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8 T H E B R O O K L Y N D A I L Y E A G L E . N E W Y O R K . S A T U R D A Y , O C T O B E R 25. 1902. PRF:J: 0 8 ,«CS!l|i,SI[R'S “OilEL iEBSTH.\ I o n trrfd political life and becam e a j oT Coiisrocj5. in ISl'A. the prospect I c s p e e ially attract him. and after n( *ar? oi \ member did not I couple { of term?, as ropresentative from New’ Hamp shire. bo was quite w illing to throw it up and devote binsolf to the practice of his 311 ’ofe.ssian in i>oston. When next political Interest.^ drew liim from the law, -it was to I'ccorae a representative from Massachusett.s. Titis waft in 1S23: four years later his adopted state sent him to the .United S tates Senate, the scene of some of his greatc.st trinmph.s; : in the opinion of m.iny of his later rontem- I porario.s. the theater where ho compassed downfall. No part of Professor McMa.ster’s narrative is more interesting than the concluding <’h;iptcrs in which the events which con- « ' ! tribm e d so m aterially to the discom fiture ot ’* • . -j W('b.ster’s pre.sidcntial aspirations are re- HIS SEVENTH ,.QF MARCH SPEECH. | w • V— —— - ’ historically known. W ebster’s great ►reply s ' \ ; 'O Political Career ofthe Great^De* ifender ofthe ConstitLitio.n”,Por- i trayed in a New Memoir. Haync of South Carolina, tw e n ty years - , , j : ^ A.' r' 4 - A-r>^ I e a r lier, in the tariff diapiuc of 1S27-30. whicn B low Xt H e lp e d , to j-e f e a t tiip (.vicat i i <.o’bninat<'.d in the nullirica,ilofi controver.sy, b it io n o f H i s L i f e — K i s K o n o s ty\ o f p u r p o s e . I bad made him permanently a national figure, i N.-jw ii war* that greater and more menae- Now ii ing eontrover.^^y, t-be political and legisla- tiv'«? battle over slavery, which engaged his j a ttention. His course in the earlier contro- »» It was fifty y^ars^ago yesterday (Friday, j v ersy had brought him national fame; it was October ?!)\ since Daniel W ebster passed 1 b is fate that bis conduct in the later-d is- fiway at his home in .Marshfield, broken in cu.ssion should strike the knoll of the am- , ■ ^ J, ,• ■ A.A i ..rrtK?tir.n ; bitious hopes fin-t excited by the praise health, profoundly (li.sappoint^d in ambition^ ^ follo-.v.-d the earlior .afiori. The Jfiuc-s- aoubting whether his life had not been- a ^ issue was the great' com p roni^e of failure. Only a few weeks before, the Whig , |S5C. which Henry Clay had brought before convention m ooting in Baltimore, had nnm-i Congres;; and the people ns the panacea teated GeneraV-WinfieW Soou -Coi- pre^l-. >Vhioh should heal the wounds that rankled 1 ^TT w . betw een the North and South and term inate ^ n c y . Mebr^lei ha 1 lonfiden . ' ' j the dispute over slavery which was shaking tjiat he would receiv(« the nommuimn. bad - Union to Its foundations and dividing Counted upon it so .surely^^ frfid,,l<?tigcd ;for it . ^ pqople in '’hostile cam p s. . Neither io eagerly, that the disappointm ent 'i:a-me-.-‘ ^ _____ Bke a stunning blot*. Ftufus Choate, who presented hU natue U3 the ..cOAvent ion, had goii4*-to- W ashington ‘on- the eve of its tis- ^ m b ling to warn -Wdbstor of ilie hopelesi- Bcss of the efTorl. but even he. clo.se friend ^nd confidant that he was of the great \Dc- illEES, SiRT STORIES iB PIGTIBiL SeCHES Eleanor Gates’ “ Biography of a Prairie Girl”—James B. Con nolly’s “Out of Gloucester.’’ Society or a dancing class. As Emmy Lou— now become Miss MacLauren—v.'as decidedly NKW PUBLICATIONIS. NEW PUBLICATIONS. NEW PUBLICATIONS. A BRIGHT STUDY OF CHILD LIFE. “ E m m y L o u ; H e r B o o k and H e a r t / R u t h M c E n e r y S t u a r t ’s “ N a p o leo n J a c k s o n ”—“ T h e H e r r D o c t o r ,” E tc. It is only within recent years that glimpscG ot the life of the prairie frontier as it existed twenty-five years ago have be gun to appear in de.scripiive or fictional lit erature. , Hamlin Garland has been regarded as the inlerproior of this phase of national life expressing it.self in words, but even his brilliant descriptions have dealt rather with the atmosphere ot that life than with its hard and sordid facts. The intim ate pic ture was sure to arrive, however, and a bit of binder’ of the Constitution.” when ho- saw | l^ow sure was W ebster that at last he was tp receive the groat honor for which his fieart longed, had not the courage to at tempt to break the illusion, and left him Btill undeceived. How absolutely he was giistaken. wa.s