Indianapolis Journal, Volume 51, Number 336, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 December 1901 — Page 4

THE IXDIAXAPOMS JOURNAL, MONDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1001.

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Leertr.r, northwest corner f Third and Jetferson streets, anl oulvm liook Co., ir'ourth avenue, i ET. LOUIS -Union News Company. Union DpotWASIIINGTON. D. C RIggs Ilouse. ELbltt House. Fairfax Hotel. V.illurd Hotel. It Is a bad omen for Democratic reorginlzation and harmony that the first caucus of the session should have nearly ended ii a row. Representative Hepburn thinks the present rules of tho House give the sepaker eltlrely too much power. Perhaps he wsould not think so if ho were speaker. t I .Former Representative, now Senator, liilley has declared for Mr. Gorman, of jaryland. as Mr. Bryan's successor. Mr. Herman's name was hissed in the Indiana Democratic convention in 1j9ItJut for the abuse of the law creating ad defining second-class mail matter, which costs the government $10,000,000 a year, the people might have the letter rate reduced to one cent the half ounce. i " may be said that the Republicans would not have dared to nominate a I man for speaker who had copyrighted a; government book and printed it for the p-otlt of himself and friends from electrotjtye plates made by the government at its expense. The Bankers' Magazine of London gives a list of ZZZ British government, railroad aud industrial securities which have declined since the war in South Africa began ai total of jC113,3K.i0. or nearly J710,730,0-X. IrUisTf consols, which Just before the war brgan were quoted at 1U3, are now .1 13-16. A rumor prevails in London that at an entertainment to be given this week in h -nor of the Prince of Wales Mr. ChamLrlain will make a speech practically offering the Roers much better terms than tltey have bten offered heretofore. Any concession will be humiliating to the British government, and it may come too late, besides. j fNot fo much as a means of economy, but a a matter of pmbllc morals, tho country h!pes that the House will reduce the number of unnecessary names on its pay roll. The government should not employ more men than arc nettled to du Its work. To d so Is demoralizing because the fact becomes known and hundreds of men seek tf-e sinecures. The demand that some of the new warBhlps be built in government yards, which to or three congressmen and a few men nar the navy yards are mainly responsible for, is based upon the assumption that the government 13 under obligation to help workmen who cannot gt other employment, and not upon the declaration that the slip3 can tie built as cheaply In the navy y.jrds as by private firm. IV truant from the public schools in Findlaiy, O., having given as a reason that other piipils laughed at his poor clothes, the Ehool authorities are talking of adopting atpchool uniform for public school pupils of both sexes. Such a rule probably could not be enforced, but the matter referred tc? Is one of some importance, and may hive more influence in making truants than the public is aware of. It should be tfe aim of school authorities and teachers t! inculcate the principle and practice of a?solute equality in the public schools. The Detroit Free Press suggests that the etjsineer who made the mistake which cjused the frightful collision on the Wabrsh Railroad was the victim of a mental pvank. It suggests that when ho read his orders "Seneca" to the conductor he had Sand Creek In his mind, because the switch at Seneca had been constructed only t'enty-four hours, while he had been using tle Sand Creek switch for years, so that the name was so associated in his mind with a switch that he mentally read that place for Seneca, the new name having no p.ace in his mind as a switching -station. Tjie Free Press claims that every person nakes similar blunders. Vhe annual report of the controller of trie currency, an abstract of which is published in this issue, shows that the nationa banking system and other financial institutions of which that officer takes cognisance are In a moat flourishing condition. Ii ?plte cf all tho dmagoRie hostility, the national banklni? system enjoys tha confld!nce cf the country. The liabilities to df realtors of th? 4,271 national bank doing bi ?tncfs were Zrt,ZZtZZ.'Z at the last re4 r":rt. whll the-ir loans nKtfreKated IC.OIS.:fc,9H.40. Put, extensive as Is the business oi the national banks, it is but a fraction c the resources of all the State, savings, p,lvate banks and knn and trun companies. There are 12.17 J banks of all kinds, trtilch have deposits of KUD.2!;,110 and IcJ-.n and discounts amounting to ISU.SJO,Th net earnings of th- national banks w?re S.l jr cent, on their paid-up stock fihring the last year, but wh-n the surplus earnings are added to the capital stock

as they should be when calculating profits.

