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sign has not lost my Of It's power. ;or
Mr.. Roberts proceeds M once TO plunge
his characters and reader into n series ot
events that Is made only more puzzlinC
and IncXplicable by efforts to solve il.
The wrong clews are constructed with
the utmost plausibility, the right one 5
hidden In such a manner as 10 prove per-
fectly satisfactory I'm the rctrospect-in
short. Mr.. Roberts plays the game fairly
and according to the chief rule of this
sort of fiction. which presCribcs that the
real criminal shall hc "in the picture
from the very first. and not he produced
from nowhere i'm particular AT the end.
The scene he has chosen is. moreover.
made TO contribute TO the effectiveness
OF the plot. 1t would perhaps be super
auous TO mention the love interest were
II not that the clew 1t gives provides "n
extra twist I'm the plot, but the sports
man from New York, who, coming 20
commune with nature with gun and
tackle. stays to play the part Of ama-
teur detective. and finds himself tn,
centre OF danger, deserves n word. Th"
story has a pleasing air Of originality in
it's industriously cultivated field.
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THE HOUSE OF THACKERAY
The Novelist's Grandfather and
Uncles.

From The London Daily Telegraph.
If the author of Vanity Fair" had not
made the name of Thackeray familiar
tar and wide, that name would still have
been no undistinguished one, thanks to
the position won by various members of
the family in India. OF the vast public
familiar with the name of William
Makepeace Thackeray probably but few
individuals know that the novelist's s
grandfather was a man Of the same
name who gained honor and a compe-
tence in India in the latter part of the
eighteenth century. To this William
Makepeace Thackeray is given the nick
name of "Sylhet," from the province
which 1t fell to him TO govern on behalf
Of the East India Company, and to him
belongs the distinction of being the first
Of the many Thackerays to seek fame
and fortune in India.
The youngest of the sixteen children OF
DR.. Thackeray, who was head master Of
Harrow and Archdeacon of Surrey,
"Sylhet' Thackeray retired after ten
gears service in the East. In that ten
years he had passed from being youth
full writer" or clerk in the company's s
service to being the Third in Council at
Dacca, and the pioneer Collector in Syl-
het; but he preferred the life of an Eng
l'sh gentleman on sufficient compe-
tence to remaining with his young wife
in India in the very trying circum-
stances which service In the East meant
in the eighteenth century. And, as Mr..
F.. b Bradley Brit, l. c. S, points out In
his unpretentious and interesting biog-
raphy, of "Sylhet" Thackeray's seven
sons, six sought service in India and
died there. one Of them being Richmond
Thackeray, the father Of the novelist
Mr.. Bradley Birt's volume gives a cap
ital description Of life in India at time
when the Black Hole was a recent hCr-
ror, the time Of Warren Hastings, the
time when the East India Company's s
service offered to many men either a
royal road to prosperity or an early
grave: he shows us in the story Of 'Syl-
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De Banville was foremost among
French men Of letters to recognize the
genius Of Baudelaire. whose early poems
he hailed with the words. pure, mysterl-
Gus beams illuminate the dark folds Oh
Baudelaire's work, and the supernatural,
by means Of spontaneous dreams, infuses
1t with ecstasy and with strangeness.
The present book, which for the first
time brings the poems Of Theodore de
Banville within the compass of single
volume, instead of seventeen, and thus
places them within the reach Of the pub
lie, has an excellent preface by NJ.
Charles Morice, and is illustrated with
three good portraits Of the author Of
Les Cariatides," the best Of which is
that painted by George Rochegrosse,
which figured in the Salon some twenty
years ago. c. l. b.
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Literary .NesOs and CrtffcfSn