evidenced when,-un the firsi, ia l l o t , out of a total of 2(M votes. WebsuT Received . only- a ' b eggarly tweni^'-niim;. The «onve*ntidh 'turned aside from the mighty ^ ’hig-Ieader,-from the man whose fame as £ statesm a n was second to none, the man Si’hose renown as an orator and champion Of the Union filled the whole land, to place i i nomination a soldier, known far and wi<le Sy his politrcaT“6]Tp6hehts a s ' ”'01d Fuss and F e a thers.” jind, by his admirers as 'the hero Churubuaco; of Ohapultopec,” etc., ct.c. ix was bnlyhrnother instance of popular re- tred-no w'eight. He was nominated: fhe | fu iiliij’ of the conyoniion's action was dem -,1 on s ^ a iS ^ ’^ v U iivA ^ ^ tlm i .whick-.ictJllpwed in NovSffi1?5V.' ScoTt was overwhelm ingly do- ihc f e a t ^ But W ebster not live to see resuHr Hengra N'e,-'-dyi ng. vif ■was-populSrIS' -la’^ken hea,iUed. ‘b.e« cause'-of the profound'^is^poinlY a eSt of his'' mo^/cherXs$i4B^^rnbii£lon.Ti How^V^^fiply was 'shown fh a letter written less thaij.'0''o weeks before his,death >ti.rS,?J?.onse : to a-Tequest rbar he stiotrid. enteiv'^EffekJist forSIfie p a r t i r ^ n d i a a t e . 'He sStd tS. his cor^tikpopi^ p H h ^ i e s ' ' e x t e e i o b a n d in t e k i o b .- o p ■ -WEBSTER’S' LA W O F F IC E AT . M A E S H F IELDj. M A S ^ ' ■ ■?!, pretty, there could be but one answer. It Is with this decision that the book closes. From the reader's standpoint the rest is of no consequence. But the manner in which the author carries Emmy Lou up to that critical point is 'decidedly interesting. The story is recounted soberly, in a straight forward way, and apparently with all scri- , ousne.ss. Emmy Lou’s experiences in the suc cessive classes, the things that innuence her sm all life, the way in which she looks at education—all are told with a depth of perception as to the mental processes of the child that is, to say the least, strikingly un usual. Emmy Lou is a chubby little girl, of good mental quality, but possessing nothing unusual in the way of mental equipment. .She is just one liitlc girl out of scores of thousands, with happy home influences be hind her and a normal brain and environ ment. As a story of scho-ol manner and method the book Is not often equaled. It would .seem as if the author must have some intim a te knowledge of public school system s, for there is a good deal of quiet satire scat tered through 'his pages with regard^ to pub lic school methods of education, while there are certain asides that illuminate w'hat may be called the political phases of the profes sion. «• It is when Emmy Lou is passing through the various grades of “Readers” that her experiences are the most interesting. The successive periods of school developm ent are skillfully described; but the book is not so much a picture of school life as it is a study of child development a.s it is affected by teaching methods. Mrs. Martin does not fail ! to scarify the sort of teacher who poses; ' she punctures more than one wind-bag and docs not fail to hold-up to merry ridicule the pretensions of the very modern fashions which substitute method for education. From cover to cover it is a wonderfully human and appreciative book; it sparkles I with good humor, and even its satire is good- I natured. In many ways it is the be.st book i about child life thai has appeared in a long time. (.McClure, 'Phillips & Co.. ?1.50.) RICHARD HARDING DAVIS Hts Novel HIS^ TWO NEW BOOKS CAPTAIN MACKLIN His Volume o f Novelettes and Stories RANSOM’S s ; TALES OF THE NORTH ATLANTIC. I J a m e s S . C o n n o lly ’s S t o r ies of t h e F is h erm e n o f G lo u c e s t e r an d T h e ir A b l e C raft. staceir^o you that no earthly cousidenuion cou^^nduce m e to say anything or do any- thing^from^ wH'ich'if might be inferred, di- recCf^’.' or indirectly.' that I concur in the have^mow to \Danlol Webster.*'The Century Co.. 1902.) (^Tay'uor Webster was able to discern the, true nature of the‘dispute which W illiam H. B a inw o r e nom ination, or that I should give ' Se'vard declared \an Irrepressible eon- it^ f e . n ^ ^ . v a ^ tfie ^ n t p o h of m y approha- , ‘X m ' o ? l o v a s not the first time that \\^,bster-s ! becom e a m a tterof conscience.; Certainly, am b ition for the nomination 'to the presi- ' ^'ebster did not >-?al.z^he depth .or signifi- denoy“had been defeated, but never oeforo : cance oi the changed attitude ot his own peo- had'Be been so \sure that the prize was with- I?''’; Hm supported-the compron^is.p it was i M a i ^ - l p l ^ h , ' w M c h ' ^ c a i f ^ likerW ebster, had longed for the presidency, bui/r,dtilike W ebster, Clay had been more tha 9 j-;-pnce nom inated and thus had received the«opporLunicy for testing his sirongLh be fore-\*.*fiis fellow citizens—a thing which the fates'had denied to .Webster. \Vebsi,or's serv lces,'Were fully as great as Clay’s; his pop ularity in som e ways had been as more 'than once had he been hailed as .the champion w'ho .had risen to defend the Union in Its'hour of peril; his ambition was an honest one; he had the approval of his own conscience, but the thing he m o st desired w a s denied him by the fickle m ultitude, who once hailing him as a political Messiah, had beea/equally ready to cry ‘‘Crucify him!” • Hardly in American political history i.=3 there found*a more tragic figure than Daniel Web- ster-presents in the closing year of his life. Tlie' half century that has elapsed' .since WefisLcr’s wonderful career came to a close efTd;;t, either in Senate or on the .rostrum, j ever created so much excitem e n t.. The op- I p o n enfs o f slavery- throughout the North, i cspec’lally.in his own\\State of M assachusetts, j accused him of tr-uckliflg to the slave power • in'.hope^thereby of furthering his ■ prosiden- I lia l ambitionsj.'' .The .leaders o f , the anti- ■ ‘ . t sla'verv - sentihierit denounced h im ; ' Horace greai,; Tn/.ifot- flr M ann''likened hint,.to Lucifer descending from -heaven; 'Sum n er called- him a “dark-apostate” ; W h ittier, in ; threnoclic v e r s e ,' named him ”Tchnbod” and mourned ■him as one d'ead.^ Theodore Par'ker con demned him. EvorywheVe/rahti-slayery men, free vsbilers and..m any-NoKhern W h igs bit terly cxecrated-'him. Others,E those who be lieved in comprpmisnSf w,ho wished the Union saved by .aRX loaded him w ith un stinted ‘praise. • Professorf McMaster takes iho position'that W ebster was entirely hon est in the position he assumed on this great ---- - •• he bas'-£iadc possibie-fi-^fT sttr-nsttaato of'th e i 2a“ 1.“ \war --^hut mau .tban was attainable while the country | of. ,'new territories; nor m a k e every ■a-as, .still u n d e r ,il« intluence of the; pqiiUcal | ^-ortlx a slave catcher,., nor bid passions and so large a- p terly changed conditions* political'an'd soCIair ’'That\ it Ts T r o w TJossIblo’to stiicb'’ the • events of the antebeU.um...perioU.. ,the men .and the questions, in the-ccH fi.--clear-light, of dis passionate history, to view them calmly and philosophically. . It is such a study that Profes.sor .John Bach McMaster bSs m a d e 'in his ,new volume, “Daniel W obster,’’ j u s t , issued ,by ;the/C en: tuiry Conli5any. There seem s a peculiar fit ness abont the issuance of this book just at .a.qu.qstiou.whiAh.Hiroat.encd the permanence of the Union and the Constitution, and Clay s -‘com p rehensive scheme of adjusim ent, belic-ved would effect this settlem e n t.\ If It were neces.sary at this late day to de fend Webster, one might ailniost say that the memoir had been, written to prove the facts set forth in >hc .above qnotation. ■^'here'ean he no question but, what the cx- citcniem . t.be bitterness ot -the controversy the speech provoltod. had its'effect in mak- it has just come to hand through the m e dium of the Century Company, in a book titled \Th^Biography of a Prairie G irl.” The author, Eleanor Gates, is a new writer, in that her na.-ne is not familiar to readers, but it is very evident from the pages of this “biography” that she is no uovi.ee in the art ot expression, or in a subtle under standing of the m eaning of life. The story begins with a tragedy; the child com es in the close- of the half century which nas : eveu.of many men of his ] luieaiea wiin siriKing ncieiity. elapsed qineg WehstJ>r;.s deatU._ ^(>rtaJnly lit ; \5 ^ a presidential | « .\’'I'- «<: the clonr insight the affords a-suitahfe-oM jaston for reviewing the ; n>t=hb=-.uvi-ii • Pr.ofc-isnr Me- i al-m eanings found there, the rc _______ ^ »i. ^ A . , < career o f buft.b^ l^hd* g r^aiest men iu'Am er ican hiftory. Inevitably the book will remind one of P r o fessoc’ -McMaster’s brilliant “ History of the American People.\ whose fifth Volume, publishe(\ two or throe years ago. brought the record-^ down to the year 1S30.' just at t.be tim e wheil W obsier won his first great na tional trfuniph in the .Senate in h is speech in ripply to lUTyne of South Carolina—that speech which closed w ith the ijpLcnclUl pcroiaiioii. which rang from on'o'ond of tlfe republic to- the other, which ha.'