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John Goss Boston: /. {. Page n
Co Washington: Brentano's.
THE RANGE RIDERS. Fly Charles Al
den Settler Illustrated by Clarence
Rowe. New York: The Outing
Publihing COMPANY
THE PATH OF GLORY. Fly Paul Le-
land Haworth. illustrated by Harry
G. Edwards. Boston: Little, Brown
& CO.
THE PRINCIPLES OF INDUSTRIAL
MANAGEMENT. BY John {. duncan:
MS. md. assistant professor OF
accountancy. University Of Illinois.
New York. T.. Appleton X Co.
THE DIAMOND. BY w. Il. CatteIie
author of Precious stones, etc,
New York: John Lane Company.
LOST on THE TRAIL. BY Pansy. au-
thor of The Browns at Mount Her
mon." etc. illustrated by Elizabeth
wilmington. Boston I.othror Lee
& Shepard Company.
4 SOLDIER OF VALLEY FORGE: 4
Romance Of the American Revoiu-
tion. BY Robert Nelson stephens:
author of AN Enemy to the King.
etc. and G. T.. Theodore Roberts.
author Of "Hemming the Adven-
turer." etc. Frontispiece by Frank
r. Merrill Boston: l.. c. Page x
Co Washington: Brentano's.
PRINCE OR CHAUFFEUR story
Of Newport. BY Lawrence Perry.
author of Dan Merrithew." etc. IL
Illustrated by J. V. McFall Chicago:
A. C. McClurg & Co.
THE WOMAN WHO COULD; a Play
with Purpose. BY Howard '.
Sutherland. New York: Desmond
Fitzgerald.
THE MEDICAL EXPERT, Other Pa
pers. BY Louis J. Rosenberg. New
York: Broadway Publishing Com
pany.
THE WOMAN AND THE FIDDLER,
Play, in Three Acts. BY Arne Nor
revang. Translated from the Nor
wegian by Mrs. Herman Sandy.
Philadelphia: Brown Bros.
THE CLOTHESPIN BRIGADE. BY
Clara L. Smiley. New York: Broad
way Publishing Company.
THOUGHTS ON THINGS PSYCHIC. BY
Walter Winston Kenilworth. author
OF Psychic Control Through Self
knowledge" etc. New York: X. r.
Fenno & Co. Washington: Wood
ward & Lothrop.
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the gentlemen. They know all things
| The three mountainous crossed the
road and louted low.
lis it rot true my lords implored the
reader. that by virtue OF your wisdom
living men and women appear from the
| bowels of a lamp and perform most Won
derful and silly deeds? Is there not a
comedy of the electric lanp?'
! The sultan returned an eaufvocal nod.
| like a wayside cadi who would not be-
stow judgment rashly.
Give me the printed paper he an
swered Let me read the words
! 1t was the program for a show OF NOV
ing pictures, of which the glory was set
| forth in eloquent Malay. Wonder fol-
| lowed wonder. through ten divisions of
fine print. from No. l, "kabakaran, the
House on Fire with the shifting Of the
tong-tong and the arrival of the pump
profession. to No. 10. "Dansa Mama de
Cake Walk. The comedy would be per-
formed that evening in n spacious tent.
at the fork OF the roads. near Batu Blah.
"All this IS possible. pronounced the
sultan, gravely. II have seen such do
ingS.'
The young mountaineers bowed grace
ful sembah gave thanks in quiet chorus
and withdrew. AS they climbed the words
ignorance.
We shall see all" he declared. In tr-
umph: all, as the paper promises And
brass music In a. great tent. IKE the tent
OF your horse comedy; and all the people
from nine villages, and many booths. with
lanterns under the trees. and eat1ngs go
ing forward and drinllings!'
Their forms and voices vanished among
the steep trees.
