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Literary ,Neses and Criticism

horror of alcoholism. bequeathed Dy
father TO his children
We may leave aside any ques'loh aS
TO whether these topics are suitable OF
not for treatment in the theatre. IL Is
more important 10 see, first. now NJ.
Brieux treats them. We glance al the
characters of his personages, for there
lies an essential element in the whole
discussion. Brignac, the government OH
cjal in Maternity" is a man OF cheap
mentality and low nature weakly ainol-
tious. incurably selfish and, TO the very
core Of him. an unspeakable cad. Lucle'
his wife. does not love him and knows
that he does not love her. In a storm
Of recrjmination over their marriage she
saws: II was a penniless girl. and so
had no offers Of marriage. When you
proposed to me | was tired Of waiting
and I didn't want TO be an old maid. l
accepted YOU, but l knew YOU only
came to me because the women with
money wouldn't have you. l made up
my mind to love you and be loyal
Their wrangle discloses further insin-
cerities, and worse. When Lucie's sis
ter Annette, the victim already men
toned, has her case" unfolded we learn
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sometimes tiresome and as common
place as the vulgarity of Molly's mother
IN THE JUNGLE.
RABEs IN THE WOOD. A Romance of
the Jungles BY b. NJ. Croker. lZmo'
Ilrnnfnnn'S

