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MOTHER.

THE OLD NEST BY Rupert Hughes,
l2mo PIP. IT'S The Century Company.
Mr.. Hughes breaches in this simple
little tale a sermon on filial piety. Her
children reared and gone out into the
world to make their own way and marry
and raise families of their own. the
motGrr is left alone in the country
town, the last leaf taken out OF the
dinner table on the departure Of her
youngest being the symbol of the way
Of life with mothers. The present must
ever face away from the past toward
the future. itself but link between two
generations. The father. the only COM
panion of all that household left to the
mother. has his daily round. the COM
penSation of work, but she is alone with
her memories. not forgotten by her Off
spring. but thoughtlessly neglected In
the endless rush of the struggle for daily
bread and the cares of house and home.
Even the consolation Of grandchildren.
that renewal Of the best years of life for
the old is not hers. with one son in chi
CaCo. another in Denver, third ana
daughter in New York. her youngest In
Paris. Letters are hurried few and far
between. and even birthday congratuia-
lions rarely come on time. Mr.. hughes
moralizes considerably, but To good pur-
pose. The conditions he deals with are
generally beyond the control of those lie
addresses. but he points out to them
what can be done and how little suiiices
to bring back day Of sunshine TO the
mother in the deserted odd nest
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TERRA INC0GNITA
Adventures in the South Ameri-
can Wilderness.

IN THE AMAZON JUNGLE. Adventures
In Remote Parts OF the Upper Amazon
River. including n Sojourn Among Cam
nIbal Indians BY Algot Lange Edited
I'm part by J. Odell Hauser. with an IN
PRODUCTION by Frederick 5. Dellenhaugh.
With Sc illustrations from original pno-
tographs by the author. Svo, PIP. X%'
400. c. II. Putnam's Sons.
Mr.. Lange's adventures began at a
point where most Amazonian travel
stops-nearly 1900 miles up the river, at
a place appropriately called "Remate do
Males" or illumination Of Evils on
the brazilian Peruvian frontier. His
book is capital home reading; one finds
in Il the true vicarious delight Of dan
ger and discomfort, but one is not tempt
ed TO follow the explorers example.
Fevers. beri bcri, biting insects Of all
kinds. poisonous snakes. bad food. de-
bilitating climate. all these more than
counterbalance the picturesqueness OF
the tropical Jungle. whose beauties, Mr..
LANCE holds. are far inferior To the land
scape Of temperate zones.
II Is n country that knows nothing ~
agriculture or cattle raising, but 1t
thrives on rubber-high wages for the
H. borers, fortunes for the masters. 1t IS
not sportsman's paradise, although
there are wild bears there. and pumas
and tapirs. alligatOrs, enormous fish. the
pirarucu, weighing 900 pounds and over.
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MAGDAlEN.
THE BREAKING-POINT, a Novel. BY
Fred Lewis Pattee. Emo, PIP. Ss2. Bos-
ton: Small, Maynard & Co

THE BREAKING-POINT a Novel -, ny
Fred Lewis Pattee. Emo, PIP. Ss2. Bos-
ton: Small, Maynard & Co.
The scene Of this story dealing with
the social evil is a small New England
manufacturing town. and from this point
of view IL has been written. There is
the pastor Of the fashionable church, an
enthusiast who is lost in the worldly at
mosphere and the administration or
parish Of this kind, spiritually sleeping
and self-suficient withal. Enter the
woman who, after listening to one OF
his sermons, attempts TO commit suicide
in a fit of hysterical regret and fear OF
the future. The pastor proves himself
shepherd indeed a searcher after lost
lambs. with the result that scandal OF
the first magnitude bursts out In the
congregation. He Is warned, besieged to
desist--it is pointed out 10 him that
there are missions for this kind Of work
but he continues on his way. and ends
by denouncing conditions that are I'M
fortunately true enough, and by ex-
pelling the wolves I'm sleeps clothes
from his church. Added to this IS the
minor scandal OF his growing interest in
the wisdom of the East as eXpounded
by one of the woman lecturers whom we
have always with MS to-day in their
esOteric multitudes The story is good
enough Of its kind but it's kind is not
that of the practical, many-sidcd cam
paign against the evil which is being
waged to-day. The appeal is chiefly
emotional.
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FICTION.

