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tim of the Titanic wreck. One Of these
will tell practical story of the mans
activities and interests. The other IL to
be a so-called psychic biography" 10
be prepared by his daughter, Miss Es-
tele Stead. This will contain most OF
the material concerning psychic subjects
which he had gathered during his life.
Another Napoleon Book.
DR.. Holland Roses Lowell Lectures
will soon be brought out in book form.
with an excellent, taking title, ma
poleon: The Man"
John Forster.
Dickens's biographer, that good friend
and manly man who is supposed to have
figured in BLEAK House." is to be thu
subject of literary memorial entitled
John Forster and His friendships"
It's author is Mr.. K. Renton, kinsman
OF Forster. He has had access TO all
the family papers and portraits.
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lIN0N
A New and Clever Portrait Of a
Famous Woman.

Paris, June IA.
NJ. Emile Magne has for the last three
years devoted himself 10 the study oil
one Of the most picturesque figures OF
the seventeenth century. the famous ma
tional professional beauty Of France,
Ninon de Lanclos, among whose early
admirers was Cardinal de Richeieu, and
among whose latest devotees was Vol
taire, 10 whom she bequeathed 1000
francs to buy books" According TO
tradition Ninon de Lanclos inspired pas
sionate affection after having attained
her SEVENTEEN year. Born on November
10. 1920, she died in 1IOo. NJ. Magne
has brought T. light fresh sources Of In
formation showing that she was very
much more than mere Courtesan or
professional beauty. She was greatly
maligned during her lifetime. but 1t Is
certain that she retained the esteem and
affection Of her once intimate friend, the
widow Scarron, afterward Marquise de
Maintenon and wife of Louis XIV, and
that the Marduise de Sevigne intrUsted
hcr faNOrlte son 10 NlnOu w lViHi mo
manners and complete his education.
NJ. Magne's little volume. published by
the Editions dart" and illustrated
with several good portraits, makes ex-
cellent and instructive reading. II In
cludes. by the way. proof that the name
Of the authors heroine was not Len
clos" or "Lenclos." as It has hitherto
been spelled. but "Lanclos.'
IN his latest book. Sites ct Person
nages." just published by Grasset. M.
Edmond Pllon associates localities where
eminent men lived with their characters,
achievements and personalities. For In
stance. he gives a charming view OF
Rousseau IN the forest of Montmorency
and Of the painter Nicholas Poussin in
the Seine valley near the Andelvs and
Vernon. other chapters deal with Al
bert samaIn at Msgny. Charles Guerin
at Lunhyllle. Hegeslppe Moreau, the ro-
mantle poet. AT Provins. Noltaire I'm Hol-
land and Victor Hugo in the LuXem-
bourg gardens. other happy touches re-
late to Chatesubriand, Renan, Musset
and Michelet. G. |. Il.
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NEWS
d. 30 D.
g. CRITICISM %

into the hands of what was after all
but another kind of paganism. ltaly
cried aloud for guides to lead sinners
ont Of the wilderness. and since reforma-
ton through the printed word was m
possjble the orator was necessarily the
man of the .our. Now San Ber~ardino
had the tongue Of an angel
He ranged up and down his native
land. preaching sermons OF appalling
length but Of an unmistakaole potehcS'
There must have been prodigious fire IN
the man. He would talk for three, four
or even six hours at stretch, ana ne
was listened to, says Nneas SylNlus'
with incredible attention" After care
full research through the old records NJ.
Thureau- Dangin ventures to character
iz, the preachers method and delivery:
IL would pass rapidly from
one idea to another. allowing his naturally
| Dleayant fancy free play. and allEinS
quaint imagery 10 the graNest nous ~ >
i'm order 10 interest and enllNen MS
| hearers and so Captiyate their attention.
While possessed Of singular sweetness
his voice was at the same time clear, uiS-
tlnCt. ana SONoloNSr ptIitNI 1i''~ CO.
reaching. adapting itself with marvellous
nexihility TO an The multiple eXigenSSi.es E Et
/ oratory, to the rendering OF thouShts %,
! turn Simple and lofty, tragic and gay
1 poignant and witty.
His biographer lays stress upon his
cheerfulness, and that, which was quite
natural to him. must have been greatly
fostered by his common sense There 's'
of course, a good deal in this book about
| San Bernardino's miracles and those
/ more mystical traits which were bound
| TO touch the imagination Of his time
But to the disinterested reader the quail
ity that makes him worth while is one
| If a purely practical significance. his
ready sympathy for ordinary men and
women. The Latin sermons Of his writ
! ing which have come down TO us are
l characteristic and Of value in that they
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take her rest cure. Georgette SUBMITS
with i'll ace: then begins to take an in
terest in Ter new surroundings, for there
Ia nisch Of to be done In peaceful'
happy, IL ing family. She makes love to
the farm err, for the mere pleasure OF
proving hat she can win him from his
allegisnc and she succeeds far better
or worse than she intended TO do. The
weakness, OF the story lies In the authors
failure { convince her readers. Geor-
gette as I, woman OF great possibilities
for both Evil and good. is a stock char
acter. no a creature Of flesh and blood.
studied first hand. ON its theatrical
side and its Great White Way phase
the story bears. moreover, abundant evil
dence OF he authors limited knowledge
Of her su ject
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the whole matter in everyday italian life
Eve hundred years ago.
Bernardino Of Siena, born in 1880,
child Of the prosperous house Of Abb
zeschi, was, a wholesome human Great
ure II ever there was one. There is a
story that when in his childhood he was
insulted by a man Of rank he smote the
latter on the chin so smartly that the
sound Of the blow was carried right
across the square. There are other an
ecdotes Of his sturdiness. This was no
plaster saint" NJ. Thureau-D angin de-
scribes him as in his youth both comely
and gay, dignifed In his manner, but
ing. Tobia, the pious kinswoman who
helped 10 rear the orphan lad, came to
be sorely troubled by his good looks.
Sooner or later, she felt, some woman
would gain his devotion. He gave It, in
stead. TO the Madonna. Yet the first de-
cisive episode in his career savors less OF
religious ecstacy than Of pure moral
courage. The plague fell upon Siena
and ravaged the town until even those
who served in the hospital were stricken.
Bernardino stepped into the breach,
taking a number of his fellows with him,
and in dreadful battles with disease
learned that self-sacrifice was his gift
and his destiny. 1t was but a step from
this experience TO the division of his
fortune between the Church and the
poor and his entrance upon the career
Of a servant of God. Had he been only
a good man, bent upon saving his own
soul, the world would have heard no
more of him. He would have become an
obscure monk. one OF multitude. But
ne was intrinslcally unselfish and into
the bargain. man born TO bear wit
ness, born 10 speak, and the time was
ripe for the exercise Of his functions
What makes this book interesting is
fits portrayal OF San Bernardino against
the background Of Italian life and its
exposition OF the circumstances govern
ing the latter 1t was the time Of the
great schism, and the Church with weak
ened powers. could not stem the tide OF
Epicureanism promoted by the revival
OF learning. Nay. the Church itself was
not without susceptibility TO that appeal
60 winningly made by classic art and
letters as they were awakened out Of
their long sleep. Mems minds, stirred
BY the new cult Of beauty, were TO some
extent poisoned by II, or, at ali events,
warped away from old spiritual ideals
Much that was corrupt throve beneath
much that was fair, and political condi-
tione, rendered more and more evil by
the ambitions Of wicked despots, played
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give US the body Of his ideas as theo-
Logan. But he did his work as a mis-
sionary through his sermons in the YER
nacular, and so far as their substance
is available it shows him to us as sim
ply a good man, talking wisely face 20
face with the folk he wished TO help.
Mounted in pulpit out in the open air
and surrounded by eager thousands, rich
and poor, he called them to ways OF
peace and honesty in terms that they
could understand, not disdaining TO use
the homeliest narrative when 1T helped
him to clinch a point. In fact, he seems
not so much the impassiCned mystic as
the shrewd fabulist, invoking the Ten
Commandments. He had humor, too,
as witness this tale Of a telling stroke
OF his at Perugia:
Our saint, who was stopping at a con-
vent of the Observance close to the city
wall. went every morning 10 preach in the
market place, where the people fiocked In
c60wd9 to pear hh An 90 yet ne Wa9S
their hearts. lie therefore hit upon the
singular device Of announcing his intention
OF introducing his hearers 10 the devil,
n, tNClllHB v
had the effect of visibly swelling the num-
Der Of his audience Whereupon, after sew
eraI days of anxious expectation on the
part OF the crowd he said: II will keep
my word to you, and not only one devil but
several will i show you" and 10 the
amazement OF the throng held in breathless
suspense: Gaze at one another" he sud
denly exclaimed, and you will he looking
on devils; for are not you, In very truth,
devils, you who do the work Of Satan?'
Then, in earnest tones, TO obviate the posi-
bility Of any fiippant Interpretation, he
went on TO draw a severe. as well as pa
thetic, picture of the vices raging in the
city. while conjuring his listeners 10 re-
nounce the works OF Satan. And his fer
vent exhortation at last met with favor
able ear and was followed by complete
conversion.
Keeping close TO the familiar human
interest that is thus exemplihed, NJ.
Thureau-Dangin paints a vivid and use
full portrait OF San Bernardino, notably
free from sentimentality. At the same
time, in following a realistic method and
thus bringing his hero well within the
range OF our modern sympathies, he has
skilfully avoided merely prosaic treat
ment Of his subject. Charm, being the
inalienable possession of types OF
fifteenth century Italian mysticism, is
abundant I'm the story Of San Bernar-
dino, and Il is here delcatey renewed.
The book makes delightful reading not
only for those who are interested In the
Roman Church but for those who cher
ish the spell Of the Renaissance.
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BROADWAY AND GROOMING WATER

