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ANOTHER STRANGE STORY
FROM THE RUSSIAN SUPPLY

Peredonov, the chief character in
Feodor Sologub's story OF Tho Little
Demon translated from the Russian
by John Cournos n Richard Aiding
ton tAlfred A. Knopf). has a wonder
fully disagreeable manne His un-
varying rudeness Is extremely simple
and direct. II would hardly be be-
l.eved hat ne was a schoolmaster II
the story did not explicitly say so.
He never INDUCED in intellectual play.
The cave man with a bludgeon was
not TO be more easily apprehended.
Peredonov and his mistress, Var
vara, hated their landlady. To prove
It they defaced the papered walls Of
their dwelling place. We behold the
pair In their dining room about to par
take of a repast. They were given to
quarrell.ng. I'D like to spit on you"
said Peredonov calmly. Just try IT,
said Varvara. Peredonov tried T..
pig" said Var,ara. She was hardly
disturbed. Volodin. n friend. came in.
He had the voice and face Of a sheep
He was n carpenter. The three had
coffee, tarts and vodka. Peredonov
threw the dregs Of his coffee or he
wall paper. IT'S to spite the lanl-
lady" no explained. I'VE always dirty
the walls after every meal" All three
spat on the wall paper and smeared II
with their boots.
Peredonov picked up n cat and fell
to torturing 1t. He pulled It's ears and
tail. shook II by the neck. Pillow into
its eyes. Brush It's fur backward"
counselled Volodln. The treatment
habitually bestowed upon the Pere-
donov tat rendered It fendish. Time
and again 1t appears ominously and
horribly In the story. At all the PEREZ
donov supper parties the united COM
pany wiped their boots on the wall
paper.
1t was Peredonov who devoured the
pound OF raisins that Varvara had
intended to use for cooking. Klavida,
the kitchen maid, was charged with
the theft and the gluttony, Her tears
were pitiful, her angry denunciations
Of the master excusable and justin
able. "She's very touchy, isn't she?'
said Peredonov. The cat skunk In and
looked at Peredonov with evil eyes.
II snarled savagely when the school,
master tried to catch It. II scratched
the tormentor's hand and ran behind
the sideboard. From that place Of re-
treat Its narrow green eyes cleaned.
Peredonov was afiicted with many
supsrstitious fears. On this occasion
he thought Of the cat a. . werewolf,
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II 10 remarkable what interest a
number Of people had In getting PEREZ
donov married. The town was full OF
a%ntagon!st!c plots directed to this
common end. All the girls seemed
willing to marry the sombre lunatic.
Both Peredonov and Volod'n, the
sheep faced carpenter. were subject to
dreams. We find P~ercdonov dreaming
that he was being married In a velvet
frock oat and that he and Narvara,
the dream bride, were 10 he adorned
with gold bracelets. AS for Nolod!n.
he dreamed hat he was sitting on a
gold throne and wearing a gold crown
and that the surrounding pasture land
was thickly studded with little sheep.
Nolod!n walked up and down the
supper o while relating his dream,
shaking his head and bleating. Every
body laughed. Afterward everybody
wiped his feet on the wall paper.
Peredonov had Just looked In the
mirror and concluded that he had
still $50 years to live when the cat
sneezed under the bed. Peredonov
frowned and drove out the cat, which
escaped from tho room with n loud,
piercing NEW. II was then and there
decided that the cat was a devil,
whereafter the company had vodka
and sweet cakes. Following upon this
Peredonov occasionally pronounced
exorcisms over the cat.
A young lady In the story has
the ancient Greek passion for beauty,
which she expends upon n fourteen
year-old boy. No harm comes OF the
matter except some slight scandal.
The account of II Ia delicate and as
beautiful as the boy, Pcredonov is
quite mad when no to cut the
throat OF Volodin. The whole i'm
preston Of the story is that II is pass
Ing strange.
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crush their spirit in the man and the
reflection of his characteristics in the
more sentimental woman. 4 painful,
gloomy view Of conventional. respecta-
Die English life. They are the chief
characters in the story.
