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these latter days, and commandeo
killing Of the fatted calf by deserVihs :"
He does so once more in this noveie''o
of many colored pictures. and VIII .
colored scene Of courtship on its c'o'"
cover. He returns incognito, ho"e'e'
and against his will at first. lured oy
beauty-beauty In his own fanny "'
that-which he has encountered W
chance. firm of automobile manu-
facturers needs a racing driver 10 au-
vertise its cars by bringing them 10 '"o
front. 1t all comes to pass rather hatu-
rally, as the reader recognizes ai'er-
ward, however romantic the Happenings
that lead up to the happy ending, anu
Vt is all in the family from first to last
The story has the merit OF containing
some spirited. admirlng descriptions OF
auto racing, of the drivers whose names
are known on two continents. and OF the
II9ul 20 SutHgm 9ql OF oS lBql s9IlIIc::-
success An entertaining trifle.
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free negro are Gil set down here, more
or less formally, often merely passin..
10 be referred to again later on. Under
date Of June H. 1865. he says Of the part
he himself had taken in national affairs:
was I'm a railroad wreck near Macon In
1855 when a poor brakeman did what he
could at his post to stay the smash-up, los
ing his life in his effort 10 save others. In
the countrys troubles ! did but act as he,
did but seize the brake, 10 arrest as far as
possible, impending mischief: my EFFORTS
have been no more availing than were his
Perhaps in the end shall fare no better; II
not by sentence Of law. by disease and
death from imprisonment.
Stephens had ample reason to be con-
cerned about his health IN confinement.
as the progressive entries OF his grow
ing weakness and frequent spells OF In
disposition prove. Yet his wide intel
lectual interests enabled him to forget
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by day. The book, which contains a
portrait of the duchesse receiving an
illuminated missal from the hands Of
Honore Bonnet, her devoted chaplain. is
valuable contribution to French
medieval history. 1t is published by
Plon- Nourrit, and its title is valentine
de Milan, Duchesse d'Orleans."
NJ. Leon Daudet. as a novelist, Views
life through spectacles quite different
from those used by his father. la
Mesentente," NJ. Leon Daudet's latest
work of fiction, just issued by Fasquelle,
deals with a complicated conjugal prob
lem arising from a minute but essential
point OF dissonance between a brilliant
and accomplished man Of letters and
his beautiful and no less cultured wife.
In all other respects the couple are ad-
mirably mated. But this rift in the lutte
Of domestic unison leads to all sorts of
eccentric developments, enabling NJ.
Leon Daudet to indulge in incisive irony
picturesque descriptions OF the semi-bo-
hemian aspects of intellectual and ar
tistic Paris. The couple are at last
brought together again by common sor-
row caused by the grave illness of their
only child. But this -and-water con-
clusion is distinctly disappointing. be-
cause 1t is mere makeshift TO elude the
only logical solution of the conjugal
problem cleverly stated in the opening
chapter.
NJ. Michel Puy, an art critic, who has
the full courage of his opinions, has writ
ten clever. concise little pamphlet, en-
titled lie Dernier Etat de la Peinture,"
published by the Edition de rUnion
New-York tribune., 1911-02-19
ALEXANDER H. STEPHENS
His Journal While in Prison at
the End of the War.

