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warm colors and rational movement
Aooue It Rather, il 1t two stories, or
one advancing in two layers of action.
"" the outside, 1t Is the mere matter
VI woman serving temporarily as sec
Ietafy to q stressed novelist in response
70 MS advertised call for Immediate sue
cor. In this superficial capacity the
S,s S5G.,aa-save Tor great beauty-is woe
tnat go to the making Of the cream Of
TINS class Worlds away is she from
the ideal OF confidential secretaries
tnat miraculous ensemble Of PROJECTIONS.
t,,;.do swift ietter-perfect. keen of in
tuition. ready in correct response, in the
man self-enacfng, but upon occasions
expansive IN adulation Of ones suprem-
acy. on the inside. this is the story of
an autnors entire reconstruction in
creative art through the Offices of the
new secretary. Clear analysis, sound
Judgment, shrewd conjecture on the sub
Ject OF human action under various in
nuences take the place Of mere eff
hctency. in the temporary amanuensis.
When the great story is finished II
might as well be called hers as the
noveltst's. And this is exactly what it
Is. The general cast Of his inspiration
comedies so nearly with that Of her ex-
per1ence that the novel grows vigorous
ly under this graft Of realism. In ef-
feet. the secretary transfers her own
story to the pages of the novel. There
are minor collateral touches here. in
SAA~Ah6 tA0 AlAllIdlJ AuSDdHQ OI INC
woman. from whom she has run away,
and the wife of the novelist. whom he
has for the moment forgotten. These
light complications fade away, however,
for q better ending than comfort-loving
people at one time can forecast. The
title OF this story is not attractive. The
name LOB" may take on a long CO. or
q short-in either case the word it forms
is snubby. prosaic name. redolent Of
physical hardships. One wishes the
author would make it over. or throw 1t
away. in favor Of one more in keeping
with this delightful story.
THE TENNESSEE SHAD: Chronicling
the Rise and Fall Of the Firm of
Doc MacnOOder and the Tennessee
Shad. By Owen Johnson, author
of 1.-The varmint." etc. New York:
The Baker & Taylor Company.
Washington: Ballantyne's
Owen Johnson is fast coming to be the
Boswell Of the lads Of the Lawrenceville
School. The latest of the historic annals
put out by this chronicler deals with the
set up by Doc Macnooder and
the Tennessee Shad-one a very Brian
Boru OF courage. the other clear Mach
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the situation in hand. The summit at.
tanned. the heroine grows Indifferent tC
the means of her ascent Where hitherto
she bought safety she now quietly plans
exposure. For in the course Of these
events daring birdman. spotting the
horizon Of this lady's mind. now circles
to the zenith OF her affections. The flying
man. too. is in love, but he is no high
wayman. To make long story short
he takes the lady for flight. then an
vanced. and respectfully but firmly re-
pulsed, plays the mischief with the flying
gear and the tragic happens to the pair.
An awful warning to gallant birdmen
This very moving romance is dedicated to
Mr.. Grahame-W White.
THE LAND Chalmers. By John
Fleming Wilson. With illustrations
by Arthur e. Becher. Boston: Lit
tie, Brown & Co.
Spencer. q sick man from San Fran
cisco, has been sold worthless claim.
His nearest neighbor is q girl, born and
reared in the isolation Of the Oregon
timber. and these two are so lovably
human in their comradeship that when
the reader parts with them 1t Is with
sense Of personal loss.
Spencer has been a fighter in his rather
tumultuous past. and when he tells him
self, between pain-racking spells. that
he has gotta get weight on to thrash
Linn White for cheating him, one knows
that he is going to do things to that
agent, II the effort kills him. Whether
it does or not belongs to the story's plot.
''Outsiders'' in the timber include Miss
Flosselta, a vaudeville down -and-out; her
son Hal. q college educated youngster
who believes his mother to be famous
actress. beautiful and rich. and Miss
Reynolds Fletcher, a school teacher, who
has taken up a claim. chaperoned by a
companion whose name should have been
Mrs. Harris.