Their son, the hero OF the latter
portion, is Buffers contemporary, and
probably in many ways Butler him.
self. He Is the victim If brutal treat
incnt on the part of his parents and
of a wrong cducation: his faint striv-
ing for individuality is encouraged by
an aunt and later by the narrator. who
watch him with n curious, heartless
Kind OF scientific interest. His imag-
ination drives him unrcncct!ngly into
many scrapes: one impulse turns him
into holy orders. another sends him
into a premature kind of stunning
work which soon wrecks his career,
stiil another into a preposterous mar
riage. from which ne is rescued after
"A time. HIS own children he turns
over TO foster parents and takes
care to leave them absolutely alone.
Later he writes books for posterity.
which shock people and do not sue
coed. Throughout Butler breaches the
virtue of money. which to him means
independence. and he sees that all his
people are ultimately we'll provided
with Il.
In substance the story Is a plea to
give individuality a chance: the au-
thor resents the work of the schools,
Of tho Church and above all Of par
ents in breaking down the will Of
children; he seems to accept the theory
Of heredity and expresses his opinions
very entertainingly on a great variety
OF subjects. especially music. His
English is admirable. and II IL de-
lightful TO find no mention of Rus
slams or Scandinavians and very little
OF Germans.
II is nearly thirty-fve years since
Butlcr died. a man OF about sixty. He
vas little known at the time, and was
handicapped by a name already es-
tablished in literary history. His anne
has grown rapidly among those who
assume a superior knowledge Of let
ters. and he should become known to
others too. He is introduced in this
edition by Prof. William Lyon Phelps
rather patronizingly and flippantly:
he cannot avoid dragging In "Hudi-
bras" and insisting on its wit as the
literary histories demand. but he ad-
mits that the nineteenth century
Samuel Butler had wit also.
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CRITICAL REVIEWS
OF THE SEASONS
LATEST O
New Edition Of Samuel Butler's Remarkable Novel
Picture Of Society Life in India
New Travel Romance by the Wiliamses and Other
Fiction-Wide Assortment of Juveniles
Handy Attractive Volumes Of the Loeb Greek and
Latin Library Books on Many Themes.

There IS far too much good English
an good sense in the writings OF sam
uel Butler for him to be monopolized
ty other authors and by the dovotces
Of literary preciosity so that n new
edition Of the one novel he wrote, tn,
WGp o. All Flrsh az. i. Dutton 4
Company. which enables the genera
public 10 become acquainted with him
Is welcome. II is n remarkable book
a book written for the authors own
pleasure and held back till after his
death. In which he discussed with
great frarkness many things that he
disliked and yet did not take himself
Sc seriously but that he could make
fun OF his " prejud.ces. n book that
every thinking man can read with
pleasure for It's brightness. its humor,
IS straight reasoning and it's satire
on many conventions. That does not
make It a very good novel. however;
much less "one OF the great novels
Of the world" as Mr.. Arnold Bennett
puts Il. though Il sets the model for
the novel Of infinite and often insig-
niAcant detail, that Mr.. Bennett some
times favors. and for the novel of un-
important autobiography. which the
Younger British school of fiction nre-
fers to turn out.
photographed. 1t seems to attack
religion. Christianity and the Church
Of England. in which the author once
vas a clergyman: but IL examined
with q little are thos, attacks arc
really on the conventional mode of ac-
cept:ng and treating religion. on the
common hypocrisies In the church, III
education and in life. The authors
Tea, bitterness is against parental au-
itority and the influence Of the fam
IS. The reissue of the book Just now
Is curious. because in very recent flc-
ton these bitter attacks against the
tyranny and Indifference Of fathers
and the suppression of the individual
BY the family are very noticeable.
He traces one family through Ave
generations for nearly a century. He
t'ar,s with a kindly farmer with mo-
chan.Cal talent and a knaCk of sue
ceod.rg and his more ambitious wife
They have a son with whom they d,
~. interfere. who becomes a selfish
'v%rlnnical and successful business
man. He hrowbcats his own children,
and the author gives us a first install
men, ot domestic cruelty. Ills son
becomes n clergyman and marr.es al
.uag:n tive oma who Il wholly
tisserv.cnt 10 him: they belong to the
generation before Buffers own, and he
makes the narrator Of the story the,
contemporary. 1t is a wonderful pic
'rre h. paints OF the two: the self.
righteousness. the religious blindness
The meanness. the senseless cruelty r
Re children, the determination 4
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NEW FICTION.
