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Margaret teaches all day, and in the
evening she and her mother plan a future
Of wonderful travels when the girl shall
have inherited the fortune which spin
ster cousin has promised her by will. But
at the last Cousin Rebecca makes another
will In favor of Nephew Gerald. who is
rich and does not need her money. Poor
Margaret realizing how the loss OF the
fortune will prevent her from taking her
mother abroad. burns the will. And the
two are reveling in their first glimpse
of the Swiss Alps when Margaret learns
that Gerald's parents have died suddenly
and left him almost penniless. Little
Mother Brown Is SO joyously happy for
the first time in a life of misery, which Is
merely inferred, that the girl lacks the
courage to make restitution-but she does
another brave thing which leads over
troublous roads to a deservedly happy
ending The characters are whoiesomeiy
real. the text is attractive and the atmos-
phere as English as toasted crumpets for
tea.
THE PARASITE; Novel. BY Helen
hTil1ie Mennonite adt. Maid" etc.
Philadelphia: ]. B. Lippincott Com
pany.
The parasite is a poor girl Of good birth.
who "hangs on to society because her
mother has foolish notion that it would
lower her daughters dignity to work. The
opening chapter finds Joan at the sum-
mer home OF distant relative. where
she keeps in the background. is always
ready to make herself useful, and. be-
cause she is lonely, let's her heart go out
to tiny boy. whose father, Judge Ran
dali. is divorced. The Judge, "a young
southern gentleman Of blood and culture"
and the foremost citizen" of his state,
is averse to a second marriage. but. dis
covering Joan's love for his son, decides
to make her his wife, in name only. SO
that she may become legalized nurse
for the boy. The girl accepts, and the
story weaves it's not notwithstanding way
to the orthodox happy ending. Why Joan
should be more of a parasite than Cath
crime, useless society girl. whose aim
throughout the book is, first, to marry
the judge. and then to take him from his
wife. may perhaps puzzle the average
reader.
WITCHING HILL. By E. w. HOrnung.
illustrated by F. C.. Yohn. New
York: Charles Scribner's Sons.
The "Witching Hill stories have ap-
peared from time to time separately, with
the provoking result Of not fully disclos-
ing to their readers the general design
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inc Billy Postum didn't know whether
he liked the snow more than he hated
II or hated it more than he liked 1t just
now. Usually he dislikes the snow very
much and doesn't go out in 1t any more
than he has to. But this time the snow
had done Unc' Billy good turn. very
good turn, indeed. At least. Unc' Billy
thought it had Unc' Billy had been
prisoner in Farmer Browns henhouse.
He couldn't get out because Farmer
Browns boy had set traps outside every
opening Then the snow had come ana
buried them so deep that they could not
catch any one, and Unc' Billy had dug
his way out
Once out of the henhouse Unc' Billy had
lost no time in starting for the Green
Forest. But it was slow, nara work;
You see the snow was newly fallen ana
was soft or course Unc' Billy sank into
it almost up to his middle at every step.
He huffed and he puffed and ne grunted
and groaned You see Enc Billy had
slept so much through the winter that he
was not at all used to hard work Of any
kind, and he wasn't half way to the
Green Forest before he was SO tired 1t
seemed to him that he could hardly move.
and so out of breath that he could only
gasp It was then that he was sure that
he hated the snow more than he liked
it, even If it had set him free from the
,henhouse of Farmer Brown.
Now, it never does to let ones wits go
to sleep. Some folks call it forgetting.
but forgetting is nothing more than
sleepy wits. And sleepy wits get more
people into trouble than anything else
in the world. Unc' Billy Possum's wits
were asleep when he left Farmer
Browns henhouse. If they hadn't been
he would have remembered this little
saying:
The wits that live within my head
Must never go to sleep.
For if they should l might forget
And trouble swiftly leap.
But INC Billy's wits certainly were
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FAMOUS WOMEN OF HISTORY.
CATHERINE DE MEDICL, 1519-1589.
PART II.
Copyrighted. 1913, by Willis J. Abbott

musketry, was still of SO superstitious a
sort that she believed her safety was as
sured by wearing on her breast the SKIN
of a baby whose throat had been cut,
adorned with mysterious characters III
diverse colors.
