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the fog swept southwark upon the light

the fog swept southwark upon the light
| breeze.
| Then some distance off there sounded a
voice. Pilon's, speaking
| Jean whispered, Keep against the rock
SO that we shall not be SEEN"
Creeping along its brown flank. pistols
in hand, we advanced in the direction of
the speaker. Gradually q darker blot ap-
| had been moored at low tide by a rope
| to tooth OF rock and which now fOated
upon the risen waters. Nearer We crept.
We could make out its lines. its hull. its
| ghostly mast. 1t rocked and pitched upon
| the incoming swells like q live thing, now
| riding high. now sinking into a trough.
while its cable slapped the waves at each
| conclusive jerk Of its body. Pilon was at
work. Yet nearer we crept, so near We
| could distinguish the details of his per-
sc1-his head and back, his trousers rolled
| to the knee and the submerged part of
his bare legs. He had waded forth into
the water in order to draw the craft
nearer shore.
Senior Del Hervalle stood closer to us.
q portfolio under his arm, which he had
evidently left on dry land when he stored
his other property aboard.
Behind him q ravine full Of bushes
opened. and down this I knew led the
path from Moore House and the wood to
die Of the sand. looking shorter and fatter
than ever through the Elusive mist.
Hasten. my good Pilon." he said, I'VE
know not when they may come"
None know Of us here" the other re-
turned, confidently. except Davis-and
what of him, senor?'
Del Hervalle turned and gazed in our
direction, rejecting. Jean and I melted
into the stone against which we crouched.
Did he perceive us? With a pounding
heart I waited discovery. But he was
full nifty feet on: We blended with the
cliff and his vision ranged beyond. Re-
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ago. The average reading mind recoils
when, in the midst of q rich and solicit
tous present story teller casts back
five hundred years to get his start. It
takes roots of study. with q certain flex-
ible imagination and a native leaning to-
ward the age OF helmet and shield to 20
along happily with such a story. De-
, spite his shortcomings of equipment for
this sort of romance, the reader Is bound
to acknowledge that the author makes q
good excuse for faring so far back in
search of her man. John the Fearless
Duke of Burgundy, is hero for any age.
Granting this feudal lord the whole court
of Charles vi as foil and material, the
author builds stirring and vivid picture
of the power Of sheer brute courage. The
adventure moves throughout by murder,
seduction. brigandage, riot and slaughter.
The authors skill stands clear, in part
by the plausible fabric of the whole in
venton. and in larger part by the vital
qualities of John the Fearless. Moved
out of his own period and into the pres
ent one, this vain. selfish, ambitious, die
tatofial. INSCRIPTIONS and brutal Bur-
gundian is as much at home, and as
plainly recognizable in this twentieth
century as he was in the fifteenth.
GREAT SAvIORs OF THE WORLD,
author of "Self-Knowledge," etc.
New York: The Vedanta Society.
NhSh Ahc1AhAiA ASOOo d odS1OA 1Ou
sends him. At certain periods and in
different places these have risen out Of
the peculiar need and circumstance of
the people. Thus, Zoroaster, and Lao
TIE, and Buddha, and Mohammed, and
Christ. This author makes here a study
of group Of these agencies of human
Succor. The first volume, the one in
hand. covers the life and teachings of
Krishna, of Zoroaster, of Lao-Tze These
studies are scholarly and comprehensive
reviews of historic fact They are also
broad and open interpretations of moral
and spiritual forces The authors at
titude is reverent toward all. His mind
is free. His speech is peculiarly i'm
pressiye. Surely, it speaks we'll for the
world that it's people can look without
bitterness and jealousy upon the fact
that God has sent. and will send, many
saviors into the world. This is a good
study. fitted to open the heart and
liberalize the mind.
WOMAN AND SOCIAL PROGRESS. BY
Scott Nearing, PHI. d. author of
Social Adjustment" and Nellie NJ
S. Nearing. b. A.. NJ. A. New York
The Macmillan Company
This should be a text book for the gem
eral education of women. It is reliable
book. based on certain fundamental facts
of science and developed in the exacting
spirit of scientific research. 1t is, more
over, most readable book. 1t must be
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turned from Europe in time to stand as
his fathers proxy in his financial deal
tngs. The deception passes without detec-
ton save by the arch villain. who has the
. real heir a prisoner on his own account.
