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C.-Rlgg House, Ebbett House. Fairfax Hotel. Wlllard Hotel. DENVER. COL.-Louthaln & Jackson. Fifteenth and Lawrence streets. DATTON, O.-J. V. Wllkie, 39 South Jefferson street. COLUMBUS, O. Viaduct Newa Stand. 384 High 'ret. Whatever else may be said of ex-Speaker Reed, he waa not a demagogue. He never tried to fool a constituency, i It is not pcsMble that there can be any ground for the statement that a member of one of the city boards will be selected as chairman of rhe Republican city committee. Our Congress sometimes hat noisy scenes, but It has never been necessary to call In troops to restore order, as was done in the French Chamber of Deputies on Saturday. Seemingly unable to find a suitable man for candidate for mayor among Democrats who have lived years in the city, the managers are looking for a compromise candidatea man who has lived In the city but a comparatively short time. The prompt steps taken by Republican members of the House judiciary committee to perfect a bill requiring that all trusts report their financial affairs, and taxing watered stock, indicate a determination to legislate along the lines set forth by leading Republicans. The labor union in this State which has compelled an officer of th:j National Guard to resign is not taking the course g win the respect of the mass of people who believe that George Washington was right In advocating the maintenance of a well-organized militia. Senator Fryes shipping bill still reposes in the dusty pigeon holes of the House committee to which It was referred. As the President made no mention of it in his mes- . sage, and its opponents on the committee are more than ever determined that it shall not get Into the House, there is said to be no hope for the passage of the measure. The announcement that Italy has decided to demand the immediate payment of obligations due her from Venezuela indicates that she Is disposed to take advantage o the pressure being used by Great Britain and Germany. It would have looked more magnanimous If they had all waited till Venezuela had settled her domestic revolution. General Smith, sometimes called "Hellroaring Jake." who was found guilty of making war without gloves, has found a powerful friend In Senator Hanna. of Ohio who. it is said, will introduce a bill in the Senate to restore General Smith to his rank in the army. The Ohio senator has an enviable reputation for standing by his friends. A German syndicate at Berlin is said to have secured control of telephone patents by which a message Is made distinctly audible to a person standing thirty feet from an ordinary receiver. Such a system would certainly tend to promote publicity and . thus minimize the evils of personal and confidential communications, but one does not always care to have one's telephone messages communicated to a roomful of people. President Palma, of Cuba, ought to know what its Constitution requires, and when he says that the approval of the reciprocity treaty by the Senate will be sufficient, without the co-operation of the House, he probab'y speaks advisedly. As he lived in this country twenty years there is no question as to his friendship for the United States, and his support of the proposed treaty is undoubtedly sincere. The indications are now good for its ratification unless factional opposition arises. A recent Issue of the New Orleans TimesDemorrat contains an interesting account of the newly constructed ship canal at Ovlfport. Miss. The canal, seven miles long and 210 feet wide, makes an entrance Into historic Ship Island harbor and thence to the Oulf of Mexico, and gives the new city of Gulfport connection with th big world. The town boasts a pier wnlch is said to be the largest in the United States, and the entire improvement, which has cost several millions of dollars, affords striking evidence of Southern progress. I . The decision of the Supreme Court of Minnesota to the effect that those who Invite others to drink must have a license the same as regular saloon keepers Is likely to attract k neral attention and to interfere with the practice of "treating" in that State. Th.- matter KOI into the courts on the complaint of a customer who was Invited to sample the liquors he was selling Tht customer made a complaint that such sampling Is In violation of law. The carried to the Supremo Court,

which decided that any man who causes another to drink with him Is violating the license law, which requires that any man who sells or gives intoxicating liquors to another must have a license. If this law. according to this decision, should be enforced, "treating" in Minnesota will be attended with some peril. THOMAS B. REED. To say that Thomas B. Reed was one of te great men of the country in public affairs would be commonplace. He was one of the few great men whose positive qualifications and achievements give them a permanent place In the history of the country. His rare talents which had the brilliancy of genius, his philosophical grasp of all great questions, his high integrity, his dauntless moral courage and his AmericanIsm give him a place in that front rank In American statesmanship which very few have reached or will ever attain. In some directions, intellectually, he seemed to have no limitations. But for an infirmity of temperament which caused him to oppose other great men, he was the ideal public man. Because of that infirmity he failed to realize that completeness of career which was easily within his grasp. For his prominence he did not depend upon wealth, powerful association, or any extraneous influences. Entering Congress at the age of thirty-eight an unknown man, he voluntarily retired, after twenty-two years of service, one of the generally recognized leaders of his party because of his capacity in great affairs. All this he achieved for himself by the force of his sturdy character and rare intellectual power. He won all that a man might win except the presidency, which was his great ambition. His infirmity was that he took offense at trivial things. For instance. President Harrison appointed the candidate for the Portland customs house named by the senators, a course which had the precedent of years, instead of Speaker Reed s man. That In

