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r.w saturdav, 27, 1909. ISLAND its ihstoiiy C-' 1 -more ct Si i.e Car it bt .1 5 la our ti-'S-tlVrj aitentica ar 1 Vr li tha fr.i r-ce-r 1 ef ('n In rui.i caui-il ty j.urrlrars eri tlooi; Tl.iv'y persons drowned. the mir.a. trija r.rty a. of f7.

Olh. 1. Cf Ifaii- roaia oc 1 C.cu sar. -3 of cf Uni water. The rr.cn-taJ and physical rl; IsdI-'rt to such wbuies-i'e must t-e to the T'rife Is or.iel!.!rs weird, tow ever, la the calami ha jMst be fall a this fiir Is! of the -tea, for.

tirou-Lout Jamaica's pohUcal history there have been perU i.e recurrences cl ei-tilar natural rlienomr.a from ti.at Cry 1.1 in i Coi-mbus first set foot vpoa its snores. Succeedirg- historians have pointed cut these and the late Keir. W. J. Gardiner, the new edition of whose book.

"A History of Jamaica." we l.re about to consider, has faithfully recorded the long list cf convulsions of nature which usually lave attained the propcrtion cf cataclvsm.3. These have appeared generally In groups as follows: The simultaneous -occurrence of earthquake and hurriefne. with their natural concomitants pestilence and famine. There can bs no accurate computation, cf course, cf the thousands urm thousands ct" unfortunates -a to have met death la the successive faster. Hr.

Gardiner' history cf tie Island Is remarkable for the continual evident of painaUUny research in the endeavor furnish a. comprehensive surrey of alt uiiUPrj pertaining to Us occupascy froaa the date of Its discovery ty Cclumbus up 1872. Ilia opportunities for accrtiir-ing- the. Information necessary for such work were the test. lie wa.i born at Chtltejiha.ra, :r.l.

cn 1. and was trained for missionary work at Bedford. After hie crainatloir be sailed with his young; wife a Kor. -i, tor Jamaica, where he was appoints to take charge cf the rrisiion station Chapel-ton. He to Kingston on Jan.

8, where he became pastor cf the iiorth Street ConsTegdUawd Church. Here be toe' an Important thare In proniotins tha socUI and relir'ous improvement of the island, found the first buiiilrg society Li Jamaica, also the Zv.leT tor Prcrmtion-ct Pura literature. II d'-cd t- is.nd on Kor. S3, the are of Cc-'TEhus landed on Island be fattnl Ct the nallves called It which sigtii'Ies "the bind, -ct in history frca that day bas teito strrr'yese. It alip.ost proved.

Ci asirous Ciacovtry for Ciiium-'bus hiaoseif, for cn his second voyage be nearly 3 the result cf nejiect, cad attacks. The Epach-h occvpitixc under m. aerfcM ot Co-vernors who were always In trouhie, lasted cntil cotiraest IT ttt la ixr It la. noiaUa tiat the civil. millLary, and racial dissensions, which wer iorstTy ta tha fact that tb colc-y til assort cl a position ot importance tn the eyes ct rival factions la Enj-hind, generated factors of recUta-acs UL'aJOirn ti -Take, Ict Instance, the llaroona.

At the end of a century and a half cf Spanish occupation, the native Indians' har been exterminated, the lact renoriaatj tfjing- ia the mountain fastnesses to whlcli they bad been gradually driven. In the meantime, bowever, slaves In largo numbers bad been Imported from Africa. When, ti the midst of death and disaster, the Hngllsb. succeeded in ousting the Span-lards, the latter, la retreat, Lberatel their slaves. These took to the mountains, where they could not be reached, and their forces were constantly augmented ty runaway slaves.

For 140 years afterward they were a constant menace to the colonists, whom they harassed at every opportunity. They rarely gave quarter, and frequently they silled squads of sol-Clers, on one occasion a detachment of 'forty being slain. Other foes of government were the buccaneers and pirates, although there Li excellent reason to suppose that their spoils were shared with the most august personages la England. The throne itself flld not escape the tahit of the freebooters' depredations. The origin of the word A HISTORY 01 JAMAICA: From Its" by Chrlatopher Columbui to the Yer IsT'i; lncluilin an Account of It Trade rid Agriculture; keichs of the MnntTs Wblts.

and Customs of All Ciii-t of Ha iUbuanu, an.l a Narrative of the lroxTftt ffiigion and Education in the IsimikI liy W. J. Gardiner. Wuh an Imrofluct.iia fy Aston Ganlinpr. V.

itd niap a cne volume pp. (vo. Clolh. Nr lota: Acuieioa it Co. .1 1 1 yi i- i 1 t' 1 1 43 a 1 Ar.J ro It I i.1 ,1 t' i- Cr; It ..1 1 -rr.