With the English driven from the coasts
of Normandy the regent turned again 10
consideration of the war between the
factions in France. Just when she turned
from the Huguenots to the Cathollcs is
difficult to tell AS she was wholly cold
blooded in her religio-political intrigues, 1t
is probable that some disaster to the
Puritan cause was the starting point OF
her new policy. However, she continued
to play fast and loose with both parties.
and not until 1872 did she irrevocably In
scribe her name i'm blood on the Catholic
side by ordering the massacre of st. Bar
tholomew.
King Bitterly Repents Act.
Nominally that colossal crime was or
dered by the king, Charles TX. but in
fact that youthful weakling was forced
by his mother, .sorely against his Will. to
sign the paper directing the murder of
every Huguenot in Paris. however peace
full their vocations, or however far they
might be removed from the intrigues Of the
Protestant party. Bitterly did Charles re-
pent his act. His remorse seized upon
him when his nerveless fingers laid down
the pen with which he signed the procla-
nation, and never left him until his death
gasp, which was materially advanced by
the nervous collapse that followed this
frightful atrocity. Gladly would he have
recalled the paper and Cancelled the IL
censs to slay, but his dragon mother
stayed close at his side, and he dared
not oppose her will. She even ordered
the tocsin-the signal for the massacre
rung three hours before the time lest she
be unable to hold his wavering determi-
nation firm There is story that she
even had loaded muskets put in the room
Of the Louvre whence he watched the car
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but a vast improvement to the water
front, has been almost entirely develop
ed.
THE architecture which stands today
to the credit Of the early builders
of Washington is still regarded as eX-
emplary. The Capitol, designed by Thorn
ton. the White House, the Treasury
there is a grave dignity and simplicity in
these buildings which is hard to equal.
1t was Jefferson who urged the use or
the classical style, expressing the hope
that these first architects would not de-
part from those standards and ideals
which generations of authorities in such
matters had agreed to declare superior
Unluckily the idea Of being different as
serted itself in time, and the result 10
government architecture was essentially
disastrous But better days have come
and one can we'll point with pride today
to the new House and Senate office build
ings, designed by Carrere and Hastlnss'
to the Union station. designed by Burn
ham, and to such other structures as the
National Museum the Department or
Agriculture and the municipal building.
xvrASHINGTON is said to have the dis
w tinction of possessing majority
of the equestrian statues in the woria.
Certainly II has more than its share
The Jackson in Lafayette Square has the
distinction of being the first equestrian
statue by an American ever erected IN
this country. 1T is by Clark Mills, VINO
trembled and hesitated at the thought OF
the undertaking, never having seen an
equestrian statue in his life. and 1T was
dedicated in $3.50 young. In fact, is
the history of American sculpture. The
equestrian statue of Gen. Thomas in
Thomas Circle 14th and Massachusetts
avenue. is the work of ]. Q. A. Ward and
is one of the best equestrian statues,
not only in this city. but in the entire
world The Mcclellan at the head OF
Connecticut avenue is by MacMonnies,
the Sheridan in Sheridan Circle. an ef-
fort toward unconvention. Is by Gutzon
Borglum.
There is other sculpture Of note. st.
Gaudens marvellous figure, variously
called Grief" and The Peace Of God.
the Adams memorial. is in Rock Creek
cemetery; Daniel &. French's beautiful
Gallaudet group is at Kendall Green;
Charles II. Niehaus "Hahnemann' and
his John Paul Jones" are in various
parts of the city proper. Albert
Jaeger's "Steuben,' on the northwest
corner of Lafayette Square. is also
work of conspicuous merit. The Colum-
bus on the plaza of the station is the
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sophisticate days. one finds a curious
un-young quality-spots OF wisdom for
take credit. and a native sense OF work
manship with which experience and
schooling can have had nothing to do
These, the durable foundations for ma
turer and richer buildings. For it's me-
chanics this story takes a stage. The
curtain rises upon interesting entrances
and exits And what is by no means
SO easy, it falls because the thing begun
rounds to an end. instead of stopping
when midnight falls. and lights go out
and an audience mods. A very workman
ly structure. Upon this stage young So
ciety sets itself engagingly in a series OF
pleasurings and an unbroken flow Of
talk-always bright talk and often clever
1t is of the high school period. naturally.