significant thing made him the enemy of General Harrison, yet, in their high Ideals of public service, their views on public questions, in wonderful mentality In expression, no two men at that time were nearer alike. The greatest achievement of Mr. Reed was the forcing of the adoption of the rules which enabled the majority of the House to legislate. For years that body had been drifting away from the fundamental theory of popular government until It had come to pass that a handful of filibusters could prevent the majority from legislating, and, by breaking a quorum by refusing to answer roll calls all legislation of an Important character could be prevented. To break up these pernicious evils required not only the keenest Intellect and the highest parliamentary skill, but a dauntless moral courage. No man was more fiercely denounced at the time. Even men high In his own party did not sustain him. Yet, with matchless capacity for leadership, he won his party in the House, where it had but eight majority, to his support In adopting a code of rules the worth of which subsequent Democratic houses recognized by adopting and even strengthening. When the impartial and intelligent historian shall write the political history of the twentyfive years preceding the retirement of Mr. Reed from Congress, he will make the two greatest achievements of that period the passage of the resumption act and the carrying of it into effect by John Sherman, and the establishment of the power of the majority in the House by Thomas B. Reed. It should not be forgotten when the country is giving to the dead statesman his just credit that in 189U. by the failure of a few Republicans to stand by the large majority, a free-coinage bill would have been passed but for his courageous leadership and parliamentary decisions. He might have p. rinitted the bill to be passed and thus forced upon President Harrison the responsibility of vetoing It, thus probably putting him out of the race for nomination, but Mr. Reed never shirked a duty with the excuse that another could more easily perform It. Another act of Speaker Reed, which was of the highest service to his country, was when he put forth all his influence to defeat the Senate resolution, adopted just before the war with Spain, recognizing the republic of Cuba. If he had yielded to the clamor of those whose noise deceives the timid but does not influence courageous and devoted statesmen, that resolution, which all must see was fraught with so many evils, would hove been passed. But, when Its passage was Imminent, the speaker had the House adjourned over until Monday, and during the interval he and other forceful men brought back to a sense of duty the halfstampeded forty Republicans and passed the resolutions Piesident McKinley wished, and which the speaker knew to be safe and effective. Those who knew Mr. Reed best, and who understood his infirmities and admired his matchless qualities, knew that he drifted into partial opposition to his party relative to the policy adopted with reference to the acquisition of the Philippines because he was laboring under the delusion that he should have been nominated for President in 1S96 instead of Mr. McKinley, and that the latter s friends had not treated him fairly. He was really unfriendly to Mr. McKinley when he became President, and the unfriendliness grew to hostility to the McKinley leaders, which led him to retire from Congress because he could not support the measures of the administration. It is wry probable that if he had hen President he would have pursued much the same policy as did Mr. McKinley. But Mr. Reed had done his great work, bravely and effectively, and the doing of it as he did won for him the esteem of his countrymen. SAMI Kl. B. (HNOLD'S STORY. The narrative of Samuel B. Arnold, publication of which is begun in the Journal to-day, and will be continued dally until finished, will be found interesting irrespective of its historical accuracy. The Journal does not vouch for this and still less for the personal opinions of Arnold or his conclusions regarding courts and persons concerning whom he writes. It Is enough that he was connected, at least In its incipiency. with one of the most shocking and fateful tragedies in American historythe assassination of Abraham Lincoln. Ry his own admission he was a party to the plot to kidnap Mr. Lincoln, and that plot led up to the assassination as Inevitably as th bud to the bloss. mi. He characterizes the plot to kidnap the President as a quixotic scheme, and says: "Of course I knew nothing of the as islntlon plot." This may be true, but he has no reason to complain that. In a period of intense excitement, his established con-

nectlon with one plot was accepted aa proof of his connection with the other. He was In very bad company, to say the least, and If he was not identified with the most desperate undertaking of his companions he was with them up to an indefinable line. Arnold was rightly tried with the other conspirators, and, considering the circumstances, he got off with a light sentence. The writer of this article saw Abraham Lincoln on his death bed within an hour after he was shot, and saw Secretary Seward with his throat cut almost from ear to ear by Lewis Payne, who fought his way through double guards to get at his victim on a sick bed. To say, as Arnold does, that the people demanded victims for these atrocious crimes is not true. They demanded Justice, and when he was found to be closely connected with the conspirators up to a certain point It was natural that he should be suspected and right that he should be tried. As a statement of facts his narrative possesses interest, but with his reflections upon the government or his attacks on the court that tried him and the United States officers in command at the Dry Tortugas. where he was imprisoned, the Journal has no sympathy whatever. His story is