1T Is a sign" From watching thought
fully the sunset hills Rama rose to his
feet. We shall go up to this tent All
the people from round about shall sec Us
there
He started forward. The spectacle of
the sun. fiery disk wheeling dalntily
down the hot rim: of a western spur,
checked him as with sudden reminder
prayers last night. See It's just as the
Koran says: The long shadows fall pros
trate. praisinS God morning and even
ing He faced the departing light. ana
instantly. alone with his faith. began his
solemn reverences-now standing erect,
now bending with hands on knees. now
crouching TO lay his forehead OH the
ground. He whispered fervently. Allah
the great the merciful and loving KIND,
king OF the Judgment day.
The sun went down. Night filled the
valley and ran trimming over the high
raNines. In the rice-field terraces tnou-
sands Of tirefiies lowered like Intellectual
sparks, and on the nearest pools winked
among paddy blades and were tenderly
reflected in the water.
AT last the sultan rose, a sladowy fig
ure in the gloom
1T is time to follow he said.
Up winding ribbon of gray. less and
less vague under increasing starlight, the
ways and the comedy of the electric lamp.
CHAPTER XVI.
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solemnly up and down to keep time. sang
together III such voices as You will never
near anywhere else in the world but In
/ Wales. Land of the Cymry. Ny Father
Land. All. al that moment they wouldn' t
have changed their old Nan Roberts for
Jenny Lind herself. They thought that
Nan was the finest voice in all those
bills. They were. proud in the knowledge
that people would come even from the
neighborinC cities 81 Carnarvon and Con
way. each of which had been the center
of an Eisteddfod to hear Nan Roberts
sing. And thus. 81 Charminely this
girl writes on about the fortunes of the
Morris brood. making besides true love
story. with SiXty-year-old Mrs. Roberts
ITS heroine and her man. Shnu, the hero
with little Tom Norris to round I'D their
fnl enjoyment o. this unique spot runs
over the pages in delightful picture and
sketch and moving view Of Welsh life
and Landscape.
THE COLONEL'> STORY. by Mrs
Roger \. Pryor. author IF Remi-
hiscences OF Peace and War" etc.
New York; The Macmillan Com
pany.
Mrs Pryor's delightful novel of south
efn life. circling about the cllivalrous
figure Of the colonel, possesses a value
of larger significance and Of greater
permanence than that attaching to it.
eitieT as pure romance or as an eT-
ample of the high art Of mere story
telling, interesting and important as
these may be. This engaging volume
is, in effect. vivid and sympathetic
transcript of a body of social customs.
and. incidentally. of an industrial sys-
tenn now completely supplanted that
were it not for such first-hand records
of information as these, viewed from
the double angle of old and new. the
most picturesque phase of life In the
United States would gradually fade into
oblivion. Southern character. developed
under this leisured and benign mode
of living, is here artfully drawn. An
fund of wayside informa-
ton. put here to the uses of iiluStra-
ton. point out the large experience of
this delightful author in both life and
letters.
WHAT'S-HiS-NAME. Ry George Barr
McCutcheon. author of 'Sraustark.
etc. illustrations by Harrison Fish
err New York: Dodd. Mead * Co.
Washington: BrentanoS
Sometimes you laugh-but more often
YOU do not-over this story. which is
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the rest OF MS nfe-but q writer VINO
wears her consistency SO sedately must
have a few privileges 4 good clean
smelling story.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES, A Ro-
nance. BY Louis Joseph Vance au-
thor Of 1.-THE Brass Bowl" etc. Illus
trations by Arthur T. Keller New
York: Dodd, Mead & Co. Washing
ton: Brentano's.
In the weird city Of New York a man
bearing the descriptive title, Inventor of
occupations might reasonably expect to
achieve his desires, however far and fast
these might run. And so 1t turned out.
In no time at all, tho man so labeled
gathered a ships crew. To this he as
promptly added two ladies-one young.
