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KING GEORGES INTEREST
IN ART OF SELF-DEFENSE
Fond of Round With the Gloves and
Gives the Sport His
Sanction.

Special Cabcgram to The Star
popularity the sport has always enjoyed
with his majesty, it is stated that King
George has shown keen interest in the
recent attempt to deal ''deathblOw to
boxing contests in England.
While serving in the fleet nothing af-
forded him more pleasure than to put up
a comparatively small purse-say $50 or
so-for a contest between two of the
crew, and he often acted as referee to
these bouts. Even today the king is very
fond of a round with the gloves, and his
admiration for the pugilstic art has
prompted him to have the Prince of
Wales and Prince Albert taught boxing.
Prince at Boxing Bout.
A short time ago the Prince of Wales
Was allowed to attend boxing contest
at the National Sporting Club, where he
appeared thoroughly to enjoy the even
inS's entertainment, and returned to the
palace to practice some of the blows he
had seen in the contest
Boxing, as sport, never had a warmer
supporter than the late King Edward, and
it is from his father that his majesty
inheritS this inclination. The late king
was once heard to say that he would not
give toss Of Il button for a boy who
was not able to put his hands up when
the occasion demanded il.
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HEAVIER TAXES PROPOSED.
Plan of Austrian Government ia
Raise Large Amounts.

Special tabieSfam 10 Inc star
VIENNA, December "a financial pro-
gram whereby several existing taxes will
be considerably raised is about to be in
troduced By the Austrian government in
order to meet the increased requirements
of the army and navy and to give state
officials and employees on the state rail
roads pay corresponding with the present
high prices of foodstuffs.
\ progressive income tax to be raised
is expected to yield S2,OO,OO0 The tax
on incomes from 500 to soGU3 remains
unchanged, but on incomes exceeding this
amount tax from ~. to 81. per cent
is imposed whereas hitherto d. per cent
the maximum.
Bachelors. spinsters and chiidless Wild
ows who have to provide only for them
selves will have to pay. besides the nor
NAL tax corresponding to their incomes.
an extra 10 per cent, while taxpayers
who besides themselves provide only for
one other pei son-for instance, child
less couple-will have to pay 10 per cent
extra.
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BOOKS RECEIVED.

BIOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF HUMAN
PROBLEMS. BY Christian \. Her
ter New York: The Macmillan
Company
THE HiGHW tIMAN. BY Guy Raw
lence- Illustrations by viii Crete.
New York: W. j. Watt & co.
THE VISTA OF ENGLISH VERSE.
Compiled by Henry :. Pancoast
Reprinted from standard English
Poems" with additional selections
New York: Henry Holt * Co
HEART THROBS. Volume Two. In
Prose and Verse. Boston: Chapple
Publishing Company, Ltd.
RELIGION AND LIFE: 4 Yearbook Of
short Sermons on Some Phase Of
the Christian Life for Every Week
in the Year. BY Rev. Julian X
Smyth. author of Holy Names,
etc New York: New Church Board
of Publication.
SOCIAL EVOLUTION AND POLITI-
Cal. THEORY. BY Leonard T. Hob
house. professor of sociology in the
University of London. New York
Columbia University Press.
SCIENTIFIC FEATURES OF MODERN
MEDICINE. BY Frederick S. Lee.
Phi. D., Dalton professor of physiol-
ogy. Columbia University. New
York: Columbia University Press.
THE PRINCIPLES OF BOND INVEST
MENT. BY Lawrence Chamberlain.
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gets into the true atmosphere that Mrs.
Greene has made peculiarly her own. that
of kindly. sympathetic country people.
Here for a brief period she is once more
the delineator Of charming New England
character. In Hagan Cassidy himself
there is little reason to be more than
paSsingly interested.
i'm CHATEAU LAND. BY Annie Hol-
lingsworth Wharton With - illus
trations. Philadelphia: J. r. Lip
pincOtt.
To go through Chateau Land" with the
author is to forget that one is treadins
a tourist beaten Path The average tray
eler is familiar with the cut and dried
stories that go with every historic
home in Italy and France. but Mrs
Wharton's genius for research enables
her to gather fresh interest at almost
every step. The journey begins at LAKE
Como and ends near Fontainebleau, at
Chateau ux-le-Corte with it's memory
of a. royal visit and it's unfori innate out
come for the host. Added to the literary
and educational value of the text are IL
Illustrations of chateauX. medieval star
ways ancient courts and bridges. includ-
ing two reproductions from photographs
by Mrs. Otis Skinner.
BY Joseph Conrad, author of The
Secret Agent" etc. New York: Har-
per & Brothers.
Stories of Russian intrigue are difficult
for western reading, largely because of
the strain upon the memory involved in
keeping the characters distinct Mir.
Conrad tells this story mainly through
the medium of an alien. westerner, who
relates a great tragedy of revolutionary
conspiracy from the point of view of a
disinterested onlooher. 1t clearly illus
trates the terrible conditions which PIE
vail in Russia, where the people whose
chief desire is to live peaceably are be
tween the miilstones of governmental
tyranny and radical suspicion. They may
become involved in plots against their
will, just as Razumov found himself
swept into difficulties by his selection as
a refuge by the assassin of 2 government
official. The story shifts to Switzerland
and there brings into view the conspii ing
exiles, who, from that vantage ground.
seek the overthrow of the established
government in Russia.
SOME AMERICAN STORY TELLERS.
BY Frederick Taber Cooper. New
York: Henry Holt q Co.
The author of these brief biographical
sketches notes that he has deliberately
chosen the title Story Tellers,' in place
of "Novelsts'' or STORY Writer'S, be
cause it makes possible more uniform
manner of treatment and more gen
erous point of view His object Is to
present to his readers some of the most
popular tellers of stories on this side OF
the water, showing them they are or
were as individuals, giving something
Of their literary endeavors and some
thing of their personalities. with in each
case a portrait. The story tellers chosen
for this treatment are: Francis Marion
Crawford. Kate Douglas Wiggin. Winston
Churchill, Robert W. Chambers, Ellen
Glasgow, David Graham Phillips. Robert
Herrick, Edith Wharton, Newton Booth
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''Scheherazade. Baron Munchausen and
some others. Tis we'll. for in the YER
nacuar he has the fair story teller of
| the Thousand and One Nights and his
eXcellency the baron beaten to a fraZ-
Zle. The effort of the hero TO find the
elusive Belle Charmion. the heroine in
the case. takes him through series of
startling adventures. each of which opens
, up the recital OF others. till. like an ex-
panding ring from a pebble dropped in
the water. the circle ever widens.
RANDOM RECOLLECTIONs OF AN
OLD POLITICAL REPORTER. BY
William c. Hudson. author OF j.
Percy Dunbar etc. New York:
Cupples & Leon Company.
For more than forty years Mr.. Hudson,
partly an active newspaper man,
partly the confidential agent of demo-
cratic campaign managers and commit
tees and partly as a public official, had
much to do with important political
events and with those concerned in them.
In addition to his opportunities as
special correspondent assigned to ma
tional conventions. which enabled him to
become a witness of many notable Incl
dents. Mr.. Hudson was trusted repre-
sentative of the democratic national COM
mttee in the campaign of 1884. The
book is not political history. 1t is a
collection of incidents which. in the
authors opinion, he is able to present to
the reader in aspects either entirely or
partly new. An introduction is supplied
by ST. Clair Mckelway. LID, editor of
the Brooklyn Eagle. who also had an
intimate relationship to not a few of the
events and to not a few of the people of
which and of whom Mr.. Hudson writes,
One of the most interesting chapters in
the book deals with the famous phrase.
rum. romanism and rebellion APP
piled to the democratic party by the Rev.
DR.. Burchard in a public address to
James G. Blaine at the Fifth Avenue
Hotel Dr. BurchaCd was chosen to ad
dress Mr.. Blaine because he happened to
be the oldest of the visiting ministers. IL
Father Sylvester Malone of Brooklyn had
been six days older the choice would
have fallen upon him. and the political
history of the country for the succeeding
four years might have been different.
Mr.. Hudson once asked Mr.. Blaine why
he did not reply to the remark at the time
Mr. Blaine. II had been up late the
night before at dinner. and got up rather
late that morning. l was busy with
important callers that | had not given
even a moments thought to what l
should say. So while Mr.. Burehard was
thoughts and did not hear him.
Mr. Hudson's book teens throughout
with interesting memoirs of public men
and should form a valuable addition to
the political history of the times.
THE AMERICAN WOMAN ABROAD.
Written and profusely illustrated by
Blanche McManus. New York: DOdd,
Mead < Co. Washington: Brentano's.
The woman who is planning a trip
abroad should read this book and then
curtsey to the author. Information and
literary charm are combined with de-
lightful directness. and in all the 500
pages of the volume no line gives hint
of the superiority characteristic of-some
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writers-who know so exactly how
thing should be done The cost of apart
ments. from palace housekeeping to mod
est flats: prices of food. the servant ques-
various capitals of Europe are figured
with text-like precision. But each I'M
draped fact is clothed with some incident
or pictured by bit of realistic sketch
which makes the telling of keen interest
alike to the prospective traveller and to
the armchair tourist, who may only see
the old world in print. The myth of
cheap living abroad is exposed. and
the writer explains just how much the
general advance in cost throughout E.u-
rope is due to "the American invasion"
To read is to learn about foreign markets
and shopping tours: to get enlightening
views of the winter climate Of Italy. of
the country hotels of Europe and of the
woman traveller and the French cafe"
There is a chapter about man dressmak-
ers of Paris and Londen. others concern
Ing Some German Spas and Winter
Sports in Switzerland" and paper.
THE Touring Club de France and How
it Aids the Traveller" which will especial
ly appeal to the woman who Journeys
alone.
THE BAUBLE: 4 Novel. BY Richard
Barry. author of Port Arthur" etc
Frontispiece. New York: Moffat
Yard & Co. Washington: Bren
tano's.
1t is difficult to grow very much con-
cerned over the fortunes or misfo-tunes
Of silly woman. Constance Rudd, beau
tiful. with a devoted though possibly i'm
patient husband ard lovely baby boy.
might have remained entirely happy If
she had only had a little more common
sense So many people strike this rock
and wreck their lives that perhaps this
tale is fair representation OF some
forms of average existence. Mr.. Barry
utilizes it to bring wildly into his reader
vision pictures of the woman suffrage
movement as il is now in progress. He
does not present ii in It's most attractive
aspect, showing the social jealousies or
those enlisted in it, and indicating clearly
the limitations which are put upon TINS
propaganda by some of the women en-
gagged in it. Ultimately Mrs. Rudd. hav-
ing passed through some bitter eXper-
fences in the world in consequence OF
leaving her husband in pique, returns to
home and baby and finds peace ard af-
lection. 1t is quite probable that she
would be more interesting character in
story dealing with her subsequent life.
THE LONG GREEN ROAD. BY Sarah
p Mclean Greene. author of Cape
Cod Folks etc. Frontispiece by
=. j. MOnahan New York: The
Baker < Taylor Company.
Readers Of Cape Cod Folks and
"Vesty of the Basins will look in this
latest story OF Mrs. Greene almost in vain
for that delightful quality that made
these two tales so strong in their appeal.
This deals with the vagaries and tempera-
mental eccentricities OF country boy
who became a great painter and went to
Europe at the instance of generous
friend. There he proceeded to philander
and fall in love more or less genuinely
with several women, one of whom he
marries out Of hand, so to speak The
story works along in sections and finally
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-12-09
DEATHS EXCEED BIRTHS.
Almost Complete Returns From the
French Departments.
special Cablegram 10 Tie Star.

