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BOOKS RECEIVED.

THE TUDOR SHAKESPEARE I'll r
TRAGEDY OF RICHARD THE SEU-
OND. Edited by Hardin Craig. I'm
D.. professor of English In the I'M.
versity of Minnesota. New forh'
The Macmillan Company.
THE TUDOR sHAkEsPEARE-THE
WINTERS TALE. Edited by Laura
]. Wylie, Phi. D.. professor OF Ens
lish i'm Vassar College. New forh'
The Macmillan Company.
TO BROWNING, In
Guiding Eleven Poems VIII nin,s
for study. BY Ella b. Haiiock.
author of I'm Those Days. etc. New
York: The Macmillan Company.
THE CULTURE OF PERSONALITY. BY
I. Herman Randall New York: IT.
NJ. Caldwell Company.
EVERYDAY SUSAN: a story for Girls.
BY Mary F. Leonard, author OF me
story Of the Big Front Door. IL
Illustrated by Laetitia Herr. new
york: Thomas Y. Croweli Company.
THE FRESHMAN. BY James Hopper
illustrated by Harvey T. Dunn. New
York: Moffat, Yard & Co.
THE FAMILY IN IT'S SOCIOLOGICAL
ASPECTS. BY James Quayle Deaiey'
PHI. d., professor Of social and point
ical science in Brown university.
New York: Houghton Mifhin Com
pany.
CROFrON CHUMs. BY Ralph Henry
Barbour. author Of THE Crimson
Sweater" etc. With illustrations py
c. NJ. Relyea. New York: The Cen
fury Company.
SUE JANE. BY Maria Thompson
Daviess. author of Miss Selma Lue.
etc. With Illustrations by E. A.
Furman. New York: The century
Company.
JEAN CABOT AT ASHTON. BY Ger
trude Fisher Scott. illustrated by
Arthur o. Scott. Boston,: Lothrop.
Lee & Shepard Company.
THE LONG WAY HOME. BY Pansy.
author of Lost on the Trail" etc.
illustrated by Elizabeth Wilmington;
Boston: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard
Company.
DOROTHY DAINTY'S HOLIDAYS. BY
Amy Brooks. author of Dorothy
Dainty Series" etc. With fllustra-
lions by the author. Boston: 10th
rop, Lee & Shepard Company.
FOR OLD DORCHESTER, or, Archie
Hartley and His SchOOlmates. BY
Arthur Duffey. illustrated by John
Goss. Boston: Lothrop, Lee Il
Shepard Company.
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CHAPTER XIII.
The Trial and the Verdict.

Blake did not attend these tiresome
preliminaries, although he followed them
with intense interest, the while sar-
donic irritation arose in him. CHANGING
to meet Mayor Wright one day, he said:
I'm beginning to think my original
plan was the best, after all.
"You mean we should have lynched
those fellows as they were taken?'
queried the mayor. with smile.
Something like that"
ct won't take long to fix their guilt or
innocence once we get jury.
"Perhaps-if we ever get one. But the
men Of New Orleans seem filled with a
quality of mercy which isn't tempered
with justice Those who haven't already
petent to act as intelligent jurors. Those
who could render a fair judgment are
afraid
You don't think there's any chance
of an acquittal!'
Hardly. And yet 1 hear the defense
has called 200 witnesses, SO there's no
telling what they will prove. You see.
the prosecution is Handicapped by re-
gard for the truth, something which
doesn't trouble the other side in the
least"
Suppose they should be acquitted?"
lit would mean the breakdown OF our
legal system"
And what would happen?
Blake repeated the question, cycling the
mayor curiously.
Exactly! What would happen? What
ought to happen?"
"Why-nothing," said the other, nerv-
ously. They'd go free. l suppose. But
Maruffi can't get off-he resisted an Of
ficer."
Bah! He'd prove that Johnson as
saulted him and he acted in self-de-
fense.''
He'd have to answer for his attack
upon YOU"
Norvin gave peculiarly disagreeable
laugh. mot at all. That's the least of
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would not be easy to say which of the
two has proved the greater evil for
Africa. Having verified these charges
against civilization, the author tells OF
the native, as he found him in the heart
of his dark continent: how he works, and
plays. and suffers and rejoices; where
he stands. morally, mentally and phys
ically, today. and what PROCESS he
may hope for in a day to come. MANY
whimsical tales Of Uncle Remus'
to an African source. and to these are
added fetish stories which the mis-
sionary was able to secure by reason
Of his close familiarity with the peo-
pie and which. from literary view
point are entirely new. Full-page pho
tographs give glimpses Of the manners
and customs of African life. including
group entitled Women's Secret
Society of Gaboon." which the author
describes as "the lowest reach Of
Mpongive degradation"
ENGLISH COMPOSITION; Book Two.