Offering the possibility of q romance
aboard, tho other older and designed for
purposes Of protection. and to make a
way as well for cupidity. robbery, mutiny
and the like. on the account of q box
Of rare Jewels carried about by her under
all circumstances. Thus speedily equip
ped. this comic opera voyage began, a
filibustering venture OF shady design
marked by such plots and counterplots
such slashing and shooting and circum-
venting as never We're before on sea or
land. Every hour OF that memorable
voyage was a-tremble with excitement
and danger. 1t was by much less than
a boats length that. at the very last ex-
tremity. the right persons were rescued
by an English ship, and permitted TO fit
ly consunmate the romance developed in
the few and far between whites of
sanguinary encounter. Everybody likes
to read this sort OF a book once in a
while, particularly when he is in revolt
against reason and consistency and the
rest of the brood of earth-born circum-
scrhing forces.
RECOLLECTIONS OF ABRAHAM LIN
coin, 1S47-1S65. By Ward Hill La
mon. Edited by Dorothy Lamon
Leillard. Washington: Published by
the editor.
This second and larger edition o: La
mons "RecoIlections of Lincoln IS a
pulse beat that connects the present with
past that can never die. 1t is edited
and published by Dorothy Lamon Leil-
lard to commemorate the flft!etn ami
versary mark Of the beginning Of the
civil war, and as memorial to her
father. who was Lincoil's law partner
and close personal friend. The present
edition publishes for the first time new
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BOOKS RECEIVED.

INTERN ATIONAL THEOLOGICAL LIZ
BRiRY, An Introduction to the
Literature of the New Testament.
by James Moffatt. BID. ID. New
York: Charles ScribnerS Sons.
Washington: Woodward &, Lothrop.
| CAPTAIN OF RALEIGH'S: RO-
nance. BY G. i. Theodore Roberts.
author Of "a Cavalier of Virginia..
etc Frontispiece in full color by
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in a launch and one fun Of sunshine and
color on one Of the great pine clearinss-
To those who have not visited Texas II IL
imagined to be n country of monotonous
levels bit Mr.. Silva's sketches, made IN
the vicinity Of Fort Worth, show it roll
ing and hiliy. Spring comes there In Feb
ruary Mr.. Silvas pictures interpret
the fresh aspect of reawakenng nature
At Austin he encountered 'norther
and succeeded in transcrihing It's ORA
matte cloud form. There also he found
some old mission buildings which. archi-
tecturally, are reminiscent of Spain. Mem
phis has reason for pride in her parks
and In one Mr.. Silva made a sketch which
strongly suggests the older park OF Yer
sailles. Almost all of these sketches are
OF uniform size-nine by twelve inches in
dimensions. Scarcely one of them occU-
pied more than two hours in execution,
and yet as Impressions they are COM
plete. They are all that sketches should
be-well constructed, oolorful, veraCiGus,
they have spontaneity. accurate values
and harmony of color. and they interpret
the spirit of the place pictured. The en-
tire collection of sketches which he made
in Fort Worth was purchased by sub
scrfption for the public gallery. because it
was felt that better than anything else
they would open the eyes of the people to
that beauty of nature which was close at
hand Few painters have had a finer conf
pliment.
IN the Fine Arts Galleries. New York.
! last week, the American Water Color
Society opened its fortyfourth annual ex-
hbition. Because OF some new restric-
lions only half as many works are shown
as usual high standard. however. is
upheld, and to the painter the exhibition
is of uncommon interest. James Henry
Moser and Everett Warner are the only
two Neutrality-suspicious. represented. and
there is some doubt as to whether the
latter may still be counted in this cate
CORY. Mr.. Moser contributed winter
picture, "Old Washington" and also one
OF a shower in the mountains, q. transient
effect rendered with great subt!ety and
beauty. Mr.. Warner sent a Gloucester
scene and a Street in Dinan.' both con
sentative and strong. Elizabeth Nourse
sent Il study of French peasants: Mrs.