Perhaps the climax OF novelty Is reached
in this situation: the youth who is mas
querading as the magnates heir startles
his colleagues of the board Of directors
by developing a remarkable plan for
catching those who are trying TO secure
control of q certain railroad stock. These
directors must have been q sorry lot 4.
they did not know the scheme as part OF
the alphabet Of their Wall street educa-
ton. However. the story has lively
action that carries with it q certain in.
terest
WIIHELNIINA CHANGES HER MIND.
BY Florence Morse Kingsley. author
of 1.-THE Singular Miss Smith" etc
Boston: Small, Maynard & Co.
Wilhelmina changed her mind SO Otter
every day that it was extremely difficult
for those around this lovely, spoiled. ire
sistible woman-child to keep up with her
especially hard for young Jimmy Bigelow
who had been her devoted admirer from
ing to persuade her at every opportunity
to join him in matrimony. Mrs. Kingsley
has set forth In this little story a de-
lightfully jolly account of some Of vii
nelnlnd V6&3EleS, ILLUMINATING IN DGl
marriage. and the surprising trick which
she played on her young husband. 1t IL
impossible to take this little farce sc.
riously, but then no one would want Il
do so. It is just good. wholesome fun
delightfully."- presented.
A CHAIN OF EVIDENCE. BY Carolyn
Wells. author OF THE Gold Bag
ETC. With illustrations in color by
Gayle Hoskins. Philadelphia: J. B.
Iippincott Company.
How could the person who killed ole
Mr.. Pembroke get into the apartment a.
long as the door was chained. withou,
accomplice, or. as might be possible
without being already within the prem.
Uses? This was the question that con.
fronted those who investigated the death
of that grabbed old man. which had beer
caused by long. headless pin driven ints
the base Of his brain. Was 1t q hat pin
and, If SO. did woman WELD it? VIVA,
was the meaning of the remarkable va.
riety Of clues found in the room? Wnat
was the motive of the murderer? Mis-.
Wells presents these and other questions
wildly and absorbingly in her latest de
tective story in which her previously
created character. Fleming Stone ap
pears. The solution is entirely rational
and works the story around to an alto
gether satisfactory climax. As usual IL
the well devised story of crime unravel
ment, several persons are brought sharpl,
under suspicion before the right one i.
finally landed.
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ton, and derived great pleasure In re-
membering that first impression
In his charming home in ST. Johns
Wood, London, Alma-Tadema had his
studio walls wainscOted with marble of a
lovely soft tint. cut, not across the grain
as is customary, but with the grain, so
that the several panels were like sue
cessiye pages of a book, repeating with
slight variation the same pattern. The
upper portion of these walls and the
ceiling were silvered, which, in the art
lists opinion, gave better reflection than
any other tint. 1t was a beautiful room
in a house, which, throughout. seemed
the fullfilment OF a dream. At one end
was a recessed seat covered and back
ground against red Venetian velvet On a
low platform, raised single step above
the level of the floor stood the famous
grand piano. gilded and decorated in ex-
quisite fashion. Opposite this was the
little balcony overlooking the studio, be-
meath which stood the artists easel where
the light played most surely from the
high broad window, whether the day was
bright or gray. Everything was very
rich, but there was no OvercroWding, and
all was in the most perfect taste. In this
same house was what was known as the
hall of panels. but which has also been
fitt1ngly described as the ''hall of friend
ship" There the walls were decorated
by forty-one narrow. upright panels, each
regard by fellow-artist, the majority Of
whom were royal academicians, all men
Of renown. Over the mantel in this hall
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demonstrated first, of course that woman
possesses basic capacity for achieve
ment. else the whole matter of social
progress for her falls through This point
the authors make triumphantly affirma-
tive through the rigors of an examination
that test her as an individuality. as a per-
sonality and as a biologic essential to
human progress of any sort. Following
teresting historic survey of what the
great economic and industrial changes OF
the past hundred years have done in
modification of the home and social life
of woman. From this double foundation
the study bulks to its largest measure in
an examination Of the opportunities open
to American women. This sums to a
scholarly and exhaustive analysis of the
opportunities in domestic life, in scientific
collaborating, in education in industry,
sane. hopeful, scientific outlook upon an
uppermost subject of common interest
and concern.
