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fair. and after her marriage met her
longer be hidden. her husband divorced
her. 4 second marriage was Impossible
because the correspondent was Catho-
lie. and so e woman. who places the
responsibility on everything and every
body except herself-on fate-became
he friend OF Hohenlohe. The aged poet
Leuthold loved her to distraction, great
mobiles paid her desperate court but the
prince was not disturbed although il
appears from the account that there
was occasional jealousy on both sides in
other instances. Hohenlohe wrote pass
able verses to her, she wrote occasional
gone to visit him at Schillingsfuerst
they were surprised in the study of the
castle by the unexpected return of the
princess. who behaved with great dig
nifty. But IN another occasion, To be
sure, the GJoRdc dame showed herself in
a somewhat lf'erent light" And Frau
Won Hedemann considered it decidedly
"phlistinic" when tov ex-husband re-
fused to let their tve children visit her,
even though the prince himself sup
ported her request.
No doubt deep and sincere affection
underlies this account. but the author
fails in presenting il convincingly to her
readers. Tastes differ widely-and our
American taste in matters of this kind
differs most widely from that Of the rest
Of the world. Baroness Won Hedemann
has chosen to make known to all the
world an affair of which. beyond a mar
row circle, it had hitherto been in gno-
rance. She has published her apologize"
We shall forget it tomorrow. 1t mat
ters TO none. except to her assorted chill
dren. and perhaps TO the ancient and
illustrious house Of Hohenlohe.
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A. LANG, HIS FIST
The Brilliant Critic in Defence Of
His Handwriting.
From Tho illustrated london News.

From The Illustrated London News.
NJ, writings. / know. though many ana
ro.r.tnrlol~. will not rescue my name
,i.,u oblivion TIE swan That. in ATT
.,.t,.s .tor.. carried the medals IN
s.-tr.J with some Mon names into me
tcmrle OF Immortality. will be my Hand
,.rf,iro II 10 made publicly infamous.
In , erc,ch AT "A public dinner given in
no irtar.at ~ the Correctors of the
Press. Mr.. cecil Harmsworth dem uhced
my handwriting as the most 'Ncrrable
of III, generation. naming. as the terror
of thr uast. Dean STANLEY w" SnaH
;i,o together as the Castor and PolluX
uf ,'acograYhy
DO not like this kind Of Immortality.
and doubt Il deserve H. My writings
(,r the Press. n of any length. are care
,n'lv coined bv an admirable typist'
NJ nn knowing my INST makes only one
error. al the ms in foreign or cIassl-
cal ur.pcr names dC unknown To herr
she converts into us and All the
into ms" But most typlsts and print
.rs do that without fail (Whether IN
printing from modern or medifNaI or
othcr scripO Thus her rebel lords
blamed Queen Mary as being. toward
Rothwer too blindly anecunnate.
Long ago the Scottish printers turned
This into too bluidy affcCtionate'; TOO
bloody affcctionatc"' But to return 10
my wicked hand. I have just finished Il
hook ~ six hundred pages, worse luck'
on n theme which | dc not choo:e to III
vulgc. Three-fpurthe Of the mass went
10 urcss I'm wnll-typcd form. ~ plain rs
print The rect was IN my own scraWL
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THE WORLDS PROGRESS
A New Volume of Useful REFER
ence Book.

THE INTERNATIONAL YEAR v DE,
A compendium of the Nor,q - S3,oTs
FOR the Year 1911 Editor tTanK MT Hen
Colby. NJ: Al; 4s srS'a Svo. Tp. S0s Dodd,
Mead a co.
.r,,i. ueof,I and many sided reference
hook continues to maintain the stanudru
SGT by its editors at the time OF the re-
sumntion Of its publication, five years
apo. It's title only expresses part OF the
scope. in fact. it is in many ways a con-
donsed cncvclopaedia Of annual progress
in fields far removed from the states
mans practical interests. stu aHairs vi
state. national and International pre-
dominate. together with the economic
and social questions that are the ORDER
Of the day.