Ochtman two snow pictures; +. HOpk!n-
son Smith nIarke. scenes in Dortrecht and
Rruges; Colin Campbell Cooper New
York street in the skvScraper canyon dis
trict and French rural village scene.
The chief feature of the exhibition is,
however, a group of water colors by
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Winslow Homer. which have been loaned
by private collectors. Some of these are
scarcely more than notes, and nave the
naive directiness and simplicity for which
the postum pressionistS pretend to strive.
The William +. Evans prize of 500 was
awarded to Charles H. Woodbury. for a
painting Of the Now England coast
TN the Montross Gallery, New York,
/ were set forth last week ard this
three paintings by distinguished Ameri-
and fioratio Walker. The painting by
the last l. of n SOW and litter of little
pigs in farrnyard and is rendered with
characteristic yirility. The Dewlng is
II picture OF a lady seated in a chair,
turned snuarely toward the observer. and
holding a little mask in her right hand.
The coloring is lowtoned but vibrant. and
with Il lOoseneSS of technique detail is
eXquiSitey define ated. The background Is
a fiat wall. on which to the left is hung
&; Japanese print or kakemona. While al
most in monotint the picture has color
full suggestion, and while no less re-
fined or esthetic than commonly 1T is In
a measure more robust. The TryOn is
unusual in style and compoStion-an
evening scene. and instead Of the Gus
tomary screen of trees in the middle
distance there is u cottage with lighted
windows In this picture the planes of
the relation of value nicely adjusted. All
these are significant works, and II IS
pleasant to be able to note that they are
receiving the attention they deserve.
When the completion and exhibition of
new painting by an American artist
causes a ripple of excitement it Is APP
parent that the tide Of appreciation has
turned.
THE metropolitan improvement League
of Boston and a number OF promi-
nent artists Of that city have sent out an
appeal for subscriptions toward securing
for Boston CYRUS +. Dallins equestrian
statue The Appeal to the Great Spirit
This is one Of a series representing the
history of the vanishing race, one of
which Is the Medicine Man in Fair
mount Park. Philadelphia. The Massa-
chusetts art commission has approved OF
the statue and the park commission has
selected a site for it in the Fens. The
sum Of only twelve thousand dollars IS
required for its purchase. The move
ment to secure the statue originated
among the artists of Boston, Who are de-
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! much more touching. even when 1t frisks
| a sportive front. than 1t is amusing.
What s-his-name is the husband of Miss
t Nellie Duluth. actress. and both father
ana mother to Phoebe Nellie's daughter
| and his. He and Phoebe live out in Tar
rytown. while Nellie has apartments in
New York, running out to see them now
and then-less and less now and then.
The outline of this story is documentary
and stereotypcd. What s-his name grows
! more futile and alternate: Nellie 81
steadily grows in substance and charm.
Then Reno: then renlarriaee for Nellie,
with What S-his-name back in Eiakes-
vile. where he used to tend the soda
fountain and be a perfectly awful fellow,
joking the policeman. jollying the post
man and. daredevil that he was and now
may be again. calling the walters Mabel,
or Mamie. or Grace, as the fact might he.
But there comes a day when Nellie. on
her way To Arizona 10 die. meets What's
his-name midway 10 give Phoebe over
int" his keeping. And he says tn her:
Inn not going to let you go ali the way
ont there alone. | said Ia look our for
YOU when we were married. and I'm going
10. You've got a husband. but what good
Is he to You" Hes brute. Yes. sir
I'm going with YOU. and | don't care who
knows 1t. See here. Sec this wad of bills?
Well. by jingo. there's more than $1,000
there. ! drew it out this morning to give
to YOU if YOU We're hard I'D. = "Oh.
Harvey, what a perfect fool you are
= L
We're a fool. Now you are a bigger one
than ever. Go away, please. 1 can get
along ali right. Fairfax Is paying for
everything. Put that roll away!
I'm going with you. Nellie.' he shouted.