Special Cablegram 10 The Star.
PARIS. December 9.-Every half year
the French departments send in their off,
cial returns of births and deaths, and the
results are awaited with interest, as the
population question is one of the Sravest
in France. The country is divided into
eightysiX departments, each with its own
project. The returns for the first six
months of the current year have been re-
ceived from eighty-two departments. and
they show notable increase of deaths
over births, the rate being 80. SS1 and
the birth rate 800, 313. Compared with the
first six months of 1910, there is loss of
81 900 souls.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-12-09

To enunerate the contributions E" this
present volume is virtually Ia reciie the
Ma mes of ali the illustrators OF note IN
this country today. Some OF the draw
ings are by deceased membtrs- Edwin y.
Abbey Otto II. Racher. Robert Blum.
Harry Fem. Louis Loeb and Frederic
Remington. The subjects range widely
from grim ira gedy TO broad humor. and
there is a corresponding breadth 81 tech
meal treatment. This * volume to
give pleasure to all who may possess it
THE PRINCESS. by Alfred Lord Ton
nyson With drawings by Howard
Chandler Christy. Indianapolis: Botbs-
Merrill Company.
One Of the most attractive gift hooks
of the season is this Handsomely Illus
trated edition Of TernySon'H poems. MIR.
Chris:y illustrates The text in both hack
and white and color. ON each PAGE IS a
marginal illustration in his host style.
THE ROAD: \ Modern Romance. BY
Frank Sayilc. author of The Pur-
suit" The Seekers, etc. illustrated
by Herman Pfeifer Boston: Little
Brown X co.
The bone of contention fought over and
grappled at by Americans. Turks, Italians
and AlbanianS is the great Biz railroad.
the incidents of its construction serving
as vehicle and the rugged scenery Of
the Albanian Alps a 5 a background for Il
love story of intrigue and treachery. An
American engineer constructing the road
encounters a powerful and VindictiVe op-
position caused by that society OF many
names, the Black Hand. This organlZa-
ton may in reality be of doubtful exist
ence. but the author has made il. for his
purposes. a political octopus 81 many
tentacles. wide reaching. unrcleuting IN
discipline and eXacting in sacrifices. The
action Of the plot is rapid the hidden
meanings i'll the most simple conVerSa-
tions are nicely accomplished and the en-
glneering problems well introduced and
solved the crisis of the Young Turk
movement. introduced for the consum-
nation of the plot. indicates the time Of
this international struggle for control Of
a small mountain railroad, the completion
of which was 10 have been factor of
vital Importance in achieving the down
fail of Turkish despotism. Two women.
one OF whom is sacrificed in an endeaVor
to shield from q bullet the man below ed
Of her rival, are, respectively. typical of
the hot, passionate south and the cold
taciturn north. The plan of Allah, the
merciful and compassionate is the key
note To which the whole book Vibrates.
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Economics and Industries.