FICTION.
HIGH BRADFORD. BY Mary Rogers Bangs.
with illustrations. 12mo. pp. 222. (The
Houghton Mifiiin Company
A romance OF Cape Cod. revealing the
life OF a seaport town fifty years ago.
OVER THE PASS BY Frederick Palmer.
I2mo, pp 43s (Charles Scribners Sons
Reviewed in another column.
THE DEVILS WIND. BY Patricia Went
worth (Mrs. G.. +. Dillon). limo, PIP. <,
42T &c. p. PLtnam's Sons)
Based on the events Of the Indian
mutiny.
HER WORD OF honor. BY Edith Macvane.
with illustrations by Frank Snapp 12mo.
DID, V. $50 Boston: Little. Brown & Co. }
The heroine is a French girl who runs
away 70 America from the home OF her
English aunt the Duchess OF Porthaven.
The story tells OF her experiences and tho
complications that ensue when she prom
Uses TO marry man before she mas even
seen him.
. CHAIN OF EVIDENCE. BY Carolyn Wells.
With Illustrations in color by Gayle Hos
kins. limo. pp. 924. philadelphia: The J.
B. Lippincott Company
A story OF crime and mystery.
THE UNDER TRAIL BY Anna Alice Chaplin.
With illustrations by Martin Justice.
l2mo. PIP. tx. 374. tBcston; Little Brown
4 Coz
A tale OF action and adventure. tho
scene of which is set In the Virginia
mountains
OPEN TRAILS BY fancy canuclS' emily
Ferguson). With frontispiece by T.. w
tratIons I'm the text by Warwick Rey-
nolds 12mo, PIP. col. tcassell q Co..
Ltd
Impressions Of life In the great North
west.
RORY OF WILLOW BEACH. BY valance
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and boa constructors The author killed
one that. he assures us, was hity-slN
feet I'm length and measured two ieet
and one inch in diameter
elimination of Evils'' was the end OF
all things. the last faint trace set by CIV
uization upon the Jungle. Beyond was
unknown territory, which called Mr..
LANCE. He seized tho opportunity OF
penetrating this wilderness afforded MN
bv the dispatch OF an expedition III
eaarch Of more rubber. and he had far
r,ore adventure than he bargained TOT.
!, .ho ord no nearly starved to death.
but fell in with a tribe OF cannipAi lho-
Ians. Naugeromas, who treated MIN KIM
lv however. their Objectionable dietary
neculiaritv being strictly confined to their
enemies. Mr.. LANCE was not an enemy
,,0o they had no right to eat him. After
his recovery he grew quite chummy win
them. They gave him an Illustration oil
their way Of cooking their repuIsiVe 1000
and allowed him to witness a fght pc
,uoen them and Peruvian half-hreed
rubber hunters. Hto' 4''''''''
the blowgun and poisoned arrow
The whole region. annually inundated
f. like a hothouse under the burning
sun. which never penetrates the heaVV
foliage. beneath which photograph re-
ouires an exposure NJ from three to hVe
minutes One OF Mr.. IangTs strangest
tales is ~ his discovery In stream OF
CLAW balls, which on being opened proved
n contain gold In minute grains. He filled
FIVE Photographic plate boxes with mo
precious metal, and adds: Il could have
filled a barrel, for the creek was thick
with the clay balls as far as cou'h
see"
The book strikes novel note IN the
literature Of exploration which has neen
60 largely preoccunied Of late with ATTIC"
and the poles. II is well illustrated. IN
conclusion 1t should be stated that Mr.
Lang can hardly find words 10 express
adequately his appreciation of the whole
hearted hospitality Of the Brazilians on
tho edge Of the jungle
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quately portray the rapidly shifting
scenes attending the downfall Of this
ancient nation-scenes I'm which two
powerful and presumably enlightened
Christian countries played fast and
loose with truth, honor decency and
law. hesltatlng not even at the most
harbarous cruelties 10 accomplish their
POLITICAL designs and to put Persia be-
yond the hope OF self-regeneration.'
The book. which is on the press Of the
Century Company, is based on the diary
kent by the author throughout the
period Of his activity as Treasurer Gem
cral of Persia.
The Castles Again at Bath.
The Castles return in their oddly
named new novel. Love Gilds the
Scene and Women Guide the Plot to
the period. to the scene. and to many OF
the characters encountered In their
Bath Comedy" Incompatible Bel
lairs" and French Nam" The title
comes from the epilogue TO THE
Rivals:
Through all the drama, whether damned or
not, a.,
Love giids the scene. and women guide the
plot.
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FOR THE CROWN.