IRECOLLECTIONS OF ALEXANDER H
| STEPHENS. His Diary Kept When a
Prisoner at Fort Warren, Boston Har-
bour, 1865: Giving Incidents and Refec-
tons of His Prison Life and Some Let
ters and "reminiscences. Edited, with a
biographical study, by Myrta Lockett
Avary. With portrait. Svo. pp xiii, 512.
Doubleday, Page & Co.
The original Of this journal kept by the
Vice-President of the Confederacy dur
ing his Imprisonment in Fort Warren,
May October. 1865. is the property Of
the three children of his nephew, the
late John A. Stephens, who was also
the executor of his will. In her introduc-
ton, Mrs. Avary, the third of these
children, says that, in transcribng the
diary, she had to choose among sew
eral readings possible for some express
sions," but that her task in editing ii
has mainly consisted in reducing it to
publication limits. for Stephens, in his
efforts to keep from brooding, copied
at length extracts from the Bible, the
hymn books and the classics:
Grave impression of his situation and his
endeavor 10 surmount II is gained in turn
ing page after page of such copy in his
painful writing, particularly when he notes
IN accompanying entries that his eyesight
Is failing. his hand cramps and his hair has
turned White. He reviews books, gives his
every menu and all weather and thermO-
metric changes. The extracts and such
matters as these are largely omitted. Other
reduction Is made In small points of style,
as in substituting his briefest for his most
diffuse form in giving dates. mail arrivals
and other routine interests. Asterisks to
denote omissions are dispensed with for the
most part in ahridgment of the diary . q.
IT was his habit to repeat himself in let
tiers. writing the same thing in slightly diff
ferent forms 10 several people.
The diary. as its editor points out.
has an appealing human interest in its
| revelation of the man behind the states
man in his days of lonely tribulation.
Historically, it is Of less absolute i'm
portance because most of what it con-
| tains Of Stephens's opinions on the prin-
| ciples. controversies events and men of
the period is found elsewhere in his
writings, and in his biographies by other
| hands. 1t is when read in connection
with this later literature, however. that
the present volume often becomes sug-
gestive in the retrospect. At the same
time, the editor has provided it with a
biographical introduction that makes il
complete in itself in large. general out
line, and does not overstep historically
the boundaries Of legitimate family
pride. Stephens's severe judgment Of
jefferson Davis, his policies and meth
DDS. has long been known, as has his
ascription to them direct of the sudden
collapse of the Confederacy His views
of state rights, Of the authority of CEN
tral government, Of the Constitution,
which was the idol of his allegiance, of
slavery and the status and future of the
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his apprehensions and we find him read
ing the Bible, Cicero and Prescott. and
commenting on them sagely and fruit
fully, and in the case of Prescott, with
notable critical acumen. One Of his
entries says:
| think that II many Of the ministers
of the Gospel would on the Sabbath read to
their CONGREGATIONS one of Pauls Epistles,
instead OF giving their own comments on
particular texts. such exercise would be at
tended with Infinitely more good than the
sermons usually preached. Few people read
connectedly these Epistles. the best sermons
ever produced except the Sermon on the
Mount.
There Is touch Of pathos in
Stephens's patient efforts to make
friends with a mouse. but the shy little
animal evaded him. accepting his offer
ings of bread crumbs and bits Of potato
New-York tribune., 1911-02-19

Franchise" Who are the succ... ;
the impressionists? All painter, :.
slightest merit are more or Iess =
sionists. Delacroix was regarded =
sort Of revolutionary Impressions, =
day. M. Puy has many strik,,. Y
original theories In regard to N. =
OF Jacques Blanche. Simon. co,,..
Sidaner, CASTOR La Touche, Desv.r,.
Caro-Delavaille, Anquetin, signac ~
Van Dongen, Matlsse and. ahor.
Bonnard, who is described a. y
doubtedly the best equipped n.
dou) of contemporary painter,.
Michel Puy's candid. and at tIms.
ling, little book contains sIdelIeh,s
French painting of to-day that ar. =
reading. CO.
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German literature. When the writer in
question visited him he was working his
way through the works OF Heine with
the aid OF an extensive apparatus critlcus
cf we'll chosen books. The other ex-
ample Is even more striking. II Is that
OF n worker at the slaughter house. He
had devoted the evenings Of one winter
TO a careful study of the ''Iliad" and the
odyssey" in English, and was now
studying the "Divina Commedia" I'm sew
eral TRANSACTIONS finding 1t easier To get
at tie shade. OF meaning OF the original
by colating n number of transations
than by trusting entirely TO one. There
was that man." says our authority. "liv-
ing his life I'm kind OF inferno all the
day and laboriously studying the In
ferno' at night" The truth is that al
though the gift OF appreciating good lit
erature and the power Of creating 1t are
different things. yet they much resemble
each other I'm the apparent capricious-
ness with which they are distributed.
New-York tribune., 1911-02-19
BOOKS IN PARIS
New Works of Biography, Fic.
tion and Art.

