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| mflity, scorn to love. With great deli
| cacy Of feeling and artful portraiture the
| author moves that far-away time into
the foreground Of ones acceptance and
| enjoyment. A noble love story accom-
| panies the larger movement of the story
| and realistic pictures of Roman life i'm;
posed upon the Jewish subjects rouno
| the whole to a vivid reproduction OF Incl
dents and aspects belonging to that most
significant Of periods
DER. By George w. Alger, author
| of Moral Overstrain." Boston,
Houghton Miff1in Company,
An expert and searching commentary
on the old statute law in it's obvious
maladtustment to the new conditions
| that are SO speedily and completely out
growing it. The study is a keen trac-
ing of the overwhelming gap between
a thing that is growing vitally in every
direction and something that has Ossi-
fed In its tracks. In any number of con-
crete cases the author makes convincing
example Of the basic thought of the
tent With Criminal Law "Treadmill
Justice THE Law and Industrial In
equality THE State as Employer" are
among the themes upon which this ar
raignment Of the law is built. 1t is an
admirable study for the illumination of
one of the uppermost subjects Of a
present and general concern.
THE GOVERNOR. BY Karin Michaelis
Stangeland, author OF ''The DAN
gerous Age" etc. New York: John
Lane Company.
Out of a long-gone brutal age Karin
Michaelis draws the story of the COVER
nor of the barren, half-savage Seven
Isles. The pages of this strange in
vention grow by the feelings and ac-
tions of creatures not yet wholly
emerged from animals into full-hedged
men. Big eating and drinking, lust and
treachery and murder, are the gentle
slightly way. It Is written in the ele-
mentary laboriousness of a child's first
reader. AS an experiment the book may
be interesting, to the author. AS a
habit of literary theme and method 1t
would be something for readers to elude
as a literary plague
THE PROPOSAL TO CHANGE THE
NAME OF THE PROTESTANT
EPISCOPAL CHURCH.; Considered
I'm the Light Of True Catholic Prin-
ciples. BY Rev. Randolph H. Nc
Kim. rector Of the Church of the
Epiphany Washington, D. c. New
York: E. P. Dutton & Co.
This book while designed to remind the
members of the church for which it is
written Of certain important historical
facts, is nevertheless in itself symbol
Of larger truth, not always remembered.
Catholicity, in the mind of the author,
and of the great Anglo-CathOlic divines
whom he quotes, is a term capable OF
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Iupin stumbles into the case through
the looting Of the deputy's country house
in the ordinary course OF business. Inc
much wanted paper IL supposed to oe
concealed in a crystal stopper lupin nnds
the real document elsewhere. In most
unexpected place. For quick changes of
situation and dramatic climaxes this ad-
, dition to the Lupin literature leaves moth
ing to be desired.
THE BISHOPS PURSE. BY Cleveland
Moffett and Oliver Herford. IL
lustrated. New York: D. Appleton
G. Co.
1t was first stolen on q train from DO
ger to London. and dropped by the thief
handsome young American girl. into
the golf bag Of another young woman,
who was in conversation with the owner
of the richly stuffed wallet. The maneu-
vers Of the thief to recover her loot lead
to some diverting complications. In the
working out Of which Mr.. Monett and
Mr. Herford have told an entertaining
story.
THE STRANGE CASES OF DIR. STAN
CHON. BY Josephine Daskanl
Bacon author of "The Inheritance
etc. New York: d. Appleton & Co.
These ten short stories, which have
been printed in magazines from time to
TINE, al Tcldle 10 CAScS VI hcOi DC 'luoiAo'
or mental unbalance. or hallucinations
that have come more or less directly
under the care OF q famous specials,
> in mental ailments. Mrs. Bacon. with
considerable knowledge Of the physiology
and the psychology Of delueion. handles
her themes with remarkable skill. In
some Of these stories supernatural phe-
nomena appear. but they are made plaus-
ibIe and acceptable through the great
art Of the writer. Il would have been
perhaps better had the concluding story
been omitted. for 1t serves only to con-
fuse the readers understanding of the
Stanchon family This IL not particular
ly important. but the story itself Is the
least impressive of the collection.
PETE CROWTHER, SALESMAN. BY
Elmer e. Ferris. Illustrations by
G. C. Widney. New York: Double
Woodward & Lothrop.