The Interviewing Of these individual
ties makes the dearest little story. and
always there is the consciousness of tim
ber-as If nature knew only how to make
trees and sky-and the pungency Of the
hemlock that woods brave old Spencer's
claim-and that has no money value.
With 1t all, however. the naturalism Of
characters and realism of background,
one cannot help wishing that when Hal
wins the claim which White has stolen
from a dying woman that he would see
the Justice Of returning it to the woman's
helpless daughter, to whom 1t rightfully
belongs. 1t seems to put the hero in
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the same class, morally, with the villain
OF the book.

the same class, morally. with the villain
OF the book.
THE LAND AND THE BOOK. or Bibli-
cal Illustrations Drawn From the
Manners and Customs, the Scenes
and Scenery Of the Holy Land. By
w. NJ. Thomson, D. d. With numer-
Gus illustrations and maps. New
York: Harper & Bro.
The authors missionary experiences in
Syria and Palestine cover a quarter Of a
century. That he has awaited himself OF
an unusual advantage is evidenced in the
present volume. in which he cites modern
conditions in their relation to the Bible,
making many citations plain to lay
readers who may have found such pas
sages obscure. The book is designed for
general and popular reading rather than
for the professional student, and for that
reason has none Of the dryness of the
usual text work. DR.. Thomson states that
"a large part OF these pages was actually
written in the open country-on seashore
or sacred lake. on hill or mountain top,
under the olive or the oak or the shadow
OF a great rock He reminds the reader
that the Bible wears the same air OF
country life. and that It was amid these
identical scenes that the Savior walked
the earth. Added to the realism Of the text
are many illustrations, which were pre-
pared with much care. and maps, drawn
WITH exclusive reference to the present
publication.
BILLY. By Paul Methven, author of
'Influences" New York: John Lane
Co.
Two very Ally young English people.
acting under pressure Of members of
their respective families, agree to marry
to escape from further opportunities.
Neither is in love with the other. The
man is a frail, unattractive scion of
somewhat impoverished nobility, and the
girl is the daughter Of a wealthy men,
Der Of q house Of commoners. Their
matrimonial agreement, the terms of
which. Of course. do not become public,
give to each perfect freedom and nat
urally leads to serious complications.
Billy" Is an athletic, sport-Ioving, whole
some girl. and her husband is totally I'M
suited to companionship with her in any
Of her lines Of interest. Eventually trag-
edy stalks into this ill-adjusted household
and it is quite by accident and good for
tune that q crisis is averted Mr.. Meth
ven breezily describes the empty social
life OF the higher circles of London So
ciety. Incidentally he sets forth the pro-
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iaveln OF finesse. The immediate object
or this business combination, like all such,
Is corner. or it's nearest approach, on
the loaves and fishes of the world. At
Lawrenceville these come out from their
former elements Of fire and flood as
eclafrs. hot-dogs. pancakes and nee
tarine beverage known as ''jiggers." Over
this roll ceaseless bacchanal waves of
song, whose hopeful refrain is something
about the ever-fiowing jigger." Wizards
pair OF manipulators in the interest of
substantial toothsome finance. The gods
OF Olympus themselves sit no higher above
the lesser folk than these two above their
charmed and helpless interiors. Their
overlordship is complete. with shade Of
distinction for the Shad over his partner
in the mere matter Of finished execution.
The pages bulge with the doings of this
pair. In the heavenly school of Law
renceville studies do not exist, and pro-
fessors stand about merely to be bowled
over and shown their proper places. The
book is good fun for boys, and since some
sapfent lady has invented the aphorism
that ''all men are boys" it turns out to
be good fun as well for the whole male
persuasion.
THE PRICE. BY Gertie De S. Went
worth James, author Of 1.-THE Les
son." etc. New York: Mitchell Ken
nerley.
At the theater comedian OF forgotten
name, at curtain call for some extra
deliciousness of nonsense, came out and,
In elegiac mood and manner, recited the
sad story Of Owen More. This sets out:
''Owen More left town one day, OWN
more than he could pay" and so on in
narrowing sequence to prove again that
one must either pay his bills or get out.
