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The similitude Is perfect in but one respect: both wolf and shepherd live at the expense of the flock. * ♦ * The powers that rule take tithes, the powers that prey prey by permission and surrender part of their plunder for the right to walk in visible.” Mr. Flynt is also the author of “The World of Graft,” which is like wise published by McClure, Phillips & Co. Mrs. Laura E. Richards, whose “Geof frey Strong” is among the holiday pub lications of Dana Estes & Co., has written in all 30 books, and her read ers are now in their second generation. Her previous stories have sold more than half a million copies. During the coming year The Century Magazine will print two stories of pa pers on the general subject of the West, —“The Old and the New West;” the first series, written by Emerson Hough (author of “The Story of the Cowboy”), and illustrated by Frederic Remington, will describe the move ment up the waters, or the early steam boat days, and the great transcontinen tal emigrations. The second series, which will be contributed by Ray Stan nard Baker, will cover "The Great Southwest,” “The Desert,” “The Trage dy of the Range,” “Irrigation,” etc. Prof. Walter A. Wyckoff’s new book will be published about the third week In September. It is not. as many sup pose, a continuation of “The Workers,” although additional to that novel work. There are five sketches entitled: 1. A Day With a Tramp. 2. With lowa Farmers. 3. A Section Hand on the Union Pacific Railway. 4. A Burro- Puncher. 5. Incidents of the Slums. As has been announced, the book bears the title “A Day With a Tramp, and other days.” The author of “The Workers,” Wal ter A. Wyckoff, who is now in England pursuing his investigations, contributes to the October Scribner’s a paper giving some incidents of the slums in Chicago, particularly an insight into police-court methods which is rather flattering to the spirit of justice prevailing there. Mrs. Mary 7 Hartwell Catherwood has been spending the summer at Mackinac. She knows and loves every foot of the old island and has celebrated its charms in many delightful stories. She has enjoyed her rest, this summer, for she has earned it. Her new novel, “Lazarre,” on which she has labored without ceasing, has just been announced by her publishers, The Bowen-Merrill Co. The title of Robert Herrick’s new novel will be “The Real World Not Jock O’ Dreams,” as hitherto an nounced. The story will be published some time in October. That the world Is not created afresh for each of us is a truth which is not always recognized, though each finds It out for himself soon enough. It is eternally old and by the same token always new, and is the motive of the story. The woman in the book is the daughter of an Ohio manufacturer, and the plot is devel oped through the story of a young man’s life. “The Crisis” is now in its three hun dredth thousand. This number exceeds that of the sales of "Richard Carvel” during the first three months of its publication, so the publishers tell us. In other words it is said to have passed all records in the annals of publishing in the way it. has been taken up by the public. Gen. F. V % Greene, in his*hrtlcle on the Regular' Army, in the October Scribner’s, says: "Of all the careers in our army there is no parallel to that of Jackson.” This story of the Regular Army Is noted for its crisp characteri zation of the leading generals, and it gives for the first time a bird’s-eye view of the development of our army as a fighting-machine. Gen. Greene is not only an expert military man, but a military critic of distinction. The discourse of the Rev. George Thomas Dowling, D. D„ delivered, a few weeks ago. In Christ Episcopal Church, Los Angeles. Cal., of which he is rector, and which is published by his vestry, on "Romanizing Tendencies In the Episcopal Church,” has reached Rs ninth thousand. SOME AUTUMN BOOKS "Other novelists,” says Arthur Sy mons writing of Gorky in the London Saturday Review, "tell us of society; tells us, that is, what we are when we are not ourselves. The Russian novel ists show us the soul when it is alone; with itself, unconscious or morbidly! conscious, gay, uneasy, confident, sus picious, agonized with duty, a tyran nous slave or a devout and humble, master.” —- “Lalor's Maples,” a novel by Rather-] Ine E. Conway, author of "The Way of the World and Other Ways,” which s was so well received, last season, is in, press with the Pilot Publishing Co., Boston, and will appear about October 20. | I The^ George M. Hill Co. of Chicago wnd New York, will publish, next week, "Dot and Tot of Merrylar.d.” by L., Frank Baum, which will be uniform with "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz,”| the juvenile success of last year. It goes without-saying that W. W. Dens low has illustrated the volume, which is printed throughout in three colors. Over 100,000 copies of "Father Goose; His Book," by L. Frank Baum, have been sold within a year. It is disclosed that