the dividends averaged 5.7 per cent. Under the banking act of 712 banks have been organized, of which u3 have a capital stock not exceeding J.7)"0. The outstanding circulation of the national banks, Sept. .), i?oi, was J323.y3.C37. While there are probably localities which still favor the granting to State banks the authority to I.-sue currency, the demand is not as wide as it was because the national banks or. small capital have supplied the needed circulation. tiii: nn.MovAL of (iov. jx:xkins. The President's removal of Governor Jenkins, of Oklahoma, has a political sig nificance far beyond its personal or local aspect. The country cares nothing for Mr. Jenkins personally, ror much as to who 13 Governor of Oklahoma beyond a general desire that the Territory may be well and honestly governed. But It is deeply concerned in the establishment of the rule that public office is a public trust and in tho maintenance of a high standard of official integrity. From this point of view the removal of Governor Jenkins carries an Instructive lesson and is significant of what may be expected of President Roosevelt in all cases involving the same principle. The case Is the more remarkable because Mr. Jenkins, first appointed as secretary of the Territory, was appointed Governor for four years by President McKinley only a few months before the latter's death. No person reveres the memory of President McKinley more profoundly than President Roosevelt does, and only a very strong sense of duty could Induce him to undo any act or remove any appointee of his predecessor. From this point of view his conclusion was doubtless reached reluctantly, but he makes It plain that he regarded his duty as imperative. Had he removed Jenkins without assigning any reasons, as he had a perfect right to do, some might have said he was actuated by an unworthy motive. The reasons he assigns forestall this charge and end all argument. He says: "Governor Jenkins, of Oklahoma, is hereby removed because of his Improper connection with a contract between the Territory and the Oklahoma Sanatorium Company." The precise offense was a request by the Governor that, In return for a certain contract given the Sanatorium Company, it should reserve and set apart for him ten thousand dollars worth of Its stock, which afterward proved to be valuable. It appeared in evidence that the Governor told the company: "I have some friends whom I would like to have interested in the company to whom I owed some political obligations which I would not be able to pay by an appointment or anything of that kind." In pursuance of this suggestion the stock was delivered to a banker, subject to the Governor's order, and was by him turned over to the friends alluded to. Of course, this was done In payment of borrowed money or for political services, and to liquidate an obligation which the Governor was under to these friends, in other words, he made "a good thing" for himself and his friends out of an official contract with a corporation which it was probably under stood at the time should compensate itself by making extra profits cut of the Ter ritory. After stating these facts, which were established beyond a doubt, the President says: A sound rule of public policy and morals forbids a public servant from seeking or accepting any personal benefit in a transaction wherein he has a public duty to per form. A chancellor would not for one moment retain a trustee who, in dealings for the trust, reserved an advantage to himself. The thought is not to be tolerated that the President can be less vigilant and exacting in the public interest. As to the justice of the rule here laid down and the propriety of the President's action thero can be no doubt, and yet there are men In politics and perhaps some in ofneo who will think It a hard rule. There are some men in office It Is to bo hoped not many, and that their tribe may not increase who think it perfectly legiti mate to make a good turn for themselves or their friends out of official contracts or in almost any way short of actual embezzlement. Some of these will say: "Why, Jenkins didn't get anything. He was only taking care of his friends, and I vo no use for a man who won't do that." No doubt It has been done thousands of times, but that does not make the practice any less indecent or corrupt. Whoever accepts public office without a paramount copvlction that it is a public trust, or with a determination to take care of his friends in any other way than Is plainly authorized by law, U a traitor to the people and to republican government. By removing Governor Jenkins for the cause stated President Roosevelt has given public notice that he will enforce a high standard of official ethics and will not tolerate any departure from the idea that public office Is a public trust. Tim house CArcrsKs. The significant feature of the House Republican caucus on Saturday to nominate officers was the caution of the speaker about appropriations. It is a timely caution because it is a Republican danger. The good times and treasury surplus have Incited in many people a desire to obtain some part of it for their schemes. No river and harbor appropriation bill was passed by the last Congress; the man who expects to be chairman of the committee and some of his colleagues have been traveling about the country, evidently to discover the localities where money can be expended to advantage. It is announced that the bill will call for JT-O.OCO.OOO. in spite of the fact that the estimates of the chief engineer of the army do not reach half that amount. The ship-subsidy bill, should it pass in the form presented by Senator Frye, will call for several millions, while there are propositions for ocean cables and Irrigation for the arid land which are likely to reach a large aggregate if the Ilouse does not set its face against the Influences of the plausible promoters of such schemes. A purpose to be prudent with the people's money should lead representatives to be conserva tive, but if this consideration should not influence those who pasa appropriation bills the election In the fall should. The caucus began right by voting to re tain the rules under which recent Houses have been able to legislate. If there could te a minority which would not u?e Its power to prevent legislation the old rules would do, but such being the purpose of minori ties the moat of the rules are essential to the enactment of laws. A great deal of power is lodged in the hands of the speak er, but the experience of years proves that. without such power, little can be done In the way of legislation. To adopt some of the propoaltfcms of General Hepburn would be to turn the House, not Into a debatluc