The couplet submitted epitomizes the
story in hand, both in its movement and
denouement. The heroine, marrying out
of arid circumstances into a fertile situa-
ton. devotes herself with amazing en-
ergy and ingenuity to the cultivation Of
her social vineyard. Definite. reckonable
results follow. When, in the full tide of
this success, an American adventures
approaches her with the astounding state
ment that she is q first wife, long sup
posed by the husband to be dead. and
that the heroine Is much less than any
wife at all, the latter resourcefully buys
the impostor to secrecy. holding her off
from the innocent husband as we'll as
from the world. To pay the ransom she
writes poor but ready-seller novels, going
blithely. meanwhile. on her upward social
way. At this juncture Mrs. Nemesis takes
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cedure OF divorce case such as from
time to time entertains the British CAPT.
tai. The story Is light bit of fiction.
without any serious purpose and impos-
ing no particular strain upon the intel
lect.
THE OTHER MAN. BY Edgar Wal
lace. illustrations by +. ]. Fogarty.
New York: Dodd. Mead & Co.
Nine men, representing several nations
and combining q prodigious degree OF
sagacity and reckless courage. organize
themselves into secret group known as
the IN. H. c." They shake the stock
markets Of the world. They plot the
most daring crimes and. using q wide
spread series Of wireless stations. they
reap an immense harvest of profits. Ul-
timately driven from their hiding place
by a shrewd London detective. they take
refuge upon piratical man-Of-waI
filched from the Brazilian navy by It's
captain. who is under charge of defalca-
til finally hemmed in by q Gordon of war
ships drawn from the. navies of the
world. One Of the master minds of this
criminal organization Is a Russian. Pol
tava, who is really too diverting and
fascinating a character to have been sac
structed story. Mr.. Wallace might profit
ably restore Poltava to life. for he has
qualities quite as engaging as those OF
Raff1es, Arsene Lupin and other famous
criminals Of fiction.
THE MOVING FINGER. By e. Phil
lips Oppenheim. author Of "The Lost
Ambassador" etc. illustrated by J.
v. McFall. Boston: Little. Brown
& Co.
Sometimes it seems as though Mr.
Oppenheim is in such a hurry to turn
off his manuscripts. which are in de-
mand from large section OF the novel
reading public. that he fails to take
the pains to correct them carefully
No other theory serves to explain the
conscienceless demands which his tales
occasionally make upon the credulity
A little more reflection would per-
haps have apprised him Of the .un-
likelihood Of Bertrand Saton being con-
tinuously received in the house OF
Henry Rochester and entertained al
dinner with his traditional enemy after
having been brought under pointed
accusation Of attempted murder. AT
the outset the story promises well
Rochester, a man OF large means. mag
istrate and member of parliament. finds
an impoverished youth gazing into the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-07-15
THE PUBLIC LIBRARY.
NEW BOOKS ON EDUCATIONAL
AND SOCIAL PROBLEMS.

Among the books recently added to the
Public Library arc many works on edu-
cation and practical problems OF social
life. A short list Of these. with a list OF
few new books on banking. Insurance.
ETC., is given below:
Money and Banking.
. AsTifs; n " Suggested Plan for Moneta,
,s Crane. W. H. Scientific Currency. HIM
,o Ecka, T H N. p. Rational Banking sy.-
p1T Usher =, ,Mf rn. and gsewn H. G. Purchasing
Hirst. F. W Credit Of IF Nations. Hr-Hei7.
traIiaed Bankins. aN.Mssss. currency anu zen
Withers. Hartley. Meaning OF Money. HR-
W774m.
Income and Inheritance Tax.
Bancroft; Hugh; Inheritance Taxes for In
KEENAN,, K, K: Income Taxation. HTG-Kase.
Scligman, E. R. A. Income Tax. HTG-se46.