interesting because it comes from the last survivor of eight persons who were tried for and convicted of complicity in the murder of Lincoln, but It will not change the verdict of history. THE GODLESSXESS OF SOCIALISM. Socialism is the most ambitious remedy that has been offered. Socialism cannot well be defined. It has not a vital principle, because it has not God in it. It embodies no God because it does not recognise the God-given qualities in human nature. It is not a constructive force. It, has no Justice, no humanity, no progress. The foregoing is the opinion of Colonel Carroll D. Wright, the best informed man in regard to the conditions of labor in this country, expressed in a recent address before the West Virginia University. Colonel Wright is not what some persons would snoeringly denounce as a narrow believer in creeds, since in religious belief he is a Universalist or Unitarian. Yet, as a close student of all movements affecting the wellbeing of the human race, he declares that

a social or political movement which "has not God in it" is "without a vital principle." Christianity, however narrowly conceived, has been a constructive force for eighteen centuries. It is the most prominent fact in history that no civilization has been able to withstand the curse of paganism. The story of the world's march from feudalism and distraction to nationality and internal peace justifies confidence in the uplifting of the human race to those who can see that God works unceasingly and has all eternity under His command. Most of the European leaders In the advocacy of socialism! are atheists. In this country there are doubtless natives who call themselves Socialists who claim to be believers in a Supreme Peeing, but wherever there is a large organization of Socialists the leaders are not only atheists, but they use their Influence to make their followers believe there Is no God. In Chicago the Socialists hold Sunday-school for the purpose of teaching the heresies which st em to be a part of socialism, namely, hostility to existing forms of government, the arraying of the poor against the rich, and atheism. It is related that a lecturer in one of these schools recently happened to speak of God, whereat one of the Socialists present asked him If he believed In God. It is said he gave great offense when he admitted that he believed in a Supreme Being. The number of such schools is increasing in Chicago. Some of them are so opposed to anything which has reference to Christianity that they object to calling their metlngs for children Sundayschools. The songs in the socialistic songbooks, the singing of which is a prominent feature in the children's meetings, are designed to make the young who Imbibe their sentiments not only Socialists, but Iawhating Anarchists. That the Chicago Socialists are little better than Anarchists is indicated by the fact that a Socialist mass meeting, held soon after the assassination of President McKinley, unanimously voted down a resolution declaring that the Socialists of that city condemned that crime. Such teachings will educate a few hundred, or, perhaps, a few thousand lawbreakers, ready to join In assault upon constituted authority, but in ihe country at large they will not commend themselves to Intelligent and law-respecting American people. The fact that every President of the United. States has been a believer In God, and that all of the patriotic men whose names are revered by the American people were Christian men, Is sure to hold the great mass of thinking people to a general belief in Christianity the invisible but vital force which has made us a nation. Dun's Index numbers for Dec. 1, 1902. show that, despite the higher price of coal, more of the necessaries of life can be purchased now than a year ago for the same amount of money. The figures showing the cost of the same quantities of articles the prices of which have declined the past year are as follows: Dec. 1. 1901 Breadstuffs $lf.52X Dairy and garden IS. 971 Other food 9.0X1 Miscellaneous 16.7S2 Dec. 1. 1902. $17.449 14. 5 v PI ln.537 The advances on meats from Dec. 1, 1901. to Dec. 1. 1902. were from $9.269 to $9.935; on metals which include coal, from ftt.771 to $17.17$; on clothing, from INJU to $15.781. The total index numbers for all commodity prices show a decline from $101.378 a year ago to $100.449 now. Since July 1 the index numbers of meats have fallen from $11.679 Aug. 1 to $9.933 Dec. 1. 1902. The committee of the Republican senators who held a conference some time since announces that an effort will be made to prevent the abuse of employing, during the session of the Legislature, more clerks, doorkeepers and the like than are necessary to do the work. If a thousand Should be employed all who desire or deserve places would not get them, an I the demand would continue. Above all, the Influence of employing more men than are needed Is pernicious, since it leads people to hatte ve tint It is right to' get as much as one can out of the public treasury. It is probable that if the announced inquiry into the fitness of applicants is made the number of applicant; may be reduced. A dispatch from Denver. Col., says the Judge of a local court has sentenced the mayor and eleven aldermen of that city to four months' Imprisonment in the county Jail for contempt of court in passing an ordinance granting a street-railway franchise In violation of a restraining- or-

der of the court. The character of the suit In which the restraining order was issued is not stated, but it probably involved property rights which the court thought were entitled to protection against the proposed action of the Council. A court would not undertake to enjoin a Council from passing an ordinance because of a mere difference of opinion as to the wisdom or policy of tha ordinance, but the courts will always Intervene to protect property rights until conflicting claims can be settled. An Injunction by a court of competent Jurisdiction is a (strong writ, and aldermen as well as others should be made to understand that it cannot be violated with Impunity.

THE HUMORISTS. Consistent. Hew York Sun. Marie Why did you break your engagement to Count Spaghetti? Edith Why shouldn't I? He proposed broken English. in Fearful of Consequences. Philadelphia Pre?w. Mr. Kallow Er beg pardon, Miss knappe, but can I smoke? Miss Snappe I'm pure I don't know, but if you've never tried before please don't begin her.'. Hla Eminent Piety. Tloston Transcript. "Your uncle Is a very religious man, I understand." "Oh, yen. indeed! He positively hate everybody who belongs to any other church than his own." Quite So. I tried to give my share of thanks For my small earthly store; I'd like an opportunity For giving many more. Washington Star. A Strict CoininerolnlUt. Washington Star. Why is It." said the aut'.r. -that a jrenlus Is not trulv appreciated until fter he 1 dead?" The publisher looked at him with a cold business-like eye, and said: "I've often wondered myself. I have been tcmptv! never to uocept another manuscript unless the writer could bring a physician's certificate of ill-htalth." Here and There. Comfort. Policeman (to inebriated gent at his front door trying to open it at midnight) Hey, what are you doing there? Gent I ain't there; I'm here. Policeman Well, don't be sassy or I'll run you in. Gent Come on and run me In. I can't get In any other way, I guess. lie (might On. Judge. Caesar had Just remarked that he would rather be first in a village than second In Rome. "Hut, sire," protested Brutus mildly, "I don't see the advantage." "Simplf ton!" retorted the general, "wouldn't you rather be janitor of a small flat than tenant in a big one?" Perceiving he had a true appreciation of values, the multitude made haste to do him reverence. THE HEREDITY OF JESUS ARGl'MEXT OF REV. I '.. A. CAXTRELL BLFORC PEOPLE'S CHIRCH. Christ No More Than Human, He Says, bnt Training In Purity Reached Back Years. " 'Heredity,' says Dr. J. S. Kingsley, is a term applied to that law of living things whereby the offspring resembles the parent, the characteristics of one generation being repeated in the next.' When the word is used one is apt to recall only those striking instances of inheritance of genius, like the musical ability in the Bach family; or of physical peculiarities, like the repetition of the 'Bourbon nose' in successive generations of the former royal family of France. It Includes not only the fact that six-toed cats are apt to have sixtoed kittens, but the really more wonderful fact that cats have kittens rather than some other form of animal life. In other words, it is through the action of heredity that all the structural features of the parent are repeated in the offspring and that in the development of the Individual these are outlined and matured in certain fixed anil definite ways. "That Jesus was subject to the universal laws of life, it seems superfluous in these days to argue. The 'Son of Man from his parents inherited humanity, the parts, organs and feelings of a man. 'Hath he not eyes? Hath he not hands, organs, dimensions, sense, affection, passions? fed with the same food, hurt with the same wtapons, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer,' as you or anyone else in the world? All this, the common, human heritage of Jew and gentile, Greek and barbarian alike Jesus had. SHARED HUMAN LIFE. "Not only this, but in 'coming up through the gates of birth' there was in Him, as in all men, the embryonic recapitulation of lower forms. He not only shared human life with the rest of humanity, but back oi that He shared the subhuman life up through which humanity has climbed. Because His ancestors for many generations had been human, because they had maintained themselves at the standard of the human He was human. Descended for countless ages from man and woman, man born of woman Jesus surely was. "We may take another step. Jesus inherited not only the structural peculiarities and mental characteristics of a common humanity, but the racial traits of His immediate parentage. He was a Jew not a negro nor a mongolian. He Inherited the blood of the Jew and the qualities of the Jew the qualities seen in a Moses, and an I?aiah. and an Esekiel, and a Hillel those splendid qualities that made the ' Hebrew people to be what has been called the miracle of history.' "The question has very often come, 'Was Jesus then no more than ourselves?' I say yes and no. With all due regard to our good fathers and mothers. I daresay that very few of us here to-day are the result of preparation and forethought. There was back of us little of the expectancy of a divine ideal. It is reported of Oliver Wendell Holmes that when he was asked when a child's training should begin he said it should begin two hundred years before It is born. TRAINING OF JE8US. "The training of Jesus began nearly two thousand years before He was born. It began back with the Abrahamic ideal or what we call In theological terms the Abrahamic covenant.' Then there were the national idea of purity and the Messianic hupe with their centuries of influence on motherhood, together with the prenatal influences unested by the gospel., all of which gave Jesus an advantage that none I of us can claim. There was back of Him I the propulsion of the Ideal that pushed Him toward the Messianic height. " 'But Jesus wa more than a good man.' we are oiien toni. jaore man a gooa man. What limits shall we place for the soul? 'No limits? there are no limits?' Very well. Carry the soul to goodness and how far short of the Messianic life will it fall? If it be that 'In God I live and move and have my being. If It be that 'God la over all and through all and In ail,' if it be, as Bttterson says, that '1 am part and particle of God.' dos It not follow that each man has within himself the potentialities of the anointed' Hfe? The life in man is one with the life in God. The difference is not MM of kind, but of degree. And there Is a sense in which we say that God Is no more than a good man, because our Idea of God is our idea of man projected to infinitude."

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The Pharnoh and the Prleat. Great naturalists are able, with the aid of a single bone as a guide to reconstruct the entire osseous anatomy of an animal long since extinct. A similar feat has been accomplished by the distinguished Polish novelist In this notable book. With the L meager ard ofttimes disconnected remains found by archaeologists and Egyptologists before him, M. Glovatskl has not merely reconstructed the skeleton of ancient Egyptian civilization, but has breathed into that skeleton the vitalizing spirit of his splendid imagination and made of it a creature of life and action, goud to look upon and full of interest to all wanderers in the field of fiction, whether they be scholars or "skimmers." The period chosen by Mr. Glovatski was only less Instinct with the dramatic and spectacular than that of the Pharaoh whose eyes are said to have witnessed the Mosaic miracles. This period includes the latter and more interesting portion of the benign reign of Kameses XII and the brief and boisterous rule of his son, Kameses XIII, in whose pathetic, tragic end passed away that brilliant dynasty. The book is rich in vivid pictures of life among the nobility and "earth-tillers,'' as the Egyptian peasants were known, as well as at the magnificent court of his Holiness, the Pharaoh. Readers of works of the modern school of realistic fiction will be surprised to find in "The Pharaoh and the Priest" the identical features so much to their taste In stories of present-day life. The young erpatr (heir), who afterwards became Rameses XIII. was an exceedingly vivacious, headstrong, pleasure-loving young man. In fact, had it not been for his overweening fondness for pleasure, his mighty struggle with the priesthood might have had a different termination and the Ramesenian dynasty continued indefinitely. This struggle between the civil and religious governments of Egypt forms the great central theme or motif of the work. For several thousand j'ears the priesthood had been slowly but surely and secretly working its way to complete ascendency over upper and lower Egypt. As a part (and a very essential part, too) of this programme It had been accumulating a vast treasure, which was effectually concealed from would-be despoilers by being deposited in one of the Innermost chambers of the labyrinth, an immense structure containing more than 3.000 rooms so wonderfully arranged that even Us custodians claimed they themselves possessed no accurate chart of its devious windings. Up to the beginning of the reign of Rameses XIII the priests had, with one or two exceptions, enjoyed at least co-ordinate sovereignty with the members of the long line of Pharaohs. The Tast representative of the distinguished dynasty saw fit, however, to dispute this religious domination, and the story of his struggle, with Its Intensely dramatic conclusion, forms a fascinating narrative. Not the least enjoyable feature of Mr. Glovatskl's remarkable work is the simplicity of his literary style. Almost all of the long words found in the book are attributable to Egyptian nomenclature or terminology. While on this point it is well to give to Mr. Jeremiah Curtin. translator of the book, due share of praise not only for the admirable manner in which he has acquitted himself in rendering the work into the choicest of English, but as well for having given the English readers of fiction such a worthy successor to "Quo Vadis" and the gTeat trilogy on the. struggle for liberty in Poland. "The Pharaoh and the Priest" is beautifully and helpfully Illustrated with fine reproductions of photographs taken in Egypt by Mr. Curtin, and its topography and binding are good. Boston: Little, Brown & Co. Bnrnaby Lee. Many novels have been written about the early period of this country, before and during the Revolutionary war. but this one by John Bennett is of sufficient merit to justify its publication even after a host of others. Mr. Bennett has chosen as his hero Barnaby Lee. son of Capt. Harry Lee, but he has not made the mistake of .placing him upon such a lofty pinnacle that the remaining characters are dwarfed Into comparative insignificance. Barnaby Lee is well portrayed and makes a good impression, despite the fact that occasionally he betrays a falling short of his gallant father s bravery. However, the lad shows himself possessed of a remarkable fortitude which goes far tewards atoning for his other deflciency. There is an admirable portraiture of sturdy, determined old Peter Stuyvesant, director general of the colony of New Amsterdam, whose sense of responsibility and love of native country weigh so heavily upon him that he would, single handed, oppose the attempt of the English war vessels to reduce his colony to the sovereignty of Charles II, although many of his officers and practically all of the burghers were begging him to surrender the colony. The grand old hero does not give up. however, until he has spoken his mind to the wretched cowards in a way to bring burning blushes of shame to their cheeks. Gerritt Van Sweringen and Charles Calvert, the former a sheriff under Stuyvesant and the latter Governor of Maryland under King Charles, but fast friends, play conspicuous parts in the story. One of the most vivid bits In the book is the description of the duel between these boyhood friends. A feature that will commend the story to juveniles (for whom it was partly written, Is the stormy career of Picaroon John King, alias Temperance Pyepott and a great many other names. King's unmasking by Governor Calvert Is a fine piece of dramatic description. A pretty love affair of by no means wearisome length and detail Is evolved before the end of the book, and further Interest Is supplied by a mystery of heritage affecting Barnaby Lee. The book is excellent reading for grown-ups as well as young folks. It is profusely illustrated with the finest drawings by Clyde O. De Land. The fidelity of Mr. De Land's pictures to the text is noteworthy. He has evidently carefully read the book before attempting to Illustrate it. something that not all artists do. New York: The Century Company. Ameriean Animals. The growing interest in animals of all kinds, wild as well as domesticated, Is shown by the increasing number of books on the subject. A recent addition to the list Is "American Animals," by Witmer Stone and William