with Caesar and Brutus. Arthur and
I4ancelot easily and comfortably domi-
cied in the mind One takes the authors
word that the scene is English. My
Lady or so bears out the statement.
though one prefers to look upon it as
scene in the golden land of youth. every
where or anywhere. The story itself is
about boy and a girl. The boy is a
young pagan god, brought across time
and delivered here in a singularly fresh
and unchanged condition The girl is
just nice-like all girls. Some other folks
roundabout bring bad and good weather
to this budding love. A woman as old
as Eve plays the mischief with things
anu DTIuSS Iie DOy W al ciu 1Of Which,
she and Frances Newbold Noyes must
be held about equally culpable. 1t really
ought not to have gone that way. The
story, published first serially and now
gathered into volume. is good reading.
Better than this, it is a good promise, for
it's many excellences are of the durable
kind, useful as the basis of literature.
and it's faults-if they may be called
faults-even are of the nature of the
writer's youth.
BUNCH GRASS: q Chronicle OF Life
on a Cattle Ranch. By Horace An
nesley Vachell, author of John.
Verney," etc. New York: George H
Doran Company.
The big west was bigger then. and
lonelier, and more dangerous. and more
romantic. A good many years ago Mr..
Vachell went well out toward the Pa
cific slope and for seventeen OF these
years was himself cattle rancher. 1t
is out Of this long stretch of life in these
parts that he has gathered up these STIR
ring tales Of rough outlawry and adven-
turous pioneering. 1t is this intimacy
with the situation that gives Mr.. Vachell
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work Of dorado Taft. and one Of the
city's most recent acquisitions.
X
WyASHINGTONIANS are fully familiar
" with the city's two public art gal
leries-the National Gallery of Art, which
is now located in the National Museum,
10th and B streets, and the Corcoran Cal
lery Of Art on 18th street and New York
avenue. but strangers are apt to confuse
one with the other. The National Gallery
has been established for many years. but
only comparatively lately has it exhibited
much vitality.
The bequest Of the Harriet Lane john
ston collection in 1903 and the gift OF the
Evans collection in 1907 gave impetus to
growth and in these few years great prog
ress has been made. The Johnston collec-
ton Is composed chiefly of paintings by
old world masters: the Evans collection,
given by William r. Evans of Montclair.
n. j.. consists entirely of paintings by
contemporary American artists. To these
collections have been added from time
to time valuable loans. The Freer col
lection was also decided to the nation
under the sponsorship of the Smith
sonian Institution. This splendid col
lection Of oriental paintings. potteries
and other art objects. as we'll as paint
ines by Whistler, Tryon, Dewing and
/
until after the death of the donor
Charles l.. Freer of Detroit. 1t will
then be housed in a separate building.
for the erection of which Mr.. F'reer
has made provision, but it may we'll be
considered an integral part of the
National Gallery.
WITH the Evans National Gallery col
:" lection and the permanent collec-
ton Of the Corcoran Gallery of Art there
is in Washington the most comprehensive
collection of American paintings to be
found in any city in this country. In the
Evans collection are several famous
works by George Inness, a number of
paintings by Wyant, others by Homer
Martin, Twachtman, Ryder, Blakelock
and men of the later school. In the Cor
coran gallery are works of much earlier
date landscapes by Doughty and Cole,
Kensett. Durand, Bierstadt and Church,
portraits by Gilbert Stuart. Peale. Hard
ing and others. with figure paintings by
BENJAMIN West and those who came
after him. The whole history of the de-
velopment of American painting is
shown. and most admirably The living
painters, such as Metcalf, Shannon, de
Forest Brush, Chase, Redfeld and
Ochtman, are splendidly represented. the
Gorcoran gallery being both a liberal
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and judicous purchaser. and nowhere
will finer Inness be found than the
Sunlight in the Woods" which this gal
lery owns.
The Corcoran gallery collection is made
up almost entirely of modern works. but
the French school is no less well rep
resented than the American. Corot g
Wood CATERERS Ia a superb can
amples of some Of the other men Of the
Barbizon school The modern Dutch
and the modern German are also repre-
scented, but less comprehensively.