the two-pronged fork too difficult ~
manipulate in conveying "a morse' VI
beef with the incumbrance of musId'u
and turnips into your mouth at once
wrote to Gay that her Grace hau
him $50 to provide tridents for 1ear 'l
offending her. (Which sum l desire SHe
will return to me" The Correspondence
was prolonged, the duke adding MS
offers Of hospitality to those OF MS WIZ
but Swift never went. On one occasion
this eighteenth-century lady proved her
self mistress Of the tactics Of the cary
twentieth century English suffragette'
An important debate being expected IN
the House Of Lords, in May, l13S' 1t was
decided to reserve the gallery Tor the
members of the House Of Commons, 10
the exclusion Of the ladies. "NotWitn-
standing which determination tribe O.
danes resolved to show on this occasion
that neither men nor laws could resist
them" Under the leadership OF the
Duchesses of Queensberry and AXmin-
5ter, this tribe" presented itself at tce
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many pages q yarn that will be sure to
please them. ingeniously built up as it Is
out of much good. tried, reliable ma
terial. The son OF a Polish engineer and
the daughter of an English administra-
tor, both in the employ OF the Suez Canal
Company, are kidnapped by order of the
Mahdi and carried southwark through
the desert on camels. The boy is hero,
of course-a veritable giant killer Hav-
ing slain a lion, he turns his trusty rifle
on their panicstricken Bedouin captors-
his aim never misseS-and over their
dead bodies escapes with the girl into
unknown Africa, accompanied by two
adoring negroes and huge mastin.
Their life in the African wilderness Is a
fresh and pleasing variant Of the Crusoe
motif. The two find an elephant i'm
prisoned in a cleft starving slowly 10
death. feed it and gradually tame it
did not the Carthaginians employ trained
African elephants In their wars against
Rome? The huge beast is TO carry them
back to civilization. for an explorer, dy-
ing among his carriers stricken with
sleeping sickness, has given the boy h!s
bearings and bequeathed 10 him his now
useless outfit. An the ingredients ere
her. that make for success with class
OF readers which is so much moro GER
tain in it's likes and dislikes than are its
eldcrs-courage in danger, resourccful-
ness In difficulties. constant adventure
AID incident 10 test and display both.
and. permeating it all, the spirit OF chiv-
airy. OF the protection and care which is
mans duty toward woman.
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they have treated an idea as finite; they
have believed that by the use Of logic they
can come out on the other side. And Mon
taigne was but the me plus ultra" of that
tendency: He was devoid OF spiritual wish
or outlook; he knew everything about Mon
day and nothing at all about Sunday.
Miss Sichel, who claims Marguerite dc
Navarro as another early pupil OF Mon
taigne, halls him not only as the father
Of the art Of the criticism Of life and Of
subjective autobiography, but also as the
forerunner of the psychological novelist
Elsewhere she draws striking analogy
between his creed of self-preservation
and that of Goethe, but enough has al
ready been said and quoted here to serve
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LITERARY NOTES.

A work Of the first importance on
subject of growing interest is soon 10 Ia
added TO "A rapidly lengthenins list "
books. This is Mr. James Bryce's "Soath
America" which will be issued by ths
Macmilans in the spring.
Dickens Letters.
A collection of 400 letters entitled
Charles Dickens as Editor, Being Ie..
ters Written by Him TO William Herr,
Wills. His Sub Editor" chosen and "a.
tied 10y Wills's grandnephew 4. C.
Lehman. Of Punch" has been published
this week by the Sturgis & Walton Con.
panv in commemoraton of the centenary
Of Dlckens's birth. Wills was closely as.
sociated with the novelist in the editing
Of both Household Words" and "All the
Year Round" the correspondence, which
covers the period from 1880 to 1870, be.
ing said to throw full light on Dickens,
views and aims as an editor. Written
from his home in the country, from tho
Continent, or while lecturing at hom,
and abroad" the publishers announce
these letters record frankly Dickens,
intimate, personal feelings and opinion,
about the great writer's Of the day ami
their works, and on current events,
There is hardly great name in contem.
porary literature that is not mentioned
in it,"
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THE SAINTsBURY AFFAIR BY Roman
Doubleday. With Illustrations by j v
McFall l2mo. PIP. 296. Boston; Little
Brown q Co.
4 mana blackmaier-is shot in his
office. The murderer escapes. leaving
behind him only one clew, n good one.
which. familiar enough In real life in
cases Of Identification after death, II
not in crime. has probably never before
been used In fiction. That clew is the
imprint OF the murderer's front teeth i'm
an apple. Mr.. Doubleday. too. hides his
real criminal we'll introducing him cas-
keeping him we'll in view, yet never be-
traylng him until the denouement is
reached. This story also employs .hyp-
notism. which, it may he observed in
passing. is considerably less TO the fore
I'm the popular consciousness and in
current fiction than 1t was some years
ago. Not 10 betray the authors plot Is
the reviewers first duty in dealing with
a detective story. IT must suffice,
therefore. TO state here that I'm the pres
cnt instance the plot is involved, and
that IL concerns sufficiently large num-
ber of people to be worth the while Of
the amateurs Of it's genre. A black
mailer's papers may reveal so much
people whose rectitude and repute are
established beyond the shadow of sus-
picion.
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door at 8 In the morning and was kept
out until in the afternoon, when it
gained admittance by ruse.
In rushed the ladies, pushed aside their
competitors, and placed themselves in the
front rows of the gallery. They stayed
there till after II, when the house rose (;
and during the debate gave applause. and
showed marks OF dislike. not only by smiles
and winks (Which have always been allowed
in such cases.. but by noisy laughs and
apparent contempts; which is supposed the
true reason why Lord Hervey spoke mis"r-
ably
The Virtuosi" deals With the forerun-
ners Of the Royal Society. and with the
pseudo-scientifc absurdities Of some Of
their numbers; there is also a chapter
on the "Macaronis," but these two stud
les must be passed by for a word or two
on Mr. Pearson's story Of the life Of
Governor Pitt, Of the East India Com
pany His was, indeed, a picturesque
career, apart from his purchase and sale
Of the famous Pitt diamond, Cor he began
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as an "TDterloper," one Of the independ-
ent merchants who encroached on the
compapy's monopoly OF the trade of
India, thus forcing it to make him its
head. The author incidentally tells the
story Of the early days of this famous
trading company, its difficulties and
moments of threatened failure; the his
tory Of the great jewel is dealt with at
the length II deserves. Diamond" Pitt
himself will be remembered not only as
capable administrators, but also as the
progenitor of two Of England's greatest
statesmen, the first Earl of Chatham
being his grandson.
A final chapter on the Gentlemen Of
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THEODORE DE BANVILLE
A Volume of His Selected
Poems.