RABES IN THE WOOD. Romance OF
the Jungles. BY Il. VI. Cfoher' l-iho'
pp. 31S Brentano's.
The lives Of the British administrators
in India still hold picturesque material
for the novelist. The jungle has it's dan
gers and mysteries still, and the native
potentate may perhaps even now be ex-
plotted by alien scoundrels. Mrs. Croker
has adroity used such material in THIS
as in other novels. and her book. if OF
the ephemeral sort, is truly entertaining
To the young Conservator of Forests
Just out from England, the jungle offers
CHASTITY supernatural terrors; evil beasts
on whose trail turks hideous death; ~
ing and thieving native subordinates;
snuous siren who plays the sisterly
friend; and an enemy who in unscrupu-
losity has blackguards advantage. on
the other hand, he finds an English
sweetheart Of the most lovable womanly
type, honest friends who uphold him
through all his difficulties, and work
which, as the novelist describes it, Is
celebrating Mrs. Croker is story
teller Of the old fashioned variety, one
who makes everything end well, with
discontinue for the villains and joy and
prosperity for the much-abused lovers.
Babes in the Wood" is an excellent hot
weather novel
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deeper than words. Is it not the force
Of the spirit. is II not that divine quail
ity which we call the inspiration OF
genius. for which we cannot account ana
which we cannot describe, but which we
unerringly recognize? Could NJ. Brieux'
with the right resources, take the three
plays in this book and raise them TO
higher power? We have surmised above
that it might put his types In different
light. But at least he has not done So
As his plays stand their want OF UNI
versatility condemns them not only as
plays but as tracts. Even the HUMANE
tartan must follow the rules of the game
and. while we do not doubt that NJ
Brieuxs heart is in the right place urs-
ing him 10 call upon society 10 correct
it's rottenness, he ought at least 10 pay
society the respectful tribute of showing
1t unimpeachable evidence.
OF course Mr.. Shaw has no doubts at
all, and If one were to judge from his
preface NJ Brieux's plays would nave
to be accepted as making an unqualliled
boon. But the truth Is that Mr.. Shaws
preface is a bore. He has his glib fac
ulty and can make all sorts Of smart Oh
servations on the scientific spirit, on the
censorship, on Nautilus. on marriage ana
so on. But his glibness suggests just an
ingeniously balanced machine, which can
be guaranteed to go on indefinitely pro-
ducing some glittering little object tul-
filling no useful purpose. III IS clever III
a way, with its paradoxes its insolences'
its signs Of reading, but at bottom 1t
Shaw is not unlike the mugwump, that
Individual who was long ago so aptlY
defined as a person educated beyond MS
intellect. Mr.. Shaw has grown verbose
and a little dull. He seems To have an
incurably common mind, insensitivc To
what is noble and beautiful in art. He.
like NJ. Rrieux, would have suffering di-
minshed. but, again like the French
man, he is disposed To go about the
task of lessening il I'm an unimaginativc
way. thoorizng on life until he secs II
too narrowly for him 10 see it truly.
bringing London. Liverpool, Birming-
ham. or any Of the large cities and
towns Of England you may see vast
areas covered with little worknen $
houses, all the same size all the same
color all tragically alike. They have
their wholesome aspects. They are well
built and sanitary Millions Of people
live In them comfortably and perhaps,
are happy But seen on a rainy Novem-
Der day, mile after mile Of them. there
is something fearfully depressing about
them. They abash the spirit. They numb
thought. Something of the same effect
is exerted by NJ. BrieuX and his loqua-
cicus aColytc IN this book. They may
mean well, but they strike cold, gray ter
ror to the soul. the terror Of arid COM
monplace. And 10 put the finishing
touch 10 their chcerlcss work they carry
on their inqusiton in the name of art!
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THE MATERIALS OF THE PAlNIEkS
From Earliest Times to the End Of the
Seventeenth Century, with Some Ac-
count of Their. Preparation and Use.
BY A p. Laurie, NJ A., ID. Sc. Con-
and other Illustrations. l2mo, PIP. Ky
"A. Philadelphia: The j. b. Lippincott
Company.
This is an admirable book. II is in
tended, of course, more for the artist and
student than for the general reader, but
the latter will find it entertaining and
not improbable. thanks TO a lucid style
as we'll as 10 the intrinsic interest of the
lions, some of which are in color, help in
very practical fashion to make the
authors points clearer. He is not only
instructive but positively charming in
what he has 10 say about the pigments
and vehicles used I'm Egypt and about
the methods of painting i'm classical
times. Searching the highways and by
ways OF literature, he brings surprising
amount Of information about the remote
past into his pages. But ii is, of course.
In more modern times that the tangible
facts are richest. and here Mr.. Laurie is
abundant and luminous. We note with
appreciation that while he is scientific in
aim and method learned in chemistry
and altogether bent on serving the man
who paints, he is not Indifferent to the
merely human and picturesque elements
TO be found In the history Of craftsman
ship.
Naturally, he pays attention to the
famous treatise of Cennino Cennini, and
in his quotations from that author he
includes some OF the passages which the
modern painter may not find sOlidly use
full, but which every one must enjoy.
| Thus the old Florentine gives his de-
scription of the blue prepared from lapis
lazuli: "Citramarine blue is a color
noble, beautiful and perfect beyond all
other colors, and there is nothing that
could be said OF IL, but ii will still eX
coed this praise" Following his account
Of the mode Of preparation comes this
! quaint conclusion:
| When dry, put It into a skin or purse and
| rejoice in II. for It is perfect; and bear in
mind that II is a rare gift 10 know how 10
make Il we'll You must know also that IL
is rather the art OF maidens than Of men
10 make Il. because they remain conunu-
ally in the house and are more patient,
and their hands are more delicate. But
beware OF old women
In his long chapter on the history Of
the oil medium Mr.. Laurie destructively
traverses the traditional belief that IT
was invented by the Van Eycks and
brought into Italy by Antonello da Mes
sina. lie maintains that painting with
oil was understood long before the
famous brothers took up their brushes,
and instead OF honoring them as in
ventors he prefers 10 give them the
credit "of having first produced great
pictures in the new medium, and OF
having, through their pictures, converted
the Italian artist 10 its use" His anal
ysis Of a thorny problem is exhaustive
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and minute. For the student 1t makes,
perhaps, the most important episode IN
book that is throughout worth reading.
DIR. JOHNSON AND FRUIT.
rom The Pail Mall Gazette.


