of qul-
etude intervene, these steadily increasing
in duration. The former is dynamic, the
latter static. The former is conspicuous,
the latter relatively obscure. Therefore
this survey takes on an appearance OF
the annals of war An appearance only.
The wars here set down-in motive and
method, in instruments Of execution. in
the character of immediate results, and
in the generally ameliorative nature OF
their more remote effectS-prOgreSs to-
ward the present POINT of arbitration and
project themselves into a future of uni
versai peace. In substance this valuable
and profoundly interesting study Is that
able absorption in the larger aspects of
a common amity.
4 PRAIRIE COURTSHIP. BY Harold
Bindloss. author of Masters Of the
Wheat Lands, etc. New York:
Frederick A. Stokes Company.
Harold Bindloss, having -empted a
part of the great northwest as his lit
erary homestead. sends out from this
quarter at frequent intervals evidences
Of a clear title to the spot. His new novel
is one of good muscular grip and ener-
getic action. Under a fire of a young
womans eyes, the hero turns from ped
dler of the beloved vagabond variety to
sturdy pioneer. The transit, attended by
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factory in the delineation OF woman's
character than in this account of the
heart OF young English girl who, adopt
ed by an aunt upon the death of her
mother was by a special interposition of
providence permitted to develop natural
~ and delightfully."-. despite the infiu-
ences with which she was brought in
contact Margery might have been fat
by the stupid conventionality Of her aunt,
save that she had essentially high quail
ties. The tale deals with her marriage
10 brilliant writer on archaeological and
historical subjects, as genuinely in
love with her as it was possible for such
a precistan and egotist to be. On her
part there was no qualification. She had
found her true mate. And yet little by
always his work first before her, himself
primarily and his wife incidentally. and
an awakening began which was not COM
piete until tragedy interviewed. AS a
contrast with Arnold Leveson stands con-
spicuously Walter Morrison. Margery's
cousin. Mr.. Benson deals with these OPP
posite natures in his most engaging
style. One would wish at times for a
little less, perhaps. Of the utterly insin-
cere. illogical and futile aunt. \ clever
bit OF character work. she Is allowed
rather unduly to occupy the stage with
her breathless dissertations and her short
sighted scheming \ story to read to
the last page with regret that it is not
longer.
THE HEART OF 4 WOMAN. BY
Baroness Orczy, author Of Petit
coat Rule etc. New York: George
H. Doran Company.
A young Englishwoman. engaged to
be married to the nephew and heir of
British peer. saw in Brussels the disclos-
ure or crime, man stabbed through
the neck in a taxicab and the murderer
vanished. Some months later in London
precisely the same sort of crime was COM
mitted. the victim being claimant to
the heirship. who had been accepted by
the venerable peer as his nephew, to the
disadvantage Of the one who had long
stood first In his affections. Accusation
OF the murder fell upon the erstwhile
nephew. Through 1t all the faith of the
woman never faltered. and it was through
her despairing efforts that the mystery
was finally solved by securing from the
dying earl. stricken with fatal illness in
this crisis, confession that cleared the
heir and permitted a happy reunion. The
Baroness Orczy handles this theme with
all her vivacity and adroitness 1t is a
story to cause late hours
THE CASE OF PAUL BREEN. By
Anthony Tudor, Ii. B. Illustrated
by Henry Roth. Boston: L. c. Page
& Co.
Strange things happen in real life and
many condolences occur. but "The Case
Of Paul Breen'' Ia a little bit beyond the
range of likelihood. There has seldom
been such q remarkable assemblage OF
apt happenings so many fateful chance
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the usual vicissitudes Of this particular
form OF awakening, serves the authors
turn to sketch the raw life OF the Tar
west and to set up neighborhood Of be-
lievable human beings Of the pioneer
type. Whatever story Mr.. Bindloss tells
one fees it's subordination to the set
ting. itself a personality emerging from
the great spaces OF earth and air and
of the author, turning him artist. an
artist able to set out for readers much
of their meaning. as well as the pic
turesque sweep OF their appearance.
JAVA. sUMATRA AND THE OTHER
ISLANDS OF THE DUTCH EAST
INDIES. BY A. Cabaton. Translat-
sh a Ind WITH Wth mare paefa and q iastrn
tons. New York: Charles Scribners
Sons. Washington: Brentano's.