Insurance.
nsns.p Pos; Holder. ssc fs Life IN
Insurance. etc. IIL-Ds4s.
HnsSner, s. 5. property Insurance. m.Hs7ap
H.
social reform IIs-Se14s.
Social Work.
Applied Ideals in Work With Boys. rAA
BALDWIN. J. NJ. Individual and Society. l.
pI sI,wSSs E rhs, Sociology and Modern Social
KellIeott. " p: Social Direction Of Human
f F w Fssa't Is: Ctr !; Il. stsos f..
Charity and Reform.
n ssh.'p and se r Au fs.I House Building "
and Fpn.snsnt Crime isos. mo reS dHssn'''
Goo Gorst Sir n.. :. E. Children Of the Nstis..
Gro4k Il. G. A. Criminal Psychology. 10
.dn .rt Tor cl H cottiss :ss 1n't'
un asss s Il H. x iGss1s o0or Law In the
,e ns1aer'1 ~ irEhs g. Correction and Pre-
Kaufman, r. w. House Of Bondage. ICP-
National Conference Of Catholic CHARITIES. list.
Washington. d. c.. 1910. Proceedings. &c
Society for the Promotion Of Social Service.
5HTsnls , ss the !Sses Mems Chris
Importation and Use Of Opium. fCio. Unsoi.
in Cities ID-Wsos ~ ''' '''''' 'e'''' VI ~"
Education.
Bagley. W. C. Educational Values IK-B14s.
Blandin Mrs. l. M. e. j.. History Of Higher
EaSeat s Of WsIsT in the South Prior TO
Graves. F. r. 4 History of Education During
1as adds asss and the Transition to Modern
sd assssr Il 4 Teaching of Latin in
Hodges, George. TRAINING of Children in Re-
ca asnss Of ssueff k4 :, Growth or the
University From Early Times to 1905. IKzs-
Kerschensteiner. Geors. Education for ch-
= s aS4s1s ". A Economy of Education. 1909.
Thwing, Q. r. A History Of Education in the
United States Since the Civil War: IKs3T42s.
IKC-Z66.
Colleges and Universities.
s Darnto ,s Eraser e. :. Handbook on Foreign
De selincourt, Hugh. Oxford From Within.
Dgr.nd, Ralph oztG %ss Its Buildings and
Evans: g. F. College Freshman's Don't Book
IX-Ev167.
Foster: W. T: Administration ADM of the College
L. S. Justice Department. Financial Condi-
ton Of the George Washington University.
Industrial Education.
Dean. A. D. Industrial Education. IKT-
McGaw. Virginia: Construction Work for
M Mdis. anu N'en'sD'' ''''''' ''0'' III
Ontario. Education Department: Education
School. HFA-Wssem
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BOOKS RECEIVED.

ABOUT Us AND THE DEACON. By
Clarke Smith. Philadelphia: The
Literary Bureau.
BLACK AND WHITE, Anonymous. IL
Illustrated by Joseph Rogers Phila-
delphia: The Literary Bureau.
A INITIATED LIFE STORY, Strange
Fragments Of nm Autobiography,
sketches 81 Experiences N . Nurse
and Doctor In m African Hospital
and In the American West. BY
Auguste Marie Michel, NJ u. Chi
cago: Published by the author
THE DARING TWINS, A story for
Young Folks. BY l.. Frank Baum,
author of The Or Books" ETC. IL
Illustrated by Pauline NJ. Batch Ider.
Chicago: The Reilly & Britton Co.
FELICE. An Arcadian Idyn (Allegori-
CALI. By Capt. Almont Barnes
Washington: Brentano's.
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A Great Economic Problem.
From ,IudSe

FF0m Ju0ke.
Uncle Eben--I tell ye, the present poor
quality Of immigration Is driving out the
native-born Americans.
Nephew Eben-Right ye are. uncle!