You are perfectly dreadful fool Har-
vey'' she said. huskily. Il know it, he
exclaimed. And there the story ends,
but what good kind Of fool to have in
the world. a very clever and captivating
story.
THE BRAMBLE BUSH. BY Caroline
Fuller. author OF across the Cam
pus.' etc. New York: y. Appleton
& Co
Wordsworth and Mother GOose-at first
glance an ill-assorted par-sponsor this
animated craft and! launch 1t on its
sprightly way. Wordsworth, in usual sol
emn wont. adInonishes that he who
feels contempt for any living thing hath
faculties which he has never used" The
goose mother, with more of philosophy if
with less of song, recites the harrow
ing experience Of him who Jumped into
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BOOK REVIEWS.

THE LADIES' BtTTLE. BY Molly Ell
lilo. Seawell. New York. The Mac
milan tnrnnanN
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Athletic Games and Sports.

Nk-pIl5s.
Caroline. 7 y Crock Athletic sports ard
Festivals ta'.lGs
Handle. L. DO u. How 10 Play Wste- POLO
VI HlHS
Haritsln. T. \ Mystery Of Golf yI-Uco5ra.
Hook. Henry How to SKI. w IIf.y
Rickln"rS. W II. Killing FOR Beginners sud
Mount alneerS. NFRso5s
Korhef"rt, Alfred. Hcslthrul Sports for Boys
Y RJS4h.
Sphinx. 4. H. National Game yK-Snssso
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like John Earle to the leper islands for
the rest Of his life-but a writer who
wears her consistency so sedately must
have few privileges. \ good, clean
smelling story
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.HE painting by benjamin. West
Of Christ Raising Jairus'
Daughter. which has been
generously loaned by /. t.
Walker of MINNEAPOLIS TO the
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CHAPTER XVI.
Lamp-Comedy.

The road assembled by cranks. ANA dou-
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The Public Library has recently ac-
CURED large number OF new books on
various popular subjects. as shown n
the following selected list Special men
ti"n may be made Of the books on house
plans photography and music. and Oh
outdoor games ana sports
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-05-06
THE END OF SONG. BY Jeanr

Mark, author of Through Welsh
DoorWtyS" Boston. Houghton Milf
fin Company.
4 cloCdhurst and food Up Carnarvon
way. uusheItcring VIII Morris dozen
Children by sweeping his ramshackie hut
ufr down into the valley. starts this
Welsh story I'm the best possible vein. To
=ucoo~ his homeless brood what more in
etirctiyclv natural thing could group of
Welsh mon and women do thar TO give
a song benefit for them? SO. Mrs lem
kim INC Inn and Mrs. Morgan the Shop,
Mr.. This the Coach and MIR That the
CHape. plaune! grand benefit to the
iittIe NorriseS." The writer makes n
fresh and enjoyable episode OF this:
Gould little Mrs. Roberts sing martial
music? Certainly she could sing martial
music. Up went her little old head out
went n tiny foot In its heavy boot. wide
Went her eyes with the glory of such
song. and there rang out music, light 1t
is true, as the old voice was light but
with the march of brave steps in il and
the shout Of brave hearts. But Nan
was at her best with love song, such as
sweet Rose of Liam MeiIen,' How the
villagers held their breath When She
csnle 10 that line. My love viii endure
Tor Liam Mcilen'S sweet rose At the
close of the concert the whole audience
C.Id. Nan waving her lackslovcd hand
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Hunting and Fishing.
Boating and Swimming.

Barrie. Robert and George. ir. Cruises Mainly
in the Bay Of the Chesapeake. 1899. yG-B215
C"rsan. q. II. At Home in the Water: swim
ming, diving. l!fe saving. water sports natato-
RUINS NF-CS1G.
Doyle. W. :. New Instruction Book on Ocean
Bathing. Swimming AMI Boating. SFDI75
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Costume.