The return of the strawberry season
was always heartily welcomed by Or:
Johnson. for as he once declared, ~
strawberries and cream he never could
have too much. Fortunately, he some
times had opportunity to indulge his
taste to the full. for his friend DR.. ray
Ior of Lichheld, whom he contrived
when possible to visit at strawberry
time. was rather a noted fruit grower,
and when at his house it was, as john
son said. with gusto: Strawberries
and cream. Toujours Strawberries and
cream!
4 voracious eater at any time, John
sons appetite for fruit was almost linn
itless. Mrs. Thrale tells us that he used
often To eat half "A dozen peaches before
breakfast. and that frequently she had
heard him complain that never in all
his life had he quite az much wall fruit
as he desired. save once. The excep-
tional occasion was during a visit 10
ord Sandys's seat at Ombersey The
exact quantity he then devoured has not
been recorded, but he was accused of
clearing a whole wall side.
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PEPYS'S EYESIGHT
Speculatlons on the Stoppage of the
Famous Diary.

From The London Daily Telegraph.
Interesting speculations by Mr.. darcy
Power, +. r. G. s, on the causes which
led Mr.. Pepys TO end his Diary at the
age Of thirty-six are given in The
Lancet" Mr.. Power read paper on
the subject at a recent meeting Of the
Samuel Pepys Club. He quotes copious-
~ from the famous Diary the pathetic
illusions to failing cycsight, which be
gin in 1868 '64, at the age OF thirty. and
end I'm 1869. with the close Of "all that
doubt | shall ever be able 10 do with
my own eyes in the keeping of my Jour
nal" SAYS Mr.. Power
ANY one who reads critically the ac
count which Mr.. Pepys has given Of the
state of his eyes must feel sure that he
has suffered from hypermetropia with
some degree Of astigmatism, and that
his fear of becoming blind was wholly
unfounded. These errors of refraction
were not very great, though they We're
sufficient 10 cause cycstrain and undue
sensitiveness of his refine. He did not
suffer from headache or he would have
said so: he did not squint or his por-
traits would have shown 1t. The eye
strain came on when he was about
thirty. He had been accustomed TO lead
an outdoor life. but he now settled down
at his office, began to use his eyes Tor
long spells of work and was concerned
with masses Of figures which often re-
qurcd the closest attention. The paper
at this time was coarse. the writing was
grabbed and the Candle-lght by which
he worked was insufficient. Consider
able strain, therefore. was put upon his
accommodation. and the latent defect
soon became manifest
with his friend, Mr.. Ernest Clarke, Mr..
Power evolved the following as the pre-
scrlpton which a present day oculist
would have written:
For Samuel Pepys Esq
Spcctacles-
. ID. G. --OJO -. cyl. axis 90.
Pcpys. THE Westminster Gazette"
points out, tried various tubes and
glasses, which were all that the spectacle
makers of those days had to offer; but
the hypermctropic astigmatism from
which he suffered could not have been
cured by glasses during his lifetime, for
science was not sufficiently advanced to
recognize the condition:
But astigmatism can be relieved by
allowing the rays of light TO pass
through only "A single meridian of the
irregularly curved cornea. or lens. 1t Is
tantallzing to think that Pepys might
have stumbled accidentally upon this
method If anything had caused him to
read through a slit while he was wear
ing his glasses This might easily have
happened had he sat upon his tubes and
crushed them. or If in the agitation Of
speaking he had squeezed them flat in
his hands. He would then have found
his eyestrain removed: his acute mind
would have set itself 10 determine the
cause: he would have pasted strips of
black paper on each side Of his glasses,
and the Diary might have been continued
To the end of his life; whilst the paper he
would have certainly read on the sub
ject before the Royal Society would have
added still greater lustre to his name and
might have revolutioniZed the laws of
dioptrics."
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Henry de la Pasture Gady Clifford.
l2mo, PIP. i07 T. p. Dutton Il Co
The author of Master Christopher
is a faithful student Of character, the
owner of an undoubted gift for evolving
many piquant and moving situations
from a very simple plot, and the Wielder
of a style at once graceful and fluent
In Christopher, the boyish squire who
has grown up without feminine lnflu-
ences. with coarse inheritances and WIN
dishonest toadies for companions, she
has found a character demanding all the
svmpathctic intuition she might muster
She has not failed in the balancing or
qualities. Careless, sullen, unmanneriy
cub as he often is. he has noble traits
which come to the surface In moments
of stress The father of hard nature ana
common mind, the mother Of dainty re-
hnement and remarkable talents are
both apparent I'm his warning character
and it is a blending which does not make
for his own happiness. We cannot but
like poor Christopher; the fibre OF MS
soul IS honest, and I'm all the torment or
his unlucky love story he plays manly
and generous part The selfish, scheming
beauty whom he adores is as cleverly
drawn. Her role is that of the female
villain and she carries it out in the APP
proved modern way with tenacious
striving after money. good clothes ana
Irritation. with pose" and cynicism and
humor. and a crafty Intelligence that
might easily bc adapted to higher uses.
II is perhaps inartistic to show the pen
nilcss Erica as risking the certainty OF
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eminence as a poet" Those who do not
particularly admire Mr.. Yeats's dreary
verse may prefer to read that Mr.. Jo-
Fiction does not apparently appeal to
the authorities as does verse-Mr Con-
rad gets only $500 ..,.t
A Suffrasette Novel.
A story in which the effect upon the
world OF the establishment Of woman
suffrage is portrayed has been written
by Mr.. Q. n. Stevens. II will be pub
lished next month under the title of AN
American Suffragette." Veaf
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leaving many children to her husbands
care, and he brought them up in a
fashion worthy of the immortal vicar
Remember, boys, leave 1t TO your
honor" were the words which rarely
failed 10 move his children to a con-
seriousness of duty. There IS a pretty
story Of little Horatio holding out against
a too easygoing brother in a situation in
volving personal discomfort. I'VE have
no excuse" said the lad, and reminded
his elder that 1T was left to our honor"
While he trained his children I'm high
ideals of character and conduct the good
parson did It with gentleness rather than
with the severity that often marked the
paternal discipline OF his time. There
were few coins in the country parsonage,
but there was plenty OF high thinking as
well as family affection. The father
taught the young people to feel love Of
nature and a love Of good books, not for
getting "a constant interest in men and
things" He was keenly interested him
self in all the occupations of his profess
sion and his home-in his humble par
ishioners, in his garden, and In the per-
sonal economies that enabled him to
help one child or another who went from
the rectory out into the world. The au-
thor quotes quaint letter which the
parson sent to his youngest daughter.
his much loved Kitty. soon after she be-
CANA "A bride and had settled down to
prosperous housekeeping. He suggests
caution in issuing orders and frmness
in the execution of them. Whilst
you address those who have contracted
themselves to Serve with Gentleness and
perfect good humor in one hand. hold
fast Authority in the other. :.
Amongst your friends be innOcently
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STUPIDITY STREET.

