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MES and its big lonelinesses. The book
in hand is no exception to the high
mark reached by him in this respect
Now and then, however. one has the
feeling that the play and the actors
set upon this stage are a little out of
character To certain extent that is
the way he feels here. Somewhere up
in the wilderness stands Adare house,
frontier dwelling that carries the eff
feet of a baronial hall. The master of
Adare is lovab1e. simple hearted
giant. something on the order of q
Saxon feudal lord His wife and
daughter III personality and culture
belong to the highest rank of urban
life. Immediately around them are
French Canadian servitors and, far
ther away. bands of devoted Indians.
The story turns upon the parentage of
a baby. Adare's wife and daughter. hav-
ing been in Montreal for a year or
more. return with the baby. 4 ..e
daughters baby. of course. with the
father soon to follow his young wife.
That's the tale that was told to
Adare. The hero of this tale is young
government explorer. who. in addition
to his regular paid-for duties, takes
on the role of husband and father. This
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within sight of the towers of Con-
stantinople and were warned back.
The modern Egyptian army, imbued,
it is declared. with intense love of
country and national spirit which has
been taken advantage of by the Brit
ish drill masters. numbers on war
| footing about $4,000 men. These men
are well armed with modern high
power rifles and provided with field
artillery of the latest pattern. They
have been organized especially for
work in the desert country, for polio
ing the wide spaces of the Sudan and
protecting the distant Egyptian from
tier from the depredations of desert
tribes and slave-traders.
Reports from Egypt from time to
time have indicated these troops might
be used for skirmish duty along the
Suez frontier to locate an enemy ad-
vancing from the Syrian desert. Ac-
customed to moving quickly, provided
with equipment for crossing wide
spaces OF desert at great speed. the
Egyptian troops with their camel corps
probably would find less difficulty in
locating the slowly moving army of
Turks than they did some years ago
in searching out the hiding place of
the Dervish leader, Abdullahi, in the
kordofan country.
Much of the efficiency of the Egyp-
tian army is pointed out to be due to
their training under the personal su-
pervision of the present war secretary
u
Kitchener. This officer began his ca
reer in Egypt as major in the army
there in 1882 and served in various ca
pacltles for nineteen years. His ex-
perience, therefore, fitted him for or
SaniZ1ng troops intended to police and
defend the Nile country
Lord Kitchener served as colonel in
the Nile expedition for the relief of
Khartoum in 1SS4-SJ and became
familiar with the means of travel on
the Nile and through the desert AS
Governor of Suakin, shortly after this,
he learned many of the needs of the
Sudan and something of the best man
ner for solving its problems. AS COM
mander of the forces engaged in de-
stroying the power of the Mahdi and
because of his ability and tact in bring
ing the expedition against them to a
successful conclusion, he was selected
for the position of governor of the
newly acquired territory. the Sudan.
1t has been declared that from the
time Of Gen. kitcheners appointment
to the position of Sirdar of Egypt and
command derin- chief of that country's
military forces ne directed his atten-
tion to providing an army organiZa-
tion that would prove itself q superior
fighting body and an organization spe-
cially adapted to operating under the
conditions in which it would be placed.
His leadership lasted for seven years
from 1892 until he resigned to accept
the place of chief of staff to Lord
Roberts in South Africa.
The field or active army Of the Egyp-
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troops were brought to Ismailia and
shipped to Cairo by railroad More
than century ago British troops were
brought into Egypt from the east to
assist British authority.
These, however. were native troops
from India under British comma nder,
who were brought by steamer to Kos
SER. terminus of an ancient quarry and
caravan route from the Red sea to
koptos, on the Nile: were marched
over the historic highway to Kineh.
and transported by water to Alexan-
dria, where they arrived just too late
to assist at the departure of the French
troops for home. Curiously enough, the
British troops on that occasion were
supporting the Turks in opposing the
colonizing scheme of Napoleon.
The native Egyptian troops, who are
not reported to have taken part in the
recent defense of their country. appaf-
emily being held in reserve for duty at
other points. have. however. attracted
considerable attention within recent
years for their activity in clearing the
land of invaders from the south. By
another curious turn of the wheel of
fortune these men are now being as
sisted by the very power which was
foremost in compelling the retirement
or their ancestors under generals of
Mehemet Ali, three quarters of CEN
tury ago. when they had advanced
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act really thickens up the plot SO much
that several different kinds of wild ad-
venture are necessary to make away
with the baby. and to develop the fact
that it was not the girls baby at all.
and to bring about a marriage be-
tween her and the young man who had
been wasting a good deal of govern
ment time in make-believe outstanding
and fathering. An enormous pack OF
dogs-admirably and strikingly done
as such-plays an important part here.
