Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-09-13
n. c. BapDabee,s "Reminiscences.

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has. From coast to coast, in every
green room, in every editorial office,
in every city worth mentioning in the
United States, he is known and in
every one for years he has been a
welcome visitor. Well, Mr.. Barnabee
has written his "reminiscences and.
as certain weighty foreign reviews
say. insertion in these columns of an
advance notice does not preclude
more elaborate review of his boon
later.
The naive letter which Mr.. Barna-
bee sends out TO his innumerable
friends of the newspaper fraternity is
touching, but his prospectus. pre-
pared by a man nearly eighty years
old, would do credit to the most ex-
perienced of editors.
Ny last sight of Mr.. Barnabee will
always remain a pleasant memory.
II was on a delightful autumn day in
New York. The scene was Broadway
in the nineties and the park spread
down beneath one, it's lawn just wear
ing the purple tint which the early
frost had added, and its trees glowing
in the sunlight with their burden Of
golden and crimson foliage. On the
walk near a tall apartment house ap-
peared a thin, imposing male figure,
his hair white, his face rudy, his
eyes clear and bright A child held
his hand and her eyes were bent upon
the face Of the man, alteration ex-
pressed in her face. The man was
Henry Clay Barnabee, founder in
great part of the most notable comic
opera company. that ever delighted
American audiences
1t may be said of Mr.. Barnabees
"reminiscences that their appearance
marks an event as important as the
publication long ago of the memoirs
of Fanny Kemble. And one of the
most delightful portions of the book
is that in which the veteran actor and
singer tells of his early life. Mr..
Barnabee, as is well-known, was born
in Portsmouth New Hampshire. the
odd town by the-sea," immortalized
by Thomas Bailey Aldrich and many
another author.
People In Portsmouth live as rule
anywhere from ninety to a hundred.
and one glorious old lady-such a
| figure as only the creator of Sir Roger
&c Coverley could describe-when she
was ninety-six told me the story of
Barnabee as a little boy singing on
the bar of the Franklin House. where
once Daniel Webster called for his
dram. or reciting Darius Green and
| His Flying Machine;" then circulat-
| ing around the tap-room and collect
ing the enormous copper cents Will
! ingly shoWered upon him.
The Franklin House is now only a
memory, but Portsmouth, the home
of such WORTHLESS as the Langdons.
the Wentworths, Sherburnes and
Penhallows, will never cease to cher
/ ish the thought of Henry Clay Barn
| abee and his well-won fame OF his
memory when he shall have been
| gathered to his fathers.
| MY WANDERINGS, q Book OF
"Reminiscences, by Henry Clay Barn
abee, Chapple Publishing Company,
Boston. Price $3.50.
| The Orient ard Broadway.
Aladdin From Broadway. is a de-
lightful little romance in which the
author brings Broadway in touch with
ancient Damascus and ''the street
that is called straight" perhaps the
| oldest of eXtant thoroughfares on
| the face of the globe. A young
| American, inspired by wager, visits
| Mecca and desecrates the holy o.
fholies- of the Mussulman Thence
| he repairs 10 Damascus. where
| through a series of strange adven-
! tuEes, he becomes the rescuer of O
beautiful girl placed at the mercy
| of a Turkish satyr. Through his
| friend, an English lord, he had placed
the girl in a mission under the pro-
| lection of the powers. There the
| girls parentage is revealed, while the
hero, relieved of the disguise which
had served him among the Arabs
meets her again and all goes well
| The story is pleasantly told and is
| very amusing.
ALADDIN FROM BROADWAY By
Frederick s. Isham, author OF Ihs
| StrolIers," etc. Illustrated by William
| Thacher Van Dresser. The Bobbs- mer-
rill Company, Indianapolis, Ind.
A Book For One Sitting.
No one who begins Love in 6
! Hurry" will lay it down till it is fin
ished. if il is possible. This is an in
genious and delightful story and th'
heroine, Flodie Fisher, Is a distinc
creation, lovable. magnetic and orig
inal. Every one will weep with hel
| when her love seems likely to fail o.
| requital and every reader will re
joice with her when she triumph'
through her own wit and intuition
Another feature of the book, slight
ly exaggerated picture of feminine
avarice, is not so pleasant. 1t woult
be ungallant to say whether 1t b.
true to nature or not.
LOVE IN A HURRY" by Gelet
Burgess. author of 1.-THE White Cat
etc. Illustrated by M. Brinkerhoff
The Bobbs- Merrill Company, Indian
apolis, Ind.
A Delightful Book for Boys.
"Dick Among the Miners" is an
/ other of the series of books for boy
which have made the Frederick A
Stokes Company notable as publish
ers of such literature. Dick and Ned
already familiar friends of thousand
of Young readers, go to the Rock.
/ Mountains to investigate a minini
. property which had been purchased
by Dicks father. They learn how t
use drill, pick and powder. They as
say ore and have exciting sport will
trout, the big-horn sheep and grlz
lilies.
They uncover a fraud, go through
!, many grave and dangerous crises
are KIDNAPPED and finally bring a Sc
of scoundrels to justice through tn
aid of courageous and charming Mol
ly. another friend of boyish reader
} and a greater favorite, naturally
than even Dick or Ned. The grea
charm of this book, and others of tn
series, is its delicious picture of out
/ door life in the mountains in Colo
RADIO.
"DICK AMONG THE MINERS,
by A. w. Dimock, author of Dick il
the Everglades" etc. with eight half
tone illustrations from photograph
by j. A. Dimock. Frederick A. Stoke
Company, publishers, New York, 1871
$1.25 net.
"The American Mediterranean.
Stephen Bonsak the author of thi
hook knows his subject thoroughly