Ralph Hodgson. in The London Saturday
Review.
/ saw with open eyes
Singing birds sweet
Sold in the shops for
The people to eat.
Sold In the shops of
stupidity Street.
| saw in vision
The worm i'm the wheat
And in the shops nothing
For people to eat.
Nothing for sale i'm IS, ....
stupidity Street.
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the wealthy marriage she has secured by
inviting the attentions OF her betrothed's
friends. but that is Erica as the author
sees her. and the cold blooded follies or
the girl keep the story moving. Its
minor pcrsonagcs are lightly and neatly
sketched In. Erica's fat, weak. stupid
old mother is done 70 the life-she is a
triumph Of Lady Clifford's skill In por-
traiture. The author IS. indeed most
successful with the least likable charac-
tiers OF her story. AS whole, this is one
Of the most readable novels OF the mo-
mprt.
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A French Type of the Modern
Scientific Spirit.

THREE PLAYS BY BRIEUX, MEMBER
OF THE FRENCH ACADEMY. Wlth
preface by Bernard Shaw. English
versions by Mrs. Bernard Shaw, 81.
John Hankin and John Pollock.
Frontispece. l2mo, PIP. hv' 353. Bren-
tanos.
Good wine. we are told. needs no bush,
but evidently the particular brand con-
cocted b. NJ. Brieux is not to be taken
without the intervention of some friend
~ hand Mr.. Shaw is prompt to the res
cue, supplying these translations Of three
OF the Frenchman's plays with fifty-four
pages of Introductory recommendation.
He is an adept at beating the drum, and
so he starts off in this wise After the
death of Ibsen, Brieux confronted Eu-
rope as the most important dramatist
west of Russia. In that kind Of com
edy which is so true to life that we have
TO call II tragi- comedy. and which is not
only an entertainment but a history and
a criticism of contemporary morals. he
IS incomparably the greatest writer
France has produced since Moliere." We
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THE NELSON'S
A Real Vicar of Wakefield.