PariS, February ..
The publishing house of Eugene Fas-
ouollo renders valuable and timely
service in bringing out in single vol
ume n we'll chosen selection of the poems
n. Theodore de Banvlle, who may have
lacked the touch Of true genius, hut who
did more than Victor Hugo, Alfred de
Musset. Lecontc de Lislc, cor even Thto-
utile Gautier I'm liberating French verse
from its cast iron fcttors If metre and
mannerism lie was an "impressonist'
of letters. His delicate satire and subtle
humor were unfoldcd with exquisite
sense Of color. bat although "A brilliant
representative OF the second generation
f rcmanticism, h" remained always
within the limited range Of Partisan
journalist and critic.
In his delightful Souvenirs he relates
that when a child he was so impressed
with the songs Of lark and nightingale
that he used TO wander about in the
forest with a little rose-colored violin,
and would pass hours and hours striv-
ing 10 execute harmonious accompani-
ments To the warbling of the birds. The
minute red fiddle produced only vague,
discordant notes. however wherefore the
Youthful performer at last broke II i'm
despair because he realized that the in
strument was merely crying. while tho
birds were singing"
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sary OF whose birth was celebrated las
month, is being sought for in London BY
| Professor Mangold, Of Berlin. After the
edition Of the Kings works IN l7SS-p
had been printed, the Mss were dispose
OF by his publishers, Voss & Deckd
partly by gift and partly by sale, the ne
/ gotiations for the sale being, ii appearS
conducted in London in 1892 with sec
ondhand dealer, one Heidinger No tra@
OF this firm remains at the present DAY
yet everything seems to point to u'
probability that some of the Mss. sh
somewhere I'M England II they can 2
found, 1t is planned 10 collate them aD'
to publish a critical edition Of Freezer
icks works. t.
A ToIstoy Museum.
A Tolstoy museum has been opened
Moscow. The collection will be house
later In a building TO be specially ou"
for this purpose on ground-now N wv
possession Of the munlcipality-~me
formerly belonged 10 Tolstoy.
OostoTevsky.
A critical biography Of Dostolevsky'
Mr.. ]. A. 7. Lloyd, an English autho'"
on Russian literature, Is announced "
early publication. II is worth. wnn'
mentioning i'm this connection that u''
Macmillan Company has in preparation
translation of DostoIevsky's works
Constance Garnett. and that Crime sD'
Punishment" has just been added
Everyman's Library.
Eden PhiIpotts, Oramatist.
MIR Eden PhilIpotts has entered wv
lists as dramatst He has founGs'
play I'm five acts, The Secret Wom"p,
on his novel Of tho same name.
shortly 10 be produced at one Oh
London theatres.
Some important New Fiction.
New novels by Mrs Gertrude A'ne
ton, Winston Churchill and Mary
Watts are promised by the Macnli''''
Company for this spring. Mrs. A'n'
tons story will he called Julia Fran.
and Her Times" and viii undex1he
prove how inevitably the history
ones time must affect both the llie o.
character of exceptional people. W.
Winston Churchlrs Tie Inside OF W
Cup" opens with "A wedding cererlo~
performed by the pastor of wean1.
church for divorced woman. .'i
Watts's Van Cleve' is young 'u.
who starts life at the age OF twen.
burdened with the support of four p's
sponsble women.
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het" ThaCkeray the way in which those
who took service under the company
sent home for their sisters, and how rap
idly those sisters We're married off, ana,
incidentally, he shows us something of
the autocratic methods Of the company.
1t may well be that but for the fame
of his grandson "Sylhet" Thackerays
biography would scarcely have been
written. but ii affords a distinctly in
teresting glimpse of the life of the past,
of the kind of careers led by those en-
gagged in the work of laying the founda-
tions of our Indian Empire.
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EnuIiSh Life and NotablIltleS OF
the Past.
SOCIETY SKETCHES in THE ElGH
TECNTH CENTURY. BY Norman
I'D i,