E. Cram, two experts In the study and portrayal of animal life. Starting out with the idea of producing a work eufflciently free from technicalities to appeal to the general reader and at the same time to Include such scientific Information relative to the animals of North America as would be desired by one beginning their study, they have produced a book nf rare interest. It might be called a popular guide to the mammals of North America, with Intimate biographies of the more familiar species. The list of animals thus treated Includes many of the smallest, as mice of different kinds, squirrels, moles, weasels, etc., and many of the largest, as buffaloes, moose, bears, deers of all kinds, elks, fur-Dearing animals, grizzlies, etc. The number of animals classified and described runs Into the hundreds The illustrations are numerous, all taken from life, and some of them In wild environments. Thus there Is a fine picture of a Canada lynx which had been caught in a trap and then turned loose with a light clog on his hind legs, the photograph having been taken while, the animal was brought to bay by fox terriers. He is an ugly looking customer. A picture of a Kadlak bear, the largest species of bear known, shows it to be nearly as large as an ox. Thirteen different varieties of the bear are represented, and the same number of deer. Some of the photographs of wild deer were taken by the camera hunter lying in wait and taking the animals unawares. There is a beautiful picture of a wild deer In the Maine woods at night, taken by a flashlight. His attitude and look of astonishment are reproduced perfectly. One picture Is of a pair of bull moose photographed in the woods of Maine with a telephoto lens from a distance of about seventy-nve teet. l nere are over a hundred Illustrations. The book I- a desirable one to possess. New York: doubleday. Page A Co. Some Juveniles. "Elsie's Winter Trip ' (Doajd. Mead St Co.) Is the latest addition to the Elsie Dinsmore series, by Martha Finley. In this story Elsie, with some friends, spends a winter in a voyage through the West Indies and a trip to Brazil. The causes and history of the Spanish war. something of the history and natural history of the Spanish republics and a good deal of girlJsn talk make up the story. In "The Boy Land Boomer" (Saalfleld Publishing Company) Capt. Ralph Bonehill, a popular writer of boys' stories, describes the experiences, adventures and success of an enterprising lad who accompanied his father to Oklahoma at an early period and shared the rough lot of the

land boomers. "Pawnee Brown." an Indian scout, figures in the story, which will interest bov readers "Timothy and His Friends." by Mary K Ireland (Saalfleld Publishing Company, deals with the adventures of a Baltimore newsboy who. though foreign born, an orphan, and for a time friendless, gets on by virtue of his sterling qualities, succeeds In making a man of himself and wins dame fortune's golden smiles. "Phil and Dick."' by Enrique H. Lewis (Saalfleld Publishing Company). Is a story of sea life. The two heroes. Phil and Dick, go to sea as apprentices on a United States warship. They did not run away, as boys often do to gratify their desire to go to sea. but they had the consent of their parents and perhaps fared better for it. The story of their life on the ocean wave makes an Interesting one for boys. The Last Buccaneer. L. Cope Cornford has in this new volume added fresh luster to his fame as a writer of rollicking stories of daring on the sea. "The Last Buccaneer" deals with that period in English history when the laws and customs of the time had become so confused that privateering and piracy had come to be almost interchangeable terms. Two picturesque pirates. Captain Dawkins and Captain Murch. are portrayed with great cleverness. Dawkins was a pirate of the Kipling kind, mingling in a deliciously careless way phrases of religion and sin in Jovial songs of the deep. Capt. Murch indulged in little talk, but contented himself with revealing the craft of his mind through the medium of his deeds. The ends of the careers of these two fascinating reprobates afford striking contrast. Murch strangling In a quicksand, while Dawkina finished his days in a pretty white cottage down by the sea, getting religion from the Rev. Jeremiah Ramsbottom. The story would lack a savor of reality if it did not contain something of romance, and this is supplied in an entirely unhackneyed manner, the heroine being a pirate herself and "daughter of a hundred pirates." to paraphrase a familiar expression. The book is an admirable one with which to relieve mental strain or while away a dull hour or two. It is printed from type of comfortable size and the binding carries an appropriate nautical design. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company.

American Masters of Printing. An art critic who possesses the double qualification of a knowledge of art and how to write about it clearly, sanely, without prejudice and without confusing technicalities is an educator. Such an art critic is Charles H. Caffin, author of "American Masters of Painting." A subtitle of the work designates it as "Brief appreciations of some American painters, illustrated with examples of their work." In carrying out his idea Mr. Caffin has selected a number of American painters of the highest rank and has furnished brief critical estimates of their work with illustrations of particular pieces. The artists selected are Sargent, Whistler, La Farge, Abbey, Wyant, George Innee, Wlnslow Homer. George Fuller. George De F. Brush, D. W. Tryon. Horatio Walker and Gilbert Stuart. The illustrations, thirty-two in number, are of paintings by nearly every one of the artists above named, and are themselves very artistic. The book possesses special interest for all who wish to be informed concerning the best American art. It is published in attractive form by Doubleday, Page & Co., New York. Famous Compoaera. A timely addition to the best of beautiful gift books is made by Thomas Y. Crowell & Co. In "Famous Composers," by Nathan H. Dole. The two handsome volumes of which the book consists deal with the lives of a score of musical composers of worldwide fame, beginning with Palestrina, who was born in 1514 and died In 1594, and ending with Wagner, who was born in 1813 and died In 1883. The list Includes the great names of