Ashdown. Mrs. C. H. British Costume Dur.nr
XIX Centuries. NN-As.;3
Fischel. Osksr. and Bo.hnl. Max Won. Modes
and Manners Of the 10Th Century as Representa-
in the Pictures and Engravincs 81 the Time.
3v. ''WN F52}D.
WIZ H2Jsd.
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RS. MOLLY El.LiotT SEA
WE'LL. by means of tbs Iii
tie volume. makes a vigorous
clear. informed and altogether
arresting discussion of woman
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John Goss Boston: /. {. Page n
Co. Washington: ErentanoS
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-04-03
ANTICIPATION.

Lieutenant Shackleton tells how
when in the antarctic wastes he and
his companions sustained their spir-
its and their bodies as well when
supplies had to be cut down to a min
imum by dwelling upon the glorious
eating they would have on returning
to headquarters. The value of such
mental sustenance has long been rec
ognized by up to date commanders.
There was the German officer in the
war of 1870 who sustained the flag
ging spirits and weary legs of his
men by shouting: There is a brew
cry inside that town! Let us get
there before anybody else!" History
relates that the men did get there
with remarkable speed Equally
shrewd was the Japanese commander
in the Manehurian war who, seeing
his men exhausted with thirst, AMI
knowing full well the wonderful prop
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HIS GOOD FORTUNE.
When He Had to Work He Started 4
Dainty Rolling Mill.

was just entering upon my thirty
fourth year when, owing to the fail.
ure of my wife's father, l found my
self obliged to make a living.
had often wondered where all the
steel rails came from, and now I de.
termined to go into the business of
supplying them to railroad companies
Having learned through careful in
quiry that nearly all of them were
made in rolling mills, ! persuaded the
owner of a bankrupt iron foundry to
convert it into a rolling mill. Then
went to a good reliable machinery
man on the next block, and told him
to send me some of the very best roll
ling mill machinery that he had in
his store.
Meanwhile, my noble wife had moi
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SUBJECT OF ADDRESS
is EAGER FoR CAPITOL
SACRAMENTO, March 23.-"Wh;

SACRAMENTO, March 23.-"What
s the eighth commandment
The question stumped the entire
staff of Governor Johnson's office and
a dozen or so other persons in the
outer office this morning
Nobody could answer until one 2Of
the janitors happened along.
The question rose when AL. Nc.
Cabe, the governors private secre-
tary, announced that Roosevelt's sub
ject or his address in San Francisco
would be The Public Official and
the Eighth Commandment" One OF
the listeners INQUIRED:
What is the eighth command.
ment?"
McCabe didn't know. Neither did
Executive Secretary Reed, the stem
ographer, the assistant secretary, or
the messenger Jacob Soares, an old
negro who served as messenger under
Pardee and Gillett, could not answer,
nor could any of the other persons
who were waiting to get in to see the
Governor. Then the janitor gave the
answer: "Thou shalt not steal"
And everybody wondered why he
had not thought of it.
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been idle, and by the time was ready
to begin operations, she had induced
several of the most brilliant women In
society to agree to buy all their steel
rails of us. Touched by her unselfish
devotion, l clasped her in my arms
while the tears coursed down my
cheeks.
Then I called on railroad presi.
dent, told him that l desired to be-
come self-supporting, and asked him
to buy some of my rails. He told me
to deliver a basketful to his place of
business every Saturday night.
Greatly elated over my prospects,
called together a number of working
men whom l found idle on the streets,
and directed them to make some nice
steel rails without delay, and take
them around to the kind railroad pres
ident.
Rejoicing at the prospect of steady
employment, the workingmen hasten
ed to obey, and the rails that they
made under my direction proved 50
durable that in a very short time |
had all the orders that I could fill
attribute much of my success to
the fact that each rail is delivered to
the customer tasefully wrapped in It's
sue paper fastened with pink ribbons
-Delineator.