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about characters that, however conver-
tional as cathedral town types, are Yet
sufficiently amusing to keep things go
ing The vicar had boasted, up there
among the Swiss mountains, of the
clergy's knowledge of human nature.
The chance travelling companion in
sporty" clothes to whom the remark was
made had answered that the clergy
know human nature as it is always care
full To present itself TO ecclesiastical dig
nifty. What is more, he had proved his
point by absconding the next morning
with the Wears clerical black and his
handcase. forcing him to don the loud
clothes for the moment. The attitude Of
people toward him, the tenor of their re-
marks. changed as by magic and SO it
was a new man who came to a town that
needed many improvements. There IS
plenty of plot. as may be surmised from
what has been said. in this bit of well
come. unpretentious light reading
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He met many notabilities In Paris ana
Geneva. but on the whole has little TO
say about them. beyond few amiapIe
commOnplaces. Even the foreign men,
bers of the Tribunal receive but scant
attention from him. be.-ond brier ana
fiattering description Of their personal
tiles and careers. Anecdotes are rare, even
though William NJ Evarts Is much IN
evidence. 1t is of him. indeed. that the
author tells the best Of the few stories
i'm his book-Evartss remark to DR..
Thomas Evans. who had been monopo-
lizing the conversation at dinner with
long recital of the condolences made to
him by royal personages. well. doctor"
said Evarts. 1--WE certainly owe you
debt of gratitude. For us ii is great
thing even to see king or prince; but it
seems that they all have opened their
mouths to you"
There are several appendices, and the
book has a capital index, a thing always
to be thankful for.
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Literary .Neses and Criticism

tongue. The traveller spent much time
and labor in examining and planning
the ancient palace. and her photographs
as reproduced in this volume are as
interesting as they are valuable. From
Kheidir she went on to Babylon, findlng
there the German eXcavators at work
within the remains of Nebuchadnezzar
palace She stood in the great oblong
chamber wherein BelshaZzar read the
startling message on the wall-still may
one see the niche on the opposite wall
which was made for the Kings throne
end at the bottom of an excavation
Workman's pick struck out at her rect a
pair of bracelets and the beads OF a
necklace which Babylonian woman
had worn thousands of years ago. After
Babylon came Ctesiphon, with its I'M
posing ruin of the Sassanian palace
whose wonderful vault rises without
centring beams, over the hall where
King Chosroes once sat in state. Al
Kalat Shergat, the first capital of Assy-
ria, Miss Bell found more German eXca-
yators of renown and hearty welcome
and with DR.. Andrae for guide she wan
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FICTION
Tales of War and Peace, Crime
and Mystery.
BOER WAR DAYS

FORGED IN STRONG FIRES. BY John
Ironside. Frontispiece by Stanley l..
Wood. l2mo. pp. 3lS. Boston: Little
Brown & Co.
1t Is woman's share Of war that the
author deals with In this story, her pas
sive share Of waiting and watching and
fearing and hoping, Of weeping and loss,
rather than with the activity and dan
gers Of campaign and battle. His tale
begins with the scattering OF family of
English settlers in tbe Northern Trans
vaal. with the severing Of old ties or
neighborliness and friendship and with
an act Of vandal violence eliminating In
murder, news of which does not
reach the victims family, exiled in Lon
don. until after many days. The author.
by the way. draws graphic picture OF
the loneliness OF these English colonials
in the heart of their home country. far
more dscouraging, less friendly and
neighborly than the loneliness of the
veldt There Is one element Of the plot
that. having been introduced. might
have been developed to far greater pur-
pose than is the case-the fact, namely
that the heroine was born and spent her
first years in native village. and has
an obscure but potent understanding or,
and sympathy with the natives. They
worship her, serve and protect her dur
ing the days of danger, but here. as else
where in the book. one receives strong
impression of a lack Of first hand knowl-
edge of the country and it's life on the
part of the author. The love element l.
well done and well set in its tragic en-
virOnment
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dered through the streets and buildings
which seem TO take the imaginative be-
holder straightway into the very pres
ence of the Assyrians who once peopled
them. Our authors archaeological eX-
cursions are many and varied. her zest
and enthusiasm are neverfailing. and
none of her vivid pages should be
skipped by her readers.
1t was in the months succeeding the
revolution in Turkey that Miss Bell
made this journey. and she was keenly
interested in observing the effect upon
the people of the change in the govern
ment and the promises of administra-
tive reform. There was a pathetic be-
wilderment in all races and an inca
pacity to believe that the granted con-
stitution could remedy the age-long
systems of corruption and eXtortion
under which they had groaned. Liberty
was a word strange in their ears; and
equality and fraternity, as the author
notes. were difficult to establish in an
empire Of many nationalities ruled by
race protesting Islam and having little
Jatience with Christian dissenters from
that faith. The massacre at Adana took
place while the journey chronicled here
was in progress. and the traveller in
discussing it looks on every side Of the
matter. She holds that the sufferings
Of the Armenians should not blind us to
the fact that they were blameworthy
They had helped" she says. ''tO bring
uron themselves the calamity that over
whelmed them; by wild oratory they
had laid themselves open 10 the accusa-
tions Of conspiracy which were brought
against them. they had kindled the
flames OF discord by preaching In their
churches the obligation of revenge. The
criminal folly of their utterances stirred
up vague alarms in the breasts of an
ignorant and fanatcal population, and
from whatever side came the incite-
ment to outrage. it came to ears sharp
ened by anxiety" on the other hand 1t
was evident that when the Turkish Off
Gals acted promptly and forcibly the
Moslems were restrained. Il believe
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NAPOLEON'S RED MAN.
From Notes and Queries.