The thoroughness with which the work
Is kept up 10 date is proved by such aru-
clos as that on internal combustion en-
zines. whose usefulness promises Ne
a long step forward in the course OF the
present year: that on aeronautcs a sub
icct which IN the establishment OF
records. but unfortunately also In the
fatalities. continues To move too rapidly
to make any figures reliable for more
than few days: and those on the great
engineering undertakings now IN prog
ress al Panama. I'm the Catskills ana
elsewhere. The record Of music In Amer
lea is written chiefly from the New YORK
point Of view. as is that Of the American
drama. And I'm the article on American
literature perhaps too much space us
allotted 10 utterly ephemeral fiction. the
gifts and requests made in this country
during the year amounted to Sl26.49?,-
'91S. Of which Mr. Carnegie gave S4o,44l'-
300 or this stupendous total amount
So coo 900 went to charities, S6l,Woo,oo
10 educational institutions, S2O,ooo'op'
10 religions. $1OOO0.OOo 20 art museums
galleries and municipal improvements
and So .oOO. OOO to libraries.
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The scrawl was printed from rather
more correctly than the typed matter
So the scraWl mot familiar 10 the com
IositOrs in this case cannot he so terri
bly, bad rs public dcnunciation> might
cad YOU 90 suppose. | can assure You
that Dean stanley could GiVc me points.
Again. The IrintcrS of such journals as
! write In scarcely over make an error,
which IL highly To their crcdit-thcirs be
the praise.
Two living men are less decipherable
than mYsclf-PrCfeSsor A. (whose type
writing IS on lower level than even
hls handwriting and Professor b..
whose hand looks plain and clear till
YOU try to decipher ii. one or two rules
may be seryiccable 10 persons trystcd
with my hand. The letters do not run
united. but are each separated from it's
neighbOrs by uncertain intervals A
small I'd" is written az n Greek delta.
so inpcrfeCtlv that. | acknowledge. il re-
sembles no object known to science ex-
cept perhaps a very rudmentary animal
Guile. There are commonly no dots on
the rs In making a 1t" ! make the
cross-stroke FIRST and the long stroke
does not always fall into it's proper place
The tops Of the ''o's" and "a's" are
usually left open. The as" usually de-
generates into short, slantcd line with
slight kink in it. as does sigma I'm
some early Greek alphabets.
The causes Of my dsgraceful fist mp
pear TO he ongenital-hereditary on tho
male side. At school | was sent round
tC exhibit my copy book to the whole
form. which was large and lively. as an
example Of what IL avoid. Since then.
eternal writing and the infirmitics of age
have not improved ny hand But many
"a
fo" do, yet they are not publicly in
suited.
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fumcd and gasped for his return, rated
him when he came back, and excluded,
so far as she possibly could. all visitors
from the wretched house in Ny-Adcl-
gade. where her meanness forced him 20
reside" And the poet bore swcetly with
his Xantippe
Some amusing pages are devoted TO
Professor Christian Molbcck. poet. critic
and Censor Of the Royal Theatrc-an
Important Office indeed. this last, for the
Danes took an CXtravaRunt interest IN
the events Of The theatre. lie was then
about TO put on the boards a play Of
lbsen, and apropos of this recounted to
Goose various anecdotes of the months
he had spent in Rome with certain emf
nent Norwcgians about 1860 He spoke
particularly Of lbscn and Bj0rnson:
Ibsen was oNcruclatngly poor In those
days ana slnartinS under ohscurlty and OBJ
lOquy. Instead or Haunting IL in "a velvet
coat with row OF orders across the but =
ton-holc. and neatly shaved. as he was
doing In 1874, Ibsen then wore "a long black
beard and had Il single coat OF shabby
lcek-srecn cloth. He used to stalk sullenly
up and DOWN the scandinavian club i'm
Rome, not speaking a word TO any one I'M
III supper time. when he would empty "A
flask OF thin red wine and slowly brighten
up. not into geniality exactly. but into To-
qudcity. and dart the scathing bolts of his
sarcasm recklessly in all directions. Ac-
COrdlng 10 Molbech things were at their
worst when Biornson Joined the party.
On" said Moibcch. ito he in Rome with
lbscn ana BJ6rnson together. my dear
Young fIicnd. IL was n weary, weary thing,
They could not keep apart they were like
two tom-cats paradng and snsrling and
swearing at each other. yet each bored
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svO. PIP. xi. 20. Imported by 'harIcs
Scrbncr's Sons.
THE HOUSE AND ITS EQUIPMENT
Edited by Lawrence Weaver. mus
trated 4to: pp. ~ Imported ~
Charles Scrbn"rs Sons.