The author indorses the generally ac-
cepted theory that lost continent lies
deep under the Pacific. and that Java
and Sumatra are but two peaks OF the
submarine mountain range which some
prehistoric cataclysm hurled beneath the
sea. Java, the pearl Of the Orient"
though often compared to Cuba. its equa-
torial counterpart, ''is more thickly pop
ulated and more wealthy than Cuba and
all Central America together" An open
ing sketch. from first traditions to pres
ent-day occupation by Holland. prefaces
a wildly descriptive history OF the island
which makes the casual reader realize
that Java stands for considerably more
than the coffee for which it is interna
tionally famed.
While there are 40 volcanoes in Java.
Sumatra. so far as explored. contains but
ninety, twelve of which are now active.
The flora Of Sumatra resembles that
of India in the north Of the island and
that of Java in the south; but 1t remains
in its wealth and variety quite distinct
from either. The vegetable growths are
larger and more undisciplined than those
of Java" Can1phor. rubber. cinnamon
and other world-Wanted products are
found in her great forests and in her
jungles tread such mighty animals as
the elephant. rhinoceros and few orang-
outang. In Java the jungle creatures
that take human toll are chiefly tigers.
gives a clearly defined conception of the
natives and other races that make up the
population of both islands; their agricul-
tural and other resources: their social
and official customs, and many Incidents
that touch upon both Dutch and native
life. The translator contributes a prefac-
ing chapter and the many photographs
give glimpses of Chinese temples. Arab
villages. markets. roadways
and avenues. rice and coffee lands, a
Japanese tea plantation, dwelling houses
and factories. and collection of photo
graphs of the picturesque men and
women who call Java and Sumatra home.
MARGERY. BY E. F. Benson New
York: Doubleday. Page & Co
Washington: Woodward & Lothrop
Mr.. Benson has never been more salts
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Helpful.
From the wonan's World.

Z 3
SO you asked my wife for our dauxh-
ter's hand, did your" says the stern IA
Their.
II did and she began to give me a niece
of her mind about my presumption. and
l.
And YOU beat retreat and came to
see me. Well. sir--''
''Oh. no. didn't retreat L argued it
out with her, and before ] left she had
given me her consent. so -
You did, Bully for you, You can have
the girl. and, you can live right there with
us. l want to study your system of de-
flying my wife for year or so, any
way" s
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novel by 4. p. L. s A. New York;
Broadway Publishing Company.
THE DIARY OF UTAH GIRL. Rv
Mrs. w. J. Mclaughlin New York:
Broadway Publishing Company.
TWEED; Story of the Old south. By
5. NJ. Swales. New York: Broad
way Publishing Company.
THE LITTLE SUFFERERS, 4 story
Of the Abuse. Of the Children. So
ctetie~. BY q. Martin Jurgenson.
author OF THE Social Mirror" New
York: Broadway Publishing Com
pany.
FOR ZION'S SAKE: Tale Of ReaI
Life. BY Frank Winoughby New
York: broadway Publishing Com
pany.
HiI.DEGaR And Other Lyrics. Ey
Margaret Holmes Bates. New York:
Broadway Publishing Company
ARTHUR ST. CLAIR OF OLD FORT
RECOVERY. BY :. \. II. Whiprle
New York: Broadway Publishing
Company
THE EVOLUTION OF BELIEFS. by
j. w. Gordon. New York: Broad
way Publishing Company.
ELIZA AND ETHELDREDA IN MEN
ICO. BY Patty Guthrie. New York
Broadway Publishing Company.
THE GOSPEL. PARALLELS IN VERSE.
BY Rev. Christopher Smith. New
York: Broadway Publishing Com
pany.
FOUR BOYS IN THE YOSEMITE. by
Everett I. Tomlinson, author CT
-Four Boys in the Yellowstone"
etc Illustrated by George A. New
man. Boston: Lothrop. Lee & Shep-
ard Company. Washington: Bren-
tanos.