THE Corcoran gallery has assembled
/ quite a collection Of sculpture-some
excellent American works and an entire
roomful of Barge bronzes. 1t has also
an exceptionally fine collection of st.
Memin portraits, which may be seen by
any who may be interested upon applica-
ton at the directors office.
TWO special exhibitions Will be on
view in the Corcoran gallery
next week-the exhibition of bronzes by
Anna Coleman Ladd, which opened a
fortnight ago in the upper loan ROOM
and an exhibition Of paintings by Hobart
Nichols and Paul Cornoyer. opened in
the hemicycle hall today. The latter will
consist of two 'one-man exhibitions"
each artist contributing a comprehensive
group. Mr. Nichols is especially we'll
known in this city, having lived here
from boyhoOd until few years ago,
studying at the Art Students League
and Independently while employed in the
illustration division of the geological sur
vey. His home is now in Bronxville, n.
Y, and his pictures have found ready &C
ceptance and favor in the leading exhibit
tons in this country. Mr.. Cornoyer is
best known as painter of city pictures.
He was born in st. Louis and studied un-
der Lefebre, Benjamin Constant and Louis
Blanc i'm Paris. His pictures have re-
ceived numerous awards. They are indi-
vidual and noteworthy.
In order to accommodate the many Wis
ting strangers the Corcoran gallery will
Monday and subsequent days during in
auguration week be open from 9 to )
o'clock, with the exception of March 4,
when 1t will be closed all day.
MIR. MESSER has been absent from
IVA the city for about a week on trip
to Baltimore, Philadelphia and New York
to visit the art schools in these cities. En-
route he has been enabled to visit an ex-
hibition of contemporary American paint
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mage and encouraged him to take a cow
artilv shot at bleeding fugitives as they
ran past.
Cutters Run With Blood.
The tale of St Bartholomew is story
for volume, not for a brief sketch.
For three days the cutters Of old Paris
ran crimson with human blood, and the
leaning walls of the narrow streets, now
swept away by progress, reverberated
with the curses of cOmbatantS and the
cries and means of the dying. Every
Huguenot found on the streets was done
to death. and every known Huguenot
house was sacked and neither gray hairs
nor infancy spared. The red wrath rolled
into the palace Of the king, to thevery
antechamber Of the cold-hearted woman
who had plotted this colossal crime One
man threw himself, all bloody. on the
bed Of her daughter Marguerite who pro-
tected him with her body. Some forty
Huguenots were lodged in the Louvre. All
were driven with sword 5tabs to the WIN
dows, where they were thrown to the
savage soldiery. The men who drove
them to their death were men with Whom
but a few hours earlier they had been
dicing chatting in amity. No one
knows how many were slain in those
three bloody days. The estimates, which
are many. vary between 10000 and 3O,-
600.
Iron Nerve Never Broke.
The iron nerve of the queen regent
never broke under the responsibility for
this massacre. but her son, Charles IN,
never lived down the memory Of his part
in it. Ghosts waited beside his bed. Dying
walls sounded in the Silly watches of
the night. To his physician, Ambrose
Parr. he said: Il know not what has
happened to me these two or three days
past, but l feel my mind and body as
much at enmity with each other as If
was seized with fever. Sleeping or wax
ing. the murdered Huguenots seem ever
present to my eyes with CHASTITY faces
and weltering in their blood. wish the
innocent and helpless had been spared.
Catherine died in 1889. her death being
FASTENED by the assassination of the
Duke of Guise, whom her son. Henry III,
had done to death. You have slain the
Due de Guise," she cried in horror. take
care that his death does not render you
king OF nothing!" The willy old politi-
clan read the future better than any of
her astrologers for within a few months
Henry, too, was assassinated, and the
Valois dynasty for which she had plotted.
intrigued. lied made war and done muir
der was extinguished.
Brave But Inscriptions.
Was Catherine de Medici great? She
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of the author They have now been assem-
bled as q sequence that supplies this de-
ficiency and presents the interesting Ire. re-,
influence Of his wicked ancestor upon the
modern jewellers Of the land over which
he once held sway. 1t was DelavOyes
theory that old Lord Mulcaster,s sinister
doings had saturated the soil with a GER
tain vicious quality which found lodg-
ment in some Of the occupants Of the new
homes built upon his subdivided estate.