THE ESSENTIAL THING. By Arthur
Hodges. illustrated by Harrison
Fisher New York: Dodd, Mead &
Co. Washington: Brentano's.
This modern story Of transcriptive
intent is drawn of from exclusive New
York society. It's automatic theme is
that the essential thing in life is
money. Character and action are
drawn. up to a certain point, to es-
tablish this theory. Such a motive is
bound. of course, to show up COM
pick of ambitions, schemes, methods,
points of view and personal traits that
as whole, offer no material for emula-
ton and very little of general interest
Through more than half it's course the
story plays fair with its title and
motive. Then it sees fit to drag in, by
the scruff of the neck, as it were, the
little god of love. sick and pulling, to
make a weak and ridiculous challenge
to the golden calf. He has not even
the ghost of a show, and the story
ends in foolish marriage, such a one
as never can take place while men
are men and stepped in a tradition of
their own making concerning female
virtue.
THE STRANGLING OF PERSIA; Story
Of the European Diplomacy and
Oriental Intrigue That Resulted In
the Decentralization of Twelve
Million MOhammedahs; a Personal
Narrative. BY M. Morgan Shuster,
ex-treasurer general of Persia IL
Illustrated with photographs and
map. New York: The Century Com
pany.
w. Morgan Shuster went to Persia at
the request of that government to I'M
dertake the reorganization of the finances
and to establish Persian fiscal affairs
upon stable basis. His services at
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ISLE OF STRIFE
GEORGE C.. SlIKDD
tCepyyieAt, 1917, By 6mall, Maynard q Co.,

GEORGE c. snEDD

With light bound Del Hervalle sprang
upon the platform, Pilon with him; two
steps carried them across it and of at
the opposite side. leaving the planks vi
brating and pounding on the boats which
formed their base. A shot from jeans
pistol sped after their forms. but harm
lessly, since he had no time to aim. One
more forward leap and the two men van
ished between the wide rear doors which
stood partially open for air. Then these
were slammed shut with Earring bang.
A score Of us piled pell-mell after the
fleeing men. knocking over chairs and
table and scattering paper and ink pot In
our wild rush. Surcon stupefied, old Cas-
pard dazed and still clutching his Quill.
ready to write: Esper standing on the
witness chair-all were swept forward in
our advance to seize Del Hervalle and
Pilon. We flung ourselves against the
doors-they shook, but did not yield;
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CENTURY READINGS IN UNITED
STATES HIsTORY-THE WEST
WARD MOVEMENT. Edited by
Charles l. Barstow. New York:
The Century Company.
CENTURY READINGS IN UNITED
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WAR. Edited by Charles !. Bar
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Company.
CENTURY READINGS IN UNITED
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Edited by Charles L. Barstow. New
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Edited by Charles L. Barstow. New
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BOOK OF THE UNITED STATES.
Washington: American Association
Tor Highway Improvement
HISTORY OF THE SUPREME COURT
OF THE UNITED STATES. BY
Gustav Myers. author of History
or the Great American Fortunes"
etc. Chicago: Charles II. Kerr & Co.
ON THE WATCH TOWER. BY Asenath
Carver Coolidge. author Of The
Independence Day Horror at Kills
bury" etc. Boston: Published by
the author.
CHAMP CLARK. BY w. L. Webb.
New York: The Neale Publishing
! Company.
THE TUDOR sHAkEsPEARE-TH
TRAGEDY OF RICHARD THE
THIRD. Edited by George b.
Churchill. Phi. D., professor Of Eng
lfsh literature In Amherst College
New York: The Macmillan Com
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SECOND PART OF HENRY THE
FOURTH. Edited by Elizabeth
Deering Hanscom. Phi. D., professor
OF English in Smith College New
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MODERN ILLUMINATION, Theory asd
Practice. A handbook of practical
Information for the users Of electric
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of Modern Electrical Construc-
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dinner to replace a guest who has failed
the hostess. He found her hatless and
without wrap, but remedied these de-
flciencies by helping himself to his sister 8
hat and his mothers raincoat. The most
casual student Of human nature knows
what may be expected of q mans woman
folk under such conditions. And the ex-
pected happens. Mary Remington
Tryolf selected the name from a telephone
book-behaves beautifully at the dinner
and astonashes everybody with her ability
to play Beethoven and Chopin. From this
rather unusual introduction the heroine
keeps on doing interesting things, until
she succeeds In making herself into an
attractive story-from a summer novel
point OF view.