LARRY BURKE. SOPHOMORE. BY
Frank L. Odell. author of Larry
Burke, Freshman" illustrated 10y
II. c. Edwards. Boston: Lothrop.
Lee a Shepard Company. Washing
ton: Brentano's
PRIZES MERRY TIMES. BY Amy
Brooks, author Of Dorothy Dainty
Series. etc. illustrated by the
author. Boston: Lothrop. Lee &
Shepard Company. Washington
Brentano's
FOUR GORDoNs. Ry Edna i. Brown
Illustrated by Norman Irving Black
Boston: Lothrop, Lee * shepard
Company. Washington: Brentanos
POEMS. BY Madison Cavern tsel"cted
by the authorl. With y foTcword
by William Dean ifpw"lls New
York: The Macmillan company
Washington: Brentanos
THE AMERICAN SCHOOL READERS,
Second Render. By Kate Il. Oswell.
b. A, and c. E. Gilbert author of
stepping Stones to Literature" etc.
New York: The Macmillan Company
Washington: Brentanos
THE Conquest OF NERVES. BY J.
W. Courtney, NJ. ID. New York The
Macmillan Company. Washington:
BrentauoS.
THE LIFE OF ROBERT LOUIS STE
VENSON. BY Graham Balfour.
Abr dyed edition. New York.
Charles Scribners Sons. Washing
ton: Brentanos.
DICKENS READER. Arranged by
Ella NJ. Powers Boston. New York
and Chicago: Houghton Miffiin Com
pany.
THE VALUE OF CONFINEMENT.
Edited by Mary Minerva Barrows.
with Introduction by Mary E. Will
kins New York and Boston: II. NJ.
Caldwell Company.
THE MYSTERY OF THE RAVEN
SPt RSs Romance and Detective
story Of Thibet and England. BY
Fred NJ White, author of The
Crimson Blind" etc. illustrations
and cover design by Andre Oh De
Takacs. New York: J. : Ogilvie
Publishing Company
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Woman University Professor.
ON the London Globe.

From the London Globe
The first lady university professor in
Germany has just been created in the
person OF Mile. Gertrude Jeanne Wock-
Ter, Phi. D.. of Berne University. who has
beer appointed assistant professor of
physics at Leipsc University. 1t is true
that a year ago Countess Won der Linden,
priyat decent at Bonn University. also
received the title of professor. but the
Prussian authorities opposed her Domina-
ton to the chair of assistant professor Of
zoology. Mile. Wockler, who has been
more successful. is Swiss, thirty-three
years OF age, and will be the youngest
professor IN the only Saxon university.
She has for several years taken a. very
active part In the feminine emancipation
movement.
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THE PUBLIC LIBRARY.
PRACTICAL BOOKS ON MANY
IMPORTANT TOPICS.

The recent additions to the Public
Library include many books of value
on a number of important subjects
There are several. such as Dawson.
The Vagrancy Problem. and Solen-
berger, "One Thousand Homeless Men,
which will attract all who are inter
ested in social or relief work Others.
on hygiene and medicine, are important
for all. The field of political science
is also represented by several excellent
studies
Social Work.
Alden. Mrs. NJ. p. Child Life aud Lsbour.
new departure in social work. IAsBI7S.
Christ Child Society. Washington. u. {. An
nua reports. 1s.10-l9l1 4IAS-C4G4.
Pearson, Karl. Nature and Nurture. lar
les. 1909. IARP317p.
Relief Work.
Dawson. W. II. The ragrancy Problem. IG-
si Iisa'a r. i ,ixt Infant tie Parent and The
Loeb. { :. Charity and Social Life. Ii
soienberger. Mrs. A W One thousand Hcme-
less Men. IG-Soi5e.
1OlltlCdl 0SltASt.
Fairchlld. H., L. Greek Immigration to The
Fisher, H. A. L Republican Tradition in
HerTe Guztaye. Ny Country Right or wrong.
macdonald. j. II. Social Movement. JH-
oven, r. L. comp. Code Of the Peoples
Redm9nH Hou sn EH r;Ht:
TAYLOR. Hannis. Origin and Growth OF tas
American Constitution. JTe3-T2l5o.
Evolution.
Bastian, II. C. The Origin Of Life. NV
Bernard Il Ma II Some Neglected Factors in
CHAMPION. H. f. The Doctrine Of Evolution.
NV. 1 csss
Mathematics.