BY Stratton d. Brooks. president Of
University of Oklahoma, etc. New
York: American Book Company.
This text book is intended for the
third and fourth years in secondary
schools, treating Of the four forms Of
ton and augmentation. 1t includes a
review of grammar and chapters on
poetry. the drama, the essay. the lyric.
the epic and the novel. The chief OBJ
ject is to teach the student to express
his ideas simply, accurately and fully. to
read critically and to reason soundly.
MISS WEALTHY. DEPUTY SHERIFF..
BY Elizabeth Neff. author of 'Altars
to Mammon," etc. With a frOntfs-
piece in color by Arthur Hutchins.
New York: Frederick A. Stokes
Company.
If Miss Wealthy's tart cheerfulness
could be put on the market in tonic form
it would cure the world Of its blues. AS
it is. no woman could possibly get
through chapter without wanting to do
something for somebody-just to show
she was worth the creating-and the most
timorous man would gladly be held UP
by the Deputy's big cavalry pistol for
the sake of the Daputy's pies. The hero
ines father. dear old Pa Pergellis, Is
the sheriff of q well behaved little town
where nothing ever happened until the
bank robbery that gives the story its
opening thrill. Even to peep into the
plot would be like rifing Miss Wealthy
pies Of their crust and flavor, but-there
is a picnic that masquerades as man.
hunt and a real man-hunt that turns
out picnic, and together they give the
Deputy a chance to show an amazing
talent for protecting criminals from the
strong arm of the law. Then there Is
Moses, whose chief pride lies in his no
accountness''-but one would have to
read the story to begin to do justice to
Moses.
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~ NEWS AND NOTES OF ART AND ARTISTS .

will be on American sculpture, and will
be given by Augustus Lukeman, who is
himself sculptor of much distinction;
the next will be on american landscape
painting, and will be given by well
known landscape painter; the third will
be on mural painting in America. and will
be by Edwin Rowland Blashfield, one of
our leading mural painters. These will be
followed by lecture on Old World gar
dens by Prof. Hamlin; on design by
Prof Sargent, and on the modern
adaptation of the Gothic by Ralph Adams
Cram.
All these lectures will be illustrated
with the stereopticon. The public course
individual painters representing the great
schools; for example, Michael Angelo.
Rembrandt. Velasquez, Durer. Millet and
Josef Israels These will also be given
by distinguished lecturers, and will be
profusely illustrated. All the lectures in
the three courses are to be given in the
auditorium of the National Museum 8
new building, which is accessible to all
car lines and sufficiently commodious
The society will. however, have, as here
tofOre, the cooperation of the Public
Library, which will. it is understood, again
supply those registering for the public
course with supplementary reading lists
and will arrange from time to time sup
Elementary exhibitions for the general
public, and more especially for study
classes. The society has other plans for
the winter for the extension of it's work,
which are, however, at the present time
not sufficiently matured to be announced.
THE attendance at the Corcoran Gal
lery since it was reopened two
weeks ago has been unusually large,
averaging about TOO a day on those days
when no fee is charged for admission.
This shows possibly an influx of sight
seers, but also an early awakening of in
terest. Few changes have been made in
the gallery or it's collections during the
summer The walls of one of the gall
leries have been recovered, but the hang
ing throughout is virtually the same as
when the gallery closed in June. and the
fact is it would be hard to improve it. One
picture has been added to the c. G..
Glover loan collection, which comprises
many notable works 1t is a landscape
by Alfred Parsons. a British painter of
renown. Enthusiastically, it is an English
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work OF this author. A method of exact
Ing realism backed by the keenest of
slgnt and insight. and applied to the
great shifting. pushing middle ground of
american social life, gave David Graham
fh1llips distinguished and unique posi-
ton among American novelists George
Helm clearly belongs to the apprentice
Gays or this author. to time when he
mao not taken on the strong individuality
OF MS later work. One cannot resist the
ieeling that Mr.. Phillips himself would
nave held this novel in seclusion, more
as mark from which to measure his
subsequent swift advance than ais a seri-
Gus Offering of himself to the public
with this feeling. and with a vision of
what Mr.. Phillips could have done with
Ihfs theme now, had he been here, one re-
grets the appearance of George Helm y
MY LOVE AND l.. BY Martin Red
field. New York: The Macmillan
Company.