the author of “The Private Stable," which Little, Brown & Co. originally published under the pseudonym of “Jorrocks,” is the well-i known horseman, James A. Garland. | Mr. Garland's work was received by I the press with entire approval. It goes with the utmost thoroughness into all the details of the equipment and man agement of a private stable; tells how to choose servants; gives full instruc tions as to livery; treats of the proper care of horses; furnishes estimates of expenses; describes saddles, bits, car-i riages, stalls,—ln short, proves itself j almost an encyclopedia of everything pertaining to its subject. The illustra-l tions. which are over 300 in number, and Include some half-tones of prize winning turnouts, show the details of a stable as thoroughly as Mr. Garland’s text describes them. Another Eugene Field treasure has! been discovered and will soon be is-i sued in book form by the New Am sterdam Book Co. It is a fairy story! designed for children, containing al number of original poems, which, hav-1 Ing the charming touch of Mr. Field’s' genius, will appeal to the adult as well) as the juvenile reader. i “Don’t Butt In” is the odd title of al new coon song, which is a big hit with! Lew Dockstader, the famous minstrel this season. It is by Johnson, Cole & Johnson, the writers -of May Irwin's hits, last season. The new book, “The Puppet Crown,” is the latest craze, this year, and .Mary Dowling Sutton’s waltz of the same title will be one of the big hits. George Primrose, the popular min strel, is singing a new coon song, "When the Jack O’Lantern Starts to Walk About" in his show. It is a splendid success for him. In “Morgan's Men,” which John Preston True hits written, there is nar rated the adventures of Stuart Schuy ler, captain of cavalry in the Revolu tion. This is a sequel to “Scouting for Washington,” which delighted so many boys- It Will be illustrated by Lilian Crawford True, and published by Lit tle, Brown & Co. A sequel to “Brenda, Her School and Her Club," which was so popular, last season, Is announced by Little. Brown & Co. The title of Helen Leah Reed's new story is "Brenda’s Summer at Hockley.” The scenes are laid at the best known points of the famous North Shore of the Massachusetts coast, and the book contains a great deal of in structing and historical Information. The story will be Illustrated by Jessie Wilcox Smith. Miss Katharine Pyle has written a new story for young people entitled. “As the Goose Flies,’’ which should be as popular as "The Christmas Angel.” The author’s charming illustrations en hance the delightful interest in this new book. Mary Caroline Hyde, author of "Christmas at Tappan Sea.” has writ ten a new story, entitled "Holly-Berry and Mistletoe,” which Little, Brown & Co. will soon publish. This is an en tertaining Christmas romance of the year 1492, and will be profusely illus trated by Reginald B. Birch. Considerable interest has been aroused as to the identity of "C,” the author of "Home Thoughts,” that de lightful und helpful collection of es says recently published by A. S. Barnes & Co. Most reviewers are of the opinion that the writer is a woman, but the point of view sustained throughout the book leads a minority to believe the author a man. Ono gen tleman writes: "The identity of "C” has been so effectually hidden that I haven’t the hardihood to ask that it bej 1 tied, but emboldaned to io quire whether "C” be a man or a wo man. An answer will materially add to the peace of mind of your anxious and obedient servant.*’ THE WORCESTER SPY, SUNDAY. SEPTEMBER 22, 1901 Those who are interested to know how Andrew Jackson forced office-hold ers to pay their debts, have their laud able curiosity gratified by The Literary Era for September. A sac-simile let ter of that President of the United States is prefaced by the following: “Our government still insists that its servants, be they soldiers or civilians, shall pay their debts. It is doubtful, however, whether any other President but Jackson ever wrote an opinion on so apparently trifling a subject as a tailor’s bill. Yet the matter was real ly, in many respects, important, and in thus giving his judgment in no uncer tain words, Jackson has left us a cu rious reminder, not only of his great justice and wisdom, but also of the thorough manner in which he per formed, with his own hands, the details of his work —without the aid of a sec retary.’’ Mention has already been made of the resurrection of "Sherlock Holmes" by Dr. Conan Doyle, writes James Wal ter Smith from London to the Septem ber Literary Era. Messrs. Newnes managed to induce Dr. Doyle to revive his first and greatest hero, and the publication of the new detective story has begun in the Strand Magazine. A ^’ell-known American publishing firm offered a huge sum for the right to publish this story serially in America, but Messrs. Newnes preferred to run it in the American edition of the Strand. What success this venture of Doyle’s will have remains to be seen, but it is not improbable that “Sherlock Holmes” will be one of the successes of the au tumn publishing season. Mr. William Gillette will open in September at the Lyceum Theatre with his dramatization of “Sherlock Holmes,” and if the suc cess of that play in America is repeat ed here, it will give a valuable fillip to the sales of the new book in London. The pretty point in literary ethics which has been raised by the resurrection of the dead hero of fiction—although Dr. Doyle his cleverly avoided the direct charge of raising Sherlock from the dead—would better be left for discus sion amongst those who are less busy than we. “The Deacon's Second Wind” IS the latest novel from the pen of Archibald Clavering Gunter, whose “Mr. Barnes of New York." and “Mr. Potter of Texas,” won him both fame and for tune. Mr. Gunter.. in his new book has developed a field of combining met ropolitan life with the homely scenes and incidents of a New England village. I Col. Richard Henry Savage occupies an unique place among American novel ists. He is a soldier, scientist, traveler, and poet, as well as novelist. His first romance, "My Official Wife,” has been translated into 17 languages, and as Col. Savage says, "has been dramatized, . burlesqued and plagiarized.” j Theodore Roosevelt's account of his mountain-lion hunt, last winter, in Col i orado will appear in the October and 'November numbers of Scribner's under I the title “With the Cougar Hounds." The heroes of thp chase are the intelli gent hounds who are trained to chase i the cougar and lynx into the trees. A great deal of new information In regard ]to the cougar is contained in the first of these articles, which is a valuable I contribution to natural history. Both articles will be fully illustrated from photographs by Philip K. Stewart, who was one of the hunting party. Stewart was a well-known Yale athlete. Advance orders for 75,000 copies of Hall Caine’s latest novel, "The Eter nal City," were received by D. Apple ton & Co., the publishers, before the (date of publication. The first edition lof the book was 200,000 copies. D. Ap pleton & Co. have sold of Caine’s other books 200,000 copies of "The Christian,” 100.000 copies of "The Manxman,” 15,000 copies of “The Deemster.” The “Private Life of the Sultan.” by Georges Dorys, Is announced for Imme diate publication by D. Appleton & Co. Recent events have imparted a peculiar ly timely interest to this book, which is said to give a remarkably intimate insight Into the life and character of the Sultan of Turkey. Within a week or two the fate of the redoubtable Rallies will be solved, for Mr. Hornung's second series of "Ama teur Cracksman” stories will then be out, and will bring the career of this I inimitable rascal to a heroic conclusion. I The title of the new book is “Rallies," I the name of the gentlemanly burglar [ himself, with the sub-title -“More Ad- I ventures of the Amateur Cracksman." . These new exploits illustrate the ex traordinary range of the author’s in ventive faculty, as well as his ingenui | ty in extricating the hero and his com panion, Bunny, from the dangers into which their rascality carry them, and include adventures not published se rially. In fact the conclusion of the whole matter will be found only in the book. The illustrations, which are from the pencil of Mr. F. C. Yohn, offer a ' most acceptable interpretation of the types and depict the lively action with la humor in pleasing harmony with Mr. Hornung’s conceptions. NEW BOOKS "Mental Functions of the Brain,” by Bernard Hollander, M. D.” Published by G. P. Putnam’s Sons. Cloth $3.50. This book has as a sub-title, “An Investigation into Their Localization 1 and Their Manifestation in Health and ; Disease.” It is also entitled "The Re- I vival of Phrenology,” but the book is I no attempt t< introduce a quack sys- I tern of phrenology. It is not the work I of a theorist. It is simply an attempted assortment of the present knowledge of the mental functions of the brain. • The author has studied the emotions | and passions, normal and abnormal, of man and demonstrated' their connec tion with the brain. Much of the mat ter is original, being deductions from his own. investigations. Over 800 cases are adduced, not merely of the recog nized varieties of mental derangement, but of all kinds of deviation from the normal mind. It is a work to be thoroughly en joyed and of great value to every man of liberal education and careful thought. The deductions of the author must not be accepted without question, but the facts he presents are worthy consideration. As to the actual value of । the hook to the scientific world that re mains to be acknowledged. “D’ri and I” "D’rl and I,” by Irving Bacheller. Published by the Lothrop Publishing Company, Boston. "D’rl and 1” is not totally different from "Eben Holden.” There Is no par ticular nerd of making a comparison between these two books by Mr. Bach eller, but It is safe to say that "D’rl and I” will be as pleasing to its read ers as "Eben Holden” was. A different class of readers may take to this book, but it is hard to see why any man or woman who loves a good story with a clean, strong character for a hero and a beautiful and attractive girl for a heroine should not be attracted by "D’rl and 1.” "D’rl is not the girl D’ri is only a hired man. Bls name was Darius. "D’rl” the woods-folk called him. "He was a pure-bred Yankee, quaint, rugged, wise, truthful,” we afe told. He was continually with Ramon during the adventures of the book, much as the two leading characters in “The Backwoodsman” are together. The time of the story was 1813 and much of the adventure is due to the war between Great Britain and the United States. Some of the adventures, however, were those shared by all the pioneers who pushed from New Eng land westward in those days. Ramon’s family pushed westward into a long valley south of the St. Lawrence where they began their battle with nature. The author himself says: “Those days the North country was a theatre of interest and renown. Its play was a tragedy: its setting the an cient wilderness; its people of all con ditions from king to farm hand. Chat eau and cabin, trail and forest road, soldier and civilian, lake and river, now moonlit, now sunlit, now under ice and white with snow, were of the shifting scenes in this play. Sometimes the stage was overrun with cavalry and noisy with the clang of steel and the roar of the cannonade. “The most important episodes herein are of history—so romaiftic was the life of that time and region. The mar riage is almost literally a matter of re cord. “A good part of the author’s life has been spent among the children of those old raiders—Yankee and Canadian—of the north and south shores of the big river. Many a tale of the camp and the night ride he has heard In the fire light of a winter’s evening; long fa miliar to him are the ruins of a rus tic life more splendid in its day than any north of Virginia. So his color is not all of books, but of inheritance and of memory as well. “The purpose of this tale is to ex tend acquaintance with the plain peo ple who sweat and bled and limped and died for this republic of ours. Darius, or “D’ri” as the woods-folk called him, was a pure-bred Yankee, quaint, rugged, wise, truthful; Ramon had the hardy traits of a Puritan father, softened by the more romantic temperament of a French mother. They had no more love of fighting than they had need of it.” ■‘The Million” "The Million,” by Dorothea Gerard. Published by Dodd, Mead & Co., New York. This is a story of the present day with the scene laid in Galicia, Austria. The owner of the million is a notary w’ho deliberately devotes the best 25 years of his life to its accumulation for the sole purpose of enabling him to spend the rest of his life in Vienna and to arrange a brilliant marriage for his motherless daughter, Romana. But this money seemed ill-fated. The habit of money-making became so strong that when the million was acquired the notary was hardly willing to lay down his task, and, after all, it proved too late, for his daughter had married wealth and unhappiness. The evil plotting of her father caused 1 a misunderstanding between Romana and her lover. Her indiscretion in volved her husband in a fatal duel. The million instead of being used for ; the purpose for which it was acquired, was devoted by the owner to the edu cation of motherless girls under the guidance of the ecclesiastic fathers. This disposition was all the more sur prising from the fact that the notary । was an irreligious man. I The whole story has a foreign flavor, | though human nature is alike in all I parts of the world and its moral les ।sons can be taken to heart by both English and American readers. “Peter Abelard” “Peter Abelard,” by Rev. Joseph Mc- Cabe. Published by G. P. Putnam’s Sons. Cloth $2. For the Frenchman the names of Abelard and Heloise still exercise a peculiar magic. Nine hundred years after their death fresh flowers are kept on their graves. Hitherto no full and adequate biography of the man has existed. The book takes up an inter esting career. Quite properly the woman is not entirely neglected. The life of Peter Abelard could not be writ ten without giving the biography of his wife. Father McCabe’s work is presented in an exceedingly attractive form throwing the light of scholarship on Abelard’s much misunderstood person ality. The author has considered the subject thoroughly and brings to it ex ceptional qualifications for the task. As a scholar and ecclesiastic his opportu nities for presenting the subject prop erly have been exceptional. His learn ing is obvious on every page. The style ! is bright, simple and attractive, and I even where he discusses philosophy and the history of theological move ments he is never dull or heavy. The life of Abelard was dramatic. It is the life of the hero of a romantic novel rather than the life of a real man. Tn two respects Abelard was ex traordinary. First, in loving and being loved by Heloise, who must be counted