CEoRGETTE. BY Marion Hill. 12mo,
pp 372 Boston: Small Maynard & Co.
This continues 10 be the season of the
actress in fiction. Georgette is wild and
reckless cynical and slangy, and-well,
yes, she is very vulgar in manners and
mind. but. OF course. the reader must
take that as part Of her artistic tenn
permanent. Withsl, a strong man sees in
her his ideal Of wife and the mother Of
his children. Now, Georgette breaks
down, her season is suddenly closed, and
she is sent to the country 10 recuperate.
ITO bed with the chickens" at Grooming
Water which is the name OF the farm
in the Pocono Mountains where she Is to
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FICT ION
Adventures Abroad and Love
making at Home.
THE NEXT WAR.

Tx NCN WAN
THE FRONTIER BY Maurice Leblanc.
Translated by Alexander TeiXelIa ue
Mattos. Emo, PIP. sol George II. Doran
Company.
The author OF "Arsene Lupin' anu
other popular tales Of criminals ana ue-
tectives turns in his new story 10 an
entirely different subject, that OF the
cause of. or, rather, the preteXt Tor a
new war If Germany against France
II starts with a frontier incident ac-
cordlnC 10 NJ. Leblanc-with the capture
Of a deserter from the German army
and with the alleged aid given MN ny
certain French officials on the frontier
They we're found and arrested on Ger
man soil. according to the Wilhelm
strasse. the French account has Vt that
their captors violated French territory
by kidnapping them. II is all deep
laid plot of course, but we had the
might now we have the right" says the
1taieer The plot is an ingenious one,
based. for one thing, on sort OF I'M
playground railroad" for the assistance
of desertcrs from Germany, but It's cruN
is found in the perjury in this interna-
tional tangle forced upon man VINO
otherwise must compromise q young
woman. This man, an educator Is
moreover. a French ant-militarist' an
apostle of the abandonment OF national
hatreds. and an anonymous preacher oi
world Anonymous because ne
would not offend his patriot father, Who
like the people in Les Oberle cannot
forget the humiliation of the Terrible
Year. But in the sequel the philosopher
discovers that the voice Of his country -
~ gtropper one.
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a Good Mans Work in RenalS'
SanCe Italy.

THE LIFE OF 6. BERNARDINO or
SITNA Translated from the French
Of Paul Thureau-D angin, by ~ i.'
Baroness g. Won Hugel with MUS
trations after the Old Mas'yI 81 Mn
iected and annotated by 6, r. ILL III,
%vo. DID. Xxx, 299 The Macmillan Com
pany.
In the Pinacoteca, at Perugia, there Is
a famous series of paintings by Fiorenzo
di Lorenzo illustrating legendary incl
dents in the life of San Bernardino Of
Siena. Executed with the quaint nalVete
so often characteristic Of earlier Renals-
sance art, these panels somehow con-
firm our natural tendency to figure the
hero Of them as an exceedingly remote
and altogether inaccessible mystic.
Musing on the miracles that have been
attributed to him, we confuse his man
hood with his sainthood, and, in the
process, lose our hold upon him as
mere human being. 1t is so, to tell the
truth, with many a holy man in the an
nails of Italy. That he once existed We
do not venture to doubt, but his human
aspect disappears behind the very test-
monies TO his work that remain in paint
ing and sculpture. He seems, then, not
so much a man as subject for churchly
works of art. In the present volume
San Bernardino's influence upon Italian
art is conspicuously remembered. The
work contains a rich collection Of illus
trations, half dozen of which are ex-
duisitely printed in ColOrs, and these
fascinating pictures. as we'll as the lux
urious form given to the book, strongly
turn the readers mind to what we can
only describe as the more decorative
side of the Renaissance. But the author
is quick to bring us back to the root Of
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ALEssoN IN poMEsTlclrY.