Paris, February 10
The beautiful Princesse Valentine WIS.,
CONT, Duchesse d'Orleeans, sisterin-law
Of Charles W. who came to Paris. girl
Of eighteen. in the year 1889, and who
died ih nos, a year after the assassina-
tion of her husband, was one of the
robest, most fascinating and dramatic
of the royal ladies of French history. This
heroic princess has at last found a trust
worthy and sympathetic biographer in
NJ. f.. Collas. who has devoted ten years
to the work of searching and sitting
Libraries and archives in France and
Italy in order to obtain materials for
complete and picturesque biography Of
this remarkable woman, VINO at the close
Of the Middle Ages appeared as a sort Of
graceful harbinger of the French Renais-
sance.
France was ruled in name only by
Charles VI, the hopelessly insane mon
arch, whom no one could get rid Of for
lack of laws TO provide for such a con-
tingency. Valentine Visconti was per-
secuted by her sister-in-law. the wicked
Isabeau. and narrowly escaped being
tortured and murdered for "being n sor
ceress" Extolled by poets. praised by
honest men and women and the idol Of
the people, she was banished from Paris,
and resided successively at Asnieres,
Villers- Cotterets and Epernay. She was
followed during her exile by a devoted
friends. NJ. Collas has discovered de-
tailed inventories Of the clothing. jewels.
furniture and tapestries Of the Duchesse
d'Orleans, and the reader is enabled to
reconstitute, in Imagination, her life day
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riage and after. in circumstances taken
from the daily round that are woven
into an eminently readable tale. There
are problems and purposes. OF course,
since all life is problem and a purpose
of ever increasing complexity. but they
are there for the sake Of the story. not
the story for theirs. The young girls
first purpose Is TO achieve fame and
fortune with her pen. then to find her
sphere in marriage. Two inner problems
confront her-that of the intemperance
that is a disease. not a vice, and the far
greater one of the man whose years of
usefulness have passed, but who yet must
find work in order TO live, and 10 earn
the livelihood Of wife and children. In
both instances the difference between the
views Of the woman and her husband
is the difference of outlook upon life be-
tween men and women generally. The
woman with a purpose is not there TO
dispose. to correct, to act as the goddess
from the machine. She is there to learn
the great lesson that life is stronger than
we and that it has its way with us, for
better for worse. a sound, readable
niece of work.
New-York tribune., 1911-02-19

we'll known West End publish6
read a poem nine or ten times tnd
majesty OF its diction and the musk
it's metre might at last penetrate 70 =
great mans brain. Another poet
the whole three weeks that his ms''
script was under consideration, wrcs'
sonnet a day and sent it after the na''
script with a letter. The written vs's'
was generally followed. within ICY
eight hours. by a typewriter dupH'
The annoyance caused by this p~'
misapplied energy quite cured the ~
Usher of any enthusiasm he might ~
felt for the poets work"
Confederate Memoirs.
The memoirs of the Confederate 81
eral. Johnson Hagood. traversins AZ u
periences in the Civil War, have y
been issued in Columbia, ). T. Il
writer did not wish his work 10 NC III
lished until fifty years after the W.
ming of the war. The record is m'D.l
rather than political. Indeed ne D
in his introduction. that during 'n'
the Confederate Congress did us
on all important occasions WIN y"
doors; but partial statements Oh "
ton reached the newspapers ana
difficult for one in the ranks OF 'n'
to learn clearly the policy that so's
it's course" The work has been -
by Colonel L. Il. Brooks. Gehe'"
good was the officer in commahu
Fisher who was accused OF usne
necessary brutality in his me'"
ordering Robert Shaw's buriai WV
young Massachusetts, colonel ''"
has denied the report.
New-York tribune., 1911-02-19
Literary .Nes,S and Criticism

years Of egoism and comfort" to refieo'
upon the reservation with which even
he most convincing Of self-revelations
must be taken. and stop only to draw
attention to his vigorous defence against
the charge of Journalistic venality
brought against him in German paper
while he was in Paris.
The book. which has grown out of an
earlier edition of the memoirs prepared
by Mr. Karpeles some twenty years ago.
is eminently worthy of the attention OF
the students and lovers OF Heine. The
publishers have given it simple, digni-
fed dress
New-York tribune., 1911-02-19
COLONIAL HISTORY
A Storehouse of Facts Well
Presented.

THE WILDERNESS TRAIL; OR. THE
VENTURES AND ADVENTURES or,
THE PENNSYLVANIA TRADERS ;S on
THE ALLEGHENY PATH. WITH
SOME NEW ANNALS OF THE OLD
WEST, AND THE RECORDS OF
SOME STRONG MEN AND SOM SOME
RAD ONES Bv Charles A. Hanna.
With so maps and illustrations. 2 vols.
svo. PIP. xiv. SS3; vi. 457 G. p. Put
pam's Sons.
Mr.. Hanna prefaces these two sizable
and useful volumes with an iconoclastic
introduction, in which he puts on record
his opinion of what history is not
Tacitus and Thucydides. Macaulay,
Froude, Carlyle. Buckle and many other
historians and their schools fare badly at
his hands in energetic sentences that
contain. after ALL but little that is new.
The world has long been aware that his
New-York tribune., 1911-02-19
HUMBLE ENGLISH STUDENTS.
.on, Tho Manchester Guardian