The story OF the Red Man was evil
dCntly current in Paris at the time Of
Napoleon's downfall. In "A section head
cd "Bonaparte and His Familiar" con-
tanned in News from the Invisible
World PIP. :Ei3-G Zone of Miner &
SUwerhy's publications. reissued in Lon
don. 1SJD, an anonymous correspondent
writing from Paris. names January l.
1871. az the date when the mysterious
visitant appeared. The account Is given
with much circumstantiality of detail,
but differs materially from Cyrus Red
dinS's version. Instead of being a per-
son of small stature, the familiar was
Il tall man of imposing appearance.
dressed all in red. Count Mole, i'm at
tendance on Napoleon. with orders To
admit no person to his presence. was
quite overawed by the mysterious
stranger. He listened trembling at the
door. and heard all that passed.
The familiar. it seems. was not an
embodiment Of the enemy of mankind.
but rather the genius" who presided
over Napoleon's destiny. He ordered "A
certain course of action To be taken and
allowed three months for IL To- be carried
into effect. Napoleon apparently refused
To comply. They parted i'm anger. and
In three months the Emperor was "A cap
tive in Elba Even the French papers,
when Bonapartc was deDosed. recurred
t. this fact. and remarked that his mys-
terious vstants prophetic threat had
been accomplished" on three different
occasions the Red Man appeared to the
Emperor; in Egypt. after the battle OF
Wasram. and In January. 1914
In the process Of transmission through
the crucible Of fervent loyalist imagina-
tion the story seems to have been al
tered or mutilated.
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KINGS SPEECH STORIES.
from The Dundee Advertiser.

From The Dundee Advertiser.
OF all the stories told in connection
with the Kings speech, the most extraor-
dnary is one which describes an undig-
nified exploit of George " when Regent.
1t is said that he was once talking with
Sheridan about an approaching opening
Of Parliament, and. remarking that the
peers, as rule, paid very little attcn-
tiOn TO the verbal character of the
Speech. offered To bet a hundred guineas
that he could make any Interpolation he
choose and that ii would pass unnoticed.
Sheridan accepted. and the Prince Re
gent agreed To interpolate the words,
'Baa baa. black sheep" He won his
bet. AT the close of reference Ia af-
fairs in the peninsula he cleared his
throat. said "Baa baa. black sheep"
and went on to the end Of the speech
Sheridan, who was present, was amazed
that nobody even betrayed surprise
Didn't you hear him distinctly say
'Baa, bsa, black Sheep" he asked Can
ming afterward. Il did," was the reply.
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TO HERRICX.