school, since few men debate measures in

the Ilouse, but Into an arena for political harangues. General Hepburn was not per mitted to push his Nicaragua canal bill to the front last year, and it was fortunate for the countrj' and the party that he could not. The Democratic caucus made it very clear that, beyond an agreement to tight the Republicans, the members of that party in the House cannot agree upon a general policy. The old-time Populists Newlands of Nevada, Shafroth and Bell of Coloradowere in the Democratic caucus, having de clared themselves Democrats. The "glad hand" which was extended to these silverites was the Fitzgerald resolution declaring that "tho question of the standard of value had been definitely closed by the recogni tion of the gold standard." A member offered the Kansas City platform as a sub stitute. "We can never win if we do not discard the heresy of free silver," said a New York member. "We can never win unless men calling themselves Democrats support the national platforms of the Democratic party," was the angry retort of a Southern member. Thereupon all of the resolutions wero sent to a committee to prevent an angry dispute as to what constitutes Democratic principles. Even on the issues which the people settled In the elec tions of 1S05 and 1D00 the Democrats of the House cannot agree. The Sentinel gives evidence of the abound ing prosperity which came with tho Republican success in 1SLJ6, and shows the business enterpriso of its publishers by go ing to great expense In securing one of the best, most modern and complete newspaper outfits In any city of the class of Indianapolis. The Journal congratulates the Sentinel upon the success which has come to it. The Sentinel has undertaken to instruct its party in Indiana. In doing this it castigated its members of the Legislature when they were disposed to go wild. They have retorted by threats of starting another Democratic paper, only to be the objects of derision. Democratic leaders in recent years have so frequently changed their principles that many of the "rank and file are greatly confused in regard to what they must believe to be able to call themselves Democrats. If all such Democrats will read the Sentinel they will be sure of knowing the better brand of Democracy on the Indiana market. Mr. Payne, of New York, when he declared In tho Republican eauct:s of the House that he hoped Congress had heard the last of expositions, expressed a very general sentiment. When the St. Louis exposition is provided for, let Congress go out of the business. There are several expositions mentioned to celebrate this or that event which would not be thought of if It were not easier than It once was to get , a large appropriation from Congress. Not only are largo appropriations obtained from Congress, but States are In duced to make considerable expenditures In order to keep up with the procession. In 1S75, when Congress was asked for a small appropriation to aid the Philadelphia cen tennial. It was voted with a proviso that the money be refunded, and a part if not all was refunded. If Congress will Impose a similar policy toward the expositions springing up here and there, there will be fewer of them. These remarks do not ap ply to the St. Louis fair, but to all after It. The Journal has received a circular out lining the plan of organization of the Ger manic Museum Association. The projectors of the movement include many prominent German-Americans and Americans inter ested in German history and literature. and its object Is to establish and maintain an American Germanic museum as a sort of memorial in America to the fatherland The movement has the approval and co operation of Harvard University, which has already taken some steps in the direction indicated, and it is proposed to make the Germanic Museum a feature of that institution. Membership in the asso ciation or further information regarding it can be secured by addressing Herbert Small, secretary, 244 Washington street. Doston. THE HUMORISTS. Gratefully Appreciated. Detroit Free Press. Joe We ought to be thankful for the general prosperity this year. Jerry That's right; lots of men that ured to borrow money of me don't speak to me now. l'rom Ulm. Philadelphia Tress. "What lovely Mack eyes she hau. "Yea; hereditary." "Ah! I suppose her mother" "No, her father. He was a pugilist." A Revival. Life. "They differ as to religion." "Why, I didn't surpose that either of them cared a rap about religion!" "Well they didn't, until they found out that they differed as to it." Ills Complaint. ruck. First Farmer Elest if I think the Agricultural Department is any good at all! Second Farmer vVhat's the trouble? First Farmer Well, t wrote to m to find out how high wheat was goin' to go an' I couldn't get no satisfaction at all. Timidity. Washington Star. "Don't you love children?" "Some children," answered the man who la slightly ball. "Rut don't you love children as a rula?" "No. I once taught school. I don't love them. I fear them." The Honest Rustic. Baltimore American. "Why do you feed yur turkeys those poker checks?" we asked of the Honest Rustic. "To give them a gamey flavor," he responded, with a quaint smile that told all too plainly that he was clubbing the weekly village paper with the comic magazine. INDIANA EDITORIAL NOTES. Queen Wilhelmina is reported better, but there is no improvement in her husband, Prince Henry. Ho Is just as bad as ever. South Bend Tribune. Hon. J. N. Babcock, of Lagrange, is billed as a farmers' institute worker. Having lost the fingers of one hand recently, he ought to bo able to talk intelligently ua ""What I Know About Corn Shredders." Angola Magnet. Leading a fast life, spending public money with aMavigh hand and brinRin upon himself the disgrace of a defaulter, Impelled Stuart R. Young, the retiring treasurer of the city of Louisville, to commit suicide. It Is the old. old story told over. Recklessness besets misery and terminates in ruin. Kxamples are numerous, but the lesion taught appears to have little effect on the "other fellow." South Bend Times. The good will and esteem felt away from home for the late William McKinley is admirably shown by the action of the Chinese merchants at Shanghai In raising funds to erect a monument in his honor at that place. It is said that never before

has such an action been taken on behalf of any but a Chinese person. Portland ComI..- .