Ashley. W J.. Cd. British rominions: Their
present comnlercial and Industrial condition
uE45 AS..5.
Brown. 4. *. Through ihe Nll RIM Rsls
Burton T. T. Corporations ANA the stare.
H. B@j,c
Carlton. 7. 7 History and Problems "f or-
cauizrd Labor. lif CI8Nh.
Gihl.ius. Herr, Gr HrltS rs. Economic ard
Industrial Progress of toe Century IlE t;@52P.
Mari. John. i!aitimovr's Prospects and Iu-> 81
hiitir>. iikNITB NJ.
'tem~cn. II. :. Pos -mogtcm Sc ~ Wealth.
INV resp.
Taassr. 4. ". rrinclple> II Economics ".
HCt Tla-p.
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ANNUAL OF THE SOCIETY OF H.
LUSTRATORS. With an intrOduc-
ton by Royal COrtissOz. New York:

was row Of pepper trees. shown in the
Chicago Art Institutes annual exhibition.
This exhibition comprises both paint
ings and sculpture, but the former in
much the greater number Among the
painters represented are three erstwhile
Washingt onians-Hobart Nichols, Everett
Warner and Charles Bittenger.
LEILA MECHLIN.
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North America: Description.

Butler. Sir ". +. Great lone Land Travel
and adventure in the northwest OF America.
tis.,2 Bg1J.
G clifford. i. &. The Everglades and other ESSAYS
relating Florida. GsI2-t;:;'i5.
Grnnell. q. b. Trails ~ the Pathtndegs.
Gs9-tiSStjt.
Venable. W. II. Buckeye Boyhooi. GS92-
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Eastern Europe: Description.

Bryce. James. Constautnop,v 1>sS lac
BS4.
CARTS. W. L. Around the Black SEA. Cd
C944.
Garnct,. L. n. ]. Turkey Of the utiomn 8.
G2:t;l sitn.
Wood Il. *. Honeymooning in Russia. 90
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THE PUBLIC LIBRARY.
IMPORTANT NEW BOOKS ON
SOCIOLOGICAL SUBJECTS

Among the sociological subjects repre-
scented in he new hoo6s ut the Puo-
lie Library are economic and industrial
conditions. and political science. Espc-
ciaiiy important contributions are Gib-
bins Economic and Industrial Prosrcss''
and Fites Presidential Campaign ~
1860" Mann new books of description
and travel are also included n the follow
ing list.
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with kountic Brothers. bankers
New York and staff lecturer ou
finance in New York UNIVERSITY.
School Of Commerce. Accounts AMI
Finance. New York. Henry Holt 4
CO.
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South America: Description.