SOCIETY SKETCHES in THE EIGH,
TECNTH CENTURY. BY NorfnGa59n
Pearson. Illustrated. Svo, pp. Xi' S0S'
Longmans, Green & Co.
These papers on various phases ana
personalities Of eighteenth century Eng
lish life agreeably fill in the larger out
lines of its history with silhouettes ano
bits OF atmosphere and environment
The author has, moreover, a serviceaoie
habit Of tracing certain features OF the
life Of the period to the days and the
causes Of their extinction. as in the case
Of the "Scowrers" and the "Mohocks''
the gentlemen -rowdies who made the
streets Of London unsafe. who wantonly
destroyed property and occasionally
committed homicide IN the course OF
their supposedly debonair exploits. He
also refers TO this rough pastime on the
Continent-it was known in Paris as far
back as 1850. The Mohocks f1ourished
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the Road" gives some uneXpectedi!
fresh information on subject that hau
anparently been worn threadbarc by
much treatment. 1t is. indeed H'S'o,S
in brief Of these mostly pseudo-romantic
New-York tribune., 1912-02-11
FICT ION.
Amateur Detectives in City and
Country.
RED CROSSES.

KAYTON: 4 BACKWOODS MlSIEik
BY Theodore Goodrich Roberts: Illus
trated by John Goss. Emo, PIP. 1f. Bos-
ton: L. c. Page & co.
The mystery begins with the marked
card dealt in a poker game to one Of the
dwelers in SIMPSONS Mill Settlement a
stagnant. remote little spot on the Cana
dian border, one infers. II is not card
sharpers mark for the two crosses are
on the face. not the back, of the card.
It's recipient recognizes the mark. for 1t
has occurred before in his family. and
has always hoded trouble. even TO the
point of attempted assassination. The
New-York tribune., 1912-02-11
"Tha Adventures Of Philip"


What rs believed to be a new anecdot.
of Thackeray was told at one of the Lon.
don clubs recently by Mr.. Philip New
man, who recOunted that his wife, when
girl, happened to go to the same school
as the novelists daughters, and after.
ward kept up an intimacy with the FAM
lily:
One day, when she was out for a walk
with Miss Thackeray, the latter mentioned
that her father had started a new story
but was at loss to decide upon the hero :
name. The future Mrs. Newman, with her
fiance I'm her thoughts, suggested that his
name, Philip" might serve the purpose.
At that moment. who should come up un-
observed behind the two girls but Thack.
cray himself! Making his presence known
by laying a hand On sh builder OF each OF
the young people, he asked why they werA
so deep in conversation. Thereupon Miss
Thackeray, turning rouI d, revealed the
subject under discussion, and told him her
friends suggestion as 10 the heros name.
Admirable" was ThaGkeray's verdict,
"And now. my dear" he went on, 'wha.
that's a very nice name, oo," was the re.
sponse. and Thackeray wore a look OF sat
isfaction. The result was the tale called
THE Adventures Of Philip" in which the
principal woman character figures az
Charlotte.
Missing MSS. Of Frederick tho Great.
Information as to the whereabouts Of
some of the missing Mss. Of Frederick
the Great Of Prussia. the 20Oth anniver
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A BOOK FOR CHILDREN.