THE NELSON'S OF ,RURNHAi.M THoE El,i,
A Record of "A Norfolk Family, com,
piled from Unpublished Letters ana
Notebooks. l7S7-lSi2 BY VI. Eyre
Matcham. Illustrated. Svo PIP. go
The John Lane Company
Horatio Nelson, the great little admiral
figures from time TO time in this volume;
but il is chiefly TO his father. the old
Norfolk parson, that the author has de-
voted her pen. Herself a descendant OF
the Rev. Edmund Nelson, she has had
at command many Of the family pa
pers as well az the "reminiscences of ven
cradle relatives now departed and she
has used these in putting together a
pleasant II not very important sketch OF
English life a hundred years ago. The
best part of It is the portrait in words OF
the old clergyman. Highmindcd, sim
le-hearted. loving, he was true DR..
Primrose.
Mrs. Nelson died in early middle life
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FICTION
Character in England and Ro-
nance in India.
POOR CHRISTOPHER.

MASTER CHRISTOPHER. BY Mrs.
Henry de la Pasture Uady CllnorU.
l9mo, PIP. i01. T.. =. Dutton Il co.
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Young Tennyson's Book.

Mr. Alfred Tennyson, the grandson OF
the poet, has finished his novel, and II
will shortly be published. The hero Is a
Scottish youth, a shy giant, who has
many painful viclssitudes to encounter
but energies triumphant. "A Portentous
History" is the title Of the story.
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THE PAINTERS CRAFT
A Valuable Treatise for the Artist
and the Student.

THE MATERIALS OF THE PAINTERS
CRAFT IN EUROPE AND EGYPT.
From Earliest Times TO the End of the
Seventeenth Century, with Some Ac-
count of Their Preparation and Use.
BY \. p. Laurie, NJ. A, d. Sc. Con-
tanning seven reproductions in color
and other illustrations. l2mo, PIP. Ky
4i4. Philadelphia: The J. b. Lippincott
Company.
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The Literary Roosevelts.

Ex-President Roosevelts sister, Mr''
Corinne Roosevelt Robinson, has, ike
ber brother. a literary gift. She has
written a poem entitled THE Can OF
brotherhood" which has been placed III
the August number of "Scribner's Maya
zine"
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Yellowstone Excursion.

Get ahead OF the crowds. Special
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Births.

Albert William Preston. Holy Cross
hospital girl.
Hans William Peterson. Holy Cross hos
pital. boy.
East street, boy.
Peter Pteroffi. 1141 Mariowe avenue
boy.
II. l.. Nelson PSI Third avenue. girl.
Charles Booth II Wall street. boy.
EIeber c. Sorenson. 1902 South Eleventh
East street. glri,
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SUNDAY EXCURSIONS
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To Provo Canyon, 7:5O a. M, $40 a
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To Ogden, 1925 a, M. 12:45 p. m, 81
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The "Scenic Special" for beautiful
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Real Estate Transfers.

Orson Bills and wife TO Martin
Amundsen. part OF section 70.
township . south, range ] east, s
Andrew Amundscn and others to
Orson Bills, part OF block l,
Amundsen's subdivision ,.,..-.
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club. part of lot D. block 3s.
Utah Products company TO oregon
Short Line Railway company.
part or section Il, township
south range | west .........s..-s
i. Peterson TO August Anderson.
part OF lot 3. block s, plat B
Martin Hooper 10 Edward Laird
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EXCURSION TO SAN FRANCISCO

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The ladies Of Electa chapter, o. z. S.
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at the home Of Mrs. 8. \. A. Downing,
1893 Third avenue. programme OF
musical and literary selections will be-
gin at Sis o'clock,
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Salt Lake Statistics
Marriage Licenses,

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cur
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Lake
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Two million dollars guarantees the
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The Misses Mary and Stella Smell have
returned from California where they
have been in school the past winter