Almost everybody's story Or. If not
so fully inclusive as this, it is, neverthe-
less. in its essentials the story of the
great majority of those who, two-by-two
plod in discomfort along the highway of
matrimony. Springtime and youth-that
1mmemOr1al pair-in the very beginning
of this romance easily bring about the
familiar undeliberated marriage. The
bulk of the narrative then concerns Itself
with the processes of gradual disillusion-
ment and the instructive reach for COM
pensatory interests. At this point the
novel takes on the distinction of leaving
the beaten path Of the ordinary drama
of miscarriage. Nothing overt happens.
No bond is broken. No exciting denoue-
ment takes place. This, too. in face of
the fact that to both of this. disparate
pair the true mate appears and is rec
ognized. The tragedy of staying by, of
standing square. in dignified demeanor,
with everything inside falling to pieces,
is infinitely more poignant, more tragic,
than any single catastrophe of repudia-
ton could be. This is a story of I'M
common sincerity and insight. 1t is. too,
one of unusual power and originality. It's
autobiography form and a charmingly
ingenious manner of speech take the
reader into a complete and absorbed
confidence in this authors desire to clear
his own heart of its own story.
THE MARSHAL. BY Mary Raymond
Shipman Andrews, author of 1.-THE
Perfect Tribute" etc. Illustrated
by Andre Castaigne. Indianapolis:
The BObbs- Merrill Company.
The manner of this romance is charm
ing-its way of saying what it has to say,
of doing what it has to do. These sayings
and doings spring from an imagination
keen to dramatic points of stu
alton, alive to picturesque qualities of
character, and alert to the story value of
historic event, and tradition. The. logic
of this happy web Of gifts vests. more
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several parts and dealing with a differ
ent ranch. is shown the manner Of court
ing by the cow punchers and "two-gun
men, near Dry Bottom. somewhere in
the southwest down by Texas. The hero.
rugged out in the approved man.
ner of the period-chaps broad brim,
knotted scarf at the throat, high-heel
boots and cartridge belt"-invariably
after which the latter "hits the breeze
down the Cimarron TRAIL or cOntrives
his exit is some similar way. The stories
are not without merit peculiar to their
class and the monotony of the language
and barbaTismS which the hard men OF
the plains are supposed to use is occa-
sionally relieved by flash of wit or an
original expression. 1t seems peculiar
that although all the characters are OBJ
viousIy located within a certain small por-
ton of the west there is not a greater
variety of expression. the conversation
of each character being. as it were, linn
tied in its essentials by a common vocab-
ulary.
THE PRELIMINARIEs; and Other
Stories. BY Cornelia A. r. Conner.
Boston: Houghton Miff1in Company.
Here are three stories which deal ana
lytically with problems Of matrimony.
They are intimate. clear-seeing. remark
ably penetrating, and they may do good
in the world by bringing perhaps into
closer understanding those who have been
mated without matching The first and
title-giving story is a unique concept of
youth who wishes to marry the daughter
of convict. It is from the prisoner him.
self that he gains illumination and finds
his way to happiness through the disclo-
sure of the secret that through endurance
comes mastery. The other stories are
longer and more involved. touching upon
the questions of heredity, each turning
upon the decision of wife to leave her
husband when she feels that she requires
a wider, freer field.
MOTHER AND BABY; Helpful Sugges-
lions Concerning Motherhood and
the Care Of Children. BY Anne B.
photographs chosen by the author.
Boston: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard
Company.
Here in plain language. without techni-
calities, are the facts about maternity
and infancy, with emphasis upon the
everyday aspect of the subject and with
answers to questions to which responses
are not given as rule outside Of medical
works. The chief aim of the author Is to
impress upon parents the close relation
between physical and moral health, and
she offers suggestions toward securing the
proper balance between them.
FRESH AIR AND HOW TO USE 1T.