niercxai-iieview. The fact that nrictlcallv all the post masters In the Sixth congressional district .re stalwart Republicans and therefore trong supporters of Congressman Watson - -..vv.. k I 1 1 U press. And what makes the matter the more irritating to the m n. Is the fact that nine-tenths of the Republicans In the district are of the same political fiber. Rich mond Palladium. Stuart R. Young, of Louisville, sacrificed his honor and his life to a passion for gambling on the races. It is peculiarly a Kentucky tragedy. One of the most brilliant young men in the city of Louisville, whose popularity is evidenced by his occu pancy of a city office, who married but half a. year ago a Dene or tne bluegrass, phiub a bullet thrniiirh hie hrln hnanaA his love - - - - " " Ulli V V t- . ' - - of horse racing had caused him to risk not only nis own rortune, but the treasure placed In his keeping by the people. Truly a sad drama, and one with which Kentucky is not uniaminar, a wreck of lire too irequent in this State of rare women, horses and whisky. Evansville Courier. RECENT PUBLICATIONS. The HlKht of Way. Gilbert Parker has written several stories that are out of the common, that deal with new and unhackneyed themes, or that treat old themes in a fresh and original way. He has produced nothing that is dull, but in this latest book, "The Right of Way," he has surpassed all previous efforts in the way of entertainment. Primarily, the book is a psychological study, and though before the irruption of the historical novel fiction readers were heard to protest against the prevalence of psychology In novels, a book of this class comes now as a refreshing change. But It Is not a tune played upon one string; it Is psychological, but it is also descriptive and it touches life upon many sides, though its scene is, for the most part, laid in a village In the Canadian woods, almost as remote from modern civilization as if the time were centuries ago Instead of to-day. The moral regeneration of "Charley Steele" is the central theme. Charley Steele is introduced in the first chapter as the lawyer for the accused in a murder trial in the city of Montreal. He is known there as "Beauty" Steele, being a handsome man and something of a fop. But he is dissipated and only at his best mentally when under the inlluence of drink. Public interest in the trial is due to his part in It rather than to any care for the prisoner. He makes a brilliant plea and clears the man, who is a French half-breed from the backwoods. The next scene shows him indulging in a reckless carouse In a low suburban resort. He taunts and maddens the rough river men and is knocked on tho head by one of them and thrown into the river. He is taken out of the water by the man he saved from hanging. Is taken to the home of the latter in the forest near the village of Chaudlere, more than a hundred miles away, and there comes to perfect physical health, but with total loss of memory. When he recovers his mind, after many months, he learns from a stray newspaper that his wife, whom he had long before estranged by his conduct and willful neglect, has married again and that his blacksheep of a brother-in-law has laid upon the shoulders of the supposedly dead Charley Steele the blame of a misuse of trust funds of which he himself is guilty, and has thus blackened an honest man's name. After due reflection he decides that since he is thourjht to b dead, and since his return will bring to shame the woman he once loved and for whom he has a faint lingering affection, he will remain in obscurity. This he does, and, as the tailor of Chaudiere, works out his salvation as best he may. How he does it forms the burden of the tale. Wherever thi3 forceful man lives, even though he remains silent and stirs up no dissension willingly, unusual happenings are sure to come about, and they come, many of them, affecting his fortunes and those with whom he is thrown into association. The contrast between this keen, trained mind, this sophisticated, worldweary man, and the simple-minded villagers is one of the most striking effects produced by tho author. How the "tailor" struggles to overcome the old craving for whisky, which returns to him from time to time; how he fights against and overcomes a temptation to wrong the woman who has come into his life in that out of the way village, by marrying her without telling her of the other wife who does not know of his existence; how these struggles eventually make a new man of Charley Steele these things are told in a direct, convincing way that leaves nothing to be desired. It is a swift-moving narrative, the author being evidently animated by the single purpose of telling his tale with out interruption or unnecessary comment; in this respect it is in refreshing contrast to the ill-constructed, meandering, not to say floundering, fiction with which the bookshops are filled. Unfavorable criticisms have been made of the book, but when analyzed these prove to be criticisms of Steele himself, and the author does not present him as a saintly character, even after his moral renovation. Mr. Parker strikes a false note, perhaps, in the final scene and introduces a suggestion of melo drama through the appearance of Katha rine and her new husband, and the bring ing of Steele's eyeglass into rlay for the last time; its appearance In tho dying man s hand Jars upon the sense of fitness, but the proporlety of its place there i3 merely a matter of opinion. The author doubtless felt it to be a characteristic touch the illustration of an old habit strong to the end of life. The Right of Way belongs in the rather limited list of novels of the first class issued during the year. Harper & Brothers. DiiKby's Daughter. Bessie and Marie Von Vorst, who are credited with writing this novel are, no doubt, clever writer.?, and, possibly, clever satirists, but they are not ingenious romancers. "Bagsby's Daughter" Is lame and crude in places and Its tone, some maligners may say. is not above Chicago par. The story opens In Chicago with an almost love-at-slght marriage, goes with limited train speed to New York, halts there long enounh for a bridegroom to lose bride, fortune and character, jumps across to England, lingers there for a time and ends with the reunited couple on the Dover express, inditing a telegram of for giveness to Bagsby s Daughter s father. The book is of the society novel order and Chicago society, at that. There Is Mrs Crawford-Crawford, the leader of the "40." and there is Mrs. Victoria Belford. whose life has been rendered unhappy by a dis solute husband and who tries to regain happiness by loving another man. Then there is Mr. Tatterfleld West. who. after being jilted, makes love to the bride, just as Mrs. Victoria Belford does to the bride's husband. The chief characters in the book, aside from those mentioned, are Robert Halifax, a lawyer, and the hero; Violet Bagsby, the heroine; Camden G. Bagsby, the father of lolet. and manufacturer of "Bagsby s Bronchitis Capsules." who has made mil lions by giving his customers an article of merit a never falling cure; Mrs. Bagsby, a tender-hearted mother, who finds it difficult to keep pace with the "400;" young Grcvenor ("Grove." as he is called), the hope of the Ragsby family; the LawrenceSands, and Miss Prangle, the governess, who grieves for the young parted couple and who stills her New England conscience long enough to reunite them. The story. In brief is: Halifax meets Violet at a musicale given by Mrs. Crawford-Crawford, is captivated by her loveliness, and within a few minutes asks her "will you marry me?" Violet reflects a moment and. although she has given Mr. Patterfield West permission to sue for her hand and heart, answers Halifax's question: "I will." Papa and mamma are informed and the woddlng takes place In a few days. Then Robert and Violet start for London by way of New York. If they had known what was in store for them they probably would h.ve run over to St. Joseph. Mich., or Milwaukee-two havens for hastily married Chicatroans for a few days before goini? Kat. but they were r.ot peers, and. therefore, their trouble?. On the same train that bears them to New York Is Mrs. Victoria lielford and Mr. Patterfield West. The former has loved Halifax for years, and the latter still loves Violet, and both are determined to separate the coupl for selfish reasons. On reaching New York Halifax arranges to sail the next day with his bride. "While en route to the steamer Violet xnlfsea her Jewel case and remembers she left It in her room at th1 hotel. There is little time to spare. Violet ia driven to the ship, while Halifax hastens back for the jewel case. He mistakes the room and entfrs Mrs. Belford's apartments. whre her husband Is dving. She beseeches Halifax not to leave her in her distress, and there is a tearful interview. Halifax, however, is loyal to his wife, but loses so much time that he misses the steamer and the bride sails alone. In the meantime, Mr. Patterfield West has been syplng around, sees Halifax with Mrs. Bel