From The Manchester Guardian.
The editor of the Book Monthly"
who has a gift of flushing fresh literary
topics, has set certain newspapers cap
ping an instance which he gave of re-
fined literary tastes in a servant girl. 1t
is not remarkable that instances should
be numerous. Domestic servants have
shared in the rise all around of the level
of education. Instances of literary per-
ceptions in surroundings far less favor
able than theirs may be found, and re-
cent writer gives two. The first is that
Of an employe on the railway. He lived
in a wooden hut on the embankment.
and devoted his nights to the study OF
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FICTION
current American Novels anu
Short Stories.
LIFE AND THE WOMAN.

WOMAN WITH a PURPOS3E' pn:, 10y
anna Chaplin Ray. l2mo, pp ooo' ~
ION: Little, Brown & Co.
MISS Rays latest novel is far ana away
her best thus far. It's grasp upon ''''
realities Of modern life is firm, lts ou'
look sane. The title she has choseii
should not be taken as warming by
those weary Of fiction with problems anu
purposes. for II merely takes an average
well educated, intelligent woman OF 'o-
day and places her, both before mar
New-York tribune., 1911-02-19
DENIZENS OF THE WILD.

NEIGHBORS UNKNOWN. BY Charles
G. ID. Roberts Illustrated by Paul
Bransom. l2mo, PIP. 266. The Macmillan
Company.
Mr.. Roberts is the only survivor-in
fiction we mean-of the nature writer's or
a decade ago His short stories of Wild
animal life continue to appear in our
periodicals, and to be gathered into
books. What is more TO the point, they
continue to be worth reading. His
imagination unhaggingly draws new ma
terial from the wild forms of existence
that he observes so closely. This latest
collection of his tales, fourteen in num-
Der, ranges from the arctic seas to the
sub-tropics, from polar bear, seal and
New-York tribune., 1911-02-19

walrus to heron, killer whale and
panther. with. I'm between. moose and
caribou and black bear, and birds of sea
and land In numbers. His animal
psychology. while ingenious does not
step beyond the bounds of probability In
these pages. and he offers IL only tenta-
lively. reasoning backward from acts to
impulses Not the least successful OF his
tales here Is that of the lonely winter
spent by cat left behind on an island
by its summer OCcuDants
New-York tribune., 1911-02-19
LITERARY NOTES.

Caroline White is the name q,
who lives in London and Is on.
happiest Of women. content with h.,
her work and the way the yorla
There are doubtless many won.
whom these things may be sa,a.
unlike Miss White. they are not
dred years old. Here is a sprIghuy ).
son who edited a magazine NOR.
a half century ago, who sees TO re,x
write almost as we'll as in tbo..
and whose other faculties are abso,..r
unimpaired. King George sent h.
note Of congratulation on her recen, a.
birthday and expressed his gladnes ~
she still kept on her literary work
Professor TyIers "Reminiscences
The letters and diaries of Moses 9.
Tyler, the author Of the Literary y.
tory of the American Revolution. h,.
been drawn upon for the volume Of \,
Life and Letters" which will so,
published by Doubleday. Page a =.
The book, it is understood. is hn /.
personal recollections and anecdot., /.
the famous men whom he knew.
The Fair Oauphine.
Another volume is TO he added N a.
apparently endless number devoted I.
that queen of Anguish" Marie A,
toinette. Lady Younghusband is the =.
thor. She has chosen for treatment d.
period from Marie Antonette's marr,sa
(at fourteen years Of age) TO the aco.
sion to the throne OF her husband NJ
author believes that this period has =.
been sufficiently dealt with by EnsNs
historians.
The Captious Poet.
A publisher has been giving form Al
the English Book Monthly to warn,
complaints Of his guild with respect b
the ways Of authors. Poets appear p|
be especially troublesome "A Vrt,
Of verse;" he says, recently requss,s,|
New-York tribune., 1911-02-19
LOCHINVAR ON WHEELS.