THE LAST TRY. BY John Reed Scott
Illustrations in color by Clarence r. IN
derwood. limo, PIP. 352. Philadelphia:
The j. b. Lppincott Company.
This romance is a sequel TO one of Mr..
scotts earlier stories. but he has taken
good care TO make it complete in itself
Informing his reader, as he goes along,
how Major Dalberg, of the United States
army, came to share the throne OF Va
leria with the Princess Dehra after
many adventurous happenings and deeds
Of derring-do He also introduces the
Duke Of Lotzen. the pretender to the
throne, whom the King should have
Killed In combat when he had the chance,
but spared. Five years have elapsed
when this new tale opens, with the King
Oh Valeria incognito on a visit TO the
land Of his birth and his old comrade,
Richard Courtney. LotZen has not given
up his plottings for the crown. and this
IL the account Of his Last Try" AS
assassination Is his ultimate resource
by prearrangcd automobile accident"
III Washington first OF all; then. with n
polite OF poisoned wine and a third
ume with the dagger on shipboard on
,he way back to the kingdom. He has
gathered material In America to prove
'he rreguiarity OF Dalberg's occupancy
ci the throne under the laws Of their
FAMILY he falls, and as a last desperate
Wy kidnaps the Queen These are but
Few OF the many stirring incidents Of
a faia Of "a,
US headlong pace. The women who
pay their parts In its plots and counter
liois must be left to the reader. 1t is a
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MR. MORTIMER CRABB.

THE MAKER OF OPPORTUNITIES BY
George Gibbs. illustrated by Edmund
Frederick. l2mo PIP. ZIP. D. Appleton
& CO.
Constructed out Of some short stories,
published at various times, and ingeni-
ously joined together these adventures
OF a man who began by minding other
peoples business, and ended by minding
his own--more particularly his wife's--
this story belongs TO the large class Of
fiction that aims at nothing but an hours
entertainment II succeeds fairly well
I'm its purpose, but not sufficiently to pro-
long what interest 1t arouses q moment
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then, four shillings Is only eight six
pences! And after all, eight only goes
six times into forty-eight. Reals are
booming; 100000 shillings are worth
hawking for--or even 10000 tanners. But
there Is a real de plata, real silver or
two reals Weldon (worth fourpence)." II
so. there is slump in reals; two go to
fivepence one In twopence. Oh, my poor
head!
Does the galleon contain On addition
to rubies as large as eggs, diamonds ga
lore. inestimable gold plate. an expensive
crown blessed by the Pope, priceless
worries, and other PARTICLES OF bigOtry
and vlrtue'), 30OO0000 twopence-half-
pennies-of course in coins of higher de-
nomination, silver and gold pieces of
eight? (of which some have been found
already. Any council school child could
do these sums: perhaps Mr.. Lloyd
George could do them. But the arith-
metic IS too ramifed for mere classical
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FICTION
New Novels, Chiefly Ameri-
can.
ARIZONA AND NEW YORK.