Koebel w. II. Uruguay G992 ksl6
Mozans. II. j.. pSeud. Following the Conquis-
tadorcs Along the Andes. Gas MSS.
Waterton. Charles. Wanderiuss in South
America. 1909 G9s W3iTN.
Winter. Y -. Argentina and Her People 4
Today. o:S93- M131.
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ton. owen Wister. Frank Norris ana
Ambrose Bierce. OF these Crawford.
Phillips. 20. Henry and Norris are
dead The others are still producing de-
iectabie bits of fiction. Following the
sketches is photography of the works
OF the fourteen writer's. giving the p0pu-
lar works and critical estimates. and the
separate reviews in every instance.
THE ETERNAL FEMININE: Mono
IeEues. BY May Isabel Fisk. author
of The Talking Woman" etc. New
York; Harper & Bros
Miss Fisk's monologues have been
popular for a long time. for they present
the Eternal Feminine in vivid and real
istic and truthful manner. Some of the
sketches that she presents in this book
trend closely upon the realm of carl
cature and all appeal forcihly 10 the
sense of humor. In this volume are
printed eleven rnonologues. some Of which
have been published separately with the
illustrations which now accompany them
in this form
THE CENTENARY EDITION OF THE
WORKS OF CHARLES DICKENS
-MISCELLANEOUS PAPE H $ /:
From the Morning Chronicle. the
Daily News, the Examiner, House.
hold Words. etc.. and Plays and
Poems. BY Charles Dickens. Two
volumes. New York: Charles Serb
ner's Sons Washington: Bren-
tanOS.
In addition TO the numerous novels writ
ten by Charles Dickens there We're nat
urally in the course of his career as
Journalist many products which passed
quickly ont of public view and were not
assembled in the uual collections of his
works. They We're scattered through
the Examiner. Household Words. the
News the Chronicle. All the Year Round
and other periodicals. Some We're little
more than paragraphs and others We're
lengthy news reports and what are now
called feature articles descriptive OF
various phases of life. All of these. far
as they can be found. have been assem-
bled in these two volumes Of the cente-
nary edition, practically none of the pa
pers appearing in any other modern COL
lection In the second volume are in
Guided half a dozen plays and group OF
poems. The illustrations in the volume
are those which accompanied either the
original text or the reprintings Of DICK
ems lifetime.
ANNUAL OF THE SOCIETY OF H.
Illustrators. With Introduce
ton by Royal COrtissOz. New York:
Charles Scribner's Sons. Washing
ton: Woodward & Lothrop.
The Society of Illustrators was organ
lied in New York in 1901, but the present
is the first volume put forth as an annual
1t is the purpose of the organization now
to print such a book each year, each
member of the society having the privi-
lege of sending in one drawing OF his
own choice, preferably unpublished. Thus
this annual represents not merely the
work of the men and women who are at
this time contributing to periodicals and
books but that which they consider as
their most characteristic and successful
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-12-09
Political Science.

Fite. f. u. Presidential Campaign Of 1863.
il So F553.
Gettel r. g. comp. Readings in Political
Science. J-(I331r.
Humphreys. ]. II. Proportional Representa-
ton. JNMMSS7.
% Brien william. An Olive Branch in Ire
land. il IL Ob6i.
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N ANlEI. CARRIER, who received
~ fourth prize in the Corcoran Gal
lery's last exhibition for his painting
'Springtime, which the gallery later
purchased. has just been awarded the
Potter Palmer gold medal which carries
with 1t a prize Of 81 600. for a decorative
landscape, the chief feature of which
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The Negro.
Study of Crime.

On Bots W F.. r.. and Dill. \. g. eds. Col
lege-bred Negro American. HIN DS53.
ovingt"n. NJ ". Hall Man. HIN-ovi6h.
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all art museums many pictures
drift in and out which are not
catalogued in any special eXhi-
bition and often not remarked
by the casual visitor. These are
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TIN: CHIIDREN's EDtf Nal
TuE ATEH. EX AIice Mlnnlc Herts.

INTRODUCTION ~ Charles W. Eliot
Illustrated from photographs. New
York: Harper y Bro,herS-
The drama t. now to the front as one
80 tie prime forces in cducation AS a
matter ef Tact. schools throughout the
..oursrg- ate uassn-s through an epidemic
80 inl!a.. animate activity gathered loosely
-ud,r the "pue Of decentralization.
from kjn,icT-J:tcn - college, not only
tic facts al Jaiiy Ifc but also gleanings
fronl histCrs. Literature and even phiioso-
Ihy. &C staged and performed This is
q ity-sterical period. induced by the fasci-
ciiirratt. tool of education IL viii pass
IL saHcr mood parents and teachers will
regulate and chasten tie wild efffores-
cence of their present nervous and eX-
cited activity in this direction. Then
holding fast 10 the fundamental fact that
the dramatic impulse is an Instructive
thing, native Ia all, they will build ra-
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Blackburn. Douglas. and Cadden. Waithmann.
The Detection of Forgery. 1909. ICF B.r63.
kurclls. Hans Cesare Iomnroso, Modern
Man Of Science Ic-k9GJ.
LonbroSo- Ferrero, Gina Criminal Man. 40
cording 10 the Classification of Cesare Domhroso
briefly summarized by bis daughter. IC-Ls3l.