ford. hastens to the steamer and takes passage. He misleads Violet into the be

lief that her husband is aboard. Violet, when she finds she has been deceived, or ders her old "flame" from her presence. He boards the pilot boat and returns to New York. Halifax arranges to sail the next day, then visits hi3 brokers, and finds there is a panic in some stocks he controls. The brokers fail and Halifax loses his for tune, except a few thousand dollars in ready cash. Meeting some friends that evening he i3 Induced to take a hand in a poker game and before the party breaks up he is almost penniless. Mr. l'atterneld West makes sure that Halifax's run of 111 luck well ventilated in the sensational papers and that a full account is "specialed" to Chicago. The story is read by Camden G. Bagsby the next morning. He is furious, believing his daughter has been deserted for Mrs. Belford. and decides to at once go to London with his family and bring back his daughter. He arrives In England before Halifax, whose steamer has been delayed by a mishap. Violet has installed herself In lodgings and la awaiting her husband. In whom she has not lost confidence. Her father finds her, takes her to a hotel, tells the story of her husband's alleged, unfaithfulness, and informs her she must not see Halifax again. "When Halifax arrives he cannot find his wife. Finally he sees j'oung "Grove" on the street and learns she is with her father. who declines to receive him. One of Hali fax's objects in making the trip to London is to submit a report on a mine owned by Englishmen. The stocks floated by the mining company have fallen to a low point. but Halifax, having examined the property, is qualified to make a flattering report. One of his wealthy English friends, knowing that he has had ill luck, purchases a large amount of the mining stock for him at a low figure, and when the report is published the stock advances rapidly, and Halifax Is a millionaire. Mrs. Belford visits him in his room at night, but her ad vances are repulsed. She is stricken with remorse, goes to Bagsby. tells her story. and exonerates Halifax. Bagsby forgives his son-in-law. In the meantime Violet disappears, but Halifax learns, through Miss Prangle, where she has gone, catches the train on which she has taken passage, finds her alone in a compartment and is received with open arms. Thus ends the story, which would be strictly Cmcagoesque if a divorce case had been worked Into It. Harper & Brothers, New York. The WashlnRtonlans. In this really brilliant novel, the fourth from the pen of Pauline Bradford Mackie, the author has evolved and carried to its culmination a double plot of life in Wash ington during the later days of the civil war. It is a story of love and politics, simply told, and yet with all a woman's nicety of detail. The love story is simple enough that of the private secretary of a member of Lincoln's Cabinet and the Cabinet member's ward, and though there are just enough Interruptions to prove again the truth of the old adage that the course of true love never runs smooth, still the difficulties are not so great as to be Insurmountable, nor are they unsurmounted. The page that sees "finis" therefore sees a happy ending of this phase of the book. In the political side of the story there are many changes, many currents, many warring interests. The ambition of the Cabinet member before referred to to succeed his chief in the presidential chain that he might "bring the war to a close," the clever politician who urged him on, with a view to further his own ambitions; the plotting of his daughter, the wife of a Union officer of high rank, in her father's behalf; the varying and usually conflicting currents of diplomacy all these are set forth with much skill and are carried along smoothly to the announcement In the closing chapter that dashes the chief of these ambitions to the ground; the announcement, on the day of the Republican convention, that "Ohio has declared for the President." For the Cabinet member whose ambitions, and whose daughter's ambitions for him, form the central theme of the story. Is an Ohioan, depending on his own State for the Initial impulse to give his candidacy force. His portrait Is so cleverly and forcefully drawn that the student of the inner political history of the civil war has little difficulty in identifying, at least to his own satisfaction, the personality of the candidate. Portia, the Cabinet member's daughter, in the better phases of her character, is not altogether unlike some of the leading characteristics of the writer of the book, but these are altogether in the domestic sense, and as to mental attainments and aesthetic tastes and temperament. The book Is a distinctively good addition to the literature of Washington political and social life clean and well written, and with a distinctly Southern atmosphere. "The Washingtonians," by Pauline Bradford Mackie; published by L. C. Page & Co., Boston. The Mecht Hawk. It is sometimes a relief to get away from the "society" novel and the "unknown kingdom" story, and read a thrilling romance filled to overflowing with love and adventure. Such a book Allx John has written, under the title of "The NightHawk," taking for his time of action the sixties that period of awful struggle be tween the North and the South, and for his chief character that most venturesome and recklessly bold class, the blockaderunners. The central figure Is Antoinette Le Moine, a beautiful Southern girl, whom an early and unfortunate marriage has driven Into the ranks of tne adventuress, and whose love for her Southern people and country sends her Into the lands of the enemy as a spy and secret agent of the Confederacy. The scenes shift quickly in the story from the gay courts of France to the old-time Southern plantation, and later to Halifax, the point at which "The Night-Hawk," a blockade-running ship, is taking on a load of ammunition for the Confederate army. Antoinette's love affair. adventures, captures and hair-breadth es capes are fascinatingly told and the inter est in her and her comrades and friends is held fast. From the opening to the close of the book there is not a dull page. The Frederick A. Stokes Company, New lork. The Ilnllnir Passion. Henry Van Dyke, who knows how to write about outdoor things, also belongs to the charming circle of short story writers and offers to the public in "The Ruling Passion," a volume that is good to read and then good to keep by one to read again. It consists of eight short stories, each of which brings out a ruling passion in a prominent way. So that when the reader closes the book he has had presented startling examples of love of music, of a passion for children, of devotion to study, and so forth, in characters well drawn and with strong local color in every story. "The Reward of Virtue," "The Keeper of the Light," and "A Lover of Music" are the best three stories in the book, but the others are readable and worthy. "A Writ er's Request of His Master" which pre cedes the stories and has been much quoted is a3 striking as some of Robert Louis Stevenson's prayers. The book is beauti fully bound and illustrated. New York: Charles Scrlbner's Sons. Famous Actors. The second series of "Famous Actors of the Day in America," by Lewis C. Strang, is carried forward on the lines laid down In the first series, tho two together includ Ing. In the form of biography and criti cism, practically a complete history of the stage in this country during the seasons of 1KÖ-1900 and I:x)-rj0i. The book deals with individual actors and particular parts more than with the general history or progress of the drama. Successive chapters in this volume treat of the younger Sothern, John Drew in comedy and romance, N. C. Goodwin, John B. Mason in modern comedy. Fritz Williams. Edwin Arden, Richard Mansfield's "Henry V." James A. Heme's "Sag Harbor" and a number of other actors and parts equally well known to theater-goers. The articles are written with artistic discrimination and are good specimens of intelligent criticism. There are numerous Illustrations of actors and character parts. Boston: L. C. Page & Co. Old Ballads In Prose. Old English ballads constitute a form of literature of their own kind, and very fasclnatinK in a way. Without recognized authorship or date they were everybody's property and were handed down from sinKer to singer, probably experiencini; some additions and alterations from generationto eneratlon. Most of them had a strong flavor of romance, adventure or mystery, and in unrestrained flights of Imagination they surpassed all other forms ot Action. "Old Ballads in Prose." by Eva March Tappan, is a prose version of some of these old ballads once sung by minstrel. The collection Includes "Willie Wallace." "King John and the Abbot." "How Kobin Hood SorTed the King." and other quaint old ballads to the number of twenty-two. They make good stories for children and can be read with inter st by adults. Boston: Houghton, Mufflln & Co. Itrudini? for the Day. "Joy and Strength for the Pilgrim's Day" is a companion book to "Dailv