How Pete Crowther became one Of the
best statesmen on the road is told here in
skillful touches that should make for
greater efficiency on the part of every
man who IL In this line Of business and
who reads these pages. SaIesmanship Is
no mere matter Of dogged persistence and
nerve. 1t involves study and analysis
and careful discrimination. Pete Crow
ther became an expert on prunes, and as
a consequence was able to find a market
for over $1,000 pounds Of that staple be-
cause he knew how to make retailers
want to put these particular prunes on
SALE This story is told In an Intimate
colloquial manner, part OF 1t In Pete 8
own words. and whether one is concern
ed in the selling of goods or not 1t is an
interesting narrative.
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connoting Protestantism: that they are
not mutually exclusive. but the one came
into historical significance in an attempt
to conserve the other. The name Protest
ant. accordingly, does not spell partisan
ship; that it Is Of positive value to true
catholicism, and that this position is
adequately and correctly stated in the
name of the church are some of the
questions which those proposing q new
title for '"rhe Protestant Episcopal Church
In the United States OF America" have
to meet and satisfy. 1t is volume rich
In historical fact and allusion, and de-
serving OF careful perusal even by
those not interested in the particular ef-
fort that called it into being.
UNEXPECTED AFFINTTIES, n Serio-
comedy. BY Susan Taber, author of
Country Neighbors: a Long Island
PASTORAL" New York: Duffield & Co.
This is a pleasantly recorded chronicle
Of average American people of the So
called better class. 1t scarcely ex-
plains the title. however, since the
plural Is entirely unaccounted for.
Even Herbert Norton. who figures as
the admirer of his cousins wife, can
not be called an affinity. In the ac-
cepted meaning Of the term. There is
just enough danger in his attentions
to Rosalie to hint Of what might hap
pen under certain circumstances, when
the situation is saved by the wife's
young sister, Alice, whom Herbert
surprises himself into loving and
whom he means to marry. The writer's
announcement, however, that the story
is a "serio-comedy" disarms the title
of its sinister import and prepares the
reader for the wholesome pleasure
which the book provides
THE FEET OF THE FURTIvE. By
Charles G. D. Roberts, author Of
Kings in Exile" etc. New York:
The Macmillan Company.
These silent creatures of field and
forest have previously stalked through
magazine pages. but corralled in q book
to readers, old and young, who know
enough about animals and their ways
to recognize and admire the warlike
and peaceful qualities Of natures voice.
less sons. There is the story of that
fine old bear. "a fighter to the last claw"
that killed off a ravening wolf pack
after bear meat, but whose appreciation
Of grit compelled him to let bruin keep
the pelt his victory had saved.
Another story plunges half mile
straight down" under the oceans sur
face. where deep-sea dwellers live and
die without knowledge of the sunlit
waves above them. I'm the year of
no rabbits" one realizes what happens
in the frozen wilds when gaunt animals
caprice of the unseen powers" their
common food, the rabbit, has vanished.
and there is hunger that makes the
friendly creature hunt his kind. Added
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BOOKS RECEIVED.

THE EIGHTEENTH BRUMAIRE OF
LOUIS BONAPARTE. By Earl
Marx. Translated by Daniel De
Leon Third edition. Chicago:
Charles III. Kerr & Co.
THE UPHILL CLIMB. BY r. NJ. Bower.
author OF Lonesome Land" etc.
With illustrations by Charles NJ
Russell. Boston: Little, Brown &
"
OLD CHINA AND YOUNG AMERICA.
BY Sarah Pike Conger. author OF
Letters From China" etc. Illus
trated. Chicago: F. G. Browne &c
Co.
THE MUSE IN EXILE. Poems by VIII
liam Watson to which Is added an
address on the poets place In tho
scheme of life. New York: John
Lane Company.
THE SILVER ISLAND OF THE CHIP.
PEWA. BY ID. Lange. author OF ION
the Trail of the Sioux" Illustrated
by Stanley L. Wood. Boston: 10th
rop, Lee & Shepard Company.
LITTLE RED HOUSE sERIES-THH
TON. By Amanda NJ. Douglas. IL
lustrated by Louise Wyman. Boss
ton: Lothrop. Lee & Shepard CONS
pany
DAVE PORTER SERIES-DAVE POR-
TER AND THE RUNAWAYs, OF.
Stratemeyer. author of The Lakepore
Series" etc. illustrated by H. Rich
ard Boehm. Boston: Lothrop, Lee
& Shepard Company.
A STORY GARDEN FOR LITTLE
CHILDREN. BY Maud Lindsay. IL
lustrated by Florence Liley Young.
Boston: Lothrop. Lee & Shepard
Company. )
THE TUDOR SHAKESPEARE-PE-
RICLES, PRINCE OF TYRE. Edit.
ed by c. Alphonso Smith. PHI. De
Edgar Allen Poe professor of Eng
l!sh in the University OF Virginia.
New York: The Macmillan Company.
THE TUDOR SHAKEsPEARE-TH
TRAGEDY OF TITUS ANDRONI.
Gus. Edited by Elmer Edgar Stoll.
Phi. d. New York: The Macmillan
Company. sea168S
THE POSTURE OF SCHOOL chill
DREN; With It's Home Hygiene and
New Efficiency Methods for school
Training. BY Jessie H. Bancroft as
sistant director physical training.
public schools. New York city. etc.
New York: The Macmillan Com
pany.
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oHE twenty-second annual exhf-
bition Of the Society Of Wash
ington Artists opens this even
ing In the hemicycle with
private view and reception. II
will remain open until the afternoon OF
Anr;, q No pains have been spared 70
note this the most successful of the
MANY exhibits already held here. and the
Washington public can look ior"
without fear Of disappointment to many
pleasurable hours spent in this wing OF
the Corcoran Gallery.
Owing to the limited wall space. no
very large canvases could be accepted ;
fortunately, the value of a painting does
not depend upon its size. Indeed. small
r;ctures have many advantages, espe-
c;a,,y for those who wish to hang them in
their homes.
The Juries.
The Jury of selection was as foiiows:
Richard n. Brooke, Mathilde Leisenring.
Carl r. Rakeman, Carl Weller, Catherine
Carter Critcher, Harold L. Macdonald,
William Silva, U. S. ]. Dunbar, Edmond
Clarence Messer, Aline Solomons. Lesley
Jackson, Lucian W. Powell, Ruel p. Toll
man.
The jury for awards was limited to
three members: R. c. Johnson. Z. G.
Turner and Duncan Phillips. jr. Through
the generosity of several public-spirited
citizens three prizes were offered. They
were awarded as follows: E. w. Redfeld.
gold medal; John F. Carlson. silver medal;
Everett Warner. bonze medal Honorable
mention was given to Bayard II. Tyler,
Chauncy F. Ryder and William Baxter
Closson.
The first-named jury was especially
careful to admit only works OF pro-
nounced merit. so that OF the 800 pictures
submitted but 1T were accepted. So
severe was this censorship that several
paintings sent in by members Of the jury
were rejected. 1t has long been GUS
tomary to invite certain distinguished
artists to exhibit their work without sub
mitting il to the jury, all expenses or
packing and shipping being borne by the
exhibiting society. In this case, however,
the committee decided to do away with
this old custom.
The advance circulars stated This ex-
| hibition Is open to all living American
artists on an absolutely equal footing.
| No works are especially invited and every
work will be submitted to the jury" That
| this departure was favorably received is
evidenced by the presence OF paintings
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to the text interest are many illustra-
f{nne

to the text interest are many illustra-
| tions.
THE HONEY POT, or. in the Garden
of Lelita. By Norval Richardson.
author of "The Lead of Honour"
etc. Boston: l. C. Page & Co.
! This story concerns three American
mining engineers and 1.-The most beautiful
| woman in the world" The men and the
woman-a gorgeous young senorita whom
Billy classes as honey pot" at first
glimpse-are travelling on the same train
in Mexico and get off at the same sta
ton. The romance, starting at this point
involves the three Americans without in
the least interfering with. their friend
ship, so automatically does the girl en-
courage each without the knowledge Of
the others This might seem like coquetry
on the part of the Honey Pot" except
that one must not criticise the willful
doings Of 1.-The most beautiful woman in
the world" Besides, she had a motive,
which, even to hint at, would rob the
plot Of its charm. One may admit, how
ever, that the writer tells his story with
pie has illustrated it with some clever
silhouettes.