PLEASI RES AND IAILhCEo. DelHk Nl,o
Home-Making Adventures OF Marie
Rose By Juliet Wilbor Tompkns IL
lrstrated by Howard Chandler Christy.
limo, PIP. 23G. Doubleday Page & Co.
Marie Rose has grown up In an at
nosphere of ocean steamers. hotels and
pensIons. She has never seen her mother
occupied with housekeeping duties. She
has never known what home life is. In
her existence, one pressed buttons and
gave orders. But on her mothers death,
Marie Rose is persuaded by sensible
aunt to take an apartment and Keep
house, with expert assistance, Of course.
The expert, a teacher OF domestic econ
omy, purposely delays her arrival,
wherefore Marie Rose is placed between
the choice Of preparing her own first
meal or going hungry. Here begins her
great adventure. 1t Is amusingly told,
with its lesson to the girls Of to-day, no
doubt, but chiefly on account OF the
romance. for within Marie Roses vision
there drifts a Mana real American
man, who does things, and does them In
the West, where engineers keep house
in shacks. He is q new experience 10
her accustomed as she has been to for
elgn and expatriate idlers. A bright lit
tie summer story, appropriately and at
tractively illustrated by Mr.. Christy.
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RAILWAY GAME GUIDE.

From The Pail Mall Gazette.
There IS new game which sportsmen
are playing To travel by train the
greatest distance in twenty four hours
on paper. For It Is played with o Brad
shaw. The astonishing idea of studying
Bradshaw for pleasure recalls Lord
chatham's hobby Lord Chatham. who
boasted that he had read Bailey's Die
tionary though twice. And there was
another genius who found consolation IN
queer literary fields. Lord Chief Justice
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Company.
This story takes its readers upon an
elaborate round II tho haunts 81 Grim"
NJ Paris. It deals not only with IN"
underworld with the notorious aPa
cbas"-b but with all sorts and conditions
~ mon and women. from the merchant
facing bankruptcy who seeks to recover
his outstanding paper" by numbering
the Insurer who holds IT, 10 the unspeak-
able creature and his woman companion
who plans his "coups" in ignoble bars IN
the Sums. There is the innocent woman
who appears guilty because she has
something else to conceal, the Russian
revolutionary. a governess and many
others who get gradually mixed up In
Mot that continues TO grow In mystery
and complexity from chapter TO chapter.
| The clews of one crime lead TO clews OF
another-the jewelry stolen from one
victim. according TO the thieves them
selves. turns out never TO have been that
victims wife's property-in short, there
| is no end here to mystifcations and rev.
Citations. The detectives are two, a
pupil OF the modern school and an old
time crime hunter who believes In direct
methods, but It is only by combining
their resources that the two succeed in
the end. The story honors the tradition
of it's genre, which requires that the real
| criminal shall be present in the action
! from the very first.
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BOOKS OF THE WEEK.
ARCHAEOLOGY,

MEsOPoTAMIAN ARCHAEOLOGY An Intro.
duction TO the Archaeology OF Baoylonla
aud Assyris. BY Percy = 7. Handbook
NJ A. with numerous illustrations. also
maps Svo. PIP XVI, 42S. &C. y. Put
MANS Sons)
An account OF the civilization Of ancient
Babylona and Assyrla, special attention
being given TO the subjects OF architecture.
sculpture, ami metalurgy. With an index,
bbliOgraphy and list OF the more I'M
portant kings and rulers
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BIOGRAPHY,

DICTIONARY OF NATIONAL BIOGRAPHY.
Edited by Sir Sidney Lee: Second Sup
Element. Vol. ]. AbbeyEyre. syo pp.
ST, $40 (The Macmillan Company
Among the biographies OF Ave hundred
noteworthy persons who died between
January 90 1901 and December 81, 1911,
are those Of King Edward VII Edwin fb-
hey, Sir Walter Besant. Sir Charles Dixie
and Samuel Butler.
CHAMP CLARK. BY w L. webb illustrate
ed. i2mo, PIP. 2J6. CThe Neale Publish
ing Company
sketching the Speakers early. boyhood.
his work as a lawyer and as member
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Cockburn had no need of the new novel
He read Euclid. Even now he sald'
II often read some pages of it for pleas
ure." There is no accounting for literary
tastes. as the man said who read Brad
shaw and Bailey and Euclid.
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READING IN BED.

From The London Globe.
To those addicted 10 the practice Of
reading IN bed the remarks Of DR.. Carl
Seller will be Of interest. He states that
thcre is no valid reason to he urged
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A Refugees journal.