British society Life In India.

The British community IN n station
on the Gauges is in some trouble when
two strangers came to II In |. a. +.
Wylie's The Hermit Doctor OF Gdyd
&C. +. Putnam's sons. The colonel in
command has become insane. he
beats his wife. drives his troops TO the
verge OF mutiny and maltreats beasts.
He also declines 10 help the doctor in
his campaign against epidcm.cs
among the natives. one stranger is
a wealthy Eurasian who insists on
butting violently into white society, to
his W discomfture; the other is a
famous dancer who Is entertained by
the Rajah of the district and Is re-
earded with d!sfavor by many OF the
women. The doctor Is forced to knock
down the colonel. who Is paralyzed,
he then discovers that he loves the
dancer and that she loves him. He
feels obliged. however. to marry the
~colonel's daughter. a narrow minded
English girl. while the dancer. think
ing she cannot do without luxury.
marries the Eurasian. Possibly It Is
the Indian climate that makes people
discard sense. A revolt among the
natives ,~nstigated by the Eurasian and
an aged fakir comes to naught owing
TO the quick action OF the doctor and
the dancer, AMI the occurrence OF a
convenient number of deaths enables
the two to be united at the md. There
are picturesque and exciting scenes
In this tale and some very attractive
characters, but the general effect Is
somewhat confusing.
An Automobile Guide.
A fairly complete description OF the
~favorite automobile routes on Long
Island and through New England has
been written in the form OF letters
accompanied by maps, by c. n. and
A. NJ. Williamson In The lightning
Conductor Discovers America double
day, Page and Company. II Is COM
hined with a somewhat intricate ro-
nance conducted by the heroine OF a
previous automobile tale. The girl she
is interested in is charming and hei
love story would inspire more Interest
10 some explanation were ~vouchsafec
for the inexplicable fascination exer'
. ciscd on every one by her somewhat
I d~issipatcd s%tepfather. The authors are
enthusiastic over every inch or the
country covered, whether II be the east
end of Long Island or the roads lead
ing out of Boston or the trip through
the White Mountains: they are eve
ready with the historical and literary
associations Of the places they pass
through. The illustrations are from
beautiful photographs.
An Amia BILE Old Salt.
A large number OF very pleasant
people are gathered together by Eliza
beth Lincoln Gould in Captain Ga
THE Penn Publishing Company
! PHILADELPHIA but the author makes
little use OF most Of them. A retired
sea captain gets mad at the way he
is treated in his native town and de-
parts TO the city. lie becomes inter
csted In the people In his boarding
house and In some outside. He man
ages to help several along. takes 9
hand In guiding a love affair. upset'
the plans of some strong minded fe'
males and wins the heart OF the n
ing house keeper. The reader would
like TO know moro about the people
who appear for a moment only. the
nice little girl. the keeper Of the to,
shop, the amiabls dentist and 20 on
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T'Ip IT UNU'ThCFNuINR III" THT0I'V'"
history of the past century.
Rcginnings Of the Christian Church

For the formative period " the
Christian Church in the series Of
American Lectures on the History Of
R@l'gion' q Unitarian, pr, y. Estlin
Carpenter of Manchester College, OK
ford. was selected az lecturer, prob
ably because he would be freer from
bias than any adherent Of orthodoxy.
IN Phases o. FGrly Christianity. 100
/ DESC 4. n. GO. =. Putnam's SonsD
he describes the Christian ideas In the
period that followed that of tho Apos-
ties, the men who modified them. the
growth II formal doctrine and tho
rise OF the church and other Christian
institutions, II Is "a thorough piece o;
hist, riCal Investigation.
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THE LOEB CLASSICS.

The project Of making the whole
body of Greek and Latin literature
accessible to the general reader. which
the interest OF Mr.. James Loeb in
classical studies makes possible and
which has taken the form of the
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Metallic Summer
Lireoln. Author Of
I Sry"~ (AHr'eton/

lects Of ths new systems OF outdoor
education are. She also judiciously
places a boy scout encampment close
At hand.