Look at this town. for instance What
with druminers in the spring, city board
ers in the summer, surveyors in the
fall and actors in the winter. . Teller
who's born and raised here don't stand
any chance with the home gals at ALL"
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| 1t annoys them Ye. it annoys them
Whereupon he went on and ratified his
cane along the iron pickets some more
Now, this is all light on the part of a
great and renowned literary genius. 1t
Is the sort Of thing one might expect
from a man of the Moore type.
But is 1t the thing that one ought rea-
sonably to expect S-om the milkman, the
iceman, the garbage man and even the
| sparrows?
these persons and these BIRDS and things
are animated or Actuated by the same
subtle instinct OF decadent depravity
which incites Moore to keep people awake
| and then delightedly to murmur: 1T an
noys them!"
! Let me elucidate:
| Last night went to bed at the perfectly
respectable, not t. say the bourgeois.
sheet underneath was like a piece Of
asbestos. that had been working. The
windows let in little gusts OF breeze like
those which emanAte from the furnace
two hours. Then sleep. that knitteth up.
the raveled sleeve sOf care, consented to
| give me a little run for my taw agate. I
must have slept Cor almost an hour.
Then:
The milkman on our beat arrived
q
! The nlilkman on our beat wears shoes
| that he must have gone fishing in, except
| that they are hardet. They don't squeak;
they don't crunch; they don't slide. II
only they did any of these things. But,
no. They hit the ground like the impact
of base ball bats. They wallop the stones
or bricks like ths rataplan of wooden
shoes as worn in Iaarlem, Holland, null
| tiplied by about len. How any man,
! much less g. mil,tnaan. can wear such
| lignum vitae things on his feet for ten
| minutes without going screaming mad,
much less wear them all the time that
ne delivers milk n fs,s all human com.
| those hgnum vitae or teakwood shoes on
the hard pavement, would awaken the
Seven Sleepers and Flip Van Wrinkle, were
| they all rolled INFO one slumberescent
mass. inside Of considerably less than
four thuds.
| But this is not ISL the villainy of &.
1t might naturally te supposed that after
getting EN- awake the miikman would
| to himself and make idfotically delighted
grimaces at the oraIge dawn coming out
OF the orient east, snd let II go at that.
But. again, nix: This milkman on our
beat isn't satisfied with getting us awake,
but he likes to keep us so; and he suo-
| ceeds. First. he practices what suppose
| to be the overture from "William Tell''
| In his jugglery Of the milk bottles in his
wagon; It is q sort OF horrible, discordant
| xylophone solo, jsmmed with tinkly
chords that don't tir,k. repIete with muir
derous inharmonies. Finally, after about
| ten minutes Of this, during which he
assemblies two or three thousand bottles
in his arms, you begin to pray that he will
| fall down and figure as the headliner In
an appalling cataclysm Of broken glass.
But he doesn't. Never q bottle drops he.
Instead. he begins to hum "All Alone"
! Some doll. you figure, has told him that
It. 30 he huns All Alone out there
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Teacher-Bobby. give an example Of the
double negative.
Bobby don't know oone-Boston
Transcript.
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. ECENTLY heard q subtle story
~ about George Moore

p ECENTLY I heard a subtle story
~ about George Moore.
George Moore, YOU Of course remember,
is the dr1shman who long ago won recog-
milton as the greatest art critic in E1-
rope. Also he is famed as a great novel
ist-a novelist who, like Meredith, is read
mainly, II not only, by the cognoscenti.
His Esther Waterz'' and Confessions
OF Young Man." printed a quarter of
q century ago, remain a delight to the
students OF style and the admirers Of lit
erary frankness. His Memoirs Of My
Dead Life" an autobiography Of his thirty
years OF life in Paris. is already a classic
that Will come to rank with the autobi-
ography of Benvenuto Ceflini. Aside from
all OF this, George Moore is a great boule-
warbler, glass Of fashion and a pattern
OF form. Mostly he lives in Paris. but
he has a very beautiful old home, the
place in which he was born, in Ely street.