Strength for Dally Needs." It Is a small book of 305 pages, containing selections from writers of many countries and centuries of thoughts of courage, faith, hope and love, "to cheer and Inspirit the pilgrim in his daily journey, whether it be in clouds or sunshine, and to remind him of what he can do to help his fellow travelers." It is compiled by Mary Wilder TUeston. Little, Brown & Co., Boston. Glnm and C.old. This story, by James O. G. Duffj opens In southern California, and shifts successively to San Francisco, New York and Europe. It deals with the heart and life experiences of a woman who, -when a mere girl, was betrayed by a man several years her senior, a teacher and preacher, and who. remorseful and repentant, made public confession of her sin. Although she is pure in heart and life her one early sin pursues her and blights her life for many years till finally time brings vindication and retribution, and her really noble character is placed in its true light. The story ends happily. It is skillfully told, well written and interesting all the way through. Phila

delphia: J. IS. Lippincott Company. Divorce Laws of the Various) Stutest. The Funk & Wagnalls Company, NewYork, announce a new and revised edition of "Hirsh's Tabulated Digest of the Divorce Laws of the United States." Strictly speaking there is no divorce law of tho United States, but each State and Territory has its own law. and in this tabulated statement they are all summarized and pre sented in the briefest possible space, it is a compilation by a lawyer, for lawyers and all others interested In the subject, and its contents are arranged in such a way as to give a great amount of information in very condensed form. Incidentally it fur nishes a strong argument in favor of a uniform United States law on the subject. A Book of Riddles. Under the title of "Guess" the IL M. Caldwell Company (New York) Issues a picture book, in which on one page Is a rhyme of this sort: "Though it stays by the house. Yet it leaves in the spring; Though I know well its bark, I don't think it can sing." On the back of this page Is a picture with a tree in the center. Some of the puzzles are more complicated than this, but none Is very difficult to gues. The drawings are ingenious and amusing, and the color printing ofthe best. Four on a Farm. This contains the ups and downs, haps and mishaps and various adventures of four children, brothers and sisters, who journeyed from the city to the country to spend several months with Aunt Malvina. They had a good time, and were as well behaved as could be expected when for the first time they had left their father and mother, and they were also glad to get home again. There are 309 pages in the story and they contain pleasant reading for juveniles. The author is Mary I. Wells Smith; illustrated by Emlcn McConnell. Publishers, Little, Brown & Co., Boston. Betty of Old Mackinaw. This is a story of a summer spent by three children who were left In Mackinaw with an unsympathetic aunt, while their parents were abroad. As they were "bound to be punished anyway" their endeavor was to indulge in all possible forbidden pleasures, between the unpleasantnesses. The author is Frances Margaret Fox. L. C. Page & Co., Boston. An Alphabet Hook. A little book of rhymes and pictures Intended to teach the baby the alphabet by easy lessons comes from L. C. Page & Co., Boston. It has artistic illustrations in black and white and is much more attractive than such books are usually made. Elizabeth and Her German Garden The Henneberry Company, Chicago, Issues a tastefully-bound and prettily-illustrated edition of "Elizabeth and Her German Garden." for which book there Is still a steady demand. The Illustrations are by Alberta Hall. Current Periodicals. The "Sherlock Holmes" serial, "The Hound of the Baskervilles," now running In the Strand Magazine, Involves much mystery and many thrills. The Broadway Magazine, which is mainly devoted to the Interests of the theater, contains In its December issue sixteen pages of portraits of women of the stage. There are new full-page portraits of Mrs. Fiske, Anna Held and Maud Adams. Everybody's Magazine for December Is made beautiful by the series of half-tone Illustrations accompanying its article on "The Vast Business of Flower-Growing." This paper contains a variety of interesting and surprising information concerning the great' industry. An amusing, wellwritten contribution by Llllle Hamilton French, entitled "Hczekiah's Third Wife," relates to the doings of a family of canaries. Its Illustrations are also effective. An out-of-door paper, "The Haunts of the Beaver," is an attractive feature of the number. A department of this magazine is devoted to suggestions to women as