| r Bruce Dilks in Cornhll.
The worlds asleep!
The sky is full of stars tonight
Wind-swept. rain-washod, winsome and
bright.
! The Bear
And Cassiopeia's chair.
The beltcd Hunter and his Hound are
there,
No intervening light
Screens the vast infinite;
Soft Dians face is hid
Deep. deep,
Amid
The conquerng curls of young Endy-
MONS hair
In that warm galaxy
J Zoning the chilly DO som Cf the sky,
\ misty net enrloshn9 golden bees.
Those amber clusters of the heavenly
| vine
Nesting like apples Of thine own Hes
perides,
! Those points of flame
! Fine drawn
From the princval ngDt bars
In that far-off material dawn.
When sang in antiphon the newborn
| Mid these
Which. Ho~rick. which is thine
The imperishable fire that bears thy
| name?
Tonight
Whence leaps the light
| Which orst shOne on our sires, what
time
THOU sang'st among them in our lyric
| prime,
Fashioninc thy carcanets Of rime,
| And stringing pearls
| OF music out of sheer dolight?-
| Singing of s9f1ron-mantled daffodil
| Ard IcWy violet,
| of sweet bre athed girls
| Whose witchery moves us still,
| And We forget
| Ali meEthe years between.
| Carving thy canoes rare
| Of country customs ana our fatherS
ways,
Tho hearth serene
And humble tenement
And the slow round of rustic months
and days;
Then. on thy hended knee,
Shaping thy rosary.
Each bead a prayer
Asking what gods may be
70 take Thanksgiving cor thy great con-
tent
Not thine TO probe the deep recessos Of
the Mothers mind,
Not SheleN's rainbow nope,
Heines hot tears,
Nor Wordsworth's wider scope
OF natural laws that bind
God and His universe TO our own kind.
Thine ears
Were not attuned to music beard by
them.
Yet hadst thou Natures garment by the
hem:
1hy clear eye caught the CLEAN
OF rays
Flashing from many a gem
She wears upon the border Of her dress
All. yes,
Thou vast 2 seer. and we deem
Thy vision meet for praise.
The worlds asleep,
Alone | creep
And cast
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chile terms: yet the case, viewed as a
complaint brought before tribuna, oI
in courtesy. An easy. conclliatoIN, hat-
apologize way of pronerlnS our cIdllllS
would have been entirely out of keePlns,
The document had to reflect American
public opinion. and on that score there GER
tanly was no uncertainty.
Mr.. Hackett does his best to adum-
brate with the proper degree of dclIcacy
of distinction the official attitude OF the
English representatives toward their for
eign colleagues. He takes his text from
ILowelTs certain condescension in for
eigners.' and attempts 10 analyZc the
SYMPTOM and to reach fair, impartial
understandi.g of its causes. The atti-
tudc. an unconscious one, perhaps, IN
cluded the Italian. Swiss and Brazilian
representatives as well as the Ameri-
cans. 1t was not enough of an air to Of
fend. Mr.. Hackett remembers. but il
came TO the surface time and again.
Personal intercourse was correct, and
even pleasant. though always with Il
soupcon of superiority; few genuine
friendships sprang up. but
The lDGfTlk ln8 pea IN ftlltil ~ lsIIS idll'i
in Case. CoUnter-Case ana Argument. was
not that she had MT been in fault but that
i'm the nature of things she con" not nave
been So This overwhelming confidence IN
their own rectitude. and absolute certainty
of their own advancc-in everything that
makes "A nation srcat-ovcr every othcr
mower Of the globe. found expression IN the
contest waged al Geneva in much that was
said by the Englishmen and in their man
ner Of saying II.
TcHpOr0 BHfdH %. MsundcrstandinSs
were created on both sides. The author
is perfectly frank, at least, on the subject
of Caleb Cushing's anti-English prcju-
dices. strengthened by his opinion of the
attitude of the British government dur
ing the war. and considers ii mot AT all
strange" that this feeling should have
made itself visible in the tone and color
Of his part Of the argument. At least
one passage of it, and, he adds. there
NAV have been others. in the original
draft were of temper so pronounced
that Bancroft Davis suggested the sub
stitution of a more discreet version, 10
which Gushing readily agreed
The book is complete in itself as hi.-
tory of the Alabama claims, to whose
origin in British official inaction, and to
whose creation by the Confederate
privatecrs built and equipped in Eng
land, he dcvOtes his first chapters. Then
follows an account of the negotiations
between the two governments, which
were at their height when Grant as
sumcd the Presidency in 1869 and Ham
ilton Fish succeeded Seward as Secretary
of state with a look at the Johnson
Clarendon convention that preceded the
Washington treaty. and at the position
of our diplomatic reprc sentatives at the
Court of ST. James's. Charles Sumner. as
chairman of the Senate Committee on
Foreign Relations. receives some pages
of decidedly critical attention, especially
for his influence on Motley's attitude in
London. The story Of the Geneva Tri-
bunal then follows, and fills the rest of
the book.
The authors personal "reminiscences
form but small part of his narrative.
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WOMAN SCORNED.

AN OLD MAIDS VENGEANCE. BY
Frances Powell. l2mo. PIP. 800. Charles
Scribncrs Sons.
one expects "A mystery. Of course. in "a
story by Miss Powell, and. equally Of
course. one finds ii in her new tale
whose scene is laid on the Riviera. where
there are legends of the mediHval past
whose ghosts still walk their crumbling
closes. There is, also. the mystery of
the inhuencr of the young Hungarian,
and the make-bclieve of the American
girls fortune. and last of all. the plan
of her cousin, the spinster, 10 whom she
only remaining relative in America. So
there Is abundance Of material with
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AN OFFICIAL ANECDOTE.