They and the main features OF the
story suggest that this would be q
graphic subject for a moving picture
film. And as it stands. it is stirring
adventure with theatric shadings.
HIS OFFICIAL FIANCEE. By Berta
Ruck. New York: Dodd. Mead & Co.
One day Miss Monica Trant pretty
typist in a London firm, was sum-
moned to the private o..Ice of the ter
rifyipg young man who stood at the
head of this concern. Fully expecting
dismissal. or at the very least a curt
and warning reprimand for some
clerkly shortcoming, Miss Monica,
trembling. betook herself thither. But
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OF cotemporary American paintings
were purchased by the President. One
was landscape by Eliot Clark of New
York. entitled Rolling Country" and
tne other was a figure painting by
Miss Titcomb of Boston The iandsca pc
hung in the first gallery and was one
OF the most charming pictures in the
exh1bttion-a picture full of truth and
significance. solemn and yet beautiful.
big in suggestion and at the same time
intimate in feeling. Miss Titcomb's
work possessed merit and sprightli-
ness. She is a skillful and ACCOMPLISH
ed painter and this was an excellent
example of her work
= =
IT HE National Association of Portrait
Painters will open Monday. Feb
ruary 1o, its fourth annueI eshibi-
tion. in the galleries of Jacques Selig
man & Co. 5th avenue, New York. This
is the exhibition which in March is Ia
be seen here in the National Gallery.
:: =
VIZ EDNESDAY evening. February IL
wv Troy Kinney. the illustrator and
author will give a lecture before the
Washington Society of the Fine Arts in
the auditorium of the National Mu-
scum On Inc Dance and Its Place in
Art" Mr.. Kinney will illustrate his
lecture by drawings in colored chaIks
made before the audience
* COLLECTION. comprising forty-one
paintings by Everett L. Warner. is
now on exhibition in the City Art Mu-
scum of St Louis, after having been
recently shown in Springfield, ILL.,; at
Cincinnati, in the Art Museum, and
elsewhere.
MN February 8, Glenn Brown of this
city gave an illustrated lecture on
Saint-Gaudens in the Detroit Museum
of Art. which lecture he repeated on
the following day in the Art Institute
of Chicago. In the Detroit Museum
there is at this time an exhibition of
about fifty reproductions and copies of
works by Saint-Gaudens loaned by
Mrs. Saint-Gaudens. with which are
shown the groups intended for the Bos-
ton Public Library, which were re-
Gently purchased by Mr.. Freer These
groups will. pending the construction
of the Freer gallery in this city, remain
in the Detroit Museum
LEILA MECHLIN.
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is of much more than passing interest.
In merit they are quite uneven. but the
best are exceptionally interesting and
good Unlike many etchers-indeed
one might say most etcherS-Mr. Stur-
ges is at his best in his etchings of
figures, either singly or in compost
tions; His Boston themes are well
handled and typical, but they are not
striking. His etchings of children in
sunlight are, however, notable. bril-
liantly luminous. delightfully."- sympa-
thetic. There is a suggestion perhaps
of Zorn, but it is not unpleasantly in
sistent. In the same way Mr.. Sturges'
Interpretation of street types is pecu-
liarly sympathetic-for instance, Part
skillfully rendered. His line is sensi-
tive and responsive so long as the
touch is light In some Instances.
however. the shadows have been over
plea asing-a blackness resulting which.
ceasing to be velvety, becomes merely
suggestive of ink.
Those who are making a study of
etchings and etchers will fnd much to
reward their attention in Mr.. Sturges'
work. In this form of expression there
is something particularly intimate and
artistic. and no variety of collecting Of
fers such interest and delight to those
of discriminating taste but moderate
means. The interest in etching has
greatly increased in the last few years.
NNTILLIAM H. HOLMES has brought
wv back with him from a months
visit to the Pacific coast a most charm
ing collection of water color paintings
of typical western scenery. Mr.. Holmes
went by the southern route to San
Diego to superintend the installation
of the National Museums exhibit. He
was gone about thirty days and he has
no less than thirty pictures to show for
the time when otherwise idleness was
enforced. Quite number he did on
the train either going or returning.