By Thomas Specs Darlington. M. D.,
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found himself on the edge of the battle
and had been so frightened that he ran
straight home. He had learned. later.
the significance OF the fray. and had told
nobody about his experience until Nor
win Blake had traced him out and wrung
the story from him. He feared the Malta
with the fear of death. but. descending
from the stand. he pointed out four of
the assassns-Normando, Fabbri. Rafiro
and Dora. He had seen them in the very
act Of firing
A Waterman on duty nearby saw the
boy, Gino. running past a moment before
the shooting began. then, as he hurried
, toward the disturbance. he met Norman
do, Dora and RafirO coming toward him.
The first of these carried a shotgun.
which he dropped into the gutter as he
| slipped and fell. The weapon and the
suit of clothes Normando had worn were
produced and identified. 1t transpired
that this witness knew Paul Rafiro well,
and for that reason had refused to tell
what he knew until Norvin Blake had
, come to him and forced the words from
his lips.
So it ran: the chain of evidence grew
heavier with. every hour. 1t seemed that
some superhuman agency must have set
the stage for the tragedy, posting wit
nesses at advantageous points. People
marveled how so many eyes had gazed
through the empty. rainy night: 1t was
as if mysterious hand had reached out
Of nowhere and brought together the out
iOOheTS one Dy one, WILING ana unWlll-
ing. friend and enemy alike.
more conclusive. case than the state
advanced against the six hired murderers
during the first few DAYS would be hard
to conceive, and the public began to look
for equally conclusive proof against the
master ruffian and his lieutenants; but
through it all Maruffi sat unperturbed,
guiding the counsel with word or a
suggestion, in his bearing q calm self
assurance.
Then came a surprise which reused the
whole city. From out Of the parish
prison appeared another Italian, a coun-
terfeiter, who had recently been arrested
and who proved to be a Pinkerton de-
tectiye planted" among the Mafiosi for
purpose. Larubio had been a counter
feiter In Sicily-it was in the government
prison that he had learned his cobbler's
trade-and out Of the fullness of his heart
he had talked-so the detective swore-
concerning these foolish Americans who
sought to stay the hand of La Malta
Nor had he been the only one to commit
himself Di Marco Garcia and the other
two lieutenants turned livid as the stool
pigeon confronted them with their own
words.
On the heels of this came the browning
dramatic moment OF the trial.
Normando broke down and tried to
confess in open court. He was a dull,
ignorant man, with a bestial face and a
towards eye. This unexpected treach-
cry. his own complete Identification, had
put IN tntolerable strain upon him. With
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the man in the rubber coat whose face
he had seen clearly as the final shot was
fired; he pointed out Gino Cressi as the
picket who had given warning of the
chiefs approach, then told of his share
in the lads arrest and what Gino had
said. Concerning the other three who
had helped in the shooting he had no
conclusive evidence to offer; nevertheless,
1t was plain that his testimony had dealt
dana ging blow to the defense. Yet
Marufh's glance showed no concern, but
rather yelled and hooking insolence.
AS Blake passed out young Cressi
reached forth timid hand and plucked
at him, Whispering:
'Signore, you said they would not hurt
Don't be afraid. No one shall harm
YOU" he told the boy. reassuringly.
You. You promise?'
Cressi snatched his son to his side and
scowled upward. breathing a malediction
upon the American.
1nasmuch as the assassination had been
carefully planned and executed at a late
hour on deserted street. it was popu-
timony would be brought out. and that
a conviction. therefore. would rest mainly
upon circumstantial evidence, but as the
trial progressed the case against the pris-
oners developed unexpected strength.
Had DOnnelly fallen at the first volley
his assailants would, in all probability.
never have been identified, but he had
stood and returned their fire for con-
siderable time, thus allowing oppor-
tunity for those living nearby to reach
their windows. or run into the street, in
time to catch. at least, q glimpse of the
tragedy. Few saw more than little. no
one could identify all six of the assail-
ants; but so thoroughly had the prosecu-
ton worked, SO cunningly had 1t put
these pieces together, that the whole
scene was reproduced in the courtroom.
The murderers were singled out one by
one and identified beyond a reasonable
doubt.
One witness had passed Larubios shop
a few minutes before the shooting and
had recognized the cobbler and his
brother in-law, Gaspardo CREST. He also
pointed out Normando and Paul RafirO,
both of whom he knew by sight.