one of the most extraordinary women in history. Second, in his religious i philosophy which was so far ahead of his times that it brought him little but sorrow and persecution. He was ac cused of heresy, he was prosecuted and condemned. Abelard’s struggles with the enemies within the church, his love story, the letters that passed between the two lovers late in life are of especial interest. The estimate placed upon Abelard by the author is interesting. “One is tempted at times to speculate on the probable development of Abelard's thoughts if that great shadow had not fallen on his life at so early a period. There are two Abelards. The older theologian, who is ever watchful to ar rest his thoughts when they approach clear, fundamental dogmas,is not the natural development of the free-think ing author of the Sic et Nom. With the conversion to the ascetic ideal had ! come a greater awe in approaching truths which w< % implicitly accepted 1 as divine. Yet we may well doubt if 1 Abelard would ever have advanced | much beyond his actual limits. Start ing from the world of ideas in which h“ lived, he would have needed an ex ceptional strength to proceed any very defiant and revolutionary conclus ions. He was not of the stuff of mar tyrs, of Scotus Arigena or Arnold of Brescia. He had no particle of the political ability of Luther. But such as he is. gifted with a penetrating mind, and led by a lumanist ideal that touched few of his contemporaries, pathetically irresolute, and falling be-1 caum the fates had made him th" hero of a great drama and ironically denied him the hero's strength, he deserves at least to be drawn forth from the too deep shadow of a crude and unsympa thetic tradition." “Hirsh’s Tubulated Digest of the Di vorce Laws of the United States.” (New revised edition.) By Hugo Hirsh. Folding chart, cloth covers. Price $1.50, net. Funk & Wagnails < ’o., New York and London. This digestifs the most unique legal publication ever issued. It contains a complete digest of the divorce laws of every state and terri tory, placed in tabulation form, so that by a mere glance the particular Infor mation sought for may be obtained. “The Why of Poverty.” By G. H. Hub bard. Published by the Abbey Press. Cloth, sl. A great many sociological works are the veriest bosh. The writers explain theories and follow some of the ridic ulous old assumptions of political econ omy. They are dry rot. In the past few years there has been a more healthy tendency in works of this kind. We find social reformers and students of sociology at work investigating ac tual conditions rather than mere sta tistics and vain speculations. There is no sociological problem of more importance than that taken for the title of this book. If mankind were relieved of poverty and its conse quences, the other reforms that are so strenuously urged by the good people of various sorts w ould be not only pos sible to attain, but in most instances would come as a matter of course. This book deals wdth the subject in a most plain and sensible way. It shows clearly that poverty is not due to the primary distribution of wealthy but to the secondary and following distribu tions. The man who spends his money for rum and tobacco is in a different class from the man who spends it for articles of solid value, or the man who saves his money and places it at work as saved capital. The author pays great tribute to King Alcohol as the most important cause of poverty; next is the waste due to tobacco and expensive amusements, to ignorance, to laziness, to barbarism, to strikes and to speculations. There is not a dull page in the book. The po sition taken by the author is sound. He does not undertake more than he can prove. A few of the conclusions under the various headings will show the character of the book more clearly than a mere description. “On the other hand, so long as in temperance continues, and so long as its advocates and abettors are ac counted the friends of labor, we may not hope to solve the problem of pov erty; for the continuation of intem perance means the continuation of pov erty, of dissatisfaction, of unrest, and of strife. A fitting motto to place over the door of every saloon and brewery and distillery in the world would be this, “The Poor Ye Have Always With You.” ” He will find more readers who will coincide with bls views as to alcohol than to endorse the statements in the chapter entitled “The Continual Burnt Offering. ’ ‘ “The ancient Hebrew’s and some of the heathen nations kept a perpetual fire burning on the altar of their temples in which were consumed the flesh of animals, the offerings of the people to their divinity. Fror? number less human temples. In our land, more sacred far than any pile of stone adorned with gold, there arises a con tinual cloud of smoke. Not animals are the offerings laid on the altar; but homes, books, travel, comforts, luxur ies, education, even necessary food and clothing. And these are offered, year after year, to the god of appetite. And