Bach. Handel. Gluck, Mozart, Beethoven. Rossini, Meyerbeer, Mendelssohn, Chopin, Liszt and others. The biographical and critical sketches of these twenty composers will be acceptable, not merely to musicians, but to general readers who Can find interest in the life-stories of men who have achieved the highest fame in their profession. Some of the stories are stranger than fiction and they are told in a style that pleases byits literary finish as well as by Its evident fidelity to facts. The two volumes are printed and bound in a manner that will be appreciated by music lovers and book lovers alike. The Housewives of Edenrlae. This Is a bright and pleasing book of flc tion of the realistic school. There are no flights of imagination In It. no approach to sensationalism and not much plot, but there are some good character drawing ana excellent sketches of family and club lifj in an English small town. The social habits and entertainments of the townspeople are described in a pleasant style, with a vein of humor running through it, and the different characters are made so real that the reader seems to be associating with them and attending the Ladies' Shakspeare Society, the curate's bees, the children's party, etc. The book Is cleverly written. Florence Popham Is the author and D. Appleton & Co. are Its publishers. The story of a Strange Career. In the preface to this book the author, Stanley Waterloo, says the story Is literally true, being the autobiography of a convict named Thompson. Most of the tale Is of the man's experiences at sea, in prison at Richmond during the civil war and of various exploits, savory and otherwise. His sense of moral obligation seems to have been given away before his birth, for he let no scruples stand in the way of his wishes and aims. He finally died in the penitenti. ry in Jollet, 111., after as varied a career as often falls to the lot of one man. D. Appleton & Co., New York and Chicago. Under Scott In Mexico. While complete in itself this story is the third and last volume in the Mexican War Series, uniform with "For the Liberty of Texas" and "With Taylor on the Rio Grande." The same characters, two pluckyboys, are heroes of all three volumes, and the reader is glad to renew his acquaintance with the old frontiersman. "Poke" Shover. The author, Capt. Ralph Bonehill, carries his characters through all forts of adventures and hairbreadth escapes in just the style to appeal to the boyish reader tor whom this series was written. Dana Estes & Co., Boston. Ipper Currents. Under this title the Rev. G. R. Miller puts forth a new volume of essays on serious subjects which are full of cheerful philosophy and practical wisdom. The title refers to the upper currents of thought. The handy-sized volume contains twenty-two short chapters, with such suggestive titles as "Catching the Cpper Currents." "The Ripening of Character," "Things that Last.'" "The Art of Living with People." ' Choosing to Do Hard Things." etc. The essays are of a kind to be enjoyed by serious-minded readers. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co. Current Periodicals. Masters In Music is the title of a newmonthly magazine issued In Boston by the Bates w Guild Co. under the editorship of D. G. Mason. Book News (Philadelphia) for December contains brief mention of many of the season's books and so serves as a guide to the shopper. The Iedger Monthly for December contains numerous holiday features and sustains ItH reputation as one of the best of household magazines. In Flowers and the Home (Springfield, O.) many problems In the cultivation of flowem and the home garden are treated In a practical and helpful way. The National Geographic Magazine (Washington; for I) eember devotes a large amount of Its space to the scientific aap tof the volcanic eruptions on Martinique and St. Vincent. Mrs. Nellie Simmons Meier contributes to the December Pilgrim (Battle Creek. Mich.) a study of tht.- palms of Miss Julia Marlowe and Mr. Charles Major A short story by Laura A. Smith appears in the same Issue. Youth, the Juvenile magazine issued by the Penn Publishing Company, of Philadelphia, contain in its December number a variety of Action and other matter that should prove an attraction to young readers. ) The Criterion for December Is devot i mainly to Christmas literature. An exception is Charles Henry Metsler'a closing

arti. 5e In the series. "One Century of A- ling." In this he treats of EUen Terry. Ilia. Patrick Campbell and others. Llppincott s Magazine opens with a complete novel, "The Price of Fame. ' by Mauda Roosevelt. It is rather a melodramatic, amateurish production. The short stones of the number by H. B. Harriot Watson, Thomas Cobb. Jeannette Lee and oth ra make better reading. The New England Magazine for December contains a story by the Novelist Frank Norrls. who died recently, entitled "The Ship That Saw a Ghost. " The chief fcatv.rs of the number is an illustrated artUie on the work of Charles H. Davis, thv willknown landscape painter. The current issue of the World To-Dajr (Chicago), besides the usual review of tha events of the month, contains special articles on the Michoplcoten region of lake Superior. "The Smoke Evil RMMdled." "How to Cse a Public Library.' "The Far East of To-Day" and "Over the Tranacaspian Railway." The author of the famous poem "Sherman's March to the Sea" contributes to the Christmas number of Harper's Magazine a poem entitled "The Crowing of the Cock. " The author is Major 8. H. M. Byers, whose verses gave Shtrman'l campaign its well-known title. This poem was written while Major Byers was imprisoned by the Southern fonts at Columbia. S. c. "The Story of King Arthur and Hla Knights." written and illustrated by Howard Pyle. which began in the October number of St. Nicholas Magazine, will continue to be a feature of that periodical for several months to come. Among the contributors to the December number are th-isa