One Of the books Of the autumn will
contain the journal kept in 1892 in
Philadelphia by the French refugee,
MORGAN de Saint Merry. II is called
Diary Of Voyage to the New World"
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IuNENILE,

WHEN MOTHER LETS US TRAvEL IN
ITALY BY Charlotte NJ Martin. Illus
trated from photographs 12ro, PIP 2i?.
CMoffst, Yard s. Coz ..-
The story % an American family
travels in Italy In which are entwtned ths
history and customs OF the various cities
they visited
OUR LITTLE DANISH COUSIN. By Luns
Nav Innes illustrated By Elisabeth OTIS.
l2mo. pp VII, iA. Boston. L. c. Fags
E. CO..
portrayinx the manners and customs %
the Danish people
PLAYTIME GAMES FOR BOYS AND GIRLS
Told in Story Form b. Emma G. Dowd
13mo Pr. 233. philadelphia; george ".
Jacobs & Co
How group Of children PLACED such
games as Come ana Get Ne" The Die.
tionan's Sons" "Beggars' Anagrams
How Many Are Going By1" and "Word
Guessing" etc.
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EDUCATIONAL.

OF the Missouri Legislature, and his career
in the House OF Representative
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LEGHL,
THE CIVIL LAW ~ AMERICA An Addr,ss
by Charles +. Beach at die 81 Paul co.,
lege OF Law. 12mo Pc -. (Paris; A.
Pcdone)
An historical outline Of civil law. rs
place In the legal curriculum and Tvs
present Importance and prospective Na!us
TO the American lawyer
HISTORY OF THE SUPREME COURT OF
THE UNITED STATES. BY Gustavus
Myers. l2no. pp. S23. (Chieago: Charles
II Kerr & Oo)
A survey % It's establishment, develop
mont successive personnel and it's relation
as a whole to the questions and interests
Of each associated era.
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HISTORY.

SOCIAL FRANCE AT THE TIME OF PHILIP
AUGUSTUS. BY Achille Luchaire Au-
thorized Translation from the second Ed
ton OF the French by Edward Benjamin
Krehblel Phi. d. svo. pp. will. AL CHenry
Holt & co..
study Of the material and spiritual
condition OF the people, OF the bishop,
priest, student lord and noble dame peas'
ant and burgher
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ApAcAes AND DETECTIVES.

mi, pI-D NIGHTS OF PARIS- From JH'
'i tC tir Double" and "PolIciers ct IA,
tas" by Goron. late Chief Of the soTete
English version by FlorenGe, Dt 'S, 2,
Jones 1omo, Pr. 81. 6. W. p'i'hkhd"
InmnanN.
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african NATIVE LIFE
Savage Lore from the Nile
Country.

on THE BACKwATERs or THE NILE.
Studies Of Some child Races OF Central
Africa. BY the Rev. 4. l.. kitchlng. NJ
A. With rs illustrations from photo
graphl taken by the author and pref
ace h., Peter Giles, Lit -. Hon. Ii. u.
$40. up. XIV 295. Charles Scribners
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CURRENT EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES. 4
Report upon Education Throughout the
World Being the 1911 Volume Of The
Annals OF Educational Progrsss.' By John
Palmer CARRIER, Phi. D. 12mo, Pr XIV,
3S7. philadelphia: The J. b. LipplncotI
Company
Volume TX in "LIppincotts Educational
Series" under the sditorsnip OF Martin O.
Brumbaugh, A. NJ, Phi. D.. IL. ID.
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LITERATURE.

THE PROMISE or THE CHRIST AGE IN
RECENT LITERATURE, BY Wiuism
cucenc Mosher. Pm. n. limo, pr. ~ no
&C j Putnams Sonse
calling attention 20 the interest IN the
Christ neure and the messages OF Christ
as Indicated in the writings Of Sudernann
Rostand Foeazzaro, Hauptmann, WIZ
mann and AndreyeN.
JoHNSONIAN GLEANINGS. BY Aleyn L!s.
Rcnde Part III. Francis Barber ,ne
Doctors Negro servant illustrated. svo.
PIP. 1872. privately printed for the suthoF
n, the Arden Press. Oswaldestre House.
Norfolk street. Strand, London.)
This account OF Francis Barber aims az
being exhaustive as regards references 70
him in contemporary biographies memoirs
and published letters ..
ENGLISH LYRICAL POETRY From ~
RIisa Reed PHI u. Svo m. 6l6. (New
Haven: Yale University Press
survey OF It's history. With oiohos'
raphy AMI an index.