These are chara acteristic and very con-
vincing Impressions of the desert coun-
try. The California pictures are of
quite different type-visions of a land
"blossoming like the rose" With these
he has contrasted pictures of the east
ern mountain land-that traversed in
Pennsylvania. All are interesting, pic
torfal, individual, showing the mex
haustible resources of our land in
paintable themes and the enormous va
riety from which to make choice. A
group of these recent works by Mr
Holmes will constitute an interesting
feature of the Washington Water Col
or Clubs approaching exhibition.
IT has been learned lately through the
artists that two of the pictures sold
from the Corcoran Gallery's exhibition
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and the rational treatment of these 1t
lays down with vigor, also the duty
of the citizen in wild life protection
and makes specific statement of his
power in this direction. Frederic c.
Walcott contributes a chapter on "Pri-
vate Games Preserves as Factors in
Conservation" Pictures. each of
which is story in itself. few pleas
ing. but the most of them painful pic
lures, accompany the text. The whole
is of campaign fervor and spirit. and
should do the good that it is manifest
ly intended to do.
GODS COUNTRY AND THE WOMAN.
BY James Oliver Curwood, author
of The Flower of the North" etc.
illustrated by William Oberhardt
and Norman Borchardt New York:
Doubleday, Page & Co. Washington:
Woodward & Lothrop.
AS a rule Mr.. Curwood gives fresh
entertainment from his stories of the
Canadian northwest. He knows the
region. and feels with it. and loves it.
His novels, therefore, make striking
and impressive pictures of it's scant
and rigorous life, of it's vast monoto-
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reduced nearly to starvation

Ismailia, one of the towns assaulted,
owes it's existence to the canal build
ing operations. 1t lies about ten miles
north of Tusun, from which it is sepa-
rated by Lake Timsah, not far from
what is declared to be the original ter
minus of the Gulf of Suez. The lake is
now merely an enlargement of the
canal, and is used as a turnout for
ships traversing the big waterway.
Serapeum. the third place mentioned in
dispatches. is simply a small native viii
lage few miles south of Tusun. All
of these places are west of the canal,
on the line of the railway from Cairo,
and easily reached by troops from al
most any section of Egypt.
1smailia was the base of operations
for the British troops under Sir Garnet
Joseph Wolseley against leaders of the
famous Arabi rebellion during the
early days of the British receivership
of Egypt, when about 1900 English
soldiers defeated and finally annih lat
ed the armies of the insurgents COM
prising more than double that number
In engagements ending with the battle
of Ell kebir, in the autumn of 1882.
The canal between Lake Tfmsah and
the Great Bitter lake. where the main
attack was made by the Turks, Is
merely a huge ditch about 300 or 400
feet wide and deep enough for heavy
draft vessels. The place is capable of
strong defense. as appears from the re-
port that British warships were used
in the canal to shell the invaders with
their heavy guns. Ismailia is about
forty-five miles from Port Ibrahim
the southern terminus of the canal. and
fffty-five miles from Port Said, at the
northern end of the waterway
Incidents connected with the defense
of the canal suggest previous British
operations in Egypt. Announcement
was made some time ago of the arrival
in Egypt of complete army corps of
Australian troops, who were encamped
along the Nile near Cairo under the
shadow of the great pyramids. These
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Benson in this one gives concrete evil
dence of the beauty and excellence of
a philosophy that is now 2.v00 years
old. a philosophy of attitude and con-
duct that marches with the needs of
man, never growing old and never be-
coming outworn and useless.
WILD LIFE CONSERVATION IN THE
DRY AND PRACTICE. BY William
T. Hornaday. Sc. D., author of Our
Vanishing Wild Life etc. New
Haven: Yale University Press.
The essays of this volume were de-
livered originally as lectures before
the forest school of Yale University.
Their purpose is to arouse students
and people generally to the gradual
determination of the wild life of
America. The point is to create pub
lie sentiment against this Wholesale
annihilation, public sentiment that
shall reach from the schoolroom to
the Legislative bodies of state and ma
ton. The essays discuss the economic
value of certain animals and the legiti-
mate use of those that are known as
game, it deals with the animal pests
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Sudanese. OF the Egyptian battalions
four are Differed entirely by natives, the
remaining five by British. There are
| three British majors.