= become one of the le gends ofjthe people, and which, in the light blizzard, and the storm that w itnesses the com ing of the stork snuffs out the life of the father, who has gone for m edical at tendance to the fort at the reservation some m iles away. It is an incident that was very common-in the years in which the story opens,, for it chronicles conditions that en vironed prairie life a quarter of a century ago. There arc in .the little prairie hom e the wido'wed mother and the three big brothers. The days of Indian \varfare are passed by, but there is still danger from thieving braves cneakiug from the reservation. These matters play a part in the story, but the child faces no ’anusual perils of that sort as she grows tow’ard girlhood. The interest of the narrative does not lie in any startling adventures or in strange happen ings. It is an intim ate account of a life that to the casual observer, coming upon it from the outer world, would surely con sider commonplace and sordid. There is the lonely house and its farm .depend- encie.s out on the .heavily rolling prairie; there is the isolation, the rem o teness of neighbors, the scem ins nearness in those vast opeD‘spaces of sky and cloud, the far away horizons, cut off by billows of land clim b ing always tow’ard the heavens as one .lourncys across them. 'Very much out of touch with the rest of the world it seems, yet fu ll of interest, for the dawning in t e lli gence of the child; for the growing interest of the 3 'oung girl. The reader follows -the story from child hood to young womanhood. Us incidents, its pleasures, occasionally a rude peril are- de lineated with striking fidelity. One wonders psychologic- realism of the Readers of the m agazines during the past year or two have not tailed to note the grad ual rise into prominence of Janies B. Con nolly, a now short story writer, w’hose talcs of the sea had about them a quality that marked their author as one w*ho had caught to an unusual degree the inspiration of the sea. It is not often that a .young writer comes so sw iftly - into, prominence. In all. perhaps, eight or ten of h is tales have been j?ublished, b u t ’ they have dem onstrated that he is one of the best of the short story -writers of the day. It i.s a little notewerthy how rapidly a number of young writers have come into prominence \within the last two or three years as w riters of short stories of unusual m erit. Their devel opment inav be credited to the magazine demand for this style of fiction. As a rule, the man or -sN-oman who can write a good novel docs not succeed with the short storj', and the converse of this proposition seems equally true. Mr. Connolly has demonstrated that he is one of the best of the new' men. It is a long tim e since there has appeared a writer of sea stories possessing so many qualities of excellence. It suggests that perhaps the tim e will soon come when tales of the sea as full of life and adventure as sem e of the famous classics of the first third of the last century w'ill again delight the reader Mr. Connolly’s love of the sea is a mat ter of inhcritdnce. He is the son of a New England skipper and ^yas brought up in the neighborhood of Gloucester, Mass., from which port sail the deep- sea fisher men whose exploits are the theme of his tales. He is a Harvard man, and wa.s keen ly interested in.athletics when at the univer- sitv, rand joined the All-American team which took part in the famous Olympic games In Athens in ISi'S. Later, he became a news paper reporter and correspondent, and it ...w:!,-. ^ f f r n tV»n rtf the Bo was while attached to t'ne staff of the Boston Transcript that his first story was pub lished. It gained for him an instant rec ognition, as' a new and vigorous personality his especial field ot fiction writing. His first long story. \Jeh Hutton,\ a tale for boys, has recently been published. The short stories that have come from his pen have been collected in a single volume, Illustrated by Walter Appleton Clark $1.50 40th IyOOO FOLLY 45th 1,000 Already 44 A N ADMIRABLE story, clear-cut, brave, spirited. It shows Mr. Richard Harding Davis in his maturity.” --- The Bookman. CONTENTS R A N S O N ’S f o l l y ' Drawings by Frede ric Remington T H E BAR SIN I S T E R Drawings by E. M. Ashe T H E D E R E L IC T Drawings by Walter Appleton Clark LA LETTRE D ’A M O U R . Drawings by How ard Chandler Christy IN THE FOG Drawings by Frede ric Dorr Steele 16 full-page illustrations. $1.50 C H A R L E S S C R I B N E R ^ S SO N S ^ - N e w Y o r k seamen, hut<i^r./Connolly !s the first m an who’has truly'lnterpretcdithelr daring spirit. The ' illustrations are spirited and . well- dra\vn.‘ '(C h a r les ’ Scribner’s Sons, $1.50.) ^ not absent. life on the lighter sides; it is n u l h o r {U'seribes'-the strikinu. p h a s e s of W e b - s i e r ' s career. I'.is B u n k e r Ilill o r a t i o n , his e n c o u n t e r v.itii (.’aihoiin. his fa m e a s an e.x- J, j srsr &.-S. 'Sn™',\rs h e e n d e - a r t o m h i s e r a v . . d o c d d r i p r o p h d i . r , ; i - i - A - - - » « • cuke ;uf) :in -Ulie\ next ;and'iSute.; \Ond u-ish e s -thaf Professor Me- ; ” M r ir:n”ihi u s ,ho in>adiuuuve y ^ o r ,h U . hfatorh*. ulU ^ l a m e o^er The uaticn IS so 11 ot diun ,u!c quah.>eR that aud one rides tor life before It seenib diflioi It - l ^ reserve however stampede of maddened anim a ls that it reserve. U ‘f ® wholly tragic. Even then there are V. inc h IS one of the .istii j, j , g < , compcn.sation.s for those who escape with \ u i d sml!’r ..erm i., it would: he interesting! in speak of the (traphic wayJ in which our ; frssor MolMasrel* «^’iljl volume o f his history' \.-ill cover the years when Wobsior filled so largo a place in the public eye; and it is impos.^^ible to escape the feeling tiiai-'^lU\was t'he^study of the-.e-v-ents of that time, the decades of the 30’s and 40's. ^-tha.L.ha.ve-iaisplred-him to. write, this mono graph. W ebster is .so considerable a quan tity. he appeals so suprem ely to the imag- lnaii.opr^he--lr?-tM>*Iargo a part of--the hisior-y- of is not 'to be .wondered.’at. of the \back-fire” lines about the farm ; dwellim.gs; flio prairie fire wjpe.s out every I single grasshopper. j In her .non pictures the 'author has pre- i served with singular fidelity- the color,' the j atmosphere of the life she portrays. She : sketches with vividness. The literary qual- I 5ty of the hook Is unusual; the purity of dic- ^ . 1 • tion. the tluent sentences, the power of pio- ster.S» career, in perspective and aimosphc . | description—all those will charm it is the most sansfaetory .pen portrait ^ | discerning reader and hold his attention. Daniel obsuT that has yet appeal e-J. (The; \vhole. \The Biography of a (.entury Company. S_ net.) | Girl’’ is n book of a most unusual ' ^ j quality.. The mother dying, wishes her child L I D 'IA N B E L L B I R T H D A Y BOOK. : J-hall have a larger opportunity in life, the , . ■ . ^ -w -[b r o a d e r scope that education gives. The A volume of extracts from the w ritings of opportunity is made and the .story closes Lilian Dell, tlv-' w ell known author and ‘ deparfuro from home for the men- to which he gives the name “Out of Glouces ter,” that being the port from whence hail the deep sea fishermen whose adventures these tales chronicle. All but one of the stories are about G loucester craft and men, the exception being a graceful tale of . B Y RD T H ULC EHERY STUART; “;^ap61eqn Jackson, the Gentlemam oT Plush ih t b e . presentation'^, ihej^iofe’ form'lOf one of'th e best stories oU S o u the^ * negrb life which Mrs. Ruth; McBnery Stuart' ha.s yet w ritten. It Is printed In beautlfui type between charming covers and is, m o st attractively illustrated by Edward P o tthast. The first appearance or this story In the Century Magazine made the number in which it w a s contained, n o table on' account of-It. The schem e of the story iS; distlh c tiy orig- nal and beautffully probable. . Napoleon Jackson is the resounding name of a negro Adonis married to a faithful. Industrious, ro tund and affectionate washerwom an 'who supports him In good style, as v-'ell as kindly m o thers not a few pickaninnies who are her pride as w e ll as her progeny. N a p o leon Jackson was always well dressed and< n ever w’orked. H is wife’s explanation of his idle ness is unique. His mother had worked so hard and so long, and w'as al-ways so tired that she put a spell on Napoleon Jackson so that he could not only never work, but could never even try to work. At the sam e time he was handsome, am iable, tender and true, to say nothing of being very careful about his food and his clothes, which Rose Ann w'as alw a y s careful to see were of the best. The Plush Rocker, was the prize or the reward to which Rose Ann becam e en titled by the exhibition of the lab e ls upon successive wrappers of a certain sort of soap •which she had purcha^d, saving up the wrappers for the prize which was prom ised. She m ight have had a sew ing m achine, but that involved work, and as she m eant the prize for Napoleon Jackson she chose the Plush Rocker, “because when his m other marked him for work she marked him for pleasure in i t . ” The events affected by a re lation to the man, to his w ife, to his ch il dren, to their neighbors and to the Plush Rocker are deftly told, artistically connect ed and exquisitely Infused w ith a veritable, pathos of humor and humor of pathos. The book represents as good work as Mrs. Stuart has done in the field of the short story of Afro-Americanism in life. (Century Com pany. $1.) noveli.st, has boon issued by L. C. Pago & Co. The volume is made up iu the usual fashion of such books, an extract for every thal.^the historian should have been moved toiniSke him the subject of a special memoir, i , . , . , , wfijefi would p^efniiT. ;.pf-a more cxiemlod and-i the year, taken from som e one of minu-te treatm ent of-the man and his achieve- | the author’.s books. The selections, are made meirts than would be possible in the pages of a -g^eral hist c r y .' . ■V\*haievcr the inciting mo?p¥p. however, fbe anu compiled by A. H. Bogue. who happens to be the authoress’ husband. .Among the are •The Love Affairs of an Old Maid.\ “ From a Girl's Point of View.\ “Sir John and the American Girl,” \The Under Side of Things.” L ittle Sister to the 'U'ildGrnes.s.’’ \The E x p a triates” and \The In s tin c t of Siep- fntlierhood.” One does not realize how “quot able\ an author Lilian Dell is her departure from home for lal training for which she hungers. The book presents a picture of frontier life never before been set forth w ith just this coloring. It is .so sweet and'.wholosome.’ so truthful in.-Its realism , so. full of the spirit of genuine literature that it merits a large raeasure of'success. (The Century Cc-mpany, $1.50.) V E A G L E B UD O D <By . JATVES CREELMAN. Price, $ 1.50 MAIL AND EXPRESS SAYS: i “ It is a good, patriotic tonic, a wholesome book f o r Americans to read. It has variety, life, and color.’’ I’-'. !• cesi / Ine she put moi deli chil LOTHROP PIIPIISHIMR COMPANY, BOSTON WM4 James B. Connolly. “EMMY BOOK A N D TbG^^fe4jr,aJC„We.bstOT IS set - f o r t h ^vith a ^ Afmius n f ‘nn Old M a i d . \ \ F r c diJjpa.s^ioiiat^noss ,o! tT c a i m e i n and ciarity of ;,vigio,P: s rai'Cidy to be found in any other biqgrnphT , of-the-nia-n-.- The book- is'-a memoir rather Lhan a bio- g r ^ k y . Wcb.--tor lived so much in (he fierce lig la to f publicity, ihni it is not po.ssiblo to; ‘V\n'\author TiEoT^DVlT^Ts'* u^ eran- f refeunnu anything c.ssentially new-concetm-through those pages; :and noting how | analyze down to their final elem ents the Ing'tBe far-ts of his career.norrlocsourauthor ; crisp and pungent things are to be i f^iO'Jghts, feelings, aspirations and ideals of a t t ^ p t it. A suiTiclent amount oi d(Mai] is : from her writings. Each page is I childhood, to tell not what the child thinks, presented to form a harmonious narrativo, . . hiH The principal aim is .to show how the hiis^s'-bU’VVeb'Bi LOU, H E R H E A R T .’’ Since the study of childhood has been adopted into the family of sciences a num ber of books have been written which claim faced with a blank one. with correspond- i I but why he thinks as he does. Inevitably , • w -tx- L- . - > -5 . Y I-,- . dates, in which the reader m ay enter some of these profound studies bring to mind ph^^b -of. u eb sic r s pi iwaie am. political i ,q,her thoughts suggested by the author or j jines in the old Scotch song: liffejj'^lped to make him. the* .man he ; Qt.her extracts from her writings which bap- ‘ was.^or contributed to the great facts of bis career. -u mm - .uv;.r> ui (-cmmctid iheiTiselvcs to th e inscrlbor. | chinkin’ ui.on mu- T h e r e is given i^omo account of hi.^ . r.ortrnit, of fhe a u t h o r , re p r o d u c i n g a full I mcn” - F) t u T-'.ifli.Tr i r.rirt r*!: wirl-. n t . . , _____ ______ „ — wliiu «'an the liuldle l<en? fthl ng. like mony mighty forbears: hi.s father i.s portrayed with an ! p .n cth bv Grovor. .sf'rvos a s frontispiece. ---'** ' ---- 1 ri rrbI 1 V L-r> f\nr Tin n i fvt i , ‘ > . ..... i.. ^ _ ,-i i.. ap>5i*«'’i:uivc touch'.'and rig h t l y .