THE AMATEUR GENTLEMAN. BY
Jeffery Farnol, author OF "The
Broad Highway" With illustrations
by Herman Pfeifer. Boston: Lit
tie, Brown & Co.
This is a tale Of the days Of the prince
regent of England. the days Of the beaus
and the Corinthians when to tie a
cravat different from any other man was
the height Of ambition for every. young
swell in London. Barnabas Barty, son of
one-time champion pugilist of England
falls heir to an immense fortune and sets
out to be q gentleman. He finds the way
a hard one because he has the misfOr-
tune, or perhaps the good fortune, to
arouse at. the outset the enmity of two
men whose favor is almost Indispensable
in the world of fashions. These are
friendly rivals for the hand of a beautiful
young heiress with whom Barnabas has
a meeting on his first day out from home
as he Is travelling toward London. Mr..
Farnol, writing in the delightful style
that in his Broad Highway" was so
pronounced a success, describes the social
conditions Of the days of the regency
vividly and brings into high relief the
wild doings of the gay capital in those
days. He takes his reader into the lowest
siums as well as the places of fashion,
able society, and shows crime at close
range. An especially interesting charac-
ter is Jasper Shrig, Bow street runner,
the passion of whose life is the detection
of men who have the shadow. of the gal
lows upon them. Mr.. Shrig and his little
red book in which are noted the progress
It these unfortunates into the hands OF
the hangman figure conspicuously in the
narrative There is good deal of fight
ing here and much cross-purpose love
making, but ultimately Barnabas, having
found that he is only after all an amateur
gentleman, withdraws to the country,
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nous studies, in novel form, Of the East
Side variety of alien.
THE SILVER DRESS. BY Mrs George
Norman. New York: Duffield e, %

Side variety of alien.
THE SILVER DRESS. BY Mrs. George
Norman. New York: Duf1ield & Co.
A pleasant story Of good build and no
more than average appeal. It's aim is the
common romantic one Of developing q
courtship and effecting a marriage. It's
claims to freshness of theme and treat
ment lie in the mature character of the
heroine and in the quite remarkable
Welsh setting in which the larger part
Of the matter unfolds. The first love of
a woman of thirty-five offers a distinct
the writer. This author but skirts this
field. But in her transcription of Welsh
life and landscape, as mere tncidentals
of the main issue, she Is unqualifedly in
possession Of genuine poetic feeling and
true artistry.
RAHEL vARNHAGEN, Portrait. BY
Ellen Key. author of "The Woman
the Swedish by Arthur G. Chatter.
New York: G. p. Putnam's Sons.
Rahel varnhagen is practically un-
known to American readers. From the
appreciative work Of Ellen Key one
learns that this great Jewess was So
cial leader, the Madame de Stael Of Ger
many. A brilliant thinker and writer
whose letters Miss Key considers OF
quality not yet surpassed by any woman
writer, unless perhaps 1t may be by Mrs.
Browning in her poems. or special ap-
peal at the, present moment Is the fact
that Rahel Varnhagen was a pro-
nounced feminist, contending Tor many
of the self-same ideas that are today be-
ing advocated by the most progressive
women. Miss Keys avowed object In
this study is not to exhaust Rahers 1T
erary history, but rather to paint her
portrait. Therefore 1t is with the person
aIity of the subject that the author deals,
with her ideas upon the two vital forces
of Ife-love and religion-with her deep
sense of beauty, with her original and IN
dependent thought, with her remarkaoie
power of expression. The whole Is
,eharacteristically serious and capable
study calculated to prove a good deal OF
an inspiration to women in their present
swift advance toward completer self
realization.
VERONICA. BY Florence Morse Kings
lev. author of ''Titus, Comrade OF
the Cross" etc. New York: ID. APP
pleton Co.
The great difficulty in employing Bible
record as foundation for novel Is not SO
much to produce interesting reading as
it is to avoid offense. Particularly Is this
true when the romance includes the fig
ure of Christ and develops in large part
through his healing ministrations and
miracles. Veronica, a beautiful Herodlan
princess, stricken with leprosy, mere
makes realistic and dramatic embodiment
of unbelief turned to faith, pride to hu-
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| where be finds complete happiness. Mr..
FarnoIs story will make as many friends
as his earlier works.