-t I .1 vh i -r thi ir ti.at tnctl i-rs i.i crvi: ci Zrn Yi ty wti. ct llerre Grand. i. er.d It This was Vr aaa '--'-r. E.rvfJ ft 5' Coventor cf In the days of greatest pre-parity the wejit about tht-ir tusiawn cf plunder Tith It tj.e centui-y the rai-f-I cf Jamaica and the I.anCs at the ct the ftzrful C.

mixtions of the n-torioiif rimtcs Tench. knew ts I anj the leser W.lywvra cf ts tia. 1c r.ag. Another enemy rf rrogres wh a cij-strous ir.f'.uence over this ll.ck population cf Jamaica 1: its early an st. des to some extent, was the Cbcaa There their and fr'ahtened h.iniro rt cf pecpia to death.

U-. earth lu.ike an! hurricaae. fire and flood, buccaneer arid pirate, Jiarson and Oteah man, and the long and eicr-' -at'rx controversy over the abolition cf slavery, the island -made gradual gains In STlc'Jiture ami commerce. As long a.s 172 i ticso com.rtiod;tles we-re fro-ducrd and esportei I.i abundance: rum. ceffee, tobacco, ginyer.

tcrtolae-HheO. cocoa, pimento, cotton, lndijo, and dyewoods. It is prcbahio that la tpit cf the recent catastrophe another season wlil ie Jamaica once rev-lve In all Its pristine bcaaty. a fcirious and Terdati isl shinirnerisir la the Summer sea. PIANO QULoTIOXS.

THI3 little bock, ('Tiano Queatioas Answered." by Joref rTofmannt. Doubieday, Taj; IS Is from the ansrwers itudents cf the pianoforte ti.at lir. IIof inTi tas for th list two- years contributed to- a Ccpartmeat in tiaer Ladies Home Joornal. There are of til asked hi good filthy dearly by real students of ail In search Pf lt. nermann, "a trreat art-i5t.

la very veil able to give it; and la his answers hs shew the same rood sense and totvneea that marhed the book he bed not Ivr- eo en Tiano Vyirz." At the same Un be exb.biU a rernarkable sympathy with and cf tha dirficttitle that beset the etrurjlin ones oa the tone road art-even thee wh are at Its beginning, hlr. llcfmiiai perstabairt and Straightforward; te la ciear and. tmmls-takatia ti Lis and bo contains the artistic efArdard iritJi a doe regrard for tb diveree powers cf thee who come to bin. lie disavows the Ir.tecticn of gtvlaic in "i to Ji-a r's Ir. .1 ti.ir.M: ytt be 1 ..1 c-'-e anl t.e ctUis a 1 if that can La cf it tt i 1 I sound worij: "5 l.i ro rcytl rci.

ta a i not art, but ciy a i-. tj art; buid to the r.tusla irccr'-y chart! ty, bevare cf er.t.re cf our pre-itnt terve-t aye. r.f rve-irarkinj 'z can te etuiiel as we'd la as la Eurf-pe, cr fcettir, ahl f.rth. Tr.u tjueslions ti at are anwered are arrar.p-.ed tc! thcr trnde.r ifferenb head-- as tsci-ni-jue, (in Its many the the pii'. fat marls, and nomenclature, hras-Irs, piaylsg for people, bad mutc.

th st'iirnt's arte, end so on; and Lhere are pa to Each, Tee-thoven. I.i. ni and Chopia. Vi'hat hi r. Ilcfrr.ana tzyx la practical.

sonnd. xuhte; and thcrs are very few students, ci- va flayers beyond the pur-'iary th flr.d help and stimulus In It. There Is a very Eoa lniex that rj jch enhances ths cf the book. criAT Trr.iiara Vaupban Moody's saccesea drama, "The Great Eivlie (The Cjmrany, flZ. Is Ja neat tcck form, makir.x a str-i-d vcluree of 1C7 set.

It shows anew what a wide rulf there- Is between the real play and tn acted p'ay, and bow fiw arucoessful stag drsuias can cross It. Villi O. Jone Chsnjt. Eii's O. Jones of Ufe baa accepted a pos Hon oa tie editorial stAff of tha Lsdlc3 Home Journal.

1 ill 1 1 COURT PUBLISHING company aril e-ra PV ti'(, Ar ''hrl Jil-TOHT Eilli.JO.'i -e4 f'r an ift tatatarae. 3 CIIICAGO Psychcls-ici! Origin zr.l future cf Hdi-icn Ey James Lctrhs. Brya Mawr CtTis C'f p. Ooth, 49c. t.

An p.il km by an rks4vl4cel olheniy on tha of mental poer and tia relation to the erlrin of rclin. The iaat ef the series, "KeilfUa. Aiiicnt sad i.oicrs.' Ths Flcrcms: Chrisliinity zs thz FdHImcnt By Dr. Paul Cants IGOpp. Ira.

ClJth, 11.00. A a iTitenaety interesting aeoran of tha pra- Ctariatlae atrurIe for rel-rioua lreiiacy smj how the Chrint Idea was fyifllled in Cbrist.atiy. iJoth fclalor-icl actl socaliXic ia treatment. fl- mas Eooks by the ctln court S71-1SS Wabash Ave CHICAGO BeeS Jar CeaiHat illactratai rtUl.taa. TI15 Prcblcd cf Evil d- Pre.

-elect of College.) Cloth, flJtX The Aoruitlniaa treatment ef the prsblem is thoruurhly examioej ia the lirht ef mi3er arleace. and the way potated out lor a raaonatrociioa ef tn. ti ix-trine of am. By Dartn J. H.

Va-4. Ph. 0. (U'Trlc) SOpi. Boards, cloth A exact ataUment cf the methods ot claa-batx.

i tenia. s'fyins reltriona toy dogma, geo- t-repbical philaophies. laa-ruagew racial and blatoricai caanocuuD aiuabie benuua xact." The Apocryphal Act Ey Ecrthard nx m. a o. tllvv.

end A thorowrh stndy of the spw-ryphal acts of biliuorraplgr. iioaxda. aol. 1'eier. Juan, Acarew and Tbomaa.

la eiata ba fljta. which senuina rentunareacaa are ctearly diaucguiabed from leseada. Ctiu- did Rent f' y' 1 i ycu tjlad L'JT 'IT s-o-rante to rent Tea BWw. rlran ever af in, Vxwk s. wi It.

WJi-lr-v. Ne reabmhip feaiead. Hart sad stoa acta sea I Tay a Mi seuai fe tb Imt to ta rW Metwiaa Mi jj Call at linnrti for fnif tnfarmaMnn. i TrrT 41 t. ka- i- hr.

luma i-U CU IXU isT. tiiariara AivCAit.a, 1 i CIOU ftX. BWTZl AUTHOR OP ATJIIT Aim OF 1 1 WTUCZZY" 5 a 4 Cy" ELIZA C1LVEHT IIALL Tie bock Is ia LirrpIr2tionv-ZVjA Without qualiHaiioa orw of the worthiest pablicitions of thf ytu.piisSurjr to. Aunt JJiie his becoms a reil personaxe In Amniaa Courax Like Dr. Uvenir Chester Tiles," Annt Jane Is a distinct anj dcL'rhtful creation -Bakimore Sun.

The sweetness and sincerity of Aunt Jrnrr recollections have the same Mfamn charm found In CnnlotVPAiUJtifiAia Press. enhtu Previous voikit touches tht heart bj Its wholesome. human appeal Boston Transcript RGAEET E. SA.NGSTEJ? says It Is not often that an author competes with heri self, but Eliza Calvert Hall done so successf u2y, or her seconi toSSwcSS afct Aunt Jane is more fascinating than her Cnb" -OUt By tae Same Author AUTT JAT3' C7 LTOTCIiY 'Illustrated GWA. L50 aSv.

Seveatecatli rriatlsia TV0 NEW AND POPULAR ROMANCES a Ty II. D. HI.H2I0TT VATSCr A tale" of love anJ romantic advenhire bunt around a fascinating tronounced quite is clever as "The fiouse of a Thousand Candles." Illustrated Cloth. i.SJ. Veronica F2dyf air Cy RIAUD WTLCCa COODUTV A'rs.

Goodybi has never created a more del-rhtful character than Veronica riayfair. the winsome heroirTe of lha eighteenth century BaMmor American. Illustrated in color. Cloth. fIJCl LITTLE, Cnoivri u.CO At AH ncclcllcr.