The utility If books like these is un .
oucstionab BILE. but we wonder If they 90
not sometimes provoke certain amount
of dry eyed despair" The Englis1
country house is unique and unapproach-
able i'm its charm. Its style has the SUB
tie sanction Of tradition and It's wh"l'
character benefits from the fact that
nature is always creeping in. How, even
in those spots which we possess most r.
vora BILE to the growth of tree. shrub
flower and grass. can we nope to riNH'
the grace which is lent 10 almost any
English dwelling by the atmosphere ~
which it is cnvclopcd? Thoughts ike
thege are bound 10 disturb the reader OF
Mir. Wilmotts little volume, in which
he reviews the domestic architecture o.
England from the sixteenth century
down to the present time.
He opens the survey with some gen
eral observations on the way In which
the builder Of a home should go 20 work
He traverscs that old problem % design
ing a house so that IT shall really NJ tn.
site. He advocates the virtues Of sym
metry and even of rhythm. an clemcnt
In the situation which the layman, W"
dare say, might easily overlook. He
breaches repose He comes out strong
on the value Of texture. On all these
matters, be II said, he DISCOURSE not
only with the enthusiasm Of the artist
but with the good scnse Of the practical
man. But it is hard TO follow up his ex-
cellent arguments when. on the opposite
page, one is confronted by Il good pho
tograph Of some old masterpiece OF the
builders art. Looking at this il is easy,
as we have said. TO be discouraged. B.;
this particular volume does more than
is usually done by works Of the sort -
demonstrate that the lessons Of the past
are, after all. to be applied to our owl
needs in very manageable fashion.
No less important than the authors OK.
position Of the beauty achieved i'm ear
what the modern English school hos
done On the whole, it has chung faiti.-
fully 10 it's ancient models. not crudely
initiating them but assimilating their
spirit and going on TO express this in
terms OF simplicity. Men Ike Norma
Shaw. Philip Webb Re- ginald Bloomfield,
Ernest George and Beresford Pite have
been steadfast TO sound English prece-
dent, and yet through their originalit5
have succeeded I'm giving to the English
house Of to-day an individuality worthy
Of its historic predecessors. First and
last, too. they have been builders OF
homes That is one very good reason
for commencing Mr.. Willmott's well
written and beautifully illustrate ted book.
1t makes for good taste. and II we MAJ
risk the expression. II cnforces the func-
ton OF architecture as n preservative Of
domestic sentiment.
Mr. Willmott's examination Of the sub
ject Is Of general nature. In M
Viewers compilation, The House and
Its Equipment" tNcnty-three writer's
architects and other professional men.
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treat Of the many details when 90 u
the making of that very simple ensehlpie
which is characteristic of home OH III"
English countryside. Long Is the lis"
and here again one might be cmbar-
roqecd at The prospect Of what remains
20 be done after the foundations are
laid. Plaster work, wood paneiIih&
dreulaces. chimney pieces, billiard tables
bookcases. attic playrooms FOR the CHI
dren. floor coverings. water supply. BATH
rooms. telephones and lightning CON
ductors. fountains. trellis work, ana 80
on, in amending procession, runs MI
Weavcr's catalogue. His book confirms
in the main, the points made by MI.
Wulmott. His SPECIALISTS all testify 10
tho persistenCc of good old clements az
design on the other hand. il IS PLAN
from some. at least. of these pages that
the architectural revival of the .ast forty
wears has included some dubious de-
velopments. Preciosity. has done its
deadly work and in some quarters We
gather. is still doing il. There are pieces
of furniture here illustrated with when
we should hate to live.
In the chapter on the billiard room
there is a picture Of a table which dis
pcnses with the usual legs. and rests. in
stead, upon q base Of solid masonry.
This treatment of the object is to he re-
garded. we are told. ''as counsel OF per
lection. as il need scarcely be pointed
out that so fine conception cannot h.
materialized at a cost within the reach
of the ordinary householder" Let the
ordinary householder give thanks. on MS
knees, TO that. 1t is. perhaps, not sur
prising. after looking at this astounding
/ billiard table. TO find that the inventor
of the thing Is also responsible for IAN
original treatment" of bathtub. "The
sides are framed up with trellis. mad"
of ebony. with Chintz hangings behind
same" This is Originality with i
vengeance. But freakishness like this
does not prevail in English architecture
and decoration II we may trust 10 the
bulk of the evidence which Mir. Weaver
has gathered together. In fact practi-
cally all Of his examples show that fit
ness as we'll as beauty ia sought-and
found
One achievement which he illustrates
is peculiarly appea ling. Sir Robert Lor-
inner. Of Edinburgh. had a power house
TO design, in the woods. on the edge of
beautiful stream The picture of the
DYNAMO room puts before us just such \
bit Of honest prose rs might he found r.
thousands OF city buildings. But Sir
Robert conceived his structure, on the
outside. as though It were a medieval
fort or watch tower. guarding the en-
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MART lAL-
Some TRANSACTIONS of the Roman
Satirist.