From an upper window of house
nearby another man, who had been awak-
ened by the noise, saw Normando and
Celso Fabbri in the act of firing A wom-
an living opposite the cobbler's house
peered out into the smoke and flame in
time to see Adriano Dora kneeling in the
middle of the street. He was facing her:
the light was fairly good there could be
no mistake. Various residents of the
neighborhood had similar tales to TELL
for while no one had seen the beginning
of the fight a dozen pairs of eyes had
looked out upon the finish. and many of
these had recorded a definite picture of
returning from lodge meeting had even
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often than otherwise, in romantic adven-
ture. In this case 1t turns out to be in
nothing less than the high emprise of re-
turning a Bonaparte to the throne OF
France. The young peasant-hero. Fran
co.'s, reared in the Intoxicating air of the
NapOleonic legend of predestined -estora-
ton. attaches himself in recklessly dar-
ing devotion to Prince Louis Napoleon.
Here his ardors face ever upon the glori-
Gus vision of restored empire. with
himself, Francois, a marshal of France
under the young Bonaparte. Like beau
tiful dreams the world over. that of Fran
co.'s rubs its reluctant eyes open to the
light of q bitter and pitiless day. A beau
tiful vision of love, a mere mirage in eff
feet. fades. too. out of the high heaven of
young Francois hopes. In this swift
movement. converging irresistibly upon
broken aspirations and personal disaster,
Mrs. Andrews gathers mp and projects an
abSorhngly vital and poetic romance. The
first long story. Readers will face warmly
upon this authors second adventure in
long story telling.
THE HERO AND THE MAN. BY L.
Curry Morton. Illustrations by J.
Allen st. John. Chicago: A. c. Nc
Clurg & Co.
That novelist, being a woman comes
to love one of her own heroes of adven-
ture and romance is not astonishing. 1t
would be an unrea sonably exacting wom-
an who could not adore a man Of her
own making. Nor is it matter of wonder
that a tender sentiment should move out
from it's literary confines to center sub
stantially in the fiesh-and-blood youth
who furnished the outlines at least of
writer's most masterful creation. The
point of pleasant surprise comes at the
novelty of using this reversed action as
the theme of romantic development.
One surmises 1t to be a commonplace for
an authoress to give the man of her heart,
more or less disguised. some high place in
each of her stories. The trouble no doubt
would be to keep him out But for this
writer to back out of her novel. SO to
say, from book-hero to living man Is
unique as theme.
town out west, 1awless by tradition
and corrupt by practice, here becomes
the scene of modern reforming activity.
with fearless John Fenton as the center
of this purifying impulse. The beautiful
young writer watching this wave of civic
cleansing, sub-consciously, as 1t were,
passes young Fenton on into new novel
as its chief figure. From there 1T Is but
step across. And this story enveloping
another one ends in the conventional beat
itude of matrimony. 1t is an ingenious,
well-sustained invention. spirited in move
ment and interesting in it's local effects
of character and incident
THE TRIANGLE CUPID. BY Charles
Allen Settler. New York: Outing
Publishing Company.
In a series Of eight chapters, each in
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~HERE is every promise Of an
interesting art season. This is
the year of the Corcoran Gal
lery's biennial exhibition which
is an event of more than local
significance. The fact that it is held here
at the National Capital lends it impor-
tance, and the distribution of 5000 in
awards likewise gives it distinction.
The exhibition will be smaller this year
than formerly, the number Of paintings
being limited to insure each good hang
ing, but the standard will be proportion
ately raised 1t is safe to say that for
this exhibition the majority of leading
artists are saving their best recent works
Luckily it has been so arranged that
there will be no conflict between this
and other important out-of-town exhibit
lions. The annual exhibition of the Chi
cago Art Institute precedes it by more
than a month, the Corcoran Gallery's ex-
hibition opening on December IL, and the
Pennsylvania Academy follows with an
interval of two weeks between. This will
enable the artists to send the same works
to all three exhibitions and to compete
in each for prizes.
1t is too early to say just who will be
represented, and by what works, but
there is no doubt that it will prove an ex-
tremely notable show.
In addition to this exhibition, which will
attract to Washington the leading art
critics and collectors in this country.
there will. during the winter, be exhibit
lions set forth by the Washington Water
Color Club and the Society OF Washing
ton Artists, as well as special one-man
shows held under the auspices of the
Corcoran Gallery. :.
THE Washington Society of the Fine
Arts is arranging three courses of
lectures for the coming season-one, an
entirely new course. is to be on the ap-
preciation of music. 1t will be given by
Prof Daniel Gregory Mason of Column
bia University, New York, and each lee
ture will be illustrated with the piano.
The two other courses are on the fine
arts The first In the members course