the cost of this offering, levied large ly upon the wages of the poor, is six hundred million dollars a year.” He writes against amusements only where the expense cannot be justified by the pleasure derived from the ex pense. He says: “While the “Anti-Poverty Society” is busy searching for a grand, automatic, instantaneous and universal poverty eradicator, many a sufferer might be relieved by the use of more common place remedies. In 99 cases out of every 100 poverty is the result of negligence In trifling matters rather than any great wrong or injustice. The little foxes spoil the vines. The little leaks drain the purse. Even such trifling sums as ‘are spent on amusement steal away the margin of many small in comes. If we could but stop these small leaks no great cure for poverty would be needed.” Individual economy he preaches with the utmost vehemence. “Demagogues may sound the praise of extravagance, calling it liberality or benevolence, and for the moment they may carry with them the tide of pop ular feeling; but it can be only far the moment. Popular intelligence quickly unmasks the sham, and the truth is re vealed clear as the noon-day. Not ex travagance. but economy, on the part of all is the sure and effective anti dote for poverty. The social millen nium is coming, but not immediately. And when it does come its watchword will be economy.” The amount of money received is no indication of the good to be derived from it. The art of spending money is as important as the art of earning it. The author says: “Children should be taught how to spend money, as well as how to earn it. The two arts are of equal impor tance. They must be taught the prac tical matters of daily life, the neces sities of our human nature. Hygiene and household economy must not be neglected for more trifling matters. They must study the construction of the human body, what are its require ments, and how these may be most easily and perfectly satisfied. They must learn th 4 comparative value of different articles of food and clothing. These and many similar matters should be considered of first importance in our public school education. After they are thoroughly learned, as much else may be added as the taste and means of the individual warrant. In the school of the future, domestic economy must have a more honorable place than the classics, and the art of book-keeping than the analytical calculus. As our people become more generally educated along these practical lines, we shall in a corresponding degree overcome that form of Ignorance which is a most fruitful source of poverty.” He says about haziness and idleness: "The world has suffered much from aristocracies of various kinds,—aristoc racies of blood, aristocracies of power, aristocracies of wealth; but there is an aristocracy worse than all these. May the Lord deliver us from the aristocra cy of idleness.” Of war he says: "As a people we want neither war nor preparations for war, but peace only, universal peace. Already we suffer enough from the effects of war. Al ready our citizens are sufficiently im poverished by its excessive burdens. Why not make an end of war? Whj not treat with other nations as though war were out of the question? The time is ripe for the announcement of the most unqualified peace principles. As a people we alone are fitted to take the lead in this matter. The spirit of the age demands that It be done. The true interests of our laboring people demand it. The onward movement of social reform demands it.” The chapter on strikes is one of in tense interest. He shows the amounts of money wasted in strikes in the Unit ed States as something appalling. We have just had one of the most costly strikes in history. It is one big example of the general uselessness of this meth od used by labor organizations. "A strike is a war measure which may at times be necessary (if war is ever necessary) to meet oppression and dishonesty, and to secure the rights of a particular class of men, but the time wasted, the property destroyed, and the production hindered, are absolute loss to the world at large. They are the indemnity which society pays for injus tice. "By draining the treasury of our land at the rate of more than $10,000,000,000 every year strikes have become u prom- inent factor among the causes of pover ty. They have increased the evil they were designed to cure. They have opened a wide avenue of waste whose effects are felt more keenly by labor ing men. Surely their day is nearly past. The intelligence of American workingmen will not long permit them to use so expensive and barbarous a remedy for social diseases. The pro gressive spirit of the age demands the use of methods which will be at once more economical and more permanent in their results." The evils of speculation he makes clear: “The evils which exist in American society, today, and w’hich cause so much trouble and unrest, are not the result of an Imperfect social system merely. They spring chiefly from a lack of true moral principle. The