OVER THE PASS. BY Frederick Palmer
l2mo, PIP. 43S. Charles ScribneTs Sons.
This story begins spectacularly, with
its hero's romantic attitudes and with
scene painting that is truly of a Garden
Of Allah Of the West beneath the high
azure dome of the Arizona heavens
But gradually the touch of artificiality
wears off, and the reader enters with
zest upon truly excellent story. 1t is
a tale of contrasts between two genera
tiOns, of feud between the elders.
secretly carried on, only to be frustrated
by youth and the love which it has
sought to keep apart. 1t is tale, also,
Of most convincing contrasts of hered-
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SPANISH TREASURE
Andrew Lang on the Galleon in
Tobermory Bay.
From The Illustrated London News

From The Illustrated London News.
l am good deal bothered by attempts
TO calculate the exact amount OF money
Gn our currency which Is on board or
the Armada ship in TObermory Bay-the
ship that people are always trying TO
fish up.
There is II have convinced myself
very considerable sum. There seems 10
bc good evidence that Spanish treas
ury accounts. and a qualified Span
ish witness, stated the Doodle, in l1sS,
at thirty millions OF money That
much is testified 10 by an Earl Of Argyl!
and another man who saw the records or
the Spanish statements In 1911 and lb>".
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from the French. then scores two fail
ures. whereupon he wisely decides TO de-
sert the muse who refuses to smile upon
him. and TO accept junior partnership
This desertion of art causes a momen-
tary roughness in the path Of his love
the lady would, then wouldn't. and ulti-
mately says she will. 1t is all very
pretty, but does not quite suffice TO give
body" to an otherwise very clever study
of the Boston and the representative
classes of Bostonians Of fully genera
ton ago. The Bostonians OF to-day II
is to be hoped, will take proper notice Of
the story.
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BIOGRAPHY.

THE SISTERS OF LADY JANE GREY. And
Their Wicked Grandfather. Being the true
stories Of the strange lives Of Charles
Ladies' katherine and Mary Grey, sisters
OF Lady Jane Grey. The Nine. Days
Queen" BY Richard Davey. With four
y Dutton & Coz
RECoLIECTIONs OF A COURT PAINTER.
BY II. Jones Thaddeus. With seventeen
Illustrations. Svo. PIP II. 1873. (rhe John
Lane Company
"reminiscences of artistic career
spent in many cities and countries, with
anecdotes of royalty Paul du Challlu'
Browning, Whistler, List and others.
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MISCELLANEOUS

WHAT BOOKS TO READ AND HOW 70
READ. Being Suggestions fos These Whb
Would Seek the Broad Highways Of LIZ
eraturs. BY David Pryda, LII D. pew
edition, with Introduction and elasnnsd
lists OF over LOO books IN ancient ana
modern literaturea BY Francis w. Heiesy.
Illustrated. l2mo. PIP 2oA (Ths Funk q
Wagnalls Company
TALKS ABOUT OURSELVES Simple Teaen>
Ing in Hygiene and Physiology. BY kstR-
leen Falmouth (VIscountess OF Felmovthl.
With a fronuspiece by 7. O. Gotoh. l2mo,
pp. XVI. $50. (E p. Dutton Coz
Chapters on the body. It's framework
and organs the nervous system. etc.
ADDRESSES AND DISCUSSIONS AT THE
CONFERENCE OF SCIENTIFIC MAN
AGEMENT. Held October IL. 10 and IL
1911. illustrated. evo. pp. H. SsS Dart
mouth College. Hanover, n. H.
Embracing the papers read at the First
Conference at the Amos Tuck School,
Dartmouth College.
LETTERS FROM A FATHER TO HIS SON
ENTERING COLLEGE. BY Charles
Franklin Thwing, president OF Western
Reserve University. Small limo, pp 20
(The Plat g. Peck Company
A book of advice and counsel.
PRINCIPAL GoODLOVES ESTATES. By
Lillian Elizabeth Roy. Frontispiece. 12mo'
DIP. So (The Platt e. Peck Company
An allegorfcal portrayal OF the power OF
truth and its triumph over sin anu DEATH
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BOOKS AND AUTHORS
Current Talk Of Things Present
and to Come.