‘-m. for Daniel WeTTStor oweri m u c h to •h1?i''rntfTer. ' ‘ If Wa.- t h ^ 'Stern j i o t e r m i n a l i o n of th e old n*yolu- “ - -- “ r.nirrKhh’P I The volume tastcfullv made, and is in closed in a .*'.eai box. (.$l.J.').) I f o r it seem s as if m o s t of the folk ivho s e t ] o u t to expound the science of childhood m a d e ; a Vfvy larao fifll oC Uio, matter of cxplana- g,- its' tcnfierness njid homely pathos, 'tion. Some people who write stories about would' he ----- the Irish coast. The book opens w ith “A Chase Overnight,” in which an old salt de tails the happenings of that famous occasion when the Henry Clay Parjeer beat the Lucy Foster. “On the E c h o o* the Morn” re counts the exploits of the^ schooner of that name, what time she slipped out of the clutches of the Dominion . revenue folk who had taken her in charge for fishing within the three mile lim it, . He was a -cunning Yankee sailorman who was skipper of the Echo o: the Morn, and he played* it very sharply and shrewdly on the revenue people and on the cruiser that was sent after him when he got away. Two/Of the tales, “From Reykjavik to Gloucester” and “Tommy Ohl- son’s Western Passage,” are alike in motive, in that they deal w ith the exploits of skip pers who beat sm art yachts from the coast of northern Europe to the American shore, accomplishing the feat by hard driving and consummate seamanship. The Irish coast story, ”A Fisherm an of Costla.” is one of the best thing.s in the book, not by reason of the daring and sp irit it exhibits; but be- THE H E B E DOCTOB. The fourth novelette in the \Hour Glass’’ series, published by the Funk & W agnalls Company, is Robert MacDonald’s little story w ith a German background, entitled \The Herr Doctor.” It deals with the adventures of tw o American women, an old maid aunt and her niece. The two are on a walking tour in Germany, when the aunt, who is a believer in Christian Science, is sm itten w ith rheumatism. The aunt declares it “is only m ortal thought,” and charges the re- spcnsibillty upon her companion, who, she declares, \has calam ity written all over her.’* The niece, Elizabeth, in spite of her aunt's protests, summons the doctor In the vicinage, and he m a sterfully carries the pa tien t oft to the castle In the neighborhood, where he chances to be residing. He turns out to be an American medical student, and there ensue com p lications into which the aunt plunges through her desire to make a m a tch between the niece and the owner ot the castle. How the thing is worked out and the way it is brought to a happy con clusion, is best read in the book. The story is slight, but it is cleverly handled. (40 cents net.) The title of Una D. Silberrad's new novel, which Doubleday, Page & Co. w ill publish next week, has been changed from—The Story of a Success” to \The Success ot Mark W yn- gate.” It Is the story of a man w-hosc de votion to science has made him keen and self-sufflcient, ■ but incapable of love. The man, with Tils unexpected relations to a woman, is said to be a no less striking cre ation than ‘.‘The Lady of Dream s,” nor less humorous than \Prinonec ‘Pn„lj-'' _ VV.- V.,.. Princess 'Puck”—the two m ost successful ot the same author’s former novels. NEW PUBLICATIONS. THE ‘M ISSISSIPPI BOBBLE mat lish of a and and spei roul rupl eurs ente Frai men On the Top Wave of Popularity “ < The Mississippi Bofable,’ by EMETiSON HOUGH, is one of fhe truly great romances. It is truth and art combined.”—The Boston yournal. MISS GILDER, editor of The Critic, says; \ It is one of the best novels that has come out of America in many a day.\ seve beat EobE gerc disc treff vlsb Into chhi and well Xhe> BOWEN-M E R .R.I1..L CO M P A NY, P u b l i s h e r s . that made it: po.=s!ble for ihp'\boy to ob’ In the preliminary Instruction thni started jihn 1 ... ..on . h i s . upward career. Lorn. January i,s. ; 17S2, the ouUonk un life from the New ; Hampshire farmhouse wa.s not particularly i '• encouraging at; the world is accustomed lo [ • view things. But the surrounding.s were.n ! stim u lus rather, than a hindrance, lude-'d. : had the young.stor been born even to a com- ! ’ ” p etencc. it is doubtful whether the world j -wofild .ever have heard of him. rlU tastt ?' . -xvero ,.scholarly, he loved boohs and would hav^ been content to sit in a conK-:- and * ’ Indulge in the deii;;hts of Iii“ra“.v schoinr- '.Bfiip.. i^ot stern lircoss.ity coniin.dlrd bi’n ..to, e<.rn h^. own livi.ug. fie beranie a law yer not Ifrough any .special liking for the pro’fesslou’ at the outset, but because it •eem ed .the only, avenue . ^ i c h afforded op- . .jp r t u a it y for advancement. Even ^.icn ho hard to decide which of dorm some unusually griod work, ha.s written I-''t ''i’.v and xvherefore. of the world as it [he 6‘[fa,‘ ' t h e ^ s X irfh a t '! m i- a no.v romance. \Hidden Manna.