From The Pail Mall Gazette.
Waldcck- Eousscau's "reminiscences are
p.hls punished serially in France; and
tnc hrst instalment relates how he in
Ior''icd VI Loubet of his intention To re-
tirc from office. 1t was at "A dinner of
intimate friends. and he exclaimed that
Fatigue and failing health seemed 10
make MS resignation inevitable. who
VIII succeed Nou?" he was asked M
.oihbes, ne replied But the name of
vi. Comhes was. in those days, hardly
KNOWN The guests wondered who he
was ana Nine Waldeck- Rousseau
asked. There was a rause end then:
W 'oinDes, answered the Prime Min
is'er, NJ Combes, my dear. is-no one
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METAMORPHOSIS.

tor T. Whitechurch i2mo. pp. 241. The
Baker e. Taylor Company.
The canon was only vicar when ne
went to Switzerland, but news of his APP
pointment reached him there-when the
great adventure that made a new, a
broader and a wiser man Of him was al
ready upon him. This is decidedly en-
ioyable cathedral town" story. without
pretension to a place beside Trollope' ;
books, simply written for the entertain
ment Of it and the pleasure Of telling
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"REMINISCENCES OF THE GENEVA
TRIBUNAL OF ARBITRATION, 1872:
THE ALABAMA CLAIMS. BY Frank
Warren Hackett. Grown svo. PIP. XVI.
The Houghton Mifin Company.
The progress of the cause of interna-
tional arbitration within the last few
weeks gives the publication Of this book
an altogether unforeseen but for that
reason all the more gratifying timeliness.
Mr.. Hackett offers his readers an open
view Of the inside of the trial of the case
before the Geneva Tribunal. canddly re-
flecting the atmosphere. the personal
feelings of the representatives. on both
sides below the official surface. This is
rot the first time that he appears in
print to defend the tone of the American
argument, prepared by Mcssrs. Waite,
Evarts. Gushing and Davis. a tone that,
besides being the subject of flood of
hostile criticism in England. was severely
reproved by many Americans. the his
tOrian James Ford Rhodes among them.
Mr.. Hackett is a thorOughgoing parti-
san If our conduct of the case, and es-
pecially of the share in it taken by Caleb
Cushing. the senior counsel. whose pri-
vate secretary he was from the day al
most of Cushing's appointment 10 the
end of the historic proceedings that
apart from their direct result. have
meant and continue to mean so much To
the cause Of humanity He says:
The Case reflected the views of the lovers
of the Union--views colored perhaps by
prejudice. but honestly and infieXbly en-
tertained. 1t stated the cause of the peo-
pie of the United States precisely as they
themselves would have had il stated The
language employed is simple and straight
forward The tone j. neither weak nor
conciliatOry The charges are laid in for
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adds tho author. that no great massa-
ere has taken place in Turkey without
the announcement of the central au-
thority or passivty which amounts to
conrivance on the part Of the local Off
cials; a strong Vail backed by an en-
lightenod government would keep peace
in the most fanatical province Of the
empire" Let us hope that Miss Bel
may make third journey in Asiatic
Turkey and that her report of future
political conditions may be happier
one than this. 1t could not be a more
interesting one.
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which to construct another OF oio'e
stories Of which this author makes Spe'
cialty, stories of to-day in whose az
mosphere there is always a remote touch
Of the uncanny. In the MAIN ho"c'e''
the old maids vengeance is decideniy
tale of the present, largely depending ior
the complications of its plot upon the
continued Continental MISUNDERSTANDING
Of the frank, Independent ways Oh the
American girl
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AMURATH TO AMURATH. BY Gertrude
Lowtnian Bell. Illustrated. Svo. PIP.
$40. T.. j. Dutton * Co.
Those who read with delight Miss
Bells fascinating book, THE Desert and
the Sown," may prepare to rejoice anew.
Again she has described journey in
regions wA>rc linger the ruins of an
cient Ordinations, where the footsteps
of greae captains may yet be traced in
the desert sands. and where the once
splendid tombS of kings are mouldering
To- decay With a few trusty followers
she rode in 1909 through great part of
Asiatic Turkey. and beside the Eu-
rhrates and the Tigris studied the
relics of a history which stretches back
through thousands of years. She is an
accomplished if modest arch@ologist
and her special knowledge adds much
10 the interest of her book; but there is
no dry-as-dust element in her apprecla-
tion of crumbling fortress and palace.
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fragments the leathern back OF my poo"
intact the front half Of the leaves pu'"'
away: the back half of the leaves heA'
To the cover still all there. bu' ~
Drowned and scorched with the hai'',
that they broke as | touched thenh' W.
there was nothing left but 10 destroy ~
The book which is about 10 appear "''
is only part of the original WORK
Life in the South.
There is coming from Doubleday roe
X co. a new edition OF Mr.. Waiter
Pages book. The Southerner.' lhi'
the story which was originally pr'h'eu
the autobiography OF Nicholas "o''
and which portrays the sorfo"i" 49,.
periences Of many Southerners !"
years following the Civil War.
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Stevenson and His Books.
Walt Whitman Recital.

