Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-08-09
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Of the city has created This book
is not only a contribution to imperial
Germany but TO the city movement.
which DR.. Brown says, is becoming
physical and material rather thar.
merely political. This is, he says, the q
and our own.
A thread of autobiography runs
through Maurice Hewletts new book
of fiction. The Lore of Proserpine. . e
in such way as to reveal his own
nature more clearly than ever be-
fore. For instance, you occasionally
come upon such little passages as
this
II could be within my own little
entity a dozen different people in a
day, and live a life thronged with
these companions or rivals Alone
and apart, what worlds / inhabited
At 9 years old l knew Nelson's ar
dor and Wellesley's phlegm; | had
Napoleon's egotism, Galahad's pur-
| ity, Lancelots passion, Tristrams
melancholy. l reasoned like Socrates
and made Phaedo weep; 1 persuaded
| like ST. Paul and saw the throng on
Mars hill sway to my words I was
| by turns Don Juan and Don Quixote,
| Tom Jones and hAr. Allworthy, Ham
let and his uncle, young Shandy and
his father"
1t is learned that Mary Austin, who
will have a book out this fall, has
been devoting a large part of her
time to experimenting the construc-
ton of her new home at Carmel, CALI
| Mrs. Austin has been Identified with
Carmel for long time, and was one
of the original colony of artists and
writer's who brought the little place
into international fame. She returned
to California from New York early
last fall and has been there ever
since. Mrs Austin's new book, whieh
will be published by Doubleday, Page
e. Company, is somewhat of de-
parture from her customary style,
and admirers of her work are anx-
iously looking forward to the formal
announcement of its publication.
Apropos of the present crises in
Mexican affairs and their close rela-
| ton to the United States, the follow
ing from the pen of Max E. Schmidt
is interesting. 1t is taken from an
article in the Engineering Magazine
| for August:
| Nearly two-thirds of the Mexican
population are poems. The remaining
third is divided into land owners
merchants and professional men. The
| landowners are the ruling class, and
visit to their haciendas is always
| interesting. There Is a chivalry about
the Mexican haciendado which is ex-
ceedingly pleasant and covers many
defects. Everybody has heard OF
their proverbal politeness and it Is
| pleasant to relate that this quality
exists in fact 1t is often carried to
extremes, however, and has led to
misunderstandings.
| According to Mexican etiquatte it
is not considered good breeding to
admire unduly anything belonging to
your host; the code requires that
such a thing must be Immediately
offered to the guests and to do SO
may not always be convenient It
is related of General Grant that, when
in the City of Mexico, he was the
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millionaire. and greatly admired one
of his paintings. He was Immediate
ly told that 1t was his.
The general, in his simple way,
took the host by his word, and sent a
messenger to make arrangements for
the shipment of the picture The con-
sternation In the Mexican household
can only be imagined.
The American Medical Association
at their convention in Minneapolis
elected Samuel Hopkins Adams to as
sociate membership This is an un-
usual distinction for a layman. and
Mr.. Adams's name was the only one
presented this year. The selection s
fitting recognition of the services
to public health which Mr.. Adams
has rendered both in many magazine
articles on different phases of the
subject and as member of the Ma.
tional Society for the Prevention of
Tuberculosis Incidentally, it gives
additional authority to his new book,
'The Health Master" which will be
published this fall by the Houghton
Mif6in Company
Home Progress are THE Play Hours
of Country Children by Lisbeth G.
Fish; THE Fairies of Pontefract
Forest" by Mary Willard Keyes;
Comfort for Mother and Boy" by
Christina H. Baker; Educational
Wallpaper" by Felix J. Koch; THE
Daily Vacation Bible School" by
Dorothy Black; Keeping the Baby
Well IN Summer" by Leonard Keene
Hirshberg: From Twelve to Fiji
teen" by Alice Perkins Colville. and
1.-The Friendship of Books by Mary
A Laselle.
| Worlds Coming MOnarchs.
In the American Review of Reviews
! for August there is striking article,
entitled Some of the Worlds Coming
Monarchs" Referring to the BRIDES
maids of the daughter of the German
emperor, the article says;
THE four princesses who were
bridesmaids to Princess Victoria