Benner, r. c Fraetiona'ion Of the fttri"a
s Marsh. G A., and Philips. II. ]. College En-
Morer, c. W. Advanced Arithmetic. LC-
A sisueht. H. E., and Lennes. y. j. Plane and
Solid Geometry. LE-Sls5p-
Hygiene and Medicine.
Aikens. c. A. Primary Studies for Nurses.
ciouston, T. S. Unsoundness of Mind. oFN.
Cotton. A. c. Care of Children: oPB csesc.
Johnston. J. wsstage Of Child Life a. Exem.
phed by Conditions in Lancashire 1908. oPB.
J64Gw.
Mumford. ]. r. Surgical Memoirs 1908.
OS- 3M9I.
primer for purses. QCGR214.
warman. Z. b. How TO Live 100 Years. OIL
W233ho. 80
Winterburn Mrs. F. II. Vacation Hints. Oh.
w13ss.
Gardening.
Ely. H. r. Practical Flower Garden. Riss
El94p.
city Beautiful. RI-H3I4h.
Roberts Harry The Beginners Book OF Gar
dening. MRj4f.
Engineering.
American Scbooi Of Correspondence, Chicago.
Construction Of Boilers. TICS Am37c.
American School OF Correspondence. Chicago.
Electric Current. EA-Am:s5r.
American School Of Correspondence, Chicaro.
Machine Design. ". 11N-Am31m
American School Of Correspondence. Chicago,
Management OF pynsmoelec;ric Machinery. ".
TEN Am5im-
National Institute of Practical Mechsnics.
Modern American Engineering, 7 N2l6m.
Neddeu. i. EUR. Engineering Workshop Ma
chimes and Processes, 1-N2Ss.
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sequence. and Yet in each of them there
is a strong center of interest.
THE STORY OF THE AEROPLANE.


THE STORY OF THE AEROPLANE.
BY Claude Grahame- White. Illus
trated from photographs. Boston;
Small. Maynard Il Co.
Claude Grahame- White the aviator who
recently turned author and wrote The
Present and Future,
has issued another book with a less pre-
tentious title. 1t is an historical sketch
Of the rise of aviation. Principally II
deals with the personal experience OF
the author. and as such probably makes
interesting reminiscent reading for him.
There Is little in it. however. of any
permanent value. either from literary
standpoint or as an historical record.
One feature i'm the book that viii be
rather interesting to ashingtonians is
a familiar panorama view of washing
ton taken from the top Of the Wash
ington Monument This is labeled The
CITY of Washington from Mr.. Grahame-
Whites Aeroplane. October IA. 1910 IL
is a picture for sale on almost all the
hotel newsstands AS matter or TACT
Mr.. White never had camera with MIN
in his aeroplane during his visit 10
Washington.
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Amount of Protein
in Meat Uniform

Amount OF Protein keeper. who does
in Meat Uniform. not not T assn1 to enter nfo
the complexities of food value to be sure
that her family is getting enough Of this
nutrient. From the latest Investigations
carried on in the experiment stations OF
the bureau Of agriculture it has been
proved that of the total amount of pro-
TEN needed every day one-half Is taken
in the form of animal food, which in
cludes milk, eggs and fish, as we'll as
meat. The remainder is taken in the form
of bread, cereal foods and vegetables.
The portion of food which may be re-
ferred to as an ordinary helping is
three to five ounces, and contains from
nineteen to twenty-nine grains OF pro-
tein. An egg or a glass of milk contains
housekeeper who gives each adult MEM
Der of her family heiping Of meat each
day with eggs, milk or cheese, together
with the buildings or other dishes which
contain eggs and milk. may feel sure
that she is supplying sufficient protein.
Meat may lose much of its nutrftive
quality in cooking. A housekeeper
who puts a piece OF beef hastily on
the fire in pot Of cold water, letting
both boil until the meat tendons are
SO loosened that it separates easily,
loses the greatest nutritive value of
the meat. If the broth is thrown out.
as is often the case, the best part OF
the meat is absolutely wasted. If,
however. the same piece of meat
should have it's juices preserved by be-
ing scared or Drowned slightly and
then covered with boiling water and
allowed to simmer gently until cooked,
it's nutritive qualities will have been
preserved to a much greater degree.
There is no method OF preparing
meat quite so economical from the