PIPPIN. BY Evelyn Van Buren,. With
illustrations by Reginald B. Birch.
| New York: The Century Company.
| Pippin was a pickpocket. a little Lon
don street girl who was trying to carry
out her dying mothers injunction to take
care Of two charges-her idle. worthless
father and her little brother. After a
| time the father proved too great a bur-
den, and she and the small boy freed
themselves from him and went forth 'on
their own" Pippin resolved to lead a
straight life thenceforth. How she mad e
her way against difficulties and linked
her forces with a young American actress
stranded in London constitutes this de-
| lightful story. Pippin Is more than friend
| to the young woman who Is vainly try
| ing to make good on the English stage.
Poor little Pippin has almost gone back
affection but masters her temptations and
| ultimately works out q most satisfactory
conclusion for everybody It Is impos-
sible to read "Pippin" without some de-
| gree of emotion. There is laughter mere.
| however to relieve the tears, and every
one who reads 1t will be grateful to this
author for presenting such charming
bit of fiction.
THE AMIABLE CRIMES OF DIRK
MEMLING. By Rupert Hughes,
author of Excuse Me-" etc. illus
trated. New York: D. Appleton &
Co.
This story constitutes a series Of crimf-
nal adventures undertaken by a sculptor
| who has been originally stranded In con-
sequence of the uncovering of a bit OF
graft in the building Of a state capitol
and forced into lawlessness in order to
make a living. He Is the leader OF gang
of housebreakers whose exploits lot
time keep the police OF several cites
busy in a fruitless effort to detect the
master mind that plans robberles or ex-
ceptional shrewdness and recklessness
Mr. Hughes rather overtells the story,
however, for it slackens in interest BEFORE
the end, and is even there fndeterminate'
THE CRYSTAL STOPPER. By Maurice
Leblanc, author of "The Hollow
Needle" etc. Translated by Alex
ander Teixeira de Mattos. 1llustrat-
ed by Dalton Stevens. New YORK:
Doubleday, Page & Co. Washlng-
ton: Woodward & Lothrop.
Another Arsene Lupin story. That is
enough to say that this is tale OF
stratagems ana spoils, with the great
French housebreaker in a new role, that
of trying to steal the document on which
a blackmailer depends for his hold upon
certain people. 1t Is the list of French
deputies involved in the Panama canal
scandal, and the possessor of 1t. himself
now a deputy, has reduced his black
mailing operations to scientific oasis.
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they won such favor from the distinguish
ed jurors is sufficient guarantee Of their
high merit. And yet-is there not always
one other picture that seems equally If
not more deserving?
Average Is High.
The writer confesses to wishing that
some recognition might have been given
the marvelously painted canvas by Jonas
Lie. This picture may not be entirely
true to nature but the mysterious light
on that golden water. beneath the over
| hanging trees. seems to lead onward to-
ward lands of romance and hearts de-
| SIRE to make us dream Of elysian fields
! where the poets and seers abide. Imagina-
| ton such as he possesses, Joined to his
/! virile bold technique, Is a rare gift.
| While there are no experimenting pic
tures," as all must acknowledge who re-
member Winslow Homer's finest marines.
La Farge's greatest decorations or the
noblest of Saint Gauden's sculptures, the
average Is far above that Of former ex-
| hfbitions.
Mr. Moser and Mr.. Macdonald both
show pictures deserving OF special notice;
| so do Birge Harrison. Herman Rake
mann, Glenn Brown, Lucien Powell,
Charles Rosen and Jane Petersen.
The thanks of the Washington art pub
| lie are due Richard N. Brooke and his
able assistants for their unwearied exer-
| tions. The educational value OF the ex-
hibit and the interest 1t awakens in art
and artists cannot be overestimated.
Happily. there are no problem pictures.
no riddles to be deciphered. The whole
atmosphere is one of sanity and earnest
| endeavor.
| The dominant note in the work of the
| Younger Washington artists is individ-
uality. They possess an independence OF
vision and a desire to express themselves
| in their own way which may appear
/ y,in ot times hllt which
| well for our art future. Many are devel-
opng those high technical qualities which
must ultimately place them among the
| foremost painters Of America.
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suggest the work of her lifelong friend,
Bertha E. Perrie, who possesses such
a personal vision and whose genius is
here expressed through a bit of old
Gloucester with it's boats and breezy, salt
atmosphere.
Fortunately. there are not too many