More Red House Children.
Having kept up the interest in her
large and amusing family Of children
from babyhood up through several
entertaining volumes Amanda NJ.
Douglas prepares TO launch them on
the world IN the fifth OF the series.
The Red.House Children GrotCin0 Up
lLothrop. Lee and Shepard Com
pany). one girl gets married and the
lovemaking for the others Ia under
way. SO that the end OF the series Is
In sight.
True Tales for Little Ones.
For those who object to nero nc
ton and fancy for children facts that
do not have TO be corrected are put
in story form. This Is done very
prettily by Ruth O. Dyer IN That's
Why Stories CLothrop. Lee and Shep-
ard Company. In which she explains
facts that would strike children about
familiar flowers, plants. insects and
small animals.
Simpl.ied versions OF unobject.on-
able old Testament stories. holding as
closely as possible TO the language Of
the original. ave been made 10y Mar
saret Howard in Truly Stories from
the Surely Bible Lothrop. Lee and
Shepard Company. The omission OF
the punishment OF the naughty chill
dren who Knocked Elisha indicates the
discretion used by the author IN her
selections
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USEFUL INFORMATION
business Matters.

There should be no restriction OF sex
In procuring the information supplied
in Lillian G. Kearney's what Ercry
business Woman Should Hnotc Fred
erlck A. Stokes Company, for men
need a good deal OF It fully as much
as The miscellaneous char
acter Of the Information Is empha-
sized by the alphabetical Arrangement
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Mr.. Dixon'a New PhotopIay.
JUVENILES
The Naval Academy.

The hero OF Chaplain II. II. Clark's
Midshipmdn stanford Lothrop, Lee &
Shepard Company. is not only n man
ly but also an exemplary youth. The
author engages our sympathy for him
by describing his life previous to his
admission 10 Annapolis. There during
the first and second year he meets
with haZing, with serious breaches OF
discipline and with an unusual amount
of ~periid!ous conduct. and is obliged 10
decide whether he will observe the
oath he took on admission or will fol-
low the underestimate ideas Of class
honor. He comes out Of the ordeal
pretty well. The rest of his naval
academy career is hurried over. for
the author has the administrative
views regarding hazing chiefly In
mind.
Kit Carson.
The name Of Kit Carson Is bound
up i~ndlssolubly with the a OF
the plains in the days OF the buffalo
and the Indian. In Scouting rith KIT
Carson doubleday. Page and Com
pany) Everett r. Tomlinson. as IN his
account of Daniel Boone. gives the
known facts about his exploits accur-
ately hut mitigates the severity Of a
historical narrative by blending It
with the adventures OF youthful
pioneers.
Winter Sports.
In the fourth volume OF his Well
worth College" series, Icc-BOdt Num-
Der one little. Brown and Company.
Leslie W Qulrk keeps his schoolboys,
good and bad. busy with matters Of
sporting and school ethics as well as
with their athletic activities. which
begin with football. range through
most of tho things that are done in
winter and wind up with iceboat
games. Boys who have begun the
series will want the continuation.
Indian Tales.
Through the dozen stories contained
in Elmer Russell Gregor's Wdrpdth
ventures the Indian boys go through
and the life they live are drawn from
actual facts. Tho author ~endeavors
very successfully TO improve on the
old time Indian tales by making use
OF all the more accurate knowledge
we now have OF the Indians and their
ways. This detracts in no way from
the excitement OF the adventures.
Tanning . Tartar.
Attention Is rather distracted from
the outdoor life in Louise NJ. Breiten-
! hach's Eleanor Of the Housebodt CThe
Page Company. BOSTON, by the hero
ines endeavors to cur herself OF her
heedlessness and occasional selfish
ness and by her efforts to improve the
lot of two unlucky youngsters who are
tyrannized over by an eccentric
grandmother. She Is a natural little
girl and her self-improvement Is not
very effective, but she q charming
enough to please the old lady and re-
form her completely. The children In
the story are all amusing,
Ca mp Fire Girls.