Dublin. His neighbors. whom he has
never known, because he has lived so long
IN France, are sedate people OF wealth.
moore, being Partisan Irishman, of
t course. horrifies them. the horror being
reached them as to his studied reckless
ness In the domain Of literature
Not long ago Moore dropped into his
dublin house from Paris. He remained
there almost a whole week-a long time
for him to stay at the ancestral house
or nights he would go downtown and find
congeniai spirits, and he would come
home very late, or, one should say, very
early. He made il n practice, in reaching
his street along toward 3 o'clock in the
morning. to rattle his walking stick along
the iron palings of the houses in Ely
street surrounding his own home and of
course such noisy conduct brought indig-
nant heads to th., windows Somebody
was behind Moore :,ne morning when this
happened The outraged neighbors OF
Moore, hearing the clatter of his cane
along the iron pairgs, were poking their
heads out of their windows and breathing
objurgations, and the man behind Moore
heard that callous person murmur softly
to himself:
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BOOK REVIEWS.

FROM MEMORY's sHRINEs The Rem
fniscences Of Carmen sylvia, III. NJ.
Queen Elisabeth OF ROumAAIa.
Translated from the German by
Edith Hopkirk. illustrated. Phtla-
delphia: J. B. Lippincott Company.
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Iceman--Looks like they got Johnson
numba. hey7
Iceman's Mate-Aw. he amt started yit.
wait'll he gifts warmed up. he'll show
them guys.
Iceman-FIad q doll out Fr some beer
n crabs las night Blieve me. she was
tn class, DO!
Iceman's Mate-where't snag her?
Jcen,an-Oh, reg'lar li'r buddy o. mine
Kind o. soft on her, n no kiddin'. She 8
gotma nwnba. ali RI. Wouldn't be
s'prised II didn't go git tn license fr
that one.
Iceman's Mate-Aw. gwan. ouitcha
kiddin'.
Iceman-But. say. kid. y'oushta seen her
dredge inta tn crabs. Day. she cleaned
up seven of 'eGn, N than hollered fr more
crabs. Grass Z that appetite for q doll,
hey7
Iceman's Mate--Aw. they're all there
Wit their habits these days Takes all
guy kin grab T. keep o squad fed.
And about fifteen more minutes Of
that.
1 got up and gaxed long and vindictively
at them out Of the window. knew per.
fectiy we'll that II ! emitted one single.
solitary beef out OF my facial oridce, d.
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tie amethystine sea Of slumber.- and we
are beginning to get the hang Of our job
as skipper Of q South sea schooner en-
gagged in the copra and cochineal trade,
touching at the Carolines, the Marquesas.
the FIjis, Samoa and the French Frigate
shoals. and making $4,000 a year out Of
our glass bead dealings with the easily
gulled Polynesians-when the Iceman and
his Mate arrive.
The Icenan always has a Mate, maybe
you've noticed. One Of 'em drives and the
other Icemans. Always they are q very
congenial pair Of young rufi1ans. They
are fond Of each other to the point Of
confidentiality. never mind so terribly
their awakening me with the rumble Of
their wagon and the hoofbeats of their
horses. because I accept those things as
part of the urban game, and long ago
made UP my mind to play the game.
But the thing that arouses the primer
dial peeve in me is the pointlessness, the
inconsaQuentiality Of their break 20 day
conversation.
The Iceman and his Mate, who spent a
horrible twenty minutes in front Of my
wicltieup this morning, conversed pre-
cisely. verbattrn1y. as follows, the while
they exchanged the makin's and rolled a
couple Of cigarettes for themselves and
sat on the curb ana gazed at their moist
forearrns, and spread agony and devasta-
ton in my neighborhood-they spoke to
wit:
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The Bad Egg,

A Hartford clergyman was talking
about the late Charles, Battell LOOMS:
His departure leaves the world less
gay" the clergyman said. He was "a
humorist He looked at every subject
from the humorous point of view.
Il remember, once on the failure of q
financier of somewhat doubtful repute,
said to LOOMS:
He was bad egg, but nobody
seemed to think so as long as he had
money
Naturally said Loomis, for, like
most bad eggs, he was all right till he
was broke"