A new and revised edition Of Med
wins life of Shelley" has been sent to
the press by Mr. Buxton Forman. who
has done much work upon it in the way
of annexation and veriflcation. It was
to have been published in 1869, but
failed to reach the public. "The
Athenaum" says that the manuscript
may be that the difficulty of deciphering
Medwin's minute and indistinct writing
kept the publisher from carrying out the
intention to publish it," Mr.. Forman be-
leves the author 10 have been free from
any intentional misrepresentation. An
| interesting collection of Mary Shelley's
letters, by the way, was sold in London
recently. They were written to Leigh
Hunt and his wife and are full Of refer
ences to Shelley's health and spirits, to
nearly all the leading literary personages
of the time and 10 the writer's own story,
"Frankenstein."
A Biography Of General BeaIe.
AS pioneer in the Far West, a builder
Of roads and Of national empire, General
e. +. Beale had a picturesque as we'll
as useful career. The story of that
career has been written by Mr.. Stephen
Bonsal. and 1t will be published next
month by the Putnams.
The Ever Returning Dauphin.
NJ. Henri Rochefort is another author
who has incurred the wrath OF the
Naundorff OF to-day, n parsonage who
claims 70 be the descendant Of the poor
little Prisoner Of the Temple and wants
to be called Prince Louis Charles de
Bourbon. Ten thousand dollars dam
ages he claims from VI. Rochetort for
an article in the "Patrie" questioning his
right TO that title. Rochefort declares
that he has sufficient moral proof that
the Dauphin died in the Temple on June
:. 1875, surviving his unhappy mother
a year and eight months. Rocheforts
grandfather was an GmtGr6 and his
grandmother was imprisoned in 1893 ana
1884, The fmigr"s, it is stated, were in
close touch with the prisoners, and
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learned II tho Dauphn's death at the end
r. f-45 n the Dauphin had really es-
caprl the (uigrfa would naturally have
put him I'm their midst and proclaimed
To- all the world that the King was alive.
Perennial Popularity.
There lives at least one writer or hc-
ton for whose books there Is never
failing demand IN this country -kud-
ward Kipling. e. wit The Century Com
pany has disposed OF thirty editions OF
his Jungle Book and IS now printing
the twentieth edition of the Second
Jungle Book" Besides these editions
there must be counted. of course, the
collected edition Of his works published
by the Scribners. Mr.. Kipings admir-
ers must always mourn that he has not
been content To tread the path Of fiction
and abstain from that of politics.
George Meredth's Ancestry.
Mr. Meredith may be claimed by
Irish authors as partly at least, COM
rade by race Mr.. Coulson Kernahan'
tho novelist describes the author OF
THE Egoist' as looking him up and
down and asking him If no was Irish;
Il have that honor. SIR" was my reply.
You put it Welt You put 1t WELL sir,
he said emphatically. land 100 haVe uat
"is that so?" 7 answered. 81 rad no
idea that We might claim Mr.. George Mer-
edith MS n fellow Countryman. -
He wagged n forciinger NJ me playiulIy.
-.
me. My mother was pure lrlsh' my ld'"er
was pure Welsh.
Harriet Hosmer.
An almost forgotten figure in the his
tory Of American sculpture is the heroine
If n book which Moffat. Yard 81 co. VIII
publish this spring. Mrs. Lucien carr
has edited the Letters and Memories OF
Harriet Hosmer." and It is expected that
the volume will revive many interesting
details OF life I'm Rome a generation ago
The Indomitable Clara.
Miss Florence May. who is favoraoiy
known as the author Of a biography OF
Brahms, has written a volume on The
Girlhood of Clara Schumann." This re-
lates. of course. to the period When the
famous artist was still Clara Week
She formed friendships then with Cho-
min. Mendelssohn, List and other great
musicians, and the forthcoming book
contains many illustrative anecdotes. 1t
also shows forth the experience which
fitted Clara Schumann to fill the role
that she played to such good purpose in
the Interpretation of her husbands
pianoforte music. Longmans, Green &
Co. are publishing the book.
1.-THE Flaw in the Crystal"
This IS the title OF the new novel which
Miss May Sinclair is bringing out. 1t Is
described as a psychic romance" We
would rather hear that 1t was going to
prove as Food a story, as story. as
THE Divine Fire"
Tho Dreadful Microbe.
Those who feel the fascination OF
horror in tho study of that modern dis
covery, the Dreadful Microbe. will be in
terested in book which Is now on the
Knickerbocker press This is DIT.
Etienne Burnets Microbes and Toxins
an exhaustive discussion OF the whole
subject. The author is one Of the staff
OF the Pasteur Institute in Paris, and
was persuaded TO undertake the prepare
ton of the volume by NJ. Metchnikoff.
Robberies Of Books.
At least one of the rare books which
John Edward Tinker Is supposed to
bave stolen from the library Of Peter
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HISTORY,