entertabnlng writers. Ruth McEnery Stuart and Alice Caldwell Hegan. Each offers aa amusing story. The book number of the Outlook. Its data Dec. 6. contains an interesting discussion by a number of well-known writers on ths question of what constitutes Americanism in literature. T. W. Higginson. Brander Matthews, Owen Wlster, Hugo Munsterberg, George E. Woodberry. Edward Everett Hale. Edward Dowden. Charles W. Kent. Hamlin Garland and QnbM King express opinions on the subject. Harper's Weekly of Dec. is filled with Christmas literature and illustrations, and Is truly a holiday number. A dosen or mors full-page pictures in color after paintings by well-known artists, as many black and white drawings, numerous short stories and sketches, and several poems, one of them by V. D. Howells. all make up a strikingly attractive issue. The cover, like that fl Harper's Magazine for December, is in imitation of leather. "Summering m Winter" Is the attractive title of an interesting illustrated article descriptive of the charms of Jamaica with which the December Era opens. "Ths Belles of Manila," another illustrated paper showing the characteristics, social and physical, of the women of the Philippines, is worth reading. George Sands Goodwin occupies several pages In discussing the question. "What Anarchy Is." There is a variety of entertaining Action. The Literary Collector (Greenwich. Conn.) is not a magazine of many pages, but all of them are sure to be read by any lover of books who chances upon a number. In the current Issue is a brief paper by Theodore L. Devinne on "The Chap-Book and Its Outgrowths," in which he offers soma interesting lore. The rambling "Reflections of a Book-Lover" ars worth reading. Thers Is a chapter on American book-au tin rooms and a variety of notes snd comment on books. Harper s Weekly of Dec. 16 is the Christmas number and Is a most elaborate issue. It contains one hundred pages, of which sixteen picture pages are printed in color and represent Christmns In many phas. The editorial comment is omitted in this special number, the space being filled by fifteen short stories by W. D. Howells, Mark Twain. John Kendrick Bangs. Josephine Dodge Daakam, Elizabeth G. Jordan, Roy Rolfe GUson. Morgan Robertson. Van Tassel Sutphen, Charles Battell Loomis and other writers. "Babyhood," the standard nursery guide for mothers, begins with the December number its. nineteenth volume. Ths issus is full of practical suggestions concerning the care of young as well as older children. A medical article on "The Causes, Prevention and Cure of Winter Colds" Is timely. Many questions under the heading of "What Alls My Baby?" afe answered in an interesting and helpful way by the medical editor. Such topics as "Stimulating the Growth of the Hair." "Symptoms of Rickets," "Sucking the Fist." "Proper Amount of Food." "Contagion and Disinfection" are among them. The December number of the International Studio contains an unusual amount of Interesting matter, including several reproductions in color and photogravure of paintings by famous artists, an attractive article on "Recent Scottish Domestic Fittings and Decorations." with eight illustrations, and a collection of designs for book plates with thirty-five illustrations. There is also a report of the Austrian section of the Interna trraial exhibit of decorative art at Turin. Lovers of old French and English tales will enjoy the many r -productions from Glrtln's "Picturesque Views of Paris and Its Environs," published in 1803 Men and Women is the title of a new magazine published at Cincinnati. The purpose of its promoters, as explained by the editor, S. A. Baldus, is to provide a hitrhclass, inexpensive home Journal for Catholic readers, the Catholic magazines now in the field being high-priced and not of a character adapted to the popular taste. The purpose, so far as this first issue :s concerned, is well carried out. The tontents are well chosen and of varied character, being a mingling of fiction, serious articles and sketches, verse, matters of hou . -hold Interest, etc. Among the contributors are John Tri Lloyd, Maurice Francis Egan and Louis F. Nau. An article by the late Frank Norris In the December number of the Critic on "The Responsibilities of the Novelist" proves that this talented young man SOOjfel his calling very seriously. A portrait accompanying his paper shows him to 1 been remarkably handsome. The Critic in this issue goes rather extensively Into illustrations. Among them are some striking portrayals of the work of the Kreuch sculptor. Rodin. Th y accompany an Interview with Roden. One of the features of the number is a study by the Rev. Percy 8. Grant of "Mary of Magdala" r pb by Mrs. Flske. The ministerial writer expresses himself as greatly pleaed with it. Sympathetic and appreciative character sketches of the late Frank Norris, the California novelist, and the late-George Douglas Brown, author of 'The House with ths Green Shutters." appear In the December Bookman. A discussion of Russian writers by Abraham Cohan throws an Interesting light upon llterarv conditions in the land or the Czar. "The Poe Cult" Is the subject of a paper. A number of hooks are reviewed. Ellen Thorneycroft Fowler's "Fnel of Fire" reaches Its concluding chapter, and there I a study of Disraeli hy George 8. Hellman. "Chronicles and Comment" betrays the hand of the "senior editor." not entirely, it must be acknowledged, to Its benefit. The North American Review for December is a number of marked excellence. One of the contributors Is the now dead rxSpeaker Reed, his topic being "What Shall We Do with th. T..nfT "" "Pr.-Mdent Roosevelt's First Year" Is considered by a progressive Republican and a Jeffersonlan Democrat. The first of Mark Twain papers on "Christian Science" finds a place la this number. Cornelius Vanderbllt. millionaire and practical mechanic, writes of "Electricity as a Motive Power on Trunk Lines." "Woman's Half Century of Evolution" Is Susan R. Anthony's topic. There are two articles devoted to phases of the trust probbm. There are several other articles In which current topics are discussed. Scribner p Magazine for December, like Harper's and the Century, makes Itself gay with Illustrations in color. Some quaint drawings by Edward Penfield represent Dutch 1 ople as seen by on one Christmas occasion at the "Cafe gpaander ' There is a group of clever drawings in color by Jeseie Wilcox Smith showing "A Mother's Days." Aside from an art ids by Richard Harding Davis on "The Gentle Art of Bull Fighting. " and some letters written by the late R I). Ilia, kmore. the literary matter of the number i nnsteta mainly of short stories. E. F Benson. Guy Wetmore Carry I, F Hop kin son Smith. Mar R. 8. Andrews. Octavs Thanet. Arthur Cosslett Smith and Henry C. Rowland are thv contributors of tkUt-

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