~
| The camel corps has headquarters at
Ell Obeid, in the Kordofan country more
than 100 miles southeast of Khartoum.
| This locality was the scene of the
! final acts in the so-called khalifa
| rebellion in 1898. These troops have the
duty of policing the vast desert country
to the south and west against the wander
| ing tribes, and of maintaining the peace
| of the frontier. Much of their activity
| is directed to suppreSsing the incipient
slave trade conducted by Adventures
from western Africa.
| At Kassala. the Cash branch of the
| upper Nile, nearly 200 miles above the
| fifth cataract, and about $50 miles all
| most directly east of Khartum is an
| irregular camel-corps battalion, locally
recruited. and composed Of Hadendowas,
| Beni Amer and Abyssinians. They num-
| her about 200 men in time of peace,
| probably twice that number a war
| footing, and provided with five native
commissioned officers, twenty-one native
Inon-conmSsioned officers ard a British
colonel.
The small number of British officers
among these troops has been comment
Those familiar with the character of
| the native Egyptian, however. declare
this really is a source of strength. 1t
throws responsibility upon the native,
gives him greater confidence in him.
self and a larger idea of his inde-
pendence.
The Sudanese are declared to be
among the finest fighting men in the
| world. The Hadendowas, BENZ Amer
and AbySSinianS also make excellent
soldiers when properly trained The
latter natives bear the distinction of
coming from the only free and inde-
pendent black nation in the world, hav-
ing achieved that independence in op-
position to some of the finest of Eu-
ropean troops.
Among the Egyptian forces also are
found many Baggara Arabs of the type
OF those who assisted in making the
name of Muhammad Ahmed, the false
prophet, terror throughout the Sudan
for nearly two decades.
Under ordinary circumstances, one
squadron of cavalry, one battalion of
artillery. one company of garrison
tillery and three Egyptian infantry
battalions constitute the troops in the
district around Cairo. There are head
quarters, with supplies. stores and the
medical department. The rest of the
army is stationed In the Sudan. AS one
important feature in the efficiency of
the Egyptian army. however. is abil-
ity to move quickly. Actual attack
threatened at any point along the line
of the Suez canal might be expected to
bring a large detachment of troops
from any one of the stations with ra-
pidity.
The distance from Khartum to Cairo
by rail and steamer is about 1900
miles, From khartum to Port Sudan,
on the Red sea, is about $50 miles by
rail. Connection is made conveniently
by steamers to Suez or to any other
port along the coast To forces ac-
cuStomed to execute movements of
transportation rapidly. these distances
probably would not cause serious de-
lay in troops reaching any threatened
point along the canal.
For numerous ages the narrow 18TH
mus between Egypt and the east has
been the point OF attack by foreign
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Newport the Invisible.
rom Harper's Magazine.


Newport is our greatest invention in
watering places There is nothing at
all like it anywhere else in the world.
At first glance Coney Island would APP
pear to many people more character
istically American. and Newport, IN
deed a mere snobbish imitation OF
Europe. But if there is anything like
Newport in Europe it has escaped at
least the present writer's notice.
whereas something very like the ad-
mirable Coney he could duplicate in
several quarters of the globe. New
port is the only watering place in the
world where there are no hotels and
no hotel life. fashionable prone
made, no scene of gayety accessible 10
the stranger for an admission fee. on
ordinary mornings the tourist pene-
trating the Casino might a few
young people in fiannels playing tennis.
and d scant dozen of their elders drop
ping in for a molsent to say good
morning or to deliver some message.
He might with extra good luck observe
one OF the queens of fashion drinking
an orangeade. That would be. with the
single exception of tennis week about
all he would observe. He would, of
course. be free to walk the weary
length of Bellevue avenue between
clipped green hedges and see the
pleasant Newport homes-only a few
of them palaces. But nobody would
be stirring in the houses and no one
walking in the avenue. An occasional
motor would roll by, that is all. He
could also take that pretty walk along
the cliffs and see more pleasant houses
still only a few of them palaces"
He might, if the fates SO incline, per-
haps see a fashionable footnan at the
window: he could scarcely hope for
the butler He could see the avenue
whirrinS al half past eight the dinner
hour. And strolling through the night
he might here and there observe lines
of motors waiting under the shadowy
trees. and even hear dance music beat
ing in the calm soft darkness. New
port presents. in fact. a singlar impress
sion of quietness, of distinction, of an
existence not wholly in the public exc.