\ ROMAN. WIT Epigrams Of Martial.
Rendered into English by Paul Nixon.
emo. pa. *. li9 Boston: The llough-
ton Minlin Company.
Thee TRANSACTIONS were originally
made. 50 Mr.. Nixon states in his preface,
for use in his classes AT BowdOin College.
Thcy were received by his pupils pa
t{gaily. almost chccrfully." this measure
Of success suggesting 10 him that his
efforts might bc made To serve af an In
PRODUCTION of Martial to Il wider public
that has even less Latin than is pos.
fcsscd by The average college student of
to-day
Now, Martial knew his trade II was
chiefly that 10 him-his means Of liveli.
hood-but he never forgot that il was
his art as well. lie polished brilliantly
The verses in which he couchcd his VII
and his knowledge Of human nature 1T
it's best AZ well as nj It's worst He was
an admirable vcrsiner even ut his grosscst
and coarScst. Mr.. Nixon fails to sugges;
this felicity OF vcrsiicatiOn and choice
OF words. this sparkle Of antithesiS and
often hcavy-footcd, and OF necessity oc-
casionally obscure, since Martial cannot
be understood without a knowledge ~
the Roman world OF his day. which the
wider public" having no Latin, does
not possess ana cannot possibly CLEAN
from the brief Introduction or from the
equally scant explanatory notes at the
end. In Mr.. Moons little book Marital
merely becomes still another of those
great classics the cause of whose great
ness remains, after reading, an unsoycd
puzzle to the unprcparcd wider public"
Here is an example of Mr. NiXon'j
work chosen at random:
THE WORST or IT.
CHINA. grant me my request:
u warmly hope you'll choose TOT
or DO what | think second best,
In haste refuse TO-
Patrons / esteem. nor hate
The man ! can't bamboOZlc:
But you give naught yet make me walt
a slow refusal.
AS classroom indictments To transla-
ton from the Latin MIR. NiXon's render
ings should do good service, however.
la his own classes they have already
done So
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.n.nr, TNMEpANV
New Ym

ams-his ideal being one Of education
for democracy" OF sound training Of
mind and body toward efficiency, good
citizenship and worthy manhood ami
womanhood. ~
Most Of what he has 10 say is not new.
It has, in fact, furnished the substance
OF much thought and speaking and wri.-
ing these many years, but he presents
practically the whole case as 1t stands
to-day. and az It should be, and may he
at some time in the future. Perhaps no
LAYS too much stress upon the obligation
Of the citizen toward the state which
gives him free" training for the strug-
gle for existence. lie overlCoks the fact
that, first Of all the state is ORGANIZED
and exists for the service OF the citizen.
But his ideal Of education is sound It
is in understanding harmony with mod
ern theories and tendencies whose scops
is so vast and comprehensive as 10 DO
practically revolutionary. He does not
blink the cost of 1t all. but offsets it with
the appalling waste Of our present sys-
TEN, which requires so much Of read
justment, Of practical preparation after
It has turned its pupils out of its uni.
form mould, which makes Jr mars with
mechanical impersonal indifference:
The bottom fallacy Of much of tho
acknowledged inefiiciency OF public educa-
ton IS that equality implies uniformity. We
are to give all youth an equal chance;
therefore let US put IL through one COM
mon course Of study. let us give u a dis
cipline OF the barracks. But :his is not 10
secure to children an equal opportunity az
all \ uniform course Is the very
embodiment of inequality, making the YEA.
weaker. the duh duler. such courss
may suit three children out Of every twenty
hut the remaining seventeen are mainly
stupefed by II.
Mr.. Munroe wins his reader oy the
vigor Of his attack and the conviction "
his idealism. His enthusiasm makes
light of obstacles. though he does n't
ignore them. This book is hopeful ard
purposeful reading.