NAOMI OF THE ISLAND. BY Lucy
Thurston Abbott. With a frontis-
piece in full color from a painting
by William Bunting. Boston: l. c.
Page and Company. Washington:
Woodward & Lothrop.
Not satisfied with religion as inter
preted by q Cyclone evangelist" and
lived by the hard woman with whom her
orphaned childhood was spent, Naomi
pins her belief to reincarnation. One may
forgive an ignorant child for judging God
by the narrow-minded, pious people who
made her suffer, and may freely allow
or cult that appeals to her intelligence,
but one must question the literary wis
dom OF an author In subjecting the gen.
eral reader to such constant attacks on
his own faith under the guise of a pleas
ant story. Otherwise, the book gives a
pleasant insight into the types and scenes
Of the New England coast, where Naomi
lives her childhood and where. in her
early womanhood, she wins the love of a
rich hero and the knowledge gained by a
mysterious locket that she is entitled to
the birthright of an old and honored
name.
THE HANDSPRING. BY Charles Ag-
new Maclean. With illustrations by
Edmund Frederick. Boston: Little,
Brown & Co.
It is useless to apply acid tests to this
story. for at the outset it is almost
frankly unbelievable. A Wall street mag
nate is dying at his summer home on
Long Island, and the fact has been kept
strictly a secret because of the almost
certainly disastrous effects OF publicity
The young reporter assigned to the story
makes his way by chance, aided by a
strong personal resemblance. into the
house, and in a few minutes learns all the
circumstances He is held there against
his will by those who are interested in
keeping the magnate's serious condition
from reaching the public ear. Eventually
he promises to assume the role of the
dying mans SON. who was to have re.
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again we hurled our bodies upon the
broad leaves to no better purpose.
They're propped shut with a beam"
Gaspard squealed. shrilly. "Pilon has
propped them with a BEAM
Hands tore out planks from the plat
form, swung them with muttered curses
against the door. in the manner of a bat
ter1ng ram. But the doors were stout,
the prop well placed, We could not force
them. For time we stood dismayed.
"Out Of the other end!" I shouted, at
last. They have q boat at the north
point of the isle. To the boat, men!
Quick.'
AS one person we turned, springing over
boats and lumber Women and children
shrank together in confusion. shrieking;
the room rang with noise, with the
humping of overturned chairs. chairs
hurled aside, with pounding feet, shouts.
the pushing Of crowded bodies. dog
broke into a frenzied yelp somewhere
under foot and added to the hubbub. Sud-
denly the congestion opened free before
me and l almost pitched forward on my
head. Pistol in hand, I rushed to the
south door.
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the four sides: another shows conglom-
crate group mounted upon a high cylin-
drical column. a third pictures, in the
round, one of the Pilgrim Fathers leading
in prayer, in which the women and chill
dren are devoutly joining; yet another
shows two allegorical groups on either
side of pedestal which serves as the
center of a high-backed seat OR exedra.
opportunity for originality and 1t is ear
nestly to be hoped that nothing less than
the best will be accepted. The Judgment
of the commission of fine arts is not man.
datory: it can be disregarded, but it is
not likely that it will be- 1t is in lust
such matters as this that the value of the
commission is felt and it's establishment
fully vindicated.
THE Corcoran Gallery Of Art will close
about the sth of July. and will re-
open about the list of October. The clos
ing date has been postponed week on
account of the number of strangers in the
city. BY this time as a rule, the attend
ance has dwindled to almost nothing, and
for handful Of people day it is not
reasonable that large institution should
be kept open. Furthermore. there are
always certain repairs to be made, walls
to be recovered. floors to be relaid, pic
3, T.,
all of which can be best done during the
summer months and when the public Ia
not coming and going.