Mr.. Hornung's treatment of this theme
in the eight tales that comprise the pres
ent volume affords some entertaining and
suggestive bits Of fiction. 1t is quite pos
sible to account for all the phenomena
of Witching Hill on strictly natural and
rational lines, but, nevertheless the author
OF "Raff1es'' has invested the theory of
Delavoye with a certain plausibility.
Greene. author of "vesty Of the
Basins" etc. New York: D. Apple
ton & Co.
Mrs. Greene is handicapped in her lit
erary work by the reputation Of her pre-
vious stories. 1t seems difficult for her
to produce nowadays as good a tale as
Cape Cod Folks" or ''vesty Of the
Basins" Certainly "Everbreeze" is not
up to the mark Of those two delightful
stories. Her down-east characters in this
tale seem made for the occasion and not
UIdWn lTOul real lie. ne rOInanC6 Is not
spontaneous and, taken altogether, while
there is much entertaining matter in the
chapters, ''Everbreeze" is out Of tune
with the Greene tradition.
HISTORY OF THE ONE HUNDRED
AND FORTIETH REGIMENT, PENN
SYLvANIA VOLUNTEERS. BY
Prof. Robert Laird Stewart, D. d.,
historian. Published by authority
Of the Regimental Association.
The 10th Pennsylvania became a noted
regiment during the course Of the civil
war. it's membership including many SOL
diers whose regulations spread through
out the country. 1T participated in some
of the severest and most important bat
ties of the great conflict, and now its his
tory has at length been written and pub
lished in a manner fully in keeping with
the regiments remarkable work. This
book is the result Of a careful research
on the part Of a. publication committee
consisting of William 8. Shallenberger,
Rev. DR.. John r. Paxton, Thomas Henry.
Prof. Robert Laird Stewart, D. D.. and
Harry J. Boyde. Prof. Stewart was chosen
as historian, and in the year that elapsed
between the authorization Of the publica-
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ton and the final issue of the work much
correspondence has been In progress, re-
sulting in an unusually complete regi-
mental record. The illustrations are espe-
cially we'll chosen and artistically repro
duced. consisting of portraits. monu-
ments and occasional scenes OF battie-
fields. Perhaps the most interesting 1ea-
ture OF the work is a map which shows
the movements Of the regiment from the
time 1t left Washington. December IL ana
IL. 1852. until 1t returned to TINS city May
70. 1865. A red line traces every marcn
or the organization, every countermarcn
and turn. This is an appropriate ana
unique map. and it adds greatly to the
interest in the publication, not merely on
the part of participants In the campaigns
themselves. but students or military MS
tory. Local interest in this work Is IN
creased by the fact that the chairman OF
the publication committee. William S.
Shallenberger, is now resident OF w ASH
ington. where he has heretofore served
both as member of Congress ana as as
sistant postmaster general He was ad-
jutant Of the 10th Regiment.
THE DAY OF DAYS, an Extravaganxa.
By Louis Joseph Vance. author OF
trations by Arthur William Brown.
Boston: Little. Brown e. Co.
Mr.. Vance can be depended upon, when
he starts something, to carry it through
NOAANO1S>~-S
drawn his inspiration for the present
story from the play "Kismet," dealing
with the rise and fall Of an Arabian beg
gar within the space of twenty-four
hours. To shabby young bookkeeper in
leather warehouse he grants his day
of days." Well within the twenty-four
hours of the allotted period. this young
man compasses a cycle of adventures of
the most thrilling kind Beginning by
taking a girl to the theater, he loses her
soon afterward by a virtual kidnapping:
next breaks the bank of a closely shut
tered gambling den; impersonates a po-
Hceman. eludes capture; makes an unin-
vited call upon a lady whose husband is
about to attempt her life. saves her from
death, and at her solicitation goes to one
of the most dangerous dives in New York
to summon to her aid a gangman of
wide disrepute; saves a young pigeon"
from plucking: attends a mask ball, i'm
personating his satanic majesty; pro-
poses and is accepted, only to lose his
lady love by trick that nearly involves
him in arrest: stunnbles upon a homicide.
and finally participates in a fight between
gangmen and policemen. with an ultimate
dash for liberty and happiness. There is
something doing every minute of the al