\ which A. i app-als to a childish vision than do the sci- is th a t daring sea rovers ““one of the most successful book.s in this 'vho arc famous on the coasts of two cou- comb, thn notc.l nstnmoincr. is announced i anthor’s masculine cognomen conceals a ! ' ' fhe for, publication shortly hy M e n ,ire. I’liillips | feminine identity, and that in private Hfo ■ a first place, is the faculty he rtispiaj.s tor ,C' (^.o. T'h.‘ ti^ic i.*^ ” A:-;irnnomy for Every- j--.. - .- .. -- - .... . . bedy.\ Tl’c rnibor dcscrintu-^ ilic hoaven.s | vtllo, Ky. She ha.s been writing for som e ycar.s : ns iht* eye of srituii-e h <’ cs tiicm. with much j lint this is the first time her work has scor«>d so pronounced a success. The book recounts the experiences of a little girl called “Emmy Lon.” nssIie slowly climbed by accre- lion of years and development of knowledge through the successive steps of the public ■Ast;o;,mny‘'for Ev\r.y- | of% e a liT ri“ a'boiT^hls t)U' sam e (’iicin'o of -iFt-iils the dt'seriptlons of a traveler rhroij^li >:n unknown land would have. He nl.sn ( .-vr'IaiM.-^ the uses of ihe vari- r.as artronoinii at in-’ninu nrs and tell.s how (lie .slur.-; api! ulaih'i.i; may be studied with jirofit ami ijite.’cst t»y ti*.<‘ amateur asiroim - j scliooi, from primary to the lofty height of I rner who ha.« no (olescopu or observatory. Tlie book is the second 'n the \Science for Evcrybo^ly Series,” of which rTofes.sor F. A. Lucas' “Animals of Uic Past” was the first. the graduating class, to the time when it became a question whether Emmy Lou, hav- ♦ V»t r Olfrrtltv rtf n ViirrVi c/vllrkr»l lug re.achcd'. the dlsuity °t » high school sophomore, should belong to the P latonlan ] wonderful deal of work; his fishermen are aliN'e, h is sea dialect is the common speech of the folk whose adventures he chronicles. You hear the swish of the waves and the hum of the wind through the rigging of the able craft as her skipper holds her up into the wind and SH-ears be will get to Gloucester ahead of his rival or tear the sticks out of her. Wo have had nothing like these sea stories in a long tim e. Other men have tried to write of G lou c e : * r and her bold X3he Illustrated $ 1.50 Vultures HENRY SETOR MERRIMAN A N o vel o f Russian Intrigue This is an exciting novel of love and adventure. The attaches of the foreign diplomatic service play an important part. cAuihor o f “ The Sovoers H a r p e r tS l B r o t h e r s / ’’^”^Ji^ jh itor a Gj ?l;2( TigO HUtl boy find! prov nab plos p i t rells Please asfc yoor neivsdealer for namber one, out to-day. THE READER A recent issue by the Scribners Is a new and cheap edition of Robert Douis Steven son’s \An Inland Voyage.\ In sp ile ot Ihe numerous complete editions of Stevenson’s works, there fs a constant demand for cer tain of his books, arid ,it is to m eet this requirem ent that this new edition is issued. The size Is 16mo, there ore a num b er ot 1 illustrations, the book is well made, the type clear and the paper ot good qualit.v. It ! makes a very convenient volume to sli’p into ■| the pocket, and Ihcre are few companions so pleasant for travel or a quiet jaunt as Stevenson’s \Inland Voyage.” It is espe cially well adapted to a canoe trip, whether in the w inter over the inland w a ters of Florida, or iii the summer on the lakes and rivers of more northern paraJJeJs. (fl. 25 .) A literary ..magazine without: a doll page in it. The .tttitude ot the Jews Toward Jewish Fiction, By Bernard G. Richards. The Unknown Love, a story by R. ‘V. R lsley. . • ’ The Literary Guillotine—The People vs. Richard Harding Davis. (Judges Mark Twain and Oliver Herlord.) The Pastim e of Book. Collecting. Lyrics of Sappho, by Bliss Carman. Rudyard K ipling as an Illustrator. Letters from Paris and London and 20 other original contributions. N o one who ever reads a hoofc will want to be without “ The Reader.” . . Tc guld expe It Is writ (Het of.tl ' Wh'a of tl • cboo live In 1 are , ures -phoc theri gees Crus good I'. 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