During the past winter the COrcOran
Gallery has set forth a series Of notable
one-man eXhibitiOns-as notable g. series
as has been shown anywhere in this
country. Early next autumn preparations
will begin to be made for the great bien-
NAL exhibition which will open in Deem
Der and continue until the last Of jan
uary. Carl Melchers is the chairman of
the jury of selection and award for this
exhibition, and 5000 to be given in prizes
has already been donated by former SEN
ator w. A. Clark. It will undoubtedly be
an event OF much importance.
THE print division of the Library of
Congress since its establishment if
teen years ago has grown enormously
The Marsh collection, purchased some
years earlier by the Smithsonian Insti-
tuition, served as a nucleus to which
shortly were added the Gardiner Greene
Hubbard and George Lathrop Bradley
collections, both well chosen and of great
intrinsic value. These were followed by
the c. S. NOyes collection Of Japanese
prints. illustrated books etc. and the
loan of such valuable collections as those
assembled by Mr.. Garrett Of Baltimore
and Mr.. Morgan of Princeton. Purchases
have been made, furthermore, from time
to time, and the French, German and
Austrian governments have made gener-
Gus donations. Some notable exhibitions
have been held, such, for instance, as that
of Rembrandt etchings' arrangement in
commemoration Of the tercentenary of
this master etcher's birth, and of Durer
engrav1ngs and so on.
Never are the exhibition cases unOccu-
pied-always the visitor will find material
Of interest on view, one exhibition follow
ing the other In well considered sequence.
Besides this the print division has now
ton Of photographs Of paintings in the
leading galleries and famous collections
of the world-many thousand in number
which constitute invaluable data for the
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cTS u TIE dSe-OHe WIOSc HdIIic
and works are known in every quarter
of the globe. He was not only knighted
for his achievement but given the Order
Of Merit. which is bestowed only for the
highest attainment in the various walks
of life. In the world of art there was
no more interesting personality than his.
Born in Holland in 1886, Laurence
Alma Tadmea received common school
education and then began the study of
art at the Royal Academy in Antwerp.
His mother was widowed when he was
a child and money was not superabundant
in his family. From his boyhOod days he
had an inclination toward art, indeed,
more than this. an unalterable love.
When he was only fourteen he painted a
portrait of his sister which was accepted
and hung in an exhibition at Leeuwarden,
where he at that time resided. Two years
later he painted an admirable portrait OF
himself. which is now in the possession
OF one of his daughters. While studying
at Antwerp he came under the influence of
the distinguished historical painter Baron
Legs, whose criticisms did much toward
formulating his style. or, at least, in in
ducing accuracy both in observation and
rendering.
Sir Alma Tadema was a master tech
nician: the craft of painting none knew
better than he. Nothing short of perfection
satisfied him and in spirit he was as far
removed from the imDressionists as any
one could be. He delighted in detail; his
patience was unending. and the mastery
of difficulties was to him the most in
teresting of games. He had the Dutch
persistence, Joined to the German thor
oughness, lighted up as it were, by a
ri nf no hnn0f-
pictures almost without exception tell q
story. The majority are of life in ancient
days. The earliest took Egyptian life as
their theme. How the Egyptians
Years Ago was exhibited in the Paris
salon in 1866 and would have been pur-
chased by the Prince Napoleon but that
the price was higher than he would pay.
Later followed classic themes, such, for
instance, as the lovely "Sappho" and
1.-THE Triumph of Titus in the Walters
gallery, Baltimore, or 1.-The Reading
From Homer" purchased by the late
Henry Marquand Of New York, familiar
to all through reproduction.
All OF these paintings revive with po-
etc charm Greek and Roman life when
Greece and Rome were in their greatest
glory. The costumes We're studied from
ancient statues and the paintings on
from and in accordance with historical
WRITINGS. One feature of all these paint
ings is the rendering of msrble, benches.
waistcoats. stairs etc, with texture and
veinng painted as no other has ever done.
1.-The artistic possibilities OF marble first
attracted me-" wrote Sir Laurence in
biogr aphical sketch published several
years ago. when, as young man OF two
and twenty / was on a visit to Client. A
friend took me to his club, it was the
Cercle de la Concorde, I beheve-where
the smoking room was lined with white
marble. l was very much impressed by
the tone and the charm Of that decOra-