HISTORY OF THE PEOPLE or TEN NETD.
ERLANDS BY petrus Johannes Pio6. PM
fessor Of Dutch History IN the University %
Leyden. Part V. Eighteenth and Nine
teentn Centuries. Translated by Oscar ~
Blerstact With Ave maps. svo. %. VI go
&c. p. Putnam's Sons)
The author concludes with this volume h1D
history OF the whole Netherlands. The vot-
umes previously published treat Of the his
tory OF the Netherlands from the earliest
times 70 the beginning OF the fifteenth CEN
fury; the Capitalization Of power and the
Burgundian period: tho War Of Independence,
l53s-lG2li and Frederick Henry, John Do
Witt, William III.
THE CONTEST FOR CALIFORNIA IN 1871.
How Colonel e. D. Baker Saved the Pa
eihc States TO the Union. BY Elijah r.
Kennedy With Illustrations. Svo, pp. xiv,
3ei. (The Houghton Militia Company
The story OF the rise and fall Of the &C..
cession movement on the Pacific coast based
upon sovsrnEentai an Other y<Sords
Baker, soldier and statasmaA.
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lively and altogether satisfactory piece
Of fiction Of its kind.
ST. BoTOLPH'S TOWN.
THE HEART OF Us. A Novel. BY T. r
Sullivan. limo. PIP. S4 The Houghtor
Mifflin Company.

THE HEART OF Us. Novel BY l. X.
Sullivan 12mo, PIP 5S4. The Houghton
Mifflin Company
This novel may be pronounced to be
a success d'eStime: success Of another
kind It is not likely to achieve. Leisure
ly, cultured, well hammered. It has the
atmosphere-er. at least. It seems to
have It after this lapse of time-of the
Boston of forty years ago. the atmos-
phere that Mr.. Howells loved wor-
shipped and depicted in so many of his
earlier novels. Mr.. Sullivan's canvas Is
smaller, however. Beacon Hill and the
artistic Zone cannot say Bohemian cir
Gle OF the city's Old Play House suffice
to supply him with scenes and charac-
ters His hero is n young business man,
who secretly writes for the stage. He
achieves one success with a translation
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BOOKS OF THE WEEK.
ASTRONOMY.

A BEGINNER's STARBOOK. An easy guide
10 the stars and TO the astronomical uses
OF the opera glass, the field glass ana me
telescope BY Kelvin McKready. with
charts OF the moon, tables OF the planets
and star maps on a new plan. Including
seventy Illustrations. Large Syo, DIP. VII
14S Go +. Putnam's Sons)