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furthered to the best Of his abilities
and long diplomatic experience the rap
prochement between south and north.
working toward unity and union While
safeguarding the interests Of the south
German states, held back by fear OF
Prussian aggression and predominance.
He managed" the erTatic Ludwig II
with consummate tact, prevailed not
withstanding political defeat at the last
hour, and successfully held under the
empire the posts Of Ambassador TO
Paris, Governor Of the conquered prov
inces and Chancellor,
A supremely able man in the fulness
of his intellectual maturity. he was not
a genius. Bismarck overshadowed him,
as. for that matter, he overshadowed all
the statesmen Of mis- long period in
Europe. A moderate liberal as early as
1874, when he predicted that conditions
must be mended or break in Prussia
Bismarck's supporter in the kultur-
kampf, Hohenlohe yet had conservative
reservations. which grew stronger with
advancing years. Frau Won Hedemann
even doubts If he ever really was
liberal at heart. 1t is about the only
observation worth while TO be found in
this. her own account of her thirty years
intimacy with him.
The book is, indeed, decidedly not
n worth while Historically 1t has not the
slightest value or significance; biograph-
icallv il is shallow. on the surface, and
often in the worst Of German bad taste
The world-a part of IT, at least-might
nc led to take an interest in Hohenlohe
the man as well as the statesman, but
Frau Won Hedemann is not the writer 70
awaken that interest, much less to sat-
isfy it, She has made the mistake of
assuming that the world was interested
in her: that she, too, was Of Importance
to 1t as in a certain way a public per-
sonage dc Ia main OGRChc. The truth
is that even I'm the life of her lover she
appears to have played only small and
placidly emotional part. Her claim Of
service 10 him in his career she does not
prove. though she talks Of a secret mis-
sion to Austria with Bismarcks consent,
which endangered her life.
There are no indiscretiCns here, 70
ehrewd. amusing personalities such as
are found in Hohenlohes own memoirs.
one remembers with glee. for instance
the establishment with which this deli
cate. slender. great noble put down the
Gargantuan feats with strong drink ard
hearty food Of the Pomeranian nm
jpnkcr Bismarck, who carried the irrita-
lions Of the Reichstag into the drawinS
rooms where he took his cup Of afternoon
tea. One remembers also Hohenlohes
brief. authoritative criticisms of the
good and bad manners Of young princes
Of the blood, and his description Of n
Chinese diplomat, rotund, smiling an1
bland Surely. in his hours Of ease. with
the companion Of his choice he must oc-
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70 death II the other were not preSen,,
They collected their adherents DeHlhn
them. there were two well-deilncd parties
I assure YOU If il amused the NofWegIdhS;;
it was death to US, easy-gong Danes 1eIt ana m
Swcdes ~ last Ri0rnson took himself OH,
81, r'b,t = sigh oi relief We gave. ma
jsen cane into 'hS cg hsre aH was F no one
.O"',u, 80 aCt AZ him Then followed the
n" bIliii Of Brand. and money, came
in. and Ibsen grew 10 be celebrated t" a.,
s,,.r, 80 no smiled and stretched out ms
los and was quiet. But agreeapic ~
rG' Lot ms use words in thor true ScmS
tbscu has never been an agr'eap," nm.
and no ucycr win Le. Bot he Is great
g"u.iis and . very honest person.
This passage is characteristic OF MI
Gosses book in it's candid presentation
of y famous figure. The author TWO
visits to Denmark fed his enthusiasm
b,It did not keep him from seeing lhlht'
as they were. His truthNh RECORD j.
v.prth rr.-.rH alton.
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casionally have INDUCED his Satire vein
OF observation and characterization, but
rot a trace of this side Of his character
appears here. He knew Wagner. he
knew all the great personages OF his
own long time in Germany. but never ali
anecdote does Frau Won Hedemann put
down for or delectation. Hohenloho
could be very discreet in his memoirs on
affairs OF state. especially in their later
pages dealing with his Chancelorship.
II may be that his Egeria has mereiy
practised discretion 10 excess. What.
ever the cause. her book is insipid and
utterly Insignificant.
Her anxiety TO set herself right in the
eyes Of the world Is at least historically
superfiuous. History will forget her, as
OF no importance TO its records. She
fell in love in early youth with an inn
pecunious young man. was married of
10 a rich banker. her senior by more
than twenty years. who behaved with
:fxoAt dignity throughout the whole az