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wishes and his years of devotion to her
are rewarded by their marriage.
Many trials are met and overcome on
the road. Chabert is dangerously wound
ed in one Of the ARRAYS The ladies' of
the party have secured shelter In the
home of compartriot. but Madame Cha
bert, learning OF her husbands danger,
goes to him disguised as a nurse. and,
through her tender care, he RECEIVERS.
The romance of the Duke de Beaumont
and Madame d'Hauteville. another MEM
Der OF the party. is delightfully."- set forth
and the reader follows the interesting
fortunes of the refugees through many
exciting adventures to the happy con-
clusion of their journey.
The author writes with an authorita-
tive touch on the manners and customs
OF that time that bring an unusual at
mcsphere of reality into the story.
THE BUSINESS OF BEING A WOMAN: By
Company.
Miss Ida NJ Tarbell is the clever woman
who so successfully tackled the Standard
Oil Company, and she ought to be inter-
esting. In her intuitive loyalty to the
business of being a woman. Miss Tar
bell does not use the word feminist
often, though I dare say she could give
a i
It's rather a thankless occupation, this
business Of which she writes. not roses
all the way, by any means, and many
sympathetic man reader will lay the
book down in the sure and certain con-
viction that his mother did him real
good turn in arranging for his appren-
ticeship to a less arduous employment
than the one Miss Tarbell depicts 80
feelingly The author has something TO
he
of to-day. In every century they ap-
pear, these disturbing. vital spirits, rest
less Amazons, protesting and remolding.
And out of their uneasy souls have
come Miss Tarbell says. the various
changes in the woman's world which dis
tinguish the ages.
Perhaps the most disturbing side OF
the phenomenon is that IL is coincident
with the emancipation of women. At
time when she is freer than at any
period Of the worlds history she is ap-
parently more uneasy. The woman who
is above her business one day may find
her business above her. Miss Tarbell
shows that 1T can be organized into an
occupation of dignity and opportunity for
service-the service which is happiness.
COLONIAL HoMEsTEAps AND THEIR
STORIES: By Marion Hariand G. p. Put
mans Sons, New York.
In one volume of some 40 pages Mar
ion Harland has combined her two
charming volumes Some Colonial Home
steads," and More Colonial Home
steads" Readers of either of these vol
umes who are interested in the early
history of our country, will recognize the
the author has not only told the story
cleveriy, but that she has been histori-
caIIy accurate. There is a romance about
the old houses of the original States and
the worthless who lived in them which Is
absorbing.
To collect these stories has been a Ia
Dor of love to the author, and has led
her on many pleasant pilgrimages- IN
combining the two volumes in one there
has been no attempt to make geo.
graphical order. most of the houses de-
scribed in the first volume being south
of New York, and those in the second
volume north of it
The illustrations are profuse. While
much of the text has appeared in print
already, much additional matter has
been gathered by the author who has
had placed at her disposal unique manu-
scripts and family archives.
THE INN OF TRANQUILITY: By John Gals
worthy. New York-Charles Scrihne-s Sons
Following the example, Galsworthy set
himself in "A Commentary and "a
Motley" he has gathered certain stud
les and essays from various sources,
ranging from the monthly pages of the
Fortnightly Review and Scribner's Mag
azine to the morning columns of the
London Daily News. These he calls
THE Inn of tranquility and he sep
arates them into two divisions-'Con-
cerning Life" and Concerning Litera-
ture" Perhaps the most significant is
entitled Quality" II is less than
twelve pages but in that little room
and spirit.
He had known from early youth an
artisan of the old school. a conscientious
workman, who, year after year, made
boots in his little shop in a by-street
of London's West End. At the begin
ming of his acquaintance the workman
was prosperous, but the invention of
machinery ard the demand for speed
soon made him the practitioner of q lost
art His brother and partner died. his
trade vanished. half his shop was rent
ed to a modern competitor, but he would
relax none of his Old-tims methods At
last he died of slow starvation. You
see, he went to work in such a way"
said the cockney, who took over the
business. Would keep the shop On;
wouldn't have a soul touch his boots
except himself. When he got an order
il took him such a time. People
wouldn't wait. He lost everybody. And
there he'd sit, goin' on and on-I will
say that for him-not a man in London
made a better boot But look at the
competition. He never advertised.
Would have the best leather, too, and