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Preferred the Peacock.

TT HE first woman ever to run sew
ing machne-AIiss Elizabeth Kill
bourne of Winsted. Conn.-has just died
at the age Of eighty-siX-
Miss Kilbourne was a friend of Elias
Howe, the ill-fated inventor of the
sewing machine. She used to repeat
Howes complaints about the world $
apathy before his marvellous invention
THE public is blind to everythin &
new and grand Howe would say.
The public reminds me of Dugaid
Donald of PEBBLES.
"Dugald and a friend toured America,
and duly reached Niagara Falls.
Angus, the friend, was impressed. but
Dugald said nothing. He just looked
at the falls critically, then yawned,
and then relit his cigar.
..'Ain't they grand said Angus.
Amt they wonderful"
AYE, mon, they are said Dugald.
But hoo about the auld peacock at
PEBBLES that has the wooden leg?"
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No one at single glance could COM
prehend and disentangle in his vision
this fierce combination of pattern and
form. And yet how brilliantly the trick
is turned, Every stroke of the brush
has been made to signify. and as the
eye follows its long sweeping strokes
it is impossible to withhold admira-
ton for its cleverness-ts dumfound-
ing skill.
Zuloaga is a Spaniard of the Span
iards. 'one in whose veins runs the hot
blood of his race-a heat mixed with
tragic gloom. His fame was first won
painting the gypses and wanderers of
the Spanish hills, but he has been com
missioned to paint many grand LADIES'
in the exclusive social circles. He 1T is
who is handing down today the tradi-
tions of Spanish art, and his interpre-
tations have a force which is unmis-
taxable. AS a rule both his subjects
and his coloring are somber. IN
"Rosito.' now to be seen in the Ma
tional Gallery. he appears in quite
new and unusual guise.
A collection of paintings by Zuloaga
was shown in this country few years
ago under the auspices or the His-
panic Society. The painter himself is
reported to be visiting the United
THE National Gallery of Art has
u also received quite recently val
liable loan from the Rev. Ward Denys
"a painting by Frank Duveneck made
in Venice in the early eighties, work
which the painter considered one OF
his most successful achievements AT
that time Mr.. Denys was rector of the
American Church in Florence and Mr..
Duveneck was conducting a class OF
American students of art in that ana
other cities of Italy A great future
was foretod for him; many believed
that he would be ranked with the great
masters, and the fact is that some of
his paintings do today dare compari-
son with the best-for instance, his
"Whistling Boy owned by the Gin
cinnati Art Museum.
This Venetian picture is of type to
appeal to all-especially to those who
know and love Venice. 1t is a scene on
one of the bridges that cross the ca
nails as they enter the lagoon above
the piazza of St. Mark. In the distance
is the Salute and the familiar towers,
close at hand are Italian women with
their pals, men and boys leaning
against the rail- sprawling on the bal
ustradt, looking out to sea. as If eter-
nifty was before them and life were
meant only for joy and idleness. These
figures are finely drawn and painted !;
the picture is charmingly composed at
mospheric and veracous. 1t is not the
kind of picture which is often seen
painted today. but it is a pleasant kind
and one in which both connoisseur and
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at Britain's Close Guard Over the Suez Cam

British Efficiency Preventing Attack Great Waterway
Acquired Egyptian CoonyReors Clashes
Locality Which Has Military
Period History The Armies
n Egypt
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tians is divided into cavalry, artillery and
infantry divisions and camel CORPS
This constitutes the regular or standing
army. The cavalry division contains four
Egyptian squadrons and one Sudanese
squadron Two Egyptian squadrons and
the Sudanese squadron are differed by
British. The remaining three sauadrons
Rave all native officers
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The artillery contains Maxim battery,
four mule batteries and three companies
of garrison artillery. The colonel, lieu
tenant colonel and five majors-battery
commanders-are British; the other
forty-three officers in the artillery are
Egyptians.
The infantry consists of nine battalions
of Egyptians and six battalions of
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ers. Results of the recent attempt by
the Turks seem to indicate that mod
ern science, together with construc-
tion of the big waterway, has made
this place point of defense Steps
taken by British forces to protect the
canal have apparently made il the
boundary between the east and the
west.