to new ways of making money. McClure's Magazine for December opens with a paper by John La Farge on Michael Angelo, with fine tinted Illustrations from Michael Angelo's greatest paintings and sculptures. Several clever sketches and stories appear In the number, among them one entitled "An Independent Boy," which is especially worth reading. George Madden Martin's delightful little "Emmy Lou" makes her appearance again. She is older and has a new teacher, whom she does not like. The first chapters of a serial story by Stewart E. White, author of "The Westerners," are given in this issue. William Allen White has a character sketch of Senator Piatt, of New York, wherein, in his desire to be effective, he sets forth things he cannot possibly know the senator's motives, purposes, etc. A brief editorial survey of th work before the new Congress Is one of the capital features of tho December Review of Reviews. The editor also comments on important data made known by the publication of the last census, especially facts relating to the negro race and their bearing on the problem of education in the South. There is the usual careful editorial summary of foreign politics, the special topics of the month being the passing of Li Hung Chang and the outlook In China, the projects of England and Russia in the far East and in Afghanistan, the aggressive attitude of Germany in the region of the Persian gulf, the Balkan question. Turkish demoralization and the French expedition, the place of Ireland in British politics and the South African situation. The Christmas number of SL Nicholas, from the Macmtllan press, includes many good things. There is first a frontispiece, by Henry Hütt, "The Christmas Story," a very pretty fireside scene, done in black and white, and following it "The Imp's Christmas Visit," a Christmas story by Josephine Dodge Daskam. A long story Is "The Boy and the Baron." by Ade'line Knapp. It is a story of child life In Germany more than six hundred years ago, and the illustrations are very spirited. Then Will H. Chandler has an article about "Uncle Sam's Toys." which is a description of the queer playthings of children in other lands, to be found in the National Museum in Washington. There are pictures of many of the queerest of them. A story for the little folksis "Little Miss Hopeful," by Mary M. Parks, and there are many other short stories and poems for the children, with the usual departments, the St. Nicholas League, the Letter Box, the Riddle Box and others. The Forum for December contains the usual amount of reading to which the term solid is applied. Alongside of many magazines the Forum has a scanty appearance, but this 1.1 due to tho fact that Instead of having two pases of advertisements to one of reading matter all Its advertisements are on three pages of the cover. The number contains twelve articles dealing with topics of current Interest. One of the most Interesting papers U "The Empire of Islands," the leading lda being that tho Islands scattered about the surface of the earth have much to do with governments Great Britain's power Is not due o much to the fact that she poss escs India as that she owns the Island at the entrance of almost rvery sea. gulf and channel upon the face of the earth. Those who have vague Ideas of the meaning of reciprocity as applied to foreign trade will find much tlm.'y information In the article on the subject by K. J. Gibson. Charles Truax. or Chicago, writes of "The United States Consular Service." which is not what it should be. but vhlch the author thinks would be much better than it is if his suggestions were observed. Leading articles In the current number of the Eclectic Magazine (published by the

Living Ag Company. R.-fon). are "Pianists of the Past." from th- perr-or..".! recollections of the Lite Charl.-s .ilatr.an. itprinted fxorn P'..u kwoo d's; "Maarus Jokai." an estimate by It. Nil t I'.ain. from the Monthly It view; "The Sp ctaul.ir Element in Drama.'' frr.m the E.iiri't.urgh Review; "Two Fr i.b nts and the Limit f American Supremacy." from th Fortnightly; the Cornhi'd Magazine's estimate of the French press; 'Pi e Progressive Movement in Spain." by Il.ivel.x-k Kills, from the rgosy; IWr.mtt O U ?o:, 's "A Vagabond's Wooir.gi" an Encli.-h short story ir-'iti the Cornhill; the fifth installment of "A Londoner's Logbook," al.-o from Cornhül. an I a symposium n "Temporary Stirs." from the l-Minburph Review, embracing extracts fron the rc:.t observations of Sir Norman Lo kver. the Rev. Walter Sl.lgreavcs. Von H. C. Voc 1 and Willi;. m Hupuins. The --re f the number i by Thomas Hardy, Robert Bridges, rdward Sydney T l-e and oihts. Tykes contribution being his "Outward Bound." written on the death vi Prtsidtnt McKinley.