Bevy Is hardly applicable to the
conglomeration of youthful female en-
crgy that Is collected In Girls OF the
Morning-Glory Camp Fire CLothrop
Lee 4 Shepard Company, Boston,. by
Isabel Hornibrook and gang seems tol
masculine a term. At any rate the
author gathers her girls somewhere
on the New England coast and puts
them through the ritual Of the order
and many Of the adventures girls hope
for when they put tho uniform on
She describes effectively what the oh.
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4 womnn's C~Onfeasion.
Tho woman's side OF n rather COM
monplace Irritation Is told both in
French and IN English I'm L'Aubcr1c
and Inn Of Heart tThe Gypsy Press,
London). by Odette st. Lys. The
scene seems to he some American
watering place. Neither party seems
overburdcned with moral scruples.
Little is revealed VI the mans psychol-
ogy; the woman begins the affair as a
temporary filtration and discovers
after II Is broken of that she cared
more for the man than she thought.
Mr.. Dixon'a New Photopiay.
Encouraged by the success Of one
sensational moving picture tale the
Rev, Thomas Dixon has tried his hand
again on a similar theme In The Fan
Of a Nation (Appletors). and has APP
apparently met with favor on the
screen. His story is an hyster.cal
appeal for preparedness. and n dem
onstration OF the prominence Of
woman.
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THE RECORDS OF TIE COMMON
Council OF the city OF New York from 1884
to 1891 attn remains unpublished. .
some excerpts from these Records-notaoiy
Washington's famous letter, In which New
York ID spoken OF as tho Empire City"
for tho frst time, appear In Valentines
Manual. new series, edited by Henry Coll
Inns Brown, II East 10th St. New York.
Send for circulars.
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Of the subjects; these mi In char
acter from simple definitions of terms,
illustrated examples of business papers,
lists of authorizations. OF synonyms
and Of post office distances from New
York to compact and complete little
treatises on letter writing from the
business point OF view and of post
office regulations. Much Of this. that
Is taken as a matter Of course by
many people. Is put In the precise form
that removes doubts that will arise
In the minds Of even the mechanically
perfect n much Of II will be new
and useful ever to trained business
men. 1t is a helpful book for n one.
r in New York
A modest beginning Is made by
Florence N. Levy with the little
pamphlet. A Guide to the Works OF
Art In Neio York city tthe editor,
New York;, which contains four trips
arranged so as to save time and
trouble TO tho visitor. The first takes
him through the Metropolitan Mu-
scum, the second through the Brook
lyn one. the third through the group
OF museums at l56th street, while
the fourth shows him the outdoor art
from tho Battery to Central Park. APP
pended are lists of things TO be seen
in all the ~boroughs. of societies, clubs,
schools. studios and art dealers. The
little book Is profusely illustrated. II
can easily be expanded so as to cover
much MOI ground.
GastrOnOmic Novelties.
An appeal in behalf Of charity to
mans most sensitive organ is made
In Allied Cookery by Grace Clergue
Harrison and Gertrude ClerGue GO. l..
putnam's Sons). The authors have
collected the recipes for novel and APP
petizing dishes peculiar TO the several
n~ationalities that are fighting the Ger
man alliance. English and Scottish
dishes az we'll rs those Of France.
Italy, Russia. Belgium. Serbia, Japan
and Canada. and have thrown in some
New England recipes for good meas
ure. Nine. Jusserand tells how she
makes her apple charlotte. The pro-
ceeds 20 to lie Sccours National for
distribution.
Landscape gardening.
The title exactly describes Robert
r. Gridland's Practical Landscape Gar.
dcnino "a. II. De La Mare Printing
and Publishing Company. New York;.
for the problems the author deals with
are those that the owners OF small
places in the suburbs and In the oun
try must meet. The general principles
he lays down as 10 the location of the
house. the Arrangement Of paths. the
grading Of lawns. the planting ~
trees and so forth are applicable to
estates OF all sizes, hut the in
which they may be employed in small
places Is considered especially. \ good
part of the book is taken Up with tho
arrangement Of flower gardens. Tho
pictures and plans are plentiful and
always illustrative. The author is in
variably clear in his directions and
explanations and Is above all practi-
cal. He keeps the suburban homo
steadily in mind.