\ discourse on Walt Whitman and a
recital of some of his productions came
from the lips Of Mr. Augustin Duncan
in London the other day. The lecturer
who is a brother Of the dancer. Miss
Isadora Duncan-knew Whitman and
pronounced that writer a blend Of all
that is lOvable in man" The London
! Chronicle" was moved TO say that as a
lecturer Mr.. Duncan Impressed one as a
mild and literary young man Under the
spell OF Whitman's swirling rhythms he
became almost tremendous. held his au-
Gience breathless and managed to bring
before them the boundless wealth and
breadth of Whitman's epic-catalogues OF
nature and humanity with force that
mada all the pretty things that had
gene before seem quite pathetically triy-
ial." Well, well.
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Before thine urn
My crumb of incense on thine altar: last
This little taper burn.
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LITERARY NOTES.

Did Lady Anne Lindsay really writ.
"Auld Robin Gray? There is said >,
be a tradition in the family OF thu
Scotch divine, Thomas Stuart-a Stuar,
of Appin-that the ballad was in truth
the fruit Of that good mans Imagination
He always spoke of 1t as his. II will.
however, be difficult to establish his au.
thorship in the face OF the circumstan.
tial story Of the POEMS origin which Ia
told by the Lindsays.
American Military History. 1Ior
An important volume, OF which Cen.
eral Francis Vinton Greene is the
author. will be published by the Serb.
ners in May. The author has under.
taken to trace from the military point
of view the history Of the War Of In.
dependence, and to discuss the inaugu.
ration by Washington and his officers
Of a definite military policy for this
country. The book. which is to be en-.
titled "The Revolutionary War and the
Military Policy of the United States,' Is
to be the first in a series Of three vol.
umes. the second OF which will be de.
voted To the Mexican Spanish and other
minor wars. The third will deal with
the Civil War. Each volume will be in
itself a complete work.
Stevenson and His Books.
Mr.. II. ]. Moors, who was a neighbor
OF Stevenson i'm Samoa, has written a
book Of recollections Of the novelist He
says therein that he has often heard
Stevenson wonder whether any Of his
books would live.
'J think Kidnapped will. anyway" he
said II think" said he, that II
| had written nothing mere than Kid
mapped and 'Thrawr Janet | would lie
worthy Of place among the men OF let-
ters." stevenson did not think very
highly OF "Dr. Jekyl and Mr.. HYDE that
strange case" which made him famous.
To be sure. he felt greatly indebt-
ed 10 il for having brought him fame, but
he was unable 10 understand why. Within
weeks tIne he was regretting having
published the book al a shilling a copy; il
is - occssary 10 state what III. feelings ot
the JIhlsher were
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Tho HohenzoIIerns.


one of the books Of the spring Is 10
be Mr. Brayley Hodgetts's history OF
"The House of HOhenzollern. It's
opening pages are devoted 10 a critical
estimate Of the career and character OK
Frederick |. and a similar study Of the
present Emperor fills the closing pages
In a recent volume of "reminiscences
by Mr.. John Bedloe is repeated an anec.
ecdote about the first Emperor William
and Professor Virchow. The sovereign
Uhen King Of Prussia only said one
dav to the eminent scientific man:
Don't YOU think it might be better II
YOU confined yourself to scientific SUBJ
iects. in which you have earned so great
n reputation. and avoid politics, In which
YOU do not shine?" Nirchow was az no
loss for a reply-he merely repeated the
answer Of the French soldier who, when
the King OF Prussia CWilliam's grand
father complimented him on his brav-
cry but regretted that so much GAL
lantrv should be shown on the wrong
side. said: Let us talk about sonle-
thing else. for on that subject you and
I'll never agree