V'lth the Publisher. Capt. Alfred T. Mahan's "Types of Naval Officers." which Little, Brown & Co. have just published, is classed as one of the important books of the year. Captain Mahan discusses t-ix British admirals, all of whom raised themselves to their rank la the peerage by their distinguished professional services. They are Lord Hawke. Lord Rodney. Earl Howe. Karl St. Vincent, Lord De Saumart z and Lord Exmouth. "The College Student and His Problems" Is the titl of a volume by James H. Canfield, LL. D., librarian of Columbia University, which will be published' by the Macmillnn Cojmpany. His book is short, admirably vtritten. and full of sound, wise and pithy advice on all pertinent topics of college 1 If f-. from the choice of the college itself andjthe kinds of work and play and social Intercouse to be pursued tin re to the choice of a caret r at its end. Doubleduy, Page &. Co., announce ths Immediate; publication and concluding volume ot their fine work. "The Furniture of ! Our Forefathers," "The Latin Quarter" In their "French Novels of the Nineteenth Century" series, "The True Story of Captain John Smith," a biography compiled from unusual sources by Katharine Pearson Woods; and "Photography as a Fine Art." by Charles H. Caftin. with over a hundred examples of the best work. The Serjbners have four new books on their list that have developed unusual selling qualites. The record stands now as follows: "The Cavalier." by George W. Cable, sixty-five thousand; "Lives of the Hunted," by Ernest Seton-Thompson. seventy thousand; "The Ruling Passion." by Henry Van Dyke, fifty thousand; and "Amos Judd," (new edition) by J. A. Mitchell, with colored illustrations; by Keller, thirty-five thousand. These figures have all been earned since Oct. 1, when the earliest of them, "The Cavalier,'.' was published. The Frederick A. Stokes Company announces for publication in the spring of 1302 new fiction by the following well-known authors: Frances Hodgson Burnett. Samuel H. Church Alfred Henry Lewis. John Oliver Hobbc (Mrs. Cralgie), Max Pemberton. Charles G. D. Roberts. Theodore Burt Sayre and Charles R. Sherlock. In addition to these works they are to have a new novel by a hitherto unknown American writer Orton Lisle. Great expectations of success are held for this book, which Is to be a long tale of Ephesus and Rome a the first century A. D. The Appletons have issued a new and completely revised edition of their "Universal Cyclopaedia and Atlas." which for fullness, accuracy and timeliness, say those who have examined it, kaves little to be desired. This work treats more than 7i).ex subjects and more than ..00 of the articles are signed by the authors. The United States census of lüoO and the British census of 1L1 arc used, instead of the older figures. The articles on South Africa, China, Cuba and the Philippine islands are brought strictly up to date, and throughout advantage has been taken of the most recent information. Ilfmllne About Holidays. When holiday times are approaching, says the editor of St. Nicholas, it is well to prepare for them by making yourself acquainted with the reasons for the keeping of the various days. About Christmas you need no information of that kind, but instead you will be interested in learning in how many ways the day is kept in various lands and by different races. The Germans, the French, the Italians, the Spaniards, the Greeks each have customs peculiar to themselves, and very well worth knowing about. Few children of to-day would like to give up Santa Claus and the Christmas tree, but we Americans and English borrowed both from Germany. Perhaps in the many books about holidays may be found other plants as well worth cultivating as the Chritsmas tree, or men who will make as welcome visitors as Santa Claus himself. do i'Eopll: iii:ad sehials? An Experienced 3IuRazlne Editor 9jn They Do. Mr. Alden, In Harper's Magazine. "Fifty year ago the novel was entering upon Its golden age," says Mr. Alden "a period distinguished not only by the number of eminent writers, but also by the literary excellence of their productions. The keen desire for their creative work, in the highest degree complimentary to the readers of that time, made serial publication Inevitable and a prime advantage to a magazine undertaking it. Dickens. Thackeray and Bulwer wrote Immediately thus from pen to reader's eye. supplying copy from month to month; and it happened in the case of each of these authors that his last novel was not completed. Not so George Eliot the last of this remarkable group whose work was of such a character and regarded by the author with so exacting a solicitude that she would never have ventured upon publication with a work only partially finished. Yet she submitted to the serial publication of her later novels, and thus obtained an additional profitAfter her, the few great novelists we have had have appeared as single stars, and not In groups. Some of them, notably Thomas Hardy, have ranked with the best authors of what we have styled the golden age, and the demand for the serial publication of their novels has seemed imperative. "The pecuniary prolit of the author Is something worthy of regard, as an encouragement to the best literature. Only here and thero has a great novtllst been willing to forego this reward, and in su h casts the authors have probably thoucht that they gained for their books a greater value than they surrendered; though it seems to us that the book, unless it be a poor one, gains rather than loses from previous serial publication. "The demand for the serial publication of fiction is. on the whole, diminishing, and while it is still , Imperative in certain exceptional cases, yet not e.nly are these instances few, but it is also true that the satisfaction afforded is enjoyed by a comparatively small proportion of magazine readers those who buy few books, but are appreciative of good literature, and those whose relish is so keen that though they will buy the book, the-y refuse to wait for it. But those who do not buy the best books are, among the readers of thia magazine at least, very few. The readers of serial fiction In su'. h a magazine are for the most part they who cannot have too much of a good thing, who eagerly wait for each monthly installment, and when the novel is finished r ad and vt ry likely reread it in book form." The Ileal "Laarre. Literary Bulletin. One person, at le ist. who has rend Lazarre has-found himself on familiar ground. lost no persuasive in to convince f its Writing to Mrs. Catherwood Wherlofk's family it whs generaUv was Dauphin of France, and members of ths v.t jSfiuiMiiu r i ail' r, unu iü m family who saw anl knew Wi now alive und are Tiouitlve that t ilun-is tri heir fr! nj and compniii'in was a monarch uncrowr.ed There 1 t:int arrior.ir tli.. (n lrli,..rti.srended to Dr. Wh.elook's grandcr.ildr n a portion of a dre; that b longed to Marls Antoinette, i.azarre motner. und n num ber nr handsome illurninatt d book f 111....... V . 1 . . - . .. fr.m jj.izune! Mi'iaij- imh Pent lu t ni'ln l'VilIHii!, an.l f-im h'.rn by ..7- . . ...... .."..ft I, v.h recognized him as their rightfi-1 nobl s sov Ill Its 1 1. "Luzarre was a handsonc man a man of great dignity and resere, a true fitntieman. kind, noble In mien, with a proiiuuiu ru - i VII. ii manner, j ei W illi a vading FX'lrlt of Americanism over UL Per-

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