THE FLYING MERCURY. BY Eleanor
NJ. Ingram Illustrations I'm colors by
Edmund Frederick decorations by
Bertha Stuart. l2rio, PIP 1885, The
Bobbs Merrill Company.
The prodigal has returned home tri-
umphant many tine In the tales OF
New-York tribune., 1911-02-19

RECOLLECT1ONS OF ALEXANDER H.
STEPHENS. His Diary Kept When
Prisoner at Fort Warren, Boston Har-
bour, 1865: Giving Incidents and Reflec-
tions of His Prison Life and Some Let
ters and "reminiscences. Edited, with
biographical study, by Myrta Lockett
Avary With portrait Svo. PIP. Kill 572.
n0uhledaN Page e Co.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1911-09-20
(To be Conttnued.)
Moving Picture Man Has Busy Day
of 1t Taking Pictures.

Mr. f. III. Owens, the representa-
tive Of the Industrial Moving Pic
ture Company, who Is here to take
pictures to go in the films that are
to be sent out from this State to sew
eral big conventions throughout the
North, had busy day Of it Satur-
day. He took a great many pictures
# street scenes, cotton scenes, and at
various other places.
Pictures were also taken at the
passenger station when the train
from Charleston came in. A good
crowd was getting off and an equally
large number We're getting on the
train, all Of which will no doubt
make an interesting film. Pictures
of the telephone factory were taken
at noon, just after the noon whistle
had been sounded and a number of
pictures Of the place and the work.
men were obtained. Later an effort
was Aidue 10 Jake pictures or the
firemen's headquarters and Of the
engine and hose wagon, as we'll as Of
the firemen, who could be present at
that time, but for some reason they
were not able to come out.
Some street scenes were taken. but
more Of these will be taken later on
when the moving picture man re-
turns here. Pictures were taken of
the work that is now being done on
the street and Of the cotton wagons
as they were coming in, all Of which
will no doubt be OF interest when the
pictures are shown. Pictures Of a
number Of the haadsomest residen-
ces In town were also taken.
Friday afternoon an attempt was
made to have pictures taken at
Wedgefeld Of Mr. Aycock's cotton
picking hands. but as part Of the
cinemetograph had been left in the
city. the taking of the pictures was
deferred.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1911-09-20
Record Phosphate Mining.

The mining of phosphate rock for
fertilizer showed increased activity in
1910, with the greatest production in
the history of the industry. The out
put was 2,654.9SS long tons, against
2,33O,152 tons in 1909, an increase of
324,S36 tons. Prices, however. were
lower, the value of the 1910 output
being $1O,917, 900, or SILL per ton.
against s1O,772.12O, or s4.62 per ton,
for 1909. Thus while the tonnage
in 1910 increased 1873 per cent, the
value Of the years output increased
less than per cent. Nearly half of
the phosphate rock produced in 1910
was exported the shipments being
1,0S3,037 long tons. In 1903 the ex-
ports were 1,020,556 long TONS Ac-
cording to the United States Geologi-
cal Survey, there are at present five
producing phosphate fields in the
United States. In the or1cr Of quen-
tity of production they are Florida.
Tennessee, South Carolina, Arkansas,
Idaho, Wyoming and Utah. BY far
the largest Of these fields is the Ida
-Wyoming-Utah field, where enor-
nous deposits of high-grade phos-
phate rock, recently discovered are
available for mining. The field next
In available unmined rock is prob
ably Tennessee where large areas are
underlain by deposits Of high-grade
rock. Florida has large reserve
tonnage, but at the present rapid rate
OF mining it will rot be many Years
before the rock will be exhausted
South Carolina has been mining phos-
phate rock since 1868, and the pro-
duction has steadily declined since
1889, with the exception Of two or
three years, when a slight increase
in production was noted. Arkansas
has never been much of a factor. and.
so far as known, the deposits of this
state are not Of great extent.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1911-09-20

Although the central bureau for
the registration Of cotton bills Of
lading provided for under the plan
of the Liverpool committee with the
Association subcommittee was es-
tablished on September /, question
has already been raised whether it
is destined 20 perform the functions
for which it was organized The
strong opposition to the plan on the
part of southern banking interests
was not overcome by the notifications
made by the American committee.
and 1t now appears that internation-
al banking houses doing a foreign eX-
change business have practically ig-
nored the arrangement. The fact
that owing to the slow movement of
the years crop only a small volume
OF bills of exchange against cotton ex-
ports have as yet come upon the
market, would minimize the import
ance Of such action. Still the antago-
nlsm to the plan on the ground that
1t would shift all responsibility from
the foreign interests involved in
cotton exporting to American banks
and bankers is pronounced and il
has been broadly suggested that the
plan is destined {" prove aborative
and that the business will be con-
Quoted for this season, as last. on the
old lines.-Bradstreets