pop ular conscience is not as keen as it should be, especially in matters where large sums of money are involved. It is difficult to persuade a man that the business by means of which he has ac cumulated great wealth is morally wrong. The selfish love of money lies athwart the path of every moral re form and clogs the wheels of human progress. For many years slavery was declared to be a Christian institution, because there w r as money in it. Hun dreds of men will not see the real in iquity of the liquor traffic because they derive a large revenue from it. So it is with speculation. The large fortunes that have been quickly and easily ac quired by this form of trade have made men willingly blind to its real char acter. It has appeared so respectable in many cases as to deceive even the very elect.” “Lazarre." By Mary Hartwell Cather wood. Published by The Bowen Mer rill Co. $1.50. When Mary Hartwell Catherwood was 12 years old she read in one of the prominent magazines an article en titled, “Have We a Dauphin?” The author attempted to show’ that the eld est son of Louis XVI. did not die in the Tower, the victom of his country’s revolution, but was removed between tw’o days and brought to America. Here he was given into the keeping of Thomas Williams, a half-breed, who lived with his tribe near Lake George. The boy was named Eleazar-Eleazar Williams, but the Indians called him “Lazarre." The author of this entertaining article had convinced himself that a dauphin had found a home in America and he had little trouble in inspiring his youth ful reader with a like confidence. The romantic story made a deep impres sion on her girlish mind, the little prince became her Prince Charming, her fairy playfellow. She grew to know him, she talked of him and to him. Several years after the appearance of this article Mrs. Catherwood spent a summer in northwestern New York. There she found many traces of the lost dauphin and it was there that the defi nite idea of writing a story around this legend, or fact, as she believed it to be, first came to her. Other work claimed immediate precedence, however, but she never lost sight of her little prince, nor wavered in her determination to put him into romance. Mrs. Catherwood felt that the fates had her in their keeping when, one day several years ago, they guided her steps to Green Bay, Wisconsin. There she chanced to call on two elderly maiden ladies, and they, as much by chance, displayed some previous old books, say ing, in a tone of great reverence, they belonged to the dauphin. The memory of her Prince Charming rushed back upon her. She asked many questions and learned that there were men in Green Bay who remembered having seen Eleazar Williams; that there were women there who possessed costly articles of bric-a-brac that had been sent him from France. The site of a cabin, once his, was pointed out to her. It overlooks the Fox River. The knowledge of all these things rekindled the fire of her determination to write the story of the little French prince who was brought to America, probably to die, but who lived to be a loyal and a useful citizen. And so the story was begun. It was a labor of love, and yet a genuine labor; for Mrs. Catherwood, though a trained and a successful writer before she began the story of “Lazarre,” had so fallen in love with her hero, he was so real to her, and she felt so deeply her responsibility to him that nothing less than the Very best expression of her talent would satisfy her. After all the material for the story had been collected, a year was required for the writing of it. Eleazar Williams was the lost dauphin, heir to the throne of France, eldest son of Louis XVI., but the In dians called him “Lazarre.” And so the woman who has made him live again in her book has called it “Lazar re.” It is a fitting title, for the story fairly exhales the spirit of America- America at her highest—freedom, loyal ty, courage, simplicity, high-mlnded ness and a reverance and a love for woman that passeth all understanding. Mrs. Catherwood is a Western wo man. Her home for the past two years has been in Chicago. She has written ever since she can remember, and has published many delightful books. Of “Lazarre" she says: "I am satisfied." “Lazarre” is full of action. It carries with it a sense of truthfulness that al most convinces the reader that the liv ing dauphin is before him. There is an undercurrent of mystery, too, which helps to heighten the effect. And through it all, Mrs. Catherwood has made of the dauphin a live human be ing. and not a puppet—a freak of for tune. Here is a man who thinks, who knows the value of living, and who loves as other men love. This romance is deep and tender, at times most pa thetic. The most exacting critic should have naught but words of praise for the author's treatment of this feature of the book. Surely the reading public will echo Mrs. Catherwood’s opinion of the story. "Irish Pastorals.” By Shan F. Bullock. Published by McClure, Phillips & Co. $1.50. "Irish Pastorals” consists of nine sketches depicting various phases of Irish country life. He deals with "The Planters. The Turf-Cutters, The Mow ers, The Haymakers, The Reapers, The Diggers, the Herd. The different sketches, while each complete, will unite to form a continuous tale. At the author’s request the book, with the exception of a frontispiece, has been printed without illustration. Mr. Bullock says that artists do not know Ireland. It is a pity that the au thor has not the gift of illustration to supplement his admirable pen picture. An artist would, Indeed, have difficulty in presenting the scenes which Mr. Bul lock has portrayed with so much beau ty, in their primitive surroundings. The Irish peasantry are shown hen; In their true light. They possess keen wit, good nature, and shrewd practical wisdom, and here they are at their best. "Foma Gordyeeff.” By Maxim Gorky. Published by Charles Scribner’s Sons sl. The name "Maxim Gorky” is a nom de-plume, chosen by the author to indi cate his attitude toward life at that time. It means "the bitter one.” His real name is Alexei Maximovitch Pyeshkoff. “Foma Gordyeeff” was first published as a serial in the Russian monthly magazine “Zhizm," in 1899. It was be gun in the February number, and ran through September. The title translat ed means “Thomas the Proud,” Fofia being the Russian form of the English name Thomas, and Gordyeeff signify ing Proud. I The book is a character study. There is absolutely no attempt at a plot. It is simply a story of the life of Foma Gordyeeff, a life which could be hard ly held up as an example to the young. Foma was anything but a model youth, and as a man he was worse. His life was a failure, and he became.a hope less wreck. Much of the strength of the narrative is lost in the rather labored transla tion. The translator has evidently tried to do the work too faithfully. Nevertheless the author has w’ritten a book worthy of more than passing notice. He is a young man, 32 years old. The portrait on the title page shows a countenance somewhat cynical, but full of determination. He is evi dently a thinker. Maxim Gorky is idol ized by his countrymen. They are wel coming him as a second Tolstoy. His work is of such a high order that the world is beginning to recognize his abil ity. It is to be hoped, however, that his coming efforts will show a more cheer ful attitude toward the world. “School Iliad." Revised edition. Edit ed, with commentary and illustrated vocabulary. By Thomas D. Seymour, professor of Greek in Yale University. Published by Ginn & Co. The results of the active researches of the past 11 years in the field of Homeric antiquities are incorporated in this revision of Professor Seymour’s “School Iliad." The vocabulary is some what fuller, many more illustrations are used, and the introduction is printed in larger type than in the former edition. In the introduction there has also been inserted a table of pronouns, in ac cordance with a frequently expressed desire of teachers. The illustrations in the volume are especially valuable, as the pupil gains therefrom a much clearer idea of the poem. Some New Books received are: “The Days That are no More;” a vol ume of short stories in negro dialect. By Elizabeth Bryant Johnston. Pub lished by the Abbey Press; illustrated. sl. “The Widow Robinson,” and other sketches. By Benjamin W. Williams. 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Published by the Abbey Press. 50 cents. “Miss Penelope’s Elopement,” and other stories by Kate H. Sawyer. Pub lished by the Abbey Press. 50 cents. “Original Investigation;” or How to Attack an Exercise in Geometry. By Elisha S. Loomis, Ph. D. Published by Ginn & Co. ’“When Love Flies Out o’ the Win dow.” By Leonard Merrick. Published by D. Appleton & Co. 50 cents. The Cost of War News * A good indication of the amount of money spent by American newspapers during the Spanish-American War might be found in certain entries on the books of the New York Herald. For good reasons the Herald kept no de posits of money in any one of the Is lands of the West Indies except those In the Danish group. As much as $lO,- 000 was deposited there at a time, to be drawn on by the Herald correspon dents, and at one time the Herald owed the Boston Fruit Company as much as $30,000, which had been drawn from the Port Antonio office of that com pany by the Herald correspondents, who had credit with this concern. The New York Journal spent on the war alone an average of $121,000 a month. At one time one of the Journal’s cor respondents spent $27.50 a ton for coal for a dispatch boat at Cape Haitien. The story of the battle between the American and Spanish fleets at Santi ago cost the New York Journal SIO,OOO in one day, and the New York Herald and the New York World spent almost as much in getting the same news.— Edward Marshall, in Pearson’s Maga zine. PM 0 Jr Preacher—“ When you're tempted to drink, think of your wife at home.” Henpeck—"l do—smT that's what drives me to drink,". 