THROUGH THE DESERT By Henryk
Sienkiewlcz. 12mo, pp. $40. New York:
Benziger Brothers
This is probably the first appearance.
in English at least, Of the famous Polish
novelist as a teller of tales for the
young. He certainly spins in these
New-York tribune., 1912-02-11

As guide to the contents OF richly
.ncccetiye. SCHOLARLY and original study.
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A Ia RERTlLLON.

THE sAINTsBIrRY AFFAIR. BY Roman
Doubleday. With Illustrations by j. V.
McFall 12mo, PIP. 296. Boston: Little,
Brown q Co
New-York tribune., 1912-02-11
MON TAlGNE
The Inventor of the Essay and
His Work.

MICHEL DE MONTA1GNh BY 81 EdiFn y
Sichel. Illustrated. Svo. PIP. * |'L L.
II, G,
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SYRACUSE EASY
FOR PRINCETON
Nsen Trounce Visitors by 60 to
seose, but Orange and Black
Line Is None Too Strong.

Princeton. n. J., Oct. 1s-Princeton
ran away With the weak Syracuse eleven
to-day .snd rolled up a score Of g to
. on the visitors. The cause Of the big
score WAs not so much the Tigers
serength ~ the Syracuse weakness
In the hrst minute Of play the visitors
showed some strength. but after that
were demoraiised ''Tuby'' Waller tore
thFough their line for forty yards two
minutes after play began and planted
the bali on their 1-yard line. Stew
Baker carried II over In the next play.
The Tiger quarter played . brilliant
game
sySacuss had their only chance for q
|topchdown in the second period. Sey-
m6ure. their brillian end, ran back
Heksr's kick-on % yards and received
. forward pass good for % more. An
other forward pass and several short
eAins put the ball on Princeton's S-yard
line. but the Tiger defense was impreg-
on downa Waller again came to the
rescue with . 6-yard run through q
broken feld and planted the bali on the
yisitor1 3-yard line. Dewitt carried II
over. Pendleton then took his turn with
. 0-yard run. and on the next play re-
eeived . forward pass bahind the visi.
tors goal for another score.
In the second half Dewitt. Waller,
And Pendleton gained almost at win. and
before the whistle blew to end the third
period q points had bssn Gmaseed.
In the last period many Tiger sub.
gtttutee were used. but ''Hoby" Baker
ran loose around end snd through the
yifters' line Lineup and summary:
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|YALE' |BIIlGllIIlIS s ~
b ! L)IE SCORE
one IsueSa Sasv1 > Msls Il aans,
GA III exiting 4 = - -
SeoeaA lsried

West Point. n. T.. Oct. ls.-ons leuoay
touchdown a0ainst the Army rspreoeqted
. great deal efssatisfac4ien Ter Yale hers
this ,aftsFnoon. when ODd I'M eveuef n
two prevtoas Defects st the hands .og the
CadgtA The nnaf score Was 8 % q
The YaDo count cams early IN tho noc-
ond period The drst had eloosA With
the ball on the ArmEs e-yesd line. and
Immediately upea the rssunption of nay
Phifhin and 6palding .slashed at fho
Army line pntil the former nnaily pushed
through for tho touchdown. He missed Q
try at goal
II was not . particularly srsax gams
and was lacking IN sensational features.
Yale. seemed . ntt1e the strongest frosa
the start. although the Army made .
gams defense, Ths peH rules aevelhped
nothing startling.
Seine l9eee people made the journey mp
the Hudao3 topee the game. Gen. Barry
was amehg those present. and salute
was hrS6 upon his arrival Light show
'ers had fallen during the morning. and
q heavy mist clouded- the Surrounding
hills. 5t -l3eE.Ess
s TovGrd the Close Of the arst period .
forwasd pass BY PFitchard 70 Gillespie
was fumbled by the latter. but Hogs fen
on the ball. Pritchard then punted to
Flynn ON Yale's le-yard lines and Flynn
made . great run of 9 yards, being
finally downed by Gillespie. Philbin went
through center for yards. and then
tried goal from placement from the
5-yard line. but missed. The period
ended with the bah on the Army's s-yaid
line and put Yale in . position 70 rush
through the touchdown In the next Pc
Rod Penalties were frequent ON both
sides. usually for holding.
Flynn. the big back q the Blue team.
vSuo - IL Hxnsk usr
uncertain on catching puntA Lins-uD
and summary: